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Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
SH0UIL D TIE GAR And TIE.
MIKAD0 COME TO BLOWS
Comparison of the Military Forces Which
Russia and Japan Could Put in the Field.

a larger class of seafaring men to re-
cruit her naval service from than has
Russia. In case of war the little island
empire could place large force of sea-
faring men afoat, recruited from the
multitude of fishing and coasting craft
in Japanese waters.
But any comparison of men and ships
between the two nations would be far
from complete without some reference
to the conditions under which they
would probably fight, as we'll as the in
ability of Russia to utilize her entire
army in warfare with the Japs.
A war between these two nations
would undoubtedly be fought in the
east, to reach which Russia would have
to transport her troops across the wide
reaches of Siberia. At the present time
that would not be an easy matter to
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

elaborate and stylish costumes of the
actresses. Take, for instance, the play
now running at the Vaudeville theater,
''The Bonne Hotesse," in which some of
the most elaborate and stunning cos
tunes of the season are to be seen; cos
tunes that are the very latest of the
fashionable modes. The gowns there
are as much a part of the play as is the
scenery or the players themselves, and
Marie Magnier and Miles. Andral and
Medal are gowned in the best that the
Paris shops afford, and they we'll know
how to make the best of their gowns.
These elaborate stage costumes are
of mousseline de sole, crepe de chine
and other equally as expensive and
charming materials.
One of them, for instance, was of
beautiful rose crepe de chine, which
was made a princess, and had falling
of black pigmied net. The net was in
a broad panel on each side of the front
gore, and the rose crepe de chine show
ing underneath. There were two
flounces of the crepe de chine around
the bottom of the skirt. The bodice
was of the crepe de chine, with a square
yoke and short rounded bolero of the
net showing a slight fullness of the
crepe de chine from the square neck to
the waist line. The upper portion of
the sleeve was of the net and the lower
portion of the crepe de chine. The
bodice was fastened down the back
with wee black velvet buttons.
One of the mousseline de sole gowns
was of white made over foundation of
canary satin. Around the bottom of
the mousseline de sole was an applique
OF roses in pink silk and their foliage.
Just below this fell deep fQunce of
point d'Venice lace. The bodice of
this gown was covered with the NOUS
seline de sole in small tucks, and over
the shoulders was fichu of the mousse
line de sole with the point d'Venice lace
around it. The ends of the fichu were
embroidered with pink roses. It had
a small sleeve of the satin with tucks
running around of the mousseline de
sole.
Among the audience that was present
on the evening OH which witnessed the
performance of this play were many
handsomely gowned women wearing
little vests of white satin embroidered
in yellow nasturtiums and their nat
ural leaves. Also others of black vel
vet embroidered with jet. Still others
of white taffeta with trailing designs of
wild roses. In fact, these fancy little
vests have quite a prominent place in
the Paris winter fashions for theater
and concert wear, and one can see them
of all sorts of pretty materials. and dec
GRATED in all sorts of pretty ways.
SADIE MERRITT.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

accomplish, for as yet the Siberian rail-
way, of which so much is expected, is
far from complete, and even that part
of it which is finished is not equipped
for the transportation of large bodies
of troops. Russia would also have to
maintain garrisons along the line of
this road to prevent its destruction by
unfriendly natives of Siberia; it would
also be necessary to maintain the Rus
sian army in Poland and along the
Turkish border, all of which would re-
duce the total of the Russion force to
great degree and bring it much nearer
the maximum force which Japan could
put in the field against the armies of
the cZar. DANIEL CLEVERTON,
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
There Was Sorrow There.


The colonel halted his horse in front
of a Dakota dugout and uttered a Wig
orous ''Hello!" and after minute a
tow-headed girl of about 16 years of
age showed up and looked him over
and said: =
''Now, then, what ye whoopin' fur
and who be yep
"Can T get anything to eat here?"
''Not a thing
"Any water for my horse?"
"The springs gone dry"
"How far is it to the river?'
"Dunno.' (s'%
"Please ask your father to step
out"
"Pop's bin on drink for week.
''And your mother?'' .:.. .s. T.
s'She's got the toothache. That's her
crying = III *.-=> .;>s' -.
Haven't you got brother?" -.
yep, but he got snake-bit yester-
day and don't feel well.''
: swell, what aboute you?' persisted
the colonel. s'You seem to be all
right e !. e =. 4t.s7 sa = ~
oh, but amt = she replied, as she
made ready to disappear. Il was to
git married yesterday but my feller
got shot by an Injun, and it'll take
two weeks to ketch on to another.
This ar house Of sorrow, sir, and
you will please to ride on and not ask
any more fool questions. IN. y. Sun.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

