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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
No, Cause of Cancer.

Explaining why such substances as
SCOT. arsenic. tobacco. petroleum and
some aniline dyes produce cancer, DR..
II. c. Ross Of the Lister institute, Lon
don. writes to Nature that the terms,
Industrial cancer smokers cancer.
arsenic cancer. etc. namely the dts
eases caused by the commodities men,
toned. refer in reality only to a pre-
disposition to the disease. The com.
modities themselves do not actually
cause cancer. they merely render the
tissues prone to 1t, which seems to
occur in a specific manner. The com.
modities always In the first instance
produce disqualification usually in
the nature OF a wartv growth. and 1t
IS not until an open ulcer has ap.
peared. generally at he base OF the
wart. that malignancy supervenes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
WHY He WAS IN THE WAY
Presence of Chaplain Prevented Driv-
ers Talking TO Their Horses
as They Wished.

The weather had been very wet for
weeks, and the roads, Somewhere
across the Channel" were in a very
bad state.
Consequently. It was not surprising
that wagon in a certain British sup
ply column suddenly dived into a
hole full of mud, and refused to bulge.
At the critical moment up came an
army chaplain, who at once proffered
his services.
Men," he said. Il see you're in diff
culties. Can be Of any help?"
Yes. sir" answered a burly SER
geant, bluntly, as be mopped his brow.
you can give US the greatest help
by making yourself scarce"
Making myself scarce!" gasped the
chaplain. Why, how"
yes, sir" broke in the sergeant;
you see, we can't very well say to the
horses what they'd understand, while
you are about"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
The War Shirt.

A fat "colored nanny" of the ''old
school" was hauled into court for
throwing her washing board at her
neighbor's husband. Georgia Crack
er" of the poor white trash" va
riety.
did you strike this man with a
washboard?" Judge Broyles asked.
81 spec did, 20 honah."
what was the provocation?"
"We wuz discussin wah. jedge.'
"Well-go on"
I'VE wuz talkin' bout dem Ger.
mings. an Johns Bulls and dem
Frenchmens, and he done said / was
nutral. 20 honah. amt gwine ter let
no low-down white trash call me dat. "
Case and Comm ant.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

Mrs. C. II. Vandercook of Philadel.
phia. eastern golf champion. now
holds the national golf crown for
women by defeating Mrs. w. A. Garyiu
of England. to 2.
The Oregon public service commits.
sion has rule0 that women should not
be compelled to step higher than is
inches in boarding trolley cars
Mrs. E. Il. Hartman mas ordered
the discrimination of the change be.
ing made of the Omaha shops of the
Union Pacific railroad into 4 we..vsu.
milton factory.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

The following telegram was sent
from HaIlsberg. and was intended for
publication in the press: THE sew
enth Russian invalid transportation
train. charmed by the ardent. truly hu-
name reception given to it by the CHI
Various Swedish nation, hereby con-
veys its deep and heartfelt thanks -
all Swedes for their great kindness,
which mcved all invalids TO tears. In
the name OF the Seventh Russian in
valid train.--Volunteer Petrof."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

Only one university in Japan II open
10 women
Dayton, Ohio, has a woman as Off
cial chiropodist for the policemen.
Women compose 70 per cent of all
those employed in the factories.
Mrs. Russell Sage celebrated her
eighty-seventh birthday recently by
giving 100000 to institutions.
The Bulgarian wife never goes into
a public place unless she is accompa-
sied by her husband.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
NORWAY.

