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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
CHAPTER WI

Vacation, i'm spite of increased leis-
sIre, may bring Inconvenience to people
lin Ramsey's strange but not uncOm-
mon condition At home his constant
air was that OF a badgered captive
p1aintively silent under injustice; and
he found it difficult to reply calmly
when asked where he was gOing-an
inquiry addressed to him, he asserted
every time he touched his cap, even
to hang it up!
The amount of evening walking he
did must also have been trial to his
nerves. on account of fatigue, though
the ground covered was not vast. Mil
has mother and father were friendly
people, but saw no reason to "move
out Of house and home" as Mr.. Rust
said, when Miila had 'callers"; and
ON account Of the intimate plan Of
their small dwelling a visitors only
alternative to spending the evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Rust as we'll as
with Milla, was to invite her to Ego
out walking
Evening after evening they walked
and walked and walked, usually in
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
FAMOUS ML!0N OF LUCERNE"
Thorvaldsen's Masterpiece Comment
crates the Heroisnn of the Swiss
Guards in Paris in 1892.

The Well-knOWn monument called
the Lion Of LuceIne," erected near
Lucerne, in 1921, commentaries the
tragic fate Of the Swiss guards in the
French Revolution when in their de-
votion TO duty they were sacrificed to
the bullets Of the Marseilais and the
pixies of the mob, August 10, 1872
This infantry regiment, the "Gardas
Suisses," had been originally a Swiss
mercenary regiment in the Wars OF
Religion; but for their own good con-
duct at the combat of Argues they
were Incorporated in the permanent
establishment of the NIaisOn du Rol,
by Henry ~, (Henry of Navarre), in
1889, and in the guards in 1915. The
French guards sided openly with the
constitutional movement at the ReTc-
luton. and were dSbanded, but the
Swiss guards remained faithful to
their trust.
This monument was the work OF
BerteI Thorvaldsen (17T0184D,
Danish sculptor, noted for his statues
of Christ and the apostles, and for
his efforts at classical sculpture. He
was the son of an Icelander who had
settled in Denmark, and was born at
Copenhagen. There he lies buried un-
der a bed Of roses in the courtyard
of the museum he endowed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09

not go get some other girl and take
her for /. would hate her and nothing
in this world would make me false for
one second to my kiddo boy. do not
know just when home again as the
folks think / better stay up there for
a visit at Aunt Jess and Uncle Purvs
home in Chicago after the trip is over.
But / think Of you all the time and
you must think of me every minute and
believe your own dearie she will never
no rot for one second be false. So
tell SADIE and Alb good-by for me and
do not be false to me any more than
I would be to you and it will not be
long till nothing more will interrupt
our sweet friendship"
As a measure of domestic prudence,
Ramsey tore the note into irreparable
fragments, but he did this slowly,
and without experiencing any of the
revulsion created by Milla's former
nisSive.
He was melancholy, aggrieved that
she should treat him so.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09

relief, but sense of vacancy and loss /;
for Milla, out of his reach, once more
became mysteriously lovely.
Pausing in an alley, he read her
note.
"Dearie: Thought ought to call
you up but over the phone is just nix
for explanations as Mama and Aunt
Jess would hear everything and
thought / might seem cold to you not
saying anything sweet on account Of
them listening and you would wonder
why | was so cold when telling you
good-by for vile maybe weeks. 1t is
this way Uncle Purv wired Aunt Jess
he has just taken in big touring car
on a debt and his vacation starts to-
morrow so if they were going to take
a trip they better start right way so
Aunt Jess invited me. Now dearie /
have to pack and write this in hurry
so you will not be disappointed when
you come by for the b. G. tonight. Do
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
WAS NOT HIS LUCKY DAY
Trolley Car Patron Got Into Trouble
When He Attempted to Get
Away With Umbrella.

