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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28
Brief Notes.

The Security State bank of Seaforth
has been admitted to do business with
capital stock of $4,000. George q.
Johnson is president, and John Long
BUTTON, cashier.
The plant of the Buckeye Foundry
company, St. Paul, was burned, caus-
ing loss of So, 200, partially covered
by insurance.
Nels Nelson, a harvest hand, became
violently insane at the Wiedemann
farm near Moorhead. His home is in
Wisconsin.
The father of C. J. Urness, after
identifying body at the morgue as
that of his son, meets the young man
in Minneapolis.
Rev. William Francis, for five years
assistant pastor of the First Baptist
church, Minneapolis, died of ptomaine
poisoning, and the entire family, con-
sisting of his wife and three children,
are seriously i'll.
Warren Hall of Sleepy Eye, former
ly of Redwood Falls, was assaulted
and robbed in North Mankato, by
two acquaintance from Redwood
Falls, who had accompanied him to
the city evidently for the purpose.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

oaugnters wedding outfit from her
very infancy, and her bridal dress,
which Is always white, does not signi-
~ her virginia. nature, as it does with
US, but her burial shroud (for white
is the mourning color in Japan. and,
therefore, never worn by children) !;
for bride goes to be married dressed
like a corpse, to show that from
henceforth she is dead to her own par
ents, and although her trousseau
should be large enough to supply her
with clothes for the rest of her life,
she must pay her first visit to her own
bought by her husband, and stamped
with his crest.
A Japanese woman flirts las far as
she knows the meaning Of the word) ,
with her sleeves and fan. and not with
her eyes and smiles. BY the different
movements of the ends of her kimOnO
sleeves. she manages to convey to her
admirers all sorts of messages.
Between the sexes In Japan there is
very little difference in the main feat
lures of dress, and little children ara
only beautiful little miniatures Of their
parents, more gaily and richly dressed.
A tiny girl may wear the richest en-
broideries and stiffest brocades of
flaming scarlets and gold made in ex-
actly the same way as the soft gray or
brown kimono of her mother. In tiny
children the distinction of sex is
shown by the color of the clothes, not
the style in which they are made.
Boys wear yellow, girls red.
Under his kimonO a man of the up
per class wears sort of killed. divided
skirt, something approaching the ma
ture of trousers. This is called the
hakama, and is always made of stiff
silk. A woman wears, instead, an I'M
der-kimono. Both sexes wear two
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

cupy at least Is years in completion,
has been born. 1t is divided into two
PARASITIC regulation of the Blue Nile
for the better irrigation of the eastern
Soudan, and the regulation of the
White Nile for the benefit of Egypt;
but it is the latter part which presents
the most startling features and which,
If proved feasible, would be undertaken
In the immediate future. The conflu-
ence of the White and Blue Niles takes
place at Khartoum, or, roughly speak
Ing, midway in the course of $500
miles, while Egypt's great artery runs
between it's source at the Victoria N.Y.
ANA to it's outflow in the Mediterra-
mean. The tortuous character of that
course may be gathered from the fact
that it increases by one-half the dis
lance which would be traversed by the
river if it flowed in a straight line.
AS far as the tenth degree of north lat
itude the Nile is easily navigable; but
at Lake Ma, where the White Nile be-
comes the Bahr-el-Gebel, and where the
junction of the Bahr-el-Ghazal and the
Bahel-Zara takes place, the difficulty
begins. From Lake No up to Dor, a
distance of 220 miles, the channel is
choked with "sudd," and the surround
ing country is converted into a huge
swamp by the "spilling" of the current.
The effect is that of the volume of
water that leaves Lake Victoria at Ri
pom Falls, not one-half ever reaches
the White Nile. In flood time this enor-
nous wastage Of water in the swamps
and marshes of the Bahr-el-Gebel is
immaterial; but in the dry season it in
wolves an incalculable loss to Egypt,
whose sole dependence for water is
upon the Nile. To obviate this state of
things two courses are open. The first
is so to improve the channel of the
Bahr-el- Gebel as to stop the "spillings''
of the stream, and to prevent the ac-
cumulations of sudd which not only
block the river to navigation, but dis
perse great proportion of its current.
The other course-and the one that is
evidently dearest to Sir William Gar
stems hearts, to cut new channel
for the Bahr-el-Gebel from Bor to the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

