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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-07-12
PHEBE'S EXPLOIT


!. !: !: !. !. !.
III was the daughter
NA OF J o hn Artley,
~IS whose run on the
M Western division be-
WI AM gan and ended al
~ Orival Junction. The
OMA Junction C o sisted
" OF around-housc. the
railway station, a
few an I les, a
~ dreary boar ding
" house and choice
collection of future possibilities: but
Phoebe. being motherless. spent much
OF her time on her fathers engine. or
in her unclc's office at the station. and
so got larger view Of life than the
junction itself could give.
At fourteen she had two ambitions.
One was for her father. reaching out
20 the time when he should have a
smart "eight-wheelerr and passenger
run The other dated from a trip To
Cheyenne with her father when he
was member of the grievance com
mittee.
You'll have To put in your time
around the hotel while / 20 TO the
meeting, he had told her: and Phoebe
betooA herself TO the parlor, where a
smartiy-dressed young woman was
playing upon al ancient and some
what ''tin-panny" piano. The music
was OF the kind called popular aud
the performer played as the Irishman
blew the cornct--by main strength and
awSwardness-bu Phoebe went back
n fl,-ix -stt I,.r 81. -
conviction that lie was scarcely worth |
living without piano and the ability I
toplay it.
She said something Of the kind to her
uncle the next day wheE she was
helping him on the coal report, and lie
laughed nj her.
i thought you were beyond such
things" he said. "A girl who can run
locomotive. figure bills Of lading
and telegraph the arm OFF half the
operators on the line to be wanting
such fine lady's play thing as a
piano
"Oh. br.. Uncle Tom. you just ought
to have heard her. She played and
played till ! forgot who was and
where / came from You can't think
how beautiful il was.-
Yes. can. was night operator at
Cheyenne once. and ! actually lived in
the house with that piano for six
months And | hope evcryb body who
kept me awake with it when | was
trying 70 catch up on my sleep will be
forgiven" he added. taking the
Freight Forwarded book from the. 2
safe
Don't you like music. Uncle Tome
she asked, getting the bunch Of alb
stracts to call of to him.
oh. music, yes--but that's different. 7
We used 70 have music back at the old
home in Ohio: your Aunt Phpbe
played the organ in church. and we =
sang in the choir. frs; and last" I
did ma play?'' :
Yes
We'll. mean TO learn. and mean
10 have piano, too. sometime. Iwish y
pa could get run so we could live in =
! town: then might hear music once =
n awhile anyway y
But " hat would become Of me? y
couldn't get along without vou.r -
You'd come. too. As If | didn-.
Snow that you keep this job Just sos =
% be with u.s. ~
That was the fact. Tom Norman =
lad transferred his love for his favor :.
Is sister 70 her child. and he had fol- -
owed John Artley's shifting fortunes
rom one dcsolate division station 10 ~
mother for the sole purpose Of watch ="
M over and caring for Phnbe.
20 YOU believe pa ever will get 4.
GOD run?' asked phcbe. " hen the AZ
- 49, - L..
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-07-12

since isssl The price ~ good ore from
the mines ~ the Lake Superior dis
tricts has fallen more than 10 per cent.
owing chiefly ~ the discovery and utii-
ization Of tins enormous surface deno~-
it, IN the Me>aba range.
There j demand ia this country for
small quantity ~ foreign ore. not
because the manlfacturcrs ~ iron in
The great producing districts of the
rentral west and tie south could. either
with or without -ariF. procure this
raw material from abroad at a cost
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-07-12

nick-Ana ycu will not marry me?
Nay-Naw
That settles H. II you had said.
No nigh, still hope. bu; Nawr-
gcod-hy forever --1rntA.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
n MAGNETIC r
An ~ExplanatiOm Of How Her Tricks MAY
Easily He Duplicated.

