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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
PICEKD HIS ROCKET.

, ~"
Saturday morning while W. Dun
bar the roadmaster on the Omaha
road was assisting his wife and Little
son on the 9:47 passenger train had
his pockets picked Of q little over
as in money and all his railroad
passes. A large crowd gathered at
the car door as is always the way,
when there plowed their way into
the crowd and got on the train then
got off again rubbing up against the
passengers who were getting on
and off, Mr.. Dunbar had his pocket
book in a hip pocket and it was ta-
ken while in the crowd. He re-
ported his loss to Marshal Ros hon
who took chase after the fellows
two of them found out they were
discovered and jumped on the mov-
ing train at the water tank, while
the other fellow ran over by Hub
bard Palmer's elevator where he
was caught by the Marshal and
locked up. .....
The fellows who jumped on the
train got off a lite way from the
Omaha coal house and ran over in
the direction. Of the Burlington
tracks where they were lost sight
Of and up to the hour Of going to
press had not been captured but
the officers are on the watch and
may round tn EN- up tonight.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
DIED.

DIED.
Mirral Hinrich, Sunday August
18th of Choleara Infantum:
The child lacked four days of being
one year old. 1t was the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Hinlich of this place and
had never been very healthy and
strong. A. Hakes conducted the last
solemn rites at the residence Mon
day and the father left that day
with the remains for interment at
Middleton, Wisconsin their former
home of the family.
The famil y havethe sym pathy
of a large circle Of frien DIS in thier
hour of berea vement.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
SNEEZING DAYS.

These are the days when certain
people meet each other on the street
and ask: "Well, any sign of it yet2'
By such greeting is the hay fever
victim known. The season is close
at hand, the deadly golden rods
already abroad in tho land and
every exc pit day is counted as so
much clear again by the hay feverite.
Ordinarily, the hay fever season
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
Piles.

Sure cure, quick relief, Rcd Cross
Pile and Fistula Cure. Cures cases
of lift. time or money refunded
Sample treatment and book explain
ing how to treat aud cure each and
every other diseases of the rectum
sent free by mail to any address Rea,
Bro, & Co., Dept. So, Minneapolis,
MINI. Sold by all druggists, $1!O0
or one m .nth's treatment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
DEADLY JAMAICA GINGER.

DEADLY 'JAMAlCA UINUEH. ~
A Chicago firm is selling in
Minnesota small TASKS of so-called
Jamaica ginger, which are being
bought freely in temperne localities.
A sample tested by tho state
chemist shows a large percent Of
wood aclohol, and it is said that
none man has gone blind as result
of drinking the concoction.
Dairy Commissioner Mcconnell
will take steps to drive the poison
out the state. Minneapolis Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
81 CAN'T AFFORD IT."

Harper's Weekly: How many
times in the course of year we USE
the little sentence, Il can't afford
it," usually with a complaining
note in voice or mind as we realize
the difference between what we
can pay for and what we desire.
Yet people usually, if not always,
afford what they want most. One
man on a dollar day cannot afford
to marry-ano Their can. 1t is be-
cause the first man wants to make
other: use Of his dollar day, not be-
cause it couldn't be made to sustain
life in two: if love and loves COM
panionship meant more than what
an undivided dollar would buy.
''What class of people can afford
to buy such bookss" some one asked
a man in a great New York store,
meaning the very costly old editions
and rare prints of which this man
had charges.
'The class of people who want
them," be replied Sometimes a
man of millions comes in here, looks
with apparently great longing a
first edition valued, we IL say,a 5000,
but finally refuses to buy, satisfy
ing: Il can't afford it. Yeti may
know that that mans yacht costs
him $75, 900 a year to keep in COM
mission and that this very week he
has paid $40, 900 for new service Of
gold plate. Even a millionaire can't
buy everything on earth, he has to
take his choice, like othermen, he
manages to afford what he wants
most"
By what we can or what we can
not afford we usually mean what
the utmost living we are able to
make will::or will not but suffer us to
buy. But here is another way to
calculate. .'The cost of thing,"
said Thoreau, lis the amount of
what will call life which is requir-
ed to be exchanged for it Immediate
", or in the long rum Stevenson
says. II have been accustomed
to put it to myself, perhaps more
clearly, that the price we nave to
pay for money is paid in liberty"
Here is a new measure Of what we
can afford to exchange for any pur-
chasable commodity; in word,
what kind of a living we can afford
to earn.
do you want thousand dollar
incomes ''says Stevenson, or a
five thousand, or ten thousand
And, can you afford the one you
want2' What a revolution in the
world of economics and finance we're
everyone honestly to axis and answer
himself that question. y
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-22
HORN FLY IN MINNESOTA.

