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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09
AN UNSEEN POWER.

I fear lightning and I have good
reason for my fear. One day in
August when the men were making
hay in the field the clouds began to
thicken in the west and a storm
gathered. How tn Q men hurried to
put the hay into the barn so it would
not get wet. The tightening began to
flash and it began to rain. They we're
taking the last load Of hay to the
barn, but when they Raced the barn
the oxen absolutely refused to go in.
They stopped, braced their feet and
in spite of all our pulling, shouting
and whipping they would not go in.
Just that moment the lightning
struck the barn, and in a moment
it was all in flames. Some unseen
power must have directed the oxen,
for if they had gone in they must
certainly have been burned and the
men would probably have been
harmed, too. Ray Sims,
Sixth Grade. Worthintgon, MINI.
Junior Journal.
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The state of Minnesota is fortunate
in not among the states to be visited
by the II year locusts, which,, If adj
vises from the entymologists are to
be depended upon, are due this year
to visit q number of states. The
last outbreak was in 1885, and those
who presume to know, state that the
pest Will come again in May of this
year. The agricultural department
claims that the following states will
be affected: Wisconsin, Alabama.
Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl'
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio,
West Virginia, Virginia, Massa'
chusetts, Vermont, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentcuky, Michigan and the District
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Star.
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Lake St. Grunsten, F'alk, Sunberg,
Swanson, Moberly, Crane.
9Th St., Maher, Brown, Johneon,
Cramer, Sterling, Olson, Thorn,
Isaacson, DAZZLING johnson, Wyckhoff.
10th St., Paulson, Lundrgren,
Chute, Wass, Darling, Hildrith, Pratt,
Torrance,
18th. St., Bigleow, Robinson,
Smith, Glasgow, Darling, Con.
Church.
In White, Mrs. Lawrence
Stokes, Patterson, ,Wolven, Dessen,
Smallwood, Drake, Merwin, Shepard.
The matter Of repairs and new
walks in the business district
especially 10th street was laid over
for Investigation.
Complaint was made in regard to
merchants placing goods on the
side walk, one party being damaged
by the practice. Question was re-
ferred to attorney as to rights and
privileges.
F. NJ. Dolan, who is fixing up
the Omaha road grass plats and who
was possessed of authority, offered on
behalf of the railroad company to
put in a fountain if the village would
furnish the water. The fountain
would cost in the neighborhood Of
$500. Matter was laid over.
The members present indicated a
disposition not to furnish the water
account of heavy expense.
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The good impulses of President
Roosevelt are 80 much in evidence
as t O be, in effect, conceded by those
who may have been disposed to
doubt. It is plain that his first
aspiration is to do right, and we
think, he has broader ideas of what
is right than have been evinced by
some of his predecessors in the
presidency, of both parties. We
have not found him to be Presi-
dent who tests right by tho standard
of party. We see no evidence that
he believes right to be because the
Republican party has decreed that
it is such. Before became President
Mr.. Roosevelt as a reasonably strict
party man, He began his career
with the idea of independence, and
he has never fully parted from it.;
but there came time when he had
to decide between independence in
the party and independence without
regard to it, and he chose the former
course, though, as we are inclined
to believe, with some misgiving,
and not without regret. But he
took it, and he had been fairly faith
full to it up to the time he entered
the presidency.
In that office President Rooevelt
has materially added to the good
estimation in which he was held by
the country generally.-Boston
Herald.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09

The grocers say the four necess-
aries of life are meat, flour, eggs and
potatoes. They count neither sugar
butter, tea nor coffee as necessaries
of life. Therefore in the present
dearness of provisions, surplus Of
purchase money beyond the. -four,
meat, potatoes and eggs is so scanty
that the consumers have to buy very
sparingly of the other articles which
are frequently designated as necess-
aries. A more rigid economy is
being practiced by every house.
older, and therefore the meat sold
in the markets will go further than
it did formerly, and this general
economy must reduce tho price of
meat.
There is a scarcity of cattle and
hogs, and therefore the only way to
make that scarcity comparative
abundance is to diminish the con-
sumption of meat. Or; in other
words, for household expenses buy
less of meat than formerly, and we
believe the health of the family
will be equally good, and this
economy on the part of the more
wealthy classes will subserve a great
publ ic purpose Of providing more
meat for the wage-earner at the old
time prices.
A wise economy is the source of
wealth which never fails when a
concerted effort is being made to
reduce the expenes for the diet of
the table. milwaukee, Evening Wis
consin.
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TAX JUDGEMENT SALE!

