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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07

As the slugger is not without a con-
siderable circle or ring OF admirers.
II may Interest them to learn OF an
English authority claiming that the
only son OF prize fighter who ever
amounted to anything Is the Rt. Hon.
William Court Gully. speaker OF the
British house OF commons His father.
john Gully, butcher, and afterwards
a prize fighter. grew rich and was
member of parliament for Pontefract
In 1886 Speaker Gully incidentally
receives a salary OF $4,000 year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07
JIM CROW.

Oh, say, Jim Crow.
Why is It You always so
With gloomy coat of hlacke
NsnS don't you change It's hue,
At least for day or two,
To red or green or blue?
And why do YOU always wear
Such sober, somber afr,
As glum rs the face OF Care?
| wait for your reply,
And into the peaceful pause
There comes your curious, croaking
cry
"oh, hecausel cause, 'cause!"
oh, say, Jim Crow,
Why, when the farmers SOW.
And the corn springs pu in the row,
And the days that once we're brief
Grow long and laugh into leaf,
DO YOU play the rascally thietc
| can see by the look In your eye
Wary and wise and sly
That YOU know tho code In vogue:
Why will YOU then, oh, why
Persist In the path CT the roguer
| hoarken for Your reply
And into the empty pause
There rings your graceless grating
cry
"oh, because! cause! 'cause!"
And say, Jim Grow,
With all Of the lore YOU know
Lore OF the wood and field
Lore OF the clouds and the clear
Depths OF the atmosphere.
To our duller ken concealed
Why Is II you ever speak
With n mingled suuawk and Il squeak?
You, with Your talents all,
And your knowledge OF this and that.
Why must YOU sing like squat,
And talk like perfect "hat?"
| listen for your reply,
But In tho lapse and the pause
All hear Is your impudent cry
"oh. because! cause! 'cause!"
Scotland In Woman's Home Com
panlon.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07

There may be others engaged In or
binary trade there, but 1t Is positively
known that OF the English nobility
Lord Londonderry carries on coal
yard the marquis OF Butte owns a
vineyard that he profits by CONNER
cially; Lord Sudeley turns many an
honest penny out OF jam and Lord
Harrington has fruit store at Char
ing Cross, London, where the fruits
and flowers grown on his estate are
offered for sale.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07

Washington, Sept. 2.-Consul Nc
Coock at Dawson City, Alaska, reports
to the state department that no less
than 1000 persons have gone down the
Yukon from that place within a month
bound for the Cape Nome gold fields.
Stampede from ST. Michaels.
ST. Michaels, Alaska, Aug. 14.-Via
Seattle Sept. 2.-The investigation OF
the reported murder of the members OF
the Jessie expedition by Indians at the
mouth of the Kuskowim river has be-
gun. 1t is expected it will last several
days. If any evidence of murder is
found the suspected natives will be ar
rested and taken to Sitka for trial.
The small military Jail at this fort is
almost filled with prisoners. They
have all been remanded for trial at
Sitka this fall. A veritable stampede
has set in from here to Cape Nome.
Big Pile of Dust.
Seattle Wash, Sept. 1.-Two steam
ers arrived from Alaska Friday bring.
ing about 500 miners, fortunate and un-
fortunate. They were the Laurada
from st. Michaels and the Humboldt
from Skaguay. The total amount d
gold dust brought is estimated at $780,,
900. Reports from the Cape Nome dis
trict are still conflicting, but the fact
remains that considerable gold was
brought from there by passengers or
the Laurada. Many hard-luck stories
are told.
Many Broke" in Alaska.
Vancouver, B. c., Sept. 2.-The Dir.
go arrived from Alaska Friday witt
200 passengers and gold dust estimated
at $250,O00 1t is said that there are
thousands of "broke" men in the
Kondike who must get out of the
country or become objects of charity
next winter. The telegraph line has
reached a point on the Yukon river
$50 miles south of Dawson.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07
ELECTRICITY IN ECUADOR.