little aprons round the loins, called
koshi-maki, and a sort Of shirt called
the suso-yoke Neither a mans obi nor
his hair are, of course. his glory and
pride as they are with a woman; the
narrow male sash is not an item of
great Importance, for although it is
always made of rich silk, it is worn
not SC much for show as for use to
keep his kimono in place, and to serve
as waist-belt through which he can
draw the rich chain and netsuke (but-
ton) Of his tobacco and pipe-case, and
j, if he is a merchant, his long-handled
inkpot and pen-holder.
In the severest weather both tho
sexes wear padded kimonos, and the
men have short haori, or over jacket,
which only reaches to about their
knees. A woman's complete outfit
costs much more than a mans, al
though the actual number of the gar
ments she wears at one time are few
er. Prof. Chamberlain, in his Things
Japanese" says: "A Japanese lady's
dress will often represent a value Of
5000, without counting the ornaments
for her hair. A woman OF the smaller
shop-keeping class may have on her,
when she goes out holiday-making.
some $40 or $50 worth. A gentleman
will rarely spend on his clothes as
much as he let's his wife spend on
hers. Perhaps he may not have on
more than $50 worth. Thence, through
a gradual decline in price, we come to
the coolies poor trappings, which may
represent as little as five dollars, or
even two dollars, as he stands.
The coolie class in Japan are dis
tinguished partly by their want Of
clothes, partly by the enormous crest
OF their employers, which is stamped
on the back Of their butcher-blue cot
ton coat (shirusEi-Santen). Under this
coat they wear a pair Of short white
drawers, almost as close fitting as
tights. The jindiksha man does not
wear the crested coat; and, indeed, it
1t Is only by the strict eye of the pro-
gressive police laws that he can be
induced to wear any clothes at all
worth consideration. In the old days
his loin-cloth was all-sufficient. Well
do I remember how on approaching a
country police sentry-box, or a village.
the shafts of the hand-carriage very
suddenly dropped, and the steaming
steed would politely request me to rise
from my seat and let him take from
his trunk below the cushion his run
ming drawers. When the village was
left behind, and the eye Of authority
nowhere in sight, the drawers were
hurriedly pulled OF, and once more re-
turned to their place in the box-seat.
DOUGLAS SLADEN.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

nave Deen conferred on the
cultivator of the Egyptian soil-and
already an even greater work is in con-
temptation, of which the smallest part
is the raising of the dam already con-
structed. The plan is neither more nor
less than that of regulating the outflow
of the Nile and its source in Central
Africa and of insuring Egypt a larger
and more constant measure of the fer
tilizing food by "training' the current
OF the mighty stream through several
hundred miles of it's course.
The most sluggish Imagination can
hardly fail to be stirred by the ambi-
t1ous magnitude of such a project,
which, it is estimated, would bring $780,
900 additional acres under cultivation,
while converting 100000 acres from
basin into perennial irrigation. The de-
tailed exposition of the scheme is con-
| tanned in voluminous report from Sir
William Garsten, the English head of
the department of public works in
Egypt; and even for those to whom
It's engineering problems are incompre-
hensible, that report affords much fas-
cinating reading Sir William Garsten
has spent five years in studying the
basin of the upper Nile, and from his
close personal observation of what may
be called the phenomena Of the Nilitic
floods, this scheme, which would &C.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

