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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04

is busy with designs illustrating the frailty of the New Years resolutions of 1907
 The woman who lives in the hall bedroom Is perhaps to ba pardoned for throwing away her holiday cards, keeper 1t is different. How would 1t do to have a calendar room. where the handsomest of each years art al- manacs are preserved in picturesque grouping around the walls? Some of these calendars are like rare paintings The Puritan Maiden" published at the beginning of 1901. The girls face is so beautiful in her plain puritan cap and dress that one who could throw 1t away must have AGtle sense of the artistic. am not ashamed to con- fess that on New Years day. 190ts "Ine Puritan Maiden" was put against the wall of my best room and there sne is now, though meantime her proud owner has moved twice, but each time that treasure has been carefully packed and carried along, to brighten and make homelike the new residence.
 There are also exquisite rose calen- dars and rich purple and violet and white pansy calendars. One of 1905 was decorated throughout wiln pale blue forgetmenots, a poem and a re- membrance in one. Keeping each time the prettiest and most artistic of the art calendars would make a history of the years of ones life We could look back over them and remember that on such New Years day we were in this place or that or certain friends were with us. The calendar room would be unique in decoration. An the stories they would tell!
 Christmas and other holiday cards and the tourist picture cards may be placed in albums and so kept Fifty years hence the girls of today will be grandmothers, youthful grandmothers, of course, but If 1t Is possible for them to begin now and preserve the choicest of the picture cards they get, especial Iy the comic ones, they will transmit to their grandchildren a rare treasure. The collection will be at once a re- cord of the progress of American civil lization and humor and especially of American slang for half a century. Cards and calendars will be a history of art language, politics and fashion, as well as dear mementoes of those who cared for us.
 Katherine Blades.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04

which happened to be railway wat ing room.
 It was nice and warm in there, but his wearing apparel was not exactly suited to the company, and if the door keeper should see him he would put him out But he was going to ge. warm the little while he would be in there.
 Over in one corner of the room prosperous looking sport was counting roll of bills. so Dubbins got nearer and when the man put the bills in his pocket he deftly fished the roll oa+ and was making off with 1t when Il cop grabbed him and made him giSc them up. The officer seemed to think 1t q good joke that some one was clever enough to pilfer the roll from the sport, but the doorkeeper spie.i Dubbins and uncerenonlously elected him from the place.
 He came across bakers window, displaying a tempting collection of pastry. He bethought himself of his five cents piece and walked in like 9 prince and called for some burs. They would stem his hunger little just little. It whetted his appetite immensely to see the woman sprinkle sugar over the toothsome bits of pa5- try. out when he put his hand in h's pocket there was hole In it. He | had lost his nickel. hence no buns. l Dubbins was getting desperate now. | It seemed as If the bangs of hunger were eating like acid into his stom- ach: just as the snow was pitilessty benumbing his tired feet.
 | Passing a church he stopped to lis- l ten The organ was playing Nearer My God. to Thee" and the choir wss l singing softly. He edged a little near 1 CT to the church, and finally sat down on, the steps. great tears yelling to his bleary eyes.
 The rythmical and beautiful har- mony of the grand old hymn touched his heart strings as they had never been touched before, and the tears ran riot over his weather tanned 7rd blackened face, as he tried to stem them with his dirt-begrimed fingers. The song brought back to him tie old days when he knelt at the feet of his dear old mother. and heard that sweet hymn from her lips while To repeated his evening prayers. That was long, long ago. The fleeting breath ot death had claimed that dear cd mother. and her boy had wandered from the paths of righteousness into which she had guided him, and he was now tramp, a nobody.
 He was happy in those old days, when he had gloried In the caresS Of that sweet old mother, and an 0ver- whelming desire to come back to the paths of righteousness and lead m honest and clean life seized him. He would make a man Of himself from this moment on, for the memory of that dear old mother was still dear to him. and in the future he would never do anything that he was ashamed for her to see.
 His tear-stained face Deaming with this new resolve. he arose and de- termined to face the world as a new man, but just then a heavy hand was laid on his shoulder and a rough voice said: Come with me; you'll bet two months at the Island" for loafing around here" and with shake a burlI policeman marched him of to tlc
 station.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
TIE IRONY OF FATE.
Ry Charles E. Perkins. 1906, by Daily Story Fun

