davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
Anniversary of the Day Attracts Lit
tie Attention in New Enqnlad.

Anniversary of the Day Attracts Lit
/ tie Attention in New Enanlad.
! 1t is a singular fact that the battle
of Bennington has never taken hold
Of the public fancy in the way that
Lexington and Bunker hill have
done, says the Manchester IN. h
Union. The battle is generally rec
ognized by historians as the turning
point Of the revolution. 1t was the
first time in history that raw militia
had contended successfully against
intrenched regular troops. 1t made
Saratoga possible, which in turn en-
couraged France to recognize the in
dependence of the American colonies.
Yet full century passed before
any serious effort was made to COM
memorate the victory by any ade-
quate memorial, and now, less than a
quarter of a century after the battle
monument was dedicated with appro-
pirate ceremonies, Vermont newspa-
pers like the Burlington News, the
St Adams Messenger and Others are
advocating the dbO4AILoA VI the MN
day known as the Bennington battle
holiday They complain that it is
sham and a nuisance to have the
banks and postoffices closed while
most people keep about their regular
worl.day routine.
1t is asserted that there is no
Pennington battle holiday spirit N
Vermont" and that it cannot be
made by law. At first thought this
seems strange enough. 1t is not, in
deed, easily to be explained. Yet,
when attention is recalled to the mat
ter it will be remembered that the
day has never attracted any special
attention in New Hampshire, although
this state supplied by far the greater
portion of the men who fought in the
battle and the commander who led
them.
General John Stark's grave is still
'unhonored in so far as any public or
adequate recognition is concerned,
and the anniversary of the battle il
observed even less in New Hamp-
shire than in Vermont. Indeed, it
may be doubted if many of the school
children, to say nothing of other folk,
can tell on what day of August the
battle occurred--or in what year,
either.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21

wrestling trade away from foreign
rivals. and is not the girl. debarred by
custom from engaging in international
trade conquests, only following the ex-
ample OF her brothers when she also
engages in international contests in
her sphere? That she carries of Co
claI prizes, winning them from coun-
tries abounding in girls with youth,
beauty charm and birth to commend
them, certainly ought not to be the ac--
iosion OF reproach to her. Rather is
she not keeping up the tradition, in a
beautiful winsome way, of Americas
ability to carry everything before her?
Moreover. it must be borne IN mind
that the international marriage is usu-
ally rot matter of pure trade-sO
much cash down for title-but that
there are many worthy lords of high
degree with substantial bank accounts
who are eager, willing captives. That
only those International marriages in
which the ba ter feature is the main
one are exploited in the press is easily
accounted for by the tendency of the
newspaper to seize upon all the I'M
iove'y incidents of life, because they
so readily lend themselves to se1sa-
tlonal, or at least emotional, treat
Inent and as the general public has no
other source of information. it is ineyi-
tao'e that it should infer that all ma
tlVe-tongued marriages are of the
harter class. This is. however. far
from being true, and a French author
mas recently rendered the American
girl gallant service by presenting a
long list of the wholly reputable men
with historic titles and large means
who have married American girls from
higher than money bag motives. 1t
ought to be regarded as occasion for
congratulation that the American girl
tains distinctions that represent the
attains distinctions that represent the
ment, for would not Americans be in
Idignant if distinguished foreigners
We're so Indifferent to the charms of
their countrywomen that they never
coveted them for wives?
The international marriage is in a
way brilliant manifestation ao4l
| Fellowship, and as foreign authors
have the grace and the justice to
credit the American girl who marries
| a title with higher motives than
mere vulgar desire for display, should
not her compatriots cease to imp
TO her wholly unworthy motives
whether the circumstance of the case
seem to warrant it or not?-From
! Vogue.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
LATHlNe OF REEDS.
swede1 Too Thrifty to Waste Good
Wood to Hold Plaster.

