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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01
WAITED FOR THIRTY YEARS.
Wisconsin Woman Found Her Son
Through the Agency of some Music

A romantic and pathetic story has
Just come to light at Fond du Lac, that
OF loving mother searching patiently
for her lost son for over thirty years.
1t Is one of the many romences which
the strange family complications of
slavery days made possible. James H.
Harris, colored, lives at 1926 Mills st.
| st. Louis, and runs barber shop in
the west side. Before the war Mr.. Har-
rls, who is now about 40 years of age,
lived with his mother and two older
sisters on a plantation in Tennessee,
100 miles back of Memphis. Their fam
lily name was taken from the master of
the plantation, as was the custom. He
treated his servants kindly, but when
the war broke out he enlisted and the
plantation went 10 pieces. The negroes
were scattered and Martha, with her
| children, made a break for freedom
She got passage up the river as cham
bermaid on steenb boat, but at one
Of the landings she lost her boy The
boat went on, and she never knew
whether the child had fallen overheard
Va "hNtISl liz Idl UCeI IUSl vi ItINs
She left the boat near Cairo, and as the
time went on she gradually worked
her way northward, until she reached
Fond du Lac. One of her daughters
died. but she and the remaining child
accumulated little fortune They
bought themselves home there and
settled. AS her circumstances became
better the mother longed more and
more for her son. In the summer OF
'93 she insisted Oh going to the Column
bian exposition al Chicago. Il will
find him there" she said
In the mean time the boy had Skin
! mished for himself, and, following
natural gift, had become quite mus
ician. He went to st. Louis and learn
ed barbering. In his leisure moments
he played the banjo and violin. He
began to write music and several OF
his compositions were accepted for the
exhibit. in the colored peoples depart
ment of the Columbian exposition
His mothers pres eminent was to
come true. She was a close observer
and had, also learned to read, Nothing
In the colored peoples display at the
fair escaped her eye. One day she
found her sons name on apiece OF
music. She read the lettegs, James H.
Harris" and declared at once that she
had found him. The name was COM
| mon one and her daughter urged her
not to be too sure. Not knowing the
street number she dispatched several
letters in vain. Last June one of the
letters reached Mr.. Harris He could
not believeit, for he thought hi'
was dead. AT Avst he imagined it was
scheme Of some person to extort
money from him, but another letter
came soon telling him incidents of his
Childhood, which convinced hm that it
was indeed his mother. He caple to
Fond du Lac and there Yves happy re-
union. He gave his mother his picture,
and she is now content, since she has
seen him and knows he is alive. Mr.
Harris returned to st. Louis a couple
of days ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01

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of crumbs.
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chumbs and half an ounce of butter.
Let these ingredients simmer gently
for about ten minutes.
Take out the onion and Glove and
add half a teaspoonful of salt aud
few grains of pepper.
Mix well AMI servo very hot.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01

Washington, March 27.-Saturday
the progress OF the house on the tariff
bill was even slower than on Friday.
Only five more pages OF the 1862 pages
of the bill were disposed Of, making IA
pages in all in the two of the five
days allowed for consider alton under
the five-minute rule. At this rate only
81 pages of the bill can be. disposed of
before the bill comes to a final vote.
Only five amendments were adopted
Saturday, all of minor importance and
each an amendment by the ways and
means committee.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01
AFFAIRS ABROAD.

The South Africa republic and Orange
lerec state resolve to form federal
union.
EN-Consressman VIM Bourke Cock
ran OF New York had an audience with
the pope.
All the American prisoners in Cuba,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01

Madison, March 26.-In the senate
the Whitehead bicycle baggage bill met
death by vote Of II to IA. Senator
Green's bill providing for the taxation
of street railway companies, | IL per
cent. on all roads, an increase of 90
per cert. was passed
In the assembly the COM
mittee on public health having
reported adversely on the bill for
bidding the sale of cigarettes to minors
offered substitute requiring $500
license from any one selling cigarettes
The Hurd bill, 420 requiring the full
formula of all patent medicines to be
put on the bottles was killed. Other
house bills killed We're: Giving a
bounty on beet sugar; granting the
state agricultural society aid of $4,000
a year even of liquor sold on the
grounds when the fair is not being
held; requiring railways to give passes
to state officers, judges, chiefs of police,
etc, and outlawing trusts. The
Merrill resolution for an amend
ment to the constitution doing away
with the state census each years was
passed unanimously. If such an
amendment Is adopted by the people,
the state will thereafter rely on the
decennial federal census. Assembly,
bills were passed: Authorizing county
aid in the improvement of highways;
permitting counties to get surety COM
panies as bondsmen for counties Of
GERS and making it as much a crime
to do damage to electric or cable lines
as to steam roads
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01

