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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-16
How TO Care Tor Sheen.

There are two things that the
sheep need as much as any animals
on the farm. They need fresh air and
they need exercise. The sheep shed
should be so built that when it rains
or SHOWS so that the sheep cannot
take their daily run in the field the
windows or upper-half doors can be
opened to allow the fresh air to en-
ter freely. If they have not been
shorn they will not feel the cold, and
only those who grow winter lambs
shear in the fall. But whenever the
weather is suitable they should have
a run out in the field. not yard bare
of grass, and filled with mud and ma
nure, but in an open field. Even in
a damp day they may be out for
short time, but not long enough to
get their wool wet through. The un-
easiness of sheep when in a pasture
shows their need of exercise. They
will not eat and lie down as a COW
does, and some of the smaller breeds
are almost as ready to jump on a
wall for the fun of jumping as goats
Cultivator.
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ABOUT THIN SEEDING.
A Good Practice because 1t Gives
Plants a Chance to Grow to Per-
feet Maturity.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes that having been in
formed by one whom he knew to lie
good farmer that he had planted
wheat 16 inches between the rows and
three inches apart in the rows, one
grain in a place, and had harvested 81
bushels to the acre, he planted small
plot to wheat OH September %, 1898,
on hard clay soil that was manfred
in the spring and planted to straw
berries. The planting was six inches
apart in the row between the straw
berry rows. Two rows he planted ore
grain to the hill; one row two grains
to the hill. He gave the wheat ore
cultivation on April "a. The average
rows planted one grain to the hill was
is large heads. The largest number
of heads to single grain was 81,
which gave yield of 2.o97 grains. The
row with the two grains to the hill
gave an average of 10 heads to the hill.
The greatest yield was 36 heads to the
hill, which gave a yield of 2,o35 grains
So less than the one grain hill. The
yield was at the rate of 106 bushels
to the acre, providing the planting was
- by 6 inches. planted a small plot
to oats on the same kind of soil OH
April "a, planting six inches apart, one
grain to the hill, and cultivated four
times. The yield was at the rate of
IT'S bushels to the acre, providing the
planting was done ~ by 6 inches.
He has raised as many as As large
heads from a single grain, when
planted six by six inches apart one
grain in a hill. and in 1897 he had two
hills of rye, one of which yielded 1876
heads and the other 1877 heads, each
grown from single grain. The plants
have more room for their roots and
are abundantly and constantly fed at
such distances while in close seeding
they have periods of starvation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-16
KruEer's Prophecy.

The following extract from a letter
written shortly before the war in the
Transvaal from an official of President
Kruger's government to a correspond
ent here, is, viewed in the light of re-
cent events, almost prophetic: "As /
predicted to you four years ago, war is
upon us. We are again compelled to
fight for our fresides, but do not de-
spair for us. Our struggle is very much
underestimated. Every home is an
arsenal, every man, woman and child
can shoot, and the righteousness of our
cause directs our aim straight. The first
victories will be with us, and you need
not be surprised after these victories to
see the Dutch from all over South A.
RIGA flocking to our banners. The Eng
fish may, of course, be ultimately sue
cessful, but I believe there is a future
for the men of my race in South Africa"
N. Y. Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-03-16
NOT THAT KIND OF A CAKE
It Looked Suggestive Of = Wedding
nut Was Intended for Diff
ferent Purpose. ~

