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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Breaking Up an Elopement
Americas GA Reporter

A young fellow from the country,
whose manhood is wreck and whose
finances are more dilapidated, all from
dissipation, had won the affections of
a pretty country maiden, and insisted
on meeting her against a stern fathers
will A few nights ago they met and
were arranging an elopement. The
spot they had selected for their tryst
was near an old family burying-
ground, and the hour was near mid
night. They had made no definite
plan, owing to the girls perverseness,
and the fellow was suing earnestly,
when groan was heard in among
the graves, and white form rose up
and advanced toward the couple
Neither of them could speak nor
move. The figure moved slowly for
ward, the eyes seemingly blazing and
the bones clanking as it stepped.
When within few feet of the lovers
it spoke in a scarcely articulate tone,
telling the youth to 'Begone. as his
object was to destroy the girls hap
piness after getting her money" The
young fellow slid on his knees,
promising to leave, if he was allowed.
He was granted ten seconds to get out
of sight, when the girl keeled over in
faint and the young man started on a
run for home Then the old man
threw down a sheet on which some
phosphorus had been rubbed, and
some old dead COW bones he had pick
ed up, took his girl in his arms and
carried her into the house The young
fellow has left the country and the
girl is as quiet and gentle as a dove.
The old man is happy and gives his
daughter all the presents and atten-
ton he can, but has never told his
part in the transaction, and she has
never spoken her lovers name. nor
said a word of the terror that drove
him from her side.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
The PineTree States story.
From the Portland CMe.l Press.


One knight last week kitten was
chased by dogs, and took refuge in a
tree in Park street. There she chung
in the crutch of two of the topmost-
limbs She did not dare to move,
AMI remained all night in her uncom-
Portable position, crying and wet
through by the heavy showers. In
the morning tne kittens mother, a
sage old cat, saw her offspring's situa-
ton, and tried to call her down, but
the kitten wouldn't move. Finally
the old cat mounted a post in full
view of the kitten, and calling its at
tention. backed down the post several
times to show the kitten how the
thing was done Finally the kitten
plucked up courage, and following the
mothers example, descended the tree
backward
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31


Legal intelligence: Not long since
an Austin lawyer was appointed by
the District Judge to examine q can
didate for admission to the bar. The
young man was rather deficient in
Blackstone and Greenleaf. 1t looked
very much as though he lacked the
requisite preparation. DO you know
what fraud is in the judicial sense of
the wordl' inquired the examining at
torney Il DON'T hardly think
do" was the stammering reply.
well, fraud exists when man takes
advantage of his superior knowledge
to injure an ignorant person" so,
that's it, is it, Then if you take adj
vantage of your superior knowledge
of law to ask me questions | can t
answer, owing to my ignorance, and
in consequence thereby, 1 am refused
a license, / will be injured, and you
will be guilty of fraud. Won't you
JudgeG" The lawyer was very thought
full rer few moments, and then add
ed, retiectively: MY young friend,
l perceive you have great natural
qualifications for the bar, and shall
recommend that a large, handsomely
engrossed and richly-engraved license
be granted you in spite of your ignor-
ance
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Iowa County Democrat
MINERAL. POINT, WISCONSIN.
THE GAME AT LONG BRANCH.

