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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-05-29
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-05-29
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II troubles the sinner snd troubles the saint
It's troublesome, trying and nasty compia
Ont think IL iacnrahie tell ION II aim.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30

cult to stoop down to properly perform
the act Of grating.
This act of grating, in whatever style
it is done, consists in having the outer
part or bark made to exactly fit each
other, as it is in these parts only that q
junction can be made that will grow.
If the stock and cion are of the same
size, then an exact fit of the two in all
their parts where the cut is made rem
ders the chances of growing much more
certain.
The graft should be made at what is
called the collar, that is, at that part
where the old plant touched the top OF
the soil. Make smooth, even, sloping
cut, say an inch long, upwards on the
collar of the root. In the center of this
cut make a slit or tongue downwards.
The cion, which is of young, vigorous
wood of year old, should be three OF
four inches long. This is cut on the
larger end with a sloping cut down.
wards, and exactly similar in all re-
spects to that made on the stock; slit
or tongue is made in it upwards, CORE
spending also with that on the stock.
They then require to be neatly fitted
together, the tongue of the one within
the other, so that the inner banks come
in perfect contact, as we said before, at
least on one side You then want q
piece of prepared cloth, wrapping firm.
~ around the parts united. What is
called the grating composition is made
with resin, beeswax and tallow, equal
parts. This is heated and the cloth sat,
urated in the material.
The cuts may make the matter plain
err: is the whole plant when finished, 9
the cion, the stock, the slanting cut,
and the tongue.-Prairie Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
DRINKING IN BRITAIN.
The Consumption OF Liquor in the Unite
KINGDOM Surnrisina tn Americans

The Consumption OF Liquor in the United
Kingdom Surprising to Americans.
when first went to England" says
an old traveller, "the amount of liquor
that was drunk by all classes simply
amazed me. was invited to country
house where all the old customs were
maintained. About nine o'clock all the
servants came in, everyone got down
on their knees, and family prayers
were said and a chapter from the Bible
read. 1t was very patriarchal, and
after it was over l expected to get q
candle and go to bed, but what was my
surprise, after the servants filed out,
to hear the hostess ask all the guests
into an adjoining room, where a heavy
supper was spread. had choice of q
dozen different kinds of liquor, and in
a letter home I described this domestic
function as follows: we had family
prayers and then proceeded to get COM
forably full on good liquor In Scot
land the amount of whisky that is con-
sumed makes an Americans hair curl.
Some strict Presbyterians in Glasgow,
to whom / had letters of introduction.
called in return to see me at my hotel.
After some talk I asked them if they
would take some refreshments. Yes,
they would have whisky. So the
waiter brought some strong Scotch
whisky and big glasses that would
hold a half pint. Each man poured out
about what would make an ordinary
glass of beer in this country, tossed in
little water and took it down without
wink. Chicago Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
The Fetish-Man at Homo

Established in reputation, the efforts
of the fetish-man are next directed to-
wards the requirement of a demeanor
calculated to impress his clients with q
sense of awe; he aims at assuming an
appearance at once grave and mystic
rious; he seldom speaks unless profess
sionally, and then. always in gruff,
husky tone. He cultivates meditative
look, and seems as if he were the vic
tim of great mental anxiety. At home
he keeps himself very select and occu-
pies his time principally among his
charms. There is generally some sign
of his calling just outside his hut, tax
ing the form, as rule, of an earthen
vessel, out of the neck of which sprout
long feathers-the pot being colored
with red, white and yellow chalks, and
the orange-like tint derived from
chewed betel-nut, the expectoration of
which substance is supposed to have =
very pacifying influence upon the spir-
itual evil-doer. Sometimes the fetish
mans gesticulations will ba directed to
a carved image or some exaggerated
form of charm. Suspended from the
rafters in the interior of his hut are
little parcels of mystic character,
smoked grimy by the constant fires
these people maintain in their dwell
ings. And outside, over the door, the
same mysterious character of ornamen-
tation proclaims to all the occupant'a
protensions to orcesY.-Centusy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
THE RUM HABIT,
How One Man Found Out He Could Do
without Drink.

