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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06
Noxious Weed Blanks

The CENSOR has printed and has for
sale the Latest form of noxious weed
blanks, together with combined notice
to land owner, fling back and synopsi s
Of the law on the subject. Mail orders
promptly filled. Send in your orders
from different towns and villages.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06
Large Grain Display.

The agricultural and horticultural
departments will forbid comparison
with former years, as new plans are
on larger scale ana are designed to
interest many more important ex-
hibitors. Wisconsin's rank as a pro-
Queer of wheat, oats, barley, rye.
grasses and vegetables will be abr
demonstrated H e. Kruger, Beav-
er Dam, is in charge Mr.. Kruger. is
an expert in the production OF nure
grains. and his barley has won the IN
ternational championship successfully
for several years. d. w Larkin.
Sturgeon Bay, is in charge of the
horticultural show, which promises
as g. eat Improvement this year as
any feature of the fair. Many floral
societies in Milwaukee and other
cities of the state are arranging for
displays this year. The building viii
be filled
The machinery exhibit will tax all
Accommodations. Many new exhibitors
and others who have not made dis
plays for years already have applied
for space. Notable is the Information
al Harvester company, which returns
after three years absence and calls
for 200 front feet Of space. Nearly
all the space in machinery row was
assigned early in the summer. The
space in automobile and machinery
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06

Silbaugh Friday Born to Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Ferguson August 3, an 81
pound girl =. There will be ar t.e cream
lawn social at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mervin Rusk Saturday evening, August
8. All are invited. VIOLET.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06

The fastest horses of the biggest
race circuits viii compete for the
$24, 700 in purses at the state fair, Mil
waukee. September to H.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06
MANY EXP6SITIOKS
At THE STATE FAIR
DISPLAYS IN VARIOUS DEPART
MENTs sURPAss couNTRY's
LARGE SPECIAL SHOWS.
GARY SHOW WORLDS BEST

Premiums Are Increased and Super.
intendents Arrange for Larger and
Higher Standards Of Exhibitions.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06

Thinking of buying an automobile7
Look over the magnificent display at
the state fair, Milwaukee, September
8 to u.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06

Twenty-Five tons of butter and
cheese, from the worlds best cream.
cries and cheese factories will be on
exhibition at the state fair, Milwau.
kee, September to IL.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06

Let machinery do it, What? The
hard work on the farm. Select your
machinery after you have inspected
the worlds greatest display at the
state fair, Milwaukee, September to
10.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06

State Fair park will be an evening
wonderland September to 10. All
departments will be open at night and
there will be many free attractions
and plenty of music Admission Is
cents after o'clock each afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
EVENING CHIT
The Wonderful Thing Called s,eep
BY RUTA cAx1ERON,

''Oh dear. how 1 wish we didn't have to
spend SO much time in Sleep" said a
strenuous woman to me the other day. IF
only we didn't have to go to bed at all.
what lot more we could accomplish and
how splendid it would be"
fore, perhaps expressed it yourself. If SO,
you Will probably be ready to put me
down as lazy or queer when confess that
it is a truly terrible thought to me.
Like almost every mortal in this over
crowded day and generation, L have often
than had time to live, and have often
wished that the days might be longer,
but 1 certainly would not wish them
longer at the expense Of doing away with
night and sleep.
To regard the wonderful peace of night
as merely negative day, and that mar
nate waste of time, is truly typical of the
impatient utilitarianism of today.
All life is alienation. Everywhere in
the world we find twin forces combining
to make the perfect whole Ebb and
flow, day and night, seed-time and har-
vest positive and negative, labor and
systole and diastole that keep the heart
of the world beating.
To cut these twin forces in two. to
want to isolate one from the other, is to
go contrary to the eternal law of life, to
strike a discordant note in the harmony
of the spheres.
And sleep is such a wonderful thing,
too! Stop and think a moment. Is there
any greater comforter, any more wonder
fears and anxieties that beset US, than
sleep! We go to bed aching in every limb.
We lose ourselves; We find ourselves
again, and 10, sleep has dissolved all the
pain and WEAKNESS away and left only
delicious languor. We lie DOWN to sleep
nervous and anxious. We sure that
we can never overcome some great Oh
tacle which looms in our pathway. We are
pessimistically positive that re cannot
escape some threatening misfortune. We
sleep; we wake. And 10, sleep has shrIInk
the obstacle to pigmy size, and the prob
able misfortune has become a vague and
distant possibility.
Every day is a fresh beginning, every
morn is the world made new" says the
poet. Don't you think it would be terrible
if it were otherwise; If we went on and on
with never a break?
l do.
And SO, when you grudge the time to
night and sleep, remember that without
these things the miracle of morning would
not be possible. And instead of wishing
that night did not interrupt your all-im-
portant activities, remember sometimes to
thank God that it exists, and 1t gives you
a chance to take heart with the day and
begin again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
TWO ASPECTS OF NATURE.