m Explanation Of How Her Tricks May
Easily He Duplicated.
While in Chicago I saw the
ment of an electric girl who included
in her repertory a new trick, o. at least
one that / had not yet seen. A stick
about four feet long and as thick as %
broomstick was produced, and | and a
other gentleman were requested to hold
it in a vertical position before us while
grasping it firmly in both hands. The
girl, standing in front of and facing us,
placed the palm of her open hand against
the lower portion Of the stick, resting
it ON the side nearest to us and farthest
from herself. After rubbing her hand
up and down for d few moments in or:
der ito make better electric contact.
as we were informed, and after enjoin-
ing us to hold the stick perfectly VERT
cal, we were told to press down on it &s
hard as we could.
This we did until the veins seemed
to stand out on our f~oreheads; but, eA
| ert ourselves az hard as we could, we.
two strong men, were unable to press
down hard enough to make the stick
slip past the open palm of her hand
Had the girl grasped the stick with her
two hands, | am sure she could not have
withstood my downward pressure alone
I would have borne her, stick and /
to the floor. But there she stood, With
but one open hand bearing against t."
side of the stick, and both us could no
by our united efforts force the stick past
that wonderful hand. Surely thelt
seemed something uncanny about this
But it is very simply explained.
The whole secret consists in insisting
upon the men holding the stick in q
vertical position. When the girls open
hand is first placed against the lower
portion of the stick, she moves it two
or three times up and down, pulliur
gradually more and more against ii. A.
this tends to pull the stick away from
the vertical. she insists that the men
keep it straight. Thus cautioned, they
will exert more and more effort until,
when she feels that the pressure against
her hand is sufficient, she instructs them
to push down with all their might
They do so and imagine that they are
exerting a tremendous vertical thrust,
whereas their vertical effort is actually
very slight-insufficient even to over
come the friction of the stick against
her moist hand. The men are really ex-
erting a tremendous effort, but are de,
ceived as. to its direction. With their
hands tightly grasping the upper end OF
the stick they are really trying to force
the other end of the stick against tht
palm of her hand.-N. ". Perry il
Casters Magazine.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
| 0
N~ap0leon's Mother.

Napoleon's mother was a Roman ma.
tren both in appearance and by the
Ioftiness of her character. Prosperity
had 40 more -dazzled her than bad for
tune had cast her down. Her parsimony
had been TESTED about, but her children
always found her ready to help them
with her private fortune. When the I'm
peror was at st. Helena, his mother sent
him a full account of her fortune and
begged him to dispose of whatever be-
longed to her, an offer which Napoleon
did not accept.
When somebody pointed out to her,
at the time when she thus offered her
property to her son, that she was reduc-
ing herself to indulgence in this way,
''What does it matter?'' she answered.
"When / shall have nothing more, ] will
take my stick, and ! win go about beg.
ging aims for Napoleon's mother. -
Meneval's Memoirs of Napoleon.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

Sioux Falls Press, 10: Cleveland's
name Is to be handed down to history.
The new 4 per cent. bonds, which he has
sold to the Belmont-M Morgan syndicate,
have been dubbed "Grovers." Imagine
how this will keep bis name alive for
the next thirty years during which the
bonds run, with the people paying inter.
est on obligations at a rate which adver
tIses the securities of a country like
Egypt AS a safer investment than the
securities of a country like the United
States. "Grover" may not become d
household word, but 1t will at least be q
bondholders' word.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
The Poverty Of the BonaparsE..

Some time before the death of his IA
Their General Marbeuf had married, and
the pecuniary supplies TO his boy friend
seem after that event to have stopped.
Mime. de Bonaparte was left with 9 q
infant children, the youngest, Jerome,
but 8 months old. Their g~reatuncle,
Lucien, the archdeacon, was kind, and
Joseph, abandoning all his ambitions,
returned to be, IL possible, the support
Of the family. Napoleon's poverty VA
therefore no longer relative or imagina'
~, but real and hard. Drawing more
closely than ever within himself, he be
came a still more ardent reader and stu
dent, devoting himself with an indus
try akin to passion TO the works Of Rons
seau, the poison Of whose political doc
trines instilled itself with fiery and
grateful stings into the thin. cold bloot
of the unhappy cadet. Sloane
in Century.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

