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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-01

THE GAMBLER OF THE WEST"
 The name of A. H. Woods Is synony- nous with success in relation to the melodramatic stage. He has more sue cessful playa of this class to his cred it as 8 producer than any other individ- ual or firm who composes the financial sirews of the world of melodrama. Mr. Woods latest offering. ''The Gambler of the West" the attraction at the New Haven theater last three nights this week with matinee Satur- dsy, is breaking attendance records this season for first year plays and Is destined to become one of the biggest winners ever produced. It is the acme of sensationalism and startling and novel scenic effects, The author of the play Owen Davis has not only worked up climaxes, he has written climax The whole play Is climax of thrilling interest. 1t is a climax of melodramat- ic invention Mir. Woods has given it the most elaborate and beautiful stoge dress possible. The electrical effects in- clude an aurora borealis and a realistic prairie fire, excelling anything that has ever before been attempted. Each one of the eight scenes of the play presents picture of the golden west to see which is as good as an actual visit to the locality. The aggregation of the show includes actors, cowboys, Indians, trained horses, old time stage coach paraphernalia that has seen actual use in the west, a cowboy band that will head a daily parade through the cen- tral streets of the city, two carloads of scenery and stage directors and elec- tricians The story of the play is one of thrilling heart interest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-01
POstunn Grape-Nuts Cream

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 She had suffered so long that when relief came by USING POSTUM she knew it's value, and spoke from the heart
 This woman formerly had visit about every days from yellowsknned and irritable ancient per known as Old Miss Nervs Hedake But dayshe broke friendship with her when she qu Coffee and tor the past years she had been comfortable happy and well Postum Food Coffee. Name given by Po5tum Co.,. Battle Creek Mich
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with new motion pictures will closc the bill
 Seats now selling.
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New Haven Theatre.

Hap Ward, formerly of Ward and Vokes, with company of fifteen com- edians and pretty girls will be the at traction at the New Haven theater on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, April 1, ?, 3, with matinee We'd nesday.
 Not Yet but Soon, Is the title of the vehicle employed this year and it is promised that it is a rapid fire of laugh ter and music from start to finish. It is said that MT. Ward has this year re- turned to the policy which gave Ward and Vokes their vogue, the production of an evenings clean fun without a thought of such thing as plot to wor- ry over It was along these lines that Percy" and Harold" first came to New Haven theatergoers, their show was a sure fire" for a good laugh; they always had company of very clever people about them, and their goods were always staged in slightly style. Hap Ward was every the producing genius of the old team and it is prom l9Co llletI IlOlLlIIS It ever HUIOQSHIH us with the ''W. and "" trade mark was any better than his present offering. Of course there Is a thread of a story upon which to hang the incidents which go to make up the entertainment, but it does not matter what it is about The action occurs at the sanitarium of Prof. Mutt, the place is called Playhouse on the Hudson" and everyone is supposed to be daffy except Bill Nerve, who has been sent there by hls family to break him of the inborn dread of labor. "A man who can work and won't work, must be made to work is the theory upon which the professor treats Bill Nerve but in the meantime Bill is hav- ing all manner of sport ith his neigh bors and laughter is the finale of every trick he turns on the occupants of the place. There is a musical program of twenty interpoletions among which the catcheist numbers are Mary Wise" Wonderland I'm the Leading Lady" My Irish Girl" I'm Wise" Larry" Things That Happen Every Day" Some Day When Dreams Come True" "The Wedding of the Blue and the Cray" and Lou, Lou. Lou" Of course Mir Ward brings a singing chorus and it is promised that the young ladies cf this important adjunct are both slightly and capable of singing unusual ly well. E, D. Stair, who directs the company, has engaged as principals for the large cast, such well known people as Lucy Daly, Fred Wyckoff, John c. Hart, Abe Friedland. Charles (sandy) Chapman, Robert Evans Harry Par ent, Richard Barry, Marion Merrill, Maude Alice Kelly and Madeline Buck ley. Regular popular prices with few seats at one dollar.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
THE TELEPHONE.
What It Means When the Operator An
nounces "Line Busy"

