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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-31
For Sale at the Democrat Office.

The Edward Mitchell farm of 100
acres, north Of town. Good pillow land, pas
lures and meadow, all in high state of Guilt
walton, and all watered by good springs,
very conveniently fenced. and a well ap-
pointed farm, Good dwelling house, and
barns. On improved road, just three miles
from city Will be sold at right price.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-31
Heifer Strayed Away

a yearling heifer from my pastures,
Sept. 4. The heifer is red with a
white face and right ear marked.
Kindly give information as to her
whereabouts. 2. L. REGER.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-31

No COS leaves Whitson Junction 3:45 pm
arrives Linden 3:55. No, COG leaves Linden
400 p. M, arrives Whitson Junction +:10.
Trains stop on signal at Shea, Kodatz and
aewett. No agent at Shea, kodatz and
Highland Junction.
w. A. JONES, General Manager.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-31
LIST OF Second HAND MACHINERY
GALENA IRON WORKS COMPANY

GALENA IRON WORKS COMPANY.
One 1Ox12 Gardner belt air driven air compressor.
Three 234-in Sullivan air drills.
Two tripods and weights.
One Smith water water heater "a in 10 it,
II Gem City water heater SO In fit.
One 40 horse power 22O VOLT 800 R. P NJ Northern Crane
Motor.
One IS H. P, 22O volt Northern motor.
One SO H. P. 220 volt Northern motor.
One H. P 10 volt motor.
One IS H. p. 40 volt motor.
One "a II. P. Callahan gasoline engine
Two 40 H. z. Charter gasoline engine
One 81 H. ?. Fairbanks Morse gasoline engine.
One double cylinder Shellenbach friction hoist
Two horizontal geared hoists.
One single cylinder She11enbach steam friction hoist.
One belt geared hoist.
One double 1O-in Cross-head pump. Aurora PATTERN
Two single jig concentrating plants
One 15-ton roasting plant.
One 1 10 walking beam pump.
One Sin '' :"
One Sin. x II in. Marsh steam head
One Sin. X 36-n. Smedley steam head.
Two 80 H. P. Boilers.
One No. Gould rotary pump capacity SO to 100 gallons
One Smedley single boiler pump.
lot of tanks rails and other supplies and material
GALENA IRON WORKS COMPANY
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-31
MISS NETTIE v. WALLIS.
Graduate of the American Con.
servatory of Music, Chicago.

viii give piano and organ lessons.
For terms inquire at her home in this
city. Telephone 90.
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OLD WALL ON '>S1seSEzH
KEITH ESTATE

Europe. recuperated and soon forgot her
false love in the excitement of court cir
cles into which she was welcomed. On
her return she was married secretly to
Hugh Ferguson, a Scotchman who lived
in Philadelphia. This was just a few
months before her fathers death, but she
never told him of her marriage, as he
opposed the match.
On the very day of his death Mrs Fer
guson repented of her silence anu re-
solved to tell her father. She wait d for
him to return from his usual walk in tn
park, and, with the momentous news on
her lips, watched him coming up tn
avenue to the house She wrote of this
dramatic moment:
1T was terrible task to perform at
every step he was approaching nearer
AS he reached the tenant house he fell
and died. Had l told him the day before,
as I thought of doing, 1 should have re-
preached myself for his death and gone
crazy.
The revolution put an end to Mrs. Fer
guson's happiness. for in spite of her en-
treaties her husband refused to swear al
legiance to the patriots cause Gen. Howe,
the British commander, gave him a COM
missary position. but owing to a charge
of high treason preferred by colonial Off
cials after his patron Howe had left Phil
adelphfa Ferguson was forced to flee to
England. and his wife never saw him
again. The legislature afterward gave
Mrs. Ferguson full title to Graeme Park,
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The CAPE TO CAIRO
ROUTE

