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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04

as he is a driver. Eyes, sir, good
driver is as essential as a good horse.
| don't know as good man could
do much with stick of horse, but
I've seen many a horse defeated that
would have won if its driver had
known his business. Just what makes
good driver you can't tell. You see
driver has got to do more than sit
behind horse. He must look out for
the shoeing, must get the horses head
Just right, must study his horse, know
how he ought to be fed and harnessed,
and all that There are 3 hundred
things besides the mere driving that
he must have his eye on and be study
ing. Horses are just as different as
people. Some are nervous, fretting
and stewing all the time, and Others
are so cool that a cyclone wouldn't
make 'em jump. Now, you see if a
man that was used to driving one Of
the nervous kind took hold of a lazy
horse he'd like as not break him all
up There's one thing driver must
have, and that's cool head. lie
mustn't be all down when he don't win,
or a way up where he does but just
take it as it comes and go il again.
I've seen men on the track with money
up on their horses who We're as work
ed up about it as an old lady that had
got TO have her tooth pulled out. That
won't do. | don't take any stock in
cordials to give a man the necessary
courage A good nights sleep is the
best thing that any man can take be-
fore a race OF course we bet on the
races. That's what we are interested
in it's part of our business. | don t
think horsemen gamble much outside.
They put in their money on horse
just as a man buys barrel of -four
and expects to get more than he gave
for it. The public think there's a good
deal more crooked work than there
really is. / don't know a driver and
I've slept with many OF em, who
would pull his employers horse to
win himself. 1t wouldn't pay. Driv-
ing, a profession now and a man who
has paid IS, 000or $40, 900 for a piece
of property hunts till he finds good
man to take care of it, and then pays
him handsomely. Most owners have
all the money they want and are
anxious only that their horses win. -"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
NMIGGLERS.
They get Hauled up short at New
York,

A telegram from New York, of Oct
oath says: Thirty trunks belonging
to Mrs. Crothers, a dressmaker Of this
city, Mrs. L. S. Daniels, Mrs. Luther
Daniels, Miss A. Partridge. and Miss
G. A. Partridge, of Boston, and Mr..
II. B. -Ashmead, of Philadelphia, were
seized bv customs officers to-day. The
owners were passengers in the steam
ship Alaska from Liverpool. 1t was
charged that they had falsely or inn
properly declared the dutiable con
tents of the trunks that they might
escape the payment Of duties. The
Selling officers were Inspectors But
Ter, Schermerhorn, Moseman and
others. In the trunks of the Misses
Partridge were found about 50, 600
worth of new goods One of the
Misses Partridge swooned in the seiz-
ure room during the examination of
her trunks by Wiswall. The goods
of the two Mrs. Daniels were valued
at IS, 900, and those of Mrs. Crothers
at 50, 900. Among the articles Were
twenty silk, satin, velvet and worsted
dresses, twenty-five cloaks and man
ties, ten bonnets, two hundred dozen
pairs of kid gloves, and a large
amount Of goods, laces, and silk,
and linen underwear. NJ. Ashmead
told Collector Robertson that he did
not declare each article in his trunks
because it was not the, practice to do
so in Philadelphia, where he lives
He was informed that the statue re
quires such a declaration. He is a
relative of William Lehman Bur
dett- Coutts Ashmead Bartlett. In
the trunks of Mr.. Roswell Smith, of
this city, was discovered a lot of fin
cry which did not appear on his dec
laratlon His daughter said that she
had put it in the trunks without her
fathers knowledge. He paid the
duties and the trunks were surrender
ed to him
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Seed COrn-A Word to Farmers.

