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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
Testing Engines by Piano.

Pointing to a piano that was stand
ing in the locomotive roundhouse of the
Missouri Pacific railroad near Kansas
City, an English visitor remarked: "Ah,
1 see your road supplies you with mu-
steal instruments. Guess not" re-
piled the foreman. THAT piano is for
testing engines" The Englishman
thought it a joke, but when uniformed
pianist struck a note which harmonized
with the noise of vibration in each part
of the locomotive as it was tested, he
understood that there could be no
flaws or cracks in the engine He was
informed that if the noise of the loco
motive made discord with the musical
note, the locomotive would be thus
proved defective. The method has been
discovered to be more accurate than the
oil way of hammering each part
Worlds Work.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
SKIRTS OF. FOUR LENGTHS
The Most IN Favor Is the Longest,
Because the Most Graceful
and Feminine.

There are skirts that are too handsome
to be ignored in the chronicles of fash
ion, where skirts are so little mentioned.
A lovely skirt is one that trails well
upon the ground and is trimmed with
deep, founce-like arrangement. The
best skirts are not flounced but are cut
SO that the lower part fares like 2
tlounce, reports the Brooklyn Eagle.
Again the skirt is box-plaited half
way down with the box plaits inverted,
and with the fullness all lying in these
plaits. Skirts of this kind should be
made very long to give that height that
j. so much desired by men and women.
A great deal is being done to make
woman, fair woman, seem tall. Not
only are skirts very long, indeed, but
they are trimmed in such way as to
seem still longer. The new skirts are
of four lengths, and it seems almost es-
sential that woman should have at
least one skirt made in every one Of
these four different lengths.
The longest skirt is the prettiest. be-
cause the most graceful and the most
feminine. This skirt is fitted to the
hips, and is tried on the wearer in a
peculiar fashion. She is stood upon
thick book, or upon low foot stool,
and the skirt is turned up just even
with the ground in front and at the
sides. But at the sides it begins to
E grow longer. and in the back it is cut
to a very long sweep. the longer the
better. This is the ideal dinner and re-
ception length.
The next length is fitted while wom-
an stands upon thin book. The skirt
is turned up even with the ground and
is gradually heightened until it sweeps
off at the back into very respectable
length.
Then come the other two skirts, the
shopping skirt, which just touches. OF
rather, just escapes. the ground; and
the skirt that is cut from one to two
inches from the ground, Namely, the In
step skirt. These four lengths make the
skirts of the season.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
BEEKEEPlNG FOR THE BOYS.
Causes Much Pleasure to Those
Engaged in It.

To the painstakirg boy with small
capital and little spare time there are
few localities in which bee-keeping will
not only bring profitable returns but
much pleasure. The popular notion that
the bee goes about like a roaring lion
seeking whom it may devOur is entirely
false. In fact, it seldom stings unless
hurt or its stores are molested; then it
naturally uses its only means of self
defense. The successful bee-keeper
dons his veil and keeps cool no matter
how many bees alight upon him. Hon.
ey on the hands will often so tickle the
palate of very mad bee that it forgets
to sting and goes to eating the sweets
If stung, brush the sting away instead
OF picking it out; the latter method
presses the poison into the flesh. Am
monia or onions applied to the wound
are standard remedies; but neither
must be used until through working
with the bees, as they serve to enrage
the insects. Hundreds of pounds OF
honey go to waste annually in some
localities because there are no CLEAN
ers. Where clover, Eastwood, fruit bios
SONS, buckwheat, golden-rod, or other
honey plants abound. few swarms OF
bees will accomplish much with very lit
tie trouble. Even in village few may
! be kept without annoyance to others; and
1t is said that one of our most success
full women apiarists restricts her colo
MES to a roof garden in her metropoli-
tan home. 1t pays in this, as in all
| other live stock, to raise the best Pure
bred queens are now offered by all re-
| liable dealers at reasonable rates and
| will prove in the end more profitable
than the mongrels for sale cheap in
almost any community. A good book or
periodical on the subject is Great as
sistant to the beginner, though. not an
absolute necessity. One or two hwarms
are enough to commence with. These,
II rightly handled, will supply an or
binary family with honey and yield
little surplus. With year or two of ex-
perience one can learn the extent of pas
turage and regulate the number of colo
MES accordingly. Study the site and
situation. But above ALL study the in
mates of your hives They will prove
more and more interesting as you be-
come better acquainted with their ways
Their methods of work, relations 10
plants and man, show how exquisitely
the entire plan of the creation is bal
anced by Mother Nature. The bee
keeper who knows his pets finds as much
pleasure in their ways as the average
boy finds in all-playing-Bessie l.
Putnam, in Epitomist
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06