wealth and good habits. Anna Gould
was educated in Miss Greenough's Fe-
male seminary. Boston, and was there at
the time Of her fathers death in 1898.
She was 80 quiet and modest, however,
thas few of her costudents were aware
that she was Jay aould's daughter and
the heiress to about $l5, 600, 900. .a.s
InNNoyember, 1898, while she was still
i'm mourning, the attentions Of Harry
w. Woodruff, . handsome young actor,
seemed welcome, and the actors suit
was looked upon with favor, it is said,
by Mrs. George j. Gould, who had IA
vorably known Woodruff when she was
an actress in Augustin Days stock com
pany. It was said that George Gould
had consented to the engagement of the
young couple, provided Woodruff aban-
doned the stage and studied law at
Yale. Woodruff went to Yale and is
still porting ove his Blackstone, Kent
and Story, but he was soon dethroned
as a popular claimant for Miss Gould:
hand.
On Jan. 80. 1894, her engagement &c
William Ell. Hartman was announced.
MIR. Hartman is a gentleman of posi-
ton and fortune, a prosperous banker
and q member Of many of the most-ex
elusive clubs i'm New York. Less thar
five months later it was announced il
Paris, where Miss Anna was ~sojourn
ing, that the Harriman-G Gould engage
ment had been declared off by mutua
consent. At that time several prince
and counts were aspirants for her hand
bat Count Castellane, who had beel
the young woman devoted admirer ant
George Gould's personal friend for
number of months, seems to have wol
the coveted prize.
Miss Gould is the younger daughte
of Jay Gould and il about 81 years Q
age. Her prospective husband, upol
whom, it is said, she will settle o., 600.
900 at the time OF their marriage, il bu
six years her senior. The count Ia close
~ related TO half the great houses {
Europe, and his estates are the Chateau
de Rochecotte and Langeais ON th
banks of the Loire. He 10 handsome
J athletic, accomplished and amiabls "a
Ii one of the best dressed men i'm Ne
York, where he has been visiting Il
some time.
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w GOAACSS
While there she became o friend of Mrs.
Cleveland, who was then plain Frances
Folsom, and after her college days went
abroad to study music. Her voice is a
soprano, and IL has been highly cult
waited under the best European teachers.
Not long ago Miss Willard was invited
to become Mrs. Cleveland's guest at the
White House, and she has since given a
number of semipublic society matinees
at the houses Of various Washington not
ables.
= She is now giving q number of con-
certs in various cities Of the United
States. The concerts are given in pub
lie halls, but they are designed to be as
private a possible and are for the amuse-
ment of society people and musicians.
Miss Willard does not desire o public
career. She dislikes display and bill
board advertising, and at the close of
her semipublic tour of the west in the
summer she will retire from the stage
and become the wife of q New York man.
Miss Willard's mother and sister are
in Berlin, which they now consider the
family home. One of the young singers
aunts is Miss Frances e. Willard, the
world famous lecturer ON temperance,
and her brother, it is said, is the very
clever writer whose articles ON tramp
life signed ''Josiah Flynt'' have been
published in one of the leading maya
zines. Miss Willard In a very pretty
| young woman, with q low brow crowned
by q wealth of bronze colored hair.
Her eyes are brown, and her cheeks glow
with the rosy tint of health.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

House bill No. 10. which became a
law on Thursday, provides that county
commissioners may furnish seed grain
10 farmers who are otherwise unable to
secure the came. The amount TO be
furnished is restricted to fifty bushels OF
wheat, fifty bushels Of oats, four bushels
Of ccrn and a. proportionate amount Of
fax, or the farmer may take wheat for
the whole in a corresponding ratio OF
value. In case the commissioners fail 70
provide the seed, power TO do SO is grant
ed the township beard OF supervisors
provision being made for a fund for thu
purpose. A chattel mortgage on tn.
crop, at 8 per cent, is to be given thu
county and it 10 made a felony to secur'
grain by false representation, or to dis
pose Of the same TO another or to neg
lect to seed, harvest and thresh tn,
crops in a workmanlike manner.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
THE LEGISLATIVE GRIND.

