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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
snarks from the Wires.

The ordnance department has contract
ed for 100000 smotseless cartridges at
S23. so per 1000.
Already $500 formal applications for
Office under the census director have been
received, and 10000 more are in sight.
Accident insurance companies in Arkan-
sas have been notified that they must sus-
pend business there, owing to the anti
trust law.
The California fish commission of San
Francisco is deyising humane measures
to get rid of the increasing herd of sea
lions along the coast.
Ex-Seeretary of the Navy William C.
Whitney is believed to have been the real
purchaser of the famous brood mares re-
Gently sold at Lexington, Ky.
The turkey was first discovered in
America, and was taken to England in the
early part of the sixteenth century. Since
then it has been aeclimated in nearly all
parts of the world,
Noah Raby celebrated in the poo5 hGuse
at Piseataway, y. j., what be claims is
his 127th birthday. The old man says
he was born in the Gates House, North
Carolina, il 1772. He is an Indian and
smokes and drinks.
baroness de Roques is continuing her
efforts for the release Of her daughter,
Mrs. Maybriek, serving a life term in an
English prison on the charge Of having
administered poison to her husband and
thereby caused his death.
At New Britain, Pa, Sebastian Whit
man, a schoolboy, fell heavily on his face
and bit off nearly two inches of his tongue.
A physician sewed the severed pieces on,
and says the wound viii heal and the
tongue viii be able to perform its func-
tons In a few months.
Southern Pines, one of the smallest
townships in North Carolina. shipped A.
900, 600 pounds Of fruit to Northern mar
kets In 1893. It was all raised by North
ern invalids living there for their health.
When the new sewerage system now be-
ing constructed in the City of Mexico is
completed it is prophesiei that the death
rate will be lower there than in any other
municipality Of its size in the world.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

A recent report by the Treasury Depart
ment contains some interesting Informal
ton concerning the cost of collecting the
revenues of the Government. During the
last fiscal year the aggregate receipts at
all the custom houses amounted TO $780,
443, 936.9S, while the expenses of main
tanning the service is reported by col
lectors at S,.7T6, 39467 Thus it costs the
Government 4.6 cents to collect 81 in rev.
enue. The imports during the year
amounted to S616,049,654 and the exports,
both foreign and domestic, TO 1921 49,
1913, or total commerce of Sl,S47 ,53l,-
9S4 At only five custom houses, how
ever, was the actual cost of collecting the
revenues as low as the average. At New
York it cost the Government - cents to
collect dollar; Philadelphia, 3.S cents:
Dubuque, 3.3 cents; Des Moines, 3.4
cents, and Chicago, 31a cents. Tie fol-
lowing is a statement of the aggregate
collections at the principal ports of entry,
the expense of operating the service and
the average cost of collecting 81:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26


Just after the evacuation of Chatta-
nooga by the rebels, squad of sol
diers of Company ID, Rousseau's Louis
vile Legion, Fifth Kentucky Volunteer
infantry, We're sitting around the
campfire. discussing the why's and
wherefores and possibilities of captur-
ing the rebel forces before they eyac-
uated that town.
They were all putting leisurely away
at their corncob and brier-root pipes
and ready for any subject that might
be brought up for argument. 1t was
Immediately after partaking of a tin
cup of hot black coffee, two pieces of
ola wormy bareback fried in grease,
and small chunk of boiled beef neck
which inspired them to enter into
lively conversation with deep interest.
The subject sprung before us was on
the evacuation of Chattanooga by the
rebels, and was started by Paddy Gil
ligan, boy of the "ould green Sod"
and as he himself had said, LAS thrue
a Kentuckian as liver br'athed the
breath av life," said he, 81 say, bys,
why in the divil didn't we pick thin
spalpanes av ribils in over thaire in
Chattanooga? By me sowle, we could
av pinned thin in aisily"
You're crazy, Pat" replied "Hec"
Moore, an eccentric genius. "Why,
don't you know they had the vantage
of us all the time; they had the men,
ten times more'n we had. and their
provost guns were mounted all around
them Notifications, and all the regi-
ments McCook has couldn't roust them
fellers out of their hole in two
months"
At this moment Theodore Steinbrink,
who imagined what he didn't know
about strategy was not worth knowing
at all, chimed in. Said he: ''LOok here,
Heck; all McCook had to do was to or
der his regiments to take different
routes" and drawing Lis plans on the
side of cracker box, he explained to
all how it could be done skillfully and
with the greatest ease. "Now, McCook
could send three divisions around to
the front, one to this side, and one to
the other side, and let them all Join a
circle, then form in line of battle, the
artillery of each brigade could be
planted in position here and there all
around the circle, then send a flag of
troops to tell them Johnnies to sup
render, and let 'em know that we had
'em outflanked, and if they didn't do it,
why, let loose ON 'em like blue blazes.
and shell their 'mortifications.' l tell
you, boys, it would soon bring them to
terms"
The last spokesman was Louis Meas,
whose remarks were always accompa-
MED with German accent. He weigh
ed well all that had been said. He
arose from his seat on the opposite side
of the campfire, and in the attitude of
stump orator he began, Fade, you
beest one tam fool, how in tie HI you
catch him from no side when he runs
like tie tifel from tie onder way, eh?"
They all broke out in "horse laugh"
Just when Lights out" was sounded,
and they all strolled off to their tents
American Tribune.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Nature Seemed to Mourn.

