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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24


in this department, nrst issue, for less than
80 CENTS
A NEW barber shop over Birely's
jewelry store.
BILLY PR1DrAux, druggist, is just.
ly proud of his Don.
Lent being over, hops are in order,
and tender loin in demand.
CONGRATULATIONS are being heap
ed upon P. Allen Jr. Its little
girl.
The first ice cream of the season
was served up by Enzenroth &
Kissell.
If you don't want to plant your
corn the second time buy your seed
of Toay Bros.
T.C.Davis is the fortunate owner of
the young Canadian and BlackHawk
Stallion "LaFayette."
JOHN DAVIS, of Dodgeville, was a
welcome visitor to the TRIBUNE on
Monday. Old acquaintances and
friends are always greeted.
NEAT, stylish, good and cheap
the shoes and slippers Fred. Branger
has for sale. Call and get the benefit
Of bargains by buying Of him.
The farmers were well represented
here last Saturday. They all wear
cheerful countenance, and feel
confident of an abundant harvest.
THE firm of Brown & Company,
Of Cross Plains, is dissolved. In the
future business will be conducted by
Mr.. R. H. Williams, member of the
late firm.
THE world renowned Hessian Mil
itary band ore on their return trip,
and will probably visitMinerel Point,
majority Of her citizens hope 80,
at any rate.
THE end of laws enacted and re-
vised by the legislature last winter,
'spublished this week in q supple
ment form. After perusal file them
away for reference.
The case Of Prideaux ,et al, against
the City Of Mineral Point had .
hearing before Chief Justic Ryan,
who reversed the judgment with
costs, and ordered new trial.
J. W. REwEy, ESQ, Of Mimin,
delivered an address at the Reading
Club Rooms in Platteville, to a large
and respectable audience lately. It
was very favorably spoken of by
those in attendance.
IHE go-ahead firm of Bishop &
Sancolas merits encouragement.
lhey have lately put in new stock
OF neat furniture. Buyers will here
nho good bargains. Opposite DR..
'anDusen's residence, High street.
SPRING POETRY Her cheeks were
fuddy, and the streets were awful
muddy, and she loudly shrieked," ,"Oh,
'hunder!" and her feet few out from
under. 1t was really very shocking,
i0f she showed her striped stocking.
BY request, the Rev. NJ. Benson,
'l the NJ. E. Church of this city, will
preach next Sunday, both morning
ana evening, on the Condition of
'ne Human Soul Between the Death
Ano the Resurrection of the Body.
DOB lNGERsoLL asked q preacher
whether the fatted calf was male or
female. "Female, of course" replied
Tue preacher, "for am now talking
W tue male" which was considered
al excellent sell on the wicked Bob.
JOY to the farmers wives. No
more extra cooking for harvest
hands, for their sensible husbands
are sure to buy the celebrated Nc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24

FRESH AND CHEAP-thOse Gran.
berries at Kline g. Spratler's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24

COOP seed corn, warranted to grow,
at Toay Bros.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24

BUTTER 20 CENTS!
10000 pounds Of Fresh Tub But
ter wanted, for which / will pay the
above price. II. 7. OSBORNE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24

ONE of our worthy townsmen was
heard to remark, while speaking of a
favorite hen which he possessed,
"Why, / put that there hen of mine
to set and she hatched out fifty-two
chickens and raised thirty-two." He's
q good judge of horsefesh, but an
exceedingly poor hand to count
young chickens. Tell US some more.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24

FREE LECTURE.-A lecture on the
Temperance question will be given
at the City Hall, Thursday Evening,
April IS, by our distinguished fell
low-citizen, Judge Cothren. All are
invited to attend, and especially
those who are tempted by strong
drink. Let large audience greet
the eminent speaker. Kxer cises
begin at o'clock.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-24

PERSONS who possess pride enough
to want to raise fine stock should call
at Geo. M. Cox's stables, near south
corner of the fair grounds in this
city, and look at his throughbreds,
"Stanley and Rapalyee." These two
horses have pedigrees excelled by
none others that have ever been
brought to this section of the coun-
try. Look well to your interests.
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perienced men no doubt among the
settlers, but there are also hundreds
of good practical men who thor.
oughly understand their business.
And they all make the same COM
plant. Cheap and reliable means
of transportation and honest commits
sion agents at the other end would
tend largely to enrich the truck gar
deners of this county.
The Union published, two weeks
ago, an account Of a disgraceful pro.
ceeding on the part of certain per-
sons calling themselves "Regulat-
ors," at Gainesville. regret to find
that the spirit which those proceed
ings indicated is very prevalent. 1t
is strong in Waldo no less than
in Gainesville, as any new set
tier, against whom either for political
reasons, or on account of his nation
atty, prejudice may have been
excited, will find to his COST. in
Jacksonville EUening Traveller.
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KILKOFF & DEAN. Publishers.
c. CODRINGTON, Editor.
DELAND. JULY 8, 1873.
The Letter From I" e."

