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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14

For lung and chest diseases, Piso's
Cure is the best medicine we have used.
Mrs. J. L. Northcott, Windsor, Ont,
Canada
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14

plate iron by Herr Dormann of Bremen.
We keep furniture of every kind. The
largest stock and smallest prices Of any
house in Milwaukee. We are making it
easy to buy furniture these hard times.
Do not fall to come and see us when in
the city. Correspondence solicited.
Clement, Williams q Co., 426-42S-430.
Broadway, Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is constitutional cure Price 70 cents.

Owing TO the enorn Gus crop, peaches
in Michigan has been s. cheap that in
some cases the growers found themselves
in debt to the commission merchant after
the latter had sold a consignment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14

Henri Meilhac has sold the billiard
table on which he used to play with
Dumas fills and Miessonier. He is grow
ing old and needs the room for books.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14

Let us send you samples of Dress
Goods and Silks for comparison. Hard
to find better values than we show this
season. Mail order customers receive
the best of attention.
ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS Co.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14
Carpets Draperies, Millinery

Pictures have been obtained by the
Rontgen rays through twenty-five cent?
meters, eight and one-half inches, Of
plate iron by Herr Dormann of Bremen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14

Want to succeed in life? Then get
the very best business education at
KNACKSTEDT'S COLLEGE, 42S
Grand Ave, Milwaukee, Wis. Circu--
lars free.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-14

The number of inhabited houses in
London is estimated at about $4,000.
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I the Government supplies them with may
be interesting. 1t is truly a circulating
library in the widest sense possible. 1t
consists of perhaps forty books, every one
of which is redolent of the salt brine Of tn e
ocean, and every one of which has been
read and reread at some lighthouse station
on the Pacific Coast. The library is shifted
once every quarter. The books which
have done duty three months are all gath
cred up when the lighthouse tender comes
and are packed up to be taken away. In
the place of these another library of about
equal size, which has done duty at some
other station, is put ashore. These are
not alone books OF travel; they are trav-
eIers themselves, travelled books which
have been read by other children.
There are no fads to be cultivatsd-no
collections of buttons or election cards.
In fact, the periodical excitements which
enlist the attention of the children ofcom-
munities on the mainland are Known only
by name and mention to these dawning
little American citizens, for there is no
polling-piace for voters on the island, and
no way for the four men who make their
homes off there to vote. There are no
bicycle races, for the ground is rough and
rocky for the most part. The exterior
view of the island is as forbidding almost
as is Point Reeves. There are rabbits to
chase over the rocks and some chickens to
enlist care and attention, and who knows
how the imaginations of these children
grow2
For instance, when the school children
of San Francisco. who, odd as it may
seem. are under the care of the same
Board of School Directors, are looking for
ward to the Christmas holidays and Santa
Claus, as pictured and imagined in all the
stores with live reindeer and Christmas
trees and glittering tapers, ETC., there is a
time when the little islanders in this
strangest school district on earth may
have strange fancies. There are no Christ
mas trees on the island, of course, If they
believe in the beau tiful Santa Claus myth
then old Kriss Kingle must pe remodeled
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-20
HIS LUCKY FIND
The Man Who Discovered the Bald
Eagle Mine in Alaska

