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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
THE WEDDING JOURNEY
HERBERT PAcKARD.

We had talked in a nurmuring whisper,
And gentle undertone,
Till the day had died IN the oarkness,
And the stars came out IN the zone;
Then my bride, in ladylike calmness,
And with all her accustomed grace,
Leaned back in gentle slumber,
With smile on her well-bred face.
As the train rushed on in the darkness,
Like a flashing meteor sent,
/ took no heed of the present,
But backward my memory went,
And I thought with feeling of anguish,
And throb of sudden pain,
Of the lap of the murmuring waters,
And the sandy Hampshire lane.
I raw tsThe Shoals in the distance,
And the blue waves fall and rise,
And a passionate face on my shoulder,
With love in her starry eyes;
No calm and weil-bred feeling,
No decorus modern art,
But fond and foolish passion,
A faithful Woman's heart.
But the strength of her love consumed her,
And she sleeps in her early grave
In the scented Hampshire valley,
Near the sound of the sobDiBg wave,
But here by my side see her,
Pale with a PASSIONATE pain,
TOO true, glo deep, for eaTth's trials,
Oh, love Of the woodland lane!
! shook of the strange, odd feeling
And saw the sweet vision fade,
And my bride aWOke from her dreai ung,
81 thought we were there, she SAID,
Where was Oh, on the journey
That I took with my calm, cold BRIDE;
And the olher was only phantom,
4 vision that faded and died.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
The Distress in Vienna.

VIENNA, March 5.-A special agent
who is inquiring into the distress in
Vienna, paints terrible picture of the
destitution that prevails in that city.
There are many houses, he says, whose
splendid exteriors give no suspicion of
their miserable interiors Cellars in
such houses, be aflirms, are found
crowded with starving persons who
are out Of work, and others who are
dreds are unable to pay rent and exist
in daily fear of eviction. But in spite
of all this misery there is total alb
sence of evidence of vice among the
sufferers
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
W Welcome Home.

Mr.. Porter, who lived some years in
Damascus, relates the following Incl
dent:
1--WE dismounted at the door of the en-
campment. No sooner had our sheikb
touched the ground than he was affection
ately embraced by his son, a fine boy Of
about fifteen.
This scene at once brought to my mind
some incidents recorded in Scripture,
and seemed, IN fact, to realize the inter.
esting narratives Of patriarchial times.
The youth placed his hands on his father s
neck, and kissed each cheek, and then they
leaned their heads for a few seconds, while
embracing, on each others shoulders.
Precisely similar was the scene at the
meeting OF Jacob and Esau, nearly four
thousand years ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
FARM AND HOME.
SIN DUE TIME -
REV. JOHN HALL.

/ marked q child-a pretty child,
A gentle, blue-eyed child;
She sowed the scented mignonette
One sunny day in spring:
And while the tiny grains she soWed,
The stream Of thought thus sweetly flowed
son this dear bed the dew shall fall,
And you bright sun shall shine
Twill spring, and grow, and blossom then,
And it will all be mine!'
And the fair thing laughed in childish glee
To think what a harvest hers should be
/ saw man an AGO IN plant
Upon the hillside bare
Nc spreading branch, no shading rock,
Lent friendly shelter there;
And thus, az eT the spot he bowed,
heard him-for he thought alouo.
"Frail thing ere glossy leaf shall grace
Thy wise and sturdy Dough,
| may be laid amid the dead,
As low as thou art now;
let wilt thou rise in rugged strength,
And crown this barren height at leng a."
Each had a hope, the childish heart
Looked TO a summer JOY;
The manly thougbt-strong and mature
Looked to futurity.
Each trusts 10 nature, 5 genial power
He wants forest; she flower.
Who sows the seed of heavenly truth,
And doubts Almighty power?
Will years less surely bring the oak,
Than months the summer flower:
Then SOW, although no fruit you see;
God, Sin due time,' will raise the tree.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Wire for Tomato Vines.

