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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-14
REDUCED FARES
To
M. ONT N AS
FREE FARMS

On May LIST the St. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba Railway will
make a reduction in passenger fares
for settlers to Glasgow, Chinook,
Benton, Big Sandy, Great Falls,
Helena, Butte, &c. Now is your
chance to secure a fine free farm III
the Famous Milk River Valley. or
in the beautiful valleys OF the trib-
utarieS of this stream. 100000
acres, and
ALL FREE.
You can secure just the farm
You want for stock or sheep rails
ing. or mixed farming. Plenty of
Coal, timber, good water, short
mild winters. Immense crops of
all kinds without irrigation.
Farms Immediately adjoining the
railway on the level valley lands or
the gently rolling bench lands,
Write for the new pamphlet. " The
Great Reservation" and other in
formation, to F. L Whitney, Gcnl
Pass. and Tiki. Agt., st Paul, Mimi.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
State Of Wisconsin, Iowa County Court,-ss.--In
Probate.
In the matter of the last will and testament OF
John Mari, deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate of John
MARI deceased, having been issued to John
Mari.
1t is ordered, that six months from and after
this date be, and are hereby, allowed for the
creditors of SAID John MARI, deceased to present
their claims for examination and allowance,
Ordered further, that the claims and demands
Of all persons against said deceased be examined
and adjusted by this court at a regular term
thereof to be held at the court house, in the viii
lage of Dodgeville, in said county on the first
Tuesday of December, A. ID. 1889. and that notice
thereof be given by publication of this order for
four weeks successfully in The Iowa County
Democrat a weekly newspaper published at the
city of Mineral Point in said county.
BY the Court:
JOHN T. JONES, County Judge.
Dated Dodgeville, Wis, May Il, 1889. 4lw4
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-14
CIRCUIT Court, Iowa County.
y David Jacko, Plaintiff,

against
Catharine Ryan, widow of Edward Ryan, de-
ceased and Thomas X. Ryan, Michael Ryan,
Edward Ryan. John X. Ryan. Agnes Ryan and
Lizzie Ryan, children and heirs at law Of Edward
Ryan, deceased, and Hugh W. Jones and Robert
q. Owens, co-partners doing business under the
firm name and style of Jones and Owens, Fuller
and Johnson Manufacturing Co. and D. S. Morgan
Il Co, Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin, to the said defendants
and each of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this summons. ex.
elusive of the day of service, and defend the
above entitled action in the court aforesaid; and
in case OF your failure to do, judgment will be
rendered against you according to the demand
OF the complaint; SPENSLEY Il MCILHON.
Plaintiff s Attorney.
P. o. Address. Mineral Point, Iowa Co, Wis Awe
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-14

GONE grocers short sighted decline keep
" "IvoRy SOAP claiming it does poy much profit
ferior qualities do, regular grocer refuses get for you
there undoubtedly others WHO rue the fact that the
creased volume of business done of keeping the best
articles than compensaes for the smaller profit and will take
pleasure in getting it for you.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-05
Three Parrot Stories.

There is much difference in opinion
as to whether a parrot merely initiates
or whether it be possessed of reason.
Sure the parrot that keeps Jabbering
pretty polly" does not seem endowed
with much brain, but what must be
said when we hear such parrot stories
as the following, of which weare will
ing to vouch for the truth pure and
unvarnished.
A lady owned q handsome parrot,
and leaving New Orleans one summer
she gave her pet TO friends care.
Polly soon became at home in its new
quartersl would bow its head to its
new mistress, and say in softest tones
That's it, rub polly's head SO, so, dar-
ling, rub polly's head" That was
initiative. What is this2 One day its
mistress was eating plums. Polly was
near; looking up the lady laughed
and said: "Aha, polly, have plums
and l am not going to give you anyP'
Il don't care, " said polly. II don't
want any, anyhow
A parrot belonging to dear friend
of the writer was very much an
noyed by the pigeons, who would en-
Ter his cage every uorHihS ds sooii a.
he left it and devour the remnants Of
his breakfast A bright thought, so it
seems. came to polly. One day as he
left his cage for his morning walk he
turned and shut the door of his cage
and then gave a defiant look at the
marauder pigeons. This be always
did afterward, and so saved his break
fast
Still another parrot story, also true
Once upon a time parrot lived in a
family which was very religious. The
bird was accustomed to hearing daily
prayers and verses of Scripture One
day, after severe illness, in spite of
care and attention, the parrot died.
Its last words were: ''The Lord be with
you New Orleans Picayupe.
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BETRAYED by the Dictionary.


