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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27
WHAT ALFALFA MEANS
TO STATE OF WISCONSIN
We Should Have 100000 Acres
Acres Devoted to this Wonderful
Crop,

y, D Campbell, manager WISCONSIN
Advancement Association. milwaukee,:
Wisconsin has over 5000 0oO acres de,
voted to crops, This is largely timothy
and clover mixed aud timothy alone.
Practically all this acreage should I've
devoted to alfalfa, in other words the
acreage devoted to alfalfa should be at
least $4,000, 900 acres
According to the experience OF moro
than 500 farmers, whose results were
determined by recent census, this
would add 500 o00 900 to the agricul.
tural output ot the state add that
amount in the value of the raw materi
al. But when handled as forage is
handled by Wisconsin farmers. that is,
turned into milk or meat it means that
the 2,5o0, 900 acres of alfalfa would in
crease the states agricultural output
nearer $500 900 900 per year
Ten years ago, when the writer first
began to advocate alfalfa as future
Wisconsin crop, every manner .of OBJ
lection was raised, Men who should
have known better said, first, that we
could not raise it, and, second, that we
should not, The latter objection was
based upon hagy idea that it would
interfere with rotation of crops. These
objections gradually faded until the
1910 U. :, census dissipated them
Now, the fact is that all the benefits
of clover in rotation can be secured by
using it as Il catch crop and blowing
the growth under, This can be done
at a cost of about one dollar per acre
while the alfalfa grower is gaining
twenty to forty times that amount
Besides, when once we'll established, il
is not necessary to leave the land long
in alfalfa. 1t can practically take its
place i'll the rotation,
In view of the past am e!ated over
the A tons per acre shown by the re-
cent census of 500 farmers and the cap
ture of the world championship award
by st. Croix county in the upper por.
ton of the state.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27
OUR CHASE FOR THE
ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
Anderson & Kuelling'
DIMPLES AT $26 EACH.
Fashionable London Women Submit to
Wounds to Enhance Beauty,

London. Artificial dimple making Is
that IT is being done In London too. A
well known beauty specialist" says
fashionable women are now having ar
tificinl dImples produced on their faces.
The cost Of making permanent dim
Piles ranges from S2G to So. The
process usually lasts n fortnight. A
small cut Is made In the skin. The
wound Is then bound up and dressed
daily until healed. The dimpes most
In demand are little deprcsslons near
the corner of the mouth, which show
Is also possible to produce dimpIes last.
ing for few hours
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27
4 MESSAGE TO WOMEN
Who are lust Ready to Drop"

When YOU are "iusr ready to drop"
when you feel SO weak that you can
hardly drag yourself ahout-and be-
cause you have not slept we'll. you
get ny rs tired-out next morning as
when YOU went to bed, then you need
help right away.
Miss Lea Dumas writes from Ma
lone. y. V, saying; Il was in u badly
rundown condition for several weeks.
but two bottles Of Vinol put me OH
my feet again and made me strong
and we'll Niuol has done me more
good than all the other medicine
ever took"
II the careworn, haggard men and
women, the pale, sickly children and
feeble old folks around here would
follow Miss Dumas example they.
too, would soon We able to say that
Ninol, our delicious cod liver and iron
remedy, had built them up and made
Them strong.
1t Is wonderfully strengthening
and iuvigorating hody-builder and we
sell 1t under an ironClad guarantee
OF satisfaction. You get your money
back il Ninol does not help YOU.
Prideaux & Bliss, Druggists.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27
The Siege
of the
Seven SuitOrS
By
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Copyright, 1910, by Meredith Nicholson
Copyright, 1910, by Meredith Nicholson
CHAPTER ~.
| Fail Into a Brier Patch.

