The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-02-26
LITERARY NO7YCEa

dressed in the height OF the spring
fashions. These are followed by nu-
melous pattern-plates and the usual
quantity Of poems, tales, AMI other.
reading matter. /: L. a. Cooley, Phila-
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The Illustrated Annual OF. Phrenolo-
gy and Physiognomy, published by
Samuel r. Wells, $50 Broadway, N. r.,
is before us. 1t contains great num-
Der Of Illustrations and articles upon
the subject indicated in the title. If
every family would take one phreno-
logical and one Of the popular health,
Journals and give only half heed to the
suggestions, there would. he Il vast
amount of suffering aud Of Doctors bills
saved annually. '-'':f: =*..~:..
The Republic Magazine for February:
contains some fifteen articles upon DO
litical topics. ANY one reading this
regularly will be well posted
upon pablo and current political ques-
tons. Published by tile Republic Pub
fishing Company, Washington, u. G.
STICK 70 THE FIFE: 10.
Since coming to Minnesota, we have
noticed that about once year the far
mers speak out through the papers and
advise wheat growers to stick to the
harder varieties cf wheat. They try
the softer grades for Il year or two,
thinking that the greater yield per acre
will bring them larger returns in
money, but in the end they discover
t lat the hard varieties pay best. And
the question IS, which is. the best of
the harder varieties. TO this the an
swer is, "Stick to the Fife" us the va
riety best adapted to this latitude, and
to the manufacture OF the New Process
Flour which is the glory of Minnesota
Our attention has been called to this
subject again by al article in the Far
mers Union in reply to Il letter asking
what varieties Of wheat can be con-
sidered rs No. hard. To this the
Union replies:
In reply to the above we would say
that there is no wheat which the far
mers of the State can raise equal to the
fife wheat. 1t is this grade of wheat,
and this alone, that makes Minnesota
wheat so much i'll demand, and the mo-
ment our farmers, to any extent, COM
mence to raise amy other variety, the
price of Minnesota wheat will decline.
For the past live years the Minneap-
oils millers have paid OIL AL average
from ten to tiftee,: cents for wheat more
than shippers could pay, and they want
nothing, at any price, but hard wheat.
The firm of Pillsbury Il Go. have re-
Gently withdrawn from several stations
on the st. Paul & Sioux City Railroad
on account of the large amount of soft
wheat raised in with the other. Other
firms will doubtless he compelled to do
the same. 1t is Il fact to day that at
those ST ations on the st. Paul & Sioux
City Railroad where the Minneapolis
millers are not buying wheat, the price
Is ut least ten cents lower delivered at
Minneapolis or st. Paul than for those
stations where the Minneapolis millers
are iii the market. The farmers Of this
State, then, will make q grave mistake
if they raise anything but hard wheat.
KANSAS
Kansas is still bleeding Kansas.
1t is certainly the State of continual
misfortune. First the scene of border
rutfian conflicts, then visited twice by
famine, and now seven or eight coun-
ties left utterly destitute by drouth,
chinch bugs and grasshoppers, Kansas
ought to excite the sympathy of the
world. Moreover, it is subject to unex-
pected storms of great severity which
kill men and cattle 10y the hundred.
The great sno "-storm of April, 1878,
caught men at their plows and fr''za
them to death in the furrow. It was
said at he time that $4,000 cattle per-
isl'ed of cold during the winter of
1928. A letter dated january II,
1875, written from Dodge City, Kansas,
says Of the present winter:
There are about 81, 1000 head of Texas
cattle being wintered in this county, OF
which all the poorer ones will p, IRISH.
We are well and keeping moderate fires
III order to make orr coal hold out until
the train comes in, which will bring
nine carloads. 1t is reported that
there are nine hundred pounds OF mail
matter Oh the train. The hotels and
other business places are reducing their
number Of fires for fear OF no trains for
a week to come.
Last Monday ther,' was man brought
in here from one OF the creeks, frozen
to death, and there were three more
found frozen about thirty seven miles
south of here-tlley froZe in their beds
with about three feet Of snow over
them. One man was found dead sitting
by his wagon wheel with ice all around
him, ellcased by the heat of his body
and breath melting the snow from his
body and freezing, encasing him in an
alright coffin. He had tried to work
his way up through the SHOW, from his
bid, and sank hack in Il sitting posture
and died when only six inches from the
top of the drift. One man who WAS in
the same camp, but slept i'll his wagon.
did not get up and stir around any
until one of the others was dead and
his own hands and feet had become so
badly frozen that he could not help the
others or even button his own coat af-
ter he got it OH. Two Of their own
horses died at the wagon. The MAJ,
turned one loose and got on the only
one left and started for his home and
was finally picked up by another party
Of hunters. 1t IS supposed that great
many have persisted.