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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
TIE NEGROES CURLY HAIR.

II II . Protection to tho Brain from the
~, %# \ Tropical San. s5& @$6
The f1at nose OF tho African and his
large nostrils result from the necessity
Of inhalirg larger draughts of tropical
air to produce the same degree Of vital
ity, because of its greater expansion;
thus the increased exercise produces
increased expansion of the nostrils OF
q large nose.
+ The curling of the Africans hair, the
St. Louis Republic says, while univer-
sal Oh his continent. is common In
every country of the globe. Perhaps
this has its scientific solution in the
fact that the curls defect the rays OF
the tropical sun. thus preventing their
more severe penetration into the brain.
In the transmission of light, it is q law
that every intervening object with
which q ray comes in contact bends
and diverts in another direction.
Heat curls every kind OF hair and
that which is provided in nature for
the protection of the brain from injury
by the rays of q tropical sun is a ere
nted endowment, which by degrees il
becoming naturally transmissible and
inherited.
The skull of the African, with its Pc
culiar thickness, affords another fea-
ture Of protection to the brain.
1t is evident that it is the outdoor eS-
posture of the working classes that
makes their. skin SO black. 1t must
also be remembered that it is not the
skin alone of the men of Africa which
manifests deep color. but this charac-
terist:c is noticed in all the birds,
beasts. fish, reptiles and plants.
Another fact in relation to this
phenomenon is that everything grows
less deeply colored BIZ we approach the
polar regions. There the white bear
is found and nowhere else. while the
black bear lives and is now native to
almost every other climate.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
Horse Meat rs Hen Food.

Hundreds of barrels of cooked horse
meat are sold every winter to poultry
raisers. The horse flesh is cooked in
tight tanks under a steam pressure Of
As pounds. This penetrates every par
ticle of the meat, purifying and cooking
it thoroughly. In this form the meat
will keep from one to four weeks, ac-
cortling to the weather. There is no
practical way of preserving horse meat
for any length of time. Where it can
not be cooked by steam it should be
boiled. The meat might be salted the
same as beef, but it would have to be
frcshened before being used, and it is
!, question whether it would then be a
safe feed for hens. It's u good food for
egg production. One of the most popu-
lar brands of poultry meat ON the mar.
ket is made from carefully prepared
and we'll cooked horsehesh.-American
Agriculturist.
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house allows about ten square feet to
each fowl, which experience has shown
is little enough if the best results are
aimed at, unless the climate is such
that the poultry can run out of doors
nearly the whole year round. =, In this
case hundred, or even more, could
we'll be accommodated. Let the side
with windows front toward the south
east, and have, if desired, small win
dow in each end, to catch the early
morning sun and the late afternoon sun
OF winter Grange Judd Farmer.
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unlimited, prqpelling it at the speed Of
!, 800 kilomefers All hour - almost
that of q cannon ball!-so+ that our
carriages, with their travellers, in tho
space of two hours and 40 minutes
accomplish the journey between Boston
ind Liverpool" '' ...,v'>
Eighteen hundred kilometers an
hourl" 1 exclaimed. II
"Not one less. And what extraordi-
nary consequences arise from such q
rate ofsspeed! The time at Liverpool
being four hours and 40 minutes n
advance Of ours, q traveller starting
from Boston at nine o'clock in the
morning arrives in England Mt 1888 in
the afternoon. Isn't that a journey
quickly made? In another sense, on
the contrary, our trains in this latitude
meters an hour, beating that planet
hand over hand; quitting Liverpool ut
noon, for example, the traveller will
reach the station where we now are at
81 minutes past nine in the morning
that is to say, earlier than he started!
Tia! ha: don't think one can travel
quicker than that!"
I did not know what to think. Was
I talking with mailman ?-or must
credit these fabulous theories, in spite
of the objections which rose in my
mind?
every we'll, so be it," said. II will
admit that travellers may take this mad
Drained route, and that you can obtain
this incredible speed. But, when you
have got this speed, how do you check
it? When you come to a stop every
thing must be shattered to pieces!"
Not at ALL" replied the colonel,
struggling his shoulders. Between our
tubes-one for the out, the other for
the home journey consequently
worked by currents going in opposite
directions-a communication exists at
every joint. When train is approach
ing an electric spark advises us of the
fact; left to itself, the train would con-
tinue it's course by reason of the speed
it had acquired; but, simply by the
turning of handle, we are able to let
in the opposing current of compressed
air from the parallel tube, and, little
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
Doing Your Own Repairinx.

