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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-26

Mr.. J. p. Vail. Of Seward. one Of the
solid farmers Of the county. VAS in
Warrington yesterday, and made this
Office u pleasant call. Mr.. Vail has
several flne young horses which he Is
offering for sale. and any one in need
OF the same would do well to call on
him.
We have full line of farm machin-
cry Of all kinds. II you want to have
your seed grain perfectly clean. get \
J. l.. Ovens grain cleaner. II you
want tn put your grain il right. get u
isudlong Disk Harrow. We have them
both.
.Stf AznA FORBES.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-26

Tsx.payers will do wsii;so 1ensnbee
that on the flrst day Of March lhs pen.
atty prescribed By Ian Will A9tach to
all personal taxes unpaid sat thst data.
If your tax IL heavy e1oa o ifls,
don't lot it get any heayies. S ss
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-26

School supplies cheap at
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-26

DR.. Crigler went to Jackson exrly
this week to fuldll engagements in
the line of his profession, and to make
new engagements with those who
need the services OF competent and
reliable dentist, all OF which Dr..
Crigler Is. -,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-26

ron't fail to take advantage Of this
opportunity to buy your boots and
shoes ut less than manufacturers cost
ut the Big Bankrupt Store, next door
to HumistOn' g hardware store. It
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Robert, the Waiter. Is Dead.

On Thirty-ffth street is a little low
browed chophouse; The place seats
but thirty people. The walls are smoked
and dingy and exude odors of 10000 by
gone chops and toasted cheese eptertair-
ments. The paintings crowd each other
on the dirty walls and have that pecul-
iarly indistinct loo4 of the work Of the
old masters.
Yet, forbidding al this would all ap-
pear, this place is NOTED for its choice
morsels and is freqGented by the SWELL
est men about town. Among the familiar
belongings the face of Robert, the single
waiter, is seen no more. Robert is dead.
Robert was a waitef among walters. He
never forgot He knew a thousand Gus
toners by sight. he sized personal tastes
up by a sort of instinct. He wEY never
ELUSIVE, but took your tip grsciously.
Tips? He made srom five to twenty
dollars day, did Robert. He averaged
$500 month and he had a monopoly.
But Robert is dead, good fellow, and
gone where tips are not recognized. He
is not forgotten, however, by any means,
for late in the morning. over your Welsh
rarebit and toby ot ale, you viii hear
many stories OF thd dead waiter whose
face so long seemed ; part Of the place
New York Herald5
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
The Witch Hazels.

The genus hamarnelis or witch hazel is
but a small one, by far the oldest member
Of it being the North American witch
hazel Oh. virginica), which IS both interest
ing and curious, while its japanese rela-
tive, H. arborea, is one of the most beauti-
full of hardy Towering shrubs or small
trees during the early part Of the year,
when the still leafess branches are clothed
with the peculiarly shaped blossoms. The
usual habit Of the japanese variety Is to
form a much branched head, which, view
ed during the sunshine of a bright winters
day, when every twig is studded with its
peculiarly shaped blooms, glows like q
golden cloud The leaves, as implied by
the popular name, are very much ike
those Of the hazel. though there is really
no affinity between the two. The fact that
these witch hazels are by no means gener-
ally found in gardens is to be accounted
for by the fact that their rate of progress,
especially when young, is far from rapid.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

bat OF cast fpOn. HIS cOownnE effort was
agun Of 154neh catibeE. This gun was
less than fifteen feet long and weighed
twenty tons. The weight OF its powder
charge was eighty-fve pounds and of its
shot 40 pounds. Its effective range was
only little over q mile, while that Of tho
Finch Folger gun is over eleven miles.
The FolgeF gun is fired many times be-
fore it is finally accepted as fit for use
(250 rounds was the usual length of life Of
the Dahlgrea and Rodman guns), and it is
fired by electricity ingtead Of In the old
way. The feur S-inch guns which are
mounted ON the crack cruiser Chicago
throw at q single discharge 1909 pounds of
metal, or $50 pounds more than aA entire
broadside of one of the forty-fouR gun
frigates with which Perry and his fellows
fought and wen immortal honorin the war
of 1919.
The firing of one Of these s-inch guns is
a costly operation. The powder at thirty
cents pound costs $3.50 for one round,
and forged steel shell almost $125. The
gun itsek, when completed. represents an
outlay Of $16tS0o In the mounting and
management OF guns on board ship the adj
vance has been almost as great in their
construction. The naval commander of to-
day can fight ,his guns by broadsides or
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
A French Barber's Joke.

