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The St. Johns herald., 1901-06-29

either victim knowing anything about the other.
 One would think that the parents would seek to know who the men are that seek their daughters in marriage. Ii would seem as if they would not only learn something about the manner of life of the wooer, but would also find ont something about his family and about what that family thinks of the proposed union. Under proper circum- stances a marriage between the chil- dren of two families results in the ac- quaintance at least of the parents by an interchange of letters if in no other way. Where the daughter is overtaken by such disaster as has just come upon the young woman whom Smith induced to marry him her parents cannot es- cape some of the responsibility for what happens. A young woman's life is too precious a thing to be intrusted to the first plausible stranger who asks for her hand. But from recent events one must conclude that this has been for gotten in Brooklyn.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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Excuses Given hY Looters.

The Russian papers contain comical stories of the effects of the Russian ministerial order against footing in China. A private soldier hauled be fore the provost marshal with some valuable gauge ornaments in his pos session pleaded that he meant them as gift for the Vladivostock museum. He got off, and few days later his escape placed the military judges in a farcical dilemma probably without precedent. A man had been caught with a live Chinese hen in his haversack and he, too, pleaded that he had thought of sending his prize to the museum. The papers aver that this culprit also was permitted to escape.
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formerly lived in Chicago, has been in charge of this unique school ever since the death of her husband, Dr. Mills, who died in 1895. The school itself is fourteen years old, and Is entirely a private enterprise, never having re- ceived the aid of any of the various missionary boards. Before Dr. and Mrs. Mills began their work in China deaf and dumbpeople were looked upon as outcasts, who were punished in that way for some crime, and were treated even by their parents with great cruelty. Even to-day the Mills school is the only place in the great empire of 400,0OO,000 people where such unfor- tunates can be properly educated. Con- tributions for the support of the school are received from all over the world, and the Chinese people themselves are contributing more and more to its SUD- DOrt
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you off this time. Some of you guys are too = tricky to live in this neigh borhood. anyway. What do you sayT
 Gentlemen, I swear this Is not my lot and that will make no claim on it whatever said the Iowan. with uplift- ed hand. That's enough. Now hit the grit The young man gathered up his Dianket and departed. He spent the rest or the night trying to find his cholce corner lot. The day broke and the sun arose, but he was yet unsue- cessful in locating 1t. The men in the tent threw up shack, opened a saloon and did thriving business on the cor ner lot, and in few days the IOwan traded his Winchester for lame mule and sorrowfully rode out of the terri tory"
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The Wife,s Pocketbook.

''The average American husband does not seem to be able to get it through his well-meaning but halting mind that nothing on Gods earth humiliates a wife more than to be compelled to ask her husband for money" writes Ed
 ward Box in the Ladies' Home Journal
 "She instinctively hesitates to do 1t, than ask Every wife should be given all that it is possible for the husband to allow for household expenses, and it should not be doled out to her tn driblets nor. given to her as a favor; but as her right, and without question. Over such a share she should have in- dependent sway to do with as she sees fit for the wisest interests of her home and children. That is one rightful step
 But there is still another. She should have an allowance of her own apart from the family share of the income. I have no hesitation in saying that if the truth were known it is just this humiliating dependence upon a man for every little trife that a woman needs that is making thousands of women restless and anxious for outside careers. This is the only fair excuse 1 have ever been able to see for the hysterical rantings of the modern ad- vanced woman. In that particular she is right and is absolutely justified in filing a protest. A wife is too great and important factor in the life of her husband to be made financial de pendent"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-06-29
PHINEAS HARDEN'S
 <-INHERITANCE

