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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24
THE LATEST.

Wheat SIS rs.
Zinc has gone up.
knights of Labor vote for imperial
ism.
Italy will be represented at the peace
conference
National hardware men meet in
Milwaukee.
The st. Louis mayor vetoed a cur
few ordinance.
Uncle Sam will open hostilities II
Spain doesn't hurry
The Maria Teresa has been aban-
doned off the coast of Cat island.
Gen. Miles is for expansion and says
the Philippines are lost to Spain.
Scotields plurality is about $4,000;
the rest Of the ticket $4,000 more.
The little son OF Thomas lie Mieux
Of Marinette died by swallowing nails.
At keokuk, Ia, Mrs. Lucy Alexan-
der, colored, aged 127 years, is dead.
The reported uprising in Salvador,
which is part Of the new union, Is
unimportant.
The next annual meeting of farm
ers national congress will be held at
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 6-14.
Rear Admiral Schley. at his own
request, has been placed on waiting
orders, so that he can recuperate.
The 14-year-old son Of Matt Brausch
Of Rockville, while handling a revolt
yer. shot his younger brother, aged 5,
in the breast.
Lieut.. Commander Cornwell is on
his way to join Dewey and take COM
mand of the Petrol, now on duty in
the China sea.
The Missouri supreme court decided
that the law providing for the sale Of
public franchises to the highest bidder
is unconstitutional.
Pensions: Original, Frank Brende-
maehl, Prescott, Sc; John Riemer,
Sheboygan, IS: original widows, Cor
nelia e. Glass, Neillsville, s.; ella
Velie. Plymouth. IS.
The British steamer Bede of London
from Norfolk, Oct. 80. for Hamburg.
grounded at the mouth of the River
Elbe and broke in two.
Private mailing cards may now be
sent to any foreign country by affixing
a 2-cent stamp, and to Canada and
Mexico by affixing 1-cent stamp.
The Boer forces stormed and cap
tured the mountain stronghold of
Chief Opefu of the Magatos tribe in
Zouttansburg district Opefu recently
massacred missionary and family,
and the Transvaal government sent
an expedition to punish the natives.
The latter attacked the Beers but
were driven into the mountains. Two
Beers were killed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24

Pana, Ill.,, Nov. 1S.-Non-union col
ored miners and white strikers clashed
in the streets of this city again yester-
day. Several hundred shots were
fired, but the combatants did their
shooting from behind trees and hedges,
and consequently no blood was spilled.
The trouble Is said to have been start
ed by an unknown negro firing upon
Wesley Pope, striker. Pope says
that he was walking near the Spring
side colliery, where the negroes were
quartered, when he was fired upon. He
secured rifle and reinfofcements.
Meantime the negroes appeared in
force and the shooting became general.
After several hundred shots had been
exchanged the negroes retreated to
their stockades. No damage was
DONE The militia arrived too late to
get into action, but are now patrolling
the Springside district in force.
The residences of Mrs. Kelly, mother
OF Chief of Police kiely, officer Smith.
Contractor Kecham and other citizens
were pierced by bullets. Several wo-
men are in critical condition rs
result Of fright over the conflict.
A petition was circulated yesterday
addressed to Gov. Tanner citing that
the blacks and whites were both
heavily armed and were bound to come
together; that bloodshed and loss of
life would surely follow the removal
Of the soldiers from Pana; that the
petitioners were bona fide citizens and
property owners Of Pana and desired
protection fearing for their lives, the
lives of their families and that their
property would be In danger of de-
struction in case of the removal of the
troops. The paper closed with siren
uous plea TO Gov. Tanner to retain the
troops in Pana indefinitely.
The Shelby county grand jury is
probing into the hold-up OF the Balti-
more & Ohio southwestern special
train bearing the Washington Qnd.)
negroes to Pana on Sept 80. A large
batch Of indictments Of Pana miners
is expected.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24
CABLE CULLINGS.

