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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26

Reports from various parts Of the
Third congressional district indicate
that d O. Mahoney will be the choice
of tine Republicans at the September
primaries. There is no reason why Mr..
Mahoney should not be nominated and
there are many reasons why he should
be. His active and sincere support Of
the progressive policies Of his party in
the state entities him TO the consider
alton of every voter. He believes that
the people should be supreme and has
pulled his coat to assist in preventing
from being taken from them their right
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26

jesse Latta has laid new cement
walk around his property.
S. Paulson of Westby is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Frank Williams.
Miss Ethel Atwood left on Tuesday
morning for Milwaukee. She will buy
her fall stock of millinery there.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Having purchased the gallery stock
of l.. r. Arlington, and being over
stocked with negatives, | request all
having had their photos taken by him
and wishing more of the same, please
order by September Is, as some of those
plates viii then be destroyed.
NJ j. JAsPERSoN.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26
Lands Great Investments Stands.

have in Clark county, Wisconsin,
several hundred acr~ Sof wild land which
, am offering at tn. wv figure of $l6.00
per acre cash, or one forth down and
from five to seven years on balance at
six per cent interest. This land is a
black loan with clay subsoil, and will
grow any kind of crop that will grow in
the state of Wisconsin, and just as
much per acre if not more. | have
been nearly all over the state and have
failed TO see any ground that will yield
as much per acre as our land here
This is fine dairy country and we have
large number of creameries and cheese
factories. This land lies all along be
tween finely improved farms that are
worth from $50 90 to 500. 90 per acre !;
this is due to the fact that this land
was held by a large lumber company.
They now have the choice saw timber
off and have put the lund on the market,
and in order to sell quickly they are
selling cheap We are selling this land
in 40, so. l20, and as large a tract as
you wish, there is from 20 to 30 cords
of stave bolts and cord wood per acre
which will sell at $4 so per cord when
piled along the railroad track, which
would be from one half to six miles haul.
1t also has enough saw timber for build
ing purposes, We also have a large num-
ber of improved farms. Call on or
write me at once, ALONzo CLARK.
Real Estate Broker, Loyal, Wis.
To the Old Soldiers Of Vernon County
DO you know that Captain David g.
James of Richland Center, the boy
soldier who gave four years to the
cause of his country, and who suffered
nigh unto death in Andersonville and
Libby prisons, will give special atten-
tion TO legislation affecting his com
rades il he is chosen as the republican
candidate for state senator at next
Tuesdays primary election? No man
in the state has done more TO make
comfortable the declining days of the
veterans and their wives in his nine
years service az trustee of the veter-
ans home at Waupaca. Every com
rade is invited to give him a vote next
Tuesday
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26
Reduced Railroad Rates for State Fair

For the first time since the establish
ment of the two-cent rate, the railroads
will this year give reduced rate to
the State Fair at Milwaukee, Septem-
Der 7-l1. A one aud one-half cent rate
will be given on all lines running tc
Milwaukee. Ask for excursion tickets
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26

to say how the affairs Of gov. .nent
shall be administered A vote for D..
o. Mahoney is a vote for representative
government.
His experience in the state legisla-
ture, his university training and his
ten years os judicial experience admir-
ably fit him for faithful and effectual
work in the lower house Of congress.
He is very popular in his home coun-
ty as is shown BY the large majority
with which he carried the cour' v
against Babcock two years ago. - .-e
Dodgeville Sun-RepubIic.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26

Mess Anderson of Dubuque, Iowa,
is guest at Rev. Sneby's.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-26

jesse Thompson returned TO North
Dakota after a vacation spent at home.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
STAGE Fright.
Actors Have E-en lsroMn 20 Die From
liza N1-icc'u
presents

