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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1886-12-18
ARMENIA.

A wreto..ed condition indicated by Pallid
Skin, Flaccid Muscles, Shattered
Nerves, und Melancholy. Its first
symptoms are Weakness, LanguOr,
lection. Its course, unchecked, leads
inevitably TO insanity or death. Women
frequently suffer from It. The only mcdi-
cine that, while purifying the blood, en-
riches 1t with new vitality, and invigorates
the whole system, Is
Ayers SarsapariIla,
PREPARED BY
DR.. j. G. Aver a. Co., Lowell, Mass.
+, Sold by all Druggists: Price 81;
Six bottles for IS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18

of them was not of the most encouraoinp
nature. The schools are not always in.
clined to welcome new ideas.n
II think you will find number OF
scientific mon in Boston who would be
glad to examine your discovery. and will
ingly welcome any new fact which would
benefit science and enlarge its boundary"
II am glad to hear you say So"
What do you propose to do in the
near future?"
II must keep my work going, and must
have money to get it, propose to deliver
a course of lectures on air navigation
and think can make the lectures both
instructive and entertaining. | have
been advised to do this by many of my
friends
Have you any models of your air
ship?"
mo; not in their entirety; but | have
many of the parts made, and have all the
details so carefully worked out that |
could easily make an air ship, as | would
have it, with the fullest confidence that it
would do the work designed for it. His is
no guesswork on my pant, for know it as
well as know that properly construct
ed steam engine can be made to deliver
the power communicated to il from a
steam boiler, or that water will run down
hill. 1t is III such accord with a law of
nature which was unknown before its dis
coyory by me that it must as surely work
as the expansion of vapor by heat, if
properly utilized"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18

Gen. Grant was, think, created by na
ture for great emergenci es. The very
magnitude of task seem ed with him to
call forth the powers viii CHI surmounted
In trivial matters he was an ordinary man
He was made for great ings, not for IT.
tie. He could wiring $15 100000 from the
treasury of Great Britain for the Nation
He could not protect his personal saving,
from the scoundrels in W all Street. II
were asked what single word in all the
wealth of the English Ian guage best des-
cribes his character, sh ould say unhesi
tatingly that the word is 'loyalty." Dc
was loyal TO his friends, loyal to his fam
lily, loyal 20 his country, loyal to his Goo
1t was Unborn in him, and it often led him
to stand by friends who no longer meriteo
the attachment. Many public man ma
had troops of followers because OF OF
patronage, but no other public man eYel
had so many friends who loved him to'
his own sake, who stuck to him when Mt
was captain or General or President Of
simply private citizen. The exactions
privitations, and his responsibilities o.
his earlier years tod upon his constltu'lol
in the last years of his life. The tinancia
troubles at the last we're severe blow u
his life.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
DAIRY MAXIMS.

large quantity of milk is scarcely com
panble with very good quality.
The only way to draw conclusions about
cows, is by testing them. The tests
| should be reliable and numerous. One
test may produce suspicion; it needs a
large number to produce conviction or
confirm suspicion.
Waste consists in giving good and album
dant food to cows that are unable to turn
1t to best account.
insufficient food tends to decrease the
caseine of the milk and substitute albu-
men; and it also decreases the butter pro
duct.
Too much exercise means the inhala-
ton of too much oxygen and the unneces-
sary consumption of fat in the system of
the animal.
weighing cows milk will not cause her
to give any more but may cause her own
er to substitute better one.
Within certain limits, milk may be
made poor or rich by supplying poor and
sWatery fodder or rich fodder
Cows need more heat producing food
In winter than in summer, even to live.
NA@N '"N AN' ming anu neat producing ele-
ments should be made to bear a certain
relationship to each other, according to
the season of the year.
To carry out the soiling system IN its
entirity, 1t is necessary to have a regular
succession of green crops commencing
with spring and lasting until winter sets
in. Rye is found to answer very well for
the first crop.
Cows teats that crack and become sore,
should have an application of fresh lard
or well prepared salye worked in thor
oughly during the operation of milking
Otherwise silver milking tube carefully
smeared with fresh lard before using can
be employed.
The flow of milk will diminish if cows
are not MIXED Clean The udder will
also be inhamed.
The time to give COWS generous diet
is when they are drying for calying. Give
them chance to go out to grass in the
spring in good condition.
Calves will not grow up or thrive
around hay stack. If they go into win
ter in good condition they are likely to
come out worse in the spring.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18

