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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP

Management, Circulation, ETC., of
The Iowa County Democrat, pub.
lished at Mineral Point, Wisconsin,
required by the Act of August,
1912:
Name of editor, managing editor, and business
manager: Robert NJ. Crawford, post office
address, Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Publishers and owners: George Crawford and
Robert M. Crawford, Mineral Point, Wis
known bondholders, mortgages, and other Sc
cur1ty holders, holding per cent or more Of
total amount of bonds. mortgages, or other
securities Observation-Disclosures. None.
Average number of copies of each issue of this
publication sold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during
the SIX months preceding the date shown
above 1sOO
lS1gnedJ ROBERT M. CRAWFORD,
Sworn to and subscribed before me this oath
day of September, 1915
lsEALl Z. G. PENALLEGoN.
Notary Public, Iowa Co., Wis.
(My commission expires March 10. 1851
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Owns Wrong Land Twelve Years.

McMinnville, Ore.-Twelve years ago
Josef Heinrich bought eight acres Of
school land from the state, located,
paid taxesiand improved the place. N
W. Smith, who recently purchased thir-
teen, acres from the state, discovered
-thay Heinrich. had :been living on his
ilani and had paid taxes on another
tract one mile south similar in descrip-
ton. In the twelve years Heinrich had
built home on the Smith place. clear
ed some of the timber and cultivated
the land. The Heinrich tract in the
meantime has not been touched.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
THIRTEEN EXPLAINS DEFEAT!
Unlucky Number Was Also Aided by
KilIinq Black Cat.

California, Pa. - T. J. Underwood,
comptroller of Washington county,
ascribes to "thirteens'' his defeat as
candidate for sheriff at the primaries.
In the first place his name. Tom J.
Underwood, contains thirteen letters.
The license number of his yellow cam
paign car was 113. On Friday, Aug.
Is, while riding in his car with an
other candidate now numbered among
the also rams, he ran over and killed a
black cat. The number of signers on
Mr.. Underwoods petition was 113.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14

Some Wisconsin editors run along
week after week and month after month
without advocating the principles of the
party they represent. If they will look
the matter up they will find that such
a course shuts them out from publish
ing election notices, etc. 1t was so de-
cided in a case tried over in the fourth
judicial circuit few years ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
MAKE MUDHOLES FOR LIVING.

Missourians Cultivate Traps For Auto
lists, Official Charges.
Jefferson City, Mo.-That mudholes
in the road are carefully nurtured in
many communities in Missouri by per-
sons who find it profitable to pull auto
mobiles out Of them when they get
stuck is charged by State Highway
Commissioner Buffum in a road bull
letin.
The issuance of this bulletin follow
ed the action of a Galloway county
farmer, who refused to pull the auto
mobile of Mrs. James Houchin out Of
creek bed until she gave him $50.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
FUELLESS ENGINE
QUEST ENDS AT SO
Called by Death After Working
on It Seventy Years.
TAKES SECRET TO GRAVE.
Before Dying Would Be inventor Of
Minneapolis Destroyed All Charts or
Mechanical Contrivances He Had
Made In Search For Perpetual Mo-
ton Machine.

