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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-09-07
THE WEAKER SEX.


Shed been belle I'll winter long-the quecn,
In fact, OF all. s| d s
Shed been to- ali the coaching meets; had
danced at every ball
No function Of society had this fair maiden
missed. 81. ~ 81 Rsf$ss<
Her name was certain to be found on every
social list. IS
When summer came she went away to get
nee6cd rest.
And to the hills she hied herself, because they
pleased her best
And this is how she took her ease. this lovalv
city belle, .ee =. - :,
And this Is how she ..rested' in that little
mountain dell: r.
She walked each day dozen miles 'twixt
breakfast.time and one; = +.
She bOWled five games of tenpins ere the lunch
hour was begun; .,
She played five sets Of tennis, and she took q
horseback ride, y. z.- ~
And then q row upon the lake this worn-out
maiden tried. ><@
She dressed for dinner aft~r six; and when the
meal was DER " "..ss
She promenadedup and ,wn the hotel CORR
dor,
Until at nine the orchestra began it's evening
task.
And then she danced the hours through with
anyone who'd ask.
She danced the waltz with Billy Jones: she
danced the York with me:
She tripped the polka with o boy whose age
was ten and three; -
And when the men were all worn out and ready
for repose. - ..
This lovely belle was just as fresh as any bud
ding rose.
And as watched this maiden when the day at
last was done. -a.>
deemed her the most wonderful OF wonders
meath the sun. ...-.-.f.-.- .:.. .
Her KIND OF rest would task q mantle
strongest man know - -
And but single week Of It would surely lay
him low.
And SO ask this question. which this maid
brought to my mind,
AS sat rapt in wonderment at her and all her
kind:
Why is it that these girls can do the things tina,
make men wrecks,
And yet be called by all mankind at large THE
Weaker Sex:''
-Harper's BaZar
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SACRED CATTLE FROM INDIA.

but attention is pretty evenly divided
between them. There is more fine
stock at the fair just at present than
was ever before gotten together, and
more countries are represented in this
department than were ever placed in
competition before in America.
Among the exhibits in the live stock
department are some which are decided
ly unusual in such exhibitions There
are some Brahmin, or sacred cattle,
from India, which, according to the
legends of that country, were at one
time worshiped as are the white ele-
plants of Siam. They were, it is said,
stalled in Buddhist temples and were
fed from vessels of gold and silver.
Whatever sacred character they once
possessed, the India cattle are now
bred for combined speed and draft pur-
poses. The two specimens, bull four
years old and cow two years old, on ex-
hibition at the fair, are from Trinidad,
one of the windward islands of the
Caribbean sea, just off the coast of Brit
ish Guiana. The island is British
colony, and the India bull and cow
were bred from sires and cows import
ed over twelve years ago from Hindo-
stan. The breeding on the island has
been eminently successful under gov
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EDUCATION in CANADA.
-Qaebec's varisd and Extr.n.,v Y.t.r.,
lng Exhiblt- Work OF the MIND.

Queben's Varisd and Extremely Intersst-
Ing Exhibit-Wark ~ tho Blind.
On gallery B, in the Liberal Arts
department. of Manufacturer building,
in two sections, are the educational ex-$
hibits Of tie proyince Of Quebec, Can,
under the charge Of Caaon Bruchesi, d. I
D., appointed by the government, as
sisted by Brother Pelerinus. The ex.
hibits come from two hundred converts
and academies, and the McGill univer-
sity, Protestant of Montreal The ex-
hibit Of the latter Is not as. extensive
as the merit Of thesuniversity Warrants,
but the space could not be obtained. ::
The work represented in the remaining
portions of the two sections shows the
system of education of the converts and
academies BY grades, from the first
step to the graduating course. There
are compositions in English, French,
German and Spanish by pupils of the
various schools, and some of these are
illustrated with pen drawings by the
student, the subject being told in
two-fold manner. Great albums con-
tain samples of needlework from the
simplest bit to the finest crochet and
lacework. The name of each worker
and her age are appended to the article.
