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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-13


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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-13

Go to J. Ii. Johnson's for Boots.
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-13

/. The V1cToR.-Any one wanting q j,
Victor Sewing AlAcI,iile cheap Tor each
can secure one at tliisOlIice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-13
Southern Minnesota Railway.

Makes close connections at La Crosse for Mil
.waukre, Chicago and points East Connects at
Ramsey with e. NJ. 4 st. r. R'y for all points IN
Northern Minnesota, Iowa. Missouri and Ne
hraska; lat Albert Lea with Minneapolis and St
North and Scu'h and at Wells with the G. L. r.
Of Min: for Manka.o, Sioux City, Omaha and
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I ! TEIE IS - :.
Efhage & North,Wles':'
- ~ -:
~ tern Railway: :~::. :

:: d*zE> ; is THE ''..:.:: =:
Oldest, Best Constructed, Most Pro
aggressive. Best Equipped
-. HENCE THE -.
Most Reliable Railway
Corporations: B.:
Of the Great West: i
1t is today, and will long remain: the
Leading Railway Of the*W est
s. and Northwest: T.
It embraces under one infringement,
2,15s Miles of Road
and-forms the following Trunk Lines:
Cl,ieaso, Council Bluffs and California,
Chicago. Sioux City aid Yankton, :.
Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque: 81 Lacrosse;
Chicago, Freeport & Dubuque. -:
CiIeago, Lacrosse. VXin0n;r& Minn., -.
Chicago, st. Paul s. minneapolis. ~.
Chicago, Milwaukee::&:Lake Superior,
Chicago. Green Bay aud Marguettc.:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-13

j.. }. POrter and jos. Roll have each
received Il Car load of wood.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19

TALLY broken mp. as pupils and patrons
would al orce recognize the necessity of
prompt and regular attendance If the
pupil is to retain his position in his
classes. Idlencss, the cause OF so much
mischief, would be changed to industry,
because the pupil would feel that he was
in school for some definite purpose
earning diploma-and this re-
ward would be to him a constant
stimulus to earnest work. Interest is the
lever which moves to effort and Is the
secret of all success.
The annual examinations, public
meetings of the literary societies and
commencement exercises, would give the
patrons an opportunity 10 witness the
advancement of the pupils and would
produce an enthusiasm Tor the progress
of our common schools. The catalogue
and annual report, and also the meeting
of the alumni associations would have
the same effect, so that this great lever
interest-would be put into active use.
Several schools in the county have re
Gently adopted this system, and with very
gratifying results.
We hope each district will follow their
example, feeling confident that it will
infuse new life and vigor into the school
work of the county.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
4 HINnr sKEprIc

All the world over. wonder. in lands that
never have tTOi,
Are the people eternally seeking for the sigrs
and steps OF 4 Godg
Westward across the ocean, and northtgard
aFOnt the snow,
Dothey all stand gazing, as ever, and what
do The wisSst know.
Here, in this mystical India. the deities hover
and swarm
Like the wild bees heard in the tree tons, or
the gusts OF Il gathering storm;
In the air men hear their voices, their feet on
the rock are seen.
Yet NE all say Whence is the messenger,
and what may the wonders mean:''
a million shrines stand open, and even the
AS they bow to a mystic symbol. or the figures
of ancient kings;
And the incense rises ever, and rises the end
less cry
OF those who are heavy laden, ard of cow
ards, 10th to die
The path an who has shown it and which is
the faithful guide?
The haS en-, an who has known il: for steep
Is the mountain side.
For ever the shot strikes surely, and ever the
wasted breath
OF the praying multitude rises, whose answer
IS only DEATH
Is life, then, a dream ami deIu. ion, and where
shall the dI Gamer awake?
Is the world seen like shadows on water, and
and That If the mirror break
Shall it pass. a camp that is struck, as
tent that Is gathered and gone
From the sands tSat were lamp lit at eve, ara
at morning are level and lone:
Is there ught in ,he heaven above. whence
the hail and the levin are hurled,
But the wind that Is swept arouni us by the
rush Ofthe rolling world?
The wind that snail scatter my ashes, and
bear me 10 silence and sleep
W it'll the dirge, and the sounds OF lameuting
and voices of women who weep.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
THE LEGAL TENDER SUIT

