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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
LINDEN.

Edwin Tredinnick returned to his
school duties at Argyle, after spending
few days with parents and friends,
ALA Parry returned from Baraboo,
Saturday where she had been visiting
her cousins DR.. Sayles and wife.
Mr. Pedley Of Cobb was Linden
caller Wednesday.
Mr.. Bert Ovits had business at Min
eral Point Saturday.
After spending three weeks with
John Noil, Mr.. T. Holly returned to
his home in Chicago.
Joseph S. erase transacted business
at Mineral Point last Wednesday,
Mrs. Eliza Bowden is visiting at the
home of her daughter Mrs. VIM
Wearne.
The Girls Declamatory contest was
held Tuesday evening and the Boys
Oratorical contest on Friday evening
with the following results: Grace
James won first place in Extracts
from Jupiter Lights Fanny Ovitz
second place in Zone Niche the High
est, Clara erase third place in
"Christmas Substitute and Edna
Whitman fourth place in ''Brier Rose. :"
George Hillary first place in ''Storming
of Mission Rigde," Claud Masters sec
ond place in Daniel Webster" Harry
Brickman third place in "Toussaint
L Overture, and Thomas Tredinnick
fourth place in ''Lincoln a Man Called
of God" Both contests were well at
tended and the next one, Friday even
ing, is awaited with considerable in
terest.
Oliver Gray, former principal of
Linden schools, made Linden a short
visit Tuesday.
George Merrifeld and wife Of Platte
vile visited friends and relatives Tues
day.
Miss Water of Platteville High school
was Linden caller Tuesday.
Misses Grace James, Clara erase
and Fanny Ovitz had business at Min
eral Point, Wednes day.
Miss Lizzie Caygill spent several
days in town last week.
=, Miss Clara erase is spending several
days at Mineral Point visiting relatives.
Mr.. Glassen Of Montfort transacted
business here Wednesday,
Maud Whitford, Laurena Fault and
Clyde Fault spent Sunday evening at
Mineral Point.
Johnson Johns of Montfort spent
Sunday with James Vial and family.
Ed. Batten and wife attended the
funeral Of Mrs. Howard Holman at
Platteville, Thursday.
S. Hawley of Baraboo spent few
days here during the last week
Mrs. Ed Bowden visited Friday with
her parents, at Montfort.
Miss Minnie Jacobs Of Mineral Point
is visiting Mrs. John Taylor
MI. and Mrs. R. Howhe entertained
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Raine of Mineral
| Point last week.
Mrs VIM Adams of Montfort spent
Sunday with her daughter Mrs. VIM.
Fault.
Mrs. Lee of Ridgeway is here visiting
/ her sister Mrs. Howard Trelo ar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adm Thompson spent
Saturday and Sund ay with ner parents,
at Highland.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
Moved To Mineral Point.

Courad Stude and family have
moved from their farm home to this
city. Mr. Stude recently purchased
the residence property of Henry J.
Kane, and the family are now pleasantly
located therein.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
Joseph L. Jackson & Co
A Mean Trick.

THAT'S the meanest man / ever ran
across said the book agent.
"What has he dOne?'
Kept me calling day after day and
finally said he didn't care anything
about reading, but he enjoyed hearing
me talk"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
For a Rainy DaV.

Every one ought to lay up something
for rainy day. For instance, a GOOD
UMBRELLA. We sell the MONARCH;
none better; has few equals. 1t will
prove paying investment. G.. VARL1N.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
The Rush will soon be here

And this is our fifth year in the
CE M E N T business. You have
helped to make it bigger each
year. Now we want you to help us
make 1911 the biggest yet. Over forty
thousand feet in 1909, and nearly fifty
thousand feet in 1910. Now we want
you to help us put in one hundred
thousand feet in 1911, by placing your
orders with us. Cement Walks a
speciality Let us figure on your build
ings, cement blocks, or brick or lumber.
All work warranted.
Joseph L. Jackson & Co.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
Unclaimed Letters.

MINERAL POINT, April II, 1911.-Let-
the Mineral Point postoffice:
Mrs. Clara Spencer, Mrs. Jack Jenkins,
Point Milling and Mining Co.
In calling for above, please say advertised.
B. r. PRIDEAUx. Postmaster.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20

I OST-Between Mineral Point city and Amos
IL Vivian s-two halters. Finder please leave
same at the Democrat Office.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20

LOR SALE-Surrey with pole and shaft
i At Edward CurnOW's.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-20
For Sale.

