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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
LINDEN LOCALS.

| morning ana the worst snow hlOcAde
for the winter. The mail was carried
TO Edmund on foot Saturday and
Monday.
Mr. George Ledbetter, of Britt,
Iowa, is the guest of K. +. Richards.
The friends of Miss Oeea Heath.
cock surprised her with party on
last Wednesday evening, it being
the 18th anniversary of her birth.
day. The following is list of pres.
ents received.
Miss Mamie Baker of Edmund, pair VI vases
Miss Jessie Bucket and Charlie Lewis. plush
work box
Susie Smith, a tablet
Eddie Murriaeld handkerchief and hair rio
bon
Mabel Dolphin aud Stella Heathcock, box
OF domnoes.
Gertie Peters, hair ribbon.
Mrs. ]. j. Hrathcook, pink apron.
Bell Swartz n card
Pierce Glauulle, handkerchief.
Cara Shaifer. work basket.
Cora Bowden hair ribbon.
Delbert rreloar, scarf pin.
Katie Sampson, tablet
Ottie Ross, pair salt stands.
Oracle Swartz, glass pickle dish.
Reua Wearing. handkerchief.
Sadie Osborne. 10 cents cash.
Mrs. l.. j. Heathcock, pair of vases.
stephen Pollard started for Wv.
oming Ter. on Monday.
I,hn Nlur,,1I,. ii
were among the number attending
the farmers institute at Dodgevill,
last week.
THE following was too late for last week
MIR. Thomas Thompson, of Oar
Iington, is visiting friends ia Lin
den. He is recently from Rico
Colorado, where he il interested il
mining claims, in partnership witt
Cyrus llick, one of our Linden boys
The Highland lodge, |. o. 0. f.
of this village, Installed their off
GERS IN the presence of large nun
Der of invited guests, on Fnda,
evening, Jan. 9th, 1888. Among
those from abroad we noticed T.. A
Edyvean, james Bennett, A. |. II ID
bins, Rev. llardcastle, Thos. Kelly
Frank Hooking aud Il. II. McIllhose
of Dodgrville; aud a number from
Rldgeway whose names we did no
learn. The installation was con
Quoted by brother Evans, Of Ridge
way. After installation, Rev. Hard
castle, of DndgevilIe aud Rev. G. &
Swart2, of Linden, made short au,
pithy addresses, after which they al
sat down TO bountifuI repast, ant
the evening was spent in peasan
and soclable way. The Misses Min
ME Smith, Jas. Vial, Charles Ire
glown aud Albert GlanyiIIe fur
nished music for the occasion.
Miss Minnie Smith is at home
from Mineral Point.
A large number of young people
took III the install ment at No. Z
on Saturday night and report d
good lime,
Sadie Osborne spent Sunday in
the country.
John Glanville received notice on
Saturday that his pension claim had
been allowed giving him sl6 pei
month, aud Sl,l5O back pension.
John was good soldier aud is de.
serving all that Uucle Sam has done
for him, aud more too. q
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

for hlm to get in anywhere. If he
is dishonest, habitually idle, or a
victim of bad habits, there will be
no demand for him to fill places of
responsibility and trust. The pref
erence in all such cases is given to
the strong, healthy, intelligent, we'll
behaved, honest, steady, reliable
boy. If young lady habitually
spends her time on the streets, at
the postofice, or at the depot and
is ill-behaved, unlady like and bois-
ferrous, what first class young man
would select such companion for
his life partner? Would he not
prefer one tidy i'll appearance, lady
like IN conduct, Interested in making
home attractive, fond of good books
and whatever is refining and cult
waiting? We repeat that the record
of the past five or ten years is every
thing TO a person starting life. The
qualities that have been exhibited
indicate the tendency and dieposi-
tion and are noted by all thoughtful
and observing persons.
THERE has been a reduction made
in the price of Deller's oyercoats.
Now is q good time to buy oyercoats
at Deller's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
Personal Points.

