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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

CAME forward rubbing his hands, to
take the shawl and fill the prescrip-
ton.
Very sorry, you know, but we
couldn't do it," he replied. Medicines
are cash, and the shawl is old and thin
and not worth anything"
"But my Tom is threatened with
pneumonia, sir"
Yes. Just the sort of weather for
pneumonia, and most of the cases seem
to prove fatal"
''And must he die for the want of
this medicine?"
Good day, ma'am-good day. no.
tice the thermometer is down to zero,
and l shouldn't wonder if it would go
lower before night"
She had assured Tom that there was
only one God, and that He watched
over the poor as we'll as the rich, but
as she wendell her way homewards she
had to combat her doubts. His fever
was worse, and he was out of his
mind, and all day long he moaned and
tossed about, and she could do no more
than hold cup of water to his lips
HOW dLU U1lCus w uCA l1S III LCS I'LL W
fall she made bundle of Toms
clothes. They were old, but of more
value than her shawl If he died she
would not redeem them; if he got we'll
well, she had said that the Lord
sometimes raised up a friend for the
poor and distressed.
"Humph! Four o'clock p. m, and
New Years day and you not out of bed
YETI"
It was a young man of twenty-five,
who had gone to bed at o'clock that
morning. His face was pinched and
pale, his eyes hollow and bloodshot,
and one looking at him might have
taken him for an old man.
"Made fool of yourself again last
night, didn't you?" he growled, talking
to himself as he lay looking around.
''Old man, do you know that I'm about
ready to cut your acquaintance? A
young man of decent family-plenty
of money-good prospects, and yet
how are you using yourselfT Cham
payne, cards, dissipation. Going right
to the dogs on the gallop. At twenty
five you feel like a man of fifty.
Health, prospects and the whole outfit
going to the devil, and what are you
getting in exchange? You are the son
of your father and high-roller-that
is all When you come to figure it
down you are a champion fool-noth-
ing less"
He lazily turned over, sat up on the
side of the bed, and continues:
Head as big as a house and
your stomach full of vitriol. Nice
chap you are. A decent mule ought
to be ashamed to kick you. No
sand-no energy - hardly strength
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26
Walls and Light.

The walls of rooms designed almost
exclusively for evening use should
have their colors chosen with that
fact in mind as color binations
that seem quite perfect when seen by
daylight may prove unsatisfactory by
artificial light. The manner of light
ing will have something to do with
the result. The arc electric light is so
like that of the sun that it has been
observed that under it colors show
very little change. Gaslight, decorators
say, gives tint that is a very light
creamy orange, and kerosene a pale
buff inclining to drab. In order to
remedy any color defect arising from
the lighting, one decorator advises
careful selection of colored or tinted
glass globes that cover the lights,
choosing those that best suit the pre-
dominating colors of the walls and
ceiling. = Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele-
graph.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

enough to g~t into your clothes and
wash up. You and l are going to have
talk after bit. Had no idea where
the boys tucked me away this morn
ing, but guess this is a hotel, and I'll
order up bite to eat"
Half an hour later the high-roller
sat down to his cigar, and, as ne
smoked, he said:
what l want to know is how much
longer you are going to continue this
sort of business. You've had six or
seven years of it, and it seems to me
that you ought to be through. When
ayoung man gets to that point where
he realizes that he is an ass he's ready
for change. Suppose we swear off?
Suppose we surprise the old folks by
dropping this high-roller business and
living halfway decent lie. Cham
payne, cards, songs, cigars, and all
that last night till you were drunk as
an old bum. That reminds me. Seems
to me / had a streak of luck. Let's
seer
lie had money in every pocket
Swos, fve5 and tens. The bills were
crumpled and rolled, but he smoothed
them out on his knee and counted
them over and said:
"a fool for luclkl Here's an even
three hundred dollars, and / must
have had luck, just about enough to
pay for wine supper, and just about
a hundredth part of what I've lost at
cards. Well, what are you going to
do about the other mattcr-swearing
off? Strikes you as about the correct
thing, does it? All right. Hold up
your right hand and repeat after me.
'"I, Jamos Forbush, being in my right mind
for tho first time in several years, and fully
realizing that am tho biggest idiot in North
America, do hereby affirm and declare that /
an no longer q high-roller on wheels. In
other words. pledge myself to eschew cards.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

