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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

inspired soul. the Psalms. there looked
his answer. as he was to know in an
other day. tha truest answer that could
have been given 10 his question:
Who shall ascend, into the hill OF the
Lord2 or who shall stand IN his holy
place? He that hath clean hands and a
pure nee RI; who hath not lifted up his
soul unto vanity. nor sworn deeeitfuliy.
With an odd feeling of truth struck
from the page he closed the book and
laid it gently down on the white cloth.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
Kaiser Man Of Many TItles.

The kaiser is man with many
titles. being an emperor. a king,
eighteen times duke. twice a grand
duke. ten times count. fifteen times
a seigneur. three times margrave--
these add up to fifty, and he is one
or two other things. count-prince. and
SO forth. making his titles at least If
ty-four.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
Holly Scratches
BY HARVEY PEAKE

NEVER look a gift in the cost mark.
Az All that glitters is not diamonds.
Mistletoe makes the heart grow
fonder.
The gift deferred mafeth the hsart
sick.
Belief in Santa Claus Is the best
policy.
1t is wise merchant who knows bis
own goods when they are brought
back for exchange,
To give hideous gifts is human, to
forgive impossible,
Gifts make the man, the want OF
them the fellow.
One Christmas bargain makes the
whole of womankind spin.
Christmas bills are stubborn things.
Santa Claus is not as red as he is
painted.
Buy gifts in haste and repent at
leisure.
Uneasy lies the head that's trying to
make twenty dollars buy forty
gifts.
And thereby hangs a stocking.
Every Christmas tree must stand on
its own bottom.
Gifts are seldom what they seem.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
SYNOPSIS.

sietz Of Daily's lumber camp directs
a stranger TO the camp. Walter Sandry
Introduces himself TO John Daily, fore
man. as the Dillingworth Lumber Co..
or most of it." He makes acquaintance
with the camp and the work he has come
from the East to superintend and make
successful. He writes to his father that
he intends to get handful of the wealth
In the uncut timber of the region.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

that that religion was not to be found
ed upon wealth. or upon social caste.
but upon the large. wholesome love
Of the human heart. Boaz is immor-
tai among Bible heroes for his kind
ness. his plain. everyday generosity.
his sense of protection and care for
the lonely. unprotected Moabitish girl.
his dead kinsmans wife. who in her
poverty CLEANED in his harvest field
after the reaoers Boaz gave order
to his reapers that they should allow
her to CLEAN even among the sheaves
Of barley, and by his largehearted
ness gained a wife, and, more than
that, made place for himself liz that
immortal company who are renowned
for naught but for being kfnd-Chris-
tian Herald.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
Santa S Secret

1--we got out OF bed. just a
minute.
To tell you-I'll whisper II
low
The stockings I've hung ~ the
fire
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
Short But Useful.

The Christmas tree does not live
long. but its short life is a useful and
beautiful one.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

Are for me-not mamma, you know.
For mine are so awfully little,
Dear Santa Claus. don't you see?
And I want. oh. so many playthings.
They won't hold enough for me-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

r. 4
A little knowledge Is danger
GUS thing, especially on Christ
mas eve. when a kid discovers
his father acting the part OF
Santa Claus.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
DRAW WEALTH FROM FARMS
Enormous Sum Annually Gathered in
by TiIIers of the Soil in the
United States.

From Farms in 1914 the United
States produced a yield worth 100000.
100000. Could cotton have been mar.
keted as usual the total would have
been close to half billion more. Ten
billion dollars representing honest
work! Ten billion dollars untainted
money! And going mostly into the
pockets of the workers themselves,
with little reaching the purses of labor
exploiters. The beautiful thing about
this great item of our national wealth,
next to its cleanliness, is the fact that
it can be increased indefinitely by a
more general adoption of scientific ag.
riculture. In fifteen years it has been
doubled; and still, on our new soil,
we farm only third as effectively as
do many foreign peoples on soil cen.
turtles longer in use. The forest, cut
unwisely, is gone. The mineral, once
mined, is not renewable. But on his
broad acres the tiller of the soil can
take and take again; and though he
has to fertilize, the more he does it the
more he earns. So, come war, come
pestilence, come anything but CONT
nent-wide drought, here is broad base
for our future welfare, upon which we
can build expandingly and securely
The man with the hoe is, indeed, the
best hope of the future.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
TO RUN MOTORS BY GAS COKE
Inoffensve Fuel, According to Figures,
Is Only One-Third Cost
of Parsffin.

