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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
Uncle Jerry Rusk's Stories.

A mystitied contemporary, making
note of the fact that our distin-
guished secretary of agriculture tells
more good stories than any other
raconteur in the land, and never tells
one that anybody ever heard before,
asks: Where docs Secretary Rusk
get all his stories?" He doesn't get
them. He makes them. What do
you suppose he worked four years in
a yarn factory for? DO you think
Secretary Rusk has been fooling
away any opportunities in his busy
and various life? Well, he hasn't.-
Washington Post.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
A Persevering Prisoner.

Perseverance will accomplish
everything" l had these words for
Il writing lesson once and 1 shall new
er forget them. 1t is a great thing
to have perseverance. There was
once a man who was shut up in a
dungeon with walls 200 feet thick,
made of the hardest kind OF stone.
He had no tools except a pair of
scissors his brother had sent him in
a loaf of bread, but he remembered
that drop of water will wear away
a stone if it falls on the stone long
enough, and that a coral worm,
which is so small that you can hard
ly see it, will eat up and destroy a
coral rect if you will only give it time
enough. So he said that he would
persevere and dig a hole through the
wall of the dungeon with the scissors
and escape if it took him a hundred
years.
He had been digging about q year
when the Governor pardoned him,
and the jailer brought him the joyful
news. But they couldn't get him to
leave the dungeon. He told the jail
er that he had undertaken to dig his
way drought the wall and escape in
that way, and that he was going to
stick to it no matter how long it
might take. The jailer urged him to
give it up and walk out of tt IL door,
and even offered him $40 to give up
his dungeon to a new ledger, but
nothing could induce him to change
his mind. So he staid in the dungeon
and dug away at the wall for forty
seven years, and every six months he
had to pay big bill for damages to
the Jail, and he finally died when he
was half through the wall. This
shows what a splendid thing perse-
verance is and that we all ought to
persevere.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

and twelve are extinct. Nowhere
else on the earth's surface is such a
cluster of peaks, such q grand assem-
hlage of giants. Eighteen of the
twenty are covered with perpetual
snow and the SUBMITS of eleven
have never been reached by living.
creature except the condor, whose
tight surpasses that of any other
bird. At noon the vertical SIM
throws a profusion of light upon the
snow-crowned SUBMITS when thew
appear like a group of pyramids cut
in spotless marble.-The American
Magazine.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Two grocers in Dubuque had a
quarrel and each figured to drive the
other out of business. The sharper
one advertised to give away one doz-
en- clothespins with every fifty cent
purchase, and small as the gift was
it closed the store in six months for
want of custom.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

is offered by the manufacturers Of DR.. SAGE'S
CkTARRH REMEDY. for q case Of Catarrh in
the Head which they cannot cure. By its
mild, soothing. and healing properties. DR..
after of how long standing. 50c by druggists.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Electric Soap is used, is twenty times the
soap bsn=-4--~IO new experiment, but has
been sold for "a years. To Jay just as pure
as in 1866, Try it. Your grocer has it or
will order it,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

To THE EDIToR:-Please inform your read
ers that have a positive remedy for the
above named disease. By it's timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been per-
manently cured. Ishall be glad to send two
bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your
readers who have consumption if.they will
send me express and post-office address Re-
specially, T. A. SLoCUM, NJ. c., ISL Pearl
street, New York.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Salvation OIL the greatest cure on cart h
for pain, may be relied on to effect a cure
wherever an external application can I've
used. Price % cents.
1t is the old, old story Love at first sight!
A walk in the beautiful moonlight night;
both catch dreadful cold and giveup all
hope, but finally find relief in a bottle of DR.
Bulls Cough Syrup, get married, and are at
last happy!
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

The worst Nasal Catarrh, no matter Of
how long standing, 10 permanently cured by
DR.. sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

THROAT DISEASES commence with Cough,
Cold, or Sore Throat Browns Bronchial
Troches" give immediate relief Sold only
in boxes. Price 25 cts.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

John Latin, wealthy cattle buyer from
Ohio, was murdered and robbed of large
amount of money near Parkersburg, ". Va
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
Hark, the sound of many voices
Jubilant in gladest song,
And full many a heart rejoices
A. Aha oh ov11s Ano+u ALONE.

