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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
WASTE ON OCEAN LINERS.

Table Ware, Cutlery and Linen
Thrown Overheard by Dishonest
Employees.
A man who came over on recent
trip of the big Cunarder Campania,
being of an inquiring turn of mind,
used his eyes and ears to good ad-
vantage all the way, and he expressed
to a reporter the most unqualified
amazement at the constant wholesale
waste Of valuable material. II don't
saloon fare to the steerage," he said to
a writer for the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, because the food would be
thrown overheard anyway, and the
stewards or nunkies,' as the Seamen
call them, may as we'll make something
of it if they can. Their pay is small,
so the transaction results in substan-
tial benefit to them. A great many
persons come over in the steerage be-
cause they don't care what their accom-
modatiOns are so long as they get good
food, and they are pretty sure of being
able to buy that from the stewards.
Of course, it isn't the square thing to
do, but what / wondered the most al
was the utter disregard for the Ship'E
outfit.
For instance, a steward would takS
down to the steerage dozen dishes and
plates Of choice food in large bucket,
carefully covered, so the contents would
not be seen. OF course the bucket
contained silver forks, spoons, knives
and very often silver vegetable and
dessert dishes and individual chocolate
and coffee pots. When the food was
eaten the china and silver went back
to the bucket and the whole business
was quietly dropped into the refust
chute and down into the sea. I've seer
as many as ten buckets taken down
by the same number Of stewards three
or four times a day throughout trip
and in every case the crockery, silver
ware and bucket went overheard. You
may take my word for it that anything
a steward carries below never gets
back to its proper quarters again-not
only because of the risk Of detection,
but because of the trouble. [ doubt,
though, if the risk is very great, for
some of the officers are themselves ex-
ceedingly careless and destructive. I've
seen large, brand new, handsome blank
cts taken into an officers room for
him to use as a rug while taking
bath. When he finished the blankets
were rolled up and quietly dropped
down the chute, and that happened q
number of times during the voyage,
too No, I can't suggest a remedy
and the company wouldn't extend me
a vote of thanks if 1 could, but it seems
to me it would pay to have those things
looked into a little and a responsible
man placed in direct charge of affairs
A stewards pay is very small, ranging
from So to $50 month, but never ex-
ceeding the latter sum. In many cases
they get no pay at all, but instead, not
only work without a stipend, but also
pay the company for the privilege OF
serving it,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
Clever SparrOws.

AS bearing upon the question regard.
Ing the use Of tools by the lower ami
mails, so called, correspondence of
Science offers a story of three sparrows.
If there was no flaw in the observation
the observer was a boy twelve years
9ld-the case must be accounted most
extraordinary. Says the boy:
A few days ago, as l was walking
along the street, saw n sparrow lying
ON the ground. It fiuttered it's wings,
but was unable to rise.
AS l was looking, a pair of old birds
came along, carrying between them a
little bare twig about three inches long.
One had hold Of one end of it, and
its companion had hold of the other.
They brought it down to the bird on
the ground, and it caught hold of the
stick with it's beak
Then they flew into a tree, CARRYING
the third bird hanging to the stick,
and by this means brought it to place
of safety.
am sure that the bird on the ground
was a young one; it looked quite large,
and may have been wounded or sick.
1t was not able to fly, anyhow, for
I saw it try to do so without success.
All the birds were common English
Sparrows.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
KEEP OUT THE FLIES.
They Have a Bad Reputation In Con.
nection With Microbes.