glass. There is so much dust that Al
comes in when everything is shut. and the
porter brushes out the cars every hour
The scenery Is dreary. The only water
is that pumped from artesian wells. and
the stone stations have no green what
ever about them. The stations have not
even a name. They are known by num-
bers; and their only Inhabitants are the
railroad employees. This is the Condi-
tion all the way from Wady Halfa II Abu
Hamid. which is port on the Nile some
distance above the fourth cataract.
This road is a part of the Sudan mill
.ary railway, which extends from Wady
Halfa to Halfaya. The line ali told is 5l6
miles long, and it has a gauge of only
forty-two inches. 1t Is the road which
vas built by Kitchener during the war
with the Mahdi. 1t was constructed to
less than eighteen months by the English
engineers and the soldiers, and is one of
the most rema rkable examples of railroad
building Oh record. A large part of it
vas laitbat the rate of one and one-fourth
miles per day, and at one time more than
three miles We're laid In one day. The
track was constructed during the hottest
time of the year and the work was so
we'll done that trains carrying 200 tons
and drawn by engines weighing. without
,neir tender. fifty tons, cculd traveI - fe-
~ over II at the rate Of tW, n y'-fEt miles
per hour. 1t was built through a water
laSs desert which had ;.eV - len mapped
until the surveyors went ov = i, and the
survey camp was kept about six miles IN
advance of the ra:l head during its con
struction. There was always danger OF
attack by the Dervshes ana the road was
built through d host H. country.
Today the cars move as smoothly over
Eitchaner's tracks as they do over thos
of Egypt, and thy give that country reg
ular connection with the Sudan. There Is
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period. The Keith coat-of-arms with the
motto. Remember Thy End" was spread
literally about and still remains TO re-
mind all beholders of the original owner
Keith was man of action and one relic
on the estate stands today as monument
to his dislike for 'mollycoddles lhls Is
the lifting stone" a huge mushroom
shaped affair to which Keith introduced
all applicants for work at his homestead
If the applicant could lift the stone he
got a lob; If he could not he was turned
away. That he had some mighty workers
Is evident when a modern visitor to the
place who thinks he Is strong, essays to
pick up the test stone.
Keith had many good qualities and he
was about the only colonial governor sent
out from England who got along well
with the Quakers. He fell upon evil days
in 1921 because of his eXtravagant style
of living and he went back to England
leaving his wi e and his estate, winch he
had mortgaged heavily. In 1877 the place
was sold to JOS aph Turner, a merchant,
for So, $50 and two years later Dr. Thomas
Graeme bought the place and renamed It
Graeme Park. DIR. Graeme had married
Keiths stepdaughter. Ann D.ggs, who
was the governors second wlfes child by
a former marriage.
His Daughters Story.
DR. Graeme was a celebrated physician,
and Ne became a noted figure in the life
of the colonies. He died in 1772. leaving
Graeme Park to his only child. Elizabeth,
whose romantic career is one of the men,
ories which cluster about the aged man
sion.
She was betrothed to a young physician
who had studied with her father, but
when her fiance went to England to COM
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such Nile steamers carry mail, and
the letters are never left without some
armed official to watch over them.
Government Railroads That Pay.
Before we go on with our trip, let me
tell you how the railroads are managed.
Both those of Egypt and the Soudan are
under the government. and both systems
pay. Those of Egypt. according to Lord
Cromer.s last report. are now earning
about per cent on their capital stock and
their working expenses are only about 60
per cent of the gross receipts. The busi-
ness is rapidly increasing. They will carry
$500 600 more passengers this year than
last. and more than 100000 tons more
freight. Egypt now has something like
1900 miles of railroads which belong to
the government and in addition 900 or
100 miles of agricultural roads managed
by private parties. The earnings of the
latter are increasing. and they carry
more freight and passengers from year to
year.
The main lines are managed by Egyp-
tian and European officials. The superin
tendents of departments. who receive
$1,000 and upward year each, are main
ly Europeans, and the inspectors and sub
inspectors, who get from $50 to $240
month. are in the main foreigners. Under
these men are the native guards track
workers ana mecnanlCS OF various KINDS,
who receive less wages. They are almost
all Egyptians, there being something like
400 of them to about $50 Europeans.
AS to the Sudan roads. they go through
a thinly populated country, but the re-
caipts are considerably more than their
working expenses and they are rapidly
increasing. In 1905 they were double
what they were in 1903 the chief increase
being from the fourth class passe ngers,
who are natives.
This division of the Cape to Cairo road
miks one of the richest countries
earth I mean the Delta of Egypt, which
is more thickly populated than any other
part of the globe. The land is as black
as your hat. and it raises two or three
crops a year. 1t is worth from 5000 to
81 600 an acre. and furnishes a heavy
traffic of cotton and grain. The distance
rom Alexandria to Cairo is 1873 miles,
and all the way is through iuXuriant
farms. There is no desert in sight until
you reach Cairo. Cotton is piled up
every depot there are boat loads of it OF
the canals which the track crosses. and
at the stations cars of cotton bales fill
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WCEzT OF JAPAN.
Know Their Rights and Insist on
Taving Them.

