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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28

Miss Kate Schilling is still unable to
attend to her duties as sales lady at the
White House store, owing to severely
sprained foot, which she received over
two weeks ago on her way to her work.
Miss Mary Smith arrived here Satur-
day from Chicago for a weeks visit
with her mother. Mrs. John Smith
Miss Kate Cassidy has returned from
a several weeks visit. at Blanchard
Vile
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Harris. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Wallenkamp and John
Wallenkamp attended the funeral of
their father, John Wallenkamp Sr. at
Highland last Thursday.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs,
Will James was laid to rest in the
Miff1in cemetery Oct. 20.
Mineral Point callers from Miflin
Friday were: Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Dolphin and children and Mrs. Ernest
Miller.
Miss Inez Rowland spent one day
last week with her aunt Mrs l.. Young
at Platteville.
Miss Matilda Hutchinson left Saturday
for Los Angeles, Calf. to attend gen
eral executive board meeting of the
women's foreign missionary society OF
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
MINERAL POINT OF TODAY
NOTES BY THE DEMOCRATS
NEWS GATHERER.

NE ~ IA HEHEh.
Wallace Salmon, student at the Uni
versity, was a week end visitor here
with relatives.
Mrs. John Proctor returned Saturday
from an extended visit with relatives
at Indiana and Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Kemler of
Platteville were the guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. w Spratler last Thursday.
Mrs Roy Huxtable arrived here
Saturday from GAINESVILLE for visit
with relatives.
Miss Ruth Springer returned Satur-
day from a visit with her sister Miss
Elsie Springer at Fennimore.
Mrs. Clarence Wackman of Lake
Mills visited here last week at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Stratman.
Mrs. Laura George returned to Mad
ison Tuesday, after several days visit
here with her sister Mrs. William Ben
son and other relatives.
Mrs. Charles Harker returned Satur
day from a two weeks visit with rela-
tives at Waldwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. Stratman Of Dodge
vile visited Sunday and Monday at the
Irving Stratman home.
Mrs. Otto Lieder returned home Fri
day from weeks visit with her
daughter Miss Cecilia Lieder at Chica
go, where she is studying to be a
trained nurse at the Mercy hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jeuck, ST., Mr.
and Mrs. w. j. Jeuck and Mrs. George
Jenck, Jr. visited relatives and friends
at Dubuque last Friday.
Miss Edith Woodbury. of Dodgeville
is visiting this week at the homes of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grange and Mr.
and Mrs Fred erase.
Miss Willet Bennett arrived here
Saturday from Milwaukee for visit.
Mrs. Albert thinner and son re-
turned last week from visit at War
rem.
Blanche and Dorothy Carter of
Jonesdale were over Sunday visitors at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Pearson.
Alphonso Gevelinger shipped his
household goods to Black River Falls
the forepart of this week, where they
will make their home. Mrs. Geve
linger and the children will go later on.
Their many friends wish them much
success.
Miss Genevieve Poole visited her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w.
Merritt, at Darlington Saturday.
Mrs. Solomore Perry of La Mars,
Iowa, and Mrs. NJ. Dean of Walnut,
Iowa, returned to their homes last
Thursday, after two weeks visit here
and at Darling ton with relatives and
friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lovelace and sons
visited at Wiota Saturday. They were
accompanied here by Mrs. 0. S. Love-
elace, mother of Mr.. Lovelace, who will
remain here for an indefinite visit
Mrs. Mary Wassman arrived here
from Chicago Monday for visit at the
home of Mrs. Bernard Fielder and
family and other relatives.
Mrs. John Perry and daughter Mayme
visited at Darlington Saturday.
Mrs. A. NJ. Kramer went to Chicago
last week Wednesday for a weeks stay
in the interest of her millinery store.
Mrs. Guy Beach of Cedar Rapids
Iowa, is visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Aide visited at
Dodgeville from Saturday until Mon
day.
Harry Lewis of Highland was bust
ness caller here Saturday.
The box social and entertainment
given on last Friday evening" Oct. 90
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
LINDEN

