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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24


The committee on legislative expenses
reported and the policy of strict economy.
was strongly endorsed. If the members
can only manage to carry out their good
resolutions to the end, this legislature will
be the least expensive that has met in
Minnesota in many day.
Representative Henry Feig called up his
sensational resolution on the inquiry into
the condition of the financial institutions
of the state by a committee of five repre-
sentatives, and carried the question
through by unanimous vote despite the
introduction of a substitute resolution
and various objections as to the expense
when might be incurred by such an inves-
tigation. TO clinch the passage of the
resolution Mr. Feig moved to reconsider
and to lay the reconsideration on the
table, and this, too, was voted through by
a large majority.
SENATE.-The senate session was brief
and uneventful. Among the bills intro
duced was one by Senator Masterman
amending the law providing for designa-
ton of state repositories. The amend
ment provides that the designation of
state repositories shall be made by a board
of audit, consisting of the governor OF
the state, state auditor, secretary OF state
and attorney general. When the state
funds are thus deposited the state treas
urer is relieved from liability on his bond
SO far as the depository Of funds is con-
cerned
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Representative She'll was given the
craftsmanship of the ways and means
committee.
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Duluth Grain.

Duluth Grain.
DULUTH, Jan. 20, 1895.
WHEAT-Cash, January No. hard,
59Mc; No. Northern, $3.50; May No. l
Northern, 59Mc; July No. Northern,
5OXc.
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Minneapolis Grain.

Minneapolis Grain.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. %, 1895
WHEAT-Closed easy and steady. Jan
uary, 57Nc; May, 5714c; July, 5Sh@58Ac.
On track-No. l, hard, soc; No. 1 Northern,
Sc; No. Northern, 56Hc.
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The BOnspie1 Ended.

I14 bOnSpIeI Enu6U.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 23.-The Walker
international trophy was captured by O.
W. Robertson's Milwaukee rink. This
ends the bonspiel.
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RHATH YYNr

Lace curtains laundried and sat-
isfaction guaranteed at the Worth
Il gton Laundry. 3-tf
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Law, land and Loans,
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STATE LEGISLATURE
TWENTY-NlNTH BIENNIAL SESSION
Wednesday. Jan. 10.


SENATF.-The bill appropriating $780,
600 to be expended in affording relief to
the sufferers from the Hinckley fire was
passed under a suspension of the rules.
A Joint resolution committing Mime
sofas congressional representatives to OPP
position to the pooling bill now pending
in the United States senate was intro
duced and temporarily sent to the railroad
n,'nittee.
Before the senate adjourned at the ex
piration of it's morning session Lieutenant
Governor Clough announced that if it
pleased the members to hold an afternoon
session he should be ready to announce
the regular standing committees. The
offer was not accepted, however, and an
adjournment was had until 10 a. m.
HOUSE-Nineteen bills and a resolu-
| ton were introduced in the house. The
resolution was by Mr.. Feig and provides
for the appointment of an expert account
ant to investigate into the reports and
charges that certain officials who have
been entrusted with the custody of public
funds have received interest thereon from
the institutions and others with whom the
money was deposited.
The rules were suspended and senate
file No. II, appropriating $4,000 for the
relief Of fire sufferers was passed. It now
goes to the governor FOR his signature.
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Thursday, Jan. II,

lnuFSC;ty, Jan. -.
SENATE-The standing committees Of
the senate were announced by President
Ciough. The distribution of the chair
manship plums has been awaited with
much anxiety by the members, and when
it occurred a general sense of relief and
qualification was apparent, for, while
everyone did not receive all he desired,
there was a general recognition that the
distribution of favors was as fair as any
thing could be.
Fifteen bills of more or less importance
were introduced and referred to the ap-
propriate committees.
HOUSE-Speaker Van SAINT announced
his committees at the morning session.
They are generally conceded to be fairly
made up. A number of doorkeepers.
pages and minor employees were also
named.
Ten house files were introduced and re-
ferred to committees.
The house then adjourned for the day.
Mr.. Hendricks introduced H. F. No. A
which provides for the reduction of the
legal rate Of interest from s to 6 per cent,
and the contract rate from 10 to per cent.
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went. however.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
THE POULTRY YARD.

