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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
COFFIN SOUVENIRS.

A Chicago woman brought home two
coffin plates as mementos of childhood
days and souvenirs of a summer vaca-
ton.
ChI9agoans and people of the middle
west have fad of seeking something
to S.-zng home as a souvenir not only
of their outing but of the country
where their childhood was spent.
Thousands Of people choose the vicin
ity of their birthpIaces as localities for
summer visits A Polo man makes
frequent pilgrimages to a farm near
Bellows Falls, VT, where. he says.
his father worked himself to death in
building a stone fehce, which remains
to tell the story. His wife was born
near kittery, Me-, and the two are az.
customed to spend summer visiting
these two places. They have a room
half filled with things used long ago.
Many residents of Illinois who grew
to manhood in New England carry
from the east keepsakes of like char
acter.
Mrs. Charles Zimmerman, 1873 Roke-
by street, Chicago, had a queer ex-
perience of this kind. She was born
and partly raised near Abingdon,
Mass, and remembered there was in
the neighborhoOd a quaint little place
belonging to a relative. In the house
was room which no one seemed priv
LEGGED to enter, and from her child
hood days she had wondered what it
contained.
She went to her old home not long
ago and went to the house with the
mysterious room. 1t was now aban-
doned but inside were the furnish
ings there years ago. She entered
with her brother. Now was a chance
to explore the closed apartment, and
in a few moments they crossed the
threshold. 1t would require a page to
describe the many old things stored in
that room Mrs. Kinnerman's hands
fell on fiat package resting on the
mantel shelf. 1t was wrapped in
brown paper and contained two coffin
plates One bore the name of Marilla
Pratt and the other came from the
coffin of Abial circuit Each gave the
date of birth and death of Mrs. Kin
nerman's relatives, and she now dis
plays them to friends as souvenirs of
summer vacation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
CHAPTER v.
A Sisters Trial

Don't ask questions. There's the
money; take It, You don't think |
stole It, do your"
stole 1t llenion dear? No, OF
course. How can you talk so?"
"Then why don't YOU take it,"
Because, as your sister, | think
have u right to know whence II
comes"
And, as your brother seeing how
we live here in everyhody's debt
don't think YOU need lie SO Jolly par.
ticulur.'
However poor we are, Hendon, We
need no lose our self.rospect."
"Self-respectl How Is a man to
have selfrespect, without penny in
his pocket?"
You just showed me rounds
Eyes, now"
How did you come by IL. Hendon?"
Don't ask, he cried impatiently
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
CHAPTER vi.
The Surgery Imp.

DR. Charley sat in his consulting
room. with glass jar, retort, receiver,
and spirit-lamp before him. The lamp
was on the table, and made with its
shaded light and that of the fire a
pleasant glow. which took Off some of
the desolation of the bare consulting.
room on that bitter night.
He had been busy over his discovery,
and confessed that 1t was not SO far
advanced MS he could wish
There Is something wanting,
he had muttered more han once, and,
wcaried Mt last. he was thinking more
seriously than usual of his son. of
Richmond and of James Poynter,
1T would place her above the reach
of want" he said dreamily; she would
be happy il anything befell me Yes,
money is n power, and we are now so
poor 50 poor, that life seems to have
become one bitter struggle in which
am too weak to engage"
He sighed and rose. walked into
the miserahly cold surgery where
Bob was diligently polishing the front
ST the nest of drawers containing
drugs, and leaving threads of cotton
from the ragged buster hanging upon
the broken knobs,
Good hoy-goSd industrious boy
said the doctor pattng his head gen
tly, before taking up little graduated
glass, pouring in small quantity
from bottle Mt the top of the shelves
and after turning II into a medicine
glass. he filled up With water and
drank it
To be continued.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

