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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26
eel SHOULD HAVE KNOWN -
''But Somehow ! Have Trusted You
More Than ANY One Else"

"But Somehow ! Have Trusted You
More Than Any One Else"
South Otsel1c. June 21st, 1906,
Wednesday Night--My Dear Chester:
l ana just ready for bed and am so Ill
could not help writing to you.
Chester, I came home because
thought / could trust you. l don't
think now will be here after next
Friday. This girl wrote me that you
seemed to be having an awfully good
time and she guessed that my coming
home had done you good, as you had
not seemed SO cheerful IN weeks She
also said that you spent most of your
time with that detestable Grace Hill.
Now, Chester, she does not know
T dislike Miss Hill and so did not
write that because she knew 1t would
make me feel badly, but just because
she didn't think. should have
known, Chester, that you did not care
for me. But somehow have trusted
you more than anyone else. When
ever the other girls have said hateful
things to me of you could not be.
lieve them. You told me-even prom
Used me-you would have nothing to
do with her while I was gone.
Perhaps, Chester, you don't think
or you can't help making me grieve,
but wish things were different You
may say you do, too, but you can't
possibly wish so more than I. I have
been very brave since I came home,
but tonight am very discouraged.
Chester, if I could only die. know
how you feel about this affair and I
wish for your sake you need not be
troubled. If die hope you can then
be happy. I hope can die. The doc
tor says will, and then you can do
just as you like. I am not the least
bit offended with you. only am lit
: tie blue tonight and feel this way.
+ miss you. Oh, dear, you don't
know how much I miss you. Honest
51y, dep1 am coming back next week
,unlestS you can come for me right
away. II am so lonesome can't stand
1t. Week ago tonight we were to-
gether. Don't you remember how
cried, dear? I have cried like that
nearly all the time since left Cort
land. I am awfully blue.
Don't you think am awfully brave?
T. am doing SO much better than I
thought should. think about
you, dear, all the time and wonder
what you are doing. I am so fright
ened, dear. Maude has invited me
down for next Tuesday, but I don't
think I can go. Oh, say, If you post
"a letter to me Tuesday morning will
get 1t Tuesday night Well, dear,
they are calling me to dinner and I
will stop. Please write or will be
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26
Grace Brown to
Chester Gillette.
5Woman's Simple Documents That Made
r. Criminal Case Famous and Virtually "
-
:. Sealed the Fate of a Murderer
When Read to the Jury r. i
That Tried Him for
His Life. :. IT,.

Herkimer. N. Y.-Printed below are
letters which, within the past few
weeks. have become known almost
from one end of the country to the
other as "Grace Browns letters"
They need no introduction, save per-
haps the statement that these are the
letters which were read at the trial
of Chester Gillette.
They formed the most remarkable
feature of that case. The whole struc-
ture of the prosecuting attorney was
built upon them. 1t passes under
standing why the murderer of the
girl should have preserved a series of
documents which, it is safe to say,
spelled his doom from the moment
they were placed in the hands of a
jury of - men. 1t is inconceivable
that Gillette kept them for their
pathos, or the gentleness of charac-
ter which they revealed, for he is not
the kind Of man to whom such
things appeal. 1t is utterly improb-
able that he ever recognized in them
simple literary beauty, although
such they do possess in an unusual
degree-the more unusual when it is
remembered that Grace Brown was
a country girl of plain education, who
had worked as a factory hand.
Yet somehow Gillette kept them,
and the American public has come into
the possession of one of the most re-
markable series of documents that
ever appeared In criminal case. As
a revelation OF character, as the writ
ten record of a tortured soul, they
have already taken place unique in
the annals of real life tragedies.
Here are the letters.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26
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H3 There IS no place like home, but
when one gets strange town
and fnds= gang ofz York men.taa
np the street wing I'll seems like
Ehome ToledteB
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26

=. .s s5:.s,; Broaden Teachers Minds. =
:, Cambridge, Mass, provides for priv
~ileges Of study and travel one year In
seven for the: public school teachers.
A teacher draws part salary and has:
regular position on return. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26
"MY. LITTLE SISTER CAME"
81 Told Herl Guessed My Fortune
Was Pretty Well Told Now"

