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The age-herald., 1899-09-24
THREE SUITS
 AGAINST THE CITY
Emptying of Sewerage Into VaI-
 ley Greek the Cause.
IS DANGEROUS TO HEALTH
Man Wants $1o,ooo from the Louisville Sc Nashville Claims He Was h. jured by Being Caught Be-
 tween Two Blocks office

Eight suits were filed at the court house yesterday against various persons and cor porations for damages in the aggregate sum of $5S, 300.
 The mayor and board of aldermen of Birmingham are named as defendants in three of the cases, in which the plaintiffs seek to recover damages for the alleged pollution of the water of Valley Creek by the city sewerage.
 Two of the suits against the city were filed in the circuit court, the first by Will liam L. Land who sues for s1.00O He al- leges in his complaint that he is the owner of seven acres of land lying west of the city on Valley Creek. where he resides with his family and conducts a dairy and farm as a means of livelihood.
 He further alleges that the city fathers caused the sewerage system to empty into the creek, which before the construction of the system was reasonably pure stream fit for the use of stock and for various do- nestle purposes that residence along the banks of the said stream was reasonably healthful, but since December 1, 1898, as a proximate consequence of said sewerage, the waters of said creek have been tainted and befouled and rendered wholly unfit fer domestic use or fer use of stock. It is al- legged further that the waters have been rendered poisonous to stock and offensive to the smell and that refuse matter and the careasses of dead animals have been deposited along the banks and residences, thereby caused to be unhealthful.
 The plaintiff further alleges that he and other members of his family have suffered sickness and have been put to great ex- pense in procuring medical aid and other attentions. and to great trouble. expenses and inconvenience in procuring water for stock part of which had been lost through sickness Continuous trespass is also al- leged
 Another of the suits was filed by James l.. Sandefur, who sues for $100O0 for al legged damages to property lying contin- gent to the creek. from the same causes.
 The third of the suits against the city was filed in the city court by William NJ. Burgin for $1O.0oO damages, based upon the same allegations.
The age-herald., 1899-09-24
HIRSCH'S MILLINERY
 OPENING!

Early Fall Millinery Open. ing Thursday and Friday, September 28h and 29;h, at our old stand, 2O22 First ave.
The age-herald., 1899-09-24

Andrew W. Burgin, candidate for sheriff of Jefferson county. subjec. to action of democratic party.
The age-herald., 1899-09-24

H. Hudson, president of association. This is a good work and worthy of sup port, and the parties in charge of it are entirely trustworthy
 R n J0IpNSTON
The age-herald., 1899-09-24

Cut prices at Dewbsrry's.
The age-herald., 1899-09-24

All patent medicines at cost at Ellis Drug Go.
The age-herald., 1899-09-24

Promptly at 12 o'clock tomorrow Judge Coleman will convene the circuit court for the fall term, and after the organization of the jures will take up the civil docket
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
| GULCH GOSSIP
~ -; -
Social and Other Happenings At Give
adam Gu1ch.
! BY M. QUAD. Copyright. 1874 ~ o.

III order that no mistakes may be
made or blunders committed we deem
it! best to announce right here and now
that the editor of the Arizona Kicker.
who is ourself, will continue to lead
the social world at Giveadam Gulch IN
the future as in the past. There was q
rumor afloat around town last week
that we intended to withdraw from So
ciety this winter and devote orr even
ings to the game of seven-up, but our
friends need pay no attention to s'''h
gossip. We have had our dress-shit
cleaned up, patched and reburnished,
our white shirt heightened and over
hauled, and we shall introduce several
Chicago and St. Louis ideas into the
high teas and card parties to be held
among our elite. Our new way of
tucking a blue-bordered table napkin
down behind red-spotted necktie is
just too swagger for anything, and
other pleasant surprises will be sprung
as time goes on and opportunity adj
mits.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
Social JOttinEs.

