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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-05-20
mrs AND PRIcxsor FARM AND DAIRY

There is nothing mean or narrow
about the American hen. She eaekles
for all, and last year she supplied Cuta
with million dollars worth of prime
eggs, to say nothing of the enormous
quantities sent to England and other
countries.
The milk question is interesting many
cities in the state. The Marinette coun-
Gil has perfected plan by which all
herds, large and small. that supply milk
to the city shall be Inspected.
Request for butter and cheese makers
10 fill positlens IN all parts of the United
States, Mexico ard Cansda have come
TO our state univenity dairy school this
year in such numbers that the student
body can not satisfy the d. mand. There
were SIS calls for men to fin important
positions in cheese factories. and 50 for
butter makers, besides 3 number OF
requests for men to operate combined
creameries and cheese factories as well
as for helpers in such factories.
Ii the cow is bothered with stringy
milk, give her plenty Of pure well wa
ter and seaspoonful Of soda each day
till the trouble Is arrested. The soda
can be given in q Rtt'e bran mash
The loss of fat from hand skimming
VIII pay for separ4toe IN a surprising
" short time through butter saved from
the skim milk and through reduction in
cost of cream and pans. We get one
other benetit--miik Il sweet and warm.
Tbs Is very important in raising calves
on skim milk.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-05-20
Notice to Persons IN Arrears on Water Tax

! am instructed by the city council
to notify herewith all persoTs in ar
rears on water tax. that the same must
be paid before June l, 1908, or the
water viii be shut Off, and fine of
81. 90 as penalty will be imposed before
turning same ON again, as per Section
8, Ordinance No. "a.
AMuND BELDAND, City Treasurer.
Office in Hotel Fortney.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-05-20
{ Broom the I.a Farge Enterprise. }

Conductor Bradford bid farewell tc
his run, on the Kickapoo Valley line,
last Saturday morning, having beer
given run east of Madison.
Carlos Buchanan went to Lacrosse
Tuesday returning Wednesday with
Mrs. Buchanan who is greatly improved
in health.
Word has been received from Lewis
RitteAhouse, who formerly clerked fol
Chase Bros. here, stating that he Is
now at Miles City, Montana, where he
has secured position and will go to
work in few days. Myron Tate il
also there.
Geo. Nixon strained the tendons OF
his right knee at the Sparta game quite
seriously. He win be unable 10 partic-
ipate in base ball for some time.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-05-20

S. J. Seyerson and family leave foI
the vest soon to make their future
home.
The work Of sizing tobacco has beer
finished at the farmers warehouse.
About 1000 cases we're put up.
Anna Louisa Tomtengen, one of the
FIVE weeks-old twin girls of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Tomtengen, died Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Won Seieht have
returned from Germany. Mrs. Vor
Seicht was formerly Miss Theige. They
will undoubtedly make their home here.
]. Holmes K Sons of Esterville, Iowa,
have bought G. A. Cerey's mill pro
perty at Avalanche. Mr.. Corey has
gone to Esterville to take charge OF
the hotel property of Holmes & Sons.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-05-20
G..sn Mountain S,lo.

am agent for the Green Mountain
Silo and the Wizard Ensilage Cutters,
either at lowest possible prices {. O. b.
cars here, so days time. 10 cash with
order. Call and get my prices. Ia
make more profit from your cows YOU
should have a silo.
RAY RRYE, Agent.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
AS A LAWYER SEES us.

One of the most remarkable things
that lawyer sees is the almost uni
versal ignorance of self that prevails
in the world. The vast majority of
men and women not only suppose them
selves to be altogether different from
what they are, but are warped by van
ity or selfishness out of all true con-
ception of the facts of their cases, and
their true relation to those facts; and
they actually delude themselves con-
corning the motives and instincts guild
ing their own course.
The nearest to a fairy tale one ever
comes across in law is when one scien-
tist testifies to the value of another
scientists services as an expert,
The most unhesitatinR perjurer in q
case is the witness for railroad, in an
accident case.
The lawyer sees enough of human
kind in many ways and from many
standpoints to know that the great
majority of men are not liars and bypo.
critics and thieves. and that the great
majority of women are virtuous anc
good daughters, wives and mothers.
What if men are bad? Are there not
ten. nay, thousand. good to one that is
bad? What if women are weak? Are
there not thousand. nay, ten thousand,
who are strong and virtuous to one
who is the reverse? The Circle.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
SNAKE STORIES.

