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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
MY LAST CIGAR.

One Christians my mother invited
her children to her home to spend the
day. l went and enjoyed the last
Christmas | ever spent with her. After
ENJOYING a real good old fashioned
Christmas dinner l went out doors to
smoke an extra large and fine Havana,
which a friend had given me a few
days before for a christmas Day
smoke" l found the flavor fine, but
the tobacco was much stronger than l
was accustomed to, SO that when only
o third of it was smoked l found myself
quite dizzy, and compelled to cease
operations, though l had used the weed
ten years.
So I let the fire go out, and after the
dizziness passed off l went back into
mothers presence with the unlit cigar
between my teeth. AS l entered mo-
ther looked up and said my son, l
wish you would do something today
that you will in the future always be
glad you did do upon this Christmas
Day, will be of permanent good to you
through your remaining life, and
make your mother happy as we'll"
Name it, mother, replied.
Throw that cigar into the stove and
never smoke another, or use the vile
weed in any way; it is a slow but sure
poison, besides being an expensive
habit"
l took out the cigar from my mouth,
looked at it, asked myself, can l leave
off smoking then I looked over to
mothers chair; her eyes were closed,
but her lips moved and | felt that mo-
ther was lifting up her heart to God
for me, and the words came to me,
my grace is sufficient" and instantly
| raised the stove lid and threw in my
Havana, and said:
"Mother, l will do it."
"You will never regret it," she said,
and tears of joy ran down her cheeks.
And / am happy to say / have never
regretted it. The great wonder to me
today is how l ever could consent to
have endured the slavery of tobacco
ten years. Having been a free man
fifteen years I have come to despise to-
bacco in every form in which men use
it. And how a father can use the vile
weed, and encourage his children to
use it, as thousands do in our State, is
one of the most astonishing things to
me, and one of the saddost things l en-
counter. And l hope Christian women
will wage their war upon tobacco as
well as upon rum until it is banished
from every home. Mothers, do your
duty! Fathers, do it by example, as
well as by precept, and then the evil
will be stamped out, because there is
no influence so powerful with a son as
a fathers and mother 3. Christian at
Wy -
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21

have not heard a word. But there is
not always need of words to tell a
story. The deed is homely in alls its
details and done to one of the lowliest
of Gods creatures, but the heart that
dictates it is filled with 1.-The greatest
thing in the world, pa desire to help
herfellow beings. -Philadelphia Times.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
Rucklan Ar,,ca

The best salve In the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, ~chilblains
corns and all skin eruptions, and positive.
ly cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25 cents pei
box. For sale BY +. f.. BrittOn.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
PINEY FLATS.

Hoods Pills cure liver ills, .jundice, bill
ious ness, sick headache, constipation.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
FROM MY WINDOW.

Across the street is q handsome resi-
dence, the home of refinement and
wealth. AS | look out of my window
the door opens and a sweet faced girl
of the age where the brook and river
meet" comes out and stands upon the
porch. Along the sidewalk trudges an
old negro woman, feeble and bent, with
a basket of vegetables upon her head.
AS she approaches the house a great
dog runs by and with a loud bark at
the decrepit figure, frigbtens her and
she stands aside. The basket loses its
balance and falls to the ground, scat
tering its contents about. With pain
full movement the old woman bends to
gather up her property. In an instant
the young girl. whom she had not seen
before, is at her side with proffers of
help. Servants are at hand to do the
girls bidding, but she does not stop to
call them. With her own dainty
fingers she restores the vegetables to
the bashet, while the old woman looks
on in mute surprise. A brief CONVEX
sation ensues and the girl returns to
the house. Again the door opens and
a servant comes out and carries the
basket inside. When she comes back,
accompanied by the girl, the basket is
empty of vegetables, but filled to the
brim with brown paper parcels, sug-
gestive of tea, coffee, sugar and other
edibles for the comfort of the old and
feeble. Then a glittering heapof silver
drops from the soft white hands into
the knotted black ones; the latter are
lifted to call down a blessing, and the
girl smiles and returns to the house,
while the old woman plods thankfully
homeward. 1t is all pantomime. l
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.

