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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08

Head brakeman Charley r. Markley
of the west end met with heart rend-
ing loss last week in the death of his
bride which took place at the NARROW
House last Thursday afternoon at 2:13
o'clock under the most distressing
circumstances. Mrs.. Markley was
taken sick on Tuesday night. On
Wednesday her condition became SER
ious and Drs. Johnson, Rains and
Nc Laughlin were called but could
do nothing. The husband was tele-
graphed for but was out on his run
and was unable to get here until
Thursday morning. They have been
married only since October first and
the bereaved husband Is prostrated
with grief. He has the sincere sym
pathy of all the people Of Willmar.
The maiden name of Mrs. Markley
was Lillian Esther Streeter and her
parents reside at Jasper, S. D. She
also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Ed
Harding and Minnie and Clara Belle
and one brother Charley Streeter.
The remains were prepared for ship
ment and were taken to Jasper last
Friday noon for burial. The follow.
ing escorted the remains to the train
as pail bearers:-Misses Hattie and
Helen Johnson, Rosa and Bertha
Brem, Minnie B. Olson and Mrs.
Emma Nj. Wells.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08
M!.a!!lt,!s !!


Jan. Oscar F.Lindberg came
home Wednesday after q months stay
with relatives in Minneapolis. .. "A
party was given at tia home of Jonas
Johnson last Thursday evening to a
large number of the younger genera
tion. Supper and rsfreshments were
served, and all enjoyed themselves
immensely until a very late hour. . i. {.
N. N. stensett is atLMinneapolis re-
ceiving treatment from doctors. >. :.
The shareholders Of the Mamre Cream
cry Association held their annual
meeting last Friday The same off,
GERS were reelected and the creamery
will be in charge of he same butter
maker, Louis Tuve3op. >. Gustaf
Ryden leaves on Monday for St. Pc
ter, where he will enta the G. A. COL
lege. Some OF otf farmers claim
to have seen some stfAnge individuals
running at large in MAmre during the
holidays. They are ssen or heard OF
after dark, and mightspass under the
name of "Jule- Bocks,s They are up
to every kind of mischief, such as turn
ing up-side-down every implement in
the yards, now and Then harnessing
a COW, etc., and at some places were
even so bold as to enter the houses
and trip the light fantastic, to the evil
dent amazement of oir staid matrons
and their mates. Mrs. Nels Oman
left for Minneapolis last Wednesday
to visit relatives and friends. .. Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Lindberg OF stran-
berg, S. D., is visiting at the home OF
Mr.. Lindberg's father, of this place. i.
Mrs. H. Dahlstei returned home
from Fargo, N. D. and vicinity last
week, where she has been visiting for
some time Joseph and Miss Hau-
nah Haldin gave q party to number
of their friends on New Years eve,
and some of the participants said that
they had such merry. time that they
did not remember thatsa new year had
rolled in until six o ,dlock in the morn
ing. 80. .Gustaf MelihIwent to Mime
apolis Saturday for . few days. visit
with friends. From there he intended
to 60 to Duluth to seS.about the hay
market. Mr.. Melin ipsbuying and sell
ling hay. david Anderson will At
tend the Willmar Seminary during
the winter term. The other students
from Mamre who attended during the
fall term have spent the holidays al
their homes here,z and will resume
their studies at thel Seminary this
week.
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0ovro.

Jan. 6.-Fine weather is the order
OF the day. Frank Norman is at
present working at A. Rudeen's place.
He is engaged for the winter. Quite
few persons were seen walking hith-
er and thither on the prairie one day
last week. This caused attention, OF
course. Some thought it was a rabbit
chase; others thought it was some
thing else; and it also proved later on
to be something else. 1t was those
who were engaged to help Ole Nerold
raise q windmill. Yes, we thought
there was something in the air.
Martin Olson from New London made
q visit with friends here last week.
Martin is one of our old chums and
we are always glad to see him among
.us whenever there is an opportunity. :.
"A surprise was rendered Mr.. and
Mrs. @. Skutle last Tuesday evening.
They were the recipients Of fine vel
vet couch. Messrs. Collins Of Will
mar and n. B. and j. B. Swain OF
this place furnished some Of their very
best selections. The crowd enjoyed
themselves till q late hour, when they
all returned home and declared them.
selves satisfied Gust Ryden leaves
for st. Peter today, to attend the G.
"A. college at that place... . The Sol
-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08
CoLFAX.

