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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
See This Sunday Evening.

Platteville Journal: Sunday evening
last the :roon was in close company
with Jupiter and Venus in the western
sky. Jupiter and Venus will get to-
gether little closer every evening and
Sunday evening next will be in con
junction Their centers will be less
than half a degree apart, and they will
appear almost as huge double star
making spectacle equaled only by the
moon.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
Hurt While BREAKING a Colt.

Shullsburg Pick and Cad: Thoma
oymons was quite badly hurt last
Saturday evening while breaking IA colt
He does not know whether the horse
kicked him Or reared up and ran over
him but when discovered by the family
he was unconscious and had a cash
cut on his chin which required four
stitches, and his eye was bruised and
blood shot. His family carried him
into the house and called physician,
who made him as comfortable as pos
sible and he is getting along nicely.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
MRS. MELONS LETTER
To Tired WORKOUT Mothers

jackson, Miss.-"I shall feel repair
for writ is letter if ! can help ar!
tired, wou.-v-,, mother or housekeertl
to find heaiSn and strength as ! have.
q have q taraily Of five, sew, coc-l
and do my hvl.>vwork and became TecJ
much rundown in health. A frleLG
asked me to try Vinol. Ibid so and rev
/ am we'll and strong and my old time
energy has been restored. Vinol has no
superior as a tonic for WORKOUT, run
down, tired mothers or housekeepers.
Mrs. j. N. MELTON, Jackson, Miss.
PRIDEAUX & BLISS, Druggists.
Mineral Point, Wis
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17

telling his father that night, "but he
vas snch a help he didn't have to be
told to do a thing, and | am not bit
tired tonight, he did so much"
George felt that he had done some
good deeds that day and he knew it
was the attic Brownie who had put
him on the right track to become a
man, but he didn't say word. He
just kept on doing as the Brownie
told him to do.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17

Y 0 II I BOSS was
foorwalker. Get
busy and sink
the ship. you one
e ye d banshee.
P h o e b e! Hin!
Sounds as mild
as a milkmaid.
You can't judge
a woman by her
n q N e. w b y
couldn't | have
had a man star?
l can't make the
remarks to PhOe-
be. you belfast
edr
For eight days
gales and squalls
and waterspouts
beat us from our
course. Five days
only should have
landed us in ES-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
MAkG,.G A TRAP OF NETTING
Gate Arranged to Permit Rabbits to
Enter Enclosure, but Prevents
Them From Getting Out.

A rabbit trap of new type that is
quickly and easily fixed in position for
use consists simply of an Enclosure
formed of wire netting and equipped
with a gate of such form that it per-
nlits the rabbits to enter but prevents
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
THE ATTIC BROWNIE.

1t was raining very hard and it was
Saturday, too, so George did not feel
very pleasant when he came down to
breakfast.
Il think we will have to eat a pic
mic lunck,' said Georges mother. 81
have so much to do | wish you would
amuse baby after he has his nap,
George. That will give me time to
get the house in order and the cook
ing done before father comes home to
dinner"
But George did not care about be-
ing nursemaid, as he called it, and in
stead of answering his mother in a
cheerful manner he looked very cross
and kept on eating his breakfast with
out making any reply.
He could not go out, that was GER
tain, for the rain came down thick
and fast, and there was no place he
could go in the house that his mother
could not ask him to help her. Yes,
there was. George got up from his
chair, when he thought of it, and
softly tiptoed up the back stairs with
a book under his arm.
1t was the attic, where there was a
storeroom. If he closed the door he
could not hear her call him, and if he
didn't hear her call he could not be
blamed if he did not help. How was
he to know when baby awoke?
How long he read he did not know,
but suddenly froa, somewhere near
him he heard someone say: "You
can't hear your mother CALL can you?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
His Orders Backfired.

Employer Ito office boy)-If anyone
calls, James, remember that / am not
in. (Half an hour later)-Didn't you
hear me call, you young idiot?
James-Yes, sir; but l fought yer
wasn't ~.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
TRIPLE RUNNERS ON A SLED
Safe and Speedy-Under Con-
troll at All Times.

A couple of novelties in the con-
struction of sleds have been recently
introduced Not long ago there ap-
peared one with single runner, which
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17

them from getting out. The trap is
made up of two pieces, one straight
and the other bent to semicircle, and
it is set up simply by joining these
pieces together at the ends.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
A Question for Paw.