The following extracts are from n
letter by Consul-General De Leon,
dated GuayaQuil. June IL, 1899, to a
New York firm, to which the riginal
has been forwarded;
There Is no electric power used in
Guayaquil and no demand for electrical
supplies. believe, however, that
there is m excellent opening for AN
electric light ana street railway ser
vice. This Is prosperous city OF
about 10000 inhabitants, and with the
construction Of the proposed railway
to Quito Is bound to increase In nopu-
latton and wealth, 1t Is at present
lighted by gas OF poor quality, which
costs the municipality a considerable
sum annually, A street car system
trarcrsNs almost every street; but
mules, the motive power, are costly.
The finances of the municipality are
la llourishng condition. The stock
of the car company was at so In 1896 :
there Is now a large cash reserve, equal
to 90 per cent. OF capitalization Is per
cent. annual dividends are declared,
and the stock brings today $3.50 per
share. Fuel is scarce and expensive,
but superb water power is available at
some distance from the city. In 1896
the installation OF an electric light SER
vice was In progress, but the great fire,
which burned SO blocks OF the best part
OF the city, destroyed the work and
caused the enterprise to be abandoned.
The city is almost rebuilt with a better
class Of ediilces. and the time seems
ripe for system combining transpor-
tatlon and illumination.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07

The Japanese mission has returned
to Toxic. Apparently 1t has accom-
plished nothing. The conservative
party headed by Yung Lu, has infu-
enced the empress dowager until she
seems to have yeered against the con-
clusion OF any alliance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07
Many Broke" in Alaska.
BADGER BRIEFS.

At Marinette Jack Burns was SEN
fenced to year in Waupun.
At Darlington Charles Brees, aged p,
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
At Appleton Joseph Wettengel died
adding fourth to the list of victims
Of the explosion at the factory OF the
E. H. Wieckert company. He was 81
years old and leaves a wife and three
children.
Wisconsin pensions granted-Origi-
nal, George B. Owen, Waupun, &c.;
original widows, etc, Susan j. Wilds,
La Crosse So.
In the household of Joseph Heubesky
at Neenah, George, 12-year-old son,
died in the early evening, and daugh-
ter was born few hours later.
Mrs. l.. J. Booth, widow of William
Booth, and mother of Wilmot A. and
Charles Booth of Milwaukee, died at
her home in West Union, Ia, at the
age of SO years.
Judge Burnell has granted the petit
ton of J. w. Cameron in the Sherry es-
tate case to sell tract of timber lands
in the northern part of the state to S.
w. Hollister of Oshkosh for $22,500.
Neenah physicians are being called
to treat unceasng cases of blood poi
soning, not caused by the kissing bug,
but by the bite of species of black
spider. The victim is usually bitten
in the night and is awakened by pain.
The machinery of the Mineral Point
Pulp and Paper mill has been sold and
is being removed. 1t is reported that
the Mineral Point Zinc OXid company
has purchased the building and will
put in a sulphuric acid and sulphuric
oXid plant.
The semi-annual district conference
of the Appleton district of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church opened at Green
Bay. There are As ministers in at
tendance. The Appleton district ex-
tends from Stevens Point to Kewaunee
and from Rhneander to Appleton.
Supt Pierce of the Oneida Indian
school stopped in Washington, en- route
home from Carlisle, Pa, where he
placed several Indian pupils in the
school at that place. He called at the
Indian office and had talk with the
officials regarding affairs at Oneida.
The La Crosse District Methodist
camp meeting closed a ten days SEES
sion at Viroqua. There were 5000 peo-
pie on the grounds. In the audience
We're two very aged women, Mrs.
Dempster Seeley, aged 81. and Mrs.
Hammond, who passed her 9Sth birth
day in May.
Edward A. Day, formerly a member
of the firm OF H. A. Meineck & Com
pany, commission merchants at Mil
waukee, was arrested on a charge OF
.embezzlement preferred by his part
ner, Mr.. Meinecke. The arrest was
made on a warrant alleging the en-
bezzlement Of $1,000.
Robert Humphreys, Racine ma
chinist recently injured by being
struck by a centerpole while reaching
his head out OF Waukesha car win
dow. died at Racine, where he was
taken a few days ago after submitting
to an operation in a Milwaukee hos
pital. He was 20 years of age.
Fred, the 14-year-old son OF Fred
erick Ohm, laborer living at ST Su-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07
TO PURCHASE RELICS OF LINCOLN

Congress viii be asked next winter
TO purchase the collection OF Lincoln
relics, which for good many years has
been on exhibition in the old house on
Tenth street In which the great llber-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07
RUSH TO CAPE NOME
BIG STAMPEDE TO NEW GOLD
FIELDS IN ALASKA.
MANY MINERS COME HOME

Seven Hundred Return and Bring
Nearly $1,000,000 Worth of yellow
Dust-Many Hard-Luek Stories Told
by Hundreds of Disappointed Gold
Seekers.-Military Prison Full.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07

The Protestant Episcopal bishop OF
Kansas needs five or six devoted mis-
sionaries who can live on 5000 the
first year.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
CAN'T STAND RIDICULE.
To Be Laughed at Will Upset Men
When Nothing Else Will
FeaZe Them.