They Have a Bad Reputation in Con-
nection With Microbes.
AS a result of the modern discovery
and investigation of microbes it has
been found that next to air in motion
flies are the most active agents in the
spread of these animalculeS that con-
stantly threaten the lives of the human
family. There is the authority of the
celebrated Russian physician named
Sawtsckenko, who has literally been
delving into flies, that during a siege
of Asiatls cholera no agent is so active
In the spread of the dread malady as
are flies. This scientist has made many
experiments with flies and demon
strated again and again the presence of
the comma bacillus Of cholera in what
are commonly called fly specks. This
bacillis he repeatedly found active two
or three days after the insects had been
fed on cholera cultures. He expert
mented both with the common house
fly and what is known as the blue bot
tie fly. He first fed them with cholera
cultures and then on Stertlized boulllon.
He found that when the flies were fed
on the intestinal contents Of victims OF
the cholera scourge all sorts of bacteria
were discovered with the contagious
bacilli excretionS of these insects, but
the cholera germs were found to lose
none Of their virulence and activity
during their passage through the body
OF the fly. In commenting on these in
vestigaHonS the New York Sun natur-
ally, asks the question as to whether or
not these common, Shiny occupants Of
almost every dwelling are not also
active agents in the spread Of such
germ diseases as diphtheria, scarlet
fever, yellow fever and smallpox.
1t Is generally conceded that the fly
has been responsible for the spread OF
tuberculosis by feeding upon the spu-
tum of tuberculosis sufferers and ear
rying the poison into dwelling where
he is often permitted to wallow in the
butter, drown himself in the cream
pitcher or revel in the sugar bowl and
possibly get drunk on the rim Of the
wine glass. There is no doubt that in
times of epidemic fly in dwelling
house may be the insidious agent Of
death. The only safety in times of
epidemic, whether it be cholera, small
pox, yellow fever or any of the infec-
tious infantile diseases, is to quarantine
him, and the way to quarantine him
is to put in some kind Of fly screens,
no matter whether they are wire or the
ordinary mosquito netting. 1t is a poor
dwelling, indeed, that cannot afford a
little piece of mosquito netting to bar
out Mr. Fly. If perchance a fugitive
does now and then dodge in when the
door Is open it is an easy matter to fold
up a newspaper and slap the life out of
him. Keep out flies and so keep out in
fections.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
Mental Employment.

At n we'll known women's club late
", the discussion came around to the
idea of ladies earning their living by
certain sorts of rather mental employ
rlent. One woman present, literary
light asked: THE trouble is, doesn't
she put herself in the way OF being
snubbed?" To which another literary
light remarked, with dignity: My dear
Mrs. So-and-So, Christian gentlewo-
man never sHubs anybody" This broad
statement was somewhat weakened by
the fact, notorious to the persons pres
ent, that the speaker was. woman
of great dignity, although also of great
kindliness to those who were her
friends. Stumbling, however, was not
an unknown art to her. Moreover, the
unfortunate fact was linked that the
woman who tries to do any sort of
work has to come in contact with all
sorts Of people, and cannot limit her
clients to Christian gentlewomen."
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
THE HIGHEST AWARD.

Royal Baking Powder Has All the
HOnors, I'm Strength and Value,
20 Per Cent Above Its Nearest Conn
petttOr.
The Royal Baking Powder has the
enviable record of having received the
highest award for articles Of Its class.
Greatest strength, purest ingredients,
most perfectly combined, wherever ex-
hibited In competition with others. In
the exhibition of former years at tho
Centennial, at Paris, Vienna and at
various state and Industrial fairs,
where 1t has been exhibited, judges
have invariably awarded the Royal
Baking Powder the highest honors. At
the recent Worlds Fair the examina-
lions for the baking powder awards
We're made by the experts Of the chem
ical division Of the agricultural depart
ment at Washington. The official re-
port Of the tests of the baking powders
which were made by this department
for the special purpose of ascertaining
which was the best, and which has
been made public, shows the leavening
strength Of the Royal to be $50 cubic
inches Of carbonic gas per ounce Of
powder OF the cream Of tartar baking
powders exhibited the next highest In
strength thus tested contained but 1873
cubic inches of leavening gas. The
other powders gave an average of Ill.
The Royal, therefore, was found OF 20
per cent greater leavening strength
than its nearest competitor and A per
cent above the average of all other
tests. Its superiority in other respects,
however, In the quality Of the food 1t
makes as to fineness, delicacy and
wholesomeness could not be measured
by figures. 1t Is these high qualities,
known and appreciated by the women
Of the country for so many years, that
have caused the sales of the Royal
Baking Powder, as shown by statistics,
to exceed the sale of all other baking
powders combined
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07

