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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-11
A Damaging Storm.

burlington, Ia, June 2.-The heav-
lest rainstorm of the year struck
Burlington Sunday morning, damae-
ing crops and residence property. It
is estimated that the rainfall was six
to eight inches. ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-11

At the session in Detroit Robert w.
De Forest, Of New York, was elected
president of the National Conference
of Charities and Corrections. .1
Later returns from the Oregon cleo
ton show that the entire republican
ticket, with the exception of govern
or, is elected by from 1000 to $4,000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-11
Xilln,ar g Tribune.
TRIBUNE PAINTING Co., Publisher.
wlLLMAR. MINI

Nineteen states Of the American
union have each more population than
Cuba. Each of the nineteen leads
Cuba immeasurably in wealth.
The courier., 1902-03-08
Henley Friendship

Stevenson revealed himself to Hen
ley. He wrote him affectionate letters
wherein he made no effort to conceal
spasms of vanity or self f-gratulation.
If Henley had died first, and there are
not very many now who do not wish
that he had, and IL Stevenson had
written Henley's biography. how gen.
erously he would have praised him,
How sincerely he would have mourned
him. In Stevenson's book about Hen
ley there would have been no whining
about the canonization of a man who
was after all no saint. Stevenson
knew no jealousy. and praise of a
friend always seemed to him made
quate- Henley says he was moved to
write about Stevenson because the
biographers and the editors Of letters
and memoirs were making him out a
chocolate caramel saint. Then, al
though Stevenson had admitted him
to an inner apartment and shut the
door on many a worthier man, Henley
told the faults Of his friend as only
The courier., 1902-03-08
friend knows a friends faults.

friend knows a friends faults.
Mean people live longer than gener-
Gus ones. The smaIl-souied lack
juices. They are like the amaranth,
that does not wilt. As a bud II Is dry
and when the ghostly flower blooms.
II Is scentless, dry, lifeless. Just be-
cause II has so little life II lasts n long
time. A mummy's life Is indefinitely
long. Egyptologists say they have
found mummies who were embaimed
by ancient undertakers five thousand
years ago. To be sure, there are not
many people who dare dispute an
Psychologist to his face. but l have
often thought their statements strong
An Amaranth Is a flower mummy. In
a sealed case 1t would last indefinitely.
There is no reason why Henley should
not last as long. He Is sealed agains:
all emotion and its fibre destroying ef-
fects. 1t may be that his Stevenson
post-mortem was necessary to stop the
gush about the Samoan exile. but the
Decentralization did no harm. while
his betrayal of friendship Is shocking.
Henley boasts that Beneath the
bludgeonings of fate. my head Is bloody
but unbowed." He wants to think
himself the cock of the walk and ap-
probation of even "A dead man irritates
him into a betrayal. His capacity for
hatred is his speciality, and above all
others he hates his friends. A few
years ago a testimonial was arranged
for Henley and among the subscribers
was Rudyard Kipling, whose talents
Henley discovered long before they
were apparent to other critics. Kipling
sent a check with the word only
after the amount, which is a way Eng
lishmen have of writing checks. But
Henley was stirred to passion % rage
by what he thought was an insinuation
against his honor and he threw the
check into the fire. Probably he got
the value of the check when he re-
viewed Kipling's next book.
The courier., 1902-03-08
University Literature

The freshman classes i'm the Ne
braska university are not obliged to
study literature, English, French, Ger
man. Spanish and Italian. Undergrad
uates of Yale, Harvard, Columbia,
Princeton, Michigan, Minnesota, the
university of Chicago, Stanford and
the university of California are still
whole and in its various national
expressions.
Nous avons changeZ tout celia in the
university of Nebraska. 1t is taken for
granted here that the boys and girls
directly from the prairie high schools
of this state have a comparative,
comprehensive knowledge of English
and foreign literature. The favored
students of this institution study short
stories like Five Hundred Dollars and
other stOries.'' The department of
English thrusts aside all other mas
terpieces which have survived the re-
filming processes of time and devotes
several months to the consideration of
a book of short stories whose title is
unfamiliar. 1 have searched in vain
among the lists of the hundred best
books offered from time to time by
savants for this book on which hun
dreds Of Nebraska students are COM
PEELED to spend so much study. But
apparently the fame and value of
Five Hundred Dollars" is confined to
the limits of the Nebraska university,
for general literature is silent con-
cerning it.
Although Nebraska graduates are
obliged to obtain their knowledge of
literature as a whole outside Of the
university, the method of teaching it
in vogue at the university is said to
develop critical acumen and power
of appreciation and insight into an
authors real meaning unmatched by
any other method.
Professor Sherman, who has been at
the head of the English department
The courier., 1902-03-08
A Narcotic
y 4 4