Mrs. Brutus johnson returned from
Florence Sunday evening, after two
weeks visit to her sister, and it is un-
derstood that she will give at least six
hops during the winter. Gossip also
has it that she has new receipt for
hair-dye which makes an old gold color
in one night.
We regret to announce that Mai
Callahan, who acted as floor manager
at so many cotillions last winter, will
not be with US this season. He intend
ed to return from Salt Lake last week,
but through some irregularity in hand
ling public funds he will be 'detained'
for year or two.
John @. Jones, the architect, in
formed us the other day that he had
no less than five orders for stairways
on Cochise place to replace old-fash-
Toned ladders. The day will soon be
here when all our best residences will
be provided with these conveniences,
and the ladder relegated to the past
Mrs. Jack Thompson arrived here
the other day on visit to Mrs. John
Hepworth, and may remain for a
month. She speaks three different Ian.
guages, kills rattlesnakes with club
and is the only woman in the territory
who can skin to the top Of an S0-foo1
tree without getting dizzy-headed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
The nOcfOrsa Wafo-

The doctors wife has, indeed, much
need of patience. She sees but little of
her husband, and when she does see
him, late at night, early in the morn
ing, or when they are driving together
to dinner party, their chances of sus-
tanned conversation are but few. This
is why the consultant's wife rarely or
never employs her own husband as
family doctor, but intrusts the care of
the family's health to a general prac-
titioner. It might be weeks before the
great man could find time to examine
Freddy's eyes or see whether baby was
suffering merely from teething, ash or
from measles. It is told of celebrated
physician, not long dead, that having
one day met in Harley street, not. far
from his own door, a nurse and two
children, with whose charming appear
ance he was much struck, he stopped
and chatted with them. ''May 1 ask
whose children those are?" he said to
the nurse on parting. "Your own, SIR y
the nurse replied.-Temple Bar.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
The &c. G." Idea.

inc ''Us w. 1ucu>
We regret to announce that Mrs. Col.
Anderson, Mrs. Judge Truefoot and
two or three other female leaders
of our town society are out with ad-
dress cards in which the letters &c.
G" are substituted for Giveadam Gulch.
This looks to US like cutting things
rather too fine. The man who founded
this town was old Dave Coppinger. He
was man of noble sentiments, and in
naming the place was actuated by lofty
patriotism. Here was spot where the
sun always shone, and the grass was
green for ten months in the year. Cuss-
away creek brought down the noun
tain's water as pure as pearls, and the
soil needed only to be scratched with
a stick to grow beautiful crops. Old
Dave put up shanty, killed bear,
and as he looked around him he decided
that it was a paradise on earth, and
that he didn't give dam for any other
locality short of heaven. It pains us
that any of our people should go back
on an honest name, and one which sig
mites SO much. While &C. G." stands
Tor Giveadam Gulch, the letters also
stand for "Great Guns and several
other things, and are calculated to
nystify stranger. Let us have no
feeling of false pride about this thing.
Giveadam Gulch is euphonious, ex-
pressive and significant. It is a name
you can dwell on. It strikes the ear
of stranger with no uncertain sound.
Any attempt to change it to "Rose.
dale'' or ''Daisyville'' would simply
mix up our saloons and poker rooms
and set society back for half CEN
fury.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
1t All Depends.

It looks now as if there was to be a
boom in theatricals on this circuit this
season, as most of the dates are filled,
but still a good deal depends on the
managers of the various companies.
Our people want what they want in the
theatrical line, and will have nothing
else. Managers who want crowded
houses and barrels of money will con-
suit the taste of the public instead of
their own convenience. We want
Shakespearean plays, but we want
them with variations. Shakespeare
probably never heard of a sand-jig or
a clog-dance, and none of his heroines
were ever carried off by Indians, but
that was his misfortune instead of be-
ing our fault. Hamlet can just as we'll
be mixed up with a few fancy dances
and whoop-la songs as to keep him in
the grave-digging business all the even
ing, and boxing match between the
two Dromios would not hurt the play
for any other town, while tickling our
people most to death. Uncle Toms
Cabin has always taken we'll when
the managers needed our fatherly adj
vice. Uncle Tom and Little Eva must
be cut short and stage coach hold-up
dragged in to give the boys a chance
to enthuse. When the Lady of Lyons
was here a year ago we suggested that
the heroine be captured by Apaches
and rescued by cowboys, and the man
ager had the sense to adopt the idea.
The result was bag of dollars which
he could hardly lift into the stage. The
theater is an educator of the people,
and. Giveadam Gulch is proud of it's
snug little hall and of the combinations
which travel this circuit, but the man
ager who goes contrary to the idioms Of
our people will meet with misfortune
and have only himself to blame.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21

