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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06
THE REFORM CAUSE.

An Alabama editor has lately become
violently insane from cigarette smok-
ing, and has been removed to- the State
insane asylum. It is said that no
smoked as high as twenty packages of
cigarettes day.
A BELGIAN shipping paper states that
steamer recently bound for tho West
Coast of Africa had on board fourteen
missionaries, four hundred and sixty
tons of gunpowder, eleven cases of gin,
ten thousand casks of rum.
The King of Samoa strictly prohibits,
in his dominions, the sale or use. as
beverage, of ''any spirituous, vinous or
fermented liquors, or Intoxicating
drinks" by any of his subjects. Any
violation of this law involves either fine
or imprisonment, and in some cases
both.
A PRISONER in the penitentiary at
Columbus, O.. who was pardoned in
1888 on condition that he abstain from
the use OF Intoxicating liquors, has just
been returned to the establishment
having taken to drinking. lie will now
have to serve out the remainder of his
term-about fifteen months.
THAT activity in literary Temper
ance work does not lesson woman's in
terest in home and children is evidenced
by the following from well-known
worker in all those lines when declin-
ing to accept an appointment that
would often call her from her family:
If l can save the world and do not
bring up noble son and daughter l
should call my life failure"
GENERAL Won MoLrKE is credited
with these sentiments: II, myself,
abstain altogether from alcohol do
not consider it necessary or helpful, ex-
cept, perhaps, after fatiguing work.
wheI. the principal thing is to revive
ones strength at once. Certainly one
of the greatest enemies of Germany il
the misuse of alcohol. A healthy man
needs no such stimulant, and to give it
to children, which is often done, is ab-
sOlutely wicked
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A POPULAR FALLACY.
The Use 81 Alcoholic Drinks by Nursin
Women Of No Benefit Whatever.

Tie Use Of Alcoholic Drinks by Nursing
Women OF No Benefit Whatever.
DR.. jacob, of New York. in recent
disc dssion before the section on chill
dren's diseases OF the New York Aca-
demy OF Medicine, contented that so
long as a nursing woman was secreting
healthy milk there was but little dam
ger that any deleterious matter which
might be floating in the blood could get
into it; but as soon as the woman be-
came an@mic, Of got below par in her
general health, the secretion from the
breast would not be simply milk, but
part of it would be watery and other
material foreign to its normal compost
ton. Whatever was floating in the
water Of the blood would find its way
into the breasts and into the baby: He
denied that alcohol would increase the
secretion of milk. The utmost that
could be said for it was that a small
quantity, if regularly given, might not
be harmful. Alcohol acts in the Same
way as other foods containing carbon
and the elements of water, the car
bohydrates. ard it's benefits can be
equally we'll obtained b; administering
hohydrates in soma other form,
namely, by milk and farinaceous foods.
A nursing woman needs nearly twice as
much as woman in ordinary condition.
Extra diet should he taken to supply
this need. That nursing women re-.
quire malt liquors is an ancient and
very popular belief, which does not rest,
however, on any solid foundation. In
the interest of the babies, Dr. Jacobs
attack on this venerable superstition is
welcomed. The above note on 1.-THE
Use OF Alcohol by Nursing Women" &C.
ours in the editorial department of the
British Medical Journal, and for that
reason will carry additional weight as
an unexpected declaration of opinion
from a source in which more favora BILE
opinion of malt liquors would have
been xpected.-Christian Advocate.
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ScaIy Log euro.

When fowls are affected with scaly
leg, the best way to effect cure is to
Insert feather in tie spout OF coal
oil can so that too large stream will
not run out; have some one hold tho
fowl by the wings. then take hold of .
toe of one foot at time and pour fine
stream from the edge of the feathers
entirely down the leg to ends of toes,
taking care that all parts of the foot
and leg are thoroughly saturated with
the oil. Usually one application will
be enough; if not, repeat it; a second
time will surely effect q cure. The
scaly appearance is caused by an insect
which the oil kills and leaves the legs
clean and smooth. This cure will often
answer when the legs get to twice their
usual size, which is often the case whep
Neglected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

