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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-10
H MASONIC BALL.
Arrangements Almost Complete for 0pan.
ing the New Temple with Reception
and Ball.

The committee on arrangements have
about completed their plans for the Ma
sonic reception and ball, the occasion
being the opening of the new Masonic
Temple. Thursday evening, November
% Thanksgiving. It has been decided
to open the apartments of the temple to
the guests, where music, parlor games,
and social pleasures will be in progress
throughout the entire evening, while all
who may desire can avail themselves of
the grand ball which will be held in the
opera house. The reception and ball
are practically one and the same, not
withdrawing two buildings will be
used, the invited guests will be expected
to avail themselves Of all the pleasures
incident to the occasion, both at the
opera house and in the temple. The
social event will be opened in the temple
by a concert from Z to 9 p. M, by Prot.
Halstead's operatio orchestra, which
will later furnish the music for the ball
in the opera house. Az elegant supper
will be spread in the commodious ban
quet hall of the temple, and everything
that will contribute to the success and
pleasure of the event will be scrupulous-
ly looked after by the Masonic enter
tanners. Tickets, including supper, re-
ceptlon and ball, 50.
! eNI>o Rr1l~or c~.on>.~ 49,. 49,
appointed.
Arrapgements-John Larkin, E. w,
Ketcham, F. G. Smith, Mrs. Vidal, Mrs
Ketcham, Mrs. Wright.
Receptlon-J. f. Stahl, d. d. Hol.
bridge, II. G. McCallister, +. d. Fits, A
E. Clough, J. L. Jones, j. l. Hubbell, E
Gregory, j. j. Wright. F. L. McCallister
Mrs. r. O. McCallister, Mrs. McKinnon
Miss Fits, Mrs. Mary Clark, Mrs. Delis
! McGillivray, Mrs. VESSEL, Mrs. J. l.
Jones, Mrs. F. G. Smith, Mrs. j. I. Hub
bell, Mrs. Larkin:
Invitation-Wm. Fintzel, VIM. Rae, j
NJ. Preston, Mrs. Preston, Mrs. F. L
McCalllster, Mrs. Fits.
Decoratiop-A. B. Gilmore, Geo. Irish
I. H; Rae, Mrs. N. D. McGlllivray, Mrs
Stahl, Mrs. McGill.
Suppr-D. e. Stoddard, D. F. Mackay
Felix Vidal, Price Hughes, E. A. Ripe
Mrs. D. A. McGillivray, Mrs. Gilmore
Mrs. A. Nj. McCallister, Mrs. Metcalf
| Mrs. Fintzel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-10
THE CITY.
LOCAL BKEVITlEh.

LOCAL BkEV1TlES.
Father Flynn was a passenger for
Sioux Falls.
Wheat in local market, No. 2, 70 cente,
No. 8, GA; fax 81.
Arrivals: Mrs. Chalee, Mrs. O'Brien
and A. W. Holdridge.
Mrs. Thos. Byrnes went to Iona Lake,
MIMI, to visit friends.
Mrs. John Walden was a passenger for
Lanesboro, Minn., to visit friends.
Weather report: Rain or snow this
afternoon and tonight. Thursday fair;
high northwest winds.
Peter Marquart went to Woonsocket
and Mrs. Sid Lee ond children to Villas,
on the evening train.
Ivan Nordhem departed to-day fol-
Canton, s. D., having in view q position
at Marshalltown, Iowa.
j.. @. Schultz is hobbling aropdd on
,crutches, the result OF aNf6ot badly
swollen from some unknown cause
A government patent on his home
stead has arrived at the clerk Of COURT
office for Christisnson Fogt Of Summit
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-10
EaE DAILY LEADER
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1897

