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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-03
LANDLORDS TRICKS
Lowering u Tenants Rent as a Special
Favor to Him,


Talking Of moving day reminds me
Of a trick that the spectators in Nat
buldi7gS and dwellings resort to IN
Kew York said a resident of that eliy
to a st. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter
You know there are lots Of men
there who make a business Of putting
up houses only to sell They build
Cat house, fiji it with tenants as last
- they can, and then while 1t is fun
sell it at a good profit.
They resort to all sorts Of tricks
20 gct tenants They give one aud two
morfn- rem free in some cases and
,~,ake reductions that are astonishing.
,ou uay SO IL month and get a re-
CENT for $50 or So The landlord
makes Il appear that he is fayoring a
tenant IN doing this, but when that ten
ant becomes acquainted with her neigh
bors she finds out that they are all
favored iu the same way, receipts being
made ont 10 each largely in excess OF
the rent paid
The landlord has au object in this.
a lIAh HNNnf WnH r'I'A I'e'tt'is '' f''''
York. and nc old landlord, in giving
motto. 10 his tenants, handed each %
su OF money that was the difference
bets cen the rent they actually paid and
the amount hey got receipts for tell
lng them to add thi- 10 their regular
rent when The Now landlord came
around and TO say nothing about the
matter. bat quietly pay the higher rent.
a tenant paying S25 n month received
81 TO be- added SO that the new land
lord would think be was paying S32
DO You seef
The game was flmsy one, and its
weakness lay I'm the fact that TO an
intelligent person it was not only
swiudlc upon the purchaser Of the
house, who would thus be made to be-
lievc that the revenue from the property
was larger than IT was in reality, but
It was virtually placing the tenant on
q new rent footing; it was raising the
rent that much under the new land
lord The game IS the same as that
practlced by the man who has "a saloon
with a good paying business to sell,
and, when the purchaser is around,
has a lot of tramps and friends TO
patronize the place freely, SO that it
viii look as II the shop had q lively,
rushing trade.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-03
WAS ONLY A CONVICT.
Rough Man Who Took a Peculiar Fancy
to the Keepers Daughter.


A sharp turn in the railroad track,
Ia rocky mountain side group Of
whitewashed cabins clustered at the
top Half way down the steep bank
IA guard is pacing back and forth on
a ledge Of rock, keeping watch over the
the gang of men who are working be-
low with piCS-aN and shovel One of
the latter rests for a moment upon his
pick ana glanceS eXpeetantly no the
bank He is only convict His stripes
proclaim it loudly After a time a lit
tie child makes her way down the path.
As she catches sight Of him she stops
and laughs gleefulIy. "Dack, baby find
90, Dack' and she scrambleS down
till Jack reaches and swings her TO the
track, says the Detroit Free Press. Jack
resumes his labor and the child stays
contentedly by, now picking up bright
flower for him to look Mt or putting
her little ear to the track to see if she
can hear the big horse" coming, and
again coming TO the man to pat his hand
contidincly. 700 dood, Dack; baby love
90"
Tears are in the mans eyes as he
answers the little one: NO, Jack is
not a good man. baby. he's Il bad man.
q very bad man. But no amount DC
persuasion can convince the child, and
She continues her allegiance to him,
while he is her loyal vasSal
Jack had been enc of ,he toughest
and most unrulv in the crew till Baby
BeSs. the daughter Of one Of the keep
erS. had come She seemed to take 4
peculiar fancy 80 him from the first.
and one Of the first words in her lisping
vocabulary was "Dack.' on his of
hours he constituted himself her nurse
and guardian, and many ana wonderful
We're the toys which ha Whitfield fer
her amusement As soon rs she could
walk she would t0ddln % whore be was
ait work, and az shutdown he would car
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-03
THE USEFUL PEANUT.
Few Crops Are Easier to Raise Than
the .GOOber


