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E. w. KAN1)ALL, EDITOR
WEDNESDAY, FEU 17,1880.
The most persistently promineut
man iu lUe country—Fit/. John Por
ter.
The etTItors of Minnesota appreciate
brains. This is why C. K. Davis is go
popular among tlu'in.
Seattle property lias declined 40 per
cent, in the past two years, according
to the l\!*t-lntellis encer.
liro. Dewey has boon appointed
clerk of court for Big Stone county.
He will make an efficient officer.
Xothiug connected with the present
adminitration ig really genuine un
less the word "reform" is blown in
the bu'ttvmi of the bottle.
Mr. Stead is regarded by Louise
Mitchell, at least, "as a champion in
the holy war against the tyranny of
vicious men over women."
liniiroads get into a tight occasion
ally and down go rates. If hotel keep
ers would follow suit, people could af
ford to travel more than they do.
Ex-President Hayes says that dur
ing the last fifteen months $33,350 has
been disbursed from the Slater fund
in aid of colored schools in the South
ern States.
It is said that Mr. Gibbs lately ap
peared at a public reception in a dress
eout and kid gloves. If this be true,
it is all up with him as a granger can
didate for governor.
The St. Paul Globe lias done itself
proud lately. Its accounts of the win
ter carnival festivities are more com
plete and more accurately given than
those of any other-paper.
Anuloer great name is added to the
death roll for l8i(. It is that of ex
Uoy. Horatio G. Seymour of New
York. There seems to be an unusual
fatality among great men at the pres
ent time.
Henry M. Stanley says that iu his
jouruey across Africa he started with
180 pounds of books, but reached the
Atlantic with only the Bible, Sliaks
peare, t'arlyle's "Sartor Resartus," a
work on navigation and an almanac.
The London Times says that on a
recent test of several thousand bayo
nets now iu use in the British army,
being a fair representation of the qual
ity of all, thirty-three percent were
found to be useless, for lack of stiff
ness and temper.
Don't commit yourself to the for
tunes otauy candidate or set of candi
dates too early. Wait till all are in
and then select those who are best.
In selecting men for office, the doc
trine of the "survival of the fittest"
should be remembered.
A Halifax dispatch states that one
thousand Spring Hill miners are out
on a strike. The trouble was caused
by some men in the north part of the
workings demanding an increase of
wages, as the place was considered as
dangerous to work iu. The demand
was not heeded, when the whole force
quit.
There has been no abandonment of
principle or dignity in the conduct of
the St. Paul winter carnival. The
carnival grounds have been closed on
Sunday and in other ways have the
sports been under restraiut. In most
respects, St. Paul is a very sensible
city.
The Dakota County Tribune says
Prom the number of members of the
last legislature who are being an
nouced as candidates for the various
state offices, one Is led to wonder if
they were not thinking of future pos
sibilities when they voted to increase
the salaries of the offices they now
covet, They seem to forget all about
the constitution, which prohibits that
sort of thing.
Bangor (Dak.) Rustler:—The St.
Paul clergymen are seriously attack
ing the labor problem, it is said. It
speaks well for the St. Paul clergy.
It is high time that the American
clergy should interest themselves and
lend the weight of their great influ
ence in matters temporal. They will
acquire infinitely more spiritual in
fluence if they will assist oppressed
and struggling humanity to obtain
ttw necessaries.
The value of time is clearly demoo*
Strated by Dr. S. A. Allibone, iu his
"Dictionery of Authors," when he
shows by a time table (taking days in
a year 313, and working hours iu a
day 8) that .3 minutes lost each day is,
in a year, 3 days, 2 hours and o min
utes 10 minutes is 6 days, 4 hours, 10
minutes 20 minutes is 18 days and 20
minutes 30 minutes is 19 days, 4
hours, SO minutes 00 minute# 89
days and 1 hour.
Minneapolis lias already begun to
boom her proposed exposition. If she
will conduct this exposition, so that it
will not interfere with the state fair,
fcfee state at large will aid in all her
efiorts, but if the exposition is to be
antagonistic to the state fair, the peo
pleat large will take but little inter
est in it. No place, not even Minne
apolis, can expect support in selfishly
exalting local interests to the detri
ment of the interests
of a
whole state.
Any young man is a fool, in the ee
ti mat ion of the Davenport (Iowa) Ga
zette, who goes into a government of
fice where such office is subject to a
change with every administration.
He had better learn to be a printer, a
drug clerk, a blacksmith, a baker,
cobbler, a tailor—anything which wlH
give him independence and the prob
ability of permanent employment.
His hands may not be so soft and his
fingernails less artistic, but depend
upon it he will be vastly more pleased
with the place he occupies in the so
cial structure. Every man should fit
himself for some particular sphere In
life. Until he does that he is a slave
to any«ttd every exigeucy.
•ft. M-y, ••••..
