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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
EASY TO COUNTERFEIT THEN
When Skin Currency Was in Use, the
Opportunities for Cheating Were
Enormous.

When John Sewer became governor
of the new state of Franklin-now
part of Tennessee-he realized that
the fourteenth commonwealth must
have a circulating medium; that cur
rency was the blood of the social sys-
TEN. OF precious metals he had only
a negligible store He couli not is
sue letters of credit on biz III bark,
though Pontiac had done so and the
French had honored them, giving cash
in return. SO he studied the meth
DDS adopted by other American com
munities in meeting the same prob
lem.
He found that in Massachusetts
corn had been used for currency in
1881 a few years later musket balls,
full bore were legal tender in the
Bay state, each standing for a far
thing bingham, Mass, paid It's taxes
in milk pals in 1850, Fur tallow
and hides were used for currency in
North Carolina in 1888,
Tobacco circulated as money in
Virginia and Maryland for more than
a hundred years The currency put
cut by the colonies during the Reyo-
luton was poorly printed on poor pa
per. Some of 1t did not even con
tain any promise Of payment.
Governor Sewer and his advisers
decided that good flax linen. tow
linen. wool and cotton linsey" should
be used as currency Also beaver
skin. six shillings. 0ttoskins, six
shilllngs. Raecoon and fox skins, one
shilling and three pence. Wen cured
bacon, sixpence per pound. Clean
talow. sixpence per pound Clean
beeswax. one shilling per pound.
Good distilled rye whisky, two shil-
lings. sIxpence per gallon. Good
peach or apple brandy. three shil-
lings per gallon
There was only one fly in the olnt-
ment The skin currency was soon
eounterfeited. The skins were made
up into bales and bundles, the pro
truding tails showing the kind Of
pelts inside. II the tail Of an otto
was fixed to the skin Of a fox or rae
coon the counterfeiter made a profit
of four shillngs ninepence.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
BEAUTY THAT IS PERENNIAL
According to Medical Writer, 1t Can
Only Be Destroyed by lncor.
rect Mode of Living.

There is beauty which cannot be
destroyed by time. Like Venus, it is
perennial, youth carried through mid.
die age and the later years of life.
Wise women are commencing to learn
that year by year they are making his
tory and writing it in themselves, in
the pose Of the head, the contour Of the
body and above all in the revealing
presentation of the face. C. Ward
Crampoth, NJ. D., writes in the Health
Builder. The telltale years will tell
their tale with memorable certainty Il
may be of wholesomeness, even tenn
per, good digestion and trained nerves
and these will show In the beauty TEN
pered, matured and refined by time in
stead of made gross The radiance Of
wholesOmeness may rival the brilliauee
of youth. Or, instead, the history writ
ten may be revealed in a leathery
facial hide, hardened by alcohol, tanned
by cigarette smoke and discolored By
the unneutralized toxins of dinners
large and late wrinkled into permanent
ripples, the traces Of a thousand new
Gus storms and sagging under the fat
Of a thousand excuses. No amount Of
application from without can change
the exhibition Of the unwholesome
relics within.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Easy for Willie.

The superintendent was paying his
annual visit to the village school.
Every face shone with cleanliness,
all ears were strained TO catch every
word the man uttered, every hand
was itching to be the first raised in
reply.
The examination was coming to an
unusually successful close when the
great man asked:
what is lake?"
There was a long silence. Nobody
could answer the question At last
Whites chance had come and his hand
shot up into the air.
"WeIl. Willie" asked the superin-
tendent what Is itY
"A hole in the Kettle, SIR was the
proud answer.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Ein.Tree Emblem of Home.