From time one reads of snakes that
do wonderful things, as for example,
milking cows. Farmers complain that
theircattie walkout into the water snakes
milk them dry. We are curious to know
how much milk a snake would hold,
take big black snake for example and
he might possibly hold half a pint, but
allow him to contain quart, and the
question arises, how much milk do
those cows give? Must be pretty poor
stock. Again, it is well known that a
snake eats seidom-it is stated that
one or two meals in . summer is a fair
allowance-and what sort of reptiles
are these that milk daily two gallon
COW? These stories are along with
those told in the days "hefo' de wah".
when witches rode the saddle horses O.
nights, these being found in their stalls
with evident marks Of having been sad
died and ridden a good part of the
night. Inquiry Of the grooms resulted
always in the assertion that the riding
was done by witches-never by the
negroes.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
AWAKENING.
CBy Joseph I. G. Clarke

By Joseph 1. G. ClsrkeJ
Itwere joy to have lived, if only to know
| had walked in this dusk of the woods
to the flow
Of streamlet that leaps down its dell
to the lea,
Its swatersa-spsrkle and ndbeckoningt me:
To have walked in the forest and mar
veled to hear
A bird at its matin-song gladstone and
clear:
"From dawn-blue to sun-glow I've
haunted your dream
With the lure of Her love by the marge
of the stream"
To have slept in my sorrow and wakened
but now
With kiss as of exquisite lips on my
brow
And Her call as of bells to world that s
reborn,
Anda beat in my blood like the laughter
of morn:
To have wandered and toiled in the deep
forest aisles,
To have counted in darkness the weari-
some miles,
To have slept for the Dreams sake, and
walked with Loves word
At the lips of the stream, at the heart
of the bird.
September Smart Set.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
TEMPERANCE NOTES,

1t has developed that the Georgia
Prohibition law makes it q criminal
offence for minister or other person
to purchase wine for the communion
table.
A ten-year-old boy, with tears stream
ing down his face, stood in the streets
of little Georgia town nearly forty
year ago, and with agonizing appeals
and frantic gestures tried to stop an
angered drunken woman from heating
her child into insensibility. The boy
was Seaborn Wright. Today Seaborn
Wright is probably the best-known pro-
hibition leader in the United States. He
is generally credited in Georgia, by
prohibitionists and saloon men alike.
with doing more than any other man to
put that State in the dry" column;
and throughout the South he is looked
upon as being largely responsible for
the spread in that region of the present.
day remarkable temperance wave that
is extending pretty much over the en-
tire civilized world, but more especially
in this country and the north of Europe.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
CLOTHES MADE FROM WOOD.

1t will probably not be very long be-
fore we can go into one of the dry goods
store and say to a clerk. 'Let me see
what you have in the line of wooden
suits" He may reply: Hard or
soft?" Whereupon it will be our part
to specify that we want a suit Of
good" pine, without any cheap sap
wood" Vests of this kind are already
worn by the carding room foremen in
some of the woolen mills. The material
resembles a stiff, thick cloth, and is
apparently assdurable as leather. 1t is
not improbable that in the future cheap
suits, costing about fifty cents, and
guaranteed to last for years, will be
made of spruce or pine. Napkins,
shirts collars of the finest quality have
long been made from the fiber of hemp;
and, in using wood for heavier cloth, the
process is equally simple. The wood is
first ground into a soft pulp, and this
pulp is pressed through holes in iron
plates. 1t comes out in long ropes
about ons-half inch in diameter. These
ropes, which are easily broken at this
stage, are dried, and then twisted
tightly, till finally they become as small
as threads. Part of the threads are
used for the warp and part for filling,
out of which q strong web Of the
wooden cloth is Technical
World
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
A mans real religion is not to be
defined by the formula he accepts or
inferred even from the church to which
ne belongs. His outward profession is
chiefly matter of accident and circum-
stance, not of character.
Gentle reader, this world IL Just what
you make it. The birds sing. The
flowers bloom and happiness is all
about, but If you are too selfish or mean
they are not for you. Kicking and
complaining only make matters worse.
Go find some one who is worse off than
you are and make him happy. You
don't know how much happier it will
make you that's right Come. cheer
up, boys; it's sin to be cross. Buster
Brown.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
A WHALE CORK.

1t was his first trip on salt water,
and after having been told that the
lighthouse was for light house-k keeping,
and that vegetables, fruits, etc were
raised up there, his eyes caught sight
of fIoating buoy out some distance
from the boat, He inquired what it was.
and was told that it was whale cork.
He watched it for some time with the
deepest interest, and suddenly Jumped
up, when it was struck by a large
wave which pade it appear that it had
a Dibble, and exclaimed that .'dogged il
it amt got bite" to the very great
amusement of all of the passengers or
the deck. His intense earnestness in
watching that ''whale cork made q
great impression on the party, anC
since all have hoped that some day he
will have an opportunity to go whaling
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28

1t was the spectacle of the drunken
mother-when sober, a charitable and
loving woman-trying to kill her son,
that gave SeabOrn Wright his lasting
impression against the sale of liquor,
and from the day that he tried to pro-
tect the child until now he has been a
tighter for prohibition. For many years
large part of the income that he re-
ceives from his 10000 peach trees and
other Georgia farm land, and his law
practice has been spent in fighting the
drink evil.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
REQUIESCAT.

