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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
THE VILLAGE MlLLLlNER.

How She Lost Ono Of Her Best Customers.
The American milliner, who used to
be such 9 well-known institution, even
in large cities, with her regular class
OF customers, for whom she made bon
nets year in and year out, according to
the season, has almost completely dis
appeared. The great commercial
houses have captured that class of GUS
toners that used to frequent her little
shop. In little country villages, how
ever, 'far from the madding crowd"
she may still be found, and summer
visitor'the other day. just before her
flight, found one of the ancients ladies
from whom during the season she'had
often purchased wells and ribbons seat
ed at a sunny window at the back of
the little shop, busy with lot of bon
nets which had been ordered for the
winter.
Eyes, I guess trim every hat worth
looking at" she said, in answer to her
visitors question. ''It's kinder COM
Portable to have the Workers gone and
sit down on my rocker and get to my
regular work. It requires great deal
OF thought to trim so many and make
them different These are Presbyteri-
an bonnets and Methodist bonnets;: and
now they've startedup the Baptist and
it'll be more mixing then ever, for I
daren't put the same ribbon on any
two bonnets for the same church. If I
did I'd never bear the last of it.
'Mrs. Foster. she played me a real
mean trick last year. She'd always
been steady Presbyterian, and when
trimmed her bonnet knew what
pew she'd sit in and all about it. So I
fixed it up with a ribbon that I'd only
used once, and that was on Metho-
dist bonnet, and felt perfectly safe in
my mind aboutit. Not long afterward,
as was sitting here doing some sew
ing Deacon Squires came in to buy
some thread for his wife. Did you
hear the news? he said. Mrs. Josiah
Foster has fined the Methodists!' I de-
clare, you could have knocked me over
with a feather! 'Here'll be a rumpus.
said to myself, for Mrs. Foster never
could stand having anything common.
So, sure enough. in she came the next
Monday, as mad as a hornet.
~ think, considering all the years
I've trusted you, Kesiah,' she said,
that you might have trimmed my bon
net different from Nancy Whites, and
she SO dowdy lookin'y and the next
thing heard was that she'd got new
bonnet by catalogue from the big store
in Brookynl'-N. Y. Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
The Pearly Nautilus

DR.. Arthur Wiley, who worked out
the later development of Amphioxus
when he was pupil of Prof. Ray Lam
kester at University college, Lchdon,
has just made a most important discov-
cry. He has succeeded in obtaining the
ripe eggs of the pearly nautilus, and
is now at work on the development of
that most interesting animal. Two and
half years ago DR.. Wiley gave up a
teaching: post in Columbia college, New
York, and accepted the Balfour student
ship of the University of Cambridge, in
order to proceed to the coast Of New
Guinea and neighboring islands in quest
of the embryonical history of the pearly
nautilus. He has had great numbers
of live nautiluses, but, in spite of all eff
forts, had till December last failed to
obtain the eggs. Specimens which he
was keeping in a large cage, sunk in the
sea at a suitable spot in the Loyalty
islands, were found by him on that day
to have spawned. DR.. Willey's indomit-
able perseverance and devotion to his
task have thus been at last crowned by
success.-Nature.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
MILK AND BUTTER.
How to Handle Them So as to Make
Da1ryinE a Success.

