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Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
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What Can He Do?

The great test in life, says Gen. Thomas
]. Morgan in q paper on "Training as an
Element of Education; ~ is rather what a
man can do than what he knows. Can he
use his eyes? Has he good judgment? Is
he q man of common sense? Can he
think? Does he reason correctly? Has he
power of adaptation? Can he organize?
Has he executive force? Is he practical?
These are the kind of test questions that
are put to the graduates of our. schools.
Can the 'tsweet girl graduate cook a din
ner, sweep room or superintend house?
Does she have an intelligent interest in
passing events? Has she robust health,
good habits, self reliance, energy and
power of endurance? Can the young man
lay aside his diploma and keep his fathers
accounts, write an article for the news
paper, make business trip to Chicago,
give anintelligent account of the morn
tng's news? Can he lend hand at home,
and turn to some good account in the daily
duties Of life some of the accumulated
stores of knowledge emassed in years of
study? Does his education render him
more Industrious, more sHlful and eff
ficient, more ingenious, more persistent,
more practically masterful in whatever he
undertakes? ar.
If he has been trained to use his senses,
to acquaint himself with natural phenom-
ena at first hand; if he has been taught
to think, to make careful comparison,
noting essential differences and significant
similarities, making patient inductions
and wise. generalizations; if he has been
led to form fixed habits of thoughtfulness,
self reliance, moral easnestness, infiexi-
bility of purpose, persistent industry,
promptness, punctuality, fidelity, I'M
swerving devotion to duty; if, in short, as
"a result of his school life, his training has
produced well rounded character, he
win be able to meet all the reasonable de-
mands that society can make upon one
| who lacks practical experience in actual
business. He viii readily acquire skill
and efficiency in any calling for which his
Especial talents have fitted him. Training
|igives potency to all the souls possibilities.
Popular Science Monthly.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
PROHIBITION COLUMN.
EDITED BY THE PROHIBITION CLUB.
as Lg
PARrY IDoLATRY.

as
PARTY IDoLATRY.
Appointed sparty lsse deem defined
as organized public sentiment. But
when it has accomplished its purpose,
enthroned the sentiment of which ii
was the exponent in the law of the
land, aud secured Its general recog-
milton and enforcement, then, If that
party continues to exist, It degener-
ates into q mere machine by which to
secure the offices and control the
government patronage.
It Is not surprising that the pagan
nations should eventually come To
worship their idols Instead of the
Deities they are supposed to repre-
sent. But that intelligent Americans
OF 1855 should continue to i'iolize n
means used for the accomplishment
of n purpose long since attained, is
cause for very great surprise.
To-day, neither one Of The old par
ties is the exponent Of amy particular
sentiment. The. only ties that bind
their incongruous elements together
are ~ desire for the spells and 81
party idolatry. The first consider
'ation has no force with the better
element Of either party. They do not
care for the loaves and fishes. With
them 1t is old associations, party idol
airy, that keeps them loyal still to
the party of their early love.
New issues will crowd to the front.
Old parties are barrier to their pro-
gress. 1t was for this reason that
Horace Greedy said parties should be
disbanded every twelve years.
An issue that oversladows in its
tremendous importance all others
combined, is ut the front. Both the
old parties and the partisan press
have united i'm q determination to
ignore and finally suppress it.. The
motive of the lower elements in try
ing to suppress this Issue, is their
desire to retain control of the spoils.
The motive of the other and better
element, is their desire and belief that
it can and should come only through
their idolized party.
The organised and unorganized
public sentiment of the country is
overwhelmingly hostile to the liquor
traffic. This organized curse has both
the old parties by the throat. The
worst element in the old parties con-
troll their party policy and have en-.
tered into political partnership with
the saloons. The much abused mug
wumps and prohibitionists comprise
that class of citizens who have severed
the leading strings of old parties and
their political partner, the saloon
The Prohibitionists have not only
severed old party relations, but have
organized for action on new line.
This new issue, prohibition of the
liquor traffic, is at the front. 1t will
be settled, and settled right. No high
license compromise will be accepted
To the spoiIs elements of the old par.
ties We have nothing to say. They
cannot rise to the conception of moral
ideas, To those who love their old
parties for what they have done, We
say: Your first love has fallen into
the hands Of wicked and designing
men. She is no longer true to you
Your convictions of right are with us
Be true to those convictions and
come to US. <,
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
Important to Farmers !!