What It Means When the Operator An
nounces "Line Busy"
1t is easier for an operator to estab-
fish a connection than reply, "Line
busy" Recollection Of this simple fact
may perhaps smooth out the asperities
Of a state Of mind evoked by a hasty
conclusion that the operator simply is
Sinking. Follow a call into the main
exchange, for example. You ask for
certain number. The operator i'm
mediately informs you the line is busy.
How does she know? Simply by lit
tie admonitory click in the receiver
when she tries to plug in" on the
line asked for. She cannot tell you
who is talking on the line, how long it
to be 'busy." All the information she
possesses is a click, but it is sufficient
to advise her that some one Of the $50
other operators in the exchange had a
prior call from or to that number.
Had the line been clear the effort to
complete the connection would have
been no greater than that required to
get the click: hence the task Of inform
ing caller that the line is busy is just
so much extra labor-in fact, it in
wolves a double burden, as the sub
scriber will usually repeat the call un-
til he is able to transact his business.
Obviously, therefore, the desire Of the
operator is to establish the connection
when it is first called for. She has no
motive in doing otherwise Telephone
Talk .''' %2 ..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Duckine the scoId In Old Times

0O~Nb"9 viz SSOsN 81 VIZ
The last instance Of curing scolds by
ducking them carried out in England
was in 1901 at Kingston-on-Tha
A contemporary newspaper records
such an event in 1745: Last week a
woman that keeps the Queens Head
ale house at Kingston, in Surrey, was
ordered by the court to be ducked for
scolding and was accordingly placed
in the chair and ducked in the river
Thames under Kingston bridge in the
presence Of 1000 or 5000 people," In
Queen Elizabeth's time ducking was
the universal punishment for scolds,
and it appears that each town had
then at least one of these penitential
chairs in ordinary use. DR.. Johnson
once said to Mrs. Knowles, MADAM,
we have different modes Of restraining
evils-stocks for the men, a ducking
stool for women and pound for
Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
LEGAL ADVICE.
A Story sre~s g How Foolish 1t Is 20
Try to Got II For Nothing.

A Story s;,e~w g How Foolish II is 20
Try to Got II For Nothing.
A young lawyer moved into to|n
where there was only one lawyer be-
fore-an old judge.
4 close listed old farmer thought
there was good chance to get some
legal advice from the young man
gratis, 50 he dropped into his office,
rold him how glad he was that he had
come into town, because the old judge
was getting superannuated, and con-
trived in the course Of his talk to get
the legal information he wanted, and
then bidding him good morning he was
about to leave when the young man
asked for his fee. "What for?" said
the old man. For legal advice" re-
piled the young lawyer. How much
is it," give dollars" The farmer
declared he would never pay it. and
the young lawyer told him if he didn't
he would sue him. So the farmer
trotted down to see the old judge,
whom he found hoeing in his gar
den, and said, "Judge, 1 went this
morning just simply to make neigh
borly call on that young scamp Of a
lawyer who has just come into town
and he charged me S." Served you
right" said the judge. "You'd no right
to so to him." ''Well, have I got to
pay it," certainly you have" "Well,
then, if 1 must, I must. Good morn
ing" Hold on" said the judge.
Aren't you going to pay me?" "Pay
you, what for?" "Why, for legal adj
vice, of course" "What do you
charger ''Ten dollars" The result
of which was the old fellow had to pay
S. to the young lawyer and $40 to the
old one.
Moral-Don't try to get legal advice
for nothing.-Exchange.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

