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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Ar1ERICAN "HOGS."

The Spaniards call the Americans
"hogs" but it is not to revile the
Spaniards that we write this editorial.
The intention of the Legislators who
passed the internal revenue law was
to distribute the burden over all clas-
ses of people and all Of kinds instru-
ments. Along with the rest, freight
receipts and express receipts were to
be taxed one cent and the tax was to
be paid by the express company. But
the company can make the shipper
pay by increasing the charges and
that is just the case that is being
tried at present between the Western
Wheel Works of Chicago and the
United States Express Go.
Following is the full text of the
portion of the bill referred to. By no
manner or means can it be read to
make any other person than the ex-
press company pay the tax.
express and freight: It shall be
the duty Of every railroad or steam
boat company, carrier, express COM
pany, or corporation or person whose
occupation is to act as such, to issue
to the shipper or consignor, or his
agent, or person from whom any
goods are accepted for transportation
bill of lading, manifest, or other
evidence of receipt and forwarding
for each shipment received for car
riage and transportation, whether in
bulk or in boxes, bales, packages,
bundles, or not so inclosed or includ-
ed: and there shall be duly attached
and cancelled, as is in this act provid-
ed to each of said bills of lading,
manifests, or other memorandum, and
to each duplicate thereof, a stamp of
value of l cent"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
A New Confidence Game

Some nice, we'll dressed, good ap-
pearing canvassers dropped down on
Mower county last week, says an ex-
change, and began canvassinga mong
the farmers for the sale of binding
Irvine. They sympathized with the
farmers over the high price Of Irvine
and represented that they would sell
it for six cents delivered at. Austin
and sugar at four cents per pound
also delivered at Austin. AS condi-
ton for them to furnish the Irvine
and sugar at those prices, they repre-
seDted that their firm had large
bankrupt stock of gold watches which
they had bought at a great sacrifice and
we're selling at $40. They had their
watches with them as they could
carry them in small comp ass and be-
fore the farmers order for Irvine
could be taken, he must take the
watch, when their order for Irvine or
sugar would be forwarded to Cbicigo
and would be shipped in a car to
Austin to be delivered at certain
date, About fifty farmers are report
ed to have gone into this scheme, and
on the day appointed appeared in
Austin with teams to take out their
Irvine and sugar. But they found no
Irvine or sugar there for delivery, and
they have not been able to find any
since. The result is that the farmers
have some imitation gold watches
and no Irvine or sugar. In several
instances farmers who had already
given their orders for Irvine, cancelled
them and roasted the local dealers for
asking such exhorbitant prices. Still
the world moves and still such games
will be played
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

We have heard a great deal about
the smashing of the Republican ma
chine at the late convention, but time
will probably show that it was simply
given new engineer.-Northfeld
Independent.
The above is a pointer for the rank
and fileof the Republican party. There
must be strong patty organization,
but the voters need not become so
subservient that they are simply ma
chimes doing the will of boss.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Valiant Company.

(By Litchf1e1d Genius.)
We're valiant company; to all it must
appear;
Fifteenth is our regiment, North Star
volunteer,
With our cOuntry's soldier boys for free
dom we will cheer,
While we are drilling at Ramsey.
CHORUS:
Hurrah! Hurrah! Well fl ght for liberty!
Hurrah! Hurrah! Well set the Cubans
free!
So we sing the praises of our valiant COM
pany C,
While We are drilling at Ramsey.
Fig hitting Parson" Morrison of him we
all are proud;
Patriotic, every inch, he never will be
cowed.
Noble captain whom we love, we sound
his praise aloud,
While we were drilling at Ramsey,
There's Lieutenant Dewey, now-the very
name is luck
When the bullets whistle round, we know
he will not duck,
Though a learned man is he, we never
doubt his pluck,
While we are drilling at Ramsey.
Then Lieutenant Nelson, too, you surely
all must know,
From old Company H he halls, the only
one to go;
Straight and handsome, he a soldier
proves from top to toe,
While we are drilling at Ramsey.
With a lawyer, college men and bright
boys in our ranks;
With our Fighting Parson," too, who'll
keep US free from pranks,
Such a brilliant company deser YES the
peoples thanks,
While we are drilling at Ramsey.
Well go forth to battle strong and brave
to do our part;
Prayers and tears that mothers gave will
keep us pure in heart;
Thinking of the last farewell, our tears
will often start,
While we are drilling at Ramsey,
Freely shall we offer up our blood for
liberty;
Only hasten that glad day humanity is
free;
Visions of the happy time, our eyes can
surely see,
While we are drilling at Ramsey.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
SIGNS IN THE SALT.
Uss.~ns and Superstitions Connected With
the Universal COndiment.

