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the Portuguese, who owned Brazil,
Uruguay and the region about the
Rio De La Plata being the chief bone
of contentious; but the Portuguese
were forced to relinquish all claim
to this territory, and it became Span
ish. Although the English endeav-
ored to interest themselves IN South
American affairs, and even landed
forces against the Spanish, they were
repulsed and secured no foothold in
this way on the continent. British
Guiana was the only English possession
on the continent, and that was reck
oned as belonging to the West Indies.
Spanish South America could claim
no distinction. however, on the ground
that government had been peaceably
maintained, within her borders. The
history of Spanish rule is the history
of oppression The story of the over
throw of the yoke in South America
Is the story of the establishment OF
independence only after many revolu-
fionary connivances, heartless failures
and sanguinary conflicts, while the in
ternal conflicts between the various
states after independence, has kept the
country well used to war.
Previous to President Monroe's ia
nous declaration, both the Spanish
and Portuguese rule had been prac-
ically overthrown. The first move in
this direction by the Spanish colonies
had been taken at the time when Ma
poleon had seized the Spanish throne
and placed his brother in authority.
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changed, the dispute has reached such
d stage as to make it now incumbent
on the United States to take measures
to determine, with sufficient certainty
for it's justification, what is the true
divisional line between the republic
of Venezuela and British Guiana"
This course outlined by President
Cleveland was pursued, and the Mon
roe doctrine made operative. The per-
tinent question now is: Will similar
action be now necessary in the case OF
the island of Patos? This island lies
in the northern entrance to the Gulf
of Paria, about midway between the
British island of Trinidad and the long
Cape Paria, which juts out from Nene-
zuela. The island occupies a position
in the center of the staff named by
Columbus the Dragons Mouth. Great
Britain and the Venezuelan govern
pute over it.
The history of European rule inSouth
America prior to the PRONUNCIATION of
the Monroe doctrine in 1923 is not with
out interest, although, perhaps, no
other continent has been the scene of
fewer complicated international broils
than South America. This is account
ed for by the fact that Spain domino
ted practically the entire country out
side of Brazil and the Guianas. from
the time of the discovery by her voy-
ageurs up to the revolution, which re-
suited in the independence of her col
onies. The chief struggles for supre-
macy took place between Spain and
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In the attendance at the university
in Madison this year the college of en-
cheering shows the largest increase,
as it is estimated that there will be
fully 100 more students in that depart
ment this year than last, and the final
enrolment will probably be 600.
Newton S. Murphy, one of Milwau-
KEGS best known citizens, died at the
age of 90. He was a lawyer of ability.
at one time the partner of United
States Senator Matt Carpenter, and
was formerly president of the Sentinel
company. He leaves widow and one
son.
Safeblowers entered the office Of the
Standard Oil company at Oshkosh and
secured 500 in money and valuable pa
pers from the safe.
The plant of the Burlington Malt
ing company was destroyed by fire.
There were $4,000 bushels of barley
and malt in the building, all Of which
is a total loss. The loss on the build
ing and contents is $4,000, with an
insurance of $4,000.
BY driving in front of an electric
car in Milwaukee a woman, on whose
clothing was found slip of paper
bearing the name of Miss Waldo, was
killed and a man, who was identified
as A. S. Sepner, of Racine, probably
fatally injured.
In adjusting belt on a threshing
machine at Askeaton Peter Wall had
his hand and arm drawn into the
gearing and torn to shreds. He also
received internal injuries which may
prove fatal.
The body Of Forrest Kincaid, 10
years old, was found floating in the
Wisconsin river near the mouth of
the Kickapoo at Prairie du Chen.
Otto Wenzel, who shot an alleged
insane man near Wausaukee, was
bound over to the circuit court on the
charge of murder at Marinette.
The Citizens state bank at Cadott
has opened it's doors for business.
Capital, $25, 900. Henry Goetz is pres
ident.
At Burlington Mr.. and Mrs. James
Pattoute celebrated the SEVENTEEN an
niversary of their marriage. They are
believed to be the eldest living married
couple in the United States.
Prof w. i. Rankin, of Carroll col
lege at Waukesha, publicly expelled
pupil of that institution for smoking.