A correspondent in Vick's Magazine
writes that he uses wire netting as a sup
port for tomatoes, and finds it very salts
factory. He let's stout stakes in the
ground, about seven feet apart, in the row
of tomato plants. To these stakes, about
a foot from the ground. ne nails wue net
ting that is Az feet wide, thereby making
trellis 51a feet high. AS the vines grow
he ties them to this support. He has also
trained sweet peas In the same way to wire
netting So feet wide. When the vines
were dead IN the fall he cut them away,
dug up the posts, rolled up the wire with
out loosening it from the posts and put it
ali away IN an out-baIlding for use the
next year. 1t will last for years to come,
and 1t Gas already paid for itself.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Garry Cheerful Face.

Garry a pleasant, or, at least a placid,
contenance around with you. There is
nothing gained by going up and down
the streets with sour, wrinkled, clouded
visage. You appear to be aggravating
your own misery; possibly you are making
yourself miserable without real cause.
Here is dead less of both reputation and
character as regards yourself. Then in
your relation to others, You are impair in 9
your chances and your ability to be help
fuI aud agreeable Whoever thinks these
matters unworthy of consideration has a
very distorted view Of lite aud duty
Selected.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
BsrilIas Piles Up q Fortune.

san FRANCISCO, March III. Scott
a wealth coffee planter of Guatemala,
who jusC arrived from there, says the
reports that Barillas hasn't made for
tune during his six years in the presi-
dency of Guatemala are absurd. He
has cleared at least $500, 600 yearly,
and his fortune is estimated by good
judges at $40, 900, 900. Most of this he
has already sent to Europe, and he has
been mortgaging his real estate and
personal property, as he expects to
leave almost Immediately for England
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Used knives for WaaDOnS.

NEwToNvILLE, Ind, March Last
night a number Of young men were
drinking in a saloon in the presence of
Joseph Sherrell, who was insulted a
few days before by one of the party. A
dispute arose, which led to blows, and
drawing knives all took hand in the
bloody encounter, and when the row
ended it was found that Joseph Sher-
roll was fatally wounded in the back,
and lay in a pool of blood. Sim Sher-
rells skull was was fractured, and he
was unconscious. George Hill was
stabbed in the left breast. Others
were not SO seriously wounded. 1t is
thought that the three men named will
die
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
OUR LAX e VESSELS.
The Wonderful Growth Of Shipping on
the Lakes.

The history of marine architecture does
not furnish another instance of so rapid
an d complete revolution III the material
aud structure Of floating equipment as has
taken place on the great lakes since 1886.
In that year the total valuation OF the
vessels by Lloyd was about 1900, 900.
In 1889, sixty new steamers and eleven
sailing vessels, aggregating 10000 tons,
and valued at Sc, $4,000. were added to
the fleet. During the four winters of 1886
1880, the tonnage of the lakes was near
ly doubled; 206 vessels, measuring 800 975
tons, were turned out of the shipyards
with valuation of $27, 1886, 900. During
the same time the number of steamers of
more than 1,500 net register tons in
creased from II to 10. The two valua-
lions of the feet already presented differ
by more than $4,000, 600; but either one
emphasizes the fact of tie very recent and
extraordinary growth of this commerce,
and renders 1t difficult to predict the in
crease In the tonnage and in the size of
vessels upon the lakes during the nine
years that remain till the opening of the
next century.
More than one-half of the vessels on the
great lakes are assigned to Chicago, Port
Huron, Detroit, Milwaukee, Grand Ha-
ven, Cleveland and Buffalo.
The number of Canadian vessels on the
lakes is CAT; tonnage, 1872, valuation,
| s., 989, 100. For further comparison, it
may be stated that the total of coast and
inland shipping registered in Canada is
7,153 vessels, ,O40, 48l register tons, val
ued at s31, 2l3, 430.
The increase in population of the lake
ports indicates the great increase that
must follow, necessarily, IN the business
of the lakes and also of the railways tribu-
tary to them Buffalo mas increased from
about 1900 in 1850 to 255, 200 in 1890;
Cleveland, from II 900 in 1860 to 262, 900
in 1890; Chicago, from $4,000 in 1850 to
!, 100, 900 in 1890; while Detroit and Mil
waukee exhibit remarkable parallelism
IL growth, the former having increased
from 116, $40 to 205,876 in the last ten
years, and the latter from us 587 to 204.-
468.-Lt. c. c. Rogers, o S. n in March
Scribner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Uneasy Russian Poles.

