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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03

Without him-what then? II seemed
that the fatality that had let him es-
cape miraculously from the aeroplane
accident, made him chief Of staff. and
brought him victory, might well
choose to ring down the curtain Of
destiny for him in the charge that
drove the last foot Of the invader OF
the soil of the Browns. A voice
was calling. She heard 1t haz-
lily, with a sudden access Of giddy
fear, before 1t became a cheerful, clar-
ion cry that seemed to be repeating
message that had already been spo-
ken without her understanding it.
Hes safe, safe, safe. Miss Galland'
He was not hit! He is on his way
back and ought to be here very sooni"
She heard herself saying Thank
youi" But that was not for some time
The aide was already gone. He had
had his thanks in the effect of the
news, which made him think that
chief Of STAFF should not receive con-
gratulations for victory alone.
Lanny would return through the
garden. She remained leaning against
the wagon body, still faint from hap
piness, waiting for him. She was
drawing deeper and longer breaths
that we're velyety with the glow of
sunsniIe. A flame, the flame that
Lanny had desired, OF many gentle yet
passionate tongues. leaping hither and
thither in glad freedom, was in pos
session of her being. When his figure
appeared out of the darkness the.
flame swept her to her feet and to-
ward him. Though he might reject
her he should know that she loved
him; this glad thing. after all the
shame she had endured. she could
confess triumphantly.
But she stopped short under the
whip of conscience Where was her
cour1 ge? Where her sense of duty?
What right had she, who had played
such horrible part, to think of self?
There were other sWeethearts with
lovers alive who might be dead onsthe
morrow if war continued The fame
sank to live coal in her secret heart.
Another passion possessed her as she
seized Lanstron's hand in both her
own.
"Lanny. listenl Not the sound of
a shot-for the first time since the
war beganl Oh, the blessed silencel
It's peace, peace-isn't it to be
peace?" As they assembled the steps
she was pouring out flood of bro
ken, feverish sentences which per
mitted of no interruption. you kept
on fighting today, but you won't to-
morrow. will you! 1t isn't l who plead
its the women, more women than
there are men in the army. who want
you to stop now! Can't you hear
them? Can't you see them?"
In the fervor of appeal, before she
realized his purpose, they were on
the veranda and at the door Of the
dining-room, where the Brown staff
was gathered around the table.
II still rely on you to help me, Mar
tai" he whispered as he stood to one
side for her to enter.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03

You are appointed actual chief OF
STAFF and a field marshall" said the
vice-chief to Lanstron. The premier
says that every honor the nation can
bestow is yours. The capital is mad
The crowds are crying: On to the
Gray capitall' Tomorrow is to be
public holiday and they are calling It
Lanstron Day. The thing was so
sudden that the spectators who de-
pressed our securities in the worlds
markets have got their due-ruin.
And we ought to get an indemnity
that will pay the cost Of the war"
Seated at one side. Marta could
watch all that passed, herself unob-
served. She noted a touch of color
come to Lanstron'f cheeks as he made
little shrug OF protest.
Then she saw their faces grow busi-
nesslike and keen, as they gathered
around the table. with Lsnstron at the
head They were obliyious of her
presence. immured in a mans world
of war.
''Your orders were obeyed We
have not passed a single white post
yeti" said the vice-chief impatiently
"As the Grays never expected to take
the defensive, their fortresses are in
ferior. Every hour we wait means
more time for them to fortify, more
time to recover from their demorali
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
NOT AS RECORDED
MIR. Wilson Makes Absurd Claims
for Party.
Achievements for Which He Asks
Credit Shown TO Belong to the
Republicans Long List Of
Progressive Measures.

