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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
POINTS FOR MECHANICS.

CONFINES pattern makers use stove pOl,
ish for ''black lead" as it is called, to finish
their patterns. 1t is applied nearly dry, then
polished with brush.
DARKENINa the natural hue of wood is
Effected by solution composed Of equal
parts Of manganate Of soda and crystalized
epson salts, dissolved in twenty to thirty
times the amount OF water at about IA de-
grees. The less water employed the darker
will be the hue.
To SHARPEN razors, place them in water to
which has been added one-twentieth of its
weight of hydrochloric acid, remove after
half an hour, wipe and rub on hone The
acid acts like milestone and corrodes the
whole surface uniformly. 1t is claimed that
tho process never Injuries good razors, and
that it often improves bad ones.
WHAT is commonly called black lead, and
used In lead pencils, is not lead at ALL It is a
carbon formation called graphite or plum
bago. In this trade it is sometimes used
In oil. 1t produces o beautiful gray with a
metallic luster. dries quickly, and has a good
body. Chemists say that it is not injurious
to other colors, and will live forever.
ACCORDING to experiments the tensile
strength of wet rope is only one-third
that Of the same rope when dry: and q
rope saturated with grease or soap is weak
er still, as the lubricant permits the fibers
to slip with greater facility. Hemp rope
contracts strongly on being wet, and dry
rope twenty-five feet long will shorten to
twenty-four feet on being wet.
FoR a simple but not very solid dead-hnish
for walnut, proceed as follows: Take equal
parts Of burnt lumber and finely ground pun
ioe-stone; mix them together. Apply with
wooden rag or hairclox1 dipped in raw or
boiled linseed oil. Clean with soft, old cot.
ton rags. Tho longer and harder the rub
bing, the better tho results. You need not
I'LL or oil tho walnut.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
THE FRIEND OF. AGES AGO..

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot!''
Yes, II you'd just Is lief o. not.
JOHN PAUL.
There are several things that trouble ones ago
And work tor man much woe.
Such as gout-and doubt-debts that aciy run,
And rhyme that win not flow
BUT when all has been said, do We not most
dread,
OF the many bores that We know.
That ubiquitous ban, the woman or man,
Who knew ono lagos ago?'
In youth-you were young; and foolish perhaps
You dirted with high and with low,
Had one love on the hill and one down BIZ tha
mill
Yet never were wicked, ali, mol
And this friend knew you In . far-away way, ~
In way that was only 50. So =
just enough to give hue to the cry about you:
20, knew him ages ago!'
You are married now and quite circumspect,
Your pace, like your speech. Is slow;
You tell In bank, keep silent in church,,
Are one it is proper to know;
But this viRtlant friend viii never consent
Inat your virtues uDchallenged shall 60
Though she never demurs, but only AYERS
That she knew you lagos ago."
And sure am that IL ever win
To the place where hope to 60
TO SIT among satnts-perhaps the chief
In raiment as white as snow,
Before me and busy among the blest-
Perhaps in the self-same row
shall find my ban. this woman or man
Who knew me lagos ago."
And shall hear tho voice so oft have heard
DO you think 1t Is sweet and low
AS II whispers still with accent shriu
The refrain that so we'll know:
". you needn't be setting much store BY him.
This new angels not much of a show,
He may fool some saint who isn't acouaint-
But knew him lagos ago!"
Charles Henry JVe6b, in Century.
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LITERARY EXTRACTS,