Everybody knows that little joke of q
barber at the expense Of a young ely
ceen, who, glowing with pride at the
discovery, fancied or real, of the first ap-
pearance of tender down on his chin,
hurried off to the hairdresser's to get
shaved. The willy Figaro offered him a
chair, placed a napkin around his neck,
covered his face with the fragrant lather
and then walked away to attend to
other business, apparently quite obliv-
iOus of his new customer. Growing i'm
patient, the latter at length exclaimed,
''Well, what are you waiting for:" For
the beard to grow, was the BARRIERS re-
ply.-Le Petit Parisisn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

CRANE FOR NAVAL PROVING GROUND.
sfnglY, as may DO required, directing all
operations from an armed coming tower.
In this tower are buttons which send cleo
trio sparks to esas gan or all the guns OF
the vessel Signal light bulbs at the COM
mandeE,s elbow snow him when the guns
and what guns are loaded. An Sinch gun
requires crew of sixteen men and 61nch
gun crew Of f91Fbeen men for its man
ageme1t Each gun is under the charge
of petty officer and each pair OF gums
constitute a division commanded by g
commissioned officer.
The discipline instituted and maintained
By Commodore Folger in the gun foundry
is almost perfect. He is not as noisy as
Admiral Dahlgxen, who used TO wonk out
results with an abundance Of profanity
that was startling st times, but his infu-
ence is felt in yvery part of the works.
Each Departments is under the direction OF
a competent head, who is held to strict
account for all the work that passes
through his hands, and ip this way a
measure of personal responsibility is eStab-
hshed that inslares perfection in the fin
ished Articles. When visitors come to the
navy yard Commodore Folger, if he is too
busy be show them about in person, gener-
ally turns them over to Lieutenant John
C. Fremont sdn of the Pathfinder, who
displays ala taSS ia of interest. Every
where about the great plant energy and
activity abound, throngs of workmen busy
about lathe, drbll, forge, plane and trip
hammer. One thousand men are now en-
ployed, and this number will be doubled
when machinery now ordered is put in
place.
The building Of heavy ordnance Is not
the only work performed in the navy yard.
Gun carriages, turrets, projectiles, shields
and other equipments are made there, and
Calling guns and secondary batteries also
mounted. At present cannon ten feet
long is being built that Is shot from the
shoulder the same as a rife and discharges
with accuracy twenty shotH a minute.
American ordnance in quantity does not as
yet equal that # other nations, but its
superiority is calculated to make any in
vader pause before attacking Commodore
Folger has good reason to be proud of the
work he has accomplished during the last
five years. RUFUS T. WILSON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

So rapidly and skillfuIy have the equip
ments of the foundry, which covers several
acres Of ground in the navy yard, been in
creased that a 6-inch gun which two years
ago it took six months TO complete can
now be finished in fifty days; an S-inch gun
can be completed in three months, a l0-inch
gun in five months and I2-inch IN about
seven months. One hundred and three
guns have recently been finished at the
foundry and forty-eight are now in process
of construction. / mentioned the weight
of the rough tube Of l2inch gun. Two
of these guns have been built by Commo-
dore Folger, and eight more are under way.
A gun Of this size completed is thirty-six
feet long and weighs foCty-five tons. The
weight of its powder charge Is 4S5 pounds,
and of the projectile it discharges IHst
twice that amount. 1t is capable of doing
destructive work TO an object eleven miles
distant aud of penetrating 261I inches Of
steel at the muzZie. IL Is interesting TO
compare these details with the best work
of Folger's predecessor. Dahlgren. il only
TO see what great advances in gun con
struction have been made Ia thirty years.
The contrast between the Eolger gun OF
1921 and the Dahlgren gun Of 1861 Is as
great as is that between Maud ; and cart
horse. The former is shspely and beauti-
full TO see: the latter. still preserved IN
many OF our forts. clumsy and unwleldy
and closely resembling a huge cucumber
Dahlgren did not build his guns Of steel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

