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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-26
A Chinese Pile-Drlver.

Piles were being driven in one of the
new buildings for a foundation for
punch. They were IS inches in diam
eter and IA feet long. The staging
was bamboo. and SO was the frame for
the hammer, which was round piece
of cast iron with a hole in the center
for a guide rod. Attached to the ham
mer block were 81 ropes, carried up
to the top of the frame and down on
the outside, looking very much like
the old-fashioned Maypole. Twenty
seven women had hold Of the ends,
and with a sing song, all together,
pulled down; up the rod four feet
Travelled the hammer, then, alta scream,
all let 60 and down it came on top OF
the pile, which was unprotected by
band or ring. The women were paid
20 cents in gold per day. This May
pole driver is in general use throughout
Japan and China~Cassier's Magazine
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Corsica.

According to British consular re-
port, invalids in search Of q winter sta
ton might do worse than try the cap
ital Of the Island of Corsica. The av-
erage temperature is three to four de-
grees higher than that Of the Riviera.
Ajaccio, moreover, being thoroughly
sheltered by the surrounding noun
tains and the aspect of the bay being
due south, the dreaded "mistral" is un-
known. It is admitted. however, that
there are some drawbacks. Living in
the island is dear, nearly all articles of
consumption usually required by for
eign residents having to be imported.
Altogethe affairs in Corsica do not ap-
pear to be in a satisfactory state Tho
island and its population IRE described
as "eminently poor" and were it not
for the assistance bestowed by France
the Corsicans would be forced either Ia
starve or bestir themselves-the latter
alternative appearing to be one from
which they are decidedly nverse.
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PATRONS OF hUSBANDRY.
Adopted by the National
. Grange.

Resolutions Adopted by the National
= Grange.
Washington. Nov. 20.-At the meet
ing of the National Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry. Thursday, the report of the
committee on resolutions. which was
adopted, recommended stable cur
rcncy, that United States senators be
elected by the people; equal protection
for the farmer; pure food legislation;
rural mail delivery, and referred to the
value of the experiment stations and
agricultural colleges; expressed SYM
pathy with Cuba and stated that the
grange would receive with joy the set
Element of the vexed question between
England and America. 1t favored ar
bitration whenever it can be resorted
to without sacrifice of honor. A lengthy
report from the committee on railroads
was made by Chairman Mersick, rec
om1nending several amendments to the
interstate commerce law to more fully
carry out it's purpose, the chief one be-
ing that the commission have power to
make rates. A resolution calling upon
the incoming administration to give
suitable protection to agriculture so
that our national burdens shall be more
eouitably distributed, after some dis
cussion was defeated by small ma
iority.
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DUN.s REVIEW OF TRADE.
Continued Improvement In Commercial
and Industrial Circles.


and Industrial Circles.
New York. Nov. 21.-R. q. Dun & Co.
in their weekly review of trade say:
entirely without precedent More than
$50 establishments have started work since
the election which were idle, and at least
800 have increased working force. Every
day thus adds Thousands to the number OF
those who are able to buy q weeks sup
months Of enforced economy. Already this
brings great increase In tho volume OF
business. and the clearing house exchanges,
for the first time in several years. not only
exceed those Of last year by 10 per cent.
but also exceed those Of the same week In
1892 by per cent Business men are all
anxious to prevent anything like the fic-
titious excitement Of last summer, and in
nearly all branches an excessive rise in
prices is prevented. But with more hands
at work there Is inevitably greater de-
rnand for supplies. materials and products
1.-THE speculative markets have been re-
acting. which is also natural. Wheat had
risen with wonderful raptdity. so that ex-
ports had been checked by the higher
prices, and realizing started break which
made the close 3A lower for the week. The
demand for freight room, both here and on
the Pacific coast, Is still so large as to dis
close an extraordinary foreign demand.
Cotton has declined from to 7.62 cents
IN SplIS OI Iu0 SSdIl1W8 VI uduy COIJON
mills. and the controlling fact for the
moment is that reports Of a yield smaller
than 100000 bales are now entirely dis
credited. The quantity coming into sight
has exceeded last years by S2O. QUO bales and
it Is not expected that the decrease in the.
remaining months OF the year will bring
the aggregate below $500 900. The export
demand does not abate, although tem-
porartly checked while prices were above
s cents and the increase Of s.. 400. 600 in value
of cotton exported in October contributed
more than any other single item to make
the aggregate exceed that Of the same
month in any previous year.
ia transition period industries record
gains slowly, but the slight decline in
prices of Bessemer pig iron and Of finished
products OF iron and steel is partly due to
realizing on speculative purchases before
the election, and partly to the selling OF
nails by jobbers below the combination
price. For most manufactured products
OF iron there is better demand and slow
advance in prices.
equipments of boots and shoes for three
weeks OF November have been 1S3.0Y cases,
against 174.17S last year. but while the
works have orders for some time ahead.
neither manufacturers nor dealers are dis
posed to do much because of the uncer-
tainty about prices, those of boots and
shoes being about II per cent. above the
lowest point: leather 1853 per cent. and
hides Ola per cent. the latter again rising
at Chicago.
Failures for the week have been 344 in
the United States. against 800 last year. and
40 in Canada, against u last year."
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CURIOSITY IN FIGURES.