The fig tree, from earliest times has
been a garden tree cultivated for its
shade and general usefulness. BE
meath the vine and fig tree" is used
more than once in the Old Testament
to designate home" For centuries
the fruit, fresh or dried, has made
up a large part of the food Of the na'
tives of Western Asia and Southern
Europe. Its juice Is used to make
drink, and also to dye cloth. Its leaves
polish ivory, and the bark makes cord
The sap of one species is poisonous
The fig tree, in climates c0ngenial 20
its growth, produces two and some
times three crops Of fruit the same
year, on distinct shoots. The trees
grow rapidly from cuttings, and are
propagated by budding. grating ana
seeds. The large, beautiful leaves are
declduous, palmately veined, three-to-
FIVE !ched. wavy-margined, and some
what rough and leathery.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
copERNlcus, THE ASTRONOMER

Four hundred and fifty years viii
soon have elapsed since the birth Of
Nicolaus Copernicus and plans are ale
ready under way in Europe to COM
memorate this event next year. His
revolutionary views on astronomy
were the product of an early dissatis.
faction with the Ptolemaic doctrine,
and in the midst of an unusually fun
life he found time to elaborate an
entirely new system Of astronomy, by
the adoption of which mans estimate
of the universe was fundamentally
changed says the Christian Science
Monitor. One of the chief tributes
to his achievements is to be a public
library in tie city of his birth, Thorn,
on the Vistula, and the foundation Of
It's structure has already been com.
pleted. Even though, in those early
days, his discoveries were regarded
as purely hypothetical fancIes, the
later centuries are according him a
measure Of the honor due him as a
great and courageous thinker.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Modifying Goldfish.

Many Of the grotesque forms which
mark some of the popular types Of
goldfish are the outcome of centuries
Of laborlous work by the patient, per-
severing and ingenious japanese, in
taking advantage Of some curious
freak Of nature 1t IS a well-known
fact If fish eggs be given Earring ut
q certain stage, or, more specifically,
about the "eyelug" period, monstrosi-
ties may be produced. This occurs fire.
quently among brook trout, the most
common irregularities being hump
back and looped ID is said that when
the Japanese discovered this peculiar
ity they selected from their golden
camp a pair If the most pronounced
monstrosltles, similar in form, reared
them aud bred from them. The most
marked Of this progeny We're again
selected and bred ANA this process con
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
War Against Aouseay

Nobody loves the houset!y its dirty
feet have got IL bad name, and not
even pacIfists viii lauen' thar Alder
shot command headquarters has de-
Ciared war against IT,
Winter may seem the wrong season
TO begin a campaign but the army fac
tics in this case are wise, for, though
flies may not be then SO much ID evil
dcuce in the jam-pot and sugar-baSin
they he concentrated and sluggish 10
their winter health resorts, and are
more easy TO outtlank and destroy
Z the Alternating flies ana eeelr
eggs are destroyed in winter we shall
not have 10 face their troublesome
guerrilla bands III summer and au.
tumn London Times.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
NOT A HERO TO oLDTlMER
veteran of Hannibal Could Not Be
Forced to Admit Greatness Of
Mark Twain.

A scribe In search Of Mark Twain
material was Fostering some Of the
gray-beards Of Hannibal He found
one who confessed to being few
years older than the famous humorist.
In their boyhosd days they had at
tended school together, foraged about
on Pirates island, climbed Holiday
hin and pushed big stones over the
brink, and carried out pretty faith
fully the program as described in
tom Sawyer"
But while the visitor was asking
questions he noticed the old timer was
rot impressed. So he asked:
"Innocents Abroad was a great
book, don't you thinkY
81 reckon SOL never read it."
"And everybody says Huck Finn
was a masterpieceF
"Uh-huh!"
"And Tom Sawyer" the visitor
said, was practically a story of Han
nlbal-you certainly liked thatT'
"Oh, guess it was all right for
kids" admitted the boyhood chum,
but grownups don't see 50 awful
much in 1t from what ] hear"
Don't you think Mark Twain was
a great manF
"They say he was evaded the old
timer. But I beat him once in a
spellin match. kansas City Star.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
TABLE MANNERS IN ARABIA
As miahI Reasonably Be Exesu:ss
They Are Primitive in the
Extreme.