DETAILS OF LITTLE SAMPSON.
mark the entire length in 1h-inch
spaces, or just the width of the square
blade. Now provide yourself with Il
1h-inch bit, and bore straight through
at every other junction of sectional
lines; this being finished, we will starr
on the other line and bore on the cross
lines we skipped before, thus leaving
the holes at an angle, as shown in cut.
There should be 20 holes in each row.
The next will be two steel pins, (cl
me asuring II inches long and inch in
diameter. They should be slightly
pointed at one end and flattened at the
other as shown in No. 3.
For No. 2, the main iron should be
80 inch thick and inches wide and'24
inches long; 4 inches wide from point
and extending back inches, where il
should be made just inches wide. On
the lower edge at b is shown two pin
saddles, which should be just AZ
inches from center to center. Upper
hole for clevis pin is ~ inches back
of front saddle. Clevis is made of u
AAC1A dNO pIA VI T2~1ACA OcSL AAOA.
Clevis is inches long Main hook is
81 inches long and is made of steel II
inch thick by IL inches wide, and
point should be literally reinforced
We are now ready for the lever
| This is made of 3x3 stuff and Is feet
| long. Measure off 2 feet and COM
mence tapering and rounding the re-
maing S feet, leaving small end z
inches in diameter. Now cut mortise
in square end Is inch wide, and, back
16 inches. Around square end place q
snug-fitting collar (a), made of iron Il,
l inch. Now drive large iron in mortist
and bolt, as shown in No. g. In No. I
c shows pins properly set for work
Our machine is now finished. All O.
the wood used in it should be of thu
toughest kind procurable Mine i!
made of rock elm. The machine works
equally we'll in pulling stumps.-Or'
ange Judd Farmer.
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FOR LIFTING BIG WEIGHTS.
A Continuance Which Is Easily Made
at Home and Strong Enough
to Do Heavy Work.

The illustration shows what l term
my little Sampson, contrivance for
lifting heavy weights. BY studying the
figures carefully, any handy man can
make the woodwork, while the iron
parts can be left with the blacksmith
No. should be just 6 feet high.
Planks for side pieces are 2xS. Blocks
at the ends are 3x3x8 and firmly Sc
cured by four % bolts inches long
Now comes the important part The
two rows of holes as shown must be
lxact Lay off planks with two straight
lines just 4 inches apart Now lay
square on the plank so that small blade
will cross the two long lines, and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
RAILWAY BUILDING IN CHINA
Some of the Difficulties with Natives
That Beset Purchasers of
Rights of Way.

