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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Rhode Island prohibitionists have
nominated Frederick T. Jencks, OF Bar
rington. for governor.
Seventy-fve white men in Alabama
have been disfranchised because they
did not pay the 81 tax.
Several members of the cabinet, in
Guiding Secretaries Shaw, Moody and
Wilson, will participate in the political
campaigns progressing in the several
states.
N. w. Spaulding, subtreasurer of the
United States mint under President
Hayes, died in New Britain, Conn.,, aged
"A years.
Mayor Low, of New York, in accept
ing fusionist denomination, praised
Comptroller CIRCUITS record, but scored
him for accepting a nomination from
Tammany.
Richard Henry Savage, the author and
soldier, died in Roosevelt hospital, New
York city, as the result of injuries re-
cefved on October 8, when he was run
over by a wagon.
Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of the
famous evangelist, died at her home in
East Mortified, Mass.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw
opened the republican campaign in Ohio
at Akron and was heard by big crowd.
/ Senator Allison made his first speech
in the Iowa campaign and devoted a
large part of his address to trusts and
the financial problems of the nation.
FOREIGN.
Russia has notified China that she will
not evacuate Manchuria unless all her
demands are complied with. and war
may follow. c* 5 ~* : e.
Joseph Chamberlain in an address at
Greenock declared agriculture in Great
Britain practically was destroyed and
the silk and sugar trade gone IT,.
A new publication by Ian Maclaren de-
clares the world is on the verge of tho
greatest religious revival since the
days when Rome succumbed to the teach
ings Of Christ in the first century. 49, Z
A commercial treaty between the
United States and China has been signed
at Shanghai, opening the ports of Muk-
den and .Antung in Manchuria regardless
Of Russia's evacuation. H. sI.$ 4. s G
"a plot to smuggle Chinese coolies into
the Philippines by Disgusting them as
merchants was discovered at 81 Manila
! through the arrest Of John Miller. ex-
immigration inspector.
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-17
No Sign Of Hostilities.

washington, Oct. 14.-At the cabinet
meeting Tuesday Secretary Hay spoke
Of information he had received as to the
situation in the far east, and it was
his opinion that there was no immediate
Indication Of hostilities between Russia
and Japan. He intimated that negotia-
!. ttons are in progress between the two
countries which seem likely to result
hNorably for peacs.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
SALTPETER FOR STUMPS.
Massachusetts Experiment Station
Declares It's Use to He Costly
and Not Effective.

A correspondent in one of our agri-
cultural papers reports that he had
found it possible to destroy stumps in
the following manner:
A hole one or two inches in diameter,
according to the size of the tree, and
IS inches deep is to be bored in the
stump Into this put from one and one
half to two ounces of saltpeter, fill with
water and plug tightly. Six months
later put into the same hole about one
gill of kerosene oil and set fire to it.
The stump will shoulder away without
blazing, even down 70 every part of the
roots, leaving nothing but ashes.
On November H. 1895, so stumps of
trees cut in 1894. including maple, hick-
ory, hemlock, white pine, yellow birch
and elm, were bored according to d.
rections. On December IL saltpeter
and water were put in the holes, ac-
cording to directions, and the holes
During July, 1896, the plugs
were removed, the holes were filed
with kerosene and an attempt made to
burn the stumps. 1t was found that
not even the oil would burn. Portions
of the stumps were left until June, 1897.
when another attempt was made to
burn them, using low test Oil, called
paraffine gas oil. The stumps are still
In the field. The method has been
given a thorough trial, but must be re-
garded as complete failure.-Report
OF Massachusetts, Experiment Station.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
POLITICS IN PORTO RICO.
Feeling Runs So High That Members
of Opposing Parties Refuse
to Speak.