Jas. Martin is home from Chi.
cage.
Mr.. John Charles has completed
his task As architect aud oyerseer Of
the construction of the Lacrosse
county asylum, and is with us again.
Hon. JAS. Speusley, whose i'll
health has confined him at home for
several weeks, is now able to come
out occasionally, and his many
friends are greatly pleased thereat.
Bro. Hearu, being present at the
Institute yesterday, paid us friend
ly call.
-Ralp ph Goldsworthy, formerly of
this city, but now a prosperous barber
of Chicago, made a fl ying visit to Min
eral Point, Dpdgevllle, Darlington
and Linden last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer are here
from Nj zaMauie visiting Mrs. SIS.
parents, MIR. and Mrs. j. Hewitt.
Miss Matilda Gribble took this
mornings train for Nebraska, where
she will visit friends for few
months.
Mrs Annie Jones left this morn.
ing for Kansas City, where she in
tends spending the remainder of the
winter.
Such worthy farmers as Thos.
II. Hoskins, j. j. Humbert, Fred
Cork, Van d. Wilson, ID. Brown, Jr,
and John I. Argall have favored the
TRIBUNE with their presence and
financial encouragement of late.
p. I. White, of the Economy
Store, is buslIy engaged at present
IN managing the opening of simi.
lar store IN Rockford. He will be
here again for good in the near
future.
Mrs. Strauss was called here
from lacrosse by the sickness OF
her mother, Mrs. Deller Her two
children accompanied her.
Rev. Meyers, of Piatteville, oc-
cupled the NJ. +. pulpit in this city
last evening.
Mis- Beulah Joiner, of Wyom-
ing Valley, came down Monday To
visit with the family Of ] IL. VIVIAN.
WE will sell bobsleds, cutters and
feed cutters taxing all Or part pay
III green or dry wood. Call aud see
US. MARrIN 81 roAY
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
/ WONDER

If wom4n in politics is like
greasing wagon wlth molasses!
II there is "a statesman 10 tho
front VINO did not make PROMISES?
If the sweetest thug in life Is
bllters?
Why ones hat is like an advance
agentY
If bald beads should be frescoed ?
Why a woman never reaches mid
die lIfc2
Who ever failed to speak briefly
TO the point after sitting On beat
PIT?
When does dentist pull the
hardest?
Ii the Primitives will really build
new church?
Was Noah'5 celebrated vessel
lighted by an arc lampI
If = praying parrot could not d.
good missionary work among tbs
countless profane and fallen of hl'
race2
How would it work for the wo
man suffragists to colonize anc
govern the territory Of No Mans
LAnd2
Wherein is humanity benefited
bv smell severe rold wealth el2
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

your taxes?
Nt viii soon have a lady
tis SAID.
FOR a heater that can be sue
y applied to a toboggan.
7 mso the picnic at The Olty
ltyl Saturday evening.
pucnoy 90 all kinds of cloaks,
.i.ckeisaud shawls, at Deller's.
.sEs fun tor every body at the
hall Saturday, evening Mul-
Picnic,
an Objectionable feature in
ylon with the hurricane OF
llrday evening.
AZ wants bat little here be-
But he gets it below zero too
ior comfort.
lL estate is pretty tight In
sections Of Dakota. 1t was So
lsro al Grand Forks Friday.
i Mt. Horeb Sun aud the Blue
d. Weekly Press are the latest
vu 10 The newspaper list of
a,s.
gRE will be no difficulty with
crop this year, unless the
'satner shall prevent its being
pied.
snowfall Thursday was so
at superior, Wis, that some
Inhabitants had to tunnel out
afdveIhugs.
ARES a farmer in this state
ams to have learned enough
aef' Institutes TO enable hin
N $500 more per tub for his
LIE Is an apparent scarcity of
81 present. AS soon as the
arg opened, however, it is
1efs Will be enough and to
'aoy In the woods is so deep
seriously interferes with
Wy and hauling, and to add
"l'a.y Of getting heavy
N ioruei ou the snow.
,ss''s .''' were SO timex IN Da-
'"'' when they settled
|snS' '.'.','e tract the ground
,..., =. covered with snow and
s'' 'oeIr 'Ieds out.
--'A has a good stock of blan-
'''' @od at reasonable
l. '.'y good thing to have
| ',''DsF'
'' Il now connected by rail.
!. '0erest Of the world out
''n enthusiastically as
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
me Local Field.

