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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
q LITTLE NONSENSE

Dukane-" Jaysmith is happy-go-
lucky chap" Gaswell-"Happy-go -un-
lucky, should 6ay."-Pittsburgh Tele-
graph.
Ibid you hear about Subbub's gar
den?' mo. WHAT'S it?'' cts so small
he had to lay it cut in folding-beds."-
Buffalo Review.
You say he is director in news
paper corPoratic1?" Eyes, he directs
the wrappers for out-of-town subscrib-
ers."-Baltimore News.
Jasper - ''Bixby shutters awfully,
doesn't hep" Jumpuppe-"Yes. He
should have mind-reader to act as in
terpreter for him. Flown Topics.
School Examiner - 'What is the
meaning of false doctrine?'' School
boy-"Please, sir, it's when the dive
tor gives the wrong stuff to people who
are sick" boston Christian Register.
II don't see how you can afford to
fatter, Mr.. Dingleberry." "What do
you mean, Miss Snooks?" 'sAren't YOU
aware that the internal revenue office
has declared that taffy is taxable ?'-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
During his last campaign Congress-
man Eddy, of Minnesota, VIGOROUSLY
the homeliest man in the house, was
accused by some one of being two-faced.
The candidate referred to the charge
IN his next public speech, and added:
Nov, gentlemen, does anyone of you
honestly think that if I had two faces
l would wear this one?''
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
THE TRUSTS ARE NOT AFRAID.
President MclNfnley's Attempt to Mis-.
lead the People and Cater to
the Peoples Enemies.

No man can read that portion of the
presidents message relating to trusts
and say what it means. The sentences
flow smoothly and the words glitter
with meaningless gereralities; but
there is nothing in them. They are as
sounding brass and a tinlzling cymbal.
On reading them one gets the impress"
sion that the president meant to catch
the antitrust sentiment without hurt
ing the trusts. He is like the man out
west who sought the bubble reputation
by loudly proclaiming his intention to
catch troublesome bear, but care
fully refrained from going near the
haunts of the animal.
The trusts are not afraid. They know
their friends. They will hardly begin
to put up their shutters and go out of
business while Mr.. Mckinley remains in
office. Words do not scare them In 1896
MIR. Bryan said that the trusts and COM
binations did not oppose him because
they were afraid he would not enforce
the law; their anxiety arose from u
feeling of certainty that he would give
them the laws limit. They were not
looking for justice. What they wanted
was a man who could gull the public
with meaningless words, and let the
law rest quietly Oh the statute books
and they got him.
There is plenty of law to put down
the trusts if it were enforced. The gun
is loaded and the bear is in sight, but
the president shoots in the opposite
direction. Then he shouts for more
law. more ammunition. He wants to
make the people. think that he is in
a frenzy to kill the bear; but all the
time he winks the other eye, and the
bear smiles broadly. 1t is beautiful
farce, and some of the people, as honest
Abe Lincoln said, are fooled by it. But
not all of them. - Mississippi Valley
Democrat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
Democrat.
WHEN FARMERS PROSPERED.
Prices Were Highest When There
Was a Plentiful Supply of
Legal Tender Money.

Under the simple law that prices
are regulated by the quantity of the
money by which they are fixed and
measured, which is as invariable az
any law of nature, acknowledged as
self-evident by all standard writer's
on the subject and established by the
WORLDS financial experience through
out history, it stands to reason that
the larger supply of standard money
afforded by the volume of the two
metals Under bimetallism would di-
minish it's exchange value in relation
to the demand for it and consequently
prices would rise to their old-time
healthy normal level, affording farm
ers fair prices for their products.
From 1865, at the close of war, until
1873, when we had the bimetalIic
standard supplemented with a bounti-
full supply of legal tender greenbacks
as a medium of exchange, the gold
price of farmers products, was the
highest in the history of our country.
Rural. r. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
TIE MASK THROWN OFF.
Mckinley Proad Of the Fact That He
- Fooled His Party In
~ 1876