Cigarette manufacturers claim that
cigarette smoking is not injurious To
young boys, and to the papers which
have advertising contracts with them.
tobacco manufacturers send great
deal OF reading matter on the subject
of the innocuOusness of cigarette smok
ing. DIR. Fisk, the head of the pre-
paratory school of Northwestern uni
versity, has been making some inves-
LEGATIONS on his own account. AS "A
result he has announced to the boys
his ultimatum: All boys in the school
who make up their minds that they
can not or will not give up cigarette
smoking must leave school.
There are three hundred boys i'm the
school. DIR. Fisk offers the results OF
his investigation for the use Of other
teachers who are doubtful about the
deleterious effects of tobacco upon
growing boys. His Investigations
cover "a period of three years. of the
boys who smoke. only two per cent are
among the twenty-five per cent of stu
dents whose scholarship is highest.
On the other hand, fifty-seyen percent
of the smokers are among the twenty
five percent lowest in class scholar
ship At the present time the boys
who smoke appear TO be entirely in
capable of passing their examinations
or keeping up with the non-smokers
in their class. Two out of every nine
bows in the school confess that they
smoke cigarettes and not a single Gig
arctic smoker is in good class stand
ing DIR. Fisk is so impressed with the
result of exhaustive investigations
that he offers to refund tuition to every
boy who must leave the school on ac-
count Of this ruling. 1t is certain that
the school will lose nothing from his
decision, for let parents discover that
there is an institution where cigarette
smoking is positively forbidden. and
not only forbidden but prevented. and
they will send the boys there In in
creased numbers.
Judging by the number of small boys
one meets on the streets smoking Gig
arettes the vice is rapidly growing.
The boys say that il does not hurt
them. but the pale. depraved face of
the cigarette smoker. his weasened fea-
lures and his puny legs and arms do
not confirm this statement. The uni
versity undergraduates set their small
imitators a bad example IL the truth
were known it is the male indulgence
The courier., 1902-03-08
4 II f COU RE r

measured by the achievements of
other great violinists. One might as
well try to open a rose with clumsy
fingers as to interfere with the devel-
opment of genius. Happily kubelik
has received the applause of the world
as well as the criticism of erotic man.
ayers and he Is convinced that he
knows what Is best for himself. and
that IL he can not love a woman, still
he can fiddle and that the fiddling Is
not dependent upon the loving.
The milestone that the Preacher of
the Sermon on the Mount advised for
the men and women who put a
stumbling block in the way of one of
these little ones could be tied onto
these Kubelik critics who claim to
know more than God and nature, and
IL it We're. justice would be meted out
and Mary Anderson and other children
of genius who have been harried out
of the callings to which they were
born or else driven into experiences
which wilt genius. would be avenged.
Achievement. the creative achieve
ment awakens wonder: but In the
breast of the ordinary musical critic
dwells an egotism that would destroy
the manifestations of genius. Doubt
less God could have made a violinist
who would play better than Jan Ku-
belik, but from all reports God never
has. In truth, he is playing well
enough now. with whole heart. The
advice of the critics to get it broken
in order to play better is foolishness.
The courier., 1902-03-08
Bad Advice

When Mary Anderson was starring
in this country. when she was young.
very beautiful and graceful. when the
world was at her feet, when the per-
fervid imagination of young genius
was stimulating her to do her best.
and her best was just this side of the
greatest acting we know anything
about, the wiseacres, the dried-up old
hyper-critics dinned into her ears that
her work lacked esprit and supreme
force because she had not been in
love. They advised her to fall in love.
and they harped about it so much that
she decided to quit the stage even be-
fore she made up her mind to marry.
She was a better actress than Maud
Adams; she had a larger original en-
dowment of genius than Modjeska.
There is no actress on the American
stage today whose work is of so high
"a character as Mary Anderson's. Yet
the chorus of disapprOval because her
words, her voice. her movements were
virginia. finally drove her from the
stage. She thought her critics knew
more than she did and that she would
never succeed in reaching the high
water mark of her art and humbly she
withdrew from a field which the crit
les insisted she could never conquer.
They are writing the same thing
about Jan Kubelik now. 1t is all lie.
The degenerate critic with a cigarette
everlastingly glued to his upper lip
insists that the yiolinist must fall in
love before he can make the best
music. So far Jan Kubelik seems to
know better and has ignored the i'm
pertinent advice of his critics and of
his officious manager. He was born a
genius. He has not had to pass
through the stages of achievement
which is the only way to virtuosity
for most violinists. He began to play
when he was an infant Between him
and the limit of human expression
there is a space which he may con-
quer. How much or how little. can be
The courier., 1902-03-08