Washington. March 25.-The general
impression in the senate is that the
debate on the arbitration treaty will
not consume great deal of time. The
senators generally express themselves
as tired with the debate and are dis
posed to take up other questions. The
Torrey bankruptcy bill was read and
Mr.. Nelson rep, Mimi offered a sub
stitute differing in a number of partic-
ulars from the committee bill.
Washington, March 25.-Four days
of general debate in the house on the
Dingley bill closed. The bill will now
be open for amendment until next
Five members of the ways and means
committee spoke,-Messrs. Tawney
rep, Mimi, Dalzell (rep.. Pa),
Russell rep, Conn.,, Payne rep,
N. Y.) and Steele rep, Ind. The
others speakers were Messrs. Talbert
dem, s. c., Clark dem, Mo-,
Mcguire (dem.. CALI Gum (rop.,
Idaho, Cox. dem, Tenn, McRde
dem, Ark, Grow rep, Pa.), Simp-
sen (pop., Kas.), Curtis (rep., Kas. },
Burke tdem., Tex, Eentz (den1., Shio),
Colscm rep, Ky.), Hawley rep,
Texas, Dearmond dem. Mo- and
Fitzgerald dem, Mass). The speakers
at the evening session We're Messrs.
Prince (rep., Ill.), Skinner pop, N.
c., Campbell (dem., No., Reeve rep.,
Ifl.) and Todd idem., Mch.).
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01

Madison, March 25,--In the senate
bills were passed or concurrcd in as
roiows; Relating to hotels and inns,
making moro stringent the provision
for punishment of dead beats. and
2l3a providing against aduleration Of
foods ana drugs Bills were killed.
Providing compensation for members
of the state board OF health, and Great
ing stare board of civil service COM
mlssioncrs. Perhaps the ahest and
most vigorous speech made IN the SEN
'a chamber this session was that of
Senator Whitehead against the indetln-
lite p0stpanement Of his bicycle baggage
bill The measure went over for the
day.
.. 'So assembly the special committee
that has investigated the charges made
by Dr. G. Il. Seaman OF Milwaukee
that Assemblyman Frink was guilty of
venal conduct In connection with the
medical bill, reported all the evidence
in the case and fund that there be-
ing no material testimony at hand Ia
cGrroborate the charge, your committee
is UNANIMOUSLY of the opinion that ne
evidence is insufficient to justify further
proceedings in the matter" The Bax.
ter resolution giving the Wisconsin de-
partment G. A. r.. quarters In III,
capitol was concurred In. Assembly,
bills were passed Relating to action,
for damages for newspaper libel. Isl
authorizing counties to maintain inaus
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01

trial schools, and 499, restricting the
sale of liquor near the Milwaukee ma
tional home. Mr.. Mosher continued
his warfare on the law by which
southern Wisconsin counties are taxed
10 aid in the support Of north Wiscon-
sin counties. He said that q counties
paid $4,000 annually more than they
received and in the twelve years the
law had existed they had paid an excess
of million dollars. The bill was in
definitely postponed, "a to 80. Senator
Austins joint resolution for final ad-
jorrnment April IA brought at least
half dozen members to their feet like
a shot and the proposition was killed
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-01
Carson City fight, although general in

