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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
PULP WOOD FROM WASTE

Der eor1pary. is interested with Pro-
fessor F'ranIforter in the process. So
convinced is he of the enormous com
mercial value of the discovery that an
experimental plant is now being con-
structed. and mammoth plant is al
ready planned. to be erected in the
far west.
Doctor Frankforter has experiments
ed on his processes for twelve years.
The developed process consists in TAX
ing small pieces of waste wood or
sawdust, laying them on steel In
cline over a furnace, and subjecting
them to a chemical process of distilla-
ton. Carbon disulphide or gasoline
is poured over the sawdust, dissolv-
ing the turpentine and resin, which
pass of as gases into coil OF pipes
leading to a tank The process Is
similar TO the distillation of sugar.
The wood pulp remains. free from
pitch and suitable for the manufac-
ture of paper The present method Of
distination leaves the pulp in the form
of charcoal.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Magnificent Structure to Be
Built in Chicago.
Work on Great Building, 70 Cost $4o5''
600, to Begin May Auditorium
70 Have Seating Capacity
of 1850.

Chicago.-More beautiful than any
Masonic temple in the country, or in
the world, for that matter, will be the
building that the Shriners of Medinah
Temple will dedicate to the uses OF
the craft in Chicago at Ohio, Cass and
Ontario streets, it is declared.
Plans for the structure already are
well under way. Building operations
will begin by the first of May. Early
in April, 1912. the dedication Will
take place.
When completed the building will
represent an outlay of $405,O0O, which
is more money than the far-famed New
thester Of New York cost its million
aire founders. OF course, in the case
of the Medinah temple, the cost Of the
land was a comparatively small item
compared with the extensive New the
ater property that borders on Central
Park West in New York.
The Lambert Tree property, on
which the new Medinah Temple is to
stand, runs los feet on Ohio, 21S on
Cass and $50 feet on Ontario, situated
directly behind the Studio building,
which fronts on State street
Messrs. Huehl and Schmidt are the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
A BIG MASONIC TEMPLE

architects for the new building and
Mr. Huehl, with a large staff of assist
ants, is personally at work on the draw
ings. The first floor, underneath the
auditorium, will be occupied by the
banqueting rooms. The auditorium
proper will be in the form of a great
theater, seating over $500 people. a
capacity as large as the Auditorium
theater before the recent alterations.
There will be three tiers, the first floor
seating 1880, the balcony will have
a capacity of 1872. and the gallery will
hold 1850 persons. Then there will be
numerous boxes besides.
There will be large parlors, candi.
dates rooms, rooms for the caretaker.
for the Arab patrol and for the bands.
in the two wings on each side Of the
stage. A magnificent new organ is to
be part of the equipment.
While it has been definitely settled
that the style of architecture shall be
Turkish, it has not been finally deter.
mined of what material the building
shall be constructed Mr. Huehl said
he hoped to be able to use terra Gotta
and brick. In Turkey, however, they
use for their elaborate effects a red
freestone which they can cut almost
like butter. and so get the most or
nate decorative results with little cost.
There, too, the climate Is not quite as
strenuous as it is here, and the flight
of time does not leave upon buildings
such perceptible damage Another i'm.
portant consideration is the fact that
to get the same decorative effect with
terra Gotta the expense IN this coun.
try would be enormous.
Il would be more like engraving
than sculpture work" said Mr.. Huehl,
and the men who do this work charge
seven dollars a day"
Arrangements have been almost
completed for the sale of the present
temple to Oriental Consistory when the
Shriners of Medinah temple move into
their new home. Members Of Medinah
temple bewail the fact that they have
to leave their present building, which
| has always been very much admired
The move was a necessity, however,
since they have quite outgrown their
present quarters, and it is barely pos
sible to get their members into the
building, much less into the auditorium
on any special occasion. There are
1000 members of Medinah temple liv
ing today. They are scattered all over
the world. but 5000 of them live in
Cook county. and their present hall
holds barely LOO persons.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Eat peopIe Not Fat wltted.

