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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
I'm Dis Yere sin Cussed worl Of
Arkausaw Traveller.

The mayor of Louisville, upon neeting
an old negro, drew him aside, and in a
voice by no means gentle, thus addressed
him:
Handsome, I'm going to have you ar
rested.n
Chow come iatS"
"Wby, Tor having obtained money I'M
der false pretences."
IL amt done nothin' like dat, sab;
clar ter goodness / amt"
Didn't you come to me yesterday and
get dolarg"
eyes, sab"
"And didn't you say it was to pay the
funeral expenses of your sonf"
yes, sRh.'
"Well but you triAing scoundrel, l saw
your son on the street, just now"
"Huh.n
"Y9u know what l saidW
"Yas, sab: yas, but | didn't tell you de
boy wuz dead, did II"
Didn't tell me he was dead! You in
fernal idiot, old you suppose 1 thought
you were going to bury him aliveY"
NO, sab"
Then what do you mean by saying that
you didn't tell me he was dead"
Now, Ies hol' on, san; Jes walt er MN
it, Dat boy amt been IN good healf fur
er aung time, an KNOWN dat I'd halter
bury him sooner er later, Wy lowed dat
ia better raise de money durin' de busy
season when the folks want hard pressed.
Use mighty kline hearted dis way, sab;
monstus kine-hearted, but er man doan'
git no credit in dis yere worl o. sin fur
bein' kline hearted. An ergin, Use or
man dat dosn' blebe in putin off er
thing dat he knows is gotter be done.
Knows dat I'll halter bury dat chile
putty soon, and yere you come an
wsuter punish me fer takin' up de erca-
sion in time"
you old rascal, that boy is in excellent
health
"Who, dat chile? You doan' know dat
chile like / does, sab. Dat boy suffers
with the genstiop, but it's jest as l says,
er homes an kline hearted man doan' git
no credit in dis yere sin oussed worl."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
WHAT We SUBSlST UPON
Crops are Away Behind for This Time
Of the Year.
Cold, Worms and Rain Work Damage
in Many Localities.
July Weather is Depended Upon tC
Improve Matters.

WAsHINGroN.-The June crop returns
of the department of agriculture
make the increase in the area planted to
maise of about one and third million
acres, and the total over 100000. This
is only a preliminary estimate, subject
TO revision after the more thorough cen
sHs tests now in progress. The oondi-
tion of the crop 10 only medium and low
er than usual at this period of its devel-
opment. In the Ohio valley the condition
Is lower than elsewhere. Cut worms
have been very destructive in the West.
More advanced fields in this region,
which should have been cultivated four
times at this date, have only been
plowed twice. The crop is therefore late
and dependent on July weather for i'm.
provement, while it is exposed more than
usual to possible adverse conditions.
Maize of the northern border, from Wis
consin to Dakota, suffered from the alb
normal cold of May and early June, but
looks quite as well now as in the Ohio
valley. West of the Mississippi, in the
sub humid belt the crop is
generally in fine condition, though in
jured at points by overflows and excess
of moisture. The great American des-
ert is green with great American cereals
in high development. The general av-
erage condition is about 80 and the av
ersges of the principal states are: New
York, 80; Pennsylvania, So; Ohio, 81;
Michigan, 20; Indiana, 81; Illinois, 50;
Wisconsin, So; Minnesota, 81 Iowa, 50;
Missouri, go; Kansas, 80; N1braska, SO;
Dakota, SO.
The condition of winter wheat has well
sustained the general condition, standing
at 92. Former com plants of being
threatened by drouth are displaced by
the statement of some actual damage
from abundant rains. Occasional re-
ports of injury from the Hessian fly,
chinch bug, nudge and ruet are received,
but local estimates of the condition do
not indicate much damage. The average
condition of the principal states are:
New York, Sc; Pennsylvania, 90; Ohio,
So; Michigan, SO; Indi-na, 80; Illinois "a;
Missouri, "a; Kansas, SO.
Returns concerning spring wheat in
Dakota are very unfavorable from the
results of the long continued drouth.
The rains late in June had improved the
situation, but the general average, as CON
soidated, is 90. The averages of Wis
consin and Nebraska are each 90; Iowa,
81; Minnesota, 81.
The general average is about SO, which
is very low at this stage of growth.
Rye maintains its condition and barley
declines TO about 80.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
The Farm and Home.
THE CITY OF THE DEAD
RICHARD T. BURTON