= Columbia university has added two
professors to it's German department.
Students govern their own dor1ni-
tories at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. -
Philadelphia pays smaller salaries to
its public school teachers than New
York, Boston or Chicago.
Attendance at religious devotional ex-
ercises has been made compulsory in
the University of New York.
At Illinois university a Saturday
course for public school teachers en-
gagged during the week has been opened.
George w. Osborn has been appointed
assistant professor of the Semitic Ian
guages at the University of New York.
In the schedule of the Oriental SEM
mary of the Johns Hopkins university
two hours have been set aside for rab-
binical studies, under the supervision of
Rabbi Rosenau.
The Moravian church has existed
since 1927 and at present numbers 1884,
G17 members, S,725 of whom live in Ger
many, 5,927 in England and %, ,345 in the
United States. There are 92,142 bap-
tized converts and $50 missionaries and
1,s14 native helpers are employed.
A number of Waldensian congrega-
tions were expelled from Italy in 1899.
They found their way to Wurtemburg.
where they afterward became part of
the Protestant church of that churchly
kingdom. There are now ten Waldensian
congregations in Wurtemburg, number
irg 5000 persons.
in the beginning of the century there
were only ITO missionaries in all the
world, with hardly $4,000 converts, and
an annual expenditure of only $25O,OOO.
Now there are 1904 mission stations,
with 15,2oO out stations, 1000 mission
aries, and associated with them 65, 900
native Christian assistants, 17,441 mis-
sion schools, 100000 native Christians,
and annually $15,ooo,ooO is spent in the
work.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

of their military and naval strength
is not without interest. On land both
countries could put enormous armies in
the field, but Russia's military re-
sources in the number of men which she
could muster for war if they were need
ed is so much greater than the best
that Japan could do that comparison
seems farcical. The total strength of
the army which the czar could put in
the field should occasion require it
would be 71s times greater than any
which the mikado could muster to
meet it.
The total force available for the mill
tary service of the czar, including the
active service, the reserves and men for
the national defense, is 2,798,0o0. To
meet this force Japan could muster not
more than 373,72O. Even these figures,
great as the comparison is, do not give
the full extent of Russia's advantage.
For the war of the present day the
trained and organized troops are supe-
rior to the new levies, which lack not
only the training and organization, but
the equipments to fit them for the field
as well. In this class Russia has still a
greater advantage than that shown in
the grand total of the forces of the two
nations. In what she classes as her ac-
tive service-that is, men thoroughly
organized, disciplined and equipped
she has the enormous number of 1,269,-
900, while in the same class Japan has
but 7s,54O. T..
In naval strength the comparison is
not nearly SO one-sided, although the
Russian navy is far ahead of that of
Japan in both men and ships. The num-
ber of Russia's ships is 31a times great
er than that of Japan, Russia having
240 vessels of all classes, to 70 for Japan.
But such figures express a greater ad-.
vantage than Russia possesses, for her
navy is not as modern as that Of Japan,
and, besides, she has q greater proper
ton Of light boats Of the torpedo class
than Japan has, Of the boats now be-
ing built both nations have almost an
equal number, Russia having SO and
Japan 36 now under construction.
~ In men Russia has q naval force Of
54l,915 enlisted men to man the guns Of
her fleet, while Japan has but about
$4,000 in the same class. But Japan has
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
feature of the Partisan driveways. In

feature of the Partisan driveways. In
these various kinds of vehicles one sees
the most elaborate display of long fur
coats and fur capes, that remind one
very much of the fancy pictures we see
of the Russian sleighing parties. Judg-
ing from what we see of the furs on the
boulevards at the present time, it is
not hard to predict season of furs"
Among the color combinations that
I have noticed during my strolls on the
Bois during the past week was one COM
posed of steel-blue with another blue
bordering on the purple. It was by no
means artistic, but the colors were so
well managed that it was by no means
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

