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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-23

West. now thoroughly puzzled and
already convinced that some mystery
lowered over the place, began to circle
through the untrampled clover, but
without any defined purpose. All OF
once, at the lower end of the gully he
came, Unexpectedly, upon another
trail, this one well marked. appar-
emily frequently used, which led
straight across the field. and terminal
ed at small gate leading through the
wire fence. Evidently here was a
short cut to the road. well known to
the servants on the estate. and posi-
bly, others. The discovery. however.
told nothing further than this. and
contenting himself with another glance
about the unchanged field OF rustling
clover, West proceeded along the
course Of the path. intending to thus
rejoin the automobile waiting his re-
turn behind the trees.
Within few steps of the gate.
which was closed, he came to a sud
den. Mortified pause. staring ahead at a
strange something huddled In the path.
1t was a shapeless thing. bearing no
resemblance to a human being, until
he advanced closer; then he recog-
nized the form of man, curled up as
a dog sleeps, face down, hidden by his
arm. and limbs drawn up. as II In a
sudden spasm Of agony. A hat was In
the path beyond, where It had fallen,
and a revolver lay glittering In the
sunlight q few feet away. There was
nothing familiar about either figure or
clothing. yet unquestionably there lay
the body of suicide. The single shot
they had heard the tell-tale revolver
close to the dead mans hand, were
clear evidence of what had occurred.
The unexpectedness Of this discov-
cry, the peculiar position Of the dead
man, the loneliness of that deserted
field In which he lay, shocked West
and, for a moment left him strangely
hesitant Who was the man? What
could have led up to the pitiful TRACE
dy? Yet he advanced step by step
nearer to the hideous object In the
path. The man had been shot directly
behind the right ear, killed instantly,
no doubt, as the deadly bullet crashed
through the brain. West lifted the arm
which concealed the face. already
shrinking from the suspicion which
had began to assuil him. Then he
knew who the dead man was-Percival
Coolidge.
West stood guard beside the body
until servants came and bore 1t 20 the
, house, but made no effort to follow.
Instead he gave his address to Sexton
and continued his journey into the
city. After what had passed between
them he had no desire to again en-.
lsco1nter Miss Natalie; and under
thcee circumstances, actually shrank
from meeting her. Just what this
mans death might mean to the girl
he could not safely conjecture. yet
deep down In his own heart, he felt
convinced that this act of self-de-
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-23
Observation-Disclosures
Our Christmas
Observation-Disclosures |. |.

MAYHEM the shades OF evening gather
w And the Christmas time is here,
And you go home from your labss
To enjoy the Christmas cheer
When the Christmas tree is lighted
And the children gather round,
There Is one thing must be present
II the gr 1test Joy Is found.
There must be inner conscience
Telling you with truthful voice
That you've done something for someOns
That will help that one rejoice
Some poor stranger widow, orphan,
Someone that you did not owe.
All. the gift need not be costly
To relieve another's woe.
And the greatest gift at Christmas
That person e'er received
Was to know that through his efforts
Someone's suffering was relieved
FOR the Master, on whose birthday
All the Christmas gifts are given,
VIII see that act and send to him
Christmas gift from heaven
Thomas G. Andrews In Kansas CatS
Star.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-23

you can't do that with Snow Fairy !;
she'd melt all TO pieces in your fingers
and then where would you be2
u have come TO pay you a littfs
CALL" laughed the fairy. because I
like to talk with children who are IN
and can't go out. just came from
house down the street where u baby L.
cutting a tooth. Such a cunning baby |
played hide and seek under Its chin,
and you should have heard him
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-23
@lYEhF'
CHRISTMAS DINNER

EVERY Christmas they In
IL vited one or two 10 have
Christmas dinner with them
who would other Use have been
alone. II gave them so mucl
pleasure that they even felt
they were being "klndly" nor
that they were "doing a real
charity" SO thai their guests
always had real Christmas
with real Christmas cheer For
they never felt that they had
been invited out Of kindness,
nor out Of charity
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-23

DON'T suppose TWO noses
were ever pressed more for
lOrnly against a window
glass than those belonging
to Jerry and Sally. II you
were TO look at them from
the outside, In their front
yard, for instance, they
mould 40, .oo,, tft.a .,N.,os
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-23
''S%ySFS'
Mo- CIuh sandwlch

