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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
'BROMO CLASSED
AS A BAD DOPE
PHYSICIAN DECLARES BRAcERs
MAKE SLAVES OF USERS.
LIKE ANY OTHER DRUG
for Stronger Drugs-People Who
Are Devoted to 1t Develop an APP
petite for Morphine, Cocaine or
Choral.

Even Bromo-seltzer, the supposed
harmless little drug that is taken on
the cold gray dawn of the morning af
ter and during an attack of headache,
has its fends and numbers its victims
in Madison.
That there are settler fiends, who
are daily becoming more and more de-
| pendent upon the influence of the
/ powder before they are able to per-
form their work, was the statement of
a prominent physician who has as
sisted in the care of dope fiends of
! various kinds in a sanitarium.
When the headaches come, and af-
ter debauch is when the victims are
liable to begin the habit. Soothed
and Gained by the influence of the
drug, they get new lease on life, and
are able to hop to their work with re-
newed zeal. The next morning they
feel the need of another stimulant,
and, assured that the bromo is per-
fectly harmless, they imbibe another
jolt to enable them to go back to their
work. And so the habit is contracted.
The bromo-seltzer habit is on the
increase" declared the physician. "A
few years ago, no one knew what
bromo-seltzer was Then II was put
on the market as a cure for headache.
Then booze fighters camped on its
he
the task of temporarily bracing them
up Now there are actually hundreds
of bromo-seltzer fiends. Some one
has been out on a debauch. The next
morning his nerves are all unstrung,
and before he can go to work he must
hay e bracer. He is told to try
bromo. He does it, and finds it
braces him up by quoting his nerves.
Then he tries it for headache and for
every other little nervous ailment he
gets. By and by he comes TO depend
upon it as a stimulant, and takes il
every day. He increases the dose as
his system becomes accustomed to the
smaller one.
THE drug acts just the same as any
other drug, and in time the user be-
comes slave to the habit. His system
gradually becomes wrecked, but it
taxes a longer time than the stronger
drugs such as choral, or mori%line.
But the worst thing about brom0
settler is that it creates a desire for
something stronger. The habitual user
of bromo will not always be satisfied
with the effects of the drug lie Graves
something stronger, just as the
whisky habit is apt to create a desire
for morphine or cocaine. When bromo
Loses its effect, the user takes to the
stronger drug, which fastens itself up
on him all the more easily.
why, l have known quinine fiends,
people who must have quinine just the
same as users of morphine must have
that drug. | have seen users of
quinine and bromo in hospitals where
they go for treatment. Quinine, too,
has a bracing effect on the nerves.
Victims of the quinine habit increase
the doses until they take immense
quantities. 1t becomes an absolute
necessity tothem.-Madiscn Democrat
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
LITTLE HINTS,

The plain gored skirt is becoming
more popular.
Wash flannels are out in hundreds
of new designs.
Ribbons trim everything from hat
to the slipper toe.
Even real lace is now embroidered
with colored silk thread.
Many of the embroidered trimmings
are coarse but effective.
A very silky make of alpaca is used
for tailor-made gowns and others.
The mixing of many colors is still a
strong feature at the milliners
Some of the handsomest chiffon
gowns are trimmed with stitched
straps of cloth.
| The short kimonas look much like
japanese coats, and fasten with little
silk frogs.
Velvet ribbons are much Tsed, par
! ticllarly to run through the wide
quillings of the tulle skirts.
Silk net dresses in blue, brown, gray
or plum are trimmed with strappings
and picked-out ruches Of taffeta.
I New SHADES of red open work stock
ings, with Morocco shoes to match,
are the smartest footwear shown for
children.
j The classic knot, low on the nape OF
/ the neck, may be vastly becoming to
! some women. yet thoroughly ugly for
others.
Shiny leather shoes are shown in
nearly all the costume coloring-roso
bright green. lavender are among the
most startling.
/ With the renewed popularity of the
/ princess gowns, it behoCves women to
1 DO what they can to make the lines
of their backs symmetrical.
/ There is profuse use of narrow rib.
bons on everything, appearing in every
sort of a way-ruchings. cockades
| bouillonnees, or sewed on in plain
rows.
/ When putting on a collar be careful
to make the neck of the blouse
slightly smaller than the collar band
and notch it at intervals while SEWING
on the band to avoid wrinkles.
Very thin gold chains suspended
from the throat show an array OF
/ charms that are equal to a menagerfe
Pigs. elephants. rOosters, mice. dogs
and snakes bangle from these little
/ goddess of fate" chains
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
The FRIEp-cAkE CROCK.

