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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1882-10-21

Services will be held at the NJ E church
of this place next Sunday, morning and
evening. conducted by the new pastor,
Rev. 8. p. Murch. Sunday school will be
held Immediately after morning service
Let there be full attendance of officers
teachers and scholars.
We would believe that little story about
our village marshal falling asleep In
church last Sunday morning. aud, upon
being nudged by a friend, jumping up
and electrifying the congregation by
shouting, Eleven o'clock, come, close
up" but for the fact that we never, in all
our existence. heard any one accuse Hank
of going to church at all.
Our reporter is collecting testimony re.
lative to DR.. Maughan's Rendsville game
story. We would have published the
doctors statement that he brought home
100 geese as the result of one days shoot
ing had we not feared that our many read.
ers would imagine the doctor or our
selves were trying to catch on to Gordon'a
biscuit
1.-THE stars and stripes were swung to
the breeze on Tuesday and with them the
names of Barnum, Chew and Becker. The
Republican and Democratic flags are now
both waving-the latter the last to 60 up
and of course destined to be the first one
to conc down."-Morris Tribune.
Of course But the dawn of November
the Sth will witness our grand old emblem
still triumphantly floating while the fac
tional flag will be silently slowed away +
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

F. The National Baptist says the aver
age salary of Baptist ministers in this
country is about $500 per annum.
The Third Presbyterian Church of
Chicago, has two thousand and fifty
members, and is only exceeded numeri-
cally by the Brooklyn Tabernacle in
this country. =, Golden Rule. t,..
"A lady school-teacher in Auburn.
Me, during the summer vacation,
raked 100 tons of hay. harnessed the
horse for the meadow. and felt all the
better for the field exercise.
In France the Salvation Army has
expanded into salvation fleet. A cut
ter taking the name of the Sailors
Bethel has sailed down the Seine from
Honfleur to Rouen, manned by three
clergymen and apilot, who is said to be
Il converted seaman. The cargo is
made up of tracts and Bibles in French.
As the crew are musical, they give sacred
concerts at the points where they touch.
The cry of lack of school accom-
mediation is being heard all over the
country. The Times Democrat, of New
Orleans, says that the public schools in
that city open this year most suspicious
ly, with only one feature to complain of
the accommodations The attendance
is large, the morale is better, but many
of the school-houses are sadly deficient
in comfort, room, and satisfactory sani-
tary arrangements.
In the beautiful village of Wash
ington, Conn, is a school founded by
the late DIR. Frederick w. Gum, and
known among its pupils and its grad
yates as the "Gunnery." Recently, in
aflectionate remembrance of their de-
parted friend, these pupils, old and
young, presented to the family of DR..
Gum monument bearing, i'm part the
inscription Erected to the founder
of the 'Gunnery School by his pupils,
1S47 1881" l a'tfl- - .i
The unusual phenomenon of a
worm-eaten church building is seen in
Andover, Mass Within the last four
years boring insects have attacked the
timber of which the church is built.
Their work was first noticed by reason
of the little piles of dust they left upon
the carpet near the wall. 1t has gone
on until much of the woodwork of walls
and pews is riddled with holes In
some places the shell which the borers
have left is hardly thicker than paper.
The church people are afraid that what
is left of their church will some day
tumble on them. 1t is believed that in
this country no other instance is known
of such a devouring of church property.
Boston Post.
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hand. looking in with eager eyes. With
roar. the raging beast sprang upon
him.
John Foster became free from his ap-
athletic condition. He leaped to his feet,
and seized a whip from the hand of a
paralyzed attendant close at hand.
With fierce courage he attacked the
lion. He struck terrific blows on the
head of the beast. Cesar the Conquer
or crouched More and more fiercely
John Foster struck.
Well, there are ineNplicable things
all around us. In two minutes Cesar
was conquered and Gagged. ! cannot
explain how, nor why the indom table
will of John Foster tanned a monster
whose tongue was wet with blood.
And Peter Gwyn was dead. The most
singular part of my story, perhaps, is
to come. Mr.. Peter Gwyn left a will.
and in that will he bequeathed all his
wealth, he having no known relatives,
TO Signor Foscarelli. the great lion
tanner, provided he should survive him.
John Foster went no more into dead
ly peril
dare say he and the woman. whom
he loved are as happy as the majority
of such mortals. p. w. Morris, ia
Bdii0n'S Monthiy. ..
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killing, Not Educating.

