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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-11-04
STAIRCASE AT TUCKAHOE.

Washington. The Ball family was a
brainy race, a strong family. That the
Balls and Randolphs intermarried is
we'll known, and upon one of the little
window panes, scratched with a
diamond, March 80, 1880, are the names
of Mary Randolph and Col. Ball. TIL.
lovers must have stood there together,
Col. Ball being d guest at Tuckahoe, and
placed their names upon the window
pane, probably between kisses, as they
wrote each letter and date. There's lots
of romance about Tuckahoe, and some
one ought to make history of it. It is
now only legend.
Thomas Mann Randolph was govern
~ of Virginia. He and Thomas Jeffer-
son were boys together, and attended
school in little frame building near
Tuckahoe mansion. tits still there, and
is we'll preserved. Jefferson was very
fond of his friend TOM Randolph, and
often spoke of him and wrote of him in
terms of endearment. jefferson said
that his earliest recollection was of his
journey from Shadwell to Tuclahoe in
1145, when he rode on horseback upon a
pillow in front of slave, one of his
fathers trusted servants. The negro
carried more brains with him on that
horseback ride than any negro ever
escorted anywhere ut any time. For,
you must remember, Thomas Jeffer-
son was Randolph; and he was as
proud of that fact as the Randolphs
have ever been proud of him.
MARY RANDOLPH FRY.
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WALKS Up TO Be SHOT,,
Remarkable Honor and Nerve Of =.
Con demned Inllian. -. g

Remarkable Honor and Nerve Of .
Condemned Indian.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. IA special
20 the Times from Chelsea ]. r., says:
John Watka, the Creek Indian who shot
Jonas Deer, another memberof his own
tribe, was legally executed fors the;
crime. The men were rivals for the
hand Of the same girl and fought Eat q
dance at which she was present to de-,
eide who should gain her. Watka killed:
Deer and afterwards married the In
dian maiden.
Several days prior to the time prepa-
rations for his wife's future welfare
were completed, and the pain Of part-
ing over, IVatka set out alone to the pub.
Tic execution grounds. . In due time he
arrived; the crowd was waiting. The
prisoner assumed his position. on bend
ed knees with arms tied behind and a
blindfold over the eyes. The rife was
placed in the hands of a good marks
man. A sharp crack. and the white
spot marked for the heart was discol-
ored with the squirting blood caused
by the deadly bullet. Late this, sum
mer Watka went to Kansas City with a
baseball nine of his fellow reds and
played g game at one of the parks. He
had ample opportunity to escape, but
returned to the territory of his own
accord that his sentence might be car
ried out.
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SECRETARY CAGES PLAN.
HecOmmend lions to Be Submitted
to Congress ON Finance.

tiOns to Be Submitted
to Congress ON Finance.
Washington, Nov. 1.-Secretary Gage.
OF the treasury department, has SUBJ
mltted to the president the recommend
alton he intends to make to congress
on the question of finance. The sug-
gestions, are summarized thus:
:. To: establish "a new treasury department
OF issue and redemption: set apart for it
$l250OO.OO0 in gold for redemption only, and
pass all silver dollars for REDEMPTION OF
silver certificates to the same fund: give
$2OOOOO,0OO in legal tender notes to be also
deposited. to be paid out for a like amount
of gold coin: -
That provision be made for the issue of
reminding loan bonds at 212 per cent, pay
able principal and interest in gold: per
NIT national banks to be organized: with
minimum capital Of $25OOO#in any town
OF 1900 or less population; to reduce the
rate OF taxation on circulating notes Sc
cured by deposit of bonds to one-half Of
one per cent. per annunn;z to restrict the
issue OF bank notes to denominations OF
ten dollars and upward; to extend the
guarantee Of payment by the government
to all circulating notes Of the bank whether
issued against deposited notes security or
against assets; to secure the government
against loss attaching to guarantee by a
tax OF two per cent. per annum on unse-
cured circulation to create a safety fund,
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POINTS OF ETIQUETTE.