q
Pursuant to q Real Estate Tax
Judgement of the District Court, in
the County of Mobiles, State of
Minnesota, entered the twenty-tirst
(21st) day of March, A. D. 1902, in
proceedings for enforcing payment
of Taxes and Penalties upon Real
Estate in the County of Mobiles State
of Minnesota, remaining delinquent
on the first Monda;; Of January, 1902,
and of the Statutes in such case
made and provided, I shall. on the
second Monday, being the
10Th Day of May A. D. 1902,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, at
my Office, in the Court House, in
the village of Worthington and
County of Mobiles, Minnesota, sell
the lands which are charged with
taxes, penalties and costs in said
Judgment, and on which taxes,
penalties and costs shall not have
been previously paid.
E. A. Trip,
tSEAL)
Auditor, Mobiles County, Mimi.
Dated at Warrington this oath
day of April, A. D. 1902.
APPS Map.
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The Lutheran school here closed
last week, and Mr.. flames the teacher,
has gone to Lismore township to
conduct similar school there.
The hard winds we have had this
spring have DANCED the crops some.
There are some pieces learn, that
are thought to be injured 80 much
that the ground will have to be
planted to corn. am inclined to
think, however, that a few days of
good weather will so improve the
appearance of the grain fields that
complaining will cease
learn that son of Robert Bird,
of Bigelow township, is sorely afiict-
ed with with rheumatism.
On Tuesday Of next week Mr.. and
Mrs. August Klessig intend to start
for Wisconsin on a visit to relatives
and friends there, and will probably
be gone for about six weeks. Their
many friends will wish them a
pleasant time, and doubtless they
will have it, for they are just the
kind of people to enjoy themselves
among a whole-souled people such
as they are going to visit among.
Our neighbor, Mr.. Bents, is quite
successful man with hogs. This
spring he has raised in the neighbol
hood of 100 pigs, which ought tc
bring him a nice little sum OF
money in the fall. Hogs if well
handled are profitable stock to keep,
1t takes but little money to get q
start with hogs; they require but
little ground for pasture, and nc
expensive buildings to shelter them,
and one does not have to wait long
for returns. They have lifted many
big mortage and set many a poor
man on his feet. Robert Shore.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09

The postofice department has had
80 much grief over the use OF the
ahhreviations' and ia. that
a bulletin has been issued urging
writers to spell out the name of the
state. "Iowa.'' The bulletin ex-
plains that the Authorization ia, y
often is taken to indicate Idaho, y
and the abbreviation 'la," quite
frenquently is read to be LA. .
Thus letters for the Hawkeye stat e
are often shipped off to Idaho and
Louisiana.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09
RANSOM.

We do not hear any more COM
plant about lack of rain. Now
we are wishing for fine sunny
weather; and if we only wait a
little while we shall get it. The
rains we have had, have put the
ground in prime condition to start
the seed and give it a good, strong
root. Some corn that as planted last
week when examined four days after
ward was found to be sprouted.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09

January and November Of last year,
when the steel and railroad trusts
were oragnized.
\. Already combinations of capital
are trembling at the independe mt
attitude Of President Roosevelt.
Some Of our leading dailies have
stated that James j. Hill has threat
ened to withdraw all financial sup
port from the coming campaign it
the President does not interfere and
call of the merger suit. A dispatch
printed in the Minneapolis Tribune
last Friday says that j. J. Hill is in
Washington and was reported to
have said that he wanted to devise
some way to defeat Governor Van
SAINT either in the convention or at
the poles.
The following is the concluding
clause of an editorial in the Chicago
Record Herald of Friday May 2nd,
on the meat and Railway Combine.
but the suits against the rail-
way and meat combinations meet
popular expectancy of Theodore
Roosevelt. They have the courage,
the rashness of honesty that the
people have been led to look for and
admire in him. It matters not
what may become of these suits in
the courts. the larger field of
national politics they have tighten
ed the relaxing hold of President
Roosevelt on the confidence and i'm
agination of the people-things
that count more than the favor and
millions of corporations in national
conventions
There should be no politics in this
discussion. Every man should fight
the trusts in the interest of his
county.
For ale-Thousands of acres
choicest Norh Dakota farms and
farm lands. Many snaps and
bargains. Send for our list before
buying elsewhere. 25-4.
Winterer & Winterer,
Valley City, N. D.
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WANTED.

