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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04

BY the accumulation Of Titles. II there
were more who would do that, there
would b fewer poor people. fewer
middle-aged mon in financial trouble.
It only needs that young men should
learn tho value Of the Titles while thew
ere young men. I have been told BY
business men, that when they started
in the world, the most difficult thing
they had to do was to save, the first
thousand dollars. Itwascomparatively
easy to make two thousand dollars.
Most young men. it seems to me, do
not quite appreciate how readily this
may be done, if they are only true to
themselves in the little things of life.
l believe there are very few young
men who might not save a thousand
dollars by the time they were thirty,
it they cared to try. They are untrue
to themselves in these little things.
just because they are little. They
spend ten, fifteen, twenty-five, fifty
cents in this way or that. because
it is so little that it is hardly worth
while to do anything else with it.
Rev. II. j. Savage.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Npath Of Mr.. Beyard.

Mrs. Bayard, wife Of the secretary Of
State, died at tho family residence in
Washington, Sunday morning the 3lst.
The immediate cause Of Mrs. Bayard's
death was congestion Of the brain, brought
on by the shock Of her daughters sudden
death two weeks ago. For the first week
following that event she stood the strain
and excitement quite we'll. but q week ago
last Friday she was compelled to take to
her bed and gradually grew worse from
day to day. On Thursday congestion of
the brain made its appearance. She was
unconscious for "a hours before her death.
Although for years Mrs. Bsyard had been
confirmed invalid she hal for the
last six months been in better health
than for many years. Last summer
she vas very ill at her home in Whining.
ton, Del, with complication of diseases
OF the liver and stomach, and her recovery
at that time was considered doubtful. At
the solicitation of her daughter, Miss Kate,
she put herself under the care Of DR.. F. A.
Gardner, of this city, and under his treat
ment she improved 80 much as to be able
to 60 into society this winter, and although
still an invalid, she was in comparatively
good health when her daughter died. She
was about 81 years Of age: With the cx-
ception of her daughter, Mrs. Warren, Of
Boston, and her son, who is in Arizona, the
family were present when she died. The
body will be taken to Wilmington for
burial tomorrow, and tho funeral will be
held there on Tuesday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04

Of business generally. It il true that
wages were not 50 high - in 1854, but
the decline in wages has been much
less than the decline in the price of all
of the necessaries of life. During tho
year the demand for the labor of me-
chanics, particularly in the building
trades, has been fully up to the average
and at good prices. The mild weather
thus far has been very favorable for
such employments, so that the prudent
mechanic, when he comes to review
the season, must conclude that it has
been quite up to the average. to say
the least. The excellent Christmas
trade in the less expensive goods goes
to show that the yeas 1885 has been
one in which those who depend upon
for their money have been
doing very we'll. We speak of these
things because there is general dis
position to overlook the things in our
favor and to feel that We have had
greater difficulties to contend with than
beset us.-Bosto,s Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04

IT comes from Mr.. Jesse r. Gran t
that his mother has received from the
publishers of "Gen. Grants Life'' 4
check for $4,000, being the first in
stalment due her from the proceeds Of
that publication. This incident causes
it to be stated that this sum is the
largest ever paid at one time for liter
ary work. Sir Walter Scott and
Macaulay Como next, the former having
received 100000 At ono time from
Constable, his publisher, and for num-
Der OF years his literary income
amounted to $1,000 year. In four
weeks after ito publication one hum
dred and fifty thousand copies Of
1asaulay's history wsro sold, and his
1srssntags Wa sonsthing marvellous
q 10 6ps,
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Adulteratlon OF Vlne~ar.

