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BLUE GRASS BLADE

academic restraints, and edicts of the
schools, that made the human mind cow
ering convict before their imaginary gods,
ghosts and devils.
He sailed from headland to headland,
and navigated every creek and inlet,
where religious superstition lurked to en-
trap credulous and fearaden humanity.
He was the most powerful orator of the
modern world and Demosthenes Cicero
and Caesar with their dead languages and
religions were pigmies before this intel
lectual giant, with his living truth and
language as his only weapons.
So mentally panoplied was this man that
orthodoxy no more dared to meet him in
open, honorable intellectual battle, than
attempt to observe the incest proprieties
of life in the presence of hurricane.
He poured forth floods of eloquence
from the throne of Reason, coined from his
mighty brain and great heart. His
thoughts, like mountain torrents went
of superstition then calming and enchain-
ing the brain and heart of humanity with
symphonies of sympathy and love as soft
as the notes of the Aeoian.
The orthodox world poured its hatred
and torrents of abuse on the great Inger
soil for these three offendings:
list. He denied that the bible was di-
vinely inspired and inerrant
End. He absolutely rejected the doc
trine of eternal punishment.
3rd He honestly said he did not know
Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-09
Majestic, Commanding, Towering, He Stood
Among Men Like Mighty Oak
Above Its Fellows.
(By DIR. j. b. Wilson,

Encomium has been almost exhausted in
praise of this wonderful man, whose brain
was a store-house of pyrotechnics, forever
going off in the gallery of imagery, and
bursting into myriads of brilliantly varie
gated stars. We wonder at that magma
ton, which seemed to embrace the whole
of boundless nature-of nature secret, hid
den, fine and delicate, as well as that stu
pendous TO the view.
Now we wander with him through
Arcadian fields, green-velveted. inlaid with
dased mosaics, hedge-bordered, and fra.
grant, with eglantine, jasmine and wild
rose; through a mighty wood now musical
with the pipe of its sylvan spirits, and now
holding the bowling tempest in its many
fingered clutch; now by trickling sDrins
we stand. empowered by a paradise of
green leaves. Through woodland solitudes
we trace its ripping course, there with it
wind through blossoming. shadowy Wales
With him, we ascend the mountain, and
stand by torrents, which filter down
through crevced darkness from far
heights, snow-crowned and stargemmed.
BY mighty cataracts, mist-shrouded and
rain-bowed with prisoned sunbeams-whose
hoarse, sepulchral anthems awe the soul to
silence, as they sink and die away in the
Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-09
lngersoIl Was a Niagara, a Resist ess Tor
rent of nexhaustibe Force in the
Great World Of Thought.
(By Josephine X. Henry)

This issue of the Blade is to commem-
crate the birth of the one, peerless i'm
mortal Ingersoll whom the world of
thought reverences, and before whom the
world of faith is silenced The one man
who sun-crowned with regal reason pass
ed through the world and left trail of
light that will last until human thought
dies, and the light of the stars is extin-
guished He left light upon the altar of
the human mind, to guide the nations to
the radiant future, when Reason shall
reign, and faith and her landmarks igno-
rance and fear are as dead as the Coos
of Olympus.
Ingersoll was the one man of our time
that by intellectual force turned a page
in the history of the world Bruno, Vol
ney Voltare and Paine laid the foundation
of the Temple of Reason, and lngersOll
erected the superstructure and threw wide
its portals to the human mind. There was
about this man the primal energy and d.
rectness of Nature. He was in the world
of thought a Niagara, resistless torrent
of ineXhaustible force.
The mind moved in large curves, and
swept along in royal Inconsistencies of
Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-09

