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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10

she asked for, he would see that thS=
.1rishmen in America would sing God
Save the King l guess dad and tho.
king would have settled the Irish ques-
ito in about fifteen minutes, and signed
treaty, only 4 servant. brought in .
tWo-quart bottle OF champagne, and
dad and the king hadn't drank a quart
apiece before dad started to sing MY
Country IT'S Of Thee, Sweet Land of Lib
ertee," and the king sang God Save the
King" and, by thunder, it was the same
tune, and tears came into dad s eyes, and
the king took out his handkerchief and
wiped his nose, andJ bellered right out.
and the king rose and offered toast to
America and everybody in it, and they
swallered it, and dad said there was
enough juice left in the bottle for one
more round, and he proposed a toast to
all the people of Great Britain, including
the Irish, and the king who loved them,
and down she went, and they were stand
ing up. And told dad it was time to go.
Say, it was great, Uncle Ezra, and T
wish you could have been there, and
there had been another bottle The only
thing that happened 10 mar the reunion
of dad and the king. was when We were
going out backwards. boyiDg. There
was little hassock back of me, and T
kicked it back of dad. and when dads
heels struck it, he went over backwards
and struck on his golf pants, and dad
said: lei, Emery, Pave broken my
bloomink back. but who, cares" and
when the servants picked dad up and
took him out in the hall. and marched us
to the entrance. dad got in the cab, gave
the grand hailing sign of distress,
started to sing God save something or
other. and went to sleep in the cab. and l
took him to the hotel. Yours, !.
HENNERY,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
SOME EXPENSIVE FLOWERS
When Holland Was Tulip-Mad and
Ownership of Bulbs Was d.
vided Into Shares.

The prices paid for a new variety OF
rose recently in Paris, when single
buds sold for thousands of francs, re-
call the high figures, says the New
York Herald. which tulips once
fetched. In Holland in one year the
sales aggregated 100000 forms. Hol-
land went tulip mad. The bulbs were
quoted on the stock exchange Own
ersnlp IN them was divided into shares.
Spectators sold them short. At one
time more tulips were sold than ex-
listed. At Lille brewer sold his trade
and goodwill in exchange for a bulb,
which was thereafter known as the
brewery tulip. In Amsterdam a father
gave one by way of dover with his
child Thereafter the variety was
known as the marriage-of-my- daugh-
ter: At Rotterdam hungry sailor
happening on few mistook. them for
onions and ate them up. The repast
became as famous as Cle0patra's pearls
and probably exceeded it in COST At
Inc Hague poor fellow managed to
ralse black tulip. The rumor of that
vegetable marvel spread. Presently he
was visited by deputation from a
syndicate. For chat eve lamb of his
the deputation offered 1000 forms.
which he refused. He was offered TO-
600 forms. Still he refused. Cascades
OF gold were poured before his resist
ing eyes. Finally, tormented and
tempted, he succumbed. There and
then the deputation trampled tina:
tulip under their feet. Afterward il
appeared that the syndicate had. al:
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was going to receive the thirty-second
degree, and didn't: know whether they
were going to throw him over precipice
or pull him up to the roof by the hind
legs. We passed big hall clock, and It
struck Just when We were near it, and
of all the "hark from the tombs" sounds
I ever heard, that clock took the cake.
Dad thought It sounded like q death
knell, and he would have welcomed the
turning in of fire alarm as sound that
meant life everlasting, beside that dole
full sound.
After We had marched about three
mile heats, and passed the chairs of the
noble grand and the senior warden. and
the exalted ruler, We came to bronze
door as big as the gate to a cemetery,
and the grand conductor gave US
few instructions about how to
back out fifteen feet from the pres
ence Of the king. when we were
dismissed, and then he turned us over
to little man who was a grand cham
bermaid. understood the fellow to say.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10

