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Morris tribune., 1896-08-12
NIB. Lord & e.. have inst racairal

M. B. Lord & Co, have just received
into their warehouse their Irvine for
this seasons sale. 1t consists of
Sisal, Standard and pure Manila,
and has all been expressly manufac-
tured for them by the Columbia
Cordage Co. Farmers will find it to
their advantage to call and examine
this twine before buying elsewhere.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12


Mrs. Mary Lease spoAe in Alexan-
dria the day preceding Nelson. Her
EaDiect was a constant TRADE and
Abuse of Hon. Nelson and Kisses
wsrs about as frequent AS applause.
She~ had large auc'ience as well as
a large grasp, as We arc informed she
4Ook all the gate receipts. and did
not "divy" up as agr"ad. Although
aha is a fine orator, nel audience was
diagusted win n,sr 'a,,lcs The old
sayle way Of holdIa,, IN anoience by
n0uslng an OpgJi - IS ~ lake III
ahsse days u -uucdflon and retlne-
msnt. People u facts, figures aud
sOand sense, efa likewise sound
money. Nelsop IN his speech abused
nobody and plea. u his hearers.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Free Trade Bryan will be struck
with a landslide next November and
hurled 80 deep that it will take sew
Eal generations to dig him out.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

The silver mine owners of Cold
Springs, Col, alone have contributed
100000 toward the expenses of the
silver campaign, and yet the silverites
claim that the mine owners will not
be benefited if silver wins.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

E. j. Jones has just added a COM
plete stock furniture to his hardware
and any one wishing anything in that
line would do well to examine his
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12
To Cleanse the system

Efectually yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood is impure or
sluggish, to permanently cure habitual
constipation, to awaken the kidneys and
liver to ahealthy activity, without irri-
tating or weakening them, to dispel
headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of
Figs.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

j. r. Kruger carries a complete
line of paints, oils, varnishes and
Brushes, and at very reasonable
prices.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

On motion the sw4 of section Is,
123, "A, was raised to the assessed
value of the other land in the section.
Adjourned to 10 q. m. Tuesday.
Tuesday, 10 a. m. board met ac-
cording to adjournment; all MEM
bers present.
Equalizing real values was esti-
mated. After taking into considera
ton the actions of several Of the older
and richer counties in the state, in
reducing their valuation, on motion it
was voted to reduce all real estate in
the county fifteen per cent.
The equalizing of the personal
property was then taken up, and
changes made as follows:
Town Of
Hodges, horses, yrs old, raised 5 per cent.
wagons & carriages z 20
FramnaS, hogs. $50: raised l0O
g sewing machines, 80
!" melodians, organs, so
Adjourned to half past p. m.
Afternoon session; all present.
Swan Lake, hogs. 80. raised so per cent.
wagons. ......... IL
6 organs ......... reduced 20
Horton, horses, yrs old, s. Is
" hogs ~. raised 100 :"
:. wagons, carriages, 70
organs ........... 30
agricultural ma
chinery .......... 20
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Marquis Levin, the eye specialist,
will be at Krueger's drug store Aug.
ID, Ia and Is.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Rocky Mountain Tea cure consti-
patton, sick headache, gives strength,
new life. Hulburd & Co.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Every losing campaign has scape-
gpat, but he is not usually trotted out
until after election. Inreyersing this
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