Best varieties of Strawberry plants.
Price $100 per hundred. Inquire of
L. c.. Stair, phone 287
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19
ANCIENT INDIAN MINERS.
Their Methods of Working Copper De
nosits of Lake Superior Region.

The copper mines in the Lake Su-
perior region were most important to
the Indians. When we remember that
they did not understand the smelling
of ores we can appreciate the value OF
these mines. In them the native metal
occurs both in small pieces and great
masses. The Indians had only to dig
away the earth and smash the rocks
with stones, some of which they pro-
vided with a groove and attached to a
handle by means of a withe around the
groove.
Archaeologists have found that they
also built fires upon the rocks and thus
cracked them that they might more
easily be smashed with hammers
One piece of copper propped upon poles
over fifteen feet below the surface OF
the ground was found by explorers
where 1t had been abandoned by the
Indian quarrymen. Weighing almost
three tons, it was a monument to the
industry of the North American In
dians, who have too often been con-
sidered lazy, and who, we must re-
member, had only the simplest tools
with which to raise this heavy mass
One of their shafts, which con-
tanned a mass of copper weighing sew
eral tons, was twenty-six feet deep
and the mass of copper had been rails
ed several feet, probably the only
means the Indians had of moving II
being wedges and sticks.
These were exceptionally deep shafts
many others being smaller. In one
place an area of about 400 acres had
been worked over. Judging from the
number of stone hammers or mauls
found in a given bulk of the debris ex-
cavated from these ancient diggings
thousands and thousands of the ham
mers must have been used and may be
found by clearing out the old work
ings.-Southern Workmen.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19
GAME OF MINDoRo.
The Rare Tamarao-Plenty of Wild
Carabao, Boar and Deer.


carabao, Boar and Deer.
"A paradise for hunters" Is the way
Judge Liddell describes the country in
the vicinity of his home and plantation
on the southeast coast of Mindoro
One game Mindoro eXcels in Is the
tamarao, rarest of animals and one
which is found only in Mindoro. This
fierce animal, much like an American
buffalo, Is held in universal dread by
every native on the island, who looks
on him as a far more formidable Great
ure than the maddest of wild cara
baos.
The tamarao is seldom seen in clear
ings because he sticks to his native
wilds. When he does come near
clearing the natives in that vicinity
make for the nearest shelter. For the
tamarao does not wait to attack. He
takes the initiative himself, charging
every one and everything in sight.
Mrs. Liddell, wife Of Judge Liddell
is perhaps the only white woman who
has ever seen tamarao. A few weeks
ago one came within fifteen feet of the
window of the Liddell kitchen, where
she was instructing the cook, ant
peered in. The natives in the neigh.
borhood took to their heels and ther
the tamarao quietly walked off.
But if the tamarao is the piece d.
resistance among the game Of Min
doro it is not the only game to be found
on the island. There are myriads o.
deer, wild chickens and game birds o.
all sorts. There are also plenty o.
wild boars on the island, some of then
of extraordinary size and none of then
noted for their docility. Judge Lid
dell has one tusk fully IS inches long
This came from monster boar, which
charged the hunters repeatedly before
he was shot down.
Wild carabao hunting is another
pastime of the Mindoro planters ant
one that is not destined to soothe th'
| nerves of weak hearted men. These
big animals are at all times dangerous
and when once wounded or angeret
will charge their hunters with all th'
| ferocity of an African buffalo.
James Liddell, a son of the judge
had an experience with one Of then
| recently that will not be forgotten II
hurry. He was hunting and shot th'
big fellow, knocking him off his feet
AS the carabao lay Still he approached
him and when not a foot away th'
carabao leaped to his feet and charged
There was no time for a shot, 81
young Liddell did the only thing opel
to grappled with the infurat
ed beast. Three times the animal goret
him, and finally the boy made his es
cape. What the Filipinos in his part!
regarded as the miraculous feature o
the accident was the fact that th
carabao had permitted him to escape
Manila Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19
ESSEX AND HIS RING.
Romance Of the Earl and the Queen
and that Famous Circlet.


