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inches in thickness Through one OF
these legs. at distance of eight inches
from the lower end, cut a mortise {as
shown at A in figures and lO) gig
inches long and seven-eighthso OF an inch
wide to guide the slide piece OF the lower
end of the wise. Next cut of two
seven-eighth inch end rails. 26 inches
long and 10 inches wide. and carefully
nail rail firmly to the upper ends of
each pair of legs-nailing these end rails
to the edges of the legs, as shown at
E in Fig. 9, and using 2A inch wire nails
The front and back boards are now cut
from board rs inches in thickness.
and must be feet 10 inches long ana
IL inches wide
At distance of eight inches from each
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07

every cent We had gambling. Well,
we wondered about it all night, and
had our breakfast sent up to our room.
and had it charged. expecting that
when the bill came in we would have
to jump into the ocean, as we had no
gun to kill ourselves with. Just after
breakfast duke, or something. came
to our room, and dad said it was all
Off. and he called upon the Dakota
man to make a speech on politics,
while dad and I skipped out. We
thought the duke, who was the mana
ger of the hotel, would not under
stand the speech. and would think we
were great people, who had got
stranded.
The Dakota man started in on a
democratic speech that he used to de-
liver in the campaign of '96, and in
half an hour the duke held I'D his
hands, and the Dakota man let up on
the speech. Then the duke took ont
a roll Of bills and said: 'Ze shentle
men is what You call bust. Is it not
so?" Daid said he could bet his life
it was so. Then the duke handed
the roll of bills to dad, and said il
was a tribute from the prince of
Monaco, and that We were his guests.
and when our stay was at an end. auto
mobiles would be furnished for us to
&C tc Nice, where We could cable home
for funds, and be happy. - .'
Well, when the duke left us. dad
said: "Wouldn't that skin you?" and
he gave the Dakota man one Of the
bills to try on the bartender. and
when he found the money was good
we ordered an automobile and skipped
out for Nice. The chauffeur could not
understand English, so We talked over
the situation and decided that the only
way, to be looked upon as genuine au.
tomobilists would be to wear goggles
and look prosperous and mad at
everybody. We took turns looking
mad at everybody we passed on the
road, and got It down so fine that peo.
PIE picked up rocks after We had
passed, and threw them at us, and then
we knew that we were succeeding in
being considered genuine, rich auto
mobile tourists. va l..
After we had succeeded for an hour
or two in convincing the people that
we, were properly heartless and purse
proud, dad said the only. thing we
needed to make the trip a success was
to uncover somebody He said nearly
all the American automobile tourists
in Europe had killed somebody and
had been obliged to4settle and sup.
port q family or two In ii France " Of
Italy, and they were prouder of it than
they would be il they endowed 9 uni
versity, or built a church, and he said
he trusted our chauffeur would not be
too careful In running through the
country, but would at least cripple
some one. 4. i &
Well, Just before ~ g got TO Nice. and
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GIRL TRAINS elephant.
Young Daughter Of New YorH zos
Keeper Teaches the Park Pct
Many Tricks.

One of the most interesting aHsmal
trainers and one of the most Inter-
esting trained animals in the whole,
world. probably. are Hattie Snyder, a
14-year-old school girl. and Hattie"
a three-year-old Ceylon elephant,
writes John z. Rogers, in "A Girl Who
Trains an Elephant" in ST. Nicholas
Hattie Snyder's father is William
Snyder. who has been keeper of the
menagerie in Central park. New York,
for more than 20 years.
Whether Hattie the elephant prefers
life in CeylOn to life in New York is
uncertain, though she appears to be
perfectly contented. Mr.. Snyder, who
has a wide knowledge of elephants
afirms that Hattie is the most eintel-
ligent and most amiable elephant he
ever saw. She spends most of her
time in cage, about 20 feet square. in
the elephant house in the Central park
zoo. The front of the cage is open
except for strong iron bars. and
about three feet in front of it is rail-
ing which prevents the group of in
terested spectators that are alwayt
present from getting too close In the
back of the cage is door which
opens intoa courtyard, and through
this door Mr.. Snyder passes when he
feeds the elephant, as does Hattia
Snyder when she visits her namesakeS
the elephant also uses this door when
ever she goes into the outer world for
exercise.
Hattie Snyder lives with her father
and mother, about ten minutes walk
from the ZOO. She attends the public
school. and although she always
stands well in her class and is partic-
ularly studious, she inherits her IA
theirs love of animals. and prefers to
study them rather than her text
books. When the two-year-old ele-
plant came to New York Hattie Sny.
der at once made friends with hee.
and soon, began to teach her tricks.
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REARING GOOD QUEENS.
Inherent Methods in Use Hard to I'm.
prove on the Natural Method Com Z
ing from swarmina Impulse. a:~; II :;

