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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Johnny Blake is taking slack /
Canty's run for few days, Jack hav-
ing been compelled to lay off on
account OF illness.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Threshers will find the best oils, at
bottom prices. at j. r. Kruger S.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Mrs. AL. Stewart returned to her
home in Litchfeld on Friday last.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

E. J. Jones has on hand one of the
best and most complete line of paints,
oils, varnishes, kalsomine and brushes
in the city.
FL. B. Stinson of Minneapolis was
here the first of the week doing some
expert work for the Advance COM
pany.
Moses Elmer, an old time resident
of Morris, is in town visiting with his
daughters Mrs. j III. Dudley and
Mrs. Lewis.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Mrs. j. j. McCanney was in De
Graft the first of the week.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Fred Hill will leave Friday for
Mortified, where he will take a
course in Carleton College.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04
Eoeal notes.

Universally acknowledged by all
to be just as represented -Dwight's
Flour.
n. A. Nilsson is erecting fine barn
on his lot on East Third street.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Fred Smith leaves to-day to finish
his course at the State University the
coming wear.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Roy Stone leaves to-day to enter
the State University.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Miss Cora Marlowe and Carl
Marlowe left Sunday to attend school
at the State University.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

LIB" stands for best and best stands
for Snow Bird Flour.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

Mrs. Edwin Jones and son Henry
returned home from St. Paul on
ST nday last.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

j. A. Campbell of THE TRIBUNE is in
St. Paul and will move his family up
here this week.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13

seems stricken VIII wlnJry desolauon.
"Yet, if have said or done anything
unbecoming to my SEX
Nothing womanly is unbecoming to
a woman" returns he. 'And, praised
be God, some still live who have not
learned to conceal their nature under a
mask of fashion. If this be done less to
your natural free disposition than to an
ignorance of our enlightened modish
arts, then could find it in my heart to
rejoice that You have lived captive in
Barbary"
They had been looking into each 9th
er's eyes with the delight of reading
there the love that filled their hearts,
but now Moll bent her head as if she
could no longer bear that searching re-
gard, and unable to make response to
his pretty speech sat twining her fin
gers in her lap, silent, with pain and
pleasure 6uttering over her downcast
face. And at this time I do think she
was as near as may be on the point of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13

ron can save your breath, says she
passionately. GIVE heard every word. 4"
"More shame for you," says l in a
passion, casting my purse ON the table.
TITS infamous to treat an honest gen.
tleman thus and silly besides. Come,
dear, 4" altering my tone, edo let me run
and fetch him back. "
"You forget whom you are speaking
to, Mr.. Hopkins, cries she.
saw twas impossible to move her
while she was in this mood, for she had
something Of her fathers obstinate,
stubborn disposition and did yet hope to
bring Dario back to her feet, like a
spaniel, by harsh treatment. But he
came no more, though palette he had
overlooked could have given him the ex-
cuse, and for very vexation with Moll ]
was glad he did not.
He had not removed the scaffold, but
when / went upon it to see what else he
had put into his painting the fading
light only allowed me to make out a
figure that seemed to be leaning over
the balcony.
Mon would not go in there, though
warrant she was dying of curiosity, and
soon after supper, which she could scarce
force herself to touch, she went up to
her own chamber, wishing us a very
distant, formal good night and keeping
her passionate, angry countenance.
But the next morning ere I was
dressed she knocked at my door, and
opening it I found her with swollen
eyes and tears running down her cheeks.
"Come down." says she betwixt her
sobs and catching my hand in hers,
"come down and see. :"
So we went down stairs together, ]
wondering what now had happened,
and so into the dining hall. And there
found the scaffold pushed aside and the
ceiling open to view. Then, looking up,
I perceived that the figure bending ove1
the balcony bore Moll's own face, with
a most sweet, compassionate expression
in it as she looked down, such as I had
observed when she bent over Dario, hav.
ing brought him back to life. And this
it was that he must ever see when he
looks heavenward.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13
CHAPTER XXI.