Wood to Hold Plaster.
The Increasing scarcity of wood
and consequent high rices may lead
builders Of America to notice the
reed lathing in us in Sweden.
Although Sweden has extensive
forests, and could afford more gen.
erous use of wood than almost any
other country in Europe, the people
are too thrifty to waste good wood for
laths when a substitute is at hand in
the form of reeds growing wild in
every swamp and on the borders of
every pond
These reeds are cut in winter when
the ice makes access to them easy.
They are seven or eight feet hig1
above water
They are not cultivated, but are an
extra source of income to the farmers
who cut them at a season when
other work is light.
They deliver them at the railway
stations at an average price of about
cents a bundle two feet in circum-
ference. The so-called revetting fac.
tories make them up into mats with a
warp Of annealed iron wire.
These mats are of two kinds, a
closely woven kind to be used alone
and kind of more open weave to
be used double. When used double,
they are put on so that the reeds in
the two layers are at right angles.
The method of use is simple, the
wires at one end of mat are fasten-
ed to the top of the wall, the mat
unrolled, the wires drawn tight, and
then fastened to nails at the other
end. Where il is needed loose wires
are stretched across and fastened at
the Joint to keep the lathing firm.
Plaster is applied as to wooden lath-
ing.
AS these reeds gro3 wild. without
care, there can be no difficulty in in
Producing them into such parts of this
country as have the proper climate.
and there may be here another in
dustry by which the farmer can add
little to his income, since every
New England farm has its swamp
which now produces nothing more
profitable than wild jag and alder
Philadelphia Record.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
The cRN OF rHE PINES

Listenl The great trees call to each
other;
is it your time to die. my brotherg~
And through the forest, wailing and
moaning.
The hearts Of the pines in thek
branches groaning-
We die; we die!
We who have watched the centuries
dying,
The span Of years as an arrows fly
ing
Ages seeming a day and morrow.
10, We have reached the time of our
sorrow
We die; we die!
We who have stood with our ranks
unbroken,
Breasting the storms, a sign and q
token
That the gale must cease. and the
via winds staying,
Man, we shielded, is come and is
Staying,
We die; we die!
Playing the bark and our bodies
barring,
Like dim white ghosts in the moon
light staring,
Naked we stand. with the life well
ing
Tears of resin. to gather for selling
I'VE die. we die"
All over the land are the forests dy.
ing
One piece of silver a tree life buy
ing
Listen! The great trees moan to each
other
The ak has SCARED US. toe, my
brother
1--WE die. We diet"
Annie Mcqueen.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
POISON IN THE DAILY FOOD.
This Is the Cause of Much of the
Transitory Illness.

A surprising variety of the most
powerful vegetable poisons, such as
morphine, strychnine. digitalis and
nicotine. are closely allied To
ptomaines, says the New York Her
aid. There are many of the ptomaine
products which act as poisons, ana
they were originally known as ca
daveric alkaloids, because they were
first discovered to be produced by
the decomposition of animal SUI
stances. Afterward they were found
to be the resultants of animal activ-
ity during life and the two classes OF
ptomaines would be better termed
the animal alkaloids in order to in
Glade both those which arise from
PURIFYING processes and those which
are the result Of physiological action.
Many of the more ordinary dis
tresses of life, such as headaches and
the feelings of fatigue, as well as
more serious nervous troubles. are
often due to the failure of the ordi-
nary eXcretory processes to eliminate
those toxic products of vitality. The
relation of the bacteria to the animal
alkaloids, or ptomaines, is that they
act ON the complex albumen molecule.
which is the common ancestor of al
kaloids whether animal or vegetable.
and split it up into several less COM
pick molecules, among which are the
Iptomaines. This is the process of
lputrefaction and the kind Of ptomaine
formed depends on the particular
kind of bacteria, the nature of the
material acted ON and the conditions,
such as temperature and so on, under
which the putrefaction proceeds
In a record OF thirteen cases the
material acted upon was as follows.
Pigs meat in some form in nine
cases, butchers meat (kind not stat
ed. in two, veal in one and beef in
one. Fish and cheese may also be
attacked, but crabs. Holsters and mus
sells are the most exposed. the source
of infection being the bacteria intro
duced through the medium of pollut
ed water. few months in the open
sea removing the poisonous proper
ties. OF course other poisons than
ptomaines are produced in foods of
all kinds by the agency of bacteria.
1t has not yet been decided why
some kinds of food may be eaten with
impunity in an advanced state of de-
composition-game, for instance
while pork so slightly tainted that Il
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
:annot be detected will cause poison

