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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25
TURKISH LADIES' DIVERSIONS.
Picturesque Scenes on the Sweet
Waters of Europe and Asia.

Waters of Europe and Asia.
The summer season having now
begun, Turkish ladies are beginning TO
look forward to one of their few
pleasures. In comparison with their
European sisters Turkish ladies have
n very poor time; in fact, they
practically have no amusements at all
In the summer, however, they manage
to get considerable pleasure by going
to the Sweet Waters of Europe and
Asia on Fridays and Sundays.
All through the fine weather these
two rivers are crowded with hundreds
Of boats and CaiQues of all descrip-
tions, full of Turkish women. who are
rowed up and down. Unfortunately
the graceful caique is dying out and
being replaced by the more useful
boat. A caique has many disadvaa-
tages, the chief of which is that It
requires a special boatman to row it,
and he will never do any other work.
AS most Turkish households are be-
coming poorer, and therefore more
economical, they abandon caiques and
keep boats, which are rowod by MAJ
who will do gardening or any other
odd job.
Nevertheless, enough caiques re-
main to make the scene a very
picturesque one. Every now and then
one will flash past, rowed by one, two
or three men in brilliant white
costumes, relieved by zouave jackets,
embroidered in gold and silver, on a
groundwork of silk or satin. In the
stern will be seated two ladies fault
lessly attired in Turkish dress with
does not allow of much variety except
in color, so they are forced to put all
their inventive genius into their
parasols and the collection Of
to be seen anywhere. No Turkish W.
man will be without one. which she
always keeps even after sunset.
The best caiuues have over the long
after-deck a carpet or piece of
embroidery which trails in the water
on both sides. This is seldom seen
now; in fact, there are only two
regularly attending Sweet Waters
which keep up this custom. One be
longs to a Turkish lady whose boat
mems uniforms are blue and silver,
and the embroidery matches them;
the other Is the Khedives mother,
whose colors are gold and crimson,
and the embroidery consists of n
pattern made up of crowns and fishes.
OF course there are hundreds Of
boats full Of men and many fiirtations
are carried on throughout the summer.
The iiirtations carried on are very
mild, and consist chiefly in the lady
lifting her veil and showing her face
for a moment. Now and then a few
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25
WAS CUT OUT FOR A CRITIC.
Handy Man to Have About a News
paper Office in an Emergency.

Handy Man to Have About a News.
paper Office in an Emergency.
The musical {. itiC was unable to at
tend the pianoforte recital, but the
handy man on the paper allowed that
he could do the thing easy enough.
And this is how he did it:
Herr Diapson's recital lat evening
at Acoustic hall, was the most
echerche event Of the musical season.
Herr Diapson is a master in cantilever,
and both in his automobile and in his
tour de force he wrought wonders OF
tonic stimulation. He was especially
potent in his dolce far niente passages,
and his diminuendo crescendo appog-
giatura he displayed a chronological
skill that was simply wonderful.
There was also a marvellous musi-
Cianly abandon in the mute bars, the
instrument in these parts of the score
being forcefully impressive in silent
fortissimo. But it was perhaps in an
dante capriccioso that he excelled HIM
self. Here he discovered a coloratu-
ra, bravura and an ensemble that
fairly electrified his audience.
Herr Diapson, it is true, occasional
ly erred in an overponderosity Of
rutabaga, and again in too lambent
lustspiel; but these lapses were hard
ly noticeable in his rendering of can
fabulous intermezzo. The recital upon
the whole, was a marvellous exhibition
of poca hontas Instrumentation and
incandescent cavatina."
Slug four, who takes lessons, said
there was something wrong about it,
although he couldn't say exactly what,
and the managing editor, upon looking
the critique over, was free to admit
that it was all Greek to him: still he
said that it seemed to read all right,
so far as he could discover to the con-
trary, and it was quite in the line of
the regular critics composition-more
luminous indeed, and he didn't see why
it shouldn't be printed. 1t was lucky
he said, that they had so able an all
round writer on the staff.-Boston
Transcript.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25

