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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

Arctic travellers have noted the
curious fact that snow, when al a very
low temperature, will absorb moisture
and dry garments.
The japanese always bury their
dead with the head to the north ana
this is said to be the reason why no
japanese win sleep with his head in
that position. Many private houses
and hotels have a diagram of the
points of the compass posted on the
bedroom ceiling for the convenience
of guests.
The subjects of the mikado are
great readers. They read everything
history. novels, magazines ana
newspapers. The aforementioned are
innumerahle, ana of magazines there
are also quite a host. Many of these
contain miscellaneous articles dealing
with various f'pics of current inter
est. biographical sketches, short sto-
rieS, interviews and many OF them
are illustrated. some having truly
wonderful frontispieces. In price they
vary from about a penny to 10 cents
per month. The commoneSt price Is
10 TO 3 sen, one sen being about
equivalent to a farthing one OF the
most popular of the monthlies is the
Young Mans World, published in To-
kyo; the price per copy is only sen
Some idea of the range OF Its SUD
iccts may be gathered from a glance
at its contents page. To mention
few out of the fifteen articles appear
ing i'm one number, there Is one DEAF
ing with Sunday. another on the moou'
ard one. entitled The Home of CiVl-
lization" deals with ancient Egypt
Aprupos Of Bsmarck's death, there -
an account of the Franco-German war
The story Of a military expedition ana
the records Of an exploring party III
Batavia form two other articles, ana
there are also two short stories ana
prize poem Several Of these are MUS
tratcd. The first few and last Few
leaves are taken up with advertise
mentS. chiefly of patent medicines "
which the Japs place great faith NJ
japanese newspapers are Thoroughly
up to date with their news, several 81
them receiving kilograms daily. whl.h
they courteouSly allow the foreign '"''
tors to copy into the columns Of thtif
uopgrS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

4 young married woman one morn
ing gave her husband a sealed letter.
which he was TO read when he got 10
his office Tie did as he was told aH'
the letter ran as follows:
Il am obliged to tell you some'h.h-
that may give you pain, but there :
no help for Fl You shall know every
thing. whatever be the conseqneN r.
For the last week | have felt ina
must come TO this. but | have Ua''s'
until the last extremity. and can '
main silent no l3- n. DO not o''.
whelm ME with bitter reproach, for you
viii have 10 put UP with your saalV
Of the trouble as well as myself
Cold perspiration stood In t'sN
drops on the brow o. the husband Wo
was prepared for the worst WIN :
trembling hand he turned over ~
page and rpan on:
"Our Goals are an gone. Please
der load rs I've sent this atteFha.-.
thought YOU might forget i Tor III
tenth time and therefore wrote
thi, letter
But b. dut--Pearson's Masa- 81
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

An interesting comparison of the
relative merits and numbers of long
headed and hullet-hraded people, sci
entiically known as dolichocephals
aud hrachyccphals. is made by Or.
John Rcddoc in the last number OF
Science Progress To refer TO n man
as long headed is q compliment which
has real anthropological basis
There is good evidence that as IA
rule long heads are intellectually SUI
pcrlor To round heads and tend 10 rise
mcrous measurements of students at
Cambridge have shown that tirst-claSs
men are longer headed than second
class meu. ana they again than the
simple-paSS men and the failures But
though the long headed men OF the
blonde type apparently have the adj
vantage of Intellect their superiority
is against them in the long run Thus.
Dir Beddoc points out, the great Greek
race. which was loug-headed and
largely blond has now but few and
doubtful representatives the nohlor
strains OF the Irish people persisted or
emgratcd iu the seventeenth century,
and at the present time in the cities OF
France and central Europe the long
heads seem to melt away TO give place
to fresh strains Of short headed peas
ant blood
The tittc>t. who survives, Is there
fore the quiet uuamhitious, common.
place thick head, who remains at home
and tcmptS NO dangers. 1t may he
that when wars have ceased 70 be and
there are mo- more regions 20 explore
and perhaps fewer scientific realms 70
conquer this may be the happiest as
we'll as tie htteSt-that is, the best
adapted class of man.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10
SLEDCING IN COLD SIBERIA.
SOME OF THE DANGERS OF
THAT COUNTRY.
Nearly stiff From the Cold, With One
Horse Dead, Others Numb
and the Driver
Missing

