davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
Thus II has always been ana alwayii
will be II the popular branch -of con

lung Hepelle0 men IN ss altkterJtys
Thus II has always been ana alwaysi
will bes II the popular branch Of con-
gress.
John e. Calhoun was popular, while
at the same time he was very dignified.
He knew every body by name and spoke
to, every body, but he maintained a dig
nifty which was respected. Mr.. Calhoun
lived at my fathers house, and l was
named after him. He was regarded as
the most studious mans IL the house,
and his statements of fact and Of law
were always accepted; just as the state
ments of John G. Carlisle were always
accepted.
Henry Clay was friend Of the page
boys. There were many congressman
who would not vote gratuity for the
pages, and who would try to defeat it.
But Henry Clay always stood by us. and
at the close Of each session we usually
secured an appropriat ion Of 5000 each,
in gold, in addition to our regular sal
aries. Mr.. Morrill, was also our friend.
and he never tried to prevent the adop-
ton of our annual bill.
"Daniel Webster knew all Of the page
boys by name, and he always spoke in
a kindly manner to them. In the SEN
ate he had. an especial favorite, Of
whom he was very fond. His name was
Arthur German. Daniel Webster en-
couraged him to study law and make
a man of himself. AS a;result, primari-
~, of this interest which Daniel
Webster took in him, young German
entered politics, and fol. the past IS
years he has been amember of the
senate and leading democratic politi-
clan. guess the page boy, Arthur
German, has been one of the best and
ablest men in the senate during the
present generation. They tell me, too,
that Senator German has always been
kind to the page boys, never forget
ting that he was at one time in q
similar humble position.
while Senator Morrill, was in the
house of representatives there was a
big man there from Pennsylvania who
was handsome, able and popular. His
name was Galusha A. Grow, and he
SeAAAC AAOA 4NuAAos LIZ " dS 1A<AuC
speaker of the house and filled the
position with great ability. Twenty
five years passed away, and read in
the papers that Galusha A. Grow had
been elected to the house of representa-
tives in 1892. I could hardly believe
it was the same man and concluded
that it must be son of the same
name. I waited until. the congress
assembled, and went to Wizards hotel
every night to look at the register.
Finally I found the name of Galusha
A. Grow there; and it was the same
handwriting that I knew so well as
boy. I sent up my card, and was in.
vited to come to his room.
II went up with bell boy, and when
I entered there stood big man, with
partly bald head, gray hair, gray
whiskers and, back of them all, the
same old face. He stepped briskly for
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
TIA LKS 0 TH b PAST 1
Calhoun Clark Was Familiar with
the Giants Of Long Ago
Old Washingt0nian HAS, some Pleas.
ant Recollections Of Men Known
to This Generation ~
Name Only.
Especial washington letter.

Especial Washington letter.
st can think only of the days Of my
.boyhood," says Calhoun Clark, q veneer
able Washingto long retired from
business, who has many friends and is
highly respected.
Il have reached that period in life
when my recollections Of the long ago
are more vivid than the recollections OF
yesterday and of last week. I read
when a young man that in advanced
age the memory would play such
freaks, and now realize that I am an
old man, for think constantly of the
days before the war.
"Just at present there il particular
reason for this action of my brain,
which you will readily understand,
Not so very long ago attended the
funeral of the late Senator Justin
Smith Morrill, of Vermont in the sen
ate chamber; and as gazed upon his
venerable features my mind went back
to the year 1856, when he first came to
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
ESQ IA NE VS..
wheat Grades.

