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to this weight of several hun.
dred tons, great steel cable
was attached to each of the two

sections, and anchored in the opposite banks. Elec
trio plants were established each side and by
their means all the riveting. lighting, and trans
porting done.
During portion of the year great mist hangs
over this region, being very destructive to iron
and steel, as rust rapidly forms. This was an
other somewhat unusual problem that had to be
met by the engineers in charge. Every piece OF
material that went into the bridge was therefore
carefully Inspected all traces of rust were re-
moved and finally, each piece was covered with
coating OF specially prepared waterproof paint
dull gray enamel was selected as the finishing
color for the structure as this allows any traces
OF corrosion to show prominently
The bridge was of the many visions of Cecil
Rhodes, who could see vast continental line
crossing Africa from north to SOUTH from the city
of Cairo to Cape Town, and this bridge was to
carry this line of steel the boiling whirlpool
of Victoria Falls.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
By w. T. Walsh

daring engineering feats ever undertaken. The
gap is $50 feet To begin operations.
the gorge had to be crossed. First a rocket car.
ryng a stout cord shot across Then the
string was used to bear over wire rope Other
ropes were drawn across and the engineer in
charge crossed in a little wooden chair-the first
tlme that the feat had been accomplished.
Owing to the sheerness of the gorge on eaco
SIDE, the bridge had to be constructed on the
cantllever princple--on the same principle as the
ST. Lawrence bridge which tumbled into that
river, near Quebec, almost two years ago now
creating such a furore in the engineering world
The central span is 500 feet long subdivided
INTO twenty parts each of twenty-five feet Dur
ing the erection, there to begin with this
great gap to be built over, the span on each side
creeping out farther from day to day Owing to
the location over deep gorge it was absolutely
out OF the question to scaffoldng, staging
or other similar well known aids. AS offset
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

hall in Carton failed to hold the crowd which
surged through the streets. Every grade of So
ciety was represented in the gathering, and every
one of the thousands of high and low caste women
attending the meeting dressed in white as a
token of mourning. Those who studied the be-
havior of these erstwhile shrinking women could
fast becoming modernized The virtual sovereign
of China, for many years past having been a
woman the uplift of the female naturally re-
ceived the lions share of the governments atten-
ton. The recent acts of the late Dowager EN-
press, Isl An, leave room for doubt in the mind
OF a frank critic that she extremely socitous
about the welfare of the women of the Dragon
Empire. She ordered the bindings of the feet of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
A Bridge in An African Jungle

IF you were one of
the workmen on
one of the great
est bridges in the
world, as you chung
to the flying arch
under construction,
420 feet above a
boiling, seething
whirlpool, don't you
think that you
would feel more Sc
cure if a safety net
were stretched out
ready to catch you?
Well, the builders
OF the great bridge
over the Zambesi
river, near Victoria
Falls, didn't feel
that way about it.
In fact, they said
the net made them
nervous. They did
not care about the
danger SO long as
the fact was not
constantly adver-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

OF h er Oriental
countries the move
ment is of much
m ore re en- t
growth. Naturally
the most modern
lied Oriental wo-
manhood is to be
found in Japan. In
the Mikado's land
the girls attend the
common primary
schools along with
the boys, and re-
Give efficient
training. In higher
academies the eff
fort is made to in
struct the girls in
the arts and sci
ences that will be
especially valuable
to them in their
after life. The pro
vision lor the high
er education OF
women is especial
ly good in Tokyo,
and this is the only
Guy III lne ORIENT
which conducts a
university S p e.
cially designed
for women-Nip-
pon Josh Dali Gakb
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
Whv Truth Goes Naked.

