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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
THE SOUL SEARCH

A n ENGLISH scientist has devoted
A a lot OF time and effort to writ
ing a book which he calls I'm Search
of the Soul"
At the end the scientist finds him
self no nearer discovering the where
abouts of what he was searching FOR
or even knowing the character of the
thing he sought than was Plato or
Seneca or Pythagoras or Epicteus.
all great teachers. hut all disagreeing
when it came TO the thing which none
of them KNEW anything about
Always there has been a doubt as
10 whether the soul was within or
without the body.
One investigator who died not long
ago spent years of his life in an at
tempt.to devise a Weighing mechanism
so delicate that he would be able to
determine If there was any deter
minable difference in the -geight Of a
human body just before and Just
after death, hoping thereby to es-
tablish the weight of the soul
There were reports. never perhaps
justified, that the government bureau
Of standards had under consideration
a similar line Of experiments.
1t would be just as satisfying, in
all probability, TO try and weigh
thought, for it is probable that moth
Ing more tangible leaves the body at
death.
Did you ever wonder what becomes
of the thinking power when the body
no longer has power TO breathe and
move? Is the thinking power the
soul?
Where goes the genius of BeethOv-
en- or a Mozart and that indescribable
power TO group sounds into harmony
when death has robbed those fingers
Of writing down the notes upon the
ruled paper?
What becomes of the analytical
powers Of a Newton or n Euclid or an
Einstein when he can no longer pen
his formulate or give to the world his
conclusions?
What becomes of the genius o. The
painter when his hand can no longer
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
THE GIRL ON THE JOB
How to Succeed-How to Get
Ahead-Ilow to Make Good
BY JESSIE ROBERTS
TEACHERS

TNEACHERS are looking about these
l. days Tor opportunities that will
give them better returns than those
the schools yield. This may be a
pity from the point of view of the
schools, but il is fact.
But many women love teaching, and
feel that they are particularly well.
suited TO this work. Yet they must
earn more money. There is an OPP
portunity for joining the two IN teach
ing craftsmanship, MANY OF the big
department stores run classes for
teaching their salespeople better meth
DDS and for giving them chance to-
advance 60 the higher positions
Teachers are now taking special
courses In selling aud then going into
the teaching of this branch of com
merce.
There Is also nm opening in doing
special research work for retail and
department stores. and teachers are
qualifying for such positions Natural
~ they soon make a far greater salary
tAAtAii WV AANS NNi ny fa'ii'f' t'-tAeitAiiE1
and what Is more the life itself IN
broader more various and fuller Of
opportunity Teachers who 20 into
commerce from This angle often de.
yciop into saleswomen themselves ana
grow to prefer that work. Executive
positions I'm retail and department
stores ARE also open 10 them after
the experience that comes with teach
ing
A certain time spent in teachng
school is good practice for almost any
Job. Witness how many of our ia
nous men were at ore time Of their
career teachers IN country or city
schools. But the young woman who
wants 10 get out into the world and
make a real future for herself win
not stay too long In the classroom.
She win use her training 10 bring her
the best results possible Executive
positions In wholesale and retail trade
are one possibility, and an excellent
one.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
THE JOB AND THE MAN
By F. A. WALKER.

hold the brush or Of Tho se,tIrtor
when his hammer and cbisa, have
been laid down for the Iast timeq
Is there tangibilitv "a knovlesqe
10 talent, or are they wholly spirltuaI
and without dependence ON material
things and existence?
Plato said. "The body is nrison
from which the soul mus. be released
before it can arrive nj the knowledge
of those things which are real and i'm.
mutahle"
Is the soul really imprisoned within
the body or is The body only am IL
fusion which our belief gives de-
The scientist who is STUDYING mat
ter, for no one yet KNOWS what
matter is. tells us that everything
material Is made uptof electrons and
that electrons are really only mani
festation of electricity and that cleo
tricity is not matter but only energy,
and we. therefore. end IN with the
statement that matter is not material
but only demonstration of energy.
SO after all what is there to the thing
which we ordinarily think of as the
home of the sou2
What an enigma! What an eternal
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18