Jubilant in gladest song,
And full many heart rejoices
As the chorus floats along:
"H all the FaVorite Prescription"
How the happy voices blend.
Wonderful beyond description
Woman's best and truest friend"
Well may it be called woman's best friend
since it does for her what no other remedy
has been able to do. 1t cures all those deli
cate arrangements and weaknesses peculiar
to females. Cures them, understand. Other
but DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription effects
a permanent cure. 1t is guaranteed to do
this, or the money paid for it will be prompt
~ refunded. 1t is the great remedy Of the
age.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

ALIENS IRON Tone BITTERs strengthen
the system. All genuine bear the signature
of J. P. Allen, Druggist, st. Paul, Mimi.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Preble, the failed New York envelope maker,
owes $155, 1913; assets, sos, 4S9.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
Oldest and best-"Tansilrs Punch" Cigar

The United States squadron will sail from
Gibraltar.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
consunption surely Cured.

The inventor of the Lebel rife is dying in
London.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Schools in Southern Germany are being
closed by influenza
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

lola does most of his work after midnight,
and he ought to with the blinds pulled down
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops Best fruit, grain, grass and stock country
In tho world. Full Information free. Address the
OREGON mEnlgration Board Portland. Oregon.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
orepon. the Paradise Of Farmer,

Nine fishermen were drowned at Dunref, in
the bay of Donegal.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had children. she gave themC astoria.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23

Forty-six of173 deaths in New York in one
day resulted from Grip.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13

OF the world to send their representa-
tives to a grand International con-
gress to be held in Paris to determine
where a ship canal should be built
along the l,5O0 miles OF the American
istLmus. He with exceeding adroit-
ness compelled the congress to fix
upon his route by first having a reso-
luton adopted to the effect that if
canal was to be built at all it was the
sense of the congress that sea level
canal was to be preferred; second,
that if a sea level canal was the bet
ter, then it was the views of the con-
gress that it should be constructed at
that part OF the isthmus where 1t was
narrow; and third, the two first hav-
ing been decided upon, the best loca-
ton would be where there had been,
ii anywhere, already opened up con-
nection between the oceans by rail.
All adopted. When the United States
and Mexican delegates too late awoke
to the fact that only Panama COM
piled with these conditions, the board
of United States engineers adopted
resolutions: First, that the entrance
channel should be 1000 feet wide;
second, that it should be thirty feet
deep and 600 feet wide at that depth;
third, the first two being adopted
the area must be $4,000 square feet.
OF all the harbors proposed only one
complied with the conditions of the
esolution-Galveston
In this connection let me call to the
mind of this committee the dimen-
sions which Mr.. Eads agreed to give
to the Galveston channel entrance in
senate bill 1852, Forty-eighth congress,
first session, reported .back favorably
by this very committee, several MEM
bers now in it being members then.
The language of the bill was: "Said
maximum channel shall have depth
of 26 feet not less than 200 feet in
width at the bottom, and having
through it central depth of 80 feet,
without regard to width" These
words are in italics in the bill, indi-
eating that you yourselves fixed those
dimensions. This bill was before con-
gress for many months. / recollect of
no objection being urged here to these
dimensions. If congress had passed
this bill am entirely safe in saying
and with your emphatic assent, that
Galveston would now have the chan
mel required by the bill, and am fur
ther entirely safe in saying that there
would be no complaints as to its di-
mansions.
Referring to another harbor west of
Galveston which was also thrown out
by the arbitrary ruling of the board,
channel of adequate depth and width
can be obtained at moderate ex-
pense. refer,to Arkansas Pass. This
is the terminus of what is now fast
getting to be one of the most import
ant railroad systems in the southwest.
1t lies in convenient position to re-
ceive the commerce of an immense
territory tributary to it. There is no
doubt that, with the money esti-
mated by the board q good 70 foot
channel can be obtained here and the
slope of the outer bar is so steep gulf
ward that channel 26 feet in depth
can be obtained with a reasonable
expenditure OF money.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13
Had n Good Tjnas

