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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
The Art of Music,

The art OF music is 80 modern a de-
yeIepment that it is only within the
last 200 years that anything having q
title to the name Of music has existed.
Modern or music proper had its rise in
Italy, where most of the erts in their
modern form also mad their rise. Italy
may be said to have been the cradle Of
the arts. The first participator with
Italy in the newly-discovered glories of
the musical art was Germany. Italian
opera and Italian church music found a
sympathetic response in that country.
But observe that this sympathy was at
first entirely receptive. Until Gluck
founded a national school of music for
his countryman, Germany remained
content to be catered for by italy. No
creative genius showed itself then for
years. There were indeed composers,
IN the ordinary acceptation OF the word,
but they were servile imitators and
plagiarists, whose creations, while
italian form lacked its sole recommen-
dations--originality and progressiveness.
France, indeed, had already formed q
so-called national school before Handel
and Haydn respectively laid the ggan-
tic foundations on which the mammoth
modern structures OF oritorio and SYM
phony have since been raised. Thus
we see that the German nation, that
must be universally acknowledged the
musical nation par excellence OF to- day,
was in its artistic infancy not only mere.
" receptive, but also feebly initiative,
sure sign of stagnant mediocrity. but
clearly no obstacle to future original
reatness.-Chamber's Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Man Always the Same Animal

Man Always the Same Animal
The most splendid specimen of the
Caucasian race that the civilized world
can show to-day has no more organs
bones, muscles, arteries, veins or nerves
than those which are found in the low.
est savage. He makes different use Of
them, and that use has changed their de.
velopment,and to some extent has mod
fed stature, physical, intellectual and
moral, and many other attributes; Us
climate and habits of life have modified
complexion, the diseases to which the
human frame il liable, and many othe,
peculiarities. Bnt il We take historic
man We ti1d that in all the physical
features of his animal construction that
constitute him a species, he has been
essentially the same animal in all states
OF civilization or barbarism. And un.
less We boldly assume that the pre-.
historic man was an animal born with
a coat Of hair all over his body. and that
clothing was resorted to az the hair in
successive generations disappeared, we
can have no very stron reason for be-
lleving that the human body has been
at any time an essentially different
structure from what it is now. Even in
regard to longevity or power of con-
tinued life if we set aside the exc option.
al cases of what is related Of the pasri-
archs in the Biblical records, we do
not find that the average duration OF
human life has been much less than the
threescore and ten of the fourscore
years that are said to have been the
dlvinely appointed term. As to what
may have been the average duration
OF life among the prehistoric men,
George Hcknor Curtis, in the Manhattan
for FEBRUARY.
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Cheese az Food.

Mr.. Matthew Williams tells US that
we do not begin to know the value Of
cheese in cooking, and is responsible
for the statement (as the London Queer
gives it) that twenty pounds OF cheese
contains az much nutrition as there is in
a whole sheep weighing sixty pounds
Considering the difference in cost be.
tween cheese and mutton this is Ger.
tainly news for the house provider. Elk.
cept as Welsh rarebit maccaronl au
gratin and the fancies in cheese pastry
for desert, the valuable 'casein" is little
used in cooking, although cheese por-
ridge, cheese rice. and the addition OF
cheese to mashed potato, to
pudding, are all known to be appetiziny.
Now all of these preparations are said to
be equal in food-value to beef and NUT.
ton, which should certainly help tc
make them popular. In his cooking lee
lures Mr.. Williams dissolves his cheese
in milk or water, and adds little sal.
eratus to it. (bi.carbonate Of potash, }
which brings it bacS to its original sol.
uble form. Most of the cookbook re.
cipes for using cheese require the adj
dition Of egg. which is an item, of expen-
siveness in midwinter, SO that plain
grated cheese in the simple dishes men
toned, with oatmeal, with buckwheat,
with rice, with potato, are quite novel;
ties. They can be tried with or without
the ealeratus addition.
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Gen. Sherman Dancing.

