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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25
A German Tramp.
The Saturday Review.

From time immemorIal the Wan
derjahre have been reorganiZsd as a
distinct period 10 the life of the Ger
man handicraftsman, and almost as a
necessary part of his education. As
soon as his apprenticeship was over it
used to be considered a matter of
course that he should shoulder his
knapsack and 90 out into the world to
seek employment, if not a fortune.
Unless he had very pressing reasons
for doing so, the youth who staid at
home was considered milksop un-
worthy OF the freedom that was now
his by right With few thalers in
his pocket, and all his other posses
sions upon his shoulders, the young
tailor, smith, or matchmaker started
on his travels. While his money last
ed ne led a pleasant and careless life
in the open air and the little frequent
ed by persons of his class. When il
reached a low ebb, he sought Tor work
in some neighborinP town. How
long he remained in his new position
depended upon circumstances. In
summer 1t was seldom longer than
enabled him to earn money enough
to resume his vagrant life. When
Autumn came, he grew critical as to
the character of the masters, and
made full inquiry of his companions
as to the mistress's hberality with
respect to diet, before he applied for
work; for 1t would have been unpleas-
ant to have to turn out again in the
ice and snow. Two or three years
would be passed in this way, and then
the wanderer would fall in love, and
either return home or settle down in
the place in which he happened to be.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25
A Cold Night in the West.

Virginia lNebl Enterprise.
Very cola last night, Mr.. Towns
end observed the reporter. "Cold
should say SO. Went home; llt q
canule jumped into bed; ,ried to blow
candle out; couldn't do IT. blaze
froz .n; had 80 break il off, " replied
Mr.. Townsend.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25

SIMON CAMERON, who isnow eighty
six years DID, is quoted by friend as
saying. "TAe secret Of life is to keep
moving. Men grow old only when
they sit long enough to get rusty. |
want to live just as long as can be
be happy. When l reach the point
when my friends, standing on the
corners and seeing me come up the
street, say, Let's get on the ether side,
there comes that old fool, want to
die. Men make a great mistake in
this life by holding on any position
after they have lost their grip and
their company has become unpleasant
10 sheir associates
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25

wise misused by persons who picked
then up out of curiosity and threw
them away as Of no value.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25

The volcano, Kuawea. on tho Island
Of HAWAII, is 1900 feet high and IS
said to be again showing a bad dis
position. Five years ago last month
il gave the town of HIle a free show,
which il endeded by running down
the curtain of oblivion on the town
itself. The mass Of lava was half
mile in width. thirty to fifty feet IN
thickness, aud buried lille as much as
Vesavius did Pomptil.
PAPA Morisini finds his daughter S
I'm starred marriage involving bin IN
All sorts Of complications. Now Mrs.
Dora StolDe has sued him for $500 for
the part she played IN endeav9ring to
restore to him his willful child
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25


THE carpet-making business IS very
extensive in Philadelphia. There are
10 establishments, and their average
output is %, COO 900 yards. They give
employment to s, 500 hands. Ten years
ago the price Of the best ingram car
pets at the factory ruled at $l.05 per
yard, shading off in the lower grades.
On the day preceding the recent strike
the price was from IS to 90 cents at
the factory These are the prices fixed
by the manufacturers who sell to the
retail trade. TIE prices to jobbers, of
course, are lower. Most Of these fac
tories are now idle.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25

TT requires Is, 600, 600 cows 10 supply
the demand for milk and It's pro
ducts ia this country, and there are
invested in the dairying business Of
the United States over 81, 00o, 900, 900,
an amount nearly double the capital
invested in banking and other com
mercial Industries. 1t requires the
cultivatioa Of over 600, 600, 600 acres
of land to furnish food for the above
number Of cows. More than 5000,
600, 600 is invested in dairy machinery
and implements alone. The men en-
ployed in dalrying occupations mum
Der ZOO, 600, and i 600, 600 horses are
necessary. The cows and horses con
sumo annually 80, 000, 600 tons Of hay,
90 900, 900 bushels of cornmeal and
the ssme of oatmeal 275, COO, 600
bushels of oats, 200, 600, 600 bushels of
bran and 30, 100000 busiest of corn,
to say nothing of brewery grains and
questionable feed of various kinds
that is used all over the country. It
costs $500 600 GOO to feed these cows
and horses.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25
THuRspAY. DEcEMpER IS.

