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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
A Prehistoric Exhibit.

America can have at least one feature
for her Worlds fair that none of the
nations hitherto have obtained. 1t has
been proposed that. from the rich field
of ruins that lie scattered from the At
lantic to the Pacific and from Lake SUI
perior to Central America, we recon
struct prehistoric America.
The hillocks of the mound builders in
the central part of the country, the hab-
itations of the cliff jewellers in Arizona
and New Mexico, and the gigantic and
splendid temples that lie beneath the
fallen trunks of great trees which have
grown over their remains in Yucatan
and Central America-a all these con-
stitute relics so remarkable that they
would fix the attention of the world.
An inventor presents what he thinks is
an original design for an attraction in
90 It is huge tower, 1000 feet high,
broad at the base, built of solid mason
ry, tapering to the top, with walks and
drives winding around the outside in a
spiral, up the whole height. But if this
inventor will take the trouble TO exam
inc photographs III the Smithsonian in
stitution. he will find that'the great un-
known peoples of America constructed
Just such towers ages and ages ago.
though they were not 1000 feet high.
A melancholy, profound fascination
attaches to the whole subject. A recon
struction of the temples and dwellings
of that gray old time would arouse scien-
tific interest everywhere. and stimulate
efforts towards the unraveling of the
mysterious secret of these vanished
races. For unraveled this secret will be.
Here is at least one of the unique feat
ures for which we have been signing for
our exposition. The work will be one
of difficulty and expense, and will take
time. But the United States govern
ment has the money and the persons
who can do the work. It should be
government work.
The ruins show that there must have
been at least three different races
among our prehistoric peoples, each
with civilization Of its own,
with two of them certainly far adj
vanced. Problems of engineering were
compassed in Yucatan and New Mexico
that would be no mean achievement in
our generation.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
KNIGHTS and Farmers.

Dec. 3 the National Farmers alliance
met in st. Louis. 1t is an organization
of aoriculturists founded by Evan Jones,
of Texas, IN 1873. AttiTst it was merely
a combination Of si,lal farmers to resist
the encroaciiinents c: the rich ranchmen.
Then its scope enlarged and it took in all
matters pertaining to the advancement
of agricultural interests. The associa-
ton spread rapidly through the south.
It is there that it fourishes most. By
degrees, however, it is extending to the
north as well.
There is now a Farmers alliance,
offensive and defensive, embracing a
membership of not less than 2,250, 600.
Rumor is gradually taking the shape of
fact that there is to be union between
the Farmers alliance and Knights of
Labor. The Knights now number $780,
600 in good standing, dues paid up. They
and the farmers have found that they
have interests and aims in common
enough to warrant united action. In
addition, it is said that the Federation of
Labor, the society of the united trades
unions, will in time join the organiza-
ton. The three societies are not to be-
come one, but will remain separate and
act in concert on general questions. If
the project succeeds, there will be formed
the most powerful cooperative alliance
of modern times. 1t can control any
political party and make or unmake any
politician at will IF the societies hang
together, the question Of labor and eapi-
tai and all the other great economic
questions will be settled their way as
surely as water runs down hill -
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

It has come out at last that the Roths-
childs are behind the syndicate to buy
American breweries with British money.
From Europe, Asia and Africa money
has rolled into the banking houses of
the Rothschilds till they are embarrassed
how to invest it. There is no safe and
profitable enterprise in which to place
such great amounts in Europe. War
may open at any time. What then? The
United States is great, rich and grow
ing country. 1t is at peace with all the
world, and likely to remain so. 1t has
shown itself possessed of a govern
ment so stable that the greatest rebellion
of modern times could not overturn it.
Therefore the United States is the place
for our money, say the sagacious Roths-
childs. It is large compliment to the
American nation.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
More Fast Travel.

