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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

S5.-s
FRESH cold, water is powerful alb
'sorbent OF gases: A bowl of water
placed under the bed Of the sick-room
and frequently changed is. among the
Valuable aids in purifying the air. The
room in which: the London aldermen
y sit Is purified by open vessels of water
placed in different parts Of the, room.
II can be easily inferred from. this that
water standing for any length Of time
ina close room is unfit u tor drinking.
Experiments OF this kind are not cost
slyse 1t has frequently BEEN observed
that: restless and troubled sleep. has
been corrected by placing an open
vessel Of water pear the head Of the bed
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

/ on. Of the managers of big Eastern
knitting mill, has made a calculation
sthatthe shoo-strings of q working-girl
/ will some United on the average three
times per diem, and that a girl will lose
about fifty seconds every time she
Stops to retie them. This entails a
loss .: 800 seconds every day for each
$etrlsE There are about 400 girls en-
kploysd IN this factory, and therefore
IT 9 gentleman finds that 4s, 800, 600 Sec
! o1.sts s. are , Wasted, year, which time, at
athc aayerages rate ots&Mages, Isl worth
! f0's. ts1. Orders llave accordingly been
Issued that. Girls nlust:wear5 only button
shoss or gaiters or be- discharged, i ;.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

o. IT seems that the truly-cultured Bos-
ton woman never carries any thing home
when shopping. Says one of them:
sOnco had a piece Of tape sent home.
ard ''nse had a tape-necdle sent to nv
house, ut doesn't SO much matter
from the .dry-goods store said her
friend. '"They are sending, any way;
but, IS true as you live. J saw woman
in g market order one ounce of pepper,
and they had to got out a wagon: to send
it e the next Street toher II II, was i in
ornipgitxouldn't somuoh matter:
but to- order home in the afternoon one
ounce Of peRper1-I cant forget it! She
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

garth's picture: Drunk tor penny,
dead drunk for two pence" only the
.'clean straw for nothing" would have
10 be left out. With the trafic in use.
full articles it was entirely different To
push twas slow and laborious task,
and the profits were uncertain, which
did not suit men who wanted to make
money rapidly.
The result of this state of matters is
that the diabolical work commenced by
the slave trade has been effectually
carried on and widened by that in
spirits. 1, for one, am inclined to be-
lieve that the latter IL producing
greater-and what are likely to be quite
as lasting-evils than the former. The
spirit traffic has . more brutalizing of.
feet; it more efectuslly blights all the
natives energies, it ruins his constitu.
ton, and, through the habits it gives
rise to, his lands are left as desolate as
after slave raid. 49,: .-.
What are the most characteristic
European imports into West Africa?
Gin, rum, gunpowder and guns. What
European articles are most in demand?
The same. In what light do the natives
look upon the Europeans? Why, as
makers and sellers of spirits aud guns.
What largely supports the govern
mental machinery of that region? Still
the same articles.
The ships which trade to Africa are
loaded with gin out of all proportion to
more useful articles; the warehouses
along the coast are filled with it, The
air seems to reek with the vile stun,
and every hut is redolent of its fumes.
Gin bottles and boxes meet the eye at
every step. and in some places the
wealth and importance of the various
villages are measured by the size of the
pyramids of empty gin bottles which
they erect to their own honor and glory
and the envy of poorer districts Owe,
large areas. it is almost the sole cur
rency, and in many parts the years
wages of the negro factory workers il
paid in spirits, with which they return
home to enjoy few days of f1endish de-
bauch.-Joseph Thomson, in Contem.
porary Review.
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floods in the South would cause 8 total
loss OF ~, O00, 600.
CALIFORNIA Republicans will hold
their State convention at Sacramento
August IL, . 9 s :
rs AcYcLoNE struck Kyle, Tex, town
OF 600 inhabitants, on the Esd, and many
buildings were overturned and some
completely demolished. No lives were
lost. - ) -" a-- '+-....,-~s.
A FIRE ruined tho business portion Of
Greenwood, Miss. on the 2sd, and two
lives were lost.
The Republicans OF the Sixth Indi-
ana district on the 23d nominated State
Senator Henry U. johnson for Con-
gress. 4 ss
TIE Legislature of Ohio On the Esd
enacted . law which requires the officers
Of all State and county institutions to
purchase native stock for consumption.
The law defines native stock to be that
which has benin the State 100 days be-
fore being killed s 3 s
AT San Francisco and netghboring
localities . severe shock Of earthquake
was felt early on the morning Of the
Oath. Plaste ring fell from the walls
and houses were swayed four inches.
RUIN and desolation met theeye on
every side in Pofnte Coupee parish in
Louisiana on the 18th. Not planta-
ton was left above water, not levee
unbroken, while hundreds of families
were homeless and thousands of cattle
had been drowned.
ON the gath DR.. N. E. Paine, superin-
tendent of the State Insane Hospital at
Westboro, Mass, reported that four fe-
male and three male patients suffering
with acute mania were cured by. the re-
cent epidemic of influenza. :
THE Oregon Democrats at their CON
vention in Portland on the gath renomi:
mated Governor Sylvester Pennoyer and
nominated A. R. Miller, Of Jackson
vile, for Congress.
EXTENSIVE quarries Of fine marble, %
oath at lola, Kan. >-. -. -.
THE South Da kota Democrats will
meet in State convention at Aberdeen
on June II.
JERRY TEL and Sim Garrett, who
were in Jail at San Augustine. Tex. on
charge of attempting to poison Colonel
John H. Brooks and family, were
lynched on the oath.
On the playground at school in
Brazil, Ind, Ben Corbery, IL years old,
shot little Cora Brubach on the Gath
because she had told the teacher of his
| misconduct.
MICHAEL LANE, = San Francisco
stone-cutter, shot and killed his wife on
the Gath and then blew out his brains. :
In the lumber yard Of Paine & Co.,
ct Northern I'd Pacific Junction. Mimi, a
fire on the 25th caused loss OF $780,
600. - -. g., . 1 =:
The country around Gainesville,
Tex, was flooded by cloud-bursts on
the 25th to depth of several feet. One
woman was drowned and forty dwell
lings were wrecked. -.-'~:.:. ~ .,..~. :. =.
BY A runaway on the 25th near Lima,
O., Minnie and Gertie Pierce were
killed, and Ella and Will Hawkins and
| Cliff Church received fatal injuries.-
THE wife of DR.. Thomas Hatchard, of
Milwaukee, on the 25th charged him
with having murdered more than
twenty infants ...-
|: IN North and West Texas heavy
rain had on the 25th caused loss Of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Crops
had been ruined and railway bridges
and tracks destroyed.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
A Story of Calamity Jane.

