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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
Anecdote of Kipling.

There is a funny story about Rud-
yard Kipling, who, it is said is about
to marry a pretty American lady from
Pittsburg. He works overmuch at his
profession, and the other day he was
sent away by his physicians to take
little sea tri, around the coast The
company was rather mixed and casual
aboard his ship, but one of his secrets
of power is to fraternize and study at
first hand all types of humanity He
became decidedly popular at the end
of his first day out, and was invited to
join some game in which the rules
necessitated the giving of each players
name. And what may yours be?n
was demanded of the young author,
who replied, with becoming modesty.
that it was Rudyard Kipling, state
ment greeted by shouts of derisiye
laughter. That's good onem they
cried; you'll tell US you're William
Shakespeare next and from that mo-
ment he was called "Kipling' with a
sarcastic emphasis meant to be wither-
i'm, which filled him with delighted
amusement.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

Il will cost you nothing and will
surely do you good, if you have a
cough, cold, or any trouble with
throat, chest or lungs. Dr. Kings
New Discovery for consumption,
coughs and colds is guaranteed to
give relief, or money will be paid
back. Sufferers from La Grippe
found it just the thing and under
its use had speedy aud perfect
recovery. Try q sample bottle at
our expense and learn for yourself
just how good a thing it is. Trial
bottles free at w. II. Prideaux's
drug store. Large size so cents and
500.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
4 Grizzly Bear Ss3ry.

Two Of the best known bunts.
California are the two Aris-Ari ..
per, father and son. Of the Sierra-
San Rafael. The father shutters drs- Gs
fully, and the son is giant wi,L
voice like Il bull of Bashan. wbicb
a he will he can not moderate ygi,t
out roar. Whenever the son bella,
out a favorite story the father maros,'
up and down exclaiming as the clinass
is reached: "B-b-boy you lille. "a
kn-kn-know you lie. " ''O
They were hunting in the San Rat,
mountains and had driven two gri-.
lies down steep, narrow path h
plateau that ended in a sheer nrs,;
piCe on the edge of which stood
small tree. The bears were sepsrate5
and the son following one drove him
up the path, leaving the father =
tackle his on the plateau. After
chase which ended in his grizzly oa,'
ting away from him, Ari HOOPER n
returned to the plateau. As he cana
down the path, this is what he saws h
saw:
Thar war the old man up tree
and so taken up with the bar that h
never even noticed his only son. Hed
elum out on the limb of that tree over
the precipice, aud Mr.. Grizzly was an
the same limb, reaching carefully ia,
him with his paw. Every time he
stuck his fist out the Old man would
jab it with his bowie knife and saw
e back, g'back you pesky fool; id.
don't you see if you c-c-come any fl.
fu'ther, the l-l-lumb'll break and XIX.
kill US bothP'
Right here the old man always ex.
plodes, and never gives his bov a
chance to tell truthfully how he man
aged to control his laughter long
enough to pick off, the bear with bis
rifle Youths Companion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

it will take on Senator Stewards
bill for the free coinage Of silver.
Present indications are that it will
be favorably reported.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
and all rest of the postal officials re
gard the decision Of the Supreme
Court in favor of the constitution
a!ity of the anti-lottery law as a
great help to them in the fight they
have been making upon various
lottery men for the violation of
that law.
Silver and the tariff are not the
only things about which there are
serious differences OF opinion Il tie
Democratic ranks in Congress.
Representative Bowers, Of California,
gave the "peanut" Democracy a
scoring on the floor of the House
last week and told them some dis
agreeable truths. He said the peo-
pie of the West wanted appropria-
tions for the improvement of their
rivers an harbors, for the erection
Of necessary public buildings, and
for the survey of the unsurveyed
lands of settlers. He warned the
Democratic party that its present
policy, if persisted in, would GER
tainly result in defeat at the coming
Presidential election and that the
party which took a cent nickel as
the measure of the American peo-
pie, as the Democrats propose TO do,
would certainly get left. The ad
vice was thrown away as "niggardi-
ness" has been adopted As the
Democratic motto. =
The Democrats on the III ouse post
office committee have decided to
favorably report the bill for the re-
peal of the mail subsidy act of the
last Congress, but it is not certain
that the bill will pass the House, a S
there are quite a number of Demo
Gratis in the present House who
worked and voted for the bill last
year because they recognized the
necessity of extending better foreign
mail facilities to our great com
mercial interests.
Representative Holman's sweep
ing order to the chairman of House
committees having appropriation
bills in hand, to cut down the
estimates of the Secretary of the
Treasury twenty per cent. regardless
of necessities, is specimen of
Democratic craftsmanship.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
1t Is Our Aim