of any one of the well known colleges
for men is likely to meet with sim
liar experience. The students them
selves take these transformations as
matter of course, but the conventional
visitor in large college town may be
permitted a stare of surprise when he
learns that the tactful person at an
evening party, who looked after the
comfort of the guests effectively and
unobtrusively, and who set the social
wheels in motion skillfully when they
threatened to run down, was in reality
student earning a dollar or more an
evening for his services. 1t is rather
disconceTting also, for one with care
fully regulated social ideas, to dis
cover in the class orator at commence
ment the night clerk of his hotel.
But nation which allows one of its
sons to work his way from canal boy
to president could not, if it wished, es-
cape a reflection of democratic ideals
even in it's most aristocratic education
al institutions.
The opportunities for self support
vary in the different colleges, accord
ing to their size and location. Occu-
pations practicable for students in a
small town are soon exhausted. For
this reason the self supporting student
in Princeton, Williams, Dartmouth,
Amherst, Leland Stanford, Jr., and
some other colleges must make the
best commercial use possible of the
college public, and not rely too great
ly on the limited supply of outside
work. But the man earning his way
at the Chicago university, Columbia or
Yale, or Harvard, has a whole cityful
of possibilities to choose from, If the
college body itself proves unremuner-
alive. When the prospective student
of one of these universities consults
the list of undergraduate industries
from the safe vantage ground of his
own home, indeed he feels as bewil-
dered as a woman before samples of
all the dress goods in a store. His
choice at first seems unlimited. But
only few encounters with the actual
difficulties of earning his living serve
to reverse his ideas of his own import
ance, and to make him thankful to do
the first profitable thing his hands
find to do.
The freshman, particularly, dis
I covers before him a very hard row to
hoe. Lack of capital ignorance of the
college public, it's supplies, and it's
needs, scarcity of friends and &C
quaintances-all these things he mus
contend against. Upper classmen may
be choosers, but freshmen, like beg
gars, must be content with what they
can get. They may be among the for
tunate ones whose high grades are to
be rewa-3: I'd by scholarships later on.
But this vague possibility will not
keep the wolf from the freshman's
door-mat in the meantime, and he will
have to bestir himself or go hungry.
Fear of hunger is a strong motive and
it drives hard bargains with its vic
Tins; but an eXpedient that would be
tragedy in the life of an older in
tellectual man becomes a pastime to
the student who looks on it as tenn
porary measure and he shovels off
sidewalks blithely, and cleans furnaces
to song.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25
THE AIGLON.
Last Effort by the Grande Armee to
Put Napoleon II on Throne.

Last ETOTt ny the STdnue NTmee u
Put Napoleon II on Throne.
While Madam Sarah Bernhard and
M. Constant Coquelin are applauded
nightly at Geneva in The Aiglon, news
comes from Warsaw of the death of
Varabowski, an old soldier of the Ma
poleonic campaigns, and said to be
the last of the partisans or adherents
of the young duke of Reichstadt
Varabowski, who attained the rank
of lieutenant in the grande armee, and
who fought at Waterloo, reached the
age Of 105 years. A Pole by birth,
he threw in his lot with the French
and joined secret society of Bona
partists formed in the region of Louis
XVIII by Berton and two other SUI
perior officers who had served under
Napoleon. The conspirators called
themselves the Knights or Liberty
and in 1922 they went about boldly
proclaiming their intention to restore
the empire with the Aiglon, or duke
of Reichstadt, at its head.
The knights were joined by many
of the old guard, as well as by numer-
GUS recruits, so that they formed a
respectable army, of which Berton
was made general. They operated in
the west of France and actually took
several towns in the name of Napo-
leon II. Near Saumur, Varabowsk,
acting as aide-de-camp to Berton, and
assisted by others, posted proclama-
tons in villages and called on all de
tenders of the empire to rally around
the Knights of Liberty.
At Samour itself, however, the
knights came to grief. The mayor of
that town, a strong royalist, assem-
bled the garrison of the military
school and then delayed Berton by
negotiations until achievements ar
rived. The knights did not offer any
resistance, but retreated as fast as
they could. Nearly all the leaders of
the movement were captured and
tried. Berton was not, and his younger
companions, like Lieutenant Varabow
ski, were banished. The Pole went
home to his own country after this
disastrous attempt to restore the en-
pire and to make the Aiglon a real
Napoleon II. The conspirators were
tried at the assizes of the department
of the Vienne, and legal documents
still exist to show the part played by
Varabowski and the others in the
abortive effort of 1922, just 10 years
before the young duke of Reichstadt
passed away.-Paris L.spatch to Lon
don Telegraph.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25
To be continued,
Two La Crosse Girls Drown

