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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
CaIifOrnian'S Luck.

THE luckiest day OF my life was
when I bought box Of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve," writes Charles f. Budahn, Of Tracy,
California. Two 25c. boxes cured me OF an
annoying case of itching piles, which had
troubled me for years and that yielded to
no other treatment" Sold under guarantee
at Prideaux s. Bliss drug store.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
The WORLDS Best Climate

is not entirely free from disease, on
the high elevations fevers prevail, while
on the lower levels malaria is encountered
to a greater or less extent, according to
altitude. To overcome climate affections
lassitude, malaria, jaundice, bilousness,
fever and ague, and general debility, the
most effective remedy is Electric Bltters the
great Alternative and blood purifier; the anti.
dOte for every form Of bodily weakness,
nervousness, and insomnia. Sold under
guarantee at Prideaux & Bliss drug store.
prica 5Op
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Large Shipments of Eggs.

Lancaster Herald: All records
were broken last week when Ats cases
containing 1870 dozen or 172,08O
eggs it may be seen that this is no
small amount of chen fruit" Other
towns report an increase in the eggs
marketed this year. The hen may
eventually supplant the hog as a
mortgage litter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
LEGAL NOTICES.
Fielder & Fielder, Attorneys.
NOTICE OF ORDER FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT
INTERSTATE ESTATE


STATE of Wisconsin, Iowa County Court.
~ sS.-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at special
sgrm 0 OF G Iona county court TO De nGd IN
city of Dodgeville, in said county, on the
10th day of June, A. d. 1908, being the third
Tuesday of said month, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon OF said day, the following matters
will be heard and considered.
The application OF j. p. Weisldrcher, admin
tstratOr of the estate of Elizabeth Ahlers
late of said county, deceased, for the exam
inatiOn and allowance of his administration
account, and the assignment of the residue
OF said estate to such persons as are by law
entitled to the same.
And it is further ordered that public notice
thereof be given to all persons Interested by
publishing copy of this notice for thre e
weeks successfully prior to said day OF hear
ing in the Iowa County Democrat, a weekly
newspaper qblished in said county
By order or the court.
ALDRO jerks, County Judge
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Farm Produce
Hides
Hldes-Groen, per b No. I........ 81 @
Lead. Zirc and Sulphur Ores
Valued Same as Gold.

b. @. Stewart, merchants of
Cedar View, Miss. says: 81 tell my Gus
toners when they buy Il box Of DIR. Kings
New Lille pills they get the worth OF that
much gold In weight is afflicted with consti-
patton, malaria or bIliousness." Sold under
guarantee at Prdeaux & Bliss drug store.
25C
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Notice to Tresspassers.

All persons are hereby notified not
to tresspass, with dogs or otherwise,
upon land owned by me in the town OF
Mineral Point. Tresspassers will be
prosecuted to the full extent of the
law. WILLIAM LEAGUE.
Dated, April 30, 1908.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Pleased With His Success.

Platteville News, May 6: Levi W.
Pollard, candidate for Congress from
this district, was in town Tuesday.
He is making very strenuous cam
paign and is much pleased with the
announcement he is receiving.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Cement Work.

Having put in over 1O,O00 feet Of the
finest cement work in the city, last
year, [ will be ready about May lst to
continue work in the same line. Or
ders promptly attended to. Telephone
227. Joseph L. Jackson.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Wind Mills and Repairing.

I have contracted with two good
companies to sell new mills, and
also rspair old mills in a satisfactory
manner at reasonable prices.
All kinds of we'll drilling.
JOHN J. COLLINS.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Back Injured By Severe Fall.

Dodgeville SunRepublic: Mrs.
Valentine Kramer was painfully in
jured as the result of a fall at her
home last week. She is recovering
slowly.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14

To relieve constipation, clean out
the bowels, tone and strengthen the digest
i've organs put them in natural condition
with HOLSTERS Mountain Tea, the most
reliable tonic for thirty years. 80 cents,
Tea or Tablets Meserole & Horn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Well Drilling.