Bushels of chills and fever litera.
ture have been written about Calamity
Jane,'" said Cassius Reynolds, Wyo-
ming ranch owner, "but true story OF
her has never been given to the world.
These stories reflected upon her char.
acter, when, as matter of fact, she
was good and brave woman. l saw
her Q few weeks ago at Rock Springs,
Wyo., where she is now living. Her
name is Jane Steers. She was the best
known person in the West in the '70s.
She carried military messages for Custer
in the Big Horn country, where the
savages we're so thick that white man
dared not enter the basin. She dressed
like a man, always wearing buckskin
suit. She could ride any horse that
ever bucked and never heard Of the
word fear After General Custer was
killed she went to the Black Hills and
was the first white woman to enter
Deadwood. When wild Bill died she
tenderly nursed him. When the Indians
and outlaws were driven away from the
Black Hills she drifted from place
to place and finally located at Rock
Springs. gs."-Chicago Tribune.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
NUMBER As.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-Ninety-fve per cent. Of the inhabi-
tants of New Zealand are professors OF
religion.
Education in Peru is compulsory for
both sexes, and free in the public scools,
yet the most diligent search for definite
statistics is in vain.
Six years ago Alabama appropriated
only $3.50, 900 directly from her treasury.
She now has school fund Of S393, 600,
and an annual appropriation Of 1851, 200
for public schools, $500 for normal
schools and $500 for teachers Institutes.
"A society for missionary work among
the Norwegian Laplanders was formed
in Norway in 1888. The Episcopal Re-
corder says that II has senttwo itinerant
preachers to visit the people in their
huts and tents, and has begun publish.
ing parts of the Bible and other books
in their language,
Africa now has at work within her
borders 10 American, l2 British and 10
continental missionary societies. There
are more than 700 ordained missionaries,
and more than 1900 native preachers. 1t
is estimated that there are, both white
and native, about 175, 900 communicates
and 800, 900 adherents
In the Orange Free State the sys-
tenn of education Is national, not COM
pulsory nor free, except to poor chill
dren. In 1889 there were 40 Government
schools, inclusive of two higher schools,
with 2,1S9 pupils and "A teachers. There
is one good public library and small Ii
braries in several villages. The State
has only 4 papers.
In religion, as we'll as in other mat
ters, 1t is never wise to attempt to be
too wise. What one can not know he
had better not try to know. A quiet
and uncomplaining contentment with
the actual limitations of human knowl-
edge, as fixed by God, is one of the
marks Of true wisdom, and also indis-
pensable to intellectual composure.-.
Independent
The first six months Of the present
year the American Board has appointed
% missionaries, 16 of them ordained, or
to be ordained missionaries. one bus
iness agent for Japan, and 25 women.
OF the IS ordained ones, Ave are grad
yates of Yale Theological Seminary,
four of Chicago, three OF Oberlin, one OF
Andover, one of Hartford sem ,naries,
and two from other ources.-Advance.
The Old Catholic movement is stead
lily gaining strength. 1t numbers to-day
in Holland about thirty priests and
about 5000 adherents, In 1874 there
were in Prussia twenty-seven congrega-
tions. In 1886 they had increased to
thirty-fve, with 1908 souls. In Baden
there were in 1874 only twenty-eight
congregations, now there are thirty
nine, with over $4,000 souls. 1t Is esti-
mated that there are about 10000 Old
Catholics in Germany. In Austria there
has been great deal Of persecution,
| but 1t is estimated that there are now
10, 900 Old Catholics in that country. In
Switzerland the different cantons vary
in the number of congregations, but in
all the different districts there are
believed to be about 10000 Old Catho-
lies, with a clerical staff numbering fif-
ty-seven priests.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15