Those foreigners who are members
of the Pan American excursion party
and whose knowledge of English has
been acquired principally through the
use of the dictionary sometimes get
themselves into peculiar places by the
too literal use of English as she is
spoke. AT reception one of the at
taches-an officer of great social re-
pute in Washington-introduced one
of the Chilians to a very beautiful
young lady (Which, by the way, is the
duty for which these young officers
were detsiled). The young lady ex-
pressed her regret to the attache that
she could not speak Spanish, ''but, F"
she added, Il can converse In
French"
"Oh, you are all right, said he, "for
while many of these gentlemen speak
but little English, they are all French
scholars. This gentleman sLeaks
French admirably"
The dictionary taught foreigner
looked calmly into the face of the ofii-
Ger, and in the mildest possible man
ner remarked, "Youar-r-e one gr-r-eat
liarr; l spik not &c French at all,
never"
For q moment the son of Neptune
wondered whether or not 1t was his
duty to resent the language of the
naughty Chilian, but his better sense,
of which he had q good deal, told him
that his southern friend knew not
what he had said. Those who heard
the conversation say that the young
lady nearly tainted; she looked for
an instantaneous scrimmage. When
the situation dawnsd on her mind she
had hearty laugh at the expense oi
the attache. Washington Star.
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Pittsburx Spanish.

A prominent Pittsburger was with
the Pan-American party yesterday
As the story goes, he isolated him
self from the rest of the company a
few moments after joining, evidently
in silent struggle with a plotted
speech. Then he squared at South
American and discharged volley of
shocking Spanish at the startled senior:
Pardon, / do not speak the lam
guage," said the courteous visitor.
"But, sir, you speak the English, GER
tainly. Let US use it, If agreeable.
VIII you do me the kindnessf"
Cert" blurted the blushing Pitts
burger. I'D heap rather talk a
Christian tongue. | amt much on
Spanish, anyway-but I've been book
ing up bit TO get little of it down
pat"
"Ah, yes; was it the Spanishi" said
the puzzled, but polite senior; was il
really the Spanisha Pardon, I did not
recognize it
you see, he didn't catch on, said
the citizen subsequently in explana-
ton, because / jerked first chop Cas-.
tilian at him, and he's probably used
to some mongrel South American dia-
lect- some potway, as the French
call corruption Of correctlanguage. ~
Pittsburg Post
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The Automatic Photnrranhe-.

The latest development of automatic
machines will take the form OF self
acting Photographic apparatus. The
ingenious contrivance, which will be
offered to the public some time in De-
cember, is the invention of a Spanish
genius In outward appearance the
machine is very similar to the innu-
merable engines for Turing the hum
BILE penny from curious public that
may be seen at any London terminus.
The mechanism is simple. The person
to be operated upon stands on an iron
plate, and duly puts his penny in tho
Slot
This brings into play the machinery
the cap is removed from the lens, at
which the subject" is expected to
look steadily during the few seconds
of exposure. Then, by remarkably
rapid process, lasting from two and a
half to three minutes, the photograph
is developed and elected from the ma
chine. The photograph is not, of
course, on sensitized paper (Which
would require at least twenty-four
hours for its development); but it is
developed on a metal plate-some
preparation of tinfoil probably-and
is really an improved form of daguer-
reotype: The proprietors Of the pat
ent evidently think that there is
money in it, as they have given an
order for 1000 machines to a we'll
known firm in West Bromwich.-St.
James Gazette.
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Always Ready to Fish.