S HEY stood about the farmhouse
 in awkward, constrained groups.
 waiting, as they might have ex- pressed 1t, flor the funeral to star" !" The dead woman was lying in the best room. It had been the passing away of a hard life.
 Phineas Harden leaned his head against the shutter which had been closed to keep out the glaring light, and as he sat there, half-hearing the sounds which came to him through the open window, he heard quite distinctly these words:
 ~Died peaceful at the last, they say. Well, there'd ought ter be some peace in the course of a natural life, an if there was going ter be any in old Mis- Harden's life, guess it had ter get its innings in at pretty nigh the last lick, an a close shave at that. My, didn't she lead Dick Harden a life. Rec'lect when there wasn't a sprucer man in town, but she took the spirit out of him, an 1t warn't much of a job fer con sumption ter finish him up."
 Phineas never forgot that. It had been the putting into words what he had never quite admitted even to him. self.
 The days that followed his mothers death passed peacefully enough. After while he became used to the quiet of the house. It didn't seem lonely to him; he had never felt lonely, not even at the first. It was only as though some discordant note had dropped out of his life.
 People sometimes looked curiously at him and wondered if he ever thought of Lorinda North But no one could read the thoughts that were hidden back of his eyes. They were eyes that rather baffied you; they had always annoyed his mother When he was a child she had said one day, "Where he gets that look beats me. He minds well, an he'd oughter, seein' the trou- bIe Eve been to, bringing him up. His hands an feet are quick enough to do as I say, but can't feel but what
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Social Mistakes.

Perhaps the greatest of all social mis- takes is to be continually talking about ones self. There is no word in all the vocabulary of conversation so tedious to others as that personal pronoun "I. !" Though one of the smallest words in use, there is none that takes up more room in the everyday world. "I" is a bore; 1t is better not to mention his name oftener than can be avoided. An other social folly is "gush." There is an insincere ring about it. True, there are people who gush from sheer good nature in wishing to give pleasure, yet they should remember that even ami able exaggeration is like coarse sugar plum, agreeable at first, but leaving a doubtful taste in the mouth afterward
 On the other hand, there is a certain class of people in society who are equally foolish in going to the other extreme. They feign indifference about everybody and everything, sell dom expressing either interest or ad
 miration. They think it bad form" to show any pleasure in life, and a sign of superiority to be incapable of enthusiasm. A social folly Is to i'm agine that people are always looking at or thinking os you. Such ideas are often the offspring of conceit. As matter of fact, people very often look at you without seeing or thinking of you. They have other things to think of. If we could only convince our selves that we are not always the pivot of our friends and acquaintances' thoughts there would be fewer hurt feelings and imaginary grievances.
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there's somethin' back of his eyes that l ain't never touched"
 Lorinda North kept a little shop which was the local exponent of metro politan styles. She was a woman who took life hard. It did not come easy to any of these hard-worked, narrow lived women, and she had fought against each hard knock until all the softness, which may once have been hers, had been rubbed off. There had been an old love affair between these two, but how far it had progressed no one ever quite knew. Some one had once ventured to ask Lorinda about 1t. "She wasn't going to be an old wom- ans nurse," she had said. Shed al- ways made out to make living for herself, and she guessed she could still. She wasn't going to live in any mans house and have another woman boss It."
 Perhaps in these years in which there had been plenty of time for quiet thought she had sometimes regretted her lost chance of happiness. Surely they had been lonely years, hard years, too, and they had borne their fruit in Lorinda North. There wasn't a woman in the town who did not feel a little uneasy when under the battery of her sharp eyes. Phineas Harden had been the only cue who had ever pushed open. even ever so slightly, the door of her ,.&s ov6 of& bn hn1 ola little chink, love had gone to easier pathways, and left the door of Lorin- da's heart closed hard and fast.
 People had speculated somewhat as to how she would take the news of Mrs. Harden's death. Perhaps it had stirred, more deeply than she knew. the undercurrent of her life. Surely. Phineas was often in her mind in these days. Not with any tenderness of feel ing did she think of the lonely man: but perhaps because his solitary life bore so closely on her own did her thoughts so often turn to him. As she looked forward. as she did sometimes of late, to the years and years stretch ing out their weary length before her, a thought, which was at first vague and undefined, gradually took definite shape in her mind.
 They had both always been regular church attendants. Through the sum- mer Lorinda had sat just back of Phin- eas Harden's pew, and the time seemed very long ago when the pew in front had been empty at the evening meeting and he had sat back with her.
 His mother had been dead inst six months. The cold and dreariness of tba winter was gone, and it was q soft night in early June. The windows in the old church were open, and perhans Phineas listened more to the monoton- ous voice of the minister. When he was little boy he had often wished that they would have church outdoors. God seemed nearer there. The woman sat and watched his face during the long sermon. She looked at 1t more carefully. perhaps. than she had ever done before. But Lorinda North was not capable of seeing the real Phineas Harden. All she saw was a slight, bent figure; a face with eyes that were apt to fall a little before the hard look in her own. She could not know that he did not meet her eyes only because it pained him to see the expression which time had printed on her face.
 The long service was over and there was a sigh of relief as the congrega- tion stood and received the 5enedic-
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PUNISHED THE PAINTINGS.
They violated Editor storey's Cast
 Iron Rule and Were Hanged.