A comedy of love was enacted re.
Gently at Olney. H. A bashful young
man. Edward + Bird of Noble, went
70 set a marriage license which would
enable him to marry Miss Rose Mos
ser. He approached the license clerk
who had just finished making out a
hunters license Turning to Bird he
asked: DO you want one?"
Yes. said the bashful Mr. Bird
Therefore the clerk made out doc
umeut describing the color of his
hair and eyes. giving his height
weight and age and other character
istics
Taking the license the young man
set out to find his fiancee and then to
finr a minister The clergyman was
about to perform the ceremony when
he locked at the license.
We'll" he said, this authorizes
you to hunt various kinds of game, but
don't see anything authorizing you
to take a wife.
He handed Mr.. Bird the document,
and the astounded bridegroom found
that he had a hunters license and not
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Newwed-I say, old chap, you ought
to see the nine-pound addition to our
family that arrived last night. He's
peach.
Oldwed (the father of twins well,
you ought to be thankful he isn't a
pair.-St Louis Star.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

DR. Shea OF the beard of health Of
Boston has gone to Europe to study
the methods of battling with conta-
gious diseases. and will read a paper
before a German medical society on
the treatment of smallpox in the Unit
ed States.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
For landlord he had high ideals.

Il hope some day he exclaimed,
glowingly, ito build flats so luxurious
and expensive that people will give up
absolutely all their liberties in order to
live in them. Detroit Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
JUST A SMILE.

Mrs. Wise (reading)-A horse can
draw fifteen times his own weight
Mr.. Wise-So can a mustard plas
teI.-Chicago Journal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Some men," observed Uncle Allen
Sparks, refuse to mix religion with
their politics because the two would
fight each other. Chicago Tribune
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Instead of the wedding which was
to have taken place between Oscar
Hill and Miss Mary Morrison, the
funeral of Oscar Hill occurred from
the brides home co. Mississippi
street, St. Paul
The gay bridal garments, which had
all been made, and other incideLtals to
the ceremony which had been pro.
vided, were laid aside in an unoccupied
room, and the young woman who was
to have been Joined for life to the man
of whom death had robbed her was
arrayed in mournful black The
priest who had already been engaged
to perform the marriage ceremony
read the funeral service.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

! Not all stories are SO sOrroWful as
that of Miss Mayme MacLaren of In
dianapolis. Here in Chicago a year
ago she met Harold Baker, a young
Englishman on a visit to this country.
He was won by her and proposed mar
riage. She refused him at first and
he left for England
Not discouraged, he persisted in his
proposals. making them by letter, and
the young woman recOnsiderad. 1t
was agreed that he should come to
America again and that they should
be married.
The young woman was preparing
her wedding garments, when her
mother was taken i'll and died. The
young man came across to find his
fiancee heartbrOken over her mothers
death. She was SO absorbed by her
grief that she did not notice her lovers
peculiar actions. 1t. was discovered
that his mind was becoming deranged
His father was sent for and arrived
in time to take the son, now I'M
balanced mentally, back to England.
For three months Rose Bennett, II
years was a wife without the knowl'
edge of her parents, with whom she
lived at 1872 Evergreen avenue, Brook
Ign. She was welded to Edward f.
Richards, % years old, on March %.
in the Church of st. John the Baptist,
Lewis and Willoughby avenues.
Mrs. Peter G.. Bennett, mother of
the bride did not know Of the romance
in the family until last week, when
Rose dropped her wedding ring. Mrs.
Bennett saw the ring and picked it
up and examined it, She suspected
the daughter was a wife. Rose told
her mother she loved Eddie dearly"
and he would go through fire for
her" and Mrs. Bennett forgave the
girl, as all good mothers do, and when
news to him, Mr. and Mrs, Richards
are now living with the old folks.
Mrs Bennett would not permit the
bride to talk about the wedding, but
said for her; They are two foolish
young persons. They got married on
the quiet, and we knew nothing abb 1t
it until few days ago. Rose is
young and he is a mere boy. have
lot of sewing to do for her You
know girls need a lot of sewing for
anything like this, and am one of the
! old fashioned kind who believe in hav-
ing it done at home. They will go
to housekeeping soon, and | must get
/ the sewing done, so you will excuse
me, Marriages like that seem to run
/ in our family, for my son went away
and came back with a wife"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

