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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
Official "Lazy List"

The town of Great Darlington lately
ga ne into possession, by purchase
frUm the estate of the late Henry c,
Warner, of bound volume of town
repo is for the years 1866 to 1883 in
elusive. The annual school reports
for the years 1929 to 1S77-7S inclu-
sive contain much information that is
omitted from the school committees
reports of more recent yea s. One OF
the chief things in this line was called
The Lazy List
The reports usually embodied rolls
of honor, lists Of star pupils and the
lazy list The latter embraces the
names of scholars who were often
tardy, but not necessarily the names
of those who lacked diligence after
reaching the schoolroom The report
for 1S72-73 con- sins twelve names.
The lazy list went out of existence
in 1878. Berkshire Courier.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
Are American Women ROusbf

The Swedish jurist who thinks the
athletic tend ncy Of the American wo-
man is to blame for many divorces
ought TO take an extra think or two
before he makes any more statements
of that kind. The round-shouldered'
fat-chested, hat-footed beauty of Euro
pean society may be his ideal, but
the American man knows his own
mind and his taste doesn't run to
that sort.
European titles seem to have fatal
fascination for sundry empty-headeo
and empty.hearted American girls but
Won don't see American men prowl'
ing about Europe hunting for wives.
The American man doesn't marry
woman merely to get his housekeep
ing done for nothing HI marries a
bright. beautiful American girl to De
his companion in life. He doesn't re-
gard his wife as a chattel. He likes
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

bursemeut ~ Cd
II is situated as the Sorts eniIaH"e
the Treasury building, ANA the senets
dinginess Of the room, together With it,
plain and unpreteutiGus business wis
dows give no idea "a the casual visi
tor Of the immense amount 81 hUsiuesS
transacted there daily
The air. though. is heavy with the danB,
peculiar Odor OF many greeubacks. and
one feels rather than bears, tu the yey
guletuess Of tie piace. the dail clos
of gold TIE hulk Of the bans bust
ness Is done not over rs windows list out
OF its shipping rooms. and. therefore few
PEOPLE are seen iu the b5uk proper coin
pared to the crowds taat move 10 aud out
Of The average city Dank But ANY one
Of the rnen who come 80 the bank %
transact UBcle Sa 1s business. carries
with bin. as q general ruie. more money
tbah many ~ the largest oanEs ia ths
couatry handle iu whole day
Many visitors. however, from Hii parts
Of the country. pass 10 aad oat the whole
any long and listen 10 the monotonous
voice Of the guide who tells then Of TIE
enormous quantities ~ money IN IT,
vaults and the sire o. lfs warrants Ire
average visitor - duly Impressed. espe
ciaIiy whes he is allowed to bold nearly
9 million dollars 10 hk hands. II seems
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

never a very handy man, particularly
when he has been previously stasiek.
] listened to Captain de Angelis's apol-
ogy with interest and respect, but as
he. who for days had wrought might
ily for his village without tools, or
schedules. pleaded the impossibility
of attacking the ruins of Messina with
willing bare hands, this mute rehec'
ton occurred to me--and fear shall
never be forgiven for printing it
MY dear sir. how different 1t might
have been. If there had been a hun
dred of you--two or three in high com
mand. the rest cheering on those
dazed but willing soldiers amid the
holocaust of fallen Messina!"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