Local Time able.
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul Railway, which
took effect, Sunday, Sept s.. 1886:
TRAINS aoINe sAsf.
Passenger, No. 4, departs II 20 .. m.
Freight, No. 96, departs q: AS .. m.
Freight, No. "a, departs 1870 p. m.
TRAINS 0Ino WEST,
Way freight, No. VI, departs 4:15 p. m.
TRAINS Prom THE EAer.
Passenger, No. l, arrives 100 p. N.
Freight, No. 9k, arrives 2 90 y. m.
Freight NO. q, arrives 4:l5 .. m. =
TRAINS YROn TIL WEST.
Freight, No. W, arrives ~ 40 q. m.
All the above trains carry passen9ere; cnt
sreigbts only when passenRees are provided with
tickets.
Passenger trains going east make connection
At Egan for oil points south.
MADISON d BRISTOL I'M.
Passenger going north. departs 1880 q. m.
Passenger from north arrives, 2:45 p. m.
r. j. HOLMES. Local Agent.
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A TTORNEYS and typewriter owners
<Acan lind a stock 1T typewriter paper,
81 BY Is, at The DArLY LEADER office.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-10

club. Mrs. Moore who comes to take
part in the Woman Suffrage convention
addressed the Mothor' club to-day. The
afternoon session of the Woman Suf-
frage convention will be held Thursday,
at 3 p. m. The following program will
be given: Theme, Woman Suffrage:
Why the wife wants it. Mrs. Lowe; Why
the mother wants it, Mrs. j. L. Jones;
Why the business woman wants it, Mrs.
Hubbell: Why the unmarried woman
wants it, Mrs. Tolles; Why the profess
ional woman wants it, Miss Dopp; Why
men want 1t, Mr.. Hubbell. Reading,
''Three Dreams in a Desert" Olive
Schriner, Mrs. Tuttle. x
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-10
SPECIAL NOTICES.

HOUSE FOR RENT. In best resi-
"A denoe portion OF the city near
schools. CHAs. 3. KENNEDY.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-10
Notice for Kids.

Bids will be received at the Office of
city auditor on or before Friday night,
November 10Th, 1897. at 8 o'clock for the
erection of an additional fifteen feet to
smoke stack at power house.
VIM. RAE, City Auditor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

the two men started in to be hot OPP
ponents. but in 1858 they reached the
conclusion simultaneously that tnelr
respective interests could be best pro-
noted by combining forces, and the
Debeers consolidated mines were the
result. one of the most valuable pieces
of property of the kind in the world.
Although Barnato represented KIM
berley twice in the Cape Legislature,
he had little time 10 give to pollucS
and little interest in that field or &C
tfyity. Cecil Rhodes uses wealth only
as a means TO political control. Bar
nato aspired only to such control OF
men as comes from being fabuiousiy
rich. His record in the Cape Leg1sla-
ture was quite devoid OF incident.
When the tremendous increase IN his
mining interest called for the esta D
rshment of a London branch this took
the form of a Barllato bank. FROM
that date he spent most of his time I'D
London, living at first in Earl Spencers
town residence, but moving finally In
to a magnificent mansion overlooking
Hyde Park.
When in Africa he married and had
three children, two sons and daugh-
ter. He always had, or professed to
have. boundless faith in the future OF
the Transvaal, and his personal popu-
larity among all classes Of Africanders
was great. In London, where he was
constantly besieged by fatterers, beg
CARS and projectors Of all sorts of en-
terprises. he finally became quite mac
cessible to all except his most intimate
friends.
His responsibilities weighed heavily
on his mind and he sought "sobace'
too frequently. His naturally robust
constitution had been undermined by
his hborious, exciting life and symp-
toms Of softening Of the brain mani
tested themselves. His family and
partners became alarmed at the proba-
bic effect on his securities if this were
known, as they were believed to be de-
pendent solely on his personality, and
friends intended to land Barney Bar
nato at Funchal for a months rest.
His mind showed signs of failing I'M
der the strain eight 1nonths before, on
which account he was sent away from
England. His condition became worse
instead Of better. Fl" made a public
exhibition of insanity ut Joha nnesburg
about six weeks before his death, but
it was attributed to temporary causes,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

How many times will the courts be
called upon to decide the responsibility
of telegraph companies for damages re-
sulting from the imperfect or delayed
transmission of kilograms? 1t seems
as though the dockets always held
some such suits. The companies fall
back upon their arbitrary conditions
of sending, printed upon the back Of
their blanks, but these have long since
been decided to be no excuse for either
mis-sending or delay. A telegram sent
from a Boston packing house one day
ordering it's agent not to buy hogs was
not delivered till the next day, after
he had purchased several car loads.
The telegraph company held that it's
liability was limited to the price Of the
message, but the appellate court very
properly decided that this is not the
law. Nor would the repetition demand
ed by the conditions have tended
to prevent the mistake or to protect
the company from damages. There is
nothing in the law which exempts q
telegraph company from dana ges
arising from the mistakes of its en-
ployes any more than any other private
corporation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