The stock of merchandise of j. e.
| DanielSOn was raised to. . 5000 OK
The stock of merchandise of j. D.
Good was raised to. 49,. 2,40O OF
| The stock of merchandise of Oh
s sen, Gutter, Healy Co. was
The ei Standard S oil Co.'S. tanks we're S -
raised to. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000 0C
Adjourned.
Attest: Fl. L. SM1TH,
N. r. SPURR, Chairman
Secretary.
st. Paul Paint and Color Co. g
ready-mixed paint at j. R. Krueger's.
Absolutely guaranteed.
Paints, oils and varnishes, always
fresh and new and a complete stock
at E. j. Jones'.
A complete stock of refrigerstors,
ice cream freezers, water coolers and
water filters kept constantly on hand
at E. J, Jones'.
Buy your butter in jars and see
that it is stamped M. G. A. If you
have never tried it you don't know
what good butter is. ct
In order to take comfort ham,
mock is indispensable. Kruger can
save you money on hammocks.
If you need any wall paper, go to
J. r. Kruger. He will save you
money.
Farmers should bear in mind that
E. j. Jones' is the place to buy their
machine oil.
The smoothest and strongest Bind
ing Irvine now on the market is the
Plymouth goods. For sale at Stew
arts.
Go to S. Stewart for your fence
posts and fence wire. Glidden paint
ed only 81 cents per pound.
Plymouth Manila and Sisal Bind,
ing Twines for sale at Stewards.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Adjourned to 10 o'clock a. m.
Wednesday.
Wednesday, 10 a. M, board met;
all members present, and resumed the
equalizing of personal property
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

A complete stock of refrigerators,
ice cream freezers, water coolers and
water filters kept constantly on hand
at E. J, Jones'.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

st. Paul Paint and Color Co.'s
ready-mixed paint at j. r. Krueger's.
Absolutely guaranteed.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Paints, oils and varnishes, always
fresh and new and a complete stock
at E. j. Jones'.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Buy your butter in jars and see
that it is stamped M. G. A. If you
have never tried it you don't know
what good butter is, 2t
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

Farmers should bear in mind that
E. j. Jones' is the place to buy their
machine oil.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

In order to take comfort a ham,
mock is indispensable. Kruger can
save you money on hammocks.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-12

If you need any wall paper, go to
J. r. Kruger. He will save you
money.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15
Race Tendency Is to Build
Up Both Brain and Body
San Francisco Doctors Give Their Views on
the Comparative Mental and Plus
ical Development Of Mankind

Tkere seems to be no doubt at ali that
humanity is becoming more Intellectual,
but the Sorosis Club of New York has re-
Gently been discussing the question as to
whether, while the race is developing
mentally, it is deteriorating physically.
Even to those persons who place the pre-
cedence of mental endowments over physi-'
cal at the highest notch this is serious
problem, for the body is the foundation
apa the superstructure will be sure to be
no stronger than the base. The carica-.
lures seen in the comic papers of the
Boston boy with evidently more head
than health, if they tell OF conditions
existing anywhere outside of Imagination,
should make laughter lead to reformation.
1t may reasonably be supposed that as
humanity advances in experience all the
best will be culied from the teachings of
past civilizations, and that Spartan
strength and endurance and Greek grace
and beauty of body will be more and more
a part of the perfections of the coming
race. When our leading psychologists
teach US that advancement to be
permanent must be attained by the care
and training of both mind and body in
harmony, we may set down the anticipa-
ton OF the men OF the future centuries
having colossal heads and frail bodies as
mere nightmare.
Speaking OF this discussion DR.. w. S.
Thorne, ex-president of the State Medical
Association, mentioned the poet Pope and
the statesman and historian, Alexander
STEPHENS of Georgia, as examples of how
great brain can be sustained by very
feeble body. But the doctor points out
that these examples do not properly enter
into the argument; the question is of the
race and such individuals are not among
the links that knit the generations each to
each. They are very interesting studies of
something abnormal. but the variation
from the type is not perpetuated. Such
men have no children, or if they do the
second generation is very feeble of both
mind and body, and the race goes on un-
changed by their advent into the world.
DIR. Thorne is decidedly of the opinion
that bodily strength is not being sacrificed
in the effort 10 build up the brains of
young Americans. In fact, he holds that
while there are exceptions, such as the
ones just cited, men considered as a race
cannot possibly have highly developed
minds without fine physiques. He says:
"The general result of physical training
in our schools and colleges and gymnasia
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

