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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
A Runaway at Shullsbnrg.

Southwestern Local.
James Hatch is the owner of a
horse. The animal has been in the
family nearly a quarter of century
and is old enough to have long ago
given up the vanities of this world
and found rest in another. Mr.. Hatch
hitched up the ancient steed on Tues
day and went into the country mile
or two for plow. On the way back
the old horse developed considerable
latent energy, and when near Isaac
Gline's place, actually ran away and
threw Mr.. Hatch and the pillow onto
the road side and covered them up
with the wagon box. Mr.. Hatch was
picked up by young Glines and helped
to the residence of Mr.. Powers, where
Kilcoyne and Swinbank shortly after
found him and brought him home.
His left leg is badly bruised which ap-
pears TO be the only injury he sustain
ed He is over 70 years old.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26

The gentleman, indeed, has taken to
agriculture in the south. Before the war
the whole southern social system rested
on the planter, There has been an in
sidious and noiSeless industrial revolu-
ton since, but the planter remains the
main support Of the taxes. We have no
class among northern farmers that quite
answers to his He resembles more the
English country gentleman of past
generation when country gentlemen did
not go to town.
All the same, it would not do to
count the planter out of the scheme. He
is the most American farmer of them
all, barely excepting the New England
er, who is disappearing every year. He
furnishes a conservative, native born
influence of immense account. A class
that still believes i'll God and women
and honor, that may be led astray by
prejudiccs, but can neither
be bought nor cowcd, is class to be
valued, since it is as true today as in
Goldsmith S time that
III fares the land, to fastening ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Octave Thanct i'll Scribner's.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26

1t is an almost fatal obstacle in tho
building up of practice for physician
to wear youthful face. Any doctor
will corroborate that. / remember an
amusing incident i'll my own experience
after | had graduated from hospital
service and put up my single and start
ed practice 1t was terribly slow work
getting patients. Ihad u friend who was
q medical student in my Office. He was
very dark complexioned, and though only
20 years old had big black beard. A
woman called at the office one day and
asked to see the doctor. My student an
swered the summons and said that he
would call me. Walked into the recep-
ton ROOM The patient, who was
stranger to both of us, looked at me i'm
patiently had very adolesccnt mus
tachc at that time.
II want to see the DOCTOR" she eX-
claimed rather sharply. Il don't want
to see medical student. wish to see
the gentleman with the beard" To save
myself the loss Of that patient | had to
apologize and call my student back, l
was present, heard all that was said,
and was the author of the prescription
given. The woman didn't know that,
however, and went away perfectly sat
isfed. 1t was simply an amusing illus
tration of the prejudice, unjust enough,
to boyish looking doctors, and incidents
of that kind occur every day.-New
York SIM
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
Impccunious congressman.

although congressman gets about
$13. 80 u day III the way of salary" said
an old timo house attachc, there arc II
great many men i'll the lower branch of
congress who arc always short of money.
Quito number spend their income rock
lessly, but great many have legitimate
domestic expenses that run SO close to
the amount of their salary that they have
hard picking at times to get along.
"A considerable number of members
discount their salaries ut tho banks,
They are charged something like s i per
cont, and if the total of this account
We're made public it would make n re-
markahlc showing. 1t is by no means
the now or younger members who are
oftcncst short before salary day comes
around Many of tho Older members,
who have sat in the house for years, are
i'll this prodicment quito frequently.
Many of them are men of irreproachable
habits, but with large and expensive
families to support and with heavy pc
litical obligations ut homo forming q
constant drain on their cNchequer which
they cannot get rid of. '-Washington
Post
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
No Small P0x in Platteyille.

The Witness.
A rumor was circulated far and
wide the first part of the week to the
effect that there was case of small
pox in our city. All the ground there
was for the rumor will be found in the
communication by DR.. Herman Gasser.
Mr.. Chas. Newton, of Dubuque, son of
+. F. Newton, of this city, had a bad
eruption, and the health officer placed
him in quarantine until it had develop
ed whether he had small pox or not.
1t has turned out that it was nothing
like small pox, and his is again at
liberty to 60 about as he pleases.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
ONLY ONCE LUCKY.
A Millionaire Tells How He Lost 1877 When
n Boy and Found 1t Again.

