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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI.

How many Americans appreciate
the grandeur of their country's
geography? How many know that
there is no river system on earth even
distantly compares with that of the
Mississippi and its tributaries? The
census tells that these rivers, all how-
ing through one channel into the
guilt of Mexico, aggregate more than
100000 miles in length. The ANA
zon, the Nile, the Ganges and all the
rest of the great river systems on
earth put together scarcely approach
this magnificent showing. Think OF 1t!
A steamboat leaving Pittsburg can
visit twenty-three state without pass
ing through an artificial channel.
She can go up the Allegheny and
Monongahela, the Big Sandy, the
Cumberland-clea into Alabama
before reaching the mouth of the
Ohio. Below Cairo she can traverse
not only the Mississippi but the st.
Francois, the Arkansas, the White,
the Red, the Yazoo, the Tallahatchee,
the Yalobusha, the Ouachita, the
great bayous and all the tributaries
of these streams. Above Cairo lie
the Upper Mississippi, the Illinois,
the Missouri, the Yellowstone, the
Platte, the Big Horn and a score of
tributaries to all these. The suppos-
itiouS steamboat can land at 1850
towns and cities on her way. These
rivers drain an area OF l,6S3,303
square miles, occupied by popuia-
ton of 24,29S,3332 in 1890. The coro-
merce of this great river system was
carried on in 1889 by 7,453 vessels,
with an aggregate tonnage of $685.
$40 and value of S15,535,00
And so rich is that commerce that
total of the craft engaged in it
by nearly eleven million pas
sengers and nearly thirty-three
million tons CT freight per year.
And this is only one of the
great river systems of our country
one of many that include such mighty
systems as that of the Yukon, that Of
the Columbia, that of the Colorado
and that of the Alabama at Tombig-
bee And from one end to the other
of all these rivers there is no custom
house to stop traffic or to levy one
cent Of tribute upon it! 1t is worth
every Americans while - reject
upon the greatness of our land and
to rejoioe in it. 1t is worth while TO
remember also that the resources Of
this marvellous country abe far less
than half developed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
POINTERS FOR PROFIT.

Don't estimate the value of dog
b. his bark.
Don't let present luxury lead to
future poverty.
Don't buy cage until you are
sure of a bird.
Don't forget that Received pay
ment" reads better than Remit
promptly"
Don't cover your eyes with dollars
while alive.
Don't think that to gain is to retain,
especially love and umbrellas.
Don't ship your money in beer
"schooners."
Don't regret an exchange for value
received.
Don ride on credit if your shoes
arc paid for.
Don't let a lie leave you unless you
have more to follow.
Don't stretch your credit, lest it
become thin.
Don't look for the roses of court
ship among the cabbages of matri-
mony.
Don't expect deaf man to praise
your singing.
Don't ask the moon as a bonus
when you buy the earth.
Don't despise the clothing which
has money in the pocket.
Don't be anxious for a new name;
better remain a Clam than change to
| Chowder.
Don't judge of men or eggs by
their outside.
| Don't let the cost of the bait exceed
the worth of the fish.
| Don't tie to any place or person Of
doubtful stability.
Don't trust a politicians words be-
| fore marriage.
Don't think that all desires are
needs.
Don't buy of a man that you can't
| find next day.
! Don't carry eggs or borrowed money
in your pockets.
Don't spend your time before or
behind glass.
Don't be a crank" unless you turn
your own wheel.
Don't carry water in basket or
intrust secrets to a telephone.
Don't expect the "Klondike" Is
coming to you.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

