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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Be always al leisure to do good.

be always a. leisure TO do good.
Unction is not worth much until it is
joined to action.
Temper is 50 good a thing that we
should never lose it.
The pati9nco Of love never wearies. |.
IS prov0ca1lon proof.
There are two sides to every question.
but every man believes that his side is
right.
Throwing stones and bad words at
people are both prompted by the same
spirit.
The best way to learn the road is to tray
ell it; the best way to know a truth is to
live it in your daily life.
Piety that never puts on its hat to go out
and try to help somebody, does not attract
much attention 10 heaven.
BLESSED is the man that trusteth i'll
him. fyou know that you are that man,
what is the use Of worrying bout the size
of your bank account?
Hospitality consists of something more
than making people believe you are glad
to see them when you are not.-lndianap-
oils News.
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as
the thought Of sorrow coming. Airy
ghosts that work no harm do terrify US
more than men in steel with the bloody
purposes.-T. B. Aldrich
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

corn crop of the United StBtes. We have
never sent more than FIVE per cent. of it
abroad in one year. notwithstanding the
fact that various efforts have been made to
introduce it in Europe, ard that it would
afford cheaper a d more wholesome food
than tkerye br5ad now 90 generally used
by the European peasautry. Secretary
Rusk hopes, by more persistent efforS
than has before been made, to show the
people of other countries that cornmeal is
an excellent article of food, and to this
end now has special agent abroad whose
sole mission is to erdeavor to open mar
ket for American corn. Twenty years ago
an effort was made to procure an appropri.
alton from congI ess for this work, but the
farmer was not then receiving much con-
sideration at legislative hands, and the
measure failed. If the work that is now
commencing had been done then we
should doubtless now have foreign rIar-
ket for our corn that would greatly en-
bance It's value and make its cultivation
much more profitable, than it now is; but,
meantime, we appear able 20 take care, at
home, of all that we are producing
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

Twill you please play something for my
sister and the rest of them?' Miss Austin
pleaded In low tone. They would all
enjoy it So.
An upright piano stood in the hall Just
outside the ward, and Miss Roosevelt
went TO 1t at once, gianclng, az she passed
at the rows Of beds On either side of her,
and feeling as If she was walking in a
strange, new world. 1t grew DARK as she
played On and on. forgetful of everything
! but the quiet, suffering souls by whom
she was surrounded; aad then she sar g
sang as she had never sung b9fore-sweet,
old familiar hymns at first, and ending
with the little ballad:
| s:'ris wintry weather, my darling
Times waves they heavily run,
| But, taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more cloud than sun.
And God il Cod my darling,
Of the night well az the day;
And we feel and know that we can go
Wherever He leads the way.
The music died away IN soft, cares5ing
chords: a she rose from her seat She
found that she was surrounded by group
of women and chidren-8uch women and
children She had never In all her life
geon such thin, drawn faces, faces 50 old IN
youth. Sc stamped with traces of human
words, murmur8 Of gratitude greeted her.
The little children all tried to grasp her
hands. Women kissed the folds of her
garments. She stood stunned, overwhelm-
ed among them. One of the nurses, smil-
ing, though her eyes were full Of tears,
gently moved them aside and laid her
hands on Miss Roosewelt'5 shOuldec. It's
50 new for the patients, she said, her
voice trembling. "If they could hear you
sing once in a while I'm sure it would do
them more good than medicine Just look
ii them!" The two passed down the ward
together. Many OF the women had strug-
gIed into sitting position upon their mar
row cots, d smile upon their pallia faces, q
look Of gratitude In their hollow eyes.
They gaz9d upon her IS she passed by with
a look which was a prayer and q OCnedlC,
ton.
This was not Miss Roosave}t's last visit
10 the hospital; it was the beginning of
long series Of visits, and at regular inter
walls, that the patients might know when
to look forward to he pleasure which her
coming gave them. 1t was question
whether she or they deserved the most
pleasure.
She told the story to other idle women,
women, ike herself, with great talents,
great fortunes, and unIimited leisure.
Just to 20 and play for those poor crea-
tnres? Just to sing a few songs FOR them?
Why, of course, that's d very little thing
to do. I'd like to do it, but | should
never have thought Of such a thing
such was the sort Of answer invariably re-
turned to Miss Roosevelt appeal. Many,
fer the first time in their lives, learned
why it is more bless d to give than re.
ceive; how man Is his life by losing
it, and that ones strongest hope for
heaven is based upon ones Willingness to
! lend hand on earth-Salem Gazette.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
SEA WOMEN.
How They Pass Their Time While on
Board Ship.

