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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06


Henry Ward Beecher in a recent inter
view remarked that the boy preacher"
Harrison was wonder to him. Il have
heard him preach" he continued. "and
never heard anything like it. You could
not call his sermon thin aud slushy.
There wasn't enough in il to be thin. Ii
you had taken the whole thing and
squeezed IL together there wouldn't have
been anything. II was simply nothing.
and yet when his exhortation came the
people were moved wonderfully. He
seemed to be of the mind that his andi-
ence knew enough, that they needed no
more enlightenment. He talked directly
at their level"
In that he was something like Jones, 81
l suggested.
NO; Jones has sharp wit and says
bright things, but there is no brightness
or wit in Harrison, and yet his success a,
a preachhr passes all bounds
Have you ever heard Joseph Cook
preachs"
Cook has great facility for stuiIing
He can take a book and while he is on a
train as we are he can stuff himself full of
IL and give a lecture on the subject
Whatever opinions he gets from il on the
start he sticks to, however erroneous they
may be proved. When he attacked Tyn-
dali and Huxley, and Darwin as the great
Christian scientist he probably knew ne
more of science than fresh college grad
uate. He is a very conceited man, and
very ambitious. Like all conceited men
when they feel popularity and their hold
on the public slipping away, he has be
come emhittered and damns the public
instead of looking TO himself TO find the
cause. 'Seest though man wise in his
own conoeit' there is more hope of a
fool than OF him said SoIomon.n
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
4 Bear That Can Read.
Scranton Pa. Trnth.

Mr.. William Chase proprietor of the
hotel at Tobyhanna, recently set trap,
and in q few days later a few of his friends
who were surveying in the woods found
the trap with n large bear in it. He was
q savage cuss and the men had no weapons
save a small Ratchet. They hewed down
a few saplings which made pretty stout
clubs, and with these and the Ratchet they
dispatched the critter. They then Skim
ed bruin and replaced in the trap. When
Case next visited his trap no was
astonished to find a skinned bear in it.
He was a little mad at first but the Joke
was explained to him and all was right.
"Why, the Tobyhanna region is full of
bears" said the hunter Mr.. Case has
frequently got on the trail of one cuss
who can stand on his hind legs and bite
off sapling seven and one-half feet high.
''But the funniest bear / know of is one
in that neighborhood that can read En-
glish plainly. An old Pocono Mountain
hunter named Bailey got on the trail of a
very willy bear and tried hard TO capture
him lie used up about $50 pounds of
good meat in setting his trap, but bruin
would paw around until he'd sprung the
trap and then walk of Bailey discovered
that when the bear came to the trap he
would walk around it several times before
he would venture in. He hit upon plan
that he thought would surely Outwit his
bearship. He set his trap on the outside
of the little she'd of saplingr which cover
ed the meat, thinking that in shooting
around the place Mr.. Bear would put
his foot in it, Fearing that some hunter
would accidently step into the trap he
wrote a warning on the paper in which he
carried the meat TO the woods, and tackled
it to the tree near by. 1t Reads
Look out for the trap set outside
In n day or two he went to the place
10 see the result of his little strategy, and
TO his surprise found the trap sprung and
the meat gone lie looked at the tree,
and to his utter disgust found where the
bear had contemptuously chewed off his
warning notice, and fragments of the
paper were scattered over the ground
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
Churning.
Prairie Farmer

