The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-30
no . III Il q Z / r. r..

$luYl6lDl0 elelDtnt8 3N0 IS Will "a l66lll3aEE
into the same after = willie, aud they
led to the following ObservatiOll:.s'.'''T Ills
Affords US \ striking anal 81 from which
We Can see the reissOllaD Iri,ess Of tile
claim that our spirit friends, Invisible To
us, can weave about. then, out Of twist.
bic elements, such forms ard garments
as rendert,enl visible to tile natural eye
and sensible to the natural tOucll.''
Yes-and then to follow the analogy
still further: When tile frost figures COM
munlcate. tn you Il message from some
body noted for his elegant diction, they
l'agsle it all to pieces and use such bad
grammar and silly twaddle that the
dead person y friends blush when they
hear II; and IL anybody turns up tho
lamp quickly while the frost figures
are being exhibited they rush into their
cabinets in 4 very material fashion,;
and il one of them is grabbed while on
its way it go,lges and screams Just as
il it didn't want to be caught; and doz-
ems Of real flesl.and. blood people have
been time and again detected in foisting
themselves upon audiences rs frost b9-
urcs; and there isn't q scientific man
OF any prominence in all tho world who
believes there are any sucl, thugs as
frost figures; and and-that's enough to
show how the ADVANCES analogy be.
tween frost figures and materialized
spirits might he carried still further. -
Sioux Falls Pantagraph.
Partly right and partly wrong, broth
er Paragraph. Such pretenders AS the
Fays. the Huntoons, ETC., have gotten
up ''ghost shows" and have. often been
detected, caught in the act. of persona.
ting spirits. They have generally been
exposed by splritua'ists, that is, by
firm believers in genuine materializa-
ton.
And tozcarry on the analogy for the
Paragraph: when q courterfsiter is
grabbed he eouges and screams just as
Il he didn't want to be caught, and
dozens Of real flesh.and blood people
have been time and again detected in
foisting counterfeit money upon the
public. And to help the Paragraph on
still further with its analogy, therefore.
because there are counterfeits and coun-
terfeiters. ''tl,ere isn't-a scientific man
of any prominence in all the world who
believes there are any such things ASH
genuine dollars. Because there are
counterfeits, that settles it with "scien-
tilic men" and preachers, and church
people that there are no genuine green
backs or silver dollars. Because
''ghosts" can he counterfeited and
have been, therefore there are no ghosts.
Logic is logic, you see.
The Pantagrapl, is wrong in its init
nation that there are no scientific men
ofprominence who believe in frost fig
.Hes" or ghosts. Professors Z,llner,
Crookes, Denton, Buchanan, Hare, and
\ host OF other scientific men have in
vestigated the subject as thoroughly
rs they investigated in making a chem
ical test, and all assert in publ he'd
works that spirits do communicate by
tipping tables, writing OH States, ma
terializing, etc.
Go to, you unbelievers. He that be-
lieveth shall be sayed and he that be-
lieveth not shall lie damned.
SHORT STORIES
Our masters of fiction seem to re-
qnire ample space, and some OF them
have evlnced total forgetfulness of
the brevity OF life and royal disre-
gard of the claims that press upon
their readers. What mattered il to
Richardson that men and women have
thousand objects of daily pursuit,
duties and pleasures, exacting cares
and society claims, so long as he could
hold them spellbound at the protract- i
ed woes of his incompatible Clarissa,
or amuse them with the stilted polite
ness Of that model gentleman, Sir
Charles Grandson? De Foe, Fielding
and 'Smollett, too, are never disting-
uished for brevity; and even Sir Walter
Scott, the finest, the wisest, the rich
est in poetical gifts Of all novelists,
failed palpably and fell to common
place level i'll attempting to write a
novelette,. We do not know that
Lytton-Bulwer ever wrote a short tale
that was worth reading. Thackeray's
greatness is displayed on broad
canvas, and so. in spite Of lis Christ
mas Stories, is that of Charles Dickens.
1t may be a pleasant occupation to
read "Bleak Hou C." "Dombey and
Son." 'Esmond," or "The Newcomes,"
but it is an occupation exactlng very
considerable amount of leisure. Some
Of our prolific living novelists, too,
write as if the wish Of the poet Gray
could be realized, and we could lie
upon sofas through the livelong day,
and indulge in continued feast of
novel-reading.-The Spectator.
Well, how can thing be great
without room to act and to develop
greatness? Great men are godlike men
and need an ample field to work in.
1t is true that God can get down and
dig around and find plenty of room
to work in those little spaces between
atoms which are so small that they
cannot he detected by the microscope,
but he does not limit himself to that.
When he comes to write the great
novel Of the Universe he takes tablet
which is endless or infinite to write it
on, and an Eternity of years to finish
it. Even in the little Drama of Man,
he must have a stage $4,000 miles
wide to operate OH and millions of
years to finish the play. A good
many people think he will make
failure Of it yet as the play is 50 vast
and so long in performing, but just
You wait and sec Well risk our
existence on the prediction that he
gets through with it gloriously, and