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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
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Street Cars in Wales.

United States Consul ]. H. Johnson
of Swansea, Wales, writes as follows
With regard to the street railways of
that city, which are operated by a
London company: The system in use
is the overhead trolley, and the city
is well covered with lines, which also
run cut for a distance of II miles into
the suburbs. About one-third of the
cars are of the double-deck type. The
speed limit is miles per hour in the
city and II miles per hour in the
suburbs. The fares amount to about
: cents q mile. Most o. the equipment
is made in Wales, but the trucks,
truck frames and the controller boxes
Of a number of the cars were made in
the United States. Motormen receive
s1.15 and conductors 81 cents a day of
10 hours. Inspectors are paid from
s7.29 to s11.55 a week, and are on duty
II hours a day. While most of the
cars are equipped with woVen-wire
wheel guards, there is not a single car
that carries a fender. This lack Of
against accidents seems
TO be general in this country"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07

The letter from Herr Won Ahnfeldt
lay crumpled on the table; by Jascha's
wish, it was sent to her grandmother;
it contained his request to be allowed
to ask that lady for the hand of her
His roses, she wanted
put in her coffin. Where did she get
the poison? We never found out.
The grandmother came draped in
mourning, and took Jascha's corpse
away. She was as stately as ever, but
scarcely uttered word.
Once more, we were twelve at the
table, but for long time, a gloom
seemed to settle over our circle; we
shrunk from laughing, and at night
we slipped timidly by the room where
Jascha had died. Such a mystery sur
rounded it all! Only Frau Degen-
hardt and knew how she died.
What became of her mother? We
have never heard of her since. Per
haps she has gone to destruction in
Paris or Nizza, or somewhere else In
the wide world! Who knows?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
Goods Spies"

The surest way in which parents
and teachers can keep children
brought up among so many tangible
things and facts from losing their
birthright Of imagination is not by
intellectual theorizing upon the ma
ture of children or Of particular
child, fitting the child to the theory,
but by a reverent belief in the mag
NATIVE life as the real part of a
child's thought and that which most
nearly touches his idea of religion;
and in regulating the daily life OF
children to remember "the scribe in
structed into the kingdom of heaven
who was likened unto man that is
an householder which bringeth forth
out of his treasure things new and
Ok" The new things, the discoveries
of science, the enlightenment of civil
izatiCn,-the facts, necessary to be
taught but to be learned in their re.
lation to larger Truth; and in teaching
these great facts to children to bear
in mind the "old" part of the treas
ure" suggested in King Lear's words
to Cordelia, We'll take on US the
mysteries of things as if we were
Gods spies. Louisa Lane McCrady,
In Atlantic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
The Measure of Success.

The American university is wonder
rully enheartened by outward pros
perity and outward growth. In re-
cent letter of resignation OF the aged
president of one of our more con-
sentative colleges-a college so con-
sentative that it has never assumed
the title "university"-there is a tone
of satisfaction almost exultant, be
cause the freshman class had in,
creased during his administration ten
fold in number, and the college build
ings had enlarged by equal bounds.
If success is to be measured merely,
or even mainly, by changes Of this
kind, there is need Of strong offering
The strong offering, the emphasis
on offering, brings in its turn an un-
due attention to things that can be
expressed in statistics and to the eye.
George NJ. Stratton, in Atlantic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
the Westinghouse alternating current

the Westinghouse alternating current
device.
Forms the Electric Company.
The Westinghouse Electric COM
pany was formed to carry on this
branch of the inventors activities.
and with that Westinghouse began to
loom up as an Industrial and COM
mercial organizer. He formed com
panies in England, France, German
and Russia-companies that today
employ an aggregate of $4,000 men
and control 10000 patents, 800 Of
which have sprung from the Westins-
house brain.
In the management of his ccmRa,
MES Westinghouse, though personally
simple and democratic has been
called dominating to a degree. The
criticism has been made thai tie
stockholders of the companies never
are given reports, and the directors
never meet. But the usual answer
to this has been the argument that
the stockholders receive dividends
that are substantial and regular,
the directors repose implicit faith in
their great general.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
THE ONLY SOLACE.