The new state board Of grain mp
peals, at its recent meeting, estab-
lished the following rules for grading
wheat:
Where wheat is rejected or marked
mo grade, /" the board saw fit to insist
In the rules that there be definite
dockage:in the Arst place, and in the
second the assignment Of q reason.
This, it is hoped, will put check on
q very bad practice. AS long as the
practice prevailed of assigning no ex-
PLANTATION Of the rejected" and INC
grade" grading, the shipper was lef,
entirely in the dark as to the charac
ter OF his crop, and simply received
what the Minneapolis or Duluth, dealer
cared to remit for it. Perhaps the lat
ter might hold the wheat q week and
then ship it out as No. 1, and pocket
the difference between the price for
No. l and rejected, while tha farmer
would be robbed of the difference.
This rule in rainy season v i'll be Of
immense advantage to the wheat
growers of Minnesota and the Da.
kotas.
The new grades become ..ffestive
Sept. l as follows:
No. l Hard Spring Whea,-No. I
hard spring wheat must b. sound,
bright and well cleaned, and must be
composed mostly of hard Scotch fife
and weigh not less than So pounds to
the measured bushel. f
/ No. Northern Spring Wheat-Must
be sound and we'll cleaned, and must
be composed equally of the hard and
soft varieties of spring, wheat, and
weigh not less than 81 pounds to the
measured bushel.
No. Northern Spring Wheat-Must
be sound, reasonably clean. This grade
to include all wheat not suitable fo1
the higher grades on account of smut,
barley or too much king heads, cookie
and oats. or any other defects, and to
weigh not less than So pounds to the
measured bushel.
No. 8 Spring Wheat-Shall comprise
all the inferior shrunken spring wheat
weighing not less than 81 pounds to
the measured bushel.
Note-Hard, finty wheat, of good
color, containing no appreciable ad.
mixture of soft wheat, may be admit.
ted into the grades of No. northern
spring wheat and No. spring wheat,
provided the test weight of the same
is not more thon one pound less than
the minimum weight required by the
existing rules for said grades, and pro
vided further, that such wheat is in ali
other respects qualified for admission
into such grades.
Rejected Spring Wheat-Shall in
clude all spring wheat not fit for No. :
wheat.
Note--Wheat containing admixture
of rice or goose wheat will in no case
grade higher than rejected.
Note-The amount of dirt in al
wheat shall be determined by the il
SpectOr,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08

Congressman-at-Large from the State Of
Pennsylvania.
ward, took my hand and said: We'll,
sir, what can do for you?'
II stood still minute, looking at
him carefully, and at last said: Are
you the same Mr.. Grow that used to
be member of the house of repre-
sentatives when was boy?'
HE laughed and replied: 4 don't
know when you were a boy, but used
to be a member of the house, and was
one time speaker of the house,
II said: You used to remember
everybody there. Don't you remem-
Der me?'"
''He sat down, laughed long and loud,
and finally said: You have the best
of me. I don't remember the old men,
but I remember all of the young men
and boys just as we'll as ever. But
don't remember ever having seen you
there or anywhere else.'
ut was the same old man. He had
lived many years, but he had not grown
old, as I had. I finally said: Don't
you remember Cal: Clark, the page
boy?'
''He jumped up, came to me and
said: L remember that little cuss very
we'll. What has become of him.
''When told him that I was Cal
Clark, he Rugged me, opened his box
of cigars, sent for a bottle Of Apollinaris
water and invited me to dinner with
him. I stayed there until after mid
night talking over old times. Hetalked
to me about the statesmen of the old
days, gave me his opinion of Banks,
Cobb, Clay, Webster and all of the
others in frank, friendly manner. IT
/ had been newspaper man would
have jotted it all down and printed it.
Say! the old man is now at Willard s
hotel, just where he used to live long
ago. Why don't you go down there
and get him to give you some o: his
"reminiscences? It would do you GOOD
to hear him, and it would do your read
ers good to read about those old fell
lows, as described by the only man iv-
ing who knew them WE'LL" g..
Guess I'd better do it for subsequent
letter. .....,..>s SMITH D. FRY.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
News in Brief.