Such Is the New of about $115, ,Oo0,-
Ao'A ''e' 900. Some of the
buildings projected are delayed or
abandoned, but, on the other hand,
most of those which are erected cost
more than the estimates; so the orig
inal figures are fairly accurate.
It costs about as much to house
family in the city as in the coun-
try; $115,000,00O would build in a New
England town neat little cottages for
$4,000 families of 375,000 souls. Or it
would build average city tenements
for slightly larger number.
Probably not more than two-thirds
of the $115,000,000, however, is spent
for dwellings,, much of the money go
ing into Office buildings down town.
And a small proportion of the whole
represents rather costly houses for
single families.
But, all deductions made, the city
is building in a single year homes for
at least 100000 people. This rate of
growth, if continued, would mean
100000 souls added between one CEN
sus and the next.
Those who expect New York to be
eworld's greatest city put it this way.
For 80 years London has grown upon
an average two per cent. a year; New
York has grown four per cent. How
long will it take the faster growing
town to catch up?
By growing every year about as much
as the total population of Detroit or
Milwaukee, in spite of what is prob
ably the worst city government in the
world, New York shows considerable
vitality.
1t is an impressive sight to go about
the suburbs and note the mushroom
growth everywhere. The city stretches
out like some great monster, grasping
and choking the beautiful green lanes
in dust and mortar.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
A UNIQUE BUSINESS.
Contractors Who Are Glad to Pay for
the Privilege of Tearing Down
Old Houses.

When the owner of a building in New
York wants it demolished he advertises
the fact, and the same day receives calls
from several gentlemen anxious to pay
for the opportunity to do the work. 1t
is given to the man who offers the high
est price.
II paid 5000 for this house, remarked
a contractor, as he stood amid clouds of
dust that rose from falling bricks, di-
recting his laborers in the work of de-
struction ON the old residence of ex-Gov.
Levi P. Morton, on the corner of Six
teenth street and Fifth avenue, directly
opposite the Judge building, New York.
1T was pretty good bargain" he went
on. ''There will be at least 81 900 worth
of brick in this job; the lumber will be
worth about 5000, and the lead pipe will
reach about the same figure, and this is
saying nothing about an onyx mantel-
piece that we found on the second floor,
that couldn't be duplicated for less than
5000. The brownstone front? Oh, that
won't be worth more than $50 to us.
Brownstone doesn't sell as it used to,
because they are not using it for build
ing purposes nowadays. But, as:Ge
from the brownstone. this will be a
profitable job, although there won't be
as much in it as you mi ght think from
the figures I've just given. The ex-
penses must be considered. 1t will
take nearly a month to pull this house
down, and that means wages for big
gang of men.
at takes longer to demolish one of
these old residences than most Of the
newer houses, for the reason that they
are more solidly built, but we like to get
hold of them, because the material is
better AS to its disposal, we sell the
brick to builders, who want it for back
walls of factories, etc., and the lumber
is used for coal docks and the like. The
lead pipe is melted and recast. This
stuff brings better prices in the winter
than in the spring or summer, because
there are fewer houses being pulled
down. 1t doesn't pay to haul and store
great deal of it, especially the brick,
so it is usually sold right from the
house. This is the reason why the su-
| perfluous supply of the summer doesn't
last over into the winter. A glut in the
secondhand material market occurs
every summer, and on this account we
| don't usually pay for the chance to tear
| down houses during the months from
about April to November I. But dur
| ing the winter we are glad to.
| 1T doesn't by any means follow, you
| understand, that because an owner de-
cides to have house torn down it is a
very old or dilapidated structure. Many
| of these old residences are built so we'll
that they would be good for century
or so yet, but the owner sees more
money in new buildings, and the old
timers have to go. Why, it wasn't very
long ago that. to make way for their
$3,OO0,000 building, one of the big life
insurance companies downtown razed
building that was worth 81 100000 as
it stood. d."-Leslie's Weekly.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