sud-.
and more effectual than the less heroic
course of dredging and "training' the
existing channel of the Bahr-el-Gebel;
but its feasibility is not quite certain.
for the levels of the 200 odd miles Of
country lying between Dor and the
confluence of the Sobat have not been
factor everything must depend.
The late Lord Salisbury once advised
his countrymen to study their imperial
geography on large-scale maps, and it
is only by reference to such maps that
the true magnitude of Sir William Gar
stems project can be realized. From
Alexandria to the northern shore Of
the Victoria Nyanza is, as the crow
flies, some 1900 miles, or third of the
distance from the equator to the pole.
The great inland sea, from which it
takes its rise, is as large as Scotland.
and the amount of water which it dis
charges daily into the Victoria Nile is
little short of 100000 metres cube,
or 1900, 100000 gallons. 1t is only 50
years since the explorations of Spoke
and Grant revealed to the world the
long-mysterious source of the Nile, and
now that source is brought so much
within the sphere of civilization that
its waters are to be tanned by sluica
and dam.
The British Blue Book contains an
interesting illustrated report on the
project by Sir William Garsten. A
prominent feature Of the picture along
the Bahr-elGhazal is the amount of
papyrus shown, and it is far from be-
ing thing of mere beauty 1t is large
ly responsible for the forming of those
sudd-blocks in the river channel which
years of efforts have uot been able to
dispense.
The enormous increase to the fertil-
ity and revenues of Egypt and the Sou
dan which the fulflment of these
schemes would bring about is strongly
emphasized by Lord Cromer, who holds
them out as "the ideal" at which the
Egyptian government should aim. The
principal obstacle to their realization
is, in spite of the enormous distances
and vast forces involved, not of an en-.
cheering, but Of financial character.
Though Sir William Garsten is conf
dent of the perfect feasibility of con-
structing regulators at the outfall OF
! the Central African lakes and of divert
ing such stream as the Bahr-el-Gebel
into a new and artificial channel, il
only the levels are favorable, Lord Gro.
mer is not so certain when Egypt will
be able to launch upon such an ex.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28
The farmers around Norrkoping have

The farmers around Norrkoping have
found it more and more difficult to OBJ
tain stable room for their horses while
staying in town. At last they can
stand it no longer, and strong COM
pany has been organized by the farm
ers of the neighborhood for the pur-
pose of putting up a large farmers
tavern in the city and stable contain
ing $50 stalls. A blacksmith shop will
be part of the esta blishment.
At Gislof, East Nobbelof parish, is a
horse manger which is built of stone
slabs taken from burial mound some
twenty-five years ago. The slabs had
served some prominent man as coffin
for 5000 years before they were turned
into a manger. Prof. o. Montelius,
the greatest Scandinavian archaeolo-
gist of our times, considered it worth
his while to inspect the slabs. He says
they date from a time when the custom
OF simple interment yielded to the GUS
tom of cremating the dead
The University of Lund has SO pro-
fessors and instructors during the pres
ent semester.
The cereals of southernmost Sweden
were saved in fine condition, the quail
ity Of wheat and barley being consider
ably above that of last year.
Hunters returning from the forests
around Kingston, southern Sweden, re-
port that the capercailzies (tjader)
and forest grouse are plentiful this
season. The coveys are not large, but
numerous.
The city council of Helsingborg has
voted $4,000 as prizes for the best
plats of those portions of the grounds
of the city which have not yet been
plated.
The excavation of burial mound on
the Vestra Kvarn estate, Errarp, Bar
kakra parish, Kristianstad Ian,
brought out parts of an earthern jar
and few breast bones near the sur
face of the ground. Below these OBJ.
jects was layer Of small cobble stones
on top of burial chamber, which was
divided into two compartments by a
stone slab. In one of the compart
ments a bronze dagger, without a
handle, lay imbedded in mass OF
burnt bones and charcoal The bot,
tom of the burial chamber was COM
posed of cobble stones Of the size of a
mans fist. Flint chips were found all
around the chamber. A lump of petri.
fed hazel nuts and leaves was found
close by. This burial mound is about
5000 years old. The objects found
will be carefully preserved in the ma.
tional museum.
The hoemakers' union at Helsing-
borg has assed strong resolution in
favor of great national strike in 1905
as means of compelling the riksdag
to grant general suffrage to all male
citizens of Sweden.
About 500 1aborers held meeting in
Gothenburg and resolved to extend
moral and pecuniary aid to the farm
la borers that are organizing them
selves into unions Another resolu.
ton denounced the importation of for.
eign laborers.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