Crookston will have a carnival and
live stock show Oct. 3, 4 and $. Over
50, 900 has been raised for attractions
and premiums.
While Theodore Keller was driving
home a storm overturned his wagon,
throwing him out and breaking his
neck.
A pigean was shot at La Prairie, hay
ing ring on its leg engraved "1S99-
F. & K. A."
Miss Maggie Doyle, of Minneapolis,
was fatally burned by lamp explo-
sion.
The Minnesota Elevator company
has purchased the Cargill terminal ele-
vator at Winona.
Visitors at Minnehaha park have
been forbidden to walk under the crest
of the fall. Two children, however,
eluded the policeman and were soon
traversing the slippery path back of
the cataract. A mass of rock weigh
ing fully a ton and half gave way,
and all but carried the children into
the pool.
Knut Logmansford, living near Mon
tevideo, was killed by lightning while
stacking grain. - -@
Thus far IS cans of minnows, bass,
croppies, perch, ETC., have been shipped
from Hastings to the state fish hatch
cry, for distribution in the inland
lakes throughout the state. @
Mayor, John Ludwig, of Winona,
lately appointed a member of Governor
Lind's staff, was presented with a
handsome sword in honor of the event.
The sword represents the individual
contributions of several hundred citi-
zens of Winona. ...r.
Miss Belle Austin, of Minneapolis,
has been appointed teacher of the first
model school in the Winona state nor
NAL.
]. Breitrentz, near Delhi, had two
stacks of wheat destroyed by light
ming.
B. F. Irvine, for years postmaster at
the state CAPITOL died in Pennsylvania
at the age of u.
Mrs. E. M. Slade, Of Arden, was bit
ten in the neck by kissing bug.
The street railway company has an
nounced that the fare this year from
either st. Paul or Minneapolis to the
state fair will be but cents.
The Gem restaurant in Minneapolis
was destroyed by gasoline explosion.
Delos A. Montfort, president Of the
Second National bank of st. Paul, died
at Atlantic City, n. ].
By vote Of 204 to IS, Redwood Falls
decided to issue 50, 400 bonds to aid the
Gulf & Manitoba Railroad company to
construct its line from Cover, Mo-,
through Redwood Falls to Willmar.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08

women do some fine weaving in cotton
and the fiber of the agava.
The men are employed as herders,
farmers and miners, and do their work
well. They know the value of dollar
quite as we'll as white traders, and can
drive a shrewd bargain. Their houses
are matched huts with earthen floors,
usually standing in the midst of small
bean patches. There is no doubt that
the Yaquis of to-day are the remnants
of brave and partially civilized peo-
pie whom the Spaniards found in Mex.
leo. They have never been conquered,
and have never forgiven their Spanish
enemies, nor their descendants. Their
military organization is almost perfect,
consisting as it does of companies, regi-
ments and divisions.
A gentleman who recently returned
from trip through Sonora told the
writer that he could not find a more
appropriate designation for the Yaquis
than that of the Irish of America. !"
Their love of country, he says, is as pure
as that of the Irish peasant. Their
bravery as unquestioned as that of the
noblest Irish patriot. By force of mum.
bers and power of military equipment
they have been robbed of the Tubular
sovereignty over their native soil, but
in sentiment they are Yaquis and no
amount of legislation will make then,
Mexicans. They have been prosecuted
by alien priests and slaughtered by
hireling troops, but still remain faith
ful to the religion of their fathers. A
people like that, he thinks, deserve en-
couragement rather than humiliation,
AS TO the number of Yaquis there is
great diversity of opinion. Some es-
innate the strength of the nation in
Sonora at $4,000, others at 10000. Fiji.
teen thousand is probably the right
figure. In 1920 the Yaquis numbered
10000, but thousands were killed in
their wars with Mexico and thousands
OF others were degraded into poems.
On the other hand, the government of
Mexico has sacrificed $4,000 soldiers and
many millions of dollars in fruitless
endeavors to subdue the. Indians and
restore permanent peace. How many
of the $4,000 remaining Yaquis are now
capable of bearing arms cannot be told
with any degree of accuracy, but 3,Oo1
might be taken as a conservative csti-
mate. And 5000 mountain neil fight
ing in mountainous country for home
and liberty is a mighty host. That
every soldier will readily concede.
WILLIAM WALTER WELLS.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
IEGE1D ABOUT MUsIc