last winter. | spent several months
in Florida then trying to locate MIN.
l heard of another fake stock scheme
being worked there. / played like |
would be the victim. The man oper-
ating the scheme took me to a house.
They We're working on me similar to
the way ! was worked on in Fort
Worth. l thought l might find Furey
there. After ! reached the place
where | was to give up my money
knew l would have TO stall.
Saved by His Automatic.
None of the men / wanted were
there, and so l began to scheme to
get out l said: Why, gentlemen, this
is Sunday | cannot place money on
Sunday. That started trouble. one
Of them grabbed me- / think it had
been planned to kill me should any
thing happen.
MY wife, before l left home, had
told me not TO let them get at my
back. She believed that | could take
care Of them If / could keep them in
front OF me. She thinks | am "a good
shot. She has seen me shoot hawks
on the fly and kin wolves while they
were running So when tile man
grabbed me | threw him in front of
me. l grabbed my automatic. Then l
got out my .45. / told them just
10 start something and / would fin
ish. And that is how got out of
that"
According to Norfleet, when Furey
was abusing him in New Orleans
Fury exclaimed: You have ruined the
best deal had ever started" The
deal to which Furey referred was to
have taken place II Jacksonville,
where he was arrested.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
Negro Kept Hog Farm"
in ParIor of Her Home

Belle White, negro, was taken
into police court at Dallas, Tex,
on the charge of violating the
local sanitary law by raising
hogs in the front room of her
fiat in the heart of The business
district. The discovery that she
had converted her fiat into a
hog farm was made by her land
lord.
The woman admitted that she
had raised five fat porkers in
the room and that four of them
We're slaughtered there and the
meat sold. The remaining hog
was about ready for market. No
fine was assessed, but she was
warned to change her location
if she wanted TO continue the
hog-raising business.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
NorfIeet Spends $4,000 Trail
ing Them, but Feels That
1t Is Worth 1t.
.ONE LIVES UP TO HIS NAME
Furey Puts Up Stiff Fight, but the
Ranchman Proves to Be Something
Of Fighter Himself-SaVed
by His Automatic.

Fort Worth, Tex.-Frank Norfeet,
b ranchman of West Texas, delivered
Doe Furey into the hands of the local
police here, the third of a trio of con-
sndence men to be run down by Nor
seet, who mthey fleeced out of $4,000
~ q bogus oil stock deal about a year
no. one of the other two commit
#ed suicide in Jail in Washington;
#he other is under a ten-year SEN
aence.
Besides losing the $4,000, Norfleet
spent $4,000 trailing the swindlers
over the country. His chase after
furey was full of thrills.
q Determined to bring to justice the
man who had swindled me-" he said,
"a began a hunt that took me through
IS states and Old Mexico. l took my
Bon, Pete, out Of the West Texas Nor
pal at Canyon to assist me in the
hunt and it was he who located the
man at Jacksonville. Upon arriving
Here We separated and registered at
VII AplClS W NutIi IVA "a w.
Pee had never seen the man, but
had studied a picture of him, and a
NV minutes after registering at his
htel Furey emerged from an elevator.
1he boy telephoned me and came to
IN. We followed our man into a
Rsiaurant, and there / placed him I'M
@r arrest following desperate strug-
o.
Norfeet exhibited his finger, show
hg where Furey bit him during the
Muggle. He also showed other minor
Injuries. scratches and bruises.
Al the police station Furey denied
VA he had ever seen me-" Norfieet
0ntinued THE officers asked me
"a authority l had and how did
Mow he was the right man. l told
aAeLn was a Texas officer and had
warrant for Furey's arrest; that
~ turey's police picture - and,
ae've all, | knew he was the man
VIC had taken my money. 1 told
mat he was my man and that
vas going to take him.
They asked me by what further
u expected to take him. ] pulled
~ the requisition papers already
" ofed by the governor of Florida.
officers looked at the papers. We
DO anything for you. Furey,
sand you are a prisoner bound
ri Texas.
L Took Four Policemen.
:. ,e.l5Fe me, those words sure
.4 'ea me. I wanted to rush him
I was afraid that attempts
~ &c made to have him released
. 4etaln him through a writ of
corpus. I decided to take
y miles from Jacksonville
s on q train. He fought. It
''4F big policemen to finally lock
~ .i.., -.fis On him. Pete and I put
o the automobile and started
'1 Is miles. As We neared the lit
'0 the train was almost ready
"a turey again started TO fight.
we're In the cuffs, but he
ana scratched so much that
pulled out before we got him
81 II him back in the car md
aes 70 Jacksonville.
pns ~ Eurey's lawyers were
We knew they might
9lt on some technicality.
lodged EN-. We took
private home. We chained
We waited there until
x Jumps From Train.
eeaang the cad Of a long.
had faith in our chancs
aA 70 Texas. So far there
IS 5'oodshed. That ls why
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
"CATcHPENNY"

