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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
Overlooking Hogs.

Many seem to think that hog cannot
be Overfed and that it makes no difference
if they do leave lot of food at one meal,
they will come back aud eat it up when
they are hungry, SO there is nothing
wasted after all, says writer in the
Swinherd. But it is easily possible to 90
to the other extreme-to feed too little, so
as not to secure steady gain, or to feed
too much and so increase the costs so As
to materially lessen the profits. Feeding
too little is loss, while feeding too much
is waste.
A good, as we'll as economical plan. is
to feed regularly at staten times and then
feed when fattening all they can eat I'D
clean. They will keep healthier and
thrive better than is possible by keeping
feed before them all the time. 1t is what
the animals digest, not what they eat that
determines the gain in proportion to the
amount of feed supplied. Feed lett over
is, to say the leas4, diStastefu to a hog,
while it slop is soaked before feeding it
will ferment and get sour to more or le
extent. The hog, whether growing or
tattening should relish his food to derive
the most benz fit from it. And they will
hardly do this if they eat what they want.
go away and leave Ii, and then are oblig-
ed to come back and finish it up. This is
not economical feeding, and when the
margin of the profit is small, and it is this
year, the waste in feeding this way will
greatly if not entirely, cut off the possible
profit.
1t is an important item at all time2 to
feed stock WE'LL and fattening stock should
have all they will eat clean, and be sup
piled good variety, in order to secure as
good a growth as possible, but beyond this
1t is improbable to go. Provide good,
tight troughs for feeding Stops and soft
feed Of evers kind, and generally it will
pay to provide tight floor for feeding
grain, SO that it can be kept clean and
free from waste. No ration can be made
that may by any means be considered APP
plicable under all conditions. Generally
the ration must be determined with each
lot Of hogs on every farm, and the careful
breeder should know the amount that
should be given with more certainty than
any one else.
But whether hogs are fed in close pen
or In a good pasture, they should be fed
literally, but without waste Cor. Mass.
Ploughman.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18

SILVER ore is said to have been found
lear Tifin, Ohio.
DIR. IRA REMsEN, professor Of chemistry
in the Johns Hopkins university. has de-
clined chair in the Chicago university.
MAJOR A. NJ. SEWER, formerly ia IL
road commissioner In Missouri, is dead
JACOB tFEIFER, Columbus, Ohio,
miser worth 10000, has died of starva-
ton.
WALDO ADAMS manager of the Adam s
Express company. died in Boston
Wednesday evening.
Rev. Mr.. SWEET was stricken blind
while preaching at Russell, Iowa, Sun
day.
TWO hundred and thirty persons have
died from typhoid fever within the last ten
days at Villa Lerdo, Mexico.
WoRKMEN In the Fire-Proof Construc-
tod company's factory at Ottawa have
struck for higher wages.
The capital of the Canadian Mills
company, or milling trust, has been
increased from 100000 to $1,000, 900.
RICHARD G. BERFoRD, who founded
the Pittsburgh Chronicle, and who was
pioneer in the express business, is
dead.
The Spree, with Secretary Foster and
party On board, sailed from Southampton
for New York Wednesday
A BELL 1888 years old, from Carthagena,
Colu nbia, will be among the curiosities
at the worlds fair.
Ri. REV. GREGORY THURNsToN BE
DELL, third Episcopal Of Ohio, died il
New York city Friday.
NANCY SHARP, colored, died in St.
Louis Friday night. Her skull was found
to be an inch and half thick.
S. T. c. DoDD, solicitor of the standard
oil trust, states that is the intention of the
concern to dissolve at the coming meeting
and not to reorgarize in any way.
A BILL In New York legislature repeal
ing the use Of the electrical chair and
substituting hanging has been reported
favorably.
diamond dealer, has filed a voluntary
petition IN insolvency. He owes, 1t is
said, 100000, with nominal assets of
SIS, 900.
A PETITION with the signatures of !, ;
$50, 900 Englishmen, soon to be presented
to Parliament, favors the arbitrating of all
disputes that may arise between Great
Britain and TIE United States.
CUSTOM HOUSE inspectors at New York
have seized a lot of trunks full Of SNUG
gled 6nery, among them one belonging to
Mrs. Allebone, a Chicago dressmaker.
Two others are said to belong to Kate
Rely, of London, New York and Chi
CagO.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
CAHLE FLASH Els.