We do not remember ever to have
heard so much complaint on the part of
parents in regard to the overtaxing of
children by teachers with studies at
school and at home. From every quar-
ter and in regard to all grades OF schools
we have the same cry, that the health
of pupils cannot endure the strain that
is put upon them. Young children who
Ought to be exercising their limbs and
muscles are put through a rigid course
of studies during the day, confined
usually for six hours in the school
room, and when these are over are re-
CURED to carry home pile of books
with which to tax their weary brains
during the evening. We know of one
who has passed sleepless or disturbed
nights, her mind running necessarily
while awake, and while dreaming, upon
the problems in history or geography
or arithmetic, or some other branch,
which are given to her to solve during
the interval between one days exercise
and another Too many studies and
too many hours are assigned to those
OF tender years.
The higher schools are pursuing the
same injudicious course. We have in
mind one first-class institution of which
we have heard the remark so often
made, as to have become proverb, that
the young ladies break down in health
before they complete the course. Boys
may find a counteracting influence in
the buoyancy of their spirits and their
fondness for outdoor exercise, though
even boys are sometimes crowded with
study beyond their power of endurance;
but the danger is very great with young
girls and young ladies that in pressing
them too closely with study the fruit of
intellectual development will be lost in
their physical powers giving way, if
not in their death.
The fault is generally with teachers
who are ambitious to advance their
pupils and to advance their own reputa-
tom but parents who see their children
willing under such process should
demonstrate at once, and if this does
not avail should withdraw them from
such influences. knowledge is dearly
bought at the price of health and at
the cost of a ruined physical constitu-
ton. Y. Observer.
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An Ounce OF Prevention.

Sometimes an ounce of prevention is
worse than pound of disease. One
day last week the children came run
ming in, shrieking that big hawk was
circling over the poultry-yard Old
Farmer Thistlepod dropped his paper,
caught his trusty gun from the rack,
and charged for the poultry-yard. He
ran right over bee-stand Just the other
side OF the cypress bush, and was stung
in thirty places before he jumped over
the fence of the poultry-yard, alighting
upon the old black hen that was BROOD
ing thirteen chicks. breaking her neck.
and MASKING five hapless ''weetles;"
the gun caught in the fence as he
jumped, and went off, killing young
turkey. and filling the Durham heifer
in the meadow nearly full of buckshot;
while the hawk, alone calm and self
possessed in the midst of the tumult
and confusion, sailed gracefully away
with the one spring chicken he had all
along intended to levy on.--RObert j.
BUrdstte, in Harper's Magazine.
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DAME AUTUMN.

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4' T uI.n tlle peas1ainr hhSteunng shuy nome,
N.Y. t1c"il ephic hail -IoTkOtleH tde I,
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Webster's Moods.

Mr.. Webster's chosen "crony" in his
later years was Charles March, much
younger than he was, and also a New
Hampshire man. Well educated, pol
ished by travel and free from pecuniary
hamper, March was a most delightful
companion, and his wit, keen as Sala-
din's cimeter, never wounded. Fletcher
Webster was also great favorite with
his father, possessing what Charles
Lever called "the lost art of converse
ton" Sometimes when Mr. Webster s
path had been crossed, and he was
black as night, March and fetch would,
by repartee and witticisms, drive the
clouds away and gradually force him
into a conversation, which would soon
become enlivened by "the inextinguish-
abba laughter of the gods" -Boston
1rdrelLer.
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means. aud it's my within to follow you
=. Al l..

