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The Detroit times., 1915-04-09
charlexoIx Omen soon.

CHARLEvoLX, Mich. April g.
Northern Michigan Transportation
company viii open the season April
Is. when a boat will leave Chicago.
covering all northern ports. In the
allotment OF appropriations for
maintenance OF hsrbors snd water.
ways this port receives s2,700.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-09

want 20 buy. sell ~ -xrhango
snythirs7 T,oot IN Everyhodv's COL
umn and see n the very thing you
wish isn't there.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-09

Govcrnment-care OF the survivors
OF the war OF 1912 cost nearly sIs,
000, 900 In pensions.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-09

Printing. the plain neat kisa-shst
IL rfxht-Tfmes Job Depf-Nais 4s1a.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-09
DIPPY DICKY'S DIARY.

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The Detroit times., 1915-04-09

.supvRAeigr 9N9 WADE M SIT DOWN.
aO%e or the CARDINAL Pvosciplss
o. INC ailiTASfrs, - 10 seAr No
AAN. .suu DGoAa.
3 HAO 10 Lt6IGh.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
HE PANHANDLED The COPS
Pennsylvania Man Found Brooklyn Po-
lieemen Easy to Work, and
Worked Them.

Grant Flemming, who says he's
th3rty-fve years old and halls from
Harrisburg. Pa, of good appearance
and with an ingratiating manner, hit
on a new way of making living with
out work. and introduced 1t to Brook
lyn. Most OF his tribe shun police
men, but Grant F'lemming took the
police force into his confidence. At
Fight, when policemen are lonely and
willing to talk to anyone for cor
pany's sake. the Pennsylvania poured
his tale of woe into the ear OF some
sympathetic cop" He told how he
was a member OF prominent family,
and was stranded in a strange city. He
wanted just couple of dollars. or
maybe three dollars, to take him home.
He would return 1t with interest just
as soon as he reached Harrisburg.
Could the policeman let him have It!
And it is said Flemming was success
full: just how successful the records
don't show.
Occasionally the stranger dropped IN
at a police station and told the desk
lieutenant his hard luck story. Usual
" he asked for a "fiver," and 1t is
said that he always got something.
But when F,emnting tackled Patrol
man Macdonald Of the Bedford avenue
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27

a conduit underground. The wire was
intact. He tapped IT, He heard a voice
thanking some one for her part in the
victory. and il seems that the woman's
voice that answered Is yours, Miss Gal.
land. So, General Westerling, the leak
In information was over this wire from
our stan into the Browns headQuar-
ters, as Bouchard believed and as
came to believe"
So long had Marta expected this mo-
ment Of exposure that Il brought no
shock. Her spirit had undergone many
subtle rehearsals for the occasion.
Yes, that is true" she heard herself
saying. a little distantly. but very
quietly and naturally.
Westerliag fell back as from a blow
In the face. His breath came hard at
nrst, like one being strangled. Then
II sank deep in his chest and his eyes
were bloodshot. as bulls In his final
effort against the matador. He raised
quivering, clenehed fist and took a
step nearer her.
But far from flinchtug, Marta seemed
TO be greeting the blow, as II she ad.
mitted his right to strike She was
without any sign of triumph and with
every sigNsof relief. Lying was at an
end. She could be truthful.
DO you recall what said in the re-
ception-room at the hotelg" she asked
The question sent lash into IA hid.
den shamber of his mind. Now the
only thing he could remember of that
interview was the one remark which
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
BIG EATERS HAVE BAD
KIDNEYS AND BACKACHE
Take Glass of Salts at Once II Your
Back ls Hurting or Kidneys and
Bladder Trouble You.

