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Morris tribune., 1883-10-10
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Mary Davidson.
GRAMMER SCHOOL

UNA vi vi EE" SChOOII.
James Pierce, Matte Olson, Katie
Wahldic6, Eva Haight, Hulda Lar
son, Hattie Frisby, Rufus Wolff,
Andrew Hanson, DAVID Kemp, Hugh
Spur, FrankWhitely, Freddie Elmer.
INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT.
Don Pearce, Samuel Olson, Mamie
Davis, Lille Larson, Charlie Hill.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Morris tribune., 1883-10-10

James A. johnson
Real Estate Accent
Money to Loan on Farms, at Low Rates.
' s''' insurance.! lightning 5'''
School Bonds Wanted!
0S0 Acres in sec. II, Framness, only So.
@0 per acre
900 Acres in sec. l, Framness, at So.
QI0 Acres in sec. 8, Framness, at s..
$40 Acres in sec. 81, Donnelly, in tracts
to suit, $40 per acre.
7R0 Acres in sec. %, Baker, GOO.
900 Acres i'll sec. I, Darnin, 22O acres Gull
oSO tivated, three miles from Morris,
$4,000 cash,
100 Acres in sec. l5,-126,-45, at So.
30 Acres in sec. l5,-l26,-45, IS.
400 acres, section H. 1913 43, at S. per acre.
Three claim near Johnson elevator, $3.50.
Homestead near Johnson elevator, $3.50.
$40 acres section 49, Darnen, at sll,
OIO Acres improved land, adjoining
6FO Morris, $4,000.
100 Acres, Pope Co., near scandiaville,
AOo at $40 per acre.
on Acres, Pope Co., near scandiaville, at
OO $ll per acre.
900 Acres SIS in crop, near Morris, crop
OA0 and all for $4,000.
100 Acres, Sec. II, Scott, at So per acre
w with so acres cultivated and $500
worth of buildings, miles from Elevator and
Station.
oHN Acres, sec. II, Morris. Buildings worth
O4O $2,OO0.-25O acres cultivated. Beauti-
full rolling land. Price of whole $40, 900.
0NN Acres in sections 10 and 10, Framnas,
AOO at $I5 per acre.
M Acres timber, in Framnas, at $50 to $50
s~TO per acre.
0H0 Acres,2 miles from Morris, at $l2b per
G4O acre. This is an excellent piece of
land, and is a BARGAIN at that price,
100 Acres, 3 miles from Morris, at only so.
LOU This is one of the finest quarter Sec
tions in the county, and Is going at great
sacrifice.
| 0n Acres in section 10-l24-44, for a price
i OO too small to mention.
or Foot lot on 9Th street, $40O. Good bus
80 mess location.
400 Acres one milo from Morris, $40 per
fOO acre.
on Acres IN Darnen at $40 per acre.
Residence Lots $780, Norris from $50 to
Bushes Lots s 81 norris from s2C0 to
| Most of these lands can be puschased ON
| long time and low rate of interest Some OF
| them are bargains for cash. Others will be
| EXCHANGED for city property here, or in Min
| neapolis or ST. Paul.
| Come and tell Just what you want, and If
! haven't got 1t III tell you so. If have We'll
make q trade
| JAMES A. JOHNSON,
Morris, Mimi.
Office opposite Central House.
Morris tribune., 1883-10-10
DENTIST.

A. G.. Greelee Dentist will visit
Norris to remain during the first week
in November. 81
Morris tribune., 1883-10-10
POTATOES.

POTATOES.
Several car loads of potatoes wanted
for which will pay cash. [ will not
receive small ones.
So E. bowers.
Morris tribune., 1883-10-10

COUNTY OF STEVENS, 90
Subscribed and sworn to before me this sth
day OF October, 1883 FIELDER B. CHEW,
lsEALl Notary Public, MINI.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02

