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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
RUSSIA GRABS TERRITORY.
Instructive Instance of the Working of
the Cars Diplomacy.

In the Saturday Evening Post,
Frank G. Carpenter, who has recently
spent the better part of a year in the
east, gives many facts of Russias
advance in Asia. and relates the fol-
lowing incident:
The powers have practically
agreed that Manchuria is to be the
property of Russia, and within a short
time in all probability, all the Chinese
territory beyond the great wall will
belong to the Czar. The boundary
line between Siberia and Mongolia is
being slowly pushed southwark.
During a visit to Picking some
years ago heard a tradition as to how
Russia once acquired a big slice of
China, There was a dispute about the
boundary line, which the Russians
had G0Oved out so as to include a
large amount of Manchurian and
Monaghan soil. A war was imminent.
and the Chinese. as usual. wanted to
settle matters by compromise. The
Russians consented. and brought forth
a map showing the territory they de-
manded. The Chinese threw up their
hands in horror and said their lives
would be endangered if they presented
such treaty to their emperor All
right, said the Russians; if that is so,
we will take less and they thereupon
showed second map, one-tenth the
size of the first but in which the latl,
tudc and longitude of the territory
taken were exactly the same The
Chinese looked. The space within the
red lines on the map was very much
smaller, and they recommended the
treaty without further dispute
Few people realize the enormous
extent Of Asatic Russia. 1t is about
one and two-thirds the size of Europe.
and twice as big as the United States
without Alaska and our outlying IS
lands. 1t comprises, in fact, more
than One-third of all Asia. Siberia
alone being half as big as our country.
To this vast territory is now to be
added Manchuria. with a possibility
that Mongolia and Iii will soon come
the same way. Mongolia is fully half
and Iii about One-third the size of the
United States. while Manchuria is
equal to ten states as big as Ohio.
The title to Manchuria is now prac-
tically conceded to Russia"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
Riley's Little Joke.

Riley and Nye played jokes on each
other continually. In a smoking car
between Columbus and Cincinnati anf
old farmer came to Nye and said 4
Are you Mr.. Riley? l heard YIN
was on the train"
No. am not Mr.. Riley He is3over
there"
Il knew his father. and I would like
to speak with him"
ooh, speak with him, yes. But he is
deaf, and you want to speak loud"
So the farmer went to Riley and
yelled:
ut this Mr. Riley?"
"Er, what?"
rs this Mr.. Riley?"
What did you say?"
rs this Mr.. Riley?'
Riley, oh, yes"
Il knew your father"
mo bother"
Il knew your father"
"What?"
Il knew your father"
"Oh, so did l."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
BIGGEST SALVAGE ON RECORD.
Story of the st. Paul Aground With
S1.25O.Ooo Of Gold.

When the big American line
steamship st, Paul ran aground in a
dense fog on the Jersey beach near
the lower end of Long Branch. before
daylight January Is, 1896, Captain
Clark, Lloyd's agent in New York.
got word of it at four O'Clock in the
morning, he cabled instantly to Lon
don, and Lloyd's was in possession of
the news at $50 a. m. The St Paul
had been indulging in a squirt of speed
with the swift Cunardcr Campania,
which in moderate weather is nearly a
knot faster than the American ship:
she got far out of her course, missing
the Fire Island light, and drove up on
the sands of the Jersey coast. She
was held in the embrace of the shelly.
ing beach for ten days The Campania
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03