Manners vary according to time ana
locality, so they say. For instance
in Arabia a young woman's table Ell.
quette is judged by the skill win
which she scrapes the dish with he,J
finger and conveys the results to heil
mouth. American relief workers
writing from Ismid, Turkey, give an
account of a family luncheon party Of
a half-doZen Armenian girls who had
been rescued from Arab harems thar
Is a most enlightening glimpse on man
ners of the Near East.
at was during some games We held
that the girls who had been In captly.
ity among the Arabs acted out the ma.
tivs customs of their former masters
They ate without fork or knife or
spoon from a common dish placed an
the ground In their midst One Girl
showed US how the Arabs eat hot food
With her finger tips she smeared the
food around the edges of the plate with
a circular movement, blowing her fin.
gers from time to time When the dish
was well smeared, she scooped up the
food with the same circular movement
and carried 1t into her mouth. She
can eat thick soup thus, and more
quickly than you could with a spoon.
The soup running down her wrist was
licked off hurriedly and another scoop
full taken, for there was circle Of
girls around the dish, and the slow
ones lose out"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03

Berlin reports tell of an old Ger
man peasant woman leasing a piece Of
land for so many pounds of butter per
annum 1t Is added that many other
Germans are returning to the old
methods of barter, not using money
at all IN their transactions The rea-
son is obvious. German money has
become SO unstable in value and so
worthless that 1t is becoming imprac-
ticable to use it. 1t is ceasing to be
useful rs a common denominator OF
exchange. says the Houston Post.
Which goes TO prove that money in
Itself is artificial wealth anyway and
that the only real wealth consists OF
goods or possessions capable Of pro-
ducing goods Money is a handy
thing to have, but it can be dispensed
with if one possesses what it repre-
sents.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
The Claim of Columbus.

"Oh, nc" said Columbus. calmly as
he sat down to dinner with the other
shades on board the houseboat In tie
Styx. 4 don't feel jealous Of Wash
ington. He is the Father of His Conn
try, and I am not. I only discoveraa
the orphan. l knew the country BE-
fore it had a father or a mother There
wasn't anybody who was willing g ne
even a sister to it when I knew i. l.l.
Washington took il in hand groo- el
It down, spanked it when it needel r
and started it off on the career wa#.l
has made 1t worth while for me to lei
my name be known ia connection win
1t. Why should I be jealous Of hlu
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Long Distance Woodruff River Trip.

One of the few long-distance wood
fuel river trips Remaining in the West
ern hemisphere is the journey from
Fort McMurray, Alberta, to the delta
of the Mackenzie river The distance
TO and fro is 5000 miles Men spend
the winter in the forest on the edge
of the great stream to cut this wood
and pile 1t on the bank. The service
able timber is spruce The black pop
lar (also called balm of Gllead and
cottonwood) is plentiful, and n bulks
as large, but it lacks the pith and
stamina to make good fires The lit
tie dry logs burn fast; logs cut with
the sap in them and exudng the stick
lest of gum last longer.
An old man who works alone, with
a sled which he hauls himself instead
Of using dogs. has reared many per-
lshable monument to himself at a cost
Of "a cord to the company employ
ing him. He saws at right angles; he
piles at right angles; he builds a
square bastion at each end of the pile.
His work is the admiration of the
river men.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Mhen the Waiter scored

'Do you call that veal cutlet?"
he demanded of the waiter. "Why,
such outlet as that is an insult to
every self-respectlng calf in the coun-
try"
The waiter hung his head for mo-
ment. but recovered himself and said,
in tone of respectful apology. 81
really didn't intend TO insult YOU, sir
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03

The appointment of Welcome
Stranger committee by the hotel as
ISOLATION of New York and The pro-
posed organized campaign TO interest
out-of-town visitors in the metropolis
have a praiseworthy object. says the
New York World But when was the
discovery made that it is incumbent
on a special committee to see that
"the stranger should no longer be
neglected but must be shown person
ally the many allurements of New
York;" The choicest theater seats are
his for the asking at double price;
the most exclusive cabarets, the most
delectable yintages All Broadway
keeps open house for his benefit. He
may return home with the proud con-
sciousness that he has had the best
of everything the town affords, and
not the least part of his satisfaction
is that he has had to pay the highest
possible price for it,
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03

unueu untn a uesred type was prV-
duced and fairly fixed by Matching
without the Earring. Thus were pro-
duced the fringetalls, the balloon
shape, the telescope, and some other Of
the outlandish forms seen in aqua
RUINS.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03

Lady Dorothy Mills British author
ess and explorer, daughter Of the earl
Of Oxford. who has started another
exploring trip into the wildS Of Africa.
as She dresses for the expedition.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Authors Hundredth Anniversary.