New York Independent: The goo
ber' industry of Norfolk, is unique
Here is the little city in Virginia that
has become the greatest distributing
center Of peanuts in the world A pea.
nut is a pretty small item, but an an.
nual crop of something like 100000
bushels, worth millions of dollars,
makes a pretty big item The demand
for COOLERS has doubled within the
last five years, and the supply does not
yet fill the growing demand.
Few people know the curious uses
to which the goober has been put in
trade quite Of late years No other
single plant raised in this country is
used in so many different and remark
able ways. The Chinese say that the
cocoanut palm has as many useful
properties as there are days in the
year The goober is not so UNIVERSAL
as that; but it has as many valuable
qualities as there are days in the week
The solid part Of the nut is peculiarly
nuuitive, and supplies fruit and food
for many a family The vines make
fine fodder some say as good as clo-
yer hay, while hogs fatten on what is
left in the fields after the crop has been
gathered
If you grind the nut you get sweet
quality Of flour, with which the house
wife makes delicious biscuit If you
squeeze it you obtain Il valuable oil.
resembling olive oil, and used for sim
liar purposes. This oil also enters
largely into the manufacture Of the bet
ter grade of soaps. The kernels are
roasted for coffee. The roasted kernels
are also used in the manufacture Of
some kinds Of chocolate The confec.
toner helps to ruin our digestion IN
boyhood days with peanut candy; the
Georgia cook alone knows how to make
a rich pastry Of pounded peanuts. The
artist, with paint brush, silks and satinS
creates novel and beautiful peanut or
naments; so that peanut dolls and other
curios my now be seen in the shop win
dows Of New York, especially around
the holidays. These are some Of the
ways in which the leguminOus nut Is
useful to us.
The goober is grown more or less
in all of the southern states. The bulk
of our supply comes from Virginia
North Carolina and Georgia. Down
south these edible nuts are called
COOLERS or "pindars." They are not
known as peanuts; and the farmers
would probably think that you meant
something else if you called them by
that name. Now that the demand is
and good prices are obtained
more growers are going into the bust
ness every year Few crops are easier
to raise than the goober. 1t is a hard!
prolific plant, and requires no more
care and attention than crop Of poIa-
toes
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-03

The astronomer is a man who can
telescope when he sees oue.-Roehes-
ter PostENpreSs.
Jagsou says the average college stu
dent needs less toot and more tutor
lElmira Gazette.
The devil never knows exactly what
to do with the man he cannot discoF
age-lRam's Horn.
The most effective preachers are noI
always those who Wear long-talied
coatS-lRam'S Horn.
Women certainly have room enough
i'm these times. to laugh in their sleeves.
PUCK
Gladys-AIy mind is made up, wv
an-Thanbs, dear I know the rest ''
YOU was fHarvard Tampoon.
When the goat tackled the can q ~
Mantle YOU ought to have seen lhe
butter fly Binghanton Leader
Clerk-S1 would like to get OF y
bury my aunt" Employer e's
well hut don't let it occur asall
IR9ymoud's Monthly.
Clara-T ann afraid this silk wals. Y
mine won't wear Maude-Why not
/ didn't suppose there was q chance 4
any 81 your waists wearing ous-t =
roit Free Press
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-03

stood smiling, he sententiously remark
ed, Rattllng good finish.
= AS my Jockey friends left the room
and entered the carriage lie whispered
Back my mount for the Chester cup
next week l did; it won.-London
Tid-Bits.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19

mill company which had bought ex-
tensive tracts of land in Georgia, and
the younger, Col CORTLAND, was the
consulting surveyor and engineer for the
company. Drummond's opinions were
a good deal affected by sectional preju-
dice and a self-satisfed and righteous ig-
norance of the actual conditions and linn
itations of the people with whom he was
to deal, while the younger man. who had
served through the war with distinc-
ton. retained soldiers respect and
esteem for his late antagonists, with a
conscientious and thoughtful observa-
ton of their character. Although he
had resigned from the army, the fact
that he had previously graduated at
West Point with high honors had given
him preferment in the technical ap-
pointment, and his knowledge of the
country and its people made him val
liable counselor. And it was a fact
that the country people had preferred
this soldier, with whom they had once
personally grappled, to the capitalist
they had never seen during the strug-
gle.
The train rolled slowly through the
woods; SO slowly that the fragrant pine
smoke from the engine still hung round
the windows of the cars. Gradually
the ''clearings" became larger; they
saw the distant white wooden colon
nades of some planters house. looking
still opulent and pretentious, although
the fence of its Enclosure had broken
gaps, and the gate wagged on its single
hinge.
m ~ONrrNYyRn1
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
The Charge Against Him.

