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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-02-28
ARE ADVERTISEMENTS READ3
From Chicago Newspaper Union:

ARE ADVERTISEMENTS NEAOf
FROM Chicago Newspaper Union:
1T doesn't to advertise; they are
never read by our customers, especially
tho country folks" is song often
sung fos the delectation Of the country
editor by the local merchants Of the
town.
Some years ago was foreman of an
Office In . Missouri River town. The
editor hsd occasion to 60 East, and dur.
ing his absence otticiated as general
rvust- about, editor and solicitor. Be-
ing young and ambitious l put forth
every effort to get up a newsy paper
aud add 10 the advertising columns,
aud had the effrontery to solicit from
. Jew clothier, who. 80 far ~ con-
cesned advertising, was rank iDfidel.
"Vel now, you vas cheeky cuss.
Nc advertise! Vat for? 1t does no
Suoss 10 QUO ovos. so"<s. dese dis6s!" 7-e
:''Oh, yes, they do. ~ 80
'You makes mo believe dot. I gifts
you I've dollar, and the Gazette half
column ADVERTISEMENT
'All right; I'll do it!''
''But mind, now, it must be in
schmsIl types. and way off in one cor
per. You can put in any ding you like
20 It's 'spectable.''
The Gazette appeared on the usual
day for publication-Thursday, and
down at the bottom of the right-hand
column on the fourth page could be
seen the following card.
MALTESE CAT WANTED
Will pay $40 for good monser this
week. NJ. Meyer, Clothier.
Shortly after the papers had been
mailed MIR. Meyers came into the Office
smiling. paper in hand.
"V~l, you vas one good ones; but
nobody 's'll see dot" pointing to the
small advertisement.
Just you wait awhile"
III dey does gifts you the FIVE dol
lar, and advertise, too"
The mails reached the country Fri
day, and Saturday was the usual mar
ket day with farmers.
I WAS busy printing a sale bill Satur'
day afternoon, about 2 O'Clock, when
tho door was thrown open. and Mr..
Meyer. red faced and painting, rushed
in.
''Take oudt dot -- ADVERTISE
uent! l got more as twenty them
- cats in the store now, and more
coming"
1t is unnecessary to add that re-
eeived my S., and the Gazette secured a
reuglar advertisement for ready-made
''clodings.''
A member of the Michi ran Legisla-
tuso has introduced before that august
body = resolution providing that a cow
shall be MIXED, either by hand or calf,
twice every twenty-foar hours. 1t is
suspected that this astute statesman
contemplates establishing AL agricul-
tural paper in the near future. Better
keep him in the Legislature where he' II
do no harm.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
PERFORMING CATS.
The Astonishing Entertainment Given by
Intelligent Feline Actors.

The Astonishing Entertainment Given by
Intelligent Feline Actors.
Those persons who believe cats to
be incapable of proiiting by education
would change their opinion If they
could see the exhibition Of performing
eats in Paris, France. The skill and
locility of the little animals are truly
wonderful, and would, even in dogs
be considered Il proof of great intelli-
5ence. The cats are concealed in two
small wooden houses or kennels, which
stand opposite each other with row
OF fifty chairs between them.
The performance begins by the
trainer tapping on the roof of one OF
the houses. Immediately a cat comes
and patted by its master, leaps to the
top of the first chair and then goes
lightly and gracefully from one chair
to the next, stepping only on the backs,
until it reaches the other house. into
which it retires. Each cat does this in
1irn, and then two cats cross the chair
bridge in opposite directions, one going
over the tops as before, and the other
passing along the horizontal bar just
below.
Long planks are then laid over the
,hair-backs, and anumber of wine bot
ties placed in row at short intervals
and the cats wind swiftly in and out be-
tween these bottles without missing
one or knocking one over. A still
greater difficulty is presented by a
small wooden disk being put on the
top OF each bottle. and cat stepping
/ from one to another, while other cats
follow the serpentine walk among the
bottles below. Chairs and planks are
then removed. and "a number of trestles
set up between the two houses. The
cats leap from one trestle to another,
going over bars and through hoops
with the precision and agility of a
circus-rider. A large wire hoop
wrapped in tow which has been soaked
in alcohol is held up and set on fire,
but the procession Of pussies, nothing
daunted. leaps through the flames
obodiently. Tight-rope dancing is the
next performances. and a number o
live, white rats placed on the rope re.
eeiye no attention whatever from the
cats.-American Agriculturist.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
THE GARDEN TONIC.
Good Advice For Farmers Wives and
Women Living In Country Towns.

