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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Sabln's Bread Upon the Water Re.
turning.
Washington, Special.-The Sunday Her
aid says: 1.-THE physicians, some of whom
were army and navy officers, now in Wash
ington, who went from here last June to at-
tend the meeting of the American Medical
association in St. Paul, MIMI, recall with
great pleasure the elegant entert ,inment
given by Mr.. Sabin, now senator-elect from
that state, when he invited all the delegates
to the convention and the ladies accompany
ing them, fully 1000 persons in all, to an
excursion. They were conveyed to the lake
on special train of palace cars, and then
taken on three steamboats,, on each of which
was band efmusic AUDI beautiful ban
quet, including champagne. The tables
were set as handsomely as if in private
house. When the excursion on the lake
was over, at nightfall the large party was
landed at Saltwater aud driven in carriag es
over road covered with Excelsior shavings
to prevent dust, to Mr.. Sabin's elegant home
whose grounds were lighted with electricity
and decorated and provided with pavil]ions
and tents. There again there was music,
and an al fresco banquet served with as much
care for details as il each table was set for q
dinner party indoors. The same evening
all were taken to st. Paul in the same man
ner as they had come thence"
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THE HOUSE WITH CLOSETS.

:
How dear to the heart of the housekeeping
Are comforts Of which 70 few architects
Nice children, good servants and plenty Of
The well-ftted mansion in which they
must dwell,
But first of the blessings kind fortune can
give her,
Ifshe in the city or country abide,
Is that which she longs for and covets for
The big airy closet, her Joy and her pride,
The 1o9my, clean closet the vellordered
The big airy closet. her Joy and her PRIDE
The house may be perfect from garnet to
cellar,
Well lighted, we'll aired, with cold water
and hot. -. u.
And yet to the eye of the feminine dweller,
Ifclosetless, all is as if it were not.
How oft she has sunk like dove that is
How oft she has secretly srumbled and
sighed. -
Because she saw not, though with all else
surrounded,
The big airy closet her joy and her pride!
The roomy, clean closet, the well-ordered
closet,
The big, airy closet, her Joy and her pride.
Fond husbands who fain would have home
De an Eden,
For you and your Ewes all c3mplete Is q
whole,
To read in, to write in, to sleep IN, to feed
in, ,.
Forget not the closets SO dear to the soul;
But build them in corners, in hooks and in
crannies,
Wherever closet may harbor or hide,
And give to your Mary's your Hates and
your Armies,
The big, airy closets, their joy and their
The roomy, clean closets, the well-ordered
closets,
The big; airy closets, their Joy and their
pride The Builder.
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CONDENSED NEWS.
Washington Gossip.

Secretary Lincoln has been obliged to or
der that no further pension cases be made
special at the surgeon generals office at
present, owing to the OVERRIDING of the prac-
tice, upon the request of congress. At pres
cut there are $50 cases pending in the surgeon
generals office, sent by congressman and
marked Especial" They all come from but
about fifteen congressman. Of the batch
Money Of Mississippi has an even 100, and
Miller has asked for sixty. The rest average
about ten each.
During the presidents absence the stained
glass work in the vestibule of the White
House will be completed. The solid ma
hOgany front doors are to have their upper
panels removed and fine Tiffany glass put
in their places. The sem-circular light
over the entrance is to be replaced with
handsome design in the same glass;
Minister Vests dinner to the diplomatic
corps and state department officials was con-
verified into symposium on the subject of
the international police system. Our folks
gave the other-siders notice that we could
not think of it.
The total amount of bonds redeemed I'm.
der the treasury department circular OF
March q to date is $41S3, $50 and of this
amount s., COD were presented bv the
controller of the state of New York.
The secretary OF war has granted two
months leave to Gen. Nelson A. Miles, CON-
marding the department of Columbia, and
Gen. Wheaton has been placed in charge of
that department..
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LAYING the Foundations.