to keep fully abreast with the times,
and to do so we shall continue to
keep the largest stock of the gerry
best Of everything in the grocery
line to be found in this section. If
you are not a customer and conse-
quently not acquainted with the
merits of our goods, we desire
To Get You
to begin at once to trade - our
store. We are satisfied that our
goods will please, as it has always
been, and shall continue to be, our
aim to furnish only the purest and
choicest of everything.
To Patronize
us is to practically 60 with the
crowd, which embraces the most
careful buyers in this vicinity.
Start the New Year right by resolv.
ing to contine your trading to
The Cash Grocery House.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
Cough Following the Grfp.

Many persons, who have recover
ed from la grippe are now troubled
with persistent cough. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy will promptly
loosen this cough and relieve the
lungs, effecting a permanent cure in
a very short time. % and so cent
bottles for sale by w. II. Prideaux.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

The Democratic newspapers say
that the withdrawal Of Blaiee is a
great relief, AZ he would have been
the strongest Republican candidate
for President.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Feb. 5. lsl

" AOANH ~ N+s We - +@"-f
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, for eight
years the sole and only Mumbo
Jumbo OF that combination of odds
and ends known as the Democratic
party, has been effectually deposed
by the Hill-Gorman- Brce- Tammany
com binatiou, aud last week this
once mighty mogul passed through
Washington on his way home from
the South, spending nearly an hour
at the railroad station, and not one
single individual took the trouble
to 90 there 10 meet him, although
his coming was well-known. Such
incidents as this, small though it be
Of itself, tell more than columns of
labored argument. Had the Demo
Gratis in Congress not regarded Mr.
Cleveland as a political back.number
they would have crowded that rail
road station topay him their respects.
Secretary Blaine was conspicu-
GUS figure at the diplomatic dinner
given last week by the President
and Mrs. Harrison, and his cordial
greeting of Senior Mont, the Chilian
Minister, who was one Of the guests,
was an answer to the sensational
stories about the personal relations
existing between the two men.
The "gag rule" of the last House
which the Democrats for two years
exhausted the vocabulary Of abusive
epithets in describing, has been
under different name adopted by
the Democrats of the present
House as a part of the code of rules
under which the House will do bust
ness, or, judging by the past two
months, do nothing, until March 4,
1898.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
holds every morning short con-
sultation with the four Assistant
Postmaster-Generals for the purpose
of discussing matters pertaining to
each of their divisions and giving
each other the benefit of their
mutual experience. 1t is an inuoya-
ton which is highly spoken of by
postal officials.
The Democrats in the House are
as much afraid Of a caucus as they
are of the truth. The caucus which
was last week called to meet tonight
for the purpose of discussing and
deciding, if possible, the Demo
cratic policy towards the numerous
bills which have been introduced
for the free coinage of silver, has
been abandoned, the leaders fearing
to hold it lest the threatened split
| in their party should become stern
reality.
Reciprocity with Germany was
formally proclaimed by the Presi-
dents proclamation issued last
week. The Democrats continue TO
publicly sneer At reciprocity and
| privately admit it to be boom to
/ the commercial and agricultural in
terests of the United States.
The committee to decide upon
site for the proposed equestrian
statue Of Gen. Sherman has selected
the lot just South Of the Treasury
department. The committee expects
an appropriation of $4,000 from
Congress, which with the money on
hand will make sum sufficient TO
make the statue one Of the finest in
the city.
The Senate Finance committee
will next week decide what action
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

