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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
Setting Rivers Afire'.'
to Light Our Cite.
Seventy Five Per Cent of Gas Use.
Made by Burning Water.

, combustion is urged to a point which
deyelopes a temperature high enough
to vaporize oil.
once the blasting has gone far
enough, the valves are closed, shut
ting of the blast, and combustion
ceases, while the closing of another
valve shuts off the interior of the ap
paratus from the atmosphere. Then
the actual process of making gas IS
started. A spray of steam is introduc-
| ed through the CRATE in the generatof
| The water, percolating the bed of
| Goals instantly breaks down." to use
the chemists phrase, into hydrogen
and carbonic oxide, and a true water
| gas passes on into the carbureter. As
the gas enters this furnace, oil is
| sprayed upon the heated lattice work,
where it is Immediately vaporized
| and makes an important addition %
| the gaseous current. The gases, com
, bining rush into the third furnace.
the ''superheater," where passage
! through still more lattice-work has
the effect of fixing" the oil vapors-
that is. of rendering them incapable
of being reduced once more to the
| liquid state.
Thence out of the cleaning super
heater the liberated stream of gas
| flows toward the holders" in which
1T is stored for distribution. But at
| the outset it is full of gross impurities
that would render is unusable The
oil vapors bring into it not only illu-
minants that must be preserved but
many other elements that Gust be
misunderstanding particles of tar
| for example, which must be removed
to prevent their clogging mains and
| pipes and to save the almost couns-
less by-products they contain. Some of
the tar is caught very early in the
! process by passing the gas through 4
wooden lattice-work on hich much of
the material sticks. The remainder
could be got out with least trouble by
suddenly cooling the gas shocking
1t, as the technical phrase goes but
no good gas engineer today Shocks"
his gas, for in thus precipitating the
tar he withdraws at the same time a
whole series of by-products that can
be taken out separately by more grad
ual methods. So the gas current on
its way to the holder is allowed TO
+ wander through seemingly intermin-
able pathways-now made hotter. now
cooler, now passing through huge
boxes tilled with oxydized shavings
OF iron and wood. until it reaches the
giant tanks that loom upon the sky
Inc of every large city.
Because of the improvements made
in methods of manufacturing water
gas-very many of them worked out
in Philadelphia which has always been
the center of the industry-about "a
per cent. OF all gas used for tie pur-
Loses of Illumination il the United
States exemplifies the daily miracle
of burning water to get light.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
Alpine Climbers Court Death.

The annual list OF fatalities among
Alpine climbers opens this year with
startling and ominous suddenness
Within forty-eight hours thirteen acct
dents occurred, two Of which were
Swiss and FIVE German.
The Alpine clubs of Italy and swft.
zerland have taken up the matter with
the evident determination to adopt
preventive measures of an effective
and far reaching nature. They have
ascertained that 60 per cent of the
fatal accidents happened to climbers
because they dispensed with profes.
Sional guides either through econorn
or more often through ambition The
clubs therefore are making an effort
to secure legislation prohibiting dan
Sefous ascents by climbers unless
'hey are accompanied by professional
guides
They are also making an endeavor
20 induce various Alpine clubs to is
sue &c members certificates OF compe-
lency in scaling PERCEPTIONS heights
Geneva Cable New York Sun.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
8vo Cloth Bound,

An East Side schoolteacher, learn
ing that girl pupil was sick, went to
visit her.
The good-hearted instructor having
called at the child's home before had
no difficulty in finding her, though
the quarters were at the top of a
densely populated tenement.
The mother was absent, and the
little -year-old, Susie by name, well
wrapped up, was sitting on the side
of the bed.
After some talk, the teacher, OBJ
serving that the child spoke with diff
ficulty, said:
Susie. I'm going to examine your
lungs"
'Yesm, dutifully responded Susie.
as teacher began to loosen the
youngsters waist. After removing
it. the teacher found layer upon layer
of flannel, which she unfastened with
no little difficulty, satisfying herself
that there was no danger of pneu-
monia. Then she began to replace the
childs dress, when Susie gave way to
flood of tears.
"Mommer will be awful mad at you
when she finds QUIT"
why. Susie!" exclaimed the teach.
er, what do you mean?"
You've gone an unfastened all
my fannels, an mommer had Jest
got me all SeWed ND fur the win.
teri"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07