whats the charge, officer?" asked
the justice as the prisoner was brought
before him.
"Well, yer honor" said the officer, II
saw this man an another disputin' on
a corner about where they'd go, an
this Teller says to the other, says he
Come wild me- and the other says:
Not in a thousand years Then this
Teller tries to argue wild the other, an
when he tells him again to come along
wild him an he won't do it, why this
Teller hits the other over the head Wild
big club"
.'Kill him?" asked the justice.
mo, but it lays him out senseless
wild big lump on his head"
''Um, well, that's q pretty serious
matter" said the justice. whats the
charge assault and battery?"
'sWorse'n that" replied the officer.
Assault with intent to kill?"
sWore'n that. Cause of the way he
acted, yer honor, I charges him wild i'm
personatin' an oficer."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19

Syrup

am farmer at EdOm, Texas. l
have used German Syrup for six
years successfully for Sore Throat,
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Pains in
Chest and Lungs and Splitting up Of
Blood. I have tried many kinds of
Cough Syrups in my time, but let
me say to anyone wanting such
Northumberland Syrupis the best.
We are subject to so many sudden
changes from cold to hot, damp
weather here, but in families where
German Syrup is used there is little
trouble from colds. John F. tones. q
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
g. BRET HARTE
COPYRIGHT. 1889. or TIE AUTHUR.

again a rising and falling medley Of
Tapping hats, tossing horses heads and
shining steel appeared for an instant,
advancing unanimously up the slope.
But the apparition was as instantly
cloven by fame from the two nearest
guns, and went down in a gush OF
smoke and roar of sound. So level was
the delivery and SO close the impact
that space seemed suddenly cleared
between, in which the whirling of the
shattered remnants of the charging
cavalry was distinctly seen, and the
shouts and oaths of the inextricably
struggling mass became plain and ar
ticulate. Then a gunner serving the
nearest piece suddenly dropped his
swab and seized a carbine. For out of
the whirling confusion before them 4
single rider was seen galloping furi-
ously towards the gun.
The red-capped young officer rode for
ward and knocked upward the gunner's
weapon with his sword. For in that
rapid glance he had seen that the riders
reins were hanging loosely on the neck
of his horse, who WITS still dashing for
ward with the acquired impetus of the
charge. and that the youthful figure of
the rider, wearing the stripes of a lieu
tenant, although still erect, exercised no
control over the animal. The face was
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
He Had His Measure.

Mr.. p. 81. Winston and Hon. II. A..
Gillian were for years leaders at the
BERTHE county IN. CO. bar, and had each
q full appreciation, from experience.
of the skill of the other. At one term
Mr.. Winston was suddenly called away,
and placed his business in the hands of
his nephew, Duncan Winston, q recent
acquisition to the bar.
'Now," said he, Duncan, if Gillian
makes you any offer Of q compromise,
decline it. If you make him one. and
you find he is about to accept, with
draw it immediately Bag.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19

and photograph in his hand. gazing ABB
stractedly after him. The smoke had
rolled quite away from the fields on the
left. but still hung heavily down the
south on the heels of the flying cavalry.
A long bugle call swelled up unsteady
from below The freed sun caught the
white flags of two field hospitals in the
woods and glanced TRANQUILITY on the
broad. cypress-fringed, lazy-fowing
and cruel but beautiful Southern river,
which had all unseen crept so s4ilingly
that morning through the very heart of
the battle.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
ITO BE CONTINUED
CALIFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY.

