The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-06-07

md her. Monday he received q letter
from her dated at Boston, in which she
said: "eo far, God has blessed us with
health. but John has no regular work
YET"
Captain Pratt. at the training school
for Indian youths at Carlisle, Pa, tells
Of an Indian lad, eighteen years Of age,
who appeard at the school a few weeks
emit, mostly on foot to reach the school.
When he left home he had only$2 rs in
money. BY selling his Indian orna-
ments he obtained 1925 more, with
which, after innumerable privations, he
reached the school, when he was taken
in and cared for.
Samuel Wood of New York, in codi-
Gil to his will, endowed college Of mu-
sic with s., 900. It was to bear his
name, and to be erected in Central Park,
fronting Fifth avenue, and extending
from Seventy ninth to Eighty-fourth
street., Abram Hewlett, lis nephew,
and others Of his relatives contested the
validity of the codicil and DIR. William
Elmer's position as executor and trus-
tee. The court having finally decided
in favor of the codicil, and the work of
building the college will go on. The es-
tate is worth over s., 00O, 900.
The gentle, kindly nature of the poet
Whittier seems to have been sadly dis.
turbed by the Carlyle letters. $50
strongly have they affected myself"
he is reported as saying, "tliat have
set to work and destroyed the major
part Of my correspondence. covering a
period of over SO years. lest 1t should be
published after my death; and brihg suf-
fering to any. Iwish that all of the let
tiers that have written could be treated
This is characteristic, but for the bene-
fit of future students of our literary his
tory it is much to be regretted.
Frederick M. Shaw, relative of Chief
Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, is mild
lunatic living In the mountains near Los
Angeles. Cal. About ten years ago he
established hygenic colony on the coast
in which animal food was not permitted
to enter. 1t proved such a complete
failure that it turned his head. He
made himself a house in tree top,
upon fruits and nuts. Among those who
became deeply interested in him
was a New Jersey school,
mistress named Margaret Carey
Wright. A correspondence ended by
a marriage by telegraph in 1879. The
bride was taken out to the recluse's
mountain retreat. The bridegroom was
found clothed only in shirt and cap,
gathering hone:. He was prevailed up
on to don pair of trousers. The couple
lived in shanty two years; when the
woman departed.
Bishop Bowman does not believe that
spirits upset chairs and move tables but
he is not able to account for many re-
markable experiences. owe are much
nearer the spirit world than we think,
perhaps" he says, "and the spirits Of
the departed dead, I am convinced,
have certain influence over our minds.
When on the Red sea made it a prac.
thee to pray every night and morning for
my wife, from whom was absent, and
who was at the time all invalid. One
evening knelt down as usual, and tried
to pray for her, but found / could not
do it.. This worried me very much, but
l attributed my incapacity to nervous
ness. On the following morning again
tried to pray for Mrs Bowman. exper-
fencing the same difficulty. At length
the thought occurred to me, Your wife
may be dead On my arrival at Rome
found letter conveying the news that
Mrs. Bowman had died on the same
evening that found myself unable to
pray for her"