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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-08-05
BUSINESS LOCALS.


THAR l5c coffee at Spratler's beats
them all. %
a BARGAIN at Gales. pounds
of good roasted coffee for $l,0O.
CHOICE canned goods of all kinds
at Spratler's. p
FINE coffee % loo per pound at d
Iacko's. 20tf
WE are offering great bargains in
gasoline stoves and refrigerators.
y Martin 4 ToAH.
j. A. SPRArLER pays the highest
market price for butter, eggs and
other farm produce. %
BUY your groceries ut Gales Cash
store, and be convinced that you get
the best at the lowest prices.
For a delicious dish of ice cream
or a cool refreshing drink of soda
water, phosphate, of all flavors, call
on w. j, HosKen. Il
STRICTLY patent process hour from
the roller mills of J. II. Nallery, New
Prague, Ninu.-there is none better.
sold in Mineral Point only by George
Jcuck. Prairie King and Prairie
Lily are the fancy and choice brands
ANY person wishing a woven-wire
fence built on the ground, from one
foot to fifty inches, should apply to
VIM. Berry or leave word at Alou2o
Jacka's blacksmith shop.
PRAIRIE LILY, a choice patent
flour from the roller mills of J. IL.
HaIlery, New Prague, MINI, gives
satisfaction every time. Sold by
George Jeuck, Mineral Point. If.
j. Ii. HALLERY roller mills, Of New
Prague, Mimi, are unsurpassed for
excellence OF flour. Two brands
Prairie King and Prairie Lily, on
sale at George Jeuck's, are growing
ia popularity. Try a sack and you
will he satisfied, as is everyone who
who has tested it. t.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-08-05
CURE D

/ have been q sufferer from Kidney
trouble for some time and have not
been free from backache in years. /
took a few doses Of DR.. Hobbs Spara-
gus Kidney Pills and found almost
immediate relief. / can recommend
them very highly to all who are az
hicted with such trouble as had.
SANFORD MCCALL, Switchman,
W. @. r. r. Ashland Wis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-08-05

IN 1oiClaNS AND SURGEONS
Specialties-Surgery, Surgical Diseases of Women
and genito urinary surgery. Cancers, Piles and
Tumors removed. and in suitable cases without
the knife. All operations performed upon the
Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes tested and glasses
fitted by the most modern aud approved method
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HOBBS
SpaIag,us kidney Pills.

big iron bridge. " Never trade watch
es when the train is moving
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-08-05
BUGGTES

We still have a few good stylish
rigs LETT, at very low prices.
23 MARTIN & TOAN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-08-05

FIRsT-CLAss pickles &c per quart
1t ID. Jacko's. 20tf
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03

producing fine, large tomatoes, thus
giving me ten fine plants from the
one by the process of layering.
then took a tomato plant raised
from seed and a sucker as near the
same size as possible and planted
them in adjoining hills for the pur-
pose of comparison. The sucker soon
outgrew the plant and had green to-
ma toes the size of an unhulled walnut
by the time the other plant set it's
fruit. At the time 1 write the fruit
has been pulled from the sucker,
while that on the plant is not quite
ripe. My experiments convince me
that for early tomatoes the gardener
will do well who plants his tomato
seed very early in the house or hot
bed, and then by transpianting into
other boxes or hot beds, so built that
the plants can be layered, have sup
ply of layered plants ready for the
first planting in the open air, which
will give fine marketable crop ten
days or two weeks sooner than from
the Seeding plants. In conducting
these experiments 1 did not give any
unusual conditions, but the suckers
were simply stuck into the soil of the
garden as it happened to be at the
time, and were not watered except by
the rains.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
A Good Year for Irish Potatoes.

This ought to be good year to put
in an Irish potato crop in Florida.
The short crop North has made the
price very high, and, even this early
in the season, the price has reached
point that has not been known for
years. There are many sections in
Florida where the potato does well,
and those who have land that is suit
ed to them should at once make ar
rangements to put in a crop. With
potatoes already bringing 81 per
bushel in the potato centers there is
more than fair prospect that new
Florida pota toes will bring SIS to So
per barrel. The following prices were
quoted in the New York Trade Jour-
nal of September 25th:
Irish potatoes were in moderate re-
ceipt this week, with a good active
local and shipping demand ruling.
Prices showed a steady advance all
week and at close. Prime Long Island
in bulk per barrel brought $2.75 to So;
State stock $3.50 to $2.75; Jersey
round $3.50 to $2.75; Giants 1925 to
$3.50 per barrel in bulk. Jersey bag
stock advanced to $40 to $3.50, bag
included. Virginia Sweets were in
liberal supply with market steady at
$1.37. to $1.62, according to quality
and size of barrel, and fairly free
movement in progress. Some South
Jersey Sweets arriving, and selling
we'll at 1925 to $2.37 per double head
barrel A few Vineland Sweets in open
head barrels offering and meeting
good sale at So to 1925 per barrel.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
Suckering Tomatoes.

