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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Surprises in War.

From the New York Tribune.
What novelty or what surprise will this
east Asian war produce? There may be
none. yet the chances would seem to be
that one will be forthcoming, as In each Of
so many modern wars. Napoleon surprised
all Europe with the fexibility of his mills
tary organizations and the celebrity of their
movements. The war of 1912 surprised tho
world with an amazing series of sea Vic-
tories, due to improved navigation and tho
sighting of cannons Our civil war revo.
lutioniZed naval warfare with ironclads and
turrets. The Austro- Prussian war of 1854
brought forward the perfected breechloader.
while the great Franco-German war sur
prised the world with the deadly potency.
of rapid-fire artillery. The Russo-Turkish
war gave an illustration at Plevna of tho
value of the spade. which enabled the
thinned legions of Osman TO hold at bay.
and to repel with mighty slaughter The
overwhelming myriads of the Russian army
The Boer war showed the efficiency OF
smokeless pc WIDER and long-range arms and
the need of open formation in battle and
great mobility of troops.
The present war ought. we should think.
to teach us some new lessons. The value
of the torpedo. the torpedo boat and tho
torpedo-boat destroyer should be more ac-
curately demonstrated than ever before.
Whether the submarine boat Will be used
and its efficiency ascertained is not yet.
known. Wireless telegraphy has its first
opportunity of service in war. There is
also a rare chance TO compare the relative
values of sea power and of Land power.
Nor should we overlook the fact, the
one hand that the newest of civilized na7
lions and the first of Asiatic Eations to
enter the charmed circle of the great powf
\ers' is for the first time TO show Its caf
pacity In a great war; and, on the othet
hand, that the European POWER which i
of all most populous and which has by fan
the largest army is now TO show whether
its military efficiency is commensurate WIFE
its physical bulk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Two Ways to Get Strong.
From Everybody IS.

From Everybody s.
There are two ways to get strong, the
active and the passive. To sum it up with
one brief concrete illustration, the active
treatment would comprise such vigorous
exercise of all the muscles OF the body in
the fresh, rejuvenating air and under the
bright and healing sun as one might obs
tain in the railroad section gang. By this
method you are able to relish and digest
anything short of shoe pegs. The passive
method goes at 1t the other way about.
Instead of exercising that one may eat.
one eats that one may exercise. A diet
is prescribed which Is almost pure nutri-,
ment to begin with, and has been so COM
pletely predigested that all one has to do,
Is to swallow it down and the food is
turned directly into power. BY this method, !,
if the billboards are to be believed, aged
gentlemen become risky that they jumII
over eight-foot fences just to work of thein
superfluous energy. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Fail Not!

Rest not content! Hopes will de down at last.
Though famed by circumstance their embers cast
Pale light upon thy way. Love? Love will
change,
For 1t has all OF bliss In which to range.
And on each Joy will sorrow follow fast.
Fen In the whelm of things, the whiriing blast
That darkens even spirit, where are massed
The laws Of life and death. that weird melangc,
Rest not content!
Lo, all the sweets of human love- thou hast!
Thine is the calm Of morning. unsurpassed.
Thou hast the gift Of gladness what more strange!
The will and wish thy lie SO to arrange
That truth be thine which ever grows more vast.
Rest not content!
CHARLES ". STEVENSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
New Industrial Economy.

From the Worlds Work. DsiiH
locomotive engineer on an eastern rail-
road said one day to his two firemen:
Suppose you fellows work If you, and
not the company, were paying the coal
bills" During six months, merely by care
full firing, the men caused a saving in coal,
over the average consumption Of the en-
CINE, equal to almost four, times the
amount of wages paid the men for that
period. The engine was the same; the
men worked differently. VEt -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
The Idea.
From Judge.

Bachelor tcrustily)-"Tle- worst about
marriage is that when fellow proposes it
is generally plunge into the dark
Justwed-"Great heavens, You wouldn't
have a fellow propose when the gas Is 60
ing full tilt. would your"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
RAIN FALLS At GIVEN HOUR.
At Panama q Shower May Be Elk
pected Every Day at Three
O'clock p. NJ.

