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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-16
JUMP, YOU IDIOT. u

JUMP, You IDIOT"
enough let drive at Frank, hopin' to
knock him overheard if hit him. He
seen it comm, lodged, an just as the
boat went tail up again yelled:
st can't swim!'
"Down went the boat like a soundin'
lead, an this time we all slid over to
starboard to see her come up. Seven
or eight seconds passed, maybe, an
then about Is fathoms off our beam
up come the boat, bottom up! oh,
Lord!' groaned the cook, he's a. goner!
But he warn't. No, sir. The boat
hadn't travelled 20 yeard afore she
righted, an we seen Franks head bob
up over the gunnel. Well, old whale
didn't run so far this time, for he broke
water few hundred fathom off. In
about minute he sent up stream OF
blood. seen then that the harpoon
was a good throw, an he wasn't goin' to
fight long.
II sent the second boat out after him,
but they didn't git far fore down goes
whale for the third time, an in Sec
ond the little boat Slowed again an we
knew he was comm at us. There warn't
no way to make the Dutchman jump,
an there warn't no way to stop the
whale, so we just waited again while the
little boat made tracks for us like she
was goin' to ram. just when reck-
oned by the line out that the whale was
passin' under us there was tremen-
dous bang an every mothers son was
thfowed fiat. Old Liz rolled to star.
board an then back to port an lay
rocl<in' while we got up. Reckon you
guess what happened, Doc? That whale
miscalkilated. He laid his course fine
as silk, but his elevation was off 4
couple O. points. He didn't fetch deep
enough, an hit old Liz welt tha'd
like to rip the keel off her. That set
tied the business, too. We looked over
the rail an seen some bloody water,
then fipper and soon big black
body foated up alongside. There was
our whale, sir, dead as hunk O. salt
pork, with the top O. his head half tore
off. He was blue whale, Doc, and he
measured close to G. feet. What, be-
come o. the Dutchman? Why, tho boat
slowed down when the whale rammed
us an the other boat took him of.
Hurt? No. He went to work cuttin'
up that whale along with the rest OF
'em. I did hear afterward shat he was
grumblin' cause twas his bucket I
throwed at him an it warn't picked up.
Right lively whale, warn't it, Doc?
Fright lively" repeated the doctor,
absently.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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.:Ejfl;EoRI].,,.


IT'S not snos%gh to tune the Tyre
And wait tor harmontgs to come.
God sendeth not scelsstrial fire Xxx x
When hurnsn No. I ar g cold and numb.
IT'S not enough ito5calmly wait, ,s
That quickening dew should on W fall.
TO vaguely long for what is great S
While 1till pursuing what is small. YEP
IT'S not enough with tears Of woe -,
TO weep for NIL the worlds distress,
The drops that from inactlon flow
Nor us. nor other HIVES. will bless.
IT'S not enough the love to take
That other hearts on ours outpour:
The soul Is only kept awake
BY giving something from its store.
II az .Hi.HEs a;ta; e. l4E ~" y
IT'S not enough with dropping wing
And aimless feet to walk this earth;
Effort alone can blessing bring
And crown the soul with sovereign
- 81 Inter Ocean.
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q ANIMAL CURIOSITY.
Even Brute Creation Seems to BE Striv.
ing After tho Higher Things. ~