was also reported to have touched
bottom but an obseryant life saver pa.
trolling the beach said this was not
so, but she undoubtedly came within
view of folks along the shore. In the
cargo of the st. Paul were one and a
quarter millions in gold consigned to a
firm in New York. 1t was essential
that this should be landed. Arrange
ments were made with the Merritt
Chapman Wrecking company to have
the stranded liner hauled off. She and
her cargo, including the gold, were
heavily insured After it was fou
that it was going to be very diff
TO float the big ship, the consigne
the gold, who needed it in their
ness, appealed to Captain ClarI
Lloyd's agent to have it lande
remained aboard the vessel
days; the fact of it being the
dcred the underwriters liable
heavier tax in the event of the
being hoated. Naturally, the
line did not make any streI
forts to have the bullion d.
and just as naturally Lilo,
anxious to get it off as quick
sible; for in the event of S
ing and causing the destruction.
ship, the gold would have adde,
much more to the loss of the una
writer's. Captain Clark chartered
steamer and offered to take charge of
the gold and land it. Thereupon the
captain obtained a promise that the
gold would be landed Immediately
Thus the underwriters were relieved
of the further risk and expense of
floating the stranded ship The gold
was transferred to the lighter Hag.
gerty down sagging shute suggestive
ola stretch of canvas in bags, kegs and
boxes. Twelve men armed with re
volvers guarded the treasure as it was
transferred from pier to truck and
taken to vault in Wall street. The
award of 100000 for salvage service
in the case of the st. Paul was the
largest ever obtained in an admiralty
court. The st. Paul was aground ten
days. 1t was said that she had not a
rlate bent or rivet started. IS. A.
Wood in Ainslee's.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
CARMEN SYLVIA AS A CHILD.
Roumania's Queen Was Imaginative
and Full of Energy


The surroundings, work and person
ality of Elizabeth, queen of Roumania
known to the world of letters as
Carmen Sylyia-are the subject matter
Of an article in the Woman's Home
Companion entitled The Queen Who
Writes Fairy Tales. The author
George T. B. Davis. thus writes of the
childhood of the queen-author:
Her father was a man of deep
learning, author of notable philo
sophical work, and entertained the
leading scholars of his time at his
castle on the Rhine. Here she ives
born, in 1843, on the goth of December,
missing by only four days being a
Christmas child AS a child Eliza
beth was a prodigy, at least in the
great imagination and overlooking
energy she possessed. Such a bundle
of nervous energy was she that when
at the age of 5, her portrait was being
painted it was almost impossible to
make her sit quietly Pleading and
threats were alike unavailing. Finally
the child herself made up her mind to
sit perfectly still She succeeded for
two OF three minutes, but the strain
upon her nervous system was too
great and she fell fainting from her
stool
"Once she was taken with her
mother to visit the German empress
The child wandered about the room
fondling cushions, sofa-pillows and
holsters, pretending they were her
children, and finally went up to the
empress, took hold of her feet, which
were resting on a fOotstool, placed
them roughly on the floor, claspcd the
stool to her breast, and exclaimed
You must not stand on my child"
"At years of age Elizabeth wrote
verses; at II she attempted to write
a novel; at IA she arranged dramas
and tragedies in her imagination; at
Is she studied three newspapers
daily and took a keen interest in
politics, During her youth her chief
pleasures were roaming alone through
the great forest surrounding the an
'NiNll I'll AtSllt anu 0lbl lto ulN SUN
told of her daring deeds in those
earlier days on the Rhine-and listen
ing to fairy tales; or, as she grew
older, weaving the tales from her own
rich imagination and relating them,
with eyes all aglow, to eager troupes
of children.
1T was not until after the war be-
tween Russia and Turkey that the
queen began to write for publication,
although she had written verses Sc
cretly-and pasted them in a large
scrapbook-from early childhood. Her
first book was written in Il peculiar
manner. One day the national SUI
perintendent of schools came to her
and said he wanted a book to offer as
a prize at the end of the year to GER
tain Roumanian school children, and
suggested that her majesty write
one. The queen entered into the plan
with enthusiasm. and in three weeks
had written a book of fairy tales, tax
ing old Roumanian legends ae the
foundation for her stories. The
volume was such a success, and Great
ing it gave the queen such pleasure,
that she turned to writing in earnest,
and volume after volume has appeared
bearing the name Carmen Sylvia on
its title page. One day in each month
is now devoted to reading the queens
books in the public schools of Rou-
mania"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
A Financier.

4 don't know what to get my best
girl for Christmas"
Nothing"
What do you mean?'
Just what l say. She'll be awful
mad, thereu be a terrible quarrel,
and then you'll have all the delight
full sweetness Of making UP without
1t costing you a cent Life.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
CHAPTER XIV.

