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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
News Notes.

Much is being accomplished In for
estry in Minnesota.
The Doris team breaks the st. Paul
bowling record.
The St. Paul Roosevelt Republican
club returns from Washington.
William Salane is held up and rob.
bed while near the public market in
St. Paul.
The public examiner authorized the
State bank of Dunbar to do business,
capital stock, sle,o
The Blue County Rural Telephone
company has fled articles of incorpora-
ton. Its capital stock is 800, 600, d.
vided into 10000 shares, 5000 prefer
red and 5000 common.
Many members of the university
senior class who are preparing to. teach
are already filling their applications
with various school boards throughout
the state.
There is much talk about the short
age of this winters lumber cut on &C.
count of the early thaw, and some au.
thorities claim the cut is reduced more
than 50 per cent This is very much
too great an estimate, however. In
fact. there will be little shortage, and
probably Is per cent of the winters
cut is in shape. The winter cut is less
Of factor than it was when railroad
and summer logging was considered. ::
The state historical society may re.
quest the war department MOTTO re-
place the cement coat recently scraped
from the old round tower At Fort
Smelling:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
Killed by Cars.

Fred Raclzow, deaf and dumb man,
was run down and instantly killed in
Winona, by Milwaukee switch train.
Olaf Hovelson, one of the trainmen,
tried to pull the man from the track
but was unable to do SO and Hovelson
had difficulty in saving his own life.
Raclzow was struck by the drawbar
and his neck fell ACROSS the rail The
wheels passed over it severing his
head srom his trunk. Once before he
had narrow escape from death in the
same place and almost the same man
per, He was a labQrer and is sur
vived by a wife and a number of grown
children.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
Pheasants.


S. F. Fullerton, executive agent OF
the game and fish commission, began
to make preparations for the establish
ment of pheasant hatchery at VIII
low Brook fish hatchery, st. Paul.
Orders were placed for the purchase
of fifty ring-neck pheasants with
which to start the hatchery.
This is the first venture that the
commission has made in attempting to
stock the woods of Minnesota with
game birds, and should it prove sue
successful, other species may be added.
The pheasant is very prolific, laying
over sixty eggs year, and it 10 thought
that at the end of the first year some
of them may be placed in the woods"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
Incendiary.

The citizens of Owatonna are in
eensed tover the alleged attempt to
burn the Metropolitan theater in that
oity. Smoke was discovered issuing
from the doors and the windows and
the alarm was given just in time to
save the building from destruction.
Chief NJ. Twiford of the fire depart.
ment in q statement declares that the
work is that of incendiaries who have
some motive destroying the building.
He states that when he arrived at the
building he discovered a quantity Of
kerosene sprinhled about the floor I'M
derneath the stage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
6. A. r.

At the final session Of the Grand
Army of the Republic in the ola capl-
tol building in St. Paul the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year
C. F. Mcdonald, ST. Cloud, command
err: James O. Pierce, Minneapolis. sem
Tor vice commander; L. T. Barrett, LIE
sueur. Junior vice commander; D. A.
Tawney, St. Paul, chaplain; j. f.
Locke, Long Prairie, surgeon; councll
of administration, E. /. Kenrlck' 81
Paul; J. O. Milne, Duluth; A. w.
Guild, Minneapolis; G. F. Greening:
Grand Meadow; j. A. Norris, Sank
Center; O. S. Clark and e. N. Leavens
we're appointed by the new command
er to succeed themselves as adjutant
and quartermaster generals
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
Will Use Water,

Water from Minnchaha Falls will be
used in christening tire battleship MINI
nesota.
Governor johnson SO announced
Miss Rose Marie Schaller, the univer-
sity student, who is to christen the
battleship, called on the governor and
discussed the subject. Both had re:
ceived numerous letters from temper
ance advocates, urging that water in"
stead of wine be used for the christen"
ing.
They decided that unless there is too
strenuous objection from the shipbuild'
ers,v.vho- will be IN; charge Of the cere.
mony, bottle will be broken contain
ing pure water from the historic Min
nehaha.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
ANIMAL ANIMuS.
ways Ina which wild Brutes show
Their CONTEMPT Fer Mankind

