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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

A Chicago gentleman who is alleged
to have made two attempts within
a year to burn his wife alive has been
subjected to a fine of 800 and costs
for his latest effort in this direction.
This gentleman does not realize. per-
haps, what he has missed by living in
a great. big. selfish town, which has
no time to bother much with such
cases as his.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

The Indiana man who holds the rec
ord for marriages has been welded l.
times and is the fatler of 80 children.
Strange as 1t may seem to some. he is
talking now of acquiring a thirteenth
wife.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Sir Thomas has ordered another
million dollar racer, and Sir Thomas
continues to sweat his employees. But
Sir Thomas is ouch jolly good fellow.
you know. that nobody will be able to
see the sweated through the beautiful
white wings on the shapeiy spars.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

There won't be much left of Most If
he ventures to flourish his beer can in
the face of one of those giants who
are coming over with the German
prince.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Great Britain may have spent too
much money for horses, but it seems
satisfied with its bargains 70. Mis-
souri, mules.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Edward Wbymper, the mountain
climber who attempted to scale the
Canadian Rockies last summer. has
made the statement that they will not
be explored this century. He had pre-
vious!v climbed the highest Alps and
the highest Andes.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Increased influence is being mani
tested for the proposed federal law
requiring all shoddy cloth to be so
stamped and designated. Adulterated
food must be marked, and why not
wearing apparel.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

That German army officer who has
sued an American heiress for damages
because she broke her engagement
with him evidently wanted the money
far more than he wanted the girl.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

A gold mine has been discovered
under the Denver city hall. How did
the officeholders ever permit 1t to re-
main there all these years?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

1t may be noticed that none of tho
great powers is striving TO prove that
It was friendly to Spain in the recent
unpleasantness. The reason for this
ought to be obvious to the most casual
observer
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Texas oil is to be tried as a substi-
tute for coal in the United States navy.
Look out for submarine boats. air
ships and flying squadrons generally.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

1t is said that all the Dutch leaders
distrust Mr.. Chamberlain. They must
be a suspicious lot.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

The field OF discovery will never bt
covered until somebody shall have dis
covered some way of preventing fires
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

There's no chance for a sporting de-
partment in the Congressional Record.
All the senate fights are expurged
from the proceedings before they reach
the printer.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

There is to be a spring trust or
ganized in New Jersey. but. thank
goodness. its object is to corner steel
springs and not gentle spring.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

The New England Historical Genea-
logical Society. after full investigation
hnds that most American "hearaldry'
is an imposture. 1t would not be OF
much value if IL were genuine.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Between the Japanese faction and
the Russian faction In Chine where
do the Chinese come in.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Another bachelor club disrupted by
the frequency of marriages contracted
by the members. What's the use?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

A German paper now tells us In
detail how England favored Spain be-
for the war of 1898. In the course of
a century or SO we may get at the
truth of this matter.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Oddly enough. no high-browed
statesman has yet introduced bill In
congress- to make groundhog day a
national holiday.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Copper mine owners are about to
unite in trust and get back from the
public all they lost fighting one an
other.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Crowned heads of Europe and Asia
are just learning that the United States
is good place to visit.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Perhaps DR.. Parkhurst's remarks
about dead souls" means those of
corporations.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

1t might be possible 10 lead the In
dian to the bathtut. but it would re-
quire the entire regular army to do the
rest.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Many of the papers are referring 10
THE islanders" as "Kipling's last
poem" 1t is probable. however, that
they are mistaken.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Mark Tapley would have made an
ideal governor for the Philippines.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

Two Biddles would get Miss Stone
out of Bulgaria in twenty-five minutes.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04