We have endeavored to keep our read
ers informed Of the schemes for rapid
transit that are occupying the thoughts
Of inventors 50 constantly. The steam
ers of the fast line from Halifax, later
from st. Charles bay, Labrador, to Eng
land, will, it is believed, cross the ocean
In five and a half days. But this is only
part Of great enterprise to connect
Great Britain BY direct line Of travel
with Japan. Trains win run at light
ming speed over the Canadian Pacific,
conveying passengers to Vancouver, on
the Pacific coast There new and pow
erful steamers will receive the tourist,
who win ~ at the rate Of twenty to-
twenty ire miles an hour across the Pa
cifc 70 Yokohama, Japan. The trip
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

Mn LEE "Why, Addie. yon needn't cry about
ri I only said ATS Allen was very well.
informed woman, an'l wished you would follow
Aims LEE. s.Yes and last week you said you
wished / could mara. to look as stylish as Mrs.
AIlen,-and she aals'.s all her own clothes. But
she has what haven't
Mrs. LEE 'Mell, she gets all Of her informa
tIon from the Magazine they take. ! admit that
she knows all that is going on. and is bright and
entertaining in conversation but cOu do as
we'll as she does II | had the same source OF
Information She lent me the last number OF her
Magazine lately, and learned more in one hour
reading about various social matters and the
topics OF the day, than would pick mp IN amonth.
by my occasional chats with friends. Itcertainly
the day down to the details of housekeeping:
and everything Ia so beautifully illustrated TOO.
Every time Mamie goes over to the Aliens she
comes back and leases me to get you o. take
Denaorest's Family Magazine. as the stories are
30 good Ever In boys watch for II every month,
as place is found for them also in its pages and
Mr. Allen swears by 1t 1t Is really wonderful
how it suits every member OF the family J"
Mn LEE. :. ell perhaps had better send Tor
Specimen Copy; for, fit anything like what you
sayit H. it viii amuse and instruct the whole 81 u.s.
the publisher - East til Street. New York. is
offering t. send Specimen Copy for H. cents so
ase can't lose nythn. % each number contains
d Pattesn Or tr' cntitl ug the holder TO any
Pattern she may clisos ana IN any size Wnle9
alone makes each copy worth 30 cents and JUST
want q Jacket pat err like Mrs. Aliens The
subscription prize is only Sc co year; and
must say can't see how they can publish %
elegant Magazine for SO little money"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

around the world win be considerably
shortened by this new route.
The steamers for the new British and
Asiatic line are already building ON the
Clyde. The first must be ready by Feb
ruary. Perhaps. then, with the homo
government several days nearer than Il
was before, the British feet in Asiatic
waters may take more active part in
the settlement Of the Behring's sea ques-
ton.
This fast British route will also cut
into the travel that now passes through
the United States. Hitherto passengers
from Japan to Europe have followed the
route from Yokohama to San Francisco,
thence by the Union Pacific railway to
New York, where they embarked finally
for Europe. Now many of them win
undoubtedly take the quicker British
r0l1te
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
The Old and the New Journalist.

The managing editor of a large daily
newspaper, a few days ago, gave a
would be contributor permission to pre-
pare two-colurnn paper on a given
topic for his journal. The editors esti-
mate was that the article could be pre-
pared in one, or at most two days. But
the writer declined the task, saying that
it would require six weeks labor.
The difference between the two esti-
mates was the difference between the old
and new journalism. The contributor
belonged to the old time when literary
composition was thought to be some
mighty and mysterious toll, using up
the phosphorus of the upper regions of
the soul. In that ponderous old school
of thought it was reckoned that mans
brain would blow up if he applied any
sort of high pressure to it, and if a
writer spent two hours in steady COM
position the proper thing was to go to
bed and send for a doctor.
Fine times the newspaper would have
in getting out if the old notions prevailed
today
Lightning speed is the word alike for
writers, compositors and pressmen.
The speed at which editors and report
ers prepare their matter for the modern
newspaper would indeed blow up the
brain of the old fashioned literary and
encyclopedia person. Mr.. Murat Hal
stead has been writing column an
hour Of newspaper matter for nearly
forty years, and his powers have not
failed in the slightest. His former edi-
torial assistant, the late F. B. Plimpton,
wrote at the same rate. This is the reg
ular standard speed which all newspaper
writers aspire to reach. Some other
American editors have reached it.
The local reporter whose work is in
fine print can generally prepare a
column in an hour and half to two
hours. Reporters are frequently paid
by the column in the large cities The
one cent papers often pay no more than
s. column. At that rate the reporter
earns $50 to $25 week and finds his
own material He must or he could not
get his living.
= Is not apparent that either the
quality Of newspaper work or the health
Of the writers suffers from this electric
speed Many newspaper editors live to
be Old men, and they are the youngest
old boys of their generation. Modern
newspaper work IS not SO encyclopedia
rs that Of the past was, but it is far
more readable and contains far more of
the life of the time.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
In some parts Of Kansas corn is selling

