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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
DEWEY'S PERIL AT MANILA.
Olympia Reveals Danger Witch
Threatened Him.

Very tangible evidence of the peril
to which Admiral Dewey was ex-
posed during the battle of Manila
bay was lately forwarded to the navy
department in the shape of one of
the starboard plates of the admiral's
flagship Olympia. The plate is about
three feet square and in it's middle is
a heavy indentation, ~ inches deep,
made by large fragment from a
five or six-pound Spanish shell. The
Olympia is now at the Boston navy
yard undergoing repairs, and when
the constructors came across this
plate they decided to remove it, part
ly as a relic and also to replace it
with solid plate.
In forwarding it to the bureau of
construction at Washington letter
was sent stating that the plate was
taken from the starboard side of the
Olympia's superstructure, approx
imately under the forward bridge,
and very close to one of the five-inch
guns. While the battle was in prog
ress shell burst very near the Off
GERS on the bridge, one of the frag-
ments whizzing. by the admiral.
The deeply indented plate gives
more forcible reminder of the mar
row escape from that bursting shell
than has heretofore appeared. The
plate either will be placed at the
smithsonian institution or given to
Admiral Dewey.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
BIRTHS ARE DECREASING.
Grnve Concern Ia Caused in Great
Britain by Recently Pub
lished Data.

The returns of vital statistics
which have just been issued show
that while the marriage rate in the
United Kingdom was the highest re-
corded since 1876, the birth rate was
the lowest ever known. 1t is, of
course, fact that throughout the
last Is years the birth rate in Eng
land and Wales has been falling. 1t
was $50 per cent. in the five years
ending with 1878, 1875 per cent. in the
five years ending with 1888, 29.s in
a similar period ending 1893 and now
for 1890 it is 1913.
A similar downward movement has
been observed throughout civilized
Europe during the same period, but
in no country has It been so strong
" marked as in England. In France,
indeed, it began earlier and has gone
further, but its progress has not
been so rapid. France has already
reached the stagnant stage in which
population fails to increase. In fact,
If it we're not for immigration there
would be a positive tendency for pop
ulation to decline. This has caused
grave concern across the channel;
statesmen have given it their best
thought in the hope of counteracting
the mysterious process of nature; oil
manner of legislative proposals, such
as heavy taxes on bachelors, have
been made to combat it. It looks as
though England would speedily have
to give attention to the matter. The
cause may be the effect of city lie
upon vitality; it may be a higher
standard of comfort, leading to later
marriages, or it may be something
ObScurer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
Ready for = Promotion.

A man with an armful of second
hand-schoolbooks boarded a Four
teenth street car the other evening.
"Why, hello there, Jim," said his
seat mate turning around and look.
ing him over. Haven't seen you for
dogs age. Married and settled
down and fetching up family, eh?"
"Nope, I'm not married." replied
the man with the armful of school.
books. "What put that into your
head?"
'Why," replied his seat mate, "that
bunch of arithmetics and spelling
books and biographies and
"Oh, those" replied the man with
the ar1nful of schoolbooks, YEARLY
"They're no sign I'm married, and
we got a family. just bought 'cm
awhile ago SOS I can dope up for
my examination for promotion from
the $72O to the 5000 class, that's ALL"
Washington Post
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
Lemon n Manicure Aid.

''Of all the aids to amateur manicur.
Ing" said a woman, "none is more val
liable than a bit of lemon. always
keep a morsel on my toilet table and
find it indispensable. Unlike any 9th
er acid, it bleaches without hurting
the skin, as it brings out any native
rosiness in the nails without harden.
ing or coarsening them. Scrubbing,
and soap and hot water and final poll
ish are all very we'll; for truly dainty
finger tips apply your lemon. I know
q number of estimable women who
candidly confess that they find it hard
to keep their hands clean-particular-
" in cold weather. Let them try the
magic that lies in bit of lemon and
they'll have no further trouble. Chi
cago Chronicle.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
FAMED OLD BURIAL PLACE.
Trinity Churchyard in New York
Contains the Ashes of Many
Noted Men.

