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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
ICY ALASKA.
IL Proves to Be "A Paying invettment
Through Its r-BearinS Islands

Through Its Fur-Bearins Islands
A correspondent OF the Boston Adj
vertiser. writing from Wrangle, saws:
When Mr.. Seward urged the pur-
chase of Alaska from Russia he was
met with fierce opposition because it
was believed that the country had
nothing of value, and that, outside of
its fisheries and its timber, Alaska
was a worthless bit of ground, which
ought never to be purchased by our
government But Charles Sumner,
when the matter came before the SEN
ate, spoke in favor of the purchase,
and the money was at length paid
over to the car, and we gained a new
territory which has ever since been
a sort of terra incognita, rarely Wis
ite2, but little understood, and so
neglected that it was never given
government until the last session of
congress, when John Kinkead. ex-
governor of Nevada, was sent to Sitka
to take charge of affair
In 1867, when we paid over our
small sum OF 1900, 900 and got
Alaska in return, both Mr.. Seward
and Mr.. Sumner overlooked the very
important fact that the seal islands of
the newly acquired country were
worth more than all tne other
islands and all the mainland togeth-
er. Nobody knows yet what is the
exact value of all the timber and
minerals and fish in Alaska. But
this much is certain-the two little
of st. George and St. Paul, away up
in Behring sea, afford revenue which
is sufficient to make the purchase of
Alaska a good business operation, no
matter whether we get anything else
out of the country or not. The Seal
islands are leased to the Alaska Com
mercial company for $55, 900 per year.
The tax collected on each fur seal
skin shipped from the islands is
50. 621, which, on 100 900 skins, the
greatest number the company can
take by law in any one year, amounts
to 1862, SEQ, making, along with the
rental, total of $317, 000 Charging
the transaction 81, 800, 600, which
more nearly represents the cost of
Alaska, including all expenses at
tending the matter, than 1900, 600,
the actual price paid, the 1917, 500
yearly income from the Seal islands
is 4 per cent. on the investment and
$17, 500 profit. Had this return been
dreamed of in 1867 there would have
been far less questioning whether it
was wise to buy the country. The
lease of the company now holding
the Seal islands was for twenty years,
and it expires in 1887. If 200 600
skins may easily be taken every year,
the government will have no difficulty
in making a new lease to the present
company or to new one which will
return double the present rental.
Then Alaska, more than ever, will be
paying property, the source of
steady. legitimate income.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

upon silver dollars IN an amount
equal to more than one third OF the
national bank circulation If 1t is for
the best interests OF the Uniled States
to issue a circulation based upon sill
yer, the comptroller believes the cir
culation should be based upon coin
or bullion which contains a sufficient
number of grains of silver to have an
intrinsic value equal in the markets
of the world to its nominal value.
Some writers have suggested that the
circulating medium might be based
upon bullion, both gold and silver,
and the comptroller is of the opinion
that under certain restrictions and
regulations it would be far more cor
rect in principle to issue silver certi-
ficates based upon a deposit of silver
bullion, to be valued in exact proper.
ton to silver to gold, than to continue
the issue of certificates under, the
present law. If this was done, the
silver bars might be stamped at their
market value and held in the treasury
for redemption certificates, which
would call for an amount of silver
equal in value to their nominal or
face value expressed in gold. The
bullion represented by certificates
should be periodically valued at its
market price in gold, and certain
proportionate amount of the silver so
held might, perhaps, be carried to
provide means for the redemption of
the certificates, if redemption was de-
sired for business purposes. The
comptroller believes that the use of
silver as money in this manner and
its periodical valuation would have
more influence in appreci alton the
market value of silver among the
nations of the world than the present
arbitrary coinage of 4121 grains of sill
yer as adollar. The issue of currency
based upon silver should not, how
ever, be unlimited, and the present
laws making the purchase and coin
ageof fixed amount of silver bullion
mandatory are very pernicious in
their effect as the unlimited and con-
tinued issuance of full legal tender
silver coin and certificates based
thereon of an intrinsic value less than
their face has already caused the
uOdrullS vi SOlu, stuO Will eventually
drive it from the channels of trade,
thereby causing practical suspension
of gold payments. There are many
indications of this, notably the UNI
eas;ness in financial circles in June
and July last, caused by the reserve
of gold in the treasury falling so near
to point at which under the law the
issue of gold certifcatioE ceases. II
also may be observed that during the
present year the national banks
throughout the country have increas-
ed their holdings of gold, including
certificates, in the sum OF $40, 615, $50.
The comptroller concludes his re-
port with discussion of the subject
of bank examinations, and con
sideration of the financial troubles of
Nav, 1884
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

