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Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
ALL CROPS GOOD IN WEST
ERN CANADA.
Potatoes the Finest I Ever Saw y

Owing to the great amount of inter
est that Is being taken in Western Can
ada. 1t Is well to be informed of some
OF the facts that are bringing about the
great emigration from portions of the
United States.
Ine Canadian Government have au-
tnorized agents at different points. and
the facts related in the following NAV
De eorroborated on application. At the
same time they will be able to quote
you rates. and give you certificates
emitting you to low rates on the diff
ferent lines of railway. The following
letter copied from the North Bend
tNeb) Eagle, is an unsolicited testi-
monial, and the experience of Mr..
Austen is that Of hundreds of other
Americans, who have made Canada
their home during the past seven or
eight years:
Il presume some may be interested
70 know how we have progressed this
year In the Canadian Northwest. We
have no complaint to OFFER We have
had good year. crops were good and
we have had delightful season. I
threshed from my place $3.50 bushels
OF grain. My oats made 65 bushels per
acre and weighed 421s pounds per
bushel. My wheat made 31h bushels
per acre and is No. 1 quality. My
barley made about 80 bushels Of good
quality. My crop Is a fair average Of
the crops in the Edmonton district.
"All crops were good here this sea-
son. Potatoes the finest ever saw,
and all vegetables adapted to the
climate. We have had a very fine fall
but no exception to the rule as the fall
season is, 1 think, the most pleasant
Of the year. We have had no snow yet
Nov. 81, and have been plowing and
working the land preparing for an
early seeding next spring. Last night
the mercury dropped lower than any
previous night this fall and this morn
ing there is crust of frost on the
fields sufficient to prevent field work.
No doubt many would imagine that AL
berta had put on her winter overcoat
before this and that the people were
wrapped in furs, but 1t Is only ques-
ton Of time when this country will not
be looked upon as an iceberg, but O.
country fit for the best Of mankind to
live in.
1--WE are now assured Of transcon-
tinental railway, which is to be built
to the Pacific during the next five
years. The Canadian Northern road
Is graded to within seventy-f1ve miles
Of Edmonton. 1t comes from Winni-
peg, and will reach US next summer, SO
with one railroad already at hand, the
second to reach US in less than year,
and the third to penetrate our city and
open up this country to the west across
the Rockies to the coast within five
years. we surely have reason to believe
that the country is progressing.
Every respectfully,
'I. ]. Austen"
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

Eagle River, Wis, Jan. 16th.-(Special)
That, rheumatism is caused by dis
ordered kidneys is proved by the cures
Dodd's Kidney Pills are making IN every
state in the Union. They cure the Kid
neys and the Rheumatism cures itself. A
cure that has caused deep interest in this
neighborhood is that of Maggie E. Deck
ert. In speaking of it she says:
Il had kidney trouble and rheumatism,
and was SO lame l could not walk.
could not sleep, for l ached all over. I
was in terrible state and firmly believe
that if l had not used Dodd's Kidney
Pills l would be dead. l took nine boxes
of them and they have done me more
good than all the other medicines ever
took. Now my aches are all gone, / can
eat and sleep and am feeling good.
want all tie world to know that Dodd's
Kidney Pills cured me"
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
PROVES GREAT POWER
When Regular Medical Treatment
Failed, Dr.. Williams Pink Pills.
Cured Her Rheumatism.

