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I'm bellgercnt and brash!
I'm a fighting, kicking, scrapping sort
OF man!
Bang. Whit Whack!
How itch to get a crack
At my foe, the flip Mlkado OF Japan!
Oh. note as / grow older, that this chip
upon my shoulder
Is obtaining me some pseudo-comlc
knocks,
But no matter how they name me, they
can never catch and tame me
Till I've beaten old Mikado from his
socks.
Smack Slap! Smash!
I'm belligerent and brash!
I'm a fighting, kicking, scrapping sort
Of man!
Bang! Wllzz Whack!
How l itch to get a crack
At my foe, the flip Nlikado Of Japan!
4l
1 am naturally partial to what's bcllicose
and martial,
have sleeping suits of-armor--and o
Lor!
Young Japan will find it useful to recall.
whoevers truceful,
That feroclous Richmond Hobson's still
at war.
Bang! Whizz! Crack!
Timid folks, keep off the track
This is IIobson out for troube-run and
duck!
Let the ladies fly to cover: go.
Hap, I'm pleasant as lover,
But I'm frightful when l start to run
amuck! III. S. II.
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Even February has succeeded In leav-
ing springs sails MINDLESS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-20
Which Made 1t All Right.
POINTS FROM PHOTOGRAPHERS.

" ING EDWARD will never be able to at
* tract much attention to his messages
= to Parliament unless no puts more
ginger in them. Think how interestingly
his last having reference to tho Jamaican
Observation-Disclosures Herald
Trusts particularly dangerous when
they have accumulated enough money to
buy the whole country, including the
schools and churches-Dallas News.
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Mr.. b. C. Banks, who has charge or VIZ
GINA mineral and timber exhibits ut jams.
town was seen last night In the lobby o!
the Richmond. Mr.. Banks has just returned
from Bristol, where he went TO have con.
ference with Mr. w. n. Offutt, chairman OF
tho lumber and timber committee OF the
Virginia Mineral and Timber Exhibit AS
ISOLATION, and other timbermen who arc IN
,erested In making display OF Virginia
timber at the exposition. Mr.. Banks says
the lumber interests are going 70 make u
fine showing Tho Veneerng Mills VIII dis
play the manufacture of Virginia timber INTO
commercial products, and various and a., at
tractive methods VIII be adopted by the aif-
fcrent operations OF pointing out the pro-
grcss Of the State In this line
Mr.. Banks further says that active steps
are being taken by the railroads TO collect
an exhaustive display OF their various re-
sources especially tho Norfolk and western
Southern and Chesapeake ahd Ohio. who
viii make elaborate exhibits. commensurate
with their standing as great carriers The
other roads will be well represented IN ms m
building Many letters of enquiry are be-
ing received daily at the office Mt the Capt.
toll and great interest is being taken IN
making this feature of tho exposition a sue
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yirginians who are stopping ut the Rich
mond are j. w. Bailey ana wtte ~ ,.,I,n o.
and r. E. Holton and wife, Dahfn'e'
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The Lex Non Scripta.

Neither Is Thaw man OF an iron
will and testament.
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Mr. Ro. l.. Gardner. q prominent lawyer
Of I,nlnxkI Is registered at MUDDY 8.
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Bang! Whizz! Whack!
How itch to get crack
At my foe, the flip N1ltado OF Japan!
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.'No. I'm not. have been with Cousin
WIN in his auto and watched how he runs
1t. and one day we ran over a man. and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
VACATIONS COST UNCLE
SAM BIG SUM YEARLY
w ASHINGTON.- his hired help
w Uncle Sam is generous to 4 de-


w Uncle Sam is generous to 4 de-
gree, going down into his wallet to the
extent of something like $4,000, 600 an
nually to give them a 30-days' outing
at the seashore or in the mountains
This sum is for the army Of en-
ployes in Washington alone and does
not include the thousands of others
who are on duty and on the payrolls
throughout his vast domain and in
foreign countries. Liberal lawmakers
decided that ten months each year
was long enough for employees to
work, aud that 80 days for annual
leave. At first this law was for the
officials and clerks only, and did not
include printers, pressman and navy
yard workmen. Eventually these
were gi7en Is days annual leave, and
finally, through hard and persistent
efforts, the full 80 days. No sick
leave, however, has ever been granted
them, and, strange as it may appear,
they seem to be the healthiest class
Of government workers. The govern
ment printing Office, the bureau Of
engraving and printing, and the navy
yard are not classed as Hospitals for
invalids," as the treasury and other
departments are termed. Not getting
pay for being sick, those not entitled
to such leave manage to remain in
extraordinarily good health and per-
form their duties with great regular
ity. The employees who are not en-
titled to sick leave must have some
thing worse than q rocky head and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

