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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
The Mexican Tin Field.

The Tribune of Durango reports
that about ninety miles northwest of
that city and 1875 miles from the
station of Villa Lerdo, on the Mexi-
can Central railroad, is the small
town of Coneto, with about l, 900 in
habitants, and situated in the center
of the tin region of Mexico. 1t bears
traces of having been much larger in
size and very prosperous mining
town. 1t lies in gulch at the foot of
a chain of mountains, called San
Francisco, and its population derived
and still derives its living chiefly
from mining and smelling tin orHs
found in the above mountains. the
San Francisco chain is one of the lat
eral branches of the main chain of
Rocky Mountains, and is about 100
miles in lengta and from forty to six
ty miles in width. Throughout its
length and width it is a series of
abrupt peaks, rocky canyons and
some occasional grassy slopes and long
but narrow valleys. The whole of it
is heavily wooded with oak and pine,
but is almost waterless, although
during the rainy season many un-
forbade mountain torrents are met
with there, and the grounds offer at
many points facilities for damming,
where short dana, if built, would en-
trap an extensive reservoir or a series
of reservoirs of water. Toward the
southwestern end of this ridge is the
central point of the Mexican tin re
gion. Its extent is about $50 miles ia
length and about the same in width.
The tin ore fouSd there is principally
red and black cassiLerite of extreme
purity, and this is found either in
veins which assure in all directions
these peaks and their slopes, or IN
placer, IN gulches and valleys at the
foot of the peaks and slopes. At the
foot of all ridges and slopes where a
vein exists, placer of tin is inyaria-
bly, found. Salphuret of tin, similar
to Cornwall, England, tin stone has
also been found, but, so far, only in
one point of these mountains; while
arseniate of tin and also very finely
divided red ophite of tin are met with
in many Of the numerous veins al
ready tapped The massive castle
rite is usually found in the veins IN
continuous streaks of various width,
the ore being, of course, easily separ-
ated from ganguc. and containing
from 70 to 80 per cent. of metallic tin.
The veins are very numerous, and al
though many Of them are cut into,
and Some have been worked quite ex-
tensively, it is a certainty that only a
small percentage Of them are known
at present, and great many more
could be found by judiclous prospect
ing.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
CHAPTER ".

The fall moon also shone in at the
square window of the Manor, and be
held Bruce as he paced the floor of bis
library alone. The clocks were on
the stroke Of twelve, and after the
day of fatigue and sorrow his house
hold refreshed itself with sleep He,
It's master, KEEP. vigil with his grief,
bravely endeavoring to accustom him
self to its icy hand upon his heart in
the dreary hours of the night, that he
might the better endure its presence
when he took up the usual routine Of
life on the morrow. There. in that
pleasant library of an evening IN the
late autumn and early winter, ne lad
sat and read aloud to Margaret, as she
bent above her embroidery, With the
light from the tall wax candles falling
on her sweet face and glossy eraids.
The first day or night of utter lone
illness is always the most oppressive to
mourning spirit. Yesternlght her
form had lain in the long parlor across
the hall-surrounded it is true, with
the strange paraphernelia OF death
but al least under his roof-and now
she was lying yonder in the dismal
company of the dead, with whom she
had gone to dwell forever more.
Wearied with walking to and fro,
ne went and sat down down at the
table, on which the candles were
burning as usual, and bowed his head
upon his folded arms AS he sat thus
he heard slow, light step along the
low piazza, and thought without
either fear or hope, in his dispalr
That step is like Margaret's-my
dead Margaret's.
Then he aroused to the fact that
Don. the fierce and faithful watch
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