Prof. w. A Henry, of the Agricul
tural Department of the Wisconsin
State University, estimates that for
next springs planting Wisconsin
will need $50, 900 bushels of seed corn.
Though the seed time is yet many
months in the future, the answer to
the important question of where this
amount OF corn is to come from
must be given within the next few
weeks.
During the autumn Of 1882, the
corn crop was so backward that unless
the corn selected for seed was care
fully dried by artificial heat, the
germ was killed by the severe cold of
the following winter, When spring
came many farmers found themselves
without seed, and were obliged to de
pend upon their neighbors for a sup
ply, or, worse yet, had to take corn
of unknown worth from the cribs of
Kansas and Nebraska The unusual
ly backward season Of 1888, followed
by the early frost, place our corn
crop for 1884 in more precarious con-
dition than that of the present year,
unless we are unusually careful this
fall. We have had enough of Ne
braska and Kansas seed. 4 Dane
County farmer said the other day
1T would have been cheaper for me
to have bought home grown seed corn,
last spring, at 500 per bushel than to
pay S., as did, for Nebraska corn.
One years experience with foreign
grown seed will last Wisconsin farm
ers long time.
Now that the frost has been so
sever there are thousands of Wiscon-
sin farmers who cannot save a bushel
of seed corn on their own farm, and
must rely wholly upon their neigh
bors. Last spring every bushel of old
seed corn was hunted up and planted,
so that we not only begin the new
year under most unfavorable con
ditions, but with no reserve supply
on hand.
First of all then, let our farmers
look we'll to this bnatter at once. If
unable to save seed at home one can
take a wagon and drive to some
neighbours field and make selections
atonce, being sure to secure an abund-
ance. 1t will take no more time to
go now than in the spring, and
there is now the choice of selection
For seed selected in the field 81 per
bushel is a reasonable charge. For
sowing seed corn in small quantity
one only has to truss it up and lang
it over the kitchen stove for couple
of weeks. To insure safety some arti-
fetal heat is absolutely necessary.
Good seed corn, well selected, will
readily bring 81 per bushel next
spring, and is worth that price any
season. Our farmers VINO have been
so fortunate as to have escaped the
frost should save far more seed han
for their own needs alone. When
saved in quantity, racks can be put
up in some out house or summer
kitchen and by means of a stove gen
tie heat applied.
Surely the experience of the past
season must nave taught prudence in
this matter, though no doubt the first
/ day of next May will reveal plenty of
careless ones grown suddenly an
NIOuS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Appearance of a Tornado.


/ AS the tornado now sweeps onward
IN its course, it rises and falls with a
series of bounds, and, with a swaying
motion, describes a zigzag course, now
I forming a chain of loops, and again
shooting off on an obtuse angle vary
ing in the speed of its forward motion
which may be anywhere from ten to
thirty miles an hour At the same
time it is rapidly whirling on its axis
in the opposite direction from screw,
or the hands Of a clock, the air reyolv-
/ ing around the vortex necessarily at
tanning a speed of several hundred
miles an hour. First widening, then
contracting, now bounding above the
tree tops, and again descending to
sweep the earth bare of every object
within its reach, the aerial monster
surges onward. The largest forest trees,
mere playthings in its grasp, are pluck
ed up by the roots, or snapped oil
like pipestems; substantial buildings
are first crushed like eggshells, then
caught up in the vortex and the debris
carried sometimes for miles, before tits
again thrown off by centrifugal force
and falls by gravitation anywhere,
everywhere, as soon as released from
the monsters grasp.
1t is difficult accurately to describe
the tornadoe's appearance and work,
even for those who have been cye-wit-
nesses, or who have personally passed
through the horrors its coming brings.
While accounts differ as to its appear
ance and behavior, as witnesses from
different points of observation and
under different circumstances, all sub
stantially agree that it is cone shaped
its motion rotary, that its apex resem-
bles fire and smoke, and that vivid
lightning and heavy fall usually
accompany it. In rare instances, cleo
tricity, in the form of St Elmoe's fire,
will precede the vortex, and white.
steamy cloud will follow. 1t win be
observed that the form of the tornado
cloud is nicely illustrated by the
proof plane used in teaching natur-
al philosophy. The small end of the
plane is most heavily charged with
electricity, and, the nearer it approach
es to perfect point, the greater viii be
the accumulation; a high tension is
caused, and the electricity must escape
by some conductor. So, in the tornado
cloud, the smaller the point or stem,
the greater the force eXcrted when it
meets the earth.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04