Even Brute Creation seems to Be striv-
ing After the Higher Things. ~
|, Rev. DR.. C. J. Adams, in a recent
letter to the Kingston Freeman, New
York, incidentally relates the follow
ing: !. .srhat man is more discontinued
with things as they arc-that man has
more imagination vhan the lower ami
mails, do not for a moment question.
But that the lower animal has both
reason and imagination, in common
with man, is as unquestionably true as
that the sun shines. But the question
is now the one of curiosity and discon-
tent. Cows rebel against restraint.
A gentleman in Iowa told me about
his father wanting the cows in his
farmyard to eat clover ebay. They
would not do 50, because they pre-
ferred timothy hay. A brother farm
er advised him to in some way have the
COWS approach the clover hay and then
drive them roughly away, striking
them over the shouts with a fork
handle. He did SO and the result was
that they ate all the clover hay and
wanted more. Here was clear case
of rebellion against restraint or pro-
hibition.
"Another farmer told me that he
built fence about straw stack, plac-
ing the rails upon posts couple OF
feet high. Against that fence the cat
tie rebelled so cmphatically that they
stuck their heads under the fence and
licked up the old broken and soiled
straws on the outside, over which they
had walked before and which they
could not have been induced to touch
had it not been for the fence. The
fence was an appetizer to the CATTLE
Just as the limitations of knowledge
are appetizers to man. And in one case
as in the other the appetite was not
PHYSICAL What the cattle wanted was
liberty. The appetite was not OF the
body, but of the soul.
81 received from Pittsburgh the story
of spider that decorates it's web as it
weaves it with bits of logwood, which
it takes from boX-with no other
| possible purpose in mind than that OF
decoration. Another spider weaves
| a web with broad walls on it-made by
placing the threads more closely than
they are placed elsewhere in the web.
For what purpose? Simply for the
purpose of decoration, or that it may
have place of outing or promenade
for another web is woven for the pur-
pose of catching food. That spider
had an imagination. 1t was not sat
isfied with ordinary things. 1t want
ed something extraordinary. Ask the
| man who has hunted antelope on the
| prairies and he will tell you that he
/ raises d flag and depends upon the
antelope's curiosity bringing it within
range of his ball. Around the flag
that the hunter raises the antelope
| moves in ever-decreasing circles till
the report comes that is prophetic OF
| it's death."--N. Y. Times.
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I ~ 81 :, -. - -' y, = =
IN. A CANDY FACTORY. Z
Cleanliness in tho Places Where Sweote
meats Are Turned Out.

Cleanliness in tho Places Where Sweet.
meats Are Turned Out.
From top to bottom the floors of the
factory are covered with tiles. and I
noticed that there were people engaged
in all parts of the building scrubbing
and washing these tiled floors. For q
candy factory it was the least sticky or
smeary place ever saw. Absolute
cleanliness and sweetness was the rule.
There was slight drift of sugar about,
as in a mill where wheat is being
ground, and your coat might get little
powdered, but there was always sweep
ing going on.
Chocola te-making I need not de-
scribe, only to state that everything
was done here by machinery, for the
chocolate as produced enters for large
percentage into the bonbons manufac-
tured.
In the sugar-plum departments hand
work seemed to be constant. Tidy
looking young women, all with caps on,
were working away, each one with q lit
tie saucepan before her full of sugar;
the sugar was in a pasty condition, the
heut being derived from steam. In
these saucepans were sugars of all the
hues of the, rainbow. The workwOmen
would take up an almond or pistache
nut, and drop it in the saucepan. then
fish it out with bit of wire fashioned
in loop form. The art was to get just
the proper coating. Then with a dex-
ferrous motion of the wrist the sugar.
plum would be placed in tin pan. and
with Il deft motion of the wire loop a
nice finish would be given to the top of
it. There were some very small sugar
pll,1ns, and it would take 200 of them to
make pound. They were all exact in
form. These little things, so the fore
man told me had gone through ten proc
esses before they had arrived at their
present condition. Some of the sugar
plums were made in molds. There
was pure legerdemain about these. A
man took funnel, and dropped the
sugar, just at the crystallizing point, in
molds. They were very small things,
not more than an inch long by half an
inch wide, but the confectioner never
poured drop in the wrong place.
Dear me! if tried to do that, should
make precious mess Of it.
Here We're sugar-plums Of many
shades, every workwoman seeming to
have Speciality. TWAS something not
alone requiring alertness of hand, but
constant watchfulness as to the condi-
ton of the material used. If it had
been too soft, the bonbon would have
run and been out of shape. If the sugar
paste had been too hard it would have
been intractable. How they managed
not to burn anything was WONDER
Harpers Round Table.
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HOW SNAKES EAT FROGS.

