Morris tribune., 1909-07-31

elements united only by common appetite
for spoils"-a designation which is almost true,
and fits equally we'll to the Johnson-Day ma
chine calling itself the Democratic party.
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Governor Johnson has disposed of his home
in st. Peter and has bought home in st. Paul
and will now become a resident of the latter
city. It has always been the proud boast OF
st. Peter that while it lost the capital to St.
Paul. yet the state had to come to ST. Peter
for it's governors. However, if persent plans
do not miscarry, st. Paul will furnish the next
governor.
This has been notable week in the history
of navigation of the air. A French aviator,
Louis Bleriot, actually accomplished the feat
of flying across the English channel, while
long flights were made by Hubert Latham tho
he was unsuccessful in crossing the channel.
In this country, the Wright machine covered
twice this distance. Bleriots feat was specta--
cular, and for that reason he will gain credit
which properly belongs to large number OF
experimenters in aerial navigation. Greater
distances have been covered and longer flights
made before this.
It is stated that the Union Pacific Railway
is planning to plant it's right of way from the
Missouri River to the Pacific with alfalfa. At
each edge of the right of way also will be plant
ed of pine trees alternating with elms,
there being tree at intervals of every two rods.
AS the alfalfa becomes green early in the spring
and remains so until late in the fall the orna-
mental effect should be decidedly pleasing.
Furthermore, it is claimed that the grass and
trees will furnish, in certain localities, decided
protection against snowdrifts and washouts.
1t is stated that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad proposes to do similar planting
and grassing between Ottumwa and Kansas
City.-Scientiic American.
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No! We are not going back. The move
ment towards righteousness has been halted
and turned back in some decisions, some cleo
tions some voters in the national house and
senate But the tide of reform is rising, rising
rising all the time, matter if here and there
under adverse winds local shore storms it
seems for moment to fall. Where an obstacle
is placed in it's way it flows around it, and
raises all the higher. Dams and dikes of selfish
ness and greed and blind mossbackism may
seem to stop it, but the higher they reared
the powerful is the pressure of progress
on their walls, and the fiercer will be the rush |
when at last they overborne For the tide
is nothing less than the great ocean of human
aspiration, the multitudinous sea of better
things for the world.-La Follette's Magazine. |
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DANCEROIJS DRJICS
The bureau of chemistry of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington has performed
a good, if belated, service in issuing formal
warning against the of certain drugs that
are perlous to health, but which have become
among the best sellers in drug stores The
warning is directed at phenacetin, acetanilid
and antipyrin
Investigation conducted by the federal
show that these drugs poison
Gus in the true sense and that the chronic users
of them acquire habit which is little, if any,
less dangerous than the opium and morphine
habits. Some of these drugs were formerly
used largely by physicians in prescriptions, |
but the reports show that their use has been
discontinued Statistics show, how
ever, that the sale of these drugs to the public
is constantly increasing, the drug stores using
them in variety of ways for headache cures, |
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