Good Advice For Farmers Wives and
Women Living in Country Towns.
wish more of our pale, nervous
women would interest themselves in
plant raising. Take the gardening
monthlies, cut scraps in newspapers
on the subject, but above all spend
hours every day out doors. "lt's SO
much trouble" said poor little wom-
an l was urging to throw away her
pill boxes, stop taking tonics and go
out into the garden; "rm dressed up
in the afternoon, and | couldn't stoop
over in my corsets. and my sleeves are
so tight | can hardly take hairpin
out of my head" That's the truth;
fashion DEGREES tight dresses and
sleeves that fit close as the skin, and
doctors wax fat and wealthy with all
their women patients on hand. But
you needn't look like fright, even If
you spend hours digging up the dirt
with your trowel.
Have comfortable sacque made Of
some washable stuff. slip off your
dress and put it on and a broad
ndb. AS W COTStlS. dlbci
working in the garden a week you will
discard them forever, and find your
self with better health and better
figure than you have had since you
were child. Don't try to work with
heavy spade. There are light,
strong ones that make the digging
quite easy and pleasant. Keep your
tools handy. and always see they are
| in place before you go into the house.
A basket for weeds, another with a
ball of twine, hammer, trowl, bits Of
leather To fasten the vines, tacks,
scissors you will need ell these more
or less every day. and it's delight to
work If you can lay your hand right
on every needed article.-Sister Gra-
| cious, in American Garden.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
ABOUT TOOTH PLATES.
The Dangers of Imperfectiy Prepared ant
Porous Rubbers.

The coloring matter OF rubber false
tooth-plates is chiefly some oxide OF
metal, that of lead being OF a bright
red, while the oxides of bismuth. anti
mony, aluminium and manganese will
give the rubber the brown color rum
ming to maroon, and the pink is OBJ
tanned from aniline colors.
But it is not in the metallic oxides
used in preparation of rubber that
danger lies Gas the percentage OF rub
ber-sore mouths is SO small--one in
fifty thousand). but in the vulcaniza-
ing the prepared rubber as received
from the depots into vulcanite, can
be. by carelessness, converted into a
porous plate, containing hundreds oi
thousands of minute holes, each able
to absorb and retain the fermentation
from food products, and by its pres
ence constantly against the tissues oi
the mouth cause blood poison. This
porosity is caused by overheating the
rubber. thereby converting the sui.
phur in the mass into sulphurous acid,
destroying the fiber of the rubber by
decomposition and setting free the
metallic oxides. Whereas, If rubber
is cured or vulcanized properly at q
temperature never exceeding two hun
dred and eighty to three hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit, it will retain its
elastic fibers intact; the sulphur will
be in its natural state. permeating the
rubber and holding the coloring mat,
ter SO Theoretically sealed in its sub.
stance that no moisture will dissolve
even strong sulphuric acid will moi
touch it.
1t is the duty OF those making rub
Der plates to attend to these details in
the process of manufacture, but where
cheap dentistry is sought after hurry
is the result and the consequence very
dangerous.-Annalso OF Hygiene.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
SECRET OF STRENGTH.
Advice Especially Needed By Young House.
keepers and Mothers.


There is much wholesome advice
given in these days how to rest. Our
age is so intense, there is so much
work to be done, for hands that are
willing and hearts that are sympa-
thetic, that the majority wear out be-
fore their time ut is better to weal
out than to rust out certainly, but is
either welp So much exercise of
brain and hand is good; so much more
is waste. 1t is never safe to reach en-
tire exhaustion, and even in the most
crowded lives, sufficient rest can al
most always be found. Watch the
teamster driving his horses up the
steep hill. Several times, II it be long,
he stops, blocks the wheels and lets
the horses rest He would be inhuman
not to, and we should organize Bands
of Mercy to look after him. But men
and women give themselves long tasks,
and drive themselves to their COM
pletion, tefore they stop to rest. and
then they are too excited and weary to
| find the coveted boon.
The first requisite is control of
thoug h t. A terary worker, who had
induced insomnia by the habit Of
thinking too late at night, was enabled
after some persistence to "think of
nothing an finally the habit grew
! ot be fixed, and whatever The work on
hand was, bedtime found it laid down.
The ability to worlA steadily month
after month, was the result
But we need the quiet moment often
during the day. ..In quietness shall
lie your strength says the inspired
word, and we are told to Study to be
quiet 1t does not mean merely ceas-
ing to talk. but Withdrawing for rest
to the center of strength. Many a
mini and heart is like the raging sea
of Galilee, lashed by the winds of busi-
ness perplexity and burdens too griev-
Gus to be named. Can we say to our
selves Peace, be still. All these
things will pass away. The sunshine
is ever above the clouds, and day is
sure to follow night II we would en-
| joy the sunshine and the day, we must
not waste our strength by over anx-
iety and fear.n None need these
earnest words more than women work.
ers of to-day None need to heed them
more than the young housekeeper, the
mother, and the benevolent soul who
never thinks of self at all. Half our
ills would vanish If We would stop
once in a while and let them go. Care
has smooth and rough handle. To
be quiet sometimes, is to hold on firmly
to the smooth handle. and at last scale
the Hill OF difficulty Let us give it q
trial al-Woman's Magazine.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
Worse Than All That.