A Rathcr Dramatic Meal Preliminary
Struggle IN Impressive Feature.
How Il snake eats frogs is worth the
telling. The writer distinctly remem-
hers witnessing a dramatic duel OF this
kind, in which, of course, the snake
comes out the winner, getting his
dinner in excellent style, and COM
pletely vanquishing the frog. While
snake may SEEN, at first sight. an Or
ganism that is extraordinarily slow of
comprehension, any well regulated
ophidian knows, nevertheless, exactly
how to satisfy the wants of nature in
the most approved manner.
A snake invariably grabs IA frog by
the hind legs. This preliminary strug-
gle is one of the most impress
siye features of the combat. With a
well-defined natural instinct the chief
effort of the frog is to keep his other
hind leg far away from the snakes
mouth in the hope that he may speedily
exhaust his enemy's strength, and also
because he feels that if his other hind
leg is made captive he will have less
power to fight.
Once both hind legs are within the
scrpent's fangs the act of swallowing
begins. Inch by inch the struggling
frog is drawn further and further into
the yawning orificc that expands at
each gulp. The channel through which
the frog has to pass is gradually en-
larged by slow efforts on the snakes
part, accompanied by fierce and fiercer
commissions of the wretched wiggler.
The gullet of the snake in it's natural
proportions is quite large enough to
contain the limbs of the frog. but as by
frequent gulps the body is drawn fur
!her and further into the gullet, the
difficulty of swallowing increases.
Gradually the ophidian's throat is dis
tended, gradually the frogis compressed
ard drawn out. Finally the latter is
double his normal length and half his
circumference. AS the process of ex-
pansion on the one hand and contrac-
ton on the other goes on, the frog is
worked down little by little, until the
snake starts in Oh his afternoon nap.
IN " Mercury. y
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-16
Curious Prehistoric Monkeys.

In several places in the Cape Colony
and Orange Free State of South Africa
caves have been explored which yield
ed hundreds of nummified remains of
a queer species of six-ingered monkey.
All of the full-grown specimens of this
remarkable species of quadrumana
have the tail situated high on the back
from three to i've inches further up
than that on tho modern monkey--and
other distinguishing marks, such as
two sets of caniae teeth, boards on the
males, etc. Whether these creatures
were mummified by human beings,
who formerly held them in reverence,
or were overtaken by some catastrophe,
such as sudden CONFUSION of nature
or cataclysE: which entombed them
in their caves, and thus preserved them,
is secret that can never be known.-
Public Opinion.
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~PlTh AND POINT.

i Mr.. Boodles-"You began life 9 =
barefooted boy, I UNDERESTIMATE" New
Clerk-"Yes, sir; was born without
shoes.'-N. Y. Herald. ~ sd '@& t'5FHS
-Hunker-"Staggers has a pretty
easy time of it," Spatts-"In what
way?" Hunker-" Hi0wife drives him
to drink, and cabman drives hin,
Hometown Topics. %'~
Nothing Else to Do.-Husband-"I
see Jorkins has been scheming with
other peoples money again." Wife
swell, poor fellow, he hasn't any of his
own."-Detroit Free Press.
First Doctor-''I ordered him an ice
cold bath every morning." Second Doc
tor-"What! when he had infuenza2''
First Doctor-"Yes. It will give him
pneumonia, and made my whole repu-
tation curing that."-Punch.
-Dolly-"I hear Marie Antique was
. great belle at the dance the other even
ing. She told me she danced every
dance" Polly-"Oh, yes. Mary's just
the kind of a girl to be a belle at leap
year dance."-Harper's Bazaar.
-Expressive.--Mrs. De Tong-"I'm
going out, Nanette." Nanette-"Oui,
madame" Mrs. De Tong-"And want
you to be sure and take care of the
baby" Nanette-"Oui, madame. +
bottle it at seek o'clock" -Pick-Me-Up.
Miss Bellefeld-'How on earth did
you come to get engaged to Willie Van
Braam?' Miss Point Breeze-"Well,
you see, just at the time he proposed
I didn't happen to be engaged to any
one.''-Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
king Cophetua addressed the beg
gar maid kindly. us that real?" he
asked, pointing to the color of her
cheek. "Yes," answered the maid"
shat is straight fush." ''Well, that
beats met" exclaimed his majesty, d.
recting flourish of trumpets by way
of ending the parley.-Detroit Tribune.
AT a Hotel.-Guest Ito waiter)-
II can't eat this soup!" Waiter takes
it away and brings another kind of
soup. Guest-"I can't eat this soup!"
Waiter, angrily, but silently. for the
third time brings another kind. Guest
(again)-"I can't eat this SOUP" Wait
er, furious, calls the hotel proprietor.
Proprietor Ito guest)-"Why can't you
eat this SOUP" Guest (quietly)-"Be-
eause I have no spoon!"-Texas Sift'
inRs.
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there 20 fathoms Off our port, was the
little whaleboat, full o water To the
gunnel, an Frank standin' up in her,
waist deep, holdin' on to . rowlock for
dear, life. So help me- Doc, that boat
was lowed clean under old Liz, the
iDutchman in her, an come up sound on
the other side. .& a ~ u
y Eyes, sir; under the ship as slick as 9
whistle an the Dutchman in her. That
whale was scientist, sir. He calkilated
all right to lose the boat; but, bless you,
it's bigger job than anyone wanted
to tackle to stave that craft, an as for
floatin', she was boxed at each end an
couldn't sink. But that amt the end
of the story. We remembered the fell
lers that jumped an we seen the big
boat would pick 'em up before we could
put another over, so we turned to look
at Frank again. There weren't anythin'
left in the boat to bail with an he
couldn't do nothin' but wait on the
pleasure d that whale. He Travelled
away from the ship as fast as he come
at it, an he must "a gone third of q
mile before the boat Stacked. Then we
seen her slow down an come to a dead
stop. Lines busted says 1; man a
boat an fetch in tho Dntchman.' I
hadn't no more'n spoke the words when
big wave seemed to rise up near the
boat an old whale blowed 30 foot high.
Then he got old Liz in range. UP his
tail goes an he under the water again.
1 could see Frank wade forrard in the
boat an try to pay out line, but it was
jammed, an before he could make it
loose the boat gave a jerk round, al
most a-throwin' him out, an come at
us again. What I'm sayin's truth, Doc,
that boat struck another bee line for
us. I suppose, more properly speakin',
the whale did. Gosh! How she did
come kitin'! Frank quit foolin' with
the line an just hung on. reckoned
the boat was movin' Eastern ever, only
she didn't throw so much water, cause
she set down almost to her rowlocks.
We stood speeches. while she was driv-
in for us. When she got within 100
yards the mate took big breath and
let fly:
slump. you Dutch lubber, or you're
dead man.
"But he didn't jump, an could see
him gittin' ready for another dive under
old Liz.
''I grabbed up a bucket, climbed on
the rail, an when the boat come near
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-16
Flowers Amid the Snow.