The article which was written by
u to the Jacksonville Eoe,oiaeg T'oc-
.sssx. gives q deplorable account of
the result attending the settlers in
that portion of the State. We have
repeatedly, in the old Agricult~rist,
shown the folly of bringing people to
a State where not only the seasons
are different from those they have
been accustomed to, but an entirely
new system of agriculture must be
learned, without giving them instruc-
tions by which they can make a liv-
ing after they come here. What
does the land agent care about them
after he has sold the land? 1t
should be the duty of the State to
furnish the necessary instruction,
they should not be content with
showing inducements to settle here,
but teach the new people how to live
and this can only be done by telling
them what to grow, how to grow and
the time to plant. This is the OBJ
ject of our paper and it is the duty
of older settlers to tell how they
have managed since they came here
in the way Of making living. That
many have done so is an established
fact and it is the experiences of these
that we want. Y. tries to be face
tious at our expense, but if he had
read other articles in the paper he
would have seen that our correspond
ents had given full instructions how
to plant cassava and there was no
further need OF our doing So If
any one is at a loss for instruction
we are always willing to furnish it,
and what we cannot give ourselves
our numerous readers are ready to
answer. In our articles of "How to
Live in Florida we do not intend
to confne people to any certain plan,
or course of diet, we show them that
certain things can be done, as have
succeeded in other places with climate
approximating to this,-draw atten-
ton to them as a guide for others.
The dishonesty of agents is no new
thing to us, we have been battling
them for years, but the farmers them
selves are much to blame, they are
so easily persuaded to entrust their
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Things in General.
ORANGE CITY, Fla,
June, 1878.

Editor Agricathe@ist.
Having, in common with many
others in this State, numerous letters
of inquiry from the North, East and
West, concerning fruit culture, will,
with your permission, answer few
of these questions through your col
umns, as doing business thus whole
sale is not as tiresome as answering
each separately.
Now none who have written me
seem to doubt the success of orange
growing, save they hear of maxwell
Gus grievances caused by the scale
bug. ] will confess that when I
found them upon my newly set trees
did feel little Disguised, and per-
haps discouraged; but with study
and experiment / found that the
dreaded scale insect was to be little
feared. Only search and destroy and
you will conquer. So do not let
the scale bug alarm-save to stir
you to eternal vigilance. But those
who are looking towards this
State for a home desire to know
what they can grow with success and
profit while the slow growing orange
tree is maturing. A correspondent
from Lynn Mass. assures me that he
could influence many from his place
to settle in Volusia county, could he
vouch for the success of the pine APP
pie and banana in this section. AS
to climate, location, &C., he can speak
from the card, having spent winter
in these parts. AS to the first named
fruit it can be grown and perfected
here, with little care and slight pro-
lection. The cost Of that, should it
be done as at the North with glass,
would be, l am told, less than cent
a plant. But they do not require
1t; many in this place have thousands
planted out, and some are fruiting.
In a few weeks if anyone wants to
know the size, flavor, time of fruitine,
&c, write to Sturtevant Brothers. of
this place and you will get the infor-
nation.
As to the banana, this correspon.
dent wants to know if what we grow
here tastes like the West India fruit.
will say it is so long since tasted
one of these far fetched that can
not tell. But viii say this much,
what we ripen here are good and sale
able, and will fruit on suckers from
year to eighteen months old. 1t
may not be the home of the banana.
but it will not miss frlliting any Oft
ener than the apple and pear do north.
What northerns demand of us is a
surety that each and every year all
the semi-tropical fruits shall be
success. Absurd-Nature does not
work like t hat anywhere, does she {?
AS to grapes, figs, plums, straw
berries, &c, they with suitable culture
are sure. The guava is tender, but
with a few nights protection will
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Notes from Alachua.