&)sS.ens and superstitions Connected With
the Universal COndiment.
Salt is probably the only article of
food which has been used by every
nation and in every age since the
beginning of civilization. More SUI
perstitions are naturally connected
with it than with any other article
of food
In ancient times, before trade was
as well organized as it is now, salt
was very scarce and costly. From
this gradually grew up the eastern
custom that whoever should eat salt
together-the most precious posses
sion-must be friends for life.
The belief that it is unlucky to
spill salt at table is of similar origin
and equal age. There is an allusion
to it in Leonardo da Vinci's great
painting of 1.-THE Last Supper,
which represents Judas as knocking
over the salt cellar while reaching
out his hand. The Romans had this
superstition and took extreme pre-
cautions to avoid splitting salt.
Many fierce battles have been
waged for the possession of saline
springs by animals as we'll as men.
The Big Bone Lick, Kentucky salt
spring, was in the early days of the
settlement surrounded by many
tons of bones, some of extinct beasts,
that had been killed there fighting
for taste. Most of these were de-
stroyed, but Jefferson and others
rescued many specimens. The In
dams got salt from the same spring
and in central New York and traded
it far and wide among the tribes.
Many nations held salt sacred.
The Germans believed that soil
made salt by saline springs was pc
culiarly holy. The Scriptures speak
frequently of "the covenant of
salt" The Mexicans had a goddess
of salt whose more or less musical
name was Huixtocilmatl.
4uCI0 10 oil Od0IO1A LC4O VI a "QA
who went to rob a house by night.
Stumbling upon an object in the
dark, he put his tongue to it to as
certain it's nature. It was bit of
rock salt. The man gave up his
idea of robbing house whose own
er 8 salt he had eaten. Cogia Hous-
sain of 1.-The Forty Thieves" was
more willy. He would not eat in
his intended victims house lest
there might be salt in some of the
dishes.
Some of the "tacky whites" of the
south put salt in their shoes to keep
off witches. The Chinese, in observ-
ing the last festival of the year,
throw salt upon the fresh built fire
in front of the ancestral tablets. In
many remote parts of the world
cakes or blocks Of rock salt have
been used as money, and man who
was not worth his salt" was a
pretty poor fellow. New York
World
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Nine Years to Walk Through London.

The largest city of the world is
London, lying in four counties and
having a population of 1850, 900,
equaling the combined populations
of Paris, Berlin, st. Petersburg and
Rome. To walk through all the
streets, avenues, lanes and alleys of
the city, never traversing the Same
one twice, would require ten mile
walk every day for nine years. The
streets, placed in a row, would reach
round the world and leave rem
nant that would stretch from Lon
don to San Francisco. Ladies
Home Journal.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
What FIR Eddy Has Accomplished.

The records at Washington show
that Congressman Eddy, during his
term of office, has given personal at
tention to 1853 pension claims for his
constituents. Of these 12O have been
allowed, 40 rejected and 189 are pend
ing. The total back pay allowed
through his efforts has been Sal, OO4
or over 81 900 for each month of his
service.-Alexandria Post News.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Campaign III the Seventh.

Washington, July 15.-Representa-
tive Eddy is expected to return to
Washington in a few days. His fam
lily is there and he will maintain his
residence in Washington during the
summer, returning to Minnesota for
the campaign. When he returned
home Eddy lefe some matters in the
departments unattended to and will
wind up these affairs as far as possible
before the LIST of September, when he
will go back and stump the seventh
district to secure his reelection.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

CAPTAIN General-Ois we'll named
He has been something less than a
cipher in the war so far.-St. Paul
Dispatch.
Sigh for Blanco. While the feet
threatens to shell him, the Dispatch
calls him names.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
A PIRATE POTENTATE.
From Welsh Farm to the Command of
Bnccaneer Fleet.