Facts Concerning MAI. McBinley's Eloc-
ton for tho superstltious.
Washington, Nov. 21.-Maj. McKin-
ley will succeed the twenty-thlrd man
who has held the office of president Of
the United States, but his adminlstra-
ton will be the thirty-second in the his
tory of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, JET
ferson, Madison, Monroe. jackson, Lin
coin, Grant and Cleveland each having
been elected twice and Tyler, Fillmore,
johnson and Arthur filling the unex-
pired terms of their chiefs. Maj. NC.
Kinley will come to the office with tho
electoral vote of % states. In the war,
Maj. Mckinley served in the Twenty
third Ohio regiment, a regiment which
has the unique honor of having given to
the country two of its chief magistrates
Hayes and Mckinley.
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Elopers Commit Suicide.

New Rockford, n. d., Nov. 21.-The
news of the elopement of Mrs. A. T..
Swain, of this place, with Frank Addi-
son, of Baltimore, Md, which occurred
Wednesday,, has been suppressed on ac-
count of the high respect in which tho
Swain family IS held in this community.
The couple stopped at Valley City
hotel, registering as man and wife, I'M
der an assumed name, and were found
dead in bed Friday. having suicided.
The erring wife was about 40 years of
age, the mother OF four children, one
daughter of IS years. The family was
one of the wealthiest in the country.
Addison was 10 years of age. The grief
stricken family have sent for the re-
mains OF the wife and mother, and will
give her Christian burial.
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News in Brief.

John Townsend, a switchman in the
Great Northern yards at Willmar, was
run over and killed.
Mrs. Cornelius Turner was acct
dentally shot in the thigh by her son
George, at Rochester.
Mr.. Tawney has requested the post
office department to make trial OF
rural free delivery in Winona county.
An Itasca county man walked 10
miles to cast his vote at the recent
election.
Warden Wolfer has purchased about
6. 900 bales of sisa1 and manila fiber,
for use in the prison binder Irvine fac
tory, the price paid being considerable
less than the ruling market prices.
This supply will keep the factory going
until April 1.
Anoka wins the fight for the fourth
hospital for the insane. The supreme
court handed down q decision from the
pen Of Judge Buck. in which 1t was
held that the locating commission had
not definitely located the particular
site ut Hastings, for which 1t had voted,
and that it had q right to change Its
mind and accept the Anoka site.
Josep Zeis, a farmer so years old, re-
siding in Renville county, was held up
and robbed while crossing the Mime
sofa river bridge near Redwood Falls.
Fire at Little Falls destroyed the res
idence of Leigh Perry. Loss 81. 700.
Partially insured. Annie Stewards
house was also burned.
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Farmers Institutes

Following is list of State Farmers
Institutes to be held in December:
Park Rapids, Hubbard county, Tues
day and Wednesday, and 2; Wadena,
Wadena county, Thursday and Friday,
and 4; Fergus Falls, Otter Tail coun-
ty, Monday and Tuesday, z and 8; Pei
lican Rapids, Otter Tail county,
Wednesday and Thursday, 9 and 10;
Alexandria, Douglas county, Friday and
Saturday, II and II; Hinckley. Pine
county. Wednesday and Thursday, 16
and II; Taylor's Falls, Chisago county,
Friday and Saturday, .1s and 10; Mora,
Kanabec county. Tuesday and
Wednesday, % and %.
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Reorganized.

