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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
FARM AND HOME.
UNCLE JAkE'S DUMB CRITTERS
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don't know much of languages such as the
But the language of dumb critters l understand
quite we'll,
voices reach the sky,
And that their Maker understands the pleading
of their eye,
And shouldn't be surprised, sir, if in the judg-
Some cruel, heartless human folks should be as
dumb as they.
My house is not as elegant as many are,
know;
But my cattle are all sheltered from the wint'ry
winds and snow,
And they re not kept rations that leave nothing
but the frame,
Or in the spring returning to the .'dust from
whence they came"
All! God hath wisely ordered, sir, that in a
money way,
starving, ADJUSTING critters, are the things that
VIII not pay.
If any of my flock are sick or hurt in any
see that they are cared for, sir, by night as well
My letters en- their wool, sir-'tis all the brand
know;
My lambs-they are not tailless, for God didn't
Some say sheep didn't need water, but tell you
tia lie!
They're almost frantic for it, sir the same as YOU
My horses-you have seen them, sir; they are lust
what they seem;
And, If do say it myself they are a splendid
team.
They wear no foolish binders and from hitch-up
retns they're free;
AND they never had a hurt sir, that has been
caused by me.
The way they, do my bidding now, it's really a
surprise!
They know my very step, sir, and thank me with
their eyes.
My pigpen, over yonder, I'd like, sir, to have
shown;
My hogs-they never are the "breed" that is but
skin and bone;
| know, sir, that to fatten them they need both
food and drink,
\ shelter and bed sir will help them on,
think 10y
have yard on purpose they can root whene' er
they choose
1t seems to me like cruelty, so rings l never
use.
There's one thing more want to show, It's Han
nah's henhouse here
Our poultry awaes pays us we'll and inst now
eggs are dear
Ills warm, and Clean, and bright, you see with
gravel on the ground
There's feed and water standing here davlv the
whole year round.
But maybe have tired you, sir-forgive an old
mans pride;
But somehow love dumb critters, and | want
their wants supplied.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
Items of Profit.

We notice that an exchange says the
dairy far ner must take into account the
value of manure produced in msking up
his account of profit and loss for the year,
or he will be apt to show balance on the
wrong side. If this be true, he must also
change the account with the value of the
fertilizing elements that have been carried
from the farm In the milk and butter that
have been sold. As few farmers are able
to arrive very closely a. these values, it
would be beSter not to burden either sides
of the account In tFis way, but to produce
and save all the manure possible, never
theless. and apply it where it will do tie
most good If the feed of the cows was
whole or largely purchased, then the fer
tilizer produced and added to the farm
would be properly considered among the
items of profit. If you are keeping books,
and all farmers should do so, it is import
ant not to mislead yourself by counting
any false sources of gain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
KILOGRAMS,
NEWS N BRTF =

NATURAL gas has been discovered in
Utah.
AUSTRIA has decided to take part off
clally in the Worlds Fair.
JosEFH CARPENTER, West Virginia
man, died az the age Of 159 years
SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Lieutenant
governor of Ontario, has been attacked
by paralysis and is considered to be in a
critical condition.
IHh vote taken in Arizona shows the
people favor q constitutional convention
by four-ffths majority.
MILTON GEORGE, of Chicago, was elect
ed president of the Illinois Farmer's ALI
ance at Galesburg.
NINE. PATTI has engaged passage for
New York on board the City of Paris, to
sail Dec. %.
Col. DICK TAYLOR, who died in Chica-
go, Friday, was the originator of the
greenhack currency idea.
GALEsBUkG has raised $4,000 with
which to secure the location Of $500, 900
beet-sugar factory.
OBITUARY:-At Peoria, Ill.,, ex-State
Senator Andrew J. Bell, aged 48; at Cleve-
i0tiiNt ooNSO lehuo L lCaIHcs, dStu TO-
The state engineer of irrigation Of South
Dakota reports new we'll at Springfield
that throws a stream thirty feet in che
air
The budget committee of the German
Re,chtstag has voted 100000 marks to be
devoted to providing German exhibit at
the worlds fair in Chicago in 1893
The negotiations for the reduction OF
duties on United States imports to the
British West Indian colonies show there
Is d great discrimination In favor of other
countries.
F. G. WOLFE & Co., shoe manufactur-
ers, of Allentown, Pa, have failed Ex-
ecutions for 510,683 have been entered
against them.
THE South Carolina house Of representa-
tives has passed, by vote of 40 TO "a, a
stringent prohibition bill, framed on that
now in force in Iowa.
G. RUFUS RANNEY, the leader of the
Ohio bar, died in Cleveland, o., Sunday,
at the age of seventy-eight. He was gen
orally acknowledged to be the best au-
thority upon constitutional law in the
state.
IT is curret talk In New York that John
G. Emo, the defaulting ex-President Of
the Fifth National Bank, who has been in
Canada for several years past, is degotiat
ing an arrangement by which he can re-
turn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
Ca.BL,2}i FLASHES.