The end of the engagement of Oscar
Hill and Miss Morrison came last
Monday when the inteaded groom died
at Bethesda hospital of appendicitis
The stricken man was taken i'll two
weeks ago, but the nature of his af-
Fiction was not known at first His
physicians held out assuring hopes to
the anxious man and the more anxious
young woman, who was constantly at
his bedside to attend him.
Finally. his condition not improving
ne was advised to 90 to the hospita.
The exact state OF his condition was
carefully kept from the solicitous
young woman, and she was told that
he would be out of the hospital entire
ly well before the day set for the we'd
ding. Preparations. therefore, were
carried on, and as the day drew near
everything was in readiness.
Monday, however. came a fatal re
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

lapse, and all that his physicians
could do for him was of no avail. In
the evening he died, while his intended
BRIDE was putting the finishing touches
to the gown she vas to have worn at
her wedding.
Gently the sad news of the death of
her intended husband was broken to
the Inflated girl. So Frustrated was
she by the news that she was carried
to her bed, where she was carefully
attended by sympathizing friends. She
recovered sufficiently to be present at
the funeral.
A Cincinnati couple feared the things
which their kind and energetic friends
might have planned for them Willigm
Hickey and Miss Minnie Savage
lodged the rice throwing and other
outbreaks customary on the festive
marriage occasion by hiding their get
away clothes in some part of the city
not yet known, stealing away from
their friends, dressing at this I'M
known spot and leaving for parts un.
known on some unknown train, The
friends still are standing about the
house with shoes and rice in their
hands waiting for some one to show up
at whom they can fire the partlns
shots.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Miss Bessie McNeal of Wayne, Neb.,
also had peculiar sort of wedding
She escaped from Wayne in boys
clothing with Henry A. Blunt and
was married at Sioux City in the
presence of her stepmother and all her
relatives. The getaway in boys
clothing was just to add a dash of TO
nance to the affair. They had been
caught on the runaway by their step
mother and had been brought back to
Wayne. There every thing was tallse
over and it was agreed to permit thS
marriage So the wedding party set
out for Sioux City and there the mar.
riage took place. The bride wore her
hair tied with a ribbon and hanging
down her back.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Don't you think Mrs. Ka Filippe
has such a winning way?"
Yes. happened to be miyel up in
game OF bridge with her night be,
fore last. wonder if Ia Filippe finds
it necessary to do anything for liv.
ing chicago Record-Herald.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

He-There's something | want you
to make for my birthday present.
She-Why, I've already made your
birthday present. | sent it to you yes
terday.
He-Yes. got that; now | want you
TO make diagram showing what it's
to be used for-Catholic Standard and
Times.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Mrs Mulcahey crushing in)-Doc-
tor, Doctor dear! my little son Pat has
swallowed a mouse. What in the world
is to be tone?
Doctor (Grufly1 "a
mouse. has he? Well, go back home
and tell him to swallow a cat.-San
Francisco Wasp.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

Jacob S. Rosenthal OF Cincinnati
went about his cCurtship in a strange
way. He represents a New York
house, and in the course of his travel
ing stopped at Indianapolis. He used
The telephone on numerous occasions
and fell in love with the voice of the
telephone operator. He proposed mar
riage over the telephone and was ac-
cepted.
The two made an appointment to
meet and look at each other They
We're not disappointed. They decided on
an immediate marriage and at o'clock
in the morning hunted up Magistrate
Stout at his home, reused him out os
bed, and had tho ceremony performed
the magistrate in his night garments
The father of the groom took the
matter philosophically and said that
his son was old enough to take care
of his own heart as well as his purse
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
Lights and Shades Of Love.

a marriage license. The bride prompt
ly did what all selt-respecting brides
would have done. She tainted. The
bridegroom left other persons to
bring her back to life while he hit the
pike for the license Office again.
There is now in the clerks office a
detached certificate pinned to the stub
Of the hunters license book, and
across the face ir red ink is written:
Cancelled; not needed"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

VIM. /. BUsH-Cashier First National
Bank.
r. c. BoNNEY-Insurance Solicitor.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
Notice of Stockholders Meeting.