Secretary Meyer, at a Newport
luncheon, answered an interesting
question.
why, a naval cadet asked, do we
always speak of the naked TRUTH
Secretary Meyer smiled and an
swered:
There is an ancient label. and one
very appropriate to this hot weather
which tells US that on summer at
ternoon Truth and Falsehood set out
to battle together. They found crys
tai spring, they bathed in the cool
fresh water, and Falsehood, emery
ing first, clothed herself in the gar
ments of Truth and went her way
But Truth, unwilling to put on the
garb of FalsehOod, departed naked
And to this day Falsehood wears
Truths fair white robes, so that many
persons mistake her for Truths very
self; but poor Truth still goes naked.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

Fiercest of all the wild orgies or
the aborigines of North America is
the fiesta which eliminates in the nre-
dance of the Saboba Indians, small
tribe living close to the Sierra Madre
range Of mountains. which walls Off
the seacoast of California from the
desert. Up to last year, when the
Indian bureau Of the United States
government finally forbade the hold
ing of these fiestas, the Babobas had
gatherer every year at the base OF old
Mount San JaCinto to sing, dance ana
gamble. and finally to throw them
selves into pit of fiery Goals, roll
over and over on the burning bed.
and then dance with bare feet on the
red-hot floor of the pit With tn
passing of the Baboba fiesta has gone
out what was, perhaps, the strangesI
and weirdest gathering white men
have ever seen. Even the pOtlatches
of the Chilkat Indians of Alaska are
tame affairs compared to the fire
dances Of the Babobas There is
Saboba Indian reservation at the base
of the historic mountain named
above. From It there went forth 10
their homes in the desert, at the end
of the last fiesta, bands of Yumas,
Cocopahs, northern YaQuis and Moap-
as-mere remnants of the tribes
which ince densely populated all the
regions now known to the white men
of the west as the desert "-Wiic
| World Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
DRUNKEN |OWAN
HUGS STOVE

WaVerly, Ia, Dec. 15.-David Lynch
died at the hospital in this city as re
suit of burns he had sustained while
suffering from an attack of delidium
tremens. Several days ago he went
to the sheriff and asked that he be
given a nights lodging, having spent
all of the money he had saved during
the summer, about $40. The sheriff
consented to harbOr him for the
night. Instead of shutting him up in
cell, the sheriff gave him room
near his office in which there was a
stove. Shortly after Lynch had been
placed in this room he had an attack
of delirium tremens, and, divestinG
himself of his clothing, mounted on
top Of the hot stove in his bare feet
burning them to the bone. The sher-
ifs wife heard Lynch raving and at
once summoned help. Before the
help arrived Lynch had dismounted
from the stove, but had grasped it in
his arms and was hugging it when
help arrived. 1t took four men to
oveTpOwer the victim. He was taken
to the hospital where he received the
best of care, but the burns proved
fatal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
No MARRIAGE FOR
PERSONS UNFIT
EDUCATION OF PUBLIC CON-
SCIENCE ON SCIENTIFIC
BASIS.
THAT WOULD HELP GREATLY
IN SOLVING A MOST SERI-
Gus PROBLEM.

Terre Haute. Dec. 15.-PrOfessOr L.
] Rettger, at the head Of the depart
ment of physiology at the Indian Nor
nal school, says science has indicated
the way to improve the breed OF man
kind. and that it is for society to
bring about the result.
THE unfit should not be allowed to
marry and care should be taken that
two similar detectives are not allowed
to be Joined together, but just how
this is to be brought about cannot
say" said the professor. Perhaps
the education of public conscience on
scientific basis will alleviate condl-
tions materially"
"COn-genito traits or characteristics
which we bring with us when we are
born are transmitted to pOsterity and
must affect the race biOlogically, but
those traits which are acquired during
life are not inherited by the next gen
erations," he says. The church and
the school have always emphasized
free will as far as the most important
of the three great factors that con,
troll human destiny-free will, environ,
ment and heredity. But science comes
along and gives the matter a wholly
new aspect.
1T is true that social environment
has much to do in molding the lives OF
mankind, and that the social reformel
today has the entire world as an audi
ence. But, after all, heredity is the
predominating factor By this | Dc
not mean that traits taken on durina
| life are handed down nor are those
| characteristics which are accumulated
artifcially.
Mature is too wise to allow the life
of the individual plant or animal tC
| be at it's mercy-that the entire race
might be affected by its whims OF
! careleSsness. The Chinese womer
have bandaged the feet of female in
fants for centuries, but even yet ever!
| child is born with normal feet.
Men have shaved for ages, but the
| male portion of the human race is III
nearer beardless today than it wa:
! thousands of years ago. Poets are
| born, not made is a trite maxim, Blu
a true one nevertheless. Science say!
the sexual qualities pervade the great
er part of the plant and animal worln
The chromosomes, or the rea
! bearers of hereditary characteristics
are in the mold, in the nucleus of the
| cells, and it is a peculiar but invarl
| able rule that the cells of the male al
| ways have one less chromosome thar
| the cells of the female, but the loss o
| hereditary qualities in fertilization
gives half to each sex, but it some
times happens that all the qualities o
one are lost in the offspring.
AS yet there is no way to deter
mine which qualities disappear, TO
/ if there was such way the problem
of society improving humanity would
! be much facilitated"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
FARM MACHINERY
Ny Be HIGHER
ADVANCE IN PRICES LOOKED FOR
BECAUSE OF HIGHER
RAW MATERIAL.
SALE MANAGERS INSIST THAT
INCREASE. IN RATE is
INEVITABLE.

