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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
THE MECHANISM OF STYLE.

Il wish, said the man who was
writin speech. that | could think
Of the word | want
What kind OF word Is IT." asked
his wife.
Something that means cutthroat,
robber and villain. It's got TO be a
word Of at least four syllables, be-
cause | want Il TO be polished sar-
casm - Washington Star.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
THE PRACTICAL SIDE or 1T.

Uncle Hiram-So yew study Latin
an Greek at college. dew yeo
Nephew Yes, sir Don't you APP
prove Of those studies7
Uncle Hiram-Wal. the Latin might
come in handy II We ever worked in a
drug store. but don't see what the
Greek is good fern. Y. Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
GENERALLY THE CASE.

Miss BeautifuIgirl-D Doesn't mans
second love usually differ from his
first love?
Aunt Broadhead-Yes; she general
ly has more money.--Puck.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27

Charley Goff 81 California defeated
Tom Williams OF Australia In the
third minute OF the first round In New
York.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
THE SHELL
BIRDS, BEASTS AND FISHES THAT
ARE BORN FROM EGGS.
ODDITIES OF AUSTRALIA

How Mother Nature Takes Care of
Her Embryo Creatures Some In
teresting Facts Ostrich Egg the
Largest ot ALI Butterfly Product n
Thing Of Woudrous Beauty.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27

rEHREN-MARvIN co.'s LIST.
Nearly one-half Of the properties offered
by IN one week ago are sold. and the
demand for desirable residence proper
crea.inr. Many who have been consid-
efinx purchases f1nd that the properties
are bought up by others while they are
waiting, and price1 on desirable loca-
have said before. delay means advance
In prices, and IL would pay you to mike
q big effort to buy now.
Below We give you . list Of . few OF the
properties which We VIM oner du1ns 'hs
FOR cT HOMES WIN OFFER THE FOL-
LOWING:
magnificent location beautiful home;
water: overlooking Lake Washington:
s $3.50
At corner Of Massachusetts, ana Twelfth:
. naEnincens residence: u .oom.; , lots;
First hill: 7-room residence, brick oase-
ment. modern and complete: 01A
On Columbia and Twentieth: beautiful E
room house: large lot: for sale or long
$50 Harvard avenue: now Groom house:
large lot: very nne view: 1oee; easy
On Mercer street. near Bellevue: house .
rooms with bath: &l.eoO.
On Boren and Stewart: ono 7-rOom house:
smaller Residences; lot eoxf1: a.5eA
On first hill; Columbia near Broadway; IN
exquisite home: large lot: beautiful sur
roundings: for $&Ooe.
S70O-House and lot: Twenty-sscond ave-
nue.: monthly peymentA
u.1O-House and lot: North seattle:
u.loo-House and lot; Thirty-seccnA ave-
nue.; monthly payments.
$1.s5-Two lots and house: Twenty-second
FOR INVESTMENT.
On first hill: three houses on large lot:
bringing income Of nearly noeo annually:
siasoo-For four houses: income Of u.ss:
ss:DeF.rs. hin; for two house. bringing
sl4oeo-For s houses: lot lsozlO. income
H.0o-For 7-room house in Broadway d.s-
trict: very complete: large lot; income
VACANT PROPERTY.
Magnificent lot: nrst hill; S1750.
A corner i30x1D; frst hill: $500
Finest lot on Belmont avenue: corner: has
water. sewer connections. cement side
Another corner: Belmont avenue: lot oxieo;
Two very choice lots on Harrison for y,oo
each.
Two BEAUTIFUL lots on Belmont: a snap;
Two splendid lots on Bellevue near Repub-
lican for $50 each.
Lots In Boston Heights addition; $50 to
500 each.
Lots In South Seattle: Sprague's addition:
500 TO 32o0 each.
Two lots In Bradner's addition for $40
each.
We also have a nicely improved ranch Of
acres. near Lake Washington; house OF
S rooms; for Sl00o
Remember. we build homes on easy terms
on lots purchased from US.
FEHREN-MARvIN COMPANY
as Pioneer Building. Phone. Main rs.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27
NICHOLS NUM-.
Real Estate Investments
50 and % Halter Block.
RENToN HILL.
RENroN HILL ADDITION.

