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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-08-14
she HAD HER WISH.
Little Girl Granted Distinction She
Hankerod For.

Little Girl Granted Distinction She
Hanksred For.
A little girl who had noticed on
several houses about the city the
cards by which the board Of health an.
uonnces the presence Of contagious
disease asked her mother what they
meant. Her mother explained and
the child said, regretfully. I'VE never
have anything like that on your
house." -
"You would not want it, would your
said the mother.
Eyes, would" replied tho little
girl, decidedly.
Some weeks afterward the little girl
was taken sick with chicken-pox, but
was not confined to her bed. On
Sunday morning the mother noticed
that people passing on their way to
church turned to gaze at tho house and
always went away laughing. Her
curiosity was aroused and she went
to the front parlor to investigate. In
each of the front windows was large
placard made, evidently by the little
daughter from the side of paste
board box. On the cards she had
printed: Il have got chicken-pox
bad."-Youth's Companion.
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Search for Wrecks In Lake Huron.
One of the most thoroughly organ.
lied hunts for lost treasure ever at
tempted on the great lakes is to be
made on Lake Huron, where the Mil
waukee Wrecking Company is pre-
pairing to search for the hulks Of YES
sells. Representatives of the company
have chartered the tug Phoenix Of
Oscoda, and, with another vessel to
aid her, will seek wealth among the
wrecks dotting the lake bottom six
or seven miles of the shore. One Of
the most valuable cargoes Is one Of
copper lost in the early days of lake
navigation. Another Is Of steel In.
'gots, and still another is a cargo Of
whisky, lost in q schooner bound for
Mackinaw many years ago. The Mil
.waukee concern secured the copper
cargo of the steamer Pewabic, of
Alpena, after it had been in the
water nearly forty years. - Chicago
Inter Ocean. =.
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Whale Hunts or Scotland.


One of the most thrilling sounds
ever made in the islands of Orkney
and Shetland is that of Whales in
the bay!" Such cry heard even In
the middle of sermon has been
known to empty the church and cause
the minister himself to pull of his
gown and hasten to the seaside, for
the arrival of shoal of whales means
much to, the islander. It Is seldom
indeed, however, that hunt has been
known to take place in midwinter, as
occurred on Sunday, Feb. 8, on one OF
these northern islands. The general
belief is that the bottle-nosed whale
feeds upon the herring and follows
the shoals 3s they wander south, so
that it is very unusual to see them be-
fore the herring season begins. All
the same, it must have been a very
exciting time. About thirty boats got
to seward of the great blowing mon
sters, and, gradually driving them in
at last got them stranded, when the
usual slaughter ensued, the whales
being killed with knives and har-:
poons and q choice selection OF agrt'
cultural implements.
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A Bret Harte Letter.

y Clever authors are generally chary
Of their humor, saving the choicest
witticisms for copy. Bret Hrate, how.
ever, was an exception to this rule,
and was a rare conversational and
correspondent. Here is character.
istically droll letter from him to Ed
gar Pemberton, which appears for the
first time in the authorized biography
published this week, and has been re-
lated with much relish by 'Tay Pay"
O'Connor:
Dear Mr.. Pemberton: Don't be
alarmed if you should hear of my hav'
ing nearly blown the top of my head
OF. Last Monday had my face badly
cut by the recoil of an overloaded gun
I do not know yet beneath these ban.
dages whether shall be permanently
marked. At present I am invisible,
and have tried to keep the accident a
secret.
when the surgeon was stitching me
together the son of the house, boy
of IL, came timidly to the door of the
room. Tell Mr.. Bret Harte it's all
right he said; he killed the hare!'
Yours always,
dNvw; "Bret Harte."
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SAVED " - sono.
Familiar Tunc the Means Of Resoulno
~ ~ H. s.s-s4 u, Youth fr0m slavery. MN

Familiar Tunc the Meana Of Rooou1no
tt4 @' X s''.7'9 Youth from slavery. lf
ys 4 remarkable incident is TINT lot
= Scottish youth who had learned at
home to sing the old psa] tas that were
then as household words to them In
the kirk and by the fireside. When
he grew up he wandered away from
his native country, was taken captive
by the Turks, and mado slave In ono
Of the Barbary states. But he never
forgot the songs of Zion, although he
sung them In "a strange land and to
heather ears. One night he was
solacing himself in this manner, when
tho attention of some sailors on board
Of an English man-of-war was direct
cd to the familiar tune, "O1d Hun.
,dred." as it came floating over the
moonlit waves. At once they surmis-
cd the truth that one Of their country
men was languishing away his life
- . captive. y Quickly arming them
selves, they manned q boat, and lost
no time in ekscting his release. What
q Joy to him, after, eighteen long
year, p1sedf in slavery.
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DIPPED IN rsG ,cv vxAT1R