Do you know the exact location OF the
center of the Union? Never thought
any thing about it probably. Well it is
marked by grave-that Of Major
Ogden, of the United States Army, who
died at Fort Riley, Kas,, in 1855, during
the cholera epidemic of that year. The
remains of the Major were removed to
Fort Leavenwerth and buried in the
National Cemetery there, but his monu-
ment still stands upon little knoll to
the northeast of the fort-Fort Riley
and it lifts its head towards the clouds
in the exact geographical center of tho
United States. Of the thousands Of
men who have been located at Fort
Riley during the past forty years, per-
haps not one in hundred knew or cared
anything about the oddity of his situa-
tion. The post is few miles east OF
junction City, Kas., and was formerly
one of the most important in the United
States.-St. Louis Republic.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
BEDROOM SLIPPERS.
The Materials Required, and How to Make
and Embellish Them.

""u GhiuCiAteh Ahc"s
A skein of Germantown wool, either
in white or some bright or delicate
color, and little white Shetland wool
or knitting silk for the ankle edge, are
the materials required.
With bone crochet needle make a
chain of s stitches. Work, in short
crochet, all around this chain, making
2 stitches in the 4th chain so that there
are Is in the row. Work rows around
this little oval, widening at each end
and at the middle-where the first
widening was make. After these rows,
widen only at the middle until 90 or ~
rows are completed. Now work back
and forth. emitting II stitches---5 on
each side of the middle stich. These 16
rows are crocheted alternately on the
back and the front loops of the work, so
that the stitch may resemble the rest of
the shoe.
Crochet together at the heel; and be-
gin the ankle. This is quite plain, 6
rows in short crochet, missing stitch
at the corners where the II stitches
were lett Ihls narrowing shapes a
slender ankle.
Then work one row of double crvcnet,
for cord or ribbon to be run in. This
row is not narrowed, neither are the
two plain rows of short crochet which
follow it.
Now with the Shetland wool, or the
silk, make row of scsllops, thus: One
short crochet, miss 1, 5 double crochet,
miss 1, short crochet. Repeat.
If silk is used, be careful to fasten il
strongly and leave an inch of the silk
run in at the wrong side of the work. A
crochsted cord, or, still prettier, mar
row white ribbon should be run in
around the ankle and tied in dainty
bow. Home.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
tHE YESTERDAYS OF LIFE.