Hundreds of people afflicted with rheu-
matism have spent years under the care
Of excellent physicians i'll vain. Then
they have settled down to the conviction
that it is fastened on them for life. Mrs.
Dinsmore was not willing to join the
ranks of the hopeless merely because her
doctor did not know how to help her.
Here is her story:
-Four years ago I suffered greatly
with rheumatism in my hands and
knees. After had been sitting a while
my limbs seemed SO heavy could hardly
walk on the first attempt. So long as I
kept moving was all right, but just as
soon as stopped, something seemed to
settle in my knees and make them ache.
Ny hands were SO bad couldn't touch
the palms of them OH fiat surface; they
were swollen and panied so"
"Did you call i'll a physician?"
81 doctored steadily for over a year |;
then one doctor said: you have taken
medicine strong enough to kill almost
anything Still, it did not kill me nor
the rheumatism"
"HHy, then, did you get rid Of it ?"
cat different times I had read in vari-
GUS publications about DIR. Williams
wonderful Pink Pills for Pale People,
and finally decided to try them. ! took
them steadily for four months In ac-
cordance with the directions. By that
time was completely cured"
Shave you been free from 1t ever
since?"
"Since then / have had but one slight
return of my trouble, and box or two of
the same pills made me all right again. >,
Mrs. F. A. Dinsmore lives in hearty
enjoyment of her recovered health at
Woburn, Mass, entirely freed from the
grave anxieties that rheumatism always
brings. When it appears in but single
Joint it shows that the blood is in faulty
state in the whole body. It may at any
moment break out elsewhere, and one of
the dangers is that it may break out in
che heart and then the result must be
fatal. The only security is to keep the
blood all the time in perfectly sound
condition.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills make healthy
blood. All other relief is superficial.
This is thorough. These pills are sold
by all druggists.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
FIFTEEN YEARS OF TORTURE.
Head and Body-Cured In q
Week by Cuticura.

"For fifteen years my scalp and fore
head was one mass of scabs, and my body
was covered with sores. Words cannot
express how I suffered from the itching
and pain. I tried many doctors and
treatments, but could get no help, and
had given up hope when friend told me
to get ,Cuticura;; After bathing with Cuti-
nent for three days, my head was as
clear as ever, and to my surprise and joy,
one cake of soap and one box of oint-
ment made a complete cure in one week.
(Signed) H. B. Franklin, TIT Washington
St., Allegheny, Pa"
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Ones Own Flower,

Many Of the titled Englishwomen
whose names are also those of flowers
favor their namesakes as table decora-
tons. The beautiful blonde Princess
Henry of Pless. daughter of that IA
nous English beauty, Mrs. CORVALLIS
West, is called DAISY" by her friends,
and this flower often decorates her
dining table, while Lady de Trafford,
one of whose names is Violet, often
decorates her table with silver bowls
of these flowers. Even the men are
not averse to this pretty custom, ano
roses were the sole decoration at a
largo ball given by Lord 9osebery.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
The Lemon Bath

A lemon bath is considered daily me-
cessity in the West Indies Three or
four lines or lemons are cut into the
water and allowed to lie for half an
hour, so that the juice may be extract
ed. Such bath gives to the skin de-
lightful sense of freshness and clean-
uness
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
How He Knows.

why is it," asked the bachelor
clerk, that wife is called the better
half?"
you wouldn't have to ask such fool
question If you had to divide your SAL
ary with one" answered the married
doorwalker, with a sigh long drawn
out.-Chicago News.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Apple Gelatin.

Make an ordinary apple sauce, having
it rather thin. To every pint of this
add a tablespoonful of soaked gelatin,
beat hard and set aside to cool. Serve
with rich cream or heap upon it un-
cooked meringue, sweetened.-Marion
Harland
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

The 1905 Calendar of N. W. Aver & Son,
of Philadelphia, is l4x2s inches and de-
signed for Office or library. The color
scheme is gray and white and is very har-
monious. These Calendars have enjoyed
a steady sale for years at twenty-five cents
each; for this sum, which barely covers
cost and postage, copy may be had as
long as the edition lasts.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

Mrs w. H. G. Keough, a member of the
Chicago board of education, is making
vigorous campaign in that city against
the sale of dime novels to children.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Only Sometimes.

Sometimes" SAID Cholly, 81 cawnt
nelp wondahing what some of us ah living
for anyway, don't you know"
Jerusaiemp exclaimed his rough old
uncle do You wonder that only some
times! !"-Chicago Record Herald
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Just in Time

"Graciousl can't find the right de-
partment, sighed the exhausted shop
per: oh, my! I'm nearly dead"
Undertaking department in the base
ment, ma'am," suggested the prompt and
attentive hoorwalker.-Philadel Press.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Long-Felt Want.

to get up Regulator for Chills and Fe-
ver," suggested the deep thinker.
What do you mean? An agua cure"
well, no; l mean q regulator that1i
make the chills come on warm days and
the fever On cold days.
Leader.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
The Feeble Lad.