.Sepnte.--In the senate Mr.. Hosr pre-
S ntpd a petition from the Woman's
Suffrage association, OF Pennsylvania
protesting against the admission Of
Dakota on a constitutional majority by
men alone Mr.. Vest submitted Joint
resolution prohibiting the propose d
Nicaragua surveying expedition. Its
consideration was postponed one day
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25

York, and alse from Liverpool, passes
between the island OF Cuba and the
coast of Hayti, and the harbor of
Greytown is not far south of due west
Of this passage, With the Nicaraguan
canal built and valuable rights
secured in Nicaragua, the commercial
position of the United States would
undoubtedly be vastly strengthened.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
POOR JOHN CARLISLE,
How the Present Speaker Showed
That He Was His Own Master.

Much might be written of Car
isle. Only 4S years of age, he is a
self made man in a double sense,
for he has remade himself within
the last u ears. At that time it
seemed as if his life had been lived
out and that the coils of drink
would never be loosened from about
him until he rested with Menifee
and Marshall and the host of other
bright Kentuckians who have graves
IN the island where the Circe lives.
Frankfort is alb ut as demoralizing
to young fellows as the Sonora
mountains to the Arizona Indian,
and he had already served two
terms in the Legislature and was
then, at So, lieutenant governor
There were few did who not think
this wou be the end of it. There
was no Cassandra to hear the whis-
p rings of the gods about him. 1t
was poor John Carlisle"
Suddenly he scattered his cups
and placed a seal upon desire and
became, as ever since has remained,
a devout churchman and an exem-
plar of the strictest temperance.
There was surprise in the town
when more and more it came to
be seen that the change was not
the freak of a headache, but gravely
made and meart to last lifetime
But so it was. He shrank from all
fanaticism and was as b 1.-THE as
ever, but the club-rooms missed his
epigrams, and his books grew
thumbed with use. The comrade
had become a studenU.-Louisville
ntter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
The Local Pauer.

The new year is a good time
to consider the generally overlooked
claims of the local newspaper. 1t is
the most useful and the least COM
pensated and appreciated of all the
agencies which stamp the impress
of progress upon villages and in
land cities. Without the local
newspaper local towns are, as q
rule, thriftless and tend to decay
1t is common for small great men
to speak with contempt of the local
newspaper. In that they initiate
greater men in speaking of greater
journals which offend by manly crit
icisms but the village newspaper
makes more great men out of less
material more bricks withoutstraw
than any other factor in politics,
and it Is the one ladder on which
men climb to local distinction as
the beginning of wide fame.
Local WeeKlies have now extend
ed from county towns into most of
the thrifty villages, and the advent
of the local newspaper has always
dated the. increased thrift.oft the com
munity, and the measure of its sup
port as u rule measures the ad
vancement of the people. Begin
the new year by not only subscrib-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
A Horrifyinr Blunder.

There are those who assert that
this vowelly, soft sounding Castil-
Iian is an easy language. to learn
but they are generally those who
never tried it. What with recipro-
cal pronouns, reflective verbs, Prete-
rite conjugation, backward con-
struction, and genders that change
every word in the sentence it is the
most difficult language under the
sun. The mistakes which tyros
make are often too dreadful to be
amusing. A friend of mine in
Monterey-who prides herself on
having mastered Spanish quickly
and who is withal something of a
coquette-desired to display her
new-found knowledge for the fur
ther captivation of a handsome
young officer. AS he passed her
window one day she rolled up her
blue eyes at him in sentimental
mood and meant to say 81 am very
lonesome''-yo estoy muy solilario,
but what she did say, by merely
changing the tense of the verb and
the final a into o was: II have a
tape wormr'
Not till long afterward did she
learn her mistake and comprehend
the look of horror, not unmix-
ed with compassion, which swept
over his face as he precipitately
took his leave, never to return
Mexican Cor. Springfield Rep.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
Southern Development.

