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Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
Loud Telephone.

An English paper describes a telephone
which will talk loud enough for person
in any part of large room to hear and
understand. Mr.. Graham, the inventor,
has succeeded not so much by an inn
provemnt on the existing telephones as
by his method of arranging the circuit
and bringing its resistance as low as
possible. To this end the usual induc-
ton coil is discarded, and the two instru-
ments, transmitter and receiver, are di-
rectly connected in circuit with the line
and the battery. The transmitter at one
end of the line is connected to the re-
ceiYer at the other end, and two separate
lines are employed having common re-
turn wire. Two correspondents can thus
talk quite freely with each other, and as
the receivers speak out so as to be heard
in any part of room conversation can
be carried on by each person simply
speaking to his transmitter.
The apparatus is attached to flexible
conductors and is held in the hand. To
open conversation it is sufficient to
pick up the portable transmitter and
press button in it's casing, so as to es-
tablish the circuit. The receiver at the
other end acts as its own call bell by the
Ioudness of its voice, and the response
comes equally prompt and loud. The
user has therefore no need to listen care
fully with one or two receivers held up
to his head. All he has to do is to speak
into his transmitter and keep his ears
omen
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
A College Joke.

AS good an example as can be given of
the jokes played on new students is the
ancient "Pempe' of Winchester college.
On the first appearance of boy in the
school companion will ask him with a
kindly air if he has book called ''Pempe
Moron Proteron" Greek for "Send the
fool farther'), without which it will be
impossible to properly get through his
work. OF course he will say ''No," and
then he will be sent on a wild goose
chase from one boy to another in the
hopes of obtaining copy. The game is
kept up with great spirit until the older
boys are tired of the fun, and then the
green lad is referred to one of the mas
tiers, who, instead of giving him vol
ume, as he expects, ends his trouble by
explaining to him the joke of "Pempe."
London Tit-Bits.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
lends to personal enjoyment when
lightly used. The many, who live bet
Ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
dapting the worlds best products to
ne needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
xative principles embraced in the
'emedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and ST bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if oferedi
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
The Birth of the Opal.

There is beautiful little story told
about the opal, that delicatestone which
you have no doubt seen in rings and
bracelets. The story is that the opal
was long ago promised to anybody who
could discover it. It lay hidden away,
so the old fortune tellers used to say, at
the place 'swhere the sunlight and the
moonlight joined" each other, and who
ever could find that spot would be re-
warded by a quantity of large, beautiful
opals. After long search for the place
"where the sunlight and moonlight
joined" each other, the place was found
by Spanish traveller, who followed up
the rays of the setting sun, and when he
had reached the end of the last ray he
waited until the moonbeams shone upon
the earth, and there he found the opals.
They ars said to be very lucky stones
for those who are born in the fall of the
year and very unlucky for those born in
the spring. Of course it is only sayr
ing that these are lucky or unlucky, but
the rest of the story is true, as you will
believe if you look in the heart of an
opal and see the pink tints of the sun
and the blue rays of the moon nesting In
the middle of it.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
The Electric Capstan.

An expert in railway matters declares
that the day is not far distant when the
switching engine will be entirely done
away with, its place being taken by the
electric capstan. The latter is already
in use to a certain extent on some Of tbs
Pennsylvania lines. The motor, which
actuates the capstan by means of gear:
ing, runs at the rate Of some 1900 reyo.
buttons per minute, and the gearing mo.
tor and switch of the capstan are all con.
tanned In q watertight iron case, the TOP
of which comes flush with the ground.
There is a cover to (which is readily re.
movable, SO as to give easy access to the
motor for oiling and cleaning. The wires
containing the current for the motor are
carried through ON iron pipe below the
surface of the ground, and the switch
for starting and stopping the motor is
operated readily by the foot of the at
tendant in charge Of the capstan. New
York S11n
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
The Thrifty Japanese.

