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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its 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; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
It 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 offered.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
The Oldest Fish on Record.

According to Prof. Baird, there is
now in the imperial aquarium of St
Petersburg pike that first saw The
light at the close of the fifteenth cen.
fury. He still appears to be quite a
young fellow, Notwithstanding his cen.
turtles and his long captivity. The
professor says that there is nothing
very extraordinary in this case, and he
mentions several other fish in the same
aquarium that are more than $50 years
old Who knows but what the age OF
cells is still greater? Nobody can fix
the date of their nativity, and the
chances of their longevity, considering
their regular habits, are certainly as
good as those of the pike. What a
moral there is here for temperance
lecturersl Eels and pike never drink
whisky and never chew tobacco. There
is nothing like cold water making a
fellow live long.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
THE AMERICAN SOLE.
Common Along the Atlantic and
Gulf Coasts.
Ono Of the Queerest of Deep-sea Fishes
Curious Relation Between the Po-
sition of It's Eyes and It's Po-
sition In Swimming.

The American sole, sometimes called
the calico back or hog choker, is of the
same order as the founder, but not of
the same family, being more nearly re-
lated to the common sole of Europe.
1t is common all along the Atlantic
coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. 1t
runs up rivers in the spring, and is
often found in fresh water. Itsseldomi
exceeds seven inches in length, though
it grows sometimes to be ten inches
long. In color it's back varies from
dark gray or brown to almost black, is
often marked with darker spots, and is
plaided off with narrow lines of dark
brown. Its belly is ordinarily of
blush white with dark spots. Some
times both sides of the sole are dark,
sometimes the belly is part dark and
part light, and specimens have been
found all white, though this is very
rare.
In it's habits the sole is in many re-
spects similar to the founder. 1t likes
a muddy or sandy bottom, and lies
there buried. It comes out after food
and rushes at it's prey and seizes it
ike the founder. Frequently it at
taches itself to the side of rock and
to spiles and other smooth substances.
It's head is short and its fins extend
practically around the fat body.
It flattens itself against stone or
other fat object, and attaches itself by
excluding the air and water. 1t moves
up or down fat surface with an UNI
dulating motion, like it's swimming mo-
ton, lifting the middle portion of its
body, but keeping it's fms attached.
Sometimes in moving downward it
slides or drops two or three feet or
more at a time. It will sometimes
climb to the top of the water. 1t finds
upon the stones and spiles upon which
it climbs marine plant life and small
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07

cellent language. He wears a long,
snow-white, flowing beard, and his
step is still firm and elastic, his figure
almost erect.
Garland was messenger and powder
boy on the frigate Constitution when
Capt. Hull commanded "Old Ironsides."
The famous vessel left Boston August
IL, 1912, and shortly met and whipped
the British ship Guerrero, which had
just been taken by John Bull from the
French. The old man recites with
flashing eyes ''come all We rowing sail
ors bold" song which was written in
honor of that victory. He saw several
other sea fights before returning home
in 1914. In 1918 while cruising in the
eastern Atlantic his ship called at st.
Helena. He was permitted to accom-
pany the officers on visit ashore. In
telling of this experience the old man
says:
1.-THE officers received permission to
visit the emperor at his dwelling. He
met us at the entrance, dressed in his
customary uniform, but with the cross
of the commander of the Legion of
Honor as his only insignia. The i'm
perial host welcomed his friends cordial
ly, and spoke freely in very pleasant
way, without displaying any pride. It
is hard for me to remember the sub
ject of the conversation, but the vision
of the emperor standing at his door
and greeting his American visitors has
never escaped my memory. In 1920
saw him again on the island, and five
months afterward he, was dead"
Garland was masters mate on the
Brandywine in 1884, when Lafayette
paid his last visit to this country On
account of his being able to speak
French well he was detailed as an
escort to the distinguished Frenchman
on his tour of the country, and sailed
with him back to France. The old
sailor has shaken hands with all the
presidents from John Adams down to
Cleveland. Though ffty-eight years old
at the outbreak of the civil war, he en-.
listed in the First New York cavalry,
and, for conspicuous gallantry, was
commissioned major on the battlefield
by Gen. Mcclellan. He draws pen.
sion for services in the Mexican war,
and is decorated with four medals.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
WATERPROOF GARMENTS.
They Are Not Hygienic, and Should Be
Worn Only When Needed.