A SHEET Of yellow paper placed on the
wall over the desk il said to afford rec to
the eyes Of writer's.
THERE is said to be q popular dime novel
ast who has killed one million Indians-in
his stories.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago only fifteen wom-
en- were employed in the whole country as
editors. Now two hundred find employ
ment in New York alone.
The first volume Of Peter the Greats cor
respondence, edited by Count Tolstoi, con-
talns 1000 pages and 402 letters and docu-
ments referring to the period between 10
and 1901.
UPWARD CT twenty thousand letters Of
Peter the Great have been gathered from
all parts of Europe, and are to be published
In ten large volumes. They are to be edited
by Count Tolstoi. -. 49,.
Mr.. GLADSTONE received an honorarium
OF 100 guineas for the manuscript of his last
essay from an American magazine. Tho
sage Of Hawarden has got higher pay from
American authors than any other writer.
NJ. GREW, late President Of France, is
busily engaged in writing his memoirs, COW
ering tho leading events in French history
from 1S4S to 1856. It is said that q publisher
Is already negotiating for their simultane-
Gus publication in London and New York.
The largest publication in the United
States is the monthly Volume, big as IN un-
abridged dictionary, in which the patents
for each month are described. Every large
library in the country receives these vol
umes, and it is by searching them, aided by
an index, that ono learns what has been
done in this country in any given line Of in
vention.
A WEALTHY young man of Chicago aspir-
ing to authorship short time since sent a
manuscript to an Eastern magazine with a
500 check attached for the purpose Of in
suring its publication. Tho Same was re-
turned with the following note: "Dear sir:
We regret exceedingly being compelled to
return the inclosed MSS, but we are prompt
ed to this action by the fear that your
check is as worthless as your story. Very
respectfully ---."
So LITTLE is known of the personal or
private history of Moliere that any detail
now discovered attracts attention in French
literary society. There has recently been
found at Fontainebleau a contract Of sale
signed by Moliere's father, Jean Poquellin
the name so spelled. 1t is dated May 80
1851 (when Moliere was little over nine
years Of age), and it has to do with tho
supply Of furniture for the royal troops.
The Manesse manuscript presented to the
Bibliotheca Palatina, at Heidelberg, by tho
late Emperor Frederick is said to be very
precious. It consists of love songs of the
fourteenth century, and there are 429 pages
Of parchment, richly ornamented, and con-
tanning 1000 verses, by 40 poets. It was
placed in the Bibliotheca Palatina, at Hell
delbcrg, in 1907, having been purchased
from Swiss baron of Holm Sax, and was
taken away by the French during the thirty
years. war, and now, after the lapse of two
centuries and half, it has been recovered.
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OREGON AND wAsH1NGT0N.

Nosection of the country is to-day attracting
as much ate ntion as Montana, oregon and
Washington; Montana, because it now ranks
first In the production of precious metals;
Oregon, because of its rich valleys and
Washington Territory by reason of its mild
climate, timber, coal minerals and wonder
full production of fruits and cereals: The
rapid growth of Spokane Falls, with a wa err
power exceeding even that Of Minneapolis
Tacoma, on Puget Sound, the terminus of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, with 1900
Inhabitants; Seattle, 30 miles distant, an en-
ergetic and thriving city, mark this section
Ut the Pacific Northwest as one that offers
peculiar inducements to those seeking new
homes.
BY writing Chas. S. Fee, General Passenger
Agent, Northern Pacific Railroad, St. Paul.
Mimi, he will send you illustrated pamphlets
maps and books giving you valuable infor-
nation in reference to the country traverscd
by this great line from St. Paul.. Minneapolis
Duluth and Ashland to Portland, Oregon, land
Tacomaa and Seattle, Washington r. rritory.
This road in addition to being the only rail
line to Spokane Falls, Tacoma and seattle,
reaches all the principal points in Northern
Minnesota and Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon, and Washington, possesses uneQualed
scenic attractions, as we'll as superior train
equipment, such as dining cars, and colonist
sleepers for the use of intending settlers,
neither of which conveniences are to be found
on any other line ticketing business to the
States and Territories named.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
How to Help Your Digestion.

