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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-04-17
Daily Stage
BETWEEN
MINERAL POINT & D0DCEvILLE
MORRIS PROCTOR, Prop.

Stage runs daily. except Sunday. leaving
Mineral Point at 745 a. H.. and Dodgeville be-
tween and 2 y. m.
Connects at Dodgeville with trair on C.t& N.
W, R'y, for Madison, Milwaukee. etc, and al
Mineral Point with 1880 D. m. train on &. ~
st. p. Ry for Platteville, Darlington, Skulls
burg, Monroe and Evansville.
Calls left at the Hotels. Mineral Point
will receive prompt attention. ~ FARE 500,
Phone 1876.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-04-17
DELINQUENT TAX LIST
srArEs' or wlsooSsIS, COUNTY OF IowA,-ss.

STATE or WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF IowA,-ss.
Notice is hereby given that so much of each
part or parcel of land, city or village lot, des-
cr:bed il the following list. may he neces-
sary for the purpose, Will, IN the third Tues
day, being the Goth day Of May. A. b.. 1882, and
the next succeeding days thereafter be sold
by me at public auction. at my office at the
county and state for the payment Of delin-
quent taxes for the year of 1901. which have
been returned TO this Office delinquent prior
to this date, by the treasurers of the several
towns. cities and villages in the county of
Iowa and state of Wisconsin. to-Wit:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-04-17
Small Place For Safe.

House with four rooms and base
ment, summer kitchen, closets, well
and cistern and barn. Over one acre
of land. This property is situated
near Zinc works and will be sold
cheap aud on reasonable terms. For
particulars see ]. b. REYNOLDS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-04-17
For Sale by ALL DRUGGISTS.

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send inse
address
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-04-17
The Cow the Year Round.

The COW should have good care
twelve months in the year. She should
give milk ten months and rest two
months. During the latter time she
should have little or no concentrated
food and the last forty-eight hours be-
fore calving have laxative food.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Few Reliriou. Catherine.

The approaching spring and summer
season will have in it fewer big re-.
hgious gatherings than for several
years There are no unusual confer
ences or congresses either in America,
to which English and foreign delegates
viii come, or abroad. to be attended by
people from this side. If some mis-
s1onary meetings planned by Episco-
pai1ans, and to be held next Advent,
be excepted. there is hardly anything
that is not routine, and in the routine
conventions and conferences there in
hardly question of supreme import
ance to be considered OF the FIVE
large bodies OF young people, only
three hold conventions this year, and
none of the three is the large body
capable of bringing people together by
the thousands. The Baptist Young
Peoples Union meets in Providence
July 1913. the Brotherhood of ST. An
drew in Boston November 1913, and
the Luther League in St. Paul and
Minneapolis in the fall the exact date
not yet decided. There is to be q Con-
gregational convention in Seattle In,
July, but apart from this there IL
nothing of special character. Even
the Bible conferences. such as the
Wlnona and NorthfieId, will be rou-
tine, and the Chautauquas will not dif-
fer from former years.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
FIa |[z:lzq + DANCE

cohol, for the reason that while they
are well aware Of it's dangerous and
poisonous qualities, they nevertheless
contribute to making permanent the
false ideas concerning the value and
effects of alcohol which are SO gen.
orally disseminated. KassowitZ ex-
plains these inconsistencies on the
ground that the teaching which con-
siders alcohol a food, because it is
burned in the organism, has held it's
ground in spite of many disregarded
newer Investigations which have
shown its indefensibility. He is,
therefore, of the opinion that the as
sumption ascribing food properties to
alcohol based on simple theoretical
consideration is grave scientific err
ror, the removal of which is the most
important preliminary condition to an
effectual battle against alcoholism
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

Miss Jessie Ackerman. who has been
travelling in Japan, writes suggestive
ly of the Prohibition Island in the
japanese group. /: is said that sever
al years ago the 200 people on the is
land entered into solemn compact
to drink nc more Of their native drinks
and not to allow any other intuXicants
to be. landed on their shores. They
We're a drinking people, having con-
sumed in one year $50 casks of "saki."
the native drink. There were those, of
course. who were opposed to the
compact; but, finally, all signed it. and
it has been kept. The situation at the
end of the first five years is summed
up in these words: Crime is almost
unknown. poverty d thing of the past.
and general prosperity has been the
reward of au unpopular innovation"
The most significant thing about this
account is the statement that this ac-
ton was taken where the principles
of Christianity were unknown, and
where moral sentiment was consid-
cred TO be far below par. Rams
Horn.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Thought Fight Was Coming.