They DO neither plight nor wed
In the ely e. The dead
In the city wucl' icy sleep away the hours;
But they lie while DER them range
Winter blight and summer change,
And a hundred happy whiaperiugs Of flowers,
No, they neither wed nor plight,
And the day is like The night
For their vision is Of other kind than ours.
They do neither sing nor sigh
10 the bursh II by and by
Where the streets have grasses growing cool and
long;
But they rest within their bed,
leaving all their thoughts unsaid,
Dee ming silence better FAR than sob or song.
No, they neither sigh nor sing,
Though the robin no a wing,
Though the leaves Of autumn march million
strong.
There is.ouly rest and peace in the city OF
surcease
From the falings and the wailings meath III,
sun;
And the wings Of the swift years
Beat but gently DER the bers,
Making music 10 the sleepers, every one.
There IS only peace and rest;
But 10 them It seemeth best
For they lie at ease. ami know that life Is done.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18

In Insect Life South Carolina cor
respondent gives a description of the
chinch bug As it appeared last year in
that state, together with his plan for
saving his corn crop. The bugs appear
on the small grain, wheat and osts, in
Nav. apd when these have been harvested
they 90 into the corn. They acquire
wings at four or i've weeks old and fly
away, but always leave host behind
them which stay until frost. Poughing
the corn as often as possible was found
to be the best method of checking them
as in that way great many are covered
up aud killed.
A correspondent in Missouri found
bis best protection in sowing a small
field of rye in the fall or early spring
pasture and turning stock on it IN the
spriug as soon as the bugs begin to fly,
which is toward the last of March, and
keeping it we'll grazed until nearly time
for young bugs to hatch out which is
about the goth of May. Then plough all
under, leaving nothing for the bugs TO
eat when they hatch out. Soon after
they are Matched they mustgo to eating,
and as at that stage they cgn only travel
few feet at the turtherest without a
meal, they are done. 1t is said that the
evidence is positive that grazing will
draw the bugs to the field, and while it
is not claimed that all the bugs will lay
their eggs in the grazed rye field and
none in the wheat, it is claimed that
grazing will draw them and vastly dim
inish the evil. Sowing strips of favored
food around a field as a means of draw
ing them where they can be ploughed
under, also sowing plants distasteful to
them around fields to be protected, are
among the many methods sometimes
used for combating these meets, 9th
ers are: Preventing migration from one
field to the other by pIoughing burrows
or bitches, burning, rolling, tamping
and spraying with kerosene emulsion
where practicable.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18

Should you have swarm issue, or
should you purchase one during a good
flow of honey it will be desirable TO hive
them upon five or six empty frames in the
brood department, contracting the hive
by use of division boards, ind placing the
sections over the frames at once. The
bess,s will, if large swarm, store money
IN the sections while the brood combs are
being built and occupied by the queen.
Do not put on too many sections at once,
and as fast Rs they are completed they
should be removed, and the others moved
up closer, filling ont the balance of the
space formerly occupied, with dummies.
Tha loss of bees Is very great during
honey storing, and as no young bees ma
ture into field workers from swarm
for thirty days after hiviug, it will be
seen that a number of bees in the hive
will decrease for that length of time,
aud to yet the best results of space al
lowed them must be decreased gradually,
also, until they have young field work
ers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18

earlier, and not until the ground has be-
come warm. II is best suited on light
soil, poor rather than rich, and requires
mineral fertilizers rather than nitrogen
our manures. By series of experiments
made at the New Jersey Experiment Sta
ton the conclusion was reached that
potash ia the element which exerts the
most marked effect upon the yield of
sorghum and upon the production OF
sugar. The making of sugar from sor-
ghum has been carried on for few years
on an extensive scale in New Jersey and
Kansas, and while many difficulties have
been encountered, the general result has
been encouraging. Il is also highly
recommended as forage plant. 1t seems
peculiarly we'll adapted TO regions too hot
and dry for the successful production of
Indian corn.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
Curing Clover

