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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
ORIGIN OF WORD PICNIC.
1t Appeared i'll One of Lord Chester
fields Letters.

> l4etIeTSs
whence the word "plcnic:" asked
man who is fond of the study of the
meaning and origin of words, in the
New Orleans Times Democrat. l do
not know and have not been able to
trace. My attention was directed to
the matter by recent article, in
which it was stated that the deriva-
ton of the word picnic is uncertain.
In London Notes and Queries of 1853
Attempts were made to trace its origin.
One correspondent says: Under a
French form the word appears in "A
speech of Robespierre, "C'est lei quill
doit ma'accuser, ct non dams les
piquesniques." An earlier instance oc-
ours in one of Lord Chesterfield's let
tiers, dated October. 1884 Another
writer of the same date tries to trace
the word through France into Italy.
Starting with the assumption that
piquenique in French implies a party
at which each guest provides some
special duty. he finds the italian ex-
preston nicchia duty and piccola On
trifing service), and from these he
coins piccola nicchia picnic). A French
encyclopedia, 1913. has it that the
word is compounded Of the simple
English pic Ito choose) and nick Qn
the nick of time, on the spur of the
moment). In France the term is also
used for indoor picnics. In America
the word picnic is confined to out-of-
door affairs. and in the old-tinle mean
ing of the word it was basket din
ner in the woods. The word is given
broader meaning now and is fire.
quntly used to describe the annual eel
ebration of certain organizations"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

Simple entertainment longer satisfies The stage the
press, art fiction and music ali in mad rush TO ere
find sensations for restless dissatisfied patron
age hnrdened with many and oppressed by an in
describable ennui
Simple tasteful dress scarcely exists; are over
dressed people ruled by the latest convention of clothes
makers We mad superhuous wants. The people
worry n0nessentll things No one is hap
pier under conditions Everyone has look of
Our women are rosy and contented looking. Our
young men breed wrinkles early. Men and women who
dress sut themselves and be comfortable freaks
To keep up appearances people clothes which they
have paid for and cannot afford TO march with the
procession people food for which they hare paid
the grocer live in houses it'll in arrears affect style
of life they have visible means of supporting Living at
present is responsible for OF modern
crime. From the of small debts brought by
pensiye living many seeks to escape by certain
ulations and finally by certain POPULATIONS
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

The French are having a hard time
with their nickels. The old ones were
so much Ike the silver franc piece
that the people protested; they kept
giving a piece worth 20 cents for one
worth 5. At last they have changed
the shape The new nickel will be
rounded with acute corners so that by
the simple touch the difference will be
perceptible. About twenty millions
will. in a few days. be thrown into
circulation.-Bro Brooklyn Eagle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

a few months ago the United
States Bureau of Intelligence
made some valuable COMPARE
sons, in one of which the navies
were compared Oh the basis of
the number and displacement of
warships actually completed on
Jan. /. 1904, and the other on
the basis of .he number and
displacement both of the war
ships actually completed and of
those under construction at that
date. 1t should be noted that
IN these estimates no account
is taken of gunboats and other
vessels of less than 1000 tons
displacement, nor do they in
Guide transports. dispatch YES
sells, converted merchant vessels
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

or yachts, or obsolete cruisers.
Vessels, moreover, that are au-
thorized, but upon which no &C
tual work of construction has
been done. are excluded from
the comparison. The figures of
the department are given here
after subtracting the tonnage
of the vessels actually lost by
Russia since Jan. / and the
gains by japanese of the two
purchased cruisers and the
losses sustained during the fight
ing off Port Arthur. 1t will be
seen that Russia drops from her
position of third before the war
to fourth in the first list and
fifth under the second heading.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

throughout the country. Miss Rush
was in bathing with half a dozen 9TH
er members Of her theatrical company
when she was struck by an immense
wave. which carried her into deep
water. one Of the members Of the
company, Milton Herriot, went to the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
POPULAR IN COMEDY ROLES.

