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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

the next winter as the wife of the
obliging stranger, who turns out to be
her tiance, with whom she had quar-
relied. The story is brightly written
and the dialogue natural
In the yassarlon there are other
references which give the impression
that loves young dream is occasionally
dreamed at college. There are poems
with tell-tale refrains about bows OF
Yale blue or buds of Harvard crimson.
There Is a farce in three acts. how
ever, IN which the "glorified spinster
is applauded. There are songs for the
Glee club. Theie are cartoons and
sketches. There are even little Jokes
which the casual reader can appreci-
ate. For instance there is one:
I, Students Association Please, Fac
ulty, we can't 60 down and beat Bryn
Mawr,
Faculty No, children, but you may
run out in the garden and play ball
nicely with one another.
This joke gives an insight into Vas
sar's athletic ambitions which long
perusal Of the official documents coulo
not give.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
FLANNELS MUCH USED.
Straight and Diagonal Checks Are
Seen in Many Varieties.

Flannel stutfs are now used to such
an extent that. while formerly they
We're only classed as staples, they can
now be included among the novelty
goods. Tasteful styles are now being
produced In cotton flannels for next
summer. The favor for checks in all
combinations finds its expression in
the large number of such patterns on
tiannels. Straight and diagonal checks
are shown in the new color combina-
tons of fuchsia red, cherry red or
cornfower blue, with white, heliotrope
and cream. Tasteful effects are OBJ
tanned in checked fiannels by the addi-
ton of small dots, stars or blossoms
In relief
Besides the well-known velvet quail
ties the satin fiannels are also well
represented In the collections, These
make good show. They are seen in
new patterns with fine stripes or small
checks. with small embroidered dots.
Satin fiannels with Himalaya stripes
are seen, but they look too wintry,
while with fine mohair stripes the col
lection Is richer. Here are also seen
new color combinations, the new blues
with fuchsia red and reseda stripes,
etc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
No LONGER A MUTE BRIDE.
When Her Husband Broke Vase
She Broke Her Vow of Silence.

Mrs. Jerry Cartell,sof neal, Trimble,,
Tenn, has just broken rash vow
which she made over twelve months
ago, and which she sorrowfully
regretted having ever made. saws
the Louisville Courier journal. About
eighteen months ago Mrs. Cartel was
Miss Fannie Bramley, a beautiful
young lady of eighteen years, and Jerry
Cartel was her favored sutton. But.a as
Is generally the case with young low
erS, a quarrel arose between them. and
pretty Miss Fanny angrily babe him
leave her presence and vowed by
high heaven she would never speak to
him again. The disconsolate lover
took his departure, but. as he fairly
worshiped the girl, he ardently set out
to effect a reconciliation. At last in an.
swer to pitiful, pleading letter. Miss
Fannie relented and penned him a
loving, forgiving message.
Overioycd at the happy termination
Of affairs, he hurried to the home of
Miss Fannie. and was received warmly
and affectionately, but without word
of welcome. Taking tablet and
pencil from a desk. she began a
written conversation as though she
could not speak word. Cartel plead
ed the uselessness and soolishness Of
such proceedings, but in vain, as his
sweetheart positively refused to utter
a word to him. She is very deyout
a member of the Methodist church
and was firmly impressed with the
idea that If she should break her rash
VOW God would punish her by striking
her dumb, when she could speak to no
one. She was constantly on her guard
for fear she might forget and speak to
her lover thereby bringing this terrible
visitation upon her.
The courtship proceeded with pencil
and paper for several months, when
they We're joined together in the holy
bonds of matrimony. During theii.
married life of a year Mrs. Cartel
never spoke to her husband until some
days ago.
Last Christmas Mr.. Cartel made his
wife a present of handsome and cost
ly pair of vases. The other morning
the husband was bringing in an arm
full OF wood and struck one of the vas
es and knocked it to the floor and
broke it into hundred different
pieces
"Oh Jerry, look what you have done"
cried Mrs. Cartel
She was horribly shocked at speak
ing to her husband and believed that
tain the correctness Of her belief she
spoke to him again, and was oyerjoyed
to discover that her organs Of speach
had not been in the least impaired.
In the happiness of hearing his wife
speak, Jerry thanked God FOR the
breaking of the vase.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
TO CLEANSE LEATHER CHAIRS.

