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Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
LITERARY REWARDS.
Wrestling Match Between Writer'S,
in Which the Truth Ii Bad
ly Strained.

"Well, if a man goes to literature he must
expect his pay in something besides dollars
and CENTS" remarked Chicago novelist as
he stroked his blond imperial.
''Yes, that's so," said a second, a big man
who writes western stories and delights to
have himself photographed in picturesque
felt hat and an overcoat with cape to it.
"Now, for my Prairie Yarns the best
could do was $4,000, and they hagged over
that as if it had been an amateurish per
formance."
"They treat me the same way" said the
little blond man, who has trick of holding
his head on one side. "Now for my Sky
scraper'- magnificent piece of Chicago color
with Mrs. Seymour-Seymour in it, and the
Snobs murder case, and all that, West side
and North side and all that-what do you
suppose I got for that? A beggarly $35, ,OOO
and l was silly enough to take it down and
let the royalty go.'
They looked at each other narrowly. The
man who writes "Prairie Yarns" said he
must be going. As the elevator descended
with him swiftly he muttered:
"You never can tell one so big that that
prlg won't go you one BETTER
The little blond man laid his throbbin{
forehead in his hand and mused: 1T take'
something more than the author Of 'Prairis
Yarns to feaze me."-Chicago Inter Ocean
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
THE SERVANT PROBLEM.
This Woman Would Solve 1t by Pro-
vidinE Pleasant Quarters Out
side Of the Kitchen.

''Where do I think charity and
philanthropy ought to begin?" repeat
ed the woman who was pouring the
tea. ''Why, with ones servants. Serv-
ants sitting-rooms; there you have
the key to the whole servant problem.
l mean that next in necessity to your
own drawing-room and the kitchen it.
self come rooms where your servants
may receive their friends.
"A friend of mine-a woman of ideas
as well as means-has fitted up a
room on the second floor, a pretty
room at the side of the house, and
given it to the servants in which to
carpeted and furnished with SIX
chairs. It was made artistic at very
moderate cost. A breadth of mating
was run around the wall just above
q couch covered with red denim. The
walls were denim-covered and hung
with = good carbon copy or two. The
floor was stained and laid with cheap,
effective rugs-one of them being
made of coarse canvas, fringed at the
ends, lined with the same and marked
with a paint brush with blotches Of
old blue and dull red. Pillows were
placed on the couches; here and there
were stained pine shelves for books,
finished at the top with ordinary pic
ture molding. White dimity curtains
were at the windows, and a bit of pot
terry stood on a. shelf above the door.
The room was arranged at an expense
which was hardly to be mentioned, and
it was very artistic and comfortable.
"In this room the servants took
turns, arranging their evenings to suit
themselves. They might entertain
your milkman, the green grocer's boy
or an honest young laborer-that was
their lookout. The guests came up the
back stairway, and the room was
theirs.
"After a time there may begin to
be difference in the sort of callers
who come. Well-appearing, we'll
trained servants, disciplined to soft
voices and silent feet, are not likely
to have very Objectionable friends. But
if they DO, refined surroundings will
help point out their objectionableness
sooner than anything else. Make your
home attractive to your servants and
they will put up with anything rather
than leave you."-N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

NY WIFE.

Come sit down here beside me, little wife,
That work can wait. There-this is COM
fort, home.
Has duty been so pressing down below :
That you must leave your husband here
alone?
But I've been working, too. See what I've
done? .,>. "te,,.2...
See all that manuscript upon the floor
And desk and table? was dreaming,
though,
OF you, sweet, when I heard you at the
door.
Five years of welded life Your little hand,
How white and soft it is. I'll hold it here
Close, lest it get away. Five welded years,
And they've been full of comfort Tor US,
dear. !"
I used to sit and dream of ma rried life,
And try to fancy what a home would be
With me, and just one person there beside
Who'd call me husband and sit upon my
knee, !;
And always love me. That was years ago,
Before l knew you, sweetheart, ere you
To weave your witching g wiles about my
And lead me helpless by a captive chain.
But now dream no longer, for know
That when God planned to bless our hu-
man lot,
He made a home-just such home as
ours.
Lest Eden's paradise should be forgot.
You say you must go? Well, then, one more
kiss.
Don't stay so long away another time.
There, say again you love me. Now, good
by,
And may God bless this little wife of
mine!
-Morda Stevens, in N. w. Christian Ad-
VOCate.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Poverty of Farmers, Liver.