81 Told Her~l Guessed My Fortune
Was Pretty Well Told Now"
South Otselic, June 23d, 1906, Sum
day :Night-My Dear Chester: I was
glad to hear from you and surprised az
well. I thought you would rather
have my letters affectionate, but yours
was so businesslike that have come
to the conclusion that you wish mine
to be that way may tell you,
though, that am not business wom-
an, and so presume that these letters
will not satisfy you any more than
the others did. would: not like to
have you think was not glad to hear
from you, for I was very glad, but it
was not the kind Of letter had hoped
to get from you.
think pardon me, that I under
stand my position and that 1t Is rather
unnecessary: for you to be. so fright
fully frank in showing it to me: I
can see my position as keenly as any
one, think. You say you were sur
prtsed, but; you thought I would be
discouraged. don't see why I should
be discouraged. What words have
had from you since I came home to
encourage me?
+ You write as though l. was the one
to blame because the girls wouldn't
come. I invited them here because I
thought: I wouldn't be so lonesome. I
am sure I cannot help it. because
mamma is away. As to the financial
difficulty, am the one who will be
most affected by that. You say "your
trip Won't it be your trip as we'll as
mine? I understand how you feel
about the affair. You consider me as
something troublesome that you both
cred with. You think il it wasn't for
me you could do as you liked all sum-
mer and not be obliged to give up
your position there. I know how you
feel, but once In awhile you make me
see these things great deal more
plainly than ever. .:
Chester, 1 don't suppose you will
ever know how I regret being all this
trouble to you. I know you hate me,
and can't blame you one Bit. MY
whole life is ruined, and IN q measure
yours is, too. OF course, it's worse
for me than for you, but the world
and you, too, may think I am: the one
to blame, but somehow can't, just
simply can't think that I am, Chester.
I said No so many times, dear. Or
course, the world will not know that,
but it's true all the same. -
My little sister came up just a min:
ute ago with her hands full of daisies
and asked if I didn't want my fortune
told: told her I guessed it was
pretty well told now I, don't want
you to mind this letter, for am: blue
tonight and get SO mad, when the girls
write things about me- Your letter
was nice, and / was glad to get. it., I
simply feel "out Of sorts Tonight
e. When you: are cross, Just think I
am sick and can't help all this II
you were me, you couldn't help find
ing fault, I know. / don't dare think
how glad I will be to see you. Il. YOU
wrote me a letter like this L wouldn't
write in long time, but I know: you
won't tease me in that way You will
just forget it and be your. own: dear
self: You. know=I always, am s cross in
the beginning: It was that way sat
urday night, SO don't be angry,:sdear,
:: Lovingly: =. zx.. 81 S. KID (:
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YOU COME TO NE :"
"Chester, ! Need You More Than
- You Think II DO.D

South Otselic, June rs, 1906, Monday
Night-Dear Chester am much too
tired to write a decent letter or even
follow the line, but / have been :un:
easy all day, and can't 60 to sleep
because am sorry / sent, you such q.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26
ARE SO MANYNOOKS"
81 Have Been Bidding Goodbye
to Some Places Today"

