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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
CALLERS" NOT DESIRED
A writer's Reasons for Thinking Wis
iting" Intolerable.

OF what earthly use is "comnanv,p
You probably see your neighbors o,cs
a week, meeting them on the nubro
highways. and if you nod pleasant,v
speak a word or two NJ ~.
weather and of the health NJ ~
family, has not everything been done
that our necessities require or formal.
ity can reasonably demand? II We
V business, or need information
that Others a give us. go and ash
OF them. Be brief, but to the noint
and, leaving with what is desiraa
carry away also their blessing To 90
to another's house, to IL OF 10
inmates, n or all, to sit for half an
hour or longer and listen to vopr
platitudes, and-coming away-lie m
them about a pleasant call, is intol-
cradle. Yet there are thousands who
do this daily. Why should | leave nv
occupation, be it loafing even. and give
my attention to some man or woman
who is thoughtless enough to "calI9"
Inc actuating motive never appears
Much is spoken and nothing said.
receive no worthy thought to profit
ty or increase the probability of a
beatific eternity. The familiar we'll
gnawed bones of doctrine fall from the
GtVils table. Usually | am forced TO
bl eathe at such a time a go~ssip-poison-
ed atmosphere. This cali is another
idea of civility, and | am compelled,
1t appears, to be a victim of his or
her whim. II | refuse, as | have done
point-blank, to present myself, | am
called a boor and all manner Of ugly
names.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
BIRD ARTISTS.
Appreciation of the Beautiful a Char
acteristic OF the Feathered Family.

That there is a consciousness az
beauty on the part of birds is plainly
shown by the mi in which many
OF them decorate their nests and sur
r~oundings, and, in some instances.
themselves. Perhaps it may not be
too much to claim that all birds are
by an artistic sentiment. and
that, while most of them are artistic
in effect, many are artistic in both in
tention and effect.
The appreciation of what is beautiful
is a distinctly marked characteristic OF
most members of the feathered family,
and 1t Is only natural that the desire
and ability to create beauty are found
in various degrees of development
among them. 1t is only a step from
desire of beauty to an effort to produce
1t; but the effort and accomplishment
occasionally bring about strange re-
suits, in birds as well as in man.
Striking examples of the bizarre
form of decoration are found in the
motmot, which disfigures its long tail
feathers in an effort at Improvement.
and in the hammer-head and gardener
bird, which delight in surrounding
their homes with all sorts of bright
colored shells, pebbles and feathers.
Sometimes the exhibition of artistic
feeling is carried so far as to confound
belief. Were ii not for the cOrrobo-
rative testimony of scientific travellers,
we might well doubt the tales that
come to us Of the baya Of farther In
ola, Of the gardener-bird the collar
bind, and the half dozen other birds
whose strangely developed decorative
instincts command our admiration and
wonder.-Lippincott's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02

The Northwestern Beet Sugar COM
pany is the name Of a corporation, cap
ital stock S750,0 600, the plant TO be To-
Gated at Mcmillan, Wis, One hundred
thousand acres of land in Jackson and
Clark counties, adjacent TO MERRIAM,
have been acquired by the company
and the whole 900, 000acres will be put
under cultivation as soon as
possible. The company itself will
manage 10000 acres. The western
stockholders are mostly wealthy lum-
bermen, Mr.. Boynton being president
and O. Halmo OF La Crosse, the secre-
tary. Mr.. Boynton says: 'Our plant
will have at the start, a capacity OF
500 tons of Deets per day, and we viii
employ about 125 men. By next
March we expect to have enough beets
to keep us running to our fun capacity
the entire sugar season, which will
last about $50 days in every year"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
BOSTON BROWN BREAD.

In her cooking lesson in the Ladies'
Home Journal Mrs. s. r. Rorer writes
Of Breads and Bread-Making, and
gives this, her %favorite, formula for
making Boston brown bread: MIX
two cups of Yankee rye meal, one cup
OF grauulated yellow Indian meal, and
n cup of whole wheat flour. Add a
teaspoonful Of salt, and sift. Dissolve
a level teaspoonful of soda in about
two tablespoon 'uls Of warm water;
add il to one and a half pints OF thick
sour milk, or buttermilk. Then add to
this n cup Of molasses. When thor
ouehly blended pour it over the dry
ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pour
into a creased two-quart brown bread
mould, put on the lid tightly and steam
continuously for five hours. Lift the
lid, allowing the bread to cool, and
at serving time bake for thirty min
utes."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02