81 like West Virginia" said a gen
tleman recently. Its physical feat
ures remind me of New England, and
its vegetation is about the same. save
the mountain land and rhododendron
Up around Aurora you see rough
bearded men Looping by on stout horses,
looking for the world like some OF
'Jeb' Stuart's cavalry on a forage. In
the valleys are the best farms, and they
generally belong to the Amish, a
strange, quiet sect of Dutch, who wear
clothes fastened with hooks and eyes,
entirely destitute of buttons They
are all thrifty and well to do, close at
bargain, but scrupulously honest.
The records of the Lutheran church at
Aurora were kept in German until
within a generation. That church
was established over $50 years ago.
The people thereabouts dig their coal
from the hillsides, and it is cheaper to
dig it than to cut wood from their own
forests.
Not one in the section l have trav-
eled through is wealthy or has much
money, yet no one suffers want. No
one is ever so busy that he can't stop
work and go a-fishing. The store
keeper at little village on the Poto-
mac used to close his place in the
afternoon to go with me and fish for
bass. They are all great hands to have
agencies for the sale of various articles.
l met several natives driving around
the country, ostensibly selling fertili-
zers, but none that [ asked was ever
able to name q single customer. One
old chap had little cobbler's shop.
He was a notary public and justice OF
the peace, was postmaster, sold shoes,
ran an express business and had a
dozen agencies for agricultural imple-
ments, organs, pianos, carriages and
wagons, patent medicines and the in
evitable fertilizer. The man who
wouldn't do business with him didn't
have much business. w Washington
Post.
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A Badly Frightened Cat.

Mr.. James Payn tells, in The Illus
trated London News, a noteworthy
story of sagacious cat, which rivals
any of the wonderful stories for which
The Spectator is famous. Years ago,
| possessed a beautiful Persian cat,
called Fluff, quite as sagacious as any
of his race described by The Spectator
One incident in his career has to this day
many living witnesses. Beautiful and
accomplished as he was, he had, of
course, his detractors. 1t was impossible
to spoil dear Fluff; but perhaps he was
little indulged. The whole family
detested him; and under pretence of
putting his sagacity to the test, pre-
vailed upon me to permit an expert
ment to be tried upon him, which j
have since regretted Qor he is dead
with fruitful tears.
1t was his custom TO sit upon my
right shoulder at dinner time, and to
share such portions of my humble re
past as We're to his liking. A toy cal
was purchased of his own size, hideous
beyond belief, and one evening Sc
cured with string upon my left shoul-
der. Fluff jumped upon the other as
usual, and for a minute or two the
dead Tor, at least, the stuffed and the
living sat side by side, unconscious OF
each others presence. In leaning for
ward for bit of salmon Fluff caught
sight of the new conner. He couldn't
turn white, poor dear. for nature had
placed it out of his power; but Inevei
saw panic, and also distress of mind,
more clearly depicted in any counte
nance. With wild cry, such as Is
only heard upon the housetops in the
dead of night, he leapt from my shoul.
der and rushed from the presence oi
what he most certainly believed to be
rival. Whenever he saw IL he miawed
and fled precipitately. Even now
think with remorse of what my darl
ing suffered at the hands-or paws
of the creature he, without doubt, be
| lieved to be alive, and capable of Sc
ducing any affections from him. Ever
when threw it into the fire it did no
re-establish confidence between us, mol
could ever persuade him to sit on my
shoulder again.
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The Rabbit Got Rid OF E1eas.

One of The Progress force has just
returned from a trip to the country,
and relates the following little incl
dent, witnessed by him while fishing
He was half reclining on the bank,
watching his cork for the evidence of
a bite, when rustling of leaves and
cracking of dead sticks to the right at
tracted his attention. Turning his
head in that direction, he discovered q
rabbit cautiously making his way 10
the water. Becoming absorbed in the
capers of the nimble quadruped, he
relinquished all thought of the Dreams
he expected to snatch from their beds,
and became interested in what the
rabbit was doing.
The little fellow at length reached
the water, where he turned round and
began gently and gradually TO back
into it, In few minutes his entire
body was submerged, except the head
and face, upon which black spots be-
gan to appear, increasing as the mo-
ments did, until the entire part be-
came as black as a dark thunder
cloud.
At this juncture the rabbit made q
plunge under the water, as suddenly
arose and skipped off as happy a little
creature as you would care TO see. Inn
PEELED by curiosity, the scribe ap.
preached the spot from which the rab-
bit had bounded, peered down upon
the water, and there beheld a count
less collection Of fieas floating on the
surface. This is the way the rabbits
''hea" themselves, as it is called, as the
scribe afterward learned .
San Francisco, with population OF
about 400, 600, has only I20 churches,
with seating capacity of 40, 900 and
an average attendance Of Is, 600. The
climate Of San Francisco does moi
seem to be conducive TO church go
ing
A sailor being asked to describe the
difference between hurricane and 9
typhoon, replied: ''In a hurricane
the wind blows as hard as it can righ
straight along; but In a typhoon, JUS
as it's blowing its hardest, it gives al
awful jerk. "
Prominent colored men in Illinoi
have formed natioral association 70
the purpose of erecting, in the city o
Springfield, monument to Abraham
Lincoln, the emancipalor. April 15tl
next has been designated as a day 70
taking subscriptions in all the colore'
churches and schools in the country.
/ have seen many am excellent mat
ron. who could never in her best day
have been handsome, ard yet she ha'
a packet OF yellow love letters in
private drawer, AID sweet childrcl
showered kisses on her sallow cheeks
Yes, thank God, human feeling IL lik
the mighty rivers that bless the earth
it does not wait for beauty--it flow
with resistless force, and bring
beauty with it-GeorgeE Eliot
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THE WREN's NEST.
| took the wren's nest
Haava,. fo~Oivr mai