fus' guards are under orders to kill
him rather than permit his escape.
Fuller reports of the recent hur-
ricane in the West Indies show that
the damage was fully as great as it
was first stated to be. On the island
Of st. Vincent alone about 300 lives
were lost.
Heavy storms continue to prevail in
the Baltic sea. One hundred and
twenty fishermen have been drowned
between Polangan and Libau, seaport
towns of the Province Of Courland,
Russia.
Ferdinand w. Peck, United States
commissioner to the Paris exposi-
ton of 1900, is not receiving encour-
agement in his efforts to secure in
creased space at the exposition for
American exhibits.
There have been no more deaths
from yellow fever at Merida, Mexico.
There have been many cases in the
interior towns in Mexico, but mainly
OF an intermittent character which at
first deceived the experienced doctors.
There are hints OF a possible die
tatorship in France, in connection
with the action of General Zurlinden,
military governor Of Paris, in him
self becoming the prosecutor of Col
onel Picquart, supporter of Drey-
fus.
A conference of delegates from
British Guiana and the sugar-pro-
ducing colonies of the West Indies
met at Bridgetown, Barbados, and
adopted resolution protesting
against the treatment of the sugar
industry by the mother country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
WHY ENGINE IS CALLED SHE

The Locomotive Engineer Jour
plain why an engine was always
called she" Among the answers re-
turned we find the following;
while there is much to admire
about an engine. and while there are
many men literally carried away by
engines, the same as by women, 1t
takes man to run them, on both
long and short runs; with engines as
with women, appearances do not
count for anything"
Because she is a 'darter' (daugh-
teri of Eve (evening)."
Anything that is called she is
not supposed to have any power or
control over other things. Thus, the
engine is called She "
Because she works hardest when
she is sparkling
Because she represents a power
not exactly seen, but felt throughout
all the world
Because she is cranky and change
her"
Because both wear aprons"
Because you always know when
she is coming by the noise she
makes"
objects distinguished for grace,
beauty. gentleness, or productive
ness are considered feminine"
There are other very good reasons,
not mentioned in the above; but pos
s!bly the best one, the one from
which the locomotive was first called
She" is because it conforms to the
French feminine gender.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

Krupp process was tested at the In.
dian Head proving grounds and found
to possess unusual resisting power.
The 215 anniversary Of the land.
ing of the first German colony in
America was celebrated at New Ulm
Mimi, Mayor Kiefer OF st. Paul being
the orator of the day.
Mrs. Botkin may be brought to Del
aware to be tried for murder in spite
of the refusal of Governor Budd OF
California, through a writ of habeas
corpus, under federal law.
II. Gardner Chase, broker of Bos-
ton, filed voluntary petition in in
solvency. His liabilities amount to
$40, 900, of which $4,000 is secured.
He has comparatively no assets.
The police arrested two young men
OF Southington, Conn, in connec-
ton with the murder of Emma Gill.
One of them, it is claimed, sent $3.50
to DR." Nancy Guilford at various
times, and the police believe that
Miss Gill died at the Guilford home
from an operation.
In suit for damages filed in New
York against the French Steamship
company it is alleged that the captain
of the Bourgogne was of unsound
mind at the time of the disaster.
Seventy miners were buried by an
explosion in the Empire coal mine at
Brownsville, Pa. All but eight es-
capped by an abandoned backway four
miles distant from the main shaft.
Governor Hazen S. Pingree was re-
nominated by Michigan republicans,
who also Endorsed his ideas for the
taxation Of corporations, and Secre
tary Ayers management of the war
department.
DR.. Marvin de Zarmba, who married
Miss Josephine Sayin, daughter Of a
New York millionaire banker, Is de-
clared by his lawyer to be not
count, as was said at the time of the
marriage.
A society is said to have been form
ed for the purpose OF prosecuting Gen.
e. s. Otis for criminal negligence in
locating Camp Merritt at an I'M
healthy spot, and SO causing the
deaths Of many volunteers.
Frank Howard Collier, a lawyer and
politician Of Chicago, is to submit to
a surgical operation In New York for
the restoration Of his reason, which
has been clouded for years by blow
on the head.
Friends of Governor Black tried to
secure his denomination by atlidavits
which, they claim, prove that Col.
Theodore Roosevelt is not a resident
of New York, but of Washington, and
was therefore ineligible for The Of
flee.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
CROPS NOW SECURE.
Yield in General Has Been Good
Throughout State.

