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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
A HEINOUS CRIME.

The Propensity to Proselyte Sternly Rebuked.
Rabbi Spitz, editor of the Jewish Voice,
again scores the perpetrators of what he
characterizes as can outrage" and the
stealing of soul:
Expressions of deepest indignation
were heard last week, Immediately after
the facts of the baptism on the Lederer
girl, related in our last issue, became
known, not only from the Jews, but also
from many Of our gentle brethren. But
the sequel TO this outrage is the culmin-
ating part of tine same. 1t is exactly "a
we had expected it; it is in full conso
nance with the we'll known practice OF the
Roman Catholic church, TO which nothing
is too sacred, when the stealing of soul
is within its reach. In the name OF relig
ion the most heinous crime-as we regard
it's permitted OF course,
the "sister" who has done the deed, is not
here now, aud as 20 the rest, why-who
cares? BIT we say: 1t is an outrage, and
these people will go on outragiug human
dignity, and trample under their feet the
hottest sentiments of men and women
who are as good as they are, to say the
least, but who honestly and conscien-
tiously differ with them in most essential
points of religion and faith. They will
go on setting themselves up as the self
authorized and self constituted rulers
over mems conscience until their nefari-
GUS practices will have sufficiently aroused
the self-respect of outraged humanity,
which will ultimately put stop to them.
What shall we now say of those so called
Israelites, who at an occasion like this
when Phinehas ben ELedzur ben Ahdron
ha. Kohen is sorely needed. shrug their
shoulders in supreme indifference; are
they really Israelitesf Is the blood of the
Macoabeans ooursing in their veins
Have they, in their perpetual hunting
after mammon, utterly forgotten the les
sons of the pastf Go on, brethren and
sisters, and send your children to Catho-
lie institutions
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
GOT MO TIE WRONG ROOM

The Ludicrous Experience Of Swede Who
could Not Speak English.
A Sgede who knew nv.hing of the En-
glish language went TO the government
building To get registered letter from
the postofhoe Several hundred appli-
cants for positions in the postal service
were crowding into the room where the
medical examinations of the civil service
commission we're being conducted, and
the Swede somehow fell into line. When
his turn came he was ushered into the
examining room. The doctor WAS in q
hurry and did not question him. He was
put on a scale and his weight taken;
placed under an NJ right and his height
recorded; his outer clothing was removed
and his body subjected to severe thump-
ing; he was made TO draw long breaths
and given further exercise before the OK
animation was finished. whats your
nameP asked the doctor. The Swede
presented the notification card sent him
by the registory department. An inter
prefer was summoned. A few minutes
conversation revealed to the Swede the
fact that mistake had been made, He
thought the postoflice authorities very
strict and supposed the medical exnmi-
nation was the custom of the country.
He was conducted TO the proper division.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11

NV York, April edwin Booth
with his valet, reached this city at 1880
tonight. Mr.. Booths physician met him
at the depot with carriage. Booth was
in good spirits though a little weak, and
did not seem to feel the long
ride from Rochester. The doctor
said. after examining the great
tragedieu, that he had suffered partial
stroke Of paralysis, which vas undoubt
eddy due to extensive smoking. He di.
rected the patient 10 remain IN doors
and enjoy a rest for few days. He
thought Mr.. Booth would be able to re
sumo his engagements.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
nnth Irteresting ana Suggestive.

In certain Boston family there is an
heirloom which Ia both interesting and in
these degenerate days most suggestive.
n il dover chest of carved OAK, not
wholly unlike-exoept that it is smaller
the chests in which Venetian brides Of
old USED 20 bestoW their wedding outfit.
This dover chest has been in the family
nearly century, and in it the eldest
daughter OF the family ia expected to
hoard the linen which she prepares
against the day OF her marriage, much
after the fashion Of German maidens.
The one condition att ached to the posses
sion Of the ohest il that the girl owning
ii shall, with her own hands, make every
article put into IL. The will of the first
owner provided that the chest should de-
soend only 10 daughters OF the house who
would, without assistance, do all the sew
ing on their outfit OF household linen.
Thus far the condition has been scrupu-
lousy observed; and thus far, also, each
owner OF the chest has, in passing 1t on,
left in II an elaborate piece of embroidered
table linen.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
Children and Machinery.