A young man in County to act as
Local Advertising and Business
Manager. Send reference and 4
cents in postage for particulars and
catalogue of goods we manufacture.
Swartzenburg Manufacturing Co.
Builders Of. Gasolene Engines,
Dynamos and Motors. Pleasure
Boats and Launches, Wood and
Iron turning Lathes
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REAL ESTATE TRASFESR.

REAL ESTATE TRASFESR.
Nina Thompson Eliza Severance
Ia B Is Moultons resurvey sub div
Clary ad 81.
B Esser B Boon az nw4 II 102
43. $32sO.
Ell Holbert W n Skim err LIZ B
Clifton ad Worthintgon 500.
G w Protector Ed Eagn, sw4 "a
101 43 1854.
May Blesins j Henneks L 10 II
and ~ B % Adrian $4,000.
-. May Humphrey W Ransel L ~
B 8 $500.
Loren Clark T Smith eH 7 103
80 $144OO.
HG Free T W Heavy se14 26 104
40 $1,000.
r. j. Jones F. G.. Bullick BIZ 1st
ad Reading $3.50.
Wilmont T. L. Co. G. H. Ben
iegerdes B5 Bio LIST ad Wilmont
$1O5O.
C. J. Samllwood Agnes M.Peter-
son n: sw4 80, 1O4, 80 1924.
Geo. Kaiter, of Luverne passed
through town Sunday night enroute
to Minneapolis.
Jos E Roop W F Breckson Sc IA
80 lO2 AZ $1,000
Pope Henry Boots sw Ia 20
1903 IL $3.50
Otis Bigelow J P Vail j w Scott
trustees sely 4 lots 5 and s B Is
Wothingtcn $1,000
Laura M Bingham J j Binham
LIZ B 81 2nd. addition Worthing-
ton $500.
Drake Realty Co., P c Anderson
WIZ ne1-4 Z 1O1 40 $1040.
Lenora F Parsons Elias Peterson
LII and IL B 80 Adrian $105.
Lila M Norman Fred Dalheim LIB
and 10 B 3 Mclean g sub div B 40
and so Worthington $500.
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HAIL INSURANCE.

Should you want your crops IN
sured against hail or your buildings
against fire or tornadoes, in the
best companies. Should I fail to
cali on you drop me a postal card or
call at my office. am representing
the "Alliance Hail Insurance Co., of
Austin MINI and the. German In
surname Company Of Freeport Ill.
Respectfully yours.
If s. Kindlund.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09
A SNAP IN KANDlYOHI
COUNTY LAND.

800 acres only two miles from
Pridem and from Raymond a
$25. 90 per acre, the first one who
pays down money takes it. Have
a large list Of lands buy from us
and save, from $1.00 per acre up.
Address Kothof and Thier, Ray
mond, MINI.
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For Sale-Eggs for Matching from
farm ranged, prize winning Light
Brahamas at SOC per Is delivered to
PARTIES in town. Also a few L. B.
hens at SOC. Mrs. E. F. Whitney 21tf.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09
ELKS CARNIVAL.

