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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
The Wife and Mother-in-Law Of MI.
Charles Keys.

Clarlssa. Mimi, April 15.-(Spscial.l
No family in this vicinity is better
known or more universally respected,
than Mr.. Charles Keys, the local school
teacher, and his eStimable wife, and
nlother-in law. For long time Mrs.
Keys has been in i'll health. Recently,
however. she has found a cure for her
ailments in Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Il caunot speak too highly Of Dodd's
Kidney pills, or of what they have
done for me" said Mrs. Keys.
My life was miserable my back al
ways ached, also my head. | was trou-
bled with Neuralgia in the head and
face ana suffered extreme pain, but
thanks to Doad's Kidney Pills, all those
aches ana pains have vanished like the
morning dew, ana it now seems that
life is worth living. consider Dodd's
Kidney Pills n Gol.send to suffering
humanity. They may rightly be named
the Elixir of Youth.
While speaking of my own case and
the wonderful benefit | have received,
| might also add that my mother, who
is now an old lady of 4. years and who
lives with me- has been troubled more
VI ieS9 WIN aNhto anu paihs, as 10 udS'
ural with one of her advanced age.
When she saw what Dodd's Kidney
Pills had done for me she commenced
to use them herself, and she says that
they have done her more good than
any other medicine she has ever tried.
This testimony Is given in the hope
that others who may be afflicted as we
We're may see and read it, and be benz
flied by it,"
What Mrs. Keys states in her letter
can be verified by reference to any OF
her many friends in this neighborhoOd.
Dodds Kidney Pills have already
wonderful reputation in Todd County.
Nothing has ever cured Brights Dis
ease. Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18

Monterey. Cal. April l2.-Apostle
George @. Cannon of the Norm N
church died here, after brief Illness.
Mr. Cannon was about rs years OF age.
He was one of the leading men of
Utah and of the Mormon church The
body was taken to San Francisco for
embalming, after which it was sent to
Utah Mr. Cannon, accompanied by
his wife and physician, came here two
weeks ago suffering from d nervous af
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
Tattooed Women.

SO far has the craze for Japanese
things affected some women with
much leisure time upon their hands
that they are having odd little de
signs worked upon their arms and
shoulders in faint delicate tints. An
with butterfly on her upper arm and
1t became q rage in London to have
some design OF the sort done on the
flesh. Old-fashioned tA.iooing was
dcne crudely with q needle. which
often infiamed and irrttated the skin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18

lection. His sickness assumed ser
lou form about one week ago, and
members OF the family We're SUM
moned from Salt Lake. Former Unit
ed States Senator Frank ] Cannon
his son, was summoned fl ON Wash.
ington and there WAS al the bedside
in addition 10 his wife, who is a daugh
ter OF Brigham Young, her two chill
dren, three grown sol9 Of Apostle
Cannon and his nephew.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
Dones site.

owner sof a controlling interest
in Burlington road refused to sell to
the Morgan-HiIl syndicate
A youthful husband at Louisville.
killed his bride and himself after
reading about Bluebeard.
The deatn of George @. Cannon. one
OF the apostles of the Mormon church.
is momentari,y expected,
Colonel W f. Randolph was APP
pointed chief of artillery, Miles can
didate was turned down.
T.. b. Whtcomb, for twenty years
editor of the Des Moines Mail and
Times, died, aged 66 years.
Husbands were picked out for 800
Indian maidens at an Easter sacrifice
dance" in Darlington, Okla
Mrs. Susan A. Harding, widow of
General Abner C. Harding, died at
Monmouth. H., aged sc years.
The government April wheat report
indicated Il crop of 44i,3l2,l6 bushels.
100000 600 in excess of last year
The details Of n drygoods combine
were announced by j. Z. Morgan & Co
II will take In stores in many cities
l.. u. Letter sold his controlling in
terest in the First National Bank of
Topeka to G.. J Devlin for $l36,000
Colonies Barr and Clous are making
a hard fight to succeed Judge Advo-
cate General Lieber, who rctires May
q
ExRepresentative u, j. Hammond
OF Pontiac, Mich, was convicted OF
seeking a bride while in the legisla-
ture
Bishop Henry NJ Turner OF the
African Methodist church advocates
the Punishment OF negro criminals to
Africa
George p, Match eastern agent fo-
the St Paul and Tacoma Lumber
company. formerly OF Chicago, died at
Dubuque.
Charles Wellender, city treasurer Of
Phthpsburg, Mont, has been arrested
charged with embczzling s2,0O0 Of pub.
lie funds,
Mayor Harrison of Chicago took the
oath OF Office for his third term. The
council was organized on a poupar.
tisan basis.
4 restaurant ar Battle Creek was
wrecked by employees ~ the owner
OF the site who took this means to
yUaf .anant
Congressman lIulrs departure for
tn Philippines IS taken to mean chat
COuEgr is mott . candidate F,r ,..,v
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
LOCAL
and
CLIMATIC