FIRE IMSURANCE IN MINNESOTA.
Sf«te Insurance Commissioner Me
Gill has prepared a statistical table
for the year 1885 which is worth smue
public attention. It details a list of
about one hundred and thirty-live in
surance companies doinjj business iu
Minnesota. The aggregate amount of
risks written was ififtM,780,034. The
magnitude of this sum is lielter real
ized when it is remembered that it
reaches more than half the entire as
sessed valuation of the state. The to
tal amount of premiums received wns
$2,709,030, the average annual premi
um rate being 1.34 per cent. The to
tal amount of losses incurred during
the year was #1,114,4})2.
Ti»e ratio ot losses to premiums was
41 per cent. That is to say, the com
panies paid back $2 for every $5 they
received, In view of these figures it
i» interesting to know tiiat insurance
men have repeatedly asserted that the
companies have been losing money in
Minnesota for years. We do not care
to question the truth of the assertion.
We merely desire to say that when
taken in connection with the forego
ing figures it furnishes an instructive
commentary on insurance methods.
Insurance is a form of communism.
It distributes the losses of individuals
among all the insured. The compan
ies provide merely the machiuery for
the collection and disbursement of a
tuud. The fund required for disburse
ment iu Minnesota last year was less
than $1,150,000. But the fund collect
ed was about $2,270,000. As their pay
for acting as agents in this communis
tic operation, the insurance companies
have retained three-filths of the sum
collected. The euormous number of
competing companies keep in opera
tion twenty times as much machinery
as is necessary to transact the busi
ness. And the people have to pay for
the maintenance of all this machin
ery Suppose there was a single cen
tral agency for the collection and dis
tribution of this yearly fund for state
insurance against Are does any. one
suppose the people would have to pay
out nearly three millions iu order to
get back one million? It is true that
the one hundred and thirty compan
ies represented in Minnesota do not
maintain each its separate establish
ment. The leading local agencies
represent a number of companies.
But it is perfectly obvious that the
principal cost of insurance is due to
the unnecessary duplication of ma
chinery for the collection and dis
bursement of funds.
The time will come, undoubtedly,
when the total volume of premiums
will not be greatly in excess of the to
tal amount of losses paid but before
that time comestlie insurance busi
ness must be reorganized upon a sim
pler and more unified basis. It is pos
sible that insurance may be assumed
as a state function. That it could be
managed by the state in such a way
as to produce a surplus revenue and at
the same time reduce the cost of in
surance from one-third to one-half, is
reasonably certain. Our American
progress in the direction of state so
cialism as yet falls far short of the in
corporation of insurance into the busi
ness activities of the commonwealth
but we are becoming socialists, in the
proper sense of that word, so rapidly
that stranger things than state insur
ance may be expected.—Minneapolis
Tribune.
FARM NOTES.
Montevideo Leader:—There is little
profit in raising stocK or running a
dairy, where starvation methods are
practiced. The man in this country
who cannot afford to feed his stock
liberally and make tiiem comfortable
should live single, raise wheat exclu
sively, and buy his beef, pork, butter
and eggs. He may ruu behind con
tinually, but that he is bound to do
anyway so long as no one suffers but
himself, it is little matter.
SALT FOR FIELD CROPS.
On this subject, Prof. Wm. McMur
trie, of the University of Illinois,
writes the Prairie Farmer in this wise:
The cause ot the beneficial action of
salt upon the soil and vegetation is
doubtful yet there is no question of the
result. We have seen a field of wheat
thoroughly yellow in the spring,
change almost at once to a beautiful
green by the application of one or two
bushels of salt per acre. It is proba
ble that it acts upon the iron com
pounds of the soil and brings tlieni in
to condition for absorption by vegeta
tion. It is almost impossible to state
how much it is safe to apply, but we
should consider that since the above
named quantity proved sufficient to
give beneficial result, it would be use
less to apply a larger quantitiy. On
the other hand, since definite experi
ments have shown that there is no ab
solute necessity for it in the nutrition
of plants, we should advise, as a
measure of economy, its application
in limited quantity, and only when
the land appears to be intested with
noxious insects, or the vegetation
shows evidence of some special debil
ity, such as that above described.
One of the principal reasons why
Canadian dairymen turned their at
tention to making cheese, was their
failure to make buttei thai could be
exported at a profit, says the Provis
ioner. Putting all their cream into
cheese is, therefore, the principal rea
son why Canadian cheese, through its
superiority, is rapidly ousting, in for
eign markets, iU rival made iu the
United States* 1j
Montevideo Leader:—Don't imag
ine that it is spring and that the cattle
can "rustle" without feed the balance
of the season. The next two months
settles the question of whether your
stock is cdming ont "spring poor" or
otherwise.
Great oare should be taken iu bed
bing in winter time and in eleaaing
the stables, saps a correspondent of
the American Dairyman. Unless ex
tra pains are taken foul smelling sta
bles will be the result consequently
the milk will be more or less affected.
