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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-12
PROBLEMS CONFRONTING CON.
GRESS

What Congress Will Do.
Pass appropriation bills for the two
sessions, ending March 4, 1909, which
will total two billion dollars.
What Congress May Do.
Pass a currency measure.
Authorize three or four new battle
ships.
Amend antitrust laws.
What Congress VIII Talk.
Tariff revision.
Ship subsidy.
Currency reform.
Japanese exclusion.
Cruise of Atlantic fleet.
Bigger navy.
Anti-injunctiOn.
Child and women labor.
The Jamestown exposition.
Panama canal
Amendments TO antitrust law.
Amendments to pure food law.
Conflict between state and federal
power.
Amendments to railroad rate law.
Prohibition for the District OF Co
lumbia.
Restoration OF the army canteen.
Trust busting
Lobbies III Evidence.
Railroad lobby, ship subsidy, or
ganized labor, bankers and financial
interests. Christian lobby, seeking
anti-liquor legislation, peoples lobby
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-12
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
a ssssn sas Of ZHAzzza>
Plant Intelligence.

But as the animal is nearer TO us
+han the vegetable. so is animal III
telligence nearer akin to our own
than plant intelligence. We hear OF
Plant physiology, but not yet OF plant
psychology. When plant growing
III q darkened room leans toward the
light, The leaning, we are taught, Is
a purely mechanical process; the et-
feet of the light upon the cells OF the
plant brings it about in a purely me-
chanical way, but when an animal Is
drawn 10 the light the process is a
much more complex one, and implies
nervous system. 1t IS thought by
some that the roots of a water-loVlng
uiant divine the water from afar ana
run toward H. The truth is the plant
or tree sends It's roots in all direc-
tons. but those on the side of the
water find the ground moister IN taaI
direction and their growth is accef
! Grated. while the others are checked
| by the dryness Of the soil. An ASH
| tree stands on a rocky slope whert
the soil is thin ard poor, twenty ol
J twenty-five feet from my garden. AT
/ ter a while it sent so many roofs
down into the garden, and so robbed
the garden vegetables of the ferti.
izers, that we cut the roots off and
dug a trench to keep the tree from
sending more. Now the gardener
thought the tree OWNED the rich pas
turage down below there and reachei
| for it accordingly. The truth Is,
| suppose, that the roots on that slo'
found a little more and better sol
and so pushed on till they reached
The garden where they were at onc'
so we'll fed that they multiplied ant
| extended themselves rapidly. tn
tree waxed strong ard every season
sent more and stronger roots into tn
gsrden.-John Burroughs in Odtini
Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-12
NEW MILK TEST
, IS DISCOVERED
PROFESSOR DEVlSES METHOD
FOR DETERMINING cAsEiN.
New Test Expected to Do For
.Cheesemakers WHAT Eabcock Test
Did for Butterm sksrs-Simple
Process May Be Used in Any
Factory With Accuracy.

A simple method of determining
bears the same relation to- the cheese
industry of the state that the deter
mination Of fat content by the Bah
cock test does to butter making, has
been devised and perfected by Pro
fessor e. B. Hart Of the department
Of agricultural chemistry of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. In bulIe-
tin now in press entitled A Simple
Test for Casein in Milk and its Re
lation to the Dairy Industry, Profess
or Hart sets forth in detail the re
suits of his experiments, and gives
practical directions for the appl-ca'
ton of the new test. The method
is so simple that it may be used in
any cheese factory with accUacy
by anyone exercising reasonable
care. Hitherto it has been possible
to, determine the casein content OF
milk only by a long, tedious chemt
cal process not adapted to general
use.
Need of Test.
AS cheese is made up almost
wholly of fat, casein and water, the
fat and casein, under uniform comb
tions of cheese making, determine
the yield of cheese. 1t has been
clearly shown that in cheese making
the amount of casein ana fat in the
milk should be known to both the
man who owns the cow and the mar
who buys the milk. The practica
man, as well as the investigator, rec
ognizes the fact that mi1ks vary il
the relative proportion of caseil
and fat. AS there has been no sim
pie casein test, cheese makers hav'
been compelled to rely upon the Ia
test to determine the value of mill
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-12