The poverty of the lives of these pros
porous farmers was a revelation to me,
even, accustomed as was to a domestic
simplicity which would surprise mod
ern Americans of any degree. New
books were a luxury none of them in
dulged in; beyond the Bible and two
or three volumes of general Informal
tion there was no reading beyond a
weekly newspaper, and the diet:2was
such as had never been used to, even
at De Ruyter. But for the vegetables
of the farm, sailors at sea would fare
better than these landsmen. In later
years boarded with one Of the farm
ers in an adjoining valley, where I was
engaged in painting cascade of great
beauty, and for the six, weeks I lived
in the family saw only two small ar.
ticles o. animal food-salt mackerel
for breakfast and salt pork for dinner.
The narrowness of intellectual range
and the bigotry-political and religious
prevailing amongst them was such
as had in no experience ever encoun-
tered, even in the ''straitest sect of the
Pharisees," the Seventh Day Baptist
church of my youth.-W. J. StiIlman,
Atlantic.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
ANEPISODE IN BOERDOM.
For Those Readers Who Are Keep
ing Up with the War Lite
erQturc,

An Afrikander, trekking from Schuin's
Hoogte to Palapsie with load of biltong
halted by a fonteln at the foot of a kloof'
A Voortrekker suddenly appeared from be-
hnd eSPe .bcutsd waS9dg by ssyes4r
"Dop!" replied the Afrikander, who was
man of ready wit.
.'Produce it, said the Voortrekker
Though l am no depper."
The Afrikander's voorlooper, who was
standing on the disselboom munchine
meaies, jumped off and started on run to-
ward krantz. In jumping SLUT his foot
slipped on kip and he fell into donga
The others, after much dop, got into heat
ed argument in Taal over the quickest way
to the nearest dorp. One said he should
take the drift over the spruit, and the Other
that he should pont over the pan. A zarr
came along and took them both around the
viel and through the poort to the. lager
where they should be safe from rooineks.-
n Y, Sun.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, of which she is the president,
Mrs. Lowe has been long known in the
south as wealthy and philanthropic
woman. She has a handsome home in
the aristocratic quarter of Atlanta. and
there dispenses notable hospitality
amid the most luxuriant surroundings.
First attracted to club life during
the Cotton States and International ex-
position, she became imbued with the
idea at once, and it was at her home that
the Woman's club of Atlanta was born.
From this beginning the Georgia Fed
GRAFTON grew, and Mrs. Lowe was unan-
imously elected its president. In 1898
she was elected presiding officer of the
general federation at the Denver con.
vention. The work of spreading the
club idea among the women of the south
fell to her lot, and few have any COM
plant to make of the success she has
made in this somewhat stubborn field.
Mrs. Lowe has crossed the meridian
of life, but she is still youthful in ap.
pearance, and though not large WON.
an has an imposing appearance and is
an excellent and impressive speaker.
She is of rather slight stature, her eyes
are blue, and her brown hair is tinged
with gray. She wears eyeglasses,
dresses with elegance and taste and has
the charming, easy manners that per-
tain to the ladies of the south. How she
is held in estimation of the members
of the general federation may be gath
cred from the fact that shea south
erner-could find friends enough to
elect her the executive head of this tre-
mendously large body of American
women, the vast majority of whom live
in the north.
Before her marriage Mrs. Lowe was
one of the most beautiful and popular
bellies in the south. She has son and
married daughter.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

