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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
What Can Be Done With Good Breeds.
Philadelphia Record

No amount of food will produce its full
proportion of beef, mutton, pork, milk
or butter unless the animal consuming
it ia capable of digostirg and assimllat-
ing il in such manner as to drive from 1t
all that il will impart in the shape of
those products desired from its use.
While the food alone provides the in
crease, the better the object upon which
i, is bestowed the greater the yield and
profit. The old maxim that "the breed
is in the trough" is not true, though the
trough" is factor, man has, by careful
selection, nodded breeds suited to special
purposes
The use of the breed for those special
purposes for which it is intended Is the
only correct mode of engaging in stock
raising or dairying. The classification
of all animals into distinct breeds opens
the door tor rapid progress and constant
improvement. The very existence of so
many excellent and useful breeds should
save valuable time to the farmer, as inn
proyement would otherwise be but slow
process. AZ the present time the farmer
can begin at any point and start off with
hundreds of years work done for and be-
fore him, the advantages of the pure
breeds can not be estimated. Millions of
dollars have been added to our national
wealth by the pure breeds, and, if com
parison be made with other branches of
industry, il can be shown that stock
breeding has held its own, so far as per
lection of the breeds is concerned.
No breed will give satisfactory results
except in the direction to which 1t Is
adpated. BY the use of the shorthorn,
Hereford and Angus bulls grades of
cattle can be produced that will yield
! twice as much beef in the same space of
! time, and on nearly the same amount OF
| food. as can be obtained from the scrub.
/ Now, feed will only produce certain
quantity, but the scrub can not di-
/ gest and assimiate food rs easily as can
! the beef producing breeds, consequently
much of the food is yoided and wasted.
But, granting that even the cost of pro
duction is the same in both cases, we still
have the advantage of shorter time. more
rapid growth, and greater service on the
part of the Thoroughbred. With the use
of Holsteins and Ayrshires in the dairy
here the yield of milk can be more thar
doubled, and the work can be easily &C
complished by grading up the stock with
improved sires. II is by the use of pure
bred males that the fleet sharp black hog
has been transformed into an animal with
prominent hams and great Attitude tt
fatten, and no better comparison can b'
made than to estimate the amount o.
corn that would be required tC
fattep well-bred hog and long
nose scrub. The latter woul consume full
ly as much as the former, but would fai
to show a corresponding gain. The foo'
is, indeed, potent, but the breed is the re
suit accomplished. With good breed
we can increase the size and quantity Q
the carcass, doable and treble the yield
milk and butter, lessen the cost of pro
/ duction and shorten the period of grSwt
rs well as economic in food and secur
5 profits where failure would otherwise b
r the result
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
Take Care Of the Health.
Rnral New Yorker

Happy is the farm house that does not
contain its shelf of empty medicine bot
ties. 1t is not much of com liment to
the intelligence of farmers to say that
there are very few houses who cannot
show this array. Why will people take
so much medicine? Do they like to con
slider themselves sick? Is it fashionable
to take medicine? Does it show poor
taste to spend little more time and
money in keeping ourselves well and thus
avoiding the necessity for taking medi-
cine? Good health is the product of
good food, plenty of sleep, cleanliness
and clean concience. 1t is far cheaper
to put the extra money into the work of
making these four conditions perfect
than it is to attempt to build up a vast
ed system on patent medicine. Bathing
is too frequently neglected, and sleep is
murdered by those who need 1t most.
The writer does not take an ounce of
medicine during the year, simply because
he does not need it. A daily bath. eight
hours sleep, plenty of fruit at meals, q
daily glass of lemonade during the
spring and an honest endoavor to look
on the bright side of every subject form a
far better medicine than can be bought at
any store This treatment works so well
that we feel like recommending it to
others. Many people brood themselves
into disease. They worry and study over
their troubles until they seem too great to
bear. Like the man who drinks to drown
his SORROWS, they take medicine to cure
the blues. Others get the idea that MALT
a dozen doses of medicine ought to cure a
disease that has been gathering through
years of neglect. When half bottle
| fails to make them well, the medicine is
discarded and new kind ordered. Rather
than have any waste the 'leavings" are
given to the children. There are few
brutes left who work their wives almost
to deaths door, and then hurry TO the
store to buy at random, bottle of medi-
cine with which to save the life they have
sacrificed. All these people help TO fill
up the shelves with empty bottles. They
could put stop to the wasteful practice
| by paying decent attention to the laws of
] health.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16

