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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-17
FIRE GRENADE AGENT FOOLED.
The Proprietor Of the Hotter Lost Z
Good Customers. 3s,s

go n "a
The proprietor Of a suburban hotel has
son whose sense of humor seems likely to re-
suit in the destruction of the business Of the
house. Recently one of the guests was the
travelling representative of fire grenade
manufacturing house. The prenades are
green glass bottles filled with Compound
that is said to smother fire. They are hurled
into the center of the blaze, and, bursting
with the force of the impact render an
engine and a line. of hose unnecessary.
The hre grenade agent remained several
gays at the hotel and advertised that before
ms departure he would give grand exhibit
ton OF the efficiency of the green glass bot
Ties. Early in the evening when the exhi.
Dltlon was advertised to take place large
and curious crowd gathered in front of the
hotel. The agent caused fire to be built in
the street, boxes and barrels being piled
many feet high. After seeing that the fire
was roaring merrily the agent made his ap-
2eaTance bearing an armful of fire grenades
he hurled the bottles one after another into
ne the blazing glazing pile, but instead of smotheripg
opposite effect. The fire blazed up nearly
twice it's former height, and the surround.
ing buildings began to shed their paint,
heat
The agent was the most astonished man in
the group until he learned that the son Of
the hotel proprietor had extracted the gren-
contents and then filled them with gaso.
line. The crowd soon found out that the
grenades had been "doctored," and yells of
derlsion nearly drowned the protests of
the agent as he attempted to persuade the
MOTEL proprietor that the house should pav
the costs Of the indulgence of the small boy .
humor.-Chicago Times-Herald.
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s FAST RECORD.
The Government Reindeer Sent Across the
Continent In Six Days. ts

x00 government e1nu6G1 sent ACYOD1 the
Continent In Six Days 5..s
B st. Paul, Mimi, March S.-Six DAYS,
including all stops, is the record Of the
two trains carrying the reindeer be-
longing to the governments Alaskan
relief expedition in their flying JOUR-
ney across the continent. Last Tues
day evening at 6 o'clock the first train
pulled out of the Pennsylvaniarailroad
depot at Jersey City, followed fifteen
minutes later by the second one, and
both arrived in Chicago, 912 miles,
within few minutes of,each other.
The Milwaukee road delivered them
to the Great Northern in this city, 41O
miles, running as sections Of Chicago
and. st. Paul passenger train No. s.
After stop of several hours at the
Minnesota Transfer, Great Northern
engines were attached and the journey
was resumed to the Seattle steamer
docks at $3.50 o'clock last night, 1877
miles, in about eighty hours, the two
trains arriving within eleven minutes
of each other. The total run was 3. 1S9
miles. and the actual running time 129
hours, or nearly 25 miles an hour, maxi
ing it the record breaking feat for
freight trains from ocean to ocean.
There was no hitch or mishap from
start to finish, and the government Of
fcials in charge of the expedition ex-
pressed themselves we'll pleased at the
successful carrying out of the plans of
the war department., and said no mis-
take had been made in the selection of
routes. Other lines made lower bids.
There were 80 cars in the outfit, d.
vided into two sections Of 10 cars each,
IS containing the deer, dehorned, other
wise they would have filed hundred
cars. The people. lib in number, Lapps,
Films and Norwegians, with their be-
longings. including 3 cars of moss for
the deer, filled 10 cars. The crowd
started 80 days ago from Arctic Lap:
land, and still have long trip ahead.
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THE FARMING WORLD.
COMFORT FOR COWS.
Animals That Are ell Treated Il
tuFn the Kindnesa

