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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
COuntertieiting.

THIS CITY has long been famous as the
headquarters of the cOunterfeiterS of the
United States. and as | had notion that
the new $500 bills which Father Spinner
refuses to accept at the Treasury were
made in this city, | called to-day upon a
man who could tell me all about it.
"How long" said l. "has Salt Lake
CITY been rendezvous for these counter
feiters:"
about two years"
"How many of them are here?"
"Perhaps there are dozen here now"
"What part of the territory is their
headquarters?
''Salt Lake City"
"When did you last see any quantity Of
the conterfeits :"
About year ago. a man came to me
then and showed me a hatful Of So and
SO greenbacks and said he had plenty of
that stuff. | notified United States Dis
trict-Attornev Bates, but he said there
was no way to get at them, and didn't pay
much attention TO 1t"
Didn't he make any effort to arrest
these counterfeiters?"
'He got out warrants for two of them,
but didn't offer to pay enough so any one
could make expenses, and so nothing was
ever done aboutit. We can't afford to go
into the business on nothing. Some folks
think it is an officers duty, but even they
won't work without pay. a deputy mar
shall from San Francisco came here red
hot after these fellows. He wrote three
or four letters to Washington TO the
Department, but got no answer, and
soon found out that it wouldn't pay.
He told me Congress only appropriated
enough money to keep one detective at
work on the coast, and he stays ID San
Francisco
Chow much of this stuff has been put
in circulation from this point: ?"
Forty or fifty thousand dollars, L
should suppose. There's lots OF it in cir
crlation here. Never saw any larger than
s. or SO If detectives come here It's
easv putting them on The track"
''ls it made here?"
well, | think not much. A fellow by
the name of Smith told me they make it
here He showed Inc a man he said made
greenbacks That man looked like a
miner But we couldn't make any money
out of it, so never said anything outside.
1t is made mostly in New York, and sent
out here to be showed. ."-.SaH Lake cor. N.
7. World.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
The Secret of a Wife's Power.

NOTHING is more beautiful than the be-
lief Of the faithful wife til # her husband
has all the talents, and could, if he would,
be distinguished in any walk of life; and
nothing would be more beautiful
unless this is a very dry time for signs
than the husbands belief that his
wife is capable of taking charge of any of
the affairs of this confused planet. There
is no woman but thinks that her husband,
the green grocer, could write poetry if he
had given his mind to it, or else she
thinks small beer or poetry in compari-
son with an occupation or accomplish
ment purely vegetable. 1t is touching to
see the look of pride with which the wife
turns to her husband from any more
brilliant personal presence or display of
wit than his, in the perfect confidence
that if the world knew what she knows
there would be one more popular idol.
How she magnifies his small wit and
doats upon the selfsatistied look in his
face, as if it were a sign of wisdom.
What a counselor that man would make
What warrior he would be- There are
a great many corporals in their retired
homes who did more for the safety and
success of our armies in criti-
cal moments in the late war
than any OF the hlgh-cock-a-lorum" COM
manders. Mrs. Corporal does not envy
the reputation of General Sheridan; she
knows very well who really won Five
Forks, for she has heard the story a hun
dred times, and will hear it q hundred
more with apparently uBabated interest
What a general her husband would have
made, and how his talking talent could
shine in Congress.
There isn't a wife in the world who
has not taken the exact measure of her
husband, weighed him and settled him in
her own mind, and knows him as we'll as
if she had ordered him after designs and
specifications of her own. That knOwl-
edge, however, she ordinary keeps to her
self, and she enters into a league with
her husband, which he was never ad-
mitted to the secret of, to impose upon
the world. In nine out of ten cases he
more than half believes that he is what
his wife tells him he is. AT any rate she
manages him as easily as the keeper does
the elephant, with only a bamboo wand,
and sharp spike in the end. Usually
she fiatters him, but she has the means Of
pricking clear through his side on occa-
sion. 1t is the greatest secret Of her pow
er to have him think that she thoroughly
believes in him.-Er.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
"Never, on that condition." answered

