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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27
New York 10 Probe state Banlking.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 26.-The assem-
bly, committee on banks unanimously
voted in favor of a concurrent resolu-
ton providing for joint special leg
islative committee to investigate the
state banking department.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27
Confirmed by the senate.

Washington, Jan. 26.-The senate in
executive session confirmed thefQiloW-
ing nominations: Luke =. Wright am<
bassador to Japan; collector of Gus
toms, John B. Whelan, district Of he
troit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27
WE'LL! WE'LL! WELL! It beats
all. What beats all? Why the Red
Trunk cigar. Aft

TAKEN UP, Estray: On my premises
Dec. Ia. 1905: one steer. black and
white. about 3 yrs. old; full set of
horns. Owner can have same by PROV
ing property and paying charges.
GRANT TURNER.
1OOw4 R. F. D. No. 8. Potosi, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27

First Passengers Through SimpIon.
Isella, Italy, Jan. 26.-The first pas
senger train carrying notabilities ana
officials passed through the Simplon
tunnel amidst artillery salutes. There
were no other noteworthy incidents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27

Three little babes we're nestled IN
arlf name william, Willie ana Bill"
mother said;
Wide was her smile, for triplets they be,
She lays her good luck to Rocky
Mountain Tea. Great baby medi-
cine.O j. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27
Mining Notes.

Pig lead has dropped 10 cents a
hundred and is quoted $3.50 per
hundred. Spelter sells at $500 per
hundred. Lead ore, best chunk
mineral is $75 per ton. Lead con-
centrates $71 per ton. Jack is quoted
at $57 per ton. Drybone at $27 and
sulphur ores at $3.50 per ton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27

ATTCTIONEER: | will cry sales in
any and all parts of the country and
guarantee satisfaction For terms.
dates, ETC., address,
CHAs. w. BURROWS,
eOtf Lncaster, Wis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27

+ FOR SALE: Scotch Top Shorthorn
bull. Traces to Imp. Lady Elizabeth;
bred by P. r. Stoffel He is years
old past and a granG sire. WIZ be
sold reasonable. JOHN D.BEETHAM lO4t I
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-27

The assay of dry bone found at
Klondike hardly proved as good as
anticipated, but nevertheless the
stockholders are still highly elated
over p2 aspects.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

lts velocity being nearly six miles Il
second.
The Milky Way will be seen appear.
ing above the ground between the two
Dog stars In the southeast, and en-,
yeloping tho beautiful Capella direct.
~ overhead The point IN which 1t
meets the ground IN the northwest Is
marked by the beautiful Northern
Cross, which Is now just beginning to
disappear, to be seen no moro until
next May.
lust below Orion may he traced out
the two delicate, little known con.
stellations of Lepus or the Hare, and
Columbia or the Dove, The first of
these Is supposed to be fleeing from
the hunter directly above, while the
second Is the dove set free by Noah,
the ark being the small group of stars
IN the Milky Way to the east of CAMS
Major The two highest stars of
Lepus at A and Il are both beautiful
doubles, while that ut c Is triple At
the point d. almost in straight line
with A and G. there will be found a
celebrated crimson star This Is dc
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
HORRORS IN MANcHuRlA.

Mr.. T.. ], Dillon, in Harper's Weekly,
thus describes some of the horrors
which attended the war in Manchuria:
People who have not witnessed
the horrors of actual warfare-and
the present campaign is in many re-
spects worse than the struggles of for.
mer days-tannot realize the fate that
awaits the unfortunate men VINO are
thus condemned without appeal to die.
Death pure and simple would be a
boon as compared with the destiny In
store for them
Prom the day on which they take
their places in the railway cars their
ordeal commences. Cooped up like
sardines in a tin box. they have too
little room, too little air, too Little
food. too little exercise, too little heat
in winter, too much in summer They
are not az well off as the cavalry
horses in the wagons next their own.
Faugned. cramped. weak, emaeiated
they are whirled through Siberia. and
dumped on some little station in Man.
churia, where no preparations lave
been made for them. Hungry and
thirsty, they have then to march for
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