Brown (repulsing his wife as she
comes forward to greet him on his re-
turn honey Don't come near your
depraved and abandoned husband.
.Great heavens, William, what is
the matter?n
Don't come near me, say, I'm a
loathsome object. Oh. how could L"
"For heavens sake tell me. Have
you committed a murder, are you a
defaulter, are you horrible big
amistp"
..Worse than all that"
''Speak. Do you want to kill meP"
'.Mary, I've been-Tye been-eating
young onions. Chicago Herald.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
ALASKA TERRITORY.


Neneiits Accruing to the United States
Through Its Possession.
There is one benefit in the purchase
Of Alaska, which. in my mind, is more
certain and probably will be more ex-
tensive in the future than any other,
though at present hardly trenched
u"on. refer to her fisheries of sal
mon, cod, halihut. AMI other merchant
able fish, capable of being prepared
for export Alaska is. without doubt.
the future fishery Of the world. but 1t
must wait for fair development therein
until the Pacific coast has a population
which will create demand for these
products. or the present exorbitant
rates Of freight from there are so re-
dnced that they can enter the Eastern
markets with fair chance of compe-
tition. 1t would almost stagger the
imagination to give relative statistics
between Alaskan fields and others we'll
known, and which are supposed to be
enormous sources Of supply. The
Newfoundland cod banks are sur
!, passed by those of Alaska, both in ex-
tent, quality of fish, and abundance
within equal areas 1t would not be
! an unfair comparison to say that
Alaskas cod population exceeds that
Of the Atlantic us the population OF
!. New York exceeds that of Nevada.
: One river in Alaska a-the Yukon
holds probably one hundred times as
: many salmon in the running season rs
the Columbia the present source OF
4 nearly all our supply. The Yukon
! river natives annually secure about
4 three times the output of the
effect on the Alaskan stream, while
i the Oregon River is threatened with
/ determination of this palatable food.
- On the Columbia the fish is worth
:, from 30 cents to 81 as its nose peeps
:, above water. while the Yukon natives
!, catch clean, dry and store away fish
- Of double the size and sell them In
:. winter to the nearest trader for dog
:, food at cent Il piece in trade, or foi
2 or !, mills each. An old resident o.
~ Alaska told me that the Indians Of hi
- vicinity desired to contract to furnish
him with halibut at 6 cents each, many
= of which would weigh 100 and 20(
- pounds and all average 40 to 80, but i
~ would not pay TO handle this produc
:, except on a large scale, which woul'
~ soon glut the Pacific coast markets
:,77 and there are no others available
These instances could be multiplie
!, until they become monotonous.
:. There may be many benefits OF a
: intangible nature such rs metaphysical
people love to dwell upon, as the spiri
:, developed in colonization and aggre
" gation of distant countries, etc, etc
~ y, but | think the more tangible ar
Nv :, given above Some OF them. to b
w sure, lie in the fu9lre, and some, d
>. the mineral possibilities, may neve
-. be realized, but all of them, taken tt
81 81 gether, plainly show that Alaska !,
ie ~. has been. and always will be, a gref
- benefit to the United States from man
'' standpoints which go to make up a d.
e" slable national addition. Frederic
-, VI Schwatka, in America.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
Harrison's Surprise Cake.

