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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-12-18
BARGAIN COLUMN.


FOR SALES SET OF FACTORY MADE
harness. 100 blankets, - robes. At Il big
reduction in price. Cali on Edmund
Pike Bristol Wis. w35
MORTGAGES YOU HAVE MONEY 10
loan ON good mortgages on Kenosha real
estate, see Chas. H. Pfennig, Office ut
Pfennigs Grocery, 165 Market street. If
FOR SALE-PURE BRED HOLSTEIN
bulls from advanced registered stock
Irlces reasonable. Inquire or write John
Ciausen, Pleasant Prairie, Wis. *dwd20
FOR SALE-CHOICE OPPORTUNITY. A
beautiful dairy farm, 100 acres, two sets
Of buildings worth $4,000. One-half
nile to market. Special price 1000.
Terms. Also a fine SO acre farm for So
300 am going away and must sell
Write today II. E. Sievwright. Elderon.
WIS. dwd19
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DIR. Theo P. Noehle, dentist, Room 2,
Grosvenor Bldg. Phone 210. Office
hours 9 to II a. m, to 6 p. m. Even
ings z to $50 D. m. advtf
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Regards Sterilization.


recent address, Prof. Guyer in an in
terview gave further views on recent
legislation bearing on eugenics.
The enactment of sterilization
law by the recent legislature is the
answer of this body as to how they
think present conditions are to be rene
died." he said. elbow effective this
will be is as yet highly problematical.
Most OF us who are studying conditions
at close range are more inclined to pin
our faith to segregation of detectives,
especially the Predetermined, during
the reproductive period, and to the
awakening of the general public to the
dangers of certain marriages likely to
result IN the production of detectives. -
The new marriage law which re-
quires pre.nuptial medical inspection,
he said, is made largely for the protec-
tion of women. He did not share the
view that it will lessen marriages ma
terially. but believes it will incite many
men to seek proper treatment, and that
a vast proportion of the cases aimed at
in the law can be cured.
Conditions Important.
i have more faith in the practical
workings of this law than in the steri-
lization act, said Prof. Guyer.
Health laws Of various states are
about the same on these points.
Speaking of crime and delinquen-
cies, he continued:
cit is important to examine the con-
ditions. A sharp differentiation must
be made to be proven how much CT
criminality is due to herVafty, some
saying ten per cent and others thirty
per cent. -
Regarding third enactment which
requires physicians to report the num-
Der of individuals having certain ven
ereal diseases, he said the intention is
excellent and that is highly desirable
to secure accurate information concern
ing the prevalence of these diseases,
which, it is variously estimated, af-
feet from thirty to seventy per cent of
the male population.
Sex Hygiene Question.
"Mob hysteria, = is what Prof. Guyer
called the extremist movement in the
vanguard of the sex hygiene propagan-
da now occupying the public mind.
"The whole matter of sex is so much
a personal question: he said. AID a
matter of the emotions rather than the
intellect that the agitation will fall
short of any real good. The ones who
will have to teach this question in the
public schools, if it be turned over TO
the teachers themselves, are the least
qualified of any combination, namely,
unmarried women. If our schools were
handled effectively by married men and
women, there might be some hopes.
Even then, / question its value. We
should increase the respect of the child
for womanhood and motherhood, and
develop that self-control which is form
ed by proper habits without making
sex specific problem to throw at
their heads.
immortality and Imbecility.
Prof. Guyer said the conviction is
growing among students of human here
dity that large proportion of crimes
gross immortality and degeneraey is due
at the bottom to feeble-mindednes and
that therefore if this can be eliminated
its vicious Accomplishments will in
large measure disappear at the same
time. Practically one-sixth of the total
expenditures of the state Of Wisconsin
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George H. Cox, former sales manager
for the Thomas B. Jeffrey Company, is
here for few days visit.
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Mr.. and Mrs. L. Tewes of Waukegan,
came out to attend the dinner.
Mrs. G. Burgess returned home from
Milwaukee Thursday.
Mrs A. Paddock returned home
Thursday from her visit at Eau Claire.
Miss Olive Hope was Kenosha Wis
itor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Blanchard visited
in Kenosha Monday.
w. Garland and family arrived here
from Iowa Monday and will move onto
the Hutts farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Mutter were Keno
sha visitors Monday.
Mrs. c. Goer visited in Kenosha on
Monday.