Once more there is movement to
resuscitate the scheme for railroad
from Waldo through Ocala to Tampa.
Whether or not it is genuine cannot
predict. The failure of the Santa Fe
Canal project seems to have turned
the attention of some persons to the
railroad, and new inspection of the
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cOON0s w hJIOM SCNC1 al
people who have been victimized
again and again, but are yet ready to
take up with the next plausible adj
venturer that offers to act for them.
1t looks to us as if farmers like to
be cheated, it gives them some
just cause of complaint
We think T. has been misintormed
about the land not producing any
thing for three years, we have seen
excellent sweet potato crops raised
the first year on the natural sod land,
rice and COW peas can also be grown
on it. The fact is people expect too
much from the country when they
come here. No one should come
without the means of living for a
year or two, unless they intend to
serve others for wages.
In what other part of the world
do people become land owners so
easily as they do in this ? In most
countries men without means are
servants for others who are able to
pay them wages, they may work for
years and be no better off than they
were at the start, the ownership Of
land is far beyond their aspirations.
A person who comes here with 500
can at once become a landed propri-
etor of 100 acres for about SIS, and
have enough left to erect comfort
able Lighthouse; but this is not
enough for him, he expects to start
off on a career of prosperity like
those who have been settled for
years. Ask any of the prosperous
farmers in the North or West how
long they have taken to become
what they are, the hardships they
have passed through, and how many
others they have seen fail alongside
of them, and see what the answer
will be. We were told by settlers
in Illinois SO long back as 1850 that
SO men out of every hundred never
remained on the places they origi-
nally settled, but had to give them
up to mortgages. We have men in
this State who have gone through
these Vicissitudes in other states be-
sides this. The editor of the Semi
Tropical can throw some light on
this subject, if he is asked. A per-
son without means, starting an orange
grove in Florida, should be prepared
to look forward to years of hard
work and hard fare, The reward is
in prospect. Let us see what that
reward may be. We have made a
point of investigating the profits
that have been derived from the old
bearing groves of the State for years
past, and in almost every case have
found that from $500 to $1,000 per
acre, per 0u1ltn has been the income
of the grove. Some have given far
in excess Of that, where special care
has been paid to the fertilizing and
the cleaning of the trees. But there
the fact remains and can be vouched
for by the packers who have been
purchasing the fruit and by the books
of the owners. Is not this induce
ment enough for people to bear pri-
vations for a limited time? VIII not
men without money have to bear suf:
ferings in any other business they enter
into, without the prospect here
offered? We are trying, however,
to mitigate these suferings by show
ing them what they can grow to
make life more comfortable. Oranges
are not the only crop that can be
raised here, however, with large
profits, there are others equally good
and which bring more immediate
returns which we intend to demon
strate.
-+-S@~-.
Notes from Alachua.
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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-20
The Gold That Wears.

We parted one eve at the garden gate,
When the dew was on the heather,
And promised my love to come back TO her
Ere the pleasant autumn weather.
That we twain might wed
When the trees were red,
And live and love together.
She cut me tress from her nut-brown hair,
And I kissed her lips Of cherry,
And gave her ring of the old-time gold,
With a stone like the mountain berry
AS clear and blue
AS her eyes were true
Sweet ewes, so bright and merry!
s'The.wealth of my love is all have
To give YOU" she said in turning;
1.-THE gold that wears-like the radiant stars
Infyonder blue vault burningm
And I took the trust,
AS a lover must
Whose soul for love is yearning,
Fate kept us apart for many years,
And the blue sea rolled between us;
Though I kissed each day the nut-broWn tress
And made fresh VOWS to Venus
Till sought my bride;
And fate defed,
That failed from love to Wean us.
] found my love at the garden gate
When the dew was on the heather,
And we twain were wed at the little kirk
In the pleasant autumn weather;
And the gold that wears
Now soothes my cares,
AS we live and love together.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-20
Americans,


Are these the high exemplars of our race
These crawling upstairs who go forth and
The glory of the sweet republican name,
Like brutes that below at the stars of space i;
Who find not any beauty in the grace
And radiance of an honorable fame,
But Haunt their brainle vanity and shame
Before the Old Worlds worn and hallowed
Are these the heroes of our later earth,
The fiery types of manhood that shall sway
Nations and commonwealths of men un-
born
Nay, though one bounteous mother gave us
birth,
We hold them not as brothers for day
We who are loath to touch them with our
scorn!
Yet, my country! thy true children know
How great, and pure, and proud heart is
thine,
How sacred and inviuciblv divine
The soul that makes thee beautiful in woe!
Night cannot quench the life and light that
flow
From the clear springs which bubble at thy
shrine
Like mingled rivers rushing to the brine,
Bearing the hopes of ages as they CO.
Lo! these will serve thee with their loyal
might
With hearts that do not falter in their trust
Nor lose the noble splendor of their youth
For they would have thee glorious in mems
sight,
And shield thee from the cankering blight
ofrust-
Thee who are pledged to freedom and to
truth!
George Edgar Montgommery.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-20
The Old Home.

