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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-11
THE FARMING WORLD.
THE GRAPEVINE SPHINX.

ADestfuctivo Insect Which IL Kept In
Check by Other Parasites.
TheBreater part of these beautiful
moths come forth during the last two
weeks of June and the first two of July,
though stragglers may have been seen
either month earlier or later. The
eggs are round and green, and are laid
upon the young grape leaves. In FIVE
days they hatch into tiny light green
worms with q blackish spine nearly
a. long as the body. The usual num-
Der OF mouths is four, though in con-
finement I have frequently recorded
six. They refrain from eating for
about twenty-four hours before each
moult. As they become larger the
green of their bodies turns pinkish,
and later rose-colored. After eating
grape leaves for about six weeks they
descend from the vines and seek suit
able place, usually withered leaf near
the surface of the ground, in which to
transform. The edges of the leaf are
drawn together around the larva and
fastened with q few threads of silk,
and in this rude structure the pupal
state is passed. The pupa is light
brown in color, sometimes having a
pinkish tint, and is roughish or granu-
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A DEADLY DRINK,
Some Forms of Alcohol More Fatal Than
Iaudanum.

Some Forms of Alcohol More Fatal Than
Laudanum.
The first stage of drunkenness is
disorganization of the stomach. and
this is produced much more quickly
by subjecting it to the irritation of
two or three I'll nulants at the same
time than by continuing to drink the
same for a much longer period.
Again, the stomach of a person ac-
customed to taking alcohol usually be-
comes Injured to whatever may be his
favorite and more frequent drilfx, and
much more of this would be REQUIRED
to make him drunk than of any other.
But If totally strange mixture of
more or less familiar intoxicants be
suddenly swallowed the shock to the
stomach is so great that it will in
some cases produce not only intoxica-
ton, but rapid insensibility and even
death if the dose is strong enough.
Some forms of alcohol are singularly
antaConistic, and therefore produce
the collapse of the stomach, and hence
of the whole system, much more quick
ly than others.
Perhaps the most fatal is mixture
of equal parts of whisky and strong
stout, draught of which has been
known to kill a man more quickly
than an overdose of laudanum would
have DONE PearsOn's Weekly.
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THE ELEVATOR sov.

IN up.to-dats directory Of all that's in the
block, ' sysss,ss5s.s&
And everything that's going on he knows it like
clock
BE knows tho fair typewriter girls, the blonde
on floor eleven, 5.s.--s - Y
Hh0 red-haircd one who works on four, the
s. brown-cyed one on seven.
10 knows that Jenkins comes at eight and
johnson goes at ten, ~.
of everything and everyone he knows the why
and when.
1you've detective work to do 'twould pay you
10 employ s7~~se=. rea-@.>..
Thai knowing individual-the elevator boy.
He > somewhat hidden from the world, its "a
vors and its frowns,
Although he's where he ever sees a lot of ups
and downs;
Fro" early morn till late at night he's always
on the wing,
shus<in his little iron cage suspended by
- string 81 = =
And nothing pleascs him so much as now and
then to get
A fifteen minutes lay-on while he smokes Gig
arctic; "
For just such simple things as that are GASES OF
That glad the desert duty of the elevator boy.
Whose nerves are very sensitive and then just
let her spin,
And every time he has to stop by some peculiar
Z. Quirk$
Produce that "tired feeling" by sort Of sea-
sick jerk.
But notwithstanding oil his tricks there's no
one else you'll find
Who does One-half as much as he to elevate
mankind;
And when we think how much there is his pa
tience TO annoy : =
We quite forgive the antics Of the elevator boy
Detroit Tribune
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A QuACK IN AFRICA.
He Took Cattle % Fees and Soon Acquirsd
. Thousand Animals