If fate could just turn back, unlock,
The years twixt now and that old
crock,
and deep,
Wherein my mother used to keep
The fiakiest and sweetest things,
The cIispest brownest, roundest rings.
The friedcalIes of the long ago;
I'd go again on tippytoes
And reach into its depths, you wist.
And get a fried cake in my fist.
The crock was an exhaustless thing
The pantry door was kept a-sglng
BY eager, hungry, happy boys
Intent upon the rounded joys
OF full stomach, filed with things
They knew were good; the crispy
Of friedcakes, crisp and sweet and
brown,
And ready for the reaching down
OF eager hands. Oh, for a raid
On friedcakes like my mother made
When mad make friedcakes you'd see
dad
Come from the kitchen looking glad,
An set down on the steps and lay
The friedcakes by him, this-a-way,
And cross his legs and MUNICH and
grin
The while he tucked the friedcakes in
Just steamin hot, outside an hole,
And then his eyes would sort Of roll
An he'd look at the door askance,
And wipe his fingers on his pants
For ma sometimes nd Icy the law
On him. she would, and stand ana
jaw.
And say that he'd eat every one
OF them before she got 'em done:
But dad woui cross his other knee
And roll his eyes and say: Tell me:
Your mother can make friedcakes
Gee,
she makes EN- good enough for met
Then ma would turn back from the
door,
And dad would go and swipe some
more.
j NJ. Lewis
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
dot Leedle cherman Band.

Eyerybodys Magazine.-Most of us
have known the little German band,
and some of us may have known it
too well and thrown hot language at
it from our windows. It has many
merits, but also "damnable iteration"
and a tendency to be hoarse and over
loud and riven by discord. 1t is not
what it was or as common as it was.
Yet there are those who love it. For
our part we can never hear those
wandering Ministries without a GER
tain emotion and a willingness to part
with our small change. If we drank
beer, no doubt we should weep happy
tears Well, a little German band,
probably hungry and certainly
thirsty. was pumping its mightiest
wind and pouring out its soul in
Bloomsbury, thick with lodgings, Lon
don. Vain was that blowing, pouring
piping. putting The Watch on the
Rhine" and various other German dit
ties. patriotic or sentimental, filled
the air in vain. Not a head at a
window. Not a penny in the hat.
Then the leader had an inspiration.
He ordered the Star SpaDgled Ban
ner'' on top of that Bang! Up went
the blinds. Open flew the doors.
Down clashcd the coppers. Soon the
little band was rich beyond its simple
dreams of comfort for the day. It
shouldered it's instruments, and went
around the corner to lager Such If
the power of the ''piety of the native
place" and so sweet are she tunes OF
ones country in a fore.sn land.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
An Apt Illustration.

Early in the history of the electric
telegraph in Scotland. highlander.
who had been TO Glasgow, was asked
to explain its mysteries.
"Weel," said he, its no easy to ex-
plain what YOU win no be understand
in But I'll tell We what it's like. Ii
you could stretch my collie dog frse
Oban to Tobermory. and if you wass
to clap its head in Oban, an it waggit
its tail in Tobermory. or If l wass to
tread on its tail in Tobermory an 1t
souaked in Oban-that's what the tele-
graph is like. New York Tribune.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Mountain lions have so multiplied
In Yellowstone Park as to seriously
threaten the deer, elk and other wild
animals in that great reservation.
The United States authorities upon
the recommendation of President
Roosevelt have given to John and
Homer Con Of Meeker. Col. the con,
tract to clear the park of lions John
Con has Won fame as the guide OF
President Roosevelt in his Colorado
hunting trips. The Con brothers viii,
engage several assistants and are e
receive bounty of S. on each noun
tain lion killed, In addition to a sal
airy of Ss5 a month each for their
work.--Springield Republican.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
The Mutt Gets Generous.

