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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
Breathing.

Not one in ten adults knows how
to breathe. To breathe perfectly is
to draw the breath in long. deep in
halations, slowly and regularly, so
as to relieve the lower lungs of all
noxious accumulations. Shallow
breathing won't do this.
1have overcome nausea, headache,
sleeplessness,' seasickness and even
more serious threatenings by simply
going through breathing exercise
pumping from my lower lungs,
as it were, all the malarial inhala-
tions of the day by long, slow, am
pie breaths. Try it before going to
bed, making sure of standing where
you can inhale pure air and then
darken your sleeping room COM
pletely. We live too much in an
electric glare by night. If you still
suffer from sleeplessness after this
experiment is fairly tried, I shall be
surprised. Rams Horn.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
A $4,000. 900 Franc Diamond.

One day in strolling through the
Louvre, says a Paris correspondent,
l stopped to examine and admire the
wonderful diamond known as the
Regent, which, with a few of the
remaining crown jewels-including
the crown of Charlemagne-is ex-
hibited in glass case under the
watchful eyes. of a guard. It was
originally purchased by Philippe
d'Orleans for $780,, 900 francs, but
is now valued at $4,000, 900 francs.
1t is nearly IA inches square,
Paris Correspondence.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

Its Ebb and Flow on the Surface Of the
Great Luminary.
Even at the risk of telling what
every schoolboy ought to know I
will say that carbon is one of the
commonest as we'll as one of the
most remarkable substances in ma
ture. A lump of coke only differs
from a piece of carbon by the ash
which the coke leaves behind when
burned. As charcoal is almost en-
tire]y carbon, SO wood is largely
composed of this same element.
Carbon is indeed present every
where. In various forms carbon is
in the earth beneath our feet and in
the air which we breathe. This sub
stance courses with the . blood
through our veins. It is by carbon
that the heat Of the body is sustain
ed, and the same element is init
mately associated with life in every
phase !. .s.s " 4s..: ;.0s
Nor is the presence Of carbon
merely confined to this earth. We
knowi Il abounds on other. bodies ID
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
Her Pet Corn.

It is a curious fact that nearly ev-
cry one has an aversion to giving
away some one thing. Matches are
the great meanness of one Of the
richest women in this country. She
boards them as if each stick were
studded with diamonds. She will
give one or two under protest, but
she buys them by the gross and
lights and relights them until the
last charred bit falls off, leaving her
often with burned fingers and re-
gretful wish that she could have
used that one once more. When her
children come of age, she gives each
of them 100000 with the greatest
possible cheerfulness, but if they
were to ask her for a whole box of
matches she would feel that she was
impoverished Chronicle.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
A FAREWELL,
Months of sunny life and fair

Months of sunny life and fair
Days that flitted-none knew where;
Hours of pleasure, hours of pain,
Hours that ne'er can come again.
They are gone, but do you find
You can leave them all behind?
Come not memories evermore
Drifting round you from that shore?
Words which lessened every care,
Thoughts no other cen could share,
Duties that we ever met
With one thought-can you forget?
Can you calmly thus efface
From lips tablet every trace
OF the hopes and prayers and tears
We have shared in all these years2
Can we all these memories smother
And "be nothing to each other?"
When for us life's task is DER
And we tread its path no more.
When, mid shadows dimly falling,
We shall hear the angels calling,
AS we calmly stand and wait
just outside the golden gate
Then will these dark moments seem
But phantom or dream.
In that dawn of purer light
You will read all things Alright,
False words will not seem as true
In that morn-adieu! adieul
Lillian Whiting.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

