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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

Phebe here said that she was willing
that Mr. l.. should try his hypnotic
power upon her, but knew he could not
influence her. What happened then is
told by Mrs. S. in letter, as follows:
lin ten minutes he had put her fast
asleep: then he told her to go through
the house-in sprit-and tell him what
she saw in the rooms. She said, first:
In the front room, west is an old lady,
| lying high on pillows, with something
very funny on her head She laughed
and said: Why, | believe 1t is night
cap lin this room Mrs. d., an old
lady, born in England, who always
sleeps in a night cap aud propped up on
pillows. was really asleep. Neither Mr..
l.. nor Miss Phebe knew anything
about her or her habits.1 Then she told
correctly who was in each room until
she came TO TOMS room and then said:
Here is some one In a little room on
cot but | cannot see whether it is
man or IA woman, FOR its head Is under
the covers Mr.. l.. said: Look right
through the covers and toll me who 1t
is She remained sile, awhile and
then said: 1T is a BOY about Is years
old Crhis. too, was quite right. Neither
Mr. l.. nor Miss Phebe bad any know
ledge of the existance Of either the
room or the boy who was sleeping in it,
We'll after that he told j. and me to
ask Phebe questions and that she could
not hear or answer them. We did and
she did not hear. Then he Id to her:
Now, Mrs. S. win ask you questions
and you can bear and answer them,
but you cannot hear John SO asked
her several things aud she answered.
but when John spoke she did not reply.
BY that time was awfully excited
and nervous and said: oh. cannot
stand this; | am too nervous aud shall
have TO leave the room!' lie turned to
me and said: You are not at all nerv-
GUS and you will sit down here! TO
save my life could not have helped
sitting down just where he told me to
and In moment was as quiet and as
free from nervousness as though | had
just walked from most refreshing
slec... In few moments he walked
Phebe and she was all right but did
not remember anything she bad done
or said"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Talk Of Scosield or Payne as Me-
kinIey's Running Mate.
LATE JUDGE GRITFIS's SUCCESSOR,

Work of tbs Tax Judge
Lyon WIN he Reappointed to Board of
ControT--Ares OF Capitol Park Equal TO
That of biggest Wicked Hur-
fey-Mirwaukee street Car and otsser
Matters.
Madison, Wis, Jan. Ex-Governor
Scofield is pleased with the suggestion
of his name as the Republican candi-
date for vice president-who would
not be? The idea originated with Col
Onel A. III. Hollister, the Madison drug
gist, who takes an interest in public
affairs. The moment Roots refusal to
be candidate for the seeond place
was announced, the colonel rushed
over to the State Journal office, OF
which concern he is a stockhoder.
and In few moments paragraph
pointing out the fitness of Governor
Scofeld was in type. 1t met with ia
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
LAW MUST BE CHANGED.
Interstate Commission Makes Its 4,

Interstate Commission Makes Its An
nuai Report to Congress.
The thirteenth annual report Of the in
terstate commerce commission was made
70 Congress nj Mondays session. The
report complains that although in its last
report the commission made clear that
the act 10 regulate commerce had proved
defective. and thar ii could not be en-
forced, yet not line of the statutes had
been changed. aud none of the burden
some conditions have been removed or
modified. The commission therefore re-
news recommendation previously made.
The Interstate commerce law now is
unsatisfactory because railroads can
charge Whatever they please for their
services, and no single classification of
freights can be established Vast schemes
of railway control are now in process of
consummation, and vast Capitalization
of railroad properties is under way, yet
there is no public authority which can
efficiently control them. Whatever evils
that may result aia without remedy
Among the noteworthy facts of General
interest is the remarkable increase during
the Year in the volume Of railroad BUSH
ness. Gross aud net reYenue;s of ra.s-
roads have grown. aud the number Of
railroad failures has been greatly reduc-
ed, This also diiniliishes the frequency
Of those practices which are made crim-
inal misdenieanors by ihs. statutes.
Carriers have made substantial in
creascs in the scale of their charges.
They made these advances without Civ
llg the shippers an opportunity to be
heard. Many complaints have been made,
but under the existing conditions the rail
roads are free to make rates as they
choose. Published tariffs have been dis
regarded, although some shippers who
failed to receive unlawful concessions
! We're driven out Of business. The COM
mission cannot punish these criminal nj
fractions OF the law. Unlawful prac-
tees have been less general. however.
because Of the promises to observe tariffs
made by presidents of the railroads to the
commissioners.
The subject Of safety appliances is dis
eussed at some length in the report.
When the train brake comes into geu-
eral use, the commission lers saw the NUM-
Der of those killed or injured by falling
from trains will be greatly reduced. The
train will then be under the control Of
the engineer, and the men will not be
Obliged 10 walk on the running boards or
over the tops of cars for braking.
Reports from 6g1 railroads, covering
1914, miles. show large increase of
earnings over those of the year before
The dividends declared are also much
iarger
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