@UWASVSoS4O0 Oh Vx00H8fs
The vinegar of commerce is largely
. poisonous article, in which there is
not one drop of cider vinegar. 1t is a
part of the wholesale adulteration OF
food products that is so detrimental
to the interests of the honest producer,
and that calls for energetic action upon
the part of the government TO prevent
and punish. We are doing everything
that lies in our power to encourage
apple growing in the West, and are
frequently met with the declaration
that apple growing does not pay. For
one reason and another that is some-
times true. But if the country IS inter-
ested in increasing the apple product
1t ought to be interested in preventing
the apple grower from being injured
by fraudulent limitations of the pro-
duct of the apple. 1t is impossible for
the cider maker to compete with the
man who makes a cheap imitation of
cider. In New York City there are
wagons that 60 about the streets every
morning draining the larger beer casks
that have been set out in front of tho
saloops: For what? Vinegar is made
out OF this stuff. What chance is there
to compete with such a business? And
those who do pay for what ingredients
they put into their imitation cider are
able to make it so cheaply that they
can defy competition on the part of
the maker of pure vinegar. This busi-
ness of food adulteration is one of the
meanest and vilest that greed ever
conceived; and there must be a stop
put to it.. The man who grows apples
has the right to profit from the vinegar
market. But independent of this right,
it is policy on the part of the govern
ment to see that he is not compelled to
compete with sour beer and poisonous
acids Western Rural.
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Grotesque Smiles.

A grotesque simile is sometimes very
expressive. Remarkably so were those
of Daniel Webster, who likened the
word "would' in Rufus Choate's hand
writing to small gridiron struck by
lightning; of sailor, who likened q
gentleman whose face was covered
with whiskers up to his very eyes, to a
rat peeping out of a bunch of oakum;
of Western reporter, who in a wealth
er item on cold day, said that tho
sun S rays, in tho effort to thaw the
ice, were as futile as the dull reflex of
a painted yellow dog; of q conductor,
who in heated discussion as to speed,
said the last time he rar his engine
from Syracuse the telegraph poles on
the side looked like tine-tooth comb.
Smiles of like character are often
heard among the common people, and
are supposed to be the peculiar proper
ty of Western orators. Instances. AS
sharp AS the little end of nothing; big
as all outdoors; slick as grease, or
creased lightning; melancholy as
Quaker meeting by moonlight; fat as
founder: quick as wink; not
enough to make Cruel for a sick grass
hopper; not clothes enough to wad q
gun; as limp and timber as an India
rubber stove pipe; uneasy as cat in
strange garnet: not strong enough to
haul a Goldfish Off gridiron; after
you like rat-terrier after chipmunk
squirrel; useless as whistling psalms to
a dead horse; no more than a grass
hopper wants an apron; don't make
the difference of the shake of frogs
tail: like crazy porpoise in a pond of
red hot grease; enthusiasm boiled over,
like bottle of ginger pop; as inn
possible to penetrate his head as to
bore through Mount Blanc with a
boiled carrot: as impossible as to ladle
the ocean dry with !: clam-shell, or to
suck the Gulf of Mexico through a
goose-quill, or to stuff butter into q
wild cat with hot awl, or for q shad
to climb up fiagpole with a fresh
mackerel under each tin, or for cat to
run up stove-pipe with teazle tied
to his tail, or for 4 man to lift himself
over fence by the straps of his boots.
There is another class of SMILES
scarcely as pertinent, as for instance:
1t will melt in Your mouth like a red
hot brickbat; talk to him like Dutch
uncle; smiling as basket of chips;
old as Dicks hatband; happy as
clam at high water; quicker than you
can say Jack Robinson; like all posses
sed; like fury; like all natur'; like all
sixty; as quick as any thing; mad as
hops; mad as Halifax; sleeps like q
top: run like thunder; deader than .
door nail: getting along like two-forty
on q plank road.
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Desperate Attempt ut Suicide:

The Merchants hotel, st. Paul, was the
scene ola desperate attempt at suicide at
midnight the 2sth. The man was O.W.
Bradford, a man about IS years of age,
and married. He had been in Chicago
some two months, leaving his wife in st.
Paul: to whose support he had contributed
nothing in his absence. Returning his
wife refused to live with him. Bradford
then went to the Merchants and engaged a
room, wrote letter to his wife, one to
Col: Allen and Others to friends, then
partially disrobing, took position in front
direction of his heart. The shock pros
trated him but did not kill. and he got up,
seated himself in a chair, placed the
muzz!e OF the pistol in his mouth, and
pulled the trigger three times, but only
one cartridge was exploded. When dis
covered he was conscious, but expressed
no regret for his act. The doctors are
doubtful as to the result of his wounds.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04
The Ot. Paul Ice Palace and Winter
Carnival.


