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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-28

In North Carolina, in 1880, fifty
four DAYS constituted the school year;
in Tennessee, sixty eight days. In the
State Of Texas the school year was
seventy.three days, and the school
period only six vears-from 8 to a.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-28
Dlncrcnt Stomachs Difler Greatly

We'll, how do you ike our town3'
Stranger-''Very nice place just
consider that there are twenty-five
trains on which you can leave II
daily"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-28
Theosonhists in a Quarrel.
"peek-aboo aboo-aboO--
see you hiding there

4 ON London Letter to the Liverpool Mer sury
There is a serious quarrel in the
marrow ra.ks Of the TheOsophists,
and Mr.. @. @. Massey has resigned
his fellowship i'm the London Lodge. It'll
is all about a miracle. KooI Houmi,
one of the Masters of Thibet, who
have power to send their astral bodies
careering through space, and of tele
graphing without wires 10 their dis
cipies from one end of the earth to
tho other, recently sent a message,
which was a grand philosophical dis
quisiuou. quoting Plato aud using
many high sounding words. Here
was q wonder The age of miracles
had returned. Faithful souls read
and believed. But it came out after
ward that Koot Houmi's telegraphed
Grafton, which cost nothing for DIS
patch or delivery, was mutilaied
edition of a speech which bad been
made by Mr. Kiddle. no 'rheosophlst,
IN New York. Koot HoumI had taken
the trouble to send all the way from
Thilbet what was already to be- had IN
the American papers. When eXplana-
tons were asked, the replies made
were shadowy and unreal Koot
Houmi, the adept, had been tried, lie
had not properly impressed the cheia
or student. The cbelu had got hold
of the wrong thoughts, and Koot
Houmi had omitted 10 cad what the
chela had written Mr. G. 9. Massey
had ndignantlythrown M Theosophy.
lie no longer believes in Koot Houml.
He has surrendered Esoteric Buddhism
aud is coming back to common sense.
Different StOmachs Dihcr Greatly
Iu points on digestive assimilatiye power but
while 30 Is easy to disorder and wa6en ise strong
est t is no less possible 90 restore VlsQr 70 one
inherently weak or the toue uf which has been
impaired by departures rcm the laws or health,
or by the debiltauug effects ot a high teuperA-
Wrt. Husletters Stomach BittefS, the leading
American stomachic not only stimulates laded
apptli tc but hts a weak stsulach tor the receF-
tiou uf food and enables It 20 perform rs dlges-
tive and assimilative functions Thoroughly hhQ
without discomfort blatuieuce, sour or acld
quotations and uueasinesS nc tue PIT or the
stomach arising frosl excessive fruit eating ice
water drinking. or other causes are promptly re-
heved by IL Disorders OF the bowels give place
20 q regular and painless action OF those organs
when &c is used Bilious symptoms, slck bead-
ache. weakness OF the kidneys and bladder AL
iLterHlittent manifestations OF malaria are re-
moved by 1t.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
Misissippi Mineral Water.

In at least two-thirds of the counties
OF Mississippi there are Springs of Min
eral w ateF possessing valuable medicinal
properties, and in some instances ouH
waters are equal in virtue to those of the
famous health resorts of America and
Europe. While these waters are con-
tinually achieving miraculous cures, and
are the resorts of the afflicted in their
own neighborhoods, they are with few
exceptions uukneBn beyond the borders
of the State and in most instances, are of
purely local repute-noted in many cases
AS affording almost Immediate relief to
persons afflicted with sore eyes, diseases
of the skin, ETC., while in other locally
noted instances they afford speedy relief
to dysPepties; restore to health and
yigor children who languish under the
best OF medical treatment, and offer
quick relief for almost all the ailments
peculiar TO women.
It is important that these mineral
springs should be represented, advertised
and brought to the notice ofthe world al
New Orleans next winter, and the physi
clans living in the yicinage as well as the
owners of the springs and the citizens Of
the towns and counties where they are
located are urgently requested to use
their best efforts to have the waters ex
hibited in the Mississippi Department Of
the great Exposition, accompanied by as
satisfactory an analysis as can be Sc
cured.
The wealth in Mineral waters in Mis-
sissippi is fully equal to that of any State
! in the Union. and the springs will be an
| immense source of revenue to the owner
and The neighborhoods where they are
located as soon as their value becomes
known to the outside world as it is to the
people of the State.
S. A. JONAS, State Commissioner.
Aberdeen, Miss, July 2l, 1884.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
Living from the Garden.