ten | would tell you that am
charged with a message for you VIII
you do me the pleasure of listening?'
Certainly, speak; but whatever it
may be it can not change my inten-
ton"
You are then going to make a gal
liant man unhappy. speak Of the Mar
quis de Rierrepont, who loves you
with his whole heart, and briefly, who
asks your hand
Beatrice fixed upon her friend
startled, staring look, in which sur
prise seemed to be mingled with r
sort of bewilderment.
"Heavens!" she murmured, in a
suppressed voice.
''Well, my dear" said Nine. day
maret, Selling her hand, would that
not be better than the convent"
81 ana, as you see," answered the
! young girl, much troubled with what
you have just told me. But do not de-
ceive yourself upon the cause of my
| emotion. 1t is OF establishment, and
also of profound thanks l am very
sorry to be unable to do otherwise
! than to refuse the generosity Of Mon
sieur de Pierrepont, to be unable to
accept the honor which he has just
extended me. But, as I have told you.
I have, during a long time, been
! thinking of other things and have be-
come of another mind, and am not
/ changed in regard to them"
81 should think that your intentions
of entering the convent would not
yet become settled in an irrevocable
way"
mo doubt I still have need of con
sidering it more fully
"Then will you permit me to tel
the Marquis that you will consider it
that he may MOI renounce all hope?
SHOULD you tell him that, yor
would deceive him"
"How is that? Even If you do not
enter the convent you will refuse his
hand?"
eyes"
Ali" exclaimed Nine. d'AymareI
"it is not possible you love some
one?"
Beatrice did not answer.
DO you loTe some one?" repeated
Nine. d'Aymaret, without thinking o
; the torture that she inflicted upon he
} friend
PERHAPS" Beatrice murmured.
Without hope, them?
| Beatrice nodded by melanchol.
; nod of her head.
MAY / know Who?'
: Il beg Of you not to insist"
= All right; it is WELL" said tn
: young woman. rising quickly. "Yo
have usually given me much conn
, Gence. Au reFoir, nay dear.
! She went coward the door.
, "Will Won not kiss me?" said poo
; Beatrice.
t Indeed ye!" said Nine. d,Ayn'are
1 turning and throwing her arms aroun
: her neck.
Y They kiss each other and erie
5 together. In the midst of that effusio
= they still exchanged some "oEd'
l. Beatrice asking the Yicomtesse, fo
5 reasons that she briefly explained
j her, to MOI allow any one to know
: exceDt Pbrrepont, the secret of ne
0 probable entry into Carmel.
e Mime. tAymaret left the chatea
+ and took her way to des Loges, stri'
n fngfo fl some means by which sh
t could make as bearable as possIDl
Z the blow which she VS. bearing
Pierrepont. She resolved to lean apo
r he entry into the convent and
e leave in the shade the mysterious a
u tachment which she hal torn trol
Il Beatrice in haTf-confdence. She 500
Il perceived that the Marquis was wall
G ing slowly in the avenue which SD
t had remarked as a rendezvous. Hin
t self perceiving her, he fastened
|. her. reading his fate in the downca:
. features of the young woman.
= els It no?" he asked, coIdly.
: To be continued.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-12

PettIbone jury Is Ready.
Boise, Idaho, Dec. IA jury TO hear
the case against George PettfboDe waos
completed yesterday afternoon.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-12

And when do you WISH" said she,
that I speak to Beatrice?"
Dear Madam, as soon as possible,
I beg of you. [ tell you that till then
| shall be in a mortal trance. You
see / place all my fate on that card
Truly, for me 1t Is a solemn moment
/ have not much confidence, / an
afraid"
well, then" said the Vicontess
laughing, 81 will give you a rendez
vous for tomorrow"
She went to her little writfng-desl
and wrote a short note:
my Dear wish to see ycu alone
for an instant; I am charged witt
something for you. Tomorrow morn
ing at ten o'clock will knock at you
door.
Tandpr1V
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13

