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Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
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This was all the white lips could utter.
He is sinking fast. answered the moth

John"
This was all the white lips could utter.
He is sinking fast. answered the moth
er. "You knew my boy?"
For as yet she had not OWNED the truth.
The woman her son loved was cold, and
cruel, and beartless. Not even the knowl-
edge that he was dying would bring her
here. So she had reasoned. when With a
low, choking sob, the girl before her fell OIL
her knees, with outstretched imploring
hands.
You said, she walled, that he would
not live, because life was no longer sweet
to him-let me tell him how dearly I love
him, and how cruelty have suffered Let
me ask him to live for mer'
Then two gentle hands lifted her face,
kiss fell OF her brow, voice murmured,
"Oh, my child! give him back to mel" and
then she found herself within the sick-room,
and alone with that still, quiet form
lying upon the bed. How white and wan
| he looked.
John, she moaned-"John."
He opened his eyes and saw her
You have come" he whispered. This
is kind. 1t will be for little time only.
can no longer presume upon it,"
Hush she commanded ooh, do not
make my task harder, You will forgive me,
dear, l know. Only grow strong and well
again for me''
"No," he said, family. Il am content
now to die. You have wiped ont the harsh
ness of your words
But she interrupted him with kiss.
You asked me once to be your wife, -
she said. Il did not know my own heart
then; but now-oh, John, live for me, or
take me with you, for 1 have learned that
l cannot live without your'
Two hours later, with her hand clasped
in his, John Raleigh fell into a
quiet sleep-a sleep which lasted through
long hours, while still she sat motionless,
fearing to stir; but when the dawn broke
she knew that with it had vanished the dark
night of their unhappiness in the dawn of
an all possible future.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Confirmation by the Senate.

The United States senate in executive
session confirmed the following nominal
tons:
Eugene Schuyler, New York, consul gen.
eral at Bucharest; to be United States con-
suls, Sidney w. Cooper, New York, at Cadiz;
George F. Lincoln, Connecticut, Stettin
Edward A. Young, New York, Manila; II.
l.. Atherton, New York, Pernambuco; Eve
lyn P. Mussey, Vermont, Maize; Almont
Barnes, Vermont, Cumcoa; Asa G, Prindle,
New York, Bahia: Thos. Canisius, Illinois,
Geestemund; Jas. w. Silver, Ark, Laguo--
agra; JAS. M. Wilson, Missouri, Hamburg;
John Darrall, New York, Bristol; David A,
Mckinley, California, Honolulu; Jos. w.
Horton, surveyor Of customs at Portsmouth,
Ohio; Andrew j. Dumont, naval officer at
New Orleans;J Dyer, of Kansas, Indian
agent ut the Quapaw agency, Indian Terri
tory; S. NJ Heitrich, of Nevada. assayer at
Carsonmint; Theophilus Gaines, West vir-
ginia, pension agent at Washington; Geo.
B. N. Tower. Of Massachusetts, supervising
inspector of steam vessels, Second district;
Mark d. Flower, of Minnesota, supervising
inspector of vessels, for the Fifth district;
VIM. Lawrence, Ohio, first comptroller of
treasury; Asa O.. Odds, Vermont, commits
sioner for the settlement of the French and
American claims, and large number of
army appointments and the following post
masters; s. d. McKahon, Menominee, Wis.
J. Hubbard, Stoughton, Wis; d. j. Pattee,
Perry, Iowa; A. Beadle, Cresco, Iowa; r..
McLenahan, Sigourney, Iowa; w. G.. Ag-
new, osceola, Iowa; d. w. Reed, Waukon,
Iowa.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Suicide i'm a Cathedral.
From the London News.

From the London News.
1t is said that when Babylon was taken
the people of one part of the city were for
some days unaware of the event. The
story is told about more than one great city
for the purpose of illustrating their vast
size. The bigness of Norwich Cathedral
is also illustrated by the suicide of Henry
Minis. This lay clerk disappeared some
ten days ago, and every place was searched
but the cathedral. The body of Minis was at
last discovered hanging in an unfreQuented
part of the sacred edifice. Our old cathed-
rails are much too large for our modern pur-
poses. While England was a Roman
Catholic country the Cathed1als were kind
of home for all the people. They were
constantly thronged by public which wit
messed pageants and mysteries" of great
splendor, looked at a religion full of dazzel-
ing spectacles and heard the blessed
murmur of the mass" or unbosomed itself
in the confessional. The services of the
Church of England no longer fill the
Cathedrals. Thus. parts of the minister
are given up to moths and spiders, and
are found lonely places fit for desperate
deeds. 1t is rumored that the cathedral
will have to be reconsecrated to wash out
the guilt of suicide.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Kate Sprague's Suit.

