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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

4 correspondent Of tho Cleveland,
Ohio, Leader, in . rasy letter, gives
the following sketch of a group Of
Montana women:
Miss Jennie Corson, who is known
throughout the country as the ''Shep-
herdess of the West," came to Mon
tana some years ago, and took up a
sheep ranch in Meagher county. She
did it all alone and unaided. After
awhile she sent for her lazy brother
from Chicago, and made him overseer
of her tlocks. Matters went we'll with
her, and soon she had a fine band of
sheep, and as valuable ranch property
as there is in Montana She took up
some land under one or another of the
Government acts, proved up on time,
and became landed proprietor.
Now, it happened that the next claim
to her own was taken up by an enter
ing young man named Severance, who,
like his fair neighbor, first started a.
sheep ranch, add then got hold of some
of the soil. They tended flocks in
company for some time, and then Sew
GRANGE proposed marriage. He was
accepted, and the two united their for
tunes, and have been doing better an
better ever since.
A curions reversal of the eternal fit
ness of things is seen in the fact that
there are in the twenty-five States of
our Union 3O8, 478 more women than
men. Dakota has 29,415, more men
than women. and Montana is about on
par with Dakota in that respect.
Hope should therefore, 'spring
eternal in the female breast" for there
is somewhere in Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, or Or
egon, a manly heart awaiting every
husbandless female now pining away
in single blessedness in the East. Not
every girl wants to get married, but all
of them want to vote. Only last year
at the elections in western Montana
for Territorial school superintendent
there were four Richmonds in the field.
Three of them were females and the
fourth-a man. In Bozeman old pla-
cards on the fences can still be seen, ap-
pealing to the passers by to "'Vote for
Miss Hamilton, the Peoples Choice
Miss Hamilton got there and her COM
pctitors were all left, ''the man.
bringing up the rear. Helena has a
lady superintendent Of schools who has
Indian blood in her veins and who is
highly educated. She has also marked
dramatic talent, and plays Charlotte
Cushman's roles.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

all the world to bed at nine o'clock.
Civilization has made too great strides
for that. Because some men cannot
endure excitement. and are worn to
thread mentally unable to sleep wink
after an evening gathering of friends
or the opera or the theater, shall we
sit in judgmet and condemn all these
amusementsP His next door neighbor
goes home from one of those refreshed
in body and mind, hops into bed hum
ing tune, and is off in a deep sleep; if
he dreams at all, to 60 over the sweet
recreating scenes he has past through.
Sensible, seasonable amusement within
bounds, no doubt, are healthful. When
any one of them becomes an absorbing
passion. then it is that it works des-
truction of man, soul and body.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Rich and Odd

W. +. Proctor, who married the
daughter of Singer, the inventor of the
sewing-machinc, is one of the odd
characters CT New York. He is Vice.
President of the Singer Company. He
is worth so many millions that he does
not attempt to deny any amount named
for his accumulated wealth under
$l5,000,000. He is small man, with
slightly wrinkled face and a black
mustache, and was formerly skilled
workman in one of Singers first shops.
He retains the simple habits of his work
ing days in many respects. Although
he owns a stable of fine coach, carriage,
and saddle horses-six or eight in num-
ber-he never rides behind them. In
fair weather he walks back and forth
from the Singer offices in Union Square
to his home on Madison avenue, and
in wet weather he patron;zes the horse
cars. He dresses in a common way
and would not be taken for a wealthy
man at all, except by the fact that his
dress shows lack of wealth rather than
its possession.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
TOmmy's Love of Church..

Little Tommy had behaved so badly
on his first appearance at church that
his mother declared she wouldn' t allow
him to 90 again. The next Sunday at
church time Tommy was deeply grieved
on being informed that he was to stay
at home
''Please, mamma, won't you let me
go he pleaded. ''Ill be just as good,
and won't do single thing that's
wrong.'
mo. Tommy" was the firm reply :;
''you cannot 90 to church again until
you are old enough to behave.''
a tempest Of tears cnsued. When
the violence of the shower was over.
Tommy looked up pathetically wiping
his eyes and moancd:
''Wcll, think It's too bad that a lit
tie boy who loves God the way do, and
loves to hear people talk about Him,
can't go TO church.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
MagnetiZeu Corset.

