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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22
FRANCE WON'T PERIL MEET
Will Not Permit Her Request for In.
creased Warship Tonnage to En-.
danger Success Of Conference.

Peris, Dec. 19.-"France will not
permit her request for increased war
ship tonnage to endanger the success
of the Washington conference but
will abide by any decision, no matter
II 1t is adverse" it was officially an
nounced.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22
u BIG STEAMERS ASHORE
Lake Vessels Driven on Rocks Of
Lake Erie Near Port
Of Buffalo.

Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 20.-Twenty-two
large lake steamers were ashore on
the south shore Of Lake Erie at this
port as a result Of Sundays gale.
Their value is $14,00O,O00. All carry
grain cargoes estimated at 100000
bushels and valued at over $1,000, 900.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE+125 tons of timothy
and clover hay in barn on the E. J.
Davis farm. Inquire of Henry Wal
lencamp. 2Ow2
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

WANTED-A District Manager or
General Agent to sell complete
line of fruits for the orchard and
home, roses, shrubs and ornamental
trees for landscape work and sell
street trees; also to employ sub
agents for nearby territory. Part
or full time. Permanent position.
Pay weekly. Write Quaker Hill
Nurseries, Newark, New York State,
and let us tell you the particulars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR-SALE A C-Melody Saxa-
phone, in good condition. Leo
Sharp. 2OW2
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-Good Surrey, pole and
shafts; also saddle. Inquire of F.
c.. Weidenfeller. 19W2
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-Green oak block wood.
Inquire of James Lynch. Psone 49,.
19W2
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-A 200 acre farm, loca-
ted in Taylor county, four miles
from Rib Lake; SO acres under cul-
tivation; good buildings and fences;
running water; n mile from graded
school. For particulars inquire at
this office. 17W4
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-White oak posts, cord
wood, and standing timber. In
quire of Barney Laverty. 19w3
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-The Mrs Lavinia Peters
home in south part of city. The
house has just been improved and
is in good condition. Will be sold
cheap if taken at once. Inquire at
The Democrat Office. 15tf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

WANTED-Live agents to handle
city trade for the genuine Watkins
Products. A real opportunity.
Write today for free sample and par
ticulars. J. r. Watkins Co., Dept.
II, WinOna, MINI. 18W4
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

LOST-Strayed or stolen, one black
English Shepard female dog; an
swers to name of Lady" Infor-
nation or return to Roger Bros. and
receive reward. Route 8, Phone.
Line %, No. /. 16tf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22
WANT ADVS.
THE MARKET PLACE
Where readers of The Democrat Buy, Sell, Rent
and Exchange

One cent a word per week
Minimum charge Is cents.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-House and garage
known as the Charles l.. Smith
property, situated on Fountain st.
and on Front street. Inquire OF j.
NJ. Thicker, agent. l3tf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE-Hard coal heating stove
practically new. Phone 474. 16tf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

WANTED-To hear from owner of
good Farm for sale. State cash
price, full particulars. D. F. Bush,
Minneapolis, MINI. 9w13
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

FOR SALE CHEAP-New room
house, corner Center and Seventh
Streets. Electric lights, cistern and
good cellar. Will be sold cheap if
sold soon. For further information
inquire of r. ]. Ellsworth. 14tf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22

WANTED-To borrow sum Of
money. Inquire at this Office. 13tf
FOR SALE-Duroc Jersey boars;
also a few Aberdeen Angus heifers.
Joe Schmitz, Route No., Mineral
Point. 13tf
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-01-01
T H E T OF L E R
SATURDAY, JAN. l, 1921.