In view of the high and increasing
cost of motor spirit special interest
attaches to an experiment of the Ma
tional Steam Car company, which has
placed upon the streets of London a
motor omnibus adapted to use ordi-
nary gas coke as fuel, instead of par
ATTN, says the Times of that city. The
omnibus is equipped with a new form
Of multitubular boiler, and it is claimed
that the running costs of the gas
coke are one-third the cost of paraf-
fin. The vehicle carries enough coke
for a 6O-mile journey and the con-
sumption per mile is four pounds of
coke and one-half gallon of water.
The roar, flame and smell which are
sometimes associated with steam mo-
tors are obviated in the coke motor.
Prolonged tests were carried out by
the chief commissioner of metropol-
itan police before the new type was
accepted for service, and since it has
been running careful observation has
been kept.
The omnibus chassis is constructed
without a chimney, but a chassis with
chimney has been designed for COM
mercial cars, which work under less
stringent conditions than those of the
omnibus service.
The Dewar trophy was awarded to
the company by the Royal Automobile
club, which regarded the National
coke motor trial as the most meritori
Gus performance of the year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

TWO odd and attractive hats are
i shown here, one Of them In two
views. Now that spring is near
these are about the last winter de-
signs, and the pretty baretta finished
with a tassel at the side cannot be
said to belong to one season more
than another, for 1t is made of silk in
Irvine color piped with black and hav-
Ing the oldest of tassels of silk fiber
which looks much like spun glass.
Many similar hats, including those
called "Tipperary" hats, are made of
silk. They are the smallest of tur-
bans, with very scant, soft crowns,
narrow ribbon sashes with hanging
ends and decorations Of small flowers
and fruits made of silk, These, worn
with short godet wells, in coarse net
bound with ribbon, are harbingers of
spring which appear before the ear
lest robin.
The second turban shown is made
of panne velvet over round frame.
The velvet is managed SO that one
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

tail the best methods of cultivating
and harvesting the crop. The great
trouble, it is said, is the difficulty Of
obtaining the necessary labor for
peeling. At times it is almost impos-
sible to secure labor at any price, al
though the actual difficulties of peel
ing are comparatively few. The har-
vesting itself should cost approx
mately five dollars ton, green
weight.
The demand Is extensive and
varied and a large quantity Of i'm
ported willow is being used in this
country, although manufacturers, il
is believed, would prefer the Ameri'
can-grown if it could be obtained.
There are many uses for the basket
willow, familiar in Europe, which
have not developed in this country as
yet. 1t would seem, therefore, as
though the industry might prove a
profitable one for farmers who are
willing to familiarize themselves
with it. 1t must be remembered
however, that a certain amount OF
exact knowledge is required for sue
cess, and that poorly managed holt
rarely yields a profit, no matter how
| favorable the conditions may seem.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

A LTHOUGH the baby girl disports
"a herself nearly all the time in plain
little slips of various sheer materials
she requires occasionally finery of the
finest kind. Wee tucks and narrow
valenciennes laces, hand embroidery
(sparingly used and in the daintiest Of
patterns), are relied upon for the little
decorative finishings to her frocks for
daily wear. And no matter how per
sistently repeated, these things never
grow tiresome. Every mother de-
lights in small garments finished with
fine hand work. The painstaking care
with which every stitch is set in place
bears witness to the mothers care,
whether the stitching Is done by her
own or others hands.
Although the baby will look as
sweet in the plainest of slips as in
anything else, there are times when
she requires extra finery to suitably
honor a special occasion. Then the
wits must be set to work to use the
means at hand to make her real
"dress-up" clothes. Sheer, fine fabrics
in cotton or linen, dainty hand EN-.
broidery and narrow valenciennes
laces continue to provide the mate
rails. But little oddity of cut, lit
tie extravaganza in embroidery, the
introduction of bit of gay ribbon, and
the employment of the finest fabrics
give the holiday air that make her
dress for state occasions.
A fine dress of sheer batiste for
the little lady is shown in the picture.
1t is simply cut, having the bottom
edge trimmed into points, the elbow
sleeves flaring, and also finished with
shallow prints. All raw edges are cut
into small scallops. These have first
been stamped and buttonhole stitched
with faultless exactness of needlework.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

