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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

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Two heavily laden carts spproseh
ench other on the same track.
| Az the space between the two dimin'
Fished each driver Degsn n,skiny mo-
lions to tho other 70 get Of the track,
15til 1n.Hrthe heads Of FhS two: re
1-.t5asD Tsss;- EsitGes5 zSS sSF
'' "why DON'T you ,t turn III an let m.
by" shouted one. m.~z
ssssYou arss the one "a ttuain,f "a 81. !" ysned
the other. Il have tho right Of way"
.'RfTht : sid The hrst, my load 10
twict q heavy Is your.n.
Come OF! Your old break-down
| cart wouldn't hold bslf .as much -
wouldn't, Ell? Why. that nag Of
yours couldn't begin 70 pub + decent
Load II .xHl sisa' .:C.+.az:. ::SEo e
..x Yorrs !. nnth.,r' 1z&<sE:s ca 1~~~~z
cit out ofmy way r FIJI smash your
rotten team in bit" 80 % ~ 5.1U~ks
Move Of that track or III drive my
team al over your old, travs9iag *hospi-
tal."
shut np. 9. I'll a. d4s I. Ell
''Herel Here! Youse 1eIlers 1it o1aen
that track an let this car 81 sahouAed
one of tho finest. Go on now, OF Ill
run yez both in. -
The two drivers pulled OF the track,
all the time gazing rherceiy st cash
other and as the car passed, ono yell.
ed: = = - - S:FS "a = 80
IF it hadn't bin fer. that ear I'd run
all over your nag an breakdown :.
III the car hadn't cum rdssmashed
your old box Of bones up an 90
BAH"
| "Baw!''
"Rats!' !
'ChestnutA!' -
"Git up, Samv'
'Uee Bill!"-Phil.delphis Press
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

THE oldest diary in the world accord
ing to a japanese paper, is that of the
Hozaka family, landed proprietors in
the province of Koschin. The diary
IDS been conscientiously kept by the
various heads Of the family for more
than three centuries.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
A BARREN PLATEAU.

An Asiatio 1sbleland Ovez Two Miles
Above the Sea.
It is not often that we are led to think
how thin the shell of air in which we
live really is, and how close above our
heads lie the borders of the vast ABYSS
of space in which if we ventured w,
should perish like fish thrown out OF
water.
It is true that when we climb a lofty
mountain we are impressed by the COM
parative ifelessness of it's peaks, but
then one naturally expects an effect Of
that kind from the barren aspect of all
rocky eminenccs. 1t is different with a
high, broad tableland, covered with
soil, and lying in full sunshine above
many of the clouds that darken the
lower earth. In such q land, we are
apt to think, it must be very pleasant
to dwell.
But, as q matter of fact, these ele-
waited regions present most convincing
proofs of the life-destroying effects Of
the thinness of the air at q height of
two or three miles above the general
surface of the earth. One of the best
instances of this has been brought to
light through the explorations of trav-
elers on the great Asiatic tableland on
which the oriental imagination has be-
slowed such names as 1.-The Roof of the
World" and 1.-The Hallway House to
Heaven"
Marco Polo was informed, and many
people since his time have believed, that
this table!and. whose area may be
about three times that of the state of
Massachusetts,, was a brilliant land Of
sunshine and rich pastures
But recent travellers who have as
cended to it, and crossed it, inform us
that the plateau, whose mean elevation
above the sea is not less than twelve
thousand feet, is q barren waste, rough
encd with hills and mountains which
are coated with ice. swept and pinched
by bitter W inds and frosts, and so lack
ing in the ability, to support even the
harder forms of vegetable life that it
cannot feed the caravans that cross it.
It possesses some isolated GASES where
life clings to the soil.
This barren condition of the pleateau
is owing to the fact tina. it lies about
two miles and half above sea level
What striking sense of the closeness
of our con finement to the surface Of the
earth is furuishc by fact like that
Youths Companion.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