They Are Not Hygienic, and Should Be
Worn Only When Needed.
All waterproof garments have the
disadvantage of keeping the moisture
in as well as out, and when we re-
member that the insensible perspira-
ton of the skin amounts to about two
pounds per day we can but see how
rapid must be the accumulation of
this moisture when its escape is pre-
vented. If brisk exercise is taken I'M
der waterproof garment the perspira-
ton is increased, and the drenching
from the inside is often greater than
it would have been from the outside
moisture.
Even the best ventilated waterproof
garments do not obviate this difficulty.
If you are obliged to stand or sit out
of doors in a heavy rain, then you may
wisely protect yourself by wearing
your waterproof. If you are walk
ing, and the wind is too obstreperous
to admit of the use of an umbrella,
wear a waterproof, and make the best
of it; but in general put on wooden
wrap, and trust to a good, large UNI
brella to keep you dry.
Waterproof wraps are now made in
such pretty colors and fashions that
many ladies wear them when there is
only a hint of rain in the air. In
these cases, the "ounce of prevention"
IS the prelude to the pound of cure"
Waterproof, lined with linen, and
kind of wooden goods so woven as to
be nearly waterproof, are, for obvious
reasons, prefera ble.--Dr. Lucy Hall
Brown, in American Woman's Journal.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
Left and Right Limbs.

The Psychologists and scientists in
general have been making some curious
experiments in London, with view to
determine the relative length and
strength of fright" and cleft limbs
Fifty and nine-tenths per cent. of the
men measured had the right arm
stronger than the left; 1914 per cent.
had the two arms of equal length and
strength, and 1877 per cent. had the left
arm stronger than the right. Of women,
1919 per cent. had the right arm strong
er than the left, 24.5 per cent. had the
left stronger than the right. In order
to arrive at the average of length of
limbs, SO skeletons were measured. 25
of each sex. OF these % had the right
arm and left leg longer, six the left
arm and right leg, while in II cases all
the members were more or less equal
in length.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
WHY WE COOK FOOD.

Necessary Preparations for Its Reception
In the Stomach.
It would be absurd, in the face of the
tempting viands daily placed before
us, to say that food would be just as
well uncooked. Yet to render food
more palatable is the least of the rea-
sons for cooking it.
Man is endowed with teeth which
are suitable for the mastication of both
flesh and vegetable diet, and it would
need but comparatively short time
to accustom him to raw food of either
description. f
Unfortunately, or fortunately, as the
case may be, all food has to undergo
certain changes before it can be taken
into the system as nourishment. Part
of these changes take place in the
mouth when the food is subdivided by
the process of chewing or mastication,
and part are made by the action of the
juices of the stomach upon the mass.
Nourishment depends upon the COM
pletene8 with which food is changed
by the processes of mastication and di-
gestion. In this modern era, when ev-
erything is done with a rush, there is
great danger of throwing upon, the
stomach more work than it can do, by
the hasty and inefficient manner in
which we chew our food.
Here we perceive the great province
of cooking-that of an intermediary
agent between an insufficient mastica-
ton and an overtaxed stomach. In
other words, cooking may be made to
serve, to some degree, the purpose of
mastication. Potatoes cooked till they
are "mealy" need much less time and
chewing than those which are boiled
hard and ''soggy."
On the same principle, the pride Of
the housewife is in her Eight and
spongy'' bread. It is better than the
hard cakes of milled corn and water
that were relished in primeval days,
because the minute bubbles of air
which are Incorporated into the bread
facilitate it's digestion, without the la
Dor of long chewing which the cakes
demanded.
Meats and vegetables upon being
properly cooked, lose the covering in
side of which the fbers and grains Of
nutriment are hid, result which, it is
true, may be similarly obtained by
We must not suppose, however. that
it is easy to obtain proper results in
cooking, or to recognize them when
they have been obtained. Because an
article of food is palatable and slips in
to the stomach without effort, may be
the last of reasons why it should be
nutritious and easily taken care of by
the stomach.
Indeed, so great are the difficulties
In mastering the proper methods of
cooking, and SO important are such
methods to the human economy, that
the subject deserves to be treated rath-
er as a science than as an art.-Youth's
Companion.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07