South OtSellc, July b, Thursday
Night-My Dear Chester: If you take
the 9:45 train from the Lehigh, there,
you Will get here about II. I am sorry
I could not go to Hamilton, dear, but
papa and mamma did not want me to-,
and there are so many things have
had to work hard for in the last two
weeks. They think l am just going
out there to Deruyter for visit. Now,
dear, when I get there will go at
once to the hotel, and don't think
will see any of the people. If I do
and they ask me to come to the house.
will say something so they won't
mistrust anything-tell them have a
friend coming from Cortland and that
we were to meet there to go to a
funeral or wedding in some town far
Their along. Awfully stupid, but we
were invited to come, and so I had to
cut my vacation little short and co.
Will that be- o. K. dear?
You must come in the morning, for
l have had to make you don't know
how many new plans since your last
letter, in order to meet you Monday.
I dislike waiting until Monday, but
now that have to. don't think 1t
anything but fair that you should come
up Monday morning. But, dear, you
must see the necessity yourself OF get.
ting here and not making me wait.
If you dislike the idea OF coming Mon.
day morning and can get tram up
there Sunday night, you would come
up Sunday night and be-there to meet
me. Perhaps that would be the best
way. All I care is that don't want
to wait there all day or half a day.
I think there is train that leaves
the Lehigh at six something Sunday
night. I do not know what would
do If you were not to come. am
about crazy. I have been bidding
good-by to some places to-day. There
are so many hooks, dear, and all of
them SO dear to me. have lived here
nearly all my lie. =. .,-,... -
First said good-by to the spring
house with its great masses of green
moss; then the apple tree where we
had our playhouse; then the bee.
hive" cute little house in the Or
chard, and, of course all the neighbors
that have mended my dresses from a
little tot up to save me a threshing I
really deserved.
"Oh, dear, you don't realize what all
this means to me. I know I shall
never see any OF them again, and
mamma, great Heaven, how 1 do love
mamma! I don't know what I will
do without her. She is never cross
and she always helps me so much.
Sometimes I think if I tell mamma
but can't. She has trouble enough
as 1t is, and couldn't break her heart
like that.
If came back dead, perhaps, II she
doesn't know, she won't be angry with
me. will never be happy again, dear.
| wish I could die. You will never
know what you have made me suffer,
dear. I miss you and want to see
you, but I wish I could die. l am go.
ing to bed now, dear. Please come
and don't make me wait there. II
you had made plans for something
Sunday, you must come Monday morn
ing.
Please think, dear, that had to give
up whole summers pleasure and you
surely will be brave enough to give
up one evening for me. shall expect
and look for you Monday forenoon,
Heaven bless you until then.
Lovingly and with kisses,
THE KID.
P. S.-Please come up Sunday night,
dear. =.
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26

FVE Hearta=UEmeVI HEN 5saEe LEE .
And beauty works such sinful charm
Surely. you need have fear: OF harm? =
Her face: smiled through the dimness,
rs MAY, &C., s IS: s. I ~ 4 ~: II
Shall we not wend the selfsame way? {: {:
Like me, you seek the town, and SO. ::sssE*
Harm cannot reach me GO, 60. iths q cry
He caught her hand, g food night! pray
God shield you, dear and fled away s:=i:
define. Bridges IN Smart Set. szz..ys*
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this morning. am sorry and if I we're
there I know you would say it would
be all 0. K. =. =
| Lovingly,
| THE KID.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26

crazy. Be q good kid and God bless
you. Lovingly,
THE KID.
P. ST. am crying,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30

The meddng societies fall back old Bazacian notion that
all literary wants for wife lterate who good
cook and knows enough find his spea OF Marguerite
who plays the mana that he be left
alone to commune with Helen OF Troy in his poems.
But this also does ft for the oriental il
erate she knows read write she holds the high
education of thousands of when savage and though
she has attained by different process she has attained.
1t her heritage of centuries OF holiness reverence poetic
thought handed down those who knew the paths
in the silence
She like flower Of the forest and has unfodd without
fort struggle The sectional bookcase
chased.
But she keep oriental and live in secson poet
bring his homeher wells lifted
the bloom will be brushed from the lily.
Put her tight boots high heels and the strenuous
they will have her cturing clubs woman Is
Rest-C for Mani"
always taught the hottest thing the world is
absorbed in her husband both goddess
difficult for her to adapt herself dead level of equality
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
Toll Taken of Life.