It is frequently averred that fat Is
deadening to the brain, and conse'
uuently foe to intellectual activity
But is this so? Some of the greatest
men the world has ever known were
plump even to obesity.
Napoleon was decidedly embonpolnt.
DR.. Johnson was fleshy even to fab
biness. So was his biographical shadow,
Boswell. Balzac, the great French nov
elist, was so stout that it was a day s
exercise to walk around him, and he
was encircled with bandages as if he
we're a hogshead. Rossini, the com
poser, was a regular Jumbo. since for
six years he never saw his knes.
Jules Janin, the prince of critics,
broke every sofa he ever sat down
upon. Lablache, the great singer, was
charged three fares when he travelled
Dumas pere was stout, and Sainte-
Beuve carried the stomach of Fal
staff, as Renan does now. Eugene Sue
had such aversion to his growing cor
pulency that he drank vinegar to keeT
It down. and yet he wrote THE Wan
dering Jew"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
WHY LOANS ARE NOT LENT
Nowadays the Exchange Is Not to Re
Ileve the Necessitous and the
lmproVident.

Why is II banking houses always
loan" their huge sums of money.
never by any chance lend" them?
Lend" is the true verb, while loan
was exclusively the noun. How came
IT about that ito loan" has uniformly
supplanted "to lend?"
The purists make a great fuss about
this. They insist that the stupid and
untaught financial world has foisted
upon the language substantive verb
when no new verb was needed; when
the ancient and established usage was
fixed In Tie Specification of Ito lend.
But prior to the modern development
of business enterprise, when money
was lent 1t was bestowed upon the
borrower either for temporary use
without compensation, as a mark OF
favor or patronage, or by the profes-
sional money lender who, taking ad-
vantage of persons 81 extrenities OF
need, demanded usnrious interest
This Anglo-Saxon verb today retains
its ancient connotation. When 1t was
coined the productive powers of money
were unknown, and the wealth of rich
men was locked up for safety and
kept out of the channels Of commerce.
Nowadays. by devices of credit and
rapid Accommodation. It Is isapt
constantly working in productive sn-
terprises. Immense loans are made
no longer to relieve the necessitous
and the lmprovident, but to stimulate
Industry and to enable the borrower
as well as the loaner to reap protit
in his transactions. Money Is
loaned" in this sense. 1t is not lent
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
UNNECESSARY TO LEAVE FARM
old People Not Compelled to Move to
City II Boy Wishes to Stay
and Run Things.

Much has been said about keeping
the boy on the farm, But what will
become of the old folks II the boy
does stay on the farm? II is not
necessary for them to give up the
farm entirely and move to town. as
many OF them are doing.
Director A. NJ. Ten Eyck, of the Ft.
Hays experiment station, in lecture
TO his class in farm management at
the Kansas State Agricultural college
recently. said 81 don't believe that
one-half Of the retired farmers that
move TO town are satisfied. Some Of
them know that they won't be salts
fed before they move, but they feel
that they must get out of the way and
give the boy a chance. | think they
are mistaken. The farmer can build
another home for himself or for the
hoy on some ether part of the farm
Then, while the boy is running the
farm, his parents can take 1t easy
1T is no longer necessary TO move
TO town to get the modern convent
euees of living
at is to the interest of the farming
community as a whole to keep the
older men on the farm. The man
who moves TO town loses sight of the
interests of the community he lived
in and the community loses by it."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Clay Diggers Unearth Steps oil
Temple of Sacrifice.
Discovery Of Aztec Temple, Antedat-
Ing Invasion Of Mexico by Spanish
Under fernando cortez, by
Possibly Centuries.