THE grand duke of Hes5e.is dead.
THE Earl of Denbigh died in London
Thursday.
A GREAT strike of miners takes place in
England and Wales.
ADVICE from Against, state that
cholera is raging In Herat.
PROF. STEENBERG, the eminent special
ist In mental diseases, died in Copenhagen
Saturday.
THE extensive oil works of John Eccles
at Blackburn, England, we're burned Sat
urday. The loss is many thousands of
dollars.
A PLOT to assassinate the sultan of
Turkey has been discovered at CONSTANT
nopIe, and two Of the conspirators are IN
der arrest.
FIFTEEN thousand coal miners are idle
In Moth Staffordshire. Unless they re
sumo work in few days the potteries will
be compelled to close down, throwing
$4,000 men out of work.
GEORGE WooDGATE HASTINGS, mem
Der of parliament, was on Friday convicted
of misappropriating $50, 900 and sentenced
to five years imprisonment.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY has entered suit in
French court for the possession of the
funds of the Irish Parliamentary party
Of which Parnell was one of the trustees.
THE Lancaster coal miners, who sus-
pended work, have adopted a resolution
that their vacation shall not exceed a
week, and that they will work only days
each week hereafter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
CRIMINAL.

GREEN CAMPBELL, of Birmingham,
Ala, has been sentenced to death by a
jury, for wife murder.
FRANK SHAw's pool room in Chicago
opened and was at once raided by the
police Tuesday, who arrested $50 occu-
pants.
BOB MUsGRAvE, the Terre Haute insur-
auce swindler, has been sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
A GANG of thieves operating in Winona,
Mimi, have been jailed and valuable
goods stolen from railroad cabooses re-
covered.
On Wednesday, George Golden, of San
Diego, blew out his brains. He had put
bank the day before it failed.
MRS CHARLES SCOTT hanged herself at
Noblesyille, Ind, Tuesday night. She
her husband in real estate.
CHARLES WALL was hanged in the
prison yard of the Wyoming county jail
at Tunkhannock, Pa, tuesday morning
for the murder of his wife.
RELATIVES of the eight men killed by
the New Orleans mob Of year ago will
sue the city for sums varying from $780,
600 to $4,000.
SUPERINTENDENT OF MAILS HAMMOND
has been arrested on charge of robbing
the mails at Newark, NJ.
EDwARE HARDT, a Chicago jeweIer, has
been arrested in New York for smuggling.
He had je@elry concealed under plaster
on his back.
AT Bryan, Ohio, an officer saw two
burglars entering a residence ane FREQ at
them, fatally wounding one and seriously
wounding the other.
J. MEssIGILIA and his ten-year-aid son
were murdered Saturday night by TN
known parties in their store at Yazoo,
Miss.
Two MEN have been lynched in Mexico,
presumably by Garza sYmpathiZers. for
aiding United States troops in the recent
cams aIgn.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR- OLD colored girl at
Rayville, La, poisoned a family of nine
yersons in order TO reach a coiored man
who had offended her. While being taken
to Jail a mob overpowered the officers and
strung ler up to the nearest tree.
NJ. BLAIR, proprietor of a saloon at
Ration, n. NJ, shot and killed John Maley,
Santa Fe railway conductor, Sunday
night
Mrs HENRY WADE, of Howell, Mich,
was shot and slightly wounded in the
neck. Thursday evening, by a closely
yelled woman whose identity and motive
are unknown.
AT Indianapolis Friday night Oscar
Abbott, a poung stenographer, shot his
sweetheart, Celia Bass, and then shot him
self. Both will die. They both belong 10
respectable colored families.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
FARM NOTES.

Do not allow grape vines to cumber
trees. II is bad for both.
The place where milk is kept must be
kept clear of communicating odors.
Remember that tile drain ever so well
laid, will not work well if it is not kept
open.
Sheep enrich land at a small cost.
They distribute the manure over the sur
face and tread it into the soil with their
feet.
Study your horses appetite and feed
accordingly. 1t is DIS Irrational to neg
lect this as it would be to order that 4
certain ration be allowed your children
every meal, regardless Of their likes or
dislikes.
He who can put question fairly and
squareIy to nature, and wait perhaps a
lifetime for the answer, is more than one
man picked out Of ten thousand; but upon
such men the progress Of our agriculture
depends.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18

