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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS

Annexation talk is causing much bad
feeling in Cuba.
An extra session of the Ohio legisla-
ture has been called to meet Aug. 25.
Bishop Spalding of Peoria is the IA
vored candidate for archbishop of Chi
cagO.
Under a new process to be used by
the Federal Sugar company sugar can
be refined for less than 81 per ton.
Continued volcanic eruptions on the
Island Of St. Vincent is causing alarm
among the people and many are leav-
ing the island.
The Nebraska supreme court has
handed down a decision declaring that
there is not a legally appointed fire
and police board in Omaha and that
it is the duty of tie governor to .ap-
point ore. 1t is further stated that the
decision is sufficient and that no per
emptOry writ directing the governor
to perform his DUTY should be re-
Quired.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
KISSING THE HAND.
The Practice Was Instituted by tho
Early Roman Rulers.

Early Roman Rulers.
The practice Of kissing the hands
was instituted by the early Roman
rulers as a mark of subsection as much
as one of respect, and under the first
Caesar the custom was kept up, but
only for time.
These worthless conceived the idea
that the proper homage due to their
exalted station called for less familiar
modes of obeisance, so the privilege
of kissing the emperor's hand was re-
served as a special mark of condescen-
sion or distinction for officers of high
rank,
No such restriction, however, was
placed on the emperors themselves,
who, if they wished to confer signal
honor on any of their subjects, kissed
either the mouths or the eyes Of those
they wished specially to favor, the kiss
generally intimating some promotion
OR personal satisfaction for some
achievement.
Roman fathers considered the prac
tice of kissing of so delicate a nature
that they never kissed their wives in
the presence Of their daughters
Then, too, only the nearest relatives
were allowed to kiss their kindred of
the gentler sex on the mouth, for in
those days, as now, kissing was not
mere arbitrary sign, but it was the
spontaneous language Of the affections,
especially that of love.
Under the Romans if lover kissed
his betrothed before marriage she in
herited half of his worldly goods in the
event of his death before the marriage
ceremony, and if she died her heritage
descended to her nearest relatives.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
A PANTHER'S DEN.
Clean and Bright, In Decided Con
trast to the Popular Idea.

Clean and Bright, In Decided Con
trast to the Popular Idea.
1t was my good fortune to discover
the newly abandoned lair of a cougar
family and further and to me new
evidence of that fastidious cleanliness
which is a marked characteristic Of
the animal. This retreat was not at all
the typical ''panther's den" of tradi-
ton, but a bush grown harborage IN
der the edge of a rock with just enough
of shelf to keep off the rain 1 should
not have found this breeding place but
for certain we'll gnawed array of
bones scattered over a little smooth
bench above a creek channel. From
this bOneyard there was a very tracea-
BILE path leading through grass and
brush to the retreat where the dam
had housed her young. The evidence
here told plainly Of the cougars long
immunity from annoyance and attack
and of thoroughly cleanly habit of
life. There was no bone or other sign
of feasting about the lair. The dam
had carried her kill to the creek bench
in every instance, and the children Lad
been called to the dining room. AS
bones which would have been crunch
ed or eaten by grown animals had
been perfectly cleaned by the kits l
was able to judge of their summers
diet. This had consisted mostly Of
minor game, rabbits, marmots, grouse
and the like, with an occasional small
deer. At least one whole family Of
badgers, old and young, had been
served, pussy having probably lain for
them at their hole until they were all
in-Franklin Welles Calkins in Out
ing.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
WOMEN'S CLUBS.
The First of These Organizations In
This Country Was Soross.