cannot be detected will cause poison
| ing.
There is another and a curious
danger from the production OF pto-
names in the human body. There
have been cases where death has
been pronounced to be caused by will
full administration of vegetable aka
odds which toxieologists would now
be put down as ptomaine poisoning
cases; and innocent persons have pos
sibly already suffered and may in the
future, though medical witnesses are
much more alive to the danger of
IA stake than they were before the
study c. bacteriology had advanced to
the point it has now reached
/ The difficulty consists in the fact
that there are no chemical reactions
lby which the ptomaines as a class
may be distinguished from the vege-
table alkaloids. AS ptomaines are
present to a greater or less extent
probably, in every organ which is
Submitted to the toxicoiogist for ex-
amination, it is clear that the most
serious mistakes might be made Il
chemists were not on the- guard
against too great confidence in declar.
ing ptomaine compounds to be of the
poisonous vegetable alkaloids. The
latter must have been deliberately ad-
ministered with food or drink as We
hicle, the former might have been
administered either as food taken in
the ordinary course, the food itself
being the poison and not merely the
vehicle, or they might be found in
the body after death as the result of
the body's own poison producing ca
pacity during life, or they might have
arisen in the process of putrefaction
after death.
Chemistry alone cannot say which
is the solution and further proof
would have to be sought in specific
symptoms which could only be pro-
duced by some particular known poi
son and in the general circumstances
in which death took place. More
innocent persons have been killed
from undoubted ptomaine poisoning
than are likely to hang because pto-
maines have been mistaken for vege-
table alkaloids.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES.
A Modern Way For Manifesting World
FELLOWSHIP.

A foolish American woman. whose
matrimonial escapadings with disre-
putable foreign men of title have beer
exploited by the press of two contiD-
ents, has been held up as truly law
ful example of the undesirableness or
international marriages, and indeed
the public rancor again this form or
alliance has inspired at least one legis-
lator to suggest the ACCESSIBILITY OF the
national government taking hand III
prohibiting it--as if that could be
done. The impression conveyed by all
this denunciatory writing and talk $
that only misery awaits the native girl
who has the wretched taste to turn
her back upon the American man, ad-
ritted ay all the world to be incon-
parable as a husband; but the truth
is that only a small proportion OF an
ternational marriages turn out disas-
trously. the American foreign wed girl
as a rule being as happy in her domes-
tic relations as her sisters who prefer
homespun: and in addition achieving
a more or .oss en- able social distinc-
ton. impossible TO compass in a de-
mocracy. II is, of course. to be ex-
pected that the American eagle should
scream with indignant rage upon dis
covering that girls born and bred here
.,unger for the flesh pots OF monarch
cal titles. but until in this, and ali
other republics. social as well as pollu
cal democracy obtains, that hunger
will surely continue.
As it is not expected tha. girls o.
the leisure class shall distinguish
themselves in careers other than So
c;al ones. It is natural that the more
ambitious and daring Of them shoulu
aim high, just as their amoitloas
brothers set out to win the highest
boners in industrial, commercial ana
nolitical careers. There can be no
gainsavjpg the fact that a long pedi'
gree title confers social distinction o.
an altitude which nothing that a re-
nnblic has to offer socially can touch
and hence what more natural than
that the girl, subjected to the energiz-
irv Influences of ner American envir-
eminent. and restricted as to her choice
Of careers by training and the force
Of public opinion, Should grasp at the
highest social attainment within her
possibilities?
The United States and other eoun-
tries maintain elaborate ani costly
systems OF consular service, a-large
part a. the activities Of which are
devoted 10 the study OF methods for
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
Polite Children.

It is said that when Macaulay, a
boy of 6, was asked to have some more
pudding I've politely replied Thank
you / have enjoyed an apple sufici-
GENTLY"
This sage reply is matched by lit
tie Cleveland girl who. when offered q
second fros ted cake, showed her ex-
ceIlent training by answering: Nam
ma has directed me to always refrain
from taking a second piece Of any
thing"
Ii is gra; flying to know, however,
that the childish nature promptly re-
asserted itself when the little mad
added:
But you can lay ii on my plate, if
you please. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
A Point o. VANTAGE.

"Of course, the railways owe the
public a great deal" said Mr.. Dustin
Stax but yea must also remember
that the public is indebted to the rail-
ways"
Yes " answered the critical citizen;
but the railways are in a position to
collect. Washington Star.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21
Headache Belief.

Battle the head with hot water and
rub il with lemon juice until it
smarts. Rest for short time. and
the result Is generally relief nom the
main.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-21

1t is said that the use of an oil or
gas engine on the farm results in a
saving of from 20 to so per cent as
compared with horses.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1908-11-03

