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should escape the vigilance Of the Rus
sian army and police. but the precau-
lions would have all proven fruitless
had it not been for his own powers Of
endurance, his determination to escape
military service for hated ruler and
the assistance of q devoted wife, who
managed to throw the officers OF the
scent until ker husband should be we'll
over the Austrian boundary.
The sealed rubber package carried by
Mazurowski on that night contained
message to the newspapers Of America
which they were asked to give to the
mothers of America 1t tells of present
conditions in stricken Poland; of hus-
bands ordered to the front, who, rather
than leave their families to suffer, kill
them before joining their regiments; OF
lovers, who rather than. leave their
sweethearts to become the prey of
icentious army officers, kill them and
then themselves. 1t tells of conditions
80 revolving and so terrible that it IS
almost impossible for the enlightened
people Of this free land to believe them,
and yet this noble Polish woman asserts
they are true.
The Appeal.
Her letter to American mothers Is as
follows:
When several years ago, at the wish
OF Car Nicholas H., the first peace
conference gathered at The Hague, it
was received by the friends OF humani-
ty with applause. 1t seemed to herald
the dawn Of new era. We Poles alone
knew that the whole project Of Mura-
wen was a. fabrication to mislead the
civilized nations. The car announced
peace, out in his own land there was
no cessation Of strife. At the time of
the conference half the provinces were
under martial rule; and now. while 4
second conference is about TO take place
not this time on the initiative of
despOt, but of an elected leader of the
American people-Russia, unmasked. is
conducting in the far east such deyas-
tating. unnecessary war as is unparal-
leled in history.
1t is not a war; it is massacre! All
scientific and technical progress intend
ed for the increase of the power OF the
human race is being used for the work
of devastation. A hail of bullets COW
ers whole regiments. Battlefields are
so thickly strewn that it is necessary
to burn the bodies or to place the dying
and the dead in one grave. New regi-
ments of victims crowd from all portions
of that great country which Russia
claims, to hail, by order of their SUI
periors, the "peace-loving car
It is said that the government Of the
car old not wish this war; No, it was
not war that was desired, but new pos
sessions! Therefore it preached dis
armament to deceive your alertness,
that It need not fear foreign ornaments
The Gear, Not Russia.
The Russian government, you must
not forget, governs unchecked by the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
BoYHooD OF A.. j. PITKIN.
How the New President Of Locomo-
tive Company Struggled to
Study Mechanics.

Albert J. Pitkin was not apprenticed
because OF any disinclination on his part
to study. but simply because his father.
4 Presbyterian minister with charge
now in one town and now in another.
could not afford to send his boy through
college, although he desired to do 80.
Noting his love for mechanics, he did the
next best thing, and apprenticed him
to learn the machinist's trade. When he
was IL years old, he was sent to live with
his grandfather, in Granville, O.. who
owned and operated cabinet manufac-
turing shop. This the boy haunted; it
became his playground. With remark
able cleverness he made out of wood.
machinery that would perform differ
ent kinds of work. Once, with spin
ming wheel. which he found in an attic,
as the principal pullsy. and with coarse
string for belts, ba12evised a machine by
means of whicli%ne sawed wood. Be-
cause of his ingenuity there sprang up,
between grandfather and grandson, al
almost chummy friendship. He gained
his characteristic sobriety and serious
consideration of things through con-
slant association with his grandfather
who first taught him how TO use
chisel and q mallet, bow to drive Il nail
through a narrow piece OF wood with
and rub down cabinet to make ready
for vanishing. When he was only ii
years old he had mastered the con-
structive details of the portable engine
of the shop. He could also run the
turning lathe and other machines One
day, while OH a visit to Newark, O.. he
went through a machine shop. He had
never before seen metal being manu-
featured into machinery. The rasping
and harsh noises of. it's cutting were
music to his ear. From that time forth
the cabinet shop was barren OF attrac-
ton, and the dreams his grandfather
may have entertained of some day TAX
Ing him into partnership disappeared as
quickly as shavings in a furnace. He
determined to become a machinist, to
learn how to design machinery, and to
become eminent as an engineer.
He began as an apprentice at 60 cents
Z day in the Webster, Camp & Lane Ma
chine company's shops, chipping cast
ings with hand tools. and ended by aS-
sisting in setting up stationary engines
In neighboring villages, and, on the ex-
piration Of his time, was engaged at
1925 day. For his betterment, after
a year. he considered it wise to avail
himself of an opportunity to enter the
locomotive repair shops of the Cleve-
land. Akron & Columbus railroad. He
hac always felt the common romantic
Interest in locomotives. and had de-
lighted to watch their movements. The
locomotive then became his study:
When he crawled under one to make re-
pairs it was with students interest as
well as workman's Skill He familiar
lied himself with the mechanism Of oil
the existing styles on that railroad
Success.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
AWKWARD DINING IN JAPAN
The First Meal Partaken OF bv m
American There Is Sure to
Be Trying.