Men may be good soldiers without
being scholars, and 1t is also true that
men may be amusing when they are
weighed down by the gravest response
bilities.
On the evening before a solar eclipse
not long ago the colonel Of q regiment
of German infantry sent for all his
sergeants and said to them:
There will be an eclipse OF the sun
tomorrow. The regiment will meet on
the parade ground in undress. VIII
come and explain the eclipse before the
drill. II the day il cloudy the men VIII
meet In the drill-shed as usual"
Tomorrow morning, by order OF the
colonel, there will be an eclipse OF the
sun. The regiment will assemble on
the parade ground, where the colonel
will come and superintend the eclipse
In person. If the day is cloudy the
eclipse will take place in the dril
ohad ~
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
A Novel Source of Danger From
Lightning.

A singular incident, indicating hith-
erto unsupported danger from lightning
has been related by A. A. Voysey in an
English technical journal. A fringe,
which was nailed to an ornamental ta-
BILE, was found after a thunder storm
to be almost entirely burnt on the side
furthest from the window, the wood
being charred to depth of one-eighth
to One-quarter Of an inch where the
fringe was burnt. But there was not
mark or srgn Of any kind that would
denote that the lightning had struck
the table and passed to the earth. The
damage to the table was completely
isolated. It was proved beyond ques-
ton that no one had entered the room
with a candle. A close examination of
the fringe, which consisted of a fluffy
material, probably 4 mixture of cotton
and wool, and surely of an infiamma-
bic nature, was made, and here the ex-
PLANTATION of the mystery was found.
Interspersed among the fluffy material
were fine metallic threads, which were
acted upon inductively by the lightning
discharges taking place near the house.
This tnductive action was sufficient to
cause small sparks to fly between va
rious threads, and the sparks set the
infiammable material on fire. If the
fire caused in this peculiar manner had
not quickly died out the whole house
might have been destroyed and no sign
would have been left to point to the
true cause. 1t seems not unlikely, after
such an incident, that large percent
age of the fires that occur in connec-
ton with thunder storms, and that are
generally attributed to the direct action
of a lightning discharge have been
caused by induction. The eminent
English electrical authority, Prof.
Lodge, in commenting on this new
danger" says: "The note regarding in
direct fire from lightning is interesting.
1t would be difficult to vouch for the
occurrence in any particular instance,
but am already convinced that such
resonant sparks occur and do cause
fires. There is an instance at the Hotel
de Vile, Brussels. Gas leaks act as
the usual finder. One would not ex-
pect a fringe to catch fire quickly
enough
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
DEGRADATION OF ATHLETICS
Healthy Bodies Sometimes EnveIOp
Sadly Diseased Morals.