before breakfast and that it has a fine
erect IN developing the chest.
LII Will be interesting to note that three
are two reasons given why the proposition
under discussion is contradietorv Dr
Thorne says the race could not retroprade
physically while il went forward mentally.
because it takes vigorous BODY to sustain
good mental stature, and DR.. Anderson
thinks the proposition contains a cont tra-
alctlon, because just in proportion as peo-
pie become intellectual will they use their
lntellects to improve their bodies.
Dr. Anderson says that Max Nordau.
In his fears about modern degeneracy. is
mistaken and that his philosophy is false.
he thinks that man must have dyspepsia
or something seriously wrong with him,
because no man thoroughly sound would
look out upon the world through such
pesslmlstic spectacles.
DIR. w. F. McNutt says that he has not
examined recent statistics on the subject.
but he thinks it not improbable that the
general Vitality of the race has been
lowered in modern times by the skillful
prolongatlon of the lives OF ,consump-
tiVes and other seriously unsound per-
sons. This interference with natures
sterner methods OF promptly cutting
OH the weak enables the weakened
individuals to perpetuate and multi
ply their lowered vitality and has
a large effect on the aggregate fig
ures, SO that where the physicians s
power pulls the race up in. one way it
pulls 1t down in another. There is no
doubt, he says, that the average duration
OF lie is in modern times much longer
than it was. He doubts if modern man
has as much endurance and power to
resist disease as formerly. If. however,
the consumptiges and such be eIimin-
mated from the calculation, and only
those Of the race considered who furnish
a good foundation for progress to build
upon, he believes that we are improving
physically, mentally and morally.
So, if Sorosis Will listen to the wisdom
of San Francisco she will decide her
problem with a. hopeful. happy answer.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Curious Case Of Skin-Grafting at San Rafael
Yards Of Cutice Have Been Gut From ObIiging T
Obliterate a Little Girls Terrible Burns

Over at San Rafael lives a bright little
girl who for year past has been undergo
ing the tortures of skin-grajting, and who
for another year must almost weekly
suffer through the same ordeal.
year ago Jessie Proudfoot, the daugh-
ter of well-known umber-dealer over
there, invited mum Der of her friends into
the yard OF her fathers residence to play.
bonfire seemed the most enjoyable way
OF passing the time, and a merry blaze
was soon burning and, in their frolics
about the fire, some one pushed Jessie
into the flames, and in an instant her
clothes were burning.
The screams of her compa anions brought
assistance and the clothes were torn from
her body, but not before her hip and right
side were so badly scorched that the skin
came away in great patches.
For time the girls life was despaired
OF, but she mended slowly and was finally
out OF danger, though the little body bore
fearful evidences of the fire.
1t was found that one place on her right
side, 16 inches long by inches wide.
would not heal and her parents were ad-
vised that she would never be well and
comfortable unless skin-grafting was re-
sorted to.
There being no alternative it was de-
cided to begin operations at once, and a
search was begun for friends who were
willing to part with a portion OF their
cuticle to help out the little sufferer
As soon as it became known what was
wanted there were plenty of volunteers,
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
DEVICE FOR CLEANING SHIPS BOTTOMS.

would be matter of small difficulty to do
so. lnasmuch as gilded chairs are all the
ashton nowadays this latter idea will un-
questionaby prove very popular.
1t always taxes the brain of the woman
who loves to fill her home with ornaments
10 conceive a sort that no one else has, or
at least that few possess. Possibly this is
why the bicycle girl so promptly decided
TO paint the pedals with the golden mix
ture, fasten long ribbons to them and then
hang them from the lambrequins. The
effect is charming, and the tasteful use of
ribbon is the only absolute requirement
10 bring about the desired result.
Think of the round and stabbed crank of
spring steel being used as parlor orna-
ment! Yet it is, and it makes very pretty
one, too, only it has to be used in con-
junction with others just like it. When
giided and tackled upon a wall in the form
OF letter ''S,'' this company of cranks
presents a very attractive appearance.
Then there is the chain. This is one of
those parts OF the bicycle which can be
put to a dozen different uses in decorative
form. For instance, carved and fastened
in the form of a hook, it will serve as an
admirable article upon which the tennis
and there are plenty of other ways to
make it both useful and ornamental. The
wheel itself, minus the tire, of course,
when gilded and smartly decorated with
ribbon, gives a very unique effect to the
wall on which it is placed, and causes the
room to present anything but stiff ap-
pearance. II appears almost shot to the
core with sunshine.
There is, perhaps, no feature of the biz
cycle, when considered from decorative
standpoint, that can be utilized in a more
attractive manner than the lamp. A COL
lection of lamps by cyclists is something
OF fad by itself, but the decoration of the
walls OF a room with them might at first
be considered an impossible task. 1t is,
however, not only not i'm possible, but de-
lightful in effect. There are so many
kinds of lamps nowadays that they are
discarded much sooner than they used to
be, for the simple reason that the cyclist
is inclined to become tired OF one kind
and sigh for another.
So it is that the bicycle girl who deco
rates may have infinite variety of lamps.
One particularly fetching fashion that is
popular with her, in the matter Of lamps,
is to arrange them in rough imitation OF a
swan Inside each lamp wax candle is
placed. In the evening these candles are
lighted, and the effect TO the eye is charm
ing indeed. OF course every lamp is gilded.
The glass in the lamps varies in color.
sometimes red, occasionally green, and
once in while white. OF course this TACT
Gpust be kept in view by the young woman
When arranging the decoration. The varie-
gated coiors which shine out when the
lamps are lit give most curious effect
and almost puzzle the eye, so unique is
the combination. It looks for all the
world just as the colored signal lights of
steamer, arranged one above the other,
would appear.
There have been ali sorts OF fads con-
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