long until he, too, began to show signs
of being in love. He gave up his
games and the other children after the
second day and passed his time in the
company of the little countess. All
games were eschewed, and the two
youthful lovers would cuddle up on
some convenient chair and with arms
tightly locked round each others
waists would gravely watch the other
children play and sweetly decline all
invitations to participate.
Matters grew nor serious each day,
and the embryo Romeo and Juliet fur
nished a great deal of amusement on
the ship. All day the little lovers
would cling to each other, and the
parting kiss at night would have been
pathetic if it was not ludicrous. AS
yet the youngsters had taken no n
into their confidence. They had pur-
sued the even tenor of their way, and
had been able to engineer all their
own affairs. Every one was waiting
for the elimination, and bets were
made as to whether it would be a
fierce lovers quarrel or a separation
caused by heartless parents. AS the
boat vas drawing close to the England
shores the youngsters seemed to come
to the conclusion that it was time to
get some tangible grasp upon cohdi-
tiCns. Mrs. Gould was seated in her
steamer chair, chatting with several
friends the day before Southampton
was reached, when young Jay and the
little countess came walking up, each
with an arm around the others waist.
Young Jay held back and hung his
head, as if afraid, but the young coun
tess was erect and fearless. She walk
ed up to Mrs. Gould, and, dropping a
neat courtesy, said in her smoothCst
tone:
please, Mrs. Gould, Jay and l are
going to get married"
rs that so?" said Mrs. Gould, gen
tally. When are you to be married."
At this tone of acquiescence in Mrs.
Gould's voice Joung Jay Strengthened
up and answered boldly:
Just as 2 N as | grow up-and
get to be a man"
well, that win be all right" said
Mrs. Gould seriously.
rs that 81 mammal" said young
Jay and the ..stle countess eyes fair
ly danced. Taey both went into par
oXysms of de ,sht, and for the re-
mainder of TIE trip they were the
happiest child n alive. When it came
time to part al southampton there was
an affecting soAne. Young Jay hid
his head in his mothers skirts and
the wee c0lntUrs sobbed her heart out
on a nurses shoulder. So they parted
like great, big s~weethearts, vowing
they would never forget; but two
weeks later young Jay was in Paris
having a glorious time, and looked far
from being disconsolate, and the tiny
countess was in England, having an
equally glorious time with a lot of
otl er children-so, perhaps, still like
grown-up sweethearts.-New York
Tribune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
CHARLIE ROSS CASE.

4 curious light is thrown upon the
fjmous Charlie Ross ase by the kid
mapping of the Conway child in Al
bany. 1t appears that the abductors
of the latter were already contemplat-
ing numbering the boy when he was
rescued, for they realized that no ran
som would now be forthcoming. 1t
Is reasonable to suppose that the alb
ductors of the Ross boy, being in the
same circumstances, not only con
templated making way with him, but
actually did so. That the lad vas
murdered not long after the kid
mapping has, indeed, been believed for
years, the hypothesis explains the
failure ever since TO secure any clew
to his whereabouts, and Il also agrees
with a confession made about a dozen
years 9 by one OF the alleged kid
nappers Who had been arrested for
burglary. That the Ross child met an
early death is now rendered all the
more probable by the history Of the
Conway case.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02

Henry Havemeyer's Leg Decorated
with a Fierce Looking Dragon.

Tattooing is now the chief topic
of conversation among the gilded
youth of London. This form of per-
sonal decoration, once confined to Mao
ris, sailors and Japanese rikshaw men,
has become a fad in the worlds me-
tropolis and until he has been dec
grated with a grinning dragon on his
chest and a pair of serpents on his
arms no young clubman considers his
get up complete. The explanation of
this remarkable craze is the presence
in London of one of the most famous
Japanese tattooers ever known in the
history of the art in that country, and
as Japanese attooing is the only work
of the kind which has any claim to
be called artistic, Hiroshima is probab-
ly the only living representative of
the old and famous school OF tattooers
of Japan.
Hiroshima's presence in London is
the result of a law recently passed
In Japan forbidding the practice of
|tattooing. He is an old man and great
ly respected in his own country and
it was at first thought that on account
of the marvellous and beautiful work
he produces the injunction would not
apply to him. But his friends were
sadly mistaken. The Door old fellow
was arrested and imprisoned. On his
release he did about the only thing
possible and decided to leave his IN
grateful fatherland and try his luck
in Europe and America.
1t did not AXE long for the London
ers to find out the quality of the old
t~attooer's work and soon after his ar
rival in the British metropolis Hiro-
shima had received enough commits
sion to last him for months. When.
some years ago, the two 0 IN of the
Prince of Wales visited Japan, Hiro-
shima tattoed designs on their wrists,
and this circumstance served as an
excellent introduction to the English
aristocracy. 1t is now the thing
! with the gilded youth Of the west end
TO sc decorated by the old japanese
and of course those members of the
Four Hundred Of New Work who visit
London hear of the new fashion and
follow the example of the B%ritishers.
one of the first Americans he tat
tooed was Henry Havemeyer, o OF
Ii. 0. Hayemeyer, the sugar king. Mr..
Havemeyer is now an enthusiast on
tattooing. He already has a dragon
on his left leg from the ankle to above
the knee. He says that the operation
is not painful, the only i'll effect being
a temporary swelling. He adds that
it does not impede perspiration in the
slightest.
Hiroshima viii probably visit New
York within a year, and ii is likely the
Young clubmen of this city will be
as enthusiastic patrons OF his art rs
those of London.-New York Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02

