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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
! HEN BUYING HORSES.
sss ess n Best Discovered by AIov-
ing IN . Circle.

So has been the rule in this coun-:
try, at horse shows and elsewhere, to /
try 4 horse for lameness by walking
and trotting the animal in sJstraight
5line.ito and fro, usually on 9 hard pave
ment. and witha lead halter or 6ridtSl
only. the recently expressed VIZ W94kI
Prof.. Zurn, ,director Of the Eetenla1yl
clinical school Of Leipzig, are|pertinentI
and Instructive. He strongly recon-
menas that the horse should not be-
walked along q straight line, but
chiefly in q circle; then the higher and
lower parts Of the limbs outside and
inside the circle are equally weighted.
For example, if, during this ring exer.
else. the hating Of the lower leg in
creases on account of the greater
weight; the. ailmcnt resides III the low
er part (hoof, coronet, or pastern) ;ao4
the contrary, if the hating oftthe out
side leg increases, the seat of the all
ment is in the higher region shoulder,
haunch) greater amount of strength
is required to remove this limb and
one can understand that the,.exten-
sion and supporting of the foot is more
difficult. After having examined the
horse in motion, you must explore the
limb with the hand, in order to assure
yourself, if you do not perceitei any.
sign of heat, whether or not there are
traces of wounds or confusion, invisi-
BILE swelling, whether or not pressure
or the fingers causes abnormal pain.
Inflammation of the Emphatic vessels
in the vicinity Of the extremities under
the hook, ring bones, ETC., may also
cause hating. Under the influence of
persistent hating it may happen TIL BIT
certain muscles, particularly those be-
hind the hook, will decrease in volume,
because atrophied. This atrophy Of the
muscles is caused not merely-as many
believe-by complete paralysis of the
shoulder and hook, but particularly,
and in most cases, it is due to anklylosis
OF these joints. In this exploration of
the hating limb with the hand an ex-
cellent sign is given by the pulsation of
the artery situated on the interior of
the. canon in the hind limb. If the
pulse is feeble and little perceptible,
the cause of lameness is in the top part
of the limb; if strong and slightly per
ceptible, the seat of the ailment is in
the lower part, and generally in the
hoof. Horses with hating foot place
it down reluctantly; the pain they
manifest is sometimes greater while
resting on the toe, and sometimes
while on the heel, according as the sui
fering part is front or back o, the hoof
Horses limping from the hook bend the
pastern joint completely.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
Do Hoxs Need Exercise.

A writer says that one objection to
keeping hogs in small lots is that
they do not exercise enough. That
depends on the size of The lot, the
size of the hog and the purpose for
which he is being kept. The hog that
has completed his growth and is be-
ing fitted for the market does not
need very much exercise; little will
keep him in good health. The boar
that is being kept for breeding pur-
poses needs a good deal of exercise.
The pig that is growing needs some
exercise, but not so much as some Of
US imagine. The hog that has been
developed along the lines that bring
prizes has not the inclination to exer-
else that the old wild: boar had. If
given a fair-sized lot, the pigs will
suit themselves in the matter.-Farm-
ers' Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
WANDERING m DREAMLAND,


The young woman's mind Was probably
way off in the land Of cut.on- the.bias, and
yokes and Earrings, and plating, and
applique, and ruAies, and things Ike that,
whatever they may mean, says the Washing.
Anyhow, when she got oh & "a. uptown
Ninth street car the other afternoon, she
dreamily opened her peck tbook when. the
conductor came around for her fare, stuck
gloved finger and thumb into one OF the
compartments of the came, extracted q
couple Of foulard samples and with that
PARKWAY expression still in her eyes, handed
them to the conductor. The conductor was
d middle-aged man. He smiled and waited
for the young woman to come ont of her
trance. But she held the foulards samples
out to him with her eyes on vacancy, until
the conductor, still grinning, had to fetch
her back to earth. ss5sE.s s15@s, :: ~
"Yes, they're pretty, miss" he said, "and
I'd like to get my wife dress off that piece
on top, but she's :.
The young woman zblushed like a. red.
hot stove lid, dug into another compartment
Of her pocketbook for car ticket, and she
looked real embarrassed when the brutal
male persons across the car aisle grinned,
80 she did. ...
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
a LITTLE NONSENSE.