BY small expenditure we can read
lily provide for making many of our own
repairs. Every farm should have a
pretty full supply of mechanical TOOLS
and if there is blacksmith's outfit,
during the winter months the most OF
the repairs needed upon implements
and machinery can be made. They may
not be US neatly done us if i profession
al did them, but they can be made to
answer, and there is plenty of time in
winter to do them. Then when spring
comes VIC shall he ready for the seasons
work. 1t is by small savings that large
aggregates are created. Under present
conditions it is necessary that the
farmer should save his dimes and his
quarters. Everybody is doing it; and
every farmer, if he had the tools, could
save in repairs good many dollars
Farmer'SEOice.
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NOTES FOR BEEkEEPERS.

Thick. we'll refined honey will not
granulate SO rapidly as that which is
thin. -
1t is impossible to secure good crop
of honey where most of the bees IN hives
are old.
Worker bees never attain great age.
Those raised in the fall may live eight or
nine months.
A large number of extra combs are
necessary when extracted honey is the
plan to be followed.
Tees are profitable because they
gather up and store away that which
would otherwise be lost.
Bees serve rs active agents in the
fertilization of plants and are not de-
structive in the smallest degree.
No trash of any kind should be left
on the bottom boards, as this will fur
nish a good nest for the moth miller.
Hives may he placed anywhere, high
or low, wherever it is most convenient
to the beekeeper, as it makes no diff
ference to the bees.
Bookkeeping, when combined with
fruit growing. enables one to procure
u double crop from the came land with
out additional fertiliz;ng.
Do not pull up covers that the bees
have closely sealed down. They want
their houses air-tight at the top to pre-
vent ventilation or cold draughts.
One of the best places to locate hives
is in the orchard, as usually there the
bees will he less free from annovances
land wills be less liable to annoy any
thing; clse.-St. Louis Republic.
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q, TOLD YOU So"

We one and all have met the man
Who. ever since the world began.
The gods with knowledge have supplied
Which to the rest has been denied.
But who to q benighted world :.
His fund Of wisdom has unfurled. st
For naught can come Of veal or woe
But hs declares: II told you soV'%
Religion. politics and all.
On any subject great or small.
TT doesn't matter what or where.
Yol cannot take him unaware.
HsFnothing new or startling hears. -
He's "been expecting 1t for years
And marvels that you did not know
'Twould happen, since he told you 10.
He'll cherish his peculiar trait
While life his form shall animate.
And show us with his parting breath
The .'ruling passion strong In DEATH"
And when his doctor shall have said
TO mourning kindred:. HE Is dead:
TITS certain he will not forego
The chance to say: II told you so:'
Nixon Waterman. in L. A. W. Bulletin.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
Dressing Fowls for Market.

Different markets require different
styles of dressing fowls; for some
markets the entrails should he re-
moved, for others not; some require the
heads on, others off, etc. For these rea-
sons it is advisable to determine where
you are going to ship and then to write
to- some commission merchant at that
place asking for directions as to how
the fowls should be dressed. It never
pays to ship badly picked or packed
fowls. These are largely responsible
for the unsatisfactory returns which
are generally blamed on the commits
sion merchant. 1t is impossible for the
most skillful seller to obtain the best
prices for such stock.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
Home-Mado Pork SausaEes.

The sausages that come ON the farm
er's table ought always to be home
made. Those which are purchased in
the butcher shops are almost always
made of meat that is nearly ready to
decay, and the high seasoning they get
with spices,is for the purpose of con-
ccaling their EMBELLISHMENTS. A
wcll-made sausage is not at all unwhole-
some, though it is usually harder to
digest than meat not SO highly spiccd.
The homemade sausage ought to have
not more than one-fourth of its meat
fat. Most boughten sausages contain
more fat than this, the sausage being
used to get rid of fat meat that would
not be otherwise salable.-Rural World.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
HOG-KlLljNG TIME.

