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Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
How Perfectly Sweet.

II want some very small cards en-
graved,'' said fashionably attired
woman in a Chestnut street station
ef's establishment, says the Philadel-
phia Record. "Yes, madam said the
attendant; ''about this. size?" indicat-
ing sample card. 'No, no. replies
the woman, "much smaller than that.
I want them about the size of the
baby cards that mothers used to send
out several seasons ago when a new
baby was born" She finally selected
the size she wanted, and the attend
ant asked what name was to be used.
Fido Smith, was the reply. ''And
in addition to the address I want
Wednesday engraved on the opposite
corner did you say Fido % asked
the young man. YES said the wom-
an; 'tFido Smith. You see, the cards
are for my little dog. don't know
whether you know it or not, but it's
quite the proper thing now for wom-
en- who have dogs to take them call.
ing upon other women who have dogs,
and, Of course, you couldn't do that
without leaving the cards. Wednesday
is my at home day, and Fido receives
all his little dog friends with me on
that day. Now you know all about It |" "
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
RAT AND ELEVATOR.
Oil Was the Cause of an Acci-
dent at Minneapolis.

The greed of one rat caused the fall
of a passenger elevator in Minneapolis
recently. 50,
Savory as strong as cheese is the lu-
bricating oil used on the mechanism
of the elevator. On the morning in
question one of them climbed to the
well-oiled pulley above the cage. ..
? Meanwhile four men stepped into the
elevator. Alex. Lunden, the operator,
slammed the door and the car started
up.
Before Mr.. Rat realized what had
happened he was dragged between
cable and wheel andh life was crushed
out.
His body threw the cable off the
wheel. Upward shot the car, and Bun
deem realized that it was beyond con-
troll.
Tug as he would at the cable the ele-
vator sped to the top of the shaft,
where it smashed a wooden platform
and dropped.
Lunden hung to the rope, though it
burned the skin off his hands, and this
helped to lessen the force of the de-
scent. At the bottom the air cushion
caused the car to rebound to the first
floor and then subside.-N. Y. World
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
BEST OF .FUMIGANTS.
Sulphur Is Not Only u Powerful Dis
tnfectant, But Sure Death to
Moths and Ants.

The fumigating properties of sui
phur have long made it a valuable
household remedy, and the sulphur
candles now on the market fill long
felt want.
Not only are they convenient disin-
fectant, but they are almost sure death
to flies, red ants, reaches and moths.
The room to be fumigated must be
tightly closed, even the keyholes
stopped with paper; then closets,
trunks, drawers and all infected recep-
tacles must be opened, so the fumes of
the sulphur can penetrate every nook
and Granny.
The candle is put in metal candle
stick and set in an earthen or iron YES
sel-a coal hod will answer quite as
well as anthing else.
The only requisite is that it shall be
deep enough to prevent the flames set
ting fire to anything. Care must be
taken not to inhale the fame when
lighting the candle.
The room should be kept closed for
about four hours, during which time
the purifying fumes of the sulphur will
thoroughly do their work.
These candles must not be used
where there is gilt paper, picture rails
or picture frames, as they will be tar
nished.-N. Y. World.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23