: Rates Of Town Taxes: Revenue, ~; Poor:
.71--Total, I. .42 mills. -, : a. - -,
tricts--Dist, No 10, 6.6 mills No. L, 4.2 mills;
No. Is, 1 mills; No. 81, So mills; No. 81. H.4
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08
the BEST FARMERS INSTITUTE.
No Farmer In ksndiyohl County Can
Afford to b Assent Friday
and Saturday.


and Saturday.
The Farmers Institute begins at
Willmar next Friday morning at 10
o'clock, at the courthouse. Do not
miss the first session, and arrange to
stay until Saturday evening.
supt. o. c. Gregg intends to make
the coming Farmers Institute by far
the strongest and most helpful, as we'll
as entertaining, one ever held in this
place. Go, and you will find that this
is no lille boast. The best workers
that money can hire in the United
States will be there.
Forest Henry of Minneapolis will
explain his money-making system of
raising and feeding pigs, and his equal
In this line simply cannot be found.
Corn must go with pigs, and he will
also tell you how last season he raised
more than three times as much per
acres, on fifty-tive acres, as farmers
generally had.
DR.. G. D. Smead of New York viii
be present, the most practical and
|common-sense horseman and veteri-
marian in the country today.
The noted Supt. of Maine Institutes,
B. w. McKeen, will handle the dairy
questions, such as methods, foods,
raising and feeding. Such men cost
the state money.
You will miss rare treat If you do
mot hear Henry Van Dresser of New
York tell how scrub stock kept him
poor, and better breeding paid for his
farm and made him famous the coun-
try over. Again his original and en-
tertaining way of telling about his
mammoth poultry plant, some 5000
laying hens, will be one of the striking
features of this great meeting.
The ladies are not forgotten. They
will find many of the talks interesting,
but especially those of Mrs. w. F.
Wilcox.
Ohio's well-known clover and tillage
farmer, T. B. Terry, will tell how he
made q poor rundown farm produce
large crops, getting the fertility prac-
tically for nothing from air and earth.
He has had thirty-two years. expert
ence in forcing nature to fill his pock-
cts, and twenty years in institute work
through fifteen states.
S. J. Fairfield of Iowa knows potato
culture from A to z, and will tell you
all about the latest and best methods.
And hewill show pictures of several
valuable contrivances that are in use
on his farm; for aaxansEl gata tcs.,
that will let cattle and horses 70 out
of yard and pigs and hogs are kept in.
Every session will be enlivened by
the popular songs of Prof. L. G. Jo-
honot, several of them new and COM
posed especially for the occasion.
You rarely have the chance to listen
to so sweet q singer, graduate of two
great conservatories of music.
Remember the days, and let no men,
ber OF the family miss minute of any
session.
Morning sessions begin at 10; after.
noon at 2 and promptly on time.
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BURBANK

Rates Of Town Taxes: Revenue, .o2; Poor,
.24Total, ~ mills.
Rates Of school taxes In the respective dis
tricts: Dist. No. 10, 6.5 mills; No. TO- 20 mills;
No. 19. 16 mills; No. Fl, 3.2 mills; No. 22, 2.8
mills No. 81, lo mills,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08
DOVRE.

Rates Of Town Taxes Revenue, .s1;e Poor,
Rates Of school taxes in the sreSpectivo dis.
trtcts: Dist. No. Il, 81 mills; No IS, a. mills:
NO. 50, 7.3 mills: No. 81, "a mills; No. g. 2,8
mills: No. 10 & mills. Nh "A 4 r,i11a - 49,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08
EDWARDS.

2; Road and Bridge, 1. .72-Total, S. II mills.
Rates of school taxes in the respective dis
tricts-Dist. No. 40, 17.22 mills; No. 85, A.
mills; No. "a, 20 mills No. SO; IL i mills; No. 81
"a mills; No. lOl, II. I mills; No. lO2 SO mills
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08
the Ne PERSONAL PROPERTY I TAXES.
= List Of Those Whe Pay Personal
Property Taxes Ia kandiyohl coun.
ty and the Rates ef Taxation

y FOR the information of its readers
the TRIBUNE will publish q complete
list of the personal property taxes. The
list are copied by the TRIBUNE and
are published solely as q matter of
news. These taxes must be paid by
March l next or t., penalty will be
added.
The rates of state and county taxes
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08