How Ono Man Found Out He Could Do
Without Drink.
II read something the other day."
said a jovial fellow who is c!assed among
the good fellows" ''about break
ing Off the drinking habit. l have
been drinking man for q number of
years, drinking as much for the good
fellowship of the thing as for anything
else. And this kind of drinking
want you to understand is the worst
way to drink. My wife is the most
sensible woman in the world. She
never tried to get me to give up the
rum habit, but what she did say to me
was this: Now, Frank, you are very
apt to injure your health if you keep
up this drinking habit. Why don't you
limit yourself to so many drinks day?
OF course, if you were to break off en-
tirely you would feel disguised with
yourself when you really wanted to
drink. But allow yourself so many a
day to go on and use those up as you
see fit OF course my wife is always
right in everything she advises, so I
tried it. allowed myself six drinks q
day. Now, here's the funny part of it.
| was SO afraid that would exhaust
my six and then find that wanted one
that l boarded them up until late in the
day. The result was that frequently
came home with some of my drinks to
my credit. 'Jen,' l said to my wife,
your scheme works beautifully; only
find that my limit is too high. 1 sci.
dom reach it now WELL she said,
try five them No. I answered, I'll
try four I tried four and generally
had something coming to me, so cut
it down to two. Sometimes I do not
take a drink at all. Meanwhile my
wife smiles and tells me that l am a
sensible man, and l begin to believe
her. IN. Y Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
THE FARMING WORLD,
SEEDING APPLES.

The Proper Time for. Grating and How
to Perform tho Operation. =
have q number Of apple trees, some ono
year and some two years old. Should they
be grated. and how should it be done: When
should it be done and what kind of ctons should
be used!
Your Seeding apples are just the age
that nurserymen use for what is called
whip grating on the root. In their
case it is done any time in the winter
when work is slack, when they are
packed in boxes in soil and laid away
in the cellar until planting time. The
work can be done any time before
growth takes place in the spring If
taken from the ground, as they do at
planting time. they are set out and the
part where the junction is formed
placed just below the soil. If your
plants are far enough apart to allow it,
it may be performed where they are
growing, although it is somewhat diff
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30

ed her books and we took frequent
rambles about the mountain together.
l never made love to her, even in sen.
timental way and prided myself on
maintaining very strict and exemplary
relations with her. But what nom
sense! I might have seen it all from
the beginning. But didn't. Not un
til ceased to be SO frequently at the
quarries and only saw the girl on rare
occasions, did see the mischief l had
so stupidity wrought Then it looked
like crime to me.
1.-THE day before was to have been
married resolved to go there and have
frank talk with her and return in the
afternoon with you.
''Her joy at my coming was too in
tense and ill-concealetf to have but one
meaning. 1t confirmed my worst fears.
She loved me desperately.
''We took the favorite path to the
brow of the cliff. She believed that
had come to ask her to he my wife. I
am certain of that. How could en-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30

dure to crush her heart with what
must tell her. could not! l delayed
o! the agonies of remorse that l sui.
fered, as. we walked oJ,--I scarcely
knew where. But at last blurted out:
"'Dessie, I'm going to be married to-
morrow
''She walked on in silence immedi-
ately in front of me. She must have
been utterly dazed and unconscious of
where she was going, for instead of
stopping where the protecting border
or railing of scrubby black jack ceased
she led straight on in the path out
upon the steep roof of the mountain. l
touched her arm to stop her. It
started her as though from sleep. She
turned quickly, missed her footing,
and as she fell caught about my feet.
"After had chung to the edge of the
cliff until 1 should have gladly dropped
if it were not for the terrible conscious
ness that she must fall with me, she
said:
Can you hold on any longer?'
Not much, answered.
"'You must! You must! For YOU
own sake and he rS!''
''Then she deliberately dropped to
save me.
Il told everything to Laura. have
never ceased for moment to love her
singly and supremely; but it has
seemed to me that l belong to the
dead. But no urging has been able to
shake her refusal to release me from
our engagement. She only asks:
DO you love me?'
"And can only reply: 'Supremely.
Then our separation would only
wreck both our lives And you must
remember that she died for me, alse.'
''And SO am saved again by a w',m-
ans love!'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30

explicable. is that there is no pleasure
to be gained from it. The Chinaman,
throwing himself on his bunk, with
pipe and lamp and shell Of ''dope,"
knows that visions of beautiful lands
and comely maidens will soon be his.
The hasheesh-eater knows, after one
experience, that the green paste which
he swallows will fill him with q god
like sense of power, a feeling as though
he could bear the earth ON his shout
ders. But chloroform gives no dreams,
no visions, no mighty strength. 1t
stupehes; that is all. The chloroform
drunkard is slave to his own morbid
ness and no more.-N. Y. Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
A TERRIBLE VICE,