Little Lemuel-Say, paw?
Paw-Well, what is it, son?
Little Lemuel-What holds the rain
up when it doesn't rain?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17

)U are a man of
m a n y adven-
lures and va
ri ed en- t e r
prises," | said
to Captain Pa
tricio Malone.
DO you be-
lieve that the
noSSihlp ole
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
O. HENRY
Stories
VE.-PhOebe
BY O. HENRY
copyright by Doubleday, Page & Col

copyright by Doubleday, Page & Col
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

granite and brick and the ~pinnacles of
the city, where the searchlights were
playing. There were none of the re
gents soldiers about. she told him.
The assault which had swept over n
"a had broken down soon afterward;
the enemy were killed or taken or
driven back. but the Americans had
not yet reformed their positions along
that part of the water front.
She led him through choked. debris
strewn streets, with smoldering ruins
on both sides. where sentinels chal-
lenged them. and she answered and
was allowed to lead him on. She led
him past eharred ruins and great,
gaunt heaps of brick and stone and
plaster and steel beams. where men
searched with electric flashlights. she
led him into a street-a wide street, a
ragged. eerie. spectral caricature OF
Broadway. where she was challenged
again and where a great gun was fir
ing. 1t was n long barreled gun of the
sort seen on warships, but it was
mounted upon a truck. which stood on
a car track and moved away after the
gun had been fred up into the air.
The girl turned with Jim into a build
ing. where he lay down upon a cot and
went to sleep.
Upon the second morning after that
he was assigned to a company and
fought desperately as the regents
troops slowly but surely battered New
York TO pieces. The regulars had been
withdrawn; only the militia remained.
From high up on the Metropolitan
tower-the regents guns had blasted
away the brick and stone, but most OF
the steel framework still stood-Jim
gazed at conquered country beyond
the Manhattan meats. In that circle
within his horizon there lived. or had
lived. one-sixteenth of the population
of the United States. The millions of
Manhattan had disappeared. Ordered
away by the American army authori,
ties, driven in headlong fight by the
regents shells. they had fed, as Jim
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

himself a observed. by the thousand
as far as Chicago.
Some men went quite mad under the
shock of the shells, but the sane
fought on.
The Croton aqueducts were cut The
men drank water stored in tanks and
bathtubs or brought from the reser-
voir in the park. They foraged from
under the burned and shattered build
ings. They cooked with the kindling
of mansion panels and balustrades, of
tenement floors and walls.
Then their lines about the city broke,
and the garrisons of the trenches, fall
ing back upon the gaunt. battered skel-
etons of the great steel buildings, be-
came city guerillas. From building to
building they fought and, dying. made
the regent pay At last where the
Americans gathered came the order
from Bainbridge, Let every man save
himself as he cam"
1t meant that, though here and there
a building held out or a cellar was
garrisoned, the fortress was taken. 1t
no longer served to hold any great
force of the enemy His ships were
at the ruins of the quays.
ITO Be Continued.)
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10
on toward the ramparts of N "a.

The twenty-five men there were be-
coming trained to holding a position.
or Winslow and Houston had %convine-
ed them all that If a man tried to run
he surely would be shot through the
head. So. as the regents men moved
ON IN "a" twenty-five rifles fired over
the cotton bales.
"Bayonets now. boys! Bayonetsi
Stand up and give 1t to them! They're
coming. Give 1t to them! Oh. stand
and give EN- the steel or you'll get it!
Now-bayonets. B~ayonets''
The recruits could not all stand to
that. Some of them ran and were
shot. not by Winslow or Houston. but
by the regents men. Others fell down
and tried TO hide behind the cotton
bales. But when Winslow jumped up
on a bale to fight and Houston. STUN
bling a little because of his wooden
leg, stood up also others followed
them. Paddy Kilbane. for one. and
for another Swenson. the ex-janitor.
Jim Ashby fought beside him.
Steel against steel. Kilbane was
IuiCh. Iit iuHSCd ioN anu SOt a man
before one got him. But Swenson was
a bit slow. He tried to club his mus
ket and was thrust through. Yet the
man opposite Jim was fighting with
dubbed musket. and Jim could not
reach him. Instead, jim went down.
quite helpless. but not quite uncon-
scious. and felt other men falling upon
him. They did not move because they
were dead. and as he did not 10Y the
enemy considered him dead also. They
went over him and past him about
business which they had yet to do
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10
NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS
In VIA NGERN OLE NEW RSE