What toll do you take of life, of life
'Twixt the cradle, man and the grave,
And what is the gain of your toll and
strife?
And Midas this answer gave:
1T gather the fruits of millions toll.
revel In seas of gold,
I reap the harvests from leagues OF soil.
But, alas / am growing old!
"And when / consider the things I have
won,
The things that call my own,
I seem to feel that my works Ill done,
For these have gained alone:
A palace-and shelter all men claim
Purple and linen and gold,
Fine raiment mine, but no better thar
thine
To guard the body from cold.
Three meals a day and a friendly root.
And garments to wrap me in,
These only mine, by their uses proof,
The rest is the price of sin.
Three meals day and the clothes wear,
And a roof to shelter me,
This is the gain of LIES toll and pain.
AS all too late I see.
Though men shall say when I come to
die:
Such and such was he worth
But read my title, and sadly sigh,
To seven poor feet of earth.
The things 1 have won for the deeds
have done
Shelter, clothing and bread.
Whatever your name or station or fame
And the same last narrow bed"
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
Strange Story-But True.

F. L. Vandegrift has new story.
It is illustrative of the marvellous fe-
cundity of the English sparrow.
Il was pending Sunday with the
Dumont Smiths, at Kinsley," said
Van, in recounting his experience.
1--WE had been up late the night be-
fore and l was a trifle drowsy. 1 sat
out on the front porch listening to the
church bells and gazing off into the
illimitable space that lies between
a shortgrass town and the horizon
beyond.
Presently I dropped my hat into
a bed of virginia creeper and dozed
off to sleep. / could not have slept
more than an hour, for the children
were passing the house on the way
from Sunday school when l awoke.
l rubbed my eyes and glanced over
at my hat In it sat an English spar
row brooding setting of eggs. While
/ slept the sparows had built a nest
in my hat, the mother bird had laid
a full complement of eggs and had be-
gun the work of Matching them. -
Kansas City Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
How to Put On Gloves.

Open and turn back the gloves to
the thumb and powder lightly. Put
the fingers in their places. not the
thumb, and carefully work them on
with the first finger and thumb of
the other hand until they are quite
down; never press between the fin
gers. Pass the thumb into its place
with care and work on as the fingers.
Turn back the glove and slide it over
the hand and wrist never pinching
the kid, and work the glove into
proper place by means of the light
est pressure, always allowing the kid
to slide between the fingers. In fin
ishing care should be taken In fas-
tening the first button.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30

Brooklyn.-Nocturnal ramblers In
this great city need never go home
hungry. if they feel the pangs of appe-
tite demanding food before they retire
and are fearful lest the pantry at
home will not furnish material for a
smack" There are in the borough
nearly, if not fully, 100 all-night restau,
rants-places that never close their
doors. OF course, that number is
small when compared with the list
of all-night Joints" in Manhattan, but
Brooklyn is essentially a city of
homes, and the wonder is that so
many places find it profitable to keep
open day and night.
Naturally the summer season Is the
best for this class of restaurants. The
surrounding beaches attract multi
tudes of visitors at night, and the late
trol!eys carry full loads to various
parts of the borough. With its vast
network of street railways, Brooklyn
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30

who had shuffled in from somewhere
out of the black night. He stopped in
front Of the place and read the at
tractive offer that was portrayed on
the banner. AS the stroller conclud-
ed reading he thrust his right hand
into pocket of his frayed trousers.
or years he had perhaps attained 40,
and the finger of time had not dealt
gently with him, for his face was
scanned with wrinkles and he looked
careworn. His clothing was tattered
and his linen-if a grimy shirt that
had not seen laundry in some weeks
might be so dignified-had seen long
usage; his straw hat had great rents
in the crown, through which protrud-
ed an occasional lock of rusty, un-
kempt hair; his coat was shiny and
worn at the cuffs and elbows; the bot.
toms Of his trouser legs, too, were
badly frayed and "scuffed" out by the
frequent contact of his ankles, and
through holes in pair of mismated
shoes could be seen more than a sus,
picion Of bare toes. His beard was
unkempt and his hands and face were
| guiltless Of any recent acquaintance
with soap and water.
After a moments meditation the
hobo drew his hand from his pocket
deposited its contents into his left
hand and then began a systematic
! search of his other pockets. The re-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
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AL-HIGH| RESITLIRH/KZS