power within their own provinces was
almost absolute, and they owed merely
a nominal allegiance to the sovereign.
Yet in 1869 PAL out of less than 800
Daimos voluntarily surrendered their
powers and their possessions into the
hands Of the emperor, in order that
centralized government might conduct
the affairs of the empire in a manner
more in accordance with those western
ideas which the nation was then max
ing up it's mind to adopt, and from this
surrender the phenomenal progress of
Japan as world power undoubtedly
dates. A somewhat similar case may
be'found in the history of Russia, when
in the year 1864, the boyars, believing
that the car, Ivan w., afterward
known az the Terrible, was about to
leave them to their own intr1gues and
domestic strifes, laid all the privileges
of their order at his feet to induce him
to return. It was from this act of self
Aabnegation that the traditional autoc
racy of the Russian empire PRACTICAL,
begins. y .~,..
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21

the figures. One is Pilatus or Piletus
written Piletus). High above the
drawing is word resembling Crestus,
and near it is hammer, which, as is
known, was the emblem of the cruel
fNion.
"All the circumstances brought me to
imagine for moment that might be
in the presence of picture of the cruel
fixion of our Savior, and possibly even
drawn by soldiers who had assisted
at the event. Many others were of the
same opinion, though there were COM
petent authorities who read in it a
different Specification. They suggest
ed, for instance, the launching of a
ship, or the representation of an aero
batic performance. One thing is now
clear, the large inscription over the
drawing can be no part of the idea
therein represented. It is the work of
many hands, written at various periods,
and composed almost exclusively of
libertine expressions"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
A VALUABLE RELIC.
A"OoBAs 10 BE q Drawing by u R0-
man Soldier Of the Cru
CtdxiOU.

continuing my examination" said
Sig. Marucchi, Il came some time since
upon a little drawing, 15xs inches. 1t
was on the wall of a room in the SOL
diers' quarters in the house of Tiber-
ius," says Ainslee's Magazine.
1.-THE lines in it were almost complete
ly obliterated. Nevertheless, by the aid
OF powerful glasses, I thought I dis
cerned pictorial reproduction of some
striking event. There seemed to be
two crosses with ladders leaning
against them. On one of these SOL
der was mounting, carrying something
like tablet. Above the transverse bar
OF this same cross was another soldier
with hammer. Beneath was figure
dragging another toward the cross.
Yet another figure was raising ladder
to the second cross, and on third lad
der soldier was mounting. Two ropes
hang from the cross beams which unite
the crosses. Names are written near
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT.
The Clever Way in Which a Tavern
Keeper Got Even with an Of
fenstve Judge.

We can hardly blame, perhaps, the
satisfaction which nonsuited litigant
in certain court once gained from an
opportunity that chance gave him. A
judge, travelling on circuit, had before
him in a small country town a case in
which a tavern keeper was held for the
payment on a land transaction of A
large amount of money which he had
not agreed definitely to pay. The court
declared that, although his agreement
was not on record, it was involved by
construction, or implied, in his particle
patton in a business proceeding con-
nected with it.
After judgment had been rendered
the court adjourned for dinner, and the
judge found that the only eating house
in the place was kept by the defendant
in the case which he had just decided.
He also found that the defendant per-
sonally superintended the preparation
of the meals, and the food was charged
for on the European plan"
The judge called for two boiled eggs,
which, with the other food he ordered,
were brought to him done to turn.
He ate them, and at the end of the meal
the bill was presented to him. He was
astonished to read on it the following
items: "Two boiled eggs, IS cents; two
chickens, at Is cents, $780,"
He called the proprietor and said:
How is this? I have had no chickens:
why do you charge me for them?''
"Those are constructive chickens,
your honor" answered the host.
"What?''
"Why, they are implied in the eggs,
you know, your honor" the man per-
sisted.
The judge began to understand, and
said no more. However, when he hand
ed in a 1ive-dollar bill to pay for the
dinner he found that the innkeeper had
given him his full change, without
charging for the constructive" chick
eEs.-Detroit Free Press.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21