.r. -.stcs Treasury BuHd ~
- a..sb,u4tou. So obscureIy concealed
tfat only the initiated know of 1t. Is
hank that hsudies more money each year
than ANY uther bank in the world more
mouey even than tae far-famed Bank 81
England The lurgest single warrant ever
issued on this hnnk was for s4o,OOo,V"
the smallest for one cent. The sum totsi
OF its annual receipts aud disbursements
ts not hgured MS Individuais or even me
strongest corporations figure, ID thohsahnH
or hupdryt}S ~ thousands, but as nations
figure, in iti.
n IL realty the BANK Of the United
States fof IL IS here that all OF the gov
prnuteut money is dishHrsed anu receiver
from those. aFiirials who are authorlzrh
L. dplpu.jt il With, r. withdraw IL IRON
fHp Treasury
IN appeararce. sdch gnntic institu-
ton gives no eiideuce Of the mighty
volume ~ husin IS transacted thereih.
In fact u reSeu hles. more than any
thing else The typical country bank IN
medium sized town While there are DO
farm wagons with their loads Of produce
ready foe market and trucFS Of hay
hitched 80 the fence outs de, as Is gen
orally fae case with its village prototype.
IT, dars and gloomy interior. its walls
sInuEed with the atmosphere 0f % years
ags and lis ancient bauking equipment
lend IA VI go air SO truly rural that IN
.-empar SOD The average smali-town haBs-
iug in>tHatiou seems most impressiveiy
-tu.aiera.
THIS rc5gptry" hank Of Uncle Sans Is
Ga reality tSe Irect descendant Of that
reqt Rant 81 b. United States that came
to sueh an uutimeiy end during Presi-
dqut IackSot'S admiu stration II was
then shat the authorities discovered that
thev rarld NOT transact practical harH-
lns business With the people direct. ~
VAS rot q paying proposition for The GOV
nmenl 80 enter tuto competition with
pr.vate hanks uhen Il did not have the
same facilities f,r putting oct the money
that xere allowed The private banks 50
the Treazary Department took charge OF
Ell the public moneys and installed tA's
little country hank so attend 20 the dis
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

scarcely posstHe Ha the
money 10 the so3urry aai he sud his
friends aud Everyone Hss lo work 80 bard
Cor ,-e0ses olt ~ this ii:tie bank !u the
Treasury build ng And jet y does
Every piece ~ uiouey ISSUED by the gov
erumant posses through t5e baads u the
employees Of this b8uk. aud strict &C
count Is kept % the corporation. bank
on individual 60 whom each uew biu II
Essped
The cashier % the babk. Edward r.
True. hys 4 greater responsibility 10
point Of the uumber o. d0iisrs be is Re-
spouslbie Tor perhaps tban any other
cashier Ia the country. lie nearly a.
wavs has I've hundred millions Of dol
lars DO bis custody.
The business 81 this bssk Is transacted
IN practically the same manner - thsr
81 eny other bank. with the exception
that private individuals are not permit
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

Capri. Jan. 15.-You have had only
IN snatches the stories of survivors,
and this for reasons The cable has
probably surfeited you with these mar
ratives. while. as I have heard them,
they fall into two classes, both IN
available There is the prosaic sur
vivor who tells YOU of every doorknob
he tried with the meticulous accuracy
of a farmer describing the way TO
town, and there is the imaginative
survivor whose story gushes out, gain
ing with each repetition new legend
airy inaccuracy.
Well I have had the good luck 70
talk with a survivor who belongs to
neither of these classes, Capt Antonio
de Angels of the village of Contem-
plazione, halfway out to the Faro
He remembers with an astonishing
clearness everything from the shock
70 his departure six days after on the
royal ship Vittorio Emmanuel. He
tells his story wildly, but without
adornment of any sort To get his
personal part was difficult. He was
shy of me as a journalist. and most
fearful of seeming to praise himself
Of the heroism of others he talked
freely. He was anxious that the mill
tary governments should be defended
from the criticisms that are in the
air He urged me to note that the
French who necessarily arrived late
rendered service no less gallant than
the Russians who have had kind Of
monopoly of praise His own story
came out only incidentally, and in
fragments Without the help Of those
who, not being Journalists, heard it
all, l should hardly be able to piece
it together Some day, understand,
Maxim Golky will give it entire.
Meanwhile, the scraps have been
able to gather should be set down
promptly to the honor of Italy and of
mankind.
Capt. de Angels, when he reached
the military grade that condemned
him to indefinite bureaucratic activ-
ity for his best years, retired from
the army, and with his wife, a Gull
tured German lady, settled at Mes
sina and devoted his means and his
leisure to philosophical works. He
was influential in introducing and or
ganizing physical training in the
schools; he was the president of the
athletic club, Comitiva Sportiya; II a
dozen ways he represented those u
full social activities so zealously fos-
tered by The Italian gen, $50 little
known to those who regard Italy az
merely the land of sunshine and of
song He lived three miles out of
Messina. His apartment looked over
the famous drive to the Faro, near
Cbarybdis, and across the straits he
could see the Calabrian coast from
Reggie to Scilla Two eurly-headed
boys, of about thirteen and twelve,
shared the athletic tastes of their
father
Warned by the Cat.
But for the family cat these lads
wouF5 be left alone to tell this story
With the peculiar provision that ami
mails have of an impending cataclysm
she walled loudly for some minutes
before the shock. Divining her mean
ing Capt Angels, with his wife
rushed to the doorway in the partition
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17