has scores of transfer points, and 1t is
notable that one or more all-night res
taurants are to be found located near
almost every one of such points. The
returning merry-makers are generally
hungry, unless they have eaten at one
of the seashore resorts, and 1t Is often
the case that the cost of meals at the
beaches is extortionate, or the food
served by them is not tempting. The
restaurants that keep their doors open
at ali hours, though they may not
equal the best, are almost Invariably
clean and inviting. and meals that
would satisfy the ordinary appetite
are served.
Places Serve Good Food
Without Putting on FriIIs,
In the downtown district the all
night eating places are the most nu
merous. Beginning at the Brooklyn
bridge, or near 1t, one may follow the
regular channels of travel and find
plenty of places where the wants Of
the inner man are attended to in Vari
Gus styles. At this season Of the year
shelLfsh-clams, Holsters, crabs and
even oysters-are In the greatest de
mand, and there are places where
such food is prepared in a very tempt
ing manner. There may be no nap
kins; the dishes may be of heavy
earthenware instead of china and the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.
No Medicine so Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.

Lying awake nights makes 1t hard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take "tonics and stimu.
lants" under such circumstances is
like setting the house on fire to see
If you can put it out.
The right kind Of food promotes re-
freshing sleep at night and wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way OF
eating, to Grape-Nuts, and says:
For about three years had been
great sufferer from Indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medi-
cine, the doctor would ask me to drop
off potatoes, then meat, and so on,
but in a few days that craving, gnaw-
ing feeling would start up, and
would vomit everything / ate and
drank.
when I started on Grape-Nuts,
vomiting stopped, and the bloating
feeling which was so distressing dis
appeared entirely.
my mother was very much both
cred with diarrhea before commenc-
ing the Grape-Nuts, because her stom-
ach was so weak she could not digest
her food. Since using Grape-Nuts she
is we'll, and says she don't think she
could live without it.
ct is great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for can sleep as sound
and undisturbed after supper OF
Grape-Nuts as In the old days when
could not realize what they meant
by bad stomach" There is no
medicine so beneficial to nerves and
brain as good nights sleep, such as
you can enjoy after eating Grape
Nuts"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
BABY COVERED WITH SORES.
Would Scratch and Tear the Flesh Tn.
less Hands Were Tied-"WouId
Have Died But for Cuticura"

"My little son, when about year
and a half old, began to have sores
come out on his face. / had a physi-
clan treat him, but the sores grew
worse. Then they began to come on
his arms, then on other parts OF his
body, and then one came on his chest.
worse than the others. Then l called
another physician. Still he grew
worse. At the end of about year
and a half of suffering he grew 80 bad
l had to tie his hands in cloths at
night to keep him from scratching the
sores and tearing the flesh. He got to
be a mere skeleton, and was hardly
able to walk. My aunt advised me to
try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. /
sent to the drug store and got cake
of the Soap and a box of the ONT
ment, and at the end Of about two
months the sores were all well. He
has never had any sores of any kind
since. He is now strong and healthy.
and can sincerely say that only for
your most wonderful remedies my
precious child would have died from
those terrible sores. Mrs. Egbert
Sheldon, r. F. d. No. 1, Weodyille,
Conn, April %, 1906"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
Indian Claimed Him as Brother.

Congressman Llewellyn Powers, Of
Maine, besides being a millionaire, Is
a man of striking appearance. Being
tall, lean, with high cheek bones and
wearing his coarse, black hair long,
he bears some resemblance to the abb
origines Of this continent. One day,
while travelling on a Maine railroad,
where Indians and ministers" ride
for half fare, Mr.. Powers met a mem.
Der of the Passamaquoddy tribe in
the smoking car and started in to
question his copper-colored constitu-
ent as to his manner Of living and
how he liked the tribal relations in
Maine. After some minutes of talk
Mr. Powers asked: "By the way.
which of the two tribes do you be-
long to-" Myself bin all Passama-
quoddy," replied the Indian. Wat
tribe was you bin?" Before the Bos-
ton drummer who sat in adjoining
seats had finished laughing Mr.. Pow
ers discovered that he had urgent
business which called him to the Pull.
man.