first thing 1 did was 20 have &c aug Up "a
whole length. II was almost fail Of the De
posts from the siops. a most loathsoma
sinking mass about the color Of blue ciag
and the consistency Of new cheese u had
10 be cut Out with shoyels from cad q
end.
A barrel Of slop poured into drain az .
time will generally be less harmful GAAn
pailfHi. because tho larger quantity will
run further before e begins 10 preCi yitatf
the impurities, and will, - a rule. prsclpl
tate less IN the wh0ls course. Dissass
germs come floating back upon the ar =
the half bllcd drain 20 It's head 20 polsoE
whoever has occasion % come near.
have Ia my washrOom q drain for wash
water, bat it Is short. and the overflow a
the eistern rams into IL, or we would nat
use 70 AZ all The water Is carried on % 3
piece Of slopinR grassland. ubsrs IL IL IN
nocuous, but 20 promotiFs Of rapid RrowtE
that the grass u cat several times durius
each season for solliag purposes. Bet 10
greater part n our house slop Is saved IN
pals and carried out on ths lad, watch h
much better way THAI pouring On . maD
ure heap 70 b rehzndied. Once en- tht
land ali there - o. Fsigs Is aypropriatsd
and All that IL noisogps e. nsutralzsd.
as the pals are gllsd they may te set y
the door. uhsrs IL bscsaass the duty u TIE
men 20 sttssd 70 thsTa- A low bsnch snaas
Of two scaatlinas, On 1hleh % turn thf
emptied pals. IL BITTER than pisnk, ~ tht
air is admitted 70 tbs iaFsrtsd pals VIII
excellent eject II tbs men understand
thas Eksn there are a. many - two pals
standing at TIE door IL ia tnefr BUSINESS -
empty theu1, the STOP Duisancs - more 81,
isfsctorily and economically disposed % ~
that than IN any otEgr Haye-San Franz
co ExAulnss.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

thus far been productive of great results,
and as yet it has only fairly commenced.
When the war ended he was still student
at Annapolis, and he did not reach the
rank of ensign until 1859. Now, as he has
for more than year past, he enjoys the
rank and pay Of ccnmodore, and he is the
youngest man whO has eEeF held that rank
In the navy Of the United States. He did
net win his promotion inbattie, but has ad-
vance is nevertheless the result of solid
merit The young ensign Of 1859 had
talent for the construction of ordnance
that amounted almost to genius, and this
explains his rapid, If rotrphenomenal, ad-
vancement.
Thirty years ago Captain Dahlgren Of
the navy and General Rodman Of the
army were the governments great gun,
builders, and the Rodnan and Dahlgren
guns were famous in their time and re-
garded as tFiumphs of the gunmaker's
art Certain it Is that they rendered splen-
did service and aided materially in win
ming the worlds greatest war. But could
Rodman and Dahlgren return and see the
guns their successor is building in the very
foundry that was the theater of their
greatest successes they would be honest
hDu generous o1OuBH 10 CoHfcSS IHdb NC
had surpassed them in every way, and this
despite the fact that the Washington gun
foundry in its remodeled and renovated
form is creation of the last six years.
When it was decided to commence in
earnest the work of rebuilding and re-
arming the navy the gun foundry was one
of the first objects to receive attention.
It was thoroughly oveFhauled. aud under
the direction of Commodore FolgeF fitted
up with new machinery and the work Of
gunbuilding, which was suspended at the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

close of the war, began again. 1t was de-
cided that the manufacture of the guns for
the new navy should be divided between
private foundries and government shops,
the former supplying the forged and tenn
pered parts and the latter finishing the
parts and assembling them. At the out
set no domestic concern could furnish the
forgingS, and the government was COM
PEELED for time to purchase them abroad,
but the Bethlehem and Midvale steel
works in Pennsylvania are making them
now, and it is said are able to supply all
that may be needed in future.
The building of man destroyer at the gun
foundry is novel and in many respects
an interesting process. All of the guns
built by Commodore Folger are steel tubes,
which are first bored out and then
strengthened by having successive steel
jackets shrunk over them. The steel tube
for gun of l2-inch caliber weighs in the
rough ingot between sixty and seventy
tons 1t is reduced by pressure, and its
strength and elasticity carefully tested be-
fore it leaves the steel works. When the
tube reaches the gun foundry it is bored
out, a process which occupies about fort
night, and then its steel jackets are put on.
These jackets are heated before being put
on and then are cooled with water until
they shrink tightly into place. Then the
bore receives its Pifling and the outside of
the gun is polished Finally the trunnion
bands, the breech mechanism and the
sights are put in place and the gun is
finished. In few words this is the method
by which Commodore Folger builds guns
at the Washington foundry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
CoIors of the Season.