Carson City fight, although general in
provisions.
Washington, March 24.-In the
house there were two notable speeches,
on the tariff. one by Mr..
Grosvenor and the other by Mr..
McMillin, but the rest Of the speeches
with the possible exception of that
of Mr.. Walker rep, Mass.). hardly
created ripple on the monotonous
sea of speech-making. Other speakers
were Messrs. Foy dem, Miss.) Sims
dem, TENN. Williams (dem.. Miss,
Terry dem, Ark, Sayers dem. Tex.),
johnson rep. N. d.. Evans (rep.,
ky.), Maddox dem, Va. and Adams
rep, Pa
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eyes may rest, to view the throng with
In the cathedral as the pontifcal pro-
cession bursts into view A low hum
of greeting is heard as the throne of
the pope appears, the canopy Of gray
and white silk supported by the six
teen chief canons of the church. On
either side are carried the four cele-
brated ostrich feather fans, mounted
in red and gold and embroidered with
the papal coat Of arms. Following this
comes a band Of musicians sounding
silver trumpets, and then appears the
college of the cardinals, the congrega-
ton of the Propaganda, gorgeous in
scarlet robes. with pages bearing the
trains that extend for behind, like the
beauties Of some rare bird of plumage.
To view the pope at a distance, which
the majority of the spectators on such
an occasion are forced to do, it seems
ain ost like nunmery, for the pontiff
appears to. the eye as but a child
sWathed in robes of state. About him
is wrapped gold embroidered white
robe. From his shoulders falls a cloak
of scarlet satin, lined with ermine,
while upon the head Of the pontif rests
the rnitre that was presented by En-
peror William. of Germany. And the
Jewels that decorate him. A rare treat
indeed would simple survey Of them
be considered by the noblest eonnois-
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fashioned affair, drawn by two long
tailed black horses that amble about in
as gentle a fashion as the greatest of
1nvalids could desire Frequently the
pope leaves the carriage and walks
among the flowers and shrubs, of which
he is extravagantly fond. If there ever
was pontiff who was near to natures
heart it is Leo XIII.
When the drive is over the pope re-
turns to the Vatican, and presently
takes a glass of milk or a cup Of broth
with a cold roll and a glass of wine.
1t used to be the case that in the
evening the pope would devote much of
his time to writing, or the considera-
ton Of official matters, but now that
the hand of old age rests so heavily
upon him. he retires very early and one
of his secretaries reads him to sleep.
So runs the day of the head of the
Roman Catholic church. An unevent-
full one perhaps, it seems, but yet al
ways fraught with tremendous impor-
tance to some one.
Nowadays the pope seeks to carry
out his programme, the one that he has
followed for nineteen long years, but
he does not always succeed. Contra
picks him up and carries him about as
tr he were a child, and he is allowed
to make no movement that would
weaken him in the least provided hu-
man agency is able to act for him. 1t
i5 doubtful if there has ever been
case where such tremendous effort has
been put forth to prolong a human
life. Every physical law is strictly
obeyed. Everything is done that the
pope may live. And yet. in the face
of all this, there can be no doubt that
Leo XIII. is slowly dying.
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reader, judging that which is left out
by that which is left in, will be as
grateful for the omissions as for the
book itself. From a very slightly diff
ferent point Of view, however, it may
be justly said that many Of the Amer
lean novels deal with just as delicate
material and handle it with consider
ably less tact-but perhaps the tact
is the very thing that Saxon readers
look upon as questionable. The frag
ments of letters and diaries, clever
and acute though they are at times,
in their translated form have nothing
very remarkable about them.
(''Letters of Women" by arcel Provost.
Translated by Arthur Hornblow. Meyer Bros.
& Co, New York. For sale by the st. Paul
Book and Stationery company
The last book we shall have from
William Hamilton Gibson has just been
published by Harper & Brothers. 1t
is a collection Of magazine articles
gathered together under the name of
my Studio Neighbors." There are
eight of these papers written and il
lustrated in the familiar way of one
who is on intimate terms with his
neighbors, whether or not he approves
Of their method of housekeeping, and
the flowers and insects, as Mr.. Glib
son has described them, are the more
fascinating. perhaps, because this is
the last time we shall see them
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-24
BOOKS
OF The Hour....