To determine the condition of partly
cured clover | have found much help IL
taking a half dozen stalks and twisting
them very tightly. The more or less Cor
none ALL sap that l can twist out shows
far better than the looks of the clover
how much it is cured. This has been
laughed at in these columns, but never
theless it is the best way | know of to
determine the condition of the stems,
They may be too full of sap to put into
the barn and still the hay appear quite
dry. / suspect | cure my clover more
than some. I do not care to handle an
extra ton of water on each acre, only to
have it sweat and steam in the NOV. Ii
seems as well 20 let the air take this
water while the hay is in the field, as
later, aud saves me useless lifting. BuE
| want the hay green enough so that 1t
will heat some so as to settle solidity.
It's easy to think and write about these
things, but 1t has taken many years OF
experience under varying circumstances
to make one feel anything like master
OF the olover-curiug businer, so do not
be discouraged If you cannot make good
hay the first time,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18

Many are the absurd transactions which
take place in banks, says tae Youths Com
panion, some of them showing an over
cautiousness in the care of money and
others, like the following, indicating an
amusing ignorance of its value.
A Georgia paper says that negro,
the fortunate possessor of valuable
house-lot, ore day sold his property for
$4,000.
He was gwen check for that amount
which was carried in due time to one
of the banks. The paying teller asked
him how much of the money he wanted IN
cash,
Il want all dat ar paper calls fur" re-
piled the negro.
"Wuat! You don't want $4,000 in
oashY"
"Yesso, sab"
AN right" answered the man, and in
minutes he began piling the money on
the counter.
As he laid the $500 packages on the
counter the negroes eyes grew larger and
larger Finally, when twenty OF the
packages had been placed before him,
he looked intently at them for moment
aud then, with broad grin on his face,
said;
us jist parslyzed! Gimme a dollar
ma half, n you kin keep de rest till /
call agln.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
How Andrew Jackson Dined.

When General Andrew jackson visited
Concord, \. H., after his Presidential
term had expired, he was entertained at
Cass' Hotel at that time the leading
hotel of the State. The proprietor wish.
ing to do honor to his distirg 1ished
guest, provided banquet and arranged
to serve it with considerable lie. With
the first course the General surprised the
waiter by ordering crackers and milk
and refused all other dishes, much to the
disgust of the hotel proprietor. Csss
Hotel was the great resort of stage driF.
ers, and it was st this hotel that Vice
President Nor on boarded when Young
man and engaged as clerk in the dry
goods business. One of thelesding mer-
chants Of Concord, now IN active business
was boarder at that hotel at that time
and occupied seat at the same table.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
How Royalty is Regarded.
North American Review.

1t is perfectly true that, if all the money
voted annually to all the various members
of the royal family we're distributed
among the poor of England, the national
distress would not be sensibly alleyiated.
But hungry people do not argue in that
way. They only see that enormous sums
of money are yearly paid to a certain
family, and they ask what that particular
family is doing to earn the money. In
London, at all events, the newspapers in
by far the largest circulation among the
poor are the radical Sunday papers, which
are always attacking and denouncug the
manner in which public money is laylshed
on the royal family. Take very diff
ferent sort of paper read by q very diff
ferent class; | mean my friend Mr.. La
bOuchere's Truth. Truth is high priced /;
it lies on drawing-room tables and club
tables; 1t is not read by the poor; it
is a society" paper altogether. Yet
it is constantly showing up the cost of
royalty, the sham offices created TO
crafty royalty's relatives and frienos
the waste of public money on royalty's
empty palaces and disused parks. Society
as | have said, is decidedly loyal; yet it
reads and perhaps quietly chuckles over
Mr.. Labouohere's remarks, all the same
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
Kerosene in the Poultry Yard.

The many uses that kerosene may be
put 10 in the poultry yard makes It an al
most indispensable article to be charged
to the expense account, and no other will
so enhance the profit of the poultry yard
as kerosene diligently and intelligently
used, For painting the inside of nest
boxes for sitting hens, there ia nothing
equal to il, as it kills all vermiu with
which it comes in contact, and prevents
other vermiu from entering the nest IN
I'll il Is entirely eyaporated, which, # the
crude oil Is used, VIII give the hen ample
time to hatch her brood, 4 few drops IN
the drinking water occasionally, Aas a
good effect upon the general health OF
the hock, and for colds or roup there Is
nothing better If carefully applied. Scaly
leg may be cured by sim ply wetting the
legs of the affected fowls occasionally
anj the crude OIL Is best in this case also,
a. it takes much longer time TO evapor-
ate. When the crude OIL is not readily
obtained, some kind OF heavy oil or grease
should be mixed with the kerosene to re
tard evaporation. A. a remedy for chDl-
era it has been very highly recommended
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
Poultry R0Osts
Eurnnr. MnrnLLnn-