TTSED in the sense of an in
~ ferior article, made merely
80 sell, this combination of two
words has recently gained for
itself place in English die
tionaries, though the word it.
self is nearly century old,
dating back to 1924 when Thur
dell was hanged for the murder
of Weare, a crime which was
one OF the most sensational in
the annals of London police.
Ii happened thar a printer by
the name of Camach saw IA
chance TO make considerable
sum OF money through the pub
LEGATION OF what he alleged TO
be the murderer's speech from
the gallowS The paper con-
tanning this report sold fairly
We'll but the receipts did not
come up 10 C0nach's expecta-
tions. So he printed second
edition, with headline in large
letters across the top Of the
sheet: I'VE ARE alive again !"
These words actually appeared
in Weare's speech. as reported.
but the printer purposely left
very little space between the
first two words of the phrase
and, reading the line "WEARE
alive again /" thousands of per-
sons bought the paper before
they discovered the deception.
The London Times referred
TO the matter as "catchpeuny
device" aud the printer was
thereafter known as Catch
penny" Catnach. So descriptive
was the word that il has re-
manned in the language to this
day.
(Copyripht)
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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
TEXAS RANCHMAN
DOWNS ICON MEN,

did not use my pistol. Furey had
kicked and hurt me all he could. He
was mailman.
After we had put him on the train
leaving Jacksonville he tried 10 grow
friendly. Standing by the window in
the drawing room be made leap
through the window The train was
moving about 80 miles an hour. He
darted through the window like a
prairie dog darts into its hole. We
stopped the train as quickly as we
could. Furey had been picked up by
train crew. He offered the men,
bers of the crew $4,000 TO hide him.
They put him on a switch engine and
started back to Jacksonville with him.
He was still handicapped by his hand
cuffs. He claimed he could not walk
for the injury he received in jumping
from the train.
Another switch engine took Pete
and myself back to Jacksonville and
we again took charge of our prisoner.
Furey said ne could not stand the pain
from his leg and did not want to be
put on the train again. ! told him
that l had ridden the plains horseback
with my leg in as bad condition as
that. | told him we were going to
take him.
Oodged Habeas Corpus.
Upon arriving in New Orleans, Nor
fleet said, he still realized the posi-
biIity of being served with legal pa
pers which might cause Furey to be
released on bond or which might de-
lay the trip back to Texas.
Il was careful where / went. We
had TO spend part Of Sunday in New
Orleans The papers would have to
be served on me, because I had Sc
cured the requisition papers. went
to church. | knew the officers would
not 90 there to find me- And l heard
two of the finest sermons l ever did
hear. l left my son at the police sta
ton to help watch Furey.
Norfeet said that he and his son
were Joined by special officers from
Fort Worth before leaving New Or
leans with their prisoner. Furey was
brought to Fort Worth and jailed
there TO await trial on the charges on
an Indictment found against him by
the Tarrant county grand Jury.
Before we reached New Orleans"
Norfeet said, "Furey told me he was
sorry he had not had me killed as he
once planned to do. think that was
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
Mother5C0oR Book

The heights by great men reached and
kept
Were not attained by sudden flight
But they. while their companions slept,
We're toilins upward in the night
-Lougfellow
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-18
A FEW COMPANY DISHES.

a y OATELET is an emergency dish
~ for with fresh eggs one may be-
prepared and served in "a short time.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
BRITISH OPEN FIRE
ON POLISH REBELS
IN UPPER SllESiA

Continued From FRS; Pageo
10 have crossed the border in motor
lorrlcs at o'clock Monday morning,
taking possession OF border towns.
blowing UP important railroad
bridges and cutting telegraph and
telephone wires. Adalbert Korifanty.
the Polish pleb!sc!tc commissioner,
was IN Warsaw a: the time, 1t was
stated.
He learned Of the Paris report then
being circulated that the council OF
ambassadors had decided to give only
the PleSs and Rybnill districts to 70
TMis report. which official circles
and IL is stiil Unknown that such 4
decision was rcachcd--was the sigma
FOR Korifanty 10 carry out his threat
TO chase tho Germans out of the
country"
Nr,ncd men appeared on the Polish
side across from Mysiowitz. koeniE :
schucttc. Beuthcn and Tarnowitz, and
the whole moved Into SiisHia ut /.
o'clock simultaneously. There Is no
wearing Polish uniforms, but AL
were we'll armed and Differed. ana
had numerous guns and n large num-
her OF motor lorrics.
AS the Poles advanced the plchis-
cite police turned out, ana the Polish
policemen are reported TO have made
short shifts OF their German COM
radcs. VINO were forced 10 hand over
their arms and wcr" conducted 10
the border and driven into Poland.
Those wh" resisted wcr: beaten or
si a.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
ANNOUNCES OIL PRICES
CUT ALL OVER COUNTRY
Many Producing Concerns Reduce
Crude Output % Cents
q Barrel.