THE letter OF James G. Blaine,
dated Feb. 9th, peremptorily an
nouucing that his name will not be
presented to the Republican Nation
al Convention for the presidential
nomination is not surprise. All
the circumstances of the case aud
the political situation rendered il
necessary that some declaration of
his intentions should be made.
Those best advised as to the facts
expected that this declaration, when
it should come, would he in the
nature of an absolute withdrawal
from The field. There is not an.
other man whose name has been
associated in the popular mind with
the nomination from whom any
declaration was regarded as neces
sary. But Mr. Blaine's great
popularity, his eminence in public
life, the prominence given him
through the presidential booms
manufactured in his behalf and the
strength Of his claims on the Re
publican party formed a crisis
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

THE surviving veterans of the
Black Hawk War will hold their
annual reunion at Lena this year.
Last year but a few dozen old men
from Illinois and Wisconsin were
at the meeting.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

IT is understood that there are
several men wanting the Republican
nomination for Governor who have
not shown themselves yet on tie
outside of the woods.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
Gerrymandering-Michigandering.

1t is not unconstitutional, it is not
contrary to the general spirit of our
Government, for the States to pro-
vide that Presidential Electors shall
be chosen in the several congress
ional districts. 1t is provided in
the Constitution of the United
States that the Presidential Elec-
tors shall be chosen in such a way
as each State may provide. They
may be chosen by the State Legis-
latures, or by popular vote of the
entire State, or by congressional
districts, or in any Other way that
may be directed. The Michigan
plan is not unconstitutional nor in
any way a violation of the general
rights of all the States and all the
people.
The only question is that the
Presidential Electors shall be chosen
by fair expression of the popular
will at the ballot-box. If all the
States should be equitably appor-
toned as to congressional districts,
and if the votes in each district
should be honestly cast, counted
and canvassed, there could be no
objection to a plan for choosing the
Electors by congressional districts,
or by the Legislatures of the States.
The trouble is that the will of the
people is not manifested if congress
ional district elections shall prevail
in gerrymandered States, and if the
votes shall not be honestly cast and
counted.
There are not less than forty or
fifty districts at the South which
ought to elect Republican members
Of Congress and Republican Presi-
Dental Electors if that system
should prevail. Republicans would
be elected in that number of dis
tricts but for baljot.box frauds aud
outrages. If those elections should
be held honestly for Presidential
Electors there could be no fair
objections to the congressional dis
trict system. If States were honest
Inv apporuoned as to legislative
districts 50 that the will Of the
Legislature would be the popular
will honestly expressed, there could
be no reasonable objection to the
Legislative system.
The only thing is that if we can
have honest elections, there Is not
so much matter as TO how they are
held or what is the result Chicago
Journal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
Winter Excursions to Warmer Chimes.

Excursion Tickets to Mexico,
California, Georgia, North Carolina,
Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, Hot
Springs of Arkansas, and Excelsior
Springs of Missouri, now on sale
by Agents of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee Il St. Paul Railway. Apply
for rates and other information to
the nearest Agent, or address Geo.
H. Heafford, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

SAYS the Toledo Blade of Tues
day: "If it we're possible TO drive
the logic Of facts into the brain Of
free trader aud thus GUST the ttoo-
retieal folly with which it has been
stuffed, the reports of our foreign
trade for 1891 would do it," Uufor-
tunately it is not possible; all eff.
forts, all the logic of trade, have
failed TO get a fact "into the brain
of free trader" and probably al
ways will.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

Gov BoYD's refusal to shake
hands with ex.Gov. Thayer at the1
transfer Of the governorship Of
Nebraska in obedience to the de.
cisiou of the supreme court of the
United States does not compare
well with his predecessors manly
bearing throughout the guberna
torial difficulty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

KANSAS is the state that gave us
Mrs. Lease. Kansas is the hot-bed
of the Farmers Alliance. here
are twenty-five newspapers in Kan
sas that are edited by women.
Kansas is in some respects a great
state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13
Mortified Star

Fancy Patent -four is acknowledged
without an equal. 1915 per hu1-
dred DAVID JAcRo.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

IT is a curious fact that the Dem
ocrats in Republican States all
want Cleveland. The Democrats in
Democratic States all want Hill.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

The Democratic decency of New
York is up in arms against the
foray Of Hill 10 capturethe national
delegates of that State, as he
captured the Legislature. But re-
sistance probably will prove useless.
The grip Of lammany, in the per-
son of Hill, is not easily released.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-02-13

FREE!with each cake of Eastman's
Royal Arbutus Toilet Soap, beau
tiful hand mirror, at Prideaux's
Drug store.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
a JIAUNT TO THE ROCKIES.