Made by Three Mon Who Were Bufying
the Body OF Fourth.
Gold was discovered in California in
1918 and in Colorado in 1858. The dis
covery was accidental in both cases,
and the fact created the impression that
mines were ''lying around loose" Ad-
venturers drifted about in hope of
stumbling upon mine" MIR. Thayer.
in his .'Marvels of the New West" men
tons several instances of lucky ''stumb-
ling" Three men, while looking for
gold in California, discovered the dead
body of a man who evidently had been
prospecting" ''Poor fellow!" said one
of the trio. "He has passed in his
checks!" Lets give him decent
burial" said another. ''Some wife or
mother will be glad if ever she knows
it." They began to dig grave. Three
feet below the surface they discovered
signs of gold. The stranger was buried
in another place and where they had
located grave they opened gold mine.
An adventurer who had drifted into
Leadville awoke one morning without
food or money. He went out and shot
a deer, which in its dying agonies
kicked up the dirt and disclosed signs
of gold. The poor man staked out
s.claim" and opened one Of the most
profitable mines ever worked in Lead
Vile. dead Man Claim" the name
given to another rich mine in Leadville,
was discovered by a broken-down miner
while digging a grave. A miner died
when there were several feet of snow
on the ground. His comrades laid his
body in a snowbank and hired man
for twenty dollars to dig grave. The
gravedigger, after three days absence.
was found digging a mine instead of
grave. While excavating he had struck
gold. Forgetting the corpse and his
bargain, he thought only of the fact
that he had struck it rich
But these ''stumblings" are excep-
lions to the rule that mines are found
by painstaking, intelligent prospectors.
They spend wearisome months in ex-
ploring mountains and gulches. They
are mineralogists, biologists, and. above
all, practical explorers, who can tell
from ''twist' in the grain of the rock
or from the color of a spar seam wheth-
er paying gold" can be mined in the
region.-Chicago Herald.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19

Wits ito husband. whose loud snor-
ing keeps her awake)-Charlie, Charlie,
do stop snoring! Turn over on your
side (Nudges him.
Husband, only half awake, grunts
turns on his side and continues to
snore-
Wife has a happy idea Remembers
a line from an article called: "How to
Prevent Snoring" Gives her husband
a second nudge, which ELECTS another
grunt "Oh, Charlie, if you'd keep
your mouth shut you'd be all right"
Charlie (still semi-conscious) So
would you.-BOSton Globe.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
Tn No Mood for sympathy.

The milkman gathered himself up
from the ruins of his demolished
wagon, scraped the whitish-gray mud
from his clothing, smoothed out the
dents in his hat, wiped from his whisk-
ers the dripping fluid that had drenched
his face when the catastrophe came,
gave one glance at the runaway horse
disappearing down the street, surveyed
the dirty-white puddles that represent
ed his stock in trade, and turned to the
crowd.
IAN I've got to say" he observed.
rolling up his coat sleeves and speaking
in the tone of man accustomed to call
ing cattle, lis that the first son-of-a'
gun that says a word about it's being
no use crying over split milk is going
to get his blamed head punched''-Chi'
cago Tribune.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19

ready crushed, beaten down and tram
pied out of all semblance of its former
solitude. The heavy, springless jolt of
gun carriage and caisson had deeply cut
through the middle track, the hoofs OF
crowding cavalry had struck down and
shredded the wayside vines and bushes
to bury them under cloud of follow
ing dust, and the dull. plunging double
quick of infantry had trodden out this
hideous ruin into one dusty level chaos.
Along that rudely-widened highway,
useless muskets, torn accoutrements,
knapsacks, caps and articles of clothing
were scattered, with here and there the
larger wrecks of brolsen-down wagons,
roughly thrown aside into the ditch to
make way for the living current. For two
hours the greater part of an army corps
had passed and repassed that way, but,
coming or going. always with faces
turned eagerly towards an open slope
on the right which ran parallel to the
lane. And yet nothing was to be seen
there. For two hours a gray and blue
Hsh cloud, rent and shaken with explO-
sion after explosion, but always closing
and thickening after each discharge,
was all that had met their eyes. New
ertheless, into this ominous cloud solid
moving masses of gray or blue had that
snorning melted away, or emerged
from it only as scattered fragments that
crept, crawled, ran or chung together in
In the rolling vapor.
For the last half hour, also, the
desolated track had stretched empty
and deserted While there was no
cessation of the rafting. cracking and
explosions on the fateful slope beyond,
It had still been silent. Once or twice
1t had been crossed by timid, hurrying
wings, and frightened and hesitating
little feet, or later by skulkers and
stragglers from the main column who
had boldly entered it from the hedges
and bushes where they had been creep
ing and hiding. Suddenly prolonged
yell from the hidden slope bcyond-the
nearest sound that had yet been heard
from that ominous distance sent them
to cover again. 1t was followed by the
furious galloping of horses in the lane.
and handsome red-capped officer, &C
'companied by an orderly. dashed down
the track, wheeled, leaped the hedge,
rode out on the slope and halted. In
another instant cloud of dust came
-whirling down the lane after him. Out
of it strained the heavy shoulders and
frightened chain traces of SIX frantic
horses dragging the swaying gun that
in this tempest of motion alone seemed
passive and helpless with an awful
iforcknowledge of its power. AS in
obedience to a signal from the officer it
crashed through the hedge after him, a
sudden jolt threw an artillery man
from the timber before the wheel. A
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19