WHEN Miss Ethel Roosevelt makes
W her formal bow to society at the
White House next winter Washington
will see the first of series of en-
tertaiDments such as have not been
held since the days of Nellie Grant
True, the social career of Mrs Mich
olas 1Ongworth, as Alice Roosevelt,
was marked by many notable affairs
in Washington, but with the excep-
ton cf a few small dinners which
were given for her shortly before she
was Dlarried. there was only one large
entertainment at the White House
which was strictly for Alice, and that
was her coming out ball.
Whether the continuous shower of
attentions from her friends and 80
ciety generally precluded Miss Alice
from having many affairs of her own
was never made clear.
Mss Ethel's first season ~ 30.
ciety girl viii be notable. According
to tho present plans, which are being
] discussed. brilliant bah Win b
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
BANNER THAT INSPIRED
SONG Is NOW ON VIEW

THE flag that foated over Fort Nc
! Henry during the bombardment by
the British on the night of September
13, 1914, and which inspired Francis
Scott Key when he saw it still float
ing over the ramparts at sunrise the
next morning to write the "Star-Span-
gled Banner" is now upon exhibition
in the hall of history at the Smithson.
ian institution.
The flag, which is about 2Sx3O feet,
has been loaned to the institution by
Mr.. Ebea Appleton of New York, for
two years upon the personal solicita'
ton Of DR.. Charles D. Walcott, secre-
tary of the institution. AS the flag
lies draped in the glass case, only one
of the large stars is visible. 1t is
backed by canvas stated to have been
placed there by the late Admiral
Preble, formerly stationed at the Bos-
ton navy yard. AS little of the flag
can be seen in its present resting
place, it is the purpose of the officials
Of the institution to drape it upon one
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

day before we knew she was a worker.
She spent the hours going over re-
ports and Analysing financial state
ments, showing sagacity extraordi-
nary in so young person. She ex-
planned her knowledge of figures by
the hand-work she had done for the
Judge, all of whose accounts she had
kept. Bob and l saw that she was
bent on smothering her memory in
that antidote for all ills of heart and
soul-work. Her Office life was sim
plicity itself. She spoke to no one ex-
cept Bob, save in connection with such
business matters of the firms as l
might send her by one of the clerks
to attend to. To the others in the
banking house she was just an uncon-
ventional young literary woman whose
high social connections had gained her
this opportunity of getting at the Sc
crets OF finance, from actual expert
ence, for use in forthcoming novels. It
had got abroad that she was the writer
OF great distinction who, under a nom
de plume, had recently made quite a
dent in the worlds literary shell-a
suggestion that l rightly guessed was
one of Bob's delicate ways of smooth
ing out her path. l had tried in every
way to make things easy for her, but
it was impossible for me to draw her
out in talk, and finally l gave it up.
Had it not been that every time l
passed her Office door l was compelled
by the fascination which 1 had first
felt, and which, instead of diminishing,
had increased with her reticence, to
look in at the quiet figure with the
downcast eyes, working away at her
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

HEREAFTER women clerks of the
"a department of agriculture will not
be permitted to act as private secre-
taries or confidential clerks for male
chiefs of divisions or bureaus.
Secretary Wilson has no prejudice
against them, but he deems it due to
them that not one of them be re-
quired to perform services that will
bring her into such relations with her
chief as to enable evel-minded per.
sons to do any gossiping. He consid
ers it better for the good name of
the women employees in the depart
mental service to make a rule that
men chiefs of division shall have men
as private secretaries or confidential
clerks.
The fact that the secretary had pre-
scribed such rule for his own guild
ance has become known recently
through his refusal to permit woman
stenographer to be detailed as clerk
to chief of bureau. He is perfectly
willing to have the stenographers
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
ETHEL ROOSEVELT WILL
HAVE GAY COMING OUT

given for Miss Ethel next January.
She will not have finished her school.
ing, but will leave the National Cathe.
dral school after the Christmas holi.
days.
1t had been intended that Miss
Ethel should go through the entire
course, but in the past few months
she has been having such a good time
in an informal way that the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt hare decided to
give her season in the White House.
Miss Ethel is very an x,ous to mako
her debut while her fnther 10 presf.
dent The debut ball viii be given
In the east room and uil be planned
on an even more elabos<te scale than
the one which the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt gave for Hlss Alice. Il
will bring together the most exclusive
young people in New Tork, Boston,
Philadelphia and Washington, and
viii mark the opening Of the gayess
season the White House has known
since President Roosevelt ASSUMED
the reinx of onca
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