Conditions have become so strange
That 1 am puzzled sore;
Each day the prices higher range
When l call at the store.
The CRATER, too, his face has set.
'Gainst all that wise men teach;
The only comfort that I get
Is listening to a speech.
When hard luck wanders unrestrained
Through erstwhile blossoming ways,
One likes to hear it all explained
III sympathetic phrase.
My indignation grows so great
Toward mammon's grasping reach,
That some times I can scarcely wait
To hear another speech!
Washington Star.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

One kind of charity always has a
card attached to it.
No great man needs brass band to
herald his coming.
Occasionally the shoplifter finds it
difficult to take things easy.
Fortunate is the man who never
knows when he gets the worst Of it.
When a wise man gets real angry
he goes away back and sits down.
When a man talks of himself he Is
usually more eloquent than interest
ing.
Why ) it that the average chaper
one thinks it's up to her to work over
time?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
DIFFERENT BAIT.

They fished together. he and she,
Beside the babbling mountain
brook
He used minnows small for bait
She used a sweet but saucy look.
When they quit the noisy stream
The maiden's home they sought,
He hadn't hooked a single thing
But a sucker she had caught
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07
Could BE Renlaced.

Mrs. Newed (sobbing) -"Oh, J-JohnE
The coat has e-eaten all the angel
cake | b-baked this morning. BoO-ho-
o-o!"
Viewed Cconsolingly1-"W don't
cry, dear! I'll buy you another cat to
morrow"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07

Statistics show that, though fair
haired people are, as a rule, less
strong than those who have dark
hair. yet the former live longer than
the latter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07

Some men imagine they are decent
because they wear a clean collar ev-
ry day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07

Fortunate is the man who never
knows when he gets the worst of 1t.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07

When a wise man gets real angry
ne goes away back and sits down.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-07

Occasionally the shoplifter finds it
difficult to take things easy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
.JAYHAWKER .JOTS

Over in Jewell county an old time
road cart attracts more attention than
an automobile.
Tom Cordry insists that If Cy Le-
land is elected governor the peace
conference at The Hague should pay
it's bills and move to the Copeland.
Kansas" says the Ottawa Herald,
with that cheerful resignation which
distinguished the Christian martyrs at
the stake "can always fall back upon
hog and hominy.''
Referring to the news item of the
Kansas man who killed himself be-
cause he was compelled to get up at
8 o'clock in the morning and milk the
cows, the Lawrence Gazette wants to
know why he didn't kill the cows.
Ice has found it's first victim in
Wichita this year, in, the person Of
Mrs. Lou Bird. While feeding her
chickens Thursday Mrs. Bird slipped
and fell on thin covering of ice. Her
leg was broken as a result of the fall.
John shrack has caused the latest
sensation in Pratt by driving
spanking little team of white goats
on the town streets. They seem to be
quite we'll broken to the task and
John handles them quito we'll, ac-
cording to all reports.
Presbyterians at Parsons have done
themselves proud. They dedicated
their new church edifice last Sunday.
They subscribed $4,000 within an
hour which pays off the entire in
debtedness on the church building
and leaves a handsome balance in the
church's treasury.
Some one handed Emery Gay OF
Norton a large sized juicy lemon the
other morning. This is no joke, a
real lemon came to him from south
ern California 1t measured fifteen
inches one way around and about
eighteen inches the other, and it
weighed about pound and a half.
1t is said that one of these lemons
will make five gallons of lemonade.
Ed Fasse has returned to Junction
City from a few days hunting trip.
His bag contained Is quails, rs rabbits
and II squirrels. Good for Ed.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Glare Pattee, who
a string of nickel theaters in
Lawrence and elsewhere, used to be
printers by trade. 1t IS even related
that Clare proposed to the woman who
is now Mrs. Pattee while they were
both setting type. One day they were
working at their cases on the old To-
peka Commonwealth when Clare tap
ped on his case with a quad and at
tracted the attention of the girl. He
carefully spelled out: 'Will you marry
me?" The girl spelled back: This is SO
sudden" Pattee again spelled: THAT
is not the point. Will you marry me?
Last call" ct will" was spelled back.
That lola man who killed his part
ner in business so that he might get
the partners wife as we'll as the busf-
ness PLAYED in hard luck. He will go
to the penitentiary. losing both the
business and the woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
MERELY A MAYBE.

