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ing the stories of other days, Of other
camps, and of other troops. At the
outer edge of the camp, hard by the
water hole, sat q group of cavalrymen,
gay, light-hearted fellows, laughing
heartily over the yarns that Sergt. Jack
Kelly had been spinning.
The sentry on his rounds stopped at
the group, for Phil Manning, q yarn
spinner Of repute, had started in to re-
late the adventures of Joshua Kinks.
This yarn was camp classic, and Man
ming filed his pipe slowly, pushed the
tobacco down with his thumb and OBJ
tanned silence: >'
Kinks Joined US in the summer of
'76 at Eagle Pass, in company with
about dozen other dirty, footsore, sun.
blistered, hungry recruits, who marched
into the post tired and discouraged af-
ter q tramp from Thompson's Ranch.
The day was one that would have made
the internal regions seem like q water
ing place. Lord knows it's hot enough
in this chaparral in any summer, but in
'76 the heat dried up everything in
Texas except Joshua Kinks.
''Well, you see Kinks had been in the
militia back in York state, and what he
didn't know about soldering wasn't
worth trying to find out; and, to make
matters worse, that blasted fool of a
recruit-lieutenant-he wasn't Pointer
made him q prairie sergeant on the
march from San Antoine to the river,
which confirmed Kinks in the notion
that he was veteran.
thinks was q dandy, q simon pure,
yard wide and all wool dandy. He
was getting unpopular and it was felt.
His unpopularity was felt like q cold
breeze on hot summer evening. 1t
was silently yet unanimously voted
that unless Divine Providence inter-
fered, a squad would have to take him
some night and feed him to the catfish
you know. A fellow doesn't mind ad-
hitting that the Lafayette Fusileers, of
Penn Van, are a gorgeous and imposing
military body; but when a booming re-.
cruit tells you that they are away
ahead of Troop % of the galloping
Eight Horse, it's about time to sound
boots and saddles, and run him out of
camp.
about the time we were getting
ready to lariat Kinks, Bill Barnes, the
customs river guard, rode into the post
one day as if the old Nick was after
him, and reported to old Pecos Bill that
= a,crowd of Pendencia cowboys had just
run = bunch of cattle across the river
without permission of the Greaser,
whose brand was on them, and without
consulting Uncle Sam. Bill wasn't q
conspicuous fool, 80, instead of stop
ping to argue with dozen Winchesters,
he rode for the post to get detach-
ment- Well, he got it. A lot of us
were rushing for the stables pretty soon
with our saddles on our shoulders, and
inside of twenty minutes the procession
was going down the Laredo trail lick
etty-split, Lieut.. Henry Guy Carleton
in the lead, and Joshua Kinks at the
tail Of the column, humping up and
down on Barney Mullen's horse, the
meanest'plug in the stables.
well, we weren't riding for our
health. Carleton set the pace, and
the way we went through that broil-
ing, dusty :chaparral was q caution.
We struck the Pedencia, sent the
rogues flying for the next county, got
the cattle and went into camp at
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Our Rapid. Transitory Existence,

our Rapid TranAlt0ry Existence,
Brief as It is at the longest, is liable to be
materially curtailed by our own indiscre.
tons. The dyspeptic eat what they should
not, tho bilious drink coffee in excess, and
sit in drauehts, get wet feet u and remain in
damp clothes, and then wonder when i'll
how they became so. To persons with q
tendency to neuralgia, we recommend q
daily use of HOstetter's Stomach Bitters,
and especially after unavoidable exposure
In damp or otherwise inclement weather.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

No one should visit the Twin Cities this
summer without running out to Minnetonka
Beach and Hotel Lafayette, the largest and
best located resort house in the west. The
lake is one of the most picturesque in the
country, and is we'll supplied with steam
ers and sailing, rowing and fishing craft.
A number of regattas will be given. The
Great Northern has q double track line to
the lake and runs frequent trains.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
HARD ON WATCHES.

The Electricity Building II . bad Place
for Valuable Timepieces.
When Franklin sent his kite alo It and
drew lightning from the clouds and
Morse harnessed it and made it obedient
to thu commands of man they doubt
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
TOLD BY A TROOPER.
How Nintiaman Kinks Was Turned
!. Into q Soldier.

He herd was in..
The horses at
the picket line
were champing
tho hard ; corn
in their nose
b q g 8. T h e
guard was. set.
Quiet reigned In
the camp under
the pecans, and
groups OF boot
ed, belted troop
ers sat around
the camp fires,
smoking their
ninoa and tell.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

s1ck HEADACHE, lassitqde, weakness and
Immediately cured by Beecham's Pills.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
To Puget Sound, juno Is, 1893.

