The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-04-18

~ CoHloiM W tuc ClOOAtu uouIbS VI Ol-
ticials. Or shall the officials them
selves he required to regulate and
straighten their own movements i'll ac-
cordance with plain strict and stern
mandates of the law.
$3.50. .-... "A CLoDnoppER. ~
4 SENSIBLE VIEW.
The Sioux City Journal of the It'll
says:
We ought to do more than we have
been doing to attract the attention of
immigrants. Our railroad land corpo-
r!tions, it would seem, might to good
| advantage unite to some extent in all
yertising the country in which their
lands are located and in acquainting
home-seekers with the general cllarac-
ter Of our lands, soil. climate, etc. The
local press in its own effective way
however, is to lie regarded us the most
useful agency that can he employed in
this immigration work. And it ought
to be employed. The labor should not
he expected of the local newspapers us
an entire grat,ity. Local societies
shoHld be formed for the purpose of en-
! cites should collect statistics and col
lished in the local papers, the papers
scattered and the publishers called up
OH to bear no more than their fair pro-
portion Of the expense.
This is in the line of the plan we sug-
| gested last week. Articles should he
prepared showing the advantages and
prospects of the State ut large, and to
1,ic CT, 1,o0 1nI .>f ~,
county and vicinity in which, the paper
is published. A supply of tllts: 81 O Id
lie printed SO that every resident of the
State could have copies to send to
| friends i'll other States.
1ELErHoNEAND rHoNoGRAPH
'Annus Mirabalis'' everybody cx-
claims lin English, however.) This is
the year or age of wonders. The telc-
graph and the telephone are establish
ed facts and the photograph fol-
lows close upon both. Clairvoyauts
are telling Us all about the in
habitants of the other planets and
Spiritualists profess to be in daily COM
munication with the denizens IF the
Sririt-world, from whom they are learn
ing the most beautiful and wonderful
things that have ever been revealed to
mortals.
The Sioux Falls Paragraph, speak,
ing of the monograph says:
| AS has been pointed out by ano4 her
in describing this wonderful invention,
we are now III presence of the startling
! possibility that the voices Of the dead
may he heard; so that us we keep by us
the likeness of a friend, and his writ
ten words we may also preserve his
tone and accent. Music is no longer
evanescent, the voice of great singers
will not die with them, but remain as
long us the metal III which they :lre en-
bodied lasts.
The remark that "we are now in
presence of the startling possibility
chat the voices of the dead may lie
heard' has been realized in Il way
which the Pantagraph did not probably
suspect. AT least so says the New
York Tribune in the following article
copied from that paper Of March S:
Ghosts are playing away on one end
OF Il telephone il San Francisco. A
gentleman, who has Il wire between his
house and his Office. was explaining the
apparatus to some friends in his N,rlor
one hight when response WAS sudden
ly received from the other end. The
| signal caused great surprise, for he had
locked lis Office door several hours be-
fore. ''Who is ut the other enu?'' he
Gal lodi fhrnny1, Iii II,
| "lOu would not know me il told
YOU" WAS the response. lie seized his
coat and hat, went to his Office and
found it just us he had left it. empty,
with the gas Burning and the door Sc
curely locked. lie locked the door H.
gain, went home, tried the bvll-signtl,
and ut once received the answer: You
would not know if | told you who |
am, but you will see and know hereaf-
ter" The company we've frightened
and the telephone was shut up for the
night. On the following day the wire
was carefully inspected from end to
end and there WAS no evidence that it
had been tapped or cut 1T amy point.
| Meanwhile Spiritualist, who had
heard Of the mysterious messages, beg
ged for I'LL opportunity to test Il theory
which he had formed, and to prove
that the telephone WAS destined to de-
velopa perfect and ready means Of
communication with the spirit world.
The manifestations are said to haye
! been startling.
| HARD ON THE MINISTER'S.
Moody says there is too much rotten
ness III the church, and he wants the
church to wake up and purge it out.
! lie SAYS that 'slnen iOin the church for