The progress OF invention has already
done much to increase the comfort OF life
oy cheapening its necessaries and making
many OF its luxnries more generally OBJ
talnable. In the near future, when the
folly of legislation to prevent the cheap
snlI & Of articles that ars or that ought
TO be generally used is recognized, as in
the near future it will be, these benefits
OF invention will be much more general
j felt thar now.
Ia the meantime this generation Is
experiencing the evils of all transition
periods. The last half of the nineteenth
century il above ali ages of history the
age Of machinery. Human ingenuity
stimulated by the hope of large rewards
luder patent laws, has not only increased
me productive power of machinery ten
aud hundred told, but has 90 simplihed
n hat machinery, every year, grows more
nearly automatic. Ii is not wild specu-
lAuon 10 look for yard 70 the time VIII an
productive machines will be virtually
a1tomsta. The are so nearly so now
mat the effect has been dIssstrous-a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
JUVENILE SAYINGS.

r;ttls Ruth was told that she must not
A. something that she was doing. Dear,
Seart, she exclaimed with sigh, "ghat's
- reason the mustn'tdos are so much
nicer than the Tuusto0sf"
Mother: "To think that my lit tie Ethe
.brnld have spoken 80 imp ertinently to
nsps to-day a: dinner. She never hears
ne talk in that way to him.. Ethel
I.toutly): "Well, but you ohoosej him,
and l didn't"
Tommy Creading); "And they walked
ont and saw the chickens in the up
Teacher: "Surely that is not there?'
,rornmv. "WatY Teacher: ain the soup"
Tcmmy: Eyes, it is, though; in the c,
double o, p, soup"
How did you get along at school to-
5sv. TomS" asked the old man at the
snnper table. papa, our physiology says
mat conversation at meals should be of
pleasant character" replied Tommy.
uIet's talk about the MINISTRIES.
Dickie, years old, had pair of boots
He cut one of them with his Ratchet.
The father became very angry ano ecoid.
81 him necessarily. The little fellow
looked his father in the face and said;
IF you don't stop talking you'll get me
mad, too"
An elder sister, who was talking TO a
snail brother the other day about the
evils of using slang, happened shortly
afterward to uss the word dictator"
you shouldn't say Dick later" said the
little purist, "you should say Richard
Potato"
"Wnl You have q piece of this nice
mince pie, Tommy" said Tommy's aunt,
with whom he was taking his dinner.
"PleAse, ma'am," replied the little fellow,
holding his plate; "but you might put
two pieces on now, mamma has taught
me never to pass my plate back for the
second piece"
A lady teacher was instructing q young
class in the meaning of different words,
principally by illustration. AT length the
word husband" was reached. To make
IL clearer for them she says: "Supposing
that / should get married, what would it
be that l would haveY" For few mo-
meuts their little heads we're busy trying
to comprehend what it would be, when
one bright little fellow with his oounte-
nance beaming with satisfaction at hav-
ing solved the problem, shouted out: "a
baby, ma'am.'
Elk Governor Rice's bright seven year
old son shows a tendency to profund
thought, such as might have delighted the
Concord School of Philosophy. Mrs.
Rice recently bought him some of that
curious old wood from New Bedford
which burns with blue flame. She burned
some for him, then hid the remainder
lest he should try to burn it in her alb
seuce aud set fire to the room or his
clothing. Entering the room suddenly
the other day she found him with piece
Of the wood in his band. why, where
did you get thatH How did you know
where it VAST" she inquired in surprise,
and was considerably overcome when the
little fellow replied with utmost sang
froid: miraculous intuition is not a
result of forethought."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11