W9yU Ia which wild BrWten Show
Their Contempt For Mankind.
wild animals have a great many
ways of showing their contempt for
humankind" said an artist who has
made speciality of modelling animals.
Every one has an idea that ele-
plants become tame and even fond Of
people, but this is altogether wrong.
They are easily trained, but are never
tanned. They are docile just so long as
the keeper has his goad In his hand or
the memory Of burning endures. I
had proof Of this one day while model
NAL show. l was sitting In his stall,
with my modelling stand, not knowing
that on certain days he was given an
extra allowance of chain. Suddenly he
flung his trunk around with such force
that 1t smashed the stand to bits and
sent me dozen feet outside the STALL
HE never forgot his failure to finish
me. and soon afterward he expressed
his dislike in more vulgar If less dan
Gerous manner. AS / worked l heard
him make a loud sucking noise, but
suspected nothing. At last when he
had his mouth quite full of saliva he
blew 1t toward me-
This is not only trick of elephants,
but of other animals as well, as l have
learned to my sorrow. Camels have
the same habit, and while working
near camel one day 1 was treated to
shower Of finely chewed cud."
This sculptor and other artists agree
that the cat animals have a different
mode Of attack. There seems less of
spite and more of real hate In their
method. Sculptors usually place their
modelling stands as close to the bars as
possible. This same one was once
working close to a tigers cage, with
the beast inside lying very quiet, ap-
parently asleep. Without even raising
his eyeballs the big cat struck be-
tween the bars with his heavy forepaw,
splintering the stand and sending the
clay In wads on the floor. The artist,
warned by sixth sense developed by
those who are much about animals,
had jumped back just In time to es-
cape.-New York Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14

The following quotation from Bishop
Latimer's First Sermon Preached Be
fore King Edward VI" March 8, 1919,
is good illustration of the meaning
of the word yeoman and shows the
primitive manners and customs of
those times:
MY father was a yeoman and had
no lands of his own, only he had a
farm of f3 or "A by year at the utter
most, and hereupon he titled so much
as kept half dozen men. He had
walk for 100 sheep, and my mother
MIXED thirty kline. He was able and
did find the king harness, with him
self and his horse, while he came to
the place that he should receive the
kings wages. l can remember that l
buckled his harness when we went
unto Blackheath field He kept me to
school or else l had not been able to
have preached before the kings mai
esty now. He married my sisters with
70. or 20 mobiles apiece, so that he
brought them up in goodness and fear
of God. He kept hospitality for his
poor neighbors, and some aims he gave
to the poor And all this he did of the
said farm, where he that now hath it
payeth f16 by year or more and is not
able to do anything for his prince, for
himself nor for his children, or give a
cup of drink to the poor."-Notes and
Queries.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14


A dainty stranger waited into the
dining room of hotel In Smith Centre
the other day and as the chair was held
back for him pulled out his handker-
chief and busted the seat carefully.
Pulling up his trousers, he seated him
self. wiped the knife. fork and spoon
with napkin. worried few crumbs
of the table and heaved a sigh Of re-
lief. Without hesitation the girl who
stepped forward to take his order deft-
ly wiped the strangers mouth, which
had been drawn into pucker Of dis
satisfaction at the imaginary untidi-
ness Astounding, and planted a kiss
thereon that was plainly heard In all
parts Of the room. The dainty stran-
ger when he recovered ordered meekly,
ate hurriedly and left quickly.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
Natures Best Tonic.