FoR,chapped lips, dissolve some bees.
wax in little sweet oil by heating to-
gother gently. Apply to the lips sew
eral times a day and avoid wetting them
as much as possible. An old-fashioned
recipe for perfectly harmless face To-
tien is the following: Take seeds Of
pumpkin, melon, gourd and cucumbers,
and pound them to a powder, adding
fresh cream to dilute the powder, then
add sweet milk enough to make thin
paste; few drops of oil of lemon, or Of
lemon juice, must be added. Apply this
to the face for half an hour at time, or
1t may be put on when retiring and left
on over night.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

MOVABLE EARTU-CLOSET,

MOVABLE EARTH-CLOSET.
is set on runners made of 2x3-inc1
stuff. Every Saturday the horse
hauls the box away, and after it is
emptied and the box supplied with
fresh dust it is clean and sweet
for another week. A door hung frDm
it's upper edge closes the opening
through which the box is moved into or
out of place in the closet 1t has been
in use and has proved wholly odorless
and easily managed. The re jected con-
tents supply a valuable fertilizer for
the garden, instead of permeating the
ground and polluting the we'll. or escap-
ing in the form of nOxious gases
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THE FARMING WORLD.
coRN.cuT1lNo SLED.
4 very Good Device aid No Doubt .
s.zl-zssE ~ . IAb0R.SRV0F.

Il vary Good Devics and No Doubt Q
LAboF-SSvor.
A. C. B., Lebanon. Neh, sends to tho
Orange Judd Farmer sketch Of new
device (hero illustrated) FOR cutting
corn-foddef, which 10 made as follows:
Take two 2x6 inch pieces, six feet long.
for runners, wider are better II ground
is ridged; placs them two and one-half
feet apart and cover with one inch
planks three and one-half feet long.
Cover or ''top-deck" by putting the
front board on the sled ut IN angle Of
about As degrees, tapering two or
three boards until the back boards fill
out square-lay close. The knife-cut-
ting arrangement fa) is from corn
stalk cutter and is held fast by two
clips (b, BY as indicated. The right
hand corner is not reached by the knife,
SO board 10y is put hero and spiked
solid. On this board (c) man stands
and makes reel of his hands. letting
the corn fodder fall between him and
the driver, who stands at d.
Two short draw chains and two short
whifiletrees complete the sled TO use.
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
OR. cHEEvEH.s eaAvERY.

"reminiscences OF y Valiant Fighter for
Temperanoe Reform.
This was the tit.e given to the author
Of deacon Giles Distillery' by his
classmate, Longfellow. The death Of
Dr.. Cheever brings ont many reminis-
cences Of Hin. Horace Greeley was
wont to call him ''the man that made
sinners miserable. A very Boanerges
he was when attacking sin; rose-water
methods of reform were too slow for
him, and impersonal dealing with in.
EQUITY was thing to mako him frantic.
Yet this son of thunder was the loving
est of men, tender and pitiful when
dealing with the pcnitent sinner. as he
was firm in denunciation of organized
sin. He was a pioneer Temperance
worker, his vision of deacon Giles Dis
tillery" having been one of the first
bombshell's dropped into tho enemies
camp. An old gentleman lately gave
me a copy of this book. one of the first
edition, with its quaint pictures, show
ing the deacon's distillery with the
casks labelled, not Rum" Brandy"
"Gin." but OBSTRUCTION" "Poverty."
Ruin" Death" 1t is hard for us to
realize the great commotion this harm
Restocking pamphlet caused. Its i'm
mediate result was riot and lnobbing
of Dr.. Cheever in the streets of Salem.
and his arrest for '1ibelling one of his
church members, p" for Deacon Giles was
deacon in his own church. He was
prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned
Tor thirty days in Salem Jail; that i'm
prisonment made his Dream immortal.
1t had an immense circulation in this
country and in Great Britain, was
translated and largely circulated in the
language OF France, Germany, Italy,
Belgium. Switzerland, Norway and
Sweden.
Not long before his death DR.. Cheever
related an instance Of strange fruitage
from this early seed-sowing. He had
preached in Boston, and as he came
down the aisle from the pulpit was &C.
costed by middIe-aged. well-dressed
stranger who introduced himself as Mr..
Giles, the son of Deacon Giles, owner of
the famous Salem distillery. Il stopped
you, DR.. Cheever," he said, Ito thank
you for writing that Dream. it was the
means Of making me think of the evil
effects of distilling intoxicating liquors,
and determined me to give up distil-
ling: further reflection under the inf u
ence of the Holy Spirit led ma to see
that was lost and guilty sinner, and
brought me to confess and renounce my
sins and accept the offer of salvation
through Jesus Christ" Dr.. 'Cheever
was very much touched by the incident
Slavery as we'll as intempcrance felt
the weight of his blows; there was no
evil which he did not denounce fear
lessly. Nor was his work altogether
polcmic, he was poet and philosopher
IS we'll as brave fighter, and as the
smoke of battle drifts away, postefity
will love him for his poetry as we now
venerate him for his fearless denuncia-
ton of wrong-Union Signal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

