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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-09
Pianos AND ORGANS tuned or re.
paired. Leave orders at Hauscom's
book store.-32tf J. G. RRMFREy.


ABOUT mile down the railroad
track, beyond the city limits, is said
to be a favorite resort for Sunday
base ball players.
WIN. p. GUNDRY, with his sister
and nieces, have returned from their
tour of the lakes, and outing at
Mackinac Island, Mich.
CHAs. HANNUs, son of Lieut.. Gus.
Hannus of the U. S. Navy, located
at Brooklyn. n. X, is guest at the
home of VIM. A. Jones.
MISS NELLIE ROBINS, of Dodge
vile, has been visiting her friend,
Miss Winnie Williams, in this city
the past week.
JoHN WIEDENFELLER, one of
Mineral Points worthy sons, who is
now located at Ottumwa, Iowa, is
here visiting his parents and boy
hood friends.
No business was transacted at the
regular monthly meeting of our city
school board Monday evening, the
president and vice president both
being absent.
AFTER a two weeks vacation
pleasantly spent with friends at
Janesville and Ffeeport, Miss Phene
Engels has resumed her station at
Gundry d Gray's.
Mrs. A. G. BENNETT returned to
her home at Evanston, Ill.,, last Sat
urday, much improved in health,
after a three weeks visit with
friends in Mineral Point.
r. Nj. CHURcH-9:00 young mems
meeting; 1880 sermon by Mr.. John
Allen. 200 Sunday school; 1880
sermon by Mr.. Chubb, subject:
"The kings sleepless night.
Nix. VIM. TREMBoR and wife came
up from Freeport Saturday and
spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary
Priestley. Many friends regret that
they could not remain longer.
ONE of the finest rigs that went
out to Lindep from this city last
Wednesday, to witness the game of
ball, was that of Bob Matthews and
his colt. A good pair to draw to.
The republicans of Iowa county
can do no better than by nominating
John Francis, Of this city, for sheriff
One who would give honor to the
city from whence chosen and to the
republican party.
JACK CARKEEK, the wrestler, has
TcCcitSu a OtIuldu CiNll-bcTFlCe dp-
and will leave in few
days for his station in Berlin. Car
keek announces that he will never
appear on the mat again, but will |
stick to law and politics.
Mrs. KATHERINE BLOOM, a re-
spected former resident of Mineral
Point, now making her home with
a daughter in Kansas, is visiting
among relatives and old friends in
this vicinity.
The Iowa County Fair will be
held Wednesday, Thursday and Fri.
day, Aug. 30, 80, 81, at Dodgeville.
Greater attractions than ever before
have been prepared, and
success is merited.
WILL REYNOLDS and Ed. Brown
from behind the counters of J. j
Hanscom & Co. and Gundry IL Gray,
are off for weeks outing on the
Wisconsin river. They move by
morse and carriage.
JOHN ID. WILSON, of Boscobel,
candidate for attorney general be-
fore the republican state convention,
had his pocket picked on the sleep
ng car while returning home and
,eports $50 as his loss.
For bad breath, stomach de-
imperfect digestion,
constipation, nervousness, loss of
memory and numbness, take Prof.
Strassman's nerve and brain tonic.
For sale at the Pulford drug store.
AT the regular monthly meeting
If the common council, Tuesday
evening, allowance of miscellane-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-09
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

- vear tstrictly in advance l,... .25
so- three months and within one year.. $3.50
bn,sde of Iowa county.................. $50
a, mouths-in advance only y........."..........65
farce months-in advance only.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-09

The following is copy Of q
recommendation given me- BY DR..
Edward Martin, visiting surgeon to
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
Called to a Higher Life.