ilno iolt audi nidt nit mir aeben,
Suan", id9te lie idmpuenb. ,8enn
Sbr neben mir fniet, Damn benfe ih
mcbr an guf). als an nnIern Serrz
sott obihon ih ionit ME anz
Ddd)tt9er flebe, ais ipenn i1 Sbn fir
Gllh bite, ieste Tie ber5Ii6 binsn,
naip 8u linn aliiihauenb. ga er aber
Welene mn6te, ibr riibrenbes @eitGnoz
nib anbers ais nit @orten Su beonta
l~portcn. hnttc lie I'M gleiden Miigens
bid gei6idt iid frei 9ema6t nnb mar
IN Die Stride sebuiht, ebe CT es bins
bern fonnte.
@oriidJtig i6lob iie nod Die Idupere
Sbure binter iih. Tros piefer Nab>
regcl unb trob ibres @erbotes folste
Suau ibr aber bod. Or beiab. nie
ale Spanier. nit Iusnabme Seriee
ni9en, bel benen Der pDIiee 8egeniab
CUR @eltlin9 fommt, elm gldubig
fron,mes @emiitb. Sn tiefer lteberz
5ellgung beu9te er iest bas 8nie. nnb
penn ne e5 aid ntd]t battle boren
iupuen - Der Inblid Der fleinen Sc
itnlt, Die Dor inn fniete, ribrte i'm
Doppelt CUR Inbaht. @r bemerfte,
fpie lie ben 8eboa5o felt INN Die Sfuls
tern 9e5pgen bate, pie I'm ieber Ser
%lud)ung.. na6 ibm um5ui6auen. auss
5uipeifen.
Sbre Inoaht mar beute MIR bon
fnr3er Snner, bu tie firhtete, 16pn
aa5lt LANCE bon Der Wutter fern ae>
blteben 81 Iein. Nit einem Ieiien,
bebeutiamen vauf @ieberIeben"
ifliipfte iie balb an Suan bpriiber,
Der au6. bicies 8ieoeriebens iid,er.
feinen ipeitern @eriu6 madte. iie
auf5rbalten.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1908-11-03

bate or audi eben nod ungebulbig
iiber feline Giniamfeit getlagt - jest
ltanS I'M 10 perlodenoer 1ein uuge1
bunoenes Sugenbleben por ibnt, bon
benz er Damn peroe Ibl6ieb nebnlen
miiilen. Gold miBli6e @eoantcu
haben etiuns bonn b5ien 8etter, Ons
IN DEN @liebern ipuft, che es eintritt,
lie seben aud meiit elmer getbatisun9
abnenb bordus.
Sitan bate nod fnlm Die Ylaco Ser
Stabt errei9t, ais CT lid ifon bon ar
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1908-11-03

es oft geldiebt, luenu mir ant 3iele
langeriebnter @iini6e iinb: eS mar
Suan. pdbrenb er iebt bnbin Idleus
oerte. ipeniger beha9lid 81 Sinn, oils
II ii9 felbit ein9eitebeu mo6te. Or
begann ii6 IN Die ebrmilroige &oGe
oeS Samilieupoters. Deg ~be9dbisen
o~acenoabo. Die CT MN bald einnebs
men perbe, binein5uDenfen unD -
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1908-11-03
atnurur pnn 8. 3. u. 9.

poriibersc5osen lit, reet iid aler
Srten bas leiftlebiec 0olf nit iener
uneridopflid,en 8eiterfeit. ienent
fruben 6enuBiinn. Den Die leud)tenbe
Come Dem Ieni6en ms &er5 81
gieBen pernla9 = freilih aud int
Sunbc NIT jener 2eioeuihaft, Die iic
NIT ibrem Seucr 5u9leib in bes
@tenifen 9rult Ie9t.
Nid,t bon Deg 2dubes trasiihen
8eididen lollen piele Sfdtter er5abz
len: cine fleine @eldihte MIR aus
Dem Seben mrb Sreiben in Werico.
@cnn mir Den @eniben in ieinen
p~eri0nlid)en Se5iebun9eu bctrabten,
tritt er n ndber. oils in Der 9es
Iammtbeit zines Splfes.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1908-11-03

Sic gdume sriinten BORT am
bers, sic @lun,en bliibten
anbers, anbers idien bort
Die Come, anbers fiel bort
Der Megen; ielbit Gag nno
Nnht itimmtcn nidt mebr
nit Ben uniern ilbercin.
%5er Giues mar aud) bort
ipie iiberall iid) slci6: oas
imenidlidc Ser5 IN Iciner
Strait nnb in Ieiner
SdipdGe. in ieinem Slid
llno 1einem Scip.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-01

WHOLESALE manufacturing confectionery
business. located ~ miles out. ~stah
IiShe1 Il wears. sickness cause pf selling
pri,. only SS.5tn Mcdonald NIsei1- 60.
80 HrooiVA}.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-01
ERIE TO PAY INTEREST
So Say Banks Of s440,000 D"e o"
Rouds To-dau-UOn't Discuss Notes