ssHe looked 4 he felt com
Portable under the warm bed ding.
Bath, hey 2" mumbled Mr.. Gibson,
when Mrs. Jobson had left the room.
"Wen, I%s'pose Eve got to-" g. =
He got up, looked out of the window
at the cold, drear prospect, shivered
visibly, put on his bathrobe, and wen: :
out of. the bathroom. He looked at
the water in the tub with no apparent
enthusiasm, and then he put his hand
in it.
"Jimini!" he exclaimed, withdraw
ing his hand with considerable sudden
ness. Then he put one of his feet in the
tub.
'Br-r-r-r-r-but that's frigid!" Mrs.
Jobson, who wasn't far away, heard
him calculate. Then he put the other
foot in.
'Well, it's heroic treatment, all
right" Mr.. Jobson was heard by Mrs.
Jobson to humble to himself. Then
she heard terrific splash, that remind
ed her of the tank fun of captured
walrus she had once seen, followed by
snorts and gurgles and cholings and
gaspings, and then three minutes of
stertorous breathing, with some in
distinct mumbling at intervals. A
couple of minutes later Mr.. Jobson ap-
peared in his hathrobe.
"Jinglebells, eh?" said he to Mrs.
Jobson with the look of a conquering
hero. ''Thought he had me topped,
didn't you? Well, if there's anything
else that you think Jinglebells can do
that can't do, just jot it down, will
you, please, Mrs. Jobson, and I'll at.
tend to it."
''Did you enjoy your bath?" in
quired Mrs. Jobson, with the straight
est face in the world.
Enjoy it? I Ireveled in it! It's what
I've been needing for 20 years. It's just
imagination, this fear people have of
jumping into tubful of cold water in
the winter time-pure imbecile imag-
ination. Once the plunge's made, and
you're all right. love it, and if you
ever catch me taking warm bath tgain
you'll know I'm not in my right mind"
It was bitter cold the next morning,
too, and when Mrs. Jobson shook Mr..
Jobson awake and told him his cold
bath was waiting for him he looked as
if he might, under other circumstances,
say some things to her. But he got up
again and went out to the bathroom,
where he repeated the performance of
the morning before. His gurgiings and
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
MRS. LOWE HONORED.
Georgia Lady Appointed to Repre-
cent the Club Women Of America
Mt the Paris Exposition.

Mrs. William Bell Lowe, of Atlanta,
Ca, president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, has received notice
of her appointment as honorary presi-
dent for America of the woman's board
of the Paris exposition, and has notified
Nine. Poquard, leader of the woman s
department of the exposition, of her
acceptance.
Mrs. Lowe is one of the few southern
women who have become conspicuous
during the past few years in the WON
ems club movement, and she is now the
official leader of that movement in
America. Although it is only short
time since she became identified with
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
FOR THE BRIDE-ELECT.
Linen, Book and Rose Showers Are
becoming Popular All Over
the Country.

The bride of to-day is being made the
recipient of many social honors. All
her girl friends pay her tribute by
these pretty entertainments, and the
popular maid must be ready for her
wedding several weeks before the event
transpires, for at each of the func-
tions she is supposed to wear one of her
trousseau gowns. Most of these af-
fairs are luncheons or breakfasts, each
with a special feature. A "linen
shower" for instance, consists of each
guest bringing piece of linen, doiley,
centerpiece or bureau scarf, whatever
one chooses, and as the party leaves
the table the pieces are thrown at the
bride-to-be.
For a "book shower each guest
brings a book appropriately inscribed
to her friend, with sentiment which
the giver. fancies. Of course, each hos
tess can use her own ideas in planning
her entertainment, and in her invita-
tions puts in one corner what each
guest is to bring for the honored one.
''Teaspoons,' ''ctps and saucers,''
pilates" and "sofa pillows" are all ac-
ceptable. These contributions go to-
ward furnishing the brides new home
with memories Of her girlhood days and
friends. The 'rose shower" should be
left for the last affair before the we'd
ding, and as the bride departs an i'm
mense bag filed with rose petals is
burst over her head, and each maid
throws handful of the fragrant bios
SONS, signifying the hope that her fu-
ture may be rose-strewn. The bag is
made of tissue paper, and the girls will
all have been saving their rose petals
for weeks for this Chicago
Times.Hera1d
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

for over 500 years. The stump is over
seven feet in diameter at the height of
the fence. On its top is the church bell,
surmounted by little roof and cross.
The belfry is reached by curious lad
der formed by Stats on board leaning
from the roof to the tree trunk.
Over the tree grows beautiful Eng
lish ivy. This ivy has found its way
into the church through crack in the
simple chapel. There it grows, beau
tiful decoration for the interior of the
house. It is green even at this sea-
son.
The bell was given by the Sunday
school of old St. Peters church, of Phil
adelphia, and the church is known as
St. Peters Episcopal church. Mr..
Cheal is the rector.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
A MINNESOTA FARMER
WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA
Is Now Located There, Farms in His
NcighbOrhoOd Being Taken by
Former u. S. Residents