An engagement ring that is not cost
~, has, set in it's gold band, small
turquoise.
After laying aside Grape gown of
black camel's hair or vicunas cloth
trimmed with wool braid on skirt and
bodice may be worn. ....
A costly ring should not be worn by a
girl in the workaday world to the Office
where she is employed, as it is in ex-
tremely bad taste.
Politeness demands that lady per-
NIT gentleman near her to restore to
her fan, glove, handkerchief or any
small belonging which she may have
dropped. 4 .' ~.I> .=
fashionable gloves are of a pale tan
with delicate stitching of faint blue or
scarlet on the HACKS. The stitching is
not conspicuous, and the four buttons
proclaim that they are for street wear.
3 The good musician who can give
pleasure to people, and declines to do
so without much urging, is properly
treated when her genius is ignored. and
some more polite, but less able, girl is
invited to be the musician OF the even
ing.-Ladies' Home Journal.
A church subscription is no easier to
pay than q last years coal bill.
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INTERNATIONAL w. q. i. j. s

Strong Resolutions acknowledgements
Oaicera We're Reelected.
Toronto. Ont. Oct. q. he Woman's
Christian Temperance union conveu-
ton was brought to q close with a.
rousing platform meeting Tuesday
night.
A series Of resolutions was passed
practically unanimously. a synopsis
follows: &C.. go
They pledge the organizations 70 thesten-
derest sympathy with and active work for
women who have lost the priceless Jewel Of
virtue, knowing them often to- be more
sinned against than shining: also pledging
the organization to constant5ef effort by pen,
by influence. by voice. by prayer, to bring
ion'' shall be recognized insthe home, In the
church, in law and at the ballot box; de-
clare its absolute opposition to war or any,
thing that fosters the war spirit, and urg-
ing upon members everywhere the discour-
agement Of the military DRILL In the pub
lie schools or in Sabbath schools: opposing
the use of opium in its various forms, CO.
caine, choral and any other habit-forming
drugs. and exhorting physicians to exercise
great caution in prescribing narcotics: op-
posing the use Of tobacco in any form, and
especially pledging the Woman's Christian
Temperance union to work against the
manufacture of cigarettes and their sale
to youth. and also protesting against nickel
in-the-slot machines for distributing
cigarettes; expressing the conviction that
the British government should cease the
cultivation of the poppy plant in India ana
substitute crops of grain, and protesting
against the raising of revenue from the
sale of opium, except for purely medicinal
purposes; deploring the massacres in Ar
L. IL, N{pep ~
powers will take such steps as shall rem
der such heartbreaking scenes impossible
Of repetition; declaring ,thats'the Woman's
Christian Temperance union Is unalterably
opposed to !lynehing at all times ina:everya
nature; asking every member OF the white
ribbon host to use her influence to have
the sale of liquor on ocean-going vessels
also protesting against the christening of
ships with wine: pledging the members to
use every effort to suppress gambling, and
calling special attention to the Increasing
danger of progressive card parties among
women: favoring the eight-hour law for
wage-workers, and urging Sunday az a day
of rest and worship: opposing strikes and
urging wage-workers to unite and strike q
blow at this evil at thezballot box; and,
finally, favoring the organization of women
by themselves Tor theiro own advancement.
The following general officers were
reelected unanimously: Miss Willard,
president, United States; Lady Henry
Somerset, vice president, England:
Miss Slack, secretary, England; Miss
Gordon, assistant secretary, United
States; Mrs. Sanderson, treasurer, Can
ada. The executive committee has re-
vived the position of honorary presi-
dent, which was dropped at the conven-
tion in London in 1895, and Mrs. Mary
Clement Leavitt, of Boston. was re
elected to the position.
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getting William into frame of mind
to be so liberal with his cousin, Peter
Jefferson, who was, by the way, the,
father OF. the great Thomas Jefferson,
who was christened Thomas by his IA
ther as mark of esteem for his uncle,
Thomas Randolph, for whom Tuckahoe
was originally builded. Iii
" It may be said in passing that the
Randolphs are proud Of the fact that
Thomas Jefferson was member OF
their.family. One Of them, a gentleman
living now in Clarke county, once said
to me: There is Randolph blood in
every line of the constitutions; for
there was Randolph blood in the brain
of Thomas Jefferson. when he wrote
that instrument"
From time to time the estate was
shrunken by partitions, and at last it
passed out of the possession of the Ran
dolphs, having been sold about so years
ago. Richard S. Allen is now the owner
and he takes peculiar pride in preserv-
ing the historic place. He says that it
is an heirloom of which every Virginian
is proud, not only because it was
founded by Randolph, but because
Thomas jefferson was educated and
trained there; because George Wash
irgton and his aides were often re-
ceived there; Patrick Henry was an
honored guest; and every Virginian OF
good birth and breeding, and of nation
a! fame, has honored the place with his
presence.
This famous mansion, as may be seen
in the illustration, was built in the form
Of letter H, so that it appeared like
two separate houses joined by an adj
dition. But it was all built at one time
in that form, and the connecting line
is for the purpose of giving the mansion
long saloon hall with lofty walls.
There. you may we'll believe, was the
handsonest ballroom in America, and
there gallant men and fair women and
stately danes were royalty entertained
on many notable occasions.
In those days iron work was scarce
and costly; consequently, with the ex-
ception of the hand-wrought nails
which hold the shingles to the roof, and
the wrought iron hinges and brass locks
on the doors, there was no metal used
in the construction Of Tuckahoe mar-
sion. The preservation of all this wood
work is phenomenal. The floors are as
perfect and as smooth as when they
were laid in the long ago. The wooden
pegs which were used instead of nails,
have done duty there for more than 200
years: but they are as firmly embedded
and as stout in their duty as when they
were hammered in by the yoemen
worllmen of that frontier age.
1t makes one long for the good old
days, to stand in those spacious rooms
and look at the immense freplaces,
with their high mante]s of ancient de-
signs. In the winter nights, the lordly
landed gentry with their gentle ladies
and children used to sit before those
mantels and freplaces, where great
logs of native wood sent their light and
heat throughout the rooms, while their
smoke went roaring up the grea!
chimneys.
Mary Ball was the mother of George
Washington. That great man always
looked and acted more like IL Ball than
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A BURGLARS MISTAKE.
After Killing the Man He Ii Robbfnr
He Shoots Down a Friend.