They Violated Editor StOrey'S C8ST
 Iron Rule and Were Hanged.
 "Nhen we went to Chicago to live just after the fire" said a woman who has since returned to New York, "we furnished the house with all that was necessary to make it attractive. One winter my husband bought a number of paintings. and after they had been placed properly we invited a clever young woman to come in and see the collection. I don't mind telling you that she wrote for MT. Storey's news. paper, The Times. She understood art. She had been reared in Boston and she had studied abroad.
 "When the article on our collection appeared, what was our horror to read that each picture described had been hanged by a man who made a spe- cialty of putting up paintings. My husband was leased into fit of neu- ralgia the next day by his Chicago acquaintances, who expressed their re- gret that all his paintings had been executed. Of course the women heard of it and there was a giggle for blocks.
 'T called upon the young woman from Boston and asked how she had made such a blunder. She was in ar agonfzed frame of mind and protested that she didn't write 1t hanged I was sure she didn't. Then came the ex- plana tion. A few weeks before there had been an execution in the Chicago jail and MT. Storey's reporters wrote that the cia1 was 'hung.' Mir. Storey was furious and issued an order, so 1 heard, that henceforth editors, report. CTS, copy readers, printers and proof readers must write and set up and read hanged for hung The rule was infexible. The young woman who wrote of our collection used the word hung throughout her article and MT. Storey's rule was enforced. But as long as we lived in Chicago we were always known as that New York family who had their paintings exc eDted.' '"-New York Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-06-29
Bie Price fnr old Carnets.

When a carpet gets to be half a cen tury or more old you usually expect to be able to pick It up for a sOng-per- haps a song of few slxpences- some secondhand shop, but sometimes you will find yourself mistaken. which would have been the case had you been at a recent secondhand carpet sale In Lisbon. Two carpets sold there were four and a half centuries old, and yet they were not bought for rags. They were carpets presented by the Infanfa Donna Sancha to the Royal Convent Or St. Antonio in 15O0, and were put up ar auction to raise money with which to repair the convent. French and Ger man bidders were the most anxious. and the carpets were started at $4.4O0 A Frenchman finally got them for SS.- 500, and was congratulated on his bar gain.
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Tulin Festival.

Tulips are cultivated in Constantine pie, and there Is a tulip festival there once a year in spring. Every palace. room, gallery and garden is decorated with tulips of every kind. At. night they are all lighted by cOlored lamps and Bengal fires. and the Sultan sits in their midst, while women sing around him and his odalisques dance before him.
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Languages Spoken by Army Ofscers

Languages Spoken by Army Officers
 The Army and Navy Journal states that BOA commissioned officers Of the regular army speak Spanish fuently. and that most of these are serving in the Philippines and the West Indes- About as many more officers possess a limited knowledge of Spanish. French Is spoken by PA officers. German by 136, the language of the American Indians by 13. Ital- ian by 8, Swedish and Norwegian by 4, and Tagalog by 5. Chinese. Jap anese, Eskimo. Dutch. Hungarian. Portuguese, and Polish are also spoken by some of our army officers.
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Thompson Mills, who is at the head of the only school for deaf mutes in China, was living in perfect safety at Cheerfoo, with na- lives of all classes and beliefs ready to come to her assist ance in a minute.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-06-29

How does it happen that all milliners come from New York, Chicago or Paris?
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Woman's Unique School in China.
 While not many miles away the Box CT fanatics were murdering mission aries and converts, Mrs. Annetta
The St. Johns herald., 1901-06-29

