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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
A CHEERFUL VICTIM.
Three.Card Monte Experiences That
Made Big Man Out of Little One.

''Some fellers played me out of
$50 up at Port Huron yesterday" said
a young man of twenty-three who
called at the Central Station yester-
day:
Howe asked the Sergeant.
We'll one OF 'em had three cards
and he tossed 'em around and wanted
me to bet | could pick out the ace of
hearts"
ct was lhree-card monte"
WAS it2 That's what came in to
ask you. I've read about confidence
games, string games and so on, but
l did not know what this was. Thank
you"
DID you take any steps to have
EN- arrested9" asked the Sergeant as
he was going.
''Oh, no. l merely told ,em if
ever caught either one of 'em in st.
Thomas I'd mop the ground with him.
Oh, didn't propose TO make 'em any
particular trouble"
You must be a generous hearted
man."
'Well, I am. Another thing is, 1
never had anything happen to me-
Nobody ever slugged me, or picked
my pocket, or drew a gun on me, and
when sit down with the boys in
Beebe's grocery and venture my opin-
ion some body speaks up and says:
what do you know about it, You
never went anywhere or had anything
happen to you:
The case will be different now.
I've been swindled out of $50 and the
boys have got to stand back for nae.
This ere case will stand me in $500 in
reputation. I'll be pointed out on the
street as the chap who got in with the
monte men and am goiag to the pa
pers this afternoon to have 'em give
me good lift"
They don't all take it this way"
observed the sergeant.
mo, l suppose not, but you see my
policy, don't you9 If l could only
get my pocket picked of the 81 I've
got left I'd be the biggest man in st.
Thomas for year to come. Do you
know of any burglar who will talk
with me Or pugilist who will give
me blsck eye to carry home9"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
saving. of Farm Laborers,

In the interesting life of the late
Henry Fawcet comparison is made
between the providence of the peas
ant proprletors in France and the i'm
providence of the agricultural labor
ers of England. The large subscrip-
ton to the French loan by peasant
proprietors was demonstrative proof
that beyond the little land they pos
sessed there was a reserve Of personal
property ready for investment in
Government securities whenever the
national exchequer tempted it forth,
irrespective of the nature of the Gov
eminent in authority at the time.
Fawcett writes to Prof. Cairns in IA
vor of peasant proprietors in England
and says: 81 am staying in the midst
of one of the most prosperous agricul-
tural districts in England. 1t would
who has saved a sovereign, and not
oae in thousand of these laborers
will save enough to keep him from the
poor rates when old age compels him
to cease work" How can this be a
matter for SURPRISED A laborer IN this
country earns on an average fourteen
shilling week, out of which he prob
ably has to feed, clothe and house
himself, wife and an average of four
children. Although four pence day
each for the laborer and two pence a
day each for his four children, Is
pence out of the "a is absorbed in pre-
vidlng a minimum of food by which
life can be sustaied. The wonder is
not that the laborer does not save, but
how he can possibly manage to pro-
cure the bare necessaries of subsis-
tence out of his scanty earnings. Lady
Verney, in an interesting description n
of peasant properties in France,
sketches a melancholy picture of the
poverty of the peasant preprietors;
but there remains the fact. which
strongly impressed Prof, Fawcett,
that the French peasant proprietors
can and do save money for invest
ment, while the English peasants can
not. How to help the latter to better
his condition is problem we'll worthy
both the politician and the humani-
tartan, and any government that may
come into Office
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22