tria is actually a ground for Slav. as
against German Increase. Italy, like
Germany, sends her surplus over the
Atlantic. The great future of English
speaking people is not in Europe. but in
America and the Southern seas. The
Morse people are hemmed in by barren
lands and are probably increasing
faster in the Northwest Of the United
States than at home. Now If we set
against these facts the actual growth of
Russia herself, the increase of Slavs in
Central Europe. and the probable FL
ture of the Slavs in the Balkan PENN.
st.i,;., We cannot fail to see that within
a measurable period, the Slavonic Gle
ment in European society viii prepon
derate in the balance.
What effect will this radical recon.
struction of Europe exert on mankind 7
1t will be a long time before we shall
realize that If re want to find the great
seats of t.e historic peoples of Europe
we shall have TO look beyond Europe.
to Teutonic North America. TO Latin
South America, to Teutonic Australia
STA. Yet this WILL so far as one can
see. certainly be the case within anoth-
er century, assuming the present gen
eral drift of things to coutinue.-C
cago Chronicle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
Rack for Feeding Corn Fodder

Rack for Feeding Corn Fodder.
Feeding unshreded corn fodder Is
hard work, on account Of the difficulty
of handling There is also great part
of the stalks that the cattle will not
eat. This accumulation under the eat.
ties feet or about the feed lot soon be-
comes u nuisance. Accompanying this
description j. l.. Irwin senGs TO the
Orange Judd Farmer a sketch of q
rack that will be easy to fill and which
will retain the stalks. allowing the cat
tie to strip off the leaves. corn and ten
der, eatable portions The uneaten por-
ton can be cleaned out before filling
anew, and the useless stalks piled up
for hauling away or mixed with The
accommodating manure heap. where the
refuse of barn and stable is piled be-
fore being hauled to the fields.
The rack is TO be built against the
fence, so that the filling can be done
from the outside, the outside of the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
sLAvs THREATEN ALL EUROPE.


SnduOW OF q Race tnat is tnCreaS-
ing Rapidly in Numbers,
Europe has less reason to fear being
oyerrun by the Monaghan than by the
Slayonic race. In its various branches
this race is increasing more rapidly
than that of any other on the continent.
At present they are confined for the
most part to Russia. The Russian en-
plre now numbers 130000,000 and,
though these numbers include Germans
in the extreme west and Mongols in
the extreme east. yet the mass are pure
Slavs presenting thus a homogeneily
rare in history. But in addition to Rus
STA we have Slavonic offshoots over a
large European area which render the
future of much more than half Europe
certainly Slayonic. The troubles in
Austria have brought reminders of the
Slav kingdom of Bohemia. but it is not
often in Bohemia only that the Ger
man is face to re with the Slav; he
is so in Gaiicia, in Carinthia and Car
niOla. while the Magyar is surrounded
by an ever-increasing Slav population
in the~land of his birth. In the Balkan
peninsula it is a case of whether Slav
or Greek shall inherit the lands made
desolate by the Turk. and few who
have studied the question in the light of
recent history can doubt that it will be
the Slav
1t is not necessary TO quote that hack
neyed saying of Napoleon-"Cossack or
republican, Is NOR to the point to
say that, whatever the future political
forms of Europe may be. her actual
population will be largely if not pre-
dominately Slavonic, and that this fact
may mean a different Europe from that
known in history. For where. from the
point of view of numbers, is the coun
ter-balancing element to the Slav to be
found? France is stationary and very
nearly so are Spain and Portugal.
Germany is FULL and can only main
tain herself In comfort by reason of the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
ALL CALLED TO ARMS.
Kruger Asks Every Abie-Bodied Bur-
CHER TO MarCl, to the Front

