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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

South Emerson street and tap gently,
but insistently, at a window: The sobs
were still quite audible and the SYM
pathetic patrolman felt for his ban
dana while he listened. Presently the
window opened cautiously ard a wo-
mans voice asked: who's there?"
Apparently the sobbing reply was
alarming. The window was lifted
higher and the head Of Mrs. Charles
Houston appeared.
oh, 1t was burglars and we just
had to- come. Please let us in"-was
the anguished appeal from the littlest
pajama girl that foated to Sneider's
ears.
Down came the window, and a Sec
ond later all three disappeared within
the door
Sneiders investigation in the inter-
est of the protection of citizens re-
vealed, a few doors down, the up-
raised window of No. 307 South Emer-
son street, from which the three in
their hurried flight had leaped to the
ground, without waiting to don the ad-
ditional raiment that was generously
scattered about the room. Two college
girls from the east were visiting their
cousin, Miss Grace Juno, who makes
her home with an aunt. The aunt
being called away, the three girls were
left in the big house for the night
alone, and at two a. m. one of the
doughty trio heard what sounded like
someone stumbling. A crash followed.
and in an instant the three had rushed
to the window, thrown up the sash and
jumped for life.
The surprise of the maidens when
they found their belongings safe on
returning in the morning was only
equalled by the air of conscious recti-
tude of a bis Maltese cat, who sur
veyed broken vase upon the floor,
as who should say, Thou canst not
shake thy cory locks at me-"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

whose plans he might upset should
try to shake down the price to drive
him out of their preserves. Bob
knew how I looked at his proposed
| deal and ordinarily would not have al
lowed me to have the short end of it.
but SO changed had he become in his
anxiety to make that money for the
Virginians that he grabbed at my &C.
ceptance
Thank you, Jim," he said, fervent-
ly, and he continued: *Of course, l
see what's going through your head,
but I'll accept the favor, for the deal
is bound to be successful. know
your reason for coming in is just to
help out, and that you won't feel bad
ly because your last $4,000 shares will
be used more as a guarantee for the
deals success than for profit. And
Miss Sands could not object to the
part you play, as she did at the I'M
derwriting, for you will get big profit
anyway"
Next day sugar was lively on the ex-
change. Bob bought all in sight and
handled the buying in a mastery way
When the closing gong struck, Beulah
Sands had 10000 shares, which aver
aged her lis; Bob and I had 10000 at
an average of 1875, and the stock had
closed 1872 bid and in big demand.
Miss Sands 10000 showed $4,000
profit, while our 10000 showed $780,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
CAUGHT By IMMIGRATION OFF
GER WHILE TRYING TO LAND
AT NEW YORK.
PLOT DISCOVERED
Russian Officials and Vessels Crews
Said to Be in Scheme to Bring
Undesirable Characters to
America,

New York.-Hand over hand in true
sailor fashion a diminutive form in
male attire came over the side OF
the Russian steamer Saratov, which
was recently locked here, and at the
end of the spring line dropped plump
into the arms of an immigrant in
spector. The bold front and stout
heart that had brought their possessor
through many perils failed under the
searching inquisition of the officer and
presently in flood of tears stood re.
vealed Miss Pauline Flaks, stowaway.
10 years old, bound from Kovno, Rus
STA, for America and freedom She
will be sent back to Libau, her sail
ing port.
Back Of the arrest of the Flaks girl
is a story Of immigrant smuggling
that has made the immigration au-
thorities especially vigilant recently.
Some time ago report that undesir-
able aliens were being landed illegal
~ from Russian steamers led special
inspectors to hold up party Of Rus
SLAMS found in the Grand Central sta
ton and later to return the whole
party to Ellis island, while story se~
cured from them could be investi-
gated. These Russians declared that
through an organized traffic, the prime
mover In which had headquarters at
Libau, Baltic seaport, foreigners,
likely to- be refused legal admissionj
were smuggled into this country.
According to- the Russians, Rus
sian-American at Libau is at the head
Of business and his operations are
winked at by Russian government of:
fcials, as he is: instrumental in rid
ding that country of undesirable char
acters. From each immigrant to be
smuggled $3.50 is demanded in ad-
vance. In return the immigrant is
furnished a passport from his home to
Libau, or, if that is not convenient, to
some other port, and is put aboard a
vessel for America
OF the money paid, $25 goes to the
Libau' man, $35 to member Of the
crew Of the>vesser upon which passage
is taken and $3.50 to an officer of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