The American men and women must
guard constantly against Kidney trou-
BILE, because we eat too much and all
our food is rich. Our blood is filed
with uric acid which the kidneys
strive to filter out, they weaken from
overwork, become sluggish; the elimi-
native tissues clog and the result La
general decline in health.
Wher your kidneys feel like Jumps
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full Of sediment or you ara
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night; If you suffer
with sick headache or dizzy, nervous
spells, acid stomach, or you have rheu-
matism when the weather is bad, GET
from your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts; take table,
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast for few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid OF grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia.
and has been used for generations to
flush and stimulate clogged Kidneys;
to neutralize the acids In the urine so
it no longer is source of irritation.
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater beverage, and belongs In
every home, because nobody can make
q mistake by having a good kidney
flushing any time.-Adv.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27

return OF her faculties, she noticed
that both her mother and Minna were
looking significantly at her forearm;
so she looked at it, too. 1t was
bandaged.
"a cut from shrapnel fragment"
said doctor. mot Deep" he added
do get an iron CROSSE" she asked.
smiling family. t-yas rather pleasant
to be alive.
"All the crosses-iron and bronze
and silver and gold!" he replied.
All firing except occasional scattered
shots had now ceased in the immedi.
ate vicinity, though in the distance
could be heard the snarl of the firmer
resistance that the Grays were max.
ing at some other point The Galland
house. for the time being. was isolated
lin possession of neither side.
isn't there something else l can dc
to help with the wounded?" Marta
asked. She longed for action in order
to escape her thoughts.
You've had a terrible shock--when
you are stronger" said the doctor.
When you have had something To
eat and drink" observed the practical
Minna authoritatively.
Marta would not have the food
brought to her. She insisted that she
was strong enough to accompany
Miuna to the tower. While Minna
urged mouthfuls down Marta's dry
throat as she sat outside the door OF
the sitting-room with her mother q
number of weary dust-streaked faces
with feverish energy in their eyes
peered over the hedge that bounded
the garden on the side toward the pass
These scout skirmishers Of Stransky'i
men of the SD Regiment of the
Browns made reckoning gestures as
to crowd. before they sprang over
the hedge and ran swiftly, watchfuIly
toward the linden stumps, closely fol
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
HIGH IN DARKToWN's "4oV'
Surely Little Question as to the Social
Status of MIR. Samuel
Brown.

Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas
Is an ardent advocate of river i'm
provements. Apropos of the river
steamers. before the advent of the
railroad, he tells the following anec-
dote:
In "befo' de war" times It was Gus
tomary, among the dusky bellies, to
regard the stoker on a steamer as one
of high social status. At negro ball
one night, on the Mississippi river
bank, certain Sam Brown was in
troduced to dusky belle. Facing her
former partner she turned up her
nose and remarked:
What fur does yer interduce me
ter such low-down trash as Sam
Brown?"
Sam Brown low-down trashl" ex-
claimed the man, rolling the whites Of
his eyes in surprise. why, oman, yer
don't know what yer is talking about
Why, Sam Brown is the biggest man
in Mississippi-he fires de middle fur
mace on de River Queen all by his
self"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
EaEAHAROUN
69sHOUSE.

If your soup is too salty try adding
few slices of raw potatoes and cook
little longer. The potatoes will alb
sorh the surplus salt.
Before stufhng chicken rub it In
side and out with bacon drippings.
Sausage instead of stuffing In a chick.
en- is an agreeable thing.
A generous piece of newspaper
crumpled into ridges acts as an eff.
cient drain to all croquettes, fritters.
doughnuts and bacon.
Rubber bands are inexpensive and
are of great use in preparing lunches
to fasten the waxed paper around
sandwiches, cakes, fruits, etc.
When running dates or figs through
the meat chopper add few drops OF
lemon juice to prevent the fruit from
clogging the chopper.
Kitchen scissors for cutting rAisins
and figs, lettuce, parsley. and so on,
are exceedingly handy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
FOR cOLORED SALADS
DISHES THAT ADD ATTRACTION
TO TABLE.
Possible to Make Them n Almost
Any Color Desired-oranee Salad
One of the Particular
Favorites.