Slice stale bread ana trim crust Of
and toast light brown. Butter well;
then have some lean bacon fried
crisp, allowing two slices to a sand
wich Take a slice of toast, pus
leaf Of lettuce and slice OF
bacon then another slice OF toase
and pun slice Of 1900
with toast on X
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Next War Upon Insects
TOR six hundred thousand work
men and their families to be
= .4l4 aa..;nna for three

THE next war will be a war
upon insects.
j Human beings have their
differences with one another and
occasionally indulge in fight, but
the enemy of the entire human race
is the insect.
There are five times as many
kinds of insects as there are kinds
of all other living beings put to-
gether.
1t is estimated that there are
100000 sorts of insects, without
counting parasitic creatures.
Of beetles alone there are over
100000 varieties.
Some time ago "a scientist took
census of five ant hills. He killed
all the inhabitants with poison gas
and counted the dead. There were
over 100000 in these five hills.
Some of the hills of the termites,
or white ants, must contain many
millions of inhabitants.
In hornets nest there are some
where around 400 population, or
perhaps 200 would be better aver
age. Even this is too many, for
while bees make honey and even
wasps have their good points, such
as killing flies, the hornet is a bad
one. He is murderer, a drunkard,
a thief and a cannibal; also his
sting is serious matter.
One Of the greatest enemies to
the human race is the house fly.
Prof. Howard has calculated that a
single female fly could, in one sea-
son, become the anccstress Of A..
472,2S6, 103, ,62s, ,713, $50 800 flies. OF
course if she actually produced all
these flies and they lived, there
would not be room enough on the
planet for such a multitude.
The only way the number Of in
sects is kept down is by the con-
tinual war among themselves and
the war of other animals upon
them.
Peace is a relative term. Human
creatures should have peace among
themselves, If only because they
need all their combined energies to
war upon their common enemies.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Mining Coal
NOu in Order

rOR six hundred thousand work
men and their families to be
without earnings for three
months is a cause for grave national
concern. When, in addition, the
production of coal is interrupted
for a quarter of year, national
calamity threatens.
Unemployment on such scale,
and a threatened coal famine
either of these conditions long ago
should have induced the Federal
authorities to exhaust every effort
to get the mine owners and the men
together.
In this conflict the very principle
of industrial security is at stake.
This "strike'' is setting a precedent
which in the future will allow either
employers or men to break a solemn
contract with each other.
Mine owners and men in the
Central Competitive Field the
chief soft-coal producing region of
the country, had wage agreement
which expired April l. The agree
ment bound both sides to confer
before April l and try to frame
a fresh contract.
Mine owners have not success
fully answered the charge, gener-
ally accepted, that they refused to
keep their word to the miners. So
the men, having no wage agreement
beyond April l, quit work on that
date.
SOME ONE WAS TO BLAME.
One side or the other broke its
word. If this is to be countenanced,
if wage contracts are not to be
kept, there is no hope for industrial
peace.
We want those men back at work
at mining coal. We want the con-
tending parties, forced to negotiate
wages and working conditions, in
accordance with their solemn agree
ment.
We want the Government def
nitely to fix the blame for this
objectionable interruption in the
country's economic life as a lesson
to future disturbers of the peace
in industry.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Americans Old and Nep

YYNCLE SAM told tho world
ii yesterday that 38,39s,958 Of
~ his nephews and nieces have
foreign blood. This means that one
third Of our population have more
recently migrated to America than
the other two-thirds or their pro-
genitors. Nevertheless, the country
mayvelously maintains its character.
The earlier American stock, with
its Anglo Saxon spiritual tradition,
benevolently and benefieently as
similates the millions Of newcomers
as fellow-members in a human de-
moeraey-Americans all.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
What the US.
Did d6rHuiH