Nothing but 8 locaI
remedy o. change OF eli
EzA.e viii cure
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
Spooner in WASHINGTON

Washington, April Ex-senator
Spooner called at the war department
to urge the speedy appointment OF a
number of Wisconsin men he has rec.
commended for army appointment
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
Ends Life With Acid.

Eau Claire, Wis. April 1S.-Ars-
George ". Lockin, aged So. committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid. She
leaves a husband ct Wilton.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
SWELL GAMING.
II Is Carried on With Great Luxury
In New York.

The place where society CANDLES in New
York is few steps west of Madison square
"a fine old mansion, entered after a short
flight of brownstone.
The utmost caution prevails. and the
warder at the gates of this anterOom of
purgatorio scans every applicant with the
practiced glance Of the gamblers Cerbc-
rus, bowling obsequiously or thrusting tho
applicant back beyond the pale.
Within, the brilliancy of the place quite
staggers after the density of the night
There is an odor of gentility, even solcm
nifty, prevailing, and in the silence through
the rift in the hum of voices comes the
whir of the marble bounding against the
ceaselesS roulette wheel, the pa'A Of
chips and the low drone of the dealers
Over various games young men and old.
almost all in evening dress, are bent in
deep interest, like doctors at q clinic.
They one and all bear the aspect of men to
whom the loss or gain of Il few hundred
dollars is an episode entailing no econ
omies in defeat, calling for no extrava-
gance5 in the smile of fortune. Many
smoke, their perfectoS lifting a fragrant in
ccnse before this shrine of the red tiend
while a few, wcared Of play perhaps.
withdraw to a coy nook to discuss tho
latest London fad or avenue scandal. re-
tail bon mot or con the prOsy stocks.
At one end of thickly carpetcd cham
Der there stands broad table with SHIN
mering plate and sparkling glass Offering
bountics that would tempt an epicurc even
in sated nr)mcnt. The lighter wines and
liquors are on free draft and occasion
ally, when there enters q little company of
young revclerS given to more than liberal
excess, a quiet hammered man seen wan
dering among his guests gives a sigma,
and champagne flows gencrously.-Cri-
tpron
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
BAYARO TAYLOR.
The Wonderful Memory of the Penn
sylvania Author

Let me recall noted son Of Pennsvlv,
mia, Bayari Taylor, who has taken an
honored place among the authors and
poets Of the yaSt generation. His memory
was as remarkable as was his habit from
childhood of storing 1t with those things
in literature which he most cnioycd
Reading" " we are told, had Charms for
him from his earliest years, hss mother
having taught him to read by the time he
was years old He showed great anti
tude also for committing poe try 70 mem
ory. In the evening, after he had gone to
bed, his mother would hear him repeating
poem after poem to his brother, who slept
in the same room with him." The eager
ness with which the boy read is measured
by the hold which his memory kept on
those early readings. Years afterwaru
when on his travels, poems that he had
learned or books from the library that ne
had read came back to him as he visited
in person many places which he had
known in imagination.
Poetry" he writes, "had great influ-
ence over me from childhood, and today
the poems live in memory which l learned
at the age of Z or s years and which drove
me to desperate attempts at imitation
have been surprised to find myself repeat
ing songs, without the failure of line or
word, which I learned from q Mexic .n
when a schoolboy and had not thought of
for 90 years The unused drawer Of my
mind had somehow been unlocked or
broken open while l slept"
Mr. Boyesen says of him: "He could
quote by the hour English, German. Ital-
ian and even Swedish poetry, and appar
emily have inexhaustible treasures in re-
serve. A single reading sometimes suf-
feed to fix a poem indelibly in his mem
Dry. I never happened TO allude to any
passage in the first part Of Faust, Of
which he made a translation, that he
could not recitc it at moments notice.
verify believe that he could repeat this
poem from beginning to end j. p. Nc
Caskcy in Pennsylvania School Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
SLEEPING IN THE DARK,
ruin seems Easier to Bear when the
Sufferer Has LiRht.