After many reservations and denials. it
appears that Mrs. Sprague has actually fled
petition from her husband, ex-Gov.
Sprague. The petition Of Mrs. Sprague,
among other things, sets forth that while
she has been true to the marriage relation,
her husband has committed adultery with
divers women at divers times and places;
notably with one Mary Eliza Wall between
the years 1864 and 1870, in Providence,
and with Mary Elizabeth Cue, of South
Kingston; that he frequented houses of
prostitution; that he has been guilty of
gross cruelty in Cononchet, entering her
room in state of intoxication, seizing her,
dragging her to window, and attempting
to throw her out; that on several
occasions he has threatened to
kill her, and that he failed to furnish her
and her children with the necessaries Of life;
that when the companies with which he was
connected were assigned to trustee he en-
tered the employ of the trustee, and a part
of his salary was applied by the trustee for
the petitioner and children; but in 1879 he re-
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

it were flowing with milk and honey. Inc
street was as deserted as on the former oc-
casion; but Philip felt as he ruefully gath
cred together the broken glass and the drip
ping rosebuds, that the man who could
walk up any New York street carrying that
wretched basket, could storm u breach or
lead a forlorn hope. Balaklava was moth
ing to it-nothing!
However every man can be q hero II he
chooses. At arm length he held his drip
ding burden; then turned gayly to Rosa
mond, and said will you take my arm once
more?"
much shaken, after the first moment; but
she took his arm and turned homeward
Mary must wait TIL another day; there was
no use in going to the hospital now.
''When did you return?" she asked.
"Only yesterday. This is my first walk
in New York. was just thinking Of my
last one, and Of You, when you precipitated
matters so unexpectedly. Are you sure you
are not hurt?"
"Not bit" she said merrily 81 know
better than to spmin my ankle. Dontthink,
though, that undervalue your succor: it
requires great strength of mind, if not of
body, to carry that basket"
THAT day" he answered, q little incoher-
emily, did we not get each other mutually
into a scrape, I wonder? I wonder, too,
whether you have heard the last piece of
news from England: AT st. Georges, Han
Braithwaite, Esq, of New York, to Miss
Rosamond, do you really not know that Fred
Boone is married."
Her start was irresistible; but it was a
start of relief and JOY as much as surprise. y
81 am very glad" she exclaimed. ''But
do you really mean-is it possible he has
married Mabel?"
Even So I was at the church, and
shook hands with the happy pair. Every
thing was strictly elegant, and properly NJ
ranged, and they are likely to live in En-
gland for the present"
Their eyes met once more, and neither
could resist a comical smile, although Rosa
mond's color had deepened, and Philip
thought how pretty she looked IN hel
amused embarrassment. Even now he was
nearly unconscious of what it was that had
pulled at his heart strings as he congratulated
the well matched pair at st. Georges, and
suddenly resolved, as he passed out of the
church, that it was no time for man tc
tlawdle away his life in another country when
work, if not happiness, awaited him at home
Need we 90 farther? Is it necessary tC
state in plain words that this was by nc
means the last walk which this young cou-
pie took together? Their intimacy grew rap
; idly, and the thread of sympathy which rar
through their fates only broadened and
: strengthened with time. And thus it came
to pass that when one day Philip asked
: 'Rosamond, will you go through life witt
: me?" she could neither feel nor feign sur.
prise, but said, demurely, though with a
happy glow of emotion in her bright face
IF do we had better take for our mot
to, United we stand, divided we fall!'
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
A BLAST AT CANADA.
London Journal Declares that Canada is
Sending More StOmachs than Brains into the