trous Effects.
Chloroform drunkenness is the new
est vice.
It's work is silent but deadly. So in
sidiously does it steal upon it's victim
that he never knows that he is a slave
until he tries to free himself from his
bondage.
Then, too late, he finds that he is in
the hands of a master absolutely resist.
less. His struggles are useless, and
each leaves him weaker than before
and more easy prey to the awful
power that enchains him. He feels the
hopelessness of striving to throw off his
sinks into submissive lethargy from
which there is but one release-death.
Modern science is responsible for
many of the most evil habits. 1t has
made known to ignorant people the
pleasures of the opium-eater's dream:
it has made morphine almost house
hold article, and cocaine very nearly
as common as smelling salts were a
few years ago. But of all the wrecks
left in the path of science, the chloro-
forp drunkard is the most pitiful. The
very lowest and most debased opium
''fiends" may by strong effort of will
break off the habit. Morphine eating
may be cured, as was proved in the
case of western criminal who, after
being a victim of the drug for seven
years, spent five years in Joliet prison.
in good health, although deprived of
the narcotic. But the chloroform
always slave.
The vice is steadily gaining ground.
Once victim of it was regarded by
physicians as curiosity; but now the
books of private reformatory institu-
tions show the extent to which it has
spread.
In an asylum for inebriates on the
Hudson river, not far from Newburg,
there are four persons suffering from
the use of narcotics. One of these is a
physician who, in his experiments, fell
a victim to cocaine. The remaining
three are chloroform- drunkards.
The habit is formed in simple way
In every case the drug is first used for
legitimate purposes. Perhaps a deli
cate surgical operation renders neces-
sary the use of an anasthetic, and
chloroform fills the want. Afterward
the physician, to deaden returning pain.
may again apply the drug. Very~like-
~ he suggests to the patient that the
latter apply the deadly vapor himself
Soon the sufferer is ready to inhale the
producing fumes at the slightest
suggestion of pain. Then he no longer
waits for the excuse of pain, :. but flies
to the chloroform bottle to induce
slumber An Unsuitable craving fills
him. He must have the drug, no mat
at what cost. His days and nights are
spent in the deadly sleep. He no SOON
er RECEIVERS from one stupor than he
plunges himself into another. And then
he is chloroform drunkard.
The most peculiar fact in connection
with the vice, and one that makes it in
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
Beer or Milk for Insomnia.

THE man who had just left me
wanted to know if could cure him of
insomnia" said a well-known New
York doctor HE said he could not
sleep unless he drank bottle of beer
every night just before going to bed.
Now, Ill give you prescription for in
somnia for all the world to read. 1t is
simply this: If you cannot sleep, the
probability is that it is because your
stomach is empty. Get up and eat a
cracker or two and drink glass of
milk, and go back to bed again; then
you will sleep The rule with all the
animal kingdom is to sleep on full
stomach. Man has not yet ceased to be
an animal. Beer is not as good as
milk, but a bite of some light food is
better than either. '-P Pittsburgh Labor
Tribune:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
SUPERSTITION ABOUT STORMS.

Emperors Who Retire to Deep Ca. erns
for Safety.
Caverns were supposed by the r orlans
to be secure places of refuge during
thunderstorms, and they believed that
lightning never penetrated more
than two yards in the earth. Act
ing on this superstition, En-
peror Augustus used to withdraw
into some deep vault of the palace
whenever tempest was feared, and it
is recorded by Suetonius that lie al
| ways wore a skin of seal around his
body as protection against lightning
That both precautions are equally un-
| availing needs scarcely to be men,
| toned.
Lightning has been known to strike
ten feet into the earth; but not even
the marvellous accuracy of modern
science can determine at what distance
from the surface a safe retreat nay he
found from the descending fluid; and
even were this ascertained, the dangers
from ascending electric currents remain
! the same. With regard to seal skins,
we find that the Romans attached so
much faith in them as non-cond;lctors
that tents were made of them, beneath
which the timid used to take refuge.
1t is curious fact that in the neigh.
borhood of Mount Cevennes, in the
Languedoc, where anciently some Ro.
man colonies were known to have ex-
listed, the shepherds cherish similar
superstition respecting the skins of SER
penis. These they carefully collect,
and, having covered their hats withal,
believe themselves secure against the
danger of the storm. NJ Labosyiere is
disposed to see link of interesting
analogy between the legend which yet
fingers in the mind of the peasant of
Cevennes, and the more costly SUPER
stition held in reverence by his Latin
! ancestors.
The emperors of Japan retire into q
deep grotto during the tempests which
rage in Such severity in their latitude;
yet, not satisfied with the profundity of
the excavation, or the strength of the
stones of which it is built, they COM
plete their precautions by having a res
ervoir of water sunk in their retreat.
The water is intended to exting,,ish the
lightning7a measure equally futile,
since many instances have been pre-
served in which the fi:;id has fallen
upon the water with the same destruct-
i've effect as upon land. -Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30