Of adroit letter writing the honor
ing of republicans with state posi-
lions none or lite salary, and the
organization OF country central
committees on the quiet, the ton
tacles Of the machine are being so
extended that soon they will have
in their grasp practically every
county and hamlet in the state, or
at any rate enough to control a ma
1ority of them. It looks like a big
task, this control of state so de-
cidedly republican, and it is. but it
is easy when the other sides sits
quietly by and offers no opposition.
Speaking about the ease with which
the job was being accomplished, I
remarked to amen Der of Gov. John
son s cabinet the other day that a
snag was possible in the person of
Il certain republican state official,
who unlike the other, was not will
ling TO stand idly by and see things
go by default His activity had al
ready compelled some Of the repub-
lican officials to open their eyes to
what was doing on the democratic
side. Yes, answered this member
of the governors cabinet, we are
wise to that fellow and if he is not
careful he won't get back here
again. There will be republican
convention next summer and we
may find rival for him. So you
see the machine is not entirely in
the making; it Is a reality; it is
strong enough to make threats, III d
so strong that If republican aspir-
ants for Office do not keep their
hands of, they may get hurt. This
column a week ago carried sug-
gestion looking to an early meeting
of the republican leaders of the
state, sort Of get together effort
looking to a discussion covering
matters respecting the future of the
party in Minnesota. The
suggestion is repeated
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
THE POSTAGE STAMP.
Order In Which II Was Adopted By
Different Countries.

Order In Which It Was Adopted by
Different Countries.
The first postage stamp seems to
have been used in Paris in 1858, but
the service in which the stamp was
used was only local and soon failed.
On May 6, 1910, the first regular post
age stamps were issued in England.
Various local forwarders Of letters and
postmasters in this country issued
stamps as early as 1841. The first to
do so was A. NJ. Grieg's City Dispatch
Post, which was sold to the govern
ment in August, 1912. Blood & Co. Of
Philadelphia sold stamps in 1841, and
the postmasters Of Baltimore, New
Haven and New York Of 1916 also sold
stamps.
In 1S47 the government took up the
business, but Brazil in 1S43 was ahead
Of the United States in taking up the
stamp end Of the postal business. The
other principal countries followed in
this order: France, Belgium and Ba-
varia in 1849; Hanover, British Gui-
ana, Prussia, Spain and Switzerland in
1850; Italy, Denmark Baden, Wurttem-
berg, Saxony and the provinces Of
Canada in 1851; Chile and the princes Of
Turin and Taxis (who had the postal
monopoly in Germany in 1852; Portu-
gal in 1853; India and Norway In 1854;
Uruguay and Mexico in 1856; Russia
and Newfoundland in 1857; Sweden in
1858; the Australian colonies early in
the f1fties; Greece in 1861; Turkey in
1868; Ecuador in 1865; Egypt in 1866;
Bolivia in 1867: Paraguay In 1870.
The international postal union was
formed in October, 1874, and went into
operation on July 1, 1875.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Consolation Somewhere.

They had been husband and wife
for three months only when the young
wife commenced to show signs Of dis
appointment with the bargain she had
made.
II am so unhappy" she confded to
a girl friend who paid her visit.
"Why, dear?" inquired the other.
81 am beginning to think that my
husband married me for my money"
"Well," remarked the philosophical
confidante, 1T ought to be some con-
ISOLATION to know that he isn't such a
big fool as he looks. "-London Taller.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

Up to the present date William
Jennings Bryan has not shown any
thing that might be regarded as un-
digniied haste in accepting Henry
Watterson 8 offer to name an ac-
ceptable leader for the democratic
hosts in 1905. It is no secret that
Mr.. Brayn thinks he knows a man
who Just fills the bill.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
A QUEER CUSTOM.
Curious Basket Ceremony Of Siamsse
Ancestral Worship. @t,,

Ancestral Worship. %5s
II the "basket supper" Of worthy ira
dition is a feature OF New England
church sociability, the orient has a
fashion OF its own connected with has
kets and religious ceremony. Mary
Cost, in her book on Siam, tells Of 4
custom which forms a mysterious part
of Siamese ancestral worship.
The ceremony is called krachat
which means basket. When the time
for observing it is at hand, the king
commands the princess to make large
baskets and to buy articles with which
to fill them. Around the palace booths
are built, covered with red and white
cloth, and here the baskets are display
ed. The king himself goes out to in
spect them.
The baskets are filled with all sorts
of things, from rice, sweetmeats, sugar.
cakes and onions to articles Of 4 more
lasting nature. The baskets are woven
in all sorts Of curious shapes. One
may be in the form of cart hauled by
two buffaloes covered with tobacco in
stead Of hair and with many useful
things in the cart. Tree baskets have
all sorts of articles hanging to the
branches, such as saws, knives, hand
kerchiefs, and so forth. Bushel bas-
kets are pierced with doors, in and out
Of which run automatic dolls covered
with coins. Some of the baskets are
immense, being sixteen feet long.
The show lasts week, at the end Of
which the priests draw lots for the
spoil,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
How tho Pendulum Was Found.