Politics is not so much question of
principle as of human nature. Men are
divided into political camps not exact
Iy because they have different ways of
looking at public questions, but because
combativeness and mutual opposition
are natural to them. If there are no real
questions to contend about they invent
them, and strife may wax just as hot
over those Fictitious issues as over
controversy involving the most impor-
tant principles of policy, says the Mex
lean Herald.
These facts are illustrated just now
in Porto Rico. Political feeling runs so
high that persons belonging to opposite
parties do not speak to one another, and,
when they have to meet on public occa-
sions, can with difficulty be prevented
from coming into collision. What is the
difference between them? A name and
nothing more. Stop! There is another
difference, but not one of political prin-
,iples; 1t is which Of the two shall hold
certain offices and draw certain salaries.
These differences among the better
educated in the island extend down to
the lower classes, who have the vaguest
idea of political issues of any sort, but
who. on account of their ignorance. are
easily impressed and made to believe
that their adversaries are bad lot.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
IgOrotte Criminals.

Capt c. E. Nathorst, chief of con-
stabulary in Lepanto-Bontoc, in a re-
port to the war department tells the
methods Of warfare practiced by the
Philippine head hunters. Capt. Nathorst
headed an expedition in search of five
Igorotte criminals. The way led through
dense forests, and as they approached
Barlig they encountered thousands of
sharpened bamboo sticks which thesav
ages had stuck in the ground at an angle
of As degrees. The sticks were thickest
where the trails were down hill. They
were hidden in the thick grass, and the
feet and legs of the officers were badly
lacerated. The head hunters fed and
the town was burned, while the savages
threw spears at the soldiers, but with
out result. Capt. Nathorst got his little
force out with much difficulty, for the
natives studded all the trails with more
of the sharpened sticks-Washingt
Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
Shops d Good Fishing Dog.

Abram Deyo went fishing the other
day in Butternut creek, Ulster county,
N. Y. He took his dog Shep with him.
He fished with two poles, setting one
by sticking its butt into the bank, while
he handled the other The dog sat near
the set pole, watching it. Presently he
gave sharp bark, and his master, who
was fishing some distance away, looked
around and saw that there was vigor-
GUS pull on the line. Before he could
get to it the fish had yanked the pole
out Of the bank and was swimming Off
with it down the creek The dog
jumped into the stream and swan after
the pole. He overlook it, seized it in
his teeth, brought it ashore and kept
right on going until he had hauled out
the fish. which proved to be three
pound eel --.f
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
WIRE FENCE STRETCHER.
II Does the Work for which 1t In In.
tended Better Than Many
Patented Devices.

The absolute necessity of properly
stretching wire fence when 1t is built
In order to preserve its life and useful
ness is well known by any one who has
used much Of such fence, and If this
part Is well done and durable anchor
posts are we'll set and braced it settles a
great ways the wire fence problem.
During the past season we had occasion
to stretch up number of rods of coiled
steel wire to be woven into fencing
upon the posts.
Everything went well with the stretch
ing on short lengths of not over 20
rods, but when we got onto longer
stretches, our patent machine failed to
take the kink out of the wire and give
it the proper tension so we rugged out 4
stretcher of our own pattern that gave
us such good service that we have re-
produced it, and give it for what it is
worth. We took good sound 2x4 oak
scantling Is feet in length, sawed it in
two in the middle, equal lengths. Out
OF these two pieces we cut the two up
rights OF the stretcher. Figure. L.
making them six feet long. The
two short pieces left were sawed
16 inches long and set into gains
In the uprights and bolted fast.
AS shown in the illustration inch holes
were bored to correspond in the upright
bars, the holes in the right bar being
sawed out to admit and remove the
crank shaft, for various heighths of wire
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
HEAD-FAITE; HEART-FAITH.
The Latter Is What Gives Efficiency
Brightness and Bloom to
Character.