CHER to March to the Front.
President Kruger has issued proc-
iamation calling upon burghers to take
up arms and march to the front He
has also sent ont Il circular to the Boer
generals. commandments, and burghers
urging them to trust in the Lord and -
show energy in the war against the Brit
ish. He says:
Through the blessing of the Lord our
great cause has been carried to such a
point that with energy we may expect a
successful issue. Read Psalm XXXiii.
The enemy have fixed their faith on
Psalm lxxxiii. Do not forget the enemy.
Create devastation. wherever you 20 in
Cape Colony. They seize, sell, or de-
stroy the goods of the Africanders. In
the Free State they lay waste farms.
President Kruger llkens the destruc-
tiycncss of the British 10 an attack of the
devil on Christ's church. and says:
Il am searching the entire Bible and
can find 40 other way possible than that
adopted by us. We must continue to
fight in the name of the Lord.
The Volksstem makes Il suggestion that
the entire gold-nliniug industry of the
TranSvaal should be destroyed beyond the
possibility of remedy the instant the
British cross the border.
Psalm SO is the well-known hymn of
praise to the Lord for his goodness, be-
ginning: Rejoice in the Lord. O We
righteous" Psalm 80 is the song of
Asaph in which occurs the verse: They
have said, Come and let lis cut them off
from being Il nation
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
/" Knickerbocker" Watch.
Ladies' Watch Chain.

A double strand OF best silk cord, united
at intervals with colored beads; neat and
substantial For is lion heads and a
2-cent stamp.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
Loss of Fertility from Soils.


When a plant is consumed it is re-
duced to a very small bulk, which is
termed ashes. A large proportion of
the plant goes into the air, consisting
of water. carbon and nitrogen The
real loss is the nitrogen, as the carbon
only returns to the original source from
whence it came-the air. While a por-
ton of the nitrogen also comes from
the air, yet some of it is derived by the
plant from the soil. A plant may cost
but little, owing to the fact that it Is
mostly water. Water, therefore, euters
more largely iSto the composition Of
plants than does any other substance
When a farmer sells p ton of clover hay
he sells about 250 pounds of water in
the hay. This proportion of water is
much greater in green clover The ash
es of plants contain phosphates. lime,
potash, soda, magnesia and traces OF
other minerals, and these substances
come entirely from SOIL If the ashes Of
plants could be returned to the soil
there would be little or no loss, as the
soil, through the agency of certain
plants, could regain It's nitrogen. Farm
and Garden.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
eVEnY CASE Fatal
No Recoveries Among victims of the


Buhonic Plague in Honolulu.
Up TO date twenty-five deaths have oc-
Cured in Honolulu from the bubonic
plague. Practically every case so far has
proved fatal. About 1000 people have
been removed from the infected quarter
aud are now herded in quarantine camps.
The council of state has appropriated
100000 for Il garbage erematory and
$230,000 with which to put the city i'll
sanitary condition and guard against the
spread of the plague.
New eases of the plague are constantly
appearing at points distant from the orig
inal center OF infection, showing that the
germs of the disease haye-.been widely
scattered No passengers are allowed.
to depart until they have spent ten days
in quarantne, under direction of the
United States consul general. Incoming
steamers cannot put any passengers
ashore, uor can any one board them.
Freight is carried to the steamers in
lighters and no vessel comes near to the
wharves. \ shotgun quarantine has been
established on the island of Kauai, and
no vessel or passenger is allowed to land.
The removal of the quarantine restric-
tons on Chinatown just before Christ
mas is thought to have been responsible
for the fresh outbreak of the disease.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

american pattern have been
Paris underground electric
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

manager at being onfy high enough to
retain the fodder. The frame OF the
rack should be made OF 2x4s. The Jack.
b should be made of four-inch fencing
lumber the Stats about four inches
apart. The outside rack, c, should be
set out far enough so the cattle can
easily reach down inside TO pick up the
cl,aff. To guard against any waste
here. it is well to have the bottom, e,
tioored, and the floor surrounded by a
six-inch board. The rack can be made
any length, according to the amount of
stock to be fed
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
Geographic Brevitres.