An interesting compilation of the
number and capacity Of cotton
mills in the south has been made
by the Baltimore Manufacturing
Record which shows marvellous pro-
gress in this direction. The aggre-
gate number of mills now in the
south is 3l4 against $50 in 1880, a
gain of 134. The number of spindles
is now 1,276,422 against 49, $50 in
1880, and 24,S73 looms against 15,-
222 in 1880. From Juno l, 1880, to
January l, 1884, the largest Increase
is in Georgia though its percentage
of gain is only 20 per cent. while
North Carolina gains ITO per cent.
and South Carolina 100 per cent.
The tendency in North Carolina is
to small mills and many of them.
The aggregate increase in all the
southern states has been so per cent
in spindles and go per cent.in looms.
If the exact number of looms and
spindles purchased by southern
mills since the census of 1880 could
be obtained it would be not less
than 100000 spindles and $4,000
looms.
But it is in the manufacture of
iron ana agricultural implements
the Records statistics show still
more marvellous progress in the
south than in the manufacture of
cotton. The iron production of
Alabama has grown from 1000 tons
in 1870 to 125, 600 tons IN 1888. In
the same time the output of Geor-
gia has increased from 1884 tons to
$4,000 tons, and Tennessee from
81 305 tons to 10000 tons. There
is very large manufacture of the
smaller agricultural implements in
the south. Georgia alone manu-
factured 100000 plows in 1888, an
increase of 100 per cent. in three
years. In the ten southern states
there are 296 establishment for the
manufacture of agricultural imple-
ments working $3,509,SS1 capital
and 2633 hands, consuming 81, 1,649,-
750 Of material, requiring $79S,012
of wages and creating $3,557,604 of
products. In this industry Ken
lucky was first, Virginia second,
Georgia third, Tennessee fourth,
North Carolina fifth. In 1870 all
the cotton planters were made in
Georgia. In 1880 they were made |
in IA states, and two thirds were
made in Ohio in 1880, and only 3 |
per cent. in Georgia. Since 1880 |
the manufacture has again turned |
to Georgia, and in 1888 this state
is monopolizing this manufacture.
In ten years from 1870 to 1880 the
industry of the manufacture of ag-
implements were almost |
wholly created in the south and it's
further development during the
next ten years will be rapid unless
the free trade lunatics should sue
ceed in abolishing protection.
These facts and figures published |
by the Record showing the great |
material progress of the south |
should be sufficient to convince our
friends just across the
border that they are on cold trail
in following up decayed sectional
issue.-Avalanche.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
Some Curious yerdic1s.

1 have been gathering up in
stances of funny verdicts fer several
years. In my memorandum book
| find The following: A Kansas
jury gave the following verdict
in q case where a man died in a
state of ibtoxication: Death by
hanging--round a rum shop" An
Indiana jury recently returned a
written verdict of "Blode to peces
by the biler hustin'." Jury" said
a western Judge, "you kin go out
and find verdict. If you cant
fnd one of your own, get the one
the last jury used" The jury re
turned with a verdict of ''Suicide in
the ninth degree" A Rhode Is
land jury were out five days debat
ing on a long case involving a hog
worth 81, and then came in, found
the hog not guilty., and recommend
ed both plaintiff and defendant
to the mercy of the court. A Pc
kin, ILL.,, coroner jury rendered a
singular verdict, that man whose
body was found in the river came
to his death by blow on the head,
(which was given either before or
after the drowning"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
Preserving Wood.

An experimenter says: 81 dis
covered many years ago that wood
could be made to last longer than
iron in the ground, but thought the
process so simple that it was not so
we'll TO make a stir about it. l
would as soon have poplar, bass
wood or ash as any other kind of
timber for fence posts. l have
taken out Eastwood posts after hav
ing been set seven years that were
as sound when taken out as when
first put in the ground. Time and
weather seemed to have no effect
on them. The posts can be pre-
pared for less than two cents apiece.
This is the recipe: Take boiled
linseed oil and stir it in pulverized
coal to the consistency of paint.
Put a coat of this over the timber,
and there is not a man who will live
to see it rot
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
A CONVENIENT
CODsumDtion Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
2 ice, having had placed in his hands by
N East India missionary the formula
OF simple vegetable 7, medy for tn
speedy and permanent cure of Con
.umption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma,
md all throat and lung affections, als'
4 positive and radical cure for nervous
iebility and all nervous com plants, at
er having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt
iL his duty TO make it known to his suit
ering fellows. Actu ted by this motive
md desire to relieve human suffering.
will send free of charge, to ell who
iesire it, this recipe, in German, French
pr English, with full directions for pre-
pairing and using. Sent by mail by adj
iressing with stamp, naming rhis paper,
". A. MOVES, l49 Powers Block, Roch
-ster, n. Y. aug3n-POw-iyr
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31

