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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
Heavy Loss by Fire.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. l1.-Fire at
one o'clock Sunday morning totally de-
stroyed the packing house of the An
Choir fiourmill, owned by the Pillsbury-
Nashburn Milling company. Loss,
100000, fully insured. The flames
originated in the third story of the
building from an unknown cause, and
for time threatened the destruction
Of the entire mill, the fire wall, how.
ever. preventing further damage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
Wheat Thieves.

BY the arrest of II young men and
boys, the police and private detectives,
who have been working on the case,
believe that they have broken up one
of the boldest organizations of wheat
thieves that has ever operated in Min
neapolis. This gang has been stealing
wheat three or four years, and so skill
full has been their method Of procedure
that the authorities have never been
able to break up the gang and convict
the guilty parties.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
THE USE OF BuRS.

They Garry tho Seeds of Plants Away
from tho Parent Stem.
After a stroll atield in the fall one
is apt to wonder as he works away at
the burs that cover his clothes what
use they can possibly be. Burs are
great nuisance to men and animals,
but the plants they grow on find them
very serviceable, for they are simply
fruits covered with spines or prickles,
and this is only another way plants
have to distribute their seeds. That 1t
is a scheme that works well anyone can
see who has a hunting dog and keeps
it in his yard. In the spring fine crops
of Spanish needles and cloth burs come
up as if by magic where there was
none before. They have grown from
the burs the dog brought home in his
coat the autumn before. Around
wooden mills in New England plants
from the west spring up in mysteri'
GUS way and nearly always these have
bur fruits. They have grown from
the burs taken from the fleece of sheep
in cleaning and thrown out as waste.
Some troublesome weeds have been in
troduced in this manner. On the prai-
ries there are many plants with this
kind of fruit. In former days, when
great herds of buffalo also roamed the
plains, their hair caught up these burs.
tramps they are. Even now in old buff
falo wallows plants are found that do
not grow elsewhere in the country
round.
Some burs, like Spanish needles, have
only three or four slender spines, or
avns, as they are called, at the summit
of the fruit. If we look at them through
maguifying glass we find them bear
ing sharp, downward pointing barbs
like that of a fshhook. The sand spur,
all i'll weed that grows ON sea- beaches
and sandy river lunlcs, has burs covered
with such spines. The boy who has
stepped on sand spurs with his bare feet
knows this to- his sorrow. The tiny
barbs go in easily, but every attempt
to draw them out makes them tear into
the flesh.
Often the spinesor br;stles are hooked
instead of being barbed. The clot bur,
or cocklebur, that grows abundantly in
waste ground and the agrimony Of our
woods are examples. Burdoclz has such
hooked prickles on it's fruits, and they
stick so fast together that children
make of them neat little baskets, han
dies and all. The tick trefoil has joint
ed pods, covered Tricky with small
hooked hairs that can hardly be- seer.
without a magnifying glass. These arc
the small, fiat: brown burs that cover
the clothing after a walk through the
woods in September. They are mos!
annoying burs, worse than clot burs,
they are SO small and stick so fast.-St.
Nicholas.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
Kate Fields Ashes Lnld Awav.

Boston, Jan. 1.-THE remains Of Kate
Field now lei Mount Auburn ceme-
terry by the side of those of her mother.
The small copper box containing the
ashes of the noted writer arrived in
boston Saturday afternoon in charge of
Mrs. Whiting.wh gave it to, Cam
bridge undertaken. The ashes were in
round copper box and were, carried in
a common hand bag. The bag was
filled with flowers, the offerings of
friends in Chicago
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
MINNESOTA STATE n. NEWS.
Annual Report.


Assistant Secretary of State ]. ]. Lo-
men, who is also commissioner of sta
tistics, submitted his annual report to
Governor Clough. The report is d.
vided into three chapters. The first
contains figures on agriculture in COM
parative tables. The second is is sta
tistics by counties and the third is de-
voted to miscellaneous statistics.
: The report is only partial for 1895,
but is inclusive of 1894. An interesting
item is the total number of farms in
Minnesota, which is given, including
1895. There are Ga, 425. OF that num-
Der 924 are new. That is to say, they
were first settled upon in 1895. 'rhe to-
tai dairy product in 1895 was: Cheese.
540,264 pounds; butter, rs, 121, 1913
pounds. The total number of COWS
was 800, 095. The report is compare
tive to 1881. In that year the whole
number of COWS was LOG, 016; butter,
1856, 76S pounds; cheese, 1863, 147.
The bee industry is not so large now
as it was 20 years ago. In 1872 the
whole number of hives in Minnesota
1904, and they produced 232, 948 pounds
of honey. In 1894 there were 10,S77
hivee. and the bees produced gil 1928
pounds of honey.
The report shows wonderful growth
however, in the sheep Industry. In
1895 the number of sheep sheared was
1854, 527, as compared with S4,931 in
1894; and the number of pounds Of
wool secured 1895 was S13, 404, as
AGAINST $40 ?o5 in 1904 The shearinr
was done in the spring in 1895 and in
the fall in 1894.
Minnesota produced 294, 42S pounds of
grapes in 1894, and 65,813 bushels Of
apples.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
We,rht Of tho Brain.

