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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
AMERICANS IN PARIS.

Yankee Jury Sitting on Works of Art
caused II Ripple of UhpleaSantneSS
PARIS, May 6.-An episode commin
CLING the pathetic with the dron occurred
IN the conduct of a jury of American ar.
lists residing in Paris, sitting upon q
work of art offered by the Americans.
The versatile and errstic Whistler decid
ed to renstionalize himself. Submission
of his exposition pictures TO an American
Jury was surprising act of patriotism m
which did not, however, iencouuter
reciprocal appreciation, and mum
Der OF his pictures were rejected.
In wrath he with drew them all and sub
mltted them with acclamation and ac-
ceptance to the British jury, where he is
now classified. The venerable SCULPTOR
Story, for some different reason also
Jared i'll at the hands of the young van
KEGS. In this case the kindly interven-
ton reversed a decision which was aliSe
unwarranted and ungracious.
SCRANTON, Pa, May 6.-The long CON
tiaued idlesness at the mines has caused
much suffering among the poor of the
coal fields, and hundreds OF families are
destitute. Strong, able bodied men, with
large families to support, are in sore
need. For the past six months many of
them have not averaged $40 a month, and
grim want of tie most ordinary neoessi-
ties of life exists in hundreds of homes.
The suffering is greater now than ever it
was before.
During the former times of difficulty
many miners were enabled to find work
at ordinary outside labor at least part
of the hours of idleness, but now hun
dreds of Italian and Hungarian laborers
who live in the outskirts of the city,
who live cheaply on the cOarsest kind of
food, rush for any kind of employment
that comes to hand, working at whatever
wages they can get. When a poor miner
approaches contractor or superintend-
ent he finds that every place is filled and
that hundreds of applicants have been
turned away.
There seems to be more suffering in
Hyde Park than in any other section.
There coal mining is about the Only in
dustry. The collieries of the Delaware,
Lackewanna d. Western Railroad com
pany are situated there. few DAYS
ago black flags were displayed in several
places in that vicinity. The Delaware,
Laokawanna d Western com peny keeps
no company stores, but as rule indi-
vIdual operators in the lower part of the
city and Lackawanns township run in
stitutions of this kind. At some of tn ese
stores, the clerks, or at least portion of
the working force, are kept over sight
and Sundays. The operators understand
the terrible needs of the men, and they
fear that in their necessities they may be
tempted to make an attack upon these
well filled stores. The miners are intel
ligeDt, peaoeabIe and honest, but in try
ing times like these it is hard to tell
what their necessities may force them to
10.
The hard tim es ara shown by the in
creased demand upon the poor board.
The condition of the poor is most dis
missing, and it is intensified by the fact
that there Is no prospect of better
times at the mines before he middle of
June, owing to the policy of the coal
combination of crowding all the years
work into a few months.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
A STRANGE RESENIMENT.
A Father Who Did not Speak to His Daughte
for Fifty Years

A Father Who Did not Speak to His Daughter
for Fifty Years.
Fifty years ago James MARTIN, we'll
TO do farmer living near Ballettville, Pa,
refused to purchase his ID year-old
daughter a dress that very much coveted,
on the plea that he could not afford it.
1t was few days before st. Valentines
Day. The daughter was a quick-temper-
ed girl and took her fathers refusal to
purchase her the dress much TO heart.
On st. Valentines Day Farmer Martin
took from the village postoffioe valen-
tine addressed to him III his daughters
handwriting. 1t was rough cRrioature,
representing a miser counting and gloat-
ing over his money. There lived in the
neighborhood a man of that kind. He
had q niece whom he treated brutally.
When Farmer Martin looked at his
valentine he showed it 20 his wife, sim
ply remarking that he had not expected
such a bitter and III ca!ied-for insult
from their child. Mr.. Martin took the
girl to task about it. The daughter at
once declared that she had not sent the
valentine TO her father, but, on the con
trary, had mailed him very cOmpli-
mentary one, entitled "The III Jnest Farm
er," it having been her custom since shs
was little child to send him a valentine
every year. The old miser's niece hal
obtained the valentine Farmer Martin
received to send TO her uncle. Farmer
Martins daughter was with her when
she bought 1t. Tne two girls had sealed
their valentines at the same time snG the
Martin girl took them both aud addressed
them. In doing go she got them mixed,
and sent the Iniser's valentine to her
father.
In spite of all explanation, Farmer
Martin could not be brought 70 believe
his daughters story. From that day he
never spoke TO her. She married and
lived on farm adjoining her fathers.
With her husband and her children Farm
er Martin was on the kindest and most
familiar terms, but he never noticed his
daughter. l. lst week he died. He left
an estate valued at $40, 900. To his
son-in lew he bequithed the remainder
of the estate, provided he survived his wife
the farmer't daughter. IL the son in-law
died first then the $4,000 was TO be dIvid-
ed among his three children. To his
daughter, Farmer Martin bequeathed
"a package to be found il HE trunk, tied
with green ribbon, and seaied with
green wax" When this was opsned it
was found to be the unfortunate valen-
tine that had caused the extraordinary
estrangement of the farmer from bis
daughter fifty years ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
EXTINCTION OF A RACE.
An Old Woman, the Last of the Tasmanians
Died in 1876.

