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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
POINTS FOR THE FARMER.

Turn few shotes into that old
orchard and let them cultivate it.
Dat hay cannot be made hen
hazard. There is time when cats
may be cut so that the straw and
grain together make a valuable feed.
In fertilizing the orchard aim to
use manure not too rich in nitrogen.
When an excess of nitrogen is used
you obtain a vigorous succculent
growth that is easily injured.
If your barn cellar has been SMELL
ing bad this winter, now is the time
to clean it. Let it dry out thoroughly
this summer and provide drains so
that it will be kept from becoming
wet again.
When meadows yield only a small
amount of hay it frequently pays to
turn them up and cultivate them for
two or three years. Manuring some.
times does not help matters. The soil
needs turning up, so that the sunlight
can sWeeten It.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
MEN BUSY CLEANING AND
PAINTING WHITE HOUSE

r. HE White House will be spick and
/ span, on the outside as we'll as in
side, when the presidential family re-
turns from Oyster Bay next fall
Twenty painters are now at work on
the old building.
The White House is constructed of
Virginia sandstone, which is exceed
ingly porous. Mrs. Adams, the first
mistress of the presidents house, as
It was then called, complained bitter
ly to her friends Of the GOODNESS and
dampness of the building during her
first winter there. There were no
stoves or other heating apparatus ex-
cept the large CRATES in the executive
residence then, and the roads were so
muddy that wood in sufficient guam.
tity could not be hauled to supply TIE
CRATES. This condition was overcome By
painting the sandstone with a coat Of
white lead. Each year this has been
repeated, until there is a layer more
than a quarter of an inch in thick
ness on the walls.
Last year, instead of putting on an.
other coat Of white lead, a chemical
preparation was used to cleanse the
walls. This caused the paint to crack
and in many places peel OH, making
the building unsightly. ...
The painters are now engaged in
scraping of the century's accumula-
lon Of white lead When this is done
the Suilding will receive several coats
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
TRAGIC FATE BLIGHTS
LIFE OF AMBASSADOR

IT is the irony of fate that at the
height of his career, with no
blemish on his reputation, and
through no fault of his own,
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, should
German ambassador, should stand
upon the brink of diplomatic and
social oblivion. But such is the
tragic fact. A cancerous growth, ter
ribly dis6guring the ambassadors
face, has apparently ruined beyond
repair a career full of promise and
the social prospects of his beautiful
American wife, and it is understood
here that Germany will send another
ambassador some time within the
next six months.
The baron caught this Infection of
tho face, the nature of which physi.
clans do not seem to understand
clearly, during his service for the
kaiser in India, and within the last
year it has developed in the hideous
fashion peculiar to such attacks,
spreading we'll over one side of his
face. He has, however, made a brave
fight from the start, appealing to the
foremost medical authorities of this
country and Europe for aid, and his
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

Couldn't Have Done Better Himself.
I was teaching a country school in
st. Lawrence county, New York, and
boarding around. "Uncle Toms Cabin"
had just appeared and was shaking tho
country. When l went to the district
took copy with me. first boarded
with old Deacon Short, a Scotch Dis
senter. When went to my next board
ing place left ''Uncle Tom" with him.
After a week or two happened to drop
in on the deacon. He received me with
some eagerness of manner and began
to tell me of his interest in the book
had left with him.
"A most remarkable book" he said.
ut has changed my whole views on tho
subject of slavery. But the most re-
markable thing about it is that it was
written by a woman! Why, do you
know, don't belieye-n I should sit
down and do nothing else for whole
month that could write better book
than that" s.Y~ .,.. NJ .:ss .@
Reads like q pleasantly, doesn't It?
But you should have heard the emphasis
and seen the solemnity Of the deacon's
face. Boston Herald. 81.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

auditor, who also received $4,000
each, have resigned. The former will
probably be succeeded by Maj. Hodges
of the engineering corps of the army,
whose army pay will be increased to
$4,000.
It ia said the president expects
criticisms of the canal administration
during the next session, both from
Democrats and from representatives
of that element in his own party
which Is not in sympathy with his
policies generally. AS rigid economy
is the surest way to avoid just criti-
cism, he has instructed Secretary
Taft to cut expenses to the bone,
while at the same time seeing to it
that the dirt is kept flying.
Secretary Taft has forwarded to the
president reports showing that, ex-
elusive of $50,000,000 originally paid
to the French company for all it's
rights in the property, there had
actually been spent up to last March
only about $34,000,000 out of a total
appropriation of $145,000,000. The
total sum appropriated for actual con-
struction is little over s74,000,001.
Thus the commission has available
for purposes of construction about
$40,000,000 with which to operate un-
til congress authorizes the expendi.
lures for the next fiscal year, begin
ming July 1, 1908.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
Rig For Making 4 Grindstone True.