The officials Of the village of Wap-
pinger Falls, N. Y, have begun a cru
SADIE against all wheeled vehicles and
for the preservation of the sacredness
of the sidewalks They have even gone
so far as to order baby carriages off the
walks, and hereafter when the little
ones are taken out for an airing they
must take their chance with other car
riages in the streets. No explanation
of this extraordinary action is vouch-
safed beyond the general statement
that all things with wheels should be
forbidden the use Of the sidewalks. If
that rule is carried out to the letter
where will the officials who made the
rule walk?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
BARNEY BARNATos WIDOW, sIsTER-1N-1Aw AND DAUGHTER

A large proportion OF this deafness Is
caused by catarrh, and medical treat
ment for difficulty of hearing is usu-
ally directed to the catarrhal source.
In Europe, much Of the deafness is
hereditary. DR.. James Kerr Love, Of
Glasgow, recently read paper on
deafness before the Royal Society Of
Edinburgh, from which it appears that
congenit al deafness may beeithar hered-
itary in the direct line on i'm collateral
branches, and that it depends on not
ONE, but many anatomical defects. Inter
marriage of deaf persons perpetuates
but does not accentuate the tendency
of deafness. The hearing brothers and
sisters of deaf mutes are as likely to
have deaf mute ohsprings as If they
had been deaf mutes themselves. Con-
sanguin1ty of parents emphasizes fam
lily defects and in this way many cases
Of congenital deafness occur. One of
the most singular points of DR.. Loves
paper was the assertion that the state
had the right to control the marriage
Of persons belonging to families badly
tainted with deafness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

The fate Of julius Whitehead, of
Grassy Plains, n. j., ought to be q
warning to all would-be scoffers.
Julius is now confirmed sneezer, and
all because he sought to disconcert an
itinerant evangelist. The good man
was reaping rich harvest in Grassy
Plains, and was snatching some pretty
tough brands from the burning, but
failed to stir the heart of Whitehead
except to mockery. With the diabol-
ical purpose Of breaking up one Of the
meetings julius broke out in simu-
lated attack of sneezing, and he is
sneezing yet. The plot conceived in
iniquity was not able to be brought to
a climax, and when Julius had seen the
complete success of his nefarious pro-
ject he discovered that he was in for
a continuous performance. The evan
gelist has left Grassy Plains, but If he
will return and bring a sneeze cure
with him he can add Julius Whitehead
to his list Of penitents.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

specially styled Barnato. Barnato
was an assumed name, sort Of stage
name, for he began his life in South
Africa by exhibiting a trick donkey
some twenty-five years ago. Up to
the point where his fortunes began to
decline he made money by leaps and
bounds, and, IN 1895, when his good
fortune was at its zenith, it was esti-
mated that he controlled interests
worth in the neighborhood Of hun
dred million pounds.
1t was the fashion to call him the
richest man in the world. At that time
he was virtually the king of the Lon
don money market. In the autumn Of
1895. at the boom in Ikaffirs, when his
share of the comparatively new gold
mines of the Transyaal, South Africa,
was at its height, every man, woman
and child in London with money to in
vest, invested it in ''Kaffirs." The craze
was the last of those financial fevers
which periodically attack conservative
England, the ''South sea bubble" being
the first. For months it was the con-
tolling passion in London, and it was
scarcely less rampant in Paris and Ber-
lin. The shares went to .unheard of
figures and fortunes were made in a
day.
The center of this tremendous finan-
cial outburst was Barney BarnatO. and
he was conservatively estimated at
that time worth between S1OO,O00,0OO
and $15O,OO0,OO0. Among his assets
was a bank originally capitalized at
100000. In very few months it's
capital stock rose in value to $40, 0OO,-
coo.
Little is known as to Barnato's early
life. He was younger son and at the
age of 20 went to South Africa. then
a much more savage territory than it
is now and scantily populated by En-
glishmen or persons of English de
scent, to seek his fortune. The Kim
berly diamond mines were just begin
ming to be productive. With his few
pounds of capital he began dealing in
diamonds in a small way. He was
clever and pushing. Everything he
touched he made successful. In five
years he had earned enough in the re-
tail sale Of diamonds to purchase
shares in the mines from which his
merchandise had come Before anoth-
err five years had passed his holdings
at Kimberley had become very large
and when the Trarsyaal gold fields
We're discovered he Lad profits to in.
vest in them.
In 1886 Barnato was definite money
power in South Africa, and began to
be spoken Of as the rival Of Cecil
Rhodes Unlike in temperament and
:sHen MORA .Hnlike IN nessnaaaI ambition
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

