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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-10-28
THE POSTAL SERVICE.
RecOmme n da lions Of Assistant Pos
mnster-Gener9l Heath.

Recomme n dations Of Assistant POST
master-General Heath.
Washington, Oct. 23.-The report of
First Assistant Postmaster-General Per-
ry S. Heath for the fiscal year ended
June 80 was made public Friday. Fol-
lowing are his principal recommended
tons:
On July there were 37s3 presidential
post Offices, embracing 1863 first-class, $50
second-class and 2.814 third-class. The net
increase for the year in the salaries OF the
postmasters at these offices is $4,000. Their
aggregate salaries are $2S0,S00.
The estimates for the fiscal year, ending
June 30. 1898. embrace 6.250, 600 for compen-
sation Of postmasters, for clerk hire,
81 300, 900: rental and purchase of cancel
81, 750, 900: miscellaneous items and furniture,
1000, and advertising, $4,000
The estimates for the free delivery serv-
ice for the fiscal year. June. 1885, is $780,
400. Since the close of the fiscal year 1897
the service has been established in more
current year all offices entitled to the serv-
ice will receive the same.
Domestic and international money orders
issued aggregate 26,113,240, amounting to
$1S8, O71.0 56; aggregate number of payments
and repayments. 25.58O.566. amounting to
$3.50, $50.
There were 5.967.96o pieces of original I'M
claimed matter received at the dead-letter
office, a decrease of ZIG, 403.
Rural free delivery has been put to the
test of practical experiment in 20 states and
over "a different routes. The general sat-
isfactory results suggest the feasibility of
making rural delivery permanent feature
of postal administration in the United
States; not Immediately or in all districts
at once. but in some gradual and graduated
form, regulated by the present expert
ments.
There should be fixed more severe PEN
| atty for the punishment of postmasters who
peddle postage stamps with a view to in
creasing their own salaries. resulting In
the diminution of the net receipts Of the
government. Authority should be given to
Of OF 61zo LOO
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ITO. His genius was very early dis
played, and his music al education was
begun by his father, and continued by
the court organist who introduced him
to the works of Sebastian Bach and
Handel. He soon attempted compost
ton, and showed wonderful facility il,
improvisation. About 1890 he settled
in Vienna, where Mozart quickly recog-
nized his marvellous powers. When
about 40 years of age he was attacked
with deafness, which became total, and
lasted through life. He became, gradu-
ally, the victim of morbid irritability,
and hopeless melancholia, ending in
confirmed hypochondria, and, finally
dropsy and delirium. He. continued to
compose, however, long after he had
ceased to hear himself play, and re-
ceived homage and honors from all
parts of Europe. He died, unmarried,
IL Vienna, in March 1927.
WOLF Won SWITZERLAND.
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a music festival at Bonn, occupying
about week, during whose continu-
ance nothing but Beethoven compost
lions are rendered by the most re-
nowned instrumentalists, vocalists and
orchestras. A large chorus of male and
female voices is trained for the purpose
of taking part in these musical fetes
and this chorus is made up of the most
distinguished people Of Bonn. The
compositions chosen for the occasion
are, as matter of course, among the
finest and their manner of rendition
has become, in the course of time,- so
perfect as to outvie anything elsewhere.
This year, couple of weeks ago, the
Leonore sympony, for instance. was
played with such exquisite skill and
finish, and the participants were all
such masters of their instruments, that
from all over Germany the lovers of
pure music went as to pilgrimage,
much as is done to the Wagner perform
ances in Bayreuth.
But outside of these musical perform
ances there is Beethoven Memorial So
ciety in Bonn whose self-imposed task
it is to keep intact the house and the
room in which the great maestro was
born. The house stands on a quiet side
street of the town, and it differs in it's
looks in nowise from scores of others in
the vicinity. 1t may be about $50 years
old and is well preserved. In it's rear
portion the wing standing in the court
yard and little garden, whose smooth
greensward and rose trees just now
look most inviting was the abode of,
Beethoven's parents. Trellised vines
spread over the smooth whitewashed
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BEETHOVEN THE DIVINE
His Memory Revered by Music
Lovers Everywhere.
What the City Of Bonn Has Done to
PerDetuate the Fame Of Her
& Greatest SOn-The Conn ES
poser's Birthplace.
Especial Berlin Letter.1