What is tobacco heart, Harvey q &c,
is a heart disease which women get
who continually agitate themselves by
tnagging their husbands for smoking."4
Indianapolis Journal.
Cholley Buoy-''Do you think any
thing serious will happen, doctor, if Il
keep on smoking cigarettes 2" Dr.
Smarte-"O, dear, no. It's only likely
to kill you, you know Boston Tran
script. .:ts& @a &sss== 8. f< "a, s5 II
Bill-"I hear my neighbor has
brought 900 cigarettes" What
for?". HE heard that tobacco would
kill the bugs on the plants in his gar
den, and, of course, he thought the to-
bacco in cigarettes the most deadly"
|-Yonkers Statesman. !. 81. i ,ss.t.2< >
Doctor" Ar. Tompkins, you ought
to take something for that cough" Mr..
Tompkins-"Yes, I suppose; so; but
can't do it, doctor, unless you write me
a prescription that won't cost more
than a nickel" indianapolis Journal.
Trick Trigger sam-"Be you doc:
tor?" Tourist-"Yes. Need me?' Trick
Trigger Sam-"Wal, not exactly; but
es we're goin' t hang one O. these here
rubbernecks, thought mebbe' you'd
like t. see! how fur his neck nd stretch
afore crackin'."- Ohio State Journal.
slopay-"1 don't seem to get any bet
ter, DOCTOR" DR.. Krafts-"You work
too much, that's what's the matter"
slopay-"O! I don't think I do DR..
Kraft-"Ah! but think you do. Now
there's that last years. bill of mine.
Don't you think you'd feel better if
you had that off your mind ?''-Phila-
delphia Press. III q
do you make much out of your ap-
ples2" asked the visitor. 20, pretty
considerable, answered the farmer,
"but I've got son up in the town who
makes more out of the apples in a
month than I make the whole season"
"A farmer, is hep" "No; he's doc
tor. I'm talking about green apples
now."-San Francisco Examiner.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
omit Lots Of Eeddars.r,

Robert Frank, the well-known artist, is q
sesas ' did he e'f have chance to
pursue the regular studies which most peo-
pie have in earlier life, says the Philadelphia
Post. When he began drawing for living
his workmanship was SO excellent that he
had no difficulty in securing orders. One
day he delivered some sketches to an. en-
ployer, who said: "By the by, Frank, I
~ novel f tSins, D boxing ksnesr ss f'. =
ga wohl," answered the artist, 81 will
have it ready tomorrow for YOU" ~!
"You know what kangaroo is, of course.s' =
Frank must have been thinking of an
ostrich, because he answered with a com
placent smile:
"Ja, gewissrich. It is long, tall thing NIT
lots of feddars." And "Feddars" has been
his nickname ever since. .'Sl3l
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Feed in clear surfaces.
Dampness is fatal to young turkeys.
Give young turkeys a good range
on: sunny days.
Too much hard boiled eggs will
cause bowel disease.
Allow no decomposing vegetable
matter around the quarters.
Destroy the nest of the setting hen
when the chicks are a day old.
Have the perches not more than two
feet high, and all on the same level.
Diarrhoea may often be mistaken
for cholera, showing nearly the same
symptoms.
The rapidity with which fowls mul.
tiply renders improvement rapid and
inexpensive.-St. Louis Republic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
EXCELLENT BR0 oDER.
suitable for Chicks Hatched:5 Aftes
the Weather Has Become M
Warm and Settled. "

When the hen is ready to come off,
place the chicks in the brooder and
leave them there for at least one
month. In the meantime let them
have plenty Of sunshine, feed and
water. .4t T.<> *@z'..@' '.'s'., ": !
For the brooder, take four 12-foot
boards, nail them together to form q
* -. :" '.' +
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
How to Plant Popcorn.

Popcorn may be planted closer
than any other varieties. One plan OF
planting is to make the burrows three
feet apart and have the corn stand
one stalk in q hill, IA inches apart in
the rows. If the corn is planted very
early OF late it will not suffer SO
much from the worms as the medium
planted crops. Where irrigated, care
must be taken in keeping the water
from the stalks and not give the
plants more than two periods of ir-
rigation during the growing season.
The poor ears can be fed to poultry
with profit and the fodder is relished
b. the cows, sheep and horses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
FROM RING TO RANKS.
L United States Army Omcer Who
Once Fought q Victorious
Prize Fight.