| However fine and dainty a flower
may look, it is pressed to do a great
service and it's colors and forms are all
suited to its work, writes Rabindra-
nath Tagore in the July Atlantic. 1t
must bring forth the fruit, or the con-
tinuity of plant life will be broken and
| the earth will be turned into a desert
ere long. The color and the smell of
| the flower are all for some purpose,
! therefore no sooner is it fertiliZed by
| the bee, no sooner does the time of its
fruition arrive. than it sheds it's ex-
| quisite petals and a cruel economy
! compels it to give up its sweet per-
fume. 1t has no time to fiaunt it's
f1nery, for 1t is busy beyond measure
Viewed from without, necessity seems
to be the only factor in Nature, for
which everything works and moves.
There the bud develops into the flower
the flower into the fruit, the fruit into
the seed. the seed into a new plant
again, and so forth, the chain of activ-
ity running on unbroken. Should there
crop up any disturbance or impediment
no excuse would be accepted and the
unfortunate thing so choked in its
movement would at once be labelled as
rejected, and be bound to die and dis
appear post-haste.
In the great Office Of nature. there
are innumerable departments with end
less work going on. and the fine flower
that you behold there, gaudily attired
and scented like a dandy, is by no
means what it appears to be, but rather
is like a laborer toiling in the sun and
shower, who has to submit a clear ac-
count of his work and has no breath
ing space to enjoy himself in a playful
frolic-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Marrying for money may not be so bad
If one gets it.
Probably a good many honest people
don't agree with you
Our notion of hardship is to have to
quit political job and go to work.
No man can manipulate a screen door
to the entire satisfaction of his wife.
Then there are great men you never
heard of except as the name for a cigar.
Even If a man has nothing else to do,
jury service cuts into his loafing awfully.
Don't you hate the man who means all
right, but is constantly "balling everything
up?"
A June bride really feels that the month
of roses should contain more national
holidays.
There are several definitions for taste,
but it isn't what makes beer sell better
than lemonade.
traveller remarks that there are sleep
ing cars which don't measure up to their
statewide names.
When man gets old enough to need
a woman to take care of him, few women
want TO tackle the job.
Il am most imperfect, rs I can tell by
the easy manner in which my wife finds
fault with me."-Rufe H osk.ns
Jude Johnson was overcome by the heat
this afternoon. At least he went home
and said kind word to his wife.
There are a good many night riders
not located IN Kentucky, take it from a
gent working on the night shift.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
rFron the Pbiladelnbis Reco-5

tFrom the Philadelphia Record
To him that hath it shall be given
Trouble.
An ounce of prevention is a good anti
dote for remorse.
Many mans will is broken long be-
fore he has made one.
Some people are thrown in the shade
and others stand in their own light
No Maude, dear; when we speak of the
higher life we don't necessarily mean
aviation.
Sillicus-'1 really don't know what to
do with my leisure" Cynicus-'rWhy
don't you marry in haste?''
The man who complains of his wife's
biscuits is often the one who doesn't pro-
vide the dough.
Wigg-"Y Dung B1ones leads an airnless
existence" Wagg-''Yes that fellow
could fire at random without hitting it,
1t is said that liquor improves with age
That may account for the fact that the
older some men get, the better they like It
Blobbs-'"The average business man has
no use for dead one" Slobbs-"Then I
suppose you wouldn't call the undertaken
an average business man.
Blessings often come disguised" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes. and when they do
the disguise is so perfect we don't recog-
nize them" added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Let none boast an untrammeled
mind. Strictly speaking, there is no
such thing. Most OF us think of what
we are forced to think and of nothing
forces that we have never been able
to overcome, and the chances are that
we never will be able to do so. The
most that we can accomplish is a
modification of their influences. Yet
we seem to be able to attain a measure
of moral freedom and we say of min DIS
that have done this that they are free.
While an absolutely untrammel
mind is neither possible nor beyond
reasonable doubt even DESTROYS, the
comparatively free mind is the only
real manifestation of liberty and the
choicest gift of the gods. Most of US
are slaves to old habits of thought
habits that were formed for US rather
than by us. In some respects this is
a good thing, in that it keeps us more
or less in line with the general pur-
pose of the race and practically forces
us to adapt ourselves to teamwork,
without which racial progress would
cease.
Yet he who knows the virtues of
cooperation from reason rather than
instinct and who has evolved to that
point where he may break away from
habits fixed by heredity and environ
mcnt is blessed among men.
1t is his happy privilege to pick and
choose his friends. He may be boon
companion to bishop and buffoon, to
bartender and highbrow, to butcher,
baker and candlestick maker, and the
worthy half of the haut monde. Thus
he becomes as a god, finding whatso-
ever is good in men, regardless of arti-
fetal distinction, and the liberty to
enjoy it.
He is not afraid of what his neigh
Dor thinks and the charge that he is
raving, staving crazy upon any given
proposition doesn't cause him a mo-
ment's worry. He knows it for the
verdict of the trotter and pays no more
attention to it than to the chatter
of a poll-parrot, which it in some i'm
pOrtant aspects closely resembles.
He chooses the foods and fads that
suit him. He isn't afraid to look gar
con in the itching palm and tell him
that he wants soup for breakfast. If
he feels like swimming in January or
pointed season he COMFORTS himself
as becomes a charter member of the
ct Should Worry club and gets by
with it Good folk cultivate him for
what they call his delightful idiosyn-
crasies, and if he is peculiarly unfor-
tunate he becomes a vogue.
Being a rare bird, he relieves the
monotony of life, adds a little gayety
of the unthinking and jabs the occa-
sional thinkers into the state of ac-
celebrated circulation which begets
cranial disturbances and new ideas. All
the while he is by comparison, his
own master and finds the world a
good browsing place.
He has put the fear of men aside,
knowing that most men do not think
and that the unthinking are not dan
gerous. He is more or less given to
exercise his own sweet will, because it
has not been paralyzed by fear, and
his neighbors can't think fast enough
to keep up with him.-(Copyright
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dictate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04

