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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
Pumpkins as Cow Feed.

WE do not hear or read so much as
formerly about the necessity of having
ones lands analysed by some protesting
chemist before we can possibly know it's
value for farming purposes. though at
one time this was very much insisted on
by those who supposed farming as sci
ence was but just in its infancy. The
fact soon came out that there was some
thing in plant life which chemistry could
not reach, and which seemed to set all
chemical rules at defiance 1t is the
same in animal as in plant life The
chemist takes the dead ANIMAL and find
ing the structure made up of certain ele-
ments he examines the food, and those
articles in which he finds the greatest
abundance he regards as the best for
food But experience, our great teacher,
does not always find these conclusions
come out true. Agassiz told us that
fishes contained more of the elements
required to make brains than any other
kind of animal food and, by inference,
he taught that those who would be bright
and intellectual should eat largely of
iishy food; yet we are quite sure if a
hundred men were taken at random from
those who use fish largely and hundred
iiphl tuoNt WHO never OT TITtlv TOUCH
them we would find little difference in
the smartness of either class. We might
make similar comparisons between peo-
pie VINO eat more animal food than
others; of those who eat mostly
vegetables and fruits and so on
of many other distinctions. A toll
erably large acquaintance with human
beings has told us of how little value all
these special considerations on various
foods are rs n general thing. So when
these principles are brought up in our
management of farm animals, we regard
them as of little value. Experience we
regard as OF far more value than chem
ical analysis, no matter how carefully
made.
We are moved to these remarks lust
now by reading statement that some
chemist has been analyzing the pumpkin,
and finds that it contains no nourishment
whatever; and so II is not worth while
to grow it as food for stock We are
quite sure that those who have ever
grown them for cows would not care TO
be without the.u if it were al all possible
TO have them grown. For the writer's part,
ne does not think u stock Of dairy food
complete without the rootcellar is full of
pumpkins Ii may he that it is only
that it is vegetable food and that it is
only the watery juice that is reTished by
the cow, Whatever it is, there is as
suredly something in it which renders it
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03

We are not much in the habit of max
ing prophecies or of publishing political
estimates" but If any faint hearted Re-
publican fancies that because of the re-
cent elections our party is PROSTATE and
unable to make most vigorous and
hopeful fight in 1875, we ask him to look
at the figures we present below.
The only question relates to 76. 1t is
not in the nature of things at present
that the Democratic party can long re-
tain power. The great questions before
the country are not such as that party
can satisfactorily handle. To say moth
ing of the Southern problem, its charac-
clude the hope that it can deal success
fully with the intricate financial ques-
ton. Even if we conceive it as carrying
the Presidential election two years
hence, it would, with these difficulties
pressing upon it, be speedily and inevita-
bly, driven to the wall Thus, the future,
after '76, will take care of itself and
need give US no concern And SO the
only doubt touches the approaching
Presidential battle.
The following table gives the Electoral
vote and divides the States into the three
classes of Republican, Democratic and
Doubtful. In classifying them we put
none in the Republican column that are
not reasonably certain to go Republican,
while we concede one or two to the Dem
ocrats which ought fairly to be classed
as doubtful, and place in the column of
doubtful three or four-like New Hamp-
shire or Connecticut--which the Repub-
licans are pretty sure to carry:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
The Democracy and the Future.

The overioyed Democracy are delud.
ing themselves into the actual belief that
they control the country. Let us remind
them, modeStly, that this is not the case
and al the same time express the opinion
that It never viii be Most Of the intel
ligent voters who cast Democratic tick.
ct last Tuesday labor under the impress
sion that by The performance of that
patriotic duty they not only won immor.
tai glory for themselves, but endless
Office for the candidates whom they sun.
ported. We don't care about dampening
their ludicrous joy but il is well enough
to remind them that a year will vet elapse
before there will be "a Democratic House
that then this win be the only branch Of
the Governmental controlled by Democrats
and that they viii be as powerlcss rs a
rat in Il steel trap, In the meantime A
Republican Congress will meet, enact
such laws rs may be necessary, and the
President will enforce them. 4 Demo.
cratic House may embarrass the Govern.
ment year hence by refusing to aco,ri
.esce in needed legislation, but by that
time we hope the statute books viii con
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
LES
DOUBTFUL.