The fox farm of Gotfred Fuglestad
Of Hommersaal has become an impor-
tant industry. Between sixty and sew
enty animals are kept in different COM
partments according to their species.
Most of them were born last spring.
Almost one-half of the number were
born of animals imported from Ice
land. So far the chief aim Of Mr.. Fugle-
stad has been to raise animals for
breeding PURPOSES. Whenever he kills
one he sells the skin in London. The
price for a blue fox runs all the way
from s25 to SIS. The animals require
next to no care Everything moves
like clockwork. and the foxes behave
pretty much like other domestic ami
mails. They eat fish, meat scraps, po-
tatoes, in short, everything that re-
mains after an ordinary meal. From
what has been said it is evident that
it pays to raise foxes Of the expensive
kinds.
Nikolai Spjelkavik, a Trondhiem
| blacksmith, who has enjoyed limited
education, has invented a number of
useful contrivances. and short while
ago he demonstrated that he had APP
piled a new principle in the making of
hand bombs. The location Of the grav-
ity and the distribution of the explo-
sives is exerted to the sides only. and
not in the direction from which the
/ missile came
A number of the most prominent
business men of the country have
elected a committee to take under con-
sideration the question of putting an
embargo on the expectation Of sailed
herring in order to keep the price
down on the home market
The sexton Norwegian bark Actie
has burned at sea. Dispatches received
rom London state that the crew was
saved.
The city OF Christlansand Is going
to float loan of 100000 for transmit
ting electric rower from the mainland,
building a new schoolhouse, and grad
| ing new streets.
As early as the second Of September
there was heavy snowfall in upper
| Osterdalen. Some new-mown hay was
covered with a twelveinch layer of
snow. There are very few grouse this
year, a covey generally consisting of
only two or three birds.
Archeologists are much interested
In some inscriptions found on a stone
slab at Kongshavn. They represent
two deer or moose and some other ami
mails. They are said to date from the
later stone age. that is, they are
about four thousand years old.
The national food supply commits
sion has collected statistics which go
to prove that the amount of -four con-
sumed during the war year, or to be
more exact from August l. 1914, to
| July 81. 1915, was 10000 tons less
than for the previous year. The saw
ing was mainly on barley and oats,
/ the decrease for these being $4,000
tons. 1t is admitted that these figures
are only approximately correct.
The Norwegian steamer Elizabeth
( burned and sank of lie Heye. The
crew was rescued
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
Reminded.

when the autumnal frosts touch
the foliage with tints of red and yell
low against the gray sky. doesn't that
inspire you to thought?"
1T certainly does. The reds and
yellows make me think of the job
ahead of me tending the furnace, and
the grays make me think of the dust
when / sift the ashes
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
cUTlcURA SOAP BATHS
Followed by a Little Ointment for
5aby's Tender Skin. Trial Free.

They afford infants and children
great comfort, permit rest and sleep
and point to speedy healment Of &C.
zemas, rashes, itchings, chafings and
other sleep destroying skin troubles.
Nothing better at any price for the
nursery and toilet.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky,
Boston. Sold evepywhere.-Adv.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

Doctor Marcus, secretary of the gov
eminent food supply commission, has
given an unfayorable answer to ques-
ton whether it would be a paying
proposition to import pork from Amer
lea. Such pork. ne says. would find
no market in Sweden at the present
time. excepting. perhaps. the northern
most part of the country.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
Patriotic Sacrifice.

Why don't you MARI some really
good MANI?
"a wouldn't have the heart" replied
Miss Cayenne. IF were to discover
a really good man, Id consider ii my
duty to vote for him and dismiss all
thoughts of domestic happiness and
SO let him devote himself to the sery.
ice of his country"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

Anxious TO see his relatives in Bay
Ridge. Brooklyn. Robert Burns of Eu-
reka. Cal. has Just completed a 3.640-
mile walk from the Pacific to the At
lantic in so days, incidentally looping
on 80 days from tie record for this
feat, which was set UP by Edward
Payson Weston. the famous septuage-
marian walker.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
Hereditary.

The baby had finished his bottle OF
milk. and the proud mother thought it
would be a good time to get him to
say mamma" papa" and ''hy by"
The baby simply gurgled.
isn't that perfectly wondertulT
said the mother.
Well replied the babys uncle. 1T
reminds me very much of the way his
father talks when he has been busy
with a bottle"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
Case Of Must.

You're not smoking as much as you
used to. Did your doctor order you TO
stop?"
mo. I'm a martyr to fashion"
whats fashion got to do with
smoking?"
IF you saw my vife's dressmaker
and milliner bills you wouldn't ask
such a foolish question"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

We have noticed that good deal
of the life Insurance is invested in
second husbands.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

Don't you think it is dreadful to
try to corner the chicken market?"
1T does seem like fowl schema
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

It is difficult to convince the head
of the house that two heads are better
than one.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

A Iaborers' festival at the Stockholm
stadium was attended by more than
$4,000 people.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

The only blusterer from which a
brave man will take a blow is the
wind.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
DENMARK.