The announcement that ring CIV
en- by Queen Elizabeth to the earl Of
Essex is to be sold in London auc-
tion room recalls one Of the greatest
romances Of history which popular
fancy is unwilling to let die, in spite
Of the protests of investigators who
declare 1t to be without foundation in
fact. That Queen Elizabeth, in her
old age, did give ring to Robert Dew
ereux the second earl Of Essex, for
whom she conceived an absurd pas
sion. is probable, and that the ring to
be sold at Christy's auction shop is the
royal gift, is equally probable. Doubt
| is cast not on the identity Of the ring.
but on the story that, with the gift,
Elizabeth gave a promise that she
would pardon any wrong Essex might
do II he would send her the ring as a
petition for the redemption OF her
pledge.
It Is a fact that she pardoned more
than one of the handsome young
earle's escapades. She forgave the
fizzle of his Azores expedition; she
forgave his various intrigues that
made her own affection for him doubly
ridiculous; she forgave the insult he
offered when he turned his back upon
her in her own court and was punish
ed on the spot by a resounding box on
the ear. She forgaVe the disastrous
collapse of the Irish expedition, but
she did not forgive the revolution he
ATTEMPTED to incite in the streets OF
London. The tradition Of the ring Is,
however, that she would have forgiv-
en- him even that had he implored her
pardon by returning the ring. The
story goes that Essex sent the ring
from the tower by the countess OF Not
tingham, who, to revenge herself Tor
slight that Essex was presumed to
have forgotten, kept it until the earl's
head had fallen on Tower Hill. Our
school histories used to tell the tale
of the repentant earl, the malignant
countess, and the queen, at first furi-
Gus and fterward heartbroken over
the discovery that her fayorite had
perished through an objectionable
breach Of faith.
What does 1t matter after all that
the precisians insist that there is no
truth in the story of the ring. For the
matter of that, they insist that there is
no truth in the stories Of Occur de
Lion and the minstrel Blondel; of the
Prince Edward, rescued by the Prin-
cess Eleanor from the dagger Of an
assassin; of Robert Bruce and the spi-
der; of Sinbad the sailor, and Blue
beard with his curious wives. Worst
of all, they have been known to doubt
the story of George and the cherry
tree. and when a man doubts a tale
told to impress the value OF truth up
on a more or less deceitful world, he
will doubt pretty nearly anything. The
romance of the earl's ring has surviv-
ed for more than 800 years, and,
Though all standard historical books
of modern times ignore 1t, we rather
think it will persist for century or
so yet.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19

| ANSN 1pIh, pulp l. hhouoHs
were my mate! Have you forgottel
our old day dreams in the fields a
home?"
I've forgotten everything" she an
swered bitterly, except that you ar
falling me when put to the first test
And 1t would he such a little thinl
for you to do"
AT the price Of my self-respect-
and you call this a little thing-grea
Cod"
Nan rose with a sudden gesture o
impatience.
You refuse absolutely to conside
this generous offer?"
Absolutely"
And you are not willing to let thes
romantic fancies wait until you'v
made your fortune?"
The girl spoke with cold delibera
ton.
How can I wait to live? I'm TWEEN
ty-six. I'll never have those glorious
days of my young manhood again. M!
ears will never be so keen again Of
eyes so clear again. What Is the us,
of years of preparation to live, II a
last you don't know how?"
And you are willing that the wo
man you love shall live in poverty
while her more fortunate sisters laugl
and dance in luxury?"
The one joy Of my life will be Il
crafty every reasonable wish Of you
body and SOUL"
yet the first reasonable wish I ex'
press, you refuse to consider"
1T will he suicide" q.
"Oh, Jim, don't talk like fool! Mr.
Bivens says he would make you {
millionaire in five years"
The blood suddenly rushed to Stu
arts face, and the square jaws came
together with a snap.
That's very kind of Mr.. Bivens, In
sure. When I need his patronage, II
take my place in line with othel
henchmen and ask for it. At presen
I'm padding my own canoe"
Nan suddenly extended her hand.
Good might"
He attempted to draw her into hi
arms.
Not like that, Man."
She repulsed him and repeated hel
cold dismissal
Good might"
Nan, dear" he pleaded, we've
never parted in anger before. OF al
the hours of my life this Is one II
which I-I-least dreamed Of such {
thing"
without a word, she turned toward
the stairs.
Mani" he called tenderly.
The proud white figure slowly
mounted the first step. He seized hi
hat and coat and grasped the door
fumblng at the knob in rage.
A dress rustled and he turned, con
fronting Nan. Her face was scarle
and two tears were creeping down hel
cheeks. With a sob she threw her
self into his arms.
Forgive me, JIM"
Forgive me, dear, II I've seemed
unreasonable" was the low answer.
But you will think It over, won
you? just for my sake-just because
I ask it-won't you?"
Just because you ask it-yes, I will
dearest!'
He kissed her tenderly and walked
home with a great sickening fea1
slowly creeping into his heart.
ITO he Continued.)
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19