Patterns Nos. 5776 and 5720.-All
women take pride in neat and becom-
ing morning attire. This one is espe-
clally dainty and pretty. It is made Of
figured lawn and consists of a very
attractive house jacket and a practical
hve-gore skirt, that allows of being
made either with or without a flounce.
A belt of the material fastened under
the pfeats at the waistline in back
holds the fulness in places and aids
ia giving a trimness to the figure so
essential Id a garment of this kind.
The square cut neck and elbow sleeves
are finished with beading run with
black velvet ribbon. All the washable
materials as we'll as the light weight
woolens are appropriate for the max
ing. The dressing sacque will require
81 yards of 36-inch material for &C.
inch bust measure. For the skirt 81
yards will be required.
Ladies' dressing sacque, No. SITS.
Sizes for 3d. 3d., So, 38, 40 and AZ
inches bust measure
Ladies' f1ve-gored skirt, with or
without f1ounue:. Sizes for %, "a, 26,
%, 80 and 32-inch waist measure.
This calls for two separate patterns
for skirt and waist, which will be
mailed to any address On receipt of
ten cents for each in money or stamps,
This pattern will be sent to you on
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern DEPARTMENT. of this paper.
BE sure to give size. and number of p.t-
tern wanted. For convenience, write
your order on following couu>n:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
BITTER ROT IN APPLES,
Mssods Of Combatiny' This Trouble.
some Disease

The following conclusions: as 20 the
best method of fighting this disease
are given in recent bulletin Of the
Unitef States department Of agrtcul-
ture:
1. BfEter-rot can be completely con-
trolled' buy proper applications of Bgr-
deaux mixture, 1913 to 98.9 per cent. of
sound fruit havingebeen saved by suca
treatment I'm these experiments. while
the checks rotted completely.
2. Four applications, when made
just at the sight time, are sufficient to-
control the disease satisfactorily, but
in order to- be sure of covering the I'M
lection periods one or two additional
applications may be necessary.
3. The applications should be made
at intervals Of two weeks, beginning
about six weeks after the trees bloom.
4. 1t Is necessary to spray the trees
thoroughly, coating the fruit on all
sides with firs mist-like applications:
S. Other diseases, such as scab;
leaf-spots, ard sooty-blotch, may be
controlled in, connection with the treat
ment of bitterrot.
For the treatment of bitter-rot alone
spray the tress thoroughly with Bor-
deaux mixture at intervals of two
weeks until five applications have been
made, beginning not later than 40 days
after the petals have fallen.
For the combined treatment of ap-
ple-scab and bitter-rot, spray the trees
with Bordeaux mixture CD just before
they bloom (but after the cluster buds,
have opened and exposed the flower
buds); CD as soon as the petals fall.
(3) week or ten days later; a.,
about 40 to SO days after the shedding
of the petals, and at intervals of two
weeks thereafter until, in all, seven or
eight applications have been made.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Decentralization.

There is such thing as over-ferti-
lizing land. Some plants will stand a
great deal of manure and some will
not. Storer says: Wheat and barley
must not be fed too richly lest they
run to straw and produce no adequate
yield of grain. Years ago, when wheat
was commonly grown in Europe on
lean, bare fallow, to which a certain
amount of manure was applied, it
seemed to the men that practiced this
system that limit had been set to
the amount of wheat that could be
grown on an acre of land. They found
themselves unable to force the wheat
to yield more than a certain definite
quantity of grain, for the moment they
applied to the land any more than the
usual quantity of dung, their wheat
was apt to fail, because the plants
ran to leaf and lodged before coming
to maturity"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

most certainly for several centuries.
1t is far too great for removal by evap-
Grafton, chemical combination, or even
physical absorption by pores or cav
ems in the rocks. What becomes of
the water that is constantly flowing in
land and disappears finally in the t1s-
sures that have opened in the lime.
stone?
The question has been the subject
of much study, but no conclusive an.
'swer has been given. It is probable
that there is an underground channel
which carries the water back into the
sea at no great depth below the sur
face. The constant influx of salt water
at Cephalonia is duplicated, as far as
is known. at no other point of the
world.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