DULLES sometimes EnVe1OD
Sadly Diseased Morals.
We are so firmly convinced that the
reasonable pursuit of athletics-that is,
pursuit that makes only such de-
mands as they can afford to honestly
give-muSt work for good among all
classes that we are very sorry to have
to indorse the structures which have
lately been published upon the tendon
CieS Of certain modern athletes. The
athlete in England has hitherto enjoyed
high. reputation for purity of mo-
tive in his struggles, says the London
Lancet. Many of us-probably those
who knew least to the most marked
degree-have believed that the chief
reward in the athletes eye was the sen-
sation of honorable distinction in
competition promoted, secondarily, per-
haps, for the distribution of prizes or
the gaining of challenge cups, but pri-
marily for the maintenance by healthy
rivalry of a high physical standard.
But coincidently with the enormous
increase in the popularity of football
and Of public athletic meetings, there
has come to light the existence of q
widespread tendency to make the prac-
tice of athletics source of livelihood,
and some of the methods pursued with
that intent go far to show that the
healthy body of the athlete may en-.
velop mind in a considerable condi
ton of moral disease. This much is
generally conceded; what remains to
be found Is a remedy. 1t is not exact
ly our province to suggest expedients
for the remedy of this state of AFFAIRS
but one thing seems to be certain-
that the publication of the running
path and of the football field can only
come about by the cooperation of the
gentleman and the player. In cricket
the paid and unpaid work together in
harmony, and it seems to us that the
same spirit ought to prevail in other
departments of athletics. Believing, as
we do, that certain amount of game
playing is q serviceable factor in EN-.
glish education, 1t is matter of no
little concern to learn that two i'm.
portant branches Of athletics have been
seriously impeached; and 1t will please
us proportionately to hear that united
effort on the part of some of the more
distinguished athletic clubs is to be
taken to remedy the evils.
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ian into the bargain. But he--he never
was something better; and he had n
half-dozen OF us children, and my poor
mother shaved and toiled to keen us.
MY rather Is dead and gone these fiye-
and-thirty years. I'm not going to rake
up his faults. Lord, have mercy on us
all! But l only say that my mother.
what with one thing and another, had
a hard time of 1t for many a long day.
Wen, one OF my brotbers-Antonio his
name Was-sh0wed a pretty talent for
drawing and design, and mother God
KNOWS how'd scraped together the
money to apprentice him to a great
mousse decorator, and the lad did well.
ana was getting on. But, as ill-fortune
would nave 1t, he tumbled from a scat
r0lding when he was decorating the
ceiling or great rich East India mer-
cnant, Who had a fine house and want
ed TO make 1t finer, and poor Tonic
broke his collarbone and dislocated his
wrist, and then he was on his back in
the hospital for long time. The
nephew or the East India merchant
happened to see the accident and he
went to the hospital to look after Tonic,
ana he came to mother to break the
news to her. and he was as good as an
angel to us ALL His uncle was very
generous with his money, and we were
very grateful for his help. But young
Mr. Warren-mother said IL prayers
and blessings could do him any good he
would go straight to heaven! He had
a heart OF gold, to be sure! And he
was slim, handsome young fellow In
those days, with brown hair and fair
skin. And think of my recollecting his
face all these years! They did say that
he was going to marry one of the East
India merchants daughters; but he
didn't, you see. He went away to India
instead, and poer Tonic is dead and
buried. All, dear me, how long ago it
all seems! You ask him, my dear, IL he
remembers Tonic Parnasconi."
CTo Be Continued.)
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
HYPNOTIzED THE CROWD
But the FRkirs Could Not Deceive the
Boston's Mems Camera.

But the Fakirs Could Not Deceive the
BOstOn's Mems Camera.
Two young men of Boston, while on
a journey through India last summer,
witnessed an exhibition by fakir in a
small village outside Calcutta, says the
Calcutta Mirror The fakir was per-
forming the usual experiment Of
making a rope descend from the clouds
and man come down the rope, who
had assembled by the same route, after
having his head cut off. The exhibition
was in an open square before 1000
spectators. Every one saw plainly
what was happening.
The two BOstonians had cameras
with them, and took several snap shots
of the exhibition in it's various stages.
They intended to write an article upon
the subject for magazine and illus
trate it direct from photographs. They
developed the plates with much inter-
est upon their return to Boston recent
~. They were nonplussed when they
saw the results. The photographs re-
vealed the fakir, surrounded by the
crowd, with establishment, bewilder-
menu ana norfOr pictured on their
faces; but the extraordinary decapita-
ton they had witnessed did not show
upon the sensitive plates. The crowd
standing around were apparently look
ing In the photographs.
What they saw had not happened at
all, but they merely saw it in their
minds eye. While there is nothing re-
markable in the force Of suggestion
when applied to one person, it would
not be impossible for an impression,
such as the event which the Boston
men saw, to be conveyed to one person
in a hypnotic condition. The circum-
stances at the Indian falir's exhibition
were, however, entirely different. Here
were 1000 fully awake, who all saw in
their mind exactly the same picture,
and had no doubt that the wonderful
events actually hammered
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07

Electricity has been Brought to such per-
II ction in handling that stiff and useless
Jcints are made completely well. Hun
dreds of patients have been cured by rIec-
tricity that had formerly been treated bv
plaster casts, and weights. Women who
have been invalids from female diseases for
years are completely cured.
Tutors are completely removed without
the slightest pain.
rheumatism is not that dreaded disease
1t used to be.
DIR. G. F. La Paul has the largest cleo
rical apparatus ia the world for the cure
OF all wasting diseases, rheumatism, joint
diseases aud nervous affections. "a Wash
ingtOn avenue north, Minneapolis, MINI.
Write for particulars.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
A Wire NIeazurar

