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are frequently
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away in hurry.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
AMUSING SICK CHILDREN.
Suggestions Which May Be Helpful
to Weary Mothers and
Attendants.

Those who have had the care of sick
child through long, weary weeks of a
slow recovery will understand why
most mothers are glad of suggestions
which may help to pass the hours pleas
antly and profitably, and yet not tax the
little invalid beyond his strength, says
Woman's Home Companion.
In many of the current magazines are
well-printed reproductions of works of
art. These may be utilized by an older
child in making pretty ornaments for
the walls of the nursery. A long strip of
heavy paper with all sorts and kinds OF
animals is not only interesting, but in
structive; or yard Of cats or dogs alone
will make surprising display. A mar
gin around each picture adds much to
the effectiveness. Cartridge-paper may
be bought by the yard, and is especially
pretty in red or green to use for back
ground.
Whatever is given child for amuse-
ment should require as little mental
strain as possible, and the materials
should be of light weight. If the child
becomes tired of one occupation, try
something different, and under no con-
dition let him realize that you are try
ing to amuse him for the purpose of
keeping him quiet; for If he finds out
that the Joy Is not yours as we'll as his,
much of his pleasure will be lost.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
DISTEMPER IN CATTLE.
Checked Readily and . Cure
Effected.

The first symptom of cattle distem-
per usually noticed is swelling Of the
throat, especially the throat glandR
1t Is more common with young ami
mails than older ones, but may attack
cattle at any age. The swelling comes
suddenly, often within 24 hours, and
Is generally severe. 1t is preceded by
discharges from the eyes and nose.
accompanied with some fever. The
swelling gradually increases in size
until an abscess containing thick yei-
low pus forms. Often two OF three
OF these assesses form about. the
throat, on the side of the head, or
along on the jaw. The distemper ap-
pears to be somewhat contagious, but
not especially so. If taken early, cat
tie distemper may be relieved ordi-
narily by rubbing the parts thorough
~ two or three times daily with a 1ini-
ment made with equal parts of tur-
pent1ne, kerosene oil and alcoholic
tlncture of camphor. This rubbing
should be kept up faithfully until the
swelling is entirely scattered. If,
however, the swelling progresses too
far, and assesses form, they should
be opened with a lancet, and the open
ing we'll washed out twice day with
soap suds, made of CASTLE soap and
warm water. Let it partially dry, and
then apply freely solution of blue
vitriol of the strength of a tablespoon
ful of vitriol dissolved in half a pint
OF water. Continue this process until
cure is entirely effected.-T. E. Rich
ey, in Epitomist.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
CAUSE OF BAD SPELLING.
Repetition the Only Secret of Learn
ing to Spell for Persons with
Average Memories.

. Probably 1t is a mistake to say that
any person with an average memory
cannot learn to spell. AS there is a
lack of analogy in the spelling Of
words, learning to spell is chiefly a
matter of memory. Repetition is the
only secret about it, says the Philadel-
phia Record. There are some aids, but
1t is the words to which there is no
guide which are the common source
of trouble. Persons who do not spell
we'll have simply neglected the study
of orthography and are not entitled to
sympathy. Operators of typewriting
machines who have considered them
selves the victims of a defective or
biographical memory have often be-
come good spoilers through practice.
In a vast proportion of cases bad
spelling may be traced to- wrong pro-
nunciation, which is even more fire.
quent than is wrong spelling. Prob
ably the modern methods of instruction
have something to do with the number
of bad spoilers among fairly educated
people. The old spelling-bee system
insured repetition. In recent years the
writing of the spelling lesson has in
many schools taken the place of the
oral system. The men and women who
had gone through the district school Of
half century or more ago were al
most invariably good spoilers. If, as
the Evanston councilmen maintain,
spelling be gift, it is apparent that
it is not bestowed on man as literally
as formerly.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09

