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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-05
Absolute Sanity Declared by Expert
Not to Exist.

Absolute Sanity Declared by Expert
Not to Exist.
! Anglo axons are so prone to take
cOmmOn-sense views of things that
| thpv seldom realize the full force of
the familiar saying that all men have
some form of madsess in them, says
| Current Literature. The sound infer
ence is, as is pointed out by DR.. G.
| H. Savage, the eminent English alien
| list, in a recent Lancet paper, that per
feet sanity would be not only undesir-
able in itself, but from a strictly
scientinc point OF view impossible.
For a perfectly sane persOn-were
such a thing thinkabIe-would be dull
and uninteresting-a mediOcTity, a
nonentity. The point to seize, how.
ever, as DR. Savage impresses upon
us, is that there can be no cOmprehen-
sive idea or definition of insanity, be-
cause the thing does not really exist,
No scientist can set up any standard
of nationality departure from which
would comprise or denote insanity.
B
because it is a continued fever char
&C cried by a peculiar course of the
temperature, by marked abdominal
symptoms, by an eruption upon the
skin. But there is nothing in what
goes by the name Of insanity to fur
Their a diagnosis as that term is IN
derstood by medical men generally.
Some treatises upon insanity prove
nothing at all by proving too much,
for they make whole nations insane
at once. Physicians connected with
insanity, as DR.. Savage argues, resem-
BILE gardeners rather than botanists.
we classify for convenience rather
than upon a scientific basis, because,
in point of fact, no such basis or fin
ality Of mode has as yet been discov-
cred
Perhaps, adds DR.. Savage, there is
no need to wonder at this, since
many have to be treated as hnatics
whose brains and nervous systems
show no change whatever from the
normal course Of what is recognized
as sanity. Unfortunately, the impulse
to define and classify sometimes leads
to misinterpretatiOn of a deplorable
kind. Such. for example, is the false
view, as DR.. Savage deems it,, that
every person of unsound mind is a
lunatic. That he says is a pseudo
legal absurdity. Obviously there are
many persons of unsound mind who
are neither dangerous to themselves
nor to others-why, therefore, regard
them as aIiens?" The true difficulty.
insists this distinguished expert, is
that the disease insanity does not ex-
list. Yet one might almost conclude
from the elaborate articles in our
leading daily journals that such a
thing as insanity is definitely estab-
jished scientific fact, that it is a NAL
3dy as definite in its symptoms and
origin as, say cancer or tuberculosis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-05
Emperor William? n Rest

Berlin, March EMPEROR William
is to leave here March 6 for his new
villa on the island of Corfu, where
he will take a long rest.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-05
CLASSIFIED JOKES: WIVES.

CLASSIFIED JOKES: WIVES.
He says his wife can drive nails
like lightning"
She must be fast"
No; he means lightning never
strikes twice in the same place.
Houston Post.
Hubby-Why, he fairly took my
breath away.
Wifey-T thought I missed some.
thing-Judge.
Your wife never sings any more.
Did she lose her voice?"
No; she found her senses. '-Cleve-
and Plain Dealer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-05
is THERE INSANITY

To he continued.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
HU1A0R or THE DAY