Savannah News: A young lady of
Columbus, about to visit the generating
station of the clcctric-light company,
was told to leave her watch at home
lest it might be magnetized by the
strong electric current. She did so,
but complained aftcrward that her
watch would not keep good time. She
sent it to 4 jewelcr, but he reported
that 1t was not magnetized and kept
good time. Still. whenever she car
ried it her time was too slow, although
when she left it in her room it ran cor
rectly. A gentleman who knew of the
suggested to the young
lady that she wear another pair of cor
sets when next she carried the watch.
She did so, and had no more trouble
with the watch. The steel springs in
hcr cocscts had been magnetizcd.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Potato Planting.

The Country Gentleman makes the
following reply to correspondent who
asks how he shall get potatoes sprouted
for early planting in the spring: IF
they are kept in warm apartment, or
cellar, during the latter part of winter,
the sprouts will be an inches or two in
tubers are very carefullV set ont. s so as
not to injure the sprouts or bruise the
tender points, you will get plants a
week or more sooner. 1t is common to
start the pieces in hot-bcds, and set out
the plants when two or three inches
high, which gives still greater ad-
vantage, provided 70 frost follows to
cut them down. A fiat box might be
used to start them with soil, in a warm
part Of room, in the same way.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Worth Having.

The knowledge which we crave and
work for, which we work for and find,
which We think or dig out for ourselves,
which we rejoice in as a newly found
treasure is the knowledge, be it
small or great. that is worth having.
1t is like the food for which we hun
CERT gives us fresh power and fuller
life. 1t matters far less even what
this knowledge is than the way in which
it was gained. The most systematic
and we'll prepared course of study wor-
ried through by student whose only
care is that he may get his diploma is
of far less value to him or to the world
than the vital thought of the young me-
chanic. who, anxious to master the Sc
crets Of his trade, patiently studies its
details, discovers its principles, and
infuses into it his own fresh and livir o
force. perhaps'in the form of some new
new invention or perhaps in more
skilful touch or more delicate finish
than it as yet received.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
No wonder.

No wonder.
Il cannot SEQ Why" said Farmer Burke,
"Women should grumble about their
work:
Now my wife would in the morning
rouse,
And build the fire and milk the COWS,
And feed the horses-eleven head
BY the time that I crawled out of bed;
She was always at work in house or barn;
She knit our stockings and spun the yarn !:
She didn't visit, nor write, nor read;
She planted none of this posy seed.
Had childrena o, yes, some eight in all,
But they mostly died when they were
small;
The only one living now is Jane,
Who always has an ache or pain:
She's good for nought but to swallow
pills,
And run up druggists' and doctors bills.
she doesn't help like my wife, you bet.'
""hy, doesn't your wife," we asked,
~, o." he said, with O saddened brow,
'she's in the Insane asylum now"
CLARA E. AULD.
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

Careful attention to diet is the best
guard against disease. 1t is a fact
which all should know, that over-eat-
ing not only corrupts the blood but
destroys nerve force, and induces dy-
spepsia, jaundice, bad breath, piles,
pimples, low spirits, headache, ague,
and all stomach and liver
troubles. DR.. Jones Red Clover Tonic
quickly cures the above diseases. Can
be taken by the most delicate. Price
fifty cents, of druggists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
A Girl, A Boy, A Cow.