One day when [ was pulling the
suckers from my tomatoes [ accident
ally let one sucker, about six inches
long, fall to the ground, and, stepping
on it, crushed it into the soft earth.
Some days afterward [ noticed it ly-
ing there, and taking hold of it to con-
sign it to the compost heap, [ noticed
that it had thrown out some fine roots
from the butt end. This was a new
thing to me, and [ resolved to make
some experiments with tomatoes. I
planted this sucker in a vacant hill,
and it throve Immediately and pro-
duced a large crop of the finest kind
of large smooth tomatoes. I selected
as my next experiment tomato stalk
about Is inches high, and bent it to
the ground, covering each joint with
earth and pressing it into the soil
closely. There were four joints to
start with; from each of these a suck
err grew, and [ severed them as soon
as the stalks under the suckers had
thrown out roots, which they did by
the time the suckers we're six inches
high This left the tip oft he origin
al stalk attached to the last joint, and
it kept ON throwing out joints until it
produced six more, each one being
properly several at the right time.
These several plants were transplant
ed into hills by>taking them up with
shovel, earth and all, and each one
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
From Gov. BIoxham

We make the following extracts
from Gov. Bloxham's address at the
Lake City Tobacco Fair:
81 feel profound interest in all OF
the developments in agriculture. In
my early life engaged in agricultural
pursuits. 1t has charms which entice
me still, and there is no calling en-
titled to higher honor than that of the
tiller of the soil. God made the first
man and placed him in a garden, and
so on through the ages the most
prominent place has been given to ag-
riculture. 1t is the foundation of the
worlds wealth, the motive power of em-
pires, and the financial pulse of Amer
lea now throbs stronger because OF
the short crop of wheat in Europe.
Of the 7O,0OO,OOO people in this coun-
try, nearly one-half are followers OF
the pillow, and there are nearly twenty
billions of dollars invested in that
branch of industry. just think of it
twenty billions of dollars! Why
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03

he who advised Jupiter to weigh Juno
and the weed in the scales, saying:
Aye, Jupiter, the next time Juno ruf-
fes her curls, try the weed
'But to return to more serious
things. 1t was Madame de Staal who
told Napoleon that the way to make
France great was to educate her
daughters. But to you of Florida 1
say, educate both your sons and
daughters. While you cultivate the
soil, also cultivate the mind, for it is
through the development of the mind
that our lives and pleasures are broad
ened."
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
Fruits for Summer Diet.

1t is necessary to health that large
part of the diet in summer should be
both vegetable and acid. Most of the
vegeta bes used with some vinegar,
which in hot weather is always partic-
ularly grateful to the palate. But vim
egar is the first product of fermenta-
ton. When nothing better can be
had it may and should be used. But
the natural acids of most summer
fruits are far to be preferred. Nature
provides these during the summer sea-
son, beginning with the strawberry
among fruits and with the rhubarb
plant among vegetables, whose acidity
is the sole reason for it's popularity.
The strawberry beguiles us into eat
ing it. When we smell it's delicious
aroma not hint is given Of the acid
ity Deneath it and which the first bite
discloses. Currants and gooseberries
are hardly less popular than the
strawberry, and they have no aroma,
we want It is a fact that the most
acid strawberries are always sure
longest to keep their popularity. The
mild sub-acid berries however good
to eat out of hand, are inferior to the
acid sort for canning.
The orange, lemon and lime are the
- nd
are much more acid than most fruits
grown farther north. There is pro-
found wisdom in this. Where perpet-
ual summer prevails the liver works
sluggish1y, and it needs some kind of
acids to set it to working again. The
natural acids of fruits are much the
best for thrs purpose. In winter we
learn the habit of eating meats and
ia is of all kinds, which in cold wealth.
er the extra amount of oxygen enable
the stomach ITO digest. Oxygen is it.
self an acid. AS the oxygen lessons
in the air with warm weather, the syso
tenn becomes less a ole to digest fatty
foods and men say truly that the liver
is clogged. It is the liver which
emulsifes the fats. The craving OF
the appetite for acids in some form in
dicates that this is what both stomach
and liver crave to enable the latter to
perform it's work properly. Even quite
fat pork can be eaten with relish IL
first covered with vinegar, though the
appetite otherwise would reject IT.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1897.
Table of Contents.