fBy International News Scrvicc.l
PITTSBURGH, May 4.--Cuts in oil
prices in all parts of the country
except Pennsylvania were made to.
day. according to advices received
here.
From Shreveport came the report
that the Louisiana standard Oil Com
pany had reduced prices on all
grades of crude oil except heavy
caddo, below 81 degrees gravity. %
cents barrel. Homer crude below
81 degrees gravity is cut to 81 IA
barrel
i dispatch from Houston states the
Texas Company has cut prices for all
grades for North Louisiana crude oil
- cents n barrel except heavy caddo.
Denver reports that the Midwest Re-
fninG Company has cut prices for al
grades of Wyoming crude oil % cents
barrel following similar action by
the. Ohio Oil Company yesterday.
Tho Magnolia Petroleum Company
according 10 Dallas dispatch, has
lows: Augusta. Kansas, Yale. Com
manchc, Cushing, Duncan, Oklahoma.
Electra, EurkbUrnett. Henrietta, Mo-
ran. Ranger. stephens County
Strawn and Thrall grades 10 $3.50
and Corsicana light Texas to 1925 at
wells y Toronto message says Ca
madam crude oil has been reduced
Is cents barrel to s2.73.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
lily William AI,c, WhItc,

MILWAUKEE, WIS. May 4.-wis-
consin has passed the peak of the
slump in business. but in politics Is
coming rapidly to the slump of tho
peak.
Wisconsin. they will tell you. is
a state of diversified Industries:
leather goods and candy: steel and
cheese: soap and bicycles: silk son
and automobile parts; steam shovels
ana underwear. n list of the Wis
ronSin industries sounds like the ad-
rcrt!s!nS section of Il magazine. and
list OF the political crecds like
q list OF symptoms in 4 mad house.
Many Political Crccds.
The stand patters call themselves
the same. Proeressivcs. the burbank
cd progressive. crossed with nom
are called Socialists: the Socialists
pose as Democrats and La Toilette
and his friends. who control the State.
call themselves Republicans and get
they talk business they call it poll
tics, and when they talk politics it
II always about business. Yet there
Is no question that conditions here,
sound aud by comparison with the
reSt of the world. exceptionally
wholesome.
Few Industries are. shut down and
unemployment is not Il serious prob
lem. Agriculture is largely the milk
industries and that has suffered n
slight depression only. and has kept
the state in capital; for your dairy
COW is an animated gold mine whose
ore veins are the limitlcss water and
the summer sunshine OF the state.
Few other American commonwealth his
arc SO Spicndidly and scientifically
equipped to handle Il period of COM
rnercial depression as Wisconsin, and
this may explain why her major
statesmen never can he frightened
by threats of panic.
l...foilcttr IL Powerful.
I.afollcttc is in the saddle here. No
one things he can he beaten. Yet
thousands of his old supporters have
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
MAN AND WIFE BEATEN
TO DEATH WHILE ASLEEP
LRy Associatcd Press. |

MONROE, La. May 4..Charlcs Lott.
a local grocer. WHO with his wife
was beaten into insensibility as they
lay sleeping Sunday night, died Of
his injuries late today. Mrs Lott
died last night. Seven Mexicans held
by the police in connection with the
crime were spirited away from the
local jail tonight to prevent mob vio-
lencc. Their destination Is unknown.
Mr. and Mrs. Lott were found lying
In pools of their own blood by neigh
bors, in an unconscious condition.
early Monday morning. The theory
OF the police is that the attack was
made by business rivals of the grocer.
although they say there IL some evil
dence that robbery was the motive. A
number OF articles of value are said
to have been taken from the home.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
WISCONSIN is LN7TIE MLDSTOF
OLA GREAT POLITICAL WAR
State Has Passed Peak of Business Slump, but Now
Afer That Crisis Is Over, Different Party Creeds
Put Conditions in Turmoil