His Works the Rarest Flowers in the Garden Of Literature

whether or not there was another life after
this one.
Are our Christian friends dead sure that
they know?
Surely this man who brought hundred
thousand pulpiteers to the defense of their
creeds said something of which the schools
had never dreamed.
If all Christians whose sins have been
washed away in 'the Blood of the Lamb
lived as pure. honest and noble lives as
the great and good Ingersoll, miserable
sinners" would disappear from Christen-
dom, and there would be no need OF a
scheme of salvation, or of a fountain
filed with blood to wash away the sins
of the world.
Tngersolls teachings Turk today in every
pulpit in Christ endom. His ideas are
clothed in the garments of orthodoxy, but
his gospel of Reason is eating out the
heart of faith.
The works of Ingersoll are the rarest
lovers of Truth Liberty and Justice should
see to it, that they are placed in all pub
lie libraries. and used as textbooks in our
public schools to place before the rising
generations the grandest literature of the
ages, and a code of justice and morals
never before presented to the human mind
Let the intellectual world make of
August 18th, the birthday of the immortal
lngersoll a red letter day and hold it In
reverence and gratitude.
Versailles, Kentucky.
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poet-painter passed over them their phos-
phorescent glow. Twas the music and
ryhthm, the light and shade, the tint and
tone of his speech, which gave it force and
charm Take these away and he would
sink to the prosaic and commonplace; but
with these, his mind was like unto
sphered armament filled with countless
fires.
He was one of the greatest among men
first, because he was one of the greatest
of poets; second. because he was, pre-
eminently. a humanitarian, a great general
end leader, invincible in the sacred cause
for which he stood-that of the reign of
reason justice and truth.
SO majestic, so commanding and tower
ing he stood among men that | can liken
him only to a mighty oak. lifting his green
head high above mis- fellows-first to senti-
mel the awakening sun and last to receive
his dying smiles; first to withstand the
force of the blast, and first the thunder and
lightning to defy
Still, green-robed and towering he stands
in our memories, mighty teacher among
men. looking down upon the sophistries,
superstitions, cruelties and errors of a de-
caying faith. even as the towering oak of
the forest looks down upon the dead snags
and twisted, knotted, stunted shrubs, long
arrested in their growth.
What magnificent personality! What
wonderful combination of heart and
brain! We picture him nova delight to
the eye-imposing, superior, grand
Again we hear his voice. now like the
flow of soft currents, which wrap and dis
solve us in ecstacy; now like might cata-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Ten tons Of sugar were sold on the
second monthly sales day OF the Bust
ness Mems association at New Rich
mOnd.
Frank S. Baines Of GAINESVILLE, has
awarded a contract for a $4,000 to-
bacco warehouse to Fred Little Of
Fond du Lac.
Probably fifty applicants for the
positions Of typewriter clerks, yeter-
fnarians, janitors and other state po-
sitions took examinations at Madison.
Since beginning the manufacture Of
flush veneered doors the ROdds Lum-
Der and Veneer company Of Marsh
held has given so many orders that it
is considering the enlargement Of It's
plant.
The suit brought by the govern
ment against the American Tobacco
company alleging that corporation to
be a monopoly in restraint of trade
in violation OF the Sherman anti
trust law has been started
Henry H. Rodgers Of the Standard
Oil company has sold $I1O00G00
Tidewater company, first lien, five
year, s per cent convertible gold
bonds TO Redmond & Co, and the
Equitable Trust company of New
York.
Clarence Nicholson Of AIgOma. Wis.
has established a new industry at
Duraud by opening d bottling plant.
lie viii manufacture a full line OF
soft drinks. He has been in the bust
ness ten years at AIgoma.
The Neyersweat mine Of the Ana
conda group Of the Amalgamated Cop
per company resumed operations at
Butte affOrding employment TO 500
men. The East Mining company also
started work. giving work to fifty
miners. The West Gray Rock will re-
sumo and will employ about 100 men.
Sheriff Foster adopted q unique and
extremely effective plan for queIIiug
disturbances which have been almost
continuous at Port Washington, n,
y, since more than 100 Italian and
bank workers went on q strike. The
sheriff rounded up the strikers when
they were approaching the works
and placed every one OF them under
arrest
The plant OF the Appleton Paper
and Pulp company, one of the oldes.
in the Fox river valley, and pioneer in
the paper industry, viii be operated
only about three months longer. When
the present large supply OF pulpwoOd
is ground up the mill will be shut
down, and the company will begin Op-
erauons at once toward the COnstTuC-
ton of a new electric power house.
the power to be used for commercial
purposes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28

for gifts, such as silver service sets,
presented to the vessels Of the navy.
The question of ownership of such
gifts is now determined by law.
An arbitration treaty between the
United States and Denmark by Act
ing Secretary Bacon and Constantin
Brun minister for Denmark. The
treaty follows the lines Of the general
arbitration treaties which have been
negotiated between the United States
and several European countries.
Because Of the great contributions
Of the late Maj James Carroll, sur
geon, U. S. A. and the late Acting As
sistant Surgeon Jesse w. Lasear, 0.
S. A.. in connection with the discOY-
cry by them Of the means Of prevent
I ing yellow fever the house granted
their widows an annuity for life Of
! $125 a month
In deciding the case Of Anna Kea-
Ioha and Keoni Williams, grand
] daughters Of the late J. r. Williams
/ of the island of Oahu, Hawaii against
/ William R. Castle, trustee Of the es-
tate Of Williams, against the wO-
men, the Supreme court Of the
! United States held that marriage By
the father to the mother Of the child
/ rem born out Of wedlOck does not
/ have the effect in Hawaii Of legitima-
thing the children.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
TRAGEDIES

