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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Unconvinced.

Nov, to illustrate the roundness of
the earth" said Columbus, Il will show
you an egg" THAT doesn't convince
me-" replied the court astronomer. III
you had waited till the egg became IN
omelet it would prove that the earth is
fiat"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Nj arriaqe Rinqs.

There is no law saying that we'd
ding ring must necessarily be of gold.
Marriages have been celebrated when,
in the absence of a proper ring, the
ring on a church door key has been
used
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Very Likely.

"Our ancestors had very few boards
of health. insanity commissions and
so on
perhaps it is just as we'll. Probably
they would have locked up Sir Isaac
Newton, Copernicus and also. Chris
TOPPER Columbus" louisville Courier
Journal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14

general guardian of William Jagers and Ber-
nard Jagers, minors; and Joseph M. Philipps
as executors of the will of John Kurth de-
ceased, Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue and
pursuant to an order of sale made in the above
entitled action on the 3Oth day of August, A. d.
1915, in the Circuit Court of Iowa County, Wis
consin, directing sale of the real estate here
matter described, /, the undersigned sheriff Of
Iowa County, Wisconsin, on the 18th day Of
October, A. D. 1915. at 200 O'Clock in the after
noon of said day at the front door of the court
house in the city of Dodgeville, Iowa County,
Wisconsin, will offer for sale and sell at public
vendue to the highest bidder or bidders for
cash the following described real estate situated
in Iowa County, Wisconsin, to-wit:
Part of lots six and seven of Thomas's Addi-
ton to the village, now city, of Dodgeville,
described as follows: Beginning at the north
west corner of said lot number seven on Wash
ington street, thence south one hundred eighty
feet, thence east two hundred feet, thence north
fifty-seven feet, thence west seventy feet,
thence north one hundred twenty three feet to
Washington street, thence west one hundred
thirty feet to the place of beginning.
Dated at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. August 81 -,
A. D. 1915. r. M. HILLARY,
Sheriff of Iowa County, Wis.
FIEDLER s. Fielder. PLAINTIFF Attorneys.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Disparaqem

II hope you never talk about your
neighbors, said the exacting friend.
81 never do" replied the frivolous
woman. They're an awfully uninter-
esting t."-Washington Star.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
DESTROY CHICKEN LICE.

Kindly give me a remedy that will
eradicate chicken lice.-Mrs. F. A D.,
Clark county.
For lice on little chicks l would rec
ommend putting just little vaseline
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
NOTICE OF SALE.

CIRCEIT Court-Iowa County, Wisconsin.
" Fred Kurth, Joseph Kurth, Mary Kurth
Roger and Nettie Kurth, plaintiffs.
versus
Kate Sersch, Lizzie Meili, Peter Kurth Susan
barrow, Emma Weinschenk George Kurth,
Chris Kurth, Harold Jagers, William yagers,
Bernard Jagers, Nellie Kurth, Fanny Kurth,
Kurth, wife of George Kurth --
Kurth, wife of Chris Kurth, Robert Darrow,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14

Have Cool busting Place.
See to it that the chickens have a
cool busting place this hot weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
WHEN THE ELEMENTS HAVE
HANDS AND FEET
HAVE
WHEN

