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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
FRENCH INDIFFERENCE TO
GERMS.

Harpe. Bazar.-If we have to do
violence 20 our ideals of system in
travelling in France, arrived la cam
payne, down goes another even dear
er American god-the deadly bacillus.
The French distinguish between la
campagne and la Yraie campagne.
This difference they will variously
explain to you, making a great point
in favor of the latter that it permits
one to go without starch in his col
lar, but myself, as a matter of fact,
developed my experience l should say
that the chief distinction of life a la
vraie campagne is the superior de.
gree of contempt here displayed for
our Observation-Disclosures germ theories.
In the United States l have lived
next door to Boston woman doctor
who required me to fumigate, if not
10 boil, my innocent little children be
fore allowing them to play in her
back yard with her little children
during the same epoch of my lite,
have labored diligently for the high
err education Of servants and of hus-
bands-cur two most invincible, ma
tive enemies of hygiene in the home;
especially have ! taken pains about
the milk supply. mourning thereby
the ingratitude, not to say inhuman-
ity, of mankind. Wei do / remember
arriving one summer morning in the
country in New Jersey, and while the
baby screamed Tor food | was patient
ly making a perfectly scientific in
vestigation of the only milk to be had
in the place.
But have the COWS been register
ed?" l thought 70 ask just as the
baby was abouy to begin, snatching
away the bottle before it was ever
lastingly too late.
Registered? Oh, thunderl" groan
ed the mere father, who would feed
his child any kind Of unverifed mill
just to stop its crying. Registered
What next?'
Whereupon the sympathetic mar
farmer put in: Registered? Why
bless vow, missus. every one of them
cows is old enough to vote; and liv
ing so near TO Philadelphia, Of course
they have heen registered in half s
dozen precincts"
Yet behold me now la vraie cam
payne in France. where the univer
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Better Than She Deserved.

Bishop Olmsteam, of Colorado, was
urging rich man to contribute gen.
erously to the support OF the church.
Give freely" he said. Don't lay
yourself open to such a rebuke as old
Mrs SINNERS got from her grand
son.
odd Mrs. SINNERS was well-to-do,
but parsimonious She went to a
Methodist chapel on the outskirts.
She attended al the chapel's meetings
very regularly, but the sums she put
in the collection plate would certainly
have enriched no one.
One Sunday morning the old lady
took her little grandson to the chapel
with her. The boy sat through the
serv very dutifu4ly. He watched
every thing with bright and bawk-lil1e
eyes. And he took deep interest in
the discussion that followed at the
farm during dinner.
Did Lucy Jones wear her pink
muslin?' Mrs. SINNERS daughter
asked. And Was the Brown girl
there?' and Did Miss Lena Larkin
have that Johnson Teller again? Final
~ came the question:
"sHow was the sermon?'
Poor, said Grandma SINNERS,
emphatically. Mighty poor
But, grandma, said the little boy
what could you expect for a per ny?' :"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Cure FOR Ivy Poisoning.

Field and Stream.-This is the sea-
son when the person who takes wood
rambles is very likely to suffer for
days thereafter with swollen wrists
and itching hands, sometimes suffer
ing real agony, from ivy poison. Poi
son oak and ivy are much like the cop
perhead snakes in the hills in that
both seem to try hard to torture hui
man beings with their poison, and
will do so if tley come too close. es
pecially in the spring. A physician
once told us that there was nothing
that would cure ivy poisoning quick
ly, but that doctoring it and letting it
alone took about equal time, so he
advised washing the parts affected
quite often, and letting it take its
course. Now, the cure consists in a
very simple adherence to two things:
Preventing the spreading of the poi
son, and drying it up quickly. It's
spread can only be prevented by
washing frequently with hot water;
its cure by amounting the affected
parts with tincture grindelia, procur
able in any drug store, as Son as the
skin has been dried. Every camp
outfit should contain four-ounce bot
tie of grindelia. It's cure is very
rapid, and it soon stops the almost
unbearable itching by which ivy poi
son is first noticed. This remedy is
very old one, but it is not known as
we'll as it should be.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Az icultural Lore