European oIIcefS are constantly JOIN
ing the Boer forces
George Gallagher and Nellie Walsh,
New York, were killed by gas.
A German general will be asked to re-
organize the army of Greece.
The cost of the ocean cables so far
constructed exceeds S2o0,000000.
Chicago Northwestern University
wants $2,000000 for new buildings.
Mangie Hooker, -, suffocatcd at Gov
ington. Ky, from lamp exploding.
Cars of American pattern have been
adopted for Paris underground electric
road.
The breweries of Milwaukee and Chi
cage made during the past year G43,000
barrels of beer.
In the sixtecf. years ended July l.,
1890, there landed at New York, 476, 40
Irish persons.
A broker asserts that the Christmas
tips in Wall street amount annually to
nearly $500.000
Optical telegraphy," an Italian inyen-
ton. has been adopted for testing in the
Mexican army.
All the prisoners in the Wooster l0hio)
Jail escaped the other night. Lock was
picked
Seventeen of the large laundry con-
Germs in Chicago have combined, with a
capital stock of S2.00o,000
North Carolina Pine Association has
booked lumber 81 a 1000 feet, making
an advance Of So in the past year.
Said that Emperor William will pro
coed with four warships to Havre in NJ
spring and make visit 10 Paris.
William Sacl,el farmer, while hunt
ing near Saint Matthew's, ). c., acct
dentally shot and killed his only child,
boy, s years nid
Miners at Dawson, Alaska. are offer
ing from 81 900 To $1,000 to be taken to
Cape Nome, Dogs are worth $500 each.
Kid boots are going up IN price in En-
gland. The reason given is tina too
iasny young animals have been killed to
provide them.
Patti celebrated in Paris the for
tieth anniversary of her debut on the
operate stage, recalling the fact that
her inaugural earnings were only S;'3
n night.
- iAuDNstS man II SUNG Abt AEAOASS
mainly on the ground hat his wife nags
him so persisfently and has done il so
long that he hasn't the heart even to say
grace al the table
The British navy has control of ne
less than - docks for it, ships. % which
81 are Of stone AMI one Is Of wood.
After sandhagging q man into uneon-
eciousnesS. Two Minneapolis highwaymen
robbed their victim. and then took him
to a lodging house. put him 10 bed and
paid for his lodging.
A runaway horse in New York, with
vehicle attached, yrs stopped by wood
en- Indian. which, with npiifted arm hold
ing a bunch If wooden cigars, was doing
duty III front IF ii cigar store The horse
took to the sidewalk. and the lines be
came tangled wish the Indians arm.
The image being chained to the premises
the ',,lrSe WIS brought to = sudden stop
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
Making Hens Ray in Winter.

There are many reasons why hens do
not lay in winter, but all are summed
up in the cold and darkness and lack
of exercise which ii induces. This
causes all sorts If troubles. The fowls
in cold, stormy weather remain on the
roosts until nearly noon. Then they
get up and fill themselves with food
and then go back to the roosts again
If the henhouse is dark. either from
snow outside or from lack of windows,
the fowls will stay on their roosts most
of the time, and il fed well with corn
will fatten rather than begin laying.
Make the henhouse as light as possible.
Provide double windows so that they
will not be steamed up with ice from
the birds breath, These double win
tiows will also make the henhouse much
warmer, as the space of air between
them is one of the best non-conductors
of heat. Thea feed mainly with wheat,
giving little corn except in the very
coolest weather, and fowls will lay
some eggs at the time when eggs are
always the dearest.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

houses that have stood within few
rods of each other Their home is about
eight miles north Of Hudson. Lena wee
County, Mich. and nIile and a bali
east. Their descendants all live In
Southern Michigan. most of them In
Rollin Tow ship, and the one most re-
mote lives D. Grand Rapids Uncle
Porter thinks his staying qualities
good; he settled IN a good farm and has
been successful in growing peaches
and plums. Wien married Mr. Beal
was nearly q and his WIFE rs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
McTlM o. a 4 pnoTlsI.
Woman's Story of the Remarkable
Things He Did.