The Jeer Swami of Tirukurungudi.
an ancient and influential mutt in the
Tinnevelly district, Madras. has pre-
scented the Madras museum a stone
pillar from the precincts Of the mutt.
containing inscriptions Of the Pandy-
an era IN Watt Ezbutte7 character.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Unclaimed bulldogs play <ast and
loose.
Women are just like girls-only a
little more so.
An awkward boy is a chip off the
old stumbling block
when the swallows homeward fly
the bartender is busy.
Diamonds are trumps during court
ship-and clubs after marriage.
A crank is man who viii not per-
NIT his neighbors to turn him.
Too many sermons are aimed at the
pocket books of the congregation.
When you see a woman dragging a
child down the street she is leading
an unhappy lif~.
An old bachelor says it's as danger
Gus to send kisses by mail as it is to
delivc them in person.
1t isn't at all difficult for a man to
have the patience of Job-if the boils
happen to be on his neighbor,
After a woman discovers that her
nose gets red every time she cries
she doesn't try it on her husband so
often.
A homely girl gets lot of attention
from all the girls of her acquaintance
if she happens to have a good-looking
brother.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Perry Shrum had the misfortune &C
cidenta.ly to shoot himself through
the arm last week. making a very
painful wound. but is recovering
fast. It would be a hard matter 20
kill Perry unless YOU cut his head OF
aud hid It from him.-Mitchell t0re)
Sentinel
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

We are teaching the Fillipinos
thousands Of miles away. while chill
dren in our cities have not clothes in
which they may appear at school.-St
Louis Post Dispatch.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Still Erving Winslow viii not fail
70 see some Interior high purpose in
the recently disclosed connection OF
the great and good AgGinaldo with
ladroEism.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Peter Ill mounted the throne in
1852, only to be murdered by his wires
/ favorite in a few months. Then his
wife, Catherine H., grasped the
scepter and ruled. a dissolute empress,
until 1895. Her son Paul succeeded
her, and in 1901 he was assassinated.
Then came Alexander l.. the en-
peror who burned Moscow to prevent
its capture by Napoleon, and who af-
forwards marched his army TO the
gates Of Paris, compelled Napoleon TO
abdicate. and sent him an exile to
Elba
Nicholas I. came to the throne In
1925, He was a warlike ruler. and
his armies fought on every battlefield
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15
American Sculptors
Working Overtime

Increasing Demand for Their the Ambitious
Student Must Do Succeed-interesting Features of
An Art not Generally Understood-How the Sculptor
Draws in Clay.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

of Europe for thirty years During
his reign 100000 of his subjects per-
ished in foreign wars.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Alexander H. began to rule in 1855.
He was the most enlightened ruler of
the Romanoff dynasty. He liberated
the serfs, and is remembered as the
ear who sent a feet to New York
during our civil war TO check Eng
lands threats OF recognizing the con
federacy He was assassinated in
1881 just as he was about to grant
Russia a constitution.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Too many sermons are aimed at the
pocket books of the congregation.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Alexander III. ruled from 1881 until
1894 as a reactionary. He was sue
ceeded in 1894 by the present czar,
Nicholas II.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

When you see woman dragging 2
child down the street she is leadins
an unhappy lif..
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

A crank is a man who will not per-
NIT his neighbors to turn him.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

1t isn't at all difficult for a man to
have the patience of Job-if the boils
happen to be on his neighbor,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

an old bachelor says it's as danger
Gus to send kisses by mail as it is tc
delivci them in person.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

After woman discovers that her
nose gets red every time she cries
she doesn't try it on her husband so
often
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Diamonds are trumps during court
ship-and clubs after marriage.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

A homely girl gets lot of attention
from all the girls of her acquaintance
if she happens to have good-looking
brother.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

when the swallows homeward fly
the bartender is busy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Unclaimed bulldogs play <ast anl
loose
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-15

Women are just like girls-only
little more so.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29
Something New.