A dispatch from Washington states
that IL has been agreed between Gen.
Butler and Mr. Chittenden to apply mt
once 10 the supreme court for an order
making the pending suit in regard to
the constitutionality of the legal tenders
IA preferred case. In regular course it
would not be reached for about fifteen
months, but both the parties who have
joined this issue are DESTROYS to have it
settled, and yet more congress and the
country want to see it disposed of. If
the supreme court decide that the reissue
of paper money as a legal tender in time
of peace is unconstitutional, that will at
once settle question which is fast be
coming leading issue of the day. If,
on the other hand, they sustain the legal
tender quality of the greenback, as at
present circulated, the chances are that
the people will not be inclined to give
it up. They prefer this money TO any
other kind we have, and they will be
likely TO keep it. 1t is very significant
that the caucus committee of the Re
publican senators, comprising some of
the most conspicuous names on that side
of the house, have just resolved that is
& inexpcdIent TO attempt any financial leg
= islntion this session. These eminent
doctors say "do nothing" after having
; felt of tho public pulse
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
THE TELEPHONE AND THE BABY,

A telephone story of American life
has just been repeated to me with an assur
ance of its truth, and as illustrating the
future of Mr.. Bells recent invention:
A proud grandmama, who has just
been promoted to that happy relation
ship, is awakened in the dead of night
by the memorable bell:
MAMA, dear" comes to her the fright
ened voice of her beloved but inexperi-
enced daughter. Il am sure the Laby
has the Group; what shall l do with it ~
Grandmamas replies that she will call
the family doctor, and be with her anx-
linus daughter in a moment She awak-
ems the doctor and tells him the terrible
news she has learned from her daughter.
He in turn requests to be put in tele
phOnic communication with the anxious
mamma.
Lift the child to the telephone and
let me hear it cough" he demands.
The child is lifted, and it coughs.
That's no Group" he declares; and he
declines to leave his house on such small
matters. He advises grandmama also to
stay in bed and anxiety quieted, the trio
settle down happy for the night.-Llver-
pool Mercury.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
DEMOCRATIC NEPOTIsM.

Some of the Worst Cases of the Disease
on Record.
Special Dispatch to the Kansas City Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-The Demo
cratic caucus committee of the senate. in
the course of its inquiries as to the dis
tribution of the patronage of that body,
incidentally brought the question of ne
potism into unpleasant prominence.
The following facts were ascertained
Voorhees, has n nephew clerk in tae H.
brary committee, and son on the house
rolls, at $4,000; IA son of johnson, OF
Virginia, is clerk of the committee on
agriculture, and a nephew on the rolls of
the secretary's office, at 50, 200; Vance
has a son clerk of the committee on en-
rolled bills; Withers has a son-in-law
clerk in the revision of the laws depart
ment; son of Eaton is clerk of foreign
relations; son-in-law of Mcdonald is
clerk in the public land office; Morgan
has two committees. namely, rules and
elections, OF which he is president and
vice-president; his son is clerk of the
first and his cousin is clerk ofthe second
Salisbury has appointed a nephew clerk
of the committee on privileges and cleo
tions.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19

To whatever cause It may be ascribed
no revolution in public sentiment in
this country has been more marked
than that in Virginia, indicated in a
Fredericksburg dispatch concerning col
ored jurors. After the bitter resistance
by the courts of that state to the admis-
sion of colored men TO the jury-box, in
which the judges were sustained by the
people, 1t is indeed suggestive to learn
that leading Democrats of Richmond
county, headed by the recently elected
Democratic member of the legislature,
have presented petition to the judge of
that district to include in the jury list
the names of such colored citizens as he
may deem qualified to act as jurors.
The language of the petition is also sug-
gestive, coming as it does, from Virginia
Democrats. 1t urges the placing of col
ored men on the juries on the ground
that "the step is both proper and impor-
tant, as they believe that class of their
fellow citizens entitled to a right of rep
resentation, which right is bulwark of
civil liberty" Strangest of all, the judge
to whom the petition was presented,
granted it, and ordered the jury lIstmade
up accordingly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19