Many natural philosophers of our
time believe that the appearance of
life upon this planet was a fortuitous
occurrence-that it was as accidental
as the fall of a die, or as the profile
of the rocks-entirely the result of
the blind hit-and-miss method of ma
ture as seen in the inorganic world. In
the last analysis, according to this
view we are all merely molecular &C
cidents, writes John Burroughs, in the
North American Review for August, in
a noteworthy paper entitled Life and
Chance" and he continues: Let us see
in what sense, if any. this may be
true. To come to the truth in it we
must look upon the fortuitous and the
accidental not as they occur in a
world of mechanical movements, but
in world of chemical reactions. The
fortuitous among chemical bodies is
quite a different thing from the for
tuitous among ponderable bodies. We
might shake together the parts of
watch for all eternity and not get that
adjustment of the wheels and springs
that makes a watch. If a thousand
of brick are dumped upon the ground,
is there any probability that they will
take the form of a house? Or if the
letters of the alphabet are shaken up
together in a bag, is there the slight
est chance that they will arrange
themselves into words and that the
words will arrange themselves into in
telligent sentences? In all these
things the parts have no attraction for
one another, but among chemical
compounds. out of which living bodies
are built up, there rules the selective
force of chemical affinity. The clouds
are ever changing. but they never
change into living forms The waves
shift and pile the sands endlessly
upon the shore, but the shore is al
ways essentially the same. Gravity is
the ruling force. But among chemical
bodies a new force appears; chemical
affinity is here the determining fac
tor. The law of probability plays a
secondary part Spontaneous combus-
ton, for instance, is molecular acct
dent only in a limited sense. The ante
cedent conditions may be in a meas
ure accidental, but the chemical reac-
tons that bring about the rise of tenn
perature to the point of combustion
are not accidental; they inhere in the
constitution of the elements. Life may
origin in the same sense; not a mere
chance happening among unrelated
bodies but the continuation of long
antecedent conditions brought about
by that mysterious force we call
chemical attraction. This force, as it
were, gives the elements eyes. and
hands, and feet, and power of choice,
and determines the line of their aetiv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
Jayh Jots

The Blue Rapids Times advertises
its telephone number as 'won-oh-ate."
AS the Yates Center Advocate says:
wise man makes the best of it when
he gets the worst of it.
The Kanopolis Journal gets gladness
out of the fact that there are no mos
quitoes in the winter time.
The Randall News idea of a pinhead
girl is one who will giggle and whisper
while those around her are trying to
listen to a sacred solo,
Sartorial comment, by the Burr Oak
Herald: A mans clothes to be really
fashionable at present must look as
though they belonged to his younger
brother.
About the only kind thing the Wa
thena Times has heard said OF
bachelor in a long time is that he is a
man who loves all the ladies so well
that he can't make a choice.
An Ell Dorado youngster who at
tended Ringling's circus is sick, re-
ports the E. Dorado Republican. Ee
gravated attack of redlemo popcorn
eatuS.
Winfield has a lady embalmer, notes
the independence Reporter, and it
adds But she will hardly be as pop
ular with the men as the lady bar
bers, lady osteopaths, lady manicur-
lists, lady stenos, etc
A brief but forcefu1 little sermon, in
the Holyrood Banner: What men want
is not talent but purpose; not power
to achieve, but the will to labor. 1t is
work that tells. Whether with the
hands or the brain, there's no success
without work.
According to the Hiawatha World.
a business man has figured out that
when his employees take an extra five
minutes in getting to work and quit
five minutes early noon and night, it
is Just the same as if he had given the
entire force two weeks vacation with
pay each year.
Old timers remember, says the Burr
Oak Herald, when the dry weather
would cause the tires to fall off the
wagon wheels, but there's nothing like
that now. Well venture the local
blacksmiths haven't had a job of tire
setting all summer unless the wheel
was otherwise in need of repair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
BILLY BAT.

One morning, just before dawn,
Tommy Tittle-mouse, who was very
tired of all the food hunting he had
to do since his babies came, planned
to be up and away before daybreak.
Perhaps if 1 get good start, he
said to Mrs Tommy, Il can get over
to the chicken yard before the crea-
lures that harm me are awake
Then 1 can eat my breakfast and
bring home plenty for all before
Don't worry about bringing home
so much, Tommy" said Mrs. Tommy,
kindly, those childrn are now
plenty big enough to feed themselves.
big breakfast. 1 think 1 will go with
you And so they left the home to-
gether.
Mrs. Tommy went toward the hedge
and Tommy to the chicken yard.
There he found plenty OF seeds and
bits of grain and ate the biggest
breakfast he had had for many a
week.
He was just through and was think
ing of going home when the mourn
full "Who-o-o" of Old Man Owl made
him gulp his last mouthfu1 and scoot
for home. He rushed into the far
thest corner of his nest so quickly
that he didn't even notice that the
nest was occupied. But it wasi Tom
my found that out later!
His nose brushed against a soft
DOQy anu Ills eyes, WHeH liCS
again grew accustomed to the dark
ness made out tiny little creature
hanging on the wall of the nest!
Mrs. Tommy, when she returned
from @breakfasting, was as surprised
as Tommy and neither of them could
guess who their visitor might be.
All day long they guessed and wait
ed-not once did their visitor stir,
not once did he move from what
seemed to Tommy and his mate
most uncomfortable position.
But when evening came, the
stranger awakened. took himself down
from the wall and said politely,
Good evening""
The same to YOU" replied Tommy;
but. If you please, who are you?"
I'm your cousin, Billy Bat" said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
MODERN LEGISLATION.

