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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

her printed leaflet copy Of the hymn
saying: I know that this will please
you. He had judged accurately as
to her spiritual and literary taste.
even il he didn't know she had writ
ten it.
Hiss Elliott was born March Is,
1883, at Westfeld Lodge, Brighton,
England. Her maternal grandfather,
two of her brothers and an uncle were
clergymen. She was bred from child
hood to culture and piety. and, like
many another brilliant woman under
high musical and artistic education.
she relapsed into the chronic i'll
health becoming after 1922 q con.
firmed invalid. Her father dying in
In 1888. she turned for occupation and
consolation to writing prose and verse
OF which her pen was most prolific.
despite her physical weakness. An
annual publication, with the odd name
OF The Christian Remembrance
Pocketbook.' passed into her chal &c
and she conducted it for rs years. To
The lnvalid's Hymn Book. published
in 1885, Miss Elliott had contributed
10 pieces. among which was the one
mere given, Just As / Am" In adj
dltlon. she wrote for other publica.
tions.
She had travelled in Scotland. Swift
zerland and Normandy, and in 1S45
sne and her surviving sister went to
tne continent. where at Torquay they
lived for IA years. Then they returned
10 Brighton, where Miss Elliott made
her home until her death in 1871. agsd
%. Inls was great age, considerine
hef innrmities. 1t is said of her thar
az 1our-score she wrote as smoothly
ner illness and snfferings Miss Elliott
and sweetly as ever.
VI her belief in Gods KNOWLEDGE =.
herseir wrote these touching lines.
ne knows, and He alone. what II
Is .day after day, hour after hour. r.
ngnt against bodily feelings If 81.
most oyerpowering weakness. languor
and exhaustion; to resolve not -
vleid to slothfulness, cepressdon and
instability, but to rise every mornina
ue1ermined to take for my motto. II
any man will come after Me. let him
deny himself, take I'D his cross 5o,,,
and follow Me-.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

he exit. begged the doctor to hanS
a. red globe over it. There were abo..
ten of us appendicitis patients in
the one room and it was a circus
when we got discussing our expert
ences. One fat fellow from Yonkefs
had been operated on four times. He
looked like a sieve: The surgeons had
been exploring all parts of him and
finally decided he didn't have any ap-
pendix- He felt worse about this than
he did about the operations offered
him mine, but it was too small for
him. To pacify him I had my prop
erty man make him wooden one For
ten days they feed you soup. 1t
takes an awful lot of confidence to eat
soup with hole in you. / can feel
chicken gumbo coursing through my
veins right NOW"
Here's a good one on myself"
said the cheerful patient. 'NIaybe
you don't know it, but many of the
wig makers and hair merchants in
town get their scenarios at hospitals
When patient has fever and is as
sured that he viii lose his hair he very
often sells it and helps pay his doc
TORS bill Three or four rooms away
from me there was an old musician
who was there with his hair in
braid. When a wig man offered him
sixty dollars for his ringlets l sent GU,
4 f
word that he could have mine Tor fifty.
He came in and looked at my head and
said might have fifty dollars worth
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
PLANNING COMES
BEFORE PLAN ING
WHILE SOIL IS BEING PREPARED
GARDENER CAN ARRANGE
DETAILS
TOO EARLv VET FOR WORK BIT
NOT FOR scHEMlNo

