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Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Dan Cupid Hides in the Tvpe Case.

lyn was proof, if such were needod
that the News is an exceptionally fine
matrimonial bureau.
Within the last four wears there
nave been six weddings all traceable
to the News Office. Harvey A. Brown
welded Miss Bronzon of Warwick
N. Y, and the couple are now living
at slingerlands, N. Y. D. Nelson Raw.
nor, formerly manager of the News
and now associate editor of the Long
Island Democrat of Jamaica. followed
Browns example by marrying Miss
Ethel Van Sise of Huntington. Miss
Maud Tilly resigned her place two
years ago to become the bride of Ri.
bert White of Jamaica. Miss Blanche
Latourette succeeded her and was
soon engaged to marry Henry Wallace
OF Port Washington, L. I. Within a
few months she left the News to keen
house. William F. Lynch recentlv
took as bride Miss Louise Jaeger of
Hankins, N. Y. who taught the school
in Glenwood for two years.
Another compositor on the staff is
now said to blush violently when the
word marriage is in copy, and the
publisher is looking for some one to
fill her place when the expected resip.
nation is handed to him.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
A NY girl who wishes her chances {

A NY girl who wishes her chances of
"a marriage immeasurably enhanced
can go to Roslyn, L. l., and apply to
William Mccarthy, publisher Of the
Roslyn News, for job as compositor.
The News is printed in little shop in
the village, down below Harbor Hill,
the estate Of Mrs. Clarence H. Makay.
She is said to have exhibited an inter-
est in the outcome of several affairs
of the heart that originated there.
For years past the News office has
borne the reputation of being a place
where Cupid is kept busy. Girl after
girl has been led from the ink-smeared
walls to the altar and couple after
couple have blessed the little country
weekly for making them happy by
bringing them together.
The recent marriage of Miss Mill.
cent West and William Magee at Ros.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10

THE police of the tenth precinct in
! Washington have as mascot a
cat that is destined to disturb the rest
Of the enemies of the so-called ma.
ture takers. This cat, large, well.
trained animal, and the pride of ev.
cry member of the command, has
adopted two founding chickens OF
tender age. Strage though it may
seem, she cares for them with an eye
as guarding as mother hen ever pos.
s4ssed. and is apparently determined
that no harm shall befall them.
The two little bundles of feathers
are supposed to have been brought
into the station house one exceedingly
rainy night. At the time they were
but few days old. During the after.
noon before they were seen in the vi.
cinity Of the station house, but when
e started to rain they disappeared.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Hospital Maid Victim of Odd Accident

!ore, and came mighty near never SEQ.
ing one again.
Mrs. Frank, the hospital hou.aleon.
er, and the ten nurses in the institn.
tion were at dinner when Miss Da1v
who had been assigned to answer the
front door bell, took advantage of a
dull season to take a forbidden neen
at the fascinating elevator, the door
OF which was invitingly open.
Miss DAILY unexpectedly moved tn
lever far enough to start the car slow.
ly upward. Realizing that she had
broken the rules against her meddline
with the elevator the young woman
tried to Jump into the car to stop II
She slipped and fell with her legs
extending beyond the body of the
car. Before she could get to her feet
the top of the elevator had reached
the entrance door on the ground floor.
Just above the door there was a steel
girder extending across the elevator
shaft, with about five inches srace
between the floor of the car and the
girder. Miss Daily was crushed in this
place and held about the waist
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
TALK OF NEW YORK
Gossip Of People and Events Told
In Interesting Manner.
Liquor at $4.00 a Gallon for Horse.

"How is it sereved?"
with or without and in mt.k
punches" answered the commits
sioner.
DO you ever serve horses necks 70
That's what we do serve" re-.
sponded the commissioner, refusing
to smile. This bill has heen held
up eight months, and they are good
! enough judges of whisky in the comp.
troller's Office to decide in less time
than that whether it is good"
When the comptroller was in.
formed Of this he declared he had
never heard of whisky that was not
good.
The commissioner may have been
excited, but his state was peaceful
as compared with that of the horses
in the park stable. There was much
worry over whether the four gallons
referred to by the comptroller was
for each horse or all the horses.
One horse was being manicured and
was plainly irritated., He wished to
register kick against those who
had held up the bills. Ee is one of
the blue ribbon horses of the park de-
partment force.
"By the great Pegasus, nevah have
l heard such a fuss made over a lit
tie rum!" he explained. THE park
horses inalienable right is ten quarts
of oats day, with Saturday night
bran mash and uip or two when it's
hot or cold to give cne little spirit"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Odd Provisions in Old Mail Rules