"I don't know" is too often the
remark make by farmer or dairy
man. "How much milk does this
COW give?' "I don't know" "How
much butter?7 'I don't know"
How much feed do you use?' 81
don't know" Suppose the grocer
or the butcher is asked, How much
sugar or tea is in that barrel or box,
or in that parcel, or, how much
does the quarter of beef or that side
of pork weigh? and he should say, I
don't know; we should contemplate
him with amazement, and silently
count up how long it would be be
fore the know-nothing" would be
sold by the sheriff. But farming
is so good business that it will
stand all this neglect and ignorance,
and the farmer still make living.
The owner of a cow should know to
an ounce how much milk she gives
at milking in a day, in a week,
each month, and in the year. He
should know to an ounce how much
butter each COW gives, and how
much feed she eats to produce so
much. He should also know the
most he can get from the least feed,
and the most feed, so that he can
regulate to cent the cost of his
butter. And cheap balance and
notebook and pencil, used in this
way, will be worth many dollars
every year to him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
The Soudan.

A good many people are at pres
ent puzzled over the "SJudan," of
which they hear So much. They
are not quite sure If it would be-
tray an objectionable amount of ig-
norance for them to confess to
general kind of unacquaintedness
with what this Soudan is and how
far ii extends. Would it give these
people-who, by the way, need not
he ashamed to confess their ignor-
ance--any kind of satisfactory infor-
nation to tell them that Soudan is
the name given by the Egyptians to
all their dependent empire stretch
ing from the Third Cataract for an
indefinite distance towards the lake,
and from the Red Sea to the wes-
tern border Darfur? This empire
comprises much of Nabia, all Sen
naar, all Kordofan and all Darfur
1t is said to be about 1000 miles
square, or as large IS India. This
vast extent of a million of square
miles is said to be inhabited by
about 100000 people, most of
them Mussulmans and many of
these of exceptional ferocity, fanat-
icism and daring. Eventually, it
seems likely, the English will have
to tackle this wild, ferocious crowd,
if at any rate it invade Egypt, whis b
Is far from unlikely.-Post.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31

can't get along without it, like rare
old family diamonds; don't keep it
running six or eight hours day,
like a kitchen hydrant.
And-you won't be offended, my
son-but if you will observe close
ly you will perceive that young
men, boys, fiedglings of about your
age, swear more than men--more
frequently, and more awkwardly,
with less point and direction. A
man becomes ashamed oft. 1t be-
longs to the cigarette period of life,
my boy. 1t is a habit that flour
ishes in the bread and butter days,
along between the high school and
college, and while the blue ribbon
or the diploma is bright. 1t be
longs to what Puck SO aptly calls
"unsalted generation" the fresh
young man. So put it away, and
put on manly things.
/ know some good men, some of
the best in the world, who will con-
found it and dog gone it. and in
New England even a deacon has
been known, under terrible strain
to condemn" But as rule, my
son, don't do it. Don't. 1t isn't
an evidence of smartness or worldly
~isdom. Any fool can swear.
And a good many fools do it. 1 do,
my son? All, If could only gath
er up all useless, uncaIled for, inef-
fective swears 1 have dropped
along the pathway of my life, 1
know 1 would remove stumbling
blocks from many Inexperienced
feet and my heart would be lighter
by a ton than it is to-day. But if
you are going to be fool just be
cause other men have been, oh, my
son, what a helpless fool you
will be-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31