The new encouragement Of Can
ada. Lord Mimic, arrived.
George Leacke, an American. was
murdered at Chemulpo, Corea.
NJ. Billie, formerly Danish minister
at Washington. Is dead at Copenhagen.
Major Marchand Is preparing to
withdraw his French force from
Fashoda.
The Scandinavian government has
negotiated a loan of twenty million
crowns for military purposes.
Lottie Collins, the singer of Tara
ra-boom- decay, attempted suicide at
her London home by opening her
veins.
The Paris correspondent of the
London Morning Post says it has been
decided 10 bring Dreyfus back to
Paris.
NJ. Zainis, whose Greek cabinet re-
signed and was entrusted by King
George with its reconstruction, has
completed his task.
The storthing Mt Christiania adopted
a resolution to introduce a distinctive
Norwegian flag, without the emblem of
the union with Sweden.
Sir John V. Moore is the new lord
mayor In the formal inauguration
parade and show an Anglo
float attracted much attention.
A Paris paper says the French adj
miral al Toulon received orders TO
assemble all warships on the Medit-
erranean prepared for action.
II Is rumored at Sc. Petersburg that
the sultan has offered Crete to Russia
as set-of TO the balance OF the
Russo Turkish war indemnity.
1t Is reported in diplomatic circles
that Jules Cambon, French ambassa-
dor to the united States, will shortly
he transferred from Washington.
II is reported that Lieutenant Gen.
eral Sir Francis Wallace Greenfell, in
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24

command OF the operations for the
conquest of the Egyptian provinces in
the Soudan, will be the next governor
of Malta.
The Hamburg correspondent pub
fishes a telegram from FREDERICKSBURG
stating that the obsequies of Prince
Bismarck have been postponed until
April.
Senior Manuel San Clement has as
sumed the presidency Of Colombia.
The policy of the new administration
will be to institute reforms demanded
by the people.
Luigi Luccheni. the Italian anar-
chist who killed the empress of Aus
tria, was sentenced at Geneva to life
imprisonment, the maximum sentence
under Swiss law.
England's war-like attitude is at
tributed to the fact that she believes
Russia will not fight and that she can
safely demand the settlement OF many
knotty problems in the east.
The government of the United States
of Central America Is removing Its cap
ital from Amapola, Honduras, to
Chinendega, Nicaragua, which will be
the permanent seat OF government.
Captain Dreyfus Is reported to be dy-
ing in prison. The French authorities
have refused to allow his wife to write
to him or notify him of the decision of
the court of cessation to reopen his
case.
The pope has decreed that priests
may officiate at the funerals of Free
Masons and that the remains may be
buried in consecrated ground, pro-
vided the deceased was not openly
hostile to the church.
The miners employed in the vicinity
of Silverton have rounded up all the
Chinese laborers in the various camps
and shipped them out of the district.
The Mongolians are expected to re-
turn to China by the next steamer.
After efforts, lasting three years, up
on the part of the United States lega-
ton at Constantinople, Minister Straus
has succeeded in obtaining an trade
authorizing the establishment Of a
United States consulship at Erzeroum,
Armenia.
The emperor and empress of Ger
many sailed from Beyrout The i'm
perial yacht will first call at the island
of Rhodes for dispatches and will then
sail for Malta where the emperor will
observe the strictest inccgnito
throughout his return journey.
The London Daily Mail says that the
French naval construction program
for 1899 includes two battleships of
l4,500 tons each, with very powerful
armament and protection: two cruisers
Of 1000 tons each, two large torpedo
boat destroyers and II torpedo boats.
LII Hung Chang has been ordered
to proceed to Tsi-Nan- capital OF the
Province of Shan-Tung, to concert
measures with the Viceroy of Shan
Tung to prevent future foundations of
the Yellow River (Hoang-ho). This
appointment is regarded as virtually
shelving Prince Lii.
Sir Edward Gray, liberal member of
parliament, for the Berwick On Tweed
division of Northumberland, speaking
at Ashington, voiced the opinion OF
liberals on the subject OF Egypt's fu-
ture, saying that although Great
Britain went to Egypt prospecting and
intending to evacuate. circumstances
had created fresh obligations. result
Ing in a position which any British
government was bound to maintain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24
WHEN BRIDGET COMES HOME.