Strange pews comes from Oyster
Bay. Roosevelt, the strenuous, the
irrepressibie, says that he is tired.
and wants to rest. 4 new interviewer
has called and found him seemingly
tired. and the most remarkable thing
about it is the statement that the Presi.
dent says he don't want to be here to
give advice to the new incumbent, for
people will make comments on it. The
correspondent calls him 1.-The new Roose-
yeit'', and to be sure it looks like it,
when Teddy is tired of talking and
weary of giving advice. He says his
"work is done-he is through; and
what boys mess he has made of it!
Not single undertaking accomplished,
unless it be to prove that he is no horse
man. and to assert that those who
differ with him are desperate prevari-
Gators. Verify, Theodore, you are sui
generis.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
BEFORE THE RAIN.

Clouds are dusky gray and still,
Natures waiting for the rain;
Birds have ceased their song until
They can feel the sun again,
Trees are waiting, patient too,
flushed and silent as they stand,
Till the breeze comes sailing through
Fresh'ning all the weary land
Waters ripping like song
Where the willows bend above,
Gently coaxing it along
With tender mother-love.
The long grasses lit and sway
To the music's mystic flow
In a dance of elfish play,
Mirrored in the stream below.
Sentinel poplars, straight and tall,
Upward turn their shining leaves,
And the tree-toads scrape and call
In tune that oddly grieves.
There's brooding tenderness
That's so sweet it starts a pain
Yearning through and through your breas
Then-here cones the driving rain.
Grace G. Bostwick. in the Septembe
Everybody's.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
IRVINGTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2s 1908

God, one star of hope remains. From
every section of this land comes the
news that, if the negro is to break
away from political slavery and to
become an independent American citi-
zen, voting for men and for measures
rather than political parties, the door
of opportunity shall be open to him."
He went on to cite instances of promi-
nent Southerners who had urged the
negroes of the South to leave the Re
publicans and to be taken into the Demo-
cratic fold.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28

The boy who sees everything which
occurs and hears everything said in a
shop is never a good workman. He
never will be good workman so long
as his eyes and ears catch everything
about him except his work. In order
to become a good workman the whole
attention must be given to the details
of the job in hand. In a print shop
talking, singing, whistling, or the
making of any other unnecessary noises
are prohibited because good work can
not be done where such things are per-
mitted. A person talking. or other
wise doing unnecessary things, is not
working well himself, and he is dis
tracing the attention of those about
him so that they can not do good work
These noise makers are a nuisance to
all good workmen. .-Ex.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
TRUCKERS NOTES.

Eastern Shore truckers are shipping
sweet potatoes at prices ranging from
$3 to "a. A good many complain that
their second planting of Irish potatoes
have not sprouted. The prospect is
that the usual sized fall crop will not be
grown.
Blackstone farmers are organizing
"a Cooperative Warehouse scheme,
promising good things to the agricul-
turists. Such organizations have sue
ceeded well in England, but have
usually proven failure with us. 1t is
sometimes charged that the go-betweens
and commission men get the large share
of the farmers profits. Washington has
society of the sort, the member pre-
senting his ticket being entitled to ten
per cent discount, but the feeling is
rife amongst the members that the
dealer is tempted to add the per cent
before making the discount.
The farmer has no doubt little more
money to spend than in some former
years, but has to spend from one-third
to nearly double of his earnings to buy
his necessities. 1t don't amount to
much to sell corn at dollar if you have
to pay twice what you paid ten years
ago for shirt or pair of shoes. But
so long as the farmer is not called on
to take the cash directly out of his
pocket ne seems unable to see that high
tariff is bleeding him. So long as he
does not see the blood flow he rests
easy, forgetting that of all hemmor-
rhages an internal one is the most
dangerous.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR
CATARRH THAT CONTAIN
MERCURY.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering IL through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians. as the damage they viii do is ten fold
60 the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
+. J. Cheney 4 Co. Toledo, o.. contains no
mercury. and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In bnying Hall's Catarrh Core
be sure you got the genuine. It is taken in
temally and made IN Toledo, Ohio, by Il. ]
Cheney * Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists Price. 75c. per bottle.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
WHAT SHALL WE DO?