HAD been sitting on 4 stone wall
watching the shadows lengtheu.
| rose now and followed the wall
toward a highway along which
wagons and an occasional motOrcar
had passed during my reverie. The
slipping pasture was rough and fire.
Quently sent me along at Il trot. The
wall that marked the boundary at the
roadside was hidden 10y Il tangle of
raspberry bushes, and my foot. turn
Ing on stone concealed in the wild
grasses. | fell clumsily and rolled
dozen yards into Il tangle Of the berry
bushes. AS | picked myself up heard
voices in the road. but should have
thought nothing of it had | not seen
through a break in the vines and al
most within reach of my hand Cecilia
HOLSTER talking earnestly TO some one
not yet disclosed. She was hatlesS,
but had flung golf cape over her
shoulders. The scarlet lining of the
hood turned up about her neck made
an effective setting for her noble head.
"Oh, | can't tell YOU, / can't help
you! | mustn't even appear to give
you any advantage. | went into it
with my eyes open, and I'm in honor
bound not to tell you anything You
have said nothing-nothing remember
that There is absolutely nothing be-
tween us"
But | must say everything. | re
fuse to be blinded by these absurd re-
strictions, whatever they are. It's not
fair. It's inviting me into game
where the cards are not all on the la
Bile. I've come to make an end of it,
My hands had suffered by contact
with the briars, and had been minis
tering to them with my handkerchief,
but l fell back upon the slope in my
establishment ut this colloquy. Cecilia
Hollister l had seen plainly enough,
though the mans back had been to-
ward me, but anywhere on earth
should have known Virgins voice |
protest that it is not my way to be-
come an eaveSdropper voluntarily, but
to disclose myself now was impossible
If it had not been Wiggins-but Wig
gins would never have understood or
forgiven, nor could | have explained
plausibly to Cecilia HOLSTER that
had not followed her from the house
to spy upon her | should have made
the noise of an invading army if had
attempted to effect an exit by creeping
out through the Windrow of crisp
leaves in which lay, and to turn back
and ascend the slope the way | had
come would have been to advertise my
presence to the figures in the road.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27

There seemed nothing for me but 10
keep still and hope that this discus
sion between Cecilia HOLSTER and
Hartley Virgins would not be contin-
ned within eHrshot. To my relief they
moved trifie farther on. but | still
heard their voices.
Il cannot listen 10 You. Now that
I'm committed | cannot honorably
countenauce you at all, and can ex-
plain nothing. ! came here To meet
you only to tell you this, You must 20
please, Aud do not attempt to see
me in this way again
was grateful that Virgins voice
sank 50 low in his reply that | did not
hear II. hV' | knew that he was plead.
ing hard Then motor flashed ly.
and when the whir ~ Its passing had
ceased the voices were iraudible. Bat
a moment later ! heard light. quick
step beyond the wall. and Cecilia pass
Ell hurriedlg. her face turned toward
the house. The cape was drawn tight
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27
BLACKSMITH SHOP
FRED. WHITFORD
Fountain Street,
Mineral Point,

Having bought out the Frank Day
blacksmith shop in the Lanyon build
ing on Fountain street, | will be pre-
pared 10 serve we'll all customers in the
blacksmith and horseshoeing line.
FRED WEXFORD.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27

Help me 10 deal very honestly with
words and with people. because they
are both alive. SHOW me that as m "A
river. 50 in writing clcaruess is the
best quality and little that is pure is
worth more than much that Is mixed
Keep me from caring more for
books .hau for FOLKS. for art than for
life.-Van Dyke.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-27
He Guessed Wrong.

II somebody says that your poetry Is
no good don't worry Great bards
have been underestimate al all times
When Milton, Paradise Loot was
published the poet Waller wrote: The
old blind ~rhoolmaster. John Milton
hath published q tedious poem on the
fail Of man If lis length be not con.
sidcrcd merit It mas none Ely
change.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
THIEVES RIFLE ROYAL TOMB
Precious Stones Buried With the Body
of the Duchess of Genoa
Are Stolen.

