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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
state Itema of Interest.

Oscar Anderson was killed in No. Z
shaft of the Ashland mine at Hurley by
cave-in.
The safe of the Barker Lumber Com
pany at Randolph was blown open by
| burglars and all the money it contained
was taken.
Fire destroyed the furniture store of
w Beerman Mt Guttenhurg. The Stand
ard Belt and Garnayille Telephone com
panies also suffered.
Julius Kortemeer, II years old, who
charged his school teacher with causing
his illness by blow On the head with a
book. died at Racine after several days
illness with brain fever
Miss Carrie Davenport. aged ~ yeacs,
was found dead in a bathtub at Beloit.
When she failed to come 10 breakfast her
landlady went to find her and discovered
her dead in the tub, which contained cold
water.
Thomas NJ Lyon Of the Lyon Dust
less Floor Sweeper Company Of Chicago
fell down the steps 81 the Postal Tele-
graph Office in Milwaukee and fractured
his skull. He was taken to the emergcn-
cy hospital, where it was said he would
recover.
While tryin. to put on a small belt for
the packer which he was working in the
feed-drying plant of +. i. Mueller at
Milwaukee. August ..eumann was
caught by larger belt and flung through
a hole in the floor with such violence that
be died two hours later.
The Poole Brothers general store post
office and telephone exc .mge all in che
building at Armstrong Corners. was '0tal-
ly DESTROYED BY fire. The loss Is pyti-
mated ut between $1,000 and 5000 Mr.
Poole. with his family lived in house
connected with the store building, and
after he was awakened, at about 3 $50
o'clock in the morning. he barely had time
to get his wife and children out Of the
burning building
August Rocks. . farmer. was accident
ally killed while driving of the frozen
marshe5 west of Berlin with a large load
Of hay. His wagon and load were over
turned and be was thrown 10 the ground.
The mans neck was broken.
Judge Dnnwiddie in the Circuit Court
at Jefferson denied a new trial to Fred
erick W. Stevenson Of Waterloo. convict
ed Of murder IN the second degree. Tie
Judge sentenced Stevenson to twenty-five
years IN State prison'and one day % each
year to be spent in solitary confinement
Stevenson murdered Deputy Sheriff VII
liam Cooper Feb. $, 1902.
The French Lumber Company of .hip-
pews Falls one Of the oldest lumber
companies in northern Wisconsin has
sold It's last stick " timber. 25.0Og 900
feet. 20 the Cook d O'Brien interes.- 4
Duluth The consideration was SieJ-
efEt
Because the fire engine was ont of 10
pair aud could nos be operated the Mos
inee House. the oid-,t h0tcl in Mosiree.
owned by Charles y ske. WIS burned to
the ground and william Brabant's fr1ir
store wa also totally Destroyed Both
losses are %artialIy covered By Tug1franc.
4 defective chimney On Tho seeoad Door
Of the hotel is supposed 10 be the origin
Of the Are
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
state Park at DEVILS Lake.

Many people who spend their summer
months at Devils Lake win be pleased
to learn that bin has been introduced
into the Legislature by Franklin johnson
to establish a State park at Devils Lake.
1t is understood the plan contemplates
the requirement ultimately of the entire
lake and the bluffs and the land for per
haps half mile round about. The lake
is a crystal sheet of water little over
a mile one way and about three-quarters
the other, with grand rocky cliffs on three
sides These bluffs even to-day shelter
more deer than any like area in southern
Wisconsin, and with the lake would Ton =:
an ideal geological park.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
Cats of All Kinds.

\ dangerous cat CATASTROPHE
All aspiring cat (catamounO.
A cat that can swim catfish
4 cat that can fly (catbird
A cat that will be a butterfly Cater.
nillarl.
\ library cat (catalOguel.
a cat that asks questions (cate-
.chisln).
\ eats near relation (catskin).
\ cat that is good to eat (catsupj.
\ horned cat (cattle).
A cat that throws stones (catapulb
\ tree cat (catalpa).
A water cat Cataract.
y cat that flavors grapes (catawba)
A cat that covers acres of ground
%cataclysm).
4 subterranean cat (catacomb).
A cat that, living, appears dead (cat
saiepsy).
4 cat priced as gem Tea seye).
4 cat with Il cold catarrh,.-Ladies
Home Journal.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
MoDERNIzE SUNDAY Schools.