Gardeners. and above all, farmers,
hs,.e un business to live meanly or to
tbink If themselves as obliged to drudge
casseIc..ly without the indulgences OF
o.ber classes. One has no business to
ses fnwn folk hsg;ng early vegetables
and Lerries 4 month before his tardy
supply comes on, to be OUT Gi them IN
dor.davs before the merchants ana cheaP
clearinghouse keepers IN the city nave
Lnyrlu 10 see the end OF tresh Things
he has 10 need to live ON doughhats
and boiled dinners the year round, Wheh
others try the changes of spring lamb,
fre.b fish. boiled chicken, salads, ducks
and Green peas, capons and veal untll
turkey time comes again lie ought
nat Ia see town homes fragrant with
flowers while his wife has only bunch
syriugas or cinnamon roses, with tuFl
Of asparagus, to sweeten the parlor when
She thinks to pick them. What better
ripht have rich men to sit over desserts
and choice pears, plums, grapes ana
apricots. while he must content himself
with Il Baldwin apple in mld-wlntef
Who should have IA becoming home
with its lawn in front and large bor-
ders of the richest flowers; his house,
one story and small perhaps, yet hung
with woodbine, wild grapes and roses
against the background of orchard ana
nut trees. spreading their hanking boughs
with good effect as il it were cottage
ornee, with its acres of shrubberles
Why should he not have in his garden
choice fruits of the season, Strawberries
currants and gooseberries jostling, eaet
ether in earliest perfection, red ant
black cherries, golden and purple Plum1s
plentv of black caps to make up tor th'
lost strawberries, and grapes as soon q
raspberries are over, big blanched salads
meas in succession, as yell as his tow
neighbor. who sells him groceries ant
cotton? Why should not he have as nm
pears. peaches, winter apples, and grape
at Christmas as we'll rs the president Q
the horticultural Society, and wh
should not his girls have big Frene
roses and tuberoses as well as the soll
tary dahlia and China aster which deco
rate the ward and the common geranluI
indoor? Why doesn't he have an her
bed to make his plain dinaer savory, an
lavender to sweeten his sheets at .nlgh'
A poor English cottager will have e. a
these by thrift and eontrivanee. W D
not an American farmer7-Chlcag
Harald
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
Setting Strawberry Plants.

The best time for this work, IA every
one is aware, is in spring Just as the
young plants are beginning their growth.
Next to this in the season is Immediately
after fruiting, while the plants are IN a
partly dormant state and before they
/ fully recover from the exhaustion Of
bearing, but more care is then required.
Most Of the old leaves should be removed,
the fine mellow earth pressed on the
spread roots, and if the soil is dry they
should be well watered, and mulching
of manure given an inch or two in thick
ness. This mulching will prevent the
ground from crusting or baking If sec
ond watering becomes necessary Setting
potted plants late in summer succeeds
well but the operation, first and last, is
attended with considerable labor, and 1t is
only adapted to limited garden beds, An
easier, and quite as successful mode,
where the plants to be set are near at hand
or in the same garden, is to take up blocks
of earth with the plants by using a
spade, and to set them with their mass
Of earth, into openings previously cut
/ with the spade, where they are to remain.
! We have now June 20th) long bed of
I the Cumberland, and another of the
James Wick, both in full and abundant
bearing, set in this way during the lat
ter part of last August. The plants
were scarcely checked in growth by re-
moYal. With dry, light soil the work
would be difficult, as it would readily
crumble from the roots, unless the plants
were carried one at time on the spade;
but with strong loan sufficiently moist,
two or three dozen may be taken up in
compact blocks and carried on a wheel
barrow to the place for planting. 1t Is
hardly necessary to remark that last
autumn rooted runners must be selected
if the work is done now, but later IN
the season the new plants of the present
wears growth may be chosen.-Country
Gentleman.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
The kissing Custom.