1s ships which will be recommended
by Secretary Long in his annual re-
port at that figure.
gunboats, three 13,o0O-ton armored
cruisers of the improved Brooklyn
type, and three 8,O00-ton protected
cruisers of the improved Olympia
clans. The cost of the small gunboats
is placed at $275,0O0 each, that of the
armored cruisers at 81, 500, 900, and that
of the protected cruisers at $3,0O0,OOO.
The small gunboats are in the ma
ture of a compromise between the
heavier type of 1,Ooo-ton and the
smaller of sO0-ton, which were sug-
gested for duty in Philippine waters.
There are experts who still contend
the situation will be more completely
met by building gunboats of 800 or
400 tons displacement, such as were
used by the Spaniards and as repre-
sented in the captured gunboats at
Manila. The difficulty would be in
getting vessels of that size out to the
Asiatic station, but they could be cas-
lily transported in sections.
The block in the way of legislation
for naval ships is the great ex-
pense to which the government will
be put in keeping up repairs on ships
in commission and in meeting con-
tract obligations of ships under con-
struction.. The latter item amounts
this year to SIS, 100000.
Another difficulty in getting heavy
ships built is that only three con-
Germs in the country possess the
requisite plant for such work, and
those firms are busy beyond present
caapcities. The steel producers also
have all the orders they can fill, and
the delays on ships of war are increas-
ing daily owing to the failure of the
steel people to deliver material. %=.
The navy department does not ex-
pect the recommendations to be adopt
ed by congress, but the suggestions
for future construction will be made,
with special arguments in favor Of
building the gunboats, one Of the adj
vocates for which is Admiral Dewey.
The ladies Of Kimb berley, SAYS the
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, are
no doubt giving lombard porch
parties and bombardment teas. <.2
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

until you get behind the scenes and find
out that a lucrative business with some
officials is getting men off the jury
lists.
When an amateur tries this process
he comes to grief. A peppery old mer-
chant was brought into court the other
day to serve as a juror. His lawyer
couldn't keep him quiet. z-S -.:.s MI. :
..'Y'r honor" said the peppery: old
man, II really don't feel well enough
to serve; my physician I'd much
rather pay the fine. How much is it?'''
# He reached his hand down toward a
wallet that is good for q million.
81 ..T Thirty days in jail 4 said the Judge,
in q level, lifeless tone, as If the pro-
eeedings didn't interest him. II.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

The pace has be- A Country Gentle
come too hot. iha'' III " 'n'er'
I could name literally upon the fin
gers of one hand the notable city pal
aces that are now being built or planned
the Carnegie house, that of Senator
Clark, nominally of Montana; those
which young William X. Vanderbilt
and John Hammond may or not build
on adjoining plots-these are about the
list. And young Hammond, who mar
ried Miss Sloane, the granddaughter of
Vanderbilt, is to live this winter with
his father-in-law, like any other young
fellow just starting in life.
The fact is that, just as the western
millionaires are coming to town to as
tonish the natives, the natives are no
longer here to be astonished. They are
living quietly upon their country es-
tates; many of them all winter long.
Country life is fashionable. Within
hundred miles of New York there are
many more costly homes going up than
in the city itself. Tuxedo Park is build
ing "A, of which the most elaborate
reach the quarter million mark. The
original plans of Tuxedo were that the
members mustn't build for less than
$1,000. You can see how the thing has
grown from a group of cheap summer
cottages to group of stately homes.
The Long Island colony, which is
scattered over a strip more than 20
miles square, is building more than a
hundred houses that might be called
villas, besides the little ones. Up the
Hudson is an equal amount of activity.
And to live in your country home all
winter is now correct.
If you're very rich, you may have a
house in town, but if you have only a
few millions it's cheaper to stay at a
hotel during the few days or weeks that
you may be in the city.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

%, Broker at Work.
and in the Wall
street neighborhood, when man has
time to lunch at all, he thinks moth
ing of spending four or five dollars
for the meal. Then he goes uptown
and hangs about the hotel lobbies
most frequented by stock gamblers,
and probably takes a prospective Gus
toner to the theater, where he pays
six dollars for two seats, having first
treated his guest to ten-dollar course
dinner.
AS things are, this wasteful osten-
tation is business. The man who
doesn't do it is likely to get left. And
one explanation of the fact that
brokers, in spite of their big earnings,
don't always stay rich lies in the ex-
pensive ways of living that custom and
competition compel them to adopt.
There is one golden rule for brok-
ers. They never gamble on their own
account. In spite of their intimate
knowledge of the street, of the earn
ings of stocks and early intimation of
the rumors that affect prices, they
never invest money themselves. For
all their strange, excitable ways, their
yelling in the pit and the boyish
pranks they play, they are as i'm
passive as the croupiers at Monte
Carlo.
The only broker whom I know at
all intimately is the most impassive
man I know. He likes books and
reading, is very domestic Ill his tastes,
and likes homely cooking and
He never buys or sells stocks for
himself.
He never offers any opinion as to
whether stocks are going up or down.
He says truthfully that he doesn't
know.
These rules for brokers are just as
good for lambs. OWEN LANGDON.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
What an Observing Young Woman Sees
the Boulevards and at the Theatres.