The Apaches heard It, and, /. loo king
behind them, saw their peril. AS one.
man they halted and fired into the
mules, then scattered on the run, the
greater number making for the noun
tains, the others still holding their
course toward Bill his scalp was too
great q prize to be lightly given up.
Stretched out fat on the old gray's
back, Kid rode straight for these, and
presently they dropped their rifles and
ran for their lives, but it was too late.
One after another they disappeared
in q mass of switching tails and fash
ing heels, to go down under the herd,
Etrampled and crushed into a bloody
pulp of flesh and bone. When the last
Of them had fallen, Kid reined in, and,
getting off his horse, started, stagger-
ing, toward Bill, but before going far
he fell Imply to the ground
Wessaw this while running across the
valley, for the moment we understood
what Kid was doing every man in camp
had started at the top of his speed
for Bill. Those of us that went to
where Kid lay, found him insensible
and bleeding profusely from ragged
tear where an Apache bullet had
plowed through his shoulder. Quick
ly I took him in my arms, and tearing
open his shirt better to see the wound,
I made. a startling discovery-Kid was
woman.
Bill soon recovered sufficiently to
,.s1 1o ho 011 " no o1- tn oo1 mn h11f
had to carry Kid, and never was babe
held with tenderer care by mother.
When she regained consciousness she
sent away all but the "boss" and me,
and told us all about herself Her
right name was Luisa MonteZ. She
was born and reared on a ranch back
in the mountains. where the Apaches
had killed her parents. Without
friend or relatives, compelled to earn
her own living in a land where women
are not supposed to do anything of the
kind, she wandered up to Paso del
Norte, and was almost starved when
it occurred to her to pass herself as
man, and she was given job in our
outfit. 4,
When we left her, Bill went in and
had long talk. What passed between
them we never knew, but he Immediate
ly took charge of her, and, as care
fully as a woman could have done.
nursed her until she was sound and
well again; and the next thing any
body knew she took him, unresisting,
back to civilization and married him
Ten years afterward I ran across
Bill in Santa Fe and he was a changed
man. His overbearing manner was
gone, leaving in it's place the very
spirit of meekness, and he was pros.
porous, owning small grading outfit
of his own. Kid and the children were
we'll and happy, he told me.-San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
TELLS HER OWN STORY.


Nv life since childhood has been on
the plains and in the mountains. My
father was one of the first to visit :h:
gold fields of Pixies peak. What is
now the: city of Denver, COL, was
then settlement of but two or three
log cabins and a few tents. All pro-
visions and merchandise at that time
were carried across the plains on
freighting wagons, the frelghters
travelling in large companies Tor pro-
lection against the Indians.
My first adventure of note came
while with one of these freightlng
trains on the way from Denver to the
east, where I was journeying to at
tend school at my old home in Iowa
The train was attacked by band
of hostiles, and was captured.
I was taken to the main camp and
presented to the chiefs daughter as
playmate, or, more correctly, as
pet. I was compelled to witness the
torture of prisoners almost daily, at
one time being forced to behold the
burning at the stake of Mexican
prisoner.
Again, with other prisoners, I was
compelled to run the gantlet, and to
this day I bear the scar from wound
inflicted by tomahawk in the hand
of bloodthirsty Indian. But, hav-
ing forced me to battle for life in
an effort to run the gantlet, having
inflicted wound which was intended
to produce death. their thirst for
blood appeared satisfied, and every ef
fort was made to nurse me back to
health
While with the Indians learned to
do bead work and decorations, OBJ
tanned knowledge of their medicines,
witnessed the ceremony of selecting
chiefs and medicine men, was taught
their beliefs, their dances, sung their
songs and spoke their language fairly
we'll.
After several months of captivity.
through the agency of United States
troops I was exchanged for four In
dian prisoners and returned to my
home in Denver.
This adventure was unfortunate; it
robbed me of an education, as from
this time never had another oppor.
tunity to return to the east, and there
were then no schools in the west.
Following my captivity and return
to my home I made ~ round trips
from Denver to Missouri river points
as cook for freighting train, my
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
TESTED BY TRIFLES.
Man Makes an Idiot of Himself When
He Upsets q Small Bottle
of Ink.

Flies are great tests of character,
son. A man may be cool as an ice
berg under extraordinary circum-
stances of danger or times of intense
excitement; he may be calm when, at
another mans order, he is facing a
six-gun battery and getting ready to
try if he can push bayonet through
cannoneer before the gunner shoves
eight pounds of assorted ironmongery
through him;, he may assume com.
mand and act nobly and quietly when
the ship is sinking; he may preserve
an even mind when the hotel is on
fire; he may even speak grammatic-
ally when the ghost enters his room
at midnight.
But let that man upset a very small
inkstand, says Robert J. Burdette in
the Los Angeles Times, with only very
little ink in it, on his desk. He up
sets his chair on the office cat as he
leaps to his feet with howl like a
wild Indian or a baseball coach; he
makes a desperate. grab at the ink
stand and swoops it half way across
the desk before he sweeps it off into
an open drawer full of unanswered
letters; then he claws after his pa
pers and drags them through little
puddle of ink that wasn't doing bit
of harm before he mopped it zigzag
and crooked all over everything with
his white handkerchief; and finally,
after he has smeared the top of his
desk, his hands and his gray panta:
looms with ink, he discovers that at
the first dash he had knocked a much
larger bottle of red ink clear off the
desk on to the floor, where it has
lain, draining it's crimson life away
in the very heart of the lightest figure
on blue and white carpet.
Then he says things at the flies of
life, and wonders why man always
makes an idiot of himself when he up.
sets a little bottle of ink. And he
may keep on wondering. Because he
will never know why. Nobody knows.
He just does it; that is all.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
REAL HORSE SENSE.
Displayed by an Old Mare Whose
Feet Needed New Shoes and Who
Went After Them,