No place of burial in the United
States contains the dust of so many
noted men as does the old Trinity
churchyard in New York city. With
in the familiar Enclosure lie en-
tombed the remains of 100000 OF
the people of old New York. Three
deep are the graves. The early rec
ords are gone, but tradition, history
and ancient stones still tell their
stories of men of deeds-of sacri-
fees, sorrows, labors and achieve
ments. There under the shadow OF
Gods temple mother earth has opened
her bosom with strict impartiality
to English governors and signers OF
the declaration, to royalist soldiers
and liberty boys, to the English gar
rison and to the starved martyrs OF
the revolution.
The colonial governors, Sir Henry
Moore and Sir Danvers Osborne, were
buried here; also the wives of Cows.
Clark and Cornbury. Each of these
representatives of foreign govern
ment resided in the fort, south of
Bowling Green.
Here are also the royalist judges,
James Delaney, who presided at the
trial of Peter Zenger, and Daniel
Horsmanden, who, though devoted to
the maintaining of the prerogatives
of the crown, withstood Gov. Cold
ems arbitrary acts, and David jamie
son, attorney general of the province
and recorder of the city of New
York; Robert r. Livingston and Leon
ard Lispenard, members of the stamp
act congress, and John Cruger, dele
gate to that congress and the first
native-born mayor of New York.
Judges, delegates and mayors all per-
formed their work in the city hall
on the site of the treasury build
ing.
And here lie Gen. John Lamb and
Gen. John M. Scott and Gen. Mar
mus Willett, boldest of liberty boys,
whose voices were heard with Ham,
ilton's in the great meetings of the
people ON the commons, then called
the field of freedom, now the City
Hall park; also John Holt, the pa
triot printer of the Gazette and
post bow,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
NowK In Brief.

A large moose passed down one of
the streets of Stephen. He quietly
jogeed along until the village dogs got
aft4r him, when he took to his heels
and gave them lesson in jumping
fences and other obstacles.
Farmers in the southwestern part OF
Polk county have found grasshoppers
in their fields, and believe them to be
of The true Rocky mountain breed.
Thu bugs are numerous enough to do
comfortable damage.
The residence of Peter Thiel, on the
Stockton road, near Winona, has been
des royed by fire. Mr.. Thiel was
aw;y at the time, and his invalid wife,
WIN was confined to her bed, was
aloe. Neighbors saw the flames and
arrived in time to remove her from the
hose in safety. Very little of the
couents of the dwelling was saved;
los, $1,000.
burglars entered Lindenberg Bros.
clthing store at Faribault and Sc
cued about $50 worth of clothing.
Che state feed and dairy commission
is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of TAX
ig the defective pure lard law into
curt to ascertain if it is not possible
Il construe it valid.
James Shoemaker, president of the
bard of trade for many years and one
i the best known residents of Man
hto, was killed by being run over by
I freight train that was switching
lose to the Omaha freight station.
State Auditor Dunn received draft
for $40, 1000, the remainder of the I'M
paid insurance on the Duluth normal
School partially destroyed by fire last
winter. The whole amount of insur-
ance carried and received was $40, 900,
which will be expended in restoring
the building.
A buck and doe fawn ran across Ed
Peterson's farm in Fossun, near the
White Earth reservation line. Theo-
dore Belfye, Mike Gorwick and Frank
Lioue started after them with rifles,
each separating. Belfye was accident
ally shot and killed by Gorwick.
Prof. N. II. Winchell pronounces the
iron found at Coon Creek as the log
variety and has no real value.
Three men were arrested in Mime
apolis for picking pockets during the
Decoration day parade.
The oratorical contest between the
high schools of Kenyon and Dodge
Center was won by the latter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
TOO BIG FOR THE TURRET.
An Amusing Anecdotc Related BY
"Fighting Bob" Evans About
New Gunner.

