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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
MANAGEABLE GIRLS BEWARE.
How Titled Excommunicators OF the
American Hog Treat Their Ameri-
can Wives.
Special TO the World

Joseph f. Potter, our Consul at
Crefeld, Germany, has been making
investigations IN regard to a matter
of great interest TO our fair country
women, and the result of his labors
is to be found in a report full of IN
formation of the most vital interest
He has been ipquiring into the results
of marriages between American girls
and German mobiles, and what he tells
us is most startling.
In thirty-three marriages cited
there has not only not been a single
happy union, but either a divorce or
abandonment has speedily followed
the wedding He finds the reason
for this unhappy state of affairs to be
that the American wives have in every
instance been brutally treated, and in
some cases absolute violence has been
used. The brides We're expected TO
perform the most mental Offices In
one instance the husband, who is an
officer of rank IN the German army,
demanded that his wife perform the
service usually expected from a ser
want Of the humblest sort, and one Of
the things she was ordered to de was
to superintend the cleaning of his
boots This lady was the daughter
of a leading railroad magnate in a
Western State, and the story she tells
is a most pitable one.
Her hard-hearted father took the
precaution at her marriage to settle
his daughters fortune upon her, and
tied it up in such a way that she could
not relinquish its control even if she
desired TODD so After many humiliat-
ing tasks had been given this lady,
the boot-cleaning was required Then
she rebelied She drew the line there,
and with her American blood at the
boiling point, she fatty refused Her
warrior husband, who, besides his
military rank, has the title Of Count,
attempted to enforce discipline in his
family by using his riding whip upon
his rec2lcitrant bride, and after
serious time of it she evaded the fog
ging and left the bed and board of
the knightly Uhlan for her native
land Her husband could not pre-
vent her departure, but tried to com
pei the payment of certain sum of
money by way of salvc to the wounds
his sensibility received by her abrupt
departure. Heidi not succeed for the
lady had no property in the Province
that could be held, so she got away
further loss of time
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
THE PLOWMAN
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


Clear the brown path to meet his couter's
CLEAN
Io,on lie comes, behind his smoking team,
With tolls bright dewdrops on his sun-burns
brow
The lord Of the earth, the hero Of the pillow,
First IN the field. before the rcddenng sun,
Last in the shadows when the day IA donei
Line after line along the breaking sod
MARKS the broad acres where his feet have troa
Still where he threads the stubborn clods di-
vide
The smooth fresh furTow opens deep and wide
Matted and dense the tangled turf upheaves'
Mellow and dark the ridgy corniied cleayes.
Up the steep hillside where the labOring train
Slants the long track that scores the level plain
Through the moist valley cl6gsed with oozing
clay.
The patient convoy breaks It's destined way.
AZ every turn the loosened chains resouud,
The swinging plOwshare circl"s glistening
round
Till the Wild field one bnlowy waste appears,
And the wearied hands unbind the painting
steers,
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings
The PEASANTS food, the golden pomp OF kings
This Is the page whose letters shall be seen,
Changed by the sun 10 words Of living greeni
This IS the scholar whose IMMORAL pen
Spells the first lesson hunger taught 20 men;
These are the lives that heayencommanded
toll
Shows on his deed the charter Of the soil
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20

While every intelligent farmer is
ready to concede the Importance of
blood in breeding, experience and OBJ
servation leads to the conclusion that
we cheat ourselves IN not giving prop
er care to the young animals. How
ever good the breeding may be, if
from any cause during the frst-years'
existence of the colt, the calf, the
lamb or the pig, it fails in having all
the wants supplied that nature de
mands, an inferior animal is produc-
ed, and the little fellow once checked
in natural thrift can never be made to
recover from any treatment he may
have afterwards
Doubtless many farmers in all this
northwest, who are feeling so severe
ly the shortage of the corn-crop, have
a superabundance Of pigs or lambs or
something that there is not a ready
and satisfactory market for, and so
will conclude to try and winter il
through on short rations. Now,
brother farmers, you had better not
attempt it. Either sell for small
price or give away yoursurplus stock,
or else hire money if necessary and
buy grain. Neglect to care for the
young animal by leaving him to be
knocked about by the strong ones and
suffer from cold and storms or go
without drink is quite as bad as a
shortage of food, and will eventually
result IN a stunted animal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
Big Wrecking Job.