From out each yesterday OF life,
Ihold we all CLEAN precious store,
Some golden ray, some dazzling beam.
To gild our pathway DER and DER,
And make the heavy burdens less,
That ever round us crowd and press
Thrice dark that day whose setting sun
Descends and leaves no parting CLEAN
Ofpurpling glory there to tinge
The radiance OF its dying beam;
No holy dew distilled and sweet
To cool the path for blistered feet.
Thrice blest the heart that fondly gloats
Each night DER some dear treasure won,
That counts its little store of wealth,
And hugs its blessings one by one;
And boards them with unconscious greed
against the darkening time Of need.
Each yesterday should consecrate
Some loving token, from heart;
Mayhap some tribe lightly held
BY those who careless did their part
To tinge with roseate glow the night,
And wreath each shadow with Gods light.
And when the swiftly gliding hours
Shall all be numbered In their place,
Each treasure bright shall be our own
To hold with sweet undying grace,
Some hours by sweetest incense fed,
Somc days bright marked In letters red.
Helen N. Packard. In Springfield Mass.
'epublican.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
A DARING AERONAUT.
A Journey Through Space Five Miles
Above the Earth.

Above the Earth.
The aeronaut Higgins went up the
other day from Croydon, near London,
on a trapeze attached to his ballon,
meaning to come down by parachute;
but an accident happened to the para
chute In strong current of air, and he
had to cut it loose. This caused the
balloon to shoot up six thousand feet
higher, and on reaching that altitude
he met another current which brought
him back and he saw nothing until he
passed through some sleet and snow.
He could hear the sound of trains, how
ever. All of sudden he found himself
in darkness, caused, he presumed, by
snow and thick atmosphere. He was in
this snow-storm, as near as he could
Judge for at least ten minutes, and when
he had passed through it the sun was
shining beautifully.
Below him he could see what APP
peared to be snowy mountains rising up
and down for miles and miles. He
could see distance of some forty miles,
and was able to discern the sun glisten-
ing on the sea of Brighton. He found
the air getting very sharp and keen,
and long icicles were hanging from his
mustache, and he had no sooner rubbed
them off than others formed. For few
minutes he was quite deaf He now
seemed to be descending on the noun
tains of snow, and he thought be was
getting near Hastings or Brighton, He
could smell the sea. Thinking he was
coming down, he took hold of four OF
his guy ropes and pulled the balloon
partly over on one side to allow some Of
the gas to escape at the mouth.
The balloon then turned round three
times, and he remarked to himself, 81
am descending" He did nothing more
to the balloon, merely sitting on his
trapeze watching for terra firma, which
he did not see for some considerable time
AT length he saw some ploughed fields
When he was about two thousand feet
from the earth he prepared to descend
by hanging by one arm on to his little
trapeze rope as If he were using hi'
parachute, and got safely to earth
thirty miles from where he started. Ht
thinks he got about five miles above the
earth. Yankee Blade.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
WIT AND WISDOM.

If our sins were only as unabtrusive
as the goodness OF others Is obtrusive!
--Atchison Globe
"A woman can be paid no higher COM
pliment than to have her husband spend
all his time with her.
Even when man weighs his words
he often finds they have no weight
.-Yonkers Statesman.
Poverty is no disgrace to the indus
trious, but it is hardly gilt-edge testi-
monial Of ability.-Puck.
"A wise man and a fool understand
each other better than any two wise
men. .-Fliegende Blatter.
Women do have good deal to say,
It is true, but before we are married we
are generally willing to listen to them.
The wisest are the most distrustful
of their wisdom-with the exception OF
Prep. School Seniors rs-Van Dorn's Mag
azine.
The possessors Of kodaks are not the
only persons who depend upon others to
develop their views. Boston Trans
cript.
We never do evil so thoroughly and
heartily as when led to it by an honest,
but perverted because mistaken, con-
science.
The one who has suffered most from
| his own faults is the one who Is best
qualified to give warning word to 9TH
ers.-West Shore.
The preacher who bears down beav-
lest on our neighbors' failings is the
one who will get the largest salary
Milwaukee journal.
The savings of each man are diff
fusive blessing &c all, and therefore, so
far, frugality is thing which all may
and ought to applaud.
Il do not wish to treat friendships
daintily, but with toughest courage.
When they are real, they are not glass
threads or frost work, but the solidest
thing we know.-Emerson.
The peacock is blessed with beauti.
full plumage, and would be thought alto
gether lovely if he could keephis mouth
shut and let the more musical birds dc
the talking-N. o. Picayune.
Never waste time telling people
what lot of gooo things you have done
In the first place, they won't believe
you, and in the second place, they are
waiting for a chance to tell you what Q
lot of good things they have done them
selves.-Somervill journal.
Men who make themselves felt in
the world are conscious Of certain fate
in their constitution which they know
how to use. Few have overheard the
gods or surprised their secrets. Life II
o succession of lessons that must b
lived to be understood. Eliot.
When hero burns his ships, scorn'
. the council of cool, common sense
plucks the flower safely from the nettl'
danger, and ends by winning all empire
In defiance OF all calculation, we ar
ready with our hosannahs. But II h
fails, should we stone him? The hero !
the man who dares to run risk, who i
not deferred because an element OF tn
radically unknown enters into his ealcu
lation. He who risks life and fame W
on an uncertainty -Littell's Livin
] Age.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
WHITE HORSE HILL,
A MonLter Embiematio Figure Made by
One Of the Saxon Kings.