YeIIow.-To Lake a yellow salad at
this time OF year use the yeIlower
heart leaves of lettuce. On them put
diced orange pulp. dressed with
French dressing. and sprinkled with
chopped walnut meats. Or else scoop
out the centers of small yellow
skinned apples and fill them with a
mixture of orange and apple, dressed
with mayonnaise made with lemon
juice for thinning and fiavoring Of
mustard
Green.-On green but tender leaves
of lettuce, put little mound of spin
ach which has been boiled and
pressed through a sieve and mixed
with French dressing. In the center
of each mound, concealed by the spin
ach, put spoonful of chopped hard
boiled egg.
Green and White.-Peel and boil
tiny white turnips of equal size and
hollow out the center Of each. Fill
with cold boiled peas and mayonnaise
and put on green lettuce leaves.
White.-Celery, potato, chicken
white meat only-whltefish. blanched
asparagus-any or two of these may
be used for white salad. Dress with
French dressing or with a white may
onnaise, to which the beaten white
of an egg has been added and which
has been thinned with vinegar.
Red.-Scoop out the insides of to-
matoes. Save the slice removed from
the top for cover and replace it on
the tomato after filling it with a mix
ture of celery and nut meats, mixed
with mayonnaise. Place each tomato
on white leaf of lettuce.
Pink.-Strain tomato Juice and mix
1t with equal quantity Of white stock
veal or chicken. Thicker sufficiently
with gelatin and harden in molds.
Serve on white lettuce leaves, with
mayonnaise that has been colored
with a little cranberry juice.
Orange Salad.-Make mayonnaise
with much egg yolk in proportion to
other ingredients, and thin with
cider vinegar. Dice tender carrots and
arrange on lettuce leaves, dressing
with orange mayonnaise.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
CHAPTER XXI.
The Retreat.


Marta remained where Wegterling
had left her, rooted to the ground by
the monstrous spell of the developing
panorama of seemingly limitless move
ment. With each passing minute there
must be a hundred acts of heroism
which, IL isolated in tthe glare of a
days news. would make the public
thrill. At the outset of the war she
had seen the Browns, as part of pre-
conceived plan, In cohesive rear-guard
resistance. with every detail Of per-
sonal bravery a utilized factor of or
gauized purpose. Now she saw de-
Tense, inchoate and fragmentary, each
part acting for itself, all deeds Of per-
sonal bravery lost in a swirl OF disor-
ganization. That was the pity of 1t.
the helplessness OF engineers and of
levers when the machine was broken;
the warning of II to those who under
take war lightly.
The Browns rife flashes kept on
steadily weaving their way down the
slopes, their reserves pressing close on
the heels of the skirmishers In greedy
swarms. A heavy column of Brown In
fantry was swinging in toward the
neurological. writhing gray caterpil-
lar on the pass road and many field
batteries were trotting along parallel
road Their plan developed suddenly
when q swath of gun-fire was laid
| across the pass road at the mouth of
the defile, as much as to say: Here
we make gate of death!" At the
same time the head of the Brown in
fantry column flashed it's bayonets over
the crest of hill toward the point
where the shells were bursting. These
men minded not the desperate. seat.
! tered rifle-tire into their ranks. Before
their eyes was the prize of a panic
/ that grew with their approach. Kinks
were out of legs stiffened by long
/ watches. The hot breath of pu suit
/ was in their nostrils. the fever OF We
/ tory in their blood.
/ In the deflle, the impulse OF one Gray
straggler, who shook a handkerchief
aloft in fatalistic submission to the in
/ evitable, became the impulse OF all.
1 Soon thousand white signals of sur
/ A&AANNA NCAC NiNSH0hAttAEt AS lhG AAAA .
abruptly ceased, Marta heard the faint
/ roar of the mighty huzzas of the hunt
| ers over the size of their bag.
/ Some doctors OF different regiments
thrown together In the havoc Of rem
uants OF many organizations, with the
help of hospital-eorps men. were try.
/ ing to extricate the wounded from
among the dead They heard wom-
ans voice and saw woman's face.
They did not wonder at her presence,
for there was nothing left in the world
for them to wonder at Had an imp
from hell or an angel from heaven ap-
/ peared. or shower of diamonds fallen
from the sky. they would not have
been surprised. Their duty was clear;
thore was work of their kind TO do
endless work. Units of the broken ma
chine, In the instinct of their calling
they struggled with the duty nearest
At hand. They begged her to go back
to the house; this was no place for
her.
But Marta did not want safety, Dan
ger was sweet; it was expiation. She
was helping, actually helping; that
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Baked AppIes.