I am well satisfied that filthy stables
and filthy habits of milking are the
chief causes of so much poor butter
being made in winter and spring. I
am well aware that butter fnade in
winter lacks flavor and color, but with
proper care it can be made sweet aud
clean. Very much depends upon the
food the cows eut in order to have
riilitr, coin meal, with beans and oats
ground fed liberally, and a little oil
meal added, is about as uear perfect
rations as can be given iu winter,
with plenty of good, bright, Timothy
hay and a mixture ot etover. It is a
common sight to see iu this part of
tlie country cows in winter time with
their hips loaded down with manure,
their bags ditto, with their backs cov
ered with hay seed and dust. The
brush and card are never seen in the
cow stables to them the cows are to
tal strangers. Now this is all wrong.
As a rule the cows are well fed some
have bank barns, but there is a want
of cure iu grooming and handling. It
pays to card and brush the cows dai
ly. They look better and are better
and certainly the milking can be done
more cleanly.
My wife, who suffered severely from
rheumatism, received marked benefit
from the Athlophoros while taking it
and that the benefit received has been
permanent admits of no doubt. John
son Stephens, Hazel Green, Wis.
Drummers aud peddlers are not
popular at Port Arthur. They are re
quired to pay a license of $25.00 per
day. For selling goods without a li
cense they are liable to a fine of $50.
A Pan-Electrical Aspiration.
AViuona Republican.
O, weave me a Garland of telephone stock,
Upon wires that never will sunder or rust
And embroider thereon this motto so pat:
"High official position's a public trust."
U 1.
FLOWER SEEDS FREE.
The publishers of the Housekeeper
are anxious to secure a larger number
of three month's trial subscribers, and
offer to nmil postpaid to any lady
who sends twenty-five cents for a tri
al subscription three mouths, twelve
packets of American grown choice
tlower seeds. For specimen copy of
this charming home paper, and full
particulars as to offer, address Buck
eye Pub. Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
Jay d'" "Waistcoat.
A y o u i e n o -o e o u v a s
dining with the family. Conversation
turned on tricks, and the j'oung friend
said he could take off" a man's vest
without removing his coat. He ex
plained that feat, which consists of
working the ve^t down the arms by
gradually coaxing the shoulders
through the armholos. Then the vest
can be removed by slipping it oft' un
der the coat slecvei. Dexterity and
patience are required. The young man
was positive he was the only one pres
ent who could do it. Jir. Gould listen
ed to the explanation and said that
any roan could do it, and that he could
do it on the spot, i he caller was zeal
ously anxious to bet his modest pile
against an equal Sinn to bo put up by
the miiliouaire but the latter advised
him not to bet any more than a big
apple, as he would be sure to lose it.
Mr. Gouid thereupon proceeded to per
forin the eiusive act. He first took off
his coat.
"Hold on, sir," said the young man,
"that is not permitted it is barred."
"I understand that,"' replied the
banker: "I'll put on the coat again.
I'm only getting ready."
Then he took off his vest and at once
put on his coat, and succeeded it with
putting on his vest outside of his coat.
"I'm at your service now," he quiet
ly said.
The young man lost an apple, but
gained a verification of the important
truth that there is more than one way
of doing a thing. In his own style
there is no greater lover of quiet fun
than Jay Gould.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Paris Ai To Health,
In health, Paris is on a level with a
hundred other places. It has nothing
of its own to offer. Its climate pre
sents a fair average of the qualities and
faults of central Continental weather
the air is drier and more vivifying than
that of Eugland extremes of heat and
cold are sometimes felt, but they are
unfrequcnt strong winds are rare and
though fogs have become somewhat ac
climatized of late }*ears, the air is on
the whole fairly bright and pleasant.
But the same atmosphere may be found
almost every where along the same par
allel of latitude. The sanitary condi
tions are good the sewerage is excel
lent the water is abundant and pure,
and the precautions against infection in
all its forms are minute and well ap
plied. The material conditions of life
are, however, growing so much alike
in all large towns that we are living
everywhere under more and more sim
ilar influences, and it may be said with
out much inexactness that, so far as
Europe is concerned, what used to be
called especially a healthy or unhealthy
place is becoming difficult to find. Epi
demics come and go in Paris as they
do in other centres of population, but
they are seldom traceable to local
causes, and usually assume a general
character. But all these qualities arc
merely negative they imply the ab
sence of objections, uot the presence of
recommendations Paris possesses no
positive advantages in climate or
health, and English people will not be
tempted to live in it for reasons of that
sort.—The Fortnightly Review.
Three Frigid Facts.
1. Every man knows better what he
wants to buy and sell than hi3 govern
ment can possibly know for him. He
will buy and sell to the best advantage
if left free to buy aud sell as he choos
es.