20 Especial 6erl1u Letter. ..
Genius is honored everywhere. The
birthplace and the grave of a great
poet, hero, musician, philosopher or
any human mind of unusual brilliancy
and permanent worth to mankind,
these are, to every normally consti-
tuted being, hallowed places, spots of
interest to the tourist from afar, to the
student of human nature. and to the
lover of his kind. A perennial hegira
is taking place from all over the globe
to that worn slab in Stratford-on-Avon
on which the pilgrim is -implored to
"forbear" disturbing the bones ofrthe
divine William. But nowhere else, be-
lieve, is this praiseworthy sentiment
put into such system and crystallized,
80 to speak, as in Bonn, the birthplace
of the greatest musician the world ever
saw, Ludwig van Beethoven. Bonn is
city well worth seeing in itself.
Though in the main it gives the impress
sion Of rather modern city, yet it is
one of the oldest in Germany. 1t
was place of Importance in the
early Roman times, and a forti-
fed and castcllated camp of a le-
gion was maintained there as early
as the birth of Christ. Its very name is
of purely Roman origin. Up to 1894
Bonn was the see of the archbishop of
Cologne. Now it holds one of the best
universities of Germany, and there is
considerable wealth, industry and cul-
ture stored up within it's walls. But
what makes Bonn to the world at large
of more than ordinary Importance is
the fact that Beethoven first saw there
the light of day. And, to commemorate
Beethoven's claims to immortality, the
whole population of Bonn has Joined for
many years.
Every summer or late spring there is
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GILBERT IS CHAMPION.
Wins Dupont Cup and Worlds Wing
Shot Record.

Wins Dupont Cup and Worlds Wing
Shot Record.
Kansas City, NO., Oct. 23.-With the
Dupont cup and the worlds wing shot
championship at stake, Fred Gilbert, of
Spirit Lake, Ia, and j. A. r. Elliott, of
Kansas City, made phenomenal records
in their match here Friday afternoon.
Gilbert was the victor. Out of $50 birds
shot at by the two cracks. but one was
missed. Six others fell dead out of
bounds. For 100 birds the two cracks
tied with 81 each. Gilbert's 21st, SD and
72d birds fell dead out of bounds. Ell
lott killed 70 birds without a skip,
missed his s0th and his 91st and Goth
birds fell dead out of bounds. Out of
the shoot off of 25 birds, Gilbert won the
match with clean score. Elliott's Gath
bird fell dead out of bounds. He killed
the 25th
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Ito. might take measures to prevent the ex-
port Of gold: second. either country might
be reduced to paper currency, IN which
case the agreement would cease to operate;
third. three-sided agreement would be
open to greater risk of termination by one
or two parties than q many-sided interna-
tional agreement, besides which, either
France or the United States might some
day think some other nation benefiting
at its expense. and this would lead to dis
mination Of the agreement. discussions
only less serious than actual termination.
Refusal Recommended.
For these reasons alone. without con-
sidering objections to the particular ratio
proposed, we do not hesitate" continue the
authors Of the reply. Ito recommend that
your lordship refuse to give the undertake
ing desired. We shall be willing to consider
what effect the cooperation of any other
nations, II secured. may have on the prob
lens. but we believe that our best policy
Is to link ourselves to Great Britain" )
Ratio Too High.
They then proceed to argue that the ratio
Differing so widely from the existing ratio.
It would immensely increase the difficulty.
Indeed. II 1t could be secured and main
tanned, we would object to the ratio in the
interests of India, and we recommend your
lordsfip. on behalf Of India. to decline to
courage the formation Of Z union based
thereon.
Having discussed the probable effect in
various directions upon midas local inter-
ests, the dispatch recommends a reply in
the negative. adding: I'VE presume that q
union based upon a ratio low enough to suit
our interests would not be acceptable to
France and the United States" In conclu-
sion the official dispatch intimates that the
present proposals might have been favor
ably considered in 1892. but the experience
Of the last few years has made the position
very different" 1t also notes that 1.-The
conditions under which we have had to re-
ply to your lordship's dispatch preclude
our consulting with the commercial and
banking communities Of India" but :even
had another reply been possible 1t could
only have been after the fullest preliminary
consideration by our banking and CONNER.
cial bodies"
The dispatch is signed by Lord Elgin,
the viceroy Of India: Sir George Stewart
White. commander in chief Of the British
forces in India and extraordinary member
Of the council Of the governor-general,a and
by the following members Of the council:
Sir James Westland Financial member of
the counciD. Sir John WOODBURY.. major
general: Sir E. H. Collin. Hon. Mackenzie
Dalzell Chalmers and Hon. A. c. Trevor.
The correspondence concludes with Lord
Salisbury's dispatch to Ambassador Hay,
the contents Of which have already been
cabled.
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Vienna, where Beethoven lies buried
in the largest communal cemetery,
has been rather derelict in its duty Of
taking care of the remains and OF the
grave. 1t was not many years ago that
the exact burial spot Of three great
Haydn, Schubert
had, to be determined at the cost OF
much trouble and pains, they beng
also near the grave Of Beethoven, and
il was with some difficulty that
Beethoven's last resting place was dis
covered and suitably cared for. Vienna
has always been careless of its dead,
even of it's great dead-there are too
many of them in the. Viennese Gene
teries-and large and busting city,
with its myriad of interests and it's
numberless cares Of the hour, has al
ways been rather ungrateful to the
great men who died within its shad-
ows. The smaller towns, whose people
feel personal pride in every point of
interest, are more considerate and more
thoughtful of their dead, as is seen
notably in the case of Weimar and it's
tributes in bronze and stone to Schiller
and Goethe, who were denizens of that
quaint, pleasant town. :"
Part and parcel of the Beethoven
cult in Bonn is the memorial museum
existing in the Beethoven house. That
for the student of music is of entranc-
ing interest. It contains unique COL
lection of manuscripts and of original
scores by the composer. Many of these
show the corrections, two or three
times made in some instances, in the
nervous, grabbed writing of <Beethoven,.
There are some among them that were
written after he had become. deaf, and
as the deafness increased-thes dates
bring that out plainly-the corrections,
too, increased. Besides, there are hun
dreds of letters from him and to him,
letters written when q boy, a youth, a
young man and soured, cynical old
man. These letters alone tell the whole
story of Beethoven's life, of his lonely,
loveless life, of the sting of betrayal by
nephews and friends. But there is also
diary, which, if it ever got into the
hands of ruthless publisher, could be
made sensational publication, for it is
teeming with satire. J:
Ludwig van Beethoven was born IN
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a LITTLE NONSENSE