A New York architect has prepared
plans for building an English syndi-
cate proposes to put up in that city and
which will be fifty-nine stories high. It
will have it's own fire department and
will be provided with five passenger
elevators running at express speed.
Some idea of the height of this mon
strous structure may be had by a COM
parison with the Masonic Temple In Chi
cago, which is about twenty-five stories
high. No particular benefit can be de-
rived from building SO high as that.
The air is no purer at that height than
it is at from ten to twenty stories, and
there must be more Or less inconyeni>
ence attendant upon living at that alti-
tude.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

think would be afraid to risk myself
In the prisoners power to that extent.
Il had to go out to Southmayd the
other night to get man, and he
thought he was going to have an easy
time to get away, but showed there
was nothing of the sort in prospect for,
him. AS a matter of fact, it is every
bit as safe to bring every prisoner
IN standing on the rear step Of your
wheel as in any other way, and posi-
bly, safer. If the fellow is on one horse
and you on another, he may make
some motion and get the better Of you
before you can help yourself; but il he
is standing on the.step of your bicycle,
he's got to hold on to your shoulders.
1t does not make a bit of difference
how dark night 1t is, if he goes to
make the least unusual motion you can
feel him and you can throw him off
the wheel before he can wink an eve
Before he can get up again you can
cover him with your gun, and there
he isl
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

The man who immerses himself in
business that he may accumulate vast
property, or that his family may live
luxurious and idle lives, has no right
to plead want of time for other claims
It Is not true that he cannot comply
with them, but that he has chosen not
to do so. The woman who, absorbed in
a round Of gaiety and society, declares
that she has no time to train her chill
dren and superintend her household, Is
uttering an excuse as vain as it is
false. She simply decides to use her
time for other purposes. And this lib
erty Of choice belongs to every one, IN
spite Of any desire to attempt to dis
claim III
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
Queer Causes OF Death.

Nelson Clark, a steamboatm of
Paducah, Ky, was scalded to death
on the steamer Jennie Gilchrist. He
placed a plank on the boiler and went
to sleep, when the safety valve opened
with fatal result. Mrs. Helen Savers,
Of Chicopee Fails, Mass, was drowned
In what is known as the Bleachery
pond, in the rear of Dunn's bleachery.
Mrs. Sayers was giving her dog bath,
and in some manner lost her balance
and fell forward into the water. Her
head was submerged and she was un-
able to call for assistance or to get out.
William Kaufman, of Wright County,
Iowa, was attacked by hiccoughs. He
swallowed the proverbial nine cups of
water, and his family attempted to
frighten the mild commissions from
him, but he grew worse. He was a
man Of strong constitution, but was
compelled to take to his bed, and soon
after died in terrible agony. William
Johnson, of Richmond, Va, was in a
boat out in the stream, with compan-
ions. He lost his balance and fell over
board, sinking quickly out of sight. A
fruitless search was made for the body.
and when Johnson's friends went to
pull in their heavily laden seines they
were Mortified to find the dead mans
body entangled i'll the Irvine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
n addition to fresh American me.

