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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

MANNER OF BUILDING THE PILE.
charcoal dust or ordinary coal dust all
over the pile and cover the entire heap
with soil. 1t will stand better if some
solid sods are placed on the outside.
Holes are made at.the sides near the top
to allow air to enter to the fire.
Build fire in the center of the to-
of the heap and allow it to burn down
inside the pile, and as it descends make
another row of holes about half way
down the sides of the pile, AS smoke
ceases to come out of these holes make
others below and stop those above.
With some woods considerable tar and
acid will be formed, which must be
drained off from the bottom of the pile
by ditch.
When smoke no longer comes out of
the holes they are stopped and the whole
pile allowed to cool two or three days.
Then remove the soil and sort the
charcoal, putting any that is still hot
into water and quench it. If thorough
1y burned and we'll managed a cord OF
wood should give 80 bushels of charcoal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
WHEN HIS WIFE CAME HOME
Earlier Than He Expected and Saw
Him Entertain His
Friends.

The Harlem resident emerged from
the city hall subway exit. He was plain
ly detected, relates the New York Globe
why, hello, Jimson," cried 4 COM
rade of the night before. you look as
blue as an undertaken at health resort.
Cheer up. I feel just as sick as you this
morning."
ooh, it isn't that" groaned the defect
ed man.
But you were the life and soul of our
jolly party last night. You even insist
ed on Waiting with the dignified head
waiter"
II remember
Then we took hack to your house,
and we all cheered when you got up on
your front step and made neat little
speech t. the effect that your wife would
be home from the mountains on the
morrow, and you were glad to let loose
at least once before you settled down.
It was a large night"
Bah! My wife returned day earli-
er and was in the window watching my
performance. Please kick me down
these subway steps and back, up again.
will you?"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
SUPREMACY of Man

'Civilization that makes institutions
superior to men is civilization to be
destroyed, according to Prof. Smaller
Mathews, of the University of Chicago.
IN an article in the current issue of
the Biblical World, published at the
university Of Chicago, the divinity
dean thus concludes an article on Men
or Institutions" While on the whole
the professor believes that man must
be superior to institutions, yet he de-
clares 1.-The individual must sometimes
be sacrificed to the interests of So
clety. THE glory of our race" says
DR.. Mathews, lis that it can produce
heroes and martyrs. There even come
times when men must deliberately
cause suffering to their fellows in be-
half OF some institution which prom
Uses vast ultimate good. The patriot
gives himself for his country. The
father voluntarily foregoes his own adj
vantage for his children. The citizen
is forced to pay taxes even against his
will. The employer is certainly justi-
fed in discharging the employee whose
carelessness endangers the safety of
others or whose wastefulness destroys
| the dividends of the. company. He
must be a wise man who can lay down
rules that would apply to all cases or
even to single case. It calls for prin-
ciples and conscience. The welfare Of
all is the supreme consideration, and
that not material welfare only, but the
| highest good to the community from
every point of view. Yet no mere in
tellectual application of this principle
will suffice to guide ones conduct
Alright. To such apprehension there
must be added genuine regard fol-
men, sense of the value of the in
diyidual and real brotherly love. Thus
we return to- the need of intelligence
and religion. Civilization that makes
institutions superior to men is a civ
ilization to be destroyed, for it runs
amuck of that true Christian principle
that man is the universal unit g.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
Increase Eve Trouble.

Spectacles, according to an oculist,
often increase the eye trouble they
are meant to correct because they are
improperly used. "The man who
needs glasses to read by, but not to see
at a distance, often puts them on in
street car or similar place. says
this oculist, ''and then when he looks
up still uses them for looking at
things little way off. This gradually
changes the focus of the eye" SO that
he comes finally to see better with
them than without them. Then he
needs. stronger glasses to read with
and the trouble gets worse and worse.
One way to avoid this is to wear the
reading glasses so low on the nose
that they may be looked over instead
of through when the glance is raised"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
THINKS FOR THE FARMER.

The cross-eyed person shows that
there's more than one way of looking
at things.
Old blood is thin and runs slowly;
give the folks the warmest nook in the
chimney corner
The size of the kernels Of seed corn
should be as nearly uniform as pos
sible. No one who plants grain from
tips and butts can expect an even
stand.
One of the best fields Of corn the
writer saw all last summer was har-
rowed three times before the corn
came up. Then the weeder waa used
until the corn was big enough u cult.
vata.-FarmAeo' Review. r. % 49,: r. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07


draugh tsman's knowledge on the, part
OF the teacher or the ability to draw
on the part Of the pupil meet the COM
mon need? In most *methods the child
is left to reproduce the copy or object
as best it may, and sits effort is success
full or not according as 1T has an eye
capable of measurement.
Object drawing has its value, and
should be in the proper correlation to
inventive drawing, but it's use alone
is unjust to the unequal ability of a
number of pupils. Most of the systems
that now obtain fail through this, that
they suppose most all school-teachers
and children can draw, whereas most
cannot.
) Public schools are not the places for
the training of artists. Drawing, how
ever, can have a place in the chil"~
education; at the same time apprec::.
ton and taste can be cultivated. Let
the child seek to express himself by
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
RECORDS OF DAIRY cows
System Which One Man Follows in,
Keeping Tab on the Productive
ness Of His Hord.