II it's your drst Japanese dinner you're
having dreadfully hard time, In the
first place, writes Bertha Runkle, in
:':Child Life in China and Japan" you
must sit ON the floor, for they don't have
any chairs In Japan. You kneel down,
and then you turn your toes in till one
laps over the other, and then you sit
back between your heels. At first you
are quite proud to find how we'll you do
it. and you don't think it's so very I'M
comfortable. But pretty soon you get
cramped, and your legs ache a. II you
had toothache in them. You don't say
anything, because you think that II the
Japanese can sit this way all day long,
you ought to be able to stand It a few
minutes. Finally both you feet got to sleep
and then you can't bear it a moment lon
ger, aud you:haye:to get;up and stamp,
round the room to drive the prickles out
OF your feet,> and all the dancing girls
giggle at you: This isn't your only trou-
bic, either. All you have to eat with is a
pair of chopsticks, and you're in terror
lest you spill something on the dainty
white mating floor. Now the floor of q
Japanese house isn't just the floor; it's
the chairs and sofas and tables and beds
as WELL At home 1t would be mortify-
ing enough to 60 out to dinner and spill
something on the floor; but in Japan,
where people sit and sleep on the floor,
it seems even worse. SO you are unhappy
till your little nesan (who is the waitress,
and almost as prettily dressed as the
dancing girls, but not quite) comes
laughing to your aid, and shows you how
to hold,your chop-sticks. After that you
manage nicely the rice and the omelet,
but the fish and the chicken you can't
contrlve to shred apart without drop
ping your chop-sticks all the time. So,
between dances, the maiko-little girls
about II years old-kneel down beside
you and help you. They can't keep, from
giggling at your awkwardness; but you
don't mind-you just giggle, too; and
everybody giggles and has a lovely
time.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

woman who always looks over the entire
stock and then says she'll call again
store girls have sort of signal code
which sends a warning all along the
line when one Of these dreaded patrons
makes her appearance in a department
store, says the Philadelphia Record. The
tip is a number. Ten forty-nine" may
he the word passed along which makes
the saleswomen aware Of the shoppers
approach. There are lots Of women who
make habit of looking at all sorts OF
finery in the big stores without any in
tention OF purchasing, and they are the
bette noir of a shopgirl's existence. The
latter, unless she has had previous
experience with the particular shopper
inspecting her wares, Is apt to 90 to 4
great deal Of trouble in the hope Of max
ing sale, only to find that she never had
any chance of doing 80. BY quietly pass
ing the signal along the bore is speedily
disposed of, without suspecting the lit
tie dea! that has been framed up for her.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
A Case Of Pronouns.

Tommy Mulligan, of the seventh
grade, was absent from the classroom
for one entire day. 1t would appear that
he had played truant. for unknown to
Tommy his teacher had spied him truds-
ing homeward with pockets hHgins
suspiciously when she too was home
ward bound that afternoon.
But Tommy brought a note of excuse
the next morning which of course would
prove that he :lad been detained at home
legitimately. The writing was hardly
that of fen mime hand. and the note
appeared to have been written laborious-
~ and with mitch blotting; furthermore
the penmanship seemed strangely ia.
miliar to his teacher. The note read as
follows:
Dear teacher Please excus Tony for
not comeing tc. shool yestiddy he cud-
not ZONE. I to:e my pants.
Mrs. MullisaE"
Chicago Record Herald.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
POLISH PEASANTS FORCED TO FIGHT
FOR a HATED RULER.
SOLDIERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES
Rather Than Leave Them to Fate Worse
Than Death. Fathers and Lovers Murder
Their Loved Ones Before Leaving for the
Eront-Stirrine Appeal of a Polish Woman
to All American Mothers.