An Old Woman, the Last of the Tasmanians
Died i'll 1876
A letter from Hobart, Tasmania, to the
Springfield Republican tells the story OF
the entire extinction of q race within the
lifetime of generation. The natives OF
Tasmania or Van DIeman's Land mum
bered about 1000 when the islard was
colonized in 1903 and were kindly
pleasant people, whe were not cannibals
like the inhabitants OF the other islands
and asked only to be let alone. But
when the crews of the sealers that in
tested the region made attacks on them
and carrind off their women and children
they naturally avenged themselves on the
white settlers, whom they killed and
whose houses they burned whenever an
opportunity offered. The settlers made
war in retarD. being greatly aided by a
queer habit the Tasmanians had of keep
ing fires burning when they slept to
frighten away spooks. These guided
their white enemies to their hiding plac
es, until the natives finally took to mac
cesslbie Businesses in the bush, whence
they broke out in forays upon isolated
farms. The governor tried to bring them
to terms by sending them proclsmations
5cbi-uS loI bh nis iIiChulI ihtCAbioHs Uy
means of pictures representing black
fellows and whites clasping each others
hands. walking together, cts. AS this did
not work, Gordon of 5000 soldiers was
formed across the island which moved
south with the intention of corraiing all
the natives in Tasman's peninsula. IL
was a tremendous undertaking, and
when it WAS finished at a cost of $500, ,0C0
- i 1
a boy, who had been caught while asleep;
these were the only natives who had been
seen during the whole operation. Then
Hobart bricklayer, named George
Ausestus Robinson, who had studied the
language and customs of the Tasman-
ians, offered TO go among them, &C
quaint them with the governments dis
position, and bring them in. Accom-
panied by a native man and womau, he
undertook and successfully accom- plished
the task, though ne spent three yearS in
doing it, walked over 1000 miles, ana
suffered from cold, hunger and thirst,
norrowly escaping death more than once.
But in 1885 he brought in every survivor,
the number having been by that time
reduced to 203. They were transferred
to Flinders Island, within sight of Tas
mania, and there cared for by the govern
ment. Bot they rapidly pined away,
from homesickness apparently, for they
would go in body to the shore where
they could see their former home and
there sit and weep. In twelve years but
forty-four remained, and in 1869 the
last man died, King Billy, the. cause ia
his case being liquor. In 1876 the race
came to an end in the person of the wo-
man who had accompanied Robinson on
his mission.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
A Dead Customer.