Almost every day we feel the unpleasant
sensations of indigestion. Try ALLcocK's
Porous PLAsTERs and be relieved. J. F..
Davenport, Of Canarsie, New York, writes
have been very much troubled with a
violent pain below my chest bone I was
told by several physicians that it was
rheumatism of the diaphragm. It resulted
from cold and exposure. had very little
appetite and digested my food with great
difficulty. Iplaced one ALLcoCK's Porous
PLASTER below the breast bone and two on
each side. In the course of twenty four
hours all pain ceased, and 1 was able to
eat and digest a good square meal: some
thing had not done before in two weeks
/ got better constantly, and at the end of
seven days found myself entirely well.
Since then have used ALLcoCK's Porous
PLAsrERs for colds, coughs and pains in
my side, and have always found them
quick and effective.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
SMALL-FRUl7 CULTURE.
Following Natures Methods of Manuri,
and Mulching.

Following Natures Methods of Manurina
and Mulching.
10 preserve moisture and GOODNESS
in the soil is aprime necessity in small.
fruit culture. In my experience I find
manure and Substituting of decidedly
secondary Importance. These fruits
do not draw hard on those manuria]
elements which are necessary for full
crops of cereals, and they don't require
and don't like to be pushed into rapid,
succulent, tender growth. like most
vegetables. have, for several years.
looked rather to Natures own process
of culture than to any theories of mans
device; for these are continually trip
ping while Natures growths are every
where healthful and strong where not
interfered with by man or his domestic
animals. Nature does not pillow except
by means of the frost, nor manure ex.
cept with the leaves and other wastes
of growth, and with the slow weather.
ings of the rocks.
I have been initiating this simple
course. The raspberry rows that have
been kept mulched for five or six years,
mostly with their own prunnings,
sheared off in lengths straight enough
to lie close and fiat, have done admira-
ably we'll without any tillage, more
than now and then here and there to
scuffle out incipient weeds, of which
there are almost none, and redundant
suckers which are rubbed out as soon
as they show their noses. Quite a
layer of black mold has already accu-
mulated on the surface, and, without
any digging or soil-stirring at all, the
growth is so strong that Cuthberts
become top-heavy, and many canes
grow too large to mature we'll, and
am giving precedence to the trim, erect,
clean, well-ripening Marlboro.
I treat strawberry beds quite SINH
larly, using no raw stable manure, ]
introduce no weed seeds and I take
care to grow none of my own. I mulch
we'll before Christmas with tan OF
saw-dust which, remaining on the
top, does not sour but in one year be.
comes SO carbonized as to do no ap-
parent harm if dug into the soil. One
bed of Cumberland has not been dug or
replanted for eight years, and is now
as well set with strong, hcalthy-looking.
plants as most others. As soon as
practicable after picking is over, the
old exhausted plants are chopped out
and their runners thinned to eighteen
or twenty inches apart. This is heroic
work, and seems to leave nothing but
devastation, but it is rapidly done, and
when the autumn rains come strong,
new growth sets in, and take care
that there is no competing growth.
The soil is mostly clay, some of it
heavy, but this, compact as it gets
under this system of little tillage,
yields quite as we'll as any of the mel
lower loan. This method of culture is
we'll suited for female fruit growers, "a
there is very little heavy labor attend
ing it, but there is never any lack OF
something to do, except just in the hot
'est of the summer and the dead of the
winter.-Cor, Rural Me,o Yorker.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

Thomas clifford and Adeline POSTER, the
latter the daughter OF we'll -known
Olmsted County farmer, were married the
other day in the sight of five thousand peo
pie on the fair grounds of the Southern
Minnesota fair at Rochester. A band and
ten little bridesmaids were adjuncts of the
interesting nuptials.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
Health Soon Suffers

If the kidneys and bladder become chron-
ically inactive. A healthful stimulus, which
falls short Of irritation, but is yet sufficient,
is communicated to the important organs
with Hostetter's Stomach Bltters, peerless,
also, among remedies for malarial fever,
dyspepsia, feebleness, rheumatism and
liver complaint. 1t is a most convenient
household restorative and tonic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
Thieves at Eariba ult.

While the parade of Barnum's circus
was going on in the streets of Fari-
bault few days ago a gang of pilferers
were working the various houses, vacated
by the people to sec the show. AS near as
could be learned they secured about fifty
dollars worth of plumber, and to get this
they entered six different houses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
To Omen q H0snital.