much of his time with us, Aunt Miles
considered the advantages of having
her daughters brought Familiarity in
contact with him, and for their sakes
she came to see me and give me the
kiss of reconciliation.
But as far as catching Stephen
heart "in the rebound" was concerned
she was Just a little too late. Nor
mans sister, who was a teacher in one
Of the public schools of New York,
came to spend her vacation with us,
and Stephen fell in love with her in a
way which convinced me tat his love
for Frances Halliday had only been
the shadow of the love he had foi
mother Why, Norman himself
never behaved more foollshly about
me than Stephen about his little, plain
Ruth Strong, for she is plain-every
one must allow that.
And the preparations that are going
on for the marriage quite amHse me,
who might have been the bankers
wife myself. Dear me- l think love
must often laugh at the kind of PEG
pie he comes in contact with But !
hope Stephen will be happy [ do, in
deed
That is all / have TO say about my
marriage / think it was rather pecul-
lar. Some women will doubtless say
they don't believe such men as Stephen
exist But let a girl when she discov-
ers she does not like a man, tell him
so, and ask his advice and help, and
ten to one she viii find another
Stephen How can men be chlval-
rous and self-denying if women don't
give them opportunities l think that
is wrong, and | intend always to give
Norman every chance to cultivate
such noble qualities.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Hnmored a Strnnger.

A New York stock broker who was
ON his way to Buffalo last week, OBJ.
served that one of his fellow -passen.
gers was closely regarding HIM, and
after a time the man came over and
asked
Didn't l see you in Chicago in
1872"
The broker wasn't in Chicago
that year, hut thinking to humor the
stranger, he replied IN the aflirma
tive.
Don't you remember of handing a
poor devil a half-dollar one night in
front of the Eemont3"
Il do.
well, I'm the chap, [ was hard
up, out of work, and about ready tc
commit suicide That money made
new man of me. BY one lucky
shift and another / am now worth
I S25. 600,
"Ahl glad to hear it.
And now | want you to take 50 in
place of that soc. | cant feel easy
until the debt is paid
! The broker protested and objected
but finally, Just to humor the man ii,
took his $50 bill and gave him bacI
SIS, The stranger soon withdrew, anC
everything might have ended ther
and there if the broker on reaching
Buffalo, hadn't ascertained that tn,
twenty was a counterfeit and tina
! he was SIS out of pocket.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
FancY Cakes for Ten.

Fancy cakes for tea may be made
after this fashion: Sift one pound of
flour on the pastry board; make a
hollow in the center, put in half a
pound of powdered sugar half tea
spoonful Of lemon essence, five ounc-
es of butter, half a saltspoonful of
salt, and mix to a soft, smooth paste
adding the yolks of three eggs and
one gill of cream, after the butter has
been thoroughly incorporated with
the other ingredients. When well
mixed let the paste stand for one hour
then roll it out a quarter of an inch
thick, cut it in various small shapes
with fancy cutters, put the little cakes
ON a buttered bakingpan, brush them
over with a beaten egg, and srew on
the tops some chopped citeron, raiSins
or blanched almonds. Bake il mod
crate oven until a light brown, and
cool on sieve.
TO make cocoanut and almond cake,
take two and one-half cups of pow
dered sugar, Que cup of butter, four
full cups of prepared flour, the whites
of seven eggs whlsIed stiff, one small
cup OF milk with a mere pinch of
soda, one grated cocoanut, one-half
teaspoonful of nutmeg, juice and half
the grated peel Of one lemon, cream,
butter and sugar; stir in lemon and
nutmeg; mix we'll; add the milk,
whites and flour alternately. Lastly,
stir in the grated eoeoanut swiftly
and lightly. Bake in four jelly-cake
tins. Filling pound of sweet
almonds, whites Of four eggs whisked
stiff, one heaping cup of powdered
sugar and two teaspoonfuls of rose
water Blanch the almonds. Let
them get cold and dry; then pound in
Wedgewood mortar, adding rose
water as you go on. Save about two
dozen to shred for the top. STIR the
paste into the icing after it is made
spread between the cooled cakes make
that for the top triHe thicker, and
Law it on heavily. When it has stiff
ened somewhat, stick the shred al
monds closely over the top Set in
the oven to harden, but do not let il
scOrch.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Salt for the Throat.
PhiIadelnhia Times