The first woman's club in this
country was Sorosis. The inspira"
ton for action in such form came
to Mrs. Jennie c. Croly of New
York city. That she was distinctly
successful so far as quality goes in
carrying out this inspiration is in
stanced by the names of such wom-
en- as Alice Cary, Kate Field, Phoebe
Cary and Ella Dietz Clymer as off,
GERS for the first year.
The object Of Sorosis was to bring
together women Of all kinds and
each to assist the other in working
along her own lines in the way most
helpful to herself. Such a platform
necessitated much sympathy and
patient inquiry before settling down
to what mi 3ht be termed systematic
work. This little band of women
realized keenly that they had been
and still were s hut out from much
legitimate endeavor, and they de-
termined to bide their time and
work out their own salvation and
that of all like minded sisters.
just when Sorosis was in the en-
bryonic stage a letter came from
Miss Kate Field, telling of the for
nation of another club in Boston
and objccting to the name of the
New York club. She wrote: "The
Boston women are also forming
club, but they have got men with
them and know better what they
want. They will accomplish some
thing practical and definite. Don't
go on with Sorosis. l won't have
the name. Nobody knows what it
means, and nobody will know what
you mean or what you want, and
you will be laughed at
After a temporary change of
name and tribulation generally So
Tosis resumed her baptismal name
and slowly but surely found out
what she wanted and what she
meant, and after a longer stretch
of time made a steadily increasing
and approving public know what
she wanted and what she meant. To-
day hundreds of thousands Of wom-
en- rise up and call its founder and
faithful coworkers "blessed." RE-
becca Douglas Lowe in Pilgrim.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
READY FOR HIM.
A Clerk Who Had Surprise In Store
For Potter Palmer.

"As r. hotel keeper Potter Palmer
had many peculiarities," said an old
hotel man. "When 1 was at the
Palmer House in Chicago" he said,
"there was one chap who proved
equal to the occasion. It was when
the old man, as we always called
Mr.. Palmer, was putting in partic-
ularly cranky month. It seemed as
if everybody about the hotel was
booked for dismissal. One cay Pal
mer walked into the bookkeeper's
Office and after looking for a min
ute at man who hadn't been work
ing for more than a week or two
walked quietly up to him and, mois-
tening his lips with his tongue in his
peculiar fashion, said:
FEr-when is your month up%
''The young man, recognizing the
voice, tossed his pen on the desk
without looking around, hoped
back off his stool, pushed the stool
out Of the way and replied:
"Now, by gum! And I've got
my grip packed and under my desk,
ready to start right away
"Palmer was stunned at first, but
quickly rose to the occasion and,
stepping up to the young man, pat
ted his shoulder and without the
culver of an eyelash said:
No, no; you take me wrong. I
don't want you to 60. I merely
want to know when your month is
up, so that may know when to in
crease your salary
F'When the young man recovered
his breath, the odd man was gone.
But his salary was increased all
right, and he became Palmer's con-
fdential clerk and remained with
him till he died" New Y ork Times.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
Cats In Eoypt.

The first people known to have
domesticated cats were the ancient
E Egyptians, on whose monuments
representations of these animals are
found as early as 1900 B. G. 1t is
on a tomb erected about 1900 B. G.
that puss first appears unmistaka-
bly, as a domesticated creature, be-
ing shown seated beneath a chair.
In ancient Egypt the cat was an OBJ
ject of religious worship and was
even an inmate of the TEN piles.
There was actually a cat goddess,
named Bubastis, who was always de-
picted as having a cats head. Be-
hind the temple dedicated to her at
Benz Hassan great pits have been
found containing multitudes of cat
mummies.
The cat was also regarded as an
emblem of the sun, it's eyes being
supposed to vary in color with the
progress of that luminary through
the heavens. Likewise its eyes were
believed to undergo a change each
lunar month, for which reason the
beast was also sacred to the moon.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
TO CALF orr MA
VIA
The Northwestern

In through tourist cars every Tues
day and Saturday morning.
On Tuesday, leave Minneapolis at
$50 a. m, St. Paul 1000 a. NJ. via
Northwestern line to Omaha, thence
via Union Prcifc and Ogden and ar
rice SanFrancisco 1925 p. m. thus
avoiding Sunday travel.
On Saturday, lsave Minneapolis
$50 a. M, St. Paul 1000 a. m. via
The Northwestern Line to Kansas
City, theme via Santa Fe Route,
through interesting New Mexico and
Arizona, ind arrive Los Angeles 500
a. m.
These ara the most popular route
to California, and enable one to
travel at small expense in comfort
able and pleasant surroundings
thrn gH the most picturesque and
granGe>t p"rrS Vt Am RIGA.
Those cor9 zn,2lariug visiting Cali
ioruia ttl- = 1T # 80 e furnished,
free OF charge, zap rates and all
information by arr.!lng to j. A.
OBrieD, city passenger agent, 4IB
Nirollet Ave., Minneapolis; E. A
Whitaker, city passenger agent, 1872
Robert street St. Paul, or address [.
W. Teasdale, General Passenger
Agent, St. Paul.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
RAILROAD NEWS.