In some parts of Kansas corn is selling
on the farm this year for 90 cents q
bushel. A bushel of coal delivered on
the same farms costs 81 to 2S cents o
bushel. The farmers Alliance called the
attention of the farmers to the fact that
it might lessen the demand for coal. as
we'll as perhaps raise the price of corn,
to cease buying the coal and use the
corn for fuel. Accordingly, corn is now
actually being burned as fuel by hume
rous Kansas farmers. This, perhaps,
looks wicked when Dakota farmers are
said to be suffering for food. But the
question is, Is it any more wicked to
burn corn for fuel than it is to put the
price Of coal SO high that a bushel of
corn viii not pay for bushel of coaR
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
Homes for City Working People.

Whatever is British must have long
and dignifed name, hence it is not
strange that the 'sAllotments and Small
Holdings associations" of England mean
something much better than at first
sound one might suppose. In fact, the
association with the long name seems to
be one of the best plans yet devised to
give comfortable homes in the country
to city working people. The plan is ex-
planned by Sydney Eyershed in The New
Review.
He purchases tract of land within a
few miles of large city. He divides it
into streets and squares, and also divides
each acre into plots of a quarter acre.
On each quarter acre he erects working
mans cottage at cost of about $3.50.
The cottages are built in pairs, making
one central wall do for two, for the sake of
cheapness in construction. It is the same
idea as that of the blocks of houses in
cities, except that here there are only
two houses together.
Each cottager will thus possess house
to himself and garden where all the
vegetables he needs can be grown, and
where he can gain health and recreation
which will renew him day by day for
his city toll. The feature absolutely
unique in the plan is this: The working
man will pay no car fare to or from his
place of business in the city. That will
be included in his rent The owner of
the cottages contracts with the railway
to transport his tenants yearly at so
much, and he himself pays the sum
from the money paid him by his tenants.
When the tenant can afford it, he is al
lowed to purchase his home at cost.
The cottages are well built, have three
bedrooms and an ample water supply,
the ground is fenced and properly
drained. Mr.. Everslled believes he can
give all these advantages to working
men, including the free pass. for a rent
of about $1.25 per week, and still clear
Al to 8 per cent. on the money invested.
That is twice as much as many investors
in New York are receiving now. They
are willing to take even per cent, well
secured. Mr.. Evershed's plan is in no
sense charity. 1t is simply a humane
Nineteenth century effort to feed and
shelter those who do the worlds work as
well as pigs and horses are fed and shell
tered.
Unless something of this kind is done,
unless homes in the country are provided
in which for working men to rear their
families. the race viii deteriorate rapid
". The deterioration is seen already
painfully in the pale faces and dwarfed,
stunted limbs and bodies of the second
and third generations of city born and
bred working people. Crowding in tene-
ment houses is sin against nature,
which will in time destroy large num-
hers nf orr Dcr1tllatio1i
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
n ~, ps,,efont.;oa n