FARM; GROVE AND GARDEN-Our
Stock Law; The Bitter Orange; -
CeiIeTry~Varieties; Culture, Soil; The
Development of Scientific Agricul-
ture; Stick to Home People. .......... $50
Humus and it's Influence on the
Fertility Of the Soil. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Cyl
Tobacco and Sugar. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 692
The Soy Bean; Oil of Lemon. ..... 693
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT - Florida
Tobacco Fair; Tobacco Estimates. 694
FLORAL DEPARTMENT - Roofing
Fig Cuttings; A Plea for the lin
MIA; The Aster and Giant Cosmos;
Practical Points in Bulb Culture;
Plant Propagation. .......... 695
EDITORIAL-From Governor Biloxi
ham; Fruit for Summer Diet; A
Good Year for Irish Potatoes; Suck
ering Tomatoes;... ................. 696
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. Pet
ticoatal not Political Economy; Cos
tunes for the School Girl; Children
as Helpers; Some Good Rules. 69S
POULTRY AND BEES - Important
Points in Feeding; Raising Broilers; -
Directions for Running Incubators.. 699
LITERARY-An Adventure. ...... 700
With the Jokers. ............. 702
Floridiana ~ 90. 703
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03


"The success of all nations depends
upon agriculture, and in this
country the farmer is the conservatol
of government, the foe of empire and
tyranny. He is the pioneer pushing
his way into the primeval forests and
making new lands blossom with his
industry. At Plymouth Rock the
farmer headed the procession which
pushed westward, scaled the Rockies
and planted the banner of civilization
and freedom upon the shores of the
trackless Pacific. Patrick Henry, rear
ed in the country air of Virginia, raj
lied his countrymen in the cause Oh
freedom; it was New England's Put
nam who preached the doctrine of nc
taxa ton without representation. II
was Jeeffrson, the child of the farm
who guided the pen which wrote the
great declaration of American indie
pendence and it was the farmer Of
Mt. Vernon who MADE his the great
est name in american history. Web.
ster, Clay, Jackson, all illustrate how
prominent part the farmer has ia
ken in moulding American history
and to these names may be added
those of Lincoln, Grant, Davis, Ste
phens and Robert E. Lee, the latter re-
vered in every household of the South
land
''That bright little woman, Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, once wrote that there
are two classes of society who
lift and those who lean-and you will
find that where there are twenty who
lean, there is but one thriving, push
ing fellow who lifts, who never gets
weary under his load, who is undaunt
ed by failure, but pushes on learning
better each time how to succeed The
pessimist, the leaner, was never a de
veloper, he is the enemy of industry
his plaintive cry always foretells dis
enlargement. The lifters, my friends
are those who conceived and made
this grand exhibit of Florida's great
industry, and they will be found fore
most in all development and progress
1t is they who have demonstrated that
Florida, capable of growing every
thing that any other State can grow
can also rival the world in tobacco, Sc
that, all in all, she will stand prom1-
nent among the galaxy of states be-
decked as she is with tropic jewels.
cit is here in evidence that she can
grow the best tobacco, and just see how
rapidly she has forged to the front in
this new line. In 1890 the State rails
ed 100000 pounds; and here in 1897
100000 pounds, valued at $1,2OO,OOO
In Polk county one firm raised 10000
pounds and sold it for 81 per pound
These are eloquent facts. And you
will find that wherever tobacco is sue
cessfully grown there the agricultural
classes are most prosperous.
IL do not use tobacco myself, and
my wife tells me she likes me better
because I don't and that's reason
enough, but it is a great and, I do not
doubt, fascinating habit. 1t creates
a tremendous demand that much in
dustry is needed to supply and if il
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03
Contrary to Human Nature.
IN. O. Picayune.I

IN. O, Picayune.J
Socialism, in some respects, is
pretty enough as a theory, but it is
impracticable and impossible while
human nature is what it is. Soci-
allsm is no new thing. It has been
the dream of dreamers in every age,
and numerous have been the at
tempts to put 1t into reality, but
every such experiment has failed.
A few organizations, composed of
small numbers of persons, have
been kept up by the personal exer-
tions and influence Of some partic-
ular lenders, but in every case they
fell into dissolution after short Pc
RODS of existence.
If all men and women were con-
tent to live under control that ex-
tended to every fact of industrial
and social life; if all the people
were honest, virtuous, industrious,
never had any personal hopes, am
billions or desires; if all men and
women were content to live under
a benevolent despotism that would
care for all alike, treat all alike and
prefer no one before any other,
then socialism would be possible.
But so long as every individual has
his hopes, fears, desires, ambitions
and interest in opposition to or
without regard for the hopes, fears,
desires, ambitions of others, social
ism will be impossible. It is con-
trary to human nature, and human
nature cannot be changed, so far
as we know.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03

gIJxdiciai advertisements mast be paid
for in adraace. on they ViH bs aiscoatin ned
after the first insertion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03

Free Silver is Dead.