and within short time the first piece of
skin was placed on the raw flesh. Some OF
those who came forward 10 assist in max
ing the little girl whole were ladies, but
the large majority were men. and each IN
turn presents himself or herself for the
doctors knife, having the consolation of
knowing that while they may suffer some
discomfort and pain the object of their
self-saorifice is being carried out slowly
but surely.
The most curious feature of the case is
the amount of skin that must be cut from
the obliging friends before the terrible
burn is obIiterated.
The place to be healed is measured by
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
The Bicycle Girl and
Her Last Seasons Wheel
She Jakes 1t Apart Paints and Polishes 1t
and Then Makes 1t Serve for
Decorative Purposes

ceiyed for which the bicycle is responsl-
BILE, but none that have been really more
charming than this or more popular than
this bids fair to be. The possibility OF THIS
idea being adopted by persons with both
long and short purses results from the
fact that there is absolutely no market
for old bicycles at present. Not so very
long ago the decrepit bike was repaired
and sold as a second. hand wheel 10 per-
sons of small means who could IN 10
other way purchase machine. NOW,
however, that very fair bicycle can be
bought first hand at $50 the old machines
are at a discount, and the bicycle col
lector. that is, the girl who buys the old
machine and then tears it 10 pieces, pays
about what she likes.
To effect this transformation the up-to-
date bicycle girl gets up a bicycle
decorating house party" She invites her
friends and tells them to come prepared
to work. Old gloves are drawn on and
aprons hunted up and thus attired the
girls look full of business. Then the con-
demned bicycle is brought UP from the
cellario be dissected. One girl is made
the glider and given two ~camels hair
brushes-one for the finer work in hand
and the other to lay the gold paint
on thick. Another girl takes the
wrench and attacks the nuts. The
others bring a stepladder and
basket of pretty hued ribbons. Then the
work of demolition OF the old and the re-
construction of the golden mural wheel
begins. All the girls take part in plan
ming the decoration. What does not sug-
gest itself to one does to another, and the
symposium of ideas is responsible for
much prettier effect than single bicycle
girl could work out. The seat is carefully
gilded and encircled with vide blue rib
bon. 1t is then hung in corner of the
room. 1t presents an odd but pleasing
appearance, and catches the eye of the
visitor. This bizarre effect is sought after
and the bicycle parts readily lend them
selves to it.
The bicycle tires are bathed in gold and
inflated. Then an oval picture is robbed
of Its old-fashioned walnut frame and set
IN the golden circlet. Should the bicycle
girls small brother investigate its infa-
ton with pin, the effect would collapse,
but she wisely forestalls his arts by
hanging it high. The balls from the bear
ings are polished and placed in the pin
tray as souvenirs.
So the golden mural wheel is wrought
by the bicycle girl.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
THE LATEST IN HoRsEsHoEING.
is eminently in the direction of race in


