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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Crop of Capital Rumors Is Abundan,

passed by the house, replacing the
canal commission by a director gen.
eral at the head Of a civil govern.
ment. the details Of which are being
worked out by the president.
Moreover, there is the question 81
canal tolls. which on the recommends,
ton of the president, u.s. being worked
out in a bill by Chairman Mann OF tho
house committee on interstate com.
merce. He is also anxious that the
tolls to be charged be decided on al
this session, so that there will be time
for the worlds commerce to adjust ii
self to the proposed rates. l5..
In order to embody some Of th(
presidents recommendations In thu
pending bill Senator Flint has secured
the recQmmitment of the bill in th1
senate, so that the committees can I'M
sert such changes as the president
decides. It is likely that at every
stage Of the legislation bearing on the
canal there will be opposition. Thu
transcontinental railroads opposed the
canal At the outset, and they are ex
pectad to fight vigorously against tolls
80 low as to make the ocean liner
real competitors. OF the railroads.
On the subject Of fortifying thu
canal there has already developed op
position. and though both houses car
be counted on to vote for fortified
tons. many long speeches will b.
- Ia al III L
advocates or by congressman general
ly hostile to the expenditure of none,
on the canal. The election of United
States senators by popular vote i,
also looming I'D.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
EZE~ <ISzLZ7NG 5QA1S

around; they depend on fishing. II it
Gas been poor, they live in hope for
the next, and maybe run into debt
with the grocer
Then is the truck act set at naught,
for beautiful Shetland shawls pass
over the counter to be sold in Glas-
cow and London for prices that would
take away the breath Of the girl who
is worried over tea and sugar. The
Shetland girls have no market for
their work. and the middleman reaps
the benefit. Providing for immediate
wants, preparing for the future need,
the winter wears away. The summer
brings the fishing. Then the Shetland
girls 60 down to the fishing stations
and the Scottish girls come up. They
all live together in the little wooden
huts which the curers have built for
them. Just a room is all the hut con-
tains, a room with two beds.
The fisher-girls do not live indoors: :.
they only sleep beneath a roof. New
ertheless, they make their temporary
homes comfortable. They bring wall
paper and their own hardness with
them; their Exists" hold pictures
and photographs. It is remarkable Of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

Y ANSAS CITY, Mo,-In granting q
II decree of divorce to Samuel c. Nc
Gee, q policeman, against Mrs. LOU
lisa s. MCGEE, Judge T. A. Frank
Jones, in the Circuit Court, arraigned
wives who have shown themselves to
usurp the authority Of their husbands.
He dwelt upon the relationship that
should exist between husband and
wife, and traced this relationship
from the day of the cave man through
the ancient common law of the Anglo
Saxons. He declared that the law
Of today has made little change in
the fundamentals of this relationship
as it was in the times Of Holy Writ.
when the command, wives, obey
your husbands" was made. The hus-
band alleged general indignfties.
which the wife denied. The Judge
said:
"A man is the master Of his own
household. The law vests certain au-
thority in him. When a woman mar
ries she voluntarily gives up many
e tho rights she had @ single
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Living Expense Doesn't Effect Armv

sale Of commodities not used. sufi.
cient to keep the mess table supplied
with luxuries. " -. .E.sz
A few years ago at western posts
the commissary could easily contract
for beef at cents pound. half the
price now demanded. The skyward
tendency Of LIES necessities is Of
merely passing interest to the enlist.
ed men. though it Is real tragedy to
the young officers. Those of the tu.
nior grades draw very low pay con.
sidering the incidental expenses their
position requires. For a second lieu.
tenant the salary Of $116 month,
particularly If he be stationed at some
eastern post, is forever falling short.
These young officers live in a mess
a real mess-these days when the
cost Of living is twice as much as il
used to be. and it never did f1t the
salary.
Friends Of young army officers
sometimes exert themselves to have
them detailed for duty in Washing.
ton: If he has money outside his pay
account this may not ruin him. II he
is dependent on his pay. such detail
is a tragedy.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

