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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-11-27
Thanksgiving Dinners.

What an interesting sight togo in
to any of our large markets nova
days. The Thanksgiving prepara-
tions are about the same as they
have ever been. Sometimes turkeys
are plenty, and sometime scarce; but
whether plenty or scarce, there are
most always enough to GO around.
Thanksgiving buyers swarm around
the markets like bees around a hive,
and jostle one another good-natured-
ly. Big turkeys and little turkeys
hang, cold in death, upon cruel iron
hooks, heads down, their plump or
skinny, white Or pinkish breasts dec
GRATED with little light-colored ro-
settes, in mockery of the pitiless ate
that has already befallen them, and
the cruel mutilation which is to over
take them soon, Ducks and geese
and chickens are piled in mounds on
the uncovered counters, and banks
of green-topped celery and rosy
checked apples lend color to the
scene. Here we see the well-to do
ordering their big, plump, lat tur-
keys, hardly asking the price; there
we see the poor widow or almost
penniless old man satisfying them
selves perhaps with a goose or small
turkey, or a piece of roast or even
corned beef; but they all buy some
thing, and on nearly every table, on
this glorious national holiday, will
be found a good hearty dinner. All
hail to Thanksgiving, America 3
national holiday.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-11-27
Manners of Men.

If a man gets everything else no
wants, he can't get any younger.
With no water in sight, any'man
will boast OF his skill at fishing.
1t is some mems ambition to be
great men before they learn to he
men,
With most men life is made up o.
going in debt, and struggling to get
out.
The man who keeps his word has
no trouble in keeping his coun-
tenance.
The genius of a man is admitted
more readily after he is rich than it
is when he is poor.
Men seem ashamed of everything
natural in their Instincts. Perhaps
they have reason to be.
The average man takes up so much
of his time talking about his ambi-
tion that he never has timo to realize
it.
AS long as men are created so that
they cannot be satisfied with cuIs
of tea and q rocking chair, some
women will be dissatisfied with them.
How natural it is to hate the maH
who, when he hears that you have
sworn to reform, reminds you that
he has heard you take that same
oath before.
You can usually calculate a mans
worthlessness by thenumber ofwivcs
he has had; the more worthless ~
man is, the more often he haf been
married. .-Atchison Globe.
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Little But Very Brave,

In the backwoods of Baker River
lives the braVest, most industrio US.
and most courageous little lady in
Skagit County. Her husband is q
man of limited means, and often has
to leave home to earn money to sup
port them while they are improving
their home.
This being the first year, their place
is not seltsustaining. and in such
cases his wife stays at home entirely
alone. All the company she has is a
Winchester rife and a three pound
ak. Every morning, after she does
her housework, she takes her three
pound ak and goes to clearing, chop
ping, and burning brush. She is de-
termined to have a self-sustaining
and profitable home, and when her
husband is at home she shoulders
her AK and goes to the clearing with
him, in spite othis protest againstit.
She says she can chop to the heart
of tree nearly as quickly as he can.
This lady only weighs 1O5 pounds,
but she has a ton OF ambition and
staying qualities. She was rocked
in the cradle of ease, raised in the lap
of luxury, is we'll educated and the
life she is now living is entirely
foreign to her. She has had no ex-
perience in roughing it, but she is
not one of the kind that sits and
whines over past lore. She has
strong arms, a brave heart and a
willing mind, and is determined tc
surmount the worst difficulties and
reap a reward.-From the La Con.
ner, Wash, Mail.
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Being Best Man,