Isadore Rush, Widow of Roland Reed,
Victim of the Surf.
The SAD death of Isadore Rush, the
actress and widow of Roland Reed,
while bathing Il the surf at San Diego,
Cal, was a severe shock to the many
friends of the popular comedienne
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
Nothing Fast About Him

Gladys (sighingl-Oh, dear, he
hasn't proposed yet
Ethel--Well. whet can you expect Of
a chap who never runs his auto over
ten miles an hour. Puck.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
WOMEN CRIMINALS WORSE THAN MEN.
BY George CIaretie.

| M Crime AID criminal have always beer
V OF the greatest interest TO the vulgar herd Last
WI year 1t was the Humbert affair; this year it Is
w Italy which in the person of the Countess Bon
| " martin runs in close rivalry France Certain
IL crimes which had grown of late years have
AN brusquely reappeared- Poison has become fash
EgaaAA lonable once more For crime has its fashion;
1t is the revolver, vriol poison The dag
has been cast aside for weapon unering
dangerous and dastardy- poison And now
of poisoning becoming more and more
frequent few months ago Nine. Cattle at Lectoure.
and Nine Massot at Marseilles accused poison
tried for having killed her husband in the same way.
poisoner has the maddened thirst drunkard with
this difference however that she pours her beverage
for others She has ysbly her sierra. This refinement
cruelty this of pernicious dainness crime is
maady like any others In certain this hysteria
win turn into need of lying of nventing extraordinary
tales In others it becomes passion for writing unsigned
letters often addressed themselves; in otes still it
th- NADINE. of crime the mpulsye irresistible need OF
killing just the pleasure of killing the features
drawn in tie agony of pain, the throes the dying.
Now are having little epidemic of poisoning. But
noticeable feature is thsa these crimes take place in
her feversh existence, in her whrwind of life has
neither the time the quiet mind necessary set upon
victim with the cold slowness the daily eroci
ty- When Parisenne does revenge herself upon some
body she her revolver in between calls or two
outings in her automobile Everything goes quickly in
Paris murder.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
PLEA FOR The SIMPLE LIFE.


Cultivate simplicity, live within
your means, follow your own tastes,
and act like sane human beings in
stead of the crazy, jaded, oyerworked,
oyerplayed, oyerdressed set we are.
The modern tendency is TO become
enmeshed in a complication Of wants,
necessities and confusions, like fly
in a web. The mere struggle for ex-
istCnce has become woefuily COM
plicated. Business has taken on such
complexities as to rob it of pleasure
and threaten it with constant uncer-
tanty. Our pleasures are complex.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

After a boy has learned trigonome-
try. and cube root. and Greek. he still
has to learn how TO mark his ballot
With q girl, it's different.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

Marshall T. Wilder tells this story Of
two little children Of Il Christian Sci
ence family WHO We're taken for the
first time 10 see a Punch ana Judy
show They enjoyed il heartily, until
Punch finally, in burst of anger, be
gan - heat Judy across the head with
a big stick Whereupon the little girl,
hastily covering her eyes with her
hands, called out. beseechingly. 70 her
brother:
Don't look, Teddy. don't look. It's
error
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
Yours very truly.

A faithful soldier Colonel Hender-
son did not seek or receive a leave Of
absence until after the battle Of
Franklin. Tenn. Nov 30, 1854. when
owing to serious personal illness, be
was compelled by Generals schofeh
and Cox TO retorn 10 his home for re-
cuperauon. He donors President Lin
coin for his official frmness In rsfus-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

The median age OF negroes is 1914
years-that IS, half the negroes Ia the
United States are below that age. The
median age n four years below that
OF the whites (23.4 years.. a difference
closely connected with the high birth
rate and high death rate OF the ne
groes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

Since the beginning Of last century
no fewer than 81 volcanic Islands have
risen out Of the sea. Nineteen have
disappeared and ten are aow inhabit-
ed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

should intermediate. The who wishes to be told whet
er Will he safe in marrying who he is reasonably
sure him, but with whom he is not in love;
whom he likes thoroughly and Of whom he cordially APP
proves; all kindness and justice to himself
her decide question for them both He only Judge
whether his temperament is such that cordial liking for
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
POWER OF CIRCUMSTANCE IN low AFFAIRS
BY HeIea 0Idneld.