how do you pass your time?"
To sea women this is a most familiar
question. No society, no homework. no
shopping, no garden, no entertainments.
no lads, aesthetic, athletic, phiIantrophic,
above all no news what can hapless woman
do With much Of her time save bemoan it?
One Of these women. however, always
answers, ''Walk, read, work-and be sea-
sick. She creates thus universal sur
prise. That such an old salt as she should
consciously have stomach is as,surprising
as that any ship women should ever work
or walk at all.
Truth Is, many of them never set sail
again after a stay in port without paying
tribute to Neptune. Even in the very
heart of voyage the tyrant not unset.
dom rises up to exact his dues, and more
too.
Some of the toughest old masculine tars
are levied upon in the same way. They,
however, always pronounce it "bilious-
ness, and accuse the pork Or the pud-
ding.
Radiant vistas of foreign travel with
brief interludes of lullaby pillows, pearIy
sails, snowy decks, steamer chairs and
novels are the shore woman's picture of
etdldIlnS d EtCIuCS UudC HAS lur6O many
a fresh girl to briny fate
The polished brassea of summer yachts
the gay decks of summer steamers, impress
the imagination With the picturesqueness
Of life 90 the ocean wave, and common
sense is not always present to whisper that
merchant ships are mere toilers Of the sea,
and compared with summer crafts as Vul-
can to Ariel.
"Often, " says one salt, eve sbipwomen
do not leave our stived-up little cabins fo1
days. That cabin is our home; the deck i:
out Of doors as much as a windy street OIL
a rain-s0aGed garaen.
eve are not perched nigh above the
waves, you must remember, as the sum.
mer voyager is, ike a windbuoyed cloud
In our cabins We see only its walls. while
on the main deck the bulwarks are higher
than our heads.
Thus really only Iurch of the shin
gives us full view of the water will
which we are cheek by jowl all the time.
Margaret B. Wright, in February Chau
taUQuan.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
EaediEg Bees In Winter


We are asked how to feed bees in win
ter. Some, II appears, have not taken
time to attend to their bees until corn WAS
out OF the way, and now they fr them
without enough stores to last them until
spring. Feeding at this time of the year
is a very difficult thing to do. If you had
hoey In combs, you could feed it by simp
ly taking out one one or two empty combs
and inserting combs OF honey in their
place, but as it Is not probable that
MANY have combs OF honey on hand, the
next best thing to do is to make a perpar-
granulated sugar and honey, mixed or
boiled until it Is thick paste, and fed by
pouring III the combs, or in a brood frame
with tbin boards nailed on the sides and
left open at the top for the bees to get at
il. However unless you know Just how
10 make this, you will be more than
likely to make failure with it, as it must
be Just about right. But the most pracri-
cal way by far will be to feed them syrup
Of granulated sugar. Ii il is warm
enough, set them outside and take out the
brood frames and pour them full of syrup
on botn sides until you think you have
enough store TO last them until spring,
Have a pan large enough to put the
frames in Sc there will be no more syrup
wasted. lit is too cold to set them out,
and they have not enough store to last
until warm day comes, carry them
into the kitchen or some room that is
warm enough to work with them, and
take the frames out and ELL them there.
At the best it is not a pleasant job and
ytu cannot always depend on getting
them through, Bees, in order to winter
well, must have sealed stores, and syrup
fed this time Of year will not be sealed.
II would be best to look through your
colonies and if you find any that have
frames Of honey that they can spare,
give the weak colony one Of these, which
will perhaps keep them until they can
be fed il the spring.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

