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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

is, if you was willin' our furniture
an our pensions together"
eyes, we might"
The old man dropped his cane and
faced her eagerly. His wrinkled hand
reached out and touched hers; his
voice was tremulous with eagerness
as he said:
''We will, if you'll only say so. I've
thought of it over an over ag'in, but |
amt had the courage to ask you to-
to-marry me. We'd be real happy an
comforta BILE together. If you'll just say
the word we'll break way from all this
bein' domineered over an live as we've
right to live. If you'll only say the
world"
The next day the old lady, clad in
her brown merino Sunday gown, and
the old man, in his Sunday suit, ap-
peared in the study of the minister
of little mission church they both at
tended and were married.
It'll be an awful s'prise to my son
an his wife," said the smiling old
bride.
can to my daughter" said the BRIDE
groom, and then he added, valiantly;
''But let 'em say an do what they
will. I'll defend you ag'in 'em all, my
DEAR"
There is not in all the city a happier
or more contented couple than this
pair of old pensioners in their two
coy rooms. They may yet be seen
any fine day on their favorite bench
in the city park with the birds above
them singing their love songs and
their own hearts not too old to be
filled with tender affections, with hopes
and with armonies.-Detroit F rec
Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
UnprOfltableE Experiments.

Those who seek improvement in up
grading of a cattle herd should shun
the stupendous folly of mixing up
blood elements by changing from time
to time the breed from which the sires
are chosen. Such experimenting in a
wholesale way is altogether without
excuse on the part of those who earn
their bread by keeping live stock.
Those who practice these methods be-
tray lack of the first principles of
breeding. They remind one of the
man who spent his life in building a
mound of stones and taking it down
again as often as he built it. He ended
his work just where he began.-Da-
kota Field and Farm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
RAN INTO A SMELL.
Chicago Bicyclist Has an Adven.
ture with Local Stencil That In
Strong Enough to Fight.

II swang into Grand Western boule-
ward, at it's intersection with Garfield"
said the bicyclist, land my nose was on
the handlebars. You will notice that I
use strong English and I esteem
'swang' to be good. There is a placard
stuck up at the corner which says that
wheelmen are permitted to ride only at
the rate of eight miles an hour, but L
have regarded it always as an insult
and pay no attention to it. I buzzed
down the boulevard with my coattails
standing rigidly behind me, and a
scared policeman on the curbing heard
the hum and looked all around to see,
where the noise came from.
"Two miles down the thoroughfare
I ran into something soft and decidedly
unpleasant. It did not stop me alto
gether, but the pedalling through was
hard and the progress slow. If you
can imagine yourself wheeling through
an atmosphere of wool you will know
about what it was that hit me. got
through finally, and looking back, ex-
pecting to see heavy fog bank, or
something of that sort, hanging over
the road, but there was nothing. Then
I knew that I had bucked up against
Smell-just plain, unadulterated, COM
posite, muscular magnifed Smell.
AT this point the smells from the
stock yards meet the smells from the
drainage canal and fight it out every
hour in the "a. Sometimes g. swift
breeze comes along and picks up
chunks of this atmosphere and breaks
window panes 1000 yards away. They
hang above the road and circle round
and round in kind of shimmering or
haze, and the longer you stay with
them the worse they get.
IF we had boxed up 100 pounds of the
smell and opened it near Santiago
there would not have been Spaniard
in that part of the island Is minutes
after the lid came off. They would SIM
ply have gone into the bay and held on
to the bottom with both hands. Lives
could have been saved in this way
American lives-and the people. on.
Grand Western would never have
missed it, because it comes faster than
they can use it up. saw a small boy
swinging to gate on the outer edge
of the district and said to him:
"'Sonny, how do you folks manage
to live in this ARP
cit amt good to-day he answered,
too weak
"The queerest thing about it all is
that from one end of Grand Western
boulevard to the other there is not a.
doctors sign. The children are red
checked and fat. The women are
strong. The men are muscular. The
policeman who puts in 10 hours of
every day in his life on the bridge over
the canal told me that if the chief ever
changed his beat he was going to re-
sign or commit suicide. He said he
had never before known what true con-
tentment was. Doctors have attempted
often to settle in that part of Chicago,
but the population is so distressingly
healthy that they took to drink and
disappeared. The theory is thatwhen
a man becomes permeated with mix
ture of stock yards and drainage smell
there is no room in him for anything
else, nor is there any microbe on earth
that could live and do we'll out there"
Chicago Chronicle.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
Dust for Poultry Houses.