White and yellow are two very popular
colors. White Oxford ties of canvas, with
white enameled bands and tan colored
soles, are in vogne for seaside wear, and
with them are WORN fine white isle or bal
briggan stockings.
White felt sailor hats with white or vel
low ribbon bands represent favorite wear.
The same fancy FOR white and yellow is
seen in beach dresses that are.an effective
combination of serge in these two colors.
A color of the season particularly becom-
ing to blends is a grayish tint of blue,
sometimes called Napoleon blue Yellow
is the color note of millinery and yellow
with russell red che of the NEW combine
tions. Red brown-a sort of tfn shades
much worn. and heliotrope IN combina-
ton with green Or tan is attempted by
women with clesE compilations. A new
and peculiar shade of reddish pink has
crept into use lately and is often used in
conjunction with jet and ecrit and even
with gold and brown. The color would
once have been called pale MAGENTA For
years it has beeh daspised by all save
Italian women.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Kissed by a Burglar.

Sentiment and robbery do not go well
together. That is, they are liable to get
the man, animated by mixed emotions, into
trouble. At Valley Station. KY, the house
OF Thomas Owens, well TO do farmer, was
entered by masked burglar, who secured
about thirty dollars in money and several
articles of clothing. The door Of the fam
fly bedroom had not been locked, and the
burglar entered without difficulty. He
carried dark lantern
In leaving the room be looked at the
sleeping ones aud saw the innocent face of
Mrs Owens little daughter. he suddenly
bent over and kissed her on the cheek She
avoke and uttered a loud scream. This
artused her father, who, springing up,
spied the burglar. He was not quick
enough, however, and was knocked sense
less by powerful blow on the head with
the lantern
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

evenings, and there found her, John Ken
drick and Fred King in room, and Sc
ereted about the place the Lethridge sill
verware and great deal more.
The proof was complete, but strange to
say Kendrick swore that he only was guilty;
that King vas only visitor to the room,
ind that bis friend" Bella merely told
him where the silverware was. AS to King,
the allegation may be true, but there are
many other proofs against Bella, and she
and Kendrck are in for long seclusion.
Both the young men belong to very re-
spectacle families in Brooklyn, and it is
limited that Bella's father is a well to do
New Yorker.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

was very great. Scores Of men volunteered
to aid ip the search and several hundred
eagerly watched while the adjacent ponds
and seption of the river were dredged, for
1t seemed TO be taken by common consent
that she had drowned herself. Her lover
was Utmost distracted. According to his
account be called on her after their quarrel
and said
"Clara, you haven't treated me right on
several occasions, and if you care no more
for me than you seem to we had better
quit"
She was proud girl he added, too proud
TO admit that she loved him, and told him
to go. The next day she was often in tears.
That night she visited married sister and
seemed more cheerful. On leaving she
handed fancy hat pin to her friend. Miss
Mollie McGowen, and said, Keep this to
remember me by" She then started home
and that was the last her friends saw of her.
Suicide or foul playa" is the question the
police are trying to solve.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Queer Yarn About Japanese wedlock.

. The Japsaese Prince Yanasi is reported
TO havewritten as follows to an American;
Your marriage laws are loose but don't
think the question is of such grave import
IS the magazines make il out to be. Your
people marry in too much of a hurry. They
mix business principles with their love af-
fairs. In Japsn the principle underlying
our marital relation is that the affection
which makes marriage happy is not the
love which preceded the union, but the re-
spect, esteem and sense of mutual helpful
ness which arise afterward. But this way
of trying to secure good wife by first test
ing her sometimes fails Some men marry
thirty or forty girls in trying to get the
right one. When a wife doesn't suit the
husband be just sends her back TO her
mother with kiss and his blessing. Then
be marries another" The prince probably
said nothing of the sort. The remarks bear
internal evidence of falsity. Yanasi would
never speak of sending girl back with a
kiss" for kissing is not one of the customs
Of Japan. The people there never greet
eQch other with the lips.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
DEcoRATIYE NOTES.
Novelties In PotPOuVri Jars and Scents,
Menus, PAR ted China, Etc