The Society of St. Joseph, of st. Paul,
has purchased the convent at Winona
formerly occupied by the Sisters of St.
Francis as convent and school and is pre-
pairing it for use as a hospital. 1t will &C
commodate two hundred patients. The
building occupies two squares, is of brick
and stone, three stories high and cost $50.
nm
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
A Land Decision.

The official copy of the decision of the
General Land Office at Washington in the
famous Osborne-Lockert contest case
reached Duluth the other evening. The
decision OF the local land Office is reversed
and the land, which is valued at $500, 600,
goes to Osborne.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

The receipts of wheat in Minneapolis
for the crop year ended August 81 were
", l09 $50, as against 81, 27S, $50 bushels last
year: This was the largest quantity of
wheat ever received in any primary mar
iket in the world. It exceeded the whole
wheat crop in Minnesota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

An analytical chemist, of Cincin.
natl, for sanitary purposes advocates
the boiling of milk before using, and
says his own five-year-old daughter has
never drunk q cup that has not beep
boiled, .-... ....-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

HANDSOME is as handsome does" but
It isn't always that handsome does as
handsome is.-ROchester Post ErpreSs.
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Why He Stole AgairS

'You were up before me about two
weeks ago.
Eyes, sah.''
''For stealing?"
Eyes, sah.''
''And you were fined"
"Dat's sO.''
'And here you are up again for stesl.
ing. What made you repeat your
crime?''
'Huh! how does yer 'spect mo ter
git back de money paid fur de fine Of
I doan steal some noah. ''-Teras Sitt-
inQs.
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A Little Child Killod.

The three-year- old daughter of James
Kearn, of Winona, while playing on the
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway recently, was struck by the
EAST Mail'' and instantly killed. The
child was not discovered by the engineer
until too late to stop the train. The whis-
tie was wildly blown, but the child did not
realize the danger and did not get of the
track
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

On board the ocean steamers descending
from q high berth has nothing to do with
genealogy.
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DIVORCES would be unknown if there
was as much counting after marriage as
hafora
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FREE! A 9-foot French Glass, Oval
front, Nickel or Cherry Cigar Case MER.
CHANTS ONLY. r. W. TANs1LL & Co. Chicago
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

E. P. RoE's autobiography and last story,
"Queen Of Spades" complete in Lippincott's
Magazine for Oct, ready Sept. 20 For sale ev-
erywhere, or mailed to any address on receipt
of Is cents. L1PP1NCoTr's MAGAZINE, Phila.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

The book reviewer, unlike other literary
men, can do his best work when in a crit
ical condition.-LUe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

IT is the middle-aged man whose increas-
ing girth tells him what the waist Of time
is.-BostOn Bulletin
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

SONGS without words-those which the
mosquito sings.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
DROWNED HIMSELF,