All who have suffered from toothache
know to their sorrow that the pains in
crease as the night grows older. A tooth
acne which during the day intcriercd but
little with our enjoyment of life is likely
TO develop during the hours of darkness,
INTO veritable terror that makes us
curse the accident of our birth. 1t is the
same with an earache, asthmatic troubles,
etc' Asthma is most likely to develop
into smothcring nightmare between the
hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. III.
AT the Vienna university DIR. Gold
schneider has told the reason in paper
read before his class He thinks the dark
ness prevainng IN the average bedroom il
at lault. Light, he says, plays IA greater
part IN the pathology of aches than most.
people imagine Those are, generally
speaking. the healtkicst members of the,
human family who live in sunlit, well
aired rooms and who move about in the
sun as much as practicable.
III IN daytime we are stricken with pain,
our sufferings are certainly less. relative
~ speaking, than they would be if the
inaiady had seized us at night. for light,
and sunshine soothc our feelings and do
not Sllow us to abandon ourselves to tho
feeling of pain
When night comes the painful scnsa-
tlonS increase. They are bearahlc as long
as we are in the gas or lamplght, but be
come intense the moment we stretch out
in bed, envclopcd by stiffness and dark
ness. \ lessening of the pain is observa-
bic only after sunrise
What does it mcan?' asks tho doctor
That darkness and stiffness are not con
ducive to the comfort of sick people
Therefore l say, if you have pains in the
evening, do not rob yourself of the sooth-
ing effects of a lamp. In ninety nine out
OF hundred cases the presence Of a light
In the sickroom alleviates pain
For the same reasons do not let your
children sleep in the dark if they prefer a
light. The denial of a night light has
made children i'll with heart disease If
children refuse to sleep in the dark, it
may be assumed that there is some physical
or mental reason for it which we ought to
respect.
From the above rules nervous people
are exempt. Some of them absolutely re-
fuse to find rest until all is quiet and dark
about them. | have found that in cases
OF megrim, neuralgia pain in one side of
the head, nothing would do but to place
the patient in an absolutely dark and still
room, if possible at the top Of the house I
advise that people suffering from sick
headache should interrupt their day work
and take themselves for quarter Of an
hour to a darkcned room proof against
noises. Nature has put two great remedies
in our hands-light and darkness Suffer.
ers should find ont for themselves which
best agrees with them"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
Hicks story.

1t was in 1917 that Hicks first made a
county name as u witty racontcur. IN
that year sir Samuel Spry, who had been
member for BGdmin since the great re-
form bill lost his seat. and in petulant
mood took legal proceedings against Hicks
on the ground that he had abused his oil-
cial position u influence voters at the poll,
In the course of the trial Hicks was called
upon to state what he had to say III his
defense.
In the course of his statement he asked
leave of the court to illustrate his position
by a story. His request being asscnted TO,
he related how few days previously he
had been to see a lad whom he knew well
who was laid up from fall from vicious
donkey, which had kicked out all his 'front.'
teeth. The lad, said Hicks. had taken the
matter in the most kindly way, and had
said to him. . 'Tisn't the fall, Mr.. Hicks,
and 'tisn't the vally Of the teeth what an
noys me. but It's the nashty, gashly, wish
Gus disposition of the jackasS
Sir samuel Spry sprang up IN the Wen
OF the court in fury and exclaimed, He
has callet, me jackass." The court was
convuIsed with laughter, and Hicks was
promptly and fully acquitted of the trump
erv charge brought against him.-Corn-
hill Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
TT HIGH DIVE.
How the Thrilling Circus Act Is Safe
I. Performed.

About the fist thing I teach my pu-
pills, - said trainer Of circus gymnasts.
lis how to fall That. you know, is the
secret Of the great head dive from the
roof which remains up to date the great
est invention in the way OF gymnastic
tricks that the world has seen"
1t looks almost % perilous to be in
tercsting," I venturcd.
But it is not in tho least dangerous, if
one only knows how to fall" he con-
tinued. Now, if the unframed performer
should attempt to fall in net from any
height whatever, he would be almost sure
to break some bones. Should he stretch
ont his arm to save himself he would be
very likely to break it III two places.
Should he light on his heels he might
break his leg, or, more likely, pitch for
ward and break his jaw. But Just fill
your lungs with air and hold them full,
double yourself up into knot leaving no
limb free, and fall on the back of your
shoulders just above the shoulder blades,
and you can fall from what height you
like and come to no hurt. This explains
the cannon and catapult tricks
Why, once we attempted the catapult
trick in hall where the roof was so low
that we had to sink the catapult below the
floor. The gymnast forgot all about hav-
ing his net lowered corresponding dis
tance, and. when shot l50 feet forward and
upward at the same time. didn't he come
down underneath the net and land slap
bang on his shoulders on the bare floor! !!
We picked him up for dead You may
hardly believe me, but it had only knocked
the wind out of him and shaken him up a
bit. The next night he was performing
az usual. That just shows what the mus
cles of the shoulders, together with an
elastic cushion OF air in the lungs, will re-
sist. Then. Of course, in the case of gym
nasts the muscles become as hard rs iron
and furnish a great protection for the
bones >
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