Washington Star. Celery has come
under the ban of the doctors, who say
that it Is equally we'll adapted to trans
mitting the poisonous elements of the
soil and carrying the germs Of typhoid.
The disease can be acquired only by
introducing the microbes into the sys-
TEN in food or drink, and for that rea-
son advice against certain kinds of food
is. always likely to be regarded. But
to what extent this may be carried is
well understood by the proprietor of
one hotel, who has seen oysters during
the past three weeks disappear almost
entirely from the orders Of his guests.
Some weeks ago q well-known man died
Of typhoid fever. He had lived at q;
large hotel, and the report went about
that he had got his illness there. What
ever you do, don't eat oysters at that
hotel was the advice that one friend
was giving another, based on the belief
that this man had died ola disease con-
tracted in the hotel dining room, where
the chances were immensely In favor
of his having got the fever somewhere
else. s, II ss S5 re 5s .s
M II they keepzon there will be nothing,
left for ms to eat except tsh and fritz
ters, and the latter will probably be cut
|sot soon and pills substituted
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
CON TRUCTION OF DRAINS.
Most Important Thing IL to Get the
Proper Grade Line for Lay
ing the Tile.

"A stream of water at bottom Of 4
ditch is better index for grading ditch
than a level" This statement by one
who wrote on drainage matters takes
us back to primitive methods when
guesswork and waste of energy pre-
vailed. To wait for wet time in order
to have water to level by would be to in
vite corresponding disadvantages. To
work in the mud and water with the
sticky earth clinging to the tools is
something to be avoided if possible. AS
to the grade line made by digging after
water it will be uneven, and, although
it may do where there is plenty of fall,
it is not at all to be depended upon when
one is working within close limits.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09

wilderness of factories, covering acres
of ground, and were shown the whole
process of manufacture. And there
were powder factories and other insti-
tutions not far away which we had no
time to visit. That was, perhaps, the
most significant experience of all. You
may have seen gun factories before, but
have you seen place turning out
great guns by the dozen, and machine
guns by the hundred, perfect in design
and construction, run, from coolie to
head mandarin, entirely by Chinese, and
with only a couple of Englishmen en-
gagged solely in consultative supervision? I?
Have you seen a roomful OF Chinese
draughtsmen and designers in pigtails
and blue gowns solemnly, ,stolidly and
iassiduously getting out the drawings for
new gun? It is a sight that furnishes
food for thought. And as you leave
you ask yourself the question: II these
men can make guns, why may they not
work them some day. y ~ b E.' z: -. s.5
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09

Every practical ditcher knows, who has
attempted to ''grade himself" from
stake to stake by water in the bottom
of the ditch, that he will rise too fast
in those cases where the engineer has
found it necessary to fix a grade verg
Ing towards the least fall allowable
Many drains are put in nowaday with
small fall as one inch per 100 feet.
small fall like this often saves great ex.
pense in digging or it may be that it is
not possible to get more. Digging such
bitches by water in the bottom would
be wholly impracticable and it is only
by the help of an experienced engineer
with a good level that successful re-
suits can be assured. He will full cases
the drainage engineer alone is able to
tell whether system of drainage is pos
sible. He will adjust the grades, mark
the cuts on each stake and put the work
in such a shape that the work can be
executed property either with contract
or day labor.
Even in cases where there is plenty of
fall it will be economy to have a ditch
uniform grade. Digging beneath the
grade line in places is not only a waste
of work but in cases will cause injury
to the successful operation of the fin
ished drain by causing accumulation of
silt. etc. Having the level stakes set
with the cuts given for each place the
problem remaining is to get a uniformly
finished bottom from one stake to the
next. The best method of accomplishing
this is to set up targets at two or better
three stakes on straight course to be
ditched. The target consists of a ver-
tical pole set at the stake alongside the
ditch with horizontal arm movable up
and down the pole and fastened at any
point by thumb screw. Fix the hori-
zontal arms of the targets at uniform
distance above the established grade
line Of the ditch, say six feet. Then the
operator with a six-foot pole in his
hands can really determine the proper
depth to dig at any point by sighting
along the targets. Suppose at stake No.
the required cut is 2.6 feet, at No. 6
the cut is 81 feet, at No. 10 it is 2.S feet,
then the targets will set above the sur
face of the ground at the respective sta
tion named 3.4 feet, 2.9 feet and 80 feet.
The three targets will then indicate a
line parallel to and six feet above the re-
quired bottom of the ditch.-Grant
Davis, in Royal New Yorker.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
his fingers, and letting the stun winnow
through his hand. 3 ~. :

