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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-05

'Rut why the mischief he does not
recover completely now l can't think.
lie has good constitution. magniti-
cent physique, no organic complaint
Haven't YOU noticed that unaccount-
able depression Of spirits he seems 10
suffer from shalt tell his wife to
come home at once She has the char
acter Of being rather hard on the do
mestjcS, hear hut She is a lively
Woman to talk and q mans wife, you
know, IS everything"
yes answered Mrs, Marin; but
must be going, doctor Good-hy."
Good ny, then" said the doctor. and
drove on meditatiVely. lie had thought
he could be surprised 1t nothing amy
more. 81 much had he seen OF life in
h!a medical experience; but he could
not set over his surprise NJ Mrs
Nairu, An through the three weeks
she had been at Eirka', through those
dread hours in which, with himself.
they had wreStled With death for the
life OF the laird she had done her
duties sly automatically. so ceolly and
with 50 much clear-hcadvi profess
sional Judgment that the doctor had
voted her In his heart q model nurse,
n woman uNhampercd 10y sentiment,
or that other great hipdraucc n heart.
Passion She coutG never have known
what the word meant at whatever
hour of tho day or night he had called
there she was AT her duty, unmOVCd as
the sphinx
Now what a gust what 4 storm
must have broken up the dcrls Of
such nature to nave left traces such
as these, For besides the r1dNrss Of
tears there was also the pallor, iho
wasted, haEpard look which denotes
Cont)i't With DESPAIR.
"l}N tho way, Nairu" he remarked
as he took his departure from HirkA'
that evening Il made Il discovery COM
ing up here today.
All. indeed, said the laird, indir-
forcutly.
"Ncs, YOU have heard me hoasting of
that nurse who left YOU today what
COOl, Cltar nCaNpu customer she WAS,
no surplus feeling about her YOU
know"
The laird nodded
We'll sir, met that woman going
down the avenue today and she had
been having II out with herself Just
like amy other woman, poor thing.
Must have had some bad news to have
/ hurried her away for her eyes were
red with crying, and altogether she
looked 50 broken mp ! really pttied
her"
All" said the laird well. YOU
will be up tomorrow, Noble"
Il suppose SO "
AS the door closed on the doctor the
laird of Nirka leaned against Che wall
and his head fell on his breast defect
eddy
Margaret OH my Margaret What
have | done?"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-05
BABCOCK HONORED.
ITO be contInued)

Washington, March 1.-THE Wiscon-
sin house delegation met in caucus
and decided on Babcock for the Wis
consin member Of the national con
gressional committee. II IL under
stood that Babcok Is ambitious to be re-
elected chairman Of the committee.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-05
SUNK AT NEW YORK
AN UNKNOWN STEAMER STRIKES
THE AlLSA.
A TUG TO THE RESCUE

The Colhdiug Steamer a French Liner
Her Action Ne,y Strange After
Sinking the NilSa She Pulls on and
Disappears in the Mist Collision
Occurs in Spite Of Signals
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YrppAInn Aartrtistmtnts.
:: !: ::::.:.''|WliiEIjSlB5Ee5RR;sS:::::::::::::::::::::
AND A@-1W~ ON
Gattons and Braids.
An Overstock Sacrifice