The waltzes were over at Leland's,
And stood by my chaperon's chair,
Where the breeze coming in from the ocean
Just toyed with the bang of my hair,
And il ever mortal was thankful,
II was | that the window was there.
For own TO YOU Nell was choking
And il seemed like the moment of doom;
! had spied him, my faithless Tom Hawley,
Making Ioye-don't you think and to whom
But the beireSs Of Pillpatents millions,
And the vulgarest thing in the room.
Now Tom, as you know, is too handsome
For anything under the sun
Yes honestly own had firted,
But only little, in fun
And twas clear she was trying to catch hiH.,
If the thing could be possibly done.
felt in my bones twas all over
The cottage and Thomas, and bliss
For Of course twas grand speculation
Which fellow like Tom wouldn't miss.
But To think, after all his palaver,
That he ever could snub me like this,
/ can not describe my emotions
But Il gave my poor heartstrings "A tug;
Then saw my old chaperon shipper.
And up 10 me whom should she lug
But that great millionaire from Nevada,
Whose head Is as bald As n jug.
The occasion, you know, proves the hero,
And it came to me just like Hash:
He's been dangling around all the season
Yes Of course it Irds dreadfully rash,
But just thought I'D sh0T Mr.. Thomas
How to play, if the game was for cash.
'.Would walk on the breezy vcranda:'
"Oh, thank you'-now, Nell, you can guess
How il all came around, and imagine
That momont of choking distress
When said seeing Tom through the window,
Indeed, sir, youthat is-wby yes.
SO IT'S all coming off in October;
am having my trousseau from Worth.
He is nice, Nell, and perfectly solid,
And II man Of respectable birth;
But s0mchow-that is well, don't know
I'm the wretchedest girl upon earth:
Century Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
New York Evening Post

Charlotte russo may be varied by
adding chocolate to the custard.
A lump of alum dissolved in the
water in which you wash light blue
stockings viii prevent their fading.
a delicate way to vary the invalid's
daily toast is to heat a little clear,
sweet cream, and dip the toast into it.
Summer squash dipped in butter
and fried brown is good substitute
for egg plant. Season with pepper and
salt and serve hot.
Little wafer-hke cakes to eat with
chocolate or cocoa are made of two
eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar,
one tablespoonful of butter, with flour
enough to make stiff dough; roll
them very thin, cut in strips, and bake
in quick oven.
Imperfect sweet apples, which are
not suitable to bake whole, may be
made a delicious dish. Pare and slice
the best part of the apples, put them
in pudding-dish add enough water
to cover them; when tender serve with
sugar and cream.
Nice breakfast cakes, to be baked in
muffin tins, are made of one cup of
wheat flour and one cup of Graham
flour, little salt, one egg beaten very
light, sweet milk enough to make .
thin batter. The irons must be hot
before putting the batter in.
Fritters made of batter of milk
and flour, with one egg, are trans
formed into a delicate side dish by the
addition of some boiled peas, mashed
soft, and highly seasoned with pepper
and salt. These are excellent with
fowls of any kind, or with roast lamb.
Tomato hesh is good dish for tea.
Take some cold meat, mince it and
put it in a pudding dish with layers of
bread crumbs, well seasoned with pep
per, salt and butter; cut the tomatoes
in slices; bake all for half an hour.
No water is needed if the tomatoes are
ordinarily juicy.
| Graham rolls for breakfast or tea
are made of two cups of Graham -four,
one-half cup of wheat flour, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, half a
cup OF sugar, small teaspoonful of
salt, mix with cold water and bake in
| a quick oven. Do not knead this on
the board, but roll in shape in your
hands.
An excellent garnish for corned
beef or boiled ham is made by boiling
some fresh eggs ten minutes, then cut
them in thick slices, dip each in beat
en- egg and fine cracker or bread
crumbs, and fry brown in hot lard
A little parsley chopped and mixed
with the raw egg is a decided gain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31

According to the Reading Mich. }
Telephone, Sheb. Mallory was back in
the woods last Saturday, and saw and
killed blue racer seven feet long.
Sending boy that was with, him back to
the house for something, he lay down
on the ground near where he killed
the snake and fell asleep. He was
awakened soon after by heaviness
on his chest, and on opening his eyes
was spcechless and Mortified to see
another blue racer coiled up on his
chest, with his head raised about six
inches from his breast, his tongue
darting out and in, and looking Sheb.
square in the face. As soop as he
could collect his senses Sheb. sprang
up and out of reach of his snakeship.
but after his nerves became quieter
he returned and dispatched this one,
which measured over six feet
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
The Bad and Worthless