He who would achieve an honorable
success in life should take lesson from
the old Crack architects. They laid the
foundations of temple as thoroughly
as if the stones were to meet the public
gaze.
Daniel Stafford, a Boston mechanic.
who honorably gained success in bus
mess and position in society, uncon-
sciously initiated these Greek builders.
When an apprentice he wrote in his
diary:
Resolved, that I will be as faithful
and thorough in working for my master,
as if l were doing it only for my
SELF"
In after life, when he had achieved
fortune, Mr.. Stafford used to say that
much Of his success was due to his faith
fu! I'd lerence to that resolution.
Elk Governor Morgan, of New York,
who has just died, after filling stations
of the highest dignity, laid the founda-
tons of his large fortune by obeying a
similar rule,
He determined to make himself so
necessary to his employer that he could
not be spared He was taken, in later
boyhood, into his uncle's grocery store
on a salary Of forty dollars a year.
No one in the store did better work,
or was more obliging and useful. The
second year he demanded one hundred
dollars. The uncle could not spare him,
and was unwilling to give higher wages
than to older clerks. He compromised
with mis- nephew by giving seventy-fve
dollars. The third year the young man
was master of the situation, and the I'M
Gle was glad to retain him by giving him
a place in the firm.
Many young men make a fatal blum
der by Sinking extra or disagreeable
work. The way to win promotion is to
excel in ones own department, and be-
come indispensable to ones employer
Youths Companion.
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SCANDINAVIAN AMERICA.

Tho Diseributioa Of Immigrants from the
Northern Countries and Their Desoena.
ants In the United States.
Translated from the Fedrelandet OF Emil
yranten: The census Of 1880 elbows that there
wore then in the United States Of America
44O, 282 persons born in the Scandinavian
countries. Of which lSl ,729 were born in
Norway, 1914 1897 in Sweden, and g., 100 we're
born in Denmark As the immigration from
The Scandinavian countries has been very
great in'l8S1 and 1892, it is fair estimate
that there are now in this country over $780,
600 persons born in the scandinavian COUP
tries. By different counts it has been proven
that children born in this country OF Scan
ainavian parents number at least as many as
their parents aud others born in the Scandi-
navian countries and now living here, SO it is
not TOO much to cay that the Scandinavian pop
nation in the United States now, at least.
amounts to l. 100000, or that every fftleth
person in the United States is either born in
the Scandinavian countries or il born in this
country If Scandinavian parents. and, further,
that every hundredth person in this country is
born in the Scandinavian countries Those
bern in the Scandinavian count les are divided
among the States and Territories as follows:
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The Delta CrcOleS.
rom the Century for Aprii.


Outwardly the creoles of the delta had
become a graceful, well-knit race, in full
keeping with the freedom of their sur
roundinas. Their complexion lacked
color, but it was free from the sallow-
ness of the Indies. There was much
larger proportion Of blondes among
them than is commonly supposed. Gen
orally their hair was of a chestnut, or but
little deeper tint, except that in the city
a Spanish tlncture now and then asserted
itself in black hair and eyes. The wom-
en- were fair, symmetrical. with pleasing
features. lively, expressive eyes, well
cious, decorous, exceedingly taste
full in dress adjoining them
selves with superior effect in draperies Of
muslin enriched with embroideries and
much garniture of lace, but with more
moderate display of jewels, which indi-
Gated community Of limited wealth.
They were much superior to the men in
quickncss of wit, and excelled them in
amiability and in nlanv other good quail
tiles. The more pronounced faults of
the men were generally those moral
provincialisms which travellers recount
with undone Impotence. They are
cSalu W uaSC OCcA COdEsc, UOdSCIuI, VdluS
and they were, also, deficient in energy
and application, without we'll directed
ambition, unskillful in handicraft-
doubtless through negligence only-and
totally wanting IN that community feeling
which begets the study of recip-
rocal rights and obligations.
and reveals the individuals
advantage in the promotion
of the common interest. Hence
the creoles were fonder of
pleasant fictions regarding the salubrity,
beauty, good order, and advantages of
their town, than of measures to Justify
their assumptions. With African slave
ry they were, of course. icentious, and
they were always ready for the dueling.
ground; yet it need not seem surprising
that people 50 beset by evil influences
from every direction were generally un.
conscious of repreeensible state of af-
fairs and preserved their self-respect
and proud belief in their moral excell-
ence. Easily inaamed, they were as
easily discouraged, thrown into co,.tu
sion, and overpowered, and they ex-
pended the best of their energies il
trivial pleasures, especially the masqus
and the dance; yet they were kind pr
ents, atfectionate wives, tractab,e chiI
dren. and enthusiastic patriots.
Cornelius Vanderbilt GAS given $1,000 to
the American Church Building Fund com
mission protestant Episcopal New 1os
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-19
The Servant Girl in Social Life.

