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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-11-29
BULLION BLOCKADE BROKEN

NEW ORLEAN-A Tampico, Mexico special says: The bullion blockade which has been in effect hore for the past month, was broken, and 22,40O bars of silver accumulated here are being exported as rapidly as transpor- tation facilities will permit. This de- lay of bullion shipments was caused by Monterey smelters refusing to pay the government charges of $3 made for assaying every bar exported,
 SNOW STORM.
 DENvER-Contrary to the prophecy of the weather reports that it would be warmer in Colorado today. it turned very cold early this morning and a hurricane prevailed until noon, when it changed and heavy snow began to fall and continued for some hours The storm was SO severe that all tele- grephic communication with the east was cut off for several hours. The storm is general throughout the state.
 THE sPEAKERsHIP.
 CHIcAGo-Democratic members of the Illinois general assembly, who achieved national reputation in their persistent loyalty to General John M. Palmer in the long senatorial contest of last winter. announce that they will leave for Washington on Dec. to assist William M. Springer of Illinois, in his canvass for the speakership Speaker Crafts said today: "We want Springer elected and if the Democratic house allows his leadership we can carry Illinois next year."
 OLD BALDY.
 ONTARIO, Cal-There was light rain in the mountains yesterday but none in the valley. There is snow this morning on Baldy and the Cuca- monga range, the latest that snow appeared on the mountains in six years.
 WILL EXPORT NO WHEAT.
 ST. PETERsBURG-A Russian ukase prohibiting the exporlation of wheat has been issued and will take effect Monday.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-11-29
QUAY SUES.

PITTsBURG - Yesterday afternoon Major E. A, Monteeth, counsel for s. M. Quay; entered civil suit for libel against the Pittsburg Post. The dam ages are laid at $lOO,OOO. This action was threatened several weeks ago, when the editors and proprietor of the Post were arrested on charge of criminal libel for publishing the Bardsley Certificate of deposit, and commenting editorially theron.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-11-29
EARTHQUAKE.

ECh1uQUAAEs
 NEW YoRK-News from Japan re- rorts the greatest earthquake Tn the history of that country since 1885. It is estimated that 10000 buildings were destroyed and 10000 people killed. The worst shock was felt in the pro vinces of Achie and Tifu. 4000 peo. pie are dead and 2OOO houses destroy. ed. News from the interior has not been received, but it is feared the loss will be tremendous,
 A BLIZZARD.
 NEW YORK; terrible wind and rain storm is approaching thIs state. A dispatch from Baltimore states that a waterspout struck Washington, killing six persons. All trains are stopped and telegraphic communlca. tion, except south is suspended,
 CANNOT DRAW.
 SAN FRANCIsCoAThe judges of the supreme court of this state are not able to draw their salaries for the months of August. September and October, owing to the recently enacted law withholding their compensation where any cases are undecided, for ninety days. A larger number of cases are in their hands than ever before, and this incentive to haste has proved A. flat failure.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
A CATS WHISPERS.
They Seem Ornamental, But They
Decidedly Useful.

They Seem Ornamental, But They Are
Decidedly Useful.
Nature is an economical dame, and
never INDUCES in useless gifts. If she
gives an animal or plant an appendage
of any kind, we may be sure that it
serves some wise purpose.
Take cats whiskers, for instance,
which may seem to you to be merely
ornamental. They are organs of touch,
attached to a bed of fine glands under
the skin, and each of these long hairs
is connected with the nerves of the lip
The slightest contact of these whiskers
with any surrounding object is thus
felt most distinctly by the animal, al
though the hairs them selves are insen-
sible.
They stand out on one side Of the
lion as well as the common cat. From
point to point they are equal to the
width of the animals body.
If we imagine, therefore, a lion steal.
ing through a covert of wood in an i'm
perfect light, we shall at once see the
use of these long hairs. They Indicate
to him through the incest feeling any
obstacle which may present itself to
the passage of his body; they prevent
the rustling of boughs and leaves,
which would give warning to his prey
if he were to attempt to pass too close
to a bush; and thus, in conjunction
with the soft cushions of his feet and
the fur upon which he treads-the
claws never coming into contact with
the ground they enable him to move
tow ard his victim with a stiffness equal
to that of snake.-South Boston
News
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
LIGHT INDULGENCE.
Tho Danger Incurred by the Man Who
Drinks MOderately,"

