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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

No WONDER the lightning struck
the Capitol at Washington. So
many of the ambitious statesmen
daily congregating in that building
have their Presidential lightning
rods up that old Jupiter Tonans
couldn't help but respond with his
electric fluid.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will now
have an opportunity to place South
ern ex-rebel at the head of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court, and it will
be just like him to do it. After the
jeff Davis-loving Lamar, we are pre-
pared for anything.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1883.
rnent.

CenaJOT w llIlam ID. AlllsOn, Oh
Iowa. He is undoubtedly the
strongest man we can nominate. He
has the confidence of all classes,
He is not identified with any of the
factional disputes. He is gaining
strength every day." Such was the
language Of Representative Payson,
of Illinois, when asked who he
thought would be the Republican
nominee for President this year.
1t cannot be denied that Senator
Allison is a very strong Tan,
strong with all branches of the
party and if it be possible for any
one man to command the entire
Blaine following, Allison is that
man. Besides he is nearly the only
man mentioned for the nomination
without being Immediately antag-
onized by one or more Of the other
aspirants for the honor of the nom
ination. They are all friendly to
Mr.. Allison, and his nomination
would cause fewer heart-burnings
and less illfeeling among the vari-
Gus candidates and their friends
than any other so far mentioned.
These facts are being recognized
by thoughtful Republicans, and the
natural consequence has been a
large accession of strength to Mr..
Allison, and he il undoubtedly
nearer the nomination to-day than
any other candidate. But an i'm
portant question is whether Mr..
Allison will allow the use Of his
name or not. 1t is a fact well
known to n number of prominent
Republicans that Mr. Allison would
have been nominated in 1880 in
stead OF the late Gen. Garfield, had
he not positively forbidden the use
of his name. 1t is generally be-
lieved that he would accept the
nomination this year, but he has not
said so.
The Ways and Means committee
Of the House have practically com
pleted the consideration of the
Mills tariff bill, that is the Demo
cratic majority of the committee
have doue 80, for the Republican
minority have not been allowed q
chance to take any part in its con
sideration. Everything was cut
and dried before the full committee
knew anything about it. The bill
is Substantially the same az when
first submitted, and is likely to be
reported to the House before this
letter is in type. But it will never
pass the House in its present shape
The Senate committee on Pen
sions have reported falorably q
bill giving the widow Of Gen. Xii
pairick pension of 500 month.
Senator Sherman has introduced
a bill granting arrears OF pensions
to all persons who now receive pen
sious for wounds resulting in total
or partial loss of limb or perma
uent shortening Of leg or an arm,
from the date of receiving suoh
wounds or from the day of dis
charge from the army, at the rate
provided by their pension certid
Gates. 1t also provides that all now
receiving pension for gunshot
wounds resulting in the permanent
shortening Of an arm or leg shall
hereafter receive q pension of SIS
a month.
Congress got big scare on
W ednesday During q thunder
storm, lhe FIRST of the season, the
f,,,itrl mos stypnL- law Ephfuipp
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29
SrArE OF WISCONSIN, IOWA COUNTY

CTATE OF WISCONSIN, IOWA COUNTY
y court-in probate.
Notice is hereby given that at regular term
Of the Iowa county court 10 be held in and for
said county, at the court house, in the village of
Dodgeyille, in said county, ON the Sd day Of
April, A. d. 1855, being the first Tuesday
Of said month, at o'clock in the forenoon OF
said day, the following matters viii be heard
and considered;
The application OF Philip Allen, Jr., to admit
10 probate the last win and testament of Maria
Priesdey, late OF the city Of Mineral Point, in
said county deceased.
Aud it is further ordered that public notice
thereof be given 10 all persons interested by pub
fishing copy of this order tor four weeks
successfully prior to said day of hearing in the
Mineral Point TRIBUNE, weekly newspaper
published in said county
By order of the Court,
JOHN T. JONES, Judge.
Da.ed Dodgeville, Wis, March 2, 1888 10
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

WHEN Mayor Hewitt declared
himself in favor of the American
flag and the American flag only, he
made a higher bid for the Presiden-
CIV than Cleveland's free-trade mes
sage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

All who intend planting the rs y
W" fodder ana eusilage corn this
season will please leave their orders
Is soon rs possible Is We wish to
secure sufficient seed to supply all
demands. lift
p. ALLEN IL SoN, Agts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