1t is no small undertaking to be
best man at q wedding writes Hep
burn Johns in the Pittsburg Dis
patch. The awful responsibilities of
the groom usually fill the minds of
the spectators, and the best mans
trials are rather lost sight of. Still
important as the chief male assist
ants dnties are, they are not really
80 formidable as they seemed to an
Allegheny man who recently was
called upon to fulfill them.
This young man was asked by an
old friend to stand up with him
when he entered the solemn estate
of matrimony. He consented will
ingly. He is of nervous temper
ament, and number of his friends.
for a joke, resolved to give him a
fright. So they went to him one by
one and impressed upon him that
being best man carried with it no
small obligations. He would have
to wear new dress suit, they told
him, and new hat, new shoes, a new
tie and SO on. Besides, he would
have to give the bride an expensive
present, and contribute literally to
the groom's expenses, One particu-
larly solicitous friend was kind
enough to figure out exactly how
much his performance at the wedding
would cost him. The sum total by
this fictitious figuring was $3.50.
Now to young man on small
salary, as the to-be was,
$3.50 was no Joke. Being, as | have
said, of nervons temperament, the
obligation of spending a sum so far
beyond his means affected him power
fully. He could not think OF backing
out, yet how to scrape together the
money to do ''the thing well' he
hadn't an idea. He worried himself
sick about it, actually sick, and, to
cut long story short, when the we'd
ding day came the young man who
should have been best man lay Sc
riously i'll in bed in a hospital.
And this is strictly true. The joke
was carried much too far.
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ANOTHER ASSIGNEE.
Banker Trettyman's AppOintee DepOsed
by . Judge.

CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-Judge Prendergast to-
day discharged Cashier Charles Johnson as
assignee of Prettyman's bank and the North
Division Lumber company. The judge ap-
pointed in Johnson's stead the Jennings
Trust company and entered an order di-
recting the new assignee to take charge at
once.
This move was the result of vigorous
protest against Johnson by the creditors,
who made allegations that two men sup
posed to be Prettyman and Johnson had
secretly visited the bank the night after the
failure, also that Johnson, who is closely
associated with Prettyman's affairs was
not a disinterested person. The testimony
was also adduced to support the theory
that certain creditor had been favored
with funds at the bank after the assign
ment
Mr.. Prettyman, whose total liabilities in
the bank. his lumber company and other
ventures have been estimated all the way
rom $500, 900 to 81 600, 900, was present dur
ing the discussion, with an imperturbed
countenance. and at the end said he would
prefer to say nothing in court until he had
seen his attorney. The court thereupon ad-
journed the exami alton until tomorrow.
Prettyman asserts that the assets will fully
cover the liabilities. The assignment, he
said, was the result of disagreement be-
tween himself and his partner, III. HI
Bishop.
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The NEWS DIGEST.
Interesting News of the Week
Boiled Down and
Classified.
THENATIoN's CAPITAL.

1t is not believed by the leading Demo-
Gratis now in Washington that Gen. Baker
will contest Lind's seat in the next house o.
representatives, or that if he does ,he will re-
ceive any encouragement from the Demo-
Gratis OF the Fiity-second congress-.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has or
dered Special Agent Cooper to go to the
Pine Ridge agency in South Dakota and as
sist the agent there in looking after the
Sioux. This was done, so Commissioner
Belt said. because of the alarming reports
that cnme from that place and because the
agent had apparently good reason to be a
little ratified.
Special Agent Mosier writes to the general
land Office from Tacoma, WASH, that a grove
of giant redwood trees, like those in the Yo-
semitic National Park. Cal, had been discov-
cred in Pierce county, Wash. The secretary
OF the interior has ordered an inves tigation
of the subject through the agricultural divis-
ion of the census bureau, and congress may
be asked to set aside the land on which the
trees are standing as a national park. Mr..
Mosier says that the people of Tacoma will
probably have a flag pole made OF one OF the
tallest trees TO be sent to the worlds fair.
Some of the trees are 400 feet hiGh and 13
feet in diameter
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He Learned Something.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

FlCISDuTp DISpalcn.
"Men don't climb the ladder OF
fame at a single bound" the pas
senger in the salt-and-pepper suit
was saying. Success, like character,
is thing of slow growth
II think you are mistaken" sail
the passenger in the skull-cap, with n
smile. Men sometimes get pretty
we'll up toward the top of the ladder
by one jump, and they don't have to
Jump hard either
DO you happen to think of any
instances in your own knowledge
where q man won enduring fame by
one act?"
"Well yes. An instance occurs to
me in which one speech made not
only a man, but a city famous"
"Oh, yes. You are speaking of J.
Proctor Knott and Duluth. Well,
I'll admit that Proctor Knott is an
exception. There are inst two
characters in history that made
themselves famous by one speech"
Indeed? Who are they?"
81. Proctor Knott and Balaam's
ass"
The man in the skull-cap smiled n
rather sickly smile and went away
psesently to the other end ofthe car.
'Do you know who that chop is?'
inquired the man in the salt and
pepper suit of the passenger on the
seat in front.
eyes. That is J. Proctor Knott"
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ERoMEoRElGN SHORES.