Danced all night till broad daylight
And went home with the girls in the morn
ing"
But the morning being chilly, he
took a heavy cold, and a bad cough
resulted, consumption set in, his case
despite the efforts of q physician,
grew worse until friends began to lose
hope; one, however, knew from trial
the value of DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery, and induced him to
take it. A mighty "change came DER
the spirit of his dreams" Its contin-
ued use restored him to health and
fortune. He lives to-day to bless DR..
Pierce for his medicine, and soon will
wed a charming girl, one Of those he
took home in the morning." If Colds,
Consumption, Catarrh, Bronchitis, or
other throat or lung troubles attack
you, don't delay getting the "Discov-
ery."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13
JAIL BIRDS.
List Of Prisoners now Confined In the
Jail.

List Of Prisoners now Confined In the
Jail.
"How many prisoners have you got
in Jail, Mr.. Brown" asked the repor-
ter.
Haven't counted 'em lately..and
don't exactly know how many. Here's
the list and you can see for yourself"
and the jailer handed over the follow
ing list Of names:
Henry Wilson, colored; theft.
Ed. Williams, colored; theft.
Willie Craddock, colored; theft.
Charley Cook, white; theft.
/. S. Morris, white; forgery.
w. B. Mullen, white; forgery.
Bertha Outroeres, Mexican.
Harrison Mack, colored; murder.
Joseph Sackee, Arab; assault to
rape.
Mike Oats, white; peace bond.
Andrew jackson, colored; fine.
Joe Burchard, colored; fine.
Eph Blunt, colored; fine.
Harriet Howard, colored fine.
Mary Tyson, colored; fine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13

al haven't had a silk dress since | was
married, nor Il new bonnet for three sea-
sons" com plains Mrs. {. V. r.. She de
clares she Is bound to have a new DO net il
SIZE has to work for II herself. This is true
crit but many ladies who would gladly
work hard to attain desired object are Ut
able to do so because they are almost con-
stantly afflicted with diseases peculiar to
their sex. Dragging down pains, dlsplace-
nents. leucorrhea, and other uterine disor-
dprs are the bane of many wOmen's lives
hut DR.. Pierces FavOflte Prescription Will
Cur. where all other compounds fail.
ia Is the only medicine for women sold by
druggists under positive guarantee from
the manufacturers that it will give satislac-
tion in every case or money will be refunded.
This guarantee has been printed on the bot
tie wrapper and faithfully carried out for
many years.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13
La Crime Weakening.

"How's the grip, doctor?" asked the
reporter yesterday, as he met DIR.
Bragg.
81 think the epidemic is about over,
but the diseases which follow it seem
to be pretty bad, and Pm kept busy.
| have several very bad cases from the
effects OF the grip, but think they
will all get we'll"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13
Wanted to BE Heard From.

If any person has ever given DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy fair trial and has not
been perfectly aud permanently cured that
person should write the proprietors of that
wonderful remedy, for they are in dead
earnest and mean business" when they
offer $500 reward for case of nasal catarrh,
no matter how bad or of how long stand
ing, which they cannot cure. The Remedy
IS sold by druggists at only so cents. 1t IS
mild. soothing, deodorizing, anti-scptic,
C rtnsing and healing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13

eyes" said the rural scion, when he
got back from a visit to the east; Il
was the conspicuous figure of a great
blow out at the hotel the very nigh
arrived IN New York" And he never
LEI on how close he had come to being
sIfSyfed by that same blow out
Wt9kff8et0n Post.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-13

The man vile loses Is never accused
OF not playing fair.-Atchison Globe.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29
Combination Life Proserver.

Tho idcn Of combining various uses
In Il single article is favortc ono with
inventors. '"rhe combined cap, pill
low and lifo prcserver' is to DO made
Of some mir tight material AS q cap it
looks like tho double visorcd headgear
which is considered tho thing for
steamer wear. Tho center pulls out.
What appears to bo ventilator in the
top proves to bo moutlpieco. You
blow into it until tho interior Is about
half filed with mir, and you have n
very fair imitation of tho air pillow.
If you awake at night and find that
tho boat Is sinking you blow somo
more air In through tho mouthpicco
and have n life preserver as big rs a
good sizod bladder There Is oven q
pieco of tapo attached for tying the
proscrvor to tho breast. Cor. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29
Tho Hands.