have apparently high regard for de
fuact pussy. The report of regal
cats funeral comes from Yeddo. The
coffin was covered with a white silk
pail, and body of chanting priests
followed the body to the grave. Later
on handsome monument was erect
ed on which was inscribed the many
virtues of the cat.
Colonization schemes are cropping
out. AS during the last industrial de-
preston, so duriag the present VIII
large Numbers be driven out from
manufacturing centers a New Jer-
sey company has just purchased 1000
acres of land in Florida, and saw mills
are being erected. The best machin-
cry is being contracted for, Laborers
are wanted who can put in a few
hundred dollars.
Few people Snow that there is quite
a valuable collection of diamonds and
other precious stones in the treasury
at Washington. They are the gift in
past years of oriental nations to our
government. 1t is said they "have
no definite owners, aBd are placed in
the treasury vaults because they are
too valuable to throw away, and no
body dares to claim them because no.
body has any right TO them.
The Philadelphia Press is authority
for the for the Following figures; Ac
coraing to the latest census (1SSD the
population of ST. Petersburg number
ed SCI 600 inhabitants or an increase
of POO 900 in two years The adhereuts
of the non christian religions were
20, 00J, of wnoa IL, S26 were Jews.
Besides the mother tongue, thirty-four
different idioms were spoken. There
were %, 600 civil officers of state,
So, 600 military men and 1000 mem
bers of the clergy. According to the
provisions Of the ministry of public
instruction, the receipts for 1885 were
calculated at 2. 1884 935 roubles, being
an increase of So, 600 roubles as com
pared with 1884 The total expendi-
ture was calculated Mt 20. 500, 900
roubles, or an increase of sos, 600
roubles rs compared with the last re-
turn.
London, with its 4. coo, 900 inhabit-
/ ettlA1s N0ta tNAAF cNN mum bttiiiA
as Paris and three times as much as
New York 1t has 10000 miles of
underground conductors and not a
telegraph pole in the street.
The Italian population of California
has grown to be very important both
as to numbers and 10 to wealth and
intelligence There are now $500
Italians in San Francisco. In other
parts of the state there are q, 00e,
aud in other Pacific States there are
As, 600 Italians on the Pacific coast.
From 1869 TO 1872 the emigration was
composed almost entirely OF SINGLE
men, but since the latter date families
have predominated. Nearly all come
directly from Italy, the coast furnish
ing fishermen and the rural districts
farm gardeners and farmers, They
were born among vineyards, alive and
orange groves They are, therefore,
naturally experienced aud practical
| OrchArdisls.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Exploration in Egypt.

Mr.. Flinders Petrie, the Egyptian
explorer, has again left England to
resume his work in lower Egypt
The London correspondent Of The
Manchester Guardian writes: During
the who'd Of the past winter and
spring Mr.. Petrie was engaged in the
exploration Of the important ruins of
the ancient city of Zoan. or Tanis,
about thirty miles west of Port Said.
This Ecity was Of the greatest import
ance to the explorer on account of It's
close connection with the sojourn of
the Israelites in Egypt The work of
exploration is no mean task; and al
Though the explorer has as yet made
but slight impression on the vast
mounds of debris, most valuable and
important results have been obtained.
In order to reach TIE strata where the
native Egyptian records commence
more than thirty feet of solid debries
of Ptolemic and Roman structures
had TO be removed. La this work Mr..
Petrie proceeded most carefully, and
as each house was cleared its cham
bers were diligently swept. In one
house were found large number of
Greek and other papyr. The former
of these are found 70 be reports as TO
taxation aud the affairs of the army
dnring the reign of Vespasian. In
another chamber Of the same house
the explorers found statute of the
owner, inscribed with his name. In
an adjacent house were found some
beautiful specimens OF Egyptian and
Grace Egyptian jewelry, necklaces of
amber, silver, and coral beads (the
latter very rare, pair of fine gold
bracelets and a gold serpent-riug.
The gems, however, Of the collect
were a fine zodiac painted on glass,
and some glass mosaics as fine as
Venetian work. The zodiacal signs
are represented by beautiful female
heads, to which the emblems Of the
consultations are added las Leo with
bushy hair, and Scorpio with scorpion
claws on her head and the tails hang
ing at ihe side-the whole being paint
ed in gold and brown on glass.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Hotel Register.

