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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04

local taxation. Lose no time in let
ting congressman Kopp know that
you object to having the taxing power
of the government laid heavily upon
you for the benefit and behoof of trust
combinations.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04
200 ACRES OF GOOD LAND
FOR SALE.
TIMBER, PASTURE AND HAY LAND
90 ACRES OF THE VERY BEST TIMBER.

This tract part of the we'll known Francis Little farm and
situated in the town of Linden about miles northwest of
Mineral Point and Z miles from Linden. The viii be,
sold at a price which will sell it quickly.
Forty acres of timber which adoined this land the
north was sold few years ago 500 per acre.
Inquire the Mineral Point Real Estate Agency or at
the home of Mrs. Francis Little.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04
A Sudden Death.

The Blanchardville Blade reports
the sudden death of Henry Hendrick-
son, which occurred at his home in
Argyle on Monday evening, Feb %.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04
STAGE LIN Z
MINERAL POINT -DODGEVILLE
Morris Proctor, Proprietor.

Morris Proctor, Proprietor.
Stage runs daily. except Sunday, leaving
Mineral Point at 7:45 a. m, ana DodgeYlIle
between l and p. N
Connects at DOdgeville with train on
G. & N W. R'y for Madison, Milwaukee, etc.
and at Mineral Point with 4:30 train on
@. NJ. & St. P. R'y for Platteville, Darlington
Shullsburg Monroe and GAINESVILLE.
Calls left at the hotels Mineral Point, will
receive prompt atten ton.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04
The w. III. TOay Residence for
Sale at a Low Price.

A fine eight-rOOm residence in good
central location. House is exceptionally
well arranged and we'll finished. The place
will be sold cheap if sold soon. Inquire OF
the Mineral Point Real Estate Agency at the
Democrat office.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04
Complete Hardware Stock

The householder and his family find most complete
stock of Hardware Stoves Tnwae at the new store of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04
CHURCHES OF MINERAL POINT

Want advs. on page |, column 7.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07

work on the Panama Canal, in the oper-
alton of which more than 300 employees
were engaged, recently lifted out
quantity of dynamite which is described
in an official report as being more
than bushel." What would have hap
pened if the shovel had struck the dy-
nymite instead of the earth around it is
easy to imagine.
The Gordon Slope drill, of American
manufacture, recently won the prize
offered by the Chamber of Mines, at
Johannesburg, as the best all-round in
vention so far supplied the mines. 1t is
believed to have solved the native labor
problem, as one Kaffir will be able to
run the drill, and with it will do the
work of five natives. Thus where 1885,
600 are now employed it is thought their
number may be reduced to $4,000.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
GOODBYE TO the OLD.

We have all said goodbye to the ole
year, 1908. Some have said goodbye
with regret and others with gladness.
The year that has just closed hac
brought to many success and happiness,
to others failure and sorrow. But it has
gone, never to return. Let all of us
accept the inevitable, whether it has
been a source of joy or fountain of woe
and look to the future, the year 1909
as another opportunity for doing some
thing.
Cardinal Richelieu said: I'm the lex
icon youth there's no such word as fail.
Let there be no such word as fail in oul
lexicons for the year 1909.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
Protection and The Deepen denotes.