Animals That Are w ell Treated Re
turn the Kindness.
After milking in the way the. average
farmer docs for a number of years, in an
open lot, with straw stack for shelter
and concluding that if cow house
would not be q paying investment it
would at least add very much to the
comfort of both cows and mixer, we
built one this fall. 1t is not an elaborate
or costly affair, and is within the reach
of almost any farmer who keeps few
cows. If there is anything more ex.
asperating than milking restless COW
in a muddy lot, I have failed to find it
It not only tries the patience, but in
jures the health and at least part of the
cows feed is wasted.
But started to tell you about the
cow house: 1t is 40 feet long and II
feet wide with single roof. The stalls
are little less than four feet wide, and
there is room for nine cows, and place
to store feed. Milking, which has al
ways been burden, is now a pastime;
each COW knows her place and the
"CdIuC1 uOCS uOG IAIC1lCIC Will n
ing time. We have broken three heifers
without any clubs or profanity. Two
or three weeks before calving they
were put in the COW house: taught tc
stand tied, and fed regularly with the
right kind of feed, and gave no trouble
either with calving or m king.
The total cost, labor Included, was
less than $50. The interest on that sun
at ten per cent. would only be five dol
lars, and it does seem that the saving il
feed, comfort and health ought to bt
worth that. The dairy business does
not seem to be very encouraging al
present, but it gives a regular income
and there is generally demand for :
good article of butter; and with a lot o,
thrifty pigs to utilize the waste prod
ucts, there ought to be some profit in
i'll. NJ. Terrell, in journal of Agri
culture.
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DAIRY AND ICE HOUSE.

cream in cold place until the creamery
team makes it's daily round, when the
cream is sent away, and the skinned
milk retained for feeding to hogs or
calves. Where this plan is practiced
the house shown in the accompanying
illustration will be found exceedingly
convenient. 1t is built against the
north side of the barn, in the shade
and away from the cattle, which are
usually on the south side. The ice is
stored in the part next the barn, the
other part being used for milk tank,
etc. This gives great economy of labor.
The milk has but few steps to be car
ried, while the skinned milk is right
at hand to be fed to calves. or to PIGS
whose quarters can either be in the
barn cellar Or in nearby shed. The
ice is also just where it is needed
Farm Journal.
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TALK ADO Ut ONIONS.


The Best Paying Varieties and Method
Of Cultivation.
/ The most popular varieties Of onions
for market are the following: White
Southport White Globe; red, Large Red
Wethedsfeld, and yellow, Yellow Globe
Danvers, says Country Gentleman.
There are others, but the above orr con-
sidered the best and most profitable.
Yellow onions being greatest in de-
mand, the Globe Danvers variety, ow-
ing to its uniform shape, bright color
and excellent quality, is universally ac-
ceptcd as the Standard; it will keep
better than any other kind, and even
if accidentally frozen in storage, if
more covering is added and it is left
alone until thoroughly thawed, it will
come out little the worse for it's expert
ence. The writer has grown no other
variety for market for Is years. Much
of the success Of. the crop depends upon
the quality and freshness of the seed
sown; it is better to pay dollar q
pound more fora selected strain of a
reliable seed house than to be fooled
by cheap seed; ,northern-grown seed is
preferable to California. In the yield
of onions per acre there is very wide
range, from 200 to 1000 bushels; and
these numbers are not quite the ex-
tremes either, for occasionally crop
of 1900 bushels is heard of, and it is by
no means uncommon to see crops of less
than 200 bushels; but man who can
average 500 to 600 may consider himself
successful onion grower, while 400 to
500 is very fair crop. The width Of the
rows, the quality and quantity varying
from four to six pounds per acre) of
seed sown, the adaptability of the soil,
and the extent to which it is fertiiized.
the attention given to cleanliness and
cultivation-these are the factors gov
erning the size of the crop.
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The Land of Christ.