homans Story OF the Remarkable
Things He Did.
In large American city some dis
lance from Boston. says the Boston
Transcript. a young Ihan OF n, Mr. L..
who has extraordinary hypnotic power.
recently lunched and made some visits
In the company of two ladies, one of
whom, Mrs. s., he had met for the fist
time, and the other, who may be called
Miss Phebe, knew him well. but had
insisted that he had no power to hypno-
tie her. After the luncheon ana anoth-
er visit the three people went TO the
house at which Mrs. S. was liviag.
where neither Mr.. Il. nor Miss Phebe
had been before and with the inmates
of which they were not acquainted.
They went at once to the parlor. Miss
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

Uncle Sam owns over thirty-twO mil
lion dollars worth of books and collec-
tons available for educational use In
the city of Washington, according to
Major j. w. Powell, formerly the head
of the geological survey, who calculates
the value of the separate collections as
foiIovys.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

The potato crop last year was esti-
mated at 242.00000O bushels. with a
yield of 1S1 bushels per acre. The aver
age price may Ira placed at about 80
cents bushel, which is considerable
addition to the income of the farmers in
certain sections. While the value of
500 per acre is rot equal to that of
many crops which are grown by gar
deners near large cities, it is a fairly
remunerative one, and has the great
advantage to many people that 1t does
not need to be taken to market every
day, like strawberries, nor at just the
moment 1t is fit for use, like many gar
den crops, but il can be stored and sold
when the owner is ready to attend to II
after his hurry or harvesting is over.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24


wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney. bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Rright's Disease, which is the worst
form OF kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
commended for everything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedy you need. Ithas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that special arrangement has
beer made by which all readers of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have Kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention ieading this generous
offer in this paper ard
send your address, TO 6yaiIasst Esrs:-::.s
Dr.. Kilner & Co., bing II. EsEg 4
hamton, N. Y. The -s-sa s .Eslssa - -
regular fifty cent and Home OF swamp-Root.
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
The Tr de i'm Lamps,

The manufacture of lamps has in
ceased to wonderful degree. There
are to-day exclusive large lamp stores
in almost every city of any size. and the
manufacture and proper use of chin
neys have developed into a science
which few persons understand
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

cures made by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
It is the great medi-
cal triumph of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered alter years of
scientific research by
DR.. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
SIXTY YEARS on saMz FARM.

Fine Record of an Old Lenawec County
Mich, Couple.
On Jan !, 1890. Porter and Susan
Beal had been married Atty years and
entertained large houseful u theii
children and other relatives at theft
golden wedding. On Jan. /, 1900. they
celebrated in a similar manner thelI
sixtieth anniversary. They have had
eight children, Of whom six are living
There are twenty-siX grandchildren
and nine eat-grandehildren This
aged couple have lived for sixty years
on the same farm and in three different
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24
Drainage of Roads.

Water is the great road destroyer,
and too much attention can not be Civ
en- to the surface and underurainage of
roads, says the Drainage Journal. The
surface of the road should be rounded
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

Lieut.. Meiklejohn of the
HighlaBders seems to have had
hot time at Elandslaagte. He re
three bullets through his uppeI
arm, one through the right I'd
one through the left thigh. two d
his helmet. a ''snick'' ia the ne
of his fingers was blown away, /
sword and scabbard were
pieces. But he Is quite happy,
loss of his right arm gives hi
uneasiness. Between his chuS
is heard to say: The silly
didn't know | am left-handed
don Globe.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-24

State Labor COmmissioGcs
Missouri has started the Unite
District Court a. jefferson q
ing in an Ppdeavor TO wipe on
culation of metal '-compaf
money In the mining camps
State.