Ono of tho most common signs Of
want Of breeding is sort of uncon.
Portable consciousness Of the hands, an
obvious ignorance of what to do with
them and painful awlswardness In
their adjustment. The hands of u gcn.
tlonan seem perfectly Mt home without
M'ihg occupied. Tlioy nn. habitunted
to elegant rcpose, or, If they spontnno-
ousiy move, 1t is attractively. Some of
Queen Elizaboth's courtiers made play.
ing with their sword hilt an accomplish.
mont, and tho most efficient weapon
Of the Spanish coquette is her fan.
Strength in the fingers is sure token
Of mental aptitude. When Mutius
burnt his hand off before the eyes OF
his cnptor he gave tho most illdubitablc
proof wo can imagine of fortitudc, and
it was natural that amid the fcrocious
bravery Of feudal times IL bloody hand
In tho center Of ali escutchcon should
become the badge Of baronct of Eng.
land. Now York Ledger
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29
syn.llcntos ut Homo and Abroad.

We are informed that in Europe
Germany takes the lead as tho country
of syndicatcs III 1885, Ninety-two were
formed thcro In thnt ye,,r, Including nj
auction ring" and n wnrilngcrs' "ring."
In Austria there were thirty eight syn
dicates; M Great Britain, thirty-one;
In Frtencc, six; in Russia, soven; IN
Belgium, oight; In Italy, two; In Swo-
don, fcslr, and In Denmark, one. In
addition to those there were eleven In.
ternational trusts dealing with copper,
zinc, nitrates, rails, mirror glass, sugar,
dynamite and hotels III America fifty.
eight syndicates were formed several
Of which wero Of English origin. 1t Is
known that about 300 Of these trusts
were formed during 1889, and it is
probable that an equal number existed
unknown, except to those interested IN
them. The majority of the syndicatcs
appear to havo been genuine industrial
and commercial undertakings Stock
Exchange
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29

How "Idlewil,l" was Named.

Idlewlld, Tho homo Of N. p. Willis.
on tho Hudson, is almost as celebrated
as Mount Vernon, whcro Washington
lived SO long. Tho way it calno to w-
ceivo It's rather odd namo Is interesting.
Mr.. Willis loved tho Hudson river and
Its beautiful and picturesque cnvirons,
and ho spent much time searching for
tho spot lle finally selected. 1t was a
rough old farmer who sold him his
property. The man tried TO Impress
Mr. Willis with the valuo of tho land for
farming purposes, told him what it
could be made to yield in a year and
how much stone ho llnd taken from it
and underbrush ho had burned, think
ing this the most valuable information
no could give him. But Mr. Willis was
not at all interested in these matters.
What lo wanted was II ilnc view OF tlhe
river md nature III oil It's lovellncss.
The cultivation Of the land was pre-
ciscly what he did not care about.
lie wandered about tlle place with
the farmer, undetermined whether to
buy it or not, when they came to Il
splendid gorge, whose magnificent bcau
ty satisfied all the longlngs. of tho poct
and dreamer He stopped and gnve
vent to II burst of enthusiasm and asked
tho farmer what he would take for TINT
portion Of his property. The man stared
In alnnzcmcnt and evidently thought
his customer was Il nadnMn; but eager
to dispose OF this uncultivated waste Of
land, ,as no thought it, llo said: ""rllat bit
Of idlcwild That is not good for much !;
you may lave 1t for such PRICE" and
ho named low figure. Mr.. Willis
bought the property OH tho spot and
decided Mt once that 1t should be called
"Idlewild. New York Press.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29
Tho Middle lnitlui.