have destroyed an article of food that
can never be replaced"
Kill anything else and there is a
substitute The potato is akin to the
cereal; cabbage and turnip and cauli-
flower are of the same family; beans
are elongated peas; the lemon is a
pessimistic orange; watermelon the
survivor of the cucumber, and so on.
But the onion is alone, unique, tri-
umphant. 1t is a special creation to
tempt the palate of a weary world.
Man in his wisdom might have guess
ed everything else under the sun, but
he never would have guessed an
onion.
Science may deduce a new star be-
fore it becomes visible, or something
more marvellous than raGium, but the
onion would have gone uninvented
forever had not its own insinuating,
yet not bashfu1, quality forced itself
into tear brimmed eyes and upon
anticipatory Hp.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04

No matter how great the need of har-
vest hands, says the Sedgwick Panta-
graph you can always rustic enough
men for game # horseshoes.
Naturally, remarks the Frankfort m
dex a fresh air fan prefers the sum-
mer, when he can count on the moral
support of the entire populace.
The rule is, insists the Frankfort In
dex, that when a Young Things man
ners are up to the standard of her
looks, she isn't very good looking.
An opinion from Editor Brady of the
Lawrence Journal-WOrld: 1t is no new
thing for a woman to be judge. Ev-
cry woman sits in continual judgment
upon her husband.
The joke is now on the auto owner
who believed he had lost the keys
to his office, safe, desk, garage and a
dozen other things, says the Concor-
dia Blade. He had made several trips
over the Rice road hunting for them,
had advertised for them, instructed
eyes wide open and this morning To-
Gated the keys in the auto seat where
they had dropped and remained since
Sunday night.
Nay, nay, gentle reader, Dave Leahy
is not working in the newspaper bust
ness in Indiana, as the following from
the pen of a Gary newspaper man
might lead some people to believe:
"F1ref1ieS in the Etna marshes east of
Gary are in such profusion that mo-
tormen on the South Shore interur-
ban line have delayed night schedules
caused by unnecessary stops at wayside
crossings. The trainmen mistake the
glimmer of the lightning bugs for
signals from would-be passengers
Some of the trainmen assert that the
intelligent firefiies have learned the art
of tagging a train and that they pur-
posely gather in swarms every time
they see a headlight in sight,
An Atchison bachelor, says the Atch-
ison Globe, wants to know why in the
name of Sam Hill a married man does
not pick up and read the newspapers
that are thrown on the porch during
his wife's absence from town? A
North Atchison man whose wife and
children have been away for six weeks
can open the front screen door barely
far enough to permit of his going in
Or out on account of the accumulation
of newspapers. The bachelor wants
to know whether summer wfdower"
does not care to keep up with the
worlds doings when his wife is away
or If he simply desires to have the
home look uncared for and neglected
as an added and silent reproach to his
wife upon her return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Some papers seem to think that the
Lamar person whose testimony threw
cr1mp into the congressional investi-
cation com mittee, is coming through
in spirit of braggadocio. But there
is suspicion that he is taking ad-
vantage of chance to get free adver-
Using for his wares
Once more a circus is going to try
Topeka. For several seasons, the cir
cuses have avoided our village, except
as place to stop and water the
animals. "a
Forty thousand is now considered
cheap for seat in the stock exchange,
although one may get a reserved seat
at the circus for so cents and witness
about the same kind of a show.
WHY POLICE COURT FINES ARE
HEAVYi
Local news item announces that
Judge Huron shaves with a razor 65
years old.
The local roughnecks who paid a
negro by killing him, may think they
invented something, but they did not.
That system has been popular in parts
OF the Sunny South for many years.
Women auto drivers have killed two
pedestrians during this week. How
long will it take pedestrians to learn
that safety lies in elm bling tree when
the woman auto driver approaches?
The denatured Fourth may not be
SO profitable for the doctors, but it
gives them a chance to get away from
their offices without so much danger
of missing a call.
A Summer in Sunny Kansas is
enough to make anyone try to like
buttermilk or any other soft, squashy
drink.
But you may say this for the Phila-
delphia dame who is suing Governor
Sulzer of New York because he forgot
to marry her six years ago: she didn't
bring suit on the spur of the moment
and took plenty of time to think it
over.
If the government can realize $45,-
600 on Jack Johnsing in Paris, why
bring him back? We don't owe Paris
any particular courtesy. 1t is a bar
gain that should be taken gladly.
Some of us, who have no suburban
lots to sell, and feel that we shall be
able to exist for several seasons with
out visiting Cages park, have taken
very little interest in the street car
controversy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
FROM OTHER PENS