AOOA SSssA0 - oeS ana soon Acqoleo0
Thousand Animals.
A German agent in the southwest A.
rican possessions of Germany writes to
headquarters in Berlin that confidence
men and scamps have invaded even
that sparsely. settled and half-savage
region. He says that a year ago white
man went wandering through the coun-
try carrying on his back Il bag filed
with medical nostrums. Little atten.
ton was paid to him, but it was found
later that he knew nothing whatever OF
medicine, and that his little plasters,
waters and drugs were worth no more
than so much fetish. He heralded his
coming everywhere, just as the quack
doctors do in this country, and the sim
Ple-minded natives flocked to him from
far and near to secure the benefits of
his wonderful treatment. lie remained
only two or three weeks in place, and
then would seek other fields He took
payment in cattle, and from place to
place he drove his herd, which cost him
nothing for food and kept rapidly in
creasing in size.
Finally he reappeared on the coast
with a herd of about one thousand six
hundred cattle out of which he had
bunkoed the natives. AS he had no
medical skill and the contents of the
mysterious bag probably were not
worth ten dollars, he found the business
a paying one. The natives, after he
had swindled them, made up their
minds as to his true character, and the
German agent writes that it probably
would not be safe now for any itinerate
dealer i'll medicine and cures to travel
through the country; however honest
and competent he might be.
The agent says, however, that there
is fine opening in southwest Africa
for some young practitioner who is hav-
ing hard work building up practice in
Germany. He names the town where
the young man should settle, and SAYS
he is confident that few years prac-
tice among the natives there would en-
able him to return to Germany with
snug little fortune. The agent will ex-
ercise great care to prevent any more
quacks and humbugs from getting into
the country and giving the natives an
unfavorable impression of all white
nen.-Chicago Times.
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MOVABLE GREENHOUSE,

Every Lover of Flowers Can Afford to
Have One.
Being mechanic with a very mod.
crate income, but desiring more flow.
ers than my slender means would al.
low me to buy, determined to build
small greenhouse, believing that
could grow not only my own flowers
but enough more to help ray for the
expense of building such house. The
house is a three-quarter span, "a feet
long and IL feet wide, extending east
and west. 1. has shed on the west
end. The south wall is feet high; the
north wall feet. The roof is made of
sashes. the long span feet, the short
span ~ feet. 1 used 10-inch glass, and
there are three rows of glass in the
sashes, as found that wider sash, Z
feet long, would be too heavy to han
die. am a renter, and the greenhouse
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DIVERGENT PATHS,

Vhe Marked Contrast Between Two Lives
That Had Como Out.
Two funerals in one day-one follow
ing the other with only fifteen minutes
interval for the pastors MONDAY meal.
The first was that of saloonkeeper.
who died after several days of insane
drunkenness and two nights of expos
ure. He lett wife who had deserted
him, and two children, in distant
city. He breathed his last in saloon
without relative to administer to his
wants and unattended save by those
men and women who had been his COM
panions in sin. Saloonists and their
wives made up the bearers and chief
mourners. There was a rich coffin,
profusion of flowers and the best music
that the city afforded. What could a
Christian minister say under such cir
cumstances?
So far as the past is concerned he can
speak only of signs and regrets for
what might have been. He can only
point to the unutterable record which
shall be reviewed only at the last day.
He can point to the dumb lips of the
dlsfgured form, and let them speak the
message to those whose record is still
before them. And what message for
boys who hang about the saloons
smoking cigarettes! What a message
to careless parents; to women who
give and take the social wine-cup; to
men who pride themselves in their abil-
ity to "break off, from a bad habit at
any time. What message, this, to
the man who most assiduously employs
his time in corrupting the youth in or
der that his Satanic business shall
prosper!
The other funeral was that of baby
girl We met the bereaved parents in
a small tent. Two of the four chairs
bore up the tiny casket. Sympathizing
hands had arranged the little form in a
most attractive way. 1t was beautiful
those little round cheeks and chubby
hands. We all stood around as if wait
ing to see her arouse from her morning
nap. We tried to sing: "Jesus. Lover
of My Soul" and then we read over
those verses about: "Suffer little chill
drcn." and commended ourselves to the
merciful Father who never afflicts will
ingly.
A little later the tiny casket was &C.
cupying the very place so recently left
vacant. There was less of silver plate,
less of floral wreaths; but there was a
larger company of mourners. We could
talk of hope, of the beautiful bud so
suddenly plucked. of the treasure laid
up in Heaven. A large company of
school children could sing: ",Vhen He
cometh, when He cometh, to make up
His jewels" and then fall into process
sion to view the little form.
We buried the two in the same row
separated by scarcely forty feet of
ground. AS we spoke the last words
we could not help thinking how widely
the paths of these two lives had di-
verged and how different would be
their lot at the resurrection morn.
These two stood together once in child
hoods innocence. Great was the privi-
lege of anyone to stand at the point of
divergence and direct the tempted boy
into the straight and narrow path.
But what shall we say to him who
multiplied those temptations and made
it easy for the boy to fall again and
again! The mountains and the hills
will not suffice to hide such an one at
that day.-Rev. F. G. Appleton, in
United Presbyterian.
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AN ADEPT AT RESlGNlNG.
The Accountants Novel Method of TAX
Ing q Vacation.