mocks hung with soft cushions IA
them, and easy chairs of old hahog-
any stood empty. ] have said as little
as possible Of my aching wound: /
have always thought it bad enough
for one to suffer his own pain. But I
must say was never so tried
to keep my head above me- as
when I came to that door. Two
figures in white came out to meet me.
At first did not OBSERVE had enough
to do keeping my eyes open-that they
were the Miles. de Lambert.
God save u.s." heard one of them
say. HE is hurt; he is pale. See the
blood running of his bootleg"
Then, as one took the bit, the other
easeG me down from my saddle, calling
loudly for help. She took her hand
kerchief-that had perfume have
not yet forgotten-as she supported
me, and wiped the sweat and dust from
my face. Then I saw they were the
splendid young ladies l had seen at
the counts table. The discovery put
new life in me; it was like dash OF
water in the face. lifted my hat
and bowed to them.
Ladies, my thanks to you,' l said
in as good French as I knew. II have
been shot. May I ask you to send
for doctor?'
A butler ran down the steps; a gar
dener and stable-boy hurried out of
the grove.
ITO the big room-the Louis
Quinze." said one of the girls, excited
ly. as the men came to my help.
The fat butler went putting upstairs,
and they followed, on each side OF
me.
GO for doctor, quick" said one of
them to the gardener, who was coming
belinda Frenchman who prayed to a
saint as he saw my blood.
They led ME across great green rug
in a large hall above-stairs to a cham
Der OF which I saw little then save it's
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10

size and the wealth of it's appoint
ments. The young ladies set me down,
bidding one to take off my boots, and
sending another for hot water. They
asked me where I was hurt. Then
they took off my blouse and waist
coat.
Mon Dieu!" said one to the other.
What can we do? Shall we cut the
shirt"
Certainly. Cut the Shirt said the
other. 1--WE must help him. We can
not let him de-
God Forbid" was the answer. "See
the blood. PooS fellow! It is terri
ble!"
They spoke very tenderly as they
cut my shirt with scissors, and barred
my back, and washed my wound with
warm water. I never felt touch so
caressing as that of their light fingers,
but, gods Of war! it did hurt me. The
bathing done, they bound me big with
bandages and left the room until the
butler had helped me into bed. They
came soon with spirits and bathed my
face and hands. One leaned over me,
whispering, and asking what would
like to eat. Directly team of horses
came prancing to the door.
'<The colonel" one of them whis-
pered, listening.
"The colonel, upon my soul!" said
the other, that sprightly Louison, as
she tiptoed to the window. They used
to call her "Tiptoes" at the Hermitage
The colonel! remembered she was
none other than the Baroness de Fer
re; and thinking of her and the CRATE
ful feeling of the sheets of soft linen,
fell asleep.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
IS HABIT OR SUSPICION.
Pill Buyers Have an Exasperatine
Way Of Counting Purchased
Pellets.

Eighteen, nineteen. twenty. twenty
one" said the man with the open pill
box in his hand, relates an exchange
The drug clerk slammed down an
empty bottle with unnecessary force
You people who take pellets and
tablets must be !. mighty suspicious
lot" he said. Half the time when I
make up a box IT them the customer
unwraps the package and counts them
right here before my face, and those
who don't count Them here do it the
first thing when they got home. I
don't like it. 1t reflects upon my hon
esty 1t looks as it people SUSPECT that
am not giving good measure. OF
course, that may not be the reason for
the counting. 1t may be just one of
those senseless habits
1T u.s." interrupted the customer
AT least. it is in my case. l didn't
mean anything ny counting I always
do it. I have no particular reason
for it,"
Then you'd better quit it, said the
clerk. 1T makes lis fellows feel rather
uncomfortable and takes up a lot of
your time. BESIDES"
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with Other cab drivers in sign language
about us. for every driver kept along
with us, looked at US and laughed. as
though We were wild west show.
On the way to the. k1ng's residence it
was all could do to keep dad braced up
to go through the ordeal. He was brave
enough before we got the invitation,
and told what he was going to say to the
king, and you would think he wasn't
afraid of anybody, but when We got nea:-
er to the house, and dad thought of 20.
ing up to the throne. and seeing a king
in all his glory, surrounded by his hun
dreds of lords and dukes and things. a
crown on his head, and an ermine cloak
trimmed with red velvet, and six-quart
milk pan full of diamonds, some of them
as big as a chunk of alum. dad weakened.
and wanted to give the whole thing up
and go to a matinee, but " Wouldn't have
it. and told him if he didn't get into
the king row now that would shake
him right there in London and start il,
business as a Claude Duval highway
man and hold up stage coaches. and be
hung on Tyburn Tree. as used to read
about in my history of Sixteen-String
Jack and other English highwaymen.
Dad didn't want to see the family dis
graced, so he let the cab man drive on.
but he said if we got out of this visit to
royalty alive, it was the last tommyrot
he would indulge me in.
. Well, old man, it is like having an op-
Grafton for appendicitis, you feel better
when you come out from under the infiu
ence of the chloroform, and the doctor
shows you what they took out of you,
and you feel that you are going to live.
unless you grow another vermiforfa
appendix. We were driven into a sort
of Central park, and up to a building
that was big as lot of exposition build
ings. and the servants took us in charge
and walked us through long rooms COW
cred with pictures as big as side show
pictures at a circus, but instead of snake
charmers and snakes and wild men of
Borneo. and sword swallowers. the
kings pictures We're about war, and
women without much clothes on from
the belt up. Gosh, but some of those pic
lures made you think you could hear the
roar of battle and smell gun powder, and
dad acted as though he wanted to git
right down on the marble floor and dig
q rifle pit big enough to git into.
They walked us around like they do
when you are being initiated into Sc
cret society, only they didn't sing, Here
comes the Lobster" and hit you with
a dried bladder. The servants that were
conducting us LATED. I>had never seen
an Enslishman Ian before, and it was
the most interesting thing I saw IN Lon
don. Most Englishmen look sorry
about something, as though some dear
friend died every day, and their faces
seem to have grown that way. So when
they laf It seems as though the wrinkles
would star there, unless they treated
their faces with massage. They were.
laughing ut dads dislocated calf, and
his scared appearance ). us though he
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
CORN BREAD IN AMERICA,
Not So Common an Article of Food
Nowadays as It Was Fifty
Years Ago.