Philadelphia Press.
The next Republican tariff revision in
the extra session Of the coming Con-
gress will, it is already plain, recognize
the need and wisdom of using protec-
ton to develop our tropical dependen-
cies.
The Republican party began this pol
icy thirty-three years ago, when Con-
gress followed the reciprocity treaty
with the Hawaiian Islands under Presi-
dent Grant by reducing the duty on Ha-
wailan sugar. The result was the un-
precedented development of the islands,
the creation of a new source of our
sugar supply and the ultimate annexa-
ton of group of islands which had
been recognized as under the protection
of the United States from the days Of
fillmore and Webster, nearly sixty
years ago.
Cuba has profitted by the same policy.
A reduction in the tariff on its sugar
and tobacco has given the island a pros
perity it has never before had. Porto
Rico, enjoying the free entry Of its SUI
gar to this country, has become, and
for the first time, sugar growing is
land and its land is rising in value year
by year.
The same principle must be extended
in the coming revision to other Deepen
denotes. The Philippines must have the
open American market President Taft
urges. By giving the tropical products
of tropical dependencies protection the
United States can make itself as indie
pendent of Europe and other lands on
sugar and other tropical products as il
has become under protection on its man
ufactures.
Protection is itself part of the nation
al policy of independence. A duty or
coffee will not only give it revenue, but
1t will also restore Porto Rican coffee
plantations and make the Philippines as
large producer of coffee as Dutcl
Java The United States has giver
Santo Domingo and Haiti stability. i
can give prosperity to these protected
republics by doing for their sugar anC
fruit under President Taft, what wa
done under President Grant third of
century ago for the Hawaiian Islands.
J This was good protection doctrin,
then. 1t is good protection doctrin,
now. The new national policy in tn
coming revision of the tariff will end b,
giving the United States its own sup
plies Of sugar, coffee and every tropica
! product.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
HoW's Thls2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F, ].
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu,
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by
all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
Destroying The American Eagle.
Indianapolis News.

Indianapolis News.
The killing of an eagle is again re-
ported. Eagles are becoming rare in
this part of the country. The eagle is
our national bird. Why any one should
wish to destroy living emblem is past
finding out, and whenever a man with a
gun can get shot at an eagle he never
fails to fire. His next step, particularly
if his aim is good, is to tell the news
papers of his wonderful feat. The d.
mansions of the bird "from tip to tip
of wings are reported and the hunter is
much pulled up with pride. If there is
anything in sentiment it would seem
that it should extend to the American
eagle; but instead of protecting it the
American people seem to be deter
mined to exterminate it. A few years
more and it will be classed with the
great aux and known only in the books.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
WELCOME TO THE NEW.

Another year has been ushered in for
those who live on this earth. It's birth
was preceded by the most terrible
earthquake calamity that has ever be-
fallen the human race; and mourning
fills the entire land of Italy. while other
countries extend sympathy and gener-
GUS aid.
Yes, a new year, 1909, has begun to
record its sorrows and its joys for men.
The 365 days of this year, according to
the computation of time that obtains
on this earth, may mean much in the
way of accomplishment by individuals
and nations. What new discoveries
will be made by scientists and inventors
during the year that will be useful and
further demonstrate the wonderful
power and certain Immortality of the
human mind? What steps will be
taken by the nations for the introduc-
ton of new plans and policies that will
unite all the peoples of the world in a
strong bond of common brotherhood?
A new year has come, and, while it
means much for US, how little does it
mean in the affairs of the universe, so
far as the measurement of time is con-
cerned? Astronomers have just discov-
cred a new ma Or planet moving in an
orbit beyond Neptune. This latter has
heretofore been regarded as the outer
most major planet in the solar system
The new planet is 100 times further
from the sun than is the earth, and it is
calculated that one of its years is equal
to 1000 of ours. Just think of it. The
person who lives to be four score years
old here would live about one month on
the newly discovered planet, and if he
lived to be four score years old there it
would amount to eighty thousand years
on the earth. If men could live that
long on this earth they could do a great
amount of good or a vast amount of
evil. Which would it be? The wise
Creator knew what was best for man in
the allotment of the period of life, as
well as to the length of our seasons and
years. Let US, therefore, accept with
grateful hearts what has been given US,
and in the year 1909 strive to properly
utilize these blessings.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
Three women Loved Lincoln.
Exchange.