Notice rs hereby gwen that special
meeting oi the stoc, holders of the TYPO
Mines AMI Tunnel pmpany will be held
at the Office of said company in the city
OF Idaho springs. on the 2Ist day of
March, A. D. 1893, At the hour of two
O'Clock in the af ernoon of said day, for
the purpose of making the following
amendn ents to the articles of incorpor-
alton of said company, to-wit:
/. BY amending article or paragraph
First" OF the articles of said incorpor-
alton so that the same will read as fol
lows:
First-"The corporate name and style
of our said company shall be The Ster-
ling Gold, Silver and Copper Mines and
Tunnel Company"
4. By amending article or paragraph
"Third'' of said articles of incorporation
so that the same will read as follows:
Third-"The capital stock of our said
incorporation is one million five hundred
thousand dollars, divided into 1900 900
shares of the par value of one dollar
(SI.oo) for each share, and said stock
shall be fully paid up and non-assessable.
Dated this and day of March, A. D.
1903.
H. E. GARMAN,
President of The Typo Mines
and Tunnel Company.
FRED G. SHAFFER, Secretary 1t
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"Jerkily Good.

eyes, Julia is good-usually,' said
a young girl who was running over
a list of acpuaintances in search of
n who might be able and willing to
help in some work she had under
taken. eff it happened to appeal to
her in just the right way and right
mood, she would be the best help, but
that is what one never can be sure
of with Julia. She is so jerkily
good"
She laughed a little over the
phrase that came to her lips, but it
was an apt description. There is a
great deal of goodness-real good
ness in its way-that goes by fits,
starts, and jerks, and canont be de-
pended upon to run steadily or
smoothly. It's possessors sometimes
wonder why others do not confde in
them more, why their aid is not of
tener invoked in causes they are will
ing to help. They know themselves
to be kind-hearted and well-meaning,
but their prejudices and unreason-
ableness, like their better impulses,
are jerky, and no one can be quite
sure which will be uppermost. It
may be- the chill or the fever which
has the ascendency, and, since feel
ling the pulse at long range is impos-
sible, the timid let them alone.-Well-
spring.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05
Scotch Sense.

An Englishman and-a Scotchman
were disputing over the relative mer-
it's of Shakespeare and Burns.
|And ye say, do .ye, thot Billy
Shakespeare was a greater mon than
Robbie Burns? 2"
eyes, [ do; hand hevery Hinglish-
nan knows hit"
"But ye say thot it was Shake
speare who said, Uneasy lies the
head thot wears a Groom"
Certainly hit was Shakespeare.
Robbie Burns could never ave said
that"
MOO, moo; Robbie Burns would
never haze said thot he had over
muckle~ sense to say a thing like
thot."
Cover muckle sense, man! What
do you mean?"
"Yis, yis; Robbie Burns would haze
kent that on'y king would haze ta'en
his Groom off and hoong it on the
back of the chair before lying doom.
You forget thot Robbie was a Scotch
man."-Tit-Bits.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05


A f~avorite story of John W. Hen
ry, at one time Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Missouri, and
whose death was announced last
week, related to his former law part
ner, J. B. Hovey, of independence,
Missouri.
During Mr.. Henrys-absence from
home Mr.. Henry called, and to the
servant, a rather dense, old negro,
who had been in the family for years.,
MI. Hovey said:
please say to your master that
Mr.. j. B. Hovey, attorney at law,
called to see him"
The servant received the message,
and apparently made clear mental
note of it. When his master return
ed, the darkey informed him that a
visitor had called during his absence.
who was it," he was asked.
The old darkey shook bis head,
"'Fore God, Massa Henry" he said,
solemnly, "the gemmen say he wuz
Great Big Jehovah, Eternal God!"
The Pilgrim.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05

heartily with the woman, and turn
ing to the philanthropist said:
"EWhy, Hiram, I'm glad to see you
and your wife again
elbows this9 asked one of the
contributors. rs that woman your
wife?
eyes, drawled the philanthropist.
"EWhat right have you to collect
money for your wife, demanded sew
eral.
"'What right have 7 to collect
money for any other fellows wifeg
was the retort hal closed the de-
bate"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05
Acting Within His Right.