are never initiated or eountsrJsited This Is e.
pecially true OF family medicine, and Il Is posi-
tive proof that the remedy initiated Is OF the
highest value. As soon as 1t had been tested and
proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was
the purest, best and most valuable family medi-
cine on earth, many limitations sprung up and b.
gan to steal the notices in which the press and
people Of the country had expressed the merits Of
H. B., and in every way trying to induce suffering
inyalids to use their stuff instead, expecting TO
make money on the credit and good namc Of II, B.
Many others started nostrums put up In similar
style Of II. B., with variously devised names In
which the word Hop" or Hops" were used in n
way to induce people to believe that they were the
same hs Hop Bitters- All such pretended remedies
or cures, no matter what their style or name is,
and especially those with the word Hop" or
Hops" in their name. or in any way connected
with them or their name are limitations or counter
feits. Beware of them. Touch none Of them. Use
nothing but genuine Hop Bitters, with bunch or
cluster Of green Hops on a white label Trust
nothing else. Druggists and dealers are warned
against dealing in limitations or counterfefts
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Colorado Sights.

Since | came into Colorado have
played at SNOWFALL on the last day of
July. | have seen ladies scrape away
the snow and pick flowers from the
ground under the snow, and have
seen red ripe strawberries picked from
green bushes, after kicking off a foot
of snow from over them This is
Alpine Pass. l have seen men on
horse back along the railroad track,
where we have men a foot as track
walkers, seen these horsemen
draw out red flag and ride back a
dare devil gallop over the ties to flag
a train. l have seen the ticket agent
at Marshalrs Pass. 10, TBS feet altitude,
sitting by roaring fire in his Office,
July 80, while outside the ladies
OF our excursion were gathering wild
flowers and berries with the Their
mometer A degrees in the shade.
have seen the adobe house of the
Mexicans at Pueblo, wherein was
more dirt and filth than ever was
dreamed of by an Eastern family;
wherein men, women, girls and visi-
tors alike slept under straw, ON clay
floor, in the one room, which was
alike the kitchen, parlor and bed
room. I have seen Mexican girls
with castanets dancing a fandango,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
A WAR STORY


Among all the sturdy heroes of the
war who were mentioned in speech
and song at the late reunion of the
Grand Army, all mention of Edwin
M. Stanton, Llncoln's Secretary of
War, was omitted by orators and
writers. As an evidence of the high
esteem in which he was held by the
President it is related that during the
early part of the war the Western men,
as they were then called, had poor
opinion of the fighting qualities of the
men in the East, and, headed by Owen
Loveioy, of Illinois, devised scheme
which they thought would prove this
theory and be at tho same time of i'm
mense service to the army in the East.
Armed with all the details of the plan
a committee headed by Lovejoy pro
ceeded to Washington, and, calling
upon President Lincoln, unfolded to
HIM the wonderful scheme of trans
ferring $4,000 Eastern troops to the
army of the West, and supplying their
places with an equal number of West
ern men. Their eloquence and plausi-
BILE arguments convinced the Presi-
dent. to the extent that he gave them
an order to Secretary Stanton to carry
out the details of the plan as proposed.
On entering Stanton's Office, he was
found busily engaged in writing, and
without looking up he desired toknow
the object of their visit.
Lovejoy explained the scheme as he
had before done to the President, but
was met with fiat refusal by the Sec
rotary.
But we have the Presidents order,
sir" said Lovejoy
did Lincoln give you an order of
that kinda" quoth Stanton.
''He did, sir.
"Then he is id fool. :" said the
irate Secretary.
''Do you mean to say the President
is ID fool" asked Lovejoy in
amaZement.
Eyes, sir; if he gave you such an
order as that"
The bewildered Illinoisian betook
himself at once to the President and
related the result of his conference.
did Stanton say was d ID
fool?" asked Lincoln at the close of the
recital.
He did, sir; and repeated it. =
with that peculiar PARKWAY look
for which the PRESIDENT was noted, he
looked up after moments pause and
said:
IF Stanton said | was id fool
then must be one, for he is nearly
always right and generally says what
he means. l will step over and see
him"
This he proceeded to do, and Stan
ton convinced him in a very few mo-
ments that the pan proposed would
be taken as an insult by the whole
East. Her soldiers would stop enlist
ing and her capitalists withhold the
solid assistance they had been previ-
ously furnishing the North. He thus
added largely to the confidence which
the President had previously reposed
in him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Wearing notb;no Init a few sunf,owers

