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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
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FOR CONSTIPATION.

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the latter purpose Pruneline Is the per-
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
The Community OF Letters.

>. WRITERS have. liked to speak of the
republic, of letters, rs: if to. mark their
freedom and equality; but there is a
better phrase, namely, the community
of letters; for that means intercourse
and comradeship and life in common.
Some take up their abode in it as il
they had made no search for a place to
dwell in, but had come into the freedom
of it by blood and brightness. Others
buy the freedom with a great price. and
seek out all the sights and privileges of
the place with an eager thoroughness
and curiosity. Still others win their
way into a certain grace and aptitude,
next best to the case and dignity Of be-
ing born to the right. But for all it is
a bonny place to be. It's comradeships
are liberal education. Some. indeed,
even there. live apart: but most run al
ways in the market place to know what
all the rest have said. Some keep
special company. while others keep
none at NIL. But all feel the atmos-
phere and life of the place in their sever
al degrees.-Prof. Woodrow Wilson, in
Century.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
baountifui 6Fsn masiS. shs 49,

Fbount NAH,
hold was loud in his praise. NJ -.
@ f1t'ssfwsffs gh no fault of his
certain ...hitch he's occurred Iin the light
work that :Bcny, was calle upon sto per-
form. He hadstwo drivers, Jonas.a tall
young man. and Roilo, y short, stubby
boy Neither Of them understocd old
Bony. Min, %s sa,s;s y, F$s S 15Ss
MIL Aged and broken down though he
was, he had q high spirit. and OCCASION
ally a flash in his eye which suggested
that he had done some wild deeds in his
youth. He was'very nervous, and when
Jonas yelled ''Whoa!" or Get up!"q ct
him III a. loud, rude voice, Bony became
irritated and alarmed: Once he balked
in the barnyard, refusing to move a load
OF manure, while Jonas slapped him
with the reins and shouted malediction
! and Encouragement. K .,s,. :, ....vgs-.,
Then Rollo performed the one clever
act az his life.~ He'pl,lcked a handful OF
grass and gave it. to Bony BY way OF
/ changing; the current of his thoughts.
Then, with a:gentle pat, Rollo re-
| marked, persuasiyely: Get up, Bony:'
and the old horse 'got up" and took the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
His Patent IN Danger.

Attorney Garrett McEnery recently
appeared as counsel i'll a case before a
Justice of the peace at Suisun. Me-
emery found it necessary to make fire.
quent objections to the evidence that
opposing counsel was attempting to in
troducc. The justice, whose rule OF evil
dence is ''cverything goes" looked first
annoyed and then indignant. Finally
he could contain himself no longer, and,
Us a ruling on one of Mr.. McEnery's OBJ
jections. roared:
'Mr McEnery, what kind of :aw'
yer are you, anyway?
Il am a patent lawyer" replied the
attorney, facetiously.
''Well, all I've got to say is that when
the patent expires you will have hard
time getting 1T renewed. Go on with
the case."-San Francisco Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
iI.. "a - tF'S 49," = -E's'f FShe'a.
BLIZZARD AND SAND.
Thousands Of I:ufHslOes Driven Over .
Precipice by the Fierce Wind.