Bath In Frisld Weather Not . IN.
NJ pisasant 10 Many 0uppoa0.
It ID the common impression that
one suffers keenly from cold II su0den-
" immersed in ! lake or stream Gov.
cred with thin Ice. Such does not %
pear to be the case Of the experience
Of q Philadelphia who got such WET.
ting the other day. when skating He
said: RI was skating on ice that kept
cracking, and then-smash!--all Of =
sudden I was overboards. I was In
the water, holding on to the Jagged
edges of the Ice. My drst thought was
= feeling Of surprise at the waters
warmth. I had gone clean under, head
and all, and now was immersed save
for my head, arms and shoulders; yet
I wasn't cold; the water actually felt
a little warmer than the air. I guess
that was in for six or seven min
utes. A plank had to be brought be-
fore could get out. During these
minutes the only part of me that SUI.
fered was my poor wet hands that
clutched the Ice. After minute or
two they began to ache with the cold.
My body ii. the water gave me no d.
comfort and perhaps If had kept my
wet hAads in the water they wouldn't
have troubled me either. But could
Ut do that or I'd have been carried
under the ice" 49,.
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NO MONEY IN TRANSLATION.
Little Demand for the Best Works
Of Foreign Authors.

Little Demand for the Best Works
Of Foreign Authors.
"Translating is an art" said an
Instructor at the university. Gar
lyle translated some fairy tales from
the German, and these tales from
Tieck and Musaeus are examples Of
English prose as beautiful Is the
heart could desire. Swinburne trans
lated Villon, and so did Rossetti, who
gave us, furthermore, paraphrases of
the Italian poets that equal the origi-
nails in charm. That is the test of
translation-that it shall equal in
beauty the original-and think
there should be law requiring every
great writer to translate at least one
great book. But our good men can't
afford to make TRANSACTIONS; the pay
is too miserable. It is impossible to
get for translating novel of 1850
words more than about $3.50. There
is only 81 per 1000 words, and there
is no living in 1t at such figures."-
Philadelphia Record.
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The Weather Fiend's Work,

Yesterday mornings official wealth.
Or forecast assured the public that it
would be fair Friday with showers
On Saturday. This mornings fore
cast declares that it will be fair to-
day with showers on Sunday. This
manena method of predicting cooling
rains smacks intolerably of the tor
ture inflicted by the gods of old upon
one Tantalus, before whom flowed a
stream which his thirsty lips could
never quite reach.-Washingto Star.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-08-14
CHICAGO MANS HEAD BIGGEST.

How the Sizes Vary in Different Sec.
tions Of the United States.
A halter had just finished selling q
hat to an frishman. d,
1.-THE Irish," he said, 'have heads
of a graceful shape; long and oval,
and very large. The American has q
head shaped very much like the Irish
mans only it is smaller and slightly
rounder.
1.-THE German has square head,
hat on top and very wide between
the ears. A Germans hat always
looks too big for him. It looks 20 be-
cause it is 80. In order that 1t may
encompass the heads great breadth
It must be bought little too loose in
its other dimensions. Some Germans,
who are particular, have their hats
made to order on this account.
II sell hats Ill over the Unted
States, and / ind that heads run big.
ger West than anywhere else. The
Chicago man has the bigsest head Ia
America. The Southerner has he
smallest. We Eastesners-PAiladel-
phians. New Workers and Bostoniaas
ali. have heads about the sane slsa
Thsf 1i2e ID on the average H. The
,wsstsrner'ss size II ~. The 1euth'
ernsr's IL sK."-Philadelphia Record.
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German Motorlst in Hard Luck.