pened to be around, would ask him to guess
the weight of n hog Just killed. II it hap
pened to be 4 big one weighing 400 or 800
pounds he would stoop down and twist his
fingers into the bristles, and in that way
would lift the carcass clear from the ground
and guess on its weight. lie performed one
of the greatest feats of strength on record
after he had reached the age of ~ years. H.
lifted two ~ foot iron rails by grasping
one in each hand, and walked off with them.
The rails were resting on wooden horses, 80
he did not stoop to lift them. One day in
haying time he was going from the field with
his men to the house for dinner. They were
walking along the road together, when one of
his men, for mischief, came up behind him
aud by q sklfu trip threw Carpenter down.
He gathered himself up and said nothing
about it, He walked to the house, and after
dinner, when returning to the field with his
men, they came to the place where the man
gave him the fall He suddenly turned up
on the man, and grasping him by the shoul-
der and the seat of his trousers, lifted him
and hurled him high in the air above him
and over q seven-rail fence, by the side OF
which they happened to be walking The
man came down in the meadow rod or more
from tho fence, considerably shaken up but
not badly hurt Mr.. Carpenter was not gi-
gantic man in size. lie was about six feet
tall, and appeared much less than that owing
to his massive build. There was no superilu-
Gus flesh upon him, but the muscles of his
arms, shoulders and neck seemed to be piled
upon him, so great was their size. This gave
him STOPPING appearance. In crowd a
casual observer would not be likely to pick
him out for one Of the strongest men that ev-
er lived His strength would equal if not
surpass that of the great Roman gladiator
Milo. Mr. Carpenter is living at the present
time at Granville Corners, Washington coun-
ty, n Y, his old home, or was living the
last heard of him. He must be over so
years of age.--Cor. Troy Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02

GEN. GARFIELD ON THE PRESIDENTIAL FE-
vER.-In a recent lecture in Cleveland, on
lessons from the Life of Garfield, Super.
intendent Hinsdale, of the Cleveland public
schools, read a letter written by General Gar
field in February, 1873, in reply to letter
connecting his name with the presidency. A
portion of the letter, which has never before
been published, is as follows: 81 am certain
ly not Indifferent to the good opinion of my
fellow citizens. 1t is gratifying to know that
thoughtful men in any part of the country
look upon me as worthy to occupy the posi-
ton of Chief Magistrate. Especially to know
that such thoughts are entertained by men
not Immediately concerned in the manage
ment of party machinery. 1t would be
deemed affectation to pretend indifference to
such consid erations, but have seen so many
illustrations of the unhappiness and the de-
structon of usefulness which have followed
the presidential fever, that am determined
it shall not attack me so as to disturb my
peace, and destroy what beneficial service l
may be able to render. Not more than i've
men now living can hold the presidency be-
fore / shall be too old for the place. To as
sumo that out of the six millions of American
voters l shall be one of these five, and lay
any plans or make any efforts based upon
such an assumption seems to me too remote
and too visionary to be worth incurring the
danger which seems to attend all who indulge
in that dream. l think it wiser to do what
ever duty comes to my hand, holding my
soul free to utter itself in accordance to the
truth as it shall appear, and if, in pursuance
of such a course, the presidency should hap
pen to come, it would be all the more com
plimentary than though had sought it. II,
on the other hand, as is most probable, it
will never come 1 shall not have prepared
myself for the pangs of disappointment
which SO many have suffered. 1t does not
seem to me that my selt-poise would be up
set were discussed by the public in connec-
ton with that office, and yet no man is per
fectly sure of himself in advance, and
would rather be master of my own soul than
hold any office, however high"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02
StTongestl uTlRhtebt and
oheapest color Made,
Remember This.

If you sick, Hop Bitters will surely aid nature
in making you well when all else fails.
If you are costye or dyspeptic, or are suffering
from any other of the diseases of the stom
ach bowels it is your fault If you remain i'll
for Hop Bitters is a sovereign remedy in such COM
plants.
II you wasting away with any form OF kidney
disease stop tempting Death this moment and turn
for a cure to Hop Bitters.
II you sick with that terrible sickness, Nervous
ness, you will hnd a Balm in Giead in the use of Hop
Bitters.
II you are frequenter or resident OF miasmat-
c district barrcade your system against the scourge
of all countries-maaral, epidemic, bilious and in
termittent feyers-by the use of Hop Btters.
Ifyou have rough, pimpy salow skin, bad breath,
aches and palms, and feel miserable generally Hop
Bitters will give you fair skim rich blood sweet breath
health and comfort.
In short they all diseases Of the stomach bow
els, blood, liver, nerves. kidneys, BTights disease
$500 will be paid for they will not cure help
That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother
or daughter, can be made picture Of health bya few
bottles Of Hop Bitters, costing but trhe. Will you
let them suffer?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02
Modern sampson.