Shortly after the food, as we are in
formed, Abrams wife turned her do
nestle, Hager, out of the house on ac-
count Of her arrogant conduct, which is,
perhaps, the first authenticated in
stance on record of trouble be-
tween mistress and servant girl.
This sort of trouble, which began
SO early, still survives in forms so vari-
GUS and often so exasperating as to raise
the impatient question whether the
serving class is the only dark part of
creation which improvement has failed
to reach. The question is, no doubt, full
Of aggravation and disagreement, yet
there has been improvement, but it has
been of slow attainment, forming no cx-
social ame!ioration.
Social changes, it is to be remembered,
especially of the alternating and elevat-
ing kind, are always slow. We are be
ginning to talk about social evolution
and the new science of sociology which
treats of it, but We have to take ages in
to account before we can realize any
positive conception of advance. Much
of the barbarism of early society clngs
te naciously to the domestic relation,
while the modification Of human nature
and the corresponding modification of
social imperfections 20 on. but very
gradually, tardily and partially.
A still further reason for the elowness
Of improvement in the present case
arises from the popularity of the rela-
tons involved. In time of early vio-
lence, it is the weak that are subjugatel
and enslaved and, as civilization advan-
ces, it is ever the lowest and most ignor-
ant class of any society that falls into
the condition ofmeniaI servitude. The
feeblest, the least competent, the least
provident, naturally sink to the bot
tom of the social scale and become
the helpers. the dependents, the
drudges, and the servile appendages
o the classes who have wealth,
Intelligence and power. In domestic
life these relations become organized
with the abject class at the base of the
social structure. Improving agencies
will obviously not take effect alike upon
the higher and lower elements. Many
causes will operate powerfully to main :
tain separate interests. to favor the SUI
perior class, and to hinder their infer
iors, SO that servants will he the last to
be reached by eievating agencies.-From
'The Legal Status of Servant Girls, ''in
Popular Science Monthly for April.
The superintendent of motive power of the
Northern Pacific road has been exDeriment-
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Outrage in Wabasha County.

Plainview News: Last Saturday night q
band of robbers entered the house of Mr..
Benny, man nearly eighty years old and
living alone on his farm near this place, ard
rousing the old man from sleep bound his
hands, tied handkerchief over his mouth,
threw him on the floor and piled the bed
clothes on him. In pulling off the bed
clothes they discovered an old tobacco box
containing five $40 gold pieces, which they
at once appropriated. they then lett one
of their number to guard the old man and
the Others proceeded to overhaul the pre-
misses. They found another horde of about
$3.50 secreted in feed barrel This they
took, and then left the place. After the rob-
berry it seems that some OF the gang came up
to Fairwater mills and stole horse from
Mr.. Jones of that place. They rode the
horse nearly to this place, hardening him
near the Sylvester farm.
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Crimes and Criminals.