"'Well, won't look at any of this. and
when you get your result you will know
that it is fair and uninduenced in any
way
"Then he turned MS head the other.
way while he chipped off little piece from
each of the ten specimens.
'Well, from those he made his assay
and what do you suppose he got? Why
1t was enough to drive US wild, and he was
filed with excitement as to where the
rock came from and the extent Of it.
'The assay made in this manner showed
$500 in gold to the ton, and $40 in silver
You can depend on it we were not long in
getting back there and surveying off the
claim. We had left it after driving but a
single stake. Now We were going to put
down all four. describe its dimensions by
more elaborate notice. to be duly
printed, and also lay off such other claims
as we could on the ledge.
1--WE lost not minute of time. 1t was
plain we had good thing. When we got
back We did all this in the most expe-
ditious manner and then commenced
sinking on the ledge. The property showed
up well. After a time, however, we got out
OF money, and as we were long way from
any place where we could get such ore
smelted as We had we bonded the mine to
}. b. Haggin 81 Co. of this City for $50 600.
Their expert, Mr.. Keller, ran a tunnel
that cost about $4,000. but he missed the
ledge by little, and Just then the Barring
failure occurred and orders came to close
down the work. They wouldn't take it.
''Then Trowbridge came along. He
wanted US to set a price on the mine. By
this time didn't want to sell at all. I
had become convinced that we had big
thing and that by hook or crook we could
hold on to it. l pointed out that we could
borrow few hundred dollars on it and
get little prospector's stamp mill of a
couple of stamps. But my partners were
little weak. They were afraid, and
thought we had better do the safe thing.
$50 we raised the price up $4,000 more,
making 1t $50, 900 altogether, this covering
the cost of the tunnel development, which
considered as adding just so much value
to the mine, and we sold the Bald Eagle
out and out. Mr.. rowbridge paid us sl0.-
600 down. He put OF. couple of two
stamp mills soon afterward, and the whole
remaining $50, 900 he got out of the mine.
He didn't have to put up another cent of
outside money.
The mine to-day, too, is worth $500 600.
There are lot of black sulphurets in II
and these run as high as $1,000 ton. The
quartz is nearly clear white, with iron n.y.
rites dotted through 1t and plainly visible.
1t is what is called live ore, and has to be
roasted or concentrated.
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trable vapor, and while the sturdy men
who tend the light and keep the siren
going are busted at their lonely posts
their families, their little children, be-
leaguered by all the sea, sleep far away
from city joys and diversions and COM
panionshI ps. Through the darkness,
above the sound of the breaking waves,
booms the fog siren, answered by its
hoarse neighbor at Point Reyes, and its
blasts fall upon the ears of the beleaguered
listeners with the regularity of the tolling
of bell that might be rung by implacable
fate, doing out life in periods.
There are eight rosy little children on
the South FaralIon and two older ones.
They are there because their parents are
earning living for themselves and their
families in the Government service main
tanning the hight and the siren. 1t was in
their behalf that their parents have asked
for a teacher. Ten children are all the
pupils there are in this strangest "schooI
district" in all the earth. They have one
room fitted up for school purposes in
which there are little desks, benches and
black boards and supply of school books,
globe, which represents the round earth
of which they occupy so small portion.
and that time-honored institution, the
teachers desk. From the windows of the
schoolroom and nard by is the engine
house and siren-house, one furnishing the
voice which comes from the other, pune
tuating the wash of the waters and the
voices of the children and their teacher
when they have one. During certain
season of about three months duration
hundreds of thousands of sea birds in
great flights, circle about the schoolhouse,
with their discordant cries, and settle
upon the barren rocks. where they make
their nests,
AS the children study their thoughts are
led to wander by the occasional sight of
a passing ocean steamer laden with many
passengers who seem to be free to come
and go, and the steamer and its freedom
stimulates their i'm agination before and
after it sinks into oblivion below the far
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A few weeks ago a little, modest petit
ton, on paper as white as the wing OF
seabird or the wandering foam, drlfted IN
before the Board of School Directors. In
brief, its message was, "Send US a school
teacher for our little children, and we will
pay the salary and furnish board" The
pathos in this little petition could not be