Exchange.
There was a wild rose slip of 4 girl in
Slated blue sunbonnet with whom he
walked the lanes of his homespun DAYS.
There was a clever, cultured woman,
whose brilliant intellect lighted his as
cending way in the Illinois legislature.
And there was the belle of the gay So
cial set at Springfield, who fiuttered
across his pathway as it led to Wash
ington. One he loved, and one he tried
to, and one he married. These were
the women that he courted. They loved
Lincoln. To them the greatest Ameri-
can was far nearer than a lofty figure
on high pedestal. They heard his
heart beat.
These were the women who loved
Lincoln. One of them today lies near
the banks of the Sangamon, where he
loved her. To the last there was with
him the long, long sorrow of her loss
that cast its shadow across his heart
in youth. AS late as 1864 he pushed
aside state papers in the executive
mansion at Washington to talk of her
late in the night to a friend who had
come from back home. One rests peace
fully in little cemetery at Pleasant
Ridge, ILL.,; the mother of five children.
Her tombstone reads: MARY Owen
Vineyard" One lies at his side in the
great mausoleum in Springfield, where
the State keeps her bier and his heaped
with fresh, fragrant flowers. When an
/ a. -. hill ,NA Il l..
lean people mourned a great president.
She mourned a great husband. HE
was the kindest man in the world" she
sobbed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
Machine Politics.
New York Sun.

ANCW QUIZ.
In Virginia and perhaps other South
ern States the machine" is preparing
for itself very difficult, if not hope
less, path. Last spring, on the occa-
sion of purely local contest in which
all Richmond was profoundly interested.
the wise men in charge of politics pro-
vided ballot which bound the individ-
ual who used it to vote for the nominee
of the Democratic convention at the
election in November.
Many did not notice this impudent
proviso, others attached no value to it.
but after Mr.. Bryan's nomination
thousands were enraged by trap SO
obvious and so unwarranted, and began
to cast about for some method of eva
sion. There was no way out, however.
and honest men took their medicine
accordingly. OF course, Virginia could
not have been carried for Taft under
the circumstances, but whole regiments
of good men and true felt bound to re.
frain from voting, and so the demon.
sthation was curtailed.
Now, as we are told, the "managers''
are considering new restriction. They
contemplate condition for future vot.
ing of the Democratic ticket-no less q
condition than the circumstance of hav.
ing voted for Bryan last November. II
Is by no means certain that this crazy
expedient will be resorted to, but it is
seriously discussed, and it seems to open
very promising vista of Democratic
disaster in the Old Dominion. The hold
of the Democratic organization in Vir-
ginia is feeble and uncertain at best.
What will become of it after such ar
insolent overture we leave to the imagi.
nation of the reader.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
The Emperor's Orderly.

Frenchmen of every rank and class
dearly love titles. The manager of q
Paris insurance company was decorated
with the Legion of Honor a few DAYS
ago, and the clerks in the employ of the
company presented him with a piece OF
plate to which their visiting cards were
attached.
On looking over these he was a good
deal puzzled and amused by the visiting
card of the "Office boy" an old soldier
from the Invalides, who was employed
to open the Office doors from 9 to a.
Under the mans name was the title
"The Emperor's Orderly" He sent
for the old soldier who stumped in anc
saluted.
"Of what emperor are you the order.
ly, and howl" he asked. The old Inva.
Tide drew himself up to attention.
81 am the orderly of the emperor. u
he said, Napoleon, lie Petit Corporal. u
''But he is dead. He has been dead
some time" answered the puzzled man.
ager.
81 dust his tomb for him." growled
the old soldier.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
How Much Railroad Money Goes to Rail.
road Labor.
Augusta Chronicle.