YYOU have read and heard a
Y great deal of nonsense about
i the American occupation of
Haiti since 1915.
Our marines landed there because
the Monroe Doctrine was threaten
ed by the landing of French naval
forces. Some power was going to
take hand in Haiti, where life and
property were exposed to incessant
revolutions, where public credit was
exhausted and payment of the for
eign debt was imperiled.
1t was our job both because of
our location and our policy. How
well we have done the job is told
in the report of the Senate Select
Committee on American Occupation
of Haiti, made public by Senator
Mccormick, Monday.
About 2%c of the inhabitants of
Haiti can read or write. A few of
them hate us because we ended the
merciless graft they practiced on
their fellow countrymen.
The other $50, simple, ignorant
peasants, rise up and call us blessed.
For the first time in Haitian his
tory they have security for their
property and persons.
We have built for them 585 miles
of roads. When the. French left the
island, in 1904, there were 500 miles
of good highway; when we came,
in 1915, not one mile of road on the
island was passable.
We are bringing them education
as fast as public money is available.
With security, taxable wealth is
growing. Taxes are going into
schools and public service, not into
the pockets of corrupt officials.
We are teaching them to govern
themselves. We have drilled a force
of $500 Haitian gendarmes, largely
officered by natives, capable of sup
pressing bandits and upholdinC
stable government. We are train
ing Haitian officials fit to run such
government.
Let Haiti look fifty miles to the
west, where Cuba, the same pop
ulation as Haiti, with 3,5OO,O0O
souls, has attained independence
and prosperity under our tutelage.
Neither Haitian nor American in
terests would allow us to interrupt
a work so well begun.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
The Deadly TNpeUriter
BY Owen Owen

Wellington used to implore
powder. As for the telephone,
peace times symbol, what
would the armies have done
without It or It's younger
brother. radio?
IN the actual firing line. It
" is true. a few appliance
useful purely for killing ap.
peared-guns, rifles and the
like. But the firing line was
only the spume from the ocean
of industriaiism that seethed
behind 1t, that produced II
ever newly, into which 1t re-
gressed and from which II
emerged oeaseiessly,
War having become q mere
by.product Of commerce and
manufacture-every conceivable
tool Of clerk and workman be-
ing new, on occasion, a weapon.
one is moved to ask whether the
future holds riots and revolu.
tions comparable to those Of the
olden time when 1.-The peasants
rose in rebellion armed only
with their reapine hooks"
II Is at least an interesting
speculation.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

~ thing more than mechan-
"A ism to transport goods be-
tween countries.
1t is also an educational institu-
ton. 1t means for the youth of the
country an ever-beckoning oppor-
tunity to know the people, the in
stitutions, the accomplishments of
foreign lands.
The best of education is travel.
Who can estimate what it has
meant to British supremacy in
world trade and world diplomacy
to have had tens Of thousands Of
British citizens constantly in all the
ports of all the seven seas7
Can you not see the sea pattern
into which the Briton = character is
cast7 He gets his taciturn reserve
from the boundless expanse Of the
gray, silent waters. His dogged de-
termination arises out Of battles
with the fiercest Of the elements.
His strong religious sense is as old
as his dependence upon Providence
where Proyidence's help il needed.
They thdt 90 doDn to the sea In
ships and do business In great tcd-
terra. these see the 1Oorks Of the
Lord and His 1Donders In the deep.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
WAYSIDE WISDOM
Copyright. is?1D
s. F.. KiSer
PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH"
THE TINE CLOCK.


7 KEEP a check on Fred and Joe
L And Grace and Jane and Rose and Ruth;
! time them when they como and 20,
l always tell the boss the truth.
Inflexibly ] regulate:
/ cant be bribed or eoaxed to lie;
My way Is fixed and constant; Fate
Is no more watchful than am ].
THE CASH REGISTER.
I HAVE the goods on Tom and Dick
l. And Winlfred and Blanche and Bill.
They cannot hope by any trick
To snatc. nickel from tho I'LL.
! never violate my trust.
And George and Jim and Jack and Bob
Go straight because they know they must
While ! remain upon the Job.
THE CHECK PERFORAToR.
DLEASE don't forget the part ] play
L In keeping folks from going wrong,
! ward off danger every day,
And check temptation right along.
How many men who still arc free
And still enjoy the worlds regard
Would fret II Il were not for me.
And gaze from windows that arc barredi
ALL IN CHORUS.
Nh. the worlds q Jolly old world. Indeed,
" With It's registers. clocks and msters,
And the esaselsss watch and the constant
OF checking potential rheatersi
All men ara thieves, B-d all women, tao,
Or they would be II we would let them.
And they'd better take care. whatever they
For its Our Intention to "get" them.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Another Attack
of Fashions
By BUGS" BAER