understood without a knowledge of the
environments of the petitioners and OF the
children for whose welfare they are So
licitous.
Surrounded by the deep Pacific Ocean
lies the South Farallon Island, the larg-
est of the Farallon group. Its shores
rise abruptly and form an eternal barrier
of stone against the waves which thunder
against adamantine ramparts. Devoid
nearly of vegetation, and swept ceaselessiy
by the winds from north, south and west,
it is like a stern and frowning outpost
established for the safety of the white
winged and majestic ships that sweep by
it proudly in sunshine and creep timor-
ously past when the Jog, wraithlike, hovers
over or settles down and hides its buried
and threatening rocks under a mantle
more dreadful than night. Cut off from
the California mainland by broad belt of
heaVlng sea, Its nearest western nelghbors
are the Hawaiian Islands, 800 leagues dis
tant. Here the tempests of winter wreak
their full force, and old Neptune, with the
trumpets of the storm winds, calls the bill
lows to the charge.
High upon a peak, 800 feet above the
level of the all-encircling ocean, is
superimposed tall lighthouse, whose eye
of fire, like a cyclops, glares angrily
through the thickness and blackness of
night upon watery wastes that, looking to
the north, west and south, seem shoreless.
To the east and southeast, upon a clear
night, other cyclops leer at the sea and at
the ships which sail or which trail long
banners of smoke athwart the sky line.
In the fog these kin monitors of like isola-
ton are not seen by the dweliers on the
South Farallon. No, the whole world
seems whelmed in a universe of impene-
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rigid justice. So much cause, so much of
consequence, whether good or evil If we
can be content with simple equity we may
rely upon her law, but her processes are
slow and harvest time cannot be hurried
History furnishes abundant evidence to
this fact. So does practical life that takes
account of multitude of unrecorded acts
not less heroic. because the self-sacrifice
involved in them is never to be known.
These are not lost, even though the indi-
viduals for whom sacrifice was made re-
main ungrateful, for their silent influence
inspires ana encourages others to less self
ish living. And the great heroes. the
moral giants of humanity, are deatbless
witnesses to the triumph OF lofty endeayor.
Scan the long line of martyred sayiors.
Rejected by the world, scorned by the rab-
Bile, ignored by proud fools in naughty
places. The fagot and the rack were
theirs, too, and their lives went out in dis
honor. But they did not fail. higher
than all others are their names written on
the record of human successes. Their
Ideas have become accepted creeds. Their
judgments guide the aspirations of a
world.
INA the Christ fail in his mission ?
surely no greater failure is recorded, if we
Judge by events to the time of his crucihx-
Ion. But the seed that he planted in
human hearts grew into a mighty tree.
from handful OF despised people his fol-
lowers became nations, his cross became
an emblem of power, and the crucified
man OF Calvary, who seemed to have lost
all, drew unto him a worshiping world.
MFprTr M TrYYoDs
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suits. There is no waiting for the ger
mination of thought, or that transforma-
ton in character which would make a
paradise on earth. Money cannot buy
happiness, it is true. but did he not resign
that dream long ago2 Poetry may have
turned 10 prose, but certainly he has won
success.
Nevertheless, there fingers even in the
multitude that holds to this belief vision,
in the abstract, of less sordid ideals. The
artist, delighting in the forms of beauty he
has created; the poet, with heart of fire,
brineing into the common world ideas
from q radiant thought realm that stir the
soul to nobler aspiration; the patriot, for
the ransom OF people gladly giving his
life; the philanthropisU, pouring all he has
and is into others lives for their upbuild-
ing-are these not admired2 And even
though this multitude be neither able nor
willing to Initiate their example, do they
not acknowledge that theirs has been the
loftier success?
1t is the lear of failure that curhs many
heroic impulse; the dread of irrepara-
BILE loss. If we could only know that
noble lives would not be followed by de-
feat it would be easier to step into paths
leading to high achievement Labor and
difficulty could be borne, for energetic
natures find their keenest enjoyment in
the overcoming of obstacles. But who is
willing to risk all for problematical good
The truth seems to be, however, that no
effort is in vain. 1t may not accomplish
all that we hoped for, but the result must
be equal to the cause that produced it.
Nature measures ont her effects wit n
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A GREAT RUNNER
Some Of the Remarkable Performances
Of Lawrence E. Myers