The Elk's Carnival at Mime
apolis, June 2nd to 14th. is to COM
bine the features of a mammoth
street fair, June Festival and Car
nival Of fun on scale never attemp-
ed in the Northwest. 1t is to be an
affair that will attract visitors with
in radius of thousand miles at
least, and the railroads have accord
ed excursion rates.
Beginning at the Court of Honor,
located at the Masonic Temple
Hennepin Avenue and Sixth Street,
the streets are to be enclosed for a
dozen blocks to the northwest along
which will be line of booths for
mercantile and manufacturing
exhibits, many Of which will be of
striking architectural design.
Following these will be Turkish
Kiosks, Japanese Tea Houses,
Moorish Temples, Boer Farm Houses,
etc., ending in a plaza, about which
will be grouped score or more
Midway shows of diversified
character.
There will be parades, illumina-
tions and various carnival features
for each day, announcement Of which
will be made from time to time.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
The village council held a special
meeting, Friday evening President,
Palm, members Trip Albertus
recorder Messer present.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
The petition for sewer on 7th
granted and six inch sewer orderd in.
NJ. P. Mann, presented a petition
for grading of certain street in Gle
ment addition. The matter was
retert ed to u permanent committee
on streets consist ng of Gould and
Trip.
Board of Health presented appi-
cation for the passing of an ordi-
nance precribing hog limits, clean
ing up of foul matter and unhealthy
substances and request that the
desinfecting apparatus be repaired
as it was in very bad shape. The
ordinance matter was referred to
village attorney and DR.. Clark
health officer, instructed to procure
necessary repairs for the apparatus
and be custodian of it.
Bills allowed:
P. V. Elev. Coal. ..........$ 209.T
Hartford Ins. Co., for boiler. 10000
Elect Eng. Co., supplies. 80. 49.45
All. Clark cleaning and test
ing desinfecting instrument. 800
Atkinson and Boberg, coal sup
plies. 1874. Ga
Ed Allen, labor. ........ 2.S5
Mobiles Co. Bank Interest on
orders. ................. 1854
Smallwood's Office rent. $500. 5000
G. Hornstine labor. ....... 4.5O
A. Kali labor. ........... $50
G. aAnderson labor. 1.80
St. Croix L. Co. supplies. =. 40.T
Elec Eng Co. supplies. ..... 51.30
Austin Co., supplies. . 1903
st. Paul Elec Co. supplies.
Standard O Co., supplies. =. 26.17
B. Smith supplies .. 8.O4
The Bill of Elec. Eng Co., -. 524. 40
for meters laid over also C. j.
Smalloods, $13. so for phones furnish
ed firemen.
E. Trip and AR. Albertus, we're
appointed as a committee to make
list of committees needed that
it would be best to have for
different departments to facilitate
and handle all the work to the best
advantage and economically.
Side walk committee reported,
new walks or repairs needed along
the following property owners lots.
2nd. ave. Western House and
livery, Torrance, Fitch, Moll, Hid
reth, Darling, Mrs. Davis, sather.
3rd ave., Elofson Cong. Church.,
Allen house, Affords.
4th ave, Mrs. Erickson, Wilson,
A. O. U. W., Robinson, Manson,
Thurber, Swedish Church, Lowe,
Humiston.
9Th. ave, Darling, Lewis, Hastings
Glasgow, Larson, Firth, and Con-
way.
9Th. ave Rakestraw, Chute, Dirty,
Anton, Darling, Taylor, Thompson
Olson, Wood, Peterson.
9TH. ave. Palm, Roman, Newkirk,
Dana, Palmer, :
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TWO COSTLY ACCIDENTS
Freaks of Fortune Which Reduced Auence t.
Poverty Stroke.

Immense plans which seemed about
to be completed but have been
brought to disastrous failure at the
last moment are frequent enough in
the history of industry.
London Answers tells the story of
a tin mine in England which might
have yielded fortune but for a storm.
With the finding Of new vein of
ore running out toward the sea,
new level was driven out below the
water; then it was found that the lode
bent upward too near the sea bottom
for mining to be safely carried on.
Undiscouraged the owner borrowed
money, built a sea wall to cut off the
water, erected pumps and again went
to work. On the sixth day, just as an
enormous mass of rich ore was being
tapped, a gale came up, ship was
blown upon the wall, which went to
pieces at once. and the sea drove
heavy stones in upon the thin roof OF
the mine. In moment the workings
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tragic story OF unprecedented Crime Comes from Wellington
County, Kansas ..:=# A.
#G*kG ok #keGD#G*G#08*kG#

Victor Hugo once gave a MAGNIFICENT
analysis of a the mysterious power
which drives a criminal to confess his
crime. It is not necessarily remorse or
repentance, but a demon something
which will not be appeased until the
story is told to human ears. Even
the criminal who gloats and rejoices
over the blood he has spilled, must
tell someone Of the deed. And in the
Cummings case reported from We'll
lington, we have a curious example Of
this power.
Cummings killed a vixenish servant
girl by throwing a broom at her when
he saw her spit in a dish of food
which she was bearing to the break
fast table, The broom went endwise
and struck her in the temple, but it
did not render her unconscious, She
seemed to be getting along all right,
but few days later, when the family
was away from home, she suddenly
died. Cummings buried her body in a
cornfield, but afterward dug it up and
burned 1t in straw stack. The neigh
bors were told that the girl had gone
away She was the daughter of a no
torious woman, formerly of Yelling
ton, and there was no one to have
much interest in her whereabouts.
Cummings kept his secret for some
months, and then told his wife. Mrs.
Cummings was faithful to him for
ore than a year, but the demon was at
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-05
I Feel So Tired.