Never, on that condition." answered
Minnie, emphatically.
"And-on what, them" said he.
"None that would oblige me to leave
you ALL" said Minnie. "How pretty those
scarlet leaves look in the corner therer'
she added, lightly rising and taking step
forward
"Stop minute" said Jack. She stood
still, without replying, just on the edge of
the balcony, waiting for him to speak. |
really thought he never was going to, but
still she waited without word. Minnie -
he said at last, q am great deal older
than yoc'
'Apres?" said she, saucily l could
have shaken the little witch for her
pretenses; for, though Jack couldn't see
her face, I could, and it was all in a
quiver.
"And-but-I have cared more for you
than any thing else ever since you came
to u.s."
'And so have l, Jack" she said, all in a
breath, but hanging down her head.
was not altogether pleased with this
answer, it was so very Illogical; but it
seemed to satisfy Jack, for he caught both
her hands again and-but no, on second
thoughts won't tell you what he did, for
/ am eminently proper house, and
should not like you to get wrong idea of
me from any foolish behavior Of my own
ers. III tell you instead what did:
gave tremendous crack that startled
them both. Minnie gave a little scream.
Its nothing but the walls, said Jack,
reassuringly. '1ts often SO with new
houses?"
"Are you sure?'' said Minnie, peering
round through the twilight. Il thought
perhaps somebody might have seen
Only think, Jack, if walls had eyes as
well as earsr'
IfeI cracked again, louder than be-
fore, this time with amusement.
"Oh dearl' said Minnie, pretending
fright in so pretty way that excused
the temporary imbecility of Jacks face.
"Do let us get away before the ceiling
| tumbles about our earsn'
1t is some years since that evening.
Jack has had a kind of covered piazza
built between us two houses, the old and
the new, and it would really be difficult
to say which Of Us the family live in. All
that can be said with any certainty is that
take Us all together, we are very happy
family indeed, and, spite of our semi-sep-
| aration, an uncOmmOnly uniled one.
This is the real, reliable history of the
house that Jack built l give you my
word there is not a syllable Of truth in
| that absurd old rigmarole about the cat
and the rat and the malt, and all the rest
of it; and if you continue to pin your
faith to it in the teeth of my assurance, it
will only be out of the obstinacy peculiar
to the human race.-Harper's Bazar
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
Miscellany
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
81 KATE PUTNAM OsGOoD.


JACK HEAToN-I dare say might sound
more respectful 10 say Mr. John Heaton,
but nobody else ever did so within my ex-
perience, and l don't know why / need
J1c5 Heator., / repeat was thirty-eight
years old we'll oil, good-natured, good
looking, and unmarried. Why he was
unmarried | really can't tell YOU; | never
heard of his having had disappOint-
mCnt, and know his mother would have
liked nothing better than to see him set
lied with a wife of the right sort. How
ever, that has nothing to DO with the pres
cut matter: my story IS mainly Minnie's
story, and Jacks only so far as he had TO
10 with her.
Who was Minnie? What, you dontknOw
ti1ti Well, then, Minnie was the orphan
child OF one of Jacks college classmates,
has best and oldest friend Something
like six years before the time | am going
to describe, Jack came home to dinner
one day in a brown-s.udy, and when re-
minded by his mother that salt was nicer
than sugar in soup, answered, abruptly:
Mother, poor Walter Gorham's little
Eiri, it seems, IS left with no particular
home or means.'
And my generous, eXtravagant boy has
made up his mind to provide both, 1 can
SEE. put in Mrs Hcaton, smiling at him.
Jack was over thirty then, but, rs | have
agen noticed, a man is always boy to
Ills mother, even if he were a very Methu-
.alch III years.
The generosity, if there is any, would
ue pretty much on your side, am afraid,
mother rejoined Jack, for the care
would come on you; still, | can't bear TO
think Of poor old Walters child wanting
anything we could give her; so, If you
wcreE afraid Of finding her too great u
trouble"
Not a bit of trouble, said Mrs HeatoA,
without a moments pause for reflection.
ItJack's generosity was extravagant, it
Was easy to see where he got it! Haven't
I wanted girl of my own all my life: 2"
Yes, | know | was disappointment
-a you, mother" put in Jack, with whom
this was an old joke.
As If ! would change my boy for all
tie girls in the world Sull | suppose
That doesn't prevent my liking to try my
hand on one
SO that Is the way il was settled, and
Minnie Gorbam, shy, pale little damsel
II twelve, came 90 live in the Heaton's
house-the old house, mind YOU, for that
was before | was So much as thought of.
hard as l find that TO understand now
There she grew up 10 a girl Of seventeen.
neither shy nor pale then, but with about
tine brightest eyes and clearest laugh to be
found in the whole neighborhood, as more
than one individual had discovered al
ready.
1t was somewhere about this time that
Jack Heaton, coming home one spring
day, was impressed, as he closed the door
behind him, by the unwonted quiet OF the
house. No head peeped into the hall to
welcome him; there was nobody in the
parlor, nobody in the sitting-r6om, no
hedy in the diningroom. Jack penetrated
rs tar rs the kitchen, ana there. finally. he
came upon Minnie, half eztinguishcd in a
blue cotton apron several sizes too large
for her, with her sleeves tucked UP from
Ler round white arms, and her curly hair
al thrust away at the back of her head in
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
Early Rising.