The ages range from eight to sixteen
years and some of the work is remark
able. In one exhibit work is shown in
flax, from the preparation of it on
through its several stages. the last be-
ing a woven article. This is done by
the students of Ursaline convent, Rob.
ertvue, Lake St. John. The work of |
the blind in the asylum at Montreal
under the direction of the Gray Nuns, is
but another revelation Of the ability of
the blind. One sample will illustrate:
A blind girl eleven years old wrote a
poem in French. The manuscript is
shown. Then she copied it from a type
machine and the typescript is perfect.
The history of the Institute of the Con-
gregation Of Notre Dame (burned a few
days ago. from its foundation in 1920,
by Marguerite Bourgeoys, is shown in
a large frame, the priests, sisters SUI
perior and others appearing in pen
sketches. Oil paintings and sketches
by the deaf mutes of Montreal are in
teresting. In a glass case are eighteen
thousand pressed flowers, each an
alyzed, all from the soil of Canada. The
exhibit, as whole, is varied and many
things there are curious, and all are
creditable to the system of education in
the old province.
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QUICK. y,i1:lI.-r.lEL.o...

Coel ucads which Have Turned tho Doll
/ c.te soalo os Llfe And Deeth.
Is sppthern girl an iouss to support
herself, and to make her own in the.
world, entered the training-school for
nurses at Bellevue hospital. New York.
She became IN expert nurse, remarka-
BILE for courage and self-possession. .
One nighta patient, who had been
hastily admitted to the wards without
inquiry respecting her mental condi-
ton, attempted suicide by throwing
herself from window. This nurse,
by her GOODNESS and quick wit, diverted
her from her purpose and saved her
life. ss & Z,
The incident made an impression
upon the managers of the school.
When they received an application from
an insane asylum for nurses to be em-
ployed in the scientific care Of deranged
patients, she was highly recommended
for the work, and was subsequently,
promoted to the responsible position OF
matron in one of the largest insane
hospitals in the country.
One of this nurses experiences with
insane patients disclosed her nerve and
quickness of mind. She was attacked
in a ward by a powerful woman, who
had taken offense because for miscon-
duct she had been forbidden to go with
the other patients to the monday meal.
The nurse, being alone with her, had
incautiously turned her back upon the
patient. The Infatuated woman crept
up, and selling the little nurse by the
waist, lifted her from her feet and
spun round and round with her like a
top. - =
The nurse was completely in the
power of an uncomfortable lunatic,
whose excitement,andf frenzy were in
creasing every instant. 1t would have
gone hard with her. if she had lost her
presence of mind. -
What she did while she was whirling
in the air was to take a large pin fast
ening the belt of her uniform and
thrust it into the woman's arm. The
assailant, startled by the sudden pain,
relaxed her grip and released her pris-
oner.
Then the nurse faced her, and had
her instantly under control. Looking
her in the eyes, she sternly ordered her
to go to her room and get into bed.
The woman, completely cowed, obeyed
like child.
The same quick wit enabled sur
geon to save the life of hospital pa
tient who was undergoing a critical
operation.
The assistants had dropped their in
struments, for the patients heart had
apparently ceased to beat. 'She is
dead" they said; it is useless to go on. -
The surgeon seized pitcher of hot
water and poured into the gaping
wound. go on with your work. he
cried.
The circulation of blood was imme.
diately restored by the sudden access
of heat. The operation was quickly
completed. The patient lived and was
restored to health.
Often it is the simplest device which
turns the delicate scale of life an6
death; but only the coolest head car
think of it in time.-Youth's Compan.
| ion
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stock exhibit at the worlds fair,
and William O'Brien McDonough, the
young California millionaire, for two
weeks exhibition of the great English
stallion and unbeaten thoroughbred,
Ormonde. The horse was formerly the
property of the duke of Westminster
and was sold by him to q South Ameri-
can for 100000. The perfection of the
animal in conformation, his unbeaten
record of sixteen races, defeating the
greatest runners in all Europe, and his
great success as q sire-Orme and st.
Cation, his sons, being two of the
champions of the English turf-make
him by far one of the greatest thorough
breds that ever looked through bride.
A week ago Ormonde arrived in New
York from England and will soon be
en- route to the great stock farm of his
new owner in California. 1t is expect
ed that the animal will be allowed to
stop over q couple of weeks and show
his great self in the stock pavilion.