are Philadelphia, Bellefontaine, O.;
Wheeling. w. Va. and Henderson. KY.
The prices range from the highest, 81.
at Alexandria. to the lowest. at Wheel
ing, 10 cents per thousand cubic feet.
The gas works at Wheeling the writer
considers model of excellence. What
a city can do with her own plant is well
shown here. The municipal authorities
bought the gas works of Wheeling in
1868 for size, 900. Gas was then $3.50 a
thousand From the profits, under city
management, debts were paid and the
works rebuilt with modern improve
ments without taxing the people dollar.
The plant is now worth half million.
The product has been lowered toseventy-
five cents per thousand, and the streets,
the markets, school and engine houses,
all the public buildings and the Young
Mems Christian association are lighted
free of charge.
Yet the Wheeling gas works in 1883
turned into the city treasury q net profit
of $27,166. The Wheeling rate for gas
is the lowest in the Union. tits because
the works are outof debt, and there are
no dividends to pay to stockholders.
With modern discoveries and improve
ments the manufacture of gas is becom-
ing constantly cheaper. The prediction is
made that in few years it can be manu-
featured to sell for 90 cents per thousand.
Then, or even when it comes to be as
low as 90 cents, it can be used for fuel
the country over. Mr.. Keller finds
there can be no such thing as competing
gas companies. Customers who do not
like one company, in the nature Of
things, cannot change to another, unless
they move their houses. Moreover, a
gas company never yet was started to
compete honestly with another. The
new company is always founded to
blacklnail the old company into purchas-
ing it, just as a parallel railway line is
constructed.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
Black Magic.

Medieval writer's had much to say
about black magic, and those who prae-
ticed it. In our time we have grown SO
wise that we have proved no such thing
exists, OF eyer did exist. Very good. What
we are not afraid of is not apt to hurt us.
But if there is no such thing as black
magic, what malign influence is it that
enables person like the woman Diss
Debar. the SO called ''spook priestess'
to entangle victim after victim in her
net. She bamboozled Luther Marsh, one
of the ablest lawyers of New York, out
of thousands Of dollars, by alleged spirit
pictures. She deceived many others By
pretending to produce the same kind. OF
pictures upon the stage, though the
fraud was SO paIpable that it made one
feel bad for human nature to think any
body could be taken in by it. s
The woman was sent to RlackWeI's
Island prison for obtaining money under
false. pretenses, Her career was fully
exposed by newspapers throughout the
country. II would have been q reason
able conclusion that Diss Debar was
irretrievably ruined.
Was she2 Not she. No sooner had
she been released than she went to Wash
ington and laid her net for rich widow
there. The spook dodge was played sue
cessfnlly. By slate writing the rich
widow was commanded to. give Diss De-
bar shelter. Next, the two went to
Europe together, d. p. claiming to be
the ,perseouted and cast, off wife Of the
rich Mr.. Luther Marsh. u London the
widow was rescued from the spook
priestess while she yet had some money
left, and came home. $50.
Thus the priestess makes her living.
She is not handsome. She is fat She is
not eloquent or learned Nevertheless,
with her record fully exposed, wherever
she goes she finds rich people who be-
come as babies IN her hands. Fer casei Is:
not singular. Most Of ourreaders viii.
recall instances in which, in some mex
plicable way, unworthy and designing
persons have wound themselves around
the best and noblest Of people, and made.
them do their viii utterly. Il this is not
mesmerism, or black magic, or some-,
thing of that nature. what Is it2
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

Alaska wants to have delegate in
congress, and be placed on an equal foot
ing with the other territories. The re-
quest ought to be granted. Alaska pays
to the United States government every
year enough money to cover the interest
of her purchase money. She pays 1t
from the seal fisheries. and it is larger
sum than any of the other territories
pay to the government. or ever did pay.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

The ParneIl commission sat 1919 days,
and did not amount to anything. The
only points scored were against itself
and the British government. Five hum
dred witnesses were examined, twenty
eight of them being named O'Connof,
twenty -four Walsh and twenty-five Muir
ply, while many of the rest were divided
among the Burkes, Sullivans and
O'Briens. The 500 witnesses answered
9S, 267 questions.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

on silver basis. All the countries Of
the American continent united In o
common silver coinage would, undoubt,
eddy, have q powerful influence on the
silver market of tho world. They would
have an important bearing on the ques-
ton Of the bi-metallio standard also.
The influence of such pan-American
dollar on our trade with the countries
south of us would become more and
more favorable.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

Losses by fire in Massachusetts, alone
amounted to $4,000. 600 last week. The
Thanksgiving blaze in Boston was the
most destructive there since 1872. A
strange circumstance is that the district
burned out On Thanksgiving day is very
near where the fire in 1879 ragged.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

Uranium is very rare metal. worth
10000 ton. 1t can be used as a sub
stltute for gold in alloys with platinum
and copper. This makes it valuable. as
also does its high electrical resistance. A
vein of the metal in very pure state
has recently been discovered in Cornwall,
England,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

Instead of sending criminals to Danish
ment In Siberia, it is said that Russia
now proposes. in Difference to American
journalists, 10 scatter them about hereaf-
ter through different parts Of the en-
pire. Dear. dear!
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
Avn Agnostic,s Funeral.