We believe that every intelligent and
candid observer will admit that this
table is not unduly and fundamentally
favorable to the Republican side, We
have put Pennsylvania in the Republi.
can column because, though the State for
the first time in many years has given a
small Democratic majority, everybody
knows that in a real contest it is reliably
Republican. So we have classed Ohio
on the same side because, while it has
shifted in other years, it is always found
right in the Presidential battles. Beyond
these States there is not one in the Re
publican column which even our least
candid opponents would pretend to re-
gard as in any sense doubtful. On the
other hand, we have conceded Indiana to
the Democracy, though it should, per-
haps, be more fairly classed as doubtful,
and SO of Louisiana, which, in an honest
and square fight, is more likely 10 be Re
publican than Democratic. All the rest
of the South, too, except South Carolina.
Florida and Mississippi, which are
strongly Republican, and Alabama.
which in fair fight is at worst doubtful,
we have given to the Democracy.
New York we have classed as doubt
full, and,' considering how readily the
State shifts from one side to the other, it
must be SO regarded, Which way it is
likely to go depends very much upon the
nominations, the character of the issues,
and the course of events between now
and IS. Its thirty,tive electoral votes
constitute, perhaps, the most important.
as they are the largest. factor in the
problem, and both parties will doubtless
play their hes. for IT, If it be added to
the States we have assigned the Democ-
racy it would give them l03 electoral
votes, requiring them slll To gain q from
other doubtful States in order to elect the
President If, on the other hand, the
Republicans should carry New York. in
addition to the States set down in their
column, they would elect the President
and have nineteen votes TO spare Or
they could lose New York and still hold
the Presidency, by carrying New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut and California, or
either one of those States and Alabama.
II will thus he seen that, even rs matters
now stand, the odds are decidedly in
favor of the Republicans electing the
President.
Ii there are any Republicans who feel
discouraged or faint,heartcd, We com
mend them 10 an examination of these
| hgures.--AIbday IN. ID Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
Limit Your Wants.

Lord Bolingbroke, in his Reflections
Upon Exile" says: Our natural and real
wants are confined to narrow bounds
while those which fancy and custom
create are confined to none" Young
forming the habits which are likely to
adhere to them to its close, will do well
to treasure up in memory these true and
instructive words of one of England's
finest writers and most philosOphic
statesmen Our natural and real wants
are confined to narrow bounds" 1t is
surprising how little it is that Is abso-
lutely essential to mans existence, and,
if he will take an intelligent and consid-
crate view of life, 20 his comfort and
happiness. Intellectual enjoyments are
comparatively cheap. The cultivation
of the mind, which affords the highest
and the only enduring satisfaction, can
be pursued on an income quite insignif-
cant for the supply of Injuries. Our
physical wants are very few if we pre-
serve our tastes simple as they are by
nature. To eat to drink, to exercise, to
sleep, to keep warm and to be sheltered;
small sum will supply all these neces-
stiles. The pleasures which are pure,
and which tend to our improvement, are
within the reach of almost every one.
But the wants which fancy and custom
create, as Lord Bolingbroke well says,
are confined to no bounds. 1t is against
these that young men on the threshold
of life should sedulously guard. Be
ware of luxurious and expensive habits.
The qualification of them may cost you
much of the labor and time which, if
given to intellectual cultivation, would
be far more conducive to happiness. 1t
is easy to do without that which you
have never INDUCED in. 1t is hard to
leave ofhabits, however extravagant and
absurd. When you are to decide about
adopting a mode or style OF living, con-
slider well whether it is certain that,
without inconvenience, you will be
always able to preserve it. The only
safe rule is to keep your wants within
narrow bounds. Pen and PIoao.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