"Did you ever have decidedly odd
customer" asked a Nsw York Evening
Sun reporter of an p-towu florist.
Yes" said the florist.
"Who was her"
"a dead man. 1t was post-mortem
ORDER
"And what did dead man want of
hOwers?"
"He wanted them for his fUnerai"
'Well, I've heard good deal of live
business men, but this is the first time
ever heard of dead customer"
Il shall explain it TO you. There lived,
three blocks from here, in tenement
house district, a cynical old gentleman
who spent his time with his books anG his
thoughts, and was a stranger to everS-
body. He was q disciple of Schopen-
hauer, and might have been regarded as
harsh critic from another planet who
had been shipwrecked on this little one
horse Island IN space and was sorry for
IT. The only CLEAN of sunshine in his
life was that he hadn't a kinsman, a
friend, or an acquaintance in the world,
"One day, when he was very old, he was
sick unto death. To divert himself dur
ing the tedium of dying he cont:ived a
pOsG-mOrGGm JOKE. he nau fOOO which
he did not wish to leave to anybody.
Though he was a stranger in the world
the idea came to him that he would spend
the money in having the same kind or q
funeral that other people had. He sent
for business agent, unfolded his plans
for the funeral, and then died with a half
cyDicek half-amused smile on his face.
"The agent ordered the coffin, engaged
the carriages, hired pall-bearers, gave
the minister q few points for a short
culogy, and then came to my store and
bCught the flowers.
There wasn't a mourner in the little
church where the last services were held.
There wasn't person in the cuhrch whom
the dead man had ever known. There
wasn't a person in the city who wasn't
stranger to him. But the coffin stood
under the pulpit covered with anchors,
broken columns, pillops, doves, and
broken lutes bearing such notices as
'Good-bY, Old Comrade.' AT Rest Fare
well, Friend Still Remembered etc.
| They were the flowers which the dead man
rad bought, | imsgine there must have
been a sneer under that coffin lid. be-
lieve there were six hired pail bearers.
"They put the odd old gentleman and
his flowers into the hearse and carried
| him to his resting place. The carriages
afforded the tenament-house ne1ghbor-
hood free ride to the cemetery. No
tears were shed at the grave, the pail
bearers got heir pay, and it was a very
pleasant fun neral"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
Important Cases.

CHICAGO, May 3.-Judge Clifford is
hearing arguments in the cases of the
people against the Western Manufac-
turers Mutual insurance company, of
Chicago, for doing business for the Wis
consin Mutual insurance company-s
foreign corporation unlicensed by the
state CT llliEois, for violation of the state
law prohibiting such companies from
doing business directly or by their
agents, in the state.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
In a Ouandary.

Mistah White: aDoctah, my little
chile done catch de hoopiu' cough"
Doctsh Black latter serious though.J;
"You mus take tree hairs frum a muie's
back an put EN- On dat chi'e. Dey will
cure de chile, but it'll xiii lie mule"
"Bu. see heah, doctan, r. a poor man,
I is, an / can't afford to lose dat ere mule.
Won't takiu' de hairs from some odder
place cure de chile witnous KILN de
muief,
@Only one. You kin take 'em from do
mules hind legs"
"But dat nd kill me.D
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
WASHINGTON.

The British Minister at Washington
| gets $4,000 year and his residence.
SENATOR SrooNER and his family will
| spend the summer IN Europe.
MR. BLAINE denied himself to callers
Thursday morning, but the clerk OF the
Hotel NUrmandIe Is authorized TO state
that Mr.. Blaine is much better, but will
not resume his official duties.
The president has respited until May
| II Nelson Colbert the young negro sen
fenced TO be hanged nero on Ftiday for
the murder of Philip Wenzel, an 80 year
old white man.
He most daring equestrienne in Wash
ington is said to be Miss E hel Chase
SpragUe. She has ridden at full speed
around riding school without a bit or
bride.
WAsHINGToN.-The weather crop bulIe-
tin for the week ending Saturday, May 4,
says: Cool weather during the week
retarded the growth and was generally
nnfavorable to crops in the Nor h
west and some damage is reported 20 the
fruit and gardens from frost In that Sec
ton and in the centra. valleys.
IT is now deemed almost certain that
the Union Iron Works of San Francisco
will receive tho contract for the CON
struction of the coast defense vessel. A
few days ago the Navy department de
cided 10 withdraw the bids for the sub
marine torpedo boat, which involved an
outlay of nearly $4,000.
MUNEMITsU MUTsU, Japanse Minister to
the the United States, is Jolly little
diplomatic who has made heroic efforts
to master our language. He has accom-
plished his purpose fairly well, but stands
appalled, at the difficulties presented by
our slang phrases. He has his country
mems love for the imaginative and pic
turesque, and thinks slang is most ad-
mirable institution, although it defies his
tongue. "In the soup" is an expression
which has attracted his attention of late.
He Is fascinated by it and uses it upon
all occasions. He looks forward to in
Producing it into japan.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
ARMY REG ULATI0NS-
Thirty Years Service Required for Retired
Men With Three-four.hs Paw