ODe OF the SAXON hlHgB,
About two miles to the north OF Lam.
bourne, in Berkshire, England, is White
Horse Hill, ON the summit of which
there is large Roman entrenchment
called Ellington Castle: A little below
the castle on the steep side of the hill
facing the northwest is the figure of
gigantic white horse, the Dimensions of
which extend over about an acre of
ground. Its head, neck, body and tail
consist of one white line, as does also
each of its four legs. The outlines OF
the monstrous specimen of the genus
equus are formed by cutting trenches in
the chalk, of which the hill is mainly COM
posed, the bitches being two or three feet
in depth and about ten feet wide. The
chalk OF the trench being Of beautiful
white color and the surrounding turf
the greenest Of green, the figure of the
horse can be plainly seen at distance
of twelve miles and even farther, it is
said, if the sun is shining brightly,
A white horse is known to have been
the standard of the Saxons, and some
have supposed that this monster en-.
hlematic figure was made by Hengist,
one of the Saxon Kings. Mr.. Wise, an
author who has written much of the
celebrated white horse of Berkshire,
brings several arguments to prove that
this figure was made under order of
Alfred, during the reign of Ethelred,
his brother, and that the figure is a
monument to victory over the Danes
in the year S71. Other wel!-known
writers are of the opinion that the won
derfnl white horse is natural freak,
one of natures oldest oddities. ASH
mead Burton thinks that the early
tribes noted the outlines of horse on
the hillside and gradually worked it in
to its present graceful symmetry. How
ever this may be, 1t has been custom
since time out OF memory for the neigh
boring peasants to assemble on certain
lay Of each year, usually about mid
summer, to clear away the weeds from
the White II 'rse and to trim the edges
of the trench so as to preserve the color
and shape. This task is known for
miles around as Securing the Horse. 81
A large mound at the foot of White
Horse Hill and almost directly under
the Horse" is called Dragon Hill.
Here, according to tradition, st. George
killed the dragon. On the top of this
mound, or barrow" there is space
about fifty yards square upon which not
aspear Of grass has grown during the
last thousand years. The peasants say
that the grass can not grow on account
Of the ground having been poisoned
with the dragons blood at the time St
George gave him the fatal wound.
Tnuic papnh1io
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
A Good Start.

Merrill-How is the new university OF
your city coming on?
Woolley--oh, splendidly. The base
ball and football grounds are laid out,
the bath house built, and we've secured
seven athletic instructors, We're going
to hire man to teach Latin and his
tory and all that and I expect we'll
open with large class next fall.-West
Shore
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
Some One to Blame.

You say you want a silent partner'"
"Yes."
Cant you attend to the business
alone?'
"Yes, but when any complaint arises
from customers l want some one who
isn't near to lay the blame on. Chicago
Tines
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
An Editorial Episode,

Here's a question" said the Infor'
nation Editor, II can't answer This
man wants to know how long girls
should be courted.'"
"Just the same as short girls" return
cd the Obituary Editor.
And the staff humorist stole the joke
and sold it to the editor-in-chief for ST..
N. Y. Herald.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
A Complete Glye-Away,

Census Taker Ito an old maid)-When
we're you born, MissP
Old Maid--I was born about the time
that Lincoln was sssassinated.
Census Taker Ia little later, to the
mother)-ln what battle did you say
your husband was woundedP
Mother-At Vicksburg, / think.
Old Maid-Why, no, mother, it wasn't,
1t was in the Mexican war. / remem-
Der it as well as can be.-West Shore.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
Collect on Delivery.

Tangle-Here's package of mackerel
just come, Mary, that ordered from the
city.
Mrs. Tangle Why, no, it isn't mack.
erel, Henry, it's cod. Can't you see it's
marked c. o, D.? How stupid of them
To send the wrong kind Of fAhi-Light