There is certain amount of comfort
in living at place where you can tell
to a nicely just when to expects shower.
This is the case at Panama, where a
shower may be looked for every day at
about three o'clock in the afternoon,
says London exchange.
This is the rule all through the rainy
season. The morning is clear, and the
evening, after Elk o'clock, is delightful,
and except from three till six o'clock no.
body ever thinks Of carrying an UNI
brella.
Not so at Colon. only Al miles away.
There it rains all the time during the
rainy season, and it never rains but It
pours. Water comes down by the bucket
full. At Panama the annual rainfall is
in the neighborhood of nine feet, while
that OF Colon is 81 feet, and it all comes
in five months-an average of four feet
a month.
1t is humorously said of Colon that
there it takes the people all the rest of
the year, after the rainy season, to get
cry.
In the dry season the heat is intense,
the mercury ranging from 80 to 80 de-
grees, day and night. There is little diff
ference in the temperature after dark,
but it is possible to adapt oneself to the
conditions of the place, and there is
certain fascination about it that, in the
case of some people, seems to make up
for the heat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

food constituents in the ordinary pro-
portion: Nitrogen, S per cent; phos-
phoric acid per cent; potash IL per
cent. The stalk on the light is from
the plot that received in addition to ap-
plication of fertilizer above, three ap-
plications of 200 pounds each nitrate Of
soda, at equally divided intervals during
the growing season. This was distrib-
uted and Immediately cultivated into the
soil on each side of the row.
The specially treated field was ready
for market the latter part Of June, and
because of extra early maturity, at time
when good stocks were scarce, sold for
IS and 60 cents per dozen. This field was
cleared July 8, ground leveled and Sec
ond crop planted for fall harvest. The
field not receiving nitrate came on the
market considerably later, and although
good stock, netted only 20 and Is cents.
We were not able to double crop this
field, as we did the nitrated plot.-R. NJ.
Winans, in Orange Judd Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
1;xha tea the Font.

" Sir Samuel Sims saw sweet Sara Samp-
ION swimming Suddenly she seemed sink
ing. Sir Samuel stood stunned. Striding
seward, spurning single, Sir Samuel
swiftly swan Sarawards. Sir Samuel
skillfully supported swooning. Sara. swim
succored Sara. Seeming somewhat shaky.
Sir Samuel sampled some spirits-special
Scotch. Sara saw Sir Samuel's self'sa::-
rificing spirit; Sir Samuel saw, Sara's
sweetness. Sir Samuel soon sought Sara
Striding slowly, Sara, sighed softly. Sir
Samuel seemed speechless.
"Say something. Sill. Samuel" said Sara.
Say Sam. Sara" said SIR samuel sam aS,n ,,
"Sara,-Sally!" stammered Sir Samuel.
"Sweet Saya-sweetheart!"
Sara solemnly surrendered.
Pleace ctop thic. We are chort Of eccec.
Printer).-N. Y. News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Dust Spray or Liquid Spray.


The contest is still on between the
dust spray and the liquid spray. In
Illinois and other states to the east
and north the dust spray has made
little advance, but has obtained a
good share of the attention Of the
orchardists in Missouri and west. The
men that stick to the liquid spray say
that with the liquid it is possible to
get uniform spraying material, but
that there is no possible way of get
ting the poisonous substances equally
distributed through dust. We will
have to wait little and see how this
problem is to be settled by the dust
sprayers. The men in favor of the
dust spray say that they can take ad-
vantage of the dew on the trees in
the morning, and this saves the haul
ing of a great amount of wat.r over
the ground, especially after rains, when
the ground is too soft to be~driven on.
Farmers Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Netting for Cherry Trees.