of them, who said he was Jan Gede-
min, of Kovno, Russia, fleeing from
conscription,. was captured. His COM
panion reached the dock and escaped.
The matter was reported to Capt.
Scibmaross, who said that, so far as
he knew, there were no stowaways
aboard.
Later Miss Flaks made her hope
less attempt to get ashore To the
inspectors SIZE told a story Of flight
from Kovno; after her parents and
her: sisters had been killed. She
reached Rotterdam, where it was sug-
gested to her she might be- helped to
America if She communicates with
man at Libau: This, she did, was put
in male, attire and travelled among
the men Of the steerage on the Sara
TOW.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

back for the rush to which, by com.
parison, that of a football team is
child's play. Every man in that
crowd was q picked man, picked for
what was coming. Each felt that
upon his individual powers to keep
clear head, to shout loudest, to forget
nothing, to keep his feet. and to stay
as near the center of the crowd as pos
sible, depended his floor honor" per-
haps his fortune, or, what was more
to him, his clients fortune. Nearly
every man of them was a college
graduate who had won his Spurs at
athletics or a seasoned floor man
whose training had been even more
severe than that of the college camp
us. When it was known before the
| opening of the exchange that there are
to be things doing" in a certain
stock, it is the rule to send only the
| picked floor men into the crowd.
There may be fortune to make or to
lose in minute or a silver of min.
ute. For instance, the man who that
morning was able to snatch the first
| 5000 shares sold at 40 could have
resold them a few minutes afterward
at 1852 and secured $4,000 profit. And
the man who was sent into the crowd
! by his client to sell 5000 shares at the
''opening'' and who got but 40, when
the price would be 152 by the time he
reported to his customer, was a man
to be pftied. Again, the trader who
the night before had decided that
sugar had gone up too fast, and who
had "shorted" Chat is, sold what he
did not have, with the intention of re-.
purchasing at lower price than he
sold it for) 5000 shares at 40 and
who, finding himself in that surgine
mob with sugar selling at 1872, could
only get out by taking loss of $780,,
900, or by taking another chance OF
later paying 162-such a trader was
also to be pitied. : g.
| q (*"26 Broadway" is the Wall street fig
ure Of speech for STANDARD OIL" which
| has it's home there.)
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
RIVER OF SALT. WATER.
Flows Inland In a Greek island and
Then Disappears.


One of the most curious phenomena
of geography is found on the southern
coast of the island of Cephalonia, in
Greece. 1t. is stream of salt water
which for an unknown period left the
almost tideless sea and flowed inland
with volume sufficient to furnish
water power to two mills. For some
generations the mills were operated
by undershot wheels which took their
power from this little river of ocean
water. They supplied -four to the
people of the island until recently, but
now they have been dismantled owing
to the competition Of larger and better
equipped mills. <.-'y
The sea enters the land at four
points where the coast is practically
on q level with the salt water surface.
The four initial streams unite to form
the little river that flows inland in a
broken rocky channel until it finally
disappears in the limestone rock and
sinks into the earth.
This inland dow has continued Il.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

Pattern No. 5S34.-The shirt waist
shown in the illustration is one of the
most serviceable that can be had.
Tuck pleats are laid in front and back.
and band of the material is stitched
at the waistline to which the buttons
are seWed that support the trousers.
The rundown collar is attached to
the neckband, but may be made sepa-
rately if desired. Linen, madras and
percale are all suitable for reproduc-
ton, but for everyday wear the COL
ored shirtings are most favored and
they wear excellently. For a boy of
eight years IL yards of 36-inch ma
terial will be required. Sizes for 4, 6,
8, 10 and 10 years.
This pattern will be sent to you on
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern Department of this paper.
Be sure to give size and number of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
your order on the following coupon:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

