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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-06-27

If the. cream is excessively sour,
there will be a loss of fat, for in some
way it gets the cream in condition in
which it will not give up all its fat
Farmers Voice.
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Leading land and loan agents.
Lands from $40 to $50 per acre.
Money to loan in sums from $500
to $4,000 at Z per cent. No delay.
HEDBERG & CLAUsEN.
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Warning-NOtice.

All persons are warned not to take
rock or sand from the north east side
of Lake Ocheda, under pain of prose-
.cution. SAM PETERSON,
43-3w JOIN MAGELsoN.
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1t is estimated that Of the total
sum raised for the support of the Prot
testant churches of this country, over
one-third is now procured by the eff
forts or labors OF women.
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"a change whici is always gratefully
appreciated by them. These rccep.
tacles keep the feeds free from dust
and dirt, and vermin cannot easily ef-
feet an entrance save by gnawing
through.-American Agriculturist.
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a good house and barn with q
acres fland close to business part Of
town for rent. This property is for.
sale or exchange for 80 acres of
land. (tf] M. E.%LAwToS.
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CREAM, says Mr.. Gurler, should al
ways be strained through a wire strain
er into the churn. This breaks up any
thick cream. r.s -.
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ASSOCIATED
Organized with complete stan Of able spe-
cIalists for the treatment Of Chronic Diseases
and Surgical Cases. Offices. JY9 West Madison
Street and l4O1 State Street, Chicago.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
MRS. GRANTS NEW HOME.
1t VIII Be a VeritabIe Museum of
Relics of Her Soldier Husband.

Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant has purchased
a $50, 600 mansion in Washington and
expects to pass the remainder of her
days at the capital, where she ruled as
first lady of the land for eight years.
For several months she and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris, and
children have been living in rented
house in Washington, and very recent
ly Mrs. Grant bought the mansion Of
ex-senator Edmunds, which is situated
on Massachusetts avenue in the very
heart of the fashionable residence
quarter Of the capital. She and her
daughter have been dined and feted
constantly since they made Washing
ton their home, and it is believed that
when they occupy their new residence
it will be the scene of numerous social
gayeties. What lends color to this re-
port is the apparently welI-founded
rumor that Mrs. Sartoris, who is as
beautiful as ever Notwithstanding her
unhappy marriage, is soon to give mat
rimony a second trial.
The new Grant house was built by
ex-senator Edmunds about ten years
ago and is in a very choice neighbor-
hood, but a short distance form the
Blaine mansion. 1t is three stories in
height, with an English basement, and
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
UNCLE SAM IN AFIX
HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO
STOP MAIL GOING TO EDNA
r.. BROWN.
SCHEME TO AID A CRIPPLE.
fl WORKED ASTOUNDINGLY -
VILLAGE FLOODED WITH
STAMPS.
OVER TWO MILLION LETTERS.
The Postmaster at KaneViIIe, Ill.
Wants IL Big Raise of SAL
airy.

CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-The postoffice
department is worrying over the
kaneville, ILL.,, letter chain enor-
nifty. Inspector Stuart has been re-
quested to investigate it.
Letters are pouring into Kaneville
at the rate of 5000 day. These are
coming from Europe The first INSTALL
ment of foreign replies to this gil
gantic chain reached 1Ianeville
Monday. The operations of the
chain" have been practically head
ed off in this country, but the null
tiplying missives have got to for
eign lands and the chain is run
ming riot in Europe, particularly in
England and Scotland. The first
three days of this week there were
received in Knoxville $4,000 letters
containing contributions of used
postage stamps.
This is the letter chain," which
was set going by Miss Edna R.
Brown, of KanevilIe, Kane county,
Ill, in September, 1894, for the os-
tensible purpose of procuring 1,000,-
900 stamps, for which a medical in
stitution would treat a crippled girl.
Miss Brown has since been married.
the crippled girl has been pronounced
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
Just Shed ,Em.

