Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-09-28

in groups or six or eight paSn.a ana ~
bill of fare is enough to SATISFY anv-
body. Thus, take the SUNDAY nanu.
Breakfast-Oat meal, potatoes baa,
steak, Irish stew or eggs bread h,,t
Ter. coffee and tea, milk.
Dinner-Roast pork, lJniled potatoes
gravy, bread. butter, m, nee pie tea "a
milk 'u
Supier--Bread, butter, sauce. caka
tea, cold meat. milk.
There is a pretty little chanal So.
ing zoo. presented by women. at which
tue Two chaplains-a Methodist and a
Satiioiic priest hold services and an
amusement hail. The @. A. r.. of course.
mas post here of 100 members. Good
Aeihpiafs and knights of Honor are
represented, and for a time the w n
=. =. was supported by the women. The
question of sewerage Is a vital proh-
zen. IA SO considerable community.
anu not solved. There is a brass band.
Whlcn plays in the park. where a foun
tam displays, and the music at such in
stitutions is always good. because the
payers nave leisure for practice. MANY
states, notably in the west, support
sueh MONIES as this at Waupaca, and
their commandments are banded into an
organization. Besides the forty-eight
cottages OF three rooms each, which
mouse the married couples, there is the
administration building, the dining hall
and Kitchen, the widows hall. assembly
nan tfor single men only, old peoples
building, the old mems building and
others mentioned, farm buildings. etc.
me names Fairchild. Rusk, Marsdon
ana Others applied to the public build
ings suggest Wisconsin history. one
recently erected building has forty mine
rooms, for two persons each. The
striking feature of the whole comrnun
lty IS the absence of ehildren-they have
all grown up, married and disappeared
The walters on the table are old men.
The veterans and their wives are re-
lieved of all cares, even their washing
is done for them, and if they enjoy no
pensions, their clothes are given them
When they are sick the big hospital,
the skilled DR.. Noyes, and a nurse are
In waiting for them. On a recent date
eighty-four were on the sick list. The
commandment is Ellis, and a success he
is making of his work The oopula-
ton of the home is growing. AT the
end of 1896 there were S64 membery: at
the end of 1897, 466, and a recent visit
showed 529.
An Army Passing Into Eternity.
A government expert in war statis-
tics has compiled an interesting table
showing the gradual disappearance
from the face of the earth of the men
who fought in the civil war; Excluding
deserters (of whom he estimated nearly
122,O00) he says there were in 1890, L.
2S5,471 The decrease is cumulative.
Next year the number will be but
trifie over 100000 men. Ten years
hence it will be 5000. In 1920 when
the babies of today will be coming of
age, there will be but 250OOO "cld SOL
diers'-decrepit old fellows with fifty
five years intervening from the close
of the war. Those who enlisted even
at the end of the war at Is years of age
will then be Il years of age, and men
who were 20 when the war broke out
will be close to so years of age. From
1920 on the mortality will be very great
In the next five years over one-half of
them will pass away. In the following
five years two of every three will die.
There will be in 1895, 6,296 survivors; in
1940 $40 and five years later not one:
of the S4t men furnished to the
army and 105963 to the navy in the aw-
full conflict of 1875.
On Fames eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread:
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivovac of he dead.
OR MO TDTTI2 NTL,rrrN