Kissing, in England. was certainly
known and practiced in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, and prac-
ticed with an easy familiarity which
shows the custom was general In
deed, so general was the use of the kiss
that it was as usual as the bow. A
gentleman taking lady to her seat
from the dance invariably kissed her,
and if he had not would have been
voted a very badly bred fellow.
The literature of kisses is curious.
There is a story retailed in the Broad
Stone of Honor of an English knight
riding through France to the Field OF
the cloth of Gold. His horse cast q
shoe at q certain village, tho seigneur
whereof had departed to the same
rendezvous, but the seigneur's lady
hospitably entertained the traveller.
She came out of her castle, attended
by twelve damscls fair to see. And,
said the dame, 'forasmuch as in Eng
land vc have such a custom as that 9
man kiss a woman, therefore l will
that We shall also kiss these my maid
ems" Which thing the knight straight
way did and rejoiced greatly thereat
The quaintness of the last phrase un-
doubtedly indicates the young man
feelings at the salue with considerable
exactitude.
In Africa. and other parts OF the
world outside the circle Of civilization,
kissing is vet an unknown art Al
| African traveller once offered q kiss,
under favorable circumstances. 10
young lady Of King Jumbo Jumbo'i
court, but she recoiIed IN great alarm
observing that she was not yet worthy
TO be eaten. y
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
kissing Ben's Bald Head.


Georgia Cayyan is an actress with
elocutionary ability. and she had been
hired to recite on this occasion. Al
though she was from Boston. and must
have known that Buffers hcad-fam-
liar in thbse parts-was bare from top
to ears, she read for an encore piece a
funny story about mans badness
Butler sat directly behind her. like an
illustration of the anecdete- On his
right were President Arthur and Gems.
Sheridan and Hancock, and on his left
were several Doctors of Divinity. q
Mayor, and some politicians, intent on
dignified demeanor, for they were in q
front row of stage full of notables.
join in the hilarity.
Il am sorry was 50 Needless, sir, "
said the actress. on meeting the ex-
Governor behind the scenes. Truly,
meant no oflensc, and wouldn't have
done it for the world.
''Wouldn't have done what?n said
he.
"Why-that-is- al mean
/ would not have called attention to
your badness if had thought. -
''And are YOU sincerely anxious tC
atone for that offense?"
Indeed, and indeed, I'll do any
thing for forgiveness.
''Then kiss the bald head that you've
dishonored, and he bowed it down
gallantly in front of her.
Georgia blushed, but did not faltcr
She daintily deposited very small ana
smack1ess kiss in the middle of thC
broad expanse and ran away.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
Encouraging Rloodshcd.

A Detroiter who put in part of tho
winter in a Tennessee town made n
number of friends among whom was n
gentleman called Colonel, and another
known as Judge. Both were recent
arrivals in the place, and no one knew
Just how they came by their titles or by
what right they wore them Tho
Colonel and the Judge were good
friends for awhile, but ut length they
had falling out over politics and tho
lie was passed. This brought chal-
lenge, which was duly accepted. In the
course of a couple of hours the Colonel
called on the Detroiter and said:
"The Judge is n good fellow at heart,
and | hate TO kin him. Maybe you had
best 60 quietly to tho Sheriff, and he
will appear on the ground in the morn
ing and interfere. "
The Colonel had scarcely disappear
ed when the Judge came in and said:
'Tvo been challenged by tho Col
onel."
eyes, l know"
"And I've accepted"
"Yes."
"And I'll certainly kill him, for I'm
a deadshot."
"Well, he must take his chances y
Eyes, but he's good follow aud |
hate to slaughter him. You might
drop quietly around to the Sheriff and
give him the wink, and of course he IL
prevent the duel and the COlonels life
will be saved"
Both principals understood that the
Sheriff was to be notified, but that
official did not receive the slightest
hint of the affair On the contrary,
every effort was made TO keep any
knowledge from him, and morning
came to find the men on the ground and
in great state of anxiety. Things
were delayed as long as possible, and
finally, when it was realized that the
Sheriff would not show up, the Colonel
apologized, the Judge said he was
sorry, and the duel was declared of.
Neither of the men would afterwards
walk on the same side of the street
with the Detroiter. Detroit Free Press.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
AIeissonier's waggish Gardener