left him. He has n new crowd with
him. lie has the farmers and the
Non Partisan League. with tho Gov
9rnor ana IL working force in tho
minority. and recently he has taken
over the Irish. They all combine
TO make majority.
President Harding. seems to have
decided TO Danish Lafollctte as a Re
publican. Thus does history repeat
itself to the glory of I.afollctte.
The nonpartisnn league holds men
from all the parties. and instead of
being voracious taN-caters. us the
leaSucrs arc in other States. the
league here has a measly economy
streak and is trying to save money
on the State educational Institutions.
pnrty shifts Common.
Easy treking from faction to fac
ton and from party to party in Wis
consin is duplicated In the Industrial
disability OF the State. which makes
for It's economic stability. The brew
cries close. and the buildings were
used for candy factories. The har-
vcster works laid off hundreds OF
men. who went into works where
they make stcamshovels and grad
ing machinery demanded by the good
roads movement, now growing all
over the Middle West.
Workers go from soap to cheese
factories and fats go with them.
Weavcrs hike from hosiery to under
wear makers. The industrial and po-
litical organization of the state is
curious,y combination of tcutonic
forcthought and Yankee stiffness.
Ylu can, beat a State like Wiscon-
son. You might II many states were
like il. But Wisconsin is unique. And
so far as that goes. the whole coun-
try Is deeply grateful. but with two
classes of gratitude. One class
thanks high heaven that there is n
Wisconsin and a LaFollctte. The
other class is profoundly grateful that
there is only one OF each.
Copyright. 1921. BY United News.l
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
SUPREME COUNCIL WILL
SIGN ULTIMATUM TODAY

CONTINUED From First Page0
pletIon OF the final details and trnns-
lations so that the documents may
be ready for formal signature I'm the
morning. Premier Lloyd George to-
morrow will address the House OF
Commons in explanation of the nrs
ranGcments.
The PREPARATIONS commission has
adopted the supreme councils plan
concerning German bonds. The first
issue of these bonds. which will be
made Immediately, will aggregate
600,O0o.O00 pounds sterling. They
will have priority over the later
payable until after the end OF the
first quarter following their issue.
The second series. to be issued In
November. will be for 1.9O0.0o0,000
pounds sterling. These will have
priority over subsequent issues.
sthnmer and Sforza. Confer.
DR. Sthamcr had a conference of
an hour tonight with Count Sforza.
the Italian Foreign Minister. whilo
the supreme council was still wait
ing. Baron d'Abernon. the British
ambassador TO Germany. was present.
The supreme council considered 1t
also in the interest of Germany TO
know how much she must pay. so
that she might make her own fnan-
c:al calculations in the future. The
council believes that the instrument
for doing ths--one automatically
variable without Intervention by the
reparations commissioners the 25
per cent tax on exports. which is
deemed to be the key TO the whole
system OF payments.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05

Continued From First PaCe)
man. Just as many other boys have
dreamed
Just Walked Away with Bonds.
Willie, himself, told a United News
reporter. while taking his first ride
lin patrol wagon after his arrest,
that he didn't know why he took the
bonds. His worry was will anybody
give me another chapce?"
Willie's lawyers said he was mere
~ on bond jag" In court they
declared that IL was case OF n boy
becoming financially intoxicated
through his handling vast sums of
money in bonds and that tho blame
was not all his.
Then came the turys verdict.
Wi!lic's Eray-haircd mother. Mrs.
Mary Dalton, and his two sisters,
4 few crime experts. who favored
punishment. Sasped.
The prosecution announced they
would demand new trial. Judge
Charles =. McDonal, OF Criminal
Court. declined TO comment.
As for Willie. when he heard the
verdict. he turned TO his MA" and
said:
Ma. I'm free now--can go
over TO the prairie and play ball?"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-05
STOKES DIVORCE TRIAL
CONCLUDED IN NEW YORK
[By United News. ]

NEW YORK. May i.-Thc Stokes
divorce trial ended here today.
Justice Finch will give his decision
by July /. receiving briefs and re-
buttal bricfts In tho meantime. w. L.
d. stokes, who brought charges OF
almost Incredible nature against his
young wife,. Helen Elwood Stokes.
was not examined. the aged millions
aire still being i'll with plcurisy. al
though, il was reported, not likely
to die at this time.