a Chicago lawyer who makes Il good
many speeches Snid:
81 have mado it rule never to men.
ton tho middle initial of mans name,
If he has any, in my speeches There is
AZ hoodoo about tho middle initial
have known some mighty good men
who were stranded, temporarily ut
least, OH account of some speaker WHO
in referring to such got the middle ini-
tial Of the name wrong Tho public
catches tho middle nnnc of public
man very quickly and it soon becomes
az familiar as tho family name. And
the speaker who gets the middle initial
wrong IN speech not only gets the
laugh on himself, but ho makes the
nun whose name he thus nutilatcs
look less prominent
"lho other day u kentucky orator
McCord is his name--wns making a
spcecl in the Democratic caucus. and
he referred to tho luto James &. Beck.
The e1folt fell nat. ~ good spuU.n was
ruined. McCord will never lear the
Inst of tint bad break. For a Ken.
t,,cl.ian not to know the middle initial
Of the name of IL man like Beck is an
unpaNionable sin.
II nced only to rcfor to n similar In
cidcnt that occurred in the Republican
national convention IN this city in 1880.
when Mr. James Il. Joy in his noininn.
ton speech spoke Of Mr.. James H.
Blaine. OF course Mr. Blnine was too
prominent to be affected by my break
Of this sort, but JOY never recovered
from it.
MY advice to orators Is: Steer clcal
OF tho middle Initial '"-Chicngo Times
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29
Tho Widows hTito. .

An aged German general woro only
ono trinkct, q much worn German half
penny, ct his watch chain. Ono day
his grandson asked tho reason Of it's
presence In tho piaco of honor, and tho
old general answered by telling little
romance. Baron Malortio, the grand
son, narratcs the story In his book,
"'Twlxt Old Times nnd New"
The grandfather was 80 severely
wounded at Leipsio IN 1912 That ho was
picked up for dead and thrown with
thirty or forty corpses In common
grave. His servant having promised
tho officers father to bring his son alive
or dcnd, senrched for Ills masters body
and found him still alivo. a strong
constitution and the servants nursing
allowed the officer to bo removed ut
tho cnd Of ton days.
His fathers house wls a. lonY distance
from Lcipsic, and the country was ova.
run by French patrols and nariutlers.
The Journey homo wa; begun at night
In q PEASANTS cart drawn by nn old
horse. Gross roads were taken, and
during tho day they rested at some
farmhouse.
Ono morning after travelling MI night
they reached small Village and
stopped In front of bakers shop.
The servant went in to buy bread,
leaving Ills master stretched on q bed
of straw and rags covered with a man
tie and wearing q soldiers old cup on
his bandaged head. There was moth.
Ing to betray his rank, but on the con
trary he seemed poor wounded pri-
vato.
poor woman IN tattered black
gown, with a child in her arms, looked
In the bakers window. Suddenly she
saw tho wounded man. Glnncing ut
tho lialfpenny In her hand, and ti.cn
looking Mt tho bread In the window, she
pressed tho coin into the soldiers hand,
and hurried off without saying word.
She had sacrificed her own and her
child's breakfast that sho 'eht relieve
one whose need she thought greater
thai. her own
at this moment the servant appenr-
ed, and by his masters. order ran af.
tor tho poor woman. Ovcrtaking her
hc dropped a gold piece in her hand as
gift from the wounded soldier, who
from that day wore the widows mite at
his chain.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-08-29
Forests OF Europe and Africa

Since have nm ny map, y saitl
Explorer Henry Stanl> IN an address
to tho Royal Geographical society, "I
have taken tho trouble to measure tho
extent Of the area covered by this for
est, and l find It to bo something like
224 600, 600 acres; and il we allow each
tree thirty feet around for sufficient
space, and only forty-cight trees to tho
acre, we hnve tho colossal figure Of
10, 762, 900, 600 as tho total number, md
II we calculate the plants and saplings
Of tho lmpenetrable underground we
shall DO among tho incalculable bill
ions" ~
Tho forests of Europe, according to u
recont report of ono of tho state forest
els of Prussia, cover tho following
areas; Germany, 81, 500, 900 acres; Rus
sia, 404, 1898, 600 acres; Austria-IIun-
gary, 40, 061, 700 acres; Sweden, 42,
100000 aores; France, "a, 24O, 900 acres
Spain, 10,7G9, 600 aorcs; Italy, 1884,
$40 acres and England, 2,471. coo acres.