1sring through the country on a oi
cycle, or in playing hard golf from sun
up to shutdown. That is not rest in any
sense and a man gets very little good
from taking in short and spasmodie
snatches the exercise which ne ought
to contriye to get regularly through
the year. or which is only fit for long
holiday-the two, three or perhaps
four days which most of US manage
to get about Whitsuntide-is to loaf.
To loaf through the green lanes, never
so sweely green as now, or by the
shore of the gently fretting sumpler
sea, is for brain workers the best Of
all tonics. In spite of what so many
people believe, it does not rest the
brain to tire the muscles. There are
people who cannot loaf, 10 whom the
dolce far niente is an unattainable art
But for these to whom the gift has
not been denied. its moderate and oc.
casiOnal exercise works wonders upon
both body and mind.-London Globe.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

William Scully, well known as
Lord" Scully, died recently in Lon.
don, England, at the age of So. He
possessed an estate valued at $4,000,
/ 600, including about 100000 acres OF
land in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska Scully was a peer until
1900. when he became a citizen of
this country, taking residence in
Washington, d. C. He went TO Eng
land a year later. He was a son OF
Dennis Scully, an Irish emancipation.
and came to his fortune through an
elder brother The title lord" was
an epithet He bought land in ILL.,
nois before the civil w. He then
/ had won for himself in and most
odious reputation as a ck-renter and
oppressor and had to leave Ireland
In America he attempted to practice
the arrogant methods OF European
| landlords and devised a peculiar
| form of lease which contained the pro-
vision that the tenant should pay all
taxes. The people murmured and
the thirty-fifth general assembly OF
, Illinois declared the leases Illegal.
Lord" Scuily found 1t to his momen-
tary advantage TO become an American
citizen. In later years, however,
Scully had not been so severe Il
was reported few years ago that uu.
der nom-de-plume he had von lit
etary fame. Late in August last a
deed was filed in Logan county, in
which Scully transferred to his wife,
all his real property in the county
This land comprises 10000 acres, and
is valued at $1,000 900. Lord Scui-
~ made the following rules, to which
all tenants had TO subscribe; Ten
ants must be temperate; must pay
their debts must not quarrel with
| their neighbors; must build their owa
houses and barns and plant their own
orchards; must make money for them
| selves over and above the money with
which they pay their rent; stick must
be well fed, machinery must show
good care, must so deport themselves
that the community will respect the
Scully colonJ End the name OF
scully."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
NickIe Soda Water for convicts.
Soda water, 5 centsl"

OONo "oICig SGuIS.
These words, spoken in a whisper.
may be heard in the halls of the peni-
tertiary in the evening nowadays.
Warden Gould has given permission
to sell soda water behind the walls
to the convicts. who eagerly look for
ward to the evening. when, during hall
permit, they are able to gct this de.
licious refreshment.
Old prisoners VINO served behind
the walls for many years and who
know what it is to held so strictly to
rules that they almost forgot to talk,
look with wonder on the development
OF the elements of humanity.
The soda, however, is 1.-The goods"
with the convicts, and many man
who laughed at the person who drank
soda on the outside likes his littre ice
cream now as well as he liked his
whiskey Columbus Dispatch
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
Electric Chair for Mosquitoes.

Maurice Chaulin has declared war
electrically on mosquitoes and gnats
He proposes to replace the old meth.
DDS by electrocution, thanks to an ap-
paratus which he has invented ana
atented. A cylindrical lantern is con-
structed of two rings suspended one
above the other and connected by par
allel and vertical chains. These are
connected with the source of cleo
tricity in such a fashion that each of
the chains is always alive. In the cen.
ter is lamp.
Electric or other light attracts mos.
quitoes, which begin to buzz around
the lamp and come into contact with
the chains. The moment an insect
touches two at once with his legs II
establishes a short circuit and is i'm.
nediately electrocuted. If this appara
tus be installed in a bedroom it has
only to be lighted a snort time before
the owner retires to insure a quiet
nights sleep.
AT the last meeting of the Academy
OF Medicine a system of protecting
railway employees in Senegal against
mosuito bites and resulting in yellow
fever was described by Dr. Kermorg
ant. This was the use Of fine wire
screens over windows, doors and other
apertures. AS a consequence the mum
Der OF days in the hospital for the per
sonnet of single station fell from
l39 days and ten employees in 1902 tc
Is days and two employes.-Paris
Cable New York Herald.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
To Insure Privacy