Mrs Alfred Hughes and daughter
Gertrude were Mineral Point callers
Saturday.
Ed. Bishop, Ed Rogers, John Hahn
and Art Benn and Miss Mary Bishop
of Dodgeville were callers here Friday
afternoon.
Miss Gladys Gardner, who has been
attending High School at Ridgeway,
spent over Sunday at her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Phillips were
Mineral Point shoppers Saturday.
Irving and Willie Dixon of Calamine
autoed here Sunday and visited with
friends.
Miss Elizabeth Record Of Dodgeville
visited at the Theodore Edmunds home
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Granville visit
ed with friends at Rewey Thursday.
Mrs. William Gilman and daugh-
ter Margaret and son Gordon and Har-
ley Hicks autoed to Mineral Point Sat
urday.
Misses Myrtle and Annie Jenkins of
Miffiin visited the past week at the
home of their brother Harry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Combellick of Galena
visited over Sunday at the HI. Springer
home.
Friends of Miss Flossie Baker gave
her miscellaneous shower Tuesday.
Bert Ovitz and Harley Hicks were
callers at Dodgeville Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry James OF Dodge
vile visited with friends here recently.
Mrs. James Wicks returned home
Wednesday after few days visit with
relatives at Mason City, Iowa.
Peter Opie of Mineral Point visited
at the Charles Opie home last week,
Mrs. Henry Iverson of South Dakota
is visiting relatives here.
John Harker Jr transacted business
at Chicago the past week.
Henry Springer, Fred Vogt and DR..
Ovitz were business callers at Mineral
Point Friday.
Miss Hazel Hicks entertained the V.
B. M S. at her home Friday evening.
Neal Simon of Highland was bust
ness caller here Thursday.
Mrs. Bert Smith visited with friends
at Cobb Wednesday.
Miss Kate O'Dowd of Mineral Point
visited with friends here the past week
Joseph erase transacted business in
North Dakota the past week.
Mrs. N. Fl. st. John Of Dodgeville is
visiting at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Hillary.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Tredinnick and
daughters Emma, Dolly and Mary
motored to Barneveld Sunday.
Mrs. Will Pryor of Barneveld visited
here the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith and
Miss Hazel Hicks visited at the Charles
Halverson home at Dodgeville Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs N. FL. Snow of Mineral
Point were callers here Saturday.
Mr. Inkenhoff of Galena was here the
past week buying ore. -
Harris Lewis of Highland was a bus
mess caller here Saturday.
! A large number from Linden attend
ed the show at Mineral Point Monday
| evening.
Clarence Goldsworthy spent Sunday
| with his parents at Mif1in.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
Like Our Own Moon.

Observations made at the Lowell
observatory on the varying brightness
of two satellites of Saturn, viz, Mimas
and Enceladus, indicate that these
bodies rotate on their axes in PERIODS
identical with those Of their revolution
around the primary, j. e., they behave
like our own moon, and probably like
satellites generally.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
MANY Gates in Norway.

A curious feature to travellers on
the highroads of Norway is the great
number of gates-upWard OF 10000 In
the whole country. These gates, which
either mark the boundaries of the
farms or separate the home fields from
the waste lands, constitute consid-
cradle inconvenience and delay TO the
traveller, who has to stop his vehicle
and get down to open them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
Lessening the Trouble.

'These are the smallest sandwiches
l ever saw for the money" complained
a tourist in a seaside restaurant.
EYES," replied the waitress; there
was so much complaint of the quality
of them that l thought l would make
them smaller, so that there would not
be so much to grumble about. Lon
don Globe
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
The Nerve of Him.

Young Alfred had been reading the
evening paper and paused contempla-
lively for few moments.
Father" said he, what is liner
tap"
"Well, if have it, it's pure laZiness,
but if your mother has it it is nervous
prostration,' responded father, with a
yawn.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
BLIND, SHE SEWS MAIL BAGS.
Miss Maddox Has Worked For Uncle
Sam Twenty-six Years.

MISS WaddoX F1aS WOTkeu TOT OHCIe
Sam Twenty-six Years.
Washington.-Twenty-s six years ago a
blind woman asked Postmaster Gen
eral John Wanamaker to give her a
job sewing mail bags.
"Mr. Wanamaker." she said, you
give seeing people a two months trial.
Will you give me that much time to
prove I can do it," He consented to
give her a trial.
Today you will find Miss Hattie Mad
dox in the mail bag repair shop of the
postoffice department busy with a pile
of sacks reaching nearly to her Shout
der. She is one of Uncle Sans best
workers CT mail bags.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
WEARS HIS CARD ON BROW.
Mexican Has His Name and Address
Tattooed on Forehead.