Former U. S. Residents.
The following extracts from a letter
written to Mr.. Benz. Davis, Canadian
Government Agent at St. Paul, Minn.,
give an excellent idea of what is said
of Western Canada by those who have
gone there during the past two or three
years.
when we first arrived here and took
up our homes on the prairie near Dales-
boro, Assa., for short time we had a
fit of the 'blues,' but now all hands
are settled to business, hale, hearty
and contented, enjoying the finest win
ter we have ever seen. We have got
very comfortably situated, with con-
siderable preparation for a crop, and
all hopeful. think this is very fine.
country, and if the past seasons crop
is not an exception, which they claim
not, believe this is going to be the
Wheat Field of the West. 1t is fill
ing up fast. In this township last
spring there were rs quarter-sections of
land vacant and to-day there is not one;
1 can stand at my house and count 10
houses where there was not one last
spring, with six more to go up this
spring. This is only a sample of what
is going on all round. We intend to
build. church next summer, right
close to my place, so we will be strict
ly in line. It would have amused YOU
to have been here last spring. There
were crowds of landseekers, and some
times in the spring the prairie is not
very inviting, and of course lots were
discontented. There was one in the
crowd who jumped on me for putting
a letter in the paper, only for which he
never would have come here, and he
was very hostile, but eventually he got
place, and to-day claims he would not
take Thousand Dollars and move cut,
so l am glad he is satisfied.
swell, my dear Sir, as Arthur Finnev
is about to move out in March, with
his family, and also one of my sons, any,
thingyo can do for them to assist them
along and to make things smooth as
possible, will be greatly appreciated by
me. I will close for this time, and will
write from time to time to let you know
we are living. Drop us few lines to
let MS know how things are moving in
st. Paul *ours Respectfully,
"ALEX CAMERON"
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
TREE TRUNK SPIRE.
st. Peters Church, at Tacoma, Wash,
II Quaint and Simple
House of Worship,

Christmas bells rang at Tacoma,
Wash, from a peculiar church spire. It
is Douglas fir tree stump. The church,
small, primitive structure, was built
in the midst of rough lumber camp in
the seventies by the side of the tree, so
that the latter might be used for a
steeple. Bishop Morris, who is still
bishop of Oregon, built it.
The church was built in less than a
week, but the steeple had been growing
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Didn't Do n Thing.

Boys are odd conglomerations, and few
there are who understand the emotions that
prompt their actions.
A certain little fellow had his picture
taken, and when the family got the negative
of it they were Mortified to see the face Of
the boy all puffed out and the eyes bulging,
and exclaimed in body: "Why, what en-
earth did you do to make your face look like
that?"
:, "Didn't Do thing" said the innocent it,
breath until the man got through takin' my
picture" ."-A1emphis Scimitar.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, .
T.JCAS COI1NTY o

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner OF the firm of +. j. Cheney
= Co., doing business in the city of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dol
lars fol-, each and every case Of catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day Of December, A. D.
1856. A. w. GLEASON,
Seal Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
What she Told. Him.

The pastor of a church in Washing
ton, on leaving his study, which is in
the rear of the church, saw little girl,
a friend Of his, talking to stranger.
!. / what was that man saying to you,
Madge?" asked the minister, as he came
up, to the little girl. .5s:.. r. IT,
"Oh, he just wanted to know If Dn
G. was the preacher of this church"
d ! 'And what did you tell him % S.
II u told him. she said !. with dignity,
"that you were the present encum
brance." Youths Companion
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Gold md Silver pur.a.

OF sterling gold are the links of the
wee purse. The gold mount is partic-
ularly handsome. These little purses
are also seen in sterling silver and in
steel. The steel are handsomer than
the silver, but, of course, the golden
purse is far and away the most gor-
geous of them ALL
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Honey an Excellent Food.

Scientific men say that honey is a
much more healthful sweet than sugar.
and has many valuable properties. 1t is
nutritive, and when used freely with
bread makes an excellent food for chill
dren. 1t is laxative, and may be used
advantageously in place of medicine by
persons of sedentary lives. Being also
the daintiest and most delicious of
s~eets-an extract of blossoms-it is
hardly possible to eat it to an Injurious
extent. It needs no digestion, as sugar
does, and even acts as a digestive aid.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Perfumed NiEhtcaps.