81 The Bookseller-This, sir, Is an
excellent book on swimming, and
very useful one, too.
Customer-Useful?
The Bookseller-Yes, sir. II you
ever find yourself drowning you have
only to turn to pages SS and SO and
there you will find instructions how to
save yourself.-Sketch.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19
A Famous War Fleet.-The battle.

A Famous War Fleet.-The battle
ships of the Atlantic fleet which sail
ed out of Hampton Roads in Decem-
ber, 1907, on the famous around the
world cruise-the Alabama, Illinois,
Maine, Missouri, Ohio, Kearsarge,
Kentucky, Wisconsin and New Jersey
have passed from the first fighting
line. Today every one of them is list
ed "in reserve" and their places in the
fleet have been taken by newer and
more powerful ships.-Argonaut.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19

man Ill lIlt city WI hil6 ANh q SS~aN- ,
really gets feeced more than any 9TH
er class. They seem ready always to
put their money into an alleged DO
nanZa-a fake mining scheme. Bu'
mines do not offer the field for crook
edness Of twenty years ago. The peo,
pie are more wary than they useo
to be.
1t was P. T. Barnum who many
wears ago observed There's a sucker
born every minute" And Lawrence
Spruce. superintendent Of the Kansas
City district of the Pinkerton service
believes that this is as true today aS
1t was I'm the day Of the veteran cir
Gus man.
A well-to-do ranchman while on
visit to Kansas City short time age
made the mistake of writing his name
to a check for $4,000. The ranch
man thought he was signing his ad'
dress in an ordinary memorandum
book. This is the way it was worked
A crook having learned that the
ranchman was prosperous and hao
several thousand dollars on deposit ir
a New Mexico bank, folded a check ir
such a manner that the average mar
might examine the notebook without
detecting the check.
The crook led the ranchman to be-
lieve that he owned innumerable cat
tie on a Wyoming ranch. He sough
to buy some choice stock from the
New Mexico man to mix the breed
Let me have your name" the crooF
said. land when | go back to Wyo'
ming ! will mail you pictures of my
ranch"
There could be no objection to that
the New Mexican thought, and III
signed his name In what he believed
was a memorandum book.
When the New Mexico ranchmaI
returned home his banker asked hin
If he had bought a farm. One sur
prise followed another. There wa
his name signed to a check for $lO,
600. There must be some mistake
no. there could be none. Finally 1t al
dawned upon the ranchman, but too
late. 1t had been two weeks. He wa:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19
Ss59gIglyTgST1D G G5B5s51s5ls51g5(E!
THE ROOT OF EVIL
BY THOMAS DIXON

Copyright, 1911, by Thomas Dixon.
Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Co., N. Y.
The Monte Vista journal., 1911-01-21

Underwear
Two-piece Union Suits, Wool
and Cotton, JANUARY Price
IS to 50 per cent DISCOUNT.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-24
CARD OF APPRECIATION.
!, My Friends and Patrons:

To My Friends and Patrons:
! extend to you my cordial thanks
for your favors and patronage In the
past and | earnestly solicit for the
new insurance firm of Regen g. Zeit-
Ter a continuance Of the same. ap-
preciate very much the many express
sions Of confidence and the assur-
ances of business which have re.
ceived and I trust that l shall prove
worthy Of the same. In the new firm
we will have ample facilities for tax
ing care Of all lines Of insurance bus
mess, fire. life and casualty. I will
continue as the district manager of
the Volunteer State Life Insurance
Company, an institution that is MAX
ing a record that should be the pride
of all Tennesseans. Ny Offices viii
be located in the Bethel House corner.
Again soliciting the bushes of the
public, / remain,
Yours to serve,
22l2tI&wkly1t B. E. REGEN.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-24
Mrs. Mary E. A. Green.