New York.-On 4 dark, stormy
night In October Stanislaus Mazurowsk1
left his humble. home in southern Po-s
land and swan the Vistula river near
Sandomiera, on the border between
Russia and Austria. In this manner he
escaped military service in the Russian
army In Manchuria, and started ON his
long journey to America.
Concealed in tightly sealed rubber
case Mazurowski carried with him a
letter to the American people from a
Polish woman Of noble birth. His cap
ture with that letter In his possession
would have meant death not only to
himself as deserter, but death also to
the fair woman for whom he was act
Ing as messenger. Knowing this, every
possible precaution was taken that he
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

people. 1t is untrue that the govern
ment Of the car is Russia. That gov
eminent never receives the sanction and
mandate Of the people. The government
acts, Russia Is silent. It is false that
Russia Is Russia. Russia Is Poland, Fin
land, Lithuania, Armenia. Georgia.
Russians are Tartars, Kurds. Yakuts
and other peoples harnessed under the
yoke Of despotism.
1t Is false that necessity compels Rus
STA to the war. The moral necessity was
to evacuate Manchuria at a time set by
herself. 1t is false that the interests OF
Russia required further occupation.
Not the interest Of the people is here
at stake, but the interest Of handful
Of titled and untitled parasites, who
send the people to massacre and to be
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
Observations OF Animals

A Pennsylvania fisherman has dis
covered that ::::ailfross act as sentries
to fish and ths1 it is useless to try to
catch bass when a deep-voiced, below
ing frog is watching.
An English farmer has had several
cats killed. Stuffed and placed in
threatening attitudes among tie
branches of his fruit trees Not a
bird will come anywhere near the o.
chard.
The toad is exceedingly greedy. it
feeds continuously throughout the
night, and IN "a hours consumes q
quantity Of insects equal to >about four
times its stomach capacity.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

bicycle or run over by cab. TO your
house comes seedy individual, who
tells you that he saw the accident and is
prepared. for consideration, to give
evidence on your behalf in a court of
law touching the responsibility Of the
cabman or the bicyclist. He has recon
structed the scene," in his own imagin-
alton. and warmed by his eloquence and
his graphic details. you begin to imagine
yourself the most injured Of mortals.
Touched by his enthusiasm for your case,
you give him something for his trouble.
and arrange for his attendance at the
case. But tho altruism Of your visitor
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

it, vitals, You now see only defeats
on land and sea; we look upon mis-
cry. that brushes millions. 5 Z ,~>sxt
It Is not enough that our brothers are
perishing by thousands In a foreign
land, paying with their blood for the
perfldy Of that government which tore
from them their freedom and their
fatherland. Our people are brought to
tho last stage Of misery. Tens of thou
sands without work-tathers who can
not feed their children-walk the streets
Of Warsaw and Lodz.
Yet there is not enough misfortune
Mobilization is announced. Another
10000 victims are drafted from Poland
the land Of graves and crosses.
Savage Despair.
You cannot imagine the savage de-
spair which overpowers the masses torn
from the plow, from the hearth, from
wife and children. If we are going to
perish, let us perish in our own country!
Let us die by the hands OF those who
are our enemies!" is the cry of the re-
oVA Vs. AO wy S\OAACo CAy wv " AS u
they take us. They clamor to the peo-
pie Of Warsaw. We are not going to de-
fend.s Russia. Our country is here!" !,
You do not know that women throw
themselves under the wheels OF the
trains that carry their relations to the
far east; that cases u sudden death
and madness occur every day; that in
Pultusk, Czanstochowa and LODI, SOL
diers fired into the people and killed
many. In Gostynin, when the order was
given to decimate the resisting reserves,
the colonel. Dzwonkowski. Pole, shot
himself in front Of his regiment.
In Kutnow the women, maddened'
with despair. threw themselves upon the
Russian officers, then knelt upon the
tracks, raising their hands and calling
the vengeance of Heaven upon the car
The Russian government lies when it
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
ABOUT FORESTS OF ICELAND
Notion That There Is Only One Tree
There False, Says Distin.
guished Expert.