Today while the bright Octo-
Der sun is shining with al
all its magnificent splcndor, while
the sky is cloudless and ELL The
world seems full of quiet peac,
and beauty, there are many, many
sad hearts in Holly Springs. Out
in our beautiful cemetery we have
laid loved and honored friend
Gen. a, NJ. West, the aged faith
or of our much loved and faithful
white ribbon sister, Mrs. Carrie
West Smith. A long and useful
life has closed in "a triumphant
death.
For our bercaycd sister the W
G. T. L. of the whole State
will feel tender sympathy in this
dark hour and pray God to com
fort her aching heart.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
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And. besides, in the course eta year. VOICE
subscribers save dollars more than the price on
Tho name, nv the various special oilers maue'
from time 10 TINE, by the PubhShttS'
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
HON. TOM WATsgm'S BOOK

TITLE:
mot Revolt: 1t Is a Revolution.
CONTENTS:
Digest Of nj! Political Platforms for 100 years
History OF Parties in America.
History of Important Legislation.
Votes on important questions.
Discussion Of Peoples Party Principles
Discussion of the Pinkerton Militia.
Analysis Of the National Bank Law.
History of the Greenback -
Speeches of the Nine" in Congress on Free
Trade, Free Silver and other topics.
Speeches of Senators KYLE aud PETER.
Discussion OF the Sub Treasury flaa.
Discussion Of Railroad Standardization. -,
These and many other points ofinterest, inahYe
the book invaluable to all who wish to be posleu
An especial feature of the book Is that IL pio
tOgraphs this congress. its record, its measures,
that it Photographic the Old parties as they hie
today, ana riddles their slains and subterrhSes
Price 81 60. Address
NATIONAL WATCHMAN,
Is C street y. F.. Washington. ID e.,
Or, THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Raleigh, \. [.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
The sI.iH". & s1tYjg9s.

i ;naa kicked hi wife to death
Il lew days ago, in jersey City.
She was too i'll to sit ap; her four
little ones were hungry and cry
ing for bread; she had a few dol
lars in her possession which she
intended to spend for food. The
husband came home late at night
and demanded the money. The
wife refused to part with it,
wherenpon the husband dragged
her from her bed to another
room, and kicked her until she
died. He was drunk, and want
ed to get drunken. We LICENSE
THE TRAFFIC THAT PROMPTS TO
SUCH DEEDS AS THIS.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
Let Every Local Union Hold
Public Meetings.

1t is splendid idea to keep up
the public meetings MONTHLY.
1t is educative in a degree that
nothing else could be and to
progress or succeed in our work
we must strive to bring out to
public view the importance Of
our work in the cause of temper
ancc.
Many woman and man too,
for that matter, would feel II
strong interest in the work of
the W. G. L. [. if they knew
something more about it. We
must educate the public if we
hope 10 enlarge oar rordcrs and
increase our membership.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09

SOtlnd the Duglc cail 10 IdllN tHclli
back to service Start the press
fires burning all over the State,
and we will be warmed for work
by next convention.
1t is hard for the individual to
realize what the art of printing
has done for the world. 1t alone
has made a record of history pos
sible. Before it all learning was
locked up with the few, who
boarded the precious MSS. pre-
pared with so much labor and
care. Now the mechanic on his
bench has broader knowledge
of the world he lives in, and his
relations to his fellow men, than
the king on his throne possessed
in the dark ages.
The newspaper alone, daily
sowing down the earth with its
garncrcd treasures from all lands
indispensable to the day, as is the
breakfast, could keep up the av-
erage of human intelli gence to so
high a grade, that those gruesome
DAYS could never return.
The press alone has made pos
sible the treasure of literature,
and those grand works on the
Philosophy of History, The Intel
lectual Development of Europe,
Guizot's History Of Civilization,
&c, &C., where the lessons of the
ages are studies, and the slow
evolution by which man is work
ING out his salvation with fear
and trembling,' is traced through
nation after nation, and present
ed in rare Witchcry of words for
our warming and counsel.
A grand paper might be pre-
pared ON this subject, bat We
have only to do with the power
Of column well filled to arrest
The thought Of our people as to
the effect of that great octopus,
the liquor traffic, which has its
deadly arms about our tiresides
and its fierce beak in the vitals of
our national life.
In order to do this your super
intendent should read, and, apprO-
pos, let me say, Il most mprov-
ING and educatory task this would
be to her entered into with zest
and interest. The latest and most
pertinent facts regarding temper
ance work should be gathered,
and inserted along with the min
utes of your own work.
The whole Catholic world is in
tensely stirred by the recent de-
cision of Mgr Satolli sustain
ing Bishop Watterson's ruling in
Ohio, forbidding saloon keepers
the benefit of church ordinances,
in reality prescribing them as a
class. 1t is the severcst blow the
liquor traffic has received in &
quarter of a century, and will
bear abundant fruit in the near
future.
Don't think no one sees or
cares. 1t is doing its work
while you sleep. A seed sown
strikes root into some heart, and
results in a resolve to read a
clean life of which you perhaps
may never hear. One life lifted
from the degradation of strong
drink is surely worth years
work.
SO, don't give up your column;
let it be as clear white light ever
its rays to catch the eye
Of the fallen, the unfortunate,
The despairing-telling also of a
pure womanhood standing with
hands to lift to a
higher plane OF living those we
owe, who, alas, so many of them,
instead Of being our tower OF
strength, must be held up by the
weak hands of woman.
Men of Mississippi, where will
his endl For the sake of your
,wn imperiled manhood, awake
md help our women in this fight |
or God, and Home, and Native
4and. ANNE K. HARPER,
Sup't of Press Work Miss. w. |
&. L. L. !
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
PLEDGE.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