New buyers, like new brooms,
may sweep clean, but they come
high. Their predecessors legacy
is always q dubious acquisition.
Our new notion buyer finds that
stock lacking in equipoise. Too
much here not enough there.
Hence these quick-clearing reduc-
tions:
Lot 1-Black and Colored Bone and Fancy
Jet Bu~ttons-regular 15c. to 20c. 10c. dog
2 = Black Bone, Jet, Fancy Steel
and Pearl Buttons - regular 20c. to
Lot 8-Fancy Steel, Jet and Fancy Pearl
Buttons-regular 30c. to 45c. ....15c. doc
Lot Pearl Buttons. with shanks or eyes;
fancy dull Jet and fancy Bone Buttons
regular 46c. to SOC. .............. .2bc. doz
Lot b-Imitation Tortoise Shell. white and
smoked fancy Pearl and Gu Jet Buttons
Lot o-Colored Feather Stitch Braid-war-
ranted 8 yards-regular Sc..........4c pc
Lot white Fancy Lace Braids-wide and
narrow-reRular &c. to 10c.... .....2c. yd
Lot S-White Worsted Insertion Braids-
regular .yd
Lot 9-White Hercules Braids-all widths
regular &c. to loo. .........4 DC. to loo. yd
Lot f0-Fancy Braids in worsted, silk
mixed and cotton-regular 10c. to
yu
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spltting-,to us Lois appeared in the wings.
IL not At ss back Of 20 stage but e. 80
frontP 10 the way what she said would have
English and she French.
80. there se IN he h Sf9d ri sas' ~ ~naS w ~aatS wS
K sSs n Es. .nss1Y Sav. Of spS our .ss s.is of iss S% : r Ehsthsr
ettsr BsSicnss dances bslors him. taxes her IN
his arms With 9 sudden return Of passionate
reaoksd;, He caught Lois In his plaid arms
II ri aiis for a'r a IN moment q Sis' !sSs s sos9' lp 1al' ,S va:
was ever 80 much moro TO DO 'pantomimed,' and
the a. hGa. was wssin. pretty late, any wsy: Lois
Ing 70 the directions. But the little. ias Herd
" Tsi .o nns arS ssnsiSl. MAJ. and Re Ss hnSs GOT on f fffs
grim death. Loio resisted, but the stage man
s e took sfe0 a a.w ' a4ip. wf roi ( p pa. S e IF sJS2 lf S.ns g.
against him and pushed hardi 'iHsrod thought
that :. e : ; n. 1'is. wa, billed billed fOE , that Ps,rtiSSisrI
too. * Last, with q mighty sfOrt. Lcie freed
and disgust As she turned on tho isT perspiriSs
Herod, She was 30 mAd-and who could blame
her2-thAt she was fairly inartioulats. In
."AiOns toward@idnisht Loie began to show
signs Of becoming hysterlcal. She would come
In her voice say that, II they didn't stop making
"Es light" green whom she wanted II blpe, she
would 20 home. And she kept her word, too.
Suddenly she disappeared. Everybody sup
Dosed she had gone 10 her dressing room, and
We waited drearily for five minutes. Ten miu-
utes went by, but Loie came not. She wasn't
In her dressing room. The poor, bewildered
French people were so cowed by her exhibition
Of Just wrath that they did not even try to hunt
her up. They stood around and whispered and
sighed. A quarter OF an hour passed and we all
began TO wonder. Twenty minutes; somebody
hazsrded the guess that Lois had gone out 70
get something to eat. twenty-five minutes;
LAT an hour; really II was queer,
ITO make a long story short, Loie had sim,
ply cut and run. She had taken q cab aud
gone home, q mile or two away, without say
Ing one word to anybody. Wen, such an av.
manager stormed, and tho manageress-well.
which no poetic license could excuse. The
little stage manager wiped his forehead and
talked 1sli he were trying TO make up for hi.
silence during the pantomime. They all said
they we're insulted and that the piece could not
and should not 20 on, and mon dtsI! and s1erS
bleul and SdprtsttI and all. the rest. But bless
you'll Loio Strengthened them all out the next
morning. Tho theatre opened two nights Af-
ter that and closed inside Of a few months.
never to open again. 'Saloms' was q failure.
HsrOd and John tho Baptist and NJ. Sylvestre
and all the rest Of II have vanished from II.
The only part OF 1t which has survived Il that
part which was the inspiration Of one clever
American girl who appreciates the pOasibn'
tuss Of re light"
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AT THE NIGER's SOURCE.
Some white Msa Visit the Rock Trsa
which the Infaut River Gusbes.