saying that our method is as good as
theirs, for the very good reason that
ten years ago they made cheese upon
our present method and discarded it
for better one. Since the change
their cheese is leading the entire CON
tinent, and the extra price Canada
cheese brings closes the argument
'tBat if Canada outdoes us in the
quality of her cheese she is long
way behind us in butter. ] have
scarcely eaten a bit of good butter
since came into the Dominion:
What / have seen has been on the
tables of the best hotels, and the ar
ticle invariably looks and tastes as if
it had been banged to death with
overwofking or churhing, and maybe
both. And yet | am assured by good
judges that as fine butter can be made
in Canada as anywhere in America.
Why not2 The grass, the water, the
climate, are all in its favor. The only
factor lacking is good brains. Good
butter and cheese is universally a
product of skill, and that takes brains.
And the scarcity of good butter and
cheese is al ways due to scarcity Of
good brain action. These is no excep-
lion. In following out this line Of
thought | have noticed that most
people blame the weather, the grass,
the water, the COWS, or anything ex
cept their own lack of good dairy
sense
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
Bedding for Animals.

The farmer who takes pains to
make up" the bed for his COW or
horse gains many times the cost of
the labor in so doing. If all material
is passed through the cutter previous
to being used for bedding, it not only
adds to the comfort of the animals,
but assists in the matter of cleanli-
ness, by reason of its great power of
absorption. For this reason sawdust
is becoming favorite, as its fineness
not only admits of its being handled
easily, well spread ia the stall, and
promptly removed, but, after having
absorbed the liquid flows of the stall
still readily mixes with the matter in
the manure heap.
The merits of sawdust is due to its
fineness and absorptive Qualities. If
any bedding is plentiful, fne, and
absorptive, il prevents loss of manure
by intimately mixing with it. and,
as the dropplngs are more readily in
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
Montana Mineral Specimens.
Helena M. ~ Herald.

L
While Butte is boasting of the big
display which her mine owners will
make at New Orleans in the way
of ore exhibitions, it will perhaps be
of interest TO know that the finest
specimens sent from Montana will be
from mines in the vicinity OF Helena.
The most prominent in the exhibit
will be the Drum Lummon and the
Alta, the former sending among other
specimens one single chunk of ore
weighing /, 725 pounds, while the lat
ter will contribute a small piece
weighing 6, $50 pounds. Harry Horn
(Montana's old time humorisD OWES a
big coal mine near Cinnbar, and
sends a solid block of what he calls
Montana gloom" weighing 2,460
pounds. The west side will have 90
take a back seat so far as fine ore
samples are concerned.
The car with the Helena exhibit
leaves here this evening at o'clock,
and will be connected at Livingston
with the one going from there. The
Northern Pacific takes them through
free to st. Paul, and from there the
Minneapolis and St. Louis Road and
the connection will take the n through
to New Orleans free. These two cars
are fully loaded and handsomely
decorated. They will go directly
through without delay.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

corporated with a greater mass of alb
sorbent material, the risk of evapora-
ton and escape of gases is lessened.
Now, if the labor of cutting is to
be taken into the account, it is more
than balanced by facility to spread
the fine manure when it is hauled to
the field. The cutting can be done in
winter or during wet days, and it is
luxury to spread nice, finely divided
manure. Good, fine, clean bedding
adds to the thrift and health of the
animals, is cooler in summer, and
warmer in winter, and those who use
it prevent much oss.-City and Coun-
try.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
What isn Fnrrnt9
FitisbuTg Chronicle Telegraph

lie abuses me constantly, and only
yesterday called me an old faggot,
your Honor, said Mrs. Brand, relat
ing to the Police Justice the outrages
received at the hands of Mr.. Brand,
whom she mad had arrested.
How dare you address such an APP
pellation to your wife, sirl" lndig-
nantly asked the Justice of the pris-
oner.
Your Honor, replied the prisoner,
Her maiden name was Burning, and
if Brand plucked from the Burning
amt AN old faggot, what is it9'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
REST.