The recent release of the schooner
j. III. Rutter from her dangerous
position on the rocks ear Letour,
Lake Huron, is regarded as something
wonderful in the time of wrecking.
The Rutter went ashore in the ter
rible gale of Sunday, October % at 4
p. m, the wind blowing thirty five
miles an hour The nearest telegraph
station is Chebeygan, and mes
senger dispatch there sent a telegram
to Detroit, which was responded to by
the wrecking tug Winslow, Capt.
Swain The Winslow carried four
of the best and largest pumps, and at
Port Huron took Capt Reardon
wrecking master of the insurance
pool, on board. The unprecedented
winds prevailing made it impossible
to proceed, and the Winslow was
compelled to lay in the harbor Of re-
fuge at Sand Beach several days. It
was November 2 before the wrecker
got her pumps at work, and in five
hours she had pumped three and one
half feet of water from the Butter's
hold.
At this stage of the work the ire
mendous gale that was sweeping over
the length of Lake Huron caught the
wreckers, and forty wind wash
ed the waves over the Butter with
such suddenness and force that the
men We're nearly washed from the
deck. When work was resumed the
four pumps of the Winslow We're
found to be insufficient for the work,
and in answer to a request the tug
Swain went to the rescue making
the run of 400 miles IN the remark
ably fast time Of twenty-three hours.
On Saturday, November 10. the Rut-
ter came oil the rocks, the JOY of the
wreckers being mixed with a fear
that a large I.ole was stove in her bot
tom. through which the water would
rush on her removal and carry her
down Contrary to expectation and to
the great relief of the wreckers, the
mammoth schooner tloated clear and
her damages were found to be com
paratively slight. She was towed TO
Letour, and subsequently. to Port
Huron. where she arrived yesterday
and Will undergo repairs
The Rutter is one of the largest
vessels ON the lakes, being a four
masted, double-decked schooner, and
is owned by Thomas Adams and Jesse
H. Farwe1 of Detroit. As this is
the third time she has gone through
wrecking with her Slight damage,
she is regarded as an unusually stanch
craft. Her owners and the insurance
men are warm in their praise of this
expedition which, it is claimed, is
the greatest wrecking feat ever per-
formed on inland waters, rescued, as
the boat was in the teeth of a most
terrific gale.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20

two. and you oughter seed the blood
fly. 1t squirted about twenty-five
feet. As the leetle feller dropped every
body in the crowd cried, oh, he's a
goner; his iugular veins cut, and
thew expected to see him croak inside
of three seconds, but there was one
of them mountain doctors there, and
to look at him you'd think ne dldn t
know jugular vein from from
bone. Stand back, said he; give
me a chance at him, and he elbowed
his way through the crowd to where
the leetle feller lay breathin' his last.
He pulled out of his pocket somethin'
as looked like a crooked darnin'-
needle. and then he fished around in
the wound until he caught hold of
both ends of the jugular vein and
pulled EN- out. Then he tied the
ends tight with a piece OF thread to
keep the blood from squirtln out UNI
til an old Teller in the crown whitfield
down an old pipe-stem TO make II fit
in the iugular. When it was shaved
down small enough the old doctor
inserted the pipe-stem and tied the
ends Of the vein tighs around it, In
less than two inmates that little Teller
was on his feet and looking around
for the Teller that cut him.
"You mean to say he recovered
Course he did, and you'll find the
case recorded in the medical works
Only case of the kind ever heard of
in America.
And the pipe-stem never bothered
HING
mo; only it made him sick at his
stomach. at first. The stem was q
good deal stronger than the kind he
had been used to handlin', and it
made him a leetle bit dizzy for a few
davs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
DOGS BETTER IHAN BABIES
BETTER, That rs, TO Get Into a Proper
state for the Photographer.
New York Sun.