While birds are generally conceded to
do the farmer more good than harm;
keeping in check insect enemies that
would often destroy entire crops, in re-
turn for the little seed and fruit he is
reputed to require, some experiments
made in Iowa on a cherry farm appear
to indicate that the BIRDS appetite for
cherries is amazingly large. The trees
on which the tests:were conducted were
enveloped in a light weight block fish
netting, with openings too small for.
birds to get through. The covered trees
yielded fully 60 per cent. more fruit
than the unprotected trees, and a repe-
tition of the experiment in the following
year with the protection on the other
trees practically confirmed this result.
TIE netting after the cherry picking is
taken down and stored for Use in sue
eecdInG seasons.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

the posts SO as to provide double trel-
lis.
Do not use wire netting for the trel-
lis. 1t is very expensive, the wires tend
to burn the vines during midsummer
and it is very troublesome to remove the
vines from it after they have died down
in autumn.
Two balls of ordinary gardeners
punching Irvine, at S cents each, will
make trellis 6 feet high and Is to 30
feet long. Nails are driven into the
boards at top and bottom of frame, also
on the posts, inches apart, letting
them project about three-quarter inches.
Those in the top board should be driven
so as to slant upward; the ones on the
bottom board to slant downward, while
the ones on posts should slant outward.
A study of the accompanying diagram
will show how the trellis is woven
Mrs. J. E. Morse, in Farm and Home.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Birds and Seeds Of Weeds.

AT a recent meeting of the Lenox
(Mass. Horticultural society, Mr.. E. H.
Forbush, ornithologist to the state
board of agriculture, gave a stereop-
ticon lecture on Birds" in which he
spoke of the great benefit wild birds
were to farms and gardens, especially
the chickadees, woodpeckers, robins,
juncoes, bluebirds and the sparrows.
The latter eat with avidity the seeos
of the worst weeds known. About 20
species eat the seeds of the following
weeds: Ragweed, smartweed, knotweed,
pfgweed, nutgrass and other sedges,
crab grass, pigeon grass, lambs quar-
tiers and chickweod.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Rich Man and Doetor.

"The life Of rich manis worth more
than the life of poor man, and the
physician has a right to charge the mil
lionaire more for his services than he
does the laborer," is the opinion re-
Gently handed down by Philadelphia
Judge who went on to say: THE physi-
clan is unlike the merchant who has
goods Ct different quality to sell at vari-
Gus prices. He must give his best service
In every case. But It does not follow
that the service is worth the same in
every case. Human lite has pecuniary
value of variable quantity, greater In
the millionaire than in the laborer.
Thus the practitioner of common SENSE
makes out his bills to suit the pecuniaEy
circumstances Of his patients. IN. 7.
Press
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

catarrh in any form or la grippe. A
course of Peruna is sure to correct all
these conditions. 1t is an ideal spring
medicine. Peruna does not irritate-it
invigorates. 1t does not temporarily
stimulatc-it strengthens. 1t equal,zes
the circulation of the blood, tranquilizes
the nervous system and regulates the
bodily functions Peruna, unlike so
many spring medicines: is not simply a
physic or stimulant or ncrvine. It is
natural tonic and invigorator.
Ifyoudo not receive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving q
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

Elm, Catalpa and Locust Arc Rapid
Growers and Require But
Little Care.