THE philosophy which urges the ex-
cellence of early rising has been very
rudely and successfully shaken. Charles
Lamb has shown that there is as much
excess in rising with the lark and lying
down with the lamb as in the practice
referred to in Moore's song, which recon-
mends lengthening of our days by taking
"a few hours from the night, my dear."
That philosophy was shaken in the early
days Of the world by two sleepy children,
who came under the rebuke Of vigilant
fathers.
MY son." remarked the sire, II
once found piece of gold by rising ear
ly."
"Ay,n rejoined young hopeful, "but
the man who lost it was up before you"
NV SON" said the other worthy par
ent, 'sobserve that it's the early bird that
catches the worm"
Il do, o my fatherp' replied the excel
lent boy: "also that the worm was caught
by getting up earlier than the bird, -
L0td0n .4theHeum.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
VOLUME XXVI.
4 COUNTRY Walk.
BY MARY B. DODGE,

BY MARY B. DODGE.
Twas earliest autumn; up the road
To where the shade-trees blended.
And where the gathering sunbeam= glowed,
My willing steps / wendcd.
Around the barn the trodden way
Curved carelessly, and drifted
Whittier in ricks the roweu lay,
By sWarlhy hands uplift-d.
And further on. a little space
1T passed Il neighbOrs : dwelling,
Where thrift bare sign Of rustic grace,
A humble peace foretelling.
Up. speeding DER the stony path
To gain the summit shaded.
My foot. I'm sure, not often hath
Been swectlier persuaded.
For It's not stone or hill that makes
Our walk in life seem weary.
But grief which silently o'ertakcs
Ihc heart-aforeiIme CHEEKY.
Which chills the glow of eastern sun,
And dims it, western fringes,
And with an all-pcryading dun
The blucst heaven tinges;
And lays the listless foot upon
The CObblc's rougheSt edges.
And bids the thistle seem the one
Lone blossom OF the hedges.
But had hidden Grief good-by.
Had bound her with a Iether),
And only Happiness was nigh,
And we two strolled together.
We laughed at bouldcrs and at broom
That hcmmed the downy thistlcs,
As, bent to cast their purple bloom,
We spurncd the horny bristles
We plucked the hawk-weed that the bees
In earnest haste were slipping.
Into each azure cup with ease,
Their bills demurtly dipping.
We found wild carrot even a JOY,
so fair it tine-spuu feather,
And beauty everywhere, though coy,
Amid the tawny heather.
The mint, the golden-rod, the fern,
The pink Of sweetest clover.
The CardEal-hOwcr whose petals burn
With crimson bushes over;
The grasses that oerreaching run
Through ali Inc tangle, threading
The brown with silver; and the sun
About us softly spreading,
Were just so many atcheries
To hold us by the spleudor
OF generous sunlight from the trees
That made the hill-tops tender.
Yet on we went, and stepped athwart
The butterfy's gay showing,
Whose iightsOmeness might well assOrt
With our still gladsome going.
The techy hornet scarcely held
A terror in his Winglug,
While all around IL soothing sWelcd
The calm cicada's singing.
And so we reached the bower of shade
Through which the sun was cleaning,
And in lis dappled amhuscade
Yielded 10 pleasant dreaming.
And dreamed this dream-that he who VIII,
Find peace III lOwliest places,
And if he scales the stOuiest hill
Alert, but for its graces.
His eye, grown quick 10 nearest things.
Shall read the wilder pages
OF distant vision, as though wings
Were his TO spar the ages.
Not idle then my morning walk,
That led me, by the sweetness
OF little wild flowers simple talk.
To learn of lifc'7 completeness;
To see that in the homeiiest ways,
Which tend 20 higher gl0riGs,
Gods love is there, and cheers the days
myriad charming stories
-Ctrjsfiaa Union.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23

Il COME to steal,' as the rat observed to
the trap. And spring to embrace you,"
as the trap replied to the rat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
THE 1NTERNAnoNAIisrs SUBJECTED.
Church EdilIce Destroyed Hy Fire in
Br00kiyn.