The whole sky Is now filled with the
magnificent winter consultations.
Orion, or the Hunter, the most striking
group of all, is exactly south, and Will
be easily recognized by the three very
bright stars which form the hunters
belt. Above Orion Is the beautiful
group Taurus, or the Bull, and still
farther up in the sky, almost exactly
overhead there shines out the golden
colored Capella, wonderfully bril-.
liant distant sun which emitg $50 times
as much light as our own sun does.
TO the east of Taurus Is the beauti-
full mld-winter group, Gemini or the
Twins; still further east the bright
group Leo or the Sickle may be seen
now entering the early evening sky for
the first time this winter, while be
tween Gamlni and Leo there lies the
strange, faint, little constellation
Cancer, the faintest Of all the
groups Of the Zodiac, through which
the Chaldeans supposed that the souls
az men descended from heaven into
human bodies. Southeast Of Orion Is
the Greater Dog star Sirius, star
which appears to Us to be the most
brilliant Of all the stars Of the sky, al.
though actually It is not remarkably
bright Its great brillIance Is caused
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

covered with the telescope, Their Is
some evidence that the motion of Nep.
tune moves SO very slowly its year be
ing l6l of our years long, that this
question cannot be thoroughly inves-
tigatcd for some time to come II
another body is there. there Is not the
slightest doubt that It will some day
I've discovered automatically, just
as Neptune has been, unless indeed,
Il Is accidentally picked up with the
telescope. For this far distant world,
whose Journey around the sun may
occupy centuries the appropriate
name Chronos or the Timekecpor has
been suggested,
The stars marked u, In Els. =, arc
beautiful double stars; the one marked
7 is a triple and also varies In
brightness about one whole magnitude
every ten days.
The planet Jupiter Il still in Taurus,
between the Hyadcs aud the Ploiadcs.
Its westward motion among the stars
will cease the cath of the month and It
will begin to move slowly eastward
again. This planet is now the most in.
teresting object in the sky TO the
owner of a small telescope The rose
tinted bands lying nearly PARALLEL to
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

Tho planet Neptune Is In the con
stelation Gemni, directly below the
bright star ~, Fig l. and east of the
pair of stars at X. TO enable the
posscssor OF small telescope to find
this little body, the portion of the Sky
below Il il shown enlarged in Fig. >,
The planet will be seen as Il faint,
grceuish. Sth magnitude star II little
to the west Of the ye1owish star Is,
Neptune Is a great world, 5000 miles
In diameter moving slowly, and ma
Iesllcnlly about the sun at the incon.
celvubly great distance Of $500 mil
lions OF miles, Viewed from this
enormous distance Mercury Venus,
the Earth and Mars would be 50 close
to our sun as to remain forever invis.
Iblc while the sun itself would look
Hike point of light and could only be
discovered to have a disc With the aid
of Il telescope, Like Jupiter and saturn
Neptune Is exceedingly light, cubic
foot OF Neptune Weighing but 10 as
much ms a cubic foot of the earth,
from which It IL supposed that the
planet ~ sttll intensely hot and In n
pascuus or yapor2ed state 1t Will
be remembered that Neptune was dis
covered by it's pull on the planet
Uranus, and that its size and position
In tie Sky were known with perfect
accuracy before IT had even been dis
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
SIMPLE SCIENCE.

If you have an opera glass, it Is an
interesting experiment to find out the
magnifying power OF it. This may
very easily be done without harming
the glass.
Hold one barrel of the glass in front
of one eye, and with nothing before
the other eye, look at some object so
that the image is seen with both
eyes; with one in its natural size, with
the other magnified. You can then
Judge about bow many times larger
the object looks through the glass than
without 1t, and that proves that the
glass has that much higher power
than normal
In the ordinary opera glass the OBJ
jects are magnified from two AMI a
half to three times their natural
size: in field glasses they are as
much as seven times magnified.
If you wish TO be even more &C
curate. look at yardstick in the same
way. If one foot, for instance, in the
magnified image looks as large as two
feet eight inches in the natural image,
the glass magnifies two and two-thirds
times. You can also judge by look
| ing at any object that is divided into
regular sections. as brick wall, or z
paling fence,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
gke EeaDens in 3anuarV
By Professor Dooe Astronomer