RENroN HILL ADDITION
The finest and cheapest residence prop
erty In the city; good view: STREETS grad
ed sewer. water and gas farRe SDx laa-
foot lots
We are now building several modern
houses and cottages for homes n this ad-
dition. convenient TO street cars: Madison
street
You &c. can have your choice Of 50 lots 1t
We will build for you or loan you money
TO build at low rate OF interest
Other property In ali parts OF the city
8, zo-Four lots: full size. Harrison and
Third avenue west North Seattle,
S-l"e-3 lots on Harrison and Tenth ave.
rue.
ssa'-Cosner Boren and Olive street: ful,
lot.
3sS-Twe lots on Tv~nty-th.rd avenue.
near Jefferson. on car line: snap.
u.eo-Two lots on Third avenue west ard
Mercer
SIS each for lots near university.
toe-Iot on First avenue. near Hsghlana
drive. Queen Anne hill
IMPROVED PROPERTY
0-So-s-rcom house and fun lot Esxhra
avenue. near Pike.
u;ooo-s-room cottage. Dexter avenue. near
81 .ae-Houss and lot. North Seattle: ans
view
s,-soe-s-room house, modern: Twerfv-,hfrA
avenue. close 20 car line
G.i1t-House and lot. Twensy-sourth ave-
nue.. near fesier. modern: sewer ana
graded streets
Five ard is-acre tracts for sale eaean "a
easy terms and convenient TO street ears.
NICHOLS q NUM-
s0~r~.~wR
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27

NOTlCE-fnvestors and speculatoFs. can
money In our new guessing contest. en-
bracing one Of the most interesting topics
Of the day. The be1t guessefs can trade
in 80 shares Of stock on the New York
stock exchange. SEQ bushels oe wheat On
the Chicago board Of trade. or 10 bales
OF cotton on the New York cotton en-
change. and we win furnish the money
It costs you nothing. We also manage
The Investors Fund" which pays prof.
IT. twice q month to subocribers- Write
for full particulars and conditions. Sent
free. C. E. NACKEY 4 CO.. BankaEs.
3 Broadway. New York
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0An2 EstateI L0annI =
Are you ioohnn
TOR bargain
IN new No. IN 81 x
on Rentou I'm
on easy teri
or for eashe
/ am exclusive aosnt -
n building on Fourtosu1A
property was bought nuG1nD
prices and could not nv -
for less than ROO countnn
making loan he viii seIl 1oeU
Tho house has
, large r0umm
large alcov4
closets IN 60
bathroom -
splendid vto0
AZ 20 pxicok
prefer not to quote ~ -
call at ofnce. - pl0nA
erty. price win - Qn1ou1 q
470 dpllnED
buys t. -
s-room h11mM
on lot 60
Walking 0
ed and level. -
good tenants ak -
sei1 separately. x =
s;m 49,.
portis. 6 - -
4 control 4 umDnP q
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27

o. 9. GOVERNMENT goods: nothing bet:
ter for 1855. timber country ana hare nard
seat. 0-73, dyed black, 8: Gen. AileS
storm ana cold weather hood coats. $.50:
army black wool hats, 40c: navy under
shelter tents. &c: Springfield carbines.
-; overshirts. e; strictly all WOOL Kirk.
mi First avenue. Seattle.
THE new No. 3 wheeler Z Wilson SeW-
ing Machine: rotary motion ana ball
bearinsS: machines rented by week or
month: repairing . speciality. Hansons.
rs Columbia street; telephone. Black lS0-
WANTED to adopt into Q good family an
orphaned boy about 10 or u years OF
age. Apply to n. Dow. Ballard. Wash.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27

MOST everyone Is aware Of tho advance
Of prices on stoves and ranges: We are
selling all cast and steel ranges at last
years prices. and Will continue sale un-
I'll September 1st; this means saving OF
from 81 70 80 on q range: do not overlook
the fact OF ours being the Garland. the
stove. George III. Woodhouse. 1854 Sec
Ond avenue.
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ioxip: corner on Highland g.
tsB feet front on An<iiScD So
7-room house and iox o e.
&1s0 -
% lots on Seventeenth. =
Nineteenth. betw~en East
East Alder: No TO - smc4
50 lots on ffrst nill. near -
1Sp eaen. -
. lots on Harvard avenues -
$50 each.
Lots on Union and Brcsdvn1S
Is lots on Twenfy-first and
avenues: rs 80 SO esch
r3sxl2p. FIFTH and Battery. -
I1sxiD. Twenty sixth a0d -
Good lot In North Seattles
: s-room houses and los, H.
Groom house near BroadSAE -.
s-room house on Twenfy-11
~ -
s-roo,n house on Harvard 9DG
- lots: good location. near -
$50
Good business lot: SO asa
acres for plating. csooe ~
A large lssf ether bargains ia -
GIvE-Ss = CO.
sr-z.e-Ea3 New fork Bloch
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a an INCOME PER ANSrA
TENANT