One would hardly expect the subject
OF the forestry Of Iceland to call for
much serious attention, says the Phil
adelphia Record, but lengthy investi-
cation of the trees of that country has
recently been made by no less distin-
guished person than DR.. Z. Y. Prytz.
professor OF forestry at Copenhagen.
He says that the prevailing notion that
Iceland has single tree only Is a fallacy
and that there is quite pretentious
growth OF trees on the land. the soil not
being unsuited for the growth. The tree
growth of the country has suffered from
injudicious cutting, he says, and makes
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

wildly about the shaft Of the spea. hit.
ting the trees and causing the wound l0
gap, so that with TWO or three such
spears in him he soon bleeds to death.
I determined to climb on the platform
and Investigate, which was foolish on
my part. as we were at least three miles
from camp and night coming on. Ny
Ba1onga boy. whom had named DAVID.
carried a .577 express rife 20 hand to me
when I called for it. and carried an
eight-bore
In order to swarm" up the platform,
banded my eight-bore to David, who
thus held both guns No sooner had I
fairly reached the scaffoldiDS than there
came terrifying roar from the bush
and scream from the boy. Dropping
both weapons, he placed himself beside
me with the agility of monkey.
looked down 10 see huge old lion
spring from the bush into the path. The
beast shifted the rifles and paved them
warffy. He evidently was one Of those
superannuated lions of whom thu. natives
say: His teeth are worn; h. will eat
man.. because they arc not ab]p to fgh:
! and kill their ordinary prey raus they
are more dangerous to an unarnled man
! for they are hungry always, ax,d man
without gun fills lcng-felt want with
| them.
The lion scented Us in the :ree ard
looked longing1y up at us. sometimes
! lying with his head upon his paws like
a domestic cat and just casting his eyes
| sideways. as if thinking how good we
would taste, and then again roe ring and
shaking his name. rearing on his hin.,
| legs and scratching at the tr.IE Of tbs
! tree.
! The moon came up and we coald see
all this as from an open box. for the
branches of the trees let in enough light
on the path to make the scene visible.
Suddenly there came great crashing
of twigs. cracking of small! seplings.
general tear-up of the bush. and thur
dering out of the obscurity, putting and
calmly, but with the speed of 4 loccmo-
tive.
! It was a rhinoceros big, black and
ugly. The lion would gladly have turned
tail, but the rhino was upon him too sooE
and cornered the old cat. Then his
fighting blood awoke.
| He made spring for the rbino. jump
ing sideways. and landed on his shout
ders, but his claws and teeth were worn.
and. after a confused tumble of fighting
! bodies. accompanied by terrific roars and
mighty snor1s and puffs. we saw that the
rhino had shaken off his antagonist.
| The two faced each other again. The
hon backed away and evidently was
about to run for it, when the rhino
charged. The lion sprang into the air to
dodge but the great horn of the rhino
caught him in the side and We heard T.
terrible ripping sound. Then the two
combatants were hidden by the bush
from which the rhino presently emerged
alone. making uncouth noises and ap-
parently in great rage. He tossed his
head as if he scented us. but in his mat:
anger rushed wildly away, crashing
through the forest.
Descending from ,he tree and regain
ing our guns. we found the lion dead.
We arrived in camp before the return Of
the party which had been sent out IN
search of us.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

the Russian papers report that q hero
who received a decoration for courage
on the battlefield had not even a shirt
on which to pin the symbol. 1t is false
that the injured rise from their beds
and rush into the lines eager to fight
again. The injured have no beds: the
moneys appropriated for the purpose are
stolen.
We knew all this long before you did.
You saw only the immense empire
which haughtily spread over two hem
ispheres; We saw the yermin snawinp
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
Killed His Wife Rather Than Leave
Her Alone.