| the equator and the great variety Of
irregular markings are plainly visible
and will be seen rapidly shifting their
positions as the planet turns on its
axis. Near the planet there will be
detected four little points of light
which are the four brightest moons Of
Jupiter, and these too, will be seen
constantly altering their positions as
the hours 60 by The swiftly turn
ing planet with its retinue Of satellites
Is one Of the most beautiful and inter
esting Of all the objects in the heay-
ems.
The moons of Jupiter frequently
pass behind the planet and disappear
from view. Since Jupiter shines
merely by reflected sunlight, just as
our moon does, 1t is attended by an
enormous, conical shadow stretching
out into space directly away from the
sun The motion Of the moons fire.
quently carries them into this shadow
and they are then eclipsed Fig.
shows on the proper scale this shadow
with the orbits Of the moons of the
planet. On nearly every night of
this month one or more moons may be
seen to be eclipsed by passing into
this shadow. It was from these
ecIIpses that the velocity Of light was
discovered by the Danish Astronomer
Roemer in 1875, Since the earth
moves about the sun In an orbit 1S5
millions Of miles in diameter it follows
that our distance from Jupiter varies
by just this amount, Now IT IS noticed
that when we are nearest the planet
the ccIipses of his moons occur SIN
1913 early, and when we arc farthest
away just Ism l9s late. As we draw
near the planet the eclipses occur
earlier and earlier and as we recede
they fall more and more behind time.
Evidently this will be fully accounted
Tor by assuming that the light by
an appreclablo time to make the jour
ney to us. # is found that when we
increase our distance from Jupiter
1875 million miles, the eclipses occur
just l6m 3Ss late, from which the
velocity of light Is found to be 10000
miles per second.
Fig. shows the moons as they will
appear at ten O'Clock p. m, eastern
time, on six different dates during the
month, II Will be noticed that on the
18th, 25th and 30th the outer moon Is
at great distance from the planet. In
a small telescope, or even in good
pair of opera glasses it will then be
clearly visible.
The New Comet.
On November 18th bright nav
comet was discovered by DR.. Schaer
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
irving and the Padded Leg.

Given the old reading Of lines, =
the mcllihuous elocution of the part as
the test of acting, and they were an
insupcrable bar to his acceptance as
an actor. Overlooking. overwhelming
success came in spite of these, be-
cause It is an art which depends for
it's success not on eadences, but on the
intellectual and emotional mastery OF
situation and character "One of my
calves" said Mir Lawrence Barrett,
is little smaller than the other.
Most legs are that way had al
ways padded the worse leg until | was
in London, and had talk with
Henry Irving. He pointed out to
mo that 1t was better 10 leave your
legs as they were made. They fitted
the eutire as a whole and the instant
YOU padded, the general balance Of
the figure was upset, and you had a
sense Of unreality" | quote from
memory after years, but with perfect
certainty as to broad fact and gen.
eral expression. How keen, how pen.
etratiug how Illuminating was this
view. which accepted even physical
imperfection rs part of the stock in
trade with which sense of reality
could be created !-Talcott Williams
in Atlantic,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
THE MIsFIT.

Perhaps the pessimist may serve
Some useful purpose in his way,
But what it is can't observe.
Though it may be as plain as day
Or as a great big four horse drag
His services | do not prize.
No matter what his friends may say,
His brightest act is when he dies,
Give me instead the cheer up man.
Who has a smile for every one,
Who carries up his sleeve a plan
That pans out plain and harmless
fun.
That fellow weighs full sized ton
Who honest, hearty laughter wakes.
He takes the bread cart and the bun
The bakery and all the cakes.
The pessimist looks out on life
And everything seems wrong ID
him,
The future holds but care and strife
With trouble hanging on each limb
And, if he should get in the swim,
He fears he is a sad misfit
Though Fortune bright her lamp may
trim,
He knows there IS a string to It.
Let us be joyful on our way;
The way is rough enough at best
Force things trife to be gay
And give our gloomy lamps a rest.
Let's manfully pull down our vest
And say the best is sure to come;
See just ahead a rosy west,
Although our luck is Oh the bum.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
the magnificent Nebula Of Orion.
The Planets.