Banking interests closely identified WIN inc ERE
Railroad Company said yesterday that the f44YV"
interest which is due to-day on the sZz"o.V" ou'
standing convertible per cent bonds series y
and B. would be paid. No information was toru'-
coming however as the disposition which "ouid
he made Of the s. 10000 short term notes ~hch
fall April g.
Erie securities were decidedly weak YESTERDAY
on the Stock Exchange. and in the fnal hour oi
trading the Erie stocks led the sharp decl!he
which resulted substantial losses throughout the
whole active list. Erie common dropped ISs poIi's
TO 13ss and closed at the bottom, while the hrst
preferred lost 4 points TO 2e, and the second pre-
ferred declined AS points to 17a These prlces are
close to the low figures made last October ana
November.
In the bond market the Erie convertible 4s'
Series A down 10 51I2 against "a at the close
on Monday. There sales of the Bs ERIE
prior lien sold at ST. compared with price
of s4Is on Thursday last II was in the general
mortgage Is. however that the greatest weak
ness appeared. these bonds selling down to sta
They sold 6s17 Monday, and closed at 56i2.
There practically market whatever for
the short notes. and at the close of business
the notes were offered 81, with no bid The di-
rectors will tomorrow TO devise some plan
for taking up extending these notes 1t is
learned from authoritative source that the di-
rectors themselves have not decided on what
course will be pursued
New-York tribune., 1908-04-01
(O4I WAR THRE4TENS.
Soft Coal Trust ,Slashcs Prices
The Pennsylvania Situation.
Try Telegraph 10 The Tribune,

Ti-t.h,Irg March S1.-warfare IS threatened be
tween the coal operators Of the PittshuTg district
The PfttsburE Coal Company, the so-called soft
coal trust which IS known to he backed by the
Tinted States Steel Corporation. within the last
%n-fr-efsllt hours has slashed prices and taken
contracts amounting TO perhaps 10000 tons Of coal
from firms which for years have been known as
patrons Of the smaller independent operators. II
j. understood that the price which the
contracts were made 81 a for the year
while the harmony price minimum OF
s = and 81 % p
The CT1Bcihle Steel Company of America signed
contract with the coal trust Yesterday for 300 600
TONS of coal. he delivered IN the year. The
TirrsJlurE Coal Company took the contract and i'm
fn.diateIy turned 00e of Il to the
River Coal Combine fill This contract was
formerly filed by independents
As p result of the failure Of the miners and
operators to agree AZ the wage conference to-day
= the bituminoUs mines in Western Pennsylvania
district closed down tonight. enforcing jdleness
anon about 81. 600 union and 10 COO morgan
fzed workers.
The miners particularly worried tho
situation. because. this being neither strike nor
s. lockout. :hev cannot draw benefits from the na-
7ional treasury Of their organization. during
rhe suspension viii be absolutely without income.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-01
ERIE NOTES Authorized
Public Seruicc Board Also Permits
General Lien BOnds

Albany, March 21.-The Public Service Com
mission in the I'd District announced to-day that
il had authorized the Erie Railroad Company TO
issue its notes for 5000 000 dated April 1908
PAYABLE not later than July /, 1918, to issue its
general lien bonds, secured by its first CONSOLE
dated mortgage deed. not TO exceed s9457.000. and
10 pledge its bonds secured by its Pennsylvania
collateral indenture. not exceeding S15o,oOO, and
10 pledge anv of such bonds issued as security
for these
The commission orders that the company shalt
not without further authority from it sell any OF
these bonds for than so per cent Of their par
value, that these bonds shall not be sold prior
to the payment and discharge of the notes au-
thori.ad 10 be issued, that there shall be at
anv time outstanding amount Of bonds so sold
and such outstanding notes for a combined ag-
sregate principal exceeding sl5,00o,O0e.
The notes and proceeds thereof must be used
for or applied to the discharge or lawful refund
April J. COS. and payable before July I, 1909,
or for the maintenance Of its service including
its notes. amounting in the aggregate 10 $500
600 dated April S. 1907. maturing April 8, 1908,
and car trust payments falling due from April l.,
1908 20 July l. 1909 inclusive. amounting in the
aggregate to SATISFIES %, well its other
obligations incurred before April l. COS, and pay
able on before July l. 1909. The Erie is re-
ouired TO report under oath al least once every
six months in detail the and application of
any moneys so realized
New-York tribune., 1908-04-01
RoEs, 81 ard S. Reesers... 1.l9

New Spring Refers and Top Goats
Coverts. Whipcords Golf red and fancy !
cheviots and Navy Cheviots-ReefeEs
21z to 10 WIS