The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-04-13

and ten them TO emulate Ills eAaupAc
and to avenge his fate-on innocent
people.
TIE BRAT ORDINANCE.
At length we have a village council
which believes that vicious brats are rs
much subject to restraint on the street
as grown persons. for the long-desired
ordinance regulating the conduct Of
minors has been passed. This ordi-
nance will be found elsewhere in our
columns.
We hope now, with the enforcement
Of this ordinance, that Worthington
will no longer haye the name Of con-
tanning the most impudent and inso-
lent brats OH the line of our railroad.
Much of the conduct Of these coarse
and bad children, we know, has been
due to the instigation of other people
and the imbecility of their ''fool'' pa
rents in so readily taking up the cudg-
Eel in their defence and ridiculing and
defaming any citizen who dared to pro-
test or to attempt to preserve order
ab&ut his own premises.
If Werthington were merely coun-
try village, without being Incorporate
ed, We might expect a good deal of an.
noyance from brats, and each citizen
would depend on himself to preserve
order about his premises. But Worth
iugton is an incorporated village, with
two magistrates, a marshal and night
policeman. We have been heavily tax
I'd to keep up this government, while
:*Iho younger members of the communi-
2ty have been ess mpt from control and
have presistently. viciously and spite
fully annoyed and insulted any citizen
whom tl:e;r vicious and untutored wills
might select as victim. This has
ibeen the shame of our village govern
.ment. The tax has been collected and
the citizens have not been protected
against insolent br::tism. These brats
have ranged in age from to IS years.
We have not suffered rs much as
others, but when we have published
complaints from citizens, as we have
frequently done, or have voluntarily
complained Of tile conduct of the brats.
We have invariably brought down a
shower of insults OH our head or 2
shower of stones> or our Office. Last
summer, when one Of our citizens pub
lished several letters of complaint in
the ADVANCE, and warned off the
brats wko were destroying his fruits
and stoning his house, we of course
had to lie ''punisled" for publishing
''such things" Day after day the
brats gathered to yell and stamp and
club our office and day after day we
drove them off. One afternoon, in
broad daylight, with citizens passing
continually, they gathered near our
office and dubbed it with sticks Of
stove wood and hooted and called us
names for half an hour. Never a word
Of protest was uttered by any citizen
that we ever heard Of. This time we
decided to go and hunt up an officer,
and after half an hour we found the
marshal and t+,e northumberland
though the latter was not on duty then
The officers notified the brats that If
this thing was repeated they would be
arrested! In this "muss'' there were
little children not over five or six years
old, some Of them the children of our
best friends, who had been gathered by
the older ones to ''see the fun.''
We do not mention this to magnify
the subject. or make any public com
plaint about Il matter which each citi-
zen might settle for himself with a
good raw hide, but to show that there
was grave need Of such an ordinance
as has been passed. If the officers will
now do their duty and lodge some OF
these ill-bred, i'l-mannered, foul-mouth.
ed youngsters in the lookup, we are
sure that their foolish parents OF guar.
dams will begin to think that tight
reign is better for brats than the usual
sloppy, tatfy treatment which has bred
among us class of probably the most
insolent brats in the State.
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I've gluttony, intemperance or other
wise, will find health, strength anl
vigOr in Browns Iron Bitters. Where
the weakness is of an exhaustive or de-
biIitative nature, it removes all lifeless
feelings and quickly awakens to new
activity .-lIerall.
Spirit Lake Journal, March 2od: The
oriental Order of Humility is boom
ing. 1t has now membership of some
forty, and daily limitations being made
Really, it promises now to exceed in
membership any other order in this
part OF Iowa. There is now within
the order some Of the best men in oul
town, and their influence will do much
towards humbling' the spirits of Others
yet outside of the society.
Well, our Hut is up now to about "a
members and it includes nearly all the
best and most influential men of the
place.