What is the reason that Japan has nc
poverty problem? One reason is proba'
bly, to be found in the land system,
which has given to every worker hold
ing and encouraged him to supply his
wants by his own labor. There is, too,
in Japan a curious absence of ostenta-
tious luxury.
The habits of living are in all classes
mach the same, and the rich do not out
shine the poor by carriages, palaces and
jewelrv. Ths rich spend their money on
curios, which, if these are costly, is limit
ed, and the most popular agitation is
against the big European houses which
ministers build for themselves, Wealth. is
thus not absorbed and is more ready for
investment in remunerative labor. The
last reason which occurs to the mind of a
traveller with comparatively few oppor-
tunities for forming opinions is the
equality of manners in ell classes. Rich
and poor are alike courteous It is not
possible to distinguish employer from
laborer by their behavior. All are clean;
all are easy; all are restrained.
LIS Bof6I1Of AStS LIS S4A4A ~ w LAY
common school and sit next to the child
Of the casual laborer, certain that his
child will pick up no bad manners and
get no contamination in thought or In
person. This equality enables rich and
poor to meet as friends, and gifts can
pass without degradation. The rich no
bles in the country, just as the universe
ty men with whom we met in Toxic, are
thus able to give to those whom they
know to be in need, and friendship be-
comes the channel of charity. The ques-
ton is, Will this survive the introduction
of the industrial system? 1t is possible
that some of it may and that Japan may
teach the west how to deal with the poor.
--Fortnightly Review.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
Trees In Japan sacred to the Gods.


Near every temple in Japan are GER
tain trees which are supposed to be pc
culiar1y loved by the gods and to be sa-
cred to them. Any one injuring or caus-
ing to be injured one of them will bring
down the wrath of the ''kami" or god
whose particular property it is. If the
trees be injured in the name of any one,
the kami ayenges himself on that person
instead. SO when q girl finds that a
SWANS love has cooled, and she THINKS
revenge would be sweet, she makes q
straw manikin and calls it by his name
If she is very vengeful, she may also
make one of her hated rival. At Q
o'clock at night called the hour of the
bully she rises, and clad In white night
dress only, with high clogs on heF feet,
her hair hanging loose and crowned
with an iron tripod, on which three
lighted candles are stuck, she proceeds
to the shrine of the patron god Of the
fanily.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
RACING IN MODERN ROME.
Riderless Horses Goaded to Furious Spe
with Balls of Proxies.

Riderless Horses Goaded to Furious Speed
with Balls of Proxies.
The prizes for these races were called
palii, and were usually pieces of brocade
or some other rich stuff, which was
thrown over the back of the horse that
won and so displayed to the people. We
also hear of a procession of the palii, so
no doubt they often took the form OF
banner. Thenobles used to deposit them
in their chapels. and in the last days OF
the papal government the French sol
diers substituted for theprocession of the
palii that of the bue grasso.
The pope's dragons used to gallop
| through the Corso to clear it before the
race, and to warn the people that 1t
had actually started. Either mortars
were fired or trumpets blown, but acct
dents were perpetually occurring, and
when in 1886 two people were killed just
below the balcony where stood the Queen
Margherita, the Barbary races were for
hidden in the Corso for the future, though
renewed last year in a very much modi-
| fed form around the Piazza del Popolo.
The horses had no riders, but carried
two balls of lead, covered with priekles,
loosely attached by leather thongs be-
low the neck and on the back. So OF
course the harder they galloped the more
these prickly balls danced up and down
and goaded them on.
Dashing furiously along the Corso,
they were past almost before people
knew that they had started, and in such
a narrow street, with such crush OF
! people on either side and somebody al
ways trying to cross at the last moment
or stepping out of the throng to see If
they were coming, it was small wonder
that it was a dangerous game, though
of course the danger was in part also
| the attraction.
A sheet was stretched across the street
to catch the horses at the back of Piazza
venezia, in the passage still called Via
della Ripresa de Barberi, in front OF
which was cord covered with wet red
paint. This dropped before the rush of
the foremost horse, leaving a streak of
paint on his chest, and thus all knew at
once which was the winner.-Gentle-
mans Magazine.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
Sisterlv Devotion.