Rig For Making 4 Birthstone True.
pick or even a good cold-chisel will
do. 1t is very difficult to do by hand,
but device, such as is shown in the
accompanying illustration, will be
found very convenient for this use.
A little post can be fixed to the end
OF the grindstone with a slit in the
upper part, into which a piece of hard
wood is fastened, long enough to reach
to the other end of the frame This
should be made Of two-inch stuff,
little wider than the stone. An open;
ing is made in this piece, the width Of
the stone, to insert the cold chisel or
mill pick which is wedged in the same
way that plane chisel is set At the
opposite end of the frame, explains
The Farmer, another post is bolted
on that has series of holes so
that it can be raised or lowered &C.
cording to the unevenness of the
stone. 1t would be we'll to put rivet
at each side of the chisel to prevent
1t from splitting out. A weight Of
some kind, fastened to the piece back
OF the chisel SO as to make it bear on
the stone, will be all that is DeededI
The stone can then be turned slowly
until the uneven parts are cut away.
Water should be used on the stone
while it is being turned.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
General Inutilitv Bow.

AVA0A al AAOI4XCy 0OV.
Mr.. Hobbs looked thoughtfully at his
city guest and then looked out of the
window. when you ask me if it's true
that Jim Manton is the most poplar
boy I've ever had to tend store and 20
round with the order wagon" he said.
slowly, "why, FIN bound to tell you it's
so. But when you go on to ask me how
think he'd suit down in Boston, I'm
kind of dubious-that's what am, kind
of dubious.
"You see, it's like this with my BUSH
ness. Order day is order day, and de-
livery day is delivery day, and whether
it's summer, with thutty-two customers
on the route, or winter, with-well, with
some less, all Jim's got to do those days
is to get over the route by shutting-up
time.
"And he's what you might call handy
boy, Jim is. Groceries and hardware
aren't all he's got in his mind, and he's
ready to take hold and help with what's
going on wherever he goes. Sol feel
kind of dubious when I think of Boston.
don't know as you catch my meaning ?"
''M-m," said the city man. Il believe
l do."-Youth's Companion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
THE SEA MADNESS.

have come far from the sound Of the
thresh, the sight of the living sea,
TO place of cribbed and narrow ways,
where only the wind is free;
But the leap of the sea is in my blood, and
always, night and day,
1 hear the lap and wash of the waves, the
hiss of the flying spray.
When the loosened winds of the tempest
wake far thunder on the deep
I can hear the siren music calling through
the veil Of sleep;
Through the thronging city highways
comes the hollow ocean roar,
And l sicken for the long green surge, the
lonely foam-wet shore.
I know a storm-lashed headland, where
the broken hillside dips
In somber flame of heather to the oceans
singing lips.
l must go; the sea has called me, as q
mistress to her swain;
From the immemorial tumult shall drink
of peace again.
-. O'Neill Gallagher, in London News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
ONE OF LIFE's GREAT EVILS.
What Bed Companion Of the snorer
Has to Contend With.

The young bride had a worn and
haggard look.
Doctor" she said, II am in strange
trouble. I have discovered that my
husband shores. He shores dreadfully.
1t is impossible for me to sleep. Since
our marriage, over three weeks ago,
/ haven't had good nights rest.
fear my health will give way"
The physician smiled sadly.
'"The snore," he said, "and the trou-
BILE it causes to the newly married!
II any one could invent a cure for the
snore he would grow rich, for every
snorer's mate would buy and admin
lister this remedy. T.. >-
"You, like many another good and
pretty girl, have unconciously welded
a snorer. What are you to do? Well,
you have three courses. You may
either learn to endure this noise, or
you may sleep. in another room, or
you may cure the man.
What you, like other wives, will do
= thts-l know Il well. You Will
I. =
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