Actors Have E2en I<rown 20 Die FROM
the Ma!aGy.
Perhaps tie most terrible malady
Ua:.h ca2 attack the actor in The
Course OF Lis perfor nance in the Pc
culiar disease known as stage fright.
women have been known to faint,
break down and do many other queer
things. and there are even on record
several cases Of people who have died
through this horrible seizure.
Some years ago young novice who
was to appear for the first time ar
rived at the theater very white and
shaky. Brandy being given him, he
appeared slightly better, but no sooner
had he set his foot on the stage than
he clapped his hand to his heart, with
overwhelming sensation induced by
stage fright had attacked his heart.
and his theatrical career ended thus
even at it's beginning.
Quite as CHASTITY was the case of the
young amateur actress who, strangely
enough, had never experienced stage
fright when playing with her fellow
amateurs, but who was seized with the
attack on making her first professional
appearance. She went through the
scene aided by the prompter, her eyes
| glazed, her hands rigid, and when the
exit came it proved her exit from life's
stage as we'll as the mimic boards, fol
I she staggered to her dressing roomanG
fell into a comatose state, from which
she never recovered.
Perhaps, however, the most peculiar
instance of all was that of the veteran
performer who had gone through thirt.
years Of stage work without experienc
ing this malady. One night, however
he confded to a fellow player that
quite unaccountable nervousness ha,
suddenly taken hold of him and that b
did not think he could ever act again.
His comrade laughed at the notio
and urged him to go on, as usual. blu
his establishment may well be conceiy
ed when the poor old player went O
: the stage and, after making severe
vain efforts to speak, fell back and e1
PRED. The doctor who made the pos
, norton examination stated that deaf
g was due to failure Of the hearts actor
: evidently induced by the presence {
an attack of stage fright.-Pearson
Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
VALUE OF PUBLICITY.
Steve Brosiie, the Bridge Jumper, as a
Self Advertiser.


Curio,asly enough. the man who, in
my OPTION. had the keenest intuition
of the value OF publicity and used it
to the greatest personal advantage.
when we consider his humble begin
nings and the limited sphere OF his en-
deavor. never really knew how to read
and write. | knew him first as young
street urchin. making his living by
selling newspapers. backing boots, run
ming errands and doing such odd jobs
as fell in his way. and it was chiefly
through selling newspapers. whose
headlines alone he was barely able to
decipher. that he gained that know-
edge of what Park row calls news
values,' which one finds in every train
ed and efficient city editor.
1t was on the strength of this knowl
edge that this bootblack went one day
to we'll known wholesale liquor deal,
er on the east side and proposed that he
should establish him in Il saloon on
lower Bowery The liquor dealer was
aghast at his presumption until he
learned his scheme; then he captulated
at once, and within a few days the pa
pers had been signed and twenty-four
hours option secured on rickety and.
from nearly every imaginable point of
view, undesirable premises near Canal
street and directly under the noislest
and busiest and oiliest part of the ele-
waited railroad. This done, the boot
black made his way to the very center
Of the Brooklyn bridge, climbed hastily
to the top of the -parapet and, needless
Of the warning shouts of the Mortified
onlookers and the swift rush of pant
ing cop, dropped into the seething wa
tiers below.
1t was an unknown youth with an
earning capacity Of few dollars
week who disappeared beneath the sur
face of the East river, but it was an
enterprising young man. an east SIDE
celebrity. in fact, all ready for the di-
vine oil of publicity and with an as
sured income and possible fortune in
his grasp. whose nose reappeared very
shortly above the muddy surface. of
the water and who was helped by will
ing and OficiOus hands into a rOWboat,
where dry clothing awaited him. to-
gether with hearty congratulations on
the fact that he alone. of all those who
had attempted to jump the bridge. had
escaped with his life. The next day
the name Of Steve Brodie was flashed
from one end of the country to the 9TH
er, and within a very few hours after
his discharge from custody-he was
arrested on the charge of trying to
take his own life-he was standing be-
hind his own bar, serving drinks tC
the crowds who came to cape at Steve
Brodie, the bridge jumper, and to pour
their money into his coffers.-James l.
Ford in Success Magazine
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
WEST BURKE.

