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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-26
HEWITT TIE JEWELHp.

We have recently heal d IL number who
have had their watches cleaned and re.
paired 1T WOrthingtOn, speak in highest
praise Of Mr.. 5. S. ueWitt's skill as !,
workman and his reasonable charges.
If your flicker" is out of repair, step
III, when to the county seat, or send it
10y mail to Mr.. Hewitt. and you will
get it fixed up il, 4 workmanlike man.
ner. There is no ''botching" done ut
his Observation-Disclosures Guardian.
The WOrthlngtOn ADVANCE gave its
readers last week Il nal!seating rehasl
OF what the ADVANCE has said in pre-
vious issues concerning the probabili.
ties OF Blaine's nomination. For this
matter nearly 4 column OF space was
employed, and all for the purpose Of
proving that the ADVANCE man is far.
sighted and 'knew it beforehand. D.
Luverne Herald.
Why, we just copied "them'' views
for the purpose of ''nauseating" you.
We knew they'd make you sick.
You see, you were opposed to Blaine
and didn't dare to say so right out in
public. The ADVANCE was for Blaine
and said 50 for weeks beforehand"
and ''all along" And VIC copied the
opinions to make the ADVANCE record
complete on that score. and not as you
say, with your ,tsual unfairness, to
show that We predicted his nomination
We never went on record as predicting
B'aine's nomination, though we cx-
pressed the earnest hope that lie would
be nominated.
A drove of nearly two hundred cattle
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-26
Send Money by American
Express Co. Money! Orders.

Receipts gwen. Money TetuNdeu II
Orders are lost. Sold 1T Ill offices OF
the Go. Payable at $500 places. Rates
To $5-5c: $lO-Sc: S2O-l0c: S4O-l5c:
$50-2Oc. 3S-3m
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-26
GOODS 4 i COST.

GOODS at COST.
will close out my entire stock Of
Summer Goods, consisting Of Ladies'
and Childrens' Trimmed Hats, Shade
Hats, Flowers, etc.
44wl] Mrs. +. A. DEWOLF.
Paint. b. W. Lyon and O. Bigelow
have thoroughly painted their build
ings. Mcdowell has painted the front
Of the Pioneer saloon. The Land office
is being renovated and painted inside.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-26
LOCAL.

Wo8rlIINGroN. MINI. JUNE g. 1884.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-26

E1RE BARGAINS
For Sale, fine residence lots in Clary s
addition.
41-tf J. Z. MOCLTON.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-26

II. J. Ludlow picked 100 quarts of
Strawberries on Monday last and left il
box with the editor. Thanks. Call often.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Not Afraid to Go.

An old British army pensioner relates
this story of General "Chinese" Gordon:
On the first day ON which fire was
opened at Sebastopol from the twenty
one gun battery, the sand-bags forming
one of the embrasures caught fire from
the flash of a too-closeiy mounted gun.
A corporal and sapper of the engineers
were told off to repair the damage. The
corporal ordered the sapper to mount
the embrasure, and proposed to hand up
the fresh bags to him. They were under
heavy fire at the time, and the sapper,
with some want of discipline, certainly,
demurred to this arrangement, and sug-
gested that the corporal should get up,
and that he (the sapper) would go on
with the handing. up business. There
was bit of a wrangle over it. Gordon.
who was passing, inquired into the
matter, and quietly telling the corporal,
"Never order q man to do what Won are
afraid to do yourself" got up on the
pile of bags himself and said, Come up
here, both of you," and then ordered
the men who were working the gun to
hand the bags up. The storm of bullets
swept over Gordon and the two men
but his charmed life seemed to protect
the trio. He finished his work. and
came down as coolly as he had mounted
but the lesson was never forgotten. and
there's a fine ring about the words
Never order man to do thing Won
are afraid to do yourself"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Four Boys Did 1t.