The American or white elm Is large
tree and when full grown often attains
height of 100 feet and trunk diam
eter OF six feet. 1t forms round or
broad and spreading top. 1t Is a rapid
grower and adapts itself we'll to all
kinds Of soils. The tree1s hardy, seldom
attacked by insects and diseases and
casts an ideal shade. 1t is first-class
tree to plant about the house and yard.
The catalpa is rapid growing tree,
often attaining 4 height of 60 feet and
a trunk diameter of three to four feet.
1t grows best on q deep rich soil and
satisfactory growth can seldom be Sc
cured on light, thin soil. In q pure
planting the trees will completely shade
the ground in three or four years. 1t
sprouts we'll from the stump, when the
trees are cut in the winter.
There are two species of catalpa,
catalpa speciosa, commonly called har-
dy, or western catalpa, and catalpa
catalpa, commonly called southern
catalpa. The western catalpa is q tall
upright tree with but few large branches.
1t requires close planting to develop
good trunk. The southern catalpa is
low growing tree with broad top.
These characteristics are Influenced by
soil and location. On poor soil in open
planting, both kinds form low, branch
ing heads. The western catalpa as 4
rule produces only one to three seed
pods in cluster, and each pod is from
IA to 20 inches long and one-half inch
In diameter. The southern catalpa pro-
duces from four to eight pods In q
cluster, and each pod is from eight to
ten inches long; the seeds are small and
tapering at the end.
Black or yellow locust grows rapid
~ and attains height of GO feet and
trunk diameter of three feet. The top
is of good form with q main central
stem when grown in close paintings, but
it frequently branches and forms a
large round head when grown in the
open. 1t grows fastest when set In
mixed paintings but does not form as
good a trunk. It usually grows more
rapidly than the other trees and
branches and spreads over the tops of
other trees. 1t casts a poor shade and is
slow to occupy the ground to the ex-
clusion of other plants, and sprouts Wig
orously from the stump and roots broken
by the pillow or spade.-Midland Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
MARCH, APRIL, MAY.
Weak Nerves, Poor Digestion,
Impure Blood, Depressed
Spirits.

The sun has just crossed the equator
on It's yearly trip north. The real
equator is shifted toward the north
nearly eighteen miles every day, With
the return of the sun comes the bodily
ills peculiar to spring. With one per-
sonthe nerves are weak; anotherperson,
digestion poor; with others the blood is
ont Of order; and still others have
depressed spirits and tired feeling.
All these things are especially true OF
those who have been suffering with
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
CUTlCURA PILLS
IN Torturlag, DlsAguring Hunors
-@~ 80 Chocolate pills 96c.

Cuticura Resolvent Pills Chocolate
coated) are the product of twenty-five
years practical laboratory experience in
the preparation of remedies for the treat
ment of humors of the skin, scalp and
blood with loss of hair, and are confident.
" believed to be superior to all other
blood purifiers, however expensive. Com
plete external and internal treatment for
consisting of Cuticura Soap to cleanse the
skim, Cuticura Ointment to heal the skin,
and Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the blood. A single set is often
sufficient to cure,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
It's the neglect of backache, sideach

the system from poison. Read how
valuable they are, even in cases OF long,
standing:
L. c. Lowell, of AS North First st.,
Spokane, WASH, says: 81 have had
trouble from my kidneys for the past
ten years. 1t was caused by strain to
which paid little attention. But as l
neglected the trouble, it became worse
and worse until any strain or slight
cold was sure to be followed by'severe
pain across my back. Then tho action
of the kidney sccretions became de-
ranged and was caused much annoy
ance besides loss of sleep. Doan's Kid
ney Pills were brought. to my notice
and after taking them q short time
their good effect was apparent. All
the pain was removed from my back
and the kidney secretions became nor
NAL. Doan's Kidney Pills do all that Is
claimed for them"
AFREE TRIAL of this great remedy
which cured Mr.. Lowell will be mailed
on application to any part of the United
States. Address Foster-Nilburn Co.:
Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all drug
qists, price so cents per box.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
WORK OF THOMAS STREET.
George May Powell, Chairman 1nten-
sive Gardening Council, Con-
siders It Priceless.