An Iowa farmer put up 20 one-year-
old hogs for fattening, and for the first
20 days fed them on shelled corn, of
which they ate SO rshels. During this
period they gained 337 pounds, or up
wards of ten pounds to the bushel of
corn. He then fed the same hogs for
10 days on dry corn meal, during which
time they consumed AZ bushels, and
gained 536 pounds, or 114 pounds to the
bushe. The same hogs next fed four
teen days ON corn meal and water mixed,
consumed 5515 bushels and gained 73l
pounds, or 1875 pounds of pork to the
bushel. He then fed them IA days on
corn meal cooked, and after consuming
10 bushels of the cooked meal the hogs
gained 799 pounds or very nearly fifteen
pounds of pork to the bushel of meal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
Trappers' Earnings Fifty Years Ago.
Newark Journal.


Il suppose" said George Pitts. shat T
am about the last man who ever did anv
trapping that counted for anything in
money here round about Indiananolis
came to this town from CentervilIs
Wayne County, where Governor Mort an
came from, and was born in the an me
year that he was, commenced trannipe
about this town with my father i9
1888, as a boy only IA years old
and made business until 1S49 of hunt.
ing and trapping. | used to take nv
traps and float down White River. staying
out until the streams froze up. knew
all the hollow sycamores along the river
and many a night / have slept in Thorn
with a big fire blazing out in front. I
trapped muskrat, mink, coon, otter ana
fox. Coon skins paid the best. Igaye
q cow and a calf to old Josh Hinesley in
1910 for coon dog. He was a good 'un.
Many time in one night | got enough
coons with him to pay for that COW and
calf. The skins were fetching doner
apiece. He was the best dog I ever see
and never lied. | always went alone tran.
ping ms | never cared to give any man
chance to get onto my method. made
my living trapping. When | was going
to school to the old Marion county Sem,
mary, kept up my trapping on fall
creek and on the river as far as McCarty's
farm. l made enough money outside Of
school hours to pay for my
schooling and something over.
During the winter while going to school.
/ caught one night in Pogues Run, near
1 ]
one where the belt now crosses the run.
Along in 40 cleared as high as 800 a
week trapping between this town and
Waverly, down the river was better than
Fall Greek, because the bottoms were
wider and the settlements couldn't get so
near the haunts of the animals. l think
caught the last otter ever trapped in
Marion county. That was in 1859, up on
Fall Creek, a milo north of the fair
grounds. l got $12 for the skin. There
are few otter down about Worthington
yet, and / think III take my
traps down there one of these days. In
those days wild turkey were plenty all
around town, especially north of town
in the Fall Greek bottoms. | have shot
gobblers weighing twenty pounds when
cledncu- uoou tuIhcJ DdlL lOT CoOh
and mink, parsnip is the best for musk
rat. In 1S47 l killed deer, big buck,
on the river twelve miles below town.
Around Crown Hill used to be, along
about 1S40, splendid plac e for turkeys
and squirrels some deer there, too.
Any man who could shoot at all could
calculate on getting fifteen to twenty
squirrels or so in an afternoon. often
used them to bait with. They were
great pest to the farmers. In l845 they
came travelling through here from the
north, scores on scores of thousands Of
'em. 1 have seen them swimming the
river in great droves, and stood on the
bank with club and killed them. They
would come out right at ones feet exhaust
ed, and hardly try to get away. They
were very lean and seemed to have been
starved out. They were the old-fashioned
gray squirrel. Fox squirrels were rarely
seen then, but afterward they began to
appear, and soon drove the gray SOUR
els out"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
Cattle Sheds.
Prairie Farmer.