The Roumanian cabinet has resigned.
Four million is the number of able
bodied insurgents In China.
THE rebels have been defeated in China
by the Imperial troops.
SEVENTEEN hundred patients in the
great charity hospital in Berlin are suffer
ing from the grip.
Mr.. STURGEON writes from Italy that
his health is still in very precarious
state.
THE new commercial treaties between
Italy, Germany and Austria were signed
at Rome Sunday.
THE car has issued rescripJ urging
that vigorous action be taken against the
Stundi is, a Protestant sect.
THE Standard bank at Melbourne,
Australia, with a capital of $1,000, 900,
Friday suspended.
PARIS police are working hard to foil
any plans concocted by the German spies
who are in the French capital.
A DIsPATH from Shields says that three
workmen in a launch were killed by a
passenger steamer crashing into their
boat.
The Paris Figaro has been fined 500
francs for raising a subscription to pay
the fines of the archbishop of AK.
The French steamer Data has been
wrecked near Hainan island. The pas
sengers and crew reached Hong Kong
safely.
A DISPATCH from Glasgow says that a
serious explosion of gas took place In the
underground railway workings there. Six
persons were seriously injured.
A LOCOMOTIVE engineer III Switzerland,
enraged by discharge from service, sent
off a locomotive with the throttle wide
open, causing the death of several people.
THE CHILEAN government is said to have
been unofficialiy notified by the supreme
court that the prosecution of ex-Balma
cedists is unconstitutional.
there we're $4,000 cases of influenza
reported in Hamburg Monday and the
death rate is considerably higher, owing
to the prevalence of the disease,
AN explosion which took place Sunday
in the Pompaei mines, by which seventy
three miners persisted, was caused by the
operation Of the ventilating apparatus be-
ing stopped.
The police at Kieff, Russia, have sue
coded in closing $50 vodka distilleries
which were in the hands of the Jews, who
conducted them also as drinking shops. 1t
is alleged that the shops are the centers of
disorder and immortality.
The Halifax board of trade has adopt
ed resolutions calling on the Dominion
government to establish transatlantic
service between Great Britain and Cana
da as swift as any from Liverpool to New
York.
A LONDON TINES correspondent at
Paris confirms the report that the French
government is urging the powers to take
combined action against China. The
Standards Paris correspondent hears the
United States will also be urge to take
part
QUEEN VICTORIA will attend the golden
wedding of the king and queen of Den
mark. Invitations to attend the wedding
have been accepted by the Emperor Viii
liauI, the prince of Wales and the emperor
and empress of Russia.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11

perfect flowers that may be ranked as very
promising, are Barton's Eclipse, Grenvilie
and Shuster's Gem. These all have
healthy foliage, are very vigorous in
growtl- and extremely productive.
Dayton, Enhance, Lovett's early, Mus
klngum and Parker Earle are the most
promising of the perfect lowered sorts for
market. All serve admirably as pollen
lzers, and no doubt one or more of them
VIII till the want among growers of a va
rlety that will furnish pollen and at the
same time serve as profitable market
sort. Parker Earle is praised as comb'A-
ing more good points than are to be found
In any other single variety.
Among raspbe-ries, Gregg, Ohio, Hill
born, Palmer, Turner, Cuthbert. Brandy
VINE and Shatfer still hold their places as
leading varieties for market Cromwell.
Kansas and Lovett are promising new
black caps; Muskingum, ROYAL Church
and Thompson's Early Prolific are the best
of the new sorts. The last named is men
toned as very early and decidedly prom
Using,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
WASHINGTON