all offices where no particular time is
specified.
"3. For every 80 minutes delay (un.
avoidable accidents excepted) in ar.
irving after the time prescribed in
any contract, the contractor shall for.
felt ST.; and if the delay continues
until the departure OF any depending
mail whereby the mails destined for
such depending mail lost trip, an ad.
ditional forfeiture Of S. shall be in
CURED, and whenever a lost trip en-.
sues, from whatever circumstance
the amount to be paid to the con-
tractor for regular trip is to be de-
Quoted from his ray.
a. Newspapers. as we'll as letters,
are to be sent in the mail: and if any
person making proposals declares to
carry newspapers, other than those
conveyed in the mail, for his own
emolument. he must state in his pro-
posals for what sum he will carry,
with the emolument, and for what
sum without that emolument.
IS. Should any person making pro-
posals desire an alteration of the
times of arrival and departure above
specified he must state in his prapos.
ais the alteration desired and the diff
ference they will make in the terms
of the contract.
&c. Persons making proposals are
desired to state their prices by the
year. Those who contract will re.
ceive their pay quarterly, in the
months of August, November, Febru.
ary and May, in one month after tho
expiration Of each quarter.
~. No other than a free white per.
son shall be employed to convey the
mail"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Novelties in Gotham's Street Music

shoulders. Their sudden start con-
verts quiet street into hell of ca
cophony. They find profit in the
streets further to the east and west
of town, where the spirit of their
music is enjoyed and its volume does
not fall on such fastidious ears. You
rarely see men so young as these or
so we'll able to do their work.
Another novelty of the street bands
is a complete contrast to this sten-
torian quartet. She is a French
woman we'll past middle age, whose
appearance carries with it every de-
tail her years suggest. She is more
than plump, and her white hair is
drawn into a tight knot at the back
OF her head. She has a clear, bronze
skin, not unlike a winter apple in its
look of crisp health.
Her plain alpaca dress shows the
effects of exposure to wind and rain.
for its black has faded in many places
to green and brown; but she looks
as happy as If she had on a new tailor
made and a hat from Fifth avenue tn
cover her silver hair.
Another set of distributors Of
street melody have no personal re-
sponsabillty. They are hired for their
job and 1t isn't necessary for the pub
lie to contribute that they may live.
1t is quite true that unless the public
takes an interest in them thew will
not continue to live for long at the
expense of the person who Is SUPPORT
ing them now; yet at all events thew
40 not have to sing for their supper
every night.
These new trcubadours travel in =
wagon drawn by a horse that need
not look so tired in view Of the length
OF time that he stands still. Rut
when he does move he has to null the
upright piano inside the wagon. the
boy on the back who sings through a
megaphone, and the pianist; then %,
caslonally the sidewalk barker climb,
up into the wagon if the trip is going
to be long.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Gossip Of Washington
What 10 Going On at the
National Capital.
Machine Counts Uncle Sans Money

tilated, worn out and counterfeit
pieces, a work that requires very
quick precision, and women have been
found to do it exceedingly Wei. Usu.
ally they can detect a counterfeit coin
by its color as it lies among the oth.
ers on the table, but if not then, the
operator captures it when she tosses
it from one hand to another, for there
Is false ring In It's chink as It leaps
into her palm. 1T is remarka ble," said
a treasury employe recently, "how
many counterfeit copper cents come
in, especially when one calls to mind
how little profit there is in making
them. OF course, as they are of such
small denomination, they can be
passed without much chance Of sus.
picion being aroused, as few people
trouble themselves to examine a
penny. 1t has been found that most
of the counterfeit pennies are made
by Italians in New York city, and they
put them into circulation to great
extent through peddlers and small
store keepers.
There are, by the way, some inter-
esting facts connected with copper
cents. The Philadelphia mint during
the fiscal year coined more than 1,OO0,-
900 cents and more than 100000
nickels. Up to just recently all the
cents and nickels have been made in
Philadelphia, but according to a new
law, passed by congress not long ago,
these coins may be made at any of
the mints, and as a result the mint
at San Francisco last autumn put out
100000 copper cents. Just a very
few years ago pennies had no circu.
lation at all west of the Mississippi.
In fact California did not recognize
them as legal tend0-, said an official.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10