for perhaps a score Of years or more,
Is the inventor of the unique system
applied to Nebraska undergraduates.
some other school or are abruptly
brought face to face with what they
do not know about literature, the stu
dents are content with the system
which has a sign language Of its own
not spoken or written outside the uni
versity.
1t may be that the inventor Is right
and that in time all other universities
will adopt his method of inoculating
students in their freshman year with
literature rather than attempting first
to give them a view of literature as
a whole. The system has been in force
for a matter of fifteen years and
hundreds of graduates of the English
department have left the university
as innocent of the knowledge OF the
Elizabethan period as when they
matriculated.
In response to the trust reposed In
them by the people who elected them
the regents of the university have
doubtless examined the method of inn
parting knowledge in the largest de-
partment in the institution. The OBJ
ject of studying literature is inspira-
ton: inspiration to life and further
creative effort. LII u student is gradu-
ated from a department as cold and in
different to its meaning as when he en-
tered it, his class record of how much
he has absorbed and recorded is value
less. After fifteen years of trial the
testimonials of those who have been
educated by the system are worth con-
sideration. If the students who have
taken postgraduate courses in litera-
ture in other colleges are convinced
that the foundations were well laid by
the instruction which they received in
the Nebraska university, their testi-
mony is a tribute to its soundness.
Because the method Is unique and
since it has been adopted by the uni
versity has made no converts in other
universities and because in order to
spend a semester on Browning or
Five Hundred Dollars it is necessary
to dispense with the study of general
literature, the subject is worth the
attention of Nebraska people and of
those to whom they have given the
university in charge.
d. LIZ.
The courier., 1902-03-08
Advice to Americans

A thOubhtful writer in HarDer's 4
Weekly advises the gentlemen who
expected to be introduced to Prince
Henry not to forget that "Hoch' is
pronounced hoke and not hook Hook
der Prinz or Hook der Kaiser is very
bad FORM Don't speak of his I'm
perial Brother as il he were a subject
for a comic paper joke instead OF EN-
peror of Germany. Willie the War
Lord is all right i'm conversation with
others but not to a member of His
Family. Don't tell him that you have
always been anxious to meet him. and
that you have heard quite a number
of persons speak of his brother Willie.
Don't ask him how he got through the
custom house and il he had to pay
duty on his uniforms. Don't ask him
for his autograph, adding that you al
ready have that of Johann Most Don't
ask him il il is true that his Imperial
Brother is such a big thing at home
that when he goes out on parade it
takes him four hours to pass a given
point. Don't tell him that you once
had a Newfoundland dog named
Prince"
III the Americans who met the
Prince were prohibited by this rejuve-
mated Ruth Ashmore from saying
these things to III. r. H.. what could
they say to him? The foregoing list
includes everything that the versatile
American considers original and
sparkling and typical. IL the news
paper reached him before the intro
duction, 1 can fancy his dismay. and
his suspicion that the man who wrote
the paragraphs had stolen his happy
thoughts.
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The courier., 1902-03-08