As the first days Of summer come. the ulles-
ton naturally arises among tourists and pleas
urc seekers, where shall we spend our vaca-
ton If map of either the IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE or MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY is
at hand, a glance over it gives you the answer,
"IN THE REGION OF THE ROCKIES -
Your mind is made as to location. Now the
selection of the route is the next matter of i'm
portance. The IRON MISSOURI
PACIFIC LINES offer the choice of two routes
famed summer resorts of Colorado, Utah and
the Rocky Mountains, via. Little Rock, Fort
Smith and the WAGNER ROUTE, and via
Short Line" Through Pullman Buffet sIeepin"
Cars, st. Louis to Kansas City, Pueblo, COlOra.
do Springs and Denver; Through Pullman Buff
fet Sleeping Cars, via Missouri Pacific and I'm
ion Pacific Railways, st. Louis to Denver, Chey.
enne, Ogden and Salt Lake City. For further
particulars, call OF write Companys Agent, ST.
Louis, for rates, routes or Sleeping Car berths
and beautifully illustrated and descriptive
uamnlllet
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
The Republican Nominees.

The Convention at Minneapolis ha.
put forth formidable ticket. The fact
is too plain to excuse doubt about it
The Democratic party may Just as vel
| buckle on its armOr and otherwise pre-
| pare for the greatest battle Of modern
! times.
We are not of those who arc inclined
to underrate the strength of the enemy.
On the contrary, we believe we discover
many reasons why it should be consid
cred formidable.
The Republican party is we'll organ
lied. Its issues are boldly presented
and its candidates have been cautiously
selected with reference to them. Not
so with the Democratic party. Its
members are everywhere scattered into
fragments. The West makes the Silver
question paramount, the East the Tariff,
while the South is expected to support
theoretical principles at the ballot box,
and to support Others in congressional
legislation. There are many protesting
State Democratic faith, who in nation
al politics are republicans. The out
put and outcome Of such state of
things can hardly be counted on, as
favoring of any one known candidate.
We believe that Cleveland is the choice
of the majority of Democrats. He made
us an excellent President and would
doubtless do so again, but he is well
known to oppose Protective Tariff!
He stands A. 1. with the othodox Dem
ocrats, measured by the time honored |
standards of the party, but he repudi- |
ltes the system of silver coinage now
zealously advocated by thousands of
Western Democrats and all the Farm
srs' Alliance. Again he is strongly an
by Hill, and that simple fact
9ndangers his ability to carry his own
State, New York. The distracted con-
Iition of the Democratic party in some
# the Southern States, even if finally
djusted, must necessarily leave scars
'ehind it. The nomination of White
aw Reid and bis recognized merit and
opularity in the great State of New
'ork, will be hard to overcome. We
light add other reasons for our belief
hat the Democratic party has great
nd arduous work before it, it 1t would
lcceed.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
u. S. District CouIt.

The serious Illness of Judge Boarman
caused failure Of this term of the
Cour:. There was quite lengthy
docket, both civil and criminal, but moth
ing could be done with it. Jurors and wit
nesses were prompt in their attendance,
and accused parties were in some in
stances anxious to have a hearing. The
L. S. District Attorney, Elsner and
Clerk Beattie, as well as Vigncaux,
Marshal, were each at his post. The
community felt disappointed by the ab-
sence of Judge Boarman. We learn
with regret that he was quite i'll, and
that his condition is such that he may
be unable to attend to business for
long time. He has won the esteem of
the bar, and of the community here,
and we trust that his restoration to
good health may prove moro speedy
than is at present anticipated by those
who know what his condition is.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Infanticide.

