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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
CHATTER VII

Another week passed away, and moth
ing further occurred to mar the pleas
ures Of the young people at the chateau.
OF course. a dark suspicion sometimes
threw cloud over their souls, but then
t'ey saw nothing new to worry them,
anG they had begun TO hope that, after
all, their danger had its rise in the GU
pidity Of the Chickasaws. And during
this week, too. Simon Bobois had been
more sociable and agreeable than before,
and perhaps he was not an evil man at
all. At any rate, they tried to hope 50.
Tony had seen nothing yet though he al
ways shook his head very obviously
when the dark cousins name was men.
toned.
Ii was a pleasant afternoon, and Gou-
part had wandered of to where some
beautiful wild flowers were just peepine
into blossom down by the rivers bank
In the front garden, But he was not
alone Louise was with Linz He had
not asked her TO come with him, nor had
she asked him where he was going. They
walked on and came to a seat where
huge grapevine mad been trailed up over
and about it, They stopped here and
sat down. The sun was already nearing
the distant tree tops, and the air was
soft and balmy.
Louise" spoke the young man, at
length and his voice was very low and
tremulous, do you remember the great
garden back of the old chateau in Cler-
month
20. yes: / remember it we'll" returned
the maiden, with sparkling eye.
And do you remember how we used
to go out there and pick flowers, and
how you used to weave long garlands
with your tiny fingers, and throw them
over my headY'
Yes. Goupart; remember very WE'LL
'Ah. those were happy times, Louise
''Ycs-yes And yet, in all. they were
no Sappier than we find them here now.
for ny father was not happy there"
Il kuow-I know And. after all, what
is happiness but the offspring OF con
tent? Those were happy hours there in
the old garden at Clermont, and | have
/ seen some happy ones here"
"O-and wen see great many more, .
II hope sol believe so. But tell sse,
I Louise, do you remember how we used
I to laugh and talk there, in that old gar
| den, and in the old chateau, aud how
you used 10 plague and poster me?"
/ Eyes. / remember very well. And
| how wen you used to bear it,
/ And do you remember how you used
to pinch my cheek. and box my earsF"
Eyes"
.'And why was it? Why did you dt
those things? 2
Observation-Disclosures you used to pes
ter me-
How did l poster you? Come-nov
tell me- And as Goupart thus spoke
he reached out and took the fair girl'i
/ hand.
But she made no reply. Her eyes wert
bent upon the ground, and the warm
rich blood mounted TO her cheeks AM
temples.
IF you viii not tell me, may l tel
your whispered the young man, tremu
lousy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
TRADES FOR LONG LIVES.
Calling. that Are Likely to Make You

Caliings that Are Likely to Make You
live Over Your Allotted Time,
No trade in the world is better and
healthier than dye-making from coal
tar. There is no manual work that
comes near it, for tar. and the smell Of
it, is the finest Of all tones and tissue
builders; so much so tlat the average
life of a tar-worker comes out at SO
years. The mortality is so per ceut low
er, too. than in any other factory
trades.
Distilling saccharin from the tar is
equally good, and the bony framework
and circulation of a worker In tar is
always first-class. Malignant diseases
are almost unknown in aniline-dye fac
tories, and even in epidemics the work
ers suffer little. And there is nothing
like a tarworks for keeping off inhu-
enza. Yet the work of actually making
the tar. which falls to gas and coke
works, is yirt,ally unhealthy, because
| of the sulphur fumes; but when the
! finished tar is passed on to dyeworks
it brims with health and strength, and
/ the weakest men improve when work
| ing it.
Eighty-six years is marvellous aver
| age, by the way. for the average of the
population is forty-nine.
Still better, although not a factory
trade, like tar-working. is cow-keeping.
Not herding cows in the country, for
| that is neither more nor less healthy
than any other farming work, but tend
ing COW stables. Here the average
| length of life Is 81, and scores Of stall
ed cowkeepers live over the age OF 200.
| This Is because a cow is the only ? nj
! NAL whose presence is thoroughly
| healthy for mantle very breath of a
| cow Is beneficial Consumption and
| kindred ills are utter strangers in cow
| stables, and the best thing a man can
do to lengthen his life is to look after
cows, and, If possible, sleep in room
| above the stable.
| There Is very strange difference In
trades that go on .side by side in the
way of life-lengthening The labor of
| wheeling a barrow, in particular, has
So, h a strengthening effect on the
muscles and joints that confirmed bar
row-wheelers show the best average In
/ all the building trades-nearly q years.
and great many touch the 100 This
! is largely because, if a man wheels a
barrow properly. the wide-apart arms
open the chest, and help to strengthen
the lungs in a wonderful way. Where
as, though welding a pickax seems as
/ If 1t should be a fine exercise. 1t really
knocks the life-average down to 40. The
partly STOPPING position, and the beEt-
tnwards position Of the arms, contracts
the chest dangerously, cramping the
lungs, till they are easy victims TO
pneumonia.
Iron smelling puts ten years on to the
average life of man, il he has good
lungs to start with; but if he is weak
lunged 1t is liable to cut him off alto
gether. Coal mining is not good but
copper mining brings the average up ia
50 years with q run, for the compost
ton of the ore, when powdered, has an
extremely strengthening effect on 'he
blood and nerves.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Farm Notes.