Thoughts of the garden come with
the first sunny days. 1t is not to-
early TO plan now for the garden. and
the success OF next summer will d.
pend on the completeness of the
present planning in a great measure,
or course the soil cannot be worked
yet, but there is much to be done be-
lore that pait of the work need be
given much consideration. A prope,
proportion OF varieties to be grown
should be determined now. and it is
not too early to select SOM, of the
seeds.
The hotbed, in which so many
choice seedlings are beginning To
shoot up will require considerable al.
tention and unless the temperature
is low. the sashes will need raisine
during the middle of every sunny day.
The watering. too, must be regularly
and carefully done.
Weed seeds that were in the earth
VIII start with the choicer plants and
ought to be removed as soon as rec.
ognized, as space and nutrition can
not be afforded these intruders. and.
In wedding and working, care is
taken not to displace any of the la.
bells. 1t is true that vegetables and
fruits do not taste any better, nor ar,
flowers any more beautiful because
the name of each species and variety
is familiar to the grower, but it is
some satisfaction to the latter to he
able to thus distinguish them; and an
other advantage is that almost every
one has some popularity that must
be regarded in cultivation or training.
An almost necessary adjunct to
the hotbed is the cold frame, to which
some rank-growing plants may be re-
moved to prevent too weak land
spindling growth before it is quit !.
safe to plant in the open ground
The cold frame may be made al
most on the surface OF the ground,
and the latter mellowed and fined to
considerable depth, but no bottom heat
VIII pc needed.
Unless the garden plot is on some.
what sloping ground, or has been
thoroughly underdrained, some tenn
porary shallow bitches may be dug
to permit the surplus water to run
off and hasten the time of planting.
1t adds very greatly to the interest OF
gardening to grow one or more vege.
tables or ornamental plants, with
which one has heretofore had no &C.
.qnaintance.
instructions for the cultivation of
these should be strictly followed and
progressive development closely oh.
served in order to ascertain whether
they will prove desirable acquisitions.
and the climate or soil Of any given
locality seems adapted to their best
development, and whether, at the
end of the season. it will seem worth
while to give them a permanent place
IN the garden Or on the lawn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
Only A Governor.

Governor Gilchrist Of Florida. who
was one OF the many Governors ar.
company.ng President Taft ON his 70.
cent trip down the Mississippi mas
discovered a new definition which be
VIII endeavor to have placed in all
OF the standard dictionaries Haro !,
is: :.
1oVernor-A small potato.
At Cape Girardeau | got off the
st Paul expecting to accomnarr
PRESIDENT Taft to the State Norma,
school, he said.
A long line of AUTOMOBILES was
drawn up in the main street and !,
expected to ride in one OF them
.Guess you can't, sa nv escor,
member of the local reception com
mittee. So'Ai
"Why?' / asked.
Well,' he replied, you're only
governor Those machines arc ror
the President, the diplomats and AZ
newspaper men,
We walked
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

most important pfoGuctlOn have ever
made"
You seem to have enjoyed your
enforced retirement"
Enjoy doesn't begin to describe it.
shall be back around the old tow
in a few days now, but wi n yei
forget the happiness of the last three
weeks. It's the best laugh I've he'd
since | went into musical comedy. The
physicians say | made the biggest hit
OF anyone who has played the hos.
pital this season. | was a headliner
ten minutes after got there and right
now have an offer of twenty weeks
on the hospital circuit. 1t was the
most successful illness | h2ye ever
had My other complaints never last
cd more than two days, but this one
enjoyed a run of three weeks. If they
hadn't cancelled me I'd have had my
name on an electric sign outsid that
hospital in another week. AS it was.
spectators we're doing an enormous
business outside the institution.
Cut Out Many Lines.
How did you feel after the sur.
geons got through with your"
I don't mind telling you that felt
cut up. What they did to my libretto
was caution They insisted that thes
had only cut out one OF my lines but
| thought my whole second act had
been 'mutilated. 1t is only small in.
cision, but the second day it felt like
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
INFLUENCE OF THE JEWS.

The Jewish yearbook supplied much
curious and sometimes unexpected In.
formation about small people who,
without country of their own, have
profoundly affected the destinies oil
the world, and still play a part or
Importance altogether out OF proper
ton to their number. The Jewish
population of the world is 1885. 656.
The Jewish population Of the British
Empire is 393,553, and in America IL
Is 1,903,926. Europe has S,892,019,
Asia 4S2.S55, Africa $40, $50 and Aus
tralasia 17,106 Jews. There are more
than ten times as many Jews In New
York as in London. Among the items
Of interest in the book are the fol-
lowing:
There are four Jewish members or
the privy cOuncil--Lord Rothschild,
Arthur Cohen, Herbert Samuel, and
Sir Edgar Speyer-and there are eight
Jewish members of the London county
council, OF whom six are municipal
reformers.
There are 100 Jews in the navy,
including IL officers, and 400 in the
regular army.
The LIST of celebrities with which
the year book closes supplies strik.
ing summary of the work that the
Jew has done for the world in the
last 100 years.
Among the many items of interest
in the book one may select the fol-
lowing:
The Austrian army comprises one
(Jewish) lieutenant field marshall,
three major generals, ten colonies,
eleven lieutenant colonels and seven
teen majors
The French senate now contains
four Jewish members, and the cham
Der of deputies five.
The Italian chamber of deputies
has Ia Jewish members.
Toronto has a Yiddish theater, and
Montreal is acquiring one.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