1ndulgent Mother-John, wish you'd
quit sending that boy around on all sorts
of errands. He's not a bit well lately and
hardly able to get back and forth from the
practice meets of his athletic club.-Balti-
more American.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

Pity the boy who, at his birth, is sen
fenced to idleness for hfe.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

$500 per M. Lewis "Single> Binder
straight DC cigar costs more than other
brands, but this price gives the dealer a
fair proft-and the smoker better cigar.
Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

The whipping post has lately been sug-
gested as q cure for about everything ex-
cept frenzied finance. Why not try it on
fhat?-N. Y. Mail.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

All the fun of having bank account ie
destroyed for woman because the cashier
knows how much money she hasn't GOT
n. Y. Press.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

TO Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
druggists refund the money If it fails to cure
E w. Groves signature is on each box. ESQ
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF
Ave, Nm ~ Minneapolis. Minn.. % Jan. D 6. 1900.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

The first successful -four mill was erec
ed in London in l764.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

After a man once loses his reputation it
is pretty hard for him ever to lose it
again-Judge.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

A great mind will neither give an affront
nor bear it.-Home.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

You can't play truant from the schoo
of experience.-Puck.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Made Him Look S

"Are you a married man?''
No. I'm just recovering from appendi
citis.-Cleyeland Leader.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
Lydia e. Pinkham's
lm's Vegetable Compound.

the all
of
- = - f1' -FN ~ -"
world
Of
santy
sharmles asyater
that
1 eass ana feeling etably rabl
and These indications
ackahe either Vegetable
thousand
a. subst
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25
CAUSE AND CURE
OF RHEUMATISM.

SHOWN by Numerous Cures Made By
Dodd's Kidney Pills-They Cure tho
h1dneyA and the rheumatism
Cures Itself-RemarkabIe Case
OF Maggie E. Deckert.
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

unqualified - 80 49, ~ A '-N~'fN~~N .A~
of friendsa
Barbour County index., 1905-01-25

for very little use would smash it
altogether, but for ornamental pur-
poses it is all right.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-01-21
T r II TIL.

lective features presented by the diff.
ferent artists comprising the mem.
DerShip of a first-cass company.
ne great feature this season whicA
Manager Ricaby offers his patrons is
no less than Frederick V. Bowers, the
famous author of Because" and cal
ways and many other world famous
songs. 1t is safe to say that there
are very few pianos in America that
has not one or more of Mr.. Bowers
songs on it. This great singer and
author was for &c weeks the star fea-
ture of Kiralfy's great Louisiana Pur-
chase spectacle at the st. Louis Fair
~ .S
Melba has a positive dislike for in
reviewers. She is never discourteous
or lmperious toward an interviewer
who is sent by his paper in quest of
story, but she evades, in a polite
way, the scribes who assail her when
ever she can. She tells a
story of one. bright chap,
of quick wit and lordly WAYS,
who had mistakenly pursued her
while in New York by mail and mes
senPer and personal application, for
an interview on her life. He was re-
| ally nm engaging fellow, but she had
not found the time to tell him of her
| life, as her hours were taken up in
studying the roles of a number of
characters she was to sing during the
grand opera season then begun. After
a hard days work, late one afternoon
she was about to leave her hotel for
drive through Central Park, when
she met the reporter near the exit
He was beaming and unctious in
greeting, and said, as he drew note
book from his pocket: "Ah, Madame
a proptious moment, now tell me the
story of your life, please"
Il was born in Australia. The most
alarming thing that ever happened to
me was, when a girl, | stepped on q
harmless snake in garden in Mel
bourne. That covers everything o.
thrilling interest in my life" Mel
ba said, as she glded out of the door
hurried into her carriage and wa!
gone.
Next day she read an eloquent col
umn interview, and she learned thing:
she had never gnown before. mime
Melba received me graciously, etc
She was radiant in conversation ant
delightfully."- entertaining, etc. at al
early age she gave no evidence o
possessing an extraordinary voice
That was discovered by accident
when, one day in Australia she step
ped on a monstrous python that lay
dormant in a flower bed. That mo
ment her voice discovered itself, ant
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-01-21

eventually she became the greatest
vocalist of a decade"
(Ready reference Pythons don't
grow in Australia any more than do
hooking birds in Iceland).
Melba sings in the Tabernacle next
Friday evening. The audience will be
one of the largest in years and a
great musical treat may be looked for
The great singer will arrive in Salt
Lake the day before her concert.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
IN GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