From Welsh Farm to the Command of
a Buccanecr Fleet.
Mr.. Frank r. Stockton, in his
Buccaneers of Our Coast, in ST.
Nicholas, says:
Sometime in the first half of the
seventeenth century, on secluded
Welsh farm, was born little boy.
His father was farmer and his
mother churned and tended the COWS
and the chickens, and there was no
reason to imagine that this baby,
born and reared in rural solitude,
would become rover of the seas
and one of the most formidable pi-
rates that the world ever knew, yet
such proved to be the case.
The baby's name was Henry Nor
gan, and as he grew a distaste for
farming grew. with him. So strong
was this dislike that when he be-
came young man he ran away to
be a sailor. He found ship bound
for the West Indies, and in this he
started on his life's career. He had
no money to pay his passage, and he
therefore followed usual custom of
those days and sold himself for a
term of three years to an agent who
was taking number of men to work
on the plantations. These men when
enlisted were termed servants, but
when they had been set ashore in
the new world they were generally
called slaves and certainly treated
as such.
When young Morgan reached the
Barbados, he was resold to a planter,
and during his term Of Office he prob
ably worked a good deal harder and
was treated much more roughly than
any of the laborers on his fathers
farm, but as soon as he was a free
man he went to Jamaica, and there
were few places where a young man
could be more free and more indie
pendent than this lawless island.
Here were rollicking and buster
ing "fiibustiers, and here the young
man determined to study piracy. He
was not a sailor and hunter who
by the force of circumstances grad
ually became buccaneer, but he
deliberately selected his profession
and Immediately set to work to &C
quire knowledge of its practice
There was buccaneer ship about to
sail from Jamaica, and on this Nor
gan enlisted. He was clever fell
low and very soon showed himself
to be brave and able sailor.
After three or four voyages he &C
CURED a reputation for remarkable
GOODNESS and showed unusual ability
to take advantage of favorable Cir
cumstances. These traits became
the foundation of his success. He
was also a good business man, and,
having saved considerable money,
he joined with other buccaneers and
bought a ship, of which he took
command. This ship soon made it.
self scourge in the Spanish seas.
No other buccaneering vessel was SO
widely known and SO greatly fear
ed, but the English people in those
regions were as proud of the dash
ing young Captain Morgan as if he
had been regularly commissioned
admiral on lawful cruise. Before
long he was recognized as buccaneer
in chief of the West Indies, and he |
very soon gathered together 12ships |
and 700 men.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
TO BE BROUGHT From cuRA.

On the occasion of the removal Of
those who fell in the Mexican war to
a last resting place, in their several
states, the Kentucky poet O'Hara
wrote the following in honor of the
heroes from that state. The poem is
quoted very often, though the whole
poem has seldom appeared in print.
Since congress has appropriated $780,
600 for the bringing back of those
who fell at Santiago, these verses
will again be of interest.
The muff1ed drums sad role has beat
The soldiers last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumors of the foes advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
OF loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warriors dream alarms,
No braying horn or screaming fife
AT dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rust
Their plumed heads are bowed.
Their naughty banner trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud-
And plentious funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's string blast,
The charge, the fearful Cannonade,
The din and shout are past
No wars wild note, nor glOry's peal,
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps it's great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break DER the fields beneath
Knew well the watchward of that day
Was victory or death.
Full many mothers breath has swept
Ger Augosturas plain,
And long the plying sky has wept
Above its mouldered slain.
The ravens scream or eagles flight,
Or shepherds pensive lay.
Alone now wake each solemn height
That frowned DER that dread fray,
Sons of the dark and bloody ground;
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resOund
Along the needless air;
Your own proud lands heroic soil
Shall be your filter grave;
She claims from war her richest sp Dill
The ashes of her brave.
Thus meath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the CORY field,
Borne to a Spartan mothers breast
On many bloody shield. ..-
The sunshine of their native sky
r. Smiles sadly on them here,
AnG kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The herO's sepulChre. a
Rest on, embalned and sainted deadh Or
Dear as the blood We gave, m
No impiOus foOtstep here shall tread
The heritage of your grave.
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the ha11owed spot
Where Va1or proudly sleeps.
You marble MINISTRIES voice1ess stone
In death1ess song shall tell,
When many vanished year hath flown
The story how we fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor Winters blight
Nor Times remorse1ess doom,
Can dim one ray of holy light
That gilds your holy tomb. .-a.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
TO wHor HONOR IS DUE.