Yesterday morning our sanotum
was invaded by the ice man with a
case of bottled goods with the fol-
lowing bill attached:
"To the Stamford News. compli.
ments of the Stamford Ice & Re-
frigerating Co. Drink Hearty"
The case contained a variety of
the products of this plant, sodas
and crown goods, We very much
appreciate the compliment. This
Co., has secured the services of
Mr.. Hope Smith, an expert bother
and will be prepared to give the
drinking public a class of goods
from the purest material, scienti-
fcally prepared. Mr.. Smith has
introduced several of the latest and
most popular drinks.
The above was taken from the
Stamford News. who speaks we'll
of Hope Smith, Jefferson boy.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29
Trimmed Hats.

We have surpassed all our pre-,
vlous efforts and have gathered foi
your selection variety of STYLES
that for exceptional charm and
beauty cannot be surpassed. The
exquisite imported and New York
and st. Louis patterns (Which we
have in numbers) we have had
copied mostskilfulIy, adopting and
modifying many of them to the
tastes of our customers. They are
certainly gems of beauty. The
Materials are rich and elegant, the
hats, themselves, stylish, becom.
Ing and practical, and the prices
we ask are marvels for lowness
Call, see, and you will buy at
P. ELDRIDGE's.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29
Value Giving

Is the corner stone of our success
won with the most moderate de.
mand on our customers purse
This value giving power is ours by
reason of experience, close touch
and duying connections with east,
ern markets and factories, thus en-
abling US to pick up many many
bargains and new thingsin all lines,
unknown and unseen by others
less fortunate. Our customers get
the benefit. Reader, are you one.
If not it is your fault.
VIM. CLARK.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

e. S. Peters, Vice. President of
the Southern Cotton Association,
in speaking of President Harvie
Jordan's call for meeting May End,
says:
At these meetings organization
should be perfected in every county
and parish in tho South; otherwise
we may expect long period of low
priced cotton, which will be disast.
rous to every industry Two years
of four cent cotton will bankrupt
half the farmers and merchants,
and reduce land values so per cent,
and it will surely come unless the
cotton acreage is cut materially
this year.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29
Call For Meeting Tuesday May 2, 'O5.

/
President Harvie Jordan of the South
ern Cotton Association, has issued a
call for meetings to be held by farmers,
merchants and business men ofall class
es on the first Tuesday in Nav These
meetings are very important to the pros
perity of the South, and Mr. Jordan
urges a full attendance.
The following is an official call, which
is self-explanatory:
| HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN CoTToN
ASSOCIATION, Atlanta, Ca, April is
Bearish lierature is being freely and
persstently distributed all over the
South in an effort to create the impress
sion that the cotton acreage and use of
guano under cotton for 1905 will be but
slightly decreased. The people who are
responsible for these statements are
either largely interested in trying to de-
press the price of spot cotton in order
to fill their contracts sold for future de-
livery at big profit, or they want a
large crop grown SO as to increase their
revenues on handling the crop The
wish is largely the" father to the thoght."
Others have no faith in efforts of cotton
growers to cooperate on a business
proposition and are doubling Thomases
on general principles, Deeming it adj
visable and important to have enc more
general rally before the end of the plant
ing season, in order that the farmers
may assemble at their respective county
seats and discuss the situation, hereby
issue this official call for mass meetings
to be held at all of the county seats or
parishes on the first Tuesday in May,
1905, The presidents and other officers
of the state and territorial divisions,
and of the county and parish organiza-
tons are hereby instructed and earnest
ly requested to actively take steps at
once to advertise these meetings fully,
and secure good speakers to address the
people on the date named. The above
officials are also urged to secure from
the farmers on that date an approximate
percentage of the reduction in cotton
acreage and use of guano under cotton
for 19O5 in their respective counties or
parishes and report the same through
their state and territorial divisions to
the central association as quickly there
after as possible. If the general per-
centage in reduction is not sufficient at
that time to guarantee a heavy curtail-
ment in production for 1905, the remedy
can be applied before it is too lat eby at
once planting part of the lands pre-.
Paieu III EoVtoh III otnel crops. Ibis
cannot be done after the planting season
is over. 1t is absolutely imperative that
heavy reduction in the cotton acreage
for 1905 be made and the food supply
crops increased. Any other course will
mean disaster, quick and certain. Our
enemies are fighting hard and spending
thousands of dollars to win in this |
struggle in order that they may continue
in control of the pricing and handling
of our great crop.
Very truly
HARVIE JORDAN. |
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29
S. FABIAN. A. GrOSVeHOr.