O. ashen-gray November
The autumn flaming ember
OF scarlet leaf burns ont with thee;
Remains but pale safety.
Thou hast no JOYS TO OFFER
The seasons well-flled Golfer
Received its Blooms from other hands;
Thy name alone no gift commands,
Yet I, withal, win praise thee,
Some monument Will raise thee;
Poor alld queen, with barren breast,
Thou brlngest promises of rest,
And, after toll and striving,
For llfe's great needs contriying,
oh, who shall dare TO scorn thy word,
or slight the grace thou hast conferred
MINNIE c. BALLARD
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
HARVEST SONG.

When all the land with corn was green
And all the air was hot with sun,
used to lean from yJnder pane,
Chidden for this or that undone-
To look across the warm glad fields;
"For there / said, "ere long CLEAN
With happy thoughts Of harvest tide
When all the lands with corn was green
When all the harvest fields lay shorn.
And stubble was where corn grew taTi
For others was the harvest need,
For me-the empty fields stretched bare,
only God knows how sad th9y were,
Those cold brown lands, once. green WIFE coIhi
But they we're what was left for me,
when an the harvest fields lay Snorn-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

The ranch of Richard King, the
Cattle King Of Texas, the largest
owned by any individual in the union,
is located in Neuces, Cameron, Hidal-
go and Starr counties, and has from
tage on the Rio Grande of seventy tive
miles, and is stocked with over 40, :
600 head of horses and $50, 600 head CT
cattle.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

1t will interest married womeA Qn
New York State, at least,) to know
that the general term of the supreme
court, in New York City, recently de-
cided that married woman doing
business on her own account may EN-
ploy her husband at stated salary.
The husband can not enforce the pay
ment of his salary by an action against
his wife. The husband may assign
his clam, and the assignee may sue
the wife. A creditor of the husband
may maintain legal proceedings
against the wife to get possession of
any unpaid salary due him.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

In spite of the low price of -four and
wheat, it is claimed that the price of
bread is as high as ever. The situation
at present existing once prevailed in
England Until the press took the
matter up, the bakers refused to lower
the price of bread to correspond with
the cheapness of -four. Already the
New York Commercial Advertiser IS
calling public attention to the sub
iect.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-07

liable advices that Cleveland had carried
New York and was elected.
At 1:15 D. m. the Western Union hulle-
tin boards in New York said cleveland
and Hendricks are elected
The New York Evening Journal re-
publican) and the Herald Gndependent)
at 2 o'clock this afternoon admitted
Cleveland's election.
The report of riot and fire in New
York this afternoon must have been man
ufactured as the operators here say no
such telegram has gone over the wires.
$50 p. m.-Stll the Cleveland bull
letins keep pouring in. Nothing but de-
mocratic reports now; the republicans
have stopped sending out "bluff'' reports.
One says that 500 has been added to
Cievaland's plurality in New York. A.
p. German, chairman of the executive
committee of the democratic national
committee sends out his official assur-
ance that Cleveland has carried New
York, Connecticut and New Jersey and is
elected. In the south the inhabitants are
having a gala day over democratic success.
In the capital of Georgia a great and enthu-'
siastic crowd took the Legislative halls by
storm, forced the Legislature to adjourn
and join them, seized Gov. Mcdaniel and
bore him aloft to some distance and then
burned red shirt they had been bearing.
This as a token that the ''red shirt willno
longer be waved.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-07

OF the 4,713,OOO acres belonging
to the Crows at least one mil
lion acres are capable of the
highest cultivation. Yet, during all
of last year and up to the present date,
there were but ten acres cultivated by the
Government for the Indians, and 1875 acres
titled by the Crows themselves without as
sistance from anybody. From the 1875
acres handled by the Red Men were OBJ
tanned about 1900 bushels of veget-
ables, which were consumed entirely
by themselves. Last year the Crows put
up thirty-five tons OF hay and cut over
300 cords of wood The winter months,
as is the custom among all tribes. We're
spent in hunting for game among the
mountains and ON the plains.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-07
Corrected Returns i.