Some fastidious women have night
caps made of white wash lace with a
circular sachet pad fastened in the
crown. The caps are coquettish and
pretty, the lace mesh allows free ac-
cess of air and the sachet imparts
faint but distinct fragrance to the hair.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
CritfciainE n Prnfcss0r.

"A professor of English literature in the
Kansas university once posted this notice:
" In communicating with themselves the
students. will whisper as often as possible"
He was Mortified next morning to find this
written under his notice: "That is to say,
talk to yourself in whispers as much as you
can."-Chicago Chronicle.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
The Craze for Crystal.

The sparkle of crystal for the mo-
ment rivals the simmer of silver on nv
lady's toilet table. In trays, boxes, bot
ties, everything to which it can be
adopted, appears the cut and engraved
crystal, with, of course, more or less sill
yer ornamcntatiQn.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Florida and Cubn.

Write to j. G. Tucker, G.. N. Agent, Big
Four Route, 234 Clark St., Chicago, Ills., for
full information as to Low Rate Excursion
tickets to all Winter Resorts in the South
east, via Cincinnati, Louisville, Asheville,
Atlanta, Jacksonville and East and West
coasts Of Florida, as may be desired.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Marriage Made Plain

Standing up together-That's ceremony.
You are man and wife-That's S matrimony.
Living for each other-That's harmony.
Money that you spend-That's patrmony.
Things written down-That's testimony.
Detroit Free Press.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
You CQn Get Allenas Foot Ense FYS EE.

Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy,
n. Y, for FREE sample Of Aliens Foot
Ease, powder to shake into your shoes. It
aching feet. 1t makes New or tight shoes
easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bun
ions. All druggists and shoestores sell it, Csc.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Hit His Pockctbook

Hixon lat the reception)- )-That's a stun
ming gown your wife has on.
Dixon-Yes; it almost knocked me cents
less.-Chicago Evening News.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The eccentricity of genius is one thing;
the foolishness of mediocrity quite another.
It is one thing to have your farm muddy now
and then; another to have it all swamp
Hudor Genone.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

No word is oftener on the lips of men than
Friendship" and, indeed, no thought is
more familiar to their aspirations. All men
are dreaming of it. It is the secret of the
universe.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor
goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES. Sold by all druggists.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

Ignorance is blank sheet on which we
may write; but error is scribbled one on
which we must first erase.-Colton.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

You never meet some men that they do
not ask you to take chance in ratle.-
Atchison Globe. -.~<A ...
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

A Dose in Time Saves Nine Of Hale's
Honey Of Horehound and Tar for Colds.
Pixies Tootllache Drops Cure in one minute.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

I believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.-Mrs Allie
Douglass lsRoy, Mich, Oct. 20, '94.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

To Cure Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Dromo Quininc Tablets. All
druggists refund money If it fails to cure. Csc.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

More mushrooms are raised in the
vicinity of Paris than in anv other
place in the world. "
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
{ Barnaeles on Ocean Gables.

Barnaeles on Ocean Gables.
The recent investigation FOR cable laying il
tlAs Pacific Ocean have revealed the interest
ing fact, that if not upon rock bottom, they
gradually become encrusted with barnacles
and seaweed, heavy enough to break them.
This is like dyspepsia, which, if it is not
checked, grows until it breaks down the
health. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will pre-
vent as well as cure indigestion, dyspepsia,
biliousness, liver and kidney troubles. It
makes weak stomachs strong. All druggists
sell it.
Did Not Know.
Recently rosy y-cheeked German girl ap-
piled for a position as domestic in we'll
known family. The girl learned to speak the
English language in a remarkably short
time, but many of the expressions did not
appeal to her in the proper sense.
The telephone had a peculiar charm for
the girl, and at times she would loiter about
near the instrument in order to answer
call. One day there came a ring xnd she
FASTENED to the phone and put the receiver
to her ear.
"Hello," came back over the phone, "who
is this?"
GLOW do I know?" innocently inquired
the German maid, and to this day she won:
ders why the man at the other end laughed
until he rang off.-Chicago Chronicle.