Minneapolis Tribune:
State Entomologist E. L. Wash
burn finds that the horn fly, o
haemotabia serrata, is beginning to
be unpleasantly common; in
Minnesota, and by it's attacks on
cows has caused no little loss in
milk. g.
The fly looks like a common house
fly, but is only half the size.
When present in large numbers
they are serious pest to cattle,
causing sore patches on the back.
The favorite point of attack for the
hornfly is the midd le of the back in
the region of the shoulders and the
base Of the tail.
These points can be less readily
reached than any other by the COW
in her attempt to dislodge the fly.
The fly causes the sore spots by
sucking the blood of the cattle. The
flies SO harrass the cattle that they
fall off very perceptibly in milk
and are kept in a constant state of
nervousness.
The fly is not a native of America,
but was imported into this country
from Europe about 1887. It has
been found at times in various parts
of the state, but not SO widely
distributed, as now.
!. The fly derived it's name from
it's habit of gathering in numbers
about the base of the horns while
the COW was resting. From this
fact the erroneous idea came that
the fly in some way cause brain
trouble in the cattle.
The fly lays it's eggs in the fresh
manure, and the maggots are quick
ly Matched. Warm, dry weather is
unfavorable to the growth of the
pest, and the flies breed prolifically
in wet weather. Various methods
of protecting the COW are resorted
to. One is the use of lime on the
manure, another the spraying Of
the COWS with kerosene emulsion.
Another method is trap consisting
of a curtain over the barn door with
a lightd chamber above it, so
arranged that when the COW is
driven into the barn the curtain
sweeps the flies off her back and
they collect in the upper cham Der.
Fresh oil is used in amounting the
COWS.
Prof. Washburn said tina the
COWS do not seem to appreciate the
efforts made to relieve them. He
tried to protect his own family cow
with blankets and the COW deliber-
ately destroyed two good blankets
which he put over her.
The fly pest is thesmost common
in the southeast, much more than
in Minnesota, but the entomology
list is surprised ct it's increase in
this state.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
IN WATERMELON TIME.

=
I've noipronounced objection to the apple or
rather like berry, either black or straw
or blue,
There's q quality or flavor am partial to
In each;
can eat a plum or cherry with no small
enjoyment, too;
In its season 1 can tackle a nice orange
There are times when pea~s Or nectarines
go promptly to the spot,
But there's no fruit of them all that suits
yours truly like big
And juicy watermelon when the wealth
er's blazing hot
I love it. cool and dewy, in its pretty, green
When, tagged and warm and parched
with dust an inch thick in my throa
see It's rosy pulp-that is, see 1t In my
It's generous proportions, and upon the
same gloat.
But when that Visions realized ask for
I'm perfectly and blissfully contented
think there nevar could be greater hap
Than juicy watermelon when the wealth
err blazing hot. =
don't require a silver fork; plate TIL do
without:
little shade, a butcher knife-these sim
PIE things / pray.
| do no fancy carving, but with reverence
slice 1t down the middle in the good,
.old-fashioned way.
take semi-circle and my face therein
inclose,
shut. my eyes in ecstacy. Maybe you
think I'm not
In earnest when / tell you that the finest
fruit that grows
IS Juicy watermelon when the wealth
ers blazing hot
@Ch1cago Daily News.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

"she holds her age we'll" "Yes, 4
ever knew her to let it escape. -
Indianapolis News.
Jerry" said Flahefty, 'swhy is it
Te're gittin' SO proud since ye're gittin'
b bit of money ahead?"
Never put off till tomorrow the
creditor who will wait till next week
Chicago Daily News.
Sue Brette-'' Everyone says 1 have
the complexion Of doll" Dolly Tin
sel7--ssAnd I agree with the maj ority."
Sue Brette--ssT Thank you" Dolly Tim
sel+-s'Yes; all dolls are painted. =
Philadelphia Record.
sand why don't you like her, Ma
bel?" Because she talks SO much
scandal I was dying to tell her about
Mrs. Jones' goings-on, and about the
awful way Mr.. jenkins treats his wife,.
but she never gave me a chance to get
word in. ''--London Tit-Bits.
Proof Positive.--ssYou say that your
parent is mentally incapable of taking
care Of his money, and you wish q
guardian appointed?' asked the
judge. ssWell, what proof have you
that he is a spendthrift?" why, he
has been known to attend as many as
six church fairs in a week." Petition
granted" said the Judge Baltimore
Herald.
omething Of d Problem. The man
was deep in though len the boy inter-
rupted him. pep" said the boy, 1--WE
boys had a dispute to-day, and I'd like
to get the right Of it." tWhat was the
trouble?'' asked the father. II told
them" the boy went OH, shat you'd
know, and we agreed TO leave it to you.
They're waiting outside for the am
swer now" s'All right" said the man,
cheerfully. whats the question:"
aIs monkey all hands and no feet or
all feet and no hands .'s-N. z. Post.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
Fishing In CITY streets

