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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13

1umpy, bridgeless nose, deep-set. pry.
ing pigs eyes, coarse-grained and
pimply complexion, and huge mouth,
that when he grinned stretched al
most from lobe to lobe of his tapping
elephant-ears, seemed ludicrously out
OF keeping with his mincing way of
speaking. Being always self-conscious
in regard to his superiority, and anx-
ious to impress everyone with his
aloofness from the common and "h"-
less herd, he accentuated the aspirate,
and the ''t' in such words as ''often,"
as aggressively as if they were testi-
monials to his own education and
breeding The effect of this was height
ened by his habit of introducing into
his conversational matter how irrele-
vantly-any grandiloQuent phrase or
high-sounding word which he had
picked up, and probably only imper-
fectly understood.
Il am happy, gentlemen, to be thus
honored," he said, with series Of
stately bows. ut has from time i'm
memorial been my hearts wish to be
a member of some such honorable So
ciety. But have for long entertained
grave apprehensions ("grave apprehen-
sions," I may remark, was a phrase
which had appeared-apropos of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Improve Main Thoroughfares.

Frequent complaint is made by peo-
pie who live at a remote distance from
the villages and public centers, that
nothing is done to improve the back
roads on which they live, and that they
are taxed to benefit other roads in the
more populous parts of the town. There
seems to be some justice in this plea.
and yet it would be poor policy to ex-
pend state money upon any but the main
roads or thoroughfares. These roads be-
long to all. The persons who live in the
most remote parts Of the town have g.
greater profitable interest in main roads
than they are apt to realize The near
est village is their village, and all pub
lie improvements there made enhance
the value of their own property.-W. A.
Thomas, in Farm and Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
EMPRESS SOLD HER JEWELS
How Eugene Managed to Dispose OF
Her Valuables to Save Her
Dynasty.

The story of the Servian jewels must
recall to ex-Empress Eugene her
own experiences when the. waves first
began to dash about her throne She de-
termined to sell the greater part Of her
jewels in hope to do something to save
the dynasty. Publicity had to be avoided,
and market was not to be found in Eu-
rope, newly thrilled by the horrors of
Sedan, says the st. James Gazette. The
empress looked to the east for market.
An Englishman was on his way home
for holiday. A Atelegram at Bombay
awaited him from one of the greatest Eu-
ropean financial houses and informed
him of the determination of the empress.
The difficulty had been to find man with
suthcient influence to be able to approach
the princes of India in secret with view
OF selling them the jewels. Not less hard
was it to lay hands on the man who had
moral strength sufficient to carry with
him surreptitiously hundreds of thou
sands of pounds worth of jewels in lands
where the queens writ did not run, and
where the protection of the constable is
not Immediately available.
Every care had been taken to insure
secrecy. The jewels had been taken to
pieces; the gems removed from their set
tings; the latter "jointed" to admit of
their holding and being worn around the
waist of their bearer in a belt of soft
leather. The Englishman put on the
belt, armed himself with trusty re-
volver, engaged trusty servant, and
set forth on his mission. For three
months he wandered over road, rail and
river. The responsibility of his trust,
the constant danger Of discovery, the diff
f1culty Of disposing Of his burden were
worries that combined almost to kill him.
At last he was successful The jewels
were sold to prince who esteemed them
the more for that they were the property
OF a distressed empress. There would
have been trouble, no doubt. had the mat
ter been known at the India Office, but
the man who discharged the undertaking
afforded an example of courage and solid
worth in trying conditions which merit
place in the story of commercial in
tegrity and disregard of personal dan
ger
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13

edges of this perfectly alright By seal
ing with earth. After this mass has
smoldered for 10 or IL hours, very
good quality of cob, charcoal will be
found upon removing the cover, when
the mass should be shoveled out and
spread to prevent the possibility of
combustion and burning to ashes.
Charcoal is as valuable for poultry as
for pigs, because of its cleansing and
absorbent properties, being most eff
cient internal antiseptic. Its use is a
material insurance against disease, es-
pecially cholera.-Farm and Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
MANS FIGHT WITH NATURE.
Struggles of the People of Galveston,
Tex, to Save Their City from
the Sea.