After Killing the Man He Ii Robbinr
He Shoots Down a Friend.
Aurora, ILL.,, Nov. /. - Peter Braun.
and his brother Harry conduct small
grocery in the outskirts of Aurora.
The store is in the same yard as their
dwelling. Between the two buildings
stands lilac bush. At ten o'clock at
night the Braun brothers closed their
store and started for the house. AS
they passed the lilac bush two masked
men confronted them with drawn re-
volvers. Peter, the older brother, at
tackled one robber and was greeted by
four pistol shots. Every bullet hit, and
the grocer fell dead upon his own door,
step. Harry Braun fled from the rob-
bers. The man who did the shooting
saw figure in the darkness and gave
it shot which penetrated the brain of
the human target. But the robber had
made terrible mistake. The second
dead man proved to be his brother
highwayman. The murderer then went
to the home of Jacob Rink, half mile
distant, where he stole a horse and
wagon. The rig was found at Batavia,
seven miles away, with two revolvers on
the seat. No further trace of the MUIR
derer rewards the efforts of the police.
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HIS LAST WILL.
Disp0sitiOn to BE Made of George NJ.
Pullman's Great Wealth.

Dispositlon to BE Made of George NJ.
Pullman's Great wealth.
Chicago, Oct. 28.-Leaving one-sixth
of his $7,600,000 estate in trust to endow
a free manual training school for the;
sons of poor men, GeorgeM. Pullman,
by the terms of his last will and testa-
ment, filed in the probate court Wednes-
day, cut off his twin sons with an an
nuity of 5000 each. The manual train
ing school, which the will says shall be
called the pullman Free School of
Manual Training" will be erected il,
the town of Pullman. Two hundred
thousand dollars is to be expended for
ground, buildings and apparatus, the
remaining $1,000,0oO of the endowment.
to be held in trust for the maintenance
of the school,. =:
OF the rest of the immense estate all
but about S., 100000 isfleft in trust in
equal portions to the two daughters,
Harriet Pullman Carolan and Florence
Pullman Lowden. -,
Mrs. Pullman receives the Prairie
avenue mansion and the income of ST.
100000, also $4,000 for the first year
following the death of her husband
The brothers, sisters and old friends
and employees of Mr.. Pullman receive
requests ranging from $4,000 to $50, 1000.
and certain old household servants are
remembered in smaller gifts.
The will bequeaths $4,000 to the
following institutions in sums of S1o,-
900 each: The Chicago Historical So
ciety, the home for self-supporting
women of Chicago, the Chicago hospital
for women and children, the Chicago
nursery and half-orphan asylum, the
Chicago orphan asylum, St. Luke's free
hospital, the Chicago home for the
triendless, for the maintenance of two
beds in the Florence" ward of St.
Luke's hospital, the Illinois Humane
society, the Chicago Relief and Aid SD
ciety, the old peoples home, the Chi
cago Presbyterian hospital and the
Newsboys' and Bootblacks' home.
by the operation of the inheritance
tax law the state will receive nearly
$150,000 from the several heirs to the
estate. In addition to this, Attorney
Runne!ls paid $1,000 probate fees and
$41.40 clerks fees when the will was
filed before Judge Kohlsaat Wednes-
day.
The estate is the largest ever filed for
probate in Cook county, the next
largest being that of John B. Drake.
which was less than $2,50O,0OO.
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The Weather Burenu