LONDON, March 5.-The Telegraph's
st. Petersburg correspondent sayss
Gen. Gourks, governor of Poland, has
had several audiences with the min
listers of war and the interior, with the
object of obtaining permission to make
examples by measures of wholesome
severity not allowed under the ordinary
code to suppress the growing disatfec-
tior. among the Poles. lie was en-
powered to proclaim state of seige in
Warsaw or the whole of Russian Pc
land if circumstances demand it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Death From Poisoned Whisky.

HUDSON, Wis, March David Hef'
from, an old resident of st. CroiX
county, living near the village of Board
man. died yesterday under suspicious
circumstances. He had sold load of
wheat Friday at Boardman and re
turned to within half mile of his
home. Here he met a man and the
two sat each in his own wagon and
talked awhile. During the converse
ton the other, whose name is not yet
known, took a bottle from his pocket
and gave Heffron something to
drink Hebron showed signs
of intoxication. and soon after
went into stupor from which
he never rallied. No intoxicants arr
sold at Boardman, and the drink tbs
unknown man gave him is supposed to
be the only one he had A post norton
will be held and the case investigated.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11

electrical science have wrought in our
ways of living When we who are now
young have developed into hale old gentle
men, shall have witnessed progress and
changes corresponding to those which this
oc' ogenarian has seen? Shall we then see
distant obi cts by electricity as easily as
we now lelr distant voices, shall we travel
to all distances aud at all speeds by the
aid of the elt ctric motor, and shall we
n lvigate the air with the same unconcern
that we now feel in undertaking voyage
on the sea? Truly these are difficult
questions to answer. 1t would be almost
as rash to say, ave shall not, as to say
eve shall .'-E!ectricity.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Knitting I'm Austria.

DANTzIC, March 5.-Some days ago a
deputation of the unemployed working
men in the City of Dantzic waited upon
the authorities and begged that work
of whatever kind be given them that
they and their families might be saved
from starvation. They received n
promise that relief would be given
them, and in obedience to a notice 500
men proceeded to the landing stage in
the expectation that they would be
conveyed to the municipal sewage
farms and put to work. When they
arrived the officials picked out 22O men
to be taken to the farms, and said they
were unable to furnish work for the
Others. This precipitated riot, and
for time the affair was serious. The
riot was finally quelled, bnt an uneasy
feeling still prevails.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
KILLED By HIS BROTHER.
The Victim Had Killed Another brother
Two Years IscfOre,

LOUISVILLE, Ky, March Near
Mount Vernon yesterday evening En-
NETT Snodgrass. town marshal, was
shot and killed by his brother, Isaac
Snodgrass. 1t was the result of EN-
NETT having killed his brother,
esquire" Snodgrass, some two years
ago. Emmett Snodgrass in 1878
killed James Bethurum. The quarrel
leading up to the killing of Bethurum
began in 1876, when Andy Cummins.
a brother-in-law of Bethurum, with
three other men charged with various
crimes from burglary to murder, were
taken by mob from the Mount Vernon
Jail and hanged to one Of the ole gal
lows just west of the town.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Poultry for the Farmer

Poultry is nutritious and easily digested,
and for these reasons the farmer who
grows it should reserve a good supply for
his own table. He can afford the best as
well as anybody. If be goes wholly on
the principle of saving by confning his
meat diet to salt pork, it is ten to one chat
be loses more through TIE inactivity of
the mind because of this indigestibie
diet than he saves by its increased
cost.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Profit in Small Fruits.

Ten acres of small fruits will often make
a man more truly prosperous than ten
times as much wheat or corn. He may not
be worth as much in actual capital invest,
ed, but he will be getting larger net in
come, and doing it with much less severe
toll. The small farm, well tiled whethre
it be in fruits, dairy, vegetables, etc, is
almost always The most satisfactory. The
principal capital needed to start such a
farm is a level head and knowledge of
your business.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Lamb Growing.