The old-fashioned up and down dash
chUrns of our mothers are fast being CON
signed to the oblivion they deserve. What
ever kind of churn you may use, don't
use one that has any dash, paddle or any
inside arrangement The common bar
rel or box churns are built ON the right
principle, though l. am somewhat partial
to the rectangular" The usual direc-
tion in regard to proper temperature for
churniug is to churn at 90. Bnt some
allowance should be made for the season
of the year, and the temperature of the
! room in which the churniug is done In
summer. if the room and the day are
warm, it may be commenced at 60; while
in winter, in a cool room, 50 is not too
warm.
Prepare your churn by first scalding
with hot water, then rinsing with cold.
Before putting in the churn, or immedi-
ately after, the coloring is TO be added as
but few herds of common cows, except in
the early summer, make butter yellow
enough for the city market. Each dairy
man must find out for himself how much
| is needed in his cream. Put in enough SO
the butter will be of a bright straw color.
/ The chun should be turned at about 40
revolutions per minute; and If proper di-
rections have been followed, and there Is
good proportion of fresh COWS in the
herd, the butter will come in thirty min
utes When the first swish of the but
termilk is heard stop churning. The but
ter will then be found floating in the but
termilk in small pellets about as large as
as a mustard seed or larger The butter
milk should now be drawn off into a but
termilk strainer. Some butter will come
with the milk, but this can be returned TO
the churn. Is troubled by too much of 1T
coming out, add a quantity of brine,
which will serve to make the butter float
better.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
FARM NOTES.


Ground properly prepared for planting
is half cultivated.
The corn row will not be straight if
you look behind you.
Michigan celery growers propose to or
ganize a celery exchange. Last year they
shipped $4,000 WORTH
Make a record of the time when you set
your hen, in order that you may be look
ing out for the Matching.
If the hay ran short and the cattle are
thin and poor remember to use caution in
letting them into rich pasturage.
Be very careful about the temperature
of the hot-bed, keeping it as even and
moist as possible, and not too high
never over So.
Grape cuttings should be placed in the
ground at once. The same is true of all
hardy cuttings. The earlier in the spring
the better.
healthy hen requires no stimulants
except good food. If any substance be
used, let it be ground ginger, using d
teaspoonful for twenty fowls, in soft
food.
Don't disfigure your grounds with laths
or slaths when wire netting is so cheap,
says the Homestead. netting enclosure
is durable and will not be blown down in
any wind.
The hens are paying the rent on many
a worn-out farm. They are calling people
back from the factories to the deserted
farmhouses. The American eagle will yet
be hen if solid worth is ever counted.
Never try to stimulate man or bird or
beast. A hen filed with egg producer,
Dor COW given more food than she can
digest, will go like man kept on whisky.
There will be brilliant feverish work for
a time, and then a grand collapse.
The wheat record for last year is a
follows: minnesota, 34,S25,000 bushels
Michigan, 31,261 900 bushels; Iowa, 30
332 900 bushels; then Dakota, 27,913,000
bushels of wheat. Last year Dakota, In
creased her wheat area by over 100000
acres beyond that of the year previous.
Fat Puffy bull is nuisance.
! Don't let bull overfeed. Give him
plenty of exercise. He never will be fit
for service if you pamper him. If you
can fit up harness for him, and make
him, haul out the manure anc do other
light jobs, you would pc doing business
like manner.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
StrANherrics 500 Rnshels.

w, A. Huntsman tells the readers of The
Rural World how they may produce 800
bushels of strawberries TO the acre. Plow.
subsoil and manure until the ground is well
pulveaized to a depth of one foot Then
mark off each way rows three feet apart
making 1850 hills. Set two plants to the
hill, $3.50 plants to the acre. Cultivate
both ways with cultivator Keep all weeds
and grass out, and keep all runners cut OF
until Aug. 20 Cover in winter one inch
deep with rye straw. In the spring uncover
the hills.
Now if the season is all right, in June
will gather one-half gallon fruit to,the hill
2,A20 gallons, OF 302l2 bushels, OF fine fruit
TO the acre much larger and better flavor
ed fruit than can be grown by the matted
row system. BY the matted row, weed and
grass system, we make about seventy five
bushels TO the acre in hills than you do on
two acres the other way, and to tell the plain
truth, don't believe it takes any more. And
| viii produce from two TO four times as
much fruit, and then when il goes on the
market and get my returns, I'll double
discount the matted row man. Fly pocket,
will be well filed after paying expenses
while yours will be very light, as was the
case last season. Why not plant your corn
in matted rowsy Because you would have
nothing but nubbins. Same way with straw
berries you have nothing but little sour
nubbins.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06