PROF. WILLIAM D. MARKEy, supervis-
ing engineer of the Edison Electric
Light Company, will stake his profess
sional reputation on his ability to BUILD
orailroad and construct an electric mo-
tor that will carry train from New
York TO Philadelphia in thirty-six min
utes, that is ut the rate of one hundred
and fifty miles an hour. He says he
wonld pour electricity into the rails
from four Way stations. with enormous
dynamos. The cars would probably be
round. Special precaution would be
taken to obviate the powerful suction Of
trains in motion. The road must be as
near straight as possible.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

a VERY acrimonious discussion has
developed in Alabama in regard to the
mutilation of Rube Burrows body be-
fore or after death, many marks of VIC
lence being visible. Whatever mutila.
ton there was of the late Mr.. Burrows
must have been done after death, as he
took particular pains that nothing OF
that kind occurred during his life-t time.
Indeed, his great ability to prevent any
thing Of tho sort had much to do with
his long and busy career,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

AT the State fair In Birmingham, Ala.
Thomas j. Minis and Miss Gertrude
Pitman, Of Brewton, Ala, were married
In front OF the grand stand in the pres
ence Of ten thousand people, Rev. S. NJ.
Adams performing the ceremony. The
young couple then stepped into the car
Ola monster gas balloon and, with Aero
maui Baldwin, sailed off on a brida al
tour. The balloon took southerly d.
rect1on, and at a height of some mile
and half went over the Red mountain.
The balloon bridal party landed on TOP
Ola mountain seventeen miles from
birmingham after pleasant trip of
shout an hour.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

RECENT explorations of the.Olympic
mopntains have been of great interest
70 mining men. A geologist who has
Rayen some attention to the work of the
exploring parties says: II have exam
mod many specimens from the Olympic,
but until Of late they were of low grade
outcroppings. Recently some extremely
rich specimens have been received.
These new discoveries have excited in
tercst In prospectors in this region, and
spoctrsens are coming in rapidly. i
havo received one piece that was so rich
that refused to assay it, as it could not
possibly be q fair sample. 1t would
have assayed over 500, 600 per ton"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

EHE inevitable upheaval that is des-
tined to occur in Russia does not seem
to be very far of according to the St.
petersburg correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph. He says: 1.-The Minis
ter of the Interior has received very
alarming reports concerning the state
OF the country. The prisons are crowded
with suspects, chiefly young men Of the
educated classes. Disatfection is
spreading in every locality, incen-
d1arism is rife, and there have been
conflicts IN great many places
between the peasantry and soldiers"
No wonder the Gar is afflicted with
insomnia.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL
A Murh rOus instrument III tho Hands {
tho Foolish and Weak.