took the wren's nest
Heaven forgive mel
Its merry architects SO small
Had scarcely finished their wee hall
That, empty still, and neat and fair.
Hung idly in the summer air.
The mossy walls, the dainty door,
Where Love should enter and explore,
And Love sit caroling outside,
And Love within chirp multiplied,
] took the wren's nest
Heaven forgive mel
How many hours OF happy pains,
Through early frosts and April rains;
How many songs at eve and morn,
Ger springing grass and greening corn;
What labors hard through sun and shade
Before the pretty house was madei
One little minute, only one,
And she'll fly back and find it-gone!
took the wren's nest
Bird forgive mel
Thou and thy mate, sans let, sans fear,
Ye have before you all tae year,
And every wood holds nooks for you
In which to sing and build and WOO.
One piteous cry Of birdii pain,
And yen begin your life again,
Forgetting quite the lost, lost home
In many busy home to come.
But l? Your wee house keep must
Until it crumbles into dust.
l took the wren's nest
God forgive mel
New Orleans Picayune
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Royal Lepers.

There Is, I think, no doubt that
Henry " Of England and Robert
Bruce were lepers. About Henry III
I am not so sure. But I have tried to
discover any authority for what [ am
quite sure I read some years ago--but
where / cannot remember-thatA Ade-
licia of Louvaine, second wife of
Henry /, became a leper, and that
that was the real reason why, when a
happy wife and mother, she left her
second husband. William de Albini,
to whom she was tenderly attached,
and entered a convent. Miss Strick-
land makes no mention of it, and CON
siders her conduct quite unaccount-
able.-Notes and Queries.
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= - ~ .as
Toxic, EajasaulSi, Yokohama, and
other japanese cities, but the ex-
change service is very bad. 1t is to
examine the exchange service here that
Mr.. Oh has stopped on his way home
to Japan from Europe. Mr.. Wilson.
the telephone superintendent, has
spent two days explaining the work
ings of the Chicago system. which is
to be made the model for the new ex-
change at Toxic. Mr. OF is said to be
an expert electrician, and his volumin-
GUS notes and shrewd questions will
doubtless have a marked effect on the
hello foundries" in his native land
Chicago Times.
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All DE uafaieS am arMeeplnE,
MsssaS & In de cold cold proun


Talk about negro dialectl No writer
has ever approximated it unless he
was born and reared ON the old south
ern plantation from childhood to age.
And Christmas times "befo' de
war" The happy hearts in the negro
quarters" were up and singing like
the lark before the dawn of day, for
the ''aunts" and "uncles," those mon
archs of that realm which has no sue
cession-had been awake half the
night ''waitin' for Christmas.
Were those the days of slavery and
barbarism, when white and black
alike were happy only because they
were ignorant2
But who would exchange these
brand new days for the old2 These
days when the ''colored ladies and
gentlemen" wear bangs, or carry a ra-
zor or cigarette2
Still, it is sad to think of the COM
plete dying out of race, one of the
most interesting in the annals of time
one peculiar to itself, and which can
never be reproduced. AS the Indian
passed beyond the Rocky mountains
70 die away on the western plains, so
this race, as it was known of yore, is
passing over the dividing ridge of two
generations, to be know no more
Florida Times Union.
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Here, sonny, hold my horse, " said
a gentleman to a gamin, as he aIght-
etffrom a carriage the other day.
Has he had his oats ter day, sir2i
asked the boy, as he hesitated
Had his oats What has that TO do
with itl' inquired the gentleman in
surprise.
well, yer see, sir, de las time ]
hung onto a hoss he eat de straw hat
off me head, and 1 o;1ly got nickel
and licking when | got home. Put
up quarter and Ill take de risk. "
The boy got the quarter. Boston
Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-05
How Far Can You Hearq

