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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-14
HAUNTED BY MEMORY. ].


suppose that all Of us who felt the.
living, frenzied force of that awful on
shore hurricane will dream about it oc-
casionally as long as we live" said an
ex-blue jacket Of the United States
navy, now living at Washington, who
was among the Vandalia's ships COM
pany at the time of the great naval
disaster in. Apia harbor, Samoa, in re-
verting to that experience. "For three
or four years after got out of that
mess all safe and sound, the memory
Of it used to get tangled up in my head
when I was asleep, and would wake in
a tremble and be unable to sleep for
the remainder of the night. But time
has softened the craggier edges of the
remembrance of that horrifying black
wind, and once in spell nowadays
forget all about it for two or three days
at q time. It all came back to me
with heavy force when the Maine went
up in the air with lot of my ship
mates, though.
There was one man in my mess on
the Vandalia who was never quite right
after we went on the reef. I was ship
mate with him for two years afterward,
and his occasional wildness was plain
to all hands, and men who've been ship
mates with him since-for he's still in
the outfit-tell me that he's just as
badly haunted by the memory of the
disaster as he was when last I saw him.
This man was a shipwright, and his
name was Turley. Before we had that
bad blow Turley was as cheerful and
as clipper a man around decks as ever
snapped yarns with; but when he got
well of his broken arms down in Apia
he was changed man. never saw
him crack a grin after the blow, and
from a stout, husky fellow he became
thin and haggard-looking. He recov-
cred all right physically from the thing,
you see, but it sort of twisted his head
and preyed upon him. He swung his
hammock alongside of me on the Alert
for two years after we were sent up
to duty on the west coast again, and
it was common thing for Turley to
hop out of his hammock in frenzy
in the middle of the night, in port or at
sea, yelling like mailman, All hands
abandon ship-she's going to strike:
He created lot of excitement up for
ward by doing this, but after awhile
the men got used to it and only turned
over when they heard Turley bowling.
ut was the regular thing for the cor
poral of the marine guard at the gang
way to prod the poor chap awake when
he had these crazy somnambulistic
spells and put him back in his ham
mock, for he'd come out of them as
weak as kitten and trembling all over.
There were a number of us on the
Alert who were washed up in the
Samoan disaster, and, naturally, once
in awhile we'd get to talking about it.
But it didn't take us long to find out
that we couldn't talk about it while
Turley was around. The mention of
the thing in his hearing would bring
an insane CLEAN into his eyes and he
would suddenly begin to talk inco-
herently and at the top of his voice
about reefs and dragging anchors and
all that, so that we learned to knock off
Samoan hurricane talk when he was
around. I don't wonder much, either.
1t was an evil emo ugh blow to nigh turn
any mans headgear topsy-turvy.''' p
WASHINGTON Star.
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Sir Robert Peel d pointed him ins1s3l
to 4 junior lord ship sc the treasury, and
n the foll lowing year made him under
secretary l for colonial affairs. Going
out with Peel ii 1895 he returned with
him him. q in ls41 as vice president Of the
board OF trade and master Of the mint,
becoming at the same time member
OF the privy council. The revision Of
the tariff Of 1912 was the work Of his
hands. IN 1919 he became president OF
the board Of trade, but resigned that Of
ttce IN thesf lowing year. Then he was
IN 1916 Tor: short time secretary OF
state Tor the colonies. In the years
lS47-l852 the discussions in parliament
upon university reforms and the re-
moval Of Jewish disabilities sorely tried
his high church and tory principles.
His conviction that some concessions
ought to be made finally led, in Febru-
airy, 1881, to his separation from the
conservative party. ~ Z. Il, I. 81
Under the earl of Aberdeen Gladstone
was made chancellor of the exchequer
in December, 1852, an office he resigned
under Palmerston in 1855. During the
second cabinet of Derby he was intrust-
ed with a special mission to the
lonian islands in the winter of 1859.
In June OF the latter year he was again
named chancellor of the exchequer un-
der Palmerston, and upon the death of
the latter became leader of his party in
the house. He retained the chancellor
ship under Lord Russell's second adj
ministration, but upon the defeat of
his reform bill in 1868 he resigned. In
December of the same year he was
made first, lord of the treasury, to sue
coed Disraeli, and the principal events
OF his administra ton were the disestab-
llshment of the Irish church (1s69),
Irish land act (187O), abolition of pur-
chase in the army, negotiation of the
treaty of Washington CS71), ballot act
(1S72) and the judicature act (1s73). He
resigned in 1873, but resumed control
when Disraeli refused to succeed him.
In the following year he suddenly dis
solved parliament, was badly defeated
before the people, and was succeeded
by Disraeii. In November, 1877, he
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fRf SI1o . \ IEllfS,
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THE OLD OFFICE DESK.