drink and other rapid transit matters from
and after this first day OF January, lS9-, and II
break my word may be despised by men
and kicked by animals.
'That's all right, old man-all right
May come hard, but you'll wabble
through Now, as to the money. You
don't need it. tie was won at cards,
and there's wine stains on every bill.
In being a high-roller you've forgotten
all about charity. You've been ready
to flip dollar TO the darby who held
your overcoat, but never a nickel to
the beggar on the street. Let's take a
walk"
Well, what's the matter with you?"
Don't arrest me, sir, I'll move:on!
ARREST nothing! What's in tho
bundle?"
TOMS suit, sir"
"And who's Tom@'
my boy, sir, and he's sick with
pneumonia and I'm trying to sell his
clothes to get medicine"
Come of! never heard of such
thing!"
Here's the prescription, sir, and
will you come with me and see for
yourself?"
She led the way and he followed.
When he saw the pinching poverty and
heard her story-when he stood by the
bed and saw how sick poor Tom was,
he smiled grimly and said:
"Then there are high-rollers and
low-rollers. Never knew that before.
Never had ali idea that people really
suffered from poverty. So this is pow
erty, eh?--no money--no hopes-boy
sick-rent due-coal out-and you are
trying to sell the boys clothes for
medicinep
At that moment Tom ceased his
moaning and opened his eyes and saw
the strange man in the room.
81 thought it was a dream, mother"
"What, Tom?"
"About the Lord. I was walking
the streets and looking all over for
Him, and He was right here all the
time. Now we'll have the medicine
and good fire and something to eatI
You said there was a Lord, butt
L"
"What does he mean?" asked the
high-roller.
"Why, sir, told him that the Lord
might raise up friend for us. He was
so i'll and we were SO poor that he
doubted if the Lord watched over the
poor"
One by one he counted the bills into
her hand-just three hundred dollars,
o,o5 ~, hic bot %0
"Why, sir-but you see-you don't
mean all this for me?"
"Get medicine, doctor, coal, pro-
visions-save Toms life!" he said, al
he went out. |
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

With his battered hood drawn over his fact
And his thread-bare garments flying,
The Old Year softly steals away,
Through the pines so sadly signing.
He casts one glance on his kingdom fair,
And thinks with q tender sorrow
That his reign is DER and he comes no more
For new king rules tomorrow
" Full many gift have brought to you,
world, that your hearts are seorningi
Yet the Crown of Thorns may prove at Last
More dear than kings adjoining.
Will the gay young prince to his people
bring
More joy than I've been giving?
Will they all forget, as the days 60 by,
The dead king for the livtngP
Nay; whatsoever the New Year brings,
Some hearts will still be yearning
For joys gone by; and with sorrow deep
To the Old Year will be turning.
So, fare thee we'll, both friends and foes,
May all your burdens lightent
And day by day, along your way,
The path forever brighten"
Dora Annls Chase, in Boston Budget
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

what if it was unlocked? when Mrs.
Skynfyntle was almost sure that some
one was stealing her coal.
About to awaken her husband, she
remembered that this was the time to
display her courage. Selling dressing
gown and slippers, she crept out and
downstairs.
The window was locked, but on re-
turning, as she reached the foot of the
stairs, she heard some one stealthily
moving about the bedroom. She
listened again; yes, there it was again!
Proud of indicating herself, she flew
to the burglar alarm and back again.
''Hellc!" her husband called. Don't
move or I'll shootp'
'Good graciousy' she thought, "what
if Henry is killed." and her knees Civ
ing way she sank to the floor with
thud.
There was q scramble at the head of
the stairs and some one rolled down,
adding groans to her shrieks.
When the neighbors and police ar
rived they found Mrs. Brownsmith in
strong Mysteries and Mr.. Brownsmith
with dislocated shoulder at the foot
of the stairs.
"'I-I thought there were burglars
and gave the ALARM" she sobbed, when
the tumult was subdued.
"And 1 was merely doing as 1 re-
solved, and rising early when 1 heard
some one moving about the house,"
groanod her husband.
And that was as near as they ever
came to keeping their New Years reso-
1DtiOnS
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TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.
BY ELISA ARMSTRONG.