"We are on gold basis, and we mean
to stay there" exultingly exclaimed Mr..
Mckinley in his talk at Ackley, Ia,
on his recent trip through the west.
Mr.. Mckinley seems proud of the
fact that he, and his party sue
ceeded in fooling the American people.
in 1896. He was nominated and elected
Tor counted i'm on platform professed-
ly friendly to bimetallism and pledging
the party to use every possible effort to
secure it by international agreement.
Subsequently 100000 of the peoples
money was spent in sending commits
sion of pleasure-seekers to Europe on a
pretended search for international
bimetallism, but in fact as part of the
general movement to deceive and
swindle the people. The gold standard
was the thing aimed at and intended
from the start. But the declaration for
international bimetallism deceived
many free silver republicans and. kept
them in the party. Now the president
and his advisers think they are sutfi-
GENTLY intrenched behind the breast
works of the British money system and
imperialism to unmask and boldly hoist
the yellow flag. But they may find
themselves mistaken. The people have
lost none of their interest in the money
issue. Every principle claimed by the
democrats in the campaign of '96 has
events, and no bimetallist has changed
gmind regarding the real issue. On
the contrary, every man who has stud
led the money question since 1896 has
become bimetallist by the irrefutatle
logic and the common sense and justice
of the principle. 1t is vastly stronger
now among the masses of the people
than it was in 1896, and from this time
forward silver republicans will have no
cause to remain in their party under
the delusive hope of international BIZ
metallism.
Mark Hanna returns from Europe
proclaiming that the English govern
ment is better than ours. The bank
syndicate asserts that the English
money system is the best in the world.
The administration stands by England
ir her unjust war on the African re-
publics, and has sent an army of 10000
men and As warships to subdue the only
republic in Asia, this stupendous war
being declared and carried on wholly
without authority-a private war of
Mark Hanna and the president. Ali
these lawless and scandalous measures
are part and parcel of the c0nsDiracv
to fasten the gold standard shackles i1.
revocab]y on the limbs of the commoh
people of the world, and make then;
serfs of the ruling plutocratic class
Backing this movement we have an
army of 100000 ''regulars," armed and
drilled as grim menace to our people
and republican institutions. It is time
for the people to Mississippi Val
ley Democrat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
BOOKS AND AUTHORS,

The late archbishop of Canterbury
thought Dickens vulgar"
Pope Leo will live in literature as g
writer of Latin verse. His holiness is
said, Notwithstanding his many cares
and burdens of old age and delicate
health, to turn to this form of COM
position as recreation. .,
The books annually produced now
number about 10000, according to re-
cently-compiled statistics, and are in
part divided as follows: Germany, a..
900; France, $4,000; Sweden, 5000;
Great Britain, 1000, and the United
States, 5000.
Herbert Spencer, according to the
Ladies' Home Journal, has all his life
declined, on principle, all offers of
honorary degrees, titles and decorations
from universities and governments.
When they have been conferred without
his assent he has ignored them. His
first notable book was published near
~ half acentury ago. .. u.
Arthur Tennyson, who died early last
summer at the age of 81, was younger
brother of the late poet laureate. He
wrote no poetry, although he knew
many poets well, including, besides his
brothers Alfred, Charles and Fred
erick, Robert Browning, Mrs. Browning,
and more particularly Lord Lytton, the
author Of LUCILLE with whom he be-
came intimate in Florence, italy.
Z. Clarke Davis, whose wife Is the
writer, Rebecca Harding Davis,
is prominent in the newspaper world,
being the managing editor of the Phil
adelphia Ledger. Richard Harding
Davis is her son. Their youngest son,
Charles Belmont Davis, has also en-
tered the lists Of literatur with q vol
ume Of short stories called ...The Bor-
derland Of Society .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
A FULFILLED Prophecy.

They hadn't seen each other for two
or three years and were talking about
old times.
"By the way" said Carter, you were
in trouble over love affair the last
time I saw you. Some girl had declined
to be your wife, I believe
"Yes," replied CASTOR, "and do you
remember the5encouragement you gave
me? You told me not to care; that
inside of six months I would meet
plenty of other girls I would think
were far superior to her"
II have faint recollection Of say
ing something like that"
''Well, you were right. It happened
just as you said it would. She changed
her mind, and we got married after.
MI. Chicago Times-Heraid.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
FINLAND.