GovERNoR RusH, who has made a
study of the political situation in the
South, states that the old slayehold-
ers have preserved lists of their
slaves, and that they are quietly
waiting to claim indemnity for them
when the Democratic party can car
ry both branches Of Congress and
the White House. They would
have put in their CLAIM by this time
he says if they had majority Of
the Senate.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

TnE free-traders say that free
wool is needed to give the manu-.
facturers cheap raw material 80 that
they can furnish cheaper cloth.
They then attempt to prove to sheep
growers that the price Of wool under
high tariff has been less than under
low tariff or no tariff. Now, if the
free-uaders want cheap wool for the
manufacturers, so as to make cheap
cloth, why do they not keep up the
high wool tariff?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

GOV. RusE was given an ovation
on the floor of the House Of Con.
gress the I'D. While surrounded by
an admiring crowd Representative
Cannon, OF Illinois, stepped upon a
chair behind him and placing his
hands on Kusk's shoulders remark
ed: 81 lay my hands on the next
president of the United States"
The governor turned towards him
and said: 81 prefer q Cannon in
the front instead of the rear"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

state and lay the same before our
readers for consideration and com
ment,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

EARLY Bmps.-The same day that
the news of the death of Chief JUS
tice Waite was borne over the coun-
try, a dispatch from Madison sped
over the electric wires, announcing
that the democrats of Wisconsin
would urge disappointment of VIM.
f. Villas as successor Of course u
democrat Will beuominated, and the
whole people Of Wisconsin will be
glad to see the state honored, but
there are those who think James g..
jenkins or Gen. Bragg better quail
fled for the position than Col. Villas.
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1.-THE DUTY OF MIR. BLAINE"
A Pittsburg Paper Wants Him to Say Some
thing Definite.

thing Definite.
PrrTsBURG, Pa, April 23.-The Chr0n-
acte- Telegraph to-day. commenting edi-
torially on Blaine's duty, says: 'In fair
ness to his party, which is willing to
honor him to the full extent of its power,
it becomes the duty of Mr.. Blaine, before
the National Convention assemblies, to
make an unqualified statement of his ill.,
tentions, or at least, place himself in tel
egraphic communication with his friends
upon the date of the assembling of the
delegates. If the Maine statesman could
be easily reached by Geographic message
so that in the event of a sudden nomina.
tion his views could be at once obtained,
no serious complication would arise, but
if at the time of the convention he should
be upon the ocean, as 1t has been stated
he will be, or should he be still abroad in
some out-of-the-way locality, the Repub-
lican party would be placed in peril. 1t
has already been limited that there is a
deep scheme at the bottom of this whole
business. Should Mr.. Blaine be nomina-
ted and a final declination not be re-
ceived until after the adjournment of the
convention the business of naming the
head of the ticket would devolve upon
the National Committee. The gentlemen
comprising that body would probably not
be at all disinclined to accept the respon.
sibility. For one thing it would ensure
the continuance of political power to Mr..
Blaine's immediate friends, for these
friends are in complete control of the
committee. There is nothing particularly
disastrous in that view of it, except that
who ever would be nominated under such
circumstances would be certainly con-
sidered the choice of faction, and all
factional cries must be avoided in the
campaign of this year."
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It's Always the Way.

Didn't tell you so''? said a getleman
to an acquaintance whom he CHANGED to
meet on the street; sits always the way"
whats always the way? inquired a
mutual friend of the two men who hap
pened along just then. "Why, just this"
replied the first speaker: "you see Smith,
here, the last time 1 met him he had one
of the worst coughs you ever heard. He
complained of u loss of appetite, of night
sweats. of low spirits and other unmis-
taxable premonitory symptoms of con-
sumption. told him to get supply of
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery at
once. He did so, and look at him now!
Did you ever see healthier looking man?
The Discovery has snatched thousands
from consumptives' graves. l knew it
would cure Smith. It's always tho way"
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BROTHER GARDENERS TALK.