Mrs. Highmus-I suppose at some time
ii,n IN your life you struggled with the Nibe-
Mrs. Gaswell--Oh. yes: L had an awful
siege ct that in 's3. ! had to take all kinds.
OF nasty medicines before got it out Of
my system.-Chfcago Tribune.
Let's go in there and get a drink"
but the pirs s0y weaRIus,rsted !enh Is ~tt
aa1z II see Taft advises the Fiiipinos to be
Does. .eh? I didn't know the islanders
had tackled oridge"-Philadelphia Led.
ger.
Mrs; Wiggs-cook has broken only one
Mr.. Wiggs-That's better. How did II
Mrs. wiggs-1t was the last one
Judge.
"A pleasant walk" said Herr sausen-
heimer, after a strenuous climb to the top
from his brow, my wife couldn't sneak :.
word all the way up."-Fliegende Biatter
that rat people seldom spend their vaca.
tion in the .mountains?"
man r,a1,s fPan replied the observer Of hu-
it."-Chicago News.
1.-THE ideal! exclaimed Mrs Kadfey. .I
sop Ae
Probably" replied her husband. ..she.s
trying to find out why you are STARING
at her. er'-Phfladelphia Press.
Englishman (on Atlantic liner)-well
old chap, we'll soon be engaged with those
blarsted Yankee custom inspectors
American-You bet! And remember old
man to pay his duty-Puck.
.I notice you are prem.ture,v n.,ar
observed the inQuisitive passenger. s;Msy
ask how you lost your hair7''
Il lost 1t by doing too much buttine into
other peoples anairs, answered the
other passenger.-Chicago Tribune
Mrs Flippe has been dsssrted by two
husbands
'The abandoned creaturey-cleveland
Leader
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
L/YH(WxER .JO1y

Zone Who Was There is still writ
ing the society news for the Burlington
Republican.
Really the State Temperance union
ought to do something to stop the mad
rush for roller skating. An lola woman
sold her refrigerator to get money TO
spend at a rink.
Charley Blakesley thinks that the
horse estimated to be two million years
old, which is in the museum OF the
University OF Kansas, must have
wonderful array Of teeth.
During the storm on Monday night
lightning struck the tower Of the Geary
county court house at Junction City
and started a fire which was easily ex-
tinguished. The damage was not exten-
sive.
A number of people from the vicinity
of Abilene are going to emigrate to
Eden Valley. a rich tract OF land In
southern wyoming. We can under
stand them leaving the neighborhood OF
Abilene, but why Kansas?
AS Harry Breed, of Jewell City, was
riding from town the other day on his
motor cycle at full speed. a dog
bounced over a hedge just In time Tor
the machine to hit, him, Harry was
thrown thirty feet and the dog was
nearly crushed. The local paper is
probably we'll within the truth when
it adds that neither OF the principal
participants had much Of an appetite
for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Perry Of En-
poria spent last Sunday in Cottonwood
Falls and on their return home Mr..
Perry told the Emporia Gazette that
while at Cottonwood he saw young
man riding on a horse beside one of the
interurban cars and he was holding
hands with a girl on the platform. We
agree with the Gazette that this young
gentleman is entitled to q diploma to
show that he has earned the high de-
gree OF Bachelor Of Handholders.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
POETS TO THE FORE.

Poetry has come into its own at at
least one academic shrine. Prizes have
recently been distributed at Columbia
university, New York, by professor
of literature for the best short story
and the best poem produced by stu
dents. For long time the short story,
the essay, and the oration have been
secure of attention, money and medals
in colleges. No SO poetry. 1t has had
to exc out a hard existence of the mer-
est liberation. All rhyme was deemed
unreasonable and all reason incapable
of rhyme.
Then there was another scntiment-a
feeling that it is wrong to encourage
youth TO adopt 20 unprofit able calling
as that of the maker of verse. More
over, poets were born, not made. Even
Matthew Arnold, of whom it has been
the boast that he made himself a poet.
must have been born in large part
what he was. Yet the poetry that We
have had Of late years has been so dis
tinctly of the made sort-and at that
AS good or better than the made stories,
made orations, etc.-that perhaps now
different idea is beginning to obtain.
If present experience proves that all
writing is a matter of craft and work.
manship, as much encouragement
should be given to the sometime higher
as we'll as lower forms of the craft-to
poetry as well as prose.
n fact. so long has poetry been neg
lected, it should perhaps be given a
bonus now to enable it to come abreast
of overfavored prose. This was done at
Columbia. The poet received $50, the
story writer only $40. That worthy
citizen who declared that he did not
care who made the nations laws if he
might write it's songs would probably
graduate all poets summa cum lauda,
and give the best rhymester the fattest
scholarship. We need not go this far,
but perhaps it is due to admit that the
story tellers and prose writer's having
made so poor showing of their prefer
ence it is time to give the poets a
chance.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record

fFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
You can't convince self-made man
that he has cheated himself
Some fellows never enjoy a bottle
to the full unless they empty it.
1t is one thing to catch on, but quite
another thing to know when to let go.
Some men are more eloquent with
their silence than other men with their
speech.
IT takes a man half his life to dis
cover who his friends are and the other
half to locate his enemies.
The average man cannot conceal his
feelings sufficiently to refrain from
looking like a fool at his own we'd
ding.
Any boarding house keeper will tell
YOU that a person who will skip a
hoard bill should be made to walk the
plank.
The theory that marriages are made
in heaven must be comforting belief
to lots of women who haven't much
chance here.
There are just as good fish in the
sea as ever were caught" quoted the
wise Guy. That's right" added the
simple Mug, s'but . fsh that Is caught
is worth two IN the sea. =
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lrrom the Chicago News.

[From the Chicago News.J
Cleave to the good and use a cleaver
en- the bad.
1t is all that some men can do to
keep from being done.
A lie must travel with some rapidity
in order to avoid being nailed.
Anyway, the self-made man hasn'e
any one to blame but himself
Isn't It funny how funny some COM
edians think people think they are?
The polfteness Of some men causes
them to be looked upon with sus.
picion.
Life is too short for q man to do all
the things his wife wants him to do.
What this world needs is an addf-
tionAl supply of men and women who
talk less and say more.
If a woman can't say anything mean
of a rival she is pretty sure to remark:
well. she'll bear watching"
Every time we hear a man abused
behind his back 1t reminds US OF the
fact that we all catch it when we are
not present.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09


envelope bore in MISS CArleton's writ
ing the address OF q newspaper
Beside the monographs lay INT
article from which the copies had
been made. He read the heading,
.sNews from washington. Copyright
by the Standard Syndicate.
There was q soft rustic behind him.
but he did not turn.
"Mr. Harrinxford." She walked
around the table and stood opposite
him. Mr.. Harringford- her voice
.You write this7" he asked coldly.
She nodded.
ssYou arc the washington corres-
pondent of the Standard syndicate7"
"Yes'
"Are you H. w. carleton?"
Eyes, and-and I'm worse than
that. I'm the whole Standard Syndi-
cate.''
The congressman stared at her.
''The whole Standard SyndicateT
he repeated.
'aThe whole thing" she said miser-
ably. s'I'm the Washington corres-
pondent, the president--I'm-Im-
even the printers"
A little of the hardness left his
'why did you not tell me?" he
asked.
"oh. couldn't At first it was
great fun to deceive you and to keep
q.
when I knew you better I couldn't
tell you I was the person who had
written those contemplate things
about you.''
''How have you done this-a girl
"I came here AZ correspondent for
a western paper. but the pay was
small. wrote to number OF
provincial papers and asked them IL
| they could use q series of weekly let
faR 20 fvsN "a I44x .>1
self the Standard Syndicate; H. w.
Carleton, president. Several papers
subscribed for the letters. Every
week I wrote the News from WASH
ington,' made the copies on the
| mimeograph and sent them to my
papers All the correspondents were
putting you and thought you were
becoming a little spectacular and very
conceited. After I knew you was
sorry and bitterly ashamed. I wanted
to ask your forgiveness, but was
afraid you wouldn't-"
do you think care for what you
wrote about me?" he asked in
dignantly. 'Is my vanity as great as
that?'
But care-dreadfully. I have
not written any more nasty things
about you've praised you as much
as the others have. But 1 couldn't
Itel1 YOU" Her voice broke and her
eyes were full OF tears. Don't be
me?'
| Il canon conditions"
What are they?" FF
"The Standard Syndicate goes out
OF business and H. w. Carleton de-
votes her time to criticising me-but
not on paper"
Miss Carleton gathered up her en-
velopes and dropped them into the
open f1re and laid the mimeograph on
them Then she turned to Harring-
ford and held out her hands.
1.-THE Standard Syndicate has rona
out OF business" she said.-(Copy-
righted. 1908, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

