The Worthington advance., 1879-03-27
WES1'SIDE.

S'S" i'll tuc IdSt 1IOHeer IFeSS re-
port from Is or 20 towns that the farm.
ers had tested their poor quality of
wheat and in all cases it had sprouted.
In this section of the country the far
mers have no other wheat for seed and
are obliged to sow this poor seed. Seed
| wheat is rather scarce in this town.
One farmer will sow $50 acres of flax
because he has not the wheat anu is the
largest farmer in the town.
saw in a late ADVANCE a piece a.
bout the farmers. Some man had dis
covered the reason that the farmer class
was 50 poor as Il general thing. 1t was
because they had no brains or only il
tllimble full and that is not cultivated
very much. | think this was found out
so years ago. Judging from the way they
have been swindled out of their Lard
earnings by those that have plenty of
brains and i good deal of rascality.
The farmers had brains enough to
knock tile little brass kettle out Of the
market. You need not borrow trouble
about the farmers. They will come out
all right if they have little hard times.
The farmers are not whining half as
much rs the merchants.
r.. SIMMONS.
I understand that the village of A.
drian has closed their school house IL
g;ainst public worship and Sabbath
schools. 1t appears that Mr.. Brooks
! from l.uverne came there to give !,
| course Ut lectures and some of the peo-
! pie wanted the house closed against
him 'lnd so the officers have closed it Il.
gainst all, but they can have the use Of
the house by paying $3.50 a night. My
advice would he to those that did not
want to iear Mr.. Brooks lecture to
stay away. When WAS 4 Young man,
| went Il good ways to hear old Joseph
Smith preach up Morm6nism. thought
| he told Il pack of lies and never have
altered my mind to this day.
Il. SIMMONS.
THE School Board at Adrian have
adopted the true plan. If they open
the school house ut all to other tha,,
school exercises, it should be open to all
for uniform rate per night. To ex-
clnde lectures and admit preaching,
would be the height of bigotry and Ill.
fairness. To give the house free to any
church for services or Sabbath School
exercises, and then charge the Liberal
Club, for the use of the house, would be
Il discrimination which no School Board
has the right to make. Let us keep our
public schools and school buildings,
and our public affairs and public
buildings, free from the contamination
of sectarian religion and sectarian con.
trol.-ED. ADVANCED
Shell, of the Worthinston, caught the
mate to that premature wild goose and
had it served up for dinner on Sunday
last. He has a colored cook from the
city now. and that worthy had the
goose sandwiched between roast beef
and loin of veal, and ruffled, futed and
pompadoured Ia Anglaise, a Ii Russo
and braised with entrees in New Eng
land and Alden style. Al least that is
the way we made it out from the bill OF
fare which we read carefully between
relays Of goose. Our columns are al
ways open to corrections.
An exchange says that cholera has
broken out among the bees in Wiscon.
sin and is destroying thousands of the
insects. Cholera, indeed. It's nothing
but stomach ache. People who live on
honey altogether are sure to have collie.
The bees ought to know better.
Put It down on piece of paper so you
won't forget it, that the ice WAS out OF
the lake yesterday, the 26th. When
we came here a great many years age
there was ice lingering around on the
bosom las it were) of the lake as late as
April 29th. There must he ''somethine
going on inside" The climates chan
ging at the bottom OF the lake. Plenty
of men in this town who won t have fal
to go when their time comes.
The Lyceum went up" in a c|out
Of tomfoolery on Monday night last
1t was eminently fit that after tin
swell-heads combined with the rowdie.
to break it up, it should end in farce
It was phnton, we believe, who though
he could drive the chariot of the sun a
we'll as Apollo. So he seized tl.o rein
and started. but soon found the horse