"As l was walking out in the back
yard" began Brother Gardner, "Mister
Darius Green, the white man, came along
and there was powerful sad look on his
face as he leaned over the fence and said
'Misser Gardner, this sufferin' has got
to come to a cease
elias yer got the shakes and chiils p
1 axed.
"'Wuss dan dat, Misser Gardner. Pze
working all de long week for ten shillin'
a day, an whar de money goes l can't
tell. De ole woman wants new clothes,
de chillin wants dis an dat, de rent runs
benin, an I'ze gettin' desprit.'
'Sho now let's make figgers on de
fence tole him. Now, den, you chew
terbacker?'
eyes, 1 chew about zen cents wort a
day.
"'Dat's seventy cents week. AM you
drink larger?'
swell, of course, drink glass now
and den-maybe fifteen glasses a week.
"'Dat's seventy-ive cents moah, sab.
What dye do on Sundays
"'Oh, go up to de beer garden
can you spen' dollar at least?'
"'I guess so-maybe two of 'em'.
Say twelve shillins, an dat makes
two dollars an ninty-ive cents per week
l reckon you throw away at least free
dollars cherry week, sah?'
Frow it away?'
eyes, sab. Dat money would pay your
rent an buy your -four
But fellow must have some com
fort
"'De same, sab. De greatest comfort
in de world am to see de rent paid up, dc
table loaded down an de ole woman able
to 60 to church. You frow away free
dollars cherry week, sab, an den you &c
roun' cussin' the times, de wedder an de
man who saved his money!
"Gem'len, dat white man called me an
ole black fool an dog stealer, but dat
didn't alter de case bit. He is frowin
away one-third of his weekly wages, an
den BLOWN round dat he's gettin' des-
prit an am ready to head riot. Doan'
let me heah eny member O. dis club spin.
MIN dat yarn, ease if does dars gwine
to be committee of investigation, an
dat committee won't whitewash wof a
cent. "-!SOmergiHe Journal.
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THE DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBER.

Worn and weary, seedy and sad, editor sat
him down,
Mid work and rubbish, paper and dust, with
many wrinkled frown.
He sighed when he thought of his paper bills,
his rent, and board, and wood.
And groaned when the copy tend yelled out, as
he there in the doorway stood.
What do people fancy he said, 'an editor
lives upon:
Air and water, glory and debt till his toilsome
life is done?
I'll stop their papers, every one, till their honest
debts they pay,
And mark their names off the mailing book for
ever and for aye.
Take this copy, double lead, and mark with
pencil blue
And send to all who in arrears, from ten
years down to two.''
And then to the hungry copy boy he handed a
pencilled scrawl
Of hieroglyphcs, struggling, wild, all tangled
and lean, and tall.
When scarce a fortnight had dragged its length
of tired-out hours away,
There came to the heart of the editor a gladstone
joy one day:
Twas only letter from Gordon's MILL in hand
both weak and old
But out OF it fell treasured coin, of Solid beau
tiul gold!
The letter claimed his interest, then, and So he
slowly read
The scrawled, but simple and honest words, and
this is what they said:
dear Editor: 1 read the lines you marked and
sent to me,
So send this piece Of gold and ask if you will
To send my paper right along, and forget the
debt owed.
For I've took your paper for twenty year, and
so far as e'er l know'd,
l never owed no man a cent till about four
year ago,
When my POI wife died, and the crops was bad,
and the fever laid me low
And times hain't never been the same to little
Liz and me-
For we are all that's left behind-and since my
eyes can't see,
She always reads the paper, and it's been our
only cheer,
And brought us all the news and fun we've bad
Tor many year.
I'm gettin' old and feeble, now, and down with
the rheumatic,
And there's the paper left to me; just that and
little Liz.
We couldn't bear to lose it now, it's been with
us so long,
Till its very name is music, like an old-time
happy song.
This twenty-dollar piece OF gold will pay fol
all owe,
And what is over and above, just keep, and let
itgo
Toward paying for the paper till brighter
better day;
And send to Liz, she'll need it then, when 1 am
called away"
Glad and thankful the editor was, as he knew
that there was one
Who loved and could appreciate the work that
he had done.
He felt that lie was not in vain, and smiled
through happy tears;
And then on the mailing book he wrote: paid
up for twenty years"
Margaret Andretrs Oldham in the N Y. Sum-
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SOME FIGHTING QUAKERS.