How to Handle Them So as to Make
DairyinE a Success.
Few farmers realize how susceptible
milk is to bad odors. Milk should never
lie kept in cellar or in room where
there is any cooking or any vegetables
Salt should never be kept in room
where it can absorb any bad SMELLS
Perhaps half the dairy butter is spoiled
by sailing it with salt that has been
kept in the kitchen or in some bad
smelling cellar. 1t has been recently
ascertained that salt will absorb more
bad doors than anything else, and if
butter is sailed with salt that has been
lying around and kept in dusty corner,
or even covered up with an old horse
blanket, or has been subject to any bad
odors, it will give the butter an off
flavor and partly spoil it for the market
Dairy and roll butter should be sent
for every day it lies around the store or
sits around the house it goes off flavor
and loses it's freshness and deteriorates
in value. Roll butter should be nicely
wrapped in cheese cloth, each roll sep
arately, which should be wet in strong
brine before it is put on the butter. 1t
should then be packed in tubs, clean
boxes or half barrels, which should al
ways be lined with cheese cloth or
parchment paper. Tub butter should
b. packed in tubs that will hold about
the amount of one churning, so that
there won't he two different colors in
, the tub. In sailing your butter put in
nearly an ounce of salt to one pound OF
butter, and use fine salt. Don't work it
too much; have the buttermilk well
washed out before sailing. Don't let
it remain exposed to the air, as it will
lose its flavor; we want all the flavor
we can get in butter.-Hoard's Dairy
man.
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A Wonderful Combination.

Being the only manufacturers of both guns
and ammunition in the world the Winches.
ter Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, c.,
are enabled to keep their guns apace with
apace with new guns. In this way by u.s.
ing Winchester goods, shooters can be Ger
tain of getting guns and ammunition of the
highest degree of excellence and most i'm
proved type. As the unapproachable repu,
tation of the Winchester guns depends upon
the ammunition used in them, the Win
cllesters are obliged to keep the standard
possible. Shooters who want the best re-
suits can get them by using Winchester guns
and Winchester ammunition. Send for a
large illustrated catalogue free.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
IMPROVED COW STALL
An Old Idea ~ Elaborated BY an Ohl0
's& Da1ryman.

An Old Idea ~ Elaborated by an Ohl0
# Da1ryman. "
herewith inclose a sketch of my
form of cow stall. In many respects it
is similar to those of my neighbors,
while in some features think it an i'm
provement. The breast-board directly
under the cows neck is made shallow
(six inches), while at the ends it is made
wide so that the cut feed cannot be so
easily rooted out by the cows.
The front, which also serves the pur-
pose of rack, is made of No. 8 wire, ex-
cept a single two by eight oak scantling,
which runs horizontally with the wires
about three feet from the floor with five
wires equally spaced below and three
above scantling. The wire should be
made tense by using on each wire a
ratchet. The scantling should be
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
Always Necessary.

The young matrons who were taking a
course in housekeeping principally be-
cause it was a fad had been listening
more or less intently, to the lecturer,
when the latter startled them by inquir-
ing: -
"What is the first thing to be done in
training a, waitress p
Convince her that she is not already
trained" promptly answered the one
who had had the most experience, and
the lecturer said: "Quite right Chi
cagO Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
DOG DRIVES A BARGAIN.
Prefers One Kind of Bread and Al
ways Gets 1t.

Prefers One Kind of Bread and Al
ways Gets 1t.
I was going down a little side street
in the French quarter in New Orleans
the other morning, says correspond
emit, when I saw dog-apparently a
cross-bred setter that had come down
in the world-trotting gaily along the
banquette in front of me, carrying a
partridge in his mouth. Presently he
came to a queer little bake shop letting
upon an old-time court. Stopping be-
fore the shop window, the dog reared
up on his hind legs and tapped with
his forepaws upon the closed pane,
whereupon the baker came and raised
the window.
"Bcn jour, monsieur" said the man,
quite cheerily, as if he were speaking to
an old acquaintance. At the same time
he took small, round loaf of bread
from the shelf and put it down on the
sill.
The dog, wagging his tail the while,
deposited his bird on the window ledge,
picked up the loaf and trotted back
the way he came.
''You are wondering at my queer GUS
tomer?" asked the baker, seeing my
establishment atthe transaction. "Well,
all can tell you," he went on, ''is that
the dog has been trading with me for
nearly a year now. Where he comes
from and to whom he belongs know
not. I think it is more than likely that
he is stray, making his own living.
have fancied sometimes that he must
rob the stalls in the French market
for the things he brings me. But dc
Tot know and nobody complains. Some
times he brings a bird, as you see; some
times a fish or a crab; now and then
only a potato or sprig of parsley OF
thyme. Now and then, although very
rarely, he comes without anything at
all. Then know, poor fellow, he has
had a hard day, so he gets his loaf just
the same. Why not? Even a dog must
live, and often he overpays, anyhow,
so it all comes right in the end"
1T is queer, though" the man con-
tinued, che always must have the same
sort of bread; no other will he take
See, keep his loaf here always, and
if start to get one from another shelf:
lie barks, you don't know how, and will
not put down whatever. he has brought
till get the right bread. Oh, he is
sharp, that dog adds the little baker,
and think most people will agree with
him.-Philadelphia Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01