Tattooed on. Forehead.
San Francisco.-"What's your name?''
demanded Assistant District. Attorney
Becsey of a Mexican charged with va
grancy. -
The defendant brushed back his hair,
but did not speak. Becsey repeated his
question. Same response. Then the
Spanish interpreter tried. The man
pointed to a spot on his forehead. Bee
sey looked closely. and tattooed on the
mans brow was, Erred Harris. Sonora.
Mexico
"What's the idea?" asked Becsey.
II have heart disease. | may drop
dead / don't want my grave to be un-
marked" the prisoner explained. Judge
Brady dismissed him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-28
SNAKES IN SCHOOL LOCKER.
Scare Girls, Who Now Pick Steps Be-
cause Some Escaped.

Scare Girls, Who Now Pick Steps Be-
cause Some Escaped.
La Crosse, Wis.-Normal school maid
ems are walking circumspectly since
the discovery of a nest of so called
water moccasins deposited in locker
by a reptilian mother evidently anx
ious to obtain education for her family.
There was real excitement when the
nest of small reptiles was discovered.
With the opening Of the locker the
snakes darted out and about the floor.
and there was a scramble. Some of the
snakes met violent deaths, but several
wriggled into holes of safety; hence
the circumspection.
Look over the Want Advs. on page 8.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
Not a Fatal Ace.

1t was written at the death Of Elisa
Rachel, the great French actress,
which happened January 4, 1858, that
she was thirty-eight years old, that
age which appears so fatal to genius,
when an overworked nervous system
comes naturally to a close" This is
not the fact even in regard to "emo-
tional" actresses, of which Rachel was
one of the greatest in all the history
of the stage. Adelaide Ristori, who
toured America and gave many fare
wells" died at the age of eighty-four.
Our own Clara Morris, who played
many of the characters portrayed by
Rachel, is living at sixty-five, though
she suffered a nervous breakdown sew
eral years ago. Sara Bernhard, also
eminent in parts presented by Rachel,
is sixty-nine and still acting. Mrs.
Drew died at seventy-seven, and only
a few years before her death played
parts in which dancing had to be done
Mrs. Gilbert was playing "old woman"
parts when she was past seventy, and
livedSto be eighty-three; and the list
might be greatly extended. Probably
nobody will remember seeing Rachel
In America, but she made tour of
this country in 1855, and it was at
the ending of this that she broke
down.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
Gold In Australia.

A "List of Nuggets Found in Vic
toria," published as No. IL of the
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of
Victoria, Australia, shows that it Is
not only land unusually rich in gold,
but nuggets have been more lavishly
distributed in this state than else
where in the world, and in sizes that
have never been exceeded The list
describes 1927 nuggets, many of which
are WatefwerH Contrary to general
belief, examination shows that these
alluvial nuggets could not have re-
suited from the aggregation of gold
while in the gravels from an original
ly small piece. The famous Welcome
Stranger nugget, weighing 2,284 troy
ounces net, was found in a bed of
quartz. No evidence was found that
the size of the nuggets grows in the
drifts, but there is ample proof in
some cases that drift waters contain
gold.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
At the Battle Front,

British soldiers on the march have
taken a hint from their French broth.
ers in arms, and among many thou
sands seen lately up-country in France,
every other man had a. long loaf OF
bread strapped on the top of his kit
At many places bakers have had big
contracts, but the soldier buys the
bread for himself as well, and so long
as he can get a great loaf he does not
mind how long he is is in the train or
on the road. Matches seem no longer
a trouble, and cigarettes, coming in
duty free, are now quite plentiful. Ra.
ton tobacco, too, Is taken up by the
officers as being the best obtainable
for pipe smoking. Incidentally, 1t Is
remarkable how some younger men
who were known to be confirmed cigar
cite smokers have taken to the more
rational form of smoking, but half.
grown mustache is just as odd a
sight as to see them sucking at briar
pipe. His friends would scarcely rec
ognize the campaigner as compared
with the nut" of few weeks ago.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
GOOD IDEA TO WRITE
MAN WILL KEEP IN TOUCH WITH
FAMILY IN FUTURE.
New Jersey Man Had Decidedly In
pleasant Experience as a Result
of His careIessness as
Correspondents.