This year marks the one hundrrdth
anniversary since Hans Christian An
dersen made his first appearance as
az author. He was lust seventeen
years nd when he 5ontri6uted a l0ie
10 q publication called The Day. OF
the many interesting relics in the An
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03

Every man is his own ancestor and
his own heir; he devises his own fu.
ure and lnherlts his own past.-Bos-
on Evening Transcript.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03

In Paris, a man 28 was caught
robbing his hundre 9TH home. Work
ing TO hard will get YOU
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Remedies ct t.erbalists.

Most Of The ola remedies prescribed
by the herbaiists of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth centuries contained some
element ahic! was extremely difficult
to secure such as the fat of a noun
tain mouse or the pounded residue
Of a swalloW's TEST, while the greater
number of them were always taken
with red or White Wine The peony
was said to I've etIicaciauS Cor heating
diseases al u ght whereas If tie gath
erer should chance to he seen by Z
woodpecker ne "risEed the loss of his
eyesight' The early root CATERERS
were anxious % discourage competitors
in their art and therefore made it as
dangerous as they could for anyone
to obtain the "SiMpleS' IN tho right
way. according to the Detroit News
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
RUSSIA ON UP GRADE.

Bad as Russia's political predica-
ment is, its economic situation seems
to be improving rapidly. John F. Sim
clair, an American economist, writing
from personal observation and in
quiry, reports remarkable progress.
Food crops are large. Cotton is up
to about two-thirds Of pre-war pro-
duction. Coal has reached one-third
of pre-war production, and transpor-
tation is at about the same level.
Many Of the important industries are
making a profit.
More remarkable is the progress of
the government toward paying its
own way. In 1920, says Mr.. Sinclair,
Russia raised less than 80 per cent of
her expenses, borrowing or issuing
fiat money for the rest. In 1921 the
government raised As per cent. In
1922 the government figure rose to 6O
per cent, and this year it may reach
S5 per cent. Beginning with 1925, the
commissioner of finance expects to
make receipts balance expenditures.
The present showing is better than
several other European countries are
making. France does not appear to
be doing so we'll. Is it possible that
the Russian government, with all its
vagaries and sins, is going to set an
example of budget-balancing to the
rest of Europe?
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
METHODISTS BROADENING

The Methodist Episcopal Conference
of the Rock River District Illinois,
which district includes Chicago, has
gone on record against the attitude of
Methodism toward dancing, the the
atre, cards and other forms Of amuse-
ments. The General Conference,
which meets at Springfield, Mass,
next May, has been memorialized to
modify Paragraph 280 of the Church
Discipline. This is the paragraph
which prohibits Indulgence in sinful
temper or words, dancing, playing at
games of chance, attending theatres,
horse races, circuses and dancing par
ties, or patronizing dancing schools"
The course on the part of the Rock
River body indicates a more liberal
spirit among church people than OBJ
tanned a generation ago when worldly
pastimes were frowned upon by
Methodists wherever found.
1t also indicates a better under
standing of human and social values.
The General Conference may not
act next year, but the time is not far
distant when a Methodist may attend
a play or even become an actor with
out being considered inconsistent.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
THE DELUSION OF DRESS

Dress is the supreme delusion into
which woman falls when she imagines
that her frocks create illusion in
mans mind. Rather, the cost of her
fine feathers dispels his last illusion
about her.
He thinks he has married woman
he finds he has married a handbook.
That is why you find so MANY men
doing the most extraordinary things
running off with little typists and
nurse-maids who have never worn a
silk "undies" in their lives; having
half-hearted liaisons with boisterous
work girls and famboyant fappers.
There are times when a healthy
man hungers for woman who isn't
perfection, who breathes Nature
rather than expensive perfume, to
whom a kiss means a kiss and not
just the means to an end, who gives
herself to the man she loves needless
of spelling either her complexion, her
figure or her frock in the process.
Beautiful statuary scattered about
the vestibule to mans heart doesn't
necessarily mean happy home. And,
in case you don't know it, dears, man
still remains most primitive animal.
He likes his love neat-with a
splash at most, of fashion. And don't
you forget it!
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
MY CITY AND /

My city is. where my home is
founded, where my business is stu
ated, where my vote is cast, where my
children are educated, where my
neighbors dwell and where my life
is chiefly lived.
1t is the home spot for me.
Ny city has right to my civic
loyalty. 1t supports me, and | must
support it.
Ny city wants my citizenship-not
partisanship; friendliness-not offish-
ness; -operation-not dissension
sympathy-not criticism; my intelli-
gent support-not indifference.
My city supplies me with law and
order, trade, friends, education, recre-
alton and the rights Of free-born
American. | should believe in my
city and work for it.
AND | WILL!
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
WHY AN AGE LIMIT?