fcopyrlght 1906. by Daily Story fup'
 Col
 snow was falling swiftly. The sn' very flakes iobnobbed with anu e ressed each other on tnei, snrs Sowr a.S night, as if bidding farewell before o.1 mother earth absorbed their hunS hodias, snow robins. their winss aIisteniuR with the downy Hstis particles, were twitting to ana ITO leaving their tiny footprints upon :" spotIess mantle that was faskly e" veicping the bare branches. He few months before the sparrow and ae summer birds had lo1led amid the Iuxuriant leaves and friendly twlgs. A stiffness pervaded the atmosphere' and all the world seemed to resish itself to it's new finery, the nrst sho" of the season.
 A loosely clad figure siouched ooWh Che street, the fading light barely dls- cIosInr his scaut and Inefficient cloth
 nj was cold, dreadfuily cold; and Tauhhins felt it He tried to oplivats its intensity by turning up his tatt'r ed collar and stuffing his oenunoeu hands deep Into his trousers pocKet. But there was no place to pu' m ns feet fo keep them warm, for his sh'es were bottomless, except in rare ptacsA and his feet had become so cold that he scarcely realized he was waikirg
 
 nuhbins had had absolutely .nothtr g to eat that day, and he was conscious of an innate gnRwing in the vicinity of his digestive apparatus.
 There must be an end to all thls. he told himself. as he fingered the i've cents niece in his pocket.
 The great city was throbbing ana pulsatinr with holiday traffic. Dub bins stood in front of Ii large depar' . nent store. and watched the shoppers as thev passed fii and out; all wiih bundles and presents for Christmas tide. Everybody was happy. gay ard aglow with the anticipation Of the ap- preaching holidays. Everybody eS- cept Dubbins.
 1t did not seem just right to h'm that these people should have car- riaxes, automobiles and plenty or money while he--welL ne had nick el. He took the coin out of his pocket and looked at it long, hard. earnestly. This nickle would not get him sur- per. and if any one was ever truly hungry, and needed a good. substah- . tial supper, that man was Dubbins on that December evening. policeman walked up, gave him prod with h's stick, and told him to move along.
 He passed a window lit up by n glowing fire and paused moment to steal glance into tne cozy little room. The steaming coffee, potato ea, and the savory smell or beefsteak. in- vttinglyf spread on the table. seemed to him a second paradise. But this was not for him, and, more wretcheh than ever, he shambled Gimlessly up the street.
 Of a sudden a bright thought oc- cured to him. The prisoners over Ut
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
Our Daily Sport Story

the Island" were kept comfortable and the fare, even if 1t were the worst wound quench that fire that was bur- ing in his stomach. and keep him from starving. He would only have to com init some little offense to become an inmate there.
 He thought over all sorts of schemes but none seemed to insure immediate arrest and subsequently, a warm place to sleep and something to eat. Dun- bins had concluded that unless he secured these very soon this mundane sphere would be minus one denizef..> Not that it mattered much to the world, because he had never done anythingg that he could remember, Of any conse- Quence. he had never worked; but 1t mattered quite a good deal to ore Dubbins. the tramp.
 He passed a florist shop. with . bicycle outside. Here was his chance arrested. then he would be sent to the Island" So he took it. But after having ridden some dozen squares without being stopped by an officer. he threw the bicycle in an araeway and walked on.
 Dubbins was trudging along at $ brisk rate to keep warm when he saw a pocketbook lying on the steps of Il respectable looking residence. If he had ever hustled before in his life. Dubbins certainly did hustle to that pocketbook.
 He lost no time in opening it. and | his eyes had just become riveted on . f fifty dollar note, when a woman. hys- 1 terical from fright, rushed out of the door and snRtched the wallet from his l hand. and was so glad upon recover | ing her property that she forgot to reward or even thank him. 1 At the next corner he come upon some men admiring large glass window. He picked up a large stone l and flung it through the center of tho | glass. A policeman hurried up and
 took Dubbins into custody, but after walking a square with him he releas-
 ed him. saying he was not sure he was the. offender. Dubbins did not
 thank him for his release. and the officer muttered something about ur-
 gratefulness
 Dubbins walked on disconsoIately. cursing fate. and the laxity of the
 law.
 But now he saw his chance. the chance he had been waiting for all | that evening. A little way up thc street was a jewellery store with n , glittering array of gold and silve" Directly in front of the window stood prompous looking policeman. Dubbins hurried up with cobble :, stone in his hand and mashed tho window; took out everything in It anG . started to walk off with them. As h ]
 scrambled out of the window the
 officer walked up to him and whis- | pered: That's all right; your pal 1 gave he fifty. I'm not looking" Dubbins growled, set the stun down
 on the pavement and s1ouched on Tp the street in disgust The officer had
 mistaken him for somebody else. 1 Darkness had settled over the citS
 now and the snow was falling fast .r' so he lodged in the nearest doorway.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
ny N.ae.REr E. sANGsTER.