A little Charleston Is. CO. girl killed
herself the other day by falling upon
bottle and cutting her throat.
. A large number of thieves were re-
Gently publicly whipped in Newcastle,
Del, the number of lashes given being
from two to thirty.
During the temporary absence of
their mother, lately, two infant children
of Mr.. James, Of Greenpoint, J.. l., fell
from cradle into an open fire and were
burned to death.
do not stretch clothes-lines across
the wood yard. From this careless habit
Mr.. Frank Weis, of Adrian, Mich, is
now laid up with a broken head caused
by his AK catching upon the line.
George Sptzenaden, of New Orleans,
was riding on Canal street the other
evening when his horse took fright and
threw him and little grandson against
the bridge and thence into the canal,
where both were drowned.
Henry Rosendale, of Billerica, Mass
having been detected in some boyish
mischief, and his father having threat
ened to horse-whip him for it, was so
concerned about it that he hung himself
on one OF the apple trees near his fathers
house.
AS James Manning, of Columbus,
Ohio, was returning from hunting ex-
petition the other afternoon, he was ac-
cidentally shot and instantly killed In
the act of climbing a fence he fell, and
the gun was discharged, the entire load
lodging in his neck
John Long, pioneer living near
Warsaw, Ohio, was recently killed under
the following circumstances While rid
ing in a wagon he struck his horses with
The team ran away, he caught by the
whiffietrees and was dragged and ter
ribly mangled.
AT Battle Creek, Mich, two little
girls, one a daughter of DR.. William
Russell, of the Health Institute, the other
child of Mr.. Howell T.. Gardner, re-
Gently attempted to drive horse out of
the garden and in doing so approached
too near, when the animal wheeled and
kicked with both hind feet, striking each
girl in the face and bruising them in a
shocking manner That horse was a sure
double shot with his heels
Mrs W. H. Howard. Jr, of Brain
tree, Mass, was lately walking in the
streets OF that town, accompanied by her
husband, when they met an intoxicated
man who was more than ordinarily de-
monstrative. Just rs the Towards came
abreast of the inebriate, he gave a whoop
which was so sudden in its effect upon
Mrs. Howard that she dropped dead at
her husbands feet She was robust
and healthy woman, and her death was
pronounced by her physician to be the
consequence of fright.
"A shocking accident recently oc-
Cured to a four-year-old daughter of
William Carey, at East Hampden, Conn
She, with number of young compan-
ions, was playing near large wagon,
when one of the number removed stone
placed under the wheel as check and
the wagon rolled back upon the unfor-
tunate girl crushing her to the ground
Her playmates had not sufficient strength
to remove the wagon, and in this position
the child remained in the most intense
agony till help arrived. She died only
few moments after being relieved.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03

it may not always be done to the best sd
vantage by the direct application ~
grass as manure. He has been endowsa
with intelligence to convert grass int
flesh returning the manure to the so;,
he repays to nature only the proper in
terest which she demands. Westsrn
Rural
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03

CoUGHs, colds, sore throat and similar
troubles, if allowed to progress, will result in
serious pulmonary iections-frequently in
durable Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial
reaches at once the seat of the disease and
gives immediate relief
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03

an article of much value as q winter cat
tie feed. The fact that chemical analysis
cannot find out what that something is
does not lessen the value of every day
experience -F0rney's Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03

A pRoTRUDING toe is not pretty sight, and
is never seen where children wear SILVER
TIPPED Shoes. They will save half your
shoe bills. For Sale by All Dealers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
WISHART'S
Pine Tree HarC0rdid

Il 10 now hfteen years since the attention OF TIE
public was hrst called BY Dr. G. wish.rt to tn,s "
time that TO day II not only has the co,sdsacs OF tne
on Ire community but 10 more frequently p,escroec
prietsry preparation In the country 1t u the y!tN
principle Of the Pine Tree 9bainsd BY Gecnn rs
Mgt"a medicinal properties retained. Foi ne
folk,wirg ComplaintsIln hammstion Of the Lnner
ton. Aiv,r Complaint, Weak Stomach. Disease Of tho
Kidneys Urinary Complaints. Nervous Debility pys
pepsia and diseases arising from impure conditn'a
Of the boodthere no remedy IN the world thar has
been used 20 successfully can show such number
of marvellous cures The following VIII serve 10 show
the estimation in which this sovereign remedy II held
BY those who have used it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03