drawing blanks to cause them to re.
main from duty. In the government
printing Office, where there are about
1000 men and women employed, there
are only occasional absences on &C
count Of sickness, while in the treas
ury department, with about the same
number Of employees, the sick list each
day is simply amazing. The same is
true of other departments in which
the employees are entitled to sick
leave
So badly abused has been the sick
leave privilege that at the last session
Of congress what appeared to be a
determined effort was made to repeal
the law, but the matter was permitted
TO go over. giving the Keep commits
sion and other reformers an opportun-
ity to make further investigation and
secure facts and figures. If one u to
judge by the policy Of retrenchment
and reform SO strenuously carried out
by the present administration, it is
entirely safe to assert that sick leave
will not be one of the pickups now en-
joved by government workers after
the next session Of congress.
There are in Washington about 31.-
900 employees of Uncle Sam. The SAL
airy and wages paid will aver $1,000
each, male and female. This gives to
each individual employe 800 leave
| money, and is ready on call for Off
Gals and clerks any time during the
| calendar year. but employees of the
class stated are not entitled to leave
| until the beginning of the fiscal year
July /.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

of the walls of the hall of history,
where it can be plainly viewed by the
visitors to the building.
According to J. B. Taylor, Of the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, Col Armstead, who commanded
Fort McHenry during the lombard
ment by the British feet, took the
flag after the rain of shot and shell
had erased and had it conveyed to
his headquarters. He later gave it
to his mother, who was Q sister of
Mr.. Tsylor's great-great-grandfat
Col. Armstead's mother some years
afterward, it is said, presented the
flag to her granddaughter, who mar
ried one Of the Appletons of New
York and Boston. Later Mr.. Eben
Appleton came into possession Of the
flag. In his letter to DR.. Walcott Mr..
Appleton says that he 10 pleased to
loan the flag to the Smithsonian, 30
as to enable so many e his country
men 10 see the ensign that caused
The Star-Spangled Banner to be
written.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
CORN BREEDING PLOT.
Conditions Which Should Obtain 20
Secure the Best Results,

Select small piece Of land, say
one-fourth or one-half acre, having it
if possible away from all other corn,
ard especially from corn on the west
or southwest, the directions from
which the winds generally blow. If
this cannot be done, select a small
area in the western or southwestern
corner of your corn field and separate
it from the rest of the field by a miss
ing TOW. Do not take the richest land
you have, and do not give it any
special fertilizing; just ordinary, good,
corn land in fair condition
Next, select from 20 to 40, as the
case may be, of the best ears of corn
you can find, of course of the same
variety and as nearly as possible OF
the same breeding. Plant each row
from the same ear. 1t is better to
have the rows only long enough to
nse half the ear, excluding butts and
tips. Mark each ear with a number
corresponding to the row in which it
is planted, and box them up and put
them away where the mice cannot get
at them. Make plot of the ground
with the different rows marked on it.
Give good, careful cultivation, such
as you are accustomed to give your
corn field, hoeing out the weeds, keep
Ing clean and in good filth. Now make
observations of these rows of corn
| and note them in your memorandum
| book. You will frequently find that
! one ear of corn terminates two days
before another; note this. Make notes
from time to time of the growth Of
these different rows. When hRsking
time comes husk and weigh each row
| separately. You will be astonished to
find, no matter how carefully you Sc
lect these ears, that there will be a
difference of as much as 80 to 40
bushels per ace in the yield of these
ears.
The question of tasseling will come
up at the proper time. Some corn
breeders tassel each alternate row
and all the rows that are weak in
vitality, the object being to prevent
these weaklings from pollenizing the
stronger ears. This, says Wallace's
Farmer, We think, is always advisable.
We would go farther and detassel the
weak stalks in the rows The object
in detasseling each alternate row is to
avoid self-pollenization of in-breeding.
They then take the seed corn from
the detasseled rows and reject the
| male row. to speak.
There are number of problems
connected with these breeding plots
that have not yet been thrashed out.
but We are quite safe in saying that
any farmer who will follow the direc.
tons We have given will learn a great
many things which he perhaps would
not believe If We were to state them
now. We do not know any more in
structive employment for farme,
than caring for breeding patch. We
advise them in advance not to under
estimate the job of detasseling, as il
will take more time than they imag
Inc, If they are to do the work we'll
1t cannot all be done in one day. The
rows will have to be gone over sew
eral times during the course of week
while tassels are preparing, if the
work is to be done effectively.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
WILSON BARS WOMEN AS
PRIVATE SECRETARIES

take dictation from the chiefs of bu-
reaus, but he will not allow them to
be detailed to fill positions the duties
of which might require them to re-
main after the working hours or to go
10 the homes of the chiefs to finish
work outside of Office hours.
Two years ago, when there was
scandal in the department, the woman
who performed the duties of private
secretary for a bureau chief for sew
eral years, was brought into a noto-
riety altogether displeasing to the
secretary. Although he knew that
there was no foundation for the in
situations against the woman, he had
to keep quiet and merely hope that
the notoriety would not spread.
A majority of the men chiefs do not
want women in such positions, but
occasionally one comes along who is
so we'll pleased with the work done by
a particular clerk that he asks to have
her promoted and made private secre-
tary Requests of that kind are being
refused.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
CHAPTER l.-Continued.