Thousands of ,Isunsloes Driven Over. .
Precipice by the Fiercc Wind. .
d Near Cheyenne Wells is Il long stretch
of level prairie, which suddenly ter
inmates in q precipice, making q per-
pendicular descent of perhaps so feet
to another plain below. In tho winter
of 1858 a great blizzard ragged for several
days. The snow was driving at ,Ltei'rific
rate before q hurricane of wind, and
the buffaloes wercobliged. in self-preser-
walton, to turn their backs and run with
the wind. The result was that vast
numbers of the buffaloes were carried
over the precipice. and their dead bod
les were covered with 20 or 80 feet of
snow. For many years people visited
the spot to look at the bones, which lay
in piles ten and fifteen feet high as far
as the eye could reach along the preci-
pice, and it was commonly estimated
that 100000 buffaloes found a grave on
that fatal spot.
Sand-stor1ns in those days were so
destructive that it was not unusual for
freighters to lose their entire outfit.
During the prevalence of a storm no
attempt was made to move forward,
and drivers cleared the sand out of the
nostri]s OF the horses and oxen, as other
wise the animals were threatened with
death from suffocation. A sandstorm
usually lasted only two or three hours,
but its effects were felt for days by men
and animals exposed to the fury of the
blast.
a curious phenomenon noticed in diff
ferent places on the plains was the inn
mense excavating power of the wind in
| a sand storm. There were areas of
| three or four acres, where the wind
| scooped out the sand 40 or so feet deep,
| and whirled il away in the air. It
seemed as if the work began at a central
spot no larger than could be covered
| with I; mans hat. In an incredibly
short time (. round hole would be exca-
waited. The wind then took hold in
real earnest, and the probabilities were
that an entire sand-hill would be
]eveled down in the next 80 minutes
/ Denver Field and Farm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
!, / FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The present constabulary strength
Of Scotland is but one policeman to
every 1928 OF tire population. ;, ~. ~
The official cxecutioner of the sui
tan Of Turkey uses silken cord in
strangling persons ordered to be put to
death. '}.-t'n ~. -, = nc &" .-..n
In the government of Saratov, in
Russia, horse thieves and cattle raiders
are lynched when caught. The latest
case is the beating to death with sticks
OF four men by the peasants of Biklei.
-Horseshoers in Saxony are com
peeled to pass q public examination ere
they are permitted tofwork at the bust
ness. They must understand the care
and treatment of horses or they will
not he licensed to shoe the animals.
Large bits of stone IRE falling from
the Paris Grand opera house, which has
been built only 20 years. A survey of
the masonry of the building has been
ordered by. the. department of fine arts.
I'm opposition to the bourgeois
''Boeuf Gras'' procession in Paris, the
Bohemians, artists, writer's and must
clans of Montmartre are going to have
festival ii the .''Vache Enragee,'
mad cow" the proverbial diet OF
French prodigals. ,..-.Is"-. ~. :
French law favors the drivers and
carriage folk, and not the pedestrians
and as 4 result, it is said, there were
more people, killed in the streets OF
Paris last year than died from all the
diseases that Pasteur devoted his sci
ence to combat. , e., =.
I'm Great Britain and Ireland, from
1889 to 1893, inclusive, some 4,526
strikes occurred. They affected 1852.
1913 persons. The successful strikes at
fected 44.5 per cent. of this total mum
Der the partially successful, 1919 per
cent, and the unsuccessful, 21.6 pei
cent.
The silent cab call is an invention
much to be esteemed which is now com
ing into general use in London. Two
lamps, one red and the other green. are
suspended from the door of a club OF
other public building. The porter
within has merely to press u knob in
the entry hall, and either the red or the
green lamp may be illuminated, the
one to call 4 four-wHeeler and the other
| q hanson.
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P)TH AND. POINT. 4

Genuine. -. Witherby -"I UNDER.
stand that you had a birthday party %
your house the other night. Who was.
there?' Plankington - "Two doctors
and nnrse."-Truth.
-UnaccOuntable.- Mistress-"M Mary.
how was it I saw you treating your
friends to my cake and fruit?" Mary
II can't tell, ma'am, for the life of me,
for I'm sure covered the keyhole!"-.
Tid-Bits. -
$50 poor Wigstaff is dead. Well, he
was his own worst enemy Eyes,
that's so. When you consider the kind
of cigars he used to treat himself to YOU
can have no doubt about it."'-Indian-
apolis Journal. > 80 E>sF% ~
WHATS that long piece of writing,
papa? lis it 'poetry?' Chastity re-
placing it in: his empty pocketbook)7-
eyes, DEAR it is an owed to your motif
er's milliner. '-Chicago Tribune.
Tile stood up at the top of tho
steps," she said. in telling about it aft
EDWARDS, land mustered up enough
courage, tosay: : You know this is leap
year?'" ''Yes. What then%' ''Then
he leaped and haven't seen him since"
Chicago Post. %, = -
The Horrors of War in Cuba
General" said the officer who had con-
Quoted the reconnaissance, ''if we enter
the town, many brave men will fall"
show 80? Have not the enemy evacu-
ated the place." eyes, general; but
they have covered the streets with ba-
mana peels."-Puck.
One View of the Occurrence
'Patsy," said Mr.. Dolan to his son,
''kape tn example av George Wash'n't'n
in yer moind's oye." 'Oi will, father
''There was the by that wouldn't loio
about it whin he cut down the chufry-
three" "Was there any great merit in
7thot, father?'' "What do yez name by
AKIN such question:" "Ofve seen
the picther ov that tonne whin he didn't
tell loie. His father had KEN on i'm
shtandin' beside the three, with tn
Ratchet in is hand. Begorrah, how
could he ?''-Washington Star.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
koREA's, CIVILIZATIONS. !.
Many ;sf Our '.dodsth' aArts Were Rr.c.
=. =. tIced. There Centur Ago. Il. /