At a Farmers Institute recently
held at Fort Atkinson, Wis, a com
paratively new method of operating a
creamery was described by Mr.. G. H.
White. In the course of his remarks
ne spoke of the difficulties incident to
tie cream and milk gathering systems
of conducting factories, and sarticu-
larry of the care that justice to
milk producers involves. The latter
have various breeds of COWS, and feed
and care for them differently. In his
case, the farmers follow their own
taste and judgment In the matter of
breeds and of Dreaming the milk, and
each delivers his own cream at the
factory once in two days in warm
weather and once in three days in
late fall and winter. Each patrons
cream is churned by itself, and the
pounds of butter it actually makes is
credited to the patron. The weighing
is done after the butter has been sailed
and has been rolled only enough to
express the brine that readily runs off.
When found to be all right, the but
ter of each man, so far as it will fill
the different sized tubs or butter boxes
used, is again worked aud packed by
itself, and receives the factory brand.
The little remainders are worked to-
gether, so as to fill other boxes. If
there is any defect in any batch it is
kept separated and sold without the
brand, and the net receipts credited to
the patron that furnished the cream.
So each man gets what he would make
for himself on his own farm. The
advantages are the uniform excellence
of the manufactory part, the relief to
the household of the farmer, price
much above that the average farmer
can obtain, and the retention of the
skinned milk on the farm in the best
condition for feeding. The method
has thus far given great satisfaction,
and may be one Of the blades to cut
the Gerdian knot in the butter max
ing districts. In answer to questions
Mr.. White explained that there was
much difference in the yield of butter
from the same number of pounds of
cream. This he credited partly to the
season and weather, but more largely
to the difference in Dreaming methods
on the farm, some having good fscili
ties, some poor, some having ice, 9TH
erS none.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
AN ADDING MACHINE.
Continuance of A IL ookkeeper Aft
Twelve Years Work.

Twelve Years Work.
G, G, Spalding, who keeps books for
Day q johnson, says The Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, has perfected a
machine that is designed to aid brother
bookkeepers or accountants in run
ming up long lines of figures. He has
been at work on the invention since
1878, and had the thing patented some
thing like year ago. The machine
is ehcased III a wooden box about s
inches square and deep, and, lifting
the cover, the interior is seen to hold
an enameled white surface, on which
are two dials, and which shows the
brass keyboard in the lower left hand
corner. The larger dial of the two is
of the left of the machine, and is di-
vided into one hundred sections. The
rim of the smaller dial is like wise cut
into twenty sections. The hand which
moves the smaller one is called the
hundreds and the first dial is called
the unit pointer. That which moves
about the pointer. A little fingerplay
on the brass keyboard makes the OBJ
ject of the dials and the reason of the
pointers names quickly understood.
The nine keys on the board are
numbered from one to nine and are
placed in regular order but also in
two rows, 2, 4, 3 aud s being above
and the odd numbers below. The
key is brass upright, and as the fin
ger draws on it spring allows it TO
slip back toward the lower end of the
box. The pulling of each key on the
board sends the unit pointer along on
its journey around the dial as many
points as there are units in the num-
Der of the key. Pull the 9 key and
the dial set at o goes to 9. Pull the
same key again and the unit pointer
moves to IS. Pull 1, 2, and KEYS
now and the pointer goes consecutive
~ with hop, skip, and jump to "a.
When the unit pointer, keeping up its
agile athletics has reached Its starting
point again, there is quick little mo
ton on the right hand dial. The
pointer then has dotted and gone
one" The machines internal clock
WORK Is more accurate than a human
head can be. 1t isn't troubled with
malaria, or is it ever larger in the
morning than it was the night before.
All the accountant has to do is to run
his eye up and down the columns,
pulling each respective key as he
reaches the corresponding figure. A
day is sufficient in which to learn the
key beard, and the motion of the hand
quickly becomes involuntary. The
expert can run the figures in his head
and on the board simultaneously,
thus proving" his work by one trip
up o.. down the column Carving is
performed by setting the pointer at
the number to be carried. To set the
unit pointer all that is necessary is to
hold down key / and turn the pointer
forward to number one less than the |
one carried On releasing key 1 the |
pointer is on the desired number. The |
hundred pointer can be moved IN |
either direction. The hand easily |
operates the nine keys thus: Nos. 1, |
2, and with the first finger, and 5 |
with the second, 6 and with the third, /
and 9 with the fourth. The inven- |
tor claims for the machine unerring
accuracy and surprising rapidity. He |
says an expert can add 24s figures a |
minute with It.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
The Effects of Tobacco.
The Nineteenth Century.