Before borrowing money on
your,farms elsewhere, you will
find it to your interest to call
on The Stevens County Alb
|stract & Real Estate Agency.
We have abundance Of cheap
money to loan on improved
farms at low rates of interest.
No commissions or bonus. No
interest required to be paid in
advance. Privilege Of paying
all or part of principal before
due. Also privilege of extend
ing time from year to year
after due without making new
papers.
Loans made to prove up.
Give us a call! It will be to
your interest todo 50.
P. A. Mccarthy, Pres't.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
The Bucket shops Advantage.

"The odds are all with the bucket shops.
/ would not lay my money in any of
them,n said veteran gambler. sThe bet
You make is against the shop. You lay
your money that certain stock will 60
down. The shop bets 1t won't.
''That seems even, doesn't 1t? But It
isn't, for the shop keeps portion of your
wager whether You win or lose commis-
sion, it is called. say it is odds. Ten
dollars is your bet on seven shares against
$3.50 IL the commission is one-quarter;
and think % man is a fool to be con-
stantly laying money against smaller
sum. 1t will break him sure. You will
seldom find an experienced gambler who
can be induced to have anything to do
with these concerns. New York Tele-
gram.
The Counting Machine in Russia.
/ have been In four or five of the largest
banks In Russia and many Of the most ex-
tensive commercial and railroad houses,
and nowhere have seen figuring done by
pen or pencil, like they do in America and
England. The Chinese counting machine,
seen occasionally in the hands of John
and Jap In the United States, is every
where. II You buy q pair of socks for
fifty kopecks and handkerchief for
seventy-fi kopecks, the shopkeeper, even
the brightest and oldest and most expe-
rienced, has to go to his machine to learn
the result-one rouble, twenty-five ko-'
pecks. venture that there are not
dozen bankers in Russia who would at
tempt to discount any draft, or issue
letter Of credit, or change q ten rouble
note into kopecks, without pushing back
and forward for some time the strings of
colored buttons in his machine, indicating
numerals. But 1t is wonderful how adept
some of them are in the use of the count
ing machine. You may buy bill of
goods ever so large. The salesman keeps
the machine beside him, pushing out the
numerals as the purchases are made, and
the instant You call for your bill he re-
peats the total. The Russians were taught
most of their business knowledge by the
Chinese and Turks, and these counting
machines are yet indispensable in all
Oriental places Of business. Moscow Cor.
New Orleans Times Democrat
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
As 1t Happened.

AB ~ 4AnRpChsC1s
A clock tucked merrily among the pas
sengers on Cass avenue car the other
day, and one passenger after another
looked up cheerfully and said:
sThat sounds good! Where is the
tickerT'
No one seemed to know. One little
woman with her arms full of packages
fidgeted and looked uncomfortable.
'That isn't clock you hear" said q
distraught, wild looking man who sat near
the door; "it's my heart you hear beat
ing, gentlemen
Everybody looked ut him sympathetic
cally, when man in the corner who had
been reading a paper suddenly jumped
up.
whats that drip, drip, over there9 Be
keerful, ma'am, that lamps leakin'!
kin smell kerosener' 49, ...
At this moment the alarm in the clock
went off, and the man who had heart dis
ease rushed out of the car and was seen
running wildly down the sidewalk, while
the little woman with the clock rang the
bell and carried off the cause of the dis
turbance. Free Press.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
FREE DISCUSSION.

1.-THE extreme pro-slavery men
cried out against the reception of
every anti-slavery petition in the sem
ate, and muzzled the house with gag
rules, feeling instsnctively that free
discussion aoas just the thing That
slavery could not endure ~ Carl
Schurz's Life Of Henry Clay.
The saloon sympathizers of to-day
are copying faithfully the example of
the old pro-slavery leaders. They.
too, instinctively feel that their pet
delusion will not stand the hammer
ing Of free discussion, and 80 they
have muxzled the partisan press of the
country to that extent that nothing
that looks to the ultimate prohibition
Of the drink traffic is to be found In
its columns. It will not even give
the prohibition news, unless it hap
pens to be q case In which prohibition
has had an apparent setback.
The candidates of the old parties
nave uniformly refused 10 discuss the
prohibition Issue on the platform.
During the last campaign in Ohio
there was standing challenge for
Gov. Foraker to debate the question
with w. T. Mills, the prohibition
candidate. Gov. Foraker, it is pre-
sumed, was too busy waying the
bloody shirt to stop for any such
minor question as the drink traffic.
Prohibltionists believe that their
methods, and the issue they represent,
are worthy of acceptance by the
American people. That they have
stood the test of free. discussion, is
proved by the fact that the Prohibi-
ton party has doubled every two
years.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