The Canadian Pacific Railroad com
pany contemplates establishing a fast
Atlantic steamship line.
According to a report from Chicago
the Union Pacific has secured control
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road.
It is reported that the Chicago Great
Western and Senator Clark's San Pc
dro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake rail
road will form tTal5continental line.
The report of land sales of the
Northern Pacific ic2 the year ended
June 80, for the Western district, COM
prising Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
has been COMPLETED. It shows an ag-
gregate Of 1.E@5,954 acres.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
The Horse Is Useful Even if Dead.

The whale can be put to a great
number of uses when dead, as can
also the horse, the various parts of
which are utilized as follows: Hair of
name and tail for hairclOth, stufing
mattresses and making bags for crush,
ing seed in oil mills, etc.. hide and skin
tanned for leather for covering tables,
etc.; tendons used for glue and gelatin;
flesh for food for dogs, poultry and
man; fat used for lamps, ETC.; intes-
tines used for covering sausages, max
ing gut strings, etc.; heart and tongue
for food; hoofs for gelatin, prussiate
fancy snufboxes etc.; bones for knife
handles, phosphorus, superphosphate
Of lime and manure; blood for manure
and shoes for reuse or for old IRON
Spare Moments.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
A UNIQUE DORMITORY.
One That Is Owned by the University
of the South.


of the South.
Dean Hoffman was noted for char
table impulses, which his large income
allowed him to indulge in. Some years
ago the dean invested heavily in land
in a small southern town which was
then enjoying ''boom" period. Among
the deans other investments was q
beautiful little hotel, exquisitely ap.
pointed and perfect in every detail
After awhile the 'boom" fell through,
and the little hotel became a losing in,
vestment.
At this time the chancellor of the
University of the South, an old friend
Of Dean Hoffman, was on hunting
trip with him in the mountains of
North Carolina.
eve are badly in need of a dormitory
down at Suwanee," said the chancel-
lOr.
Eyes" said Hoffman and sat think
ing for moment, well, you can have
the hotel building down at B." nam
ing the town. you can take it to
pieces and move it to Suwanee. It
ought to make pretty little dormi-
tory"
The chancellor was greatly pleased
and made all the arrangements to
move the hotel, when, to his astonish-
ment, the citizens of the town obtained
an injunction against it's removal on
the grounds that the hotel in a way
was public property and that to re-
move it would leave the town without
any hotel accommodations. A legal
fight followed, but the university won
out in the end. So the University Of
the South revels in the luxury of the
most unique dormitory in the world
New York Times.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
: The Ca?TUnru unAGUHS.
flow Koreans Viewed the First Eiec-
trio Cars In Their Country.


When the-eleetric car service was
first opened I'M Korea, it furnished
a most perplexing theme to the
minds Of the Koreans, for they
could not see how the electric cars
=. could move along without any horse
or any steam engine to pull them.
Many months passed without any
solution being found. During these
months there was no rainfall in
Seoul, AID the fact at once brought
a happy idea into the Korean mind.
Koreans believe that rain is pro-
duced only by rain dragons that live
in the sky. Now, in view of the
drought, these dragons, the Kore~
ans argued, must have been captur-
ed by the enterprising Americans,
whose intention was to cause them
to exhaie the steam by means of
which the electric cars are driven
on. In support Of their argument
they pointed to the blue sparks that
are often seen in the engine room of
the electric railway company and
said thas the flames were those
which the dragons vonited in the
agony Of being compelled to manu-
facture the steam.
This solution of the electric car
mystery and Of the drought was en-
Enthusiastically Endorsed by the ig-
norant populace of Korea. 1t then
came to pass that the enraged ma
tiyes Wredked their vengeance on
the electric cars with terrible vehe-
mence. The motormen were. at
tackled and injured, the rails we're
torn up and the cars were Destroy
ed.
Then, taught by these costly ex-
peTienccs, an engineer of the Elec-
trio Car company contrived a cum
ming method to outwit these Kore-
ans. One day he caught one of
these riotous people in the electric
car and, driving him into the en-
CINE room, imprisoned him there
all the night. There was the for
midablo mechanism of the electric
ity, but no dragon. The sight was a
complete establishment for the
Korean. He spread the report
among the other superstitious peo-
pie, and they reluctantly abandoned
their crazy notion, and the cars were
1nmolested.-Japan Weekly Times.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
Ancestors of Some Familiar Plants


