Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-05-05
Yarns by a knight of the Grip.
Special for W1LLNAR TRIBUNE.

Special for W1LLMAR TRIBUNE.
! Nine years ago the pastor of the M.
p. Church at Waseca was i'll. Sub
stitutes were hired for several months
but one week they had exhausted the
visible supply and as last resort in
! vlted fellow from the country who
| had been converted the winter before
and was doing a little preaching
around at the country school houses.
He came, poorly dressed: awkward and
! dif1ident. His pants were too short by
four or five inches. The congregation
| smiled but before he was half way
through the sermon they forgot about
his lll-titting garments. He was asked
| to come again: he did so and agaiu
and again; at last when Conference
met the congregation petitioned that
this awkward young man be sent as
their regular pastor. The petition
was granted and he remained ) years.
the limit He is now at Forest Heights.
Minneapolis, and the Rev. E. c.. Gle
| ments is known as one of the strong
pulpit orators of Minneapolis. He had
the stuff in him: possibly he would
have been stronger man had he the
| advantage of college education Or
possibly he would have been polished
up until there was no point left Is it
| not after all more in the man than in
the education? ''You can't make a
silk purse out of sow's ear
The Iowa legislature has finally ad-
journed: it was corn planting time:
they accomplished something however
when they knocked out cigaretts and
defeated the bill providing for the
manufacture of high wines and also
| enacted the law to enable cities of the
| first class to more easily control their
own water and gas works. This leads
us to remark that the habit OF giving
away valuable franchises is growing
| more and more unpopular. The
franchises which Des Moines, gave to
the water works. gas and street rail
way companies are worth million
and a half today. Every town and
city should own their own gas aud
lighting works
The world does not ask to be in
structed: simply amused, Or cheated.
Barnum said ''the people like to be
humbugged.'' This seems to apply es-
pecially to the farmers who are ready
to bite at every fake scheme which
comes along. A year ago it was a
steel range sold direct from from the
| manufacturers for S25 more than the
same goods could be purchased for of
their own dealer. Today it is carload
| grocery scheme with the sack of sugar
filed with salt with layer of sugar
on top. Why is it that farmers will
persist in leaving their own home deal
er who pays taxes and is in every way
| responsible to deal with men who are
here today and away tomorrow and
| whose guarantees are not worth the
paper they are written upon.
The dictator has at last become the
supplicator. The latest move on the
part of the G. N. railway has been the
sending out of a circular from the
freight department. to all of the job
bers of St. Paul This circular sets
forth the advantages which the G.. N.
road has been to the city of St. Paul
| and also states that at common points
they are not receiving anywhere near
their share of freight business. The
| circular closes in beseeching way to
the jobbers to instruct their shipping
clerks and travelling statesmen to cease
further discrimination against the G.
| N. road. Verify this is quite a come
| down for the man who has heretofore
carried whole Legislatures around in
his pocket.
a. L. G.,