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Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

willie" said his father, "what good re-
solves are you going to make for the New
Year," ''Tm not going to fight with John
ME Jones any more" replied Willie. I'm
glad to hear that" said the father; 'tbut
why did you make that resolve?" "'Cause,"
was the. answer, IT always get licked."-
Chicago Daily News. .<~...-:
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

was generally some wealthy nobleman who
was willing to spend money lavishly in pro-
noting the gayeties of the court. 1t is of
record that during the reign of Elizabeth,
Essex, as "Lord Of Misrule," spent in one
on the court games.-Chicago Chronicle.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

glad new life in them. They put life into
the heart that has grown almost discour-
aged by failure and nerve it for fresh en-
deavor. Let us enter upon the life and serv-
ice of the new year under the inspiration
which they give.-Baptist Union.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27
10
lmperiShable.

The Christmas bells will silent be,
The Christmas lights grow, dim.
The brightness faded from the tree
May leave It gaunt and grim.
But Christmas cheer was never SO;
It's echo fingers on, $s4.t. 3
With memories Of long ago =
= And hope Of joys to dawn. 5.sS
So, DER all time Its might extends
~ And ready homage wins:
AS one glad Christmas season ends
Another straight begins. 81 :. :
-Washington Star. e 81 ~ IL
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27
-
Tact REQUIRED.

It really requires marvellous amount of
tact to appear thankful at Christmas for
something you didn't Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27
Put Them in Good Shape.

If your morals are in bad shape, the first
Of the year is good time to reform them
L. "A. w. Bulletin.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27
Beginning AfreSh.

What breezy sound there is in the words
"Beginning afresh." They have ring of
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27
&!&||EIfa1lKizk !
| II THE :.
MEASURE Of
3s* = S S1ELLIKSL0VE.)

It put me in jealous mood.
So when she came to say: Good night
And whispered in my willing ear,
On tip-toe in her gown of white,
Softly: II love you, papa DEAR"
"You love me, but how much?" said,
And after just the slightest pause
She answered, pulling down my head:
Il love you more than Sanity Claus!'
The day had been happy one,
AS evry Christmas ought to be;
There was no dearth Of cheer nor fun
And ev'ry bell pealed merrily.
Those near and dear had said: "Good-will'
In more or less substantial ways,
And nothing in the guise of i'll
Had called for pity or dispraise.
But Stellas bedtime hour by far
The happiest was to me, because
Twas then she found, my own bright star,
She "loved me more than Santa Claus!"
Edward W. Barnard, in Judge.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

0NO Wnat IS II. IN
quired, with interest. New Years res
olutions," she responded, promptly.
"Goodness, gracious!" exclaimed, aghast,
"you surely aren't going to try to keep that
many? It's enough to bring on paresis even
to attempt to remember what they're
about
Don't be alarmed" she returned; "they
are not intended for personal use. They
are merely little list I have prepared for
some men I know. You see, Dorothy" she
went on, earnestly, "I've been thinking over
the matter, and I've come to the conclusion
that the trouble with us women is that we
have gotten into the habit of trying to mo-
nopolze all the domestic virtues and self
sacrifice. You can't pick up paper with
to make home happy, or wife's duty to
her children. But do you ever hear of its
being mans duty to make home so at
tractive his wife won't want to go out in
the evenings? Does anybody ever advise
him, when he comes home tired at night, to
put on his dress suit and try to entertain
his wife to keep her from being attracted
by younger and handsomer men? Not much.
Do you ever see roomful of prosperous,
middle-aged men sitting around in fathers
convention, discussing how to do their duty
to their children? Nobody ever did. It
isn't right. I'm in favor of giving the men
a show and letting them take hand in
the happiness-making and the duty business.
"Now, when the New Year resolution
time comes," went on Elsie, studying her
list, II just want to get in few of my do
mestic principles, and, my word for it, you
will see it will do more real good and bring
about more genuine reforms than all the
swearing off from smoking and drinking
since Adam Comparatively few women
are afflicted with husbands who get drunk
or smoke to excess, but millions of us have
to put up with men who are in crying need Of
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27
Progressive Peace.
4 Backward Look.