DR.. e. S. Davidson, of Lynn, Tenn,
physician for the La Pointe Indian
agency of Minnesota and Wisconsin,
was found dead in bed at the Athearn
hotel in Ashland. The inquest showed
that he had apparently taken about 30
grains OF choral.
W. e. Conway, prominent Method
ist minister and an old resident, died
in Menominee, aged 3d.
A. p. Nelson, cashier of the First
bank OF Grantsburg, received tele-
phone message stating that his two
year-old daughter Constance was in
stantly killed in the board of trade
elevator at Duluth.
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Der, thinks that there must be some
thing coarse and defiling in her
self that she should allure such a
man. She is tall, white lily in a gar
den of rank weeds-weeds which
bend down at her feet and worship
her, implore her to share their lives.
Their homage outrages, incenses, in
suits her. Where is the Sir Galahad
who will understand her, the stain
less knight for whom she has wait
ed, whom she has seen riding
her? Sir Galahad comes not. The
sweetness fades out of her life. Her
beautiful eyes have a searching look
of pain. Contact with men hurts
this misunderstood woman. She is
thrown back upon herself, her
thoughts, her babbling brooks and
summer skies, her charities and in
tellectual solaces, whilst all the
while the beautiful, sweet, true
heart of her Graves for cemprehen-
sion, for sympathy, for love. Some
times, but very rarely, God sends
such woman into the world to glad
den all the weary ways of life. She
walks slowly through it, her path on
either hand lined with thronging
crowds of men who would fain IN
derstand her, but cannot. She walks
rather tiredly, a white lily dropping
on its stem. Her eyes are fixed
heavenward. She reaches the end of
the path, and, as she passes onward
into the night, Sir Galahad rides up.
Looking heavenward also, he fails to
see the tall figure melting into the
| gloom, and they continue on their
diverse paths misunderstood of all
Nest women are misunderstood
| by men. Women have a deeper intui-
| ton concerning each other. They
have been gifted with keener. finer
sensibilities than men. Hence, the
misunderstood woman. Mere man
cannot live up to her. His good-na-
/ tured abtuseness becomes a perpetu-
al thorn in her flesh. Though women
are sometimes of the earth earthv.
| they are more often nearer Heaven
| than the average man; and. being on
this higher plane, are more liable to
be misunderstood. But this liability
to being misunderstood is the pen
atty woman pays for mans mag
nanimity in raising her to physical
and mental equality. In the old
days, when men limited things with
club, woman retaliated in a man
ner which did not admit Of her being
misunderstood. Now, she says Henry
Jamesy sort Of things to her nom
inal lord and master, and is hurt
when their subtlety fails to convince
| him. G. B. BURGIN.
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Strangely enough, however, the main
populace in the colonies did not seize
upon this opportunity to gain indie
pendence. They remained loyal to the
deposed Spanish king and severely
punished as traitors those of their num-
Der who proposed to overthrow the
rule of the mother country. The col
onists had the greatest fear and ha-
tired of France, and not only refused
to recognize the authority of the Bona
parties, but contributed large sums of
money for the aid of the mother coun-
try in overthrowing the usurpers, and
themselves attacked and ill-treated all
Frenchmen to be found in the col
onies.
The confusion concerning the ruling
authority made it necessary for the
colonists to take matters into their
own hands, in the name of the deposed
Spanish king, and to govern themselves
with the old vice kings in authority, I'M
til such time as the king should return
to his own. When that event occurred,
however, King Ferdinand, instead OF
rewarding their loyalty, began to pun
ish them for having presumed to act
independently, and the old methods of
oppression were enforced. Naturally
a new general revolutionary spirit was
aroused and the two forces, the orig
inal revolutionists. or such of them as
had escaped death as traitors at the
hands of the vice kings, and the dissat-
isfied public in general-now COINED
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they do not understand themselves,
or, if by any chance they arrive at
an mixing of the truth, they hastily
lock this Bluebeard chamber of their
inner consciousness and throw away
the key. Then they set up an imag-
mary self, give you false key, and
are amazed if you declare that it
does not fit.