1t is likely the farmers will b.
called upon next season to pay an ad-
vanced price fof the implements they
need
That the advance will come is gen
orally conceded by the manufacturers,
and is explained by the fact that the
raw material used in the manufacture
of the implements has been boosted
considerably OF late and that the
goods cannot be produced at the old
figures with the new prices prevailing
in the raw material market.
In a recent issue one of the leading
agricultural implement trade journals
sums up reports received from all the
/ large manufacturers and the concen-
/ sus of opinion is that all prices must
| be advanced the coming season unless
there is a decided change in the price
of the raw material and this is not
/ looked for. 1t is pointed out that
! steel has advanced on an average of
about 81 per ton since last May, and
| that pig iron and lumber prices have
! been boosted in the same period, and
many of the contracts have been with
drawn the producers being unable to
deliver the goods at the figures quoted
year ago. No prices on steel or
pig iron are said to be obtainable be
yOnd the beginning of the new year,
so it is certain all goods made and de-
Iivered after that time will be at the
; higher figures.
/ 1t is also stated by those who gave
statements that wages have increased
materially and that large percen-
tage has been added to the cost OF
the goods on account of increased
wages now demanded.
Farmers are demanding and receiv-
ing top-nOtch prices for their produce.
Farm land values have increased un-
til they have doubled-even trebled
in value in most sections of the
county. Manufacturers of farm inn
plements point to the prosperity OF
the farm, not as an argument in jus
LITIGATION of a possible advance III
selling prices, but to show that the
farmers are able to meet an advance.
Implements must sell at an advance
next season because of the sharp adj
vances in prices of implements has
not kept pace with these advances in
prices Of raw materials, nor with ad
vances in farm values or prices which
the farmers now command for their
produce.
/ In the face of an advance in farm
values and farm products there have
really been decreases in the cost OF
farm impIments, say manufacturers,
when there is taken into account the
improvements made in machines in
the last few years.
Another burden has come to the
Implement manufacturers in the eX
port trade in that the Canadian gov
eminent has made an increase of III
per cent in the duties on agricultural
implements, making a maximum OF
80 per cent ad valOrem.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
Luxurious Silver Cleaning.

A young engineer who has lived
much of his life on ships has adopted
many Of the conveniences of ship
board for use in the new home where
he has taken his bride. Among them
is silver cleaning by electricity
A miniature motor, six inches long
and four inches high is used. 1t can
be clamped to the kitchen table and
put away when not needed. A wire is
run from the motor to any conven
ent electric light fixture. 1t is sup
Piled with button on the switch.
To the shaft of the motor is at.
tached a buffer wheel made of very
soft leather. After the silver is
washed flee of dirt it is left rather
damp A little silver powder is put on
the wheel and the weekly silver is
brightly FURNISHED in a few minutes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
PRISON TWINE.
South Dakota Employs 40 Men in its
Plant