/ ditioas. These conditions begin with
the housing of tho animals and do not
end until the product is finally cen
sumed as food.
Mr.. Harwood then takes up the ac-
don of bacteria on milk and says
that bacteria get into milk by riding
on dirt or any foreign substance, and
tGat the simp.e way to l'eep mnK bac
tel1a-free is 20 keep it clean While
this is not entirely possible it Is still
possible to reuuee contamination to
the lowest terms, ana by reduction OF
temperature to place the few bacteria
remaining under conditions where
multiplications becomes Impossible.
Speaking Of the essentials for the pro
auctions Of clean milk, he goes into
the proper stabling of animals clean
ing, milking, etc, with a description
of a proper pail for milking, fitted
with a strainer and pad of steriiized
cotton, at a cost oil one-fourth of a
cent per milking, and the handling of
the milk after it is drawn from the
cow. He places emphasis also upon
the necessity OF good food, pure wat.
err fresh air and exercise for the pro-
duction of a high-grade article of
milk. The development of the milk
business from the old days, where all
milk was made into cheese on the
farms, down to the present time,
when the great bulk of the product
goes to Boston and other large cities,
is gone into with considerable detail.
Speaking of the present condition
of the milk business, Mr.. Harwood
quotes figures to show that never be-
fore could buyers feel the assurance
that they were getting so good, pure
and clean an article of milk or cream
rs to-day. Scarce heads" says Mr..
HarwoOd, "and sensational articles In
he papers relating to the finding of
dltby conditions in Isolated dairies
thus magnifying the condition as
whole TO make it appear inversely to
what It is, are to be deplored, espe-
cial4y in so far as they warn people
against the use of milk. But, good
as present conditions are, we want
better The persistent producer of
unsanitary mix must of necessity
drop out of the business" In closing
the article, Mr.. HARDWOOD says: "Be-
yond what is here advised, the pro
Queer Of fancy article of milk can
90 to any extent he pleases and his
purse and those OF his customers will
allow. But for all practical purposes
milk made as above will be good +
enough for anybody and will be as
good as the average producer can af- /
ord to make or the average con
sumner buy"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
INFLUENCE OF PARTY ORGANS.

Springfield Republican, Ind.-To
judge from tie statement issued bv
Lieutenant Governor Guild, election
night he is Of the opinion that few
more hide-bound republican organs in
Massachusetts would have greatly
effected the result of the voting. Mr..
Guild is enough of a journalist, al
though the editor of weekly news.
paper, to think better than this. De
voted republican organs in Ohio avail
ed nothing against a popular uprising
in which newspaper advice played
small part. Right at home he might
have noted that Mr.. Moran was elect
ed district attorney, in spite of the
fact that every newspaper in Boston
repeatedly spoke good words for Dis,
trict Attorney Sughrue, whose name
was on both the republican and demo
cratic tickets Mr.. Lodge has a
theory that republican supremacy, no
matter what happened, would be alb
solutely assured if his party had a
newspaper supporter in
Boston. This is shallow thinking, and
Mr. Guild should not tie himself to it.
When the party deserves handsome
victories it will get them from the
people of Massachusetts. When there
is failure to respond to the intelligent
thinking of the business interests, no
matter what excuses are made, the
penalty viii be dealt out. In this cleo
ton all that saved the loss of the lieu
tenant governorship by the republic
ans was much dissent from Mr..
Whitney's record as a promoter of cor
poratIon legislation in which he was
interested. The Boston Herald was
more fun of meaning than perhaps il
wot of, when concluding it's editorial
on the state result with these words:
"It was not political victory for Mr..
Whitney; it was a moral victory for
tariff revision"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06