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Official Publieation.)
REPORT OF TEE CONDITION

OF THE SILVER LAKE STATE BANK,
located at Silver Lake, State Of Wisconsin,
at the close of business ON the 1st day of
December, 1913, pursuant 10 call by the
Commissioner of Banking
RESOURCES.
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Mrs. Leila Runkel of Burlington, Wis
tied her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H..
Stocker over Sunday.
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make money, and then If desired add ali
the college training, all the classics and
graces and culture obtainable. | am
not among those crying down the spien-
did education OF the past, learning the
classics, striving over the vanishing cult
of good speech and proper form in writ
ing. / cling to these as to bulwark
But we must admit the strenuous times
the tremendous competition and equip
young people more carefully il they will
keep up in the struggle. We are doing
this In my section. am thankful to say,
and hope that many troublesome ques-
lions will solve themselves. Take any
schoolroom: every boy and girl in 1t win
figure in the future economy of the race.
and how he Is trained to take usefui
and successful part / think rests largely
with the quality of things taught"
Representing that portion of the broad
country which remains in essential de-
tails French. Senator and Mrs Ransdell
combine the conservatism of the Gallo
race with the more familiar American
aspect. Senator and Mrs. Ransdell be-
long to the Catholic faith and are promi-
nent In all the affairs of that church.
Their home community Is almost entirely
Catholic. being of the ancient portion set
tied by the French in the seventeenth
century. Senator Ransdell Is deservediy
popular with the ScnolaSIlc cohI.u8eHt-ih
Washington for the amiable way in
which he makes addresses and joins in
their pursuits. and Mrs. Ransdell is his
invariable companion, enjoying the events
as much as her husband. Hitherto ti.e
Ransdells have resided In an apartment.
but next winter Mrs. Ransdell Will oc-
cupy a home and will take more ac-
tive part in affairs. AS a member OF the
d. A. r. national board she will be called
upon frequently in connection with visit
Ing celebrities and her own hospitable
and social disposition also suggests the
possibilities OF a house against the re-
strictions Of an apartment.
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the south, incapable of growth except
In that soft, moist air OF the bayou
country-gardenias plentiful as daisies
are in August. starlike jessanines reach
glories or Virginia creepers do here ana
magnificent Mareschal Mel roses climb
ing to the second story OF the house ana
having thousands of rich golden blooms.
All these with giant oaks draped with
live moss and magnolia and crepe myrtie
trees made the most popular trysung
place in the country. Many times DUR
ing the summer the place Is .urne sas over
outings or for feteS or other phuan-
thr0pic enterprises.
No members Of the official set are more
genial than the Ransdells, and they have
a fund Of 'anecdote about the old-fasnion-
ed blacks of the bayou country with
which they delight their friends. Mrs
Ransdell is the guide and arbiter In the
countryside and she Is gravely consulted
about gowns for weddings. about viands
for the same, and she enters on these
duties as alphabetically as though 1t were
a state matter Of importance. Her own
gowns are carefully inspected by the ru-
raj blacks when she returns to Lake
Providence after prolonged stay north.
~
Washington has seen but little OF Mrs.
Ransdell in the social way, though she
came here first nearly fourteen years ago.
The senator was appointed to MI the un-
expired term Of 8. T. Baird In 1899. He
had been elected to the lower house con-
tinuously until January, 1912. when the
legislature named him to succeed Murphy
J. Foster in the Senate. The long and
serious illness Of Mrs. Powell, mother of
Mrs. Ransdell. kept her in Louisiana al
most constantly until the past three years.
Since mingling more freely in social life
her personality has already been accepted
as a potent force Always interested in
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the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. last spring Mrs. Ransdell was pre-
vailed upon to enter the lists for CORE
spending secretary general on the resi-
dent national board and she was elected.
She is giving the work all the careful at
tention which has marked her connection
with every society with which she is iden-
titled.
Speaking Of clubs, that al1-important
theme these days. Mrs. Ransdell disa-
vows being in the accepted sense a club
woman, though she belongs to an impos-
ing list Of such organizations. But in all
she has q serious aim and devotes herself
to its development. She joined the D. A.
r. early for a southern woman. for many
looked on the organization suspiciously as
being both northern and republican. She
realized its possibilities and nearly fifteen
years ago she was the primary cause OF
the Daughters Of the Pelican state getting
into line with their patriotic sisters. She
had belonged to the Daughters Of the
Confederacy from its inception and many
OF the southerners followed her into the
Shreveport Chapter, realiSing they could
do good service in both societies. One OF
her first works In the Daughters was to
enlist sympathy In the cause Oh lnterna-
tional peace and she assumed the chair
manship of that committee for louisiana.