mhnonairc Tells HOW He Lost 1871 When
Boy and Found 1t Again.
"What is the luckiest thing that ever
happened to your somebody asked of
the millionaire.
''Do you mean sheer, unauthorized
luck, something that just happens with
ont any seeking on your part?" replied
the millionaire, throwing away a half
smoked perfecto and taking another out
of his case
"Well, yes, let it go at that
II am generally accounted very
lucky man by the thousand and one peo-
pie who know more about me than I do
myself. But on my honor, what call
genuine piece Of good luck happened
to me only once in my life. 1t didn't
amount to much, though it meant much
to me at the time. 1t was when / was
filling my first job-that Of an errand
boy at So q week-and tell you have
never since felt so rich as when / carried
home my first 50.
II had been given check to cash and
bill to pay. After paying the bill /
had just S37 of my employers money
left. had just crossed Broadway when,
happening to look back, l saw two men
fighting in the street was enough Of
q boy then to take keen interest in any
thing like q scrap. retraced my steps
to see what it was all about To my
amazcment and surprise | discovered
that the two men were fighting about
the $37 and the receipted BILL which in
some mysterious fashion had dropped
out Of my pocket. Apolicoman happen
ing along at that moment, was able to
prove that / had better right to the
property in dispute than either Of the
two combatants and recovered it forth
with. They had each grabbed for it at
the Same time, and each was bound to
get all or none-luckily for me. l have
often spcculated upon what might hayo
happened if they hadn't quarreled.
should never have recovered tho money,
and in consequence should certainly
have lost my situation. That might have
changed tho whole current of my career,
and instead of being a rich man | might
today have been u poor devil, or might
have been twice as rich as / am. Who
knows? Anyway regard it as the only
piece Of downright, simon pure unmis
taxable piece OF good luck that ever be-
fell me- But any Tom, Dick or Harry
that you chance to meet will be able to
tell you lots of luclicr things that have
happened to mc-somo of them things
that had worked at for years. New
York Herald
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
Wasting Our Wealth.

Providence stocked the earth, the Wa
tiers and the air with a store of all that
was necessary for the use or for tho
benefit of man. Had we been content to
live upon what may be called the inter
est of this store there was amply suffi.
cient to last for all time. But we are
the spendthrifts of our race; we are ex-
hausting our capital. discriminating ev-
cry wild animal, ladlinG out with our
machinery every mineral and ralling the
very ocean for its wealth. What is to
become of Us when we have exhausted
our sensationalism. exhausted our cap
ital and exhausted even or vitality?
They call this fiji lie steele. l call it fin
du monde. Truth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
Led into an Error.

Monroe Gazette.
The newspapers have been led into
an error in regard to the mailing of
letters on the train. An item went
the rounds of the press recently to the
effect that no mail would be received
on trains, that had not gone through
the postonice. No such order has
been issued by the department. An
order of this kind was issued to apply
to local fourth class office in Michi-
gan where the postmaster was being
boycotted by the people who got their
mail at the office. Hence the error
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
HAIR RAISING FRlGHTS.
Is the standing on End" Sensation a Real
or an Imaginary One?

VI AU ohS'
As general rule unscientifc opinions
on scientific subject are of but little
value to the student and the investiga-
tor. Yet to be permitted to ask such
questions appears to relieve one to GER
tain extent, even though the answer be
far from satisfactory.
There is variety of opinions among
the authorities concerning the subject of
the hair standing ON end'' in time of
extreme fright, some of which are tena-
BILE and altogether probable, others ridic-
ulous in the extreme. The notion, if no
ton it be, that the hair occasionally
raises and lifts the hat is of extreme an
tiquity. In the oldest book in the Bible
Job iv, 14-15) I find the following:
Fear came upon me and trembling,
which made all my bones to shake. Then
spirit passed before my face. The hair
of my flesh stood up.
Do you remember what Virgil says
about his hero in the celebrated vox fau-
cibus hoeset passage? l read from Con-
ington's translation:
While thus in agony pressed
From house to house the endless quest,
The pale, sad spectcr of my wife
Confronts me larger than in life.
stood appalled,, my hair erect
And fear my tongue tied utterances
checked.
Macbeth relates his experience as fol-
lows:
Why do yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair?
And again in Hamlet we read:
/ could tale unfold whose lightest words
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their
spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And cr"h particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupne.
Similar instances of chair raising"
being mentioned in literature could be
multiplied, but the above are sufficient,
even without scientific confederation, to
prove that the phenomenon is not Il freak
of the imagination.
One of the authorities before me gives
this opinion: ''Plainly stated the hair
raising notion is without substantial
basis. In short, the sensation is only an
imaginary one. "
Hildreth says, "In such cases the hair
actually stands erect, a result of sud-
den contraction of the folliclcs.
Wilson's Normal Condition of the
Hair and Skin" says, "Tho phenomena
of hair standing erect III cases Of extreme
terror cannot satisfactorily be explain
ed st. Louis Republic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26