toes could be raised at a profit. II
mas, however. been discovered tnat
the same crop can be made profita.
be further TO the south and south.
west, and in the counties OF Pisca.
taquss, Penobscot, Somerset, Lincoln.
Waldo, Sagadahoc, Knox and Han
cock the conditions for potato grow
ing have been found similar to those
in Aroostook.
Experimental work has demon-
strated that successful potato raising
in Maine depends principally upon
the plan OF campaign. followed in the
growing; that is, with the soil and
climate as existing. everything rests
upon the ideas adopted in planting,
developing, harvesting and marketing
the crop. 1t is peculiar fact that
only in few sections of the country
can a reproducing tuber be devel.
oped, and Maine IS one OF these. The,
seed potatoes OF the Pine Tree State
are not excelled by those OF any
other region of the United States.
and the demand for them is general
The growers of Florida and Texas.
particularly, while producing large
quantities of potatoes, and the Ma ne
seedlings necessary for continuing
theis crops for successive years. ana
they seek the best of the growths.
The value Of the potato lands in
Maine within the past few years has
been largely enhanced. The report
Just made by the Name Commits
sioner OF Agriculture is authority for
the statement that Presque isle
farm Of 100 acres was sold last tail
for $4,000; another farm bought
twelve years ago for $4,000 was sold
for $4,000, and another farm of 800
acres bought five years ago for Si2,-
500 was this season sold for 100000
A farm of 100 acres bought for 81 .Spt
has been sold for $4,000. Frequent
sales of farms of about this acreage
are made for from $4,000 to SIS 900.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

nINUS his vermiform appendix
but in full possession of ali
his other faculties, Charles
Dillingham; has returned to
his apartment in Sherry's after three
weeks vacation in a hospital.
WAS he nervous about the opera
tion?"
Nervous, nothing" said the surg
con. "On the contrary he was one Of
the Samest men we ever had here.
He started cracking jokes at his own
expense the minate he put his foot
inside the doors. When we told him
everything was ready for the opera
ton he wanted to know who had the
openers
What was the first thing he said
when he came out of the ether?"
That was real funny one. When
We told him the operation had been
a success he asked us what the crit
les thought of it. He played all sorts
OF pranks on his nurse. He insisted on
her taking sleep the first night he
was in the hospital and after that
night he jos|hed her about her Sleep
ing ability.
DO you ever miss your appendix ?"
Not as much as I thought would.
Just like losing your watch fob. You
cont need YOUR fob to tell time with,
You know. And an appendix is lust
ABOUT as useless. Anyway, mine never
rocked good ITO me. regard it as the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
JUST AS AN WITHOUT ONE
LEA

PLEA.
Just as am, without one plea,
But that thy blood was shed for me
And thou that bidds't me come to
thee,
Oh, Lamb of God, come.
Just as am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot.
TO thee whose blood can cleanse each
spot,
0, Lamb of God, come.
Just as am, though tossed about.
With many conflict, many a doubt
F1ghtings within, and fears without,
o. Lamb of God, come.
just as / am poor, wretched, blind:
Sight, riches, healing Of the mind,
Yes, all need, in thee to find,
O, Lamb of God, come
Just as am. thou wilt receive.
Wilt welcome, pardon. cleanse, re-
lieve,
Because thy promise believe,
o, Lamb of God, / come.
just as / am, thy love unknown
Hath broken every barrier down:
Now to be thine, yea, thine alone,
., Lamb of God, / come.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