II we were deyotedly attached to
the Democratic party. as we certainly
are not, If we thought the Republican
party was all wickedness and sin. as
we certainly do rot, we think we still
should be able 20 see plain facts to
which Mr.. Wilson. both as a politician
and historian. is blind, declares the
New York Press.
Did Mr.. Wilson's Democratic party
in the less than two years it has had
possession of the government estab-
lish the national control of railway
rates, or did some other party, years
before Mr.. Wilson went to the White
House?
Did Mr.. Wilson's Democratic party
enact the antitrust laws after March
4, 1913, or did some other party do that
work years before that date?
Did Mr.. Wilson's Democratic party
stop railroad rebating, take, combina-
lions In restraint of trade into court
and break up such monopolies, or was
this work begun and to all intents and
purposes finished before Mr.. Wilson,
at least in his present official capacity.
ever saw or dreamed of the White
House?
Did Mr.. Wilson's Democratic party
set up and put into operation the
policy of conserving the resources of
the United States, or was this
achievement put into full swing two
whole presidential terms before Mr..
Wilson was elected to the chief mag
istracy of this nation?
Did 'tr. Wilson's Democratic party
In the last twenty-odd months acquire
the Panama strip, plan the canal
across the isthmus. provide $35O,00O.O00
for the work and build it, or did two
previous administrations perform that
feat, leaving it to Mr.. Wilson's admin
istration to open the lock gates after
the work was done?
There may be a difference of opin-
ion among honest men as to whether
the Republican party did good thing
or bad thing when it took so progress
sive course as to establish control
of railway rates; but there can be no
difference of opinion as to the fact
that it was the Republican party which
did it.
The same thing is true of all the
other progressive measures we have
mentioned. Whether they we're the
wisest things in the world or not, they
were Republican achievements, every
one of them; and all the Democratic
party has had to do with those pro-
gressive measuI es has been to admin
lister them after they were brought
into existence and operation by the
Republican party
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Forgot His Sweetheart.

Doctor Brandes, the Danish man of
letters. who recently visited this
country, tells a curious story of him
self, says the Chicago News. At the
very moment he had appointed to
keep a tryst with his sweetheart he
was deep in Hegel.
With passionate desire to reach
a comprehension of the truth, | crap:
pied with the system began with the
encyclopedia, read the three volumes
of Aesthetics the 'Phenomenology Of
the Mind then the Philosophy OF
Law again. and finally the logic, the
natural philosophy and the philosophy
Of the mind In veritable intoxication
of comprehension and delight"
The lamentable sequel was that he
forgot all about the young girl to
whom he had to say good-by.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
one Democratic term Enounh.

Governor Colquitt of Texas in blunt
ly declaring the failure of the Wilson
administration is only expressing
what plenty of other Democrats are
thinking. 1t Is the truth that has
dawned upon the party since the late
election. The glamour which enYeloped
the presidents leadership of the party
was largely, If not completely, dissi-
pated when the election demonstrated
that the policies which he forced upon
congress were not acceptable to the
country.
The country has given very inn
pressive notice that one term of a
Democratic administration is as much
as it cares for, and while the president
has managed to avoid any Endorsement
of the one-term plank of the last DEM
ocratic national platform, the people
are likely to see to it that it is made a
reality in this instance.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03

head some other self answering
their polite questions; while a fear,
a new kind of fear, was taking hold of
her real self, a fear inexplicable, In
sidiously growing. Lanstron was still
in the officers minds after his strange
appearance and stranger departure.
They began to talk OF him. and Marta
listened.
He said something about being
free man nowt"
Yes, he LOOKED as eager as ter
rier after rats"
He knows what he is doing. He
sees so far ahead of what we are
thinking that It's useless to guess his
object. Wen understand when it's
done"
How little side he has! So per-
feetly simnle. He hardly seems to
realize the immenslty OF his success.
In fact, none OF US realizes it: It's too
enormous, overwhelming, student"
And no nervesl"
OF course, they guessed nothing OF
Marta's part in his success. The very
things they were saying about him
built up a figure Of the type whose
character she had keenly resented a
few minutes before.
but. Miss Gallsnd. you seem to
know him far better than we, This is
not news to you" remarked the bri.
gade commander.
Yes. / saw the accident OF his FRS,
flight when his hand was injured" she
said. and WINGED with horror Never
! had the picture Of him as he rose from
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Spanish Royal sodxauard.