Laughter is undoubtedly one of ma
lures greatest tonics. 1t brings the dis
ordered faculties and functions into
harmony; it inbricates the mental bear
ings and prevents the friction which
monotonous, exacting business engen-
ders. 1t is a divine gift bestowed upon
us as life preserver, health promoter,
joy generator, success maker. Life
with the average American is too seri-
GUS at best. Never lose an opportunity
for relaxation from the stress and
strain of your business or profession.
Every draft Of laughter, like an air
cushion. eases you over the jolts and
the hard places on life's highway.
Laughter is always healthy. 1t tends
to bring every abnormal condition back
to the normal. 1t is a panacea for
heartaches for life's bruises 1t is
life prolonger. People who laugh heart
lily keep themselves in physical and
mental harmony and are likely to live
longer than those who take life too
eriously.-Success Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14

A country schoolmaster was coach
ing his pupils for the yearly examina-
ton, and, having before him the junior
class in geography, he asked:
"Can any little boy or girl tell me
the shape of the earthY'
To this there was no answer. "Oh,
dear me-" said he, this is sadl Well,
I'll give you token to mind it, What
is the shape O. this snuffbox In my
hand 2"
Square, SIR" replied ALL
Eyes, but on the Sabbath day, whin
change ma cloes. change this snuff
box for round one Will you mind
that for tokenT
Examination day came, and the class
was called
Can any little boy or girl tell what
is the shape of the earth?'
Every hand was extended, every head
thrown back and every eye flashed
with excitement. One little fellow was
singled out with you, my little fell
low, tell U.S."
Round on Sundays and square all
the rest O. the week.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14

We who complain Of hoops and whip
ping tops and other games played In
the streets, to the annoyance Of foot
passengers, may congratulate ourselves
that football Is no longer to be reck-
Oned with these. 'In winter" we are
told by an old writer, football is a
useful and charming exercise. 1t is q
leather ball about as big as ones head,
filed with wind" We do not know IL
this description is intended to be hui
morous. This is kicked about from
one to another In the streets by him
that can get at 1t, and that Is all the
art Of It," concludes this disparaging
writer, who thinks so little Of our
heads and our games. There is an old
print extant of football players In the
Strand in 1870, all In hats, coats and
wigs. This sport among the traffic
lends new significance to the words
Of the Lancashire poet, ITO play at log
gets, nine holes or ten pinnes; to try 1t
out at footballe by the shines" Lon
don Chronicle
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14

Amelia was all sweet, nice and nerv-
GUS, and she said to her sweetheart:
You have been so old a friend l
want to tell you something. l am"
and she blushed, Il am going to be
married"
wait" he cried hoarsely, before
you go farther hear mel l must say
it, though l have no right now, but 1
will have less right later. love you,
adore you; l have loved you since we
were children together. do not see
how can live and see you the wife of
another. But, at least, you will know
that l have loved you all these years,
and when you hear the wind sigh over
my distant grave-of course, that is
nonsense
Don't take on so, John Henry" she
said softly. I'm going to marry
your
Then the strong man tainted, and as
she bent over him a determined little
line showed about her mouth, and she
muttered:
Il had to do something to bring him
to it,"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
ON THE
PORCH
By Robert Jermain Cole
Copyright. 1905, by Ruby Douglas

Every day when it did not rain, and
sometimes when it did, Thisbe Latch
wandered off into the woods or down
along the river and came back at night
with some added grace from natures
wild treasury. She had run away for
rest and health to the little parenthesis
in the country that called itself a town.
She got good deal besides these gifts.
The two men that were happy enough
to live in the same house with Miss
Latch were far better aware Of her
gains than she was herself.
Mrs. Redding kept the house. She
had only few guests. Her son Tom
protested against those, so far as the
principle went. But when the practice
happened to include Thisbe Latch he
began to persuade himself that perhaps
1t was better for his mother to have
something that would interest her and
keep her from being lonely, as she had
been since his fathers death. Miss
Latch was a schoolteacher, but no one
would have detected it-at least by any
of the labels that the pictures In the
comic papers furnish Her hair was as
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
WITHOUT
A TRIAL
By FORBES DWIGHT
Copyright, 1905, by G. t. viskniskki