The peoples representatives at"P1erre
continue to do something. IL may o
amour to much though 1t varies all the
way from grave to frivolous. The su-
preme court has informed the honorable
gentlemen that the constitution requires
that the census should be taken this
ear and a new apportionment based
thereon, aud also adds in a dry way the
significant hint that there is no way to
compel the legislature to euforce the
provisions of the constitution. liz 1t did
not the old a~pportioment would stand
and hold good. This will be gratifying
to the populist members who wish TO
avoid a census and new apportionment
on the score of economy, they say, but
really to pe%rpetuate the present appor-
+ionmen and their chances OF a eelec
ton.
The bill locating a blind asylum at
Gary has passed both houses.
The bill abollshing the grand jury
system IN this state has passed ootn
houses and been signed by the governor.
Hence passes from our civilization that
relic of a barbaric age which in it's lncep-
ton meant much for personal liberty
but Of late has become an unnecessary
court a~ppendage.
The railroad bill Is nearing the hours
of it's final agony. It is being held In
committee TO ward of the Introduction
Of smaller measures on some vital points,
until the 10Th inst. after which nc other
new bills can be introduced. Then it
will be brought" out, smothered or
killed outright and the republican party
will have to saddle the responsibility OF
~inaction on this vital question In the
next campaign before the people.
The populists scored a victory over
their opponents-the lawyers OF the
house-in securing the passage OF the
bill! providing for courts Of conciliation'
Bitter personalities were INDUCED in
between the lawyers and populist lead
ers of the house in the discussion OF this
bill and as is usually the case in such
debates, those who lose their temper
and dignity lose their cause. The bill
passed by a big majority. 1t provides
for courts of Cancellation and provides
that all cases which are presented to
Justice court must be first heard by
commissioner of Cancellation who shal
hear the plain tales of the two parties
neither of whom is to be assisted by
lawyer, and whose duty it shall be t.
determine the right and justice of TIT
case and to persuade the two parties t.
agree if possible. 10 cage he fails the!
can 60 to court in the present way.
Much criticism is expressed at the &C
ton OF the senate in raising committee
to visit the public institutions. TIL
house will not concur in sending repre-
~sentatlves and thought three instead O
nine senators were enough on a commit
tee.
Charley Mccoy, who admits that h
is attorney for defaulting state treasure
Taylor, also admits that he is ready I
treat with the state for a compromise
Such a man should be treated as parte
ceps criminls, and either banished fror
the state or deprived OF his citizenship
There should be no recognized parties
dishpnor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

row. Senator Pettigrew 10 certain that
Tiusley will never be confirmed, and he
il equally certain that Tinsley will 60
out of the office early in March.
Senator Pettigrew made a few re-
marks in the senate today and will talk
again tomorrow. To-day he confined
himself to O brief speech IN opposition to
the pending proposition TO transfer the
public land SURVEYS from the general
land office to the geological survey. To
morrow he will speak IN opposition to
the proposition to appropriate S5OO'OOO
in aid of the Hawaiian cable. This
paragraph OF the consular and diplomat.
ic appropriation bill is Gthe only n to
which the conference committee has de-
cided to disagree. The conference re-
port will be submitted tomorrow and
Senator Pettigrew will try to induce the
senate to recede from its amendment.
To the Journal correspondent the South
Dakota senator said today:
Eyes, / have heard OF the criticism my
Hawaiian vote has brought from South
Dakota. l suppose that there are u
number of my constituents who disagree
with my views. I am guided, however,
by my sense OF right. / never expect to
satisfy all my constituents by my course
In the senate. That job would be too
mnch for me-. But 4 am ~unalterably Cd
posed 70 the annexation OF the Hawaiian
islands, and if I live for the next six
years / shall continue to express my op'
position by my vote in the senate"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
ANNA GOULD'S COUNT.

He Is Young and Handsome and Has the
Most Approved Blue Blood.
IL is q dull week when the enterprising
press does not announce the engagement
of one O another Of the unmarried
Gould children, but it seems well set
tied that the latest announcement is cor
rect and that Miss Anna Gould is oon
to wed Count Jean de Castellane. a
young Frenchman of birth, position,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

Aberdeen dispatch, Is: Reports have
been received here to-day of a servere
storm in the hills east OF here. Mrs.
Nehring and four children, living near
Webster, attempted last night to go to a
neighbours during the storm, but became
bewildered. When found the mother
and two children were dead and the
other two badly frozen.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

The Washington correspondent OF the
Sioux City Journal writing under date
Of the 18th inst. says: The senate COM
mittee on postoffices. and postroads,
which Informally agreed to an adverse
report on. the nomination OF A. ID. Tins
Icy as postmaster ut Sioux Falls some
days ago, will take formal action tomor-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
a asiIe = washingson,s Ancestors.