Our exports of corn to European
bushels in 1888 to about 3O0, OGO. 900
bushels at the present time, and to-day
Belgium at least is using more Indian
corn per capita as food than the United
States, in which it is great native
cereal, says the Birmingham Age
Herald. In Belgium the bakeries put
about 25 per cent. of corn -four in the
lily sold lower than wheat or rye loayes.
1t is considered more nutritious and
more easily digestible. In Germany the
favorite loaf consists of one-third corn
and two-thirds rye, and a five-pound
loaf thus made is sold at saving OF
about % per cent.
The change in the European bread
supply was started by C. J. Murphy, who
was sent abroad as commissioner by
the department of agriculture He be-
gan the propaganda in 1883. and he
maintained it until the use OF corn as
food was well started and even estab-
lished, and to-day Europeans are more
familiar with corn bread than Amer
leans themselves. Mr.. Murphy asserts
that both il Belgium and Ireland the
per capita consumption of corn as hu-
man food is higher than it is in the
United States. The value of the In
dian corn as food is not appreciated in
this country. Years ago children
thrived and grew strong through the
consumption of johnny cake, ash cake.
hominy and pudding, but in recent
years cornmeal has fallen into COM
parative disuse, although it is cheaper.
more wholesome and more digestlble
than wheat -four The preparation of
corn for the table can be more varied
t14an that of wheat, and yet for some
reason Indian corn is not freely used.
Mr.. Murphy says the consumption OF
American corn in crowded Belgium is
higher than it is in this country. 1t is
difficult to account for the dislike OF this
country for corn in its various forms.
We grow it, and We should not look
with an unfavorable eye on our own
excellent and abundant product
The subject deserves careful attentio On,
with view to a reinstatement of Amer
lean corn to the place it held on the
tables of our ancestors. Corn was not
a rejected article of food century ago,
and it was freely used as late as so
years ago. We may have progressed
backward in this matter Mr.. Murphy
thinks We have.
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burg massacre is an interesting story of
the working Of the Russian bureaucracy,
reports the New York Times. The ed1-
tors of the magazine cabled to Howard
Thompson, one of the best known Amer
lean correspondents at the, Russian
capital, to write the article, and he &C.
cented. A week later he cabled: Regret
pictures failed-All on" 49,.
In letter to the editors Mr.. Thonp-
son explained. He said he got on the
trail of some photographs showing the
actual shooting OF the populace.. When
he got to the photographers he found
that the police had been ahead Of him
and had taken the photographs and
smashed the negatives. Mr.. Thompson
went to Finland, leaving an associate to
get some additional pictures. When he
returned to st. Petersburg he found that
the photographers apartment had been
ri1led by the police, and the man himself
was In the Peter and Paul fortress.
4 That 10 Why there was No illustrated
article.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
CHAPTER VIII.