Austria and Germany have agreed upon
the conditions of the tariffs of the respective
countries.
The total number of deaths Fl ON cholera
in Spain during the present epidemic is about
5000. The disease has not yet been stamp
ed but in Valencia.
The subcommittee on tariff in the French
chamber of deputies has decided in favor of
raising the duties on salt meats, beef and
other meat from % to 81 francs.
Two nihilists, have been arrested in Paris
on the charge ofbeing implicated in the man.
ufacture of bombs for which number OF
other nihilists were recently arrested.
President da Fonseca has under consider
alton the renewal of arrangements for the
however, will not be permitted under any
circumstances to return to Brazil.
Mousa Bey who committed outrages on
American missionaries in that quarter OF
Turkey where he lived, has been summariIy
banished to the interior ofArabia. The sen
tence has been carried out,
The Italian clerical party are making the
most earnest preparations ut Rome for the
municipal elections, which occur Dec. IA.
The policy of the Vatican is said TO be to OBJ
tain control so far as possible Of municipali-
ties with view of using the advantage thus
gained.
The Frank Courier, of Berlin, states that
the lymph used by Prof. Koch for the cure Of
consumption is prepared in al incubating
stove, within a space that is hermetically
sealed and sterilized and thereby rendered
free from fungus. The interior OF air-tight
space is divided by an unglazed porcelain
diaphram into an upper and lower section.
In the upper section is placed salted broth,
in gelatinous state, containing colonies OF
the tubercle germs. This mass gradually liq-
uifes and the gelatine drops slowly through
the porcelain plate into thelower section. The
liquid then contains all the secretory pro-
ducts, but is free from all living. or dead
germs or reproductive spores, and is the
lymph as used.
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SCARED THE INDIANS.
A Stampede of Redskins on the approach
of Soldiers.


of Soldiers.
PINE RIDGE, s. D., Nov. 26.-Last night
something of scare was occasioned when
the water call was sounded. The cavalry
had been going to a creek about half mile
from the post to water the horses. Along
this creek during the last twenty four hours
a village of ghost dancers tepees has sprung
up.
Last evening the black troopers mounted
their horses with carbines loaded and cart
ridge belts in place. Then in command of
lieutenant instead of the usual orderly
sergeant they slowly cantered to the creek.
Alter the horses had drank their
fill they crossed into the Indian
village. The stampede that followed was
almost instantaneous. Squaws and papooses
ran screaming into the teepes, while the
bucks hastily mounted their ponies and
fled to the hills. But the troopers had only
crossed in order to turn and go back to
camp. Nearly all the Indians who draw
rations here are now encamped near the post.
1t may be that this will settle the matter
without trouble, and it may bring on
fight. Special Agent Cooper thinks that
any pretext may be seized upon by the In
dians for forcing the issue. The dancing is
dying out but he is not sure whether i. is
treachery or obedience that is causing the
relaxation.
lumber of Rosebud Indians are here
without passes, and their presence bodies no
good. All are unanimous in their asser-
tions of good will, but they are carefully
measuring the strength of the troops the
while. Little Wound, one of the leaders of
the ghost dance has refused tn come into tho
agency, saying that if the agent wanted
to see him he must call at the Little
Wounds tepee. A. squaw hanged herself
Saturday night to add to the excitement
At present it is toss up between peace and
war.
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MINOR ACCIDENTS.