The Spanish royal family has an es-
pecial and historic bodyguard to pre-
vent such intrusions as that which
has occurred at Buckingham palace at
London. For centuries the Monteros,
who must be natives of the town OF
Espinosa and have served with honor
in the army. have had the exclusive
privilege OF guarding the royal pal
aces by night. In their historic cos
tune and wearing felt shoes they take
up their posts at midnight outside the
rooms of the king, queen and other
royalists, while detachments patrol
the halls and corridors ali night long
They speak no word. acknowledging
each others presence by sign and
countersign. In the morning they dis
appear as silently, giving place 70 the
ordinary sentries and attendants.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03

zation. Our dirigibles having COM
mand of the air-we had a wireless
from one reporting all clear halfway
to the Gray capital-why, we shall
know their concentrations while they
are ignorant of ours. It's the nations
great opportunity to gain enough
provinces to even the balance of popu-
lation with the Crays. With the unre-
hitting offensive, blow on blow, using
the spirit of our men te drive in mass
attacks at the right points. the Gray
range is ours!"
Marta scanned the faces of the staff
for some sign of dissent only to find
nothing but the ardor CT victory call
ing for more victory, which reflected
the feeling of the coursing crowds in
the capital. Though Lanny wished to
stop the war, he was only a chip on
the crest of wave. Public opinion
which had made him an idol, would
discard him as soon as he ceased to be
a hero in the likeness of it's desires
She saw him aloof as the others, in
preoccupation, bent ever the map out
lining the plan of attack that they
had worked out while awaiting their
chiefs return from the charge. He
was taking a paper from his pocket
and looking from one to another of his
colleagues studiously; and she was
conscious of that determination in his
smile which she had first seen when
he rose from the wreck of his plane.
This is from Partow: message
for you and the nation!" he AN
nounced. as he spread few thin. type
written pages out on the table. Il
was under promise never to reveal its
contents unless our army drove the
Grays back across the frontier. The
original is in the staff vaults. have
carried this copy with me-"
At the mention in an arresting tone
of that name of the dead chief, to
which the days events had given the
prestige of one of the heroes of old.
there was grave attention.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
a GLASS OF SALTS WILL
END KIDNEY-BACKACHE
Says Drugs Excite Kidneys and REQ
ommends Only Salts. Particularly
If Bladder Bothers You.

When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you keep
your bowels clear, by flushing them
with a mild, harmless salts which re-
moves the body's urinous waste and
stimulates them to their normal activ-
ity. The function Of the kidneys is to
filter the blood. In "a hours they
strain from 1t 500 grains of acid and
waste, so we can readily understand
the vital importance of keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lots of water-you can't drink
too much; also get from any pharma-
cist about four ounces Of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in a glass OF
water before breakfast each morning
for few days and your kidneys will
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 clean and
stimulate clogged kidneys: also to
neutralize the acids in urine so 1t no
longer is source of irritation, thus
ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
lure; makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this. also keep up the water drinking.
and no doubt you will wonder what
became Of your kidney trouble and
backache.-Adv.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Hope Lies in 1916.

Business is on the mend. The Eu-
ropean war will help some, and the in
crease in rates of transportation for
railways viii have stimulating effect.
but a full measure of relief and COM
plete restoration of industrial pros
perity can only be assured by a COM
plete change In the economic policy
of the government This will come in
1916.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Assuming Its RiohtfuI Position.

Mr.. Wilson himself has told US in
his recent indianapolis address about
the new temper Of the public. There
is evidence of it in the election figures,
by the misleading of which the presi-
dent and his friends are trying to
keep up their courage. Mr.. Wilson
was elected because Of conditions in
1912 that no longer exist. The Pro.
gressives have sped their arrow.
missed the target. and retired from
the tournament. The Republican party
is pretty rapidly becoming again the
majority party.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
lntimations of a Contest.

Nobody will be surprised to hear
that Clark boom to beat President
Wilson in 1916 is about to be starred
one occasion there have been sounds
IN Champs locality that might easily
be mistaken for tightening drum ropes
and testing the sticks on a concrete
wall.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Terrier Is a Vegetarian.

