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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
THE Dow,

Mamma" said little Isabel,
while | am fast asleep
The pretty grass ana lovely flowers
DO nothing else but weep,
"For every morning, when wake,
The glistcnlng teardrops lie
Upon each tiny blade Of grass,
And In each flowers eye.
~ wonder why the grass and flowers
At night become so sad
For early through their tears they smile
And seem all day so glad.
perhaps tbs when the sun goes down
They fear the gathering shade.
And that IL why they cry ut night
Bccnusc they nre afraid
Mamma. VI / should 40 aud tell
The pretty grass and Towers
About Gods wntchfu love aud care
Through the dark midnight hours
~ think they would no longer fear.
Rnt cease Mt night to weep;
And then. erhnps. they'd bow their heads
And gently go TO sleep
what scemeth tears" the mother said,
''Is the refreshing dow
Our Heavenly Father scndcth down,
Each morn and evening new.
1.-THE glitterlng drops OF peary dew
Arc to the grass and flowers
What slumher through the silent night
Is to this life Of ours.
"Thus God remembers NIL the works
That He in love hath made:
Der all, His watchfulness and care
Are night and day displayed"
--SnLEcTEp.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29

had been gathering rose for his but
ton hole. Il was Knocked up; had fits,
and all that sort OF thing; took these
three fellows all their time ON Sunday
to hold me DOWN.
Dear me-" and Mr.. Dyceworthy was
about 10 make further inquiries con-
corning Mr., LorimerS present state
OF health. when the door opened, and
Clrika entered, bearing large tray
laden with VINE and other refresh
ments. AS She sal il down, she gave a
keen, covert glance round the roam. as
though rapidly taking note OF the ap.
pearanee and faces .. all the young
men, then, with sort of stiff curtSey.
she departed rs noiseleSSly ms she had
come,-not, however, without leaving a
| disagretaole impression on Errington'S
mind.
Rather stern Phyllis, that wait
ing-maid of yours" he remarked,
watching his host. who was carefully
drawing the cork from one Of the bot
ties of wine
Mr.. Dyceworthy smiled. "Oh, no.
no! not stern at ell" he answered
sweetly. "on the contrary, most at
fable and kindhearted, Her only
fault is that she is little Jealous, --
oNerzealous for the purity OF the faith
and she has suercd much; but che is
an excellent woman really excellent!
Sir Philip, will You try this l4acrima
Christie"
Go be Continued.)
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
BLUE SKY.

All.e.bracIng canopy,
Bro0dlng close archlng high.
On the near hills leaning lowiy,
Soft, intense, serene, and holy.
lowering close In sunny k,udness
Soothing doubt, despair. and blindness.
Hospltable azure dome,
For the exile making home
Type OF endless love and blessing.
All beneath thy cope caressing.
Still the evil and the good
Folding close ms motherhood.
Unto Just and unjust giving
Hope and trust and grace for living.
Like me carol Of bird
A clear bell. at distance head
or tender, heartening word
Like the fragrance Of a rose:
Like the gentlest wind that blows;
Like the flowing Of n river.
Giving. giving, giving ever;
Like the swift warm April rain.
Buds and blossoms baimy swelling.
OR broad, waving fields OF grain.
Or fountains glad up-welling.
Sum Of all the loyelness
star and flower and mount express.
Beauty Of the common air:
Essence Of all peace and prayer.
Infinite. eternal blue.
Through the aeons fresh and new!
"A. $. H.. In n. y. Journal Of Education
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
FORREST TREES.