~, he got to q pitch where 1t seemed
as though he must take of the lid, and
before Kate or I realized what was
coming he placed himself In front OF
us and said:
"Jim, Kate. cannot 60 into to-mor-
row without telling you something
that neither of you suspect. I must
tell some one, now that everything is
coming out right and that Beulah Is to
be saved; and whom can I tell but
you, who have been everything to me?
II love Beulah Sands, surely, deeply,
with every bit of me. I worship her,
1 tell you, and tomorrow, tomorrow if
this deal comes out as it must come,
and I can put $1,500,0O0 into her
hands and send her home to her IA
Their, then, then, will tell her I love
her, and Jim, Kate, if she'll marry me,
good-by, good-by to this hell of dollar
hunting, gcod-by to such misery as
have been in for three months, and
home, Virginia home, for Beulah and
me-" He sank into chair and tears
rolled down his cheeks. Poor, poor
Bob, strong as lion in adversely,
historical as woman with victory in
sight,
The next day sugar opened with
wild rush: zoe, 5000 shares from 40 to
1872" That is the way it came on the
tape, which meant that the crowd
around the sugar-pole was mob and
that the transactions were so heavy,
quick and tangled that no one could
tell to certainty just what the first
or opening price was; but after the
first lull, after the gong, there were Of
tlcially reported transactions aggre.
eating $4,000 shares and at prices va
rying from 40 to 152. was over on
the floor to see the scramble, for it
was noised about long before ten
o'clock that sugar would open wild,
and then, too, wanted to be handy if
Bob should need any quick advice.
A minute before the gong struck,
there were 800 men jammed around
the sugar-pole; men with set, deter
mined faces; men with their coats
buttoned tight and shoulders thrown
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Fighting Currant Worms.

The currant and gooseberry worms
that consume the leaves of the currant
and gooseberry, leaving the bushes
bare of foliage, will weaken the bushes
so much that the berries will not
ripen; even the bushes being some
times killed by them. The worms may
be poisoned by the use of hellebore
dissolved In water, the bushes being
sprayed with it. Take tablespoonful
of the hel1ebore, add quart of hot
water. and allow it to stand a few
hours; then add to it pailful of
water, and spray the bushes we'll with
1t. An old broom will answer very
well for spraying. The worms are
soon killed, and the poison will not
last long. In few days the berries
may be eaten.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Binding a Load Of Hav,

OF load Of hay or straw. The upright
pin is worked down into the load and
the other twisted in the rope and
turned around the upright until the
load is tightly bound. Then a small
rope that IS kept tied in end OF the
horizontal pin Is tied to the binding
rope and the pressure is held. Each
pin Is 81 feet long. One is sharpened
and the other has one-half-inch hole
bored through one end. Old fork
handles, suggests Farm and Home,
are just the thing to make them Of.
One pin only may be made and a
fork used to bind in the manner
shown after the load is Oh.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Advice from an Expert,

Mrs. Rosa Lewis, favorite chef Of
King Edward, has written on the sub.
ject of how to cook for kings and Incl
dentally gives some good advice that
other cooks, who only cater to the ap-
petites of plain men of the John and
William order, may do we'll to follow.
You can't work in kid gloves, she
says; statement some of US might
be willing to contest, and she advises
the new cook not to aspire to make
original dishes until she has mastered
the elements of her profession. She
says sensible cooking is more demand
ed than ever and there is more intel,i-
gence on the subject.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

of pink pajamas, apparently uphol-
stored by three plump young damsels,
fitted by him, two blond heads and
one dark one above and three pairs of
lily white feet below. But for the
sound of muff1ed sob that escaped
the threefold sweetness ere it van
ished, Sneider would have imagined
himself the victim of mirage, but
the sob was entirely human.
Being a gallant policeman possessed
by pardonable curiosity, Sneider fol-
lowed them, also on a run. He felt
sure that here was a need of his
strong. right arm in defense of beauty.
He saw the pink pajamas pause in
their onward rush, turn in at No. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