means. aud it's my within to follow YOU
around in this way"
81 don't know anything about your
movements, sir" said John Foster.
angrily 'Neither do care to. You
are too cold blooded to suit me-"
Il shall see you perform again to-
night" said Mr.. Peter Gwyn, display
ing no heat whatever
John Foster turned on his heel. and
walked away. His countenance be-
trayed nothing, but he felt his heart
sink. He had expected at any rate that
the lions would be harder to manage
than ustal He felt that the presence
of this man would unnerve MIN. Be
fore his vision rose the face of the wom-
an he loved, and she was weeping
Was his doom staring him in the faAe ?
The thought suggested itself to him that
he might refuse to appear. But he shut
his teeth hard, and drove il away.
- am no coward, Mr. Peter Gwyn,"
he muttered, as though speaking TO the
man who seemed to be his foe. ..Your
silly twaddle shall not brighten me from
my business"
But that very thought was proof that
John Foster was affected. And he. brave
man as ever lived, was strangely so.
However, for some reason, why. John
Foster never knew, PeterGw was not
present that night and the animals were
as docile and obedient as he had ever
known them.
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% OWeeIneafJ!
"My lover
"Why do you tremble?"
From fear
Pet, fear not! / have braved the
lion rage thousand times, yet have
not scar The thousand and first time
will leave me as | am now
And Signor Foscarelli, the great lion
tanner, placed his arm around the girl )
waist. | do not know that it is strange
"a lion tanner should make love in a man
ner just like any one else. Be that as
1T may, Signor Foscarell drew the Girl
that he 10, ed toward him, and kissed
her lust as any other lover might have
done.
And. as have escaped thousand
times, he added, 81 take it for grant
ed that can venture as many more
times, and still not be manned or SLAM. -
The woman that Signor Foscarelli
loved spo'e with tremor in her voice.
. cannot view it so" she said.
" our profession seems to me like
drawing at lottery. There are many
blanks, but somewhere in the wheel
there is fatal number. You have per-
formed thousand times. As yet YOU
have not drawn the fatal number, vet
your chances OF doing so are fearfullv
increased; there may be but one more
ticket in the wheel; there may be hun
dred Grant that there is thousand.
A thousand against thousand is one
against one. Now do YOU not see how
strong the possibility of that fatal num-
Der being near YOU is?''
Signor Foscarelli coughed and STAN
mered. The argument that had been
offered was conclusive. He could not
control ert it. But when the woman he
loved burst into tears he found his
tongue.
- Darling" he whispered, soothingly,
" have faith to believe that in my case
the fatal number is beyond two thou
sand. l shall cease to be lion-tamer
before it is reached. And for YOU and
me there shall be long years of love and
happiness"
" Would that | could believe it," she
murmured.
=" Y on may believe it, my love. And,
in that time, l shall remind you that
was no false prophet"
She dried her tears; she became
more cheerful; she seized Signor Fosca-
rellis hand; she smiled in his face.
" Promise me,h she cried. THAT
when this year is ended you will be no
more lion-tamer. Promise me that,
and shall live in hope. Refuse me
that promise and"
" Let me see" interrupted Signor
Foscarelli, Il think with what / can
save this year that will be worth ten
thousand dollars at the end of it. With
that we can try love in cottage, my
pet"
" And whether we are worth it ornot
we can, :" cried the woman Signor Fos-
carelli loved. There are a Thousand
vocations for you, in none of which YOU
need peril your life. Refuse me that
promise, l repeat, my darling, and you
break my heart"
" promise" said Signor Foscarelli,
gravely.
Yes, lion-tamer makes love like 9TH
'er people.
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travelling season that John Foster was
walking rapidly along the street of
town, hundred of which would not
make Boston. for instance. The streets
were very quiet, and unlighted save by
an occasional lamp at corner. the rays
of which would only extend for shot
d stance Not long before. however.
the streets had echoed to the tread of a
multitude of people Tor ''Lipman's
Grand Eas ern upon second thought |
beg to state that "Oriental' was the
word used instead of Eastern) Equescu-
ricculum" had given performance that
evening. But all the multitude had
vanished, and now John Eos er's tread
was the only sound that disturbed the
quiet of the street. The other perform
ers had preceded him to their hotel,
but he, for some reason, had lnge ed
where the pavilion, that had fallen
as by the hand of magic, had
stood. John Foster had remained for
a time by the ring of sawdust that on
the morrow would be all that was left
to remind the boys thronging around it
that Lipman' c. E. O. had come and
gone, and then started to walk to his
hotel. ..At tttt
AS he was walking hastily along, and
while he was near lamp post. he met
a man, a stranger to him. The man
stopped square before him. .ft.
g Are you Signor FoscarelliP" he in
quired. .'GIt |0E. ZOO.
81 am sometimes known by that
title" John Foster said.
Eyes" said the stranger. Hum, |
have been to your hotel inquiring for
you. was told that you had not vet
come. / started in this direction, know
ing that would meet you. ! have Just
few words to say to you" He paused
for moment and then added: my
name is Peter Gwyn, of the State of
New York, and | am of sound mind.'
Il do not doubt it, Mr.. Gwyn,' said
John Foster. Again there was a mo-
ment's pause, broken by the lion-tamer
saying: elf you have anything to say,
Mr.. Gwyn. pray proceed"
"Hum, yes" said the stranger. Sig
nor Foscarelli, you are brave man.
You see, saw you perform tonight"
is that all you wish to say?" said
John Foster, coolly.
mo, | repeat, Signor Foscarelli. you
are brave man, but you will be killed,
and ! will see your death. l feel that
will. | do. not feel that / can e de-
ceived in my sensations. Mark my
prophecy. L have nothing against you,
Signor Foscarelli, but if you are to be
killed by your lions l desire to see it.
Pray don't think hard of me. If it is
to be there will be no harm in my see
ing it,
The man vanished in the darkness.
To John Foster there came in his
dreams that night face with dark eyes.
thin lips and white teeth, the face of
the stranger, and voice rang in his
ears, saying:
"You will be killed, and 1 will see
your death"
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CHAPTER ".