Little more than three years have
elapsed since Galveston was almost
wiped out by the terrible storm and tidal
wave of September 8, 1860, which de-
stroyed between 5000 and Z 900 lives, and
property worth $25, 900 900. The disaster
was something which could not have
been foreseen, and even if foreseen, could
not have been averted, except so far as
the loss of life is concerned. The trouble
lay in the situation-the slight elevation
of the city above sea-level and the alb
sence of protection from Gulf storms,
says Youths Companion.
Immediately after the catastrophe per-
sons who knew little Of history predicted
that the city would never. be rebuilt;
that the survivors would seek place on
the neighboring: mainland and there
found new Galveston. Instead Of that,
they have been doing what people in
similar circumstances always do. They
are restoring the old city and making it
safe.
The plan includes the construction of
a great sea-wall II feet high, to shut out
storms, and the raising of the main part
of the city-an area of two square miles
above the level of the destroying wave
of 1900.
While other cities are organizing golf
and tennis and whist clubs, Galveston is
organizing house raising clubs
What this Texas city is doing is only
a new example of mans tenacity of pur-
pose in fighting nature when he finds her
hostile. Venice and much of Holland
have been reclaimed from the sea. A
large part of Boston is made land" Lon
don has wrested large tracts from the
domination of the Thames; New Orleans
has rescued many acres from the en-
croachments of the Mississippi and Lake
Pontchartrain. There is, indeed, hardly
q city in the world where man has not
had to fight some force of nature in Or
der to preserve the advantages of geo.
graphical position. Such fight is char
acter builder and developer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
COWS ARE VERY SENSITIVE.
A Few Incidents from the Diary of
Dairyman Which Should
Teach Others Lesson.

1t takes very little to reduce the daily
milk yield. The COW is a sensitive
mother, more so than the human moth
er, because devoid of understanding
Giving milk is motherly act 1t is a
function of motherhood, and the more
milk, the more maternity is expressed
and implied. The other evening l lost
five pounds of milk from six COWS by
delay and worry in giving the COWS
their meal ration
AS went out to give the cows their
grain l found that our Tamworth
sows had got into the COW byre during
the day, and payed sad havoc with he
meal boxes. AS We consider no place,
even the houseyard or lawn, too good
Tor those porcine mothers, they occa-
slonally get into places where they had
better not go. 1t CHANGED on this day
the sows broke several of the meal
boxes in splinters; so here l was with
the meal, and the cows after coming
TO the byre and got into their stakes,
on top OF me, and l had no place to
feed the meal to four of them.
l had them staked, however, but
could not give them their meal until
l repaired their boxes with hammer
and nails, and meantime milking COM
menced without the meal ration. Two
OF the COWS had received their neal.
and the others began to raise Cain,
and could not understand why they,
too, did not get their usual ration
BY the time l got the boxes fixed to
receive the meal the COWS had ceased
worrying, stretching out their necks,
baWling, and what not, and at last
settled down on the assumption that
they were to get no meal When they
eventually got their ration, the harm
was done, and the result in the milk
yield was as stated above-a loss of
COWS.
Last summer we drove the COWS to q
somewhat out-of-the-way pasture,
where there was a fine growth OF
white clover, and not an animal had
taken bite out of it. and where there
was also promiscuous growth of trees
and undergrOwth-an ideal place for
cows on hot day
AS the road to this field is quite cir
| cuitous, there was some difficulty in
getting the COWS to it, and into the
| tleld. There was also some difficulty
in getting them out of it. all of which
caused the COWS a great deal of worrj
and some excitement. They were taken
out of the field at noon and permitted
to go to their accustomed pasture. That
evening, however, Notwithstanding be-
ing Ito their horns in clover" they fell
off ten pounds of milk for the six
cows-Country Gentleman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS.
Most Thieves Are Such Because Cir
cumstances Have Been Too
Strong for Them.