child can run them. In fact children are
running them in increasing numbers
every year. In very many cases already,
little physical strength or intelligence is
required to supply the machine with
what it lacks of being en- attenuation.
As q result children become parts of
factory machinery and remain so during
the whole of the childhood that ought
TO be devoted to mental and physical
development
During the past week the head of the
Federal Labor Bareau published stats
tics showing the great extent of this evil
in the United States. 1t is not necessary
to quote them. This facts are so plain
that they are almost self -evident. When
machine OF great productive power has
been so sim ulited, has been brought so
near to running itself that g child of 10
years can run it, it is waste to employ
greater intelligence at greater cost than
the machine requires. 1t wastes money,
and moreover II wastes the intelligence
that made the machine. It is inevitable
that economy of production should en-
desvor TO check this wsstage.
The more serious matter is that il
wastes the child-that it will continue TO
do so as law of production until the
wastage is stopped by law of society.
IL is not choice between cheap goods
and cheap children. It is, on the con
ttary, absolutely necessary that children
should not be thus cheapened to supply
the demands of machinery. Tbs en-
ployment of children of tender years in
factories is already a crying evil. 1t will
increase unless checked, and ought to be
checked by laws, not passed to appease
"workingmen" with az appearance of
interest in them and of sympathy with
their views; but so passed as to be really
effective against danger that is too
great to be trifed with. Such laws will
hot increase the sost of production to
any spprecisble extent, and they will in
the long run result in further cheaper
ing of product by stimulating ingenuity
TO make machinery so much more nearly
automatic than IL is now that, though one
child and machine now do the work of
ten men, one man and ten machines
hereafter will be able TO do a hundred
times as much.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
Queen Nictoua's First Hoops.
PHILADELPHIA Telegraph.

The following anecdote is told to illus
trato the readiness with which Partisan
fashions are adopted, oven by the most
rigidly patriotic Of princessee. AZ the
epoch of the arrival of Quuen Victoria in
Paris in 1856, on visit 20 the emperor
and empress, the latter had iuet brought
hooped skirts into vogue. The queen
forthwith sent OFF a messenger to pur-
chase one for her, and on her next ap-
proach before her imperial host and
hostess her skirts were expanded into the
new and fashionable amplitude. But her
majesty had not Compounded the nee
essary methods OF tying tho tapes that
held the hoops in place and her crinoline
presented an extraordinary and shapeless
aspect. IL WAS the emperor himself who,
with his own imperial hands, set the re-
bellious petite oats TO rights and gave TO
his royal guest a lesson IA TO the proper
method OF donning the,new fashioned ad-
iunot of feminine costume.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
The Giant and Glantess Of Eden.

II. Henric0p, a member of the French
academy OF sciences, published work in
the year 17l8 large part of which was
given mp 20 the past and present oondi-
tions of the human family. In the course
OF his arguments he proves, TO his own
satisfaction at least, that we have gradu-
ally degenerated from colossal specimens
OF flesh and sinew to almost microscopic
speoks in comparison. The dignified po-
sition of the learned Honrieon demands
for HE views all due respect, but who of
the present generation could be induced
to believe that Adam, the first landlord
OF creation, WAS 1913 feet inches highf
Yet in the course of his reasoning he
proves this in a satisfactory way both to
himself and his colleague. Eve says
this learned Frenchman, twas a splendid
helpmate for her giant husband, but WAS
not nearly so tall, being but ilS feet
inches aud Q lines."- London Standard.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
Rubies and Volcanoes in Australia.

An Adelaide special says David Lind
say, the xplorer, returned from the Mac
donnell ranges on Saturday night. He
says that the men on the ruby fields
there number 300, but prospecting and
work of all kinds are at standstill owing
to the abseroe of rain. At Alice Springs
no rain has fallen since February. de -
confident that if rain fell rich miners
field would be opened up.
Mr.. Lindsay asserts that the statement
by Police Trooper Wiltshire about the
existence of an active volcano some two
hundred miles northwest of Alice Springs
is correct The blacks at Alice Springs
who oome from that part of the country
are so precise in their statements that
Mr.. Lindsay is sure there is volcano
there. The natives say hole in the
ground in that locality indicated is always
burning. 1t g.oris and throws up SAND
and stone. They do not care to talk
much OF it, asserting that ait is no good
black fellow did not make it."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
A New Religions Sect.

Some excitement has been caused In
the middle counties of South Carolina by
the advent OF new religious sect, whose
apostles have started out on a crusade.
Apostle Jenkins explains the new creed
as follows. "They believe IN three heav-
ems and three bells. Life on earth is
both heaven No. / and hell No. /. Then
there Is he'll and a heaven where people,
or rather their souls, stay between death
and judgment, and then permanent
heaven and hell Their views ~ TO orea-
tion, as set forth by Mr.. Jenkins, are
rather novel. He Cited the frat chapter
Of 81. John to prove that Jesus Christ
was present At the creation. He said that
Jesus and God were the only two beings
who could create something from moth
ing. The devil came from space, which
wab never created nor had IL beginning
The begin ming OF creation was for the
benetit Of GODS offspring. The souls OF
men, which we're not created by him, had
embryonic existence in God. Apostle
jenkins is from North Carolina. His
scot is known as "The True Lights" he
saya there are about two hundred True
Lights ia South Carolina aad few in
North Carolina and Georgia.-Rew York
Sun.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
In a Rural Store.