The man who set an age at which all
must retire from active life and live
on pensions made great mistake. He
did not know human nature. The
idea of the working age of man COM
ing to a terminus at so, 60 or 65 years
is something that few active men are
willing to accept as good gospel.
Seattle has two postal clerks who
refuse to quit work, although offici-
ally discharged and placed on the
pension list because of old age. They
claim to be perfectly able to do the
work required and not anxious to be
listed as pensioners.
Of course, these men have reached
the retiring age-65 years-and, ac-
cording to rules Of the department,
are excused from further duties. They
get an allowance Of $50 per month,
but prefer to remain as workers.
There are men engaged in active
work who will soon celebrate the clos
ing of the first century. Some Of
them expect to be in the harness after
they have passed the hundred-mile
post. The man who has worked dur
ing a long lifetime would not be hap
py in the supposed enjoyment Of a
workless old age.
Why set a limit to the days Of use
fulness? Just as well enact law set
ting the date of death, place of burial
and prescribing the cost Of the fu-
neral.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
HERE is THE PROOF

John T. Hutchinson, secretary of an
association of certain liability in
surance companies, banded together
under the title of "The Insurance Fed
Grafton of America" with national
headquarters in Detroit, is sending to
insurance agents all over Ohio a
frantic appeal for a united effort to
defeat the Workmen's Compensation
Amendment, and thus permit indem-
nifty insurance companies to operate
in the state.
Mr.. Hutchinson closes his communi-
cation as follows: "You will personal :
lv vote "No" on November 9th and
influence your friends to vote mo"
to avoid inficting this bureaucratic
atrocity upon the unsuspecting people
of Ohio as a part of the written Con-
stitution of your great Common
wealth"
This proves conclusively what the
Leader has always claimed that some
of the big indemnity liability IN
surance companies are behind the
movement to defeat what is without
doubt one of the greatest plans yet
devised for the protection of the
working people of the state, whose
provisions insure him absolute pro
lection and adequate compensation
against injuries and death from ac-
cidents, without one cent of cost to
himself and no meddlesome pettifog-
ging lawyer to wolfe one-third or
more of the money which may be
awarded him after his suit has trailed
for years through two or three courts.
When this class of people advise
you to vote a certain way, the most
sensible and safest plan is to do just
the opposite, so vote eyes" on the
Compensation Amendment.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Jim Fitzsimmons Opens Restaurant

The White Restaurant, just east
of the interurban station will be open
ed by James M. Fitzsimmons tomor-
row. The room has been remodeled
and redecorated, and the equipment is
the very latest. Joe Poston, member
of the firm which formerly coupled
the room, will manage the business.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Sunshine Club MASQUERADE

The Sunshine Club was entertained
last Friday evening with masque-
rade by Mrs. Chas. Lott at her home
on South Second street. Halloween
games were enjoyed and during the
evening a delicious luncheon was
served. Prizes were awarded to Mrs.
William Hinger and Mrs. John Bush.
The club will hold it's next meeting
at the home of Mrs. Russell Harvey,
of Maholm street, on Friday, Novem-
Der 9.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Decorating Assembly Room

A. B. Hampshire is redecorating
the assembly room in the basement of
the court house in a tasty design OF
light tan and white. When the work
is finished and new linoleum laid this
room will be one of the finest and
most convenient meeting places in the
city.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02

President Coolidge is said to be
committed to prohibition 100 per cent
but if he believes one-half Of one per
cent to be intoxicating, he has no sane
knowledge of percentage values.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Town Topics
Birth Announcement

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Morris, of
Gay street, are rejoicing over the ar
rival of daughter, Alma May, born
last Monday.