said. Just the same we understood each other
Weren't we both of us women? Weren't we both
of us carrying home heavy bundles and we were
both going to sew all night and with us our child
rem so that we could eat Where would have been
but for her? She called to her friends. They
gathered about me- They took her bundle between
them. She lifted me to my feet My bundle she
put on her head. In this way got home.
'Then you were born, Morris Each baby =
what worry You remember, Reba come close
to me - you were my only help, you helped wash
and dress the new babies. You were the only one
there to hand me a cup of water.
"How hard papa worked in those days.
Winters mornings he would crawl out before the
light, bent down like an old man he would stir
around making himself tea. Coughing, always
coughing-I could hear him come up the stairs
nights His cough came ahead of him and when
he left could hear it going off in the distance.
He would wipe his mouth with rag, and would
see him looking at it. knew what he was looking
for How many went that way! What with the
long hours and little food And then he would look
at me and the children We would sit there and
the spectre of death would stand between us. Fear
went to bed with us, and fear got up with us.
''Was it wonder that babies got sick? Was
it any wonder they died? Oh, it is bitter thing
to go through the pain of bearing and then the
pain of losing But there is btterer thing yet
and that is when they die that you should be glad
for their sake"
Pain stopped his mothers speech. There was
silence. Throughout the room little sound only
broke it = Reba crying softly to herself She
seemed remote and lonely in her fashionable plain
clothes
Memories flowed past Morris as she talked.
He remembered a dank tenement house. When you
opened the door foul air rushed out past you like
an evil animal. He remembered the tide of pants
mounting so high that when you went into the
room you thought of pants first and human beings
last Pants every where and his mothers fingers
flying as though driven by fear while he sat and
played beside her with spools on string. Snatches
of talk went on over his head of underpay, of the
cost of thread The older children were at work
beside her and If he cried. Reba hushed him. His
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-01-01
PAGE M

into the hallway and out into the odorous street.
She spoke again: '1 would sew and sew Tnfs
children would sicken before my eyes. Their cres
would beat upon my heart could not stop to tenr
to them. Ny hands could not stop work. Yhe
others must eat Once when father was out OF
work, the baby lay dying. knew it, | had Seen
his blue lips. There were eight more pants To
finish-'When these are done, I'll take him UR
I thought. finished the work and looked around
He lay still. l went to him. Dead, dead. had NOT
stopped work even for death"
Again she spoke
"You remember, Reba-how you would plcz
hastings and pick Distinguishing on your lsue
STOOL You would nod asleep. How many times have
| walked you up, jogging you with my foot How
many times have thought = Must | bring
children into the world to live in dark hole, To
work almost before they can walk OILY that they
may have crust of bread to aat?.' That was sfSs
time when clothes were made Of the blood siKi
bones of men and women and children. TormeS
went into the making of clothes
"Oh the long years, one after the other like
that-Oh, the long years!
81 remember when your papa just Joined
union You will lose your job, I said, was fright
ened didn't understand"
He would explains There is y city full whr
suffer like us. Not few Hundred and hundreds
hundred and hundreds-the shop full of girs
and women speeding their lives away. Thousands
and thousands and thousands living like us. Whs
will help us if we don't No Moses will come to lead
us from this bondage.
STRIKES one after another and the men scah
bing on each other because of misery and hungcx-
You're FOOL Nose Stitch said to papa - SHDw
can you Organize an industry like ours? There's
too much labor; the people are too wretched YoaN
be out of work all the time
'When the boys and papa began bringing
home good money and the hours grew shorfsz,
what pleasure could look with Joy on Moe and
Henry These boys can go to school, they can
learn something.
Sometimes when / would hear the ch1dr0
talking that women were making twenty and
thirty week, am dreaming would think But
the union grew and grew. Do you know howl
Thibodaux commercial journal. (Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.) 191?-1959, 1921-03-05
OF LAFOURCHE.
LIABILITIES

THE CLOSE or BUSINESS FEB 81. 1921.
, 1921-12-19
BLANTON BLURTS.