The English and French have been determin-
ing their boundary limo in the country back Of
Sierra Leone, and the discharge OF this duty
took them TO the ultimate source of the great
Niger River. 1t was discovered by a Frsnchman
several years ago. but its position has never
been fixed until now. The natives there have a
holy horror OF the SPOT. They are afraid to look
on the spring that gives birth TO the Niger. for
they believe that whoever does SO will die with
In a year.
The guide who led the surveyors TO the ravine
In which the Niger rises could not be induced
to enter It. and he begged the white men not to
persist In their rash intention 70 do so. But
failing to share the native terror. they plunged
into the raylne. where they found the Niger
source very distinctly marked. IL 10 q small
stream issuing from a hillside in the deep
wooded raVins. On the rock whence the riVulst
issues IL the insori 1tiOn &C. b., 1905" cut BY
the ES~Aah Captain BrusL. ana the bOtIls he
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FrsnoS people t@Stli that hight SSRttnkii Il mutt %ast h. " t Sssn
MAKE 70 Light LOie would
...NSi q xlimmsr would come In response.
Then We would zee . vague red glow on tho
Ss.,Pus 20 iisht On me. vm your
Tho red glow would meander around tho
stag: ssS: sH4 {. ai - NATL ::stI' :: q i ssS IP assI RI. LII i
s1Ths red light would w.ysr OF then. and .
. psIsf sl Eff; 81 S IS; ri ~, Ssiss;'''F' i Tsi: would .A,as4.
and ISis S Would if fsd r Ss1sai Ss stsri os i n 5t : t sSas;
light or . green one, or anything but the right
"'ohr she would simply. uoan In despair.
ing % her brother below The staGe! Frank, II
how 70 MANAGE these lights / shall 90 cra.yF
Several minutes would elapse, and then
w sssot and S0S Want 0S % Know SS M rIS% tn ias n acts; " 1as -
Franks knowledge of French was even more
ii%!tsd I thar his n sisters, s,; e his instrS:Stl9ns CON:
An a% sSRat tSis s'% %sas on N i s1s s sssss s%a hour.
went % and put On one o. her oc;stumss Tor the
D Dss.sn sio B a. this rs, time The H. French people
q NToic's IDEAS about the lights. thought they
fsctly miserable. Not one or them seemed as
II he would ever smile again. Idon't believe
they ever have. either, for they sat through
what followed without blinking, and II they
didn't laugh at that I don't hin they would
ever laugh at anything.
nobody could find him. The stage manager.
however. tried 10 take Hsrod's place so that
the rehearsal could go on, ana ] wish you could
have seen himl DO was . very short. very fat
man, with very tight clothes. He seemed wor-
ried 10 death, az did everybody else, and was
90 anxious TO help things along that he looked
like Q dog ready 70, run after . ball. Ia tho
opening scene Her0d was TO stalk in with an
expression OF utter WEAKNESS OF the world,
gaze about him with a melancholy and blasS
air. and then ding himself into a sort OF throne
chair, from which his long legs the was tall
kind OF trailed down over the steps below. I
never In my life saw anything funnier than
the little lat stage manager In his skin-tiRht
clothes. trying 70 cross that stage with q Henry
Irving gait and q tragic o0untenAnce. As for
hinginR himself into the chair, he had seen the
real lOng'legged Herod do L. and he COM
menced To- ding at the same step, with the re-
suit that he fell short OF the chair and came
pumping down on the platform with the
throne on top OF him.
IF yOu'l believe me. not a soul except our
selves laughed! And IL wasn't out OF courtesy,
either, but simply because they were so prsoo-
cupied by their serious Interest In the affair
that they had no time for laughter. The tat
HeTod Eot himself up and into his throne, and
chair and regarded the back Of the stage
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LOIE FULLER'S REHEARSAL.
n NIGHT OF woe TO AN AMERI-
OAN GIRL IN PARIS.

