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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20

ONE of our exchanges prints the
following startling announcement:
Next week we will begin running
this paper as Capt. Kidd would have
run it. Delinquent subscribers may
expect a call from us with their ac-
counts stuck in the muzzle of a six
shooter. Otherwise this paper will
soon be running as the sheriff would
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20

THAT brave old democrat, Ben
Franklin, said, There never was q
good war nor bad peace. Minister
Cham berlain, of England, doesn't be-
lieve that. Neither does President
Mckinley. But they are not brave
old democrats.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20

EX-SENATOR DAVID B. HILL is likely
to be delegate to the Kansas City
convention. He declares his willing
to ness support Bryan, but says that
the question of trust-monopoly, mill
tarism and Imperialism should over
come all other questions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20

A. r. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind,
had to get up 10 or II times in the
night, and had severe backache and
pains in the kidneys. Was cured by
Foley's Kidney Cure. It's guaran-
teed. ALI druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20

Running sores, ulcers. boils. pim-
Piles, ETC., quickly cured by Banner
world No other lust as good" All
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20
To Cure a Cold IN one Day,

TaAe Laxative Bromo Quinine Tia blets.
All druggists refund the money IL it
fails to cure. E w. Groves sigma
ture is on each box. IS cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20

JOHN ADDIsoS PORTER, who IRE
signed" as secretary to President Nc
Kinley, is succeeded by Assistant
Secretary Cortelyou. Mr.. Cortelyou
was once a democrat, and served as
executive clerk for President Cleve-
land
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20
TRAINS

Trains marked daily, all other trains daily
except Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-20
TRAINS.

81 L Springfeld. Peoria
Bur. Cn1in via Monmouth 6.55 am . 7:l5 pm
DUBUQUE. : 7:ss amt $40 pm
Peoria, Beardstovn- Bur
hngton, Denver and west 2:45 pm Hiss am
St. Paul & Minneapolis. . 7;So pms Sis am
SteriinR, Clinton & Dubuque 7:50 pmr $40 am
ST. l., Ksns C., Denver
Pac- coast via Galesburg . 7:i5 pmls SIS am
sranr %raaTr ercenr Sundar
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Feed so as to make the most out of
the feed, as we'll as the most out of the
stock.
1t is cheaper to kill and cure suffi-
cient meat now than to buy next spring
or summer.
AS soon as the ground freezes hard
apply more covering to the fruit and
vegetable pits.
After an animal is reasonably well
fattened the lighter feeding usually be-
comes less profitable.
A lot of stock uniform as to size, col.
or, weight and form will bring better
prices than q mixed lot.
It is not the amount the stock sells
for, but the amount of profit derived
that counts to the farmer.
The team that is expected to do the
hauling during the winter should be
we'll shod, and should have good blan-
kets to protect them at any time they
may be left standing in the cold.-N. J
Shepherd, IN Kansas Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
LIFTING WEAK HORSES.
Many q Valuable Animals Life Can
BE Saved by Pursuing the Plan
Here Outlined.

It often happens in every community,
if not on every farm, that through dis
ease or accident, horse becomes un-
able to get on it's feet when down, or
stand for any time when lifted or
helped up. For animals in this condi-
ton, convalescence is always slow,
even when the animal RECEIVERS at all.
Many bad sprains or even a break that
has ruined horse might have been
cured if this or some other method of
relieving the limb of the weight of the
body had been used.
Take number of thicknesses of bur-
lap or gunny sacking, as it is often
called, folded so that it will be about
Is to 10 inches wide and about five feet
long. AS this is to bear the weight of
the horse, there should be enough to
insure strength to bear all the strain
put upon it. Knot each end to a strong
rope. If it is in stall, fasten pulley
block to beam above, through which
run the rope, after having placed the
burlap under the horse, just back of
his front legs. Spread the burlap to it's
extreme width, so that the weight will
be distributed over larger surface.
Two men can now handle the horse
easily. If the horse is unable to stand,
lift him just high enough so that his
feet may rest firmly on the ground, and
at the same time he can rest by letting
his weight be borne by swing. He
will soon learn to let himself rest in
this way, so there will be no danger
of overtaxing weak muscles. We saved
a valuable animal in this way after it
had been ION the lift" for two months.
j. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
DOORS FOR A PIGGERY.