must be past youth, but not past the
power of attracting. She must by her
graceful winning manner and ever ready
tact, keep conversation from tagging in
ans way. She must be ever mindful Of
her guests; always securing, if possible,
some attention for her less attractive
ones and endeavor to throw the congenial
spirits together, for therein lies the great
secret. Half the battle is fought when
the congenial spirits are drawn together.
She must have care that no CONVEX
satiOn becomes too excited, which she
can always do if she carefully watches
her guests, and if the necessity presents
itself, gracefully glide up TO the persons,
and in quiet way either turn the con
versation in another direction OF endeav-
OF TO interest herself in the original sub
ject just enough to allow her views in
question prerogative hostess always
has She should be more caieful in tho
selection of her elect who are To have the
privileges Of her special evenings, never
making advances TO strangers, and never
admitting to her salon any one whom she
did not know would be agreeable to her
chosen few,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06

A common password -"The butter, if
you please
#a#
What class of women are the most apt
to give tone to society The bellies.
Why Is a drawn tooth like thing no
longer remembered: Because it is out of
the head.
Washington Critic slimkins and his
young wife had just completed their first
quarrel.
II wish / was deaG," she sobbed.
II wish ] was, too he numbered.
Then / don't wish ] was she replied,
and the war continued.
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New York Graphic: They were looking
over her family album, Birdie and her
Harold. when they came 10 portrait Of
an aged gentleman.
who is that old babbOong asked Har-
old.
why" replied Birdie shutting up the
book angrily, you don't think grandpa
looks like babboon do you Harold"
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"There are both good and bad points
about this coffee, said the bOarder' IN
judicial tone. The good point is that
there is no chicory in it; the had, that
there g. no coffee in H."
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New York Tribune: Treasurer Well
madam, what do you want: Don't keep
the people waiting.
Woman who has bought her ticket be
fore and returned with it Look here.
young Teller. This ticket You sold me
puts me next tot niger. Do you hear
next 70 a niger.
Treasurer Well, tell the niger if he
doesn't like it he can have his seat chang
ed Next.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
Fancy Lamps The Craze.
New York Mail and Express.

The gas companies have damaging com
petition in the craze for fancy vase lamps.
II has doomed petroleum, but has had a
depressing effect ON the gas meter usu-
ally a ioyial SIMMER.
II am using lamps all over my house
except in the dining ROOM" said house
keeper to reporter recently. The
lamps are fashionable and oil is cheaper
than gas Before / used the lamps / paid
a monthley gas bill varying from S. to
$40 each month. Last month l paid the
company sos. This saving is due to the
use of the lamps. Oil costs me only 30
cents per week, and always have light
ed lamp in the parler, hall, and library.
So You see, disregarding the comfort of
the fine light the lamps give, there Is
quite a neat sum to be saved each month
by using them
The sale of oil has never been as great
as now replied "A retail lamp and oil mer-
chant to the reporters query based on
the foregoing conversation. II dispose
of at least three barrels more each week
now than | did last year. Last week l
sold ten cases of petroleum TO a dozen diff
ferent residents of the block around the
corner. The majority of that assortment
of lamps which you see over there Was re-
ceiyed this morning. The sale was so
brisk last week as to leave me short of
stock. ! understand the lamp manufact-
urers are working night and TO supply the
the trade
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
THE HOUSEHOLD.
NELLY Housg-c1rANrNe SUGGESTIONS.