Modern legislation has just about
succeeded in regulating everything ex-
cept the growth of altruism and the
speed of Washington society, says
Judge, and it goes on: The zeal for
regulation and inspection respects no
boundary lines. With the cleverly ex-
torted consent of our indulgent con-
stitution, the federal government regu-
1ates the railroads, the express COM
panies. private incomes and the cleo
tions in Indiana. With intricate and
delicately adjusted mechanisms, state
governments inspect everything from
the purchase of coal hods for country
schools to the length of bed sheets in
metropolitan hotels. Every man or
woman hapless enough to be elected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Comparatively few women and no
men die of a broken heart.
An optimist is one who expects
landlords and tenants to agree.
Youthful enthusiasm makes its
measurements without yardstick or
tape.
River navigation, as we understand
it, is most successful on a navigable
river.
Perhaps there is so much poor cof-
fee because it is so easy to make good
coffee
There really isn't much occasion for
excitement, unless you have that kind
of nerves.
1t is also possible for a man to be
a Good Sport without being good for
much of anything else.
1t also occurs to US that the SER
wants have the hardest part of the
servant problem 70 solve.
One of the difficult social duties is
to appear entertained when one is
bored to death, or whereabouts.
There is also the girl whose notion
of modesty is to look down ut her
dainty feet when she passes Strange
Man.
A Mean Man has noticed that,
while the preacher occasionally takes
a vacation, the contribution box never
dnaS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

her arm firmly as he walked by her
side.
Mr.. Duncan, will you let me go?''
she asked angrily.
Certainly, when you ask me as
you should" he laughed. There was
a note of challenge in his voice. Say
you are not cross and I'll let you go"
But / am Cross
Curtis led Barba to her deck chair
and sat down beside her. Miss Liv-
ingstone," he said, 'it is rather abb
surd to tell you now, but you have
forced me to. Your manner, your
indifference, serves as a challenge
For some reason you dislike me, and
l. know that If you knew me you
would like me. In the meantime,
more than like you. / am very much
in love with you.'
Don't say that, please" she said.
II you have no respect for me, at
least you must have some for your
family"
Surely there is no reason why
may not fall in love and propose to
marry the most charming girl 1 have
ever met. What objection do you
know
only what your cousin wrote to
US. said Barba, almost with a sneer.
that you are married. I have the
letter here She fingered the pa
pers in the writing case that was
tucked iE the side of her chair. cit
is the letter Dick wrote to my broth
er. Listen, If you wish:
Il am taking this opportunity to
warn you of my cousin, Curtis Dun
can, who sails on the same boat. He
is a charming fellow, as you will
readily see, but tell Barbara to be
careful He is the worst fiirt in New
York, and the fact that he has a wife
and three children doesn't prevent
him from making himself very at
tractive to women. If you see him
rushing any nice girls on board you
might put them wise"
Curtis Duncan laughed, long and
boisterously, and when he had ex-
planned to Barba that this was all
his cousins promised scheme to get
even with him she laughed with him
But it wasn't very considerable of
him. Barba said. Suppose we had
never found out?"
would it have made any differ
ence ?' Curtis asked. Would you
care just a little if you never saw me
again? Do you think, Barba, that
you could ever care for me a little
bit the way L care for you?''
She did not speak, but he read his
answer in her telltale eyes.-(Copy-
right, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