she Is also very good-tempered. She
joins the Won't Perform Club be-
cause life is short and too full Of
committees, deputations, secretaries,
etc. In Europe there are retreats
where the over-worked and over-en-
treated can retire for contemplation
and real repOse. No callers are allowed
to see the fugitives who place them
selyes "in retreat They are not dis
turbed by bills, death notices, invita-
tions or demands of any kind. 1t is as
good as being dead without the uncer-
tainty regarding that state or its ire
vocableness. Not having any Ere
treats" here. the next best thing is to
join the Wont Perform Club"
K 4 4
Morgan and Lueulls
When the schoolgirl on commence
ment day or Mr.. Bryan on a stand
hastily erected for The Matchless" to
stand on wish a terrible example of
extravaganza, they use Lucullus and
the feast he gave, which, reckoned in
our money, cost about eight thousand
dollars. That Is not much. You could
not get up much of banquet for that
and eggs are cheaper there than they
were in Rome at the time which ora
tors have subsequently selected as a
period of horror and a sufficiently bad
example for all time. They date
ROme's downfall from the Lucullus
banquet. All the leading men were
guests and from that time on they were
out of health and got more and more
degenerate and hard to please. I'm
healthful diversions tempted them and
when the hOrdes of husky Germans,
NOrwegians and Danes came down up
enough to protect the gold plate and
the beautiful women.
But since the banquet given by Mr..
Pierpont Morgan and his friends to
Prince Henry, the schoolgirl and Mr..
Bryan will not have to travel back
to Rome for an example of feast
that cost more money than an ordi-
nary laborer can earn in ten years.
The blase spendthrift, Lucullus, had
neither the daring, the invention, nor
the determination to show Germany a
good time possessed by the American
with an imagination and an execution
that includes the world in it's victori-
Gus sweep.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
MAY RESULT IN REUNION.
Action Looking TO Uniting Of Presby'
terian Churches.

Decatur. IL, Sept. 5.-Action has
been taken by the Decatur and Lin
coin preshytcrics Of the Cumberland
PRESBYTERIAN church which is expected
TO result In the reunion of the Cumhor
land Presbyterian and Presbyterian
churches. which separated in 1910
Or. ". J. Darby Of Evansville, Ind.
educational secretary OF the Cumher-
land Presbyterian church. said that
the action was the result of the revi-
sion of creed BY the Presbyterians and
he had no doubt the presbyteries OF the
Cumberland church all over the coun-
try would take up the matter and de-
mand an opening OF negotiations for
reunion Of the churches.
The Lincoln and Decatur preshyte-
r.os both adopted resolutions declar-
Ing that the creed Of the Presbyterian
church. as revised. removed all doc
trinal differences over which the
churches split and there was no reason
why they should not reunte. The Lin
coin prcsbytery went further and
adopted a memorial TO the general as
semhly OF the Cumberland Preshyte-
rians al Nashville demanding that the
matter Of uu:oa Ne taken up and neso-
,iations 10 that end be opened with the
Prcshytcri ms.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
MEXICAN TRAIN HELD UP.
Passengers and Exrrcss Mes-eHger
FriQhten THE Bandits Ava

Tucson. A,iz.. Sept. i-Rnpoirs
reached here OF a daring attempt ~
three American bandits 10 hold up the
International express on The sonora
railroad. three miles from Ileir0siiio.
Oh Sunday morning. The eXflos.o. IF
q torpedo on The track caused the -
gineer 10 stop. Three Americans step
red out from the shelter OF a grove
of trees and covered the engine crew.
Two Of the robbers then went TO the
express car and demanded admission.
The messenger replied with a vcliey
of shots through tic door. the bandits
returning his fire.
Several passengers armed them
selves and were aOng 10 the all Of the
plucky messenger. when the hiEhway-
men became frightened and gave UP
their attempt, disappearing into the
orange groves. where Il was supposed
they had horses in waiting. As soon
as the train reached Hermosillo the
alarm was given and troop OF rurales
and a posse s.;ited in pursuit Of the
bandits. No confirmation Of the re-
ported holdup has been given out by
the railroad oaiC .als here.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
FIXING UP a SLATE.
Wisconsin Democrats Recess for a
Conference.

Milwaukee. Sept. 5.-The Demo
cd Mayor David S Rose Of Milwaukee
for governor and John W Natfawa
for lieutenant governor and then ad-
ionrnei. reconvcned at lo.35 a m.
Chairman kearney al once recognized
Delegate Wolfe OF a Crosse who
counselled the convention TO 80 slow
end not rush matters. He said il was
the desire Of various leaders and sup.
rorters of the different candidates for
the remaining places that conference
be held in order that names which viii
form the strongest possible ticket
might be offered 10 the convention.
He therefore moved an adjournment
until l3o p. m The motion received
several seconds and a recess was taken
until that hour
The morning conferences developed
several changes regarding the canGi.
dates for places on the balance of the
ticket. John ". Watfawa the nomi-
nee for lieutenant governor. was re-
questei 10 withdraw from that nomina-
tion because of certain rurrors which
Were IN circulation concerning him.
WattaWa refused TO entertain the r.
quest ard the confprees spent the re.
mainder of the session in discussing
possible Candidates Several men
whose raacs Were requested for dill.
ferent Tlaccs refused 10 allow their
names To 90 before the convention.
TIE convention was late in getting
down TO business
Louis a I.ange Of Fond du Lac was
nominated for secretary of state on the
first hallot.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
COUNCIL TAKES ACTION.
Acc dent 70 Presidents Party TO Sc IN.
vcstioated.