Ii is evidence of the permanent and
inspiring elements in the Sunday school
that no one of serious mind desires its
overthrow as a commanding instru-
mentality for good Its ERNEST friends
realize that it has unwlsely withstood
the process of evolution which has
saved so many other institutions from
revolution. In the great field of educa-
ton alone marked progress has been
made in the direction which the truth
presented in the Sunday school would
naturally and logically have led the
Sunday school to follow. The child-soul
hae been reverently studied and the re-
suits Of that study adopted, not so much
by the Sunday school whose Christ en-
pbasiZed the sacredness of the little
child as by the day school, which has
been criticised as too secular.
The kindergarten movement has
adopted the Christian method without
teaching Christian dogmas or the his
tory Of the early church; the Sunday
school, on the contrary. has continued
an unsclentific and mont Christian meth
cd of teaching, while it has proclaimed
the abstract doctrines and rehearscd
the beautiful biography of Christ.
The first reform in Sunday school
teaching ought to be the adoption of
Chris's method, based en- Christ's idea
of a little child. This is more nearly
exemplified in the kindergarten than
anywhere else.
In the one hundred years since the
death of the founder of the Sunday
those who wOuld create and sustain
faith as against infidelity has clearly
changed. Atheism is unscientific in the
eyes Of scientifically trained genera
ton, and agnosticlsm occupies its
place. Doubt is reverent where once it
was irreyerent. Objections 10 what is
taught in the Sunday school are now
scholarly, where once they were ignor-
ant and vulgar.
The scientific method must be rever-
enced by our religious instructors; for
this is the only way in which a child
may be prevented from laundering over
the incongruity of accurate and sound
instruction in the day school and mac
curate and misleading instruction in
the Sunday school.
This has done vast harm. 1t has given
the impression TO many youth that
truths in the domain of religion cannot
endure the scinetific method.
The third need will be met when the
Bible is rescued from bibiolatry Never
was the Bible surer of a greater future
of Influence than at this rime when
scholarship is showing Il to be TIE nat
ural record of o prog. assive rev elatioI
The true conservati' now Is the think
er and teacher who will simply give
the Bible n fair chance with all other
books. interpret it as any other book
is to be interpreted and lead the chill
dren to see how all of the poetry and
history lead up IL the authoritative
Christ.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
lI5TGI5{ ri POPULAR
K@Y q PULPIT

salvation. To correct vision in matters
religious, social and civic there must
be the recognition of Gods law as SUI
preme.
TO east people adrift without divine
law and guidance is to send ship to
sea without pilot, compass or rudder.
the inevitable result of whose passage
must be disaster and ruin.
The searchlight is great instrument,
and by it the blackness of the darkest
night may be pierced and highway OF
safety openeC up. Gods commandment
when thrown upon the dens of lustful
thoughts and acts in the human heart
causes the squirming and the wrlthing
that an honest revelation always
brings and shows the slime and CRIME
of sin.
We need less of Il poets and more
of the prophets, less Of the apologists
and more of the apostles, less of the
critics and more of the Christ. We
have church of the new thought,
churches of the old thought and
churches of no thought: let us have
more churches of the Christ thought,
not less soap but more salvation
Making sin appear as sinful is some
thing more than a Sabbath days jour
ney or a May days reyerie; II is a long,
tedious march full Of fatigue through
the enemy's country in the face of fear
full opposition, with serious fighting by
the way and beset ON every hand by
cavalry, infantry and artillery, but in
spired along this dusty highway are the
children of God by the conviction of
certain victory.
The slumbering conscience Is making
the plea of its ancient ally, Il adjure
thee that thou torment me not" That
God demands personal purity needs to
be burned into the heart of our times
by fire from heaven. and that the Sc
cr>t life of duplicity win one day be
exposed upon the housetops our gen
Grafton needs to understand.
Dishonesty and bribery and avarice
and selfshness are sins for which
atonement must be made. and the
blood OF the wronged brother or the
betrayed sister, the abandoned wife or
the deserted children will cry out unto
sinful men frou the ground
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST in BADGER.
DOM.
Shingles aud Excelsior Burn at Me-
nasha-woman Passes from Trance
TO Death-State Park Is Proposed
Homestead Entries TO be Investigated