About two years before the war, near
pretty and substantial residence, a
beautiful young girl, about IA, was
sleeping in hammock swung from
two stately oaks in a grove. In a
meadow to the rear, a fat, moek-eyed
COW reclined in the shade. Across the
road from the house, the girl and cow,
was meadow, branch running
through it, and coming up the branch
was boy with gun. When within
100 yards of the girl, and about $50
yards from the cow, a bird flew up and
sailed in the air toward the COW, and
the boy fired at the bird, which flew
unhurt, but the COW received a pretty
strong dose of shot. She Immediately
arose in fright, dashed through the
grove, caught the girl and hammock
on her horns, and rushed with her
shrieking victim about the lot. The
terrified girl became silent, and the
crowd OF relatives and friends in pur-
suit thought that she was dead. The
wild fury of the COW as she rushed
around soon tore the netting loose, and
the girl dropped unconsciously to the
ground. unhurt. She was picked up
and taken into the house, and on ex-
animation only few minor bruises
were found.
The boy, thinking he was the in
nocent cause of the killing of the young
girl. disappeared. All trace of him
1t was thought that he had
persisted by his own hand, but about
six years after the war a travel-stained
stranger was in the town inquiring for
persons most of whom had been swept
away by the war. After long search
the stranger learned where one of the
parties he was in search of lived, few
miles out of town. He went there.
made himself known, and turned out
to be the boy of the gun. The people
he found were father and mother. who
had incurred him dead for eight years.
The boy had been in South America,
got rich, and, yearning for the love of
the old folks, returned to the dcsolated
home of his childhood and made his
loved ones comfortable. For the first
time then, hearing that the girl was
he called on her, found her
pretty, and a first class home woman.
he put in with a will, got her heart as
his own, and the old folks consent,
and has been for the last twelve or
fourteen years one of the leading men
Of his section.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Planting Strawberries.

In discussing strawberry culture,
Weeks magazine says; "Some people
recommend planting in May and June,
and others in September and October:
each practice has its adhercnts, and
while they are settling which is best
VIC will prepare our ground by deep
trenching and liberal dressing, from
the compost heap, and then we will
tell them that the best time for plant
ing the strawberry is as soon as yo,,
can get the frost out of the ground in
the spring. If planted in September
and October, more than One-half of the
young plants are thrown out and de-
stroyed by frost, and if planted in Nav
and June, the hot, dry weather com
ing on before they have got perma-
nent hold of the soil, shrivels more
than half of them up; but when plant
ed before the sun has much power, and
while there is plenty of moisture in the
ground, and generally a liberal allow
ance of showers, they commence with
the season and never 60 back. The
strawberry should be planted two
feet apart between the rows, and about
eight inches between the plants; these,
the year after planting, will give an
abundant yield, and in spring should
be top-dressed with mixture from the
compost heap and rather more than
half decayed barnyard manure. The
compost and the decayed parts of the
manure will feed the plants, and the
littery parts of the manure drying will
not only act as mulch by keeping the
sun from drying the ground, but will
also keep the fruit and flowers clean
during heavy rain.
When the fruiting season is over,
this long stuff can be taked off and
carted with other garden refuse to the
heap, and the rest of the stuff forked
in. The plants should be encouraged
to make good strong crowns for next
years fr1iting. If the weather is very
dry during June, when the strawber-
ries are coming into flower, give CO.
pious waterings; far better leave 1t
alone than half do it, and if the
ground gets two or three good
tloodings, the top-dress-ing will
keep it moist most throug Oh the
fruiting season. Every third year, in
stead of digging the plat up and plant
ing another, train the runners into the
middle between the rows and peg them
down. With the liberal top-dfessing
we have given the soil, here will be
just the thing for a new bed, and as
soon as the young plants can do with
out their fostering mother the old
ones can be cut off and carted
10 the heap aforesaid, some of
the decayed parts of the heap
brought back in their place and
dug in, and by the fall we will have a
aourishing bed of fine, strong crowns
that will yield a splendid crop the COM
ing season. And this may be repeated
every third year. renewing the ground
and plants in the same manner. This
is way of my own.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Som ethlnS Was Wrong.

a granger-looking chap entered one of
the banks at E!1nira the other day and
dumped q lot OF securities down before tne
teller and asked linn to estimate tlt il,
worth.
"iAbout 5000" was the reilly, after he
papers had been inspected.
''Nhat: Ne more than that:'
Not cent. l see they arc all in the
name Of a wuman.''
"les. She's the ~, 600 wilder I've been
chasing after. Tell yon. stranger, there
must have been HI Of q DEPRECIATION
in bonds ora laundering advance in the
price OF wiuderS. '-UuN Hrt.f -Nlus
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Clerical Livinps.