ssen v. Simpson, Discouraged Over Imag.
mary Troubles, Takes His Own Lilo.
Ben V. Simpson, city engineer and water
commissioner Of Winona, committed sui
side the other morning by jumping into
The river. He had been brooding over
Imaginary business troubles for some
time, and on the fatal morning asked q
friend to drive him to the river below the
ctty. Arriving there he scrubbed few
lines In his note book and deliberately
leaped over the bank into the water Mr..
Simpson had represented the city in the
Legislature. He was the only son of v.
Simpson, one of the wealthiest men in
Minnesota. He was thirty second degree
Mason and was universally popular. He
leaves wife and children.
Wants Damages for . Bruised Heart.
The usual order of things is rather re-
versed in the suit that was begun in Min
neapolis recently by Harry McNiven
against Ida G. Ruhnke. Ida, who is now
the wife of Albert r. Ruhnke, was at one
time the widow Of David Lyke. It was
then that Harry McNiven wooed and ap-
parent'y won her. It was in 1885 that the
tickle Mrs. Ruhnke promised to wed him,
but April 81, 1888, she married Ruhnke.
McNiven seemed to have grcved for three
years over this cruelty, and now thinks it
will take $4,000 to patch up the breach in
mis- affections.
A Good Send-OG
Miss Mary E. Hill, daughter of Presf-
dent Hill, Of the St Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba road, was married to Samuel
Hill, young attorney of Minneapolis, the
other evening. President Hill made his
| daughter wedding present of check for
$780, 600. During the forenoon, while out
driving with his law partner, Frank T.
| Atwater, the groom was thrown from the
vehicle and seriously hurt, but insisted on
| being taken to st. Paul for the wedding
| ceremony.
|! Railroad Men Resign.
| w. FL Fisher, vice president and man.
| ager of the St Paul & Duluth railway; E.
F. Dodge, general freight and ticket agent
| of that line, and his assistant, P. A. Rock.
we'll, rendered their designations a few
days ago. Their retirement was said to be
the first result of game of freeze out -
| inaugurated by President Hayes, who
claimed that there were too many high
priced men on his road
A Little Child Killed.
The three-year-old daughter of James
Kearn, of Winona, while playing on the
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st..
Paul railway recontlV was struck nv the
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'You were up before me about two
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For over twenty years have been a great sufferer
6om the effects Of diseased stomach, and for three
YEAR, past have been unable to do any business
hardly able to move about. Two years ago my case
vas pronounced by the best medical skill ncurabe.
visited different water cures and tried different
climates: but to no good. Last June began using
fihbard's Rheumatic Syrup and at once began to
feel better. have used thirteen bottles, and am q
well man. EDwARD BAKER,
Master Mechanic and Blacksmith, e.
3o3 Jackson Street. Jackson, Mich.
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Both myself and wife have been using TIibbard'e
Rheumatic Syrup this fall and winter with excellent
success. We think it 4 great medicine. For eoe4
stipaton, dyspepsia o. indigestion it surpasses at
others that we have used. e. U. KNAPP, 4,
Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. 4. 1883 Farmer.A
home people, in the treatment Of Rheumatism ead
all blood diseases Our medical pamphlet, treating
ON all diseases, sent free on application
RHEUMATIC SYRUP Co.. JACKSON. hioH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-25
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE.

c. G. Case, plaintiff VS.. Edward Records. A.
G. Hinckley and Henry 7. Hazard, defe1-
dants. Sherif's Sale. No. 1882. Order of Sale
by virtue of an order of sale and decree of fore
closure and sale. issued out of the Superior
Court of the County of Los Angeles state OF
in the above entitled action, wherein G c. Case,
the above named plaintiff, obtained a judg
and decree OF foreclosure and sale against
dants, on the Sd day of July, A. D. 1888, for
the sum of $1,511. 28-1OO, in gold coin Of the
United States, which said decree was, on the Sd
Sa of July p n IN
manded to sell all that certain lot, piece, or
parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the
County Of Los ANGLES state Of California and
The northwest quarter (N.W. N OF the north
east quarter IN. Z N of the northwest quarter
NW; "a of section number thirty,one ic 90, eIp,
Bernardino Meridian, being ten (1O) acres,
more or less, expressly reserving from the eff
feet of this mortgage, three 81 lots, 80 feet
James r. Townsend, to which contract OF sale
reference is hereby made for more particular
description, being the same 1Olots reserved from
conveyance by said Hinckley to said Records OF
the property hereby mOrtgaged.
Together with all and singu'a ar the tenements
and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in
Public notice is hereby given th at on wednes,
day the LIST day of August, "A D. 1888 at y O'Clock
N. of that day, in front of the Court House door
of the County of Los Angeles on Spring street,
l will in obedience to said order OF sale and
decree of foreclosure and sale, sell the above
described property, or so much thereof as may
terest and costs, etc., to the highest and best
States.
Dated this 9TH day of July I.'I lsss; ss = x.vs
Sheriff of Los Angeles County, State of Cali
fornia. iys4t