into the street perilous, the family
slipped out behind, by a ladder.
through the kitchen window which
gave upon higher ground. On the
hillside the olive trees stood on step
like terraces, the stone facings of
which had been shaker down. The
solid earth was no longer itself, but
a shifting mass OF stones and loan
The family had hardly left the house
before lettering walls fell in behind
them, closing the perilous path they
had taken. BY daylight they were
busy seeking out and aiding their
neighbors, and here follows a frag-
mentary record of 1iV days of splen-
did service, the exact details of which
| am only permitted to guess. It was
only after days of such wo.'k that
Signora de Angels discovered she
was painfully wounded in the foot.
Suffice it 10 say that when four lays
later the French landed, the de .Ange-
lis family knew the exact condition in
every house within two or three miles
of their own. Signora de Angels in
her husbands absence in the city.
was able to tell the French officers,
do not risk your life needlessly in
that house We have examined it
and they are all dead" and she was
able to indicate places where work
might be done with some chance of
finding living persons in the ruins.
Camp Contemplation.
Naturally, the first aid came 10
Messina itself. not to its suburbs.
Yet the need of the suburbs was
hardly less. At the village of the
Faro half the population persisted
The second day the Russian fleet
landed barrels of water, but for three
days the village of Contemplazione
had to do for itself Captain de An
gels chose his camp site in the
grounds of the wrecked villa Sander
son in which two of the family had
been killed. When the deluge of the
evening and of the next three days
threatened, they took big rug from
the ruins of the villa and pitched a
tent in which twenty people passed
five nights. When they needed lit
ters for the wounded they impro-
vised them out of palings and the
leaves of doors. The second day Cap
tain de Angels, walking to Messina
got an assignment of food from the
ship Regina Elena, but here arose the
eternal, unsolved problem of harbor
transportation II took day to dc
liver this food, three miles down the
waterfront On this trip to town he
was called to save a stout friend who
sat dazed i'll the ruins of his house
but submitted to be dragged and
pushed out to the water and safety.
AS it happened l boosted an old man
as light DIS a feather for about half
this distance over precisely the same
barricaded route, and my muscles
still ache at the remembrance.
At Camp Contemplation food had
TO be had, and Captain de Angels
broke in the shops and took it. This
any sensible or merely hungry per
son would have done. How many
wonder, would have made a memo
randum OF all the supplies thus
seized. filing it later as regular mill
tary report. so that the shopkeepers
should be paid every soldo? / com
mend this small but significant Incl
dent to those who believe that eff
cheney is racial, with a tendency to be
| exclusively Anglo-Saxon.
Such hints as I have been able tc
get of the Sc. ice rendered by this
family to these deserted villages,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

her brillioney, and likes to be envied
because she is his. He doesn't want
a sentimental. sickly NOPE, but
strong, able wife, with sound body
as we'll as sound mind. Guess
again, Judge Cederstrom. You're
away wrong.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
Pertinent Query.

Yes sir" said the pompous 'rds
vidual, Il always pay cash for every.
thing | get"
Dear me-" exclaimed the matter-os
fact person. Whats the matter with
vnnr credit?"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

have given. Three days after the
earthquake Captain d. Angels ap-
piled directly to the king for medical
aid. 4 launch with seventy soldiers.
surgeons. and orderlies was put
promptly at his disposition, and The
work among the wounded Of the fore
coast proceeded with tireless energy.
For FIVE days and more Captain de An
gels had devoted himself TO shelter,
ing, feeding. and healing his neigh
bOrs. Now, on invitation, he took his
family 10 the flagship Vittorio EN-
manuele, and put himself at the dis
posal OF the king. His strength was
plainly far gone. and the work of res
cue proceeding regularly. So it was
deemed best 10 deny him the detach-
ment OF troops he requested and he
has made a halt here at Capri, where
he first met the lady who is now his
wife
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
Cat Deserted.