All private and confidential cor
sespondence." said a postoffice in.
spector, should either be sealed with
wax, or else addressed and stamped
on the back instead of the front
Sealing with wax is an excellent
insurance of privacy. out it is a diff
fcult and awkward operation, and
wax and a match, candle and seal
are not always at hand.
THE other method is much the
,etter. After fastening down the far
OF the envelope firmly, you afix the
stamp across the flaps junction, and
you write the address across it as
well. Then it is absolutely impossible
to steam open the letter and close II
again in such a way as to escape de
lection"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
PARIS AND PRICELESS "Now ,,

Nevertheless it is not the past no.
the future that Paris loves best. 1t
knows that the past has gone. and
that the future is not yet; and with
out grieving for the one or fearing
the advent of the other, it enjoys to
the full the priceless Now. 1t enjoys
1t TRANQUILITY, sanely, and soberly, and
in many ways. To develop in all ways
is to be able to enjoy all things, so
love, money, art, science, philosophy.
literature, nature, beauty, and work.
are all revered by this wise city, which
believes that each in its proper place
is good.
Paris itself, as a whole, as an entity
has an indescribable fascination for
its own people and for travellers as
well. Whole libraries have been writ.
ten Of it, but the story of Paris has
never been told, because no one knows
or has known its story. Whatever one
seeks in the world, Paris contains.
Whatever men have done in the
world, the effect, or expression, is in
Paris. And so in attempting to view
this wonder among cities it will be
found to reward being studied in its
inner nature as well as from the bird =
eye view.-Verner u. Reed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
A Professor Of Fleas.

Among the curious professions
which one meets with in this country
from time 10 time is that of profess
sor of fieas. What the professor
trains his alert pupils to do one can
not imagine, but every now and then
at the shows which camp on the out
skirts of Paris the flea professor has
his booth.
One of these strange impresarios
named Jocolino, lately took up his
residence in a lodging house in the
Rue st. Charles. Unfortunately
Jocolino's pupils multiplied with far
more rapidity than he could train
them to be well behaved, with the re-
suit that their active disposition led
them to explore the adjoining rooms
of the lodging house, where they per
formed on their own account
Their visits were not to the liking
of the neighbors, and Jocolino was
obliged to listen to some very forcible
circumstances on the subject. The
nuisance, however, did not abate, and
finally one of the tenants, a plumber
namel Sauvin, decided to take the
matter into his own hands. Armed
with large quantity of insect
powder, the irate plumt er entered
Jocolino's room in the abst nee of the
professor and sprinkled the eXtermi.
major in all directions
While he was so engaged, however,
the feat trainer returned, and mis-
taking the plumber for a burglar,
seized a revolver and shot him in
the head Sauvin is now lying IN a
hospital and the trainer of the lively
flea is in the hands of the police
Paris Cor. London Globe
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
Short Holidays.

1t is astonishing how few people
have a really intelligent idea of how
to spend short holiday. Of course.
for those fortunate mortals wno are
freed from all necessity to work the
matter is of no particular interest
and certainly of no Importance. But to
the majority of mankind who have to
make the most of their intervals in
the round of labor, it is of the greatest
ralue that those intervals should be
10Th as pleasant and as restful as
possible. Yet what extraordinary no
tons many people have of attaining
this desirable end. One man with the
inside Of week to spare rushes off to
climb the Matterhorn. while another
with perhaps even smaller interval at
his disposal spends the whole Of IL IN
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
immigrants tor the South.

The south has never been an al
tractive objective point for immi-
grants Whether they have felt that
they would be placed in direct compe-
tition with negro labor or whether
they were disinclined to engage in a
kind of farming with which they were
unfamiliar, the fact remained that no
matter how hard the southerners tried
to get immigrants TO come there after
their arrival In New York these Ell
forts were unsuccessful. Now plan
has been decided upon that will bring
immigrants directly to a southern
port, where they will be unloaded. A
shipload from Germany will sail from
Bremen this week bound for Charles
ton, s. c., under the auspices of Il
commissioner from that state. These
immigrants will be hired by southern
planters and II they become satisfied
with their employment the govern
ment will bring more cargoes to the
same port. One good feature about
this departure is that the commission
ers are TO remain in Europe and Sc
lect the emigrants. In this way bet
ter class OF people will be brought TO
our shores and the weeding-out pro
cess, instead Of being done in New
York, will be done abroad
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
a PAPER OF PINS.