An East end car was loaded down with
shoppers, mostly women, for it was in the
middle of the afternoon. Conversation was
proceeding at great rate. 1t was like a
pink tea or a session of the sewing circle
But all at once hush fell over the fair chat
terers. A negro lad entered, bearing in his
arms an immense cake, three or four decks
high, and frosted over from pit to dome, as
they say of theater. There was profusion
OF flowers by way of decoration, and delicate
traceries of gauzy lace completed the en-
the negro could scarcely carry it.
:. The cake told the whole story of the we'd
ding, the bridesmaids, the orange flowers. the
flower girls and the banquet afterward.
Every feminine heart in that street car was
a-futter as its owner gazed speechlessly
upon the evidence of a wedding to be.
Finally, when the car stopped to let on
another passenger and everything was very
still, one lady took courage to ask the negro
where the wedding was going to be.
"Whut wedding" asked the negro, his eve.
protruding.
1.-The wedding that cake is for.''
Dis int no weddin' cake"
'No?''
""No'm+ Dis yeres er cake walk cake.'
There was smile that reached from one
end of the car to the other, and very soon
conversation was resumed as before.-Mem-
phis Scimitar.
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SUGAR BEET TROUBLES
Mtchtgnn Farmers Are: Not a. Ell"
:s thusiaxtic About Growing Bects
Z IN They Were aiYear, Ago.

The farmers of Berrien county,
Mich, who have for several years
been growing sugar beets for tho
Wolverine Sugar company, whose
plant cost 100000, last year lost
money on their crop. and at farm
ers' institute recently they did not
mince words in speaking of the mis-
fortune for which the factory seems
to be at least lin part responsible.
They claim that the facts relating to
beet culture and the soils adapted to
the root were misrepresented to them
by their contract. solicitors. The state
inspector who assisted in making the
contracts believes the loss sustained
by the farmers due to an unfavorable.
year and their inexperience as grow
ers. The farmers, however, are not
satisfied with this explanation, hav-
ing lost their time and summers
work, and demand assurance of pay
ing price, else no beets will be fur
nished the factory by them. The
but the farmers insist upon more be-
fore they will agree to grow more
beets.
This case is given to show that rosy
as sugar beet growing is represented
by some to be, it has the shady side,
and even with good season, large
yield and convenient transportation
facilities, there is plenty of room for
disappointment. Farmers, however,
have the success or failure of fac
tory in their own hands, for if salts
factory prices are not. received, they
can cease growing the bcets, and the
factory will close. 1t may be that the
Michigan farmers loss is a result OF
"a bad year and their inexperienced"
so that, even if alluring prices are Of
fered by factories for beets, farmers
Inexperienced in growing them should
go slow and develop gradually as
growers, always taking into account
the uncertainty of seasons.-Farmers'
Voice.
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! -:
Grub for the May Beetle.

The white grub of the May beetle,
when very abundant, is one of the most
destructive of our insect pests. There
is scarcely one of our useful plants
whose roots it does not feed upon, and
we have seen grass roots so eaten off
that by taking hold of the tops a
space yard square could be lifted up,
if there were roots enough left to hold
it together. It begins this feeding al
most as soon as Matched, but Ivy Novem-
Der it has attained about half it's size,
when it burrows down to remain in the
ground over winter and appears again
the next year to feed all summer. AS
it burrows usually foot or more down,
it is doubtful if late fall or winter
blowing would destroy many of them.
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upon them as re- His Word Does Not
liable. Il Count.
ut is very seldom that we get beat
for a small amount by anyone giving a
bank as reference when opening an ac-
count. Not so very long ago a woman
requested permission to open credit
account with us and gave one Of the
prominent banks as reference. When
investigated found that she had a de-
post there of more than 50 900, but that
her account with the bank was only of
few days standing. I notified her
that she could have credit of not over
5000 provided that her account was
paid the first of each month. She
bought the full 5000 worth in three
days, but when the first of the month
came around she was not to be found
and her account with the bank had
been withdrawn. That woman was
conducting profitable business on a
capital of $4,000 which she had never
expended, but utilized to secure credit
at the stores. 1t was certainly profit
able business for her.
"Another reference that I have
learned not to place much reliance in is
one from a politician, and the third is
that from a minister when presented
by woman. When a man comes in
with reference from his pastor it is a
different matter, as his power of per-
suasion is not so great as is a woman's
with the ministerial profession. n poll
tician is too easily influenced by pos.
sible votes to make his name good as
reference"
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Fowls in Plum Orchards.

