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Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
Fullerton won the Race.

At one Of the regattas Of the Nation
al Association Of American Oarsmer
during the early nineties James Pilker
ton, for many years the champion soul
Ter Of America, was matched to row
double against another team. He and
his mate were the champions, and the
general belief was that they you'd win
without effort: But the hight before
the regatta public opinion suddenly
and mysteriously changed, Mr.. Phi;
kerton knew that this was not caused
by any new development Of strength
In his opponent or any loss of skill on
his own part. After making some quiet
inquiries he discovered that there was
talk Of his rowing mate having been
bought up by the other side and Of an
arrangement to throw the race.
He didn't say anything about his sus-
picions, but when the two men were
seated in the she'll and were well out
into the deep water he leaned over to
his mate and said:
'Look her, you blooming cutthroat!
You've got % swim, drown or win this
race! You know mel" He won.-Sat-
urday Evening Post.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
Bevans is Still Telling it

Its origin is shrouded in mystery.
Somebody reported that the dead
body of man had been found half
buried down near the "Y". The bus
was drafted into service and the
mayor, the coroner, the justice of the
peace and several other P. C.'s went
down to investigate. Instead of a
corpse, they found the body of a
horse, and the story that man was
buried there undoubtedly arose from
the fact that large chunks of incense
still permeated the air thereabouts.
The bus returned, but it carried a
corpse. Slowly it came up Atlantic
avenue, meeting Undertaken Colyer
and the county attorney IN the I'M
dertaker's wagon. "Got him?"
queried the undertaken. ''Yes," said
the coroner and swinging around,the
undertaken fell in behind the bus,
and the stately and sedate procession
of village and county officials con-
tinued up the street to the front door
of J. D. Goods store. "Take him to
the back door," said the undertaken
and the bus moved around to the
back door, while Mr.. Colyer rushed
up stairs, got his stretcher and pre-
pared to meet the corpse at the back
door.
J. D. Good came out and pulled
the macintosh away from the
corpse" and John House jumped up
and took refuge in the front part of
the bus-glad to get from under the
macintosh and glad to haYe escaped
retribution from Mr.. Good.
Hereafter, when Mr.. Colyer goes to
look up a corpse, he will ride in the
first wagon.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
A Dry Smoke.

IL you see man with an unfighted
cigar between his lips, it is not be-
cause he Is looking for light, but be-
cause he is INDUCING in the pleasure of
a "'dry smoke" How there can be any
enjoyment in this to a smoker is not
readily apparent, but the fact remains
that there is much satisfaction in the
habit, and, besides, there are no bane-
ful effects.
y For inveterate smokers the dry smoke
is good habit to cultivate. It enables
many slaves Of the weed to decrease
the number of cigars actually smoked
in day without causing much incon-
4Eenlence. OF course an inveterate
smoker would find 20 pleasure in the
habit at the start, but perseverance Is
necessary, and after awhile he will en-
joy his dry smoke almost as much as
the real one. It is good way to be-
gin If you desire to stop smoking. Try
IL and see.-New York Herald. r
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
silva AND DEW.
The Fearful Devil of the HindOOs
and His Principal Wife.

The Fearful Devil of the HindOOs
and His Principal Wife.
silva is both typical Of destruction
and Of reproduction. But the latter at
tribute was doubtless later addition
to the sum Of his qualities. The orig
inal conception Of this deity was that
of a power delighting in destruction,
in the achievement Of physical evil and
wrong and in hurting death and devas-
tat1on upon the people and their land.
He is represented in the sacred books
Of the Hindoos as ''the terrible destroy
err" ''the one who delights in the de-
struction of men," But in all this there
is no whisper as yet Of any moral quail
tiles Of evil. The conception is entirely
one of physical power, used with the
utmost malevolence and injustice
against men.
Along with his principal wife, who
is variously called Devi, Durga, Una
and Kali, he is portrayed as the incar-
nation Of physical evil, wrong, lnjus-
tice or misfortune. In the "Puranas"
silva is described as wandering about
surrounded by ghosts and COLLINS, in
ebriated, naked and with disheveled
hair, covered with the ashes Of a fu-
neral pile, ornamented with human
skulls and bones, sometimes laughing
and sometimes crying. Dew, his con-
sort, is represented with hideous and
a terrible countenance streaming with
blood, encircled with snakes, hung
round with skulls and human heads
and in all respects resembling fury
rather than a goddess. The only pleas
ure which silva and Dew feel is when
their affairs are drenched with blood,
which, Of course, could not be shed
without the destruction of some form
Of life.-Westminste Review.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
A ROn0DCe Of Confetti.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE IL

