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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12

ture. History before the days Of
schools were also taught by card play.
ing, and the Famous One Hundred
.'-rns of the classics, known as the
Hiyaz;i-nin, which is the household Bi.
BILE of Japan, was learnt by games of
proverbs. The courage of children, es.
pecially boys, was tested by the telling
Of thrilling ghost stories in eerie
places or in the half-light round the
hibachi on winter nights. Little girls
had famous examples recorded to them
of f1lial piety and obedience by the
story of some virtuous daughter, who
sold herself to life of misery to save
her parents from starvation. But the
most important part of a child's edu.
cation was its lesson in etiquette Ell.
Quette was so farreaching that little
child had to begin it's education before
it could walk; very early did girls
have to learn the special teachings for
women, called Washoka-Mebel-Bun
which by their nature were qualified
to rob mother Of her child's heart
Teachers Of the various etiquettes Wis.
tied the houses Of the middle classes,
the etiquette of the Solemn Tea-Cere-
mony, Of flower arranging, of domestic
and social life. were some of the most
important Only girls of the humber
classes learned music, singing, and
dan.:ing. The koto was the only in
strument permitted in the houses Of
the upper classes.
In Japan there is a very hard and
fast line drawn between the moral
training and the education of boys
and girls. You seldom see boys and
girls playing in the streets together.
If you do. you will notice that when a
boy loses in game his face receives
dab of paint. When little girl
loses she sticks straw in. her hair.
At tho different festivals for boys
and girls the mark Of sex is easily dis
tinguishable. On the days Of the boys
festival the whole city. lies under
heaven of floating carps made of hol.
low gaily-painted paper. Every street
is lined with bamboo poles, from which
carp fly out into the breeze like flags
to testify the fact that the Japanese
man-child is capable Of fighting its way
upstream against all the adverse cur
rents of life. On the day of the girls
festival every stall and shop groans
under the burden of solemn-faced dolls.
If you asked little boy in Japan
what his highest ambition in life was
he would tell you to die for his en-
peror. A little girl would say: To OBJ
serve the teachings of the seven sages,
so that she might be submissive
daughter to her father. a submissive
wife to her husband. submissive
daughter-in-law to her husbands par.
ents, and, last Of all, submissive
mother to her eldest son If she was
left widow. DOUGLAS sLADEN.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12

mosphere between decks In obeyina
this order it was often necessary to
waken some of the sleepers to ask il
they were dead, SO p1tifully deceptive
was their appearance
This inhuman treatment was called
to the attention of Gen. Washington
who addressed protest and threat OF
retaliation to Lord Howe under date
OF January IL, 1777, and while it re-
ceived no attention, it is to the credit
of Washington and his men that they
did not retaliate in kind.
For several years after the revolu.
ton the bones OF those who died on
board the prison ships were to be seen
on the banks of the Wallabout,
bleaching beneath the winters storms
and summers sun. A number of ap-
peals to remedy this neglect were
made to congress, but no formal &C.
ton ensued until the citizens OF
Brooklyn in 1892 resolved that they
should be removed 10 the graveyard OF
the Reformed Dutch church and
monument erected over them. This
plan was altered and the Tammany So
ciety of New York made sepulcher OF
all the remains that could be collect
ed-filling Is hogsheads, and inferred
them in vault close to the navy
yard wall in Brooklyn, May 26, 1908
The burial was witnessed by over 3d.
600 persons, and was a matter Of civic
importance.
In 1855 an influential meeting of
citizens resolved that the time had
arrived when the cities of New York
and Brooklyn cannot, without crimi-
nality, longer delay the necessary eff
forts for rearing the monument to the
martyrs of tho prison Ships" and an
organization was formed called the
Martyrs Monument Association of the
United States. They set to active work,
selected a fitting site on the summit
Of Fort Greene and agitated the SUBJ
ject of funds. Enough was secured
by state and private contributions to
buy the property, remove the remains
to Fort Greene on June II, 1873, and
then wait for more help, which has
come through the concerted action OF
the Monument association, Daughters
of the American Revolution, private
subscriptions and the appropriations
voted by the state and city of New
York and congress. OF this the gov
eminent has given 100000; New
York state, $4,000; city IF New York.
$4,000, and the private successful SUBJ
Scription, $4,000, making in all $780,
900 which will be devoted to the erec-
ton of such a monument that our
children's children will not need TO
ask: what mean We by these stones"
To the personal efforts of Mrs. S. v.
White, of Brooklyn, and her husband,
the Hon. S. v. White, much credit is
given for the satisfactory Conditions
of the finances.
NICHOLAS J. QCIRK
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
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A Swedish steamer was chartered
and used in a rather mysterious way
along the coast of southern Sweden,
and the newspapers tried to make out
that it had been hired at the expense
OF the Russian government, A tele'
gram from Gothenborg stated that
Norwegian and Danish steamer had
been chartered in the same mysterious
manner. The Russian consul at NAL
mo was asked by reporter to explain
the matter, but what he considered an
explain alton was so unsatisfactory that
the suspicion was only strengthened.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
Fought With Snakes