Now is the time to collect few bar
re1s Of dry earth, road dust, fine, dry
dirt from the cornfeld or potato patch,
or anywhere that is most convenient.
This is handy to have in the fall and
winter for sprinkling under roosts and
on the floor Of the poultry house. It
absorbs ammonia, keeps down smells
and keeps things in good shape gen
orally. It will pay to attend to this
now, whenit can be done so easily. It
costs nothing and is real advantage
to have for use in winter.-I. GRADER,
In Agricultural Epit
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
Some Good Stable Rules.

Among the rules of a New York liv-
ery stable where the animals of many
wealthy men are kept are the follow
ing: mo man will be employed who
drinks Intoxicating liquors. No man
shall speak loud to any of the horses
or in the stable where they are.
Horses of good blood are nervous,
and loud, excited conversation is felt
by every horse who hears it, and it
keeps them all nervous and uneasy.
No man shall use profane language in
the hearing Of horses"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
His Business.

A lawyer trying to serve his client by
throwing suspicion on witness in the case,
in the course of his cross-examination, said:
"You have admitted that you were at the
prisoners house every evening during all
this time?'
eyes, SIR" replied the witness.
"Were you and he interested in any bust
ness together?"
eyes, SIR answered the man, unhesitat-
ingly.
"Ah! Now, will you be good.enough to tell
us how and to what extent and what the
nature of this business was in which you
and he were interested?"
''Well, I have no objection to telling. I
was counting his daughter" st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
HANDY FARM GATE.
1t Is Strong and Light, Easily Con.
structed and Not Apt to Get
Out of Order.

I present plan for making light
and handy farm gate. 1t is made of
one by three-inch strips dressed to
seven-eighths of an inch in thickness.
I use hemlock. The gate post GAY is
three by five inches. 1 mortise the
three long boards, the middle one being
marked B, and run strap to the hinge
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

in tatters and rags,
broken in body but
of dauntless spirit,
swung into line for
the last F'grand re-
view" and then
quietly ma rched
away to begin life's
fray anew amid the
hills and valleys of
the Keystone State.
Among the number
Asa Robinson came
back to the old home
in Mt. Sterling, ILL.,,
back to the freside
that he had left at
the call to arms four
years previous. He
went away a happy,
healthy farmer boy
in the first flush of
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
About the Size Of II.

Little Clarence (who reads and pom
ders)-Pa, is it true, as Shakespeare
says, that tall the worlds stage? p"
Mr.. Callipers-It may have been so
in Shakespeare's time, but as far back
as I can remember it has been more
like courthouse-it has been % full
of trials.-Puck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
A Family Affair.

Rich Uncle-You might as well stop
incoming about Miss Beauty. She hasn't
been in love with you, after ALL She's been
after the money she thought you would in
herit from me.
Nephew-Impossible! Why do you think
so?
81 have proposed to her myself and been
accepted. IN. Y. Weekly.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
A SOLDIERS ESCAPE.

From the Democrat-Message Mt. sterl-
ing, Ill.
When Richmond had fallen and the great
commanders had met beneath the historic
apple tree at Appomattox, the S3d Penn
sylvanla Volunteers, prematurely aged, clad
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

Would-Be Writer-"What do you con-
slider the most important qualification for a
beginner in literature" Old Hand-'A
small appetite. "-Tit-Bits
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

Our idea of difficult task for anyone to
fill would be for woman to make herself
popular at her boarding house.-Atchison
GlOhe
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

There are some people so afraid they will
be fooled that they refuse to believe the
truth.-Atchison Globe.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