Mrs. NJ. r. L. Freshel Of Boston.
president Of the Millennium Guild. an
organization which opposes the slaugh'
ter Of animals, has a Yorkshire terrier
that Is q vegetarian Sister. as the
terrier is known, according to Mrs.
Freshel, has never eaten meat. This
is what Sister likes: I.entils, peas
beans, celery, carrots. radishes, let.
tuce. apples. nuts, eggs. oatmeal aae
buttered toast -
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03

take its sleep at night, since the slim
uli which govern the animals vital &C
tivities are then cut of. For animals
endowed with other special senses, but
not with sight. the night is not so
great factor. These can only block
ade stimuli to the senses either by
creeping into some secluded spot or
by the action of nature In causing an
opportune production of substance
Ca sort of hormone) which acts as an
obstacle by entering the nerve path
and deadening sensibility.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Mann,s Tariff Fioht.

Having introduced into the house a
bill providing for the creation u a
tariff commission, Representative
Mann. the minority party leader.
opened the campaign for tariff reform
that will sound the note of triumph
for the Republican party in 1915. This
bin is fashioned along the lines Of APP
proved Republican ideas Of scientific
and business dealing with the revenues
OF the nation derived from imports,
rather than through the method of
partisan mayhem of American bust.
ness.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
Students Study Grading Of Grain.


How the grain markets of the coun-
try handle and grade the farmers pro-
ducts is being studied in a course
which was started at the Ohio state
university last year. The students
taking the course are seniors in the
department of agriculture.
The students are given lectures on
market distribution and study the
field crops of the world. In the labor
atory they study the grading of grain.
testing it as to weight, color, percent
age of moisture. quality, soundness
and kind. Samples of ear corn and
grain are received from farmers in
the Franklin county and from grain
exchanges in the primary markets.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03

/ such was her emotion; and he. too
was held IN a spell. as the reality Of
her. after all that had passed, filled
hi~ eyes. He waited for her to speak
but she was silent.
"a.arta-that bandagel You have
been hurtl" he exclaimed.
Its the fashion to be wounded" she
said, eyebrows lifted and lashes low.
cred, with a nervous smile. Il played
Florence Nightingale, the natural WON
ans part. believe. We should never
protest; only nurse the victims of war.
After helping to send men 70 death l
went under FIRE myself, and-and that
helped"
Yes, that would help" he agreed.
wincing as from a knife thrust.
Her old taunt: sending men to death
and taking no risk himself! She saw
that he WINGED; she realized that she
had stayed words that were about to
come in a food She was marshaling
her thoughts to begin when the brittle
silence was broken by a rumbling of
voices, stirring of feet, and a cheer.
"Lanstronl Lanstrop! Hurrah for
Lanstronl"
The soldiers in the garden did not
bother with any Your Excellency, the
chief Of staff" formula when word had
been passed of his presence. Marta
looked around to see their tempestu-
oua anfhuqfacrn os thn, k1o.aa thoE-
caps in the air and sent up their spon-
taneous tribute from the depths of
their lungs. Conqueror and hero to
the living, but the dead could not
speak. whispered some fiend in her
heart.
Lanstron uncovered to the demon
stration impulsively. when the conven-
tional military acknowledgment would
have been a salute. He always looked
more like the real Lanny to her with
his forehead bare. II completed the
ensemble Of his sensitive features. She
saw that he was blinking almost boy
ishly at the compliment and noted the
little deprecatory shake of his head,
as much as to say that they were
making mistake.
Thank youi" he called, and the
cheeriness of his voice, she thought,
expressed his real self; the delight of
victory and the glowing anticipation
OF further victories.
Thank you'll" called the private with
a big voice.
Yes, thank youl" repeated some OF
the officers in quick appreciation of a
compliment as real as human courage
He stood smiling for a moment in
reply TO their smiles: then, still smil-
ing. but in a different way, he said to
Marta:
AS you say. that helpsi" with nod
toward the bandage on her forearm,
and hurriedly turned away.
She saw him involuntarily clutch the
wrist above the pocket Of his blouse to
still the twitching; but beyond that
there was no further sign OF emotion
as he went to the telephone. Instantly
he was through he started toward the
pass road. not by the path to the steps,
but by leaping from terrace to terrace
and waving his hand gayly to the sol
diers as he went The officers stared
at the sight OF chief of staff break
ing away from his communications in
this unceremonious fashion. They
saw him secure horse from a group
of cavalry officers on the road and gal.
lop away,
Marta having been the object OF
Lanstron's attention now became the
object of theirs. IL was good to see a
woman. woman of the Browns, after
their period of separation from feml-
nine society. She found herself hold
ing an impromptu reception. She
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
No Need Of specuIation.