In keeping the record Of the milk.
We use ruled sheet with split COL
umn in which to record the morning
and evening milking, writes H. H.
Dean. We place the cows number at
the head or the column devoted to that
animal. These sheets we keep In a
frame with a movable glass to pro-
tect the sheet from dirt.
It is not sufficient to weigh the milk:
you must know what the COW is test
ing in fat; therefore, we keep a bottle
in which to place samples taken from
the milk. Each bottle is labeled with
the number Of the cow, and the label
covered with shellac varnish for pro-
lection. Each mixer has his own row
| Of bottles corresponding with the COWS
ne milks. After the milk has been
! weighed, he pours a tiny dipperful
| into the bottle belonging to that COW.
In each bottle we place a preservative
consisting of potassium bicarbonate
and corrosive sublimate, which will
keep the milk perfectly fresh for
month. The test for the fat is made
once month
| l do not know that any part of the
work has enabled us to improve the
record of our cows. by culling out the
poor ones, so effectually as this sys-
| TEN.
| AS the slips become torn or are lost
it is necessary to have a permanent
record. Once month, therefore, the
record of each COW is transferred into
a book, one page Of which holds the
record OF a COW for year. There is
a special column on the page for re-
marks, in which any important facts
regarding the animal are motel down;
so that if you ask me about. any COW
in our herd, Simply have to turn to
the index and look her up. do not
think the dairymen realize what value
there is In keeping a record of per-
Torrance Of individual cows or more
of them would do it, and think per-
haps our dairymen's associations ought
to do something to assist men who
are willing to take up this work.
would suggest that these associations
should furnish suitable scales and nee
essary apparatus to men who wish to
keep records, and if necessary send a
man to show them exactly how it is
done. It might also be desirable tC
offer prizes for the best kept records.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
Regains Lost Vigor in Sand.


In the desert of southern Arizona,
with an Indian, two centipedes and a
gila monster as his companions, Prof.
W. J. MCGEE, Of Farley, a., suffer.
ing from lost health, slept for four
months without bed or covers upon
the hot sands of the desert and re-
gained all his former Vigor. MCGEE
has just returned home, a veritable
athlete, in place of the weakened and
emaciated man who struggled out of
a severe attack of typhoid fever with
only enough strength to drag himself
west. While on the desert he amused
and edited himself by studying the
habits Of the insects, reptiles and
plants which exist there. He believes
that his experiment has disclosed a
cure for men suffering from mental
and physical collapse.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

set up free lunch, with devilish GIN
ger ale to drink, and that the press
people got riotous on ginger ale. A
ginger ale jag is terrible. When a
man is full of ginger ale his intestines
loop the loop, and tie up in knots, and
grippe like cholera infantum, and I'm.
less his friends held him he goes out
into the world and wants to kill the
women and children, and non-com-
batants.
Last year our press agents filled up
the members OF the local press with
ginger ale, and when we struck Phil.
adelphia this time the newspapers had
sworn out warrants for our show, on
the charge OF compromising a felony,
which l suppose is the legal name for
ginger ale. The way the Quakers pat
ronize a show is to put on their gray
clothes, and their big white hats and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

Ever since we knew the show was
billed for Philadelphia for Saturday,
and that we would have to stay over
Sunday in that town, there has been
symptoms of a revolt. Everybody
connected with the show has horror
of being found dead in Philadelphia.
They claim it is too dead for live peo-
pie, and not very satisfactory to dead
people.
A performer who was with the show
last year says that nobody but the
newspaper people who had free tick
cts attended the performances, and
some of them wouldn't go in the tent
unless the press agent promised to
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
A GOOD ROTATION.
Suggestion as to Crops Which Viii
Best Keep Up the Condition
of the Farm.