his fingers, and letting the stun winnow
through his hand. FL -: :
Suddenly, with an ejaculation of
pleasure and triumph, he dropped his
weapon and began to pick up pebbles
mere and there. Curious dirty-looking
stones they were, grayish white and
rusty, but having strange fiery CLEANS
in their depths.
With feverish haste he produced q
Stout canvas bag, holding perhaps
quart, tied with leathern thongs,
Greedily he continued his quest, pick
ing up stones apparently at hap-haz-
ard, but really with the quick selection
OF the expert. Some of them were
hardly bigger than a pea, many others
were as large as marble or a hazel
nut, a few even larger.
Now, it Is blessed peculiarity of
precious stones, cut or uncut, rough or
polished, set or unset, that a fortune
may be contained in one very small
compass. And although mere size does
not always count in assessing the value
or stone, yet those which our pros
pector had gath cred might be expected
to be worth anywhere from hundred
to thousand pounds apiece. For in
Knocking about the diamond fields he
had become something of a connoisseur,
and In picking over this new field he
had with quick decision selected only
the finest specimens, albeit only in the
rough.
The whole Claim" when properly
exploited, would doubtless prove to be
very rich, and of this claim he was
OF course the owner by right of dis
covery, in which the drastic mining
laws of the colony would jealously pro-
tect him.
An hour sufficed to fill the bag, the
mouth of which he quickly fastened
and flung it on the sand. Then, raising
his clenched fists towards the heavens,
cried in voice hoarse with excitement
and triumph:
"At last! At last"
With a grim smile lifting the
corners of his tawny mustache he gave
the bag kick and thus apostrophized
it's contents:
There you are, my beauties! This
is my claim, and I'm one of the richest
men in South Africa!"
For that dirty canvas bag held twice
q double handful of diamonds, and the
claim would be worth no man could
say how much. Richard Dysart's quest
was ended; he had found a virgin de-
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

White washing in winter helps to keep
away roup and other diseases.
A damp, dark house is the best dis
ease breeder that can be made.
Some poultry raisers succeed better
than others, and it isn't luck, either.
Nothing brings the ready money to
the home like the product of the hen.
The drinking vessels should be thor
oughly scalded at least once week.
The successful poultryman is very
good fellow. If he was not he would
be doing something else.
Do not allow birds that have died Of
disease to lie around the place. Bury
them deeply or burn them at once.
Eggs at 25 cents dozen are cheaper
than beef steak at present prices. Be-
sides that they are more healthful.-
Commercial Poultry.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
SHELTER FOR STOCK.
Plan Adopted by a Tennessee Farmer
Which Seems Both Plausible
and Economical.

I shelter all kinds of stock nicely in
or near my barn. Plan of stables and
pastures is as shown. Six horses
have stalls as shown, grain managers
siding together, straight trough an
swering for hay. Each stall has a
door opening into fenced yard, each
end of which has gate, as shown.
The opened gate is to the horse run.
The roadway from the street and
residence runs down to the open gate.
through the fenced yard to the hall.
To the left of the hall is a stairway;
to the right passage. In front is a
feed box with wheels on track, which
is pushed from crib at opposite end
-Four cow tie-ups are shown, managers
and gutter. A door opens in rear to
fenced Enclosures or to pasture and
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
THREE MEALS A DAY.
Relation Between 4 Nations Food
Bills and Its Commerce Shown
by Statistics.

Statistics have been collected to show
that the measure of the prosperity of
a country is the amount of food con-
sumed by it's inhabitants-in other
words, that diet and commerce 60 hand
in hand. The countries which consume
the largest amount of food and drink per
capita are the countries which have the
largest surplus for export to other
lands; the countries which are abstemi-
Gus or moderate in their consumption
OF food and drink have little surplus to
send away, says the New York Sun.
The average cost of food per capita
In the United States is 60 cents a day;
the United States stands at the head Of
exporting countries with an average Of
81. .250, 100000 in year.
The average consumption of food and
drink in England is so cents per capita,
and England stands second on the list
OF exporting countries. Germany is the
third with an export trade of more than
$1,000 100000, and 45 cents a day the
average per capita spent for food and
drink (beer included).
France has an export trade of $780,
100000 year and the average expense
to each inhabitant for food and drink
Is 40 cents day. Russia, with an ex-
port trade of s375,OOO,OO0, expends 20
cents day on food and drink per capita,
and Italy with s275,0Oo,0OO of annual
exports, spends Is cents day, in maco-
roni, wine and other articles of diet.
All of which convinces statisticians
who have unearthed this notion of the
relation of productiveness to diet that
three meals day for each inhabitant"
Is the open door to world power in COM
merce. manufactures and the surplus
products of fertile soil.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
Keep q Few Guinea Hens,