Amt it about time, brother farmers,
that we begin to think of and talk about
sheds for our cattle, sheep and hogs for
the coming winter? You have not for
gotten how our COWS and young stock
huddled together, hump-backed, vainly
seeking protection from the bleak winds
and chilling sleets; how our sheep were
1 saturated TO the skin with water and
weighed down with ice and snow until
they could scarcely walk, and in their
agony munching the Ainty corn stalks
I and filthy, unsavory hay, made so by be-
ing trodden under foot; how the pigs
squealed and roamed all night long
vainly seeking dry sheltered nook to
lie down and enjoy little comfortable
sleep. You remember all this very dis
tinctIy, certainly. And you also remem-
Der, to your sorrow, the bony, angular,
hirsute appearance of your stock when
spring time came. Languid and lousy
every one of them tottered as it walked
| and when down scarcely able to rise--in
fact, some of them have not risen yet
and never will rise, unless, peradventure
our dumb ANIMALS have Gabriel of their
own whose footing horn will wake them
to life again.
The recollection of our past short-com-
ings has not been a pleasant one. Elk
perlence has also shown that our neglect
has been an Improbable one Why, just
look at John Thotphul (you know him.
he wintered more stock on less feed than
any of us, what lot of butter he makes
from his slick COWS, when the price of
butter is high. See how strong and thrifty
his young heifers and steers we're when
turned to grass and the wonderful growth
they made the past year. Dry, warm
sheds and the currycomb occasionally did
it for him. What an immense clip of
wool he took from his sheep, and what
large, beautiful lambs the ewes brought
forth, no feebls ones among them to pine
and die for want of nourishment from the
mother. Shelter and care did it for him.
And his hogs! There is no use to make
comparisons. They were pigs late last
fall, in the spring they were hogs-great
big hogs, too. warm pen with plenty
of strawbedding did it for him.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
FARM HOME AND GARDEN
LET Us REST.
lone L JONES

So tired dear soul pray let us rest
1t IL not oft we fold our weary hands;
Unm ndfu of the working worlds demands,
Lets welcome peace, our seldom guest;
cold, gray wall by care caressed.
- oroidding before us grizzly stands
When smiling hope breathes forth her sweet
commands
The barrier at her glad behest
VIII like bad dream fade away
AND golden sunbeams food the whole
Pathway of gloom Yes il is best
We cannot climb the wall to-day,
Then let Us rest, dear patient soul,
pray thee, pray thee, lot us rest
- Good Housekeeping
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18

Gas tar water is sure death to potato
bugs. S, II. Bridgton, N. Y, near Ro-
chester, has for two years past used on
his potato vine water which has been inn
pregnated with gas tar. Put two quarts
or gas tar in pail and fill the pail with
water stir it up we'll and let the tar settle;
then sprinkle the vines with the water
from sprinkling pot. This has proved
more effective than Paris green. He has
also tried it on currant bushes, and finds
it equally effective. 1t is inexpensive
and perfectly reliable, and no doubt will
prove equally effective to insects on trees.
This gas tar can be had for 81 barrel,
and one barrel would supply whole
township.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
FRIENDS
nY5 BAXTER urMsrREEr

Let the misapthropist everywhere tell
With the fool as he loudly raves
Thar II friendship is only monstrous SCI
And that friends are but we'i-spokeh khA'es
Bst pitv the braiuless creatures VINO
Their ears to such nonsense reno, q.
AMI then echo the words their "holH III
through ,,r
Are YOU coward. Sinking the care
OF working for what you get;
Leaving all burdens for others 70 bear
Amusing yourself while they sweat
Always relying on some good fool
Your natural wants 10 attend.
Swimming through life as a general rule
On The back Of some plying friend.
frre Won battling your way through life,
As every honest man should.
Patient ana earnest 10 hours OF strife.
Seeking TO do only good;
you are be proud and no favors ask
From those who might well pretend
To the world you have failed ~ your task
Were dependent, IN fact on friend
Rely on yourself, be noble and true,
And remember that honesty wins
Rut beware or the knave whatever you do,
Who wink at your folhes AID sins.
And then should troubles your life assail
Greater will be the amends
offered by those who never will fail
To prove themselves genuine friends
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
Train Talk.