children have you seen the budding
or the trees In valleys lowY
Have You watched It creeping, creeping.
Up the mountain, soft and slcwH
Weaving there pluSh.llke mantle,
RnwnlSh, graylsh, reddish green,
Changing, changing, daily, hourly.
TN II smiles IN emerald sheeng
Have YOU watched the shades 81 varied,
From the graceful little white birch,
Faint and tender. tn the halsam's
Eyergrcrn, SO dark aud richly
Have you seen the quaint mosalcs
Eraclng all the mountain, sides,
Where they, miugliuS, INTERVIEWING.
Sway like softcst md-alr tldcsY
Have you seen the autumn trnstlngs
Spread In all the Leakage bright
FrostlnHs OF the rarrst color.
Red and yellow, dark and lightly
Have you seen the glory painted
On the mountain, valley, hlll
when the landscape all nlumIncd,
Basnns forth His taste and sklnF
Have You seen the foliage, dropping,
Tender cling, MS 10th to leave
Mothcrtrces that taught Thorn dcftly
All their warp and woof to weaver
Have YOU seen the lcaacss branches
Tossing wildly 'ganst the blueY
Have you seen the soft gray beauty
or their wlntry garments hue?
Have you thought tho resurrection
Seen In Nature year by year
Children, We are buds maturing;
Make your autumn rich aud grand.
Is symbol Of our rising
In n higher hollcr shpcre1
That your winter be q passage
Through the gates to Glory.land.
MoTurR TURNS MELODIES,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
THE LITTLE PLANT.

In my little garden bed,
Raked so nicely over,
First the tiny seeds ] SOW,
Then with soft earth cover
Shining down, the great round sun
Smiles upon II often:
Little ralndrops pattcrIng down
Help the seeds to soften.
Then the little plant awnkesl
Down the roots 10 creeping,
Up II HIS It's little head.
Through the brown mold pecplng.
High and higher sim II grows
Through the summer hours.
Till some happy day the buds
Open Into flowers.
From Pousson's "Finger Plays. "
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
A 100000 LUMP OF EARTH.
Diamond-Studded Lump of Blue Clay
Brought to New York.

Mr. Benjamin Levy diamond dealer
of New York, has a five pound lump OF
blue clay ON the surface OF which are
forty-tive diamonds of good size, while
many other smaller ones can be seen
ginting through thin encrustation
Blue mass is the regular diamond mat
riX, the earth OF all the Kimberley
mines in South Africa, 1t disSolves like
lime under 240 pounds pressure in
water. On an average this earth Yields
about $l2 worth of diamonds to the
ton, II it were all MS ricl in diamonds
as the lump supposedly 4, the yield
would be something lilpt S6,000,000 n
ton. MIR, Levy says that antil he finds
an Y ray that will show up the in
terror of the speciment he cant tell the
commercial value of his prize. As a
curiosity he considers ii to be worth
about 80. 900.
OF the diamonds on the surface OF the
piece Of earth the largest is reckoned
to weigh about sixteen or seventeen
carats. This one is nearly round, and
almost completely encrusted with the
blue mass. 1t is not of very good
quality. The best OF the stones appears
to be of about four carats weight, The
owner thinks that the surface value Is
about $1,000. Undoubtedly there are
other diamonds inside the mass, and
what the entire value Of the diamond
yield would be can only be guessed at
bcrlcy diamond mines by a rovengefu
katllr, despite the most perfect system
Of inspection in the world. New York
Sun.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
A NATIONAL FLOWER.

They ask me to vote for a national t,owsr;
Now which viii IL be wonder
To settle the question Is out OF ~, power.
Hut I'd rather not make a blunter
Aud love the Maynower the best In Nav.
Smiling up from its snow.drlft cover.
With Its breath thar is sweet as klss b
That the rclgn OF winter Is owe
Aud love the golden.rod, too for Its ruld.
And because through autumn Il lIngcsu.
And offers more wealth than his hands can
To the grasp OF the poor mans nn~~rx
should vote for them both IL | might:
Rnt do not fee, positive whether
The flowers themselves would be neirhbcs>
ly quite
Pink and yellow don't ~ together.
oh, yes, but they do, In the breezy w,,I
rose,
The darl'nEcst daughter OF summer.
Whose heart with the sun'd yellow vS
oNerhows
And whose lunches SD well become her.
Instead % one flower | will vote for three,
Tho Maytowers know that meas
them,
And the goldenrod surely my choice vii, bs.
with tao sweet brier rose between them.
You see I'm impartial, I've no way lot
this
My vote with rhyme and reason,
For the Maynowrr, the wild rcec ana
goldcnrod ls
blossom for every season
\ 4
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
PUT YOUR FURS AWAY.
How they Must be Treated TO Keep
out the Moths