The knife and saw still remain the
principal remedies against the blight.
We have not yet found remedy that
may be applied to and cure sick limbs
and twigs.
When blighted portions are cut from
twigs of trees they should be at
once burned. The dead wood really
contains no live blight spores, but the
point where the living tree comes in
contact with the dead part may,
The pecan crop is estimated at over
10, 0O0, 900 pounds short by the Dried
Fruit and Nut company, at St. Louis.
The estimate is claimed to be made
on careful investigation. Of course, .
shortage of this extent would indicate
much higher prices.
There can be no question but that the
sulphur, lime and salt solution is a
very efficient fungicide. 1t surpasses
anything know of for cleaning up the
trunks of trees and it has very marked
effect upon the freedom from scab of
both fruit and foliage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
Low-Headed Trees.

The old-style orchard was often very
high headed, with the limbs we'll up out
of the way. The idea was to train the
tree so high that teams could be driven
under and to keep the limbs above the
reach of cattle. Now that these items
are of less Importance to most orchard
lists, the tendency is in the opposite d.
rection, until j. H. Hale asks pertinent
": whats the use of trunk, any
way?" It may be said in favor of the
low-down tree that the fruit may be
picked at considerably less cost and is
not so likely to be blown off by the
wind. Spraying is also less difficult.
It is in many ways the better tree for
those who do not cultivate directly IN
der large trees and who keep cattle
away from the orchard. In a row Of
the sturmer apples the trees were cut
back much shorter than in many or
chards, consequently the limbs are
sturdy enough to hold the fruit without
bending. These trees averaged about
four cases to the tree. The trees branch
out about eight or ten inches from the
ground.-American Cultivation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
A FooL-KILLING.

Doggedly trudging the livelons day.
asked Of each person met:
HAS the fool-killer recently passed this
way?"
But the only response could get
Was a sweep of the arm and q jerk of the
head,
Which seemed, without speech, to cen
trive
A negative answer, as If each had said:
MY neighbors. YOU see, are alive.
I finally met with an ancient man
A harmless fool. was told
Who had long outlived the common span'
Yet was equally young and old,
For his simple soul was an open page
OF the book of eternal truth,
And his mind was stored with tho wisdom OF
age,
While his heart was tie heart Of youth.
land why do you wish" said Re. Ito find
This fool-killer whom you seek?'
I, answering. said: II have In miro
Some weasanGs he should tweak.
Then read from the list had carefully
made
OF the fools who still exist
The fools of every different grade
Whom the fool-kiiier seemed to have
missed.
But son." said he. sis there not some pan.
Some educational! way
OF killing the fool and saving the man
For better things some day.?
l felt in my heart the sting of shame,
And | hung my foolish head.
Then l knelt at his feet and begged his
name.
I'm the fooi -kiiler, son. he said.
Willis Brooks in Youths Companion
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
BOBBIE FULLER
AIDE De. CAMP
sxALmA n. EsTABRoox

7 was in the pine woods at Harbor
Point.
I'VE may call the matter concluded
said Miss Rabb, with finality, as she
stood up and looked toward the bay.
lover my protestation,' answered
the man, who sat gloomily thrusting
his heels and his stick into the cushion
of pine needles that covered the
ground.
1T is quite absurd to imagine that
friendship can follow love- she de-
clared, impatiently.
LET us stay on in the summer,
dear" he pleaded.
She shook her head sadly. "You
have ended it,"
II suppose you will want me to go
away" he said, as they walked through
the darkening woods.
NATURALLY had supposed you your
self would wish it,"
'Oh. will CO."
What shall you say to Mrs. Hor
TOM"
mot the truth, you may be sure"
Which is"
THAT you are throwing me over be-
cause l am not at liberty to explain
to you certain matters which are not
my own
At the steps of the cottage where
they were both guests he said good
night, and went off alone.
- She stood Just moment. and
watched him. then went in to the light
of the log in the great fireplace and
the circle of friends about it, At
breakfast the next morning she learned
that Robinson had gore
"He was obliged to change his
Plans" Mrs Horton told them. 'He
snends today at Roaring Brook Inn,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10