While Edwin Forrest was playing an
engagement at Ford's theatre, Mr.. Car
penter spoke to the president one day of
the actors fine Interpretation of the char
acter of Riehelieu, and advised him to
sation occurred in the presence of Senator
play?' asked the president OF Mr.. Car
penter. "Bulwer," was the reply.
''Ahr' he reioined, well, knew Bull
was play writer also. It may seem
somewhat strange to say" he continued,
''but I never read an entire novel in my
life.''' Said Judge Harris, sIs it posi-
ble?'' eyes, returned the president,
sit is fact. once commenced Ivan
hoe, but never finished it,"
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

There is probably not single read.
er of this paper, who has not, at some
time or other in life, watched the
mysterious workings of the Westing-
house patent air brake, with which
all passenger trains are now fitted out.
Yet very few understand how the
pressure Of air is used to apply the
brakes. Talking with an old rail-
roader recently on this subject, was
furnished with the following infor-
nation: g When the air brake was
first invented, the air was turned into
the cylinder under each car when the
cars were to be stopped, and the pres
sure was exerted to force the brakes
up against the wheels. At the pres
emit day the brakes are held against
the wheels by springs, and the air is
turned into the cylinder to push the
brake away from the wheels as long
as the train is in motion. When it is
desired to stop the train, the air is let
out, and then the springs apply the
brakes and stop the train. This
method has great advantages over the
old way on the score of safety. When
ever an accident happens to train,
one of the first effects, generally, is to
rupture the air pipe leading from the
engine to the cylinders under the cars.
That of itself stops the train almost
instantly. A child five years old can
stop train, within distance OF 200
yards, from any car, if he simply un-
derstands how. You will see, if you
look for it, that there lis sort of rope
projecting from the toilet room of
every car that connects with the air,
pipes under the train. Well, If you
catch hold Of it, and give it q jerk, the
whole train will be stopped, as well
as if the apparatus had been worked
from the engine. Elk.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
MAKE NJ 4 SONG.

q
Out of the silence make me song, .ss
Beautiful, sod and soft and low;
Let the ioveIest music sound along
And wing each note With wan of woe,
Dim and drsar;
Is hopes last tear
Out Of the silence make me hymn si@'
whose sounds are shadows soft and dim. q
Out of the stiffness In your heart
A thousand songs are sleeping there ~.
Make me but one, thou child Of art.
The song of . hope In . last despair. VA
Dark and low,
A chant OF woe; Et
Out OF the stiffness, tone by tone,
Soft as snowflake. Wild a. moan. siai;A
Out on the dark recesses fash ine song, ~
Brightly dark and darkly bright;
Let it sweep as . love star sweeps along
The mystical shadows Of the night.
Sing Il sweet, ~
Where nothing Il drear, or dark. or dim,
And earth songs melt into heavens hymn.
Father Ryan.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

party, that dares not commit itself to-
protection of the people from their
worst enemy, it llpNstands the liquor
men ia buy as Macy school houses as
possible and conscrt them into sa-
looms. Tho fewer schools and the.
more saloons, tle greater and easier
controlled is the democratic VOTE
Brick Pomeroy.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
Motto for anti-saloon Republicans !:
Not that ] loved my country less, but
that ! loved my party more.
What is morally wrong cannot be
made morally right by legal sanction.
Oh, I'm a temperance dodger; !.
There's my wife worker, true,
In the ranks Of noble women,
Known as w. G. T. u.
I'll help her all ] can, sir,
In the church and on the street;
'Tis only at the ballot box
] aid In her defeat.