wearing nothing but few sunfowers
in their long black hair, unabashed In
the presence of 100 onlookers / have
seen the mountains of rocks thous-
ands of feet high, with the stones ar
ranged layer upon layer as if built by
mason, as regularly and carefully
laid, and have seen, standing in the
middle of a plain, a flat stone, on its
edge, $50 feet to the top. And have
seen in the Royal Gorge a mountain
over 1000 feet high, all seeming one
solid stone, without crack or crevice,
actually one big solid rock. / have
seen, and have in my satchel, speci-
mems of coal brought from the same
mountain. one from an anthracite
proving up Sc per cent carbon, and
another of bituminous coal from a
vein eight feet thick, and from a
tested field of $500 acres owned by
one man, / have seen a girl, dashing
over the plains on horseback, dis
mount to pick bouquet for her hat,
and, calling her Newfoundland dog,
step on his back and remount. l have
travelled nearly 2, 00qmiles over terrific
ries west of the Missouri river, in land
which my mind had peopled with In
dams, and have not seen single In
dian on that whole trip-not one-ex-
cept two squaws on the station plat
form at Cheyenne.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
AFTER THE PRESIDENT.
Report That n Party Of Cowboys Have
Started for Yellowstone Park TO
Kfdnap the President.

HALEY, Idaho, August 25, via
Ogden, Utah, August 25.-Consider-
able excitement exists in this city over
the report which appeared in last even
lngs Wood River Times, that a party
of cowboys had started for Yellow
stone Park to kidnap President Arthur,
and Sheriff Surry has started two
Deputies to look the matter up, with
instructions to summon strong posse
and arrest the kidnappers if the facts
are as stated. The Times says: Dur
ing the past two weeks a number
of strangers, all well provided with
good riding animals and fire arms and
resembling a party of regulators of
or Texas cowboys have been camped
on Willow creek, and considerable
curiosity has been expressed
as to the intentions of the
party, some accounting for their out
fit as party organized to go up in the
Indian country on prospecting trip,
while others believed them to be a
band of Arizona rustlers. During sew
eral days past some of the party have
ridden through the town in defiant
manner and mysteriously disappeared.
From a man who came in to-day it is
learned that the party, who induced
him to join, and made him take GER
tain pledges of secrecy, were organ
lied to proceed to Yellowstone Park.
They left last night, going on the stage
road, and he escaped during the night.
The object of the expedition is to cor
raj and capture President Arthur and
party, and to spirit them away into
the mountain Businesses and caves,
where they will be fed, but kept pris-
oners, while members of the party act
as pickets to prevent being sur
prised and captured, while nego-
tiatiOns for ransom are conducted.
The Captain or leader of the party
has an idea that heavy ransom will
be offered by the United States, and
personal friends of the President, after
the search for the Presidents party
shall be given up, and that half a
million dollars or more can thus be
extorted from the secret-service fund,
and divided among the party, on the
principle adopted by the italian
banditti An escaped member of the
party says there are siXty-five men In
the outfit, and some of them were
guerrillas in the late war Five Sho-
shone and Bannock Indians go along
as guides and scouts, who are armed
with repeating rifles and scalping
knives. The leader is Texas despera-
do, ON whose head price has been
set, and with the exception of two
Italians, who left the railroad grade,
the others of the party are cowboys.
A grand council was held night
before last on the prairie, where
every man swore by his dagger in the
freight to do his duty"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
THE INSANE.
How Things Appear 10 Those Who
Have Lost Their Reason.