A robbery of the tomb of the duch-
ess of Genoa. mother of Queen Mar
gherita, queen-mother of Italy. in the
Church of Superga, near Turin, was
discovered the other day. Robbers
broke the triple shell of lead contain
ing the body. seized all the jewels and
precious stones which had been bur
led with it, and even tore the ears
to obtain the earrings.
The Church of Superga contains
many tombs of the royal house of
Savoy and the duchess of Genoa was
the last to be buried there.
The robbery was discovered by the
guardian noticing that the gates lead
ing to the royal crypt had been forced.
The telephone wires communicating
with Turin had been first cut. then
one of the windows had been broken
and ladders used to reach the interior
of the church.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
Three Million Stamps
Are Used Each Day.

Startling figures are shown indicat-
ing the amount and value of United
States stamps used during the year
More than nine million stamps have
been sold. and the stamp collectors
are still busy. AS an evidence of pros
perity it is interesting to note that
there is five dollar postage stamp
more than 1850 of which were sold
last year. and besides these more than
eighty thousand of the one-dollar de-
nomination.
1t has been estimated that more
than three million stamps per day
were USED by the people of the United
States last year. AS one French hui
morist remarked in England. THAT
shows that the American people are
certainly used to licking" He thought
he had sprung real joke, but was
surprised to hear the Americans apt
reply Yes, we lick the stamps to
keep in trim for licking the other fel.
lows" The American eagle scream
ed, the flag unfurled and the American
complimented himself upon having pa.
triotically indicated the dignity OF
Uncle Sam by a pertinent allusion to
an humble postage stamp. National
Magazine.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
For Subway Guards.

Any trainman who can properly re-
peat the following should not expe-
rience any lingual difficulty to lucdly
announce any station on the INTERIOR
ough system: "Theophilis Thistle, in
sitting a sieve full of unsifted thistles.
thrust three thousand thistles through
the thick of his thumb. See If thou.
in sitting a sieve full of unsifted this
ties, thrust not three thousand this
ties through the thick of thy thumb.
Success to the successful thistle-sift-
er."-Interborough Bulletin.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
Carnival Called Off
for Wilson Inaugural.

Washington will have no Inaugural
ton week carnival. This was decided
at conference between Chairman w.
C. Eustis of the inaugural committee
and Chairman Isaac Cans of the
Chamber of Commerce carnival COM
mittee
Mr.. Eustis said that plans for an
elaborate carnival made by the Cham
Der of Commerce would be impractical
BILE. because of the lateness of the
season, and also because it might mar
the glory of the Inauguration cere-
mony itself.
w. II. Santelmann, leader OF the
Marine band, said he will play any
thing the dancers want at the in
augural ball So far as he is con
cerned, the statesmen and other
guests at the party can dance the
turkey trot, the bunny hug, the Texas
Tommy, the angleworm wiggle. the
grubworm shuttle, the horse trot, the
alligator amble, the merry widow
waltz, the Partisan glide, the came
slide, the wallaby hop, the hartbeest
cavort or the blind staggers. On his
list of raggy songs to be played at
the ball are Steamboat Bill" Wait
ing for the Robert E. Lee" "On the
Mississippi" and "Everybody's Doin'
It," and he is trying to think OF
others
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
MAD PRINCES LIFE.
Delights in Smashing All the
Crockery Each Day.
Francis-charIes of Bourbon, Insane for
40 Years, is Deaf and Dumb and
Presents Horrible sight-Not
Washed for Years.