Henry Geo-ge. jr.. in the Circle.
AS | sat at a formal dinner in the city
Of Osaka. Japan. not long since. l asked
Japan e. Gentleman beside me-a
highly el. a.ed and polished man Of the
world Who $ adviser TO the Chinese
goyersn.ar!-;c. with the great advance
IT nj n ia m in So many respects, the
status &C woman is advancing.
(which gycran?" he asked. The
laho-irg wo uaar Ys. The woman bred
abroad OF O, necessity part Of the diDlo-
-.?atfr W. "a" Yes. And 1t is to be
doubted if mir advancement to the
zla:e of woman in Europe and America
VI add to mel "ttraclNeness or their
.a-pin ss. s.rec conditions here are and
.lust he. SO different As for the women
y tn do-ucst { circle-the wife, the
,tarr. t. -sr, the daughter in the
-reat 5ai-5r cas- Of Japan-her status
NOS Nor should it. Any
q au2e = ..s her out Of domestic
tr.n. i &. .a&s ..eI in field for
which ua urc 4nlit.. Ees. The vile is the
.n.ae III -er. with full jurisdiction In
h ia Y ly circle. Her husband is pre-
72ier. /. besides. attends to all things
outside the household. This is as IT
sto,1!i be. .ur in tnis way there Is, and
.iily n / : way can there be, perfect
q e..rstlc p11==f.
It anu.t.... ti.ae / sat at luncheon with
a fascina.i...s "a. ,snese lady Of high stand
uc N Tg.. o. She had graduated from
ASA &c. - of which New Workers
Al. :. .r... raj. not say now many
ars aey. .--.ii,e II thai she possessed
1e ease o. -, and frst-ikness OF man
i.ei. of an y I. can giil. / repeated to her
he st..stan,s Of me osaka Rentleman'S
statement ani asked her opinion.
"Bosa.' she reclaimed, with smiling
vivac!ty ~ e japanese women are COM
ms H. ksow our g-s'9 ana tn men are
Atrtli1 oi IS.
Here 7. "a viewpoints, or, rather two
attitude oC cons -rvaliVy man and
.,nat OF :. ,,l4cal or progressive woman
Which 5 .-. may = first pp7s." tn
l4eWcOGc enlermine. But W ftdth
lear ground W Il We study the new
JaDanesc cune. which H.ainly indicates
d very decid d aGvance Tor woman.
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the side tracks. The freight of this region
alone would probably pay the expens s
of the road. and In addition there is the
big passenger travel from Cairo to
Alexandria and from all parts of the
Delta.
The next division above Cairo goes to
Assiout which is two or three hundred
miles further north. Then comes the road
from Assiout to LUXOR ending up with
the narrow-gauge line from Luxor to AS
souan. All of these divisions are through
the narrow valley of the Nile. with the
desert in sight all the way. For almost
a thousand miles above Cairo the cela-
brated Nile strip varies in width from
nothing to about nine miles. In many
places it is less than three miles wide.
The river winds this way and that but
the railroad is comparatively straight.
and it Is often far off from the river amid
the sand and rocks. Such parts of thn
strip are uncomfortable. At times the
sands are binding the dust fills the
cars, and our eyes smart. These d!scom
forts are somewhat obviated in the first
class cars. All of them have shutters and
double windows to keep out the dust, and
the inner window paneS are of smoked
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glass to lessen the glare With the shut
ters up 1t is almost dark in the cars, and
when down both windows give the inte-
rior the appearance of twill ght. When
the white glass alone is used .he rays are
binding, and the sun comes through with
such strength that it is not safe to have
it strike the back of ones neck as he
sits in the train.
Through Nubia by Rail.
I found the conditions even worse in
the Nubian de-ert which l crossed on the
railroad from Wady Lalfa to Berber
That region is about the Jleakest anu
dreariest on earth. 1t is all sand and
rocks, with here and there low thirsty
mountain. The Nubians themselves cali
it the stone belly" and the name j..
well chosen. The cars must be kept closed
to keep out the dust. They have double
windows and shutters, and in addition
wooden hoods over the windows. in order
that the direct rays of the sun may not
shine in. The cars have double roofs,
and the doors have windows of smoked
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sccond-class fare is only half as much as
the first. and the third is still cheaper.
Every train has first, second and third
class cars. Those of the first ara divided
up into compartments and are patronized
by tourists and otticials. Ths second-c!ass
cars are much like those of our American
trains. having an aisle through tna center:
they used by merchants commercial
travellers and well-to-do natives. The
third-class cars are cheaply gotten up and
their seats are wood benches; they are
always fill ID with the common Egyptians.
and foreigners seldom travel in them.
Our tickets are little blue cards with the
price printed upon them in English and
Arabic. We have to show them to the
guard we enter the train. and they are
not examined again until they are taken
up at the gates at the depot as We go
out.
We have some trouble with our baggage.
for like the ordinary American, we are
loaded with trunks. Only fifty-five pounds
can be checked without extra charge, and
my trunks often cost me more than my
fare. We notice that the English and
Egyptian passengers put the most of their
belongings into bundles and bags. which
they are allowed to bring into the cars
with them. Many a single passenger is
carrying four or five valises, each holding
as much AS a small steamer trunk. and
the compartments are half filled with
such luggage. Every first-class car has
on, and there are always fellahs at the
depot ready to carry our stuff for cents
depot ready to carry out stuff for five
cents per piece.
How the Mails Are Guarded.
Most of the Egyptian trains have a
mail car next to the engine an express
car back of that and also cars for ami
mails Our train carries one, in which are
TWO blanketad horses. with Syrian
grooms to take care of them. They prob
ably belong to some rich nabob of Cairo
and are going south by express
The postal cars are carefully watched
The bags of mail are carried to them on
red trucks made for the purpose. The
trucks are pushed by the Arabs and mail
is handled by them; but a dark-faced SOL
der, with rife and sword marches along
with the mail and watches the bags taken
in and out. When a truck is loaded tn.
soldier goes with it to the post office
wagons. There is always a guard on
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tCapyright. 1907 ~ Frank G. Carpentsrl
Srrcial C.rreSuondr.cc IF ne Star