1t is the custom of the Chinese to
bury their dead wherever a geomancer
indicates lucky" place, and that
place Immediately becomes sacred. In
& land which has been so densely popu-
lated for thousands of years, graves
are, therefore, not only innumerable,
out onnipresent. In my travels in
CHINA, writes Arthur Judson Brown,
in the American Monthly Review of Re-
views, l was hardly ever out of sight
OF these conical mounds of the dead,
and, as rule, could count hundreds
or them from my shendza Qitter). In
such circumstances, no degree of care
can avoid the irritation caused by rail-
way construction. The following illus
trat1on of which I wrote at the time,
is worth repeating as a characteristic
instance of this.
In building the line from Tsingtau
| to Kiochau, a distance of 46 miles, the
Germans, as far as practicable, ran
around the places most thickly covered
with graves. But in spite of this, no
less than 5000 graves had to be re-
moved. 1t was impossible to settle
with the individual owners. as it was
dlft1eult in many cases to ascertain
who they were, most of the graves be-
ing unmarked, and some of the FAM
lilies concerned having died out or
! moved away. Moreover. the oriental
has no idea of time, and dearly loves
| to haggle, especially with foreigner,
! whom he feels no conjunction in
swindling. So the railway company
| made its negotiations with the local
magistrates, showing them the routes,
! indicating the graves that were in the
way, and paying them an average of
three dollars lMexican) for removing
each grave, they to find and settle with
! the owners. This was believed to be
| fair, for three dollars is a large sum
| where the coin in common circulation
is the copper cash." so small in value
| that 1900 of them equal gold dollar,
and where few dozen cash will buy
| days food for an adult. But while
some of the Chinese were glad to &C.
cept this arrangement. others were
| not. They wanted more, or they had
special affection for the dead, or that
particular spot had been carefully Sc
lected because it was favored by the
| spirits. Besides, the magistrates
doubtless kept part of the price as
their share.
| In these circumstances, we should not
be surprised that some of the most
furiously anti-foreign feeling in China
was in the villages along the line of
that railroad. Why should the hated
| foreigner force his line through their
! country, when the people did not want
it? OF course, it would save time,
but, as an official naively said: I'VE
are not in hurry" So the villagers
watch the construction with ill-con-
cealed anger, and to-day that railroad.
as we'll as most other railroads in North
China. can only be kept open by de-
tachments of foreign soldiers at all
the important stations. saw them at
almost every. stop-German soldiers
from Tsingtau to Kioachau, British
from Tongku to Picking, French from
Picking to Poating-fu, etc.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
WHEAT BREEDING HIS FAD.
Harper Of the Kentucky Ex-
pertinent Station.

An experiment which. if it proves a
success, will be of the greatest value to
the whole United States. is now being
conducted at the Kentucky experiment
station. J. N. Harper, of the station, is
using in the raising of wheat the same
principle that is applied in breeding and
improving horses and cattle, and talks
interestingly of his experiment.
THE successful cattle BREEDER" said
Mr.. Harper, selects his individuals with
the greatest care, taking into considera-
ton many points. From those produced
he again selects with equal care the best
individuals, mating them, and so on ad
infinitum, producing with each genera
ton better individual, until the per-
feet animal is the result. The same rule
applies to the breeding of horses, sheep
and hogs, and it is this sule that am en-
deavoring TO apply in the growing of
wheat.
After the most careful chemical an
alysis and examination under the micro
scope l have discovered the best variety
of wheat and the variety richest inspro-
under the microscope and photographed
cross sections of the grain
II will select the individual grains and
plant them. Next year will select from
the grains produced the finest specimens
and on the following year will plant
them. In this way hope after several
years to produce very fine quality of
wheat.
Il also hope to produce a grade of
wheat which will not degenerate We
get our supply of seed wheat from the
western states. In few years it degen-
crates and we are compelled to secure
new stock hope to produce not only
splerdid quality of wheat, but one that
will not degenerate and which under
proper care will constantly improve"
The experiment is in its infancy and
several years will be required to deter
mine what its value will be. Other ex-
periments have been made with wheat,
but with methods different from that
which Mr.. Harper is following. Should
the effort prove all that is hoped for it,
it will be of the greatest value to the
agricultural word.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
BABU FORENSIC ELOQUENCE
Speech of Bengah Pleader in Court
Which Savors Of Yankee
Humor.