A Fifeshire farmer gave his herd
1addie, Jamie, ticket to admit him to
a sacred recital in a neighboring town
The farmer was greatly surprised to
ind his servant in the kitchen long
before Che conclusion of the perform
ance, and upon asking him why he
had returned from the recital, Jamie
replied: "Weel, master, ae man von-
der began to sing, I'm the King of
Glory then anither said he was the
King of Glory" and when I saw three
ithers standfn' up an sayin' they were
the Kings o. Glory I kent there was
to be fecht, SO I cam ava an left
them to finish it anon themseIs''-
Dundee Advertiser.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
FENImoRE cooPEa's GREAT WORK
he Created Three Dis stinct and Notable
Types of Fiction.

Types of Fiction.
re" American romancers have writ
ten so many books as James Fenimore
cooper; none achieved, like him the
honor OF having created three distinct
and notable types of fiction. 1t is not
TOO much to say that Cooper's novel,
ne Pilot, set the fashion for all
sea stories that followed it; his "Leath-
erstocklng tales We're the progepitors
or the hundreds of romantic tales of
hfe and adventure among the Indians
and his Spy was the first great novel
with scenes and chara cters of the Rev.
olutionary war. 1t must be admitted
also, that no other author of high re-
pute wrote books so widely different
in merit and interest some OF his
stories are so weak as TO be scarcely
known. by name. even to his heartiest
admirers, Yet to-day, more than half
a century after his death. some Of his
books are in steady demand at all the
libraries in the land. and several pub
fishers find profit in issuing new edi-
uons for individual purchasers. No
other American nOvelist's works have
been so heartily received in Europe as
We're Cooper's or have been as highly
praised by foreign romancers Of high.
reputation. Comm endation as high as
was lavished upon some of Cooper's
stories by Sir Walter Scott. Miss Edge
worth. BalZac and the elder Dumas
would astonish and delight the great
est American novelist to-day, who
ever he may be. Not only were his
greater books translated into most
languages of Europe. but at least one
OF them. The Spy is still read IN
Arabic and Persian.-John kabbertop
In the Era
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

Agnes Reppler in her book on cats
entitled The F'ireside Sphinx" tells
of the following legend, giving the
exact account of the origin of the do
mestic cat and the peculiar work that
she was created for:
The cat sprang into existence at
the deluge. for during the long weeks
in which the ark foated over the
waste of waters the rats and the mice
increased so alarmingly that the com
fort-if there was any comfort-of the
inmates was threatened with destruc-
ton. Then Noah. equal TO the emer-
gency. passed his hand three times
over the head Of the lioness and lol
she sneezed forth the cat
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

Mr. Clark was telling how the Chi
nese endeavor TO evade the present
exclusion law, and of the large mum
Der who, because OF the decision of the
supreme court holding that the child
born in this country Of Chinese par
ents is an American citizen, claim to
have been born here. There were. he
said, instances where Cinnamon forty
years of age had eudeavored to get
in on the ground that they were the
minor children of Chinese parents re-
siding in this country. 1T is IN apso-
lutte fact" he continued. that the rec
ords Of the California courts show that
one Chinese woman out there is the
mother OF no less than FIVE hundred
children"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