equally interested in square draw with
the patrons, as their pay is per cent. of
their sales and 8 per cent. on all prizes
that pass through their hands. The
agents are tough lot, too, and usually
members of some highlander tong. The
bullets would fly thick and fast should one
or their wealthler countrymen attempt any
double dealing and the cheats would adorn
slabs at the morgue before they were many
minutes older
dozen or more of the agents are pres
ent at the drawings, which are most intri-
cate affairs. Into dish the size and
shape of three-quart punch bowl are
placed eighty wads of paper rolled up like
little pills. These contain the characters
corresponding to those on the ticket. Four
smaller bowls are placed in a row. One
OF the attendants, with arm barred TO the
shoulder, takes the little paper pills out of
the big bowl one at a time and drops
them with much ceremony alternately into
the smaller dishes. When the big bowl
Is emptled four more paper pills, number
ed IN Mongolian hieroglyphics, according
to the Arabic notation of 1, 2, 3, 4, are
dropped In the empty dish. From there
they are transferred, one at a time, into
tire four smaller bowls. Again four SINH
la papers dIe tOtleu u ~ aHu ur2ppeu into
the big bowl. The bare armed heather
picks one out, unrolls it, and looks at the
number it contains. Then he searches the
four smaller dishes until he discovers
which one contains the numbered pill cor
responding to the one IN hand. The con-
tents OF the other three bowls are burned.
while those of the c3Osen dish are unrolled
slow y, counted, read out, and duly re
corded. At last the twenty pills are read,
and the drawing is at an end.
In order to win the ticket marked by
the investor must be fortunate enough to
cover FIVE Of the spots in the drawing
Then the amount is doubled. A six spot
wins six times as much as a five spot,
seven spot seven times as much, and so
on until ten spots are covered.
All drawings are held within the sacred
precincts Of a little room of the tong
screened off by wire from the main apart
ment, and only the most favored of mo-
tails are ever permitted within the in
closure. J. H. GRIFFES,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18

Never lose your temper. Nobody wants
1t; all have enough Of then own
1t is hard to get people to see that any
tnlng ~ wrong upon which they have set
their hearts.
If you can not give good reason for
what yon are doing, that is a good reason
why you should not do il.
No pastor can nope for signal success,
who does not keep In hcart-touch with the
people.
Envy is fixed only on merit, anA like a
sore eye, Is offended with everything that
is right.
1t Is not until we have passed through
ire furnace that we are made to know how
mucE droSS there Is In our compost ion.-
Cotton.
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and
should be heartily welcomed, well l,d, and
much sought after Like rose leaves thew
give out a sweet smell if laid up in the Jar
of memory.
The fact that God created man in His
own image seems to indicate that He had
some high and noble service for
him to perform, and yet how many are en-
deavorlng to thwart that purpose.
Men dream of hiding their sins from
their feIlow-men. Ii is impossible.
lTansgreSslon sets its mark upon the fore
head of the transgressor. importance,
lmpurlty, impotence and all the rest leave
their traces on the countenance, aud thus
reveal the sec ct things of the hfe.-The
Workman.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
A Sisters Influence
Selected.

A girl in the home, to my mind, can
WELD wonderful influence can not
conceive Of a more beautiful sight that the
affection Of a sister for her brother. A
sister S love is one of the sweetest flowers
planted by God in the heart of girl. 1t
is born of flial sympathy and confidence,
and ripens into spiritual love different
from any other affection, powerful as is
the influence of mother, there have been
innumerable cases where the presence of
a sisters sweet and tender love, or the
memory of a sisters holy affection, has
been the saving grace of brothers. life.
The sister in the home often formuiates
the brother estimate of her sex. A SIS
ter can have softening influence upon
brother where everything else fails. She
raises his opinion of woman by her actions
toward him. A good young man can be
made pretty much what his sister chooses
to make bin. As he sees her in the home,
so he judges the sisters of other brothers.
She is often his standard whereby others
are measured. Let sisters interests be
close to those of her brother, and both he
and she alike will be benefited.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18