We are glad the Pennsylvania drouth
is over. 1t has been very severe. II
has been good deal worse tsan any
drouth we ever had in Kansas, except
probably, the one in 1860. Had the
extensive and long continued drouth
of Pennsylvania this year existed In
Kansas it would have been heralded
over the world AS a distressing ca
lamity. Weeping correspondents would
have spread columns of it in
the eastern papers, and the editors
would have heralded il with big head
lines, and the festive aid seeker would
have screeched from every eastern stump.
The truth is, that Kansas, on the aver
age, is no more subject TO drOuths, and
does not have them oftener than many
portions of the east. One thing certain
We don't want to hear any Pennsylvania
man asking questions about drouths in
KanGaa
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.

Some InLling OF What Is Going on to Fix
the Convention.
Special Dispatch to the Kansas City Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-A majority of
the members of the National Republican
coin ttee are here, and wire-pulling
for the craftsmanship Is active. The res
ignation of Mr.. Cornell and the selection
OF Thos. Plat, ex-member of Congress,
rs move on Mr.. Conkling's part to Sc
cure the head of the committee. At
present Mr.. Platt's chances of election
seem &c be best The whole of the Conk-
ling interest is understood to be for Gen
Grant, aud for second place Conlling
developes strength. and first choice. II
he does not succeed, Blaine men are
working for W. E. Chandler, or Mr.. Frye,
of Maine. There is also a strong effort
10 make an opening for Don Cameron,
as the Pennsylvania member of the COM
mittee, anu then to elect him chairman.
Chicago still leads all the prominent
cities In work being done to secure the
convention. A committee from Cincin-
natl win arrive Monday to urge the selec-
tion of that point
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
OVER TnE STATE.

Clifton has II telephone.
White City has new hotel.
Parsons has an infanticide case.
The Wyandotte city debt is $I5O,0OO.
Linn county ships hoop poles 10
Texas.
The olathe deaf and dumb asylum has
1OJ inmates.
Negro miners have been warned 10
leave Carbondale.
The new opera house at Leavenworth
will seat S15 persons.
Miss Flora Torrey, of Paola, has en-
tered law school at st. Louis.
Morris county has added 1,54l people
to her population during the past year
The Beloit library association has
raised $500 towards starting public
library.
Marion Centre has raised enough
money to complete its Presbyterian
church
George Weller had his left foot badly
mashed while trying TO board freight
train near Salina last Friday.
The proposition to vote bonds for the
enlargement of the Russell school house
was defeated by large majority.
A new Swedish paper is to be started
at Lindsburg, Mcpherson county, to be
called THE Kansas Stats TidnIng."
ID. NJ. Frost, editor of the Dodge City
Times, has been arrested for buying and
selling stolen goods from U. S. soldier
The editor of the Manhattan Nation
alist is delivering temperance lectures
throughout the eastern portion of the
state.
Mulvane, in Sumner county, has 4OC
inhabitants, with seventeen business
houses. On the first of September there
was not person in the place.
The printers of Smith Center present
ed G. w. Arbuckle, the temperance adj
vocate, with "Gibbon's Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire" as a token OF
their appreciation of his labors in that
place.
A petition has been filed in the circuit
court at Topeka asking the court to SET
aside the recent sale of the Kansas Pa
cific to Jay Gould. Petitioners claim
that Gould acquired by the purchase
200 900 acres of land at 40 cents an acre
worth 81 per acre.
Dickinson county has 100 school dis
tricts, district "a having recently been
divided. Last year the school pOpula
ton was 1926, this yeart it is 5,O12
Number of pupils enrolled this year
5,60l; average daily attendance, 230
Number of teachers employed, 1873.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
WON'T MIX.