pttsGoli Mass. Sept. 3.-N!th tae
excitement which followed the acei-
.dcrt 70 President Roosevelt IN tins CITY
W,du sday N a great measure aoat'"
tho citizens AZ discussing the question:
OF responsibility tor tn oct ur'ehe''
which on all sides Is considered n NAY
iul- married the city's fame, III ihh' q
street car. in G!Spu'ine the flEh' .,
way with ,ho president 81 the ny =
States. at least WAS extreme y w
courteous That the attempt 70 90 '"'S
resulted In n fatality anu III the wy
narrow escape from death or ihJu''
-, the president himself and the GOV
,rnor q, the commonwealth are con
e,aor,d as only adding 10 the sraVit!
of III. on,nse II Is argued alSo '"a'
the puisiield street Rallwa! 'oiiii""'
should not have disiegardea 'he y.
o,,.st q. the mayor that no cars sAouia
~ mn while the president WAS III 'h'
oitv II IS said that the city govern
,,nn, tal,s this view OF the case y
a,r INTO M n meeting Wedncsda!
p,,h, committee OF ln'es'sa''oa
was appointed. including mem'e'S -
bo,h branches Of the cit! toN I. ni',i,.' :.
..i,h The mayor at the head IN au"i
,,an Ia this body. which VIII dear PIT
marily with Wednesdays accident, me
"nm,non "" council also appointed a com.
.,,,,,an ~ Investigate the question OF
the speed OF the street cars ,, IN genera, !, max
and 10 report concerning how I" ma!
be regulated. !. :, ,,r,oa
A, ,he House of Mercy II Is repo'.s"
,,a, ,h. condition of u. j. Pratt. inc
driver Of the presidents carnage =
caticfocfOry.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
STILL AIDING INSURGENTS.
Ructure Between Colombia and Mic.
araaua imminent.

Panama. Sept. Sit is asserted in
official circles here that the revolution
ary gunhoat radilla is still loading
coal and munitions Of war at Corinto.
Nicaragua. for the use of the insurgent
forces under General Herrera. II is
believed in Panama that this conduct
ON the part OF the Nicaragua govern
ment in permitting the Colombian In
surrents to secure aid in Panama.
Notwithstanding the protests lodged
hv the Colombian minister at Washing
ton and the promises made by Senior
Corea Nicaraguan minister at the
same capital. renders imminent rup-
ture between Colombia and Nicaragua,
Except for the presence Of the nu-
mcrous reinforcements which have re-
Gently arrived on the isthmus the sit
nation here remains unchanged.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
WORLDS WELD OF GRAIN.
Estimate Mace by Hungarian MINISTER
.: Agriculture.

Eudapost Hungary Stpt Tho
Hungarian minister ~ agriculture g
,lma;es the worlds yi,ll q grain this
year as follows
What. - 57e0tooo hushcls rya.
h.aof".o0n bushels barley. Ill
,Sn oun sh,ls. oats. se8i '-a.""
bushels. corn. e.a73..>onon bushels
The European wheat crop II "s'l.
matce 'o riYe m incroas" ~ ~. IN.
ooo bushels over the crop oi l'"i =
decrease OF i3n.32u.ueo bushels = 'N.
pccici in iho European corn crop
The wheat cron of the United stat I
: estimated NJ 60" lne."ob bushels.
si,h n surplms of .ioian onn bushels.
The Canadian wheat CROP Is s''iaa'
~ M ~ -an ."uo bushels. with surplus
n so oHp bushels
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05
IGNORES FREE SILVER
Platform Adopted by Iowa Democratic
Convention.

bcs Noincs. Sept. D me 'eiho
cratic stat. convention made 'Ae l"i
lwotng nominations by acclana' i"a F..
-ccrc,ary 81 state. Richard Burke. az
uitor. j. :. Mcl.aiu. attorney genera
John nennison. treasurer Il. {. mai
rlan. Judge supreme court ha'i'A'
staplc,on. clerk supreme court. 'tS''
Tlpp. supreme court reporter. ''i''
r Dalton. judge Of supreme .o'''
,short term. W. II. Quick, Iailload
commissioner. Thomas Henson
The convention adopted rla'io'hl
which ignores free silver