The effects of tobacco differ widely,
according, first, to individual, and
racial, and climatic conditions, and
according to the method of coHsump.
ton, and TO circumstances of dosage
and concentration. Ia proof of indi-
vidual differences we have a mass of
everyday testimony.
II could sever work IN ess smok-
ed" says one; and another, Tobacco
never agrees with me, though l have
tried it often" Only On the view
that effects vary acc ording to differ
ences OF race can we account for the
fact that some communities really
adopt the habit aud defend it, while
Others find no pleasure In it and de-
neulce 1t, as ID the case ct certain
American states. Climatic variations
are still more striking. In temperate
and cold countries tobacco creates
thirst, and thereby encourages drink.
ing habits; in tropical chimes it has no
such effect on the smoker, and the
taste for alcohol rarely follows its use
in those ATTITUDES. Very eminent OBJ
servers have, indeed, attributed the
proverelal sobriety of eastern people
to the use of tobacco. These are i'm
portant qualification, having refer
ence to the smoker himself and his
surroundings, and modifying the eff
fects of his indulgence Ia such a man
ner as irresistibly to suggest the old
proyerb: "Oae mans food Is another
mans poisoa." But, further, the
effects vary according to the method
OF consumption; and here
we touch question OF great interest,
bearing upon several stimulant mar
cotics, and that is the question of
chewing. All solid foods undergs
this process in the mouth, and of our
chief products, tobacco, coca, opium,
and betel are also chewed- The act of
chewing powerfully affects the nerves
of the mouth, being branches Of the
fifth pair of nerves, and in close con-
nectlon with the brain. While It has
long been understood that certain
nerves in the mouth excite. when
stimulated by food, the pleasurable
sensations of taste, it Is more recent
discovery that the chewing Of solids
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22

produces through the fifth nerve GER
tain stimulaLt impressions upon the
nervous csnters. One of the conse-
quent effects is a quickened circuls-
ton IN the brain. What light this
throws upon the habit of chewing the
world Overt The child, whose one
anxiety is to get something between
It's teeth, nsay De exeMplifying a want
and an instinct, the same as prompts
the Egyptian, Malay, and Hin6oo.
from infancy to age, to gnaw at the
sugar-cane.s Again, many persons
seek to produce an analogous effect
by stroking the chin or nose when puz-
zled or absorbed in thought. In such
cases, doubtless, the unconscious act
has for its purpose stimulation of the
brain through the mediation of sensi-
tive nerves. Both shutting and chew
ing tobacco probably exert this local
influence far more powerfully than
smoking. The constitutional effects
LII the three cases are nearly the same.
Among our sailors Chewing the
quld" is extremely common, and
seems to date from time when smek-
ing was prohibited from danger to tie
wooden walls Methods of smoking
exercise an important influence on the
effect produced. Smoked in the
European fashion, according to which
the fumes of the burning leaf are
sucked directly into the mouth, the
essential principles of the drug, nico-
tine, finds free entrance into the
system. This is obviated by the turks
Hiadoes, Chinese, and others, who
draw the smoke through layer OF
water, in some form of water-pipe,
such as the hookah and narghile. By
this very wise method the narcotic
effects are far more difficult to pro.
duce and altogether less in extent.
Hence it would be of great and un.
deniable advantage 10 Introduce the
water system into this country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
FARM NOTES,

Italy has over 5000, 600 acres of
commercial forests, over G, 1000, 900 pri-
vate forests, and over SOC, 600 acres of
state forests
Never plant black raspberry roots
from an old, worn out plantation. If
the old plant is thrifty and healthy
age makes no difference.
The only remedy for rust on black
berries is to dig and burn all affected
plants atonce, and to remove the same
from some young plantation not af-
fected.
Although we have had hundreds of
methods recommended for separating
the cream and churning there is still
room for discussion and improve
ment.
The watering troaghs are liable to
get full of filth and rubbish. and will
need attention every day. The water
for horses should be as pure as can be
secured.
1t costs just as much TO make poor
butter as to make a good article
hence little care and patience during
the process will give better results
with increased profit.
1t is much easier to keep an animal
fat than to fatten it; hence the stock
should always be kept in good condi-
ton, as they can be then more readily
prepared for market.
The whitish scruf On the shauks of
fowls is a skin affection known to
poultrymen as 'scaly leg" 1t de-
ponds on extremely minute parasites,
and increases as thsy multiply.
A handful of linseed meal fed to
each co or horse al least three times
week will not only regulate the bow
els and promote health but also loos
en- the skin and prevent hide bound.
Winter wheat does better on a
strong freshly plowed sod. The sell
don't pack SO hard and the SOD allows
more drainage, so that the water can
not rot and destroy tho roots of the
wheat.
Pregnant ewes require regular ex-
erclse and access to lot where they
may pick few bits OF grass. This
will give them an appetite and keep
them healthy and free from constipa-
ton.
Cream rises almost wholly when the
milk is cooling. says the Dairy Farmer.
and if the milk is warmed up to 1907
the cream will nearly all rise while
the milk is gradually cooling down to
So.
The Southdown sheep are some
what small, but have great paopor-
ton of meat to offer. They are brown
and gray-faced, no horns, thick, close
wool between the ears, with fine form
and are very hardy.
Hogs give returns SO quickly that
even If a small profit is made on each
lot, these profits can be made SO often
and SO quickly that the rearing and
feeding of hogs is one of the most pay
ing occupations eff the farm.
1t requires quite an amount of labor
and care to force flowers and vegetab-
les in winter, but the prices obtained
more than compensate for the extra
expense while larger profits are sec
ured than from summer products.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
A Pretty Good Potatoc Yield.
New England Farmer

