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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11


master OF the house should lie when
the end comes. and arrayed him like
the gentleman he was.
Now came that old wire hair, DIR.
Bond. his name standing stiff and
gray over gray face. down which
tears rolled the first time known of
any man. He sent my mother away
and called me to him. And then he
told me that In my fathers back were
three or four pierced wounds. no doubt
received from the sharp stubs OF un-
derbrushes when he fell. But this,
he said. could hardly have been the
cause of death He admitted that the
matter seemed mysterious to him.
Up to this time we had not thought
OF the cause OF this disaster nor pom.
dered upon motives were 1t worse than
accident. Now we began to think
DR.. Bond felt In the pockets of my ia
TIERS coat. and so for the first time
we found his account book and his
wallets, DR.. Bond and at once went
my father had carried They were
quite empty
All this. OF course, proved nothing
to us. The most that we could argue
was that the horse In some way had
thrown his rider and that the fall had
proved fatal and that perhaps some
wandering negro had committed the
theft These conclusions were the
next day bad for the horse Satan
whom ! whipped and spurred and rode
TIL he trembled, melting out to him
what had been given old Klingwalla
his sire. for another numbering deed
like this. | could not believe that my
father was gone, the man who had
been my model, my friend. my com
panion all my life.
Life and business matters had hlth
erto been much sealed book for me.
! was seized OF CONSERVATION when n
man came riding over from the little
Wallingford bank asking attention to
word from Abrams & Halliday. bank
ers of fredericksburg ! understood
vaguely of notes overdue and some
what OF mortgages on our lands our
house. our crops ! explained our
present troubles and confusion. but
the messenger shook his head with
coldness on his face ] had not been
accustomed to see worn by any at
Cowies Farms. Sweat stood on my
face when saw that we owed $15.
0O0-a large sum IN those simple days
and that more would presently fol
low. remainder Of n purchase price Of
over hundred thousand dollars for
lands | had never seen looked
about me at the great house Of COwles'
Farms. and n GOODNESS came upon my
heart as / realized for the first time
that perhaps this home was not ours.
but another's Anger again Possessed
me at this thought. and. with small
adieu. ordered the man from the
place and told him | would horsewhlp
him II he fingered but moment
Then. too late. | thought OF more buSi-
nesslike action and OF following the
advice my father had given me nj
once to see his associate. Colonel
Meriwether Thereafter | consulted
my mother
Colonel Sheraton might perhaps have
aided MS. but him would not ask
Before this time | had acquainted him
OF my intentions In regard 10 his
daughter. and now | went to him and
placed the matter before him. explain
ing TO him the nature OF our AFFAIRS
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11
CHAPTER ".
What Cometh In the Nioht,

Y HEN | rode up our lane in the
IA dusk found my father and
wv mother sitting in the cool OF
the front gallery and giving
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11

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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-11
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
GRANDPA UNDERwooD,s VIEWS

From the Charlotte Observer.
 The Macon Telegraph justly ridicules the vaudeville contortionists who have been casting it up against MT. Under wood that his grandfather was opposed to secession. They grin covertly even while they do this in the hope of gaining an imaginary political advantage" ob- serves the Telegraph, flor they know perfectly well that many of the best and greatest men of the south, including Robert E. Lee, Alexander H. Stephens, Benjamin H. Hill and Herschel V. John- son, regarded secession as a rash step and would have prevented it if they had been able to do so."
 Well, rather. Our contemporary might add to it's list the name of Zebulon B. Vance and nearly every other public man in North Carolina who occupied a con- spicuous position then. On this question there was practically no division be- tween democrats and whigs. Vance was campaigning the state against secession when the news of the firing upon Fort Sumter came to his ears. As he expressed it, he went to bed a union man and awoke a secessionist." Like Lee and the majority of temperate thinking men throughout the south. he simply recog- nized state of affairs which he deplored but could not mend The great majority of North Carolina people felt as he lid. They held out against secession until their hands had been absolutely forced The sentiment, Blank South Carolina and Massachusetts!"-th hot heads on both sides who had precipitated the fra trlcidal confict-was nowhere uttered with more fervor than it was here
 The circumstance that his grandfather opposed secession will certainly do Mir
 Underwood no harm in North Carolina. It is absurd to think that. the exploita- ton of this bit of his family history should do him harm anywhere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
SLAVE DRIVING IN SOUTH AMERICA