Christmas kin be made so much pleasant
er eff the stern parunt will on'y let his min
wander back tew the time when he made
dash fur the Of chimney piece himself IN.
Y. Truth
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

had printed in a bold hand one of the Sun
day school texts: 'ThE Lord LOvvEtH
CheaRfuLL giVveR. Chicago Daily News.
Progressive Peace.
eve have good times at our house along
before Christmas"
'You do?"
eyes; the children try to please their
mother and she tries to please me."-De-
troit Free Press.
Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

Isle was sitting in
her pleasant library,
intently reading a
neat typewriter list
as long as her arm.
"What is it," I in
"New Years res
The record-union., 1899-04-09
Maud at the Matinee.

Maud Muller on winters day
Went forth unto the matinee.
stylish. tailor made girl,
With feathers on her hat a-curl.
The lily was not half so fair
As Maudie Muller, L declare!
With twinkling eyes and roguish smile
I only knew fair Maud by sight,
But cen in that found great delight
Maud sauntered sweetly down the aisle,
l followed in a little while.
She sauntered down the aisle, and sat
Beneath her continent of hat.
I sauntered down the aisle and sat
Behind her continent of hat.
Then, with her hattish hemisphere,
Maud sweetly raked the atmosphere.
1, being five feet three, sat there.
And gazed upon Maud Mullers hair.
The people all around agreed
The play was very line indeed!
Maud's hat with sweet excitement swayed
In its wild bobbings here and there
/ read joy, pleasure, grief, despair.
When Mauds hat trembled in alright
l knew the villain was in sight.
And when it wobbled through the air
knew the funny man was there.
And when that hat with tremblngs
bobbed
Methought the hero-lady sobbed
AT last 1 rose and went my way
From out that weary matinee.
Out to the street / made my way,
And paused to swear a bit and say:
~Of all sad words on earth, / ween,
The saddest are these: L might have
scent" Baltimore American.
The record-union., 1899-04-09

his large pictures he painted them with
great care Every subject seemed to
respond to his genius, but his prefer
ence was for the great decorative can
vas.
The statement was made recently
that the sum Of $10,S 500, paid for the ex-
ample of the late George Inness at the
Clarke sale, The! Delaware Valley" Sc
cured by the New York Metropolitan
Museum of Art, was the largest price
ever paid for an American landscape.
It seems, however, that this statement
was not correct, for at the John Taylor
Johnston sale in New York, more than
twenty years ago, Church's Niagara"
brought $12,5O0
Washington artists complain of a
lack of public interest in art In the last
published list the annual associate
members of the Society of Washington
Artists numbered 103. In Chicago the
Art Institute, which fills much the same
position in the community, has a MEM
bership of 2,O37 1T is true" says the
'Star," that Chicago is a very much
larger city, and that the population of
w dS1lnS JOu Is d CONSTANTLY cndISlU ~
lone, but the comparison is neverthe-
less rather humiliating."
X
"Curiosities of Art is the subject of
a paper by M. H. Spielmann in this
months Magazine of Art in which
he discusses condolences and resem-
blances in works of art. The world, he
says, admits that the result of mems
rhilosophic thought or scientific diseov-
cry may be taken up by new writer's,
new teachers, new inquirers, and treat
ed afresh by them and carried further
and further towards perfection, but ut
terly fails to understand that the same
license may be the birthright of the
artist. Putting aside fiat plagiarism,
he finds three distinct classes of resem-
blances: Q) Intentional adoption with
view to improvement or other valid
reasons; CD unintentional adoption, the
result of unconscious recollection; and
g, accidental coincidence. AS an ex-
ample of the first, he instances the
resemblance of RaphaelS Expulsion
From the Garden of Eden to that of
Masaccio. Raphael takes the avenging
angel from the air in which he is how
The record-union., 1899-04-09