Young Bob Mcintosh had always
prided himself on his honesty and up
rightness, but it was a rainy night
when he saw an umbrella apparently
deserted on a seat in the trolley car,
He picked it up and examined it. 1t
could not be very valuable, 1t was
hardly worth while turning 1t in to
the motorman Of the one-man car ana
the walk from the trolley TO the
home of young Bob Mcintosh was Il
good four blocks in the pouring rain.
AS the car neared the street, says
the New York Sun, the honest young
man looked around and seeing that
none of his fellow passengers was
noticing him he picked up the UNI
brella and walked up to the motor
mans platform. There with the glib
ness of one with guilty conscience
he conversed with the pilot until the
car drew up at his street
"Well, good night y said young Bob
Mcintosh as he lightly stepped from
the car and raised his umbrella.
GOOD night" quoth the motorman,
but as Bob made his way across pud-
dies to the curb he noticed that the
car had not continued on its way; in
deed, even the door had not yet been
closed. He had started down the
street to his home when mighty
'Hey!" made him turn.
"HoW far are you goin' to go with
that umbrella, young manY shouted
the motorman. '"Ths time it hap
pened to be NINE" said that worthy
as he slammed the door Shut and shot
the car forward
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
An Order for One Wife.

An English traveller and author In
northern Waigeria became interested
IN a Home for Freed Slaves. Women
and children were kept in the insti-
tuition until they could be otherwise
disposed of, which was generally by
matrimony, in the case of the women
when the author acted as a marriage
broker. He says: "A NAUSEA soldier
would come to me with a note from
his commander certifying him to be
man of good character ard able to
support wife or another wife, as
the case might be.
Il then turned over corner of the
note and scribbIed: TO Lady r.
intendent, Freed Slaves Home d
let bearer have one wife, "
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
NOTICE OF SALE.

Notice is hereby given that GER
tain mortgage executed and delivered
by William Hewitt and Elizabeth
II. Hewitt, mortgagOrs, to Benjamin
It. Prideaux and Nettie G. Prideaux,
mortgages, dated December 3, 1919,
and filed for record in the office of
the register of deeds for the County
of Iowa and State Of Wisconsin, on
recorded in volume 81 of mortgages
on page SEA and which said mort
gage secures two notes, one for
$4,000 owned by Nettie G.. PridaauX
and one for $4,000 now owned by
virtue of assignment of said
note and an interest in said
mortgage by Benjamin Fl. Prideaux,
Nettie c. PrideauX and Jessie M.
Prideaux, VIII be foreclosed by q sale
of the premises described IL such
mortgage and hereinafter described
at the front door Of the Farmers and
Citizens Bank Building in the City of
Mineral Point, il the County of Iowa
and State of WISCONSIN at the hour
of 200 o'clock D. m. on the 18th day
of April, 1922, 10 satisfy the amount
due upon such mortgage on the day
of sale. The premises described in
such mortgage and which will be
sold to satisfy the same are describ
ed as follows:
The South West Quarter of Sec
ton Number Three, Town Four,
Range Three East containing
100 acres and located in The
County of Iowa and State of
Wisconsin.
There will be due on such mort
gage at the date of this notice the
sum of SIS, O53.26.
Dated this 3rd day Of March, IA. d.
1922.
NETTIE G.. PRIDEAUX,
JESSIE M. PRJDEAUX,
BENJAMIN H. PRIDEAUX,
Assignees of said Mortgage.
BY T. NJ. PRIESTLEY,
Their Attorney. 31WF6
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
SYNOPSIS