There are several photographers in
town who make a speciality of DOGS
and babies as subjects. OF the two
sorts they usually prefer dogs. 1t
requires unbounded patience 10 sue
eessfully take an infant who is not in
a comatose condition, and the mother
is neyerby any freak satisfied with
the portrait.
The difficulty we experience, said
a dog-and- baby photographer In Sixth
avenue yesterday, is first in trying
to keep the little darling quiet, and
second in attempting to coax some ex-
preston into his face
He was heavy-eyed man. his hair
was unkempt, his scarf was disar-
ranged, and his coat sleeves were
turned up. He looked weary.
81 have just been attempting to fix
baby's attention, he said in an
explanatory, tone, by throwing
hand-springs behind the camera.
When | showed the negative to the
to the mother, she made the newt
able reservation that the face lacked
expression. Can you put expression
on the surface of lump of damp put
tyl'
1T is easier to photograph dogs
than babiesl'
ooh, a thousand times. You can
fix a dogs attention and hold it for
time without difficulty. Then, dogs
faces are all more or less expressive.
None of them has the look of stupidity
that the average baby wears, except
the pug. Pug dogs, by the way, are
the easiest to take. All you have to
do is 10 put them in front Of the
camera, and they go tosleep at once.
The most difficult dog | ever strug-
gled was with am Italian greyhound. II
was a delicate and extreme sensitive
little creature, and endowed with
almost human intelligence. It
couldn't keep its shadowy legs still
half a second to save its life. We
worked half a day, and succeeded at
length in making a picture that was
half satisfactory
do you photograph many dogsf
About two hundred a year. The
work is alldone by few specialists,
The big photographers won't bother
with dogs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
SCHOOL.BOY TRAPPElts.
How Southern Rabbits are MOO,

ROW southern NabDtis are NOOseG'
The following truthful and we'll
told story Of understanding by the
boys at St. Marks School, SouthbOro,
is taken from the Vindex, "a bright pa
per edited by one Of the pupils Any
one who has enjoyed the autumn
pastme Of sharing, will have recalled
to them by this boy-like description,
pleasant memories of sunny beech
woods, haunted by squirrels and
crossed by family marked paths worn
by rabbits in their nocturnal rambles
Sharing rabbits has always been a
favorite pastlme in the school at this
season. There are always quite a
number OF boys engaged IN it, and it
certainly is very fascinating amuse-
ment. Generally two boys 90 into
partnership with each other, and
choose an unoccupied piece Of woods
which they think is a promising To-
cality for rabbits. There they set
their 'twitch-ups, and the right of
trapping IN those woods where they
have snares is regarded as belonging
exclusively to them, very much after
the fashion of the Western miners and
their claims" If a boy owns some
good woods, and does not care to trap
any more, he rents it out to some one
else, on condition that he shall receive
part of each rabbit when cooked.
When a boy leaves the school he be
queaths his woods, if he has any, to
one of his friends; and so good woods
are handed down from one boy to an
other, sometimes for eight or nine
years In fact, they are treated just
like real estate, some woods, of conrse,
being more valuable and sought after
than others.
The 'twitch-ups' are made in The
following manner: A sapling IS
stripped Of its branches, and a long
string, with a running moose, is fast
ened to one end Of it, and further up
a shorter one with a forked stick,
called the apPle-stick, attached by one
end, which is notched is caught on a
stick, called the nipple, driven in the
ground, which also has a notch to fit
it. An apple is fixed on one Of the
prongs Of the apple-stick; then short
palisades are driven all around it,
leaving only one opening, through
which the rabbit has to pass in order
to get at the apple. The moose is
spread around this opening and the
trap is set When the rabbit gnaws
at the apple, having, of course, his
head through the moose, he pushes
the apple-stick off the nipple, and so
releases the sapling, which, sprlnging
up. Jerks Mr.. Rabbit into The air.
Sometimes as many as fifty, or even
sixty, of these snares will be set in
one wood, the number varying, of
course, in proportion to the size of the
woods and the energy of the trapper.
1t is a pretty sight as you approach
tran to see through the trees a rab-
bit hanging in mid-air rendered still
more beautiful by the prospect of see
ing said rodent smoking on the sup
portable. Indeed, the trapper always
thinks himself well repaid for his
trouble by the hind-leg of one of his
victims, and his friends always be
come suddenly very loving and com.
plimentary when they see him re-
tuning from his traps with a rabbit
dangling from his hand Once i'm a
while a partridge is caught, which
produces great excitement and de-
light.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
A WAR STORY.
How Col. Mason Came TO Have Made
a Twcnty-Four O'Clock watch.