Congressman Blanton of Texas, who made himself
famous and narrowly escaped expulsion from con-
gress by inserting Objectionable matter in the Con-
gressional Record under the leave to print privilege
has again invaded public notice by an attack upon
Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of La
Dor. Mr.. Blanton is a Democrat and so Is Mr.. Com
pers and when one Democrat skins another and re-
minds him of sins committed in days of Democratic
supremacy and disagreement 1t makes more defn-
lite and certain the things charged against that old
party Of corruption at the time.
Mr.. Blanton says the war record and quality of pa
triotism of Mr.. Gompers are both bad. First, there
was the Adamson law, an atrocious piece of legisla-
tion. Gompers forced it through congress with a
strike threat. His next move was to demand n bonus
for all government employees receiving less than ST.
ment requiring an eight-hour instead Of a seven-hour
day was vetoed by President Wilson, faced with an
other strike.
Then there was the bill known as the "work or
fight" bill, defeated by Gompers and 100000 1s-year-
old boys were drafted into the service.
Gompers supplied the backing to the Big Four broth
erhoods in forcing Secretary McAdoo then director
general of railroads, to give railway employees an an
nual wage increase of 1854, 000, 900; and did the same
thing to Walker Hines, McAdoo's successor, in CO.
ercing n further increase of S67, 600, 900 and other
awards that finally totaled ST 1000, 000, 900.
All Of this occurred before the United States rail-
road labor board was created. Then, while the board
Big Four, supported by Samuel Gompers, issued an
other strike threat. And it brought a 5000, 900, 900
wage award from the board. It is only this last
and half of that-which has been cancelled by recent
wage reductions of railway employees.
These are only a few of the outstanding sins laid
ar the Gompers door by the Texas congressman. There
are others of course. These all were committed while
Mr.. Gompers carried the pass key to the back door of
the White House when Mr.. Wilson was the tenant of
the property.
, 1921-12-19
Our Physical Imperfections

Would you believe that the two
sides OF a face are never alike? The
eyes + out of line In two cases out
OF five. and one eye is stronger than
the other IN seven persons out OF ten.
Tho right ear. rs a rule is higher than
the left.
Only n person in fifteen has per
feet eyes, the larger percentage Of
Effectiveness Prevailing among fair
haired people.
The crystalline lens OF the eye is the
n portion OF the human. body which
continues to increase In sizc through
out life. 1t docs not cease with the
attainment Of maturity.
In fifty-four cases out OF n hundred
the left leg Is stronger than the right.
The bones of an average human male
skeleton weigh 20 pounds; those of a
woman are six pounds lighter.
The tongue OF n woman Is smaller
tina that Of n man. given a man of
equal size and weight
American limbs are more aymmet-
rical than those of any other people.
Tho rocking-chair.~ according to n sci
enlist. is responsible for tho exercise
which increases the beauty of the
, 1921-12-19

lower limbs. The push which h toes
give to keep the chair in motion re
peated. makes the instep high and
the cali round and full.
British women are said TO average
two inches more In height than Amer
cans. Averages for h height OF
women show that these born during
summer and autumn are taller than
those born during spring or winter.
The tailest girls are born in August.
A head OF hair consists OF 49,
O4O hairs. dark hair OF los 900, while
n red head has only $4,000. Fair
haired people arc becoming less mum
erous than formerly.
A person who has lived seventy
years has had TO pass through his
heart about s75.92o tons Of blood, the
whole Of the blood in h body passing
through the heart in about thirty-two
beats.
The heart beats on an average sew
enty times a minute. or 36.7s2 900
times in tho course OF n year. 30 that
the heart Of n man of eighty years OF
age has beaten 5000. 600. o0O. 900 times
The heart beats ten strokes n min
ute less when m is lying down than
when one is in an upright position.
, 1921-12-19
HAY FOR

The Gillette Record is the latest Republican news
paper of prominence in northern Wyoming to declare
for Hon. John w. Hay of Rock Springs, for Repub-
.lican candidate for governor at next years primary.
The Record says editorially:
John w. Hay of Rock Springs, IS being prominent
ly mentioned as the man likely to head the wyoming
Republican state ticket at the next coming election
The least that could be said Of Mr.. Hay, Judging oy
the marked success he has made Of his own business
affairs, is that if he is called to the governorship OF
this great state the position will be in capble, COM
.petent and Trustworthy hands. From telegraph OPP
.erator to bank president, and president of the Wyo-
ming State Bankers association, shows briefly some
thing of the record he has made, and the fact that he
has been both employee and employer suggests that he
knows something of life from 'everyman,s' standpoint.
"Mr. Hay is primarily of, and for, the west he
settled in Rock Springs in 1883, and since that year
his name has been closely associated with the CONNER
cal life and development of Sweetwater county. He
understands Wyoming, and the needs of Wyoming
people, as few men do, and he possesses the ability to
have done the things he believes ought to be done. He
is, above everything else, an able business man. He
believes in efficiency and organization-but he is not
q politician.
"Many newspapers, individuals and organizations
throughout the state are asking John w. Hay to be-
come a candidate for the Republican nomination for
governor, at the primaries to be held next August.
The appeals are becoming so frequent that they
amount almost to a clamor,' as one enthusiastic pa
per says. The following from the Douglas Enterprise
is typical of some of the press comment:
"'Mr. Hays success as a business man is unques-
tionable. That he has won that success through fair
minded and broad-gauged business methods is gospel
truth. There were times when he permitted himself
to be mentioned for public Office but he has hereto
fore withdrawn from the race, always in favor of
someone whom he believed would fill the bill just as
well or better than himself. Just what his attitude
will be in this campaign is not known, but it is GER
tain that If he listens to the pleadings of his number
less friends throughout Wyoming he will accept the
~profered honor. Should he decide upon making the
race for the seat of the chief executive those who
know him well claim that he will surely win against
his opponents. He is, without doubt, the strongest
man in Wyoming today"
, 1921-12-19
hi l C PROMISE.