Il was in New York one day last week,
said railroad agent, who looks after the
immigration business for a trunk line
land while at Castle Garden saw a very
ludicrous incident. Hanging on the wall
there was map of the United States
containing on the margin the advertise
ment of firm of land and immigration
agents. Printed on the map, over the
location of several Western cities, was a
red flag, designed to draw attention to
the various points at which the
firms branch offices were locat-
ed. Chicago W. thus marked and so
was Kansas City, Omaha, st. Paul and
Denver. While was standing there an
Englishman came up, looking at the
map, and Immediately became greatly
excited.
"'Ers's co. he exclaimed, pulling
ont his railroad ticket. Him booked
for Homa'a, and on the map theer Hi see
hit is a Hanarchist town. Hill never go
to a Hanarchist place. Hill go back to
Hingland first, so theer! Cawnt | change
me booking, y'know?
And that wild Englishman took on at
a great rate, and rusned around asking
everybody he saw if the 'Hanarchists' had
complete possession of Omaha, and if it
was safe for a traveller TO set foot in the
town, and if he would have 10 pass through
Chicagoto getto Omaha, and if there wasn't
some way il which he could have his
booking changed, and so on. When at
last he was Gained sufficiently to tell the
officers the cause of his excitement, it
was learned that he had taken the red
flags on the map to mean that the cities
so marked were in the power of the An
archists. Wasn't it funnyY"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
Had No Jurisdiction.
Detroit Free Press.

Sidney Dickinson, in his celebrates
lecture on Rome and the vatican, tells the
story of Baggio one of the pope's oiheeI'
of the palace, who at the time of RaPh'
ael's painting of the Judgment sneeE'
ingly said: -,
Its nude figures should send II %
adorn wine-shop instead of chapel
When completed perfect Likeness =.
Bpggio made itself conspicuous among
the devils by a girding serpent CON
plant was at once made to the pope wac
had already viewed with amusement th'
artists retort.
where has he put thee, Baggio, asheO
His Holiness
''In hell" said the aggreived man.
"Ah. then it is hopeless" was the an
yer. an purgatory, now, / might nav
helped thee, but IN he'll even the pope M
no jurisdiction"
Miss Kate Field says Washington Is '"'
parlor city of ne land
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18

Where apple butter is not made on 6
large scale very good article may be
made as follows Take twenty gallons of
cider just from the press and made from
good, sound apples and boil it down to
ten gallons Then apples enough are
pared and cored (the cores and bruised
spots taken out, and the apples quarter
ed) to make from ten to twelve gallons
dry measure. If the cider is much acid
the apples should be less So and vice
versa. Rambo apples make the best of
apple butter although the various kinds
of pippins usually found in orchards are
equally as good. These twenty gallons
of apples, whsn properly cooked, will
make about seven gallons of good old
fashioned butter, provided the stirring is
kept constantly going on during the pro
cess; otherwise the butter is very apt to
acquire burnt taste. 1t usually takes
from six to eight hours constant stirring
before taking it off the fire. Spices to
suit the taste are added some minutes be-
fore the kettle and contents are removed
from the fire. There is no getting over
the fact, however, that such butter costs
all it will sell for if we consider the labor
it takes. But supply of this favorite
article of creature comforts" is q treas
ure which no good housewife would deny
herself merely for the sake of the little
extra labor it requires.
OUNCE PRESERVES.
Pare, core, and weigh; first stew in wa
ter and then add as many pounds of su-
gar as there were of the uncooked fruit
and simply scald them through. Ounces,
currants, grapes, and other fruits to be
jellied should not have sugar added until
the chief cooking is done. (Lack of
knowing this causes many failures to get
good jellies and preserves, by inexperi-
enced housekeepers). To prevent mould,
jellies with writing paper dipped in al
cohol.
CUBBANr JELLY.
Red currants, grandulated sugar. Take
ripe currants, squeeze them through a
fine cloth, measure the juice in pints, and
place on the fire in a preserving kettle;
let ii boil hard for ten minutes after it
commences, remove the scum carefully
and take off the fire, set on table; aud
TO each pint of juice measured before it
was placed on the fire. stir in one pound
of grandulated sugar; put in tumblers If
these directions are carefully followed,
you will have Jelly that cannot be sur
passed, and that will keep for many
years.
CLABET JELLY.
enc pint of water one pint of claret,
three lemon. half pound of loaf sugar,
one ounce of gelatine, the whites of two
eggs. Soak the gelatine two hours in
the water, put water, gelatine and sugar
into Il pan, stir until the gelatine and
sugar are dissolved whip up the eggs to
a froth, warm the claret, peel the lemons
very thinly and squeeze ont the juice and
whites 10 the water, etc, in the pan,
whtsk we'll, bring TO a boil, boil two or
three minutes, strain until perfectly
clear; Put the rinds into the basin, and
let the jelly run on them; after running
through he Jelly bag, remove the lemon
rinds and pour into mould.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
YELLOW PICKLES

