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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-08
WORD FROM MARS.
When the Signal Was Made Out
Its Significance Was Inn
pertinent.

The greatest possible connection pre-
vailed. The entire world was interested.
Scientists from every country hocked to the
seat of the new observatory. The great
telescope, the marvel of the nineteenth GEN.
fury, was the talk of two continents.
This world was on the eve of communicate
ing with Mars. It had been scien ti6cally
proved possible. Astronomers watching the
distant planet through lesser telescopes had
observed the attempts of the Martians to sig
nal us. They were using system of great
planes and geometcical figures which formed
themselves into an understandable code.
Slowly was the big telescope focused on
the distant star. Distracted reporters
dashed around sending bulletins every five
minutes. Aged astronomers waited with
trembling anxiety for the great moment of
their lives. Hundreds of smaller telescopes
were carried along the range Of the new op-
teal instrument.
"The Martians are signaling!" telegraphed
an excited correspondent; "in few min
utes more the signals will be read" At last!
An eager eye is glued to the glass. The
great figures on the plains of Mars move
slowly. The world is hushed waiting for the
message, the first to break the silence Of
Aeons. The, first letter is made out with
difficulty; the others follow more rapidly.
The aged scientist spells out: rub.
B-E-R!"-Rubber!-
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Baby'S Hair.

Sometimes few hints are worth
untold millions to q poor, perplexed
young mother, with no fond and ex-
perienced grandmother within call to
cut the gordian knot of an unexpected
nursery problem. In consequence baby
may often suffer inconvenience and
pain while the doting mamma is doc
toring the soft, silky down with which
his little head is covered. AS every
one of experience knows, baby's scalp
is very sensitive, and the bones of
the skull are not completely closed
up until baby is almost two years old,
and when any wise woman advocates
the use of alcohol for the purpose of
promoting the growth of the hair or
keeping the scalp free from all baby
ailments, alent scurvy should appear
on the head, despite the care and
daily washings, do not rub it with
alcohol or use a fine-tooth comb for
loosening it, but apply frequent and
homeopathic doses of vaseline until
the trouble has all disappeared and
the little head is free from all disfig-
urements. Vaseline will also pro-
mote the growth of the hair and make
it come in thicker and more silky
n. Y. Herald.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-08
TIE FARMER up TO DATE.
One Who Was Strictly Up with
the Times In Every
thing.

"Well, how're crops?" said the young
man in the plaid suit, .gayly, as he dropped
into the seat beside the elderly individual
with the gray chin whiskers and pepper-and.
salt suit.
II hear there amt much demand for cleo
tricity,N rejoined the latter, solemnly.
"Ehw cried the young man, not SO gayly
as he had asked his first question.
steady" continued the elderly indiv idual,
stroking his whiskers thoughfully. :
The young man looked askance at him and
fdgeted uneasily in his place.
''And gasoline grows stronger every day" "
continued the elderly one, serenely.
The young man looked as though he wished
he had seated himself somewhere else.
"Other kinds of fodder have slumped en-
tirely, but, of course, they may begin feeding
naphtha and other things again any day;
you can never tell" continued the elderly
one, ponderously.
The young man paled perceptibly, but he
made up his mind to learn the worst
"Say," he blurted out, "what kind of a
blasted drug store of farm do you run, any
"Me?" gasped the elderly one, with un.
grammatical surprise.
eyes, you," insisted the young man,
| stoutly.
"Why, I'mnot farmer, my young friend"
| said the elderly one. "I'm in the automobile
supply business. "-Harper's Bazaar.
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The Color of Egg Yolks.

Pale-yolked eggs are neither so in
7iting in appearance nor as nutritious
in quality as rich red-colored ones,
says an English exchange. The princi-
pal deficiency is in iron and phos-
phorus, two elements of primary i'm
portance in the ailment of human be-
ings. Fowls obtain very large per-
centage of these substances from the
vegetable kingdom, and if the supply
of green food is withdrawn the yolks
very soon assume a pale color. The
deficiency can be supplied to a great
extent by putting some sulphate of
iron or sirup of phosphates in the
drinking water, but this is not natu-
raj method, and it is much better to
supply green food in plenty.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-08
Gypsum No Longer Popular.