on it, but he couldn't spare the time
to hunt for it.
You know l am getting ready to
produce The Echo, in which Richard
Carrie is to have the star part had
to have talk with him relative to the
supporting company, but DR.. Meyer
insisted that al my professional
friends be barred GU Then / de-
cided to fool the SURGEON told him
l expected visit from my old family
physician, Dr.. earle. He said he had
no objection to that, so we wired Dick
to come on. We also told him that he
would be expected to act and look
like a doctor, which he did to my fl.
nancial sorrow. The part fitted him to
perfection. When he strobe into the
room with those long legs and peered
over his glasses at me it was a scream.
He was the most sci ious looking saw
bones you ever saw. He stood there
discussing my physical antece dents
with the other physicians, and in
formed them that my appendix was
the first thing he had ever known me
to give up. We talked for two hours
and made all arrangem nts for the
new production, and when D.. Meyer
entered the room and informed Dr..
Carrie that his time was up DR.. earle
said. THAT will be twenty-five dollars,
Mr.. Dillingham;. always charge that
for out Of town visits knew he
had me, SO III had to make the bluff
good"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
MAINE BOASTS OF POTATO CROP.
Her Production in 1909 Exceeded go
100000 Bushels, Enough For the
Whole Nation.

IF need be, the state of Name
could supply the entire nation Win
potatoes. In 1899 the production was
6.514.235 bushels; fn 1909 it reached
the stupendous total OF 29,50O ,0OOt
bushels. and no one doubts that the
year 1910 will see further increase.
proportionately as large and no less
remarkable" is the declaration mace
in bulletin issued by the Maine Cen
trail railroad, under the direction or
which an investigation of the potato
industry of the state has been made.
= The average yield an acre in the
great potato growing areas of New
YORK, NJ chigan, Pennsylvania, Wis
coDsin, Ohio and Minnesota is less
than so bushels. while in Maine it Is
quoted at from 200 to 225 bushels
an acre. For many years Aroostook
conntv was thought to be the only
section of the State in which pota.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

heavy aspect when in repose. But he
had fine voice, and his rhetoric was
polished and graceful.
There must have BEEN" says a
writer, some bitterness in the good
doctors heart when he penned:
Each pleasure hath its poison, too
And every sweet a snare"
Maybe his physical shortcomings
had something to do with the reiec.
ton of his love suit by Miss Elizabeth
Singer, for maids do not ordinarily
become fond in the marriage way OF
little men, 1t has been suggested that
the young mans failure to induce
Miss Singer to become his wife, in
spired the hymn which he soon after.
| ward wrote, entitled, Love to the
Creatures Is Dangerous"
Miss Singer herself tried her hand
at Hymn writing after her union with
Thomas Rowe, but no such distinction
came anyways near her as was &C.
QuiTed by her discarded lover Watts
never married His heart was true to
Elizabeth. Mr.. Rowe, who lived in
London, had been FOR. several years
the instructor of Watts prior to his
infatuation with Miss Singer.
! Watts was the oldest of nine child.
rean- At four years of age he began
to learn Latin of his father; at. six
mont ~ ofin cohOol apa rr,;4;~.r
at nire began to learn Greek; at 1C
learned French, and at Is. Hebrew
In 1858 he wrote, Il had We smallpox
I'll cash Dr. Johnson he was adraitted
10 ne select society of the English
pots.
Isaac Watts was born July II, 1874.
in Southampton, where his father
was deacon in the Congregational
church, and had been more than once
imprisoned because he would not con-
form to the ritual of the English
church
After the accession to the throne of
William of Orange in 1883, when the
religious tension of the time was
loosened up bit, young Watts was
offered free education by DR.. John
Speed if he would abandon non
conformity. This he declined to do.
He stuck to his studies, and in 1896
became tutor at Newington to the
children of Sir John Hartupp. It was
here that his affection for them led
to his writing of the voice of the
sluggard, the little busy bee. of the
dogs that delight to bark and bite
and the charming cradle sons, begin |
ming. Hush. my Gear, lie still and |
slumber. .
Watts preached his first sermon in
Mark Lane, London. July liz, 1898. Not
q great while later physical infirmity
attacked him, and health alternated
with sickness until I7I3, when, after
a distressing attack of fever and neu-
ralgia, Sir John Abney took the for
iorn bachelor to his own home in
London suburbs to be cared for
Watts long afterward wrote to a
friend that he had intended staying
with Sir John only a single week
but his visit with this good man was
prolonged to so years. He died No
vember 25, 174S, aged as years. De-
spite the gloomy atmosphere of some
of his lesser hymns, his theological
views We generous and liberal T.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
White Leather Belts.