London Journal Declares that Canada is
Sending More StOmachs than Brains into the
United States.
From the Contemporary Review, London.
If any dispute arose between Canada and
her great southern neighbor which involved
war, she would speedily succumb, and would
be annexed to the United States. Canada is
not sufficiently permeated by any vigorous
sentiment of nationality to resist the power
full attractive forces of the American Dem
ocracy. She answers to Leigh Hunts con
ception of the United States: GAS nation,
l cannot get tout of my head that the Amer
leans are Englishmen with the poetry and
romance taken out of them; and that there
is one great counter built along their coast,
from north to south, behind which they are
all standing, like so many linen diapers. They
will be far otherwise, I have no doubt, in
time and this unchristian opinion of them
have come to nothing" Certainly this
is sufficiently ludicrous picture of the
Americans of the present day, who are di-
verging more and more from the English
type, who nave the beginnings of new iter-
ature and in whom we can already detect
the germs of an altogether new national life.
But it is much in accord with the actual con-
| dition of the Canadian people, who want
alike the grandeur and dignity of the old
nations of Europe and the marvellous force
and colossal energy of the United States.
| Canada seems to be stranded there among
the snow and ice of the north, separated
alike from the historic culture of Europe
and from the heroic aspirations of America;
sharing none of the precious traditions of
England and untouched by the breath OF
democratic freedom which sweeps through
the United States. It is interesting materi-
ally to the British laborer and food con-
sumner; it has not shadow of
intellectual significance for the thinker.
| This may not be it's fault; il
is, at any rate, its misfortune-a misfortune
which seems to remove it from the category
of possible independent nationalities. II
may be said that the United States are being
colonized now rather by stomachs than by
brains; but the United States are a nation
with grand traditions. The colonization OF
New England; the planting of Pennsylvania
the revolutionary struggle, which as repre-
scented in Franklin, Samuel Adams, Jetfer-
son, was rather development of the great
intellectual movement of the 18th centuary
than mere contest against the English and
parliament, the antislavery contest, and, Fl.
nally, the civil war-all these developments
of the great modern Democratic movement
have made of America land of idea, anG
have invested even the young raw states Of
the west with halo of poetry and romance
AS compared with this, Canada has merely
to tell of upward Of century of stagnan
provincialism, relieved only bya third rate
| instruction.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
NAUGHTY BUT SWEET.

Somebody's lips were close to mine.
Thus tempted couldn't resist.
Roguish and rosy, sweet little mouth
Was suddenly, softly kissed.
Somebody's eyes looked up and frowned
With such a reproving glance,
eff kisses were wicked?" I asked my pot
Then the eyes began to dance
And, smiling, the little maid answered,
As knelt there at her feet,
'srhey must be little bit naughty,
Or theynever would be SO sweet"
MARIETTA TINT
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
THE CHURCH PORCH.

Although enter not,
Yetroam about the spot,
Sometimes hover,
And at the secret gate,
With longing eyes wait,
Expectant of her.
The Minister bell tolls out,
Above the city's rout
And noise and humming;
They've stopped the Ginning bell,
1 hear the organ swell.
She's coming, she's coming!
My lady comes at last,
Timid and stepping fast,
fastening tither
With modest eyes down cast;
She comes-she's here-she's past
May heaven go with her!
Kneel undisturbed, fair saint,
Pour out your praise or plant
Meekly and duly.
will not enter there
To sully your pure prayer
With thoughts unruly.
But suffer me to pace
Round the forbidden place,
Lingering minute,
Like outcast spirits who wait
And see through Heavens gate
Angels within it.
THACKERA!
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

fused to earn money and has lived in idleness
since, and refused to contribute to her sup-
port; that alone and in the presence of 9TH
ers he has applied opprobrious epithets to
her and has broken furniture in the bouse-
at one time collecting u quantity of bedding
and making a bonfire of it. Upon these
and numerous other charges equally MS
bad, Mrs. Sprague pmys for a dissolution
of the marriage bond.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Merry Tid-Bits.