The London Truth publishes the fol-
lowing from an American travelling in
India. He VOWS that he heard Ben
gall pleader make the speech in a case
in which there were cross-summonses
for assault. Maybe it has been strong
ly favored with Yankee humor, but If
not true or even new 1t is, at any rate.
amusing enough to print:
my learned friend with mere wind
from a teapot thinks to ~browbeat me
from my legs. But this is mere gorilla
warfare. stand under the shoes of
my client, and only seek to place my
bone of contention clearly in your
honor's eye. My learned friend vain
ly runs amuck upon the sheet anchors
of my case. Your honor will be pleased
enough to observe that my client is a
widow, a poor chap with one post
mortem son. A widow of this country,
is not like a widow of your honor s
country. a widow of this country is
not able to eat more than one meal a
day. or to wear clean clothes or look
after man. So my poor client has
not such physic or mind as to be able
to assault the lusty complainant. Yet
she has been deprived of some of her
valuable leather, the leather of her
nose. My learned friend has thrown
only an argument ad hominy upon my
teeth, that my clients witnesses are
all her own relations. But they are
not near relations Their relationship
is only homeopathic. So the misty
arguments OF my learned friend will
not hold water. At least they will not
hold good water. Then my learned
friend has said that there is on the
side of his client a respectable wit
ness, viz, pleader, and since the wit
ness is Independent. so he should be
believed. But, your honor, with your
honors vast experience, is pleased to
observe that truthfulness is not SO
plentiful as blackberries in this coun-
try. And, I am sorry to say, though
this witness is man of my own
feathers, that there are in my profess
sion black sheep of every complexion,
and some of them do not always speak
Gospel truth. Until the witness ex-
plains what has become of my client
nose leather he cannot be believed
He cannot be allowed to raise a castle
in the air by beating upon bush, SO,
trusting in that administration of Brit
fish justice on which the sun never cits,
l close my case"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
How to Manage Incubators-

For success with incubators, remem-
Der: Test on the seventh day. Temper
allure, lob degrees. Fill lamps every
evening. Cool eggs after fourth day.
Never cool below IS degrees. Turn eggs
every II hours. Do not turn fame I'D
too high. Keep machines out of sun
light. Put in new wick for every
hatch. Keep doors closed during hatch
ing. Be sure the incubator is standing
level. Discontinue cooling after eight
zenith day. Add moisture only when
air cell is too large Don't let temper
allure run down after Matching. Dis
continue turning after eighteenth
day. Hands off, while the eggs are
hatching.-Midland Farmer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06

straight for my tc-ce, anI'l be there
almost as soon as we Shall So we
shant be wanting excitement this trip,
anyway. Come along. Here goes to
try our luck! II they are there, the
best we can do is to die hard. I'd
rather be shot or dubbed in tussel
than be fed up like a Michaelmas
goose to have my neck twisted on
scaffold. Mind, if we are caught, every
man jack of us here will play game
of swing at Newgate, with hangmap
to push us off"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
Poisoning the Rabbits.

An interesting implement for use in
the perpetual warfare which the Aus
tralians are forced to carry on against
country has lately been experimental
with at Victoria. 1t consists of cylinder
filled with poisonous liquid. with a foot
plate attached to it, which is placed in
any thickly infested spot. As soon as a
rabbit presses the plate it opens a valve
which sprinkles the animal with some of
the poison. The rabbit then ticks the
poison of its fur, and the farmer is re-
lieved of one more of his pests.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
Preserving Eggs in Flour.

Freshlaid eggs are placed in common
pasteboard boxes on end, as eggs are
packed, then covered completely with
common white -four and stored in a
cool place. After three months they
were found fresh and nice, and scarcely
discernible from freshly laid eggs. |
used common shoe boxes, which hold
about two dozen each, the number Of
eggs and date of packing being written
on the cover, so the first packed could
be first used. Eggs packed in mixture
of lime water and salt are nice for cook
ing purposes, but after couple of
months are unfit for eatiug.-Corre-
spondence Practical Farmer
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
Killing Mustard in Fields.

We have. been spraying our fields
with solution of ten pounds Of blue
stone "copper" sulphate) to 40 gallons
of water. 1t destroys the mustard and
we cannot detect any injury to the pea
vines. We spray the fields as soon as
the mustard gets two to four inches
high. We use about 40 gallons of the
mixture to the acre and apply it with
regular spraying machine. This can
be done equally we'll on oat and wheat
fields when mustard prevents a good
growth of wheat and oats.-Winters &
Prophet. in Orange Judd Farmer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
FRENCH PANAMA SCANDAL.
The Big Scheme of De Lesseps
Which Came to Such Dis
astrous End.