2. Every ono who buys sells at the
same time. His purchase is really an
exchange. The money he pays for tho
goods which ho buys is really an order
given to the seller for other goods.
The more buying, tho more selling.
3. As regards dealings between in
habitants of the same street, the same
village, the same town, the same coun
try, no one things of disputing these
truths. But they are just as true as
regards dealings between inhabitants
of different countries.—'J'. R. Farrcr.
The Bet Was OC
A few days ago, after a couple of
esteemed citizens, who are close neigh
bors, had arranged to pass a few days
with their families at a lake in Oak
land county, one of them offered to
wager a box of cigars that he would
catch the largest hsh. The wager was
promptly taken, and next day one of
the gentlemen put in an appearance at
a fish stand on the market and said to
the dealer:
"Have you got a fresh pickerel
weighing about fifteen pounds r'
"I have, sir."
"Well, 1 want you to put him on ice
and ship him to me at Lake. I pro
pose to catch him on a hook out
there."
"Very well, if. I think I'll ship the
two together.'1
"The twoP"
"Yes, sir. Mr.-——(mentioning the
other esteem od citizen) was here an
hour ago, and bought one weighing
twenty pounds. It will take Jess ice
to pack the two in the same box!"
The fish were paid for, but the
bet was declared off.—Detroit Free
HUMILIATED COWBOYS.
The Lesson Tliat Was Taught Them by an
Uuobtrusivo Tenderfoot.
There havo boon a great many sto
ries told of tho reckless daring and
abandon of the cowboy. Ho is an
American production, and at the sound
of the word cowboy tho mind reverts
to some western locality where law
aud order are unknown, and are sup
plied by a rude sot of conventionalities,
the
nou-observaine
of which means
violence without process of trial. The
typical cowboy must be fearless, ready
to shoot at a moment's warning, wild
in ids make-up aud language, and
ready to perpetrate a joke on a "ten
derfoot" at any time.
But there is often considerable brag
gadocia in the cowboy, and a good illus
tration of this fact was told a
(Sentinel
reporter by a station agent, who had
lived in the west for many years and
had been in the employ of various rail
roads iu localities whero cowboys were
numerous.
"1 have seen a good many daring
deeds performed aud coarse jokes per
petrated by cowboys," said tho agent,
"but 1 will tell you of a little incident
where the wind was taken out of throe
cowboys by a determined, fearless
'tenderfoot.' It happened only -last
spring. 1 was then station agent and
telegraph operator for the Northern
l'acilic Railroad company at a place
near tho Montana line. It was not
much of a place, as it consisted only
of a depot, a house or two, and a sa
loon.
"One morning a traveling man ar
rived at the depot by stage from up
north somewhere. He had a small
sample-case and sachel. He was be
low medium height and rather slight,
but was very ueatly dressed and wore
a silk hat. He was traveling for a
New York jewelry house. Ho was
about an hour early for the train east,
and he opened his grip on the plat
form, took out a brush, and dusted his
clothing and shoes. He then drew out
an old newspaper, leaned up against
the side of the depot with one foot pro
jected in front of the other, and began
reading.
"Meanwhile, however, threo cow
boys had sauntered up to the depot.
They all eyed him closely and watched
his operations. When he began read
ing they huddled together aud talked
awhile in an undertone. Presently one
of them—a big six-footer—left tho
group and begau to saunter carelessly
about the platform with his head in
the air inspecting the posters on the
building aud the cornice. When he
got around where the traveling man
stood, he lifted his big brogan and
planted it iiriuiy on the jewelry man's
foot. No apology was made. The
traveling man merely looked up, drew
his foot back a moment, then placed it
back where it was. The cowboy pass
ed back to the other two. They all
chuckled and joined iu the low-toned
conversation.
"Soon the cowboy started out again
on a similar round, gaping at the roof.
Wiieu he reached the traveling man he
tried to bring down his coarse boot on
the extended foot. The traveling man
jerked his foot back suddenly, and the
brogan caiue down with a thump on
the platform. Another conference and
chuckling followed. Finally tho cow
boy set out on the third round. Just
as lie was about to raise his foot to
plant it on that of the traveling man,
the latter looked up quickly and said:
'See here, there is my foot, and it's
going to stay there. You step oii it,
if you want to, but I want to tell you
that before you can get off of it I will
kiil you.'
"Such a volley staggered the cow
boy. He looked at tho foot, and then
at tho small possessor, and finally
moved off without stepping on it. An
other consultation followed.
"The traveling man calmly read his
paper a few minutes, and then took
from his sachel three apples. He look
ed at them a moment, and suddenly
threw them a few
leet
into the air and
then quickly drew a revolver, lircd
.ree shots, splitting each apple into a
zen pieces before they reached the
g: jund. He replaced the cartridges
in '.he empty chambers of the revolver,
an. returned it to his pocket.