rection. The productions are said to be
profoundly devotional and reverent as
well as great in the line of musical
composition and their influence upon
the world is not likely to be slight.
Los Angeles Herald: Paul de Long
pre-, who. connoisseurs say, puts the
flowers and colors of flowers on canvas
as nature creates them, and is, there
fore, a master in his class of art, has
come, with Mrs. Longpre and his two
charming daughters, to Los Angeles to
live. New York, where he made his
fame, will know him during the next
year or two only as a visitor. Mean
while, he will live among the flowers of
Southern California, many of which he
may be expected to immortalize. 1t is
his desire to establish himself in a
house of fowers-where flowers bloom
perpetually climb the porches and peep
through the windows. Longpre has
studied eXhaustively the plant life of
the Middle Atlantic States, and will
proceed to acquire equal acquaintance
with the flora of California. His water
color paintings of flowers are faithful to
nature to the last detail, and are fascin-
ating to the eye. Other artists may
paint flowers as well, with as full ap
probation of their forms and beauties
ard significance, with as subtle skill in
delineating their qualities, but if so
their work has not been shown to the
Los Angeles public 1t was Mr.. Long
pres achievements in this line that
caused the French Government to ac-
cept his works as the standard models
for the National School of Arts
Rubens lives chiefly by his great mu
raj paintings, but he nevertheless did
other work of a quality sufficient to
have made any other man famous. Be-
sides painting altar pieces and ceilings
for the church andl allegories for courts,
he did portraits for the individual and
to please himself. In all of
them he showed the master mind and
hand. A portrait was not a thing to
be treated in the same brilliant way as
a wall picture, and Rubens cared little
about it, and yet executed it in mas
terful manner. Animals Especially the
horse and the dog) and landscapes he
loved to paint for their truth of charac-
ter, and even when he placed them in
The record-union., 1899-04-09

"A false break has been made" says
the New York Outlook" between what
is generically religious and what is spe-
cifically Christian, or, in other words.
between the earlier and the later stage
of natural religious development. What
ever be comprised under the term nat
ural goodness is none the less Chris
tian for being also Mosaic, Buddhistic.
pagan. Jesus comes not to Destroy,
but to fulfill, adopting ali goodness and
its possessors as His to perfect it by
inspiring them with the spirit of self
sacrifice in the filial imitation of God
which is peculiarly His. Natural good
ness must be owned as His, else gap
opens between our nature and His way,
so that His way is made to seem repug-
nant, as somehow unnatural Hence
the strange and sad phenomenon so
common to-day of lives accordant with
Jesus teachings but discordant with
church teaching, conscious of sympa-
thy with Him, but reluctant to accept
the name of Christians, so different a
meaning has been given to the word
from that simply of friends and follow
ers of Jesus-which was all that it
meant originally, and all that it should
mean to-day
1.-THE weakness of organized Unitar-
1anism to-day as an agent of propa-
gandism," says the christian Regis
ter" Unit.) of Boston, comes from
one of its highest virtues. Unita sian
men and women have given millions for
colleges, schools, libraries, periodicals
and charities which do not bear the
Unitarian name, and in many eases
would refuse to allow a Unitarian to
serve in them. 1t has been an error to
allow so much Unitarian energy, inter-
est and money to do its work unrecord-
ed. 1t has brought discredit upon the
very source of the noble sentiments and
good works which have been generated
by the Unitarian Church. The churches
OF our faith took for granted that
Which was essential in the older
churches and creeds. When they strip
ped off the husk and left the ear of
corn, they neglected to say that they
considered the corn exceedingly import
| ant. They made bread of it, they lived
upon it, they took it for granted; bnt
the uncritical public, judging by the
pile of husks thrown aside, did not note
the fact that these people who refused
to proselyte' were cherishing the old
faith, and, because they had once for
all thrown away the husks, We're less
intent upon their particular forms be-
cause they had learned how to go to
the heart of the creeds everywhere.
This charity has been a hindrance be-
cause those who exercised it have not
always realized as they ought that they
We're eniOying rare gifts of liberty
truth and comfort for which they were
in debt to God, and in honor bound to
pay the debt to his children
The record-union., 1899-04-09

ering in the elder artists work and sets
him on his feet on the doorstep to Para
disc. But the figures of Adam and Eve
are practically identical, though greatly
improved in detail of composition. In
the same way Michael Angelo borrowed
from Jacopo della Quercia for his Gre
ation of Eve" Again. Sir Joshua Rey
nolds Mrs. Lloyd" and Fragonard's
lie Chiffre d'Amour'' are very similar
in copception-in each case the lady is
writing upon the bark of a tree-but
entirely individual in treatment. Also
Watteau's Love Disarmed' is based
upon a like design by Paul Veronese;
and strongly suggestive. of these are
Bouguereau's Wounded Love- and
"a Young Girl Defending Herself
Against Love-" The article is illustrat-
ed with parallel pictures.
The record-union., 1899-04-09