HOW COL MASON came 10 Have Made
aTwcnty-Four O'Clock watch.
Mr.. f. c. Mason, ESQ, Of Cleveland
has in his possession a twenty four
o'clock watch, connected with which
is quite a story. Mr.. Masons uncle
Col. c. w. Mason, was i'm command
of q regiment of soldiers stationed at
Harpers Ferry in 1854 The com
handing general ordered him to move
at / o'clock on a certain day and at
tack the enemy. Tke order simply
SAID 4 o'clock, and Col Mason, think
ing it meaAt o'clock, in the after
noon, marched forward at that hour
and began killing Oft the rebels. The
Union soldiers, however, We're defeat
ed, and the commanding officer was
contaminated for not ordering Ma
son and his men to the front at an
earlier hour Mason said the order
read 4 o'clock and he moved accord
iugly. The commanding officer said
he meant 4 a. m, instead of y. M. and
there being a clear misunderstanding.
the charge against him was withdrawn.
| Col Mason afterwards sent to an
eastern factory and had made TWEEN
| ty-four o'clock watch, which he said
would do away with all mistakes, and
which lie carried during the remain
der of the war Several years age
his nephew, NJ II. Mason, got posses
sion of the watch and has since car
/ ried it,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
A Tramp's Tough Story.

Il remember a wonderful case as
came under my personal observation
when [ wuz travclin' i'm East Ten
nessee. | struck one Of them little
mountain towns one time when they
wuz holding County Courts. Every
man had a bottle of moanshine, and
they 5uz an feelin' mighty happy.
Finally they cot a leetle bit tso hilari-
Gus, and fight sprung up betwiXt a
great big dutfer and a leetle bit of a
wirv Teller. The big dutIer could "a
eat the little Teller up clothes and all,
but the first thing he done was to pull
ono of these old pot.metal knives and
lab the blade into the leetle Teller
neck. II went in right along the
iugular. and then III bent kinder
around and under il When the big
Teller went 70 pun Il ont he ripped the
leetle feller's jugular right square ip
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
Matthew Arnold Learning to Talk.

THE brilliant audience who listen
ed ia Matthew Arnold at Horticulture
al Hall, says the Boston Gazette.
were agreeably disappointed by the
excellent manner in which he acuuit-
ted himself on the platform after the
rather severe criticisms in the New
York papers of his first appearance
there The fact that he appeared to
betteradvantage here, socially and ora
torically, is easily accounted for how
ever. A young gentleman in this city
took the distinguished visitor in hand
Immediately ON his arrival here, and
persuaded him to give private read.
ing of his lecture I'm the hall where he
was to hold forth The young gentle
man sat ina the back part OF the hail
and interrupted the lecturer as often
as it became necessary to correct his
faults. In this way Mr.. Arnolds elo-
cution was improved and his voice
brought to the proper pitch.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20

4 baby in Hancock, Mass, has now
living nine grandparents. a grand
motheraud grandfather great grand.
motherand great grandfather, great.
great grandmother on the father
side; n grandfather grandmother q
great grandfather and mother, great
great grandfather ON the mother
side.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
CONRAD's LOVES.