So many people, when you hear about them, sound well.
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A fayorite way to praise man is to abuse his kin for imposing upon him.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
RoSoIand

April l3.-The roads are drying up,
and our enthusiastic wheelmen will
soon be on the roads. .... Rev. Chas.
Ostman held services in the school,
house last Sunday forenoon. Services
were also held in the meeting house
by Revs. Truedson and Ericsson, both
in the forenoon and afternoon. Mr..
and Mrs. A. J. Nelson and Theodore
Linn visited at Lindquist's last Sun
day. Annie Adolphson is working
for family in Lake Lillian. ). "A ba-
by boy arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Engwall last Thursday. Ole is,
OF course, all smiles. . Andrew Lind
quist is digging a we'll for Albert
Frankson. Misses Annie and
Thilda Lindquist visited with Mrs. A.
j. Nelson last Tuesday and Wednes-
day.. Bornstedt's and Heglund' S
were quarantined last Saturday on
account of smallpox. The victims are
alright at the present writing, and if
no new cases develop they will be al
lowed to see their neighbors in about
week. The seventh month of school
closed yesterday, with an average st.
tendance of 1858. The children are
preparing for an entertainment to be
given on the last day of school, about
May 10.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
New London.

Frank Stansberry, of Willmar, did
Champion harvester business in New
London first of the week. The fish
are running in the river and fishermen
armed with spears are running
along the banks. 49,. The condition
OF Mr.. A. A. Sperry at Burbank re-
mains yet very doubtful. DR.. Jones,
a specialist from Minneapolis, and
DR.. Johnson, of Willmar, held con-
sultation with the attending physician,
DR.. Ridgway, of Belgrade, last Sun
day. They seem to entertain a hope
for Mr.. Sperry's recovery. go. Fred
Geer, from the St. Peter hospital, has
been secured as nurse at the sick bed
of A. A. Sperry ......S. n. Adams is
having his mill at Green Lake over
hauled and renovated and will havethe
same in running order shortly.
There are some cases of smallpox yet
in Dovre and fatal case is reported.
The son of Mr.. Nels Gustafson died
from relapse of the disease some
time ago.. .Halvor Soland, an old
respected resident of Norway Lake,
called in our burgh last Tuesday.
Mr.. Soland has disposed of his farm
ing interest atNorway Lake and moves
this week to Roseau county .....
VIM. S. Geer has rented out his farm
in town of Burbank to Mr.. Ed Berry
of Finnmore, Wisconsin. What Mr..
Geer's next step will be We do not
know but have heard that he contem-
plates moving west to the coast. .....
The entertainment-social given by the
Young Peoples society of the Luther
an church at the hall last evening
proved success in every respect.
The financial proceeds amounted to
S17.65 and the society feels we'll satis-
fed with the result of their Efforts
New London Times.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
Kandivoht,

April l5.-The Literary Society had
an interesting meeting Friday evening.
John Wicklund went to Grove
City last week to be in attendance at
a funeral of relative go. Ed Erick-
son and sister Ada, of Whitefeld,
passed Sunday at J. Enblom's. .....
Misses Hilma Norman and Louisa
Wanner came down from Renville
Saturday for visit at the formers
home here. Miss Anna Enblom
visited in Willmar last week. .. K.
Baklund passed the cigars last week.
He says it is boy. Misses Esther
and Mary Gabrielson passed Sunday
afternoon at Enblom's. ....... Henry
Hort, of Atwater, was around buying
cattle in this vicinity last week. .....
Miss Nellie Mattson, teacher in the
Glader district, in Lake Elizabeth,
passed Saturday and Sunday at her
home. ...Misses Martha and Tena
Enblom made trip to Willmar Sat-
urday. Quite number from here
attended Silver Wedding Surpris-
al rendered Mr.. and Mrs. J. Berg in
Gennessee last Sunday. A large
company were present and all report
ed q most enjoyable time. They were
the recipients of very handsome
silver tea set.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
Spioer.
Spioer.
April 16.-Spicer is on the boom;
two new dwellings in sipht at nresent