terrifying way. His manner gave
the lad hope, and he replied with
cordiality that secretly amused the
cop, but the end of which the lad
could not foresee.
"Oh, yes, eat 'em. You see, I
like EN-"
Where do you live?" asked the
cop, turning his head to hide a
smile. The boy told him, and boy
and cop went over to a basement
door. TO the servant who answered
the ring the policeman said:
"Does this boy live here?''
Eyes, SIR
swell, now, then Every sternly), I
charge you on your honor, tell me
truly, does this boy eat raw pota-
toes?"
The policeman was nearly burst
ing with laughter, and the servant
stood there in blank astonishment
The boy was wildly desperate. He
was surely booked for Jail, all be-
cause he had been honest enough not
to run when the policeman came.
The only one who could save him
was that servant. He must give her
tip, and quick as a flash he spoke
before the girl could ask the police
man what he meant:
"Oh, yes, you know I eat 'em,
don't you? Why, you can both see
for yourselves. I like 'em. I eat
'em, skins and ALL
Then the boy smashed his teeth
into the potato, and that Brooklyn
cop was mean enough to stand there
and make the boy eat half of it.
The cop could endure it no longer,
and with laugh said:
"See here, youngster, if I catch
you eating any more of them things
I'll send you up sure' And then
he rolled off.
The worst of the experience to
that boy was not his fright nor the
lecture his father gave him to the
effect that it would have been better
to tell the truth all the way through,
even after he became scared, nor the
inconvenience tho raw potato caused
him, but the fact that since then
when he turns up his nose at some
dish at the table his parent says:
"Well, guess that any boy who
likes raw potatoes can eat that dish
or go Without
All of which illustrates the truth
of the fact that sometimes, especial
ly for boys, it does not pay to tell
lie.-New York Sun.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
Never Spent q Cent For Matches.

They say there is a man who re-
sides near Maben, in this county,
who prides himself on his economy,
and the other day, when discussing
his favorite topic, he remarked that
he had saved several dollars in
matches. why" he said, "when
I came to Mississippi nearly 40 years
ago I brought my fire with me, and
I have kept the same fire ever since,
never allowing it to die out, and
during all this time I have never
spent a cent for matches. "-Stark-
vile Times.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
She Didn't Sail.

A Liverpool lady had an unpleas-
ant experience recently. She was
about to sail by one of the Atlantic
liners for New York, and she left
one trunk to be packed the morning
of her start. They called for it
about 6 a. m. She protested, but
the men declared it was her last
chance to get it on the steamer.
The poor little woman was half
blind with Sleep She got up and
flung the things into the trunk
towels, tides, books, anything that
came to hand. Then she sat on the
trunk, got it locked, popped into
bed and was fast asleep before they
got it out of the room.
In due time she awoke with Just
an hour or so to get her bath and
breakfast and get down to the
wharf, and then she found that she
hadn't a living stitch to her back
but the nightgown she stood in. She
went on her knees to the chamber
maid, she offered any money for an
ulster and a veil, she begged the
landlord for his macintosh and
pair of boots-anything any thing,
and she arrived at the wharf in time
to see the vessel sail out of the dock.
Her trunks-oh, they got off right
enough, but she herself was left be-
hind.-London Telegraph.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

IN victims. One day at renearsaI
Diotti appeared with the pallor of
death on his brow, tired, hardly able
to stand on his feet.''
What ais thee?' asked. For
Gods sake tell
Nothing "a strange feeling.
My head is not right. But come, let
us make start.
"And he did begin. I saw he was
not himself: I saw him tremble as
if shaken by intense cold.
Do not attempt the impossible, ,
I said. 4 am going to close the
theater.
And thy fortune?' he made an
swer. All thy fortune is at stake.
Twill be better tonight. Let us pro-
coed with rehearsal
Suddenly, in the midst of an ex-
citing situation, he broke down. It
was the fever. We had to play be-
cause we we're under contract, while
he was lying alone, deserted, fight
ing the battle of death.
ION the first evening-'Fedora. ,
The house was, as stated, sold out,
and Ia failure, in all that word
implies. The theater-a great, i'm
mense structure-I myself small, in
significant, person of no conse-
quence. My voice-great God, how
should my voice penetrate into the
parterrc? I.believe I might as we'll
have said, 'Loris, I love thee as
'Loris, leave me- Nobody would
have known the difference. Add to
this that there were continuous
whispering and murmuring in all
parts of the house, in tho boxes. in
the galleries, everywhere, all the
time, from the beginning up to tho
curtains fall. My heart, my head,
my voice, they seemed not to belong
to me. I had no power over them.
I was thinking of him all the time
of him alone.
Next day-intermission. We
played only three times week. The
newspapers gave their final decision.
Theysaid I had something about
me that attracted attention, but my
voice-well, half of what I had said
they could not hear, and the other
half they were unable to understand.
The following day we had our Sec
ond observation-disclosures The
theater-that immense barn-emp-
ty! Only three or four rows of seats
were taken and to the ri ght and left
two or three boxes.
COMEDY indeed! Is there any,
thing more tragic than life? And
there before those footlights pray
ed: o Madonna, save my friend!
Save him, for he has a father and a
mother whose only hope in life he
is. Save him and take me in his
stead. Lot me die. Let me lose ev-
erything-my renown, my talents,
my future-but save him.
"Two days later, and all was at
all emo. ana we continued playing
comedy. AS for myself, I heaped
success upon success, and every tri-
umph I earned increased my sorrow,
made me more wretohed. Why had
heaven refused the Offering of my
poor self?
ION the evening of Diotti' death
day I played Fernando, and then
and there became what am. Then
and there I felt for the first time
that I had heart; that I had soul
and blood in that heart. Then and
there I learned that life is not base;
only sorrowful and hard to bear.
This I felt. Do you call it an event?
l don't know whether it is impor-
tant enough to be so classed by
others. AS for me, it was the mark
stone of my life. A life in life!'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
PaSteur.