1U1u B0t SUunu, JUNO To- 1870
Beginning June 18th, the Great Northern
bGleias through service on its new short
line from st. Paul and Minneapolis to Seat
tie, Everett, Fairhaven, New Whatcom,
Blaine and other Puget Sound cities. This
route is 1876 miles the shortest from the
East to Pacific tide-waters. 1t opens up q
territory Offering fine Inducements to in
vestors and homeseekers. 1t is also an at
tractive route for tourists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use the California
liquid laxative Syrup of Figs, under all con-
ditions, makes it their favorite>remedy. To
the name of the California Fig Syrup Co.,
printed near the bottom of the package.
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were making for succeeding genera
tions. But here the law of compensa-
ton comes in, for had natures greatest
force not been captured by these esti-
mable gentlemen it is doubtful if fric-
tional electricity would have been de-
veloped to its present perfection. If
nature makes the only genuine light
ming, man manufactures a very clever
imitation. Unlike lightning, it is not
referred to as a "fuid, but as a ''force."
Manufactures hall and Electricity build
ing are full of the machines by which
this subtle force is turned out in guam
titles to SUIT, and in both of these great
buildings it is used for q multiplicity of
purposes. Transmitted from dynamo
to a motor it furnishes motive power
to run machinery of all imaginable
kinds, and taken direct from the ma
chine where it is made it heats the
filaments in the electric light bulbs up
to the incandescent point and makes
the exposition buildings blaze or glory
three nights week.
But the dynamos which perform this
excellent service also do lot of dam
age. They ruin by magnetism q good
many valuable watches. Since the ex
position opened more than one costly
timepiece has been carried into Elec-
tricity building q thing of beauty and
usefulness and, after even brief stay,
has been brought out total wreck so
far as its timekeeping qualities are con-
cerned.
The disturbing clement works noise
lessly but in a most insidious manner.
Whenever a dynamo is running an in
visible quantity known as the magnetic
fluid is reaching out after hairsprings,
and once the electric demon has fas-
tened it's fangs on the delicate bit of
coiled steel the latter is worthless as q
regulating medium. "A magnetized
watch, like dead man, tells no tales.
There are methods of demagnetizing.
but they are only partially effective.
The best method, if you wear an ex-
pensive watch, is to examine dynamos
when they are not running. .-
An electrical expert was asked the
other day as to the probable number of
watches which had been ruined in the
exposition grounds by being brought
into close proximity to active dynamos.
1T would be impossible to approx
mate the damage" he replied, "but l
have no doubt that it has been consider
able. And it is strange that in this
day of general information people are
not better posted on the evil effects Of
inspecting these powerful dynamos at
too close range. The damage is done
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

"4AN,A and l." said Priscilla one day,
ssare taking medicine. We each have q
bottle, and mamma has tied string around
the neck OF hers, 80 as to tell 1t, she says
l suppose I'll have to tie q string around
mine, too, 20 as to tell it from hers. "-Phil-
adelphiN Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

Halls CATARBa CURE is liquid and Is
taken Internally, and acts directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system
Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Drug
gists, 75c.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Proprs, Toledo, o.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

EALF-CURED eruptions will return. Eraal
cate them with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whlsker DYE, so cents.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

"DEAD men tell no tales" they say, but
some of the latest novels leave the impress
sion that they were post-mortem Efforts
Washington News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

THE surest way to make bad man mad
is to tell him the truth about himself
Rams Horn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

WHAT nonsense it is to say. man is in
clined to be bald. When man is becoming
bald it is quite against his inclination.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

The gas man may have his troubles, but
they are always light.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Visitors to the Twin Cities.

''DoS'rsyou wear goloshes, Mrs. Sprig
as good as it ever was. ''-Harper's Bazar.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

TIE critique of pure reassn-A woman q
"because, i" because it is incomprehenslble.-
Truth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
/" LOOK UP

el -. LOOK Up
and not down." II you're . suffer.
ing woman. Every one Of the
bodily troubles that come to
women only has q guaranteed
cure in DR.. Pierceb Favorite Pre-
scripdon. That viii bring you
safe and certain help.
1ts q powerful general, a. well
- uterine, tonic and nervine, and
It builds up and invigoratec tie
entire female system. It regu-
hates and promo6es all the proper
funoGons improves digestion,
enrtches tho blood, brings refresh.
ing saeep, and restores health and
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Time 10 Leave.

Coin cash bears the same relation TO
belle In the matrimonial market that the
chrome does 70 Q pound OF tea On Vesey
street Puck $500 $780,
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Tho Ladies',

FATIGUE can hardly be regarded as an in.
oentive to industry, but wheel can do very
little until its tlred.-Biughamton Leader
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

H1cKs-"You say that Bings is to be tried
Tor heresy2" Wicks-"Yes; he refuses to
believe that 'schisnl' 10 pronounced 'sism. :"
Boston TRANSCRIPT
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Devils Lake Chautauoua.