lounQer in the city hall if they saw fit.
But they are not at all likely to do so. If
any one who frequents the city hall will
take the trouble to stroll up Broadway
from Twenty-third street to the Gilsey
house. between these two points, on any
fine evening, he will encounter nearly all
the well dressed men who have lounged
in the city hall daring the daytime.
Some of the them will be IN evening
dress, lettering about the entrances to
the hotels as if waiting for some taroy
friend to keep an appointment, while
others may be observed chatting with
keepers of gambling houses and other
disreputable resorts.
An old politician, who has seen the ups
and downs of life, but is now out in the
cold, chatted with reporter about these
mysterious fellows, yesterday, and threw
some light on their calling.
"They are nothing better than go-be-
tweens." said he, ''ana they manage to
dress we'll and have enough money In their
clothes, because some of the political
wire -pullers in this town are In their
power. Such men are absolutely neces-
esary to the professional politician. In
politics an honest man has to wink at
great many queer things. | don't care
how straight-lacsd he may be, If he Is
running for a big office he has to act up
on the advice of these -pullers. Inc
gambling house keepers and proprletors
of uncomfortable resorts are the power
behind the throne in many districts IN
this city They never appear on the sur
face in any scheme, but their agents are
ci4y-hall lonngers. They are men who
carry messages to the political leaders
and manipulate them to their personal
advantage. 1t is 1ntimated that even the
captains of the police in some of the
precincts are in the power of these go
betweens. Why they make their head
quarters in the city hall is another con
undrum. They have only been there IN
their present force for a few months past.
1t is a great change, indeed, to the class
of loungers who infested the city hall IN
| times gone by. When the offices of the
department of public works occupied the
easterly end of the hall the men who
thronged the corridors were for the most
| part hard listed sons of toll looking for
work on the big pipes. After hanging
around for day or two, if their applca-
! lions met with no favor, they generally
disappeared and sought for employment
elsewhere. The change is indeed to be
regretted
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
Marriage on the Stage.


A party of gentlemen, including prom
inent clergyman, who is deeply inter
ested in one OF Boston's charitable insti-
buttons located at the South End, were
last evening discussing the feasibility of
giving an entertainment in Mechanics
Building in aid of the institution.
Among the party was newspaper man
who answers TO the call of Jack, come
to dinner Various plans were suggest
ed, and the discussion turned upon what
would draw best, when some one said
that marriage on the stage would draw
we'll. Suddenly the Clergyman's face lit
up with bright smile, and turning to
the nevsT aper man, he said: Il will give
you $500 if you will be married on the
stage at our entertainment at Mechanics
Hall" 'Ill do it," said the newspaper
man, ~ intended to wait about two
years before / married, and hoped to
save that amount of money but if can
get $500 I'll be married at once. I'm
dead in earnest; name your date, and I'm
your man." The party were dumb found
ed, for the newspaper man asserted his
sincerity, and later told the writer that
he meant what he said.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
An Odd Watering Trough
Boston Post.