General Sh erman is known to be de-
voted to the art of dan ling, but his en-
thusiasm sometimes gets the better of
his skill, as the following shows: At
ball given in the Masonic Temple by ex-
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, on the de.
but Of his daughter, Miss Bessie, now
Mrs. Hooker, the company was forming
set for the Lancers, then a new dance,
when the host and Senator Zach Chan
der and General Sherman, all intent on
taking share in the fun, and, it seems,
not prescriptions as t. being "weli
up in the intriCacies of the figure, gen.
erously volunteered to take a place on
The floor. The number of couples was
large, and for few minutes the graceful
moving of light feet kept to the measure
Of the VOL: but GRE long confusion Of
movement dismayed the floor master,
till finally all came to q bewiiderine
standstill, and General Sheridan, who
was on the floor, could not conceal his
Indignation at the three tall tyros whose
skill in guessing at the figure failed to
equal cir audacity.
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Operations in Pills.

. Mr.. Ingram, the founder and proprie
tor ofthe Illustrated London News, made
his first fortune by PARIS life pills, al
Holloway did by his. Mr.. Ingram used
to say that lie always noticed on marke,
days at Nottingham that general pur.
chasers gave the preference to goods
which were advertised with cuts. So he
put an imaginary picture of old Parr on
the front of his advertisement, with
good effect. Holloway followed his
example. He confined himself to
money'making, however, whereas Ing.
ram was socially ambitious, eager fol
admission to society. and was Nj. P. for
Boston at his death. He had a very
handsome country-seat adjoining his
paper mills, in Herts. where on Sunday.
he entertained large parties of brother
NJ. P.'s. He Was in some respects very
democratic, dining in his shirt sleeves
every week day at one with his printers
and employees at the Rainbow, which
was near the Offices Of the Illustrated
News.
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A Successful Editor.

John A. Cockerill, managing editor Of
the New York World, il supposed to be
the best-paid newspaper man in this
country. His salary is $4,000 a year,
and in addition to this sum, he derives
q handsome income from certain shares
of stock in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
presented him some years ago Mr.. Pulit.
Ter. Nobody envies him his good for.
tune; he has honestly earned it by hard
conscientious and good work. In 1879
he was out of employment In Cincinna'
ii, and offered to 60 to work for B. NJ
Chambers, proprietor of the St. Louie
Times, for SIS q week. Chambers was
. clumsy amateur and knew nothing oil
CockerilPs splendid abilities, and 80
paid no attention to his letters. Cock.
erilPs streak of good luck seems to have
struck him the day he associated him:
selfe with Pulitzer. The partnership ie
y strange one, and was sneered at and
laughed at for long time. When Cock.
Grill first went to the St. Louis Post Dis
patch every body predicted he would quit
in disgust in less than two months. That
was four years ago. For four year,
Pulitzer and he have been % mildly
friendly aAt'ucking doves, and theil
professional success is matter ofrecord
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The Weather of 1888.

A summary OF the weather of 1888,
given in the Newark Advertiser, shows
that the maximum temperature of the
year,97S, recorded on the 9TH of July.
was exceeded in eleven of the proceed
ing thirty-nine years, the highest max.
imum in any one year of the entire Sc.
ries having been 100 IL deg. on Septem.
Der z, 1881. The mean temperature OF
the year, 47.73 deg, was below twenty
three Of the whole series of forty years,
and OF deg. be ow tho average Of all,
the highest mean temperature recorded
during the whole period having been
% 63 deg. in 1878. There were 163 DAYS
during the year recorded as fair, no
year having 50 small number, the av.
erage for the entire period being 226,
and the greatest number in any one
year being 256 in 1856 Rain fell in meas.
urable quantities on 1874 days exceeding
the number in any other year. Snow
was observed to fall on 40 days, eleven
more than the average of the 40 years,
and exceeding all but two, 1875 and
1879.
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Married by Power Of Attorney.
One day last week young lady ar
rived at New Bedford, Conn.,, on the
bark Veronica from Fayal. This young
lady was married at the islands several
weeks ago, yet singularly the first
glimpse of her husband was obtained
through the cabin window of the Veron.
lea. as he stood on Propeller wharf i'm.
patiently waiting for the vessel to come
alongside the dock. The courtship had
been conducted by friends of the young
people. Photographs were exchanged
and the compact was made. The bride.
q DOM forwarded power of attorney,
and the ceremony of marriage was per-
formed by priest at Faya1,> marrying
the young girl to a man thousands o.
niles away. When they met in the cab.
in the girl blushed, the husband smiled
and they prosaically shook hands. Each
was apparently completely satisfied with
their venture, and the husband bore his
young wife proudly away.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Variety in Farming.