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He stopped and picked up few pieces
of wood, and mended the fire so that it
might be all right while he was gone
to fetch company. When finished with
the fire and before rising from his
crouching posture, he glanced over his
shoulder down the long, CHASTITY line
of the dead. A change had taken
place in that line. He turned his head
further round and saw standing over
him a human figure-the figure of a
woman-the figure of one Of the dead
the figure which Lad . minute ago lain
nearest to the fire!
with a yell, he rose and jumped
back.
81 am so col H. said the Inquire. oh,
I am as cold as death
THE young man fled screaming to the
crowd down by the water. AS soon as
he could speak, he told what had hap
pened. A dozen men ran back with
him. They found young girl dazed
and shivering kneeling on the ground
with her white wan face turned to-
wards the fire.
She was the only one of TIE fifty.
father and mother in the Uniccr IN, and
was alone in the world. Her father, a
wheelwright, was on his way tn Amer
lea. The sixteen others saved went
away from Mynhin in few days. This
young girl remained in the village, and
three months after the wreck the young
coastguard married her. Permit me to
introducemyself to you as THAI coast
guard, and, as the young girl who that
night stood up over me by the IRE. my
wife,
rose and bowed to the buxom land
lady who sat knitting in the bar.
Il don't recollect anything Il ON the
time was washed off the VESSEL" said
the landlady, until all the people
were round me by the fire. l don't
recollect seeing Tom at the fire."
SWELL" said the landlord, knocking
the ashes out of his pipe, you can see
Tom at the fire now, my dear, and
Toms glass is empty
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CURRENT MODES.
A Few Fresh Notes the Styles In Wo.
mans Dress.

Few Fresh Notes ga the Styles in wo.
mans Dress.
One of the most fashionable comb.
nations of the hour is black and cream
color, which is not. only modest and
ladylike, but universally becoming.
The soft, uncrushable and durab BILE
regence silk is much used for costumes
of ceremony. Brocaded regence silk is
quite new and in many patterns is very
rich and handsome.
Among the new hats and gowns for
early fall which are already here ir
the hands of the wholesalers, not only
is green combined with blue, violet and
amber, but blue and green are mixed
to form peculiar shade.
There can be no doubt that very ele.
CANT brocades in gorgeous colors are
to be worn next season as they are al.
ready manufactured in forty-eight,
inch widths, so that the width of the
goods makes the length of the skirt.
The latest thing in fabrics for tailor.
made dresses is a variety of homespur
of pure wool, woven as thin and as
light as grenadine in quarterback
stripes of white and color. This
goods is made up over rustling taffete
silk.
Satins which can be compressed
within the smallest space without
creasing are known as liberty satins
These durable and dainty fabrics are
not only used for waists, vests and
other accessories for cloth gowns, but
for entire costumes.
With summer costumes are boas full
and short, which encircle the neck but
do not conceal the frills and flummery
of the corsage. Some of these boas are
of ostrich feathers, others of box.
plated French lace, or satin striped
gauze or of large-meshed net.
Black MORE, which is alw avs in
vogue in Paris. is used in wide ribbons
for ruches and collarettes edged with
rows of jet spangles. A sin gle full
ruche of black MORE ribbon with dou-
BILE capes below it reaching to the tips
of the shoulders is modish worn with
toilets of various colors-
O3e of fashions dictates this season
is that something, however bright it
may be, shall be worn around the
shoulders. For this purpose modistes
are importing pretty collarettes OF
black mousselaine do sole in two frills
edged with narrow white guipure, dis
posed one above the other quite like u
lamp shade.
As useful as it is fashio nable is a
box-plaited ruche of black satin ribbon
which is worn as boa with different
costumes. It should be very full to
give a thick, round effect and the
plaits should be tackled only on one
edge instead of through the middle in
the usual way. Double-faced satin rib
bon three inches wide is required.
Prominent on the French color cards
for the coming season is series of
luminous blue shades in which there
is very palpabl admixture of green,
There is also series of pinkish purple
tints beginning with bengale and au-
busson pink, and deepening to the au.
bergine and dahlia shades so long in
favor.-N. Y Post.