They used to call him big Foot
when he was a student in Washington
and Lee university, Lexington, Va. He
is first lieutenant in the regular
army, and stationed in Chicago now.
He had two brothers and cousin at
school with him, and. the students
called them Little Foot, play Foot"
and 1.-TWO Sticks" 1.-TWO Sticks" was
so called because he was a cripple and
used crutches, says the Kansas City
Star.
big Foot was strapping fellow
with dark hair and eyes, and skin as
soft and pink as an infants. He was
an athlete of magnificent build,
straight and strong and tail. Every
one liked big Foot" and everyone had
great deal of respect for his family.
He was one of the F. F. VS.. His father,
a colonel, had an arm shot off at NAL
vern hill while leading the confederate
troops.
"Big Foot" had some hard expert
ences after he left school. He was grad
uated civil engineer from the univer-
sity and took a railroad contract with
a partner to help him. They made
money out Of the contract, but the
partner stole it all and big. Foot" was
left almost without dollar in a
strange land. He was ashamed to go
home or write home about his eondi-
ton. He couldn't find work and he got
pretty hungry at times. This is what
led him to do what he did. At Lynch
burg, Va, he fell in with some sporting
men who were looking for q man to
whip prize fighter that had reputa-
ton in the town. big Foot" could see
no easier way of making money than
fighting the prize fighter. He would be
fed while he was training, anyway,
and if he should win the fight he would
make little money. So he agreed to
fight the fighter.
He whipped the fighter, made some
money, and went to Fort Leavenworth;
where he enlisted in the army as pri-
vate. This was in 1898. In 1895, two
years later, he had risen to second lieu
tenant. This is the shortest possible
time in which a man may rise in the
army from the ranks to such posi-
ton.
The lieutenant was stationed at Van
couver Barracks, Tacoma, Wash, a few
years ago. It was there he met the
daughter of a general, fell in love with
her and married her. He went with the
general to the Philippines, but re-
turned shortly afterward a first lieu
| tenant. He is soon to leave again for
the Philippines.
The lieutenant is known to several
Kansas City men, one of whom went to
| school with him. It is doubtful,
though, whether the lieutenant ever
told how he fought a prize fight and
made enough money out of it to join
the army.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
WESTERN sELF-FEEDER.

which may be any length desired, but
usually IL to 16 feet.
Make a box (B) that will be two feet
less in length and width than the plat
form; set it so that there will be a
space of foot all around the DO X OF
bin; this makes the trough for the cat
tie to eat from. Allow space of about
one inch at the bottom of the bin for
the shelled corn to work out as the cat
tie eat it. They filled these feeders full
of shelled corn and let the cattle run
to them at will. They had to use eau
ton until they. got the cattle used to
eating all they could get. They had a
lot of hogs to run with the cattle, to
eat what corn the cattle wasted. Since
the strip" has been settled the stock is
not kept in large herds. The cut shows
an end view of tn is feeder.-Ohio
Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
Keeping Meat. In Summer.

{ Meat that has been smoked or dried
can be kept in perfect condition
through the summer by packing it
in dry salt and keeping it in cool
Clubhouse. A dry cellar might do, but
I have never tried it. In packing do
not allow the pieces to touch each
other nor to touch the SIDE: bottom
or any other part of the barrel or
box in which it is placed. Fill all
spaces with salt. The meat takes snno
more salt but remains just as, It svas
put away. No bugs, flies or anything
of that kind can get at it. It does
not mold nor take moisture, neithei.
does it dry any more. I have prac-
ticed this method for 30 years and
find it entirely satisfactory. The salt
is not lost as it can be given to stock.
Prairie Farmer. e =. 55es5ss
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
Bone In the Warm sea~on.

Some persons are disposed to use
green cut bone only in winter, but a
small quantity fed once day in
spring and summer will greatly pro-
mote laying and be of much advan-
tage to moulting hens. The bone cut
ter does not "grind'' bones, but "cuts''
those fresh from the butcher, and a
pound of green cut bones, given at
night to 20 fowls will cost but little
and prove beneficial in promoting lay
ing. For geese and ducks there is no
food that will show better results. es-
pecial]y for those that are growing
as it supplies the elements of growth
and thus prevents them from having
leg weakness. Do not give too much,
but use it moderately in connection
with a variety of other foods.-P. IT..
Jacobs, in American Gardening. g.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
An Author Wants q Chance.