TrousIs She Had with ths French stage
Hands At she Rehearsal OF "Sa1one'-
LAb0rs with the Lighss and Final Dis.
appearance from the Scene In Disgust.
dances, and . girl who had bean spending Q
year or two In Paris suddenly began to laugh.
II shall never forget" she said, the night
that I went to Loie Fuller's dress rehearsal at
the Coincide Parisienne. Thsy were getting
ready to produce 'Salome.' In which Lois frst
gave the dances which New Workers have
Just seen In another stage Of development.
Talk about three hours of continuous laugh
tar a. tho vaudeville posters always sayl
We two Americans laughed all by ourselves
from 8 o'clock until midnight. and ! can
laugh still whenever I think of II.
Armand Sylvestre, who had prepared the
pantomime, was there, looking as solemn as
he was fat, which Is saying . good deal. The
manager of the theatre was there and 30 was
his wife. who was much more Of q manager
than he was. There were Q few friends of
the manager. and Q few-of n. sylvestre's. and
. few Of Loie's. and 90 on. 90 that there was
quite . little audience down In the darkness
Of the orchestra
"Loie was determined to get the lights ar
ranged and 70 have tho men who were to ma
niDulate thorn trained to their work. She 10
o pretty shrowd young woman, and she know
80 - A1N ASe 1AoAa
and NJ. sylvestre'a pantomime wouldn't bs
vorth looking at. 30 shs stood in the middle
the stage and put her hands on her hips
end said In voluble but bad French that she
wouldn't put on one OF her costumes or dance a
step till She got her lights arranged. so there'
when Lois won't she won't, and there's
n end ontl John tho BdpttSt wandered dis
mAlly around with q ragged looking fur robe Of
some sort hung over one shoulder, and very
thin arms and legs clad in Jaeger underclothes
p~rotrudlng from Its shelter. Mr.. Sylvsstre re-
gArded him Anxiously.
"'You aren't going TO wear thosef' he de-
mAnded.
":JOhn tho Bdptkt assured the poet that the
underclOtheF were for reheRrsAls only. and went
on 20 hunt up HeTOd, who had wisely gone out
60 a cafe, and did not show up until II y. NJ.
In the mean time LOie, poor LOie, was strug-
Cling with the lights, Her brother, who Is
about as slow as his sister is quick, was under
meath the stage, looking after the lights. which
are thI2"n up through glass plates IN the floor.
The othsE usa ~Ara French. l have often
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placed 10 the stream Is stIll there. Who're was

placed In the stream is still there. There was
no danger that the natives would carry 1t away.
The natives thought the white men should
atone in some way for their sin in visiting the
water. and asked them to make a sacrifice to
the devil. which Is the only deity they ack nowl-
edge. As the visitors declined to do so, the ma
tives sacrificed a white hen to the devil and thus
provided, as we'll as they could. against the risk
the white men had Incurred.
Tembl Kundu is the name Of the place where
the Niger rises, and IL Is situated In % g. go
north latitude and about l0o so west longitude.
The water parting 10 very clearly marked here.
Within $50 feet OF the Niger head springs is the
source OF q river flowing southeast to Liberia,
and the BAgwe River, which flows into Sierra
Leone. rises only q half mile AWAY.
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The schedule OF the New Jersey InterscholAGtic
A. A. e a. follows April ls, PlAinneld vs.. Mont.
clair High school, at Plalnneld; PIngry VS.. Newark
Aoadsmy, At EliLsbethi 20, MontolSlT High school
vs.. Stevens institute, At MontelAiri PlAinneld vs..
Newark Academy, at Newark 10, stevens Institute
vs.. Plainneld, At hobokeni MontclAir High school
PiAihneid, at NewATki Stevens vs.. Pihgry, at Ho.
boken; "a, Montclair High school Va. Newark
Academy, AZ MontolAir.
The Rivals, unlformOd. are anxious 10 nIl April
10 with an out-of town team Offering 70 pay az
psnses. The Rivals Also are ready 20 receive chAl
lense4 n ootheF dAtes. Address n. o. BokasfsE,
ooe West tSoth street, New resk elU.
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Scottish Kite Mobiles 60 SO TO the Circus.
Some 1900 mobiles OF the Mystic Shrine. to-
EeThsr with their wives and children, will at
tend the performance OF the Barnum & Bailey
Show On next Thursday evening. After the
circus they will have supper at Scottish Rite
Hall. This week there will be many additional
acts at the CIRCUS which were left out OF the
programme last week owing 20 the non-ArrtVAl
OF several performers from abroad
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Chic ParaSOls.
At a Substantial Saving.