fcopyright, 1906, by Joseph $. bowiesl
 I heard Louise declare the other day that she hated to write letter' and that she put of the unwelcome task as long as she could. Nellie, With whom she was talking, agreed that writing letters was a bore, but added that for her part she dearly loved to receive them Well, most of us do. When the postrnan comes in the morn ing it Is a pleasure to find that he has brought you a letter from the girl who visited you last summer or your cousin at Yale. or your favorite uncle whose letters are a little old-fashioned, but who at Christmas, Easter. and birth days. proves himself a generous friend
 One always feels satisfaction at be ing remembered by the absent If one is away from home. the malls are eagerly watched for letters from fath- CT and mother. arfd the rest of hte dear home group. It Is wonderful how fast and how safe are the trains that carry the letters with the little red stamp af- fixed, to show that Uncle Sam Is re- sponsible for their rapid transit. Only a thin slip of paper and a little gum protect 1t from the world. but the let ter with its story of home-life. its check from papa, it's little love gift from mamma goes flying from New York to South Dakota, or from Boston
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
Twelfth Night.

Last of the wassail nights.
 Wholesomely merry, Still on the mistletoe
 Clings the white berry; Stil1 are the apples red,
 Brown is the ale; Feast of our Saxon sires.
 Hail and all hail! Bring forth the boar's head,
 Bring forth the Rhenish; Tankards that melt away,
 Haste to replenish: Lift on the stoutest log;
 Loud be the laughter. Until the sound of mirth s& IT. Shake wall and rafter. Call back the sturdy days
 When hearts of oak Beat to the lifting strains
 We now invoke: Call back the hearty days
 When squire and yeoman Feasted the home-returned
 Pikemen and bowmen. Masuues in the Temple hall.
 Staged for the benchers. Wait while the turning-spit
 Heaps up the trenchers-- Wait while the venison,
 Basted with spices, Smokes as the richest
 Of Yules sacrifices. Now Merry Andrew comes,
 Fresh from the morris; Now rustic Corydon
 Trips it with Chloris: Let the soft virginals,
 Answer the tabor: After this wassail night
 Come days of labor. Such were the old delights,
 Rounding the Yule; Where sleeps his majesty
 Lord of Misrult? Stin are apples red,
 Brown is the ale: Feast of our Saxon sires.
 Hall and all haill Charles J. Bayne in the January Critic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04

recently of Dr. Richard Hodgson. Pru- lessor Hysiop says he will accept, pro- vided fund of $25,000 shall be raised in addition to funds already on hand to push forward the society's work. There is little doubt that the amount named will be contributed by those in- terested in the society. Dr. !. K. Funk. of New York, is actively engaged in the matter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04

PhysleiaI Research fin United States.
 Professor James H. Hyslop, of New York, has been offered the position of Secretary to the American branch of the Society for Physical Research, which has been vacant since the death
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
HERE IS ABSOLUTE PROOF

DOCTOR Q. L. GATES, Hancock, Nina, writes: "A little girl here had such a weak back caused could not stand on her feet. The moment they put her down on tho floor she would scream with pains. ttreased ner with sb-DROPSs and today she runs around as well and happy ss can be. xprescrfbe "S-DROPsu for my patients and use 1t in my practice
 DR. g. D. BLAND, Brewton, Ca, writes; sT had been sufferer for a number of years with Lumbago and Rheumatism in my arms and legs, and tried all the remedies that could gather from medical works and also consulted with Q number of the best physicians, but from "SDROPS.n shall prescribe 1t in my practice for Rheumatism and kindred diseases.s
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
HANGING GARDENS OF HELENA