A PAPER OF PINS.
Kitty and go abroad for a walk,
Just for a look at the streets and a
talk.
oh mercy no. Merely to
see
Fashions in passing. perhaps, and TO
be
spectators in Vanity Fair.
facing us over the Square,
Looms a department-store solidly
builded.
Kitty, observing the sign large and
gilded,
Says with the smile which my con-
fidence wins,
Dearest. must have a paper Of
pins"
When could a husband refuse re.
quest
Modest as that? So I quickly sug-
gest
Yonder department store, filled to
safety,
Doubtless. with pins of stupendocs
variety.
in. then, We go through the ominous
doors.
Pins!" murmurs Kate to the Walker
of Floors.
: Pins!"' he replies with professional
suavity,
Giving the word due Importance and
gravity,
Keep right ahead twenty aisles to
your right, ma'am,
Fourteen tiers back, and we've only
gone one.
Ere the undoing of Kate is begun
"Shirt-waists This Week" reads the
innocent sign,
Marked to Four-ten-a Remarkable
Line"
Kate-"I protest, but talk to thin
air.
Kitty has purchased a gorgeous at
fair.
"Shirt-waists come handy" she says
and-oh see!
Wouldn't that collar look lovely on
me-"
Al things look lovely on Kate,
suggest,
Sun, if the style seems in any way
best q.
Clerk, what's the price? Seven dol
lars, you say?
Please wrap it up and Wen take it
away.
Once more we start in the search of
behold!
Yon elevator bears letters of gold;
See Our Fall Walking Suits-Sec-
ond Floor Rear
New English Patterns-the Latest
This Year"
Shall we go up? For a moment
spy
Something like hunger in Kitty's
blue eye,
Some subtle bait seems to angle her,
hooklike-
Come, let's go up and just see what
they look like!"
When we start home it has grown
rather late
There is a triumphal air about Kate.
Henry. that waist was a bargain, you
know;
Look at the lace, that was worth it,
and so
We can afford, when we save, 10
buy collars,
Once in while-though they cost
seven dollars.
Sixty-five dollars, / know, was a BIZ
High for that suit--but just look al
the fit!
1t pays to buy when the season be
gins
Goodness alive, I've forgotten those
pins'
Wallace Irwin in Woman's Home
Companion.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
NMTied a Nonsk

of your own wife, you might at east
refrain from boasting TO her of your
prediction for the company of other
women"
Went over to Ethel and nut my
arms around her.
Il repeat, l prefer a mixed club.
A club like this. where l can always
meet the prettiest and most reason
able woman in the world-the woman
| love"
Il, too. think like this kind OF
club best" said Ethel, as she held
her faces UP to be kissed.--London
Mail,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
As Seen in the Park.

A Boston gentleman and his small
grandson were in an electric car one
day when young man with black
band on his sleeve got in. TIE little
boy looked at 1t and then said, Grand
papa, why does he have that on his
sIeeve?"
His grandfather replied, "Becaug =
he has lost som relative"
Oh said the boy. Il thought it
was to keep the caterpillars from
crawling up"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07

There is no exaggerated and bare
faced compliment that a man will not
swallow greedy II 1t be sereyd by q
woman. He suspects It from the lips
of another man, but is 50 innately
convinced that woman, his interior, is
always secretly worshipping him and
longing for him that he will bolt
every sugared pin she offers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07

Mrs. NJ. L. Holland Of Chicago, who
has been studying criminals for ff.
teen years under Detective Fernie
Of Scotland Yard has been appoiutc
at Washington as a thumDprint ex
pert.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
INDIANA TOWN
COMPLETE RUIN
- CENTURY AGO A THRIVING
CITY.
QUAINT INDIAN LEGEND
First Settlement in the Territory
Beautiful Site and Location for
nG1stries-RemovaI of County
Seat Began pecay-Today Nothing
But a Road.