One OF the most singular fancies Of
the Iroquois Indians was that q spirit
lives in the heart Of every rock, the
depth Of every running stream and in
every cavern. This legend Of the Iro-
quois, in which the poetic idea plays an
Important part, opens with q love
scene between . hunter and his bride,
Mekaia, whom he had stolen from her
people, already exhausted in pursuit.
He leaves her to search for canoe. The
bost glides through the night nearer
and nearer to the thunders of Niagara.
To her terrified questionfngs the only
answer is: 1T il the surge breaking on
the sandy shore or the night winds
rushing through the forest" Present.
" the little bark is dashing on the
waves. The white sheet of foam rises
in spray, mock.ng the soaring Of the
bird in the morning.
They are about to dash into the cata-
ract when Mekaia hears the voice Of her
lover calling to her from the shore. The
spirit Of the cataract has assumed his
form, and she fs being swept to the
land of souls. The canoe plunges from
night, like q feather caught on the
wings of great wind.
A beautiful bird floats from the edge
Of a silver cloud and leads the hunter to
the cave Of the winds and then to the
cave of the spirit of the cataract, who
claims Mekaia. The lovers fly, led by the
bird, that tells them the power of the
spirit ends with the dawn. MoschaYr,
one arm about the maiden, chambers
over the face of the precipice and
launches rock at the pursuing spirit,
which dashes him an arrow fight back
| ward.
The hunter has gained nearly the
limit of the demons kingdom. The
purple and gray break out from the
east. In that instant he drops exhaust
ed. The spirits hands grasp him and
Mekaia. With a last effort Moscharr
throws himself forward, and they are
beyond the fiend's boundaries. In a
breath multitudes of bright beings
start from field and flood proclaiming
their escape. They destroy the fiend
and the spirit bird, rising in the air,
| drops upon the pair from his radiant
wings showers of light.
To dwell upon the effective points
suggested in this legend is scarcely
necessary, for to the composer gifted
with sufficient imagination to under.
take their portrayal they will prove
quite patent enough. In the range OF
folklore it would be difficult to find
greater opportunity and variety for a
symphonic poem than in this brief re.
cital.
There is the love episode, the voyage
to the falls, with it's possibilities of pow.
erful climax in the reflections of emo
lions and of nature; the episode of the
bird, the meeting and flight of the low
ers, the springing up of the creatures
of light and the upward fight of the
spirit bird shedding radiance from its
wings.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08

I s. III hi Is 1ort ~ he Invaders
When attempts are made to penetrate
their mountain retreats they occasion
ally resort to resistance, but even in
such cases they rarely do more than
block the paths by which strangers
must advance. Great roc ks and trees
are thrown across the narrow trails,
stopping all progress Of curiosity seek
ers and mining prospectors. 6'
The Yaquis are Industrious and law
abiding, but a Mexican regra+ion re-
quiring all men to wear trousers has
always been particularly obnoxious to
them. When they visit so-called civ
i]ized village to sell their pottery,
woven mats and baskets they do not
put on their trousers until they are
about to enter the corporate limits, and
on the homeward journey they take of
the hated garments as soon as they are
clear of the town and carry them in
little bundles on top of their heads.
The only strangers with whom they
are on friendly terms are the Apaches
of Arizona, and scores of these murder
GUS savages, outlaws from United
States territory, have found safe ref
uge in the Yaqui country.
DR.. w. ]. Magee, of the bureau OF
ethnology at Washington, d. c., who
has made researches in Sonora and ID
familiar with the Yaquis, describes
them as pastoral people, somewhat
skilled in the arts in rude way. They
are ruled by their own laws, follow
their own customs, and are deeply
rooted in their ancestral pagan faith.
They have towns, which are often asy-
lums. A refugee having sought safety
among them will never be surrendered
DIR. Magee found them faithfully at.
tached to their native forms of worship
and by no means entirely submissive
to the priests. Among themselves they
have their ancestral ceremonial rights
OF birth, marriage and sculpture, as
we'll as feasts and festivals. They have
government of their own, and crave
independence. They are also hos
pitable race. The men are kind ia
! their women and children, and the
women WELD great influence. About
their bravery there is no question. The
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08

congress as member of the house of
representatives. I was page boy
then, and was growing too large for
the business, and soon afterwards they
gave me a mans position which held
for some time.
when Senator Morrill, came to con-
gress he was one of the most striking
figures I had ever seen; and, in fact,
have never since seen any man of finer
physique or more intellectual appear
ance. In the coffin 1 saw the shriveled
form and features of a very old man.
In the house of representatives I used
to look up to man six feet four inches
tall, with broad shoulders and perfect
ly proportional. He had heavy wavy
black hair and abundant black whis-
kers, while his carriage was that of a
giant. He was by far the most attrac-
tive looking man in congress. I saw
him as he advanced in position until he
became chairman of the committee Oh
ways and means, when the tariff act of
the civil war was named after him. In
those days he was sent for very often
by President Lincoln, who consulted
him on all matters of great Importance,
Just as President Mckinley has been
in the habit of recently seeking coun-
sci of the late Chairman Dingley on
financial and revenue matters. He was
very great man, and was always re-
garded as a very good man, too.
II remember when he was elected to
the senate, and what a splendid recep.
ton he had on the floor of the house of
representatives, when that honor was
conferred upon him. The leaders of the
house regretted to lose him, and yet
they were sincerely glad of his eleva-
| ton to the upper house of congress, be-
| cause his abilities warranted the adj
| v&ncement. Besides, while he was the
leader on the floor of the house, in
stead of making political enemies, as
SO many leaders have done, he was for
ever increasing the number of his sin
cere friends, by treating all men fairly.
"There was another handsome man
in the house of representatives at that
time. 1t was George w. Jones, of Iowa.
He had been a representative from
! Michigan, later from Wisconsin,, and
| finally from Iowa; and that state also
| sent him to the senate. Gen. Jones had
| been great Indian fighter. He was Il
man of splendid physique and very at
tractiye manners. He was very warm
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
MOSQUITO LIVES TWO MONTHS
An Austra1nSian Scientist Makes o
Close Study of the Little
Pest.