Before Her Stood the Husband She
Believed TO be Dead
They stepped out OF the long open
French windows onto the quiet lawn
who're the tall trees looked like giants
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
Continued.


reception Of his beautiful bride. A
superb suite Of rooms was prepared
for her. He Travelled through London,
anxous TO find the most costly treasure
OF art for their adjoining.
People smiled as day after day huge
yan-loads of furniture, OF pictures, and
OF statues were brought from the rail-
way station to The Hide. He forgot
none Of her tastes; he remembered eV-
cry careless wish she had ever eX'
pressed. " IN the years past she had
said she liked or should like anything.
he found It for her now, No king
could have paid more gorgeous defer
enco to the desires Of queen than
he did to hers,
She had one great desire, and, much
against his Will, he yielded 1t was
that they should not be married until
May, when the spring flowers were
blooming, and Nature at he faircst.
lie consented, because she wished It,,
knowing the preparations at The Hide
would all be completed by then.
1t was a golden time; the weeks and
months seemed TO fly by like magic,
She realized then, poor child, what Sir
RupertR love was likc-the love OF n
grand, generous man, Every night
she lncit and fervently thanked
Henvcn that she was safely sheltered
by 1t at last!
She tried hard to forget--but the
memory of those years Of unutterabIe
sorrow came over her ut times, turn
ing her very heart sick and faint, like
"A frlghtful dream, from which she
would awake shuddcring, cIinging to
ono Of those who loved her,
And there were times when Irene,
bending over her In her sleep heard
the faint sound Of muttored prayers
that she might quite forget.
The time came; the last picture was
hung at The Hide; the superb suite
of rooms had received the final grace
full touches her faVOrito books were
arranged In order her Gayorlto flowers
In magnificent stands, costly statues
wore placed in the sites prepared for
them, The Hide, in It's grandost days,
had never looked onohalf 80 fair
Tho largo gardens presented Que
gorgeous mass of blooming summer
flowers. Sir Rupert looked around
and even he. who Thought nothing
good enough for Sybl. was satisfied.
They had not been Idle at Glynn. In
ono thing the squire Yielded TO S.bps
wigh-ho consented TO allow the mar
rIage to be quite quiet. without any
grand ceremonies. fctcs or entertain.
monte.
ut was not Htting," she said, ana No
allowed her to do M she liked
The wedding day was fixed for the
thirteenth of MAY. 'rncy were not TO
go abroad. Sybil ghraDk from the
idea. "rhcy had been long enough
away" she said. Auu.ll WAS arranged
thal in six weeks llmo Sir Ruuprl
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
BY BERTHA M. CLAY.

| should frighten one sO?'
| He fastened the tiara Of diamonds
round her golden head, and cried out
in delight at their effect.
"If Rupert we're to see you now!' he
said.
HE wouB not love me any better"
she interrupted. ooh, papa! ! should
b so happy If 1t were not for my
dream"
And though he thought it all non
sense, he wrote y note to Sir Rupert
telling him that Sybil seemed out Of
spirits and dun; and that, although
IL might be contrary, perhaps, to the
strictest forms Of etiquette, yet he
should be glad If Sir Rupert would
come over and spend the day with
them.
poor child" said the happy lover
"sho Is nervous and anxious"
He left the little arrangements he
intended making, and went at once to
Glynn Castle He never forgot the
beautiful light that came into her face
when she saw him. There was no need
to ask II she loved him, for one who
bChcld knew that
She looked pale when the flush faded
and when the squire had gone out for
hia morning drive he asked her what
had changed her.
II had such Il frightlul dream, Ru-
pert" she said, clinging TO him; "and
though ! love you so dearly, though
tomorrow Is my wedding day, | feel as
though some dreadful calamity hung
over me-"
You are nervous he said, gently.
Remember, my darling, though young
Ia years, you have had much SORROW.
Tho sorrow Is past now; you have
nothing but love and happiness to
think Of. Come out with me; whom
you stand In the sunshine you shall
tell me your dream"
They went out into the park, where
the buds were springing on the trees,
the green grass was soft under their
feet birds were singing In the chest
nut trees, the fragrance of white haw-
thorn Camo to them from the far-oH
meadows, tho perfume of the violets
from messy dols
Now" said Rupert, "thc very sun
i8 smiling on us; tell mo your dream"
1T seems foolish" she said turn
ing to him, with that clinging caress-
ing touch he valued so dearly. 81 can
almost laugh at 1t in the sunshine"
What was it," asked Sir Rupert
"rhc best way to get rid of a fear is
to share it with some one else"
II will share mine with you" she
said, II dreamed, Rupert it was just
such u morning AS this; the sun shin
ing, birds singing flowers blooming,
the air golden with light. and | stood
out in the midst by the side of an open
grnv"-oh, Rupert, such cold, deep
grave, and some onc-I know not
whom said | must leave the sunshine
and lie down there! can feel it
now" she continued, with a shuddcr;
tho touch OF the cold earth, was
lying here. and slowly tho earth was
falling on me and crushing the life
out OF me ! woke I'm such awful fear,
Rupert My hair lay damp over my
face. VIVA, did f. mean. dear, that
most terrible dream"
Nothing at all" said Rupert with
smile only that you were oyer.tlrod
or oycrauNi1us T. myself have had
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03