LEPRosY is increasing at an alarm
ing rate in Spain. From Alcanta it is
reported that several villages are af-
flicted with the Terrible malady. In
Benidorm there are eight families,
every member OF which is leper At
Gaia the number of lepers is so great
that hospital is to he built for them,
and at other points the plague is in
creasing in a frightful manner and the
doctors are unable to cope with it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Catsrrh Cannot He Cured

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, a. they cannot
reach the seato the disease. Catarrh IL .
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to euro it you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces Halls Catarrh Cure iB.not Quack
medicine. It was prescribed by one OF the
best physicians in this country for years,
and 10 . regular prescription. 1t 10 COM
posed Of the best tonics known, combtued
with the best blood purifiers, actiDg direct
ly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
r. ]. CHENEY L. Co.. Propa, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, price Is centA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

LAST year s5s persons died in Russia
between the ages of 100 and los, 1870 be-
tween us and 100, while three were re-
ported to the authorities as having
died after living to be $50 years or more
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

Our minister to Russia, Charles
Emory Smith, says that all of Amer
ica's gifts to help needy Russians will
be faithfully applied through trust
worthy agencies. The relief move
ments in America are, he says, greatly
appreciated at st. Petersburg.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

In Vienna there is club of rich men
who are pledged to marry poor girls
Whether they are actuated by spasm
of lofty virtue or feel that they must
throw in some inducement in order to
get wife does not appear.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

THERE are more baby girls than boy
babies. The proportion of female
births to male births is as one hundred
to ninety. So that between two mil
lion and three million more girls are
born in the world each year than boys.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
A Million for Somebodv.

WASHINGTON, March THE bureau
of the American republics is informed
that the legislature of British Guiana
has placed 81, 600, 900 at the disposal of
the government of that colony as q
subsidy to secure the construction of q
line of railway from Demera river to
the Essequibe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
MINISTER MONTT RESIGNS.

Report That Egan Will Return to the
United States in April.
VALPARAISO, March 5.-Minister Pc
dro Mont has cab ed from Washington
his resignation of his post on account
of his election as a deputy for Petorca,
in the province of Aconcagua Petorca
is about IS miles northeast of Valpar-
also. The CHILEAN government will prob
ably ask him to retain his post until
his successor has been appointed. 1t
is stated on good authority that Minis
ter Egan will probably return to the
United States in April.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

AMERICAN colleges are every yea,
adding largely to their libraries.
Harvard has 365,0o0 volumes; Yale,
$1,000; Cornell, $50, 900: Colum bia, co..
900; Syracuse, $4,000; Dartmouth. g.
600: Princeton g. 600
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

AN exchange says that a young lady
of Washington ''plays the piano with
her toes as we'll as many pianists play
with their fingers" We should think
she might-and no great credit to her
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Pesfecf Paana.

WASHINGTON, March IAN official
:ablegram contains the information
that the national assembly of Gaute-
nala has opened its ordinary sessions
md that complete peace prevails
throughout the republic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

PERHAPS somebody will rise up soon
and declare that eating is disease 1t
will take something more powerful
than double bichloride of gold to cure
the American people of the epidemic
of consuming three meals day.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Killed bv a Iandsli,le,

BERLIN, March ~ landslide oc-
Cured at Besigheim Friday, the mass
falling upon an express train from this
city that was passing at the time. The
train was wrecked and three persons
on board were killed, number of 9th.
ers being injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

ONE-rH1RD of the meat sold in Paris
is the flesh of horses and mules. When
the American hog gets fairly acquaint-
ed with the French capital he will re-
form present arrangements
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

1T is disheartening to learn there are
several million barrels of oatmeal in
this country that must be eaten as soon
as possible in order to meet existing
emergencies
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
BURIED UNDER THE DEBRIS.