FEATURE OF CURRENCY PLAN.
One feature of the new currency bill
which will meet the approval of the
general public although it may not so
we'll suit some of the bankers and
stock spectators, is the open proposal
to check the concentration of bank
funds at New York, where they are
loaned for purely speculative purposes.
This is one Of the recognized and vital
defects of the present system of bank
ing. Naturally and inevitably under
the present system the idle and excess
funds of all the banks of the country
are drawn to New York, and not al
ways is 1T easy to get these funds re-
turned promptly when they are press
fngly needed. An instance of this kind
occurred during the 1907 panic, and
at that time the public had a good
illustration of the evils of concentrat-
ing the banking reserve funds for the
use of the Wall street spectators.
Under the new system proposed II is
provided that instead of this concen-
tration of banking funds at the big
speculative center, they will be dis
tributed among the federal reserve
banks, kept under control of the pro-
posed governing board that will prac-
tically be dominated by the govern
ment, and shifted from one reserve
district to another should such neces-
sity arise. Thus an ample supply of
ready currency would be available at
particular section of the country, and
at no time could one section or dis
trict of the country put a strain on the
general financial situation which would
not be readily and easily met by the
joint financial strength of the nation as
a whole.
Not only this, but the dangers and
hazards of excessive speculation would
themselves be materially reduced. as
this branch of financial operations
would have to stand on its own feet,
instead of being encouraged and fos-
tered by artificial means, through the
concentration of banking reserves and
the consequent facilities for manipu-
lating and promoting purely specula-
tive deals. This will no longer be pos
sible when the bulk of the banking
funds is kept distributed and under
control of authorities not interested
in the promotion of the Wall street
game. And because this is so the peo-
pie will readily approve this particular
feature of the new currency plan
Oshkosh Northwestern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.]


He may love best whose love lasts.
People who wear new garments should
mt throw mud.
There's more or less grating done IN
der the name of reform.
Many a fluent taIker would make a
bigger hit by keeping still.
You can't convince a brunette that dark
hair isn't good as gold.
A man may value his reputation so high
ly that it is impossible to find a buyer
It isn't always safe to Judge a mans
object by what he is apparently striving
for.
Even the man who occasionally admits
to himself that he is a coward will resent
an inSinuation fromanother.
When a fool married man needs to be
chaperoned by his wife every time he
travels he ought to stay at home.
IF It wasn't for carfare and luncheon, %
says bachelor. "a woman wouldn't have
any need of money when she goes shop
ping" But every married man knows
better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
THE vIRGINIANs OF THE VALLEY.


The knightliest of the knightly race
That, since the days of old,
Have kept the lamp of chivalry
AHght in hearts of gold;
The kindhest of the kindly band
That, rarely hating ease,
Yet rode with Spotswood round the land
And Raleigh round the seas;
Who climbed the blue Virginia hills
Against embattled foes,
And planted there in valley fair,
The lily and the rose;
Whose fragrance lives in many lands,
Whose beauty stars the earth,
And lights the hearths of happy homes
With loneliness and worth.
We thought they slept!-the sons who kept
The names of noble sireS,
And slumbered while the darkness crept
Around their vigil fires;
But aye the Golden Horseshoe knights
Their Old Dominion keep
Whose foes have found enchanted ground,
But not knight asleep.
Francis Orrery Ticknor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

All of the bonehead plays are not
confined to the baseball arena.
j. i =
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who called it a "wallet?"
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Strike a man for money and you're
sure to hit him in a tender spot.
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Those who are sensitive about their
age are likely to be foolish in other
respects.
+ = T.
This is also the season of the year
when many people should take a
much-needed rest preparatory to 60
ing on their vacation.