It used to be very general custom
among those who were called good
farmers, to use'every year some gypsum
or land plaster to SOW over the potato
vines, squashes, melons and cucumbers,
and even on grass ground, where clover
was wanted. A few also advocated it's
use in the stables as an absorbent. Now
this seems to have been almost discon-
tinued. The acid phosphate is found to
be better absorbent and ;deodorizer
in the stables, and to add more to the
value of the manure at but slight in
crease of cost, while with mixture OF
the phosphate and muriate Of potash
much better results can be obtained by
sowing on the vines or on grass land.
Plaster has lost much of its popularity,
not because it is not as good as it ever
was, but because farmers and garden-
ers have learned there is something bet
ter, and the best is the cheapest, even if
it costs the higest price. american Gull
uvator. u
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other swine and still give them the ad-
vantage of green feed. This pen is
cheap and easily constructed and light
enough to be easily moved by two men,
or even one, and it need be moved but
a few feet to make a change to new
ground.
The pen is eight by sixteen feet, made
of two-by-fours and fencing boards,
three or four feet high, according to the
size of the pigs it is to contain. Three
pairs of two-by-four posts, each about
six feet long, are used to spike the
boards to. The lower board should be
nailed on four inches from the bottom,
as when the pen is lifted in moving the
pigs could escape if the boards are
higher. Nail brace at the top of each
pair of posts. If the pen is to contain
pigs large enough to lift or move it in
roofing beneath it can very easily be
staked down. Bore inch holes in each
of the corner posts and put wire
through it, making loop a foot and a
half in length. Make stake of some
hard wood with notch near the upper
end to catch this loop. With one of these
at each corner you can fasten the pen Sc
curely.-J. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer.
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but meanwhile the farmer who cannot
wait will find plans and specifications
at the office of all reputable architects
Rustic bridges also look well on farm,
and the traveller never stops to inquire
whether they span babbling creek OF
are set on four posts in a corn-feld.
The price of picturesque old wind.
mills, imported direct from Holland, is
now within the reach of every farmer,
and five or six of them whaling away
on different parts of the farm would
make travelling across the country in
one-horse wagon thing of pleasure.
1t may be physically impossible to sup
ply the highways of America with
glens, waterfalls, ferneries, precipices
and all that, but let each farmer beau.
tify his portion to the extent that he
can and the influence will be far-reach.
ing and return him grateful'reward.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-08
Swollen Eyes and Heada

This subject has been given attention
before, but I will repeat that it is prev
alent during this season. Swollen heads
and eyes are due to exposure to drafts
of air, usually top ventilation. Wash
the heads with solution made of ten
drops of carbolic acid in gill of water,
inject into each nostril two drops of
equal parts of camphorated oil and
crude petroleum, and give each fowl
two grains of bromide of potash in milk
or soft food. Repeat daily until the
birds recover, but in all cases remove
them to dry, warm place and out of
reach of all drafts or currents of air
Farm and Fireside.
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GIRLS, KEEP YOUNG.
though Hard to Realize at the Time
Youth In the Best Time
of Life.