ton Machine.
Minneapolis, Minn.-When John La
ney, ninety-three years old, was laid to
rest in Crystal Lake cemetery a sew
enty year quest for the secret of per
petual motion" came to fruitless end.
So close did he think himself to the
secret at times that he trembled with
expectancy. For seventy years, despite
his disappcintments, his mind aflame
with ambition, Laney worked, think
ing, experimenting
Meanwhile this man, Scotchman by
birth and stOnemason by trade, whose
only relaxation was reading the works
Of Bacon, Shakespeare, COleridge and
Wordsworth, smashed and destroyed
cOntrivance after contrivance when it
failed. Then with intensified energy
he concentrated on new idea.
at almost worked"
These three words tell the life story
Of a man gifted in some ways beyond
his fellow men. John Laney wanted
his name to go down in history, but al
very edge of accomplishment it was
only to find the something missing in
contrivance that almost worked"
'When 1 was just a little girl father
used to have the kitchen table cleared
for him when supper was over" said
the aged man spent his last days.
Gle had a groove in the table and a
round stone ball that he made himself.
He would roll this round and round,
and often mother would have to get
up late at night and beg him to stop
and rest.
Father had a good e.Ication, most
ly self acquired. He loved the poets,
and he wrote several songs, one for
the st. George guards of st. George,
New Brunswick, where we once lived.
He was a sculptor Also"
Outside the steps Of the cosy cot.
tage where Mrs. Welton lives are two
pieces of granite. One has On it fig
ures of Hiawatha and Minnehaha; the
other has on it a bear and two cubs.
Inside the house, highly treasured, is
chain five feet long. with many links
and an anchor at the end, that was cut
out with a jacklznife from solid piece
of wood. Many small mementoes re-
main.
But before he died John Laney de-
stroyed all charts or mechanical con-
trivances he had made in his search
for perpetual motion. One day he
said to his daughter:
Perpetual motion will yet be found
There is no doubt of it. When it is
found the world will be astonished not
alone by the stupendOus changes that
it will bring in all industrial life, but
by the simplicity of it. Millions will
wonder why no one ever thought of it
before"
II am an old man." he would often
say. Il saw the coming Of the rail-
roads, the telegraph, the automobile
and the more wonderful things of
later years. l predicted back in 1850
that the world would one day see the
horseless wagon, and it is here. All,
if 1 could only just get the one little
link!'
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
At EIGHTY three Drives 400 Miles.

Glen Easton, w. Va.-George w.
Grant. eighty-three years DID, who
drove 400 miles with a thirty-six-year-
Old. horse from here to Wilmington,
Del, has returned to this city by rail.
1t required sixty-one days to make
the drive. Mr.. Grant drove to Della
ware to see his children, whom he had
not seen in forty-six years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
BABE TRAVELS IN BASKET.

Young Father Makes Long Journey
With Motherless Child.
Eagle, Ariz.-With a clothes basket
as cradle for his month-old mother
less babe r. e. Hiatt made the journey
from Eagle to Sidney, Ia, to place the
infant in the care Of it's grandmother.
Mrs. Hiatt died just a month ago fol-
lowing the birth of twins, one of which
died at birth.
A woman on the train volunteered to
assist the young father, and the infant
reached it's destination safely.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Peculiaritjes of DYE.

Closely related to yeast, fungi dis
covered in breweries by a Japanese
scientist have been found to dye silk
beautiful rose color, but to be harm
less when used in the manufacture of
beer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
MAD DOG CALLS POLICE.

Upsets Telephone In Rampage and Gen.
trail Does the Rest.
Danville III. A dog afflicted with
rabies indirectly called the police de-
partment and thus brought about it's
own destruction. Before it was killed
it overturned much of the furniture at
the home of Louis Smith, it's owner,
and badly scared the servant
In its rampage it upset a desk on
which the telephone rested and as the
receiver fell from the hook central
asked for the number. The operator
heard the bowling Of the dog and, be-
lieving that something was wrong,
called the police department.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Thrifty.

II fear my cousin is going to marry a
very stingy man."
"Why SOP
''She suggested morning wedding,
but he said to make it after lunch on
the ground that she would get one
more meal at home."-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
WED AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
Sweethearts Before Civil War Now
Happy Together.

Happy Together.
Lexington, Ky.-Oliver Marcum and
Mrs. Mary H: Murray were married by
the Rev. J. S. Thompson at the minis
ter's home here. Marcum is seventy
two years old and his bride seventy
one. s.
The couple were sweethearts before
the civil war and had not met in fifty
years until the day before they were
married. The bridegroom and the min
lister who married him served III the
same company in the federal army
Marcums first wife died four years
ago. His bride had been widow many
years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
GIRL is DEPUTY CORONER.
Miss Edison, Who Became Doctor In
June, Gets Post In West.

Seattle, Wash.-The little city of Tolt
has the distinction Of having the first
woman deputy coroner appointed in
this state
DR.. Hazel Edison, who was gradu-
ated last June from Rush Medical col
lege at Chicago, hung out her single in
Tolt in July. With a runabout she
makes calls in all parts of her noun
famous territory and is already popu-
lar. As deputy coroner she will have
to investigate all violent and suspicious
deaths in her district
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
When Father Is Recalled.