Plant
Mitchell, S. D., Dec 15.-The state
board of charities and correction held
a meeting in this city to fix the price
Of binding twin made in the state
penitentiary. The past year the
South Dakota price was above that
made by other prisons, and the com
petition was a little strong for this
state.
Representative of the board have
been Investigating conditions in othe:
prisons with reference to binding
twine manufacture, and they have
reached the conclusion that South Da
hota can produce its Irvine at the
same price. The prices agreed upon
by the board with the state officials
cOncurring was as follows: Six and
three-QuarterS cents for the lowest
and 81 cents for the highest, in car
load lots. To these prices One-halt
cent is added where twine is bought
in lots Of 10000 pounds, and one cent
is added to the prices where the
Irvine is bought in less than 10000
round lots. These prices are the same
as made by the prisons of Minneso
Ia and North Dakota and are abOm
one-halt cent under the prices of the
Irvine trust.
1t is the desire of the board to en-
courage the purchase of prison Irvine
among the farmers. The amount
turned out last year was 100000
pounds, and Warden Swenson sa
that not a cent was lost on a bad &C
count. The warden added that the
state had cleared $1,000 on the frs
years business. But these figures talk,
no account of investment. The NOrtI
Dakota and Minnesota plants did no
| pay for their first three years. The
| output of the plant the coming yea
will amount to about 100000 pounds
There are only 40 men working anC
with eleven more the plant can be rul
to its full capacity. There are "A mel
at work in the shirt factory, and tn,
warden stated it was a good payin,
proposition.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

visit; still | was bashful in spite or
her gracious manner. After the dish
es had been disposed Of, Nell said
she must 90 to the DOstOfIce and
mail a letter; and do you know,
Comrade, as badly. as l wanted TO
walk with her | didn't dare make
such a suggestion. am sure she
wanted me to do so. but I was too
plaguey bashful and awkward. | let
my lady go off alone, and a lfttle
while after that l babe Miss John-
son good night and started for Camp
Randall; and I never saw Nell again.
I went to camp provoked at myself,
and I have not got over it yet.
About the time the war closed
Nell was married to Dane county
farmer. In spite of myself I have al
wayE felt a little jealous Of him, yet
have admired him for a courage
did not have and could not seem 10
get. But ] do not believe he had
lust the feeling for her that l did,
for he became a drunkard and made
her life so miserable that she was
obliged to leave him and go to her
father and mother, who had moved
off somewhere into that great region
commonly known as out west. Her
husband drank himself in.0 grave
in a country cemetery not tar away
from Madison. l cannot feel very
kindly toward him, though he was
in wartime a soldier of the repuD-
lie; for he never should thus nave
treated the pretty gil l worshs 9ed
from afar. l suppose. however, he
never would have done IS he did
had it not been for mat Unsuitable
monster, the drink habit. How many
thousands Of girls just as bright and
lovely as Nell Martin have had their
happiness blighted, lives ruined, by
that same monster!
L am happy now, and have been
for more than forty years, with
companiOn I would not give for
hundred pretty girls like Nell Mar
lin: wife whom I have all these
years cherished with something worth
great deal more than mere
schooI-boy fancy,-yet | still have a
tender feeling for the pretty, blue
eyed girl by whose side I used to
stand in the spelling class before
the war"
Now this soy is about no one
but Oliver Smith and Nell Martin
yet | would not much wonder If
some of you who read it may in
memory put yourselves in the place
Or either Oliver or Nell. Our child
fsh experiences have been much
alike, whoever we are. For my part,
think that he who has missed be-
ing in love in school is by just that
much the poorer. I do not mean
the kind of love which is bold, open
and lally-gagging, but that which is
truly worshipful and modest.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
AEROPLANE FACTORY.
Will Be Located on SpeedWelI Motor
Ground in Dayton.

! Will Be Located on SpeedweII Motor
Ground in Dayton.
Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 15.-Orville
Wright, the aviator, states that d
new building will be erected at once
on the grounds of the Speedwell Motor
company in Edgemont for the ex-
elusive use of the Wright aeroplane
corporation, and that it would be
ready for OCCUPANCY within a month
More than 5000 feet of space will
be provided and it is expected that
this will be sufficient for the temper
airy factory. Later the company will
decide on permanent location, which
viii probably be in Dayton, and an ex-
tensive flying machine factory will be
erected. The company will require for
the testing gruonds a tract containing
not less than 500 acres and it is plan
ned to have the entire field under the
control of the company.
The Wright brothers suit against
the Herring-Curtiss company, for in
friDgement of patents began in Buff
aIo yesterday and will be keenIy
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
OUTLAWED CHRISTIAN SCIEh
lists.
Harmful To Her Welded Bliss, Says
Mrs. Christy.