z Kansas City Star.
Take the horn off a COW and she
has a. weird look that was not intended
for her by nature. She looks as though
she had left something at home. Out
on Vine street there is little fiat
through which a tiny stream mean
ders. One morning a tall young negro
led a strange looking animal down
: to this stream to drink. 1t had the
body of a burro, shaggy and rough.
But 1t had not the head of a burro
. One had to look twice to determine
what was wrong with it. It's ears were
clipped close to it's head. Imagine a
donkey without it's great Tapping, ex-
fpressived ears. Somehow it reminded
one of an. armless man or any other
unfinished creature.
+ i The absence of ears gave the burro
q pathetic look and detracted from it's
intelligence. A burro without ears to
prick backward and forward in search
OF alarming sounds is, indeed, sun-
happy.
81 When the burro had finished
drinking the negro drove him up the
hill to the street, walking behind
and slapping him with the end of a
long rope
"How did the burro lose his ears?'
asked the man who always wants to
know. The negro looked at his ques-
toner for a brief, .contemptuous mo-
ment and then replied: Don't know,
boss. Reckon he shed EN-"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

IF this chain Is carried out to the
eightieth series. which is the limit in
England, a glance at this table, which
is carried out to the f1ftieth series, will
give one an idea. of a total almost too
great to be calculated and far exceed
ing ordinary conception.
FIRST LINKS ARRIVE.
Within a month after the CHAIN
was started letters containing ten or
more stamps began to find their way to
Kaneville, each a link in the chain.
One day early in October last year
fifty-four letters came for Miss Brown.
People of Kaneville opened their eyes
in wonder when they heard OF 1t.
The news spread rapidly. Postmaster
Shoellhorn, who is also the village
shoemaker, went over the addresses
half a dozen times before he could be-
lieve it. Then he tied them up in
nice bundle with a stout waX-end,
and the postoffice was full of staring
people when he came out from behind
the little row of pigeon holes and de-
livered the package to the confused
and blushing addressee. Crowds gath
cred in Mart Shoop's and ClePs places
that night to talk 1t over. Charley
Garman tried to explain how it was,
but there was more doubt than con-
viction that night in Kaneville. The
next day there were $50 letters for
Edna R. Brown, and before the prom
inent citizens of the place could arrive
at a. verdict on the miraculous lot O.
letters" they were pouring in by the
thousand. Then they just submitted to
the inevitable. The letters were COM
ing; there was no doubt of that, and
that was all there was to it.
Before the haZy afternoons of Oc-
tober were gone there was a romance
mixed up in the postal sensation.
John Garman, the father of the Grip
pied girl, had son, a big, easy-going
fellow-a chip of the old block, the vii
layers said. He was a blacksmith like
his father and industrious enough. No
one in Kaneville was prepared to hear
that Edna Brown had picked out
Charley Garman,'' but she had, and
during the latter part of October just
as the letters began coming swiftly,
they were married. Edna r. Brown
became Mrs. Charles Garman.
BIGGEST MAN IN. TOWN.
The prominence Kaneville has ac-
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
LETTERS TO GIVE AWAY.

Young Garman took a handful out
of the pile lying on the postoffice
floor and tossed them over to the re-
porter
you can have these" he said.
but they have never been opened"
That's nothing. You can open
them
They We're all foreign letters. On six
Of them there were SO cents postage,
and none had less than ten stamps
within.
All of these letters are supposed to be
an exact copy of the foregoing sam
pie, and the wonder is the copy has
been followed SO faithfully. None of
them omit saying: Though it may
seem "a small thing to you, yet any one
breaking the chain viii involve serious
loss to the enterprise" In the matter
Of addressing. however, there is many
q wide deviation from the correct SPELL
ing of Kaneville. There is Hamville,
Kairunn, Karn, and almose every pos
sible variation one would be likely to
make. Yet all these letters reached
their destination. Miss Brown, Harm,
H., y. s. A, guided a letter through
all right from a. village in Russia,
Every postal clerk has long since
learned about the scheme, and a sug-
gestion of the address is enough for
them to know
In a spirit of fun one day some post
al clerks started q chain fos' the bene-
it did not succeed. Scores of persons
have tried to start a similar Chain
since, but the Kaneville wonder alone
succeeded. Nearly 100000 have been
received there already, and the end is
not in sight.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27