Many anecdotes of the early Quakers
are preserved in Philadelphia to show
how even under PENIS rule the impulses
of human nature struggled against their
rigid laws of duty and submission. Not a
few of the young men of Quaker families
served in the Revolutionary Army and in
the navy in 1912, and wore on the field
their broad brimmed hats and shad
bellied coats.
1t is said that one of these young
Fighting Quakers," as they were called,
met his father on the street on his return
home. The old man laid his hand rebuk-
ingly on his sons arm, saying:
''The wool in that coat was sheared
from my sheep, and woven in thy mothers
loom, yet there is blood on it.''
"And the blood is thy blood" boldly
replied the young man. "If thou hadst
been 20 instead of 60, thou, too, wouldst
have fought under Washington"
~ lchariah!' stammered the old man,
ct may be so, Zachariah. Thou hadst
Uebtet 80 inIo buy ulunor.
A well ,kAown story is that of friend
who was in sailing vessel boarded by a
British press gang in 1912. He paced the
deck with folded arms during the fight,
until he saw one of the assailants climbing
on deck by means of cable.
Friend, dost thou want that rope9"
he said, calmly, hurrylng up, knife in
hand. Thou shalt have it," and he cut
it. The man dropped into the sea.
A better authenticated story is of
grave old Quaker, two of whose sons went
into the late Civil War without his knowl
edge. The youngest son was fired, as was
almost every other young man at that
time from Maine to Florida, with the
wish to give his life for the cause which
he believed just. He had accepted
commission, but he did not wish to go
without his fathers consent.
He took occasion to make his prepara-
tions rather ostentatiously in his fathers
sight, laid out his officers uniform, and
tried to attract attention, but all in vain.
AS last resort he seated himself in the
room where the old man was pacing up
and down and began to polish his sword.
His father watched him, with face
growing paler, and with dim eyes. At
last he went up to the young man and
said. quietly:
Samuel, if thee thinks thee must use
one of those tools, buy the best, and
1 will pay for it, Samuel. y Youths Com
DHniOH
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a moderate amount of success. Some
lack ability. Others endurance, and many
do NOT noSSeSS sufficient Strennth

moderate amount of success. Some
lack ability. others endurance, and many
do not possess sufficient strength.
From these remarks it must not be in
ferred that dull and weakly boys are by
nature best fitted to remain in the coun-
try and become farmers. The abIest men
mentally are none too enlightened, none
too capable, to cope with the many diff
cult problems of agriculture. Today the
land question holds the attention of
Europe, and with our abundance of ter
ritory, as yet spersely populated. we are
not many generations distant from scar
sity of land and its inevitable difficulties.
The hardest part of farm life is it's SEEM
ing monotomy. We advisedly use the
word seeming, because farm life is more
varied than professional or mechanical
life. The four seasons bring to the far
mer varied occupations and varied pleas
ures. The journalist, the lawyer, the
doctor, in their callings know no seasons;
three hundred and sixty-fve days
annually are the working days of those
who toll in the paths of higher profess
sions. Artisans and mechanics enjoy rest
on one day in every week. Railroad en-
ployees generally obtain two, sometimes
three, Sundays rest out of ten months
of the year. During the fierce heat of
summer the public will travel, and the
railroad men, from the tiny newsboy to
the general superintendent, must be at
their posts.
Our counsel to boys is, before you de-
eide to leave the farm for other work,
seek information, and make as you can
that you are more fitted for city than for
country life. To the farmers we would
say, if your boys are well treated they
will recognize it; if your boys are over
worked, poorly clothed, badly fed, and
| boorishly treated, make haste to change
and to mend your ways. A bad employer
gets an unwilling service. The best tenn
pered boy can be made sullen; the most
ambitious can be discouraged. When a
boy is old enough to work for his father,
and when his work is satisfactory, he
earns his pay as fully as though he was a
hired utsider.-4merican 4griculturist.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-05-05
OUR FARMER BOYS.