Continuing on the biography of /. e
| Myers, the champion runner of twelve
years ago, will speak of the man per
sonally as preface to this article. He
was called the Manhattan Skeleton
man of singularly spare build, being
feet inches in height and weighing
10S pounds in training. He was slender
without being bony; good looking with
out being handsome. His stride in 10(
yards was nearly eight feet, and when
running 600 yards his style was the most
graceful have ever seen.
Last week 1 omitted quite an important
occurrence III Myers career. namely:
| Running seventy-fve yards in 7s1 seconds,
on January 81, 1881. This record was for
many years associated with half a dozen
others as the best in America, though it is
now excelied by Cary's 3-5, but is valua-
bic chiefly in displaying the wonderful all
round ability of the man.
On Myers return from England he met
the California athletic delegation-Hsley,
BeIeher, Halves and Slime. In discussion
Myers and Halves made match to run
900 yards, Myers to give his opponent
twenty yards. Although the match was a
private one I managed to be present, on
September Is, 1881. The Californian won,
but not before Myers had passed 200 yards
in 2o1S then seeing that he could not catch
Halves he slowed trifle and passed the
go in 2211. Both remained record time
for some years. The course be gan on a
curve for about 100 yards and finished on
a straight. Later Myers told me that
Haley timed him tMyers) for one lap, 200
wards, on the old Manhattan track, trial
alone in 225s seconds, and as 1 trained
with him season on said track, and know
how he could tear around those sharp
curves, believe him.
Before the feet-footed Yankee left for
England wealthy patron OF athletics and
admirer of Myers offered him a medal of
extraordinary value and beauty If be
would return unbeaten. When Mr.. Sacks
heard of the succession of victories
achieved he rashIy ordered $500 trophy
to be made-a marvellous creation. The
center was a shield-one-half United
States and one-half British, of gold enamel
and diamonds, surmouDted by the flags of
the two countries of similar material.
Below this the records achieved by the
great runner were represented on gold
coins of different sizes strung on a chain
the arc OF circle, the 440 yard in the
center.
When Mr.. Sacks received the unwe /
come news that his favorite had been de-
ieated in the 100-yard he realized that he
had on his hands a trophy that could not
be presented for the purpose for which il
was contributed. On Myers return he
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for them. How could Santa Claus resch
them? Reach them he does.
Does he sail across at early dawn. aft.,
he has "flled up the stockings and da-
nosited the gifts of love in city houses
taking passage in magic shallop and slid.
inc away as silently as he came on keel
that leaves no walker Christmas is apt 10
be a stormy time at the South FaraIlon
and landing is difficult, for stormy breezes
blow" Santa Claus may therefore seem
tn the little islanders to be rather Men.
tune. or at least the prince of all sailors.
unafraid of storms and AFRAID only that
some of his little children may think
themselves forgotten at Christmas, The
parents arrange this and they are supposed
to be the most adept hiders OF packages in
places where children can never find them
of any of all of Santa Claus friends ana
faithful subjects on all the North American
continent.
a teacher is wanted IN this queer school
district. There have been several off
there. The last two were young ladies
who taught awhile and then sought once
more the more numerous attractions of
the shore. A gentleman taught there for
awhile and he found his little charges at
tentive. bright and easily interested. Here
is chance for any one who can appre-
ciate the ever abiding majesty of the
ocean and who eovets quiet place in
which to read and reflect.
Goat Island, which has a juvenile popuIa-
tion of school age, is unique in this, that
its school children daily sail back and
forth in launch to school. But Goat
island is not a school district and the nosi
ton of the South Farallon as the
strangest school district on earth cannot
well be assailed. The South Farallon Is
occupied by William A. Beeman, princi-
pal keeper. and Cyrus J. Kane, Richard H.
Williams and Lewis Englebrecht, assist
ants, and their families. Ali these, with
the exception OF Mr.. EngIebrecht, have
lived on the South Farallon several
years. There are $50 applications for posi-
tons under the Government at that point
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the changes 1T effects as time goes on. Yet
these are often marvellous transforma-
tons. Not only may they so amend or
alter conditions as to make them seem al
together different, but ey may even turn
them into contrary nature,
Some effects are like a seed planted out
of sight. Before its vitality can be dis
played in growth it is doomed to pass
through stages of decay. But it will