Tie Central Presbyterian Tabernacle,
OF Brooklyn, of which Rev. I. Dewitt
Talmadge was pastor, was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning. The fire broke
out at $50 A. n, tie sexton and his as
sistant being tile oily PERSONS IN the
building at the time, and originated in
one of the fires, bursting forth sudden
ly. AS soon as discovered the sexton
rang the bell and gave an alarm which
brought thousands. of spectators to the
scene. An attempt was matte 70 e8tin=
guish the flames with pals of water,
but without avail. The fire had made
rapid progress when the fremen
arrived. A strong gale was blowing,
and the flames swept around the
church, devouring everything III
tbs Wy. The ceiling and walls,
which were corrugated ifor, became
red-hot, and curled off The maintiioth
jubilee organ soon burned to cinder,
and the whole interior of the edifce
became one mass of fame. By the ex-
ertions of the fremen the fire was con-
fined to the church, The roof fell in
at half past two; and scen after the
cupola, with the bell, weighing 2,CCo
JOuiIlS" iuS 4dUclud WIS 6I6Cu6u
in 1870, and cost $75, 000 Being built
of corrugated iron, it was considered
as fire proof, and was enlarg-
ed. in 1871 SO as to seat
4,100 poop1e. Fot 1t was purchased
the Boston Coliseum organ the largest
in the country. The floating debt
was paid off in September, 1871, and
the income Of the church exceeded the
expenditures Estimated loss $95, 900;
insurance $45, 900 in Eastern companies.
At a meeting Of the trustees held at 12
O'Clock, a communication was received
from Henry Ward Beecher rendering
the use of Plymouth Church
to Mr.. Talmadge and his con
gregation for evening service, which
offer was accepted, and vote of thanks
rendered thereto. The trustees of the
Lafayette Avenue and Clason Avenue
Presbyterian Churches also offered the
use of their respective churches.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
The Duchesse ,.sAngOuIeme Pear.

Fuller, in his Pear Culturist, relates
the following bit of romance in connec-
ton with the celebrated Duchesse
d'Angouleme pear: A French noble
man, observing his tenant about to de-
stroy fine, thrifty pear tree, inquired
the cause. He has told that it was a
chance Seeding, and had borne no
fruit in twenty years. He had already
cut it's roots preparatory to the first
stroke, but was ordered to let it remain.
He did SO, and in the following year it
was loaded with superb fruit of an en-
tirely unknown variety, which at once
became celebrated. The root pruning
the gardener had given it worked like
charm. Not many years afterwards,
when the Duchesse d'Angouleme was
passing through Lyons, its inhabi-
tants sent to her their hospitalities.
Nine fair maidens presented the
Duchesse with golden salvers, on which
lay heaped this precious fruit, and
begged her to bestow on it her name,
and the pear, now recognized as the
crowninS glory of all fruits, was
thence forward known as the Duchesse
d'Angouleme. d
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
A Very Singular STORY of Weasel.

From the Newburg Telegraph, Dec. 12
The following story was told to us as
being a positive fact, the narrator pro
Tossing to be one of the workingmen
who witnessed the performance OF the
said weasel A party Of men who were
prying stone in a field, found under
a rock nest containing four young
weaseIs, which they captured and put to
one side. Upon the return of the old
weasel quite scene ensued. She be-
came very much excited and very
angry, and at once set off, but soon
returned, and, going straight to the
little pail containing the drinking water
for the men, she spit something into 1t,
and was about to go off a second time,
when she discovered her nest and her
young, all alive and unharmed: She
Immediately returned to the pail, and
continued jumping and pushing at it
until it was overturned, thus saving
the lives of the men she evidently
meant to punish for the destruction OF
her offspring.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
NO. 9.
HURRICANES.
The Theory of a Spanish Naval Office,