The Indian will next be required to
subscribe to the fashion papers.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04
MISS VIRGINIA CRANES
Tells How Hospital Physicians
Use and Rely upon Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Co M
pound.
pound.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM - Twelve
years continuous service at the sick
bed in some of our prominent hospi-
tails, as well as at private homes, has
given me varied experiences with the
diseases of women. / have nursed some
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from Lourenzo Marquee in Portuguese
territory and the gold and diamond
fields; another from Beira, also in Por-
tuguese territory, but considerably
farther north, and destined to extend
to Salisbury in Rhodesia, where it will
form junction with the "Cape to
caro-" road; still another is projected
from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria Nyan-
"a, to connect, probably at Tabora,
with the transcontinental line; an
other line is under actual construction
westward from Pangani, just north
OF Zanzibar, both of these being in Ger
man East Africa; another line extends
enthusiastically from Nom hasa, in
British territory, to Lake Victoria N.Y.
ANA, while at the entrance to the Red
sea road is projected westwardly
into Abyssinia, and is expected to pass
farther toward the west and connect
with the main line. At Suakim, 'front.'
ing on the Red sea, road is projected
to Berber, on the line running south
wardly from Cairo. On the west of
Africa lines have begun to penetrate
inward, short line in the French Sou
dan running from the head of naviga-
ton on the Senegal eastwardly toward
the head of navigation on the Niger.
with the ult'u>ate purpose of connect
ing navigati>1 on these two streams.
In the Congo Free State railway con-
meets the Upper Congo with the Lower
Congo around Livingstone Falls; in
Portuguese Angola road extends
eastwardly from Loanda. the capital,
a considerable distance, and others are
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made an almost ideal industrial town
just at a point where the pretty Pas
sale river curves about the brow of
low mountain and falls into it's lower
valley. Then New York grew out
towards Paterson, and Paterson itself
grew more like city. The grandsons
of the settlers fell into strange ways,
a revela ton of which shocked the COM
munity in the murder of Jennie Bos-
scheiter, a mill girl, by several young
men of good family. This tragedy
was the beginning of series. There
came fire that swept away millions OF
property; there came death that
closed the great Rogers locomotive
works; there came flood that swept
away fortunes; there came the horror
of Bresci's assassination of the king
of Italy as the agent of Paterson
group of ''reds."
Now these same "reds" have been
the leaders in fury of rioting which
has called out the militia, checked
trade, and once more given the town a
bad advertisement. 1t is hard to real
ize that it is really good town, with
well-flled churches, excellent schools,
a population in the main orderly, and a
Jersey Justice" so strict and we'll
administered that the 'vigilantes''
won't get far with their project of put
ting down the anarchists.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
A STUDY OF COMMERCIAL
CONDITIONS IN AFRICA
Present and Future Possibilities of Continent Market
Place for the World.
- HE searchlight of modern

- ~ HE searchlight of modern
AFM. civilization has penetrated
Md u the darkness of darkest
NWNE Africa, and where the
~ crack of the slave steal
er's whip or the screams
OF his victims were once heard there
is now the click of the telegraph in
strument, the shrek of the locomo-
tive, or the hoarse whistle of the
steamboat. Where children a few
years ago played with what seemed
worthless pebbles, are now mines
furnishing % per cent. of the dia-
monds of the world; and the gold
OF Ophir, lost to civilization for CEN
turtles, has been rediscovered and be-
come the richest deposit of the pre-
cious metal known to mankind.
With these developments have
come wondrous changes in the map
OF the continent, and instead of the
great blank which covered the in
terror are now accurately shown the
location of navigable rivers and
lakes and the boundary lines into
which the continent has been divided
by the eager nations which have seized
upon its territory, section after sec.
ton. until scarcely foot of the nearly
100000 square miles remains unre
claimed. On the north and northwest.
France claims territory equal in ex-
tent to the entire United States: on
the east and west coasts conservative
Germany holds possession of an area
one-third as large as that of the Unit ed
States, and is establishing experime m
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projected from Benguela and Mossa-
medes with the ultimate purpose of
connecting with the "Cape to Cairo
road and joining with the lines from
Portuguese East Africa, which also
touch that road, thus making a trans
continental line from east to west
with Portuguese territory at either ter
minus. Farther south on the western
coast the Germans have projected a
road from Walfisch Bay to Windhoek,
the capital of German southwest At
RIGA, and this will probably be extend
ed eastwardly until it connects with