Like many Of the commonest me-
chanical instruments in daily use, the
invention Of the pendulum is due en-
tirely to chance. Galilei, when under
twenty years of age, was standing one
day in the metropolitan church Of Pisa
while some painters were at work on
the ceiling Of the church. A suspended
lamp which was hanging before the al.
tar was disturbed in some manner, and
the scientist was struck with the al
most perfect regularity with which 1t
swung back and forth. The idea of
measuring time by such an instrument
found instant generation in his brain,
and he completed the system in use to
this day.-St. Louis Republic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
A Soft Answer.

A canny Scot was being shown over
a man-o'-war for the first time in his
life and, being interested in all he
saw. piled his guide with all sorts Of
questions. The marine seemed par
ticularly to interest him, and, going up
to one, he pointed to the ''grenade'' in
the marines cap and asked what 1t
was. The marine looked at him in
surprise. Don't you know what that
is?' he asked. "Why, that's turnip,
Of course" Zach, mon," replied the
Scot impatiently, II was no akin
ABBOTT yer head"-Cardiff Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

Osseo Review: We believe the
most uncalled for thing that the
state legislature did this session was
to increase the salary Of the COVER
nor from $4,000 to $1,000. If sal.
airy of s., 900 a year for that job is
not enough, then will some one
show US. We don't think there
would be any lack Of applicants, and
good ones, too, for the job at the
old price.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

St. James Plaindealer: For some
time the Eagles lodge of this city
has been trying to secure carnival
company for an exhibition here this
summer, and this week closed a con-
tract with the Parker Amusement
Company, one OF the largest and
best carnival companies IN the coun
try, for a weeks exhibition here,
from June "a to 20.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
To Corral Everything

The following side-light on the
political situation in Minnesota, CIV
en- last Saturday in the St.Paul Dis
patch, by the county chairman, may
be pipe dream, but the indica-
tions are that it is not:
If hints dropped count for any
thing, nothing in the way of an el-
ectlve Office Is to be overlooked by
the democratic state machine when
the time for picking candidates for
the next election comes around.
Ellgibles are even now being select
ed. With the knowledge that last
fall might have seen heavier leg
islative representation had more
candidates been put into the field,
the democratic managers will this
time put up man In every district
in the state. Their activities will
even extend to the congressional
districts. Senator Julius Collier, of
Shakopee, it is said, will be the sac
rifced in the Third; Hammond will
be offered IN the Second and Far
mer French will be asked to give
Jim Tawney another trial in the
First district. Candidates for the
other districts are now in the max
ing. Then there are the county
Offices too. They will not be over
looked.
1.-The word machine" is possibly
not to the liking of the crowd that
is now 80 industriously engaged in
trying to perpetuate democratic
rule in Minnesota, but just the same
it is we'll placed and the repubpli-
can leaders of the state will wake
up some day to find that the ma
chine is a reality. I am not exag-
gerating when say that in Mime
sofa todayis being organized a dmo-
cratic machine, the ramiioations Of
which have had no parallel, even in
the palmieet days Of the old repub-
lican crowd. Through the medium
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
FlatterinQ, but a Knock.