And still the man continued to peril
his life for the amusement of the
public. He did not inform the woman
he loved of the destiny that had
been tracking him in the shape
of Peter Gwyn. The most fire.
quent advice, by far, that she sent was
to be very careful. And he, for her
sake, was so.
But the end of trouble had not vet
come. One balmy night in June that
largest brute took a notion to once
more display his temper. In the bills
he was advertised as the emperor
Nero but John Foster called him
"Jim-ja JAM which shows the difference
in the tastes of a manager and lion
tanner, in the selection of names for
animals.
John Foster saw the indications OF
the brute's rising anger sooner this time
than before, but he was not so close to
the door of the cage. He fixed his eve
on Jim-jams, and without the tremor
of nerve, began slowly to retreat,
ever keeping his back to the door.
Slowly, slowly he moved. Still he held
the animal beneath his will. A moment
more!
But, inexplicably. his will lost its in
fuence on the beast. Again the sup
pressed roar; again the spring. At the
same instant there was a flash and a
sharp, quick report. The remaining
lions roared in wild rage, but Jim-iam
fell in the agonies of death. Again,
however, the iron door closed between
John Foster and danger He had been
prepared, and had saved himself.
Yet afterward the fact was realized
by him that had the lion sprung with
as little warning as previously, he must
have been slain. Circumstances had
favored him, and he had made two mar
row escapes.
AS John Foster left the pavilion he
encountered Peter Gwyn.
"Hum, Signor Foscarelli," said that
person. his white teeth glowing between
his thin lips, ~ intended to be here
sooner, but | was delayed. You have
had another
THANK Heaven that you were,"
cried John Foster. ''Fiend, devil, you
need not hunt me to the death.
Probably John Foster would not have
said so much, had he not been excited
by his encounter.
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CHAPTER v.


The lion-tamer knew that Mr.. Peter
Gwyn was in the audience. He had
seen the man enter, as it CHANGED, and
it had seemed to him then an ominous
token. But there would be no failure to
fill out the programme of the evening on
that account
Mr.. Peter Gwyn got seat as close
to the cage of performing lions as pos
sible, and, while the clown TESTED, the
acrobat tumbled, and the knights of
the sawdust galloped around, he
sat still, evidently uninterested.
At last, however, the performance of
the evening was at hand. There was a
flourish of the orchestra, some lively
strains, and then all was silent as the
watch of death. John Foster was in the
lions cage.
The proprietor of the "Grand Orient
al Equescurriculum" had considered
himself especially lucky that on the
very day succeeding that on which
Emperor Nero" persisted he had re-
ceived notice from his agent in New
York of the reception of a lion of I'M
usual strength and size. He ordered
the animal sent to him immedi-
nIClJ' OOun IOSlCl udu DttH ITdlu-
ing him for few weeks, and now
he had been performing for one. He was
known to the gaping crowds as Caesar
the Conqueror;" to John Foster as
"Jim jam"
To the lion tanner, as he entered that
cage of dangerous beasts, all things
about him seemed unreal. The bright
blaze of the lamps might be the weird
light of an enchanted world, so unreal
did it appear; the lions, huge monsters;
Mr.. Peter Gwyn, Satan himself.
This part of nay story is soon told.
John Foster was in no mood to handle
lions. From the very first the tide was
against him. The latest addition be-
came unruly. John Fosters state of
apathy continued. Once more the
spring of the lion was made.
This time John Foster fell through
the door held open for his leap, and
rolled underneath the cage. 1t was not
closed quickly enough, and the huge
form of the beast of prey forced itself
through.
Meantime, Mr. Peter Gwyn had
moved closer to the cage. At the mo-
ment of the catastrophe he was near TT
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CHAPTER III,