Travelling by sledge in Siberia in
winter has its perils, as the experience
of Robert l.. Jefferson and his friends
goes TO Illustrate. The incident IS
told in "Roughing 1t in Siberia
We had chartered six sorry Hooking
horses to drag us on to the next stage.
1t was night when we started. The
driver. maudlin drunk. had TO he
helped 10 his seat, and we set off along
the narrow roadway at the usual gal
lop, which, however, soon dwindled
into IA mere shuttle through the snow
We had gone to sleep, and some hours
after our departure Gaskel woke me
and said be thought something was
wrong.
The sledge was at standstiIl and
our shouts TO the yenshik brought no
response Black darkness prevailed
| bundled out of the sledge. so be-
numbed that | could scarcely move.
| felt along the sledge, sinking to my
Knees in the snow.
4 III hllN tA pcltLl was tuIHAN, anu
Just then | stumbled over one of the
horses which was lying buried up to
its meek. 1t was clear that the driver
had fallen from his seat, and that the
horses had wandered from the track.
The poor horses We're stuck fast, and
a closer inspection showed one of
them 20 be dead-literally frozen toI
death. IF we would save ourselves
from the same fate prompt action was
necessary.
The other horses were nearly sue
cumbing. They lay flat ON their stom-
achs and nihbled at the SHOW. We cut
the dead animal adrft, and using the
spare rope as whips we stood on either
side of the living and dashed them till
our arms ached. Al length they
moved, and pushing and pulling we
got the sledge turned Then. step by
step, with much flouudering and many
falls. we began TO retrace our way.
-'All this in pitch darkness, in raw.
cold wind, and in momentary eXpecta-
tion of one or all of the horses drop
ping dead.
1T was terrible experience but
we regained the road and finally
reached the village"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10
DEFECTS IN FORM or GOVERNMENT
Oshkosh Northwestern.


! Oshkosh Northwestern.
! The recent lynching of four or five
Italians in Louisiana town once
more illustrates one of the great de-
! fects in our form OF governments and
| one which initiates more to the adj
| vantage Of the unnaturalized citizen.
| Five foreigners are mobbed and
! hanged. The government to which
they owed allegiance Immediately
! takes steps to investigate the affair
and claim indemnity from the fed
eral government. If these men are
proved to be subjects OF Italy, the
| federal government is bound to pay
! indemnity for their deaths. Theo-
retically speaking, the foreigners are
under the protection of the federal
government, which if it fails to pro-
tect them, must pay the penalty.
But when it comes to protecting them
or furnishing the murderers, the fed
erul government is absc lutely power
less. A III it can do is to invite the
county in which the lynching took
place to punish the murderers, and
that county can do as it pleases, and
in such eases usually pleases to pay
M. ssf t3ft-y, :. s. $50; tnp,-tc it, But the
federal government must pay the
damages done by the people of the
county without the power to prose-
cute the guilty or COM 81 the state
or county authorities to do so.
Furthermore, when an American
citizen is lynched. the kin have no
recourse for damages in the federal
government The federal govern
mcut pays for the death Of foreign
| ers, but not for the death Of Amer can
citizens No counsel or minister or
ambassador or any one else comes
to the rescue of the prosecuted
! American. government demands
an indemnity for the lynching of an
/ American citizen to be paid to his
wife and family. He is an unpro-
! tcctcd outcast the moment he swears
/ allegiance to the United States OF
! America. That moment he is given
oven to the prejudices and brutal.
/ ties of the community ia which lac
! lives. lie has the protection Of the
/ Local laws. So has the foreign sub
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

THE Sioux City Journal contains
extracts from eighteen Iowa, Ne
braska and South Dakota papers tell
ing that farmers are unable to OBJ
tain the help they need. No army
of the unemployed can iiHdrcn III
these times without finding scores
Of opportunities thrust at them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

THE Democratic Boston Globe re-
marks that "we are making vast
strides in home manufacture and
gradually taking first place in the
worlds open market Nobody talk
ed that way when the Wilson law
was ia operation
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

On Monday Of this week tho North
western railway company paid into
the state treasury It's taxes for the
last half Of the year 1898. The
amount is $22I ,246.2l taxes for the last
half Of last year were paid by the
Omaha also the same day, and come
to 500, i26l3. Both are large increases
over last year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