Under this title, the Passenger Depart
ment of the Chicago, Burlington & North
ern Railroad has issued splendid series of
views made by the half-tone process from
photographs taken in the Holy Land. The
as they exist today in that famous country.
The work is published in sixteen parts, each
containing from twelve to fifteen views.
Each picture is fully explained by descrip-
tive reading matter. A sample part will
be sent to any address on receipt Of two
cents in postage, and the complete set will
be forwarded, postpaid, on receipt of nine
ty-dve cents. Postage stamps will not be
received for the full set, but remittance
must be made to the undersigned by draft,
postal ORDER express money order, or reg
.istered letter. This is rare chance to Sc
cure more than two hundred views Of the
Land of Christ for less than one dollar.
Address Geo. p Lyman, G. P. A., c. B. &
n. r. R., St. Paul Mimi
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News IN Bret.

The general store of C. A. Rohrer at
New Rome was burned to the ground.
1t is expected that the Crookston saw
mill will cut forty million feet of logs
this year.
The Exchange Grain company's ele-
vator at Brownton was burned.
Gov. Clough has appointed as adj
ditional members of the Minnesota
commission to prepare an exhibition
for the Omaha Trans Mississippi expo
sltlon w. II. Garlock and C. Nj. You
mans. of Winona, and George T. Barr,
of Mankato.
The Minneapolis base ball team will
play its first league game at Kansas
City April 81. The season will be
opened in Minneapolis with Omaha,
April 49,
A postofice has been established at
Dorothy, Red Lake county. with ]. F.
Matthews postmaster.
Two Minneapolis policemen captured
what they supposed were two reindeer,
but the animals proved to be two pet
deer that had escaped from Minnehaha
park.
0. P. Whitcomb, formerly of Roch-
ester, and state auditor of Minnesota
from 1878 to 1882, died at Mankato.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath has received report from Post
office Inspector Wood, at st. Paul, in
favor of esta blisking q street car rail-
way mail service between st. Paul and
Fort Smelling.
The Meadowbrook Golf club has or
ganized for the season at Winona.
At recent meeting Of the prison
managers several applications for pa
role were considered and one or two
paroled men were discharged. their
sentences having expired. The mis-
cellaneous cash receipts Of the prison
for the month OF February aggregated
50, 1899. and of this amount the Union
Shoe and Leather company paid So.
1Sa. 80 for convict labor. #
Fred Peterson, aged II years, living
near yler, was killed by tho acct.
dental discharge Of 8 revolver IN the
hands Of his lily ear-old sister.
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RIPENING OF CHEESE.
The Changes Which Usually Occur
During the Process.


During the Process.
A well-cured cheese contains higher
percentage of fat than the same cheese
does when green, and this gave rise to
the idea that. the action of rennet, or of
the fermentation process, caused GER
tain of the constituents of the cheese
to be converted into fat. Partly with
the object of testing this theory, DR..
Caldwell has undertaken an investiga-
ton of the changes which occur in the
curing of cheese. The course pursued
was to take several green cheeses fresh
from the hoop, analyze the same, and
then keep them in alright receivers
to cure. By daily examination of the
air in the receivers, everything that was
given off from the cheese, or absorbed
by it, was traced and noted.
Without going into minute details,
it will be enough to say, in brief, that
the examination of the air in the re-
ceivers showed that the cheeses all
alike rapidly gave off carbonic acid and
water, and as rapidly absorbed oxygen,
in the early stages of curing, but after
ward this steadily diminished. The
weighing showed steady loss in the
total dry substance of the cheese from
oxidation, and Il loss in the total of each
solid constituents and casein-and
that the casein lost more than the fat,
thus leaving the fat in the cured cheese
in larger proportion than in it's green
stage, and demonstrating that the in
creased percentage of fat in the ripe
cheese over that in it's unripe condition
was not due to any increase of fat in the
curing process, but to a greater loss of
casein than of fat by oxidation.-C. G..
Freer-Thonger, in Farm and Home,
England.
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500 Reward 8lOO.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have so much faith in it's cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address +. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best,
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Cheese from Sheer. Milk.