In the town of Winchester, England,
people may be seen in the public
streets fishing for trout. Several
minor streams feed the river Itehen,
which flows SO calmly and clear
through the city. These streams
often run open down Winchester
street here and there, or they thus
run for certain distance and then
are conducted through underground
passages for a fair length, after
which they emerge once more to the
light of day. Where they run UNDER
ground there are in many places graf
ings that cover them from the street
and lead the rain into them, but
which are not sufficiently inclosed to
prevent the keen fisherman from drop
ping his baited line through the graft
ing and patiently waiting for a bite.
He often gets such bite, too, from
"a trout of good size, and he finds his
line carried away some distance. IN.
Y. Sun.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
joys OF Camp life.

Camping the day long in
aGod's own out-of-doors," and sleep
ing at night under the stars in the
fragrant forests one of the sweet
est modes of existence this world can
offer; and in all America there is no
section, OF equal area, affording bet
ter or more diversified opportunities
to the camper, boatman or canoeist
than does the Adirondack region.
Every requisite which goes TO make
up perfect camping or cruising
ground has here been 1avish1y sup
piled by nature; captivating scenery,
sublime in places, yet always repose-
full, millions Of acres Of verdant for
ests, thousands Of ,navigab1e lakes,
streams and ponds, range on range of
majestic mountains, innumerable
crystal springs a climate and an air
that are incompatible in their life-re-
newing properties-all these, and
more, are found in most fascinating
combination in the Adirondacks.--
Harry v. Radford, in Four-Track
News.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
HEARD III PASSING

An extraordinary phenomenon was
witnessed at Chester one Sunday after
noon. About 2:15 o'clock a large guam
THY of hay passed over the city at an
altitude of about 300 feet, and travel
ing with great rapidity. Portions of
the hay fell in various parts OF the
town. 1T is thin and short, and proba.
bly, has been grown on the Welsh hills,
from which direction it came. The
phenomenon must have been caused by
powerful whirlwind.-L Post.
Mr. Edison, while predicting the uni
versal use of electric motors for rail-
way and highway travel within the
rext thirty years, says that in the pres
ent state of science there is no known
fact by which one could predict any
commercial future for aerial navlga-
ton. This is guarded and carefully
worded statement from the great in
ventor which cannot be successfully
contradicted and there are not a few
who will commend Mr. Edison's judg-
ment when he makes it.--Hartford
Post
Judge Grosscup of Chicago has re-
Gently issued a decision Of general in
terest in regard to the maximum price
Of gas in that city The gas company
fought a Chicago ordinance fixing the
price of gas at rs cents per thousand
feet, and maintained that the state law
fixing the price at ST. per thousand was
in reality contract and could not be
violated The court overruled this con-
tention and thereby signified a return
to the principle laid down a generation
ago that legislatures cannot by con,
tract prohibit their successors from
regulating charges of corporations
holding public franchises, IT this prin-
ciple should be established by the
courts it might have a far-reaching ef-
fect-New Haven Union.
That was curious argument adj
vanced in a Hartford court the other
day by the attorney for a prisoner
charged with cruelty to animals. The
accused had driven his hores with a
harness studded with tacks, and his ad-
mirers asserted that this method was
not cruel, but highly beneficial to the
animals adorned with the tack panopy.
1t made them mild and docile and re-
moved every evidence of restiveness
and high spirits One would think 1t
should. It's a pity that the law does
not allow an application OF the s'lex
talionis, under which the inventor of
this highly ingenious apparatus could
be made to wear it for q day or two
and give convincing evidence OF its
harmlessness. He would probably cry
quits in a very few minutes.-NeW
Britain Herald
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
Editor Troup of the New Haven Ur

Editor Troup of the New Haven In
ion is strenuously opposing Tomlinson
for county sheriff. but as yet we nave
not seen that editor express an opin-
ion as to who would be an acceptable
candidate. 1t will surely have to be
some one that stood by his friend
Bryan in his two tries for the presi-
dency. AS the withdrawal of Mayor
Kilduff of this city leayes Waterbury
without such candidate we are aflx-
ious to know whom our friend Troup
is going to. support. Tf all reports
are true, his heretofore trusted lieu
tenants, Miles f. Connolly and Attor-
ney William Kennedy, have gone
over to the enemy. If Troup cannot
cuddle to Hill, the democrat, he can
not content himself with men who
were no better, and perhaps consider
able worse, so far as opposing Bryan.
How about the old war cry, neighbor
Troup, Of putting no one but demo
Gratis on guard. Is this slogan to be
sidetracked when a "good fellow, ~
with barrel casts himself on the par
ty whether it wants him or nett i
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
The proposed loan which c,,ha i