TURN down the flame of the brooder
lamp and look out for sudden rise in
the incubator's temperature when a
warm day comes.
PUT a pan of fresh water near the
hen house where the poultry must pass
In going to roost, that none may go to
bed thirsty. Many will stop any drink
in the morning when they come out
POULTRY that is yarded often fails to
thrive from lack of grit. Ground shell
does not furnish sufficient. Provide
sharp gravel Or some of the graduated
rock now made and sold expressly for
poultry.
SET the coops upon ridge facing
south or east. A little difference in
appearance or position of coops saves
conflicting claims by the mother hens.
Keep the hens shut in stormy days, and
after the grass is up until the dew is
off
HAVING handy places of shelter in
the poultry yard where the chickens
can easily run under in time of sud-
den shower, will save having to go
round and hunt up and dry the little
fellows after it is over. and will often
save many lives. The shelter will also
serve to keep off the hot suns rays
when desired.
WORMS and beetles form most use
full diet for the hen, for she lays eggs
that are largely albumen. Shut up,
the animal matter the bird finds is very
limited, and they show their apprecia-
ton of meat, bones, etc, by greedily
devouring what is thrown them. Lib
erty is best, but next to it is ground
and dried meat and cut green bones.
HAVE the girls and boys watch the
hen turkeys and notice where they
steal their nests. Care must be taken
to protect outlying nests from foxes,
especially nights. If boxes and bar
rels be placed in sly retreats, the tur-
key hen will be very apt to choose a
laying place in them, and when estab-
lished she can be shut in nights.-Farm
Journal
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bred poultry will bring from one to
three cents more per pound than com
mon barn-yard fowls. OF course they
will require a little more attention.
The poultry-house should be made
warm, with plenty of light, and should
be as convenient as possible.
A cheap and convenient poultry
house that can be built by any farmer
is illustrated in the figures 1 and 2.
The building is 10x24, and should stand
facing the south. The sides and ends
can be made of rough boards, and the
cracks battened with lath or strips in
side and out, or matched boards can be
used and lined inside with building
paper. It can be made any height de-
sired, and the roof can be made of
shingles or matched and grooved boards
well painted.
Fig. 2 gives an end view of the inside.
A partition should extend the full
length, four feet from north side.
This will make an entry (A) 6x24 and a
room OBJ 4x24. which can be made in
two pens, 6x12, if desired. G is NOV
able floor with two roosting poles at
tached. D is nest boxes extending into
entry, with lid, SO eggs can be gathered
without going inside the pen. E is
cleated board leading to nest. The
space f is made of Stats, so fowls can
reach through to drinking trough, G..
81 is sliding door for ingress and egress
of fowls, which can be opened and
closed from entry by means of cord, I.
is door leading from entry to pen.
With convenient poultry house and
irst-class stock fancy poultry will be
found not only profitable but a source
of pleasure as well.-R. j. Goreth, in
Breeders Gazette.
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for the first time, on 3 large scale, the
future availability of the Chasseurs des
Alpes; and the test has turned ont
quite satisfactorily. Hitherto the chain
of observatory stations, of small CAMPS
and detached forts up On the mountain
passes had been abandoned year after
year, as the snow began to fly, as it had
been supposed that to stay in those
exposed posts during the dreadful
winter weather was humanity not posi-
Bile, or at least fraught with great dam
ger and probable loss of many mems
lives or health.
These posts had been left unprotect-
ed from early in November until the
snow on the peaks melted late in May
or early in June, and all drilling and
military marches and excursions had
likewise ceased during that time. Last
winter, however, series of camps
were kept in full operation, with alto
gether 300 men and a corresponding
number of beasts, and frequent marches
and other exercises have been INDUCED
in, the total loss of life until March 10
numbering only 6. The largest of these
alternating camps have been main
tanned near the Col di Tenda and the
Col des Echelles, each about 1000 feet
high. A company of chasseurs was
quartered in each, with captain, two
lieutenants and the requisite number of
non-commissioned officers, each housed
in separate barracks, to which must be
added the stables with mules, Alpine
dogs and live goats, sheep and rabbits,
the latter for food), the provision house,
the cellars, the workshop, etc.
What these hardy Alpine soldiers had
most to contend with was to maintain
communication with the nearest VAL
leys and villages, and this was task
especially difficult this past winter, as
the snow fell frequently, and, for the
three weeks following Christmas, al
most uninterruptedly. On the noun
tain sides the snow lay, in the middle
of February, about three feet high,
since which time it has slowly dinin-
ished day by day. To reestablish, after
several days of violent snowstorm, COM
munication with the nearest ''base Of
operations" was often a herculean
piece of work, and the men from the
Col des Echelles repeatedly were forced
to dig tunnels through mounds and
high walls of snow that impeded their
progress downwards.
The establishment Of this French
corps of Alpine chasseurs has spurred
Spain to organize on her part SINH
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blow arc che Mirhtv ra,len.