Extraordinary revelations are made
OF the mode of life of Francis-C Charles
of Bourbon at Rome. Prince of Ca
pua, who is sexenty-five and has lived
madman's life for 40 years in the
Villa Marlia Capannori. For several
years now he has not spoken, appar-
emily having been stricken deaf and
dumb in an apoplectic seizure.
Every morning at servant knocks
at the door of the princes bed chamber
and hurriedly places the breakfast
tray-a sumptuous repast-through a
sliding window inside the room.
The prince jumps out of bed, throws
a toga around his shoulders and hides
till the domestic has diappeared. He
connot bear any one to see him. He
has neither shaved, had his hair cut.
washed nor cut his nails within the
memory of his oldest retainers.
Formerly, if he saw any one ap-
preaching him he would, make the
most terrible noise, but nowadays, un-
able to give vent to his feelings thus,
he claws at the air in front of him
and lashes out with his fists, although
the intruders may be 100 yards or
more away.
But the most remarkable perform
ance takes effect after breakfast. Day
after day, year in and year out, no
matter what the weather is, the unfor-
tunate old man rushes without cloth
ing out of the room, down the corri-
dor across the terrace of the villa
to a chair.
1t is always the same one. Once it
was removed, and the prince fell down
in one of his oft-recurring fits. Seated
on this chair, he dresses himself slow
ly, being generally presentable by mid
day. The rest of the day is spent
within circle of four or five square
yards. The prince never moves farth-
er away than that from the chair.
Round and round it he walks, sharing
his meals with the birds.
He takes great delight in smashing
all the crockery each day. At p. IN.
it is time to go to bed. A servant ap-
pears, and that is enough. Fighting
the imaginary foe, the old man rushes
off to his room and locks the door.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
BIRD HAS BEARDED FACE
Is Said to Be Strong as an OK and
Cries Like an infant-Devours
Chickens.

1t had the face of monkey, the
beak of guinea keat, the strength of
an OK. the bill of an eagle, and The cry
of an infant, did a strange-looking
bird that Charles H. Werner of West
port, Md, reports having captured aft
er it had given him an hours battle
for his life late the other day.
The half animal. half bird, or what
ever it is, measured ten inches in
height and four feet from tip to tip of
its wings. Around its neck is a band.
Mr.. Werner says that after attacking
him it devoured live chicken which
happened to stray too close to cage
in which it is a prisoner
Mr.. Werner says he has Travelled all
over the world and never before saw
anything like the creature he cap
tured. He believes that it came here
in a ship from foreign port and es-
capped from it's captors. Two small.
coal-black eles are firmly set in it's
head, surrounded by a bearded face.
Its claws are reported as being some
thing fierce"
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
F. j. sHEPA. WEBS MISS GOULD
Married at Lyndhurst, the Brides
Country Estate.

Tarrytown, n. Y.-Miss Helen Miller
Gould was married at J.yndhurst, her
country estate, tc y Johnson
Shepard, an Amer abroad man
who has risen from IL ranks.
The bride went to an altar hidden
by roces, asparagus ferns and palms,
on the arm of her brother, George j..
Gould, who gave her away in marriage.
An orchestra screened by masses OF
flowers in the music room played the
"Lohengrin Wedding March," while
he Rev. Dcniel D. Russell, pastor of
the Irvington Presbyterian church, per
formed the ceremony. Helen and Doro
thy Gould, nieces of Miss Gould, stood
with her. CARRIED in pale pink satin,
they acted as flower girls and were
her only attendants.
The couple stood during the cere-
mony beneath a bower of American
Beauty roses with festoons of gray
white asparagus reaching almost to
the ground. The bride carried a mod
est bouquet of lilies Of the valley, her
favorite flower.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
Doctors Presentation.

In the Woman's Home Companion
appears story in which is related an
account of a prescription given to an
exceedingly stingy farmer by a doc
tor. The farmer took the prescrip-
ton to the druggist The druggist
told the farmer that he could not fill
the prescription. and said to the farm
er: IF you will read it yourself you
will see why" Whereupon the farmer
adjusted his glasses and read. to his
as .onishment: "One hired girl, 10 be
taken as soon as you can get, her, and
kept constantly on hand thereafter.
A few new dresses that the wives of
your hired men wouldn't be ashamed
to wear, and new hat and wrap to
replace those you bought her last
thirteen years ago All to be tine
tured with at least as much daily con
sideration as you bestow, upon your
cattle"
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
Dread Toll of PelIagra
in United States.