For several days prior to Satur.
day last alarming reports had been
circulated of a disaster to the
nglo-Egyptian expedition into
upper Nubia,' or the Egyptian
Soudan. It was known that the
expedition was on the verge of a
desperate conflict with the fanati-
cal followers of the Khalifa, and
were greatly outnumbered. The
Khalifa was supposed to have l00,-
600 men, while the Anglo-Egyptian
force consists Of 10000 British and
$4,000 Egyptians. But on Satur,
day anxiety was relieved by the
publication in London of brief
dispatch from Sir Gen. Kitchener,
the British commander, to the fol-
lowing effect: Cali the forts OF
Omdurman have been destroyed
Great success. No casualties.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08
FORECLOSURES SALE.

Notice is hereby given, That that certain mort
gage, executed and delivered by William Her
brun, mortgagor, to the Farmers Trust Company
mortgage, dated the 31st day of May, A. D.
eighteen hundred and ninety-tivc and filed for
record in the office of tho Register of Deeds of
the County of Cavalier and State of North Da-
kota, on the 9th day of August, \. D. 1898, and
vii! be forecloscd BY, a sale of the premises in
such Mortgage and hereinafter described, at
the front door of the Courthouse in the town of
Langdon, in the County of Cavalier and State
of North Dakota, at the hour OFF, o'clock D. M,
on the 18th day of October, 1898 to satisfy the
amount due upon said Mortgage on the day of
sale.
which will be sold to satisfy the same, arc
those certain premises situated in the county of
Cavalier and State of North Dakota, and de-
scribed as follows, to-wit: The southwest quar-
ter of the sout Invest quarter of section sixteen
and the northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of the southwest quarter of section
sixteen, in township one hundred and sixty
three north, of range sixty west, of the fifth p.
M. containing 80 acres more or less according to
U. s. government survey thereof.
There will be due on such mortgage at the
date of sale the sum of six hundred and eighty
seven dollars and SiXty-sevcn cents, principal
and interest together with the sum of five dol
lars and % cents for taxes necessarily paid by
said mortgagor said mortgagcd premises
and interest together with the sum of fifty dol
lars Attorneys fees for forcclosing said mort
gage as allowed by statute.
Dated at Fargo, North Dakota, this 18th day
of August 1898.
X. II. CosHUN Mortgage.
40 Fargo, n. Dakota
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

EDITOR SHEPARD, the man in
the Moon, has been keeping COM
pany with Hannah for two years.
Both the paper and its editor are
distinctly western-the paper In
it's phenomenal growth and the
editor in his original style. When
the Moon started, its abode was
thirty miles away from the nearest
railroad point while today its office
is on the main street of live bust
ness town Of ut least 500 popula-
ton. In spite Of It's free-lance
proclivity it is admired and well
coined quite generally-especially
within the borders Of western
Cavalier county. Here's that
Billy's moonshine may always be
mixed with sunshine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

AT this time every town in the
Union is welcoming the return
Of some Of their boys who have
either born the brunt of fighting
in Cuba, or have had their health
broken down in the army camps
Of the south, where disease has
been unnecessarily contracted,
through no fault Of theirs, but
through the mjsmanagement and
neglect of the war department
Their return is cause for rejoicing,
but is saddened by the thought of
the loss Of life and sickness which
alone can be charged up to the in
competent men at the head OF
affairs.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

CAss county farmers are making
rapid strides toward diversified
ton, as is shown by the increased
acreage of corn and flax there.
The acreage of corn in that county
six years ago did not exceed 1000
acres, while now there are over
$4,000 acres planted to this IN
creasingly popular North Dakota
product. The flax acreage last
year was about 10000 acres, while
this year it is nearly 10000 acres,
owing doubtless to the establish
ment of linseed oil mill at Fargo
last fall. These innovations mark
a new era in North Dakota farm
ing.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

THERE will be twenty one
election precincts in Cavalier coun-
ty this fall. It will require three
separate ballots, one for the. state
ticket, one for the constitutional
amendments, and one for the wo.
mems vote on state superintendent.
The separate ballot for amend
ments was rendered necessary
according to the Legislative view
because the average voter over.
looked voting for amendments al
all on account of the amendments
being placed at bottom or one side
Of the list Of candidates.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08
NOTICE-TIMBER CULTURE.