Milton Reizenstein, graduate student of
the Johns Hopkins University, OF Balti-
more, has prepared a monograph as thesis
for degree which he expects to receive
next June. He has chosen for his subject
ception on the night Of February 18th, 1877,
when Is of the leading business men of Balti-
more met at the home of Philip E. Thomas
and devised means whereby the. trade of
Baltimore with the West could be restored.
1t was at this meeting that the company was
organized which afterwards built the b. e. o.
X. 4. Mr.. Reizenstein's monograph takes
until tracks were laid to- Wheeling, w. Va,
in 1853: The 10th anniversary of the B. & O.
K. r. Co. was February 18th, 1897.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
FARM AND GARDEN.
HOW TO REPAIR ROADS.

Twelve Rules Furnished by an Eng
lish Road Improvement Society.
One great hindrance to successful
farming is bad roads. The wear and
tear on horse flesh, wagons and har-
ness caused by bad roads is enormous.
The loss of time made necessary in
the slow going to market, mill or fac
tory because of bad roads is never COM
Tuted. To make bad roads good is
long step towards success in farming.
keeping good roads in good condition
is essential in their long usefulness and
cheap maintenance.
The London (EnglandD Road Improve
ment association has recently issued
some rules for keeping macadam and
Telford roads in repair. Some of them
are very applicable for keeping any
good road in repair:
1. Never allow a hollow, rut or a
puddle to remain on a road, but fill it
up at once with chips from the stone
heap.
2. Always use chips for patching and
for all repairs during the summer sea-
con.
3. Do not spread large patches of
stone over the whole width of the road,
but coat the middle or horse track first,
and when this has worn in, coat each
of the sides in turn.
4. In moderately dry weather and on
hard roads always pick up the old sur
face into ridges six inches apart, and
remove all large and projecting stones
before applying new coating.
S. Never spread stones more than one
stone deep, but add a second layer when
the first has worn in, if one coat be not
enough.
6. Never shoot stones on the road and
crack them where they lie, or a smooth
surface will be out of the question.
z. Never put stone upon the road for
repairing purposes that will not free
ly pass in every direction through a
two-inch ring, and remember that
smaller stones should be used for patch
ing and for ell slight repairs.
8. Recollect that hard stones should
be broken to finer gauge than soft, but
that the two-inch gauge is the largest
that should be used under any circum-
stances where no steam roller is used.
9. Use chips, if possible, for binding
newly laid stones together, and remem-
Der that road swecpings, horse drop
pings, sods or grass and other rubbish,
when used for this purpose. will ruin
the best road ever constructed.
10. Remember that water-worn or
rounded stones should never be used
upon steep gradients, or they will fail
to bind together.
II. Remember that the middle of the
road should always be little higher
than the sides, so that the rain may run
into the side cutters at once.
~. Never allow the water tables, gut
tiers and bitches to clog, but keep them
clear the whole year through.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
HOw's This3

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case Of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j; Cheney-& Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known r. j
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West 4 Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price Use. per bot.
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
Remarkable Vermont Town.