But perhaps the initial mistake of
the woman who wishes to be under
stood is that she takes herself too
seriously, imagines that the universe
revolves upon her whims, that they
are of as much Importance to the
rest of the world as they are to her,
and that the setting aside of them
will be fraught with the direst con-
sequences. A man can sometimes
get away from his own identity, a
woman never. In the course of his
rough and tumble struggles with the
world, a man gets to understand him
self pretty thoroughly, and has the
llnack of making others understand
him. a woman does not, of course,
enter the arena at so early an age
and, if she is at all sensitive does
her best to conceal her identity IN
der a veil of conventional reserve.
Then she is amazed and hurt that
people do not understand her as she
thinks she is. | remember we'll
known woman writer once telling me
of the grief and pain it cost her to
be misunderstood when she was II
4 4
burning love of humanity, she would
enter a room crowded with people.
vet was so painfully shy that she
hid her enthusiasms, her ideals. her
intense interest in men and wom-
en-, under an icy reserve, and CON
Quoted her conversation with the
brevity of a red Indian. On one of
these occasions, after a more than
usually fierce and protracted effort
to be genial-an effort in which she
had painfully faiIed-she withdrew
to a recess in her friends drawing
room, and from behind the friendly
shelter of a palm, heard a couple of
men discussing her. "She's a lovely
girl" said one; ''if she had soul,
lows instead of fencing herself in
with that insolent reserve which IT.
ritates and repels one! Only her
eyes are alive. They glow, and
search into things, fill with interest.
pity, laughter, tears. Then, one
speaks to her and she shuts up like
an oyster Why can't someone tell
Iar how nucb mora baau+;f,,l Sba
would be, how men and women would
love her, if she would only let her
self go? I've tried to tell her all
this myself; but, at the first word,
she became as impressive as an ice
berg, and I gave it up" Sand Them
I asked. ''What happened after
that?" 'I-I went up to him and
said: Thank you" she told me.
sand then?" "Then he fell in love
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with me-" "And you married him o.
dyes "The sequel?' "He has con
sistently misunderstood me ever
since, and goes on misunderstanding
me because he thinks he understands
me so we'll"
But there is sometimes born into
this world of ours a woman of so
ethereal, SO refined mold, that she is
of necessity, fated to be misunder-
stood, to die misunderstood. She
has been shielded from all actual
contact with the world, she has
never known its crude realities. She
is romantic, has walked among the
white lilies of her garden SO oft that
she is whittier than they. She dwells
amid her books, her sunsets, her
dreams. The songs of the birds, the
scents of flowers, the refined luxuries
of life are all part of her nature.
She cannot understand how a sister
woman car err, she shrinks from
contact with anything which will be-
smirch the hem of her dainty gar
ments. She wanders amid woodland
wilds, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming,
a vision of loveliness in herself, then
enters the world, and speaks to her
fellow creatures as if they, too, had
always lived this beautiful life of
hers, had always shared her refining
influences and aristocratic suscepti-
bilities, her stainless ideals, her
sweet and innocent beliefs. She is
wOOed of men. Sir Midas lays his
dollars at her feet, and she is horri-
fled. She weeps within her cham
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parlors and diningroom as usual, but
no kitchen, no servants. His meals are
shot ND to him in little elevator de-
signed to keep them hot; his drinks
sent ND in another arranged to keep
them cool; the walters who are to
serve them come in another elevator
reserved for servants. In this ride the
chambermaid and cleaners, the Wallets
and lady's-maids who are to be kept
on tap, as it were; ready to fit to any
point when called for.
You have the absolute privacy in
your own rooms which deadened walls
and the absence of any but your own
family give. But you can give sump-
tuous banquet for 20 people without
the slightest bother at an hours no
tice: YOU can have valet in three min
utes and for as long as you like without
either hiringshim or looking up his ref
erences. You can, if you prefer, dine
in the restaurant and admit no one to
your rooms, living there like recluse.
Or you can keep as many servants as
YOU care to upon the one condition
that they do not live in the fat. When
their work is done they go elsewhere
to sleep.
This A1addin's lamp arrangement
when you push button in, the wall and
get whatever you wish-does pretty
nearly solve the problem, does it not?
For people who have the money. For
the rest of us the first :t.problem" is to
get it. OWEN LANGDoN.