U. S. Land Office, at
Devils Lake, N. Oak, July 9th, 1898.
Complaint having boon entered at this office
by Nicholas Irwin, against Abraham NJ. Harris,
for failure to comply with the law as to Timber
Culture Entry No: 1851, dated May 18th, 1889,
in Cavalier county, with view to the cancella-
tion of said entry; contestant alleging that the
said Abraham NJ. Harris failed to cultivate,
10 acres of timber, trees, seeds or cuttings on
said tract at any time during the last 4 years
that there has not been 10 acres of timber, trees
kept in healthy growing condition, nor growing
said tract at any time during the last years.
The said parties are hereby summoned to APP
at Langdon, Cavalier county, N. d., on the nth
day of September, 1898, at 10 o'clock II. m., to
respond and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged failure. Hearing at this Office, on the
2itll day of Sept, 1893, at 10 o'clock n. IN.
Is. ERICKSON, r. NOBLE,
Attorney. 52l Register.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

The discovery that binding
twine Of excellent quality is being
manufactured from the swamp
grass of tho North Dakota prairies
is creating quite sensation in the
state. And we'll it may, for the
possibilities of advantages to &C
crue from it are very great, in
deed. If fully successful, soon the
twine for binding North Dakota
wheat will be manufactured in
North Dakota. This would mean
a vast amount of money saved to
the North Dakota farmer in the
cost Of his crop, and added to the
wealth Of the state in the estab-
lishment of manufacturing plants.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08
FREE SILVER THE ISSUE,

Ex-Governor Stone OF Missouri,
in his New York interview, assert
ed that free silver would be the
issue in 1900 and that William j.
Bryan would be the democratic
candidate for president.
New York newspapers were in
cllned to question the correctness
Of Stones assertions, but kilograms
from the members of the demo-
cratic national convention which
adopted the Chicago platform fully
confirm all the claims made by the
former governor of Missouri.
There is no issue more impor-
tant to this nation than the None
tary issue. There is nothing that
could more conduce to the pros
perity of the people than the free
coinage of silver and gold at q
ratio of l6 to l.
This was what about 6, 100000 citi
zens of the United States voted fol-
in 1896. This is what they demand
an opportunity to vote for in 1900
And these voters believe that hun.
dreds of thousands of men who
were coerced into voting for gold
at the last presidential election
and hundreds of thousands OF
other men who voted for "bimetal.
llsm' fooled by the claims of Nc.
Kinley) will at the next presiden.
tial election vote for silver and
William J. Bryan.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, I &C


In County Court Before Hon. H. f. Dorval,
Judge.
In the matter of estate of John Wheeler, De-
ceased.
Isaiah Wheeler, Petitioner: VS.. Ellen Whee-
Ter, Charles I. Wheeler, Walter S. Wheeler, Al
. Wheeler, Rosa Carter, Merrmack Religious So
cicty, New Hampshire Bible Society, Wheeler
Memorial Chapel, New Hampshire Homo Mis-
sionary Society, and Mary o. Chumard, Re-
spondcnts.
Tho State of North Dakota to the above
named Respond ,nts:
You the said Respondents, above named, are
hereby notified that the final account of the
Executor of the last will and testament OF John
Wheeler, late of the town of Mcrrimack, in the
county of llillsborough, and state of New Ham
shire, deceased has been rendered to this court.
therein showing that the est tate of said deceased
is ready for final settlement and distribution,
and pctitiOninG that this account be allowed,
! the residue of said estate be distributed TO the
persons thcrcunto entitled, his administration
closed and he be d i.chargcd; that Monday, tho
9Th day Of September A. ID. 1898, at 10 o'clock in
! the forenoon OF chat day, at the court rooms of
this court house, i'll the city of Langdon, Cou1i.
| ty of Cavalier and State of North Dakota has
been duly appointed by this court for the set
tlemcnt thereof, at VIII ich timo and place any
person interested in said estate mayappcar and
| file his exceptions in writing, to said account
and petition and contest the same.
! And you, the a bove named respondents, and
cac h of you, are hereby cited and required then
and there to be and appear before this court
and show cause, if any you have, why said ac-
estate distributed, the administration of said
estate closed and said Executor discharged.
! Datcd.thc Bird day of August A. D. 1898.
BY the Court
[SEAL] He. DORVAL
52-3 Judge OF the County Court.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08
The North Dakota producer and