Two children were burned and sew
eraI hundred persons badly frightened
during communion II ST. JOseph's
Roman Catholic church in Chicago.
Falling $50 feet down the shaft al
the Gibson mine at Amasa on the Me
nominee iron range. at Ishpemjng,
Gust Nangense, a mechanical engin-
eer. was instantly killed.
After recovering from the effects Of
sulphuric ether, taken while he was
drunk, En- Miller was committed to
the workhouse for thirty days at
Fond du Lac.
Mrs. Nettie Odette, of Wausau, who
was shot by Albert Milbauer, the in
sane man who killed himself. died at
St. Mary's hospital without regain
ing consciousness. MiIbauer'S wife,
who also was shot. will recover.
At Northampton, Mass, in a run
away accident Miss Ethel Bur
roughs of SummervjIle. a member Of
the senior class at Smith college, was
thrown from a carriage and Instantly
killed.
Alone in her little home save for
her three small children, AID terror
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28

stricken with fear for their safety,
Mrs. Bessie Ellis Deeson of Memphis,
Tenn, shot and probably fatally
wounded her husband Hardiman S.
Deeson.
The coroner's jury brought in a
verdict that Mrs. Rose Watts of
Woodstock, Ill, came to her death at
Beloit from a criminal operation but
did not suggest who was guilty. 1t
exonerated a physician who attend
ed the woman.
Gertrude Kopp, a farmers daugh-
ter, aged 13 years, was herding COWS
near Caryville in Eau Claire county
with her little brother and another
boy The latter had a shotgun with
him for hunting gOphers. The gun
was accidentally discharged and the
shot entered Gertrude's side and
killed her.
Coroner Hill is Investigating a case
of supposed infanticide eleven miles
south Of Waukesha in the town of
Muskego, where the body Of a newly
born infant was found floating in a
creek. The body had been seWed up
in a woman's knit undergarment,
and, with a stone as weight, cast
into the creek. The flowing water
caused the garment to break open
and the body rose to the surface
where it was discovered floating.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
OBITUARY.

J. Scott Richman, one Of the oldest
DractiCing lawyers in Iowa in years
of service, is dead.
Eugene Francois Marie Henri,
ninth duke Of Harcourt, is dead in
Paris, aged A years.
Mrs. Elizabeth SoIiday, wife Of Col.
A. Soliday and mother Of Dr.. A. 2.
SoIiday Of Milwaukee, died aged 60
years.
The Most Rev Peter Bourgade,
archbishop Of Santa Fe, is dead. Heart
failure was given as the cause. He
was 60 years of age.
VoIney J. Bassinger, one Of the
former leading horsemen and livery
stable ploprietOrs Of southern Wis
cOnsin, died at Racine, aged Il years.
Frederick May Holland. author of
various reviews, essays and pamph-
lets, is dead at Concord, Mass. He
was member Of the Wisconsin
Academy of Science.
Professor Alfred CabeL aged "A
years, for more than half q century
a prominent figure in musical and op-
cratic circles of two continents. is
dead at Sioux City, la.
The Rev. IT. l, w. Cate, formerly
Of Boston but for ten years in charge
of the Universalist mission in Japan,
is dead. Dr.. Cate was also connected
with the university at Toxic.
L. B. Wheat, a lawyer, who gained
national prominence in conducting
the noted Hillmon Insurance case
taking il through all the courts OF
the country is dead at LeaveDworth
Kan.
Professor J. H. Coyner Of Hopkins,
vile, Ky, at one time president OF
colleges in Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Los Angeles, Cal, and who had lee
tured in all parts of the United States
against mOTmanism, is dead.
Captain Samuel SamueIs, for if
teen years president of the Marine
Journal, who became famous in the
early SOS when he commanded the
Dreadnaught, the fastest sailing paC
het Of its time, is dead at his home
in Brooklyn.
Dr. Frank B. Brewer. who died at
the home of his son, Dr.. Brewer OF
Fort Atkinson, taught school il
Whitewater nearly fifty years ago
He was principal of the leading
school for eleven years. He was =
years old.
Word is received of the death in
Berlin, May Is, Of Charles Fredericb
UIrich, whose paintings have attract
ed much favorable attention in Amer
lea and abroad Mr., UIrich, a painter
Of American life. was born in New
York in 1858.
Professor Leslie A. Lee Of BOwdOiI
college, who was noted especially for
his research expeditions in LaboradOl
and South America, died following
an operation for an intestinal trouble
Professor Lee was born in 1852.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
Ailments of Amer cans