Figures and figures the whole day through.
From morn till night, and from year to
year; y..lE @ 5.&
Column on column must pass review,
And balance-sheets be clear, ST.,
For the wheels Of commerce must never
cease, f
They turn and turn through the weary
years,
And the tired toilers find no release. >
Though lives be filled with tears.
I stand by the same old desk to-day.
Mastering numerals one by one, .
CHASING and grouping the same old way,
The work is never done; 49,
It seems like dream as recall
The misty memories back to the light,
The joys and sorrows, the hope through all
That things would turn out right
Right there's stain from q splattering
It's forty years II it's been day
We used to use the gray goosequill then.
And they'd splashing way.
It's forty years-aS a slender boy,
stood by my fathers side to learn
The knowledge of signs experts employ.
And for which tyros yearn.
Twas my first day. and seized the pen
With a. nervous hand and a blushing
brow
twas difadence caused my trembling then;
IT'S age that makes 1t now.
And here where the oil-clOth's bltstered up.
The water ran on later day;
Embarrassed I overturned the cup
Which held loves first bouquet.
And this great spot where the bottle fell,
That deluged the desk with the ink blood
red,
Glanced when the messenger came to tell
My baby-boy was dead.
TITS thus can trace the long, long years,
Noting the stains on it's quaint old form,
Some standing for joys and some for tears;
Sunshine or passing storm.
"A date scratched here means a baby born;
One there means a child that died;
This mark calls to mind man forlorn,
Crushed to earth in his pride,
When the head of the house learned his
loved son
For forgery lay in a felon's cell;
And that marks the sin of another one,
A trusted one who fell.
Here, where the marks have an aimless
trend,
moved my pen in a dreamy way,
For death had taken my lifes best friend,
My loving wife, away;
And now my desk is the only friend
That binds my heart to the days agone;
All else is new. AS we near the end
We're desolate and lone.
It seems like dream when recall
The misty memories back to light;
The joys and sorrows, the faith through all
That God sets all things right;
Though the wheels of commerce must
never cease,
But turn and turn through the weary
years,
The tired toiler will find release,
Up-where there are no tears.
-Bookkeeper.
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CRUELTY OF THE HINDOOS.
A Travellers Tales of the Heartless
Treatment of Tigers Are AL
most Unbelievable.

The correspondent who sends the fol-
lowing to the Calcutta Asian states that
his information came to him on unim-
peachable authority. During royal
hunt in one of the Rajpoot states an ex-
ceptionally fine tiger was caught
Melted, no doubt-and lured into a
cage; his captors then proceeded to
moose his feet and draw them through
holes bored in the floor of the cage, and
a blacksmith was directed to draw his
claws. The tigers legs having been Sc
cured by ropes, the royal sportsmen
had sliding door in the cage opened,
and when the captive put his head out
they shut the door down on his neck,
while the blacksmith, with mallet and
chisel, broke off his teeth; preparations
were concluded by muzzling the poor
brute with strong wire in some inhu-
man fashion. The tiger was then re-
leased, to be baited by dogs, and, de-
spite his MANNED condition, he killed
several dogs before the "sportsmen''
wearied of the game and shot him.
If this story is true, and the informa-
ton is said to have come from an eye
WITHSTAND there is nothing impossi.
BILE in the crippling part of the business
one would dearly like to take each of
these rajpoot royalties in turn and read
him lessen with a cutting whip. Ma
tives have singular ideas concerning the
use of Gagged tigers. At the end of
street in Jeypoor, one of the finest and
most advanced Of cities, under .spro-
tected' native rule, they kept ten years
ago number of tigers in small cages.
When a European visitor approached,
the keeper Immediately appeared from
his house close by, salaamed profound
~, and proceeded first to spit on his
charges and then to stir them up with
an iron rod. kept for the purpose. When
the savage roaring this treatment nat
urally produced died away that keeper
salaamed more prof oundly and held out
his hand. If bakshish was not prompt
II forthcoming, he said that, lowing
to fear. Of the presence, these sons and
daughters Of dogs do not roar their
loudest, " and spat and stirred again.
London Sketch. .s
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American Slang Misunderstood.