rangement allows of a feeding trough
in front between door and wall, saves
space of one door, thereby allowing of
a more narrow pen, and pigs can be
changed readily from one pen to the
next. In another piggery, without the
V-shaped door arrangement, the pens
are square, as shown in the lower fig
ure. Besides, a door (a), which swings
ineo each pen, door (b) is also hinged
so the aisles may be closed or penned.
This arrangement allows of extra
emergency pens, for the letting out of
a sow for service, or for changing an.
finals from one pen to another.-Farm
and Home.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
500 Reward 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall'e
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by buiidin g up the Constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
DOLLARS for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address 3D. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
The Potato Crop of 1900.

: The potato crop is estimated at 242,-
100000 bushels, with a yield of 1s1
bushels per acre. The verage price may
be placed at so cents bushel, which is a
considerable addition to the income Of
the farmers in certain sections. While
the value of 800 per acre is not equal
to that of many crops which are grown
by gardeners near large cities, it is q
fairly remunerative one, and has the
great advantage to many people that it
does not need to be taken to market
every day, like Strawberries, nor at just
the moment it is fit for use, like many
garden crops, but it can be stored and
sold when the owner is ready to attend
to it after his hurry of harvesting it
over. A very small potato crop is re-
ported in Europe generally, and we may
have to supply them before the season
is over
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
PARDONED AFTER YEARS
and Sentenced to Life Impris0n-
ment, Proved Innocent,

Jacob Henze and Henry Kaiser, who
were convicted of the murder of Ed
win Z. Brown in St. Louis in March,
1898, and sentenced to the jefferson
City penitentiary for life, were re-
leased the other day and returned to
St. Louis. They were accompanied by
Harry B. Halves, president of the St..
Louis board of police commissioners
1t was at the solicitation of Mr..
Halves that Gov. Stephens signed their
pardons. Mr.. Halves became convinced
several years ago of the mems limo.
cence and has worked assiduously fo1
their release ever since.
The case of Henze and Kaiser ID
probably unparalleled in criminal an.
rails. They were eight times reprieved,
:cnce in three hours of the time set for
hanging, ultimately being consigned to
life imprisonment at hard labor.
The men were convicted on purely
circumstantial evidence. The real
murderers, as revealed by investiga.
ton by the police department, were
three notorious local criminals, all of
whom have died since the conviction
of Henze and Kaiser.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02

day is = fete day for society 10 a great
extent: day on which pleasant little
informal receptions are held by the
society mdtrons, gowned in the most
witching of house gowns.
Not only are. these Sunday house
gowns bewitching,< but expensive as
we'll, and often there. is expended
upon them. quite as much as upon
tie supposedly: more elaborate even
ing and afternoon costumes, for above
all else the Partisan woman glories in
her appearance in. her own home.
The materials of which these gowns
are made are the rich, soft silks, crepe
de chime, ,cashmeres, mohair and
French flannel: In colors white is the
latest thing and the most dainty and
becoming. On these, in the way Of
trimmings, there is a lovely outlay Of
laces, mousseline de sole, embroidered
chiffons and the cobwebby lace and
applicues, put on plainly or in fluffy
masses down. the front and around the
bottom of the, Skirts
One of"the gowns of white silk, that
was made princess, was yelled with
white chiffon. The front of the gown
is made with ", and it is trimmed
with Insertions GOT cobwepby lace
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
STRAW AS FERTILIZER.
Taking All Kinds Into Conside ratiOn.
1ts Value Can BE Placed at Two
Dollars q Ton.