It is the idea of many that any one
can learn to farm. But as there are so
many branches of farming any one of
which require years OF steady and close
application to master by the best minds,
it is deemed advisable for all farmers to
avoid undertaking too many things.
There are some vegetables, grains and
fruits which have been raised 80 long
and are SO we'll understood, that their
production does not require 80 much
study, and can be used probably in
making up variety ON the farm. And
yet these simplest things require active
minds, and close attention to business
to produce probably, and great care
and thought to sell to advantage.
But there are many things, which re-
quire the undivided attention and study
of the most active minds. It will not
often prove q success, If any man at.
tempts to carry on two or more of them
at the same time. And while we would
advise variety in farming, the diversity
should be 90 selected that the one great
division shall not be neglected by the
care and absorbing attention of others.
The successful farmer il most generally
q specialist. It is not safe for . man to
attempt IT, raise cattle, horses, hogs, and
sheep for breeding purposes, ct the same
time keep large number Of COWS and
run an extensive dairy, or raise cane and
have sugar mill, or 90 extensively into
grain and raise hogs for pork. This
would be spreading too vide. and many,
If not all Of tho enterprises will suffer
neglect. One map's capacity IL not sui.
ficient for all Of these complicated
branches of industry. Better way IL for
man to make himself q specialist-amc.
cess in one branch. Conquer il thorough
". Nearly al men who have made
devoted tb.r Ves p the one braneh ats
b1snch ao of %rm vork but Il fnii eno1y.h
for ono mind, II fully mastered and
0ade . success. And this 10 especially
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Blushing for the Americans

Blushing for the Americans.
From Paris Letter hy Robert Laird Collier.
How comes it that the Americans
one meets in Europe are 80 usually of
the long-talking, ill-bred, fashy type
one sees described in foreign books and
papers? One does not see them at
home, but unhappily crosses their path
everywhere in European travelings. I
was dining the other evening at Pre-
vitalis in Arundel street. 1t is a quiet
little Italian hotel AMI restaurant,
where one goes for delicious and not
expensive dinner, by efficient Italian
walters. Here everything is most civil
and decorous. 1t is a rendezvous for
Italian and French upper-class mer-
chants and journalists. These are
(which goes without saying) deliciously
ceremonious and polite, rising to greet,
low of voice and every way punctiiious.
At the table just behind mine thexe
were four persons, two of each sex, who
were talking loudly AMI acting coarsely,
with an affected Inconsistencies of de-
pertinent: Still they looked and were
dressed like gentlefolk. They attracted
the attention of all in the room and an
| AoyOO CAO. VdAtVl0s w 1k6t was Lu0lF
nationality? need not answer. That
is known to me as we'll as it was to every
one in the room, for the fact is no people
when travelling abroad so violate the
proprieties of life like this except my
fellow-country people.
This was trying night for my patriot.
ism. l went Immediately after with my
friend to see Miss Anderson at the Lvce-
UNI. where my stall was just beside and
under one of the ''bexes" and into this
came half q dozen young people,
dressed to kill, ," who instantly struck up
a general conversation and who kept up
q running fire of criticism upon au1ience,
surroundings. actors and acting during the
whole evening. The ladies stood at the
extreme front of their box and freely
used their opers-glasses, and their talk
was SO loud that it was annoying to
many who were near them. OF course
they were Americans.
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Refreshments r'or a Little PARTY

Refreshments FOR Little Party.
A correspondent asks for information
in regard to the refreshments she shall
serve at a little party of twelve or fifteen
persons. A few dishes. perfect of their
kind are much more satisfactory than a
great variety less dainty prepared.
Sandwiches made of bread baked the
day before, and of nicely minced boiled
ham, seasoned with little vinegar and
mustard and few drops Of oil, with
coffee for which genuine cream has been
provided, may we'll come first then
chicken salad with cucumber pickles
and olives; after which serve cream
with two or three kinds of cake. and if
you choose, grapes and oranges. The
oranges should be partly peeled and the
skin divided in eighths, and the points
turned over toward the orange itself. If
this is done an hour before they are to
be served the peel will keep its place.
Ii the refreshments are served at small
tables, at which two ladies' and two gen.
tlemen sit, two finger bowls are all that
need be placed there, Immediately after
they have indicated i'll some way that
they have finished supper. At whist
parties, whore time is to be considered,
it is best to use the small tables, go that
those who have an unfinished game on
their minds can complete it speedily,
while 1t is still possible to remember
that the jack or ten spot are now high.
IN. Y. Post.
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Heavy Carcasses of Fat Meat.