It has come out with a skirt" SO to
speak. But the skirt, though it seems
to make it feminine, really makes it
more military than ever.
This is why: The full dress military
coat is padded and decidedly warm. As
result, comparatively little clothing
is worn under it, and the new collar is
meant to be worn without shirt and
without even being pinned to the coat.
1t is to be put on, the skirt is to be
spread gently over the manly Shout
ders, and the coat buttoned up. Then.
says the inventor, everything will be
lovely.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
A Means Of Disinfectinr Wells.

Heavy rains are apt to contaminate
wells and spread disease, hence DR..
Franck has brought under the notice
of the Polytechnic society Of Berlin a
means of disinfecting wells, which he
employs with success. 1t consists in
suspending in the mouth of the well an
earthenware dish containing fifty to
one hundred grammes Ia gramme is
about fifteen grains) of bromine, which,
being volatile in air, forms dense
vapor that fills the well, and is absorbed
by the water, thus disinfecting it. The
water, it is true, has slight taste of
bromine for time, but is wholesome
enough. London Globe. 81 &
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worms and minute crustaceans, upon
which it feeds
The American sole has no CONNER
cial value, because it is very thin and
there isn't much flesh on it. Fisher
men, says the New York Sun, some
times eat it, but usually they throw it
away. There are in North America
twenty-four genera of founders, in
Guiding more than sixty species; of
soles there are at least a dozen spe-
cies. A remarkable characteristic of
the sole, and it is characteristic that
is common to all members of the houn-
der family also, is that it starts in life
with bilateral eyes, that is, with one
eye on each side of its head, like most
other fishes.
At that period it swims very nearly
on edge, like other fishes, but even
then it has little tilt, as though ma
ture were preparing it for what is to
come. AS the fish grows older one of
two things happens: Either one of its
eyes passes through the skull to the
opposite side of the head, or it rotates
around the skull on the outside and
joins it's fellow in that way; generally
it goes around. AS the eye goes around
the angle at which the fish swims in
creases until, when the moving eye has
found it's place beside the other eye,
the fish is swimming fat on it's belly,
and thus it stays for life. While it is
swimming on edge it is all white, but
when it settles down in life its back
gets dark. Usually the founder has
an eye on each side of it's head until it
is about three-quarters of an inch in
length.
If the eye goes through the head, it
just turns round, finds its way through
crevice in the skull, and energies on
the other side, pointing outward. If
the eye goes around it moves, held by
its attachment, in depression or chan
mel on the outside of the head until it
gets into place. Fish have been caught
with the moving eye at every point of
the circuit of the skull. Sometimes,
though not often, the eye stops it's
travels on the top or edge of the skull.
A popularity of the founders eyes
is that the fish can move them indie
pendently, and it can raise them up
out of their sockets the better to look
about with them
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
PlTH AND POINT.