the great tranEcontinental line from
"Cape to Cairo" which is to form the
great nerve center of the system, to
be contributed to and supported by
these branches connecting it with
either coast. Another ma gnifcent rail
way project, which was some years go
suggested by NJ. Leroy Beaulieu, has
been recently revived, being no less
than an east and west transcontinental
line through the Soudan region, con-
! Meeting the Senegal and Niger coun-
tries on the west with the Nile valley
and Red sea on the east and penetrat-
ing densely populated and extremely
productive region of which less is now
known, perhaps, than of any other part
| of Africa.
At the north numerous lines skirt the
Mediterranean coast, especially in the
French territory of Algeria and in
Tunis, where the length of railway is,
in round numbers, $500 miles, while
the Egyptian railroads are, including
| those now under construction, about
1,500 miles in length. Those of Cane
Colony and Natal are over 5000 miles,
and those of Portuguese East Africa
and the South African Republic an.
other thousand. Taking into consid-
GRAFTON all of the roads now construct.
ed or under actual construction, their
total length reaches nearly 1880
miles, or half the distance round the
earth at the equator, while there seems
every reason to believe that the great
through system connecting the ra pidly
developing mining regions of South AT.
RIGA with, the north of the continent
and with Europe will be pushed to
completion. A large proportion of the
railways thus far constructed are
owned by the several colonies or states
which they traverse, about 1000 miles
of the Cape Colony system belonging
to the government, while nearly all
that of Egypkis owned and operated
by the state.
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.
over every foot, and soundings at in
tervals of 100 feet or so may miss q
jutting spur of rock. Ships of very
deep draught do not as rule go about
the Battery; the one that did went
bang upon an obstruction hidden be-
meath 26 feet of water, where other
boats had safely passed something
like a million times.
The big rocks in He'll Gate every
body knows about. The government
keeps on blasting away at them, and
commerce is now fairly safe. I we'll
remember the great day when, after
years of blasting and tunneling UNDER
meath, Flood Rock at He'll Gate was to
be blown up with dynamite. People
came from far and near to hear the
sound and see the water jump in the
air. I was at work within two miles
of the place and I hardly heard the
explosion. You can't get any one to
go far nowadays to assist in blowing
up a reef. It's too much tout of sight,
Quite unnoticed, indeed, goes on I'M
ceasingly the improvement of the har-
Dor, a task of the most monumental
magnitude. The government keeps
the bay clear; the city is replacing
all it's slovenly water front with en-
during granite walls. Some $14,00OOo0
is being spent upon the work. BY this
administration alone; in time the
docks will rival those of Liverpool,
which Americans go so far to see.
The Liverpool docks are tidal, with
gates to keep water in or out. New
York's tide rises only about four feet.
A ship can lie at an ordinary dock and
rise and fall to that extent without
interrupting lading. This single diff
ference gives New York an advantage
over Liverpool, and most cities in vest
ern Europe, that must be computed in
millions enough to make one dizzy.
OWEN LANGDON.
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his family for years. They had been
simply landowners, enriched by lands
growth in value. So it came about
very naturally that the great cleric,
with his brothers, owned the Hoffman
house, at one time famed for it's lux
ury and for the frank beauty of some
Of its paintings. By; a curious coinci-
dence, the lessee of the Hoffman
house, I'D Stokes, was also member
OF very religious family. Yet the
placewas long headquarters for sports,
and was the first in New York to keep
pugilist in regular employment as
''bouncer' and as stakeholder of big
bets.
DR.. Hoffman had celebrated his gold
en- wedding. He lived simply, gave his
money freely for charity and educa-
ton and was not in sympathy with the
modern ritualistic tendency in the
church.
AS to this latter curious develop
ment New York paper recently
printed a list of four orders of Episco-
palian brothers and "a orders of sis
tiers. These, while their period of vows
hold good, are practically monks and
nuns. In some cases, though not usu-
ally, the vows are perpetual
In the st. Gabriel's convent in Peeks-
kill OF the Sisters of St. Mary, one of the
largest orders of this kind, num-
Der of girls Of fashionable New York
families have just conducted IRE
treat" Miss Mary Morgan, daughter
of the trust-maker, headed the list:
others were of the Schermerhorn,
King, NATION, Nlinturn, Bartlett,
Clendenin, and Griswold families and
of 40 others scarcely less famous
The Clendenins are the family into
which Horace Greeley's daughter mar
ried. Her husband, the rector of the
little church up in Chappaqua, where
Greeley learned "What 1 Know About
Farming" is wealthy man and one Of
the leaders of the ritualistic or High
Church" party.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within Week
or So Just Past.
DENMARK.