The way these girls look on their own
lives suggests the cruelest element in
Woman's present position. The ordf-
nary woman must not alone prove her
self the ordinary mans equal, she
must be his superior. Her father and
brothers may have been content to go
through college and be merely common
place citizens afterwards, but she must
distinguish herself in some way. Enid
teaches and gains place as a lecturer.
Sylvia is only convinced of her own
salvation when she publishes book!
The Southern household is very charm
ing. Jacques, strenuous young
Frenchman, is a clearly drawn figure
that suggests model in real life;
his positiveness is the simple unit
against which all the others are meas
ured. The blind father is but sketchily
handled, and yet the impression he
leaves is complete; the step-mother is
merely pink and white nonentity, and
the bright, singing little step-sister,
Jeanne, whom Jacques would have hap
PLY made his wife had not love and
fate intervened, is as sad as uncon-
sciOus gayety usually is. Jocelin, her
brother of the beautiful voice, although
not the most attractive, is certainly the
most important figure in the book; one
can not but believe that the book is
written to delineate his helpless moral
degeneracy, his lOvableness, contempti-
tleness and self-pitying tears his
glorious voice, just failing to lift him
above himself and his weakling linita-
tiCns, his unUtterable failure out Of
which the woman who loved and de-
spised him reaped her worldly and
spiritual success.
('Diana Vctrix," by Florence Converse.
Houghton Mifiin & Co., Boston. SIPS. For
sale by E. W. Porter & CO..
Shakespeare's sonnets are again the
subject of ingenious speculation. Ser1-
ously and lovingly Mr.. Edwin James
Dunning approaches the master, and
his earnestness is such that one blames
oneself and not him for the smile that
his extreme ingenuity arouses.
sonnets is that Shakespeare in
them addresses an ideal, not a
person; that the youth of the SON
nets is his higher self, and the mistress
Of the sonnets corresponds to the
Queen Of Love in Venus and Adonis."
The allegory is rather far fetched,
and on the way is dragged through many
tangles and places dark and strange;
that it finally lives to see the light of
puDlIcdl1OH SPEAK IOuuIy IoI llS vitality.
This idea is really not less sensible
than many other theories that have
been seriously propounded to explain
away some difficulties in the sonnets,
but when we stop to compare them
the difficulties of the explanation are
so much greater than the difficulties
in the sonnets that in this choice of
evils it is not hard to choose. We ad-
NIT that we like to read Shakespeare's
sonnets, as we like to read ST. JOINTS
Revelations, without understanding
the possible hidden meaning-fairly to
luxurlate in glowing uncertainty.
certain debt, however. is due to any
man who brings again before the pub
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and DID, supplying themselves freely
with edibles of this nature.
The pontiff is by no means teetota-
!er although his consumption of stimu-
lants is confined to a light red wine
that comes to him from the South Of
France, where it is prepared by the
nuns in a convent. It's flavor is de-
licious, and yet it's effects are never
deleterious nor does it stimulate to a
degree that in the slightest unpleasant
ly affects the nervous system 1t is
during this hour, that of dinner, that
the pope listens to the reading of the
newspapers by one of his secretaries.
1t is one of the rules governing the
life Of the pope Of Rome that he must
always dine alone. He can, If he chos-
es, have some one in the same room to
converse with, but never to dine. Even
his own brother, the late Cardinal Pee
CT, Of whom Leo XIII. was very fond,
never took dinner with him because
Of this rigorous rule. It was Leo's pre-
decessor who said: What a pity it is
that the pope cannot be as little of a
human being as the church considers
him.
Dinner at an end, and alone but for
the presence OF his faithful servant,
Contra, the pope drops asleep some
times for an hour, but never less than
half an hour. Then comes the recep-
tion of the visitors, those who have no
business to transact. Tuesday and Fri
day the ambassadors who are credited
from other countries to the court Of the
Vatican are received, and at other
times such visitors as the pope may
consider it wise to admit to his pres
epce greet him. After the last Of those
to whom permission to enter has been
given are gone, he goes for a walk or
a drive in the garden of the Vatican.
Few people know, and yet it is a
fact, that outside the Vatican grounds
the pope never goes. There is no papal
law concerning such action on his part
but it is believed that the appearance
of Leo in the streets of Rome would
create a riot and perhaps a revolution.
Feeling runs very high between the
Catholic and anti-Catholic partisans,
and therefore it is considered the part
of wisdom that the ponttff should re-
main in comparative seclusion.
Within the Vatican grounds is the
drive Of a mile, winding carriage
road, the carriage used being one that
Plus *. utilized. 1t is a great, old
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seur of them all. First of all, shining
uron the outside of the white g1oved
right hand is the pontifical ring, which
for twenty-six generations has been
worn by the pope of Rome. A cross
of superb diamonds hangs upon the
pope's breast, and the scepter which
signifies his authority is marvel Of
the jewelers. art All this upon a form
shrunken to chf1dlike proportions, the
form of an old, a very old man, who
seems to be all in readiness to trust
himself to the skill Of Charon at any
moment.
This is the ceremonial side Of the life
of Leo XIII. It is by no means repre-
sentative Of that which he leads from
day to day. Simplicity is his watch
word, and well does he observe it. He
rises at 6 o'clock each morning and at
tends mass III his private chapel.
Sometimes he hearsta second mass and
occasionally one of This chaplains cele-
brates mass of thanksgiving. When
the hour of arrives his simple break
fast as servedk him This consists Of
milk, coffee ard cold bread.
This meal at an ehd, the pope imme-
diately devotest 41imself to the consid-
Grafton of such correspondence as his
secretary may have3placed before him.
He is system Itself in method and
movement and IN this way manages to
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Pope Leo Very Feeble.
athoHc World Stirred Over Consideration of
His Probable Successor.