CHAPTER with his grandfather,
s04aH Ramsey MilboIlaEd is watching the
decoration Day Parade" in the nome
town The old gentleman, a veteran Oh
the Civil war, endeaE0rS to impress the
youngster with the significance OF the
great conflict, ana many years afterWard
The boy was to remember his words vita
startling VlVldneSS.
CHAPTER u,-In the schoolroom, a
few years afterWard, Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
though ms two prOuO4nCed GiSlikeS were
arithmetic and ''EecItatons." In sharp
contrast to Ran1sey's backWardness is
the precocity OF little Dora Yocum, a
young lady H-nom III his bitterness he de-
dominates Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER Hin high school, where
he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the Vindlc-
tiveness he generates becomes alarming,
eliminating III the resolution that some
day he would show her.
CHAPTER IV.-At a class picnic Ram
sey, to his intense surprise, appears TO
attract the favorable attention of Miss
MIlld Rust, young lady Of about his
own age ana the acknowledged belle OF
the class. Milla has the misfortune to
tall into a creek while talking with RAM
sey, and that youth promptly plunges to
2&lc IeSoEA6' 11S WdeSl A. olIly 'SoiIIS liz C0
feet deep. but Mllas gratitude for his
heroic act is cmbarra sSil4S. He is IN iact
taken captive by the lar one, to his great
conservation
CHAPTER V.-The acquaintance ripens.
Ramsey and MiIla openly keeping COM
pany," while the formers parents Won
der. His mother indeed goes SO far as
to express some disapproVal of his choice
even limiting that Dora Y ocum would be
a more suitable companion, a suggestion
Which the youth receives with horror
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
LEGAL NOTICES
Notice of Order for Final Settlement
TeState Estate.
State of Wisconsin, Iowa County
CnIrf-In Probate

State of Wisconsin, Iowa County
Court-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at a
regular term of the Iowa County
Court, to be held in and for said
county, at the Court House, in the
City of Dodgeville, in said county, on
the fourth day of April, A. D. 1922,
being the first Tuesday, of said
month, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon
of said day, the following matters
will be heard and considered.
The application of Casper Gerlach,
executor of the last will and tesla
ment of Anton Gerlach, late of said
county, deceased for the examination
and allowance of his supplemental
final account and the assignment of
the residue of said estate to-such per-
sons as are by said will and by law
entitled to the same, and for the de-
termination and adjudication of the
inheritance tax, if any, payable in
said estate.
And it is further ordered that pub
lie notice thereof be given to all per-
sons interested by publishing a copy
of this notice for three weeks success
sively, prior to said day of hearing in
the Iowa County Democrat, a weekly
newspaper published in said county.
By order of the Court:
ALDRO jerks, County Judge.
Dated Dodgeville, Wis, March Z,
1922.
Fielder, Fielder & Jackson, AtJys
Silva
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
Difficulties to Be Overcome.

Lord Beaconsfeld was no idealist-
though he had imaginatiOn-yet even
he said: Man is not the creature of
circumstances. Circumstances are the
creatures of men, Nurture your
mind" he said again, with great
thoughts To believe in the heroic
is to make heroes" Difficulties are
regarded by great hearted people as
things to. be overcome, and to them
duties are challenges.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
NOTICE OF SALE.

Notice Is hereby given that a GER
tain mortgage executed and delivered
by William Hewitt and Elizabeth HI.
Hewitt, mortgagors, to Jessie M.
PrideauX, mortgage, dated the third
day of December, 1919, and filed for
record in the Office of the register of
deeds of the County of Iowa ano
State of Wisconsin, on the 18th day
of December, 1919, and recorded in
volume 81 of mortgages on page
553, will be foreciOsed by sale of
the premises described in such mort
gage and hereinafter described, at
the front door of the Farmers & Citi'
zens Bank Building in the City Of
Mineral Point, in the County of Iowa
and State of Wisconsin. at the hour
of 2 O'Clock D. m. on the 26th day of
April, 1922 to satisfy the amount
due upon such mortgage on the day
of sale. The premises described in
such mortgage and which will be sold
to satisfy the same are described as
follows:
The North three-fourths of the
North Half Of the South East
Quarter of Section Number
Four, and commencing at the
South West Corner of the
South East Quarter of the
North East Quarter of said
Section Number Four, run
ming thence East forty-eight
rods, thence North nineteen
rods four feet, thence West
forty-eight rods, thence South
nineteen rods to the place of be-
ginning. All in Town Four,
Range Three East. Containing
sixty-five acres more or less and
located in the County of Iowa
and State of Wisconsin.
There will be due on such mort
gage at the date of this notice the
sum of $4,513.37.
Said premises will be sold subject
to a mortgage for $4,000 held by the
Iowa County Bank and which affects
20 acres of the land above described
and which said 90 acres is described
as follows towit:
The North Half of the North
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09

West Quarter Of the South East
Quarter of Section Four, Town
Four, Range Three East. Lo-
Gated in the County of Iowa and
State of Wisconsin.
Dated this 3rd day of March, A. D.
1922.
JESSIE M. PRIDEAUX,
Mortgage.
By T. NJ. PRIESTLEY,
Her Attorney 31W6
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
Caesar Coins Discovered

Two Roman coins, bearing the efiigy
of julius Caesar, have been found at
the height of 5000 feet on Swiss
mountain.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-11
Senator in Search Of Votes.