training in the world cannot make
the Russian peasant sailor. He is
landsman. and his ancestors have al
ways been such. The Japanese have
survived as a people simply because
they are at nome on the water, tor all
others were killed off long ago in
their interminable conflicts with Ma
ture and their neighbors. 1t is a ma
tural selection producing race of
sailors. They claim that through
these past bloody conflicts the west
ern half of the Paci4c ocean belongs
to them by right of conquest, just as
America belongs to the white race.
Anthropology rightly studied would
seem to indicate that their claim is
good, and that their rights must be
respected by the rest of the world.
There were aquatic brains behind
the Japanese guns and terrestrial
ones behind the Russian.
The lesson of TIE recent naval
battle which is of most interest to
physicians and OF vital importance to
the nation, is not so much the ships
and training of the personel, blts .he
enlistment of the proper races of men
for the navy. If brains do not count,
then it should be possible to man our
navy with anything in the shape of
man and make him efficient by CON
slant training. 1t Is now becoming
moro and more evident that man fol-
lows the law operative among the
lower races, that under aquatic con
ditions species become aquatic by
survival of only that type. 1t is
hev problem of psychology hitherto
untouched but the facts are now evil
dent. The control of the oceans of
the world is passing to the types of
man which have been aquatic for nil
linnius and now survive simply be-
cause they inherited this favorable
psychic variation. The first settlers
of America belonged to this aquatic
race of Europe, and it was an easy
matter to man our ships in early days
and their deeds are famous. The
mass Of our Immigrant, are now of
different types which have never un-
dergone this selection by nature.
Some of then, no doubt, could be
made into sal ors by training, but the
mass could not. Hence the future
problem of the naval authorities in
the enlistment of sailors is to select
them from among the aquatic types
of Baltic ancestry. AS our salvation
as nation seems dependent upon
navy which requires many years to
build, it is GOOD policy to give heed to
this new psychic lesson OF the Japan
csc victories.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
BANKS GAIN BY SNAKE BITE.

Chicago Chronicle-The farmers OF
The cotton belt for some reason have
long been shy of banks and have been
in the habit of putting their money in
receptacles of various kinds, such as
Old shoes and cans Charles Bosler,
a farmer living near Flatonia, Tex,
went to a corner of his yard one day
and in few minutes came hurrying
back, shouting to his wife that he
had been bitten by a eopperhead
snake. Bosler came near dying from
the effects Of the snakes poison and
It was not until two days after the
snake bit that Bosler was able to tell
how it happened. He had gone to get
$50 he had on deposit in an old shoe
under a board in the corner Of the
yard, ard as he reached in to get the
shoe the snake struck him.
Upon hearing the story Mrs. Bosler
went out to get the money where her
husband had left it. The shoe was
still under the board. and the farm
er's wife reached in TO get 1t, when
she caught a glimpse of a eopperhead
snake lying there. She was not quick
enough to jerk her hand back before
the snake struck her 1t sank its fangs
in her thumb so deep that she dragged
the copperhead along from under the
board when she pulled her hand cut.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
LURINe PoTEMKINE SAILORS.

When the press dispatches stated
that after some reluctance Russia had
agreed to leave the Potemkine muffin
GERS in Rumaria to do as they pleas
ed, the news was entirely too coed to
accord with the history Of the Musco-
yite. Aad now the hoof and tail that
were onl partially concealed on that
occasion lave come forth fully. For
in a recent article in the Europeen OF
Paris. F. Pietrich tells an Interesting
story OF how the Russians are trying
to lure the Potemkine sailors back
70 Russian territory. II Pietrich says;
1T is deplorable euphemism to say
that Russia is trying TO persuade the
mutinoers to return to their coun-
try, for it would be difficult to imagine
baser work that that which has been
performed by the Russian agents
ever since the sailors of the KniaZ
Potemklne entered humania. The sail
ors living at Constanza, Bucharest,
Galatz. and in other ports and cities of
Rumania are constantly receiving let
AttS uISAIS AuGAA " lENuAN W AAunSAtt,
stating that their parents are being
prosecuted by the police, and so on.
The Muscovite agents have succeeded
in decoying TO Rent Is sailors who
had obtained employment in a factory
at Galatz, and they are on a constant
hunt for more. When other means fail
they get the sailors intoxicated and
thus deliver them into the hands OF
the Russian authorities. or If they
cannot do that, they invent all sorts
Of schemes to compromise the uufor
tunate men.
"A characteristic incident is afforded
by the case OF a Russian spy. a Greek
by nationality This man was en-
gagged as interpreter when the sailors
were questioned by the project OF Con
stanza. But in translsting the re
marks of the project the Greek com
pletely changed their meaning, II
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06