Lost as completely as any city Of
prehistoric times, with no sign, no
mark. no hidden dungeons. no crumbl
ing ruins to invite speculation as to
what it once was, is the once thriving
city of Salisbury, Ind A little less.
than a century ago it was the leading
town of Wayne county aud one of tne
most prosperous of eastern Indiana.
From 1910 until 1890 it was the ser
of justice Of Wayne county. Now
there is not even d farmhouse where
the town stood. Only country road.
once the main street of the town, and
quiet creek mark the site of Sails
bury.
Salisbury was founded at the begin
ming of the nineteenth century and
was the first settlement in Wayne
county, Indiana territory Romantic
tradition says that IT'S location was
V A1SIhS PioSS VI AnuIdH lovers
surprised by a band OF pioneers and
both killed in an attempted capture.
Although regretLng the unnecessary
tragedy, the trontiersmen gazed with
admiration at the natural beauty of
the scene and thereupon founded a
village, with che curse Of the old In
dian mother ringing in their ears, that
the town would not live, but would
disappear from the face of the earth.
Prospects Were Good.
In 1911 a courthouse was built ana
as a necessary complement a Jail.
Dwellings we're rapidly constructed.
stores opened, churches built and Sal
isbury became al important trading
center. The pioneers believed Sails,
bury was destined t. become a city of
Importance in the new country. Be
lore Indiana was admitted to the un-
Ion in 1916 several hundred people
We're proud to call Salisbury home.
1t was about this time that the first
clerk and recorder Of Wayne county
wrote these words on the back of the
original plot: The town of Salisbury
stands on a beautiful site on the west
OF Clear creek. Wayne county. Ipdi-
ana territory. in fine neighborhood
environed by rich land, no better wa
lei In the world, the air salubrious
and It's elevated station commands IN
extensive and beautiful prospect. And
we Halter ourselves that in a few
years art and her sister, industry, VIII
court it from fores, to tiourishin..
inland town"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-07
Not : Ves+aoe Remain.


| For a time Il seemed that the drear,a
Of the court official would como tr,a.
Brick buildings replaced frame ones
ana log cabins, dressed lumber an
pearet and all seemed to prosper. BItt
the progress and growth were only fer
time. In 1920 tie county seat was
moved from Salisbury to CentervilIa
where 1t remained untn 1873. when II
was removed 10 Richmond. The LOSE
OF me county seat was the beginninp,
oi the end. The population began To
dWind!e, and, strange To say. the town
tseH shrank in proportion, for with
the removal Of family down came itu
habitation and piecemeal ACCOMPANIED
us former occupants TO their new
ABODE to be erected again.
Log by log, timber by timber and
brick by brick Salisbury scattered ~
the Tour winds until ia 1925 tbare "a
manned but dozen families ana IN
Few years these, too, departed ana
not a human being lived at the former
county seat.
For many years some of the old
muses. remained, but slowly, ire
sistlbly nature claimed her own ana
To-Day nothing remains but fertile
ground on either side of the road
which was once the main street M
alsaster hurried the untimely END Of
salisbury. It came and went bv tho
hand of man.
ABOUT two and half miles west
OF Richmond a road running north
ana south crosses the old National
road In this crossroads about one
quarter OF mile south of the Nation
al road was The northern boundary If
Salisbury.
Salisbury was tire birthplace of
number of men who In later wears
became prominent figures in the AZ.
fairs OF the county and state. The
greatest of these was Oliver p. MOI
ton, war governor of Indiana. Whom
the county seat was moved to Cen.
teryille Morton's parents located there.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-01-13
E. J. MERRILL
Osteopath.

Rooms-Over Rochdale Store Of
lice hours-9 to l. am. and to pm.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-01-13
All the Same to Her.

An English paper relates that sew
eral American tourists were dong"
the lake region in England recently.
One of them, an old lady, rather deaf,
was on the box seat As the vehicle
passed the houses associated with
famous names in literature, the driver
directed the attention of ito passen'
gers to them. With jerk of the
whip he announced, "De Quincy S
house"
"Whose?" demanded the old lady.
"De Quincey's," repeated the driv.
err.
Would you repeat? I'm a little
hard of hearing
de Quinceys," again bawled the
driver.
"Oh, Dick Winsey's," said the old
lady, and down it went in the note
book with all the other celebrities.