Or. TlsHARr. PurLApELPUIA Deer Sir-Durne
sVslt PhiaGenha some three years ago. Has SUI;
fering from severe cold and Induced 10 lake
bottle of your Pine Tree Tar Cordial which had the
effect OF curing Inc IN few DAYS | have used II ID
my family ever since and am OF the opinion that u
saved the Il e OF INV daughter who was suffering from
severe and painful cough II the publication of this
Will be OF any scIvkce you nj liberty TO use l..
Yours respectfully
JOHN lIODNETr, ST. Louis, Mo.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
Consumption for Ten Years Cured.

DR.. I. @ I. WIsHART. Dear Slr-I am grateful to
you from The fact that you have male medicine thai
Will cure the disease of he Lungs. My wife has Dag
me that they could only patch he up for the time
being She was confined TO her bed and had been 70,
some time / heard of your PINE +. &c Tar CordiA
and securei one bottle l relieved her cough. She
has now finished he fourt. bottle and is able 10 DO
the work for her family and may God speed you on
with your great discovery and you have nnde or
Consumption
Rrv r. r. HOPKINS.
jackson Center Shelby Co., Ohio
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-11

mann is simpler and demands less at
tention In training and summe,
pruning, and, l think, would be more
satisfactory to most vineyardists.
~ believe wine-making oman extended
scale has lot yet been made profitable
In Middle Tennessee. Longer expe.
rlence and better knowledge will prob
ably yet make a change in that respect;
but good grapes, properly handled,
VIII always find sale at fair prices, and
1t must be a very low price to be not
remunerative.
There can be found no better motto
for n who proposes to plant grape
vines extensively than ..festina lente.'
AN ambitious young gentleman of nv
acquaintance, hot with the grape fever.
a few years ago applied to me for cut
tlngs by the thousand, proposing to
plant, he said, forty acres IN an expert
mental way, or as he expressed it, ''to
get his hand in" after which one hum
dred acres was to satisfy his ambition.
The vines still stand In the nursery
rows, the young gentleman finding that
too much labor was required even to
start his magnificent vineyard. Begin
with few vines and fewer varieties, well
proved and well selected; plant them
on any well-drained soil Of moderate
fertIity-Delaware excepted-cultivate
them faithfully, and no crop will yield
a surer or better profit on the lime
stone soils Of Middle Tennessee.
j. G.. r.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-11
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Pulaski Citizen states that Mr.. j
B. Short bailed the first cotton in Gle:
county this year, as he did last, but did not
sell it, as 10 premium was offered in Nash
vile for the first bale. His cotton wa
ready for market some two weeks AGO.
The army worm has attacked the millet,
and in some instances the young corn in
the n~eighborhOOd of Eagleville, Ruther-
ford county, doing considerable injury "a
both.
The MuJreeSbOrO Monitor states that
during the term of Office of the Rutherford
County Court Clerk, commencing Sept. I,
1870, and closing Sept. Z, IVA, there have
been issued 1.F55 marriage licenses-69z
white and TAB black. The total value OF
all the real estate transferred during the
same period amounts TO 3, ,9S3.
The AcMimHrUe NeU Era says there is
no county bacon in that market.
Gen. b. j. Hill will attend the reunion
of the Second Tennessee Regiment at Gal
latin on the 18th inst. The McNiRRriUe
NelC Era says: "He will ride his old bay
charger, Albert Sydney johnson, now TWEEN
ty years old, but as gay and full of fire as
a colt of FIVE years. He is the horse on
which Gen. Hill started into the campaign.
and carries OH his body the marks of the
battle of Shiloh, and is the horse the Gen
eral was riding when he struck the last
blow for the cOnfederacy, and surrendered
his arms TO the triumphant army Of the
United States.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-11
SEPTEMBER.