II seems TO me 10 be duty to al
ways look Oh and look for the bright
side of things. Life is a different thing
TO him who looks ont from the 1ladow
in his heart from what it ought tc be.
II is easy to eXaggerate an evil or a
misfortune, and the imaginative can
brood over sorrow no bigger than
a dime until it covers the whole earth.
To magnify our joys and to minimize
our sorrows is one OF the secrets of
human happiness. To cherish grief
or disappointment and brood over it,
as l have known men and women TO
do. is TO give it proportions to which
IL has no rightful claim. 1t grows hy
your encoura cement until it is the only
thing in sight, and, like a despot rules
you with an iron will. 1t may be only
a dwarf. but you will make it giant
In doing this you not only take a false
view OF life, but you render yourself
incapable of making a strenuous Of
fort, tying your own hands with an
imaginary cord Nature has her
rough and terrible moods, but on the
Whole she is heneficent. The general
trend is to produce happiness. and in
most cases the misery from which we
suffer is caused by some willful or ig-
norant infraction of law. There are
more bright than gloomy days in the
years, more smiles than tears in every
ones life. We take the good as a mat
ter of course and strai ghtway forget
1t: we linger over the painful mo-
ments and cherish their memory A
sturdy effort to make a good use of a
hard experience would rub away its
cSfing edges, but, we bivouac in
pleasant things and keep permanent
home in the unpleasant.-George Hep
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

Timidiry. There is one of mans
curses. 1t destroys the promising ca
reer. 1t checks the rising man at the
moment of success.
Whisky is the father of timidty.
Whisky gives the temporary false
courage that is followed by apathy and
timidity.
Who is the commonest murderer, the
murderer of whom you read every
day?
He is the man naturally sood-natur-
ed by character. kind enough when
sober but rendered combative and
murderously furious by whisky.
What is the history of the diseased
man who goes in the ambulance TO the
public hospital and thence to the pot
ters field?
1t is the history of a man born
healthy, naturally able TO work and to
enjoy good health-whose health and
power for work have been destroyed
by whisky or other strong drink.
What is the story of many broken
hearted mother, and what is the story
OF the women who work among the
unfortunates in big cities?
1t is always the same story-good
moral character, good family infitI-
ences destroyed, life and soul wrecked
by drink.-Chicago American.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
olsvsassr ROGUE IN ENGLAND
Man Capable of Making american Sharp
srA Look to Their Laurela.

SrA LOOK to Their Laure1s.
A person of distinct genius has just
been sentenced to seven years penal
servitude in Liverpool His name is
Charles William Burrows. He be-
gan life as druggists assistant
Later he was member of stro.ling
theatrical troupe Then he exhibited
a fake bullet-proof coat. When this
was played out he bought the prac-
tice and residence of a doctor, al
though he had not penny in his
possession at the time. On the
strength of the purchase, however. he
managed to borrow 1875 and the doc
tors horse and carriage He then
formed a syndicate to manufacture q
apparatus devised by him to generate
electricity in new way For several
months he drew a big salary as
manager of the syndicate and borrow
ed money right and left Incidentally
he married three different women. He
also managed to get himself appoint
ed as assistant house surgeon in
prominent hospital. and held the pos;
for several weeks before the authori-
ties discovered that he was not doe
tor at all. BY that time he had made
hay in the form of more loans from
everybody in sight
When he was arrested at last be-
sides these charges there were the fol-
lowing against him: Larceny of pos
tai orders, larceny of horse and
wagon larceny of silver flute. lar
ceny OF an electrical push button. lar
ceny OF a watch and passing a bogus
check for $3.50
The authorities hope against reason
that he will not succeed in stealing
the prison.-New York Press
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

Bear in mind that there is NO such
day as Tomorrow. 1t is a will-o'-the-
wisp, an ignis fatuus. a quicksand, a
mirage. fools paradise. Tomorrow
does not exist at all. If it comes, it
Will be a to-day. Learn then to pray
and to plan, to speak, and to do to-
day. No good thing ever was accom-
plshed tomorrow. This is why every
day is dooms-day: for to-day holds
life and death. character and destiny
in its living hands. Yesterday is bur-
led: tomorrow is unborn; therefore,
Behold, now is the accepted time; be-
hold, now is the day of salvation"
Let us quit mortgaging the future;
let us blot out the deceptive fatal
word Tomorrow" from cur vocabu-
larry. Only misfortune and failure
can come from yielding to its mis~
chievous illusion.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

An English preacher recently used
the following illustration: once there
was brier growing in a ditch, and
there came along a gardner, with his
spade. AS he dug around it and lifted
it out, the brier said to itself. What
is he doing that for? Does not he
know that l am only an old worthless
brier? Then the gardner took it into
the garden and planted it amid his
flowers, while the brier said, What a
mistake he has made, planting an old
brier like myself among such rose
trees as these! But the gardner came
once more with is keen-edged knife.
made a slit in the brier and, as we
say in England, 'budded' it with
rose, and by and by, when summer
came, lovely roses were blooming on
that old brier. Then the gardner said:
Your beauty is not due to that which
came out, but to that which l put into
yoa.'~
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
-s:s
Relis ious Work in Belgium.