Augusta Chronicle.
The railroads pay S71.OO out of every
$780, 90 they earn to their employees.
Last year the railroads gross earnings
were S2,5S5, 91S, OOO Figures of this
magnitude can be better comprehended
by comparison, and it may be stated
that the number of employees on the pay
rolls of American railroads in 1907 was
only about so, 900 less than the standing
armies of the United States, Great
Britain, Germany, France and Japan
combined. Their gross earnings were
three times the total revenue of the
United States government; twenty-nine
times the total gold production of the
United States, and six times the gold
production of the world.
These statements are taken from the
published result of Investigations made
by w. c. Brown, senior vice-president
of the New York Central railroad.
Mr.. Brown says 81 out of every 500
earned by the railroads in 1907 was al
most Immediately redisbursed in pay
ment for labor or equipment and mate
rial, of which labor forms by far the
largest component part. He says that
the railroads receive more and keep less
than almost any other department of
business activity in this country.
Out of every 500 earned by the rail-
roads, he says, only 50 goes to the own
ers, the shareholders representing less
than per cent on face value of the Sc
curities.
In mileage the railroads of the Uni
States approximate 225, 600 miles. They
employed in 1907 in the neighborhood of
1,675, 900 men, and their gross earnings
amounted to 81, 585, 913, 900, or more
than 81, 200, 900 for each of the 365 days
of the year.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
The italian Earthquake.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
The earthquake on both sides of the
straits of MessinR deepens in horror
with every despatch. The first reports
are usually exaggerated when seismic
shocks are in question, but no exagger-
alton is possible in this appalling disas-
ter.
1t falls on a land already smitten by
many calamities. A decade ago Sicily
was close to civil war. Its great in
dustries have suffered for twenty years.
Its olive and orange crops have suffered
in value. Its sulphur mines have lost
from competition in this country and
elsewhere. Emigration to this country
and Argentina has robbed it of workers
and reduced its population. Local trade
has suffered and many a village stands
with few in its homes but boys, old men
and women.
The earthquake comes as a final dis
aster. 1t destroys houses and build
ings. 1t levels the stately buildings
and manifold improvements of centu-
ries. 1t destroys stores, factories aud
! farm buildings. Unlike San Francisco.
there is no insurance % be paid in later.
The devastated region has not behind it.
as San Francisco had, a great nation
and rich and prosperous State. Italy
is poor in capital. 1t is heavily taxed.
and faulty land system, with absentee
landlords, has made the Sicilian and Ca
labrian suffer from the taxes on lands.
occupations, stores and rural mills as
have no other Italians.
On all this long series of disaster. in
ternal disorder, loss in trade, diminish
ing population and extreme acute BUSH
ness depression now falls this sweeping.
terrible and awful calamity. 1t has
slain thousands, left other thousands
manned, and worst and most lasting of
all, the effects of such an earthquake.
1t has destroyed all manufacture and in
dustry for weeks to come, halted trade
for months and DESTROYED the capitaI
accumulated through years and cen.
turtles.
No recent catastrophe so calls for the
liberal aid of generous souls and a pros.
porous land. Pestilence, starvation
and perjury will come. There will be
thousands to be cared for and tens OF
thousands to be fed and sheltered, help
ed to begin life anew and given the aiC
which means a new livelihood. A great
stream of gifts, large and small is need
ed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
Public Employment Bureau.
Springfield Republican.

Springfield Republican.
Public employment bureaus could be
as safely classed among municipal and
state functions as almost ANYTHING in
semi-socialistic line; few persons five
years ago would have considered the
finding of work for the unemployed, in
this country, a natural function of the
federal government. Capitalization,
paternalism and all that brood of old
ashioned terrors are raised up in the
land as soon as the United States gov
eminent takes upon itself the solution
of the unemployed problem. And, seri-
ously, why cannot this form of activity
be left to state jurisdiction and initial
i've without injury to the unfortunates
who are out of work. Secretary Straus.
of the federal Department of Com
merce and Labor, however, has had a
federal employment bureau going since
July l, work for 2, 512 men having been
found since that date. He proposes now
to extend its activities very widely, his
idea evidently being a great national
labor exchange, free to employer and
employe, with branches maintained at
the expense of the federal treasury in
all large cities of the country. The
council of labor that will convene in
Washington next month will consider
the Secretary's plans and apparently is
expected to indorse them.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
BACKw0OUS OF VIRGINIA.
Wild and Woolly Is a Section Of Amerl-
cas- Oldest Country.