Patrick ]. Mcmahon of Passaic, N.
J., walked recently into saloon he
had conducted in that city and was
served with a drink by his son, who
failed to recognize him. The reason
was that Mcmahon, ST., had disap-
peared from home eight years before
and had been given ZIP as dead.
He asked his son number OF ques-
tons about his own disappearance and
and the family pedigree, all of which
were answered without the sons real
lzing he was being quizzed by a man
who knew the answers to tAe questions
better than ne did. When Mcmahon,
ST.. revealed himself the son felt
sheepish for week.
James Osborn of Trenton, N. j., had
an odd temperance . few months
ago He went to Australia to look up
the disposition of an uncle's estate in
which he thought he should have had
a share While he was in Melbourne
he noticed in one of the daily papers
an account of the death of James
Osborn who had come on from the
United States to look up relatives.
The similarity of the name struck
him, of course, and he mailed a copy
of the paper with the item marked.
He was never much of a letter writer,
so he let five months go by without
sending line, deferring what he had
to say until he should know whether
or not his quest had been successful.
Finally after nearly eight months so
journ in Australia he arranged to start
back. and wrote to his family.
When he arrived in Trenton he
found that his little wall paper bust
ness had been sold out and that his
wife and daughter had removed, no.
body seemed to know whittier. But a
clue soon came to view.
Osborn filled out check against his
account and it was returned with the
mo funds" comment. An investigation
revealed that every cent he had in the
bank had been withdrawn by his wife
she having had power of attorney dur
ing his absence. The bank officials
however, were able to give him the
address of a Chicago bank where they
thought from something dropped by
his wife she would deposit her money
He telegraphed and received word to
come on at once. He did SO, and found
bis wife and daughter.
They had received the Melbourne
paper, had cabled and had got no re.
Spouse, and finally believed the re-
port true. A Chicago sutton for his
daughters hand urged their removal
to Chicago and they had sorrowfully
left their home in Trenton.
While they were hugging and staring
at Osborn the letter carrier delivered
his letter announcing his departure
from Australia. It had been forward
ed from Trenton. Now Osborn says
that a man should write at least once
a week when away from home If it's
only to say o, and good-by.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
BARBER'S CHAIR A PULPIT
ronsoriaI Artist Doing Good WorIe IN
the Way of Helping His Eel
low Men.

1t is called The Barber Shop of the
Fen Commandments. 1t is undoubt-
eddy the only one of its kind in the
world. Every night after it's proprie-
tor finishes with his razor he goes to
prayer meeting and gives his testi-
mony for the benefit of the Bowery
down and outs" who have been under
mis- ministering care.
Jake the Barber" who has charge
Of the new tonsorial atelier, once
adorned shops in the Broadway and
Fifth avenue hotels, the New York
Herald states. He has piled the lath-
cred brush at the Belmont and the
electric shampoo at the Waldorf-As.
torie. In an evil day he yielded to his
thirst for strong drink and fell into
the ways Of the Bowery. He roamed
the streets in want and finally emerged
into new light-that of the Hadley
Rescue hall, 293 Bowery. Brother
john" as the men of the submerged
world call John Callahan, superintend-
ent of the hall, saw way in which he
could help Jake the Barber" He got
him new clothes and sent him out to
buy a secondhand BARRIERS chair,
which was sent to the hall G. o. d. A
complete new set of tools was obtained
and all the bottles and fixings.
The barber shop was set up in a
room in the hall where the bread for
those at the nightly supper is stacked.
Jake the Barber" is an artist in his
line. First the superintendent got
shaved and then some of the assist
ants. The barber received vote of
confidence and began to take in money.
The proceeds at the present time are
divided on the "fifty-ffty" basis, and
after the shop is paid for Jake will go
on his own resources.
Meanwhile fund has been provided
in the mission for the shaving of the
down and out" for one of the first
means toward rehabilitation is clean
shave
The walls of this novel barber shop
are covered with texts and religious
notices. Back of the customer, but
reflected in the glass, are the Ten
Commandments, and wherever the
man in the chair may turn his head
he may read some sentiment that
ought to lead him to better life.
Jake the Barber says that he finds
more joy in living now than he ever
did, for not only is he re-established
in his trade. but he also is the means
of aiding his fellow men.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
First cremations In America.