During the period of my Incarceration
I conversed with some hundreds of pris-
oners belonging to what is known as the
professional or hardened criminal class
those desperate, hardened. clever Grim
inals of whom We hear and read so much.
I got at these mems sentiments, IDEAS
and feelings, and believe / am safe
in saying that in only two instances did
I encounter prisoners whom put down
as utterly irreclaimable. AS for the
remainder, they were professional GRIM
inals simply because no other profess
sion was open to them, says the Nine
teenth Century.
To suggest, as some writer's do, that
these men are burglars, housebreakers,
pickpockets or whatever it may be, be-
cause they banker after pursuing these
occupations, is to my mind sheer non
sense. These men are professional GRIM
inals because their wills have been weak
and circumstances have been too strong
for them. They assert that these pro-
fessional criminals are mere wild beasts,
impossible of being brought back to the
path of rectitude, is, to my thinking, not
only absurd, but untrue. No one at
tempts the reclamation process either
in jail or out of it. Once man has worn
prison suit, the world, whatever may
be it's protestations to the contrary.
tacitly declares him an outlaw, every
mans hand is against him, he is a
pariah, an outcast; and, unless he be a
man of strong will and fierce determine
ton. or has private means or friends to
assist him, he almost naturally relapses
into crime. 1t is, in fact his only al
tentative, and the men he has met in
prison are the only persons who will as
sist him. I confess feel sick when
read the pulling sentimentality which
from time to time appears in reviews
and newspapers anent the innate de-
pravity of the criminal, knowing as
do the struggle, the almost hopeless
struggle, the ex-prisoner has to make II
he is to exist without infringing the
law
No doubt there are prisoners aid So
cieties which receive and spend the vi
carious charity of the public. These So
cieties will, l know, receive the pris-
oner on his discharge and make him
clearly understand that he is an ex-pris-
oner; they will dole him out the paltry
gratuity he has earned in prison, and, il
he wants anything else, they will en-
ploy him to chop wood or at some such
congenial labor-at profit to the So
ciety. These institutions may do excel
lent work for all know, but the excel
lent work has not come under my notice.
How they expend their funds has always
been mystery to me, because in not one
solitary instance-and I have made
hundreds of inquiries been able
to trace the fact of their having rendered
efficient aid to any discharged prisoner
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Always Turn to the Rioh+

It is the long-established custom in
this country that vehicles meeting on
any street or highway shall turn to the
right. Some suppose that this is only an
unwritten law of the road, but as mat
ter of fact. it is on many statute books
The law in many states clearly defines
that carriages, wagons, carts, sleighs.
sleds, bicycles, tricycles and all other
vehicles must, when in motion, keep to
the right. A person driving is very
properly required to have the left wheels
of his vehicle on the right of the center
is an authoritative adoption of the old
motto: "Fair play and half the road"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
CHAPTER XIV.

NUMBER TWO'S LITTLE PLAN FOR
PUTTING THOUSAND POUNDS
APIECE IN EACH OF OUR POCKETS.
you have seen my man lubbock.
Well, am venturing to propose that
he be elected to fill one of the three
vacancies on the council. 1t seems to
me, when an outsider gets to know as
much as, under the imperative cir
cumstances, we could not prevent Hub
book from knowing about our bust
ness-that one of two things must
happen. That person must either be
more committed-must, in fact, be
not only an accessory to what we have
done or propose doing, but must be
our actual accomplice- else we must
protect ourselves from the possibility
of that person doing us mischief or Of
turning informer by taking the one and
only effectual way of shutting his
mouth. lubbock has been with me
for four years, and can go bail for
his trustworthiness. I've sounded him
and find him ready and eager to be
elected. He will be a distinct acquisi-
ton to the council, for an ADLER fellow
or man of more resource I don't
know. Are you or are you not willing
that he should join us? I don't want
to force my candidate upon you against
your own judgment or your will, so
if any of you have anything to say
on the matter hope you will not hes
itate to speak out"
AL I've got to say" said Number
Six, lis that I'm glad to hear that the
chaps ready to become one of us. l
don't fancy having people knowing as
much about me as he does, unless they
are all I'm the same boat. What do you
say, mates?"
My colleague and myself asserting
to this view, lubbock was summoned
and informed of the decision of the
council. He was short, squat man,
the grossness of whose appearance did
not prepare one for his apish imitation
Of fine speech and fine manners. His
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Never Wear Out.