Presdcnt-Mrs. l.. s. MOUNT, Greenyille.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. NELLIE NJ
GENT S0MERNILLE, Greenville.
Recording Secretary-Miss ALICE SHANNON,
Vicksburg.
Assistant Recording Secretary-Mss NJ. l..
Montgomery, Starkville.
Treasurcr-Mrs. L. W. PENTECosT, Columbus
State Fvangelists - Mrs. MARY MCGEE
SMELL, Mrs. NJ l.. ERWIN, Columbus Mrs
MATTE &. NELSON, Clinton.
Superintendent of Juvenile Work and Demo-
rest Medal CONTESTANTS ANNA SIMONTON,
Shannon.
Superintendent of Young Women's Work
Miss BELLE kEARNEY, Flora.
Associate Superintendent - Miss REBECCA
CARRADINE, Fayette.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
GROVES TAsTELEss CHILL Tonic

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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09

Trying to be moderate drink
er for any length of time is like
trying to chew a piece of dyna-
mite in such a way that it won't
blow the top of your head off.
You can't do it.-Selected.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09

The liquor traffic costs three
times as much as the tariff, but
tariff reformers do not attack the
liquor traffic.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09

AHE You FuND or R%ApiNG? II coni i ~
..Irrt .I,rt stories; interesting matter In all dl
rcctiOHS. ,,,.t ,,,,
sRr Won 4 Politician? You find here the
latest politics bearing especially on the temper
ance question. ,r,.. g. ,t,
ARE You FOR TEMPERANCE? Inns Is lne
organ OF the temperance movement. ny zen
NeaI bow; ..In an our fight for Prohibition we
have no such paper as TUE VOICE s
ARE You POSTED on the general news Oh tle
week? If not, get THE NoIcE.
THE VoICE each week contains also lar@e
amount Of highly interesting matter in lis othI'
departmpntS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-27

one of the finest pagodas on the
Yangtse, as shown on the initial illus
tration. It is o seven-storied tower of
rose pink, rising, as it were, right
from the banks of the river, to a
height, I Judge, about half that of the
Washington monument. 1t is many
sided and its top is decorated with
beautiful cap of bronze, which is built
in rings, like those of some of the
temples in Siam, to point. This
tower was being repaired when I
visited it and a framework of pole
scaffolding extended from its base up
ward to height of more than one
hundred feet. Upon this hundreds
of Chinese masons and painters we're
working, and away up on the sixth
story I could note little fy-like celes-
tials clinging to the wall and patching
up the ravages of the weather. I was
glad to see it, for it showed me that
there is at least one place in China
where the monuments of the past are
respected, and where both the religion
and the temples have not gone to seed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-27
The Torch Fish.

One of the most noteworthy and
striking facts of animal life is its
adaptation to the conditions of its en-
vironment. Study any animal or groups
of animals, and it will be seen that its
leading physical characteristics are IN
exact adaptation to its habits and con-
ditions. The torch fish is deep sea
fish carrying on his nose an organ
which he can illuminate with phos-
phorescent light or extinguish at
pleasure. He does not use his Ian
tern to guide him on his painless
course in the dark depths of ocean; or
to enable him to look around him;
but, when meal time comes, he lights
up to attract small fishes, which, mis-
taking the lantern for a phospohres-
cent insect, dart straight for it, only
to find their way into hiS capacious
Jaws. The mode in which the lantern
is lighted and extinguished is not
clearly understood. Literary Digest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-27
Tie Kabyles of Algeria.