DARISIAN officials OF powder
ed sex are starting some
more clothes nonsense.
FRENCH mannequins scamp
i cred around Paris with their
necks painted like Zebras. Tn.
less those alien fashion maniacs
stop this feeble-skulled haber-
dashery business, we'll have 10
declare war on unnaturalized
millinery shops.
CTAR-SPAGLED L. 8. girls
~ copy everything that our allied
flappers do over there. Only
our girls Improve on French
fashions.
IF some Paris flapp paints her
neck like zebra, some Man
haitian shrill will paint her own
neck like a giraffe. with gold
leaf on her Adams apple and
radium on her moles.
THIS fashion is going to spread
u because II takes no brains
TO be silly and anything that Is
silly Is popular.
THEY'LL be walking around
l. with their necks looking like
barber poles.
WE always overdo stuff over
w here. If Paris says no
hats this season. our gum chew
ers would not only say no hats.
but they would also shave 'em.
selves baldh -nded.
IF Paris ehirped no heels this
= winter. all girls in Peoria
would toss away their shoes.
WHEN Paris bulletins short
w skirts, what do cur babit
do on this side Of anybodys
ooesr7 They throw away their
WE follow Partisan cuckoo
" styles 50 sudden that we're
ahead of 'em.
WHEN monkey fur got SO
" popuiarish in France, Ameri.
can husbands had to wear one.
tailed Fuyedos 80 their wives
would think they were chin.
pansees,
paris trails started to wear
watches on their ankles
Did Besten girls step there?
WOULDN'T be se bad IL we
w could follow Partisan fash.
ion patterns. But anything Trey
do, we multiply by ten. II for.
eign girls decide that looking
sickly is stylish, Washington
marshmallew hounds eat soap
and dance around on two
crutches.
NOW they are wearing long
: skirts over there that reach
to ground, which means that
over here they'll wear 'em 70
leng that they'll reach down fifty
feet we'll.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Makes Water De Digging.

Makes WATer D8 Digging,
Digging drainage bitches with water at
cost that is but fraction of the usual amount
has been accomplished near Vale Ore. This
feat made possible by the use of a siuic.
ing machine invented by che Of the farmers
of the community, working at the suggestion
of the Oregon Experiment Station,
To dig a large main drain by this method,
a few burrows piowed along the line of
the proposed ditch. Then a large head of
water Is turned In at the upper end and the
sluicing machine is dragged back and forth
along the bottom Of the ditch by means of a
horse at either end ~ a cross peis.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

sSTTHE peasants rose In re.
Il bellion, armed only with
their reaping hooks. and de.
feated the tyrnnt'-that was the
sort Of thing that used to
happen,
Then, sunpewder. cannon,
rifles, bullets, arose and held
many lord on his throne
against peasants with fails and
siekies,
The NEST astonishing thing
about the recent war was that
the weapens were mainly in.
dustriai Instruments.
TNHE typewriter and adding.
l. machine were used to de-
feat Germany. Automobiles,
trucks, electrical apparatus.
rubber, copper. wheat. paper,
we're Indispensable. Mills for
making dye.stuffs for milady's
gowns became INT factories
overnight. The doughnut, In
the hands of the Salvation
Army. was a power to reckon
with.
Vaudeville "acts" were cabled
for by hsrsssed commanders as
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Stars and Stripes

Some towns are as dry as a movie bath
ing beauty. What could be drer?
Conan Doyle says he caa materializs
the spirits of dead animals. Maybe he
was the one who stirred up the old Bull
Moose recently.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

DEOPLE who speculate in
Wall street are accustomed
to see their fortunes expand or
dwindle-more especially dwin.
dle-over night as the stocks
fluctuate.
That seems matter of
course. inasmuch as the quota
tions are often dependent on
mere matters of opinion.
The market may be enthu.
siastic or panicky, as the case
may be, without actual change
in the commodities that the
stocks represent.
But when the commodities
themselves are in question,
and notably when we consider
such staples as farm products,
one might fairly expect that
values would be less subject to
fluctuation.
So 1t is not without surprise
that one reads. in the official
report Of the Department Of
Agriculture, that farm values of
animals slumped between 1919
and 1921 by not far from two
billion dollars.
IT appears that the declin.
L from 1919 to 1920 was caus.
ed principally by the the de.
creased number OF beef cattla.
hogs, and sheep and lambs
raised for slaughter; and that
the high cost OF feed was the
main factor in this case.
But the decline Of the follow
eng year. which amounted to
more than a billion dollars in the
aggregate, was almost entirely
due to lower live stock prices az
well as lower prices for farm
animals.
The drop from 1920 to 1921,
said to be due almost entirely TO
lower prices. represented a de.
crease of more than thirty.five
per cent.
WHATEVER concerns the
w farmer concerns all the
rest Of us. So this matter of
farm losses will bear careful
pondering.
Consider, for example. the
items which reveal that the
value of cattle other than milch
cows and veal calves (that is to
say. the value of beef cattle)
was 1865. 800 900 in 1919. and
had shrunk to $3.50. .OoO. 900 in
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
THANK you.
BY K. T.. B.