quivering, rising, and falling like -.
ripping OF water when the breeze H..
es its surface; the air is heavv -,
the sensllous odor of the wreatbs
the scented oil with which their hosl1
are anointed; the limpid. brown ereS
CLEAN with strange light. and are WI
ed again by the dropping lids. Al
the music cuickens, and is ir.e.
mingled with quaint barbaric disr,r5..
the drums give forth a louder barsba
note, and the ~voluptuous swayiog 49,
ton gives place to quick leans btah
in the air, wild gestures, and t NM.
uous tossing OF the limbs; the vra,.L.
ana girdles whirl and twist. the 80
that were so soft and dreamy -,
CLEAN and sparkle like burning Goals.
louder still sounds the shouting ana
the drums, quicker speeds the da,oa
till at length with one wild cry if Coos
e., and the girls sink on the mats ma,
ing and ~quivering with eyciteman:
n eXhaustion.-John Harrison W.,
ner in Harper's Magazine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
A SAMOAN y

The girls having announced that
they would give a dance that night,
after a short interval of rest, spent
the remainder Of the afternoon weav-
ing wreaths of flowers and dressing
their hair. When night came The
guest-house was lighted with two or
three lamps placed upon the floor, and
a screen was arranged at the far end,
behind which the girls retired to make
their preparations. -Four musicians
seated themselves on IN side, and
proceeded to beat a sort of wooden
drum, at the sound of which the
guests began to assemble. Neither the
chief nor the old men showed them
selves, as the silva" is looked upon
with great disfavor by the missionaries
and the elders doubtless thought it
would not be dCcerous OF them to be
present, though htey gave me to under
stand that they had no objection to
the dance taking place. The house
was soon filled with the young men
and girls, who sat chatting, laughing,
and smoking, and facing q clear place
Left in the center for the performers.
The musicians beat q sharp tattoo
on the drums. and, at a great round Of
applause and clappiug Of hands, the
four girls appear from behind the
screen and take their places in the open
SPACE. Their handsome brown bodies
gllsten with c~ocoanut oil, their hair is
decorated with smells and white ami
scarlet flowers, and each is clad in 4
very short lava lava Of about the
SIZE of a large pocket-handkerchief.
over this is a fringed and tasselled Cir
die made Of p~andanus fibre and dyed
in brilliant colors, and each wears
reura the neck and falling over the
breasts q wreath CT strongly scented
flowers.
The LAMPS are now placed upon the
eGge of the mats. and the girls seat
themselves in a line facing them.
One begins singing in a shrill high
pitched voice, and the others in turn
take up the strain, the four voices
blending in a weird sort OF harmony, 10
: the drums and the deep bass voices OF
/ the musicians make an effective accom-
paniment As the girls sing, their
bodies sway from side to side, the arms
wave gracefully in perfect time, while
the music, which commences slowly
! gradually quickens, until arms, bodies
and voices are going at lightning speed;
then they gradually slow 5awn again.
and the song dies away in 4 soft ten
7 der whisper,
After nor applause, and loud
shouts OF "Lelei, lelei,' good goodt,)
the girls stand up. the music starts
again. and they begin to dance the real
Samoan silva, the anathema maran.
/ atha Of the missionary, and the chic.
delight 81 the pleasure-loying island
er The brown bodies. g.isteninE .r
the ftful light. sway from the hips. ii
dreamy. dangerous motion, while thu
arms are waved from side to side
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
VETERANS COMPLETE CORPS OF
OF OFFICERS.
E~NCAMPMENT AT AN END
Comrade Alfred Lyle Is Made Senior
Vice Commander and f. b. Allen
Junior Vice Communicates
Ccmmander-in-Cmef Is Presented
With a Handsome Silver Service.