That was his first thought, but the
next moment he recalled the bitter fact
that Mamie was his wife no longer, but
the Baroness Riegelthurm.
Nevertheless he looked round for the
blue domino and caught sight Of her
entering an open carriage with her two
companions. Fleming chartered an
other and followed the party to the
doors Of the Grand hotel, the hall Of
which he entered a few seconds after
tneR. ,sz~- @~-"'"+"
"Are the Baron and Baroness Riegel-
thurm staying here?" he inquired of
an attendant.
ST think they expect you, sir. One
of the ladies asked me whether you
wanted to see the Baroness Riegel-
thurm or her stepsister, Mrs. John
Fleming"
Half an hour later the little blue
domino, without her mask and with
tears in her pretty dark eyes, sat hand
in hand with Jack Fleming in her sis
ters drawing room.
"You horrid, proud old thing" she
was saying. ''Why didn't you come
and claim me years ago? Of course,
/ always expected you to. And I've
been so lonely and miserable some
times! When 1 heard you tell all that
to the man you were with tonight, it
was all I could do not to jump for joy
and kiss you.''
"There is nothing to prevent you
from kissing me now" Jack Fleming
said.
And Mamie agreed with him. Main
" About People.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
THE HARDY GOAT.
Il Can BE Made Valuable as Dairy
Animal.

Animal.
The usefulness Of the goat in clearing
foul lands and the proftableness of the
animal for it's hair, skin and even car
cass are becoming pretty well under
stood But the goat is valuable as a
dairy animal. If the cows, for in
stance, are being used for supplying a
city milk trade, the keeping OF goats
for the home milk supply would be an
excellent policy. The goat will i've
where cow would starve, and, while
it, like every domestic animal, will do
best on good pasture, it will live and
yield milk on astonishingly little food.
The animal and it's milk are almost
entirely exempt from disease. The
milk is more nutritious than that OF the
COW and agrees with stomachs that
cows milk frequently offends. The
animal requires only the cheapest kind
of shelter, but it needs shelter from the
storms and in winter. If by reason of
drought soiling is necessary, leaves,
vegetable refuse, Feelings of the apple
or potato, bread crusts or stale bread,
IL they are sweet and clean, Will be all
the feed that is needed.
All goats, however, will not eat the
same food, and the feeder will have to
study the appetites of the individual
animal Frequent feeding and va
riety of food In winter will be found
beneficial. Roots, oilmeal, oats, corn
(of the latter in the whole state the
goat is very fond, are proper feed, es-
pecially for the milking goat. Rock
salt is greatly Eelished. The flavor of
goats milk cannot be distinguished
from that of cows milk if it is proper
" cared for. From three to four pints
a day is the average yield Of good
mixer The milk is so rich and of
such character that in making pastry
It will take the place of eggs.-Epito-
mist
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
watch Springs.


The watch carried by the average
man is composed Of SO pieces, and It's
manufacture embraces more than 1000
distinct and separate operations.
HI irspring wire weighs one-twen.
deth of grain to the inch. One mile
Of wire weighs less than half a pound.
The balance gives five vibrations
every second, 300 every minute, $4,000
every hour, $4,000 every day and 1877
100000 every year.
The value Of springs when finished
and placed in watches is enormous in
proportion to the material from which
they are made. A ton Of steel made
up into hairsprings when in watches
is worth more than 1211s times the
value Of the same weight in pure
gold. .<
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04

A Record in Blood.