In these days. when throat diseases
are so universally prevalent, and in so
many cases fatal, we feel,it our duty
to say word in behalf of most eff
fectual, if not positive, cure for sore
throat. For many years past, indeed,
we may say during the whole of a
life of more than forty years, we have
been subject to dry, hacking, cough,
which is not only distressing to our
selves, but to our friends and those
with whom we are brought into bust
ness contact. Last fall we were Undue
ed to try what virtue there was in
common salt. We commenced By
using it three times a day, morning.
noon and night. We dissolved a large
tablespoon of fine table-salt in about
half a small tumblerful of water.
With this we gargled the throat
most thoroughly just before meal
time.
The result has been that during the
entire winter we were not only free
from coughs and colds, but the dry.
hacking cough has entirely disappear
ed. We attribAte these results solely
to the use of salt gargle, and most
cordially recommend trial of it to
those who are subject to disease of the
throat. Many persons who have
never tried the salt gargle have the
impression that it is unpleasant, but
after a few days use no person who
loves nice clean mouth, and first
rate sharpener of the appetite, viii
abandon it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Lost in the Woods

A party consisting of A. Mckenzie
DR.. Sperry, Fred Booth, D. P. Brown
and Charles and Walter Fiske while
out hunting last Sunday near Fifield
Wis, ran across an old bear and three
cubs. They succeeded in woundino
the bear and one cub, to which thev
gave pursuit. The party returned to
town just after dark with one of the
cubs, but, to their surprise, found the
first three members of their party had
not returned. Alarmed at this. thew
raised a crowd, and with torches and
lanterns started in search of them.
meeting Mckenzie with Booth acting
as guide, about midnight, on an old
logging road that leads into town.
They knew nothing however, in re-
gard to the Doctor, and it was not
until early Monday morning that he
was found by some woodsmen about
two miles below Sailor Greek in a
dense tamarack swamp, where he had
passed the night. The Doctor says that
he took turns pursuing the bear and
having her pursue him until almost
dark, when one of his bullets took
effect, and bruin lay dead. Tired out
with his chase, he left the bear and
started for the railroad track, which.
he supposed, was but a short distance
away, but after travelling for two
hours he came to the conclusion he
was lost and had it not been for the
quick response of those that were call
ed out to search for him he might have
remained in the woods several days
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
After Many Years.

chicago IriDNuc.
The history of Alice Ablewhite's
life one marked by a remarkable
chain of events. Alice was born in
Manchester, England, about forty
years ago, her parents being well-to-
do and eminently respectable people.
Alice while yet young girl left her
home and native country and came
to America. She bad been somewhat
wild in her ways, and her sudden
flight across the ocean was not par
ticularly a surprise to her people.
Soon after her arrival in this country
she met and ultimately married John
Ablewhite. Possibly the union was
not happy one. At any rate Alice
took to drink shortly after her mar
riage, and the terrible habit grew
stronger on her as time went on
The couple came to Chicago, but the
womans appetite for drink, growing
daily stronger finally caused a sep
aration. From that time on she led
a very dissipated career, and was re
peatedly arrested on the South Side
and fined for indulging in drunken
orgies About year ago, however,
she came under the influence Of some
of the women interested in the Reho-
both Home, and was induced to re
form Her reformation is said to have
been complete. For nearly a year
she was an inmate of the Rehoboth
Homd, but last July she sought a
new place of abode--on the North
Side, it is thought. Nothing more
was heard of Alice until a few days
ago, when the intelligence was receiv-
ed from England that her parents
were both dead, and that an interest
in an estate amounting to about $l2j,
900 awaited her in England. Alice
received the news early this week,
and it is said, started for England
last Thursday. She called on her old
associates at the Rehoboth Home
Wednesday afternoon, and received
from them their congratulations over
her good fortune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04

scalded and bruised Gilbert was
blown thirty feet from the engine
Albert Garlock was thrown nearly 300
feet, and Billedeaux nearly $50 from
the engine Both bodies when picked
up were literally stripped of clothing.
and the flesh and skin were scalded
off They were punched full of holes
from the flying pieces of iron. Mat
thew Joyce and Frank and Charles
Ives were thrown down in front of the
engine. The engine was blown $50
feet directly over the top of the sepera-
tor and wheat stack.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Pniernnl AdNice.