Pasteur was profoundly penetrat-
ed with the exquisite adaptation of
means to ends in the universe, and
each fresh revelation of his micro
scope deepened his reverence. He
once said, when one has studied
much, he returns to the faith of the
Breton peasant, and if I had studied
still more I should have the faith of
the Breton woman"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
space. 1t has been known to be emil
nently characteristic of the compo-

space. 1t has been known to be emil
nently characteristic of the compo-
sition of comets. Carbon is not on
~ intimately associated with arti-
oles of daily utility and of plenteous
abundance, but with the most ex-
quisite gems of "purestray serene."
More precious than gold, more pre-
cious than rubies, the diamond it.
self is no more than the same ele-
ment in crystalline form. But the
greatest of all the functions of car
bon in the universe has yet to be
mentioned. This same wonderful
element has been shown to be in all
probability the material which con-
stitutes those glowing solar clouds
to whose kindly radiation our very
life owes it's origin.
There is no known metal and per-
haps no substance whatever which
demands so high temperature to
fuse it as does the element carbon.
A filament of carbon-and a fila
ment of carbon alone-will remain
INFUSED and unbroken when heated
by the electric current to the daz-
cling brilliance necessary for effect
i've illumination. This is the reason
why this particular element is so
indispensable for our incandescent
electric lamps. Modern research has
now taught us that just as the elec-
trician has to employ carbon as the
immediate agent in producing the
brightest of artificial lights down
here SO the sun in heaven uses pre-
cisely the same element as the i'm
mediate agent in the production of
its transcendent light and heat.
Owing to the extraordinary fervor
which prevails in the interior parts
of the sun, all substances there pres
ent, no matter how difficult we may
find their fusion, would have to sub
NIT to be melted may, even to be
driven off into vapor. If submitted
to the heat of this appalling solar
furnace, an iron poker, for instance,
would vanish into invisible vapor.
We can now understand what hap
pens as the buoyant carbon vapors
soar upward through the suns at
mosphere. They attain at last to
an elevation where the fearful inten-
sity of the solar heat has so far
abated that, though nearly all other
elements may still remain entirely
gaseous, yet the exceptionally re-
fractory carbon begins to return to
the liquid state. At the first stage
in this return the carbon vapor con-
ducts itself just as does the ascend
ing watery vapor from the earth
when about to be transformed into
a visible cloud. Under the influence
of chill the carbon vapor collects
into myriad host of little beads of
liquid. Each of these drops of liq.
uid carbon in the glorious solar
clouds has a temperature and COR
responding radiance vastly exceed
ing that with which the filament
glows in the incandescent electric
lamp. When we remember further
that the entire surface of our lumi-
nary is coated with these clouds, ev-
cry particle of which is thus intense
~ luminous, we need no longer Won
der at that dazzling brilliance which,
even across the awful gulf of SO, 0OO,-
900 miles, produces for US the indie
scribable glory of daylight NC.
Clure's Magazine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