Meissonicr had a gardener who was a
good botanist and great wag. lie
knew the seeds of all sorts of plants,
and Meissonier was always trying and
always failing to puzzle him.
Il have got him now," said Meis-
sonier to some friends. at n dinner
party, and he showed them package
of the roe of dried herrings. Then he
sent for the gardener. All the guests
smiled. The gardener arrived.
"Do you know the seeds?" Meis-
sonier asked.
The gardener examined them with
great attention.
20 yes" said he at last, ''that is the
seed of the polpus fluximas a very rare
tropical plant.
''How long will it take the seed to
come up?" he asked.
Fifteen days" said the gardener.
At the end of the fifteen days the
guests were once more ut table. After
dinner the gardener was announced.
IN. Meissonier," he said, ''the
l.Iants arc above the ground"
''Oh, this is little too much, said
the great painter, and ali went out into
the garden to behold the botanical
wonder.
The gardener lifted up glass bell,
under which was little bed carefully
made, and in which three rows of red
herrings were sticking up their heads.
The laugh was against Meissonier. He
discharged the gardener. but took him
back next day.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13

Bombay Is exceedingly interesting 10
me. love to soak my handkerchief IN
camphor. and then start on in the elge
of the evening to take a long rambio
on foot. oblivious Of the danger from
cholera and other prevalent pestiien-
ces.
/ Here is q single, lone Chinaman-tho
only one have seen in all Bombay,
/ who is stepping along to his shoe shop.
/ Here is = group of my esteemed eoun-
trymen, as l Immediately gather from
the gilt inscription u, S. S. Trenton. -
| around their hat bands, and also from
1 their blue sailor suits. They are slich.-
I " moistened with benzine. can sec.
and / have grave doubts as to their
mission on shore; but they compare so
favorably with the men from thc
British ships in conduct that do not
rebuke them rs pass by. Here aco
some bootblacks. the first | have seen
since leaving San Francisco. 1ouc
shoes are always blacked by the hotel
porter or the boarding house porter, or
the steamer porter in these parts, 50
that the business of the street urchin is
sadly injured. do not hear the famii
lar American cry, "Shine yer bootsl
These Hindoo bootblacks should visit
New York and see how it is done.
Here great crowd of natives are
looking of at the sky over the bay. l
look also, but see nothing. / move on
further until come in sight OF the sen
shore, when discover thousands and
| thousands of people sitting down and
| gazing at the black cloudless sky |
ferret out Parsee (the Parsees almost
always speak English) and he explains
| it all to me. This is the first day of
the Hindoo New Year, and it is great
national custom to look for the new
moon. After much looking discover
the queen of night-the smallest cres-
| cent have ever seen.
The streets are thronged with men.
| women and children, all attired in cos
TUNES that are more showy than any
have ever seen elsewhere in the world.
A series Of terrific shrieks now rise
above the babel of street cries l cl-
bow my way along tho scent of opera
tions and find that Hindoo is piercing
the nose of one Of his daughters, aged
perhaps 10 years. This is, OF course,
a part of every Hindoo girls education,
but il is a medicine that is not apprcCj-
ated in the taking. The means adopt
ed for performing the operation are
rather primitive. The child's head is
held by one person, while another jams
the wire of the jewel through the
shrinking cartilage of the nostriL
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
A wig-AInkor's Rnmnnnr.

A Washington wig-maker tells the
following story: "There was fash
ionablc wedding in this city not long
AGO where beautiful young girl mar
ricd an old man and did not, know u.
And what is more. she lives with him
now and has not found him out. Tho
groom was handsome man, and was
looked upon as young man IN society,
in which he figured quite prominently.
He had youthful face, was quick and
erect, and by coloring his hair, which
was snow white. he easily passed with
the Youngest. With his atfable man
ncr and gallantry he won the heart OF
the young girl he married from num-
Der of other suitors, many oi them
Young and handsome. Tho girl was
very young, and belle.
siJust before the wedding took place
the man came here and had his own
hair cut off and q wig made. Dyeing
his hair had worked very well while be
was courting, but when it came % get
ting married he knew he could not use
dye without his wife finding it out so
he adopted n wig to get out of the diff
Guilty. The idea of his young wife
nnuiuS OUT Iuat nC "'l9 "A1 N4,' '-'"'t
nearly set him wild, and when he had
gotten we'll settled under his wig he
was the happiest man l ever saw. On
his wedding day he was rs frisky Is q
| bov, and no one suspected his secret.
This happened some months ago and
the bride has not yet found out that he
| is an old man and wears n wig, and
she will probably never find ont until
old age asserts itself so strongly hat
it can no longer be concealed. They
live here in the city now, and tho Sc
cret is known probably TO none savo
the groom and his hair-dresscr
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
A Puzzle to the student.

