The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-28

OF the stage-struck Romeo lad,
And IL YOU ever do succeed
You'll wish you never had.
There isonly one hing mcaner.
And that to have to see,
The name of your ncighbor's numbskull
Finished with an NJ. d.
But all these things, and moro, beside,
We may expect to hear,
Until the numbskull kills us,
And she Romeo says his prayer,
The farmers of Massachusetts, have
put themselves on record AS against
free silver coinage and sub-treasury
idea Of the Southern Alliance.
The U: 3. Fish Commissioner. ). S.
Watkins, recently placed two and a
half million wall-eyed pike in the Min
nesota river. In all, ten million have
been placed between Ft. Smelling and
Mankato.
now adopted some form of the Austria
ltan ballot system. No Southern state,
We believe, except Arkansas, has yet
adopted it. 1t would interfere with
some of the Bourbon methods of neu..
Trailing the colored vote.
The Tyler Journal very truthfully
says: 1.-THE man who lives to see this
country ten years hence will see one of
the mCst prosperous sections in the
state. Nearly every acre of this fertile
prairie will be under cultivation, and
each man who is lucky enough to own
AQuarter section, unencumberPd, " II
he the possessor of property which will
be little fortune in itself.
The Hartford Post calls attention
to the fact that within the last three
months not less than six velvet factor
les have been moved to this country
from abroad under the benihnant OPP
erations of the Mckinley bill This
WILDE Joy ful news to Western farmers,
who are in need of some cheap style Of
tarpaulin to cover their loads of sugar
with, says the Pioneer Press.
"A news dispatch from Mankato.
dated May 25, says that the trains be-
tween Mankato and Wells have found
great difficulty during the past week
in making their daily trips OH account
of the large number Of caterpillars
gathering upon the rails. Saturday
morning the usual freight and passen-
ger trains were brought to stand-
still, and it was found necessary to use
two engines on each train, and at one
place of distance OF two miles it took
over one hour.
"Liehtning rod swindlers are getting
In their spring work." says the Rock
Valley Register, and as aome of them
may get around this way our farmers
can be on their guard. "A fellow
claiming to represent Dubuque firm
persuaded Leonard Wismire, of Monti-
cello, to let him put on some rods, a
certain number of rods to be free and
the balance was to cost IS cents per
foot, and every joint and point to be
counted as twenty feet. The agent
estimated that the rod would cost about
SO. Very shortly crowd Of men came
along and climbed all over Mr.. Wis
mire's buildings. They fairly tied
them down with lightning rods, and
every gable and chimney top brjstled
with glis,ening points. They did their
work and departed. Shortly after.
wards the bulldozer drove up and pre-
sented the contract and a claim for
$500. Mr.. Wismire was astonished
beyond expression. lie fatty refused
to pay the bill, but afterwards COM
promised it for $l25."
The Tribune. of Sibley, Iowa, has
the folio wing in regard to a class OF
leeches that bleed the unsuspecting,
who threaten a raid on the northern
part of Iowa and southern Minne~
sofa. We unite with our Iowa con-
temporary in advertising a little fol
these mercantile guerrillas, who may
swoop down anywhere, and at any
time, upon Us. Patronize your home
merchants, who have both characte,
and responsibility. They are the men
who patronize the farmers, pay them
ready cash for their produce, and
maintain permanent markets for the
common advantage. Our home mer
chants pay taxes, and sustain all home
enterprises, institutions and charities
therefore they ought to he encouraged
and these peripatetic and conscience
less swindlers should be repulsed from
every door they darken. The Tribun,
says: 1.-The swindling> peddlars ar.
taking a new tack at the farmers o.
of the northwest, this year, but as they
retain the ''note'' dodge in lieu of cast
it will only be those farmers who d.
not read the papers who will be duped
The gang of peddlars are quartered al
Sheldon at present. They have shipped
TN car load of '''steel stoves ant
ranges" and they load them ont,
wagons and take them right out to th'
farmers gate. chow him and his wifi,
how nice they operate and in man,
cases go away with q $50 note for So
stove. Our farmer friends can consul