1t was nothing-nothing but the body
of laboring man suspended to limb of
tree on Seventh street, moving like a
pendulum as the night wind swayed it.
A woman who was returning from the
grocery caught sight of the CHASTITY
spectacle, and dropped two bars of soap
and pound of candles on the walk and
ran screaming away. Two boys came
along and took skip through the mud
and raised a yell, and the driver of a
mllk-wagon stopped his horse and rang
his bell in way to bring a dozen house
holders out doors. A half-circle was
formed about the tree, policeman sent
for, and a sudden hush fell upon the
crowd.
Probably out of work, and driven to
it" whispered one.
'No doubt he had trouble with his
wife," sighed second.
Clocks to me like a man who had
drained the cup of sorrow to its dregs, "
said third.
By and by policeman came hurrying
along. putting and blowing and followed
by a crowd of boys.
"Stand back-all of you stand back !''
cried the officer.
Nobody stood back, of course.
Now somebody get me a step
ladder !"
Fifteen or twenty persons suggested
that somebody run for the coroner, but
no one started. A dozen others sug
gested that it was against the law to cut
a body down unless the coroner was pres
ent, but the ladder came and the officer
mounted it and opened his knife and
commanded:
'Now, then, three or four of you come
here to ease the body down when 1 cut
the rope %
-Four or five men stepped out, but they
had no sooner seized the suicides legs
than they fell back. In half a minute
more the officer backed down the ladder.
Then general utter ran through the
crowd, and small boy called out:
81 seed 'em when they did it It's a
straw man, and four boys hung him up
and runn'd away !"-Detro1 Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Dumas Pere ct Fills.

Dumas pere always insisted that his
son should be present at his first repre-
sensations. He attached an almost SUI
perstitious importance to his presence.
The idea seems to have taken possession
of him early, for, the author of ''Dame
aux Camelias" relates he took part in the
first representation of "Henry Iii ct sa
Cour :" he was then five years old. 81
was even," writes the son, 1.-THE first and
only person who Kissed Henry Ill I
was in the first row of orchestra chairs
with my mother. There was in the third
act q scene which tired me extremely
with its ferocity. Hitherto [ had only
attended tableaux and pictures of ma
rionettes, and had noticed IN them that
every time hearty, judicious and OPP
portune hiss made itself heard, the pic
ture was changed. Recalling this, the
tbouoht occurred to me that if J. began
to hiss when the obnoxious scene was
mt on. I would undoubtedly succeed IN
having it changed. So 1 suddenly, and
ouite alone in the midst of the general
silence. began to hiss with all my
might, The whole audience jumped to
their feet to protest against the dlscon-
tented spectator. An uproar followed.
NV mother gave me a whipping; and, as
you may guess, the scene was not
changed"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Flies at Five Cents Each.

John D. Parsons, Jr., of Weed, Par
sons & Co., the Albany publishers, was
busily engaged in the Office one winter
day, when he was addressed by Dave,
one of the boys of the establishment.
who that morning had discovered anoth-
er lad performing the duties which fell
to him. 1t happened by mistake, but
the boy, anxious to know what it meant,
went at once to headquarters. Mr.. Par
sons was very busy at the time, and
when the lad addressed him, said with
pardonable impatience:
Don't bother me, please; I'm en-
gagged"
Dave, however, felt the possible loss
of his situation, and persisted by saying:
"Well, what am I to do, Mr.. Par
sons ?"
Mr.. Parsons did not even glance up,
but said angrily:
"I.don't know. Don't annoy me. Go
and catch flies and will give you five
cents apiece for them"
Dave bowed and retired, and Mr.. Par
sons resuming his figuring forgot the
interruption. Dave, proceeding up
stairs, went through the different rooms
and asked the men if they saw any flies
about their cases to catch them for him.
The request was an odd one, but as
the boy is general favorite, all the men
looked out for stray flies, which, even in
the winter, appeared now and again in a
warm room. Dave hunted flies all day,
and there was general swinging of arms
throughout the establishment. Dave
himself captured fifteen, and all the
others assisted him in the work. At five
o'clock he counted up his flies, and 60
ing to Mr.. Parsons, then happily Olsen.
gagged, said respectfully:
"Mr. Parsons, I have done as you di-
rected me. 1 have caught Al flies to-
day and it wasn't very good day fol
flies either. Two dollars and five cents.
please"
After moments reflection Mr.. Par
sons recollected the circumstances of the
morning, and while at first provoked
smiled and paid the boy the contract
money. Then telling him to say moth
ing about it he put him to less con
genial and more profitable task.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Our Cookery Book.
ONE WAY FOR PREPARING RHUBARB PIE
AND oLD-TIME PANCAKES.