The railroad and warehouse commits
sion held special meeting at St. Paul
to elect a chairman to succeed Colonel
Liggett. There was full attendance.
and Judge Ira Mills was selected for
the place. Colonel Liggett turned over
his desk to Nathan Kingsley, who was
appointed by Governor Clough to fill
the vacancy caused by his retirement,
and Mr.. Kingsley was duly installed.
The commission paid high tribute to
the retiring member, in letter adj
dressed to him aud signed by George L.
Becker and Ira B. Mills, commission
ers, and A. K. Teisberg, secretary.
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The Year on tho River.

Navigation on the Mississippi river
is practically at IN end, although the
government lights be kept burning un-
til the end of the week. All tho raft
boats have gone iuto winter quarters,
and the Roberts Hams, which plies be-
tween Winona and Fountain City. is
the only steamer now running. The
record shows that $3.50 boats, 1,09S
RATS and 934 barges have passed
through the bridge at Winona during
the year. The figures for 1895 were:
3,745 boats, 1895 RATS and 1, 444 barges.
The falling off in business is due to the
reduction in cut of the sawmills along
the river.
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knights of Labor Adjourn.

Rochester, N. T., Nov. 23.-At Satur-
days session Of the knights of Labor
general assembly Past General Worthy
Foreman Bishop installed the new en-
ecutive officers. General Master Work.
man Sovereign in speech just preced-
ing adjournment said that in the next
three months he would have in the field
an official staff of organizers through
out the country that would make the Or
ganization's membership the largest in
the history of any organization in the
world. The convention then adjourned
sine die. The executive board has sus-
pended for IS days the secretary and vice
president of the Washing. on Times for
making statements against General
Secretary Treasurer Hayes and General
Master Workman Sovereign, and ut the
end of IS days, if the statements are not
retracted, the officers will be expelIed
from the order.
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IRREGULARITIES FMlLLloNAlREs

uss Halspsn.y Stamps and Have . Rsess
Dinner. Js,. :. @5ss a
I have been asked whether ] ever re-
ceive social invitations from million
aires in open envelopes, with halfpen-
nv stamps, and what think OF the
practice on the part of the millionaires.
says London Truth. It is notoften thai
I am privileged to receive invitations
from mlllionaires under any circum-
stances, but it 10 remarkable fact that
I have had such IN invitation addressed
to me at the halfpenny rate Of postage.
and AZ others have had q similar ex-
perience I suppose that millionaires AZ
4 class have q weakness for halfpenny
postage stamps. Probably this weak
ness has something to do with their
having become or remained million
aires.
A worse failing on the part Of mill
lionaires Of which have experience il
that they occasionally ask their friends
to dinner and sit them down to meal
quite unfit TO eat. Personally. I would
rather that man took halfpenny of
tho postage of my invitation and spent
it on the dinner. So far as the invita-
ton is concerned, there may possibly
DO many people who, when invited to
the houses of millionaires, would wish
the fact widely known and would pre-
fer, If possible, that the invitation
should be sent on a postcard, 50 that all
who run may read. Perhaps it is from
this kindly motive rather than from
parsimony that millionaires patronize
the halfpenny post. Let us think az
we'll Of Dives "a we can.
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Sir Edmund Hornby Dead.

London, Nov. 2l.-Ihe death was an
nounced here Friday OF Sir edmund
Horribly at Rapallo. Italy. Sir Edmund
was an acknowledged authority OH IN
ternat,onal law aud the principle OF
He was married three
times, his third wife being a Miss Rob
erts. of New York.
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accommodated.