the Foolish and Weak.
1t is said that alcohol cheers the
weary, and that to take little wine for
the stOmach's sake is one of those les
sons that come from the deep recesses
Of human nature. l am not so Obstinate
as to deny this argument. There are
times In the life of man when the heart
is oppressed, when the resistance to its
motion is excessive, and when blood
flows languidly to the centers of life,
nervous and muscular. In these mo.
ments alcohol cheers. II lets loose The
heart from its expressions: it lets flow a
brisker current of blood into the failing
organs; it aids nutritive changes, and
altogether is of temporary service to
man. So far h,cohol may be good, and
If its use could be limited to this one
action, this one purpose, it would be
amongst tho most excellent of the gifts
oi silence to mankind. Unhappily, the
border line between this use and the
abuse of il, the temptation to extend
beyond the use the habit to apply the
use when it is not wanted as readily as
whenit is wanted. overbalance, in the
multitude of men, the temporary value
that attaches truly to alcohol as q phys-
biological agent.
Hence alcohol becomes dangerous
instrument even in the hands of the
strong and wise; murderous instru-
ment in the hands of the foolish and
weak. Used too frequently, used too
excessively, this agent which in moder-
alton cheers the failing body, relaxes
its vessels too extremely; spoils vital
organs; makes the course of the circu-
lation, slow, imperfect, irregular; sug-
gests the cali for more stimulation:
te,npts to the renewal of the evil, and
ruins the mechanism OF the healthy an
imal before its hour for ruin by natural
decay. should be at all near.-Richard.
sons Diseases Of Modern Life.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

THE American Analyst says that there
are 81, 900, 500, 600 invested in the dairy
business in this country. That amount
Is almost double the money invested in
banking and commercial industries. 1t
is estimated that it requires IS, OOO, 900
COWS to supply the demand for milk and
its products in the United States. TO
feed these cows 6o,oco,oOo acres of land
are 4!nder cultivation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

HENRY FRANCIS MOORE, a black.
smith, still living at Medford, Mass.
Is said to be tho original of Longfellow's
"Village Blacksmith" who stood under
the spreading chestnut tree and the
muscles Of whose brawny arms were
strong as iron bands The poet was
often in Medford previous to writing
tho poem and was fond of chatting
with Moore. The blacksmith is now
stxty-one years of age and is himself OF
tho opinion that Longfellow lad him in
mind whene he wrote his poem.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

ACCEPT it or not, as you please, the
statement rs made by purist in En-
glfsh that tho most common misquota-
ton in the tongue is: when Greek
meets Greek, then comes the tug of
war" Properly it reads: "When Greeks
joined Greeks, then was tho tug of
war" and was written by an English
man named Nathaniel Lee about the
vsa RIM
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

LIEUT.. ALrHEUs ROBERT FRENCH, the
sole survivor of the Black Hawk war,
died in Baltimore recently, aged eighty
one years. After the Black Hawk Mr..
French re-anlisted and was ordered to
FlosiAa .during the Seminole war. He
was badly injured in differentbattlesa and
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

GENLRAL FURLoNG, a noted Amer
lean traveller, tells reporter for the
New York Press that the longest word
on record is 'Llanfairpwllgymgyllg-
oGerychwrndrobwllla ndisiliogogogoch, "
which is the name of parish church he
visited once while in that country. II
aS'eneral Furlong was merely in search
OF y longer name than his own he could
have found it without going outside of
his own land. Why didn't hunt up Gen
eral Miles2
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NEVER TASTED SPIRITS.
Tho Convincing Testimony Of . Hero q
tho War Of 1872

tn0 WAR, OF 10ISs
In the war Of 1912, Lewis Cass starte d
In as Colonel of the Third Ohio Volun.
teers. His first essay was a march of
two hundred miles, through swampy
wilderness, to Detroit, and thence into
Canada; and to him is awarded the hon.
orable distinction of having been the
first man of the United States forces. in
that war, to put his foot upon British
soil. He snuffed tic sulphur of battle,
and withstood the leaden bail. His
manifold public services from that time
are matters of history. In 1886. Mr..
Cass was appointed Minister to France:
and on public occasion, previous to de-
parting on his impor ant mission, he put
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06
j. II. MCVic0r

In his history Of his famous "trip to
the Northwest in 1928, when he at
tempted to find the north pole, Sir
John Franklin m axes reference to the
birth of son of one of his rescuers.
The infan. was born in the basin of the
Mackenzie river, and the farthest north
of any child then born in Canada. The
infant SO referred to is at present visit
ing in st. Paul, and his name is j. r.
McVicar. He is G3 years Of age.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

YEARS ago in Japan there was coin
called the monseng, which was worth
only about one-two hundred and TWEEN.
ty-fourths of a penny. It. was an iron
pioco' In England we have had piece
worth no more than quarter of farth-
ing,sand a very pretty piece it is. "A
piece Of one-third of a farthing was also
minted in the reign of George w. and
William ". If in good condition it is
now worth a shilling as curiosity.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06
Tho First Fatality.