MT. Alexander P. Rogers, who lately made an engineering trip through South America, tells of the barbarities com mitted by rubber adventurers to get cheap labor. They entice peons to come from the interior of Bolivia under the promise of high wages. As soon as the unsus- pecting natives arrive. they are arested upon complaint of an agent of these men, who charges that the peons owe him sev- eral hundred dollars. They are taken before the judge, who is also an accom- plice and who immediately finds the neon guilty and sentences them to work out the debt on the boats that carry gold and rubber down the rapids. The conspira- tors own the boats, of course. They force the victims to work until they drop from exhaustion or die of fever.
 If they will not work, the poor crea- lures are taken to the jail and stretched out on the ground while a burly ruff fan gives them from POO to 800 lashes with a deadly leather whip. I actually saw one boats crew of Bolivians worl, for two long days in the blazing sun without being given a thing to eat except a little cold salted beef, while they pad dled Among the peons, a smile is rare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
Standing By Taft

'-The republican party has been more split up recently than at any time since cast my first ballot in 1ss4,' said Jerry L. Sneider of Philadelphia, "but l be- lieve the warning factions will get to- gether after the Chicago convention nom mates President Taft. That Mir Taft Will be nominated by an overwhelming majority seems TOW a certainty. I have always voted the republican ticket, but if Roosevelt were to head the ticket l would be very much tempted to stay away from the pools in November. Mr. Taft has made mistakes, no doubt, but he is entitled to a renomination and with a host of other republicans resent ex- President Roosevelts attitude
 "As to the democrats, I have no idea what the Baltimore convention will do. find in Pennsylvania good many Will son men and a good many who are for Underwood or Harmon or anybody rather tran Wilson. The New Jersey governor is regarded by conservative people as 0 cross between Bryan and Roosevelt If were a democrat I would be for Under wood.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
THE STEPHENSON CASE

From the Washington Post
 The United States Senate has very just ly and courageously refused to yield to ignorant and malicious clamor in the case of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin, It would have been a gross outrage to unseat that senator in response to he un- substantiated charge that he had corrupt ly used money in his election. Not a shred of evidence was adduced to show that MT. Stephenson had been guilty of corruption, or that he countenanced cor ruption in his behalf.
 It is well that the Senate, by decisive vote. should register its determination to do justice to such of it's members as are unjustly assailed. Senators could have curried favor with the hysterical reform ers'' who substitute suspicion for facts by sacrificing the aged senator from Wis consin. who had no further claim upon his colleagues than the right to fair and full hearing. The Senate has refused to try to stop the cries of it's defamers by throwing a victim to the mob. No one who has kept in touch with the Stephen son case can fail to credit the Senate with justice and firmness for the vote it has taken. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
Recognition of China

While perhaps it is better that all +he powers should act together Tn recognizing the Chinese republic, yet if recognition is to be long delayed this country should cut loose from the remainder to act independently.
 It is eminently fitting that one re- public should recognize another No one longer doubts that the republic of China has been ushered in to last per haps as long as the country does. The Manchus will not be able to come back, and every year will strengthen the hands of the republicans.
 Divided as it is in into IS largely self governing provinces the vast country will speedily become a con- solidated and contented republic. It has never been country inclined to needless revolutions. The Manchus remained in power nearly 300 years' and the republic promises to do as well.
 Secretary Knox is not to recognize any government hastily, and Congress may have to jog him little if China gets soon the recognition that is due her, and that would be a great help to her in negotiating loans and in set ting her vast affairs. An immense trade is at stake, and this alone should induce Secretary Knox to extend to China a formal diplomatic recognition. President Taft certainly has no desire to be unjust to the people of China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
Phil Memoli Returning

"I have just received a letter from Phil Memoli. the popular musician, in which he says that he Is planning to sail with his family for home about May 10," said member of the local branch of the Musicians union.
 "Memoli has been in Italy three years studying and for a year or more he has been director of a large con- cert band at Serino, the town in which he was born. I believe. He has re- ceived recently a conservatory diploma setting forth his musicianship and his ability to interpret the classic com posers. He will receive hearty well come on his return to Birmingham
 MT Memoli writes that he will take passage on Cunard steam sailing from Liverpool, but that before em- barking he and his family will visit Germany and Switzerland"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
Mexico's Troubles and Intervention