have, unpardonably, forgotten the
family cat. Having no taste for camp
life. she simply deserted At Messina
may have seen her, with scores Of
other tabbies. who ignobly summed
themselves in soft spots amid the
ruins.
There is material for many letters
in the two hours talk had with him
Personally, he will not return 10 Mes
sina. Virtually all his friends are
gone, and his occupation as we'll. But
he thinks the day workers should be
sent back as soon as possible. There
is danger that the refugees may be
aided for too long and lose their in
dependence. The truest charity is 10
put them at work As the new city
rises upon the ruins of the old, it
should grow through the strong arms
Of its own sons. ! questioned the ex-
pediency of Messina rising literally
from its ashes, and he wholly agreed
with me. Aside from the constant
risk of earthquake, the old city was
too low and badly drained to be sani-
| tory He believes he industrial and
| warehouse portion of the new Messina
should be on the level ground to the
south. near Gazzi, and that the resi-
Dental city should stand above the
waterfront where the high town now
is The houses, he assumed, should
be low and of reinforced concrete or
other approved material prescribed
by law
On the thorny topic of he efficiency
of the military government he spoke
with great frankness, pointing out
| the many difficulties that had beset
the work 4e agreed with me as to
| the pitifully inadequate embarkation
| service. The local service naturally
had been utterly destroyed. On the
morning after the shock the straits
were full of raw recruits that the
ing awash He agreed with me that
! on the davits of the warships and lin
ers there were boats enough and
found that the Impressed merchant
captains were primarily at fault To
me il seems that from volunteers
among the Ligurian soldiers and by
rounding up the surviving port boat
men an adequate harbor service nigh
have been improvised Naturally
only the military government coul'
| have done it.
Obstacles to Relief
On the matter of the apparent in
ertia of the soldiers among the ruins
/ ne pointed out that the battaliont
were full of hundreds of boats drift
proper wrecking tools were lacking
and that the difficulty of communi
cation made a properly organized e
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
Wits at Messina Better Than Tools
Remarkable Escape and Inspiring Courage of Retired officer

in which the boys were sleeping
not a second too soon, for the roof
and ceiling fell aslant across the de
serted beds. There was a rending
and creaking sound a flying of tim
bers, a crashing of walls. as if the
house were being dismantled by
hurricane Scientists distinguish a
series of shocks; to a survivor the
earthquake is one and indivisible.
Captain de Angels merely recalls as
he bent over his wife to protect her,
that the shallow arch seemed TO be
wrenched and shaken in every direc-
ton, and for long time He was
cast from wall to wall of the doorway
1t was in reality perhaps hardly
half-minute later when he shouted
through the door to the boys and
heard the answer: Were all right,
father, take care of yourselves" The
straining of the arch had damned the
door between the rooms and the
fallen roof had barred it from the
other side. The floor of the apart
ment stood, but was riven and per
forated. The father and mother made
their way through the INSTRUCTED back
hall. to the inner door of the boys
room. 1t. too, stuck fast Smashing
in a glass panel, Captain de Angels
crawled to the room, and found the
roof had fallen over the bed like
pent house The front of the house
had fallen into the street A big
wardrobe, which had intercepted sew
eral heavy iron girders in their de-
scent towards the bed, blocked the way
around to wreckage.
Quick Wits.
Il made a hole in the roof, crawled
through and got the boys out says
Captain de Angels. How easily this
sounds as I write it. To make a
manhole in a fallen roof in the dark
and two minutes after the Messina
earthquake-what could be more sim
pie or natural? 1t was this man who
a little later excused the Italian sol
diers for not working more vigorously
in the ruins because they lacked the
proper tools. | fancy hundred heads
and hands like his might have done
more than a ship-load of wrecking
machinery.
The boys were quite uninjured and
cool A feather bed across their
feet. a fortunate relic of the mothers
Ge-'ran traditions, had taken on the
shocks where heavy fragments of the
ceiling had fallen. In both rooms the
rafters had chung to the partition,
over which, like ridgepole, the roof
of the two rooms had fallen to right
and left, actually protecting the par
ents in the arch and the boys in the
bed from the heavy flying wreckage,
In the moment of inspection of the
wreck, before burrowing through 20
his boys Captain de Angels looking
out where the front wall had been,
saw the sea. draw back matter OF
! fifty metres The same thing was
noted at Scilla, across the straits
| He is certain that there was no un
| usual light or atmospheric commotion
Reports to the contrary are part Of
the growing legend. There was just
the gloom of a still, mild, winter
morning two hours before sunrise.
The stairs and halls having become
mere jungles of wreckage, and escape
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17
Obstacles to Relief.