The vast value of the work of Thorn
as Street, the English octogenarian gar
dener, philosopher and poet, in his in
tensive agricultural demonstrations is
simply incalculable. He has done work
of such national importance as entities
him to bronze monument after, and
government pension before he goes to
his long home. BY digging his ground
80 inches deep, and some of it three feet,
and heavy fertilization, he has demon
strated something equal If not superior
to irrigation. AS men where he lives
Vineland, N. J.-know, the early
drought of 1908 made strawberries a
failure, pitiful one to those, many of
them, dependent on the strawberry
crop. His berries showed no loss; their
roots went down to perpetual moisture
On a space ten feet wide and As long, he
raised 500 worth of asparagus, whole
sale. Other fruits, vegetables and grains
he thus grew on a corresponding scale.
A scale showing that an acre so treated
would net as much value, or more than
would result from 100 acres of average
American farming. This is more far
reaching than may seem to some; it is
one key to relief from the ominous over
crowding Of cities, periling our national
life; also, to more than doubling our
forest area, as there is not so much
surface needed for farming. This addi-
ton to forested areas would regulate
not increase-rainfalI, benefitfng agri-
culture over 81 ZOO, 100000 a year!
Therefore, too, aid navigation, and man
ufacturers by regulating flow, also pre-
vent floods, every year gaining in ap-
palling power. Such deep digging by
hand is expensive, but the steam plow
will ere long regulate that. Then, when
millions Of acres are stirred so deeply,
that also will check floods, alternating
with the low water in streams, and thus
increase their value for, navigation, for
hydraulic power for Manufacturers
George May Powell, Philadelphia.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
{!!(lalllDglBa1g|RE
o6&&8e, y
FERTILIZATION OF CELERY.
What the Special Application Of Nj
trate Of Soda Did for a Grower
in Ohio.

The celery plant Is composed of over
30 per cent of water. To secure such
succulence essentially requires an album
dance of readily soluble heterogeneous
food. This must be In constant supply
during growing season to develop per-
lection Of brittle crispness.
The stalks shown here are repre-
resentative individuals from two
plots in a comparative manurial ex-
pertinent. The one ON the left is from
the plot fortified in the usual way with
commercial manure, containing plant
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
TRELLlS FOR SWEET PEAS
For Flowers as Well as Vegetables
the One Here Described Has
No Superior.

The framework for trellis should be
made when the trench is first dug.
Posts of 2x4-inch stuff, s feet long, are
set feet in the ground. Set them so the
4-inch side of the post will extend across
the trench. Nail strips inches wide
by inch thick from one post to the
other both at. top and bottom. These
boards should be nailed to each side Of
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Ladies Can Wear Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. At all druggists, Csc. Ac-
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
IMPOSSIBLE.

"Sir!" exclaimed the injured party,
"you stuck your umbrella into my eye
20, no." replied the cheerful offender,
"you are mistaken"
'"M!staken?" demanded the irate man
"You idiot, l know when my eye is hurt,
I guess"
"Doubtless," replied the cheerful fel-
low, but you don't know my umbrella.
I borrowed this one from = friend 10.
day. STRAY Stories.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

HonN Mayor of St Joseph Michigan, writes:
The Co.. Columbus, Ohio:
of the public in need reliable MEDICINE know
specific In
difficulties You have number Of grateful
praise medicines Peruna has heariesi
wishes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Hand Power Hay Press $500.

Hand Power Hay Press $500.
Greatest, simplest, best invention of the
age: A boy can make regular sized l4xl8x
48 in. bales like fun, and two boys can
bale three tons per day easily.
SEND THIS NOTICE TODAY
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse.
Wis, with Sc stamps for mailing, and get
their big catalog, fully describing this great
Hay Press, so also hundreds of tools and
thousands of varieties of Farm and Vege.
table Seeds, TX, IL
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

do not believe Piso's Cure fol. Consump'
ton has an equal for coughs and co!ds ~
+. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

'03-"Yes, indeed, I'd rather. be right
thaa resident" 'O4-"Well, I'd rather be
president and take chances. "-Corneli
Widow.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
Small FIGURES.

Mrs. Bacon-I see by the papers that the
four and seven-tenths persons.
Mr.. Bacon-I suppose I'm the seven
tenths in this family.-Yonkers States
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

Politeness oft makes liars of honest men
Chicago Daily News.
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Give the reins to appetite and you give
wings to happiness.-Rams Horn.