Lime ULCERS is name applied to old
English sailing vessels and came from the
fact that they carried supply Of lime juice
to counteract any bad effect of unbalanced
rations thus preventing scurvy
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
True Democracy, a Spirit
BY Hutchins Hapgood-

soul. with its infinite value.
would be hemmed in. violated.
controlled, prevented from reach.
ing its fullest development in
tended by the Creator.
When we find q true demo.
crat We find a man who puts
such intense value on the per.
sonality Of the lowest human
being that he cannot treat him
as such-in fact. sees that there
are none such.
EUGENE V. DEBS, whose
II articles on his prison ex.
perience have been running IN
The Washington Sunday Times.
Is one OF the comparatively few
fully conscious democrats. His
article breathes respect and love
for all his fellow prisoners, no
matter how low" they may be.
Debs' attitude Ia not due to his
being a Socialist. He Is quite
Independent Of that. He might
be a Baptist, a Jew. a Repub.
lican In politics. a Mohamme.
dan. For true democracy Is not
primarily a'matter Of principle
or Of theory. 1t is an affair of
the spirit. It'is the mark of the
highest spiritual development In
a human being.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

TT cannot be pointed out too
often that the conception Of
democracy that commends Itself
to our love is not the conception
Of democracy as being the rule
of the majority. That idea OF
democracy has done, and will
continue to do, great harm, for
that permits the majority to
coerce the minority. 1t permits
the many to dominate over the
relatively few.
The kind OF democracy that
Is worth striving for Is the
democracy the vital principle Of
which is self-control. II we are
not willing to allow others to
control themselves. we are not
democrats at heart. We are all
the better democrats II. being Of
the majority. We are still sensl-
two to tho rights and free lives
of tho small minority.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
The Farmer Loses 7tUO
Billion Dollars
St. Matthew, xii :21.
BY Henry s. Williams

192l--a falling off of almost so
per cent.
Possibly half Of this repre-.
sents lower prices lat the farm.
not in the retail markeo; but
the other 80 per cent, appar-
emily. represents actual decrease
in the number of beef animals.
The figures are only approx.
native. but they will serve at
least to Indicate very marked
reduction in the meat supply, at
the source. Meantime the mum.
ber of consumers, that Is to say
the human population. increases
year by year.
Under these circumstances
~ 1t requires only the most
elementary knowledge of the
law Of supply and demand to
give assurance that the price OF
beef in the retail market may
be expected to have an upward
trend.
When returns of the census
of 1910 were available. about
ten years ago, II became known
that. whereas the population in.
creased 81 per cent, the number
Of food animals on the hoof had
decreased so alarmingly that
there was relative shortage Of
6O,00O,000 animals as compared
with the number existing ten
years before.
That simple statistical fact
justified the prediction that the
price of meat must go up. Every
one knows that the prophecy
was fulfilled: but most people
perhaps suppose that the ad.
vanced prices were largely due
TO the war.
IN reality the fundamental
L factor was the decrease OF
food animals. The war introduc-
ed new conditions. and modi.
fled the trend of events all along
the line. But 1t would appear
that we are now dropping back
to normal pre-war conditions Of
steady decrease of farm animals
and steady increase Of popuia.
ton. While these conditions oh.
tain 1t would be futile to com.
plain about the increasing price
of beef.
The remedy is obvious enough.
There should be increase instead
Of decrease of animals On the
farms. But no one has yet sug.
gested a way in which the
change may be brought about.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

Shoe firm advertises short vamps
ready to take out" WeRder II they have
any pretty little bioRdes7
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

THE true democrat has an
l. almost religious respect for
personality. II there were any
one human being controlled by
all the rest of the community.
that community would not be a
democratic community. In the
ideal sense. for our immortal
The Washington times., 1922-07-03

IL prices are coming down they are ap.
parently coming down in Parachutes and
taking their time.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
Sea and Character

A MERCHANT marine is some
"a thing more than a mechan-
IA ism to transport goods be-