To John S. Newman and Joanna Newman:
BY virtue of an order OF the Court of Cham
Gerry made on the day of the date hereof, in a
cause wherein Ida j. Calhoun is complain
ant, and you and others are defendants, you
are required to appear, plead, emu or ans
wer to the complainants bill on or before the
fourteenth day OF December, next, or the said
bill will be taken as confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose a mortgage
given by John s. Newman, ct ux., to Lids j.
Lots 1854 to 500 inclusive, Plan A, Cape May
Real Estate Company, Cape May, N and
you Jobn S. Newman are made a defendant
Joanna j. Newman are made a defendant be-
cause you as the wife of John S. Newman
claim to ave some interest in said premises.
HORACE +. NIXON,
Sol'r of Complt,
3l7 Market Street, Camden, MI.
Dated October 18th, 1916. Prs fees $500
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

INV
farther on. So Jim. utterly spent and
nerveless. rested. Every one about
him was dead. Finally he fell asleep.
When he awoke Jim gazed on the
faces of the dead about him. Paddy
Kilbane, the Irish boy who had been a
shipping clerk till a couple of weeks
ago and who had been picked to try
out In the infield with the Cubs. had
been thrust through the heart. The
bayonet had pushed from his pocket a
scrap of lace. all crimson now. Jim
recalled 1.-THE handkerchief Paddy
had found in the seat of the train
which had belonged to n of the beau
tiful refugees who had fed TO Chicago.
So Paddy had kept it, the guerdon
from his unknown lady for whom he
had fought. Well. the Irish boys gal
lantries were over. He was very bold
and handsome, as the star shell show
ed him. There seemed almost a smile
on his lips. He lay as he would have
liked to lie If one of those blushing
little colleens who came to the camp
in Chicago should ONE to see him
now.i Swedy Swenson. who had car
ried his rifle like a mop, was bayonet-
ed through and through. He was not
at all neal now. Swedy would not like
that. Swedy had written a letter a
few days before. Jim found it and put
it in his pocket. Winslow was dead,
too. So was Houston-every man of
the company except Jim, who had
faced that charge. The others were
dead, too-those who could not face it.
He took a rifle and was fumbling
about dead mems belts and bandoliers
for cartridges when he heard some n
approaching. He crouched very still
and waited. A star shell blazed and
showed him a girls slight figure bend
ing over the bodies at the other end
of N 81. Jim watched her dazedly,
amazed. She was alone. Besides him
self she was the only living thing in
the light of the star shell. Its light
burned out, but the girl continued her
search in the darkness. She worked
slowly in Jim's direction. examining
each still form. Jim waited for an
other star shell to show her to him
again; she was quite close now. She
was a girl of twenty-five or twenty
three, he guessed, with clear cut fea-
lures. She wore shirt waist and plain
skirt and she was without hat. She
looked like an American girl. That
definition included. Jim realized. Mar
ion Marlatt as well as Agnes. She
might be of the other side. but Jim
believed she was not. She had come
to Winslow's body now and was turn
ing it over
'"Those men are all dead" Jim ad.
dressed her quietly.
She Strengthened and looked about
quickly, but without starting. Where
are your" she asked in a low. gentle
voice.
Here" Jim stood up.
"You are hurt?"
No; l was-just resting here"
81 see" She came closer and gazed
at him. She showed no surprise that
he, unhurt, had lain there TO rest. She
simply took his hand and began lead
ing him away. She guided him ly the
flare of the star shells over the debris,
away from the river toward the great
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