A prominent physician at Carlsbad
reckOns on two or three fingers the
chief ailments of Americans who con
suit him. They are the results Of
oVer-indulgence at the tables and the
worry habit contracted by going the
pace. The pace, IS every one knows.
may be the too-enthusfastic pursuit
of any branch OF business or social
life. A moderate chase gives no one
cause for worriment It is when one
galloDs all the time that there is mis-
chief. To staid and sober observer
who cannot see more than one side
Of condition at a glance it appears
possible that it would be easier and
pleasanter to take the remedy Of mod
GRAFTON in this country than to have
to cross annually to foreign parts
in search of a cure But he would
find difficulty in leading any outside
of his own circle to agree with him.
Getting into shape to require the
cure is two-thirds of the fun, and the
other third is found in taking the
cure.-Boston Transcript.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28

apply only to property acquired since
the passage of the Hepburn rate bill,
May %, 1906. The committee reso-
luton applied to all products without
limitation concerning the time of
ownership.
The senate ratified the extradition
treaty with Portugal, over which
there was much debate in executive
session because of a provision guar
anteeing that criminals extradited
from Portugal should not suffer cap
! itaI punishment. In ratifying the
treaty, the senate adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that 1T is agreed by
the United States that no person
charged with a crime shall be extra
ditable from Portugal upon whom
the death penalty can be inflicted
for the offense charged by the laws
OF the jurisdiction in which the
charge is pending"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
FOREIGN

King NanueIs attachment FOR 9
daughter Of a lady in waiting
threatens to disrupt the matrimonial
plans laid for the young ruler.
President Roosevelt is among the
chiefs of state who cabled congratu,
Iations to King Alfonso on the oCca-
sion Of the twenty-secOnd anniversary
Of his birth.
Nearly 100 residents Of OportO,
representing all shades of monarch
isis, arrived at Lisbon. They marcbid
in procession to the. palace and paid
homage to King Manuel
An official telegram to London re-
ports twenty-seyen deaths from
cholera in the regiment of the Nuns
ter fusueers, sent INTO the cholera
camp from Mai. General WillcOk's
force now operating against the Mob
mands.
Emperor Francis Joseph is again
slightly iudisposed. Court officials at
Vienna say there is no reason FOR
anxiety. but after the firing duties
connected with the recent visit Of
Emperor William and the German
princess it is necessary for his ma
jesty to be careful.
4 bill has been introduced in the
chamber OF deputies Of Brazil asking
for the appropriation Of 100000 as a
gift for Senator Ruy BarOosa, the
former president Of the senate. for
his services in defense of Brazil at
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
THE NEWS ABRIDGED
IN BADGERDOM.

Modem Woodmen at La Crosse are
considering the purchase Of the
Young Mems Christian association.
Mamie Hemmens of GAINESVILLE, who
disappeared, was found at the home Of
friends in BeIoit and brought home.
A small poz epidemic is prevalent
in the north part Of Mount Pleasant,
RacDl county Five cases have been
taken to the pesthOuse.
Gustav Eyenson Of La Crosse, who
escaped from the county insane asy-
DUN was found upon examination to
be sane and was discharged.
Forest fires in Sawyer county dam
aged property belonging to the North
Wisconsin Lumber and Manufacture
ing company and George Gasink.
The home Of Alderman William W.
Watt Of GAINESVILLE was entered by
burglars, who took a pocketboOk con
tanning SIS and babys bank with
several dollars.
Owing to fear Of an epidemic Of
scarlet fever and diphtheria the
schools at Sheboygan were closed and
no services were held at the Dutch
Reformed church.
Deputy Sheriff P. J. Hughes Of
Douglas county was in Appleton and
caused The arrest OF John B. MacID-
ner. who has been taken to Superior
where be will answer to a serious
charge.
Ministers and leading citizens Of
Eau Claire organized a law enforce
ment league to deal with alleged de-
fiance Of the statutes by the saloons
The organization is headed by o. II.
Ingram, d millionaire.
Frank Mayer, claiming Superior as
his home, was arrested at Cumber-
land by City Marshal Doar and plead
ed guilty to the charge of robbiDg
Matt Arnes' general store and the
DOst0mce at BaTrOnett He was bound
over
The Kel5h Bible society Of Oshkosh
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent Ellis Roberts; vice president
John Rowlands. secretary, Hugh G.
Davic-. secretary j. Edna Roberts,
librarian, Mrs Mary o. Davis; eZecU-
tive comm'tce. Evan C. Davis, Lu-
ther Davies, William NJ. Jones, Rob
ert T.. Jones and John Owens.
seven tots. ranging in age from 3
to II years all Of them lily clad,
hungry and tired. were found wan
derng about the lake front At Manito-
voc They were looking for their
grandma. Thu children said their ia
Cher IN Chicago had shipped them off,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
BATTLE FOR
BISHOP RIGS
METHODIST GENERAL CONFER
ENcE LIKELY TO ELECT UNI
VERSITY PRESIDENT.
COMMITTEE REJECTS PROPOSAL
TO REVISE THE FAITH AND
DOCTRINE.