Having had twenty seven years eX-
periance we are prepared to do Well
drilling or prospect work.
S. T. Horne.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
The John Tredinnick Home

in the south part of the city is for
sale at very reasonable price. In
quire at the Democrat office.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Will Teach in Dodgeville.

Republican, ournal: Miss Shirley
Osborne of Dodgeville, who has been
instructor in the Kindergarten of the
public schools in Darlington the past
two years, has accepted similar po-
sition in her home schools for the
coming year. Miss Osborne has been
very successful in her work and her
resignation is generally regretted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14

carefully and easily by the Mineral
Point Dray Line by aid of their fine
new machine for that purpose.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
House Cleaning

has come and don't forget to buy your
Alabastine, Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Brushes and Wall Paper at Ivey's
Pharmacy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14

HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea
tones the stomach, stimulates the lazy liver;
strengthens the bowels and make their ac-
tion easy and natural. The best tonic for the
whole system. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
Meserole & Horn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14

Her hand this man could not get,
His health was not as it should be,
He had not used the ''best as yet"
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
MeserOle & Horn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Painting and Paper Hanging.

PaIntlng and PapeT Hanging.
1 am prepared to do painting and
paper hanging in satisfactory man
ner. [ have also a line of 1000 Sam
pies of Wall Paper. Phone 374.
JOSEPH c.. STENDEBACH.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
F. 3. BREWER, NJ. d.,

on record In his book II, 500 PEOPLE. No
announcement without prospect Of success Are you
satisfied with your you gaining? II you
remain with home physician If you are not recover
ing your satisfaction call DR.. Brewer ana
wonderful results from and original method
Over 1880 recorded
on my case show the results obtained No matter
complaint matter how long you have been
many doctors have treated try my meth
cd once 1t never falls there is possibility OF
cure and the directions fully followed lncurable
not accepted unless the patient understands it.
Delays are dangerous When others fail let us explain
roathod We Drug Principle from
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Seeds that will GROW
Pianos Moved

can be purchased at Ivey's Pharmacy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14


o.
price
he u. S. Mineral Point, May Is, 1908.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
AVON INCUBATORS AND BROODERS

Manufactured at Darlington, Wis, by
Sold on easy terms.
operation can be seen at Badger Hotel
from Blewett's Commission house.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14

the AVON POULTRY CO., of years
Satisfaction guaranteed. Sample IL
Commerce St., Mineral Point across
KEYS & RASMUSSEN, Agents.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14
Flour and Grain.
Butter and Cheese

Butter-BOll, per b ....... ....... 20
Good dairy In tubs. ........ 20
Creamery, per b....... $500. 30
ft.,o,, 49, n, ~
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-05-14

Come into Office and seee machine at work,
let send you one on thirty days free trial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
About Persons
THE FOOTBALL FETISH.
J. B. Knox of Anniston is in the city

From the New York World. President Eliot in his arragnment of exaggerated college athletics" makes out an especially strong case against foot ball.
 It is, he says, the least useful of games for physical training for the reason that fewer students are fit for it than for other sports. The bodily and mental qualities football calls for are not directly service able to young men who have their way to make in intellectual pursuits. It is a sport the student cannot keep up after he leaves college.
 Football, of course, has ethical uses which forbids its complete abolishment by colleges. Like prize fights between the crews of battleships, 1t settles beyond debate questions of supremacy which can be settled in no other way. The eleven is college pretorian guard which must be maintained to uphold alma mater against any charge of mollycoddling. This necessity President Eliot appears to recog- nize in favoring two intercollegiate con- tests every season in each branch of sport
 But it is well to have the delusion dis pelled that the rush-line is the nursery of greatness. A Harvard student who boxed indifferently is president, and the former captain of varsity crew is said to be slated for secretary of war Where are the halfbacks of yester-year?
 The present popularity of rowing at Harvard is hopeful sign of undergradu- ate sanity in sports. Rowing has fur nished England with many of its public men. It comes within President Eliots category of sports which are useful to any healthy man until he is e0." so do tennis and golf. which ambassador and supreme court justices play. Is not the reward of membership in the tennis cabinet to be preferred to the transient honors of football fame?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
Coolers and Ground Peas.