April l6.-Spicer is on the boom;
two new dwellings in sight at present.
....Joe Hanson 9 team took run by
themselves while being hitched up; no
injury reported. .... Green Lake will
be free from ice in a few days. The
Ice Is moving to one side of the lake.
..... Mr.. John Olson is down with
the grip. Mr.. Stewart of Minneapo-
lis came up to see P. Peterson last
Monday. Mr.. Mardin is fixing up
his store previous to the opening of
the summer trade. The Nix family
gave good entertainment here last
Friday evening. ...... Hugh Campbell
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
folks. Depot agent Mardin is busy
removing the surplus dust collected
during his lay-off. =. Messrs. Charles
Crevier and Jas. Wilson leave for the
drive Wednesday. Mr.. John Alden
has commenced building boats and is
prepared for orders. 1t is rumored
that there will be competition in the
steamboat line this summer. Hen
erickson & Peterson received their
first shipment of binders and mowers
last Monday. "A. E. Jackson is TAX
ing orders for clothing. ~. ). Mrs. Mar
din is attending her brother at Harris.
He is very i'll and his death is expected
daily. The Woodmen had good
attendance Saturday evening. Miss
Sadie Parsons has been sick for the
past week, but is improving.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
Business Firms Consolidate.

Boyd, Neste & Sandven is the name
of the new firm, which has been effect
ed by the consolidation of the Will
mar Shoe Company and the general
merchandise firm of J. B. Boyd & Co.
The place of business will be in the
Odd Fellows block, 210 PIP Fifth
street, and will be known as the Golden
Rule Store. Mr.. Neste will remove
his stock from the present location in
to the new quarters in the corner
apartment, which will be used for the
dry goods and shoe department of the
new establishment. The grocery de-
partment will be connected with this
by large double arch, which will
transform the entire lower floor into
one big store. The new firm has leas-
ed the place for term of several
years and the work of making the
necessary changes will be commenced
this week. They expect to have it
completed and everything in first class
shape by May /.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
Surprised Their Pastor.

A large number OF young people,
members of the Lutheran Free church,
planned surprise for their pastor,
Rev. E. E. Gynild, last Monday even
ing. It was the 42nd anniversary
Of his birthday and the party, which
numbered over fifty, invaded his home
and took him by complete surprise.
They came loaded down with eatables
and the evening was pleasantly spent
with music and refreshments. A
handsome rocker was presented to
Mr.. Gynild. The presentation was
made by Mr.. John Sogge, in behalf
of the company assembled. Mr..
Gynild very happily Responded with
q speech, in W hich he took occasion to
thank the donors for their kind re-
membrance of him. The event was q
social gathering long to be remem-
bered. Tie choir was also present
and added much to the enjoyment OF
the evening. ..% . : @=."' ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
Nest Lake.

April Ono more smallpox; Eben
Lawson was down Saturday to fumi-
gate Miss Christine Nelson com.
menced another term of school last
Monday in Dist. 9 The special
Easter edition of the TRIBUNE was in
teresting to all. .... Albert S. Nelson
commenced another term of school at
Sunburgh Monday. Gust Nelson is
building a barn for Gust Peterson
near Priam.
April 15.-SamuelH Holstein, formerly
OF this place but for the last few years
with his brother at Murdock, is with
us again. . Arnold Erickson of Will
mar passed through here Saturday,
en- route for New London. Emil
Fridlunl assisted j. Bengtson last
week. .... Miss Hulda Carlson of Will
mar spent Sunday at her home. . j.
M. Monson and family of New London
visited at J. G.. Monson's on Sunday.
...S. M. Nelson was Willmar Wis.,
itor Friday.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
Forging to the Front.

The Willmar Tribune came to hand
last week in q great roll. It was q
special Easter edition and was one of
the prettiest things issued from q
newspaper Office in this part of the
state. The cover is in colors while
the twenty-five remaining pages are a
complete resume in reading and por-
traits of personal, business, indust-
rial and educational interests of that
thriving city. We note with pleasure
the space given to the Willmar Sem
mary, and the remarkable growth of
this most excellent institution. The
makeup is as fine as the work itself
and shows remarkable mechanical
skill. The Tribune is forging to the
front and is good newspaper.-Ren-
Vile Star-Farmer.