The cowboys witnessed the act
without saying a word, and soon, com
plex ly cowed, turned and left the de
pot. Tho traveling man told me after
they eft that he would have killed the
three if them had tho fellow stepped
on his foot again, and I think he would,
as lie was quick as lightning. He
then sh wed me a medal he carried,
which won as being the most rapid
and one of the best shot3 in New York.
The stor} simply illustrates that there
is sometii les a great deal of fictitious
valor and iaring about the cowboy."—
Milwaukee Sentinel.
lAkes of Solid Salt in Asia.
From a paper read by Sir Peter
Lumsden before the Royal Geographi
cal Society: Yaroiian means "the
sunken ground," and no word can bet
ter describe the general appearance of
the valley of these lakes. The total
length of the valley from Kangruali
road on the west to the Band-i-Dozan,
which bounds it on the east, is about
thirty miles, and its greatest breadth
about eleven miles, divided into two
parts by a connecting ridge which runs
across from north to south, with an
average height of about 1,800 feet, but
has a narrow, which rises some 400
feet above the general average. To
the west of this ridge lies the lake
from which the Tekke Turcomans
from Merv get their salt. The valley
of this lake is somo six miles square,
and i3 surrounded on all sides by a
steep, almost precipitous descent, im
passable for baggage animals, so far
as I am aware, except by the Merv
road, in the northwest corner. The
level of tho lake I made to bo about
1,430 feet above tho soa level, which
gives it a descent of some 400 feet from
tho level of the connecting ridge, and
of some 050 feet below the general
plateau above. The lake itself lies In
the centcr of the basin, and the .supply
of salt is apparently uuiimited.
The bod of the lake is one solid mass
of hard salt, perfectly level, and cov
ered by only an inch or two of water.
To ride over it was like riding over
ice or cement. The bottom was cov
ered with a slight sediment, but when
that was scraped away the pure white
salt shone out below. How deep this
deposit may be it is impossible to say,
for no one has yet got to the bottom of
it To tho east of tho dividing ridge
is the second lake, from which the
Saryks of Penjdoh take their salt. The
valley in which this lake is situated is
much tho larger of the two. The val
ley proper is itself some lifteen miles
in length by about ten miles in breadth.
The descent to it is precipitous on the
north aud west sides only, the eastern
and southeastern end sloping gradual
ly up in a succession of undulations.
Tho level of this is apparently lower
than that of the other. I made it out
to be somo 800 feet above the sea level.
Tho salt in this lake is not so smooth
as in the other and does not look so
pure. It is dug out in flakes or strata,
generally of some four iuehtt* iu thick
ness, is loaded into bags, aud carried
off on camels for sale without further
preparation.
The best on earth can truly he «e*id
of Griggs Glycerine Salve which is a
sure, safe and speedy cure for cuts,
bruises, scalds, bums, wounds and all
other sores. Will positively cure
piles, tetter and all skiu eruptions.
Try this wonder healer. Satisfaction
gu&ranted or money refunded. Only
25 cents. Bold by druggists,
0?
General Grant's It iticenos.
He was never a sccrotivo man until
tho positions of responsibility in which
he was placed compellod him to be
chary of giving expression to his opin
ions. He then learned the force of the
philosopher's maxim that the uuspoken
word is a sword in tho scabbard, while
the spoken word is aswordintheiiands
of one's enemy.
In tho lield there were constant vis
itors in camp ready to circulate any in
timations of tho commander's move
ments, at the risk of having such val
uable information reach the euemy in
tho White Houso, every encouraging
expression to an applicant for favors
was apt to be tortured into a promise,
ajjd the President naturally became
guarded in his intercourse with gener
al visitors. When questioned beyond
the bounds of propriety, his lips closed
like a vice, and the obtruding party
was left to supply all the subsequent
conversation. These circumstances pro
claimed him a man who studied to be
uncommunicative, and gave him a rep
utation for reserve which could not
fairly be attributed to him. He was
called the "American Sphynx" and
"Ulysses the Siieut," and he was pop
ularly supposed to move about with
scaled lips.
When accompanying him through
New England tho summer after tne
close of the war, it was soon seen that
tho stories of his reticence had pre
ceded him. The trip was tho first of
those grand ovations with which he was
always greeted by tho people through
whose communities ho travelled. The
train stopped for a few minutes at a
small town in Maine, and the people,
as usual, took the opportunity of ex
tending a greeting and delivering their
words of welcome. As the General
stood in the doorway of the rear car, a
tall, gaunt-looking woman elbowed her
way through the crowd till she got near
the jlatform. Here she stopped, and
put on a pair of spectacles with glasses
iu them that looked about as big as the
lenses in large telescopes, and taking
a good look at tho General, said, gasp
ing for breath as she spoke, "Well,
I've come down hyerc a-runnin' right
on tho clean jump, nigh on to tew mile,
just to git a look at the man that lets
the women do all the talkinV'—Gen.
hora.ee 1'orter, in Harper's Magazine
for September.
i
How to Take a Pill.