is eminently in the direction of race inn
provement
"Itenables the naturally weak and feeble
to acquire an academic training without
physical degeneracy, which under no other
conditions would be possible. 1t is we'll
established belief among our best medical
thinkers that mental development and
physical training should go band in hand,
and the experience of the last decade
amply iustifies this belief.''
In this connection the doctor calls atten-
tion to the practice of Gladstone in main
tanning himself in splendid physical con-
dition by means of regular exercise, and
says that without such a body his vast
and iong-sustained brain work could not
have been accomplished.
The directors of our educational insti-
tutions are very careful to keep in check
the tendency of some students to GO to ex.
cess, either in the way of becoming book
worms or making athletics the all in all of
life.
That our race is degenerating ply
he denies and states: "In a recent
visit to the Vatican museum in Rome I
carefully noted the size of many of
the ancient Roman and Greek busts found
there, and as the size of the head bears
very close relation to the size of the body,
it is apparent that in physical develop
ment these classical races did not exceed,
or even equal, the average of the present
Anglo-Saxon."
Speaking of the advantages of the har-
monious training of both mind and body,
DR.. Thorne quotes Du Bois Raymond, the
greatest of living Psychologists, as saying
"that exact, systematic and sustained
movements of the muscles actually in
crease the gray matter of the brain and
spinal column" That improvement of
the mind also has a powerful effect in
improving physical health is as well
known, and has recently been distinctly
observed in the noted improvement of the
general health of the children now being
trained in the Illinois asylum for the
feeble- minded.
These unfortunates, the doctor says,
can not only be improved, but they can be
so developed by physical and mental
aiming as to become responsible and
self-sustaining citizens.
DR.. Winslow Andersen is another OF our
prominent physicians who does not think
there is anything in the outlook to make
Us fear that the body will not keep pace
with the mind in the evolution of the race.
He says, however, that up to very recent
time in cur history, say twenty years ago,
there was great danger of the evil now be-
ing discussed by Sorosis. Now the train
ers of youth all over the land understand
she peril OF the neglect of systematic exer-
else in the schools and colleges, and by the
present methods the boys and girls will
grow up with healthy bodies and minds.
The doctor is great believer in 'mens
sana In corpore sano" and speaks of the
fine physiques of the English. He says
that even the ladies over there think moth
ing OF ten-mile walk before breakfast as
constitutional. He says that while at
college he used to take two hours row
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Falls of the Quinaut in the Olympic Mountains
adse for the Hunter and the Artist in the Great but Lift
Known Range Of the Far Northwest
A Paradise

The portion of the State OF Washington
embraced in its northwest division and
bounded by the ocean and Puget Sound
constitutes an area of which less is posi-
lively known than that of any other of
equal magnitude within the limits of the
United States. The section involves 10000
square miles, only small portion of
which has been explored. The land bor-
dering upon the sound and the ocean is
fairly well known to fishermen and hunt
ers, but OF the great interior little is
known.
The Olympic range of mountains, some
of them 10000 feet in elevation, forms the
dividing line between the cas-, and the
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
How a Letter Nav Be Recalled

Ihe pub lie is not as familiar with its
privileges about postal matters as might
be supposed. Many times people would
like to recall a letter after it has neen
mailed. This can be done, even if the let.
ter has reached the postoffice at its des-
tination. At every postoffice there are
what are called Withdrawal blanks.n On
application they will be furnished and
when deposit is made to cover the or.
pense, the postmaster will telegram to
the postmaster at the Iatter's destination
asking that it be promptly returned. The
applicant first signs this agreement: at
is hereby agreed that. if the letter is re-.
turned to me. will protect you from anv
and all claims made agains, you for
such return, and will indemnify you for
any loss you may sustain by reason of such
action. And I herewith deposit s. to
cover all expenses incurred and will de.
liver to you the envelope of the letter re-
turned" In many cases persons have
made remittances TO fraud ulent parties or
firms, not learning their true
character until after the letter had gone
and have succeeded in recalling them.
There is an instance where Kansas City
merchant had rcEitted dishonest travel
ing man draft for $l75. and by means of
withdrawal rescued the draft Just in time.
Globe Democrat.