Now that general house cleaning time
is at hand suggestions as to renovating
are of special value. We all know
how leather will gather mildew, and
If chairs and lounges In rooms that
are closed during summer are uphol-
stored in leather, they are apt to be
mildew-stained. We are told that the
best way to remove such stains is to
rub the leather well with clean, soft
and very dry cloth, to remove any
fungus that may be on the surface OF
the leather. Then apply rag just
moistened with pyroligneous acid.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
A Temple Of Health

Where yigor, good digestion, appetite and sound
repose minister to physical comfort, is the bodily
structure which however much its foundations
have been Slapped by IN health, has been restored
rebuilt. as II were-by the great renoyating
tonic Hostetters Stomach Btters. Nothing In
fuses strength into debitated frame like this
saving medicine. which, 10 the ygor and regular
ity ii imparts to the system, endows It with the
sursst defense against disease and the best guari
anty Of long HE and hale old age. Worn out
men Of business, tired mechanics, oyerworked
min hands. miners broken down BY hardship and
exposure TO malaria mariners and tourists all de
clare that il il the best safeguard against the In
fiuences Of fataigue bodily or mental, and OF eli
mate and temperature. Incompatible for bilious
rheumatic, kidney and nervous troubles.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
RECORDS BROKEN.

Decatur, Ill, Oct 27.--Two worlds
bicycle records were broken here. DIR.
T. A. Brown made a quarter of mile
from flying start, paced, in % is sec
onds the former record being "a 2-5
made by Johnson at Independence. In
the three mile, flying start, tandem,
unpaced. record was made by o. r..
Bernhardt and X. +. Goetz, IN 80 80
seconds; former record "a 3-5.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

An APPALLING earthquake occurred
through the Argentine Republic, The
city of San Juan de La Frontera was
totally destroyed, Hundreds of lives
were lost.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Send your full name and address TO Dobbins'
Soap Mtg, Co, philada.. Pa, by return mail and
get free Of ali cost, a coupon worth several dol
lars, il used by you TO its full advantage Don't
delay. This Is worthy attention.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
COAL GOES UP.

New York, Oct. 26.-The eastern an
thracite coal sales agents have decided
to advance the price % cents on stove
and Is cents on other sizes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01
GunIInw IL.

That Is the best way to take a Ripans Ia
bule, best because the most pleasant, For
all liver aud stomach disorders Ripans Tab
ulcs are the most effective remedy, In fact,
the standard
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

In great many cases Of asthma, Piso's
Cure for Consumption will give relief that
Is equal 10 cure. 20 cents
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Like u touch of nature, when makes, the
wofl akin. the use of slenn's sulphur SOAP
beauties the complexion OF young ladies in every
part OF the universe
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Alix badly defeated Directum, in
Boston, in race for an $11 100000
purse.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

A movement Is started for an cleo
trio railway connecting Toledo, Ohio,
and Nndlay, Ohio.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Mrs. Wtnslow's SOOTHING SYRUP for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind collie. $50. a bottle.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

In his annual report General How
ard says the railroad strike showed
the necessity of doubling the army.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Charles Johnson, OF Wolf Greek.
wisconsin, had his spine broken by
logs rolling upon him.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Russian bishops have their miters
made of aluminium.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

Halls Catarrh Cure
L q constitutional cure Price 70 cenns
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