The record of Hoods Sarsaparilla
IS literally written in the blood Of
millions of people to whom it has
given good health. 1t is all the time
curing diseases of the stomach.
nerves, kidneys ard blood, and it is
doing good every day to thousands
who are taking it for poor appetite.
tired feeling and general debility. II
s the bes medicine money can buy,
Hoods Pills are non-irritati. Pric
Is cnets.
Pimples on the face are not only
annoying, but they indicate bad
blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla cures
them by purifying the blood.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
CHOKIO.
B. NJ. 1verslie moved into his new house

B. NJ Iyerslie moved into his new house
Wednesday.
Miss Anna Lee spent last Sunday with
Gracevi11e friends.
Chas. Noes little son is quite i'll with
pneumonia this week.
P. H. McNa11y returned from his sheer
ranch in S. D. Sunday.
Ed Dreveskracht was in town a short
time Thursday evening.
Miss Marie Kennedy, of Graceville is a
Chokio visitor this week.
Jack Smith and w. Ryan, of Morris Sun,
dayed with friends here.
Up. Murphy and wife returned to their
home in Benson Thursday.
d. Donovan was rusticating on the farm
the latter part of this week.
Editor Morrison of The Tribune was a
pleasant caller here Monday.
Miss Nettie Owen returned to her home
in Rice Lake, Wis, last Saturday.
I'D. Ross, of Clinton was looking after
business interests here Thursday.
A. J. Kredder, of Gracevi11e was trans
acting business in town Wednesday.
O.P. Benson is having his house raised
and two foot foundation put under it.
Emil Marty moved into his newly
erected residence on the north side last
week.
The Misses Brennan and Foley stopped
in town Tuesday while enroute for D1-
mont.
n }: III
were in town Monday in their official ca
pacity.
Mrs. B. NJ. Ivers1ie returned Wednesday
from an extended visit with relatives at
Belgrade.
Frank Lanbert's two year old son has
been very sick this week with cholera
infantum.
With favorable weather harvesting in
locality will be finished by the latter part
of next week
Miss Emma Anderson, of Kirkhoven is
making her brother Emil of this place a
visit this week
N. ]. Barnes formerly of Morris is now
Co., at this place.
l.. Burton, of Ortonville was in town
Thursday in the interest of the National
Elevator at this place.
The workmen on the National elevator
finished their work Thursday and left for
S. D. Friday.
Pat and Jas. Reardon have each accept,
ed positions in Gracevi1le and left for that
place the latter part of this week.
Ewing Lundberg arrived here from
Sweden Monday, he will make his home
with his brother John Lnndberg Eof this
place.
Working men are a scarce article in this
locality this fall. Farmers are offering as
high as 1928 per day and cannot get them
at that price.
A complete line of fall and winter cloth
ing samples at J. E. Lees. Call and see
them before buying your winter clothes,
it will pay you.
Thos. E. Lyons who has been the guest
Of his sister, Mrs. J. S. Robinson during
the past week returned to his home in
Superior Thursday morning.
The Chokio barber shop will be open
Sunday afternoons from now till Jan. 1st
or the benefit of out of town customers
Who cannot be in Saturdays.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
PROMPT AND FULL SUPPLEMENT-.
What Mr.. William Riordan Has to
Say OF the Minneapolis Fire
Insurance Company,

| AA0NASShSN SVAAP1nya
Hancock, MINI, August 3rd, 1900
Andrew Rowland, Esq,
Agent Minneapolis Fire & Marine
Insurance Co.,
Morris Minnesota
My dear Sir
deem it only just
to yourself and the Insurance Com.
pany mentioned to make public an
nouncement and acknowledgement
Of the exceedingly prompt and salts
factory manner in which my recent
loss of my valuable mare killed by
Tightening, was paid-and paid in
full exactly in accordance with the
terms OF the insurance policy you is
sued to me last spring; I really feel
impeEed to thus exrr my grateful
appreciation of the treatment re-
ceived. 1t was on Sunday that [
called on you and reported my loss;
on the Tuesday following (being the
second day after I reported my loss),
on calling at your Office about other
business, I was most agreeably sur
prised to be then handed the Insnr-
ance Company's check for the full
amount of the insurance on the ami
NAL.
| write this letter expecting that
it will be published, for I think that
such business methods as obtained
in my case ought of right to be
generally known.
Yours truly,
WILLIAM RIoRDAN,
Section 5, Town of Moore.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04