out the Moths
For storing Of furs the best plan In
TO select dark closet and have II
papered all over, top and bottom, with
tar paper. As Its surface Ii sticky. II
should be covered with second coat
OF paper, TO prevent the clothes coming
In direct contact with the tar For this
second coat | find newspaper as good
thing AZ can be used. Perhaps the
smell OF printers Ink helps the tar to
| do Its work or IL may DO because
! newspaper Ii porous and allows the
tar odor to come through more readily.
Before hanging In this closet all gar
ments, both fur and wool, should BIO
carefully beaten with tender cane.
Here Ia the great secret OF keeping
furs II Is in cleaning them before
they are put away.
II q moth or q moth egg goes into
the closet with them, the damage Is only
partially prevented. While the egg
will hatch, the moth only lives for a
short time and cannot increase, but
during that brief life | have known
these little insects to spoil the beauty
Of an elegant garment. SO the greatest
care should be taken to beat and comb
furs clean before storing them away.
For this purpose fur comb should be
used. or slender. strong cane, that
will reach the skin itself. The safest
plan Is to remove the garments from
the closet about once month. and
give them a thorough beating. Some
persons hang them out In the sun on
these occasions. believing that the sun
destroys moths and moths eggs. while,
as rule. II matches the eggs. and. like
any other heat, makes the moth
thrive.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
FIELD FLOW ERS.

Field flowers, sweet field tlnwew,
Fairies " the spring,
Only those who love them
know the Joy they hiring.
Low can but discover
With their beauty. worth,
Jcwellng all over
All the bright green earth
Field flowers, sweet field flowers,
Fairies ~ the spring
Only those who love them,
Know the JOY they bring,
Field flowers, sweet hcld nowep,
Everywhere they come.
Whereso'cr unsecklng,
You may chance to roam.
With their smlles to meet ns
On each path Of ours.
All unsought to greet us
Come the sweet field flowers,
Field flowers, sweet fcld flowers,
Fairies of the spring,
Only those who love them,
Know the joy they bring,
--SnLncTEp
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
CAUTIOUS COMPARISON

And you say that the hailstones
were as large as hen eggs?"
Nor said the cautious person.
they were not quite that. They were.
say, about the size OF a boarding house
cantaioupe"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
BEAUTY EVERYWHERE.

There ls beauty In the forest,
When the trees are green and fair:
There IL beauty In the meadow
Where Wild flowers scent the air:
There Is beauty In the sunlight.
And the soft blue sky above;
Oh, the world II full Of beauty
When tho henri IL fun Of love.
w. l.. SMITH
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29

He lives In a brick house now docs
he?" sneered the rural cynic. Il used
to wipe the clay OF my boots that the
bricks in that house are made OF. -
Truth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29

Nine. Blanc says she admires the
Young men OF America. They are the
most chlvalroue men in the world to-
day. in her opinion. and unapproach-
able In their consideration for women
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-29
CreeS and
Birds.


The following poetic extracts are from
very Interesting pamphlet pust is.
sued by State Superintendent Emery,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

LOOKING at the business situation with calm, critical eyes. unmistak- able and gratifying signs of improvement can be observed. With the election over and the admins trativc policy of government for the next four years pretty well under stood, with the projection and build ing of new lines of railway, im- provement of old lines, the protec- ton of labor by recent more re- strietive legislative immigra- tion, which, by the way, is the best protection possible, with wheat still showing an upward tendency, and with an economic and progressive administration of the State government now in progress, we can safely predict that the year of our Lord, 1897, will be q better year from Q financial point of view, than the year 1896,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
A MEAN COUPLE.
They Mako g Good Livelihood by Getting
 Married Often.