\ Boston judge freed woman who
ohnded man with vitriol for revenge.
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
Cudahy fSidoaper Captured.

The police of Omaha have under ar
rest James Callahan, charged with
completely in the abduction of Edward
Cudahy, Jr., on the night of Dec IS.
Callahan was arrested on on the 10th,
but the police kept the fact a secret
until the 10Th in the hope of securing
other arrests Young Cudahy has pos
itively identified him as the man who
accosted him near the Cudahy resi-
dence and represented himself to oe a
deputy sheriff from an adjoining
county and forced him into a buggy,
and also as man who kept guard
over him at the Melrose Hill house
during the 80 hours he was kept a
prisoner, pending the negotiations for
the ransom of SIS, 900, which Mr.. Gu
daily paid for the return Of his boy.
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Tom i. Johnson, the well-known
capitalist, was nominated for the may
orally of Cleveland at the Democratic
primaries on the 10Th.
Two more deaths from bubonic plague
were officially reported from Cape
Town on the 2lst. Both victims were
white persons.
The board of health of Hawaii are
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of barring
consumptives from taking up n resi-
dence on the island.
dispatch from PelSin, dated the
93d, says Minister Conger will leave
PelSr for the Y. $. Immediately on 60
days leave of absence.
The Navajo Indians are leaving their
reservation and wandering all over the
northern counties of New Mexico.
They have practically taken possession
of a strip of land so miles wide and 200
long and are barring out OF this strip
all stock Whose owners do not pay
them for water privileges.
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
Tennessee People Taking Revenge.

A mob took Beebe Montgomery from
the Jail at Dyersburg, Tenn, on the
night of the 10th and swung him up to
the limb of the famous mike Lynch
ing tree" five times, letting him down
each time, to make him confess his
completely in the assault with Fred
King upon Miss Alice Arnold. The
Negro denied his guilt. The mob then
carried him back to the jail more dead
than alive, deciding not to lynch him,
until the third guilty Negro is found
whom King implicated in his confess
sion. In his confession King said that
they had slated five of the best known
young women of Dyersburg for assault.
A number of Negroes were also driven
out of town, being persuaded by the
whip as they marched through the
streets
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
80 Men Try to Wreck "A Storehouse.

A crowd of from - to 60 citizens,
armed with revolvers, sledge hammers,
crowbars and battering ram, broke
into the wholesale liquor house at
Topeka, Kas, at about midnight on
the cath, and smashed the beer cases
found there. Three policemen drove
the crowd back. Both the police men
and the citizens fired their revolvers,
and j. w. Adams, a carpenter, was
shot twice in the breast. He was
taken in hack to Riverside hospital,
where he lies in a precarious condition.
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
TRANSVAAL WAR ITEMS.