Washington and Henry Tobias, the alleg-
ed defaulting brothers of New York, were
young scions ola wealthy Jewish family,
trustees of an estate worth 100000. This
was derived from their maternal grand
mother, and is to be divided among WASH
lngton. Henry, two other brothers and a
SISTER. upon the death of their mother.
one OF the reports in Wall street was that
the brothers had lost heavily in specula-
lions, and cut off coupons from some Of the
bonds belonging to the trust funds and sold
some other securities, amounting in all to
100000. w
AT Huntsville, Ala, Judge Bruce of the
United States court released on his per-
sonal rccognizance Dick Liddel member Of
the James gang. This is regarded as a
settlement of the case Lildel is free. and
can now testify in the Frank James trial
III Missouri. All effort to have L;ddei
Pardoned by the president proved unavail-
In New York, Mrs. Rose Howard. the
nineteen-years-old wife of William Howard
killed her tirst-born child three weeks old
The mother is now an inmate of a hos, ;taJ
raving mad. Mrs. Howard had been iii
since the birth Of the child, and was fire.
quently delirious from fever.
Mrs. Coomes, wife of one of the men re-.
Gently lynched near Helena, Mont, for ar
son, says the night of the fire her husband
W, was at home all night caring for sick baby.
mere is growing belief that the lynchers.
VINO are reported to have been drunk, were
too previous. "~'0
The mystery connected with the disap.
pearance of Mary Nelson OF Milwaukee, the
young woman who disappeared last Octo.
Der, shortly after Maggie Hennecke, was
solved recently by the finding of her body
IN the river. It is believed she suicided.
Around Waupaca, Wis, feeling ore
valls that Vandecar, the Red Wing man
VINO IS charged with the murder of Banker
Meade, IS innocent. The detectives fail to
get proof of his guilt.
The Delaware legislature has passed a bill
concerning murderers. If found insane ha
shall be confined in a Jail or an asylum. n
his sanity is regained he shall be liable to
trial or sentence. ~
Mitchell, the English pugilfst, wants to
fight Sullivan for $1,000 aad the champi.
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A Rural Badger Romance.

Grand Rapids, Wis, Special. About one
and half years ago . young American girl,
seventeen years old, who represented her
self as an orphan, poor and without friends,
and giving her name as Dora Smith, after
unsuccessful attempts at dressmaking went
to work as domestic with prominent fam.
lily, and was by them afterws1d sent to the
high school. She had been studying faith
fully, and both there and in the Conere-
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End Of the Lake City Sensation.

Later developments in regard to Miss
Lucy D. Watson. who fled from her father
and promised husband, to avoid marriage
with the latter, are as follows: By the ad
vice and assistance of friends here to whom
she expressed an aversion to fulfill her mar
riage engagement with Mr.. Gresham, she
started on visit to her grandfather in
GAINESVILLE, Wis. At La Crosse she halted
on her journey, to await the forwarding of
some clo,h hing for which she wrote to friends
here. These friends concluded to advise
her to return, as she was not ,liged
to get married unless she wanted
to, even if the license had been
procured. A sympathetic relative went
after her and escorted her to the residence
OF William Wilson in this city, where, hav-
ing become reconciled to Charles Croshaw.
she was united to him in marriage by Rev.
T. B. Killiam on Tuesday. Therefore, the
money invested in procuring a license, was
not wasted. The bride shed tears profuselv
when the nuptlal knot was tied, and the
happy couple took the next train for a trip
to Minneapolis. Mr.. Croshaw is a we'll.
fixed and highly respected farmer of Lake
township, and the wife he has acquired is
intelligent and amiable, with many
friends.
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onship, but cannot raise SIC, 900, and says
Sullivan talking the latter figure is . bluff.
Tom slavin of Wanamie, Pa, who has
boosted of his pugilistic abilities, was terri
bly, whipped by an Irish immigrant named
Oavanagh, recently, in twenty-three rounds.
At Jackson, Texas, Joseph Blackerby
shot dead James Wyrick duaing quarrel;
John Green, Jr., killed his uncle, Joseph
Winchester.
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Casualties of the Week.