1t was nearing shutdown when the
two riders began to descend the last
long slope that led to the ranch house.
The sky was cloudless, and to the east
1t shaded into a deep violet. The sun,
poised just above the ragged line Of
mountains, sent feeble, ghostlike shad-
ows wabbling vaguely before them,
and all about them hung a pall-like
cloud of fine powdery dust thrown up
by their horses hoofs.
Halfway down the slope the girl
turned in her saddle to look back at
the dull blue of the mountains looming
gaunt and forbidding against the sky.
''They are up there somewhere, you
sayT' she asked.
The man gave a nodded assent.
And when they get them what will
they do to them?" she went on.
The mans face grew stern. 1t was
bronzed, kindly face. She never be-
fore had seen those tight, harsh lines
about the mouth.
Perhaps those chaps will get away
again." he said evasively. They've
managed to elude their pursuers twice
before"
But If they don't get away" she
persisted, ''if they are captured this
time, will they'-her voice dropped
suddenly-"will they be hanged?"
YES" he said simply.
Not without a trial, surely?" she
protested. You don't mean the men
who take them would do thatY'
you don't understand it," he said
quietly. '"These cattle thieves are
growing bold beyond endurance. 1t is
impossible to convict them because
they and their kind control the courts
here. And because Of this state of af-
fairs it is necessary to adopt primitive,
even seemingly barbarous, methods to
intimidate them.'
would you have hand in any such
murderous proceedings?" she asked,
and in her tones there was something
which seemed to beg him to deny it.
Eyes, If I were drawn" he said
gravely.
"DrawnT' she. questioned, as If for
enlightenment
you see," he explained, at was
agreed that when the next case of
rustling occurred twenty men should
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
An Elephant story.

A queer elephant yarn is told in the
Japan Chronicle by the captain of a
trading steamer. On one occasion he
had on board cargo of forty ele-
plants. The ship was at anchor in a
calm sea, but began to roll violently.
The captain investigated and learned
that the elephants had in some way
found that by swaying to and fro all
together a rocking motion was produc
ed that seemed to please them i'm
mensely. So the great heads and bodies
rolled and swung In unison until the
steamer, which had no other cargo and
rode light, was in imminent danger
of rolling clean over. The attendants
were hurried down into the hold and,
after great deal of shouting and
humping, managed to stop their dan
gerous amusement. Jules Verne tells
as a fiction Of the sinking of a ship
in that way. and the question is, Has
some one in Japan been reading Verne
or was Inc novelist's fancy justified by
a real experience?
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14

At a general election in England a
candidate personally unknown to the
voters of certain borough was asked
by party leaders to stand for it. He be-
longed to a good family and was a
barrister of promise in London. His
path to success was open, as the bor-
Ough belonged TO his party. But when
be mounted the platform to address the
electors after a sentence or two he
suddenly became pale and confused
his eye fixed on board opposite on
which was scrawled with charcoal,
Forty poundsw He stumbled through
a short speech and then hurriedly left
the stand.
A few days later he rose to speak in
mother town, and again the mysteri-
rus words written in black on the wall
confronted him. Again he left the plat
form and that night retired from the
contest for the seat in parliament Not
png afterward he disappeared from
lublic life and retired to an English
lolony, where he hid himself on a
.anch. The words, it was found, refer
red to a theft committed in his youth.
which he supposed had been forgotten.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14

touch OF mischief.
THAT doesn't satisfy me any longer"
broke out the man impatiently ''That
chair can't tell you what l think OF
you. l can't tell you myself, but I'll
try. think you are the loveliest wo-
man in the world. l can't help loving
you"
For long time she was still. Then
she began:
IF you can't help it, why, them
She paused, and Tom leaned toward
her. His hand covered hers, crushing
the flowers
"Thisbe," he pleaded softly, do you
care for me?'
The hand he held answered for her.
Tom rose from his chair and kissed the
girl on the lips.
A little later he said, you don't
know how much afraid l was, sweet
heart, to leave You here for those long
sunset talks with another man"
you needn't have been,' she answer
ed happily The sunset and the twi-
light seemed to belong to you. The
more he talked the more | dreamed of
somebody else.'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
ESTABLISHED 1875