Maybe an item that is being given
prominence by eastern newspapers
just now concerning a purported Kan
sas freak" is true. Maybe it is Iln-
true IF it is true a query is pertinent
as to why the Atchison Globe has left
the people of Kansas in the dark so
long concerning a most wonderful
phenomenon which exists almost
within sight from the Globe office.
Perhaps the Globe folks have been
silent about this most marvellous ca
price of nature because 1t is SO famil-
lar to them that they have become i'm
bued with the idea that the people all
over Kansas. and the world for that
matter, know all about II. This is a
theory that a good many newspapers
work on regarding the interesting
events and things at home.
Be all this as it may it does not
speak well for the activity of the
Globe and the other newspapers OF
Kansas to let the news of this eighth
wonder of the world emanate from
the Philadelphia Bulletin. That is
where the story of the marvel evident
ly started.
The New York World prints it with
credit to the Quaker City paper under
a head "a Lake of Ice that Burns as
follows:
''Cold? Then Wen set fire to some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
In polite society a snub is sort OF
upper cut.
A lot of so-called golden silence is
only plated.
When women borrow trouble they
usually pay back double
BY advertising your wrongs you will
add to your collection.
Some men are to be trusted and
some others are not in the trust.
A woman's idea of a smart man is
one who always agrees with her.
Opportunity knocks but once. but
it's different with the human knocker-
The man who attends strictly to his
own business has a good steady JOB.
One can judge some men by their
deeds and some others by their mis-
deeds.
There is no need to hunt for
trouble; everything comes to those
who wait.
After sizing up their husbands, we
don't blame some women for being
fond of dogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
GOD SPEED

God speed Bob Evans and his gal
liant feet.
Such is the prayer that should go
UP today from every loyal American
heart For while this famous cruise
which has been undertaken by sixteen
battleships of the United States, the
greatest naval force that has ever
flown the stars and stripes, is assured
ly a mission of peace and course
of drill as Admiral George Dewey
has SO aptly stated, it is none the less
fraught with dangers.
There are ever the unseen and the
unknown perils of the sea which
Turk in treacherous ways around the
mighty battleship as well as the small
er craft. And though on a practice
trip, the battleships are ready for war.
Their magazines are full and there
are quite as many dangers to them
selves and men within their walls as
there are without. From the time
they have steamed out of sight of the
Atlantic shores they will be without
docking and repair facilities until they
reach the goal of their endeavors, the
Pacific coast of the United States.
Less mighty boats than these have
met with sore travail in Magellan
Straits. And this taking of a fleet of
sixteen mammoth units of the navy
on a. fourteen thousand mile journey
is a far different proposition from
taking a single ship or a fleet of three
or four on a similar trip.
But no one more than hazards the
thought that the cruise will be any
thing except a wonderful success, an
other of the brilliant achievements to
be added to the already brilliant an
mails of the United States navy.
The people of the whole country
have the same great confidence in
Bob Evans as have the fifteen thou
sand men with him. Hes got a face
that's cleared for action all the time"
as one Of his jackies has expressed it.
This will be Fighting Bob's'' last
cruise and that It will be a glorious
of a glorious naval career.
Is the belief of everyone. So God
speed Bob Evans and his gallant fleet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
BANK RESERVES.