VTREET MUSIC in New York city
- is ra=ely picturesque. The Italian
girls who played the tambouriles just
as naturally as they used to on the
old-fashioned wallpaper have disap-
peared, and possibly the taste of the
day has inclined their successors to
be noisy rather than interesting to
look at.
Certainly the quartet that has
recently appeared in the residential
streets up town is the noisiest group
that ever conspired against the ear
drums Of harmless humanity. It
gives forth such torrent of sound that
its leader is prompt to observe the
law. The first sign of protest from
the householder in whose neighbor-
hood It begins operations quiets the
quartet and starts it of for another
stand.
They are four as husky specimens
as Italy ever sent here. Two carry
tambourines, and two small organs
which they hold on their knees as
they turn them. Each of these men
has over his shoulder a wicker chair
which he deposits in the street as near
as possible to the curb before the
music begins. The two men on the
end with their tambourlnes are not
satisfied with the racket created by
the impact of their heavy knuckles
on the skin.
They have species Of drumstick
with ball at one end which is in
turn covered with skin. This they
pound with fearful ferocity against
the tambourines which they hold up in
the left hand on a level with their
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
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musk-ox give him plenty of opportuni.
ties of doing business with the posts.
The Eskimos are extremely brave
and hardy, sharp at business, and,
above all, excellent sailors. They de.
rive great assistance on the vast
plains of tnow from their dogs. at.
tached to the sledges, which they use
for transport purposes. At the head
of each team is the pilot dog, an excel.
lent animal with keen scent, who
leads the caravan, acts as a guide, and
aviods crevasses and bad places. They
are fed on fish, are large in size, and
have long, thick hair, and pass their
nights bowling or fighting amongst
each other beneath the clear wintry
sky of the Polar regions.
White fox is rare game, while the
white bear is a formidable adversary.
who must be shot from distance, and
who frequently attacks the hunters,
should he be only slightly wounded.
The most productive and the least
dangerous animal to hunt, although
great hardships have to be under
gone, is the hair-seal, or phoque. This
animal, when the thaw comes, con-
gregates on the dislodged icebergs in
shoals Of 10000 to 10000 at a time.
The young animals (the most valu.
able) can oppose no resistance to their
slayers. In most cases the only weap.
on used Is a club; a vigorous blow on
the nose of a hair-seal is sufficient
to kill 1t at once. The olde1 animals,
however, who occasionally attack the
hunters, and weigh from IA to 16 cwt.,
have to be killed by a rife bullet.
The slaughtered animals are cut up
then and there, and the skins and the
blubber only are dragged to the
! camps, and thence sold to the out
posts, who forward them to the Strut.
ton islands.
Black bear are very numerous in
all parts of the country; they grow to
i! a large size and carry finer pelts than
in any other part of the American
continent. saw a skin which had
been killed in the previous spring that
was well over eight feet, a very large
size for this species. Some of these
bears have large white patch on the
chest, others have only small white
spot, while in most cases the general
pelage is rich glossy black all over
On the Upper Stikine there is a local
variety which has at all times smoke
grey hair over the whole of the back
It is only local variety and not sub
species, since cubs may be seen with
the mother, who is often jet black all
over. The general habits of the blach
bear are so we'll known that l need
only say few words as they apply
to the animal in Cassiar. In this dis
trict they leave their alternating hole.
early in May, and if the weather il
bad return to them until the youne
grass springs up on the hillsides. Here
they feed greedily for a month. ani
are generally in poor condition, bu
in fine fur. At this season the In
dians hunt them little and kill a few
for whose hides they get about SIS
JAMES H. WEAVER.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Playing Heavy Opera.

ing toward the dining room at full
speed.
"Hey!" shouted tie new arrival.
Whats up? House on Are?"
Don't stop me-" responded the boy
in buttons, "or I'll lose my job. I've
got to put some heavy opera on the
phonograph and start i. up before it's
too late"
And it is really so important?"
important? Well, should say so
Mrs. Van NewBlum Is about to cal
corn of the cob, and yosl can hear hel
two blocks"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
The Wrong Switch.