Irish resident in Nebraska are sufficiently
astute to discern the purpose back of the Kear-
Eey convocation set down ior ST. Patrick's day
and are not sufficiently gullibe to be dcluded
thereby. They already have designated it as an
open, impudent attempt to herd the Irish voters
into support of the democratic candidate who is
seeking for himself third term as United States
senator. The senator's aspirations are high his
necessity admittedly is dire and his efforts to get
votes are correspondingly energetic
There are Nebrakans OF Irish descent and
German descent and perhaps with other ancestry
who have swallowed the bait in past elections
They have not forgotten their dismay when they
found the beneficiary of their favor turning from
them to the support Of an obnoxious treaty, re-
fusing to lend ear to their earnest pleas even for
a modification of its terms. The campaign now
is to make them forget and forgive, to draw and
quarter the pending four-power treaty as to the
Pacific, if that be possible, in order that the SEN
ator's course on the League Of Nations may be
overlooked.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-11
Prosperity and the Democrats.

One Of New York's leading retail clothiers
said the other day: 1--WE have come to realize
that unless the farmer prospers we can not hope
for better business" That is true and more
people realize it today than did so not many
days ago. The whole country is dependent on
the farmer, and the farmers welfare in turn, is
bound up inextricably with the prosperity of
business in general.
There is, it appears, just one exception. That
j. the group of democratic politicians and demo-
cratic newspaper, which subordinate every i'll
terest to the campaign Of the "outs' against the
Sins" Democratic politicians refuse to believe
that prosperity Of the country will help their
political fortunes. They have based their cam
paign on fomenting discomfort. Discomfort
thrives on "hard times" If conditions are nor
NAL by election time, the campaign Of discomfort
may evaporate
Is the. democratic: press actually willing to
delay the. comeback" actually willing to en-
courage depression and discourage prosperity,
merely for political advantage? If not, why are
conditions painted as worse than they aree Why
is the story Of their improvement put under
shadow? Why i, there continued propaganda
which depresses the farmers market discour-
ages the purchasers Of land and hampers the flow
of capital into Nebraska for financing producers?
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-11
Work of the Budget Bureau.

Taxpayers are certain to find much that is OF
interest in the report being prepared by General
Dawes, director of the national budget, as to
the savings fiat have been made possible by the
adoption of the budget system. Some general
knowledge of economies was given by the bud
get ITSELF but transfers Of funds and duties made
definite figure impossible. Now the man who
made the budget is to interpret it.
As time passes, the Inauguration Of the bud
Get is certain to stand forth as one of the great
est domestic achievements Of the government in
recent years.e-,It did more than. bring together
the various departmental expenditures so that
the total wa. subjected to the light of day,
rather than being hid under mass of over
tapping legislation. 1t made start toward trac-
ing the governments dollar clear from the tax
payers pocket to its ultimate destination. This
will tend to eliminate both waste and its COM
panion graft
When Brigader General Fl. NJ. Lord, for
merly Of Omaha was made director of finance
in the War department, he proceeded to check
up certain war expenditures, with the aid of the
congressional committee of war expenditures,
Of which Congressman Jchcris and Reavis of
Nebraska were members. He unearthed dis
creparcies aggregating millions of dollars.
proper budget system will tend to make such
waste impossible. Recently in a sale Of surplus
war property certain article was sold for
5000 which was fair price Representatives
of the budget director found that the cost OF
the sale was $4,500
The budget is in its infancy. AS it continues
to gather up the loose ends OF government
financing, its real worth will be appreciated.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-11
War Finance and Nebraska.