The Danger Incurred by the Man Who
Drinks Moderately"
You may talk to many, perhaps most.
moderate drinkers about the danger
they incur, and your talk will be
wasted. They are bomb-proof against
all that kind of thing. But show such
man that, whether he ever INDUCES
to the point of inebriety or not, the
baleful effects are almost certain to be
visited upon his offspring, and you
strike him, unless he is all brute, where
he has no armOr to turn the blow. A
man may be strong in will-power,
strong in physical constitution, able to
drink and able to stop without making
a fool of himself-but aoAat Of his child?
The voice of science answers that his
child will almost inevitably start on the
race Of life handicapped because of his
fathers ''moderate' drinking Handi-
capped in his will, which is weaker;
handicapped in his nerves, which are
less controllable: handicapped in his
constitution, which is less impervious
to the shafts of disease-handicapp
altogether too likely, in an organism
wrecked before he was born by that
strong-willed, confident father of his,
who ought to be his best friend, and
who has been the worst enemy the
devil himself could devise for him. 1t
is not the temperance ''fanatic' who
says this, but the voice of science.-The
Voice
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
NATURE AeHORS RUM.

Sick Monkey Who Refused to Drink
Brandy.
One by one the fictions of the alcohol
sophists are being exploded by the
progress of science. 1t has been con-
clusively demonstrated that alcohol 10
neither food nor a remedy, and with
out value even for the production Of
organic heat. One alleged instructive
prediction of rum-drinking animals
might in nearly every case be traced to
the effects of perverse training. About
the middle of last January a ship from
the west coast of Sumatra reached the
harbor of Amsterdam, and the reports
of the crew caused lively competition
for the guardianship of one of her
passengers, young Siamang ape, that
equalled any chimpanzee in its pre-
cocity of intelligence. The little exile
was temporarily intrusted to a pet
dealer, who one morning found him
moaning in the agony of an affection
characterized by various symptoms of
pneumonia. and seems to have
exhausted every stratage1n to make his
guest swallow dose of medicated
brandy. An intelligent veterinary sur
geon opposed the plan of his colleagues
who proposed to put the persistent
abstainer under the influence of an
anesthetic, and before the doctors could
agree his patient managed to recover
and consented to wash down a frugal
breakfast with temperance drinks
The Voice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16

to the tory party, owns 534 drink shops
in three counties; another firm owns
257 in Bristol alone; one man owns 159
in Birmingham, and another firm 14s in
Liverpool. Two brewers own 500 such
places in the county of Norfolk. In
short, the brewing and distilling trades
are now in the hands of great wealthy
bodies, which spread their tentacles in
the form of licensed houses all over the
land.
1t is peculiarly interesting to note
the close connection between the drink
interest and the house of lords. In
deed. it is quite usual now to speak Of
the peerage humorously Us the beer
age" You may be surprised to learn
that the prime minister is drink-
seller Lord Salisbury owns four
drink shops on the Strand, and it is
needless to say that, if the county coun-
Gil had extinguished these under MIR.
Goschen's scheme, Lord Salisbury
would have received big sum as COM
pensation-a striking comment on the
absolute lack of moral feeling which is,
perhaps, Lord Salisbury's chief char
1CCciloVIC. AOIu DeTDy OWNS seventy
two drink shops, the duke of Bedford
fifty. In one small Derbyshire town
the duke of Rutland owns twenty and
the duke of Devonshire twelve. Lord
Harrington, the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
duke of Westminster, Lord Seton, the
duke of Portland, that young rip and
gambler Lord Dudley, Lord Portman,
Lord Fitzwilliam. and many other peers
are all drink-sellers. Railway COM
panies and ecclesiastical trusts also
figure largely as owners of this class of
property.-N. Y. Commercial Adver-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
HerOism of a Child.