President Madero is menaced on every hand. General Orozco has an army in the north and Zapata one in the south part of the republic. Neith- CT of these movements, however, ap pear to President Taft to be good grounds for intervention. No steps have been taken in that direction. Congress must first act.
 Intervention would mean occupation covering years, and the cost of 1t would just about double the national debt. It would arouse, too, the hatred of all Mexicans. It would create ani- mostly as nothing else could. Presi- dent Taft is surely wise when he leaves the Mexicans to settle their own affairs in their own way.
 Mexico will work out solution of present troubles in (. short time. She needs an administration of the Ma dero sort, which stands pledged to build school houses in every part of the country. Diaz kept the country peaceful, but he built no school houses, and he permitted many abuses to spring up.
 Under Diaz the army was chiefly recruited from the prisons, and the youth of the land would have nothing to do with it. Possibly this can be changed. Madero stands ready to do his best to carry his excellent pre- election plans into effect, and if he is strong enough to restore law and order, not one of them will be over looked. Mexico sadly needs presi- dent of high character, and Madero is such man. He may not be a man of force. This is matter that will soon be decided the one way or the other
 In the meanwhile this country should keep away from Mexico. h. tervention is most sensitive point to all Mexicans. Left to themselves they will solve their own problems, and the solution would in that case be pretty sure to be good fit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
GOLD SEEKERS OF OLD

From the World Work
 MT. Alexander P. Rogers, a mining engineer, who recently made an inland voyage by river from the mouth of the Amazon to Buenos Ayres. found proof 15o years ago by band of adventurous gold seekers.
 They were remarkably successful in their search for gold too, and found every mine which is known today in that region.
 At mine near Matto Crosse, they had brought in small army of slaves and cleared off the jungle for mile around, while others were set to work construct Ing long ditch to bring water to the flat below. It was clever piece of work for men without surveyors instru- ments. They cut the ditch through a cement formation, that in places were 20 feet in depth; and near the lower end they constructed a great chamber In which they ground the ore between huge rocks. Whether they used mercury to amalgamate the gold I could not de- termine, but several stone tanks and siuiSes hioHe iuS thinN tndt poSSlply they did. They built a town around these works with a brick kiln and distillery as the most important adjuncts. It must have been a busy and exciting place to live in, ruled over by an iron hand. the masters word law In everything, and a cruel law 1t was.
 They took out a large amount of gold. And then tO enjoy If tbpU had out to the civilized world with 1t. through 5000 miles of hostile country, where free booters lay in wait
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
TRY Ir\

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 It is said the Queen of Sheba tested King Solomons wisdom by bringing be- fore him an equal number of boys and girls. dressed exactly alike, and asking him to decide which was which.
 The father of wisdom called for wash basins and told the group 10 wash its hands.
 The girls daintily rolled up their cuffs, but the boys splashed away without re- gard to neatness.
 And there yousare.
 There was no match trust in that early day If there had been any the great king could have enjoyed simpler test For the London Chronicle declares that when women strikes match she invariably scrapes it outward and away from herself while man scrapes it in and. toward himself
 Fill your match box and try this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01

write novel. I began one Within sixy months 1t was completed Enter the fairy story coloring. Two weeks after it's com pleton the story was running as serial In a New York paper. For the serial rights. here and abroad I received S750. No more jokes for mine.
 l have never had a novel rejected by publisher. From the time l worte my first story up to this day it has been plain sailing. The first publishers to whom sent the serial proofsheets accepted it immediately. I was to exempt the first thousand. As everybody was selling books by the hundreds of thousands I figured that my first check would be S1S,- coo. It was exactly S15. My sensations were similar to those of a man who has had his hat damned suddenly down over his ears Up to date, in. cheap editlo, s. that first novel has brought me in s1a,50O.
 l write one novel year, rarely any thing else. For with me short stories lit- erally are condensed novels. I should lack wisdom-commercial wisdom, if you would have it so-if I sold for $500 what I could with little more labor sell for $l5.O0O or $2o,oOo l work perhaps six months; then I go fishing, or I pack up and go to Florence or Picking or Bombay or Rio Janeiro. My office is where l can hang my hat"
 q am an inveterate globe trotter. I believe in travel; the least it does is to keep the invention fertile; and no one, not even my severest critics, will accuse me of being trite and uninteresting. And I love the work. l would not exchange my happy independence for all of MT. Morgans wealth. l am young, 1 am not 40, l am happily married; and not even the days of diversity robbed me of one truth-that a man is as happy as he wants to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
Remember the Day. Monday