Strange how easily we are bowled
over by ridicule," said the man at the
cigar counter. II was standing on the
corner and saw a well set up, portly
gentleman saunter up the street. He
wore a beautiful light gray suit, every
detail of his attire was elegance itself,
his mustache was curled carefully at
the ends and he walked with the air of
a conquering hero. He looked so cool,
so confident and SO exceedingly aristo-
cratic that people instinctively made
way for him as he approached. He had
gone perhaps 30 yards when all of sud
den he stopped, hesitated moment and
then put his right foot on box near the
curb. His shoe had become united and
the strings were trailing. So far. how
ever, he had lost none of his dignity,
but when he attempted to stoop over he
became ridiculous. To save his soul he
couldn't reach the eyelets. 1t was that
unlucky embonpoint. v know, and, al
though he putfed and strained and got
as red as lobster, his finger tips were
still four inches from the shoestrings.
At that instant he happened to glance
around and saw two ladies coming out
Of shop. They were looking at him
and glggiing. That settled it! In the
WINK OF an eye he lost every vestige OF
his assurance. His elegant aplomb van
ished like magic. He seemed to col
lapse upon himself and actually get old
while he was taking his foot off the
box. 1t was an abject, pathetic spec
tacIe- He hurried away, longer a
conquerInE hero, but erin gine-- V<-s3d-
ding, apoioSetic fat man. totally un-
net u
o ml"nj totHHJ Gn
11erved by the mere fact that he couldn't
tie his own shoes and that women were
laughing about it. Yes, my boy, a game
man can stand anything but ridicule.
That knocks him ut.'-N. 0. Times
Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
and loved one. It Scanned rath.

lover and loved one. 1t seemed rath
er the execution. er and his victim.
One night Miss Considine invited a
select few to witness the mysterious
unveiling of the picture about which
there had been such conjecture. A SEN
satiOn was expected. The magnificent
drawing-room was ablaze with light,
a-hutter with eXpectant guests. The
yelled portrait occupied a prominent
position at the lower end of the long
salon, and thither pressed the throng,
the peerless belle conspicuous upon the
arm of the artist, Count Ludwig.
Both were pale, but the count smiled
right and left, dazzling. The beauty
was grave and silent, watching the man
upon whose arm she leaned furtively,
and with half-foreboding look in her
liquid dark eyes. From time to time
she pressed one jeweled hand stealth
lily upon her side, as if to still the throb-
bing of the stormy sea beneath, while
she continually questioned herself:
why do l fear? What is this ter
ror that steals my very senses from me 4?
He cannot know
AT last Count Ludwig loosened her
Jeweled fingers from his arm, and,
stepping forward, drew the curtain
with sweep of the hand.
There was an instant's breathless ST.
lence. An affrighted amaze seemed to
stop the beating of every heart. Then
broke forth exclamation and outcry,
and above all, like the death shrek of
some dying animal, rose woman's
shrek.
The picture was, first, room rich in
decorations of green and gold. In the
foreground, half-reclining in a cush-
ioned chair, an old man, with long, soft
ly curling white hair. His head had
fallen little to one side, his eyes were
fixed in CLASSY yet reproachful stare
upon the exquisitely beautiful face. OF
woman, whose jeweled hands he
grasped with dying clutch. Both his
hands and hers were blood-stained.
Hers held a stilleto-lille dagger, from
whose glittering point also blood
dripped. There was gaping wound
in the old man s side, and the woman s
face was that of Miss Considinel
When the appalled, woman, for whose
sole benefit this picture had been paint
ed, would have flung up her frenzied
hands to shut out the sight, Count Lud-
wig caught them in an iron grasp, and
almost shouted in her ear in his eX-
citement
mo, no, madam; you shall look, and
look, and look, till the sight blinds you
or kills you, l care not which. Do you
see him, false siren-the poor old man.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
TROPHY OF HOTEL KEYS.
They Form an Odd Decoration of the
Room of a New York Conn
merciaI Traveller.