German Motorlst in Hard Luck.
In Germany the motorist Is in a
sad dilemma. A sedate elderly gen
tleman was returning home one even.
ing in his motor and passed through
q small town called Dingsda. At that
hour Of the night the streets were
empty, 80 he omitted to sound his
bell as the local regulations prescribe.
Shortly after committing this crime
he was served with 4 summons for
not sounding = warning while cross
ing 4 public thoroughfare. He pro-
tested, but In vain. and the dne was
paid. Some weeks later he made the
same journey At the same hour and.
mindful Of past misdeeds, loudly
sounded the alarm ut the crossroads.
The result was the issue Of q second
summons, this time for causing rest
disturbing hoise"!
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Why She Was Barred.

One Of the court clerks in Brook
lyn unconsciously prepetrated . joke
an Justice William d. Dickey Of the
Supreme court . short time ago
which the learned justice failed ia
fully appreciate. A suit in which the
mother and daughter were dispttine
the possession of some property had
come before him, and after hearing
the facts Of the case Justice Dickey
Endorsed on the papers this memo
1andum:
1.-The mother is not entitled to the
property and should not be allowed
70 interplead."
The jurist's penmanship is some
times Grabbed and almost illegible,
and the clerk Of the court made the
following transcription in the court
journal:
1.-THE mother is not entitled to
marry and should not be allowed to
interfere. New York Times.
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ooSd proAts osen, Assasrsd. M.
Tho earning power OF ~ harconi
stat3oas At WsllsAeet and 0lace Hay
II . nattsr 20 Sa1u conputation. TAse
.prsctical maximum spssd Aus far ~
tanned ~ ths Mafconi systsm IL thirty
words = minute. An average Of eight"
cen words per minute would be = SAFE
basis for, calculation. The cable charge
for transatlantic service II IS cents q
word. n If the charge 10 10 cents q
word the daily earning capacity OF one
station 10 over $2,6eO. or @e36.O00 per
year. This earninE capacity may be
doubled ny IN increase of speed to the
maximum attained.
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Honored Faithful Servitor,

Phil E. Chappell of Kansas City,
man of affairs, formerly treasurer of
Missouri and distinguished through
out the state, last week journeyed to
Jefferson City to attend the funeral Of
Uncle Brit" Chappell, a negro who
was born on the Chappell plantation
in Virginia eighty.four years ago. For
q time Mr. Chappell had been looking
after Uncle Brit's" comfort and when
news of the old negro's death reached
him he laid all business aside, taking
the first train to Jefferson City, where
he personally superintended the funer.
a. liz
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Fond Of MIX

.*e Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, takes
q long walking trip every summer,
Usually he goes alone, but on one
occasion several gentlemen accom-
panied him. The party toured The
White Mountains. On an August A.
ternoon they stopped. very warm and
THIRSTY, A. i farmhouse and bought
4 several quarts of milk. & Even now,
though, they were unsatfhed, 70 tho
sfarmerDwife fetched from thu spring
house no less than three gallons OF
milk In pail. Setting this before
thom. she said: One would think,
gentlemen, that you had never been
weaped.'' -Detroit News.Tribune. :a
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-08-14
New YorkerH

Zachary Taylor died iii ONCE and
Willard Fillmore, a New Yorker, as
Vice President, became President.
James A. Garfield died in Office and In
the same way C. A. Arthur became
President. also New Yorker. Will
liam Mckinley died In Office and in
the same way Theodore Roosevelt, a
New Yorker, became President. Fill.
more and Arthur tried to be nom1.
mated for President and we're not.
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FOR Study Or Elsctflctty.

For study Of Electricity.
An appropriation Of. $z7k000 for Q
New York state electrical laborator,
ut Union College, Schenectady, Is rec
commended by commission appointed
to determine the necessity for such an
institution. The. laboratory is to sup
ply information on questions of electri-
cd science, and an official standard
for electrical measuring instruments
and apparatus, together with stand
ards for electric wiring Of buildings
for the protection of municipalities and
the general public. Germany has such
an institution.
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Strenuous Service.

5. y. The parson had just delivered Q
derry sermon on the evils of rum. One
az the members was seen to he wrig.
fling uneasily in his pew. "Pehold!"
cried. the excited parson. One Of
my. shafts has struck the right man.
See how uneasy our wayward brother
~, EYES," retorted the accused man;
you'd be uneasy, too, If you had q
1nne bug down your back"
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y, New systsls< o. nsbbspY.
II The latest robbery sc1su6s H. lloN
York is to run along th& 1stS 6f open
cars as they slow dow1 aa6 snatch
5chatelaine bags or pocketbooks from
women passengers. A gang of thieves
has been doing this for several days
and numerous losses have been re-
ported to the police. The robbers
have little difficulty In getting away
before the cars are stopped.
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"Old Wine" Theory EXPLODED.