AtettA iNSSAotNAs
Paste it in your bat that the people
of the highest position and greatest
importance, as rule, make the least
trouble.
1t may seem an absurd proposition
to some people, but hotel clerks really
were not invented for the sole purpose
of answering foolish questions
1t isn't the 'loudest" or most lordly
person who receives the greatest at
teniion. Every hotel in the land has
sheltered bigger men than you
Don't spend half your time ia try
ing to devise ingenious ways to make
trouble for the and the other half IN
making a row over your bill.
A little genuine civility to walters
and employees goes further than au
attenuated tip'--and further than
big tip" with the politeness left
out.
The hotel was not built for the ex-
press convenience and exclusive ac
commedation OF any one person. This
is official, and it Will pay you to re
member it.
There may be plenty of faults about
the hostelry you honor with your
presence, but don't make the mistake
of trying to reform them. There is
nothing in the Constitution of the
United States to force you to remain If
you are not satisfied.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

stood behind the door ready to receive
1t, the investigator inquired;
lis this museumR"
Nav, don't you see it vos a lager
peer saloong'
Why do you charge cents ad-
missionin
well, you see, / hat dreubled so
mooch been NIT dem match beddlers,
watiie-beddlerS, sandwich beddlers,
wiener wurst beddlers und dem fellers
dot | doan'd like it pooty much. Da
Sell dem tings in here to my customers,
und GIT DER money und gombete init
mime own trade. So | myselluf says
to Won da, I'm no high dariff Repub.
licans for nodings | fix you fellers.
So put owit dot sign. | make efery
body vot gooms into my lagerpeer
saloon pay me funf cents, already
Dot is to bring me IN un refenue, und
be my protective daritf against dem
foreign competitors vot has no peesi-
ness in here. Forschtay9n
"Yes, | see the scheme. But how
does it work ~
Dots de drubble-dot's de druk BILE.
Nodings seems to go right in dis COON
try except in de noosbabers. I've
dried dot darif for PREDICTION Won
whole week alreSdy, und you vos de
only customer I've had in all dot time
Not you haf-ein peerl"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
CHApTER ILL.

1t was clear that night and the
moon was at the full, as she rose be-
hind the church, and climbed higher
and higher among the stars until she
peered curiously in at the tower win
dows, where the great bell hung mo-
tionless from the oaken beams.
From the shadow of the tower came
two figures, gliding across the place
Of graves with many timid glances to
left ard right, as if they half expect
ed the silent occupants to rise up from
years Of peaceful slumber and con
front them, as intruders on their rest.
They stopped at the door of the vault
in which Bruce, with an aching heart,
left his young wife that day; the
moon shone full upon it, and any one
passing on the road beyond the church
yard might easily have seen them at
their unhallowed work Bat well
they knew that rarely, if ever, did
the superstitious country folks come
that way after nlghtfall, preferring
another longer but less lonely road
on the other side of the Manor grounds,
so it was not the appearance of the
living, but the apparitions of the dead
they dreaded, as. still glancing fear
fully around them, they pried back
the heavy bolt.
The door swung Suddenly inward
and they started back, grasping each
other in terror that strHck colder chill
through them than the keen air of the
frosty night. But behOlding only the
bright moonlight Illuminating the in
terror, and falling across the polished
coffin lid beneath which reposed the
resistless form with the diamond ring
upon its finger, they rallied courage
and descended the stone steps that
led down to the dwelling of the dead.
AS she had died suddenly, Margaret's
coffin had been left standing in the
middle of the vault until her proper
place among the rest might be decided
upon and prepared for her, so they
had only to unscrew the lid and the
ring was theirs. This they proceeded
to do, and lifting it off they exposed
to the moon beams her pale features,
tire even folds of the shroud, and the
diamond ring, which refracted the
rays an! flash up like star from her
breast, ON which her hands were
meekly crossed Its splendor gave
them new courage, though not with
out shudder did they bring them
selves to touch the cold hands of the
corpse. But dead Margaret Bruce
seemed reluctant to part with the ring
ner husbands love had given her
bend and twist her finger as they might
it would not relinquish it. Then one
of these who had come to rob the dead
cried out to his companion:
"Cut off her finger with the ring
His voice has scarce ceased echoing
back from the dreary walls, the knife,
glitteriag in the moon, had barely cut
into the flesh, when moan, doubly
terrifying to their guilty ears, follow
ed the act, and the dead woman in
her shroud rose up before them.
They turned and fled across the
graveyard, thinking they heard her
feet speeding after them as they ran.
The door of the vault was left open,
and what wonder if the dead walked
that night
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Good Words for HOmeIy Girls.