From the housekeepers' and the CON-
mercial point of view, as wonderful as
these mighty piles of meat were as ex-
amples of what perfection the breeding
and feeding of cattle have attained, it
was very plainly apparent that two or
three points have been carried too far.
The carcasses were too fat for prof table
consumption, and also for canning or
sailing and altogether too large for any
economical uss. The buyer wants a
whole porterhouse or lion steak if any,
and at least two rib roast if a roast at
all; but how many arc there who ask for
four or five pounds of steak in single
cut or tw:-rib roast weighing 20 or Is
pounds! Then as to the fat compared
with the lean, 50 per cent. of the former
to 40 per cent. of the latter would not
be an unfair estimate. to say nothing of
the bone which with the fat must be
thrown out, making beef from very
heavy and fat carcasses very dear food
indeed.-Rural New Yorker.
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He Named the Day.
From the Oil City Derrick.

An Oil City young lady reader put in
to operation our leap year suggestion.
Having got into conversation with q
gentleman on whom she had long had
her eye, the following dialogue ensued:
Do you like home made bread?"
eyes," WAS the reply.
"Then," said the girl, II can bake"
'Ob my ANGEL" replied the gentleman,
encircling her in his arms and imprint.
ing sixteen Emma Abbott kisses on her
rosebud mouth, ''you are the girl have
been looking for. When shah our hap.
piness be completed?"
son." replied the lady; this is leap
year; you must name the day.
"Well," said he, IL am oppose to
long engagements; we will wed az soor
az the Washington monument is com.
pleted."
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knew / heard her; bnt she said steetlv;
Are You going 70 kiss me, to.nieht?''
There was no misunderstanding her this
time. I heard her, and 80 did others,
and 1 felt the blood rushing into my
face, and I stammersd ont, II would
IKE to accommodate you. Miss; I would
truly; but l have wife and thirteen
small children on board with me, and
II my wife should see me kissing you-''
hlss'ng me, you hateful old thing! who
asked yon to kiss me?" "You did"
ye;led; You asked me twice!'' "You
o. 1,d K ?4o;, l askel you II you were goipg
10 k,ss'me-k lsslme City o.night; don't
and il ever any body felt meaner than /
did l would like to exchange photo.
graphs with him.
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ssSkO0i RO0ls.';

ARENAS Ward said that ''Chaucer was
! genius, but he could not SPELL" and.
here are those who think that Wards
wit consisted chiefly in bad spelling.
Such a charge might hold good in the ig-
aorant mans application to 4 teacher in
behalf of his son-'Deer sur, a. yer ar a
man Of nolege, I wish to inter my boy in
yur skull'-for the very blunders sug-
zest an absurd imitation of the truth.
But in the following example the writ
ing tells its own story; end shows good
sense in spite Of its photography. The
Pittsburgh Despatch SAYS:
Superintendent Luckey, in q recent
trip into the country, ran across q school
where the teacher had been furnished
with the following 'Skool Rools'' by the
trustees:
No swearin
fitin
quorrelin
nicknamin
goin into the water
resting or jumpin
goln into any persons vinepatches or
orchards without the consent Of the
owner
no pinchin
stickin of pins into each other.
pullin of hair durin books
cortin in skool
not more than one pupil must 20 out
at a time unless for wood coal or water
no crackin of walnuts unless dried
whisperin
Those rules must be observed for a
violation of those rules will be punished
with lash accordin to verdict of the
trustees.
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Recipes for "HOmo.'