During the next six weeks many OF our
readers will be tempted to turn the cattle
on the new grass or rye. If it is blue
grass and not too much eaten away during
the winter, and a good mating of the
autumn growth is LETT to cover the tender
spring shoots, the stock may do well on it
almost exclusively after the first months
PROBATION, II there Is plenty Of hay or
straw within their reach. Daring the first
mohin on tie new grass, full grain ration
snoold oe supplied. During the fist week,
the STOCK should be turned on the new
green pasture not more than two hours
daliy, and that In the afternoon. having
been previously fed grain, and hav or corn
fodder, In the morning. Tie ahnv. sng-
gestlons apply particularly to dry cows
ana stockers, not so much to fattening
steers or to dairy cows, both classes nf
which are to be handled more canfions,y
The tat steers, if nearly ripe for market
should be excluded entirely from GRASS.
ana II they have been on full fattenine
feed al! winter and are to be continued
on corn and grass during summer. tardy
abundance to the grass is Imperative
Dry hay or straw should be given tn stocs
while on grass during the entire summer
especially prior to harvest time Glover
bioat, etc, may be effectually guarded
against III this way. Full returns at the
pail require that the mich COWS have the
grass ration, a good part of the time, well
balanced with corn and bran. If only corn
Is given, 1t should be steamed or soaked.
10 produce high quality beef, too, grass
Is usually not sufficient for more than two
or three months. If Is bushels of corn to
the head produces $40 additional value in
beef, quantity and quality considered. be-
sides perhaps 5 pounds to 100 pounds of
pork from the droppings, why not feed
the corn to the while they are on the
graSsP-M., in Orange Judd Farmer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Train No /, on the Wisconsin Central
road, left the track near Fremont,
and piled everything but the engine
into the ditch. The mail and baggage
| cars were burned. A brakeman was killed
and several persons injured No names
are known.
The saw mill owned by Butler & Muel-
Ter, of Ellis Junction, burned Loss
SIS, 1000, partly covered by insurance The
dam across the Peshligo river was slightly
scorched. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
Patrick Harvey, a Wisconsin Central
brakeman, slipped and fell from moving
train at Byron, breaking his arm. Am
putation will be necessary.
The remains of Mrs, Mary L. Blrge were
brought to Whitewater from st. Louis last
Saturday and buried Mrs. Birge came to
Whitewater in 1887, being the second
white woman in the town of Whitewater,
and also being the mother of the first white
child born there.
Charles S. Bliss, prominent coal mer-
chant of Racine, has entered suit against
the city for $4,000. He fell on defec.
tive sidewalk and injured his leg. Ex-
Mayor Secor, who was thrown from his
buggy on bad street, has also entered
suit against the city, claiming IS 900 for
injuries receieed.
As 16-year old johnnie Dundas was
driving to his fatner's lumber camp
across Chequamegon Ray, he was attacked
by wild dogs. After fierce fight Dundas
escaped by the feetness Of his horse.
His clothing was torn and his horse fear
fully Iacerated.
A resolution was introduced IN the Eau
Claire county board and will undoubtedly
pass directing the district attorney to col
lect from TIE present sheriff and ex-sheriffs
the sum of $4,000, principal and interest,
which vas paid to jailors for nine years
past The law recognizes no such position
as jailor, but the board has always allowed
pay for it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
Color of Horses

Some very interesting observations up.
on the transmission of color in horses
have been recently made by Prof. Wilkins
of Vienna. English tboroughbreds, both
sire and dam being of the same color,
transmit their color to the offspring in $50
cases out of |, 900. When the parents are
different in color, that of the mother most
often results. Bay is the most frequent
color, black the scarest, and there are
only about 100 black mares per thousand.
Two of the same colored Arab horses will
give their hue to their cffsprings in 837
instances out of 900. The Arab is usually
white and 720 times out Of l 900, if the
mare is white and the stallion is not, the
foal will be.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
grapes.

Usually the wood of grape vines closely
follows the fruit in maturing. But il
mildew attacks the leaves it Injuries and
delays both fruit and new shoots. An.
other cause of unripeness is overbearing.
Some varieties, especially those with short
iointed wood, like the Delaware especially
liable to this fault. A reduction, not only
of clusters On shoots but of grapes, but in
making the vine more vigorous and
healthful. A great deaf of miidew orr gin
ates in over bearing. More fruit has set
than the vine can perfect, and its arrested
development exposes it to attacks of
disease.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18