Buffalo, Aug. 2S.-1he Grand Army
has elected its officers for the ensuing
year and the encampment OF 1897 has
adjourned to meet in Cincinnati next
year. Fridays session lasted from 9
o'clock in the morning until 4 in the
afternoon without intermlssion. In
opening the encampment too up the
election of senior vice commander in
chief. Alfred Lythe of Buffalo was
unanimously e'7cted to TINS position.
The other differs elected are as fol-
lows: Junior vice commander in chief,
+. b. Allen of Connecticut; surgeon
general, DR.. David Mackie of Dallas,
Texas, chaplain in chief, Rev. f. G.
Bruner of Chicago.
Past Commander-in-Chief Walker of
Indiana was presented with a silver
service by the encampment. A com
mittee of the Women's Relief corps
was admitted to the hall and present.
ed the convention with several beau
tiful floral emblems and made a brief
report. Among the committees max
ing reports was one scoring the his
tories used in the southern schools,
claiming that they grossly m~isstated
the facts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
FOElGN AFFAIRS.

Prince Hugo of acknowledgements
died IN Silesia.
President Faure of France arrived
IN st. Petersburg and received ali eu-
thusiastic welcome.
The high price of bread in France is
causing much distress among the poor,
and the government is urged TO afford
relief by abolishing duties.
General A~zcarraga, the new Spanish
premier, announces that he is in accord
with Captain Weyler OF Cuba.
The peace negotiations between the
government OF Uruguay n the IN
surgents have failed, and it is an
nounced officially that the war will go
Lord Salisbury has suggested that
the powers cooperate in a scheme to
enable Greece to guarantee the interest
on a loan to pay oil the Turkish in
demnitv.
The king of Benin, in West Africa,
has made his obeisance to the British
authorities, VINO captured Benin City
after the massacre OF Consul Phillips
and his expedition.
The king of Siam arrived at Cologne,
Captain Beade's polar expedition,
composed OF Austrians me Hungari-
ans. has returned from the north.
The congress of the Republic of Sal
vador has decided to change the cur
rency of that country to a gold basis.
The Princess Of Wales is taking the
water cure made famous by Father
Kneipp.
Otiieial dispatches from India an
nounce that the rebellious Afridis have
captured ana burned Fort Mande, in
the khyber pass. The news is re-
garded in London as being of the
gravest character,
The police of Constantinople have
arrested two Armenians, at whose res
licences they found two bombs. The
prisoners confessed that they intended
to commit outrages by the use OF
these bombs at the Russian embassies.
The president of the Uruguay repub-
lie was slain almost on the steps OF the
cathedral, where he had listened to the
te aeum sung IN the occasion OF the
anniversary of the Independence of
Uruguay. The assassin is Avelino Ar
renondo, an officer in the ~Uruguayan
army. lie is q years old. Now that
Uruguay's chief is dead, he is calm,
and declares that he is content witt
his action. Arrenondo declares thai
his crime was not inspired by anything
more than a personal hatred for The
president.
More Turkish cruelty IS reported
from ConstantinOple. Un Sunday last
eighty Armenians and Turkish liberals
were placed in the subterranean dun
geons of Gala. The Armenian who eX.
ploded q bomb in the 'rurkish gov.
erument Offices has been tortured anC
whipped until he was covered witt
blood and the soles of his feet have
been burned. Yet he refuses TO con
fcss. The situation in the provinces i.
horrible. Six soldiers at Toschksehia
outraged some nuns and cut off tn,
hands ana feet OF two OF them. They
tied the others 20 trees n abandoned
hem.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
JAY GouLD's SWEETHEART.
Charming Countess Of Pappenheim
Takes Him Captive.