There is nothing in the conduct of life to
which the trte Of saying that circumstances
alter cases applies more forcibly than to love
affairs. No one is altogether sure OF ones self
still less of another. and none can gauge cor
rectly the depths of another's heart. They who
ask advice concerning the course 10 be pursued
in the dilemmas of love are usually Ill advised.
Such problems are of those with which no ont.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30
Executive Mansion.
WASN'T 1ton. Dee. 20. 1862.
T / Henderson.

MY Dear Sir--Your letter of the
9Th TO Hon W nj Kellogg has just
been shown me You can scarcely
overestimate the pleasure ii would
give me to oblige you; but nothing is
operating SO ruinously upon us every
where as 'absenteelsm' 1t positively
will not do for me 10 grant leaves OF
absence in cases not sufficient 10 pro-
cure them under the regular rules.
1T would astonish you to know the
extent Of the evil Of 'ab8enteeism' We
scarcely have more than half the men
we are paying for on the spot for serv-
ice anywhere.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

Bawllng is one OF the nOsiest words
in the language.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
Casualties.

burning coat in one Of the cloak
rooms of the Majestic theater in New
York almost created a panic.
The distillery of S. Mihalovitch.
Fletcher & Co., at Cincinnati, burned;
loss, S250,000; insurance, 100000.
Eight firemen had narrow escapes
from death in fire in the Chicago
Consolidated Milling and Mating COM
pany's plant.
Three men were compelled to jump
for their lives to escape fire which
destroyed full block in the business
district Of Wheeling, W. Va.
In an explosion at Marion, Ind, re-
sulting when water was thrown into
the First Baptist church furnace to put
out the fire, two men were badly
burned.
The boiler Of locomotive drawing
the west-bound New York Central
freight train blew up at Syracuse, N.
Y, killing the engineer and brake
man and probably fatally injuring the
fireman.
AS result of drinking ginger ale
favored with lemon extract, Charles
Benke, Albert Lewis and William Pru-
dence are dead at Alexander, Ark, and
Wash and Walker Lewis are danger.
ousiy iii.
The body of Homer H. Swaney, lost
from the Clallum, was picked up two
miles north of Dungenness light. He
was president of the Pacific Steel COM
pany of Irondale and the Seattle Steel
and Iron company.
It's great speed carried the Chicago
bound Diamond Special on the Illi-
nols Central over an open switch near
Glen GORDON, ILL.,. and foiled the at
tempts of train wreckers. Three cars
OF the freight train which followed the
fast train were derailed and piled upon
each other.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
People Talked About.

Jacob Harlan died at Richmond,
Ind, as the result of a nervous shock
produced by a horrible dream.
John N. Drummond, former vice
president of the Wabash railway, died
Of paralysis at a hotel in Chicago.
Dr. Henry L. Tolman, who had a ma
tional reputation as microscopic, is
dead in Chicago, aged fifty-fve years.
Mrs. Hecller Breckenridge, living
near st. Louis, who kept a VOW made
in 1864 never to leave her farm alive,
is dead.
Joseph Fotaher, thirteen years old,
and who weighed 300 pounds, is dead
at Elgin, H., as the result of a severe
coughing spell.
Judge Shelton c. Spender Is dead at
his home after a long Illness, aged
seyenty.four years. He took an active
part in the early border troubles in
Kansas.
Commodore William w. DUNCAN, U.
S. NJ, retired, is dead at his home in
Baltimore. During the Spanish war he
was member of one of the navy de-
partments advisory boards.
William Lansing, at one time one Of
the best known actors in this country,
is dead at Oakland, Cal, aged sixty
two years. During his younger days
he travelled all over the United States
and Europe with Edwin Booth and
Lawrence Barrett.
Teddy Whiteman, a baseball player
who has been with many Western
teams, died at Muncle, Ind, of pneu-
monia, the disease having been con-
tracted while guarding the bodies Of
the dead and relieving lie injured af-
ter the Iroquois fire in Chicago.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
Crimes and Criminals.