Female customer-"Got any sarghum
merlassesS"
Rural merchant--"Yes'm."
'Ais they good2"
"Yesm-tip top"
"Ain't all full o. settlin'sp
30, no; cl'sr ez lie"
"Made from this years crapf"
"Yes'm-Joe Higgins made 'em to his
mill, an Joe makes mighty good sar-
ghum."
"Well, let me taste 'em." She smells,
tastes and pokes her fng into them"
"Ain't they nicer" asks the merchant.
Purity fair. I've seed better an I've
seed wuss. How much air theyH'
Fifty cents gallon"
"Ain't that high fer 'emY"
"HighY It's dirt cheap. Ssrghum's
skeerce this fall"
why, / heerd it YVES uncommon plenty.
It's only forty cents a gallon down to
Eggville."
1T amt no sech sarg hum ez this"
ooh, yes, it is. liz'y Sharp got some
an l tasted it,"
81 reckon she TUX hull barl if she got
it fer that"
"Naw-she only got gallon. They
say it's comm down"
Comm downf Pm lookin' to see it six
bits gallon fore month"
"Pshaw! You amt"
"Yes, am"
You like to joke, don't your"
Il amt joking"
"Aw you storekeepers make out ez if
everything was gOIn' up"
well, ssrghum's bound to rise"
Fifty cents as cheap as you kin sell
thisg"
We'll, l might say forty fve-seein's
it's you"
well, III take a pint an a half a
pound O sugar an half ponnd o. coffee
an five cents with o. tea an a sig. You
kin throw in stick of candy for the
baby with a big bill like that, can't your
II dunno, mebbe so. Baby purity wellF''
"Tolabe smart; but he's teethin' an
they're comm hard"
II know how that goes, my young uns
git all their teeth hard. My Jimmy like
20 of died with his'n. Old man purity
smartfn
"Tolabel"
Nice day; amt i'll"
80 it's"
Anything else pow-ginger or cIo'es
pine or canLed peaches or crackers|
No, / reckon not. Good day"
Good DAY; come sgIn.'
Yes l will"
DO"
"Nil.n-Time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
Rrskin on the Leading Vice Of Our Age
Harper's Magazine.

harper S hdNaElut
He has, like Carlyle, whose disciple he
claims to be, boldly attacked the leading
vice of our age, which he would consider
TO be the predominance of the mereensry
end commercial spirit, and correspond
ing consequent lawlessness OF our ideals
of life. Against this persistent vicious
force nothing, however lofty, however
holy, can hold its ground in the estima
ton Of our msjorities as a chief incentive
to action. In his drastic manner he has
described this spirit OF cupidity in the
most powerful terms, but in none more
pithily than in the passage in Ears Clevi-
gera relating to the benevolence leading
TO railway enterprise: THE benevolrnce
involved in the construction of railway
amounts exactly to this much and DO
more-that if the British public we're
informed that engineers we're now col Fl
dent, after their practise in the Gents
and s.. Gothard tunnels, that they could
make railway TO hell, the British public
would instantly invest in the concern TO
any amount, and stop church building
all over the country for fear Of diminish
ing the dividends.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
ME AND BOB AND jim.
AnA STEWART 8 ELroN.