her western sister land certainly she
has reduced the number of her gar
ments down to very fine point), she
is none the less a daughter of Eve in
her love of personal adornment For
instance, every time her hair is taken
down, two hours are spent in re-
dressing it. and nothing would induce
her to go to picnic or to the theater
without popping into the sleeve Of her
kimono her little dressing-case made
of scarlet brocade, which contains her
steel mirror and diminutive boxes OF
lip-salve, face powder and eyebrow
renovator, nor would she go to her
temple to pray if her obi did not sit
Just as an obi ought to sit, and has sat
ever since they were adopted by her
remote ancestors.
Undoubtedly with Japanese wom-
an the richness Of her hair ornaments,
and the splendor of her obi, constitute
her chief vanities and extravagances
TN dress, and 1t IL. after all, only in
her short years of mousmeehood that
she has much opportunity for annoy
ing other women, or pleasing the OPP
posite sex by the beauty and variety
of these vanities of the flesh. Of the
Young wife, the husband demands that
the wearing of her fine trousseau shall
be reserved for his own and his par
ents' eyes only.
The older woman grows, the sad
der and duller her clothes become (as
a child she is Respondent as a butte:-
Ay). and the less ostentatious the fine
chignon of glossy black hair which she
piles on the top Of her head to pro-
claim her wifehood in the eyes of the
world; and, alas! If she is left wild
ow. her fine head of hair is shaver of
to show her desolation.
In Japan the wedding ring is not the
sign manual of married woman, but
the dressing of her hair, and not the
length of her Hmono sleeves. A NOUS
NEE must not have such long sleeves
"A a ma,fon, and her hair is less elab-
orately dressed. The tying of an obi
in front of the waist instead of behind
places a woman amongst the I'M
classed, but such a sight is never seen
outside the limits of the Yoshlwara.
or on the stage. Gay hairpins OF enor-
nous length and variety standing out
from a woman's head like hatpins on
pincushion, are also the signs by
which We shall know the women who
are compelled to live in the "city OF
no night" Women of the higher
classes only adorn their heads with
veritable works of art in dull gold
lacquer, carved tortoise-shell, anu
coral; they are careful never to wear
the skewer-like ornaments with which
all the world is familiarized in paint
ings and on fans, used by their less
fortunate susters.
The magnifcence and richness OF a
girls wedding trousseau does not 10
much denote the wealth of the par
ents as their devotion to her Is q
child, for her mother begins to save
Aup and purchase. bit by bit her
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

penditure as that involved. But ths
scheme, or some modification of it, il
certain OF ultimate realization; and nj
more eloquent commentary upon il
could be found than in the words with
which Sir William Garsten concludes
the report of his investigation of the
Upper Nile. ITO rescue" he says, "the
upper Nile from the marshes in which
it has lost n>e<e than half its volume;
to control and regulate the great eQua-
torial lakes, making them add to the
flow of the river at will; to cause the
waters of the Blue Nile to rise and ir-
rigate the fertile tracts through which
they pass; to secure to Egypt a con-
slant and sufficient supply for the en-
tire area between the cataracts and the
Mediterranean; to free the country
from the ever-present danger of a dis
astrous flood-these are tasks worthy
of comparison with any previously re-
corded in the worlds history, and
which, if successfully accomplished,
will leave behind them a monument
that will probably endure long after all
of those erected by an earlier civiliza-
ton shall have passed away"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28
NORWAY,

