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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01
NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE.
The Federal Government Is Adop

The Federal Government Is Adopt
ing Now a Classic Form.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Horace A. Taylor writes in Worlds
Work:
1.-THE treasury department, which is
charged with the management of the
national finances, embraces many sig
nificant activities not associated with
the handling of money. For example,
the department plans and builds all tho
government buildings. 1t may be said
that we have reached a definite form of
architecture for our federal structures.
For years the postoffices and custom
houses were designed after the individ-
ual tastes Of the supervising architects.
"Now there is a general classic form
Of public architecture; in some cases.
however, the architecture is made to
conform to local conditions, as in tho
case of the Annapolis postofice. An.
napolis Is community Of colonial
buildings to large degree, and tho
new postoffice there, which was finish
ed last year, was built along classic
lines, but with colonial adaptations
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01
ANIMALS WANDERINGS.
Country Mouse and Town Mouse Fla
BILE Has Foundation In Fact.

Country Mouse and Town Mouse Fla
BILE Has Foundation In Fact.
The fable of the country mouse and
the town mouse has foundation in
fact Mice occasionally migrate in large
numbers 'Ehen food grows scarce and
travel considerable distances to fresh
houses. Farmers in part Of Perth
shire had a good reason to become
aware of this fact when a couple Of
years ago vast swarms of mice invaded
their corn6elds at harvest time.
But the mouse only travels when it
has to. The rat on the contrary, seems
to take yearly outing, in very much
the same fashion as do human beings
Rats are the most migratory creatures
in the world Troops of rats leave the
a month or two in the country, appar-
entity in order to enjoy the change of
food which the country affords at that
time Of the year in the way Of fresh
fruit and grain. Before the cold wealth
er sets in they are all back again in
their old quarters.
Reindeer migrate with the same reg
ularity as swallows. They move south
when winter sets in, but as soon as ev-
er the snow begins to melt they travel
steadily north, sometimes for as much
as a thousand miles.
To end a holiday by deliberate sui
eide is so strange a phenomenon that
for long time naturalists looked upon
the stories Of the migration of the lem
mings as an improbable fiction. Yet the
facts are beyond dispute. At irregular
intervals these ratlike creatures start
out from their homes in the Businesses
Of northern Scandinavia in huge droves
numbering tens Of thousands and tray
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01
RURAL SCHOOLS.

Two bills pending in the legislature af-
fecting rural schools. The one provides for the
consolidation of districts so as to create large
school which can be suitably graded; the other
for the creation of county board to choose su-
perintendents of schools The former bill has
the support of the state superintendent and of
all worshippers of the grade system. It seeks
to impose upon the rural schools the machinery
of city schools excused there only by the mass
ing in cities of school population Every inteli-
gent educator admits it's serious defecIs where
it is established and various devices have been
suggested to remedy it's manifest evils The
bill would extend this evil to the country dis
tricts and deprive them of their elasticity their
freedom and their inestimable advantage of the
utilization of "the overflow of instruction." the
|familiarizing of the pupils in the lower forms
with the advanced studies by hearing instruc-
ton in them.
The superintendent bill has a laudable
purpose and an inutle means of securing it. It
adapts the old method under which the county
commissioners chose that official That was
productive of so much politics and so little fit
incumbents that the legislature wears ago
made the office elective. Under the constitution
any voter is eligible to that office. Oualifca-
tons cannot be prescribed. But the present
method is better than the one proposed Great
progress has been made in the last twenty
years in the quality of elected superintendent.
Further progress is possible but the surest adj
vance is always that made, as this has been nv
the increasing interest and intelligence &c the
voters.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01
WAR COSTS MONEY.