Mr.. Benedict-"My daughter is the
initiative and my wife is the referen
dunn" Mr.. Singleton-"Andw where do
you come in?" Mr. Benedict-"Oh.
I'm the recall. They recall my exist
ence whenever the bills come in."-
Judge.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14

Removing Adhesive Tape PainIessIy.
The usual pain which accompanies
removing adhesive tape from cuts or
bruises can be avoided il a few drops
of benzine are applied to the edges.
Worlds Advance
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14

Powder on a Slipper Sole.
The best method of applying face
powder is to spank it on with a lambs
wool-lined sole such as is used in
worsted bedroom slippers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
.RATTLER'S FANGS MISS HIM.
Snake Strikes Negroes OveraIls and
Can't Get Loose.

Can't Get Loose.
Jefferson City, Mo-A negro farm
hand cutting corn felt several sharp
tugs at his overalls and thought he had
become caught in briars. CHANGING over
his shoulder, he saw a rattlesnake five
feet long. Reaching around with his
corn knife, he managed to sever the
snake just back of the head.
The snake had buried its curved
fangs,. nearly an inch in length, in the
slack of the negro's oEeralls and could
moi. disengage them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14

Fortune is like mirror-it does
not alter men, 1t only shows men just
as they are.-BillingS.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
Fathers Baby, Willie's Lady.

But my daughters too young to
marry, young man. She's just barely
a miss"
''She may seem that way to you, sir.
but she is hit with me."-Judge.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-10-14
MILLINERY

One, dozen hats for the girls at So so,
So rs and $500. Each week we receive
new goods and styles at right prices.
Phone 511-2. A M. KRAMER.
Opposite Post Office.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-26

FOkD 10 SEE PRESlDENI AND
CARDINAL ABOUT PEACE
New York, Nov. 26.-Henry Ford
left New York today hoping to win
before night approval of both Fres.
Wilson and Cardinal Gibbons for
peace ship that is to sail for Europe
December 4.
Ford will talk over his plans with
Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore. He
will urge Cardinal to lend his infiu-
ence to Christmas peace mission by
accompanying Voyagers to Europe.
If the Cardinal finds that impossible,
Ford will ask that he, as head of the
Catholic church in America, give to
the world some indication of approval
that will enlist for the peace move
ment the energetic support of Cath
olics in neutral countries.
From Baltimore Ford will go to
Washington where he will accom-
pany Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of a
member of the English parliament,
and Mrs. Rosika Schwimmer, Hun
garian peace advocate, to the White
House.
Mrs. Snowden and Nine Schwim-
mer will present to the president re-
solutions adopted by the women's
peace congress at The Hague. They
will urge upon the president that he
issue a call at once for a conference
of neutral nations with view to end
ing the world war.
Though peace ship, Oscar H., is
scheduled to sail one week from to-
morrow, many important details of
trip are yet to be arranged. Ford has
given out list of 10 prominent per-
SONS who have accepted invitations
to make voyage. Liner will touch at
Christiania, Copenhagen and Stock
holm, he announced. Peace confer
ence probably will be held in Holland.
1890
A contract for $26, ooo, 600 worth of
L n
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-26
JLEoNApD RBpLOdLE

Here's the man who paid SIS, 000,-
900 for 240,000 shares of the Cam
bria Steel Co. and who entered the
employ of that concern 81 years ago
in the capacity of water boy at SIS a
week. He was the son of weI-to-do
parents when the great Johnstown
flood swept the city in which he
lived. Two of his immediate rela-
tives lost their lives and all their
property was destroyed. ..-
-O-O-
A LIGHT CROP ONLY MIGHT BE
EXPECTED
Yesterday l instructed Mary, the
new cook, to plant some bulbs in the
new flower pots. She did. Only
they were of the electric light vari-
ety.-C. B.
Tennessee coffin factories are be-
ing prosecuted for 'misbranding the
contents of their collins, it being
charged that they have been shipping
whisky in them. -.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-26

A contract for $26, ooo. 600 worth of
rifles for the Russian army has been
closed in Cleveland, according to re-
ports, which would indicate that the
Slavs contemplate putting some
100000 more soldiers in the field
before they are ready to listen to
any peace palaver.
The Washington times., 1915-09-25
Everybody Is Dancing
At Pacific Exposition