Lieutenant A. W. Thomson says, IN
The Independent, that when the civil
war was practically over he was sent
from the camp at Lincolnton to Char
Iotte, N. c., under a flag Of truce. He
entered the town and was conducted to
General Echols' headquarters In a
large upper room, evidently school
room.
Our guide pointed out the general,
fine, portly gentleman, seated at a
table. I advanced and Laid my papers
on the table.
"General Bchols, presume?' said.
f'These dispatches are from General
Gillian. Shall I wait for an answer"
"Please be seated" the general said.
CHANGING around, saw 16 or Is gen.
tlemen, all, with one or two exceptions,
in military uniform. Colonel Morgan
came up to me, shook hands and said:
81 believe you and are not entire
strangers"
He had been our prisoner year or
SO before. While we chatted gentle
man in a civilian gray suit turned to
address General Echols. The cold stare
of glass eye caught my attention, and
the features were somewhat familiar.
"Ah, Jefferson Davis! Are you here,
pressed to the wall|' was my first
thought. His face was far more pleas
ant than our northern papers had pic
tured it.
A dispatch was handed to General
Echols, who read and reread it with an
earnest, anxious lok. Half rising, he
passed the paper to Mr.. Davis, who read
it slowly and then handed it back.
"Well," said he, 1--WE have lost q
generous enemy
It was the news of President Lin"
coins assassination.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
He Explained.

At school one day a teacher, hav-
ing asked most Of his pupils the diff
ference between an island and PENN
sula without receiving satisfactory
answer, came to the last boy.
81 can explain it, SIR" said the bright
youth. First get two glasses. Fill
one with water and the other with
milk. Then catch a fly and place 1t
IN the glass Of water. That fly is an
island, because it is entirely surround
ed by water. But now place the fly in
the glass Of milk, and II win be a
peninsula, because it is nearly sur
sounded by water"
The boy went 10 the top Of the class.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
- H- ~ --;-.. -
He Grabbed the Offer.

Ex-Governor George w. Peck Of
Wisconsin, author Of "Peck's Bad
Boy" was running a little country
weekly in the pineries in the early six
ties. 1t was an unimportant sheet
save for one column Of jokes which
Peck wrote each week. This depart
ment caught the eye Of 'fBrick" Pom
eroy, who was then printing his Dem
ocrat in Lacrosse, Wis, and one day
he wrote to Peck asking him whether
he would be willing to go down to La
crosse and work for The Democrat at
SIS week. A..
Three days later Mr.. Pomeroy got
this telegram: Il accept your offer
quicker than instantly. For heavens
sake don't withdraw itl"
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
Horses Wounded In Battle.

Horses wounded on the battlefield
are duly attended to when no danger
to human life is involved. The veteri-
mary officer in charge is expected to
follow close on the fighting line ana,
together with a number Of aids, to in
spect properly wounded animals and
give instructions for their removal or
slaughter as the case may be. The
veterinary surgeon is naturally expos
ed to considerable danger, but if his
work is not carried out during the
progress of hostilities in all probability
it cannot be accomplished afterward,
for, although the royal army medical
corps is allowed to proceed to the res
cue of the wounded men under the
Red Cross, the members Of the army
veterinary department are not permit
ted to attend to the injured horses, be-
cause they are not under the protection
of the Geneva convention, which makes
no provision whatsoever for wounded
animals.
At the conclusion Of the battle, if it
has been decisive and one or other Of
the combatant armies has been driven
from the field, a party Of veterinary
surgeons, with their assistants, is sent
out to examine every animal that has
fallen and to shoot such as are badly
wounded. Those suffering from only
slight injuries are collected and taken
TO the veterinary hospital lines, formed
as fixed camps and established on
similar basis to those Of the royal ar
my medical corps. - Parsons Maya
zine.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04