There is a watering trough at Stock
bridge, in this state that Is not wholly
without interest. 1t was made by dig
cling out large hole in an uncut block
of marble. Beside it stands another
rough post-like piece of marble, and on
the face next to the trough is bronze
mask of a faun, copied from the antique,
and whose concentrated intention and ex-
preston is to convey the water tAat passes
through it's mouth in the most spltetui
and Annually vigorous way. But IN the
Stockbridge faun the water drlpples
down as though it were ashamed of Its
very existence, presenting an incongrulty
of impression that can not be described
But this is only the suggestion, the dell
cate preliminary of the deep moral OF
modern missionary aims. On one end OF
the trough is carved this poaderous sen
| tence:
utility is better than grandeur"
In an other part of the same town there
| is n fountain whose intention is more hu-
/ man, and the moral of which is more
wisely left to the forcible charm Of tradi-
ton. 1t represents a cat and dog IN
attitude natural to their species. The
latter, a finely Scotch terrier, approaches
/ the former in a ready, inqulrlng ana
doubtful way, as much as to say
"If can get my Jaws on your neck
l will paint the name of Edwards with
! fur
The cat crouches, ready to make blind
dog as soon as the occasions requires
and Kisses through her mouth the water
into tho dogs face. The older cruel IN
.ernretors of Stockbridges animals assert
that this group is symbol of the former
cossiping activities of that section OF
Berkshire county. Later historians dc
clora that time has not lessened the truth
or force of its significance.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
CEIT-CIIAT.

hope you are not disappointed in
JohnY" said a Philadelphia mothar -
her daughter as she found her CRYING siy
months after her marriage. "Yes am
sobbed the young wife. HE doesn,,
abuse you, does hey" mo, but he does
worse. He is experimenting with aIec
trio lights, and uses my new wire hustle
as conductor.
"Was it love match?" mot exactly
She lived next door you know. Charles
had read somewhere that few people CON
tinus piano playing long after marriage.
and he concluded to try it. We didn't
want TO leave the reighborhood, you see.
SO Charles married her. Very good Of
him, wasn't it?"
scientist says that woman who
weighs 100 pounds here would weigh
300 pounds if on the surface of the sun.
But not one woman in a thousand will
start on a journey to the sun in order Ia
increase her weight. If it were the moon
it would be different. There is man in
that orb.
Little Emma not quite four years old
refuses to consent that her auntie shall
go to Europe. The latter, to conciliate
her, says: II will bring you beautiful
doll" The ready answer comes: 'You
needn't go so far; you can get one around
the corner.
Little Dot like my papa best; don't
you yours? Little Dick--No, | don't: nv
papa spanks me. Mine don't me:
mamma does, though" "My mamma
hardly ever spanks. Wouldn't ii be nice
ii my mamma and your papa should get
lnarried?"
"Hows the good wife, Mr.. Hayseed?"
asked the minister of an Indiana farmer.
She's got the feyer'n ague powerful bad"
I'm sorry to hear that. Is she in bed?n
Fo; she's out in the back yard shakin' the
dinin' rooT, carpet"
Maud ust think of it! Eighteen tele
phone girls in the Hartford office have
married within the last three years.
Edith-The men must have fallen in love
with their voices, then. "Nonsense a
voice can't wear new dresses.
Miss De Jauns is very self possessed
young lady, isn't she?" remarked Jackson.
Eyes, she ought to be" replied Dickson.
"Why so?" Because l have asked her to
be mine three times and sho said mo- each
time"
"The shades of night were telling fast
read the teacher. "What docs that mean p
And the smart bad boy reckoned 'the
women were pullin' down this blinds" for
which he got ten minutes in the merry
birch woods
MA" said Clara, II think | will
have my new seal brown suit trimmed
with bows to match" "Hunphw said
her father, "you won't succeed" "Why
not, par" "Well none of your beaux seem
TO match"
"What wonderful power of adaptability
women possessw cries a sage writer
This refers to the girl who adores ice
cream and at the same time is fond OF
fried oysters.
saw pardon me, Edith, I've thutch 6
cold in my head; and when I've cold I'm
80 stupid, don'tchewno." Poor Arthur
how sad you seem always to have this
aff1ictisn.
:, Clara-John, / dent sbelieve you low
me any more. John-Why! Clara
You never turn down the gas now wheI
we sit in the rocking chair.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
NEWS ODDITIES.