"Rhubarb ?" said the artist as he laid
aside his apron; ''you are little early
for that. But if you want my recipe
here it is: Peel and cut into inch
lengths two small punches of rhubarb;
put on the fire in porcelain stew-pan
with half a cup of water; cook until
tender and then stir in a large table
spoonful of butter, dessert spoonful
of corn starch; wet with a little cold
water and scant cupful of sugar. Re
move from the fire after it has boiled
up once and add very slowly, beating
the while, two welI-whipped eggs. Line
a deep dish with good paste, fill with
this mixture, cover with paste and bake.
There should be two cups of rhubarb
after it is stewed. The above quantity
is sufficient for one large or two small
pies"
"You have probably tasted pancakes
til at grandmother made ?"
eyes
"Well, what was her way p
Whipping out book of mem oranda
the artist read slowly: "Melt butter the
size of an egg in a pint of hot sweet
milk; add pint of cold milk, the yolks
of four eggs thoroughly beaten, tea
spoonful of salt, half cake of COM
pressed yeast dissolved in a little warm
water, and -four sufficient to make stiff
batter; set this to rise in a warm place,
for three hours if they are wanted for
dinner, over night in a cool place if they
are wanted for breakfast, and then add
the beaten whites which have been kept
cool meantime. No flour must be
added again before baking. Try these
with honey or maple syrup"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
A Railway Run by Water.

A newspaper correspondent, writing
from Switzerland, tells of a curious rail
way as follows: "The pictures que and
practical are often curiously intermixed.
l CLEAN few particulars of furnicular
railway which connects Territet (Chil-
lon), and Glion. The railway, which is
on a steep incline, something after the
style Of the one up Mount Vesuvius,
commences at an angle of 80 deg. and
soon increases to 81 deg. 1t is a single
line, with loop as passing-place half
way. There are two carriages on the
line, one ofwhich aaeends while the other
descends. The ascending carriage is
drawn by the force of gravity of the one
descending. the latter being weighted
by a reservoir placed underneath being
filed with water. The reservoir is
emptied as soon as the carriage has
made the descent. The two vehicles are
connected with each other by means of
a wire cable, which passes over a wheel
at the summit of the incline. BY the
passenger remarkable optical illusion is
experienced. Trees, huts, houses, rocks,
all seem to be bent back as though by
some enchantment. They are appar-
emily standing out of the perpendicular,
and one can scarcely help wondering
why they do not topple over. The de-
ception is due to the seats of the car
rages, which are constr ucted at such an
angle that, Notwithstanding the steep
ness of the gradient, the occupant pre-
serves his ordinary upright sitting
posture. The line is TAB yards long, and
the difference between the level of the
base and that of its summit is 984 feet. u
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
GORDON AND THE REBELS.
The NIahdi Interviewed-What He Had to
Say About the Soudan.