81 know a New York drummer" said
a local travelling man chatting with
party of friends, ''who has decorated
one of the walls of his bachelor apart
ments with a trophy composed entire
ly of hotel keys. 1t is the queerest
thing ever saw in my life. The keys
are arranged in huge circle, and each
of them is attached to metal tag, some
round, some square, some triangular
IN fact, they are of every imagina BILE
size and shape, and of all kinds of ma
terial, from cast iron to aluminium. In
the middle of the decoration is clus.
ter of enormous specimens, most OF
them battered and rusty, and looking
as if they might have locked the gates
of ancient fortresses. They came from
small village taverns, where modern i'm
Drovements are unknown.
''All the keys in the collection, and
am sure there are at least 800, have
been stolen from different hotels
throughout the country. Their pres
ent owner, or rather their present pos
SCISSOR, told me that he began getting
them together several years ago, and
wherever he chanced to stop he always
made a point of carrying away his
room key. The thing is done so often
by mere inadvertence that it eXcites
no suspicion, and fortunately for his
particular mania he was representing
a line of goods that took him into near
ly every state in the union. AS fast
as he would secure a dozen or so he
would express them to his address in
New York, and when he at last had
sufficient number he arranged them on
the wall.
''The trophy is enough to throw any
hotel man into spasms of fury, for they
all suffer continually from the loss of
KEYS, but [ must confess it has GER
tain uncanny interest. In looking over
the tags | ran the whole gamut, from
the neat nickel disk of the Waldorf
Astoria to an ungainly sheet-iron panel
inscribed with the name of a hostelry
ND in the Black Hills."-N. o. Times
Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
THE GREASER.
According to This Writer the Men
Are Fat and the Women Are
Always Ugly.

AS in all that goes to make manly
character, the greaser is a mere frag-
ment of a man in stature. According to
the artistic dictum, which prOnounces
the curve the line of beauty, the
greaser should assuredly be beau
tiful, for his makeup is SUI
perlatively rich in curves. His Pudgy
head and face bear an obtrusiye
lot of curving lines, which wriggle sim
uously down over neck and shoulders,
until they are lost in the portentous
curve of his waistband. For he is fat.
Rich or poor, idler and loafer, he never
runs to leanness. The women are like
the men. Perhaps you have heard or
read of the beautiful mestizo maidens? :?
Travellers tales! Save in the pictures OF
susceptible rOmanticiSts, have never
seen beautiful graeser girl. Some
times in real life there is a certain ten
derness of outline and form, a certain
sub-fush of over-ripe color beneath the
dusky skin, which, added to the glow
of the eyes, gives an effect of volup-
tuous charm, that doubtless appeals to
has in the first glamour of her youth
is soon merged into the grim and omin-
Gus aspect of early old age. Roundness
becomes rotundity; the hue of dark
roses becomes the dye of butternut,
the lissome, free walk becomes fiat
footed waddle. Only the ineXtingulsh-
able light of the southern eyes remains
II 4 / L. 1e,e.i,N xxrI.I .ISlb
has burned to ashes all other elements
of beauty. Men and women share in the
possession of those wonderful eyes, and
the voice, which is the eyes fitting
mate-soft, velvety, lifeless, as though
expressly made to handle the vitiated
but musical Spanish-Indian patois of
the southwest.
Daily round of duty there is none for
the mestizo, beyond the effort of pre-
serving his mastery inactivity-the Ia
Dor of keeping strenuously busy doing
nothing. He has always been salts
fed with the least measure of the dig
nifty of labor. In the olden time there
was a system of half-voiuntary slavery
in vogue throughout Mexico and its
dependencies, and that system has
stamped it's mark indelibly upon the
greaser mind.
To-day at sunrise you will find the
greaser squatting against the eastern
wall of his adobe hovel, baslxing, smok-
ing, dreaming; in the glaring noon he
shifts to the southern exposure, squats,
smokes, dreams; when the gorgeous
day dies he is by the western wall
stretched at his length smoking and
dreaming dreams, dreams which he
never tells.-Atlantic Monthly.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
What Lord Rose Wanted to See.
EIaZl.as lJl:,TTw


Lord Rosse, who built the famous
telescope that bears his name, was an
expert mechanic and was also some
what careless about his dress. On one
occaa,on the earl was looking through
the engine room of large manutac-
tory. He suddenly became much in
terested in something he saw, and,
taking out his watch, stood looking
from it to the machine with peculiar
smile on his face.
The engineer came along. "Wen,
what's up?" he growled. "What are
you grinning at? What have you to
find fault with?"
"Oh," answered Lord Rosse, II am
not finding fault. | am calculating
how long before the boiler explodes."
Boiler explodes? Why, you're
crazy, man. You get out of this"
''Well'' said the earl, ''if you work
ten minutes longer with that screw
loose there the boiler will certainly ex-
plode."
The engineer looked at the screw in
dicated, jumped at it and fastened 1T
as soon as he could.
"Why didn't you say that sooner9"
he demanded.
"Why should II" answered Lord
Rosse. "I've never yet had an oppor-
tunity of seeing boiler explode. y
Tit-RifS
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
A Confiding Duke.