'Why are homoly girls always the
best scholars, the best workers, and
also the best wives9" This question
was bropounded by an observant and
intelligent gentleman who has been
twice led TO the hymeneal altar, and
is ready to be sacrificed again.
us such really the caseS
81 have reason to know that it is.
1t is natural enough, isn't It'll The
girl who is handsome in feature AID
form concludes very early in life that
these are her stock in trade, and with
them she enters the matrimonial
market Nine times out of ten she is
soon oil the hooks ard at the head of
house. Her homely sister has hard
~ entered her teens until she discov-
ers she IS made to stand aside for the
pretty faced girls. All that neatness
of dress, elegance OF manners and
proficiency in the art of making ones
self attractive, she does, deliberately
and for purpose, perhaps, CT possibly
for no other reason than, Topsy like,
she grew that way"
1.-The chances are she does IL solely
for the purpose of compromising for
her task of physical beauty
my observation leads directly to
the opposite conclusions, replied the
intelligent observer. There is
among the great laws of nature one
known as the law of compensation,
and / am thoroughly convinced that
to it the homely girl is indebted for
I. Il Il Of 10
her to make herself useful when she
cannot be ornamental"
"Then, if you had the choice of two
ladies, one beautiful and the other
homely, you would take the homely
one2"
Experience and observation both
teach me that would be the wise thing
TO do. The first impulse would
naturally be to take the prettiest Of
the two, but would give the first i'm
pulse time to pass off, and act upon
the sober, second thought
The old gentleman may be entirely
right in this matter
POOR GIRLS.
The poorest girls IN the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands OF them.
Rich parents have petted them; they
have been taught to despise labor,
and depend upon others for living,
and are perfectly helpless If mis-
fortune comes upon their friends, as
ii often does. their case is hopeless.
The most forlorn and miserablewomen
upon earth belong to this class 1t
belongs TO parents to protect their
daughters from this deplorable con
dition. They do them great wrong
il they neglect it, Every daughter
should be taught to earn her own
living. The rich, as well as the poor,
require this training. The wheel Of
fortune rolls swiftly round-the rich
are very likely to become poor, and
the poor rico. Skill TO labor is no
disadvantage to the rich, and is indis-
pensable TO the poor. Well to do
parents must educate their children to
work. No reform is more imperative
than this
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
nir Changing its color

A Young girl mas Just died n inc
asylum at Hamburg who possessed
the peculiar gil Uf changing the color
OF her hair according TO the state Of
her mind. In periods o. sedateness"
her hair was OF It's natural color; when
excited it became reddish; and her
anger was indicated by blonde
color. Three days were generally re
auired for the change TO be completed,
and her complexion also varied IN the
same periods and in the same drec-
ton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
CHAPTER II