The town of Guilford, VT, furnishes
remarkable instance of longevity in
las list of deaths for 1896. Out of a
population of s76 there were 10 deaths
recorded, the average are being 70
years. OF these three were over 80,
nine had passed their eightieth year,
thirteen were over 10, and only one,
little Guy Miner, who was seven years
of age, was less than 53.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01

Ian.
the roll-way is narrow as is usually the
case. A plan is shown in the cut by
which the barrels of apples are carried
to the surface with but little lifting,
and without EARRING the fruit. The di-
ogram tells it's own story, except that
the triangular truck that is mounted on
two rollers is represented larger than
Iced be, thus making it higher than is
actually necessary The rollers run on
wide plank that rests on the edge Of
the stair treads. The same arrange
ment will be found equally serviceable
in putting apples into the cellar in the
fall, and for use with vegetables, ETC.
American Gardening. E6.
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HANDLING BARRELS.

An Excellent Device for Hauling APP
pies from the Cellar.
The usual storage place for apples is
in the cellar. The barrels then have to
be carried up the roll-way by two men
"a matter of no little difficulty when
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01
Prolonged Considcrnhlx.

DO you think that it prolongs mans
life to be insured?'' ~. TIL
Yes" replied the man who had just
been interviewed by an agent, sit does
something toward keeping him from
being talked to death. - Answers. s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01

In feeding and caring for the stock
during the winter the work should be
systematized 50 as to save time and la
Dor and secure regularity in feeding.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01

A crutch is used for sprains. Use St.
Jacobs Oil instead; it cures.
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"While Miss Fitz was away, George took
her parrot" Anything happen?' II
don't know; she keeps the parrot down eel
lar now, and the engagement is off. Life.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-01

When bilious or costive eat a. Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. lOc, Csc.
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Many are willing to wound with a word
who dare not strike blown. Y. Weekly.
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.Were you an eye witness to this AFFAIR.""
asked the prosecutor. 81 don't know what
you'd call nigh witness, but Iwarn' tmore'n
five rods away
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Little Ethel-"I wonder why men like to
talk about their old school days?' Little
Johnny-'I ,spose after they get growed
the teacher lives, so they can lick him"
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It is not difficult to make old people hap
py; slew them some one % years older than
themselves who is still in good health.-At
Gibson Globe.
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The baby said land gave that yell
Which makes his father scowD,
II may not be a bowling swell,
But I'm swelling howl"
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E Long, straight rows are easily and
closely cultivated by horse or hand Gull
tiyator. sfss .33. s4
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The ordinary schoolboy doesn't thin
and is much healthier.-F. f. Montressor.
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Doubled up and bent with pain umba.
60. Use st. Jacobs Oil and straighten up.
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Halls Family Pills are the best.

tits all over'-the sky.-Golden Days.
I'd rather be most any man
In history's class or fame's bright bands
Than Atlas, for he always had
A world of trouble on his hands.
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Rest assured that if your misdeeds find
you out they will call again.-N. Y. Weekly.
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Use St. Jacobs Oil.
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Homeseekers' Excursions ut Half
Rates =
Via the Missouri Pacific Railway and
Iron Mountain Route, to points in the
West and Southwest. Tickets on sale Tues.
days, April 9th and 10Th and May 4th and
18th. For descriptive and illustrated pamph-
lets of the different States, time and map
folders, address 81. G. Townsend, General
Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. is:
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Dull, gnawing pain-neuralgia. Prompt,
soothing cure-St Jacobs Oil.
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Men look for signs of spring out doors;
women look for them in dry goods stores
Atchison Globe.
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9e4 bus. CORN PER ACRE.

404 BUS. CORN PER ACRE.
It's marvellous how we progress!
You can make money ut. 10 cents q
5ushel when you get 1854 bushels corn,
$40 bushels oats, 173 bushels barley,
1000 bushels potatoes per acre! Sal
,zer's creations in farm seeds produce.
5000 WORTH FOR 10 CENTS!
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10 CENTS
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, and get ~ farm seed sam
pies, worth $1,000, to get 5astart. I'll
It would be good deal easier to love our
neighbors as ourselves if they would do
things the way we do.-N. Y. Weekly.
N0-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Over 400, 000 Occurred. Why not let No-To-B BAG
regulate or remove your desire tor tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists.
Men look for signs of spring out doors;
women look for them in dry goods stores
Atchison Globe.
Dull, gnawing pain-neuralgia. Prompt,
soothing cure-St. Jacobs Oil.
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It would be good deal easier to love our
neighbors as ourselves if they would do
Evening star., 1897-03-12
1. O. G. T.. Grand Visitation.

The Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
through its officers, paid its annual vista
tfon to Oriental Lodge Tuesday evening, In
their lodge room, 200 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast. Visitors were present from
nearly every lodge in this jurisdic tion,
Minnehaha No. /. Rescue No. and Ia
koma lodges attending in a body.
After the admission Of new members and
conclusion a regular business, the grand
officers were introduced by P. C. T. NJ Nc
Cathran as follows: G. C. T., A. E. Shoe
maker; G. V. T., Miss Edith Hoffman; G.
c.. Jesse c. Suter; G. S. J. T.. S. w. Rus
sell: g. s.. A: w. Campbell: G. c., C. N.
Phillips; G. NJ. R. A. Dinsmore; d. G. NJ,
Mrs; Mullin G. s., J. W. Bailey: G. NJ, T.
H. Speaks: G. T. S., John C. Daley All
were welcomed by the C. r., J. Walter Jett
Remarks were made by each of the grand
officers Mr.. Steele gave a violin solo, and
short talks were made by H. F. Smith, H.
r. Stewart, ]. w. Blackford, J. r. Ma
honey and others. The young ladies' COM
mittee of the lodge. consisting of Misses
Dalrymple. Benjamin, Hurlebaus and Tay-
lor. assisted by McCathran. Riecks, Hughes,
Pylis and Rainey, served refreshments
Evening star., 1897-03-12
S SEINlN THE CANAL
The Work Of Swing the Bass is Again
Ra2en Up.
Fish Commission Experts Commence
Falls-WiIl CD to Point of Rocks.

Local anglers Will doubtless be very much
rejoiced to learn. that the work Of seining
the canal for the purpose of transferring
the bass and Other food fish remaining
therein to the waters of the Potomac river
was recommended this afternoon by a
party of United States fish commission ex-
perts. under the direction of Mr.. Dement,.
The work. was begun at Little Falls, and
Will be steadily continued to Point CT
ROCKS A careful accounting will be made
of the fish captured and transferred to the
Potomac, as we'll as Of the number of carp
caught and killed, and the daily report Of
the results of the work will be made 10y
Mr.. Dement,. The results of the seining of
the canal last fall were so successful that
the project met at once with popular favor.
When the pools and ponds in the canal
bed froze over the work was stopped, and
the long-continued cold weather prevented
II being taken up again. The recent Hood
in the Potomac, which caused such swift
current in the bed of the river, stirred up
tie bass, and they sought the more quiet
water on the northern shore, where the
river had Overflowed the canal The result
was that when the Hood subsidcd the canal
was found to be full of bass. which, as the
water ran out, took refuge In the numerous
pools and basins that occur at intervals
along the waterway. If the bass were al
lowed to remain in the canal they would
not breed this spring, because the condition
of the canal water prevents the possibility
of the spawn beng kept clear of the dirt
and sediment, which is fatal to fish eggs.
Consequently the results of the present
work will be to add immensely to the prop
agation of the bass in the Potomac.
The work will be watched with great IN
terest by all local anglers, and they will
regard United States Fish Commissioner
Brice with even more kindly feelings be-
cause Of this latest favor granted by him.
1: was only yesterday morning that COM
niittee of the District of Columbia Game
and Fish Association, consisting of DR..
Walter s. Harlan. DR.. VIM. Pope Young
and Mr.. Cluslsey Cromwell, called his at
tention to the desirability of again seininS
the canal, and he took immediate steps to
arrange for the work, with the result that
the fish commission party, as stated above,
is already hard at it above Little Falls.
Another party will begin at Harper's Ferry
and seine to Wiliiamsport Monday morning.