The IT, Paul Ice Palace ana Winter
On February first the leo Palace
Carnival opens at St. Paul, aud the
Minnesota & Northwestern railroad
company, as usual to tho front, has
made arrangements to take their
patrons 10 view the sights at greatly
reduced rates.
Two days each week, and on Fob
ruary first. "Opening day." February
fourth, "Storming of the castle,'' and
February eleventh, ''Grand Army
day." they will sell tickets to St. Paul
and return, good for admission at car
nival grounds, for one and one-fifth
fare lin addition to twenty-five cents
for the carnival ticket) for the round
trip. thus enabling all to enjoy = rare
treat.
The Ice Palace is located In the very
heart Of the city and can be con-
veniently reached by Ill; the street
oars from the Union Depot passing
within two blocks Of tho carnival
grounds.
Over 10000 blocks of ice will be re-
4uired in its construction, and the
interior will be illuminated by fifty
large electric lights, presenting I
magnificent appearance.
Do not fail to attend the truly won
derful sight, and remember that during
the entire month of February the ever
popular Minnesota and North western
will furnish unequalled facilities and
reduced rates.
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MINNESOTA.
State Agricultural Society.

The Minnesota State Agricultural
Society, held its annual meeting at the
Capitol, st. Paul, the Goth. Thirty-four
counties and organizations were represen-
ted with total of 156 votes. The main
features of the reports of the secretary and
treasurer have already been made public,
and do not need to be repeated further
than that the far last year cleared about
10000, but the society has an in
debtedness Of about SIS, 5000, incurred
in fitting up the new grounds covered
by note. There was considerable
excitement during the election of officers,
which resulted In the selection Of H. W.
Pratt Of + ,ribault, who received 104 votes
70 q for 8 n Emery of Lake, II for J. J.
Hill OF 81. Paul and 7 scattering. r. c.
Judson, secretary, and F. J Wilcox, treas
urer, were reelected by reclamation. The
vacancies on the executive board, by ex-
piration of service of John F. Norrish, Has
tings, and Peter Bohland, Ramsey county,
were filled by the re election of the first
named and the election Of A. N. johnson Of
Swift county. w: r. Merriam of st. Paul,
and Fred G. Pillsbury, Minneapolis. were
unanimously elected first and second vice
president respectively.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04

The old house in Bosworth street,
Boston, where Oliver Wendell Holmes
began his married life, where his five
children were born, and made memoir
able by its frequent descriptions in the
writings of its distinguished tenant and
owner. is being torn down to give
place to more pretentious mansion, a
transaction that savors almost of van
dalism.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04

In his report from Berlin. Consul
General Raine shows that Prince Bis
mark has more intelligent and more
humane way of dealing with tramps
than prevails in this country. A large
area of partly improved land was set
apart in Westphalia, and the German
tramps were sent thither, and set to
work. Some of them became honest.
self-supporting citizens, and others
were found irreclaimable, and had to
be sent to warehouses. How large a
proportion were made industrious, and
how many failed, Mr.. Raine does not
tell; but that the experience was on the
whole success, appears from the fact
that the system has been extended to
other parts of the German empire. In
this country the treatment of the tramp
question is in some places such as to
encourage vagrancy, and in some states
it is barbarously cruel. Imprison-
ment is no meaus of reformation with
most of the breed, since in prison they
are we'll housed and fed. and have
little to do, and many of them commit
some petty offence for the express pur-
pose of being sent to the house of cor
rection, especially during the inclement
season. 1t is said that deserter from
the British army, who is a tailor has
spent most of his time for many years
in Massachusetts House Of Correc-
ton, where he mends the clothes of his
fellow prisoners, makes no trouble and,
when he is released, directly contrives
to get arrested, and sentenced again as
a vagrant. One old man. a few years
ago at the beginning of winter, applied
to the person appointed in a neighbour
ing town for caring for tramps, and
wanted to know if there was not some
way in which he could get locked up
during the cold weather. The agent
told him that if he would 90 over the
line into New Hampshire, and beg for
a drink of cider at three or four houses,
he would quickly be arrested and sent
up. The old fellow inquired the rear
est way to the state line, and immedi-
ately started for it as if it had been his
Promised Land. That is the inefficient
way of deal ing with tramps. In
Georgia they have a barbarous way.
The story was published some months
ago, of two honest Northern men, who
were seeking work, and asked to be
put up at the station house at Atlanta.
They were accommodated for the night,
and in the morning were sentenced as
Migrants to the chain gang for a year.
Neither of these plans are aimed at re-
forming the tramps, nor can the evil be
reduced by any such means. But the
scheme of Bismarck is neither cruel
nor encouraging to vagrancy. 1t
promises cure, and it appears that it
has been operated with success suffi-
cient to encourage the extension of
the first experiment. 1t is worthy of
consideration whether something of
the sort might not be tried with adj
vantage in this country. 1t would not
be expensive, and would be a great
gain. if successful. -Newburyport Her.
aM
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04
A Lion Killed by q Dog,