In the Troy Times recently appeared an
article giving a short history of the life and
doilgs of Abner McIlrath of Euclid, Ohio,
and in that article he was represented as the
strongest man in America while living, with
the exception of that famous strong man of
northern New York, Joseph Call, The
greatest feat of strength claimed for Nc
Ilrath was the lifting of an iron shaft
which weighed l, 700 pounds, and it is also
stated that he lifted it by grasping it with his
hands, which, it is claimed, would be equal
to lifting twice that weight in harness. 1t
would be useless to deny that Abner Nc
Ilrath was a mighty man. But propose to
give a short sketch of the life of a man who
was but little known outside of the village of
Granville Corners in Washington County,
where he was born and spent the most of a
long life. 1t is known of him. and can be
proved, that he has performed feats of
strength unsurpassed by any man that has
lived in ancient or modern times, excepting,
of course, the Biblical Sampson. His name
is or was Stearn Carpenter; his occupation
was that of farmer. Being naturally of a
very quiet, peaceable disposition and mem
ber of the society of Friends, he never did
anything for display to attract attention, but
the feats of strength that he performed were
done more to satisfy himself and to see how
much he could lift than for anything else.
All of his lifting was done by main strength,
without harness of any kind One of his
greatest feats was lifting a box filled with
iron which weighed 1900 pounds, which il
equal to lifting $500 pounds in harness.
He lifted it with ease with his hands by
grasping a rope or chain which was bound
around the box to secure it. He did moi
know the weight of the box of iron at the
| time, and was afterward heard to say tha
had he known it weighed so near ton h'
would have put on the other hundred pound
and lifted the whole. At another time HI
! lifted a cannon that weighed 1,400 pound
and shouldered it. At Comstock's Landing
on the Champlain canal near Whitehall, on
day while waiting for load of merchandise
he lifted barrel of white lead with ease
The writer of this article was an eye-witnes
to this feat, besides number Of others. Hi
! neighbors when killing hogs, if Stearn hap
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02
Miscellany.



Hard winter strikes on the pools and the dikcs
Tho ice grows thick aud the boughs bend low,
Laden with pOndcrOus loads Of snow;
Too keen the cold for the rayeuOus shrikes,
And the cock has not spirit to crow
Winter weighs down on country and town,
Aud frnges the holly, robust aud green,
With tangles and wreaths Of yesteruight
And spangles Of Christmas sheen;
And the feathery birch is ghostly grown
With ceremeuts Of purest white;
But on a twig, perched full in the light,
One patch Of red Is seen.
At my neighbours window two round-eyed girls
With plump-fed cheeks and dimpled chin,
Flatteu their noses and shake their curls,
Snug in their own warm nest
10 espy the CLEAN Of a sOldicr-hreast
That bears a heart, though small, within,
As gallant and bold as the best.
Worms are locked up by the stingy frost,
And berries are lew and grubs are dear,
And the greedy sparrOws, numerous host,
Swoop down ia cloud, and clear the coast,
Whenever crumbs appear;
But straight from his tree Robin makes a dart, ,
And two lookers-On take Robins part,
As he nights for his morsel Of cheer;
Aud anon trills loud and clear
pluckier song than all the rest,
For he carries about ia his soldier.brcast
heart that knows no fear.
This stout, small bird must surely have heard.
OF Hin who feeds the fowls when they cry
Raven, robin and linnet;
For day by day his little quick eye
Sends wistful messages up to the sky,
And down to his friends Of earth;
The fields lie bare, but, spite Of the deartb,
Providence leaves on the window-sill
Some wel-watched scraps for robins bill;
So be gObbles them mp with hungry Lpst,
Aud thaukfulness nils his soldier-breast
And the brave little heart within it,
stern Winter tightens her iron hold
On all things living and all things dead;
Silence prevails ; the ruthless cold
Wakes keeuer DER field and f0ld,.-
Joy from the world seems fed.
Round eyes peep through the crusted pane,
With shiyering doubts aud boding fears;
Wondering robin comes not again
To pipe his merry "GOod-morning" trill
And dry their rising tears.
Alas their fears had told them true
On a smooth laid drift without a stain
one lonesome patch arrests the view,-
bundle Of feathers with two little legs,
Stf and upright as wooden pegs,
With slender, motionless toes Outspread,
And a heavenward-p0inted bill;
Like tiny warrior taking his rest"
There lies on the snow a soldier breast,
But the brave little heart is sstill.
-Ej,rin Smith in Spectator.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02