a am INCOME PER ANSrA
TENANT.
On a ~ 10 Investment thrcs-tz3
on a pypmsnent corner n heart
ness part az city. part cA~n-
at s per cent
Sac income per 1nD1ra- Two tsn2
Investment Of s.. @a. foubse
rooms. newly pA4Efsf and
overha afei. exaesssnr nsisn
level street. b~r~e~a sws car
minutes walk from oostnfa
piumblng and sewerage
$50 for ssl lots at entrance
land Pa<x.
GENERAL. rSyE0TMEyL
. 0axtsy Du1id1nG fhcnA
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GOOD business stand In country town. con-
sisting Of atorer0om and dwelling COM
bfned: two warehouses;. good wharf.
store, fixtures. ETC.: water In house: few
fruit trees and flower garden; this II .
moneymaker; for sale or trade for Seat
tie property. Address w !. care Post
Intelligencer.
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usONAl

DOLLS Go-CaRTS JUST IN.
sty,cs 10 select from a, 5ac. &C. So, 81 81
ssA
Nickel alarm clocks a. &C. each are
goct buy new because the season you
need them Is here. and the formation Of
clock trust vii! force them higher.
Rrt cages are stu cheap. bat there's no
telling how aons fhey'ii stay 50. Better
buy now.
CpoN EROS iGs Second Avenue.
TctnrNcrs RGx sal
k1blNSoNS SApuR BATH CABINET
combines bathroom and xanitzr.um; In
ss@ntsoE invited. descriptive matter free.
- y. HilA general agent. Burke blAo.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27

FOR 6ALE-Lodging houses; rooms. <S5s:
nished house. $6 month: furniture 8
rooms 500; rooms. 500: rooms. board,
500; rooms. board. 500; II rooms, board,
$50; 20 rooms, elegantly furnished. q. 500;
best transient house in Seattle, hotel -
rooms. $500: lodging house. . foomA
$500; other houses all over the city.
Follow the crowd and stop 1t 4organ's
EXCHANGE 1Ql1 Third ave.
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FOR 6ALE-An established and paying
dairy business, well located and making
money. 5000: old established wholesale
Sll0O; the best Turkish bath house In
seattle. $1,000: grocery. 800, 81 $50. 600:
cigar store, 500: partner In cigar store.
taurant. $780, saloon. g. 500. Morgan's
EXCHANGE 1Ol1 Third ave.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-27

IF you wish to buy . bicycle. 90 to Spin
ming; he carries the celebrated Clipper
and Yale: II doesn't require much adj
IL right and the quality high. and II you
do not wish to pay all cash. It's all the
same to Spinning.
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FOR aAI.E--S-seory 49, - J
centrally located. ~ -
S1O.Uo-<Sood inveStDGn9 -
erty: Close N: net 0eno
-. 00o-1SxlD f1st. Co..
tanning three hOuse&
=. leo-7-room house. Nogeo
giant view: sold tn anr1n
q. &<-6-room cottnxo.
mortgagee's price. pgos<T
81 .a6O-srroom house. lnRW -
sixth and Jackson scSoo4 e.
Sso0-Smali house: iarBo ~ -
son street: good iocaf11M
q. Me-Cneapest lot IN D. D
addition: ffrst hill
81 49, Double corner. Be>mmG
n sb-Bsauttfsll corner. -
xSksA-Frne lot. North SnefkA s.
4 de iAysdS--Fyryt avenue -
road avenue: any 49, 49,
S5a<>-tsood building lot. -
Yesler
SxD-Nice building lot: yogl1
Scpp--Wiil buy an eiegnn& - -
have several OF them - -
gain, SA6 sac and ~ -
CANT view. near Pixie 49,
s-g9-Lct spxiD. kert0u al
tssaN-Corner on Esgntr~ntn -
>xzs- Beautiful lot oseri0ohtnU
.ngton. near Madison sexe1
c. A. XkES31
- -
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theatrical enterprise: profits $40 par
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$1,000: q rooms, j. 600; % rooms, $50: 8
rooms, $3.50: delicateseen. best location In
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
The Autobiography Of Captain
Hallahan's Spanish Gun.