mere Is considerable difference at
opinion among queen rearers as tc
which are the best methods of rear.
ing queens out of season." saws =
writer IN tho Progressive Beekeeper.
In using the term out of season. /
mean causing bees to rear queens
when they are not naturally inclined
to do so..s >.S' - > ~ :
Il think 1t is pretty generally nd.
m1tted that we cannot rear queens
that are superior to those reared I'm.
der the natural .swarming impulse.
provided, of course that such Queens
are the daughters Of superior mother
queens, and in most cases queens
reared under abnormal conditions are
likely to be somewhat inferior to the
hrst named. Queens reared to super.
sede an old queen that is failing I con-
slder equal to and possibly in some
cases superior to queens reared under
the swarming impulse. Such queens
are reared with the greatest tof care
and due deliberation, and we may
therefore expect them to be of the
very best. There are probably one or
TWO exceptions to the last named and
that is when such queens are reared
very early in the spring or late in the
autumn when the colony is not in the
best condition for rearing queens.
'::All queens, not reared under one or
the other of the above named condi.
lions are to certain extent reared
under abnormal conditions, and it is
such queens that are more likely in
some instances to prove inferior. ]
think some queen rearers contend that
to remove the queen from a prosper.
GUS colony and allow them to rear
queens at will does not produce good
queens, but in my humble opinion
such queens are as good or better
than those reared under many of the
more abnormal conditions as now
used by many professional queen
rearers, provided, of course, that all
the conditions. such as the honey flow,
the season and other things, are equal
in every respect.
Il would advise the novice who
wishes to rear his own queens to adopt
the latter method in preference to
most of the more complicated methods
now in use; that is when he cannot
secure natural swarming cells or cells
reared under the superseding impulse
that are reared from the egg of choice
queens.
"Certainly all of the above named
cells are more troublesome to handle
than cells built singly. but in the long
run it will be the least work and the
safest plan for the novice.
''In many of the abnormal methods
of producing queens, the larvae are
stinted at time when they should be
fed profusely, and if we examine the
cell after the queen has emerged we
will find that all of the food has been
consumed, indicating that the larvae
had barely enough and probably not
enough royal jelly for their full de-
velopment. It is such queens that we
have good reason to believe will prove
inferior"
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They Run Over q Peasant with an
Automobile and Climb ':0laxiers,'
in Switzerland-Dad Falls Over :
Precipice, But Is Res
cued by the Guides.
4 ~ i;ss5 Z;
BY HON GEORGE " PECK

BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
(E.x-Governor OF Wisconsin. Formerly Pub
lisEer Of Peck Sun. Author Of "Pecks
Rad BOY" Etc)
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph b. Bowles.)
GENEVA SWITZERLAND. -= MY
DEAR OLD MAN: By ginger, but
would like to be home now: have
had enough OF foreign travel; don't
see what is the use OF travelling, to see
people Of foreign countries, when you
can so to any large city in America,
and find more people belonging to any
foreign country than you can find by
going to that country, and they know
COMPOUNDED sight more. Take the
Russians in New York. the Norwegians
OF Minnesota, the Italians of Chicago,
and the Germans in Milwaukee. and
they can talk English. and you can find
out all about their own countries by
talking with them. but you go to their
countries and the natives don't know
that there is such a language as the
United States language. and they laugh
al YOU when YOU ask questions. l am
sick of the whole business, and would
give all I ever expect to be worth, to
he home right now. with my skates
sharp.
would like to open the door of your
old grocery, and take one long breath,
and die right there ON the doorstep.
rather than to live in luxury in any for
eign country. Do YOU know, sometimes
go into grocery store abroad, and
smell around. in order to get my
thoughts on dear old America, but
nothing abroad smells as the same
thing does in our country. If l could
get one more smell of that keg of
sauerkraut back of your counter. when
1t is ripe enough to pick. I think 1
would break right down and cry for
JOY. OF course have smelled sauer-
kraut over here, but it all seems new
and tame compared to yours. 1t may
be the kraut here is not aged enough
TO be good, but yours is aged enough
to vote and sticks to your clothes.
Gee. but l just ache to get into your
grocery and eat things. and smell
smells. and then lay down on the
counter with the cat with my head on
a pile of wrapping paper and go to
sleep and wake up in America. an
American citizen. that no king or
queen can tell to hush up and take
OFT my hat when I want my hat on.
You may wonder how we got out of
Monte Carlo, when we had lost
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things, and the next morning We start.
ed. Dad wanted me to stay at the sta
ton Q couple of days. while he was
gone, and play with the goats, but /
told him Il there We're any places In
the mountains or glaciers any more
dangerous than Paris or Monte Carlo, !
wanted to visit them, so he let me 50.
Well. We We're rugged up for discover
Ing the north pole, and had alpen-
stocks to push ourselves up with, and
the guides had ropes to pull us IS up
when we got to places where we
couldn't climb. I could get along all
right, but they had dad on rope most
of the time pulling him until his
tongue run out and his face turned
blue. But dad was game, and don't
you forget it.
Before. noon we got on top of 4
glazier,: which Is the ice Of frozen
river, that moves all the time, sliding
towards the sea. There was nothing
but a hard winter, in summer, to the
experience, and We would have gone
back the same night. only dad slipped
down q creyice about 100 feet with the
rope on him, and the two guides
couldn't pull him up, and we had to
send lunch down to him on the rope
and one of the guides had to go back
to the village for help to get dad up.
Well, sir, think dad was nearer dead
than he ever was before, but they sent
down bottle of brandy, and when he
drank some of it the snow began to
melt and he was warm enough to use
bad language
He yelled to me that this was the
limit and wanted to know how long
they were going to keep him there.
yelled to him that one of the guides
had gone for help to pull him out, and
he said for them to order a yoke Of
oxen. 1 told him that probably he
would have to remain there until
spring opened and that was going
back to America and leave him there.
and he better pray. don't know
whether dad prayed. down there in the
bowels of the mountains, but he didn't
pray when help came. and they finally
hauled him up. His breath was gone,
but he gave those guides some Ian
guage that would set them to think
ing if they could have understood
him, and finally We started down the
mountain. They kept the rope on dad
and every little while he would slip
and slide 100 feet or so down the
mountain on his pants, and the snow
would go up his trousers legs clear to
his collar. and the exercise made him
so hot that the steam came out of his
clothes. and he looked like a locomo-
tive wrecked in a snow bank blowing
off steam.
1t became dark and I expected we
would be- killed, but before midnight
we got to the station and changed our
clothes and paid off the guides and
took train back. Dad said to me, as
We got on the cars: '"Now, Hennery. I
have done this glazier stunt, just to
show you that brave man, whatever
his age. is equal to anything they can
propose in Europe. but by ginger, this
settles it. and now I want to go where
things come easier I am now going
to Turkey and see how the Turks wor-
ry along. Are you with me?" "You
bet your life," says I. Yours truly.
IIFNNERv
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weather. This is a necessity when glue
is t. be used, as glue will not hold nor
can close joints be made if the air OF the
room is chilly and damp.
The same is also true as regards the
vanishing and finishing of different
articles when made
Staining. filling. shellacing or waxing
require room of more than moderate
almost warm-and also
free from dust
Work Bench.
Among the first and most important
appliances of the workroom is con-
venient and substantial work bench. A
cheap substitute is sometimes provided
in the form of large kitchen table,
to the top of which is added a stin
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the plank. 80 az to give the position
Of each screw on the edges OF, the bench
frame boards. Remove the plank and
with a tire. -sixteenths-inch bit and.
brace bore holes in the bench frame
where Indicated by the marking, OF suf-
f1cient depth to receive the full length
of the screws.
The top plank is now ready to b
screwed down, for which purpose the
brace and brace screwdriyer bit ars
the best.
BY proceeding in this careful and me-
chanfcal manner the wood, screws cut
their screw thread in the bench frame
only, all splintering and tearing of the
wood is avoided and a stronger and firm
er connection obtained.
1t will help greatly when using these
large screws to first rub the screw
thread part of the screw on a piece OF
beeswax, such as is used for laundry
purposes.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07