They have at the Russell stables in
Pittsfeld, Mass, a horse which was
purchased from Ex-senator Dawes and
is used on the baggage wagon running
from the hotel to the depot.
One morning this spring the old
horse was taken out of the stable and
on the way to the depot she slipped on
the ice and fell. Again during the
morning hours about town the horse
slipped on the ice. At noon the horse
was unhitched and sent into her stall
for her midday meal.
She is never hitched, and when the
men looked for her to make the one
o'clock trip to the station she was no.
where to be found. They searched the
stable and streets, and finally went to
Ex-senator Dawes house, but the old
mare was not to be found
Toward three o'clock, however, she
appeared at the stable, trotting in
briskly, and, looking around, went
into her stall.
It was discovered that she had been
newly shod, and the employees made
inquiry at the blacksmith shop and
learned that the horse had arrived
there little after noon and had waited
her turn for the shoer. The men at
the shop knew her and thought she
had been left there by some one of the
hostlers.
The old Dawes mare was making her
regular trips to the station next day
with new sharp corks, and she has won
the heart of every stable man4sby her
knowledge of the right thing to do at
the right time.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23

of the moderate purse, but they are also
to be found in more expensive sets, and
special orders often call for still more
costly talismans..
Some of these charms, with their
special virtues, are as follows:
1. Split chestnut-Good morning.
2. Amethyst heart-Loyalty.
8. Owl-Wisdom.
4. Heather in glass-Eternal love.
s. Four-leaf clover-Luck.
6. Scarab-Fidelity.
T. Antique money-Luck at games.
3. Pine cone-Preserves from sickness
g. Seaweed in glass-Preserves from acct
dent
10. Poppy-To forget grief
II. Holly-Overcomes all obstacles
T. Auvergne bell-Guide in the right path
H. Hazelnut-Long life.
These are each attached by little
chain to a central ring. The flow
ers are encased in a glass locket, and
the others are of silver or of gold in
the forms given.
Another set of charms consists of
tablets of variety of shapes, heavily
chased in ornamentation and set with
gems, the sentiment of which is also
engraved on the tablets just above the
setting. These are:
!. OpalHope.
2. Garnet-Grace.
3. Sapphire-Truth.
4. Bloodstone-Courage.
5. rysoprase-Eloquence.
6. Topaz-Fidelity.
T. !dcinth-Modesty.
s. kuby-Charity.
9. 1asper-Wisdom.
10. Pearl-Innocence.
II. Turquoise-Prosperity.
II. Amethyst-Deep love.
1s. wire charm containing in a frame the
figure '13.''
The person wearing this set of
charms is supposed to have all these
wonderful qualities of character The
same gems and others as beautiful are
also to be had in the rough uncut
stones, inclosed in gold wire cages and
hung imprisoned on little gold chains
of varied lengths.-N. Y. Tribune. :
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
Big East Indian Trees.

Tt is reported in authentic works that
q banyan tree on the Nerbudda once
covered a space so great that it shell
tered 1900 men. The power of the
floods has now much reduced it in size,
but it is still 2,cO0 feet in circumfer-
ence, and the trunks, large and small
exceed 5000 in number. Other, trees
have been known to cover an area of 10
acres. Theysare frequently found near
temples and on or near funeral mounds.
The figs are esinsipid but abundant. The
leaves are Of g bright green and form
g dense shade. They are five inches
long and four inches wide and they are
used BY the Brahmans as plates and
dishes. The wood Of the tree is porous
and is almost worthless. The natives
use various portions of the tree for
medicinal purposes. {.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
The Sleeveless Jacket.