THAT the Oregon regiment was
able to parade 1000 men in San Fran
cisco. who marched with fine
swinging stride" does not agree with
the stories of terrible debility con-
corning the volunteers in the Philip
mines
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

PARIS Is making great attempts Ca
out-do the Chicago exposition. One
of the novel features OF the Paris
show isatwouty- three story building
that is tospin around like top, at
the rate Of three miles an hour. An.
other attraction being q gigantic
steel umbrella three hundred fifty
feet ia height with cars having It
seating capacity Of fifty attached to
each rib.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

TnE body Of Robt. G, Ingersoll has
been crcmated, thus all remains OF
the orator, the man Of letters, the
lawyer, the philosopher, the distin-
guished citizen, is now housed In an
urn Of small dimensions. From tho
stature aud intellect of man toashes--
the transformation Of but few days
And such Is life ana such is death
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10
THE PLANTATION HOUSE
MILWAUKEE.

The improvements in the Plankinton
house are now complete We have now
the most complete comfortable aud
homelike hotel in the state Ca The
American plan eur rates are 500 per
day and upward, and on the European
plan 81 per dsy and upward, The cafe
which we hsve added to meet the new
requirements is open from 6 a, N. g mid
night on every day u he year. IL has
an independent STAFF, including hrst-
class chez Nv special arrangement
We will spread special cloth with
exed menu Ter four or more people at
Guy hour. There IS separate room IN
the cafe fnr ladies We have also estah-
lished a lunch reom un the West Water
street side, which Is open from a. m. 70
: so n m. where meals viii be served
quickly at popular prices. Tables are 70
served for lsdtes There Is also hrst-
clss> Turkish bath establishment IN con
ncction with the house.
w. c. KING, Manager
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
TODAY'S MARKET.

PORTLAND Feb. IA. Wheat Yale,
90; Walla Walla, Gle.
Flour-Portland, $500; Supertine
S2.l5 per bbl.
Oats-Whlte 42(G43c.
HaY-SS(Gl0 per ton.
Hops-l4(0l7c; old crop 6c.
Wool-Valley, l0(9l2c; Eastern
Mlllstulf- Ban, sloi shorts, sl5
(0 Sl5 90.
Poultry--Chlckens mixed, 50 .5O(93.5O
turkeys, live, l2(6l3c.
Eggs-OregOu, 25(G27c per doz.
Hides-Green, salted 90 lbs, S(9Sic.
under 80 lbs s,6t(G7c;sheep pelts, l5(G20c,
Onions-55c(dSl per sack.
Butter-BesL dairy, 20c; fancy
creamery, 45c(G52tc per roll.
Potatoes, 65(G75c per sack.
Hogs-Heavy, Si75.
Weathers 3tc; dressed, &c
Beef-Steers, ,S3. 25(G3.50: COWS, 81. so
(G2.7j dressed, 5(G6.
SALEM MARKET.
Wheat-40.
Oats-35c.
Hay-Baled, cheat, $3.50
Flour-In wholesale lots, 1915 re-
tail $500.
Mlllstuif-Shorts $500.
Hogs-dreHsed, &c.
Live cattle--24(G3c.
Sheep-Live, S2.50(6S3.
Veal --5tc.
Butter-Dairy 20c; creamery 25c.
Wool-Best.15c Mohair 25c.
Hops. Best I6G6l7c.
Eggs l8 Ca 20 IN cash.
PoulJry-Cnickens SC; turkeys,
live, l0(Gl2ic.
Farm smoked meats-Bacon, Sc
ham, &C shoulder, &c.
PotatoeS-50c.
Apples-40c.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
A NEWSPAPER DIES.
The Albany Herald's Obituary on the
Suspension Of the Corvallis Gazette.