over her, and what. followed came 70
me as blurred tangle Of caresses and
emotion, in which the men standing on
the other side of the bed was also in
Guided. Then turned away, startled
suddenly into propriety by the con-
sciousness of tears running down my
face.
A week later the great yellow car
riage drove up for the last time before
the door at No. 10, where it's daily ap-
pearance in the interval had gone far
to compensate the Row for what it had
undergone at the hands of the new
tenants. The dowager sailed in in her
usual rustling state, and returned sup
porting a bundle of shawls, out of
which peeped a familiar, pathetic little
face. The husband followed behind,
and the faces of all three shone like sun
shine after rain as they entered the
coach and clattered out of High Row.
Neither of the pair gave us so much as
a backward look, but the little maid-of-
all-work, experimenting the lading of
a lily" with portmanteaus belonging to
her master, cried miserably on the
doorstep.
And that was the end of it, and we of
the Row were decidedly out of conceit
with ourselves and with one another.
1t had been a variation on the theme of
Alfred and the Cakes, and we had dis
tinguished ourselves in the part of the
neatherd's wife, when little more dis
cernment might have placed us in per-
manent touch with the British aristoc-
to learn the whole of the story, the fact
of the intimate connection of the couple
with that august body was established
beyond doubt. But by tacit consent
mention was rarely made of them in
our neighborly talk. They had been
the means of dispelling our illusions as
to the unerring character of our in
stincts and perceptions, and the subject
remained 4 painful one.
once saw the girl again, but only for
a moment. I had gone to stay with a
friend in London, and we had walked
one afternoon to the park to watch the
carriages returning from the drawing
room. She was in one of them, stately
but radiant, in nodding feathers and
flashing jewels. A princess, every inch
of her! How could we have misread
the signs? Our eyes met, a look of
recognition crept into hers, then she
turned away with flush and little
toss of the head. They had understood
us, then, and our attitude of hostility,
and had resented it and been panied by
it, while appearing to ignore it! I
wished she could have known how near
I had once been to holding out my hand,
and my eyes filled with tears, which
owed none of their bitterness to the
fact that it was a noble lady who had
just given me the cut direct. For at
the moment I could think of nothing
but the lost opportunity of human
love.-Good Words.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

Thomas L. Wilson, of St. Catharines
Ont, discovered 'acetylene gas whil1
smelling for metallurgical purposes.
William NJ. Chase, the artist, is won
derful pistol shot, He can split play
ing card and write his name with bul
lets at all manner of distances.
Sims Reeves says he lost 100000 dur
ing his career as singer because of his
consciousness. He would never aP'
pear on the stage unless he felt he could
do his best.
Mrs. Maurice Clifford always wears
gold bracelet. In it is set the bullet
which caused the loss of Mr.. Maurice
Giford's arm. He presented it to he1
in lieu of an engagement ring.
Police Magistrate Flammer, of New
York, says that a certain professional
bondsman of the "tenderloin" district
has an income from the business equal
to the salary of the president of the
United States.
A poor widow with seven children
advertised in a New York paper for
temporary loan of $50. She must have
been a very deserving old lady, for she
announced her willingness to permit
the money lender to keep the children
as security"
A hard-headed young man in Bos-
ton dime museum permitted visitors to
break boards on his skull. One power.
full fellow tried to splinter an ash plank
by hitting him on the Uranium. The
plank remained intact, but he ruptured
blood vessel in the young mans brain,
and the freak had to be sent hospital.
A Philadelphia grocer persuaded a
patron to take barrel of flour different
from the kind she usually bought, he
being out of her favorite brand. After
two bakings she returned the -four, as
it was unsatisfactory. The grocer after
filling the returned barrel put in new
head and again sent it, saying it was
what she wanted. In the barrel she
found a lost saucer she had used to
| scoop up the flour.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
! 5AcATERE;R !! TOUT.
He Has a Regular Profession Of Hts
Own in London and Makes
Lots Of Money,