Bone is the thing to use on peach
trees every time, says one grower.
Dig out the peach tree borers and jar
the eurculo.
The cause of foam rising on extract
cd honey is said TO be uhripe honey.
Sugar beets should not be permitted
to dry out after being dug. as there is
always loss of sugar.
Minnesota beekeepers in convention
seemed to favor sweet and alsike GLOW
ers as good to sow for Dee pasture.
Where the mower has not worked
we'll in cutting cowpea vines that are
en- the ground bean harvester intend
ed for navy beans has been found sue
cesSful.
Hessian fly. the bahe of wheat grow
ers in the older states. appears to be
go. westward. secretary Cobarn, OF
Kansas. is credited wifi the adyaice &c
burn the wheat stuhble as soon as the
wheat is removed from the 6Rld.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
weiphiup Milk.

After milking each COW weigh the
milk, keep record of it, and in a
month one will be surprised to see how
great the difference in the weight of
the milk from the several cows. In
many cases it will be found that the
supposed prize mixer of the herd is
one of the poorest cows in the lot. This
test has proved to more than one dairy
man that he had two or three cows out
of a dozen that were eating up the
profits of the dairy. and that if he were
rid Of these cows his dairy would pay
profit. Spring scales can be bought
for about two dollars and will pay for
themselves In a month.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Marletine Garaen Product..

marketing harden frOduct7'
Many fruit and vegetable growers IN
the South and North make a mistake
In watching the market reports and
shipping goods when the quoted prices
are high and holding them back when
they are low. AS a result, when the
goods reach the market they find that
too mans others have done the same
thing, and when the goods are received
conditions have changed, and the mar
ket is again glutted. and prices are
down. THIS system may 90 well for
the gardener who Is so near 10 the mar
ket that be can have prices telephoned
out to him at night AMI have his prod
uce on hand before daylight, or get
them at The opening of the morning
market ana deliver his produce at eight
o'clock. But the man whose products
must be two or three days on the road
would often do better to ship his goods
when prices were low with the chance
Of rise before his consignmeIts. come
to hand. One truck farmer rear Nor
folk, Va, who is said to nave retired
with nearly a million dollars made IN
the business, used to have one good
commission agent in each of the sew
eral cities, to whom he shipped goods.
notifying them by wire of amount and
date of shipments, and they were then
prepared to receive orders for them or
to sell them for cash on arrival, and II
hedivided his shipments by any system
it was to keep each one well supplied
with good produce. and accept the
average price. The dealers, knowing
they had all of his goods in the city,
could obtain the highest price of the
day for them Massachusetts Plough
man.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
General IDENTITY ia Chicks.