Civilization has not yet made much
impression on these gentry. They
still live in wigwams OF boughs, cov-
cred over with patchwork of rags
in which you may perchance behold o
Partisan pair of discarded trousers
rudely incorporated-and they herd
together IN the smoky and fea-ln-
tested interior like cattle in a stall, or
rather pigs in pen. The Koran's IN
functions for the repression of anger
do not strike them as worthy OF accep-
tance. In fact, they are as keen IN
vendetta as the Corsican.
A murder has to be atoned for by
murder. The man who refuses to ex-
act blood for the blood of hisrelatives
is pointed at as coward. Among Ger
tain of them the procedure is as fol-
lows: As soon as a murder is COM
mitted, the relatives of the murderer
hasten to the relatives of the victim
and demand pardon, at the same time
offering the price of blood-about $50.
This money is set aside IN cows
horn, put in the corner OF the dwell
ing, and kept there until member OF
the murdered mans family has
avenged him. It is then returned to
the relatives of the first murderer, and
the account is considered squared.
The saying, "Such a one has his
horn full" implies that the family in
dicated is on the lookout for chance
of assassinating member Of certain
other family. ALI the Year Round.
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pick up such sampans and fishing
boats as are overturned. They are
under the control of the districts
through which they go and form a
sort of river police.
Now and then they capture snug
gler or q pirate, and here and there
outside of some of the villages I saw
boats which had been cut in half and
set up on end. I asked what they
we're, and I was told that they had be-
longed to pirates and thieves. The
culprits had been caught and be-
headed, and their boats were thus put
up as warnings to their brothers to be-
ware of the law. Such boats are u su-
ally put up at the places at which the
crimes were committed.
Everywhere you meet with native
and Government officials. The differ
ent provinces have their customs Of
ficers, and they levy heavy tax on
all the native boats, each official gets
his squeeze, and the taxation is ter
ribly heavy. The customs collected
for the general Government are in the
hands of foreigners, for the Emperor
cannot rely upon the honesty of his
own officials, and SO an Irishman, Sir
Robert Hart, collects his duties for
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-27
Names of Children,

Down to the early part of the pres
ent century it was usual to name q
child after the saint on whose day he
happened to be born. A writer to
Notes and Queries in 1853 states that
he had recently baptized child by
the name of Benjamin Simon Jude.
On his expressing some surprise at this
somewhat similar conjunction of
names, he was informed that the birth
had taken place on the festival of SIS.
Simon and Jude, and that it was al
ways considered very unlucky to take
the day from child.
The custom of naming children after
any particular saint has fallen into
general disuse, except IN those coun-
tries where the population is COM
posed almost entirely of Roman Cath
olics. The giving of name in bap-
tism is really no essential part of the
rite, but is merely custom derived
apparently from the Hebrews, and
which through long practice has be-
come an important element in the GER
emony.
Many instances might be furnished
of children who have inadvertently re-
ceived wrong names. The registers in
Warminster Church contain the fol.
lowing entries
"179O, January IT., Charles, daugh-
ter of John and Betty Haines. This
child ought to have been christened
Charlotte, but, owing to mistake Of
the sponsors, it was wrong named"
"1791, July 13, William, daughter
of William and Sarah Weiddick. N.
BIT was intended that the child,
being a girl, should have been chris
tened Maria, but through mistake
of the godfather it was named Will
lam. ."-Westminster Review.
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Roll Your Umbrella.

eff half the citizens of the world.
said young woman who works on
umbrella covers, 'only knew such 8
simple thing as how to roll up an
umbrella, most of the umbrellas
brought to dealers to bemended would
never have needed repairs.
''The right way to roll your um-
brella is to take hold of the ends of
the ribs and the stick with the same
hand and hold them tightly enough
to prevent their being twisted while
the covering is being twlrled around
with the other hand. Then your um-
brella will be as nicely closed as
when you bought it, and the only
wear and tear will be on the cloth.
"It is twisting the ribs out of shape
around the stick and fastening them
there that spoils most of the UNI
brellas. Never hold the umbrella by
the handle alone when you roll it up
and you will find it will last longer
and cost less for repairs. "-Phila-
delphia Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-27
Flowers Affect the Singers Throat.