PLAN OF THE UNCAPPING BOX.
screen you, see standing at the end
goes in the inside, so that the caps
can't drop on the bottom of the box.
You see it is just the right height so
you don't have to bend over while at
work. The above works better than
anything else that l have seen.
In California this is a very CON-
mon form of uncapping-bo remarks
the editor Of Gleanings in Bee Culture
If the uncapper is at any time ahead
of the man with the extractor it will
hold the extra combs and still allow
the former to keep right on. Either
you or our artist failed to show the
cross-board on which the combs are
uncapped. ':''-
1t would be better to set the combs
in the box cornerwise so that they
could be picked up more easily.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
Plenty of Palaces,

The car OF Russia and the emperor
of Germany might, if they please, dis
pute with each other as to which of
the two owns the greater number of
palaces. Each might sleep in differ
ent house every night for a month and
not exhaust the number of his various
dwelling places. The car is said to
own many country seats-which are
kept up in every detail, furnished and
furnished, and crowded with servants
Into which he has never set foot.
King Edward, of England, while occu-
plying regularly but four, has q dozen
or more homes, which are ready for
him at all times.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
jap Generals in the Field

Frederick Palmer, the correspondent.
who has been with Gen. Kuroki in the
field, says in his recently. published
books, Gen. Kuroki spent most of his
time in the shade. Gen. Full, the chief,
went to sleep in the thick Of the fight
on the I'd. He had worked most of the
night planning for that day.. He could
not make the work of our infantry any
easier or make the fire of our guns any
more accurate by watching them.
When he was wanted he could bio
awakened" -. III
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end of these boards nail them firmly
to the front and back of the leg frames,
mailing not only into the legs, but also
into the ends of the end rails, thus more
firmly binding all the parts and adding
materially to the strength and f1rmness
of the bench frame. The front board
should be kept just even with the top
ends of the legs, but the back board
must be nailed on with its upper edge
projecting seven-eighths of an inch
pleted frame in Fig. 10. The reason
for this will be seen later. The front
piece for the top of the bench should be
6 feet long, and, if possible, not less
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07

plank about IA inches wide and IL
inches in thickness, so that it will stand
the hard usage to which it may be sub
jected, and We have seen a large dry
goods box used temporarily in the same
way for this purpose
Another substitute is to make up a
rough workbench such as is shown in
Fig. A.
There is no framing to this bench, it
being simply nailed together as shown
in the illustration. and having a wooden
wise and adjustable bench stop, as will
be explained further on
The trouble with all arrangements of
this kind is that the beginner. because
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
A LESSON IN
!. MANUAL TRAINING
PRACTICAL POINTS FOR BOYS
WITH AMBITION AND
s' GENIUS.
The Workroom and Its Appliances
The ENTHUSIASTICALLY Made
Substitutes for the Usual Bench
Regular "Cabinet-Maker's'' Work.
Bench Should Be Secured If Pos
sible-How Substitutes Are Made.
BY JAMES RITCHEY.