The doctor came that night, and
took out of my back piece of flattened
lead. It had gone under the flesh,
quite half round my body, next to
the ribs, without doing worse than to
rake the bone here and there and weak
en- me with loss of blood. 1 woke
awhile before he came. The baroness
and the fat butler were sitting beside
me. She was big, stout woman of
some 40 years, with dark hair and
gray eyes, and teeth of remarkable
symmetry. That evening, remember,
she was in full dress.
MY poor boy!" said she, in English
and in sympathetic tone, as she bent
over me.
Indeed. my own mother could not
nave been kinder than that good wo-
man. She was one that had
heart and hand for the sick-room. !
told her how I~had been hurt and of
my ride. She heard me through with
a glow in her eyes,
What story" said she. What a
daredevil! do not see how it has
beer possible for you to live.''
She spoke to me always in English
of quaint wording and quainter ac-
cent. She seemed not to know that I
could speak French
An impressive French tutor-a fine
old fellow, obsequious and bald-headed
sat by me all night to give me med
1cine. In the morning / 1eit as II I
had new heart in me, and was plan
ming to mount my horse. I thought I
ought to 60 about my business, but 1
fear I thought more Of tho young Ia
dies and the possibility Of my seeing
them again. The baroness came in
after l had q bite to eat. l told her
l felt able to ride. -:
"You are not able, my child. You
cannot ride the horse now" said she,
feeling my brow; maybe not for q
YER long time. l have large house,
plenty servant, plenty. food. Parbleu!
DO content, We shall take good care
6 you. y there y ons message @ -
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Tbs Bad Boy and His Dad Call on King
Edward and Almost Settled
r. the Irish Question.
by. HON. GEORGE W. PECK. IT,

y.-s BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
lE;x-Sovernor Of Wisconsin,. formerly pub
Usher OF "Peck's Sum-" author OF
"Peck's Bad Boy" etc,) y, %sr.<%
Copyright, 1904, by Joseph 3. Bowles)
London, H england.-Dear Uncle Ezra:
The worst is over, and dad and have
both touched king. Not the way you
think, touching king for hand-out, or
borrowing his loose change, the way you
used to touch dad when you had to pay
for your goods, but just taking hold OF
his hand, and shaking it in good old
United States fashion.
The American minister arranged it for
u.s. He told somebody that Peck's Bad
Boy and his dad were in town, and just
wanted to size up king. and see how he
averaged up with United States politi>
clans, and the king set an hour for US
to call.
Well, you'd dide to see dad fix up.
Everybody said, when we showed our
card at the hotel, notifying us that we
were expected at Marlboro House al such
q time, that we would be expected to put
on plenty Of dog. That is what an
American from Kalamazoo, who sells
breakfast food, said, and the hotel peo-
pie said we would be obliged to wear
knee breeches, and dancing pumps. and
silk socks, and all that kind of rot, and
mems furnishers began to call upon US
to take our measure for clothes, but
when they told us how much it would
cost, dad kicked. He said he had golf
suit he had made in Oshkosh at the time
OF the tournament, that everyone in
Oshkosh said was out of sight, and was
good enough for any king, and so he
rugged up in it, and / hired suit at a
masquerade place. and dad hired a coat.
kind of red, to 60 with his golf pants, and
socks, and he wore canvas tennis shoes.
I looked like picture out of a fourteenth
century book. but dad looked like a
clown in circus. One of dads calves
made him look as though he had a milk
leg, cause the padding would not stay
around where the calf ought to be. but
worked around towards his shin. We
went to Marlboro House in a hanson cab,
and all the way there the driver kept
looking down from the hurricane deck.
through the scuttle hole to see if We
were there yet and he must have talked
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10

finally he went off all in a bunch Dad
said: Look here. Mr. King, some
one has got you all balled up about that
war. I know, because was in it, and
now the north and the south are United,
and can whip any country that wants to
fight q champion, and will go out and
get = reputation. by gosh!",. ~@ -,
The king laughed at touching dad of.
and asked dad what was the matter of
America and Great Britain getting to-
gether and, making all nations know
when they had better keep their places,
and quit talking about fighting. Dad
said he never would consent to America
and GreatBritain getting togethert tonight
any country until Ireland got justice and
was ready to come into camp on an
equality. and the king said he would an
swer for the Irishmen Of Ireland II dad
would pledge the 1rishmea Of. America,
cause We had about O. many Irishmen.
IN America % he had In ireland, and dad
said Il the king would give ireland what
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10