~ w 1IOIA AAOlNON A0 G'O-s
A French officer, visiting the camp
at Santiago and also having seen the
conduct of the American troops under
fire, commends what he calls the SIM
tiative" of the American soldier. AS
an army officer of a nation Of the old
world, he has been schooled to the
idea that the private soldier has
reached the height of perfection
when he has become simply machine
to be directed by the will of the COM
mander. The relations between Off
Ger and private which hold in, the vol
unteer army of the United States are
entirely different. Here the civil life
the individual greatly influences
the bearing of officers toward the
men. When a company is raised in
any ordinarily small place, the sol
diers must have many years of army
life before they come to look upon
their captain as other than the crea
ton of their own votes, much the
same as as any civil officer. This
spirit of what might be regarded as
disrespect does not breed insubordin-
alton. The soldier rather takes an
intelligent interest in all orders given
and accepts them as eminating from
a legally constituted authority and
therefore to be obeyed. It is charac-
teristic of the American people that
while they may oppose particular
line of action, they will all join heart
lily in it's execution, when once de-
cided.
The American soldier is a clerk, a
business man, a farmer, tradesman,
accustomed to directing his own bust
ness and consulting his own pleasure.
1t would be contrary to reason to
think that he would lose his "initia-
tive" when he goes into the army.
The American soldier being thus
an intelligent agent, much more hon
or is due to him for undergoing the
hardships of army life for the sake of
country. It is comparatively easy
for man to enlist as an officer, with |
a good salary, and an opportunity to
shun danger if he desires to do so.
But for man equally as intelligent
and of equal social standing to enlist
as a private soldier, to face the fevers
of Cuba and lie in the trenches before
Santiago is evidence that there is
honor due to every man for his per-
sonal bravery in this war. We have
a long list of those who have especi-
ally distinguished themselves, but
still praise is due to every one who
wears the blue, be he officer or pri
vate soldier.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Real Estate Transfers,

. The following real estate transfers
were filed with Register of Deeds
Leaman during the week ending July
-:
c. J. Elinquist ct al to VIM c.
Hannhan, lot 5, block 70, Rail
way sub. div, block 20, first add.
town of Morris. Observation-Disclosures S 40 co
Elizabeth Try of Liverpool Eng
land to Alfred George Try of Liv-
erpoOl, England, undiv., p, NV.
a, sec. II, town 126, range ~; also
undiv., p, s12, sell, sec, Al, town
107, range 80; undiv., p, sw1l NV.
Il, sec. 16, town 35, range q, I'M
div, e lots 81 and IS, block 2 of
Avery's Chicago Ave., add. Min
neapolis; also undiv., p, lots
and 3, block 40, Village of Champ
lin. Consideration, love and aft
lection.
Jeremiah Hill to Annie Reison
HILL undiv., Y of same property. 1000 co
John B. Pence and Frank A. Pence
to John w. See, sec. II, Is, 10, %,
SIC and ne4, sec. q, e12 and neH,
nw14, and lot 1, sec. 26, and lot l,
sec. "a, town 1884, range fl, and
Wig, ne14, sec. Is, town 1875, range
A, and sell, sec, IA, town 1874,
range 41......... ---.... ........... co
Fred GetChelI to Chas. p. Reeves,
lots 1, 2, 3, 4, block 81. Village of
Hancock. Observation-Disclosures. 500 90
John Grove to Vim. Hermann, Sr.
and Albert c. Hermann, Wig,
ne14, and ne14, sec. II, town 125,
range 43, 12O acres .................. 1900 90
Hu1dah NJ. Caswe1l to w. P. Fow-
Ter, lots 4, 5 and 6, WIZ sec.2, town
1874, range ~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 229O 90
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