of mink and was one of the new three
quarter length garments, and had two
slight frills of the mink that crossed in
front to make it double-breasted. The
frills are much deeper around the bot
tom of the cape than they are in the
front. 1t has high, rolling collar, and
the whole was lined with pink bro
caded satin that I could see as it was
blown back by the wind.
What one cannot see on the boule-
wards one can find at the theaters, which
are being unusually we'll patronized by
the fashionable set even for Paris,
where the play is at'all times in vogue.
One Of the features of several of the
plays now on the Paris boards is the
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

Ano Aaniu, =. ooAoie saved 5000 or $500
is willing to make
of himself second deputy assistant
bull, when he doesn't know the first
rules of the game.
Since the bond buying the lambs are
in the street again, a melancholy sight.
instead of buying for investment some
of the stocks that are and have been for
years earning money, they're in such
a hurry to get rich that they fall prey
to spectators and buy purely specu-
lative stuff. In the end they lose their
money, the gambling stocks tumble,
dragging the market with them-and
wise men buy cheap.
Only the brokers and the bears profit
by this sort of foolishness. Take one
days transactions as sample:
No. Shares Sold.
Brooklyn rapid transit. 73O
sugar trust .ol, 800
N. Y. Central ......................... 25O
Pennsylvania r. R...............:........ 400
On the sales of the first two stocks
the brokers made the regular commits
sion of one-eighth of one per cent, or
$4,000, in single day. On the sales
of the two latter they made just $780,
The money of the lambs goes in bro
kers' eighths, in margins wiped out, in
gambling pure and simple.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
700ONSTANT rumors of war prep
. arations on the part of Russia
. and Japan have turned the ewes

z II
of the civilized world eastward. These
two nations, one of which has figured
prominently in all the modern history
Of Europe, and the other of which has
but recently awakened from a hiber-
mating sleep of centuries, are the two
powerful political factors in the east
ern development, and both are seeking
supremacy in the portion of the globe
which they would dominate.
Close students of eastern politics
have predicted that before the vexing
questions were settled the. two nations
would clash over the complications
which the questions have produced.
That such thing is possible, the con-
tinued rush of military preparations
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

a bull market. The
prosperity of big
i n d u S t. trie es like
steel and the car
rying trade h a s
caused an active
demand for earn
ing S to ks by
knowing ones.
But there is al
ways something to
interfere with the
plans of the bulls;
the principal thing
is that there are
too many of them.
Every poor clerk
in town who has
rorol COM an COM
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
When to Fly High.

First English Sparrow-The legisla-
lures are offering rewards. for our
heads. Aren't you scared? -.
Second English Sparrow-No,. I
shan't worry until they call us game
and pass laws to protect us.-N. Y.
Weekly. - IA, ,..- r.. -
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

an amusing Incl
dent. The young
man has not more
than his share of
brains, though he
is a shining society
leader, and the re-.
corder scored him
numerically and
finally let him off
as incompetent"
It is strange how
seldom a man well
known in the COM
munity is called
for jury duty
,A--- kII
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13

AS THEY DO THINGS
I'm GOTHAM ~ ~ ~ ~ =:

"Why-why--" the merchant began
to stammer, but then his lawyer got a
firm hold upon his coat tails. The re-
suit was an abject apology and the pro-
dnction of a physicians affidavit in
proper form.
The judges always try to get good
material for juries; the difficulty is
that much good material never gets
drawn. And there are reasons.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
No Hope for Him.

"Then you cannot be the sunshine
of my life?" asked the young man.
with the insistence of one under a
fixed idea. s.s ~ .s @i:szrzzs<< H.
"No," replied the lady detective,
softly, "ycu know I am Q professional
shadow. ;. Indianapolis Journal