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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
The Grand Colorado Canyon.

The great intermountain streams.
like the Yellowstone and the Colorado.
flow through landscapes of deso1ata
grandeur, vast expanses comprised by
endless mountain ranges and chill the
bright skies with never-melting SHOWS,
The countless peaks look down on tina
clouds, while far below the clouds wind
valleys that the sunlight never reaches
Twisting in gloomy dusk through these
valleys, a gaping canyon yawns. Peer
ing fearfully into its black, forbidding
depths, an echo reaches the ear. It il
the fury of a mighty river, so far be-
low that only sullen roar rises to tho
light of day. With frightful velocity it
rushes through a channel cut during
centuries of patience deep into the
stubborn rock. Now mad with whirl-
pools, now silently awful with stretches
of green water, that wait to lure the
boatman to death, the mighty river
rushes darkly through the Grand Col
orado canyon. No sport, no fun, NO
frolic there. Here are only awe-in-
spring gloom and grandeur, and dan
gers so hideous that only handful of
men have ever braved them-fewer still
survived.-F. r. Spearman, in St. Mich
las
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03

ostracized by decent society. He would
be persona non grata even in second
class circles.
of the days of antebellum chivalry.
When lady leaves a street car she is
assisted by the conductor. When an
old man wishes to enter car he is
given helping hand, and the car does
not start until he has found seat. Lit
tie things, but to me-used to Chicago
street car manncrs-they meant much.
They demonstrated that the spirit of
the cavaliers lives not only in their de-
scendants, but has in measure been
transmitted to their dependents.
Every town has it's patron saint. The
impression prevails in the north that
Richmond worships the memory of JEFF
ferson Davis. To certain extent it
does; but the hero par excellence of the
city is not the leader Of the late con-
federacy, but Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Every body pays eloquent tribute to the
confederate chieftain, even the few sur
wing loyalists who opposed the seccs-
sion of Virginia at the beginning of
the civil war. The Lee monument and
statue, one of the finest specimens Of
modern art in America, is an object of
veneration, almost shrine. Jefferson
Davis is not yet remembered either in
bronze or marble. Perhaps, with Wash
ington, he is first in the hearts of the
Virginians; but if such is the case the
affection was not displayed before me-
However. before another decade passes
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS.
Short Sentences Containing Hits al
Humanity.

Short Sentences Containing Hits at
Humanity.
A cloven breath is equivalent to plea
of guilty.
The more we think of some people
the less we think of them.
A man seldom gets so full of emo
ton that he has no room for dinner.
No man has the courage to tell a wom-
an the things that her mirror does.
The ardent lover is all at sea when his
best girl throws him overheard.
Men and women have more faith in
each other than they have in their own
sex.
Most men are generous to a fault
when the fault happens to be their
own.
When a man tears leaf off the cal
'endar he realizes that his DAYS are
numbered.
We have to guess what the future and
the merchant who never advertises has
in store.
There may be nothing new under the
sun, but the limitations frequently sur.
pass the original.
It is better to purchase two cents
worth of music from the organ grinder
than to owe for a grand piano.
Only few years ago people gazed in
wonder at the first gas light. Now they
gaze in wonder at their last gas bill. -.
You can draw your own conclusion
from the fact that there isn't enough
truth in existence to keep tongues OF
gossips constantly wagging.-Chicago
Evening News. ..,>4 r,.s>y. (,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
SONG or THE DRUM.

Do you hear my summons hammer thro'
the crackle and the clamor,
Do you feel my throb and thrill?
When ! meet the smell of powder, oh, my
b merry note grows louder, @
And my song shall not be still.
Follow, each beside his fellow, meath the
vapors gray and yellow,
Wildly cheering, sternly, dumb,
And rumble, rumble, rumble, when the
smoke wreaths toss and tumble,
You shall hear the rolling drum. Fol-
low the drum!
Men forget their fears and follies as they
face the binding volleys,
And the young recruits they come,
With their simple sunburnt faces, from
the quiet country places,
TO the call of me, the drum.
Come, plowboy, lad and carter, and your
life blood freely barter,
For the bullet sure for some,
And rattle, rattle, rattle, through the din
and roar Of battle,
You shall hear the rolling drum. Fol-
low the drum!
When the boys that follow fast there,
drop aside and fall at last there,
From the surging lines of red,
Then no more of pomp and ruffle, my notes
awhile I muf1le,
And I moan and mourn the dead.
But the losing battle needs me, and the
whistling bullet speeds me:
Through the reehng ranks come,
And clatter, clatter, clatter. where the
broken regiment scatter,
You shall hear the rolling drum. Fol-
low the drum!
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
INNOVATIONS IN RUSSIA.