Our Bridget is lady,
She goes to rout and ball.
To church and evening party,
To feast and festival.
And from the various functions
In which she takes delight
She turns her footsteps homsward
At all hours of the night.
TIL half-past 10. till midnight,
Till she fingers on.
And oftentimes we hear her
Return at starry dawn.
For always on arriving
She doffs her party gown.
Seizes a mighty poker
And shakes the furnace down.
Crashes Of sudden thunder
The sleeping house alright,
And subterranean rumblings
Disturb the Silly night.
With vigor most appalling
This stout Hibernian elf
Shakes till she wakes the baby,
My wife and exc myself.
We dream that we are dwelling
Upon yesuvius' brink,
We hear great Vulcan forging
Chain armor, link on link.
We hear the old boy shoyeling
His coal in by the ton,
When Bridget shakes the furnace
At midnight or at |!
The students at Beloit college, Wit
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24
MINERS CLASH AGAIN
PANA ONCE MORE IN A STATE OF
TERROR.
BLACKS ATTACK WHITES

Several Hundred Shots Fired, but
Fortunately No One Was Hurt
Bullets Pierce Chief of Policies
House-Petition TO Governor to not
Withdraw Militia.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24

The students at Beloit college. who
were in the recent cane rush were
fined IS each by the faculty.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
Pinnists Practice Too Much

"While studying with Rubinstein,
Josef Hofmann practiced three hours a
day. writes Mary B. Mullett of the
famous pianist i'll The Ladies' Home
journal. "He believes that most stu
dents make the mistake of overpractic-
ing. When he came to this country the
first time, he was practicing an hour a
day. Fer two years after his return to
Germany he practiced two hours day.
During the next two years he averaged
four hours daily, and after that, until
he went to Rubinstein, six hours daily.
This he regards as excessive.
" Ones mind grows stupid and con-
fused, Hofmann says, and ones fingers
follow the confusion of the brain. An
other mistake of young pianists is that
they use too much force in practicing.
One should play just hard enough to
keep the fingers and wrists from getting
stiff. One is not aiming for artistic re-
suits as one is in concert playing. It is
the fingers which need constant prac-
tice -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
Physical End durance.

1t should be impressed upon all young
persons that during life each member
of the body, in the very act of living,
produces poison to itself, notes a writer
in Popular Science Monthly. When this
poison accumu1ates faster than it can be
eliminated, which always occurs unless
the muscle has an interval of rest, then
will come fatigue, which is only anoth-
er expression for toxic infection. If the
muscle is given an interval of rest, so
that the cell can give off its waste prod
uct to keep pace with the new produc-
tions, the muscle will then liberate en-
ergy for long time. This latter condi-
ton is what we call endurance.
The power and endurance of the hu-
man machine is limited according to
our understanding of the above facts,
and also our recognition of its slowness
i'll getting started. Like any other pom
derous and intricate machine, the body
requires time to get in harmonious
working order The BRAIN nerves, heart
and skeletal muscles must be given
some warning of the work they are ex-
pected collectively to perform. Igno-
rance of this fact has broken down many
young man who aspired to honors on
the cinder path.
The necessity of getting all the parts
of the body slowly in working order is
well understood by trainers and jockeys
on the race track, as is evidenced by the
preliminary warming up they give
their horses, although it is doubtful if
the trainers could give any physiologic
reason for this custom.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
His Wonderful CuriOs,

The author of "Idyls of Spain" speaks
of notary whom he met, whose naive
simplicity surely could not be exceeded.
He asked for our autographs, and l
inquired whether he was collector of
such trifles.
Yes, sir, he replied, Il am, and
among others l have most precious
collection of anonymous ones.
"Beaming with delight, he produced
rare manuscript of the time of Fer
dinand and Isabella, exquisitely writ
ten, and with the initial letters beauti-
fully painted.
"'Senores.' he cried with enthusi.
. asm, look at this Isn't it beauty?
I'm always collecting such things.
Then l have just purchased by letter the
manuscript of the "Iliad," written by
Homer himself, his own handwriting.
The pity of it is that the work is not
written in Greek.
''At this Miguel came to the rescue,
for Luis and l were almost hysterical
with amusement.
II say, inquired Miguel, what doc.
ument would your worship like most
to have i'll your possession
"'Why, answered the notary, the
telegram from Christopher Columbus
announcing the discovery of the new
world. "
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
Fish In IcebOund Waters.