was Conrad Aidburger, and he wa
admitted to be the best dancer ant
swordsman in the village His cCm
plexion was darker than most Of h
neighbors, for there was q tradition o
Magyar blood in the family, and hi
face was by no means lacking il
intelligence of merry and peaceful
sort
The village itself had look Of hav
ing been finish long ago; but "a
reader of men" might have looked a
Conrad, if he saw him there, anC
say
yet. He don't more than half under
stand himself Pity there is moth
ing IN this sleepy valley to wake him
up.
If, however; the process of waking
up was TO imply any kind Of shaking,
there had been little enough Of that
in the life which Conrad had thus far
led. The greatest events of the out
side world had been only a storm on
the ocean, standing hardly a ripple
of their uproar into the little land
locked cove Of the old duh village
Gottheb Midburger Conr8d's father
with MS old crony and partner Franz
Horferdahl, had made and mended
watches in the same dingy and time
worn shop where their fathers had
filed and hammered before them; and
one life was as like another and
about as unvarying as the ticking Of
the fatfaced time piece behind the
cobwebs in the shop window.
EJustnow however, as if the course
OF nature were being disturbed, var
ious rlpples were beginning TO come.
Rumors were there for instance, that
the king, God preserve him, was
preparing TO fight a war with some
body, and that all young heroes like
Conrad Midburger would soon be need
ed for the army
Stranger still and utterly unac-
counlable considering his time of life,
old Franz Hoferdahi had caught the
emigrant fever, and made up his stead
fast mind to join the great German
tide that sets perpetually toward the
shores OF America Already he had
sold whatever no had 10 sell, except
his big pipe, his ilute and his laughter
Christian, for those he Intended talk
ing with him To the western eden
Perhaps, thought the villagers,
its not SO strange for old Franz as
for some of us. He's been lonely since
ms WE oled, ana then ne was q great
Traveller ~, IN ms Young uayS.
J. nay WAS true enough Ior - A. RAM
uoiefaahl hau pGeo even 70 berIln,
anu A , coul" no' oo 50 very
m4 Ti beyond t5-i5, ..,.
A ny "'0 nan si'''' '1'', l,'S 'i''''o ~
lne snoP 10 nus iIlenu Nolue'o' ana
tiau mace as S"oV bargains as ne coulu
Tor I'I' mousse ana 4lpVao'es oot none
% ms ANXIOUS I'eIs looi'7 sue" eAaclE
nov nov Iol''H 3I ready J"5n me TOOK
N MN i.in' When ut any HlS Weeping
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
Propagation of Diphtheria by
Chickens.


1t has been known for some time
that pheasants, pigeons, turkeys,
domestic fowl, and the like were
liable to be attacked by diphtheritis.
The Wiener Allgemeine Medicinische
Zeltuug informs us that Prof. Ger
hardt of Wurzburg, has carried out
a series of observations for the pur-
pose of determining whether the
disease may be communicated by this
means, and has come to an affirmative
conclusion. In September 1882,
?, 600 fowls were sent from the neigh
borhood of Verona TO Nesaelhausen,
in Boden, where there is a great fowl
rearing establish Some of them
must have been affected with diph-
theritis before they started, and in the
end l, 1905 fowls died of it. In the
summer of last year ZOO chickens
were Matched from eggs collected
from many different places. Six
weeks after their birth diphtheritis
manifested itself among the young
chickens, and so badly that in
short time they all died. Five cats
that were kept in the establishment
also became III OF l9e same malay
and died Aparrot that hung in a
cage in the house was also attacked,
but recovered.
Last November en- Italian hen,
which had been painted about the
jaws with carbolic acid by the keeper,
bit a mans wrist and foot. Presently
be become i'll with a smart fever, con-
siderable swelling at the wounded
parts, and all the symptoms Of
traumatic diphtheritis. His recovery
was very tedious. This was not the
only case Of the transmission Of the
disease to men. Two-thirds of all the
laboring persons employed about the
establishment became in with ordin-
airy diphtheritis, and one man con
veyed the election TO his three chill
drcn. 1t is worth noting, that dur
ing all this time no other diphtheritic
case occurred at Nesselhausen or in
the neighborhood The inference
seems obvious that all these cases
originated with the sick fowls.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20

III the age az miracles has gone bv.
wonders have not ceased. A large
number Of the Pennsylvania legisla
tors refused to take any pay for their
services at tho fruitless extra session.
and turned SlO,O0Qinto the state treas.
airy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20

Pat, why in the name Of Jupiter
are you lying there with that stone on
your stomachlh Be aisy now Dim
jist carryin It hint OF got from the
doctor lie guy me a devilay dose
this mornin an sez he, Pat, me ~,
We mustn't try yer bisht 20 kape i
down, am be iabers, eff its requoired,
Eli put anither shtun atop O tins but
oi'll do it.