At the front pointed panel at the
bottom and top is outlined by the en-
broidered scallops, and the two panels
are joined by double line of scallops.
In these panels beautifully made
French knots are set close together in
narrow rows. A small panel of the
same kind adorns the top of each
sleeve.
At intervals of about four inches
about the skirt near the bottom
slashes are cut in the batiste and their
edges buttonhole stitched. Through
these a sash of wide soft ribbon, in
light blue or pink, is threaded and tied
in the back in the simplest and limp
est of bows A narrow edging of fine
valenciennes lace outlines the neck
and all edges of the dress. 1t is set in
a ruffle back of the scallops, with fine
! hand sewing.
Worn under this fluffy frock is a
petticoat having ruftie at the bottom
made of alternating rows Of valen-
ciennes and narrow bands of batiste-
decorated with a row of French knots.
The bottom is finished with the mar
rowest of edgings of valenciennes
lace.
In such a frock the little wearer is
as splendidly arrayed as it is possible
for her to be. Even so, this finery is
within reach of any mother who
knows how to do fine needlework.
Very little material is required, and
this is not expensive. 1t is the ex-
quisite, hand-wrought decoration that
makes these little dresses valuable. If
such a dress must be bought ready
made it will mean a considerable out
lay of money; if made at home it
means an outlay of time-which no
one begrudges the baby.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

ly old-fashioned at ten years of age
and in the junk heap five years later
The German cruiser Bluecher, fine
ship, completed less than five years
ago, owes her present position at the
bottom Of the North sea to the fact
that the rush of progress in naval de-
signing had made it impossible for her
to keep up with the pace in the up-to-
the-minute contest.
In Nelson's time warships were kept
in the first line until they were worn
out by hard use. In our day warships
are not given chance TO wear out
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
Keeping Collars Clean.

Every woman knows how hard 1t is
to keep a lace collar clean while
wearing fur next to it. Get three
fourths yard lace five inches deep.
SSir this one inch from edges onto
a tape as large around as the top of
your fur collar or fur piece. Sew
fine snap fasteners on tape and the
other part of fasteners on inside of
fur piece, so when snapped together
the lace stands up like ruchins
around the neck. It is Just few mo-
ments' work to take it out and wash
1t and 1t keeps your collars clean.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

toast.
Ham in MiIk.-Take a slice of ham
cut at least two inches thick. II
very salt parboil it and then place
in a baking pan and cover with swee,
milk. Bake for an hour or more in
slow oven. Thicker the milk with
butter and flour and serve it with
the sauce poured around it.
Ham Salad.-Boil slice of ham in
water for half an hour, then cut
in fine dice; mix with celery a few
chopped olives, using twice as much
ham as celery, sprinkle with celery
salt and serve with a good boiled
dressing.
Ham Pie.-Cut up ham and parboil,
then add few potatoes, two onions
cut fine, season with pepper and salt,
add cream sauce and cover with a
crust. Serve as chicken pie.
Potted Chicken and Bacon.-Bake
one chicken, half a cupful of butter, a
bunch of herbs, blade Of mace, six
ounces of bacon, pepper, salt and red
pepper Roast the chicken and while
hot remove all the meat from the
bones and chop it. Put the bones we'll
broken into a saucepan, add three
cupfuls OF water, the herbs, mace and
seasoning. Simmer gently for two
hours. Cook the bacon, put chicken
and bacon into a mortar and pound
until smooth, add butter and table.
spoonful of the broth, press in jar
and cover with melted butter
A slice of ham baked in milk served
with a dish of water cress as a salad,
will be found good combination.
A slice of onion added to chicken
when cooking for a pie or for a stew
will be found to improve the flavor
wonderfully.
A piece of veal cooked with chicken
absorbs the flavor and can be used as
creamed chicken or as chicken salad
to increase the bulk.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