The Cranky OH Gentleman and the Self.
ish Lady Are Types.
I'VE have some queer characters
come here-people who do such odd
things that to tell about them sounds
like exaggeration."
The salesman shut with snap
the jewel case he held, smile of
amusement played about his mouth,
as he reached into the showcase and
set straight a row of glittering rings
that had gotten out of order.
"See this brooch?' pointing to a
small gold leaf with vivid, glowing
berries. 1--WE sold one like it to a
middle aged lady who lives not 100
blocks from here and enjoys the
reputation of being wealthy. If
those berries were rubies, it would
be a costly brooch; but, being gar
nets, it is worth only $50. The day
after tho brooch was sent home a
tall, austere looking gentleman came
in and addressed himself to me.
You sold this brooch to my
wife, believe, he said, producing
the brooch. I told him that was the
case.
II want you to take it back and
refund the money
is there anything wrong about
it?' inquired
No, but my wife had no right
to come to an expensive store like
this to buy jewelry. There are
plenty of other places she could have
gone to-.
II explained that the sale was
made; that the lady had paid for
the article, and that the firm did
not take back goods under such con-
ditions. He got into passion, ar
gued the question at some length,
and finally, when convinced that we
would not comply with his demands,
pitched the case out through the
open door into the middle of the
street and took himself off,"
"And did the lady lose her pur-
chaser"
mo. Ono of the boys ran out
and picked the case up from under
the very feet of a cab horse. We
packed it carefully in new case
and sent it round to her address.
"What do you suppose led the
husband to act like that?"
"Simply orankiness. He is one
of the sort who object to their wives
making any disposal of their money
without consulting them. He is
close listed.
"That was a oranky<man. Now,
how about this for a woman? Two
days before Christmas, just in our
busiest time, when the store was
packed with shoppers, lady came
in and asked to look at novelties, al.
so silverware. She was interested
in only the expensive goods, and ]
took great pains to show her our
best line. Several people whom j
am accustomed to serve were in the
store during her stay, but I let 9th.
ers wait on them and devoted my
time to her. - IT
After inspecting everything and
taking up an hour of the busiest
time Of the day she ooolly remarked
that she had a son who was at pres.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
He Understood,

"Walk right in, dear. Your sup
per's ready, your slippers are right
where you can find them easily, and
your pipe and tobacco are on the
writing desk, handy for you.''
'All right, Molly" groaned the
tired, suspicious husband. You
can get that new dress tomorrow.
Constitution.
n
A FAREWELL
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

A bit of borax the size of small
pea allowed to dissolve in the mouth
will remove hoarseness for consid-
cradle time and is very useful for
those who have to sing or speak in
Dublio.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

A Brooklyn Lads Predicament and What
! Lie He Told Cost Him.
The boys in the lower part of Van
Buren, street, Brooklyn, just off
Tompkins park, have been building
bonfres. Frame houses line the
street on both sides, and the resi-
dents have complained to the police
Of the danger to them from fire. One
Of the boys had had strict orders
from his father never to share in
the building of these fires, and, be-
ing an obedient boy, he never COL
lected the material for the fire or
contributed the matches His ia
ther had not forbidden him, howev-
or, to furnish some raw potatoes for
a feast by baking them in the en-
bers.
1t was this consciousness of inno-
oence that made the boy stand when
a policeman hove in sight around
the corner the other day. All the
other lads skedaddled. The police
man came,up with stride.
Ibid you build this fire?"
mo, SIR" said the lad without
the least show of fear. The police
man began to respect him, but it
would not do to relax his severity.
"Whatchegotinyerhan?". he said
sternly, and running his words all
together to impress the boy. =
The boy began to- see that the
presence of the potato: was prima
faoie evidence in the policeman s
eyes of guilt, but he was still con-
scious of innocence, and he replied
frankly:
"Just potato. - *.-~- -.
.'Whatyergointodo withit?'
The full gravity of the situation
now dawned upon the boys mind,
and under the sternness Of the po-
liceman he saw that something had
to be done. Visions Of the jail that
every boy breads had begun to float
before his eyes, and he made an eff
fort to resort to desperate means. h.
Oh, I'm going to eat il. = i: 81.
Do you eat raw potatoes?" said
/ the policeman, relaxing q little and
not running his words together in q
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