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 15--In d
signed statement in reply to a state
ment credited to her by a New York
newspaper man and which she also
denies, Mrs. MaybelIe Thompson
Christy, wife Of the artist. whose do
nestle difficulties are pending in the
local courts for settlement, defines her
position relative to Christian Science
as follows:
Certain erroneous and false reports
have recently appeared in the news
papers, claiming to set forth my views
OF Christian Science. These should be
corrected.
From what little | have learned ot
the real teachings of Christian
Science l believe them to be beauti-
full and true, and that they could only
be a help morally and mentally, but
l believe that a great deal of the
treatment and advice which we re-
celved from the practitioners of the
First Church of Christ CScientist) il,
New York was very harmful. and 1 am
glad to see that the Mother Church
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

has publicly repudiated such pervel
sions of real Christian Science AM
either expelled or admonished thos
who taught such things
I Go not believe that Christia,
Science leads astray young girls no
arouses the baser passions of mel
nor do I believe that it, if taught cor
rectly, could break up homes or de
stroy the womans love.
IF l understand real Christiae
Science, it teaches one to be more Iov
ing and charitable, but when these
teachings are reversed or subversec
in the name of Christian Science the
result is disastrous"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
AGE AND YOUTH.

Youth takes its joys from hopeful
dreams
OF future prizes to be won,
Of voyages ON unknown streams
In realms beyond the rising sun.
But Age, reflective Age, delights
Fen in the twilight's dying rays
In turning to the joyous sights
Of unforgotten Yesterdays.
know not which more Joy 1mparts,
Which hath the sweeter taste, the
page
That tells of Hope in Youthful hearts,
Or tender memories of age.
John Kendrick Bangs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

watched by attorneys and others. as
1t is the first suit in the history OF
jurisprudence based on such claim
III. T. Toulman, patent lawyer OF
Springfield, Ohio, is chief counsel for
the Wrights, and associated with him
in General Edmund Wetmore. of New
York
Mr.. Wright expressed his sympathy
with Captain Engelhardt, whom he in
structed in Germany and who met
with an accident today, but was
pleased to learn that he wa not serf
ously injured in his fall
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
Troubles of the Ancients.

Penelope was bewailing the pro-
tracted absence of Ulysses.
81 might as well be the wife of
commercial traveller" she said, land
be done with it,"
Scorning to avail herself Of an easy
divorce, she plunged deeper than
ever into the pages of the Ladies
Home Journal for consolation
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
.1,7oo BARRELS OF CIDER.
Big Output of an Industry at Ham
burg, Iowa.

Hamburg, Iowa, Dec. 15.-The cold
weather put a stop to the operation OF
the cider mill. Their output reached
LOO barrels this season. Had not
the cold wave frozen the apples, they
expected to be able to finish the sea
son with 1000 barrels. The apples
used in making the cider represents
what would have been almost i not
quite a total loss to this section as
all but one car load of apples were
purchased from orchards in this local
ity.
1t is the present intention of the
management of the mill to enlarge its
capacity for next year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

Tommy, aged 5, asked his mother
for a second piece of pie at dinner
when | was your size said his
father, reprovingly my mother al
lowed me to have only one piece of
pie"
"Say, papa" rejoined the little fell
low, aren't you glad you board with
us now!"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
STUCK ON BREAD.
Stickers Nc Longer Can Ee Anyway
In Kentucky.

Louisville KY, Dec. 14.-Hereafter
bakeries in the state of Kentucky are
absolutely prohibited from placing
stickers or labels of any kind on their
bread or cakes. This was one of the
many stringent rules determined upon
in a conference between the master
bakers committee and the pure food
authorities of the state.
Other measures of sanitary precau-
ton were adopted, and the county
health officer and the Kentucky Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs have de-
clared that they will see to their en-
fOrcement.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

Fortunate is the man whose vile is
mis- chTfn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16

If there's any Stiffness in a mans
makeup a pretty girl Will bring 1t
out.