CFrom the Atchfscn sGfobe.Jl sssS
You can make up a quarrel, but 1t
will always show where 1t is patched.
A man has SO many enemies you
don't dare say anything good about
him.
Most people laugh, not when they
want to, but when people think they
ought.
There are not many men who think
their wives have any sense in money
matters.
It is your friends who pick you to
and let you alone.
We used to know an old bachelor
who said he could always tell mar
ried man by his hang dog look.
There are times in every mans life
when the way to earn his friendship
and gratitude, is to ask him no ques-
tions.-
Your friends may sometimes act mad
because you do not como and see
tn EN-, but they are not as mad as they
seem.
What has become Of the old-fash-
toned woman who used to say to a
bachelor with a sore throat: You
need a sleeve around your throat with
a woman's arm in it?"
The first day man is out of a job,
he aims to get the position of cashier
in a bank; the second day, he dreams
of CIerkSn1p, ana the tn1rQ Qay ne
is wretched because he can't get the
janitorship.
There should be some title placed
before a mans name to show that he
is married. His face never tells
whether he is or not. A woman is
labled, with Mrs" Why should not
man be?
IF man abuses an enemy, he
hurts himself, and if he praises him,
his friends say he is a hypocrite
There seems to be no course more
creditable than the simple course of
keeping still.
It is easier to do your duty than
it is to worry over neglect of 1t. F'if-
teen minutes work will fix the fence
where the pig gets in, but If the
break is neglected, the pig will worry
YOU every hour of the night and day.
A few years ago there was an idea
that every little girl should take music
lessons, but a good many mothers do
not think so now: there are SO many
other things of more Importance. A
child who is compelled to practice
piano playing every day, may neglect
doing many other things of greater
| Importance.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

Each day brings some new worry
so as to enable us to forget the worry
of yesterday.
4 X
Herbert Spencer explains things in
a way that the average person cannot
understand.
n X
Wise parents employ pretty nurse
girl SO that their children will have
good police protection.
X X X
1t is not only well to take care OF
your pennies. It is also well to let
the get-rich-quick schemes take care
of themselves.
X y \
: There is this difference between the
millionaire and the tramp. One gets
a golf outfit and walks for pleasure
and the other walks from necessity.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

BY an almost unanimous vote the
New York conference Of the Metho-
dist church has gone on record as be-
Ing in favor of eliminating that para
graph of the church's discipline
which advises against dancing, card
playing and theater going. 1t is ex-
planned that if the general conference
of the church approves the step it will
not mean that Methodism alters its
historic position in respect to these
amusements. but simply makes them
q matter of conscience.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
MAYBE HE WOULD.


BIZ Jones he likes to sit around
And tell what he would do
II he were only President
For Just term or two.
He'd drive the grafters from the land
And give good men show
And have an honest government,
Perhaps! Wen never know.
Were Bill Jones but e Congressman,
You bet the fur would fly.
The troubles of the crooked rich
Each day would multiply.
He'd give the nations treasure box
A chance to overflow
II he were there a-running things,
Perhaps! Wen never know.
He wouldn't let the ship Of state
Sail any way but straight:
He wouldn't make all grand reforms
Out in the lobby wait,
And every bill would have to be
Exactly on the square,
For there would be no monkey work
If only Bill was there.
1t seems a pity that we can't
Get statesmen of that sort
Some men of whom when they were there
Wed hear but good report.
BIZ Joneses 1urk on every side,
But. really. what's the use
Since no one rises UP to say:
Come on. Bill: cut 'er loose?"
Nashville American.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

Leavenworth experienced a rather
unique municipal election on Tuesday.
There were five candidates in the field
Tor the offices which will exist under the
new plan for the government of the
city by a commission which the city
Droposes to try. There were no can
didates against these gentlemen so
their election to office was unanimous
They seem to have the full confidence
of the people Of that city and their
administration of its affairs will be
watched with interest by the other
cities of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
WASTING TIME.