Fish do not breathe air, but the life
supporting constituent of air-oXygen
gas-which is soluble in water to the
extent of three volumes in 100 at ordi-
nary temperatures and four in 100 at
freezing point.
The water containing the dissolved
oxygen is made to pass over the gills,
where it is separated from the blood
only by very thin membrane, through
which the gas is able to pass.
Fish in icebound rivers have to de-
pend entirely upon this store of oxygen
for their respiration, and if it becomes
exhausted they are sutfocated, just as
we should be if deprived of oxygen.
1t rarely happens, however, that any
considerable area of water is entirely
covered with ice, especially in the case
of rivers. Holes and cracks are almost
sure to occur here ard there, by which
the oxygen of the air can reach the wa
ter and become dissolved in it. During
long frost fish may always be found
congregated beneath air holes in large
numbers They are there to breathe. -
Exchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
EXPERT TOBACCO sESTlNG.
Cuban Buyers and Their Highly De-
vcIopcd Sense o? Smell.

Cuban Buyers and Their Highly De-
vclopcd Sense OF Smell.
The greater part-in fact, nearly all
of the tobacco raised in Cuba and not
used by the Cuban cigar makers is
shipped to the United States Atcertaiu
seasons of the year the Havana hotels
are filled with tobacco buyers from the
United States Some of them deal
through the brokers in Havana, but
some who know the country End the
language go out into the tobacco dis
trict and deal directly with the plant
ers, often buying promising crop be-
fore it is picked. The tobacco buyer has
necessarily to be a good judge of tobac-
co. He goes down into the very center
of the bale of tobacco he is examining,
extracts some samples and tests them in
different ways
The first test is that of smell The
Cuban tobacco has strong and pecul-
lar odor. A little variation one way or
the other makes the tobacco good or
bad. After smelling it the buyer is like
ly to roll a rudely constructed cigar out
of the leaf and smoke it. He will inhale
the smoke and endeavOr to determine
exactly the flavor. He will also examine
the ash carefully and test also the COM
bustion of the tobacco-that is, try to
find out how long it will hold fire. 1t is
great annoyance to a smoker who is
talking or writing or otherwise engaged
to put his cigar into his mouth and find
that it has gone out. No cigar ever
tastes so good after it has once gone out,
and fine Havana cigar is positively
rank when it has met such a catas-
trophe. So one quality sought for is
that of holding fire. If a sample smoked
by the buyer will keep lighted four
minutes, it is considered very good.
Some will burn for five minutes and
even longer without being puffed.-
Ohio State Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
THE CYCLONE.
How This Wonderful and Destruc-
tive Air Fury Is Formed.

low rms "Onder1ul ana DeStruc-
tive Air Fury Is Formed.
TO get an idea of a cyclones forma-
ton imagine a large circular pan or tub
with quite large hole in the middle
of the bottom. With this hole plugged,
fill the vessel with water; then draw
out the plug and watch. There is first
rush of water from all directions toward
the hole and turbulent effort to get
through. Then the water surface above
begins to sink and swirl, the particles
gradually circling around and around
and rushing, ever faster, toward the
center. AT last there is actually hol-
low space through the center, around
which all the water in the tub is whirl-
ing, sluggishly near the rim, but with
more and more violent rapidity toward
the middle until it rushes downward
through the bottom. Now, if that water
were air. you would be watching little
cyclone turned upside down, for the air
rushes upward instead of downward.
In the cradle of cyclones during the
summer months, when the land and the
water grow hotter and hotter because
of the longer days than nights, layer
of air, hot, light and full of vapor, is
for time held down by denser air
above it. Restless, expanding, tumultu-
Gus, it moves about like beast at bay
until thinner place in the air above is
found Then up it madly rushes and
into the vacuum left behind the lower
atmosphere hastens from all directions,
pushing and twisting and pouring up
ward until it has fallen into a regular
spinning around common center.
The cyclone, once formed, rushes
away from the tropics toward the pole,
and begins its career of destruction,
bruising, w1ecking and sinking the
luckless ships which happen to be in
its path. More and more of the sur
rounding atmosphere is drawn into the
whirl until the storm often covers an
area nearly l, 900 miles in diameter.
Sometimes it filings itself upon our At
lantic coast and tears fercely through
forests, fields and cities. Then again it
sweeps away across the broad ocean and
dashes itself upon the coasts of Europe.
Once in awhile it so ad1oitly avoids
the land that we never know it has
passed until ships come in torn and
broken.- Nicholas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
A Very Prudent Young Man.