The Brownsmiths were preparing to
retire; the parlor clock had been
wound, the window garden covered
with newspaper and the key to the
front door hidden under the mat.
Dear mev' cried Mrs. Brownsmith,
''this is New Years eve.'
$50 it is" responded her husband,
"and l haven't told you how intend
TO begin the year"
True; and haven't given it thought
myself, my goodness Look, listen!
There is somebody under the sofa!'
Nonsense! It's only the cat. wish
you would cultivate a little bravery"
II will. I'll turn over new leaf to-
morrow; know I'm q coward"
"You certainly are. And have de-
cided to arise early after this; lose the
best part of the day, as it is"
True; besides, you put back all the
homework"
after all, don't lie abed so very
late"
Indeed you do. You've often
promised to rise earlier, but you never
do"
"And you've often promised to be
sensible and not be afraid of your
shadow"
''Afraid Of my shadow! I'm not"
"Absurd!"
"Ridiculous!'
They both flounced off to bed with
out even saying good night.
In the very early morning, Mrs.
Brownsmith, awakened at some sound,
thought of the dining-room window
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26
In Serving Cheese.

Pineapple and Edam cheese should
be cut SO that the top will fit on again,
and thus exclude the air and keep the
cheese in good condition. A large
piece of any other kind of cheese is
preserved by wrapping it we'll in
large square of cheesecloth, dipped
and then wrung out of cider-vinegar.
When sending cheese to the table with
the salad or any other course, see that
it is laid on fresh napkin.-~N. Y.
Post
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

She sat down in a chair, dazed and
wondering if she had not passed from
earth to Heaven, and as he clattered
downstairs and out into the cold and
the night he muttered:
''Old man, you've made beginning.
and now see if you can't keep it up
Detroit Free Press.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26
What IIo Had On.

did you see Freddie Twiggins on
New Years day?" asked one girl. "No,"
replied the other; II was told, though.
that he-er-that he had skates on"
Skates" repeated the other; 'sl1ates
doesn't begin to express it, Those
were snow shoes. Indianapolis JoCr.
nal.
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The Old One-Pull fair-the long end
gets it.-Chicago Tribune.
EuuipDed.

"Are you ready to meet that solemn
event in every mans existence, the new
year?" asked the meditative man.
'You bet I am" replied his fippant
friend. 81 have more material for
swearing off than ever had before in
my life. Washington Star.
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Saving Space.

"Binl1ins is going at remarkable
pace even for him.
'Ee says it's economy"
"Economy!"
Eyes. He's going to turn over new
leaf New Years day and he wants to
get as much recorded as he can before
he lets GO of the old one. "-Washing-
ton Star
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Unlike Him.

Coral was so surprised when Mr.. de
Jinks called to pay the compliments of
the season.
Merritt-No wonder. That's the only
thing l ever knew him to pay.-Judge.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

SURE TO HAVE GOOD TIME.-"Have you
received an invitation to the Bachelors
ball!" eyes, indeed. I'm to be the only
girl there" "What!" Eyes; really: You
apiece to send out, and I've received one
from ach."-Harper's Bazaar.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26
Insult to Injury.