Press Censorship and Rigid Laws
Are All Against Novelties.
The man who undertakes to intro
duce an innovation in Russia should be
very careful not to run foul of the
law.
Edison's photograph has had battle
royal with Russian press censorship.
III the pavilion of the public gardens
in Taganrog the machine was exhib-
tied and attracted large audiences. It
played and sang and laughed and spoke
for some time undisturbed until a po-
lice officer heard the machine reciting
one of Kriloff's famous fables-viz.,
'Demyan's Ukha" (soup or hospital
ity), but with some variations ON the
original text. The officer got suspi-
cious, and, not trusting to his memory,
he ran at once and got Kriloff's book
and came again to listen to the phono-
graphs version of the fable. To his
horror, he found the fable reproduced
not at all as it was passed by the press
censorship more than half a century
ago. An alarm was raised at once, the
higher local authorities communicated
and the manager of the pavilion, Mr..
Parafnovitch, was called upon to ex-
plain the behavior of that speaking
American beast. All the poor manager
could do was to open tine mysterious
inside of the criminal machine and
hand over to the authorities the indis-
Greet cylinder which threatened to tell
the peaceful inhabitants so many I'M
desirable things. But the arrest of the
chief criminal was considered INSULT
cient, as it could not have acted with
out a human accomplish. So, according
to the Taganrog Viestnik, the affair has
taken its official course, and the inno-
cent manager of the pavilion has lost
in the meantime his generally good
spirits, good appetite and sound sleep,
as he does not know in what punish
ment the official proceedings will result
and how long he will have to wait until
his fate is decided.-The Anglo-Rus-
SIAN
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overlooking the james river, is the m
pretentious grave Of Jefferson Davis, al
most hidden under the shade OF q mag
nificent tree. Farther on is the last
resting place Of Gen. ]. 2. B. Stuart, the
dashing cavalry leader: and in quiet
spot near by rest the remains Of G ZEN.
Pickett, of Gettysburg fame. At the
other end of the cemetery towers pyr-
amid, erected by the. women Of Rich
mond, constructed Of stone and en-.
twined by ivy. unique memorial to the
confederate dead, grander in conception
than the marble monument near by
which gives the names Of hundreds who
died for the "lost cause.
When the southerner is with his
silent heroes he is ut his best. He APP
proaches their graves with reverence
born of love. He leaves laughter behind
when he enters the gate of Hollywood,
He does not shed tears. but is overcome
by memories of the greatness of his he
roes, who knew how to fight ard die for
the principles Which he himself holds
sacred. He is to-day asloyal to the old
flag as the descendant Of the Puritans
of New England. yet is convinced in his
own mind that the south had a right to
secede from the union. His is struggle
between tradition and cold fact, be-
tween sentiment and reality.
There is a vast difference between
the man of the north and the man of
the south. Sentiment in the north is
just as strong as in the south. And so
is love of country. But with this diff
ference-the northern man will fight
only for a well-detined purpose. the
southern man for an idea or an ideal.
The New Highlander, by instinct and
tradition trader, or@the tiller of un-
grateful soil, has never had the oppor-
tunity or the time to cultivate tradi-
tional sentiment. The struggle for ex-
istence has taught him to be, above all
things, practical. The soptherner, on
the other hand, reared in land of sum
shine, his fertile acres worked by slave
labor, highly educated in excellent
schools, for generations lived in an at.
mosphere of romance and chivalric ira.
dition. He was, at the beginning of
the civil war, not possessed of his ideas,
but, as Heine puts it, possessed by
them: and they forced him into. the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
PERSONAL AND IMPERsohAk

Hawthorne was SO handsome when
q young man that an old gypsy won
an cried ION meeting him in theswoodss
{ Are you man or an angel ?''
The famous DIR. Samuel JohnsOu
said: Poetry is like brown bread;
those who bake it in their own houses
never like what they find elsewhere"
Mrs. Barbauld's oft-quoted verse;:
ga d5dress to Life, was so well liked by
Wordsworth that he said he wished no
had written the lines; though it was not
his habit to grudge people their good
things.
The public library Of Medford,
Mass, has made a helpful Innovation
that of kindergarten.department, fur
nished with little tables and chairs and
5000 of the latest picture books.
Miss Sophie Swett's story Tom
Pickering, of Scutney," will be enjoyed
by all boys who love books about print
ing and amateur editing. The story
is bright and healthful in tone, as all
the authors stories are. ...... III.
The late Gen. Sir Henry Haveloc1-
Allen. who has been killed by the hill
men in sKhyber pass, was as eccentric
as he was dashing. One sultry summer
morning a few years ago he appeared
on parade at Aldershot mounted ON g.
charger and clad in nothing but kiE
helmet. And he reviewed his regiment:
in that garb.
-Casimir Felix Badeni, who recently
resigned the premiership of Austria, il
the son of chef who was in the service
OF one Of the last kings of Poland, and
was created count in recognition OF
his culinary skill. The ex-premier in-
herited his fortune from his aunt, tho
famous German actress, Anna Wierer.,
and he has nursed it so judiciously that
he is now worth about So. SOC. 900,
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directed by the Women Of Richmond in
Hollywood: Cemetery
away, Richmond will have Davis me-
mortal which, in gorgeousness of de-
sign, will rival the Grant memorial in
New York.
In the north dead man is soon for
gotten. In Virginia he is held in public
remembrance. Richmond has many
"show places" There is the old state
capitol, once the seat of confederate
government; and st. Johns church,
where Patrick. Henry delivered his
great patriotic speech. "Give me lib
erty, or give me DEATH" and the Jeffer-
son Davis mansion, now confederate
war museum; and the war time resi-
dence of Gen. Lee. .on Franklin street;
and half dozen or more excellent mon
uments Of men who made the Old Do
minion famous the world over.
All of these historic spots are pointed
out with pride; but around Hollywood
cemetery centers the real sentiment of
Richmond's citizenship. A visit to this
city which does not embrace drive
through Hollywood is incomplete; for
there only can be witnessed the outward
signs Of the great reverence in which
the southern people hold their de-
parted heroes. On the side Of q hill,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
PECULIAR. HABIT OF ANTS.
Their Singular RelatiOnship with
the Aphi(ls