San Antonio, Texas.-If Indian clay
diggers and potters are to be be-
lieved mysterious lights at night, and
strange sounds during the day. at a
site near San Miguel Amaztla have
led to the discovery of an Aztec tenn
pie antedating the invasion of Mexico
by the Spanish under fernando Cor
tee by possibly centuries. Since time
immemorial the Indians in the vicin-
ity have claimed that both the lights
and the noise had been observed by
many and 1t has been impossible to
get any Of them to approach the scene
OF The alleged phenomenon-a mound
located to one side OF a narrow lane
leading from the Atzcapotzalco-S San
tiago Ahuixotll road to the village OF
San Miguel. Recently, however. some
of them were induced to dig clay near
the base of the mound and in the
progress of their work they came
across the steps OF a teocalli. one of
the pyramid temples of the Aztecs.
When first found the ruins were
thought to be those of an old ranch
house or granary. but soon unmistak-
able signs of their prehistoric char
acter were met. So far little excaVa-
ton work has been done. Above the
temple, says the Mexican Daily Rec
ord early Spanish farmers had erect
ed a low circular wall. the Enclosure
being used for the thrashing Of grain.
This wall was torn down a few weeks
ago and under It and at the base OF
the temple wall were found idol stat
uettes. broken pottery ashes and
bones thought to originate with
human sacrifices made to appease the
wrath of Huitziopochitl. the great god
OF the Aztec system of religion. At a
depth OF ten feet below the present
soil surface a cement floor was found
and under Il more Aztec statuettes.
pottery and human bones. Here also
the remains of an older wall were
discovered
In view of the fact that the base OF
the temple is ten feet below the pres
ent surface Of the ground, there is lit
tie doubt that the structure is a very
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
kATNNlHS ~
7NOfEs:;Ss

Cut millet for hay just after bios
SONS fall.
Horseradish is propagated easily by
root cuttings.
Horseradish is generally in demand.
why not grow It?
The clover belongs to the class OF
plants which are nitrogen gatherers,
After the corn is planted. and be-
fore 1t is up. 1t is always advisable to
harrow
In the seeding OF spring grains. It IL
Of first Importance TO SOW as early as
possible
Sun and rain are the agencies that
destroy the palatability and feeding
value of hay
The formalin treatment prevents
smut in oats, but has no effect what
ever on rust
More than II per cent OF the total
production OF German alcohol Is OBJ
tanned from potatoes
Tests have shown the violet tinted
varieties of white potatoes to be the
highest In nutriuve value.
In sowing wheat treated with for.
maldehyde some allowance should be
made for the swelling Of kernels.
Red and white Valentine bunch
beans are hardy and may be sown
Just as soon as the ground is war;
and dry.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Spring Reseedino Of Sod Land.

If you have any WORKOUT. rundown,
unproductive meadows or pastures, re-
seed them with a disk drill early this
spring. 1t will pay big dividends on
the time. seed and labor. The best
time to do this work is when the sod
is wet, which is In the spring when
the frost is leaving the ground. This
plan increases the tonnage of hay and
provides the best kind of forage for
the stock at time when pasture is
short" The majority of our old pas
lures and meadows are sod bound"
or 'root-bound," and by using a good
disk drill--one that IS strictly up to
date-the work of reseedlng can be
done to perfection.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03

A feature of the temple at San MI
guel is that around its present base
grows a druidlike circle of large
trees. In its vicinity are many other
mounds, mostly small. and it is there
fore quite possible that here at one
time stood an Aztec city. Clay dig
gers and potters living near by have
found tremendous quantities of small
stone idols, jade beads. earthenware
with Aztec decorations and it'll
knives, such as used by priests in
opening the breasts of the victims of
their creed. According to present
calculations, Aztec civilization in
Mexico is not over 700 years old. but
1t would seem that this period will
have to be added to considerably, for
the reason that it must have taken
centuries to bury the structure at
San Miguel Amaztla.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
A Ras the DRINKING Gun.

Intermittent efforts to do away with
public drinking cups failed. BIT when
We launched our crusade 3 short time
ago things began to eventuate. We
have consecrated ourselves to this eff
fort-and we base our crusade on
cleanliness. We do not clutter the
mind with a lot of scientific stuff or
family names of germs. The best ar
gument against the public drinking
cup is to watch it in use-and the
folks who maintain 1t should be COM
PEELED to drink from it.
After the drinking cup goes, we call
for volunteers to Danish the public
brush and comb from public wash
rooms everywhere.
If we are to have universal suffrage
let US provide for universal health.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Duea dI 5rambilla Has Been WELDING
Knife In Italian Hospital Many
Weeks Without Fee.