A County Commissioners Letter.
Hon. John Williams, County Commits
.ioner. of SIT West Second street, Duluth,
Mimi, says the following in regard to
Peruna:
Gas remedy for catarrh 1 can cheer
fully recommend Peruna. l know what
it is to suffer from that terrible disease
and feel that It's my duty to speak Il
good word for the tonic that brought me
immediate relief. Peruna cured me of Il
bad case OF catarrh and | know it will
cure any other sufferer from that dis
case. N-John Williams.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

Hon. II. w. Ogden, Congressman from
Louisiana, in a letter written at Wash
ngton, d. c., says the following of Pc
runa, the national catarrh remedy:
"I can conscientiously recommend
your Peruna as fine tonic and all
around good medicine to those who
are i'm need of a catarrh remedy. 1t
has been commended to me by people
who have used ii, as a remedy par
iCuiariy effective in the cure of ca
tarrh. For those who need good
cafarrh medicine know of nothing
better"
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29
Our Constant

Aim is to have every article sold
by us. however low the price (and
we have some fearfully low prices)
to be thoroughly good, and abso-
lutely correct in style, so that none
will 60 away dissatisfied, but on
the contrary feel confident they
have the best, latest and lowest
prices-if not we will refund your
money-can we do more.
VIM. CLARK.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

An interesting spring number a.
mong the magazines is the May
"Cosmopolitan." 1t has a beauti,
full double frontispiece by George
7. Tobin. illustrating a poem by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The
fiction is more than usually inter.
esting, and is contributed by Her.
bert Quick Morgan Robertson
lnez Haynes Gilmore, H. r. Dur.
ant and Katherine Perry. The
whole number is profusely illus
trated and contains several articles
of timely interest.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

On de banks OBJ de Amazon, far away, far away,
Whar Dr. Green gifts August Flowers to dis day
All picked dose flowers In August In ole Brazil,
An aldo Use Yankee, ah longs to be dar still.
QAugust Flower is the only medicine
(free from alcoholic stimulants) that has
been successful in keeping the entire
thirty-two feet of digestive apparatus in a
normal condition, and assisting natures
processes of digestion, separation and alb
sorption-for building and rebuilding
by preventing ALL irregular or unnatural
causes which interrupt healthy and per-
feet natural processes and result in intes-
final indigestion, catarrhal affections
Causing appendicitis-stoppage of the
gall Duct, fermentation of unhealthy
foods, nervous dyspepsia, headache, con
stpation and other complaints, such as
collie, biliousness, jaun.lice, etc.
qAugust Flower is natures intended reg
ulator. Two sizes, 25c, 7sc, All druggists.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

Another heavy rain and consid.
cradle wind visited this section
about noon Tuesday, while it is re-
ported that the wind which went
around south of us did damage to
trees and fences in the country.
This rain coming so soon after the
rain of Friday before, will cause
more delay in farming.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

The deadly six shooter got in its
work on four at Hampstead, Thurs.
day night, in the killing of Con-
gresham John NJ. Pinckney, his
brother, Thomas D. Pinckney,
John e. Mills and Capt. H. M,
Brown, while several others were
wounded, If there had been no
pistols carried in that meeting those
men would have been living now.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

We see in the Cass County Sun
that Linden people are being urged
to take stock to build a railroad
from that place to Kildare.
Better urge them Bro. Bangor to
build out to the J. & N. w. Ry.,
then have direct connection with
Jefferson and the outside world,
and at much less cost.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-04-29

Those who have followed the
humorous passages into letters of
Ella Middleton Tybout, with her
"Poketown People," will relish
the news that she has contributed
novelette, to Lippincott's Maya,
zine for May. 1t is called THE
Turn of the Tide" and, though
giving CLEANS of humor in spots
is idyllic and full of genuine senti,
ment.