The isthmuS Of Panama is a harrow
strip of land, scarcely Fl miles wide at
it's narrowest point; but the canal, ow-
ing to the character of the land, would
have a total length of about As miles,
writes George Ethelbert Walsh. in
Cutting Hemisphere in Two" if St.
Nicholas. To cut ship canal of this
length, the early French company esti-
mated, would cost S43,OOO,OO0 francs,
which later was reduced by De Lesseps
to 900 900 600 francs or about $120, OOO,-
OOO"of our money. This huge cost: did
not deter the people Of France from
buying the bonds and stocks of the
Panama Canal company, and the
money was soon raised. The genius of
the company was the man who had
constructed the Suez canal, and his
presence at the head of the undertake
ing was sufficient to give faith and con-
f1dence to all. De Lesseps himself was
SO confident of his success that he ex-
tended invitations to prominent men
all over the world 20 attend che OPEN
ing Of the canal in 1888.
The first shipment of machinery AMI
workmen arrived in Colon on February
Il, 1881, and almost Immediately began
one of the most dramatic stories If
modern times. Fraud, incompetencv
Encouragement and lack of knowledge
OF the grave conditions that confronted
the contractors on the isthmus COM
bined to delay the work, and in time
to wreck the company. The inside his
tory OF the story may never be male
perfectly plain to the world. Millions
OF dollars worth of machinery that
was never used was shipped to the
1sthmus, and even to-day much of it is
rotting and rusting there in the trop-
ical climate. The whole length. Of the
proposed canal is marked by these
monuments to mans mismanaeement
and greed. Extensive camps and hos
pitfalls were built on the route of the
canal, and thousands of workmen were
sent down, only to die in the fever
ridden climate or to return home dis
gusted. iEf
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
CHAPTER XIV.

THE BURGLAR, MR. PAUL AND SOMK
"BOBBIES."
Number Two was not mistaken in
believing that his identity was un-
known to the police, and that his house
was, therefore, secure hiding place.
Excepting that constable called tc
inquire whether Mr. Hall-as We
learned our hosts name was-had seen
any suspicious characters in the neigh
horh God or about his premises, they
left us, entirely unmolested, although
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with uxurye professor of gold coined from the rudy drops
the sad heart Of the patient toler the sp
been bunted with scenngs
man-i rather the the
his face of maintains the
and time of fights its battles. 1t is
guard the ark of the
the realization ondest dream
moral opulence and material greatness.
We need help from that class of pcopethe wine
tosm-tte ballots
osperc provide tonic which the
and great.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
The Dominant Sex.

No matter what may be the cause of
the prominence now given to the fads
and liabilities of womankind, there
can be no gainsaying that at the pres
ent moment woman is the dominant
sex, and we begin to wonder how she
ever came to be called the weaker
Court journal. ~.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
ITO Be Continued:
Not Under Restriction.

Does your mother allow you. tt
have two pieces of pie when you arr
at home, Willie?" asked his hostess.
"No, ma'am.''
'Well, do you think she would Xix.
you to have two pieces here?'' !
{ "'Oh, she wouldn't care" said Willie
confidently this isn't lsr -
Rams Horn z.z ..s5<5 81 5s. I. fit
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
The Real "BWSlnesy Man"
By HON. JAMES E.. VARDHAM.
Governor of Mississippi.

The disposition on the part of the masses in re-
cent years has been to turn the rens of
over to the favored few, and the favored Jew have
been most active and influential in producing the
disposition.
In latter day political parance, the term "bus-
man. describes anybody except the man who
tolls The important fact is overlooked absolute
lv that the only real wealth is the labor of man.
The mountains might be of solid gold, and the
rocks OF refined silver, and yet, the world would
starve without the product of human toll
Therefore instead of the little creature swollen
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
New Marble auarr1es-

1t is said that marble quarries az
rich as those of Italy or Vermont have
been discovered in the hills of Stew
ems county, Wash. The entire region
is covered with dense growth Of
lofty pines. .,,< ~ \.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06

WATER DISH FOR CHICKS.
wood plank two inches thick, four inches
wide, and eight inches long. A three
inch hole is bored nearly through. This
fountain cannot be tipped over, nor can
the little chicks get into it-Ethan
Brooks, in Farm and Home
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
SAFE LITTLE WATER DISH.
It Cannot Be Tipped Over, Nor Can
the Lively Little Chicks Be
Drowned in It.

A useful drinking fountain for young
chicks is shown in the accompanying
illustration. This is made of a hard