! confess to being very poor
Judge Of oratory,' said the mild.man.
nered person
cant YOU recognize fluent speaking
when You hear III"
No. 1t depends on my personal
feelings. II a friend is making the
speech II Is eloQuenCe. If it is not a
friend IT is mere garrulity."-wash,
ingtou Star.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25

Independent Cuba will begin bust.
ness with a bonded indebtedness of
only $l22 400, resulting from the clause
IN the new constitution pledging the
Cuban republic to the payment of he
bonds issued by authority OF the revo.
lutonary government during the war
with Spain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25

words are exchal ged, but that IS
dangerous, and can only be done when
the boatmen a,e all in the secret.
London Chron.I.e.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25

This is our latsest novelty" said
the manufacturer, proudly Good,
isn't it,"
Not bad" replied the visitor; "but
you can't hold candle to the g0ods
we make"
"Oh Are you in the same bust.
ness?"
NO. We make gunpowder An.
swers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25

DO not send me away, aunt. not
now--later! You see-now | could
not get on in the world"
"Ah, God forbid-how you pick Np
things! send you away? As long
as breathe you can remain here; but
you must wake up, you must interest
yourself in your moluers heritage,
you must bring her few things hithor,
your papas picture and so forth;
then, too, you must ask Wollmeyer TO
allow you to remain here"
ASK him. ask?"
why, yes! He is your guardian
and your step.father."
The old lady had chosen the proper
means of agitating me. What have
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
4 SAD LIFE STORY,

One of the most pathetic of stories
is told about a woman, a Mrs. Annie
Dodd, who, since the Galveston flood
has been residing in New Orleans with
her six children. Her married life
had been one of supreme happiness;
after long years of toll together hus
band and wife were sweethearts still
as in early youth; so, when the Black
Horror came in the Galveston storm
and took from the happy home circle
the beloved of the wife's fond heart,
the blow was pitifully hard to bear.
Days and months have passed away
since then; and now in the House of
the Good Shepherd in the Crescent
City there may be seen a woman,
blear eyed and sin stained who has
gone all the gaits of the demon of
drink, and whose srstwhile sweet lips
have uttered blasphemies that caused
the pure in heart to shudder as they
passed her by. Home, children
| bIOJHtIo anu IIltuuo were lOISOllbu Ill
the agony of grief that seized her mind
after the storm, and no rising suns OF
waning moons brought to her sur
cease of sorrow throughout the long
days, in which she wearied for the
night, and through the night for days
all dark, because the star of her hope
and love had set forever. Her history
becoming known, neighbors bore Will
her in kindly sympathy; but, finally
so desperate was her life through hel
effort to drown her trouble in stronl
drink, that the police were appealed
to. The recorder of the police court
whose heart was touched by the wo
mans history, had her placed in the
house mentioned, where it is hoped
she may learn to be reconciled to the
Providence that swept from her life
what was all of life to her.
1t is stated that she was a good wo,
man, full of kindly deeds, Just as many
women are, before her sorrow, Was
the poet mistaken when he said after
summing up the extremes of human
woe, "Lo all things can be borne:"
We think not. The woman had not
anchored her hope in the Haven of
Rest"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
\ TRIPLE LYNCHING.
Two Negro Women and One
Man Lynched by n Mob
at CarrOllton.
The Mob Appealed to in Vain
by Judge and District At
torncy.
The Governor Hastcns to the
Scene, but Arrives too Late.
Mob Spirit Aroused by'a Horri-
BILE Double Murder.