Select large tart apples. Wash and
wipe dry. Remove the centers with
an apple corer. Arrange them in a
pan, with a very little water, filling
the centers with sugar. Dip the strip
over them two or three times while
baking. Serve warm with cream.
These may be made more delicate by
parting the apples and baking in an
earthen pudding dish, filling the cen
ters with sugar. chopped raisins and
nuts. a piece of butter and little
lemon juice.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Meatless Mlncs pie.

Half cup Of molasses, two-thirds
cupful of water. two-thirds of cupful
of vinegar, one cupful of sugar, one
cupful of breadcrumbs, one cupfuI of
chopped raisins, one cupful of minced
apples, one tablespoonful of cloves.
one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one
nutmeg grated, and add piece of but
ter the size of hens egg. Mix ell
the ingredients and heat the mixture
thoroughly without really allowing it
to cook, stirring it often. While hot,
fill into the pie pans. baking it with
two crusts.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Maearoni soufHe.

Into one cupful of cream sauce sea-
soned with salt. pepper, minced pars-
ley and onion juice stir one cupful
of chopped boiled macaroni. Wien
hot add beaten yolks of two eggs, cook
one, minute and set away to cool.
When cold stir in stiffiy beaten whites
of eggs: cover with grated cheese or
crumbs and bake in a buttered dish
20 minutes. Serve with mushroom
sauce.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27


I hitherto he had never included in his
recollection Of IT,
You said l could not win" He drew
out the words painfully.
when you said that you brought on
this war to crafty your ambition, i
chose to be one of the weapons Of
war; fought for civilization. for my
home, with the only means had
against the wickedness of victory OF
conquest-tne precedent of 1t in this
age-a victory which should glorify
sucn trickery as you practised on your
people"
81 should like to shoot you dead!"
cried Bellini.
"And you let me make love 70 youi"
Westerling said in a dazed. cropping
monotone to Marta
Such a wreck was he Of his former
self that she found it amazing that she
could not pity him. Yet she might
have pitied him had he plunged into
the fight; had he tried to rally one Of
the broken regiments; had he been
able 70 forget himself.
Rather. you made love TO yourself
through me-" she answered, not harsh
ly, not even emphatically. but merely
as a statement of passionless fact III
you dared to endure what you ordered
others to endure for the sake of your
ambition; If"
She was interrupted by sharp zip
in the air. Westerling lodged and
looked about wildly.
what is that" he asked WHAT"
Five or six zips followed like
charge Of wasps flying at speed that
made them invisible. Marta felt a
brush OF air past her cheek and Wes-
terling went challxy white. 1t was the
first time he had been under fire. But
these bullets we're only strays. No
more came.
"Come, general. let US be soing!"
urged the aide. touching his chief on
the arm.
Eyes. yesl" said westerling hur-
riedly
Francois, who had picked up the coat
that had fallen from Westerling's
shoulders with his start at the buzzing,
held it while h:3 master thrust his
hands through the sleeves.
"And this is WISER" said the aide.
unfastening the detachable insignia of
rank from the shoulders os>the great
coat. Its wiser. too, that we walk.
he added.
walk? But my carl" exclaimed
Westerling petulantly.
I'm afraid that the car could not
get through the press in the town"
was the reply. walking is safer"
The absence in him Of that quality
which is the soldiers real glory, the
picture of this deserted leader, this
god of a machine who had been
crushed by his machine, his very lack
Of stoicism or courage-all this sud
denly appealed to Marta's quick sym
pathies. They had once drunk tea to-
gether.
"Oh, It was not personal! did not
think OF myself as person or Of you
as one-only OF principles and of thou
sands OF others-.o end the killing-to
save our country to its people! oh.
I'm sorry and, personally, I'm horrible
--horriblel" she called after him in a
broken. quAvering gust of words which
he heard confusedly in tragic mockery.
He made no answer; he did not even
look around. Head bowed and hardly
seeing the path, he permitted the aide
to choose the way, which lay across
the boundary Of the Galland estate.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
'CASCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 1o-cent box now.

No odds how bad your liver. stomach
o. bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach. liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS. sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress:
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 1O-cent box means health, happi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
II you viii take Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little In
sides need cleansing, too. Adv.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Mineral Nav Be Of Much Value.