One of the main causes of general de-
bllity among young chicks is over
crowding them in the coops by either
having the coOpS too small or giving
the old hen more chicks than she can
properly cover or by permitting her to
take them to a nest of some kind to
cover. The eoops for chicks should be
roomy and clean with perhaps some
litter on the boards or ground, but the
nest box filled with hay or straw has
no place in the coop. Another cause of
debility is permitting the old hen free
range with her chicks when they are
very young; there are always a few
chicks IN Il clutch that, while perfect
ly well. are not very strong aud are I'M
able to keep up with the pace set by the
old hen. For az least two weeks the old
hen should be kept confined and not
permitted 20 run with the chicks unless
the space given them is very small. Ii
any of the little chicks show decidedly
that they arr weaklings it viii be best
to kill them az once.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21

''Bnt may have forgotten what Top
mean" said Louise, casting furtive
glance up into her companions face, but
dropping her eyes again when she found
how eagerly mis- gaze was fastened upon
her. ''You used 10 poster me in many
ways"
yet can remember OF but one. Shall
speak ity'
Certainly you may speak"
Then twas for calling you my little
wife that you used to do these things.
And more, too; you used to assure me
that when you became my wife in earn
est, you should be strong enough to pinch
and box me as / deserved. Don't you
remember
"But-but / was child then, muir
INJURED Louise, trembling.
"Ay-and we were both children. Yon
were then a laughing. buoyant girl Of
ten, and ] Wild youth Of seventeen.
Those were tirRs when the heart hid
none Of its emotions. All, Louise, many
a time since then have | looked back
upon those hours, and tried to anaiyze
the emotions that moved me then. II
seemed strange that / should nave then
taken an image upon my heart that the
hand of time could never efaee--and
that, too, the image Of a mere child. But
do you remember when the painter, Nivi-
ami, came to the old chateau, and l hired
him to paint your miniature on iv9ryE
yes" murmlred Louise, now looking
up.
St. Denis opened his vest, and from
beneath it he drew a golden locket that
opened by means of a spring He press
ed it, and the case separated, revealing
a sweet face--a childlike conntenance,
yet full Of soul and life. The golden
hair hung in wild profusion about the
dimpled cheeks, and beaming smile
dwelt in the deep blue eyes, and upon
the parting lips.
do you know whom that was taken
for?' Ctoapart whispered.
20, yes-'tis me; it's mine. l remem-
Der it we'll o, how like Louis it looks.
Because it looks even now like you.
But listen, Louise. Seven years-yes,
eight years. have owned this sweet
transcript and not for one moment, dur
ing all that time, has it left ms posses
sion. Never have my eyes closed to
sleep but it has rested upon my bosom,
and never waking hour but have worn
it next my heart. Think you ! have
forgotten the sweet love of my boyhoodT'
Gradually the fair girls head sank upon
her companions bosom, and when she
looked up again, her eyes were filed with
tears.
Ito be contnued.I
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Growing Fiell Corn.

Many a farmer has been saying that
there was no profit In growing corn in
New England, when Western corn
could be bought at the market price of
several years past, but when they find
that dry season In the West has in
creased the price ten cents a bushel,
and may add ten more before the sea-
son is over, they rather envy the man
who has field that will fill the old
corn crib and give good stack of corn
stover to save the hay next winter
He, at least, can afford to contribute
something to the Kansas sufferers who
have found the corn crop a failure this
year. But we hope the man who has
corn to buy win not be too hasty in
deciding to use less of it because of the
advance in price. III it is loss to buy
corn instead of growing it, Il may be
a greater loss to reduce the araount fed
to fattening stock, mich cows, swine or
poultry. If satisfied that it paid to feed
it at the old price, keep on as before
and hope for better price for the
products.-New England Homestead.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
nrinrinr nim 10 rerms.

81 would like to have your photo
graph for an article to he published in
our Sunday paper" said the Tel resen-
tative OF ;.,a sensational Journal
Couldn't think of il, said The man
whose sudden fame was due to the
fact that his son had eloned with Il
variety acress. Il have No desire fer
notoriety."
"Of course" was the reply. Iii YOU
prefer to have me sketch yo9 from
memo-y after l get back 10 She Of
dee
Take it, cried the man. hastily ten
dering the photograph "i'vc seen
some of those memory sketches. chi
cage Evening Post.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Soil aenovators.