The crops of Wisconsin may now be
said to be all secure. The yield in
general has been good. The weather
conditions during the past week have
been very favorable for the compile
tiCn of the work of securing the re-
naming crops and for fall blowing
and seeding. The rains have been
liberal and we'll distributed, except in
the extreme northwestern counties,
where the soil is still too dry for
working. Generally throughout the
central and southern counties the
total rainfall for the week was in eX
cess of one inch, while over that por
ton Of the state bordering on Green
Bay it amounted to from two to three
inches. These rains are very beneti-
cial to pastures, meadows and early
sown wheat and rye, and greatly as
sisted in termination. Many pieces
of fall grain are up and look well.
Corn is practically all in the shock
and is an excellent crop. In Il few
localities there was some slight dam
age to fodder by the heavy frosts
early in the month. Potatoes ar
being dug; the crop is only fair.
Threshing is about completed. Gran
berries are nearly gathered and the
crop is very good. Tobacco is curing
nicely.
In the northern section potatoes are
being dug; the quality is good but the
yield is small. Corn on heavy soil is
an excellent crop. Pastures are in
fairly good condition.
In the middle section the weather
continues dry and many farmers are
waiting for rain to sow their winter
grain. Pasturage is about exhausted.
Sorghum making and potato digging
have begun. There has been but lit
tie wheat or rye sown on account of
dry weather.
| In the southern section the ground
generally is in fine condition for
ploughing and sowing winter grain.
Grapes and apples are abundant and
of good quality. The corn crop rs
about all in the shock; quantity and
quality are excellent. Winter grain
IS all up and looking we'll.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE.

There was recent complaint from
the west that the growing use Of
the long distance telephone was act
ing disastrously on the receipts Of
the railroads. Other interests are
finding cause for worry for the same
reason. 1t is said in Boston that the
vocation of the commercial traveller
is fast being driven to the wall. The
country retailer can now order daily,
instead of awaiting the periodical
visit of the drummer" to learn
prices and other facts. This lessening
of the services of the drummer
reflects disastrously upon the countr!
hotels. The city hotels also fee
the effect of the telephone. They
lost some patronage when the going
our of the drummer lessened the
city visits of the country merchants,
and with the improvement of the tele-
rhone. the rural dealer has even less
occasion to come to town.-New York
Evening Post.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
DOMESTIC TIPS.

The CorbettMcCoy fight Is Off.
Fanny Davenport, the actress, Is
dead.
Nobraska's corn crop is worth $751;
100000.
President Mckinley will probably
not visit st. Paul.
Andrew Judson White, of New
York, died in London.
The Royal College OF Surgeons,
London, gets the mahdi's head.
George A. Steinway, OF the piano
firm, died at sea.
The funeral Of the Rev. DR.. John
Hall will take place October 4 in
New York.
Special Master Carey finds that
nearly $S7,000,O00 is stiil due the
Northern Pacific.
Leech Lake Indians threaten to de-
stroy Great Northern railway bridges
and other property.
Seth Low has written a letter in OPP
position to an independent state
ticket in New York.
w, J, Bryan, it Is said, will shortly
resign as colonel of his Nebraska
| regiment ANA ro-enter politics.
yellow fever has gained such head
way at Oxford, Miss, that the author
! tiles do not believe they can check It's
spread there.
The big Drummond tobacco plant
at st. Louis has been bought by the
| American Tobacco company, after
repeated efforts.
The twelye-inch rifles which will be
| used ON the new battleShips will be
more effective than the thirteen-inch
guns now in use.
Dr. w. T.. Martin, an American
citizen and missionary, has been ap-
pointed president of the Imperial
University OF China.
The democratic state campaign
committee chairman said 1t looked as
II Mayor Van Wyck will be named by
his party for governor
The Sovereign Grand Lodge OF Odd
Fellows, witch met In Boston. elected
new officers and selected Detroit for
its next meeting place.
Fitty-tive persons were poisoned,
four of them probably fatally. from
eating canned beef at church so
ciable at Plainwell. Mich.
Connecticut democrats ignored the
Chicago PLATFORM and nominated for
mer United States Treasurer Daniel
Nj. Morgan for governor.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in an ad-
dress at Danvers, Mass, said he great
ly desired to see an Anglo-Saxon fed
Grafton, and believed it was coming.
Andrew Carnegie, II Is said, is to
start at Homestead, Pa, a gun factory
which he intends shall rival the IA
nous one OF the krupps in Germany.
Armor plate made according to the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