sprout and grow. Finally it will flower
and bear fruit becoming the very oppo-
site OF that Introductory decay. By SIM
liar transformation seeming floss may be
converted into gain.
The failure to take account of this fact
undoubtedly tends to discourage efforts
that do not promise some speedy return.
1t takes sturdy faith to plant for the
future. The farmer knows that nature is
with him when he buries his seed. He
knows that sun and rain have wrought
the mystery of growth for untold ages, so
waits with entire confidence for the final
result But he feels no such assurance
that time will resurrect a buried labor.
de dlscerns no law of growth in affairs.
When his efforts bring no visible result,
he therefore counts it simple failure, and
judges the wisdom of his action accord
lngly.
The same partial view of success is
largely responsible for that decline of en-
thusiasm which usually accom- panies the
passage from youth to maturity. Tasks
that seemed so easy TO the boy drop from
the mans discouraged hand. He thought
that wrongs could be righted by little
argument; that moral suasion could
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change the nature of society. 1t was so
easy TO see where error lay. He would
show 1t to others and persuade them to do
what was right So that all might become
better and happier. But in spite of plead
ing and argument the world seemed to
remain very much the same. Even those
who praised his ideas did not adopt them
In practice, but lived according to their
various natures as before.
How futile his effort appeared as he
looked back upon It'll How wasted the
labor So his heart grew chilled while
the fervor of enthusiasm waned TO dis
couragement, leaving him only the cold
light OF common day." Gradually his
mind became engrossed in selfish cares,
and IN place of his old dream of purity and
noolilty, he pursued the prizes offered by
the world. His thought dropped to lower
levels where motives to action could be
more easily maintained. Embittered,
perhaps, by his experience, he became a
clog to progress in place of the active
helper he had once been.
In commercial era like our own, it is,
more than anything else. the getting of
wealth that constitutes success. Craving
ior material satisfaction is so intense that
ne who succeeds in gaining it. is consid-
cred the victor. He has won the most
coveted prize, and may enjoy a certain
honor with the luxury that has fallen to
ms lot. He may also exercise an undoubted
influence upon events, for human needs
ana human desires are so largely material
IN their nature that the wealth which con-
trolls supply is also able to direct the active
energies of men. Here are palpable re-
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The little statue that has lately been placed in the Hopkins
ute OF Art the gift of Dr. de Necch of City,
attention from visitors the
most attractive pieces sculpture
sees OF 1t the more they 1t grows
careful study of the little work
cause OF this although is
merit from artistic standpoint of the
the most interesting
The statue represents beatrice Cenci
work OF abero CORA young sculptor at residing
and well advanced the road
at the last exhibition of the Italian
It. To begin WITH the beautiful
appeals TO all 1t is simple subject conceive
and yet there is dignity about it that
ordinary. " -
In carrying this the followed anv
cuar school, but has rather made
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We have often discussed the Successes of
life. Let US talk little of its failures.
These are fewer than most people think.
doubt very much if any mans life is en-
tirely failure. Only the man who has
never tried is utterly failure. 1t was the
novelist Dickens who said, "No one knows
whether it was the victor or the van
pushed who fought the bravest battle"
II there Is any truth at all in the theory
OF the conservation of energy; if there is
justice in the universe, then it follows
naturally that every time we try in the
right direction we gain something. We
are too prone to judge failure or success
by immediate results. In truth, can we
not go step farther than Dickens and saw.
mo one knows whether the victor or the
vanquished is the real winner" This is
paradoxical, but those who wish to will
see the point-that what appears to be
success is sometimes failure. and vice
versa.
What, then, is success in IifeP
1t is question that has been answered
times without number but that confronts
us still. Like the query, What is truth pr
it remains without a final answer for the
reason that every reply which is given is
necessarily determined by the standard
we choose to apply. As truth is, for any
individual, that measure of the truth
which he is able to grasp, so must:success
mean to him simply that kind of achieve
ment whose value he can best appreciate.
But there is another factor too often
overlooked in determining what is sue
cess. II we consider only the immediate
result Of endeavor we shall fail TO discern