There has been shipwreck thirteen miles
off Chicago but what vessel was lost is not
known. Nothing is known of her crew.
At Hamburg, Iowa, the new 5000
school house has been entirely destroyed
by fire. Insurance, $12,50G.
A destructive storm passed over portions
of Louisiana and Mississippi, doing great
damage to cotton. No lives are reported to
have been lost.
By an accident to freight train at Kan
sas City four men are killed and eight are
missing and probably dead. The list Of
dead may reach twenty-five.
A large vessel is ashore and is a total
wreck about twelve miles below the Atlantic
Light, N. J.. There are no signs of life on
board.
An express on the Baltimore & Ohio collid-
ed with a sleeper of a working train near
Clarksburg, Va. In the working train James
Floyd and ]. D. Armstrong, the bosses, were
fatally hurt. In the postal car Clerk Charles
Dean, George Henry and W. A. Bonden were
seriously hurt.
terrible accident occurred near West Du-
luth, resulting in the death of a laborer
named Norlund and injury to his entire fam
lily. he had placed some dynamite near a
stove to thaw out. An explosion followed,
killing him instantly. His wife was fright
fully burned and had her thumb torn from
her hand. A four-year-old boy had his left
arm broken and leg injured, and another
child also suffered serious injuries.
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SURE TO BE A FIGHT.
RumOrs That an Attempt Will
BE Made to Disarm the
Indians.
No Doubt But That the Move
Would Precipitate a
Battle.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY. s. d., Special Tele-
gram, Nov. 26.-Pine Ridge agency, ordi-
narily dreary enough, is to-day a scene of
extraordinary activity. The Indians draw
part of their rations to-day, but instead of
coming in as usual, the bucks are dancing
the weird ghost dance back among the
buttes dozen miles from the agency and
have sent the old men and the squaws in
for rations.
On the plateau, where the agency is To-
Gated, brown vailed by barren buttes, Com
panies x, f, l, N. d, of the Ninth cavalry,
are camped, also four companies of the
Second in Gantry. Two more companies o.
the Second will arrive this afternoon, and
it is said that reinforcements will soon ar
rive in the :orm OF cavalry from Fort Riel-
ly, Kan.
l rode part of the way from Rushville this
morning in company with Col. Guy V.
Henry, of the Ninth cavalry, and later l
passed his scout the famous Frank Grovard,
who acted in similar capacity for Gen.
Crook in 1876. Both Col. Henry and his
scout are confident that there will be con-
fict between the troops and the Indians
within few days.
The officers at Pine Ridge are very much
annoyed by some sensational press reports
that have been published, and talk some
quarantining the reservation against news
paper correspondents. They consider the
situation to be critical enough in reality
without resorting to exaggerations.
Indian Agent Roger to-day increased his
force of Indian police from 3S to 100. The
new men were taken into large room ad-
joining the agents office this afternoon,
shorn of their long hair and fitted out with
uniforms, in which they are strutting
around this afternoon, much to the disgust
of the feminine portion of the ghost dane
ers' contingent, who are IN alter rations
while the hostile men are busy paving up
trouble.
1t is understood that the force of fighting
men at this agency has been reinforced by
200 Rosebud braves. Wednesday is the
regular day for issuing beef, but it is not
yet decided by the agent and commanding
officer, Gen. Brooke, whether or not to is
sue. There are rumors that some day this
week an attempt will be made to disarm
the Indians, then there will be trouble.
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The Time to Marry,
From London Woman.

From London Woman.
All was going merrily at a very in
teresting wedding in the town Of
Petaluma until the bridegroom was
called upon to produce the wedding
ring. In vain he felt in his trousers
pocket for the missing trife. Moth
ing could be found except q hole,
through which the ring had evident
ly fallen into the high boot which is
affected by young men OF that coun-
try. What was he to do?
'"Take your boot off," said the
parson.
The suspense and silence were pain
full. The organist, at the priests
bidding struck up q voluntary"
The young man, sitting on the altar
rails, removed his boot, the ring was
found-also hole in the stocking,
which led the worthy divine to re-
mark
young man, it's time you were
married"
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-.-.-...n.-----.-....l.-.s-.-.-l.-..ll