The duke of Beaufort inherited from
his father strong taste for the society
of actors. Among his favorite associ-
ates in past years was the late Mr..
Sothern, whose cheerful humor often
took the form of practical jokes at the
expense of his best friends. Sothern
invited the duke to visit him in Amer
lea and enjoy some fishing on the
Canadian border. His grace had very
vague notions of the conditions of civil
hzation in this country, and Sothern
amused himself by writing to him that
of course he must come to New York
prepared to meet Indians and wild ami
mails; that the buffaloes and bears and
lions could be easily disposed of with
proper firearms, but that the Indians
had positive mania for roasting Eng
lishmen at the stake, and hence that
6re-extinguisher was part of every
travellers luggage in "the states. "
When the dukes boxes and other para
phernalia were landed at the steam
ships wharf, there, to Sothern's meas
ureless delight, was fre-extinguishe
of the latest English patent.-Boston
Transcript.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
COME ONCE A YEAR.
Singular Appearance of Fish In
SamOa-Is Regular Oc-
currencc.

One strange feature of this sea life of
the tropics is the regular recurrence OF
migratory swarms of fish of very small
size, that return in huge numbers year
after year with such absolute regularl-
ty that the natives calculate on the
event on certain day in each year, and
even within an hour or two of the day.
sion of an annual holiday and feast at
Samoa. The fish is not unlike the
whitehall for which the English
Thames has so long been celebrated,
and each year it arrives at Samoa on the
same day, or at the most two days, and
then disappears entirely till the same
day of the following year. Why 1T
comes, or whence, no curious naturalist
has yet discovered, nor has anybody
traced it's outward course when it leaves
the Samoan group; but the fact is un-
questionable that suddenly, without no
tice, the still waters of the lagoon which
surrounds each island within the firing
ing reef become alive with millions of
fishes, passing through them for sin
gle day and night, and then disappear
ing for year as though they had never
come.
A visit to Samoa enabled me to see
this strange phenomenon for myself,
and to witness the native feast by which
it is celebrated year by year. | had
been in Samoa for a month, and in that
month 1 had enjoyed almost a surfeit
of beauty. L had coasted the shores of
it's islands in native canoes; [ had
bathed in the warm, still waters of it's
lagoons, fringed to seaward by the
white reef on which the ocean broke in
golden spray, and to landward by the
silver beach of coral sand, fecked with
the tremulous shadows of the swayin g
palms. I had climbed with my native
guide the abrupt hills, covered with
dense forests of tropical luxuriance,
through the arcades of which [ caught
glimpses of the flash and luster of the
oceans myriad smile; and again we had
plunged into deep valleys among the
hills, where little headlong streams
murmur under the shade of the wide
spreading breadfruit trees, and wave
the broad leaves of the great water lily
of the Pacific islands.-Lippincott
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Jules Verne usually begins writing
before six a. In.
Joseph Hatton, the author and jour-
nalist, takes ten-mile walk every day.
Rudyard kipling is said to be the first
poet who could afford to travel in pri
vate car.
Marie Corelli receives 25 per cent. roy
atty on her books--more than is paid
any other author.
Only two rulers of Russia since Peter
the Great have died natural death
Catherine Ii. and Alexander IL, the fa-
ther of the present czar.
1t is said of the late William L. Ball,
of Boston, that no one ever misquoted
Shakespeare in his presence without be-
ing vehemently rebuked on the spot
A Dickens of the third generation
has taken to novel writing. She is a
daughter OF Charles the Second as
the eldest son was playfully called by
his friends.
The inventor of matches was a coun-
try doctor, Charles Marci Sauria. His
memory was honored recently by the
erection of a monument i'll the village
of Saint Lothaire, in the Jura.
Fred Voigt, who has leased the New
ark track for Sunday bicycle racing this
year, said that he will improve the tim
Der belt considerably in order to make
it more speedy.
Secretary Hay, in writing letter in
reply to Sir Alfred Austin's letter to
him about certain imperfections of the
copyright law, calls the English poet
laureate ''the dean of contemporary
English literature"
Jules Claretie proposes that the chair
in the French academy which has been
vacant since the death of Dumas for
ever remain so out of honor TO it's last
occupant and that another be created
to fill up the requisite number of 40.