A Western woman tells of one Incl
dent of the civil war that profoundly
affected her as it did the nation. "Never
can forget" she says, chow | was i'm
pressed by the days of fasting and
prayer proclaimed by Mr.. Lincoln in the
dark days of our cOuntry's peril.
Though born and reared in Illinois, |
was brought up with a New England
ers regard for the Sabbath, and it was
always holy day to me, but 1 have
never known a Sabbath SO solemn, so
filed with awe, as one of those days of
fasting and prayer. 1t was quiet day,
as though nature herself mourned. The
leaves hung motiOnless on the trees,
and the very sunlight | remember, i'm
pressed me strangely as 1t came in
through the open dooc and windows and
lay in white patches on the floor. My
home was with my guardians family,
and they, with their youngest son in
what was called the Bloody Nineteenth
Illinois, kept the day Sorrowfully 1t
was as if one lay dead in the house. My
guardian did not go to his place of bust
ness, but spent the greater part Of the
day with the big family Bible open be-
fore him; and the mother went into her
room and closed the door. No work
was done about the house. The table
was not spread for breakfast nor for
dinner l was told to get something for
myself If | wished. But | could not
eat: the food seemed to choke me;
neither could play. l looked out TO
my playhouse under the trees, but
should sooner have thought of going
there on Sunday. SO / sat still looking
curiously at my guardian as he turned
Of the room beyond which l knew my
guardians wife wept and prayed.
"Out on the street and over the town
the same silence rested. No open stores.
no whistles from the mills, no whIrr of
machinery, no playing of children In
the yards, nothing but oppressive ST
lence until the church bells called the
people together for public service. and
quiet groups went along the street to
their places of worship.
"All day the silence rested over the
home, and as look back over the years
into the room in which | sat that day
something of the same awe fills my
soul, and there is the same old choking
feeling in my throat, and | am a girl
again, listening breathlessly TO the
news from the battlefield, or 10 the
prayer to God TO care for our soldier
bows and to save the Union"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Ethel Tuiley IL Found.

Ethel Tulley, the 14-year-old daughter
of Deputy Sheriff Tulley of Rockford, ILL.,,
who, it was thought, had been made away
with by trailps, has been returned to her
home after an absence of nearly forty
eight hours. The missing girl was located
by officers at Clinton Junction, where she
had wandered. There she was recognize
ed by the description sent out and cared
for by friends until her father arrived. 1t
is supposed that an imaginary grievance
caused Ethel to leave home, although her
parents do not know what il is
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Now that Lewis Carroll has gone, the
Jabherwock is being translated. Who
knows not that thrilling stanza:

Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did eyre and gimble in the wabe,
All mimsy were the orogroves
And the nome raths ourgrabe.
1t is somewhat disconcerting to find
that there is any meaning whatsoever
In this. but Mr.. Stuart Collingwe0d
has discovered a memorandum among
the papers of the author of "Alice In
Wonderland" which shows that 1T
was evening, and the smooth, active
badgers were scratching and boring
holes in the hillside, while the parrots
were unhappy and the serious minded
green turtles squeaked" And thus an
other mystery is explained.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Brass Druu, with a History.

The Hon. James ". Eldridge, of
Hartford, Conn, a collector of antiques
and relics ef the war OF the rebel
lion, has purchased from the estate of
the late Harvey y. Doiworth, founder
of Dodworth's famous band. bass
drum that has history. The drum
IVES made In pittsleld, Mass, In 1886,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Clerk Need Not Have Reen Scared.
He was a divine of great fame and
bore the odor of sanctity strong upon
him, and when he at last came to Bax-
ter's Corners to deliver his long prom
Used lecture every man, womani child
and yellow dog recognized him at once.
On his way to the Grand Hotel,
where he had engaged one of its eleven
rooms. he stopped at the drugstore,
and in deep and solemn tones addressed
the clerk.
Young man." said he, do you
smoke
'Y-, =, sir" said the trembling clerk
I'm sorry, but l learned the habit
young. and haven't been able to brea,,
it,"
"Then." said the great divine. With
out the movement of a muscle or tho
abatement of a shade of the awfuI sol
emnity of his voice, "can you tel, me
where | can get good cigarY'-Cin.
cinnati Enquirer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
ALL OVER THE STAfE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER.
DOM.
Responsibility of En- ployers Defined
Coal Tar as Cheap Missing Girl
Discovered-Two Killed on a Rail-
road-Suicide of Night Operator.