Five Workmen In the Niagara Falls Hy-
draulic Tunnel Missing.
LoCKpoHT, N. Y, March 5.-Five
men have been missing ~since the re-
cent accident in the Niagara falls n.y.
draulic tunnel, and their bodies are
of them is Charles Deggs, negro, and
the others are said to be Italians and
Hungarians 1t will be several DAYS
before the part where the bodies of the
five worlSmep are supposed to be
buried is reached.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
MINNESO STATE NEWS
Betrayed By = Relative.

8 A mother, but no vile, betrayed BY
= relative. deserted y her kindred, no
home and poverty stricken. Such ii
the story of pretty little Jessie Coss.
back, aged 16 years She arrived in
Minneapolis six months ago, and in q
short time gave birth to . son at the
northwestern hospital. Her father,
who lives in the city, cast her of. The
humane society found her q good home
with Mr.. and Mrs Francis Hoffman.
The little woman maintains that her
uncle is the father of the child and
that he forced her to succumb to his
wishes by threats.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

THE last language into which the
New Testament has been translated is
the Motu language of New Guinea, the
latest tribe to become English subjects
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Death of a Pioneer.

Hon. Horace E. Barron, pioneer
and one of the most prominent men of
Faribault, and :~ell-known throughout
the northwest, died suddenly of heart
failure, aged 66 years He had been
steward of the state school for the
deaf, the blind and the feeble minded
in Faribau for twelve years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

A CLAN may not be able to deliver an ora
ton, but he has his good qualities-he never
betrays the confidence of friend. - BinR-
hamton Republican.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Road ais own OBITUARY oft.n.

Rev. Elijah w. Merrill died recently
In Minneapolis. When little more than
an infant it was supposed that he had
died and he was laid out for burial.
Before the funeral signs of life were
discovered and he was revived. A few
years ago he was reported as drowned
while crossing the Mississippi and
several memorial sermons were
preached, including one at Albion col.
lege. Michigan, where he had been a
professor. Mr.. Merrill survived to read
reports of these.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Lost $500, 900 In tho Mall

Two hundred thousand dollars worth
OF mortgages and notes have been lost
in the mails between Minneapolis and
Superior The package containing
the valuable documents was shipped
from Minneapolis January II, though
the discovery of the loss was only
made the other day. The papers
were shipped from the Office Of
w. w. Townsend, wealthy Min
neapolis capitalist, and he is conf.
dent that the package was put in the
Minneapolis post office.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Sugar BOuntles. j..

WASHINGTON, March ga statement
prepared by the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue in regard to sugar bounty
shows that 1888 claims for bounty
amounting to SIS, 914, 654, have been re-
ceived, and that 9s5 claims, amounting
to s. 952, O20, have been paid.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
EDWARDS .PlERREPONT DEAD.

Grants Attorney General Expires at lIii
Home In New York-His Career.
New YORK, March 7.-Edwards Pierre
pont died at $50 o'clock Saturday
morning at his home, les Fifth avenue
after an illness of four days. During
the last two years and half he has
Leen an invalid and had suffered con.
siderab]y during that time from nerv.
Gus prostration.
Edwards Pierrepont was born in NORTH
Haven, Conn, March 4, 1914. He entered Yale
college and was graduated with the clas:
Of 1887 with high honor. Immediately
after graduation he began to practice law
at Columbus, O., with P. c. Wilcox
where he continued until + 1876, wher
he came to New York. Upon the death o.
Chief Justice G. Oakley he was elected a judge
OF the superior court. He was active in organ
izing @he union defense committee, among
the other members of which were Johr
A. Dix, Hamilton Fish, A. T. Stewart
and many other prominent citizens. He
was appointed United States minister tc
Russia in 1879, but declined the honor, andsi1
April, 1873, he was appointed attorney general
Of the United States and remained in Gen
Grants cabinet until May, 1885, when he was
appointed United States minister to England
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

Mr.. J. B. Esr1LL, President Morning
News Co., Savannah, Ca, says: A member
Of my family who has been a martyr to
neuralgia headaches for twenty years, has
found in Bradycrotne nm infall1ble remedy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
"A Mount Pleasant Ftnancter Departs in q
Very Mysterious Manner.