HIGH up in the I'D church tower
the bell swung to fro again, tolilng
forth to the sleepers in the graves be-
low that another grown weary, had
come to share their rest. Up the path,
under the bare boughs and snow
threatening skies of December, came
the BRIDE again, but borne slowly by
gentle hands, as if they feared to dis
turb her dreamless slumber. 70 the
solemn funeral chant they moved up
the aisle and laid her on the altar,
where a few short months before she
knelt with the purple glory from
Christ's mantle on her shining halr
All in white she was then, and all IN
white was she now but that was the
ripple and sheen of bridal sIk, and
this the quiet folds of shroud.
But-strange sight to see above a
pulseless breast-the diamond ring
flashed on the niger of the dead
Margaret in her coffin, as it bad flash
ed on the finger of the bride Margaret
walking by her young husbands side.
1t had been the desire Of Bruce that
this should be-that the ring which
first linked 10 him one Ia whom he
saw combined all the virtues OF her
sex. should remain with her ia the
darkness of the tomb, IN token OF a
love which would fain have reached
across the borders and into the silent
land.
The villagers, as they passed by her
to look upon the sweet lady OF inc
Manor for the last time, maryeiea
that a jewel so precious, about which
clustered so many traditions OF an old
family Cone of which whispered that
it had Seen conferred by royal favor,
should be thus consigned to the oolV'
ion of the grave. The undertaken
two assistants, as they screwed down
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

the coffin lid, thought, too. each to
himself, that it was pity that aught
so valuable should be left in the nos
session of the dead, who had need of
no more than the coffin and the
shroud.
Then the old sexton tolled the bell
again, and the funeral procession
passed out under the gloomy clouds
and across the grave yard, where the
wild roses of summer hung their
olackened wreaths uson the head
stones, to the door of the vault, in
which it left her with the assembled
dead. And the widowed husband
paceo down the narrow path to the
churckyard gate, with his gaze. ike
the old sections, bent earthward, as if
ne too, was looking into deep
grave.
The silence of winter and death
would have settled upon the church
and its graves once more had it.not
been broken by a faint murmur 81
voices under the ancient porch, and
when the early twilight was closing
down upon the world, the two assist
ants passed out of the churchyard gate
together Then the clouds in the west,
over behind the Manor currents. were
visible through the leahess trees, be-
gan to smolder with the led fire of the
setting sun, and to turn upward from
the horizon, until the crimson light
of the winter sunset blazed up in a
clear sky, and the two assistants look
ed at one another and said:
1T will be clear to night, and the
moon is at the full"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
THE LIGHT THAT is FELT,
ny JOHN G. WHITTIER

A tender child of Summers three,
Seeking her little bed at night
pausee on the dark stair timdly,
ooh, Mother! Take my hand, . said she.
'And then the dark viii all be light
We older children gTope our way
From dark behind TO dark before;
And only when our bands we lay,
Dear Lord in thine the tight is day
And there is darkness neve more
Reach downward to the sunless DAYS
Wherein our guides are blind as we,
And faith is small and hope delays
Take thou the hands Of prayer we raise,
And let us feel the light Of thee
st Nicholas
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

A terrible railway accident occur
red recently at Hanau, near Frank
fort -on -the.main. A passenger train
from Berlin ran into local train
which was drawn up at the platform.
Several Of the cars were throwR across
another track just as a freight train
was passing. Thirteen persons were
instantly killed and six others have
since died in the hospital, where
twenty-five more were lying, sixteen
of whom were severely injured, With
the exception Of four railroad EN-.
pfoyes, all the killed were marked
people, living in the neighborhood of
Frankfort. The disaster was caused
bv mistake in signaling, and the
telegraph clerk who was the cause of
IL will be punished.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
A Protective Tariff of his Own.

Out on Milwaukee avenue, IN Chi
cago. IS a beer saloon and restaurant
with sign Five Cents Admission
on its door. After handing ever his
nickel 10 the Teutonic gentleman who
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

The statistical society has published
a table showing the railway mileage
of Europe, from which it appears that
Germany comes first with II, 800;
France. u, 200; Russia, IA, 500; Aus
tria. II, 600. Italy, $4,000; Spain, 4, 90Or
Sweden, 4 600; Belgium, 2 500; Swift
erland, sos; Holland, / 435; Den
mark. /, 100; Roumania, 800; Turkey,
$40; Portugal, $50, and Greece, 9
miles