Faith, the great essential Of salvation
and union with God, includes both head
and heart Faith Of the head may exist
without that of the heart. The devils
have it and tremble. But heart-faith,
says Bishop H. w. Warren, goes far be-
yond. 1t may build on head-faith for, a
foundation, but foundation is an abor-
ton without the, superstructure.
Heart-faith is spiritual perception Of
the invisible realities Of religion. Faith
is the giving of substance to things hoped
for, the test of the things not seen. II
ventures on Gods side when probable
fties are equal, on the guarantee of some
thing within, which makesthet thing true
because loved" How much more is re-
ceived from statement of a wife or child
beloved than from the same statement of
Herodotus or Pliny So credence of
statements from God loved with all the
heart. soul and might, means more than
acceptance of the same statements of
God unloved
This distinction began to be preached
by Moses: "If thou turn unto thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul. -
Deut. 30:10) And this word" is
quoted by Paul: IF thou shalt believe
in thy heart II for with the heart
man believeth unto Righteousness. :"
(Romans 10: 9-10.) -ss
We marvel to find these fine metaphys-
ical distinctions away back in what we
are wont to esteem the beginnings of
thought. The grand Shima that was
meant to be taught to every Jewish child
thus Disseminated: Hear, O Israel;
the Lord our God Is one Lord, and thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul and with all
thy might" Paul perpetuates the dis
tinction. Il pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved blame
less" .q-.t
1t is not strange that God seeks the
whole of His children. since He gives the
whole of Himself to them "All things
are yours, things present, or things to
come"
We often hear the recitation of the
magnificent credo by thousands. To their
hearty and thorough head-faith in the
theological propositions. how we wish a
tender and loving heart-faith could be
added.
This is to be wished because it adds
so much efficiency, brightness and bloom
to character. A rose is beautiful to the
eye. Besides that, it is atmosphered afar
with delicious fragrance. Besides that,
some roses are freighted more previously
by being made the expression of one
hearts love for another So men may be
as pure as diamond strong as steel but
heart-faith atmospheres them with so
much love that it fills all space and all
time, for all men and for God besides.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09

An inch rope 20 feet long is attached
to the inner end of the shaft, and
good solid hook fastened into the other
cnd OF the rope is brought back and
hooked over the shaft just inside the
crank. A common hay rope pulley is
placed upon the rope, and to this pulley
IS attached wire clamp secured at our
hardware store. Two hooks of heavy
rod iron were fashioned after the pat
tern at a, with threads cut and nuts
attached. These hooks are buried to
the cross pieces and hook around anchor
post.
II posts are very large log chain can
be wrapped about the post and the hooks
attached to the chain. Also If a wire
clamp can not be secured hook similar
to the one on the end of the rope could
be substituted. In this case false post
and brace could be put in temporarily
back of the anchor post and the stretch
er lie hooked to this post, loop being
made in the end of the wire to fasten the
hook into. This would necessitate more
le Dor, but would do as well, as the wire
would be pulled past the anchor post
where it can be stapled before releasing
the stretcher. We were well pleased
with the work done by this little ma
chine and feel satisfied that if construct
ed right it will stretch proper tension
into any fencing wire, as we have
stretched both smooth and barbed wire
with 1t.
We omitted to mention that half inch
holes are bored into the right bar where
a steel punch is inserted to hold the
crank from reversing while wire is being
stapled Also the stretcher stands in the
center of the fence and if fastened to
the anchor post instead of to false post,
the bolts are loosened and the left bar of
the machine Is easily removed to re-
lease it from the fence.-Geo. w. Brown,
In Ohio Farmer
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
SOLDIERS AS TEACHERS.
Public Schools Established by Amer
lean Military Authorities in
Philippines.