The first summer assembly of the North
Dakota ChautauQua comes of June 18th to
arranged, including many noted speakers,
singers, ETC., and the occasion promises to
be notwithstanding and instructive. Devils
Lake is q summer resort point. The Great
Northern railway gives reduced rates. Ad-
dress ]. B. Fancher, Secretary, Devils
Lake, N. D., for programme and other in
formation. A trip to the lake and assem-
bly, will mako an enjoyable outing.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

ExPosITIoN OF 1898. - Visitor ''What
kind Of y toy cannon is thatp Attendant
--.'That is the Krupp Gun from the worlds
fair Of 1898. 1t weighs l22 tons. Chicago
thought 1t was great "-Puck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

the native gems lie imbedded to the last
touch given the polished crystal, will be
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

'WHY is it," she asked ''that stolen
kisses are always the sweetest?"''I guess"
he replied, sit 10 because they are taken
sirup-titl0usly. boston Courier.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08

In an egg-laying test at the Louisi-
ana Station, involving mems of ten COM
mon breeds and continued $40 days,
brown leghorns made the best record,
the hens of this breed laying an aver
age ofseventy two eggs Light brahmas
came next with an average Of fifty
eight, then langshans with forty nine,
buff cochins and Plymouth rocks with
forty-six each, and minorcas with forty
FIVE. The American breeds averaged
thirty-three eggs hen, Assetic forty.
five, and European forty-four. New
York World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08
ILLINOIS DAY AT THE FAIR.
Many Thousands of Visitors--A Re-
markable Procession.

Illinois day at the Worlds Fair was cele-
brated by an enormous crowd The men at
the gates had more than they could do to
keep the thousands Of applicants for admis-
sion from cOnGesting outside the three hum
bred turnSties. The excursion boats. the
steam ears, the elevated road and the surface
cars were packed with people from s o'clock
until noon. Then there was a lull in the
stream. but it lasted only short time when
it was renewed. thousands of people leaving
their work in Chicago to come out and see
the nights display.
The days entertainment began with pa
rade Of the Illinois National Guard, 5000
strong. The militia marched into the Mid
way Piaisance from the west entrance, and
passed down the thOroughfare in company
front order to the main Fair grounds, and as
they moved by the natives Of each village in
the Plaisance fell in behind First came the
Bedouins riding camels and Arabian horses.
They were allowed nearly thousand feet of
space, and as the parade moved along, those
mounted on horses rode back and forth dis
playing feats Of horsemanship. After the
Bedouins came the Laplanders and the
natives of DahOmey. Then came the Chinese
with a dragon, sixty feet long. made of rice
paper, a band OF Sioux Indians, the South
Sea islanders, the Hawaiians Persians
Egyptians, Turks. Moors, Swiss horn
blowers. the natives Of lahore, the
Algerians and the inhabitants of the
Irish and German villages In
the main groun,is they were joined
by the Italian Ii arines. the British
soldiers. and the West Point Cadets. The
parade was led by Governor AltgeId and his
staff until 1t reached the Illinois Building,
where they dropped out, and the Governor
reviewed the procession from the front
| portico of the building. At the conclusion of
the parade Governor Altgeld and his staff
held a reception in the Illinois State Build
ing.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08

the purpose keeping part OF the roots
OF the plant out of water. This Is
desirable thing to accomplish, but to
attempt it by building up hills for the
corn Is TO adopt temporary and
very imperfect substitute for draining.
Sometimes, however, this must be done
or the planting OF the field be deferred
till another season. On reasonably dry
land the case is different. Here 1t Is
important to get the roots of the corn
under ground rather than above its
level.
In this situation the two main pur-
poses OF the roots, TO secure food and
to keep the plant in an upright posi-
ton, can be best promoted. If the
soil be mellow and the surface nearly
level. the roots will pass through It IN
all directions and extend to quite
distance from the plants But If high
hills are made the stalks will throw out
large number of roots which can go
| only a little distance, which are ex-
posed to injury IN time of drought,
| which can obtain but little food and
which car do but little tn hold up the
| plants A moderate number of long
roots will do great deal more to keep
the corn from blowing down than will
q much larger number of short ones.
which have neither time TO gain
strength nor room in which to become
fully developed.
The plants will grow far more rapidly
if they are allowed to depend upon the
natural development of their roots than
they viii if by the formation of hills
the growth of large number of short
and weak roots is stimulated. The
writer does not recall al instance in
which he ever injured field of corn
by level cultivation. He does remem-
Der several instances i'll which he be-
lieves that by killing corn he wasted a
good deal of work and materially re-
duced the yield of the crop. New
England Homestead.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08
HOW GOOD COWS ARE RUINED.