One of the very latest Paris fashions
is the black silk bolero, or 'ssleeveless
jacket"-very much the same style of
"sleeveless jacket that was worn by
our grandmothers over some of their
best muslin bodices. This jacket comes
to the waist line at the back and slopes
down longer at the front to form point
ed corners and give the desirable long
front line. There is narrow collar
and revers rolling back and leaving
the jacket open all the way down the
front. The smartest of these jackets
are of heavy corded black silk with de-
signs done in jet spangles. Others of
them are trimmed with appliques and
edged with narrow silk fringe. They,
will be worn over the sheerest of gowns
or with black silk and crepe skirts
topped with bodices Of plated chiffon
Or those of muslin and lace. Detroit
Free Press.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23

a LESSON TRUST.

~ I
When the dark days Of winter are Der ,,s,
And the earth In her mantle of white
Is shaken and rocked by the tempest,
And scourged Of the storm. day and night,
We see not the gladness and beauty.
w htch the fullness of time shall disclose,
s NOR dream OF the wonderful sweetness
Shut up In the heart of the rose..a5s
We catch not the charm and the fragrance
The bloom and the freshness Of June;
Inc Hush Of the midsummer morning,
Ine gloWsof the midsummer noon.
i We see not the wealth, of the harvest,
Deep buried in darkness and cold,
Ncr dream of the glory of autumn,
All radiant with crimson and gold.
But spring in her beautiful garments
Shall come with soft sunshine and show
And summer arrayed in her glory,
And crowned with a crown Of glad fow-
The branches with fruit shall be laden.
Which erst waved so barren and drear,
When autumn. all trailing with splendor,
Comes, crowning the joy of the year.
Not only when song birds are singing.
And nature seems smiling and bland.
But when the fierce tempest Is shrieking,
And darkness hangs thick DER the land.
Is the hand of an Infinite Goodness
Still guiding wherever we go.
For the Lord of the Harvest yet reigneth
When the bread lieth under the snow.
Q heart, in the night time of sorrow,
Look upward, and do not despond,
Though winter and darkness are round
thee, +. -.
There's sunlight and summer beyond;
The frost and the hail in their season,
The snow that comes down from above,
The winter, no less than the summer,
Is the Gift of an Infinite Love.
It is loye on the torrent that rageth,
No less than the streamlet that flows
It is love in the whirlwind that smiteth,
No less than the zephyr that blows;
1t is love when thy heart sings with glad
a ness, II ~
It is love when all gladness shall fail:
And If evil endure for season,
1t Is only that good may prevail.
-tranc Remington, in Union Signal.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
The Lesson Was a Failure.

A gentleman reproached his son for
the careless way in which he carried his
watch, but the young man persisted in
the practice. One evening in a crowd
at the theater, the old gentleman asked
his son what time it was. The young
man was distressed and mortified to
find his watch had been stolen. II took
it myself said the father, severely, ito
show you how easily you could be
robbed. Here it is" He put his hand
into his pocket to restore the watch,
butsit was gone. Some thief, more
.adroit than himself, had appropriated
the property. The lesson was total
failure -. v. = = + =
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
POOR OLD ELEPHANT.
sad Fate Of an nAfrican Beast That
E Tried to Push a Big Locomo-
tive Backward.