The strangest and most interesting
park project ever undertaken in this
country is to be found at Helena, Mon.
tana," writes John H. Raftery in Tech.
nical World Magazine, where the
citizens are engaged in Transforming
the bald slopes of a conical mountain
which towers nearly 1,400 feet above
the city, into a forest park.
There is no spring, well, brook, or
pond upon the bare sides or rocky sum
mits of this singular park; nor will it
be possible to raise water from the
valley for the irrigation of trees
shrubs, and flowers; yet the expert
foresters of the Federal Bureau who
spent last summer planning for the
planting of the park, are agreed that
several varieties of evergreen trees
will flourish there without water or at.
tendance.
"A spiral foot-path has been graded
from the city to the summit of Mount
Helena, and there an ornate pavilion
has been erected upon the highest
point of rock, 1,400 feet above the
main street. In the cliffs of the
peak there are two spacious natural
caves, which will be tenated by speci
mems Of the native bears, lions, and
other carnivora of these mountains
Parks enclosing herds of deer, ante
lope, moose, elk and buffalo will De
added as the present limits of the
tract are extended upon the desert
lands which lie back of the mountain
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
A Disappointed Man.

Governor Pardee Of California was
talking about a fire insurance agent
who had disappointed him, says the
New York Tribune.
This man." said DR.. Pardee, chad
spoken so generously at first about
the payment of all claims in full that
my disappointment at his later eX
PRECISION was incredibly great.
II was as disappointed as man
who had just returned from a months
vacation. This man got out of the
trains with his bags and valises, AM
with expanded chest trudged
homeward through the hot city, pleas
antly conscious that he looked as
brown as a berry, as hard as nails
in the pink of condition after his LONG
month In the sun and wind
Suddenly he met friend. This
friend shook him by the hand, peerej
hard in his face, and said anXiousiy
Hello! Going out of town for 4
few days, | suppose, from your lug
gage? Well, I'm glad to see it, for
by George, you need a change. You
certainly do look tuckered out. "
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
NEW CORPORATIONS

The Bonita Realty Co, Beloit, CAPT
tai stock SlS.0O0 incorporators, d. II.
Pollock, w. M. Van Lone and Sara Il.
Van Lone.
Granger Manufacturing Co, Milwau-
kee. capital stock $4,000 ncorpora.
tors, Alonzo Granger, Carroll w.
Smith and Arthur j. Dopp.
Illinois Lead & Zinc Co., Chicago,
formed to operate Mt Buncombe, Wis.
consin, with head Office at Galena, CAPT
tai stock $250000, Wisconsin interests
$500 John H. Holden, Buncombe,
Wis, representative for this state.
Emerald Manufacturing Co, Supe.
rior, by w. j, Stack, president, and II.
j, Doulez, secretary, filed an amend
ment increasing the capital stock from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Insurance Commissioner Host has
issud charter to the Aetna Indem-
nifty Co, of Hartford, Conn, to operate
in Wisconsin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
NEARLY THIRTY
LIVES LOST IN
LAKE DISASTER

Wharton, Ont Nov. 28.-The coast
Ing steamer, J. II. Jones, owned by
the II. Crawford Tug company, found.
cred off Cape Cocker Thursday af-
ternoon All hands were lost. The
crew consisted Of IL, all from War
ton, and the number Of passengers
is estimated at 16.
The Jones, which piled between
over sound, Wharton and Manitou-
In island ports, was one of the
siaunchest steamers on the Georgian
b6y and was commanded by Captain
CRAY ord.
Part of the cabin, a life boat and
two unidentified bodies have been
Of tho Christian Islands. The coast
ing boats carry no booking lists, but
the passengers on the Jones probably
include the following.
T. j. Donaldson Of owen sound,
Alex. Lyon and Mrs. Lyon, his
mother,
Mrs. Fox,
Frank Falon,
George Falon,
M. w. Viteson,
Louis Allen.
L. M. Wagg, all OF Tobermiray.
Dan Never of Providence bay and
three unknown men.
The crew includes the following:
Captain j. V. Crawford,
Mate Il. Lennox,
Wheelman W. Ross and George
McErin,
Engineers Charles N. Shaw and
w. Sadler,
Firemen Thomas Simmonds and l..
McVitie,
Deckhands James Tlley and
George Smith,
Cook Frank Jackson,
Assistant Cook M. Clark.
May Reach 40 Dead.
While estimates as to the number
of lives lost In the wreck of the
Jones are as n rule 25 or 26, one re-
port says the list of the dead may
reach II total of 40.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
Ignorance as to Little Thinos.