The Bishop of Peterborough made
the interesting statement in convoca-
ton the other day that of 5000 livings
in private patronage IN England no
fewer than 1000 were frequently in the
market. DR.. Magee had obtained this
information from clerical agent,
who was retiring from his profession. -
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Faith and Works.

Elder Nathaniel Chase was the first min
lister in Buckftld, Me. When but Is years
Old, he served in the Revolutionary war;
The first time he went to Buckfield he
walked 40 miles on Sill ow shoes through the
woods, drawing q sled on which was a
hushe! Of meal, an axe, a Ratchet and a
9'n. In Year he ha cleared II acres Of
land with his own axe aud built a cabin
This is the sort Of work that Parson Cha Sc
united with his faith
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

We should economize at all times,
but more especially when times are
close. Observe the purchases of your
thrifty neighbors. More substantial
benefits can be obtained from fifty
cent bottle of DR.. Bigelow's Positive
Cure than dollar bottle of any other
cough remedy. 1t is a prompt, safe
and pleasant cure for all throat and
lung troubles. Sold and endorsed by
druggists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

out to meet the fleet. A peculiar fact
about the raft was that, after it was
taken out on the bank at New Orleans.
there was a sudden sharp advance in
lumber figures at St. Louis, and the
owners, concluding that they could
make more money out of it here than
at New Orleans, had it brought back
on barges and cars at a greater cost
than it was sent down for.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Breadstuffs Exports.

AS showing how our exports of bread
stuffs have fallen off; the total value of
exports in January, 1886, was SO, 407,-
315, against S17,872,413 in January,
1885. For the seven months ending
January 81, 1886, our exports of bread
stuffs amounted in value to $62, 4O6, 047,
against $97, 800 for the correspond
ing period of the previous year, and
the worst feature of the case is that
Europe does not now appear to want
our breadstuffs any more than she did
six months ago, if as much. The de-
tlciency of exports was greater in
January, 1886, as compared with
January, 1885, than the average of the
periods of seven months mentioned
above. The average falling off in value
of br.adstuffs exports for the seven
months was but about 100000 per
month, while the falling off in January,
1886, as compared with January, 1885,
amounted to almost $1,000, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

ut is all over town. said the Arab.
WHAT" asked the old man, his eyebrows
bristling with curiosity. Mud" said the
youngster, while his mouth went clear
around his ears in grin. Fright you are,"
said the old man. "With the mud come
colds and coughs, and you know the RENE
dy." CDR. Bulls Cough Syrup" rejoined
the boy. Fright you are againr'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

TAKE TIL: TESTIMONY OF seven out of every
ten men YOU meet. and they will all COM
plain Of annoy auce from. 'cunstipation''
and its attendant kas-i-ituda, headache,
iletultnce, &c. WALKEE's VINEGAR BIT
Ti:H- is Specific for this uilnent. 1t acts
gently. !'u5 surely, and will regulate the
systc1u. cultivate a natural appetite and
digestion and insure relief
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---S 49,
His ldecs:

The poet Whittier once lent vol
umr OF Plato to one of the neighboring
farmers, and when tho book was re-
turned he asked. We'll. friend, how
did thee like my friend. Plato?" First
rate, said the farmer; II see he's got
some of my iuccs.''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
DrYGrOceriaA.

So called, should be kept in tight
packages. Dat meal, cracked wheat,
rice flour, buckwheat, grit, barley and
corn meal, while not prone to mould
or spoil, are subject to attacks from
ants, maggots and other forms of in
sect life. Canned goods, when opened,
should be Immediately transferred to
glass or earthenware receptacles. Re-
cent researches show that cases OF
poisoning from eating canned goods
arose sometimes from the latter at
lacking the solder of the tins, and
sometimes from decomposition acceler-
ated by an electrical action between the
solder and the iron of the tin. Never
leave canned meats or fish in open cans.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

Mr.. Joseph F. Marcer, chief clerk to
Mayor Smith, of Philadel phia, states that
he knows the value of Red Star Cough
Cure: His wife and other members of bis
family, who had coughs and sore throats,
used it, and it brought about q permanent
cure. No morphia, no opium. rs cents.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
us there no balm in Gilead?