The public debt was decreased S545, 900
during November
The annual report Of Secretary of the
Navy Tracy is made public.
& CANVASS of both houses of congress
shows that free coinage bill cannot be
passed over a veto.
THE supreme court Of the United States
has reassigned the anarchist cases for the
second Monday in January next.
PRESIDENT HARRISON accepts the resig-
nation of Senator-elect Proctor as secretary
Of war.
On Saturday, Secretary Noble decided
the Las Vegas land grant case in favor of
the town authorities. The decision will
probably open up from $780, 900 to $40, 900
acres for settlement.
The postmaster general has issued an
order directing that all promotions of
clerks in the fifty postofices now under
the civil service law and rules be made
only after competitive examination.
SUSPICION is awakened in Washington
by ChiIi's professed intention to reduce its
land and sea forces, while its emissaries
abroad are Investigating new methods of
warfare,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
Berry Notes.

The belief is quite general among straw
berry growers that imperfect lowered va
rieties are less liable to injury from frosts
than perfect stamenati Powered sorts. At
the Ohio station it has been found that the
latter varieties suffered far more injury
than those having imperfect towers.
As the result OF continued experiments
It is said there is no reason for changing
the opinion in former bulletins that Hav-
erland, Crescent, Bubach and Worheld are
the best varieties for general cultivation
among those that have been tested suffi-
Gent length of time to determine their
merits These varieties have imperfect
flowers and to pollenize them Gaudy,
Pearl and Miner are recommended.
Among the newer sorts, those having i'm
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
FIRES AND QUALITIES.

NINE business blocks were destroyed by
fire in Middlebury, Vt, Sunday night.
FIVE members Of family were burned
to death at Detroit, Mich.
By a falling wall at st. Paul Friday
nine men were crushed to death and six
injured.
The Pacific mail company's new steam
ship Nicaragua has been wrecked off San
Salvador. It cost 100000.
CoEUR D. ALENE City, Idaho, was Wis
tied Saturday morning by serious con-
fagration. and assistance was sent from
Spokane Falls.
J. S. DREW, farmer who lived near
Wiu0na Mimi, fell from hayloft Tues
day and was killed.
CAPTAIN MAXWELL s store at Dewitt,
Ark, burned Tuesday night. Three
children asleep in the rear of the store
persisted.
The steam barge James S. Pease was
almost entirely destroyed by fire at C!eve-
land, Ohio, at noon Wednesday. The en-
gireer lost his life and the fireman is
missing.
GEORGE J. REFS, Detroit groceryman,
his wife and three sons were smothered to
death by the destruction Of their store aud
dwelling by fire Wednesday morning.
QUITE a severe earthquake shock was
felt in Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday night 1t
was most severe in the suburbs, Windows
were broken in some instances.
ONE span of Great Northern railway
bridge at Columbia, Mont, fell killing
three men and fatally injuGing four
others.
A. H. HEws & Cos pottery works IN
North Cambridge, Mass, were burned
Tuesday morning. Some 200 hands were
employed.
p LOSS of $4,000 was caused by fire,
started by dust explosion, in the drug
mill Of Murray & Nickel in CHICAGO,
Thursday.
MR. and Mrs. Lena Mills, an aged
couple living near Liberty Center, Warren
county, Iowa, were burned to death Satur-
day morning by the destruction Of their
home by fire.
Four persons were killed ard two
wounded by the derailing of car at a
switch at One Hundredth and Forty ninth
street and Fourth avenue, New York,
Wednesday evening.
The boiler in j. W. Houston's sawmiIl
at Collins7ille, Tenn, exploded Monday
morning, instantly killing John Smith,
the engineer, and destroying the entire
plant. The mill was valued at $1,000.
The children department of the Con-
vent Of Our Lady Of Mercy at Newburgh,
n York, was totally destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. The inmates escaped
without injury.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11