Hothouse lamb growing is progressing
finely ii New York ate. The output
will be increased this year. One man
averages annually 81 900 from the wool
and lambs of his 100 ewes. A Rhode Is
land gentleman is reported to have sold
last season in Boston 81 dollhouse lambs
for 81 900, and he had the wool of the
ewes besides, which marked up his income
10 81 200.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Jumped from "A Window.

WALTHAM, Mass, March 7.-Screams
In a second story at No. 81 Central
street at a. M, followed by a daring
jump to the ground, attracted the po-
lice and resulted in the arrest of James
Durham on the charge of an assault on
Annie Haskell The latter had risked
her life to save her honor, but happily
lost neither, for she was uninjured by
the jump. Durham is So years old and
Miss Haskell 19. Durham was held to
await the action of the grand jury.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11

ON Z GIRLS WORK.
The Wonderful Work a Little Girl Was
the Means of StartiUg.

A few years ago little girl applied to
a pastor In one If our large cities for adj
mission into his Sunday-schOol. She was
told that the classes were so full there was
no room for her, and that the church was
go small that no more classes could be Or
gained. Much disappointed, the little
girl began to save pennies-her family
was rOol-fOr the purpose of enlarging
the church liz order that she and otker
children might be accommodated. She told
no one OF her ambitious purpose, so that
when the pastor of this church was called
to her bedside few months later, to com.
fort her In her severe illness, he saw moth
ing unusual, only frail child of SIX and
d half years.
The little sufferer died, and a week
after there were found in her battered red
pocket book, which had been her savings
bank, tfty-seven pennies, and a scrap of
paper that told. in childish print, the
story of her ambition, and the purpose of
htr self-denial.
The story of that lettle red pocket-book
and its contents, and Of the unfalteripg
faith of It's little owner got abroad. It
touched the heart of saint and sinner
alike. Her inspiration became a pro-
phecy, and men labored and women sang
and children saved to aid in its fulfill
ment. These ffty-seven pennies became
the nucleus of a fund th4t In six years
grew to s25O,0OO, and to-day this hero
ines picture, life size, hangs conspicu-
onsly in the hallway of college building
at which l 400 students attend, and CON
nected with which there are church cap
able of seating 5000, a hospital for chill
dren named for the Good Samaritan, and
Sunday-school room large enough to &C
comodate ali the girls and boys who have
yet asked to enter it. A fairy story? II
reads like one, but happily it is not one .
The little girls name was Hattie May
Watt and the splendid institutions de
scribed are located in Philadelphia
Harper's Young People.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Emperor Williams Approyal.

BERLIN, March 5.-The Reichs An
zeiger says that Emperor William has
instructed DR.. Won Boetticher. secre-
tary of the imperial home Office and rep,
rosentatlve of the chancellor, to ex-
press to the police of Berlin his recog-
uition of their intelligent and circum-
spect, yet vigorous action in suppress
ing the rioting that occurred iii the
cit Y lnSt ,Nnnlr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11

One TACT Of enormous value Is true of
most fallow crops, SAYS Storer, viz. that
besides the refuse they leave in and upon
the land in the form of rosts or leaves or
stubble, a far larger proportion of the
crop commonly goes back 10 the land IL
the form of manure than Is the case With
the grain crops The straw of the grain,
it is true is usually returned TO the SOL
in the manure, but, according to the au-
thority quoted, excepting as regards pot
ash, straw has very little fertilizine
power, and the grain is usually sold off the
farm. A crop of turnips or of clever, on
the contrary, is consumed Upon the farm,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Italian Financial Struggles.

ROME, March A.---The Parlian ntary
Budget committee recommends tho
issue of Treasury bonds to the value of
$40, O00,O 900. The committee considers
that the revenue estimated ought to be
reduced SIS, 100, 900 The total elicit
for the year is estimated at 1893, 600,
and the committee urges on the govern
ment the necessity of taking appro-
pirate measures to meet the increasing
deficit
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Stimulating the Cultivation OF Wheat.