Mr.. Charles Badger, who reported
a yield of potatoes from single square
rod equal to $50 bushels per acre, and
who showed full five bushels of the
marketable potatoes at the recent
Franklin Farmers Club Fair, gives
us an account Of the method of cult
walton pursued. The land was in corn
last year, and was well manured. The
character of the soil is sandy loan.
1t lies in valley, and though never
too wet, seldom suffers severely from
drouth. Last spring good horse
load of stable manure, from a barn
where horses, cows and hogs are
kept, was spread and spaded in. the
work being thoroughly done. On the
18Th of May it was farrowed out as
closely as the burrows could CONVEX
iently be made with a spade, ten rows
to the rod. a half bushel of seed was
used, cut into from two to three eyes.
or more, medium-sized p otatoes being
cut into two or. more pieces. The pieces
We're dropped about foot apart, four
or five inches below the surface level.
After covering lightly with earth a
light mulch OF saturated litter from a
hog sty was laid over the rows and
three common water pailfuls of fertil-
izcr spread over the whole. At hoeipe
time dressing of pulverized hen maa,
ure was spriRkled along the rows and
worked in as the weeds were cut out
with the hand noe. The yield was
five bushels of large and one bashel
of small potatoes. The trial rod was
a part of a field of thlee fourths of an
acre planted 10 potatoes, with every
sixth row left for marrow squashes.
which were planted when the pota-
toes were hoed. There were 255 bush
els of potatoes and four tons of
squashes on the field. Fifty pounds
o: the squashes grew upon the trial
rod with the six bushels of potatoes.
The square rod was planted to Beauty
of Hebron potatoes, the three fourths
where TO Early Rose and Beauty of
Hebron.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
Raise Good Horace

A serious mistake in the raising of
good horses is made by the almost
universal employment of dams that
are aged and whose days of usefulness
are well-nigh spent. Very many
farmers are burdened with old AID
faithful mares that are no longer
available in working team. So long
have they been on the premises that
they are looked upon as almost indis-
pensable and somewhat as members
of the family, entitled to care during
the lingering remnant of their life for
the good they have done in the past.
The spirit that protects the aged ser
wants is1a commendable spirit. 1t is
just that after lifetime of usefulness
they should be pensioned instead of
being TUNED adrift to pick I'D 9 pre-
carious living or die. But the attempt
to make them pay for their living by
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
FARM. HOME AND GARDEN.
BEYOND THE GATE.
KATHARINE Mcdowell RICE.

Two dimpled hands the bars of iron grasped;
Two blue and wondering eyes the space looked
through.
This massive gate q boundary had been set
Nor was she ever known to be but true
Strange were the sights she saw across the way
A little child had died some days before
And as she watched amid the 81 Hence hushed,
Some carried flowers, some casket bore.
The little watcher at the garden gate
Grew fearful, hers such thoughts and wonder
ings WERE
not,
We all must go. lis God has sent for her.
IF he should send for me"-thus spoke the
child
'I'll have to tell the angel: DO not wait.
Though God has sent for me, cannot come;
never go beyond the garden gate"
Harpers Weekly.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
4 Hardworking Man.
Chicago Herald.