w vanities, fol-
W lies and eccentricities of states
men are brought trifle further into
the ltmeltght through the secretary Of
the senate's annual report. made pub
lie In congress-. It discloses the little
odds and ends of luxury and comfort
near senator's heart. when it can be
obtained at government expense.
From May 1 to June % there were
2s2 cases Of appoliharis splits fur.
n1shed the senate. costing $1,s56.
Taxicabs for taking senators home at
the close Of sessions cost $110. TWEEN
ty-s1x boxes Of lemons were used du-
ring the month Of July last year. They
cost more than sits. It required two
barrels Of granulated sugar. costing
1858. to sweeten them.
Five gallons of witchhazel cost
1926. One dozen bottles soda mint
and pepsfn tablets to cure Indigestion
were purchased for $44.20. Three
large bottles of bfomo settler were
worth s.. Nineteen dozen OF assorted
hair brushes cost 1920. Ten cases OF
soap were obtained for $27.60. TWEEN.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Calling Him to Earth.

Street orators who fling their mes.
sage wide on the city's unusympathetic
air are apt to strive more earnestly to
exhibit their own erudition than to
make claer their meaning to the pass
er-by who has paused to see what it
is all about.
One of this sort, after string
ing loosely a mass of words into sono-
rous sentences, paused in his cratic
fight of fancy, and modulating his
voice, said: Coming down from the
abstract to the concrete"
A practical sidewalk builder, who
knew more about his craft than he
did about the mysteries of political
economy, interrupted at this point:
"Get wise, my boy!" he cried. Get
wise! You're on the concrete now.
If you come down you will be on the
asphalt" Companion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

an acre or more Of land, a COW, some
sheep and few hens, and he makes
the most Of them. Butter and milk
and eggs keep the family from want.
and the wool from the sleeps back
provides the clothing.
All this means work for the wom-
en-, and right willingly do they go
about it. When they are not digging
up the peat to dry for fuel. they are
on the potato field. Early morning
finds them milking the COW or feeding
the hens; at night-fall they are bend
ing over the spinning wheel. In be-
tween times they are knitting
knitting you never see a Shetland
girl without her knitting. All the
world knows her beautiful work
scarves and spencers and soft Shet-
land shawls. But not all the world
knows of the labor entailed, Of the
washing and spinning and winding and
knitting. For one moment come to
Shetland and see the fisher-girl at
home on the peat isle. 1t is quiet and
dull and very cold. But the air is
beautifully clear and the Shetland
girls cheeks reflect the Transparency;
her figure responds to the healthy
glow. Very poor are the people
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

e OLD1ERS Of the regular army read
y Of the high cost Of living and
smile. It is not a matter Of particu-
lar interest to them, for the commits.
sary is bound to issue the regular
ration at regular intervals. regardless
of what the cost may be.
In the war department the situation
causes some concern, for 1t meAns 60
Ing before congress with plea for
more money for the army, incidentally
for funds to make up large and
growing deficiency now amounting to
SLIPS. 900.
Uncle Sans are the best-fed sol
diers in the world. The ration pro-
vided for them insures plenty of the
best Of food three times a day and the
army ration intelligently handled soon
produces a company fund, from the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Sad-Faced Swindler Haunts Funerals

I have q personal interest In your
dear huaband's death. As a matter
of fact. bear his very name. He
was my nanesake."
In the course Of the next half hour
he managed, In answering the kind
questions that were put to him, to dis
close the fact that he had only re-
Gently come from Germany, bringing
his wife and several children with
him, and that both he and they were
at present badly stranded and without
more than few cents for the next
meal.
Just then a woman among the as
sembled friends who had been trying
to place him looked up with a glance
of sudden recognition.
Excuse me, my dear sir" she said
tapping the sympathetic young man
on the shoulder. II am a little hard
Of hearing. What did you say your
| name was?"
The man Of infinite pity gently re-
peated the name Of the dead man.
"So?" exclaimed the woman in q
voice Of high pitch, foreboding a hys
.terical scream. And you are the
namesake Of my dear sainted hus
band, too, who died last year. Yes?'
Il don't understand you. my good
friend" protested the watery-eyed
young man, edging toward the door.
| "You ate your fill at my house
when we were sitting SILVA for my
poor husband" cried the woman
And you knew how to be his name
sake and swindle us out Of memoir
ial gift at that time, didn't you? And
now you como to be somebody else'f
namesake, with your wife and seven
children. and to try to dupe them
tool"
But he had gone.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