Sixty thousand dollars worth of shin.
giles and excelsior were burned at Me
nasha. The shingles We're sent in to the
Wisconsin Central Railroad from Wash.
ington and Oregon for reconsignment
from Menasha The fire department had
JUST finished subdning small blaze at
the Menasha novelty works when az
alarm was sent in from the extreme west.
ern portion of the city, and before tina
department had reached the fire it kaS
gained such Roadway that it was impos-
sible to save the two buildings, which
contained the shingles and excelsior.
There were eighty ears of shingles in the
building, its capacity being 100 cars. The
approximate loss of tie shingles is $4S,-
600 Twelve carloads of excelsior OWE
ed by the Nick ennon Excelsior Company
at Menasha, being worth $4,000, were
also total loss The cause of the fire
was flying sparks from passing engine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
cREpuLlTY OF HE HINpu.
sazspfe of the Decisions Which He
occasionally Harhers.

saa,pfe of the Decisions Which He
occasionally Harhers.
Here is a remarkable instance of the
scredulity OF the EIindu, and the wild
kind of decisions which he occasion
ally harbors. The writer is described
as q Hindu gentleman of standing and
reputation. and this extract is taken
from letter written to gentleman in
England:
We are having awfully serious news
circulated in the papers here. Extracts
purported TO be from the Morning
Leader, of London, and Ia Bon Guon-
@dia of Spain, impress US that the en-
.peror on the coronation day was dam
Serously i'll, and was never really
crowned, for the ministers caused him
10 be personated by beggar of White
chapel. We are really very concerned
TO hear it, and we firmly believe the
news - be a false creation, but Won
der WY the government is still inac-
tive as regard TO taking any steps to
punish the author of so foul calumny.
The gentleman who sends me the
above extract gives some other quaint
examples of the amusing tictions which
gain currency among the natives of
India SAYS a writer in London Truth.
The bigger and the more preposterous
the lie, he says, the more readily it is
believed. When the Jubilee bridge over
the Hooghly was being built the story
got about that the government required
a thousand heads of natives for the
foundations of the bridge, and had
given orders that all natives walking
over the madam after dark were 10 be
seized, and taken TO the 'Shaitan
khana '-the native name name for the
Masonic lodge-where their heads We're
10 be cut off for use in this uncanny en-
gineering operation. The natives, it is
said, were afraid to walk in that direc-
tion after dark for this reason. Again,
at the time of the last Indian frontier
war, a fat Babu clerk disappeared from
one of the government offices and could
not BE found. 1t was firmly believed,
saws my correspondent, by his fellow
clerks and neighbol that he had been
seized by order of , te government. to
be made into ointment for the benefit of
the wounded soldiers. Happily, the fat
Babu turned up again safe and sound;
so no serious consequences resulted
from tins dellIsion. If an idea like this
>can be seriously accepted, as my in
formapt says it was, by the class of ma
tives who pass examinations and hold
public appointments, nothing that may
lind acceptance with the flower orders
scan be wondered at.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
Long Sleep Ends in Death.

Mrs. W r. Cole of Pleasant Prairie
did after very peculiar Illness, extend
ing through six days, during which pc
riod she had lain in an unconscious CON
dition so nearly approaching death as to
battle the skill of the physicians who were
called to attend her. The physicians now
pronounce the ailment as paralysis Of the
brain. Mrs. Cole attended church one
evening and entered quite spiritedly in
the singing During the service and just
after she had sat down after singing she
became unconscious and WAS removed to
her home near BY Every effort to resus-
citate her was in vain. Finally, without
any seeming change in condition, her body
began growing cold and when several
hours had elapsed she was pronounced
dead
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
Freezes 20 Death.

Mrs. John G.. Schmidt, residing FIVE
miles from jefferson. aged II, was found
frozen to death. She lived alone with
her aged husband, who is an invalid. Tne
other night she left the house TO get
some wood nnd was overcome by the
cold Her husband went out to find her
and found her unconscious from cold. He
succeeded in dragging her TO the house,
but owing to his own exhausted condl-
ton could do nothing for her. In the
morning a neighbor called and found Mrs,
Schmidt dead on the floor, with her in
valid husband by her side. A physician
was called, and he sand that death was
due to freezing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
DR.. Gossonl's
Oxygen Tonic Tablets