"Even with fattery," said Mark
Twain at a dinner, you can't please
some men. I remember when was a
reporter in Virginia City there was a
doctor lked-I had camped once on
Lake Tahoe with him-and in an obitu-
hry 1 decided to give him card. I
wrote, DR.. Sawyer was called in, and
under his prompt and skillful treat
ment the patient died Monday But
DR.. Sawyer, somehow, wasn't pleased"
kansas City Star.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

The leading democrats insist that
the party must make campaign on
tariff revision IN order to win. Un.
fortunately for them, however, the
republican party is already COM
mitted to that policy, as announced
by Secretary Taft IN a recent speech
and before the democrats get to-
gether on that point the next cam
paign is likely to be a thing of the
past.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Quality Of Surface Waters in Min.
nesOta

AS a result of nearly two years
field and laboratory work carried
on by the United States Geological
Survey in cooperation with the
State Board of Health, the Federal
Survey has just issued report out
lining the general characteristics of
the surface waters in Minnesota,
and discussing the various factors
that tend to modify the quality of
the drainage. Both the chemical
and the archaeological work, dur
ing the entire cooperation, were
under the immediate supervision Of
DR.. F. F. Westbook, director of the
laboratories of the State Board OF
Health, who shares the authorship
Of the paper with Mr.. R. B. Dole, OF
the Geological Survey.
The headwaters Of these great
drainage systems lie within the Dor.
ders of Minnesota. Approximately
one-tenth OF it's surface is tributary
to the Laurentian system; three
tenths drain to Hudson Bay through
it's great tributaries, Red and Rainy
Rivers; the rest of the state ia trib-
utary to the Mississippi either d.
rectly or through it's large branch.
es, Missouri. DesMoines, Cedar, st.
Croix, and Minnesota Rivers.
The report in question discusses
the conditions, both natural and
economic, that influence the quality
Of the waters and impart to the
lakes and streams their essential
characteristics, after which each
drainage area is considered in de-
tail, the streams are described, the
sources of pollution are discussed;
and the results of chemical and bac-
THEOLOGICAL examinations are given.
The report is available for free dis.
tribution and copies may be obtain
ed by addressing the director, United
States Geological Survey, Washing
ton, D. G..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

A pupil in the Adrian school was
asked by the teacher to define the
word spine, and this is the way he
served it up: IA spine is a long
timber bone, your head sets on one
end of it, and you sit on the other. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

The First National Bank of Win
dom has received instructions from
clients in Iowa to make a test case
of the new mortgage tax law, en-
ploy counsel and bring mandamus
proceedings againt the register of
deeds to compel him to record GER
tain mortgage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Sehopenhauer on Courage.

I cannot we'll explain why cowardice
seems contemplate and personal cour-
age a noble and sublime thing, for no
lower point of view enables me to see
why a finite individual who is every
thing to himself-nay, who is himself
even the very fundamental condition of
the existence Of the rest Of the world
should not put his own preservation
above every other aim.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

A western contemporary says 1t
likes Taft because he is always
"Johnnie-on-the-Spot.'' A good
part Of the time, however, he has
been "Willie-on-the-Lid.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
The Doctors Lessons In Patience.

The Doctors Lessons In Patience.
Among my professional acquafnt-
ances, writes a young doctor in the
Saturday Evening Post, perhaps Is per
cent of all bills rendered come to
nothing, or practically that, unless
their value as teaching lesson in pa
tience be considered
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
Not Lost.

Traveller Ito ferryman crossing the
river)-Has any one ever been lost TN
this stream? Boatman-No, sir. Some
professor was drowned here last
spring, but they found him after look
ing for two weeks.-Fliegende Batter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

Mrs. D. 8. Wilkinson, of Rolette,
N. D., was called to Slatyon by the
death of her father, Mr.. Soriven.
She will visit Worthington before
returningt to North Dakota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
A Risky EliQht.

Out at Ponce de Leon in the circle
swing a Billville citizen shouted:
Don't take me no higher! Maria's
been in heaven sence last August an
eff l keep goin up this away she'll
likely lean out the winder an snatch
ton.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07

John Temple Graves ia another
statesman who attains great promi-
hence through large accumulation
OF untaken advice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
An lnsinuation.

Mrs. Ginger-How dare you talk to
me in that way? I never saw such
impudence. And you call yourself a
lady's maid, do you? The Maid-1 was
a lady's maid before l worked for you,
ma'am.-Boston Transcript.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-06-07
The Reason Why.

"Percy," said Tete de Veau, sends
everything he shoots to the hospitals"
"But, then, you know" said L'Oignon,
smiling, ''Percy never shoots anything
but gamekeepers."-New York Press.