Take one and half cups of butter,
two cups of sugar, two-thirds cup OF
sweet milk, five eggs. two and one
half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls
(heaping) of baking powder, and one
teaspoonful of bitter almond for flavor
ing. Cream your butter and sugar to-
gether. add the beaten yelks and milk,
then the sifted -four with baking pow
der, and lastly the whites of three
eggs beaten to froth; flavor with the
bitter almond. Bake in buttered
square tins in three layers, cut in
squares or slices If preferred. Raisin
flling-Take two cups Of sugar. scant
cup Of water; put on stove and cook
until it thiekens. Do not stir much.
Remove from stove till partially cool,
and stir in one heaping cup of raisins,
stoned and chopped fine, and the
whites of the remaining two eggs
beaten to froth, with one teaspoon.
full Of vanilla or orange. Place this
filling between the layers and on the
top.-Toledo Blade.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
STEAM WHISTLES.
fmmense Noise Makers for STEAMSHIPS,
Plantations and Factories.

fmmense Noise Makers for STEAMSHIPS, |
Plantations and Factories.
Steam whistles are made in great |
variety, from the little tin pipe that
is attached to the street peanut roaster
TO the big foghorns that announce the
approach of ocean steamships. They
have displaced bells wherever it is
necessary to send warning to a long
distance. With a strong and favora-
BILE wind the loudest steam whistle
may be heard twenty miles. They are
much used in factories and on South
ern plantations.
The biggest steam whistle on record
hereabouts was made by Manning,
Maxwell & Moore for a Canadian saw
mill. The mill was located in
sparsely settled locality, and had had
several fires which resulted disas-
trously on account of the difficulty
of summoning assistance. The pro-
prietors sent to New York for the
biggest whistle that could be got.
The result was steam whistle about
two feet in diameter that could be
heard twenty miles. 1t took 600
horse power engine to blow it. This
whistle cost $3.50.
1t is not unusual to make factory
and plantation whistles that can be
heard ten or twelve miles. Big ship
whistles are made of ten or twelve
inches diameter. A much-used whistle
is what is known as the Crosby chime.
1t consists OF three whistles. one above
another. These three-story whistles
are much used on ships. The smallest
of the three whistles is about five
inches in diameter. This pattern car
be heard longer distance than an,
other.
Varieties Of tone are procured b.
varying the shape in the same wa,
that boy changes the tone of tn
wooden whistle that he makes. TIL
Sound steamers have hoarse whistl
that is quite distinct from the whistle
OF other boats, and is readily recog
nized in fog.
Railroad whistles are sharp an
piercing; not intended for long dis
! tances. but rather for immediate alarm
, especially for cows and other animal
, that get on the track. The latest ide
!. for railroad whistles is to have di
ferent pitch for passenger and freigh
/ trains, so as to afford an addition,
warning to switchmen.
! There is very ingenious fog whist
: which is attached to buoys and ligh
ships and is worked by the motion I
! the waves by the aid of bellows. Th
/ is, of course, not SO piercing as stea
. whistle, nor can it be heard at gre,
!. distance, but it is very useful inve
= tion and contributes much to the safet
@ OF coast travel in the fog.
- Steam whistles cost from 80 u
: ward, and are generally made of bras
q OF late years they have been nicke
e plated. Some of the biggest whistl
n in this vicinity are on the Greenpoi
II factories. The big three-story whistl
- are sometimes called the steam-gon
There used to be boat in the harb
fitted with set of steam whistl
called a calliope. Barnum used
-, have calliope travelling with t
Greatest Show on Earth. The mus
rs was rather narrowing to cultivat
10 ears. The whistles were peculiar
r. adapted to staccato notes, and seem
le to have been created to play "P
n, Goes the Weasel. IN. Y. Sun.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
Enough to Convict Him.

Judge" said prisoner on trial for
murder. as he rose to his feet, pale as
death, trembling in every limb and
holding in his hand "a copy OF St.
Louis paper. do look like the por.
trait printed of me in this newspaper?'
There is slight resemblance. pris-
oner," replied the astonisl.ed judge,
..thongh OF course"
Then there is no use in going any
further with this trial, judge" groaned
the stricken man, sinking into a chair.
II am guilty. Chicago Tribune
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
DjSAGREEABLE SPRINGS.
"Reminiscences Concerning the Vagaries o
Marcl, and April Weather.