One Of the most expensive restau-
rants in New York is conducted, so far
as it's observing patrons can tell, on q
unique system of tips. The head wait
er Of the room devoted to the use of
the men guests makes it point to be-
come acquainted with them, find OUT
their names and becomes genial in the
half respectful, half presuming way
that so frequently passes for good ma
ture among employees of the kind IN
this country. Naturally he receives
liberal fees from his clientele, which is
made up of rich men able to pay high
prices for the extra service they re-
ceive.
When there is no financial response
Of this kind to the walters advances
his cordiality diminishes. The walters
under him do, with unusual willing
ness, the head walters bidding. They
are evidently Indifferent as to their
own success in the matter of fees. 1t
is only the good will Of the head waiter
that appears to be the goal Of all their
efforts.
Such unselfshness astonishes regular
patrons Of the restaurant and one In
particular undertook to discover the
reason Of this attitude Of the walters
toward their chief. He learned after
awhile that the tips the head waiter
received were large enough to enable
him to give the walters part OF his
earnings for attending with particular
care to his patrons, who, as rule, con-
flne their contributions to the head
waiter. The guests who fail to take
advantage Of the head walters over
lures to friendliness are not likely to
fare well In that restaurant, where the
walters, certain of fee from the man
over them, are Indifferent to the guests
not included among the list of his pa
irons New York Sun.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
Played His client raise.

Il shall have to make a lawyer out Of
Ml1at boy Of mine. don't see any other
w9y out Of It," declared the vel
KNOWN attorney, with a laugh. "He
came into my Office the other day on
1his way home from school and laid 8
nickel down on the desk before me.
what is this for, sonY asked.
%sRetainer,' he answered soberly.
"sVery well,' said l. entering into the
Joke What have I been retained
upon?
''My boy dug down into his pocket
and produced a note from his teacher
and placed it before me without COM
ment 1t was to the effect that he had
been cutting up and advised whip
ping.
SNOW, what would you adviser
asked he in businesslike voice after l
had read the note and saw the trap
that young rascal led me into.
'T think that out first move should
be to apply for change Of venue
said I.
"'very WE'LL he answered. You're
handling the case.'
"Then we will turn the note over
10 your mother said l.
81 saw the young imp's face fall at
this, but he braced up and said:
"'See here, pop, you're bound to see
me through on this, cause you've &C
repted my retainer, you knowg
"Tll argue your case before the
court 1 answered, but you will have
to accept the decision. I would not
dare to attempt to influence the court
"WelI, I pleaded the boys case,
promptly had it thrown out Of court
and the boy got what he deserved-a
good whipping.
"It was the first time ever played
false to q client" -Detroit Free Press.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
when They Say "Goodby."

Did you ever hear two married wo-
men take leave Of each other at the
gate on a mild evening? This is how
they do it:
'Goodbyw
"Goodby! Come down and see us
SOON"
81 will. Goodbye
"Goodby! Don't forget to come soon"
mo, 1 won't. Don't you forget to
come up"
ST won't.
"Be sure and bring Sarah Jane with
He DOdged.
There is a young man in Brooklyn
who needs tonic Of some kind, else
he would not have failed to embrace as
attractive an opportunity as ever
comes to one. He accompanied
charming young woman to church
wedding on the park slope and arrived
at about the time the bride and groom
were due. The young woman with
him was dressed somewhat as the
bride was expected to be clad, and as
she walked up the main aisle Of the
church with her escort the organist
began to play the wedding march. The
couple, however, instead Of going on to
the altar, stopped in one of the pews
not far from the front. One Of the
ushers came forward and told them
that the clergyman was waiting for
them, and their friends near, perceiv-
ing the situation, urged them to re-
spond to the summons. The young
woman said she was ready and will
ing, but the young man, to his ever
lasting disgrace, refused to move, and
Il he lives to his dying day the people
who know the girl say that Hugh win
not have another such chance for hap
piness. Brooklyn Eagle.
Morris tribune., 1900-08-04
Fell From a Cliff.

George Fl. Burgitt, a nephew of
Mrs. N. r. Spur, fell from cliff 500
feet high at his home in Ogden, Utah
last Sunday. Mr.. Burgitt was pay
ing teller Of the Ogden State bank,
which position he has held for sever
al years His parents live i'll Aber-
deem, S. D. No particulars are
known of the accident.