Your homes are not surrounded BY
gendarmes and spies. You can move
the consciences OF your brothers; you
can demand that they put an end to
this horrible massacre, which sets on
the twentieth century in its infancy =
brand Of shame.
II you will not do this, II our voice
rouses no response; then there are no
longer any human beings: there is only
a silent, unpeopled desert, on which
hyenas dwell. Then the proposed con-
gress OF peace is, like the first, a per-
fdious comedy, proclamation, a deri-
sion of the untold misery of a wretched
people.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

Japanese bullets and grenades, to strew
the valleys of Manchuria and fill the
mountain passes; that he must be VIC
torious regardless of cost.
A Polish woman protests against this
Ubiquitous determination. She calls not
In the name OF a clique or party, but
In the name of those peasant women
who threw themselves under the car
wheels; in the name Of those mothers
who with their little children are thrust
helpless into the streets; in the name of
those who suffer, weep and curse.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

To you. free people. 4 direct ny ap.
peal: How long will the principles OF
humanity Se the laughing-s tock tof tri-'
umphant militarism? How long are We
to measure culture by the improvement
Of deadly weapons? -
To American MotherA
Women of al! nations. let your moth-
erly hearts be filled with the suffering
of Polish 1aothers!- You have voice.
Your lips are not sealed by the censor.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
Some Curious Paris Industries

A fredericksburg man, long and
lean, was charged the other day before
the Tribunal Correctionnel with being
Z vagabond, says the London Pail Mall
Gazette. He was asked what his occu-
patton was and replied: Il pose for
obesity" The magistrate was mysti-
ned and the prisoner proceeded to ex-
plain. He had been employed by
chemist who sold "antifat": to pose for
his picture Of before" and AFTER" treat
ment For tho flyst picture no wore
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
Pope Still Loves France.

Cardinal Richard. archbishop .:
Paris. has given out letter from Pope
Plus X. in which the pontiff says:
Neither will the bitterness of :he Of
Tense be able to turn us from love OF
your nation, nor will the progress Of
the offense ever make Us despai: Of q
return to better conditions" -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
Remarkable Bell.

The bell at the modern church Of
Llandevaud. in England. chu! ch built
50 years. has curious history. The
present building was er cted OF, ..:e s.;
Of a pre- Reformation church. and while
it was in hand local farmer offered
to give an old bell whics was in one
of his barns. The offer was gladly &C
cepted. and the bell turned out to be
the original one from old Llandevau6.
which after some 800 years silence once
more calls the people TO church
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

suit Of gutta-percha and was then in
dated like balloon; in the second he re-
sumed his normal bulk, and that did ex-
cellently we'll for tho purpose Of con-
trast. Unfortunately, it was not trade
that lasted forever, and here was the
poser, face to face with the other poser
how to live on air when it has escaped.
Paris IL noted for its curious indus
titles. There Is, for instance; the pro-
lessional witness. Your case gets into
the paper: you are knocked down by q
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
He Was "O6 and On

Minister Van Swinderen. of the Meth
erlands, is an excellent horseman. and
like all excellent horsemen he is apt to
criticise trenchantly those who do not
ride with skill. At musicale in Wash
ington the other day the minister, in the
course of conversation with a senator's
wife, said: Il saw young Blank at
Chevy Chase this morning." Was he
on horseback" the lady asked. well.
of and on" was the reDly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

paper over his right hand so as to hide
it entirely from his sight.
1t is wonderful how difficult task
this will prove to be. simple though it
seems.
Another good stunt is for him to try
to write his own name while looking in
the glass.-!:t Paul Globe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
GOOD MIRROR TRICK.
A Difficult Thing to Do with Pencil
and Paper While Looking
in Glass.

Seat a person at table and place be-
fore him a mirror
Give him pencil and paper and ask
him to draw the following design.
And at the same time hold piece of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
Cancels Hair from Steers.

Gamers Hair from Steers.
Lately it has been found that the hair
in the ears Of steers is OF quality which
permits its being used in the .manufac-
ture of camers hair brushes And now
the hair is removed from the ears of
steers that art may flourish as we'll as
the packing house industry.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25

recommendations for the reforestation
of the lands and offers suggestions about
the planting OF birches. The latter
spring up naturally there. and it is
thought that by sowing these in places
where the snow lies deep long immunity
from destruction by sheep might he
gained, as it appears to be only In win
ter, when grass is not to be had, that
these animals devour the birch trees.