(colored) of Peersburg, OHIO, Saturday
night scot Clara Mills, also colored, in
hicting what is considered fatal injuries.
Ford then shot himself IN the mouth, dy
ing almost instantly. jealousy was the
cause.
THIRTEEN alleged anarchists were fined
from so TO 800 each by Justice Wood
man in Chicago Wednesday. The fines
were suspended at the request of the pros
ecution, to prevent an appeal.
JoHN MCMANUs, the slayer of Eugene
Maginnis, in February, 1890, was hanged
In Philadelphia Thursday morning.
J. M. BENSON, treasurer of Bladen
county North Carolina, has absconded
with Sc, 900 of county funds, and 0,0OO
deposited with him for safe keeping.
CHRIS BECKLINGER was on Wednesday
held without bail at Elgin, ILL.,, for trac-
turing the skull of Steve Bentley with a
stove cover. Bentley will die
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
Saved bya Presentiment.

However the matter-of-f2ct may scott at
TIE idea, there are such things as PRESENT.
ments Not long ago Boston man re-
ceived large sum of money as treasurer
0. an organization TOO late for deposit. 30
he took it home with him to his suburban
residence 1t worried him, this money, in
II way he could not understand. He kept
thinking, Gam | going TO lose this money
which does not belong to me?" SO strong
was this feeling that he could not 90 to
sleep Yet he was ashamed of himself.
Saying nothing to bis wife he got up,
took the money from his coat pocket, put
it in his stocking and threw it under the
bed In The morning his wife said to him
in joking way, Il w1nder what condition
you were in when you came to bed last
nightP There's your coat on the floor.
your vest is out 10 the hall and your trous.
ers are across the doorsill." Being a man
of steady habits, it did Look suspicious.
It did not take him long, however, to dis
cover that burglars had been through the
house and his own money and watch taken.
But the stocking under the bed was
safe.-Boston Times.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
Shooting Horses.

The method Of shoeing horses in Hol-
land Is novel one. The animal is driven
into stout frame cage; the three feet on
the ground are h0bbled so that no kicking
can be INDUCED in, then the foot that is
to be shod is lifted to the desired position
and dashed fast to a stout cross bar SO
that the smith can work at it from all
sides, as though it was held in a wise 'on
work bench. These do Gle horses sub.
nit to being so bound, but an American
or English horse would in most cases re-
sist until ne was ruined if so treated.
The cost Of an entire set OF new shoes is
three guilders, or $120 American nails
are used, although the shoes were of local
manufacture.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
Blood VIII Tell.
Live Stock journal.

Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, is
reported as saying that while president of
a street railroad in San Francisco, be
found oue horse that stood the service nine
years, about three times the usual period.
He therefore inquired into his history and
found that he was sired by pedigr. e.!
horse and out of a. well bred, but non
standard mare. This gave him better
bones, better muscles, better lungs and
more grit, energy and spirit than 81 |
booded horses, and therefore he worked
worked longer.
There is good deal in this. The
breeding gives the spirit as well as the
form, and there is as much difference be-
tween the horse with grit and the horse
without it as there is between the man
With grit and courage and the man who
has neither.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11