They are famous for their building power where the
blood is depleted where the nerves are in dis
eased condition, oil the action of the bowels or the
working ofthe digestive organs are in any way soth
full or dilatory in performing their work Perfect di
gestion and regular action of the bowels are certain
where this remedy is taken according to directions,
and many cases may be cited here, wherein serious
illness has been averted by their USE They act di-
rectly on the organs and conditions that prevent
stomach trouble ward off sick headaches and dis
tress after eating constipation and build up the
entire system Call and get FREE SAMPLE BOX
AND BOOKLET.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
OBSTRUCT THE FAITHFUL.
By ReY Myrou ~ Hayne

There are obStructionists in every or
ganization, and it is fearful to contem-
plate the evil they may do. One such
may negative the efforts Of dozen
faithful workers. There used to be a
saying that woman can throw out
with a spoon as fast as a nan can
throw in with a shovel" and this Is
doubtless true with some women. So
an unfaithful or vicious member of q
church can undo what a dozen faithful.
hard working ones can do.
A careless child once shattered in a
moment a beautiful piece of carving
which had cost the artist six months of
time to execute.
1t takes a man many years to build
up spotless reputation. An evil
minded person can tlrn'sh it in day.
1t sometimes requires many sermons
to bring = man to consciousness of
his guilt and feeling of love toward
God and a desire to live q better life.
Some faitkless church members can
dri,~ away those fine impressions in an
hour.
My dear friend, if You could realize
tfat when you are faithless to God, you
not only weaken your own character
and imperil your own soul, but drive
others away from God and heaven, it
seems to me you would be a little more
careful how you live.
A young man once said to me: when
[ came TO this city l had high ideals
and prOfo I'd respect for Christianity,
but l fell in with lot of church mem
bers who did things which 1, though
not Christian had never been accus-
toned to do, and | made up my mind
that religion was either a farce or
had placed my ideals too high. 50
just lowered my ideals and ceased to
pay any attention to religion"
Think of it! Professed Christian peo-
pie had been guilty of influencing a
man to lower his ideals.
Are mems ideals too high? Can man
be too pure. too honest, too noble? 1t
is the devils work to pull down mems
ideals He wants to lower mems esti-
mate of honor and truth, and when
church members engage in work Of that
character they become cats paws for
the devil
God forbid that we should Influence
any man to lower his ideals
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
Not that Kind of a Boy.

Little boy. do you read these cheap
and demoralizing works of fiction:"
Me, ma'am? Assuredly not. Just
now I'm reading Emerson and Spencer,
ma'am. If ever have any of those
cheap stories. ma'am, l always gives
7em to me little her."-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04

A general shaking up in homestead
entries is promised to take place in town
ship 40 north, range II west, before
spring opens up. c. c. Miller, special
Jgent of the United States land depart
ment for the Eau Claire and Wausau dis
tricts, is now in that township to inycs
tigate every homestead entry that has
been made there and all settlers who are
not living up to the full requirements OF
the law will have their claims recon-
mended to the department for cancella-
ton. 1t Is alleged that entries have been
made for speculative purposes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04

Sixty-two pounds is the weight of a
vegetable marrow thirty-tive inches
dong and forty-fOur inches in giTth,
grown at Langdon Hills, Essex. Eng
land.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
SIN PIERCEDBY sEARCHLIGHT.
BY Rev. A. n. Stephens.

1t is profitable now and then for Us
TO throw our lives upon a pure back
ground in order that by contrast we
may see that sin is yet exceedingly sin
ful. Sin can never lose its sinfulness.
however long may be its popularity or
familiarity. Its wages have always
been. are. and ever win be death.
Fellowship with wrong may dca3an
the conscience. ut T. can never kill sin
or slay its offspring. No man can bring
himself into alignment with Jesus
Christ without seeing the sinfulness Of
sin and the sanity and sacredness Of
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04
lire You
Perfectly WeIl?

ARNOLD & DAVIS. with desire to give
his patrons the most reliable remedy with the most
potent power of action and benefit, has secured
the agency for
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-04

IT e q I Z II anu
happiness.
How incon-
ceivably great
is the parents
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15
Don T v onRY.