Mortar and paint may be removed from
window glass with hot, sharp vinegar.
Grained woods should be washed with cold
tea, and then, after being wiped dry.
rubbed with linseed oil Remove flower
pot stains from window-sills by rubbing
with fine wood ashes, and rinse with clean
water. Strong brine may be used to ad-
vantage in washing beadsteads; hot alum
water is also good for this purpose. Drain
pipes and all places that are 81 lr or i'm
pure may be cleansed with lime water or
carbolic acid, or chloride of lime.
Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks
where aunts congregate will drive them
away; the same remedy is also good for
mice. Hellebore sprinlled on the floor at
night destroys cOckroaches, as they eat it,
and are poisoned. II should be swept up
each morning. Plush goods and all arti-
cles dyed with aniline colors faded from
exposure to light, will look as bright as
ever after sponging with chloroform. If
the wall about the stove has been smoked
by the stove cover the black patches with
gum shellac, and they will not strike
through either paint or calcimine Car
pets should be thoroughly beaten on the
wrong side first and then on the right
side, after which spots may be removed
by the use of ox-gall or ammonia and
water Whole cloves are now used to ex-
terminate the merciless and industrious
moth. 1t Is said they are more effectual
as a destroying agent than either cam
phor or cedar shayings. A good moth
powder is made of lupuline ground
hops, drachm Scotch snuff, 2 ounces;
camphor-gum, / ounce; black pepper,
ounce; cedar sawdust, 4 ounces. Mix thor
oughly and strew among the furs or wool
ems TO be protected.
To remove wine, fruit or iron stains
from linen, wet the spot with a solution Of
hypo-sulphate Of soda and scatter some
pulverized tartaric acid upon it; then
wash out as usual. Furniture needs clean
ing as much as other wood work. II may
be washed with warm soapsuds quickly,
wiped dry and then rubbed with an oily
cloth. Rub with rotten stone and sweet
oil. Clean of oil and polish with cham
DIS skin. When hard finished walls have
been cacimined the soiled coats should
be washed or scraped OFF before new one
put on. This is the most disagreeable
part of the process The furniture should
be covered, as the lime makes spots that
are removed with difficulty, especially up
on black walnut Two ounces of soda dis
solved in a quart Of hot water, viii make
ready and useful solution for cleaning
old painted work, preparatory TO repair
ing This mixture, in the above proper
ton, should be applied when warm and
the woodwork afterward washed with water
to remove all traces of soda.
To clean marble the following is recon-
mended Common soda, two po, DDS
powdered pumice stone and finely powder
ed chalk, one pound each. Pass through
fine sieve. and mix TO a thin paste with
water; rub It well all over the marble, and
the stains viii be removed; then wash the
marble over with soap and water and it
will be as clean az il was at first
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
Scah and F0Ot-R0t in sheep.
Wool Journal.

Somebody has said, Nothing succeeds
like success" So long as there are good re-
suits, men work with energy and iudg-
ment; but when trials come, and there are
no profits to encourage effort they be-
come careless, Indifferent and neglect
full.
In sheep-raising this is rs true as in
anything else. When sheep are profitalJe
it Is easy to take good care of them.
They seem to eat less, die less, and make
nicer money and in less time than any
other stock on the farm. At such times
there is a real JOY and enthusiasm in
sheep; sheepmen seem never tired of at
tending to and talking about their sheep;
they carry wool in their pockets to show
to each other and it pleasantly limited
that they have wool in their teeth"
But when the depression comes, sheep
men are mum on sheep and wool topics.
And ifyou will go to their sheep-barns
You will find they have gotten careless and
the sheep are doing badly. The owner
viii declare TO you that he can not see
why his sheep are looking so badly; he
viii declare he feeds them the same as he
used to, but all to no purpose; he can't
understand what ails them. The sheep
can not tell, and only an old sheepman
knows that they have not been paying,
and consequently have been neglected,
Scab and foot-rOt always follow de
pressions in prices of wool. As soon as
prices begin to acme up some
body begins to ask how to cure these ills
While these two ailments are serious
enough, they are by no means the worst
known ia sheep, provided the flock has
been well fed and kept in good health
They can be cured by any one who will
take the time and give the attention
and 60 to the trihing expense. No one
ought to buy a scabby or foot-rot flock at
prices of sound sheep. Such focks are
not held at such good prices, either. They
are often sacrificed ON account of their
diseaed condition. Had l such a flock
they should be cureb. and not discounted
one cent. We're l buying, though, it
would be another thing altogether; then
experience and skill should be worth
something TO me; these were bought and
pad for years ago, when young IN the
business. A careless man who would al
low his flock to become thus diseased, dis
eased, deserves to be the loser And the
man who proposes to give time and pains
70 fitting up diseased flock ought to
make some money by 1t.
just here, be it remarked, we need sew
ere laws on the subject in every state
Australia has a law on scab that Is mod
OF Southern ATTITUDES need such a law
more than northern, but there is needed
statute on this everywhere. Foot-rot
depends upon soils q good deal. Rocky
soils viii cure foot rot. Yet in Vermont
many 1ocks have foot-rot. 1t is due to
carelessness there and everywhere else
II. NJ, Bell
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
4 FertiIizer for Potntoes.