l honestly believe that o young man
who starts out in this life with a fixed
principle, whether it be that he will
not drink, smoke or indulge in any
thing which in his heart he feels is not
good for him, or in which he does not
conscientiOusly believe, and adheres to
that principle, no matter under what
circumstances he may be placed, holds
in his hand one of the most powerful
elements of success in the world today.
There is a great deal of common sense
abroad in this world of ours, and a
Young man with a good principle is al
ways safe to Depend upon it. The men
and women in this world whose friend
ships are worth having are the men and
women who have principles them
selves, and respect them in others, es-
pecially when they find them in o
young awkward w. Box.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21

different sections presents most striking
evidence Of the superiority of industry
and intelligence over natural advan-
tages in the fundamental and all i'm
portant industry of agriculture. In the
average yield Of wheat and corn the
rugged States Of New England make a
better showing than Kansas and Iowa,
two of the banner farming States of
the rich and easily titled Mississippi
Valley. In corr raising four of the
New England States report a higher
average yield than Kansas, and one of
them, New Hampshire, leads Iowa.
The average Of New Hampshire is a
triio higher than that of the two west
ern States. In wheat the yield per
acre in Iowa was beaten by every one
OF the New England States except
Rhode Island, and Maine and Vermont
exceeded the high average of Kansas.
The average of the two typical agricul-
tural States Of the Mississippi Valley
was abont seventeen and one half bush.
els to the acre in the census year, where
as 1t was about twenty bushels in New
England. On the other hand, Kansas
illustrates pretty well the results fol-
lowing the slovenly cultivation Of nat.
urally rich soil fructified BY a good eli.
mate. The average yield Of corn in
that State is less than n half as great
as 1t is in Iowa OF New Hampshire, and
is far below any part of New England,
while In wheat the Arkansas yield per
acre is only about one third of the New
England and Kansas average, and but
forty per cent. as high as in Iowa. 1t
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
ANCIENT RESERVOIRS IN AFRICA.
Remains Of the Ola system of Roman Ir-
rigatIon Works.

Rene de la Blanchere, who has gwen
twelve years to the study Of Roman
antiquities in North Africa, has just
made a report to the French Scientific
Society on the means employed by the
Romans to enable North Africa to sus-
tain a very large population. The
great difficulty was in sustaining the
productiyeness of the soil on account
of the very unequal distribution of the
rains, the country being almost wholly
without precipitation for months every
year. In order to remedy the incon-
venaence Of the torrential period. when
the country was flooded. and of the
subsequent drought for five months,
the Romans covered their African
provinces with network of hydraulic
structures. The principle which guild
ed the construction of these works
was that the water should not be left
to itself, but that Ell should be con-
trolled for the common good.
From the summit of the mountains
to the sea all the rain that fell was
seized upon, led here and there in
channels, and distributed over the
fields. In the smallest mountain ra-
vines stone dams were built to retain
the water. In the valleys other dams
arrested its progress down stream. By
that means the Romans prevented
great floods descending the mountains
at the time of heavy rains and retained
large part of the precipitation in the
higher reservoirs until such time as
the water thus preserved was needed.
At the entrance to each large valley
was a system of works which assured
not only the watering of that imme-
date region but conducted flowing
streams through many channels SO
that the surrounding earth could abb
sorb what was required. At the en-
trance of each large stream on plain
dam was built, generally to retain
the waters and prevent their sudden
invasion Of the plain before they were
required.
The system Of water reservoirs and
irrigation channels was established
over Roman Africa, and in all parts of
the country the remains of the ex-
pensiye works may be found. The
Romans were centuries in reaching
their system of water control and
supply. The works were i'm their pc
riod OF highest usefulness about the
third century Of our area. The civil
and religious wars that occurred later
led to their decadeuce, and finally, the
Arab invasion, together with the de-
foresting OF large parts Of the country,
completed the work of destruction.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
A rempernnec promoter.

One afternoon about 4 o'clock cen
tleman with rumpled tie and glazed
optic entered a certain Ann street sa-
loon and called for a palate agitator
with a little absiurhe in it. Then he
rested both elbows wearily on the bar.
Its top was of glass, laid upon some
dark green material
The inebriated one began to spin a
penny upon il.
suddenly a snake-like head evolved
itself from the dark green below the
glass. two tshy eyes met those OF the
iuebriate, and then the head slowly
faded back into the green.
This appariion was followed bv a
second something with a dozen or SO
of LEGS that bobbed into view several
times and vanished quite as thorough
IN as its predecessor.
The man stood spinning the penny
and covertly pinchjHg himself
Suddenly a tau-juch alligator ma
terializei below che glass and The man
rlgtcle3 att
With d ~ ggle of its tail it disappear
ed 50 did the man.
"Gea >aij .he bartender. "a the in
ebyia,a slammed the door behind him.
-them aquarium bar, is tau-a on
jaL> j.. 4. Comm raf.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
"Other-Pants" Dodge Didn't Go.