to Colon, where it can be put together
easily.
The portable church still possesses
the feature of novelty, although il has
been growing in favor and in use dur
ing the past five or six years. At
least 30 such structures are to be
found within the limits of Greater
New York.
The buildings are constructed in
sections, usually two feet nine inches
by twelve feet. The blank sections
are made all alike, so that they can
go together any way without being
numbered, except those framing the
windows and doors. The material
used is generally yellow pine through
out, and with the exception Of the
sills, girders and cross beams, for
which spruce is preferred. The roofs
are covered with sheets of galvanized
steel laid under sheet asbestos.
The buildings are as a rule church
ly in appearance, and fairly comfort
able. They are built to accommodate
from 100 to 700, according to size of
congregations. Windows of imitation
stained glass accompany the frame
of the church and shed a sOftening
glow through the little brown in.
teriOrs
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
DEVILS Tower in Wyoming.

above the surrounding country, and
for almost 500 feet is nearly perpen-
dicular and devoid of vegetation or
growth. The top of the tower is
large enough to play game of base
ball upon and is covered with soil
formed from disintegrated rock.
Two men are known to have climbed
the tower at the risk of their lives.
One of these, Jack Rogers. an old
cowboy, used a number Of lassos,
which he threw over projecting points
Of rocks, afterward climbing The ropes.
The other climber was an engineer or
the Homestake mining company.
The tower stands on the bank OF
the upper Belle Fouche river and has
been a landmark for years. 1t can
be seen from the Burlington railroad,
so miles away, when the sun is shin
ing.
DEVILS Tower is the famous ''Inyan
Karya" of the Sioux Indians, where
the evil spirits dwelt The Sioux, as
we'll as other northwest Indians, look
ed upon the mountain as haunted,
and it was a place of terror to them.
They gave it a wide berth in their
hunts.
The formation of the tower is a
black basalt nodded into regular pTis-
matte columns similar to those in the
Giants Causeway of Ireland.
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
BEER DRIVES OUT ABsINTHE.
France Takes More of the Former ana
Less of the Latter.

PaTis.-The consumption Of beer IN
France has increased by more than
40 per cent. during the last five years.
In 1906 it reached the imposing total
of 317,O4O,0OO gallons
It does not appear that the increased
use of beer has diminished in the
slightest degree the consumption Of
wine and cider. But Consul Mason is
quoted as saying that, as the cOnsump-
tiOn of beer increases. that Of alcohol,
especially in the perilOus form Of alb
sinthe, is slowly but steadily decreas-
ing.
The statistics of 1904 show that
during that year the amount of alb
sinthe sold for drinking purposes in
France fen off more than 100000 gal
Ions, or 2.8 per cent. This is not
a sweeping or conclusive reform, but
statistics seem to show that the max
imum danger point has been passed.
Much of the beer is imported Tor
purpOrts to be sol from Pilsen and
Munich, though most Of the leading
breweries in other German cities have
Paris agencies and distribute their
beer to retailers. This entails high
prices to customers, as there is a
heavy import duty. Under the stimu-
lus of this protection the brewing in
dustry of France has developed rap
idly both in respect to quantity and
quality of its product.
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
AUTOGRAPd Is PRICED
SIGNATURE OF w. 7. VERNON
IN GREAT DEMAND.
As Much as 81, 600 Has Been Paid
for One of Them-CraVing Is Uni
Versal-Secret of Their
Great Value.

WashingtOn.-Te thousand dollars
seems a fabulous price to pay for an
autograph, yet men who can get for
nothing the autograph of the great
est potentates on earth will willingly
exchange that amount in gold for the
signature of William 7. Vernon of
the United States.
Collectors of the signatures or ia
nous men, who viii pay high prices
for single specimens of those Of
George Washington, Napoleon Bona
parte or Oliver Cromwell, feel their
ambition realized if they can connect
with one of each, but for the auto
graph of Vernon they have a hunger
that ends only with death.
And the hunger is universal. Men
and women who ordinarily care moth
ing for the autographs craved by
collectors will exchange their all for
those Of Vernon. Lives are spent in
drudgery, men will die, cheat, steal,
fight, kill and brave all death in a
thousand ways with no hope and no
purpose save that of acquiring as
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
MISS KATHERINE EDDY.
,Chicago Girl Who Will Wed Senator
BeVeridge.)