BY JAMES RITCIEY
Instructor In Woodworking and Pattern
Making. Armour Institute Of Technology,
CEicago.]
Copyright. 1904, by Joseph 3. Bowlcs.)
Note.-The interested reader Is advised
to clip this article for preservation.
very important part in the outfit
necessary for successful start in wood
working is dry and well-lighted room.
If possible to do otherwise, do not
crowd the worker and his work into
q damp basement where his tools will
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
Don'ts' Of the Apiarist.

Don't neglect to keep your Gaping
knife sharp.
. Don't use more than seven combs in
an extracting super (eight-frame
hive).
Keep in view the close of the season
to leave all colonies in the best condi-
ton possible; for winter. T.
Avoid queenless colonies by seeing
that all get queens. A queenless stock
may be united with a small second
swarm to good advantage. =.
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and planning the work while being con-
structed. and is also TOO crowded. for
advantageous use Of the tools, For
very small work, however this bench
has its advantages, in occupying small
space and in being light and easily
moved. but II used it should be supple
mented by q cheap, plain table on which
to lay tools, assemble the work under
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
LADY ChurchwArdenSI

The parish of Great Staughton. IN
Hunts is probably unique in the pos
session of two lady churchwardens.
Both ladies have served in this capacity
for several years. and no candidate &
either sex has been found to OPPOSE
them. They do not collect the offerings
in person, delegating this ONCE to Sides
men, but they are assiduous in their
church duties. In the same village
girl acts as postman and woman il
often employed as telegraph messenger,
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so much about is no better than lakes
all over Wisconsin,. and there are no
black bass or muskellunges in it. 81
The tourists here are just daffy
about climbing mountains and glaciers,
and they talk about it all the
time, and 1 could see dads finish.
They told him that no American
that ever visited Switzerland would
be recognized when he got home
If he had not climbed the glaciers, so
dad arranged for trip up into the
sky. We went 100 miles or SO on
the cars, passing along valleys where
all the. cows wear tea bells, and it
sounds like chimes in the distance. 1t
is beautiful in Switzerland, but the
cheese is something awful. A piece OF
native Swiss cheese would break up. q
family. IS: .#..s
AT night we arrived at station
where we hired guild and eli thes. and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
Lesson from Japan

From the Japanese we are slowly
learning not to bunch miscellaneous
lot of cut flowers in :wads for vases, but
to give each flower its natural, charac
teristic attitude and isolation, and thu
result Is far more artistic and beautiful.
Garden Magazine i %5$s.$s.:. s.. =.:.>
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HOMEMADE UNcAPPlNG BOX
r - **rse- = -sEE-zE-- ~ = SNS' AZ
What One Beekeeper Has Four Id Con-
venient in Working with
His Hives.

~ inclose a rough sketch of my un-
capping-box, says Harley Smith, of
Monroe. N. Y. The box is made of
seven-eighths inch pine, 20 inches
wide, and so inches long, by 2Ox24
inches deep. 1t is lined with galvan-
lied iron, and has strip of pine on
one side to wipe the knife of. The
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
Smoked Mutton Lers.

Mutton legs can be cured and smoked
just as pork hams are, and are found to
be one OF. the very best kinds of meat
when prepared in that way. Those
who usually object to mutton when
fresh cannot find any reason for COM
plaint in smoked mutton leg. - Az
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rust and where his boards will become
SO damp as to make it impossible to
de- work which will not warp and shrink
open at the joints.
The workroom should not only he
lighted and dry, but it should be heated
50 as to be comfortable in all kinds of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
Crowd tho Work.

Don't let the work crowd you-
crowd the work. Bear in mind, too,
that no one person can do 1t all. Your
health and. strength are your mosI
asset. Whatever you do.
don overdo.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07
The Athletic Girl.

Mrs. Elitely-There's Bessie Arm.
strong dancing with that stout Me-
Rotunde again. Why do sou suppose
she shows such Partially? 4 !, ;,
Mr.. Elitely-Give it up, unless she's
simply keeping in training. She used
to put the shot at vassar, you remeur
ber-PucE. r. -