Many 81 Our sAIodefhf' aArtH .Nyeref Fr1c-
r. - .ticed There Centuries Ago. ~ h
In bird's-eye view, the Koreans are
q conglomerate Of many nationalities,
including probably Drayidian tribes
from India, Thibetans, northern peo-
plies from the highlands Of Siberia. be-
sides large immigrations from China
and u considerable infusion of Japanese
blood. Many of the tall, fine-looking
natives suggest Caucasian features,
figure, and ancestry. National tradi-
tions run back to the age of FIVE or six
centuries before Confucius, whose an
cestor is said to have been the first
civilizer of the people northeast of
China, both within and without the
present limits of the Land of Morning
Radiance-which name was thus an
GENTLY given. No trustworthy history,
however, is on record, until shortly
after the opening of the Christian era.
Then, as in Great Britain, grew up three
Kingdoms, which had an interesting
history wherein are two events of great
interest; namely, the coming of Bud
dhism, with its arts and civilizing in
duu lQO t9dS1C "1tA <AI0OSs III
Guiding the use of the mariners COM
pass. The people of the entire pen
ipsula were united under one political
head in 96O A. D., and this united Korea,
or Korli, lated until A. D. 1892. During
this, the splendid Buddhist age, YER
nacular alphabet was invented, liter
allure became. comparatively abundant,
relations with China were close and
constant, and vast benefit accrued to
Japan because of the many elements of
civilization and persons of skill and in
tellect crossing over to the islands from
Korea. Not less remarkable is the fact
that printing, both from blocks and
from movable type made of lead, iron
and terra Gotta, came in vogue. Very
probably this method of printing by
movable types was afterwards brought
into Europe by the Mongols, who con-
quered the earth from far eastern
Korea to Russia. 1t is certain that
only after the Mongols appeared in
Europe do we read of movable types
improved by the addition of anthony
to the lead. No irrefragable evidence
has yet been adduccd to show that
Gutenberg, Coster, or any other Euro
pean first invented printing.-William
Elliot Griffin. D. D., in Chautauquan.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
Dress Reacts in Character.

There is such thing as carrying re-
publican. simplicity TO an extreme.
Dignifed robings-as Of d, Judge upon
the bench-are calculated to empha-
size the idea of judicial dignity, and
serve as; object lessons incarceration
and, respect. Apart from the aesthet-
les of. the thing, dress has certain NOR
al deficiencies and effects. When a
ward politician dons q silk hat he is
no longer regarded by his associates
as q possible; particiPator in b'rawls
aid prize fights John Stuart Mill
notes in his ''Roliticale Economy that
one of the first evidences of progress
noticeable among certain black pee
pies of q. southern cline was a, desire
for: ribbons and fancy articles. Of: dress,
which III q rude way argued the coming
of a new culture; ~ No man is . better
! Christian for dressing in u slovenly
fashion. Dress reacts on scharacter-
whether it be the character of the dude
or the disciple.--N.iY.O Observer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
IN DANGER FROM FLIES.