The best roost5 FOR poultry house
are strips four inches wide and one inch
thick The fowls can roOst on these with
comfort to the feet. They shoald have a
clear space OF one foot between them,
and should all be on one level, and not
more thar one foot from the floor. When
they are make like ladder this fowls
fight to crowd TO the top, and when they
are nigh the hens are sometimes hurt by
coming heavily on the floor when flying
down. Young fowls should not roOst IN
til they are full grown. II is best TO
leave them in the coop when the hen
leaves them land they will stay there CON
fortably until the weather gets oold) or
are ready for tale. 1t is best to have a
seperate yard for chicks and hens when
they are in the coopa, so that they can
be fed without trouble from other fowls.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18


one of the aptest illustrations of cause
and tfect. one OF the best that "one
touch OF nature makes the whole world
KIN. was seen yesterday afternoon a.
clock on Broadway, near Twenty sixth
street 4 hack broke an axle, Topped
Gown, aud impedtd travel The crowd
gathered qui kiy, and shouts of derlslye
laugh or rolled through the sultry air as
one after another i've jet-biack women
and three bon hued children emerged
and stood in q row on the sidewalk. Just
then one quick eyed man saw baby
cotfiu, flower wreathed, ON the sea-.
Others saw it, Any more lau9hG Not a
laugh. The crowd melted ana silently
stDle away.
4 young farmer named VIM. Schwartz,
was found vi his throat cut from ear
10 ear in Blue Earth county, MINI. His
room mate is missing.
John Sodrrberk, who acoldently shot g
Miss Beck, at Chicago, Jolly 4 b, suioised
today by shooting himself with the same
revolver in Miss Beck'S presence,
The mayor Of Cincinnati has directed
| the police to enforce the Sunday Law 10y
arresting an proprietors who open their
stores on the sabbath. 5 rect cars will
be allowed 70 run and news papers are
eSsmpt from the proclamation.
An kind. Of crops about Marshdeld are
heavy, and u is expected the yield OF
wheat, oats, barley etc will exceed that
! Of last year
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18


A farmer may be hired by the year for
from S. to S14, with food clothing, head
shaving and tobacco. Those who work
By the day receive from S to 10 cents,
with MONDAY meal. At the planting
and harvesting OF rice, wages raise from
10 to 20 cents per day, with five meals, or
80 cents day without food. Few land
owners hire hands except for few days
during the planting and harvesting of
rice. Those who have more land than
they and their Sous can till, lease it to
tFeir ueighbors. Much land is held on
leases given by ancient proprietOrs to
olansmeu whose defendants now till il,
paying from 81 to Tl4 worth of rice an
uually for it's use. Food averages little
more than 81 month for each member
OF a farmers family. One Eho buys,
socks and eats his meals alone spends
from Il so to 81 a month upon the raw
material and fuel. Two pouni Is of rice,
costing three and a half cents, with rel
ishes OF salt ish, picked cabbage cheap
vegetables and fruits, costing a cent and
a half, is the ordinary allowance 20 each
lsoorer for each day. Abersethy's ad-
vice 70 luxurions patient: Live on six
pence a day and earn it, is followed by
nearly every Chinman. One or two de-
pendent relatives frequently share with
him the sixpence.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
WAKE YOUR OWN CANpY.
How Delicious Fruit Boubons Can be Quickly
Made.

How Delicious Fruit Boubons Can be Quickly
Made
Now is the Joyous season of the year
when, II you are only acquainted with
the precious secret OF their preparation,
you can make for yourself with ten min
utes' work candies more delicious than
were ever purchased at the most expea-
sive confectioner's. The Latter never has
this particular sort Of candies for sale
because they will not keep. But fresh
cooked, they ere morsels for the gods,
says the Philadelphia Record, aud this il
the way TO make them
Take some big Strawberries, ripe and
irm, and hull them. Then mix two cup
fulls % granulated sugar with a little
less than one cupful of cold water. Put
the mixture on a hot fire aud let it boil
hard, without stirring, until spoonful
dropped into cold water erystallizsd to
the brittle point Immediately. Now
tske it Oft the fire and pour it into cuos,
previously warmed in the oven. Dip
the strawberries one by one into this hot
solution as quickly as possible, fishing
them out with forks, and laying them on
CREASED tin pans.
The briefest sort Of an emersion will
be sufficient TO give each berry the de-
sired coating OF sugar candy. Finally,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
"Yelly Bad Woman
Youths Companion.