G. X. Purdue, leading contractor
of Abingdon, III, died suddenly.
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ing delightful court until 10 o'clock
when, making a sign to the kingli
Commander-in-C Chief, who was leading
q Fredericksburg matron through I
minuet, she called archly in her clear
sprightly voice: 'Come, George, it i
time for old folks to be at home.
In the back yard of this same old
cottage, working among her flowers
and garden pots, Mary Washington
received Lafayette, her country's
friend and her sons brother-st-arms,
who had come to bid her farewell.
The chivalrous Frenchman was guided
to the side gate by little son of Betty
Washington Lewis, her only living
daughter, and found her all unpre.
pared for his visit, engaged in raking
together dry weeds and sticks into 9
heap for burning. As the nobleman
advanced the startled hostess dropped
her rake, but with admirable dignity
and self.possession she took between
her bare palms the hand the visitor
extended, while he barred his lofty
head and bowed before her in deepest,
reverence.
"Ah, Marquis!" said she, 'tyou
have come to see an old woman! But
come in. I can make you welcome
without changing my dress. I am glad
to see you. I have often heard my
son George speak of you" She pre-
ceded him into the inner hall, con-
Quoted him into her Giving room, ;"
and, after seating him, laid aside her
straw hat and placed herself opposite
to him. Erect as at eighteen, her eyes
unfaded, she listened with calm de-
light to the panegyric upon her son
poured forth by the eloquent French
man, in which her George was lauded
as the miracle of the age, as greater
than Caesar or Alexander or Hannibal
and more modest than Cincinnatus-
the one immortal hero whose fame
would outlast time. Her character
istic and comprehensive response was
simply: Il am not surprised at what
George has done; he was alwaysa good
boy"
Fredericksburg tradition further re-
lates, with homely, kindly humor,
that Nine. Washington mixed with
her own hands for her distinguished
guest mint julip and offered it with
a plate of her own homemade "gin-.
ger cakes" which he accepted with
grateful courtesy, pronouncing both
delicious. Then rising to take his
leave, he begged her blessing ere he
embarked for his native land. She
looked up to heaven, folded her hands,
and in sweet, thrilling tones prayed
that God grant him safety, happiness,
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Washington Parke Curtis, Washing
toms adopted son, issued e stirring
appeal to the country, and wide In
terest in the matter was excited for
time, but it bore no fruit until 1888,
when the Hon. Silas E. Burrows, OF
New York, offered to bear the ex.
penses of constructing stately
monument. The design of this, how
ever worthily conceived, was ridicu-
lous from an artistic standpoint,
Eight Grecian columns were set IN
embrazures upon a square pedestal
and over there were perched four
eagles. Above tapered An obelisk,
surmouLted by a bust of George
Washington, and upon the bust was
o fifth eagle with outstretched wings.
The cornerstone of this fantastic
conception was laid with great public
pomp by President Andrew Jackson on
May 7, 1888, in the presence OF vast
crowd of citizens, strangers, militia and
Masonic societies. The romantic tale
is told that lovely Southern girl who
had won the affection of Mr.. Burrows
consented to marry him on condition
that he build the monument as pro-
posed, and that she Tilted him before
It was done, whereupon he abandoned
the enterprise. The real fact is that
Mr.. Burrows, meeting with financial
losses, postponed the work until he
should be able to continue it, and died
before accomplishing his design. At
all events the structure, as it was lett,
crumbled with slow decay and gradu-
ally fell. Until last fall, however, por-
tions of the pedestal, buttressed cor
ners, monolith and recessed columns
stillremained on the ground in ruined
pile, weather-worn, time-stained and
more or less mutilsted by relic-hunt-
ers, forming a melancholy sight.
When the new shaft of the National
Mary Washington Memorial Associa-
tion was put up, severe in simplicity
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With tears

prosperity and peace. With tears
the foreigner bent to kiss the with
cred hand, thanked her fervently and
departed. Returning to Mount YER
non as Washington's guest, Lafayette
reported: 81 have seen the only Ro-
man matron living at this day."
Here also, George Washington, at
the age of fifteen, attended school at
the same academy in which two subse-
quent Decentralization and Mon
roe-were prepared for college, row.
ing himself across the river and back
from his mothers plantation on the
other side. Likewise here in Fred
ericksburg, stones throw distant
from the Mary Washington cottage, is
the old mansion Known as Kenmore,
the residence of her daughter Betty.
When built by Colonel Fielding Lewis,
in order that his wife might be near
her mother, Kenmore was in the sub
urbs. It is still in fair state Of pres
ervation, and is one of the "show
places" of Fredericksburg. In it, ac-
cording to Mary Washington's great
granddaughter, Mrs. Ella Bassett
Washington, Mary Washington died
on August 25, 1889, although other
authorities place the death scene IN
the Mary Washington cottage. Not
far from the Kenmore grounds is the
hitherto neglected grave Of the first
Presidents mother, on gentle knoll
crowned by some gray boulders,
whittier she often retired with her
knitting or her Bible.
On this sacred spot the new marble
obelisk is placed; and hither, doubt
less, to this shrine of noble woman
hood will countless bands of pilgrims
repair for centuries to come-Ameri-
can sons and fathers as well as mothers|
and laughters-to pay deserved tri-
butte to the memory of her who pro-|
duced and reared the founder of thisI
nation. /
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TEMPERANCE.
AIcoHcL's ALPHABET.