the magnificent Nebula Of Orion.
The Planets.
The very rapid eastward motion Of
Mars still continues so that It will re.
main well visible throughout the en-
tire month It Is too low down in the
west, however, and too far away
from us for the markings on the disc
TO be made out, or for the two moons
to be seen. In the telescope the
planet now appears very far from
round resembling the moon when
about four days from full.
Saturn Is an excellent object for oh,
seryaton in the early evening; it does
not set until half nast eight and as
the stars are clearly visible in mid.
winter by o'clock It may be well eX.
amIned for two or three hours after
sun set. The rings are now slowly
closing up because we are moving to.
ward a position from which we view
them edgcwise. This narrowing Will
continue until June 9th, when their
width will appear to be but one 10th
of their length, after which they will
begin TO open out again, but we will
not view them exactly edgewise this
year. During January their apparent
width will decrease from 18th to
l1lth Of their length
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

miles and miles n strange and dif-
ncult country, they know not whittier
or wherefore. All az once, WI .hout A
word of warning, they are decimated
by a slanting hail of bullets which
seemingly come from nowhere. They
cannot rely, for there is no indication
of the enemy's position
After that baptism Of fire the real
horrors of war begin Marches under
a scorchlng sun until the boots drop
off in shreds, the feet are swollen and
| lacerateu, the tongue is parched and
black, and the brain swimming with
incipJent madness. Or else it is
winter, when the toes, the ears. The
nose, and it may be the cheeks. are
frost-bitten and disfgured forever ana
when every snowheap exerts a weird
fascination over the jaded ana
drowsy soldier who often filings him
self surreptitiously upon one ana
enters upon his long last sleep.
But hunger and thirst are the two
awe-inspiring demons OF war whose
victims are more to be pitied even
than Ugolino in his hunger tower. /
have heard of soldiers who, to quench
their maddening thirst as they Jay
wounded on the mtllet-felds OF Man
churia, drank human blood | could
If leeds We're name some who came
back from the war to their native vii
lagc invaliied and whose experience
had been even still moro horrible
We lay helpless in the fields like
children, coy cred by the millet grass.
My leg was as stiff as a board. We
We're fercely hungry, like wolves, hui
man wolves. We would have eaten re-
fus had there been any at hand. But
there was nothing Every now ana
then we cast hungry looks at our dead
comrades and then We gazed a. each
ether We spoke with our eyes, we
agreed with our eyes to commit
henous crime. All the talk was done
by evil chances, | can't say how, but
we understood each other perfectlv.
And tben-then we did it, M
Il break off the grewsome narrative
here. 1t was poignanhy realistic.
Every detail burned itself into the
souls of the invalid's arrless hearers
They saw the whole sickening picture
rise up in all its ghastliness before
their eyes. It filed them with horror
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

of Geneva, switzerland. 1t was then
within four degrees of the north pole
of the heavens. and in extraordinarily
rapid motion. so that by Dec 4th il
had passed entirely across the sky TO
Il point below the equator, The path
of this body between November nth
and December 4 Is shown in Fig. I. It
was a small round, woody object with
cut any tall which had passed around
the sun on October is, and Is now rap.
idly recedug from us Unfortunately
at the time this paper is written ODE
ccber II, its motion during January
cannot be predicted,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
Victory for Local Ontion.