"Mother wants to keep me baby I'M
til am co. pouted girl of IA, whose
wise mother wanted to have her retain
the loosely -fowing locks and the youth
full simple garments suitable to her
years for a couple of seasons longer.
This complaint is very frequently heard
coming from the lips of maidens who
are to be envied owing to their adorab BILE
youth, the very thing they despise.
The rosy flush, the slight figure, the
clear eyes will never belong to them but
once. Once only can a woman be
young. Do not forget this, girls, so
anxious to put behind you the one
period of your existence when the sun
shines as it never will again, and when
the birds sing with sweeter meaning
than will be heard when the morning
has passed and high noon with the
greater heat and pressure of the bur-
dens of life has rushed upon you. Isn't
every young thing sweeter and purer
than the world-hardened, older ones of
the same specie? Look at the lambs at
play, note the tender green leaves that
shoot out in their innocent verdure from
the old winter seasoned branches. Kit
tens and chicks and young birds are
the most appealing creatures, and when
one comes to babies there never can be
in all this lovely world anything SO
sweet and loveable as dear little
dimpled baby.
Therefore, girls, stay young. You
may have to bear some Inconvenience
Of restraint owing to your extreme
youth, but the time will come when you
will long for these incidentals of the
youthfulness that will have passed
away from you forever.-Detroit Free
Press.
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of yearling calf he may have to be
thrown over the fence and back few
times, but he will sooner or later reach
the same conclusion.
The farmer cannot too fully under
stand that all the live stock on his
farm with which he is brought in daily
contact will partake more or less of his
personal moods. If he kicks open the
barn-doors in the morning and thumps
the old mare with the shovel or pitch
fork to let her know that he is boss of
that ranch, even the hens will be nerv-
Gus and out of sorts all day. 1t is the
docile stock. If he leaves the kitchen
door for the barnyard singing: "The
Sweet Bye and Bye" he will find his
cows placidly chewing their cuds and
his hogs. granting contentedly in the
morning sun. A horse understands
when he is sworn at, and it embitters
a cow to threaten to break her back
with a straw-cutter. A pig in the pen
which receives CHEEKY Good morn
ing" from it's owner will fatten twice as
fast as the one which climbs up to re-
ceive blow from club. 1t is so with
the fowls. The farmer who puts on
benevolent, fatherly expression as he
scatters the grain will find every hen
doing her best that day to lay an egg
to prove her gratitude and confidence,
while the one who scowls and mutters
and tries to knock some hens head off
with clothes-prop will find himself
feared and detested.
The average farmer has no tastes for
the beautiful and artistic, or il he has
he feels that they are too expensive
TO be INDUCED in. This is very grave
mistake on his part, and arises from
the fact that he has not posted himself
The roadside front of the average farm
presents TO view nothing but fences,
weeds and unsightly bitches. For the
sum of 81 900 this front could be made
thing of beauty with English ivy and
American rose bushes intermixed. Let
the ivy also climb up and over the
barns and sheds and straw-stacks, and
thus add picturesqueness to the seem
cry. A hundred rose bushes scattered
about barnyard would draw the eye
of a traveller at once, and who can say
what would be the effect on the live
stock moving about!
If there is a creek on the farm couple
of thousand dollars will build an arti-
fetal lake, and thousand more will
stock it with gondolas and Goldfish.
When evening comes, and the cows
have been MIXED and the hogs fed, the
farmer and his wife can float over the
gentle bosom of their own inland sea
and pull wary cod from his watery lair.
~ At some point moss-grown water
4 wheel should be erected. The cost is
only u few hundred dollars, and the de-
4 light of travellers coming upon such
thing unexpectedly. is almost unbound
ed. If there is not enough water in the
creek to turn the wheel get four-horse
power engine and hide it amidst
grove of sunfowers. This will even en-
4 hance the general effect.
Es No farm is complete without glade
and dell. Patents have been taken
out and these articles will soon be on
ssls along with mowers and reapers,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-08
HE WOULD DARE.
There Was nm Egg Famine in Kan
sas and He Could Act
There.