Henry W. Colburn and Bernard Ashley,
keepers of flag signal at Point New Year,
San Mateo county, Cal, attempted to row
ashore in skiff with two friends, CLAYTON
and Frank Pratt; recently. The boat can
sized and all were drowned. The wives of
the keepers were witne sses of the accident,
They slgnaled passing steamer, the Los
Angeles, which made a search without re-
suit.
A large volume ofwater is going through
the freak in the ship bayou levee two miles
above Hard Times Landing, La. TIL, break
IS about 100 yards wide. 400 yards below
the government light. The current going
through is very swift. All back lands are
inundated.
The storm Of Friday night did consider
able damage over wide stretch of territory
in Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa.
Hou es and barns were here and there de.
molished in the old fashioned way of the
native cyclone.
The Lyman cotton mill in North Proyi-
dence, r: l., owned by II. c. White and
Rlmby E. X. Johnson burned. Loss, $75.-
OOO WV
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Death OF Hon. Leonard b. Hodges.


Hon. Leonard Bacon Hodges, known
widely as the great tree planter" died at his
residence in St. Paul on Saturday 18th inst,
from q complication o; diseases, having
their origin in an enteebled condition of
the digestive organs. Mr.. Hodges has long
been sufferer from chronic dyspepsia and
although he had been confined to his house
for three weeks, and to his bed for two
thirds of that time, his symptoms did not
take on an alarming tharac-
ter until the latter part of last week. His
death, therefore, came somewhat unexpect-
eddy, and was shock to the community at
large, as we'll as to his family and more i'm
mediate friends. The deceased was in many
respects remarkable man, and his faith.
full and intelligent devotion to the cause Of
horticulture, aud his vifforous accuracy of
the same by tongue and pen, placed him in
the front of the sanatarians and economists
OF the age.
Hewas the founder and soul ofthe forestry
association, and his contributions to the IT,
erature of forestry, and especially in the
manual prepared by him, are, prehaps. of
more practical value than oil the volumes
which have been written on tho subject by
others: He was the real author of the tim
Der culture act, and he inspired and moul-
ded most OF the state legislation on the sub
jet. He originated the system of planting
the cuts of railroads, whic66
are found to be vastly more effective than
fences to protect the cuts from snow block
AIDES. He was employed in this capacity on
the Northern Pacific railroad at the time of
his death He first saw the light of day in
West Bloomfield, Ontario county, N. Y,
where he was born upon the 18th eff July,
1909 His fokhor T uoI-
who was physician and surgeon in the
war of 1912. His mother, Sarah Durham
Bacon was sister of Leonard Bacon D.
descended. When only thirteen years
old, Leonard B. Hodges left his home and
set out to face the world. He fir.t went to
New Haven, Conn.,, where he found en-
p!oyment as a clerk in book store and
atterward other employment. Then he
amakee county, low, and at Oronoco, Ohm
stcd Co., Minnesota. In the We 1870, Mr..
Hodges, who had still continued to work
his farm, became q candidate for the state
senate upon an anti.monopoly platform.
Mr.. Hodges came to St. Paul in 1872,
His zeal for forestry now began to manifest
itself, and from the time he came to the
day of his death his efforts to plant in the
minds of state and municipal authorities
and o the people at large realization of
tn, importance of the subject in which he
was 30 greatly interested was unremitting
and fruitful in practical results.
He had a kind heart, and iiberality was
among mis- pr minent traits. Mr. Hodges
was twice married. His first wife, Eliza
teth Collins, o! 10 va, to whom he was mar
ried in J nuary, l849, died the following
June. Miss Margaret B. Rogers of Saratoga
county, New York, was his second wife.
He was married to her on the 9th of Au-
gust, 1855. OF the four children who were
the fruit of this union, only one survives,
namely: Margaret Elizabeth, who is now
nineteen years Ofage.