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Insane Murderer Killed.

The insane man who is supposed to
have shot and killed John Koucha, st.
Paul fireman, in Hrs cab while the train
was speeding along at So miles an hour,
was killed 25 miles west of Wausaukee.
Otto Wenzel a cook in Charles Mays
lumber camp. shot him as he was com
ing toward the camp, and he died an
hour later. For a week past the entire
country around Amberg, Pembine and
Dunbar has been in a state of alarm
over the presence of the insane man,
whose identity is yet unknown, but
whose name is supposed to be Ray
mond
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Held to he Good.

Judge Fruit has given his decision
in La Crosse in the celebrated Parker
will case, upholding the decision of
Judge Brindley in the probate court
that the will shall stand. Mrs. Mary
Ann Parker was peculiar woman
and many of her queer habits were
brought out in the evidence. In her
will she bequeathed $1,000 to the \.
NJ. c. A., 81 1000 to the La Crosse hos
pital ana $4,000 to Thomas Shimmen,
one of the trustees of the First Bap-
fist church, of which she was a mem
Der. The will was contested by her
niece, Mrs. Cecilia Savage, Of Pater-
son, n. j., ON the grounds that Mr..
Simmer used undue influence.
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Slain for Money.

The body of Herman Schroeder, a
Greenville farmer, was found in the
barn of Karl Ludwig, his stepfather, in
Appleton. Schroeder went to Appleton
and drew $500 from the bank. He
spent the money in various ways and
then started to walk home. On the
body were found $16.93 and bottle of
strychnine. 1t is thought that the
farmer was murdered for the money he
was supposed to carry.
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GouId rpon the birth of daughter.
This wear another white yacht lay in
the same place. She was the Helenita,
a floating palace more than 200 feet
in length. The storks must have
learned the way; for just the other day
thew carried to Mrs. Frank Gould
baby that will be knownas Helen. 1t is
a happily happening name; it will re-
mind everyone of the elder Helen
Gould. whose life is devoted to good
works and who possibly has more
friends than any other woman in the
east. But the baby bears her moth
er's name as well as her aunt's. For
the mother was Helen Kelly, daugh-
ter of Eugene Kelly, the banker. Mr..
Gould is very young father; it is only
a short time ago that he enjoyed his
"coming-out" party, when he became
81. He received from $10,000,000 to
S15,OOO,OOO from the estate of Jay
Gould; his wife has perhaps nearly as
much in her own right, and they are
in many ways fortunate pair.
More fortunate in their youth than
John D. Rockfeller,~ with all his mil
lions and his ruined digestion. Of Mr..
Rockfeller's recent loss in the burning
of his country house at Tarrytown,
you must have read. The popular idea
of this house was that it was vast
affair, suitable to the grandeur of the
richest man in the world. But there
is nothing grand about either Mr..
Rockefeller or his abodes. He is him
self a soft-voiced, patient-looking,
rather sickly and faded, little man.
The burned house, though standing in
a splendid estate, was itself trifing
relic of the ''gingerbread' style of
architecture to which it's owner had
from time to time added a few rooms
as he needed them. In New York Mr..
Rockefeller lives almost as quietly
not upon Fifth avenue with the other
millionaires, but on a side street, in
house which is fine enough but would
never be noticed in that neighborhood.
The "Servant Girl Problem
From time to time the telegraph an
nounces the solution somewhere, some
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below, and was dashed to his death
on the tagging.
For so long a time and longer, I'M
less it too mercifully yields to rebuild
ing, will the sordid little saloon be
pointed out where Nicholas Fish, heir
to vast wealth and great name, was
killed in revel with strange women
in the early afternoon. 1t was the
GROWING tragedy of a month that has
fairly reeked murder.
The Fishes have vast wealth. Stuy-
vesant Fish is president of the Illinois
Central; his wife the deputy lead
er of New York society; his daughter
a belle just ''out" Nicholas Fish was
a banker of solid standing. His son,
more fortunate in his death, was that
Hamilton Fish who was almost the
first American to die in the Spanish
war Young Hamilton Fish was
youth of enormous physical strength
and unbridled passions. He was con-
stantly getting into brawls where his
vast strength and utter recklessness
made him a dreaded antagonist. Po-
licemen used to fear an encounter
with him more than even with the re-
doubtable John L." himself. John
T." could usually be reasoned with.