The weight of the brain in man is
about the thTty-sixth of the whole
body; that Of idiots being between the
sixtieth% and Observation-Disclosures.
The average weight in the mammalia
is the northumberland sixty-eighth; in
birds the two-hunxMed-and-twelfth; in
reptiles the Observation-Disclosures hun
dred-and- twenty-frst. and in fish only
the five-thousand-six- hundred-an
eighty h'th.-N.s Y. World. f.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
FavOrs Reciprocitv,

st. johns. n. r.. Jan. 1.-THE New
foundi"nd leE'sInture will open on Feb
ruary IL. The government will intro
duce resolution early in the session
favoring reciprocity with the United!
States and will dispatch Colonial Sec
rotary Bond. and Solicitor General Nor
ris to arrange convention. it possible.
with the Mckinley administration TO
secure the free entry of Newfoundland
Goldfish into the American markets.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
Hungarian Gypsies.

OF 274,94O Hungarian gypsies emu
n,erated in the last census, 243,432 are
described as sedentary, 2o,406 as semi.
sedentary, and only s,93s as nomadic,
while 2,164 are soldiers or in jail All
possess some form Of Christianity
Seventeen Thousand are professional
musicians, and only s3,4O5 are stilf
able. 70 speak gypsy dialect. u
World. Isss
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
Land Gained.

An unusually large amount of land
was given to the states of Minnesota
and North Dakota recently. Mime
sofa gained 60,6S1 acres in tho Duluth
district by the approval of the swamp
list, and North Dakota gained 81, 1867
acres by the approval of lists of lands
for the purpose of main tanning the
deaf and dumb, school Of mines, reform
school, state normal school and agri-
cultural college.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
Operations Resumed

Johnstown. Pa, Jan. 1.-THE Cam
bria rail mill No. l, the IL and l6-inch
mills and the scrap mill will resume
operations to-day. giving employment:
to many idle men. The Cambria steel
mill was put in blast Sunday night.
Two hundred men will also 90 10 ,,.:,ri.
this !. morning at the Johnson co,npany.s
steel motor works.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-14
A Fatal Fail.

Baltimore. Jan. S.-Miss Ida V.Hoap-
land, private secretary to Miss Mary
Garrett, was killed by falling bowman
elevator shaft in Miss CARROTS man
sion on West Monument street Thurs
day. Her skull was fractured and she
was otherwise badly injured. Miss
Hoagland was about 80 years Of nge und
q resident of PHILADELPHIA.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03
LAKE MICHIGAN ALWAYS OPEN.
How It II Rendered. NavIEaA BILE All

How It ID Rendered. NavIgahIO All
theSYear Around.
Navigation on Lake Miohiganis never
closed. Steamers run back and forth
across the lake and between the ports
of the west shore Of the lake during the
entire winter with remarkable regular
ity. The first attempts ut winter navi-
CATION on the translake routes were
made by the Detroit & Milwaukee Rail-
road company and by the now defunct
Engelmann. Transportation company
many years ago. and the success of win
ter ventures became established us the
character Of the steamers was improved
and developments were made in marine
enginery. Now winter navigation pro-
cceds almost uninterruptedly, and the
new car ferries steam back and forth
with little regard for weather or for
ice. The success Of the car ferries on
Lake Michigan and the car ferry which
defies winter in the Straits of Mackinac
is probably the cause of the announce
ment that negotiations are in progress
looking to the construction of ice
breaking freight steamers that will en-
able their owners to Keep them in COM
mission on the Lake Superior and lower
lake route during the winter. The re-
port is without foundation.
There is vast difference between
the navigation of Lake Michigan from
one shore to the other, and along it's
west shore, and the navigation of the
great lakes throughout their lengths
and through the interlake channels. Ice
breaking is expensive, and occasionally
fhn loo Anoc 1of1 ln
the best of the so-called ice breakers.
One of the car ferries wac recently
stalled by foe near Menominee, which
defied not only the steamer, but the
explosive power of dynamite. The
trouble of winter navigation on the
chain of lakes would occur in the inter-
lake channels and in the canals. Ow-
ing to the clogging effects of the ice it
would be almost impossible to operate
canals during midwinter.
Another and a very serious bar to
general lake navigation in winter is the
prevalence of snowstorms, during
which nothing whatever can be seen.
Snow is more obstructive to the sight
than fog, and during a driving snow
storm it is impossible to see anything
ahead, even in the daytime. Winter
navigators on Lake Michigan. who are
never out of sight of land for any great
length Of time, experience their chief
annoyance from the snowstorms. They
manage to steam into port when snow
is flying thick, because of their famil-
iarity with the route, but they occa-
sionally get into trouble while they are
wrapped in "the tumultuous privacy of
the STORM"
1T dues not follow, by any means, that
because winter navigation is success
full on Lake Michigan it Gun be made
successful in the upper and lower lake
Observation-Disclosures Wisconsin.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03
FOOk ".-.o-- .n.4.NING.
No Systematic Instruction in Reform-
atOry Institutions.