the flshergirl that wherever she goes
she takes her individuality with her.
From the Shetland fishing she may
pass to Aberdeen, to Fraserburgh, to
Scarborough and to Grimsby, than on
to Yarmouth and Lowestoft. But al
ways she is the Scotch fisher-girl:
pride OF race is in her blood, the grace
of forefathers in her heart. One can
never forget that they are people.
these f1sher-folk who go from fishing
to fishing, making food for the win
ter; they do not change color In tho
different dyes in which they dip. The
diamond comes up. dimmed, 1t may DO.
but still diamond.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

is very great privilege TO knO"
the Scotch fisher-girl, and only
very special introduction at Var
mouth will open the gate to a
somewhat exclusive land. Thought
less journalists and jealous photog
raphers have tried In vain to enter
We're not wild beasts to be stared
at," sent the photographer sorrowful-
ly away, and the journalist lost caste
for ever. -
Both the intruders mistook the peo-
pie with whom they had to deal. They
Judged the girls by their work. They
did not know-how could they?-that
not merely girls who can gut fish are
here. but whole community is rep
resented with all it's intellect it's tai
ent and its pride. Whole villages go
to the fishing from the Moray Firth
But they are the fsher-people, and
each member Of the family takes a
part in the industry. AS naturally as
duck takes to the water do the chill
dren turn to the fishing. It is a tradi-
ton. the mantle falling from Elijah's
shoulders. In the winter the girls
are engaged in mending the nets
which have been destroyed at the
f1shings during the year. Each man
may have half a mile OF nets to re-
pair, and the girls are experts at the
work They join heart and soul with
their fathers or brothers in the task
of preparing for the fishing. That is
what they live for. The talk in the
winter Is Of what has been at the
fishing, to be presently replaced by
what may be at the next.
Meanwhile their hands are busy, II
not with the nets, then with knitting,
for fathers and brothers and hus-
bands want thick hose and new jer-
seys; they themselves have soft, thick
stockings to replace, and probably new
jerseys for the fishing. Some of the
girls 60 to service, but not many. And
then it is only for the winter months.
At tho call Of the fishing, tradition re-
asserts itself; the fisher-girl is born
again. She may bind herself to do.
nestle service for q while, but blood
is thicker than water. Her "ain folk
are going. and nothing short of a pris.
on would keep her back.
There is story of a Highland girl
who was brought to London to serv.
ice. It was hoped that she would
adapt herself to circumstances. In
the morning crowd gathered round
the door. The Highland lassie was
| adapting circumstances to, herself
Clad In short gown and petticoat, with
bare feet, she was swilling the steps
A leopard cannot change its spots.
| Associated with the Scotch fisher
people are those from Shetland. Meet
ing at the Shetland fishing, which is
the first great fishing Of the year, the
Shetland men go forth with the boats
to earn a living for the winter; the
girls follow the herring, so they, too
may provide for the barren months
In the Shetland isles there is nothing
else for the people to do; they have
no other means Of making money
During the winter they live on the
earnings of the summer, with the hell
Of the farm produce which each cottal
can call his own. He possesses halt
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Maine STAGE Pronertles.

Miss Lucine Finch, who entertained
the Fortnightly club of Bath, request
ed the committee to have as stage
properties an old-fashioned chair,
table and candles. Her request was
complied with, the chair contributed
being 225 years old, the table more
than hundred years old, and the
brass candlestick nearly 40 old az tho
table.-Lewiston Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Always Busy.

Always Busy.
And you are really settlement
workers?" Intercepted the housewife
as she handed each Of the wanderers
wedge Of pie.
Yes. num-. responded the dusty
spokesman. with . low bow, 1--WE work
every settlement we come To-"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Lies Varied Interests.

Lies Varied Interests:
".The weathers rather bad. isn't tt
said the young woman.
Yes replied the nonchalant youth.
Lucky thing it is. Helps converse
ton. It would be deadly bore to go
on forever saying It's pleasant
day."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
How to Be Happy.