In the Massachusetts legislature on
Jan. Is, bill was introduced to pro-
hibit the manufacture and sale of
alcoholic liquors. It was Identical
with the Massachusetts, prohibitory
law OF 1859, since repealed. 1t was Ut
once laid on the table ny the follow
ing vote: 157 yeas to "A noes. or the
157 who voted to table 1t, 1853 were
republicans and four democrats. OF
the "A who stood up for the bill, SIS
were democrats, I prohibitlonist, 2
independents, 8 republicans. That
shows how much the anti-saloon men
have accomplished towards convert
ing the republican party. And this
b the party that has done oil for tenn
perance that has been done?
As the saloons and nrog shops are
the great schools Of the democratic
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
Ren Telanhone. stock.

Bell telephone stock, with par value
Of 800 a share, is selling at $780, It pays
10 per cent dividends and is supposed to
earn about 30 per cent. The largest block
of the stock is held by the inventor and
his wife. Another large holder is Forbes,
the Boston capitalist, who has q control
ing interest in the Burlington road and is
.father-in-law of Perkins, the roads presi-
dent, New York Evening World.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

The Democrats may not nominate
a hummer for governor III Minnesota
this year, consequently the Republic
cans had better not figure Oh winning
with "a mighty mean man" ut the
head of their ticket. The Republicans
must have man who is worthy the
unanimous support of the party, or
they may not succeed.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

The Democratic party has no use
for honest men. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat says: "The only Demo-
Gratis in the country who are better
than their party are in private life.
When Hon. Allen G. Thurman first
began to display an eccentricity of
this character he was quickly and
summarily sent home, and he has
been kept home ever since. At the
present time he could not be elected
an alderman or town constable ex-
cept by Republican votes"
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
Enldinn narra1s

Barrels are made in Jersey for the use
of the channel island farmers which will
fold up when empty, and thus, having
been sent to market, can be packed into q
small space on the return. The slaves are
fixed upon the hoops SO, that the heads
being removed, they may be rolled up.
They are made perfect cylinders, and
therefore occupy less space for the same
capacity than ordinary barrels. Dress.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

The TRIBUNE believes that it will
be suicidal for the Republicans Of
Minnesota to re-nominate McGiIl.
He is too small man for the place,
and can not command anything like
the united support Of the party. Some
ADLER man must be placed at the head
of the ticket.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
Bayard and His Daughter.

Secretary Bayard, by the way, is look
ing remarkably well, and his daughter
Mamie win, understand, be the head OF
his household this winter. There is
nothing in the story, / am assured at the
state department, of his engagement to
Miss Markoe, and he was too ardent and
loving husband to so soon take unto
himself new wife. - Carpenters Wash.
ington Letter.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
Europe,s Armie. and Narle,.

The men in actual service at the present
time in the armies and nayies of Europe
is in excess Of A. DOC, 900, and it undoubt-
edly requires the product of one operative
or peasant laborer to sustain one soldier.
The present aggregate annual direct war
expenditure Of the. world is probably in
excess of $1,000, 60, 600. We express
this expenditure in terms Of money, but it
really means work performed; not that
abundance Of useful and desirable things
may be increased but decreased; not that
human toll and suffering may be light
ened, but augmented. Hon. David A.
Wells in Popular Science Monthly.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
A Little roo smart.

heard the other day of a clerk in q dry
goods store who was smart and quick, q
splendid manager and all that He had
an exalted opinion Of himself, and FIRE.
quently made himself disagreeable by re-
marking to his associates that the concern
could not possibly get along without him.
This came to the ears of the senior part
ner, and the old gentleman called the
clerk into the private Office and said: ssNr.
Jenkins, you have been very efficient and
we appreciate your services, but hear
that You have repeatedly asserted that ii
you were to die the concern couldn't pos.
sibly survive it, and this has worried both
myself and partner very much, for you,
like all men, are liable to die very un-
expectedly. We have, therefore, con-
cluded to experiment while we are in
health and see If the concern will survive
your absence. You will, therefore, con-
slider yourself dead for one year, and we
viii make an effort to so consider you for
that length of time. &c Globe Democrat.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
sensitive Photographic Plates.