A telegram from Bozeman says that full
returna show the election of George r.
Nichols to the Legislature in place of w.
N. Martin. The Legislators from this
county will therefore be Frank X. Arm
strong, councilman; j. NJ. Robinson, AL
fred Myers. and George r. Nichols, rep
resentatives all democrats but Nichols.
T. r. Mcdonald, democrat, bas been
elected assessor and Miss Hamilton, indie
pendent, c.,unty superintendent Of schools.
aaitdi tie balance 81 the county officers will
talbsrspnn nhcans. Hon. Joseph K. 'rools
carried the Z county for delegate il con.
gress and Blake fer district attorney.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-07
Chicago Milwaukee
& St. Paul

Railway is the short line from St. Paul
and Minneapolis. via La Crosse and Mil
waukee, to CHICAGO and all points in
the eastern States and Canada.
IT Is THE ONLY LINE
Under one management between st. Paul
and Chicago, and is the finest equipped
railway in the Northwest.
IT is THE ONLY LINE
Running Pullman Sleeping cars. Palace
Smoking cars and the finest Dining cars IN
the world. via the famous
RIVER BANK ROUTE,
Along the shores of Lake Pepln and the
beautiful Mississippi river to Milwaukee
and Chicago Its trains connect with
those of the northern lines in the grand
Union Depot at St. Paul.
NO CHANGE OF CARS
Of any class between st Paul and Chi
cago. For through tickets, time tables,
and full information apply to any coupon
sicket agent in the northwest.
IS. MERRILL, A. VII. CARPENTER,
General Manager. Genl Pass. Agt
1T. CLARK, g. H. HEAFFoRD, =
Genl Supt. Asst Gcnl Pass. Agt
Milwaukee. Wis.
". H. Dixon, General Northwestern Pas
sengcr Agent, Ste Paul. Mimi k
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-07
Knowles.

MAJORITY 1Or IoOle, ..
Custer. Meagher and Madison yet to
hear from. Custer county two years ago
gave democratic majority but may give
small republican majority this year.
Meagher county will give good demo-
cratic majority. Madison county was re-
publican two years ago but is somewhat
in doubt this year. The returns received
at Helena up to this morning cannot he
considered exactly reliable rs in every
county there must necessarily be precincts
that had not then had time to make re-
turns. We yet believe that Toole is eject
ed by good majority.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-07
VERY CLOSE.

The Territory Cannot Yet Be Considered
Certainly Democratic.
Helena telegraphed the following coun-
ty majorities on delegate to congress this
, 1884-09-04
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.
4. j. Hammer was yesterday adjudgod
insane by the Denver courts.
The Presbyterian church of this city
have donated to the church at Missoula
one hundred volumes of Sunday-school
books.
There will be u shooting match at
Mayor Talbot's on Saturday. Glass balls
and clay pigeons will be the targets for
the marksmcn.
The Denver Oil company have COM
menced boring for oil on their claims
in the Rattle Snake Mining district. They
are confident of success.
W. F. Sharp, of Sharpe 4 Mason,
of this city, has taken the contract of
building the residence Of T. ]. Rutledge,
of Pine Bluff, for 81, 200.
The highest temperature yesterday was
76'; lowest, 47'; mean temperature, co.
mean humidity, 81 per cent highest
velocity of wind, 20 miles per hour.
Judge East, formerly of Ohio, and II.
S. Williams have formed a partnership
and will open a law office in the CONNER
cial block. They will have the rooms
lately occupied by j. s. Matthews.
, 1884-09-04
rag ooNcoRp pHILosopHERs.
A New ~pd Interesting Method OF
Treating Biographical subjects.