SiS1I VI Ills IIle uDu IlOuSlOu , fOlCc
commanded hin. to fire.
He fired as they were firing from
the other windows and all up and
down the river front-riles. machine
guns, artillery: they all were going.
There a boat sank: but, oh. the shells!
The gun behind was not firing any
more.
Aim ahead of the boats or at the
front .of them. Pick out one boat and
shoot at that; don't shift from boat to
boat Keep on one and fire slowly.
slowly! Sight your rifles. Aim. aim.
aim. men: hen fire. Aim at the front
of the boatsl'
That meant the boats were coming
on. The shells. They were smother
ing the guns on this side: they were
killing all the rest of the rifiemen on
both sides Of n "a. There couldn't
were coming on. Jim and those few
men about him who hadn't been killed
yet were the only ones firing at the
boats. They We're fighting all those
men alone.
Fix bayonets!"
Company F could not do that.
Though the first boats from the smoke
were dashing to the docks before N
81; though the shell fire from across
the river had stopped now that the
regents men were landing: though
they were rushing n "a with boat.
loo1 aftou, 1aaf1aa1 - -o1li,r n
Company F could not move to meet
them. Company f had held under
fire. Winslow and his sergeants some.
how had held his men behind the bales
of the first floor of n 81; above. it had
been Houston.
Jim Ashby was the only corporal
there; the lieutenant and the sergeants
were killed. Corporal Ashby therefore
was in command. But he could not
ven fix bayonet to his W rifle. He
could not rise and start to charge
those yelling men below. much less
force others to charge. He could stick
to his post at the window and he could
fire. He had fixed that in his mind. OF
the wooden legged fiend had fixed II
there for him. So he and the rest
held their places and fired while the
regulars" who had held the positions
on both sides. rushed out with bayo
nets flashing and drove the yelling
charging men back to the water, then
tumbled them into it and shot the 9th
ers who were climbing up.
Then more boats came. But from
the lower river American destroyers
dashed up with quick firing guns al
booming. The batteries In Brooklyn
turned upon them. They sank n Of
the ~destroyers. now another. A third
blew up. But how they had driver
through those boats.
The shells! They were bursting
ceaselessly, furiously again about \
"a. That meant-Houston was yell
ing it-that the attack was beaten
back; the regents men were retreat
ing; they were no longer trying tt
land.
The guns across the river shellet
the American positions now to cover
the retreat. They kept up the shell
fire for half an hour longer in revenge
for the check. Then there vas a ces
sation of the fire. jim Ashby, very
weak, but glowing within with the
sense of heroic achievement, turned
about and saw Houston. The wooden
legged man was kneeling beside Sven
sen and caring for a hurt in "Swedy's'
head
Corporal" he said quietly, 1.-The boys
on each side of us got us through, and
the general could better have had us
take more loss. We must get the bay
onet into our minds. Next time WI
must be able to %bayonet!.'
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10
CHAPTER XXI.
The Charge.

n YOT the next time, nor yet the
VI next, nor the next, was Com
Y pany f, a band of twenty-five
men now, able to bayonet.
N "a, as a building, was gone. N "a
had become purely a position, a ram
part of cotton bales and ballast bags
chinked up with bricks and stone
from the debris of the warehouse. 1t
was a section of firing trench which
girded the Manhattan water front from
the Battery to the Bronx and then
along the Hudson and the Harlem. too,
as the regent drew his lines about the
billion dollar fortress of Manhattan.
1t was ten days after that first as
sault, according to Jim's reckoning
the reckoning did not agree with that
of Kilbane. who knew 1t was eleven
d%ays-that the infantry of the regent
crossed TO Manhattan island nea the
old line Of Manhattan bridge. The reg
ulars, who had held the line up there,
must have been killed, and the Ameri-
can batteries about there either were
destroyed or out of ammunition. That
was IIOiS llAely, Jill IuOuSuI lOT IL
twenty-five men at N 81 couldn't get
rifle cartridges except at night when
some one crept to the opening of
the subway the artillerymen farther
away must be having their troubles.
Or perhaps more of the guns had burst
and killed their crews.
Guns were bursting pretty often now.
Jim knew, but that wasn't strange;
they were defective guns-a lot of 200
guns made fer the allies during the Eu-
ropean war. They hadn't been accept
ed on account of defects, so they'd
been returned, and when this war came
the army had grabbed them, for at
least they were guns; they would shoot
q good many times, maybe, before they
burst. Suppose they were going to
kill the men who had to fire them!
More American men would be killed if
the guns weren't fired, if riflemen were
going to try to fight infantrymen and
artillery without any artillery support
at all. Besides. if the Americans used
those defective, foreign guns the Amer
lean factories could supply them with
shells right away without having to
change a pattern or rip out a machine.
The regents men were coming on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

. YOT the next time, nor yet the
A next, nor the next, was Com
Y pany f, a band of twenty-five
men now, able to bayonet.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

mo; l was-just resting here"
81 see." She came closer and gazed
at him. She showed no surprise that
he, unhurt, had lain there TO rest. She
simply took his hand and began lead.
ing him away. She guided him ly the
flare of the star shells over the debris,
away from the river toward the great
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-10