The Imagination Of the small boy is the
most wonderful thing on record. He can
pull tin wagon and imagine that he is a
freight train, but the moment his mother
wants him to bring in some wood his i'm
agination becomes frozen up for winter.
A New York citizen, who. in his life time.
had been by no means distinguished for
his public or private virtues, departed re-
Gently for another world. His disconsolate
widow received q visit from condoling
friend, who found her sadly sitting with her
youngest in her lap. II am so 1readfully
sad" said the widow; ''and even my baby
looks ur 70 my face and isps, Where's pa
pa? Ah," said the seven year-old boy,
playing about the room, but you know,
mamma, you don't dare tell him!"
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Penniman, wish
I could excel in something! I do believe if
I should kill man it wouldn't be anything
but murder in the second degree!"
Have you seen my daughters baby?"
inquired fond grandmother of n friend.
"Oh, yes-but it is so small, so very small,
was the reply. This was to be expected,
for you know, don't you, that she was at
tended by HOMEOPATHIC doctor?" replied
G. NJ. with toss Of her head.
The girl who cannot get beau
by any Othef plan,
Goes quickly to the dry goods store,
And buys nice dolman
Boston brides are said by a Philadelphia
paper to chatter in bad French at the hotel
tables when on their wedding tours. This is
indeed, good news, says the Chicago Trib-
une. Any scheme that will result in max
ing bride use some language not gener-
ally understood ought to be encouraged.
When the average citizen is obliged to sit
by and hear such remarks as: please pass
me the buttah DAZZLING" and "Now, lovely,
you're awfully mean if you don't let me
have bite of your biscuit, he feels wild,
springing impulse to hit somebody with a
club, and the man in the next seat would
cheerfully furnish the club.
What an invaluable gift it is to be able to
sayithe right thing In the right way at the
right time. A railroad man who was in
struoted to inform lady that her husband
had been killed by railroad accident, and
was cautioned to break the news gently is
credited with writing the following letter
write to say that your husband is unavoid-
ably detained. An undertaken will call on
you to- morrow with full particulars. The
funeral sermon has been arranged for"
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
FARM AND GARDEN
Notes for the Farm

Illinois leads all the rest in the produc-
ton of wheat. Her crop this year is &c.
sos, 900 bushels, to 8, 100, 900 bushels out Of
the fields Of Nebraska, which is the smallest
production among the states known as wheat
growing
An exchange speaks of the great value of
"chip dirt for spreading around young or
newly set fruit trees, imparting to them
double vigor in growth. 1t is simply the
benefit derived from good mulching. De-
cayed chips leaf mould and dried muck are
all quite similar in their nature, and as they
tend strongly to hold the moisture in the soil
below, and can not form crust on the sur
face, they are well fitted for the purpose.
If your horse has been sprainea across the
loins, give him rest in stable, and foment
with warm water; apply some good Imminent
afterward to the back, and at the same time
attend his diet, giving laxative food-bran,
mashes, roots, and cooked food-adding a
little Glauber salts to his feed two or three
times week. Linseed tea, or slippery elm
tea, given when cold for drink will also be
beneficial. Keep the animal we'll blanketed
in the stable as we'll as when standing out
side.
Never in the history of the country has
there been such difficulty experienced in
shlppnS estern products to the Eastern
markets and the seaboard. The railroad
companies are unable to handle one-f fifth of
the freight which is offered to them, and they
have notified shippers that they will receive
only perishable goods.
Salt has been used as fertilizer time
out of mind. The fertility of the rice fields
of Hindostan and China has long been de-
pendent on the treatment Of the soil with
salt water. In Poland salt has been used
for generations as a fertilizer. It's general
effects depend on the character of the land
with which it may be used. In certain cases
as in grass lands rich in ammonia, salt tends
to lengthen the period Of development of
full maturity, says Mr. Whitney, and the
rank growth of the grass is checked. While
the yield may be less in weight, the quality
| of the grass and its succulence are greatly
increased. 1t has also been tried in wheat
lands with astonishing results.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Things in WOman's Sphere.

A French physician claims to have estab-
lished two facts; that widowers commit sui
eide more frequently than married men,
and that the presence of children in house
diminishes the tendency to self destruction
in both men and women. The physician
probably does not mean the presence of
other peoples children.
The husbands of extravagant wives, if we
may be allowed to suppose that the latter
exist in this country, will be pleased to learn
that the English House of Lords has settled
as a principle of law that where husband
makes his wife an allowance and expressly
forbids her to run up accounts in his name,
he cannot be held liable for any goods she
may obtain by drawing upon his credit; and,
| indeed unless the seller can show that
| special authority has been conferred by the
| husband on the wife, the seller cannot re-
cover judgment"
The Pope, having received from some la
| dies of San Francisco a pair of white shoes
richly embroidered in gold, replied; "These
ladies are inspired by sentiment like unto
those of the women of the Gospel. In
like manner as they followed the Saviour
at the time of the Passion on Calvary, when
He was abandoned by all, SO do these in
their affection toward me, whom they see
suffering on this Calvary and who, however
unworthy, am still His representative and
| vicar
| To wash fannels: First have soft water
for the whole process, made so artiicially il
necessary, and next have good soap, OF
that which does not contain rosin. Ou
best soaps are safe for this purpose. You
may wash and rinse entirely in cold water il
you choose, but if you wash in warm water
you must not rinse in cold. 1t is decidedly
best to use only warm water all through
the rinsing water warmer than the suds, il
there is any difference. 1t is best to make
agood, strong, clean suds land not wash
nice white fannels in a dirty suds with
other clothes that are to be boiled, and pu
the fannels in it, instead of rubbing SOAP
into the cloth Hand rubbing tends to full
and shrink flannel, as it mats and interlaces
the delicate fibers.-American Agricultur.
| iSf
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
To ChOrs and Musical Societies.