The ordinary Irish servant VIII.
leaves one mistress for another u,ocn ,-'
a paper character" to take alone vist
her; but Chinese servants, it seems Wy ~
an improvement on this. A ladv vbo ~ =,
long resided in California relates an e. ''a'
dote illustrative of the strong elanri..
feeling which prevails among the CHM
in this country. '''
had several Chinese oooks. One Aft.
another, and finally one of them w.,
away very abruptly so that I ref,,sed -
pay him full months wages.
His first successor spent only f.
hours in my house before he grsyely an,
nounced; "Me go; me no stay
The next two stayed one day each ana
then departed with the same brief EN-
phatic declaration. No. appeared oDi,s
satisfied for three days, but at the ana
of that time he, too, followed his preds-
cessors. In some concern l called on M
husbands office boy, bright Chimes
lad.
"Chin Foo" asked, "what is the mat
teri Chinaman no stay here"
"Au" be said, "me know maybe.g ana
he went into the kitchen, whittier I fol-
lowed him wholly preplexed. He looked
carefully all about, peered into pots and
kettles, upturned tubs aud buckets, lifted
lids, and turned over chairs, as if look
ing for something.
Finally he pushed the clock from ia
place and uttered cry of discovery.
"Lookee," he said, and pointed to a row
of Chinese hieroglyphics on the back Of
the clock.
Having had them translated, discoy
cred that Sing Lee, my dissatisfied cook
had left my condemnation behind him.
''She velly bad woman," he had written
'she no psyee."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
Inc sorghum Planf.

The Sorghum cane WAS introduced into
Europe from China and was brought 70
this country about 1854 or 1855. Il had
also been carried TO South Africa and Cen
trial America. Between 1850 and 1870
seed from South Africa and Central
America was brought 70 'he United States
and these, when planted side by side, be-
camt crops feruiized aud produced
numerous varieties, 50 that We now have
mauy distinct sorts Among the most
popular Is the early Amber, one Of the
frst 10 mature, and we'll adapted 20 north
ern latitutes on that account. 1t can be
grown wherever Indian corn will grow,
but should be planted later rather than
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
BRIEF DISPATCHES

WI Hopeson, under ten yesrs SEN
teuce for murder ~ Princeton, KY broke
Jail and cannot be found.
About fifteen persons were billed in q
collision at Wilmerding, Pa. Half the
number have been recovered
Twenty i've more bodies have been
taken from the coal nit az ST. E.isnne,
France, when the ext .vsion occurred last
week.
Another "Cooney, the Fox" has been
discovered at Albert Lea, MINI, bat the
Chicago police deny it is the Cconey
vented
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
Sneezing in Germany.

texas rllllukS.
Every nation has its peculiar customs.
When, for instance, in Germany person
sneezes, every body in the immediate vic.
unity of the sneezer says, solomly the
German equivalent for "Your very good
health" The custom is said TO have
originated during one of the plaques
which swept Europe in the middle ages
When a person is affected with the dread
disease sueezed it was regarded as an IN
falling Sign that the crisis of the disease
was past. There are q great many diff
ferent grades ofsociety in Germany, and
the friendly situation is never extended
to those of a lower social status. Ger
mar comic paper makes a good hit at
this snoboishness. An army officer,
mere civilian, and peasant are repre-
scented as sitting at the same table in q
beer garden. The officer sneezes, where
upon the civilian and peasant bow and
wish the sneezsr good health. Presently
the civilian sneezes. The officer is silent,
but the peasant extends his oongretula
tions. Finally the peasant, at the bottom
of the social ladder, sneezes, and the
other two, who are above him, do not ex-
press the slightest solicitude as to his
welfare.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-18
Care ofYoung stock

There is nothing on the farm that can
be neglected with so great loss, as a rule
as the young stock. The colts, pigs
calves, lambs, etc, need proper food in
the right quantity and in manner that
each separate one shall have just the
rations designed for it. The weaker ones
should alVaJs be fed apart from those OF
stronger growth. During the grazing
season it Is well to provide literally a
good supply of oats, bran, etc, so that
the effects of grass diet may be some
what counter balanced.