atOry Institutions.
During September I visited several
of the reformatory institutions to see
what was being done for the younger
boys in regard to manual training, says
writer in the Altruist Interchange.
found very little systematic instruc-
ton. The principal occupations were
Gaming chairs, knitting stockings by ma
chinery and other purely mechanical
work. In none of the schools was there
systematic instruction in manual train
ing as it is now carried on in education
al institutions. In fact, there were so
many young boys who could notibe kept
busy at machine work that q large
part of the time which might have been
usefully employed was spent in idle
ness. During these hours the boys
found occupations on their own ac-
count for their hands to do to limited
extent.
In one institution the boys had taken
from their hat bands the broad steel
wire which kept them in shape, broken
it into pieces from three to six inches
in length, ground these upon the door
steps or walls Of the building and used
them as knives to 5vhittle such bits of
wood as they could pick up about the
yard or secure from the janitors when
they made the fires. They made q han
die by winding on the rawlings of
stockings or binding two bits of wood
on either side. Little boats, paper
knives, household furniture, were rude
ly shaped by these crude Instruments.
Some OF the boys were put there for
wrecking trains, for burglary, etc., and
their tendencies were sometimes ex-
pressed in the things they tried to
make. For instance, pistols, small
knives and weapons such as boys might
use in Indian raids, etc.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03
The Spirit Didn't Pour,

A preacher being called to a new
congregation desired to perform some
miracle to show the goodness OF the
Lord in answering prayers. He hired
little darkey and placed HIM in n
room over the parlor in which there
was trap door. He then gave the
boy dove and told him to listen and
when the minister prayed for the
Lord to send his spirit down the boy
should drop the dove. The next day
the parson had some callers and
kneeled down under the trap door to
pray. In winding up he asked the
Lord to pour out his spirit upon them,
but the spirit didn't pour. He prayed
again. Then the darkey stuck his
head down and said: "Parson the cat
got the dove, but I've got the cat.
will the cat do?"--Ex.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03
Thought to BIO Near.


The Philadelphia Press toreshad-
ows the coming of the millennium rs
follow: .l.,.f ...
"Flying Is solved. The principle is
known. A mechanical expedient is
all that it now needed to make it
successful. Practical fight is today
not more than five or ten years off.
"a glow worn makes light with
about one three-hundredth part OF
the force used in ordinary artificial
light. When men know how to
make light as cheap. streets and
hou ies will be as light as day for q
mere fraction of what light now
costs. This is clear. Vacuum il
Elimination without incandescence
is already in full operation, and in a
year or two should cut down the
price of light to sixth Of it's current
cost, and. in five or ten years light
may be, like water, turned on in
every house at will.
Compressed air has long been
known to be he best way, theoreti-
cally, to store force for use in trans
portation. There is no waste and no
deterioration. The need Is a cheap
and efficient motor to apply COM
pressed air to city transportation. IT
this can be done, first the trolley
poles and wires will come down, next
the horseless compressed air motor
carriage will do all the work Of city
delivery.
"When these come the only use for
gas will be for cooklng-if this is not
done by electricity. Factories. also.
before many years, will be run by
transmitted electric power. This
has begun to be done and in five or
ten years will be completed, and the
factory fire and boiler will be thing
of the last.
"The city Of the future, and no very
distant future, will have no trolley
POlCb vi "llCb huu III uOI6S6. ALI
movements will be on rail by silent
air motors or by horseless carriages
equally silent.
@An pavements will be asphalt.
Unlimited light will be as cheap as
unlimited water is today, No coal
will be delivered at private houses,
and no ashes will he taken from them
with no horses; no coal and no
ashes, street dust and dirt will be re.
duced to minimum. With no fac,
tory fires and no kitchen or furnace
fires, the air will be as pure in the
city as in the country. Trees will
have a chance; houses be warmed and
lighted as easily and cheaply as they
are now supplied with water.
"A city will be prett nice place to
live in when the first twenty years OF
the twentieth century are passed."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03