| greeting received from one, while
the other pursed up her lips, eleva-
ted her eyebrows and drawled out:
Il should suppose, Will, you would
admire a little more dignity in
your wife! Such pursuits are be
meath the dignity of anything but
a hoyden?'
looked to my husband to de-
fend me- The face that so shortly
had been SO smiling was now dark
with frowns, and when at last they
were gone, he begged l should never
let his aunt and sister catch me in
the like predilament. Had l, then,
done wrong. or was mother right?
That night there was q tear-stained
pillow, and a firm resolve that
would try to please them all. Did
| succeed? Ask any other woman
who has undertaken the herculean
task.
If Aunt Tabitha came there was
sure to be flaw in my household
az arrangements, or else was reading
while there were still undarned
stockings in my work basket. On
the other hand / was sure to be inn
mersed in household cleaning, darn
ing or cake-baking when Sophia
came to discuss some literary gem,
and Will assured me / gave just
cause for the remark that my soul
soar d no h'g er than a baking pan.
So, therefore, l dropped everything
TO hasten to Sophia, who was real
ly mpanionahle girl, until two
or three visits from Aunt Tabitha,
when everything was topsy-turvy,
had been duly repeated with appro-
pirate remarks, AMI Mary Ann had
assured me that / should certainly
ruin Will, that 1 began to tear that
whichever horn of the dilemma l
took it was sure to be the wrong
one.
If, to please Catherine, 1 bought
a more jaunty hat or brighter col
ors, l was soon made aware that
such things did well enough for a
girl like Catherine, but was posi-
lively disreputable in a married
woman. Or, when rushing to the
other extreme l wore clothes almos
Quaker-like in their simplicity, 1
heard Of the Thorpe pride, that
would not be disgraced by my pen
Economy being Mary AIMS hob
by, | was taken to task concerning
my household expenses. Il, at
Belinda's urging, l bought a knot
of ribbon, or book of poems to
please Sophia, 1 must render an ac-
count of money expended, and was
then told that [ could have pur
chased it somewhere else for half
the sum.
Thus have I been everything to
everybody with equal results.
was pensive and sentimental with
Belinda; loud and boisterOus with
economical for Mary
AIMS sake; a perfect bookworm
to please Sophia; a pattern house
keeper in Aunt Tabitha's presence;
and above all, an object of con
tempt to myself when l had dis
covered that / had lost my hus-
bands regard by marrying his
family.
Tom has grown up and taken to
himself a wife, a large-hearted. |
v ole-souled little woman, just the |
Dne 1 knew Tom would choose. |
She has. asserted her independence,
and, shielded by her husband, has
taught me that my ideal home NAV
De realized, and that woman may
marry without including the fami-
y in her promise to ''love, honor,
and obey" New York Daily News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
Friendly Advice to swaarars.

Robert j. Burdette: Nobody
cares for the swearing of an habit
ual swearer. His volleys of profan-
ity have-no terror In them. They
mean nothing. 1t is the man who
never swears who scares you out
of your boots if once in a life time
he does swear. So far as we can
learn, Washington only swore once
during all the eight years of the
revolutionary war. But that one
time counted. 1t turned back the
tide of retreat, changed rout into
victory and made things hum.
But the fellow who swears on all
occasions, and swears hot and cold
with the same mouth, the intellect
uaI pauper who ekes out his barren
supply of ideas with an abundant
crop of profanity, whose cDnversa-
tion is a long chain of mill privi-
leges, aud who talks as a beaver
works-his swearing is weak, tire
some, disgusting. So, ii you want
to swear with any effect, my boy,
be very seldom about it. Be exclu-
-sive in your profanity. If you
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-31
AN TDYL oF THE KTTcHEN.

In brown holland apron she stood in the
Her sleeves rolled up, aud her cheeks ell
sglow;
Her hair was cOiled neatly; when I, indis
stord watching while Nancy wa. knead-
ing the dough.
Now who could he neater, or brighter, or
So eeter,
Or who hum a song so delightfully."- low,
Or who look 30 sleT der, so graceful, so tender,
As Nancy, sweet Nancy, while kneading
the doughs
How deity she pressed it, and squeezed it,
carersed iJ,
And twisted and turned it, now quick and
now slow,
All, me. but that madness I've paid for in
Twas my heart she was kneading as we'll
as the dough.
At last, when she turned for her pan to the
dresser,
She saw me and blusbed, and said shyIy.
"Please go,
Or my bread l'll be spelling, IN spite OF my
toilIng,
If you stand here and watch while Pm
knea1ing the dough-
l begged for permission to stay. She'd not
listen;
The sweet little tyrant said mo sir mol nor
Yet when had vanished on being thus han-
ished,
My heart stayed with Nancy while knead-
ing the dough.
I'm dreaming, sweet Nancy, and see you in
fancy.
Your heart, love, has sOitened and pitied
my woe,
And we. dear, are rich IN dainty wee
kitchen
Where Nancy, my Nancy, stands kn aiding
the dough.
John a Fraser, Jr., in the Century.