From Recreation.
If it was any time but midwinter |
might take a camera and 90 down into
Eastern Virginia. Now there's some
thing interesting, even before you've
started-something to find out the why
and the how of. In Eastern Virginia
are ten contiguous counties without a
railroad. That isn't some wild and
wOolly new country It's almost the
Oldest country we have. 1t was set
tied by almost the first Englishmen who
came to America. George Washington
wss born in one of those counties. And
yet-think of itl-this ancient land. as
large as Delaware, without a railroad in
it, Note the names of the counties /:
King George, Westmoreland, Northum-
bertrand, Lancaster, Richmond, Essex.
King and Queen, Gloucester, Mathews,
; MiddleseX-sonorous names. famous in
old English annals, redolent of storied
past. Through the midst of them runs
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES memories of
the Civil War that name calls up. In
the library you would learn that nobody
has written up" that land; tourists
| generally never heard of it; doubt if
even the camera tiend has exploited it.
., no, have never been there; never
knew anybody who had been there; but,
step off the train PUNK into the middle
of the eighteenth century. Yes, and
the language and many of the customs
will be older still; they will be Eliza
bethan English. Many of those sur
vivals you wouldn't find even in Eng
land itself today. If you're looking for
something different from New York
there you viii surely find it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
a Horrible HoId-Up.

About ten years ago my brother
was held up" in his work, health and
happiness by what was believed to be
hopeless consumption, writes w. r.
Lipscomb, Of Washington, N. C. "He
took all kinds of remedies and treat
ment from several doctors, but found
no help till he used DIR. Kings New
Discovery, and was wholly cured by six
bottles. He is a we'll man today. "
It's quick to relieve and the surest cure
for weak or sore lungs, hemorrhages,
coughs and colds. bronchitis, la grippe,
asthma and all bronchial affections.
SOC and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by Jno. Z. Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07

Federal expenditures, 1873, S135, OOO.-
900; Federal expenditures, 1908, 1898,
600, 600; Federal expenditures, 1898
what?-Charlotte Observer.
The answer depends upon which po-
litical party dominates the Government
in the interim. If the Republicans re-
main in power during the entire period,
at least eighteen figures will be re-
quired to express the result. Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot.
And if the Democrats should by any
possibility dominate the Government in
the interim, judging by the way they
have heretofore managed the financial
side of the government, the Govern
ment expenditures, based on the reve-
nues, could be expressed in one figure
%.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
Much In Little.

1t is said that the annual bird slaught-
er for plumes and other decorations is
300, 900. 900.
The electric locomotive holds the
worlds record for a mile with mark
of q seconds.
A years death rate from tigers in In
dis numbers sos human beings and
nearly $1,000 head of cattle.
DR.. Edwards, of Carnegie Institute.
IS now in Shanghai getting ready to
make the first magnetic survey of China.
Cardinal Couillie, Archbishop of Ly-
ons, has issued stern prohibition
against the priests and clerical stu
dents of his diocese riding bicycles.
The ginger grown in Jamaica COM
mands more than double the price of
any other. Under favorable conditions
an acre will produce as much as 4, OOO
pounds. During the last fiscal year
about 100000 pounds was exported
from that island
The amount of whalebone taken an
nually does not now much exceed 25.-
600 pounds. The largest part of this is
taken by the whalers sailing out of
ports on the Pacific coast. A few years
ago the amount taken was as much as
500, 900 pounds annually.
Word is being passed around among
the alumni of Harvard that plan is on
foot to raise fund with which 20 pro-
vide memorial in appreciation of the
services to the university of President
Eliot, who is to relinquish his position
next spring, when his resignation be-
comes effective.
One of the steam shovels engaged in
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-07
1t hasn't been many years since M

1t hasn't been many years since Mr..
Carnegie declared his purpose to die
poor. Perhaps he finds it impossible to
accomplish his purpose and desire with
a protective duty on steel and iron,
while he is the possessor of three hun
dred and fifty million dollars of the first
mortgage bonds of the steel trust.
Maybe he thinks that by putting steel
and iron on the free list the Trust
would be unable to pay interest on his
bonds and he would have to take its