Wine and the hills were made Of great
Jumps Of sugar, but T had never con-
oeived Of city whose streets were
knee deep in sweetness. Yet this
was just the case when we entered
New Orleans. I absolutely waded
ankle deep in sugar, and that in the
streets along the river. While the
affair has become a matter of his
tory l shall never forget the sight.
You see, the fact of the blockade of
the port had caused vast quantity
OF the products of the south, chiefly
sugar and cotton, to pile up in the
city, and the inability of it's owners
to ship the stuff resulted in the
warehouses being filled to overflow
ing When General Lowell realized
that he must give up the fight and
leave the city, he determined to rem
der it impossible for the Union SOL
diers to make use of the accumula-
ton of stores. TO this end he gave
orders for it's destruction, and hun
dreds of hogsheads of new sugar
were violated and their contents cast
into the streets just like SO much
river sand. It was useless com
modify for the time being, and
great masses of the stuff were piled
up where the destruction occurred.
When we marched into the section
OF the city where the sugar had
been stored, we literally waded in
sugar. I never saw such waste in
all my life in this respect, while all
along the levee front were the evil
dences of the burning of the cotton
which had been stored there wait
ing for an opportunity for shipment
to Europe New Orleans Times
Democrat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

At the Leipsic Stadt theater nc
one is admitted to his seat after
performance has begun except dur
ing the intervals between the acts.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

Oklahoma is said to have 1876 per-
sons employed in manufacturing,
and their annual product is valued
at $3.50, 445.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
The Awkward Man.

Minnie-Have you ever danced
with Mr.. Clummes?
Mamie-Yes. He isn't very light
on his feet, I must say.
Minnie-He certainly was not
very light on mine.-Indianapolis
Journal.
ANKLE DEEP IN SUGAR.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
She Insisted.

I ran across cid Job Holloway, the
famous coach driver of half CEN
tury ago, yesterday. Once I rode
with him on the National turnpike
through Virginia. There were seven
passengers-six men and an old
maid. The latter complained of sore
throat one morning and inquired of
the men how it could be cured. Each
said that he had been a victim at
some time or other, but had forgot
ten how he managed to get rid of it,
Finally the Oldest man in the party
said that he had bad case when he
was young, but that the cure he
used wouldn't do the old lady any
good. AT first she thought this was
a reflection upon her age, but, being
of a sensible mind, she determined
to press him for his prescription.
but there is no use telling you,
madam" he protested. "It won't
do you any good"
" I'm sure it will,'' she urged.
"Do' tell me. I will certainly try it
at once"
Thus driven to it, he said, IT Just,
let my beard grow under my chimp
New York Press.
" ,,< ELEANoRA BUSES STORY. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

There was a time when the whole
solar system was nothing more than
a nebulous ball.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
Not Much.

Shell suppose if we women had
clubs that kept us out half the night
you men would rebel violently.
He-.Not bit of it. We'd Join
them. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
JUST ABOUT A BOY.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
A Thrilling Tale.

1t is currently whispered that
Mrs. --, while cleaning house,
asked her husband to nail up some !.
He refused. She looked + + at him,
told him his conduct was without q
i, then beat him with her az un-
til he saw ~. He now lies in ,tose
state and may soon be a fit subject
for disS. A man must be an his
life in that way and put to his
existence Printer.
THE SUMS CARBON.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
A Field For Inventors,

g .---..,* a Field FOR Inventors. -
The offer has been made by distill-
ers and brewers Of q reward for the
discovery or Invention Of q bottle
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
ELEANORA BUSES STORY,

How the Great Italian Actress Learned
That She Had Heart. ri
II Yes = said Eleanora Duse, as
quoted in Today, II have had many
experiences-too many, but they are
more like trials; trials that have
cost many tears and the remem-
branoe Of which makes me cry, cry,
cry I: ID AS
It was ten years ago in Rio. The
yellow fever went from house to
house. from palace to hut, catherine
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04

Only two courses were served at
the most elaborate Homerio feasts.
PECULIAR SHOPPERS.