-,or,.sngSrs handed i'll later
.dossuA, cannot receive AZ
mat week.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

time the papers Of those taking
active parts. Our citizens are to be
credited with turning out well, and
the managers with promptness and
efficiency.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

THE record that is made by man
or woman aud especially by a young
person is in most cases more im-
portaut than the dollars already
or those that are being earned at
present. A boys chances for doing
well at fifteen or twenty years Of
age depends largely on the record
be has made during the preceding
five years. II he has the reputation
Of being lazy, troublesome, worth
less, ungentlemanly or, in a word,
Of being no account, II will be hard
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

EIBD.-J E. Ho sing s,r1iss wants segr sesiroas as
/. iur photographs, III 'i''
sblulI Gall at once
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

ls breast-pin, near Clowney 8
' 2s51ss n the owner can OBTAIN oy ih''u u''-
I gnuNE Office.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
1LUNE XII.
.,.,sAtFo.NT MARKET

.-ethe hlghestthstare paio
-fs' ~ goiug 70 press Ok
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

s6eial Department
,or the accommodation OF 4 those nose
hsa 'at loi in IN any way. those VINO nave
o s.l' s'.1l'.p,pie !, property, and Tor tnose
aua1 'o,1T' rexenange. Limit, twenty
y o'yn III Insertion FREE, aud for edch
=, rastiqr twenty-nye cents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30
yaIue OF the "1soa" Dollar,

'The fact is" remarked Mr.. Richard
Cogan, one Of the dealers, "that there is
not, and probably never was an original
1904 dollar. By original we mean, OF
course, one struck in that year. 1t is
pretty well established now that at that
time 1t was the custom to use set of
dies at the mint till they were worn out,
irrespective of the year they were dated.
1t is more than probable that all the spec
linens that were struck from the die OF
1904 were made subsequent to that date.
"Of the thirteen or fourteen that are
now known to exist said Mr.. Cogan,
1.-TWO are in this city, four in Boston, one
in San Francisco, one in Denver,
and the others are scattered all over the
intervening country. l could give you
the name of every person who owns one.
Maj. Welmore, of 10 Waverly place, has
one which he believes to be the only orig
inal one. 1t is somewhat worn and has
evidently been in circulation. This does
not usually add to the value of coin,
but in this case If this could be made to
prove that it was struck in the year it
was dated, it might make big differ
ence."
'How much is specimen worth to-
day'n asked the reporter.
THAT would be- pretty hard to say
replied Mr.. Cogan. "They have sold all
too, for the same specimens. There are so
few of them that they have no regular
market value and the price paid for them
depends entirely upon how badly the pur-
chaser wants one. Probably if one was
offered for sale today it could not be
bought for less than $1,000.-New York
World
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30
Crossing the Muddy Street.

stood at corner on Main street the
other day and watched the people making
their way across the muddy street. Did
you ever notice how differently this is
done by different people.
There is the lady who pauses moment
arily in dismay, then gathers her skirts
with one hand and daintily picks her way,
striving to step where some mans big
brogan has left its imprint, but failing be-
cause the brogan took such long steps
Then comes the well dressed man who
never deforms his shapely feet with over
shoes. He glances down at his well pol
ished boots, mutters an imprecation about
the street commissioner, and walks across
on his heels, maintaining his balance with
difficulty and losing his temper altogether.
The old resident who is used TO this sort
of thing, and who would not feel at home
with a clean pavement in the spring time,
does not permit the muddy crossing to
delay him, but with skill, born of long
experience, takes advantage of every pro
jecting dry spot that the pavement affords,
and doesn't get very muddy after all.
But the man who produced the strong
est impression upon me, the man whom
you will at once recognize, was the man
whose unpublished boots and insensibility
to dirt enabled him to disregard the mud.
This man sets his foot down like "a pile
driver, or yanlsit through the liquid mud
like snow plow and literally bespatters
everybody ana everything within a radius
Of five yards. You have met him; every
body has met him. He has splashed you
with mud; he has splashed everybody.
He should be abated as a public nui-
sance.-Kansas City Journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30