The mission church in Boston was
burned Wednesday loss, $3.50. 900 The
church was occupied by the Redemptionist
Fathers.
JOHN GhAECz & BROTHERS cotton and
wooden mill at Germantown, Pa, has been
destroyed by fire.
THE works of the ColweIl & Collins Nor
way Bolt company, Cleveland, O., were
burned Saturday. Loss 800, 900.
FRANK CLARK, of Joplin, Mo, while at
work Friday in the shaft of the Illinois
Mining company, sixty feet from the sur
face, was killed by an iron keg dropping
from the top upo his head.
THREE men were drowned in the
Missouri river at Nebraska City by the
| capsizing of a skiff. Their names are un-
known.
ROBERT MARoNEY, a painter in Jack
tlre which consumed the Hopper block IL
that city Thursday morning.
WILLIAM CLoRN, living near Warsaw,
ILL.,, went into a field where bull was
kept, Wednesday, ard was set upon by
the animal and mortallV wounded.
FOURTEEN buildings were burned al
Bedford, Ind. The city records were
among the property destroyed.
The bursting of fywheel in the Gin,
cinnati Electric Light works, Hunt street
and Broadway, did 500, 900 damage to ma.
chinery and building.
A TERRIBLE prairie fire has been raging
for several days in the eastern part Of
Payne county, Okla, doing many thous
and8 Of dollars worth of damage.
THE steamer Hugh Barr, belonging to
Hiram Hyatt, Of Washington, Ind. was
river. The origin of the fire is not known.
Loss s., 600; no insurance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

Ex-Secretary of State Bayard has ad-
dressed an open letter to the democ-
racy of the country taking the antl-free
silver stand,
At Hastings, Neb., A. D. Yocum and
jeff Temer were arrai gned for the murder
Of Myron Van Fleet.
1t is believed that plot for a wholesale
jail delivery was nipped in the bud at
Sing Sing, New York. A ''trusty" con-
Wet told the warden the plot.
The Texas Legislature convened in extra
session. 4 poll of members of the house
showed that Mills needs but FIVE votes.
February 20 Admiral Belknap retired as
commander of the Asiatic squadron and
was succeeded by Rear Admiral Harmony
General Grant, assistant secretary Of
war. was taken Ill.
0. S. Epger, VIM. Davis, John Croft
and a man named Oftad, with his wife and
child persisted in the storm Of the 9Th, at
Lang8on, \. D.
Treasury officials will go to New York
today for the purpose Of meeting Sec.
Foster aud party.
The Missouri supreme court decided the
state antitrust law unconstitutional.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
Watering Places for Horses.

These are far too few and fer between
in almost every part of the country. In
abiding to this matter recent writer
pertinently observes that a man can
scarcely do more humane act than pre-
vide good watering places for the horses
as they travel along tne highway. Some
times we travel miles on miles and our
thirsty horses may have no opportunity
to auench their thirst except as they
may cross a friendly creek. Ia some
states. if not in all, the farmer who thus
provides a watering place or tub is en-
titled to discount on his road tax, so
that if he has not the desire to do the
Dumb brutes favor he may fud it lit
tie to his interest to provide for their
necessities when In so doing he helps
himself in making his road taxes less. 1t
is also often convenient for him to make
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18
FARM And HOME.
CNFI \ ISHED MUSIC.
MINNIE E, KINNEY

| sat alone at the organ,
Al the close of a troubled dsy.
When the sunsets crimson EN- hers
On the western alter Law.
l was weary with vain endeavor.
My heart was i'll al ease,
And | sought 10 SoOthe NV sadness
With the voice of the sweet-toned KEYS.
My hands were weak and trembling
My fnl ers all unskilled
10 render the grand old anthem
With which my soul was filed.
Through the long days cares and worries,
have dreamed of that glorious strain,
And long to hear the organ
Repeat II TO me again.
Ii fell from my untaught fingers
Dlscordant and incomplete,
l know not how 10 express it,
Or TO make the discord sweet;
SO toiled with patient labor
III the last bright CLEANS were gone,
And the evening purple shadows
were gathering one by one.
Then a master stood beside me,
And touched the noisy KEYS,
And 10! the discord vanished
And melted in perfect peace.
heard the great organ pealing
My tune that could not play,
The strains of the glorious anthem
That had filed my soul all day.
Down through the dim cathedral
The tide of music swept,
And through the shadowy arches
me lingering echoes crept;
And stood in the purple twilight
And heard my tune again,
MOI my feeble, untaught rendering,
But the masters perfect strain.
so think, perchance, the Master.
At the close of lite's weary day.
M take from our trembling fingers
=, The tune that we cannot play:
He Will hear through the Earring discord
The strain, although half expressed
tie will blend it with perfect music
And add to it all the rest.