The Accountants Novel Method of TAX
Ing a Vacation.
Living in a fashionable town within
committing distance Of New York is a
gentleman who invariably attracts at
tention by his long hair. Strangers
always conclude that he is nothing
less than great lawyer or bank presi-
dent. When the more curious ask his
tellow-townsmen about him they are
told the following story:
One day the gentleman, who is one of
the best accountants in the metropolis,
stepped up to the president of the bank
by which lie is employed and said he
had decided to resign and that the
resignation must go into effect immedi-
ately.
The president was 10th to lose so
valuable man and urged him to recon-
slider the matter He talked with him
for an hour but to no purpose. The
employc, whose skill as mathema-
tician was beyond anything ever met
with by the officials of the bank, was
bound to leave the institution but
absolutely refused to give any reason
Tor his dOlngS.
The accountant left that day and the
bank was obliged to get along as best
could without him.
Ten days later the cashier was
astonished on entering the bank to
find the accountant hard at work at
his old desk. The mathematician said
good morning, just as he had done
every day for years before he resigned,
but offered no explanation.
The president and cashier decided to
let their strange-acting employee keep
at his work and ask no questions.
Three months later the accountant
went into the presidents Office again
and rendered his resignation. 1t was
accepted, and the man was absent for
a week or more. Then he suddenly re-
turned.
The same thing was repeated again
and again. Now it is a standing Joke
in that bank that the accountant has
resigned. It is his way of taking a
vacation. He never stays away more
than two weeks.-N. Y. Commercial
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GENERAL GlEANiNGS,

WHEN drunkenness is hereditary, a
family will die out, sometimes in four.
and at the outside in FIVE generations.
A PLAN for pensions of five shillings
week for all persons over sixty-fivc
years of age is receiving the attention
of well-known statesmen and Journal
lists in England, 1t is proposed to levy
tax on all alcoholic drinks in order to
raise the fund necessary.
In a suit to recover the price of a. lot
of Intoxicating liquors sold in Boston
to a hotel-keeper in Maine, the Massa-
chusetts supreme court says that the
contract was void and the plaintiff cam
not recover, because he knew of the
prohibitory law in Maine.
A WOMAN in Ithaca, N. Y, has waged
successful lawsuit, under the civil
damage act, with hotel-keeper who
furnished her husband liquor, who, in
state of intoxication, shot himself be-
fore her eyes She has a little child
who also witnessed the tragedy.
II CAN'T trust you," said a rumseller
to an impoverished customer. "You
should let liquor alone; if you hadn't
drank SO much of it, you might now be
riding in your own carriage" 'And if
you hadn't sold it" retorted the victim,
you might have been my driver"
IT is said by those within the pale
that over-indulgence in Intoxicating
beverages is lamentably on the in
crease among fashionable women in
England. French, German and Italian
women are, in spite of their wine and
beer drinking propensities, really more
temperate than English women. In
country houses the hostess offers her
tired guests sherry and settler instead
OF tea, and doctors prescribe half
wineglass of Burgundy when one is
weary or faint. Many English women
call for a brandy and soda at any hour
in the day when they feel fatigued,
others pin their faith to a half bottle
of dry champagne as an antidote for
exhaustion, and nearly all of them
have glass of whisky and water before
they retire.
The Massachusetts, Total Abstinence
society has inaugurated plan of work
looking to the organization of temper
ance leagues in every city and town in
the state. The plan of work embraces
the following departments: Public
meetings, work among children, circu-
lation of the total abstinence pledges
among adults, the distribution of tenn
perance and no-license literature. Sc
curing a large no-license vote in all
cities and towns and the enforcement
of existing laws. The membership
will consist of residents of cities and
towns over eighteen years of age. The
constitution is flexible and adapted TO
every locality. The necessity of such
organizations is apparent when one re-
Allies that less than ten per cent. of
the population under forty years is
pledged to total abstinence. This So
ciety invites all classes of temperance
workers to cooperate with this effort
20 establish local societies
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
JOHN ALCOHOL,