DENMARK.
1t is proposed to open up small
museum for relics from 5nlenschlae-
ger at the Fredcicksberg gardens, Co.
penhagen.
The Marselisborg mansion at Aor-
hus, which is gift from the Danish
people to the crown prince, has been
formally transferred to him.
A terrible fire visited "Seksgaar-
dene," village near Jagerspris. The
hire was noticed about l o'clock at
night, and two houses were destroyed.
Two grown men and boy were
burned to death and three others were
badly scorched. A lot of stock also
persisted. The property was insured
for $4,000. The origin of the fire is
supposed to have been due to the care
less handling of tobacco pipe.
Almost $4,000 has been raised in
Denmark for the sufferers in Mar
Unique.
Two social democratic members of
the city council of Aarhus attended
dinner given to Prince Christian, the
occasion being the formal transfer of
the Marselisborg castle to the prince
as gift from the Danish people. This
caused quite stir in the ranks of the
social democrats, and the executive
committee of the party, at a meeting
held in Copenhagen, passed the fol-
lowing resolution: 1.-THE executive
committee recommends to the social
democrats that they do not take part
in festivities arranged at public .ex-
pense in honor of royal persons"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
COMMERCIAL MAP OF AFRICA
Showing Railways Ste amship

tai farms, building roads and railways,
and encouraging the growth of the
tropical products which her people Of
the temperate zone require; Portugal:
whose great explorers were the first
to round the Cape of Good Hope, holds
valuable tracts of territory on the
western and eastern coasts, and with
the latter harbor through which mil
lions of dollars worth of imports pass
enroute to the interior; Turkey is rep
resented by Egypt and Tripoli at the
north; Italy by her colonial posses
sions on the eastern coast. and Spain
by Rio de Orc on the west; Belgium
administers the affairs of the great
Congo Free State in the very heart of
the continent, and there are three in
dependent states - Morocco, on the
north: Liberia, on the west, and Abys-
sinia, on the east. And stretching
through the eastern section of the con-
tinent from south to north is an al
most continuous territory in which
the English language and the light
which seems to go with it everywhere
are being spread. From the Cape of
Good Hope northward lie the continu-
Gus links of the chain which Great
Britain has steadily forged one after
another until the contiguous territory
under her control reaches, with sin
gle exception of a few hundred miles,
from the extreme south to the ex-
IRENE north of the great continent, or,
literally, "from Cape to Cairo"
Throughout this vast distance of over
5000 miles, from the Cape of Good
Hope to Egypt, British control is con-
tinuous except short space of about
600 miles, three-fourths of which is
spsnned by the navigable waters of
Lake Tanganyika; and thus the young
est civilization in the heart of central
Africa sends greetings to the seat of
the Oldest civilization, Egypt, and
sends it in the English language. The
territory under British control in A.
RIGA aggregates, 100000 square miles.
and if to this were added the Egyptian
territory where British influence d.
reefs in important affairs, and in part
of which the British flag flies beside
the Egyptian, the total area would
more than equal the entire territory
of the United States.
Railroad development in Africa has
been rapid in the past few years and
seems but the beginning of great sys-
tenn which must contribute to the rap
i'd development, civilization and en-
lightenment of the dark continent. Al
ready railroads run n',rthwardly from
Cape Colony about 1900 miles and
southwardly from Cairo about 1900
miles, thus making 2,700 miles of the
"Cape to Cairo" railroad complete,
while the intermediate distance is
about. 5000 miles.
Toward this line, present and pros
pective, which is to stretch through
the eastern part Of the continent, lat
eral lines from either coast are be-
ginning to make their way. A line
has already been constructed from Ma
tai on the southeast coast; another
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
Things of Which New Workers and
Their Neighbors Are Talking ~ Z:

Collins, then consul general il London,
and now mayor of Boston; and soon
she was studying with Bernhardt;
then at work in George Alexander's
company; then taking Miss Nelson's
parts as an understudy; then a star;
then unfortunately married to a Lon
don actor who proved tickle; then
we'll, then Mccarthy.
And what curious tangle of lives
and loves it is, to be sure!
The Death of Dean Ho Eman.
The richest clergyman in the world
has died and is laid away to rest, and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23

the place that
knew him is I'M
filled. For he was
a good man as we'll
as rich, and used
his wealth wisely.
The Very Rev.
Eugene Augustus
Hoffman, dean Of
the General Theo-
logical seminary,
was reputed worth
$20,000,O00. H 9
had never been in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
A Nasty Smack.

Miss Primseed-So you're going to
marry the curate, hear. Well, hope
you'll be happy and all that sort of
thing, but-you mustn't mind my
speaking plainly-I wonder you didn't
choose some one little less meek and
-er-timid, you know. I can tell you
my dear, only very brave man will
wed me.
The Betrothed-Yes, I can quite be-
lieve that-but do you think you will
ever find one with sufficient courage2
Ally Sloper.
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that makes trOu
bic is pure ignor-
ance: The schools
are curing that.
Almost all the vio-
| e n t anarchists
are Poles or Ital-
ians-f i n e races
both, but races
that have come
t h r 0 u 6 h fever
heats of tyranny
and rcsentm ent of
tyrants, w h i c h
leave them little
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tests energetical-
ly. Yet I'm not so
sure that they are
not needed. Pat
erson fills the de-
scription of the
hymn:
Where every pros
pect ple'ases
And only man Is
vile.
It was founded
y e ars a go b y
thrifty, GOd-fear-
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Simply Cumulative

eating pie, old man? Why, I
thought it never agreed with YOU"
ut doesn't. But don't care; it's
my turn to take care of the baby to.
night, anyway."-Town Topics.
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navigation right IN
New York harbor.
just off the Bat
terry, the most nav
igated point. in the
New World.
Yet that is the
fact; and there is
a hurry call for
money to blast
away the obstruc-
ton. In sounding
and charting a
harbor the men
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
Where COURAGE Fails.

Given the most courageous editor"
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things, would. hardly undertake to
blue-pencils his wife's tongue."-Youk.
ers Statesma \, '+t.s .~sr.<,.,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
A Mean In4inuation.

Fiora--Yes, I sing in church where
they have an awfully small congre.
CATION. q
Dora-Then why don't you stop
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bulletin.
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Vigilantes in the east! No wonder
that the mayor of Paterson, n. j., pro-
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It's surprising to hear of the discov-
cry of a ledge of rock dangerous to
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The nosConf IF the In Ri 90

Anyhow, that's not the right way to
go to work. The kind of anarchism