rat Lamb of Yucatan has had a
tight for his life in a nest of rattle
snakes Mr.. Lamb was walking
through pasture on his farm when
ne happened upon the snakes which
were out summing themselves. AS
ne only saw few he started to kill
some of them with a club. Some of
the reptiles showed fight and soon
others came out from the nest which
was IN hole in the side of a hill. Mr..
Lamb was then compelled to battle fo1
his life and it was only when he was
almost exhausted that he succeeded in
beating off his assailants He hurried
for help and when he returned eight.
cen dead snakes were found, some old
ones with many rattles, but the ma.
jority being small. Mr.. Lamb said
there must have been a hundred rat.
tiers in the nest, but no more could be
found of those that remained alive,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
Stabbing ARRAY.

A fatal staboing affray took place at
Winnipeg junction. 1t appears that
CLAUS Larson, who lives two miles
south and one mile east of Ulen. in
Goose Prairie township, was passing
along near the depot at Winnipeg
junction at about II o'clock at night,
when he was assaulted by a party
named Ole Molstad. Larson received Z
thrust from knife, the blade striking
the right temple and penetrating the
brain. Larson was taken to the
Crookston hospital in semi-concious
condition where an operation was per-
formed. A portion of the skull was
removed and quantity of pus was re-
moved from the effected portion of the
brain, but Larson continued to sink
and died.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
News in Brief.

Mrs. Annie Roubal and her father
were badly beaten by burglar, when
they interrupted his search of their
home at st. Paul
The Minnesota Women's Christian
Temperance union opened its twenty
eighth annual convention at Roches-
ter.
Thomas Duffey of St. Paul, seven
years of age, touches a match to a
stick of dynamite, and may lose both
of his eyes.
Julius E. Moersch, state factory in
spector, received word from the Pana-
ma canal commission that he has been
selected as one of the mechanical. engi-
neers in the engineering department
of the commission.
A barber at East Grand Forks, nam
ed Charles, Tuttle, was found dead in
bed, presumely from an overdose OF
morphine.
Judge Watts has decided that the
Crookston city council has no right to
build a library building, and the work
will be passed on to the library COM
mittee unless some one hobs up with
another injunction in the meantime:
Attorney-General Donahower has
notified P. E. Hansen, secretary OF
state, that presidential electors will
have to pay the fling fee of $50 the
same as other candidates who qualify
for places on the state ballot.
The Chatauqans of Winona have 70.
organized as the Chatauqua Magazine
club, with the following officers: Presi-
dent. Mrs. Morris P. Hanson; score
tary and treasurer, Mrs. E. M. Weston.
Judge Snow at Winona sentenced
Louis Bundy, a young married man, to
the reformatory for an attempt to as.
sault Martha Buerman, 4. thirteen.
year old girl ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
All There,

II dreamp las night dat Satan
flewed away with me, en- tuck me ter
whar he live at"
"My, my!"
But it all looked mighty familiar:
en- he say: Walk right in: You is in
de house er yo' friends!
Constitution
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
Statue for Northron.