DR.. Hoskins, whose experience gives
srecial value to his statements, says: We
have never grown so large, fair and good
a crop of potatoes and so cheapely, with
any other fertilizer as with a dressing of
Underground bone and unleached hard
wood ashes, prepared by wetting them up
together. Our preferred proportions are
one bushel of bone mixed on a floor with
two bushels of ashes, then pack firmly in
to a barrel, holes made nearly to the bot
tom with a hoe-handle, and from two or
;ree pals of water added. Let the mix
ture stand two or three weeks, then
turn ont on the floor again and mix in
enough more ashes or land-plaster to
make it dry enough TO apply to the land,
which should be done after blowing and
before narrowing. Apply about the same
value as you would of stable manure to
get the crop you want, more to poor land,
of course. There is no less in applying
this fertilizer freely, as it does not waste,
even as much as manure.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06

spring they make great start, feeling
the impulse of the powerful stimulant.
There is hasty and unhealthful growth,
but long before maturity the days grow
long and hot, drought comes, and the gar
den dries mp. Therefore every effort
should be made to supply cool manures
with staying qualities, such as are fur
nished by decayed vegetable matter com
posted with the cleaning of the COW sta
Bile.
We thus learn the value of fallen leaves,
muck from the swamp, etc, and they also
bring with them but few seeds of noxious
vegetation.
On the other hand, stolid phlegmatic
clay requirs the stimuli us of manure from
the horse stable. 1t can be ploughed
under at once, and left to ferment aud de-
cay in the soil. The process of decomp-
osition will tend to Danish its cold, inert
qualities, and make the ground loose,
open, and amenable to the influences of
frost, sun, and rain.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
MODERN PROVERBS.

In multitude of counselors there is
nothing done.
Where there's will, there's a way to
break IL.
Good deeds are never lost, if you have a
good lawyer
Honesty is its own reward; dishonesty
pays cash.
Always put off until tomorrow amy con
templated meanness
Man proposes, woman accepts if the
collaterals are < JOd.
Marry IN haste and escape q breach Of
promise suit.
Pay your debts, even if il makes you
appear eccentric.
Have stability q rolling stone gathers
no moss.
Avoid stability; asetting hen never gets
fat
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
NaLlonal LIye Stock Jonrnal

4 good many young horses are usually
drawn up to help with the spring work q
very good practice to adopt provided the
labor required of them be selected with
discretion and delt on in moderation 1t
Is particularly unfortunate when a far
uer considers himself compelled TO de
pend upon young horses for his necessl-
ties. and the natural anxieties that come
Of the usual delays, if much land be IN
der tillage is quite likely to result IN
putting more work upon the young
animal than he can safely perform. Par
lle1larly Is he liable to be r-lured II
Mtched beside horse having age and
Armness of joints and muscles. unless he
e given quite an advantage on the
sFener. and even then, where Is the hired
2, or anyOther, not possessed Of much