In the district of Roquefort, France,
there is cheese factory which uses the
milk of some 100000 sheep, turning out
dusing the season from 5000 to $500
tons of cheese. This is the celebrated
Rcquefort cheese, which is largely ex-
ported, and commands a very high
price, both at home and abroad. The
ewes give such an abundance of milk
their lambs get sufficiently well grown
to be safely weaned at two months old,
leaving the dam then to be MIXED for
the purpose of making cheese. s''. =.
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Bought the FIRST boz. pills.
II have recommended the pills to many
women who are suffering as I suffered.
They are the only thing that helped me in
the trial that comes to so many women at my
age" MRS. j. H. WEAVER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
23d day of October, A. D., 1897.
o. G. HICKS, Notary Public.
When woman is passing beyond the age
Of motherhood, it is crisis in her life.
Then, if ever, proper attention to hygiene
should be exercised. The attendant suffer
ings will disappear and buoyant health will
These pills exert powerful influence in
restoring the system to it's proper condition.
They contain in condensed form all the
elements necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood
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All Things as Advertised.

By competing lines show progressive
spirit, but some of the things that are al
legged to be new have been in constant daily
sw;th bertb 1 resdinesme9
Vestibuled trains of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & ST. Paul Railway between ST. Paul
and Minneapolis and Chicago, as thousands
upon thousands Of its patrons will cheer
fully testify. The Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway always maintains its SUI
premacy with the travelling public by al
ways being the first to utilize every me-
chanical device aud improvement which
can be of any value to those who ride on its
magnificently equipped trains.
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For the Cubans,

A Shipment of Is tons of provisions
left Minneapolis, with Cuba as the des.
tination. This amount was made ur
by the commission men of Minneapolis.
Some time ago the commission men
passed resolutions expressing sympa.
thy for the Cubaus and sent them to
congress; now they have shown their
feeling in a more substantial form.
The car was made up of beans, peas
and dried meats.
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Large Purses

At the annual meeting of the Mime
sofa State Agricultural society it was
decided to offer combined purse OF
$40. 900 for horse racing at the next
fair. This is the largest amount yet
offered in the west, the most hereto
fore hung up being $1,000. After it
had been definitely ascertained that
Minneapolis and St. Paul would each
give SIS, 600 for trotting events. the as
ISOLATION was not slow to double the
amount
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
Narrow Escape.

Salvatore Dadario. the four-year-old
son of an Italian laborer at st, Paul.
had narrow escape from drowning.
According to the fathers story. the
child was pushed over the bank into
the Mississippi river by Angelo Mucci,
tie nine-year old son of a neighbor.
The child was saved from being car
ried beneath the ice by Nuncia Catini,
another fiat dweller. who rushed into
the river and seized the child's cloth
ing. The infant was taken home and
resuscitated, but is severely i'll.
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Statement of Fees and Taxes.

Insurance Commissioner Dearth has
fled with the secretary of state the
statement of fees and taxes collected
by his department during February.
The fees amounted to s6,s47.2O and the
taxes to S5O,611.02. The taxes repre-.
sent the business done in Minnesota
during the year by stock, fire and ma.
rine companies, and is at the rate of {
per cent per annum.
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Mortar Carriage.

The third of the big mortar carriages
which are being built for Uncle Sam
by the American Hoist and Derrick
company, of West st. Paul, has been
shipped to Portland, Ore. The i'm.
mense machine was loaded at the der.
rick company's yards upon specially
constructed fat car. while an addition.
al car was used for the fittings, equip
ments, etc.
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Death Enaued.

Carl HUM, a medical student at the
state university. died at his home in
Minneapolis from blood poisoning. The
accident which had such a terrible re-
suit occurred Feb. %. Mr.. HUM and
his classmates were holding post NOR
tenn examination, in which he took an
active part. During this examination
Mr.. HUM pricked one of his fingers
with an instrument that was being
used.
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Bad Investment.