looked then. My carriage and caisson
were much the same as these l have
now. Our batterymen We're glorious
fellows in their blue and red uniforms.
How they served, US later when we
went into the Peninsula campaign!
II was the pride of the battery.
Gallo, said they is worth a regi-
ment:' for l had a reputation, gained
when l. alone. on a little galleon. had
sunk two pirates against whom my
master King Charles Ill, was war
ring. That, you must know. was when
] was first from the factory. but ever
afterward l shot as true and kept as
cool as in those youthful days be-
fore I had been advanced to light bat
terry duty and when I was serving my
apprenticeship against the Algerines
as a naval gum"
The voice grew clearer and the tenn
per of the old piece became better with
these "reminiscences.
Those were the days of war;" it
continued, war when men and cam
non fought, and we light artillery
worked. Our service then was the ad-
miration of the world. 1t was some
thing to be of the light artillery"
Tell US something about yourself
some one said
Il could tell many tales, many,
many tales murmured the voice, '.but
| am no MISUNDERSTANDING. II
have done my work and done it we'll
Gallo can always be depended upon
my captain, the noble Cienfuegos, used
to say; Gallo knows: Gallo has a
soul Alas, poor Cienfuegos, he fell
all too young"
Again there was a silence, and then
the old gun began to speak again.
Il was made, if you would know in
the famous old gun factory at Sevilla,
when our king, Charles III, was maxi
ing our army and navy the best
equipped fighting force in the world
For several years after / was complet-
ed l was parked with many others.
Some of my companions were sent off
to America when our king joined
with the French in forwarding aid to
the American revolutionists. / remain
ed behind, but soon was mounted on a
galleon and tasted my first battle in
sinking the pirates l told you of Then
| came back to the park, but when the
light artillery was organized Gallo was
given place in the crack battery of
the service. Then followed a long Pc
riod of rest broken only by drill and
target practice. Finally Godoy took
us in the successful expedition into
Portugal Returning. we lay idle, save
for those troubles that France brought
upon us, in all of which | played my
our country.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

AYE, senior 1776 is the year in
which l began my career. 1916 as you
see on my breech Read the inscrip-
ton aloud, senior: Z De Agosto de
1776:' it's good to mine ears, who am
SO far from home. Strange travels
have I had, senior. Few of my BROTH
ers cast there in my mold in old
SeVilla are yet intact, while I, the first
of my race, am still hale and hearty.
An idle life. you say, senior? Aye,
an idle life now, but who knows when
| shall be called upon again. But I
am ready: always ready. Never have
| been called upon in vain. Feed we
dainty eight-centimeter ball, senior.
and i will show you my strength. One
hundred and twenty-three years have
gone over my head but the bronze that
is within me Is no ill-cast piece, but
firm as the loyalty of old Sevilla. Cop
per and tin and lead are the metals
from which my bronze was made, and
all came from the hills of my native
province
Here the rumbing voice of the gun
died away, while its owner evidently
fell to thinking of the old days in the
fair southern Spanish town. Mounted
on a carriage of modern make and
standing in an American store room,
it seemed strangely out of place, but
in nowise damaged by the trip Cap
tain Hallahan had brought it on from
far Manila.
1T is a sturdy looking field piece"
said some cne breaking the silence,
but it is out of date and could not
do much against a Calling The
remark stirred the old gun SO that it
trembled with Indignation.
"A Calling gun. say you. senior: one
of those splitting. suffering pepper
canisters that does it's work by ma
chinery? Bah. Am l to be compared
to such a monstrosity. I, Gallo? Blood
of my king, but these be strange
times. Even have l heard they would
call these Calling machines field ar
tillery. Field artillery! These chok-
ing, jamming, tiny barreled new fam
gled crank fired inventions of the evil
one!
'Ah. in the days when l first saw
service field artillery was dignified
profession. / can see us now, six
guns to a battery, dancing along on
that gay campaign of ours into Por-
tugal under the gallant guardsman,
Goday. when the craven Portuguese
fed before us. Those We're artillery
men in those days when field artillery
was in it's glory and the generals had
found out that a light, mobile organ
ization was better than the rusty,
heavy old hulks that had been so high
Iy praised before us. How well we
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