neal.-HamS horn.
-"You were embarrassed when you
proposed to me, George, were you
not?" Eyes, owed over $50, 000."-
Life.
II love to swing upon the gate.
Say, just at eventide;
That is, If it will bear the weight
OF some one else beside.
N. Y. Herald.
-"Cholly shows great lack of self
confidence" said one friend. YES
And right there he shows a great
abundance of good judgment. "-Wash-
ington Star. 4st{ 8l
Hello. Bingley, how did the doc
tor succeed in breaking up your fever?"
Blngley-"Oh, easy enough; he, pre-
scented his bill, and had chill in if
cen minutes.
Magistrate evidence shows
that you threw a stone at the man"
Mrs. McDuff-'An' it shows more than
that, yer honor. It shows that hit
him. Tit bits.
SLOW does Maud like life in the
country?" First rate She's trim
ming grape vines this week." Really?
What with = ribbon?" - Illustrated
Fashion Review.
-Smallwort-"Well, have to hunt
up another cook. Our latest one left
yesterday" Ford-''Did she basely
desert you for gold?" mo. Copper"
Pittsburgh acknowledgement.
my expenditures never exceed
my receipts" said Hawkins. milne
do" sighed Wilkins. ''In fact, am
very much afraid I shall never have
any receipts for some of my last years
expenditures" -Harper's Bazaar.
"A little girl heard that people were
made of dust, and, after watching
heaps and columns of it eddying about
the street, exclaimed: ''Oh, mamma, I
just thought there was going to be an
other little girl. Boston Transcript.
why, father" cried the young
man, earnestly. "she's worth her weight
in gold" THAT may be-" the million
aire carefully returned, ''but even in
that case you will bear in mind she
wouldn't foot up above thirty-fve or
forty thousand dollars. "-Rockland
Tribune.
I'm the Dark.-Clara-''I met Mr..
Tutter on the train the other day. just
before we got to long tunnel" Maude
Yes, so he told me-" Clara-"Oh,
did hep" What did the dear boy say
about it?" Maude-''He said he would
rather kiss you in a tunnel than any
where else. IN. Y. Herald.
Easily Remedied. Say" said the
city editor, lit seems to me that this
of yours about showing a
clean pair of heels is not just the thing
in a bicycle race" ''All right" an
swered the lazy reporter. "Just stick
in W. and make it a clean pair of
wheels. Cincinnati Tribune.
An Aquarelle. They were IN q
little boat on the great Mississippi
''The river is rising" she said, as she
looked at the water. YES" he re-
sponded. as he mopped his brow, ''and
it is going down at the same time" !
He then stopped trying to row up
stream and let the boat float. Detroit |
Free Press. of
-"Sometimes, john" said Brash-
kins' wife, II do get little discour-
aged, and think you are rather hard to
please" you don't say SOP was the
rejoinder. ''Yes. But 1 |
must admit there is one thing you
never found fault WITH What is |
,hat?" 1.-THE way I look when l wear
ny last years clothes. Washington
Star tlpa
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
A sure Thing.

Exasperated Husban2--I am tired OF
this everlasting quarreling. I've no
tionbf jumping off the dock.
Provoking Wife-O, don't do that!
You may be rescued and brought to
again. Say! what's the matter with
getting employment in an electric
light company, or umpiring a baseball
game? You want something that can
be relied on.-Texas Siftings.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
HEARD NAPOLEON TALK.
Interesting "Reminiscences of n Gallant
Veteran of the Army.

Interesting "Reminiscences of Gallant
Veteran of the Army.
IT the visitor to the Milwaukee SOL
diers' and sailors home is in good luck
he may chance to get into conversation
with man who can boast of having
seen the great Napoleon in captivity on
the lonely rock of St. Helena. This
veteran is William FL. Garland, who is
now ninety-three years of age. In his
early boyhood, while serving as mes
senger on United States frigate, he
visited st. Helena, and while there saw
the wonderful little Corsican and heard
him speak. Garland is small, we'll
knit, hardy-framed man. His eyes are
full Of fire, and in conversation he is
quick and incisive and makes use of ex-
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
NOT FOR THE LADIES.

Despite Its Looks, This Is q Collar for q
Military Organization.
White collars are worn with full uni.
form in almost every regiment of the
New York national guard. In some
regiments the style of collar is pre-.
scTibed; in others it is not; but only
one regiment has its own especial style.
1t is a strictly military collar, rather
ugly unless worn with uniform coat:
but in it's latest form it resembles
strongly the collars that women wear
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
News In Brief.