Work commenced, last week. at the
Houlton Creamery. The outlook for a
successful run this year is very bright.
Mrs. J. +. Toothakcr Of Phillips. has
iour lcghorn pullct3 that laid in A
udys, commencing Jan. -, ~ eggs.
A a. Everett. Jr., of oxford. raised
IN his kitchen this winter. a plump
green cucumber, weighing Y. pounds.
Alden Robbins of Appleton. one of
'he reading, up-to-datc farmers Of
'hat place has among his herd Of
cows q Durham hcifcr that averages
"t"ut II pounds Of butter per week
1hlS year promises to be the biggest
lor the shipment Of potatoes that
Aroostook county has ever seen. in
'he year 1900 the shipments Of the
potato crop of 1899 over the B. & \.
to 1854 3Gi bushels. The
shipments to date from the crop Of the
season Of 1900. which Of course. il last
crop. that have been made
over the road for points beyond Ban
Sor amount to l.S9G,l42 bushels which
shows an increase Of 2l1.77S bushels
for the same period over the amount
shipped last year These figures, too.
do not include the shipments over the
Canadian Pacific.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
ABEL DRUGGER
The Powerful Spell Wrought Nv r.
vId Garrlck In That p.-.

Garrick acted Abel Drueper in
| densed version of 1.-The Alchemist - I'LL, in
| 1.-THE ApOithecary." 1t was said .,s y.
performani o that it "would disconcon. .,s n's
muscular economy of the wisest H;s .ne -.
titude, his dread of offending tho aicho', S a.
, ist, his say ing nothing, his gradua, a.oA,
ing in farther and farther, his imna,io,s". i.al,
to be introduced, are imitable hv no."
When he FIRST opens his mouth ~ no' nv
lures Of his countenance seem. as !, 80 "
to drop upon his tongue. 1t is all canton
1t Is timorous, stalhmerlng and inexprcss.
ible. When he STANDS under the coniurer
TO have his features examined, his teeth
his beard, his little finger, his awkward
simplicity and his concerns, mixed with
hope and fear and JOY and avarice and
good nature, are beyond painting 90"
Such hgh colnpliihent may or NAV not
have been deserved. At any rate Ca,u;',D ~
made powerful impression, and a good
story is told of the effect he prodrcaS -.
the part. A Lichtield grocer had come nm
to town with letter OF recommendation
to Garrick from his brother Peter Arriv.
ing in the evening, he went to the gallery
TO sec the wonderful actor of whom bo
had heard 80 much, intending to deliver
his credentials next morning But Car.
rick played Abel Drugger, and 50 diseust-
ed the grocer that he would not o. noar
him.
Though Mr.. Garrick be your brother +"
said he to Peter, he is one of the shah
biest, meanest, most ptiful hounds that
ever saw in the whole course Of nv life ,,
A young lady who had fallen desperate
ly in love with Garrick and had emplcved
go between TO make overtures of mar
riage was 50 disillusioned by his ap,car
ance i'll the character that She could never
again endure the thought of him.
Another highly successful exponent of
the part was Thomas Weston. the son Of
the chief cook in the royal kitchen and
holder of the office of 'turnbronch' in the
culinary department of George lis cstab
lishment. Having performed Druggcr at
Drury Lane while Garrck was abroad. he
was so highly applauded that he at length
obtained an engagement thcre.-Ncw
York Times
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
ReaXers' Rolling Xnys.