In the Bodleian library at Oxford is
a most touching record of heroism and
self-sacrifice on the part of child. The
lower door of st. Leonards church,
Bridgeworth, was left open, and two
young boys, wandering in, were tempt
ed to mount to the upper part, and
scramble from beam to beam. All at
once a joist gave way. The beam on
which they were standing became dis
placed. The elder had just time to
grasp it when falling, while the young
er, slipping over his body, caught hold
of his comrades legs In this fearful
position the poor lads hung, crying
vainly for help, for no one was near.
At length the boy clinging to the beam
became exhausted. He could no longer
support the double weight. He called
out to the lad below that they were both
done for. could you save yourselfif
were to loose you," replied the younger
lad II think l could" returned the
elder. "Then good-by, and God bless
your said the little fellow, loosing his
hold. Another second and he was
dashed to pieces on the stone floor be-
low. His companion clambered to
place of safety.-Chatterbox
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
m THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

An ingenious method Of applying
drugs hypodermically to tho human
body In which electricity is brought
to bear is receiving considerable atten.
ton.
AS Howard Hall was starting IN
electric motor in Bridgeport, Ct. q few
lays ago, "a bright blaze shot out from
tho dynamo and burned his mustache
off,"
"A telegraph operator in Cheyenne,
Wy, has invented an electric machine,
70 be applied to street cars, for indicat,
Ing the number of business houses and
tho names of streets while the car is in
motion.
"A new feature adopted for the light,
ing Of the new hotel at Tampa, Fla, il
the use of incandescent carbons, BY
which the light can be turned down din
1t desired in sick room, or for othe,
purposes. This is the first hotel in the
world lighted in this manner. The new
discovery has been used in some In
stances for footlights of opera-houses
There will be 1900 lights in all.
The Bell telephone patent monop
oily in England has expired. The paten,
there was granted for fourteen years
Cheap telephones will now prevail in
England the same as in Germany, where
Bell failed to obtain patent In thi,
country tho Bell patent will expire
March, Z, 1898, having been originally
ov,+A1
seventeen years.-Scientific American.
Prof. w. C. Webster, F. G. s., o.
England, claims to have reduced tn,
process Of electrical disintegratio1
or destruction of sewerage tx
commercial by economical basis
He has . ,st given figures in {
paper showing that ], 1000, 600 gallons TO,
"a hours en- be destroyed at a cost O.
$4,000 pr annum, with S7-horst
power motor. he failed by his process,
to produce any residuum that was o.
commercial value.
1t Is learned that the Thomson
Houston Company of Lynn have been
making experiments in operating cleo
trio street cars in that city with anna
lures wound on the car axles, with salts
factory results. If this method of ca,
propulsion can be made practicable. 4
will dispense altogether with gearing
Of all kinds between motor and axle
and do away with that grating, grind
ing noise which is tho only really oh
jectionable feature of electric cars.
1T seems not unlikely that electrici
ty will be applied to smelling furnace,
In the near future. An electrical fur
mace has been patented in England
which is said to have given excellent re
suits in the series Of tests to which i
has been subjected. The electrodes ar,
blocks of q carbon secured in meta
cases, and placed opposite to each 9th
er in the walls of the furnace. Tn,
metal cases containing the carbons ar,
kept cool by circulating water arouns
them, and the carbons themselves ar,
capable of automatic adjustment to com
pensate for wear.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
1HE FARMING WORLD.
WOODEN WATER PIPES.

An Interesting Article on = Topic Of
Great Importance.
Some weeks since a correspondent
asked for information in regard to the
durability of wooden pipes for conduct
ing water underground. In the sum-
mer of 1873 my father laid common
pump logs, made of white pine, to con-
duct water from the bottom of cistern
to a trough in a yard below. A stop
cock was placed at the end in the cis-
tern and operated by a rcd running to
the top. In this way the lower end of
the pipe, being left open, was exposed
to the air, and several lengths next the
trough had to be replaced several times;
but four or five rods from the end,
where the pipe was buried about four
feet deep, it was found in the summer
OF 1880 Tor after sixteen years., to be
perfectly sound. At this point we at
tached galvanized iron pipe to conduct
water into the basement of the new
barn which stands near. Ihave not the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
How to Manure for Onions.