The answer of the state dcpar tment
to the house resolution calling for a
statement of it's reasons for allowing
United States ports to be used for for
warding American horses and other
supplies to the British army in South
Africa, a privilege not enjoyed by the
Beers, will point to the we'll estab
lished section of international law
warranting neutral nations in selling
supplies TO belligerents, though these
supplies may properly be seized by a
belligerent 1t also will be shown
that no obstacle was interposed by the
u. S. government to the purchase of
horses and mules by the Beers who
presumably did not do so because they
were unable to land them in South
Africa.
The following dispatch from Lord
Kitchener, dated Klerksdorp, Feb. 81,
was received on the ord: Methuen's
force marched here having cleared the
country through Wolmaranstad. At
IIaartbeestfontcin !, 400 Beers, under
Gems. De Villiers and Lienbenberg,
opposed him. They held strong po-
! sition obstinately, but were turned out
after severe fighting, in which the yeo-
many, the Victorian Bushmen and the
Lancashiers distinguished themselves.
Our casualties were officers and 10
men killed and 5 officers and 25 men
| wounded. The Beers left 10 dead on
the ground and suffered severely.
A special from London, dated the
2lst, says Lord Kitchener's second mar
row escape from capture calls out
new spaper warnings as the danger Of
his rapid fittings by train from place
| to place. 1t is considered better for
| him to remain in Pretoria than to risk
upsetting his carefully elaborated plan
| of campaign. As Lord Kitchener is
now back in Pretoria, the inference is
| that Gen. DeWet has again escaped
from the supposed Gordon. There is
no further news of Gen. French's pur-
eastern Trausvaal.
The secretary of state for war, Mr.
Frederick, gave statement Of the
ever-increasing number of cases OF
! typhoid fever among the British troops
in South Africa, thus partially account
ing for the long casualty lists. In Oc-
tobcr there were 500 eases and 9S
deaths, in November 1,al3 cases and
2O7 deaths, and in December 1905
cases and ESQ deaths. The total since
the beginning of the war TO December
is 10, 1Ol eases and 4,233 deaths.
Lord Roberts, it is asserted, has been
offered the lord wardensbip of the Gin
que ports which the marquis of Sails
bury desires to relinquish. The post
was formerly held by the duke of Well
ington.
The latest report from Transvaal
says that Gen. DeWet is in full re.
treat. The dispatch was dated the 22d.
President Steyn and Gen. DeWet
have issued " proclamation, charging
the British with barbarity.
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
FROM ALL OVER MICHIGAN.
Happenings of the Week Briefly
Related.
WILL INTEREST M CHlGAN DERS
There Were 1880 Deaths In Michigan In
1900, Equal to an Average of 1870 Per
1000 Population-Fire In Detroit Did
$4,000 Damage.
Death Record for 1909.


Chief Wilbur of the division of vital
statistics of the secretary of states Of
flee. on the 18th completed the compil-
atoms of deaths occurring in Michigan
during the year 1900. This is the
earliest this information has ever been
given to the public, and the statistics
from which it was compiled are most
accurate. The compilation shows that
the total number of deaths in Michi-
gan last year was 1890, the rate per
1000 being 1879, as compared with a
total of 33, 159 and rate of 14.1 for
1899. OF the total number of deaths in
1900, there were ,433 still births, 6,542
children under one year old, 2,562 be-
tween and years, s,754 of persons
65 years old and over. The number of
deaths from the principal causes was
as follows: Pulmonary tuberculosis,
1,S16; other forms of tuberculosis, 562;
typhoid fever, 500; diphtheria, 1888;
Group, 1853; scarlet fever, 267; measles,
3o7; whooping cough, 1913; pneumonia,
2,799; diarrheal diseases of children UNI
der years of age, 2,524; cerebro-spinal
meningitis, 400; influenza, 400; puer-
peral septicemia, 100; cancer, 1,4O6;
violence, 1,756.
The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
Woman X He'd by 10 Mob.

In raid on Joint" at Wildwood,
KS, by 20 masked men, heavily armed,
late on the night of the 18th, Mrs. Rose
Hudson, wife of the bartender, WAS in
stantly killed. VIM. Webb, one of the
raiders, was shot through one arm,
and two or three of his companions
were slightly wounded. Young farm
ers composed the party. Two arrests
were made on the 10Th and much en-
element prevails over the prospect of
Il still more serious collision between
the factions