New York Not until the other day
did many of the poor Italians who
have been going for treatment to the
Italian hospital in West Houston
street know that the surgeon who has
been operating on them skilfully and
never asking a fee was no other than
Cavaliere Giacomo Rostelh CRrminau.
Dcca di Bramhilla, noted Italian
army surgeon. The duke, or Doctor
Carminal!. as he prefers to be known.
comes frol' one Of the oldest families
in the TIA III nobility
The surgeon came here about six
weeks ago TO study American meth
DDS OF srl- gerry. which he much ad-
mires. and went to the Italian hos
pital. There he registered simply as
Doctor Carminati. but it soon became
known 10 the hospital stan that he
was the Duca di Brambilla,
Doctor CarminAu is only thirty,six
years old. but he has become recog-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Bookseller Fe,led With a Book.

Tom Osborne. the bookseller. was
one of that mercantile rugged race to
which the delicacy of the poet is some
times exposed"
Osborne, irritated by what he
thought an unnecessary delay on the
part of Johnson. went one day into
the room where Johnson was sitting
and abused him in the most illiberal
manner.
Johnson heard him some time Il
moved: but at last losing all patience,
he seized a huge folio and, aiming
a blow at the booksellers mead, sue
ceeded in sending him SPRAYING to
the floor. Osborne alarmed the FAMILY
by his cries; but Johnson. placing his
foot on his breast, would not let him
stir till he had exposed hin in that
situation; and then left him with this
triumphant expression: Lie there,
thou son OF dullness. ignorance and
obscurity "-Kearsley's Anecdotes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Unclaimed.

YES" says the advanced farmer,
who really should be called an agri-
culturist, there has been a vast
change in the methods of tn, Sc who
till the soil. AS an instance, nowadays
We have machines that cut, thrash and
sack the wheat, whereas in other
years we Graded it,"
The visitor mods understandingly,
but says:
Yet l believe there has not been
such great progress in other branches
of agriculture. Am | not right in
my opinion that you still put corn
In a Crib?"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
LOYAL FRIEND OF FARMERS
Lowly Toad Is Helpful in Fields and
Gardens as He Eats All Kinds
Of Insects.

Don't Kill the next Bufo lentiginosus
americanus you meet In short, don't
kill the toad. He is harmless, in gen
eral. and in the fields and gardens he
is helpful, as he eats all kinds Of nox-
lous insects.
Scientists have often wondered, just
as you have done, what the toad eats
Here is the result of an investigation
showing what 100 toads-slaughtered
In the interests of science-had eaten:
angle worms, thousand legged worms,
cutworns, army worms, tent cater
pillars, miscellaneous caterpillars,
snails, SOW bugs. spiders, grasshop-
pers, cricISets, ants. beetles. flies.
The quantity is as startling as the
variety. The amount taken every
twenty-four hours is about four times
the stomach capacity. The toads ex-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Professor Frankforter of University
Of Minnesota Makes Discovery OF
Importance.

st. Paul, Minn-Prof. George b.
Frankforter. dean of the College Of
Chemistry of the Minnesota State uni
versity. has announced the details of
discovery made by him by which, he
declares. through The utilization of
waste wood and sawdust the United
States viii produce one hundred times
more pulp wood than was believed
possible
1T MEANS" he says. chat every
cord of fir lumber Will yield $40 profit
on by-products alone and that the
greater part of the 60 per cent. of a
tree now wasted viii be turned into
dollars and cents"
Professor Frankforter predicts that
huge plants viii pc built as the result
OF his discovery and that the new in
dustry viii assume proportions OF
great magnitude.
c. A. smith. IF the C. A. Smith Tim
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
cbsroino VARIETY Of Seed Wheat.


Many farmers make the mistake Of
sowing year after year variety OF
wheat which yields several bushels
less per acre under their conditions
than some other variety would do un.
der the same conditions, says the
Maryland experiment station. Often
the only reason why particular vari-
ETY. has become popular In certain 10.
calities is because when first intro
duced it gave an extra high yield. due
more to exceptionally good treatment
in a favorable season than high-yield-
ing qualities OF the variety. When a
new variety is introduced in a com
mlnity or on a farm it should always
be grown in the same field and beside
a well-known or standard variety. II
Is difficult to determine the possibil.
lty of any variety when comparing a
field on one end Of the farm with an.
other on the other end. or what is still
worse. comparing one mans field with
that of his neighbor.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
FAIRY TALES Foa CHILDREN
Lady Tenant Argues Little Ones
Need sustenance for Their
Thoughts and Fancies.