The door opened, and we went in, ami
dads misplaced calf was webbing as
though he had locomotor attacks-ye
Well, there were dozen or SO fellows
standing around. and they all had GA
some kind of uniforms, with gold badges
on their breasts, and in the midst of
them was little, sawed-off fat fellow
not taller than five feet six, but perfect
picture of the cigar advertisements OF
America fer cigar named, after the
king. I expected to gee a king as big
as Long John Wentworth. of Chicago,
great big fellow that could take small
man by the collar and throw him over a
house, and felt hurt at the small size
of the king of Great Britain, but, gosh. he
is just like Yankee, when you get the
formaiity shook OF.
We bowed and dad made a courtesy,
like an old woman and the king came
forward with smile that ought to be
initiated by every Englishman They
all initiate his clothes and his hats and
his shoes. but he seems to be the only
Englishman that smiles. May be it is
patented, and nobody has right to smile
without paying a rcyalty. but the good
natured smile of King Edward is worth
more than stomach bitters, and the Eng
fish ought to be allowed to copy it.
There is no more solemn thing than q
party of Englishmen together in Ameri-
ca, unless it is party of spectators
that are Short on wheat, or gathering
Of defeated politicians when the cleo
ton returns come in: But the king is. as
jolly as though he had not a note COM
ing due at the bank: and you would think
he was good, common citizen, after
working hours, at a round beer table
with two schooner loads in the hold, and
another schooner on the way, frothins
over the top of the stein. That is the feel
ing had for the king when he came up
to us and greeted dad as the father of the
bad boy. and patted me on the shoulder
and said: 'And so you are the boy that
has made more trouble than any boy
in the world. and had more fun than any
body, and made them all stand around
anu NOuUtI NIldL was CUIu1uQ ueAt
You're wonder. Strange the Ameri-
can people never thought of killing you. ~
I said yessir, and tried to look innocent
and then the king told dad to sit down
and for me to come and stand by his
knee, and by ginger, when he patted me
on the cheek. and his soft hand squeezed
my hand, and he looked into my eye,
with the most winning expessicu, did
not wonder that all the women were il
love with him, and that all Englishmer
would die for him.
He asked dad all about America. its
institutions, the president. and every.
thing. and dad Just was so clustered thai
he couldn't say much. until the king
said something about the war between
the States, in which the southern states
achieved victory. don't know
whether the king said that just to wake
dad up, cause dad had grand army but
ton on his coat. but dad choked up lit.
tie, and then began to explode. little a,
q time. like bunch of firecrackers. and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
Relics for Sale

In strong contrast to the ceremonies
lately taking place in Belgrade is the
pilgrimage to London and Paris of, the
Inflated Queen Draga's nephew, =
young Servian officer, George Petro-
vich, who is endeavoring to dispose Of
the Alencon lace wedding gown and
much Of the jewelry that belonged to
his aunt He was on the black ''llst
list on that fateful June IL, and owed
his life to the fact that the soldiers SEM
to arrest him mistOOk his address.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
Novel Use of RAYS.

A novel application of the Roentgen
rays to the testing of submarine cables
has recently been made in Europe, and
has been found useful in determining
defects and imperfections which might
cause a breakdown of the cable and
involve considerable expense for re-
pairs. Foreign substances. air bubbles
or bad joints in the rubber or gutta-
percha insulation are readily detected
and may be remedied at the works.-
Science.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
It Didn't Burn There.

You're always talking about the
poetic fire. !" she said. Il wish you'd
put bushel of genius into that empty
crate there, and see If the children will
be able to get any warmth out of it,"
And then he went out into the cold
streets of the city and wrote q rhymed
advertisement for basket of COAL
Atlanta Constitution, =:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10
The Present DUTY,

Let us do our duty in our shop or our
kitchen, the market, the street. the Of
fee. the school, the home. just as faith
fully as it We stood in the front rank
of some great battle, and We knew that
victory for mankind depended on our
bravery, strength and skill. When We
do that. the humblest of us will be serv-
ing in that great army which achieves
the welfare of the world.-Theodore
Parker.