Miss Jennie Donaville is working at
E. B. Smiths.
Miss Maud Smith has returned to her
school in Lyndonville.
Archie Bailey is visiting with rela-
tives in Capleton, P. Q.
C. E.Keith and son Kenneth were at
w. w. Goes last week.
The spring term Of the village
school commences to-day.
The Ladies' Whist club met with
Mrs. J. F. Ruggles Thursday. after
noon.
Miss Minnie Dean recently visited
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Dean.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lisle Smith ofLyndon-
vile visited at.:Sydney Brigham's last
week.
Miss Mabel Silsby of St. Johnsbury
visited relatives and friends in to wn
last week.
Mrs. H. A. Suitor entertained her
mother, Mrs. Ward Of, Waterville, P.
O., last week.
Arthur and Glenn Ward have been
quite i'll for the past week, but are
now improving.
Mrs. H. L. Doyle of St. Johnsbury
visited her sister, Mrs. Viola Parker,
few days last week.
Mrs. Annie Strong has been tending
store for Miss j essie Dearborn during
her absence in Boston.
Mrs. Nelson Burt of st. Johnsbury
visited at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs
George Powers recently.
H. D. Woodruff received the appoint
ment of mail carrier on r. F. D. rout'
No. 2, and began his duties April 1.
Mrs. Abbie Whipple, who spent tn
winter with her daughter at Suga
Hill. N. H., has returned to her HON
here.
LYMAN, Walter, who has been work
ing in the lumber woods in Oxford, n
H.. for several weeks, has returne
home.
The Ladies' Aid society socialsat tn
church Thursday afternoon was nc
largely attended as usual owing I
: sickness and bad roads.
Warren HENDERSON and family {
Lyndonville are spending TWO week
with Mr.. and Mrs. S. D.. aBugbee. AN
other relatives in town.
Mrs. Lucy Hartwell has recent
completed quilt which contains l9(
pieces. Mrs. Hartwell is 70 years {
age, and is rarely found idle, althou2
her health is not very good.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06

A Custom That Is Neither Becoming
Nor Health Giving.

A Custom That Is Neither Becoming
Nor Health Giving.
Why do both men and women persist
in wearing hats? asks Pearson's Maya
zine. There are three reasons why we
should wear clothes. We may wear
them for the sake of Gecency, for the
sake of warmth and for the sake of dis
play. None of these reasons applies
to the wearing of hats. Of course
there are head coverings that are
warm, such as the Icelanders seaIskin
hood and the fisherman's toque; but, as
a rule, there is no real warmth in the
hat of either sex. When a woman pins
slight structure of straw and artificial
flowers on the top of her hair she nev-
er for an instant imagines that the
thing will keep her from taking cold.
The masculine top hat is certainly
warm on a hot day, but it is very IA,
from warm in cold weather
Neither are hats worn for the pur-
pose of display. Doubtless there are
times when women make the hat the
occasion Of displaying their fondness
er beautiful objects, but this is only
when fashion has decreed that big hats
shall be worn. At other times the fe-
male hat is so microscopically small
that it could not be successfully used
for displaying anything. AS for mems
hats, they never display anything ex-
cept the atrocious taste which makes
them fashionable. Why, then, in the
name of all that is sensible, do men
and women wear hats?
AS rule, every man and every wO-
man looks better without a hat than
with one. This is why we all take off
our hats at the opera or at an evening
party, and yet we cling to a custom
that has not word to be said in it's be-
half. We persist TN wearing the ugly,
useless and injurious hat. Why do we
do it? I should like to find good Irish
echo that would answer the question
ut length and in satisfactory way.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
lust BraaklAn In

Up to the age Of sixteen Dick had re-
tanned the proper soon for things
feminine; then he went to dancing
school and fell smitten by the charms
of several youthful Ewes. Accordingly
Dick approached his father and re-
quested theater tickets for two.
Father complied and merely asked as
he turned over the seats, (which girl
is it2'
"I'm going to take Mabel" responded
Dick.
'Then she's the one you like best?'
father continued.
Dick turned a superior and plying
eye upon his parent. "Oh, no; don't
like her best! You don't understand
the situation, father It isn't the girl
care about It's the experience
want.'-New York Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
UNFINISHED BOOKS.
Authors Who Died Leaving Stories
Partly Written,