New York Tribune: Music covers
are engraved on stone,'' said Miss
Knight, IAN art Americans have yet
to master, This fact, together with the
cheapness of labor abroad, enables the
! German publisher to produce design
for $12 that would cost from S15 tC
500 in this country. Most Of the lead
ing publishers abroad have now branch
houses in New York, and publish stimuli
t,aneously here and in-Germany many
| of the works of Ameffcanlcomposer
To this is largely attributable the tardi-
ness in advancing the artistic dress OF
sheet music publications. One of the
earliest and best collections of church
music was engraved, printed and sold
by Paul Revere 1t was the first book
of any kind printed on paper manufac-
tured in the colonies.
THE sheet music cover of to-day was
unknown as late as 1884. Sheet music
was printed with a. half-title page, the
title occupied half Of the. front page
and the musical score followed. The
last page of the score formed the back
cover, as in the washington Inaugural
March, rare copy of which is in the
Gunther collection at Chicago. The pic
tOrial cover of the vaudeville poster
type now to be met on every side was at
it's zenith in 1S5S-1S6S, covering the
political life and assassination of Lin
| coin. In the musical cover collections
of a. New York enthusiast there are no
| less than 1914 musical compositions in
spired by Lincoln's life or death, and
| the pictorial decorations tell his his
tory from the cradle to the grave. AT
ar auction sale recently a package of
twenty music covers brought without
the musical score, $12.'' Miss Knight s
success can scarcely fail to encourage
scores of women disgruntled at the
financial outlook for the book designer,
but it is we'll to remember that in the
music cover design, like that of the
book, only the skilled worker can hope
for success.
The United States Senate has recent
ly acquired the two paintings by John
Blake White. They are interesting ad-
ditions to the historical collections of
the Government. White was born in
South Carolina in 1871. Early in his
twenties he proceeded to London, and
there enrolled himself among the pupils
of Benjamin West, at that time Presi-
dent of the Royal Academy, and, in his
way, a famous man. Blake lived on
we'll into the present century. He died
in Charleston so late as 1859. He was
not a great painter by any means, but
he showed considerable ingenuity and
skill in designing scenes from the mill
tary life of his time, and his work has
an historical value, which explains the
action of the Senate in purchasing the
pictures at present under notice.
Almost a companion work with that
of the French artist Tissot who, in the
last ten years, has painted 500 canvases
illustrating the life of Jesus comes
the work of that musical wonder,
Father Lorenzo, an italian priest, born
of a. long line of professional musicians,
who has written a number of remarka-
BILE oratorios illustrative of great events
in the life and mission of the great
Nazarine. The themes are such as the
Passion of Christ the TRANSPORTATION,
the Raising of Lazarus, and the Resur-
1
The record-union., 1899-04-09
"Don'ts" for Wheelm,

ssDon'ts" for Wheelmen.
Don't get reckless.
Don't be road hog
Don't argue with a dog.
Don't fail to talk good roads.
Don't leave your tools at home.
Don't forget that others have rights.
Don't tell what wonderful rider you
are.
Don't expect too much of a green
rider.
Don't ride in a storm if you can help
it.
Don't ride too far and fast early III
the season.
Don't fail to keep your wheel in per-
feet order
The record-union., 1899-04-09
THE HONELIEST MAN IN

Sacramento, as well as the handsomest.
and others, are invited to call an any
druggist and get free trial bottle of
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs,
a remedy that is guaranteed to cure and
relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs.
Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption.
Price 25c and SOC.
The record-union., 1899-04-09

Aluminium dressing-combs are new.
They are light, bright, and very easy
to keep clean, and are quite as soft to
the scalp as those made of horn or rub
hor
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-29
THE STORY OF A YEAR
PROGRESS MADE ny
W. IT, TRIGG sHIP-BUILDING co.
HOW The ENTERPRISE WAS STARTED.
The Iarn was First Conceived Dur
ing the Venezuelan Crisis-AssS'-
nnt-secrctnry Roosevelt md ON
cIaIs Generally Favor Richmond.

