Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-02


loss of their father There was no in
s;nuation that Mrs. Carter was not
good mother, but, being woman, it
was assumed that her value to her
chi, ,iren was less than one-third that of
the father. 1t will be remembered
that another New Jersey jury, some
months ago, in awarding damages to
the PARENTS of school children killed in
railroad accident decided that son
was worth vastly more than daughter
With thesideal type Of winter fur
nished to date. there is an overpower-
ing temptation for amateur prophets to
take guess as to the mildness or Sc
verify of the weather that is to be forth
coming, during the next three months.
The corn husk, the muskrat and various
other 'infallable" guides have been
consulted and some of the guesses re
sulting are comforting to the man with
an empty coal-bin, while others are of
a character to suggest the advisability
of slipping in a couple of tons extra.
| And when the final count is in, it will
have been discovered that some of the
euessers have guessed right, and others
have gone wrong, bringing fame as
prophets to the one class, and discredit
to the other.
The following story is told of one
of viroqua's older citizens in their
local paper: A year ago the gentleman
visited sister in the west and brought
home various rememberances and little
gifts. In the spring, while working in
his garden, he remembered that she
had given him a little package of nice
brown seeds that he thought were eX-
ira fine sweet peas, so he dug a deep
trench, prepared the dirt until it was in
Just the proper degree of mellowness,
placed the seed in carefully at proper
distances and waited for them to grow
in due season. He told his neighbors
of the fine sweet peas he would have,
but he waited and waited and still
waited, only to remember that they
were liver pills that his sister had
given him.
The new direct means of communi-
cation with the city has quickened on
the farm the sense of needed improve
ments that the outside world has
acquired. And if there is not a mort
gage written over the doorway of the
home to the exclusion of all eXpendi-
ture, the farmhouse, in the year when
the crops are good, now gets bath
room instead of an organ or a new
plush upholstered furniture set for the
parlor. In the cities it is an adjunct of
modern living that has made the hum
blest tenement dweller a sharer in the
luxury of the Caesars. One Of the best
of the gifts that inventive genius has
bestowed on mortals, is the enameled
iron fixtures of hundred dollar bath
, room offering all Of cleanliness and
comfcS that more money can command.
TIE Saturday Evening Post tells a
, story of one old mans understanding
t of the use of clearing house certificates
4 instead of money that is pretty good;
4 The associated banks of Chicago recent
e ly issued, through the clearing house,
e ten, five and two-dollar certificates to
, be used as emergency currency. A
a ten-dollar certificate came into the pos
a session of an old German on the north-
west side, who feared he had been
e swindled and hurried down to the bank
/. Of issue to get some real money for the
, queer-looking piece of paper That
: certificate is better than bank-note,
. said the official explainer for the down
i town bank. "lf you want change wei
give you two five-dollar certificates toi
q it or five twos, but we really can't pay
out any gold or silver for it just now,
:, "Sol" answered the German, who hac
: listened stolidly, asking no questions
!, ''by tam, when der baby wants mil
!. den you will give to him milk tickets
J, huh?"