The opinion seems to be general
among farmers that the only crops
which can be used to improve the soil
are the legumes which gather carbon
nitrogen from the air and retain il, so
that when plowed under the nitrogen
Is given to the soil. Another use these
legumes have is that they supply
humus to the soil, which often is much
needed There is another class, Of
which rape is a member, which wnen
plowed under has the power to absorb
the phosphoric acid which lies inert
when other plants are grown, and
when such crops are plowed under
they return this phosphoric acid to the
soil for the use of the next plant placed
thereon, for once being made active it
does not again become inert. COw-horn
turnips are of this class, and recent ex-
periments have proved their wonderful
value as soil renoyators. The long
roots force themselves deep into the
Subsoil, forcing that soil to give up its
plant food. Amy crop which will bring
into play ary Of the plant foods that
lie inert when other crops are grown
will do vast deal to add to the fertil-
ity Of the soil. All farms viii not grow
crimson clover, but with COW peas. vel
vet bean and Canada field peas at hand
one may readily obtain legume that
can be grown and thus get nitrogen
cheaply, then if rape and other mem
bers of the turnip family. viii wake
up the phOsphoric acid in the soil and
make it available, the question Of soil
fertility comes pretty near being
solved
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Rations for Dairy Cow.

Prof. I. L. Hacker, of the Minnesota
experiment station, after nine years
experience, gives the following as to
the best ration for dairy cows: Ensi-
lage is the foundation feed used and
the grain feed consists of five parts
bran, five parts cornmeal and two parts
of new process gluten meal, which con-
tains n per cent protein, and the ra-
lions are from five pounds to nine
pounds of This mixture, according to
the amount of milk given. 1t generally
takes three pounds of ensilage and half
pound corn fodder for every pound of
grain feed. Ii a cows flow of milk
drops off for some cause or other. he
increases it by feeding roots besides
the grain for a time and then holds it
by grain alone. incidentally he men
toned COW which failed to breed for
four years which gave 300 pounds of
butter fat the fourth year and seems
to intend to keep up that gait.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Diplomats Tribute to Line


Like a beacon burning through all the
nights is the men Dry of Abraham Lin
coins personally.
"Of all the great men have known"
says Sir Edward Malet, the English
diplomatist, in his just published vol
ume of "reminiscences, president Lin
coin is one who has left upon me the
impression of a sterling son of God,
straightforward, unfiinching, not loving
the work he had to do, but facing it
with bold ana true heart; mild when
ever he had chance; stern as iron
when the public veal required it. fol-
lowing bee-Hne to the goal which duty
set before him. 1 can still feel the grip
of his massive hand and the searching
look of his kindly eye"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
,,eafness Canra. Re f,urad

by local applications. as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness and that Is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets infamed
Ing and when it is entirely closed Deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
VIII n is nothing but an iniamed condition OF
the mucous surfaces.
we viii give one Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
sS- Sold by Druggists. 76c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
Paatnte Lands.


When | came out West, more than a
respondent of the Prairie Farmer, it did
not take many years to find out that it
was more profitable to pasture the
grass around me than to burn it in the
fall. This pasturing of the grass was
done so successfully that none was left
to burn or to pasture. Finally l was
compelled to break up the land and
farm it. | raised large crops of small
grain. but soon saw that ii was a
money-losing game and tried to seed
my land back to grass. found it very
difficult to get tame pastures to stick,
and if by accident 1 got a good stand
of timothy or clover the latter would
not last last and the former after a good
crop or two would get what called sod
bound and would not produce a load of
hay TO the acre. / know now why the
timothy did no good after year or
two. 1t was because we pastured it to
the roots. thinking it economical to let
the stock eat the last spear of grass
that showed up in the fall Land hay
Ing by that time advanced in price, l
could not afford to own pastures of that
kind, and so / overstocked it to make
both ends aeet l made up my mind
to own less and better stock. aud this
change in no time made great inn
provement in my pastures. l soon saw
that a growth of grass covered the pas
q in, = Fanss oil hD
range In short pastures was burned.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21