"oId Wine" Theory Exploded.
There Is hardly a man who does
not believe that the old wine Is the
best wine, yet = short time ago some
cases of claret were sold in London
at $25 bottle, Of the famous
Comet" vintage Of 1911, and the
wine was found to be utterly worth
less. It was simply worn out with
age. Wine experts and wealthy con-
noisseurs had come from great dis.
tances to buy the wine At any price,
and were edited upon opening It to
ind 1t WAS Is nat ~ soda water. In
tho same way, not long since, . guam.
tity of hook from the cellars Of .
country house, Of the year preceding
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow,
fetched $50 per bottle. and was foand
to have lost everything except color.
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NV Ysssss Tall 0ulldIr

lssw Ysssss .vali 0ulldiWsA Nh
\, The tallest h1lldinSs u Now YEA
aro: Tho Park Raw building. -
stosis1, os, ~ 1sst sAisA: the 0k .PAa3
.husldin9, q stortss. sos fsst; 80 No.
haitian Lite, d stories, 34s feet; H.
American Surety, - stories, 1904
feet; tho American Tract, - fstorisss
200 fest; tho Empire; 20 stories, ~
1set; the Home Life. 16 stories. 10
feet; tho Warrington Lite. 10 stories,
70 test: the Calender rs storiss.
17s fest: the Bowling Green, 10 70.
ries. 173.6 fest; the Bank Of Cor.
mercs, 20 storiss. no test: tho Nsw
York Life, - stories, 20 feet: thS
Standard OH, IL stories, 3s3 fest, and
the Commercial Cabls. T. storiss. ~
feAf. ,Jf5. VA 4$$S ~ -;
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Probably Knew the Widow.

Probably Knew the Widow.
Visits of consolation are not by any
means pleasant, and there is no class
of men in the world who know It
better than ministers of the gospel,
They try to be comforting, but Il 10
not always they say just the right
thing. did the minister say some
thing comforting?" asked the neigh
Dor Of q West Philadelphia widow r.
comfy bereaved. Indeed, he did
not" was the quick reply. HE sato
NY husband was better or" -. =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-08-14
Our. NSvy D attlsshlps.

The bids for the construction. OF the
new 10.000-tons attleships$ authorised
by congress have been opened. III The
limit of cost was $4,000, 900. and the
bids are only slightly under that fig-
ure. Nor 10 this strange, for the navy
department and experts, under the d..
rection Of the comml.tee. figured tho
cost of construction very closely and
made the limit Al low q a. vas safe.
Had itsbeen below 81. 400, 600 Isis prob!
able no bids wosl ~ bsen received:
The contractors want three: anxi . half.
years 70 complete'th work.
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New Workers..

Zachary Taylor died in Office and
Willard Fillmore, q New Yorker, az
Vice President, became President.
James A. Garfield died in Office and in
the same way G. A. Arthur became
President, also New Yorker. viii.
liam Mckinley died in Office and in
the same way Theodore Roosevelt, q
New Yorker, became President. Fill.
more and Arthur tried to be nomi.
mated for President and were not.
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To Manufacture HOOP Iron.

10 mAHUtdC&0TS T1ooP 1TOUs
Consul B. H. Warner writes from
Leipzig, May 20, 1908, that the Haspe
from & Steel company (located at
Haspe, Westphalia) has completed q
plant for the manufacture of hoop iron.
The company Is capitalized at 1885,
600 marks ($1,015,070). It was or.
ganized in 1894, and since that time
has paid its shareholders TAN per cent
IN dividends-only 2 per cent, how.
ever, in the last two years.
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The Shakes That He Missed.

A former collegian, addressing q
class of graduates whose fathers were
his schoolmates, made statement
which created a great deal of merri
ment. AS he gazed around the school.
room and noticed how few o. the "old
wound up his speech in this manner:
'And, oh, my dear young friends, it
makes me sad when I think of the
days that. are gone-when I look
around and miss the old, familiar
faces l used to shake hands With"
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Something About Cairo.