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 25.-Literally.
eNerybodys doing II. San Francisco,
where the modern dance fad origi-
mated. has gone stiff. stark, staring mad
over IT.. 1t Is no longer a fad: 1t is an
iEstitu ton.
From the cradle to the grave-at
least as far az victims ages are con-
ccrned-the modern dance has seized
the exposition city. In every place.
while away pleasant hours. the one
step. tango. fox-trot. and 80 on ad in
flritum. are In full. wide-open swing.
The exposition nightly has its dance
mad thr.ongs. Your native son-or
darghter-heads at once for the dance
hall; the wonders OF the exposition are
an old story to the native; naught in
terests or amuses him but the tango
parlors.
Downtown. in the lobster palaces it is
the same.
One night. on the same dance floor
little miss-not a minute older than
1cur years-tipped the one-step gleefully
with her mother. while close at hand a
White-haired man, perhaps sixty five or
seventy. with his spouse. seemed to be
having the time of his gay second youth
doing the same thing.
The baby couldn't make her feet be-
have. When the strains OF the orches-
ira died she insisted on continuing and
when her mother made her way back
to her dinner the tot paraded to the
center of the floor and staged a solo
dance that made some of the older folks
envious She was not on exhibition; the
dance was in her blood. tingling for ex-
preston, like the sparkle OF wine. To
her. the modern dance was the ex-
preston of sheer JOY OF living.
The Washington times., 1915-09-25

of horse slcdgcs end bullock wagons.
Giving all due weight to this fact
and to the additional fact that the
Germans have far better morale
than Napoleon's army, which was
made up largely of nondescript
medley Of races, many fighting un-
der compulsion, the Germans are
face to face, as the campaign de-
velops and dragnet after dragnet is
drawn taut with comparatively
empty meshes, with the momen-
tous fact that the Russian army,
though suffering grievously, re-
mains uncaptured and undestroyed.
This failure is bound to exert an
important effect upon the campaign.
There is no inherent reason why an
army in being, with unlimited re-
sources of men at its back, with
allies prepared to stock them with
arms and ammunition, and constant
ly approaching it's own base, should
not ultimately prove an army in
effective offensive action.
The Washington times., 1915-09-25
INFERENCE is UNWARRANTED.

year ended June 30. 1915, American ex-
pSrts 90 Of ray sss os ssc0a oanas
For the present. this single item of
cocoa served the purpose of illustra ting
conditions Of trade with the northern
neutral countries. Why should there
ticular item? Is 1t to be assumed that
both Britain and the United States have
heen sending cocoa to Germany through
the ports Of neutral countries?
Not necessarily. reply the commerce
experts. They calculate thus:
Stops German Commerce.
Before the war Norway. Sweden, and
Denmark. and some parts Of Holland.
were largely supplied with cocoa-and
the same II true of a myriad Of other
articles-through the ports of Hamburg,
Bremen. and other German commercial
cntreports. The goods came to those
ports. and thence were distributed to
the surrounding markets. But as soon
as the war brought the blockade Of
those ports. 1t was impossible for the
old commercial routes to be followed
The cocoa had to go somewhere else
Naturally. 1t went through British
ports. and is listed in the commerce
reports as British expectation. Exports
from Harwich and Liverpool are taking
the place, in neutral countries. of for
mer exports through Hambu-c and
Bremen. The United States was fortu-
nate enough to get In on the re shipment
business: This country had been a big
buyer Of cocoa N the East: mad estab
lished relations there. VAS able to m
crease orders quickly, and thcn divert
them to help out the European markets
mat was exactly what happened.
consul General Skinner discussed the
exports of cotton and cotton 10 hrins
wool and woollen fabrics, from the
United States and also from Great
Britaln. to the neutral countries: and in
tnat case. again. attempted to show
that the United States was being bun
coed out Of It's share Of the trade. while
! b',i, tme Srltlsh: behind their blockade. were
pulidlng up vastly increased trade
In these lines. The accusation is Quito
as sroundless as In the case of cocoa
but the arrav of facts Is different The
subject of textiles will be handled In
another article. '''
There is nothing to bear out the accu-
sation that British commerce has been
especially favored at the expense Of
American. For many months mast a.
mas been proclaimed that the IInitaS
states was going to" start trouble with
, Great Britain about these matters. but
tne trouble has been deferred from time
70 time without much explanation. The
fact is that the United States had no
case. except Its case against the gem
eraily unfortunate conditions that war
necessarily imposes. American foreign
trade has been increasing faster thar
that OF any other nation on earth.
BRUSH foreign trade as a whole has
been falling at startling pace. There
are few items as to which exceptions q
must be noted: but in almost evar,,
case the explanation Is easy and. To ths
men expert In such matters. obvious,
The Washington times., 1915-09-25
THE FINANCIAL. "JAO"