we confess it is none the less pleasure to
add this tribute to The father:
father was seeing his son off on the
cars Tor some distant point There was a
moment of quiet conversation between
he two. plrhaps a few words of such ad-
vice as father should give a son. and
teen the train came laundering into the
station.
As the latter, a tall fellow we'll along in
his teens, stepp u on tie platform, he ex-
tended his lips TO his fati er. There was
a genilA kiss Of farwell, and the Two
Sepa ated. There vas no gush, no nom
sense, no affection; just the expression of
fatherly tenderness that had followed that
son since he lay in the cradle.
Is there any danger of that boy straying
from the path affectionately pointed out by
MS father? or is there any danger of that
father ever having to excuse that son be-
cause he is Sowing wild oats?' We
think not. The gentle power of mother s
kiss has been sung by poets, but is there
not also wealth of tenderness and last
ing memory for good in the kiss of a
father.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Cost of MILK,

The cost of a pound Of milk is one of the
thing ,ha5 every dairylnan should know;
that is, the cost to him. not to some body
else working undar.diff4rent conditions
The New Jersey experiment station has
just figured it out at three-fourths Of one
cent for them; but the cost depends upon
50 many considerations that no man can
safely take the figures made by some on?
else. The cost depends upon the cow, the
feed, the season and the man. Toe first
and the last are the greatest considera-
tons. TIE Io}rer the COW the more the
milk will cost; and ii the man lacks the
right sort Of ability for the dairy business
TIE best cows in the world cannot produce
milk cdeaply enough to enable him to get
8 profit from t.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
SMALL AND DEADLY.
Some Rare Snakes Encountered by Pro
lessor Aaron in the West Indies.

Some Rare Snakes Encountered by Pro-
lessor Aaron in the West Indies.
Professor Eugene M. Aaron, who is in
this city experimenting tt publication
of a work On HaYti, has one of the arrest
and largest collections of reptiles, insects
and plants in the world, says the Phila-
delphia Record. During the past two
years he has been in Central America and
the West Indies, and has secured many
specimens Of snakes, insec>s and orchids
peculiar TO the climate.
One of the most interesting treasures is
a rare and unusually large butterfly, scien-
tifcally known as the PapiIlo Homerus,
taken in the island OF jamaica. The in
sect has only been found in that island
within an area Of tea miles, and perfect
specimens are valued by collectors in Lon
don at $50 each. Owing to its habit of
flying at great heights the capture of the
Homerus by the usua' method. by means
of a net, is impossible. 1t has to be shot
with cartridges especially loaded with
dust, shot or water. The specimen secur-
ed by Professor Aaron expands seven
inches across the wings, and is Of glossy
velvet black color, with broad band of
orange across both wings and an ire gular
sprinkling Of peacock blue beneath.
The professors collect Of snakes and
other reptiles is probably the most inter
e8,;9g Of all. He has several specimens
Of ne deadly Fer de Lance" an ,nhabi-
tant Of Martinique, which is credited with
200 deaths per annum, and to which is
due the ruin Of the beautiful botanical
gardens Of the country, which are now al
most deserted The pest is not more than
two and IaIf feet in length, and is Of a
brownish gray cotor.
IN the island Of Jamaica snakes and
other reptiles are conspicuous by their abb
sence. This is attributed to the fact that
about fifteen years ago the government in
troduced the Egyptian ichneumon into
the country for the purpose of Kidding the
island Of the cone rat, which was doing
great damage to the sugar crop. The
remedy has proved worse than the disease
for the prolific animal has multiplied
until now it is to Jamaica what the rab.
bit is to Australia and the sparrow to this
country Naturally carniverous animal
it has, after exterminatlng the reptiles
taken to eating bananas, mapgoes anC
| fruits Of all kinds, and even an occasional
pickaninny. Jamaica mas now an "Ich-
neumon commission" and is Offering {
| prize for the most successful method Of ex
terminating the pests.
| Prof, sSor Aaron has one specimen O.
the ''torro negrita," a small and very rare
snake found along the San Juar river
/ Nicaragua which is In the habit O
dropping from the branches of overhang
ing trees into passing boats. It's bite il
! certain death
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
WHEN WRINKLES APPEAR,
Honorable as Gray Hairs-Thought Az
Well as Years Represented.