4 Season Of Great Moment In Parts OF
Virginia.
"Hog-killing time" in the country
is one of the most important seasons OF
the whole year. Hog killing is the single
item of farm work that is generally
postponed. not only until cold weather,
but until the crops are all gathered and
housed, the COW stables aud other rag
ged outbuildiDgs patched up" and put
i'm order. the potatoes, turnips, cab
bagcs, etc., kilned, the apples gathered
and: stored away and huge piles OF
wood provided for the proverbial log
fires. And then butchering begins,
not unliEe q long. carefully planned in
surrection. No one knows just why,
says the Richmond Dispatch, but the
wholesale ''cutthroat," ''bloodshed"
business begins about one hour before
day-dawn, and he who happens to be
out so early in the morning sees little
else than outdoor fires dotted over the
neighborhood and hears little else than
the. deafening squeals of dying
swine. until the last pampered "jockey"
has paid the penalty" Perhaps 1000
fat hogs have been butchered in King
George this week. It has not been pos
s;ble to pass along the roads, without
seeing a row Of dcad hogs strung
up about some country home. Even
the little ashy-faced darby takes on q
broad grin when daddy" kills hogs,
and very soon after that important
event at his home he sheds the cutanc-
GUS scales from his face and those
checks shine as If the 'grease" had
been applied externally. The hogs
raised here this" year for pork were
unusually fine, and the meat is said to
he of the very best quality, notwith-
standing the fact that the pastures were
poor and that there was an absence o!
other. Misunderstanding the summer
and fall. -.
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by little, reduce to nothing the final
shock of stopping. But what is the use
OF all these explanations? Would not a
trial be q hundred times better?"
And, without waiting for an answer
to his questions, the colonel pulled
sharply bright brass knob projecting
from the side of one of the tubes. A
panel slid smoothly in its grooves, and
in the opening left by its removal I per-
ceived a row of seats, on each of which
two persons might sit comfortably side
by side.
'"rhe carriage!" exclaimed tho
colonel. "Come in"
I followed him without offering any
objection, and the panel Immediately
slid buck into it's place. .-
- BY the light of an electric lamp in the
roof 1 carefully examined the Garage I
was in.
Nothing could be more simple; a
long cylinder, comfortably upholstered,
along which some so arm-chairs, iu
pairs, were ranged in Is parallel ranks.
1t either end a valve regulated the at
mospheric pressure, that at the farther
end allowing breathable air to enter
tine carriage, that in front allowing for
the discharge of any excess beyond =
normal pressure.
After spending few moments on
this examination became impatient.
WELL" I said, "are we not going to
start?''
''Going to sstart?" cried the colonel.
I'VE have started"
Started-like that-without the least
jerk, was it possible? I listened at
tentively, trying to detect sound of
some kind that might have guided me.
If we had really started-if the
colonel had not deceived me in talking
Of a speed of 1900 l5ilometers an hour
we must already be far from any land,
under the sea; above our heads the
huge, foam-crested waves; even ut that
moment, perhaps-taking it for mon-
strous sea serpent of an unknown kind
were battcring with their
powerful tails our, long iron prison.
But heard nothing but a dull rum
bic. produced, no doubt, by the passage
of our carriage, and, plunged in bound-
less astonislment, unable to believe
in the reality of all that had happened
to ME, sat silently, allowing the timo
to pass. .
At the end of about m hour a sense
OF freshness upon my forehead sudden
ly aroused me from the torpor into
which had sunk by degrees.
raised my hand to my brow; it was
moist. )
Moist! Why was that? Had the tube
burst under pressure of the waters
q pressure which could not but be for
nidable,' since'@it increases at the rate
of ian atmosphere" every ten meters of
depth? Had the ocean broken in upon
us?" "A " 3
Fear seized upon me. Terrified,
tried to call out-and-and I found
myself in my garden, generously sprin-
kled by driving rain, the big drops OF
which had awakened me. had simply
fallen asleep while reading the article
devoted by an American journalist to
the fantastic projects of Col. Pierce
who also, much fear, has only
dreamed.-From the French, in Strand
Magazine. r.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
Hiinpkins asa Stock Foed..