Mrs. Holden-John, Veil never be able to
save cent if you don't quit being so ex-
travagant.
Mr.. Holden-Why, my dear, I'm not at
all extravagant.
eyes, you are. There's that accident
policy you bought nearly year ago, and
you haven't used it once; if that isn't ex-
travagance I don't know what it is."-Chi.
cago Evening News.
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ECONOMY OF LABOR.

1t Is Secured by the Building of the
House Here Described.
The cut shows unique idea in the
establishment of q dairy and ice house.
In many dairy sections it is now the
practice to set the milk in cold water,
or run it through a separator. Keep the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-17
The Young Idea.

Mamma, I guess know why Mr.. Buns
by sits in the front row at the theater.
"Why, my dear?"
$50 everybody can see that he's got lit
tie hair left behind. Pittsburgh Chronicle.
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A CnPQ.

lie awake at night hour after hour thinking
Of my literary work.
Friend-How very foolish of you! Why
don't you get up and read portions Of it,
Boston Traveller
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Useless.

Unclee-It's been very hard year, and
I've had to contract lot of debts!
Nephew-Why. that's too bad, uncle, for
I had lot Of ready-made debts that could
have turned over to you! - Humoristiche
R1aoffor
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The following is a characteristic Hood's
Sarsaparilla testimonial. Facts like
these have made Hoods Sarsaparilla
Americas Greatest Medicine and en-
deared it to thousands of homes scat
tered all over this broad land.
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Wide Tires Improve Roads.

In South Jersey town all the freight
wagons were changed to wide tires over
year ago, and since that time their
roads have kept in much better condi-
ton. EsG,
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The Father Oh Ruts.

II water stands on q road it soon
ruins It: ruts collect and. retain water;
the narrow tire il the Father Of Ruts.-
Good Roads.
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Isn't scald burn? Yes; and
St. Jacobs Oil is a cure.
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Self-love is not SO great sin as self-for
getting.-N. Y. Weekly.
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In Winter Sciatica is worse. Any time
St. Jacobs oil is the best cure.
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It is never too cold to cure Neuralgia
With St. Jacobs Oil. Sure Cure.
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Very little fever is required to cause a
sick man to say he is burning up with it.
-Atchison Globe.
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Rupture. Sure cure Book free. Write for i,
toS.J. fisherman, Specialist, Mt Vernon,N. ~
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HANDY GARDEN BARROW,

HANDY GARDEN BARROW
the handles are raised.s This barrow can
be dumped from the side as in the case
of the ordinary barrow, 1t is thus pos
sible to make over one of the ola-fash-
toned wheelbarrows into the style
shown, and that, too, at but small
trouble and expense. - Orange Judd
Farmer
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Hot and itchy-as frost-bite Cooled and
Soothed- cure by St. Jacobs Oil.
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We have not been without Piso's Cure for
Consumption for 20 years.-Lizzie Ferrel,
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HANDY GARDEN BARROW.

Quite an Improvement on the One in
General Use.
great improvement on the ordinary
garden wheelbarrow is shown in the
cut. The wheels have broad tires, are
light and run beneath the body-just in
the position to balance the load when
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Swallow your trouble and bolt it down.
Rural New Yorker.
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The upper ten is composed Of the win
ming nine and the umpire.-Chicago News
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A mothers praise of her children never in
terests any other Chicago News.
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Never trifle with pain. It may fool you.
St. Jacobs Oil never fools; it cures.
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A boy never smells anything baking
without at once getting hungry.
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constantly troubled will
cold hands and feet, wa!
extremely nervous, coulc
not sleep well, was trou'
bled with frightened
dreams, had heart trouble
and q feeling as though
my breath was going to
stop, also had leucor- {
rhea. I tried to get
help but all remedies
failed, until I wrote to
you. I cannot thank
you enough for your
kind advice, and I wish
to tellevery one thegreat y
good your remedies have
done me.-TAMMA C..
HOOVER, Wolfsville, Nd.
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Cold weather aggravates rheumatic pain
But st. Jacobs Oil cures-any time.