Stimulating the Cultivation OF Wheat.
LISBON, March 5.-The government
has issued degree granting permission
to traders to import 10000 tons of
wheat at duty of 1 1-2 reir per llilo.
This reduction from The normal duty on
the grain is equivalent to loss of ST.
o00,00O to the treasury. The object of
the decrease in the duty is TO prevent
rise in the price OF the cerial here
through the purchase of large amouats
of foreign wheat at the present rate Of
exchange. 1t is estimated that this
measure will stimulate the cultivation
of wheat in this country and eventuate
in Portugual growing enough of the
grain to supply all her own needs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
ParaIyzfnp the Cattle Market.

BERLIN, March 5.-Twenty-twocattle
markets in Schonfliess, Marchow, Helm
for month in consequence OF the prev
alence Of the foot and mouth disease.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
WHAT BOY CtN DO.
How Freddie Peck, the Young Phi1an
thropist, Started School Library.

The New York Herald gives this pathet
ic story of the noble life and untimely
death or little Freddie Peck. While not
yet out OF his teens, in fact but when
eleven years old, he conceived the idea of
establishing circulating library for his
mates of Grammar School, No. 81, at Am
sterdam avenue and Seventy seventh
street. Though the lad was not spared to
see the fulfllment of his purpose, the
movement he inspired has been taken up
by others and is destined to succeed.
The personality and intensity of pur-
pose of the noble little fellow was remark
able. Una1de0 and alone he boarded from
his pocket money and Christmas gifts the
considerable sum of S3I4 o. With this
for nucleus an amount of $4,000 is TO
be raised When the library is an ac-
complished fact, this one little boy will
have succeeded in doing something that
the Board of Education of the great city
of New York and philanthropists of M re
mature years have failed utterly to brng
about.
1t i remarkable work that he has ac
compilshed and one that will perpetuate
lis memory. The boys lovable DISPOSE
| ton and signal ability endeared him TO
| all with whom he came IN contact. Teach
ers and playmates with one accord sound
| his praise. During his illness the school
| of which he was a member was cast into
! gloom and upon his death its flags were
| displayed at halt-mast. His entire class
of seventy boys attended his funeral 10 a
body, and each deposited a flower on his
coffin at they looked for the last time on
! the face of their plat mate.
Freddie was a member OF the supplied
choir boys Of Christ Church. For TWO
successive Sundays the entire choir wore
mourning, and at the funeral the choir
| boys clustered around the casket anG
| chanted the musical services. His las
composition, on What a Boy Can Do,
is to be placed in the library that owes IT
origin 10 his endeavors.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Grating WAX.

1t Is better to buy grating wax from
see dsmen than to make it, but the proper
lions of Ingredients are four .rts rosin,
by weight, two parts beeswax and one part
tallow. Melt in a glue pot, SO as not to
burn, beginning with the beeswax then
the Tosin and next add the tallow.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
Lord DufIeriu Calls on the PoDe.

ROME, March 5.-The Marquis OF
Dufferin, the newly appointed British
Ambassador to France, who was lately
British Ambassador to Italy, has visited
the Pope, who had declined to receive
him until he had presented his letters
of recall from the Quirinal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
FARM NOTES.
Give Cows Pure Water.

No animal should be compelled to drink
water that is unfit for human beings, and
especially the cow which gives milk, as
she Simply hands TO her owner that which
he gives her IL the shape of raw mate1i-
al from which to manufacture milk.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
"REMINISCENCES
Some Wonderful Changes Wrought in our
Mode of Living.

A hale old gentleman from Mississippi
has recently been relating some of his
"reminiscences of NeE York, Chicago, and
other places. Early in this century he
went from Buffalo to New York, by stage
and water paying fare of S25. The rate
of speed at which stages travelled in those
days was ten miles an hour 1t is some
what remarkable to think that men are
still among US who have witnessed from
their very beginning the marvellous
changes that modern engineering and
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11
HOt-Sgd .

Manure for hot-bedS should be fresh,
free of litter, we'll trampled in the hot
bed and the heat regulated by admitting
air and sprinkIing with water, as the
manure may generate more heat On warm
days than may be desired.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-11

Johnson-When l do marry | intend
to marry sensible girl. if | can find
one.
Tomson-Now there's Miss Sharpe; she
Tilted me-
Johnson-Just the girl | want. Won't
you introduce me?