The burning Of the trolley wire on
the Minnehaha avenue electric line in
Minneapolis caused commotion the
other evening. The end of the wire
falling in the street at white heat,
frightened the team of farmer, who
was passing, and one OF the horses fall
ing up on the wire was instantly killed.
The current was. soon turned off and
traffic over the lower part Of the line
suspended while the wire was being re-.
raired.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

The Edison photographic doll has
now got up to one hundred and thirty
five words in speech. For long time
only seventy words could be packed into
the compact little frame, and it was
therefore deferred from saying a great
many interesting things. In course Of
timesthe wizard of Menlo Park may
make his dolls talk as freely as human
beings. 1t is all matter of com bination.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06
Red Men Sod tho Island.

II. N. Rice has returned to Minneap.
oils from trip among the Northern In
dams, and says that the Baltimore
Fishing Company is secure in its pos.
session OF Gardner Island. 1t proves on
examination Of the treaty of July, 1880,
that this territory, with all the north.
ern portion of the Red Lake reserva-
ton, has been coded to the Govern.
ment The Government pays the In
dams $50, 900 year for the land until
the amount reaches So, 600, 600.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

''0LD SACRAMENTO" the, cannon
tsk4n across the plains by General FREE
mont in his first expedition, is an OBJ
ject of interest at the Kansas State
canftol. s tF "a E
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): LATER.

Tie statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be 81, 548, 621 800; cash in the treasury,
1851, 316, $50; debt less cash in treasury,
1867, 3oS, 120 Decrease during October,
~, 6eS, ore. Decrease since June 80, 1890.
$50, 1862, S25. i: -: =:
OWING to a decision of Judge Cald-
we'll all the original-packing houses in
Kansas have been closed.
MEssRs.. Dillon, OBricn, Sullivan and
Harrington. represent atives Of the
Irish National League, arrived in New
York on the steamer La Champagne.
JAPANESE advices say that since the
outbreak of cholera in that empire there
had been 50, 425 cases and 25,91l deaths.
The epidemic had almost subsidized.
NEAR Wlnamac, Ind, Grand Mead
ows, the largest hay farm in Northern
Indiana, containing 5000 acres. was set
on fire by hunters, burning up ~, 900
tons of hay. Loss, 500, 200.
THIEVES robbed the Wells-Fareo ex-
press office at Meadyille, Pa, of $lO, 600.
The express companies have advanced
rates between Chicago and New York
fifty cents per 100 pounds.
CARGO OF cotton on the steamer
Leona was destroyed by fire in New
York, the loss being 100000.
The Lake House at Starbuck, Mimi. .
was destroyed by fire. and two children
T. OF the proprietor, e. P. Byhee, were
burned to death.
The business portion of the town of
Ihillicothe, ILL.,, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 5000. 0oo In all
forty buildings were burned.
THE stallion Allerton lowered the
worlds record for 4-year-olds at Inde-
pendence, Ia. by trotting mile in
2:1sX.
GEORGE RoBARpGE, q farmer living in
South st. Paul, Mimi, shot and killed
X F. Rogers, fatally wounded w. E.
Rogers, his first victims brother, and
then blew his own head of. -,
CHARLES FISCHER, brother of the Chi
cago Anarchist who was hanged for the
Haymarket crime, .strangled himself to
death in his room in Pittsburgh, Pa.
TuN1s AMAcK, of Columb bus, o., MUIR
dered Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson and then
committed suicide. Jealousy was the
cause.
MISS LIZZIE O. SMITH, known as the
modern martyr, who had been help-
less invalid ffty-ave years, died 1t her
home in Willimantic, Conn.
ADvIcEs from Yokohoma say that the
Japanese man-of.war Kongo left Kube
for Turkey with the survivors Of the
Turkish man-of-war Ertougroul. Of5o0
persons lost $50 bodies had been washed
ashore.
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A JEWISH boy in Russia who stole a
pear was brutality punished. The word
''thief" was branded on his forehead in
three places. -. .-.--.-- -. =.

HOSEA Brown, of Linn County, Ore,
aged one hundred and two years, and q
veteran of 1912, has just been awarded
. pension Of forty dollars month.