The national government has con-
tributed money to the construction
of a wagon road between Stavanger
amt County, and Observation-Disclosures
amt, through the Gya valley. Each
amt was to construct it's part of the
road to the boundary line between
the two ANTS. But the ANTS cannot
agree on the boundary line. There
is strip of land several hundred
to claim as it's own. The road was
completed many years ago up to this
strip on either side, but year after
year this strip has remained roadless,
and the 'boundary dispute may be
carried on for years to come. The
traffic on the road is considerable,
and on that strip of unclaimed land
there is an unbridged river to cross.
In the fall of the year thousands of
head of sheep are driven through the
valley, and a number of animals have
been drowned in crossing the river.
In some cases the travellers have
found it more advisable to construct
a temporary bridge than to drive the
animals through the swift current;
but such bridges are swept away by
the next freshet. Our authority,
which is absolutely reliable, thinks
it is almost a wonder that people
have not been drowned at this point
since the partial completion of the
road. Stavanger amt is willing to
make compromise, but the other
amt seems to prefer to keep up the
fun.
The Norwegian consular service
committee will soon be ready to re-.
port draft for rules to regulate the
proposed separate consular service for
Norway"
The Socialists are very active in
northern Norway. Agitators from
Narvik have just organized societies
in Bodo and Saltdalen.
The herring seems to be STAYING
at safe distance this season, Nord-
land being the only place where the
catch is worth mentioning. About
$4,000 barrels of herring was salted
down in that locality during the last
week of August and the first week of
September.
The mackerel fisheries in the North
sea have given good returns during
the past few weeks.
Kristiania exported 10000 tons of
ice in August, most of it going to
England.
A new business college has just
been dedicated in Bergen. The cost
of the buildings was $4,000. The at
tendance was so from the start.
The Socialists of Fredikstad have
suffered serious losses, some of their
most prominent men having deserted
the party.
Per Sivle is dead. He was AZ wears
old at his death. For many years he
was recognized as an author of rank.
He was born in Aurland, Sogn, but
spent most of his life in the south
eastern part of Norway. His most
popular productions are national
songs.
Two boys at Lardal went up into
the mountains to pick whortleberries.
Expecting to run across ptarmigans
(ryper), they took a gun along. At
a steep and narrow mountain pass
one of the boys, Ola Kvigne; handed
the gun to the other boy, who was al
ready above the pass. At this point
the gun was discharged, killing Ola
instantly.
Three sleds and a wagon were
found at the Viking ship near Tons
berg. Images of men and animals
were carved on the wagon box. Three
beds and, several dog skeletons were
| also found at the same place.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

beauty continuous sheet of flowers all
Of the same variety. No matter how
numerous they may be, these wildlings
never seem gaudy or vulgar. And,
finally, if it is the least expensive way
OF getting hosts of fowers-fowers like
the stars of the Milky Way in multitude.
A thousand narcissus bulbs! The
thought takes ones breath away vet
a thousand Of the bulbs Of the poets
narcissus cost only FIVE dollars mere
nothing compared with the vision q
loneliness that It makes possible
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28
Wolf BOunties,

The state auditor sent out vouchers
to the various counties in payment of
bounties for killing wolves during the
last few months. The total amount of
the payments is SO, $50, the largest
amount being for Crow Wing county,
which receives $751; for los wolves, and
Kittson county comes next with $607
for 1876 wolves, and Carlton next with
1856 for seventy-five wolves. The
amount of the bounty paid is $3.50 for
full grown wolves and 81 for cubs
This bounty is paid by the county
treasurers, who report to the state au-
ditor and the amount paid is then re-
funded by the state.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28

junction of the Sobat with the White
Nile, just below Lake No. BY means of
regulations at the head of the cutting
the volume of water passing to the White
Nile could be made constant; for the
summer flow would be undiminished
by wastage, and in flood-time the sur
plus water would, as at present, waste
itself in foundations on either side OF
the natural channel. The complement
to this project would be the building
of regulators both at Ripon Falls, and
at the head of Lake Albert, where the
Victoria Nile, after passing the Muir
Gibson Falls, becomes the Bahr-el-
Gebel.
This work, which is estimated to cost
some 100000, would be both cheaper
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28
FLOWER CULTIVATION EASY

The most inspiring Horticultural idea
of the last quarter of century is the
naturalizing of flowers by the thousand
in situations where they need absolute
ly no care after planting, says Country
Life. 1t is the easiest kind Of garden
ing, for there is no wedding, watering.
hoeing. stalking or tying. It is the most
artistic form of gardening, because the
flowers fit perfectly into the landscape.
It is the most effective kind of garden
Ing because nothing can surpass in