John Gaylor, noted hunter of the
Wind Mountains, has breed of dogs
famous for their fierce courage and act
tive strength. They are pure cross
between the bloodhound and the best
English bulldog. Many bear, elk and
mountain lion have these dogs brought
to bay and assisted in staying. Hair
and Hide are the two foremost repre-
sentatives of the gallant and efficient
breed. Not long since Mr. Gaylor was
aroused from sleep during the night by
piteous bawling in his calf pen and an
uproar among his dogs. fastening
out, he perceived by the light of bril-
liant moon two lions making off. They
had come for veal, and nearly sue
ceeded in getting it. The next night
Mr.. Gaylor watched his corral, but The
wary brutes did not come. The fol-
lowing night there came from the
snowy submits of the Wind Mountains
a light snowfall. The old hunter was
now sure of his game.
Taking Hair and Hide in the early
morning he sailed forth. In short
time his course was crossed by the
trail of the whole family. The dogs at
once sped along the freshly-tracked
snow, and soon the game was found in
leafy covert of pine and quacking
aspen. Pushing his way through the
snoW-iaden boughs the huAter came in
close sight of the family. Thelicn was
standing on the trunk Of huge fallen
pine, his long tail swinging from side
to side, while his eyes flashed with a
green fl e. The lioness was crouched
at a short distance off at the foot of an
ether huge tree, in the forks of which
could be seen two active whelps. Hare
and Hide at once sprang for the lion,
and savage fray began.
The combat between the royal
brute and his fierce and active foes now
became terrific. Gaylor watched the
lioness and the fight. He was sure of
his dogs, and wanted them to kill their
enemy alone. Even if he had been dis
posed to lend helping hand, such was
the fierce confusion of the struggle that
hurt his faithful friends as their savage
foe. After ten minutes struggle the
deep growl of tho lion became moro
faint; soon they ceased entirely, and
the proud hunter heheld his two brave
dogs, one at the broad muzzle of the
mountain king and the other at his
wide haunch. The lion was dead and
fairly stretched OUT to use an ex-
pressive Westernism. Hair and Hide
were dripping with gore from dozen
different wounds. both deep and SORE
They were on the fight still, however.
and wanted to attack the lioness at
once, but Gaylor would not allow then,
to do any more, and ball from his
rifle stretched the lioness in death.
Each of the whelps demanded bullet,
and whole royal family had paid the
stern penalty of their tyrannical Gus
TOMS
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eoNsIDER THE LILIEs.
DY WILLIAM G. eANN1FT.

u WILLIAM G. eANNlTT.
Consider tho lilies how they grow
He hides within the lily
A strong and tender Care,
That wins the earth-born atoms
To glory Of the air;
He weaves the shining garments
INCREASINGLY and still,
Along the quiet waters,
In inches of the hill.
We linger at the vigil
With him who bent the knee,
TO watch the old-time lilies
In distant Galilee;
And still the worship deepens
And quickens into new,
AS heightening down the ages
Gods secret thrilleth through.
o roiler of the lily,
Thy touch is in the Man!
No leaf that dawns to petal
But hints the angel-plan,
The fiower-horizons open!
The blossom vaster showsl
We hear Thy wide worlds echo
See how the lily grows.
Shy yearnings of the savage,
Unfolding thought by thought,
TO holy lives are lifted,
TO visions fair are wrought:
The races rise and cluster,
TRANSFORMATIONS fall,
Mans chaos blooms to beauty.
Thy purpose GROWING all!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-04