Little boy" said the big electrician.
as he unpacked his tool kit, your
mother sent for me to fix her switch.
Where will I find it?''
The little boys eyes grew round,
"sh!" he whispered, cautiously.
Mamma doesn't want everybody to
know she wears switch, but l guess
you'll find it either on the bureau or
on her head"
And ten minutes Laser the sounds
that emanated from the woodshed told
that there are other kinds of switcbe,
besides electrical and hair.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10

lumber for IS years. In that time it
has cut 90,0OO,OOO feet of walnut lum-
ber. the greater part of which has
been sent to Europe. But shipments
have gone from here to Australia,
Russia ard China.
Now the saving of walnut into lum-
ber is to be abandoned and the mill
will cut only veneers. The reason is
that nearly all the large walnut tim
ber has been cut. There is plenty of
small walnut timber in Missouri and
Kansas, but it does not pay to cut it,
the black heart is too small and tho
white sap is of no value. 1t is the
black heart of the tree that has the
fine grain and takes the rich. black
polish.
Owing to the scarcity of big walnut
logs and the small lumber that has
gone to the European market in re-
cent years, the demand for it has fall
en- off and it has been supplanted by
mahogany.
There are other reasons why ma
| hogany has taken the place of wal
nut Mahogany is 80 per cent cheap
er In Europe than walnut. 1t is much
larger, too. Walnut logs from which
segments four inches thick may be-
cut are scarce, and walnut logs from
which such segments rs feet long may
be cut are almost impossible to get
now.
Another factor in the disappearance
of walnut lumber is that mahogany is
much softer and easier to cut. The
Sheffield mill can cut $4,000 feet of
mahogany day, but 1t will cut only
10000 feet of walnut. A mahogany
log will cut nearly three times as
| much lumber as walnut log of the
same size, and therefore it is more
economical to cut mahogany.
Although mahogany is taking the
place of walnut over all the world, it
is not nearly so good as walnut. There
is no wood so good as walnut for fine
furniture and cabinet work. The rea-
son is that it is hard, it will never
warp and it takes beautiful polish,
it has a more varied and beautiful
grain and the older it grows the rich
er it looks.
Instead of being sawed into boards
and posts the walnut will hereafter be
cut into veneers not much thicker
than a piece Of blotting paper, and it
is only the gnarled trunks that will do
for this.
| In hundreds of homes in Missouri
walnut wood is still used for fire.
wood. But when a man burns walnut
lumber he is truly burning money, for
while the market price of the logs is
less now than it was ten years ago
and the demand is less, there is a
time coming when the lumber will be
worth 20 times what 1t is now When
the walnut trees that are now foot
in diameter grow to several feet
through they will be worth more than
any timber that grows in North Amer
lea. There will always be a good de-
mand for timber of that size and the
larger the tree the more value 1t will
have.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Followed Directions,

Two street urchins we're having q
controversy over spotted pup.
Gimme my dors." kaid the tall one
angrily, doubling up Lis fist
Give yer de dog?" retorted the 9TH
or one sarcastically. why. yer can
whistle for II"
Can, eh? Well, that's Just what I'm
going to do. Come on. purp." And
the next moment the tall boy and the
dog Wsso vanishing around the cor
10f.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Reformed.

Nov, Tommy" cautioned the EN-.
barrassed suitor. don't say anything
about my kissing Susie in the ham,
mock and I'll give you nickel"
Cant promise" responded Tommy,
with a solemn shake of his head.
"But you used to keep quiet on
such occasions"
"Yes, I know: but with all these in.
vestigatious and reform leagues these
days It is dangerous to take hush
money"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
A Modern Croesus.

Algernon looked at Cholly with an
awestruck gaze.
"Cholly," he murmured, Augustus
must be awful rich"
"Why?" asked Cholly, with wide
wonder in his baby blue eyes.
II saw him yesterday lending a man
five dollars, and he's just home from
his vacation!"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Too Conspicuous.

The rich sausage king was goinh in
for aerial sports.
"Ah. Louey." gushed his wife, don't
buy vone uf dem Aimsy aeroplanes,
Buy nice airship NIT long gas baa
overhead"
The king of the wienerwursts
frOwned.
For vot you dalk, Lena?" he said
gruny. me buy an airship init a Iona
gas bag overhead dot luks lige q sau.
sage! w! peoples would dink va
advertising my business vopoa"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Teeth-Cleaning for Cows.