"Tell me am wicked. Tell me I'm
FOOL" says Moll, clinging to my arm.
But had no feeling now but pity and
forgiveness, and so could only try to
comfort her, saying we would make
amends to Dario when we saw him next
az will go to him." says she. ''For
naught in the world would have him
yield to such a hear Hess fool as l am. I
know where he lodges"
"Well, when we have eaten"-
may. We must go this moment. l
cannot be at peace till 1 have asked him
to forgive. Come with me, or must go
Alone"
Yielding to her desire without fur
ther ado, 1 fetched my hat and cloak,
and she doing likewise we sailed out
forthwith. Taking the side path by
which Dario came and went habitually,
we reached little wicket gate, opening
from the path upon the highway, and
here, seeing man mending the road, we
asked him where we should find Anne
Fitch, as she was called with whom
the painter lodged. Pointing to a neat
cottage that stood by the wayside, with
in stones throw, he told us the "wise
woman" lived there. We crossed over
and knocked at the door, and voice
within bidding us come in we did so.
There was a very sweet, pleasant
smell i'll the room from the herbs that
hung in little parcels from the beams,
for this Anne Fitch was greatly skilled
in the use of simples, and had no equal
for curing fevers and the like in all the
country road. But besides this it was
said she could look into the future and
forecast events truer than any Egyptian.
There was a chair by the table, on which
were an empty bowl and some broken
bread, but the wise woman sat in the
chimney corner, bending over the hearth,
though the fire had burned out, and not
an ember glowed, And a strange little
elf she looked, being very wien and
small, with one shoulder higher than
the other, and face full of pain.
When I told her our business-for
Moll was too greatly moved to speak
the old woman pointed to the adjoining
room.
"He is goneW cries Moll, going to
the open door and peering within.
eyes, answers Anne Fitch. "Alas !"
"When did he go?" asks Moll.
can hour SINCE" answers the other.
whittier is he gomez"
81 am no witch. "
eat least you know which way he
went -
81 have not stirred from here since I
gave him his last meal"
Moll sank into the empty chair and
bowed her head in silence.
Anne Fitch, whose keen eyes had
never strayed from Moll since she first
entered the room, seeming as if they
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13
CHAPTER XII

"Whatr' cries Moll starting to her
feet. "He whom 1 have treated thus
isl And here she checked herself as If
recoiling, and for the first time from
false pretense. in q matter so near the
heart.
"He is your cousin, Richard God
win," says the wise woman. Simon
knew this from the first, for there were
letters showing it in the pocketbook he
found after the struggle in the park, but
for his own ends he kept that knowledge
secret until it fitted his ends to speak
Why your cousin did not reveal himself
to you may be more readily concluded
by you than twas by me"
"Why, tits clear enough" says Moll
Pressed by his necessities, he came
hither to claim assistance of his kins-
man, but finding he was dead and none
here but me his pride did shrink from
begging Of a mere girl that which he
might with justice have demanded from
a man. And then, for shame at being
handled like a rogue
"Surely there is something in the
blood of a gentleman that tempers his
spirit to height scarcely to be COM
pretended by men of meaner birth, I"
thinks l.
"When did Simon urge HIM to dis
pute my rights?" asks Moll
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13
A SET OF ROGUES.
W Continued from Sixth page.