GETS of standard books at half-price, almost as
y good new. For choirs, set of twelve copies.
ZundePs Introt, 50. worth SIS new fourteen copies
Bakers Short Anthems and Sentences, $1,000, worth
$2l For clubs societies. nine copies Opera Chorus
Book, $40, worth 500 80; thirteen copies Bakers
cantata The Burning Ship, 50 60 worth $16.25. Ad
dress 81, care Pioneer Press, st. Paul
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

FLOORING Matched and Dressed, II, $32 90
I'd, $2S 90; Sd, $22 90: 4th, $40 90.
SIDING-Dressed, 1st $50 90; I'd, SIS 90;
Sd, 500 90; 4th, $40 90.
SHINGI. ES-Per NJ NX, So 90; A star, So 90;
X, 1925: Min, 81, 30; No. l, ST 90.
Pickets, S13 90 GG S15 90.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
NV. N. u,
HARDwAR
KINGSBURY & DRAPER,
Builders Hardware,
MECHANICS, AND MACHINISTS, TOOLS

SPECIALTIES
Darling Brown Sharpe's Machinists Tools: Baileys
Patent Planes Dsston's Saws; real Bronze Hardware
for Private Residences and Public Buildings We
ry large stock of Spruce Spoon Oars in all lengths
Mail orders solicited. SO East Third ST., ST. Paul.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
The Poultry Yard--FOOd for Fowls.

As an ornament to the garden or flower
bed, the sunfower has been long held In
disrepute. Where it has been once allowed
foothold, it is hardy and persistent. There
is difference in the effect produced on
fowls fed upon the various seeds or kernels.
Corn, while at the same time containing the
greatest amount of stimulation to strength
and life, is heating and fattening and should
be fed with care and discretion. If the sole
idea is to produce fat, either to fit the fowl fol
the block, or the bullock for the shambles,
then feed largely and in as great quantities
as can be thoroughly consumed without cloy-
ing the appetite. In fattening fowls have
found it better to give some appetizing food
when in confinement, that relish thereby
may be created for their oily aliment. Food
that is taken with relish tells with better
effect than when consumed merely to sustain
life.
Corn in small quantities is wholesome
indeed there is not much danger in warm
weather, when the fowls are at large, in
allowing them all the corn they will con-
sumo. The Asiatics. however, are an ex-
ception; they should be fed sparingly, OF
their feed alternated or mixed with Other
grains. Most breeds Of fowls are more act
i've, working off the indolent effect OF
BfOSs 1eeuiuS Ny SoHeItu Toullu VI SalCn-
ering plant and insect material, which
offsets the deleterious effect Of the heavy
diet, and keeps the system in health and
good working order, without which great
results may not reasonably be looked for.
The greatest quantity Of feed produce the
greatest amount Of flesh or eggs. This eff
feet varies greatly with the breed upon
which the feed is expended. If Leghorns,
Dorkings or Houdans, quantity Of eggs
may be expected as result Of generous
feeding. The Dorkings, although large,
heavy-bodied fowls, are great layers; they
do not lay as large an egg as the Houdan,
but their eggs, like those of most of the
sitting varieties, possess good strong shells.
I have often had occasion to notice that the
eggs of non-sitting breeds are not always
encased in strong shells. The rapid laying,
perhaps, may be one reason for this, and
the size of the eggs another.
The Houdans are an admirable and much
to be desired breed, not only for eggs (al=
though they are prolific Of large, fine, rich
ones), they are seldom collapsed for the quail