Washington, Oct. 29.-Chief Moore,
OF the United States weather bureau,
IL his annual report to Secretary Will
son. calls for the appropriation of ST.
O44,O50 for the fiscal year and says
this will admit of the establishment
and equipment of new stations in i'm
portant centers of population. Estab-
lishment of stations in the southwest.
ern part of the country, embracing Ne
vada. Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and
southern California, where storms fire.
quently originate, is urged. Twenty
experimental kite-fying stations arc
contemplated this year and confidence
In the great value of he:ultimate result
is expressed.
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VICTIM OF FOOTBALL,
Death of a Player May XIII the Game
in Georgia..

Death of a Player May XIII the Game
in Georgia..
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. LYON Cannon.
one of the players on the University Of
Georgia football team, died Sunday
morning from injuries received in i.
game between that team and the team
from the University of Virginia in this
city Saturday afternoon. Cannon
never regained consciousness after a
scrimmage at the beginning of the Sec
ond half. His death has stirred preju-
dice against the game among the men,
hers of the state legislature which is
now in session. A number of legisla-
tors expressed themselves as bitterly
opposed to the game and it is probable
that a bill will be passed in few days
making it misdemeanor to engage in
game of football in this state.
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HENRY GEORGE lis DEAD.
Noted Single-Tax Advocate Strick.
en- with Apoplexy.
Was Candidate Of the Thomas JEFF
ferson Democracy for Mayor Of ):
Greater New, york - His SON
Named II His stead. E

New York, Oct. 3o.-Henry George,
author of Progress and Poverty" and
candidate Of the Thomas jefferson
democracy for mayor of New York,
died at 1850 o'clock Friday morning in
the Union Square hotel Of cerebral apo
plexy. In his great Cooper Union
speech accepting the nomination for
mayor less than month ago, he said:
I'll make this race if it costs me my
life. This is call to duty and as good
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Will Accept Arbitration.

New York, Nov. LA dispatch to
the Herald says it is officially an
nounced in Rio Janeiro that notwith-
standing the opposition. congress will
accept the arbitration treaty with
France in order to settle the Amapas
dispute. The new boundary. it is an
nounced. has practically been Get
tied.
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Death of Duchess of Teck,

Richmond, England, Oct. %. - The
duchess of Teck, cousin of Queen Vic
toria, sister of the duke of Cambridge
and mother-in-law of the duke of York,
died at the White Lodge here at three
o'clock Wednesday morning. The
death of the duchess of Teck was en-
tirely unexpected. It was supposed
that she had entirely recovered from a
complaint which caused her consider
able suffering. Flags are half-masted
all over the public buildings through
out the country as mark of sympathy
with. the royal family in the loss sus-
tanned by the death of the duchess OF
Teck r 1890 - " -~-
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HISTORIC TUCKAHOE.
One of the Best Preserved Coun-
try Places In Virginia.
( 1t Was Founded More Than Two Hun.
dred Years Ago by William RAM
dolph, Grandcst Of Evir. fs,H =
ginia Gentlemen.
Especial Tuckahoe (va) Letter

I0PeCoH1 1uchdHUe (V4.J LetterJ
Two distinct classes of people have
been struggling along in this republic,
vainly trying to understand and appre-
ciate each other There has always
been something of fraternity, but a
lack of harmony between the Puritan
and the Cavalier. Only when disaster,
or devastation, or war threatened, have
they come together and fought and
worked in perfect unison. On the revo-
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Dubuque, Ia, Nov. 1.-Julien Du-
buque's bones, with those of two In
dian chiefs, unearthed some weeks ago
by the builders of monument over his
grave, were deposited in a sarcophagus
within the monument Sunday, and j.
81. Shields delivered an address before
1000 persons, Dubuque was the first
white settler west of the Mississippi
river, and was known to the Indians as
Little Cloud" .s.s..,.. a..
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The Yellow Fever.