TH1RrY-rHREE prominent clergymen
of New York and Brooklyn have been
interviewed by the New York Star re-
garding Sunday newspapers, and of
the number only six are outspoken in
favor Of the Sunday issue. = few have
no opinion but the majority profess to
regard secular reading a desecration
of the Sabbath. Henry Ward Beecher
Rev. DR.. Robert Collyer and Rev. DR..
Hitchcock regard the Sunday paper as
useful and essential. As the world
grows older and better those who fail
to appreciate the value OF the Sunday
paper now, will have the scales removed
from their eyes.
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Melon Brandy.

The newest addition to our already
pretty long list of intoxicating drinks
is melon brandy. NJ. Levat. a French
chemist, is said to have succeeded in
causing the watery fruit to yield a po-
tent spirit. He took the juice of six
pounds of water melon pulp, and, hav-
ing ordered a certain quality of free
sulphuric acid, he warmed the mixture
upon which the sugar became trans
formed into a mixture of glucose and
levulose. The product which ferments
directly, yielded ten quarts of perfectly
normal alcohol. A rainy summer Of
ten renders this fruit so watery rs to
leave large quantities of it unsold on
the hands of the melon growers in the
moist and fertile valley of France, and
it is by no means improbable that they
be able to turn M. Levat's discovery to
practical account. The number of po-
tent and seductive liquids of an intoxi-
eating character which are capable of
being extracted from fruits and vege-
tables seems endless.
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A Hinsdale farmer speaking of the
profits of poultry keeping, says that
last year he killed off all his
old fowls and saved IL pull
lets, and with them started out
in the egg raising business. On
the third Of ] January last he commenced
keeping an account of the eggs laid,
and found that from January 8 to Ju-
ly 8, six months, the whole number
was 1894. and during the next three
months, 476, total of 1910 during the
nine months. Within that time two of
the hens had raised broods Of chickens,
by way of diversion; all of which goes
to prove that with proper management
poultry raising can be made to pay.
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XLEXth. CONGRESS.
Monday Jan. 16


oBHATE-Senators Mcmillan presented
the memorial Of the Bt. Paul chamber
OF commerce, for an appropriation
for tho Improvement Of the upper
Missouri river. e. c. Walthall, SON.
ator elect from Mississippi, to succeed
Lamar, was sworn In. The judiciary
committee reported a bill for the settle
ment OF tho debt of the Pacific railroads.
Bills introduced: Allowing Indians to hold
certain offices; to increase pensions to
widows and dependents, and to Increase
t t6s, pension for total helplessness to
menoement of actions by the United
States to cancel land patent after
three years from the date Of entry.
A commjtte of three senator's was appoint
ed to aid with the House .ommittee in
experimenting the funeral of Congressman
Rankin. A resolution calling on The presi.
dent for his reasons for suspondin9 ! dis
trtoe attorney In Alabama and appointlnr
. sooesssor, was edoPSsd tie Dsmoosts Do.
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The Year From = Business Point.

Au0 L OoI - rum - nu0AnCS9 1OlnI
For manufacturers in general and
for the greater part of those who de-
pend upon the profits of trade, trans
portation and production for their in
comes. the past year has been a profit
less one. A large volume of business
has been done, but there has been no
profit of any consequence in it, COM
pared with other years. Mills have
been run, but chiefly because it is bet
ter to keep them running to earn
wages for skilled labor than to shut
them down and have valued employees
scatter. But while the year has been
80 unsatisfactory to manufacturers and
business men generally, it has not been
by any means hard year for those
who depend on salaries or wages for
their living. As a whole, in this part
of tho Union. labor has been vsry GEN
orally employed. A 4 matter of faot
more industrial enterprises were in op-
Grafton when the year closed than when
1t began. in spite At the unproHtableness