Well as Years Represented.
Reading all the paragraph wisdom that
is uttered nowadays on the subject of
wrinkles, their avoidance and their cure
a stranger on this planet would certainly
think a new and mortal terror mad lust
come among us.
Enou III is said of the treatment of
wrinkles to make us all wise to avoid
them, if wisdom were enough.
But wrinkles, like love, willtfpd out a
way, and in spite of massage and oils and
balm, wrinkles will set their delicate
seal of thought and perplexity upon the
forehead and under the eyes and about the
lips.
The reason Of wrinkles, any one will tell
you easily, is years. But why is it that
years makes wrinkles? What connection
is there between the flight of time over
our head and the fine traceryXupon our
features?
Here is the explanation, as well as a lay
man can give it.
Underneath the skin in the flesh are inn
bedded multitude of little muscles that
mold the flesh and keep it as we say "solid
and firm" The skin also has certain
muscular power of contracting and stretch
ing, as necessity demands, and which de-
ponds upon what is called the tonicity of
TIE skin.
As year.Screep along The muscles weaken
and grow lax, no longer holding the flesh
as finn and hard as before All the lines
| IN the face droop therefore with age, and
the flesh has tendency to fl down in
little ridges
Just the same thing happens 10 the skin.
1t loses It's contracting power, and relaxes
Then come the little wrinkles. 1t will be
| seen, then, that wrinkles are due to
changes In the constitution of the skin it.
self
Anything that acts as a stimHlant upon
| the skin, keeping it active and so keeping
up the tone of the muscles, will tend to
prevent wrinkles.
But even if they do come why should one
be unhappy? They are as honorable as
gray hairs. They indicate thought as well
as years; they give character and dignity
TO the expression.
Freckes and sunburn have had their day
of being fashionable. Why not wrinkles?
They are beautiful if we on y tank so.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

long distance amidship, covering the en-
gines and magazines. Forward and aft
the thickness is increased. 1t also tapers
amidShips from sixteen inches at the top
down TO six inches. This vessel can be
mace ready. it has been reported, within
two months, and in fact she expects to be
ready in ample season 90 meet the Pratt,
should hostilities come.
On the Atlantic coast we have the Mian-
toaomah, of $3.50 tons, carrying IN her
turrets four 10.inch breech- loading rifles.
She has a less effective armor protection
than the Pratt, her maximum plating,
which is on the turrets, being eleven and
one half inches But something of an
Offset is furnished by her low free board.
She is, first of ALL intended for harbor
defense.
In her harbor defense work she is to be
aided by the single turret monitors.
Some of these are already getting ready
for service, and it is probable that at least
half dozen of them, and perhaps more,
will be fitted up. Supplied with some of
the surplus S.inch and 6inch guns they
can be of excellent service as harbor de-
tenders, being able with their light
draught to 60 into waters where heavy
irou vessel cannot follow them.
We should also by no means give the
Chilians a monopoly of torpedo work.
since the Vesuyius, the Cushing and the
Alarm are being fitted for that purpose
and the supply of Howell and Whitehead
torpedoes hurried forward.
Of our wooden vessels the Ira, lroquois,
Mohican and others could aid i necessary,
and the steel Dolphin would take part as
a dispatch vessel. Merchant vessels
would also be fitted out both as transports
and as armed cruisers.
The upshot of the whole matter is that
our navy would be abundantly able to
take care of the Chilians even with the
services of the Pratt conceded to them.
Should happy and peaceful settlement
end the present trouble, as now seems
certain, our navy will nevertheless
have had most valuable experience in the
art of getting ready in a hurry for posi-
BILE hostilities.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
A Chance for Young Men,