Il. Most mi kinds OF live stock do well
on pumpkins mixed with their daily
ration, and relish them as we'll. We
are inclined to'think that the feeding
value of pumpkins is generally UNDER
estimated. When fed to cows they
stimulate 4 large milk flow, and with
a light grain ration the quality Of
butter is very fine. Pork is always
letter when some pumpkins are fed
along with the grain. The pumpkin
crop is a very cheap one when grown
jn corn, and several tons of this food
could be produced annually in corn
fields that grow nothing but corn per
farmcr.--Crabtree's Farmer. r. SO.
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time from the feed chest to long line
Of cattle cribs. Abetter plan is to make
such a barrow as is shown in the cut,
with<a small wheel at either side, and
mix the whole ration in it at once. Then
wheel the mass along before the stalls
and shovel out into each crib the proper
amount. Half the labor of feeding grain
will in this way be saved. The sumo
kind of q barrow will be found useful
in feeding roots to stock.-N. Y. Tri-
bune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
Remedy for Cornstalk Disease.

Here is q remedy for cornstalk dis
ease which Ambrose Cochran. Little
River, Kan, sends, to the Kansas Farm
En-: A neighbor fad ascow that took
sick very suddenly after being in the
stalks and they sent for me to help
give the COW some medicine. When I
got there the COW seemed to he in d
great deal of misery, and we poured
down her five pints of coal oil and the
COW got we'll, but it was three days be-
fore she would eat. There was another
case of the same kind close by, and they
gave coal oil and it got WELL i
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE.

Description Of . Structure Suitable 100
Seventy-Five Fowls.5#
An inexpensive and convenient house
for Is fowls is shown in the accompany
ink illustration Gig. y. A floor plan
is given in Fig. 2, showing the inside
arrangement, from which it will bs
seen that the outside door opens init
y hallway that communicates with ali
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s Where was I? What had CONE eae1c
70 do? Who was my mysterious guide!
Questions unanswered. long walk
in the night, iron doors opened and re-
closed with D clang, stairs descending
1t seemed to me, deep into the earth
that is all I could remember. 1 had'
however, no time for thinking.
mo doubt you are asking yourself
who I am?" said my guide. "Col. Pierce
Z ut your service. Where are you? In
America, at Boston-in a station"
: "a station?'
: Eyes, the starting point of the 'Bos-
ton to Liverpool Pneumatic Tubes COM
pany.'"
And,with an explanatory gesture. the
colonel pointed out to me two long iron
cylinders, about a meter and half in
diameter, lying upon the ground few
PAGES, of.
1 looked at these two cylinders, end
ing on the right in a mass of masonry,
and closed on the left with heavy metal
lie caps, from which a cluster of tubes
were carried up to the roof; and sud-
denly I comprehended the purpose OF all
this.
Had I not a short time before read in
an American newspaper an article de-
ucribing this extraordinary project for
linking Europe to the New World by
means of two gigantic submarine tubes'
An inventor Ind claimed to have accom-
plished the task; and that inventor.
Col. Pierce, had before me.
In thought realized the newspaper
article.
Complacently the journalist entered
into the details of the enterprise. He
stated that more than 5000 miles OF
iron tubes, weighing over Is. 00o, 900 tons,
were required, with the number of ships
necessary, for the transport of this ma
terial-oOO ships of 2, 900 tons, each maxi
ing 80 voyages. He described this Ar
NADIA Of science bearing the steel to
two special vessels, on board Of which
the ends of the tubes were joined to
each other, and incased in a triple net
ting of iron, the whole covered with q
resipous preparation to preserve 1T
from the action Of the senwater.
Coming at7;once to the question OF
working, he filed the tubes-trans-
formed into a sort of pea-shooter of
interminable length--with a series of
carriages, to be carried with their trav-
elcrs by powerful currents OF air in the
same way that dispatches are con-
veyed pneumaticallyTound Paris.
A parallel with the railways closed
the article, and the author enumerated
with enthusiasm the advantages of the
new and audacious system. According,
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FIG. 1.-pERsPEcTIvE VIEW.