AS to manures, onions are great feed
ers and like something to select from.
l advise applying at least ten cords of
barnyard manure per acre, or it's equiv
alent. Farmers in the vicinity of Bos-
ton use twenty cords of stable manure,
but think it better to use half the
quantity of manure, and the other half
in commercial fertilizers, or, cheaper
yet, to use all fertilizer. The latter
can be applied at any period of growth,
but there is danger from using phos-
phate continuously. In Bermuda the
onion growers use part sea manure and
part commercial fertilizers. One of my
neighbors uses ten cords of a mixture
of barnyard manure, sea manure and
night soil, very concentrated manure,
probably equal to double the quantity
of ordinary barnyard manure. rec
ommend the application of three hun
dred pounds of nitrate of soda per acre
just as the crop begins to bottom; or, if
the crop looks feeble, complete fer
tilizer may be used. In all farming a
good deal of manure seems to be misap-
piled, and suggest the use of less
manure and more of commercial fertil-
izer.-J. ). H. Gregory, in Farm and
Home
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST.

The man who can drink whisky
whole lifetime without being hurt by
it is very apt to not be mucn account
for anything else.-Ram's Horn.
WITH five hundred physicians, total
abstainers, who are members of the
British Medical Temperance associa.
ton, it is claimed that Great Britain
now leads the world in organized effort
to effect medical temperance reform.
THERE was spent for liquors of vari.
GUS kinds in Great Britain last year a
sum representing one-twelfth of the in.
come of the inhabitants of the king.
dom, or about fourteen times as much
as was contributed for the purpose OF
sending Bibles to the heather.
The saloon is a very profita BILE bust.
Dess-to the undertaken 1t is true he
does not get much for burying the vic.
Tins of the liquor traffic, but he does q
wholesale business and charges what
the ''traffic will bear. "-Western Rural
The earl of Derby has the question.
able distinction of owning more drink.
ing places than any other English peer
He has seventy-two of the places to his
credit or discredit, while the next
largest owner is the earl of Bedford
with forty-eight grog-shops. The duke
of Devonshire is but one behind Bed.
ford, and so it goes through list OF
one hundred and fifty-two peers, who
own 1899 places where liquor is sold
and drank all in ''darkest England
AN inventive western citizen has
elaborated a new plan for stopping
drunkenness. His idea is to establish a
state inebriate asylum and compel those
who make and sell liquor to pay for its
maintenance. He would tax the dis
tiller $1,000, the wholesaler $500 and
the retailer 500 a year in its behalf.
Then he would treat drunkenness as
insanity, and confine all drunkards in
the asylum until they are permanently
cured.-Toledo Blade.
The circulation is through two sets
of blood vessels-arteries and veins
both obtaining their motiye power from
the heart acting as force pump. Alco-
hol increases the pulsations, and, as the
blood is sent from the heart to the ex-
tremities faster than the veins can take
it up again to return it, congestion re-
suits, and the nose, being a remote por-
ton of the circulation, reddens and
finally becomes diseased. This, how.
ever, is not different from other organs
of the body; all are congested and SINH
larly diseased by the use of alcohol. -
st. Louis Republic.
Young men are learning the every
day commercial value of Temperance.
The ''good-fellow" man is he who stays
at the ladders foot, and his comrades
profit by that object lesson. In no
walk of life are the higher paths open
as they were, not so very long ago, tc
the man who drinks. Business men.
professional men, look upon an en-
ploye's convivial habits as menace to
themselves! What once found ready
excuse now suffers not even liberation.
That is the plain lesson of the times,
And that is the reason common sense is
every day forwarding the cause 6f
practical temperance.-KaiEss City
Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
Enehsnsoss f1.,nSifl