It is not only in South. Africa, and by
statesmen who ought to know better,
that the march of civilization is op-
posed and obstinacy pitted against
progress. The elephant has many hu-
man qualities, and if the story that
comes to us from Perak, one of the
Straits settlements, be well founded,
occasionally shares with politicians
hardly less intelligent their prejudice
against the spirit of the age. 1T ap-
pears that a big tusker, which had long
been an object of pursuit to the sports
meh of that remote: district, wandered
en- to the railway line and tried con-
clusions with the engine of a goods
train, charging it repeatedly, and keep
ing up the contest for nearly an hour.
The. engine was reversed in the hope
that the beast would quit the field and
allow the train to proceed, but as soon
as there was any attempt to renew the
journey the elephant returned to the
encounter and resumed it's obstructive
tactics. The driver was afraid to charge
the brute, lest the train should be
thrown off the metals, and the contest
might have gone on much longer had
not the elephant backed into the en-
gine, and, setting it's fore feet firmly
between the rails, endeavored to shove
the train backward with it's hind quar-
ters.
The driver took advantage of the op-
portunity and put on steam, gradually
forcing the beast off the line. In this
maneuver one of the wheels of the en-
gine went over the hind legs of the ami
nal, which was put out of it's misery by
the guard of following passenger
train. This is not the first time that
the engine in question has encountered
an elephant on the line. Just about five
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
MRS. NAT COLLINS.


("Mother'' of All the Ranchmen of the
Western Plains.)
brother being a wagon master. Wood
and water were scarce, and many
times our only fuel was dry buffalo
chips. At times the dread sand
storms would overtake us, when moth
ing could be cooked without it's being
unfit for food. During these storms
travel was abandoned.
Hardly a day passed without an In
dian fight, for the savages were con-
stantly swooping down upon the
ing away the stock.
Now the same journey can be ac-
complished in comparatively a few
hours in the modern palace car.
In this way I earned my first
money, and when the excitement oc.
casioned by the discovery of rich gold
fields at Alder Gulch, Mont, induced
my relatives to decide upon that as
their future home. we were among
the first to go to Virginia City. The
trip from our starting point on the
Missouri river occupied nearly three
months, and the greater part of that
time I was employed as scout for
the train, because of my knowledge
of scouting gained while with the In
dians.
For three days and nights we were
lost in the terrible bad Lands"
without water or food, but finally
continued, our route passing through
a portion of what is now the great
Yellowstone park.
Here was sight that will never be
witnessed again-the herds of buffalo
that roamed the prairies of the Vel
lowstone. Nothing was more feared
than stampede of buffalo. With
their heads down, for the buffalo does
not look up, they would go pell-
nell over the plains, and should even
a high river bank be reached they
would continue on their mad race.
trampling to death all who fell be-
meath.
I have seen buffalo so thick that
we would be compelled to stor our
train and shoot among them to
frighten and drive them away before
we could camp. The earth at times
seemed to tremble beneath their
tread, but to-day all that remains as
reminder of those great herds of
noble beasts are a few domestic herds.
We went up the Gallatin valley, past
where Bozeman now stands, to Vir-
ginia City. =.
There were no laws or courts in
those days, only such as were made
by the miners, who would gather at
the stores and plan what they would
do with the desperadoes. I have seen
the bodiesrof men left hanging from
the limbs of trees for days as warn
ing to criminals. .5
For the past ls years I have been
engaged in the cattle business in
northern Montana, the first 1S months
OF which time I did not see the face
OF white woman, as the only set
tiers were friendly Indians.
My first shipment of cattle was
made nine years ago, and my journey
to Chicago at that time was alsos
my first visit east since leaving my
old home in Iowa.
Each year since that time q have
accompanied my annual shipment 10!
Chicag ago.Mrs. Nat Collins. il Chicago.
Democrat. s. s. 50.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23
Graves Rented by the Year.

D Fancy being evictcd from your last
resting place if your relatives neglect
ed to pay the rent! Yet this is what
happens every day in that island we
have been hearing so much Of lately,
Porto Rico. In the Campo santo, the
consecrated field, which lies on the cliff
edge near San Juan, it is impossible to
buy grave right out, except at price
which puts it out of the question for
poor people. The graves are leased for
a term Of years, and if at the end Of
that time Che lease is not renewed, the
remains are dug up and the ground re-
laf 80 -. u "
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23

three, but more than twice three
seven. Look among the squirming
arms and legs, among the chubby
hands and feet and you cannot fail to
make up the puzzling addition. And
after you have found all seven of the
baby boys take the picture and have
some fun with your friends watching
them fuss and fume that they cannot
see more than the original three ba-
bies.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.