The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-06-12

There are other causes why you are
| looked upon and treated with contempt.
The st. p. & 5. G. II. II. Co. have done
more for your town gratuitculay than
any other four; towns on tS road.
They favesevengone so far txhefp you
as to lay oyer their trims theIe. thereby
forcing every f0reignaGlto spend Il dollar
or two with YOU. TIE only pay they
have ever recefVed.ifl return has been
your curses. You are also quarreling
in your churches and in your business
and social affairs.
You put mt In mind of a story my
grandfather told. For your benefit 1
! will tell it us near as l can remember
it. Many hundred years ago when
quarreling with and hating one another
was not as common BS it Is how, there,
lived very wicked man. One DAY, Sa-
and a wicked man and for your; sins
here on earth haye come for you and
back with me you must so and there he
punished" The man promised and beg
gcd, but This Sataiiic Majesty was i'm
movable. The man begged for himself,
and begged fer his wife and for the sake
OF his children. and the story goes, that
Satan weakened to pity, for the mans
family and said, ION one condition I
will let you remain on earth fifteen
years longer, but you must be punished
during the time all the same. -" ''What
is the condition." cried the man. 1T
is that you should live by the side Of ten
quarreling neighbors. master, / will
go with you, for know that would he
worse than hell can be-
Gentleman, know your failing.
am aware Of your weakness, but do try
and control your evil passions without
talking so much about it. And to con-
clude, for your own good, and for the
| sake of humanity and decency and for
the sake of the friend or stranger who
may be with you, give the liquor ques-
ton rest for while. CATO.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT:
It is against the law to sell cider or
cider vinegar within the corporate lin.
its of Worthington. Several parties
lating this section of the village Char
tcr.-Spirit Lake Beacon.
Up ut Worthington last week wo-
man was fined $25 and costs for selling
glass of cider. This was the last
ditch, and the boys will now have to
testify that they get drunk OH water
st. James Journal.
Miss Sue LangdQn, of Woftli pgton,
was recently fined $25 for selling cider,
and the brute of Il man who claimed to
have bought it appeared against her.
For genuine bigotry and cuysedness
the Worthington village authorities
beat the world.-Fl.I dreau Enter
prise.
Warrington is making a fool of
herself. After having successfully
battled with saloons, and driven them
out of the place, she is carrying prose-
cntion to such an extent that reac-
ton will certainly raise the tlood-gates,
and inscribe as her name upon the
pages OF history, in glaiing letters OF
liquid fire, 1.-THE GuZzlers' Retreat. -
Sibley Gazette.
A man has just been fined $o5 for
selling a glass of cider in Worthington.
That is all right, so far us it goes; but
if it is Il twenty-five dollar offense to
sell 4 glass of cider, what must be the
fearful criminal responsibility of the
fiend in human shape who deliberately
planted the apple tree which produced
that glass Of cider, and doubtless
thousands of other glasses of this same
soul destroying beverage! We shudder
to think of the terrible indictment that
man must answer to before his
maker !-Waseca Herald.
Esquire T.. 3. Bennett, of Worth
ington, the justice of the peace before
whom Miss Sue Langdon was tried ut
WorthingtOn, recently, for selling Il
glass OF cider, writes us i'll explanation
that the lady was tried and convicted
by Il jury, and that as justice he fixed
the penalty at the lowest amount under
the village charter. While we are Ger.
talnly glad to make this explanation
in behalf of gentleman for whom we
entertain the highest personal regard,
the fact is by 10 means creditable to
the village to know that Il jury colnpos-
ed Of it's citizens found the lady guilty
Of the offense and compelled tile en-
forcement Of penalty which every
fair minded man must condemn as the
grossest Observation-Disclosures Review.
Mr.. Daniel Rohrer, one of Worth
ington's irresistible reformers, sends
us communication, published else
where, in defense of the cider prosecu-
tions which have lately taken place in
that village. and which, it seems from
his letter, that he Graves the distin-
guished honor of instigating.
We are surprised, if there were 50
many violations of the charter, that in
making an exam pie, the distinguished
prosecutor should have selected a wo-
man for his victim: and also if the COM
pound sold was chiefly whisky, and i'll
toxicating. that he should prosecute
the offender for selling a harmless
drink like cider. It seems to us that
the attorney was not only unnecessari'
~ fastidious in defining the offense,
but illegal as we'll, and the proceedings
shoul Il have been set aside. But we
fail to see that the explanation i'm.
proves the case.-Mankato Review.
This is the way it comes out by the
time it gets to New York: The New
York Sun says:
Gentlemen of the jury said Mr.
Phelps to the twelve men of Worthing
ton, Minn., who had convicted his
daughter of selling cider without y Ii
cense, all I've got to say is, you're q
set of jackasses, and you may wave YOU
ears over that solemn TRUTH Mr.
Phelps was fined $40 for contempt Of
COURT
ROUTE OF THE HERON LAKE BRA VCH1
The proposed line of the Heron LAX,
branch of the st. Paul Il Sioux City
road runs from Heron Lake to the cen
tier Of Murray county, and thence di
rectly west. BY taking this route tliey
run along the divide, between til
streams running north and those run
ming south, and pass to the north o
Lost Timber. Those familiar with tl,i
country say that this is a much NOR,
favorable route for building over thai
that adopted by the Southern Mime
sofa, which runs near the southern line
of those counties. A further advan
tage which will occur to the St. Pau
Il Sioux City folks is that their lin;
will take them through the count,
seats of the counties through which
their line will run.-Flandreau Enter
prise.