A gentleman who has been travelling
steadily for ayear, relates some interesting
incidents of the famous Red River valley
Although he Travelled all over the south
and west, ne has nowhere been impressed
with the genuine, substantial prosperity
OF the people as he was in the Red River
valley. The only drawback he saw was
the lack of help. And he declares if to
be fact that fully twenty-five per cent.
of the last wheat crop is still un-
threshed and for the reason that it
has been impossible to get the help to
thresh it. And he reasons that a country
that will produce more than can be har-
vested is the place to live in. There is
something In this, and here is the oppor-
tunity for young farmers. Land is still
cheap in the Red River valley. Work is
plenty; SO plenty that enough workmen
can with difficulty be obtained. Any
young man who wants to see that country
for himself, can start out and 60 there
and earn good wages all the time he is
there, und if he likes it he can get farm
OF his own. Ii not, he can come back home.
But by ard by he cannot get this land so
cheaply. Here is certainly chance for
young men that viii not occur again for a
lifetime.
The tallest trees In the world are the
gum trees of Victoria. Australia. In some
districts they average 300 feet high. The
longest Frustrated one measured $50 feet,
and 81 feet IN girth near the roots.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Rasuberry Antracnose.

A disease has made its appearance upon
the raspberry and blackberry which seems
TO be related to the antracnose Of the
grape. Bulletin 6 Of the Ohio experiment
station finds that it is a fungus. 1t first
appears early in May, when the young
shoots are about foot high. At or near
the surface of the ground, small purple
spots appear. These increase rapidly IN
number and size, and develop a whitish
center and with the raised purple border
marking the line of separation between the
healthy and diseased tissues. The leaves
are also similarly affected. 1t does not
seem TO seriously affect growth the first
season, but when these canes come to bear
ing, the damage is manifested The ber-
ries do not attain full size, but shrivel and
finally dry up, the leaves are small and un-
healthy looking. and finally the canes turn
black aud die. Spores from diseased por-
tions are washed down by rains to healthy
parts, where they Immediately begin to
grow. Thus the disease spreads. No eff,
fectiye remedy has yet been found for this
disease.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
FARM AND HOME.
TOMORROW.
HARPER's WEEKLY.

'.There is an island full of pleasant faces,
For which men hunger ere the day grows
old,
And thitherward they turn with uplifted faces,
q Longing 10 rest them in its blessed fold.
''No grief, they say, may steal within its Dor
der,
Their hurt wounds heal them swiftly of their
smart;
While sweet forgetfalness doth stand as warder
To still the aching tumut of the heart.
There, too, today's brief joys shall have great
increase,
And all its longiEgs shall find blessed gain,
While TO the toiler there shall come sweet sur
cease,
For, 10! This island knoweth naught of Lain
Their one whose life felt the fevered throb-
OF great wounds gotten in the days swift
tide,
Turned and gave eager question, touched with
sobbings,
Unto the mighty chorus at his side.
'sWhere is the land for which with strong per
slstence
The men of every age and CLINE do long?
And swift in answer, full of sweet ipslstence,
UpTose the strident echo of a song.
"Behold, the island that is void Of sorrow,
And for whose shelter men have long made
quest,
We have not seen, but it is called Tomorrow
The land within whose border there is rest"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
An Early Start.

Proper pres aration of the soil not only
gives the young plantlet something to feed
on at the start, out enables it to make such
a quick and hardy growth that it is the
better able to resist disastrous influences.
such as droutn, cold. disease, insect enc
mics, etc. With the majority of crops an
early start means an assurance Of success,
but the early start should ever be made
at the expense of complete preparation
before the seed is committed to the ground.
4 good farmer never gets in hurry about
this matter. He makes up his mind in the
beginning as to how the land must be pre-
pared for a certain crop. and he does it
that wa. If storms or untoward weather
interfere he waits; then. when he can. he
resumes his operations just where he left
of. He knows that it is better to be a
week late IN getting his seed into the
ground than 10 be two weeks late in hav-
ing 1t come up f.r want OF a proper seed
bed. Beside this, slow spr0uting usually
means an imperfect stand