The Albany Herald's Obituary on the
Suspension Of the Corvallis Gazette.
The Corvallis Gazette, one of the
oldest Republican weekly newspapers
Ia the state announces that 1t will
suspend, the subscription list being
absorbed by the Corvallis Union.
Nearly 80 years ago the Gazette
started in Corvallis aud has been dur
ing most of the time Republican
paper, At one time about the mid
die '60s DR.. j. l.. Hill was one of the
editors aud proprietors OF the Gazette.
At the time or Lincoln's assassina-
tion Ben Odeneal and DR.. Hin were
owners and publishers, with Rev. b.
f. Boyakin, editor. Two or three
years afterward Wm. Carter, ex-state
printer, oought the paper and turned
1t into Good Templar's paper, IL
being the state oIiicial organ OF that
society. About 1866 Carter was at
tending temperance meeting Ia
Portland and left DR., Hill, who was
foreman, ln charge OF the Oiiice for
one issue. During the week word
reached Corvallis that California had
gone Democratic. IL was IA splendid
opportunity for some sport, so DR..
Hill turned IL into straight out
Democratic paper for that week.
Carter came hack post haste from
Portland, his wrath aroused to fever
pitch by the sudden change. IL reused
the whole temperance element In the
valley and Carter received many warm
letters from Good Templars. Carter
worked several weeks before he had
the matter back To quiet state. The
prominent Democrats In Benton
county, among them being the late
Judge Shrahan, Wm. Gird and James
Hamilton, enjoyed the joke immensely
and never tired OF tormenting
Carter about his Democratic
paper, When Carter would be absent
after that occurred he would leave
the Office Ia charge OF the "devil"
ignoring the foreman. DR., Hill never
got Carter in friendly mood until
several months afterwards when Car
ter was abent one week he warmed
up and wrote several hot temperance
articles, as a sort OF balm Of Gilead
for Carter's wounds. The paper has
had many ups and downs, but IL will
be missed by all. We are sorry TO lose
IL from our list. aud while the Union
is giving the Benton county people a
tirst.class service, still old memories
llnger around and old time names
cling TO the CoryallIs Gazette. Let
us thank IL for its good deeds and
overlook its shortcomings.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14

THE JOURNAL considers the con-
demnatlOn OF DR.. Josephi too severe.
He disdained authorship ri the bill
when he introduced the bill and he
should not be condemned for child
which he disowned when he presented
IL for adoption in the senate. IL Is
the child OF the senate, all who voted
having voted for IL, except Senator
Wade, a Populist, whom we believe
the record will disclose TO have voted
against IL. Senator JOsephi Is ex-
cusable as a professional man for be-
ing out OF touch with public senti-
ment In other domains than that OF
his particular cult or 'pathy. He
made the mistake OF supposing that
because the Portland medical board
or committee drew this bill and told
him IL was just what was wanted,
therefore IL was proper piece OF
legislation, We do not believe DR.,
JOsephi ever sat down and subjected
the medical hill that bears his name
TO a critical aGalysls from the stand
point OF metaphysical truth and a0-
stract philosophy. He never scrutl-
nized It's insiduous attempt 10 declare
the mere possession or knowledge OF
disease aud Offering the same 10
another TO be the practice OF medl-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
THE EVIL OF PARTIsANsHIP.

Editorial In the Woods, Tillamook
Co., Ocean Wave:
Party patriotism, or individual pa
trlotism 10 party, is the most SON
sumate political evil OF this aye aud
country. by IL the individual man
hood of the nation Is destroyed. The
power ~ think, each man for himself,
Is taken away. lndiYidual freedom
OF suffrage Ia subdued. Intellectual
capacity Is narrowed down 20 the
views OF Others, who are asplrants for
positions OF trust aud spoil. Through
II officers are elected, laws enacted
and administered; prejudice rules
For the past 80 years there has been
exercised much greater patriotism foI
party and spOils than for country oI
It's good. A man who steadfastly anil
liates with one certain party, regard
less OF its tenets or conduct, curses
aud abuses all other parties, Is con
sidered a patriot by that party u
which he belongs.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
foods pills cure all Liver Ills. % cents.

cine and surgery. II he had consid-
cred and understood, that feature
alone would have condemned the bill
A physician or the profession
practicing the healing art, occupies
the most sacred relation to the family
and TO the affairs OF men. women aud
children, In dealing with the persons
and health aud lives he deals with
beings Of higher than animal origin
and OF divine destiny. The progress
of the world is away from the use Of
drugs and chemicals aud toward the
domains of pschycology aud meta
physics. The physician who ignores
this fact, and struggles along in the
pestlc and mortar materialism OF the
past, is not 10 touch with the age In
which he lives. EO. j.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
Incorporated.