The difficulties of growing plums,
owing to the attacks of Che curculio,
have almost driven this delicious fruit
out of the market. Hens in a plum
orchard do not seem to protect the
trees, but in few recent experiments
which have been tried it has been
demonstrated that if the hens are al
lowed in large orchard they will be
kept too busy with. other insects to
notice the curculio, but if the hens are
confined, and each yard contains one
mot over two) plum trees, under which
the hens will congregate for shade,
with but little grass in the yards, the
prospects will be favorable to a large
crop of plums.-P. H. Jacobs, in Amer
lean Gardening.
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IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
Anomalous Conditions Exist Which
Require a Speedy and Rad
zeal Remedy.

An anomalous condition of things ex.
lists in the Indian territory, which
should not and cannot last. It is the
duty of congress at the present session
TO remedy difficulties that are becom-
ing worse year by year, and are quite
threatening enough as matters stand.
Residents of the territory unite in say
ing that though the non-Indian popula-
ton is in the majority by ten to one
their children are growing up without
a chance to go to school. There is no
other region in the United States suf-
fering from this objectionable wrong.
The government rightly looks after the
education of Indian children. Last
year the number of such schools in OPP
Grafton was 296, with an enrolment of
25,2o2. The appropriations made for
them by congress- have increased from
$4,000 in 1877 to $2,936,OSO in 1900.
When the statement comes from the
Indian territory that many thousand
children not of Indian blood are entire
ly without school advantages an intol-
cradle situation must~be admitted. No
debate on this point is needed. Ameri-
can children deprived of education
represent neglect or mismanagement
that cannot be endured and which the
authorities having this case in charge
will surely correct.
Lack of schools is but one of the evils
that burden the Indian territory. The
ownership, possession, leasing and d.
vision Of lands, together with ques-
tions relating to pay for improvements,
are in confusion, with no legal machin.
cry to dispose of urgent suits without
years of delay. Town sites cannot be
properly selected. Trade and agricul-
ture are at heavy disadvantage.
Crime has an undue license. No law
exists for the care of the insane. The
territory is without delegate in con-
gress to present its needs. Remnants
Of five different kinds of government
are found within it's limits, so that
while in the practical sense it is not
governed at all it is governed too much
in conflicting, incoherent fashion,
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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LIVE STOCK ON FARMS.
Conservative Esti9ate Furnished by
the st"tistician of the Agricul-
tuFal Department.

The statistician of the department
OF agriculture has completed his an
nual estimate of the number and
value of live stock on farms. Re-
turns from more than $4,000 CORE
spondents show that January / there
were on the farms of the United
States 13,537,524 horses, 2,0S6,O27
mules, 1929, 800 mich COWS, $780,
O54 other cattle, and 1,ss3,065 sheep.
This is a decrease of 1878 in the
number of horses, of 1876 in that of
mules, and 3S4;171 in that of cattle
other than mich cows. On the 9TH
er hand, it is an increase of 302,245 in
the number of mich COWS, and of
2,76S,612 in that of sheep.
The department has made no esti-
mate of the number of swine, but will
await the enumeration to be made
by the United States census i'm June
next.
There has been an increase in value
during the years averaging 1921 per
head in the case of horses, $500 per
head in that of mules, $1.94 per head
in that of mich cows, $22.18 per head
in that of other cattle, and 1S cents
per head in that of sheep. This rep
resents a total increase in value dur
ing the year of nearly $216 900, 900,
exclusive of manifestly considerable,
but not definitely ascertained, in
crease in the value of swine. The to-
tai increase in the value of the farm
animals of the united States during
the last three years exceeds $570,0O0,-
00O. Farm horses have increased in
value $151, 100000; mules, $4,000, 900;
mich cows, $146,0o0, 900; other cattle,
$1s1, 100000; sheep, $56,OOO,00O, and
swine about $2O,OOO.O0O.
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"CVh III
each month. That, believe, is the rule
in force in practically every store in
Chicago.
But. you know, there are exceptions
to all rules, and one of these exceptions
cost nearly every store in the business
district of Chicago that extends credit
to patrons large sum few weeks
ago.
about six months ago woman
came to me with Il request for credit
account. She was gowned in the
height of fashion, and was at the time
wearing jewels that were in themselves
a small fortune. She represented her.
self to be the wife of well-to-do board
of trade man, and said that her hus-
band was worth at least 100000. As
she wished to make few small pur-
chases ut the time complied with her
request at once, intending to look up
the case later.
"Something or other prevented until
the first of the month came around. and
| found that her account was little
over $500. We sent bill as she had d.
rected, and almost by return mail we
received check for the full amount
That settled it, and that woman could
nave all the credit she wanted. The
next month we got a check promptly
for the amount of her. account. and
then we did not get another for three
months. In that time. her account with
us had grown to little over $1,000,
which we will never get. The woman
has gone to Europe with her purchases
the husband, who was only one of the
small fry on the board. has failed. and
we. like the rest of the stores, are the
victims of a misplaced confidence"
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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The Troubles of a Credit Man
His Berth in Chicago Retail Store is Not
Bed of Roses