four of the pens. but takes floor
space from only two of them. No one
who has experienced the convenience
and the cleanliness of having hall
way in the poultry quarters will ever
build house without one. US very
much of the work of caring for the
fowls can be done in the hall, without
entering the pens. The size sof this
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-27
GOOD FEED BARROW,

With It Half tho Labor of Grain Feeding
Can He Saved. nE%t
Where grain is fed to lot Of stock
tho mixing of individual messes in in
dividual boxes entails much needless
labor, no small part of which is the car
rying of one or more of these boxes at
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AN OCEAN EXPRESS.
BY JULES vFRNE.

care!" cried
my con ductor.
there's a step!"
Safely descend
ing the step thus
indicated to me, !
entered 3 va S t
room, illuminated
by blinding cleo
trio rehectors. the
sound of our feet
alone breaking the
silence and soli-
A. 1~~n
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The best food for bees in winter is
thick clover honey, to which white
sugar strip HAY be added 4
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eyes, doctor, it still hurts me to breathe
in fact, the only trouble now seems to be
my breath.' ''Oh, well, I'll give you some
thing that will soon stop hat."-Life.
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A COLLECTING agency in New York IL run
by women exclusively, which seems to dis
prove the adage q woman's work is never
dun.-Texas Siftings.
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Tho best medicine to purify, enrich and
vitalize the blood, and thus give strength
and build up the system, is Hoods sarsa-
parilla Thousands take it as their Spring
Medicine, and more are taking it to-day
than ever before. If you are tired, out OF
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vi arc

April, May arc most emphatically the
months for taking good blood purifier.
because the system is now most in need
of such medicine, and because 1t more
quickly responds to medicinal qualities.
In winter Impurities do not pass out of the
body freely, but accumulate in tho blood.
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SORTS" nervous, have bad taste in the
morning, aching or dizzy head, sour
stomach and feel all run down, course
of Hoods Sarsaparilla will put your whole
body in good order and make you strong
and vigorous. 1t is the ideal Spring
The Republican journal., 1896-11-19
The Churches.

The services at the North church next
Sunday will be as follows: Sermon by the
pastor Rev G. S. Mills, at 045 a. m, Sun
day school II H.; c. E. meeting at p. m.
lecture by the pastor at p. N.
The services at the Universalist church
next Sunday will be as follows: Morning
worship, with sermon. at 10 IS. Subject,
Thanksgiving" Sunday school at u m.
Young Peoples meeting at 6, in the vestry
Topic, "Jesus the Door"
The Meth odist Sunday school held a rally
at tine vestry Sunday noon. The exercises
opened with music by the school and prayer
by the pastor. The following papers We're
read
The Duty Of Superintendents, Miss Isabel CHM
Work in the Sunday School,
Mrs. Ti!eston Wadlin
Relation of the Sunday school to the Church,
Maurice +. Davidson
The duty of Scholars TO the Sunday school,
Miss Myrtle Mitchell
hat has the N L. Sunday school been doing i'll
Belfast. Miss Lena Sanborn
The pastor, Rev. G. G. Winslow, made
brief remarks on Sunday School work, and
presented each one present with souvenir
Nh'u n sIol1 TIME was utNoteu 10 Gle sun
day School lesson and the services closed
With music
Services at the Methodist Episcopal
church Sunday will be as follows: At Gas
Love feast; 10 45, sermon by tile pas tor, fol
lowed by the Holy Communion; II m, Sun.
day school 80 p. m, special memorial ser
vices to Mr.. Winfield Macomber, late mis-
sionary to Africa: p NJ. Junior League
meeting p m, Epworth League meeting
topic. "Christ's Testimony to His Disci-
pies = p. N. song and prayer services, topic
The Almost Christan:' Acts % :2S 30
Saturday evening, Nov, 21st, there will be a
lnusical rehearsal al 40; Monday evening,
Nov. 23i, quarterly conference, conducted
by Rev. W. W. Ogier, Presiding Elder A
full attendance is desired. The usual week
evening meetings will be held.