Stewart sells your choice of
three best binders made for 500
til le, and less for spot cash. Go to
him and find out what you want and
what it will cost you,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
CREAMERIEs in this and other w,

CREAMERIEs in this and other west
ern counties are repeatedly. being
shut down for want of patronage.
Western Minnesota needs more and
not less creameries, stock raising,
dairYing, etc.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

WHAT'S the matter with Eustis for
United States Senator? It's Minnea-
polls, turn, you know.-Bede's Bud
get. Because in this neck of the
prairie he is regarded as Eustis good
for governor.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

To SPANIARDs and others When
you get ready to die, don't do it, just
come to the United States. The best
you are promised "bye and bye" is
that ''every day will be Sunday"
Here everyday is Fourth of July,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
None to Work with.

"John," said a candidate to a col
ored veteran, lean you conscien-
tiously vote for me this time9''
"Ef you put it dat way, sub, |
don't think / kin. / los my con-
science in de las election. Allan
tn Constitution.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
OVerCOat Found.

P. G. Larson, of Larson P. o., has
left at this office an overcoat which he
found recently. Owner may have
the same by proving property and
paying for this notice. 31t2
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
First July 20-Last August
Summons.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
~ Stevens, District Court, Sixteenth Ju-
diCial District.
Hans E. johnson, plaintiff, VS.. William
E. Haw, defendant.
The State of Minnesota to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in
the above entitled action, which complaint
has been filed in the office of the Clerk of
said district court at the Village or Nor
riS, Stevens county, Minnesota, and to
serve copy of your answer to the said
complaint on the subscriber at his office
in the Village of Norris, Stevens county,
Minnesota, within twenty coo days after
service of this summons upon you, eXclu-
sive of the day of such service; and it you
fail to answer the said complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will apply
to the court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, together with plaintiffs costs
and disbursements herein.
July 9Th, 1898.
GRANT VAN SAINT,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Morris, Minnesota.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Girls Souvenirs.

His brand-new uniform was torn to
shredS-
A new recruit was he;
Two buttons only, loosely hung by
threads;
He was a sight to see.
"Oh, where has been the fight?" his Cap
tain cried;
From whence this wreck appears?"
There was no fight" the recruit replied
"Some girls took souvenirs"
New York Herald.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

EVERY time there is a naval battle
and the Spaniards are defeated, vol
luminous assurances of good will come
from Germany, France ct al.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

The VICTORIES of Manila, Santiago
and the destruction Of CerVera's fleet
were all accomplished on Sunday.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. has ruled that the sender must
place the revenue stamp upon tele-
grams.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

STILL John Lind has not accepted
the nomination of the fusion forces
for governor. He will only suffer the
stigma of another defeat if he does.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Laundry For Sale.

Morris Steam Laundry is for sale
cheap for cash. Machinery all in first
class cOnditi-n. REARDON Bros.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

If CROPS continue as they are, the
amount of business done here this
fall will eclipse that of many years.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
Twelve Cows for Sale.

j. D. Good has twelve COWS to sell
Call at once and get your choice.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20
STATE TICLET.


For Governor,
w. H. EUSTIS.
For Lieutenent Governor,
L. A. SMITH.
For Secretary of State,
ALBERT BERG.
For Treasurer,
A. T. KOERNER.
For Auditor,
X. c. DUNN.
For Attorney General,
w. B. DOUGLAS.
For Clerk Supreme Court,
D.F. REESE.
For Justices of this Supreme Court,
c. L. BROWN.
J. "A. LOVELY.
c. L. LEWIS.
For Member of Congress,
FRANK NJ. EDDY,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-07-20

THREE new gases have been dis
covered in the atmosphere and the
campaign hasn't half begun yet.