"reminiscences Concerning the Vagaries Of
March and April Weather.
A gentleman of this city who was
only eleven years old in 1861. but who
retains vivid recollection of the STIR
ring events both before and after the
first Inauguration of President Lincoln.
writes us concerning the exceptional
weather OF March and April, 1861. On
referring to newspaper file of that
year, it app, ars that on the Sd day OF
OF March the thermometer was 74o.
From that date until the 14th the
weather was about the usual for
March, perhaps milder slightly than
usual. On the 14th there was a fall
of snow to the depth Of about inches;
on the 10th of 5 or 6; a day or two
afterward | Org inches, and on the
2lst and 22d about 8 inches in the city
and in each cases somewhat more IN
the country near Boston. There were
about two weeks sleighing
On the 18th the mercury descended
to 60 above (and zero in countr.
| places near BOSTON,, a difference oil
| 69o from the maximum, and rose onl,
to ITO at noon-something probably
not recorded before or since. During
the last week of March the snow en-
tirely disappeared, but on the night OF
April l snow-storm began which
continued all through The I'd and ended
the morning OF the Sd. leaving on tn.
| ground an average of a foot, maxim.
| II 70.
Day occurred that year on the 4th. on
which day the writer with his fathe,
| and brother enjoyed a sleigh ride in
the city and suburbs OF several hours
| durations.
The following list of snow-storms in
.Annals of Salem:
1869, April -Snow-storm. 3 or 4
inches on the ground next morning.
1872. April 1-Great storm OF snow.
drifts 6 feet high.
1901. May 2-Many cattle lost by a
rain and hail storm OF three days
1761, May lizard gale at north.
east; rain and snow. The latter melted
us it fell.
| 1869, May 11-Snow fell for twelve
hours.
| 1903, May s-Snow fell seven hours.
1908. April-Snow deep in som,
places.
1872, May 4-show-storm all day
and night.
1882, April IA great storm. witt
rain.
1884. May 15-Snow this morning.
1871. April 13-Considerable snow
last night and to-day.
In July. 1904. snow fell in Salem
: and its vicinity. Transcript
-
The mustache is said TO be losing
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
SUNSET IN WINTER.


4 Northern Scene That Would ne .
Revelation To Southern People.
1t is worth ones while TO get cold
nose by watching n winters sunset to |
see the walters those spiral columns
of snow, rained by eddies in the cur
rents of wind and driven along by it.
turned by the suns rays into tongues
of flame. go whirling over the drifts
| Clouds in masses, streaks and de-
| tached tlocks show all the shades Of
red and purple. while the clear por
| tions OF the western sky give many
| shades of yellow. A, the zenith is a
steely blue. which, lower down, blend
ing with the yellow, gives tints OF
green. North and south the walters
are draped in many gay tints OF purple
and rose, while to the east, as they
dance away into the distance, their
ghostly whiteness is enhanced by the
gay coloring Of sky and clouds above.
Reds and rosy puppies crown the east-
ern clouds, while the blue Of their
lower strata gradually darkens to al,
most black where it touches the white
snow lines.
A change passes rapidly over all this;
the sun is down and the long twilight
}. begins. The eastern clouds put on
, their evening drapery of gray. SO gauzy
, rs to be but sham concealment for their
, dark blue masses: the tints OF rose and
!, purple are transferred to the clear
sky; grayness settles between us and
q the belts Of woods, visible one beyond
8 another with strips OF snow between
I the view narrows, and the darkness o
Q the horizon advances toward us.
n Look yain to the west a bank o
V cloud is rising, capped with flame ant
gold, below the snow light lends it
v dusky gray. A line OF round-toppet
v ridges "f snow extends in one direction
le looking as though the wind had weariet
10 in its task of rolling up the drifts
e the first, sent the furthest. is nearly a
IS our feet the rest are dropped in sue
= cession, each falling short of the las
before it. Beyond, against a rise q
ID ground, the snow lies in swaths, eac
s. showing sharp edge to the east
q, Down the slope come the walters i
Is hurrying crowds, they chassee throug
"a the hollows between the di #.
f. then mad ambition seizes thel
1T and they mount whirling to the tops {
al the ridges, only to fall headlong
adding layer after layer of snow-du'
le to the depth of the drifts. Now cont
It. q side gust: drifts. hollows and leve
Of are alike shut from sight by sheet
is driving snow. Away toward the woot
IN on the left go the white, whirlin
at forms-now singly, now in troops; tt
n drifts along the northern edge OF I'll
ty woods will deepen before to-morro
morning. Sec the mist-like shap
p circling around that tall, pointed dri
So, on the right; there spins one to i
el- very apex, poses for an instant, the
es leaps to Il glorious exit-disappearir
mt in mid-air.
les Look east again; the clouds are no
lg. gray while the interspacing of sky a
'or fully as intense, though darker bl,
les than the dome of June's bright day
to Motion painting is beyond our powe
he but there's many a northern wint
sic scene the sight of which would graft
ed the passion of a lover of beauty
rly Fulton County. On. W Democrat.
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