The censure of the press does not
succeed in being consistent. A certain
daily was suppressed because it con-
tanned Objectionable matter. Another
paper was not troubled at all though
it contained the same matter. Part of
the information involved had been
printed previously in other papers.
A Dane, who is well posted on Fin
nish affairs, asserts emphatically that
the Finnish people is gaining courage
and that the attempts to crush out the
national spirit are only uniting the
people as never before.
Helsingfors, Finland, Jan. 27.-The
cars speech, which was read at the
opening of the landtdag today, ex-
planned that it was intended to take
measures to meet the recent misfor-
tunes in Finland. the principal of
which was the failure of the crops,
this causing large emigration. The
proposed measures, it was announced,
include the postponement of the man
euvers of the reserves so that the men
will not be prevented from following
their trades.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
Jews in Brief.

The long warehouse on the St. Paul
river front, between Jackson and Sib-
ley streets, the property of the St.
Louis, St.. Paul & Minneapolis Packet
Company, was nearly destroyed by
fire.
Fred w. Guion. was sentenced to
imprisonment for life for killing
James Miller. Nov. IS. in the Office of
a justice of the peace in St. Paul.
Statistics show over 1000, 900 pounds
of oleomargarine was used in the
state last year.
There have been nine deaths out Of
Is cases of diphtheria at Crookston.
Governor Lind has decided that all
members of the First regiment of the
national guard who served in the
Philippines in the Thirteenth Mime
sofa may have their discharges upon
applying for them. - -...- 49,
The candy factory of the McCusick,
Copelin, Riddell Company, in Mime
apolis was destroyed by fire. -. =.
The stables of the Golden Rule, in
St. Paul. with 10 horses and several
sets of harness were burned.
Peter Stone, demented, had his
hands and feet badly frozen x
G. H. Dorr. Minneapolis grocer,
was fined $25 for selling baking pow
ders not properly labeled.
Judge Lewis, of the district court of
Ramsey county, has decided that the
state courts have jurisdiction in cases
where fraud under the national bank
ruptcy act is alleged.
Thomas Allen was killed by falling
into the basement Of Minneapolis
building. :
The Department Of Minnesota, q. A.
r., will hold their annual encampment
in Minneapolis Feb. %.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
The Situation sized I'm.

Wall street will not let the repub-
lican party do any more webbing on
the money question. 1t is the gold
standard and the note issuing func-
ton of the government turned over
to the national banks. or no campaign
funds. And boiled down il means
that the New York annexes Of Euro
pean banks are running the admins
tration Of William Mckinley Kansas
City Times. IS 8.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
The Farmer Scored.

~ a farmer drifted into a hardware store at
M ~ and was asked by the manager:
Don't you want to buy a bicycle to ride
ground your farm on? They're cheap now.
Can give you one for $35. /" ~
!, ld sooner put the $a5 into cow" said
But think : said the manager, chow fool.
lsh you would look riding around town on q
Oh, don't know, 2 said the farmer: "no
more foolish. perhaps, than I would milking
z bicycle. kansas City journal. .=s.
The person who gives d note Is allowed
three days Of grace after that how many
Of disgrace we are not in q position to state.
-Philadelphia Times. s@'5.#
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
"Kind Indy md No DoE.n

The surveyors who were employed
in laying out the line of the proposed
Ogden avenue extension left behind
them at certain intervals certain pecul-
lar marks to indicate points which they
had fixed. One elderly housekeeper
who lives along the line has, through
sad experience with strangers, become
quite wary. She had read newspaper
article not long since telling of the
marks which tramps and beggars put
on the premises of what they term
'easy people," So when she came to her
front door and saw the surveyors mys-
terious signs, she studied them intent
ly, and, saying softly to herself: "Kind
lady and no dog, hey?" went back into
the house with a smile. When she re-
appeared she was armed with a scrub
bling brush and some cleaning brick.
She at once proceeded to remove every
mark left by the surveyors Chicago
Evening News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

s A lot Of the conversation worked Of in
society ought to be dumped in the garbage
can. Chicago Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
BOLD SPI0N K0P'
OBSERVATION POINT FOR A GLIMPSE
OF STATE AND NATIONAL
4 POLITICS. A.