A woman who has roughed it in
the klondykc now comes TO the front
with statement Of the things q
woman will need IN invading that re-.
gion, which prompts the st. Louis
Republic to say that the thing a wo.
man most needs in the Klondyke is
that same old universal convenience
"a man to take care OF her. This
little sentence may be applied to the
world, not alone to a little corner OF
it named Klondyke.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03
A QUERY ANSWERED.

One OF ElKO's prominent citizens
has asked the INDEPENDENT il there
Ii not some way to get rid of the
wome iv .ng in Chinatown and the
mon living off Of them. He spoke as
one having the best interests Of the
town at heart. In answer to the query
the INDEPENDENT will say that other
towns in the State have found al eff
fective way to deal with these two
classes Of people. 1t is this: The
citizens have appointed a committee
whose duty it was to wait upon these
men and notify them to leave town
by certain time or suffer the conse-
quences. II the men are driven
aw ~, most OF the woman will soon
follow them and the town will be rid
OF b It'll classes.
Unless something OF this kind be
done the offscourng of society driv-
en- from the other towns Of the State
will settle here to demoralize and de
gra 10 the y )uth Of this town. An
other result Of their stay here will be
an increase OF criminal bust
mess in the police court
for which the taxpayers Of the
comfy will have to foot the bills.
An illustration OF this can be seen in
the case of Gas Hillyer, whom we
underst and was run out Of Reno for
the same work he has been doing
here. This cur. il he serves his
sentence of six months in the county
jail, will have cost the taxpayers
about $3.50, more than his miserable
hi lie is worth.
The writer of this served two years
as deputy constable in Virginia City
during its prosperous times and
kno vs. whe: eof he speaks concerning
the cost Of this Class Of people to the
taxpayers of the county. There they
furnished the major portion of the
police court litigation ard we're
constant drain upon the county
treasury. 1t will be 80 here if some
steps are not taken to rid the county
OF their presence.
This is written from a sense of
duty to the good people of the county
whose interests we try TO serve and
not from any personal inwill toward
those at whom it is Anne /. Against
them we have no malice. On the
contrary we have nothing but SYM
pathy nor the unfortunate women iv-
ing IN Chinatown, whose lives are
ma lie more miserable by the leeches
who hang around them. Their pres
ence is blight upon the community
and they should he made to leave. II
other steps fail. a vigilance co nmittee
might do the work.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-03

This is the trademark
which Is on the wrapper sal-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-07
THE TWENTIETH MAN.

We speak of thirty two years as the
average life of generation, meaning
roughly that the sun of the lives of hui
man beings born at the same time, di
vided by their number, will be about
Jhiriy-two years. The average expec
;ation OF lifa necessarily decreases with
the advance OF time, and more rapidly in
tie cases ofthose suffering from disease
or hardship or injury. 1t is q striking
fact. therefore, that the pension rolls of
the United States bad added to them
in the thrtythird year after the clos,
and the thirty.seventh year from the
opening of the civil war 5 396 names,
bringing the total up to the amazing
mum Der of 976 OLA
The population of the United States,
taking the census of 1890, and allowing
for the average of increase as in former
years, is little under 10000, 900.
In round numbers, then, l in 70
Of the entire population OF thv
country is drawing pension from the
treasury. The ratio of pensioners to
the male population over 81 years Of
aae is about in 20.
During the last fiscal year the pay
ments for pensions, not including the
cost Of the service, were SAL, 900 936,'
70, OR very nearly S142 100000 This
is equivalent 10 % per year for every
nan, woman and child in the country
and to 81 a year for every male adult.
In other words, every pensioner re
ceives on the average each year 81
each from 70 men, women and children,
or 81 each from 20 male adults.
II these enormous payments were
made for good reasons, to compensate
actual injuries received in the military
seryca of the republic, no one would
complain; but the very enormity OF the
psyme en,s shows that this is impossible.
Let the rolls be published in detail
as urged by Commissioners Evans. That
is the first step toward purging them.
: N. Y. Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-07
MEDICINAL.

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