In addition to fresh American meats
and fresh American fruits the people
of London now have the advantage Of
getting American game and poultry
sent over in frozen state and sold IN
in the markets at from 6 to 8 pence per
pound. This industry, which was only
started few months ago, has proved
wonderfully successful, and the birds
are said to be received in fine condi-
ton. So popular has American poultry
proved that a similar industry with
Australian fowl has been greatly af-
fected, the rate in transit from this
country being so much less. The Lon
done1s are said to be very fond Of a
certain class Of American game, which
they are now enjoying at home for the
first time. Some of our American fish,
now unknown to English palates,
might be exported profitably in SIM
liar manner.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

was that Of a cab driver. He next
peddled secondhand clothing in Petit
coat lane, and next was a billiard
marker in a saloon. In 1872 he was
given help by some immigration so
ciety to the Cape in Africa. His broth
er accompanied him, and by enter
tanning the passengers on the vessel
during the voyage they earned $1OO.
Barney Barnato was in many re-
spects the most remarkable Spectator
Of the century. OF all the Englishmen
who have taken part in the develop
ment Of South Africa, two only have
secured worldwide reputation.
These have been Cecil Rhodes and
Barnett Isaacs more often and less re-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
DIAMOND KINGS END.
MARVELLOUS LIFE STORY OF
BARNEY BARNATO.
He Rose from a Humble Hebrew Ped
dler in London to Be the Worlds
Richest Man = HE Tragic Death
I'm the Ocean.
A Modern Monte cristo.

One of the most relnarka bic specula-
tors of the century and perhaps at one
time the richest, his fortune being es-
timated at from $500, 100000 to $780,
OO0, 600, passed away in tragic man
ner when Barney Barnato, the famous
diamond king of South Africa, COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
ocean from the steamer that was bear
ing him homeward to England.
Perhaps no career in history, certain
~ none In this century, approached
that of Barney Barnato. The son Of a
poor Hebrew peddler in the East End
OF London, his early occupation in life
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
Business Vicissitudes.

The annals Of commerce are not h
tirely without spice Of romauE
There is a little retribuive juskt
that sayors of the novelist's art in III
way the spoiler is sometimes spoied.'
business relations. In an article &c
titled "Made i'm Japan" the Pail Nd.
Gazette shows how nations have ey
croached upon ONE another's business
and reaped for time a rich harvest
Only to see the same tactics employed
by rival people, and be forced 4
stand aside while the trade slipped
from their hands into the keeping d
another nation.
In old times the Dutch, by importing
English clay, made a good profit out Of
limitations Of Chinese porcelain and
presently the Dutch product became
world as Delft ware.
But the Dutchman was no more 81
cure in his profitable trade than hsf'
been his predecessor, the Chinama
The English potters took to copyla1
the Dutch patterns, and sold their w
terry much cheaper, and the north 4
England became headquarters for a,
Delft china.
Again, however, the spoiler has bH's.
spoiled. OF late the japanese bar
made themselves masters Of the art {,
reproducing the patterns best liked 4
England, and have begun to encrOalt
on the domain long monopolized n
the English potter The japanese pro. 4
-uct is finer and stronger, and aboV.8
all cheaper than the best EngbS,
ware, and Japan is providing the nar
kets with goods which were origlnaT
a Chinese monopoly. I,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

Two Frenchmen fought a duel near
Paris, and one received a slight scratch
across the back of his hand. Two
Texans met in the road the other day
near Sweet Home, and there We're six
bullets in each mans body when the
undertaken took charge of the affair.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

The common expression, "Time is
money" is used to heighten sense Of
the value of time, as If it's chief and
best use was to earn money, and here
In lay the only reason for not wasting
1t. Those who thus reason buy gold
often at a fearful price. They give
Tor 1t their whole time, which is their
TO which it may be put.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

No reason however clear, no thought
however deep. no Judgment however
sound, can compensate for the absence
OF a warm heart and sympathetic feel
ings. 1t is sometimes argued by un-
sympathetic people that such emotions
are only in the way when calmness and
airmness are called for; that they weak
en- the will, blind the Judgment, and
shake the nerves so as seriously to in
terfere with the actual performance of
the right thing in the right way. They
cite as examples those who are COM
pietely governed by their feelings, who
are carried away by excitement, who
are deficient in the powers OF reason
- sereessssef R,1t this is cortninlu no
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
Nobody misunderstands the N

Nobody misunderstands the marriage
of American heiresses with impecuni-
Gus titles abroad 1t is the most conspi-
cuous and offensive outgrowth of Amer
lean vulgarity, and in an overwhelming
majority of the cases the women who
have thus made commerce of the holi-
est relation Of life have suffered the
humiliation and disgrace they deserve.
There are exceptions to the rule, but
the exceptions are no more than are
needed to prove the rule.