tiles. The scientific philosophers find
no tendency or activity in living mat
ter that they cannot match in the nom
living; hence to them there is no diff
ference between the two that expert
mental science can grasp. But behold
The difference lies in the purposive
activities of one that is absent from
the other. There is no purpose in the
facets of crystal in the sense that
there is purpose in the forms and
structures of living bodies. The hinge
of a bivalve has purpose that is deter
mined by the needs of the organism;
but what purpose have the lines of
of the hills, or the courses of the
streams? All these things may serve
mans purpose, but they are meaning
less when regarded in their own light.
There is no significance in the whis-
tie of the wind about your house, but
whistle of another kind there in the
darkness would startle you. The
sounds of inanimate nature mean
nothing, but all sounds that proceed
from living, moving things are signi
ficant. There is no purpose in the
CLINT of the dewdrop nor in the spar
kle of the diamond, but there is pur-
pose in the flash of the FREELY and in
the beam of the glow-worm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
QUALITY IN COLLEGE WORK.

college and university education
has outgrown the boom stage" de-
clares DR.. Samuel P. Capen. in the
annual report of the United States
commissioner of education, just is
sued. The day of the academic pro-
moter of the initiation of values is
over" continues DR.. Capen. 'Expan-
sion is still going on, but for the most
part unaccompanied by the frenzied
advertising so common in the past
and encouragingly free from the opti-
mistic confusion of prospects and
realities. The developments of the
year strengthen the condition which
has been ripening for some time that
higher education is now looking to its
foundation and setting it's house in or
der. Colleges and universities have
come under the sway of the slogan
efficiency. Surveys undertaken by
outsiders and by officials of the insti-
tuition to be examined have become
increasingly frequent. There has been
vigorous activity on the part of sever
al voluntary associations that concern
themselves with standards of en-
trance, graduation, and constitutional
equipment. Some of this activity has
crystallized in the form of recon-
mendations that will effect education
al procedure over considerable areas.
The adoption of some form of group
system has been reported to the Unit
ed States bureau of education by 81
institutions, undoubtedly only a frac-
ton of the whole number of colleges
that have taken this step" The idea
that it is quality rather than quantity
of work done by a college student that
counts toward effective education, has
already received tangible recognition
in a few institutions through the
granting of extra credit for quality
says DR.. Capen. Several prominent
institutions have been reorganized and
other new departments have been
formed; and several others are ex-
perimenting with new types of voca-
tional courses related to local indus
trial activities. DIR. Capen mentions
Montana, Idaho and Kansas as three
more states where the administration
of state institutions of higher educa-
ton has been further centralized
through recent legislative action''&
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record
Strangely enough, a Miss sometimes
Mrs. Mr..
We don't always look up to a man
just because he is stilted
Trouble is a homeless cur 1t will
always come without calling.
A reversal of forms means a whole
lot to the corset manufa cturer.
Diplomacy-The art of being inter-
ested in other peoples troubles.
The worst thing about an opportun-
ity is that it has habit of knocking
at inopportune times.
A man never realizes how many
people are willing TO come to his as
sistance until he doesn't need it.
The henpecked husband not only
has to mind his wife, but he also has
to mind the baby sometimes.
Hoax-"Yes, that old clock is an
heirloom. 1t has descended to me
from my eat-great-gran -
Joax-''Runs in the family, eh %
aNelI--'I once knew a woman with
one leg who married a dealer in arti-
ficial limbs" Belief suppose she
wanted a husband who would give her
a free foot
No, Maude, dear, we have never
heard that blondes are better dancers
than brunetteS. just because a girl
has light head it doesn't necessarily
follow that she is also light on her feet.
Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do today" quoted the Wise
Guy. That's right" agreed the Sim
pie Mug. THE chances are you will
have an opportunity TO do it all over
again tomorrow anyway
You ought to be ashamed of your
self to strike your little brother, who
can't protect himself" exclaimed the
virtuous parent. 1.-THE same thought
has frequently occurred to me when
you give me a licking" replied the
young hopeful.
What makes you so sure that wait
err used to be q baseball umpire 2"
asked the friend of the amateur de-
tective. From the tone in which he
said; The batter is out!' when / asked
for hot cakes this morning" replied
the embryonic Sherlock Holmes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
Euening Chat
The Eater-Up.
BY RUTH CAMERON