Alfred Hemenway, of Boston, the
law partner of ex-Secretary Long,
tells this story: "a poorly dressed
woman sat alone in a railway sta
ton. Attention was called to her by
a man, who exclaimed, Here's a poor
woman who has no ticket to her. des-
tination. I'll chip in 10 cents for
her. Who'll helpY Presently he had
a hat full of coin, and announced:
'She has more than her fare, but not
enough for a shawl. She needs a
shawl; I'll chip in a quarter foF~that.'
Again he made the round and again
announced: she ought to have a
bonnet. I'll chip in half a dollar for
the bonnet When he had made the
rounds the third time, a new conner
entered the station, shook hands
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05
The American Emigration into canads

The American Emigration into Canada.
"Americanizing The Canadian
Northwest" by William R. Stewart,
in the April Cosmopolitan, is one of
the most important and timely arti-
/ cles that has recently appeared in
the magazines. That, in the last two
years, over sixty thousand American
farmers have crossed the Dominion
line, and entered a new and undevel-
oped country, over which flies a for
eign flag, has caused the newspapers
of the country to publish comments
Of establishment and prophecy. Nj
grafton has so long been directed into
the United States that this tendency
to emigrate is giving the nation an
inexperienced sensation. But it is
due to no lack of patriotism on the
part of the new home-seekers. They
are carrying their Fourth-of-July
spirit with them, and thrift, indus
try and Yankeeism is Americanizing
the Canadian Northwest. Not the
least interesting feature of this
Northwest emigration, which is sure
to greatly increase during this year
and the next few years to come, is
the cause of it all. 1t is not geId1or
valuable metals that invite these peo-
pie to the Northwest, but the abund-
ant fields of waving golden grain.
The agricultural possibilities of this
vast dominion promise even greater
futures for the home-seekers there
than did the boom days of Dakota
some twenty years ago. This article,
graphically written by Mr.. Stewart,
and profusely illustrated, exhibits in
a most attractive way the truest and
most substantial kind of American
expansion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05

Lesser things will drop out as the
hand closes upon the larger duty or
the greater blessing, just as the hand
that reaches out to grasp the great,
strong oak let's go it's hold on the
blade of grass it had gathered
Phillips Brooks.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05

In
and hal the well-water was liable
to be contaminated by surface drain
age.
THE DANGEROUS MOSQUITO.
The space at my disposal will per-
NIT only a word with reference to the
prevention of malarial fevers, which
are so prevalent in many parts of
the country, and which are the prin-
cipal cause of sickness among the
rural population in certain regions.
We now know that these fevers are
due to a blood-parasite which is in
troduced into the circulation of man
by a certain species of mosquito.
We also know that this mospito
breeds not only in swampy places,
but in any little pools of stagnant
water, or in receptacles of rain-water
standing about the house.
The ways in which we should COM
bat this pestiferous insect are APP
parent. Drain swampy places in the
vicinity of the farmhouse, fill up or
drain the pools of stagnant water,
and remove all receptacles of rain
water. Pools that cannot be drained
should be treated with crude car
bolic acid, which floats on the sur
face of the water, and kills the larvae
of the mosquito when they come to
the surface to breathe.
The old formula for escaping ma
larial fevers was: Avoid the night
air. The reason for this is now APP
parent-these mosquitoes fly and bite
at night. 1t is hardly necessary to
mention the mosquito-bar as a valu-
able adjunct in enabling those who
reside in s~o-called "malarial regions"
to escape infection by the malarial
parasite.
1t must not be supposed that all
mosquitoes are capable of giving rise
to malarlal levers In man by their
bites. This would be contrary to
common experience, and there are
regions where mosquitoes are album
dant and malarial fevers unknown.
Nor have we reason to suppose that
all individuals of the species which
is concerned I'm the transmission of
the malarial parasite are capable of
communicating the disease. But as
the presence of the parasite in any
particular individual of the species
could only be demonstrated by the
microscope, the safe rule in a mala-
rial region will be to avoid the bites
of all mosquitoes, and to make war
upon them in their breeding-places,
and in the house if they have OBJ
tanned access TO If.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05

When God made love a motive
strong enough to conquer sin, he
embodied it in the life of a man.
Love for the living Christ is the
Condition of our overcoming.