OF William and John Scott, after.
ward Lord StOwell and Lord Elton,
Lord John Russell used to tell this
story: When they We're young men at
the bar, having had stroke Of profes-
sional luck, they determined to cele-
brate the occasion by having dinner
at the tavern and going to the play
When it was time to call for the reck-
oning William Scott dropped a guinea.
He and his brrther searched for it in
vain and came to the conclusion that it
had fallen between the boards of the
uncarpeted floor
This is a bad job, said William,
I'VE must give up the play"
"Stop bit, - said John. Il know a
trick worth two of that, " and he called
a waitress.
"Betty," said he, "we've dropped 2
guineas. See if you can find them. !"
Betty went down on her hands and
knees and found the guinea, which had
rolled under the fender
"That's a very good girl, Betty, }"
said John Scott, pocketing the coin,
land when you find the other you can
keep it for your trouble. " And the pru-
dent brother, went with light hearts to
the play and so eventually to the bench
and the woolsack,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3, Is!
A Pleasant letter.

1t takes clever man to ind good
word to say on every occasion. 1t is said
Of Thomas Bailey Aldrich that he once
received letter from his friend, Pro.
fessor Edward S. Morse, and found the
handwriting wholly illegible. Mr.. AL
driCh was not at loss for an answer.
In due time there came to Mr.. Morse
the following reply:
My dear Morse, it was very pleasant
to receive letter from you the other
day. Perhaps should have found it
pleasanter if | had been able to decipher
it. don't think | mastered anything
beyond the date, which knew, and the
signature, at which | guessed.
There is q singular and perpetual
charm in a letter of yours-it never
grows old, and it never loses its novelty
One can say every morning as one looks
at it: Here's letter of Morse's |
haven read yet. | think | shall take
another shy at it today, and maybe
Ihall be able in the course of a few
years to make out what he means by
those IS that look like W S and those is
that haven any eyebrows
Other letters are read and thrown
away and forgotten, but yours are kept
forever unread. One of them will last
reasonable man a lifetime y Youth S
Companion
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
Early Use of Tobacco.

l have heard my grandfather say that
one pipe was handed from man to man
round about the table. They had first
silver pipes; the ordinary sort made use
of walnut shell and straw Tobacco
was sold then for its weight in silver.
l have heard some of our old yeomen
neighbors say that when they went to
Malmesbury or Chippenham market
they culled out their biggest shillings
to lay i'll the scales against the tobacco.
Sir w. R., standing i'll stand at Sir
Robert Poynt2 S park at Acton, took a
pipe of tobacco, which made the ladies
quit it until he had done. 80 Brief Lines
Set Down by John Aubrey" lG6996
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
A Mountain of Sulphur.

The "Soufriere, or sulphurous
mountain, is considered to be the great
est natural curiosity of st. Lucia, and,
in fact, of the West Indies. 1t is stu
ated about half an hours ride from the
town of Soufriere, to which it has given
its name, and nearly two miles to the
east of the Pitons, and is at the foot Of
two small hills, both of which are
quite bare of vegetation on the sides
facing the crater.
1t covers a space of about three acres
and is crusted over with sulphur and
alum. There are several caldrons in a
perpetual state of ebullition. The water
is quite black in the larger ones and
boils up to the height of two or three
feet, but in the smaller ones it is quite
clear.
Visitors never fail to boil some eggs
in one of the smaller oaldrons, obtain
ing them from one of the creole guides,
who keep ii supply on hand or purpose.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-03
Bananas In Typhoid Fever.

After long experience with typhoid
patients, DR.. Ussery of St. Louis main
tains that the best food for them is the
banana. He explains by stating that in
this disease the lining membrane of the
small intestines becomes intensely in.
famed and engorged, eventually begin
ming to slough away in spots leaving
we'll defined ulcers, at which places the
intestinal walls become dangerously
thin.
Now, solid food, if taken into the
stomach, is likely to produce perforation
of the intestines, dire results naturally
following, and, this being the case,
solid foods or those containing large
amount of innutritious substances are
to be avoided as dangerous.
But the banana, though it may be
classed as solid food, containing as it
does some 50 per cent nutrition, does
not possess sufficient waste to irritate
the sore spots. Nearly the whole amount
taken into the stomach is absorbed, Civ
ing the patient more strength than can
be obtained from other food.-Ameri-
can Druggist.