A gentleman who took pleasure
walk out on the hills west of town the
other day says he found numerous
bushes of the wild currant in bloom,
and that the contrast between the
bright red flowers and the snow-cov-
cred ground and bushes was very strik-
ing and beautiful. On his way out he
saw some parties snowballing on a
lawn. and one of them was gathering
snow from among bed of daffodils and
hyacinths in bloom.--Portland Oregon
ian.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-16
:. cARNATIoN >fcULrt}RE.Rs
somsthing ~ tho +History Of Its Wondsr-
Tful DevelOpm ont. p,

& *5 \ full Development.
'~S Long before the Christian era the car
nation had become the favorite of fash
ion of Greece and Rome. Owing to the
tendency of the flower to develop into
I'm entirely new form, very little ef-
fort was made in early times to cul-
tivate it for size, but in 1913 strain was
discovered yielding blossoms 81, inches
in diameter. There is proof that
blue carnations were produced in
100, and as the yellow blossom has
already existed, some speculative per-
son has wondered why the blending OF
these primary colors has not already
produced a natural green specimen.
Since the middle of the eighteenth
century growers have been trying to
"hreed off, the deep fringes on the edge
of the petals, making round rose
like leaf, and they have succeeded par
TALLY.
Immigrant Huguenots are credited
with the introduction of the carnation
into this country. A half-lilarted claim
to q share in that honor has been made
in behalf of the pilgrims, but though
these fair flowers certainly fiourished
in English gardens long ere CromwelIs
time, and the pilgrims did bring to
America the "clove" or ''Paisley" pink
and the sweet william, they did not
bring the carnation. BY whomsoever
brought, the carnation was widely
spread through American gardens.
Up to eight years ago there were not.
in all the United States, more than
half dozen men who knew much about
carnation culture, and, even among
those who essayed it, little disposition
existed for any considerable investment
of time, labor or capital i'll develop
ment of its possibilities. Consequently,
our winter-bloomed carnations gen
orally were second-ratc flowers, poor
i'll tints, small, short-stemmed and
ragged looking by reason of their
bursted calyces. Suddenly there dawned
i. new era, in which. with half dec
AIDE, has been accomplished more i'm
provement in American carnations
than was achieved in all the time pre-
ceding their introduction into the coun-
try.
In 1891 the American Carnation So
ciety was organized, and took in not
only professional growers, but lovers OF
the flower generally: Thus far it has
had four exhibitions, in Buffalo, Pitts
burgh, indianapolis and Boston. The
fifth was held in New York, and opene'!
on February II, 1896.
The classification of carnations is
extremely difficult. The American plan
of dividing them into two great classes
of summer and winter blooming is not
q success; England finds trouble with
her subdivision according to color, and
Frances seven classes according to the
use and habit of growth leaves several
varieties unclaimed. In the last three
| years the number of kinds considered
| worthy of cultivation by the Ameri-
can Carnation society have increased
| from APO to 562.
Fifteen million of this fragrant,
spicy flower are used in one winter in
New. York city. In addition to this
demand by the general public the Van
derbilts, the Goulds and several other
rich families in the vicinity of New
York have greenhouses devoted exclu-
sively to forcing carnations.-Chicago
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FOOTBALL INCIDENT.
Indian "RevenEo' for the Fort Duquesne
Defeat Of 1875.