HALFAYA.
- am In the Sudan, at tho end OF tn
northern sec.lon Of the Cape to cairo
Z railroad. Tits part al tn, route IS
now comrl {. q from The Naf.;@l-an-
ean SEA 10 where thu R!ue am Whi5>
Niles Join to form til mighty --~'.riA
which has built up the Ian" OF
Fgvpt. haze Eour on the iai'-
road tfroucr he rich Taeior9 Of the
lower Nile valI-v, and am No., in tie
MINER end If Eusta at the railroad STA
tfor Of HsICaya which "es just opposite
L<rar-.iri. NV distance from the Md
tsrrauean is equal 70 a straight line from
,ra A-i,utfc ocean to the borders or
CoJorzdo. and I a:a just about as far
cont. Of Alexaua, . as New Orleans IS
south of the booming city Of winnipeg.
From here | can grt steamers Which VIII
take ne 40 the White Nile for mora than
a thousand miles. and there ar some
thing like 500 miles o: available water
ways between that point end the other
end Of the road which has been con-
structad from Cape Town northward to
far beyond the Zambesi river.
In thinking Of the Cape 10 Cairo route
most people consider 1t as a continuous
railway system or Of one iron track run
ming north and south through Africa from
o,a I'D - +ba o.be~ This II will never
- s.. r,il> 20
ue' we s'lai4 81 OS ''S'
the Cape; but almost ohe-ihlrd Oh lhe way
will be over navigabIe rivers and lakes.
Tb,s uas +h. idea Of Cecil Rhodes and It
=, - ~ ,oo4i,,l a-c;-,ear
'he 'N'' " -.
who has examined the country anu ''S
traffic possibilities. There will be one
railroad line running from Cape T0wn as
far north as Lake TanganyiIa. and an
.. ;, ..,,,,
o'iiei ~ ''.'' G
from mere 10 AlehaHdFia- III" rest ~ '''e
route Will be made up of roll and water
The White Nile above l>hartoum may BE-
parall"led here and there by iron tracks.
but for generation or So at least, the
traffic will he by steamers as far as the
Belgian congo, al Tondokot"' a u'StahtS
viii W be be railroad strip Of 100 miles or so
to Duti!e. and then the HHe VII again ne
used anu stealrlels HI.i ~, sn ".' o,,tb-
az, storas Retween Lakes Albert and |
Tanganyika will be little more Uuan 80 |
miles Of railroad. with a sixty-mile ferry |
age across LAKE hNu' wHicn Nes
Ta,aon,tiLa co,sistine of a deem |
VI u go. = 90 n,iias 1one an5 then the |
, "a.si "aS Co., 80 80 ~ road Going a. |
So +.tsb+ eo,+b to C,aoa Town
g 60 nra tban Q 600 noiIes of iron |
-, ho,,a hear ia,d on the northern
ana sontbe-n ends of the system The |
.,or sao.ion /. rou about Q 600 miles
80 7. voc haan extended FROM Cane
-, or+bUord a distance nf almost 400 |
81 abo,a ,ba Zambesi river and there
n.a,r onIv 45o miles to construct be-
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tors ag~nt fer delivering the letter has
never been mad clear She had shown
her sympathy for the cause OF the coz
onjas. in many ways having contributed
clothing and food for the army on nu-
m .rous occs sioas. Mrs. Ferguson sold
era ne Park in 17e1 Tor S9.&@ to Or.
William Smith Since then it has gone
through various hands. and recently thcrs
afrnrts mad, TO persuade the state to take
1t over.
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Washington at Graeme Park.
Washington found Graeme Park a very
hospitable and comfortable place, anG
when his army was encamped nearby h
spent much of his time there. so that tn
place be came to be recognized for A tim
as his headquarters. Behind the house
is a splendid spring, from which, II is
said. the general refreshed himself on
many occasions.
Mrs. Ferguson figured in one more In
cident about which there was some mys-
terry. Thursday. October IL, lII7, Gen.
Washington wrote to the President Of til
Continental Congress:
Il yesterday. through the hands of Mrs
Ferguson of Graeme Park. received let
ter of a very curious and eXtraordinar!
nature from DR.. Duche. which / have
thought proper to transmit 10 Congress -
The letter from DR.. Duche, the rector
of Philadelphia church, Des1ught Wash
ington to forsaka the colonial cause, the
writer having lost hear. during the dark
days when the British were in the Quaker
city, and Become a tory. Just how the
patriotic Mrs. Ferguson became the rec
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!Arist~crars in the Army.
the L9ninn Regiment.