The Wisconsin hattleship commission
has chosen Miss Elizabeth Stephenson,
daughter of former Congressman Isaac
Stephenson of Marinctte, to christen
the splendid fighting ship that will bear
the name of the Badger state. Miss
Stephenson is next to the youngest of
ak daughters of the Marinette lumberman
and politician who is so well and favor
ably known throughout the state. She
was born in Marnette twenty-one years
ago. After attending the schools of her
native city she was student at Mil
waukeeDowner college for two years, 60
ing thence to La Sale Female college
near Boston, from which she was gradu-
hted with high rank in her class.
Miss Stephenson is 6 feet tall a bru-
nette, of bright and amiable countenance,
and altogether a young woman Of strik-
Ing appearance. She is a social favorite
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
DEWEY 5 MEN LUCKY.
Little Sickness Among Marines Now
at Manila.

Washington, Oct. Admiral
Dewey appears to have peen lucky in
preserving the health of his sailors.
ami in that matter he even exceeded
the record of the North Atlantic
squadron. Secretary Long Friday
made public a short extract from the
admirals report relative to this SUBJ
ject. For the information of the gov
eminent he says of the sailors and
troops: LAS Luzon is the farthest
north of the large islands its climate
is naturally the most temperate. In
this connection it may be mentioned
that out of force of over 1000 on
the ships of my squadron. the number
of men on the sick list at any time
has not exceeded 40, nor has there
been any considerable sickness among
cue troops on shore, though they were
much exposed for three weeks in the
trenches during the rainy season.
As matter of fact Manila is far from
being an unhealthy city, and the cli-
mate Is as fine as that Of any place in
the tropics"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Colombia concludes 20 resume dip
lomatic reiations with Italy.
The eruption of Vesuyius is in
creasing in violence.
The alarming situation in France
rivets Europe's attention.
The French cabinet decided that
Dreylus shall be retired.
An English baronet is thought to
have been murdered in the Klondike.
American silk is being sold in
Lyons, France, the silk center OF Eu-
rope.
A monument to Samuel de Cham
plain, the French explorer, was UNI
yelled at Quebec.
Great Britain, Russia, France and
Italy signed an agreement for the
pacilication Of Crete.
Captain General Banco Issues an
order for the removal of COLUMBUS
body from Havana to Spain.
1t Is understood that the Japanese
government has decided to negotiate
for a foreign loan of $50,000,000.
Bodies Of volunteers are being or
ganized in Argentina to take the field
against Chill in case OF war
Colonel Picquart has been put in
secret Imprisonment so as to stitle his
revelations about the Dreyfus case.
American Presbyterian missionaries
at Media, near Hoinow, China, have
been forced to lice from Chinese out
laws.
Concessions granted to Cavaliere
Lu22atte by the Chinese government
are regarded with great favor in
Rome.
Native HawaiianS are making 4
vigorous protest against the anneXa-
ton of the islands to the United
States.
Prince Henri of Orleans, in letter
to the Paris Figaro, says France has
claims on the Nile superior to Eng
lands.
kuang-Hsu, emperor OF China, has
resigned his power to his mother. 1t
Is reported that he is dead, but this
Is not confirmed.
Hankow railway, which is in the in
terest of Russia, has been ratlhea by
the Chinese government.
Queen Wilhelmina, in an address to
the states general of the Netherlands,
said she had received the ears peace
proposal with sympathy.
The joint high commission which
is considering points of difference be-
tween the United States and Canada
resumed its sessions at Quebec.
Owing to the industrial crisis in
Jamaica the people there are unable
to help the hurricane victims on the
other West Indies islands.
An agreement has been signed by
representatives of Chill and Argen-
tina by which their boundary south of
latitude 26.52,45 is submitted to arbi-
tration.
1t is officially announced in Paris
| that Mons. Z. Cambon, French am
bassador at ConStantinople, has been
| transferred to London. succeeding
Baron de Courcel.
The White Star Line -teamer
Britannia. which sailed from Liver
pool for New York, took among her
passengers Rev. DR.. Charles H Park
hurst OF New York.
| The convicts at Cayenne, French
Guiana, near the island prison of
! Albert Dreyfus, are in mutiny. Drey-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