Fdshio'a's tauorits
fad, centers in that famous, fascina-
ting game-lawn tennis.
But there are women who cannot
engage in amy pastime. They are
delicate, feeble and easily exhausted.
They are sufferers from weaknesses
and disorders peculiar to females,
which are accompanied by sallow
complexions, expressionless eyes and
haggard looks.
For overworked, "worn out"
"run down." debilitated teachers,
milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing
mothers, and feeble women gen
orally, DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription is the greatest earthly
boon, being unequaled as an appe-
tizing cordial and restorative tonic.
It's the only medicine for women,
sold by druggists, ueder a positivs
guarantee from the makers, of sat-
isfaction in every case, or money re-
funded. This guarantee has been
faithfully carried out for years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
LOVERS WALKS.

"a. once liked not lovers walks-
= Nor warderings by the hill
When star to star at midnight talks,
And all the world is still!
Laughed At all romantic souls
That hast In rapture stood;
hated strolls-those moonlight strolls-
And always thought should
vowed by all the world ser knew
OF beautiful and bright,
No love on earth should tempt me to
rambling walk by night
But ah-cne's mind can little guess
To what ones heart is born;
Who thought o monitor even less
Would lind me so foresworn!
But when loved not star-nor moon
Nor wnnderings through the glen
My song OF life was out Of tune,
knew not romance. then!
Now would rather roam till light
Bloom'd DER the morn's sweet breast:
Than ever breathe those words, Good night
Or ever think Of rest.
N Y Ledger
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16

piping to get a valve with float, etc., at
the plumbers; but when I found the
price was Sc. concluded either to make
one myself or get along without the
luxury. l took common stop-cock
and made a lever of three-eighth-inch
iron to fit it, and stapled the end to a
block of pine eight inches square and
about a foot long. This arrangement
has been in use nearly year, has al
ways kept the trough full, and has not
been touched. OF course, the cattle
had to be fenced away from the end of
the trough containing the valve. A
fence is built around the trough so that
the cattle cannot get into or foul the
water, but have to put their heads
under two-by-six-inch plank to reach
it. See Fig. Cor. Rural New Yorker.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
HOMEMADE "FLOAr."

least fear that the wooden pipe will not
last as long as the iron. 1t is laid in
heavy yellow clay; possibly in sandy
or gravelly soil enough air might reach
it to cause decay.
A description of our waterworks
may interest some of your readers.
The water is first pumped from a well
into large cistern by means of a wind
mill. The cistern is located on the hill
side above the barn, so that the water
is conducted into the basement, but,
unfortunately, not high enough to en-
able it to rise above the floor of the
horse-stable except when the cistern is
full. We have common pitcher pump
to raise the water for the horses. In
the covered yard or "cows' bedroom"
there is large trough with se]f-act-
ing valve which always keeps the
trough full. have attempted to show
the arrangement in the sketch, Fig. 1.
l intended when we first put in the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16

A local photographer tells story Of
young man who came into the studio
one day and asked nervously if he
might have little conversation with
him. The visitor was painfully W ly,
and after some awkward blushing and
indefinite illusions he asked the artist
if he supposed he had among his SAM
pies a picture of any young man who
looked like him, but was better looking.
''What do you mean, young man?"
asked the photographer. 'Well," re-
piled he, making a clean breast of it,
II am just engaged to be married. The
young lady lives out west. She is going
home tomorrow. She says she thinks
I'm so good she doesn't mind my being
homely, but she wants good-looking
picture to take home with her to show
the girls. boston Traveller
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
The Best IL Mono Too Good.

No breeder or farmer should believe
or accept as fact that any breed of
swine or any individual animal is per-
feet, says the National Stockman. The
force or strength of the meaning of the
word Thoroughbred increases with
the improvement of the quality of the
animals No one realizes the worth Of
the adage that 1.-The best is none too
good" with more force than the true
fancier and breeder. He is always look
ing for his ideal higher type and when
found will pay fabulous sums for Ii