The passing of the Populistic
idea of free silver, which took pos
session of the Democratic conven-
ton at Chicago, and foisted Mr..
Bryan on the party during the
craze, is beginning to be accepted
by some of its foremost advocates.
Ex-Gov. Boies, under date of June
28th, writing from Waterloo, Iowa,
says: "For one, l do not believe
it possible to succeed upon a plat
form that demands unqualified
free coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is to with gold. We have
fought that battle and it is lost
We can never fight it over under
circumstances more favorable to
ourselves. If we hope to succeed
we must abandon this extreme de-
mand."
In these words Horace Boies,
former Governor of Iowa and erst-
while Democratic President aspir-
ant, addresses the voters of the
United States who demand the
free coinage of silver. He does it
through the medium of q letter to
Col. d. NJ. Fox, of Des Moines.
'sThe friends of silver, although
once defeated, are not yet democrat
lied. This will not be true after a
second defeat" he warningly says.
TN our next great battle we must
win or our cause is lost"
Although Mr.. Boies has in pri-
vate frequently expressed hostility
to the 16 to l plank of the Chicago
platform, this is the first authorita-
tive declaration from him to that
effect. In publicly declaring it to
be dead issue, he gives at length
his reasons for asserting it to be
such. He says the voters buried it
under the belief that it meant sill
rer monometallsm, pure and SIM
pie, which would increase instead
If diminishing the misfortunes at
.ributed to the single gold stand
srd.
BY the adoption of the 16 to l |
plank, he declares, the delegates
% the Chicago convention forced
The silver forces to assume the de-
lensive for their new creed. The
result, he asserts, was the weaken
ng instead of the strengthening of |
heir ranks, as their platform was |
battered by the arguments of their |
opponents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03

ana be At rest Ono
physician said I had
consumption. Tor had
. cough that gave ne
no rest. But = good
old physician whose
medicine had failed,
advised me TO use DR..
Miles EegtoPaf1va
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03

Thomas E. Watson, stands in
the middle of the road" and rises
to remark: eff Mr.. Bryan is a
Democrat let him say SO, that then
we will know where he is. If, as
his friends assert, he is real Pop
ulist let him be honest enough to
quitparadinginD Democratic clothes,
and come out as he should do and
not hang on to the tail of the Pop
ulist coat"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03
The Faith Of nIormons.

Editor Coyar Chronicle:
Through your extended and high
ly appreciated kindness we take
great pleasure in informing the
many readers of your breezy little
paper the object of our labors in
their midst. First, we will state
that our faith is centered in God
the Eternal Father, and in Jesus
Christ His Son; and in the Holy
Ghost. We believe that through
the atonement of Christ salvation
is made possible to all men, through
faith and obedience to Him, and
that there is salvation in and
through none else. He alone is
mediator between man and God;
the law-giver, the author of etern-
al salvation; that the Bible contains
His glorious gospel, and those who
accept and obey it will gain an ev-
erlasting salvation in his presence.
Our Bible is the Bible of all Chris
tian denominations, viz: the king
James translation.
Our object here, as in all the
world, is to perform the labor laid
up on US by the Lord Jesus, that
of preaching the gospel in all the
world, to every creature, and plead
ing in the earnestness of our souls
with the children of men, to 'sturn
to God, and do works meet for re-
pentence." for the day of His ven
geance is at hand. We have the
burden of his message upon our
souls, and our lives shall be spent
in the service of our risen Lord
and Master, by His grace SO abun-
dainty bestowed upon us; and
though we differ with other Chris
tians in church discipline, as they
do with one another, we say let us
love one another and labor as God
has bestowed His grace upon us.
"He that loveth not, knoweth not
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-03
SUCCESSION SALE.
In the Fourth Judicial District Court Of
the parish Of Grant. La.
In the matter Of the Succession of M. D.

In the matter Of the Succession of m. u
| Barton, deceased.
| BY virtue of commission ieanad On,
OF and from the Fourth Judicial Distric,
Court, and to me directed, in the above
entitled succession, the said commiaaior
bearing date of the Sd day of June. 1897
will offer for sale at public outcrv. a
the late resldcp0 of the said M. T. Rar,
ton, deceased, ID the parish Of Grant
La, on
TUESDAY. July ID. 1897,
the following property and effects Of the
said succession:
The east one half Of the southweat
quarter, south one-half of the eoutbeaaf
quarter, and the northeast quarter OF the
southeast quarter of section 20. and the
west one-half of the southwest Quarter
OF the southwest quarter, and the west
one-half OF the northwest quarter of the
southwest quarter of section q, and the
northeast quarter of the northeast quar-
ter OF section %, all in township 6 north.
range west. containing two hundred
and seventy-eignt (278) acres OF land.
COWS, 2 calves, one 3-year-old, one
4-year.o old yearling.
One yoke of oxen, one wagon.
One sorreA horse. one bay mare,
Three head of hogs.
One lot OF pillow tools.
One and three fourth bushels Of corn.
One half interest in 1890 pounds Of
seed cotton, more or less.
Three chairs. Two feather beds.
One sewing machine.
Ouo 2snb m~s,~S