Probably it is not every farmer who
knows the ability guinea hen has to
quell disturbances and break up quar-
rels that may end in fights. We have
witnessed several such combative oc-
casions, and closely watched with inter-
est the guineas as little peacemakers.
1t has occurred even among the great
yellow Tipped white Pekin ducks, who
are themselves non-combative. The lit
tie glineas are sharp watchmen, being
wide awake and on the qui-vive for
strangers, or flying poultry enemies;
they give alarms early and In due time
for vagrants to escape. Farmers will
do well to watch the shy guineas, and
give them trial for their good quail
tiles. Their tiny eggs are rich and
nutty, providing they can be found
Prairie Farmer.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
Teeth and Skull of PiRa.

According to Mr.. Schwartzkopf, of
the Minnesota station, the order OF
succession of teeth in our precocious
pigs runs the same as in the primitive
hog. The times when the teeth appear
are variable, according to race, feed
ing and health. The same breeds,
raised under the same conditions, will
show the same appearance. The form
of the skull depends upon nutrition,
health, and more or less employment
of certain muscles of the head and
neck. Skulls of poorly nourished pigs
ars long and more slender than from
those well nourished. Pigs that are
prevented from roofing will acquire a
short, high and rounded head, while
those that are forced to root to Sc
cure portion of their food Will de-
velop long and slender form Of head.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
GUN-MAKING IN CHINA.
Every Form of Munition of War, from
Rifles to Heavy Artillery,
Made by Natives.

A correspondent Of the Lahore Civil
and Military Gazette visited one of the
Chinese arsenals and thus put down his
impressions: Finally we were taken,
among other places, to the great Chi
nese arsenal some way beyond treaty
limits, where every form of munition of
war, from rifles to Aston guns, was be-
ing made. We wandered through
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
Preparing Land for Corn,

it is better to prepare the ground In
the fall. Select field that has had
a crop on it, gang plow it first and
work it down fine, and leave it until
fall. Then plow it again and leave
until spring, when it should be cult
waited and narrowed. In winter haul
out manure and spread It, putting on
the ground about ten or 15 tons to the
acre. It may now be plowed and made
ready for planting Edward Curtis, in
Farmers' Review.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
Some Uses of olive OIL.

A tablespoonful Of olive-oil day,
taken internally, will help liver trouble
md Indigestion. It is also healing for
throat or stomach catarrh. Serve it
frequently in salad-dressings, where it
will be both appetizer and medicine. For
severe internal disorders or emaciated
and rundown condition Of the body, rub
the patient every morning for 20 minutes
with the oil, then with bath-towel; at
night rub the spine for ten minutes, and
in two months you will see great i'm
provement. Mixed with quinine, then
rubbed on the chest and back, it pre-
vents cold; mixed with camphor, then
applied to the throat, 1t cures soreness;
mixed with kerosene and turpentine,
then used on the throat and chest, it re-
lieves the most obstinate cough. Heated
and applied to the bowels, it helps con-
stipation. Try it for chapped hands and
roughened or burned 81 n. Before put
ting away the stove, rub the nickel parts
with, the oil, also the gasoline-oven or
other sheet-iron, and you will see no
rust.-Woman's Home Companion. "
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
New Form of Hog Cholera