In one of the Partisan journals long
discussion has been going on with re-
gard to the effect, injurious or other
wise, that flowers have upon singers
throat. The consensus of opinion
among the opera singers seems to be
that certain flowers, notably tuberoses
and mimosa, are particularly danger
Gus.
Nine. Christine Nilsson, in her let
ter on this subject, mentions the case
of q celebrated woman singer with
whom she was appearing in concert
some years ago. AS they stood in the
wings waiting for the first number on
the programme to be announced, a
friend sent huge wreath to the singer,
which was made of tuberoses. The
singer buried her nose in the flowers
for a moment, and three minutes later
when she went upon the stage to sing
she found that she could not raise a
note. The vocal chord had been tenn
porarily paralyzed. A doctor was
called, the flowers were thrown out OF
a window and the singer, after her
throat had been treated, was able to
sing later in the evening. Mile. EN-
ma Calve in this article also upholds
Nine. Nilsson's opinion.
"The only flowers that I ever admit
into my living apartments" writes
Calve, ''are roses and violets. The
tuberose is my particular adherence,
not alone because it suggests death,
bat on account of its injurious effect
on the voice. Upon entering room
where lilies are I always have an ir-
resistible desire to throw the windows
open. They always irritate my throat.
In my mind there is no doubt about
all flowers being injurious to the
throat except roses. Personally l can
also exempt the violet, but other sing
ers have told me that it had an in
furious effect upon their vocal chords. "
New York Sun.
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him, and his boats and officials are at
all of the leading ports. You see their
customs officers scattered all along the
banks of the river, and at high water
they sometimes use the little huts of
bamboo, which are brought down In
the RATS from the upper Yangtse.
This valley of the Yangtse Kiang is
a vast garden. All along its course
the grass is as green in Egypt in win
ter, and two or three crops year are
everywhere grown. In looking over
landscape you see no fences or barns.
The people live in villages made Of
thatched huts, with walls of plated
reeds, which they plaster inside and
out with mud. Sometimes the huts
stand alone in the town, and at other
times they are joined together in
blocks. The best of them are not
more than twenty feet square, and the
average farm house has only one story.
The earth forms the floor. You could,
I venture, build good one for So.
The houses stand flush with the Shiny
mud sidewalk, and the flthier and
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dirtier this is, the better it seems to
please the people. Each village has
clump of trees about it, and in look
ing over the valley you see hundreds
of these clumps, and realize the force
of the statement that the whole En-
pire is one vast village. Many of the
villages, I am told, consist of only one
family or clan, and the Chinese are
said to take better care of their rela-
tives and to work together better than
any people of the world.
The best of the towns here are close
to the river, and we have passed many
walled cities, with pagodas and temples
rising above the other ridge-shaped
roofs. At some of the bigger centres
this ship stops to take on and dis
charge cargo, and I have gone through
O. number of cities since I came to
China the names of which I had never
heard. Take the city of Nganking-
not Nanking, the old capital of China,
you have all read of that-but Ngan-
king. How many of You have ever
realized that it existed? Well, we
have Just left it. 1t is city Of about
q half million people and is bigger
than St. Louis. 1t is the capitol of
the State of Ganhui, which has popu-
lation of more than one-third Of the
whole United States, though it is not
rs big as the State of New York. 1t
lies right on the banks of the Yangtse,
about 150 miles above Marking, and
it has miles of walls about it. These
walls are twenty-five feet high and so
wide that you could drive a buggy
around the city on the top Of them.
Neanking is we'll built and rich now,
though it was nearly ruined during
the TAPPING rebellion, back in the
ffties. At that time the rebels held
it under siege, and food became so
scarce that human flesh was used, and,
it is said, was sold in market places
for its weight in silver. The city has
now O great native trade, though it is
not one of the treaty ports, and foreign
steamers cannot stop at it. 1t has