A rough-dressed man with his
sleeves rolled up and CRIME on his
face rushed into the only saloon in a
ranch settlement in Texas and excited
~ exclaimed, with his eyes fairly
starting from his head:
For Gods sake, bartender. give me
lot of whisky to drink I've been
bitten by scorpion"
Gracious! is that SOP" said the bar
tender, sizing him up without any ex-
element where did it happen5s
Il belong to the bridge gang down
here and it crawled out from under a
heavy piece of timber, But for heav-
ems sake hurry up or I'll die
yes che dern things usually STAY
in sach places" said the saloonkeeper
sadly, as though he regretted not
learning something new. Where did
it bite you?"
"On the wrist, exclaimed the man,
right before your eyes if you don't
give me that whisky"
is the sun shiuing?' calmly quer-
led the saloonkeeper, as he looked out
Of the door. yes it is. Well, the
bite IS not nearly so bad when the sun
is shining Don't suppose you have
any money!"
Good heavens, would you let man
die Of a scorpion bite just because he
has no money!" cried She man, with
misery in every feature. MY money
is in my other pants at the car"
Guess you'd better 90 back and get
your other pants" said the saloon
keeper, and the scorpion-bite man
went out saying many ugly things,
while the hard-hearted man explained;
'Spect I'll make a mistake some Of
these days and some fellow will die on
the floor in front of the bar But
they come in too regular with snake,
tarantula and scorpion bites and none
have died yet. Guess I'll take a few
more chances. "-DctroH Aelc8.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11

was not 10 be laughed at lie was. to
these semi-admirers. an unknown
quantity, and while they were all anx-
ious for some Opportunity to present
itself in which be would show what he
was made Of, yet not one of them
cared to furnish the looked for chance.
"The man who did the snarling was,
perhaps, the only man in the select
clique that hung around the saloon
where the quarrel finally materialized
who did not believe that the tender
foot had any nerve, and be never
missed an opportunity to intimate as
much. On the night in question the
two men had been unusually spite
full, and it was a cinch that there
would be trouble before the daylight
broke in.
FINALLY the old-timer made re-
mark to the other that there was no
installing. 1t meant business. The
young fellow heard it, and, without
moving a hand, announced to the 9TH
er that he had heard the remark and
that he had proposition 60 make.
The crowd was in the right humor
and the boy was allowed to 90 on.
He said that he was a tenderfoot
He was aware Of H., he declared. and
he felt sorry, but he also said that if
the other would give HIM a fair show
he would fight him. Then he made
what was considered a remarkable
proposition. He asked his antagonist
10 lay aside his gear, TO make no PLAYS,
but to issue him challenge to battle
royal He had he said, conscientious
scruples against being the agpressor
in quarrel, but he was perfectly will
ing to 'r the square thing when the
showdo.el came.
"WotL after much parley the big
fellow agreed to the deal and the chal-
lenge was issued. The boy at once
accepted it, named guns as the weap-
ons, the place the saloon and the time
right then. But his condition under
which the duel was to be fought was
the remarkable part Of it, He insisted
that he and his opponent should stand
face to face, with the toes Of their
right boots touching Their guns
were be be in their belts, and 1T the
word they were to drawand lire There
could be only one result IL was
daring proposal, but whether il was a
bluff or not was never known The
other crawished, bought all the liquor
ON hand and apologized, and the out
come If it was that the two men be-
came partners. But nobody in Dead
wood ever intimated again that the
young fellow was lacking nnerve. lie
showed that he had something about
him. - LMLnLlu ML--- lcLnn.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11

lar bull dog. No amount Of coaUng
or beating had any effect upon the
brute. The man suffered excruciat-
ing agony, but it was not until heated
iron was applied to the dog that he
could be forced to relinquish his hold.
The brute was killed, the mans wounds
were cauterized, but unfortunately the
use of his arm was impaired by the in
jury and is to this day.
This story was related to a breeder
Of bull dogs recently, and the question
was asked him what a man was to do
in case of an attack from a bull dog.
He replied as follows:
"a bull dog gives little warning of
an attack, but he always jumps high.
That Is one good point to remember.
If man knows that he is to approach
a strange cog he should provide him
self with newspaper and matches. A
bit Of blazing paper thrust in the face
Of bull dog will make him jump
through a plate glass window.
"If dog springs for a man the lat
ter should guard his face with his arm
and try to meet the animal with his
forearm. With the right hand he
should attempt to catch one Of the ami
mails front paws. The PAW Of a bull
dog is ultra sensitive. Ii it can be
caught. a vigorous squeeze will make
The animal howl for mercy and retire
discomfted The quickest way to re-
lease a person from the jaws Of bull
dog, if he is unfortunate enough to be
bitten, is by catching the dogs hind
paw, in the center of which is an ex-
ceedingly tender spot called the heart.
This should be pressed, or, even bet
ter, the paw taken into the mouth and
bitten with the teeth The dog will
relinquish the hold at once 1t is a
desperate remedy but a sure one, and
one that is resorted to by the profess
sional dog fighters. ~ T. Herald
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
Snakes as Objects of veneration.