On the matter of the apparent in.
ertia of the soldiers among the ruins.
he pointed out that the battalions
were full of hundreds of boats, drift
proper wrecking tools were lacking
and that the difficulty of communi-
cation made a properly organized ei.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-17

But for the family cat these lads
woulS be left alone to tell this story.
With the peculiar provision that ami
mails have of an impending cataclysm,
she walled loudly for some minutes
before the shock. Divining her mean
ing Capt. Angels, with his wife,
rushed to the doorway in the partition
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-05-26

Mr.. Logan George, who holds a
lucrative position with the Dravo Con-
tracing Co., of Alabama, ard who
has been spending his vacation with
his mother, Mrs. D. L. George, has
gone to superintend some work at
New Paltz, n. Y.
MIR. Gus A. Ropp, the popular coca
cola salesman from @, l lmbia, was
here on Monday distributing adver-
tising matter and taking orders for
coca-cola. Mr.. Ropp is one of the
finest salesmen on the road and is de-
servedly popular with the trade. He
has host of friends here who are al
ways glad to see the light Of his be-
nign countenance.
FOR SALE-4-room new cottage at
Chaplin, long porch, shady grove, 3
acerlot, neardepot, church and school.
Price $4,000; good terms. Dickert &
Fogle, Real Estate and Insurance,
IA v Main street, Columbin, S. c. 80
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-05-26

Mrs. E. S. Sease, of Hollow Creek,
always prompt in paying for her paper
kindly sent US dollar Saturday to re-
new for another year.
Mr.. J. D. Powell, of Woodford, q
good farmer of that section, while in
town yesterday called in and renewed
his subscription.
The big sample sale at T. Fl. VIII
liams' continues. The goods are going
fast. Such bargains have never been
offered in Lexington before.
Mr.. Bette Matthias, an Industrious
and clever citizen of the Oak Grove
section was here Friday and renewed
his paper for another year-Thanks.
DR.. P. H. Shealy and Mr.. B. 81.
Barre are attending the meeting OF
the grand lodge Knights of Pythias in
Charleston. They will return tomor-
row.
The Dispatch acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation from MIR. o. NJ.
Clarke to attend the Clemson com
mencement. Mr.. Clarke is president
of the senior class.
Fine cigars and smoking tobacco, at
Harman's Bazaar.
For reliable groceries at reliable
prices, 60 to the old reliable grocer,
II. NJ. Wingard. You will find the
best on the market and his prices will
please you.
MIR. Sam P. Roof, one Of the most
popular and progressive young busl-
ness men Of Lexington, spent yester-
day in Columbia Oh matters of busl-
ness.
Prof. and Mrs. Oscar D. Seay, and
children, Of Columbia, were the guests
of friends and relatives here Satur-
day and Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Seay
are well Known in Lexington, having
resided here for number Of years.
There are eight paupers in the poor
| house. Thos Arehart, Ed. Sightler
ard Mamie Lucas, white; Albert.
Kanidy, Doll Leaphart, Manuel Wise,
Marie coleman and Drabell LaWton,
| negroes.
ITCH cured in 80 minutes by Woo
, ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
Sold by Derrick's Drug Store. 6ml3
MIR. R. A. Barr, the popular R. F. D.
Carrier on R. F. D. 8, Gilbert, was in
town Monday in his new automobile.
Mr.. Barr says that there is nothing
like an automobile to carry the mail.
DR.. J. L. Shuler, one of Selwood's
good and substantial citizens was here
Wednesday in attendance on County
Board of Dispensers, and called in to
see US and left a dollar for a. years
subscription to The Dispatch.
Prof. G. w. Cromer, who has been
teaching at Lone Star, is spending
few days at his old home near here
before going to Columbia. Prof.
Cromer gave us pleasant call last
week.
Reader, if you are due anything for
the Dispatch please send or call and
settle.
Best brands of cigars always found
at The Bazaar.