Let children have fairy tales"
argos Lady Tenant in the London
Times, on the ground that early child
hood does not need instruction SO
much as shape and sustenance for its
own thoughts and faneies. 1t is
through the old stories and the works
Of great writer's, she thinks, that chill
dren can best be put IN possession OF
the freed ON, which, in the words OF
Jean Paul Richter, makes them eiti-
zens of the divine city of Romance
Reading aloud to children she re-
CARDS as of far-reaching Importance.
There is the instance of a child OF
five years who has been hearing with
absorbing interest the story OF 10
seph and his brethren. Some days
after he was telling his mother story
and with glowing eyes he said: And
dreaming, saw a kings throne, and
the kings servant standing beside the
throne" 1t was not difficult TO trace
the source of the impression that had
lei him to clothe his thoughts In
such language.
let the children have the old books
reid to them. There will come days
when they viii prefer to read an ex-
&c lent modern detective story. or to
buy a magazine. We must remind our
selves that possibly they would be
prigs If they did otherwise; nor
should we, I think. CT any account
check reading CT any kind. But in the
early days when they are still being
read to. when they are so young that
# lies in the mothers choice what
they shall be hearing. then, | say. let
them hear the old books, or, II the
choice fall on books of later date. let
than h the 1rorl.s of great writers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
Mink Farm Fad.

Libby. Mont.-A, r. Gibson OF Libby
Is making arrangements TO start
mink farm, the stock for which he
will purchase from trappers in this
locality. Mr.. Gibson owns ranch a
short distance west of town. a por
ton of which he intends to use in rails.
ing the animals
He has proved by experiments. he
says. that mink may be successfully
propagated In captivity. and as the fur
from the animals has reached quite a
high price with no prospects of ever
going lower. Mr. Gibson figures that
the time is ripe 10 engage in the bu1.-
ness Of raising them.
AS many Of the animals are caught
every year in Lincoln county by trap
pers, catching OF few OF them alive
would not be a difficult proposition.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03

The old, old horse fell slowly in the
street.
No plunging drop. no sudden slip and
fall.
But just a patient sinking, that was all.
An old. old horse-a bony. toil-worn beast
That had no soul. that had no hopeful
dreams,
That knew not when the light of life had
ceased
To lure it on with ever-hckle CLEANS.
common brute-yet one day It had
played
Across the pasture lands with graceful
stride,
Or some proud masters word 1t had
obeyed
While nervous ripples shook its glossy
Too fine a head it had for us to think
That II had always plodded alley ways
And fed on curses with its food and drink
And never heard a word of cheer or
praise.
And even brutal blows and starving years
Had failed to break the curving of it's
neck
Or rob the thoroughbred poise of its
ears
Life had not yet made of 1t all wreck
But how it fell all slowly In the street
And never once attempted more to rise;
Its heart gave up in one last broken.
beat,
Deaths mercy drew the veil upon its
eyes.
Dead in the harness-and the needless
crowd
Went on; the city's noise discordant
rose;
But never more should it hear curses
loud
Or finch BENEATH repeated cutting
blows.
Twas nothing much-a horse died; that
was all:
A worn-out horse, worked down to bone
and skin
Yet sometimes men as well. worn-out.
will fall
With no more living spirit left within.
They. too. fall in the harness; and we
pass
Unheeding through the hurried. crowd
ed ways;
TITS but one less in all the toiling mass
That keeps the world awhirl through
out our days.
And pity is so brief-and comes so late!
There is so much that lures rs on ahead
We have no time to sense the others
fate
Dead in the harness: just another dead.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
FIND ANCIENT RUINS

old one. Possibly the surface of the
mound represents the platform of the
teocalli. The fact that ashes and
bones were found on It is ample proof
that such is the case. The Mexican
teocalli. or temple, was a pyramid of
earth faced with store. and on its
summit stood the sacrifcial stone on
which the victims were killed by hav-
ing their hearts torn from their living
bodies, certain portions of the body
being then made burnt offerings to
the deity to whom the temple was
dedicated The remainder Of the
corpse was then thrown down the
steep sides of the teacalli and left
there