The paper fell from the hands of the half
crushed tragedian. A shrek cut the damp
air
"At last! At last!'' he cried, wild with
something, akin to enthusiasm.
A friend recognized the voice and slipping
down from the high stool at the Ever:
Ready lunch counter, fastened out. He
hurried across the street, where the half.
crushed tragedian leaned against wall.
:. me friend! Me oldest pail" he called,
"what be the matter?'
"At last, at last!" exclaimed the half
Hamlet!"
Tears welled up to the eyes Of his friend
Me heart is with you" he said, 'but how
And before his wondering gaze the half
crushed held the newspaper. His eyes fell
upon the startling, head lines: can Egg
"And we are booked from one end of the
state to the other, sobbed the half
crushed, choking with an emotion he coulc
not beat back.
And there, all needless of the passing
throng, they wept upon the shoulder-eacE
of each.-Detroit Free Press
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Founding kicking COW with fence
rail will not break her of the habit. She
does not kick because she is naturally
vicious, but because things have not
been fully explained to her, and she
feels that she is defending herself from
personal attack. Every COW has
moral and legal right to know what a
farmer means when he sits down
alongside of her with a milk-pail and
yells out: "Ho, now, but you hist over
thar and keep mighty darned quiet or
I'll knock your blamed old horns off
with crow-bar!"
Many farmers waste precious hours
in scratching the backs of their penned
up pigs with corn-cobs under the idea
that it helps to fatten. 1t has no more
effect on a pig than scratching the head
OF boy. There is no doubt that the
pig enjoys it, and if scratched long
enough he will fall asleep, but it is
only superficial sensation, and the
tendency is to breed luxurious habits
which cannot be gratifed. Throw a
few old knots of wood into the pen and
let your pig scratch their own backs.
Farmers wells are too often neglect
3D. and case of typhoid fever and a
large doctor bill are the consequences.
Once in ten years, at least, every we'll
ought to be pumped out and the mu-
seums removed. 1t is surprising how
many old boots, tin pals, table knives,
wash-dishes, spring chickens, tobacco
boxes and broken jugs find their way
into the family well, and what a diff
ference they will make in the taste of
the water after a few years.
A farmer living on the line of rail-
road can very easily and cheaply teach
a newly-bought COW not to look for
pasturage between the deadly rails.
Let him pen her up in the barnyard
some morning, and while his wife
blows the dinner-horn and his son ex-
plodes fre-crackers, he should chase
the COW with wheelbarrow and bump
her heels as often as possible. A cow
is slow thinker, but it won't take her
over two hours to arrive at the conclu-
sion that it won't be safe for her to
monkey with freight train of AZ cars
loaded with Portland cement. In case
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A MOVABLE PIG-PEN,
Cheap and Easily Constructed and
Light Enough to BE Moved Read
l lily by Two Men.

It is sometimes convenient to have a
pen that will hold a few pigs and that
can be moved from one spot to another
without taking the pigs out. There
are always few runty pigs in drove
that with a little extra feed and care
will come out all right when shipping
time comes. Or in weaving late litter
of pigs, with such pen they can
be separated from the rest of the herd
and still get the full benefit of the pas
ture. Or it may be convenient in sep
arating SOW and her brood from the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Philadelphia win add 400 officers tc
its police force. i. .,S
Hartford, Conn.,, is building q mil.
lion-dollar bridge. FOE. q.
Philadelphia has decided to allow mo-
tocycles in the parks.
There are 1,135 miles of railway in
Cuba, 551 miles of which are controlled
by British companies. ~>... \ j
The Ancient Mechanical Society of
Baltimore celebrated its one hundred
and thirty-sixth anniversary recently,
An attack of melancholia caused Mrs.
Samuel Miller, of Portchester, N. Y.
to cut off her tongue with pair of scis.
sors.
The best maple strip comes from the
north side of the tree, but the flow
is not so large as when the tree il
tapped on the south side.
On the big steamer, Oceanic there il
no seat at the table marked ID, nor nc
cabin bearing that number. This i:
concession to superstition.
Thunder storms are more frequent
in Iowa than in any other part of thu
world. The average is only about every
fourth day. Sumatra has sc in year
and Rio Janeiro 81.
First-class passengers in England
have increased only ten per cent. il
ten years, while the number of the
third-class passengers has increased A.
per cent. Out of 1,O63, 100000 passen
gers travelling with regular tickets ex
Guiding communication tickets, 963,673,
s96 went in third-class compartments;
66,199,930 in second-class and 33,O37,
100 in first-class compartments, so tha
out of 100 travellers, only three wen
first-class, six second-class and 81 third
class.
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Forgetting Wives Letters,