John Alcohol, my 10. John.
When We were first acQuaint
I'D siller In my pockets, John, ~.
Which moo, We ken. want.
spent 1t all in treating, John,
Because I loved you SO;
But mark ye how you've treated me,
John Alcohol, my 10.
John Alcohol, my 10, John,
We've been DER lang tegither:
Sac ye maun taxi ae road, John,
And will TAX anither;
For We maun tumble down, John,
II hand and hand we 20;
And shall haze the bill to pay,
John Alcohol, my jo.
John Alcohol, my 70. John,
Ye've beard out a my cen,
And lighted up my nose, John,
A fiery sight atwecn: :-s~,--- -
My hands VII palsy shake, John,
My locks are like the snow;
Yen surely be the death o. me,
John Alcohol, my 10.
John Alcohol, my 10, John,
Twas love of you, ween,
That CART me rise sac ear, John,
And sit sac late at Gen. -
The best o frlen's maun part, JOHN
1t grieves me sair, We know?
But "wen gang nae mair to yon toon,
John Alcohol, my 10.
John Alcohol, my 10, John,
we've wrought me huckle skaith;
And yet to part wi you, John,
Town I'm uncO' laith;
But Ill join the temperance ranks, John,
We medina say me no a-..v--.-
It's better late than ne'er do weel,
John Alcohol, my 10.
Union Signal
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walked beside s.Blossom" one evening
on her way home. He had : frank,
manly face, but his working clothes
were soiled and worn and his hands
were rough. After that l saw them
pass by together quite often. He seemed
to be very happy in. her society, but
blossom, with her pretty pink dresses
and pink ribbons, often looked far
away Us though she were trying to dis
cover some one whose appearance was
more in harmony with her ideal.
Near the walk at the side of tho
saloon that stood at the corner was .
large maple tree. Men used to bring
chairs from the saloon and sit in tho
shade of the tree during the long June
afternoons and smoke, and chat, and
laugh boisterously. Some of the men
who used to meet there became familiar
figures to my eye. Among the number
was a young man who dressed splen-
didly, though somewhat flashily. From
my window across the street, could
see the sparkle of his diamonds set
in his rings and pins. He wore heavy
gold chain and an elaborate charm, and
carried a massive gold-headed cane and
umbrella. l should have guessed that
he had plenty of money, but 1 would
not have dared to commend his method
of getting it.. Something in his appear
ance led me to believe he could deal
himself an extra card, or turn tramp
from the bottom of the deck. After all,
had / seen him in different surround
ings and in different company. l might
have been as favorably impressed with
him as when l was a young and
thoughtless blossom for whom he
used to wait at the drug store on the
opposite corner to the saloon. do not
know how they became acquainted, but
have always dou bted if they were for
mally introduced to one another. Be it
as 1t may, there came time when the
manly young mechanic walked alone
once more. There were many other girls
gong and coming, but he did not seem
to notice them. His eyes were usually
wandering toward the girl with the
pink cheeks and pink dress and rib.
bOns, whom he often saw strolline
homeward with the young man who
wore the diamonds and fine clothes.
BY and by there was wedding up the
street somewhere; at the home of a
widow lady, suspected, for Blossom"
had never been accompanied by any.
one whom I thought was father, or
brother, or sister; but had on several
occasions seen her with lady who ap.
peared to be almost an invalid, and
whom guessed might be her mother.
One morning fine carriage drove By,
and Blossom" wearing strikingly
large hat covered with white plumes,
occupied a seat beside the young man
whom had seen sitting in the shade OF
the maple tree at the side of the sa.
loon. Later an express wagon passed
in which were trunks I thought might
have belonged to Blossom
In the same old humdrum work-a.
day manner men went and came, but
"Blossom's'' pink checks and bright
eyes were not to be seen. The street
for time seemed checrless without
her; and l wondered if the world
missed her as did, and as felt sure
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HARRISON GOES TO THE MOUNTAINS. So
do thousands of our Western people, who
find most delightful vacation amid their
granite peaks, their wild gorges, their
primeval forests, their silvery lakes and
sparkling cascades.
CLEVELAND GOES TO THE SEASIDE. So do
Thousands of our W estern people, who revel
in the salt air and the briny baths, in the
sandy beaches and rock-bound coast, in the
fishing and the sailing and other CHI arms OF
the rolling sea.
They first send to o. w. Ruggles, G. P. &;
+. Agt, Chicago, for the Michigan Centraps
beautiful bird's-eye mgc Summer Tourist
Folder and then buy thu tickets to the st
Lawrence, the Adirondacks, the White
mountains, the New England coast, or
wherever their chosen resort may be, by
the Michigan Central, 1.-THE Niagara Falls
Route"
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lated. The moth is one of the hand
soonest of the sphinxes. the general
color being green. of different shades
on the head, thorax and fore wings, the
abdomen greenish tinged with dull red,
and the hind wings dull red of deeper
shade with a green patch at the rear
corner next the abdomen.
The grape sphinx is extremely sub
ject to parasitic attack and is thus kept
so far in check as to rarely become
troublesome. Chief among its para
sites is a sort of fly, much resembling
the species which proves so destructive
to the pieris rapaea, or cabbage butter
fly, and, like that species, emerging
from the body of the worm when full
fed, and spinn in clusters of cocoons on
their victim. When the fly approaches
to deposit her eggs, the sphinx larva
throws its head backward over its body
and rapidly brushes it back and forth,
vain]y trying to brighten away its little
antagonist, or to rub off the eggs when
they have been laid.-Prairie Farmer.
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HOW THE KAFIR GETS DRUNK,
An Intoxicating Beverage Made by tho
Savapes of Soufl, Africa