4 We supposed itwas long ago settled
that the church and that portion of the
world known as whisky guzzlers would
not mix, and yet they seem to be having
a good deal of vexation over the question
down in Pennsylvania in town called
Honesdale The church has had II deal
Of trouble with its pastors. 1t
Is of the German Lutheran persuasion.
To say nothing of the disrepute into
which this trouble brings serious things,
we agree with the New York Tribune in
indulging in a feeling of sorrow for II
church in the unfortunate condition in
which the one mentioned finds itself 1t is
having a severe tussel with its pastors.
The first of them went to church too
drunk topreach. The second was charg-
cd with being too convivial, and also
with ignoring the saloons of his hum
BILE parishioners." The third was a
preacher of different color, being an
avowed opponent of beer-drinking-so
he wouldn't do, for this Honesdale
church is a hard one to suit. The
lOuIIn uldll NtNliihs oub itS NiN "OASS,
and he had to go. Then came the pres
ent preacher, who is charged with inc
briefly by no means semi-Occasional. Some
of the trouble may have arisen from the
fact that several of the trustees of the
church are in the retail liquor business
and the sad fate of several of their shep-
herds may possibly lead them to shut up
shop. At present, however, the church
seems to be in the greatest danger of
that catastrophe. They held meeting
the other night to consider number five's
case, the doors of the sacred building
which had been previously nailed up by
one of the factions having been forced
open by the other. There was dread
full time. They all talked together.
Each brother showered upon the heads
of all the others the most opprobriOus
names. The word "liar'' was, if any
thing, a little over-wOrked. What was
funniest of all, number five complained
because In the hot debate he was not
spoken of as "the reverend" His friends,
however, rallied around him, and when
it came to vote the bacchanalian pas
tor was triumphant. Those who did
not admire him voted 10 secede and to
found church elsewhere. Nothing was
said about closing the beer shops kept
by church members, or of denying them
membership in the church.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Among the converts made to temper
perance by the "blue ribbon" movement
in Atlanta, Ga, is Major S. w. Small,
('Gld Sin one of the funny writers of
the Atlanta Constitution.
The ambition of our best young men
is to get an undercoat just long enough
to cover up the rear suspender buttons
of the pantaloons, and an oYercoat Just
short enough to miss being tangled with
the protruding nails of their boot heels.
In the name of mOdesty we suggest a
general average.-New Haven Register.
A Brooklyn boy OF 10 years of age
was reading the titles of his fathers
books, and when he came to THE Sew
ant Girl of the PERIOD" by Chamber
lain, he said: That's the servant girl
of the decimal point;'' then after a
pause, he added, Il guess Mr.. Chamber
lain called his servant girl that when
they came to full stop"
Where Is our American navy -
shrieks an exchange. II this excited ed
itOr is laboring under the impression
teal it is concealed in this town he is
mistaken. We haven't seen anything of
the American navy and we are in The
vicinity of the Schuylkill canal a good
deal, too If the navy is lost the price
of it should be deducted from secretary
ThompsOn's salary. We told him six
months ago that if he did not put bells
on the necks of our steam rams, the en-
tire navy would wander away and lose
ITSELF He said he could get up another
one lust as good inside of two weeks.
aud now let us see him do it.-NorrIs-
town Herald
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
sMITrEN WITH THE CIRCUS FEVER.