Greenwood, Miss, July 3l.-New:
reached here this morning of the muir
der of Mr.. and Mrs. Taliaferro, neal
McAnerny, few miles east of here
in Carroll county, last night, by some
negro. Squire John E. Erwin, acting
coroner, impaneled jury of inquest
and proceeded at once to the scene OF
/ the murder.
The testimony before the jury and
| the rumors seem to indicate that three
darkies, John Taylor, Bill Davis. and
Belfield McCray, committed the crime
A large meeting of the best citizens
of the county was held in the court
house at Carrollton this afternoon
when Judge W. f. Stevens and Dis
trict Attorney w. S. Hill made earnest
appeals in favor of legal and orderly
investigation of the horrible crime
and against any sort of mob violence.
Judge Stevens assured the mob that
he would, if necessary, call a special
term of the circuit court to investigate
the matter and bring the guilty par
ties to speedy justice. Both officers
and private citizens are doing their
best to ferret out the perpetrators and
have lodged quite number of wit
Resses in Jail to await the investiga-
ton of tomorrow.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07

Not a word came from any one OF
the three. Instantly three human be.
ings shot upward from the ground,
their arms tied fast to their sides and
their legs bound. Death came quick
ly to the victims. Strangulation was
almost instant in each case. The mob
then riddled their bodies with bullets.
The bodies of the lynched negroes
will remain hanging on the tree until
morning, when an inquest will be held.
GOV. LONGING TO THE RESCUE.
While all this was going on, Gov.
Longino of Mississippi was speeding
from jackson to Carrollton by special
train as fast as steam could carry him.
He had heard of the threatening con
ditions and replied that he would not
/ only order the militia to be in readi-
ness, but would 60 in person to the
scene. He got here only few min
utes after theHynching. He addressed
large and attentive audience at the
courthouse, impressing upon them the
duty of their citizenship and obedi-
ence to law and order.
Two negroes who we're implicated
and who were arrested today in Lee
fore county, we're intercepted at
Greenwood bE telegram from the
Governor and are held in Greenwood
Jail to await further orders.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
THE VALUE OF RAILROADS.
4 Leader Editorial Heartily
Endorsed by the jackson
News and the Baptist.

The value and Importance of rail
roads in developing Mississippi and
increasing the value of property, has
been most forcibly demonstrated of
late years by the building of the Aber-
deem, Lexington and laZoo branches
on the |. c., the construction of nu-
merous branches in the Delta by the
Mississippi Valley Railroad, the build
ing of the Georgia Pacific across the
State, and the completion of the Gulf n
Ship Island Railroad from the Missis-
sippi Coast to the State. The price OF
lands has been doubled and quadrupled
along these lines with the coming of
the steam horse, thrifty towns have
sprung up as if by magic, and new life
and business energy have been impart-
ed where lethargy, stagnation and
hopelessness once held undisturbed
sway over magnificent undeveloped
natural resources. Give the railroads
encouragement and fair treatment and
in few years more they will make
every portion of Mississippi blossom
as the rose.-BrookLdCeH Leader.
The above extract from our esteem
ed contemporary of the growing and
thrifty city of Brookhaven tells the
whole story. He does not overestimate
railroad development in Mississippi.
The truth is, that without railroads, ev
cry other industrial plant that requires
large outlay of capital, would perish
as certainly as the leaves of the trees
wither and drop to the ground. So,
! ~, IT - l.
ITO give railroads encouragement and
fair treatment and in few years more
they will make every portion of Mis-
sissippi blossom as the rose
The sentiment SO aptly expressed
deserves to be classed with the follow
ing utterance of one among Mississip
pts ablest men, noted for being fair
minded and just, that railroads are
the foundation stone of every other
industrial enterprise: that the people
of the State are not stock holders in
railroads. but are stock holders in
the State of Mississippi and the ad-
vancement and progress of the State
Ill oil It's luJtItSlS dCPtIiuo III
a large measure on railroad develop
ment. Jackson Erening News.
The wonderful growth and general
prosperity of the city of Brookhaven,
of which Bro. Hobbs is prominent
and worthy citizen, and for which he
has faithfully labored in and out of
season, together with the largely in
creased assessed values, of Lincoln
by reason of railroad facilities
affords living illustration for extend
ng encouragement and fair treatment
o railways. The Illinois Central ira
'erses Lincoln county.
The cordial endorsement of the ed
torial of the BRooKHAvEN LEADER, by
ur neighbor of the Evening News. is
o we'll and handsomely expressed that
7e give it to the readers of The Bap-
list. The Baptist.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
Social SU Ellis.

