Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-26

aims of life. He knew little of the ex-
quisite companionship of two souls
striving in emulous spirit of loving
rivalry to become better, teaching each
other to soar He knew little of this,
Fredericka, and the life of sympathy
he refused to share with thee is want
ing to the greatness of his works"
Had he early in life married Freder-
icka, he would have been saved from
many an idle Irritation, and from that
hopeless passion for Charlotte Buff, the
heroine of his "Sorrows of Werther, )"
who, being engaged to another, was
beyond his reach "Had she been
free, p" says one of his biographers, " he
would, in all probability, have left her
as he did Frederick"
Had Fredericka been the guardian
genius of his life, that brilliant, fascin
ating, intellectual, but unprincipled
married woman of the world, the Bar
oness Won Stein, would not for twelve
years have exercised such influence
over him; and he would have escaped
that unlawful connection with Christina
Vulnius, woman in every respect I'M
worthy of him, which, after long years,
ended in marriage whose wretched-
ness he vainly tried to hide from the
world
The great poet and royal councillor,
amid all his worldly fame and honor,
knew nothing of the delights of we'll
ordered, peaceful home, to which he
could turn from the worlds turmoil for
rest and happiness; he had no congo
NAL heart to share his joys and sor-
rows, to glory in his success. And so,
without having ever harbored malice
against him who had blighted her
young life, Fredericka Brion was
avenged.
For seventeen years she had been
sleeping peacefully in the little church
yard ut Sesenheim when Goethe's sum-
mons came. In 1882, full of years and
honors, his mind undimmed, his natur-
al force undated, the great poet died.
He died TRANQUILITY, painlessly, leav-
ing name linked to immortality
through those great works which have
left their impress on his own age, and
will help to mould the thought of all
the ages yet TO come.
But the great poet, the transcendent
genius, and the sweet, gentle woman,
unknown save that her humble name is
linked to his, are equals in the sight of
God.
TIE RULING sIoN.--Henry Ward
Beecher's philosophy is rather embar-
RAISING occasionally. - WONDER" he
said the other day, "if undertakers
look on the world with professional
eyes? Do they listen to their minister
with an under-thought of what splen-
did funeral he would makel Do they
take mems lengths as they meet them?
Do they classify them as tirst-class
coffin men, second-rate coffin men,
cheap coffin menu Undoubtedly; for,
in the remarkable words of the llniver-
sal friend who rewards your confidence
by cheating you, business is bust
ness" 1t is told of some of our rough
soldiers during the late war that, meet
ing isolated members of the spruce
Seventh Regiment, they would survey
them complacently, spit on their nice
boots, and remark, with the air of art
lists who understood their business,
"What Il pooty corpse you'd make,
anyhow" This was business, too
and there is no place, from cradle to
a grave, which is free from it.
Economy OF TINE Is LABOR The
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad company have erected at Ho
boIen large trestle work, for the con-
venience of loading the tenders of their
supply of coal as fuel. The trestle
work is approached by an inclined
plane, up which the loaded cars are
pushed, and the contents of which are
then dumped into chambers prepared
below. Thirteen spouts carry the coal
to the locomotive tenders, which are
loaded in minute or so, an operation
hitherto done by hand and occupying
sometimes half an hour-an engine
taking two and half to three tons of
coal. AS now arranged, the spouts or
shoots measure accurately the coal de-
livered to each engine, and the entire
arrangement is wondrous economy of
time and labor.
ACCORDING to the Missouri Democrat,
there is Methodist clergyman preach
ing in st. Louis who expects shortly to
be able to build a churh of his own,
and live in the future Independent of
contributions from his pensioners.
The story goes that an ancestor of Mr.
Springer, the said clergyman, leased
farm III Delaware to German for one
hundred years. In the course of time
the farm was sold in parcels to different
purchasers, and became the site of a
large town. One of the defendants of
the original owner has discovered the
lnncn nn,nnn tho records of the county