TITS this way-her father, who
knew Randolph & Randolph through
your fathers handling of the Sea-
boards affairs. learned of my connec-
ton with the house, and gave her a
letter, asking me to do what could
10 help his daughter carry out her
plans. She wants to get position
with us, if possible, in some sort of
capacity. secretary, confidential clerk,
or. as she puts II, any sort of place
that will justify her being in the Of
fee. She tells me she is good at
shorthand, on the machine, or at cor
respondence, also that she has been
J. contributor to the magazines. II
this can be arranged, she says she
will on her own responsibility select
the time and the stock, and hurl the
last of the SANDS fortune at the mar
ket, and, Jim, she is game The blow
seems to have turned this child into
wonderfully nervy creature, and, old
nan, am beginning to have feeling
that perhaps the cards may come so
she will win the judge out. You and
I know where less than sixty thousand
aad been r'ln up to millions more than
once, and that, too, without the aid
she will have, for Ill surely do all
can to help her steer this last chance
INTO spongy places"
Bob in his enthusiasm had complete
y lost sight of the fact that he was
:ndorsing project that but moment
previous he had pronounced insane,
ind with a start realized what this
sudden transformation betokened. In
svitably, if the project he outlined
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
SAVE YOUR OLD TjNFOll
Some Workmen Did and Made Money
Enough to Buy a Library.

Save and sell your tinfoil. The re-
cent rise in the price of tin has led to
a curious development in this and
other countries.
Several of the best known chocolate
manufacturers on the continent have
issued the following notice: DO not
throw away the tinfoil in which the
chocolate is enveloped. 1t is com
posed Of pure metal, a metal which is
dear. Keep it and before long 1t will
be called for by our agents, who will
pay for it at its market value. The
chocolate industry in Europe spends
nearly 100000 per annum in tin.
foil and these $4,000 900 are generally
thrown to the Winds" b.
It is further explained that the pres
emit high price of tin is due to the &C.
ton OF English and Dutch spectators
who have forced it far beyond its &C.
tual value .s.sS# Sc.
What seems to give some c0lor to
the alleged preclousness of the paper
wrapped around the chocolate d the
-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14
Air Ten Miles Above the Earth.

Air Ten Miles Above the Earth.
The curiosity of the modern man of
science knows no bounds. One of his
latest exploits is trapping and bring
ing down to the ground with the aid
of an automatic apparatus attached to
a balloon, specimens of the upper air
from the height of almost ten miles.
The apparatus and the experiment
we're Of French invention, and at a
meeting of the Academy of Sciences
in Paris not long ago Prof. d'Aubignac
reported the result of the analysis of
the captured air. "
1t simply showed that the the
height. Of 81, 900 feet above sea level
the composition Of the atmosphere
practically Is the same as At the sur.
face Of the earth. although its density,
of course, is comparatively slight.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

we're carried out, Bob and the beauti-
full southern girl would be thrown into
close association with each other, and
further acquaintance could only deep
en- the startling influence Beulah
Sands had already won over my or
dinarily sane and coolheaded COM
rade. As looked at my friend, burn
ing with an ardor as unaccustomed
as it was impulsive, felt tug at
my heart-strings at thought of the
sudden cross-roading of his LIES high
way. But l, too, was filed with the
glamour of this girls wondrous beau
ty, and her terrible predicament ap-
pealed to me almost as strongly as it
had to Bob. So, although l knew it
would be fatal to any chance of his
weighing the matter by common sense,
burst out:
Bob, don't blame you for falling
In with the girls plans. If l were
in your shoes I should, too
Tears came to Bob's eyes as he
grabbed my hand and said:
Jim, how can l ever repay you for
all the good things you have done for
mellow can T."
1t was no time to give way to emo
uonal outbursts, and while Bob was
getting his grip on himself, l went
on:
"Come along down to earth now,
Bob; let US look at this thing square
ly. You and I, with our position in
the market, can do lots of things to
help run that sixty thousand to higher
figures, but six months is a short time
and q million or two world of
money"
"She knows that" he said, "and the
time is much shorter and the road to
go much longer than you figure" he
replied. This girl is as high-ten-
stoned as the E string on a Stradi-
varius, and she declares she will have
i no charity tips or unusual favors
from us or anyone else. But let US
not talk about that now, or We'll get
discouraged. Let's do as she says
and trust to God for the outcome.
Are you willing, Jim, to take her into
the office as a sort of confidential Sec
rotary? If you will, I'll take charge
II her account, and together we will
1 do Ill that two men can for her and
her father -.