The rotation of crops has come to
be regarded as one OF the necessities
Of keeping up the condition of the
farm. Where farm animals are not
kept in considerable numbers, the
growing of one crop is sure to reduce
the fertility of the farm. Therefore
the growing of several crops is advts-
able. One of the best rotations for
the general farmer in Illinois and like
states is that consisting Of corn, COW
peas, wheat and clover. 1t always
pays for the general farmer to have a
few COWS to assist him in the rotations
Of the crops by pasturing of the crops
that can be pastured. With the rota-
ton above mentioned, the cow peas
can be sown in the corn at the time of
the last cultivation. These will make
a good growth and being legumes will
add to the soil considerable portion
of nitrogen. After the corn is harvest
ed tho cows can be turned into thesp
peas, which will still be green. and
can be fed upon them until the frost
comes. Farmers that turn their COWS
In upon the corn stocks would find it
safer to have supply of COW pea fell
age, that the animals may eat of both
at the same time, says the Farmers
Review. Heavy losses have been occa,
stoned by pasturing of the dry corn
stocks. The cow peas may be turned
under in the late fall or in spring and
wheat sown. If the wheat is sown in
the fall Immediately after blowing the
clover seed can be thrown upon the
land at the end of winter, while the
snow is still on the ground. II spring
wheat is to be sown, the clover can be
sown with It. This Wal give a crop of
corn, a crop of cow peas, a crop of
wheat and the next year following the
wheat crop of clover and clover seed,
The clover sod can then be plowed I'm.
der and corn again put on. This will
keep the land rich in nitrogen and
necessitates only ~ occasional buying
of some form of phosphate.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07
SYMBOLS AND COMBINATIONS, LOWER ONE ACCENTED

but they have questioned the older
methods, and the Old copybooks of grad
ed plates, from sets of parallel lines and
cubes to castles on the Rhine and much
shaded dogs heads, have given place
to object drawing and designing of vari-
GUS kinds.
If the question we're one Of the in
dividual child it could easily be decided
the amount of it's artistic tempera-
.ment would settle that. The public
school, however, is made up of:children
of all degrees of artistic instincts and
from all walks Of life. Some of them
draw by natural desire better than 9TH
ers could draw by careful training.
Drawing, therefore, ought not to be con-
sidered for the. talented few, but for
the untalented many: 49,. .....'
Children love to express themselves.
One child may express itself better
in mechanics than in written compost
ton, another's utterance is music and
another's the plastic arts, but all love
to give themselves some outlet for their
teeming thoughts. This desire for ut
terance ought to be given a chance, if
not for the value of the expression itself,
at least for. the effect it has upon the
other studies. - = -
Drawing in the Schools.
On this ground drawing has place
in public school education: as means
Of expression alone and not as an art
whose proper training is in the school
Of fine arts. From this standpoint the
teaching Of drawing may be relieved Of
many Of it's objections in the public
schools and It's teaching and study may
be placed within the grasp Of the av-
erage teacher and pupil. Would not 9
system tha1 does not require the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

drawing rather than spend all his eff
forts in trying to learn to draw. Slim
ulate and train the expression, and the
desire for technical facility will follow
soon enough.
Easy as Forming Letters.
Now there are certain qualities that
lie within the reach Of those who cam
not draw, and by drawing is meant
the ability to reproduce an object or
copy with accuracy. These qualities
can be expressed by anyone who can
learn to form the letters of the alpha
bet. They are the same qualities that
govern all expressions in poetry, music
or painting simplicity Tor clearness OF
intention), proportion Tor the relation
in size of one object or mass to an
other object or mass), balance Cor the
relation in placement of an object or
mass to another object or mass), and
such other. qualities il. beauty of ex-
preston as the child can be taught by
comparison. .>->
Of this the child knows much by in
stinct that it is taught later by rule and
precept. It. expresses itself well and
clearly as the primitive races did, by
an instinct that makes the drawing of
the Zuni Indian and the child much
alike, They symbolic. That is the
natural method, and in the case Of the
child 1t is capable Of all the refinement
that centuries OF art development have
given us. It is this instructive drawing
that should be ~bettered and made q
means Of agreeable expression. It may
be brought to q perfection where abili.
ty zis apparent that makes the tedium
OF practice q reasonable pains for the
end to be gained. Let the child draw
the man and tree. or his symbols Of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

stand on the corners when the parade
goes by, and never crack smile, or
act interested, and when the parade
has passed they go to the circus lot
and see the balloon ascension, and
stand on wagon wheels and try to
look over the side of the tent at the
performance, and then they kick be-
cause the audience on the back seats
cuts off their view from the wagon
wheels.
Last year our show killed Quaker,
and the community is down on us.
The Quaker got in the show because
he owned half inch of ground that
its tents were on, and he stood right
by the ring, and when the champion
female rider was suspended in the air
between two bareback horses, he
leaned over too far inside the ring,
and she kicked his hat clear up to the
roof of the tent, and female trapeze
performer up there caught it and sat
down on it on the trapeZe. The old
Quaker had heart disease and fell
dead. What the Quakers complained
of was that after the Quakec's re-.
mains had been removed from the
ring, that the show went right on
They claimed that we ought to have
shown proper respect to the dead by
closing the show for 30 days, and
wearing Grape on our arms, but a cir
Gus is not built that way.
Ordinarily it may be quiet enough
In Philadelphia on Sunday, but pa
found that he had more of a run for
his money than at any place we have
been so far. We have had tribe Of
Indians with our wild west depart
ment all summer, and pa has not
stood very we'll with the Indians since
he was in charge of the show at Fort
Wayne, and they all got drunk, aud he
had them tied up to the poles around
the ring until they got sober. They
have laid for pa ever since, and it
was only matter of time when they
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