An important decision was rendered by
Judge Fish in the Circuit Court at Ra-
cine in the case of James Dunavey VS..
the Racine Maileable and Wrought Iron
Company, in which the jury was instruct
ed to find a verdict for the defendant. and
the verdict was so found. Last July the
works of the defendant company were de-
stroyed by fire and the lives of three EN-
ployes We're lost by jumping from the win
dows and dozen or more were severely
injured. Among the number was James
Dunlavey, aged 10, the plaintiff in this
action, who sued for $4,000 damages re-
sulting from broken ankles and other in
Juries. Ii Dunlayey had secured verdict
it would have given rise to ten or fifteen
suits of a similar nature, in amounts rang
ing probably from 5000 to SIC 900. The
decision will be an interesting one to all
large manufacturing establishments in de
termining the responsibility Of employers
in sIch cases
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

In only 101 of the 152 customs districts
OF the United States vas the revenue col
lected with any profit to the Government
In fifty-one districts it cost the Govern
ment more than 100 cents to collect a dol
lar. The most expensive customs district
during the year vas that at Yaquina,
Ore, where i cost $031 to collect 81.
Coos Bay, in southern Oregon. came next,
with $37S52 expended for every dollar
collected. At Georgetown, ). o., it cost
$3OO3l to collect 81 at Eastern, Md,
$216.42; Alhemarle, n. c., $175.21; Som
ers Point, n. j., $127.S6; Brashear, La,
$l12.4O; Saco, Me-, $52.70; Rock Island,
H., S44.03; Kennebunk, Me, S33.33; La
Crosse, Wis. S26.S6; Cedar Keys, Fla,
$17.6O; Bridgeton, N. j., $15.S4, and New
buryport, Mass, $12.S6. At twelve GUS
toms districts and ports there were no
receipts One of these, Port jefferson, N.
T., showed an average of two persons
employed. but did not report any expenses
to be pai3. from Uncle Sans pocket. The
other eleven, with the number of persons
employed and the cost of maintaining The
offices during the year. were:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Sentenced for Biramy.

Joseph Horky of Tisch Mills was ar
raigned in the municipal court at Mani
towoc on The charge of bigamy The war
rant was issued on charge of Rev. L. Ko-
Ter of Tisch Mills The prisoner pleaded
guilty to the charge and was sentenced to
one year at Waupun. He was married to
Katherine Thompson of Carlton in 1895.
1t was lately discovered that he left a
wife and two children in europe and his
arrest followed
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Throws Himself Under a Train.

Joseph Jones, night operator at Beaver
Dam Junction. threw himself under a
moving freight train and was cut to
pieces. 1t was his second day there, his
home being at Randolph. He wrote two
letters and set the signals to block the
train before he went out to end his life.
One letter was to his mother, Mrs. A. Il.
Jones of Minneapolis, and one to Mrs.
John Roberts of Randolph.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

The seven principal Bibles in the
world are the Koran of the Moham-
medans, the Eddas of the Scandina-
yians, the Tripitikes of the Buddhists.
the Five Kings of the Chinese, the
three yedas of the Hindoos, the Zen
davesta, and the scriptures of TIA,
Christians.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Keep the Girls in Cages.

A new field for the work of women's
clubs is offered on the Islands of New
Britain, in the Polynesian archipelago.
There the advocates of the enfranchise-
ment of women will find that their sis
tiers are not allowed physical freedom
to say nothing of Intellectual
Every girl born in the native tribes
is, at the age of year put inside a
wicker work cage. There they must
remain until they are married. only be-
ing allowed 10 come out now and then
TO take a bath.
The girls, who are said to grow
plump and healthy their cages, usu-
ally marry at the ace of T. to Is.
If the Polynesian young men Were like
their American brothers it is to be
feared that the love which laughs at
locks miths" would rot hesitate long be-
fore a wicker work prison.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Coal Tar Is Used as Fuei.