One of the big newspapers Of the
country is the New York Times and
it is presumably able to hold its own
against attacks from any quarter. ex-
cept from the women, but we predict
that it is liable to get into trouble if
it isn't careful in what it says about
them and their styles of adornment.
1.-THE architecture of the new spring
hats is amazing says our brave
contemporary and continues, 1.-THE
foundations are not as large as they,
were when the revolt against feminine
hats among the theatergoers led to
the establishment of the hats Off
rule in our theaters. But the super
structures are prodigious masses of
feathers, laces, artificial flowers and
fruits. and the amputated members
of birds and beasts. They look we'll
at a distance, but near at hand their
effect is displeasing. Properly to dis
play her new headgear, the woman of
the spring Of 1908 should have an
acre of space around her"
Now, IL any one of the fashionable
danes should care to notice this critic
at all they would probably say to him,
cease, viper. you gnaw a file,'' or
something of the kind, for the man
who undertakes to set the style Of
woman's fashionable wear Is up
against proposition that few can
successfully deal with. If she wishes
to wear a hat that will brush the cob
webs from the sky, or one that will
take up all of the room on the side
walk, that is just the hat she will
wear. so there now! The Times man
may as we'll tackle something easy
exhaust the Times mans effrontery,
for in another article he says:
sit has been the custom to treat
humorously of the discomfort and in
convenience caused to others by the
large hats of womankind. But it is
in no mirthful spirit that we now
record a protest against them. They
are discarded in theaters, but they are
worn in church and at lectures, and
one Of them, of the new style, will
obstruct at least twenty-five feet of
the view of platform or stage of a
person sitting behind it. Women
wearing these things should be COM
PEELED to remove them indoors. Two
of them at a private reception will
crowd a room of ordinary size.- They
are not beautiful, because they are
appropriate to no occasion unless the
place is an open field. II a man
should raise an umbrella in a lecture
hall or church he would be expelled,
and properly, too. Why not compel
a woman wearing hat as big as an
umbrella to remove it or retire?"
What do you think of that venture
some audacity? Is not the writer in
the class of those who court trouble
for its own sake? And what good
will its daring do. we venture to ask ?
Will any woman who believes In
keeping up with the styles wear a hat
one inch smaller because of the
diatribes of mere man? Not il we
know anything about them. Rather
would she take delight in sitting be-
fore him and shutting off ali the view.
The Times might as we'll advise tariff
revision
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

patent office. In the past year there
has been an increase of one hundred
per cent in the number of applica-
tions. including many from foreign
countries. Still there is not much
chance that the airships will be COM
petitors of the steam railroads. troll
ley cars, sailboats, steamships and
automobiles for many, many years to
come, IL they ever are
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

Natures great friendship for Kan
sas seems to be very much in evidence
again. E. J. Smiley, secretary of the
Grain Dealers association of Kansas,
reports that the outlook for a great
wheat crop in the state was never bet
ter than it is now. And in this con-
nection 1t might be we'll to extend a
little sympathy to the green bug and
the Hessian fly because they have
been driven from such pleasant pas
lures green.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

It would be well for most of the
newspaper men Of Kansas to attend
the Kansas women's Press associa-
ticn meeting which Is to be held in
this city on April II. From the galaxy
of women and the topics of the pa
pers that they are to read and discuss
there is no doubt that the newspaper
men VIII be able to hear and learn
much that will be OF inestimable benz
iefit to them in the practice of their
profession.