This lie easier said than done. yet il maj
be Of some help to consider the ma ter. II
the Cause is something over which you
have 20 control it is obvious that worry iue
will not help the meter 10 the least On
the other hand. IL within your control you
nave only to sc. When you have . cold
snd fear 40 attack Of pneumonis. buy =
bottle OF Chsmb erlsin's Clush Ran ed ,
and nee it judiciously sod sll csuse to wor
~ as to the outcome will quickly dissp
pear There IL no danger OF pneum onis
when 1t is used. For sale by Al Petit
bone, Manchester Depot. J n Wbipple.
Manchester Centre, james Cody. South
Dorset, nj Armstrong, Dorset
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15

Mrs Job.nns Sjderholm, Of Fere us
Falls, Mine, iell end dislooa.ed her shoul
def She had . surgeon get IL back 10
place rs soon s possible, bat vas qaite
sote and psiued her very much, Her sop
mel ioped that be had seen Chan berisin' &
Pain Balm advertised for tprails aud soie
ness. aud she stked him 20 buy her DO,
Il. OF It. Which be did. Il qaickiy relIev
cd her aud su,bled htr to sleep. which che
bad not dooe for several days. The 500
vas 20 much ple.ed sith toe relief i.
gave biz mother at be has since recon
mended 1t TO othtrs For ssle by A II
ps,,ibone. Manchester d, pot, II Whip
pie, M.nehsshr CeIter. james Cody
sosih Dorset. J NJ Armstrong, Dorfet
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15
ADVICE TO MOTHERS,

Are you disturbed at night and broker
Of your rest by . sick child suffering and
crying with pain Of cutting teethp II sc
send ut once and get bottle OF Mrs. Win
slows Soothing Syrup for children teeth
ing. 1t cures dysentery, diarhoes. regu
lstes the stomach and bowels, cures wind
collie, soitens the gums, reduces in1sms
ton. and gives tone and energy to the
whole system. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup for Children Teething is pleasant
ths taste and is the prescription OF one
OF the Oldest and best female physician
and nurses in the United States and is for
sale by oil druggists throughout the world
price Is cts bottle.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15

The startling announcement Of . Discos
cry thst will surely lspstben 10 il IN sde
by editor o. Fl Dowrev. OF Chntubusto
Ind wish 10 state, be writes. that
Df, Kings New Discovery for Corsu ~ .
ton Is the most ini.lIible remedy that ]
have ever knoun for @ ugbs, Colds and
Grip It's invaluable to people With weak
lunas. Having this wonderful medicine
no one peel dresd Pntumonis or Oonsump
,ion. It's relisi Is instant snd cnre certain.
J N Hard. Manchester. and II Whip
pie, Manchester Cettre. Rnsrsntes every
sos and 81 90 bottle, and give trial bottles
free
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15

Tee prtliuios,y report as, made BY
The director Of the misi shows tbst the
acid rfDdooiion Of the uoi,ed States 10
lba oslsbdtr year 1904 ~s eIose 10 ssS
O01. 900. while The silver oaipn,. CON mer
eisl v.lae. vas s3i 900 900 This is tie
Lishes, poiti ever iouchtd for gold 10
this eonatfy TIE silver prodac bss
oileu been Surpassed. though 10 recent
year, there hs 10, been N ueh ola vsfis
,ion iron. The hsnres Of 1902. l,s0 TO
The soli on,pu, that the eoup,y will
have speei,l re.on 10 fslioiiste itself
Ths tisbcs, point reached when the Cali
iofsis produs,ion s.s q, its msIimum us
10 1896 ~ben the coon,ry's output va
$50 800 900. bnt thst ws resrly 81
from C,liiorois Then there vss decline
which btonsh, the production down 10
$50 600 000, 10 1888 ster which came
tue Increase which has sent the total Tor
1909 ap to $50 900 900
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15
The SECRET or Lone LIpE.

Consists 10 keeping oil the nsis organs
OF the DO ~ 10 besltby. regular sctiop, and
anickiy destroying desiiy disease germs.
Electric Bliters regulate 8 omseh, Liver
and Kidneys, purity the blood. snd give =
.plesdid sppetite They wotk wonders 10
caring Kidney Troubles. Femsle Com
pl,ints Narvous Diseases. Cons.ips ion,
Dyspsts!s. sud Malaria Vigorous beslth
snd strength slwsys follos their use
Ooiy 50s, rasr.nt cd by J n Hard, Man
caess,r. aud Il Whipple Manchester
Ceuite.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-01-15
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