was a wild scramble for horses. His
two sisters and his foreman went thun-
dering out to meet the solitary rider,
who had separated from the group Of
distant horsemen and who was now
heading for the ranch.
The girl went to her room and locked
herself in. She heard the little caval-
cade ride up; she heard the men greet
ing him hilariously. She threw herself
on to the bed and buried her face in
her hands.
Late in the evening she stole down
stairs and out of doors. She wanted to
be alone. As she approached the corral
she saw him standing there alone She
saw, too, that his left arm was in a
sling.
Her first impulse was to turn and
run, but before she could do it it was
too late. He had seen her and was
coming toward her, smiling man
with the blood of others on his hands!
She stood quite still, trembling from
head to foot.
aren't you glad I'm back?' he ask
ed lightly, yet with touch of eager
ness in his tones.
"You-you found themY she asked
breathlessly.
''The rustlers? Yes" he replied.
'They stood us off for time. We kill
ed two in the night. The other two
Don't! Oh, don'tv' she begged.
He drew himself up. Il had best tell
you all of it, he said with quiet force
I'VE hanged them at the first clump Of
cottonwoods we passed that evening""
She stood silently looking at him.
Her breath came hard, her fingers
nervously clasped. He waited patient
ly, still smiling.
you are hurt" she faltered, point
ing to bis wounded arm.
This ?" he laughed bitterly. "Oh, it's
merely scratch. 1t doesn't matter.
The only thing that hurts is what you
think of me-"
She took hesitating step forward.
She paused, wayered, frresolute, then
ran quickly to him.
Il am glad" she declared irrelevant
ly, glad, gladp
'Glad of what, dearT" he asked with
grave tenderness.
"Glad just-just because of you," she
said in voice that was half laugh,
half sob.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
By c. B. LEWIS

1t was a plan conceived in the mind
of Jerry Palmer, convict No. 1870, one
night as he tossed to and fro on his
prison couch about three weeks pre-
vious to the expiration of his five years
sentence Jerry had tried thieving,
burglary and forgery and had served
sentences for all of them and after
thinking things over had concluded to
make a change. Reform was not in
cluded in the change. Jerry strongly
believed that the world owed him a
living and that it was his constitutional
privilege to ger that living in the east
est way possible. He would keep right
on thinking so, but he would adopt q
new and safer line.
Abduction is the thingw exclaimed
Jerry to his prison walls when he had
thought the matter all out There's
more clean cash to be made In abduct-
ing some rich mans gal than in commit
ting half dozen burglaries, and the risk
is mere nothing. All you have to do is
to seize her, shut her up somewhere
till the fond father will pay your price
and then produce her and lug away the
plunks mo publicity, no police, no
prison walls. The rest of the crowd
can go ahead ON old lines, but it's abb
duction for me for the rest of my nat
ural life"
Jerry hadn't been out of prison two
days when he hunted up his old part
ner, Mike Donovan, and gave him the
tip. Mike, too. was ready to drop old
lines and take up something new. He
had shown energy and ambition as a
burglar and had somewhat astonished
the police by stealing a steam boiler
left on the public street at night, but
had found there was no money in it.
He had figured it out that the beef
trust was making more in three Sec
onds that he was in three years, and il
he hadn't met Jerry he might have
opened a saloon and sold wood alcohol
to his patrons.
The first thing was to find rich man
with a daughter. No rich mans daugh-
ter can be abducted properly until aft
err she has been located This task con-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-11-14
BITS FROM THE WRITER'S.

The simple life does not need lentiIs
or cellular clothing. 1t needs those
rarer things. gratitude and humility
@. X. Chesterton.
She wore far too much rouge last
night and not quite enough clothes.
That is always a sign Of despair in a
woman. Sebastian Melmoth."
Keep your head on your shoulders
It's bound to rest ON some one elses
occasionally. Still. keep 1t mostly on
your own.-"A Pagan's Love-" by Con-
stance Clyde.
II you feel that you've really got to
tell secret, go somewhere where It's
dark an you'll be alone. Then keep
your mouth shuttle Middle WALL"
by Edward Marshall.
Not that marriage Is so beautiful, but
1t Is necessary girl should find that
out for herself. so that she can turn her
mind peacefully to other things.-"A
Pagan's Love" by Constance Clyde.