Rear Admiral Robley D. ("Fighting
Bob') Evans was one of the speak
ers at banquet given in Boston the
other night, and in concluding his
speech told the following anecdote to
illustrate a point he made, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
eve were lying at Cienfuegos when
I received draft of SO men. I had
600, but thought that possibly some
of them might get killed and then
they would have to give me some
more. Among that draft there was
one very fine, large fellow from De-
troit. Before we got chance to
drill them we got the men on board.
At two o'clock in the afternoon we
stationed them, did what we call Civ
ing them the billet. That same even
ing before we got a chance to drill
them we got the alarm: Torpedo
boats coming out!'
"When I passed to get on the
bridge I felt tug at my sleeve. 1t
was the big fellow from Detroit. The
electric light was near us.
"'Well, my man. I said, being a
little in a hurry, what is it?'
"'Well,' said he, T came down here
to fight, and I want to fight, but I
don't know where to CO.
"'Where are you stationed?' l
asked.
"He pulled his billet out of his
pocket, and, after reading it. said:
"'I am stationed in the port of that
eight-inch turret.'
II said: Here it is, right here
"'Well,' he replied, how. in the
blazes do you get into it""
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07

Paris burns the wood Of 1000 acres
of forest week.
The best part of the Kimberley dia-
mond field covers nine acres only.
Glasgow was the first British town
to receive a license for municipal tel
ephones.
Servant girls are becoming scarce
in Berlin because of the greater pop
ularity of factory labor.
Great Britain has now only 4,759, 1853
acres under crops, decrease OF
100000 acres in two years.
Recent experiments made by NJ.
Gautier, of Paris, have shown that n.y.
drogen is a constant constituent OF
the air to the extent of two in 10000
parts by volume.
The pest of British Columbia for
ests is plant called the devils club.
1t has spikes which, when they enter
the flesh, break off and produce poi
soned wounds, which tester.
British naturalists having discov-
cred stingless bees that make honey
in the island of Montserrat, are try
ing to improve the breed with the
object of supplanting the kinds OF
bees that have stings.
According to the Medical News,
London medical science is being di-
rected toward the calculation of the
problem of the causa ton of cancer
A cancer research laboratory has just
been opened at the Middlesex hospl'
tai, to be entirely devoted to the sys'
tematic investigation of cancer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
Cut tho First Wheat.

It seems incredible that the man who
'*cradled" the first crop of wheat sown
in Minnesota is still living, and hale
and hearty. 1t is fact, however, that
Hugh Hoy, now living in Minneapolis,
is the man who, with James Brophy,
cut the first wheat on Governor Ram
sey's farm just west of the site OF the
new capitol in St. Paul. This same
wheat was the first ever sown in Min
nesota, which, within the lifetime OF a
living man, has become one of the
greatest wheat producing territories
of the world. Governor Ramsey had
much trouble in finding someone to
garner his crop. Mr.. Hoy says it was
one of the finest bits Of standing wheat
he has ever seen, coming up breast
high on the Graders, who at that time
used the regulation hand implement
for cutting the golden grain.
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Used IN PLACE OF HORSES.
There Have Been Many Queer AMI.
mails Empoyed to Draw Vehicles
Mt Various Times.

The horse and the OK are not the
only draft animals man has i'm
pressed into his service. When Lord
Curzon, the viceroy of India, went
to visit one of the native princes re-
Gently he was surprised to see in the
gorgeous procession which met him
two rhinoceroses ridden by postillions.
A team almost as strange as that OF
the Indian nabob is the team of four
zebras owned by Walter Rothschild.
The banker drives the beasts himself
and they never fail to attract atten-
ton, says London exchange.
All visitors to Belgium are familiar
with the little carts carrying fruit.
milk or vegetables and drawn by one
or more powerful-looking dogs. In
former days dogs were much more
used for draught purposes than they
are now. A well-known character who
was known as "Old lal," used to race
the coaches on the North road running
out of London with q team OF dogs.
He constructed for himself q sort of
blackboard and had harnessed to 1t
four foxhounds, who would cover long
distances at great pace. Later one
Dumsdale used to appear on the high
ways and race the coaches with q
small wooden cart. Sometimes the
dogs would cover IL miles an hour,
though their natural pace was about
seven miles an hour. Dumsdale's ia
vorite trip was from East Grimstead
to Brighton and back, distance of 43
miles. He would make the journey
in "a hours, including stoppages for
rest and refreshment.
of ostriches being used in place of
saddle horses or for drawing light
traps.
A wealthy man of Vienna named
Doller once built carriage, on which
he attached two bears, while third
was trained to sit beside him on the box
seat. With this extraordinary turn
out Doller appeared in the streets of
the Austrian capital, but complaints
were soon made to the police that
the bears scared horses and provoked
runaways. Doller was forbidden to
drive his team in the city. He then
started team of trained wolves, but
again the police objected to his dis
playing his eccentricities in the
streets of Vienna ind he gave up the
attempt to divert the public with
strange turnouts.
But the palm of eccentricity in turn
outs must be given to an Englishman
named Hubby, who, when 81 years old,
travelled from Linsmore to Fermoy in
an oyster tub set on wheels and
drawn by pig, badger, two cats and
a hedge hog. He wore high red cap
on his head and carried whip in one
hand and tin horn in the other.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07