Salt Lake City, Nov. g. Moses
Thatcher, for many years an apostle
in the Mormon church, has been disfel-
Iowshipped because he became candi-
date for United States senator without
consulting the church authorities.
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Valuable sotchel Recovered.

Columbus, o., Nov. 2l.-The satchel
containing $4,000 worth of watches.
stolen from N. KIippart, New York
travelling man. at the Union passen-
ger station Thursday night. was found
Friday in the hallway of an office build
ing on High street, with its contents
intact. No ciew.
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Sent to Prison,

Van Buren,, Ark, Nov. 2l.-The jury
in the trial Of w. Il. Sims for the killing
of the son of Congressman Hepburn at
Chester, Ark. returned a verdict Of
manslaughter and gave Sims two years
l., the penitentiary.
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Confessed His Guilt.

Rev. James G. Hull. the Methodist
preacher charged with poisoning his
wife, broke down during his trial at St.
Paul and confessed his guilt. The
county attorney suggested that it was
Hull and not his wife who was unbal-
anced, and in view of these circum-
stances, which were concurred in by
the court, Hull was sentenced to six
years in the state prison at Saltwater.
The climax of the case was worked up in
a mastery manner by County Attorney
Butler. It hung upon letter written
by Hull to Rev. I. l.. Spencer, OF Fer
nando, CAL. in February last, in which
Hull stated that his wife was suffering
from cancer, and that she already had
an operation performed, and lntimating
that she would probably die at any
time. 1t showed beyond question. that
he was preparing tho way for the time
when his wife should be dead with the
effect of the poison which he was adj
ministering. Hull was caught in
trap. and when it was sprung he ad-
mitted his guilt and everything was
lxid bare.
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Ferris 10 Dead.

Pittsburgh. Pa, Nov. 23.-George W.
C. Ferris, inventor and builder of the
Ferris wheel, died Sunday at Mercy
hospital, where he had been treated for
typhoid fever for a week. The disease
is said to have been brought on through
worry over numerous business matters.
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Famous Jurlst Dead.

Fort Smith, Ark, Nov. ls.7Judge L
c. Parker died Mt 2:4O o'clock Tuesday
morning. Death was not unexpected.
a. the judge has been sick three months.
and for several weeks his friends have
been convinced that recovery was I'm
possible.
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The POPULAR VOTE.

Approximately Complete Table Of the Mo-
Kinloy, Bryan and Palmer Vote.
New York. Nov. 23.-The World an
nounces the first approximately COM
plete returns on the recent presidential
election from all the states as follows:
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Deer's Wonderful Scent.

The power of scent possessed by .
deer is wonderfully acute. These ani-
mails have been known to take fright AZ
the scent of a man "a hours afterhe mad
passed the SPOT.
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A Sioux CITY Bank Fails.

Sioux City, La, Nov. 2O.-The First ma
tional bank of Sioux City closed its
doors Thursday. The crash forced to
the wall the Sioux City savings bank
end caused the assignment OF J. K.
Prugh, a wholesale and retail dealer
in crockery.
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Liberal Relirious Congress.

Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 3O.-At Thurs
day afternoons session of the congress
of religions after an extended discus
sion it was decided to change the name
from "American Congress of Liberal
Religions" to Liberal Religious Con-
eress." Hiram w. Thomas was reflect
ed president of the congress and Jenkin
Lloyd Jones was reelected secretary.
Leo Fox was again chosen treasurer
The three men are oil from Chicago.
The reelected vice presidents are: T.
w. Higginson, +. G. Hirsh. NJ. j. Savage,
Il. Fl. Newton and Prof. Momerio.
Among the new directors chosen are
David Starr Jordan, president of Stan
ford university, California. and Edwin
S. Mead. The next congress will be
held at Nashville next year during the
Tennessee centennial celebration,
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Trouble About Game.