In view of the fact that Egypt was
once the center of civilization and
learning, whence science radiated TO
every corner of the globe, vestiges CT
Egyptian lore being found even in this
hemisphere, it is somewhat painful to
think that the only item which the land
of the Pharaohs now contributes to tho
world is onions, which are being
shipped in huge quantities to the
United States. And to make matters
worse we are informed that the pop
ular ''baeh," as the Egyptian onion is
called, owes its fine flavor as well as its
size to the fact that the fields in which
it is grown are fertilized with the
powdered mummies of the sages who
fourished on the banks of the Nile
three thousand and four thousand years
ago.
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FatteninC Ducks and Geese.

This is best done when they arc
confined in little stalls or when only
two or three are together. Like the
pig, duck or goose will eat more
when it has companion than when it
is alone, as greediness Is one of the
characteristics belonging to both
The food need not be expensive
Boiled turnips, carrots, and potatoes,
with corn meal, make the best mess to
get ducks and geese fat quickly. They
must be kept very quiet, giving
plenty of water for drinking, and
allowing pulverized charcoal once q
day. Ten days is long enough for get
ting them in Observation-Disclosures
Farmer.
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Our Population in 1900.

The estimated population Of the
United States in 1900, according to the
best authorities, will be 76, 6S9, s54. This
estimate is made by Carroll D. Wright,
superintendent of the department of
labor. It is based upon the estimates
made by well-known statisticians, the
known rates of increase and the vari,
Gus facts bearing upon the growth of
population. The population on jan
uary 1, 1894, was $3.50, TAO, and the
estimated growth is therefore rather
more than 1SH per cent. in six years.
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method are that it is more expeditions,
that it gives the fleece a better appear
ance and that the equipment is more
economically provided. After little
practice one can become very expert in
this method so that he can tie for five
or six shearers. Or where several
shearers are at work on raised bench,
each can have his ball of Irvine and do
up his feeces on the bench just where
he shears, though it is better to let one
man tie up all the feeces on a separate
table. They will thus be gotten more
uniform in appearance. I know that
encounter danger of being taken to
task for practi cling deception, but 1 am
going to urge the practice of studying
to give the fieeces the best possible out
ward appearance. I continually raise
my voice, both at home and in public,
against concealing any worthless ma
terial in feeces, but it is no fraud to
fold the fleece in such way that the
brightest parts of the fleece will show
and the dark ends, the coarse locks and
discolored fribs not appear.
We never put any pulled wool, I'M
washed tags, short-stapled or cotted
heeces in others and never divide a
rams fleece, making two, though /
consider this latter in no way fraud.
A fleece that has bulk corresponding
to its weight ought to pass without de-
duction. though it grew on ram and
has tell-tale odor. Wool should be
placed in a dry airy place. The direct
rays of the sun and even the full light
of the day will give it a dingy hue.
But if packed away in dark close
bin, moth and mice are apt to damage
worse.
1t is generally believed that wool
will shrink in weight one per cent. or
more in the few weeks Immediately
following shearing. But for two years
our own clip sacked in the fall and
weighed gained nearly three pounds
to the sack during the winter. 1t was
kept in the same room after being
sacked that it was before, it being on
an upper floor perfectly dry, well VEN
tilated and light. 1t was a result not
expected and not explained. As a
rule, think the changes in weight
need not be taken into account one
way or the other.-H. P. Miller, in
Ohio Farmer.
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When Trey May Be Married.