Darwin says in '"Tho Formation of
Vegetable Mold" IF II man had to plug
up u small cylindrical hole with such
objects as leaves, potioles or twigs he
would drag or push them i'll by their
pointed ends, but if these objects were
very thin relatively to tho size of the
hole he would probably insert some by
their thicker or broader end. Tho guide
in his case would be intelligence. He
then goes on to show by reports of actual
experiments that this is tho method pEr-
sued by earthworms. Not only do they
adapt tho leaves of tho trees of their own
country to their needs, but the leaves of
foreign trees are dealt with i'll similar
way Tho following words of Mr. Oar
win are remarkable: IF worms arc ablo
to Judge either before drawing or after
having drawn an object close to the
mouths Of their burrows, how best to
drag it in, they must acquire some no
ton of its general shape This they prob
ably acquire by touching it i'll many
places with the anterior extremity Of
their bodies, which serves as u tactile
organ.
lit may be we'll to remember how per-
fcct the sense of touch becomes in man
when born blind and deaf, as arc worms.
If worms have the power of acquiring
some notion, however rude, of the shape
of an object and of their burrows, as
seems to be the case they deserve to be
called Intelligent, for they then act in
nearly the Same manner as would man
under similar circumstances.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
Your Learning.

Wear your learning like your watch
in a private pocket, and do not pull it
out and strike it merely to show that
you have one. If you are asked what
o'clock til is, tell it. but do not proclaim
it hourly and unasked like watchman.
Chesterfield.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
New Regulation Uniform.

Darlington Journal.
Capt Conley informs us that Com
pany D has received new regulation
uniforms, tailor made and neatly fitted
to each man finest material ever
supplied to the military.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26

As the seasoned tramp and tho green
ono passed along the road they observed
u handsome hospitablo looking home
resting peacefully in the quiet shade.
Cit on to it, Gully" exclaimed the
green one his Dyes sparkling i'll antici.
patton. That's the kind of place
whore we git II soft snap, "
"Do we? You think we do, do vou"
replied the seasoned ono scurnfully.
"Wcll, You 20 III and try it, Eve boom
Go on III, but you'd better take by
draulie jack along to pry the hull pups
jaws open with unless you want to tote
him around with you till he gets rip,
and falls of '-Dctroit Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26
our Higher Education.

Uncle George - Are you learning
much ut school?
Little Nephew-Yos, indecdy Tn
learning to sit still, IN not talk m not
make any noise, an get up III sit down,
an march, an lots of things, Good
News.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

SHARON SPRINGS, Kas., May 9
One Of the most determined mobs that
ever congregated in this portion of the
state lynched William Mckinley and
his son Lewis, for the murder of Charles
Carley, committed one week ago. About
a week ago, Charles Carley, a son-in-law
of William Mckinley, was murdered.
An investigation revealed the fact that
Fred. a seventeen-year-old son of Nc
Kinley, senior, had committed the crime
The boy, when arrested. made a confess
sion, stating that he had been induced
to kill his brother-in-law by his father
and his older brother Lewis.
The motives for the murder seemed
principally revenge and hatred. The
murdered man had only a few weeks
before married McKinley's daughter. It
had been stipulated before the marriage
that the groom was to pay the brides
father $500 for the privilege of marry
ing her. The groom refused to pay this
money after he was safely married, and
thus incurred the enmity Of his wife's
father and brothers. The boy surprised
Carley while asleep, cutting him horri-
bly, with a garden hoe. He was found
dead and horribly mutilated.
On the Monday the three were ar
raigned in court where Fred pleaded
guilty, as charged, but his father and
Lewis pleaded not guilty, waived trial
and were placed in the county Jail. Late
Monday night a mob Of several hundred
took the father and son to a bridge
about a mile west Of town and lynched
them. They both begged piteOusly for
mercy. Fred would probably have been
hanged with the others, but instead of
taking him to the Jail he was kept under
guard in the hotel. The people of the
county are aroused at the disposition
juries have shown to turn criminals
loose and say they intend that justice
shall be done in some manner if not by
the proper course of law.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
HUNTERS STARVED TO DEATH.
Bodies of Two Of the Men Found in a
Canyon.

SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-Francis
Murphy. an American engineer and min
ing man, returned to this city from
Mazatlan Mexico, states that he was
member Of a searching party that left
Durango about five weeks ago to find the
whereabouts of II. l.. Denton, c. p Hall,
Frank Turnstall, Americans. and two
Mexican guides, who started from Salto.
state of Durango, on prospecting and
hunting expedition into the Sierra Madre
mountains.
The bleak and almost inaccessible parts
of the Sierra Madre range were explored.
In a ravine, nearly forty miles from
Salto, part of a camping outfit belonging
TO the missing men was discovered. A
blind trail was followed for ten miles
over the most rugged and inhOspitable
of the mountain region. At one point
a pole had been driven into the ground
to which had been fastened a torn shirt
and piece of paper on which was printed
with a pencil the words, "Out of pro-
visions no water; have struck out for
the foot of this canyon" Five miles in
a westerly direction from this signal the
bodies of Denton and Hall were found
lying on their backs. Several camp
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
GRESHAM AND SAMOA.
Views of the Secretary on the Tripar-
title Alliance.