=
She Did you see any thing in New
York thar reminded youSof PhiladeI
.phia?' He. Yes; the messenger boys.
Harlem Life. s....
. Matter of Conscience.-t1Is it proper.
to address an alderman as 'honorable'9''
1T isn't 9 question Of propriety, but Of
conscience. = Chicago Evening Post.
When mangits ter feelin' dat dis
world KANT git along wifout i'm, !" said
Uncle Eben, '.he giner'ly settles back
an loafs in a way dat doesn' leave NO
possible chance OBJ his being missed. -
Washington Star.
Getting Suspicious mr.. Sprightly
f. well, you know, my love, even tho
devils not as black as he's painted
Mrs. ST. don't know about that, but
I know he's good deal blacker than he
paints himself" Detroit Free Press.
"a Charity. But, my deal. gently
demonstrated her husband, 81 thought
I gave you five dollars, to buy q sofn
cushion for your fancy table at the
fair, yesterday tWhy, but, John, dear,
this five dollars is to buy it back" -
Judge. ..%a #r&
Mrs. Newrocks- mercy! These
baggagemen are very careless!' Miss
Newrocks-"What4 have they done,
mamma?" Mrs. Newrocks - Why,
they've torn and defaced the labels Oh
our trunks SO that it is very hard for 4
stranger to see we have been to Eu-
rope Puck.
No, . said the gentleman in the bald
wig; II amt much of bass singer; but
you ought to hear my brother ''Was
he much ?" asked the gentleman with
the pea-green whiskers. Much? Hfs
voice was SO heavy that it made him
bow-legged' to carry it."-1ndianapolis'
Journal. -. .---
How It Got It's Name.-In making,
the round of his garden for the first
time, Adams attention was attracted
by a rich-looking, down-covered fruit,
growing on one of the trees. He pulled
one of the specimens that hung within
easy reach and took bite of it. WELL y
he exclaimed, rapturously, ''you're q
reach!" Chicago Tribune.
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ABOUT ALASKA.