Men With Three-four:hs Pay.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The major gen
eral commanding the army has published
for gen al information the army reguIa-
tions 1s amended concerning the retire
ment of enlisted men. In brief. they
provide for the combination of service in
the army and marine corps in making
thirty years the period re-
q1ired for their retirement for
payment to retired men of three-fourths
their full pay without deduction for "re-
tanned pay" but with a dedu,tion of
Twelve and one-half cents monthly for
the support of the soldiers home.
Retired men will not be en-
titled to any increase of re-
enlisted pay beyond what has ac-
crued at the date of retirement nor TO
Communication for fuel and quarters
Commotation for subsistence and
clothing viii be three fourths of
allowance 10 men On duty.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

SOME enemy of Senator Spooner
accused him of being very influential
with the president. Result: Life is a
fellows could fill the entire civil list, if
all who asked were placed; but the
senator is plagued by applicants from
influence
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

QUEBEC paper says that the volume
emigration from that province to the
100000, end it wants to know if some
thing can't be done to effect it. Yes,
something can. Come into the fold, all
of Won.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

THERE is No territorial vernment to
speak of as yet in Oklahoma, but the
glad tidings some that several base ball
clubs have been organized there already.
Civilization will assert itself, and the star
emp pre- still pUrsues its Westward course.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

SENATOR Quay is shrewd- He does not
propose to be caught astride of the hind
ermost horse. While Wanamaker is
talking prohibition Quay "don't talk !"
but it is said that he is sho Ying the
brewers how TO best place their money
to beat prohibition in Pennsylvania.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

| Ontario, Sunday morning, and the wreck
ed cars catching fire eighteen to twenty
passengers were burned to death, and
many more seriously injured. Hardly any
of the burned bodies we're identified, and
it is feared that several Chicago people
were among the lost. Many of the pas
sengers were on their way to the centen-
nial celebration in New York.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

REPRESENTATIVE La TOILETTE is in
tending 10 make a tour of the Southern
states for political studv. He will get so
full OF political knowledge that he will
have TO put in lean-to, so as to enlarge
his holding capacity.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
VOL. XIII.

That chap who puts on g full dress suit
and suicided in Chicago the other day
said his life had been failure and he
hoped to make success of dying. 1t
WAS success.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

can be much closer between white officers
and colored soldiers than in the white
regiments without breaking the barriers
which are necessary to srmy discipline.
The men look up to a good officer, rely
on him in trouble, and even seek him for
advice in their small personal affairs. In
barracks no soldier is allowed by his fel
lows to 'cuss out just and respected
superior. As to their bravery, am often
asked, Will they fghts' That is easily
answered. They have fought many, many
times. The old sergesnt sitting near me,
as calm of features as a bronze statue,
once deliberately walked over Cheyenne
rifle pit and killed his man. One little
fellow near him once took charge os
lot of stam pedsd cavalry horses when
Apache bullets were fying loose and no
Oh knew from what point to expect the
next. These little episodes prove the
sometimes doubted self reliance of the
negro"
John Wilkes Booth on the Day OF the Assassin
alton.
nit my here be said with propriety that,
with his health, youth, personal grace,
and 6ramat c inheritance, he could earn,
in the very alluring work of leading er-
tor, from $500 to 1000 per week at that
time. Yet the eccentricIty born within
him made him ambitious, when in
strange mood, of emulating the youth
who fired the Ephesian DOME" or 20 act
the part of Brutus in real life. His ab
duction plot was a matured plan, conceiv
ed in the fall of 1864, brilliant, daring and
full of danger, but 1T failed, and he felt
the m rtitioation as if it were g sort of
disgrace, The assassination was the
Brutus imp pulse, and it came TO him only
on the day OF its perform ahce, and after
he learned of au portuuity, as it may
he seen by what followed his arrival at the
theatre. Letters from other cities were
waiting for him there that day. He receiv
ed and read them in the front of the build
ing. He Was pleasantly taunted by some
OF his Union friends there with the infor.
nation that the President and General
Grant would both be at the theatre that
evening, and enc added: General Lee
Will be with them" Booth quickly
responded: "They won't parade Lee as
the Romans did their captives, l hope"
The remark about Lees coming was
Withdrawn, but the effect of the in forma-
tion as to President Lincoln and General
Grant was apparent. Booth grew abstract
ed and thoug htful, and soon departed, with
the first possible Information he could
have had of the Presidents intention to
visit the theatre that night. At 1c 20 he
President Lincoln.-John L.
Ford, ex-Proprietor of Ford's Theatre,
Washington in North American Review
for April.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
Arrested For EmbeZzIiuI.