An Intoxicating Beverage Made by tho
Savages Of South Africa.
The condition induced by unlimited
dwhala is the ordinary unchristianized
Katir's conception of paradise.
Kafir beer, or dwhala, as it is called
in the native, is of about the consis-
tency of buttermilk and not unlike it
in taste, the color being light brown
of pinkish shade. 1t makes natives
intoxicated, but European would find
difficulty in drinking enough of it to af-
feet him, as it is very filling. A Kafir's
capacity for dwhala rivals a German
students for lager beer.
Dhwala is made from Nmabela or
Kafir corn, which grows on a stalk to
about the height of Indian corn, and
resembles it in appearance. This stalk
when matured bears a long, slender
flower on the top, which after going to
seed is picked and stripped, yielding a
small brownish kernel about half the
size of a pea. These kernels when drv
are crushed with stone and placed in
water, where they are allowed to re-
main two or three days. The water is
then strained off and the corn is placed
in the sun and dried till all the particles
adhere in a solid mass. The corn is
then ready to be ground, which is done
in the most primitive manner by rub
blng the lump on the large fat Stone
until it is transformed into coarse meal.
The meal is placed in an iron pot with
some water ard is cooked for two DAYS,
being stirred and skinned occasionally.
1t is allowed to cool and is then ready
to drink.
Invitations to the drinking of it are
conveyed in person by tho head man of
the krual where the beer has been
made and are usually worded somewat
as follows: 'Niood day, chief. Will you
come to my place to-day? There is 60
ing to be great beer drink there"
The invited one invariably accepts.
The invitations are limited by the
quantity Of dhwala made, but qener-
ally include from twenty to fifty per-
sons. The dhwala is handed from one
to the other in pots. some made from
gourds and others from clay. After
having imbibsd a quantity of the insid-
ious beverage sufficient to render them
perfectly free from all mundane cares,
a dance is indalged Unusually a com
promise between the can-can and the
Boston dip. After this, an OK is fire.
quently killed, and the feasters gorge
themselves and then drink more dhwala.
until finally they sink down in help
less stupor to sleep off the effects Of
their orgie. IN. Y. World. .
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