Thirty-eight years ago the first sci
entific cremation in the United States
took place at Washington, Pa. The
pioneer cremator was DR.. julius LIE
Moyne, and the subject was the body
of Baron de Palm, Russian theoso-
phist. The following spring the body
of Mrs. Benjamin Pitman of Cincin-
natl was cremated. But the American
precedent had been set 83 years be-
fore when under penalty of losing a
legacy of 10000 pounds If he refused,
the son of Henry .Laurens, South
Cardinals Revolutionary patriot, con-
signed his fathers body to a funeral
pyre. The CHASTITY experience of see
ing his infant child come to life just
before burial in the earth is said to
have been responsible for Laurens' de-
mand to be cremated.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
Armenian VocabuIaries.

Przemysl has bothered us exceed
ingly; but it is far from being the
last of the tongue twisters that will be
set by the war AS a bit of training
you might practice saying, "Strez prst
skrz kirk" This is the standard vowel
less shibboleth of the Bohemian Ian
guage, and it means: PUT your thumb
down your throat" Or course OF Ar
menian might be recommended. Speci-
mems are "jshmarid, true; "pzhishg,
a doctor; "prrngthsnel,' to kindle;
"aghohig," a girl, and 'dsnoghkh.' par
ents.-London Chronicle.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
Not Same Island.

The sending of warship to Juan
Fernandez to investigate the alleged
use of the island as a base by the
German cruisers has led once more
to the inaccurate statement that
Juan Fernandez is the island where
Robinson Crusoe underwent SO many
vicissitudes." The Pacific island was
where Alexander Selkirk was put
ashore in 1904, at his own request,
from a British ship, and where he
spent over four years by himself; but
there Is not the slightest resemblance
between Selkirk's adventures, as given
in the Account of the Man That
Lived Four Years and Five Months on
the Uninhabited Island of John Fer
nando," which appeared in 1712, and
those of Defoe's immortal Robinson
Crusoe
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27

part is under cultivation, but the wide
fields of sprouting maize, the great
stretches of sisal hemp and coffee, the
clustering blossoms of the American
orchard and the sweet fragrance OF
the gardens all testify to the wealth
and generosity of the soil of the farm
stead. Cattle and sheep, horses and
monkeys Craze in the thick lush grass
of the high slopes, beside the queer,
beehive huts of the natives, under the
care of Nasal shepherds.
Buffalo Most Dangerous.
Unlike Mr. Roosevelt, who has ex-
pressed the opinion that the lion is
the most dangerous of African ami
mails to hunt, and Sir Samuel Baker
and other mighty hunters, who yield
the palm to the elephant, Mr.. McMil-
Ian, after almost Is years experience,
unhesitating places the water buffalo
as the most dangerous foe to human
life, when wounded and brought to
bay by the huntsman.
The rhinoceros, In Mr.. McMillan's
opinion is of little actual danger to an
experienced and thoroughly alert man.
Possessed, apparently, of the most saw
age and erratic temper Of any of the
larger animals, it can see but poorly
out of those red, pig-like eyes, being
scarcely able to distinguish man a
sho distance away. y Then, when he
charges, he runs blindly, throwing his
huge bulk forward in a straight line
from which he seldom deviates. The
hunter, if he be sure-footed and col
lected, should his fire fail to stop the
gigantic beast, can easily evade him
by lodging, stepping aside when the
charge Is almost upon him, and there
is but little likelihood of the rhino
returning to the attack.
These animals are much given to
wanton attacks, seemingly running
amuck at times. On one such occa-
sion, a rhino came out of the nearby
brush and charged wildly through the
Juja Farm garden. Coming upon one
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-27
Heir 70 Forty Millions.

The czarevitch, the future ruler OF
all the Russias, has been described as
the most valuable child in the world
When he succeeds to the throne he
will inherit all the huge fortune of the
Roma 2off family, which is estimated at
no smaller a sum than forty million
pounds In addition to this, as ruler
of the Russian people, he will enjoy an
income of e2.00O.000 year, and have
the absolute control of 500 estates EN-,
ploying 10000 servants.
At present the child is the recipient
of an allowance of e15,O00 a year, a
banking account having been opened
for him soon after his birth, when, in.
cidentally, his life was insured for
half million pounds.