The snake is an object of great re,
spect among all unciyilized peoples.
and the deadlier his power the deeper
the reverence for him. The Pueblos
often protect in their houses an
esteemed and harmless serpent about
five or six feet long as q mouse-trap;
and these quiet mOusers keep down
the little pests much more effectively
than a cat, for they can follow s4ce-id.
deb to the ultimate corner Of his hole
But while all snakes are to be treat
ed well, the Pueblo holds the rattle
snake actually sacred. 1t is. except
the piehUcUQtc Ga real asp, the only
venomous reptile in the Southwest
and the only one diguilied by a place
among the "Irues. The cb'-Qh-rah-
rah-deh is not really worshiped by the
Pueblos, but they believe it one Of the
sacred animals which are useful to the
Trues, and ascribe to it wonderful
powers. Up to generation AGO j.
played in the marvellous and difficult
superstitions of this people a much
more important part than it does now;
and every Pueblo town used to main
tain a huge rattlcsnake, which was
kept in a sacred room, and with great
solemnity fed once a year. My own
pueblo of leleta used to support a
sacred RATHER in the volcanic caves Of
the Corro del Aire, but it escaped five
years ago, and the patient search Of
the officials failed to recover it. Very
truthful old men here have told me
that it was nearly as large around as
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11

In the next, it has been shown cor,
cinsively that be was pirate. and thai
he belonged to one of the most marc;'
less bands that ever scuttled a shin
Later on in life Columbus was sbip.
wrecked on the shores Of Spain. ana
he was induced By circumstances -
give up his piratical profession ana
marry. 1t is freely charged that in
the New World be plundered the Ind
ians in order to satisfy the rapacity ~
his patrons in Spain, and he also bs-
came slave trader. In short Colur,.
bus was the product of his time. 2 A
not much better or worse than tba
rest Of his contemporaries.
The attempt of one of his critics
Mr.. Justin Winsor, to make him ont !.
mean-spirited creature, however. fan,
entirely to the ground The man Who
conceived the bold project of Saline
round the world of waters, penetratinS
that mysterious and illimitable ocean
and continuing until he came to India
on the other side, was no coward. Il
was the most adventurous contention
that has in all the centuries dawued
uPoH VIC HiluU Va man. anu IL Will Tor
ever vindicate Columbus from the
charge of craven spirit. No matter
how many dark crimes he was engaged
in in that dark age, no matter how
many Indians he sold into captivity
that splendid dream of adventure
which resulted in the discovery Of
America, will always entitle him to Be
ranked among the worlds greatest
men. MempdjS Appeal-AUalancde
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
was Columbus a Plrate2

The sunday school idea - Christie
pher Columbus has recently Suffered
considerable muGlation. The fact
that We are soon tocelebrate the lJ1tb
anniversary Of the discovery Of Amer
ica has naturally set the historians
fresh upon the trail Of the great dis
coyerer. New sources of historical i'm
formation have been found in the
archives Of Europe; and instead Of be-
ing sanity individual who proceed
ell 70 discover this country IN the
most approved Sunday school litera-
ture plan. Columbus was a. Wild 4
blade as ever sailed the seas over. Ia
the hrsi place it IS very doubtful
whether Columbus .as bis real name.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
GUARDING AGAINST BULL DOGS,
II They Catch Hold OF Man They Are
There for Keeps.

Bull dogs are at one aud the same
time the most aiTectiouate and Zero
cious of animals One of the species
will guard with its life the person or
property Of its master from either act
ual or fancied danger This last qual-
ity has lea Is some very unfortunate
affairs which might have been pre-
vented by proper care or knowledge OF
the creatures habits.
such I'm instance occurred m brooN-
lyp recently. 4 gentleman owning
tine bull dog invited a FREUD TO IN
spect him. The two proceeded to the
carriage house, che dog was released
ana his fire points admired. We2r'ed
Of this. the II end espYiaE a set oil box
inc gloves invited the host to o trieno.N
set-to. The challenge Was accepted
the gloves were dOrued and the TWO
men raised their hands in tho attitude
OF defense.
The stranger led for his opponent 5
face. Scarcely had his arm shot out
when the bull dog, suspecfing danger
sprang quick a. lash and buried ms
teeth In the mans forearm There y
tradition. and it seems we'll borne
out til fact that when bull dog onee
fastens his teeth iii either man or aea9t
his laws lock and they can be Sc-<es-y
priea apart with an instrument
such w.s the case with this pArilcn-