Authors Who Died Leaving Stories
Partly Written.
Many writer's. including the famous
Ouida, have died leaving behind
them unfinished books. One of the
best known is, of course, Dickens
"'The Mystery of Edwin Brood" re-
markedly clever story, and one show
ing no signs of diminishing vitality,
although he was actually at work
upon it up to within few hours Of
his death.
Dickens great rival, Thackeray,
again, left behind him not one only,
but two unfinished stories. One Of
these, Denis Duval," promised to
rank with his best work. Unfortunate
ly, however, he had completed only
seven chapters when he was stricken
down.
Scott, too, left tale unended-'"The
Siege of Malta"-written while he was
on his last futile journey in search OF
health. This work has never been
published, although more than two
thirds Of it was completed at the time
of his death.
Then there was est. Ives" left un-
finished by R. L. Stevenson, as was
'Zeph," by Helen Jackson, and
Blind Love-" by Wilkie Collins. Buc-
kle never completed his History of
Civilization" although he toiled at it
fof'twenty years.
Among famous poems that were
never completed mention may be made
Of Byron's "Don JUAN" Keats ely
perion," Coleridge's "Christabel' and
Gray's "Agrippina." Sponsors "Faerie
Queene," too. is no more than a frag
ment, although a colossal one.
Lastly, there ought to be included
Ben Jonson's beautiful unfinished pas
toral, "The Sad Shepherd" found by
his literary executors among his pa
pers after his death and published IL
it's incompleteness.-P Weekly
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
WESTMORE

Miss Maud Tatro has returned home.
Miss Carolyn Marston was i'll with
mumps last week.
A. E. French has purchased the st.
Clare Felch place.
Mrs. VIM. Devereaux is at Barton
caring for her parents.
The Ladies' Aid society with the
friends and neighbors of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. w. Hyde met at their home Tues
day, Mar. 81, to help them celebrate
their 9th anniversary. II were pres
ent and partook of bountiful dinner
of baked beans, chicken pie and other
good things. A beautiful wedding cake
was made and presented by Mrs. Rose.
A sum of money was left as token of
friendship. Congratulations were
received from friends in Montreal.
A good time was enjoyed by all. 1t is
hoped they may enjoy many more such
occasions.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
No Use For 1t.

Uncle Zebulon was on visit to bis
nephew in the big city, and the two
had gone to a restaurant for dinner.
They had given their order and We're
waiting for it to be filed when the
younger man, who had been glancing
at paper that lay on the table, said:
"By the way, uncle, did you ever
have cerebro-spinal meningitis?'
NO. replied Uncle Zebulon after a
few moments mental struggle with the
question, land I don't want any. I'd
ruther have fried liver and bacon any
day."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
WONDERS OF COAL.
1Buried Sunshine" Has Become a
Piaythinq of Science.


Piaything of Science.
Has it ever occurred to you that the
vanilla with which many a favorite
dish of yours is favored is made from
coal? Will you believe that most Of
the dyes which have stained the fab
RIGS Of your clothes, that the >naphtha
and benzine which your tailor uses in
removing. stains and that even the
sweetest perfumes are all of them de-
rivativeS Of coal.
1t was once said by a scientist, clev-
erer and more imaginative than most
of his kind, that coal is "buried SUM-
shine" Something of the enormous
extent of ancient coal forming jungles
may be conceived when it is said that
our present forests would produce only
two or three inches of coal if they,
too, were subjected to a carbonizing
process.
The magicians who have wrought
wonders with coal are the gasmaker
and the chemist. If coal is burned in
the open air, heat is produced and
nothing left but a little ash. Burn it
in closed vessel, however, and the
marvellous change occurs. In the first
place, coal gas is produced and, chem
ically treated, is supplied to every city
home. Furthermore, ammonia is OBJ
tanned, important in modern agricul-
ture because by it's means plants can
be artifcially supplied with the nitro.
gen they need. Then, again, asphalt
is produced, much used in roadmaking,
although the retort is not the chief
source of its supply. Lastly, black
noisome ooze is collected which goes
by the name of local tar" 1t is this
which at the touch of the modern
chemists wand is transformed into the
most widely different substances i'm
aginable.
The wonders of coal tar do not cease
here. 1t is a palette of gorgeous col
ors, medicine chest Of potent drugs
a whole arsenal of terrible explosives
vial of delicious flavors and a garden
OF perfumes-the most protean, varie
gated substance in the world.-Londo1
Pail Mall Magazine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
Poor William!

civilian, my son." said an econom-
zeal mother to her boy, 'for mercy's
sake, don't keep on tramping up and
down the floor in that manner. You'll
wear out your new boots" Gle sits
down.) 'There you go sitting down!
Now you'll wear out your new trOu-
sers. declare, I never saw such Q
boy!'-LondOn Tit-BitS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
His BRIGHT Idea.