Edward K lands CT Philadelphia.
temporarily insane, shot and killed his
wife and himself.
Clara Schilling, young and pretty. is
under arrest in New York for embez-
cling from her employers. She lost the
money betting on the races.
Four men have been indicted in Chi
cago for malicious mischief, riot and
conspiracy in the recent street car
strikes.
A man who gives his name as Sir
William Brassey of Gloucester. Eng, is
under arrest in Chicago for passing
worthless checks.
Further boodling charges against the
st. Louis house of delegates combine
are made In connection with the st.
Louis terminal facilities bill.
Great alarm Is felt at Normal City,
Ind. because of race war. The me-
groes have received arms and ammuni-
ton and the police, with many depu-
ties, are guarding the homes of Lead
Ing negroes.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
Otherwise.

Bones of a man who must have been
about eleven feet tall have been I'M
earthed at Winnemucca, New.
Putnam Bradley Strong. husband of
May Yohe, once the wife of Lord Fran
els Hope, is once more in New York.
The Great Northern's new steamship
for the Pacific trade, the Dakota, will
be launched at New London, Conn,
Feb. 6.
Miss Hazel Lester, well-known So
ciety girl Of Kalamazoo, Mich, has
eloped with Harley Morris, a colored
coachman.
Mrs. George Alexander Of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, began crying for no APP
parent cause and literally sobbed her.
self to death.
The Chicago drivers strike is over,
the men securing the adoption of the
"closed shop" principle and leaving the
matter of wages to arbitration.
Upwards of $500 persons are thrown
out of employment by the burning of
the 0liphant breaker and washery of
the Delaware & Hudson company at
Scranton.
Navigation of the Ohio and trihuta-
ries has been suspended for six weeks
because of the ice. Towns on the river
without railroad facilities are said to
be suffering for provisions.
few days Ego II. Dawson of Nor
folk, Neb., purchased pair of blue
socks. Now his feet are in such con-
dition from wearing them that his at
tending physician says they will have
to be amputated.
Advices received at Austin, Texas.
from Mexico state that Capt Patrick
Garrett, United States collector OF
customs at Ell Paso, and other Amer.
leans have just purchased 100000
ceres of land in the state OF Sinalao,
Mexico. The land will be stocked with
cattle.
Grand Trunk passenger No. is In
quarantine at Niagara Falls, Ont,
with a case of smallpox aboard. The
train was stopped on the bridge and
Ill tHt pdSScHStIS nSiu piiouAACIS. lie
authorities would not permit the
morning papers from Toronto to be
thrown of.
In the United States district court at
San Francisco Judge DE Haven, in act
ing upon the habeas corpus proceed
ings brought on behalf of Chin Oak
Dong. a Chinaman born here but who
returned to China. rendered decision
which holds that the fact Of Chin Oak
Dongs birth In this country. irrespec-
tive Of his present allegiance, entities
him to land.
Cremation as the most sanitary dis
position of the dead was unanimously
favored by the Iowa Association OF
Heath Oficers at, the annual meeting
at Des Moines. The cemetery was de-
clared to be q menace to public health
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
SYSTEM OF FORGERY.
Admits He Used Minnesotan's Name
on Check to Square Up.

ADMITS nc OSeo MlnncSotdhS NdhS
on Check to Square Up.
Sioux Falls, s. D.. Jan. 26.-When
he learned that he was to be prose
cuted for forgery, Edgar Cramer
forged another check to. make good
the losses suffered by his earlier VIC
tins. according to a confession. he is
said to have made. He was arrested
at Salem and Is now in Jail here,
awaiting the next term of circuit
court. Cramer is said to be well con-
nected at Rec Heights, S. d. Before
leaving Sioux Falls recently he had
check cashed at local bank. rail-
road conductor honored a check for
S., and this proved worthless. He
now admits that he deposited $40 in
a bank at Highmore for the purpose OF
securing a check book, and that he
had forged a check for $50 at Rec
Heights. Learning that he was about
to be prosecuted on these two
forgeries he forged a check on j. ID.
Hummiston of Manlato, Mimi, and
made good the Highmore and Rec
Heights checks.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
Resume Of the neWS.
From the Capital.