CooK1Es-One cup butter, one CUP su-
gar, two eggs, well beaten, one teaspoon.
fl soda, and one tablespoonful ginger ::
flour to make soft dough; roll thin and
bake quickly.
ROLL JELLY CAKE-Three eggs, well
beaten; one cup butter; one cup sugar;
one cup flour; one teaspoonfnl soda, and
nutmeg to suit your taste ;, bake ten min
utes in long pan; spread with jelly and
roll; wrap in cloth around it till cool.
LAZY WoMAN's PIE.-Two eggs, two
tablespoons sugar, two heaping table,
spoons flour. two-thirds of pint of
sweet milk; flavor same as custard pie,
and bake without crust in buttered pie
tin.
CURRANr PuDD1SG.-Two eggs, one
fourth cup sugar, two tablespoons butter,
two'thirds pint sour milk, and one half
teaspoonful soda; flour enough to make
a thick batter; then flour one teacupiul
of English currants, stir them in, and
steam one and one.half hours; to be
eaten with cream and sugar, or pudding
sauce.
To CAN FRUIr.-Put a teacupful of sugar
for each can, in two quarts of water, boil
and skim, then drop in fruit enough for
one can, let it heat through, and can It.
BY this process your fruit will be whole
and light colored.
LEMON JELLY.-Juice of one lemon.
one cup sugar, one egg, one tablespoon
full butter; boil till thick.
Ifyou wash lemon stains in soda
water before washing in other water,
it will restore its natural color. Wet
water and lay it In the sun, and it will
take it out; wash the clothes as soon
as the spots are gone or the acid will rot
the clothes. :
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Two months ago my attention was called
to the case OF q woman afflicted with cancer
On her shoulder at least inches in circum-
ference, angry. painful, and giving the pa
tient no rest day or night for six months. 1
obtained q supply of S Wits Specific for her.
She has taken bottles, and the ulcer is en-
tire!y healed up, only a very small scab re-
naiRing and her health is better than for s
years past; seems to be perfectly cured: REV.
JESSE 81. CAMPBELL: Colu n bus, Go.
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Piles! Piles: Piles!

Sure cure for B ind, Bleeding and Itching
Piles. Sir gle box bas cur I'd worst chronic
case of twenty years standing. No one need
suffsr five minutes after applying. Villains
Indian Pile ointment. It absorbs the tn.
mors, alIays the itching particularly after
getting warm in bed). Prepared only for
piles aud itching for the private parts.
Noyes Bros. & Cutler, St. Paul. Wholesale
Agents:
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The Single Woman.

~1O1A Gu0 0OutueFu 6ACuauSes
There is no sweeter and no more in.
terestiDg character, whether in fiction
or in real life, than the spinster who has,
for some good reason, refused lovers
proposal, and being now past the hour
of old maid. The ordeal through which
she has passed seems to have refined
her feelings. and of itself insensibly
drawn to her the regards of all who
know her history. Such a one is emf
nently loveabie and sympathetic, forward
in all good works, the warm friend OF
married men and women, the coun.
dante of many tender passion. Age
does not wither the beauty of her dis
position. She never SANDERS, never re-
tails i'll natured gossip; but on the 9th.
or hand, though prompt to put in sea-
sonabie word on a crisis, does not deem
it her mission to set all the people
around her right. She makes an admir-
able aunt, and is very necessary to the
comfort of large circle of cousins.
Many young fellow on the threshold
Of life bears q kindly remembrance OF
her for the good nature and tact with
which she helped him to steer clear of
shoals where he might otherwise have
been wrecked.
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Contagious Diseases Among Cattle,

Contagious Diseases Among Cattle.
The reception of the committee from
cattle growers At the Chicago convention
by the committees on agriculture ofboth
houses Of congress is gratifying to those
who hope something will come from all
this effort. The prevailing feeling is ia
vorable to legislation. The danger is
that too many plans will be presented
and insisted on by their originators a.
being tho best and only good one.
There 10 no doubt that bills will be in.
troduced With the approval Of the com.
mittees In congress and may be passed
without serious objection. It will be
we'll, however, for the cattle interest to
inform their representatives in congress
Of their Wishes In this matter.
Some are still % incredulous o. to
think thero b no no such thing q pleu-
10 pneumonia IN this country, but in
this they show.only their ignorance.