The Arab text in the A6Ou M0dddra
gives an account of an interview of the
editor of the Arab paper with the Mahdi-
In the course of the interview NOLAN.
med Ahmed said:
"What proves that I never pretended
to be the Mahdi is that am surrounded
by the most illustrious sheiks of Islam
and by thousands of partisans who, in
stead of fighting by my side, would have
abandoned me if 1 had put forward the
claims attributed to me by my enemies.
Gordon has been sent with 500, 900
thalers to buy over my allies as he sue
ceeded in buying some Arab chief, But
I swear, in the name of Allah, that if
Gordon falls into my hands / will kill
him and will distribute his money among
the poorer Mussulmans who fight with
me-"
But" asked the interviewer, "what
will you do in the event of the English
arming Indians and Abyssinians against
you?
81 have no fear of the Indians, " was
the reply. ''Those who are Mussul-
mans are with US. Those who are idola-
tiers are anxious to iberate themselves
from English tyrrany. AS TO the Abys-
sinians, not one of them would survive. 4"
"And what about the English ?"
"The sun will melt them As to my
self, if do not succeed will perish on
the battlefield"
The Paris FTgaro's correspondent at
Cairo says:-"General Gordon, before
the sortie Of the 10Th inst, sent the fol-
lowing proclamation to the rebel sheiks:
Come to me without fear as l have
come to you in all confidence. 1 came
not to fight, but come alone with the
help of God, and Colds with me- The
sheiks replied:-'We have read your let
ter. You say you are with God. If you
are with God you are not with us. If
you are not with us then God is against
thee, and we shall do with thee as we
have done with Hicks Pacha.'"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Let 1t Pass.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has a very
pretty poem in the atlantic about the
fat girl. She used to wear a golden belt
set with diamonds at her slender waist.
Then by and by she wore the belt around
her head, for ga lustrous diadem. "
Then she wore it around her neck, a
necklace with ''its roseate diamonds set
anew" Then she wore it for bracelet,
and at last ''the jewel glittering to the
last, still sparkles in ring" The poem
is one of the happiest efforts of this de-
lightful humorist. One can almost see
that slender girl fat up as the years roll
by, and grow out of her girdle in all its
successive adaptations. But it would
make the poor fat woman feel kind of
sad like, we should think, sitting in the
dime museum gazing pensively at the
ring on her finger, and forgetting, not
even hearing, the honeyed blandish-
ments of the living skeleton at her side.
while she thought of the days when she
wore that ring about her waist. It may
be, however, that we have an erroneous
conception of the true inwardness of the
poem. Come to read it again, carefully,
we think we have. And yet-but, no
well, let it pass.-RoBERr BURDETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW 1ORh Markell.
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANs-Prime, S42O@s435; fair to good,
81. 55@$2.60 per busheL
BUTTER i New York sold at 34@36c for
choice in pals, and 25CD2Sc. common TO good.
Western Creamery sold at 33Q34c., and the
common Western at 23GD25c-
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 1401416c; do. fair
to good, 12@13c
EGas-Quotations ranged from 27c for Or
binary, to 28c. for New York. New Jersey and
Pennsylvania
Flour Superfne, So. 7O@S3. 25; Western,
$3.70@$6.75; extra New York, So. 50@$6. 90.
HAY Shipping. 45@50c.; clover, 100000,
salt, Coo; straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York, 26@27c.; Eastern 20@25c;
yearlings, 16925c; ODDS, - @.
PETROLEUM Refined, $780, crude, 61S@7aSc
in bulk; in barrels $40; naphtha 6SIc In
shipping order. and III 5@12c. in cases.
PoRK-Clear back. $l9.5O@$2O2 rs; dressed
hogs, S130S5Sc.
WHEAT Spring No. 8, sLO2@s1. O6; Mil
waukee, No. 2, $1.05; amber, $1.32a$2 40;
CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 51@6Oc;
delivered; No. 2, -@5994c. in elevator, CLIO
b219c., delivered; White Southern. 6Oc. de-
livered.
RYE-state, 74@7515c.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
Xxx, 45046c.; xx 42(044c; X, 42(043c; No.
/, 45947c.; No. 2, 38@4Oc.; common, 33@35e.;
New York and Western Xxx and X, 39@4516c.;
No. l. 44CD45c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
FLoUR-State family $460@$480; rye flour,
So. 500$3.60; wheat, State $-.-0$l. 1615
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, Sc; mixed States
Gle.
PETRoLEUN-Refined, 73Sc.; crude, 614c.
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46@5Oc.; X,
4704Sc.; medium, 50@51c.; coarse, 45c.
BOSTON MARKET
FLOUR - From $3.OO@$3 % for low and
medium. to $42505. rs for choice Minnesota.
Corn. 6415 @6615c. for mixed and yellow
BUTTER - Common, tic. (02Oc. Vermont
dairy, 23C930c.; choice creamery, 30@36c.
CHEEsE-13O1515c
BEANs-$4. 000$4. 80.
HAY-Choice, $15@$16.
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality $500
$685.; hogs, fair to good, $7.OO@97.2O; best
$7.45.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN.-Best cattle, $6.25@
1915; medium to good, $5.25@$6.00; common
to fair, $5.O0@$6.0O: Hogs Workers, $4,000
$685. Philadelphias $7.50@$7.S5. Sheep,
$5.25@$5.50.
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle. choice, s.
@$1O.25; extra, &8O0@$9.00; first Quality,
S7.O0@$75O; second quality, $5.O0@$6.50;
third quality, $4.000O$l.50. Sheep and lambs
wool Sheep $2.5O@$45O; extra, $4,000
5000; spring lambs, 5000; Veal calves
S15c@716c. IA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
THE COMING HOTEL.
A German Description of the Next Great
American WhoOping Wonder.