In the home Of Senator and Mrs. Rams
dell may be found records Of the most
heroic events OF American history.
The history Of General Evan Shelby
and his SON. Captain Moses Shelby, Is
well known to all who have dipped into
the details Of the struggle which the
colonists made for freedom. Captain
Moses Shelby was the friend and inti-
mate associate Of Lafayette. having
fought side by side with the gallant
Frenchman. Captain Shelby sealed the
friendship by calling his oldest son La
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standing grievance that my birthday
and Christmas gifts were Jumped as It
were. while my sisters and brothers re-
ceived two sets. This was a small griev-
ance, however, considering all the other
good luck which the incident brought me.
/ believe the stir of war and strife in the
air when my birth occurred has in
nuenced me more strongly than reading,
example or precept. For that dark and
stormy year for the south, 1866. was
nearing its gloomy end. l am a fervent
advocate Of peace"
Mrs. Ransdell is an excellent type of
the cultured southerner. Though she
married when less than twenty, she had
already completed preparatory course
In the Tennessee College for Women and
had entered the Whitworth College of
Mississippi and gotten her diploma. De-
grees were freely conferred on women
cially in the south. Leaving school was
for her only the beginning Of her educa-
ton. and she has pursued serious studies
Of various kinds since. Both she and
Senator Ransdeil are among the bookish
people in public life. although neither
has ever neglected practical duties for
the joys of intellectual things. Senator
Ransdell came to Lake Providence to
practice law soon after taking his de-
gree from the Union College of Sche-
nectady, New York. and he became a
friend of James Bratton Powell. father
of his wife. After the marriage he mere
ly took his wife from one home in her
native city to another, and she is the
rare exception Of women in Official life
who are not natives Of the city or even
the state by which their husbands
have been honored.
Succeeding in law. Mr.. Ransdell turned
his attention to his vast cotton lands.
and he now is one Of the most impor-
tant planters of his state. His home is
one of the show places OF the quaint lit
tie town of Lake Providence, and lies a
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their heads while he reads thin q
pome. =
* X -
There ar-re very few alyenists An
Canady. because money has been
scarce, but since tn arrival Nv tn dis
tinguished visitor a number iv vethri-
nary surgeons, plumbers. an pa-aper
hangers has qualified FIR tn job. Tn
local doctor. a graduate iv tn Kingston
College Nv chiropody. on his way to
tn bank to make a deposit was
sthopped be a reporter that he got hult
Nv an said: I have come in contaek
with most iv tn brilyant minds that
has been immured nthis Jug he says.
AN this is be far tn most profound.
How. did I find him. Most pleasant
and extremely aisy. He threated
me almost as an akel an was kind
enough to give me a frindly kick az I
come out he says.
'Iv coorse New York s. bindin' iyry
effort to get their pathron back, but
it is hard to wrench him firm our
warm hearted lawy iv SHOWS. An
afther he has been disintangled firm
tn embraces iv tn kings counsel, tn
doctors, tn shurin. tn chief iv polls.
tn coorts, an tn immigration authori-
ties an has been sifted through New
Hampshire an Vermont, will there be
enough left iv him to make it worth
while takin' him back? l don't know.
It looks to me as though there wud be
NANNY new faces in tn bread line this
winter
II don't like thin anylists," said Mr..
Hennessy.
81 wuddin't if I was ye," said Mr..
Dooley.
eff wan iv thin liver whit through
veer clothes he'd have ye locked up
sure
Copyright, 1918. by Finley Peter Dunne-D-
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She is a Prominent
Member of the D. A. r.,
and a Lineal Descend
ant of Gen. Evan Shell
by-Will Take a Home
in Washington This
Winter-She Tells of
Life in the Bayou Coun-
try of Her Native
State-Her Ideas of
Education.