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eminent auspices, and the cattle make
fast draft animals. They are speedier
than mules, and will draw twice the
weight. 1t is no unusual thing to see
these animals hitched up to carriages
and handsome barouches in Trinidad,
and the India bull is natural and fast
trotter. ssa.#s5 II -
The COW at the fair il = creamy
white animal, delicately limited as q
Jersey cow, and somewhat resembles
one, only being larger. The bull is
mouse 'co.ored, marked black about the
muzzle, and is q strong, vigorous-look-5
ing animal. Both are short horned,
have dropping ears, and the distinctive
feature of the breed is q hump between
the shoulders, not unlike that Of the
American bison, or buffalo. The ami.
mails are thin-skinned and short
haired, and their coats glistep like
satin.
Among other importations are forty
head of horses from Russia, including:
= number from the imperial stables.
These animals are noted for their,
speed and endurance and will be dis
posed Of in this country for breeding
purposes. .
The display of native stock Is very
completes and extensive There are s
great many very: fine specimens of
Ihorseh from the msmmotn Perish
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IS always broken water on the hank,
and when vessel comes in she grounds
there The Unicorn was flung on It
broadside to- the sea with q list to lee
ward. The sea made q clean breach
over her, and tons of water rushed up
her weather side and swept her decks.
She was IA large bark, and those
on the shore soon saw she had more
people aboard than crew. She had
twenty five sailors and eighty passen-
gers, and there she lay. heeling over
more and more every sea that struck
her. and hammering herself to pieces
on the hard sand.
Get out her boats? They might rs
well try to get ont the main beam! She
was smothered in water, and the first
half dozen seas swept everything of
her decks - boats, caboose, harness.
casks, water-butts, and stove in q lot of
her windward bulwar3ks.
WAS there no lifeboat ashore? Yes;
and as fine a fisherman crew as ever
pulled into the teeth of a gale. Three
times that Gfeboat was launched.
Bless you, it was blown back like an
empty bladder. !"
''They had a rocket apparatus ashore.
Four rockets were fred. Two were
bent back like a coachman's whip, and
two fell half way. tell you it's q
hard thing for strong and willing men
to fold their arms while human beings
are perishing before their eyes.
CATER a bit those on the shore heard
a sound like the report of distant can
non. Then they knew her back was
broken. She burst in two amidships,
the mainmast fell over the side to lee
ward, and the foremost and mizzen be-
gan waving, one this way and the other
that way, like crazy man swinging
his arms above his head.
''All on the shore knew what was
going to happen now. The broken wa
ter, which had been white and boiling,
grew black and heavy with human
forms, and soon cargo and bodies began
to come ashore.
''When this happened it was growing
dusk. BY night the wind had fallen to
a breeze. Sixteen living and fifty-seven
dead had come ashore. The living
were taken up to the village of Mynhin,
and the dead, men, women and chill
dren, were laid out in one long, CHASTITY
line on the beach above highwater. At
each end of the line fire was lighted.
One young coastguard was set to tend
the fires and watch the dead, while
every other person old enough and
strong enough was engaged in saving
and securing the cargo.
ITO his dying day that coastguard
who watched by the dead will never
forget the night. AS the clothes of the
victims dried they began to stir in the
breeze. Scores of times he thought he
! saw leg or an arm or a head raised.
Scores of times he thought he heard a
cry. BY midnight the young man was
half dead with terror.
AFTER midnight the moon began to
blink through a torn sky, and the
young man thought he must have COM
pany or go mad. 1t was near low wa
ter, and the people working at the
salvage were a good way off. He was
at the fire furthest from the workers
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moist, warm air flowing up strongly
from the southwest A prudent man
would have accepted the warnings
hung out in the sky and turned back,
but kept on hoping against the signs
of the weather, until when half way
the heavens uttered low, moaning
sob, and gale from the southwest
broke upon the coast, bringing with it
first heavy, penetrating mist, and
then driving, Kissing sheets OF rain,
which made my face and hands smart,
half blinded me and wet me to the
skin.