They Mako Good Livelihood by Getting
 Married Often.
 One of tho meanest confidence games on record is that which was played by well dressed man and woman upon clergymen of several towns along the sound shore The couple first appeared i'll Branford, Conn.,, where they visited the town clerk and procured marriage license Then they went to the house of a clergyman and were married. The groom after the ceremony handed the parson $20 bill and told him to take $5 for his services. The minister did so and gave tho newly welded husband $15 in change.
 The couple left on the next east bound train, got of at Guilford and went through the same performance there. In ell they visited five towns between Olin. ton and New London, were married in each town and worked off five $20 eoun. terfeit bills.-New York Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

GAN any man offer a sane objec- tion to the use of eonYiets in mak- ing roads and other public improve ments in Arkansas? If our State were a great industrial common wealth, with an army of unemployed citizens crying for work, the ease would be altered. We can conceive of no argument against doing with convict lahor what would not be done at all without it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

west and the Pacific slope. In the South we have millions of acres of swamp lands of marvellous fertility which are unproductive from ex- cess of voter just as the arid region is unproduetive from lack of water, and it would be nothing short of the most sectional legislation to overlook this fact by appropriatine money 10 reclaim the dry lands of the region mentioned and ignoring the AtIantic and Gulf sea bnard.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

WoLooTT, the gold-standard Re publican Senator from free,silyer Colorado, who has gone to Europe, ostensibly to pave the road for an international monetary conference, evidently feels, since he goes on his own account that he wants to do something startling for the free coinage of silver, or his political career will come to an untimely end
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
boarl

OPPORTUNITY, like the poor of the earth, is always with us. Many great movements now invite the mental and physical activities of good men. The liberation of Cuba, the purification of New York [ la Moody, tie unification of the Ma tional Democracy, eanonization of the New woman, and last to mem ton, but not least, .'the raising of less h-l and more hogs in the great State of Arkansas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
1rln de Steele Cl.ivalry.

The Boston Advertiser says: Two thousand two hundred and thirty seven members of the Cambridge university senate in England have signed a doc ument whoso pnrport stripped of all verbiage, is that women may be permit ted to study at the university, provided they pass entrance examinations as rigid as those required of men. keep up during their course of study as high a standard of scholarship as the men do, pay tho same fees that the men pay and receive none of the degrees, none of the honors and none of the privileges which are accorded to men ill consequence of connection with the university. And this document emanates from what is known as the liberal party ill the university senate. The other party wants the women excluded absolutely. The terms upon which the liberal party is willing to admit them oonsti tute | very faithful sample, stripped of all glitter and tinsel and other false pretense of about e-tenths of what passes in the world fer ehiyalrv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

BRYAN, in . recent interview, de elared prosperity to be boxed up at Canton. It is doubtful if the box can be opened without a silver key, but one thing is certain, that, if prosperity is kept much longer acribbed, cabined and confined in the Canton box of gold, the Amer ican people will melt that box in the crucible of revolution; peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
prodnotion of Gold.

The latest mint report shows that this country produced last year nearly a fourth of the worlds entire gold prod. uct The increase since 1885 IS oyer q third of the total production of that year New York World
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

Bs the failure to call up the Cam eron resolution in the Senate last Wednesday, the Cuban question was virtually side-traeked, so far as the present Congress is concerned. 1t goes over to the Mckinley admins tration, rich legacy of noble op- portunity, wasted by pseudo Dem ocratic administration.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
Lacrosse Team For Europe.

It has been definitely decided by the Crescent Athletic club of Brooklyn to send team of lacrosse players on a tour through England next spring. The mat ter had been under advisement for so long a time that majority of the mem- bers thought the scheme had fallen through. All doubts have been set at rest, however, and the date of starting has been fixed for March IS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

MAT QUAY, the corruptionist, who presses the button in Pennsylvania politics, made his machine Legisla ture elect Boise Penrose to the United States Senate, defeating that arch Pharisee, Goody Goody Wannamaker, who was Q rival can didate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

TIE contest for the Speakership Of the State House of Representa- tives presents many striking feat ures; Eight of them were well DOT trayed in Thursdays Arha@as Ga- sutte.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

BRAaaARr Spain heayes a sigh of relief while Uncle Sam takes another chew and sits down to ruminate about the situation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
The Worm Tnrns.