Beavers. the only warm biooded animals
which habitually do heavy transport by
land provide for all contingencies by cut
ting rolling ways" biting off all stumps
and obstacles and do their log rolling
along these toward the water. There is
very little doubt that were it at all neccs-
sary to their comfort other animals would
have hit on the same expcdicnts. Thus
beavers have three kinds of roads-thcir
ordinary tracks near the water, their
canals and the log rolling roads. This is
quite in accordance with the very high de
gree of their social development as com
pared with other animals.
Variety of roads is a mark of progress
among the beasts as among men. Even
in Europe there are many degrees Of this
exhibition of civilization. The Dutch are
the representatives of the beavers among
men. On the route from The Hague to
Scheveningen, for instance, there lie par
allel to each other a carriage road. a ca
nal, bicycle track, light railway, side
paths regularly constructed and in places
little tracks, or katz -passen," made by
trespasserS. Spectator.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
THE COLOR OF SNOW.
Why 1t Il Generally White, hut Some.
times Red

Inc whlte color of snow is the result of
the combination of the different prismatic
rays issuing from the minute snow crvs-
'ais' rounded glass and foam give anal
ogons Illustrations of the prismatic coiors
n'ehding together and forming the white
,ight out or which they had been original
formed. The air contained in the crvs-
tais ihtensliics the whiteness of the snow
Inc snow, from its loose texture and tho
lact That 1t contains about ten times its
bulk of air, is "a very bad conductor of heat
anu th'is forms an admirable covering for
the earth from the effects of radi.tion il
not lnfrequcntly happening in times of
great cold that the soil is 40 degrees warm
or than the surface of tho ovcrlying snow
The apparent redncss of snow as seen
from distance is often an effect of light
which adds a peculiar charm to mountain
ana winter landscapes, particularly in the
mornings and evenings. when the rays of
the sun fall most obliquely on the surface
OF the snow. But snow is occasionally
found both in polar and Alpine regions of
a really red color. This phenomenon
seems TO have been observed by the an
clients, as passage in Aristotle apparent
~ refers to il, but it attracted no attention
IN modern times till 1860, when Saussure
observed it in the Alps and from chemical
experiments concluded that the red color
was owing to the presence Of some vegeta-
bic substance, which he supposed might
he the pollen of II plant.
The next observations on red snow were
made III the arctic expedition under Cap
tam Ross, when it was found extending
over range of cliffs on the shore of Baf-
lin bay for eight miles, the red color pen
etrating the snow in some places to a
depth of u feet. On the return of the ex-
pedition in 1919 the coloring matter as
then existing in the melted red snow was
subjected to careful examination by Rob
crt Brown and by Francis Bauer, the
former most eminent bOtanist pronounc-
ing it to he produced by a unicellular plant
Of the order algr. Baron Wrangel after
ward declared it to be n lichen and called
II Leprasia kermesina. But DR. Greville
of Edinburgh, who obtained specimens
from the Scottish island of Lismore, on
further examination returned to the opin-
ion of Brow. an opinion which has since
been fully co, .irmed, and the plant is gen
orally know. by the name Protacoscus
niyaliS
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
Humors of school inspection.

An inspector was examining the 6-year
olds in object lessons before the vicar and
his lively daughter thus: What is this
made of" producing n penny
Children-Copper-
mo, children, you are mistaken it is
made of bronze, which is n mixture of tin
and copper. Now, what is it made of?'
Children-BronZc.
And this" Showing sixpcncc)
Childrcn-Silvcr.
"Quitc right, and this?" fumbling for
a half sovereign, but, on failing TO find it,
rashly hourishing his seal ring in their
faccs)
Children Ito the infinite amusement of
the wears lively daughter)
My dear children, no! It's gold. Look
more closely at 1t. Now-yes, you may
hand it round-now, what use do you
think have for this ring?"
Little Girl-Please, sir, to be married
with. (Vicar's daughter convulsed in the
corner)
NO, no! Men don't wear wedding
rings But, when your father seals let
ter what does he do it with"
Little Boy (briskly)-Please, sir, a
brass fardeni-Cornhill Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-14
DiJn't Wait For the "Picture."

During Stonewall jackson S campaign
in the Shenandoah valley it became heces-
sary that bridge over small CREEK
should be built in great haste. -,
One evening Jackson sent for his old
pioneer captain Myers by name. anu
nointed out to him the urgency of the oc-
casiop. saving that he would send him the
nIon of his colonel of engineers as soon as
it was done.
Next morning jackson rode down TO
Myers quarters and, saluting the veteran,
said Captain, did you get the piah III
the bridge from Colonel -?
WELL" said the captain, "the brldee'
general, is built, but don't know wneth'
or the picture is done or not!'