Stete taxes. s.................l.6 mills
State School Taxes. ......... 1.23 mills.
County Road and Bridge -. ~ mills.
Total Of general taxes. ..... IT'S mills.
BY adding the town and school rates
given above the list of each town to
the total rate given above, the total
rate In any case may be easily compu-
, ted.
ARCTANDER,
Rates for town taxes: Revenue, 81: Poor.
e.; Road and Bridge, .5l-Total. 332 mills.
Rates Of School Taxes in the respective
m mills; NJ: 81, is mills: No. S. 81 mills: No.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-08

w AAA0OA Oue- AOW AASAA4 A001 NOW
London, started for Alberta, British
Columbia, last Monday, using the
500 line from Paynesville. They ex-
pect to, invest in farm land in the do
main Of King Edward. 49,.
Magnus Thorson, the we'll known
music teacher Of this county, came up
last week for . few days stay with
relatives and friends in this vicinity.
He teaches q band at Boyd, Lac qui
parle county and has also classes at
Hazel Run and other neighboring
points. He returned to his work last
Friday. = 4zss>z ~ ~ = '5Sssss
Messrs. b. s. Anderson and G.: w.
Lawrence Of Maynard we're, on the
train, last Saturday enroute for New
London from where they expect to Ga
for = visit with Even Railson at Nor.
way Lake for . social time a. we'll q
on business. Mr.. Lawrence ID IN old
tobacco rsiser from Wisconsin md
expects to extract samples. from thi'
years tobacco s crop raised BY Mr.
Rsilson On his farm. s. y.
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4 Sudden Death.

(To be continued next week.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
Love Sonnets of An Office Boy.

S. z. Kser, in the Love Sonnets OF An
Office Boy" Forbes Co, Boston, Mass, shows
that much as the genus office boy is maligned
by humorsts in general, there beats within his
youthful bosom heart which throbs 10 that tune
to which the whole world dances--love. when
love sweet love, goes rat-tat-tat-tat on your
heart" 1t is much the same whether you are
office boy or office boys master, Mr.. Kiser is
to be compmented on having made the poems
as natural and readable if they were prose
and in having avoided the error of making the
humorous ridiculous.
The boy falls in love with the typewriter, and
one can not but respect him for the honesty of
his love although he does not express it gram
matically. His disgust for the bookkeeper and
his occasional outbursts OF wrath when the OBJ
ject of his divinity is not treated he would
have her treated are highly amusing. These love
letters will wear we'll and viii read better at the
end Of a month than most of own love let
tiers would. The illustrations illustrate excel
iently Here is a sample Of the letters;
II heard the old man scoldin' yesterday
Because your spellin' didn't suit him quite;
He said you'd better 20 to school at night,
And you was ratified when he turned away;
You had to tear the letter up and write
1t all again, and when nobody seen
went and dented in his hat for spite;
That's what he got for treatin' you mean
Charles Thomas Logan.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07

remarks In eriticising the work Of Beer authors.
tney may be able to shoot straight, bue can not
sec straight. ~
IL Is not often book Of verse by new writer
runs into second edition. Generally sad re-
n i OF volumes cumber the publishers
sneVes until they md their way into the two
penny box or are converted into pulp and SO be-
come imprinted paper again
~ Is therefore all the more surprising to learn
tnat one OF the most notable volumes of verse
mat nave been published for long time past
me Garden of Kama" by Laurence Hope"
which is the pen name Of Mrs M H. Nicolson,
mas now gone into a second edition Since the
first edition was issued year axo Mrs. Nicolsor.
with her husband, General NJ H. Nicolson has
been travelling in Morocco
Lady Dixie is about to follow up her studies
IN French art Of the eighteenth century by a VOL
uine dealing with the engrayers and draughtsncn.
one mas already treated of the painters sculptors,
architects and decorators OF the period.
Mr. Rudyard Kipling is going out again TO
South Africa The subject of his next book has
not yet been decided on, but it is believed there
Is some probability of its being a collection of his
poems. If so, it will be interesting to see what
he leaves out
II Auction room prices may be accepted as a
measure OF public esteem. De Quincy was quite
wrong when he affirmed that the works of
Charles Lamb were destined TO be forever UNI
popular, Nc feature in recent sales is more note
worthy than the prices paid for the "editiones
principes' OF rare pieces from the pen Of Charles
Lamb. What is now deemed to be his first pub.
ieat'on, antedating by two years the Tales from
Shakespeare OF 1907. until recently so accounted,
has fetched 24o, against the issue price of
shilling
The Essays OF Ella" 1898 published at
shilling and pence presented TO John Clare, the
Northamptonshire poet made the record of C So
against : guineas for copy in the original state
sold eight years ago. THE Works" of 1878,
published at II shilliugs fetched 6 90. "The
Famous Prince Dorus" dated 1871, issued at
shilling and pence, sold Tor goa; Miss Lei
cester's School 1900. for 6 as, and "Tales from
Shakespeare published for shilling went for
rs los.
Yet another Lamb record was established at
Putiek's salesrooms the other day, when the first
London edition OF "Rosamuud Cray dated 1905
in half calf sold Tor ST. This romance, whose
scene is laid in the village of Widford, near the
Blakcsmoor in Her;fordshirc, referred to in his
essays was published at shilling and 6-bence
The highest price ever paid in London before
seems 10 have been q 3o given in 1900
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
The Most o4merican Books.