The beautiful Margaret of Navarro
was devoted to her brother, Francis l.
When he was apparently dying at Ma
drid, she found her way to him through
privation and danger and succeeded in
effecting his deliverance. When he was
Ill at distance from her, she went every
day and sat down on stone in the mid
die of the road to catch the first glimpse
of a messenger afar off. And she said:
"Ah! whoever shall come to announce
the recovery Of the king, my brother,
though he be tired, jaded, soiled, di-
sheveled, | will kiss him and embrace
him as though he were the finest gentle
man in the kingdom"
When he died, she seemed literally
heartbroken, and she did not long sur
vive Youths Companion.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
The Age of Maturity.

Statistics are said to show that young
men do not on an average attain full
physical maturity until they arrive al
the age of % years. Professor Scheillel
Of Harvard asserts, asthe resnlt Of his OBJ
servations, that young men. do not attain
to the full measure of their mental facul
ties before 25 years of age. A shrewd
observer has said that most men are
boys until they are 80 and little boys un.
til they are 25, and this accords with the
standard OF manhood watch was fixed
at 80 among the ancient Hebrews and
other races. -Jenness Miller Monthly
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
Pascal,s Early Observation.

Blaise Pascal, who wrote remarkable
treatise on the laws Of sound, was con.
stantly observing the familiar occur.
rences about him, even as boy. When
he was only 10 years old, he sat at the
dinner table one day striking his plate
with his knife and then listening to the
sound.
"What are you doing with that plate,
Blaise?" asked his sister.
"See,'' he replied. when I strike the
plate with my knife, it rings. HarkI'
Again he called forth the sound.
when I grasp it with my hand So,
he continued, 1.-THE sound ceases. lwon-
der why it is?'- Youths Companion,
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
a prettx pomestic Scene.

The night Waterman in Chestnut
street bank isn't happy unless he dan
dies his 3-months-old baby for awhile
each evening. He cannot get out, nor
can mamma get il, but every fair night
she passes baby in between the big iron
bars of the front window. Papa watch
man receives the youngster, and passers-
by witness the charming family picture
of mammals smiling face watching be-
tween the bars and papa romping with
baby in the brightly lighted interior of
the bank. Philadelphia Record.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

The Judge is not attending to bust
ness very strictly these days, that is,
his Office work. His wife has been
very sick for the past ten days, and
he has had to do double guard duty.
He was relieved Monday for a short
time as his wife is slightly improving.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

The dance at Thorpe's hall Monday
evening was very enjoyable affair,
and was continued till early the next
morning. The party was given part
ly to entertain several young gentle
men who were to leave for the cities
on the midnight train.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Work on the new road is progress
sing finely. We are going to have a
frst-class road to Morris in a few
days. Go and do likewise on your
end of the road, is our advice to Morris.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
We TELL YOU

nothing new when we state that it pays to engage
in permanent, most healthy and pleasant bust
ness, that returns profit for every days work
Such is the business we offer the working class.
We teach them how to mdke money rapidly and
guarantee every one who follows our instructions
faithfully the making of $4,000 month.
Every one who takes hold now and works will
surely and speedily increase their earnings; there
can be no question about it; others now at work
are doing 1t, and you, reader, can do the same.
This is the best paying business that you have
ever had the chance to secure. You win make
grave mistake if you fail to give it trial at once.
II you grasp the situation, and act quickly, you
VIII directly find yourself in most prosperous
business, at which you can surely make and save
large sums OF money. The results of only few
hours work will often equal weeks wages.
whether you are old or young, man or woman, it
makes no difference, - do as we tell you, and sue
cess WIN meet you, at the very start. Neither
experience or capital necessary. Those who work
full particulars, free f. G. ALLEN s. CO.,
Box No. 42O, Augusta, Me.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