Providence, r. l., May 6.-Lincoln
Curti-, chief ealesma2 for Congdon d
Ayiesworth, Wholesale boot and shoe
dealers of this city, ~as arrested this
morning charged with the embezzlement
of Rip 600
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

UsDKR the PennsJ lvsnia law a COM
mission is appointed 20 determine the
number of saloons to be licensed. This
commission reduced the saloon Licenses
in Pittsburg from $50 to 80
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

WHITE LEAD trust is said to be alb
sorbing the various companies and unit
ing them under one management.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

By persons who, attacked by q mild form Of
rheumatism, neglect to seek prompt relief Sub
sequent torture is prevented BY An immediate
resort TO Hostetter's Stomach Bi,ters. Slight
exposure. an occasional drauehs, will beg-t thi.
painful mslady, where there is predisposition
to il in the blood 1t is not drfcult 10 arres, the
trouble Al the outset, bur well nigh inpc ssib-e to
eradicate Il when matured- No evidence in reia-
ton 70 this superb blood depurent is more posi-
tive than that which establishes its efficacy As a
preventive and remedy fer rheumatism Not
only i IL thorough but safe which the vegetable
and mineral poisons. often taken as cIirstives OF
the I'll ease, are not Besides expeilinS the
rheumatic virus from the system il overeogass
fever and sgue, bi'Nusae>s- constipation and
dyspepsia
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

Five hundred thousand feet Of logs
were broken mp and scattered of Alma
by collision of the raft boats that we're
towing them from Beef 6Iouoh to La
Crosse.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

In q trial at Jsnesviile, Chas ". Fox,
and Fred t. Cseter, wool growers, re-
covered S220,50 for the alleged loss of
100 sheep by a dog belonging 70 Dexter
Gray, the defendent in the case. The
suit was for $500.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

THE opinion gains ground that thsre
will be an extra session OF congress called
in October.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10

THK committee of seven senators, &C III
posed of Ingalls,, Sherman, Dawes, ALI
son, Cullom, Hampt Eustis, and Col
quit, which was appointed to attend the
centennial IN behalf of the senate, found
that, in the presence OF the august "four
hundred" United States senator was of
small account. They received virtually
no attention, were left to shift for them
selves, got poor hotel accommodations,
and went home full of indignation at the
management.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-03-28
A Hundred Tons of Money

1t hardly seems possible that the
money paid in one month for ten
cent article, could, if pennies were
used in payment, weigh one hundred
IONS. Yet one of our bright schoo,
boys has figured that this is true Of
Diamond nye-: To judge from the
STOCKS OF our dealers in dye stuffs,
Diamond Dyes own the field of pack.
age dyes, and are a complete success.
Of course they have iMitators.
Nothing is a success until initiated.
But no one wants to risk n counter.
ieit when the genuine can be obtain.
I'd at the same price. Three new col.
ors have lately been added to the list
OF Diamond Dyes: Fast Stocking
Black, Turkey Red for Cotton. and
Brown for Cotton. The manufacture.
ers, Wells, Richardson g. Co.. Bur
lington, VT, will send colored sam
pies Of these new dyes, with hook Of
directions, to any address, free
These additions seem to have made
the line SO complete that any shade
can be matched with some color O.
Diamond Dyes. The beautiful sam
pie book Of shaded colors, lately SEN
to all dealers in dyes, will delight tn,
eye Of any lady. Its easy to dy,
with Diamond Dyes" is SO absolutel,
tue that home dyeing il no longer
difficult and disa9reaable task. al
MANAGES, with their hints as to prop
er times for different work, tell u
that now Is the time for Spring dye
ing. This, together with the though
OF that hundred tons of money, lead
us to ask what school bow can firur
how many thousands at ladies ar
now saying that this Is the time t,
use Diamond Dyes.