women conceived the idea of helping
him to buy wooden leg and started
their friends to collecting used postage
stamps for him. A concern offered him
an artificial leg for 100000 old stamps.
They gathered the million and
gave them to Freddie. He still has the
stamps. When he gets to be man he
will buy the leg, he says. If he had it
now he would outgrow it. There was
no 'chain" letter employed in his case.
GEOMETRICAL RESULTS.
The Kaneville girl got an idea, and
with the aid of her thinking friend in
New York the brilliant plan of chain
was evolved from a laudable desire to
acquire a wooden leg for a boy who
would be too big for it before Christ
mas.
She did not expect much from 1T, she
says. She had not even calculated on
the possibility of it. She did not know
there were not enough people on the
earth and had not been since the time
of Adam to furnish a writer for every
request in the Chain" That there was
not enough wealth in Kane county to
pay for hauling the water used in max
ing the glue or the stamps necessary
to mail the letters II the chain was
not BROKEN" That the'interest on the
value of the postage alone would pay
the national debt and buy another
new navy. To carry out the idea of
this chain the first person sends out
three letters. Each recipient of these
sends three, and the second series thus
produces nine answers, the third twen-
ty-seven, the fourth eighty-one, the
fifth 273. When the thirteenth series
is reached the number of letters re-
ceived exceeds a million and one-half
The increase is colossal from thence
If the chain is unbroken, the number OF
the letters in the fiftieth series would
be 269 sextillions, 1S1 quintillions, 720
quadrillions. 1863 trillions, 607 billions, 546
millions, 004 thousands and GIL. The
table carried out in full is as follows:
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

letters are addressed, wished to
stop it now she would be as power
less as if contending against the
tides of the ocean. If the machinery
of the United States postoffice de-
partment was called to her aid it
could not end it, now that it is
spreading over Europe. The only
thing Uncle Sar@&an do is to treat
with such phases of it as come with
in the scope of the vindicatory feat
ureS of the law.
All this worldwide correspondence
is directed to a simple country girl,
who would stand amazed at the COM
pleXities of the workings of third
class postoffice. She is a slight built
young woman, eighteen years old,
with fair complexion and dark hair
and dark eyes. She was setting out
to visit her mother, who lives a few
miles from Kaneville, when a re-
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

incurable, and was years ago, over
25,OOO,OOO stamps have been received,
and still letters are pouring in. The
limit of the "chain" has been extend
ed from fifty to eighty since it reached
Europe, and where it will end no
body can conjecture.
POSTAL AUTHORITIES PUz-
ZLED.
What the United States postal au-
thorities can do about it is a uues-
ton that worries them. The writ
ers are outside the jurisdiction of
Uncle Sam. There is seemingly no
evidence of premeditated fraud or
purpOsed swindling in the scheme
yet thousands and thousands OF dol
lars have been spent in postage.
Kaneville is flooded with mail mat
ter. Postage stamps are stacked I'D
IN farm houses around Kaneville
like wheat in bin and people are
spending estimated on the letters
received this week. $500 a day for
the carriage of their letters alone.
A phase of this undertaking which
the United States government will
take up, it is said, is the losses in
postage due. This amounts to over
$40 a day on Edna r. Browns mail.
1t is not paid and the letters are re-
turned to the dead-letter office.
Letters with postage due are for
Warded by the governments of the
postal union under agreement, on
the supposition that people to whom
they are addressed will pay the post
age and take the letters. The Ed
ma R. Brown postage due letters are
not even scrutinized by her. They
are dumped in the dead-letter bag
by the postmaster at Kaneville with
out question and sent to Washington
to subject the United States gov
ernment to a still further expense
and no good purpose served. This
1t is said, has set the postal author
tiles to thinking. All of these post
age-due letters arriving at Kane
Vile now are from foreign countries
and the international agreement con-
cerning their handling must be OBJ
served, though the cost of handling
them is two and one-half times as
great as for domestic letters.
GREATEST IN THE WORLD.
This letter chain, started from ar
obscure crossroads postoffice, has be-
come the most gigantic thing in the
way of correspondence the world
has ever heard of. Kaneville is MOI
even a village. 1t is no incorporat.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
MART SHOoP's VIEWS.