mother belong to the families long
prominent in Chicago. Her mother
was Miss Abbie l. Spencer, daughter
Of the founder of the firm of Hibbard,
Spencer & Co.
She was graduated some years ago
from an eastern college and after her
graduation spent some time abroad.
She was presented to Chicago society
four OF five years ago, and since then
has spent a part of each year in
Europe, travelling sometimes with
her mother and at other times with
Mrs Marshall Field. She is a lin
gust OF rare ability and has been pre-
sented at several of the courts Of
Europe
Miss Eddy has great personal
charm. She is tall, slender and grace
ful, and has a wealth of golden hair
which she wears in heavy braids
twiued about the crown of her head,
alluded to by her friends as "Kath-
crime Eddy's natural coronet."
Miss Eddy is fond of walking, and
while in Washington she and Senator
Beyeridge frequently took long walks
into the country and not infrequently
Miss Eddy accompanied him on his
morning walk to the capitol. She
took the keenest interest in his strug-
gle for legislation to prevent the en-
pl9yment of child labor and was in
terasrod i'm his speeches.
Senator Beveridge was the young
es. man in the United States senate
W... he entered eight years ago at
ta. ago of SO. His gift of OTatOry
ha. eatued him a national reputation
even before he became a senator. He
startled the staid old senate with
his methods of procedure and his
sr..uosity has caused him to be
referred to as the young mans sort
OF man."
The senator was a plowbOy in Ohio
when he was u years old. The ma.
uEas of Highland County. Ohio. are
said TO easily recall him because of
his ambitious nature, which early
showed Itself.
At a he was a laborer and two
Years later was working in a logging
camp in Illinois. 1t was in the log
glrE camp that he began TO study na.
Uolal affairs IN 1881 he borrowed
81. from a friend and entered De
Paw university at Greencastle, Ind.
Here he won all the debates and got
Prizes enough to pay his college eX-
Feasas for two years. In 1885, after
I"" Years Of work on a ranch, he re-
turned to indianapolis and began the
study of law.
Mr. Reveridge married Katherine
-r--saale at Greencastle, Ind, in 1887.
She lied in 1900.
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
WATER FOR NEW YORK
WORK ON WORLDS GREATEST
ACQUEDUcT is BEGUN.
Tremendous Engineering Project Will
Cost $751; 100000 and Is Estimated
Will Take From is to 20 Years
to Complete.

Peekskill, n. with impressive
ceremonies work was formally in
augurated the other day on one of the
greatest engineering undertakings in
the worlds history-the aQueduct
which is to supply New York city
with water from the CatskiIl mountain
region.
The aqueduct will be the greatest of
ancient or modern times. 1t will cost
S161, 900, O,0OO-$2O,OO0,O in excess of
the estimated cost of the Panama
canal and 80 times the cost of the
Corinth canal, which the Roman en-
pire under Nero undertook but did
not finish.
1t is estimated that it will take be-
tween Is and 20 years to complete
the aqueduct When finished it will
increase the water supply of the
metropolis by 5OO,OOO,OOO gallons every
"a hours, led under the Hudson river
more than 100 miles away from the
seven artificial lakes to be constructed
in the Catskills, and of these sources
that at AshOlan alone will contain
more water than all three of the lakes
Of Killarney.
The building of the aqueduct,
which will have the capacity of a
small river, beneath the Hudson river
and the irregular country adjacent
known as the Highlands is an ex-
tremely difficult problem. An enOr-
nous territory must be drained, whose
northern boundary is 130 miles from
New York city. In an area of over
several hundred square miles entire
towns must be destroyed to make
room for the reservoirs. 1t has been
decided to carry the tunnel beneath
the famous headland of the Hudson
known as Storm King. At this point
the viaduct will be built more than
500 feet below the surface Of the
river.
The aqueduct will be covered
throughout its entire length. Much
| of it will pass far below the surface,
where it will be necessary to tunnel.
In places where the aqueduCt will be
/ above or near the surface it viii be
built in the form Of a trench and later
| arched over. In such cases even the
roof will not be left exposed, but will
/ be covered with earth and stone to
! strengthen it against all possible at
! tacks OF time and weather.
The aqueduct will carry 80 times as
much water as did all the famous
/ aqueducts of Rome combined. Twelve
! reservoirs which must be constructed
| to hold the enormous flow of water
| from the various watersheds Of the
! Catskills and adjacent hills will far ex-
/ ceed in size anything Of the kind in
/ the world One of these reservoirs
J will be u miles long, with an average
| width of one and a half miles. The
: Ashokan reservoir alone will have a
capacity of 17O,OOO,OOO gallons, or
double the present water supply OF
| New York city.
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
NEW HEAD OF NEW YORK LIFE.
Sketch of z. P. Kingsley, Recently
Elected President.