European financiers, who watching the
war between Russia and Japan with inter
est intensified from day to day, have recently
been figuring over again the cost of it all, and
the rate of accumulation of debt by the two
countries. They have found it necessary to
raise their figures, for as the war proceeds the
cost increases, and where while ago it was
estimated at $1OO00OO0 a week to Russia, it is
probable that these figures would now have to
be raised to $12O00,OOO about So 100000 for ev-
cry ordinary business day. That war is expen-
sive business is the oldest of truisins but, when
the present conflict began, no one thought the
totals would roll up to the big figures now rep
resented. In this connection the official figures
of Russia are not to be too closely followed.
The last budget stated the war expenses for
1904 as 1878, 100000 partly disbursed, but best
private reports agree that the expense now is at
the rate of at least $5OO,OOO,OOO year, if indeed
it has not been that high all along.
This cannot continue much longer without
rolling up enormous debt both sides.
Four years of civil war in country put upon
debt of $250OOOO,0CO, and the present con-
flict is piling up debt at rate almost, if not
quite equal to that of our period of strife from
1861 to 1865.
The bond issues made SO far by Russia and
Japan do not represent the cost of the by
even fair part, for much of the expense, espe-
Cially in Japan has been provided for by inter
nal means. So far about $500OOO,OOO of Russian
and Japanese bonds have been sold to Europe
an and American investors.
The Russian minister of finance recently
offered the London Times the privilege of send
ing representative into the Russian treasury
to prove beyond doubt that the great Russian
gold hoard, SO long existent, is still intact, and
that Russia is still in good financial shape. In
Russian finance all thought is of maintenance
of credit and to date there has been no general
lack of confidence in the ability of that country
to make good finally, despite her terrible de-
feats and enormous losses in men and money.
In Japan there is note of regret, blended
with the pean of victory, and the Japanese con-
sui general, Mr.. Uchida, rejecting, doubt
the higher financial and commercial sentiment|
in his country, says Japan will take great pains
to keep from another and would gladly see
this one ended-with honor and indemnity to |
Japan, of course. But all the money indemnity
she may obtain will mover return the thousands
Of lives sacrificed, as Mr. Uchda says, and when
the war is ended Japan will strive to flourish
in the arts of peace and to avoid war whenever
it is possible to do Minneapolis Journal.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01

el steadily soutnward. Death pursG-S,
them in hundred forms. Hawks and
other birds of prey hover above them.
Thousands are drowned in rivers. Yet
the rest struggle on until they reach
the sea. They do not stop. They plunge
in, swim out and struggle on until at
last their strength fails and they
drown. Not one ever returns from this
journey of death,-London Answers.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01
A Hixh steel Chimney

An eight foot steel chimney 230 feei
In height has just been completed and
will sbe erected in Mexico: This viii
be the highest steel chimney In Amer
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01

All Tuesday afternoon the House debated
the various primary election bills, which sever
ally provided for reform plans varying from the
state direct primary of the Lund bill to the Of
fcially conducted caucus Of the Thayer bill.
No bill could get majority, and the result was
that each failed of passage on the roll call
7. G. MORRISON
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01

Human nature is much the same in the
Legislature as in other branches of human ac-
tivity, and Saturday nearly every member sud
denly realized that it was the last day to intro
duce bills. The result was that there were 1O2
bills introduced in the House and half as many
in the Senate
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01

ronage when the Legislature passed the bill in
the first place; but as there are good reasons for
leaving the capitol in the hands of the Commits
sion for some time yet, the Governors veto also
has a strong political faint. Neither party is
gaining any advantage by playing peanut poll
tics.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-04-01

Gov. Johnson for the first time exercised
$ veto power this week, and sent back to the
mate the Horton bill providing for leaving
e new capitol and it's patronage under the
ntrol of the Capitol Commission. AS the
ntrol Of the capitol has always been i'll the
pds Of the Governor, and as the Commission
Republicans, it looked like a scramble for pat
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES.

Nearly everybody in Abyssinia car
ries a Robinson Crusoe straw umbrella,
which cannot be closed.
The first notes of the "Marseillaise"
are being used as a popular form of
whistled greeting in London.
Malodorous automobiles and motor
cycles are not allowed at Pontresina,
the fashionable Swiss resort.
Because of the dust raised by automo-
biles. it is getting to be difficult in Eng
land to rent houses on roads used by
motor cars.
Owing to the insufficient supply of
apothecary clerks in Germany there is
an insistent demand that women should
be educated for places in drug stores.
Helene Lorensen, a Copenhagen
dressmaker, II years old, had a record
of having Tilted II lovers in two years
when the eleventh ended her promising
career with a Dagger.
The porters of the market place in
Paris carry, strapped on their backs,
great baskets full of garden produce.
Often you see q man with a load of cab
bages that is bigger than himself.
For drinking a glass of beer in a rail-
way refreshment room at Frankfort, in
the presence of an officer, a German sol
der has been court-martialed and SEN
fenced to Is days Imprisonment.
In order to aid the police in maintain
ing order on the occasion of a recent
motor race, the authorities of the town
of ~Rezemburg, Germany, compelled all
local cyclists to enroll themselves
among the police.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03