prevents our extending the credit they
ask. This class of people act sheep
ish' when they apply for credit. as
though they were asking for something
which they did not. deserve, and often
mistake these actions for criminal in.
tentions, and SO lose what might have
proven Il good customer.
when man asks for credit with
seemingly good intentions I ask for
references, and if employed, who he is
employed by, or if in business, the
name of his firm That is all, but be-
fore I grant his request he is fully in
vestigated. If he is employed, the
amount of his salary is ascertained
from his employer; if he is in business
his financial standing is secured from
the commercial agencies, and if they
are satisfactory he is informed that he
has been placed on our credit books"
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it accounts. | asked him what the
percentage of loss was on the amount
of business done. and he replied that
it was considerably less than one per
cent. Then | asked him if even so
small percentage of loss as that
would not have some effect on the
prices charged for goods, and if not
why it was that his concern, with the
two items of loss from bad accounts
and book keepers salaries to account
for, could afford to sell goods for the
same price as the merchant without
these two items to consider.
'''rhese are days Of the keenest kind
of competition, when profits are cut
to the very lowest point at which it is
possible to do business at ALL" he
said, but you will find that. quality
of goods considered, our prices are no
higher than those Of any strictly cash
house in the city. The reason such a
thing is possible is because of the
larger volume of business that we do,
which we would not do if it was not
for our credit system.
'1rhere is probably one-half of our
Charged business that would go else
where were it not for the matter of
accommoda ton which we extend in
the matter of credit accounts. And
of this business which we would lose
the greater part of it is in articles
upon which there is the greatest per-
centage of profits. In other words
many of the people who do business
with us buy expensive articles and
have them charged when they would
not or could not buy them if they had
to pay for them at the time of pur--
chase, and the profits on this class of
goods are comparatively high"
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800 Reward 800.