900 at the closing price. All the
houses with Washington wires were
wildly scrambling for sugar as soon
as it began to jump. And it certainly
looked as though the shares were good
for the figures set for them by Bob,
SITS, at which price the Sands profits
would be $1,200,000. Bob was beside
himself with Joy. He dined with Kate
and me, and as I watched him my
heart almost stopped beating at the
thoughtful anything should happen
to upset his plans!" His happiness
was pathetic to witness. He was like
a child. He threw away all the reserve
of the past three months and laughed
and was grave by turns. After din
ner, as we sat in the library over our
coffee, he leaned over to my wife and
said:
Katherine Randolph, you and Jim
don't know what misery I have been
in for three months, and now-will to.
morrow never come, so l may get into
the whirl and clean up this deal and
send that girl back to her father with
the money! I wanted her to tele.
graph the Judge that things looked
like she would win out and bring back
the relief, but she would not hear of
it, She is marvellous woman. She
has not turned hair to-day. / don't
think her pulse is up an eighth to.
night. She has not sent home a word
of encouragement since she has been
here, more than to tell her father she
is doing well with her stories. Il
seems they both agreed the only way
to work the thing out was whole
hog or none,' and that she was to say
nothing until she could herself bring
the word Saved or lost! I don't know
but she is right: She says If she
! should raise her fathers hopes, and
then be compelled to dash them, the
I effect would be fatal"
+ Bob rushed the talk along fitting
from one point to another, but invaria.
| bly, returning to Beulah Sands and to-
morrow and It's saving profits: Final
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
FAIR STOWAWAY
IN MALE ATTIRE.

ship, whose part in the plan is to az
ford the immigrant "shore leave
when United States port is reached.
The Ellis island authorities thought
enough of the tale to detain the rela-
tors and put on foot quiet investi.
cation. When the Saratov, of the
Russian volunteer fleet, arrived from
Libau and Rotterdam and the usual
search of the vessel had been con.
cluded, two inspectors remained on
board.
During the night two men were de-
tected creeping forward from the FORE
castle towards the bits, through
which ran a line to the dock. One
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

or will them away, for they have no
deeds. On tenant dying the first
person to cross the threshold takes
his place, If he SO desires. Many de-
vices have been resorted to to obtain
the keys. The properties carry =.
county vote, but the poor law guar
dams always refuse to grant relief to
the tenants.-London Globe. IS.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
As Others See lie

Mabel met my Uncle Bob who
lives in California for the first time
last night. He's an old bachelor and
awfully rich, and when I sang for
him what do you suppose he did?"
Stella-Offered to send you tn Eu.
rope?
Mabel-Yes-to cultivate my voice.
But how did you guess it?
Stella-Oh, I naturally supposed
that he would want to get you out of
the way if he intended to prolong his
visit.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
The Board Cover.

over the other, and held by a light
flexible chain at each end and staple.
dave the ends Of the chain attached
large rings which slip over slender
poles driven in the ground and with
headless spikes driven in like barbs,
SO the winds will not lift the roof. BY
boring one small bole near the lower
edge Of each board wire would tie
the two to the chain and not injure
the board as staples might.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
The Modern Witch.

ITO, mount it is more difficult" tho
witch murmured, "but above all things
we must be up to date"
r. She tossed aside her an1iquated
broomstick and straddling the by.
draulic cleaner scared up with her
black cat into the starry splendor Of
the still nigh Philad elphia bulletin.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Work of Gasoline Enoine.

In place of IA strong arms pulling
seven. oars, with. another pair at the
steering oar, now four-cylinder, four
cycle gasoline engine pushes the craft
along at ten miles an hour. A solid
18-inch propeller with reversing
clutch propels the 34-foot boat. Two
gasoline tanks, one with a capacity of
Is and the other with Is gallons of the
colorless fluid In which is locked up so
much effort. admit, according to Pop.
ular Mechanics. radius Of 200 miles
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Look at the Head.

1t is said that steer, to be good
feeder, should have a clean head, Meth.
er too broad or too long. The neck
should be of medium ength and size
The animal should be smooth and
broad at the hips and have good lung
power. ! A steer narrow at the hips
shows scrub stock and one with small
lung power denotes tendency toward
inherited weakness which is liable ia
develop into tuberculosis.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
Cultivatinq After a RAIN

Don't spoil mellow field by start.
ing the cultivators at once after a
heavy rain. Give the ground time to
dry off little. If the work is kent
we'll in hand the weeds can be easily
kept in check, without jumping into
the cornfields when the soil turns up
too wet.