I have just read in your issue "How
to Take a Pill," by Dr. Asthaltcr. Now,
if the pills are sugar-coated, his meth
od does very well: but if they are not,
tho patient will generally get the bad
taste of the pill, and this is really the
most serious objection to pills. You
know that in the vast majority of cases
the pills are not coated. When a phy
sician orders medicine in pills the
apothecary does not sugar-coat them.
1 will describe to ou a method that I
have been usiug, which I discovered
last year, which carries the pill down
without the patient feeling its presence
iu the mouth or throat, and never per
mits the pill to be tasted when it is not
coated. Take a swallow of water aud
hold the head buck, so that the water
will be in tho back of the mouth. Do
not swallow the water until the piil
has been dropped on its surface. Take
the pill between the linger and thumb
(still holding Lea I back) and carry it
well back, without touching the inside
of the mouth with it: then drop it on
the water aud swallow. The head will
come forward, and the water opening
and wetting the esophagus takes the
pill instantly to the stomach, it does
not "stop halfway down," and is not
tasted.
Of all the states in the Uniou, Geor
gia brings the most fantastic things to
the surface. Its very latest oddity is a
spider as big as a hickory nut, the long,
curved back whereof shows the human
facc iu profile. The face is like that of
a man of the Malay type, the brow, the
eyes, the no^e, the month and the chin
being imitated with a precision quite
startling in its wav.
Some Superstitions.
At Smithill's hall, near Bolton-le
Moors, there is still to be seen—an ob
ject of interest and curiosity to a large
number of visitors—tho print of a
man's foot in the flagstone. It is said
to havo been produced by George
Marsh, who suffered martyrdom during
the persecutions of Queen Mary in
1555. When on one occasion tho truth
of his words was called in question by
his enemies he stamped his foot upon
the stone on which ho stood, which
ever afterward bore the ineffaceable
impression as a miraculous testimony
to his veracity. This story must have
been an afterthought to account for
what we may suppose to have been a*
prehistoric Tanist stone. In connec*
tion with this modern legend another
of a somewhat different character may
be related. A good many years ago, at
the back of the British Museum, there
was a piece of waste ground called
Southampton fields, noted as a resort
for low characters. There was a tra
dition connected with it that two broth
ers in the Monmouth rebellion took op
posite sides and engaged each other in
fight. Both were killed, and forty im
pressions of their feet were traceable
in the field for years afterward. The
field has long been built over, and the
precise locality can not now be point
ed out. But Southey went to see the
curious sight, and has given a graphic
description of it in the second series of
his "Commonplaco Book." The im
pressions were about three inches deep
in tho hard soil no grass ever grew in
the terrible hollows, and no cultivation
of tho soil could obliterate them, for
when the ground was plowed they per
sisted in reappearing. Southey men
tions that he saw uo reason to doubt
the truth of the story, since it had been
confirmed by these tokens for more
than a hundred years successively. It
is probably a fact with a circumstance
—the circumstance, to say the least,
extremely doubtful. Upon the legend,
which was known far and wide, Jane
and Anna Maria Porter based one of
their popular romances, called "The
Field of the Forty Footsteps and the
Messrs. Maybew took the same subject
for a melodrama.—Blackwood's Maga-
@reat Men's Feet.
"Itcv. Henry Ward Beccher, the pas
tor of Plymouth," continued Dr. Palm
er, "has soft, chubby feet. He always
wears a broad-soled, easy-fitting shoe
of the finest kid made, and suffers but
little from corns or bunions. I bright
en up his finger and toe nails about
once a month. Mr. Beecher is a most
interesting talker. The last time he
was hero lie related many pleasant an
ecdotes of his home in Peekskill, where
he resides with his family during the
summer. In speaking of the regiments'
encampment at Peekskill, Mr. Beecher
remarked that the boys in bluo greatly
added to the income of the shopkeepers
of the town, and taken upon the whole
they improved its social and moral con
dition.
"llev. Dr. Talmage, who recently
sailed for Europe to rejoin his family
in London, is also one of my custom
ers. His feet in some respects resem
ble a canoe, being long and narrow. I
cannot say they are free from corns
and bunions, like Mr. Beechor's, but
nevertheless they are pleasant to look
upon. Dr. Talmage's toe-nails grow
out perfectly straight, and are as pink
and white as a woman's."—New York
World.
An Enterprising Reliable
House.
Max Buckentin & Dro. can u!way»
be relied upon, not ouly to curry in
stock the best of everything, but to
secure the Agency for such articles as
have well-known merit, and arc popu
lar with the peope, thereby sustaining
the reputatioirof being always enter
prising, and ever reliable. Having
recuredthe Agency for the celebrated
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, will Hell it on a positive
guarantee. It will surely cure any
and every affection of Throat, Lungs,
and Chest, and to show our confidence
we invite you to call and get a Trial
Bottle Free.