0 little house lost in the heart of the lindens
What would not Z i've to behold you once
more!
To inhale once again the sweet breath of your
roses,
And the starry clematis-- that climbed round
your door
To see the neat windows thrown wide to the
sunshine;
The porch where WIS sat at the close of the
day,
Where the weary foot traveller was welcome
to rest him.
And the begger was never sent empty away;
The waistcoted walls, and the low raftered
ceilings;
To hear the loud tick of the clock on the
And to kiss the dear face bending over the
That always was laid by my grandfather's
chair!
o bright little garden beside the plantation
Where the tall feurs-de-lis their blue ban
ners unfurled,
And the lawn was alive with the thrushes and
blackbirds,
would you were all had known of the
world!
My sweet pink pea-clusters! My rare honey
suckle!
My prim polyanthuses all of row!
In a garden Of dreams still pass and caress
you,
But yonr beautiful selves are forever laid
For your walls, little house, long ago have
been leveled;
Alien feet your smooth borders, o garden,
have trod;
And those whom / low, d are at rest from their
labors,
Reposing in peace on the bosom of God!
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-20
Indian Origin OF Mosquitoes.

The Red River Indians have curious
legend respecting the origin of mosquitoes.
They say that once upon a time there
was famine, and the Indians could get
no game. Hundreds had died from hun
ger, and desolation filed their country.
All kinds of offerings were made to the
Great Spirit without avail, until one dav
two hunters came upona white wolverine,
a very rare animal. Upon shooting the
white wolverine, an old woman came out
of the skin, and saying that she was a
SManito," promised to go and live with
the Indians, promising them plenty OF
game as long as they treated her well,
aud gave her the first choice of all the
game that was brought in. The two In
dians agreed to this, and took the old
woman home with them, which was i'm
mediately succeeded by an abundance of
game. When the sharpness of the fam
Inc had passed in the prosperity which
the old woman had brought the tribes,
the Indians became dainty in their ao-
petites, and complained OF the manner in
which the old woman took to herself the
choice bits; and this feeling became so
intense that Notwithstanding her warn
ing that if they violated their promise a
terrible calamity would come upon the
Indians, they one day killed her as she
was Selling her share OF reindeer which
a hunter had brought in.
Great CONSERVATION immediately
seized the witnesses of the deed, and the
Indians, to escape the predicted calamity
bodily struck their tents, and moved to
great distance. Time passed on without
any catastrophe occurring, and game be-
coming even more plentiful, the Indians
began to laugh at their being deceived by
the old woman. Finally, hunting party
on long chase of a reindeer, which had
led them back to the place where the old
woman had been killed, came upon her
skeleton, and one of them, in derlsion,
kicked the skull with his foot.
In an instant small, spiral, vapor-iike
body arose from the eyes and ears of the
head, which proved to be insects, that at
tackled the hunters with great fury, and
drove them to the river for protection.
The skull continued to pour out It's little
stream, and the air became full of aveng-
ers OF the old woman's death. The hun
tiers, on returning to camp, found the In
dams suffering terribly from the plague,
and ever since that time the Indians have
been punished by the mosquitoes for their
wickedness to their preserver, the Mantle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-20
Stammerlng After Dinner.

General Grant 00aa make an after din
ner speech, but he doesn't like to. Wash
ington Irving could not make one under
any circumstances. 1t is not every ora
tor, even, who can make successful after
than eloquence, and an adaptation to those
who, being full Of turtle and turbot,
would rather be pleased than instructed.
To listen to one who knows how to do it
is pleasene; but to hear wearisome man
stammoring out dislocated sentences is
painful.
An English general at public dinner
was asked to respond to toast compli-
mentary to the army. He was hero in
the field, out SO panic-stricken was he
when standing on his legs at the dinner
table that he said:
"May it please Your Royal Highness,
rise the army-the British army-whose
valorous hem--I say the army y
Here friend pulled the gallant SOL
dier by the coat-tails, and whispered,
Thank the gentlemen, and sit down"
The general obeyed.
Another distinguished officer, on a
similar occasion, knowing that he had
been chosen to return thanks for the
army, instead of of dining, made lencil
notes. He may have outlined good
speech, but what he said was:
my Lords and gentleman, --.my lords
and gentlemen-unexpectedly called'-
here he looked at his notes. saw,
unexpectedly called upon"-here the
notes dropped under the table" Eng
land is an island--and----and here he
paused for some time----e.and long NAV
she remain So"
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The Origin OF Sexes.

Aristophanes. the funny man OF classic
Greece, gives the following myth: Once
upon time man had three sexes and a
double nature; besides this, he was per-
fectly round, and has four hands and
four feet, one head with two faces look
ing opposite ways, set on single neck.
When these creatures pleased, they could
walk as we do now, but if they wanted
to 60 faster they would roll over with
their four legs IN the air, like a tumbler
turning somersaults; and their pride and
strength were such that they made war
upon the gods. Jupiter resented their
inselence, but hardly liked to kill them
with thunder-bolts, as the gods would
then lose their sacrifices. At last he hit
upon plan. 81 will cut them in two,'
he said, $50 they will walk on two legs