Tony Jerrico is a longtime citizen of Birmingham, the man who for years has catered to the appetites of the pedestrians along Nineteenth street. Tony is not only the friend of allathe children, but he is an authority on certain matters relating to Birming- ham.
 One of these questions is the change in the likes and dislikes of the gen. eral average of public palates and this is especitlly true with reference to peanuts.
 "I have noticed" he said, that the demand for goobers is increasing every day. It was not many months ago when the market was crowded, but while the sale of fruits and confections has fallen off goobers still forge to the front.
 "The cultivation of the ground pea has improved wonderfully, and while before people were content to munch away on green peanuts, they are be- coming more and more attached to the taste and noursh ment of the parched peanut. I hear this report from quite a number of sources"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
THE PEDIGREE OF A RAIL.

Y rOHl lHe NeW 1O1k WOrlQ.
 For six months a committee of Pennsyl- vania railroad officials have been testing steel rails. Ten thousand tons of an ex- perimental order having turned out well, the specifications now become standard The rails have new cross-section and must be drawn from sound jngots They must contain carefully limited percentages of carbon and silicon. Manganese is re- quired in Bessemer rails, but not in open hearth steel and more than one-thou- sandth part of phosphorus throws out the order.
 These Investigations might strike an old time railroad man as fussy, but they save money and passengers lives. In the earlier days wooden rails were tried in this coun- try, though not in England. Next came the wooden rail with an iron strap laid on top. This wore better, but the strap had way of working loose at one end, curling up into a "nggerhead' and in truding through the floor of car The al-iron rail was necessary.
 In the rapid expansion of railroading before the civil war iron rails of almost any pattern were used Gradually, with the introduction of the stronger steel the rail was made higher and of something like standardized shape, growing in weight from 30 to 90 pounds yard
 Evolution leaves the rail of today with a broad, thin bearing base, sloping grad ually up to the shank, which is thin, tall and of nearly uniform thickness cdrving sharply into the base at the bottom and more gradually into the top, which is a carefully shaped curve nearly flat on top and contains the larger part of the ma terial. The great problem of rail design is to save metal from the base and shank, without making them weak, to put into the bearing surface. The chemical com position which will keep rails from be- coming brittle .c'., much pounding IS d subject of equally anxious inquiry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
EYn0riS and ImnOrtS

Exports in March last were about $20,000,000 less than they were in March of last year, and the exports of April will also be less than they were one year ago, but imports are also de- creasing, and in March the invisible balance of trade in our favor was $52,- 000,0O0. There will be in the present month like balance, for imports are decreasing as well as exports.
 But despite these balances on paper, gold is going out and no one knows how much will go out, or why it goes out It seems to be going because Paris bankers want gold and money is accumulating in New York. Not in ten years have the banks in New York held so much money, their suplus re- serve standing on Saturday last at $53,- 256,000. The congestion of money in New York leads to low rates for call money and this in turn leads on to gold exports. Secretary Cortelyou pro- poses, it is reported, to reduce the money congestion by calling in $50,- COOL 900 or whereabouts now deposited in national banks in New York. The remedy is unobjectionable, and if it would prevent gold exports it would be commended by the country at large.
 But just why gold should go out when in even these dull months we are selling to the outside world about $50,- 000,000 more month than we buy from it, is simply something that defies definite analysis and statement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
TurkeyS In Bibb County
strikes.