Quite out of the common were the
death and funeral of Policeman Angus
tus NJ. De Nyse, of New York. He had
been on the city police force eighteen
years. In that time the city had no more
brave or faithful guardian. His private
character was above reproach. He was
devoted and affectionate husband and
father. But he felt no certainty of the
Immortality of the soul or his own fate
after death. He simply did the best he
knew how here, and trusted the rest to
the infinite.
He knew he was TO die, but requested
that there should be no religious services
at his burial. He asked an old friend,
Police Sergt. Tins, to say a few words,
such as he might think appropriate, on
the occasion. Sefgt. Tins is orthodox
iii faith, but he could not refuse his old
friends request. One night at II o'clock
Policeman De Nyse walked from quiet
sleep and sat up in bed with eyes wide
open.
81 hear two raps," he said. "That is
the signal with which a roundsnaan calls
the policeman from his beat" Then Po-
liceman De Nyse fell back upon his bed,
dead. He had answered the signal.
At his funeral bis old friend Sergt
Tins said:
Augustus W. De Nyse was simple, unassuna-
ing, unpretentious man. perfectly honest. per-
feetiy true He hated imposture. He loved truth
for the sake Of truth. He never crawled nor
cringed nor covered. Hewas not ahypocrite or
. dissembler These are the features Of his life
his comrades recognized.
It is wen understood that De Nyse was not
practical Christian. He did not despise the Bible
or its teachings but he did despise many of those
who taught the Bible. He claimed that the
hypocrisy of these people made the Bible Of no
effect. He was opposed to our present economical
system. He Was q friend to poor people, and,
above all things he hated the idea which, he said,
many Christians put forth, that poverty itself was
the result OF special providential dispensation.
The religious people who declared that, he said,
were in league with wicked men,
Is there any question Of the ultimate destiny Of
such alrnan4 We have the assurance of st. Paul,
whom De Nyse greatly admired, that he that
doeth the law In his heart is law unto himself.
In that assurances we may rest. know that De
Nyss brought up his boys in the way they should
70 All esteemed him for his worth and his man
lheds and his lovable disposition.
Municipal Gas Works.
Is it better for o town to own It's gas
works? Mr.. Bronson Keller discusses
this question in The Forum:
In Europe it Is as common for cities to
own gas plants as it is for them to be the
owners Of water works Ii America.
Without exception, The result is favora-
bic. Eight cities in the United States
own their gas plants. -Four Of them are
Ia Virginia Richmond, Danville, Alex
andria and Charlottesgille, The others
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

The new fast mail train from New
York to San Francisco will cover the
distance in Al days Soon there viii be
no more pleasure in travel because of
the swiftness of locomotion.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04

The first name Of provisional President
FoHseca, of Brazil, is Deodoro. 1t sounds
to our ears too much like deodorizer to-
be altogethsr pleasant
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
LAND OFFICE AT MARSHALL. MINI,
1870

LAND OFFICE AT MARSHALL. MINN.1
November z, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of her inten-
claim, and that sold 'pEaaf WIN be made be-
fore the Judge, or in his ahsenGs, the Clerk Of
District Court of Stevens County, Mimi, at
Morris. Minn., on Monday, Dec. z8rd, 1883.
viz: Wilhelmine Fluegel, widow of August
Fluegel, deceased, claimant to the VIZ NeN
and VIZ Seq Sec. 80, Township 1874, Range AZ.
8 She names the following witnesses to prove
her ontinuous residence upon. and caltiva-
ton of, said land, viz: Patrick +. Casey,
.Hezekiah Bragg.J Justine j. Newell, Frederick
w Dirk msier,aII OF Morris, MINI. .sss@,F
L. M. LA NG d, Register.
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