In group of articles written for the book
number of the Outlook, Owen Wister Brauder
Matthews, Hamlin Garland, Colonel 7. W. Hig-
gibson, Edward Dowden, DR.. Edward Everett
Hale and several other authors discuss the rather
novel question, What ten books or parts Of
books are most characteristic Of American life
and genius I" There is considerable divergence
Of opinion. Two lists may be given as together
fairly representative. Colonel Higginson's in
eludes Cowpcrs Pioneers" LowclPs "Bigow
Papers Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter" Emor-
sons Essays" Thoreau's Walden" Whitters
"Snowbound," Mrs. Stoves "Unce Tom
Cabin Longfeow's "Hawatha" Whitmans
Leaves Of Grass" Helen Keller's STORY Of My
Life" Mr.. Owen Wister sums up his impress
sion as follows;
Farewell Address, Washington; Gettysburg
Address, Lincoln; Phi Beta Kappa Address,
Emerson; "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne
when Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomd,"
Whitman; "Huclleberry Finn" Mark Twain
"Bigow Papers" Lowell "Tennessee's Part
ner" Bret Hartei Autobiography, Grant; and
for the tenth, in spite Of proximity ! will name
Mr.. Dooley" whose sane, profound incisive-
ness must delight the heart OF Uncle Sam as
much as did once the "Biglow Papers"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
BLackmore at Hoo,s.

Ieddington, on the edge of Middlesex, lies
close to Bushy Park. 1t Is the type of a small
English village. Tiny houses nestle in rose-vines
and fuchsias and in their midst the old ivy-erown
church, with memorial tablet 10 Peg VOTING
ton, who is buried there.
Box and wall flowers. and many English posies
ut for old fashioned nosegays, filled the little
gardens, and penetrating gently everywhere came
the sweet song of birds and the cooling of doves.
Apart from the village stood Mr. Blackmore's
gray stone house surrounded by rose gardens and
strawberry beds, and shut in by high walls. on
whose Sunny exposures were trained peaches.
pears and nectarines.
The novelist and market gardener himself. with
pruning knife in hand, hard at work among
his pear trees as we approached No welcome
could have been more cordial; America had been
kind to his writings, and Lorna Doone" had
brought him many friends from across the seas.
Trained to the law, Mr. Blackmore had aban-
doned his London practice in the courts for the
joys Of country life, and Of fruit and flower
raising for Covent Garden market Time spared
from these pursuits he gave to novel writing
but his gardens were his FIRST interests He
kindled with genuine love and enthusiasm for
his chosen avocatiou, as he showed us a great
magnolia tree trained against the face OF his
friendly mansion, which at his bidding had be-
come vine, winding and twisting about the many
windows. 1T is great satisfaction to subject
tree to your will and to see it thrive in its
new obedience" he said.
Before wonderful bushes full of white roses,
he paused, and, with touch of seorn in his voice
told us that white roses were out Of fashion
in London, and that he had received word that
no we're wanted.--From Letters OF r. n.
BlacSnore," edited by Lucy Derby Fuller, in the
December (Christmas) Scribners.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07

ne continuance, but, to our mind, Mr.. Straehey's
ost pleasing characteristics are his incisiveness
nd breadth. 1t goes without saying that his
arly education was neglected because, forsooth,
his is his first visit to America nevertheless. he
nows deal more of our country than many
ourselves know, and, while viewing our
liosynerases with that amused tolerance which
% true Britisher can hide and which, in turn.
amusing to us, he is the most conspicuous, con-
stent, and staneh friend of the United States
be found in London, He is also, in our judS
'ent, the ablest of Englisk journalists II Is
veil that he should come here and acquaint him
elf with our people, and it is fitting that we
mould express our pleasure at seeing him and
ur wish that he might remain lonser,-Haybey,s
Yeckiy.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
Rnskfn,s HOMELESS Love.