Not many miles from Chicago lives
targetman who, for nearly four
years, has played a little game ad.
mirable for its boIdness and ingenui-
ty. the duties of targetman, every
one knows, are to keep constant look
out at the crossing of two railroads
una to swing the red danger signal
over one track at the approach OF a
train on the other For ten years one
man has held tie position of day tar
getmAn, and he is still there -Four
Year, ago the night man, and the
day man acting under Instructions,
reported the name of q man compe-
tent to take deceased's place. This
man was accordingly placed on the
pay roll and received his salary rceu-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
Sn1li PoX.
ANOTHER CASE AT CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-This afternoon
another case of small pox was discov-
cred here. The victim is EMil Pc
letter, butcher aged IS years, resid-
nag at 215 South Halstead street, next
door to the house of Jno. Hankes,
from which all the recent cases in
this city have emanated. Pelletier
is married and has three children. The
entire family were vaccinated at the
time of the outbreak in Hanks fam
lily, but the operations were not sue
cessful. Pelietier has been quaran-
tined at his own house and the place
thoroughly fumigated.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
Y iNEcAR BirrERs

L. the great Blood Purifier and Lifc-giv-
ing Principle; a Gentle Purgative and Tonic; n
perfect Rcnovator and lnvigorator OF the system.
fn Vinegar NitacTs there is vitality but
40 alcoholic or mineral poison.
Diseases of The Skin OF whatever name
or nature, are literally dug upand carried out of
the system in a short time by the Bitters.
Vinegar Siitcr> allays feverishneSs. It
relieves. and in time cures rheumatism, Neu-
ralgia, Gout, and similar painful diseases.
Vinegar ssittcrs cures Constipation and
prevents niarrhpa.
Never before has Il medicine been com
pounded possessing the power of VINEGAR BIT
TIERS to heal the sick
Send for either of our valuable reference
books for ladies', for farmers, FOR merchants our
Medical Treatise ON Diseases or our CatechiSm
on intcmperauce and Tobacco, which last should
be read by every child and youth i'll the land.
Any two Of the above books mailed free ON
receipt of four cents for registration fees.
Ri Mcdonald Drug CO., 532 Washington St, NY.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22

The Berlin police authorities HAYS
forbidden all public performances in
theatres and circusses with trained
lions and other wild animals.
AT. Charlottesville, Va, recently,
Rev. Hope married couple in front
Of his house. They stood up in 8
wagon surrounded by their friends.
A black bird. as nearly as large q.
robin and of an unknown species,
has made its home for some time pasi
with flock of sheep belonging to q
farmer at Dalton, Ore.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
GlandarS
AN EPIDEMIC Is FEARED.

CHICAGO, Jan. Is A Daily News
Joliet special says: Chambers, in a
malignant form, has broken out
among the horses in the vicinity of
Lisbon, fifteen miles west Of Joliet.
-Four diseased horses belonging to one
man, We're to day ordered shot. An
epidemic is feared.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
Free to Ministers. Lawyers. DectOrs,
and Teachers

will send two bottles of WARMERS
WHITE WINE OF TAR SYRUP-beSt rem.
edy an the acorld for coughs, colds, throat
aud lung diseuses-if you will recon-
mend it to your friends, and get yeur
dealer to order dozen bottles from his
wholesale druggist. Send name of your
druggist Map of Holy Land free with
medicine. Address DR.. G. ID. WARNER,
Chicago, Ill. All druggists.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22

Years ago figs were served on arts
tocratic tables IN Greece with salt,
pepper, vinegar, and aromatics
A washerwoman of Roselle, n. j.,
has been transformed into an heiress
by being left $3.50, 900.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22

DR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs a medicine
that expels disease without weakening the patient
exhilarates the spirits without the aid of alcohol
ic poison-cures every phase and consequence of
indigestion, restores the shattered nerves, regu-
lates the bowels and liver and imparts to the con.
rejoice!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-22
An Undoubted Blessing.

About thirty years ago prominent physician By
the name of DR.. William Hall discovered, or pro
duced after long experimental research, remedy fol
diseases OF the throat chest and ungs which Of
such wonderful efficacy that 1t soon gained wide
reputation in this country The of the medicine
is DR. WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS
aud may be safely relied speedy and positive
cure for coughs, colds, sore throat, etc.