WAS Vice President Fairbanks born
W in log cabin? This great ques-
ton, which threatens to become
an issue in the next presidential CAM
paign is causing excitement among
the sons of Indiana. In "The Life and
Speeches of Charles Warren Fair
banks" by w. H. Smith, is shown a
picture of a log cabin in which the
vice president is reported to have
been born.
The authors son, William Wolff
Smith, in reply to recent article in
an eastern weekly, has taken up the
assertion that the autobiography is
inaccurate and that the picture is
one of series of fakes resorted to
for the purpose of promoting the vice
presidents political ambitions. Will
liam Wolff Smith has issued the fol-
lowing statement:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

with dear, wondrous beauties-and still
she looked, silent, motionless-in an
ecstasy of pure realization. Then her
arms closed about his neck with a swift
little rushing, and he-still half doubt
ing, still curious-felt himself strained
to her. Still more closely she chung,
putting out with her intensity all his
misgiving.
She sought his lips with her own
eager, pressing.
kiss me-kiss me-kiss me! Oh,
it's all true-all true! My best-be-
loved dream has come all true! I have
rested so in your arms. I never knew
rest before I can't remember when ]
haven't awakened to doubt, and worry
and heart-sickness. And now it's
peace-dear, dear, dearest, dear, for
ever and ever and ever"
They sat up.
"Now we shall go-get me away
quickly"
1t was nearly seven. Outside the sky
was still all gloom.
In the rush of her reinsurance he had
forgotten his arm. 1t hung limp from
his shoulder.
1T was cramped."
And you didn't move it,"
They beat it and kneaded it gayly
together, until the fingers were full OF
the rushing blood and able again to
close warmly over her own little hand
"Now go, and let me get ready.
won't be long,"
He went below to the library, and in
the dim gray light picked up a book
''The Delights of Delicate Eating" He
tried another, .'1o1 Sandwiches" The
next was Famous Epicures of the
Seventeenth Century," On the floor
was her diary. He placed it on the
table. He heard her call him from the
stairs.
Bring me up that ring from the
table, pleased"
He went up and handed it to her
through the narrowly opened door.
AS he went down the stairs he heard
the bell ring somewhere below, and
went to the door.
"Baggage!"
The two trunks were down and out.
They're to go on this car, attached
to the Chicago express" He wrote the
directions on one of his cards and paid
the man.
At 1880 the bell rang again. The
cabman was there.
"Seven-thirty, GENT"
"Avice!'
I'm coming. And there are two
bags I wish you'd get from my ROOM -
He let her pass him and went up for
them.
She went into the library and, TAX
ing up the diary, tore out a sheet,
marked heavily upon it with pencil
around the passage she had read the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

capitol park. Just why the old capitol
was not built so that it's center cor
responded with that of the park is not
known, but it is said that the first
capitol was located little to the east
OF the center of the park because
that location afforded a better founda-
ton and when the legislature provid-
ed for the erection of the present
capitol it through oversight or error
required it to be placed in the same
relative position as the old building.
This at least is the explanation of
the matter given by Secretary Porter.
The main entrance of the new capitol
will be at the points where one wing
joins another or opposite the four
avenues leading to the capitol park
There will, however, be other en-
frances at the ends Of the wings
where the principal entrances are
now. The reason for changing the
location of the main entrances was
that it would be more convenient as
it will enable a person to step right
into the main part of the building in
stead of into a wing.
Every piece of material that enters
the new capitol will be closely in
spected by Secretary Porter, one of
the leading architects of the state,
and if it does not come up to the re-
CURED standard will be rejected.
Secretary Porter has opened an Office
in the basement of the capitol where
he has the new west wing constantly
under his sight. 1t is the general
opinion in Madison that nobody is
going to cheat the state in the erec-
ton OF the new capitol as long as
Mr.. Porter is around.
Wisconsin's new capitol building is
not only immense in size, but it will
be constructed of the whitest granite
ever discovered. 1t will combine the
white beauty that is marbles best
recommendation with the enduring
qualities of granite, and the com.
bination will give the state an edifice
that should be her GROWING glory and
pride for centuries to come.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