A contributor TO an English contemporary states
that there is in existence letter by kusKin "hich
oo,,1t AZ the separation from his wife II shows,
ns are told that there was nothing more than
i inc between them. The real passion
- pnskin's life came TO him when he was a
man past fifty He fell in love with an Irish
girI Rosie Latouche. She loved him. but their
religious differences were insuperabe. The girl
died while still girl, and Ruskin broke down
The misfortune clouded the rest o. ms nIe IN
usaied 70 him the spirit of his dead lady. Hence
rs,ne the crushing collapse which ultimately over
threw his brain.-Leslie's Weekly
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
The Ungyntten American Eric.


The great figure OF our neglected epic, the
Hector Of our ignored Had, is not as the dime
novels would have US believe, a lawbreaker, but
a lawmaker a fighter, it is true, as is always
the case with epic figures, but fighter for peace,
a calm, grave strong man who hated the law
breaker as the hound hates the wolf.
He did not lounge in barrooms; he did not
chea, at cards he did not drink himself to maud
lin fury he did not shoot at the drop of the
hat" But he loved his horse, he loved his
friend he was kind 10 little children; he was
always ready to side with the weak against the
strong, with the poor against the rich For hy
pocrisy and pretencc, for shams and subterfuge
he had no mercy, no tolerance He was too
brave to lie and too strong to steal. The odds
in that lawless day were ever against him his
enemies we're many and his friends were few ;
but his face was always set bravely against evil
and fear was not in him even at the end, For
such man as this could die quiet death in
a land where law went no further than the
statute books and life lay in the crook OF my
neighbours forefnger.
He died in defense of an ideal an epic hero,
legendary figure, formidable, sad. He died fac
ing down injustice, dishonesty and crime; died
I'm his boots !" and the same world that has
glorhed Achilles and forgotten Travis finds none
so poor to do him reverence No literature has
sprung up around him-ths great character ma
tive TO America He is Of all the world-types the
one distinctive to us-pecular, particular and
unique. He is dead and even his work is misin-
terpretcd and misunderstood. His very memory
will soon be gone, and the American epic, which
on the shelves of posterity should have stood
shoulder to shoulder with the "Hemskringla' and
the Tales Of the Nibelungen" and the Song Of
Roland" will never be written.-Frank Norris, in
the Worlds Work.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
4 Bunch of AHeqomeS.
"The desire Of the moth for the star,
OF the night for the morrow,
The devotion for something afar
From the sDhere Of our EOrroy- -

From the sphere of our sorrow"
The above lines from Shelley quite appropriate
ly adorn the title-page of this volume from the
pen of the popular preacher, Henry Van Dyke
The book contains nine short stories, three Of
WHICH have heretofore appeared in separate form
They all Illustrate the search for happiness,
which is the story of each individual life whether
the quest he for things ideal or mundane. In
this case the stories arc all ideal symbolic allie
eorical. A bit translated from the German of
"Novas," entitled The Blue Flower gives
name to the book
THE Source" wood Magic" "Spy Rock"
"A Handful OF Clay" each symbolizes psychoo-
gica human experience. The Mil" docs the
same, although the experience is placed within
the magical cycle Of the Afthurian legends "rhe
Lost Word illustrates the psychic life of a young
Greek who came under the influence Of St
Chrysostom, was drawn within the circle of
Christianity. but reverted again to paganism and
was recalled at a critical moment by a lost word
The last story Of all "Ihc First Christmas Tree"
tells the legend of St. Wnfrcd and the Oak Of
Gesuer, and deals with experiences OF early days,
when British saints OF the order OF the Irish Cu-
decs penetrated the wds of Germany and con
verted the people from the worship Of Thor and
Odin TO that of Christ, One of the most touch
ing of these stories is that of The Other Wise
Man" a story that has already achieved wide
popularity in a separate form.
The imaginative beauty and spiritual grace of
these stories are remarkable, and the evident
search for and successful finding OF quaint and
archaic words, that chime and mngle, as il were,
with the spirit of the stories, lend peculiar dis
tnction TO the dcton. The ethical quality is such
that not even a child could fail tc catch its sig
nifcance.-Literary Digest
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-07
London Literary Notes.

Following the deluge Of war books from En-
elsh writer's now comes a small Boer food.
Mr. Krugers memoirs are, as the phrase goes,
ITO be obtained at all booksellers and public IL
braries. General De Vets book telling in many
pages bis own part in the campaign, IS just out
There is also narrative by the Rev J. d. Ket-
sell, who was in the field chaplain 10 De
Wet and Steyn, but from what gather English
readers do not to be taking much to the Boer
books naturally preferring 10 read the stories
Of the war from their own side. As the Academy