One of the difficulties that large users
Of wire have constantly to contend with
is sure and simple method of regis
tering the quantity of wire passing
daily out of the stock room. A new
wire measure that has just been put
on the market in Chicago seems to
meet this requirement. The wire pass
es between two rollers, one of which Is
geared to a counting device that indi-
Gates the exact number of feet run out,
and the purchaser can thus see at
glance how much wire he has to pay
for. The recording dial is similar to a
car register, and the entire arrange
ment is automatic in action.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
Deafness Cannot Be Cured,

by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion OF tho ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness and that IL by constitu-
tonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition OF the mucous lining Of the
Eustachian Tube when this tube gets indamsd
and when IL is entirely closed Deafness IL the re-
suit. and unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored TO its normal condition
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases ont
Of ten are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing
We viii I've on nnndrad nnIIass yos en-. oas:
Of Deafness Caused by eatarrhl that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars,
free.
F.J. CHENEY Co, Toledo. o.
&BSold by Druggists. 75c.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-12-07
new rorm OF street Oar for Ambu.
lance Work.


A commendable idea has been worked
out in the construction OF new form
OF ambulance car at Lyons, France,
which is u military station, and where
there is frequent occasion for the con-
veyanee of the sick of the garrison to
the great military hospital. For this
purpose, and also for the transport OF
provisions and stores for the military
service, 1t has been the custom to en-
ploy the ordinary street cars, but the
running of special car has been 1n-
augurated. The lines belonging to the
street lines have been supplemented Dy
additional rails, both at the point OF
departure, where the car is housed,
and at the hospital, where the car can
be run into wash house for the pur-
pose OF disinfection. The car has a
platform at each end and Is divided
into two compartments, one or when,
lighted by eight easements, with nova
BILE glass and blinds, is furnished with
two fixed benches to accommodate
eight persons, four on either side, The
other compartment, lighted by a sky
light, which can be opened, is very
much like the interior of the French
regulation ambulance wagon, and gives
accommodation to four patients on
stretchers suspended on two lines.
When not required for recumbent pa
tents the space can be utilized by sit
ting patients. The stretchers can be
moved in any direction; or, If neces-
sary, placed under the seats. The In
terror OF the car is painted mahog-
any color, and as the floor has been
treated with boiled inseed oil, the
whole can be easily washed and disin-
fected. A small cupboard is provided
for cleaning articles, and in winter the
car is heated by steam. The vehicle
is painted a bright green, and is further
distinguished by flying the flag Of the
Geneva convention.
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mo, Barney! He isn't their papa at
all. And only think, his name Is War
rem, not Boddlngton. 1t was my mis-
take. Isn't 1t oddg
MY dear, it's so odd that I can't
make head or tail of word you are
saying! returned Barney, opening her
black eyes very widely.
mo, Of course not! It's my fault
for running on too quickly. But have
been so steady and so old all day long
that you must let me chatter now In
my own fashion, just to rest myself,
Ell, Barney? And by degrees you'll
understand 1t all. Now sit down in
the comfortable corner of the sofa,
and I'll tell you all about it."
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assisting all her natural functions, and In
female system II lessons the pains and bur
dens Of child bearing, supports and strength
ems weak, nursing mothers, and promotes an
abundant secretion Of nourishment
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic, a
soothing and bracing nervine, and gasGrGst-
teed remedy for woanen's ills and ailments.
In every chronic female complaint" or
weakness, If it ever fails to benefit or cure,
you have your money back.
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August
Flower"

IT am happy to state to you and
to suffering hum anity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation Of the heart, with
satisfactory results. Forseveralye
she has been great sufferer, has
been under the treatment of eminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in
duced to try August Flower, which
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for it." L. E. Frost,
Springfield, Mass. o