They said of young Fish, when his
manly beauty was laid low, that he
was fortunate thus to die. Just about
that time small breathing place
upon the East side, named for the
statesman of the family, the 'Ham-
iltOn Fish Park" was thrown open to
the people. The coincidence gave rise
to the prevalent error that it was
meant to honor the soldier dead; and
so about the name of the headstrong
youth is already growing up legend
of manly deeds and almost superhu-
man prowess. He will not be easily
forgotten.
It is strange indeed that the wild
youth who literally went to Cuba to
die if he might-as so many did
should have met thus conspicuously a
hero's death and have so soon become
the subject of legend, while his sup
posedly austere father, the banker,
should in dying have so married his
memory. And Mrs. Fish, into whose
life two such great corrows have in
truded, is a pathetic refutation of the
idea that wealth can insure happiness.
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Admits His Guilt.

Dan Avery, negro accused of the
murder of Rachel Davis (coloredD in
Kenosha, was captured by the police at
Waukegan, Ill. Avery told the police
that he had been forced to shoot the
woman or she would have killed him.
The murderer and his victim both were
members of the Old Plantation COM
pany, one of the attractions brought to
Kenosha for the carnival. The girls
home was in Milwaukee, and Avery
came from Tennessee.
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pOIb hhdS p1siSC lhC = hAlSN
States in position similar to that
occupied by her when it was learned
that the British were endeavoring to
extend their Guiana boundaries at the
expense of Venezuela. At that time,
it Will be remembered President Cleve-
land reaffirmed the application of the
Monroe doctrine to the case in hand,
although the latter differed some
what from an out-and-out attempt at
foreign acquisition. Cleveland at
that time held:
IF European power by an extern
sion of its boundaries, takes posses
sion of the territory of one of our
reighboring republics against its will
and in derogation of its rights, it is
difficult to see why, to that extent,
such European power does not attempt
to extend its system of government
to that portion of this continent which
is thus taken. This is the precise ac-
ton which President Monroe declared
to be dangerous to our peace and
safety and it can make no difference
whether the European system is eX-
tended by an advance of frontier or
otherwise.
assuming however, that the atti-
tude of Venezuela will remain I'M
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h a S astonished
even New York
for many a day.
A poor drab of
the streets, whose
pathetic fate re-
7ealed that hap
PLY in her child
hood home moth
ing was known of
her but what was
good, was killed
Il n d e r. circum-
stances of fiend-
ish brutality and
generalization by
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THE DARK AND THE BRIGHT
SIDE OF NEW YORK CITY y

foreign born, except Germans and
Swedes, they have no influence / have
never heard of an Italian convert.
In the main the Mormons are quiet
enough. They have to be. This is
city of usually well behaved people.
Even the Fish case might give rise to
exaggerated notions. For there are
few saloons in New York where wom-
en- are seen drinking. Such a sight is
in London common. Charley Murphy,
the new head of Tammany Hall, is no
saint: but in the four saloons which
until lately he controlled, no woman
was ever permitted to drink. The
great East side, which is the city, is or
derby and religious. The gilded vic
iousness that faunts itself in the Ten
derloin would fade soon enough but
for the constant stream of money
poured into the hoppers of the mill of
vice by strangers i'll town.
And while the scion of one ancient
and honored house, though man in
gray hair and sober years. is carous-
ing and paying the price with his life,
the great work of charity, of rescue,
of neighborliness, of hope, goes on.
What pity that Nicholas Fish, with
all his wealth, could not have visited
the East side upon that mission in
stead of another!
The "Water Babies" of the GouIds.
Last wear a beautiful white yacht
Law for weeks in the cove to the rear of
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Robbers Get $4,000.

Burglars entered the general store
of John Lyle, at Middleton, andcarried
away $4,000. They blew open the door
of the safe with dynamite. Several
men who heard, the explosion rushed
into the street and saw three men
running away. An armed posse was
formed and a, chase begun. The rob
bers took to the woods, but two men
were captured.