Something About Cairo.
Cairo Ia one Of the worlds interest
ing cities. It has about 500, 900 popu'
,lation. While there are NO sreat In
dustries tho people are busy ct all
kinds of handicraft, and many of them
are clever artisans. Cairo has no
municipal autonomy, but is managed
by, the central government. It has
electric lights, trolley caEs and other
improvements OF the dde and some
exceedingly good hot0l0. =
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Library Donations.
For, the year ended May31, $1o.-s
e,400 was donated to the founding
of Libraries, of which Mr.. Carnegie
gave $4,000 for buildings.
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Tov .Gadieai 4 Rsformsr.


Count Batkyany, . young man Of
twenty-sf1,: and an enthusiastic Toll
stoian, has been confined In an asy-
lum in Austria for tho insane at tho
fnstigatfon of his relations. His
friends say that he is perfectly ra-
tional, and are agitating for his re-
lease. The Count has an immense
estate, and set about to inculcate his
doctrines among his tenants. These
serf-like peasants he treated as
brothers, preached anarchy, and read
to them Tolstoi's works, which he
translated into the Magyar tongue.
On account of these doings, his rela-
tives, to whom such innovations were
abhorrent had him placed in the
asylum.
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B.enes Ayrss' oreat ooo,<a

Buonoe Ayrss' oreat Docks.
The first thing that strikes you on
landing 1T Buenos Ayres is its docks,
which extend for five miles along the
river front, says st. Nicholas. They
were built by an English arm. and
were completed in 1897. They are
most solidly constructed, supplied
with numerous modern steam cranes
and are brilliantly lighted with cleo
trcity ut night. They cost the city
and nation seven million pounds
sterling. or $35,000,00o. So great is
the amount Of shipping. however, that
not the docks alone, but the small
river Riachuelo Is crowded With ves-
sells. Indeed, one wonders how q
ship, once entered, can ever manage
to get out.
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Great Depot.

T., Great Depot.
h The Pennsylvania terminal to be
erected in Manhattan will be the big
gest railroad station in the world,
with accommodations for handling
100000 passengers day, or about TO-
100000 or 100000 a year. From sixty
to ninety trains; will enter and leave it
hourly. The tunnels will be lighted
and trains moved through them by
electricity. ->... -.,.,~.~.;,-, ... 49, t.
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The Production of Silk.

Silk is known to be the secretion
of two glands of the silkworm along
side OF the digestive canal. These
glands, which consist of tubes in nu-
merous coils, terminate in the spin
ming wart and open in a common orb
fee from which the secretion, of the
consistency of honey, issues forth.
promptly hardening into a thread on
exposure to air. ~
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!. puts Comfort ssfors Looks.

Secretary of War Root is Arm be-
lever in the idea that q soldier should
look the soldier when engaged in mill
tary work, but he also realizes that III
very hot weather some measure Of
smart appearance must give way to
comfort, SO he has practically said
"Dother your uniforms; dress - ron
please" Indeed, he has set the ex-
ample for his bureau chiefs at the war
department by stripping of coat and
,waistcoat and making himself Is
nearly comfortable a. possible in .
becoming colored shirt waist.
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Worlds Finest Dry Dock.

The San Francisco Dry Dock com
pany has just completed at Hunters
Point one Of the finest dry docks In
the world. It is large enough for two
battleships at one time and can be-
pumped out in two hours.
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Strenuous Service,

The parson had just delivered a
fiery sermon on the evils of rum. One
Of the members was seen to be wrig-
Cling uneasily in his pew. Behold"
cried the excited parson. Zone Of
my shafts has struck the right man.
See how uneasy our wayward brother
u.s." EYES," retorted the accused man;
you'd be uneasy, too, If you had .
June bug down your. back"
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Proctor Knott Builds New Home.

Proctor Knott Builds New Homo.
sr Ex-Gov. J. Proctor Knott, at the age
OF 70, has settled down for the re-.
mainder Of his life, as he hopes, in
q new house built by him in Market
street, Lebanon, Ky, his native town.
A fine country home which he had
just beyond the city limits was burned
q little while ago.
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Enqland's Food Supply.

N England's Food Supply.
has been organized in England to
force Parliament to create, q royal
commission which shall Investigate
the question of feeding England in
time Of war The association advo-
Gates the %old idea of establishing
great granaries to hold q reserve sup.
ply Of food.