Rub the belt well with a thickish
paste made of cream Of tartar ana
cold water. Leave 1t for an hour.
Then rub it with alum and fuller's
earth, mix in equal parts. Next day
brush the belt with a clean sort
brush till all the powder has been
removed and then give 1t final ruD
with some coarse oatmeal, to which
a little dry whiting has been added.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
THE SNAIL.

The frugal snail. with forecast Of 20.
pOse,,
Carries his house with him wher,e, bo
goes;
Feeps out, and if there comes a
shower of rain,
retreats to his small domicile again
Touch but tip of him, horn-,tis
we'll '1'
he curls up in his sanctuary she'll
mes ms own landlord, his own ton.
ant; stay
Long as he will. he breads NO onartor
day. s''ei
Himself he boards and lodges. both
invites
And feasts himself: sleeps with him.
self o'nights.
He spares the upholsterer trouble Ia
procure
Chattles, himself is his own furniture
And his sole riches whereso'er he
roam;
Knock when you will, he's sure to be
at home
Charles Lamb.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

A missionary in New York City was
accosted one Cay by little street
wait who handed him a soiled and
torn bit OF paper, on which this hymn
was printed, saying:
PLEASE, sir, my father sent me to
set a clean paper like that"
The missionary learned by inquiry
that the lads sister had been yery
fond OF this hymn, and sang it often
IN their home. Ait5r her death this
copy was found in one of her pockets.
Now the father wished clean set of
verses that they might be framed.
Just As AM was written bv
Miss Chariot Elliott, of Brighton. in
Devon, England Her brother. Rev
Henry Fenn Elliott, often said that
this hymn outweighed in Christian
Value all his own efforts az a pastor
lt was written or first printed in
1856, and has been frequently trans
lated into Latin verse. Miss Elliott
was early the victim of religious fears
and doubts, and, unwilling then to
trust herself entirely to Christ, sought
70 work out her own salvation. II,
this stat Of mind she was fo,,nd ~
Or. Caesar Malan. the celebrated
French hymn writer. when he ris;taa
her father at Brighton in 1922 He
said to her.
Dear Charlotte: Cut the cable. it
will take too long to unloose it. Ont
II, It IS small loss. The wind blows
and the ocean is before you-the spir-
It OF God and eternity"
The son-in-law of the poet words |
worth wrote Miss Elliott thanking bar
Tor this hymn because OF the great
comfort il had given his wife on her
death-bed. Ten times dav she would
ask him to repeat it, after he had first
read i to her. am every morning for
two months until her demise the first
thing for which she asked was this
hymn
The rhyss ian C Miss Elliott, I'M
aware of her Authorship, once brought
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24

New York, March 16.- Wallack's
theatre resembled something between
a bee nive and children's play
ground. 1t was the first full rehearsal
of the AL star kid cast'-as some
body called it--that is to give a PEI
Torrance OF Mr.. Paul Armstrong :
play after o. Henry Alias Jimmy
Valentine for the summer home for
working girls.
There was no audience. except the
mothers and aunts. maybe, of some
Of the little players. Mr.. Albert
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
To Wash WOODEN Goods.

Wooden goods when washed shouIa
not be rubbed, but drawn slowly
back and forth through the hands
They should then be wrung out as
dry as possible and rinsed in tub
of hot water in which soap has been
dissolved. Never rub the soap into
the goods.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-24
casey,s Vacation.

Casey's wife was at the hospital
where she had undergone very Sc
rious operation a few days before.
Mrs. Kelly called to enquire as TO
Mrs. Casey's condition.
us she restin' quietly?' Mrs. Kelly
asked.
"No, but am" said Casey.