How often do we hear this and similar
expressions from tired, overworked women
and weary men, who do not know where to
find relief. For that intense WEAKNESS. so
common and so discouraging, We earnestly
recommend Vogeler's Curative Compound.
1t is not stimulant but true blood purifier
and strength restoring tonic, safe and sure,
which will gradually build up all the weak
organs in such way as to be lasting
benefit. A fair trial of free sample bottle
which St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd, of Baltimore,
Nd, will send you for the asking, will con-
vince anyone of its wonderful medicinal
value. 1t will drive all impurities from the
blood, give nerve, mental and bodily strength
and vigour and make the sufferer wholly a
new being. It creates an appetite, makes one
sleep and makes the weak strong. Do not
forget that Vogeler's Curative Compound
is made from the formula of London
physician, who has given years Of study to
same. Sample bottle free from St. Jacobs
Oil, Ltd, Baltimore. Iii: :, s->*%<
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Multi-millionaires get so used to
making money that even in the recre-
ations Of their country life they can
not forbear to follow the same custom,
says the New York Press.
H. Mckay TWombly has country
place near Caldwell, N. j., which he
calls Floram, after the first two syl-
tables in Florence and Hamilton, the
given names of Mrs. Twombly and
himself. From here he runs a milk
route in Summit and Morrison. He is
also deeply interested in the unroman-
tic pig, which he sells both for food
and breeding purposes.
George Vanderbilt has milk route
down at Asheville, too, where he sells
the milk from Biltmore. He has also
a woodward in Asheville, which he
keeps supplied by the thinning of the
woods on the place. Biltmore is left
largely in it's pristine wildness, ex-
cept along the drives, where are plant
ed the trees and the shrubs of the Ar
boretum, which is in time to contain
every species that will flourish in that
climate.
William D. Rockefeller, "the poor
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work on her and she grew thin and
gaunt and half insane. At last she
went to town and told the lawyers all
about the murder. They secuted her
story and wanted to have her tried for
insanity. She persisted and went about
telling anybody who would listen, but
no one believed the tale to be anything
but the vaporings of a disordered
brain.
At last, after year of effort, she
got the county attorney to issue
warrant for her husband. The sheriff
went to his farm, not believing that
he was guilty, because his reputation
had always been good. But almost as
soon as Cummings saw the officer he
commenced to unburden his mind of
the awful secret which he had carried
three years. II am glad" he said,
that the thing has come to light;
that have confessed everything, and
that will soon be paying the penalty
of my crime. The penitentiary will be
heaven to what have undergone since
the death of that girl, and I will be
only too glad to get there. I did it
without thinking. l did not mean to
kill her, and now that it is all over
I have only one regret. l am sorry l
did not call doctor to see the girl
when she was sick after I struck her,
and make a clean breast of the story
then and there. kansas City Jour-
nal.
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Goth.m's sunkeu village.

Gotham's Sunkeu Village.
The famous "sunken village" on the
boulevard in New York is to disap-
pear and a great granite apartment
house that will cover the entire block
is to take it's place. The village is
a little cluster of houses far below
the grade of the street, with high
board fence all around it. The dwell
lers of the village have a mayor OF
their own; he is also city council and
chief of police. The sidewalks are
three feet wide between the houses.
AS a community the sunken villagers
are peaceful. Their industry is selling
milk to those who do not live In the
village. Ingress to the village is
through openings in the fence, the
base Of which is above the roofs OF
the village houses. One has to 60
downstairs to get into the village.
The residents are of pure Dutch
stock. The original sunken villagers
wore wooden shoes and other gar
ments now only seen on the stage.
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were hopelessly flooded and the owner
was a ruined man.
A story equally as tragic is told of
the Speedwell mine at Derbyshire. Be-
lieving that a rich vein of ore existed
in a nearby hill, the owner risked his
entire capital to bore a tunnel 5000
feet long into the heart of the noun
tain. Suddenly the miners broke
through wall of rock into vast hid
den cavern, through which flowed a
stream of water. They began to dump
rock into the stream, and after ten
thousand tons, bridge began to rise
out of the darkness. And then their
further progress was stopped. Month
after month they toiled and at last,
after 100000 tons in all had been cast
into the cavern, they gave it up. That
narrow rift is known to this day as
the Bottomless Pit