ceive the cuttings, never deeper than
necessary. A sharpened iron rod Is
perhaps the best implement for max
ing hole. The point should be
abrupt rather than long, since other
wise the space at the bottom would
be too narrow for the cutting and an
open air space would be created I'M
derneath the plant.
Spacing, a matter of importance
which depends largely upon the vari-
ETY. of willow planted, is discussed in
some detail in Farmers Bulletin 622,
which will be sent free upon applica-
ton.
The bulletin also describes in de-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
Just Deserts,

"A man jumped into the river today,
but another man who was passing at
The time pulled him out"
Did he bear any marks of identifi-
cation?"
Nothing but wrist watch"
What did the gallant rescuer do
when he saw the wrist watch?"
He threw him in again."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

They become old-fashioned and obso-
lete while their engines and guns and
armor are still as good as on the day
of completion. That is one reason
why 1T is SO much more expensive
to maintain a navy than it used to be.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05


drawn butter sauce. Garnish with
parsley and serve with baked pota-
toes.
Date SaIad.-Arrange six dates from
which the stones have been removed,
star fashion on lettuce leaf. Sprinkle
with cream cheese, put through a
ricer, add strips of red pepper and a
tablespoonful of boiled or mayonnaise
dressing.
Rice Waffles.-Cook two tablespoon
fuls of rice until soft. When cool, add
the yolks of two eggs and a half tea
spoonful of salt. Add a scant pint Of
sweet milk and -four, which has been
sifted with teaspoonful of baking
powder. Lastly, add the beaten whites
of two eggs. Cook on a hot waffle
iron.
Bean Salad.-Boil lima beans in
sailed Water' When tender drain
and chill. Place on shredded cabbage,
cover with cooked dressing or may
onnaise, sprinkle with minced parsley,
chives or onion. Instead of the boiled
lima beans, cold string beans may be
used. Cover with spiced vinegar for
an hour. Drain, chill and cover with
French dressing, garnish with strips
of canned red pepper.
French Toast. - Cut sliced bread
about one inch thick and remove the
crust Mix one cupful of milk, thick
ened with one or two beaten eggs, sea-
son with salt and soak the toast, a
piece at time, and fry in hot fat.
Banana Compote.-Cook together
for ten minutes two-thirds of a cup of
water and cup of sugar; pour when
cool over bananas which have been
peeled and quartered. Add the Juice
of half lemon and the grated rind,
sprinkle with chopped almonds and
serve with whipped cream.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