A more lasting tribute to President
Northrop than any that have been ten.
dered him before is being planned by
members of the faculty and alumni of
the institution. For some time the
matter has been discussed and now
definite steps have been taken for the
erection of statue of the distinguished
educator on some portion of the uni.
versity campus
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
URELY no child in japan

(9 lips the catch phrase, "Your
good times coming. nv
child" For no grown-up woman IN
Japan ever does have good time until
she IS too old to enjoy it. think ie
was Sir rutherford Alcock who first
mace the remark that Japan was the
paradise OF babies, and from the day
you set loot on the original of the ia
nous w1llow-pattern plate to the day
you sigh your Sayonara to sacred Fun
as you leave Yokohama bay, you rea-
lie the truth of his remark.
When I first drove through q native
CITY In Japan, I thought that every
otner shop was a top-shop, and never
could have believed that the world
contained SO many children. for moth
ing is too young to play on the mika-
DOS highway in Japan. Doll-like girls
OF lew years old, dressed exactly like
their little mothers except for their
gayer clothes and Enthusiastically shaver
heads, carry yellow-faced babies Of
few months old, tied on to their backs.
while they play ingenious games with
gorgeous balls mace of scarlet and
gold silk, or dart about on their high
wooden clogs after the falling shuttle
COCK, which they will send bounding
up again over the tops of their paper
homes with wooden battledore decor
ated on one side with the gaudily
painted head of woman of the Yoshi-
wara
But soon learned that the streets
were full of babies because the houses
were all empty. No one in the real
Japan ever saw a baby sleeping in
cot while its mother was working or
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
Will Use Cyclometers.

BY the order of Postmaster General
Payne, rural free delivery carriers in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and
South Dakota and Iowa are being sup
piled with cyclometers for measuring
their routes, in order that the post
Office department may be enabled to
adjust salaries and other matters on
an equitable basis.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
Sure Sign,

0V3V 013&s
II know she is young wife," WINS.
pered the matron with the prune jar.
'Why >so?" asked her friend.
''She actually thinks she can bake q
pudding like the illustration on the
package. Chicago Record-Herald.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
ITEMS OF a WEEK FROM vAn,o,,.
PARTS OF THE STATE.
rria, Of 8. L. Hartseil and e, r. IA.
com for the Murder Of Byron
stoddard May BE Held
at Grand Forks.

There Is q possibility that the tria,
of s. l.. Hartsell and e. T. Bascom
charged with murder in the first d.
gree, for the killing of Byron Stod.
dard near Langdon, will be tried in
Grand Forks. When the case was
called for trial in IIangdon an affidavit
Of prejudice was filed against Judge
Kneeshaw and change of venue was
asked. Judge Kneeshaw sent the case
to Pembina county county for trial and
selected Judge Fisk Of Grand Forks
to try the case. AS the court will ha
in session there all Of next month Il
has been suggested that the case he
taken to Grand Forks for trial bv
stipulation. Judge Fisk is anxious to
try the case there, the attorneys for the
accused men are also willing to make
the change, and it now rests with
States Attorney Price of Cavalier
county. The case will be tried on
Ian. 10, either at Pembina or in Grand
Forks. Hartzell aa! Bascom are part.
ners in the law business at Langdon
and also own a farm near that city,
Adjoining this farm is one that was
owned by BYRON Stoddard during his
lifetime. Stoddard, they claim, insist.
ed on driving through their grain, and,
meeting him just after he had driven
out of tho wheat field, early in August,
the men had some words, and Hart.
zell shot him with a shotgun. killing
him almost instantly. Hartzell and
his partner, who witnessed the shoot.
ing, claim that it was done in self.
defense. Bascom is held as an ae.
complete, and both have been denied
bail by the supreme court.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
JURY FAILS TO AGREE
STOOD SIX FOR AcQUlTTAL AND
SIX FOR CONVICTION IN
PATTERSON CASE.

New York, Dec. 23.-After being Out
twenty-four hours the jury in the case
Of Nan Patterson, on trial for the
murder of Caesar Young, reported a
disagreement and was discharged and
the defendant was remanded to the
Tombs. Miss Patterson collapsed on
hearing the news and fell fainting into
her fathers arms. The jury stood six
for acQuittal and six for conviction.
The future course Of the prosecution
10 unknown.
The jury took but one ballot, &C
eording to the foreman, and devoted
the remainder of the time to discus
sion. From first to last the division
was even. For twenty-four hours they
discussed the evidence and one juror
is quoted as saying that one of those
who stood for acquittal tried on the
coat which Young wore at the time Of
his death and with a revolver at
tempted to demonstrate that suicide
was possible.
Interest now centers in District At
torney Jerome's future action. He has
not said what he will do. but 1t was
intimated that the way the jury stood
may influence him as to new trial.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
TRAINS In COLLISION
SEVEN MEN KILLED IN WRECK
ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY
IN ILLINOIS.