A publishing firm recently received. the
following offer from an anxious autobiog
rapher who probably had been reading
1.-The Hooligan Nights II wish to put
my life Before the public if l can &c.
Anuf Out of it to give me a start in the
world. I led Criminal life 81 years Arrest
ed q times shot u at p times s kele Is % Or
Convicted Z times Broke pen and taken p
Convicts with me. Waylaid and shot my
fathern law twice married separated anG
Uivossed. If can get start in the Worlc
Bye putting my life Before the public
will doc so. "-LOud0n News. ! .'.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
BROODER COMPLETE,

closed pen is covered with wire net
ting to keep out older chicks.
BY this method one need use the
old hen only long enough: to hatch
the chicks, so in few days. she will
go to laying again. No artificial heat
being supplied, this style of brooder
is most suitable for chicks Matched
after the weather becomes somewhat
warm and settled.-A. E. Tinstman, in
Farm and Home.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
willing to Show EN-.

An honest young man, who had escaped
a great peril by an act of heroism, was much
complimented for his bravery.
One lady. said: II wish I could have seen
your feat"
Whereupon he blushed and stammered.
and finally pointing to his pedal extremities,
said: "Well, here they be, mum."-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
KANSAS SELF-FEEDER,
1t IL Filled with shelled Corn and
Cattle Are Allowed to Run
to 1t at Will.

When we came to Kansas, 16 years
ago, many farmers owned 100 to 500
head of cattle. They pastured them in
the Strip in summer and brought
them back in winter to feed. They made
self-feeders as follows: Set posts firm
~ in the ground, about two feet apart
one way and six to eight feet the other.
Nail on strips for sills, lay tight floor
on the sills, fasten a stout board a
foot wide (A) around the platform.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
COVERED END OF BROoDER.

square (aa). Cover one side enough
to make an Enclosure about two feet
wide (b), with boards previously pre-
pared with rags tackled on the under
side and long enough to extend to the
floor, so the chicks can crawl in and
keep warm. Place a floor in the
small Enclosure. The. rest of the in
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
Art I'm Pennsylvania.

Our community has received a social and
professional addition in the person Of Mr..
'Bilr'' Jones, who returns to his native town
an accomplished artist. In Philadelphia he
was regarded as one of the best men in the
Hotel Blanks barber shop. He has now
accepted position in ".Tom" Johnson's ton.
serial parlors.-Mountville pa Clarion.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
SUMNER VENTILATION.
An Important Matter That a. a Gen.
eral Thing Receives Too Little
Attention from P0ultrymen.

ouAAAACA Az CAC C1A4C WHICH tAC ,OIul-
nary owner of feathered stock thinks
there is no need of looking after VEN
tilation. Yet the summer ventilation
of the poultry house is as necessary as
the winter ventilation of the same. :.
There are two makeshifts for proper
ventilation or airing. One is to leave
the doors and windows open at night,
with the fowls exposed to all kinds of
night providers, and the other is to
shut up the fowls in. a place that
would be considered intolerable as a
bed chamber for the owner of the
fowls. The writer has known some
great disasters to follow the first
course, and he cannot. doubt that
much suffering follows the second.
One old man, that had left his poultry
house door open during summer
nights for years, finally had his roosts
raided by, q hungry coon. Another
man had his entire flock of more than
20 fowls destroyed in one night by
some wild animal from the forest,
though this man lived in the edge of
village of more than 1000 inhabi-
tants.
The poultry house may be exposed
to the air in perfect safety by an ex-
pense of a few cents for wire net.
ting. Two-inch mesh is suitable
where the danger is not great from
rats and weasels, but as inch wire
mesh costs little, it is usually safer
to use that, As soon as the weather
becomes warm in the spring, take out
the windows, and put in this wire net
ting, mailing it on over the outside, so
II 1t becomes necessary during sud
den cold spell to put in the windows
temporarily, this can be done without
trouble. The fresh air thus admitted
will be of great value to the health
and comfort of the fowls.-M. G.
Thurston, in Country Gentleman.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25

Let the weather govern the depth
OF cultivation Of corn; in wet seasons
the roots I'll the surface soil; in dry
they 60 deep NJ. 1.. ..< s5S=
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25

Fortune keeps up such a see-saw that the
man for whom town is named is liable to
be found in the poorhouse 20 years later
Atchison Globe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
The shriners at washington.