\ typical Englishwoman, when some
one spoke the other day of certain
man having ''swelled head" looked
dazed. "Really! You don't mean it,"
cried the Englishwoman. "I'm very
sorry" A day or so later the English
woman, happening to meet the wife of
the man in question, observed that she
was sorry to hear that Mr.. Blank was
i'll. ''But he isn't!'' cried the wife.
HE was never better in his life.'' us
that sop said the Englishwoman.
'Why, what could Mrs. Dash have
meant the other day when she said ne
was suffering from swelled head?"
1t was an American aunt of pro-
nouncedly prim type who, upon hear
ing her Vassar graduate of niece talk
about ''swelled head,' corrected her
by saying: You mean swollen head
don't you, Ethel, dear ?" N. Y. Times.
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Another B1under =.

Officer Stop! I am an agent Of the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals, and see you are driving
q horse which can scarcely crawl.
Cabman (confdentially Histl TIL
boss is all light. It's me thet's holdin'
HMM. I've got = passenger wot pays BY
the hour. Z. Weekly.
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French Railroad Rules.

French railroad rules are strict. "A
bad accident in which several lives were
lost took place on the line from Paris
to Marseilles recently. When lady
who escaped uninjured from the wreck
applied for her baggage the day after
her arrival in Paris she. was charged
ten centimes for her delay. Philadel-
phia Press. Isl
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The Other Name.

What funny people you are up
nor th!'' ssaid the little boy from Flori-
da. gu call q risin' on the back O.
the neck a boil L s. chicago Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-14
~ Oninltonl,.,

q A q y e hat did you think Of that
free lecture the other night?
Hira lrl though II was wuth Jest
shout the cost ot admis g luck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-14

Rabbits Are Cheap.
IN Australian markets rabbits sell.
at six cents apiece. b 9ss--.
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THE RULE FAILED.
THE following was found on a fly
By George AIDE.


THE following was found on fly
leaf in book in the public library:
1T is the duty of every man to over
work himself, so that he may have
money with which to pay his doctor
bills after he has broken down as re-
suit of overwork."
This may have been written by doc
tor, but the supposition is that it was
written by practical" man of the
Cyrus Elwood stripe.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-26

. = 4 t.. Z ~ =
up pretty girl and a mighty nice one
when you met Nell .Forsythe. I know
the whole family like a book. Better
call on 'em when You get to Kenewa-
nee. They'll treat YOU we'll. Nell's
about the incest girl in the place. Didn't
You think her blamed nice girl?" j,it
IT like Miss Forsythe very much
b 'Course you did: couldn't help It.
She'll remember you, too Mcbbe l can
fix It so we can call there together. I'm
right at home at the Forsythe's, and r
I-we!l, seeing as you know. the family,
don't mind tellingyou that I'm mighty
sweet on Nell-dead gone, In fact; yes,
/ am: that's straight"
t..1ndeedt And Is your regard recipro-
Gated By Miss Forsythe 2" Il
We'll, I can't say for sure, but I
rather think It Is. But ! will, know be-
fore I'm forty-eis:lt hours older. Fact
IS. I'm taking little run up to Kene.
vance on purpose TO bring things to a
! focus. Nell must say yes or mo- to
me before I'm forty-eight hours older.
II It's mo, It's goodbye Kenewanee
for me. I'll never want to see that town
again. Where are you going to put up
when you get to Kencwanee?"
"Oh. at any good hotel!''
THE Werner House Is the best. That's
where I'm going TO stay, and-say, YOU
go there and stay, too, and I'll take you
round to see Nell this evening; that IS.
II you'll agree 70 clear out ahead OF
me and give me chance She'll be
glad TO see you. Awful nice, friendly
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GOING TO THE, SAME PLACE
But the Reserved and UnobtrusiYc
Fellow was Rather Cruel. n

D. v i y =
Harpcr's Bazaar: A quiet locking
young manwho had been forsome time
reading a magazine on western rail-
road train laid 1t qslde, and was about
TO make himself comfortable for a nap.
when q young man in the next seat
turned around and said, In n friendly
tone: II. (.
Mice day, isn't III" ~, :
\ Eyes, very"
"stlll, It's Kind o tircsome riding
eight or nine hundred miles at a
stretch. even In fine weather. Got far
TO go YETI"
aa"Only about fifty miles"
Then guess we're bound for the
same place. Going TO Kencwanee?"
"Yes. am 5tzs5, !, ,,is.
THAT so? I'm bound for the same
! burg. Mighty nice little place. Nice
people, too. Ever been there before?''
.'No. have not"
"well, you'll find It a bang-up nice
little town, and folk II trent you well,
too. there-that's what they Will. Much
acquainted there?" !, = !. n. a
very little. INTACT, / know but one
family in the town.
THAT SO? And what might their
names be?'
"Forsythe." u. *
"Forsythe! Why, ! know the family
like book. I spose you know Nellie
Forsythe?"
yes; I met her when she was visit
y Ing some friends in the east, several
months ago."
"oh. yes: remember Nell did go
east on visit. Well. you met q bang
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-26
MONIHlN IT'S OF llIIlRRT