evening before, and sealed It In an
envelope. She addressed it to her
father and laid it, with a paper weight
on it, upon "The Delights of Delicate
Eating" where he would be sure to
find it.
The book itself she placed on the
wood laid ready in the crate to light,
touched a match to the crumpled paper
underneath and put up the blower.
She stood waiting to see that the fire
would burn.
Over the mantel from it's yellow can
vas looked above her head the humor-
ously benignant eyes of old Annekje
Van Schoule, who had once removed
from Maspeth Kill on Long Island to
New HARLEM on the Island of Man.
haitian, and carried there, against her
fathers will, the yell0W-haired girl he
had loved. His face now seemed to be
pretending Inconsistencies Of the
rashly acted scenes he had witnessed
lest, if he betrayed his consciousness,
he should be forced, in spite of himself,
to disclose his approval-a thing not
fitting for an elderly, digniied Dutch
burgher to do.
"Avice!"
"Coming!"
She took up a little package she had
brought with her and went out to meet
him.
There's one errand to do" she said,
as they entered the carriage, 'but it's
on our way. Have him go up Madison
avenue and deliver this"
She showed him the package, ad-
dressed: *'Mr. Rulon Shepler, Per
sonal."
"And this" she said, giving him an
unsealed note. Read it, pleased"
He read:
Dear Rulon Shepler: am sure
you know women too well to have
thought l loved you as q wife should
love her husband. And I know your
bigness too we'll to believe you will
feel harshly toward me for deciding
that I could not marry you. 1 could of
course consistently attribute my change
to consideration for you. should
have been very little comfort to you.
If 1 should tell you just the course
had mapped out for myseK-iust what
latitude 1 proposed to claim-I am GER
tain you would agree with me that I
have done you an inestimable favor.
'Yet I have not changed because /
do not love you, but because do love
some one else with all my heart; so
that claim no credit except for an
entirely consistent selhshness. But do
try to believe, at the same time, that
my own selfishness has been kind
ness to you. I send you . package with
this hasty letter, and beg you to be.
lieve that / shall remain and am now
for the first time, sincerely yours.
'AyICE MILBREY B1NEs.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
CELERY GROWING.
Some Suggestions for the Raising Of
This Popular Vegetable.

This profitable branch of truck
farming ought 10 be better UNDER
stood. There are two crops possible
in this climate, but the first, which is
started in February or March, must
have a greenhouse for successful re-
suits, and is not often practiced by
the common growers, says Indiana
Farmer. The fall or winter crop Isl
the one of which we will speak. 1t isl
started in bed in the open garden
in May, after the ground is thoroughly:
warm. Make the bed in rich, damp,
but not wet, soil; pulverize as finely
as possible; drill the seed scantily in
shallow rows eight inches apart One
ounce of seed will make from 5000 to
5000 plants. They terminate slowly,
often taking two weeks or more toI
appear above ground. If the weather.
becomes dry the young plants should
be shaded partially at least, with old
muslin, or strips of thin boards.
When two or three inches high clip
off the top of the leaves, to make the
plants stocky. Transplant in five or
six weeks into larger beds, clipping
off the top root as we'll as leaves; set
them two inches apart. In July set
the plants in rows five feet apart, and
eight inches apart in the row. When
about foot high begin to draw earth
against the rows, and between the
plants. Later repeat the process un-
til all the stalks and part of the leaves
are covered. This keeps the stalks
white and tender. When the growing
season is over it is the custom to
place wide boards along the sides of
the rows, to blanch the stalks still
more. But more modern custom.
called the New Celery Culture, con-
sists in setting the plants close to-
gether in rows not over IL inches
inches apart, and making the
plants blanch themselves. In this
plan you bank up or plank
only the outside rows This is
the easy way, and some think Just
as good as the other, but it requires
richer ground and more water. I'm
less the ground is richer than is nee
essary for most other vegetables, and
is very moist, celery will not give
satisfaction. Well rotted manure and
unleached ashes are the best fertiliz-
ers, and they must be applied liber-
A11v
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

Snakes" said Lover, the zoe
keeper, "have been known to do
withott food for two years. l know
personally South American anaconda
that in seven years has only eaten
four times-that is to say, two meals
per annum.
"The noctule, a bat, fasts regular
ly seven months out of the IL. But
the noctule, while fasting, hibernates,
and of the snake this can't be said.
"An antelope can live 20 days with
out food, an eagle % days, a badger
30 days, horse Is days, a dog IS
days.
But that is nothing. A crocodile
can fast two months, a scorpion three
months, bear six months, a chamele-
on eight months and a viper ten
months.
"How do I know all this? These
facts are easy to learn. Scientists
have proved them time and again in
the various geological gardens of the
world"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