Tho Outlook Discouraging to the British
Party in Africa, England and America,
and Especially to the British Party in
Minnesota-The Solid Liberty" Senti-
ment IL Against the G. O. P.-van SAINT
and His ssWaterl0O"-'sHe That Is Not
For Me Is Against Me"-McKinley and
British 'Aggression' Ono and the Same
Thlng-State Note and Comment of tho
Week.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
Commercial Museum.

Should the efforts of Senator Davis,
Congressman Stevens and a local COM
mittee prevail, st. Paul will be one
of the nine .substations of the Phila-
delphia Commercial Museum. The
managers of the museums, who have
headquarters at Philadelphia, are to
locate the central points as soon as a
bill in which they are interested has
passed congress. The purpose of the
museum is to foster trade, and con-
gress has been asked for an appropri-
alton of 100000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

Gradually is the light dawning, in
which the people will see that the
money power underlies all of the evils
OF which they complain; that free coin
age and control of the volume of money,
imperialism, trusts whatever the issue
can only be obtained, resisted or de-
sroyed, as the case may be, by first TAX
ing the money power by the throat and
wrestling control of the government
from Wall and Lombard streets. >=..,
'e.-5s ill.,. ~. .'14.[-&t ~ O. q
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

The Tri-State Grain Growers associa-
ton chose Hon. E. w. Randall for it's
pre- ident, the association, as well as the
Minnesota Agricultural society, know
ing q good thing. '~'
No stronger approval Of Inspector
Reishus' administration and position re-
Serding inspectors, has appeared than
. the letter of II. M. Arson of C2ssel.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

In the Fifth r(Hennepin) district, the
opposition to Mr.. Fletcher has reached
the stage that Leading Republicans are
openly denouncing him. In this contin-
gency there is more and more talk of
ex-Mayor P. B. Winston as the man to
beat "Your Uncle Loren.'' Certain it
is that some one will do it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

Why in the world is the Doc Ames
party, in Minneapolis, proposing to BAN
quet on Incoln's birthday. What sim
gle principle is left, of all that Lincoln
stood for, that the Doc Ames party now
represents. But the said party is wise
in abandoning the exposition meeting.
It couldn't fill the hall.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

How have the mighty fallen, when
Republican speakers refuse invitations
to meetings whose sole purpose is to
commend a struggle for liberty, or pos
sibly to condemn those who would stife
it, and destroy two republics? When,
in these degenerate days, Re-
publican administration of America
is itself conducting war against lib
erty, also in distant lands, and has itself
destroyed republic?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

Daily the St. Paul reform forces are
getting into shape to redeem the SANITY
city in the coming municipal election.
Republican mal-administration can be
smelled-wel, as far off as Spion Kop!
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

And gazing from that same Spion Kop
may it not be regarded as deeply signifi-
cant that waterloo" is the name of the
town to which Van SAINT is said to have
gone as reason for declining the Pro-
Boer invitation? Is the elderly" ques-
ton to be that on which Captain Van
SAINT shall meet his "Waterloo?' We
shall soon see.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-24
PALMISTRY THE FAD.
People Who Have Their Hands Read
Want to Know the Future.
New York Telegraph.

new 4 Ork Telegraph.
The fad of palmistry has struck New
York with more than ordinary violence, if
we may believe enthusiastic reports sent
of chromancy. Nor does the infection con-
fine itself to what the Greeks were pleased
to term "the vulgar, but the banker,
broker, professional man and the woman of
fashion all flock to the parlorS of these
later adopts in that side science of occult
ism whose basis is the lines of the hand.
A short talk with Fletcher, who is as we'll
known as any of the opponents of the art,
brought to light the following information
concerning the aims and motives that actu
ate most of the callers:
They care little for the science of palm
iStry. What they wish to know is what the
future holds of veal or woe and how to
compass their end. have often said that
successful reading is like n successful pho
tograph-if the picture looks the way one
wishes 1t to look ii Is good, first class. If
the reading runs the favorable way it is
splendid, for 1t is matter of personal
selfishness after all. In reality the hand
holds the entire history of each life, and
changes from time to time as the more i'm
portant events unfold themselves.
who comes to consult? Why, every
body. from the most astute lawyers, lead
ers of fashion. popular actresses, to the
being only to know and there is great
satisfaction in feeling that as they return
again and again some help must be given
some good done.
Does palmistry have any relation to
phrenology, aStrology or physiognomy :?
The same as one phase of truth to another
Nature never contradicts herself, / think.
To me- however, palmistry comes TO a
nearer solution of the problem than any
thing else
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-24
ugar. When simply boiled they are said