If any of our Norwegian friends
wish to learn to speak, read and write
English correctly, they should call at
our Office and purchase Martin III
vestad's book of instruction. Price,
$1.O0, or 1926 for the TRIBUNE one
year and copy of the book. If
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Mrs. MCGOWAN is reported very i'll
with rheumatism and pleurisy. DIR.
G. L. Gates issattending her.
Later. Pneumonia has set in and
her case is doubtful.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Mrs. Brevig and her son Harvey
went to Willmar last week. Harvey
will be placed in school at that place
for the ensuing year,
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

There has recently been disipteFred
among the stores of the lord chambef.
lain at Windsor castle sedan chair be-
longing to Henrietta of France, wife of
Charles L
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

George lawson, the genial sales
man in the store of Wilcox & Wells,
of this city, went to the cities Satur-
day evening.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

The custom of speaking of the presi-
dent as 'fhis excellency" is unwarranted
No such formal title was ever given him
by legislative action. His legal title Is
1.-THE president of the United States.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Camp No. 40, Sons of Veterans, will
have reunion and dance at their
hall in this village on Thanksgiving
eve, Nov. %, 1898.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Mrs. r. L. Blackman is reported
quite sick. Rheumatism and pleuri-
sy are the causes of her illness.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Hungary leads the world in the pro-
duction of glass jewels, such as are used
with stained glass. The work is done OIL
most entirely by peasants.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

T. T. Ofthan, attorney, and Sheriff
Oleson, of Glenwood, we're in town on
legal business Saturday.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

III. J. Dresser is hunting and pros
pecting away up in the Red Lake
regions of the north.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

John Erickson and wife returned
from their visit to the Worlds faiI
Saturday night.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Rev. Mr.. Trower left for California
last week. He will be gone about
three weeks.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

The Congregational church of Hancock
holds preaching services every Sunday at
II a. IN. and p. m. by the pastor, William
E. Trower.
Sunday School at 1880 m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evenings at
So'clock.
Everyone most cordially invited to all of
these services.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
Local Items.

The best mixed paintssat Thorpe q
Tollifson's.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

If in need of an organ or piano you
will save money by calling at Thorpe
& Tollifson's.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

John Macarthur is convalescine
slowly, but is not able to be out.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Miss Carrie Erickson is reported con-
valescent.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

10. Noyes can't shoot goose, the
boys say.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

log Hancock Lodge, No. 2O7, meets
every Friday at 5 p. M, in q A X han; ~
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

s of V-Prairie Camp, No. 40, meet LIST
and Sd Saturday of each month in Army
Hall GRO BLACKMAN, Capt. {
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Wet U-Meets semlmonthly on We'd
1'e' " MRS H d TENNEY, Prest
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

Our photograph gallery will be re
moved this week to Litchfeld.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

A fine assortment of wall paper a
Thorpe & Tollifson's.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

John Erickson went to Sioux City
with two carloads of cattle last week
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
KAUFMAN TIME TARLE.

Passenger trains on the Great Northern
leave Hancock as follows: Going west, 1859
a. m; going East, 1:15 a. m.
Day train, going east, leaves at 1920 p. M;
DING west, 2:T p. M
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15

CARO- III Hunter Post, No. III, meets
on the End and 4th Saturdays OF each
month. ACOoh, Com.
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
Village Directory.

VILLAGE OFFICERS.
President-G c Thorpe.
Councilmen-John Erickson, John Ben
zing, Frank Klein, A Overstad.
Recorder-A Erickson.
Assessor-P S Fenton.
Treasurer--W c Higgins.
Tustices-P Fenton, w Muier.
NYarShaI-T II HOItOn
Morris tribune., 1893-11-15
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINES
Northern Pacific R. R. Co. Lessee.
awe Through Trains Daily.

LATEST TIME CARD.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
Literary Chances in New York.