got him: Then at Pittsburg our man
ager picked up company of canni-
balls that had got left over from the
st. Louis fair, and who agreed to per-
form for their board and clothes, and
as they don't wear any clothes to
speak of, and only eat dog week days,
and hope to get human being to
roast on Sunday, it seemed pretty
good bargain.
Well, the Indians got permission to
hold green corn dance in piece of
woods near the circus lot, and the
of corn, and they had built fire and
were roasting the corn, and dancing,
and pa didn't know about it, and just
after dark the Quaker who owned the
woods complained to pa, who was on
watch Sunday night, that his Indians
preparing to go on the warpath, and
he wanted them to get off his prem
Uses. Pa said he would go right over
and drive them back to the tents.
tried to get pa to let the police go
and drive them of, but he said he
hadn't no time to go and wake up the
police, and they wouldn't get around
anyway before the middle of the
week. So pa took tent stake and
started for the green corn roast. The
Indians were taking turns dancing
and eating roasted corn, and they had
barrel of beer, and knew enough
about Indians to keep away from
them when they mix beer with green
corn, for it has about the same ef-
feet as committing suicide with car
bolic acid.
Pa put his hat on one side of his
head and went right into the midst
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

USEFUL FORM OF GRAPE TRELLIs.
wire and two arms or canes are
formed, one being trained along the
central wire in each direction. These
canes are for the first crop.
The next year the canes are cut
back to about three buds each, and as
the new shoots put out they naturally
grow and drop over the side wires to
which they fasten themselves by ten
drills. No summer pruning or tying
is necessary with this system. The
fruit is we'll shaded, and yet the
foliage and new growth are so dis
tributed that there is always a free
circulation of air around the fruit.
At pruning time the canes which
bore this years crop are all cut back,
except the two nearest the main stalk,
which form the bearing wood for the
next year. AS the vines become old
er four canes may be left
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

sticks around him, and pa told me to
go to the circus lot and give an alarm,
and send the hands to rescue him.
Gee, but didn't I run though, and yell
an alarm big enough for a massacre.
1 told the hands, who were sleeping
under the seats, or playing cards on
the trunks that the Indians were
burning pa at the stake, and some of
the hands said that would serve him
right, and the fellows that were play
ing cards said they didn't want to
break up the game when they were
losers, to rescue no baldheaded cur.
mudgeon. thought pa was a goner,
sure, cause I could hear the Indians
yell, and thought could smell flesh
burning. Oh, but I was scared for fear
they would burn pa alive.
Just then the man who had charge
of our cannibals, who each had dog
that they were looking for place to
roast, came along and l told him about
the Indians corn roast, and he ordered
the cannibals to 60 drive the Indians
away from their fire and roast their
dogs. Well, it worked like a charm,
and the cannibals made rush for the
Indians and drove them away just as
they had lighted the fire around pa,
and we were not a minute too soon.
After the Indians had skedaddled for
the woods, and we cut the cords that
bound pa, tae cannibals went to work
and skun the dogs, and began to cook
them, and pa looked on, until it made
him squirmish, but he was So tickled
at being saved from the Indians, that
he tried to be good fellow with the
cannibals. I guess it would have been
all right, only the cannibals got to
drinking the Philadelphia, beer, and
then it was all off, cause roast dog
wasn't good enough for them, and
they wanted to roast pa. : 49,.
First they offered pa dog to eat, but
he had swore OF on dog, and passed
on. it. and that made the cannibals
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-07

of the Indians, and grabbed a chief
called " One Ear at Tir'e," and hit
him with the tent stake. and knocked
him down, and said, Now, you git"
Well, sir, that Indian had no more
than struck the fire in a sitting posi-
ton, and filled the air with the odor
of fried bucksk!n, before the whole
tribe jumped on Pa, and they kicked
him with their moccasins, and were
going to murder him, while the chief
who acted as the burnt Offering, got
out Of the fire, and sat down in the
cold mud to cool himself. He held
up his hand as signal for attention;
and he called council of war, while
the squaws sat on pa to hold him
down.
The council of war sentenced pa to
be burned at the stake, and they tied
him to tree and began to pile