- The readers der Of this paper will be pleased
disease that science has been able to cure in
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. HALLS
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
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being. constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have so much faith in it's cura-
tive; powers that they offer One Hundred
DOLLARS tor any case that it fails to cure
Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Harduppe-"I'm thinking of taking
. house in the country" Wigwag-
with a camera ?"-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
whats Miss Shrek singing?" my
Hearts in the Highlands II wish
her voice was with it," - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Innocent.-"What do you know
about this AFFAIR."" asked the court.
"Nuthin', sir, yer anner," replied
Mike. 'I'm the polisman on the beat"
Philadelphia North American.
Customer-''I want to get a watch;
but I want one with water-tight
case" Fresh Clerk-"All right, sir;
you can put any of these in soak with
out hurting 'em a bit" -Philadelphia
Record.
Genealogist-"Have you any prefer
ence, madame" Parvenu-"Only this.
1t will be necessary for us to come
of a long-lived ancestry, our portrait
gallery is so dreadfully small!"-De-
troit journal.
Beware" cried the fortune-teller.
"1our bitterest enemy will shortly
cross your path" ''Hooray!" ex-
claimed the scorcher II won't do q
thing to him." In frenzy of JOY he
gave her an extra dollar.-Philadel-
phia Press.
Green-"What is the difference be-
tween music and a sick muse?" Rob-
inson-'Don't know, I'm sure, unless
it was cause and effect Green
What do you mean?" Robinson
''Why, that the music made the muse
sick. ALLY Sloper.
HE proposed to her at the picnic,
didn't he:" Eyes. Did you see him?
III saw him turn sadly away" "Pooh!
He turned away to laugh ITO
laugh?'' Yes. He'd just bet seven
dollars that she'd refuse him."-Cleve.
land Plain Dealer.
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FOLDING HAY DOOR,

of the door is hung to the lower part
and folds in when open, and will open
clear back under the cornice, and can
be easily closed by closing the lower
part first and raising the upper part
from the inside. This closes the open
ing sufficient to keep out all storms,
provided the barn has a hood to &C.
commodate the hayforlk, and all barns
should have hood to keep the hay
from rubbing against the barn so
hard. The hood is not shown in the
sketch, as it would hide the view of
the door.-A.. S. Forsman, in Ohio
Farmer. -
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ago, stating my case to you.
II had pains through my bowels,
headache, and backache, felt tired
and sleepy all the time, was troubled
with the whites. 1 followed your
advice, took your Vegetable Com
pound, and it did me lots of good.
now have baby girl. I certainly be-
ieve l would have miscarried had it
not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. I hsa a very easy
time; was sick only short time. I
think your medicine is godsend to
women in the condition in which /
was. l recommend it to all as the best
medicine for women" INNS. MARY
LANE, Coytee, Tenn.
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Spells His Chances siance. ana would
for Credit be censured as
quickly for turning away customer
who deserved credit, and where credit
would prove profitable, as they would
for granting credit to anyone who did
not pay their bills.
There are hundreds of these latter
class who apply for credit privileges
at every credit-granting store in. Chi
cago every month, and some of them
are sharper than the credit men, and
then another item is charged against
the loss account.
~ credit man must be seemingly
conscienceless." said the gentleman
whom l have quoted before. $40 the
persons applying for credit as matter
OF accommodation, and who intend to
pay the bills they contract, it is SEEM
ingly OH easy matter to secure an ac-
count with us, but occasionally run
across a case where nothing but nerv-
BUSINESS on the part of the applicant
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They Would Like do so if the mer-
Charge Account. chants would but
give them the opportunity.
1t would be practically impossible
to give anything like accurate figures
of the retail credit business done in
year in Chicago. L asked the credit
man of what is probably the largest
store in the city that does a credit
business it he could give me some
idea what the retail credit business of
Chicago would amount to in a year.
II would not even attempt to give
an estimate" he replied. II could of
course tell you what our credit bust
ness amounts to each year. but that
would prove nothing. 1t is certain,
however, that the business that goes
onto the books of the retail stores of
Chicago that permit the running of
credit accounts would run we'll into
the millions
''In our own case fully one-third of
the business we do goes onto our
books in the form of charges against
our customers. There are, ] imagine,
other houses in the city who do Il
greater percentage of charged bust
ness than we do, but we are carrying
all the accounts that have been asked
for that [ consider it safe to carry.
We could easily double our credit
business in Il years time. but it is a
question whether we could do so with
safe accounts, or at least Il sufficient
number of safe accounts to prevent
an increase in the percentage of loss,
and it is that little matter of loss that
the credit man must figure on if he
is to prove of any value to his employ
er. Keep down the percentage of loss
and profit will take care of itself"