The body of an unknown suicide was
discovered in the river near Fort Smell
ling. The remains were those of a man
about IS years Of age, roughly dressed.
There was a rope about the neck and
arms, and at the end of it a rock weigh
ing about 20 pounds.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has granted to the express
companies doing business IN Minnesota
an extension of time of 10 days in which
to file a report with the commission
showing the lines of road in the state
upon which each company operates,
and a copy of all tariffs and special
rules in force in the state of Minnesota,
with the classification and such rules
and regulations as govern in the trans
action of business.
j. w. Nash, one of the wardens of
the state game and fish commission,
has been looking up violations of the
state game and fish laws about Winona
and seeing that some of their provisions
are complied with. He has ordered
fsh-ways to be built over dams at Roll
lingstone and Pickwick. He also cap
tured trout line $50 feet long in the
Mississippi.
Fl. R. Welch and Gustav Koch were
fined at Sank Rapids for shooting two
prairie chickens. The penalty and costs
amounted to about $38.
Adam Decker, an old and esteemed
citizen of st. Paul. is dead. He estab-
lished a hardware business in that city
in 1859.
D. M. Mickey and Frank Anthony,
civil engineers, are surveying a railroad
to run from point on the ST. Louis
river below Iron Junction up into town
ship SO, range 10. The road is to be
built by the C. N. Nelson Lumber
Company, who will carry on extensive
lum bering business next winter with
camps located one and half miles
west of Mountain Iron.
James j. Hill has presented to the
Minnesota Historical society so copies
of Rev. William Wilkinson's book,
minnesota Forest Fires
Anoka narrowly missed serious con-
f1agration. Fire started in Goodrich &
Jennings prescription room, where
carbolic acid crystals were being melt
ed. BY hard work the blaze was put
out. Labels on the ether bottles were
burned off, and other as terrible ex-
plosives were pretty well warmed.
How they escaped an explosion and a
serious fire is mystery.
Gov. Clough has written letter to.
the Duluth & Iron Range Railway peo-
pie declining to sign the deeds for state
land to be given to the company until
the deeds have first been approved by
the state auditor and certificate &C
companies them from the auditor.
When the Office of the internal rev.
enue collector at st Paul closed July 81
there had been reported paid from all
points of the state, 1915 retail liquor
licenses, of which $50 were issued in st.
Paul and 395 in Minneapolis. Retail
malt dealers have taken out 215 licenses,
wholesale malt liquor dealers 157, and
Wholesale liquor dealers 3d.
Charles Walker, in Jail at Faribault
for stealing, dug hole through the
roof in broad day light and escaped.
Charles Esch bauck, who just finished
a three year sentence at Saltwater for
horsestealing. has been taken to Ohio,
where an Indictment for the same Of
tense awaits him.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
A CHASTITY Spectre

Diseases ever, but in no form is it more to be
dreaded than in that of the formidable mall
aides which attack the kidneys and bladder.
Bright's disease, diabetes and gravel may
neys is rectifed in time with Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, sovereign also in cases of
rheumatism, dyspepsia, constipation, ma
laria, biliousness and nervousness.
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GREAT BOOK FREE.

When DR.. R. v. Pierce, of Buffalo, N Y,
published the first edition of his work, The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
he announced that after 68o,o copies had
been sold at the regular price, ST. SO per
copy, the profit on which would repay him
for the great amount of labor and money
expended in producing it, he would dis
tribute the next half million free. AS this
number of copies has already been sold, he
is now distributing, absolutely free, 5000
pIese, interest rs COUPON ine Ds and iV Val.
; liable o common arer No. 40 sense med
the. recipient only being required to mail
to him, at the above address, this little
COUPON with twenty-one (2I) cents in one
cent stamps to pay for postage and pack
ing only, and the book will be sent by mail.
1t is veritable medical library, complete
in one volume. 1t contains over 1000 pag3s
and more than 900 illustrations. The Free
Edition is precisely the same as those sold
at s.. so except only that the books are
bound in strong MANILA paper covers in
stead of cloth. Send NOW before all are
given away. They are going off rapidly.
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TAG Thin Ones won.

Almost without exception the Amer.
SCAN leaders in the revolutionary war
were thin, while the British generals
were stout men.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07
Germans Are Kind to R,rds.

The German housebuilders always
contrive to leave small fat place on
the roof of each house for birds to rest
and build on.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-08-07

FLOWERS distilled, though they with win
ter meet, lose but their show; their sub
stance still lives Shakespeare