ITO Be Continued.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-06-19
ASSISTANT CABINET
 OFFICER IS VISITING
 ALASKAN OFFICIALS

Assistant Attorney-General Charles Warren was an Interior bound pas senger on the Mariposa. and dis cussed matters pertaining to the De- partment of Justice with Judge R. W. Jennings and Assistant District Attorney J. J. Reagan while the ship was in port yesterday Mir. War ren will go as far inland as Fort Yukon. where he has wired District Attorney R. F. Roth. of Fairbanks. to meet him.. After discussing Fed eral matters with Mr. Roth at that place he will return to Juneau and may meet District Attorney w. N. Spence of Valdez here or in Sc attle.
 MT. Warren says that there is nothing of special importance con nected with his Alaskan visit. but that there were several department matters of which he desired to dis cuss with the proper officials.
 Expect Wilson Victory.
 Mir. Warren. who halls from Mas sachusetts. is confident that Presi dent Wilson will be reelected Presi dent. He says the President is popular with the people. and that when called upon 10 pass verdict upon his policies he believed that the verdict will be one Of approval.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-06-19
ELKs sLUFFED WEATHER
 MAN AND ANNUAL PICNIC
 WAS ONE BIG JOLLY TIME

The Elks Annual Picnic for 1916 is now history Yesterday was the day and as promised, the day was good one. the Elks having success fully bluffed the weather man. The picnic party statred from Juneau m automobiles at 10 o'clock. and they continued Co run 10 and from the picnic grounds at Salmon creek all day.
 At 8 o'clock in the morning the ''Eiks' Band" paraded the streets or Juneau in an automobile. They were on the dock and serenaded the Ma riposa as she landed. and also ser enaded Gov and Mrs. J. F. A. Strong and Mayor and Mrs. B. ID. Stewart, and Exalted Ruler Erie son.
 enjoyed the day to the fullest eX- tent An old fashioned barbecue, dance. games. sporting contests. in cluding an indoor baseball game. and band concerts were among the amusement features staged 10 enter tain. An interesting contest was held by number of the Elks in which they drank milk, water beer. and other ingredients from nursing bottles for prize Henry Erie was not the winner as his bottle was corked.
 The picnic lasted until after five o'clock last night and the party re- turned to town tired and happy. vot- ing the picnic one of the most sue cessful that the Elks have given.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-06-19
HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED ON THE NOVEL FRONT TEUToNlc RETREAT
 NOW FEARED

LONDON. June 1s.-Heavy fighting is reported between the Russians, advancing toward KOvel. and the Germans. This Is reported by the Berlin Tageblattz from correspond ent at the Austrian headquarters according Co an Amsterdam dis patch Go the Exchange Telegraph. The Russians are in superior num- berS and the dispatch asserts that the Tageblattz account of the fight ing is SO worded as tO prepare Ser lin for news of another Teutonic re- treat.
 According to the battle news. the Austrians have taken up fresh posi- tions between Czernowitz and the Dneister where they are awaiting further Russian attacks. In the middle Stripa sector on a direct line 70 Lemberg. the German General vou Bothmer is reported to be main iaining his advance against heavy pressure of Russians. To the north iu Galicia and yolhynia the Rus sians are meeting with desperate resistance on the part Of the Aus tro Hungarians and Germans It is stated that some of the latter Ger man troops have been brought from the verdun front tO stem the Rus sian advance
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-06-19
MURDER OF WOMAN
 IN SEATTLE PROVES
 MYSTERY FOR POLICE

SEATTLE, June 19.-The murder of the woman known as Blanche b. Coleman. in her apartments at the Christie hotel. early Saturday morn ing continues to be one of the my steries for the police to mravel. John Soudas. cigar dealer who was arrested shortly after the wo- mans body was found with her throat cut, denies that he committed the crime although blood was spat- tered on his clothes and hands
 The police claim that Soudas and the woman quarreled. Two weeks ago the dead woman secured a d. vorce fiom Clyde Harpool She then took the name of Coleman, which was her first name. She is known to be the daughter of F. D. Gros- venor. prominent man of Omaha
 The woman's jewelry valued at several thousand dollars Is missing but the police claim that robbery was not the motive for the crime.