The North Dakota producer and
consumer can naturally look for
ward to a revolutionization of
freight rates on grain, lumber and
coal now that the Ct. Northern
has completed the construction of
it's short line to Duluth by the
way of Foston, which makes saw
ing of over one hundred miles
from this state to that natural out
let for our grain trade on the shore
of Lake Superior. 1t will also
give us lumber cut within two
hundred miles Of the local market,
which in the past has been sent to
the Minnesota transfer at the Twin
Cities and from there distributed
over the Northwest after having
been taken over two hundred
miles around. Duluth has of late
been making a strong bid against
the Twin Cities for our trade in
merchandise and what they manu-
facture and naturally will now
prove formidable rival, especially
throughout the Rcd River Valley.
The advent of the Ct. Northern's
new Foston branch besides leaving
more money in the pockets of our
farmers and tradesmsn will also
develope the new country through
which it passes and make Duluth
the largest shipping and man,,fac-
turing center in the north west,
the accomplishment of which has
beef predicted for long time past.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08
FORECLOSURES SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that that certain mort.
gage, executed and delivered by William
Illerbrun, mortgaSor to Farmers Trust Com.
pany mortgage, dated the 31st day of May
a. D. eighteen hundred and nincty-fivc and
filed for record in the office of the register OF
deeds of the county of Cavalier and State OF
North Dakota, on the 9th day of August, A.
at page 131, will be foreclosed by sale Of the
promises in such mortgage and hereinafter de.
scribcd, at the front door of the Courthouse in
the town of LangGon, in the County of Cavalier
and State of North Dakota at the hour of Z
o'clock p. M. on the 18th day of October 1898, tC
satisfy the amount due upon said mortgag on
the day of sale.
which will be sold to satisfy the same arc those
certain premises situated in the county of Cava
lier and State of North Dakota and described
as follows, to-wit: The north half ofthc north
east quarter of section twenty one and til,
southhalf and the northeast quarter of tho
sout h-cast quarter of the southwest quarter of
section sixteen, township one hundred and
sixty-thrre north of range sixty west of tho
Fifth =. NJ, containing 40 acres more or less
according to U. 5. government survey.
There will be dueOn such mortgage at the q a *
of sale the sum of Fifteen hundred and twenty
two dollars and seVcnty-six cents principal and
interest together with the sum of twelve
dollars and ninety cents for taxes neccssari
ly paid on said mortgaged premises by said
mortgagee and interest, also the sum of Seven
ty-tive Dollars Attorneys fees for forcclosine
said mortgage as allowed by statute
Dated at Fargo North Dakota this 23rd da,
of August, 1893.
FARMERS TRUST COMPANY,
R. Fl. COsHUN, Mortgage.
Attorney for Mortgage,
40 Fargo, N. Dakota
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

The people of North Dakota
have in Joseph Schaffer of Valley
city a candidate for superintendent
of public instruction for whom nc
apologies need be made, one Of
the ablest and best men in the
state. Beside him tho republican
candidate for that Office sinks into
insignifcance. There is no com.
parison to be made between them
The pure white ballots III the No.
vember election will bury Mr.
Halland down deep, deep, deep
Grand Forks PIaindealer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-08

ROBERT FLEMING of Dresden,
fusion candidate for railroad com.
missioner, is pioneer resident of
this county, owns the townsite of
Dresden and has an elevator and
large farming interests there. He
has always taken al active interest
in politics and is Of the salt of the
earth. His personal popularity
will give him many additional
votes in this and Pembina coun-
ties, whore he is best known, over
and above those cast for the fusion
cket.-Milton Globe.