A Missionary In Africa Feared Being D.
vourod Alive.
An English missionary to Africa WAS
the happy owner of a bicycle. One
Gay, on q journey. lie started before
fore sunrise and rode on in advance of
his party, intending to improve the
cool of the morning and wait for his
men under some wayside tree. 1t was
in the country of the tsetse fly, and he
soon learned that travelling alone was a
serious business, since the insects had
no opportunity to distribute their ia
vors.
Bloodthirstiness is mild term to
express their craving for blood, he de-
clares. They came about me in dozens,
and was streaming with blood in sew
eral places. 1 killed them in scores,
but it was continual battle. =.
They grew fiercer as the sun grew
hotter, till what at first had seemed
merely an intolerable nuisance began
to assume an aspect absolutely hor-
r;ble. What if I should become faint,
and unable to continue the battle ?
They might drain man rs dry. as red
herring.
had been told fearful tale of trav-
c,er in Iceland, who, with his horse.
was actually eaten alive by flies. the
flies finishing both man and horse in
one day. What if these tigerish pests
should actually make an end OF me!
Between nine and ten o'clock had
accomplished about 20 miles, and SOL
determined to. dismount, since I found
that guiding the bicycle and keeping:
the narrow path hindered my dealing
with my enemies. In getting down,
however, my hat fell off, and: in an in
slant my head, which was closely
cropped, was covered with flies. I re-
covered my hat, wheeled the bicycle
with one hand, which was being bitten
all the time. while I. battled with the
other till 1 reached tree.
Here, freed from the bicycle, re-
ncwed the engagement with vigor, and
10 my great joy, after I had killed a few
dozen of the flies, they seemed to become
shy. I.now lighted a fire. The wind
blew the flames near me, and though
the sun beat fiercely, rpreferred the
heat to the enraged flies. Under these
conditions battled with the enemy for
something like three mortal hours
Youths Companion. &c. ""->
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Penetrating the Species.

There is stringent law in Japan
that when one camphor laurel is cut
down another must be planted in its
place. The tree is hardy and long-lived,
attaining to On enormous size. 1t is
covered with a small leaf of a vivid
dark green color. The seed or berries
grow in clusters. resembling the black
currant in size and appearance. And
the wood is employed for every Pur-
pose, from cabinet-malzing to ship
building.-Detroit Free Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
An OLD BLACK CAB HORSE.

scut a caper-although, of course, Il
sstiff, ungainly one. This was Under
the influence. of the little chestnutfil lilly.
These two animals, the very old and
the very young, would play together by
vthe hour, nibbling each others names,
though Bony afforded very poor pas
,turage in, that respect, and occasionally
pretending to kick. Although the filly
sometimes took liberties with the old
shorse, such as biting him on the withers
,or drumming with her fore feet on his
back, Bony never showed anything
worse than humorous resentment. II
,the FLY were particularly destroyer
.ous, Bony would turn slowly around,
switch his tail and threaten with his
hind legs, IS if he intended to lift her
shodily from the ground; but this was
.only his joke. In truth, Bony was a
.trifle stiff for high kicking.
If the old black horse were. turned
.cut alone he would keep his eye fixed
upon the stable and call loudly for his
youthful friend. When she replied
from her box in soprano honyhQhnm,
Dony would come up at his cumbrous
trot and wait outside the door, with
frequent neighs, till the little filly was
allowed to join him.. o.. .
At last day came when Bony, now
IRE iuycnated animal, was put in harness
once more to draw moderate load. On
this occasion he gave himself the airs
,of a .colt,, and when asked to start the
wagon he moved off at fine burst OF
speed, Itreally seemed as if.he wished
ITO show his gratitude for past favors
md to. solicit a continuance. Of the
same. When Bony was put to bed that
uiSht, after being furnished with
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
The Genesis Of . Name.

The drummer looked out of the win
dow of the little tavern at the farm
wagons slowly edging along almost
hub-deep in mud and asked:
GLOW in thunder did they ever come
to name this waterlogged village High
landr" g i -
never heard definite" the landlord
replied, absently putting his toothpick
back in the box, ''but I guess it come
from the price the time we had q boom
On.''-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
Frances Fine Roads.

France is one of the best paved coun'
tries in the world. The first Napoleon
instituted and carried out road sys-
tenn which gave France the roads
which are lasting monuments to the
Napoleonic foresight and shrewdness.
These roads. always passable and
reaching all centers of population, are
competitors of the MISUNDERSTANDING
Chronicle.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.
The Vandalism of luml,ermen in Califor-
MAS Timber Land.