Virginia produced all the American
output of rutile produced in 1918. A
large part of the rutile produced in
1918 was used in the manufacture OF
titanium carbide electrodes for arc
lamps. part OF the ilmenite found
in the deposits and separated by
means OF a magnetic separator has
Leen sold for use in making electrodes
for electric lights. and the expert
ments with the electric furnace point
TO the possible use of ilmenite in the
direct production OF tool steel
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27

was enough. she envied the peaceruI
dead-they had no Nightmares she
aided the doctors in separating the
bodies that were still breathing from
those that were not; and she steeled
herself against every CHASTITY sight
save one, that Of man lying with his
legs pinned under wagon body. His
Jaw had been shot away. Slowly he
was bleeding to death, but he did not
realize 1t. He realized nothing In his
delirium except the nature Of his
wound. He was dipping his finger in
the cavity and, dab by dab, writing
XIII mel" on the wagon body. It sent
Keeling waves of red before her eyes.
Then shell burst near her and doc
tor cried out:
She's hiti"
But Marta did not hear him. She
heard only the dreadful crack of the
splitting shrapnel jacket. She had a
sense OF falling, and that was all.
The next that she knew she was In
long chair on the veranda and the
vague shadows bending over her grad
ualiy identified themselves as her
mother and Minna
Il remember when you were telling
Of the last war that you didn't ewoon
at the sight of the wounded, mother"
Marta whispered.
But l was not wounded" replied
Mrs. Galland.
Marta ceased to be only Conscious
ness swimming in haze. With the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Cow Secretly Adopts Eawn.

Following a Jersey COW which had
developed habit of disappearing
every morning and coming home in
the evening without her usual supply
of milk, James Wilson discovered that
the cow is raising a motherless fawn.
Wilson followed the COW to the
outer edge OF his farm. He was sur
prised to see pretty fawn come from
among the underbrush and start to
nurse at the cows side. The COW
seems we'll pleased with her charge
and the fawn shows affection for fits
foster Notwithstanding (Pa) Dis
patch TO New York American.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Eel. He Had Il Coming.

why are you so crazy to take mud
baths? There's nothing the matter
with you"
tits this way, doctor. was brought
up in a lace collar and Fauntleroy
suit. And always vowed that would
get my share Of playing in the mud
some day."-Louisville Courier-J ournal-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
a Millionaire sneer.

uncle Joe" Cannon was talking the
other day about education
Every millionaire today" he said.
wants to give his son college edu-
cation. remember the time when
our millionaires sneered at education
AS one of them once said to me, voic-
ing the general opinion:
"'These here fellers with mint OF
knowledge can never coin 1t into good
hard cash."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Fish Turbot,

Here is nice recipe called fish
turbot: Steam a white fish until ten
der, take out bones and sprinkle with
pepper and salt. For dressing heat
one pint of milk and thicken with
quarter pound Of flour. When cool
add two eggs, quarter pound butter
and season with onion and parsley;
put in baking dish layer of fish, then
a layer of sauce until full. Cover with
crumbs and bake half hour.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Coffee Frame.

Put two ounces Of finely pounded
fresh roasted coffee into pint OF milk
with six ounces of loaf sugar; let it
boil. then leave 1t to get cold; strain it
on the yolks Of six eggs in double
boiler and stir on the 6 re till the
custard thickens; when quite cold
work ir.o II gill and a half Of
whipped cream; freeze the mixture;
then fill the mold ana keep on ice
until the time Of serving.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27

precinct he made a mistake, and the
nice. pleasant-looking person was ar
rested on the charge of vagrancy. In
the Manhattan avenue court he was
sent to the workhouse for three
months.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
cutting Down the Laughing STUFF.

YEAST see new step-ladder that
has six legs and cannot be upset. and
clamps to prevent COW kicking or
switching her tail while being MIXED.
have been patented.
Crimsonbeak II they keep on
thereu be nothing left for a fellow to
laugh at.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27

Art ls Long and Humor Misplaced.
Somebody stole ten Of my paintings
from my studio last night"
Whom do you suspect OF the joker"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-27
Retort Courteous,

He-Men are what they eat
She-Then you ought to live on
calls brains.