There are as many ways to be hap,
py as there are people in the world:
And the duration of human happiness
is as long and as short as human life.
But the best and most enduring hap.
piness Of all is that which is welded
to some sort Of philosophy, and the
key to all the philosophers is the hui
NOR sense. It is the humor sense
that saves us from ourselves by re-
vealing to us how little We are, and
of what small account in the cosmos
schere, however big we may seem to
ourselves or to one another So We
learn our own limitations and are con-
tent to abide within them; so we learn
the limitations of others, and are.
fain to be tolerant and charitable to.
ward them. So We learn that it is not
in art, or literature, or politics, in
wealth. or fame. or power, in the lust
of the eye or the delight Of the mind
or in any other Of those sounding alb
stractions, that we shall find the best
guerdon of life, but In the hearts Of
other men and women. like unto our
selves.-Edwin Pugh, in London T.
P.'s Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Dr.: Johnson's EIectioneerino.

q
Southwark was once the scene Of DR..
Johnson's electioneering energies. This
was In 1880, when Johnson's friend,
Ralph Thrale, was candidate for the di.
vision. DR.. johnson wrote Thrale's ad.
dress to he Sleators and on several 90.
casions went canvassing in company
with Mr.. Thrale.
One night, as Boswell records, an
excited burgess seized the doctors hat
and, slapping him on the back, ex.
claimed: All, Master Johnson, this ID
no time to be thinking about hats!s
mo, no, SIR" returned johnson, hats
are Of no use now, as you say, except
to throw up in the air and huzza with"
And selling his own hat again he
showed how the thing should be done.
Gazette
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
Alarming.

Alarming.
Were you very i'll !.
pretty sick, my boy.
"IIave consultation of doctors?s
Worse than that. There was d
consultation Of my creditors .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

Literal satisfaction.
Jane, 10 the dessert In nice ord
70 put on the table 2
Yes. ma: 81 apple Pic ORDER
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-11-07
At the orpheum.

The bill for this week at the Orpheum
is really the best offering for several
weeks. Each act goes with rush and
the audience was convulsed from start
to finish. Even the pictures were hum
orious enough to call forth audible
laughter.
The headliners are the Marks Bros.
& Co., in the slxit, Fun In Hi Skooi".
This turn requires seven people and is
a succession of reel laugh provoking
situations and pleasing songs. The act
was encored again and again by the
audience.
Sam Rowly, who Is we'll known to
Fargo theatre goers, is the original lit
tie man with the big voice. He sings
his own songs and was well received
by the audience last evening.
"The Magnetic Mirthmakers" is the
title of a comedy act of a high order,
which has just been imported direct
from New York and is very cleverly
staged by Claude and Emoise Summers
Frint George and company in "A
Bootblacks Dream" is a scream and
kept the audience in an uproar last
night. He is the Hello Bill comedian
and his talk on Elks is good. All good
Elks should hear what Frint George
has to say.
The motion pictures are OF the usual
high-cla this week and the Orpheum
orchestra renders an excellent pro-
gramme.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-11-07
FORM EQUIIY SOCIETY
New Society Of Equity Started in City
Yesterday and Will Affiliate
With State Organization.

A branch Of the American Society Of
Equity was formed at the commercial
club rooms late yesterday afternoon
which will be affiliated with the state
organization and will send delegates
to the convention OF that body, which
will be held in Bismarck this winter.
The formation OF the society means
a great deal in the way Of education
for the North Dakota farmers, grain
buyers and business men in general.
The plan inaugurated by the new Far
go branch is to bring men Of prom-
inence both from this country and
abroad who have given the question Of
farming and agriculture much study
The next meeting OF the society will
be held Nov. 15, at which time dele
gates will be elected to the state meet
ing at Bismarck. The officers OF the
new Fargo branch OF the society are:
President--J. b. Folsom.
vice president--H. J. Hagen
Secretary--A A. Trovaten.
Treasurer-W G. Macfadden.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-11-07
TOO MANY ALIASES;
He Is SENTENCED
SMITH SAID HE CARRIED uNus-
uAL AMOUNT OF NAMES FOR
CONVENIENCE SAKE = JUDGE
GIVES HIM SIXTEEN DAYS FOR
CONVENIENCE SAKE.