There are optimists who still in
dulge in vain speculation as to wheth-
er the Bull Moose will survive. The
answer to their questionings is that
it does not.
Meade County news., 1915-09-09
EXPERIMENTS WITH
MILK FOR CALVES
Michigan Station Makes Interest
ing Tests With FormaIde-
hyde-No III Effects.

In trials made by the Michigan ex-
pertinent station to determine the ad-
visibility of using formaldehyde as
preservative for skim milk fed tU four
to seven-week-old calves for "a weeks,
7k cubic centimeters of 40 per cent
formaldehyde being used to each 100
pounds of milk, it was found that In
general the calves suffered no dele
terious effects from the preservative,
and as compared with calves fed sweet
milk or sour milk, made slightly
greater gains at somewhat lower cost,
From records kept of the after devel.
opment of these calves 1t was found
that those which had been fed the
preserved milk continued to make the
cheapest gains, followed by the sweet
milk fed calves and the sour milk fed
calves.
For the entire experiment the calves
fed sweet milk made a total gain Of
1897 pounds, costing Sal cents per
pound; those fed sour milk 2,48s.4
pounds, costing 5.43 cents per pound.
and those fed the preserved milk, q
537 pounds, costing 5.23 cents per
pound. 1t is believed, however, that
before definite conclusions can be
drawn the work should be carried on
with large number of calves.
Meade County news., 1915-09-09

inches each way, and then shove the
butt Of an ear Of corn on the point OF
each nail. Boards filed with the ears
may be set along the walls of shell
ter, or one end may be nailed to the
joist of shelter shed or room suit
able for drying corn in.
Storing of seed corn rack is, of
course, one of the very best methods
that can be used. These racks are
made by using three, five or six inch
boards as uprights and then mailing
one and one-half-inch strips on each
edge of the uprights at intervals Of
six inches. The ears of corn can then
be laid on the strips where the air
can pass freely between them.
If the weather is open and dry
and windows of the storage place
should be open, especially during the
day. Unless it is very dry, it is usu-
ally better to close the doors and win
dows over night.
The chief aim for the first few
weeks after selection should be to
get the corn as dry as possible with
out applying heat. The aim after that
should be to keep the ears in a place
where they will stay dry. If the corn
is thoroughly dry nothing but the
most extreme freezing weather will
injure it, but if the germ is damp or
wet with moisture it may be greatly
injured in moderate freezing wealth
er. 1t is the corn that is frozen while
moist that is responsible for most of
the poor stands secured. Select your
seed before it gets to the crib, get it
dry and keep 1t dry, and much will
have been accomplished toward an
other corn crop.
Meade County news., 1915-09-09
SNAKE CHARMER is BITTEN
Circus Employee Breathes by Means
Of Tube as Result Of Swollen
Tongue.

Pocatello, Idaho.-George Horner.
who is employed by the Campbell
Carnival company as snake charmer.
went out into the hills near here with
companion, and captured eight rat
tlesnakes.
Horner wanted to extract the fanS
OF the reptiles. and had succeeded by
using his teeth on the first few, when
a particularly squirmy one bit him on
the lip and tongue. AS a consequence
he is considering himself lucky to be
breathing. even by means Of a tube
put through hole in his windpipe.
As soon as he was bitten, Horner
was taken to DR.. A. F. Newton. The
doctor administered antidotes and la
bored with the man for three hours.
Horner's tongue became so swollen
that he could not breathe and Doctor
Newton found It necessary to cut a
hole In the mans windpipe.