The LESSON OF ONE HUMBLE LIFE.-Miss
Margaret A. Stanwood, whose death at Mere
Point last week in her tifty-second year we
record o.day, was probably personally un-
known to most of our readers. A distressing
physical infrmity had confined her to herhome
since her girlhood. Yet with all the disadvan-
tages of pain and isolation she showed her
self remarkable character. Her home was
in a by-wav of the town, but little visited,
with few connections with the larger world
But in that homo she gathered about herself
thoughts and possessions of beauty and of en-
nobling power. She read the best books
She kept abreast of the activities and ambi-
tions of the day. She attracted to herself
strong friendships and affections from out
side. Her conversation was of history and
poetry and art She loved good music and
made it a study, and all the time, though hav-
ing periods of great dish ess, she was centre
of light and inspiration to her country house
hold none of its interests, even the most
minute details of farm and household duty,
were without her active cooperation, and in
all the busy routine she lifted the thoughts OF
her family, her brothers and her neices, tc
her own high level She made, in one of ouI
remoter country houses an intellectual life
that would be honorable in the city centres OF
thought and action To her appreciation OF
what was elevating she added creative pow
er of unusual grace In wider sphere hers
would have been "A most honOred name. In
the narrow lot of physical weariness and To-
cal retirement she did pure and beautiful
work. .-BrunScick (Me.) Telegraph, JdR 10
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02

Congressman Smalls of South Carolina,
when complimented upon the good order
which prevailed in the House when he was in
the Speakers chair, explained that white
men don't like to be ordered by colored
man to be quiet"
It is reported in Paris that Sarah Bernhardt
has lost the eighty thousand dollars which she
earned in the United States. 1t is said that
she loaned the money with promise proba-
bly, of big interest, to the head of gambling
house. That she may return to the United
States in search of another bonanza is limited.
The Rugby Colony in Tennessee shows
some indications that the dream of its pro-
jector Mr.. Hughes, may be realized after all.
A great deal of the land has been recently
sold for fruit growing, large canning factory
is being built new settlers are coming in, the
schools are fourishing and new business
houses of various kinds are in process of erec-
ton.
The Prince of Wales proves himself pos
sessed of one most valuable quality in Brit
ish monarch-one, too, in which his Prede
cessors of the House of Brunswick, his moth
or included, have been wanting-potitieal i'm
partially. Members of all parties are alike
welcomed at Marlborough House and Sand
ringham. There are no cabals, nor intriguei
with this party or that, carried on by the
present heir-apparent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02

In western mine there is this notice 'Do
not fall down this shaft, as there are men at
work at the bottom of it,"
Yesterday Laramie minister put up two
stovepipes without swearing. When the an
gels sing on the beautiful shore, there will be
a name in the song never sung before.
Boomerang.
A Californian claims to have invented a
screw Joint for stove pipe that will go togeth-
er without the aid of a single "cuss word.
He ought to be rewarded with a commission
in the Salvation Army.
preacher, raising his eyes from his desk
in the midst of his sermon, was paralyzed
with amazement to see his boy in the gallery
pelting the hearers in the pews below with
horse chestnuts. But while the good man
was preparing a frown of reproof, the young
hopeful cried out, you tend to your preach
ing dad 'I'll keep 'em awake"
The man absorbed in making money, who
subordinates everything in life to this one
end, condemns many of his faculties to utter
inanition. He gives himself no time for self
improvement, no time to be father to his
family, friend to his neighbors, an influence
in the community. The facilities that would
thus have been called forth and strengthened
wither up and decay, and the happiness they
would have yielded is lost TO him.
BY example, thousand times more quick
ly than by precept, children can be taught to
| speak kindly to each other, to acknowledge
favors, to be gentle and unselhsh, to be
thoughtful and considerate of the comforts OF
the family. The boys, with inward pride at
their fathers courteous demeanor, will be
chivalrous and helpful TO their young sisters
the girls, initiating the mother, will be gentle
and patient even when big brothers are noisy
and needless
An old man would not believe he could
hear his wife talk a distance of five miles by
telephone. His better-half was in country
store several miles away where there was
telephone, and the skeptic was also in a place
where there was similar instrument and OF
being told how to operate 1t, he walked bold
ly up and shouted, Hello, Sarah !" At tina
instant lightning struck The telephone wir'
and knocked the man down, and as he scramb
led to his feet he excitedly cried, ''Thatl
! Sarah every time"
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NO.. s..