The following is the translation of an
article in Berlin paper which will con-
vey an idea of the German estimates OF
the coming American hotel: 1.-THE la
test American progress in building will
he the mammoth hotel, soon to be
erected on the Shell Road, st. Angus
tine Fla. This enormous hotel is to
have frontage of three English miles
long and a depth of six miles; the height
of seventy-seven stories; will measure
8, $40 feet from the ground floor to the
roof. The hotel will have no stairs, but
five hundred balloons will always be
ready to take guests up to their rooms.
No room-waiters are to be employed,
but visitors will be served by a newly
patented automaton, put up IN every
bedroom, which will do all shaving,
shampooing, etc., for the guests by a
very simple and ingenious mechanism.
''Supposing the guest requires hot
water, the automaton will be able to
call downstairs: "A bucket of water
for room No. ID, 1O7,' and the water will
be up in seven seconds by a patented
elevator. Half an hour before table
d'hote, instead of ringing bells, gun
(tWenty-fOuf pOunuer) WILL 10 Aiou vi
each floor to call the guests to get
ready for their meals. The tables IN
the dining-rooms will measure four
miles each, attendance being performed
by twelve walters on horseback on
either side of the table. Music during
table d'hote will be played, gratis, by
eight bands of seventy-fve men each.
For the convenience of visitors rail
way will be built on each floor, as well
telegraph offices. The price of one bed
room will be from one to ten dollars.
The cost of the building is estimated to
be $69O,OO0,OO0- The billiardroom
will contain nine hundred American,
ninety-uine French and one English
tables, and most of the visitors are ex-
pected to be Americans. The billiard
room will be fitted out with a spittoon
one hundred feet in circumference"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
His Education Neglected.

"Stranger," he began, as he showed
his hat back on his head and sat down on
a trunk on the platform, "what is this
ERE about these ere railroad pools ?"
"How?"
"Wall, then, what is railroad pool %
"Why, a number of railroad lines put
all their earnings into bag, shake it
up. and divide even"
'What's this fur ?"
$50 that all can get whack at bust
ness"
can it's accordin' to law ?"
eyes"
The man pulled his hat down, rested
his elbows on his knees for a "think"
which lasted three or four minutes, and
then suddenly arose and said:
stranger, I've bin tarnal fool p
"How?"
"Why, thar's a chap Twin mex door
to me at hum, who has allus worked four
hours to my one, and who earns dollar
to my quarter, and it has never occurred
to me to make him pool our wages and
whack up r. Val 81. Nea0S.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
TRUE SOLDIERLY GRIT

Having Passed through the War, an Old
Soldier COnGuers one Enemy more.
Kindling with enthusiasm as he recalled the great
struggle of twenty years ago. Capt j. Sanford. of
Newark, who raised Company of SD N. j. Zouaves
and went to the front with them, said to transient
companion one day last summer:
YES was in eight of the fercest battles of the
war; Seven Pines Malvern HILL Savage Station Mis-.
sionary Ridge and Harrisons Landing in the list
Istarted to go with Sherman to the sea- but my right
leg was shattered by ball at the first after
the great march began. After the amputation 1 was
taken twenty-five miles and left in tent at Ringgod
Ga. A rain came on and my tent was flooded. Then
was started on my way to Chattanooga. miles dis
tant Just try to imagine the horror of that journey
A man IN my condition For years afterwards was
shaken with every exertion. Yes, the doctors pre-
scribe as they always will when you ask them but l
mouth"
"a dumb DOCTOR" exclaimed the captains caller.
eyes, dumb mummy, but smart as lightning
there he is pointing to a bottle of DIR. DAVID
KENNEDY'S FAVORrTE REMEDY standing a
corner shelf, 81 take that When l am down it
winds me up; when am weak it stu CITIZENS when
am off my goor it gives me an appetite; when am
excite it quiets me-"
Remember name. DIR. David Kennedys FAVoRTTE
n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
A Paternal Hero.

M de Lesseps, the famous canal
builder once came back from journey
and fonnd one of his children seriously
III He went up to the bed and took
the child's arm, whereupon the child
opened his eyes and smiled; Inc ooI los
said: SIT is the first Tune ne hs
smiled, the contact OF your H%no na a.,
relieved him." "Do you think SO!
said M de Lesseps; and he sat down by
the bed, keeping the child arm ir ~ H ta,.
hand. In this posture ne renamed I:sS l1 10
four days and nights, in his travelling at W
tire, scarcely eating or drinking ana
without leaving hold of the chlld arm.
After this the. child ceased complaining III 4
and slept soundIy. Then only qua nj, ue
Lesseps rise and think OF resting ana
changing his garments.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24

WINNING APPLAUsE.-Fa Horton
a once celebrated actress, won her FIRST
applause in a somewhat singular manner
Durlng her performance in particular
scene she was loudly Kissed, when, ad-
vanclng to the footlights, she asked ::
winch do you dislike-my playing or
my person :? "Fhe playing, the play
ing was the answer from all parts of
the house. "Well," she returned, "that
consoles me; for my playing may be bet
tered, but my person l cannot alter !'
The audience were SO struck with the
ingenuity of this retort that they i'm
mediately applauded as loudly as they
had the moment before condemned her.
and from that night she improved in her
acting, and soon became favorite with
the public. Ch0n3bers's Journal.