dicates the general construction very
clearly. Turning to our drawings the
observer will note the relation be-
tween them. The smaller barrels at
the side are "air-pumps." These air.
pumps were operated by handles
worked alternately, so that when one
pump was extended the other was
compressed, and vice-versa. The
method of supplying and maintaining
a steady supply of air under pressure
in the wind-chest, so that prolonged
and even note could be sounded on any
pipe when air was admitted by it's cor
responding key, was as follows: The
air in one pump, being compressed by
raising the plunger, passed into the
kind-chest, the return of the air on
the lowering of the plunger being pre-
vented by the automatic closing Of the
valves. The wind-chest commune
Gated with the water-box by means OF
a cylindrical funnel with arch-like
openings at the foot, which permitted
the water in funnel and water-box to
stand at a normal level, before any
wind was introduced. AS soon, how
ever as additional air entered the
nd-chest, the level of the water in
the funnel fell and rose correspond
ingly in the water-box (outside the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
THE TWO EXTREMES.
Scientific Expedition to Establish the
Location Of Highest and Lowest
Points in United States.

R. A. Farmer, Of the United States
geological survey, has started on mis-
sion to establish the exact height OF
Mount Whitney and the lowest point in
the United States. Mount Whitney is
shown by mercurial tests to be from 49,
SOB to Is, $50 feet above the sea level, and
Death valley is recorded as being from
100 to 500 feet below. By running a
level across the Mojave desert Mr.. Farm
er hopes to be able to establish mathe-
matically and scientifically the exact
height and depth Of the greatest eleva-
ton and deepest depression cf the
earth's crust in the United States.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
FIRST USE OF HOLSTERS"
The English Soldiers Were So Called
Because Of Their Red
Coats.

The word lobster" as a slang term
Of ridicule and opprobrium is general
ly regarded of recent origin. On the
contrary. says the Philadelphia Press,
it would seem to 60 back at least to
the seventeenth century. In John
Baldwin Buckstone's play. "The Green
Bushes" produced in London about
70 years ago, the scenes are laid at the
time of the Irish rebellion of 1898.
One of the characters mentions the
English soldiers derisively as "lob-
sters," referring, no doubt, to the uni
forms of the "redcoats." Eden Phil
potts, in his novel, "The Farm of the
Dagger" published last year, makes
an American prisoner Of the war Of
1912 speak of the British soldiers as
HOLSTERS" A fanciful etymologist
might easily find connection between
the present-day slang use of lobster"
and the sixteenth century word "lob,"
denoting a sluggish and stupid person,
which occurs in Shakespeare and con-
temporary plays and poems, usually
as a synonym for "lubber." But the
earliest known instance of the derisive
use of the slang term is the coupling
of "lobsters AMI tatterdemalions,
meaning soldiers and Migrants. by
Tom Brown (1673-1704). Brown is the
satirist who made the much-quoted i'm
promptu adaptation of an epigram by
Martial, directing IL against his in
structOr and beoinning: Il do not like
thee, DR.. Fell"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
THE WORKING MODEL.

funneD to the higher level. AS tho
pumps were worked rapidly and alter
nately, it will be seen that all equi-
librium of compression between water
and air was set up, so that steady
pressure of wind was ready to feed
any pipe.
The blowers had to exercise great
care not to put too Wuch wind into
the water-box, for that produced de-
feet known as "bubbling." Nero
played this organ and suggested i'm
provements, and had opportunity Of
fered he might have performed on it
at the public games.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-10
aeorgia's Copper Deposits.

Renewed interest has been aroused
in the copper deposits in Georgia, which
are known to be very rich, but the work.
ing of which was ceased some years ago
upon the discovery of the rich deposits
IN Michigan. There are considerable
punches of copper ore in the old Dahl
Omega gold district and elsewhere, and it
is thought that by general reduction
system which will extract from ores all
that they contain of copper, gold anu
silver, they may be made profitable.