The following articles were lncor.
porated yesterday:
Junction City Mining Company
The capital stock of the company is
$1,000 divided into shares OF 20 cents
each, and the place of business is at
Junction City. The object OF the
company Is to engage in a general
mining business.
The convent OF st, Dominic. The
school property is valued at 81, 900, and
its source Of revenue aud income are
tuition fees, voluntary offerings. do
nations and bequests, legacies and de
vices of money and property. Those
filing the papers were Mother Maria
Pla Bockes, Sister Mary Dominica
Klein and Sister Mary Clara Nc
Henry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
THE CIVIL SERVICE
And Eyils of Parusanship Eloquently
set Forth.
CIVIL SERVICE is DEMOCRATIC.

CIVIL SERVICE is DEMOCRATIC.
Ben Trying, of Salem: The goal OF
the civil service system is efficiency, of
the spoils system, emolument. The
former throws the public service open
on equal terms TO all citizens, and
awards the positions according to
merit; the latter limits the public ser
vice To party clique. The honest
man aud the modest man, whose votes
place the party 10 power, scorn the
methods and the means by which
the baser partlsans wriggle into Of
flee; methods and means that haYe
covered the name OF politician with
obloquy and satuated the public ser
Yant with corruption.
The principle OF appointment by
merit is Democratic In the broadest
sense OF the word. If the civil service
law Is imperfect, let the law bC
amended, and above all let IL be
moulded In such terms that no weak
kneed member OF congress shall dare
TO violate IL at the behest OF politlca
flunkeys. Selection under the patron
age system may be right occasionally
and by accident; but IL is essentially
wrong in principal.
The policy or the government is the
sphere OF party. Government bust
ness is republican, the affair OF the
whole people. Party spolls In govern
ment business is robbery OF the pub
lie.
The bugaboo urged against the
civil service system is that II will pro-
duce an Otficia class. Any clsss OF
officials is an official class; and OF all
Official classes party spoilmen are the
most contemplate aud the least com
petent. The Official class that runs
alternate the whole gamut OF public
office is the caste that aught TO be
cast out.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear.
There Is only OGe way 10 cure deaf
and that Is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness Is caused by an
intiamed condition OF the mucous
lining OF the Eustachian Tute. When
this tube rs infiamed you haYe run.
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when II Is entirely closed, Deafness IL
the result, and unless the infiamma.
tiOn can be taken out and this tube
restored 10 its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out OF ten are caused by CataTFh,
which is nothing but an infamed cOu.
ditiOn OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's CataTrh Cure. Send for CIR
culars: free.
f, j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
Probate Matters.

The final account OF Frank Holmes,
administrator OF the estate OF Yer
linda Harty, deceased, came up f0I
hnal hearing ia the probate court
yesterday, and the same was approved
aud allowed and administrator dis
charged from his trust.
Henrietta Parrish, guardian OF N,
o. Parish, yesterday petitioned the
probate court for an allowance of $50
per month for the year 1899, for the
support OF said ward. The prayer
OF the petitioner was granted.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
Remembers Nothing Like I,

II was troubled with nervous head
ache and did not feel like doing any
work. l began taking Hoods Sarsapar-
lila and the headache left me. When
had taken two bottles 1 felt like work
ing. l now feel better than | ever
remember OF feeling before. EDMUND
g. LUNNER, Soda Springs, Idaho.
Hoods Pills cure all liver i'll. Easy
TO take, easy 10 operate; reliable,
sure. 25c.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
Notice.

The annual meeting Of the John A
Logan, Veteran Reunion Association
for the election Of officers for the en-
suing year, will take place at G.. A. r.
Hall, Mehama, Or, on Feb. IL, 1890.
All that are interested are cordially
invited TO attend.
MRS. ANNA CAsHATT,
Vice President,
JOHN w. IRVINE,
Secretary.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-02-14
A Social Event.

The Misses May and Florence
Grierson gave a party and entertained
about forty OF their friends last Fri
day evening at their hOme north Of
Salem. The evening was spent 10
dancing, social converse and cards.
The guests all pronounced them the
best OF entertainers.