Indian "Rovengo" for the Fort Duquesne
Defeat Of 1875.
During the last football season, the
Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. sent a
team of young red men into the field
which competed with credit against
some Of the strongest playing clubs in
the country. Among other engage
,nents they played match with the
Duquesne club in Pittsburgh, and came
off victorious.
The bearing of the Indian lads was so
courteous and manly as to win APP
plause from all the white spectators.
After they returned home they received
a cartoon from the defeated club, with
a letter stating that it was from some
OF the many friends whom the boys had
made in Pittsburgh by your gentle
manly playing.'
The sketch was drawn with spirit,
and represented at one side the con-
test between the red and the white men
at Fort Duquesne in 1875, the Indians
falling beneath the shots of the settlers.
On the other side was their contest
in 1898, the red man standing. football
in hand, victorious over his white BROTH
or; and lastly, picture of the captain
of the Indian club, as he was carried,
laughing, off the field in triumph by
10th shouting teams.
Beneath was the suggestive word:
Revenge"
If the manlincss and magnanimous
courtesy of these Indian and white
clubs were shown by all football play
ers, the prejudice of many thought
full men and women against the game
would be lessened, if not removed.
When, instead of making men more
brutal, it teaches them self-control,
good temper and the generosity which
can applaud victorious foe, its dis
cipline is wholesome.-Youth's Com
I,oOiOn.
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A HoSPlTABLE COUNTRY.
California ~ tho Old-Tlmo Settle


California ~ tho Old-Time Settlers
Knew 1t.
The 'early Californian" who help
lessly looks on at the invasion OF the
land by swarms of tourists, railroads
and hotels, signs regretfully for the
picturesque and delightful past, whose
traditions sound like fairy tale. One
such man, in his "reminiscences, de-
scribes the boundless hospitalitywhich
existed. 1t was the custom never to
chargeIa traveller for anything-food.
lodging. care of horses-and no man
was suffered to go hungry.
He was sheltered overnight, and the
next morning was furnished with
clean shirt for his journey, AS the roads
were dry and dusty. If he returned
that way, he could bring the shirt;
otherwise, muy bien (all right.
He might take a fresh horse, and on
his return journey pick up his own.
fattened and rested. If he did not re-
turn, all right again. A travelling par
ty out of meat was privileged to kill
beef, but was expected to hang the hide
the most valuable part of the animal
on bush by the roadside, where the
owner could find it.
To offer money was an offense. A
party Travelled from San Francisco to
Los Angeles in 1929, about Christmas
time, sending word ahead to some OF
the smaller ranches where they intend
ed to stop. In the party was a young
American who knew Spanish, but was
new to the customs of the country. At
one house he was handed some fruit,
and offered in exchange two reals.
The sonora let the coin,fall to the floor
in surprise, while the old don, her hus-
band, fell upon his knees, exclaiming
in Spanish:
"Givc us no money, no money at all.
Everything is free in gentleman's
house."
At many of the ranches no language
but Spanish had ever been heard. nor
was it even known that any other ex-
listed. Some of their entertainers were
really afraid of the American, and one
man asked if there were any other
people like him.
In those days not even the servants
would accept money for their services
to q traveller. but, on the other hand,
the most courteous thanks were ex-
pected and usually punctiliously rem
dered.-Youth's Companion.