Mauds Station, ILL.,, Dec. 26.-In a
head-on collision between two passen-
ger trains on the Southern railway
near here Sunday one passenger and
six employees were killed and seven
teen passengers and eight employees
were injured. Most of the injuries are
not serious.
The passenger, which left st. Louis
at 9 o'clock Saturday night, collided
head-on with the passenger train leav-
ing Louisville at the same hour. Ac-
cording to Southern railway officials
the disaster was caused by the failure
Of the operator at Browns, ILL.,, to de-
liver to the eastbound train an order
naming meeting point for the two
trains. The st. Louis-Louisville and
the st. Louis Knoxville sleepers were
drawn by both trains. but none of the
passengers In these four cars were in
jured. Both engines were badly dam.
aged and four coaches destroyed.
Following is the list of the dead:
Charles Schmidt, Engineer Bowen.
Fireman Charles HUT, Mail Clerk H.
b. Hogan, Section Foreman Under
wood, Employe Henry Hoskin and EN-
ploye Cyrus Hutchinson.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
TAKEN BY JAPANESE
RUSSIANS DRIVEN FROM TWO I'M.
PoRTANT POSITIONS ON
PIGEON BAY.

Toxic, Dec. pa dispatch received
by telegraph from the Japanese army
before Port Arthur says:
The right column Of the army at 5
q. NJ, taking advantage of the enemy's
excitement, drove them of the en-
tnence north of Housanyentao, on
Pigeon bay, and occupied the position
and at Z o'clock dislodged the enemy
from a height on the peninsula west
Of Housanyentao which we occupied,
capturing one small gun.
After the Japanese occupation Of
the positions the enemy made coun-
ter attack, but was Immediately re-
pulsed. AT present our occupation Of
the positions is practically secure"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
msmsEnsn,p TOO LARGE.
Me q Panama Canal Commission
Nay 0s Reduced.

1l1e q Panama Canal Commission
Nay os Reduced.
Warrington. Dec. 2a.-President
Roosevelt has given consideration re.
Gently to suggestions looking to re-
duction in the membership of the
Panama canal commission, but thus
far. 1t can be said, no definite decision
has been reached.
1t has been urged by some members
OF congress that the commission is so
large AZ to be unwieldy. It is known
that Representative Hepburn Of Iowa.
chairman Of the committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce. is in.
clined to the opinion that the com
mission Is too large and that the chief
engineer of the canal ought to have
greater initial authority than he now
has. Mr.. Hepburn talked to the pres.
tdent during the day about canal mat
tiers, but he declined to say whether
1t was the intention of his com m;ttse
to introduce measure looking 10 the
capitalization Of his ideas into law.
Before action of definite nature is
taken the subject will be considered
carefully in all its phases.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
SEVEN AUSTRIANS DIE
suFFocATED WHILE At WORK IN
A SOFT CLAY MINE NEAR
BOLIVAR, PA.

Bolivar, Pa, Dec. 2S.-Seven Aus
trians were suffocated Thursday in the
No. soft clay mine of the Reese
Hammond Friedrich company near
here. There were about twenty-five
men in the mine. OF the eighteen who
were rescued all are in bad shape and
two are liable to die.
The cause of the disaster was most
peculiar. A small building burned
down at the mouth of the mine and the
air shaft, acting as sort of tiue, drew
into the draft the heat and smoke from
the fire, thus suffocating the men,
whose escape was shut OF by the fire
at the opening. Immediately the burn
ing shanty was torn away and res
cuers rushed into the mine. but al
ready seven had succumbed to the
heat and smoke
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
RUSSIANS SURPRISED
PORT ARTHUR sEsiEoERs DRIVE
THE sLAvs OUT OF THEIR
ADVANCED POSITIONS.

Toxic. Dec. 26.-The Port Arthu,
besiegers occupied Taliuchiatun on
Saturday. 1t Is onicially announced
that the whole of the Russian advanc
ed positions in front Of the japanese
right have fallen.
The following report was received
from the besiegers at Port Arthur
Sunday morning:
"A body of our right wing surpris'
cd the enemy at Housanytantun (Hou-
sanytanyentao?) and Siafantun. the
latter about six and half miles north
east of Port Arthur, at 10 o'clock Sat
urday night and occupied the villages.
subsequently dislodsing the enemy.
Occupied the whole of Taliuchiatun,
about Ave miles northwest Of Port
Arthur. at 2:55 o'clock this morning.
Our repeated attacks during the
past few days were uniformly success
full and now the whole of the enemy's
advanced positions fronting our right
wing are In our hands"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday, Dee. 81.