Talks cheap, but when it's
backed up by a pledge of the
hard CASH of a financially re-
sponsible firm, or company, of
worldwide reputation for fair
and honorable dealing, tt
means business !!
Now, there are scores of
sarsaparillas and other blood
purifiers, all cracked up to be
the best, purest, most peculiar
and wonderful, but bear in
mind (for your own sake),
there's only one guaranteed
blood-puriher and remedy for
torpid liver and all diseases
that come from bad blood.
That outstanding solitary
and alone-sold on trial, is
Dr. PlerCe'S Golden Med
ical Discovery.
If it don't do good in skin,
scalp and scrofulous diseases
and pulmonary consumption
is only lung-scrofula- let
its makers know and get your
money back.
Talks cheap, but to back a
poor medicine, or a common
one, by selling it on trial, as
"Golden Medical Discovery "
is sold, would bankrupt the
largest fortune.
Talks cheap, but only "Dis-
covery" is guaranteed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-30
WOMAN AND POULTRY.

Useful Employment for Ladies' In Need of
Outdoor Exercise.
A woman's qualifications for poultry
keeping are evidently of the right kind,
says the Massachusetts, PlOughman.
She has an instructive fitness for caring
for young animals and a gentleness and
evenness of temperament equally valua-
BILE among helpless creatures. The
Danbury mans humorous description of
the different ways in which a woman
and man attempt to get hen into a
coop and the superiority of the formers
method is as funny as it is true. After
the hennery or coop is built there is no
department of the work that woman
cannot perform without exhausting
labor or too heavy demands upon her
time. Down south poultry raising is
woman's special department, and one
need not go farther south than Balti-
more or Washington to find markets
thronged with female vendors of their
own feathered products. That the busi-
ness is profitable the experience of
hundreds testifies, and that it is health
full and may be attractive is susceptible
of demonstration.
Now that there are women gardeners
and florists, who by commendable in
dustry and business qualities have risen
to eminence in those callings, and while
one of the most successful bee-keepers
in the country is a woman, we hope to
see others give poultry more attention
than it has hitherto received. Aside
from profit the keeping of fine poultry
for fancy is an elegant pastime very
popular with the English, and we sec
no reason why the fashion should not
be adopted here. The mother and
daughters, the children upon the farm,
can all help in the good work.
We should be glad to see the lady
poultry-raisers in America largely in
creased in numbers. If those who can
do this thing so easily and so we'll
could be induced to undertake the
agreeable task more generally we are
quite confident they would find intense
pleasure in the pursuit, and we are
sure such a movement among the
wives and daughters of our farmers
would not only render it profitable to
themselves but that poultry interests
in the United States would thus be
greatly advanced, and the results of ef-
forts would be in the highest degree
creditable to lady breeders, who may
now have or should acquire taste for
this pretty employment.
There would be call for women to
get out of doors, which is often want
ing among busy farmers wives, and we
fear this class suffers more from indoor
confinement than do the ma ority of
city-bred ladies.
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was in the habit of conducting parties
of visitors about the mountain. She
was supposed to know its every point
and crevice.
Hardy was well-known to the jury
men and the coroner, and upon the tes-
timony of the two eye witnesses to the
tragedy verdict of accidental death
was rendered..
AS soon as Hardy was partially con-
valescent, my visit ended. Although
his physical condition furnished ample
occasion for the indefinite postpone
ment of their marriage, l was certain
that there were elements other than
health connected with that awful trag-
edy, which were still affecting his rela-
tions with Laura Davis, his future
bride.
Five years later was again sum-
moned to Atlanta to attend the post
poned marriage.
''Sit down." said my friend, sadly;
''sit down and let me tell you all about
that awful Stone mountain affair. I
feel that must tell you"
1t was some moments before he OBJ
tanned sufficient mastery Of himself to
continue.
''Wel, you know I came here with
very fortunate connections, which gave
me welcome into the first families of
Atlanta. My engagement with Laura
Davis was a speedy consequence. I
loved her and her only. She returned
ofR 49,.
sity.
For two years after the beginning
of my engagement, was almost con-
stantly at the quarries. How we'll
remember my first visit to the summit
of the mountain! It was made with a
party of friends under the guidance of
the girl whom you saw die for me, five
years ago. She was bright, clever and
beautiful, but of very humble birth
and, of course, ignorant. But she was
quick and anxious to learn. She inter-
estsd me We b< tame friends. loan