Crowds continue TO visit the panaramas
of "Gettysburg' and shiloh
4 single hunter on the Antioch, Cal
marshes bagged s25 ducks in one day.
Bowersyille, Ga, has changed its name
TO Grady, in honor of the editor OF the
Atlanta Constitution.
Half of the shop-girls in Washington
are now wearing their hair oombed up IN
front exactly like Mrs. Cleveland's.
Nearly a thousand tons of grapes lie
rotting in the Vineyards about Heralds-
burg, Cal, owing TO the poor markets.
The new Scribners Monthly is 10 be Is
sued Dec Il, providing the Century
company do not obtain an injunction re-
straining them from using the name
Scribner on the title page, wsich is threat
ened. When the Century changed ITS
name 1t cid not give up its right IN tAe
old one
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
BITTER SWEET

How did yoa store and make so real
The neeting fame OF the sunset hueo
Where did YOU gain uhat you nov reVea,
ff vanished elories tine summer t"reuSht
when dld you prison the color heel
feline your secret, Bitter sweet
when DAYS we're NJ 'er the summer nomei'
Your ) ard green berries unnot,cso Nv
Ana no rrsuh from the soft sweet hours
fingered your clustering leaves Among'
All fTo.t was needed, ADD cold ana sleei'
For your complement, Bitter sweet
who first named ' gu had doubtles' tasted
The bitterness Of tbs summer nigpti "a
Had known the sweets OF The season "hs'o''
Hal felt he fear Of the winter ohRn.
Ard through his Kindness 10 you dld RIeeI
And nans your being, o Bitter Sweet
sweet and bitter you bind together,
Know and unknown within your rphefe
Tn vanished sweet Of the summer weather
The SHARPENING chill Of the closing year
L, ,-o,,T s,.ariet giob-s to these foacns meet
Tbat make you as life 10 us, Bitter Sweet
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
BY the Way He Smokes.
Philadelphia Nows.

If man smokes his cigar only enough
TO keep it lighted and relishes taking it
from his mouth to cast a look at the curl
of smoke in the air, set him down as an
easy-golng man.
Beware of the man who never releases
his grip on his cigar, and is Indifferent
whether it burns or not. He is cool, cal
culating and exacting.
The man who smokes bit, rests bit
and fumbles the cigar more or less Is
easily affected by circumstances.
If the cigar goes out frequently the
man has a whole souled disposition; is n
devil-may care sort of fellow, with a
lively brain and glib tongue, and gen
orally fms fund of anecdotes.
To hold fast half the cigar in the
mouth and smoke inditferentiy is lazy
mans habit They are generally of little
force, and their characters are not of the
highest strata.
A nervous man, who fumbles his cigar
a great deal, is a sort of popiniay among
men. Holding the cigar constantly he
tween his teeth, chewing it occasionally,
and not caring if it is lighted at all. are
characteristics OF men who have the
tenacity of bulldogs.
The Top stands his cigar on end, and
an experienced smoker points his straight
ahead or almost at right angles with his
course.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
A Firm Teacher.

Firm Schoolmarm: You children must
behave yourselves. I'll go wild if you
don't. Jimmie Smith stop cutting that
desk. (Jimmis does not stop I'll put
your knife in the stove if you don't.
Never mind, I'm going to write a note to
your father.
Jimmie Don't care if you do.
Schoolmarm: Don't you talk to me that
way. Put up that knife this very instant
or I'll box your ears. Starts toward
him. Never mix1, sir, taking her seat),
I'm going 10 tell your mother.
Jimmie Don't care if you do.
Schoolmarm. Don't you talk to me
that way. Never mind, sir, I'm going to
keep yoE in after school. Willie Brown,
Won must not eat in school. Willie! Will
lie Brown! Never mind, sir, I'm going
to tell you father
Willie. | amt got no father.
Schoolmarm. Vol, I'll tell your moth,
er then.
Willie. Ho, she won't do nothin' but
scold me.
Schoolmarm. Then Til whip you my
self. Bobbie GunKs, go out and get me a
switch.
Bob. Bill might hit me after school.
Schoolmarm. l never saw the like in
my life. If you all don't stop making
such noise my head will split open. All
of you except Jimmie Smith may &c
now. Jimmie, don't you go out of the
! house. Jimmie, Jimmie! Wen, then, 60
on you good for-nothing thing. No
won't kiss you. Go on away, 1 won't
Well, then, kissing HIM I'll kiss you this
once. Don't you put your dirty little
arms around my neck. Oh, look how you
have mussed my hair. You little rasca
! (hugging and kissing HIM l can't hell
! loving you.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16