In Hungary man may marry at the
age of Is and the girl at 16. In Spain,
Portugal and Greece the respective ages
are only ID for the man(?) and IL for
the prospective bride. In France he
must be Is and she Is. In Russia the
laws vary between IS and 90 for the
men and Is and Is for the women. In
Switzerland the various cantons have
different laws, and the minimum ages
for marrying are 10 and 20 for the men
and from ID to II for girls. In Austria
and Germany men seldom marry under
81, although the law allows it at 10.
Girls may wed at 16 in these countries.
In Egypt boys at 13 are, often married,
and brides of 10 and 10 are not scarce
by any means. But India carries off
the palm. Here marriages are closed
in infancy, and a girl of is sometimes
married to groom of or 5years.
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tory just beyond the italian border.
During 1894 not less than 127 Italians
were stopped on French territory on
the suspicion of playing the spy, and
of these 81 were civilians and GO mill
tary persons, while the Italian authOri-
ties have stopped 80 French men and
women on the charge of espionage, of
whom II were held and sentenced.
These facts in themselves speak a Ian
guage which is plain enough, for they
show how suspicious one of these two
leading Latin nations rs of her neigh
Dor and oae-tine ally, the other lead
ing Latin nation. They show how
both countries deem war as within
the possibilities of the near future and
how strained their relations have really
come to be since the establishment of
the triple alliance whose member Italy
has remained for over ten years.
It Is owing to this regrettable state
of things that France, as well as Italy,
has made and is still making all the
preparations for a war whose scene
might be on the territory of either
country. Now the Franco-Italian bor-
der is formed, for nearly the whole line,
by chains OF the Alps which, in their
eastern and northern spurs, form also
the dividing line between Switzerland
and Germany, Switzerland and France,
and Switzerland and Italy. Only on
the French border those chains rise
more abruptly and are even harder to
isurmount. Forts and fortresses, forth
fed and crenelated Alpine passes, mar
row bitches and crevasses that may be-
come tombs for myriads Of soldiers some
day, have been erected or strengthened
on both sides of the frontier during the
past decade, and on SUBMITS of isolated
mountain peaks the black mouths of
Krupp or Creuzot guns are now frowning
and threatening where formerly the
goat and chamois peaceably grazed. But
one of the most characteristic innova-
tions made in both armies was the or
sganization, the drilling and the complete
equipment of Alpine chasseur corps.
The Italian army, as matter Of fact,
had the nucleus of such a body even be-
fore. Victor Emmanuel, father of the
present king, was himself son of the
mountains and an interchangeable climber
and hunter of mutton, chamois and
Alpine bear, and tn him, too, it was
due that a veritable elite corps, the best
and hardest of his army, has existed
for the past forty years, the CdccaatOrs,
men Injured to the dreadful hardships
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"Now," said the bridegroom to the
bride when they returned from the
honeymoon trip, ':let Us have clear
understanding before we settle down
to married life. Are you the president
or vice president of this society?"
81 want to be neither president nor
vice president" she answered. Il
will be content with subordinate po-
sition."
"What is that?"
"Comptroller of the treasury" =
Texas Siftings.
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Brownston-Ycs, sir. My house has
been robbed three times, and 1 live
right in the middle of the city, too,
with policeman at every corner. ]
should think you'd be scared half to
death living as you do, way off in the
country.
Mr.. Suburb-My house is never in
terfered with. There hasn't been a
burglar in our section for years.
Eth! Have you policemen there?"
mo. Nothing but guns. IN. Y.
Weekly.
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~of Alpine warfare and knowing the
narrow defiles of the Italian Alps, the
Julian and the Cottian, as well as their
pockets.
In 1889 France finally followed suit,
paterning her corps Of Alpine chasseur
after the Italian, not only in the mat
ter of equipment but also in the train
ing and exercising of the men. Within
the frontier departments occupied by
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth French
army corps, twelve battalions of this
new SPECIAL troop were formed, backed
up by twelve Alpine batteries, in all
comprising about 5000 men and 1 200
beasts of burden, notably mules and
donkeys- This corps has been made up
of recruits partly obtained. from Savoy,
partly from the Pyrenees department
and from the maritime Alps, and they
have been steadily improved in ef1cien-
-cy until they equal, If not surpass, the
members of the Italian corps who had
served as their models.
The winter just past has been a very
severe one in that part of the world as
well as elsewhere. and it has therefore
served the French government To test,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01