New York.-Darwin Pearl Kingsley,
who has been elected president of the
New York Life Insurance company,
was a teacher and a newspaper man
before he entered the insurance busi-
ness. In 1886 he was elected state
auditor of Colorado and ex-of1cio su-
perintendent of insurance, and in 1889
he entered the New York Life as
agency inspector for New England.
He was elected trustee and third vice
president in 1898 and was chosen vice
president in 1903. Mr.. Kingsley was
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
Presidents Favorite Cartoon.

The presidents favOrite cartoon
was drawn by Cartoonist Lowry, who
until recently was connected with the
stan of the Chicago Chronicle The
cartoon is called His Favorite Au-
thor" and it represents a farmer
half lying and half sitting at ease in
front Of a roaring fire and there read
ing The Presidents Message" The
reason that the president likes this
cartoon above others is to be found
In the artists conception Of the farm
er. He is not in any sense the carl.
oatured farmer, the hayseed Of the
c9mic journal. Mr.. Roosevelt thinks
that the farmer more nearly repre-
sents the idea of the plain people than
any other picture which he has seen.
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
BRIDE OF A SENATOR
,.e roDY OF CHICAGO TO WE'D
ALERT J. BEVERIDGE.
49,, Canes from Prominent Family
I'D Has Been Presented at Sew
srsf European Courts-Bride-
r-oon a National Figure.

ot547r7-Niss Katherine Eddy,
,.J-5+ar Of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus n.
TsEr of this city has been wooed and
E. e nv United States Senator Bev-
10 of Indiana. Senator Beveridge
ss.,gr-rr sailed for Europe. Miss
80 is in Germany visiting her
t.c-rer Spencer Eddy. who is secre-
~ Of Tie United States legation in
The date Of the wedding, according
+, friends here. has not been definite
= ara5. but will occur before con
-. assemblies in December.
The announcement of the engage
,svr OF Miss Eddy to Senator BeVer-
Fra created no surprise in Washing,
to- Hiss Eddy spent the last two
saasaas in that city, and her parents
Ira5 lu a fashionable apartment
5,rsa at Sixteenth and NJ streets
To-rhvest The family closed the
srsr.mant early in the spring, and
miss Eddy went to Europe to arrange
her rousseau.
Miss Eddy is a niece of Mrs. Mar
ebgu Field. Both her father anC
The Washington bee., 1907-07-13
PLAN TO HUNT POLAR BEAR.
John r. Bradley VIII Use Gun and
MoVing-Picture Machine.

New York.-To hunt the polar bear,
the musk OK, the walrus and the carl
bou at home in the shadow of the
north pole, not only with his rife, but
with a moving-pictuTe machine as
well, is the summer vacation planned
by John R. Bradley, an amateur
sportsman of New York city. He will
depart on July to board his auxiliary
schooner at Boston. DR.. Frederick A.
Cook, former companion of Robert E.
Peary, veteran of arctic and anarctic
expeditions, will accompany him.
Mr.. Bradley, who has hunted In
nearly every part Of the world, in
speaking of his unique trip, said: 81
shall attempt to obtain good speci-
mems of game, but one of the interest
ing features of the expedition will be
the taking of moving pictures. I have
used the camera largely in all my
travels, and had arranged to take a
moving-picture machine with me last
year, but l could not get films in Paris.
We hope now to photograph animals
as they live and move.
While / am hunting Dr. Cook will
be pursuing his studies OF the Eskimo.
He has made exhaustive studies OF
the tribes and viii complete them this
year. To him also the camera win
be of great benefit"