sugar. When simply boiled they are said
to form palatable food.
Chinese sweet potatoes differ in shape,
size and color from the American product,
and are the only edible root to be found
In the Chinese market with which Ameri-
cans are at all familiar. Their chemical
composition indicates, however, that they
possess no particular advantage over the
ordinary American varieties.
Bean cheese is prepared from the "soy
beam" which is being experimentally in
vestigated by the department, with the
idea of introducing it into this country.
The beans themselves are particularly rich
in protein and fat, and are eaten and
cooked in the same manner as other beans.
The bean cheese, however, which is a pc
culiarly Chinese preparation, is prepared
from the seeds of the white variety of soy
bean. These are allowed to soak for three
hours in water. and are then reduced to
a thick paste, and the mass cooked. The
cooked mass is next strained through a
coarse cloth. milk-white liquid, rich in
protein and fat, being thus obtained. When
this Is coagulated with crude salt, con-
tanning magnesium chloride, it may be
kneaded into small cakes. 1t is sold either
in the form of the freshly-precipitated curd
or in the form of small, square cakes OBJ
tanned by compressing the former material.
1t is usually cooked in peanut oil before
being eaten. and. in the opinion of Prof.
True. us a palatable food"
Species of yam beans and cassava, or
ginseng vegetable as it is called by the
Chinese, are also extensively eaten by the
SHiLcSc, anu the latter HIS the place that
corn meal occupies in the South 1t is be-
lieved that this is one of the most valu-
able Of the Chinese food materials and
capable OF being introduced with advan-
tage into this country. Even the Chinese
cabbage is entirely different from our own.
and resembles a head of lettuce rather
more than a true cabbage, consisting of a
cluster of tender white leaves. with greatly
thickened mid-ribs Their eggplant. a
noticeable feature of the Chinese vegeta-
bic stands during the summer months has
perfectly smooth, white skin but its
chemical analysis is similar to the Amer
lean variety. Various gourd plants are
also esteemed either as food or as condi-
ments. principal among which are the
"leprosy gourd," the dish CLOTH" or
towel gourd," and the Chinese preserv-
ing melon.
The peculiar horned chestnut which is
often sold by the fakirs on the streets and
In the Chinese baZaars as a curiosity on
account OF its shape, resembling as il does
the head and horns of a cow, is used by
the Chinese as an article of diet being
classed as one of the five food grains of
China. When placed in water Ii readily
terminates and produces the curious float
ing foliage characteristic of this genus
of plants.
Chinese millet, which. 1t is believed. will
prove an important addition to our cere-
ais, and various native fruits. nuts and
dried flowers, in addition to the articles
| OF food named above. make up practically
the whole of the Chinese vegetable diet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-24

happened to me to meet at the house of
a mutual friend a daughtersof the late
Major Benjamin Russell, for many years
editor of the Boston Centinel. She was
bright, interesting woman and a brilliant
raconteur, and she told me a number of
anecdotes of her father, who was a strong
ly individualiZed and notable character for
q good many years in Boston. Among
them was the following:
1.-THE battle between the Chesapeake and
the Shannon took place just off the Mass
achusetts coast and a sailor in some way
got ashore and hurried to Boston with
the news. 1t was in the night and he
went straight to the Centinel office, where
he found Major Russell, to whom he told
the story, including the death of Lawrence
What were his last words? said the ma
jor. Don't know said the man. Didn't
he say Don't give up the ship" Don't
know said the man. oh, he did, said the
major, III make him say it'-and he did
so much for history"