The evidence that game birds are increasing in number in this state accumulates. The administration of the new law by State Game and Fish Commissioner John H. Wallace, Jr., is whooping success, and just so long as Mr. Wallace stays in office that long at least will the state gain in fish and game birds.
 The latest bit of evidence comes from Bibb county. From Centreville, the capital and heart of Bibb, comes a report that wild turkeys are becoming numerous-so numerous that the wild gobblers are hoodooing the enslaved hens of the farm yards until the latter hear The Call of the Wild, and depart to return to captivity and domesticity no more This is distressing, and there is no remedy, for in the closed season the wild gobblers must not be shot or trapped or otherwise molested
 At first thought it might seem inn probable that the domesticated hen turkey could soar away to distant for ests at the first call, but stranger things than this have happened in this world, and the reader need not hesitate to accept the story of Centreville. It comes well authenticated all along the | line.
 In all readiustments there are losses as well as gains, and the Bibb county farmer will no doubt philosophically accept his loss in view of greater gains to the state at large Commissioner Wallace has inaugurated reform of no small proportions and value. He is filling the state with game birds, in- cluding some big, wild, amorous turkey | gobblers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21

branches of the Warrior at point abreast of Birmingham and but Is miles from it,
 Were the river opened and the Lake Borgne canal nationalized, the contest with Pittsburg would be begun at once over the furnishing of New Orleans with coal. That city consumes and sends away in bunkers 100000 tons of coal year, and today that amount is brought from mines 2200 miles dis tant in barges at lower transportation rates than the railroads are willing to wheel it from this district, a distance of 800 miles. Nor is this all, for the barge is placed alongside the ship that needs coal. and the cost of handling is thus reduced to minimum. This IS why Pittsburg controls the New Or clans coal market.
 Pittsburg will meet a competitor at New Orleans provided the Lake Borgne canal can be nationalized, and it is but a matter of money. The sub ject is one that deserves careful atten- tion in this district, for the time is fast approaching when there will be slack water navigation all the year round in the Warrior
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
Lake BOrgne Canal

The naturalization of the Lake Borgne canal will necessarily become a feature of the navigation advantages of this district, and Congressman Un- derwood, always first in the field of development, is moving in the matter. While the government is providing all. the-year-round navigation in the War. rior he hopes to secure the betterment of barge navigation through Missis. sippi sound and the Lake Borgne canal to New Orleans.
 The true plan to be followed is the standardization of the Lake Borgne canal. This can be accomplished at a moderate cost, and when this is done there will be secure inland navigation for barges and tow-boats all the way from the heart of this district to New Orleans, or rather there will be in 1911, when the river is to beG opened to the function of the Mulberry and Locust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
The hearts meteors tilting in the face,
 Comedy of Errors.
Denver and Chicago

In about eight weeks the republicans will meet at Chicago, and in about 12 weeks the democrats will assemble at Denver.
 Just about $50 delegates out of the 98O delegates that will answer the roll call at Chicago, have been elected, and the War Secretary has secured pro- portion of the selected delegates that renders his nomination beyond reason able question. Last week he bagged 24 delegates in Minnesota, and he as rapidly becoming an easy winner There are, it is true, many contests, but Taft promises to carry majority of the northern delegates, and the con tests will melt away under the glare O, his heavy vote outside of the favor ite-son states. He has nearly all of the delegates elected in the non-son states. Ee is to be the republican nominee
 Minnesota will send to Denver John son delegates, and little Delaware will send Gray delegates, despite the pro- tests of Judge Gray himself It is pretty nearly just to say that the Ne braskan will have the support of all the delegates. When New York votes as unit she will support Bryan. So will Pennsylvania. So will New Eng land. It is idle to talk or to anticipate otherwise.
 It is to be Bryan versus Taft in No vember, and Wall street will be found lined up at that time against the hon esteEsoducers of the country. But be cause Wall street won in 1896, 1900 and 1904 it does not by any means fol low that it can buy an9ther election in 1908. It bought a gold brick in 1904, and there may be some of the trusts and magnates who will not put their money on Taft this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
MISTRESS OF THE NILE.

