The Worthington advance., 1878-12-19
LYCEUMA

olOuX ClCy uHlnld1uo itn cACtIlc1iI
Lyceum every winter. We notice t!:;,t
it is in full blast again this Minter.
The exercises are enlivened by good
music and the programme includes Or
iginal essays, readings, recitations and
debates. Our Lyceum might receive
some valuable hints from this one.
A gentleman informs US that he is
acquainted with Lyceum in the East
which has been in existence for i num-
ber of years, and has accumulated 4
library worth hundreds Of dollars.
The exercises excite great interest in
the community, and, (this is for the
ladies' it Is said that every lady men,
Der 50 far who has married, has made
an eligible match. :.
1t used to be said at college that the
Literary Societies were the ndmaids
of education. The finest speakers and
writers in Great Britain received their
training in I.yceums and Literary
Clubs. Tie world owes much of its
greatest literary treasures to the fact
that Shakespeare, Goldsmith, DIR.
Johnson, and others, kept their wits
frightened aud exercised in Literary
Societies.
No man, young or old, can prepare
and 60 through the exercises Of one
evening ut the Lyceum without adding
something of permanent value to his
mental furniture, just as really an ad-
dition to his intellectual property rs u
set of new furniture would be an adj
uition to his material or household
property.
4 UNIVERSAL CRISIS.
The Voice Of Angels, Il paper pub
lished in Boston, says:
The band of advanced immortals,
known as the Spiritual Congress, COM
| prising the most highly unfoltled minds
OF the spiritual spheres surrounding
our earth and its sister planets, is ap-
plying its almost limitless resources
and power, in all the various depart
ments of human thought and act ion,
for the purpose Of bringing about such
u elimination OF circumstances and
conditions affecting It'll people, suc'I Il
universal crisis of affairs, as to compel
the civilized world to perceive that its
only possible salvation from utter
downfall and collapse into worse
than barbarism and anarchy, is in the
abandonment Of those ''principles'
(if they may be 50 called and methods
which form the bnsis Of the present
civilized system, and the general aAop-
tion and establishment Of snch radi-
cally lew and normal elements rs shall
inevitably give peace and rest to our
long-s"tfering planet.
Whether such 4 communication was
ever received or not, one thing is cer-
tain, all the signs of the times i'll the
natural, political and religious worlds
indicate that we are on the eve of one
Of those great periods of elimination
or crisis which change the history and
condition Of the race. The ADVANCE,
as our readers know, has said this fire.
quently for year or two past.
CORN FOR FUEL.
The Window Reporter, in copying
-; our article Oh this subject, add, the
the following facts and figures:
Corn 1T Is or 20 cents hls|lvl is
much cheaper than wood ut six or Sry-
Ell dollars cord. People il, this Vi
cinity are burning more or less uf it,
and find that it makes excellent li.t
and an economical fuel. IL stems as
though it would be practical fnl farm
ers to plant several acres each year for
fuel. When it is harvested if the price
Of corn is high enough to pay for sell
ing it and buying wood, do s". If it is
cheaper than wood, as this year, burn
ut. We believe corn can be produced
.0n the prairie and more economically
used than wood or coal so long rs they
have to lie transported such distances.
We are told by those who have used
corn for fuel in Illinois, that when
coal Cal, be had at the mine for $3 Il
ton, and corn is worth but 20 cents Il
buslel, that farmers almost invariably
use corn rather than buy coal at that
low figure. 1t is clean and generates
heat equal to coal. Those who have
never tiled it will he surprised ut its
burning qualities and give up the
''want0n perv,rsion" notion.