The ShrinerB at Washington. !
On May 10Th. 10th and 81 ct the Big Four and
c. & .. will sell round trip excursion tickets
to Washington at one fare for round trip
For maps, rates. etc, address J. Z. Tucker,
g. n. A., 234 Clark St., Chicago. ~;
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-05-25
Making Of q Rs|Yolationist

The editors of Current Literature say of
Resurrection" Count Leo Tolstoi's late
book, published by Dodd, Mead & Co.:
lit would be impossible to give In a read
ing any adequate impression of 'Resur-
rection, for it Is as full of incident and
experience as life. Nekhludoff. the princi-
nal character, Is q Russian noble, whose
naturally upright, straightforward and
spiritual temperament has been stifled by
the empty phrases with which his class
excuse their self-indulgence. Suddenly q
tragic incident reveals to him the chasm
between the aspirations of his youth and
the moral lethargy of his manhood. With
that incident the free spiritual being
which alone Is true, alone eternal, was
awakened in him, and from that moment
there began for him a new life.' The
story tells Of the maturing of this life,
and Of the light In which existing social
institutions appear to Nekhludoff from
his new point of view Resurrection is 4
great literary masterpiece, and the great
est OF problem novels In that 1t deals with
the fundamental problem-man's relation
to man. As an introduction to the follow
ing reading, it may be stated that Nekhlu-
don has followed gang of political pris-
Oners and cOnViets into Siberia, because
among thesn Is q woman called Katusha
whom he had once wronged and to whom
he would atone. Kryltzoff, who tells the
story, Is a political prisoner
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-24
NEUROLOGICAL.


T1IWEATT. Austin, Texas. July "a
Miss Hattie Thweatt. daughter of Chief
Clerk Thweatt Of the agricultural depart
this city after 4 lingering Illness. She was
a most estlmable young lady and had many
friends. She was graduate of the State
university, and all who Know her are deep
ly grieved.
CALDWELL-Marfa, Texas, July 23.---
Mrs. r. NJ Caldwell, who was on her way
from her home in Houston to Fort Davis,
died this Gazing on the train between
Alpine aud Maria. She was with her
family and friends and received every
possible attention. Her remains will be
conveyed to Houston tonight. The de-
ceased Ia we'll known here and in Fort
Davis, where she has spent several sum-
mers in search of health.
SPANN.-Navasota, Texas, July 20 Mr..
G. Spann died at his home ct Ince-
pendence, in Washington ounty, at IL 40
o'clock Saturday night, aged 20 years. /
month and - days. Deceased left the
old homestead IN Sumpter, s. c., ind
located in Washington county in 1874. He
was veteran of 'he Seminole Indian wGr
in Florida and a memuer CT the Home
Guards Legion during the struggle OF
the Confederacy. The last days Of a long
and we'll spent life were quietly spent at
the residence OF his daughter Mrs Book
err. who survives him, ~ does another
daughter In South Carolina, and son, G.
p. Spann, of Navaso;a. The remains were
inferred in the family burial ground yes
terday afternoon.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-24

company for La Porte via the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway. The follow
ing Is roster OF the company. Captain
Eugene Green; K. H. Biggs, first lieuten-
ant, Ed w. Giesen. second lieutenant;
Frank Dwyer hrst sergeant; Ed Barber.
second sergeant; Walter Barber, third
sergeant; Stewart Warnkin, fourth SER
geant; Thomas knight, NTH sergeant;
Robert Thorpe aunrJermaster sergeant;
Corporals: II II. Oldham. Ed Bowles, VIII
Younger, l.. Ellis, James Albright John
kone: color sergeant, Harris James.
Privates; Frank Allen, Earl Bishop. Dor
sey Beidler. CAIRO Calbort John Davis,
L. z Duff, b. NJ. Daley. Jim Dalton. w.
c, Digger Jr., Charles Davis, VIII Ellis.
John Forsyth, j. NJ Green. Thad Holt,
Chris Gates, Henry Gates, n c. Hudgeons.
j. f. Iyey. Tom johnson, f. l.. Johnson,
Roy Kone, Guy Kone Felix Lawmen. A.
Iawmen, Steve Minot, Robert Martin, p.
Miners G. Miners. Joseph Merritt, +. A.
Murchison, Henry Oldham. Garland
Owens, oscar Rountree, NJ c. Rogers
Norris sontor S. Stiles, 7. Stiles, j.
Smith, w. n Taylor L. A. volgt. John
Wren, II. webb, r. williams, Jim Will
lamson Mack Wrenn. Dan Watson r.
p Robinson Jack Watkins. p G. Woods.
Albert Motheval and Everette Reed