A form Of this disease, not caused by
germs, and which cannot be distin-
guished from the true hog cholera, has
been discovered in Iowa Animals
catch it by coming into contact with
thosewhich are diseased. It takes about
seven days after exposure for it to de-
velop, and it is frequently fatal in
about seven days more. This particu-
lar form of hog cholera may be pre-
vented by the same means which are
effective in dealing with the ordinary
form of the disease isolation OF
sick animals and disinfection of all in
fected lots with carbolic acid and lime.
Farm and Home. ~.
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09


post of those precious white stones,
for which, not two hundred miles
away, in Kimberly, an army of white
men and Kaffir slaves were madly tear
ing out the bowels of the continent.
Dysart picked up the bag, walked to
where he had thrown down his Win
chester, and turned his face towards
camp. A distant rifle shot rang out at
that instant and apprised him that Joey
had probably brought down their
supper.
"Confound the fellow!" he muttered.
81 wish he hadn't fired the gun!"
The sun had disappered below the
hills to the westward, and in less than
a quarter of an hour it would be dark.
Coming in sight of camp, he dis
covered Joey in the act of skinning
and cutting up young buck, while
the other boy was tending cheerful
fire built of drift wood left high and
dry on the river bank.
Flinging himself down by the fire,
the precious bag by his side, Dysart
removed his helmet, barring his white
forehead to the cooling night-breeze,
which was even now briskly tanning
the fire.
AS he sat there, plans for the future
came trooping through his brain. Now
he could go home to England. The
weary years of wandering, hardship,
and ill-luck were all behind him. He
saw himself taking his proper place
once more among his fellows, wealthy
beyond the most sanguine dreams of
ambition or avarice. No more sleeping
out on the veldt, frozen by night and
roasted by day-for your African des-
ert, even within 20 degrees of the
equator, is as cold as Labrador between
sunset and sunrise. There was a
gentleman's estate, good society, and
pleasures innumerable at the end of
the journey!
And a wife, perhaps-the queenly
Marcia Churchill.
They had laughed at him in Kim
diamond country away off to the north
east, and no one had faith enough in
his scheme, based on story heard
from an old Kaffir, to lend him a paltry
100 pounds for an outfit. Well, the
laugh was his now! He would be q
diamond king!
Through all his visions of the past
with its cruel hardships, and OF the
future with it's golden triumphs, there
f1oated fair face-a woman's face
crowned with an aureole of dusky hair,
framing a pair of steadfast gray eyes
that could look man through and
through, and forever Danish falsehood
and guile. ,.... :. ..r r... ,.:.. =.
But perhaps, she had not waited!
All, In that case-and with a sudden
tightening of the chest Dysart half
rose to his feet, showing himself full
in the ruddy glare Of the fire:
AS If In answer to the cruel thought,
from out Of the darkness across the
narrow stream there was an angry spat
of fame, q sharp report, and with q
groan Richard sank back as though
lifeless, shot through the body!
"a sound of hurried and scrambling
footsteps, a sudden plashing in the
shallow water, and then there appeared
out of the darkness whence the. shot
had come the form Of a man running
lswiftly. He made straight for the 81
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
Quick Biscuits.

{. To; one quart of sifted pastry flour
add five level teaspoons Of baking
powder and one level teaspoon of salt
and sift again. Rub in two level table,
spoons of butter and mix with one cup.
of milk, shape into biscuits and put
into q bnttered pan. Bake about 30
minutes. Make the biscuits very.
ismal Detroit Free Press
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
We Take More Than Half..

"a The United States uses more than
fiye-eighths OF the diamond output of
the world. In two years the total ad-
vance on small stones has been &c rr
cent and on large stones 26 per cent;
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09

+. Really sound horses Of good and
kind disposition are scarce. If we get
one we ought to stick to it as long
/ as the animal is able to work &
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09
WE CAN'T EAT CELERY NOW.
Doctors Have Cut on Another Article
fDfet-Vegetable Said to Garry
Typhoid Germs.

Now the physicians are said to have
forbidden another relish nearly as pop
ular as oysters at this time, says the
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09

! Il
lent figure Of his victim, grabbed the
bag of diamonds lying by his side, and
vanished in the blackness whence he
had come.
A life-tragedy in the space of two
hundred ticks of the watch!
The two Kaffir boys, startled by the
shot, saw only the silent form of the
"baas" and the swiftly moving appari-
ton that seemed to swoop down upon
them out of the African night.
With a simultaneous yell they
dropped their tasks and fed into the
surrounding blackness. Richard Dy-
sart was left alone-dying, perhaps
dead-alone on the veldt, treacherously
and cruelty robbed of his hard-won
treasure!
Willmar tribune., 1903-12-09


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