A colored woman named Josephine
Burr was brought here Oh Thursday
last and lodged in prison, under the
charge against her OF infanticide, al
legged to have been committed in Wash
iugton, ON last Monday morning. DR..
X. NJ. LittelI, coroner, held an inquest
aud the verdict of the jury was infanti
eide, caused by the wirul act of the
mother and grandmother, or by their
criminal neglect. II is as yet not ascer-
tanned whether the child was born dead
or not, but the facts demand iuvestiga-
ton, aud suspicion justified the verdict.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Died.

Another veteran gone. Louis Waiter,
native of France, came to Opelousas
A. D. 1866, and settled among us. He
never changed his residence from the
parish of st. Landry. Old age crept
upon bim and on Sunday morning last,
Juno 18th, at 6 o'clock, a. 10. having
reached the age of 70 years and 5
months, his light went out, and the old
man passed into the mysterious world.
The young may, but the aged must die
and 60 hence. In The course of our
humble journalism we have been forci-
bly, struck with the very large average
number of the old who lave died in
this town and parish. 1t is quite COM
mon to have to chronicle the demise of
persons who had reached years running
from 10 to 80. 1t argues much for the
of our locality, viewed from
q sanitary standpoint.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Harnlonized, Eth 1?

1t appears from the New Orleans dai
lies that some of the deed of sale hold
ers Of the Democratic party Of this
State, who are conveniently called pal
excellence leaders, have graciously met
and held q tctc-0-tfte consultation in
Baton Rouge, and that they have bar
gained, sold, transferred, conveyed and
delivered over to the Foster boilers all
their right, title, interest and demands
in and to the friends and supporters of
SD. McEnery-all the regular party Or
ganlzation of the Democratic party.
And we are further informed that the
I things and chattels thus conveyed are
confidently expected to surrender every
sense of right-to ignore all knowledge
! OF truth as to which faction was the reg
ular democratic party-and to yield
with humble submission to the transac-
ton. In other words, they have gra-
clously endeavOlcd to take the noun
tain to Mahomet. Thus it is made ap-
parent that the masses are believed to
be the subject of barter aud trade, in
the hands of the leaders. We remcm-
Der that when the Legislature passed the
revenue enabling act, the ants and the
farmers denounced it as having never |
been authorized by the people. viii
some one tell us who authorized the !
traders at Baton Rouge to sell out the !
regular democratic organization !
But in this little shuttle and deal
where do the farmers, those all con-
trolling and balancing regulators and
defenders of the general welfare, come
in? 1t appears that no cards were
dealt out to them; that they have no
share nor chance in the Jackpot. Be-
ing entirely ignored, the leaders con-
sentcd to a divvy, and everything, ey-
cry office was taken down. 1t turns out
that the farmers held ace high, the Nc
Eneryltes full on the deuce, and the
Foster bolters a flush on tie knave of
diamonds. Who would not be leader ?
But the deluded farmers they sat down
% the game with stake of honesty and
we're frozen out on the first pot. Farm
IFS, what next?
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

The two Democratic conventions
which met this week at Baton Rouge
have agreed to send compromise dele
cation to the nominating convention at
Chicago, half from the ranks of the
regulars and half from the ranks of the
boilers, and each body also selected
four candidates for presidential cleo
tors. The boilers, having the selection
of the elector from this (the SIXTH con-
grossional district, chose Sheriff Fontc-
not. To finally compose the differences
in tho party the McEnery Democrats
patriotically agreed to recognize the
Wilkinson State committee as its regu-
lar head, whose authority is to be obey
ed and respected by all Democrats, said
committee to be increased by the ap-
pointment of ten additional members to
be taken from tho ranks of the regu-
lars
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

The DEMOCRAT acknowledges receipt
uf an invitation from the Alumne AS
suciatiou of the Opelousas Female an
slitute to attend the banquet rendered
them by Mrs. NJ. NJ. Hayes, at the Insti-
tute, ON Friday evening, nth inst.
Toasts were Offered by Misses Cora
Truman, Addio NJ. Humble, Maud
White, Eunice Pharr, Stella Truman
aud Leola b. White, and by Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Hayes, Mrs. Ida Chachere and Mrs.
Mary Crawford. We regret our inabil-
ity to be present on the very interesting
occasion.