Mexico is a puzzle 10 the student.
| With the most liberal institutions and
the freest democracy provided for on
paper, the real methods of the govern
ment are more autocratic than those Of
any European country outside of Rus
sis. Sometimes it seems like q grand
burlesque of republicanism, and yet al
most every Mexican IS q sincere and
enthusiastic republican, and q mon
archy could never be tolerated here.
But many Americans here seem in
spired by wild desire for the United
States 10 interfere, break up the whole
business, and institute better order
of things, as if the American govern
ment were a missionary concern for
! the propagation Of the republican gos-
| pei and had no political problems of
its own to attend to, After all. how
much worse are political methods in
Mexico than in some parts of the United
States?
There is really a decided improve
ment in the political condition of Mex
leo steadily manifest, and the country
is many steps nearer the desirable end
of welI-organized nation than it was
10 years ago II has seen q longer period
Of peace than ever before. Interests are
strong against seeing this peace dis
turbed. and are growing stronger daily.
We're it not so, recent events would
have provoked an outbreak. Elections
were formerly carried entirely by bay
onets. The present peaceful method
is unquestionably an advance, and
from that TO the ballot is only queS-
ton of time. School-houses are to be
found in hundreds of Indian villages,
nesting in remote mountain valleys
all over the land, and with the better
wages brought by the railways. and
the increased activity of national life
which will inevitably be impaired by
contact with the outer world from which
Mexico until now has been shut out
nine million ignorant peasants and one
million of an indifferent middle and
upper class will eventually be educated
into q self-governing people. Amid
the seeming chaos thero is fine mater
ial, which is gradually taking shape
under the slow processes of political
evolution and crystaiizing into n true
republic. Cor. Net0 York sam
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
Bob Burdette OH the Uselessncss OF
Profanity.

Suppose you are given to the habit
of profanitv. You enter into converse
ton with man who never swcarsr IA
other words gentleman. BY and by
YOU begin to perceive that he IS the su-
nerior man. Your own remarks have
a tame. flat, feeble sound to your cars.
Your checks begin to burn with q sense
of your friends excellence. Your pert
little damus sound coarse and rough.
and vulgar, as they are, They begin
to drop out of your sentences, ashamed
to remain in the company ot good non
est English words, until, rs you dis
cover that you are carrying on your
part of the conversation without swear
inc, YOU feel easier, and your intellect
nal stature is increased by foot just
observe this my boy and sec If | an
not right. But you will rip out som
time; oh, yes. in some way you Will
know some good men-some OF the
best in the worldwide will 'cOnfound
II. - and in New England even a dea-
can has been known to condemn IL
But as rule, my son, don't do IL.
Don't swear 1t isn't an evidence OF
smartness or worldly wisdom. Any
fool can swear And great many
fools do. /. my son? Alb, if l could
opIy gather up all the useless, uncallcd
for swcars I have dropped along the
pathway of life know ! would remove
stumbling blocks from many inexperi-
enced feet, and my own heart would be
lighter by ton than it is to-day. But
if YOU arc going to be fool just he
cause other men have been. oh, my
son, my son, what an awful, what co
lossal what 4 hopeless fool Jon viii he
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-13
GarInnd's Ball.

The ''long ago" country school only
lives in fond recollection. " The log
house has tumbled down, and the buzz
of the saw mill is heard where young
congressman shouted ''foul BALI and
.'run on" Old town ball, too, has
fallen into dsuse. Base ball may be
scientific, and may admit of more
dangerous possibilities, but it is not
nearly so broad and liberal as town
ball. Why, sir, whole neighborhood
could play town ball. Fifty on each
side could find ample accommodation.
Senator Garland was a great town ball
player. One day he struck an India
rubber with the butt end of hickory
sapling. The belief exists that the ball
is still travelling, though a ball which
recently fell in Alaska may be the
one. One day Garland came to school,
wearing pair of bright new shoes.
A little fellow-since governor OF Ar
kansaw-approached him and said:
"Who made your shoes?"
'sThey WANT made, Garland re,
piled. "They were bought out OF
| town."
| A few moments later he struck the
ball. The wonderful "lick" was at
tributed to the shoes that were not
made,-ArkanSdw m 1TdUeler.