She shook it loose and ran screaming
to the house. AS soon as he had
tended to his wife's snake-bite, Farm
err Bolser got his gun, went out to the
place where the snake seemed to be
standing guard and lifted the board.
Coiled on the old shoe was the cop
perhead, and it showed fight at once
Bosler jumped aside and shot the
serpent's head off. The $50 was all
right in the shoe, and Farmer Bosler
removed it to the house. Inc news OF
this adventure of the Bosler family
with the copperhead snake 5000
spread about the neighborhood, and
then the farmers began coming into
Flantonia every day to deposit in the
banks all sorts and conditions Of
money. The cashier of the First Ma,
tional bank Of Flatonia says that for
a week the deposits in that BANK were
double what they had been in any
previous week in it's history.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
ON A PROPOSED STATUE
SHAKESPEARE.

Why should we lodge in marble or
in bronze
Spirits more vast than earth, or
sea, or sky?
Wiser the silent worshiper who cons
Their page for Wisdom that viii
never die.
Unto the favorites of the passing
hour
Erect a statue and unyeil the bust,
Wherein contemptuous Time will
slowly shower
Oblivions refuse and neglectful
dust.
The Monarch's of the Mind, self
sceptered Kings,
Need no memento to transmit their
name;
Throned no their thoughts and high
imaginings,
They are the Lords, not servitors,
of Fame.
Raise pedestals to perishable stuff:
Gods for themselves are monument
enough.
Alfred Austin in the Independent
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Notes.

The Missouri agriculturist college
saws that farmers generally overlook
he fact that it is as important to Sc
lect the stalk from which a seed ear
comes as it is to select the ear itself:
and hence the mistake OF thinking
that the best seed corn can be select
cd from the crib. The best time to
select seed is while the corn is being
husked in the field. The ears should
be sound, we'll matured. with deep.
straight kernels, loosely set the
stalk Of medium hight. strong and
vigorous. Extremely tall stalks usu-
ally produce long, loose ears that are
not desirable. After the seed is col
lected it should be stored in a dry.
airy place to prevent sprouting or los
ing vitality.
In choosing cockerels for crossing
purposes, breeds to cross or a breed
to be kept pure, one should consider
Thoroughly what he wishes the cross
for. He must then select the breed
that will do the most good. There is
some one breed that will exactly fill
the requirements, and 1t is simply a
matter of personal preference that
will determine the variety.
This is a good time to make cur
rant cuttings, and to pant them, too,
If weather is favorable. If planted
now, nave cuttings six 10 eight in.
ches long and plant in rows four feet
apart, and six inches apart in rows
The second winter In a colts life
the feed should be increased enough
to keep the colt growing and in good
condition. This should be followed
up, his eed being increased a little
every year until fully matured.
Two or three inches of slough hay.
held In place by a few eornstalks, is a
good winter covering for the straw
Gerry bed Apply It after the grouno
is frozen some
Cut the old canes out of the rasp-
berry bushes now. and get them in
shape TO lay down for winter protec-
lion just before the freeze-up.
Trees and vines should not he
/ mulched for winter protection until
the ground is very cold, if not frozen.
The word has gone forth that there
will be shortage in the turkey crop
this fall.
Plow this fall and have fewer cut.
womfs N the garden next spring.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06

this way he succeeded in delivering
so sailors into the hands of the Pisare-
wsky squadron, the sailors being for
ward shot at Odessa. The Russian
agents promenade the streets of the
Rumanian cites in the most open man
ner, and give themselves no concern
for the Rumanian authorities. But
the spies swarm chiefly at Galatz and
in the capital; and among them are
many women who are extremely zeal
Gus in satisfying the orders of the
Russian secret agents at Bucharest.
Up to the present it is estimated that
the number of sailors the Russians
have caught exceeds so, and there is
no doubt that these men have caught
exceeds so, and there is no doubt that
were shot in Odessa"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Value Of Clean MIX

In its crop report for October. the
last for the season. the Massachusetts,
state board of agriculture includes an
article on "Clean Milk: suggestion
for the average producer" by p NJ.
Harwood. general agent Of the state
dairy bureau. In this article Mr.. Har-
wood says; milk has truly been
termed the worlds first food > The
importance of pure. Clean article
can hardly be overestimated. The
health. happiness, vigor and prosper
fly of a people are in no small degree
dependent upon food consumed. and
especially is this true of the food Of
children who are later to become
men and women Of the nation. AS Sc
creted from the udder of the healthy
animal. milk Is in perfect condition
This troubles which come to milk
most frequently come from without
and are attendant upon artificial con
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
JAPANESE AN AQUATIC PEOPLE
Their War Ship Crews Drilled to Per.
lection.