Some well established and inter-
esting facts in botanical history re-
late to the origin of familiar plants.
The ancestor of the large and feshy
cabbage was veritable pygmy, a
small plant weighing altogether
scarcely half an ounce; a diminu-
tive little vegetable, reddish in COL
or and bitter in tastes- has been met
amorphosed into the inestimable
potato; the sweet, juicy Altringham
carrot, weighing from five to six
pounds, is in a wild condition dry,
slender root unfit to eat; the deli
cate, well favored Vienna glass kohl
rabi, as large as a mans fist, is
when wild a slender, woody, dry
stem; the caulifower in its natural
locality is a thin branched flower
ing stem, with the little green, Bit
ter flower buds.
Signor Marconi has succeeded in
transmitting wireless messages 400
miles over land and sea.
The new battleship Maine has re-
turned to Cramps shipyard after sat
isfactory builders trial at sea.
Since 1878 s1O,6O7,622 has been ex-
pended in improvements on the Mis-
sissippi river between the mouth of the
Missouri and st. Paul.
By agreement of the attorneys to the
action the suit of the State of Mime
sofa against the Northern Securities
company has been transferred from the
state to the United States court.
John w. Bookwalter of Springfield,
O., has been offered 100000 cash for
the Bookwalter steel process. The CT
fer came from President SchWab of
the new American Steel Casting COM
pany. Mr.. Bookwalter declined to sell.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
How to Open a New Book.

Hold the book with it's back on a
smooth or covered table; let the
front board down, then the other,
holding the leaves in one hand while
you open few leaves at the back,
then few at the front, and so on,
alternately opening back and front,
gently pressing open the sections
till you reach the center of the vol
ume. Do this two or three times,
and you will obtain the best results.
Open the volume violently or care
lessly in any one place and you will
likely break the back and cause
start in the leaves. Never force the
back of the book. ..
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
SPORTING NEWS.

At San Francisco Friday night
James J. Jeffries proved his right to
retain the heavyweight championship
of the world by knocking out Robert
Fitzsimmons in the eighth round of
one of the fastest battles ever seen on
the coast. Fitzsimmons had the better
of the argument in nearly every round,
but youth and weight told in the final
round. The knockout was left hook
that caught Fitzsimmons on the point
of the jaw. Fitz was on his feet as the
referee counted ten, but the fight was
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Six men were hanged in various
parts of Arkansas Friday.
\. M. Rothschild, head of the firm of
A. M. Rothschild & Co. of Chicago,
committed suicide by shooting.
At Porterville CAL, James McKin-
ney, an eX-cOnvict, shot five men, one
fatally, and escaped to the mountains.
One man was shot dead, another
fatally wounded and two seriously
shot in street duel at Greenville,
Miss.
American robbers held up train on
the Mexican Central railroad near Ber-
mejillo and secured $4,000 from the
express car.
Briscoe Frederickson, seventy
year-old negro, has been convicted at
Henderson, Tex, of criminal assault
and given the death penalty.
Harry A. Faulkner, a member of the
St. Louis house of delegates, has been
convicted On a charge of perjury and
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
At Steelton, Pa, William Filler a
steelmaker, shot and killed his wife,
Clara Filler, and Harry Bennett, a ma
chinist. The Filters and Bennett board
ed at the same house and it is alleged
that Filler was jealous of Benefits at
tentions to his wife.
AS prominent young society wo-
man of Philadelphia stepped from the
steamship Kron Prinz Wilhelm on it's
arrival at New York agents of the
treasury department took from her
pearl necklace reported worth $4,000
which she had purchased in Paris and
omitted from her declaration.
Two negroes, whose names are IN
known, we're lynched at Womelsdorf,
w. Va, by an angry mob numbering
several hundred. Both whites and ne
groes are enraged and in arms and
more trouble is hourly expected. The
trouble grows out of the murder of
Chief Bud Wilmoth on July %.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02