Washington, Jan. 3-The supreme
court of the United States yesterday
dismissed the case OF Congdon versus
Michigan because no final Judgment
had been reached in the proceedings
The case was introduced to test the
local option law of Michigan as ap.
piled to druggists. Congdon is a
druggist who was engaged in business
in Van Buren, county, where he was
tried and found guilty of violating
the local option law which was
there in force. The state supreme
court affirmed the verdict.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04

telling them her imaginary ailments,
hearing them tell about their own,
and discussing at great length the
curative properties of the springs.
She made particular victim of an
old gentleman who, being of some
what retiring, silent temperament.
was extremely annoyed by her ques
tons and often-repeated tales of woe.
Finally, on morning, when he was
taking sun bath on the piazza, sur.
rounded by few congenial &C
quaintances, the woman approached,
inflicted upon him a renewal of her
tiresome conversation, and exhausted
his patience. His opportunity for re-
venge came quickly.
Mr. I.add,n said she, settling weakly
into a chair I'VE have had so many
| pleasant discussions about our suffer
ings-and yet not half so pleasant qS
they might have been, because I've
been SO frightfuly dashed with these
terrible pains. Why, | looked in the
glass this morning. and you have no
idea how pale | was! | scarcely knew
myself! But what | wanted to ask
you was this: What do you think of
these baths? Have you any faith in
them, And this climate, particularly.
this air?"
Madam replied the old man, Il
not speak so surely about the baths,
but there is no doubt about the climate
and the air. can truthfully say /
feel at home here. Why, when l first
came here | weighed less than | do
now by more than fifty pounds
Just think of it," she exclaimed
Il could hardly raise an arm above
my head. | could not speak an in.
telligible word. | never left my bed
without being lifted from it by strong
arms, and my hands were 50 useless
that | could not pick up a knife and
fork. Most of my days | spent half.
conscious or asleep upon my back, and
| did not taken any interest in the con
yersation of my nurse-for, of course,
it was necessary to have a nurse.
You can see that now | have quite
q little hair When | came to this
town there was not spear of it on my
head. needed attention night and
day | was so weak and helpless that
child Of 4 years of age might have
ohoked me to death without its BENG
in my power to resist. That was when
| first came here
Gracious. cried the woman, eN.
citedly. You give me so much hope!
How long have you been here? When
did you first Gomez"
Madam answered the old man
solemnly, 4 was born here YOUTHS
Companion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
ALAskA's GOLD OUTPUT GAINS.
Contributes Total Net Increase of 1904
Production.

Washington, Jan, 3.-The preltmin,
airy estimate OF the director of the
mint, upon the production of gold and
silver In the United States in the cal.
cndar year 1906 shows gain OF ap,
proximately S6,000,000 in gold ana
,0OO. 900 ounces OF silver over the
product of 1904. The gain in gold Is
almost entirely represented by the in,
creased output of Alaska, the product
of which is placed at $l4650,l0
against 50, Ice, 800 in 1904, The Alaska
gain is nearly all in the Tanana or
Fairbanks district. the returns of which
are $5,10T,0 00. California shows a
loss of about 81 $4,000 due, II is said,
to the severe drought, which not only
brought hydraulic operations to q
standstil. but inDcrrcred With the
quartz mills to some extent Nevada
shows gain Of about 100000 and
Utah as much, Colorado gains about
81 ,o000 600, South Dakota, Montana,
! Idaho, Oregon and Arizona are estt
mated ut about the same as in the pre-.
vious year The Kondike continues 10
fall of and is about 100000 below
/ 1904.
| Colorado leads the list in the proiuc.
ton az gold with S2A,&33,2 900. Il is
second in silver with l2,70A9l9 fine
ounces. Montana being first with H.
$685. 600. South DakotaS output was
S6,951. COO of gold and 1SS,4o9 ounces
of silver, Michigan produced t27.S00
ounces of silver The total production
was SS6.SS7, zoo of gold and 5S,93S,S55
ounces of silver.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04
SEEK BROTHER IN.LAW BENE.
FICIARY AS MURDERER

Ouray, Col, Jan. 3.-The coroner's
jury investigating the death of Miss
Wilhemna Junsen, the homesteadel
who was found dead in her cabin last
Sunday with a bullet hole through hel
head, yesterday decided that she had
been murdered, and ordered the ar
rest Of her brother,in.law, J. B. Var
Wyck, who has disappeared. The
dead woman was insured for 100000
the policy being payable to her broth
Cr-inlaw.