American Medicine.-The brain be
hind the gun has at last been recog.
nized as the main weapon in warfare
The Russian government possessed
the finest battle ships which have
ever been built. and the world is now
trying to explain the recent naval dis.
aster. The general trend of expert
opinion rather points to defective
training of the sailors, as the main. II
not the sole reason. for the notorious
inetliciency of the Russian navy. 1t is
noted that the Japanese train their
men in the minutest details. Their
soldiers, for instance, have railroad
cars in the barrack yards. and are
drilled daily in the rapid loading OF a
train, and at the naval barracks
dummy furnaces are constructed. and
the embryo fireman is practiced day
after day in the mere act of shoveling
coal, so that he can place each piece
exactly where il is needed. Each
man becomes a perfect machine. but
there is no such system among the
Russians. II is only here and there
that a writer has noted that all the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
A Scene From Clerical Life.

And, now. sisters and brothers. let
us devote brief moment to introspec-
ton and calm self-searching." said
Rev. Mr., Sutton of Terrill, Ia. at the
prayer-meeting, the Other night. Then
he turned pale and moved quickly
back from the pulpit. The congrega.
lion thought that he had become sud
denly i'll, for he was deathly pale and
his eyes were wide with terror How
ever, he advanced again to the pull.
pit, and after clearing his throat a few
times continued with his remarks.
After the congregation had been dis,
missed, the preacher reached down
and shook mouse out of his trousers
leg. II was crawling up his leg when
the break came in his discourse, and
not wishing to brighten the women he
squeezed the intruder TO death by
pressing 1t against the pu,pit.-Troy
Times.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Like the Evil One.

During a Bible lesson the teacher
was trying 70 explain the Parable of
the Tares.
Can YOU tell me any person who
Is like the evil one who sowed the
tares?" she asked
A hand instantly shot up from the
foot of the c,ass.
We'll David. she asked, what
person do you say"
Please ma'am. replied David,
my mother"
Why" asked the teacher In as
constituent
Because" answered he, eyeing
his patched trousers, "she sews
tears. birmingham (England) Post
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
BUBBLES.

Evening trains-in the ballroom.
Even dark lawyers may be legal
lights.
Ali in good time-well regulated
watches.
It's matter of such moment-a
woman's wait just minute"
Performers in the limelight have no
excuse for being slack.
Actors never get beyond liking the
game of "spat out"
The careless printer <as his finger
in many pi
Neither clock nor a person has to
be two-faced to have good time.
The only way to count your fish is
to line them up.
The windows of the soul" are
made so that we may look out for our
se,ves
The oculist says there are many
pupils in his school of experience.
A new umbrella is all the more use
full when it is used up.-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-06
Be Ambitious 10 be Useful.

A young man of ability and great
promise recently refused to enter a
vocation which would yield MIN a
large income, lest the temptation to
become rich might eat up his desire
to hep his feilow-men. He feared
that the frantic struggle for wealth
and self-being waged by the majority
of the men with whom his position
would force him to associate would
insensibly draw him into the same
vortex of selfishness. He felt that
his ideals would become furnished,
that his aspirations would be starved
in such an atmosphere, and so he
chose q vocation which would enable
him to render the greatest service to
humanity.
1t is a refreshing thing, in materi-
al age, to see people who are ambiti-
Gus to be useful rather than rich, who
are more eager to help others than to
make money. These are natures
noblemen, these are the characters
which enrich life, and which have
pushed civilization up from the savage
to the Florence Nightingales and the
Lincolns.
One of the most promising things
about our civilization today is that.
side by side with the greed for god,
is the eyer-growing passion of human
ity for good. The number of people
who prefer to be useful to their fell
low men rather than to make money
is constantly increasing Tnis pas
sion for good is the salt of humanity;
it is what makes us believe in the
future of the race.-Orison SWEET
Marden in Success Magazine.