Milcstones are set by the roadside to mca asurc
progress Without the markers. one may no,
realize the extent OF the advance
Such a purpose is served by the Forthcoming
visit of Eugene Meyer, director OF the War
Finance corporation, to the western agricultural
states. Mr.. Meyer was here las. in November,
just after the War Finance corporation had un-
der,aken TO finance agricultural production. A
democratic administration had refused to extend
this succor, but the republican congress enlarged
the powers of the corporation to include the re-
lief of the farming industry.
Mr., Meyer came west to set up the machinery
and spread the news. He found people op-
pressed by economic burden and depressed by
the apparent hopelessness OF their situation. He
was told frankly that the War Finance corpora
ton was waging battle like to the beating back
Of the sea with spade. But the corporation
persisted. Despite delays and setbacks, it or
ganized its work and loaned many millions of
dollars in Nebraska, with corresponding amounts
in neighboring states.
Then came the turn OF the tide. Partly be-
because the people Of the west grded their loins
and bent to the task with determination that it
must be done regardless of the weight of oppos
ing circumstances the farming industry took the |
upgrade Mr.. Meyers visit next week, under so
much more auspicous conditions than his first
trip west, enables taking of stock, further
realization of the change that has been wrought
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-11
Frozen Credit" and the Bonus.

Another technical objection has been opposed
to the bonus bill, this time by D. R. Cressnger,
comptroller of the currency. He says the GER
tihcatc plan Is undesirable almost to the extent
OF being impossible, as it contemplates what he
designates as "the worst possible form OF frozen
credit" Banks can not afford the comptroller
says, to take on the loans, because OF the inino-
bility Of the asset so provided.
The loan feature Of the measure approved by
4 majority of the house ways and means COM
mttee provides that the certificates shall be avail
able as collateral for loan to the extent of 50
per cent OF its face value. Thus, an ex-service
man who holds maximum Of $o25 for oversee
service, can borrow on it s3l2s0, which is not
an exorbnant sum. The bank making the loan
is permitted TO charge per cent in excess OF the
regular discount rate prevailing in the district. If
the Federal Reserve rate is S per cent the bank
rate will be per cent. In many ways the loan
on the certificate resembles loans made on real
estate, with this exception: In case of real
estate loan, enforced collection requires costly
litigation, and sometimes equally wasiefui lqui-
dation, while in the event of an ex-service man
defaulting on his loan, the bank, at the end of
three years, presents the certificate and note to-
the treasury of the United States, receives. in
full principal and interest, and has lost nothing.
Mr., Cressinger's opinion represents the ex-
treme view Of opposition to the bonus. Secre
tary Mellon has objected TO every plan so far
suggested, and has made it clear that he is not in
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-11
Service on the School Board.

The plain inference 10 be drawn from the dis
cussion Of the affairs OF the Omaha independent
School district by one OF our contemporaries Is
that il the members OF the Board of Education
.Mere given handsome salaries, management
would be more efficient. Let us examine this
thought:
For more than forty years service on tho
school board has been honorably sough, by men
who are interested in the public schools of tho
city. The position has carried with il arduous
duties, hard work, and not a little OF undcservcd
complain, and criticism while the only reward
Il has brought has been the unpurehaseable sat
lsfac,ion that comes with consciousness OF duty
faithfully performed. Not always has this been
so, for at times the record OF the board has been
marred by partisan or isetiona control, but the
voters usually have remedicd this swiftly by
dismissing the unworthy. Taken as whole
however, the history of the Omaha school board
is that of high minded patriotic men, earnestly
striving to discharge sacred public trust
II the affairs of the district are involved in
floating debt, it is due not to the fact that the
members of the board serve without pay, but
that they have endeavored TO make bricks with
out straw. Hecding the call for improvements
and extensions in the school system, the board
has endeavored to provide for the apparent
reeds, and at the same time has tried to keep
down costs. And right there is the rub. School
service can not be extended without adding to
the cost Of the schools
Mighty few of the men now serving on the !
board would be tempted by any moderate salary |
10 take on the work; nor is it probable that any
such salary would lure forth other men of affairs
and capacity to assume the duty. Omaha has had
some experience along this line.