small man with big collection OF
names, one OF which was Jesse Smith.
pleaded guilty to the charge of vaR-
rancy before Judge Miller in the police
magistrate court this morning.
1T don't seem to help you, Smith. to
be lenient with you. You travel around
the country with phoney collection
of fake names and a beautiful bunch
of skeleton keys. You have been up
and hanging around the streets ali
night ever since you have been in
town. What do you do UP all night?''
asked the Judge. II have only been
here four days, and two nights play
ed pool replied the prisoner.
The court imposed a fine OF $40 and
in default OF same Smith was remand
ed to the city jail for sixteen days at
hard labor.
Smith was up before the court few
months ago for stealing an overcoat
from a friend with who he was sleep
ing.
''Williams, don't know what to do
with you. You are lighting the booze
and you have quit your job, and now
your wife files a complaint for your
arrest on the charge Of being drunk
and abusing your family. What Is
your plea to this charge2" asked the
Judge.
II guess that / am guilty" answered
the prisoner.
ITO get you well sobered up VIII
liams, am going to give you gentle
reminder Of sixteen days, and when
YOU get out hope you will straighten
,lp and be a man. said the court.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-11-07
IN HEALTH
DR.. n. 3. Smith viii Speak At Next
Meeting OF Polytechnic So
eiety Tomorrow Night.

The Polytechnic society OF the agri-
cultural college will hold it's
regular meeting tomorrow evening. A
very interesting programme has been
arranged and it is hoped that every
member Will be present to take adj
vantage Of the paper that win be
read.
DR.. III. B. Smith, city health officer,
will have the leading paper on the
evenings programme. His subject
will be Problems in Public Health,
which Is expected to be very fine.
DIR. Smith has given much time to
the study OF public health officer
problems in municipalities since he
has been health officer Of Fargo SO
that his effort tomorrow evening win
be something that everyone interested
in public sanitary conditions will want
to hear.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-11-07
TOWN CRIERS TO
MEET TONIGHT
PAPER OF WELL KNOWN ADVER-
TlslNG MAN WILL BE READ BY
SOMEONE ELSE AT TOWN
cRIERs' MEETING TONIGHT
LUNCHEON TO BE SERVED.

AS previously announced in The
Forum the Town Criers will hold a
meeting this evening In the CONNER
cial club rooms, which win be preceded
by luncheon at $50 o'clock. There
will be thirty covers laid at the dinner
and the meeting will be a well attend
ed one.
Owing to the impossibility Of Will
liam Bailey Of Minneapolis, the well
known twin city advertising man, to
be here in person, the club win still
have the benefit OF his paper. which
has been sent on by Mr.. Bailey and will
be read by someone else. Mr.. Bailey
was to have appeared himself but cir
cumstance arose which made it i'm
possible for him to be present.
After the paper, the plan will be
launched which is expected to save the
business man OF Fargo thousands OF
dollars. This scheme is a movement
toward the elimination of the graft and
fake advertisement schemes which are
frequently foated in every city, and
Fargo has had it's share. This dis
cussion will follow criticism Of de-
partment store advertisements in the
newspapers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-11-07
ANOTHER REVIVAL ON
EvanaeIistie Meeeinss at the Norwe-
alan Baptist Church Began Last
Nlaht AusplcIously.

The Norwegian Baptists of the city
have for some time contemplated to
hold a series Of revival services and
prayers have been offN-ed earnestly
that God would gracio Aly visit his
people in this city.
Pastors L. J. Anderson and O. M.
Jorganson had been requested to as
sist the church and It's pastor in this
effort Rev. Mr.. Anderson used TO
serve in this church as its pastor
seventeen years ago and ts well known
in Fargo and North Dakota as an as-
gressive earnest worker, outspoken
on the issues pregnant with the veal
or woe OF mankind. Pastor Jorgenson
ia the new under-shepherd at valley
city, with heart and soul In the work.
"Much ID expected from God In these
services and judging from the large
audience and its earnest expectant
attitude at the opening meeting last
night 1t is evident that we stand at
the threshold of spiritual awaken
ing said one OF the workers today.
sRev. Mr.. Anderson spoke on Nehemi-
a.h l.. Nehemiail's Prayer for Jerusa-
lern'g Restoration, touching on the
need OF realizing our true ambition, to
plead for Gods pardon and through
victory in prayer conquer all along
the line
.Tt is expected that the Swedish
Baptists and their good pastor viii
Join in these meetings TO the further
ance OF Gods cause among the Scan
dinavian people.
~AIl who can possibly attend these
m aatfr4ea chn41Id not miss the OppoT-
tunity. Pastor Jorgenson is expected
today and win participate in the meet
ings."