WASHINGTON. May 9.-The presi-
dent today submitted TO the senate the
correspondence relative 10 Samoa, called
for by Senator Quay's resolution Of the
9th ult. The correspondence is very vol
luminous, covering about 10000 pages. In
submitting it to the president Secretary
Gresham has taken the opportunity to-
set out at length his conclusions as to-
the workings Of the tripartite agreement
This letter Of the secretary's is certain
to give rise 10 much discussion and con-
troversy.
THE occasion" says the secretary. to
make good the obligation Of the United
States under the treaty Of 1873 to en-
ploy its good offices in behalf Of the
Samoan government arose in 1855. when
Or. Steubel, the German consul-general.
took possession Of all the land within
the municipality Of Apia, so far as the
Samoan governments sovereign rights in
it We're concerned. to hold it as security
till an understanding with that govern
ment should be arrived at for the protec-
ton Of German interests. As a counter
demonstration the American consul,
Greenbaum, raised the American flag
and proclaimed a protectorate. Suisse
quently our ministers at London and
Berlin We're instructed TO say that the
claim Of an American protectorate over
Samoa by the United States consul at
Apia was wholly unauthorized and dis
approved, no protectorate by any foreign
power being desired: and, TO suggest that
the British and German ministers at
Washington be instructed to confer with
the secretary Of state with a view to the
establishment Of order"
The secretary details at some length
the events connected with the tripartite
protectorate in Samoa. the establishment
Of a new form Of government, the cleo
ton Of AIalietoa as king, the reluctance Of
the natives 10 accept the new regime, the
resort to coercive measures, the breaking
out Of war in July, 1898, the Intervention
Of the treaty powers, and the deportation
Of Mattafa and eleven other chiefs. Then
followed the appointment Of Henry g.
Ide as chief Justice and the more recent
troubles in Samoa The secretary con-
cludes as follows:
'Soberly surveying the history Of our
relations with Samoa, we well may in
quire what we have gained by our de-
paTture from our established policy be-
yOnd the expenses. the responsibilities
and the entanglements that have so far
been its only fruits. One Of the greatest
difficulties in dealing with matters that
lie at a distance is the fact that the i'm
agination is no longer restrained by the
contemplation of objects in their real
proportions. Our experience in the case
of Samoa serves to show that for our
usual exemption from the consequences
of their infirmity we are indebted 10 the
wise policy that had previously preserved
US from such engagements as those en-
bodied in the general act Of Berlin,
which. besides involving us in an en-
tangling alliance. has utterly failed TO
correct, if, indeed, il has not aggravated
the very evils it was designed TO pre-
vent"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
LIEUT.. NANCY THRASHED.
Another Sensation Growing Out of
the killing of Capt. Hedberg.

CHICAGO, May S.-Lieut. James Ma
ney, recently acquitted of the charge of
numbering Capt. Hedberg, has furnished
Ft. Sheridan with another sensation.
The story current tonight is, since the
shooting Of Hedberg, that there has been
much i'll feeling between Nancy and
Maj. Baldwin Of the Seventh cavalry.
Nancy at last called at Mai. BaldWin'S
quarters for an explanation.
Il have called to see you, major" he
said, gin regard to certain remarks /
have heard you have made about me in
relation to the Hedberg affair"
'Yes?" said the major, interroga-
lively.
Eyes. sir" continued the lieutenant.
"I understand you have expressed the
opinion that the killing of Hedberg was
a cold blooded murder, and to have ad-
vised my ostracism by the officers of
the post. Is that true2"
Every word Of it," was Maj. Bald
wins prompt reply, land now that you
are here I'll tell you to your face that 1
think you were in big luck when you
were acquitted"
Some versions are that the Iieuten-
ants right hand sought his hip pocket
in search of his gun while others deny
that the lieutenant was armed. In any
event Baldwin landed vigorously with
his right, and followed up the blow with
an enthusiasm that landed Nancy in a
heap. The lieutenant was game, how
ever, and jumping to his feet, distrib-
uted upper cuts and body blows with
science and precision. But Mai. Bald
win was pugiIistically the better man,
and after a short, sharp struggle,
clinched with his adversary. choked him
into submission and pitched him out
doors Lieut.. Nancy failed to material
ize at inspection today and the story
leaked out despite the efforts of the Of
ficers to maintain secresy. He was
found i'm close communion with raw
beefsteak and bandages. but refused to
talk about the affair. A possible court
martial is limited at, but it is not thought
that the lieutenant will prefer charges.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
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