Not many years ago a well known
dealer was visited by would be seller
who had in his hand an envelope con-
tanning seventeen signatures of Sam
uel Pepys, which, he said, he had just
cut off the original letters to save trou.
blei By so doing he had diminished
the value of his property by nearly
f2OO.-London Opinion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
The Hustler.

'Do you believe that all things come
to him who waits?''
"They may start for him. but usu-
ally some man who hustles overtakes
them before they get to the man who
waits. Houston Post
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
A Big Screw Driver.

81 saw screw driver the other day
that weighed 1000 pounds"
Nonsense"
"But did. though"
"Where was it?'
I'm the engine room of an ocean
fner."-London Tit-Bits.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06

1t is hard to get women to admire a
man for his genius if he neglects to
help his wife on with her wrap.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
Miss Marjorie Batchelders has re-
turned from her visit to Boston and vi

Miss Marjorie Batchelders has re-
turned from her visit to Boston and vi
cinity.
Leonard Drew has vacated his tene-
ment in the Thayer house and moved to
West Derby.
C. H. Loveland was in Boston sever
al days recently, called there by the i'll
ness and death of his son.
The Westfeld-Newport stage has
made several trips on wheels, but 1t re-
quired four-horse team to do 1t.
Mrs. Rosa Sawyer entertained sever
al friends at her home Thursday even
ing. New sugar on snow was served.
Heman Gaylor, who was recently
sentenced to the House OF Correction
for drunkenness and abuse OF his lam
lily and placed on probation, again fell
from grace and has gone down to serve
out his original sentence.
At the election of officers held by
Co. l. April 1st Carroll A. Davis was
chosen captain, vice c. w. Richmond,
resigned Richard T. Corey, LIST lieu
tenant, promoted from second lieuten-
ant. Private Fred A. Jervah was elect
ed as second lieutenant, but refused
to serve, and w. A. Moulton was then
elected.
Leslie Bannister, who has been a
fugitive from justice for some time,
having jumped his bail in county
court case about year ago, returned
Thursday morning and voluntarily
gave himself up and took his sentence
of not less than two or more than
three years in the house Of correction.
The crime of which he was convicted
was the larceny of some cattle.
TROY.
Homer Bean has gone to Richford to
work.
Miss Mary Coburn begins teaching in
North Derby to-day.
Herbert Miller of Bakersfield has
been visiting here.
Edgar Preston is here from Manches-
ter to spend week with his mother.
Mrs. Dorcelia Woodcock is moving tt
Bakers Mills, where her son Justin has
employment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Taylor are
rejoicing over nine and.a half pounc
daughter, born March %.
Thomas Kirk has gone to the Brattle
boro retreat as private patient. He
will receive treatment for paralysis
and mental trouble. Mrs. Kirk has
gone to Westfeld to stay with her sister
Mrs. Charles Gilbert.
Sugar parties are the order of the
day. Isaac Wilson gave a general In
vitation which was very largely accept
ed Tuesday afternoon Mar. 81. Mr.
and Mrs, A. S. Larabee invited every
one who wanted sugar to their home
Thursday evening, Apr.2, and but fol
the storm would have had large
crowd.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
Estate of Bradley Dewey

The undersigned, having been appoints d
by the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Orleans, Commissioners. to receive
examine, and adjust all claims and demands
of all persons against the estate ofBradley
Dewey late of Irasburgh in said district. de-
ceased, and all claims exhibited in Offset
thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at his late resi-
dence on the 22d day of April. and
22d day of September next from O'Clock p. m.
until O'Clock pm, each of said days. and
that six months from the 25th day of March
D.19oS is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims to us
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Barton Landing this I'd day of April,
A. n. 1908.
SAMUEL f. W WELLS,
16