ALCOHCLs ALfdhbEi'
1 stands for Alcohol, deathlke its grip
for Beginner, who just takes sip;
for Companion, who urges him on;
for, the Demon OF Drink that is born;
E for Endeavor he makes to resist.
F stands for Friends who so loudly insist,
G for the Guilt that he afterward feels;
q for the Horrors that hang at his heels;
his Intention to drink not at all.
stands for Jeering that follows his fall;
z for his knowledge that he Is slave.
L stands for the Liquors his appetite Graves
NJ for convivial Meetings so gay.
N stands for No that he tries hard to say;
0 for the Orgies that then come to pass.
P stands for Pride that he browns In his glass
o for the Quarrels that nightly abound.
Il stands for Ruin that hovers around.
S stands for Sights that his vision bedim;
T stands for Trembling that seizes his limbs
q stands for his Usefulness sunk in the slums.
stands for Vagrant he quickly becomes;
" for Waning OF life that's soon done;
Z for his exit, regretted by none.
Youth of this nation, such weakness is crime
Zealously turn from the tempter In time!
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Philadelphis, she received her SON
alone, who had made his way unat-
tended through the streets vocal with
his name to the corner cottage where
she tremblingly awaited him, after an
unavoidable absence of eight stormy
years. On the next evening, Novem-
ber 18th, 1871, she proudly issued
thence, hanging on her sons arm, and
was conducted by him with loving
pride to the Town Hall, where, in
public, as the hero's mother, she pre-
sided over the Peace Ball given in
honor of the great victory for liberty
-arrayed in black silk gown and
snowy kerchief and cap, and received
with placid dignity the compliments
of the home and foreign officers, hold;
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MARY WASHINGTON.
A MONUMENT TO THE MOTHER
OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT.
How'll Was Built-Forrner Unsuccess.
full Attempts to Do Her Honor
Her Romantic Marriage
and Domestic Life.

TN letter concerning the dedica-
L cation of the monument to the
memory of Mary, the mother of
Washington, at Fredericksburg,
Va, the New York Recorder says:
The monument is beautiful obelisk
of plain white marble, fifty feet high
and eleven feet square at the base,
beering an inscription in embossed
letters, simply, ''Mary, the Mother of
Washington" It was executed in
Buffalo, N. Y, and was set in position
on December %. 1t cost $11, 200,
raised entirely by the ladies of the
National Mary Washington Memorial
Association, and the monument is in
itself creditable alike to the distin-
guished woman whom it COM
memorates and to the patriotic
American women who have honored
themselves by thus honoring her. The
association was formed only three
years ago, and it may well be sub
iect of qualification with its. members
and, indeed, with all Americans, that
the heroine-mother of our first Presi-
dent should at length, 104 years after
her death, have suitable token OF
respect raised above her unheeded
grave.
The previous attempts to discharge
an obvious duty in this respect have
been many, but all unsuccessful.
Projects were agitated soon after Mrs.
Washington's death to mark her
burial place by stone to be paid for
by the Government, but in the con.
fusion attendant upon the organiza.
tion of the new nation they were sue
cessively forgotten, revived and for
gotten again. In 1926 MIR. George
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and beautiful in symmetry, the ruin
was demolished.
However remarkable the lack of in
formation elsewhere respecting Mary
Ball, wife of Augustine Washington
and mother of George Washington,
everybody in Fredericksburg knows
all about her and glories in her his
tory. They know the year and the
place of her birth, the year of grace
l706, and the place Epping Forest,
down the Rappahannock, in Lancaster
County, Va, which nearly two CEN
turies ago was the plantation home Of
her father, Colonel Joseph Ball, son
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rHr DocToR's ADVICE,