"He carried the letter around in his pocket
for five weeks"
>"Then what did he do?"
"He wrote to his father-in-law asking him
what he'd better do. His father-in-law wrote
right back and said he was awfully glad his
son-in-l law had written. The letter reminded
him that he had letter in his own pocket
that he had been carrying around for six
weeks"
Didn't he offer any advice?'
MOT word. So Briggs fused around and
worried, and at last opened the envelope to
see how much mischief he had done by re-
tanning it. What do you suppose it con-
tanned? A recipe for making tamarind jelly,
clipped from some newspaper, together with
two almanac jokes and sample of cheap
gingham. Bri ggs flung the whole outfit in the
fire and felt better. But he chuckles every
time he thinks of his old father-in-law and
the burden he may still be carrying."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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FIG. Z.

shape for boiling or roasting. Pick the
birds carefully, wipe off any discolora-
ton with moist cloth, SINCE carefully
and remove any remaining pin feath'
ers, and the bird is ready for cooking
Customers appreciate getting poultry
in just this shape. The feet can be left
on, but when customers have conf
dence in the one furnishing them poul-
try, this is not necessary Farm and
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A Good Road to Cincinnati.

The Monon Route and c. II. & D. R'y run
The day trains leave Dearborn Station, Chi
cago, at $3.50 a. m. and Has a. M, and are
equipped with elegant Parlor and Dining
cars. The night trains leave at $3.50 D. m
and 2:45 a. m. These trains are equipped
with elegant sleepers and compartment cars
the sleepers On the latter train being ready
for occupancy at 900 p. m. Ask for tick
cts via Monon and C. H. & D. City Ticket
Office, 232 S. Clark St.. Chicago.
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Poultry House Whftewash.

80 If the whitewash is made with
SKINNED milk and lime instead of lime
and water it will be more durable and
will last much longer. For durable
red paint fresh bullock's blood and lime
are excellent, and it. will turn water.
IF ordinary whitewash be used, one
pound of -four, two pounds of alum and
one pound of salt, the latter being dis
solved in hot water, the former then
added until thin paste is made, and
the whole mixed with five gallons of
whitewash, will be very dura ble.-Farm
and Fireside. Z.
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FIG. 1.

noted for carrying a generous quantity
of white meat not only upon the breast,
but also we'll back between the legs,
and this is one of the reasons for. the
market popularity of these two breeds.
For private trade it is worth while to
prepare in an especially attractive
manner, as in Fig. 2. in convenient
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FOWLS FOR MARKET.
How to Prepare Them Attractively
and In Convenient Shape for
the HOusekeeper.

The best market fowls carry the
white meat not only on the breast
proper, as at B in Fig. l, but also well
back between the legs at A. Much OF
the market poultry fails to be thick
meated at this point (A), and this is a
vital defect. The pure bred Wyandots
and Plymouth Rocks are specially
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For the Grave.

A solicitor in Georgia court Is respon-
sible for the following: He overheard o
conversation between his cook and nurse,
who were discussing a recent funeral of a
member of their race, at which there had
been a great profusion Of flowers. The nurse
said: when die, don't plant no flowers
melon vine; and when It gets ripe you come
dar, and don't you eat It, but jes' bus it
on de grave and let dat good old juice dribble
down through de ground. Youths Com
panion.
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No.-si.1rasls Beass.

from london and 4 : n on boat. n
people would pay as much attention to the
preservation Of life in other ways, theirs
would be great improvement. Hostetters
Stomach Bitters is life preserver, discov-
cred 50 years ago. 1t cures dyspepsia, indi-
gestion and all forms of stomach trouble. Il
is an excellent tonic for the whole system
and may be had from any druggist.
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Deafness Cannot BE Cured

BY local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu
this tube Gets n NIL you have rumbe
sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to it's normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases of Of ten are caused by catarrh
which is nothing but an infamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness Caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars, free.
FL. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Turkey lin, Guns .

Take quart of cold turkey chopped
fine, add two tablespoonful of butter,
one cupful of milk, salt, pepper and
parsley to taste, rub to smooth paste,
then add the whites of six eggs beaten
stiff, bake in custard cups for half an
hour, standing the cups in pan Of
water.-Housewife.