America that was going to buy the
Acropolis and move it to the United
States and make it over into a morgue.
and that he didn't care for expense.
for he vas the richest man in the
world.
We'll, we looked things over, like
all tourists do, and we went to Mars
Hill. where Paul preached, and dad
read up on Paul. and offered to bet
hat Paul could give cards and spades
to any preacher, and then peat him
preaching, and the next night we went
to the place where Socrates and Plato
taught school, and some of the Greeks
had watched us pretty close, and just
after dark, as we were walking around.
a beautiful woman, like a Greek statue.
rose up before us, with a white robe on,
and she went up to dad and claimed his
protection, as she was being pursued
by robbers, and she cuddled up to dad.
At first we thought she was a ghost,
but when she touched dad, and chung
to him, he said she was warm all
right, and was no ghost, and he told
her not to worry, as she was unde"
the protection of the American flag.
and he would stand by her till hades
froZe over, and he put his left arm
around her and drew his revolver. !
can remember the scene as though it
was last night, and how hat Greek
woman chung to dad, and thanked him.
and she smiled a smile full of teeth
and red lips, and then she looked out
into the moonlight and screamed:
There they Gomez and she tainted
in dads arms. and then we were sur
rounded by about a dozen Greek ban
dts, dressed in white petticoats, and
with long crooked daggers, and one
fellow hat seemed to be the chief
put a crooked knife to dads throat,
and dad turned blue and said what
are you going to do, but they didn't
say anything, but took us to a cave,
where the woman got over her faint
ing spell, and then they dressed dad
up in a white p%etticoat, and these long
socks such as ballet dancers wear and
we all got on to small mules and start
ed for the mountains, and rode all
night.
Say, dad was a picture. The Greeks
are small men, and they look all right
in petticoats, but dad was so fat he
looked swelled up, and W the mule
noticed it, and the girl. who was on
the white mule. laughed at dad, and
she could talk English, and she told
dad that the bandits only wanted his
money, and they wouldn't hurt him if
he gave up a million OF so. 1t proved
that she was nj of the gang. and
dad and>I held a consultation, and we
decided to give her a letter to the
American consul at Athens. authorizing
him to give her a carload OF money
for ransom. and in the Letter dad
wound up with a postscript telling the
consul not to give a COMPOUNDED cent,
but to arrest her and send troops to
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03
FUNNY
People Will Drink Coffee When II
"Does Such Things"

81 began to use Postum because tbs
old kind of coffee had so poisoned mJ
whole system that ! was on the point
OF breaking down, and the doctor
warned me that l must quit it.
My chief ailment was nervousness
and heart trouble.
Any unexpected noise would cause
me the most painful palpitation, make
me faint and weak.
I had heard of Postum and began to
drink it when l left off the old coffee.
1t began to help me just as soon as
the old effects of the other kind OF
coffee passed away. 1t did not stimu-
late me for awhile, and then leave
me weak and nervous as coffee used
to do. Instead of that it built up my
strength and supplied a constant vigor
to my system which / can always rely
On. It enables me to do the biggest
kind of a days work without getting
tired. All the heart trouble. etc., has
passed away.
81 give it freely to all my children,
from the youngest to the oldest, n 1t
keeps them all healthy and hearty
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road to
Wellyille," in pkgs.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03
PEOPLE IN PRINT.