When l was thoroughly soaked l
came to q cross roads, and 10! quiet,
respectable little Inn. The landlord
was very civil and obliging. He found
me a set of fannels, a large, warm
dressing gown, and a pair of roomy
slippers. He also supplied the sugges-
ton that glass of rum punch by the
fire in the bar was the best preventive
medicine l could swallow.
got off my wet things, and got on
tho things warm and dry, and sat down
by the fire. The buxom landlady set a
steaming tumbler by my elbow. l lit
my pipe, and began to feel grateful to
the storm which had driven me into
such snug quarters. My comfort was
made complete when the landlord, a
burly, middle-aged man of ruddy face
and genial manner, sat down opposite
me, with a steaming tumblcr of rum at
his elbow, and a long churchwarden
between his thumb and finger.
'"That's stiff gale" said l. -,
1T will be worse presently" said he,
crossing his legs luxuriously, and look
ing gravely into the smoke which he
blew from his lips into shaggy cloud
toward the high wide fireplace.
''There will be a heavy sea on outside
If it grows any worse, and keeps at it?''
said, interrogatively.
''There will be as much sea on before
morning as ever we have here; but,
bless you, that's not much.''
''Do you never have much sea here?''
"No; not to speak of. Why, there
isn't water enough inshore for it. It's
all sand and sand and sand-out pretty
nigh as far as you can see. At low wa
ter a man can walk out mile. A very
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oughfares show unmistakables evidence
IT a fresh impetus to the tide of travel,
and for the last few days the crowds
that swarm the business section of the
city have. been perceptibly increasing
in volume. So much SO, in fact, that y
is q difficult matter to pedestriansse
1t anything like brisk gait without
coming into collision with people who
are very busy with the sights and con-
sequently quite oblivious of citizens on
business bent. :.-..,55s-
The stores and baZars where Column
bian souvenirs and curios are on sale
are packed and jammed with eager peo-
pie from early morning till late at
aoing a thriving business in badges,
buttons and all sorts of mementos of
the Columbian year. Money seems to
be plenty Notwithstanding the strin-
yency of the money market, and there
is a continuous stream of small change
flowing into the Golfers of the small
dealers in nearly all branches of trade
The crowd that pours out of the city
toward Jackson park through the vari~
ous channels of travel is daily increas-
ing and the facilities for transportation
are being severely taxed Street cars,
| IL" trains, railway trains, lake boats
and all means of transit are kept busily
on the move to take care of the hurry
ing throngs that surge toward the
gates of the White City, but there is as
yet very little inconvenience felt by
the travelling public, and, although
much larger crowd is expected from
now ON to the close of the fair, it is
thought there will be but little difficult
| ty in providing for them all.
just now the main attractions at the
fair in the shape of special features are
the West Point. cadets and the prize
cattle and horses. Widely varying in in
terest, of course, are these two features,
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different coast from the one was
brought up on
Where was that?'
"Mynhinbay, Cornwall. That's where
you have a chance of getting look at
the sou'wester and what it can do. All
cliffs and rocks and huge powders,
with the green water mounting fifty
feet up the rocks, and the spray flying
hundred over the land. You don't
know South Cornwall?'
II can't say that do"
''And never heard of the loss of the
Unicorn in Mynhinbay?"
mo. Perhaps you would be good
enough to tell me-" said I, perceiving
he had story in his mind. l was just
in the humor to listen.
He settled himself in his big Windsor
easy chair, took a pull at his glass,
blew a few slow whiffs from his pipe to
compose himself and began:
"Mynhinbay faces sou'west. For
miles the coast is bold, ironbound with
no other break. Mynhin isn't more
than half mile wide at the opening
but it expands inside. A mile from the
mouth it stops at q sandy strand The
full force of the Atlantic wallows into
it in a heavy Southwestern, and no ship
has chance once she gets inside its
jaws. = . sz5.... ~ IS. ID
"You may ask what business ship
has inside its jaws. Well, none at all;
Tor it is not port, nor is. there any
port near for which it can be mis-
taken. But accidents happen. and
once in fifty years or so an unfortunate
craft gets swept in, and then it
- all over with her and long
odds against her crew. A box Of
sea carried away the rudder of
the Unicorn and that's how she came
into the bay. 1.
Halfway in is q sand bark. The.
whole weight Of the inrolling waves
strikes this sandbank. In q gale there