Fire at Peru, Ind. Tuesday dess ,ro,
ed the Peru Steel companys p1sn''
Loss, 100000. ,..o.
King Alfonso has signed . decree 90
authorizing Senior Ojeba. the S9an w
minister at Washington. to sign en'
aspiration treaty with America.
In a wind storm at la Crosse. WI,
many small buildings in the outsHifss
Of the city were blown over, winaoms
IN houses broken and fences laid LOW.
President Roosevelt has aeceEtsa "a
invitation to attend the Lincoln Gay
dinner to be given by the Repuoilean
rlub of New York on the 18th OF ne%'
February.
rrain operator, died ut Chicago Tues
day of heart disease. He was seventy.
six years old and one of the Oldest
members Of the board of trade.
City Clerk Edward NJ. Soauengel OF
Milwaukee, agod forty-seyen Yeas
died suddenly Tuesday. Mr.. senusn-
Eel had been suffering from Bra rus
disease and heart trouble for some
time.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
Wants the Missouri Improved.

Senator McCumber recently called
at the war department and recon.
mended that a portion of the lump ap.
preparation made by congress for
the improvement Of rivers in the
United States be used for the re.
moval of snags and the deepening Of
the channel of the Upper Missouri
and Yellowstone rivers. The com.
merce on these streams in North Da.
kota and Montana has increased
greatly during the past few years. The
navigation of the river is of the great.
est importance to the shippers Of
wheat as they are able to obtain much
lower rates by water than by rail.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
OR. CHADWICK .no,crss.
erus D0l Against husband Ct clswe
land Woman.

vSv0 w tA8AS00x' SSN0OAt0 u WV
land Woman.
Cleveland. Dec. 1s.-Df. Leroy 3.
Chadwick and his wife. Mrs. Cassie L.
Chadwick, were Jointly indicted By
the county grand jury Thursday after
noon on the charge Of having forged
and uttered 100000 note signed
Andrew Carnegie.
Dr.. Chadwick 10 now on his way to
New York from Paris and 10 expected
to land next Wednesday. AS soon Is
the indictment was returned, Sheriff
Barry Of this county made arrange
ments to secure DR.. chadwick's ex.
tradition. He will meet the steamer
on its arrival.
This is the third time that Mrs.
Chadwick has been indicted By the
county grand Jury. but 1t 10 the first
instance Of her husbands name ap.
pearing in legal proceedings in the
case. The indictments already re.
turned against Mrs. Chadwick are
similar to the one voted Thursday ex-
cept that they cover notes of $780,.
900 and 100000 signed Andrew
Carnegie.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
Will Attend Inauqurai Ball.

Fargoans have arranged for spe'
cial train to Bismarck to attend the
inaugural ball. One of the Fargo
orchestras will furnish the music
About fifty Fargo society people will
attend, and arrangements are being
made to pick up some society people
at Casselton. Valley City and James
town. The social features of the next
administration are expected to be
the most lively since statehood.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
Advocate Chances,

That the cities and towns in North
Dakota demand additional Legislation
was made evident at the meeting Of
mayors and city attorneys held in Far
20 last week pursuant to call issued
BY Mayor Wall. In many respects the
meeting was noteworthy, but the har.
mony which prevailed was especially
a noticeable feature. On all points
the officials were agreed and that much
good will result from the meeting
there can be little doubt. Mayor Duis
of Grand Forks was chairman of the
meeting. All the subjects discussed
related to municipal government and
changes in several existing laws were
advocated.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-12-29
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Dec. 24.-Cattle-Good to
prime steers. $6.2o@6.60; poor to me.
dunn, $3.85@5.90; stockers and feed.
ers, $2.20@4.25; COWS, $1.35@4.SO:
heifers. $2.0005.00; calves, $500
$50. Hogs-Mixed and butchers, 1880
Q4.52h; good to choice heavy, $3.50
@4.60: rough heavy. $4.3004.40; light
$4.05Q4.45. Sheep-Good to choice
wethers, A.60@5.20; Western sheep,
$3.80@6.15; native lambs, $5.0O@7.O0:
Western. S5.OO@6.75.