There is a good deal to be said in
favor of a bill introduced by Congress
man Dawes, of Ohio, brother of a for
mer comptroller of the currency, re-
ducing the amount of reserves national
banks must keep, but increasing the
proportion of the reserves which they
must have in their own vaults" says
the Philadelphia Ledger. Mr.. A. B.
Hepburn, of New York. who is much
better authority on banking than the
author of this bill or his brother, urged
several years ago that the amount OF
required reserves should be reduced and
all Of the required amount should be
kept by each bank in it's own custody.
Mr.. Hepburn is a New York banker,
but he has observed the results of the
country banks pouring their funds into
New York in the summer and making
money too easy, and drawing them out
every autumn and forcing the calling of
loans and the selling of stocks.
''But when the Dawes bill is explain
ed to be the effort OF the country banks
to get revenge on New York because
they could not get all their deposits
back when they wanted them this past
season 1t is amusing. The country
banks do not have to send their idle
funds to New York If after this years
experience they should decline to do so
any more they would be acting within
their rights The fact is, they send
their funds to New York to get interest
on them, and it is highly diverting If
they are trying to get themselves re-
strained by law from depositing their
money with New York banks.
Under the Hepburn proposition and
the Dawes bill the country banks can
deposit as much of their money as they
like. above a legal minimum, in New
York Both aim to check the habit Of
sending money to the financial center.
Money in New York would be less easy
in the spring and less might be with
drawn in the fall with disagreeable re-
suits but the country banks will always
keep balances in the reserve or central
reserve cities. Mr.. Dawes would re-
duce the amount OF reserve that banks
of reserve cities can deposit in central
reserve cities from 1215 to tn per cent,
and the amount that country banks
can keep on deposit in reserve cities
from to 5 per cent Under this sys-
tenn the country banks would earn a
little less interest, but would serve
their own localities better than at pres
ent.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
A floating debt is a poor life pre-
server
Don't butt in unless you are head
strong.
Say little and you will gain a repu-
tation for wisdom.
It is better to take time by the fore
lock than to jump at conclusions.
An idle runror is really about the
most industrious thing in the world.
Things are seldom what they are
cracked up to be, especially antiques.
A casual inspection won't convince
you Of the age Of an egg or woman.
Occasionally you hear Of a good fell
low being transformed into a model
husband.
In these days of easy divorce it's a
wise child that knows its own STEP
father,
Man wants but little here below, but
he generally gets more than he wants
Of the thing he doesn't want at all.
Possibly there are men who have
more money than they know what to
do with, but it stands to reason that
they are not married.
Scribbler-'"They say Inkslinger is
a literary thief. Did he ever steal
your thunder?" Scrawler-''Worse
than that, he borrowed my umbrella. !"
Blobbs-''Bjones is rather dense
isn't hep SIobbs-stDense? Why, that
fellow wouldn't see the point of a joke
If he sat down on a bent pin"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16

ice and warm ourselves"
The speaker made, with the heel OF
| his skate. q hole in the Ice. He applied
a match to the hole. The ice blazed
up instantly with a hot, bright flame.
"Oh. how good 1T feels said the
young girl. She removed her gloves
to warm her slim hands the better.
"But isn't it rather odd" she said, "to
warm ones hands at fire of ice?"
"You are a stranger to Atchison.' %
said the young Kansan. cor you
wouldn't find it odd. We are used to
1t here. Always, when we skate on
Lake Doniphan, we set the ice af1re
IL we are cold"
She watched her own little fire.
what is the explanation of this
miracle ?" she said.
"a very simple one," said the young
man. This lake Is full of natural
gases. When 1t freezes over gas in the
form of bubbles impregnates the ice.
You have only to burst open bub-
BILE and put match to It and up
shoots a magical fame"
Possibly one reason why the Atchi-
son Globe and other Kansas papers
have not given proper prominence to
this rather miraculous phenomenon of
the material world Is because 1t does
mt often happen that sufficient ice
forms on the lakes and rivers of Kan
sas to permit of skating and the inci-
dental lighting of the ice to keep the
skaters warm. This is true of the
present winter season as far as it has
gone,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16