1t was month later. During the
passing month John Foster had periled
his life half hundred times, coming out
unscathed.
A tremendous audience was gathered
in the pavilion of Lipman's Oriental
Equescprriculum, drawn there princi-
pally by the fame of Signor Foscarelli' s
performance. The jests of the clown,
the vaultng of the acrobat, the contor-
tons of the homeless man, the antics of
the trick horse, all became things of
the past for that occasion. Last of all
was to come the entrance of the lion
tanner into the cage of monsters
Signor Foscarelli appeared He bowed
to the audience. smiled, and then en-
tered the place where no other man of
all that throng could have gone, and
lived to tell of his daring
This nineteenth century boasts of it's
civilization. But some way or other |
am reminded of the gladiatorial days of
Rome as | write of John Foster. The
blood of the sacrifice seems as sweet to
the people now as it was then. o tenn
p0rG! u mOreSi
The man went through with his per-
Torrance successfully, the audience
hanging breathlessly upon his actions.
His beasts obeyed him as well as usual.
Signor Foscarelli, as l have said, went
through his performance successfully;
he was about ready to retire from the
cage. Slowly he stepped backward.
Suddenly there was a suppressed roar.
In an instant the man saw his peril.
The eyes of his largest animal were
flashing fire, and his great red tongue
had dropped out. There was a spring,
and simultaneously cry of fear from
the audience.
But the lion-tamer was not slain. He
had kept his presence of mind, and his
motions were quicker than those of the
angry beast. The great iron door of the
cage closed with crash between him
and the lion, and he was safe. Still, he
had left his sleeve inside, and there was
an ugly scratch ON his arm-an ugly
scratch, no more.
John Foster bowed and smiled again.
Then in a moment his tall, athletic
figure had disappeared from the sight of
the multitude.
His escape had occurred during the
afternoon performance. That evening.
after he had eaten his supper, he came
out OF the dining-room into the Office of
the hotel. Standing by the desk of the
clerk was the man with dark eyes,
closely-shaven face, white teeth, and
thin lips. John Foster recognized him
Immediately.
"Good-evcning, Signor Foscarelli,"
he said.
"Good-evening," said John Foster,
coldly.
81 understand that you have. had a
narrow escape" said Mr.. Peter Gwyn.
Now, if had been in the pavilion
this afternoon, you would have been
killed, no doubt. am to be in at the
death, however, so you were spared.
Are you aware that Ihave seen you per-
form several times during the last
month"; You see. / am a man of
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CHAPTER III.

Only on the bills was the lion tanner s
name Signor Foscarelli 1t was, in fact,
plain John Foster. He was not ashamed
OF his name, but "Signor Foscarell'
suited the proprietors of the establish
ments that he was wont to travel with
better than the simple patronymic. AS
Tor John Foster himself, it was matter
OF indifference TO him. He was just as
willing to be known to the great crowd
that clapped its hands. and yelled itself
deaf in admiration for him, as Signor
Foscarelli, as by any other title.
1t was on dark night early in the
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THE MILAN EXCHANGE.

w. A. WADE. Publisher.
MILAN. TENNESSEE
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WOULD HE BE KILLED?
CHAPTER 1.

CHAPTER 1.
" Sweetheart
MY love!''
"Why do YOU tremblepn