Very Mysterious Manner.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, March T.
Hugo Kali, president and owner of the
Slavinsky bank AMI general steamship
agent, is missing. The Slavs and
Huns of this region have been de-
posting their savings with HIM, and
he is said to have $1,000 of their
money in his possession. When the
announcement was made that Kali
was not in town crowd of angry
foreigners surrounded the bank and
threatened to break down the door.
They were only prevented from
carrying out their threats by the po-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Large Money offered for Seats.

Many applicants for seats in the ma
tional republican convention at Mime
apolis are making large money offers
for the privilege of admittance The
local executive committee is largely in
favor of making the price for seats $50,
but that is a matter that will be ar
ranged by the national committee.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Fart Of a $500, 900, 900 Estate.

JANEsv11LE. Wis, March 7.-Mrs.
w. Fl. Conklin has received good news
from Europe. When her great-grand.
father died in France he left an estate
now worth $500, OJ0,0 OJ. There are
forty heirs to this and attorneys were
sent abroad several years ago to work
upon the case. Mrs. Conkliu, who is
nov" in Rockford, has just received
word from the lawyers that she will
soon get 5000, 00l Her husband is an
expressman.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Fell Six Floors,

CHICAGO, March 5.-Fred Bergen, a
workman employed upon the new
Ashland block at Clark and Randolph
streets, was instantly killed by falling
down the elevator shaft from: the sixth
floor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
TIE WORTHlNGToA ADVANCE
ROBERT McCuNE, Ed. and Publisher.
NORTHAMPTON. Mobiles Co., MINI.
Az the close of 1891 the net indebted
ness of the world was $26, Oh, 096, 600.

If. as Dr. Kelley says, drunkenness
is disease, is it to be regarded as con-
tagious? Men who drink catch it when
they get home, anyhow.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

V1ct1m Of tho Deadly Skipping Rope.
PHILADELPHIA, March S. - Lillian
Weeks. of Forty-fourth street, near
Wilkesbarrc. entered a rope jumping
contest with three other school chill
dren, all aged about 10 years Lillian
jumped $40 times without missing and
died Friday night. Two of the other
children are critically i'll.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10

February reports from southern Min
nesota indicate that the winter wheat
Many fields appear brown and dead, ow-
ing to the light snow and constant vio-
lent changes in temperature. At least
so per cent of the grain from Winona
county westward will be plowed up
and spring wheat sown.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
Stabbed by His Wife.

Edmund Welch, manager of the Par.
lor variety theater at Duluth, was in
st. Mary's hospital with hole 2.inches
deep in his back. His wife. Kitty
WEIGH, stabbed him. The knife went
in dag onally. the point of it striking
the vertebrate. He will recover. Kitty
and Edmund Welch are well.known
characters in variety acting and have
appeared hundreds of nights in boxing
contests.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
A Sudden NIoSsaeo.

Especially sad was the sudden death
at his home of William Massolt, one of
the oldest and best known German res
idents of Minneapolis. There was a
little party of friends at the house in
the evening and a very enjoyable time
was spent Ivy I'LL concerned until the
breaking up time came. A few min
utes later, upon retiring. Mr.. Massolt
was attacked by heart failure and ex-
pirel in few minutes
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
BLOODY FIGHT IN KENTUCKY

Negroes Attack u Party of White NeK
and Four Of the Former Are Dead.
EDMONTON, Ky, March News ha:
just been received of bloody fiyh,
which took place at C;ark's cross
roads, miles east of this place, be-
tween a party of twelve wagoners
(white) on one side and eleven negro
farm hands on the other, ir
which four of the negroes were killed
and three or four wounded and two O,
the wagoners seriously hurt. One OF
the wagoners, while Passing along the
road, struck a negro with his whiE
and cursed him. The negro gathered
ten of his friends together anc
started for a distillery where the
wagoners had habit of stopping.
When they arrived at the dis
tjllery all of the wagoncrs .were
inside of the house purchasing whisky.
except two. These the negroes sci
upon with rocks and clubs and would
have made short work of them but fol
the timely appearance of the ten 9th
ers, who sprang among them and in s
short time shot and killed four anc
wounded three or four others, two o.
whom, it is said, cannot recover.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-10
the eEhR,no SEA CASE.