About one hundred freeholders in
the parish of Horne have formed a
stock company for the purpose of
building an electric plant The work
will be rushed, SO that electricity can
be used next Christmas.
A girl at Vorgaard drank something
in the dark from a bottle that had
been standing open, and she happened
to swallow a wasp that had found his
way into the bottle. A doctor was
called at once, and he declared that
the girl had been stung in the throat.
She was taken to the Terndrup hos
pital.
A cooperative electric plant is to
be built at Old Ry at a cost of $4,000.
This amount covers the cost of install
ling motors on the farms
The skeleton of a young man was
recently found in a ditch at Hjorring.
About seventy years ago a man was
lost in that neighborhood, and he was
never heard of again.
Part of the grain on the Tustrup
estate at Randers was harvested in
American fashion this fall. A motor
which had been used for blowing the
day before was hitched TO two self
binders, and the whole outfit worked
in very satisfactory manner.
Peter Christensen, a farmer at
Skjern, tied his mare while he went
in to drink coffee. Close by was a
beehive, and when he came back the
mare and her colt were covered with
swarm of mad bees. 1t was danger
GUS for any human being to come near
the poor animals. They were soon cut
loose, however. but by that time they
were so fearfully stung that the colt
died in two hours. and the mare the
next day.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

The war has caused the death OF 11s
Swedes and the loss of "a ships.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
When all others fail to please
Try Denlson's Coffee.

Your wife as well as your sins will
find you out.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
A Shining Mark.

Hazel-Is he as stupid as he looks
Aimee-Oh, dear, no. He is the
only heir of a millionaire uncle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20
Paws Little Joke.

raw LttiC joke.
Little Lemuel-Say. paw, what is
stratagem?
Paw-The diamond, my son, is one
kind of strata-gem.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

The Norwegian steamer Elizabeth
burned and sank of lie Heve. The
crew was rescued
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

Fer many years the Swedish match
factories imported poplar from Fin
land as raw material. The war shut
out this supply. But poplar grown in
Sweden has proved to answer the pur-
pose almost as well as the imported
article.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-10-20

The Swedish-Russian Steel Cable
factories is the name OF a stock COM
pany which has been organized for the
purpose Of starting two factories in
Russia for the manufacture of steel
cables. NJ. Wallenberg. the we'll
known Swedish millionaire. is one Of
the organizers of the company. The
capital stock is to be no mere than
100000 and no less than 100000.
The factories are to be ready for work
in March, 1916.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
BROAD sT.

Here are just the WIdEhs wanted for doors and win dows at a lower price than ever before offered.
 Full line width and sizes poultry netting and screen wire by the yard or piece.
 Wire screen paint sc can.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22

ed out of business Smith, Smith has store the opposite and friends in the general assembly,
 The public wants competition in transportation It wants live.
 the business of the trolley monopoly to do the work which the state set it If it will furnish service tickets clean 1t and fair profit honest investment The tney business Bridgeport beside the other.
 But the people Connecticut not going dividends burdened it's investment The of exclusive rights in the street contemplated fair profit honest investment
 But no grant cf monopoly made contemplated fur er legislation of the character of the socaed regulave islation which is sought against the jitney.
 The quicker the Connecticut calls off it's egisla tive agents fares its and does transportation business agitation the better it will get along.
 Mr. Melen tried agitation penfully mingled with bluff buef There ought to be somebody in the trolley service by this time with brains enough to learn the lesson Melens taught The miserable failure that attended his tics certainly obvious the most stupid But Mr. Mel len loftie stumbled into enterprise half injurious to his friends the public assault the Connecticut making the itney
 Assembly passed the time for busi- probably will have Judgment enough not to break down it's preserve street railway monopoly and to break of the oldest rights in the land such that vehicle passengers in it and be paid h for his work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
MRS. STORY AGAIN ELECTED HEAD OF
 NATIONAL OAR.