1t is announced from Berlin that
subscriptions to the third German
war loan now total over three bill.
lions of dollars, with some parts of
the country not yet reported. The
three great popular loans floated by
the empire produced respectively
SLIPS, 100000, $2,14O,OOO,OOO, and
now over three billions for the most
recent output of securities. The fig.
ures suggest that German financial
power is as wonderfully organized
as is German military force.
1t is worth while, however, to re.
call the circumstances under which
German subscriptions to the war
loans have been given. The restric-
tions on German commercial and
financial relations with the world
have been so onerous that it is i'm
possible to guess how much Ger
many's paper currency would be dis
counted if it were in use as a world
medium. It is certain, however, that
the country is practically on a paper
basis, and that the loan banks have
emitted quantities of notes that
have inflated the currency of the
country to such an extent that nom.
inal subscriptions to the present
loan have a doubtful relation to ac.
tual values. Germany has not been
forced seriously to face the problem
of money standard common to the
commercial world. France and Eng.
land have faced it, and have stood
by the gold standard in a manner
that has brought them present en-
barrassments but also the assurance
of future satisfaction. There could
be no worse error than to assume
that Germany's ability to float a
three-billion dollar loan at home,
while the allies are dickering for a
half-billion dollar credit in America
indicates German financial super
iority. Germany has a splendidly
superior economic mobilization; but
she has no financial organization to
correspond to it.
The Washington times., 1915-09-25
SOUTHERN COTTON WEALTH

German merchants have offered
American exporters 16 cents a
pound for a million bales of cotton
laid down in Bremen. To cover the
$s0,000,000 represented by that
much cotton at that price, the Ger
man firms have deposited American
securities at our consulate in Ber-
lin.
But that bulk order of a million
bales of cotton will not be sold
and delivered in Bremen at 16 cents
or at any other price, because it can
not 60 through the fleets of the
allies shutting out with their block
ade just such important cargoes.
And yet because of the loss of
that big order from the Bremen
merchants the cotton growers of the
United States will not be in despair.
If during this season never a pound
of cotton should be smuggled into a
German port the American cotton
growers could still remain cheerful.
For while year ago all over the
South was resounding the calamity
cry Of "6-cent cotton" and while
The Washington times., 1915-09-25

later many thousands of bales were
sold from 7 cents up to 8 cents, cot
ton this season has i,eeH skipping
merrily along towsr.t higher prices
until today it is w4ii oast II cents
pound, with more than IL cents
asked for spring deliveries and with
every prospect that before long il
will go very much higher for all de-
liveries.
And the difference between 6-cent
cotton and 11-cent cotton or between
z and 12-cent cotton or 8 and 49,
cent cotton or 8 and 14-cent cotton
is $25 a bale; and there will not be
merely a million bales to sell at
this price, there will be millions Of
bales. And a difference of $25 a
bale on no more than ten million
bales is a difference of quarter
of a billion dollars more put into
the pockets Of the cotton growers
as a better return for their cotton
this year than last.
The American cotton grower last
season didn't meet the disaster to
which twelve months ago he fore
saw himself doomed. He got out
OF it in pretty fair shape when, af-
ter the turn of the year, he could
sell at between 9 and 10 cents vast
quantities Of cotton at which no.
body would look in the fall for Z and
8 cents. He can see his old-time
prosperity ahead Of him now, with
a likelihood that the II and 12-cent
cotton of today will probably be 19
and 15-cent cotton before the South
is out in the fields doing its spring
blowing.