There is frequently recurring complaint
from the farm, reached through the agri-
cultural press, of the reluctance of boys
to remain in farming pursuits, indeed
sometimes even to enter on such a life.
What is the cause of this restless spirit {?
Are country employments odious in them
selves? 1t is appalling to note the young
lives wrecked in cities; youths who strain
every nerve and use every means to at
tain a profession, who just reach the
threshold and then succomb, worn out in
mind and crushed in body. OF the vast
multitudes who year after year leave
their country homes to seek fortune in
cities, how many succeed? The percen-
tage is very small, even of those who find
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-05-05
Special Bargains for May,

Special Bargains for May.
Lot Tricot, all wool, s. in.
wide, down to SO cents yard,
from 90 cents.
Lot Dress Goods, plain colors and plaids, down
to 20 cents per yard, from Is cents.
Lot yard-wide Percales, 10
cents per yard.
Lot Fine Satines, ~ cents per yard, almost
equal to French
Large lot of Lawns at 5 cts.
per yard.
Lot TurkeyRed Table Damask, 25 cents per
yard, extra cheap.
Two special bargains in
Towels. All good clean linen,
one 80 in. long, 10 in. wide,
* cents apiece; another 43
in. long, % in. wide, knotted
fringe, IS cents apiece.
Bargains in Hats-Straw, Soft and Stiff.
Our Shoe department is I'M
usually full, containing all the
latest styles from Philadelphia
and Eastern manufacturers, at
prices L0Wer than eUer.
A full stock of Groceries-Dried and Evapor
ated Peaches, Apricots. Plums ,Prunes and Apples,
Canned Fruits and Vegetables. Everything in
our Grocery Department warranted pure.
Yours to serve,
F. P. PRICE,
Main Street, in the Hollow Elkton, Md.
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rh b,as. Better goods
We ever broug hit - al IiSoo~SA ~ p ~, an
3 49,. q - bodys. That's tn
oval work. I'D ICT Is, We ""''
A Busy Spring.

We've accomplished end of our plan. The
goods are better-greatly better
Never had stock that pleased ourselves so
thoroughly!
There's been almost revolution since last Spring
in goods. We're years away from last years designs.
You know what mint of clothing keep.
We're bound to make it true and up to the
Wanamaker stamp always A string of items as long
County Sale Notice couldn't say than
guarantee That you depend on firmly.
It's the beauty of it that we're making taller
claim for than 1t doesn't admit of exaggeration.
From Mems Clothing and Young Mems down to
the Small Boys it's full Of the incest styles inside
doors.
The Spring Overcoats very stylish!
Now, for the other end.
Let make the business size up the clothing
If it does, every and boy within reach of US
will have Wanamaker & Brown Spring Suit on
his back within a few weeks.
We want to reach that point and we're ready for
a hard and steady pull of work to do it.
The prices will be where Oak Hall prices always
are-hitched to the smallest profit afford to
take.
WANAMAKER & Brown,
Oak Hall,
S. E. Cor. Sixth and Market Sts.,
Philadelphia.
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We ought not to he too anxious to en-
courage untried innovation, in cases of
doubtful improvement. For quarter of
a century DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy has
been before the public and passed through
the severest test and is pronounced the
most reliable remedy for that disagreeable
malady. Thousands of testimonials of it's
virtues. so cents per bottle. BY druggists.
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Horse Blankets whichare strong
and have reputation are always
initiated in poor qualities which
look like them, but having fewer
warp threads are not as strong.
Some dealers buy these poor
limitations for a few cents less and
by saying theyare Gust as good"
sell them at the same price as the
strong blankets to parties who do
not know the difference.
You cannot tell whether horse
blankets are strong by the look
or feel, as the warp threads do
not show on the face. How then
are you to know7 ~ x>t1;.y:
Inorderthat you cantella strong
blanket from a weak one, the manu-
facturer of "a Horse Blankets
sews the above 81 Trade Mark
inside of each blanket. This is a
guarantee that it is the strongest
blanket made for the money and
will wear well.
Many poor limitations have been
sold as "a blankets. Remember
none are genuine unless the
"a Trade Mark is sewed inside.
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RICHE !

nVnIlI Rewarded are those who read this
XII XII II and then act: they will find honorable
llIullI | employment that will not take them
from their homes and families The
profits are large and sure for every industrious
person many have made and are now making
several hundred dollars a month. 1t is easy for
anyone to make S. aid upwards per day, who is
willing to work Either sex, young or old; capital
special ability required you, reader, can do 1t as
we'll as any one Write to US at once for full par
ticulars, which we mail Free Address STINSON
Co, Portland, Maine. Decay