Whole forests break into the sea.
When it gets lower than so there is
no wind. <~@.s h.
Some wood is beautifully polished by
glacier action. .%s
Climate in winter severe in the ex-
treme, winter beginning in September.
One small tribe makes $500 a year
from silver fox skins. They are worth
$3.50 each.
Principal mountains. Mount Logan
altitude. $4,000 feet: Mount St. Elias
1900; Mount Wrangei, Il 500 feet.
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DYING BY THOUSANDS,

Terrible Mortality Ia Reported from
Unhappy Cuba.
Havana, Oct. ga local newspaper
says that at Chascapaba. in the district
OF San Julian, belonging to the munich
patty of Melena Del Sur, there were
concentrated $500 persons. These
were the only inhab-
itants of the place. Now there are only
five survivors,; the rest died of hunger
and fever. In Havana city it is no I'M
usual sight to see ten or dozen dead
on one plaza early in the morning. The
authorities employ regular roundsmen
to remove the bodies from the parks.
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walls. In garnet room the visitor is
shown the exact spot where the great
musician was born. A white marble
bust of him stands near the slanting
walls, and laurel wreaths and many
other gifts of devotion deposited there
by visitors and admirers cucumber the
deal floor. That is all. The society.
has purchased the whole house and
maintains a caretaker there who is to
show everything to tourists and others
who express desire. .@
The society is made up of the elite
of Bonn, of the wealthiest and most
cultured, with the highest provincial
officials in the directory. 1t is under
the patronage Of Empress Frederick,
and associated with her are the ex-
chancellor, Bismarck, and the; present
one, Hohenlohe, as well as many names
Of the highest aristocracy.
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Merely an Option.

And you want to marry my daugh-
ter do you:" said Mr.: Stockbroker.
well, not right away, SIR" said the
timid youth; ''but I'd like to have an
option on her."-Yonkers Statesman.
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She WINS HOmeIy.

"There,'' said the teacher as she con-
cludcd the demonstration of mathe-
NAUTICAL problem; do 1 make myself
plain?"
"Yhh don't have tub, num-" gallant
ly replied little Willie Bigg.-Judge.
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More Like 1t.

Perdita-He has given her ring, and
she is woman with past, too.
Penelope-Well, if he1has given her
ring, she seems to be a woman with
u presently. Y. Truth. /
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Cot It Txfsted

"Your husband belongs to promi-
nent secret society, understands"
eyes, John is head officer in one Of
the lodges of the knights Of microbes
Judge.
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Personal PROPERTY.

A compilation of the readjusted as.
sess:nent of personal property, as fixed
by the state board of equalization at
its recent session, shows an increase
OF about 8 per cent in the total as re-
turned by the county boards. The
total is, however, still about 5000, 900
more than last year. The total valu-
alton returned by the county boards
was $102,21s,6 GET. This was raised by
the state board to $685. TIC. an in.
crease of So, 394,Os9.
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A Friendly Tin,

7east-One thing can say about my
wife, she always acts natural.
Crimsonbeak-Yes; you ought to
stop it, my boy; people think she's
silly.-Yonkers Statesman.
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Smith-ttDid many of the passengers 60
t co hear this R nePnte ~
most of them left when he announced his
text" Smith-'What was it," Brown
"sCast thy bread upon the waters Life.
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
Indirent Children.

For tho ensuing 10 months the ST.
Paul city and county hospital will If
ford shelter and treatment to the in-
digent. crippled and deformed chill
dren who may be placed in that insti-
tuition by the board Of regents Of tho
state university. . .
Heretofore the state has made no
special provision for the care Of Grip
pied and deformed children, as it has
in the cases Of the insane, imbeciles,
pauper children, etc. Accordingly, the
last legislature made transportation
of $40, 900 to be entrusted to the board
of regents Of thesstate university, to
be expended BY them in caring for
such crippled and deformed children.
as we'll as children suffering from dis
eases likely to result IN permanent de-
formity. The law imposes but one
condition upon the regents, which linn
its the amount to be expended in any
one year to S., 900. 49,
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HIT HIM HARD.