An Answer Wanted.
Can aii3f one bring UH a case of Kid
ney or Liver Complaint that Electric
Bitters will not «peedi y cure? We
say they can not as thousands of
cases already permanently cured and
who are daily recommending Klectric
Bitters, will prove. Bright'* Disease,
Diabetes, Weak Back, or any urinary
complaint quickly cured. They puri
fy the blood, regulate the bowels, and
act directly on the diseased part*.
Every bottle guaranteed. For salt: al
50c. a bottle by MAX BUCKENTIN A
BHO.
Bucklcn'g Arnica Salve.
The Best .Salve iu the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Ilheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chappen
Hands, Chilblains Corns, aud all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cure*
Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 2G e."?nts per
box. For sale by Max Buckent'.n A
Bro
MARKET REPORT.
COBRECTEI WEEKIV 111 J. V. Cxuu
WHEAT—No1
Morris Jan. 27,1886.
Hard
No 1 Northern f5-
OATS ».V
POTATOES per bu 40c
BUTTER per lb 15 ISE
EGGS per doz 2FC
Hay per ton HO)
The mosi recent \o O.HJ.C eruption iu
the United .iie-» w is th.il wii oil ua.t
filled Featiitr ike, jfii/rt. i n t_ sii
tornia, iu or about ihe year liSjO. Tnis
locality has lately been visiiua oy tin
eminent piutomst, C. E. D.iiu.n, wu
says that the lav sheet poured out
was over 100 feel thick, aud cuvers a
space aOout I ny mdes in ixtcul, in
tue center of whien a cinder /ne 6^0
leet high covers the rent. 'Ihe lava
sheet is rough aud jagged in the ex
treme, he says, but sUuws as yet uo
irace of withering. For a space of
400 to 500 y:irds from tue co.ie the
trees were ail killed.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MORRIS,
Morris, Stevens Co., Minn.
with the BEST WORK and BEST
STOCK, upon the most Reasonable
Terms offered by any shoemaker be
tween here and St. Paul.
Give
me a
call and judge
self. Shop at the
COPYING,
To Loan
On Improved Farms in Stevens, Pope sad
Big Stone counties.
Money Advanced the day Application is Made,
if Securities are Satisfactory to us
County Orders and School Bonds Purchased ai
the Highest Market Rates.
NOTICE!
The Subscriber would respectfully
return thanks to the people of Morris
and Vicinity for the liberal patronage
extended to Jum since he commenced
business in
SHOEMAKING
here. N"ow that Mr. Forsberg has
gone, he is prepared to supply all his
old customers, and Mr. Forsberg's
Men's Grained Boots
Men's Best Kip
Men's Best Calf
Men's Besi Calf Shoes...
too.
for your­
old stand
on
Fifth St., Opposite Tribune Office.
James Cairney.
36tf
-THE-
ST. PAUL,
MINNEAPOLIS
& MANITOBA
RAILWAY.
In the Devils Lake & Turtle Moun
tain Districts
There is now the largest area of the moBt
desirable vacant Government Land in the
United States.
The lauds of the St. Paul, Minneapolis A
Manitoba Railway Co. in Minnesota, are
particularly desirable for all clas ies of farm
ing, are offered at very low prices, and easy
terms of payment, and it will be to the ad"
vantage of all seeking: new homes, to exam
ine them before purchasing elsewhere.
Maps and pamphlets describing the coun
try, giving rates of fare to settlers, etc.,mailed
FREE to any address, by
JAMES B. POWER,
Land and Immigration Comia'r.
C. H. WARREN,
General Passenger Agent,
n,
&
R'y
21wl3
ST- PAUL, MINW.
RiwsMe Roller 11.
One and Three-Q,uarters
Miles Sonth-Ea-i
from Morris,
H. W. STONE & CO.,
Proprietors.
Keep en hand Two Grades ol Choice Family
Flour, as follows:
Clioice,
Snow Bird.
CUSTOM WORK
Will at all time receive prompt attention.
Grists either Ground or Kxchanged as
the owners prefer.
CAUTION.
JjgFH arc must be taken in Cold Weather
to have the Flour thoroughly warmed before
mixing also, to keep the Sponge in a warm
place until ready for Baking. Hy carefully
observing these simple precautions you will
get good bread every time while, if neglect
ed, your bread will be poor and dark, no mat-
trrh-iTr-—•• i «u,
BEAD!
15K*T li.int
over Offered to
Cm«
Yasser- to 1110 JiOKEY 1
"DISEASES
OF
LIVE STOCK,
and their
rr
H.