Mart Shoop, the constable and pro-
prfetor Of one of the general stores,
talked about it in this way:
sAu the persons connected with this
scheme are honest and respectable.
Edna r. Brown Is what might be call
ed.an intelligent girl. She Is pretty and
bright. Her mother, a widow, married
j. F. Weston, one of the oldest and
most respectable farmers in the coun-
ty, He went to New York and married
her three years ago and brought tner
eut here. Then the girl Edna married
young Garman, who comes of an hon
est family, though his father has not
dertook to raise money by this scheme
to- get medical assistance for this girl,
Matte Garman, who is now her sister
in-law. 1t was a hopeless case. If it
was not there are people here who
would raise all the money needed TO
have her cured. She has curvature of,
the spine, and cannot move her limbs.
letters would quit
To visit the Kaneville postofice is,
to get new sort of notion Of the
value of mail matter. There are thou
sanGs of unopened letters there piled
up INK a corner like SO much waste pa
per, and hardly valued above it Nearly
every one of them was from a foreign
country, on which from to so cents
postage had been paid by the sender
The labor spent in writing these is
threefold what one sees evidence of,
for each writer made three copies and
sent them out. The labor and time
expended on these, not to mention the
NOUS. And the recipient of these let
ters, which cost kind-hearted people
so much, places little more value on
them than on so much cordWood.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

ed. 1t is geographically cross
roads in Kane county, about forty
miles from Chicago and five miles
from a railroad station. It's popula-
ton is 100. There are three general
stores, a blacksmith shop, a couple
Of dozen dwellings of the style of
farm houses strung along the high
way, hotel and the postoffice.
If E7na R. Brown, to whom the
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

is entirely of brick. There is an arched
and vine-covered entrance, and the
house is surrounded by trees and over
looks a picturesque park. For two
years the place has been the home of
Secretary Olney, and all the shining
lights of the present administration
have had their legs under the mahog-
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
THE MODERN MAID.

am a-weary, mother dear,
Enfeebled and oeT.-worn;
! cannot WELD a broom, fear,
Nor pull and husk the corn.
Twould jeopatdize my health to
make
The beds or can the fruit,
or nelp you dust, or sew or bake,
Ere / my strength recruit
Thus spafe.ythe maiden, gave cough,
To strengthen her appeal,
Then donned her blopnlers and rode off
! ~ GKiohsnond Dispatch.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

fashioned fireplace and a bay window
from which the winding Potomac and
the Virginia hills may be seen.
One conspicuous feature of the fur
nishing of the house will be numerous
relics of Gen. Grant and his campaigns.
When all of them are in place the resi-
dence will be a veritable Grant mu-
scum.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

any in the handsome dining room. The
president has partaken of the hospital
ity Of the house, and the members Of
that august and erudite body, the su-
preme court of the United States, have
handed down favorable opinions IN
the matter of the supreme court versus
the cooking Of Richard Olney and one."
The broad hall is finished in light oak,
and to the right of it is a sunny room
which Secretary Olney used as his
"den." The drawing room is one of
the pleasantest rooms of the kind in
and the library has an old
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