Mrs. Mary E. A. Green, aged 76
years, died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. J. N. Meroney, at Dalk's
Station, from the infirmities of old
age. Mrs. Green was buried Monday
morning, the funeral services being
held in the Lochridge church at elev.
en- o'clock by Elder w. S. Morton, OF
the Christian church. Mrs. Green
had been a member of the Christian
church for many years, and was one
of the most highly respected and best
loved women in that community.
She was the widow of the late w.
E. B. Green. and is survived by three
children, her daughter, Mrs. J. N. Me-
roney, with whom she resided the last
three years of her life, and two sons,
w. J. Green, of this county, and The
odore Green, Of Memphis.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-24
Good White Lime

II you want good White Lime, buy
Chattanooga Lime from US
1t Street, Martin & Vaughan Co
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-24
OPENING GAME OF
SEASON SATURDAY
AFFAIR BETWEEN c. M. A. AND
DUNCAN SCHOOL OF NASH
VILE TO BE GOOD ONE.

What promises to be splendid
game will be the initial baseball event
of the season between Columbia Mill
tary Academy and the Duncan School
of Nashville on Saturday. Better ia
cilities will be provided for taking
care of the spectators than ever be-
fore since the commodious and COM
Portable new grand stand is finished
The local team is being tried out
every day and the outlook for fine
aggregation Is most promising
Coach McGehee is very favorably i'm
pressed with the showing made by
the boys and Is confident of suc-
cessful season.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-24
NEGROES REACH
LINE OF CANADA
MOST OF ITO PASS IMMIGRATION
TEST, BUT SAY THEY WILL
STICK WITH OTHERS.

WINNIPEG, Man, March ga
party of ITO negroes with seven car
loads of goods from the Southern
States, arrived at Emerson, Manitoba,
today, and most of them passed an ex-
animation as to their fitness for be-
coming residents of Canada. The pro-
ceedings were closely watched by
United States officials.
Those In the party appeared to be
in good condition except the men in
charge of the cars of household goods
These were rejected. The men in the
party declared that unless all were
passed the entire party would return
to the United States.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

Sheriff Pittard, of Giles county, Il
in the city on business.
T. N. Figuers, Jr., went to Nash
vile Thursday on business.
Miss lone Sowell is in FRANKLIN
with Miss Carrie Scoby for shor
stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Vaughan are Al
Hot Springs, Ark, for visit to las
several days.
Capt. T. M. Steger, prominent at
torney of Nashville, attended the ses
sion of circuit court here today.
Mrs. B. Macarthur, of Columbus
Miss, Is here on visit to her son
who is attending school at c. M. A.
Mrs. Margaret J. Williams and son
Chelsea, returned Thursday evening
from San Antonio, Dallas, Houston
and New Orleans.
Miss Irene Sowell went to Thomp.
sons Station today to be one of the
honor guests at ST. Patrick party at
the home of Miss Sue Williams.
Mrs. Matt Foster, of Tolley Sta
ton, has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
William Sowell, here for several days.
She has now gone to Birmingham, ac-
companied by Mrs. Sowell, where
they will visit their sister, Mrs. Sue
Neal for a week.
Mrs. Claudio Watson leaves today
for several months stay In Shelby
Vile.
Mrs. E. A. Taylor, Of Birmingham,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. H. Ca
tina.
Mrs. Amanda l. Sharber IL In
Nashville visiting her son, DR.. A. l..
Sharber.
Mrs. w. J. Andrews has returned
from Nashville and is at the bedside
Of her daughter, Mrs. T. ]. Tucker.
Miss Beatrice Mcknight, who Is
teaching school at Hampshire, visit
ed Mrs. Sam J. Taylor here Friday
and Saturday She returned this
morning to her home near Theta.
w. s. Fleming was In Nashville re-
Gently.
l. C. Mays, of Decatur, Ala, was
here Sunday.
Sergent alta rms William B. Whita-
ker is in town today.
Miss Annie May Polk returned to
Nashville this morning, after a visit
to friends and relatives here.