reflection on 'her own figure, which had
grown marvellous slim in the waist since
she had her new stays from London, or
not l will not say, but certainly this re-
Spouse did exasperate her beyond all en-
durance, as we could see by her blanched
cheek and flashing eye; so, dismlsslng
him with a deep courtesy, she turns on
her heel without another word.
This foolish business, which was not
very creditable to our Moll's good sense,
though think she acted no worse than
other maids in her condition-for have
observed that young people do usually
lose their heads at the same time that
they lose their hearts-this foolish scene,
say, would gladly omit from my his
tory but that it completely changed our
destiny, for had these two parted with
fair words we should probably have
seen no more of Dario, and Don San
CHEFS prognostic had been realized.
Such trifes as these do influence our
career SO greatly as more serious acct
dents, our lives being fabric of events
that hang together by the slenderest
threads.
Unmoved from his design by Moll's
displeasure, Dario replaced his scaffold
before he left that day, and the next
morning he came to put the last touch
upon his work. Moll, being still in dudg-
con, would not go near him, but sat
brooding in corner Of her stateroom,
ready, as 1 perceived, to fly out in pas
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13

She turns on her heel aUithout another
lCOrd.
sion at any one who gave her the occa-
sion. Seeing this, Don Sanchez prudent
ly went forth for walk after dinner,
but 1, seeing that some one must settle
accounts with the painter for his work,
staid at home. And when I perceived
that he was collecting his materials to
go I went in to Moll.
my DEAR" says I, II believe Dario
is preparing to leave us"
"My congratulations to him." says
she, "for tits evident he is weary of be-
ing here.
MAY, won't You come in and see his
work now tits finished?"
mo. have no desire to see it. If
have lost my taste for Italian art, tits
through no fault of his. >"
"You will see him surely before he
goes"
"No Twill not give him another op-
portunity to presume upon my kind
ness"
"Why, to be sure, says 1, like fool,
"you have been little overfamiliar. "
Indeed" says she, firing up like a
cracker. "Then I think 'twould have
been kinder of ysu to give me hint of
it beforehand. However, it's a very good
excuse for treating him otherwise
now"
"Well, he must be paid for his work,
at any rate"
''Assuredly. If you have not money
enough, 1 will fetch it from my closet. p"
81 have it ready, and here is purse
for the purpose. The question is, how
much to put in it, ard such perspec-
tive as that could not be handsomely
= paid under so guineas.
"Then you will give him 100 and
say that I am exceedingly obliged to
him"
put this sum in the purse and went
out into the hall where Dario was wait
ing, with his basket Of brushes beside
him. In poor, bungling, stammering
fashion 1 delivered Moll's message and
made the best excuse could for deliv-
ering it in her stead.
He waited a moment or two after 1
had spoken, and then, says he, in low
voice:
Is that ALP"
"NayE,'g says 1, offering the purse,
1--WE do beg you to take this as''-
He stopped me, pushing my hand
aside.
81 have taken purse from Don San
Chez" says he. "There was more in it
than l needed. There are still some
pieces left. But as L would not affront
him by Offering to return them so beg
you will equally respect my feelings. l
undertook the task in gratitude, and it
hath been q work of love all through,
well paid for by the happiness that 1
have found here.
He stood musing little while, as if
he were debating with himself whether
he should seek to overcome Moll's re-
sentiment or not Then, raising his head
quickly, he says:
IT'S best so, maybe. Farewell, sir, -
giving me his hand. "Tell her, adds
he as we stand hand in hand at the
door, "that l can never forget her kind
ness and will ever pray for her happi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
Apologize.

He and she were walking along. The
writer intended at first to state that
they were walking along the beach. but
as the time for summer jokes is past he
is not going to commit himself in any
such fashion as that
1t sufioes that they were walking
along.
Suddenly he threw his arms around
her and gave her rapturous kiss upon
her blooming cheek, although he had "a
good deal of it himself, and then he
squeezed her with vigor, imprinting a
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and so
on kiss with passionate ardor.
She struggled to free herself, but not
too hard.
"Sirr' she finally exclaimed. 'you
forget yourselfP '
He dashed his hand to his head
by jinks, that's SC" he uttered
sharnefacedly. "Ialways had wretched
memory l''-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
Kissing.