found an English postal money order
on 1t.
This hope of finding rare stamps
makes 1t easy for Edna and her hus-
band to get the neighbors to take home
bushels of letters to open and sort out
the contents. Then there is the salts
faction of ones curiosity to open and
read so many letters There is one
man in Kaneville who has opened moro
Of these letters than anybody else III
the place, but he has never read one
or them. This is Milt Coy, the blind
man. He can open letters, they say,
faster than anyone. His wife and little
boy sort out the stamps. School chill
dren go to the postoffice whenever they
feei like reading some mail CORES
pondence and get hatful of letters to
take home.
fgThey've had several offers for those
stamps" said Postmaster Shoellhorn,"
'tbut they never took any of them eX-
cept for a. few small lots and some
rare stamps. Now they have no offers
atall. People who buy postage stamps
don't deal in them except in the win
ter. Then there are all the addresses
that come in these letters. Somebody
said they could sell these, and they are
saving for that purpose"
Then the village blacksmith strolled
into the postoffice. He passes most of
his time there now.
EXPECT TO SELL THEM.
"Have you any chance to sell those
addresSes?' he was asked.
mo. We are keeping them, though.
Expect to sell them all right"
You could sell the letters for waste
paper, couldn't you?"
I guess we could If we knew some
body who would buy it. All I wish
now is that people would quit sending
these letters. They are a nuisance to
us now
While the people of Kaneville un-
used to any excitement heretofore,
have got used to the thing and don't
worry about anything new but the
finding of rare stamps, there are 9TH
ers who are staying awake of nights
on account of Kanesville's postal busi-
ness. These are the amateur detect
ives. They have evolved some wild
theories in this connection. Some 9TH
ers of them have concluded by a. series
of deductions that the United States
government is being swindled or is
about to lose large sums as a result Of
this colossal stamp collection.
A gentleman who amuses himself
with this sort of problems has figured
out how the government could lose
millions if these stamps were in the
hands of dishonest persons. He con-
cluces that the paper of which they are
made could be worked over and used
in making spurious issues of stamps.
Kaneville people scoalt the idea that
there is any sort of effort in the whole
affair to do willful fraud. That hnn-
dreds of thousands of people are being
innocently made the dupes of a scheme
that has overrun all hounds they We
hemently assert, but the wrong done,
they contend, was unwilling and can
not now be remedied.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
Wedding Gifts.

A complete line of everything for
wedding gifts at e. A. Browns, 10
East Sixth st.
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porter visited the place. There was
the house full of stamps, any one
could see, she had no explanation
and she left her husband to do all
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

Young Garman took a handful out
of the pile lying on the postoffice
floor and tossed them over to the re-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-28
A SOUTHERN BIBLE CONFERENCE
Arrangements Perfected for Having
One nf Old Point.

Under arrangements perfected yesterday
by telegraph, a Southern Bible conference,
similar to those conducted at Mortified,
Niagara, and other points IN the North,
will be held at Old Point this year from
June 18th to the 18th.
Reduced railroad rates have been Sc
cured. the Hygea has made special terms
and those interested in the movement ex-
pect q large gathering OF ministers and
others interested in the study OF the
Bible.
Rev. DR.. 4. G. Dixon, OF Brooklyn, has
been made president Of the conference;
John Dewitt, president Of the King
Sons. who has been foremost in working
up the scheme, is secretary, and Rev. DR..
T. j. Pell. OF this city, is In hearty CO.
operation with them. Among the promi-
nent Bible scholars who have accepted In
yitations to attend the conference are DIT
II. NJ. Wharton. OF Baltimore; Rev
George G.. Needham. of Springfield; DIS
Seiss and Stearns, of Philadelphia, and
seven or eight others. These conferences
will be held annually hereafter
| Governor OFerrall Is expected to de-
| liver an address of welcome on behalf OF
| the laity and DR.. Cooper in the name OF
| the ministry.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-28
THE WEDNESDAY CLUB.
Preparations for the May Festival
EnIarging It's Scope.

The wednesday Club, which has IN
the course of a brief but brilliant career
established itself as one Of the finest
choral societies IN the South. will hold
it's annual May festival at the Academy
on the 10th and 18th of that month. Inc
club will be assisted upon the occasion
by such well-known artists as Madam
Emma Juch, Mr.. Leonard l.. Auty, and
Or. y. Merrill Hopknson.
The Wednesday Club was ORGANIZED
scarcely two years ago. when sixty cnar-
ter-menbers were enrolled. 1t has since
attained a membership Of over 20,
while the average attendance at
the rehearsals is 100. The object OF the
society Is TO elevate the musical taste OF
the community. and to this end the per-
formance of the sacred oratorios. Ii is
the intention OF those who have at heart
the interest OF the cuban intention
which has drawn great strength from
the hattering and enthusiastic reception
Of the clubs effort-to accumulate fLnd
| for the erection Of concert-hall-to be
the Headquarters Of the society-and the
foundation of a musical library. TO In
clude all the works of the masters. With
this in view, a bylaw was recently added
to the constitution OF the club providing
for the election of honorary members. II
is expected that the income derived from
this source will be sufficient to defray
the expenses Of the annual concerts, and
that the proceeds of those concerts VIII
| be devoted entirely to the "hall-fund."