At least two of Kentucky's most ia. nous distilleries have failed recently. This, too ill face of Joe Blackburn E statement that the voice of Kentucky cannot be stilled. Philadelphia Call.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

SOUTHERN Gong gEesSmen would do well to consider carefully before voting for bills carrying large app propriations to irrigate the dry lands of the distant West, South
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

Entered at the Post-ofIice Ut Pine Bluff, Ark, as seeond-class mail matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
DIR. A. ". TROUPE PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Office hours-2 to 4 D. III.
 Office with Anderson-Meyer Drug Co. Telephone No. G4. Residence No. SIT West Fifth avenue.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

OUR platform for the year 1897 is the upbuilding of Pine Bluff and the State of Arkansas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

10 say "There's always somethin the matter lift isn't one thing it's two" The most common trouble resulting from over exertion, either mentally Of physically, is constipation of the bowels, with all its at tendant horrors.
 There is ne human aiiment that so saps the energies, 50 deadeus the ambitions, as that coming from the bowels forgetting their vocation, or the liver only work ing about eight hours out of the twenty four.
 Dr. Pieree's Pleasant Pellets are the most eaectual remedy i'll the market. They work upon the system easily, naturally There is no unpleasant nausea after taking them. No griping-no pain-no discomfort. They are composed of materials that go through the system gradually, collecting all impuri- ties and like tue good little servants that they are, disposing of them effeetually.
 Mas RosANNA NJ BLISS of CososSe. os. teSso Cpanti. Asse iosR. says:
 had suffered much with dizziness some. times faiutuess from too much mental work. Over exertion physically caused constipation of the bowels. Itried liver pills. They gave tenn. poFary relief Two years ago began using Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. l have, at intervals, used three botties, and am now enjoying uuin- terrupted good health .
 Yours truly
 IIo7a7,l,oa,lIZI2ZSo
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

PINE BLUFF. ARK, JAN. s 1897.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08
No Griipe

When yon take Hoods Pills The big old-fash-
 toned, sugar.coated pills, which tear you all to pieces, are not in if with Hoods Easy to take
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-08

< oods and easy to operate, Is true
 Of Hoods Pills, which are ME up to date in every respect &~ Safe, certain and sure. All VI v SSa@ druggists. 25c C. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparlla.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-22
What Free Wool Cost the Country

Marshalltown, Ia, Times Republican:
The hearings accorded by the ways
and means committee of congress to
the wool growers, dealers and manu-
facturerS have brought out some in
teresting statements showing how the
wool interests have languished as the
result of the free trade efforts of the
Grover Cleveland party. According
to the statements of Judge William
Lawrence, of the National Wool
Growers association, the Wilson bill
framed by the tariff thinkers had stop
ped one-third of the wool growing
business and closed one-half of the
mills in the country. He declared
that under this law the number of
sheep in the United States had de-
creased 100000 year, with loss of
$50, 900, 900 according to official statis-
tics. Unofficial and more accurate
figures prove this loss to wool growers
through the Wilson rates to have been
S178, 100000. Mutton sheep, which
should be raised in this country, were
being imported from Canada. These
figures show the appalling blight put
upon an industry by those who tried
to revitaliZe discarded and diSas-
trOuS theory.
The consumer was represented by
Theodore Justice, wool dealer of
Philadelphia. He stated that, while
the trial of free wool under the Will
son law had slightly benefited the
consumer by reduction in prices, the
saving had been greatly outweighed
by the loss in purchasing power. The
gain by lower prices had averaged SO
cents per capita, while the loss
amounted to more than 81. The aver
age loss to the wool grower had been
1922 SO, while the mill hands and lab
orers of the United States had lost
S85, 900 during the past year.
An enormous increase in the impOr-
tation of shoddy had resulted from
the enactment of the Wilson law. No
nation, he declared, had ever used as
little shoddy as the United States
under the Mckinley law. The ex-
PLANTATION of the increased use Of
shoddy was that the increased impOr-
tatiOns of cheap clothes under the
Wilson law compelled the American
manufacturer to make such cheap
clothes to compete that he was obliged
to use shoddy. Moreover there had
been less money earned by the classes
under the Wilson law to spend for
clothes. The decrease in price to the
purchaser of wooden goods under the
Wilson law had been about equal 70
the decrease in the tariff on the goods.
An effort will be made to find prudent
middle ground between high and low
tariff advocates and to restore pros
perity once more to the various wool
interests.