The winter game season is on, and
with it comes the attendant troubles
among hunters, commission men and
comman carriers, in which the state
game wardens are the boyle men. The
most closely watched are packages
which might contain venisnn, upon
which the season is open for six days
longer, and the express companies are
so angered over seizures and searches
made that some Of them have asserted
through their agents that they will re-
sist the game wardens in the future
and carry the matter to the courts.
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DR.. Conaty Succeeds Bishop Keane

Baltimore, Mu, Nov. 2l.-The an
Louncement is made here that the holy
father has appointed Rev. DR.. Thomas
J. Conaty. rector OF the Church of the
Sacred Heart, Worcester. Mass, to sue
coed Bishop John Keane as rector Of
tie Catholic university at Washington,
n n
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NO DISGUISE IS POSSIBLE.

May Betray Him.
1T il impossible for anyone to dis
guise his handwriting so that the at
tempt cannot be detected" says an ex-
pert. "Let me give you an example.
Before me at this moment are the pa
pers in sensational case shortly to he
tried. The writer of series of letters
has attempted to disguise his hand SO
that the letters might appear to nave
come from several different people. In
all there are marring indications that
they were written by one and the same
person.
"For instance, the habits of the men
show in the manner of the beginning of
the lines. In each case they are begun
close to the edge of the paper, this evil
IDENTITY being one of the mans peculiar
tiles. Then, the conjunction and IS in
each sentence made with the sign e..
Even when he has gone to the trouble of
printing the letter, SO that he may be
sure that the writing is effectually dis
guised, the writer forgets to disguise
this one word, and the signs arc so
much alike that there is no mistaking
them.
1T would almost seem as if nature
had made even the cleverest criminal
weak in some point or other thai his
crookedness might be fastened upon
him. This man has disguised his hand
writing, but he forgot to disguise the
fact that he is fond of the exclamation
point and the interrogation mark as
marks OF emphasis to his words. Over
all the letters both exclamation and in
terrogation points are th.ckly
sprinkled, in some instances the marks
being repeated two or three times. No
two men in hundred would have this
popularity.
"Then, again, when he printed the
letter g. this stupid writer forgot that
he was in the habit Of printing this LETT
ter in his ordinary writing; SO that
this mistake makes it possible to COM
pare the two to detect the similarity.
When put them together, no one could
doubt that they were by the same hand.
AS matter of fact, the writing OF the
world is as marked and varied III its
peculiarities as are the features OF the
writer's. The close observer distin-
guishes between nationalities by their
writings as readily us he does Ivy
speech, physiognomy or any other race
popularity. Even when one has
learned to write another than his ma
tive language the race distinction re-
mains to very perceptible degree.
The writing of German or French
man or other foreigner who has learned
to speak and write the English Ian
guage will retain a style as perceptible
to the expert as will be the accent il the
foreigners speech; and the one can no
more be overcome or avoided than the
other.
ALTHOUGH it is fact that writing ul-
timately becomes the automatic pro-
duction of the hand, it is equally fact
that it does SO as the pupil and agent of
the mind, and in the molding process
peculiar qualities of its tutor and mas
ter enter unconsciously into its compo-
sition, and it becomes mirror OF its
creator-the mind. An inspection of
the autographs of famous people would
reveal the fact that they illustrate how
persons whose mental characteristics
are matter of history clearly exhibit
those characteristics in their hand
writing."-Boston Traveller.
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Totals .............7.o57.45 C,2ss,s7s 13s.sso

''The total vote cast 1896 (approximate).
13579.63S. including about 100. 900 prohibition
votes and 20, 900 Bryan and Watson votes.
This table shows the complete vote Of
all the states. except three-Missouri. Weet
Virginia and Texas-where the count has
been delayed by contests. From most Of
the states the figures are official. the re-
suits being reported by the secretaries Of
states. New Yorks vote will not be can
vassed officially by the state officers until
December Is. The total prohibition vote
cast will not exceed 100000. 1t was highest
In Pcnnsylvania-19.24. In the II counties
of Texas thus far counted, Bryan and Wat
son received $685. The total middle-of-
the-road populist vote will be about 100, 900.
The socialist vote was smaller than in 1892.
In many states none were cast. In 1892
Cleveland received $3.50, 91S votes. and Har-
rison SIG. 10s total Of TO- 733. 0e6: Cleveland
over Harrison, $50. 810"