Washington, April 22-Mrs Will liam Cummings Story, of New York, was last night reelected president general of the Daughter of, the Amer Thatcher Gurnsey of Kansas, by a vote of 695. to 461. The election result was announced we'll after mid night following a. day of excited bal ploting, and it showed a, clean sweep for the Story ticket
 Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, of Wash ington, D. C., was reelected chaplain general without opposition All other places were filled with Story candi- dates by large majorities Those elected were:--
 Recording Secretary-Gen General-M Mrs William c. Boyle of Ohio, reelected
 Corresponding Secretary -General- Mrs. Julia c. Burrows. of Michigan, reelected.
 Organizing secretary-General -- Mrs William A. Snoot. Virginia.
 Registrar r-C4eneral-Mfss Grace M Pearce, Washington, D. c.
 Treasurer-G r-General-Mrs. Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana, reelected.
 Historfan-G Gen eraI - Mrs Willard S. Augspury, New York. Librarian -General-Mrs. George M Sternberg, Washington, D. C., re elected.
 Editor of D. A R. Magazine Miss Natalie S. Lincoln, Connecticut Vice Presidents General = Mrs Rhett Goode, Alabanas Mrs. Edmund P. Moody, Delaware; Mrs. Vim i Haines Smith, West Virginia; Mrs l Charles s. Thomas, Colorado; Mrs Wm. H. Thompson, Kentucky; Mrs John F. Swift, California; Mrs. Johr , Lee Dinwiddie, Indiana; Mrs Ken1 Hamilton, Ohio; Mrs. Samuel Nc Knight Green, Missouri, and Mrs Sheppard w. Foster, Georgia
 A rousng demonstration was giver the successful candidates by the members of the congress, who hae sat in the hall far into the night te await the announcement of the re.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
GARLlCK LINES UP WITH ADVOCATES
 OF HIGH LICENSE
Kelly Votes to Reconsider Measure to Increase Cost
 Of Licenses.


 Bridgeport,s representatives, were divided on the only roll call in con nection with the passage by the House yesterday of the bin to in crease the cost of liquor licenses to $75O. The only roll call vote on a motion to reconsider after the House had passed the high license bill. Repre- sentative GarliclS voted against re- consideration. and Representative Kelly voted in favor of such action. The motion was lost; HIS to s0
 Representative Morehouse of Stratford, voted to reconsider, and his colleague, Representative Blake man was with the opposition. The vote of Fairfield and LitchheId coun- ties on the reconsideration was as follows:
 Fairfield county-Reid, Kelly, Joyce. Taylor. German, King, Hub bell. Knapp. James. Hageman, Tux ford. Morehouse. Sherwood.
 Litchhe1d county Disbrow. Max field. Addis, caul. Brooks. C1auon. Case.
 Nays.
 Fairfield county GarlfcIx,. William Son, Jennings. Crosby. Mead. Dillon, Tristram, Shaw, Ryan Perry. Atchi- son, Foord. Blakernan. Jackson.
 Litehheld county -FIoslxins Skiff Gilman, Norton. Wright, T. w. Gris- woId. Pratt. Page Allen, Rogers GosIee. Roberts, Brown. Emery, Tut tie, Emerson, K1ebes. Woodward Hosford. Perkins, Hough, Taylor, At wood, VailI. Ward, Curtiss.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
HADDoN CHAMBERS
 PLAYWRIGHT, BEGAN
 CAREER AS A COWBOY