PULMOSIC SYRUP. FoR THE CURE OF
CONSUMPTION, COUGHS n COLDS.
The great virtue OF this medicine is that IL
ripens the matter and throws il out OF the sys-
TEN, puriies the blood, and thus effects a
cure.
sCHENCK-s SEA WEED TONIC, FOR THE CURE or
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION ETC.
The Tonic produces a healthy action OF the
stomach, creating an appetite, forming chyle,
aud curing the most obstinate cases Of indiges-
ton.
s~CHENCK's MANDEAEE PILLS., FOR TIE CURE or
LIVER COMPLAINT, etc
These pills are Alternative, and produce n heal
thv action OF the liver without the least Ian
ger, as they are free from calOmel, and vet
more eficaciOus in restoring a healthy action Of
the liver.
These remedies are a certain cure for Con-
sumption, as the PulmOnic Syrup ripens the
matter and purifes the blood. The Mandrake
Pills act upon the liver, create n healthy bile,
and remove all diseases OF the liver, often a
cause of Consumption The Sea Weed Tonic
gives tone and strength TO the stomach, makes
! good digestion, and enables the organs 20
form good blood; and thus creates q healthy cir
~culatiOn Of healthy blood. The combined ac-
ton Of these medicines, as thus explained, will
cure every case Of Consumption, II taken in
time, and the use Of the medicines perSevered
in.
Dr. Sehenck Is professionally at his principal
office. corner Sixth and Arch sts.. philadelphia,
every Monday, where all letters for advice must
be addressed. Schenck's medicines for sale by
all Druggists
sep l-deOd6w I'm
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-11

L--H .. LL"
of seed yield an average of thirty-fv,
bushels of wheat per half acre cult
waited for nearly twenty years. Many
Americans have visited this field.
Mr.. Hallett, of Brighton, offers an.
other example of thin seeding. His
farm consists of about six hundred
acres. His business is to raise anthem
tic pedigree wheat for seed; sowingo one
hundred acres of chalk land with a
sixth of a bushel to the acre. Onoth-
er fields he sows more.s
The following statement of the Mark
Lane cypress will interest the reader:
As a sample of what may be done by
this system, Mr.. Hallett hired a large
field belonging, we believe, to the Cor
poration Of Brighton. 1t was such a
barren spot as to be considered actual
ly incapable of growing wheat. We
saw this field under wheat, seeded at
the rate of one peck per acre, the pro-
duct of which was a crop Of 4S bushels
per acre. One good effect of thin seed
ing is the entire absence of under-corn
that is, weak AID short plants hold
ing inferior ears and containing thin
and imperfect grain. Heavy seeding
always produces this effect, which de-
tracts from both the quality and guam
tity of the return. There was no such
under-corn IN MIR. Hallett's crop, the
ears being all n height and as level
on the top as a table.
The experiments of Mr.. Piper, an
Essex miller and farmer, which have
been continued twenty-five years, are
full of instruction. He has in all that
time used no manure, except a dressing
of coal soots nor has the ground been
plowed. "A hoe has been used to scuf-
file in the seed; and the planting at the
rate of one and one-fourth peck per
acre" One year Mr.. Piper harvested
seven quarters (ifty-six bushels) per
acre. He beat neighbor farmers who
sowed two and a half to three bushels
of seed per acre on an average of eight
bushels per acre. Mr.. Mechi is anoth-
er distinguished advocate of thin seed
ing.
According to Mr.. Miller's count,
three bushels of English wheat at that
time contained l,S32,554 grains; and
as an acre of land both in this country
and England, has 1850 square feet,
three bushels of seed give 70 grains to
every square foot! Seed wheat should
have a far better chance to grow, and
multiply its kind, and be cultivated as
much as corn or cotton between the
rows. The horseshoe makes fine cab
bages and turnips in England; and Mr..
Pifer does the same work in the treat
ment of wheat-not admitting that he
ever breaks, or plows his land. What
steam viii do in raising wheat on the
vast plains of Russia, We have yet to
learn.