The proposed loan which Cuba in
tends to negotiate and which viii re-
cult in the issuance Of Cuban bonds to
the amount of $35,00OO00. is causing
considerable anxiety to the administra-
ton, and it Is even rumored that Presi-
dent Palma has, or is about to make
an appeal to the president to cali an
extra session of congress to ratify Al
reciprocal treaty with Cuba, writes a
Washington correspondent. The fact
that Senator Platt Of Connecticut went
over to Oyster Bay one day last week
and spent some hours with the presf-
dent would indicate that the subject Of
Cuban reciprocity was again upper
most, and whatever may be the facts
1t is known that the Cubans regard
reciprocity with the United States as
their only hope for financial salvation.
In the face of such an appeal will Mr.
Roosevelt yield to President Palma 8
request? Will he receive the support
of his party if he does yield? Will
Cuba's action in regard TO the loan be
regarded as a threat and be met with
stubborn resistance by the republican
senators who, it Is believed, stood back
of the opposition to reciprocity in suf-
ficient strength to secure the defeat Of
that policy? These are all questions
which are being asked in Washington
to-day and the answers to which are
fraught with interest.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
Substitutes, tor Panama hats.

y Panama straw hats are highly
fashionable in Japan, though on ac-
count of the price, which is much
higher than that Of the ordinary
straw hats, they are bought only by
the rich or the fashionable This
obstacle may be removed If, as res
ported in an Osaka paper. the sub
stitutes for the Panama straw found
in Middle Formosa are really adapt
ed for the purpose. The substitutes
ares said to be the fibers Of the
leaves of q certai tropical tree of
very rapid growt Six fbers can
be obtained from each leaf, which is
about four inches wide and four feet
long, and 1t is said that the cost of
10000 fihers ispabout ssix yen. A GER
tain foreign fEna of Yokohama is
said to have already given large
order for the fibers, and the Panama
hats made with this new material
may therefore appear Oh the mar
ket this summer. If the new fbers
are really suited for headgear For
mosa may be said to have hit upon a
new gesource.--Japan Weekly Times.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST 10, 1902.
Representative Bankhead Of Ala

Representative Bankhead of Ala
bama, while in Washington one day
this week, in speaking of the campaign,
said that he did not take the hopeful
view that some of his colleagues did.
The republicans had so much more
money for the furtherance of their in
terests than the democrats that it was
difficult to combat them. Neverthe-
less Colonel Bankhead regards victory
in 1904 as certain. He believes that
when the people have had an emporium
ity to see that their urgent demands
for tariff revision as protection
against the trusts are disregarded, they
win then turn to the democratic party
as the only source of relief from trust
oppression. Colonel Bankhead thinks
it possible that some law similar to the
sherman antitrust law may be passed
by the next congress, law which VIII
look well on paper. but which will not
hold in the courts, but he believes that
win be the extent of legislation by the
republicans.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13

The other day the Democrat took oc-
Studley for the stand he took during
the trolley strike in New Haven, and
III the course of our remarks said that
il the mayor wants anything politically
after the strike is settled he need only
ask for it. The Leader of the Elm city
copied the Democrat article with the
following comments: IF Mayor Stud
ley asks for further political favors
viii the Democrat, which is democratic
in fact as well as in name, make its
deeds fit its prophecy, or will it oppose
all efforts of those anxious that the
mayor shall realize his ambition? Ac-
tons speak louder than words and we
shall watch, if there be opportunity, to
see how our contemporary acts when
put to the test The Democrat had in
mind the republican party, of course,
when it intimated that Mayor Studley
could have anything he asked for po-
lftically. But he has not asked yet,
and there is so much lost by not ask
ms in time that perhaps Studley viii
get left. He deserves well of the peo-
PIE of New Haven, and the state at
large, for his attitude on that strike,
and if he will only shy his castor into
the ring and make run for the gov,
ernorship the Democrat will do what
1t can for him, without, OF course, neg
Iecting the candidate of fl1a democratic
party.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-13
T1nnarfance nj Oninna

More than $4,000 pounds of opium
were received at San Francisco in a
single recent shipment from China.
A distinguished physician in that city
remarked some years ago that if Ae
were banished to the moon, COM
PEELED to practice medicine there, and
permitted to take with him only one
drug in the entire list of the pharna-
copoeia, he would choose the juice of
the poppy. But he was as strongly
opposed as anyone could be to the
sndiscri1ninate, injudicious use of this
powerful mendicament, and de-
nounced the sale of it anywhere ex-
cept upon doctors prescription.