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little out of the village proper on the
beautiful lake which is the pride Of
northern louisiana Mrs. Ransdell is
one of the competent homekeepers who
have mastered every detail Of the sci
ence, a heritage which she claims from
a distinguished line Of pioneer ances-
tors. Her gardens comprise several
acres. filled with those lovely flowers OF
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"A hasn't hs hat dontod In at lastc wans
week be poisman feels that he is INDICTED"

no use thryin' to compare him with
anybody. No other statesman liver
was as statesmanly as Bill. George
Washin'ton an Thomas Jefferson
looked like Irish commejans compared
with him. He's tn grandest gloomy
est lookin' man that liver lived. What
an undertaken he wud've made if tn
sorrows iv tn people an tn practice
iv law hadn't compelled him to go into
pollyticks. 1t wud be rale pleasure
to have such a nachrelly dispirited
1oolkin' man presidin' over tn exercises
with that I-wish't-T been taken-in-
stead EXPRESSION in his eyes as he said:
BE careful. boys. Look out fr tn
step an don't spill tn floral imblims.'
X
"An' what is Bill sad about, say We?
Is he sad about himsilf? Faith. he is
not. II that onselfish sowl liver give
a thought to himself he'd laugh him
silf sick. No, sir; Bills life has been
crushed be a great sorrow, but it is
not his own. This noble heart has been
broken be tn suffrin's iv tn plain
people. Bill is not plain himsilf. He
is very beautiful. But he feels fr
thin that have not injyed his nachrel
advantages. He suffers FIR tn woes Nv
We an me. Hinnissy. It's always been
q great relief to me whin bowed down
undher tn yoke iv oppression to know
that OF Bill was weepin' or runnin'
fr office or maxim some other sacrifice
fr me. He has always been a frind
iv tn people. He has lavished his sobs
on this an has asst nawthin' in return
but their votes. While he was in
Washin'ton no poor man iver called
on Bill an came away empty handed
He always clutched in his emacyated
fin bag iv sunfiower seeds an a copy
iv Bills last appeal FIR humanity.
can now, what dye think; they re
thryin' to hurl Bill out iv tn gov'nors
chair = these conspirators, these
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Wretches who don't like tn people
plain, but prefer thin skinned an done
to a turn. An what do they accuse
him Nv dom? Nawthin at ell. They
say that he pinched tn campaign funds
an played thin against tn foolish
wheel in Wall sthreet, AZ II that wasn't
tn customary thing to do with other
peoples money in New York.
x X
"OI Bill refuses to dignity these
charges with a denial, but he has en-
ployed eminent lawyers who wud not
hesitate to dignity amy charge be
denyin' it. tn truth IL that tn rale
accusation against Bill is not that
afther passin' the plate he hur-
ried down with tn receipts an flung
it on tn red There's somethin' worse
behind it. It seems that Bill was
ilicted gov'nor iv tn state be a binivo-
lint old Teller in private life who saves
tn people iv New York firm tn worries
Nv pollyticks be pickin' out good la-ads
FIR all tn jobs. This mild OF dishpot
sarves without salary an his motto is:
I care not who makes tn laws ~ me
country, so long as make TIL chunes
they dance to- Last fall he discov-
cred Bill weepinr in front Nv a camera.
Why SO gushyT asked the CHEEKY
old TELLER. I sob.' says Bill fr tn
plain people, for tn millions Nv me
fellow -citizens who can't look into tn
glass without cry Nv horror says he.
Thin. ye're me man. says tn phflan-
thropist. What I want TT govnor is
a fellow that's blinded be tears or
amy other way. Ye seem to be single
minded or aven less. Come with me-
he says. An he made him gov'nor. An
they do say that afther he got into the
job Bill whit back on his binifacther.
I won't repeat tn dark rumors that
ar-re goin' ar-round, an mind We, don't
give me as yer authority. but it's whis-
pered Bill refused to do something fr
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fayette Shelby. Lafayette stood as
godfather for this youth, who proved
in every way worthy Of the traditions
He was one Of the bravest In the battle
Of New Orleans and wrote spirited
account of that great fight Five sons
Of this same Lafayette Shelby served
with distinction in the civil war. All
these warlike memories seemed to have
inclined Mrs. Ransdell the other way.
and she often voices the sentiments
that this country never see another
conflict OF any description ana may
never be called into foreign quarrel
One Of the leaders Of thought in her
community, Mrs Ransden mas os gwen
earnest attention to the school question,
especially where 1t touches on the i'm
portant theme of preparing the young
for q career. Though she received q col
lege education, as understood In her
decade and environment, she 10 opposed
to the general idea of the college except
IN Instances where such LOFTY intel
work. All her energies have been bent
towards giving practical education 70
all blacks and whites, and especially q
technical education where boys are con-
cerned.