Frank Austin, superintendent of the
La Crosse Gas Light Company, has just
perfected an invention whereby coal tar
can be used as fuel to advantage. He
has been at work ON it for some months
BY the use of his invention coal tar is
burned, giving off a tremendous heat. 1t
gives off practically no smoke and no
more fiue deposit than other fuel, and it
means the saving of many dollars in fuel
bills, He calls it Austin's oxyhydrogen
burner. He figures that 125 gallons of
coal tar is equal to two and one-half to is
of coal. The process is very simple. The
tar is fed into the furnace under pressure,
combined with steam; heat transforms
into gas and in that shape it becomes fuel.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

5000 arrivals of vessels-over 100
a week being registered. The city
received over 100000 barrels of
flour in one year and has the
largest coal trasI in the world
-one mile long. 1t has $4,000 manufaet-
cries of one sort and another it has
municipal debt of $4,000 600; has forty
eight hotels; ten theaters: is the larg-
est horse and sheep market in the world
and is the biggest city between New
York and Chicago. The assembly seems
disposed to give s25, 900 toward Wis
consin exhibit but there is some pre-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

IN O I there Is only one
cure for that painful dis
ease. He says: IL was q
great sufferer from mus
cular Rheumatism for
two years. | could get
no per manen relief
from any medicine pre-
scribed by my physician.
| took about a dozen bot
ties of your S. S. s., and
now / am as well as |
ever was inmy life. lam
sure that your medicine
cured me, and l would
recommend IL to any one
ffpripV frnyn anu hln,hd
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Dnuhle Fatality.

Robert Frenzel, proprietor of -four
ing mill ut Oakfeld, and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. A. Kettler of Byron, were in
stantly killed in a railroad accident at
Fond du Lac and Mrs. Frenzel, wife of
the former seriously injured.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Everybody knows that Rheumatism
is Il diseased state of the blood, and
only . blood remedy is the only proper
treatment, but remedy containing
potash and mercury only aggravates
the trouble.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Clean blood mean clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascaret", Candy Ilthar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clea by
tirring up the lazy liver and driving ali I'M
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blot, hes, blacbEeads
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents Al dug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. Zoe, 25e, 500.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Every husband hears a good deal
about the saint-like actions of other
husbands.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Man is the only animal with a
chronic longing for the unattainablc.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

When a doctor boasts % surgical
operation. and says that no otlrr1 doc
tor ever performed the operation, the
patient always dies.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

These are the only offices in the coun-
try at which over a million dollars reve-
nue. was collected. The following is
similar statement of customs districts in
the Northwest:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

One of the objects of investigation by
the next Congress will be the transport
system of the War Department Numer-
Gus complaints have been made in regard
to the service, it's cost, and its manage
ment The results are not satisfactory
and those who have been transported to
distant points have made interesting re-
ports Gu the subject.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Educate Your Bowels with Casearets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation fOreres
lOc- Sc. II c. c. c. fail, druggists refund money
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

A married man is fortunate if ne
doesn't have TO spend his evenings eX-
planning his jokes TO his wife and the
school lessons to his children.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
An Irishman who Has Succeeded,

General Griffin was born in Ireland 81
years ago, and has been in the state
since before the war. He served all
through the war ard has been at the
head of the q. A. r. of the state. Since
1876 he has practiced law in Eau Claire
He has been city attorney; assembly,
man QS76); state senator (S0-SD, and
was four years in congress C95-99).
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

President Mckinley has decided to re-
sumo his walks about the city, which were
abandoned at the outbreak of the war,
first because of lack of time, and then
because of the remonstrances of friends
who believed the President should not
encourage domestic cranks or foreign enc
mics to attack him. Now that peace is at
hand he will again walk about the streets
of Washington.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

The representatives of the Cuban AS
sembly have left Washington utterly dis
gusted because they were refused official
recognition by the President and with the
plain way in which Secretary Hay inform
ed them they would not secure an increase
in the allowance for paying the Cuban
soldiers. The Secretary went further
than this. and told the Cubans the Gov
eminent did not propose to enter into any
discussion with them in regard to the mat
ter.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Consumption.

Consumption.
Its prevention and cure q speciality al
dowELL's MEDIoAn AND SURGICAL Issrl.
rUTz. La Crosse. Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26
Crippled by
Rheumatism.

Those who have Rheumatism find
themselves growing steadily worse all
the while. One reason of this is that
the remedies prescribed by the doctors
contain mercury and potash, which ul-
tlmately intensity the disease by caus-
ing the joints to swell and stiffen,
producing a severe aching of the bones.
>. ,. .. has been curing Rheumatism
Tor twenty yearS-even the worst cases
which seemed almost incurable.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

Common sense is really very uneom-
mon