W. IitIllJ lllOuodluS VI
cuttings in different parts of the coun-
try, and although in many instances
the experiments have been failures.
there is no longer any doubt that will
lows can be grown everywhere except
In arid and semiarid regions, at high
attitudes, and In some portions of the
South. Commercially, they are now
grown only in a few areas, notably in
New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
and Ohio. They may, however, prove
a remunerative crop. Estimates pub
lished in Farmers Bulletin No. 622,
Basket Willow Culture" indicate that
an average annual net profit of from
$S4 to $3.50 an acre may be expected.
In selecting site for willow holt,
the first consideration is moisture.
Water should be within from two to
six feet of the surface, and tho supply
constant and sufficient. 1t is better,
however, to select a site which may
be too dry, rather than one which
may be too wet. Where the moisture
conditions are favorable basket will
lows will grow on a wide range of
soils, although they do best in loose,
sandy loan. Excessively acid or ex-
cessively alkaline soils should be
avoided. 1t is desirable, too, that the
wind have free access to the holt,
since this minimizes the danger from
insects. The neighborhood of large
areas of weeds is also undesirable, for
1t is difficult at best to keep the holt
clean. For this reason it is advisable
that hollis be established on land
which has been previously cultivated
Many failures, it is said, are due to
lack of proper preparation Of the
ground. If possible, a previous crop
of corn or potatoes should be plant
ed. Late in the fall the land should
then be plowed and left to weather
during the winter.
All basket willow hollis are started
from cuttings from shoots or
branches. Since the plants last from
twelve to fifteen years or longer, the
best stock should be selected for this
purpose Of the many varieties, only
the American green and the patent
Lemley or Lemley should be select
ed. These require less cultivation
than the purple willow, are easily
peeled and bring good prices.
Where cuttings are purchased, the
prices should range from one dollar
per thousand for ten-inch cuttings to
five dollars per thousand for two-year.
old 14-inch cuttings. For less than
one thousand the prices are frequent,
ly much higher. Many persons, how
ever, have begun the cultivation OF
willows with few hundred cuttings
and have gradually enlarged their
hollis as their supply and knowledge
both increased. The better the phys
zeal conditions the less necessary il
is to have large cuttings, but under
any circumstances twoyear-old plant
ing stock makes a thriftier growth al
first than cuttings from one-year-old
shoots
The best time to plant is very early
in the spring, when the weather IL
cool, the soil moist and the cuttings
show little if any growth. When sci
in their holes the cuttings should moi
protrude more than two inches above
the surface of the ground. The holes
should be barely large enough to re
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

squares; parbo1I Tor half
an hour, then put into a
rich white sauce made
by cooking together four
tablespoonful each of
butter and flour and add
ing two cupfuls of rich
milk. Serve the ham in
the sauce on buttered
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
IekA.E- IAa,<s~eN-.
Prophets Liking for Narcissus.

Mohammed loved the large-flowered
narcissus, and has sounded its praises
in the epigrammatic saying: who.
ever has two loaves of bread, let him
exchange one for the narcissus flower;
for bread is food for the body, but the
narcissus food for the soul"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
WARsHIPS HAVE SHORT LIFE
Few Years of Real Usefulness, and
Then the Scrap Heap, Seems to
Be Recognized Thing.

When Nelson went into the battle of
Trafalgar his flagship, the famous old
Victory, was more than forty years
old.
Things are different nowadays. In
the twentieth century warship be-
gins to grow obsolete a few months
after her completion; she Is hopeless
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
UnduIy SusplcIous Men.

Some men," said Uncle Eben, has
been forced to git so suspicious dat
IL you tries to be plain honest wifi 'em
dey thinks you has managed to hi
on some new kind of trick"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
Shame on You, PawI

Little Lemuel-Say, paw, what is a
promoter?
Paw-A promoter, son, is man
who sells something he hasn't got to
another man who doesn't want Il.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

piece forms both the hat covering and
the long, projecting loop at the back.
The severe outline of the frame is
softened by a wide, rich plume Of os-
trich at the left side. 1t is posed al
most fiat against the body of the hat,
displaying its unusual width of flue
to the very best advantage.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
Retrenchinu.

"The war is affecting everybody"
"Yes?"
81 heard of a millionaire yesterday
who used to employ five chauffeurs
Now he has only four"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

inexpensive. Soak
the fish or half of
one in water, rinse
and drain to re-
move the excess of
salt, then place on
a hot platter and
pour over it a gen.
nroIIo e1,nnIu ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05

HE growing of basket
willows could be profit
ably carried On much
more extensively in the
United States thar is
now the case. In recent
years the department of
agriculture has distribut-
a6 many thousands ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
GOOD MEAT DISHES.

Take a slice of ham cut in small
serving sized pieces or cut in inch
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-05
THEMF(HEIN
E6ABINEG

With hand on the spade and heart in
the sky
Dress the ground and till it;
Turn in the seed, brown and dry,
Turn out the golden millet.
Work and your house shall be duly
fed;
Work and the rest shall be won;
hold that a man had better be dead
Than alive when his work is done.
Alice Cary.
SOME WHOLESOME AND ECONoM
ICAL DISHES.
Sailed Goldfish is a dish which, i
nicely prepared, is both appetizing ant