There is tree at Athens, Ca, which
is property holder. In the early part
of the century the land on which it
stands was owned by Col. w. H. Jack.
son, who took delight in watching its
growth. In his old age the tree had
reached magnificent proportions, and
the thought of it's being destroyed was
SO repugnant that he recorded deed
conveying to it all the land withix
. radius of eight feet Of - base
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
RahY,s NTaaternieoe.

I'm sure that baby is going to be a
great artist" said the fond mother.
Isn't he rather young to evinee any
talent?''
That's just where he shows his
genius. l left him where he could get
some red ink on his fingers, and before
1 knew what he was doing he had
decorated the library wall with one OF
the lovcliest magazine posters you ever
saw."-Washingto Star.
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Ispecial Paris rrance) letter.

A short time ago, on the birthday Of
King HumberG, the italian sovereign
pardoned Capt. Romani, arrested not
far from ventimiglia as French spy
and sentenced to three years impris-
onment. The French government re-
sponded to this act of international
courtesy by discharging Capt. Cavalot-
ii and Lieut.. Fabbri, of the italian en-
gineer corps, who had been sent to
jail on somewhat slight proof as sus-
pected of espionage on French terri
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Cheat.

Uncle Philander standing before
chewing gum slot machineHThis here
things cheat. put my penny in all
right, pushed the little bizness an tibet
piece of gum come down inter sight,
but here I've been watchin' an waitin'
half hour an the sol darn jigger
hasn't begun to chew yet!-Life.
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The Porter Was Safe.

''We haven't relieved the Pullman
porter of his wad,'' said a new train
robber to his older companion, as they
were about to move off, after going
through the train.
''Honor among thieves" replied the
veteran, as the robbers disappeared into
the MISUNDERSTANDING Chronicle
TELEGRAPH
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PuRE-RREp POULTRY.
To Keep 1t Is Prof1tabls as Well ms n
Source OF Pleasure.

To Keep 1t Is Profltable as Well ms
Source OF Pleasure.
In this age of progressive stock-raiz-
ing it is food for reflection why so
many farmers who pride themselves on
the pedigrees of their cattle, sheep or
swine pay little or no attention to the
breeding of their poultry. Every farm
er has more or less poultry and it is
safe to say that less than one-half OF
the farmers who are breeding blooded
stock can make any claim to having
pure-bred poultry. Nothing is more
pleasing to the eye on livestock
farm than flock of pure-bred poultry
and nothing is more disgusting than to
see farm with herd of blooded cat
tie or swine and lot of uncared-for,
scrawny, mongrel fowls running about
the yards.
Any farmer by the outlay of from So
to SO for eggs or SO to SIS for fowls
from some reliable breeder can lay the
foundRtion for a stock of pure bred
poultry in one year. The cockerels
can be sold from 81 to So each by ex-
pending a small sum in advertising
and should bring more than enough to
cover first cost. But even if they are
sold on the market it has been demon
strated beyond a question that pure