"Sterilize the COW, and the milk will
take care of itself" This theory in.
spired Mr.. Kelsey of the School OF
Experimental Farming in Cincinnati
owner of E15,000 worth of Jer-
seys, who declares, in a report Just
published, that he has largely in
creased the quantity and quality of
his milk, because the cows are bathed
every day, their teeth are cleaned
with brush three times daily. and
during the hot weather the animals
are protected by linen coats, which
keep of the flies and mosquitoes and
prevent them from being worried.
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
A Suspicious SlQi

"Old Moneybags Is afraid that prince
he bought for his daughter is . bogus
one"
why so?"
"When it came to settling up. he
asked for the princes debts. and the
fellow told him he hadn't any"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
The Opposite.

10 OppOo1So'
please, num-" said the humble
wayfarer, "why did you give me this
bitter coffee?"
For revenge" snapped the crab
bed housewife. "You laugned AT
my pies"
. "But dis coffee don't resemble re-
venge, lady,"
1T don't, hey?"
: mo; revenge Is sweet. Pass over
the sugar bowl
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10

people don't accomplish anythins
by being crooked"
"CorkscreWs do"
Willmar tribune., 1909-11-10
Half Calf.

The Long-Suffering One-What is
this, dear?
The One of Great Goodness-1t's a
nie l made out of my new cookery
book
The l.. 8. O.-Then this leathery
mart. I presume, is the binding.-The
Sketch.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-12-25

stance, there we're 65f negroes I'm
1890 and Ga in 1890.
From an economic point OF view
this phase OF the negro problem is
staggering-this frightful waste OF
human We and efficiency For in.
stance, we will suppose that one thou.
sand white and one thousand black
children are born on the same day I'm
Washington, ID. G. or those, 663
white children will reach twenty-five
years as against 4O1 negroes. The
significance OF this simple statement
is appalling, as II affects the compar.
alive economic value OF the two
races. It is a finger pointing to de-
structlon.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-12-25
cobweb oatherers.

Getting a living ought not to be
very much OF a problem TO a man
who is willing to be a little unorth.
odox. There is a fellow down In
Greenwich Village who collects cob.
webs for living.
But what on earth for7" he was
asked.
Il sells em to the big hotel guys"
what do they want with them?"
de rich blokes won't buy old
wines unless they get de webs on
'em. New York Sun.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-12-25
ETERNAL YOUTH.
Metehnikof Makes New Discovery In
Studvino the Oid.Aoa prohI.n,

Metehnikoff Makes New Discovery In
Studying the oId-Age Problem.
= DR.. F. Mortimer Laurence OF 1913
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, who Is
Just back from Europe. announces
that Professor Ellie Metchnlkoff, head
OF the Pasteur Institute in Paris, be-
lieves that he has at last solved the
question Of longevity. Professor
MetchnIkoff, more than two years
ago, was confident that sour milk
would prove the chief element in
stopping the advance of old age. but
his continued researches have proved
to him that while his first theory
was good in part 1t would not in prac.
tice achieve all the results looked
for. He is now confident that he has
discovered a sure road to longer life.
DR.. Laurence said:
IF the theories OF Professor
Metchnikoff are correct the mystery
OF the fountain of eternal youth,
which has been the search for cen
turtles, has been partly solved This
does not mean that the scientist be-
lieves he has discovered the secret OF
living for centuries, but that he has
found the cause OF death and the
method OF retarding II for many
years. II he is correct the life OF
man will be spread far beyond the
century mark
The experiments which Professor
Metchnikoff has been conducting
have been along the line of in.
quiry which he has followed for sew
eral years. 1t Is his theory that
death Is a disease, due to the forma-
ton OF putrefactive bacteria. These
are formed in the large intestine,
and their effect is to poison the
blood, causing the hardening OF the
blood vessel walls. A few years ago
Professor Metchnikoff expressed the
belief that opposing or destroying
elements might be contained in sour
and butter milk. His conclusion,
formed since then, is that the bac-
terra of Tactic acid are not sufficient
ly powerful TO overcome the death
producing bacteria.
Since then his search has been for
bacteria, harmless or even helpful to
the human system, which are at the
same time capable OF destroying the
germs. Such an organ
SIN was first found in Russia in the
Kephir bacillus, and since then even
more powerful varieties have been
'ound.
Professor Metchnikoff's theory is
BASED on a comparison OF the length
II life between animals which have
he large intestine and those which
re without II. Certain birds and AMI.
nails he has found retain their ac-
ivity virtually until death. and In
very instance these creatures do not
ave the large intestine.-New York
'ress.