Thistlewood-Did he say anything to
you when he handed you the bill?
Impecune-Yes; wished me happy
New Year.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

elf my employer does not retract what he
said to me this morning, shall leave his
store" ''Why, what did he say?" "He told
me to look for another place. Harlem Life.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-12-26

SUFFICIENT REASoN.-"Whati is the trouble,
Wadleigh, between you and Miss Hopson!"
81 called her Sweet Alice and she ordered
me to olt."-Detroit Free Press.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

it to become law without his sig
natare, and it had been in opera
ton too short time before the
election for the people to see and
appreciate its benefits.
"Again, / do not accept the view
that tariff reform has suffered de-
feat, because have not anywhere
found Republican candidates advo-
eating a repeal of the law. They
have denounced it in general, and
acclaimed against some rates which
they deemed locally Objectionable,
but nowhere presented an affirma-
tive platform demanding its repeal
and a return to prior conditions.
In tariff reform, as in reforms gen.
orally, it is the first step that is the
hardest, and I have always con-
tended, in congress and on the
hastings, that if we could once
make a substantial breach in the
protective system, the first reform
and its visible benefits would carry
them to gradual overthrow Of the
entire system without any general
agitation, such as must precede
and mark a first victory, and with
out the turmoil and uncertainty
which array against such a move
ment as that part Of the business
community which breads nothing
SO much as change.
by 1896 let us hope the clouds,
already breaking, will have van
ished from our skies. The new
bill will then have shown its mer-
It's, the temporary scare and resent
ment against it will have spent
their force, and | do not believe
the Republican programme will
call for its repeal and relapse to
McKinleyism and mad protection.
Every one knows that such reac-
ton would not mean peace, but a
fierce and unrelenting renewal of
the old struggle"
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

The race for sheriff in this county
resulted in tie vote, and the con-
testants agreed to divide the office.
They then drew straws for which
should be sheriff and Mr.. Wilson
won. Thus we have Republican
sheriff. The county was divided,
and Mr.. Combs will attend to the
collection of taxes in his territory,
while Mr.. Wilson will do likewise
in the district allotted to him
The fees accruing from the office
will then be equally divided. I'm
der the circumstances it was the
best possible solution of the diff
Guilty, and no one will be the worse
for it, as both the gentlemen are
worthy and we'll qualified for their
respective duties.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

Hon. VIM. L, Wilson, of West
Virginia, chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means, was in
Washington city on the 18th inst.
He does not appear to be cast down
by his defeat, but in letter pub
lished in New York paper he gives
his views of the causes of the gen.
eral Democratic defeat. After de-
claring that it is neither discreet
nor dignified thing for member
of a defeated party to attempt to
explain his own or his party's de-
feat, he says:
'None the less, however, it is the
duty of the Democratic party, after
such u reverse, to make a delibe-
rate, honest and unsparing scru-
tiny into tho causes and forces
which wrought its overthrow and
upon tho condition upon which it
may regain it's ascendency with the
American people. Undoubtedly,
there were local influences, as there
were individual candidates. and
factional fights, that contributed
to and emphasized the general re-
suit, but it must be admitted that
there were strong forces every
whore operative, that really shaped
and brought about that result.
'The greatest of all these forces
was the severe industrial depres-
sion that for year or moro past
has hardened the lot and made
anxious the lives of large section
of our people. Hard times is an
enemy before which no political
party in America has ever made n
successful stand in power. This
is, and perhaps always will be, a
weak point in popular government.
When labor is out of employment.
when farm products are low, when
our financial system is disorgan-
lied, the wisest administration of
government and the most whole
some laws do not avail to save a
party from temporary and disas-
trous overthrow. Moreover, the
whole teaching of the protective
system trains men to depend, not
on individual effort, the plain vir-
tues OF industry, thrift and tenn
pcrance, for business prosperity
and material comfort, but on gov
.ernment aid and laws of congress.
let me add, also, that We, to-
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15
HAzEL GREEN, KY.
THURSDAY, Nov. Is, 1894.

1t now transpires that, notwith-
standing the landslide of Tuesday,
November 9th, the old common
wealth is still safely in the Demo-
cratic list, the plurality being about
10000, according to the official
vota
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

Whatever is done or left undone before
1896, let there be no mistake about one
thing-if the Democratic party gets
squarely on the wrong side of the cur.
rency question, that year will see it prac-
tically wiped out, and its leaders will
look back upon the elections of this year
with envy.-New York Times.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