Loops for hanging up garments are al
ways wearing out and breaking, particu-
larly with children's cloaks and coats.
To make a serviceable loop cut strip
OF kid from an old glove, roll in it piece
of coarse string and sew the edges of
Kid neatly together. This loop, fastened
securely to garment. will stand any
amount of pulling without wearing or
breaking.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
,SEED-TESTlNG MADE EASY.
Two Ordinary Plates and a Piece Of
Flannel Cloth the Only Mate
rails Required.

A simple terminating apparatus can
be made from two ordinary plates and
a piece of flannel cloth, as shown in the
cut. Fold the cloth, a, and lay it in one
plate, placing the seeds between the
folds of the cloth, which should be
moist, but not dripping Cover the
whole with another plate inverted and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
SOME SEVERE REFLECTIONS.

Some men talk and talk, and never
seem to get relief.
Self-made men generally act as though
they we're proud of their job.
ing gentlemen. They don't. know how.
To be we'll preserved, a woman, like
fruit, needs a good deal of sugar in her
composition.
The hard-luck man wouldn't trouble
US at all if he wouldn't insist on telling
US about it.
It is always a sad moment when
ritania rubs the lotion off her eyes and
notices Bottoms ears for the first time
IN. Y. Times.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Education in Oklahoma

Oklahoma has seven educational in
stitutions of higher learning under con-
troll of the territory, and manz schools
and colleges under the supervision Of
religious denominations. The state has
more than 100000 children Of school
age, and 5000 young men and women
IN the institutions of higher learning,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Durable Label for Plants.

A label that will practically last for
ever, that can be written upon with a
lead pencil and easily erased, but that
will not bleach out by rain or sun is
made of celluloid. I cut the sheet in
strips 1zx3 inches with heavy pair
or shears. These strips can be thrust
into the soil like wooden label, but
they never decay. Perforated by an
awl at one end, fine copper wire can be
attached to it. This is then readily
fastened to plants or stakes, thus les
sening the danger of mixing labels
E.. NJ. Lucas. in Farm and Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Bottom Drops Out,

The boom among mineral prospectors
on the Highland range in ST. Louis
county proved short-lived. A year ago
hundreds of prospecting leases were
taken out, and very few are being re-
newed. Of 400 which expired recently,
less than dozen were renewed. The
prospecting lease, which costs SIS for
16o acres, allows the holder to prospect
for iron ore for year, and at the end
of the year the holder may take out a
ffty-year contract, which costs 500 a
year until ore is shipped. Then the
holder pays royalty of IS cents a ton.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
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BURNING OF COB CHARCOAL
Against Disease in Hogs and
Poultry, Especially Cholera.

Cob charcoal is made by burning dry,
we'll preserved corn cobs under a
smothered fire. The simplest method
is to dig funnel-shaped pit, as shown
in the cut, starting fire at the bottom
and so adding cobs that the fire will
be gradually drawn to the top of the
pit when completely filed Over the
mouth of the pit place sheet iron lid.
or other freproof covering, making the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
A Good Catch.