ROME, Oct 1.-THE Reaper Death
stands with appraised sickle at the sIue
of Leo XIII, sublime pontiff, pope of
Rome This is the nineteenth year of
the reign of this frail yet brilliant man,
whose marvellous intellectual powers
have enabled him during his entire in
cumbency of the papal throne to full
fill the multifarious duties of his king
ly Office while in a state Of health
which to most persons would have
been a condition of almost chronic in
validism.
One hears the story of coming disso-
luton talked Of upon Rome's streets, dis
cussed in the homes of the people and
even whispered in the Vatican itself,
where in one of the plainest of the
Il 900 rooms of the great palace sits the
childish form Of the pope, carefully
guarded at all times by Pho Contra, the
man who served Leo we'll when he was
known to the world as Cardinal Pocci.
Every day the pope is a little weaker;
only a very LITTLE, to be sure, but suf-
ficient to make it a fact that when
each sunset is over it is known that his
vitality is not so great as when the
orb of day rose.
q matter of exceeding interest, but one
must be here, in the shadow of st.
Peters, to fully appreciate what the
news of his death would really signify.
It means an entire change for men who
have for nearly twenty years been
welded to given policy, to an estab-
lished course, which, no matter how
well it has served the church, must, with
the advent of a new head thereof, be
changed in various particulars, to
adapt itself in some measure to the
views of the new occupant of what was
once the most powerful throne in the
once the most powerful throne the
world knew.
1t has been the case for centuries that
the occupant Of the papaI throne has
been an Italian. Heretofore it has rare
1y been thought of and never seriously
suggested that man of any other ma
tionality should really aspire or be SO
bold as to even desire the great office
This time it is different. We hear two
names, names which every Roman
Catholic knows; those Of Rampolla and
Ledochowski. The first is that of the
papaI secretary of state, and the sec
ond the name of the head of the con-
gregatfon of the Propaganda.
Mariana Rampolla is enc of the most
able men in the history of the Romish
church. He is in his f1ftieth year, tall
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accomplish far more than many people
who are blessed with comparatively
good health, and at no time does he
seem or is he hurried. He is a firm be-
lever in the maxim that haste makes
waste and we'll does he live up to that
belief The consideration of business
over, or rather such as has been sub
mftted to- him for settlement, the pope
rests for a time.
AS the clock strikes 10 each morning
the secretary of state appears, and fol-
lowing him come such further attaches
Of the Vatican as the pope may consider
it advisable to see. Ali these matters
occupy the remainder of the morning,
for whether those who wish to see him
be great or few, the pontfff will only
admit a certain number during a given
period Of time Those whose business
is least important must wait. Nothing
is permitted to interfere with this pro-
gramme.
At dinner the pope's almost ascettc
method Of satisfying the physical man
is again apparent. Always soup-be-
cause that is so nourishing-there is
besides, macaroni, which his italian
birth and surroundings have made in
dispensable, roast beef or mutton well
done, and a vegetable. Then comes
fruit, for the pope is firm believer in
the advisability Of all persons, young