1 : 5- - u
s.l'.bury,e Rs1a..l =. R.n.v .. Mods.
vivena Plasps tho Matter 8 : sssiou,
Po.itisn. d q s.
! WAsluNaroN, archZ THE Behrins
sea situations tiftcontinuessto rs thl
chief topic of gossip The rethrn o.
the president seems to be- accepted q.
an indication that firm stand will bs
maintained. The matter is generally
regarded is very serious and no pre-
| dicfions are nadesasE 70 Eheaoutcome. 2
The action of lord Salisbury in re
fusing TO renew they moduss yiyendi
while at the ssame time approving thu
treaty of arbitration, Is considered II
the nature of a direct insult, and his sug
gestion that q closed zone be. observec
around tie Fribylod islands. is regard
ed as mere quibble. IT is generally
regarded that tossubnait the whole
matter TO arbitration and leave tn,
sea entirely open to fishers for {
whole season would be absurd or
! the face sof lit, inasmuch as by
the time the question came to be
settled there would be literally moth
7 ing left IS arbitrate, for the reason
that there;would be no seals extant
An open season, as proposed, it il
thought would mean the utter annihi
lation of the species. !, 1872
There need lie no fear that the
policy followed will be lacking il
vigor or will fail to uphold American
| rights limitations have been re-
ceived that Lord Salisbury did not
fully estimate the irritation hi.
| refusal to renew the modus viveud,
would cause. 1t has been limited that
| Minister Lincoln has received informa
ton in the nature of an ''explanation'
of just what the British foreign offict
meant by the suggestion of 30-mil<
limit around the Pribyloff islands.
The Canadians who have fostered the
seal-poaching industry are plainly
hopeful that they will get another. sea
sons unrestricted poaching. In this
they are badly mistaken. Unless the
modus vivendi is renewed by the Brit
ish government the arbitration treaty
will not be ratified by the senate TIL.
treaty may be sent in by the president
with a recommendation for an amend
ment requiring the renewal of the
modus vivendi. If Great Britain is MOI
willing to consent to this, then thu
United States will undertake the pro
tec:ion of the seals alone and will ac
on the assumption that its jurisdiction
is complete.
The navy department had almost
concluded that the Moh;can. in connec
ton with the revenue cutters Corwin
Rush and Bear would be sufficient fol-
this years police duty, but it is nov
feared that something more than police
duty will be necessary. Naval officer:
have been consulting together gooc
deal as to what will lie expected of thu
navy in the light of Lord Salisbury!
new attitude. The naval officials fully
expect instructions that will necessitate
the presence OF nearly all of the pacii,
feet in the Behr;ng sea.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-06-04
Epworth excursion, Thursday, June Q.


About $50 o'clock yesterd ay after
noon Charles w. the 4.ycar-old son, OF
Frederick Roth residing at No, 1891
Glaymonl street, was struck by car No.
$ Of the City Railway company. aud
injured SO badly that he lived but
few minutes. The accident occurred
in front of the residence OF the
little chlid's parents, and 1t Ia
supposed that he attempted to pass
across the track in front of the car.
lilo was a cripple, being paralyzed in
ono of his limbs.
The car was drawn by horses. and In
charge of John White, who did not see
the little fellow until aftor he was
struck. He WAS piekol upand carried
into the house of his parents, hut died
before physician reached the house.
The hack part OF his skull was frac-
tured. and lie WIS otherwise injured.
The driver was, by order of Captain
Francis, arrested at the stables Front
and Union streets. and taken to police
station, where he was released on his
own recoRnizance.
The coroner was notified and will
hold an inquest tomorrow 10 oruing.