From Harpers Magazine.
 One famous figure stands out in the hs- tory of Egypt and the Nile, giving river, country and seaport a lasting charm. All along the river, from Phiae, above all at Dendera, the shores are personal with the recollections of the woman than whom no queen was ever more brilliant whose charm, seduction, wit and human fascina- ton have been made immortal by the masterpieces of the world. Antony as did her subjects, called her Egypt. And the country, whose shape is a lotus, whose emblems are the serpent and the papyrus, is instinct with the grace of this Empress. Alexandria, her capital and playground, was garden, a pleasure park for her, a banquet hall where beside her on her couch Mark Antony delivered up Caesar. Italy, fame and honor into her beautiful hands, giving all the treasures of his life that she might dissolve them in the wine cup from which he drank to her In Alexandria, Cleopatra's S temples filled the squares; through the streets at night, touching elbows with Roman, Greek and Egyptian, with slave and noble, the Queen and the mad Antony made sport of the etiquette that hedges royalty. Here, where she had originally bewitched Caes- ar, she held Antony, until kingdoms and his old glories were nothing to him. and here in Alexandria she lifted him, defeat ed broken, into his tomb; and here be- side him, she herself died So intense IS the cartouche that Cleopatra has left on Egyptian history and on this marine city that the ugly hustle of commerce where Jews, Greeks and Egyptians fight today for stocks and bonds and land specula- and forgotten as the old capital rises like a mirage on the edge of the desert and, as one thinks of Cleopatra, shines again with something of Its old glory The Queen pink obelisks tone of which is now in the New York Central park, are seen agair in their old place, and the shouts and cries tremble upon the air as the people call to her. Cleopatra is going to Cydnus in the golden barge hung with purple The people kiss the ground her feet have trod; she is goddess; she Is Isis-Hathor she is Empress of Upper and Lower Egypt Mistress of the Nile. But she is above alr else, woman whom Antony has named his Serpent of Old Nile" Her ship puts out for sea, and the seaside crowded with citizens is black like a pail As she sails away the heart of Egypt goes with her, and the great river and the land have in all their history no more sumptuous memory than the memory oi hpr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-21
READY TO DIE.
Eccentric Bachelor Has Built His
 Tomb of Granite.

Waterbury (Conn.) Dispatch to New York
 World.
 Now that he has the whiskers on his monument brushed straight, his tomb well stocked with whisky and cigars and a proper inscription graven on the granite, Phineas Gardner Wright, Putnam's rich est and oldest bachelor, says he can con- template the end with calmness and satis- faction.
 MT Wright is 79 years old and worth something oyer $2o0,OOO. This sum. he says he has accumulated by strict attention to details not trying to know too much, and consistently suspecting all women. Following out the programme which has made him successful, MT. Wright has superintended the erection of his own monument. and he has inscribed thereon: Going but know not where Under this is the more definite nformation: Never beat by man. but by woman"
 The Wright monument is the show place of the Putnam cemetery. It is solid granite block bearing on it's top bust of the man who is to lie under it. The bust is a faithful likeness, even to the stone whiskers now trimmed in goatee fashion. The sculptor who did the work was an irresponsible person with effe- minate ideas. He parted -1r Wright's whiskers at the middle in the original work This made MT. Wright angry and he paid another sculptor $500 to brush out the stone whiskers straight. This work brought the total price up to $S6OO but MT. Wright didn't care. In the tomb near by MT. Wright has placed ample supplies of whisky and cigars.
 1 don't want the boys who are burying me to feel too badly" he exclaimed. T want them to have a little something to keep them cheerful. Nobody can say I'm stingy." He has also engaged the Putnam silver cornet band to play at his funeral.
 MT Wright's Going, but know not where,' has stirred up a lot of trouble particularly among theologians, some of whom have written him abusive letters. He is still hale and hearty