The reason kissing is so pleasant, says
an osculatory expert of scientific tend
encies, is because the teeth, jawbones
and lips are full of nerves, and when
the lips Of persons meet an electric cur
rent is generated, and, chips in face
tious contemporary, you don't have to
have dynamo machine, nor battery
III the house, nor call box, nor but
ton to touch to ring up the central Office,
and there is no patent on it, and the
poorest person in the world can enjoy
the electric current better than the mil
honaire, and it never gets out of order.
Il Edison had invented kissing, it would
cost 500 year, like the telephone, and
then extra kissing would be charged up
extra, and if you didn't pay for it they
would take out your kissaphone and
disconnect you from the central Office.
-Winona Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
He Was So Ahead.

A man who looked like a farmer en-
tered a grocery store day or two ago
and said to the proprietor:
''Do you remember that came here
about four weeks ago?"
81 can't say that do. ;"
''Don't you remember Of changing a
$40 bill for man who asked you if you
didn't want barrel Of pickles?"
emo"
"Why, you must. There was wom-
an in here at the time who said you
cheated her on some butter. She said
the weight was short. That was what
led me to count my change over after
leaving the store, and I found
81 never saw you before, sir 70 inter
rupted the grocer.
Eyes, you didP'
"Don't attempt any tricks on me, fer
they won't work. If I gave you change,
it was all right"
"No, it wasn'tl I found it $2''-
go on You are a swindler p
Every we'll; good day. You gave mo
So too much, but if you can stand it 1
can. It'll pay for getting the mare shod
all around, and'I won't have anything
on my conscience pm. Quad in De-
troit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
Popu1ar nrisconception.

'There never was bigger fool no.
ton in the world said young Full
back, pulling on his padded trousers,
ethan this idea that football is dan
gerous game. These reports about boys
getting hurt" he continued, adjusting
his shin guards and fastening them on
securely. ''are half the time exaggera-
lions and half the time they're made
out of the whole cloth. A fellow simply
can't get injured in a game, - he pro-
ceeded, stufing quantity of wadding
about his hip bones and around his
shoulders and chest, 'unless he just
wants to injure himself and does it on
purpose. Now, I've been in dozen
games this year'-here he strapped his
ear guards round his head-"and with
the exception of a black eye now and
then, and one or two fingers dislocated,
or something like that, haven't had
the slightest injury.
Here the young man put on his nose
guard and mouth protector and shortly
afterward went forth to engage in a
harmless little game of football Chi
cage Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
Missing 1t bv Ten Feet.


was making visit to the sheriff of
a county in Alabama, whose residence
was part of the Jail, and he slung a
hammock for my benefit in the Jail
yard. Twas lying in it about midafter-
noon, smoking and swinging, when
heard peculiar noise below me. Turn
ing partly over so that could see the
earth, I saw it give way, and next mo-
ment the head of a man appeared above
the surface. He crawled quickly out
and a second appeared. and then I
caught on. They were prisoners in the
Jail and had tunneled from the corri-
dor, about so feet away, to this spot.
"Well?" I queried as the one who
was on his feet looked around him in
disguised way and then down at me.
''Drat my eyes, but we've dun gone
an dun it l'' he growled.
f'What?''
"Now you see, Joe!' he answered,
addressing his companion, who had on
ly his head above the surface, ''you IN
is blamed fulel You IN fggered that
we was outside the wall, and we've dun
fell short by ten feetP'
ST dun recokned I was k'rect, " said
the other.
eyes, you dun reckoned and fell off
ne mewll Purity, hain't It'll Four weeks
a-diggin and cum up ten feet short
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
RIGHT AFTER HOLIDAYS
The Fall Festival Project VIII Be
Taken Up.
EX-MAYOR COFRAN WARM SUPPORTER