How Things Appear 10 Those Who
Have Lost Their Reason.
The first that | remember of my at
tack was while was riding in rail
road car 1t seemed to me that the
passengers in the forward part were
getting up amateur theatricals. The
fact that this did not surprise me, nor
appear at all out of place, illustrates
one curious feature of insanity, and
that is, its close similarity in many
respects to dreaming. 1t swell known
that the strange plant -nagor1a at
tending upon most OF our dreams
never strike us at the time as at all
astonishing, illogical, or contradic-
tory, because the critical faculty in
sleep is partially and perhaps wholly
dormant. And so also is it in insanity
And as a sound or touch will suggest
or give direction to an ordinary dream
so everything that occurs within the
sight or hearing of an insane man af-
fects him in like manner. Also, he
has no more control over his words
and actions, when the insanity is COM
plete, than somnambulist And,
when a patient comes to himself, after
having been insane, he feels as though
he had been having a long and, some
times, very unpleasant dream. Some
of my delusions were of a frightful
character, and resembled nightmare
more than anything else; but more
often they were by no means disagree
able. OF course, it seemed strange to
me afterward that | could have been
carried away by such absurdities. At
one time thought that the end of the
world had come, and that the day OF
Judgment was at hand. This was
somewhat remarkable, because | had
not for years been a believer in the
scriptural prophecies relating to those
two events. Nor had | any faith in
the doctrine that there is hell of fire
yet, ill imagination, [ visited that
place of torment, and witnessed the
fortunes of the damned-without, how
ever, getting scorched myself. Some
strange conceits, that l had come
across in books, occasionally suggest
ed material for my mind to work on.
| saw men whose souls | believed had
been taken from their bodies, leaving
behind the intelligent personal identi-
ty-an idea suggested by a character
described in Bulwer's Strange Story.
Again, l thought that demons occa-
sionally terminated human bodies af-
ter death and this fancy must have
got from dramatic work by Bishop
Coke, entitled Saul" in which the
evil spirit sent to trouble that unfor-
tunate monarch, terminated and took
possession of the body of a priest whom
Saul had slain | mention these in
stances as serving to show the dream
like character of insanity. Insani-
ty," by One Who Has Been Insane,
in Popular Science Monthly for Sep
TENDER.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
MUST BE CRAZY.
Cranks Seem TO be Turning Up Every
Day With Some New Insane Freak
I'm Their Heads.

A paper published at Bradford, Pa.
says: 1.-The days of daring seems to
have settled down upon the world.
A drug clerk in this city, Julius Behl-
ing, is making series of experiments
which, if successfully carried out, will
certainly give him niche Iii the tenn
pie of fame. Mr.. Behling procured a
strong umbrella with bamboo ribs, and
one night in July mounted the rail of
bridge, and, opening his umbrella,
stepped off into space. The distance
to the water was perhaps fifteen feet.
He went down easily and landed in
about three feet of water He then
made up his mind to startle the world
by jumping off the great Kinzua via
duct, 300 feet high. On Wednesday
last he went to the bridge with an ex
cursion party, and, 'stationing himself
on the structure at its highest point,
tremblingly opened a cotton umbrel-
la. There was no breeze. Behling
carefully adjusted the umbrella and
let it drop. 1t did not capsize, but
when half way down it started off in
southerly course, and was soon lost
to sight in the dense forest which skirts
the valley. The next day Behling
robbed his neighbor of a tom cat,
which he carefully slowed away in a
bag and took to the big bridge. The
cat was fastened to the handle of a
strong umbrella and was sent on trip
from the top of the bridge. The
weight of the animal acted as a bal
ance, and it and the umbrella went
down slowly and landed without in
jury. Mr.. Behling proposes to con-
struct large and extra strong UNI
brella, and, unless the authorities pre-
vent, will go to to the top of the big
bridge, open the umbrella and jump
off.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
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