The Order of the Garter was
founded in 13444-some writer's say
1350-by Edward III. The original
number of knights was twenty-five,
his majesty making the twenty
sixth.
The emblem of the order is a
dark blue ribbon edged with gold,
bearing the motto 'Honi soft qui
NAL y pense" in golden letters, with
a buckle and pendant of gold richly
chased. 1t is worn on the left leg
below the knee. Regarding the
adoption Of this emblem and motto
the story is that the Countess of
Salisbury let fall her garter when
dancing with the king and that he
picked it up and tied it around his
own leg, but that, observing the
jealous chances Of the queen, he re-
stored it to its fair owner with the
exclamation, "Honi soft qui NAL y
pense!"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02

$50 you don't know whether you
want to go to work or not?'
"Well, suh," answered FIR. Erastus
Pinkley, I'D like de refusal oh de job
a little WHILE"
"But need somebody right away"
''In dat case I'll have to let it 60 by,
I'ze jes' bought policy ticket, an I'll
halter wait till aftuh de drawin' to see
whether I'ze gwine to work at all or
not. "-Washingto Star.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
The Time Honored snanker.

Once my sister Floy was sent on an
errand for some things for my mother.
There was a travelling man there
who was selling carpet spankers, and
he asked her:
HAS your mother got one of these
spankersY
mo, sir" she replied.
"What does she use?' he asked.
"Her hand" was the prompt reply
Chicago Chronicle
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
CUBA AND PORTO RICO.

The Cuban government has taken Of
fetal action in the case of Consul Cen
eral Bragg, accused of making slurrlng
remarks about the residents OF the ISL
and. The matter was referred to the
state department and later to the pres
ident.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
Made His Mark,

"Hivens, Moike, tn eye av We! Phat's
the matther?'
81 sthruck a man Yesterday an he
gave me a receipt for it."-Ohio State
Journal.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02

Mamma" said Tommy, docs sugar
ever cure anybody of anything?"
"Why do you ask, my boy?"
81 thought I'd like to catch it," said
Tommy.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
A Way She Has,
Tommy,

Inquisitive Neighbor i hear that
your sister, is engaged. Is that true?
Small Boy-I dare say. She gener-
ally is.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02

To be tricky and shrewd, that is mott
culture nor is it joy; but to be square
and frank, that is culture, and it is
happiness .-Schoolmaster.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
Putting 1t Gently.
But is she prettyW

but Is She pretty"
"Well, l don't believe in talking
shout girls looks behind her back.
Her fathers worth about $2O,OO0OO0,
and they've taken her to Europe twice
without bringing back any titles, so
you can form your own opinion. Chi
cagO Record Herald
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02
For q Mans Only a Man.

Mr.. Bixby-There, I've let my cigar
90 out. Do you know, it spoils a CT
gar, No matter how good it is, if you
allow it to go out?
Mrs. Bixby-Yes. A cigar is a good
deal like man in that respect.-Pitts-'
kI7---- g.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-08-02

1t is every mans opinion that he
would have been a great man had he
lived fifty years ago.-Atchison Globe.
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The Declaration,

It is a rather Curious fact that while
facsimilGS Of tie Declaration Of InGe
pendence were cyinINOn enough Sev.
eral years ago and were largely used
for advertising purposes they are now
very scarce-so scarce that a Phila-
delphia collector recently paid $40 for
one bearing the advertisement of q
western railroad. The original docu-
ment, preserved in glass, is still to be
seen in the possession of the depart
ment Of state in Washington. but it has
become so faded as to be ne@riy i!leg-
ible, by reason of which a photograph
ic reproduction would be vaIueless.
James D. Mcbride had plates made
and secured a copyright on them in
1874, but these plates were later de-
stroyed by fire. and none are now in
existence Consequently the copies that
have been preserved are constantly in
creasing in value.-Philadelp Rec
ord.