Senator Uenrose has introduced a
bill to prohibit the use of the mails In
the conduct of various chain coupon
and chain investment schemes.
The committee of postal officials
which recently investigated proposed
pneumatic tube mail service changes
In st. Louis has reported that no ac-
ton should be taken at this time.
The house committee on military af-
fairs concluded its work on the army
appropriation bill. 1t will be reported
to the house as soon as printed. 1t
carries appropriations aggregating
S75, 100000.
Secretary Wilson of the department
OF agriculture is arranging the details
of the campaign authorized by con-
gress to be waged against the cotton
boil weevil. There will! be forty sci
ents at work against the pest before
long. They will organize the farmers
to fight the weevil and will educate
them in the best methods of attack.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
Elephant on Warpath.

st. Paul, Jan. 26.-The elephant ex.
hibited at the Grand opera house last
week with Hagenbeck' animal show,
enraged by the severe cold, yesterday
nearly killed his keeper and partly
wrecked the interior of the Milwaukee
freight house. Conrad Castens, the
keeper, is at st. Joseph's hospital and
is in a critical condition, suffering
from internal hemorrhages as the re.
suit of three broken ribs.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
From Other Shores.
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King Christian has recovered from
his attack of govt.
Baron Won Mannlicher, inventor of
the Mannlicher rifles, is dead.
King Edward has been under treat
ment for slight throat affection.
Five revolutionists were legally shot
by the military at Cape Haytien for
treason.
The pope joked when informed that
rumor of his death had received
credence In Madrid.
A Turkish powder machine In the
Kumanova district, sixteen miles from
Uskub, has been blown up by Bulga-
rians. Thirty Turks were killed.
Private Blake of the Seventeenth
United States artillery hanged himself
by his belt in a railroad cut near the
Moro barracks at Santiago, Cuba.
1t is said authoritatlvely that the
forthcoming report of Attorney Gen
eral Baudoin will be favorable to Drey-
fus, though it may be delayed for some
weeks.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, a grandson of
the italian patriot, has been found
among the rebels captured at Ciudad
Bolivar last August and has been re-
leased.
There is much anxiety concerning
Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford,
who fell while following the hounds
near Kilmarch, Jan. 8. He is said to be
suffering from conclusion of the brain.
The law providing compulsory com
pensation for factory employees and
miners in the case of all accidents one
of the most important measures of the
present cars reign, has become eff
fective.
The pope has issued personal order
transferring the election Of bishops
who do not depend on the propaganda
from the special commission of cardi-
nails to the congregation Of the holy
Office, of which the pope is project.
Leon Vargas Navarro, Mexican con-
sui at Phoenix, Ariz., is in Mexico to
explain complaints made against him.
One of these complaints is that society
of Phoenix is scandalized because the
consul presents a different woman as
his wife each year at the various social
affairs.
The president Of the Republic Of
Chile has sent a message to congress
asking authorization to open tenders
for the construction of the port of VAL
paraiso according to surveys and plans
by Jacob Krass, director OF the poly
tecl mic school of the Netherlands. The
work will cost about $11,000,000
The Vatican authorities have been
informed that the appointment of Mgr.
Serafni as apostolic delegate to Mex
lao nanna. leaa TO the resi- mption OF
diplomatic relations between the holy
see and Mexico. The new apostolic
delegate to Mexico will have exactly
the same status as that of the delegate
at Washington.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-01-28
sLYDENRuRGH's DEFENSE.
Arsenic in the Body of His Wife Came
From EmhaImina Fluid.

Eldora, Iowa, Jan. 26.-The defense
in the Blydenbnrgh murder trial will
have their inning now and propose to
introduce from forty to fifty witnesses
to prove the innocence of the defend
ant, Ebenezer S. Blydenburgh. They
propose to present evidence to prove
that the arsenic found in the organs of
the deceased was formed there by the
action of the embalming fluid which
the undertaken prepared and used in
getting the body ready for shipment to
the home in Ohio. They will intro.
duce the testimony of six experts in
chemistry and medicine to endeavor
to disprove what has been presented
by the states witnesses.