The recent yearly report of the
Christian Missionary church of Bel
GUM shows that there are sixty
churches or halls, with thirty-four
pastors, and fifteen evangelists and
colporteurs. The past year has been
full of encoura cement. Open-air
preaching at one town. Thulin, was SO
successful as to lead to the organiza-
ton of a church there. Converts in
one village have carried the glad It'd
ings TO an adjoining town and the in
terest aroused has required the open
ing Of a meeting hall. Fifteen Sunday
schools were organized during the
year, bringing the total up to seventy
eight. One-third OF the attendants at
the schools are children of Roman
Catholic parents.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Each in His own Name

"A fre mist and planet,
a crystal and cell:
A 1eliyfish and saurian.
Then sense of law and beauty,
And a face turned from the clod-
Some cali 1t Evolution,
And others call il God.
haze on the far horizon,
The infinite tender sky;
The ripe. rich tints OF the cornfelds.
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the Eoldeprod-
Some Of us call il Autumn,
And others call It God.
Like the tide on crescent sea beach,
"hen the moon is new and thin,
into our hearts high yearnings
Come welling and surging in
tonne from the mystic ocean
Whose rim no foot has tro6-
Some of us cali it Longing.
And others can 1t God.
a picket frozen on duty.
a mother starved for her brood.
socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood
me million who. humble and nameless.
The straight. hard pathway trod-
some can IL Conservation,
-anu others call It God.
Prof. Csrruth in New York Times.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Frohibition,st Victories.

In Mississippi sixty-four of the sew
enty-five counties are Prohibition.
thanks to local option. In Louisiana
the Prohibitionists have carried four
teen parishes and number of towns.
wards and smaller divisions. for in
Louisiana and Texas, local option
elections can be had in any precinct
whe''e the voters demand it. In Texas
siNty-two counties and some extra pre-
cincts have been Won to prohibition.
This is a total of 1+0 counties with
slightly more than two and a half mil
lion population. All this region many
times as large as Maine and with
population four times as great, has
been won by the Prohibibtionists
mainly within the last ten years. md
they are extending their domain every
year. In all this country the laws
against the sale of liquor are as radi-
cal as in Maine: and they are much
better enforced than in that state.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

Ihe mind wants Temedying and set
ting right many times a day. 1t re-
sembles compass placed on a rickety
table: the least stir OF the table makes
the needle swing around and point un-
true. Let II settle. then, till it points
Alright. Be perfectly silent for few
moments. thinking OF Jesus. There is
an almost divine force in silence.
Drop the thing that worries. that ex-
cites, that interests. that thwarts you;
let it fall like sediment to the bot
tonl, until the soul Is no longer turbid:
and say, secretly: Grant, ! beseech
thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful
servant pardon and peace; that may
be cleansed from all my sins and serve
thee with a quiet mind. Bishop
Huntington
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Powerful I.rraign ment of Whisky.

Whether men speak of the prize
fighter whose courage failed, or of the
fnancier whose nerves went to pieces
at the critical moment. or of the writ
er whose imagination and will died
out the story viii be the same:
He took TO whisky and that was
the END Of him" Deceit is another
sign OF mental decay. The lie in the
of the tree-iJ sounds hollow. it tells
Of decay.
Whisky is The father of lying. VINO
believes the drunkard's story%
He tells how he happened TO drink
too much-the fudge does not even lis
ten. No one Iistens-al know he is
probably lying.
He swears that he will never drink
again. The whisky is swearing and
lying. No one believes him-except
perhaps some poor. confding woman
whom nothing can discourage.
From drink comes boastins-an-
other kind of lying.
From drink men get lying, disease,
obstinacy-td tdio you ever see sober
men trying to s@1ke a drUukard go
home ?)-brutality cruelty docs any
but the drunken man murder his own
children ?)-anG many other vices that
destroy them.
What single good thing comes from
whisky?
Not one.
Artificial strength. Dragging instead
OF achieving. lack of will power, weak
ness of purpose, conceit based on an
overstimulated brain, foolish dreams
never to be realized-these things
whisky gives. II gives nothing better
New York Journal.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