Editing q newspaper is a nice thing,
if we publish jokes. people say we are
rattle Drained. If we don't we are
fossils. If We publish original matter,
they say We don't give them enough
selections. II we give them selections
they say We are too lazy tC
write. If We do not go to church, we
are heathens. If We go. we ar,
hypocrites. If we remain in tn,
office, we ought to go out and hustle
If We go out. then We are not tendins
to our business. If We wear old clothes
they laugh at US. If we wear goo,
clothes, they say we have pull. Now
what are we to dot Just as likely a
not, some one will say we stole thi
from an exchange, So we did.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28

Albert Grass. of Gloucester, Mass,
55 years old, has never ridden on an
electric car, steam train, bicycle or
automobile; never been aboard ship on
the water, never been to the theatre,
athletic event. or entertainment of any
kind; never used tobacco in any form
or touched drop of intoxicating liquor,
never went outside of Gloucester volun-
tarily.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
HEN BREAKS RECORD.
Georgetown Chicken Had Her
Own Incubator.
Washington Herald. ]

LWaSnlnRtOn hefalo.I
Therewas old hen and she had a wooden leg.
The finest little hen that ever laid an egg:
She laid the finest eggs that were laid upon tn,
And another little drink wo.'t do no harm.
old Jingle
Discovered right in the Capitol City,
or, at least, in one Of our little adjuncts,
Georgetowni
A hen that has an incubator beat a
city block!
She didn't have a wooden ley. as did
her famous ancestor, but she went in
for the intercollegiate record for hand
Ing them out in punches. Think Of it!
One hen having. by one sudden blow,
been sent to her last reward, is found
at a post-mortem inquest to incrust
five real, perfectly good eggs.
Perfectly good? No; not exactly.
And right here is the big secret! Every
one of those five eggs contained a fuz-
zy little chick, each of whom the coro-
ner said was just at the stage where il
usually sets about breaking up that lit
tie "shell game" and starting an ex-
istence of its own.
Don't scott. A good Christian broth
er of the West End vouches for the
story, although he stoutiy, from the
point of view of personal modesty, re-
fuses the privilege of divulging his
name. Remember it was in George
town. Many wild and curious things
are hatched out over there.
Briefly, the facts are these: About
week ago prominent business man
residing in Wisconsin avenue bethought
himself of the joys of fried chicken in
the toothsome southern style, and hiec
himself to market to buy pair of the
feathered variety.
They We're sent home In the course
OF human events, and on Saturday the
cook with that yalor of her dark skin
ned race, made successful sortie te
the back yard. hatchet in hand. Two
short, sharp strokes, and the prouc
strutters clay" beheaded.
Yes, almost literally did on e of them
at least. lay after she was minus her
sky-piece. When the boiling waite,
was produced and the feathers remoy-
ed, the wonderful work of dismember.
ing began. One received her carving
with good grace, and had nothing more
to say.
But her twin sister-well, she opened
up line of amazement in the, cook and
astonished the family as has never been
heard of before or SINCE in those parts.
Imagineit! Five whole eggs inside of
one dead hen!
The worst. however, was yet to
come, for when by accident one of the
smooth white sections of hen-fruit was
knocked to the floor, instead of the
soft, silky yolk and white streaming
over the linoleum, an embryonic mis-
tress of the barnyard rolled under the
table.
Eyes were rubbed and arms pinched
by those in the dumbfounded audience.
but there it was and everybody was
dead hwake. Investigation of the re.
manning four eggs revealed four more
of the miniature fryers.
Whether or not the chicks were
found alive or dead is not recorded, but
it is a certain fact that the master O,
the household is immoyable from hi.
position that he is an exact reproduc
tion of the Father of His Country
and that he never told one in his life
Anyway. the man who gets the bes
out of life is seldom IN over-inquisitiv,
being. Think it over.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
SHOPPING FOR LADIES.

Save travelling expenses and have our
shopping done by Mrs. j. p. Neanley.
S2O4 Oak St., Baltimore. She is In
close touch with the best stores and can
save our ladies' money on their purchases
In all lines. II costs them nothing extra.
Samples sent upon request.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-23

NOW SETTLED
Good News Comes From
Washington.
MARION WILL Be GIVEN
Additional Appropriation for
New Federal Building.
Hon. G. E. Mouser Writes That he
Has the Promise Of the $4,000
Needed In This City.

In letter from Congressman
Grant E. Mouser, to his law partner.
Harry N. Quigley, the representative
makes formal announcement that Ma
rion will receive an additional ap-
Ipropriation of $4,000 for the new
federal building, work on which is to
be commenced within the near future.
Mr.. Mouser' writes that he has
been assured by the members Of the
committee in chage of the appOpria-
tions that II a public building bill is
passed at this session Of Congress,
Marion is certain to receive the addi-
tion amount asked for. The origin
al appropriation was $4,000. OF this
amount $4,000 was expended for the
Norris property at the corner of
Church and State streets, where the
building will be located. This will
make 1t possible to contract for the
erection Of the building to cost about
$4,000, which 1t is believed, will be
plenty large enough for this city.
It was through the efforts OF Mr..
Moslsee that the. original appropria-
too was secured and Immediately up.
on commencing his second term, the
congressman asked for this addition
al amount. In the fight for the 10
cation OF the building, Mr.. Mouser