more an monla, and the rain or snow
win abso,b more of it. Unfortunately
for careless farmers it does not drop
back to the place from which it rises,
but may be carried by the wind for
miles before returning to earth, and the
farmer who makes compost heap and
does not keep 1t so covered with earth
or other absorbent as to prevent the
escape of ammonia may be adding to
the fertility of the garden Of somebody
in the mex. oulty whom he never saw,
instead of putting it upon his own soil,
that needs it more. Like old-fashloned
stories this has a moral. When caring
for manure or composts do not allow
nitrogen to escape, and keep your sur
ia re soil light and dry, that it may abb
sorb more from the atmosphere, as dry
earth is a good ,absorbent.-Ex Exchange.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
STATE OF THE CROPS
WEEKLY REPORT OF THE AoRI.
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Weather Favorable for Growth East
Of Rocky Mountains, with Beneficial
Rains Over Large Portion of the
Drought Area.

ihe weekly crop report issued by the
weather bureau shows that late corn has
experienced material improvement in the
states OF the Mississippi and Missouri
valleys and in Kentucky and Tennessee.
WITH favorable temperature conditions in
September the yield in the Missouri Val
ley will be larger than indicated by pre-
yions reports. In Ohio, Indiana ana Cen
trail and Southern Illinois the condition
Of the crop has further deteriorated, es-
pecially in Southwestern Ohio. In the
Atlantic coast districts corn has made
excellent progress.
Rains have interrupted the spring
wheat harvest, which, however. is nearly
finished over the southern portion of the
spring wheat region, and caused lodging
in portions of North Dakota, where the
grain is reported as shrunken and heads
not well filled as result of late Excess
siye heat. The wheat harvest on the
north Pacific coast is in active progress
with yields exceeding expectations.
Further improvement in the condition
of cotton is generally reported from the
central and eastern portions of the cotton
belt, although rust and shedding are more
or less indicated, especially in Georgia,
Florida and portions of Alabama, where
too much rain has fallen in localities.
Over much of the western part of the
cotton belt and in portions of the central
districts cotton is suffering for rain, and
in the drought region of Texas is failing
rapidly. Picking is in general progress
in Texas, except in the northern counties.
In the Middle Atlantic States and New
England tobacco has made favorable
progress, except in portions of Maryland,
where the crop on lowIands has been IN
jured by too much rain. IL Kentucky
and in portions OF Tennessee the crop is
greatly improved, but in southwestern
Ohio it has been seriously damaged by
drought
Flowing for fall seeding has made very
favorable progress, except in Ohio Val
ley, where the soil is too dry.
All reports from districts east of the
Rocky Mountains indicate an extremely
light and inferior apple crop, although
the outlook IS slightly improved in Kan
sas an Miss Ti.
The week has been one of very favora-
Bile temperature conditions in the districts
east of the Rocky Mountains, with bene-
fetal rains over a large part of the
drought area. Drought, however, CON
tinues in the Ohio Valley and in portions
of Tennessee and the upper lake region,
while excessive rains have caused de-
structiye freshets in the Carolinas and
proved injurious in portions of Georgia,
Florida and Alabama Extremely hot
weather in the interior of California
caused rapid ripening of fruit and seri-
Gus injury to grapes in some places.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
WILL HELP FARMERS.
Weather signals to Be Displayed by
Rural Mail Carts.

Farmers who live along the lines Of
rural free delivery mail routes are TO
have the advantage of the United States
weather bureaus forecasts Of the wealth
er. All they win have to do viii be TO
watch the mail cart as it goes by. Ar
engagements are being made by the Post
Office Department and the weather bu-
rea,l to have the mail carts equipped with
signals which viii be displayed ON the
sides. They viii be as conspicuous as
DassjbIe. so that they can be read at
considerable distance from the highways
Mail carriers viii receive their weather
predictions for the day before they start
on their routes in the morning, and viii
mt M the proper signals on both sides
OF their carts.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21

The Berkshire is to the swine field
as the brave old oak to the forest He
has withstood the tempests Of fads and
fashions for over 100 years and is still
the most lasting and enduring, said w
d. McTavish at the Iowa State Breed
ers' Association. He has had no booms
or soaring prices, but has gone steadily
on in the even tenor of his way to that
practical improvement that makes him
to-day the best all round hog for all eli
mates and all purposes on earth.