The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-30


D0N,I.1ELlEYss
Tive 81 VOrth inxtol,s lkDvANcRIS= halal
seen on ~ Office wind sOnls ord1ila
Try frost figures which were lOrnistl from
invisible elemellts aud will disappear:
Into the same Mfter 8 while, and theYs
led TO tile following observation: T1lis:
affords % striking anA 1 ~ from witch:
we can see the TeasoMab leness of .s.tlle
claim that our spirit friends, Invisible to
us, can weave about them out ST inyisi-
BILE elements, such forns aud garments
as render them visible to the natural eve
and sensible to tile natural touch, 3, s
Yes-;sMd then to follow the analogy
still further: When tile frost figures com.
munlcate to you q message from sOmo
body noted for his elegant diction, they
Maggie 1t all to pieces and use such bad
grammar and silly twaddle that the
dead person. friends blush when they
hear 1t; and II anybody turns up the
lamp quickly while the frost figures
are being exhibited they. rush into their
cabinets in 4 very material fashion;
and ii one of them is grabbed while on
its way It g0'lges and screams just az
ii 1t didn't want to be caught; and dUz.
ems of real flesll.and- blood people have
been time and again detected in foistin9
themselves upon audiences no frost fig-
ures; and there isn't a scientific man
OF any prominence in all the world who
believes there are any such thugs az
frost figures; and-and-that's enough to
show liew the ADVANCES analogy be.
tween frost figures and materialized
spirits might be carried still further
Sioux Falls Paragraph.
Partly right and partly wrong. BROTH
er Pantagrarh. Such pretenders rs 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 sp,ritnalists, that is, by
firm believers in genuine materializa-
ton.
And to carry on the analogy for the
Photography: when cous. teri tier is
grabbed lie eouges and screams just rs
Il he didn't want to be caught, and
dozens of real fiesh.and. blood people
have been time and again detected in
foisting counterfeit money npon the
public. And@to help the Paragraph on
still further with its analogy, therefore.
because there are counterfeits and coun-
terfeiters. ''there isn't scientific man
Of any prominence in Ill the world who
believes there are any such things as''-
genuine dollars. Because there are
counterfeits, that settles it with ''scien-
tific 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 Paragraph is wrong in its init
nation that there are no scientific men
ofprominence who believe in frost fig
ures" or ghosts. Professors Zollner,
Crookes, Denton, Buchanan, Hare, and
a host of other scientific men have in
! vestigated the subject as thoroughly
as they investigated in making a chem
ical test, and all assert in published
works that spirits do communicate by
| tipping tables, writing on states, ma
terializins, etc.
Go to, you u.sbelievers. He that be-
| lieveth shall be sayed and he that be.
| lieveth not shall he damned.
SHORT STORIES.
Our masters of fiction seem to re-
quire 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-
ed woes of his incompatible Clarissa,
or amusc them with the stilted polite
ness Of that model gentleman, Sir
Charles Grandson? De Foe, Fielding
aud 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 a common
place level in attempting to write
novelette,. We do not know that
Lytton-Bulwer ever wrote short tale
that was worth reading. Thackeray's
greatness is displayed on a broad
canvas, and SO, in spite of his Christ
mas Stories, is that Of Charles Dickens
1t may be pleasant occupation to
read "Bleak IIou e." "Dombey and
Son." 'Esmond," or 1.-THE Newcomes.
but it is I'm occupation exact,ng a 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
novcl-reading.-The Spectator.
Well, how can thing he 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 50 small that they
cannot be 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 stage $4,000 miles
wide to operate ON and millions of