a New ~nd Interesting Method Of
Tr~ating Biographical subjects.
lChieago Tribunal
For the frst time perhaps during its exist
ence thu Concord School OF Philosophy has
Assertel is usefulness. Instead OF specu
lating IN various systems OF philosophy,
without teaching or advocating any system,
which it should dofto make good its name, IL
ha, resolved itself this summer into n sym
pdr.a.n, the subject OF which hns been rem
inisrei-es Of Emerson- Each day during tho
week ous o- morc essays have been read,
d-aisng elfh different tnits oI clianacter,
sa-atEnh forth his vnrious ~reiatinils to the
~oEt. rrefared by those who knew him and
~cnu ultimate with him After the adjourn
msfi Vi tae sehool those paper will 10 col
lected sad printed 10 book-form, thus giving
u a lie Of Emerson byTInany hands.
Among thOse who have read paper at the
school rre DR. Hrrris. DIR. Holland. Professor
Sanhar. thu Rev. George G.. Cooke, Miss
Elizabeth Peabody, Airs. julia Wand Howe,
Ms Edna Cheney, Mr. John Fisks. and
othera and the w.-e range Of their subjects
may ts Inferred from the titles; Emerson's
View of nationality. his rotations to Carlyle.
Emerson NJ a pru-e-Nriter and poet; Elmer
s.n'- genius, Emerson in this pulpit. his re-
latiun. t. sDciety; hi, private life, his
relations " tbs Orientaiists. his -
sass r,mlniscence,, etc. 1t will readily be
sen that such II collection OF papers,
prepared by those who were associated
with him. and who ane lifted 10 discus. such
topics IL OF lnestimHblo value, and much
more to the purpose than the cold work Of a
btpgrapher who gets his Information at sec
ond hand, and must work without ths in
spintion OF association or memory. Even
II tho bioginpher may have had acquaint-
nnce with the hero Of his work, il 1, impossi-
BILE hat he should have Us clear an insight
into all traits OF his character as those who
examine Individual traits, with which they
ART personally in sympathy.
This method OF treating biographical sub
Jects should DO extended. There ar, numer.
Gus others upon whose lives Il new light
would be thrown by the methods OF the sym
postum Take, Tor instance, Theodore Parker,
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Longfellow, Lin
coin, Garfield, any Of The great names In lit
crature, politics, science. art, or theology.
What new light would be thrown upon them
How much closer we should got at their
habits, their ambitions, their motives, and
the work they accomplish if their personal
friends, 81 those Of their friends
who are competent TO do it, would contribute
their rominiscences in this form, each one
dealing with some separate phase OF chnrac-
teri The result would be a complete biogra-
ply, that rarest OF all forms Of literary
work. Instead OF the dry routine, the aim
less hodge-podge, or the ~prejudiced and one
sided estimate which 80 often passes for bio9-
lnphy, NC should have IA series of pictures
sketched by competent hands, which wheH
united would give the world an inner aud er-
hhustive view and review Of the person Whose
life was deiineated
, 1884-09-04
TELLING A STORY.
Shortcomings and Long, oings of Ger
tain Would-be Raconteurs.

BIZ NYe In Detroit Free Fress.
Out of every one thousand people born
into this world of sin and sorrow, nine
hundred and n%inety-nine either do not
know Il good story when they hear it, for
get it when they have heard it, do not
know how to repeat II themselves, or
haven't good judgment about when to in
trodnce 1t. ! lay down this grand princi-
pie, as am laying down all my grand
principles this season. without fear OF sue
cesstul contradiction.
To discriminate between u good story
and u poor one, to remember the good
ones and forget the poor ones, to bring in
the right one at the right moment, and to
do ii as naturally as the startled mud
turtle seeks the bosom Of the rolling deep,
requires sang froid, %naiyete, chic, pro
bono publeo and horse sense. These
qualities are rarely united in one indi-
vidual. Chic il useless without pro bono
publico, and both are n. 4. without what
Herbert Spencer has 80 charmingly char
acterized as horse sense.
The world IL peopled with denizens who
are constantly telling anecdotes that claim
to be faeetious- but do not seem to get
there, Some men can never take a hint.
They 90 through life telling the same
g-loom-environed funny stories, cheerfully
, 1884-09-04
The Democratic Leader.
THURspAY. sEPT. {. lss4.


An Idyl Of the Hammock.
We are sitting In the hammock, she and I May
and ],
And the gently blowing breeze.
Through the oyerhanging trees.
viii q sad and mournful sigh.
Whispers by.
Rustles by.
Cody, sweetly. sadly rustles by.
wesre sitting In the hammock, lovers two. May
and Lew,
And her tiny booted feet
With the branches nearly meet
And l see In eyes OF blue.
Love so true.
Fond and true.
Brightly glowing. gladly ~beAming. fond and
true
We are sitting In the hammock. lovers. falr
foolish pair.
And my careful arm around.
Her delightful waist Is wound.
Just to keep the little dear.
From n fear,
Haunting fear.
From a trembling, ioppling-oyrr haunting fear.
We are lying in the grasses. she aud /. Mayand
And the maiden blushing red.
Sitting squarely on my head.
Utters one afinghted cry
"Hammock's down.
Broken down,
Oh. the hould, horrld hammocks broken
down 2"
-Earie H. kafoa.