For this department we make
two claims. First, that though
elsewhere you may see a larger
stock, nowhere can you find a bet
ter selection. Second, that no
matter what the grade, from me-
dunn to highest, u prices are in
variably under competitive quota
tions for like qualities. That we
guarantee. For Monday, two spec
linen specials
Printed Taffeta Silk Parasols-white en-
ameled handles-with ruffles-identical
line sold by oJher Brooklyn houses at
$2.25-a Monday leader at ..........$1.69
Printed Silk Parasols-iu borders. stripes
and Dresden designs-enameled frames
and h~andles-good value-regularly at
s2.25-a Monday leader Mt. ........ 81. so
A complete collection Of all the latest pro-
ductions in Dresden, Printed Warp and
other popular effects.
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Black
And Colored Silks.

The lowest prices ever named
for New Silks, fresh from the maxi
ers' looms.
Taffetas, with white and black combination
stripes; the grounds are light and mo-
dunn pinks, light and medium blues,
maize, Nile, lavender, and red, In all 10
shades, were imported this season to sell at
LOO. This lot. ................57c. a I'd
Novelty Silks in small designs, three-tone
effects, suitable for Women's and Misses
wear this is al exceptional loo silk.
III iOb.. u yu
Brocaded Gros de Londres, In a number of
four-tone combinations, manufactured to
retail at 95c. This lot ...........6 9c, Q I'd
Black Brocaded Taffetas, regular 76c.
- sTdoo. Inns AUG
l27 inches wide), early seasons price
O yd
silks-main. lefk
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TRIMMED HATS.

Our selection of Trimmed Hats, Bonnets
and Toques is unlike other first-class
stocks in one important particular Others
gather q collection from Paris and Lon
don and Berlin, that every one admires,
but few want to wear. Said DR.. Samuel
johnson concerning an author whose style
was too ornate and involved: ~ prefer q
sentiment that can understand to one
that l can only admire" So 1t is in Head
gear. Our Hats are practical. They are
the kind that women not only admire, bub
want to wear. II this excites curiosity,
and you are led to inspect them, our word
for 1t, you will be we'll repaid.
SILK SPECIALS.
5000 yds. Fancy Check Japanese Silks
regularly sold at 40c.-Monday. .29c. yd.
Check and Striped Taffetas-
newest spring designs-75c. grade. acc. yd
25 Brocaded Swivel Silks.........75c I'd
e1.25 Printed Warp Taffetas. SOC. I'd
VNCEDH WEC1
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Blazer and Refer Front Suits, value
TX
Refer and Ely Front Suits, value
&C
Tight Fitting and Norfolk Suits. value
-lC'OO.. .'''''s''s'.... ..........lb .NO
Tight Fitting costumes in several choice
materials, value 28. 90. ..t7.7b
25 only-English Covert Cloth Jackets,
some lined throughout, others half lined.
fly front or double breasted, value
........1O.4b
30 only-Black jaunty velvet capes, silk
lined throughout, new rufle collar, value
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05

Mrs. j. L. Hazelton enjoyed a visit
with Paw Paw friends, Friday.
On account Of washouts, we had no
trains here Monday until after p. m.
Miss Cora House attended the Free
Methodist campmeeting at Lawrence,
last week.
Our resort hotels are we'll filled and
visitors are arriving by almost every
train and steamer.
With several excursions from neigh
boring towns and a republican conven-
ton AT this port, we had no time 10 get
lonesome last week
The blackberry crop in this vicinity
will be unusually heavy, the recent
rains coming just when needed for the
development of that fruit.
The Paw Paw Presbyterian Sunday
school was here Wednesday, and the
Free Baptist Sunday school, Friday.
Both excursions were we'll patronized
and the children enjoyed themselves
immensely.
The South Haven basket factory is
doing an immense business this season.
Incredible as it may seem, there are
numerous operatives, girls and women,
who turn out from 1900 10 1900 baskets
daily, each
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05
How Napoleon Raised Money.