The actual value of straw for the fer
tilizing elements in the straw itself
may. be roughly estimated at about two
dollars per ton or little more, taking
all the various straws into considers
ton. Clover haulm, from which the
seed has been threshed and which has
lost it's leaves, must be reckoned con-
:siderably higher, and we should say
at three times that amount, although
we have not reliable analysis at hand
on which to base our estimate. But
the importance of using straw as bed
ding in the stables does not depend
upon the value of the straw as fer
tilizer, but first upon the value of q
warm, dry and comfortable bed for the
animals, a purpose which may be served
by other material, as sawdust or leaves,
and second upon it's power of absorbing
liquids. Straw easily absorbs twice it's
own weight, and when that consists of
the liquid excrements of the animal,
it makes the soaked straw actually
more valuable than the solid droppings
of the animals. It saves and conveys
to the soil in form readily available
for plant food, all the nitrates, phos-
pilates and potash which are passed off
from the system in that way. It has
also a mechanical effect in Tightening
Eupa heavy soil, making it porous, more
absorbent of moisture, more easily
penetrated by plant roots, and also by
frost and air, both of which have i'm
portant effects in working the chemical
changes there which make mineral
matters more readily available. We do
not think the haulm from clover or
other hay threshed for the seed makes
as good bedding as straw, and neither
does corn stover, but either of them
contain more fertilizing elements than
wheat or oat straw, and if cut in pieces
OF an inch long they have nearly as
much absorbent power. 1t is a mistake
to put either of these into the manure
without cutting them, because they
have not then opportunity to absorb
so much of the liquid, and because more
extra labor is necessary to handle the
manure with these long stalks in it
than would be required to reduce them
to inch-long pieces. The same thing
may be said of potato, tomato, squash
and other vines. If cut short they make
valuable additions to the manure heap,
but if put in uncut they are a nuisance,
|-American Cultivator..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02

across the front, and around the v
neck, with three wide bands of the
lace en- the white chiffon front. \
double box plat from the back of the
yoke hangs in long graceful folds.
Another that is u decided contrast
for this first gown is of automobile
red nuns yelling. The yoke, and
velvet, and are cross barred with auto
mobile red velvet. A double frill over
the shoulders is of the accordion plait-
ed nuns yelling, and wee ruching of
automobile velvet to finish the v front.
The accordion plated nuns yelling
sweeps in graceful folds for the skirt,
with an extra frill around the bot
tom.
AT empire gown that is decidedly at
tractive is made of white cashmere.
1t has pretty tucked yoke that is
outlined with two accordion plated
frills CT white silk. This extended IN
a deep cascade all the way down the
front, and was edged with a narrow
silk fringe. A novel idea for the
sleeves was 4 tight sleeve of the white
cashmere with four frills of the silk
from the elbows down to the wrist,
e;.ch frill trimmed with the Narrow
fringe. end caught on the inside with
q large white glass button.
Another gown made in the empire
style WAS of pink accordion plated
mousseline de sole. This has short
Sauar,: bolero of lace almost covered
with tiny ruchings of the mousselin..
de sole. The neck and wrists are fin
ished with accordion plated frills
edged with ruches, and there is a
small ruche at the hem of the gown.
n breakfast gown, and by the wav
breakfast gowns of an unparalleled
elaborateness are the order of the day,
is of one of the newest shades of pale
green cashmere. 1t is made princess
with silk front of the green CASH
mere, trimmed with green guipure in
sertion at each side of the front and
around the bottom. The guipure in
sertion is on the upper and lower
part of the sleeves with a frill of the
silk at the wrist, and to finish the
high stock. It is tied at the waist line
with wide taffeta ribbon in pale green.
A pretty afternoon matinee is OF
violet silk velvet with cream guipure
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02

spring to the house or barn at almost
no expense in money, and the labor Of
digging a trench can be done at odd
times when other work is not pressing.
On hundreds and hundreds of farms the
stock is driven long distances to water
in stormy as well as pleasant weather,
and often with great discomfort to both
attendants and stock, when all the
while the water might be brought right
into the barn. If a farmer could once
experience the satisfaction and profit
of having supply of water thus at
hand and under cover, he would never
permit possible opportunity to secure
this convenience to go to waste. With
the water in the barn, moreover, there
is no longer need for the stock to drink
ice water for five months of the year.
N. Y. Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02