Yes, Sir, we're sailors children,
We live there by the sea,
And father went of with the fleet
A month ago may be-
And mother feels SO badly
To have him gone away,
II 'twasn't for US children here
think she'd cry all day.
You see there me and Bobby,
And then here's little Jim.
He always hangs back cause he's 'frait
That 70 ks viii speak 20 hum
He never knew his mother
She died SO long ago,
And then has father, too, was lost
In asst years awfal blow.
Aud father said as long AS
He'd sailors heart IN him
Nhate'd ava, surely be place
- sh-lter little Jim
He thinks he S on for truly.
And laughs ann acts so glad
When father com = you ought 70 see
Him hug, and cal him Dad.
But often in the summer
We children Lac 10 20
To where the little church-yard lies,
The sailors church, you know.
His mothers there, SO always
We put some flowers from jim,
We want hun 10 remember her,
Cause she remembers him.
when father sailed he told us
To watch for the new moon,
For when il hung there in the West
The fleet would be back soon
Last night we saw IL shining
AS bright as bright could be,
And mother SAYS the Lively Jane
VIII soon get in from sea
You see it's named for mother,
And father says he'd think,
a boat that had name like that
Would never want to sink
We've come back here to get some flowers
He loves the violets so.
The posies amt of much account
Down By the sea, you know.
So il you'll come and see us
The place amt hard 90 find,
The little brown house by the rocks,
he elf is just behind
And if the Lively Jane is in
With father-you'll see him,
But, anyway, you always can
Find me, and Bob and jim.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
rOAL ATSAMOA
The United states VIII Probably not Fsta6
usha Coal Station At Page Page.


Isha Goa Station At Page Pago.
WAsHrsoros - II is unlikely the
navy department will proceed 70 es-
tablish a naval station ~ the harbor Of
Pago Pago on the Samoan islands until
the Berlin inference conc udes t's work.
The last ooDgfess appropriated SlOo'OoO
for this pu,po.e and the money is nov
available, 5ut ~ 10 thought that any radi.
cal step in this iulc'ure might tend 10
ieopardze the success Of the conference.
Baaides coo tons Of coal that we're sent
90 Samoa on board the Monongahtlai
and which should be there BOW. The
ahin sachem, which sailed from hes
York fortnight ago carried 1000 tons
AZ should make the passage IN about %
dave. Four large rnss for the new
cruiser Charleston have been finished ~
the yard aud are now on their way 70 > an
Francisco. Their carriages will Be CON
,,l4ted IN two or three weeks and will DO
sent along i'm nedia'ely afterssrd.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11
He HIS Accepted

WAeHmoros III Ellie II. Roberts
has accepted the appointment as assist
ant treasurer at New York.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11

never seen him before, and that the etate-
ment WAS series of insane lies
Very well, said the stranger. trhey
can be easily proved 10 be true or false.
You can write what have SAID 70 the
Chief of Police in Bristol aud ask him to
Investigate. Here's th2 woman's ADDRESS.
1ou can get an answer by cable within
twelve days
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11

The poor American girl was in an AZ
ony Of REF and uncertainty, Mr.. Stock
ton took her into the other room, told
her that he had absolutely no authority
either TO detain her or Itoharof, but
pointed out 10 her kindly how irresistible
was the proof Of u 'charoff's previous bad
character and of his shameless deception
OF her. He urged her 20 give him, a.
consul, an ackno wledRment, making him
her guardian according 20 the law, she
being a stranger in a foreign city, and
thus be would be enabled 70 protect her
fully from her bigamous husband. To
this she consented aud Mr.. S Oektou took
the paper back to Y chariot.
Nov be said, II am the authorized
representative of Mics Billings, and il
you interfere Win her in any way will
have you pgnished.'
Zaehar0f stofmsd, but "a no avail aud
HE solicitations 10 Mise Billings we're re-
nelltd b. her. Moreover, his legal wife
and her brother looked vicious, aud he
uaa rot yet quite sure Of his standing
With the Holland poles. A. lat be made
the best OF the inevitable, and quite With
the air Of Dazzle in the play lsft the room
with a greeting to all those present, hav-
ing frat eIacted promise from Mr..
Stockton that his wife aud her brother
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-11

Female customer-"Got any sarghum
merlasses?n
Rural merchant-''Y es'm."
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-08-28
A Gang OF IIeeches.

Itinerant sales gentlemen and sales
ladies'! Astoria is full of them. From
the lady who enters the back kitchen
to sell the Bloom of YOUTH" the gen.
tlemen who rings the front door bell
to sell The Royal Path to Wealth; !"
the lady who wants you to pay S.
for the privilege of making alleged
bargains in Portland; from the gentle
man with the furniture polish, and all
other such ladies and gentlemen; oh
Lord deliver us!
There is a lady tiptoeing around
who is delivering private lectures on
How to make the office of census
taker a sinecure in the future" A
vlrtuous subscriber informs MS that
she ought to be suppressed" with
the accent on the pressed"
1t would be good thing for the
town if the whole gang could be got
md of They drain the community
of ready coin and do no good.
Some of them are liable to arrest
for peddling without license.