was so terrible the entire force sur
ecuted it was deemed the insurgents
need not be feared greatly, and, as
a rich galleon bearing silver dollars
and merchandise was about to be sent
to the Philippines, then a dependency
of Mexico. from Acapulco, and needed
armament, I was dismounted from my
field carriage and placed aboard.
sit was a motley crowd of passed
gers we had on the ship; friars, no.
taries who had bought their offices at
aution in Mexico, minor government
dignitary or two, and host of ill-fa-
vored fortune seekers. Despite all
this we concluded the voyage without
trouble.
"On arriving at Manila I was placed
In the court yard of the governor gen.
erals palace, again mounted On a
field carriage, and, with few eXcep-
lions, have remained there or on the
walls nearby ever since, I was in the
palace grounds when that great struc-
ture was destroyed by the earthquake
of 1868, and fell upon my side, break
ing my carriage.
When, in 1896, the natives began to
become offensive. and it became evil
dent there was to be a revolt, | was
placed on the carriage ] now ride, and
hurried out to San Juan del Monte.
Really, it was a small affair, but I
cama near growing EXCITED ii was so
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

You have heard of Valencia? Ny
battery was there We were posted on
the heights to the right of our de-
lenses, when we saw the troops of
Napoleon advancing, far in the dis
lance, in three columns. Presently they
deployed into line of battle, paused,
and then came on.
"'Gallo,' said Captain Cienfuegos,
softly, to me. Gallo, for SPAIN
Then we opened on the enemy, now
within range. Ours was an enfilading
fire, our position being far to the
right and front of the defenses.
marked a regiment Of the hated
and sky blue uniforms nodded and
danced as they ran forward The
match was touched and straight as q
speeding bali ever flew my shot went
for that regiment and moved down
half company on the left and,
ricrocheting, struck field officer, car
rying off his head. 1t was pretty
snot''-softly. .
las fast as our gunners could load
and fire we hurled our iron balls into
the advancing ranks, while to our left
our infantry poured in deadly fire.
A regiment of French Hussars was
sent to charge our position, but was
cut to pieces before it had severed
half the intervening space. Guns to
my right and left burst from over
heating, but I-ah, such as I, do not
burst
you know how the French were re-
pulsed by our fire and how they with
drew, shattered and bleeding, leaving
hundreds of their dead upon the bat
tefield.
THE general came to our position
in person. Captain Cienfuegos,' said
he, grasping my captains hand
Spain owes you her gratitude; you
saved the day
Not T. said the captain, laying
his hand upon my breech, but Gallo
Would that Spain had more guns
like Gallo said the general.
after that l fought in many battles,
and finally went to Cadiz, where I was
government. Then came Wellington's
advance in that glorious spring of 1918.
I was with him. You know how we
drove the French before us until they
made their stand at Vittoria NV
battery was given an exposed posi-
tion. but swept everything to our
front, checking every charge and
breaking up the enemy's formation.
Wellington observed us, and when the
battle was over he came and stood
by my side and read the inscription
on my breech.
They make good guns at Sevilla,
said he to my captain, as he turned
away. That from Wellington.
The next year | was at Madrid
| with Ferdinand VII, then / was sent
| with a large number of other guns
! and soldery to Mexico, where I was
| in but one fight, the one in which
| Morelos, the guerrilla chief. was cap
| tured and his band broken up. I fired
J but three shots, but their execution
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many years since I had been in a real
where they had sought to intrench
themselves after committing va
rious outrages. 1t didn't take
long for me to be got into
action. They loaded me with shells
there are some there in my ammun.-
ton chest now-and L dropped these
with my old-time accuracy among the
beggars. OF course they fed
"Then I returned to Manila and was
parked. No, 1 took no part in the af-
fair in August last year. Bah. They
call that battle! Once Spain had
soldiers who knew how to fight.
There is nothing more to tell. Your
Captain Haliahan pursuaded Colonel
Rosalio, our chief of artillery, to sell
me, though what right any officer has
to sell a gun that bears, as I do. the
arms of Spain. I cannot understand.
I bear no ill-will to Captain Hallahan.
He has shown a soldiers appreciation
Of a worthy gun by keeping me in
good condition, more than my chief of
artillery did; but I trust Colonel Ro-
salio will have trouble explaining my
disappearance. Some one will discov-
err it, Gallo is no unknown gun. There
are those who know him and honor
him.
Good night, senior: 1t is long since
l talked SO long, and my voice is go
ing. Good night