The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-05
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1880.
We regret that we have not space to

daily papers, of the management OF the
Stewards Fold, in New York, an insti-
tuition for children under the manage
ment of one Rev. Cowley and his wife.
The cruelties and outrages practiced
upon the little innocents by this rever-
end devil Guido those of the Squeer's
family in Nicholas Nickleby. We hope
that some Nicholas will give the rever-
end Squeers good drubbing and that
the court will follow it up by sending
him to prison. No wonder the specta-
tors in court could lot restrain their
laughter at the account of this lypocrit
beating and starving the children and
then calling them together regularly,
for an hours exercise at prayers.
THE PAPER ROOM
There is no article that has had such
a boom the past ninety days as print
ing paper. 1t has advanced in that
time nearly one hundred per cent. and
is still on the rise. Publishers Of news
papers have been struck the worst and
it will require the closest reefing Of
their sails to weather the gale that looks
1t preasent 50 threatening. Every
copy of our paper that we send out at
$3.50 year costs us Sl.00, to say moth
ing of the press work, type setting, &c.
The uninitated can see at a glance what
it costs to run country paper. We do
not speak as above in any manner dis
conraging, for we fOresaw what the i'll
evitable consequences must be some
time ago and have prepared our bust
ness accordingly, but all must feel i'm
pressed that it is necessary to get cash
for everything we do hereafter to en-
able us to do 3 successful business UNI
der the existing crcumstances.-Wells
Advocate.
The st. Paul house which furnishes
the really prints for the ADVANCE
raised OH us six cents qure 1T one
jump and there may soon be another
one At the same time we are wedding
out our subscription list and find that
the tares have cost us from $500 to
$1,000. Some of this we shall 10 doubt
get, but the bulk Of it we count lost
We shall 90 on with the welding pro.
cess, and hope to get our list down to u
clean paying basis, that is, to get the
cookie and other stuff weeted out and
grow only wheat hereafter.
We wish we could get 1.-The country
editors together in St. Paul, not to cat
Il supper and talk to toasts, but to put
their hands on q stack of Bibles and
promise that they would hereafter trust
no living man to more than six months
subscription at the furthest, and then
only in exceptional cases.
THE MANKA TO NORMAL SCHOOL,
1t is announced that Prof. Johns has
resigned the position Of Principal of
the Mankato Normal School to accept
that of Presiding Elder Of the Winona
District. Already, we are Informed,
the different churches are bringing for
ward their men to fill the place, each
vieing with the other to place the
school under sectarian central. AS a
taxpayer and " friend of unsectarian
education, we enter our protest against
placing this or any other State educa-
tional institution under the control of
any church or sect. And we believe
that if the wishes of the people gener-
ally were consulted and acted upon the
result would be the appointment of
some one who is not onspiciouSly idcn-
titled with any church or sect and who
is fitted for the place Ivy reason of his
personal character and his qualilica-
tions rs all educator. Especially do
we believe the people would object to
the appointment Of any so-called min
lister of the Gospel, knowing us they do
that without exception ministers be-
longing to any particular church Or
sect are ''under bonds to advocate the
doctrines Of that particular church.
The unseemly holiness Of the churches
in laying their hands upon every edu-
cational and other useful institution
under the plea Of bringing such insti-
tutiOns under ''rullgiuuS intluence' is
a crying evil Of this age, as it has been
in the past, and an aiIront to myriads
of the truest friends of free government
Hilu OF LuC uli!ilull race.
THE OsCCLA TORY E.NERCISE
We wouldn't like to be minister Of
the Gospel in full fellowship and regu-
lar standing. Notwithstanding their
sanctiication, personal holiness, justifi-
cation by fa!,h: predestinatio to be
eternally saved, and all that, and all
that. they do like good square kissing.
Or, in fact, most any kind Of kissing,
SO it is done to Il fresh, sweet girl, or 4
charming married woman or u captiva-
ting widow, or Il buXom servant girl
But it gets them into trouble. If we
had to get into trouble for every time
We have kissed II pretty girl, we should
live III state of stew.
This much Ivy way Of preface to no.
ticing the fact that just now three or
four ministers are in trouble again
about kissing members of their flocks
The Rev. Mr.. lIaferman, of 1Ioboken,
puts in the plea that lie did it for her
spiritual welfare and that it was done
with ''pure Christian motives" That
is, we suppose, Mr.. II. believes in mag
netic treatment. Here was Il poor girl
with Il ''sin-sick soul,'a disease not to
he reached by any ordinary drug treat
ment- But magnetic treatment might
reach it. The poet says that soul
meets soul'' when the lips come tog"tl-
er, and Mr.. llaferman applied his puri-
fled soul to the diseased soul Of the
girl by Il few osculatory exercises and
passes, and presto! the girl WIS cured,
and spiritual health went dancing ny
and down the spinal column of her
soul.
But it is dangerous nevertheless, for
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