Now Moses, he said as they shook
hands in the Central depot you
yhas going to Chicag0E
YES, tadder.
TO open some clodin' stores"
Yes.
"Dere vhaS a great shance IA
sheat NIT der clodn pcesness, Mos
eS.
NcS.
lit vhas always IN our family todeaI
init der square Buy on credit, sell for
cash, uud pc honest.
"CndifI fail31
How can you fail Haven we got
an assignment to me all raady but till
ing ia der date Good pye, Moses, unt
doan forget to be insured NIT some
company dot doan ksck Md
Street AeicS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
The Deadly ThreSher.

4 dispatch from Osakis. Mimi, of
Sept Goth has the following: A ter
rible steam threshing-machine acct
dent occurred at 1 80 O'clock this after
noon ON the Kreger place, about eight
miles south Of here. The machine
was owned and run by the julie Bros.
1t appears that the pump was not
working satisfactorily and the engine
was stopped for a few minutes. The
men We're gathered around it when
the explosion occurred. The killed are
Albert Garlock, of Sank Center; Peter
Billedeaux, of Leslie; Matthew Joyce.
of Orange, The dangerously wounded
are Frank Jules, a scalp woHnd and
side scalded. also wound in the foot:
amputation has been performed
Charles Jules. fractured skull, scald-
ed face and breast, left arm dislocated.
not expected to live. The slightly
wounded are Michael Kelley. Samuel
Porter and Chester Gilbert. All are
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
TUBERDSES.

Within her tiny caskets siiken fold
She Law, our darling, wrapped in dreamless sleep,
Pale sculptured eyelids closed in rapture deep,
Heavens sunshine falling on her curls Of gold.
Within her waXen fingers nerveless hold
In her remembrance, still. our love to keep,
When heavenly splendors on her sight should
sweep,
A fair tuberose. its petals half unrolled,
/ placed and whispered; Dear one, bear rs
bloom
To that far land Of wondrous mystery
Across deaths blackness there shall come 10 me,
To save my sinking heart from utter doom.
AS steals its subtle fragrance through the gloom,
The hope Of heaven beyond the cruel tomb.
SARAH ID. HoBERT.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
John Splan Describes First-Class
Driver

ions Splan. who began his career
on the turf seventeen years ago, when
he was seventeen years old, and has
handled many Of the best horses in
the country, including the famous
Rarus, is As ready and slick talker
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
Remembered Her at Last.
Brooklyn Eagle.

who was that pretty girl you had
down to the island last Wednesday p
asked Joralemon street man ola
Remsen street friend, as they met yes
terday afternoon.
"Wednesday, Wednesday," pom
dered the Remsen street man. ''Was
| at the island on Wednesday,"
Yes, and you had a girl with
you"
"a brunette2' queried the Remsen
street man, still puzzled.
mo, l saw you there Tuesday
with the brunette, but this wasn't the
one"
WAS she blonde. No. | had the
blonde down there Thursday and Fri
day. What kind of looking woman
was sAe2'
Rather slender, and you didn't
seem to want to take supper there.
Heard you tell her you'd get some
thing to eat when you got back to
Brooklyn. -
ooh l know. Certainly, Wed
nesday. Why, old fellow, that
was my wife, Come and take some
thing.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04

THE most valuable bristles used in
brush-malling are white, and the breed
Of hogs that produces them is every
year growing scarcer. The best bris-
ties como from Kamtschatka, the next
in grade from Russia and Germany
They sometimes reach a length of
nearly ten inches and cost as high as
$3.50 a pound Nothing vet in use
wholly takes tie place of bristles.
4 terrible explosion occurred in the
rocket factory at the arsenal at Wool
wlch- Eng. The bodies of two VIC
Tins have been found in the ruins,
and how many more We're killed Is
not known. A large amountof prop
ertv was DESTROYED.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04

Harry Kurt, aged Is, who went to
Allentown, Pa, from Philadelphia
and purchased the gas works, w.n
the affections of daughter of eX-
Judge Longaker, and was to have
been married in a few days. Over
500 invitations had been issued, and
a number of bridal presents had al
ready been received at Miss Tonga
ker's residence, when the expectant
bridegroom began to act as though in
sane His affection is hereditary.
and has made its appearance IN one or
two occasions, but in mild form.
He is now violently insane, and has
been taken to Kirkbride Asylum,
Philadelphia. Mr.. Kurtz and his in
tended bride were very popular
in social circles in the Lehigh val
ley.