Chicago, Oct. 90. - Dispatches report
the progress Of yellow fever on Thurs
day as follows: At New Orleans, new
cases, 65; deaths, 8; total cases to date,
1886; total deaths, 1854. At Clinton,
Miss, l case and death. At Edwards,
Miss. $ cases. At Mobile, Ala, 4 cases
and 6 deaths. At Montgomery, Ala, Il
cases. At Memphis, Tenn, s cases, 2
deaths.
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NEARLY 5000 IN ALASKA.
Railroad Companies Show the Extent
of Travel to the NOrtn

Railroad Companies Show the Extent
of Travel to the North.
Tacoma, Wash, Nov. 1.-The railroad
companies have had man at work
compiling statistics of business done
between Puget sound and Alaska dur:
ing the rush incident to the Klondike
excitement. According to these figures
1,24S persons took passage for St..
Michaels and 1923 went to Fort Wran-
gel, Juneau, Skaguay and Taiya be-
tween July II and September II. Dur
ing this period $4,000 tons of freight
we're shipped to St. Michaels, and about
$4,000 tons to the other ports. This in
cludes business done at British Column
lbian ports. In addition to this large
business, $500 horses and mules were
shipped. ~north, 1,161 head of beef and
over 1000 dogs. e..
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Killed nYFarmer

Versailles, KS., Nov. 1.-City Marshal
Ed Stems shot and instantly killed
Jason Miller, prominent farmer and
trader at Midway, this county. Miller.
resisted arrest.
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HANDLING Lead

Mrs. Benham-l made this cake with
my own hands. ~
Benham-Didn't you sprain one or
two fingers?-N. Y, Journal.
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citizen nave no right to disregard 1t
on account of mere personal considera-
tion." To-day the cheers of the workers
have suddenly been changed to signs,
for, true to his word, Henry George, the
apostle of the rights of men, died as he
wished to die-in harness fighting for
the cause-toward the close of the
greatest municipal political contest the
world has ever seen.
The End Peaceful.
The end was peaceful and he died
without pain. This man of mighty
brain and undaunted courage was
physically frail and the strain of an ex-
citing campaign requiring speech
making at points many miles apart,
night after night, was more than ma
ture could stand. He kept it up to the
end, and only a few hours before the
dread messenger cried halt, Henry
George had addressed enthusiastic au-
diences in three of the towns of the
borough of Queens and a still larger
assemblage in an uptown hall here.
Henry Georges Career.
Henry George was born on September 2.
1889. He received q common school edue
| cation and then went into counting room.
He was also sailor and afterwards
learned the printers trade. In 1858 he
reached California, where he worked at
the printers case until 1866, when he be-
came a reporter and afterwards editor.
working at different times on the San
Francisco Times and Post.
He returned to New York in 1880 and
went to England and Ireland the following
year, where he was twice arrested as
suspect, but afterwards released when his
identity became established. Mr.. George is
best known to the world at large through
his writings upon economic questions, not
ably his work entitled Progress and Pow
erty,' published in 1879. His other works
are: "Our Land and Land Policy" 1871;
Irish Land Question:" 1881; Social Prob
lems," 1888; property in Land" con-
troversy with the duke of Argyle, 1884: 1.-THE
Condition of Labor" an open letter to
Pope Leo Kill, 1891, and "A Perplexed
Philosopher" (Ierbert Spencer), 1892.
In 1886 Mr.. George was nominated by the
united labor party for mayor of New
York, polling $1,000 votes against 10000 for
Abram s. Hewitt, the democratic nominee,
and 10000 for Theodore Roosevelt, now as
sistant secretary of the navy, republican.
Takes His Fathers Place.
New York, Oct. 30.-The Thomas
Jefferson democracy Friday afternoon
substituted the name of Henry George,
Jr., for the name of his father, Henry
George, as candidate for mayor of
Greater New York. Mr.. George has &C.
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Death of q Historic Character.
Wichita, Kan, Nov. blue Jacket,
chief of the Shawnees. and a historic
character, is dead ill.,. .. F.... 49, ~.
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RiEht in His Line.

Does the Kentucky politician have
big pull?' -.
"Yes--when there is a jug around p
Ohio State journal. e''=