? tOTl III I1lIhH fl'I-III-I!T
In the arrrv the solder still loves the
real 'aIistocrat," however mitch he may
dislike the sh n ore. # officers were
elected by re- men, the army would
be far more ristocratlc' than it now is.
In nnety-nGe cases out of hundred
he officer WHO is the soldiers best com
rade is the office. whose birth has placed
him in the hig hest social position.
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for The star.

NTIIT"I TNT INT sun
-~ ~ILLIONs for grafters. but
80 IL Es nothing to promote patriotic
sentiment"
/. Il In these words a Pennsyl-
,.a,,i, hist +orfan summed ND
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I'M ::::: !: ::.:: !: ..... s...:, ,....,.
vania historian summed up,
somewhat bitterly, the situation in the
keystone state after trying for many
wears to interest his commonwealth in the
purchase and preservation Of a number OF
revolutionary and colonial relics. around
which the early history of the Cniteo
States was made. and after another of
these mementos had just been sold at
public auction without bid from the
authorities at Harrisburg.
The sale which inspired the remark was
that of the Keith homestead, In Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, mansion OF
colonial interest as the home Of Gov
Keith from 1922 to 1927 and OF revou
tiOrarv Importance as the house which
Washington found so com Portable during
his encampment near Whtemarsh th9t
he virtually made II his headquarters. II
has lust gone under the hammer, arc
doubtless Will meet the fate of many
another historical landmark which has
heer, razed to make way for modern de
veIopment
And the historian who spoke SO bitterly
had In mind the repeated efforts which
natriotlc citizens had made to interest his
state in the purchase Of the many relics
Of the sort which are found all over the
southeastern end of Pennsylvania, and
the repeated rehuffs with which these ad-
vances had been met. He recalled how
the men who built and trimmed the new
state capitol at Harrisburg got s13 cocoon
for their work s5 900 900 OF which accord
ing to the estimates of experts. was
graft" And the thought that this money
which. despite the indictment of the al
legged grafters. Will probably never be re-
coyered-might have been spent for the
ratriotic purpose of buying and perpetu-
ating the states many sacred relics
which are now crumbling to decay
prompted him to make the nsational
comparison quoted above.
A General Sentiment.
The sentiment has been echoed by many
Pennsylvauians, who feel that the com
monwealth Is responsible TO the nation
fo- the safekeepirg OF the mementos
of the republics birth and who resent the
tendency to shrk this duty.
The Keith mansion IS a handsome stone
edifce situated three miles northwest of
Hatboro and nineteen miles from Phtla-
delphia. 1t has been known for nearly a
century and three-quarters as the gov
ernor's house" for It was built and occu-
pied by Sir William Keith. lieutenant gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, and his wife. Lady
Anna Keith. both famous figures in colo
NAL history.
Sir William and Lady Anne came from
England in 1717 and soon discovered the
beauties OF the Whitcmarsh valley where
the lieutenant governor decided to build
a home. He selected the site, work was
begun in 1921. and the mansion was com
pleted the following year.
With it's thick walls. towering ceilings
huge ffreplaces, carved manteIs and oaken
balustrades the mansion was a. hand
some example of the architecture of the
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Washington at Graeme Park.

which her husband. from his refuge il
London. tried to sell through his lawyer.
in America
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woman. The blow was almost too much
for the young woman, but she went to