Catching muskalonge weighing thir-
ty-6ve pounds through a hole cut in ice
three feet deep is novel experience,
but that is just what James North and
Frank Tibbets, we'll known citizens of
Cass Lake, did yesterday. Thew went
over to the south shore of Cass lake
near Star island, to fish through the ice.
They took with them a heavy crow
bar, two or three large pieces of scant-
ling and the ordinary cane poles, with
strong silk lines attached.
William J. Donahower, Of St. Paul,
who was sworn in as attorney general
to succeed w. B. Douglas, who goes on
the supreme bench, is one of the young
est attorney generals that Minnesota has
ever had. He is thirty-nine years old,
having been born at ST. Peter in 1865.
He came to St. Paul in 1887 and en-
gagged in the practice of law.
Mathew Christensen, farmer, IS
years of age, living near Manks,to,
committed suicide at his home by
shooting himself with a 44-caliber re-
volver lust above the heart
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
George w. Vanderbilt's splendid

George w. Vanderbilts splendid
estate in the North Carolina mountains
near Asheville, has for several years
been one of the show places of the United
States George Gould is said to have dis
covered a site in the Colorado noun
tains, near Glenwood Springs, that he
thinks is capable of being improved so
that it would overshadow the famous
Biltmore of Mr.. Vanderbilt, and he is
credited with the intention of making it
one of the finest estates in the world.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Boomerang Argument.

Ma" demonstrated Bobby, when
was at grandma's she let me have pie
twice."
well, she ought not to have done so,
Bobby" said his mother. II think once
is quite enough for little boys. The older
you grow, Bobby, the more wisdom you
will gain"
Bobby was silenced, but only for a
moment.
swell, ma" he said, grandma is q
good deal older, than you are" STRAY
Stories. #sa-.--,.. y
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13

said that when girl is graduated from college she
knows everything but cooking Perhaps but then husband
patient with intellectual wife and few lessons in the would
would
college training for the girl helps when necessary get
and butter What better home creator there than
smart? She and become leader society,"
she all influences Many college girls conte1n-
plate marriage after school spend their home
learning the essential things which make modern housekecper
girls however, do not think of marriage They become fol-
lowers of and literature
Woman what sphere life she occupies the
The educated will lead in the
home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
ITO Be Continued
Wanted Judgment Suspended.

Wanted Judgment Suspended.
An East Indian, who had been fined
in court, wrote to the Judge about it.
"Your honor" wrote the appellant,
may be right, may be wrong; may
be right, your honor may be wrong
Let your honor give me back the flne
and then, at day Of resurrection, when
all hearts will be- opened, If I am
wrong will most gladly, sir, -
turn your honor the money"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Not Handsome.

Il understand that you said Won
thought Miss Qngainly was beautiful.
moo, couldn't have said that"
Jones told me-"
"Oh; it came about this way-Jones
said: Don't you think Miss Ungainly's
feet are pretty big?' and replied: Yes.
but thing her hands some. '"-Houston
Post.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
College Girls and ANa1r1mony
Bv MISS MYRA REYNOLDS.
Dean of Foster Hall, University Of Chicago,

HE there few marriages among college gill: is
the fact that they discretion in picking husbands
There such idea marriage at any price, among
modern college girls College girls marry for the
sake of home. They don't have do that Their educa-
ton command salary There old idea that COL
lege life eliminates This So Some of the sweet
of to-day graduates of colleges little knowl-
edge will kill the eternaly feminine the young
woman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
Coming Back.

immigration officials of the northern
coast lines say that evidence is accumu-
lating which tends to show that many
of the American settlers who have gone
into the Canadian Northwest during the
last few years will return and will take
up farms in the Western states. A con-
siderable inquiry is developing, and ar
rangements have already been made to
bring back number of families and
settle them on lands in Washington.
Many of the settlers that went from
the United States into Canada, the let
tiers indicate, have not Jared we'll, and
have been less successful than they ex-
pected. Many of them found the winter
very severe, and they are anxious to dis
pose of their holdings and seek the
milder climate of the Pacific coast states.
The local commercial bodies in Washing
ton cities, an official said yesterday, have
received an even heavier inquiry from
Canadian points, and in several in
stances have been able to complete ar
rangenacnts to bring back parties OF
Americans who settled in the North
west territories and locate them on
American land.