,0suck by Electrlclty.


There was an occurrence bordering
ON the marvellous upon the bridge that
crosses the railway tracks at Second
avenue and University Me-, Minneap-
oils. The driver of scavenger wagon
rushed into the Second Precinct, police
station and said that several horses
were stuck on the bridge and that no
amount of effort could get them across,
and the man thought some supernatu-
raj agency was the cause. The officers,
after investigation, concluded that in
some manner, the bridge structure had
become charged with electricity. Every
time an effort was made to induce q
horse to move the animal was found
entirely unable to lift foot. After
considerable work the harness was cut
from the team attached to the scaven-
ger wagon and rope attached to pull
the horses loose. Another horse at
tached to single rig was treated in
like manner, after which the bridge
was closed and an officer placed there
to prevent further happenings OF the
kind. Later the officers cut the street
railway feed wire, and it was found
that no difficulty was experienced,
showing that the bridge in some way
had become charged with the electric
A,,sl
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
Aunreclntcd.
ObScurer.

He-What would you say. Miss
Ethal, if / should tell you that ! had
called this evening to place SOL
itaire upon one of those dainty
fingers of yours?
She would say. Harold, that
your speech had the true ring
Boston Courier.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07

" horse II Evansville. Ind. ~
drunk beer for three years, and rel.
ishes IL. &|b'F f3&& K %%425l
Great Britain has 1851, 7o5 Of her
population engaged in agriculture;
France, 6,535, 900, and Germany, s,156,-3
600. .s,3
In the past 40 years Great Britain
has produced 10000, 900 tons of steel.
or about one-third of the worlds to-
tai product. I..'... III
In the year 1901 there were but 81.
hospitals in the United Kingdom.
This number has grown to 49s in the
present year. p"
Two hundred and twenty-five out
OF million Englishmen attain to =
fortune of 100000, and no fewer
than 1,1OO to the comfortable sum OF
e %, 900.
A new ordinance in Atlanta pro-
hibits tho sale of cocaine except by
druggists on physicians prescrip-
tions. The use of the drug has be.
come very prevalent among the ne
groes.
A California vegetarian claims that
q vegetarian diet removes all craving
for stimulants, and says there are
homes for drunkards where the only
diet is bread and fruit, which has
cured where all other means had
failed.
Since 1915 the Rothschild family
has raised for Great Britain alone
more than 81, 200, 600, 900; for Austria
liza, $3.50 ,00O,O 900; for Prussia, $780,
ooo, 900; for France, $4oo, ooo, 900; for
Italy, $500, 100000; for Russia, $685.
900 900; for Brazil, s70,0oo,000. In 1898
they took s15,o00,0 900 of the February
loan of the United States through the
Belmont Morgan syndicate.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07

Marble Figures ON the Queens Tomb.
A recumbent figure of Queen Vic
toria in white marble has been placed.
over her tomb at Frogmore. It was
made 40 years ago by Baron Marochet-
ii at the time that he carved the fig
ure of the prince consort, which now
lies next to it, and had been stored
away until it was needed-London
News.
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Money Secured.