The fact that ants use aphids for milcs,
COWS was discovered nearly a century
ago, but the special care given to their
1--we stock has been subject of mora
recent study. Almost anyone may have
observed ants rushing up and down the
trunks of trees and shrubs. It is no JOY
of climbing nor desire for wide out
look that leads the ants to ascend
trees, bat because the leaves of tho
trees afford pasturage for their small
cattle, the aphids. These little crea-
lures exude voluntarily drops of q
sweet liquid known as honey dew. The
process of milking is this: the ant
comes up to the aphid and pats it on
the back with her antennae, at which
the fattered and pleased aphid gives
forth the honey dew, which the ant
eats with every sign of enjoyment.
It might seem at first glance that the
benefits of this relationship accrue only
to the ants. However this is not the
case. The ants are fierce defenders
of their focks, and make it very un-
comfortable for the many insect enc
mics of the aphids. Some species of ants
build sheds over the aphids upon the
trees, and other species remove them
to the safety of their own nests; but
the special claim of the ants as aphid
protectors lies in the care of the aphid
eggs, which are ehown as much atten-
ton as their own.
The habits of ants has proven OF
economic Importance to our farmers
OF the middle west. One of the serious
pests in that region is the corn-root
lruse. Prof. Forbes has demonstrated
that these corn-root lice are absolutely
dependent on the ants which live in the
earth of the cornfelds. Ants fetch the
last brood of aphids in the fall into
their nests, and there the oviparous gen
Grafton is developed and the eggs are
laid. The ants give these eggs great
Care, taking them into the deeper gal
leries during cold weather and fetching
them to the surface in warm days
When the young aphids hatch, the ants
take them and place them upon the
corn roots, and thus gain a nucleus for
their summer herds. This shows a
process of reasoning on the part of tha
ants, since they do not feed upon COTE
roots themselves and yet seem to knoK
that the aphids require this food
Anna Botsford Comstock, in Chautau1
QLau, :
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IN THE OLD DOMINION.
a Northern Mans Impressions OF
Richmond and It's People.
Cavalier and Puritan Contrasted-
One Thrives ON Tradition, the
Other ON Fact-A Talk
without = sting.
Especial Richmond (va.) Letter.

Especial Richmond Va.) letter.
Virginia is sui generis. There is no
other state like it in the union. And
there is no city like Richmond. No
one who has failed to visit the
former capital of the confederacy
can truthfully say that he has a
thorough knowledge of the south.
Richmond is as, different from Atlanta
as New York is;from Chicago. Atlanta
is booming, bustling, boisterous. Rich
mond ia sedate, digni6ed, patrician. AL
though northern business enterprise
has revolutionized things to some ex-
tent, it has had no effect on the social
life of Virginia's aristocracy.
Courtesy still rules the day. People
do not walk all over you," to use a
slang phrase, when you stroll through
the business part of the city. They
do not set you down as an im5ecile if
you ask for information about this or
that monument or public building.
Several years ago, while walking
through Central park in New York, l
saw. stranger halt in front of the
statue of the Puritan father. He asked
q native what the statue was for"
"For fools to look at," was the reply.
It is barely possible that the New
Workers. answer was inspired by honest
disgust, for of all the bad work in Cen
trul park the Puritan father is by all
odds the worst; yet the remark showed
IN utter absence of gentlemanly feel.
ing.
Richmond has some good statuary.
It also has some bad statuary. 1sought
information from strangers concerning
both kinds, and in every instance re-
ceived courteous and comprehensive ex.
plantations. A Virginian who would an.
swer a traveller as did the New Yorker
alluded to would, I honestly believe, be
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
Reflections of a Bachelor.