The primary object of clothing in cold
climates is to retain the heat Of the body;
in hot climates IL may serve the opposite
purpose of protection from the san, while
In any place secondary but most i'm
portant object is ornament. As to mate
rial, wool is the best for retaining heat,
for 1t is bad conductor, and, preventing
loss feels warm" It is particularly de-
sirable as underclothing for children and
old persons, who have not much power Of
resisting cold, and require warm cover
ings In climate with rapid changes in
temperature the great value of woolen
Undertaking is recognized by its univer-
sal use to maintain an equitable warmth
In hot weather cotton underclothing is
cooler, because it Is a better conductor of
heat, and therefore allows Of more loss;
but then It at the same time conducts
more of the external heat TO the skin, and
thus protects II less, and 10 involves the
risk of sudden and rapid fluctuations OF
temperature, Furs, like wool, preserve
the heat, while linen and silk, like cotton,
allow it to be more quickly lost.
The color Of the outer clothing makes
some difference for black and dark shades
like dark blue absorb the suns rays, while
light bright colors and white reflect them.
The former are, therefore, suitable for
winter and the latter are preferred in
summer for their GOODNESS, care being
taken that the thickness, nature and ar
rangement of the garments yield the de-
sired effect. So far as fit is concerned,
loosely fitting articles, other things being
equal, are warmer than tightly fitting
ones because the latter interfere with the
circulation, as cold hands and feet in
tight gloves and boots amply testify. &C.
+, Pollock in The Chautauquan.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30
A Romantic NIaiden's Mistake.

She was very romantic. Her father
was q millionaire, whose life had been de-
voted to sausage raising He was very
practical naturally, but all the poetry of
her family was right in her. She was be-
loved by another millionaire's son, but she
had been reading romances and stuff, and
when he proposed to her she declared he
must do something poetical for her.
dearest, what can do?'
"Become poor artist"
81 couldn't be any other kind of an art
ist."
II mean you must pretend to be a poor
artist. Pa does not know you. You
must come and make love to me and l
will fall in love with you. Pa will object
and make row. We will elope and get
married. and when it's all over Wen tell
him, and it will be delightful
And so he became a poor artist and took
poor studio and daubed on canvases and
pretended to paint pictures And there
was another millionaire's daughter got to
coming to his studio and sitting for her
picture. In those delightful little tete-a-
tetes he forgot all about the romantic
maiden, and when the romantic maiden
came one night in peasant costume as a
sweet surprise to run away with him she
found he was married to the othe girl and
had gone off on his honeymoon. She
thinks that romonces are all lies now, and
that nothing happens in real life as it hap
pens in books. She's about right.-San
Francisco Chronicle "Undertones."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30

The comparatively light depth of snow
In the north frigid zone is tolerably easy
of explanation, but the difference in con-
sistency between 1t and the same material
further south is not 80 easy to understand.
In the former case we really have but two
seasons when the snow falls-the spring
and autumn-the intensely cold weather
Of winter being as unfavorable for snow
storm seemingly as the summer itself; in
fact, l have seen a snow storm every July
and August | was in the Arctic, while
there were number of months in each
winter of which could not say the same.
The Eskimo plainly recognize these two
seasons of snow storms, and have two
different names for the spring and fall
SHOWS.
During the winter there may be high
winds, which carry the loose snow in
drifting packs, so that a person caught
out in such gale would think at first
sight that he was in a first class snow
storm; but, nevertheless, none has fallen,
and although drifts have formed deeper
here and there, this has been picked up
from the ridges and billtops and the
average depth is the same as before. For
this, too the natives have a name, and
will inform you that at that temper
ature and that time of the year
no snow falls. In Greenland OBJ
servations have been carried ON for
many years by Danish meteorologists, and
DIR. Rink, the best authority on that
region, says that ''ininorth Greenland the
amount of snow annually falling is in
ferior to that of south Greenland" and
this law seems to be general. In short,
the heaviest fall of snow is not Ia the
frigid no more than in the torrid zone,
but somewhere between the two.-Lieut.
Frederick Schwatka.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30
Conserve Your Force.

Hamerton says: sit often happens that
mere activity is waste of time, that peo-
pie who have a morbid habit of being busy
are often terrible time wasters; while, on
the contrary, those who are judiciously
deliberate, and allow themselves intervals
of leisure, see the way before them in
those intervals, and save time by the ac-
curacy of their calculations
Another writer, unknown, says; "Some
men are in incessant action, early and
late, and all through the day They have
no time for family or friends AS for
holidays, the less for them the better.
They have inherited a nervous tempera-
ment, and are doing just the wrong thing
with it-allowing it to hurry them to an
untimely end, They wear themselves
out. Their brain is ever in state Of
morbid activity almost like that of an in
sane man. A little careful planning, and
a proper laying out of work, and especially
doing everything in the proper time,
would avoid all such hurry and worry,
make work much easier, secure an ahun-
dance of leisure and greatly increase
length of life, ,"-Scientific American.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30
Sunday Elections in Switzerland.