Widow Awarded Big Sum in Breach
of Promise Suit.
Danville, ILL.,, Oct. 23.-Mrs. Carrie
Corbett, aged 80, a buxom widow, has
been awarded $54,333.33 damages for
breach of promise, John Gernand, aged
II, retired capitalist, being the de-
PENDANT. 1t was great trial, with
Mayor Kimbrough counsel for the
plaintiff aud Cuban Commissioner CAL
houn for the defendant.
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Frosty.

She Where is my picture?
He-I have it in my heart.
SheAh, see! Cold storsge.-Dsn-
orest's Magazine
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LONDoN's DOG CEMETERY.

Queer inscriptions ON Beauties
Stones-No Race Prejudices.
Near Victoria gate in Hyde park
there is an Enclosure reserved as q
burying ground for dogs. Life is al
ways full of contrasts. On one side
here we witness the pleasures and the
joys of life, and on the other we find
the vanity of all existing things. That,
at least, was the opinion of the old keep
er who brought me through the bury
ing ground confided to his care. The
dogs gravedigger is an honest fellow
with face marked with wrinkles. The
place is about 80 metres in length and
20 in breadth, and granite and marble
monuments with the names and char
acteristics of the departed are very nu-'
merous. This respect for animals pre-
sents an unexpected aspect in which
the touching is strangely mixed with
the grotesque. There are about 200:
tombs in the Enclosure. The plots are
given gratuitously. The stones and the
inscriptions are put up at the EXPENSE
of the bereaved families. Some of the
inscriptions are worthy of notice.
The first stone that meets the eyeI
of the visitor is erected to the mem
DRY of Beloved Roby, died Goth Of. Au-
gust, 1896, aged 1874 months !
Then comes "Flick, a faithful friend,I
and Maudie, an old friend.'
On another tombstone are the words:
"Dear old Priny." ...> .,,
But real grief is silent, or nearly So,
and the word "Jacob" upon another
marble slab doubtless covers heap Of
regrets.
Further on there is another superb
tomb, upon which the name of the dog
is inscribed in very small letters and
that of the master in enormous let:
tiers. It is as follows: &c ompeii, the;
favorite dog of Miss Florence St. John"
And under this is the following quota
ton from Byron:
In life the firmest friend,
First to welcome,
Foremost to defend.
But here is still stranger inscrip-
ton. It is to the memory of Dearest,
Topsy, the frmest and most devoted Of
friends and companion of her mother"
Another is to the memory of "Our
dear treasure Jock. Scotch collie, died
31st of August, 1895, aged Is years.
He was the most intelligent, devoted
tender and affectionate dog that ever;
lived, with the best of tempers. He
was adored by his devoted and afflicted
friend, Sir H. Seton Gordon, Bart"
Here are others:
Dear and affectionate Duke, and Tippy.
his Beloved Grandmother.
Dear Little Peter, who died suddenly.
On the tomb of she dog is the fol-;
lowing:
She brought q ray Of sunshine into our ex-
istence.
But, alas! she carried it away with her.
"Adored Spot" "Our Friend, Darling
I-Chin Chin" and 'Sweet Carlo lie close
to each other.
'Dear Minnie, brave, intelligent, sing
ularly beautiful, loving and loved" has
splendid monument.
But, as if to prove that race preju-
dices necessarily disappear with death,
in this cemetery of dogs there is q
stone erected ''To the memory of our
dear little cat, Chinchilla, poisoned
July 21."
During my visit live dog somehow
got into the cemetery, and was chased
away by the keeper for irreverently at
tempting to bury bone on one of the
graves of his fellow creatures Paris
Figaro.
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Logging on a Large Scale.

Red lake logging operations are to
be conducted this winter upon very
large scale. especially for the first
year in which logging has been per-
mitted IN much of that portion of Min
nesota's pine region. During the past
month constant stream of men and
teams has been pouring into the woods
and the preliminary work, such as
road building and the construction of
camps, is we'll under way.
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Four Victims.

The large barn belonging to Sivert
Berg. living four miles southwest of
Hanley Falls, was totally destroyed by
fire. together with all it's contents.
While the workmen were engaged in
clearing away the debris, the remains
of four human beings were found, but
were SO badly burned that they fell to
pieces as soon as disturbed. The VIC
Tins are supposed to have been tramps
who had been sleeping in the hay loft.
There was no clue to their identity, as
no one saw them enter the barn.