majority are veritable harmonies and
a delight to the eye to those who de-
light in the artistic in dress.
Now, for instance, what could be
more artist than this costume, which
l saw on a. recent Sunday, and which
was made of bluet cloth. The bodice
was box plated and had yoke of
velvet shaded from blue to very light
gray. This yoke was cut in three
points, which had the appearance of
being laced together part of the way
by network of chenille, and boy
dered by a fringe of alternating
strings of small jet and steel beads.
The skirt, at the sides and back,
was caught down in box plaits about
one-third the length, and then left
uncorfned. Around the bottom Was
band of mink put on in points, and
above this two bands of chenille lat
ticework insertion, studded with steel
beads. The collar and wrists were
finished with the bands of mink.
Sucn a., costume is not an eXcep-
tional one, but just a fair sample Of
the beautiful, artistic gowns which
grace Paris boulevarls on Sundays,
and to see a whole procession of such
gowns is we'll worth an afternoon of
Mnybody's time if they have the least
particle of art in their composition.
AS for the Parlsians, they one and
Gil, rich and poor, turn out to wit
ness this weekly parade of fashionable
costumes as worn by fashionable soci-
ETY..
But it is by no means all of the
fashionable society of Paris that one
sees OH the streets on Sunday. The
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02

insertion. 1t is made with double
box plat hanging from the back OF
the neck, and about ten inches be.
low the waist. 1t has a tight fitting
front, with two rows of the cream
guipurc insertion running from the
shoulder to long pointed front, with
cross bars of the insertion forming a
low yoke. A double frill of the lace
standing high about the neck and fall.
ing in a double cascade to the bottom
of the matinee. A full ruching of the
lace to finish around the bottom. The
sleeves are made with a strip of the
violet velvet and then the insertion
running around. SADIE MERRITT.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
News In Brief.

The Department of Minnesota, g. A.
R., will hold their annual encampment
in Minneapolis Feb. %.
A report on the inspection of block
switches for 1899 has been rendered by
the state labor bureau. In all, 5000
inspections were made. OF this num-
Der 2, 1856 were in Minneapolis and 955
in St. Paul.
The dates of the Todd county fair
nave heen fixed for Sept. 10, 10 and II,
and steps have been taken to form a
racing circuit with adjoining counties.
number of Irish farmers expect to
settle near Crookston, and will expert
ment with Riga fax after the old Irish
method.
BY a vote of % to the citizens of
Avon decided to incorporate as a vii
lage, and the plat has been placed on
file with the county auditor.
Thirty-seven telephone companies
have paid taxes, amounting to s1s,-
1887.
The old Arlington hotel at Fort
Smelling was destroyed by fire.
A movement is on foot to trv the
plan of self-government among the pu-
pills of the Minneapolis schools.
A successful farmers institute was
held at Princeton.
Fire destroyed the lookup at Lake
City and burned to death a man
named McTaggert, who had been
placed there to sober up.
Ernest Kratz dropped dead at Vino
ma while cutting ice.
George .Krapf, living fifteen miles
south of Pipestone, committed suicide
by taking poison. He secured some
rough on rats and took it at night
while his family slept. No reason for
the act is known.
George Lalley lost three fingers
while working in the Crookston Lum-
Der Company mill. A district court
jury gave him a verdict for damages
in the sum of $4,000.
Officials of the State Agricultural
Society met in St. Paul and reelected
Secretary E. w. Randall and Treas
urer F. J. Wilcox for the ensuing
year.
J. J. Hill is making arrangements
for foreign trip, and Europe will
possibly be the nome of his family
for the next year or two. Mr.. Hill has
rented handsome house in Paris, this
information just being made public,
although known to his friends for
| some time. It is said that the family
will sail in May. =.
E. H. Constons was held up and
robbed of q watch and chain valued at
500 and small amount of money
| near his home in St. Paul.
Game deputy warden of Austin
burned sixteen fish houses on Lac qui
Parlo lake.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
A Sad Mistake.