Mrs. Peary, during the several Arc
tic expeditions wherein she accom-
panied her husband, became an expert
and fearless walrus hunter.
Mrs. Lucinda Watkins, of After
bury, ILL.,, is Sc; her daughter is rs;
her granddaughter, "a; her great
granddaughter, 81; her great-great-
granddaughter, 10; her great-great-
great-grandson, ten months. She has
131 living descendants.
Mrs. Abbie Gardener Sharp, the sur
vivor of the Spirit Lake massacre of
1857, is living at Pillsbury Point, Lake
Okoboji, la. She has written a mis-
tory of the massacre and has pur-
chased her old home at the lake and
spends her summers there.
Frank Rockefeller, the youngest and
least known of the oil kings brothers,
is reserved and unpretentlous, his
hobby being the tanning of wild ami
mails at his home near Cleveland,
Wickliffe-on-the-Lake. On his Kan
saS ranch he has raised 5000 horses
and 10000 cattle.
Constantin Schususs, a young Rus
sian, supposed to be Count Colstantin
Stranzinski, is studying railroading in
this country. He is not taking a
course in any college Or technical
school, but is at work on the New York
Central railroad, learning the business
from the bottom up.
George R. Blabon, son of the late
G. w. Blabon, who died in Philadel-
phia a year ago, leaving SIS ,000, 900,
but cutting off his son, was buried by
the G.. A. R., in San Jose, Cal, recent
ly, as he had died penniless and alone
in a cabin on a ranch. He was a vet
eran Of the civil war.
J. H. Seger, agent of the Cheyenne
Indians at Colony. has adopted a plan
of having the young Indians of the set
Element ear their livelihood by doing
farm work in that section. He has is
sued orders that all of them prepare
to pick cotton this fall, telling them
that their provisions and clothes de-
pend upon this work.
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller cares as
little for society as does her husband.
OF rather less than the usual height.
unassuming and quiet, she is not a
woman who is readily remembered
Indeed, few people know her, and these
are mostly members Of the Baptis:
church, where she attends services.
Mrs. Rockefeller is a devout church
goer, and when her health permits at.
tends Sunday school as we'll as church
services.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03
PARALYSIS CURED
Case Seemed Hopeless but Yielded to
Or. Williams Pink Pills.

Mr.. Kenney has actually escaped from
the p%aralytic's fate to which he seemed a
short time ago hopelessly doomed. The
surprising report has been fully verified
and some important details secured in a
personal interview with the recent suf-
ferer.
"The DOCTOR" said MI. Kenney, "told
me that if I wanted to live any length
of time I would have to give up work al
together, and he told my friends that
the paralysis which had begun would in
time involve my whole body"
"Just how were you afflicted at this
time ?" Mr.. Kenney was asked.
"Well [ had first hot, and then cold
body felt as if needles were being stuck
into it. These sensations were followed
by terrible pains, and again would have
no feeling at all, but a numbness would
come over me-, and Iwould not be able to
move. The most agonizing fortunes came
from headaches and a pain in the spine.
"Night after night / could mo- get my
natural sleep and my system was wrecked
by the strain of ~torturing pains and the
effect Of the opiates / was forced to take
to induce sleep. AS / look back OF the
terrible suffering / endured during this
period I often wonder how / retained my
reason through it all.
But relief came quickly when I
was induced to try DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. The very first box
seemed to help me, and seven boxes made
me entirely we'll. There can be no doubt
about the thoroughness of my cure, for I
have worked steadily ever since and that
is nearly four years."
Mr.. Kenney is at present employed by
the Merrimac Hat Company and resides
at 101 Aubin street, Amesbury, Mass.
The remedy which he used with such
satisfactory results, is sold by all drug
gists, o. direct by the DIR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N Y.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03
Taps Know Good Music.

picking up a menu card of a hotel
in Yokohama, one sees thereon a mu-
sic programme, made UP entirely Of
compositions by Beethoven, FlotoW.
HAYDN. Strauss and List. Which
rroye that the Japanese know good
music and evidently like it, else the
hotel management ,sould not make up
its programme from composers of this
grade. This is an Improvement on the
American taste. which goes in for
"ragtime' or such chaste works as
"Bedelia." Smoky Mckes,' The st.
Louis Tickle" The moro we hear
and see OF Japan AM its people the
more we are iaclinei to he view that
ia many respects tney represent a
higher degree of civilization than
boastful America and Americans have
yet reached.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03