Many good cows are practically
ruined by being kept apart from the
herd. Their isolation is due usually
to a within to make pet of an indlvid-
ual COW. Women and children are
mainly responsible for this form OF
foolishness which should never lie in
dulged by the careful dairyman. Cat
tie are in their way exceedingly social
creatures, and absence from their as
sociates affect them unfavorably. They
are nervous and uneasy when separ-
ated from them, and in the case of
cows lose flesh and fall off in milk.
Sometimes it causes them to abort,
but this rarely happens, enough mis-
chief being accomplished without.
Foolish men sometimes tie COW up
to punish her, with the result that the
fool is punished in the lessened yield
caused by the separation from the
herd American Dairyman.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08
EXHAUSTED LAND.

We are suffering here in New Eng
land from land exhaustion. That is
one of the questions that contronts
New England, confronts Nlassachu-
setts. If these lands were highly pro-
ductive, they would be occupied and
used. One of the prime reasons for
the abandonment of these lands is be-
cause they no longer have plant food.
Now, how have they become ex
hausted? I think largely by raising
the grains. That is what the New Eng
land farmer primarily did. He raised
corn and oats, wheat and barley, and
sold them, and thus Impoverished
these lands.
The farms of New England have
been impoverished because we have
sold more from the land than we have
restored to it. The question then for
the farmer is, How shall restore, how
shall build up my farm? How shall
l wisely do it? / believe the wise way
to do it is to buy grain. [ think 1t Is
the cheapest way to do it, because
when YOU raise a crop of grain on your
land YOU diminish the fertility Of that
land.
When you raise crop of anything
except the leguminous plants, except
the pea and the clover and the bean,
and crops of that nature, and draw it
off the land, you have taken something
out of mother earth. When you buy
grain you buy something which has o
| large manurial value. When a man
buys ton of bran for $40 I say it is a
good investment. Why? Because he
buys in that $40 worth of nutrition
S12 worth of manurial value. The
man who buys ton of cottonseed
meal for $2S buys $24 worth Of manur-
ial value. New England Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08
RECoRD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
FLED BEFORE FLAMES.
Great Panic in South Chicago and
Large Area Burned.

For six hours fire ragged in that part OF
Chicago known as South Chicago, practically
a city of itself, having $4,000 inhabitants,
and situated on Lake Michigan, about three
miles below the Worlds Fair grounds. 1t
burned nearly $50 houses, most ofthem frame
dwellings, At least 1000 persons were MADE
homeless, and the loss was about Sl,OOO,UOO
Nearly dozen blocks were burned over.
The burned district is north of the business
centre of South Chicago, and was almost
exclusively given up to residences. Two
lives were lost. and several persons were
severely injured.
The fire began about 5 o'clock in the al
ternoon in a three-story brick building at
the corner of Ninety-hrst street and Super.
ior avenue owned by William GILES, and
occupied by him as a residence.
The flames spread rapidly under gale OF
wind from the west and ate their way over
block after block of the small frame resi-
dences until they reached the lake. Within
the first two hours OF the fire it had con-
sumed at least thirty buildings and tive
were stricken with a panic like that which
characterized the confagration of 1871.
AS the pine structures in which lived the
workingmen employed in the large steer
mills of the Illinois Steel Company and IN
which the smaller merchants OF the place
made their homes were levelled by the flames,
those whose homes had not yet fallen lied
with their goods and household utensils to
the other portions of the city. Streets were
blocked with wagons containing the enects
of the fleeing residents, and men and women,
appalled, by the calamity, fed in every di'
rection.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08
PICKING GEESE.

In answer to the query, Chow often
in one season ought geese to be
picked ?" farmer with fourteen years
experience answers, in the Ph1ladel-
phia Farm Journal, that it depends en-
tirely on the feed and run and ex-
plains the whole situation as follows:
''They feather out more quickly when
they are permitted to run on green
pasture and have abundance Of good
water to drink. Every ten weeks
should find them, under such treat
ment, with good coat of feathers. DO
not pick until laying is over. Geese
cannot be artificially noulting and
producing eggs at the same time.
Never pick them in cold weather
When ready to pick, which the expert
enced geese-raiser can tell by the color
of the plumage If ready there will be
no yellowish tinge on the white
feathers, but to be sure pick few
from the breast Of the GOOSE, the
feathers come easily and are DRY ut the
quill end If not ripe, they are soft
and bloody. And this is one Of the
reasons Why store bought feathers
sometimes have Sucn d1E2Srceao1e
odor. The best guide, experience, tells
US to take only O small pinch of
feathers in the fingers at q time, and
with a quick downward jerk, from tail
to neck, displace the first coet Of
feathers with only very little of the
second coat. the down. Do not pick
the holsters. those large feathers
under the wings. If you do, the poor
creatures wings will droop cOntinu-
ally. When the goose dies, We can
strip these of for filling pillows for
home use. But never take them from
the geese while living"