A pretty story Of first love is told
by those who went 10 Europe on1he
American line steamship on June 2,
George Gould, Mrs. Gould and their
FIVE children were on the vessel. An
other passenger was the Countess Pap
penheim. who was formerly a we'll
known social leader in Philadelphia
The countess was accompanied by her
dlughter-a bright, yiyacious little
Eirl with a Gypsy complexion n
flashing, black eyes. The little girl,
about 3 years of age, before the
steamer was W days out demonstra-
ted the greatest fondness in the world
for young Jay Gould. Young Jay was
about the age Of the miniature coan-
tess. aud a rugged youth. None could
beat him at any Of the steamer games
ant ne raced around the deck n
climbed about like a cat. 1t WASH I
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
HOW TO MAKE \ PERMANENT
PASTE

Soak an ounce Of refined gelatiue I'm
cold water for an hour, then drain on
anu squeeze ont the water as much As
rass.ble. Put the ge)atine in a jelly
Tot. and PLACE the pot in q pan e h't
water over the fire. when The geia-
t.aa has melted, stir In slowly 2l-@
onress at pure alcohol Put la a wide
moatAed botgle and cork tightly This
glue or paste VIII keep indefinitely
and can he melted In a few minutes 10y
setting the bottle IN q tasln OF hot wat
err AS TT contains q very small! per
oentaee OF water, il affects the gloss 3i
IA, prints but little. and dries almost
Immediately 1Harper's Round Table.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
AT HOME.

no next wear has been placed at ~
w soth Low meyorality boom is
NM in New York and Brook
Ign. ,,o3 in all de-
,artuents Of the Britton TN pia'e nm"
aIso in the Union Falls NH o.u
ma Philadelphia republican cl'y
invention nominated Col. CIayIo"
McMicbael for city treasurer
me Thompson stable filly LAlou-
cite ridden by Clawson, Won .ne
,nritv at sheepshead Bay IN LII.
Mnther Mckinley says she Is 'in pro-
,onnd sympathy with the movrmen, 10
soc,,re the release OF Miss Clshef"s'
Tho enaI conference Of mine opera
tors and strikers officials st Plttspu,
nroyed a failure, and the stflhe WIN
continue. .a ga
claims SOS. 900 from the Mealc"l Co'
1ege Of Georgia for dlssecting her nus
A. Toilet, Anton Rupert, aged "o'
o,as st,1t by an unknown man l'u-
nert cannot recover. HIS assal'ahI 10
still at large. .ir 10
rarly next spring a party VIII W
cont ont from the geological survey %
make another investigation OF so'" TO-
sources in Alaska.
uillers advanced the price Oh nom
and bakers declared that ii the "he"I
kent up they would be forced 10 IN
crease the price Of bread,
The trial of Adolph l.. LueIEeTt' cue
Chicago sausage-maker, who Is accuaeu
~ numbering his wife and destroying
her body, began in that city.
A white man was lynched IN Ken
ncky another in Tennessee ana ~
gro in Georgia. The white meA |ele
guilty Of assault, the negro "i U'',
Additional discoyeries, OF pearls III
kansas lakes and rivers have cauSeu
exc. ement. and thousands OF perSoh7
are searching the waters II that St"'o'
The Western Passenger ASSOCIATION
has declined to make iate J."
,ts territory for merchants VINO WISH
IN 90 to New York TO buy thelr soous'
rho railroads of Prussia turnlsh
more than half of the income OIL tue
government, according to Consul Mon
aghan's report to the state department,
The steamers Marrlmeoo anu
A~oranei. are due at Vancouver b. ~
from Australia with 500 mirers VINO
are hound for the Klondike gold menus
n O.. Tanner, the American heBf'
or,ist was honored by the tren'h
government. which purchased Que o'
Mis- paintings for the Luxembourg gar
lery. ara
As a result in the advance in the
mice Of wheat, the bakers OF roma ou
lac. WIS. have combined and asreeo
q nrlce of 6 cents a loaf-a raise Oh TWO
cents,
The American Window-Glass assoc
citation was formed at Chicago TO on
troll the output and sale OF thal PFou-
uct.
owing to the advance In wheat, Ne"
york bakers instead of incron.dnE me
price. are selling lighter l"t''5 o'
bread
over 5000 colored people at Mount
willie s. c.. have become worked mp 10
hieh pitch of religious excitement ana
Am they are taking part in the burial
OF satan.
A safe robner, shot and killed at
Canton. Ohio. 10y q policeman A' '"'
Canton Savings Bank. VAS George
~ .t t .u.H.rHar lHN hotter
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-02
AS HE UNDERSTOOD 1T.

Nav, what did YOU tell Mrs. Mex
dore that we oughtnt to monkey with
the English styles for?"
II didn't, Willie. / said we ought
not to ape the English styles.
Well what's the difference CHI
cago Tribune.