the. appropriations for the current year,
the amount being S12 290,855, against
SIT, 6O7 900 in the last appropriation, a re
duction of S., 526 AS.
The total estimate for the navy, in
Guiding both running expenses and
increase of the navy" is s27, 1874 $50 80,
as against the appropriation of s32, $685.
l45 70 of last year, being an aggregate
reduction in current estimates below the
last year S appropriation of S., 331 sos SO.
The appropriations for the increase Of
the navy since July, 1890, have been I'M
usu lily large as compared with those of
previous ears. As was indicated, how
ever, IN the report of last year, the neces-
slty for these appropriations has been due
to the fact that the burden has fallen upon
these years of carrying a part, and in
some cases by far the largest part, of the
construction of every vessel which has
been authorized by congress since 1884.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Sunday it was discovered that the lum,
Der yard Of the Menasha Wooden Ware
company was on fire. All Of the lumbe,
In the yarG, together with the company
office, was almost completely destroyed
The fire is supposed to be of incendiary
origin. The loss is estimated to be about
81, 900; fully insured.
Amigo was visited by one of the most
destructive fires known there in years.
The fire was first discovered in L. Strass-
er's store, which was totally destroyed.
The Office of the Amigo Republican, over
Str&ssers store, was burned, as was the
Masonic hall. The losses are as fol-
lows: L, Strassers, loss. S45, 600; insur-
ance $50, 90; the Amigo Republican loss
$1,000, insurance 500; Masonic Hall,
loss $1,000, insurance 200; Lee Waste 5
office, loss 1000, insurance 1000. The
buildings we're all owned by Edward
Cleary whose loss wll be $1,000; insur-
ance, $4,000. The origin of the fire is IN
known.
The residence of Mr.. Reube, in the town
Of Star Prairie, was destroyed by fire,
Loss $1,000, with a small insurance.
Mrs. Mary Reilly, wife of Aid. Reilly,
Of Menasha, committed suicide last night
by jumping into the canal. Troubles
which it is supposed produced temporary
insanity were the cause.
Mrs. Henry Wall died at her home in
Little Prairie, from paralysis,
aged g. years. She has lived there for the
past forty years. An aged husband and
several adult children sur rive.
Mrs. Rufus Babcock, an old resident of
Little Prairie, has been adjudged insane,
and will be sent to the insane department
of the Wslworth county house, at Elk
horn.
Waukesha has been designated free
delivery Office. The order goes into effect
January l next, and three carriers will at
first be employed.
The dry goods store of Dixon & Son, at
Mansion, was broken open and a large
amount OF clothing, underwear, caps and
shoes stolen. Early the mkt morning a
box car near the depot was discovered on
fire and extinguishe6. The thieves had
occupied the car, built FIRE and changed
their clothing and left in a hurry
The FIRE had burned large hole in the
floor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
RAPHAEL's PLACEIN ART
Whit the Painter of "rhe ArSelus'
Thought of Him.

Whit the Painter of srhe Ar-elus"
Thought of Him.
To realize fully his power of design we
must study the drawings be made for his
pictures. In the academical qualities of
drawing he has never had an equal, and
the fertility and rapidity of his invention
are shown by the enormous number of
works he has left. These gifts make him
the great master for serious students of
painting in It's larger 6eld-that of ex-
preston of the artists thought and
have heard the greatest of modern ideal
lists, Jean Francois Milet. talk by the
hour with the highest enthusiasm on a
portfolio OF the Raphael drawings as the
ne plus ultra Of design in its best sense
For the modern type of painter, the man
who regards his junction to be that of a
minor tonature. or who c9ns ders nature
his mistress, rather than his purvey0r, and
his brush work more important than his
conception, Raphael is no model, and for
such he has no lesson. Tie tenderLy of
all modern painting is more and more to
these characteristics, so that he who will
understand the ordinate in all his breadth
must turn his back On all the modern
schools (if there be anything now which
deserves the name of SCHOOL,, and build his
judgments on a standard found in the
range of work from Masaccio to Mcclellan
gelo. By this standard Raphael must be
given, it not the supreme rank which his
contemporaries gave him, at least place
in the front rank among the half dozen
who have endo we'd art with higher no.
bility; and among them all be stands first
for the sense of beauty, and next to Mich
Ell Angelo for refinement; first as academic
clan and composer, and side by side with
Giotto for fertility Of invention. This is
enough of honor -Chr1stian Century.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-12-11
How to Keep Hens Laying.

There is much in the breed, but more in
the feed, Of any kind Of animals. If
chickens are kept for eggs, they should be
given variety of food, and most of it
should be nitrogenous. Refuse beans,
peas. oats, etc, cooked aud mixed with
scalded bran are good. Green food should
be given when possible. Cracked bones
should be kept in che yard all the time
Avoid all fat forming foods, such as corn,
as they are rot egg-producers. Fresh
water, exercise and heterogeneous food, to-
gether with warm quarters in the winter,
will make any breed of chickens lay, al
though heavy, sluggish breeds will not
produce eggs in equal number with the
more nervous, active ones.