The t0nuAk16m OF Luml>0fmen IN CeA11Oxc
MAS Timber Land.
In the University of California Maya
zine Mr.. Charles II. Shinn, in writing Of
the lavish way in which the best parts
of the California forests have been
cleared away, states that in the Com
stock mines alone enough timber has
been used to build all the houses needed
for a city of $4,000 inhabit-
ants. He has seen the bottom
of canyon crowded for miles
with the trunks of pines from each one
of which q few f1ume blocks or u log of
butt timber had been cut, while the rest
was left to decay. Not to mention the
thousands of acres of the most magnifi-
cent coniferous timber known to man
destroyed by fires which have burned
out of the soil itself into great pits, it is
stated that the waste Of timber in the
redwood districts was even more APP
palling than it has been in the Sierras:
More than once the worlds record for
the number of feet cut in day has been
broken by some. one of the sawmills of
the coast eredwoods. So much lumber
is still prod uced by rival mill men that
it has not paid for cutting, and some OF
the large California firms Of lumber
men have become bankrupt ,Enor-
nous trees which represent from 800 to
1000 years of symmetrical growth have
been sawed UP with no profit, or with
actual loss, when, ifFthey had been left
to stand a cw:decades longer, the profit
might have been 81 900 an acre.
At the time of the American occupa;
ton. of California the forests covered,
perhaps, $4,000 square miles. Half of
this has been cut over or is inaccessible
or consists of species of less value than
those which have heretofore been cut.
It is often asserted that California still
has 10000, 900 of magnificent forest
lands; but the truth lis that there is
left hardly $4,000, 900 acres, and much of
this has been cut away. = Scientific
America n r'i A. - = ''f ''' T"'' -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
A MEXICAN CATHEDRAL.
II IL Lined with Millions Worth Of Pro-
cious Metals.

Il IL Lined with Millions Worth Of Pre-
cious Metals.
During a journey from Panama, west
and norths overland through the Span
ish Main to Paso del Norte, Mexico,
opposite Ell Paso, Tex, I was bound to
see not little Of the churches and tho
priests, and to hear no end of stories OF
The doings in connection with them,
but of all that saw and heard nothing
seemed quite so impressive as my first
glance into the great cathedral at Pueb-
10, Mexico. People throughout the
Journey had told me often that of all
churches of the region this was the
most magnificent, invariably explain
ing their admiration by saying that
here was a church SO rich that in spite
of losses of millions of dollars worth
of gold and silver taken from it by the
Mexican rulers, there remained no less
than $11,O0O,OO0 worth of precious
metals within the walls, besides other,
articles of value. That about every
English-speaking man / met in tho
Spanish Main should have gagged the
interest in the church by the amount OF
precious metal within its wall was in it.
self matter worth considering, and so,
although not especially interested in
somebody else's boarded wealth, Invent
to the cathedral first of all otter reach~
ing Pueblo. 1t was about ten o'clock
in the morning-an hour when l was
likely to find few people there. Pass.
ing through what seemed to be tho
most-used entrance, I found few feet
beyond the door q small stand draped
with a cloth that fell to the stone flag
cling. In the center of the stand was
a plate of solid gold, 6A inches in
diameter and an eighth Of an inch
thick. On this gold plate, which was
placed there to receive contributions,
lay a copper cent of the coinage OF the
country. ~ ''%
Quite number of visitors came and
went while was in the cathedral, and
considerable portion of them comment
ed in English on what they saw. I
heard one nice-looking old lady say to
another nice old lady: IF Brother Tai
mage could see tais-millions of gold
on the walls, and On the saints-isn't
it beautiful but SO pagan!" I saw
other strangers come in, and after ono
comprehensive look around walk across
the tagging and kneel before an image,
with every appearance of sincere de-
votion. Others, the majority of the
foreigners who entered, in fact, looked
about with idle curiosity for a time and
then went out. But so far as 1 OBJ
served, no one except myself gave any
attention to the striking portrayal OF
the wealth of the recipient and the pow
erty Of the donor which the gold plate
and the copper cent afforded. And that
seemed too bad, for if it be agood, prac-
teal, sensible thing to pile up wealth
in a church building, penny by penny,
then here was an:example for all man
kind; while if there is anything that
ought to be criticised in such doings.
then here was the object lesson.-N. \.
Sun.