made friends with the iustituteur of
the Villeneuve public school, who led the
singing at church and kept the village
book store; and he, too, talked politics
with me, and told me that all elections
were held ON Sunday, when the people
were at leisure, for otherwise they would
not take the time to vote. He was not so
clear as to why they were always held in
church, but that is the fact; and some
times the sacred character of the place is
not enough to suppress boisterous party
feeling, though it certainly helps to con-
troll it.
After divine service on election Sunday
I went to the Croix Blanche for my cof-
fee, to pass the time till the voting should
begin. On the church door was posted a
printed summons to the electors, and on
the cafe billiard tables found ballots of
the different parties scattered. Gendarmes
had also distributed them about in the
church pews; they were inclosed in envel-
opes, which were voted sealed. On table
before the pulpit the ballot box-a glass
urn-was placed, and beside it sat the
Judges of election, with lists of the regis
tered voters. But in any precinct Of the
canton an elector who could prove that he
had not voted at home might deposit his
ballot in any other, The church bell rang
for the people to assemble, and the voting
began and ended in perfect quiet. But |
could not witness an election of this an
cient republic, where freedom was SO
many centuries old, without strong emo
ton; it had from its nature and the place
the conservation Of religious rite.-W.
d. Howells In Harper's Magazine,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30

PeOplewho tray Pullman
sleepers and buffet cars can't imagine
what railroading used to he before the
war in the west Now the persentage of
deaths by accident On railroads is very
small Then'a man took his life In his
hand when he madea tripon the railroad.
The rails then were known as strap rails,
fat pieces Of iron spiked down to the
wooden beams laid along the track Every
now and then wheel of q car would tear
one end of rail loose and IL wonld fly up
through the bottom of the car and then
smash its way through, killing anybody
it struck and breaking the wool work of
the car alto pieces.
was an express messenger in those
days on "a road running between Cincin-
natl and Indianapolis. One day one of
these rails broke through my car, struck
my safe, aud then came squirming and
twisting 1ikea snake at me. ivried to
dodge it, but it seemed to bend all over
the car in a second, and 1t caught my
breeches tearing them clear off one leg.
If it had struck my body would have
been nailed to the roof by it, as it went
ON out that way. Sometimes these broken
rails threw the train off the track, but
generally the cars bowled merrily along
over the break, and the passengers were
so accustomed to being shaken up that
they didn't know that anything extraor-
dinary had happened until some one told
them. m.-Joseph Temple in Globe-Demo-
prat
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-30

The Listener witnessed recently an In
teresting little oeremony-the removal OF
three charges from an old revolver, which
had been borne, and evidently used, by
an officer on the field Of Cedar Creek, ON
Oct 10, 1864. On that day, Capt. G. f.
W, of the Thirtieth Massachusetts,,
had, as he charged with his company the
stone wall behind which the Confederates
were entrenched, drawn this old five
shooter, of the most approved ante war
type, which looks about as much like the
ordinary Colt or Smith e. Wesson of this
day as revolutionary firelock does like
the latest pattern Of magazine rife. The
revolver was loaded, but the captain had
discharged two shots from 1t. Then he
was himself shot through the heart, and
fell. The men pushed on; the Confeder-
ates were driven from their position, and
defeat turned into victory butwhen Gen.
Sheridan rode before the reformed line,
and complimented the troops upon their
bravery, the gallant captain lay back
upon the field, among the dead and
wounded.
His revolver, with the remaining three
charges in it, was sent home tohis family,
and from that day to this the charges re-
mained in 1t, like sheathed weapon ready
for service. Occasion had arisen, how
ever, to pass the old pistol on TO a still
younger hand, and it was deemed best to
draw the old charges at last. So the three
percussion caps, that looked as old fash
ioned as flint lock itself 20 this genera
ton, were removed. The bullets, with
their paper cartridges, were carefully
drawn; and the powder fell out of them,
some Of it as bright and doubtless as
energetic, if one were to test 1t, as when
the captain loaded his revolver before the
battle Of Cedar Creek. To one who was
there, the sight of those old cartridges
must have brought back a grim and NOV
ing spectacle of as gallant charge as the
war had known. - Boston Transcript
"Listener"