It was John Milton, who, more than three centuries
ago, said: peace hath her victories no less renowned
than war" And while the poet had no thought at the
time of applying his thought to the American nation,
his lines are particularly apropos.
While a considerable share of the first las years
of our national existence has been devoted to war, and
in 1t we have acquitted ourselves with credit and
honor, it has been in the peace periods of the repub-
lie that we have earned our greatest glory.
Historians of the present day find many parallels
in the periods 1914-1920 and 1s05-1S16. Wilson, like
Jefferson, preached democracy and practiced autoc-
racy. Wilson, like jefferson, was confronted with a
situation where IAN American ship might refuse to be
searched and in consequence be blown out of the
water" Efforts were made in 1906 to bring England
to terms by some means short of war, and Monroe
and Pinkney negotiated a treaty in London which JEFF
ferson refused to accept as satisfactory. He ought
either to have accepted it or to have prepared serious
ly for war. He did neither" A similar situation con-
fronted Wilson with respect to Germany, and he fol-
lowed Jefferson's example. Wilson, like Madison, at
length "timidly and reluctantly yielded and 'thus
there fell upon his shoulders the unwelcome, ill-ftting
task of leading in war" In 1916 James Monroe was
chosen president by an overwhelming vote, and four
years later he was reelected with only one electoral
vote against him. The eight years under Monroe's
administration were commonly called "the era of good
feeling"
The EZRA of good feeling" from 1916 to 1924 was
national. An era of good feeling from 1921 to 1929.
under Harding bids fair to become international. The
conference at Washington is achieving results looking
toward peace far beyond the dreams of the president
who initiated it and of the able and far-seeing Amer
lean delegates who were appointed and have been
given the widest opportunity to participate in it. 1t
was truly predicted that the conference would center
on Pacific problems and their solution. If there is
any outside of war, it is to be found in the Four
Power treaty, the basis of which is understanding,
while the basis of the league covenant was force.
Certainly it can be said that refexes of the "get to-
gether" attitude of the delegates at Washington are
already displaying themselves in other portions of the
globe. The Anglo-Hibernian treaty which gives prom
sc of eliminating in the Irish free state is a case in
point. If the English and the Irish are able to har-
monte their difficulties there will no longer be good
ground for the bitter feeling exhibited toward Eng
and by Americans of Irish descent. The ove-tures
ee,ng made by Chile TO Peru to end by peaceful means
ne 3s-year-old stalemate known as the Tacna-Arica
'ispute is another example. The text Of Chile's re-
cent note proposes that the long delayed plabiscite in
, 1921-12-19
HIS STRIDE.