ognized stations and villages. some
times at the apparition of straw-hat-
ted and linen-coated natives in the
solitude of pine woods, where, after a
decent interval of CHEEKY conversation
with the conductor and engineer, it
either took the stranger on board, or
relieved him of his parcel, letter,
basket, or even the vocal message with
which he was charged. Much OF the
way lay through pine barren and
swampy woods which had never
been cleared or cultivated; much
through decayed settlements and
ruined villages that had remained
unchanged since the war-whose last
gun had been fired three years before.
There were vestiges of the severity of a
former military occupation. the black
ened timbers of railway bridges, still I'M
repaired: and along the line of certain
memorable march, sections of iron rails
taken from the torn up track. roasted
in bonfires and bent while red-hot
around The trunks of trees, were still to
be seen. These mementOes OF defeat,
seemed to neither excite revenge, nor
the energy to remove them; the dull
apathy which had succeeded the days
of hysterical passion and CONFUSION
still fingered; even the slow improve
ment that could be detected was
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
short But Effective Oratory.

Police Magistrate-Prisoner, the case
against you is clear enough. You seem
to be q chronic loafer and deadbeat.
Have you anything to say in your own
behalf?
Surly Vagrant-Reckon not, jedge.
You don't Expect me to do no fine talk
in, do ye?
Police Magistrate-No. I'll attend
to that. Fifteen dollars and costs.
Committed until paid. Next!-Chicago
Tribune.
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19


driver glanced back on the tense chain
and hesitated. go on" yelled the
PROSTATE man, and the wheel went
over him. Another and another gun
followed out of the dust cloud, until
the whole battery had deployed on the
slope. Before the dust cloud had fairly
settled, the falling back Of the painting
horses with their drivers gave mo-
imentary glimpse of the nearest gun
already in position and OF the four
~erect figures beside it. The yell that
seemed to have evoked this sudden ap-
partition again sounded nearer; a
binding flash broke from the gun,
which was instantly hidden by the
closing group around it; and deafen-
ing crash with the high ringing OF
metal ran down the lane. A column Of
white wocicg. smoke arose as another
dash broke beside it. This was quickly
followed by another and another. with
a response from the gun first fired. unit
the whole slope shook and thundered
And the smoke, no longer white and
woolly. but darkening and thickening a
with unburnt grains Of guupowder
mingled into the one ominous vapor
and driving along the lane hid even tn
slope from view.
The yelling had ceased. but the grind
ing AID rafting heard through the de
donation of guns seemed nearer still
and Suddenly there was shower
leaves and twigs from the lowe
branches of chestnut tree near tn
broken hedge As. the smoke thinne
The Globe-republican., 1893-05-19
The Rich Mans Philosophy.

Blande Sitting in his comfortable
apartment)-HowI pity the poor such
q night as this.
Bluff-Then why don't you put on
your coat and 60 out and see if you
cannot render assistance to some of
them?
Blande-Ah! Then shouldn't be so
comfortable as l am now and might
forget the poor and begin to pity my
self. That would be selfish, you know.
Boston Transcript.