Is there no physician there!'
Thanks to Dr. Pierce, there is balm in
his "Golden Medical Discov -ry'-a balm
for every wound to health, from colds,
coughs, consumption, bronchitis, and all
r!llunc blood, lung and liver affections.
OF druggists.
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ALIENS 'IRON Tone BIrTERs' RAN1sHEs
Aangunr and gives vivacity aud buoyancy
cures dyspepsia, creates Il healthy appe-
tite, anu gives strength, vigor and cheer
fulness. Look out for frauds. All genu-
inc bear the signature OF J. p. Allen, st.
Paul, Mimi.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

"AEphonso. tell me what four monarchs
preceded -" il]iam W. Alphonso ibetter III
#rith'netic tnan in history): 'Wilum tho
Fourth, William the Third, Wi|lum the Sec
ond y ill.!m the First
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Wheat ACREAGE.

The acreage of winter wheat is thus
stated by the Cincinnati Price Current:
Ohio 100, Indiana 100, Illinois 80, Mis-
souri, so, Kansas IS, Michigan 100,
Kentucky 100, Tennessee 80, giving a
general average Of acreage of 96! per
cent. Its reports of condition are as
follows. Ohio 80, Indiana "a, Illinois
81, Missouri 81, Kansas 80, Michigan
80, Kentucky, SO and Tennessee 95,
giving an average of 93S per cent, in
dlcating fraction over 80 per cent of
an average crop.
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Break-pin Flow Clevis and Horse Equal
izer combined saves Plow, Horses, Harness,
Time, Money. Ask your dealer. 4A.,s want
ed, Davis Hook and Cievis Co. Madison Wis,
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The Boss zinc and leather ankle, boots
and cD;':,r pads 2rc the best and most dur
able Harness makers are instructed to
take theii. hack ;+e,-r a trial of 60 days il
you ara no: s.ti&;;ed. Manufactured by
Dexte: Curtis, Madison, Wis.
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It is pleasure and satisfaction to many
TO learn that Aliens Lung Balsam, that
standard family n edicine for coughs, Group,
and ali lung diseases, can now be procured
at Pc, Soc, and 81 90 bottle at any drug
store
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a London scientist is trying to produce
cats without tails. The Philadelphia Led
ger suggests that the cxpcrimenter will be
greater benefactor by producing the tails
without the cats
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Fl. H. Meiggs, Esq, the great railroad
contractor of South America, writes that
St. Jacobs Oilhas done wonders in conquer
ing pain. 1t has his positive endorsement
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Your few things" may be very few and
very small things, but He expects you to
be very faithful over them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

If anybody wishes to observe the marked
decline in silver let him offer silver dollar
to friend when be changes II bill for him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01

bilious attacks are speedily relieved and
cured by taking Ayers Pills. Try them.
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It seems TO NJ that there arc les persons
afflicted with rheumatism, since our drug
gists sell Salvation Oil Price twenty five
cents Q bottle.
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Your medicine, Athlophoros, has done
wonders for my wife and is helping Others"
Writes James Book, from Smithton. Missouri
III ordering three dozen bottles Of the great
Leura 'gia and rheumatism cure to sell to his
customers.
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similates the food. regulates the stomach a1A
bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
venter, and stands at the head Of all family
Femedies- No house should ever te without it.
Vinegar Bltters cures Malarial, Bilious
e1dother fevers, diseasesos the Heart, Liver and
Kidneys, and . hundred other painful disorders.
books for ladies. for farmers, for merchants,
our Medical Treatise on Diseases. or our Cat-
echiGm on InteInperance and Tobacco, which
last should DO in the hands Of every child and
youth in the country
on receipt Of four cents for registration fecs.
RE-. AcDon1ld Drug Co. So W shinston Ct, NY.
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n newspaper describing the debut of a
young orator, says that the broke tho ice
felicilously with his opening sentence, and
was almost Immediately drowned with ap-
plause'