1t would be emitting to do justice t. an official who
is doing his duty and making a record for himself, to
fail to note the splendid work of Sheriff Joe Marquis.
When he assumed office he promised the public that
he would enforce the laws and maintain peace and
good order within his jurisdiction.
He fell upon a time when disregard of law was at
its height. When men laughed at the efforts of en-
forcing officers and almost defed the constituted au-
thority. An example or two in which criminals were
jerked up standing created a different situation and
when offenders were hunted to their hiding places and
dragged out and punished a new respect for the law
and the man behind 1t was born.
Of late the sherifs Office has done much and splen-
did work; and crimes are speedily traced and Grimm
ais captured with a certainty that means a better sit
uation in the future.
The most troublesome feature, which is the sam
the country over-the festive bootlegger and tn
brewer of vile connections, has been and still is TIL
bGne of an enforcing officers life. Yet some notabld
captures have been effected and many Illicit opera.
tors permanently retired from activity.
Sheriff Marquis has sworn, in his wrath, that tho
makers and peddlers of poison shall remain unpopu.
lar in Natrona county and in the end he will get then
all. He is doing well. And when he finally succeed
no one will complain, except the bootleggers and the-r
partners in crime the makers of moon"
, 1921-12-19
Railway Rates Versus High Prices
FROM RAILWA AGE.

ut has been. and still is being.
widely charged. that the present
freight rates are preventing h move
ment OF large amounts Of traffic. but
the prices charged for any class OF
commodities must have a much Great
er influence upon the amount Of them
that can be marketed. and which
therefore IA DO shipped. than is cx-
erted by the railway rate. which IN
most cases is only a relatively small
percentage OF the total price
IF we take the average railway
rate and average wholesale prices of
the years 1soo-isio rs a basis, we ind
that In July. 1891. the average rail
way rate n average commodity
prices were as follows:
Railway rate per ton
per ton per mile = 65.5 per cent
Cloths and clothing % per zen,
Fuel and iighting----- ss per cenl
Lumber and building
, 1921-12-19
MAKE FEE PRoHIBITIvE.

1t is to be hoped that the incoming city admins
tration, will, by proper ordinance afford protection to
regularly established merchants against itinerant ped
dlers and vendors who come to the city and offer then
wares from door to door throughout the residence sec
tons. These strangers are not only a nuisance to
householders, but they offer nothing in the way OF
bargains that cannot be procured in a regular way a
the established concerns doing business in the retail
sections of the city.
The local dealer is paying taxes for the support of
city and county and is entitled to your patronage and
support, whereas the itinerant pays no taxes, has no
place of business and is permitted to come into COM
petition by the payment Of a ridiculously small IL
cense fee.
Sheridan was formerly annoyed in the same man
ner, but her merchants made such representations to
the city and county authorities that a license fee of
$500 was established for all itinerants regardless of
what they offered for sale and that city and county
is troubled no more.
Casper owes protection to home merchants and her
duty is to raise the %peddlers license SO high as to dis
courage their visits to this field in the future.
, 1921-12-19

relief. In some effective manner
In this district we find that the
fixed overhead expense on m acre of
ground In the Nature OF canal main
tenance. drainage ccst IND taxes are
more han an acre OF ground viii pro
duce under present pricess
We arc urging that q special ses-
sion Of the legislature Of Wyoming
be called for the purpose OF enact
ir z certain laws for the benefit OF
the farmer and suggest the following.
Revision of our present tax law.
Partial elimination OF present penalty
OF - Ia per cent and an extension
OF time in which said penalty shall
become effective.
The enacting OF a law whereby state
funds may under proper safeguards.
DO loaned on hong time and at low
rate OF interest on developed irriga-
ton district bonds and drainage dis
trict bonds.
The enactment OF q law enlarginF
the powers OF the present public utIi-
tiles commission. SO hat II may be
more effective IN the enforcement OF
reduction OF freight rates within the
state.
A me-..-s g therefore caiIrs to con-
veno in Worland. Wyo.. at 2 O'Clock
Tuesday. December 20. 1921. to which
tho commercial clubs and farm bu-
reaus are requested to send represent
atives. no limit being placed upon the
number OF delegates. n largely at
tended meeting being desired, SO that
a full and free expression may be had.
The plan will be to complete the
work Of the meeting so that the dele
gates can leave by train the following
day. ?
The corporation OF every club in
the Big Horn basin Is earnestly urged.
to the end that a workable plan for re-
lief can be brought about. and the
fair name OF Wyoming maintained
during the trying financial period
through which the world is now pass
ing.
w. o. GRAY. President.
Ely. BOOKER, Secretary.
C. F.. ROBERTSON. Director.