DIR. T. L. Bancroft, of Burpengary,
writes an interesting letter to the Aus
tralasian Medical Gazette on the life
history OF the house mosquito, an in
sect which recent work upon malarian
infection has elevated into scientific
Importance. This mosquito, it is
thought, has been introduced into Aus
tralia from Europe. Tradition says
that mosquito lives day or two; that
it feeds only once, afterward retiring
to some quiet spot, where the ova are
matured, the eggs laid in water, after
which it dies, and that the male mosque
to does not feed, and that it is rare that
it lives seven days after the meal of
blood. The Investigations of DR.. Ban
croft into filarial metamorphosis tai
lied exactly with those of DR.. Man.
son in respect to the metamorphosis,
except in one important item. DR.. Ban
croft had never seen the actively NOV
ing filaria, or thread-worms, the last
stage of the metamorphosis, but this he
attributes to the fact that mosquitoes
want to be fed, and that his died from
starvation about the sixth day and be-
fore the filariae had developed. In con-
finement it is necessary to feed mos
quitoes. Various methods and foods
were tried by DR.. Bancroft with little
success, until ripe bananas were
given, which proved to be suitable; it
was noticed that male and female mos
quitoes sucked the juice of the banana
almost every day. 1t was also found
that mosquitoes would live in glass YES
sells up to two months; the life of a
mosquito is, therefore, not one of two
days, but month at least, and fire.
quently two months.
The embryo filariae, DR.. Bancroft
says, when it is taken into the mosqui-
to's stomach, measures 100 inch in
length by 1-3 900 inch in breadth; on the
18th day it measures lis inch by IL 900
inch, and is not killed when put into
water. He believes that water is the
medium by which the young filariae are
transformed to the human host, and he
suggests that experiments with par
don as a reward should be made upon
life-sentenced prisoners. - Chicago
Times-Herald. ....a .-. ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
A New Version.

II have very interesting German
friend said :well-known business
man, land. he amuses me very much by
trying to use American slang like na-
tive. One expression that particularly
caught his fancy was by Jimmy"
But his version is original, though he
doesn't intend to be. The nearest he
can come to it is by Jimmy"-and
that's what he always says.
The other day had letter from him
that shows that his slang vocabulary
is increasing. He was describing some
goods that were unusually fine and not
what everybody would be likely to have.
In fact, to quote him, they were some
thing that couldn't be bought by every
Tom, Dick and Thomas.
Free Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
Crop Bulletin of the Weather Bureau.

The weather in the Red River valley
has been dry and favorable for the har-
vest of spring wheat, oats and barley.
In the central counties, many report
the wheat sprouting in the shocks and
the stacks wet from the heavy rains of
the previous week. Threshing from
the shock has been delayed by the wet
condition of the grain. Considerable
flax has been cut. Flowing is going
on in central and southern counties.
Potatoes and corn are doing we'll; corn
is being cut in places where it is the
ripest. The apple crop is q very irregu-
lar one; a few orchards having full
crops, but generally the crop is light.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-08
Bold BurglarA.

Mrs. Charles Schultz, of st. Paul,
found two burglars in her house early
in the morning, and chased one of
them nearly two blocks. On returning
to her house she found they had taken
with them her purse containing 81 and
a cloth jacket. Mrs. Schults had risen
early and while busy about the house
heard noise in her cellar. She saw a
man crawling out of the window and
gave chase, but lost him, and on re-
turning found al second robber in her
house. He darted through window
and eScaped