Marriage is necessity, both to the
greatest human happiness and the
greatest human misery.
No man ever knows his wife well
enough to know just what she is going
to say right after the company has
gone.
. One of the first signs that man is
getting old is when he begins to reckon
his age by his last birthday instead OF
his next.
After woman has once seen man
give nickel to worthless beggar she
will always say that anyway his heart
is in the right place.
It is probable that no woman really
objects to the smell Of tobacco on q
mans breath, and that no man has any
use for sailed almonds.
u Very few old bachelors ever get 30
hardened that when they buy two seat8
in parlor car they don't wonder how
they would feel if it were for their
wedding trip.N. 7. Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-03
GUMDRoPs ARE LOADED.
Some Kinds Of Candy Garry ROug
and Liquid Refreslment.g

some Kinds Of Candy Carry Rouge
and Liquid Refrsshment.
Confectioners nowadays are turning
their art to something besides the pro-
duction of harmless sweets. For in
stance, there is the little new-style
sgumdrop. It comes in little, fascinat-
ing red drops that come forth in the
dressing-room or some sly corner to
do duty as q rouge poti Think OF the
frauds those red candies Are! But that's
what the. red comfit that leads this
double life can do and nobody be the
wiser for it. It's not 50 easy to carry a
box of red paint anda little rag around,
but a candy is so blameless looking
that no one would guess It would ever
in passing: between the portals Of
'.pearly teeth" rouge the lips on the
route and say nothing to anyone about
it. '.1F -. =. Ss'. Gs2 .f=: re u -
There is another use to which the
harmless little bonbonr is being put
that of carrying cologne around to
brighten the eyes. Eat a piece of sugar
common 'sloaf'-and put bit of
cologne on it and see what happens.
They say It brings tears to the eyes
and that the velvet orbs swim in mois-
ture that adds to their brilliancy, but it
is something of-an experiment try It.
However, there are girls who do this
sort of thing, and no amount of argu-
ment would keep the cologne candy
from the lips. T.. =: *.-.r - NJ
Wine comes in for share Of the
confectioner's art here. And when it
comes to French liquors and all their
temptations, it does seem hard that the
chocolate drop may not be trusted
along with tie other things people be.
ieve in. ..-,.' - -, .,..,..~.
Another thing that must be put down
with the shattered idols of the person
who has lost faith in bonbons is the
fact that belladonna is carried about in
them, which, when swallowed, makes
the eyes grow dark and large about
the pupils.
All these candies are made in forms
that closely resemble the other simpler
ones, so that only an expert could tell
their hidden charm. But the girls have
some sort of u code by which they be-
ccme aware of the contents of the mys'
FERROUS ones and know how to buy them
with the eye of the connoisseuse. The
wine candies are hard to carry about
and soon perish if they are not speedily
consumed. They were originally de-
signed to give the girl bit of choiict
refreshment "between the acts. Chi
cago Chronicle.
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HENRY STANLEY'S WIFE.
She Is Called the "Artist Laureate .!
the Street Arab"

the Street Arab
It will be remembered that Mrs. STAN
ley was the beautiful Dorothea Ten
nant, whom Millais immortalized in his
picture Eyes or No." She at first re-
fused Stanley, reversing her decision
when he returned from his African ex-
plora toms five years later. The writer
of the Temple Magazine article says
that Mrs. Stanley began her studies Of
ragamuffins and babies when she was
hardly more than baby herself. She
studied in the Slade school under Sir
E. Poynter, the present president of the
Royal academy. She also studied three
years in Paris under Henner, and in
18S1-1ss2 Bastien Lepage painted in her
little studio at Richmond terrace. It
was there that he painted his "Flower
Girl" and 'tShoe Black
He advised Miss Tenant to build q
larger studio of glass in the leads adj
joining the small painting-room which
she then occupied. Mrs. Stanley said:
II felt great pride in building the studio
entirely out of my own earnings. The
first year could not afford to heat it,
the earnings we're so small. The year
after managed to heatit, and the third
year to achieve hot-water pipes and a
stove" It was said that, in accordance
with her husbands wishes, Mrs. Stan
ley gave up painting, after her mar
riage. If it is true, she has resumed it
and has lost none of her old ambition.
She says that she still looks forward "to
doing something splendid some day."
but that she is rather haunted by those
lines of Frederic Locker, the youth pur-
suing his ideal, who is always running
before him:
Lightly sped. when hopes were high.
And youth beguiled the chase:
I follow, follow still. but
Shall never see her face.
To many there is little that is pleas
ing in Mrs. Stanley's pictures; there is
a certain stiffness in the drawing, and
she is in no sense colorist. She has,
however, large following in London,
and is usually hung on the line-indul-
gence frequently denied better work.
Temple Magazine.