Supposed to be suffering from the
effects of liquor, James Magee was
sent to the St. Paul workhouse when
he was dying of cerebral meningitis.
An autopsy proved what had caused
his death. Magee was so years of age,
and apparently a laborer. A police
man picked him up in West St. Paul
week before. He was charged with
drunkenness and vagrancy because he
could not tell his address. He was
sent up for 40 days after spending a
day in the county Jail, as he was sup
posed to be sick. At the workhouse
he was seen to be ill, and accordingly
was sent to the city hospital, where
he died.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
The Size of Anxora Goats.

The Oregon Agriculturist says: 1T
appears quite certain that the size of
Angora goats has increased in the
United States and South Africa, and
that as result of cross-breeding they
are now larger in Turkey than they
were half a century ago. Mr.. Henry o.
Binns, who was in the goat district of
Turkey as buyer of goats and mohair,
as we'll as breeder of goats, wrote to
Mr.. Schreiner that a pure Angora ram
of the original type was, in his prime,
about the size of five-months-old Cape
kid"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
How to Feed Corn Fodder.

The old way of feeding corn fodder
should give way to the new as fast
as men can afford to invest in fodder
cutters and shredders. By the old
way, waste was encouraged. The large
ends of the stalks were, uneaten and
had to be cast out as rubbish. They
were not even fit to be used for bed
ding. Where shredding is possible
these same stalks are not only rem
dered fit for the cows to eat, but if, by
chance, anything be left, it is suitable
tor bsdding.-Farmers' Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
Warming Food for Stock.

Most of the advantages of cooking
food, and especially of food containing
much water, come from feeding it
warm. If grain of any kind is fed it
will do more good if ground and fed dry
than if cooked. Heat expands all sub
stances that contain starch. If fed dry
the animal eats more than it supposes
it is eating. The expansion occurs in
the stomach, and the animal, if a rum
inant, lies down to chew it's cud and in
dulge in the long sleep that insures
good health: and good digestion. If
horses are fed too much it often causes
collie
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
In Another District.

Politics are absorbing; so the gushing
young woman who had been talking to a
congressman at last decided.
See those distant stars?" she said, in a
soulfu! tone. Ibid you ever pause to think
that they may be worlds?"
"Ye:.es, believe I have thought of it,
was the somewhat dubious reply.
"And that they may be inhabited by hu.
man beings that hope and struggle as we do, u
continued the young woman, earnestly
"Oh, did you ever give deep thought to those
people so far away, unknown to u.s."
no. was the unhesitating answer, "I've
never thought of them at ALL"
with sudden briskness of manner.
"Well," said the man, refectively, 81
suppose one reason may be that they dom,
vote in my district. "-Youth's COMPANION
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
Careles4ness IL Expensive.

We are constantly hearing of patches
of butter brought into the market in
such a condition that it has to sell far
off the regular price to be disposed Of
at all. Butter poorly packed, poorly
sailed and poorly worked, is no uncom-
mon sight. In many cases the butter
would have been good if properly treat
ed. Over it all seems to be written the
word "carelessness." To this word
might be added the word ignorance, -
and the Whole truth would se out.
More study and more applications of
the lessons learned are necessary if
butter is to bring the price it should in
the market.-Farmers'R Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-02
Fattenin1 Fowls Quickly.

Always fatten a fowl as quickly a.
possible. Ten days is enough to get a
fowl fat, and it should be confined
either in a coop or number in a small
yard. Give plenty of fresh water, and
feed four times a day, beginning early
and giving the last meal late. A mixture
of corn meal, three parts, ground oats,
one part, shorts, one part, crude tallow,
one part, scalded, is the best for the
first three meals, with all the corn and
wheat that can be eaten up clean at
night. Weigh the articles given, and
do not feed by measure.-Farm and
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