»•.. C. c. A prmuJ
Bhecp. BOLmost
'K. I'ov
trealise, low In prieo. glv'tnc In plain ...
errlpilon of all the usual diseases to wtifca tfieae.
m«ls nro subject urnl i
nt. The chapter on
Riving !n plain in:
ecsfu!
methods of
BTiy times tho cost of thffbookto any farmer.
holera" Is
alone
AnrUT6 clear from ». ......
Nliki* I 9 terms, special pre-
$100 per month ttpunlt.
..........r*.<p></p>Wenrtftyjrlrejilar*,. terms, special I
A. 1. KI'.TTl.KTON ft CO.. ChWgo, IO
MARVELOUS WONDERS OF THE
POLAR W02LDI
ASENTS
c: an I n'-rrlInT boot
i.f liini-1 anil A'lveni lire e\cr jui..-,iied. lathe
oi i. ll an 1 authentic history of nil th i \oy
and Itiftcnvprles In the polar Heftlons. Pro
fUo ly Illustrated wit splemlMEiignivlugsfrom ortg
»nd Photographs, liest se'llnsj and
ami Adventure'n existence,
everywhere and on roost
liberal term*, large tllas
:.rt!etilars eoneernlnfir »!?eney,
'pal ftrii
hook ot J!
O NF I'Tl.KTON fc CO., 9T
II. II. \YKI,I,H, Pres. L.E. I'KAIUI Vice Pres. W.J. MUNKO, CASHIER
ENLARGING-
coin Bin
MIorris, Minnesota.
Organized under th* laws of the State of Minnesota.)
PAID UP CASH CAPITAL $50,000.00.
A General Banking Business Transacted.
Eastern and Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold.
Prompt Attention Given to Collecting and Securing.
Special Bargains in Real Estate. Money Loaned
on Improved Farm Property at Low Rates.
Taxss Paid for Non-Residents.
Fire Insurance.
CorresnonD*NT- NINTH NATIONAL BANK, NEW TORK.
FIRST NATIONAL HANK, HT. PAUL, MINN.
PHOTOGRAPHS
In
All Styles
-FOR THE
HOLIDAY SEASON
In Water, India Ink and Pastel
In the Best Style of the Art, at
ELLIOTT'S GALLERY, MORRIS, MINN
The Merchants Squeal
But I Sell Cheap and bave just received a New Stock
HflnTS
The following is my Reduced Price List of Boots and Shoes:
.1 1 90
3 00
3 00
2 50
There are no better goods than those we offer you.
Music
The love of Music is an inborn principle in the human
family.
is part of an Education.
There is a demand for the
town in the country.
T. W. BORUM, State Agent,
ST. PAUL, MINK.
AND COLORING
flNH SHHES!
And am daily receiving an additional supply. I sell my Boots and Shoes 25 Per
Cent. Cheaper than any other house in town. I beg the attention of the public to
the following letter which I received:
F. MCCALLOM, Morris, Minn.:
Dear Sir:—Your order, per our Mr. Mills, is received, and would like to fill it
but cannot do so in face of the fact that our old patron6 iu your town complain
that you are cutting prices, and that if we sell you we cannot sell them. We do
not know as to this, but we must give ear to what they say, and do so with some
resret, as we think you would probably work into a good trade and dispose of lots
of goods in time. However, such is the case, and we write vou so that vou may
make arrangements with some other house. C. GOTZIAN
ST. PAUL, MINX.. Oct. 1st, 1885.
'&
Kimball Organ
To place our instruments where they are most convenient
to purchasers in Morris, we have appointed
Agent for Morris and Vicinity, to whom goods will be shipped
direct from factory at Chicago, and he will thus be enabled to
quote Prices and terms more liberal than ever before offered.
W. W. KIMBALL CO.,
State and Adams Streets, Chicago, 111.
Fred Buckentin,
Paints, Oils, Perfniery, Toilet Articles, Wall Paper, Etc.
GREATEST BEST
JflEKSnN'S EELEHRflTEn
PURE, SIMPLE, HARMLESS!
WARRANTED TO CURE
ALL DISEASES OF THE SCALP
Free from All Injurious Ingredi n^.
Cleanses and Prevents the Hair from Falling Out, restores Fiided «ir aad
will cause New Hair to grow on Bald Heads where the Boots art* nor d*»ad Th«
Finest and Easiest Applied Dressing for Ladies* Hair ever placed on the market
Also good for Children.
®~Send for Circulars. Mention this Pagtr.
PROF. a. W. JACKSON,
Sole Propietor and Manufacturer, MORRIS, MINK.
Co.
Ladies' Best French Kid shoes
Ladies' Best French Kid Low Shot..
Ladies' Carpet Slippers
Men's Cerpet Slippers
...«2 35
9ft
0
50
3^oOa,llet:rri.
If you wish to Buy, Sell or Exchange an Organ or Piano, we
will deal more liberally with you than any other house in the
country.
In buying an Instrument of us, you are buying of first hands
in every
G. H. Munro