NV doctor friend was telling me OF
the breakdown of a Woodworking III
tie mother who is his cherished friend
as we'll as his patient.
cts nerves and indigestion all tan
gled up together" he explained And
do YOU want to know one thing tnat
caused that Indigestion IN the nrs'
place? Because she's an eater-up-
/ took my cue and expressed my ue-
sire for an explanation
"An eater-up," pursued my doctor
friend, well pleased at this emporium
ity to expound his theory, is a per
SON, almost invariably mother, who
eats up all the little leftover messes
that the rest of the family don't want
She always takes the unappetlzlng
crust of day before yesterdays bread.
some nice fresh steak she's probably
e: ting up a warmed over mess OF yes
terday's mackerel or the few last
scraps of cold lamb from Sunday
roast.
THE family doesn't fancy some
D,1dding she makes for them, so she
makes it her dessert for the rest OF
the week.
"She doesn't want to throw any
thing away and she doesn't want to
bring fault finding and criticism
down on her head by serving things
too many times or by offering anyone
the left-overs and SO she solves me
problem by eating up all the unap-
petizing things herself.
eAIl the other members of the fam
lily are particular about what they eat.
They don't like this or they don IKE
that, but the mother likes everything.
She has to. And half the time 1t
means she doesn't have a real appetite
for anything.
Indignantly, these fool women that
think they can abuse themselves all
they want She wasn't the only one.
I've been treating them for thirty
years.
The doctor paused to mediate
darkly on the sins of mothers and I
ventured to ask the elucfdation OF one
point 1t was plain enough to me
disagreeable task, but why should it
be harmful? Weren't lett-oVers nour-
ishing?
Are they appetizing?' countered
my doctor friend grimly
I hastily admitted they were not
s'Then,' said the doctor, they're
not nourishing, at least not as nour-
ishing as they should be- Don you
know that food that you eat without
any appetite for it doesn't digest as
we'll as food you enjoy2 When your
mouth waters for anything tnat means
that the digestive juices are READY 70
digest it. If YOU eat unappetizing FOOD
all the time your mouth never waters
and your food isn't properly olgesteo-
What would you have done with
left-overs then .?
them divided among the whole lam
iIv There wouldn't be enough to
hurt anyone that way. I'd have chill
dren trained so that they wouldn't be
turning up their noses and flndlng
fault all the time. and soaring their
mothers into thinking they must eat
up all the unappetizins messes- l sup
pose children don't mean so badly,
concluded my doctor friend more
gently. -.thev lust don't realize. It's
the fault of their confoundedly- I'M
selfish mothers after alI-God bless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
From Other Pens
A GREAT SCHOLAR GONE.


According to the proverb, The
world knows little of it's greatest
men, and the proverb holds especial
ly true just now, because soldiers and
their deeds monopolize the public
prints. as they monopolize the public
thought 1t is, therefore, no marvel
that the death of Sir James Murray
should pass almost unnoticed, though
the death of Lord Roberts was her-s
aided to the ends of the earth. For
Sir James Murray, though he lived
nearly ten years beyond the scriptural
limit. spent his powers in compiling
the oxford dictionary of the English
language work quite unique, in it's
kind. Dozens of degrees from univer-
stiles and manifold honors from
learned societies of all nations attest
ed the wide and accurate scholarship
which alone made possible the mag
mum opus.'' A slight idea of the toll
involved in this work may be got from
the fact that thirty assistant editors
and more than fifteen hundred read
ers were needed to sort the rough ma
terial Every book published before
the beginning of the fifteenth century
was searched and every book of i'm
portance since that date At the time
of his death, Sir James was busy with
the volumes coverying words between
T and Il. He was thus fated, like
Moses, to see the promised land, but
not to enter in. Yet the consciousness
of solid worth and enduring achieve
ment must have given full solace.
THE shallow murmur, but the deep
are dumb. New Orleans Times
Picayuna.