This is Monday, the day of primary ballots in Alabama, and a primary choice in this state is equivalent to- election.
 Do not forget your duty today to vote for Oscar Underwood and Ala bama. The choice of the state for President should be given great vote. Here in Jefferson county we hope to roll up vote in his favor of 15,000, and if the remainder of the state does as well his majority in his home state will be a record breaker It will be a great piece of news to telegraph to the other states.
 Let no one think that his vote for Alabama's choice is not needed. It is needed for it's effect on other states. Let us give Alabama's favorite can didate majority as deep and broad as the democratic party can cast. The fact that he is without opposition should not lead any qualified voter to stay at home. Go to the polls today to put in a good ringing ballot for Alabama's great statesman, Oscar W. Underwood. This is the day. Vote early, and see that your neighbors do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
The Business situation

Henry Clews in his Saturday Review says in part
 "The stock market continues to re- fleet present and prospective improve ment in business circles. This is par ticularly true in regard to general busl ness. Advices from the west are all of a more cheerful nature. Crop conditions are exceptionally promising, although In some sections spring is late. Merchants in all parts of the west are stocking up more freely in anticipation of larger business. Consumption of staple com modities does not appear to have been cIrtaied by recent depression. partly owing to a severe winter, and distribu- ters find themselves absolutely obliged to replenish empty shelves much more freely than expected.
 "The iron trade is now showing a very encouraging degree of activity. Some plants are running at 90 per cent of their capacity, and a few are known to be running to the limit. Prices. 1t is true. are often low, but this stimulates de- mand, keeps a large number of hands employed and results in wider activity Many orders arc now being given out for steel required for structural purposes, and the railroads are also entering the mar ket more frleey for rails, locomotives, cars, bridge material. etc.
 ',The activity in cotton goods also con- tinues, mainly because of the exhaustion of interior supplies, which is confirmed by the large purchases of jobbers. Some mills are now sold out to the end of 1912. Prices are strong and the trend is still upwards
 Tn the monetary situation there is lit tie change Some stringency is usually expected in anticipation of the April set dement's, but this is not a serious mat ter The expected activity of business and the widening of stock exchange op- erations will cause a better demand for funds which in connection with decreased bank reserves will perate against the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01
RISE OF'A NOVEL WRITER
From the Saturday Evening Post.

From the Saturday Evening Post. TN between times I wrote highfalutin
 sonnets about the .impenetrable ego \ of our cosmos" They were terribly profound, so profound that I may have been the innocent cause of many ali edi- tors breakdown. I used to send the poems to Charles A. Dana-and he used to send them back Once he wrote on the margin of sonnet that he would gladly remunerate me for my cipher code. It hurt, but 1 remembered my fathers advice about hitting back. I kept on sending. Dana was tireless. One day l turned the whole batch over to our edi- torial writer, who was one of the best paragraphers of his time, and today is one of the most prosperous of our 1ibret- lists.
 What you need" he said soberly, ifs an interview with Eddie Foy Thatll knock this out of your system
 ''No good?" I asked with heavy heart
 Honestly, young fellow like you ought to be ashamed to write such drvel. know it's drivel, because ten years ago used to write the same stuff"
 All right. Get me that Foy interview"
 He did
 Foy was playing Ali Baba" I inter- viewed him. The next morning when 1 came down to the offiee-I was working on an afternoon sheet that has long since gone out of existence-I found one bay leaf pinned to my future wreath. leun- niest story Chicago had seen in weeks. and without malice or rancor To this day. when Foy visits my town we shoot a game of billiards: and I am sure he doesn't connect me with that Chicago cub.
 1 was 27. One of the boys suggested that give up the comic opera idea and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-01

about 30 per cent. The republicans, including Mir. Hill and Serene Payne, have prepared a bill which reduces rates about 40 per cent.
 And yet this same MT. Hill now rises up to remark that the republi- can. bill ''does not do an injustice to American industry" MT. Hill speaks for his party and for the wool inter- ests, and if the republican bill does not do an injustice to American indutry, pray what has other American tariffs since the war done to the American people? The amount of money taken under and by virtue of these tariffs from the pockets of the American peo- pie since the war on account of wool en clothing would probably have paid the cost of that war on both sides at least twice.
 The amount thus taken from the pockets of the people is too great for expression in print, and it is at least something that the wrong is ac- knowledged by MT. Hill. Schedule K is confessedly indefensible, and the President will be compelled to accept reductions well up toward 50 per cent. He must either do this or else re- pudiate his tariff board. The wool bill is booked to become law at this stage in the campaign.