Photographic plates can now be pre-
pared which are more sensitive to light
than even the human retina; they sub
serve an excellent purpose in astronomical
photography, for by their use it is possible
to map out stars in the heavens which are
so dim as to be totally invisible to the eye
looking through the telescope. The plate
is fixed and allowed to remain behind the
eye piece of the telescope, the rays of light
invisible to the eye gradually producing
the change in it necessary to the produc-
ton of an image. 1t is claimed for them
that they will photograph the eruption of
scarlet fever some time before itsis visible
to the eye, thus permitting the trouble to
be recognized earlier than formerly
Chicago News.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

Two years ago it was anybody for
governor who could get the nomina-
ton. Now it's anybody who can get
the full Republican vote. Some differ.
ence. Anoka Union.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

A scientist declares that the hair
curls after death. Now, when you
hear your wife say that she has
"made pie that will make your hair
curl" you'll know just what she
mnans
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

Civil Service Reform Cleveland has
made more removals and changes in
office than any other president since
Jackson. This suits the Democrats,
but is tough OH the Mugwumps.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

The Washington Post, u staunch
Democratic paper, frankly admits
that the Democratic party has not
won Il national victory OH its own
merits since the war.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
r1accaroni versus Alcohollsnn.

ssNo man, says prominent Philadel-
phia physician, who is an enthusiastic
vegetarian, ''who eats pound of macca-
roni daily, and the balance of whose food
is of kindred nature, win ever become q
drunkard. ~ Brooklyn Eagle.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

WAth can live ut home, and make more
VIII money at work for us, than at any-
fuu thing else In this world. Capital not
neededs you are started free. 10th
sexes all ages. Any one can do the work
Large earnings sure from first start Costly
CuLnt ana terms free. Better not DELAY -
Costs you nothing to send us your address
ana nno OUT; + you are wise you will do SO
1Aa1hee dec1-66
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

An editor, who has at last become
able to buy one, says that in order to
get good grip in society yon must
have a claw hammer coat.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29
A Bri1Ies "a ~ ''j Nor1I,we.t

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--Mr. Nelson's
bill giving the North Dakota & Pacific
road right TO build . bridge across the
Red River Of the North has passed the
house.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

"We'n keep what we've got and
help ourselves to the rest" seems to
be Cleveland's present attitude ON
civil service reform.
Morris tribune., 1888-02-29

As the saloons and nrog shops are
the great schools Of the democratic
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-31
ANANIAS OUTCOME.
An Old Farmers Yarn Causes q Luu on
the Fishermen's Bench.

AN Ola Farmers Yarn Causes Luu on
the Fishermen's Bench.
East of Newport, and all within
sound of the guns that boom now and
then, may be found delightful resort
dear especially to the bass fishermen
and the lovers of repose. The long
summer nap may be relieved only by
the bleat of calf, the tune of the
rooster or the lies of the fishermen.
Against the corn-crib of the primitive
clearinghouse stands long, low
bench, known for many years as the
Liars Retreat" where yarns are
spun that would shame the most ele-
SAINT prevaricator and obscure a mid
day sun.
One day deep lull fell on the fisher
mems bench. Some one had caught a
bass before dinner that fouled the
anchor rope. and dragged boat, anchor
and every thing three miles against
wind and tide, with the boats nose SO
far under water that the man had to
climb halfway up the mast to bail her
out. The field for bass stories grew
suddenly circumscribed, so the CONVEX
sation drifted.
''What is the effect" asked the
writer, in a general way, "of the salt
grass around here on cattle, milk, etcp"
''Waal,' said an old farmer present,
whose stock all fed on salt grass, ''ye
wouldn't s'pose 'twould have s much
as it does; but I've ben a-makin' tons
an tons o. butter for the las forty
years, an Inever had to use pint o.
salt in it in my life" The fishermen
all looked up. can what's more, -
continued the Yankee, II can always
slaughter my cattle, cut EN- up jes as
they air into corned-beef, and sell it,
as I've ben adding for years an years. "
When the writer came to, only the
farmer and himself were on the bench.
The fishermen were down on the rocks,
butting their heads against the cliff.
"B'gosh!' said the farmer, shutting
up his iaclk-kn;fe and moving OFF, .'them
city fishermen carn't stuff emmy of their
darn nonsense daown my throat!''
Hdrper's Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-31

"A most remarkable coincidence in
connection with Berks County Penn.
family, Shilling by name, II that both
parents were born on February ~,
their marriage took place on February
a, and oil OF their six children (Which
includes two sets of twins) were bosa
on February 81.