The Theory of a Spanish Naval amcer.
The Anuario del Deposito Hidro.
gratieo OF Madrid contains paper BY
Lieutenant f. Carrasco Guisasola. Of
the Spanish navy, in which new theo.
| ry OF cyclones is very plausibly set
forth. The author admits, with other
writer's, that electricity PLAYS a great
part in these and other phenomena,
Before water spout appears the mari
ner percelves number of black c1ouds
which speedily congregate in q single
spot. The lowest of them soon descends
IN the shape of an inverted cone.
the apex OF which seems to touch the
surface of the sea. The waters below
get agitated at it's approach, and emit
9 vapor which rises up like smoke.
Sometimes a circular depression Is
formed Just below the cone. as if a v;o.
lent wind were blowing from the apex
very rarely the inverse occurs. namely.
the rising OF the sea to meet the spout.
The latter is generally accompanied
with lightning, thunder, hail and rain,
Here, then, electricity contributes it's
snare, out 1t cannot easily be proved
that 1t IS the cause of the phenomenon,
or OF hurricanes generally.
70 lind this our author selects as
suitable examples the typhoons of the
Chinese Sea, and founds his reasoninps
on the following hypothesis: "a
zone or belt of air, saturated with
aqueous vapor, and compressed by two
opposite forces as much as it can pos.
sibly be, acquires the power of resist
ance peculiar to solid bodies, and may
therefore Demade to revolve like hard
disk under the influence of those
forces" Now the origin of the mon
soon in the Chinese Sea is generally
attributed to the rarefaction of the at
mosphere caused by the radiation of
heat from the great continent, and the
consequent attraction of air from the
sea to fill up the vacuum. This
induces northeast trade.wind, which
passes over the Philippine Islands, and
ends In the Pacific at about two hun
dred leagues from it's eastern shores.
SO does also the southwest monsoon
and between these two winds there
exists in that ocean zone of calms
which shifts its position in accordance
with the prevailing wind; that is,
always on the side of the weaker one.
Now this zone is the one which our
author considers in the light of solid. |
II exposed to two opposite and equal
winds, it will be compressed. but not
more than the water it contains will |
allow. IF the wind be obIique to each
otlef attd Unequal, the zone will re-
volve, and, as it finds no obstacle to
stop it, it will also be shifted more or
less horizontally. Now this is exactly
the motion of cyclones; these storms
will occur oftener in rainy than in other
years; and soon after the rains if the
latter should happen to fall at the be-
ginning of the northeast monsoon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
James River affd Kanawi,a Canal.

Tie bill Introduced in the House by
Gen. Negley for The construction of a
James River and Kanawha Canal, di-
rects ths Secretary of War to lay out,
construct, en1afge, and improve a
waterway by canal, river, slack water,
or sluice, from tide water,on the James
to the Ohio at the mouth of the Kama
wha River, which is to befor the entire
distance seventy feet wide and seven
feet deep, With sufficient number Of
locks, 100 by twenty feet, and naviga-
BILE for boats of $50 tons, To pay the
expense of this work the Secretary of
the Treasary is directed to issue
So, 900, 900 Government A per cent 10
SO bonds, principal and interest paya-
bis iii gold The States OF Virginia
and West Virginia are to eede to the
United States all ownership and iuris-
diction of the property, and the Gen
eral government is also to extinguish
by purchase the stock, and pay off the
debts 0f the existing corporations,
whose property would be taken by the
new enterprise. The Secretary Of the
Interior is to select commissioners from
each of the States of Pennsylvania,
Chic. Kentucky, Virginia, Ind1=
ana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa,
whose terms Of Office shall be
si8 Fears, one-third of the number to
be appointed every second year, who
are to nave full cottrol and manage
ment of the Ohio and Atlantic Canal,
and are to establish its tolls and gef1i
orally direct its operations. When the
revenues of the canal have paid the
pfifeipal and interest of the bonds ls-
sued in aid Of It's construction no tolls
are afterward to be collected, and the
canal will continue a public tighws
of commerce. The last section OF the
bill prohibits any member of Congress
from being interested in any contract
Tor construction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
Affecting Scene in a Death Chamber.

E.
Last week very amiableyoung lady
of this city died after a long and lin
gering illness, with that fatal disease
consumption She was IN full posses
sion of her faculties, and conversed
with her relatives almost to the instant
when she peacefully fell asleep. She
was girl of over twenty years OF age,
and had always borne an exemplary
character, and for her death had few
terrors:: Some months ago an aunt to
whom she was greatly attached died,
and half hour before this young girl
died she said to her weeping relatives
who were around the bed: " Aunt
Maggie was here a few moments ago,
but she has gone I want to go and be
at rest, but I can't leave until she re-
turns to go with me. [ can't leave I'M
til she comes back for me.