a home OF my own. and want you to
furnish it complete"
Complete ?" she ASKED. not quite
catching his meaning.
Even to a wife," explained Dick. 81
don't ask an answer now. but will you
considerable proposition? ?"
LAS a business woman, have all
ways considered propositions" she
said, with a laugh, but the look in her
eyes belied the briskness of her
words, and Dick realized that when
they should know each other better
there was a prospect of being settled
Sin full" as he termed in some months
later, when he placed a solitaire on
Marion's finger.-(Copyrighte 1907,
by N. E. Daley.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

| [F'rom the Atchison Globe.1
| Get your friend out of trouble befor.
you lecture him.
| How happy the young married people
are; and how soon they get into fro,,e
blei
| We have always thought life too
short to spend much time trying to
learn a lodge ritual.
When you find a poor girl who is
generally said to be pretty, you have
| found real pretty girl.
Advocate the right. but dome o,,ax
do it; don't become SO disagreeabIe ad-
vocating the right that you accompIish
more harm than good.
The mean things we say about ouy
enemy before we meet him are only
equaled by the mean things we say we
said to him when we met him.
The proprietor of the store has a
greater feefng of joy inside him when
an unmarried man comes in to buy
than when the man is married
1t may be wicked for a man to SMOKE
but 1t makes 1t a whole lot easier for:
the woman who is trying to decide on
what to get him for Christmas
We have noticed that in the glad
Yule Tide season the women have more
trouble arranging their time tables
than they have at any other time in
the year.
An Atchison woman says she nevar
accepts an invitation which saws
come ana we VIII treat you like one
of the family" She wants to be treat
ed like company.
Men say women never know wbara
generosity ends and extrava eanca r.
gins; women say men do not know fha
end Of economy from the beginning ~
miserliness. "
You are always hearing OF the ferIow
who did the best he could, and failed
Are you bold enough to say Won aIUays
did the best you could? You never ala
and you know it.
A tramp's philosophy: Never do anv-
thing today that you can put of nnf,,
tomorrow. Many duties that worrv
you today. II put Off until tomorrouS
will take care of themselves
When you make a fool of yourseIT
hunt up your punishment, and take n
1t is coming to you, and escape is i'm
possible. So take your kicking a.
quickly as possible, and get rid Of the
worry and fear.
Does it occur to you occasionaI11,
that friend is not as good loolxinr 90
you used to think? And isn't az
thought speedily followed by the re
Election that may be it is because vo,,
known him better?
A man seldom fails to avoid avar,,
fight possible. yet he is always taIking
about his enemy getting all he vantss
ana generally trying to create the i'm
preston that he dearly loves fightinr
and is constantly loaded to the muzzls'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16

on the ordinance book and I am
mayor of the city, 1t will be enforced"
Good. 1t would likewise be well for
the mayor to see that all other city
ordinances are enforced, particularly
the one which provides that persons,
who are permitted to tear UP the
pavements in the streets, shall restore
them to their former condition.
Others which are disregarded totally
might be mentioned. It's not neces-
sary for the mayor knows them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Aims at impossibilities are bad ones.
They waste ammunition.
NJ u ~
Prudent men do not depend much
upon chance.
o. r.
Unsuccessful chaps are generally held
to be in the wrong.
y Il
The difficult task is to maintain the
right.
" %
Because a man is silent, it's no sign
that he is wise.
n y
That saying, Laugh and the world
laughs with you" does not apply at all
times; for instance, when one laughs
at his own Jokes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16

William E. Curtis, the specialist of
the Chicago Record-Herald, has dis
covered a magnificent trait of charac-
ter in Charles e. Hughes, governor of
New York, and about whom there is
such continual talk as to his available
ity for the Republican presidential
nomination. Governor Hughes does not
consider himself in fallible. Would that
many other men in public life and in
positions of power had the same idea
of themselves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-16

Wen knowing that barking dogs never
bite, Fred jackson, the states attor-
mey general, and his assistants are not
lying awake nights because of the
bodily harm that has been threatened
them by anonymous individuals If they
continue their crusade for the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law. Most of
these barks come, as might be expect
cd. from Leavenworth, ever the home
ef hot afr