scious, having taken morphine, belladonna-
nux vomca and other poisons. Physician
pronounce his case hopeless.
A serious riot occurred at Glass Crossing,
ten miles south Of Vicksburg, Miss, in
which negro named Smith Summers was
fatally shot, another negro received q
wound in the foot and Deputy Shsrif g. II
Smirall was seriously wounded in the side
The disturbance grew out of SimralPs efforts
TO break up game of craps in which ten OF
more negroes were engaged. About forty
shots were fred by the mob.
John r. Davis. the crank who shot Miss
Gladys Price the organist of the Mariner 8
church, was arraigned in the Tombs police
court, New York, and held to await the re.
suit of his victims injuries. Davis rambled
in his talk and reaff1rmed his statement that
it was his intention to have shot ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland. Miss Price is still confined
to the hospital, and it Is thought will re-
cover.
Jay Trumbull who keeps drug store at
Merillan, Wis, one night, entered his bed
room in the rear of his store after closing up,
he was met with brace of revolvers in the
hands of two determined men, with com
mand to throw up his hands and keep still.
He was then compelled to open his safe, after
which he was bound and gagged and thrown
on the bed, while his visitors rified the safe.
Mr.. Trumbull lay in this condition for about
an hour, when DR.. Mcmillan, who also rooms
in tho store, came in and released him, the
burglars in the meantime having taken
everything out of the safe and departed by a
back door, through which it ts supposed
they first gained entrance.
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THE LAST RESORT.
Burdens of Life Too Heavy for q Young
Girl to Bear.

Girl to Bear.
New YORK, Nov. 26.-Jessie Adamson,
aged nineteen, a saleslady, committed sui
eide early this morning by taking poison.
She came here from Chicago, and went to
work in a store, but was recently dis
charged. She had been living on her saw
ings, but they soon melted away, and her
landlady demanded her money.
The girl grew respondent and promised
to do her best to pay for her lodging. But
no money came in, and as the only way
out of her difficulties appeared to be suicide
she resolved to die, On the bureau of the
room in which she died were several letters
which she had written before taking the
poison. The first was addressed to the
boarding house keeper, and in it the girl
said she was very sorry not to be able to
pay her, and that as she found the task an
impossibility she had decided to end ALL
She gave with this her mothers address at
80 West Cortland street, Chicago. Another
was letter addressed to an unknown per-
son named will" asking him to inform
her father OF her death and to give him her
love. A third letter was addressed to an
aunt named Mrs. lizzie Byron, who is at
present patient in the Woman's hospital
in this city. 1t asked forgiveness for the
expenditure OF $40 entrusted to the sui eide.
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MURDER IN A COURT ROOM.
Two Men Killed and Another Injured
by a Prisoner.

Two Men Killed and Another Injured
by Prisoner.
PANAMA, Nov. 26.-The town of Rivers,
in Nicaragua, was recently the scene of q
terrible tragedy, almost unparalleled in
criminal history.
Tomas Martinez was arraigned for trial,
charged with attempting to murder DR..
Trinidad Flores. When the charges were
read and the accused called on to plead, he
stepped four PAGES to the front, and, putting
his hand into is inner breast pocket, ex-
claimed:
Gentlemen, I know that the jury will
condemn me, but before being condemned
l must get rid of this one."
He thereupon drew a revolver and shot
DIR. Flores dead. Senior G Gustavo Chameroso,
who stood next to DR.. Flores. picked up a
chair, but almost Immediately fell to the
ground, being shot through the brain.
At this juncture Senior .Gregorio
Rogas, an old gentleman, father-in-
law of the first victim, bravely closed with
the prisoner, who did not hesitate to draw
the trigger, and the bali passed through
Senior Roga's mouth, coming out of the
back of his neck. Senor Rojas is in a pre-
carious condition, but the physician attend
ing him says he will probably recover.
Alter shooting Senior Rojas the prisoner
made dash for liberty and escaped to the
country, but was captured three days later.
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TOWN CLERKS,
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS

CATHOLIC:- :-REv. GEORGE GAsKELL, Prizes
Mass every Sunday at 1890 a. III. Sunday
school every Sunday at $3.50 p. N. 7esper
at 3 p. III.
METHODIST Rev. s. Ellery, Pas
tor. Services every Sund at ;0:30, a. m
and 1880 p. m. Prayer meetil on Thursdays
at 7:30 p. m.
CONGREGA1TONAL:-Re, Nm HerrEk.
Pastor. Services every Sunday, Mt 1880 a.
m. and 7:3O p. m. Prayer meeting OF the
Prayer meeting every Thursday 1T 1880 p, m.
NORWEGIAN EVANGELICAL LUTREk
AN -REv. P. A. DIETRICRsoN, Pastor. Service
and meetings at times designated by pastor
CONFERENCE.-The 0. DAHLE Pastol
Meetings at 1880 o'clock every Wednesday
evening.