The actual chances for literary success
in New York are in no respect different
from those which any greater city pre-
sents over those of smaller community
If literary man or woman can go to
New York with a certainty offered III the
way of fairly paying position, then
say, by all means go, and if he has any
talent i'll him it will come out and win
quick success. But if he has only ordi-
nary gifts then let him stay where he is,
even with certainty offered him. New
York holds out nothing to such man
except poor livelihood. Or, if Il writer
has established fair reputation, is
known by editors and publishers through
letters, and he feels that there is some
thing i'll him which only the activity of
a great city will bring out, then let him
go to busy Gotham.
But let him be careful that he does not
confuse ambition with talent. New
York is full of ambitious writer's, and
they will always remain ambitious, al
ways reaching out to eat the literary oats
which hang suspended just little out
of their reach. Ambition is splendid
quality, but the talent must be there to
back it up And the latter is what is
lacking in so many of the ambitious lit
erary spirits in New York today. 1t is
all ambition. Ladies' Home Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
Always Dying.

Life indeed consists in series of
changes of tissue, and the human econ.
omy is simply, as far as its material part
is concerned, II machine, and primarily
depends on food as the most important
factor i'll keeping it in working order.
When it is said that we commence to
die as soon as we are born, it of course
means that certain parts of the body i'm
mediately begin to perish; their exist
ence is ephemeral; they come and go,
are replenished and decay. They are
the dying parts of that system of life,
which may last Il little while, but which
must eventually yield to the memorable
law Of nature. The nails, the hair, etc,
are observable as an instance Of this de-
cay. The same rule applies to every
other organ and tissue of the body,
though it is not palpable to the naked
eye. The skin is always peeling. The
food that is taken in the one hour
nourishes the system, and ELECTS that
which was taken the hour before
Gentiemdn's Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05

that a dynamite cartridge which an
Englishman could carry in his sack
coat pocket would block tunnel be-
You'd repair for months was not given a
moments attention. The eirdle of the
inviolate sea was threatened. The
thought was intolerabe. But now
it is gravely proposed to bridge the
channel; and though this is project
as old as the English railway system, it
has been very deliberately developed by
French and English engineers, aided
by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin
Baker, designers of the Forth bridge,
and it is evidently to be pressed in good
faith and with hope of success. 1t is
intended to be nearly eighteen miles
in length, resting on seveuty.two piers,
alternating 1910 ard $50 feet apart,
and constructed on the cautilever prin-
ciple. But if Epglishmen were alarmed
at tunnel, what will they say to a
bridge that requires six dozen obsta-
Giles of most formidable kind to the
navigation Of the Channelp But then
English panic is a most uncertain phe-
nomenon, quite as apt to be missing
when it would be reasonable as to be
very unreasonable when there is no &C.
casion for it.-Harper'S Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
His Nerve Saved Him.

There was an instance of remarkable
nerve displayed near Noblestown yes
terday. Joe Van Curen is a torpedo
shooter. He handles nitro-glycerine
daily, enough of it in fact TO blow him
self and team absolutely out of exist.
ence. He is young man Of slight
figure. Yesterday he was engaged to
shoot Greenlee 4 First's No. | McMur-
ray with twenty quarts of nitro-glycer-
inc. The well had been cleared out
during the forenoon, and was in good
condition to flow. 1t was one of the
biggest wells around NoblestOwn and a
few days ago was making over one hun.
bred barrels an hour. Van Curen
lowered the shell into the mouth of the
well, filled it with the twenty quarts of
glycerine, and was just ready to let it
down to the sand when the well started
10 flow. To let go meant death. The
glycerine would have been blown into
the derrick and a deadly explosion
would have been the result. Van
Curen grasped the shell, and for ten
minutes held it in the mouth of the
well while the strong pressure of gas
below was throwing the oil almost to
the top of the derrick. 1t was one of
the finest flows which the well had made
for days, and when it ceased Van Curen
was almost smothered by the barrels of
spraying oil which had fallen upon
him. His nerve saved his life.-PittS
burg Dispatch.