Charles Haddon Chambers, the eel
 ebrated English playwright, is an Australian by birth, having made his
 premiere on the earthly stage fifty
 five years ago today at Stanmore,
 near Sydney. His father and mother
 hailed from the north of Ireland, but
 erigrated to Australia, where the drak
 matistss father was employed in the
 civil service of New. South Wales. At
 the age of fifteen. young Chambers
 left school and entered the civil ser vice as a clerk under his father The cIerIIy duties were unsuited to his
 lively temperament. and after cou- pie of years he cut loose and went out into the trbusIa,'' becoming a rider on the cattle ranges. After g. time the 1 life of a cowboy also pal1ed upon him and he paid his first visit to England,
 and began his career as a, newspaper
 man, working on various journals. He wrote and sold several stories dealing ] with Australian bush life, and soon branched out as dramatic author. In 1888 he wrote a play, Captain Swift which pleased the critical
 BeerboI1m Tree, who produced it at
 the Haymarket Theatre in London After that MT. Chambers turned ser iously to dramatic work and made a high percentage of hits with his dra-
 mas, which included t'The Idler,, I .sThe Tyranny of Tears 'EJohn A orabIe Herbert 1.-The Golden Sill ence, ''The Awakening and many others
 Several of MT. Chambers plays have been produced on this side of the Atlantic, and the. dramatist has paid numerous visits to America. In his hours of leisure he is an outdoor man, and finds delight in such sports as sailing, swimming, riding, shoot I ing, fencing, boxing His brother. KeIlet Chambers, also wrote several l more or less successful plays, inolud-
 ing the Butterfly in which Lillian
 Russell starred, and Abigail, ' which was produced by Grace George. Kel- l let Chambers was long engaged in l newspaper work in New York and San Francisco, and married stKate l Carew," one of the most celebrated of feminine interviewers and carica- turists
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
 BOUQUETS JOHN RICK 8 SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
FREDERIC vILIhEEs

Most famous and experienced of all the correspondents in the present war is the veteran F'rederis Villiers, who will be sixty-three years old tomor- row This is the. seventeenth war which MT. villiers has covered and he was recently quoted by a fellow correspondent as saying, Tn all my life this trip to the French lines is the biggest show have ever had " ViIliers was born in London on April 23 1852, and studied in France. He was a. war artist for the Graphic in Serbia, in 1876, and correspondent and artist with the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish war in 1877- The following year he was with the fight ing men in Afghanistan, and then he made a trip around the world. The Egyptian war next occupied his pen and brush, and in 1884 he was in the Eastern Soudan. in the Broken Square at Tamai. Abyssinit, the Nile, Khar- tounn in the Desert, with the Serbian invasion of Bulgaria in 1886, in Bur ma, across Canada with the Governor General and a lecture tour of America, the Japanese army at Port Arthur, the Greek war against Turkey in 1897s Omdurman, the South African war, again with the Japs at Port Arthur, the Spanish army in Morocco. the war between Turkey and Italy, the two Balkan wars, the European conf1agra- tion-thus may be briefly outlined the career of this man whose life has been so repIete with adventure and excitement. His first experience in actual war was at PIovna, when Ar chibaId Forbes was his companion. ViIliers was the first to use moving picture camera in wartime, and the first to use a bicycle in campaigning. Scores of times in his career he has had narrow escapes from death, but fate always befriended him. He is as facile with the pen as with the pencil and brush. During the present war his hand has lost none of it's cum ming.
 The strike Of pupils at public school No 20 at Yonkers was broken when seven of the students who spent the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22

A baby buffalo weighing 100 lbs. was born at the Central Park Zoo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
PEACE RESOLUTIONS AT
 EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE

Boston, April 22.-The report of the Social Service committee, discussion of a better system of parish finance and a resolution of the peace committee were among things to be considered at the closing session of the an-uaI convention of the Epicopal diocese of Massachusetts. It was expected that the convention also would take up the question Of whether the Episcopal church could federate with the Mass achusetts Federation of Churches.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
The D. M. Read Company.
CERMANY PROMULGATEs
 NEW CONTBABAND LIST

Berlin, April -Amendments to the prize rules governing operations of the German navy, signed by Elm peror william and Admiral Won Tir- pitz, published in the Renchs .Anzei- ger were designed as "a reprisa1 Scr the decision made by England and her allies contravening the declara- ton of London of Feb, 26, 1902.
 Under the new order many new commodities are added to the new conditional contraband. The order directs also that conditional contra band may be conhscated without re- gard to the consignee when q ship is destined for a. neutral country from which the nations at war with Ger many obtain articles of the kind in question.
 A baby buffalo weighing 100 fDs.. was born at the Central Park Zoo. -z.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-22
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