Few business men pay more in the
way of commission tips, ''sweetening"
and so on, than do refreshment con-
tractors, caterers and providers for
bean feasts and entertainments given
by great firms and societies, says Lon
don Answers.
"First of ALL" said great London
caterer to the writer, employees of ours
swallow small fortune in paying the
fees to join various orders, societies,
minor clubs, smoking concert commit
tees, angling bodies and the like. There
is no society in any district with any
consid cradle number of members that
has not some member who is paid by
us. With regard to societies likely to
yield us a return we instruct our agents
to push themselves forward as much
as. possible and help them with funds.
We get an immense amount of business
in this way and always give commits
sion to any official of any club or society
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
that gives US the contract, for in our

that gives US the contract, for in our
business 'sweetening' is universal.
eve keep one smart clerk whose sole
duty it is to register all convivial and
other clubs and societies and the date
of their probable Hastings and extra
events. He makes out lists months be-
fore the events and then we are after
them. I have personally paid thou
sands of pounds in subscriptions and
fees to all sorts of bodies, and one of
my active partners is a paying member
to over 800 bodies of one kind or an
other. He turns up at scores of their
meetings-an hour here and an hour
there-and he spends money freely
among fellow-members."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
Mean Man.

'Our old neighbor jenkins is the
meanest man l know
'. ''What has he done?"
''Why, you know, when we broke up
housekeeping and undertook to sell all
our household goods at auction he got
into the house on the plea that he want
ed to buy and then produced writ of
replevin and took away everything we
had borrowed from him in the three
years we have been neighbors.'- Chi-
cago Post.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
ular, who was passing sly remarks

ular, who was passing sly remarks
about him. The instructor held out for
some time, but at last could stand it
no longer and said to the man sar-
castically: "You seem to know all
about the drill, my lad. Suppose you
come and take my place." The man
came out of the ranks and, facing the
company, gave the order: Company,
'tention!" Then, after apause: Right
turn! Dismiss!" Leaving the aston
ished instructor, who was too amazed
to speak, the company raced back to
the canteen, delighted at having es-
capped an hours tedious drill.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
Wfill ( : q riba're.
TRIBUNE PRINTING Co., Publishers.
WlLMAR. MIMI
THE SEED.

''Only q little seed" we say
A tiny thing 4'
Floating along its airy way
On silken wing,
And yet that little tufted ball
il So frail to see :%&&
Hides safely from the sight Of all
E| ~ mystery-a' #S$ : :
A mystery Of life and bloom
Is there concealed
An unborn beauty and perfume
To be revealed.
Within that germ so small and brown
Are joys of May,
When melody, like rain, drips down
Ger each glad day.
A hundred beauties yet unborn
Are in it's sheath
That welt to charm the skies Of morn
With perfumed breath.
Within seed that airily
Floats to and fro
Perhaps may be a giant tree
In embryo.
Urged onward by the restless wind
That little seed
A resting place at last shall find
In wood or mead.
Some day, ali, what mystery
Shall greet the sight
A tall and graceful forest tree
Proud in it's might.
Can it be that so small a thing
So much could yield?-
Only seed that spread Its wing
Ger hill or field.
The humblest things in natures land
Outlines contain
What seers have tried to understand,
But all in vain.
The florets of one meadow flower
The power may hold
To SOW field in idle hour
With summers gold.
A sweet wild rosebud by the stream
Some meaning wears
AS great, perhaps, as brightly CLEAN
From starry spheres.
Upon those worlds we look with awe,
And fail to heed
AS great power as stellar law
Lies in seed.
In nature, things both high and low,
The oak or reed,
AAuSL III IIlech OUc1Sd11Cc 10"
Unto the seed
o wondrous mystery the cause
To human mind,
Producing by unchanging laws
Its own in kind.
Plant roses and to stems will cling
A crimson glow:
Plant lilies and to life will spring
A CLEAN like snow.
Natures most potent agency
A secret deep
Is latent life that waits to be
Aroused from sleep
That waits the kindly touch of sun
And drip of rain,
And 10! the miracle begun
Speaks not in vain.
In nature. things both high and low
The oak or reed
Must in meek obeisance bow
Unto the seed.
Alice Jean Cleator, in Ohio Farmer
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21

Undoubtedly the most powerful and
at the same time exclusive aristocracy
was that of the Daimos, or territorial
/ lords of Japan prior to the great social
revolution Of 1868. There were fewer
than 800 of these great lords. Their
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
One Who Showed None.

"Myra," said Tommy to his elder sis
er, there's line in my copy book
bout the progress of: the age"
"Well2"
You don't take much stock in that
you, sis? You've been p for tho
asst six years. Chicago Tribune.