Meridian, Miss, July 31.-The mem
bers of the Standard Club, one of Me
ridian's swell social organizations, who
were arrested at the club rooms Mon
day morning while engaged in game
Of cards, were arraigned before the
mayor this morning and quietly paid
their fines and departed.
The raid of the police created quite
sensation in the city, owing to the
social prominence of the men arrested.
The above telegram from Meridian
is probably the outcome of too much
playing at cards in high society. The
tendency of the times and of popular
society is sure to produce just such a
breed as the above who quietly paid
their fines and Departed" much to
their own modification and the humil
iation of parents and friends, no doubt.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
THE CARROLLTON OUTRAGE.

THE C4RROLLTON OUTRAGE.
The Carrollton lynching is burn
ing disgrace to Mississippi With
white men holding every civil office in
the State and solely charged with the
administration of the laws, such acts
are absolutely without the shadow of
justification or eXtenuation. And when
1T is further considered that the Circuit
Judge of the Carrollton district and
the district attorney were on the scene,
and did everything in their power to
dissuade the leaders of the mob from
their purpose, the judge proposing to
call special term of court, so that
swift justice might be dealt out
to the really guilty parties, to all
of which deaf ear was turned. the
outrage is all the more aggravated.
The issue is upon the people of Mis-
sissippi, and there must be no dallyine
with or Sinking it. Either the Gov
ernor and the courts, and all who be
lieve in law and the orderly admins
tration of justice must abdicate il
favor of the mob and let it rule su
preme, or else mobs and mob leaders
must be taught lesson they car
neither misunderstood nor forget.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
Westyillc Soon to Become ga
Deserted Village
'ol. J. l.. Power in Magnolia Gazette.


Westville will soon be "a deserted
) village 1t is one of the oldest, and
has been one of the best towns in the
State. Simpson county was establish
ed in 1924, and Westville became the
county seat. 1t is conspicuous on the
map of 1880. 1t was named after Col.
Cato West. The county has furnished
the commonwealth many of its best
and brightest citizens lawyers, legis-
lators and representatives in Congress.
In the courts of Westville several who
have since won fame, and some for
tune, made their maiden speeches be
fore the judge and jury; and there,
veterans of the bar found big cases and
large fees. The brilliant Franklin z.
Plummer was the first lawyer that set
tied in WestyiIle. We we're shown the
hotel NOW a. residence) in which Wi
ley p. Harris and Edmund J. Goode,
who died in New York last week, had
personal collision that resulted in
Judge Harris losing one of his eyes.
On July 1st the Supervisors moved
all the records to Edna Station. After
they resolved to move they got move
on them. and within few hours the
contents of the court house we're
transferred to building that was be-
ing erected for hotel at the new site
the name of which has been changed
from Edna to Mendenhall. This
building, restaurant and two livery
stables are about the only structures
there. Editor Geiger has purchased a
lot, and the News will, in due time, be
sounding the praises of the city of
Mendenhall.
The magnificent pine forests that
were the glory of Simpson, were
bought up by syndicates at from 81 80
to 500 per acre. They are not now on
the market; but there are saw mills
every few miles getting out lumber for
the new towns along the G. < S. l., and
for foreign markets.
1t used to be big day S journey from
Jackson to Westville. We reached
there in three hours and half via D'lo
Station and drive of nine miles.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-08-07
WRITTEN TO 4 CHILD.

foN SEEING HIS PICTURED
Happy childhood Thus ] read it
BY remembrance of my past
Its today and its tomorrow
Areas lifetimes vague and vast;
And each face in that green valley.
Where the little children dwell.
Murmurs soft with reinsurance
Little child, ii all is WE'LL
And he listens and believes it
All! the valley where they grow.
With its warmth and love and brightness
That no aft er life can know!
Are there giants in the valley"
Giants leaving footprints yet"
Are there angels in the valley"
Tell mel forget.
Little child of smiling viSage.
Dimpled hands and tiny feet
May the path grow smooth and smoother
Ere you reach life's MONDAY heat
OR, with armor strong and steadfaSt.
MAY you In the thickeSt fight
Have the strength. and faith. and courage,
To overcome by Gods own might.
Find II sweet to taste the wormword
From the worlds unvanquished foe
Find 1t JOY to wear the thorn-crown,
If the Lord hath wiled it so.
just so truth and love and honor
Are your motto and defense,
You have conquered. Look up higher
For all your need OF recompenSe,
l.. M. H..