The short winter session of the sd con-
gress, which will not end until the 18th Of
next March, will be quite long enough
to admit of the present tariff being mate.
rally improved and made to conform
more nearly to the demands of the coun-
try and the pledges of the Democratic
Baltimore Sun.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The Democrats of the senate should
make every possible effort this winter to
pass the house free coal and iron ore
bills now on the senate calendar. If the
Republicans should resist the passage of
these bills by resorting to fillibustering,
they would blunder.-Bufialo Courier.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

49, . .
era of change, of unrest and of
somewhat tumultuous agitation.
The rapid adoption of the great
instrument Of modern industry
and trade, the complete revolution
which these are bringing about in
production and distribution, their
steady oblitoration of immemorial
handicrafts, their dislocation of
many industries-all these, to-
gether with the unsettled relations
between labor and capital, have
swept us into an era whore for
some years it may be increasingly
difficult for any party to hold onto
the Federal government for any
long time.
without attempting to appor-
ton the responsibilities for the
hard times between the two par
ties, and stoutly disclaiming any
large share of it for the Demo-
cratic party, pass from these gen.
Civilizations to the second point,
and that is the defeat Of tariff re-
form. / do not belive the people
have rebuked or discarded tariff
reform in their action at the recent
election for when ! look over the
whole country | do not find that
this has been the common ground
for the action. No question was
ever so well and so thoroughly
fought out in popular discussion
before them rs the question of re-
forming and reducing the tariff.
In every campaign from that of
1886 to that of 1892, it has been
the great issue, and in every cam
paign except that of 1888 the Dem
ocratic party has won Il decided
victory on that issue.
"To contend, therefore, that the
people have now chastised the Dem
ocratic party for doing what they
put them into power to do, is to
question their honesty and intelli-
gence. If they have inflicted chas-
tisement because of its dealings
with tho tariff it has been rather
because the party did not carry out
with sufficient promptness and
thoroughness the work they COM
mitted to it, and because they have
held the whole party responsible
for the action of n few of the rep
resentatives in thwarting, delaying
and manning this great work. The
long and indefensible delay in the
senate, the sinister suspicious that
gathered around certain schedules
and duties as they are framed, no.
whore more vigorously denounced
than in the Democratic press of
the entire country, kindled dis
appointment and disgust among
the rank and file of the party that
led to apathy and even misiudgcd
hostility in the recent elections.
at is hazardous, of course, to in
dulge in hypothetics, but have no
doubt that had the bill which
passed the house on the first day
of February passed the senate rs
early as April or May, in substan-
TALLY its original shape, the result
in Missouri and in many other Sec
tons of the country would have
been reversed, and the Democratic
party might even have weathered
the industrial storm with credit, If
not success. Not only did this
long delay and the mutilation of
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

The lessons of the election are many /;
but the most significant, and the one
that neither Democrat or Republican can
miss, is that all parties must realize the
swift reckoning that is sure to be visited
upon periidy. The people are watchful
and will not fail or be tardy in chastising
a party that omits to do its duty.-Bal-
timore News.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

1t is triumph of calamity. The re-
suit over the whole field of the nation
shows that the Democrats now, as in
1887 and 1887, are the unfortunate lega.
tees of a long line of Republican legisla.
ton eliminating in the panic of 1898,
coincidently with the accession to power
and that the unthinking have accepted
the charge of the Republicans that il was
solely due TO the change of policies de-
creed in 1892. We are the heirs of a
house undermined by its previous occu !.
pants, that crumbled aud fell soon after
we moved inst. Paul Globe.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

Great as the landslide has been, how.
ever, il is, from its very nature, not at all
discouraging to Democrats who under,
stand il and the influences that brought
it about. With the full return of pros.
perity, this same vast vote will be as safe
for the Democracy as it was actively an
tagonistic to it in the campaign Wheel,
ing Register.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-15

There is nothing now for the party to
do but to mend its ways wherein its
methods have been faulty, and patiently
await results. While the reforms which
have been already accomplished, and
which may be perfected at the short SEES.
sion of congress, are doing their own be-
nefcent work in promoting the public
welfare and restoring popular confidence
and general prosperity, the Republicans,
though victors, will remain with their
hands tied,-Philadelphia Record