hand in his own; and not word was said
on the subject.
But it was not forgotten. Irs. Chick
erly set herself resolutely to work to mp
root the rank weeds growing in the gar
den of her life. And she succeeded, as
we may do when we resolve TO DO the
wise thing.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
now THEY MAKE IT PAY.
Fellows Who Act as Go-BetweenS for the Poli-
tfeians and Keep Up style.

Fellows Who Act as Go-BetweenS for the Poli-
ticians and Keep Up style,
Like the lilies of the field, .hey reap
not. neither do they sow, but the Fifth
avenue dude in all his glory is no better
drsssed. nor has he more cash IN his
rockets than the city hall lounger, says
The New York Mail and Express From
the hour at which the veteran Marty Reese
unlocks the iron gates until sundown little
Knots of well dressed men, with shining
sIk beavers. their diamonds glistening
and sparkling in the sunlight, stand
otopnd the marble corridors and discuss
nolirics and ths management of the yarl-
rps CITY departments. They are net office
holders. nor are they engaged IN mercan-
tile or professional pursuits Their an
cestors left no fortunes to any OF 'hen'
"a they have no visible means of makpg
a livelihood. .. 80
wonder and speculation how these men
i've an the fat OF the land, have their
nockets filed with money, aud do nor
york Where do their means come from
That is one of the standing conunorums
of ,be CITY hall. few of those myster-
ions individuals have held ONCE AZ inc
.aIoriss attached thereto seldom exceed
81 900 ner annum. Some or the WIRE
pulling politicians could relate Interest
inc stories about the new species -
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16

syndicate OF ST. Loui,ans has bought
tract of land 100 miles long and two
leagues wide in Mexico, along the no
Grand River. for S5So,00o 1t viii be set
tied by the Rio Bravo Land and Cattle
company.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
Chestnuts.
Boston Recol d

A suburban gentleman tells this, apro-
nos of the chestnut: He was sitting IN
his library the other day, eating some
chestuuts when book agent was ushered
in. The glib-tongusd canvasser opened
his book, and as he was rafting on az a
rapid rate the gentleman, to show ms
hospitality, pushed the dish of nuts 10
ward him, with the remark to help MIN
self.
To his great astonishment-for ne was
unmindful of the Interpretation thae
might be placed mon the act--the agent
stopped, gathered up his books, and sho'
from the door, only saying:
That's an awful mean way TO tell a
man to shut up"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16

A poet sings; How shall l paint
my swest-hearts" Save your little earn
ings. She will attend to that matter her
self.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
- INC New Man Takes Al the Tricks.

patrick, you told me you needed the
alcohol TO clean the mirrors wlth' anu
here | find you drinking it
Faith, mum, it's drinkln It anu
bratbin' on the glass Oi'm dom.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-16
How to Cook
From Life

Il see you fry your beefsteak, re-
marked the tramp with his mouth full.
Yes" said the woman shortly SoN
would Won have it cooked. Roasted
mo. certainly not. Broiled' madame g.
broiled. | mag be tramp, ne auueu'
plaintively, but I'm no ostrich
Feed the breeding ewes plenty OF oals
at this season, especially at night ana az ~
not depend upon the pastures. As s,i me
grass begins to fail so does its quality.
70 az 10 agas are expected to. produce
strong early lambs grain must be fea
them literally.