No man to-day has the attention of
the world more than Andrew Carnegie
People not only wonder at his gifts.
they listen when he speaks. He is not
iufailibie, but his words are extreme
ly apt to be weighted with sagacious
observations and practical wisdom.
- drinking man" said Mr. Car
negie. addressing a company of Y NJ
c. A. railway men a few days ago.
should have no place in a railway
system; indeed. he should have no
place anywhere"
One Of the compelling reasons why
MY Carnegie has done and is doing
so much to multiply libraries all over
the country, is the fact that the free
public library, with the reading habit
which it creates, can be made so pow
erfuI an Offset 10 the ever-curseful sa-
loon.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

The foremost practical statesman in
France at the present time is Premier
Waldeck- Rousseau. He is a patriot
who sees that the worst peril threaten
ing his own country is not foes from
without, but insidious foes from with
in. There is no other country in the
world where SO much Intoxicating
liquor is drunk per capita as in France
Naturally the fact is awakening alarm.
Said the French statesman in recen.
address: The common use of alco-
holic drinks threatens the perpetuity
of the race"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
a Nice Game.

Il came mighty near being cheated
out of that election said Senator
Sorghum; mighty near. 1t made me
think of poker game was once in
What kind of a game was that?'
asked the attache who has had his sal
ary raised several times for laughing
in the right place.
Wei, all l can say about il is
that if the other fellows hadn't been
too busy stacking the cards and deal
ing off the bottom to take any notice
of me never would have gotten a
chance to ring in cold deck IN
them"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Alcohol Not n Food.

The following, on this much-dis-
cussed subject is from the Medical
Record:
THE well-known Viennese clinician,
Prof Max KassowitZ. asserts that the
dogma concerning the nourishing and
strengthening character of alcohol 10
one of the fatal errors of science. He
holds the view that the majority Of
physicians take up an inconsistent po-
sition with regard to the use Of al
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

The importance of the culture Of the
inner life cannot be denied by any in
telligent Christian believer who looks
at life through the lenses of the New
Testament. The teaching of the Bible
is that while man seems to live in the
outward, he really lives in the realm
of inner experience, and that while he
may train his hands for work, he must
never meanwhile neglect the culture
of the heart. The heart is the citadel
of the man, and unless he is right
there is right nowhere
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27

The rapid growth of the prohibition
sentiment in the Southwest promises
to make of Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas prohibition states within the
next two or three years. with the ex-
ception, possibly, of New Orleans and
two or three of the other large cities.
The Prohibitionists are sweeping coup-
ty after county and the indica tions are
that after they have carried ajority
of the counties under the present To-
cal option laws they will appeal to the
legislatures for state prohibition.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-27
Progress of Temperance Movement.

The chronicle OF wonders. called the
history of the nineteenth century, re-
cords victories of civilization trans
cendlng those of the previous fourteen
hundred years taken together, and in
Its long list of moral triumphs the
progress OF temperance ranks second
only to the abolition of the slave traf-
nc. A complete success of the prohi-
bltion movement would reverse that
sequence of prestige.
The alcohol mania has proved far
more ruinous delusion than the belief
III the justice Of the custom to enforce
the servitude of uncivilized races. For
one suicide caused by slavery, the
ilquoT passion has caused a thousand.
The lnhEmanibes perpetrated by the
task makers Of helpless bondmen are
surpassed by those which millions OF
women and children have suffered at
the hands OF rum-craZed relatives. The
social degradation of slaves is more
than equaBed by the social, moral
mental and physical abasement OF
drunkards. Bisots of class preroga-
tiVes never despised the poorest negro
as a slave of the drink vice is despis-
&c by his neigh hors and acquaintances
whose verdict Is not even offset by the
mora? resisting power of its victim,
since drunkenness leads to the loss of
selt-respect
Still. the progress Of temperance
during the last hundred years is enor-
nous as compared with that OF any
previous century since the days of
Pythaaoras, and may even be said TO
eclipse the general success of the
struggle against the power OF iguOT-
ance and delusion-Union Signal.