1t Is not so we'll known as it ought
to be that our army in the Philippines.
soon after captured town or district
became sufficiently quiet, established
public schools for the Filipino children.
The military authorities purchased
and distributed school supplies, gave
financial aid to four towns, and detailed
soldiers and others as teachers, who in
structed the native teachers and the
children in English. Mr. David Gibbs,
in recent number of the Outlook, says
that the establishment Of these schools
was manifestation of the real spirit
which dominated the army in dealing
with the peaceful Filipino.
The idea of the soldier as schoolmas-
ter Is new in the history of warfare and
of education. The honor of setting this
precedent rightly belongs to the army
of people who give the highest place
among its institutions to the public
schools. How different Is this picture
of the soldier in the tropical schoolroom,
toiling patiently with hundreds Of little
brown boys and girls, instructing the
native teachers that they may learn his
own tongue, greeted along the street with
smiles and Hello, maestro!" from
happy little boys and girls-how differ
ent is this picture from that of the soldier
in the Philippines which has so long
been held before the public eye, the cruel,
bloodthirsty, numbering man of war!
Yet there were soldier teachers in
nearly every army post In the islands:
for public schools were established in the
larger garrisoned towns by the volun-
tary efforts Of officers, and taught, vol
UNFAIRLY and without extra pay, by SOL
diers detailed as teachers, In nearly
every case very soon after these towns
had been captured by the army. The re-
port of the military governor shows that
there were more than / 900 such schools,
attended by more than 900 children.
The report also shows that nearly every
commanding officer was interested in
this humanistic movement. This con-
dition, therefore, was not exceptional,
and indicates strongly the moral tone
Of the army as whole, and shows In
many hundred army posts and through
out the islands kindly spirit toward
the Filipino.
This situation. showing a general hu-
manitarian spirit, such as every Amer
lean would wish to see in the army of
his nation, appears to have been over
looked here at home. 1t should be re-
membered that many Of our soldiers
were wounded. and some killed, while
doing acts of mercy for Filipiros; that
the kindness of our soldiers during the
war was in marked contrast to the pre-
vious experiences of the Filipinos in
warfare; that this feeling has recently
been more generally shown by the volun-
tary and often life-sacrifcing work Of
army officers and men in trying to save
the Filipino from the dread cholera.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
SUCCESSFUL HENHousE.
Could he Reasonably ExAected
from Good Hens.

The following considerations for the
comfort of fowls and the convenience
Of their caretaker should always be OBJ
served in the construction of a good
henhouse. In their natural state fowls
do not breed in large flocks. and they
never lay well in large flocks. No mat.
ter how many hens one may keep, not
over 20 should be kept in one room, and
the henhouse should be divided into az
many compartments as is necessary to
accommodate the flocks on this basis.
Moreover, the hens in these compart-
ments should never be crowded. Six
square feet of floor space should be al
lowed for each hen intended to be kept
in the compartment. In caring for hens
they should be disturbed as little as
possible, If large egg yield is desired
1t is, therefore. very important to build
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
CHRISTIANITY NOT ON TRIAL.
But Men and Times Are Judged Ac-
cording to Response Given the
Divine PrOmptings.

We are told by some men. who pro-
fess to read the signs of the times,
that Christianity is on trial, and, if 1t
is to live, it must radically change it's
doctrines and methods. There are 9TH
ers who tell us that 1t can no longer
hold its place as the supreme revela-
ton to mankind. but must now be
marshaled with other religious move
ments of the world. Still others, says
the Chicago Advance, declare that on
account of radical changes in scien-
tific and philosophical thought, the be-
ginning of the end of Christianity is
not far off
What can be said in regard to these
matters? There is nothing absolutely
new in them. We look back through
the centuries since Christ came TO this
earth in human form. and the hostile
critics of each age have substantially
affirmed the same things. Judas thought
so meanly of Christ that he sold Him
for a few pieces of silver, and consid-
cred he had safely finished the trans
action. The high priests and the San
hedrin arrogated to themselves
power to try Christ Plate imagined
that he could send Christ to the cross.
Felix, Festus and King Agrippa, looked
upon Paul, the first great Christian
missionary as mild sort of mailman.
The satirists of Rome, and the phil
osophers of Athens poured contempt
upon the Christian doctrines, and
proved to their own satisfaction that
they were not worthy of the credence
of men OF their intelligence
But how did it all turn out? Judas
went and hanged himself. PLATE saw
his power Knocked when Christ rose
from the dead. Felix, Festus and
Agrippa were not trying Paul, but
Paul, preaching Christ, was trying
them. We see now with clear vision
the littleness of the objections of the
early satirists and philosophers. Ev-
cry attempt to put Christ in a tomb
and seal it with mockings and jeers,
has been followed. by a resurrection
The worship of the gods and goddesses
ceased, and their splendid temples
went down, before the rising power Of
Christ
Christianity has never been on trial
and never will be on trial before any
bar of human Judgment; on the con-
trary all things come before it to be
judged
Civilization is really on trial before
Christianity. A progressive civiliza-
ton must be shaped to meet the de-
mands of Christianity or it is doomed.
The individual man and the civiliza-
ton of the age. are not judging The
Christ. but The Christ is judging them;
if they do not respond to His appeals
for righteousness, purity, love and
truth they condemn themselves
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
AN INFINITE GIvER.