Novelties In Potpoueri Jars and sesntA
Menus, PAR ted China. Etc
Quaint and old fashioned are pcypourri
lara with perforatedt lids for per}uming
drawing rooms and boudoirs A delicious
potpourri is that With the odor OF the wild
rose, delicate and subtle. A favorits scent
is white lilac, and this is most refreshing
when sprayed from q yspoTizer-
Among the daintiesf; OF boudotr writing
table ornaments are the miniature Dresden
china Tampa
10 fashionabl. siyls,eris is the large
Empire bow, which stamped fteelf on
lace and fabrics Of all binds this seaaon. IL
may be large snd IL may be small. b1s IL Is
one OF the last introdrctionA
Ia menus there are some pretty rev
pDss. intended for flower supDers and din
ners. a single rose. tas stalk appSrea-sy
passed through slit N the card, exquis-
itely tinted: few pszsies, tied together
with the Empire bow. smaller flowers scat
tered ever a tinted sutfzoe are Srnoag the
designs- There are sefs Of shree 10 "a de-
signs. such as daisies vioi=ts sad prin-
roses thrown along The top and eus eut-
Some souf3e eases are set into little
stands q crossed strawsy tied together ~
The corners with eolsrsd -sboSn- Tls NIB
bon uauss match ths eelor CO The lamp ard
candle shades
Chamber sets Of psir;ed ehiua n Lquis
XIV styles have the ga| ands and fe9soOns
in silver. These are lpp.sed Groapd tie
wzttsau groups. whifh are sETzzgsd il
panels
silver recertaclss fce letter paper look
sonesh.ng Ike se.osg toast EsckA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Candlestieks Of perforated silver ha
he art shaped vases and lips between straight
CT Cylindrical sticks,



\ very pretty rechsuffe, or warmed mp
dish, is made by warming pieces Of meat In
some GOOD gravy; have ready some crout-
tors cut 20 the size Of the meat slices and
fried, and dish these and ths meat slices al
ternately, pouring the gravy in which IL
wss heated into the center, after it has
besn thickened with little butter and
hoar and favored with squeeze Of lemon
Juice and little hnsly chopped parsley.
Oqtry this: Mash some potato and mix IL
with a couple Of spoonfuls Of cream or new
milk, butter some small plain mods, line
th4m thinly with the mashed potato and
hll-up the centers with a mince Of any cold
me at chopped fine and seasoned with pep
per, salt and some finely chopped calves;
lay piece of butter on each and bake til
the tops are Drowned. then tern them out
and serve with brown sauce round
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Attention has been called to the fact that
idiots without the power of speech could
sing. DR.. Wildermuth, OF Stettin, com
pared $50 idi9uc children with so normal
children in regard TO vocal range, sense Of
harmony and memory for melody; and %
per cent. of the idiots and 50 per cent. Of
the normal cbiliren were classed as music
al in the highest degree, II per cent. OF the
idiots and per cent. Of the normal chill
dren were without musical ability This
remarkable relative development of the
musical sense in idiots is the more striking,
according to The Pedagogical Seminary,
because there is no ienoe Of any other
artistic taste The pr, ctical outcome Of
Wifdermuth's observations is TO empha-
|size the necessity of vocal culture in the
tTaining of IDIOTS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
BRooKLYN'S GIRL THIEF.

Although but Sixteen Years Old, She
Seems Thoroughly DePraved.
Bella Hunt, of Brooklyn, sixteen years
old and quite pretty, is a burglar and
rather proud of the notoriety of it. Her
career has been a lively one, and though
young IN years she is old in the ways of
crooks She seemed to enjoy the trial, in
which she was the principal figure, as
much as any of the spectators, and when
her picture was taken for the rogues'
gallery she was very particular about get
ting good one. In short, Bella is a thor
oughly dapraved sixteen-year-old.
She worked as a servant in the family of
Robert Lethridge, at 157 Keap street. Brook
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Despite warnings and expostulationst two
adventurous Brazilians recently assembled
to the TOP Of the now active volcano Nesu-
wins. They were standing on the crater
edge when thick volume Of smoke en-
veloped them. A fresh chasm opened and
literally swallowed up DR.. Silva Jardim,
while his companion, NJ Mendonca, was
only saved by stiffening himself against the
earth till rescued by the guide. Unfortu-
nate Dr.. Jsrdim was an eminent Brazilian
lawyer and journalist, who had played ar
active part in the recent revolution. He
leaves wife and children in Paris.