Virginia City (Nev) Chronicle.
Last evening after the performance
was over at the circus ii young man call
ed on ChiarIni and said he wanted to see
him on private business. The old veter-
an took him into his office and received
him with his usual politeness.
Il came up all the way from Carson to
see the show, and I'd. like to join" said
the young man.
"Oh, see,' said the circus man; "you
are well-formed, healthy looking fellow.
and [ like to encourage such ais you"
The youths eyes frightened.
You do not chew, smoke or drink, l
hope:"
|Oh, no, honor bright-except soda
and beer
You must leave off these bad habits
They weaken the muscles and paTalyZe
the nerves. You can soon stop drink
ing, but your salary will not be large
till you overcome these tendencies. \
little lemonade-circus lemonade-is all
the performers drink. Call at IL O'Clock
tomorrow morning and | will see what
/ can do. You mustn't expect over $50
week though at first We never pay
high salaries until we know just what Il
man can do"
The delighted Carsonite went away
and this morning was on hand.
Chiarini took him to a tent where
three immense Bengal tigers We're Gagged.
Handing him curry comb and a pair
of shears, he remarked:
Your duties will be comparatively
light at first. You will go into the cage
and curry the tigers down every morn
ing, and about once week cut their
claws; keep 'em down pretty short SO
that when they attack the tanner, Mr..
Wilson, they wont laceratc HIM much.
Sometimes, but not more than once
month, you may have occasion tn file
their teeth. You just throw the animal
its back and hold his head between
your knees. If he acts rough belt him
in the nose few times. Keep betting
him till he quiets down"
Haven't you got a vacancy i'll the art
department? ?" asked the young man from
Carson.
as art your line - inquired Chiarini.
YES" drawled the young man. "In
circusses I've always run with, | was
employed to paint the stripes on the re
bras. / killed so many tigers keepin'
'em straight that the boss wouldn't let
me handle 'em. He SAID l used 'em
rough"
ChiarIni swears that the terror from
Carson shall have the first vacancy.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19

Washington specials state that the
place on the supreme bench to be vacat-
ed by the retirement OF Judge Ward
Hunt, has been rendered by the president
to senator Edmunds, who has accepted.
The tender of the appointment, and the
acceptance, however, must go for naught
until after the passage of tile bill to be
introduced for retiring Judge Hunt
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
ALFRED DE MUssEr AND THE DOGS.

How They Came Near wreeking His
Fortunes.
Alfred de Musset always declared that
he hated dogs for the reason that twice
in his life an animal of the canine race
had come within an ace of wrecling his
fortunes. The first time was at ii royal
hunting party when the poet, Louis
Phillippe's guest. when a bird was flush
ed fired hastily and sent the citizen
kings favOrite pointer to meets Cerebus.
The second time was when a candidate
for the Academic, De Musset went to pay
the customary visit to an influential I'm
mortal whose chateau was in the envirOns
of Paris. At the moment that the poet
rang at the gate an ignoblc whelp of in
credible ugliness. covered with mud,
rushed to meet him with joyous banks
and fawned upon him TO the detriment
of the poets new pantaloons. Disgust
cd rs DE Musset was, it would have been
periIous to drive off the Immortal's
faithful dog, so he was compelled to let
the frightful animal lick his hands, GOV
er him with caresses and mud, and pre-
cede him to the drawing room.
A moment later the Academician en-
tered. De Musset noticed his embarass-
ment, at which he was not surprised,
considering the behavior of the animal.
They adjoined to the DINING room, fol
lowed by the animal, which, after giving
vent to his delight by various gambols
and cries, placed his two muddy paws
on the cloth, seized the wing of cold
chicken and began contentedly to devour
it.
That's the most abOminable brute
ever heard Of thought De Musset, and
continued aloud, You are fond of dogs
sea-"
Fond of dogs" echoed the Immortal.
81 hate dogs"
But this animal here"
Il have only tolerated the beast be
cause it Is yours, sir"
"MIne:" said De MusSet; 81 thought
it was yours, which was all that prevent
ed me from from killing himr'
The two men roared with laughter,
and De Musset made friend.
Late that day a yellow dog crossed the
frontier of the Rhine ut Strasburg with
the air of an animal that had scored
upon the tablets of its memory de-
cidcdly unpleasant recollection, and
headed for ConstantinOple with un-
diminished celebrity.