.sf : ; :
"P. ST. should have preferred to
wait AID acQuaint you with my change
of intention before marrying, but my
husbands plans were made and ho
would not let me delay
He sealed the envelope, placed it Sc
curely under the cord that bound tho
package, and their driver delivered it
to the man who opened Sheplers door.
AS their train emerged from the cut
at Spuyten Duyvil and sped to the
north along the Hudson, the sun blazed
forth.
There, boy-1 knew the sun must
shine to-day"
They had finished their breakfast.
One half of the pink roses were on the
table, and one from the other half was
in her hair. !
Il ordered the sun turned on at Just
this point" replied her husband, with
large air. Il wanted you to see the
last Of that town under a cloud, so you
might not be homesick SO soon" !;
"You don't know me. You don't
know what a good wife shall be-" ::
1T takes nerve to reach up for
strange support and then kick your
environment out from under you-as
Doctor Won Herzlich would have said
if he'd happened to think Of it, ::
But you shall see how I'll help you
with your work; was capable of it all
the time"
But 1 had to make you. had to
pick you up just as I did that first
time, and again down in the mine
and you were frightened because you
knew this time l wouldn't let you co.;
"Only half-afraid you wouldn't-the
other half was afraid you would.
They got all mixed up-I don't know
which was worse" =.
well, l admit I fooled my approach
on that copper stock-but I won you
really my winnings in Wall street are
pretty dazzling, after all, for a man
who didn't know the ropes-there's
mirror directly back of you, Mrs.
Bines, If you wish to look at them
with pink rose over that kissy place
just at their temple"
She turned and looked, pretending to
be quite unimpressed.
II always was capable of it, l tell
you-boy!"
What hurt me worst that night. it
showed you could love some one-you
did have heart-but you couldn't love
me-"
She did not seem to hear at first, nor
to comprehend when she went back
over his words. Then she stared at him
in sudden amazement
He saw his blunder and looked fool.
ish.
Il see-thank you for saying what
you did last highland you diun't
mind-you came to me anyway. in
spite of that"
She arose, and would have gone
around the table to him, but be met
her with open arms.
"Oh, you boy! you do love me-you
dol"
Il must buy you one of those nice,
shiny black ear trumpets at the first
stop. You can't have been hearing
at all well. See, sweetheart
out across the river. That's where our
big west is, over that way-isn't it
fresh and green and beautiful?-and
how fast you're going to it-you and
your husband. l believe it's going to
be good game for US both
|. my love-
THE END.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
CONTROVERSY OVER THE
FAIRBANKS BIRTHPLACE

Much was made Of a picture in
the book representing the house in
which Mr.. Fairbanks was born. AS
the house was burned few years
after his birth and no picture had
been taken Of it, Mr.. Fairbanks at
the request of Mr.. Smith (my father)
made rough pencil sketch from
memory which was dressed up for
publication" This, Mr.. Smith says,
is all the connection Mr.. Fairbanks
had with the picture.
In the autobiography Mr.. Smith
says Mr. Fairbanks was four years OF
age when the cabin was burned, and
Indianians are pointing to the asser
ton that Mr.. Fairbanks can sketch
with accuracy a building that was de
stroyed when he was four years old
as a demonstration of his wonderful
memory
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17
A Clear Claim,

An official of the pension Office at
Washington offers the following ex.
cerpt from an especially amusing let
to- roooiuoa- f->.-S -olni,,ao,a+ fo. pom
sion:
''The way I got my war ingery was
a-ketchin of hog. The hog were a
SOW hog aud our Capten wanted her
for forage. He was chasin the SOW
and she crawled threw a hoal in a
rale fense-it were big hoal and I
thot I were about the size of the
hog and tried to crawl threw, but l
stuck and trying to wigle out throde
the rales off and one hit me on my
he'd and nocked my senseless. I do
not think the sow had nothing to do
with my line for duty for I did not
ketch the hog. WITCH she never were
caught" -Lippincott's Magazine