The ship-bullding enterprise OF Rich
mond, which fills so large place III inc
public eye at present, and, from wnich
the city hopes and expects so much, is
scarcely more than year old.
The present site of the YARDS ana INC
works was leased October 10, 1893, though
the contracts for building the torpedo
boats and destroyers had been awarded
several months before that time, and tno
firm had occupied temporary offices in the
Chamber of Commerce building.
The fact that Richmond affords almost
unique facilities for ship-yard mas ions
been recognized. Mr.. Trigg' the iouiiuei'
had often discussed the subject WIN
friends who are connected with snip
huldinq interests i'm other parts OF inc
country. but It was during the tension
brought about between America and Eng
land in 1897. over the Venezuelan oouna'
ary question. that the matter took ue"'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-29
BIRTH OF A WARSHIP.
,oxv THE sEA-GOING wAnRIoRs
ARE CONCEIVED AND BUILT.
STATEMENT OF An ATTACHF.
Mr. yiI,inm birmingham writes In
tercstingIy Concerning the '"ri-
nm. stnue. of BattIcsbip Construc-
tion from beginning to End.

Usually the first that the public hears
Of n battleshp. cruiser, or torpedo-boat
is when an appropriation Is asked OF
Congress for that purpose. although
many rumors may have been flying about
that Uncle Sam is to increase his navy.
In reality. those ships have been under
consideration for months previously. me
heads of the various bureaus have been
discussing the best type of boat for our
use. their merits and dement's whether
suitable for our harbors, II for coast de-
fence. or whether they can get the re-
qusite speed and endurance az sea, II
for cruising purposes; the question OF
how much coal must be carried, now
large a steamng radius would be neces-
sary. and what would be the best ana
most economical cruising speed, are
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-29

where asserted that the United States
navy would find a foe worthy of their
steel in SPANS torpedo fiotilla. and II
was believed that these boats would play
most important part in the war. The
majority of the frst-class tOrpedo-bOats
in the United States had been built ten
years when war broke out between Spain
and America, and this country then had
no torpedo-boat destroyers afioat. one
must set destroyer to catch a destroyer,
and II was generally believed that the
United States could not excel, or even
rival the Spanish flotilla.
In all important navies the building
OF torpedo-b boat destroyers of thirty knots
or over is a feature of the programme.
1t was I'm view OF these circumstances
that Richmond came into prominence.
and the facilities she offered for the con-
struction of torpedo-bOats and destroy
orS were canvassed once again. 1t was
practically conceded that II the original
plan OF building 100 Of these small craft
were developed this city would have been
called upon To supply ten OF them. This
plan, however, was greatly modified,
when II was determined 10 purchase a
number OF vessels that were ready for
service.
The fact that the machinery fol- the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-29
WHERE HONOR is DUE
REVIEW OF WORK DONE BY CIVIC
CARNIVAL COMMITTEES.
HOW The IDEA ORIGINATED.
The suggestion OF MIR. stern Taken
IN by business Organizations. ana
This Weeks Big Celebration II.
Result.

The carnival demonstration IN piob-
mond this week, celebrating the iaunchin,
Of the United States torpedo-boat SIN.
brick IS the outgrowth Of movemsr,
started by public-spirted gentlemen las,
August, and as a result Of their untirir,
efforts. the demonstration will ecNr-s
any similar celebration ever held hero.
The idea OF properly celebrating Tia
launching of the Shubrick originated
with Mr.. Sam Stern. Of jefferson wari
It was his idea that inasmuch as ,as
ship-yards were located IN Jefferson
Ward. the people OF that ward should
celebrate the launching OF the shubricx
by torchllght procession that night.
The idea was a popular one, and rs
Chamber Of Commerce and Young Mems
Business Association, taking hold OF d.,
movement, u rapidly Outgrow the mo-
dest plans mapped out by Mr.. Stern
Richmond. were appointed by the two
Committees, composed OF the most irfr-
entail and progressive business-meu o.
commercial organizations. and ;hon o.,
Civic Carnival Committee Of ffty-tr3
gentlemen. representing each word In 30
city and Manchester. was organized. WIN
Mr.. S. W. Travers, president OF To
Chamber OF Commerce. as chairman.
ON A WORKING BASIS.
This committee soon got on n working
basis; an executive committee was SCI
lected. and sub committees were chosen
10 handle each detail Of the mammoth
celebration. The Finance Committee a.
vided into pairs and canyassed the city
being met with ready responses by tho
merchants and businessmen generally
who subscribed literally 20 the FUND ne
cessary 90 make of the event one that
would reflect credit on the city.
In the mean time the Old Dominion
Tournament and Fair Association had