Some experiments in judging dis
tance by sound were carried out on
Saturday last by one of the London
brigades of the Metropolitan volun-
teers. This branch Of military tactics
is quite new departure in volunteer
ing and one which, if it is to be made
of service, will require more than an
ordinary amount of practice. 1t was
first explained to the men that sound
travels at the rate of 100 yards III
three seconds, and on this basis they
were to estimate the distance at which
some rifles were being discharged in
the darkness. The answers at first
were very wide OF the mark, some OF
the men being as much as $50 yards
out in their calculation. With a lit
tie practice, however a great improve
ment was shown. many OF the men
guessing the distance exactly. j am
told, however, that the experiments
are not as satisfactory as was hoped,
and ii is thought some time musI
elapse before judging distance by
sound can be relied upon with any
certainty. London Life.
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They are passing away-the old
fashioned negroes of the ante-bellum
southland the places which knew
them once will soon know them no
more forever. They will in few
years be entirely supplanted by pro-
geny little like their ancestors. The
old plantation-''de white folks
house"-the happy negro quarters
the family ties which bind the two
races together in bonds of affection
and tender consideration which one
must have experienced TO appreciate
gone, all gone.
Old massa, old missus and the young
massas and misses What a happy
family And who ever mourned with
more unfeigned grief than the old
family servants the breaking up of
the family when "ole massa" diedl
Alas, it always fell upon the former
with bitterness born of the uncertain
fate which awaited them afterward.
But they are fast dying out; the old
plantation songs have faded from lips
on which alone they were once SO mu-
steal, which no other conditions may
ever realize. Did you ever see the
long procession of family servants
fifty or hundred or more-follow the
coffin which bore ''ole massan to his
last resting placer
Down in de cornfeld,
=
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Hard Chance for the Housework

AT home Tuesdays in March from
until 6 o'clock, read a simple mind
ed old lady on the wedding cards of a
young couple of her acquaintance.
We'll, well, " she sad, deprecatingly,
Carrie was always an awful girl to
go, but / did think she'd stop her gad-
ding round and settle down after she
married. but this looks like she ex-
pected to go it worse than ever when
she has to send out notice that she
won't be at home but three hours a
week. Great housekeeping she'll do
at that ratel | pity her husbandr"
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GoI save our gracious queeni
Long live our noble queeni
Gcd save the 0uennf

And then they shouted "Huzzai huz-
"a" Oh. it was proud day for those re
turned warriors But brighter, bet
ter and gladder day will come when
Christ shall gather those who have
toiled in his service, good soldiers of
Jesus Christ. He shall rise before them,
and in the presence of all the glorified
of heaven he will say: "Well done,
good and faithful servantl" and then
he will distribute the medals of eternal
victory, not inscribed with works OF
righteousness which we have done,
but with those four great battlefields,
dear to earth and dear to heaven, Beth.
leheml NAZARETH Gethsemanel Cal
vary
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s. Ol, of Toxic, Japan, has been for
some days past examining the tele-
phone system of Chicago. 1t appears
from his statement that there are a
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-05

Mrs. SNOWFALL Liza, does yo' know
yo' Sunday school lesson9
Iiza-Nonle: not perzackiy.
Mrs. Snowball-Liza, done tole yo'
SEVERAL times to be keerful in yo
speech. Dom say perzackly; say pre-
zackly. Yo' member dat, nowf-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-05

Vegetables Hannel is a textile mate
rial now bSing largely manufactured
in Germany out of pine leaves. The
fiber is spun, knitted and woven into
undergarnents and clothing of vari-
GUS kinds.