1T have q sort Of private playground
about my home" said Mrs. Ransdeli,
land from the time school closes keep
an eye on the young people OF my
vicinity. We have negro band en-
the Young people to come and dance ana
sinr I have learned to know nearly all
our Young people and I always, when
made a confldante about future ambi-
lions, advise a practical view OF every.
thing. Something by which bread ana
butter may be made should the necessity
arise is what preach constantly.
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like the
Wilson's of the
White House and
Mrs. Joseph Eu-
gene r a n Is d e IL,
wife Of the sem
ator from Louis
lana. are benefac-
tors Of Pullman
c a + authorities,
the much harass-
ed clerks in hotels
and the pursers on
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Indeavor Assocyation. At Dead Mans
Gulch. Arizony, an archery tourymint
is in progress. Miss Lucy Dimple has
been ilicted mayor in Jacks-up. Wvo-
ming, on a platform promisin' to abol-
ish games iv checkers in grocery
Shores. I'm about to throw away tn
pa-aper in disghust whin me eye lights
on a colyum headed: New York. Day
be Day. Thin 1 settle down fr rale
injyment. Rival gangs shoot up Fifth
Avenoo Presbyterian church. Supreme
court justices accused Nv safe blowin'.
Dinnymite EXPLOSION in most FASH
nable gamblin' hell. Rivrend Angus
tine Min dances tn tango in pulpit
Mayor an district attorney in free
fight. in Lobster palace. Gov'n'r iv
state accused Nv embezzilmint, perjury,
forgery. idiocy. and goin' back on tn
gang. Gifted young MILLIONAIRE MUIR
dherer resints snobbishness an laves
insane asylum in disgust. An SO it
SOSS. 1n0TC more SOln OH III u
minyit in New York in tn way iv news
than in all tn rest Nv tn wurruld in a
year, an wan night Nv Broadway wud
give tn Apachy Kid heart disease.
*
Missionaries ar-re returnin' firm tn
far east and tell us that population
is much disturbed at prisint because
tn state is suffrin' firm two gov-n'rs
both Dimmycrats. an has lost it's most
prom'ni citizen, who is husband iv
New York's fav-rite acthress.
1--WE been thryin' to make out what
tn throuble is with me OF frind. Bill,
the peoples frind. He's always been
me fav'rite statesman because he's so
gloomy lookin'. I wud niver thrust a
pollytical leader who looked pleasant.
Give me wan whose face is furrowed
be pain an whose eyes show that his
mind Is far away firm sordid things
an may niver return. Bill looks like
Clay. on'y he's more liquid. But it's
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ough scientific examination iv tn bank
roll Nv this young phenomenon. we
cheerfully maintain that rr pure intel
leck he makes Dan'l Webster look like
a conginital idjut.' Ivrything was done
to make his stay pleasant to him an
profitable to tn commonwealth. But
he grew discontinued. He OBJECTED to
tn quality iv tn cigreets supplied be
tn state. He deVanded smokeless
powdher FIR his AFTERNOON exercise in
shootin' at dummies iv tn district at
torney. He complained that he was
annoyed be neighbors who falsely pre-
tinded to be Solomon. Fin'lly, wan
mornin' whin tn breakfast champagne
was corked he cud sthand It no longer,
blu, made a dash FIR freedom. That is
to say, Hinnissy. he put on his hat an
coat. shook hands with tn Qficyals.
lit a cigreet, opened tn front dure,
stepped into his autymobile, said,
'canady, William an fed.
*
These ar-re dark days in New York.
Business in NANNY INDUSTRIES has
stopped completely an throngs iv
alyenists an lawyers who used to come
back firm Mattawan to their happy fam
lies ivry night with their pay en-
velopes In their pockets have been
thrown on their own resoorces an may
have to take to workin' tn Jersey City
ferry. But a new era in prosperity has
opened up fr Canady. There hasn't
been SO much detachable American
money in, that happy land since tn
days iv Nipissing. Tn bar an tn bars
in Ottawa, Toronto. Montreal, an
Quebec ar-re deserted an great
throngs iv kings counsel doctors,
statesmen, an journylists have hurried
to greet tn, affabie capitalist who
threats thin pleasantly. pullin' their
hair. an requestin' thin to stand on