"Did you also love it-at least q little ?"
Her voice trembled
MY wife my sweet my own wife !' cried
l. Then fell at her feet and held her hands
fast in mine. Glove thee, my wife oh my
wife"
After the first emotion had subsided, 1
pointed to the little armchair. "The little
one came to us to teach us love-" whispered l.
"And when it had finished its teaching il
went again to the angels, added she, through
her tears.
One day the physician stepped out of my
wife's room with a smiling face. He touched
the little armchair as he passed it, saying
Let it stand there; you will need it again.
Really? Was it possible? Had deserved
such happiness
As held my wife close to my heart in my
irrepressble joy, could not forbear to bend
down to her blushing little face and say
1--WE will love it dearly, very dearly. Is it
not so ?"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02

This is the only true portrait of the lady
ever printed in an American newspaper. The
artist has done her full justice. She is indeed as
beautiful as a summer dream or an autumn
nightmare. She has very nice hair, which
she wears becomingly; beautiful forehead,
indicative of great intelligence shapely eye
brows; mild but satisfactory eyes, and features
the ensemble of which is attractive. She pro-
duces the impression of being tall, but is only
five feet two in her stocking feet. She wears
a No. shoe, 3G-inch corset and a No. II
glove. In this connection we will state that
there is no truth in the report that Mrs Lang
try will set apart large amount of the sur
plus of the money she expects to make in this
country for the erection of an asylum for in
durable idiots.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-02
TIC Aneet SAD Nears.

The sweet sad years, the sun, the rain,
Alas too quickly did they wane,
For each some boon, some blessing, bore;
OF smiles and tears each had its store,
Its chequered lot Of bliss and pain.
Altho' 1t idle be, and vain,
Yet cannot / the wish restrain
That had held them evermore;
The sweet sad years.
Like echo Of an old refrain
That long within the mind has lain,
l keep repeating, DER and DER,
"Nothing can e'er the past restore,
Nothing bring back the years again.
The sweet sad years
Canon BEL in Leisure Hour.
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ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY.
"a Ia The Ret0rm6r.)

MRS. LANGTRY AS DEsCRIBED AND LLUsrRAT-
Ed by AN ENTEBPRIsISG WESTERN JOURNAL
from the Laramie Boomerang.l
Mrs Langtry, the Jersey Lily, is with us,
and her boom has entirely overshadowed the
Oscar Wilde craze Over $1,000 was raked in
by her manager at her opening performance
in New York. Realizing that portrait Of
the professional beauty, together with sketch
of her life, would be feather in the Boone
rang cap, we have, at great expense, secured
both, and present them herewith. Mrs Lang
try is accused of being born in New jersey.
This, however, is a New Jersey lie The lady
was born in Tie City, Wyoming in the year
1912. This is giving her dead away-as re-
CARDS her age--but truth is mighty. She was
taken to Jersey when only seven months old,
and there acquired her lilly" title. Her re-
markabe beauty, at the tender age of sixteen,
attracted the attention of Blrnum, who put
her in tent with the fat woman and the tat.
tooed man, and took her to Europe. The
lady finally acquired a snug sum through the
show business, and accepted a proposal of
marriage from Mr. Langtry. Since then she
has made a starring tour of London drawing
rooms as professional beauty, and now comes
to the land of the free and the home of the
brave as an actress. So much for her history.
That she is beauty is proven by the steel
engraving which appears below.
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the presence of hundreds of thousands. In
the popular quarters dozens of great mauufac-
turing establishments closed at 10 o'clock, be-
cause their workmen had not appeared.
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Homestead for Sale.

will sell my place on Western Avenue at a verylov
figure. Credit given If desired
EDWARD CROSBY,
Brattleboro, Nov, /, 1882. th4
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China and Japan buy our dried apples free
". Thus does American industry help to
swell the population of the Decentralization
Transcript.
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nor SALE-Stebbins' Ferry, situated at
Il the southern end of Mortified street, on direct
road from Turner'S Falls and Greenfield to Northheld
Winchester and Keene. Said property consists Of
from four to ave Of land, with buildings there
on boats, ETC. Beautiful location; about mile from
the Moody boys school, direct road from there to
seminary Reasons for selling, increasing business
and increasing years. q, r, SrEBBlNS. -
Northheld, Mass, Nov. 6, 1882 60f