Through the liberality of James J.
Hill, president of the Great Northern
road, NJ. G. Morton of Winona, and
other friends of the institution, the
Hamline university has secured $780,
600 endowment. The money was Sc
cured through the fundamentally OF
President &. H. Bridgeman. Some
time ago Mr.. Hill made pledge OF
$50, 900 on condition that certain
amount be raised as permanent en-
dowment for the university. Later he
promised to give one-half of that sum
for the purpose of securing 500, 900, q
part of the larger endowment. NJ. q.
Morton, whose full endowment is $780,
900, gives his half of that sum towards
the 500, 900 now secured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-07
j, PIN ! Atty Oh oi,H3T
Removal Of Natural InpeAizeats Il
River Floods Results In Serious
Annual Losses.

The people along the Ohio river
and it's tributaries are now paying
their annual penalty for nearly Gen.
fury of forest waste. In and about
Pittsburgh $4,000 men are idle be-
cause of the stoppage of factories by
late floods. The losses of the rail-
ways alone will EXCEED 81 100000. The
damage to buildings, by delay of Or
ders, by direct loss of wages, and in
a dozen indirect walks, will foot up
many millions more. All down the
valley the destruction continues. At
Cincinnati the flood has already
reached the danger line, and may
rise as high as the record-breaking
mark of 1884, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Most people dismiss the ravages
of flooded rivers as unavoidable ac-
cidents. But why did the Ohio in 1884
reach at Cincinnati the highest point
on record? It is not reasonable to
suppose that the rainfall that year
was heavier than it had been on sew
eral previous occasions. The great
damage wrought by the flood of 1884,
and likely to be repeated this year,
was due to the abnormal rapidity
with which the water came down the
river. More water did not fall, but
it came faster. Why?
Because the hills of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky
had for years been stripped reckless
ly of their timber covering. Not only
had the large and ripe trees been
taken, but forest fires had swept
away the underground. The natural
impediments which formerly held
back the water were gone, and it
descended all at once into the val
leys. Hence these disas trous floods.
About the middle of the nineteenth
century it began to be noticed that
the Ohio ran lower in drought and
higher in flood than formerly. The
federal government was appealed to
and sought to equalize the flow by
the construction of dams. But these
measures were only palliative and
did nc go to the root of the evil. All
the dams that can be built will not
regulate the waters as the natural
growths upon the soil once did.
OF course these natural growths
cannot wholly be restored, but some
thing can be done in that direction.
Much of the land about the Ohio's
headwaters is more useful for grow
ing trees than for any other pur-
poses. That forest lands, intelligent
~ managed. will yield a crop as reg
ular as wheat fields has been dem
onstrated. Scientific reforestation,
under public control, will prove
profitable both in the production of
timber and in the prevention of
floods.
The Ohio valley states now pay a
heavy penalty in food damages for
the ignorance and recklessness of
former generations. Until systemat-
ic effort is made to reforest the hills
from which the Ohio draws it's wa
tiers navigation will continue irreg-
ular, and disastrous floods will be of
frequent occurrence. Probably it
would take at least a century to re-
store something like natural condi-
tions, but the time and effort would
be amply repaid by the public bene-
fit.
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Absurd.

II rememberperfectly," repeated the
witness, land that was all she said."
"Stand down, sir" Numbered the
Judge. 1.-THE idea of a mans COM
ing here and saying he can remember
all any woman says."-Philadelphia
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A Hint to Parents.

Never give up to children if they are
in the wrong; do not rob them of
memory that their mother and father
were always true to their principles
Ladies' Home Journal
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In the Vcrnacular.

"Pa," said Miss Slangay, you'll
have to be thinking of digging up
some loaf sugar for me-"
Loaf sugar?" exclaimed pa. "What
on earth do you mean by"
Vacation money, pa."-Philadel-
phia Press.
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Crop Bulletin.

Dry weather prevailed in the Red
River valley during, the week ending
May 20; elsewhere there were showers.
The temperatures were very low for
the season, with frosts the morning of
the 25th, which seem to have been most
severe in the central, southern and
eastern portio ms Of the state; it is said
to have nipped young corn, barley and
tender garden stuff in some exposed
places, but permanent injury is not an
ticipated. early corn and potatoes are
we'll up, and in southern counties are
large enough to cultivate. Timothy,
clover and wild grass promise good hay
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