made me dance, and dad kept saying
Let's have one more IN me- and they
drank until the whole crowd was
stupefied, and dad acted as though be
vas drunken than any of them, but
when they all got asleep, and | began
to cry, and wish l was dead, dad woke
up and said: Now l won't do a
around to the sleeping bandits and
took all their knives and all their
money, and he took off the petticoat
they had given him to wear and tied
a blanket around his waist, and he
tied their legs together with strings
before daylight on the second morning
dad and l got on the biggest mule and
started down the trail. and when we
struck level ground we mauled that
mule and he got a move on him and
went across that prairie on a hop,
skip and jump, and only touched the
high places.
Along towards noon we saw dust
in the road ahead, and pretty o o we
met a mess of Greek soldiers. with the
American consul at the head. and told
them where the bandits were, drunk
and with their legs tied, and the con
sui and some soldiers went back to
Athens with us, and the rest of the
troops went on after the bandits. We
got to Athens before night. and found
the woman under guard in the con-
sul's office, and when she saw dad.
and he told her how he had liked the
bandits, she cried, and said size wasn't
to blame, and wanted to hug dad. but
he said: Nay, nay, Pauline, and
then she said he was no gentleman
because the consul did not pay the ram
som. and dad told her he wrote to the
consul not to cough up and she looked
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03

jestvenskys fleet. The Japanese torpedo boats attacked the Russian
ships after they were wrecked by the I2-inch guns on Togos ironclads.
That battle has proved, more than ever, the superiority OF batheshlps
and has set the torpedo where it belongs, in a class of auxiliary weapons
which can be used effectively only under certain conditions.
The true policy of the United States is to keep on building hrstclass
batteships. We will soon come, | believe, to great turbine ironclads, car
ryng patterns of ten 12inch guns and 40 or 50 three-inch guns.
We can hardly stop till we have 50 batleships and a naval force OF
at least 10000 men-not if we are to hold and defend the Philippines,
Hawaii and Porto Rico, protect Cuba and make the Panama cana. secure
when it is built.
We can't improvise a force like that. 1t will take years to make it.
Some day we will be put to the test in actual warfare with a powerful
naton-perhaps more than one naton-and then We must be ready, not
only with ships, but with men. What do you suppose Russia would have
been willing to pay for the eight battleships of my squadron if she could
have got them a few weeks ago? She could have paid 10 Or even 20 or
80 times what they cost, and yet they would have been cheap. That
the way to look at this naval situation. President Roosevelt has it right.
No great nation can afford to be unprepared for war. Defeat is too
costly.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03

The MADE DAD ~ lEE
COOKING.
mad at dad and said: You think you
are smart, don't you? and then she
was taken to Jail, and dad and l took
an account of the stuff we robbed the
bandits of, and found we had several
hundred dollars, and besides. dad filed
a claim against Greece for halt a mil
lion dollars, for lacerated feelings, and
left it with the consul to collect. SO
if you ever hear of American warships
going to Greece. you will know what is
the matter.
THE next morning the soldiers came
into Athens with the bandits tied to
mules, and they threatened to kill a
on sight, SO we skipped out. but a
got his pants back, and so re didn't
have to sail with p%etticoats on, but
whenever dad meets a Greek gentle
man around home here it is all | can
do to keep him from robbing the
Greek. Say, give me another slice OF
that cheese" and the bad boy got up
and stretched himself and yawned.
The old groceryman looked at the
bad boy for a minute, and Their said:
Either your father ought 10 be in
the penitentiary or else you are the
condemndest liar in America.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03
WANTED SIMPLE TUNES.
those Classical Things on the Violin
Were Too Much for
Him.

A Westport fond father made his daugh-
ter mad and. incidentally, held up to view
his lack of knowledge of violin music. His
daughter is a violinist. A visitor was in
the library, and the father suggested that
his daughter play. She was willing, re-
lates the Kansas City Times.
her father, "and has just got home. I
haven't heard her play much myself yet"
The girls mother went to the piano in
the next room, and the girl got her violin.
For three or four minutes twanging from
the two instruments was heard. Then
there was a halt. 1t was there that the
fond father made his mistake.
Now play something simple, Mary. he
for me-"
The girl glanced through the door. Her
face wore a look of disgust.
'I've been tuning, father" she said.