d 4 Il IL . ii l. IL y
lady In astonlshment. Five cents for d
sllk.iined opern cloak as rood as new
except q little out OF style. and ten centa
for a full dress suitl''s 4 y "
t..yell. don't sell 'em II you dom want
x" said the junlknan ,ineorcernedly.
IT can't stay Mere. though. II YOU don't
want 10 sell" n a Il "a.
eve do want to sell, but we thought
you would give something like what
things are worth, + a <; ~
81 give oil they are vorth-to me-.
replied the junknian. .Ef sou want that.
! take. II. et you don't. I co. n
n The result wns that the jurlsman got
tho ,oaera cloak and the evening" suit
for fifteen cetts--less by far than he
paid for two hundred pounds OF rags
and took away beBides cut glass bot.
ties and finely wrought chandeliers that
couldn't be duplicated for hundreds OF
| dollars. When the accounts were final.
ly settled UP tho Junkman paid over
e!ghty.slS cents for his plumber and
tho four women OF the McSosh family
looked at one ano.herin foolish amaze
fnent. eiF i,S
WELL we've got rid OF the old stun
at any rate" said the mother. 'and II
that miserable junkman dld.cheat us II
Is better than having our new house
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folk the Forsythes are. Here's the train
boy with the Kenwanee papers. Let'aS
see how things are going in tho old Y
town" * & & y q f "a
Each OF the young men bought a. pa D
per, and In five minutes the talkatlycx
and confldlng candidate for the hand DC y
Nellie Forsythe excla!med:
Lookce here! IL this don't beat timel q
Listen to this: Invitations are out ford
the wedding OF Miss Nellie Forsvthe TO-
Mr.. Harry ". Raymond at St Joha'sI
Episcopal church, on ------,' Thats Inllf
want to know. and more, too! That Z
knocks me out! Mr.. Harry N. Hays
mond.' hey? I'd like to murder him!I
No, j Wouldn't ] nir't mean enough 10 D
wish any harm to a chap I never saw
nor never wnnt,to see now. Say,.I guessS
we'll not make that call tonight. You
can go u you want to: I'm too badly
used up TO go: I'll clear out OF town the
hour ] get there Il can get a train
kenwnnee isn't big enoughito hold ma
and that Raymond fellow, too. even sc
I don't bear him ang Ill will. / dop't{
know;I think would hate him if ~
saw him. I'm Kind o. rash and impnl-
slye, and I don't know what I might
do. Here we are at Kenewanee! / feelS
sick!" n
They left the car together. A pretty.{
girl came hurrying forward.
There's Nell" said the sick man,
with gasp, and his sickness increasedS
when Nell, with shining eyes and joy-S
full face, exclaimed to his companion:hS<
"oh. Harry, I'm SO glad to see you!8SI Z
was afraid-oh. how do you do, Mr..
Farnum? What an nge 1t has been
since you visited Kenewanee! Let me
introduce you to Mr.. Raymond. Oh,S
you met on the train? That was nice.<
I'm glad YOU know each other. The
carria se is waiting for US. Harry"
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i .|. .
you know" he began; but the faces OK
the children expressed bewilderment at
the request. at length. however, n 1T
tie girl at the back OF the class shot up
her hand as though bright Idea had
suddenly struck her. &1
"Ah!" said the inspector. the small
est girl in the class knows. Well. my
dear, what Is III" T
"a worm" came the triumphant an
swer.s. !t9
"Well-cr-yes, a worm is really an
animal. but can no one think OF any
other?" M &;
Again profound silence relGned.
III were one of you big girls" the
inspector remarked, after a pause, on
seeing the same hand held up. II should
be ashamed Of myself"
Then, turning to the little scholar us
a last resort, he said: Z
well. what Is 1t this time, my girl?"
Another worm, sir" was the quick
response. - 5ll
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-26
AROuND InEIEA.IARlE.