Pellagra is spreading in the United
States and in the six years it has been
known to medical authorities. has
claimed not less than 10000 victims
with fatality rate in excess of 40
per cent, according to a report of the
public health service.
''It has reached" the report con-
tends, 'the dignity of public health
question of national Importance"
The report gives these figures by
states for the period 19O7-1911: Vir-
ginia. total cases, 62S, deaths 349,
death rate per hundred cases, 55 per
cent; North Carolina, cases 2,412
deaths 1867, rate A per cent; South
Carolina, cases 1880, deaths 5S2; rate
81 per cent; Georgia, cases 4,55S,
deaths 1852, rate "a per cent; Ken
lucky, cases 513, deaths 220, rate 43
per cent; Alabama, cases 2.314. deaths
$50, rate 81 per cent; Mississippi,
cases 1856, deaths 1850, rate 43 per
cent; Louisiana. cases $40, deaths 296,
rate Al per cent.
The figures show pellagra either
prevalent or sporadic in the greater
part of the United States, but particu.
larly serious in the south.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25

plications in the last seven months
and that It has taken an extra force
of clerks, working double shift, to
complete the adjudication of about
100000 of these applications.
From May IL to the end of June,
said the commissioner, "46S.o0O APP
plications were received. Each case
had to be fully investigated and the
justification of the claim confirmed.
1t has been tremendous task, and
the fact that we have adjudicated
more than 100000 claims in the last
seven months is high tribute to the
efficiency of our office force.
"a number of complaints have been
received from veterans who have
learned that some of their friends
who filed applications on the same
day they did have already received
notification of the adjudication OF
their claims.
These complainants cannot under
stand why an application filed on the
same day should be adjudicated sew
eral weeks before theirs. This is ex-
planned by the fact that in one day
we have received as many as 3IOOo
applications. Naturally several weeks
must pass before the last of those
$4,000 claims have been attended to.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
GRAND COUNCIL HEEDs ADVICE
OF EUROPEAN POWERS TO
CEASE WARFARE.
GIVES UP ADRIANOPLE
FATE OF HGEAN ISLANDS LEFT
IN HANDS OF EUROPEAN
GOVERNMENTS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Constantinople-The Grand Council
of the Ottoman Empire voted in favor
of accepting the proposal put forward
by the European powers to bring
about the conclusion of peace.
Adrianople, her ancient capital, and
regarded by the Moslems as a holy
city, will be surrendered to the allies,
and the question of the future of the
-Egean Islands viii be submitted to
the powers for final adjudication.
The note handed to the Porte on
January 18th by the European am
bassadors at Constantinople called the
Ottoman governments attention Ito
the grave responsibility it would as
sumo if by resistance to their counsels
it should prevent the re-establishment
of peace. 1t would only have itself to
blame if the prolongation of the war
had as a consequence to put in ques-
ton the fate of the capital and per-
haps to extend hostilities to the Ash
attic provinces of the empire"
The document continued that "in
tnat case Ine IuThlSH SONeIHHltnl
could not count upon the success of
the efforts of the powers to preserve
it from the dangers against which
they had already warned it and which
they once more warned it to avoid"
The powers then called the atten-
ton of the Ottoman government to
the fact that after the conclusion of
peace it would have need of the moral
and material support of the powers to
repair the evils of war, to conciliate
its position at Constantinople and di-
vest it's Asiatic territories.
The note pointed out that the Turk
ish government could count on the eff
| ficiency of the benevolent support of
( the powers only so long as it deferred
to their counsel, inspired by the gem
eral interests of Europe and Turkey.
The powers then advised Turkey to
consent to the cession of Adrianople
and to leave to them the fate of the
4Egean Islands.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
RothschIlds Help a Composer.

curious story is told as to how
the Rothschilds supported Carafa. the
composer. The latter was far from
rich, His principal income was de-
rived from a snuff box. And this was
the way of it. The snuff box was given
to the author of la Prison d'Edim-
bourgh" about 80 years ago by Baron
James de Rothschild as token of es-
TEEN. Carafa sold 1t "a hours later
for rs napoleons to the same jeweler
from whom it had been bought. This
became known to Rothschild. who
gave it again to the musician in the
following year. The next day it re-
turned to the jewelers.. This traffic
continued till the death of the bank
er. and longer still, for his sons kept
up the tradition, to the great satisfac-
tion of Carafa.-From the Argonaut.