Napoleon had the lavish hand of q
parvenu, but his beneficiaries were not
grateful, and with ever increasing in
science were always craving more. The
system Of private confiscations or forced
contributions from individuals had al
ready attained vast dimensions. During
the winter of 1809-10 it was extended
and regulated; the sums wrung from
German princes and Spanish grandees,
from English merchants and the Italian
clergy, were not entirely exhausted; the
remainder, together with what was "ac-
cepted" from timorous politicians, crafty
ecclesiastics sly contractors and unprin-
cipled financiers, was now erected into
the dignity Of the emperor's "extraor-
binary domain. Z" The term "army
chest" had been devised for times of
higher public morality; it was now dis
carded. Confscated palaces, forests,
lands, fisheries, moneys from the sale Of
American ships-all were now the en-
peror's private property. Professor
Sloane's Life Of Napoleon" in Gen.
fury.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05
Their Hobbies.

Some gossip in Cassell's Magazine
tells what are the hobbies or amusement
Of some of England's great men. Mr..
Balfour INDUCES in golf, bicycles and
philosophy, and he once played Ham
let; Lord Salisbury studies silence and
tries experiments with a test tube; Mr.
Chamberlain raises orchids; Mr.. Glad
stone, of course, used to chop trees, and
now reads Greek when he feels the need
Of rest; Prince Bismarck drinks beer,
smokes and reads Du Boisgoby; the
Prince of Wales is fond Of bowling; the
Duke Of Devonshire, Sir John Millais
Andrew Lang and William Black are
expert fishermen, while Mr.. Toole finds
something funny to do or say almost
every hour of the day. Once he sent a
package of chocolates to little boy who
sat in a stage box and was disturbing
him with his astonishingly loud laugh
ter. The attendant delivered the packet,
with Mr.. Toole's compliments. and
would the young gentleman who laughed
70 heartily kindly eat these during the
performancef'
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05
THE EOPHONE.
BY Which the Direction of Sound May he
Accurately Determined.

BY Which the Direction of Sound May he
Accurately Determined.
Possibly there is no greater terror
among the many met with at sea than
fog. The helplessness Of our harbor
boats and the clamor of bells and whis-
ties during heavy fog in New York
harbor give one some idea Of this night
mare of the ocean, but when fog closes
down upon vessel at sea the most reck-
less captain proceeds cautiously and
anxiously.
The probability Of collisions and
wrecks due to fogs has been accepted as
a sort of unavoidable evil, which must
become greater as the number and speed
of vessels increase. But the inventive
genius of man could not let such a con-
dition Of affairs continue without at
tempting to do away with it, and there
has been perfected simple instrument,
called the eophone, by which the direc-
ton from which sound proceeds may
be determined with absolute accuracy in
fog or darkness.
The simplest description of the in
strument is that it consists of two bell
mouthed sound receivers, separated by a
central diaphragm. The sound receivers
are connected to the two ears, and, when
pointed directly at a source Of sound,
the noise is the same in each ear. When
turned away, the sound is heard in only
one ear.
On shipboard the sound catching and
dividing part of the instrument extends
above the top of the charthouse. The
tubes are brought within the chart
house, and the instrument may be turned
from below to point in any desired di-
rection.
The eophone has now been perfected,
there being many points for which nu-
merous experiments, lasting over several
years, have been required, in order to
determine the best form, especially with
the sounding tubes and ear pieces Va
rious refnements, such as microphones
and devices adding to the complication,
but not improving the use, have been
eliminated. York Herald.