While this is an age of intellectual
ity and brains and all that sort of
stuff said young business man
yesterday, you've no idea of the alb
solute lack of knowledge of little
things that most of us have. For in.
stance yesterday ! was in converse
ton with friend and, though we
were talking upon some absolutely
irrelevant subject, was startled by
suddenly having him ask me: What
Is the capital of Florida?' 'Tallahas-
see,' | answered, and he thereupon be-
gan to ask me the names of capitals
of state for state | answered correct
ly thirty or more until we came to
Texas. Think as | would | could not
remember the capital of Texas. When
he saw he had me cornered. my
friend told me of the theory he had
that only one man out of every ten
had more than superficial knowl-
edge of these little things. Accord
ing to him | was the eighth man he
had tackled and not one of them
could tell without a break the capt.
tails of all the states in the union. -
Philadelphia Record.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
CANNING CALIFORNIA BREEzEs

California air condensed into liquid
state and packed for export is the lat
est product of the Golden State to APP
pear upon the market" writes Wilbur
Bassett, in Technical World Magazine
1t is now possible to eat California
oranges which have never left Cali
fornia air in their long journey across
the continent, and indeed they may be
served at ones table with a sauce of
the breezes which blow over their ma
tive groves.
A comprehensive plant for the man
ufacture of liquid air and of oxygen
has been erected in the city of Los
Angeles, which is the only plant in
the country manufacturing these prod
ucts on a commercial scale, with the
exception Of a New York plant whose
output is confined to surgical and met
allurgical uses.
Situated in the heart of warm
fruit-growing country, without natural
ice and separated from its chief mar
kets by tremendous stretches of hot
country, the question of refrigeration
of fruit cars is one of the most i'm.
portant which the Californian has to
consider If, as is hoped, the product
of the Los Angeles factory can be
used as successful substitute for
manufactured ice, the market is at
hand, and the new industry is ideally
located. Frulttgrowers, car-buiIders
merchants, shipping agents, and pack
ers await with interest the extended
trials which are now being instituted
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
THINKS "a YEARS AT WAUPUN
SUFFICIENT.
GOVERNOR HEARS CASE
Application of Burkhardt Brahm for
Clemency Considered by Executive
conspired With Woman to Kill Her
Husband-She Died in Pris-
on.

Governor Davidson listened yester-
day to an application for a pardon for
Burkhardt Brahm, who is serving a
life term at the state prison at Wau-
pun for the murder of Henry Seussey.
He was sentenced at Monroe "a years
ago.
The dead mans wife and the sub
ject of the present pardon application
conspired the murder and both were
convicted and sent to prison. The
woman died in prison. 1t is be-
leved that the man has been sulfi-
GENTLY punished for his crime.
He was at that time a green foreign
er and became, it is said, victim of
the wiles of a disconnected woman,
who wanted to get rid of her husband.
The prisoner has developed good quail
tiles during his years in prison and
it is said the reformation had been
complete.
Senator Martin and Assemblyman
Douglas were at the hearing. The
trial was held at Monroe, and was a
great sensation there at that time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-11-29
PEARLS OF THE PACIFIC.

"One of the most curious industries
on the coast of California is the clam
fishery as it is called" says Technical
World Magazine. The claims, how
ever, are very different from the or
binary bivalve of that name, and are
known as abalones. While some Of
them are secured for food, most OF
them are dug up and exposed in racks
on the beach until they die and le-
compose, when they are examined Cor
pearls Some of the pearl which are
found adhering to the interior shell
are of such a fine quality that they
readily bring from 500 to 5000 in San
Francisco and other cities. Pearl
hunting is the vocation of a large num-
Der of people who reside on the Cali
fornia coast in the vicinity of these
clam beds. The jewels are so scarce,
however, that a thousand clans may
be opened without finding a single
pearl; so the vocation is by no
means very profitable"