Chop two gallons of CABBAGE s.
with salt, and let stand over night lna 1.'Aie
dry and put into kettle. Add two 800
es OF celery seed, one of tumerj, - al',
quarter of pound of mustard 500 lu
pounds of sugar, with vinegar to 80 I've
well. Boil until the CABBAGE "a to ooYef
tut 1t IN stone jars, and cover close
PUMPKIN PIE.
Wash, cut into slices, scrape ant -
seeds and stringy portion LAYING na,; -. ~
them, peel and lay slices into stear, ~ ~
over a pou of boiling water. When III
can easily be pierced by fork. take 80
and after emptying the pot of its water
turn the pumpkin into it, and set on ~
back part of stove, or where il is not -
hot, and stir frequently, TO prevant
scorching, until it seems quite drv WbiI@
hot, press it through coarse sieve ,yitS
potato masher. Now to one rirt ot
pumpkin take 3 eggs, a small teacnnf,I
of sugar, = teaspoonful of cinnamon ana
few CRATES of nutmeg; if ginger is nrel
terred as havoring, a very scant teaspoon.
full may be used, half teaspoonfnl ot
salt. Stir this to cream with pumnlis
and add quart of milk. Do not bar@
the crust too short, else there will no
trouble in getting the pie, from the nan
Bake well III the bottom, and when tbe
pie is firm in the center, remove from
the oven.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
The Tall Woman and the Small Man.


In minor matters it ia of course uni
yersally admitted that short men, rs a
rule prsfer tall women, while tall men ad-
mire little women. Dark pairs by pre-
ference with fair; the commonplace of
! ten runs after the original. People have
long noticed that this attraction toward
ones opposite tends to keep true the
standard of the race; they have not, per-
haps, SO generally observed that it also
indicates roughly the existence in either
individual of desire for its own natural
complement. 1t is difficult here to give
| definite examples, but everybody knows
how, in the subtle psychology of falling
in love, there are involved innumerable
minor elements, physical and mental,
which strike US exactly because of their
absolute adaptation to form with our
selves an adequate union. of course we
do not definitely seek out and discover
such qualities; instinct works far more
intuItively than than that; but we find at
least by subsequent observation, how
true and how trustworthy were its imme-
date indications. That is to say, those
men do so who were wise enough or for
tunate enough to follow the earliest
promptings OF their own hearts, and not
TO be ashamed of their divinest and deep
est of human intuitions, love at first
sight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-18
ga NEw PLYING MACHINE %.

NO. in the sense you mean. II Is
something which is altogether new and
awlde departure from all previous efforts
AZ navigating the air As have already
stated, he has discovered law that will
enable him to navigate the air as n boat
which has submarine capacities can nayi-
gate the ocean. Win you understand
me when | tell you that a boat poi-ed in
mld-alr, like boat poised in mid ocean
II mean under the surfaced, will require
rs much power to descend MS to ascend.
In other words, Mr.. Loebor has discover.
law which will enable him. by means of
a given amount Of power, to ascend into
the AIR as easily as-after ho has attained
q given lautude-to descend"
what power will he use."
Steam power preferably"
That will require the carriage not
only ot boiler and engine but of fuel. like
a steamer"
TO be sure aud that is Just what it
Will be .1tamer, TO steam through the
arr that will carry its own fuel. carry
passengers. and carry freight as easily
as water hotation and propulsion being,
after all, only question OF power prop.
erly applied. It course. there will lie
TINS difference between dotation in air
and IN water I'm one the resisting of com
parahvely solid nature of the material
ON which the ship rests reguises no row
or for hotation beyond the natural buoy
ancy of the material used ana its con
struetiou; ia the other it requires power
to secure huoyancy, but the amount of
power for propulsion is as nothing com.
pared with that required for
a ,HtR oN gHr SEA.
80 that what nature gives 70 the ship ou
the sea inthe way 81 buoyaucy il takes
from II ~ the resistance of that compar.
atively solid body watch requires power