at home, in Milwaukee, and wherever she
is known. Her selection will give par
ticular satisfaction to the people of Mari
nette and of Northern Wisconsin in gen.
eral
At the present time Miss Stephenson In
travelling in Europe with her cousin. Miss
Harriet Stephenson of Mcnomince, but
she will start for home in few days and
within a fortnight will arrive in Visor
sin. She was appraised Of the high honor
conferred upon her by Il cahlegram sent
to Paris by her mother, from Marinette.
. Having selected the young lady to
christen the ship, the battleship committee
will now turn its attention to the raising
of fund to purchase Il testimonial to
present to the Wisconsin on behalf of the
state. The committee requests that all
contributions to this fund he sent to th~
First National bank of Milwaukee,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

formed of the deaths Of James F.
Gamble, Co. F, Ord Wisconsin, and
John Il. Riley, Co. F, 9th Massachu-
sets, at Porto Rico.
1t is expected that the United States
forces, after the volunteers desig-
mated for the purpose are mustered
out, will consist Of about 100000 vol
unteers and $1,000 regulars.
General Augustin, in an interview
is quoted as saying that the fleet
which Dewey destroyed at Manila
was composed of old wooden ships,
whose guns were practically useless.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion that the retirement OF Of
ficers of the regular army who have
been promoted in the volunteer SER
vice does not affect their volunteer
commissions.
An order has been issued by the
war department to different com
handing generals stating that fur
Laughed men are not entitled TO
transportation to their homes at gov
eminent expense.
The French minister Of foreign af-
fairs, M. Delcasse, has offered the
Spanish American peace commission
ers, now in Paris, the use of the Paris
foreign Office for their meetings,
which are to begin October /.
A rumor that the Rothschilds are
to lend Spain large sum OF money
when the treaty of peace is signed
Is denied In Madrid. Officials OF the
Spanish government say that the
Bank of Spain Is able TO supply the
immediate demands Of the govern
ment.
The steamship Australia sailed for
Honolulu with a large number of
passengers and full cargo. Import
ant dispatches for the commander or
the American garrison at Honolulu
were placed in charge OF the purser
half an hour before the steamer
sailed
Captain Leonard A. Lowering, now
stationed ut Fort Sheridan, has been
ordered to Fort Wayne, Mich, to re-
lieve Captain Samuel A. Smoke, as
sistant quartermaster Of United States
Volunteers, in charge Of the post
there. Captain Smoke has been given
furlough.
The postoflice department has in
formation that the Cuban South Coast
Steamship company has resumed
weekly trips from Santiago to Bata-
bano, touching at Manzanillo, Santa
Cruz, Jucaro, Tunas, Trinidad and
Cienfuegos. At Batabano there Is
connection by rail with Havana.
President Mckinley has extended
the jurisdiction of Military Governor
Wood so that 1t now embraces the
whole province Of Santiago de Cuba
and has appointed Lieut-Col A. s.
Wiley of the 9th immunes, lieutenant
governor, with the duties of reorgan
izing the civil courts and the admin
istration of all civil affairs in eastern
Cuba.
The most beautiful of all of the
souvenirs of the great naval battle
of July 3, off Santiago, reached the
navy department from Capt. Con-
verse, commanding the Montgomery
at Guantanamo. 1t Is bronze bust
of Christopher Columbus taken from
the flagship Cristobal Colon, which
lies below the surface of the ocean 70
miles from Santiago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06
PITTELkOW A BANKRUPT.

Milwaukee. Oct. IA petition in
bankruptcy was filed in the United
States court Friday by Charles Pittel-
kow, real estate and loan agent. The
total estimated liabilities are s1SS,074
and the assets, sl53,524.72. Mr.. Pittel-
kow was state normal school regent
until within few days ago, when he
resigned.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

Two glasses OF temperance drink
served to London doctor by a tee
total family contained so much al
cohol that the doctor was unable to
walk straight across the room. He
is now lecturing against ginger ale
and root beer as intoxicants.,