Baltimore, May ga battle for
bishoprics was hotly waged yesterday
and before adjournment Of the Meth
odisU Episcopal general conference
the fifth ballot had been cast and was
in the hands Of the tellers, who We're
instructed to report the result to
the conference at its opening this
morning. The election Of Edwin
H. Hughes, president of Depauw uni
Yersity, on an early ballot is looked
for confidently. The ballots thus
far show marked gains for Rev.
Charles L. GoodelI, pastor of Calvary
church, New York, whose votes have
increased from 1914 on the first bal
lot to 1872 on the fourth.
The temperance committee has
been asked to define the duty Of a
Methodist lawyer who may be as
signed by a court to defend a liquor
seller.
The committee Of Is, appointed TO
consider the proposal looking to II
formal re-statement of the faith ana
doctrines of Methodism, following the
suggestion of the Methodist Episcopal
church of the south that such a staRa
ment be formulated as might be Civ.
en- worldwide acceptation as the
creed of all branches of Methodism
| has decided unanimously to rejec.
! the proposal.
The Rev. Dr.. William F. Anderson
of New York and the Rev. DR.. John
L. Nuelson Of Mast theological semi
nary Berea, O., were elected bishops
upon the second ballot.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28

Mrs. Mary Baker c. Eddy, head Of
Che Christian Scientists, objects to
current rumors that she is in i'll
health
Three earthquake shocks were per
ceptibIe in Montana Sunday night. Al
MarysyilIc dishes rattled on shelves
and clocks We're made to strike by
the seismic disturbances.
The Laetare medal was formally
conferred at NOtre Dame upon Dr.
James Charles Monaghan, last chief
Of the United States bureau of con
sular reports, former consul to Ger
many. former professor at Wisconsin
and Notre Dame universities.
Burglars entered the book store Of
w. II. Robinson, in the center of the
business district of Kenosha by cut
ting a glass in a door at the rear Of
the building The robbery was dis
covered before the men had time to
break open the cash register.
a fund of 100000 in cash will be
raised and placed in the Allegheny
National bank at Pittsburg to assure
depositors and the public of its unim-
paired sOlidity. A plan of TeOrganiza-
ton has also been agreed upon. Cash
Ter William Montgomery, charged
with embczzlement in connection with
the banks difficulties, is still out on
100000 bail
With Dir. Cyrus Adler Of Washing
ton. in the chair with PCS delegates
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
The MODERN MUMMY.

And thou hast walked about! How
strange a story!
In other streets, so many years agol
And had, no doubt, the full of man
hoods glory
Though now mine eyes, perfOrce,
behold thee so!
Methinks, then, thou are from some
town benighted,
Where goggled eye and curiously
sWathed head
Bespoke a popuIace or race affrighted
70 rightly robe or to embalm their
dead.
Thy masked face and hands 50 well
protected.
Recall an age sans hygienic pride
What? / have erred2 Thou has not
been injected
Thou'rt much alive just on an au-
to ride,
New York Sun.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-28
Photographing the Mirage.

The photograph represented a palm
grove, lake and a caravan of laden
camels and white-robed Arabs NOV.
ing in stately wise across the pale
desert.
That is a picture of a mirage or
fata morgana," said the traveller. q
took it in the Sahara, not far from
Timbustoo. There was really no.
thing there but sand, wastes On
wastes OF sand; but my dazzIed eyes
saw that mirage, and my camera saw
it too.
This is the only mirage picture
I ever got. I have tried in CeyIon, in
Egypt and in Morocco to photograph
various mirages, but always in vain.
There are scarcely six mirage photos
in existence. Minneapolis Journal.