George Henry Rattenbury of Detroit
believes that he has q unique relic Of
one OF the ancestors OF George Washing.
ton In o parchment deed, written in
Norman French. dated june Q. 1890.
signed by Richard Washington and
sealed by him with the Washington seal
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20
n OF SUBSCRIPTION
To ADVERTISERS.

THE DAILY LEADER makes . special feature OF
furntshIng information concerning the advantages
and RESOURCES of the city Of Madison and OF tht
@tate at large emitting IL TO the patronage OF al
n. sTAHL, Proprietor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

A passenger ON an up town electric
q had reached her street and wanted
TO get out. The car was full of people
standing in the aisle, and a she thread
ed her way they moved closer together
to let her pass. She had nearly reached
the door when she. stumbled and fell.
Another passenger who got out at the
same street had just left her seat, and
into this the woman who stumbled fell
heavily on her face. She at n rose
and looked for the obstruction and saw
that it was a large sample case.
"a nice idea, :" she said angrily, ste
put q great thing like that in the mid.
die Of the Car for people to fall over.
I've sprained my wrist striking ON this
car when / fell over it."
perhaps You think / should stand NJ
and hold it, sneered q man who wa
comfortably seated, while a dozen wo
men stood.
"No, sir; / think you should ride il
. cattle car, !" said the angry woman a
she escaped with her life and looke'
daggers after the ~retreating car.-De
troit Free Press
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

crime uIAru, U
young woman
who has been
making quite an
/ m ression in
musical and So
cial circles in
Washington OF
lateA Miss Will
lard was born in
Denver and was
educated at
WAIla college,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

How MIRA. Cleveland Remembers shs
Friends Of Her Youth.
That Mrs. Cleveland has mot forgot.
ten her old girl friends since she became
the first lady Of the land is shown by
her active efforts In behalf OF Miss Kath-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

II am not suah whethah she loves me
or not, " said Willie Wibbles.
Have you had any encouragement::''
"Yes, indeed / am infohmed that
she wefers TO me as 1t, just as she does
to her pet dog.'s-Wachingt1n Star.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worid's Pair Highest Award.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-20

Homesesker, do you want a
cheap home in the best portion
of South Dakota
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-15
DAY.
SENATE.
convened at 2 p. m.

Senate convened at 2 p. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
House bill No. 119, probate code, was
read a first and second time and referred
to the committee on judiciary.
House bill No. 1876, penal code; was given
its first and second reading.
ABE LINCOLN.
SENATOR WHITE said he desired to
call the attention of the senate to an article
which appeared in Saturdays Forum re.
garding Abraham Lincoln, purporting to
have been written by a professor at Valley
City. The senator did not believe, on in
vestigation, that the charge against the
professor would be sustained. But if it
were sustained, the sooner the professor is
fired the better. The senator desired 10
support the concurrent resolution from the
house, calling for an investigating COM
mittee.
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THIRTY-FoURTH DAY.
SENATE.

Senate convened at 2 p. m Feb. II.
Prayer by the chaplain.
E BILL.
EX-SENATOR CLARK: Amending chap.
81 laws Of 1898, relating to bonds for town
ship and school district officers.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
S. B. ia, Justice Code.
5. BIZ (Hanscom's): Amending section
26, chapter Sc, laws of 1881. Provides that
teachers must have resided in the state at
least n year.
S. B. 81 (Enger's): Authorizing counties
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DAY.
u" EN- II n.
Senate convened at p. m.

Senate convened at p. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
SENATOR BENEDICT was appointed
a member OF joint committee to investigate
the alleged unpatriotic expressions of a
Valley City professor.
SENATOR LITTLE offered a concur
rent resolution to memorable congress to
restore the tariff to wool.
BILLS INTRODUCED. ~.
By SENATOR LITTLE: Regulating
voting at primary elections.
By SENATOR BURKE: Fixing the time
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to raise and expend a fund for the purchase
of poison for the destruction of gOphers.
SENATOR LAMB opposed the measure.
He claimed that the law now on the stntute
books was sufficient.
The bill passed. ."..-
The rest of the day was spent in reading
the probate code on first reading.