Think you. when the stars are glinting.
Or the moon,ight's shmmerlng CLEAN
Paints the waters rippled surface
With a coat of slvered sheen
Think you. then. that God the Painter
Shows His masterpiece divine?
That He will not hang another
or such beauty on the line?
Think you when the air is trembling
With the birds exulant song,
And the blossoms. mutely fragrant,
Strive the anthem TO prolong-
Think you, then. that their Creator,
AT the signal of His word,
Fills the earth with such sweet music
AS shall ne'er again be heard?
He Will never send a blessing
But have greater ones in store.
And each oft-recurrng kindness
Is an earnest of still more.
Ii the earth seems full of glory
AS His purposes unfold
There is yet better country
And the half has not been toldi
Eugene Clifford Foster, in S. S. Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
A USEFUL HENHoUsE.

the house so that this can be accom-
lengthwise east and west and facing the
south Along the north side separate
passage for the attendant should be
built and all the arrangements made
for caring for the fowls from this pas
sage. The nest boxes should project part
ly into the passage with lid on top
on that side. Above the nests inside
the compartment should be platform
with roosts above, separated from the
passage by a swinging door hinged at
the top. Below the nests there should
be slatwork large enough for the hens
to get their heads through easily. Just
outside this the troughs for soft food
and water are placed. so that the hens
are not disturbed by changing this, nor
by collecting the eggs or the droppings.
The floor of the henhouse should be of
wood covered by six or eight inches of
straw litter, into which the grain food
should be scattered. On the south side
of the henhouse there should be large.
square windows, with the dust boxes
directly under them, where the sunlight
can fall directly into the boxes. These
boxes should contain dry earth or ashes
or both with about a quarter of pound
of dry sulphur mixed in. Every COM
partment should contain small box
full of shell making material such as
plaster, grit. oyster shells or pounded
broken crockery. Such an environment
supplemented by proper food and care
should produce all the returns that
could be reasonably expected or desired
from good hens-Prairie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
WHICH ONE WAS R,oATq

Four little girls, all IN row.
Before the blackboard jetty:
One little word they had to write.
They thought and thought with all thsll
might;
Then r and I and T and e,
The first one spelled triumphantly.
And "GooG!' the teacher said. said she
To laughing little Lefty.
The second looked, and frowned a bit,
Although she wasn't fretty.
Should she begin with r? Instead
She wrote a w at the head
And Good again the teacher said,
To happy little Hetty
Now to the ttird each little word
Looked very small and petty;
So w r I G H II.
a long, long word she wrote in g,ee
And "Good!" the teacher said said she.
To knowing little Netty.
Then, last of ALL little maid, .
With blue eyes soft and pretty,
Took eff the W. left the G.
And wrote it. r G II T.
And Good" the teacher said. said she,
To benny little Betty.
Four little girls all wreathed in smiles,
They left the blackboard jetty:
For here's the funny thing I've heard
About that very funny word
Though each ones spelling, as you see,
Was different from the other three.
Each wrote itNR G II T.
From Lefty down 10 Betty.
Youths Companion.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-09
SEASONABLE HOG NOTES.

Small hog houses are best.
See that the hogs have good shade.
Have the sows in gaining position
when bred.
A hungry pig takes readily to any food
that it is expected that pig will eat
Hogs are creatures of habit and will get
to look for their food only at regular
times.
The lot of hogs that will lie quietly
while stranger passes among them will
feed the better.
While hos never gets too thin to be
lousy, it seems the thinner the blood the
better the lice thrive.
To considerable extent the young SOW
proves her future ability by the way she
manages her first litter.
Build UP the frame of the shoat on
clover, bran, shorts and like foods and
finish for market on corn.
One advantage in having shallow
troughs for feeding is that the sows will
learn to eat much younger.
Always breed from a thoroughbred
boar of good constitution and vigor. His
vigor should be in excess Of the sows.
Overlooking of sows, musty grain, sour
swill, or sudden changes OF food will
cause diarrhoea among the pigs.
The pig that is to be marketed profit
ably at from six to eight months old must
not from any cause be allowed to stop
growing. -Livestock Journal.