Tom met m old friend. who was formerly
q prosperous young lumbermnn upin North.
ern Minnesota, but whose bad habits OF
drinking brought him to pretty "hard up
condition, although he has since reformed
and is doing better.
.sHow are you?" asked Tom.
"Pretty we'll, thank you. but have just
seen q doctor to have him examine my
throat"
''What's the matter?'
"Well. the doctor couldn't give me any
announcement. At least, he could not find
what I want to find"
"What did you expect him to fnd?"
"I asked him to look down my throat for
the saw mill and farm that had gone down
there in drink"
"And did he see anything of it?"
mo, hut be advised me II ever got an
other mill to run 1t by water"
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"A DEVICE OF MAN.

Alcohol Is a device of man. It gushes moi
from any spring it runs not from the tree
IL is not found In the grape, the beet, rye.
corn, or barley. 1t Is the outcome OF ros
TO produce no harm. From the ruins o.
autumn she brings forth the beauties o.
spring. But man, through the brewery and
distillery, arrests the course Of nature in
certain cases and brings forth subtle poi
son, which by wrong use becomes bane to
society and O death blow to human progress.
Wherever it is used rs beverage increased
police force is required, jails. prisons, asy.
iums and almshouses IRE multiplied. Let
the rich use it and they become poor. and
the well-to-do drink 1t and they are i'm
poverished. Let the old quaff it and they
are made miserable. the young sip it AMI
they fall to ruin. husbands indulge in 1t AMI
they become abusive AMI alrae.ionate par.
ents partake freely OF it anil they arc :na1o
demons. s.-National Temperance Advocate.
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OF dim VlOleG COlOT, OI ueTo duu buelo
few sunfowers that seemed to be max
ing preparations for speedy death
If lyrical mood is awakened by the
charms Of the woods in everyday peo.
pie, even in tho experienced, cynical
man of the world, how much more must
this be true Of two uncorrupted young
people each of whom is in love.
Hattie's thoughts were where they
always strayed in moments of sentiment
following Relph over the sea. She
had received letter from him the day
before, in which he announced that ne
was at the moment in Eisenach, Ger
many, the place where Martin Luther
spent his boyhood. She had been struck
by the fact that Ralph did not speak OF
his wife in as rapturous 'tones as In the
few that had preceded this one. But
she had not given this observation any
further thought.
Jack Spofford threw from time to
time admirng glances at his fair com,
panion, when he was sure that she would
not see him. Several times he was on
the point Of uttering the fateful word,
but then he hesitatcd again and post.
poned it till they should have reached
the grotto.
In this manner they reached spot
where the path had risen somewhat
above the bed of the little stream, and
an opening in the forest permitted full
view of the lower valley. They were
lost in admiration of the panorama,
when Hattie was attracted by dark
mass of clouds that were RAPIDLY being
driven up the valley by a brisk breeze.
She suggested the prudence OF return
ing at once, so as not to be caught in the
approaching rainstorm.
This idea did not sait Jack at all, and
be employed all his rhetorical gifts to
convince her that there was no proba-
bility OF storm. These clouds, he said,
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of Col onel William Bal, q royal1st Eng

ofColonel William Ball, ,sroyal1st Eng
lishman of gentle lineage, who emf
grated to America away back in 1857.
They know that as Mary Ball grew to
womanhood she was known through
out that region as the "Rose of Er-
ping Forest" and as the sBelle of the
Northern Neck" and that as grown
maiden she was sensible, modest and
loving, with hair like flax, cheeks like
peach blossoms and eyes of cloudless
blue. The tradition is current among
them, too, explanatory of the fact that
she married her husband in England,
that, having been taken there by her
brother Joseph after the death of her
widowed mother she resided with re-
latives in the village of Cookham, in
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which, in ner day, Mary Washington
kept beautiful with blooming dahllas,
sun-howers, calycanthus, hollyhocks
and other old-fashioned blossoms OF
our Observation-Disclosures time. Here,
when the Revolution was fully on, she
received from her son, the Command
er-inChief, dispatches from time to
time by special couriers, giving It'd
ines Of the strife as it progressed.
Here also, when Yorktown had been
won and the fate of the war decided
triumphantly for the colonies, and
the allied French and American troops
entered the town on their way to