Of the Proposed Plan to Bring $4,000
Visitors to Topeka for n Week-Mr.
COfran Says Original Features Are
Necessary in Order to Attract at
tentiOn-
The people are still thinking about the
Fall Festival and still satisfied shat it
will be success and the biggest thing
Topeka has ever had. The wideawake
citizens of Topeka approve the plans
suggested for entertainment and are
ready to lend their support to anything
new which will bring people to Topeka
and make them anxious to come back.
All are agreed that the entertainment
must he considerably unlike the ST. Louis
and Kansas City carnivals.
II am like the farmer" said ex- Mayor
r. L. Cofran, who, when asked what he
thought about the merits of certain ma
chine, said, 1 think it is good thing to
have 1t is that way with the Festival
1t is a good thing to have.
"We have had nothing to attract peo-
pie for a long time, and am satisfied
that this scheme will be a success. OF
course there must be something new. 1t
will not do to initiate the Priests of Pal
las. The people must have something
unlike anything ever seen elsewhere and
then they will come.
"The festival will advertise Topeka
more than anything else and people will
come from every where to attend the
festivities 1 have no suggestions for
entertainment. That should be left for
\ committee to arrange but I agree with
suggestions which have been made.
The idea-of having tableaux in the state
house grounds is an excellent one and it
will have the distinction of at least being
novel.
"Then the chariot race suggested by
Capt Joe Waters is all right Nothing
would be more exciting than race up
Kansas avenue. There are other things
which can be thought of when the time
comes and if the people take hold as
they should the occasion will be talked
about all over the country"
The festival idea will be taken up
again as soon as the holiday rush is over,
and work will begin Immediately upon it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
SKETCHES BY NJ. QUAD
Born on the East Side.

was looking into the window of q
Bowery confectionery>store when along
came ragged and barefooted girl of
about 10 and halted beside me. Present.
" I said to her:
Ibid you ever have a whole pound
of candy at once in your life?''
"Nawr' she replied as she cooked up
her chin and looked at me in an impu-
dent way.
Perhaps might buy you pound. :"
"Oh! OIL Say, Gully, W at ye drivin
at this time?''
Nothing in particular. All little
girls like candy, and I thought I'd buy
you some.
COIL Ye didP' she sneered. "I'm
one of the little girls, am L! Got any
objeck in givin me that sort of taffy,
old man?''
AREN'T your feet cold?' I asked,
after looking her over and noting that
she was tough one.
''Ye kin feel of that one and see ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
A SoulIess Skeptic.

''I'm tired" remarked the spectacu-
lar scoffer, ''of reading these stories
about the hayward son or the disoWned
daughter who invariably comes back on
Thanksgiving day or Christmas to be
received into the bosom of the family. -
''Why, - replied his wife, ''how hard
hearted you are! Surely you must be
touched by their repentance.
'Not as much as I'd like to be. I'd
be more impressed if they'd select some
day for coming back home when they
aren't dead sure the family is going to
have roast turkey for dinner. Wash
ingtOn Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-19
He Took a Drop.

A young man who seemed to be boil
ing over to do something smart was a
passenger On a Michigan avenue car
the other day. After racking his mas
sive brain for awhile he took out a sill
yer dollar and laid it on the seat and
took a seat opposite. The car soon stop
ped at a crossing to let on an old wom-
an with a market basket. She saw the
empty seat and the dollar, and it didn t
take her over 80 seconds to drop herself
into the place and the dollar into her
pocket
Excuse me, ma am" said the joker,
'fbut I've lost dollar. think left
1t on that seat. -
ST don't!'' she b1untly replied.
But I'm sure of it. Did you pick up
q dollar?''
''None o. your bizness, sir p
But all of US saw you pick it up,
ma am, and I can prove it was mine p"
Look a-here, young chapi" she said
as she put down her basket, eff it's a
row you want, you'll find me ready; I
allow no one to walk on meP'
"But, ma am, Left
"Come on, then'' she said as she
stood up and doubled up her fists. 81
am a peaceful woman, and want to
get along the easiest way, but if I must
fight, will!'
Everybody began to clap and laugh,
and the smart Alec took a drop off the
platform without asking what it was
all about.