The lamp had new green globe. Y
which cast weird and doletul llghtN
upon the room; the girls gown was
somber and there was oathos in tho
droop of her mouth. There were also
posterish creatures clambering over the y
covers of the book she was reading.
ut mems" que:ied Howell Van
Rensselaer, Cibbon, as he matted and
surveyed the scene, drawing his gloves
through his hands s5ss Y
Did you ever think" began the igiriy
In an! intense voice. when you were
in church or ut the theatre, and looked
out lover the sen OF heads. that In ak
hundred years from now every. persony
in the audience would be dead and bug!
led ." "a ltf
well, not exactly" said Howell. as "a
he caretnlly@seated himself. az hayeA
more often been concerned In gettingS
out alive, particularly IL the .comed!anX
were poor. fear have no SOUL
You may develop one" she saldsA
hopefully. You know yets aged IpeoE-S
pie along In the COS have been known
to cut a third set oc teeth when they'S
didn't expect 1t ut all. But this bury
ing business Is such a srewsome mis-
take--if they don't trema.e me shall d
haunt them!"s
3"I'n tell YOU n better scheme than;
that" said Howell, meditatlvely When.
you die II have YOU eIectroplated and Y
stand you up In the. hall,
&c. an umbrella rack!' broke IN
the girl delightedly with my
right arm curved this way for;
canes aud things 10 rest against. HOW
ell You nre such O comfort! I wish,
now, I'd puton my pink dress.
"As though mere outward garb could y
change ones spirit!" Howell said In a
shocked tone. You are sad and gioomYsy
tonight and no amount OF pink is go-s
ing to cheer YOU. forbid til must g
have the dramatic unitles preserved.
Proceed with your mourning" ~
A tear trickled down I. the girls
cheek. but just at this instant Jack
Kirbystone blew in.
Got fine lot OF songs to try,H he q
said In a loud and Earring tone, which x
failed to harmonic with the pale, IurldsI
atmosphere OF the roon. Come on!ssSs3
And In five minutes Howell Van Rem
sselaer Gibbon, with a creased brow, q
was sitting beside the book with pos d
terish covers which was tossed upside
down. while at the piano the girl was
vigorously singing, ooh, Honey, You'se Y
Nah Lady" as though she had not a
care in tho Worthwhile Jack KirbystoneN
pcrsistently kept his foot on the loud x
pedal. ,5j,e.x
This Is awful" groancd Howell, and Y
set his teeth. This is what comes ;ofV
attempting to sympathIze with n grlsD
mood. Next time I'll try sledgeham.
mer,"
And then he reluctantly Joined In they
chorus.-Chlcaso Daily News.
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0UT OF TiiE MOUTHS OF BABIES.

w W ~ tilL VI hlvuliio VI II bNptLo.s
.whosc little man are yonSrasked theS
phSsieian otia bright: looking younsster!
aged t..yho aTas playing on the stepsiot
q pa Tents reslcenee. r1'se t.amma's.r,
replltd. hell.le fellow; whose big man
Lets play hockey from school 10.
day. said tho little Chicago boy. "oh,
no, replied his cousin, who had recently
removed from Boston, ara Improper 10
wiltully absent ourselves from the In
stitutlon OF learning without the cog.
nisance OF The prcceptor,"s i32i
Johnnie" said the teacher 10 one OF
the Juvenile class. In your composition
on George Washington you say he cut
down a cherry tree with a saw. Don't
you know he chopped It down with n
hatehet?" 'Yes'm."' replied Johnnie.
but; / couldn't spell Ratchet"
a clergyman was In his library ono
day preparing his Sabbath discourse, /,
He paused frequently 10 review what
he had written and would often erase
a word or sentence ana substitu,e mn
other, ard his 5-year-old son, who was
watching him, asked: Papa, does God
tell you what to preach 2" f,.CertaInly.
my son,"was the reply. Then why do
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sWlSDltD 1lHEM.
Il,c 1ishooe,t Second. Hand Dealer Bantoys

y 4 N our n W omen. X "A, N X
D acan you recommend an honest Junk
p,manf', asked Mrs. aisGosh the other
day, Of one OF the pensioners about her
Z place. ',we're going to move, YOU know,
4 and we have a raft OF old stun should
2lIike 10 dispose Of tsli /,
4 IAN honest junkman.. was the pes.
ysimis.lc reply. ~ can send you a Junk.
Qrnan, but he won be. honestsgsl =. 4 A
D Honest or not, his "juhkship" came at
o thettime appointed, & Z. z. y I; "A
\, III hear you're going 20 move. Amt
he remarked as he wadllcd In at
ytheislde gate,
s5 The four women OF the family were
ron the back steps TO meet him. each
and every, one of them having vowed TO
4 be as sharp and keen as a razor In the
transactions TO follow. and all together
hoping that the dealer In old clothing
>und othe. Scast.off articles would not
get3th better OF them In the barsalns
! 10 be driven for. the old suits, Ind dress
<ses, tie old iron, the bottles, rags and
Other stun piled up In the separate