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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-02-08

Christian Geology: Tie acrobatic
and spasmodic Talmage said in Il re-
cent s-rmen, ''theve Is no contradiction
betW the Mosaic account and Chris
tian ge"logy.' Christian geology is
good. ralnage and his class of preach
ers want Il ''C,ristian scirnce," that is
an orthodox science. Nature will fur
nisl one set of facts and the orthodox
preachers will furnish another set ant
of their view of the Bible. II the Bible
theory does not agree with what Ma
ture's God has established. SO much the
worse for the God of Nature. says Tai
mage. The God of Orthodoxy must
stand though the God of Nature fall,
say these Taluagean thenlegians. We
shall have two setts Of sch,'oIs, ore
teaching "C,ristian science" and an
other teaching Natures S science. or the
laws Of Nature. Talmage should have
so have theological chemistry. theolog
ical astronomy. theological matlemat-
les, and then let us relapse into the
Dark Ages.
Worth Remembering Now that good
times are again upon us, il is worth re-
lnemberlny that no one can enjoy the
pleasantest surroundings if in bad
health. There are hundreds Of misera-
ble people going about to-day with dis
ordered stomach. liver or kidneys, when
bottle of Parker's Ginger Tonic would
do them more good than all the medi-
cines they have ever tried.
The Luverne Herald ''runs" local
advertisements Of Whiskey: wine. beer
and alcohol in it's local news columns
which gives it An individuality which
few papers would court.-Jacksen Re-
public.
Still, the Herald is "solid" with the
church and keeps ''pecking" at the AD
VANCE for showing up bigetry and n.y.
pocricy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-02-08
From the st. Peter Tribune.

! IA NSiS Us. llI N.SOVi.
AS tii!s is about tue time 81 year TO:
the Minnesota farmer 10 cvi,l.n:rcs
talking "i selling out and going to Kan
Sis III some southern state :ye take Tie
| following extract, from: private le;tei
just received! fvo,n Nj. !. /. Glover, :.
| fuin,:.: i:..i.."nt OF ~ Peter but neW Oi
! Covert, Kansas. ii!e letter G.rS E.l
give very encouraging report Oi !Arn-
ing III Kansas. 1Hr. Ginysr says: ii
am afraid cannot sell uy corn AS ali
til, buyers have left. Now about the
big wI,r:st crops y"nr klnsas CORES
rond;i.t tells n1. have b.e, to so.l,.
| trouble to iil,h y man vito got - bush.
els per acre, found one man, who
tron ) acres of a new kind Of wheat.
get 1875 bushels. but the thres'ieIs claim
that wheat ru..s from 10 to % or All av-
erage of a!;n;t II or Is bushels. Wheat
is now worth j'ctS for best. It costs
! just us much to raise 4 b,shel Of wheat
here as it does in Minnesota, and the
farmers IN Minnesota growl at 90cts.
We would like tD trade prices with
them. Corn in this aud s"'ne OF the adj
joining counties average about s hush
els to the acre. OF course some localities
! are better, as the rain luns in narrow
u mile or So off there will not be drop,
and the chinch bugs also work in belts
and betwtei, the two there is no crop.
| am still of the opinion that Kansas is
no farming country, except the eastern
portion, and we can see that the farmers
are poorer than thew were four years
ago. Those who had the means and
water (Which is big thing here) to 20
| into cattle or sheep raising, are making
u living. The weather has been mild,
the coldest was New Years morning
below. From that time fierce winds
most of the time which eliminated on
the lSrh and 10th in Il regular old fash
ioprd Minnesota blizzard. and q below
vii the wind blowing Il gale frcm the
northwest. The woist storm I have
ever seen in Kansas and never saw but
one in Minnesota to equal it-tlat WAS
the three days storm. There has about
five inches of snow fell here The pros
poets for Il wheat crcp are poor. because
the ground was too dry to sow in time.
consequently not more than one-half of
it is up. got in ten acres in good
shape and it is Cooking fairly. would
say that farmed 65 acres aud at prices
that will not pay for my own and sons
labor. $50. j. L. GLOVER.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

While a contemporary was discourse
ing POLITICALLY upon the beauties and
advantages of early marriage a few
days since a young husband of twenty
II years Of age was engaged in the
less romantic business of shooting him
self through the head. He had taken
counsel of poetry and romanc instead
of reason and common sense. had as
sumed matrimonial responsibilities
which to his great sorrow and distress
he was not able 20 carry out and was
goaded to his destruction by the suif-
erings of his little family, which he
was unable to relieve. Here were
theory and practice most APPLY brought
face to face, and without designing to
reflect upon our esteemed contempt
rary, which simply presented a popular
view of matrimony, which is always
taking and attractive to youthful read
ers, We deem it important that the
young mind should he correctly an
formed SO that after miseries may be
avoided.
We doubt whether the widowed
child-wlfe in the above case would
have enthusiastically Endorsed the sem
timeats of our contemporary, to wit:
that the young folk would marry, and
therefore it was better to let them do
SO and adjust themselves t. their cir
cumstances afterward. We incline to
the opinion that in her desolatiou and
distress she would have bitterly repu-
dated such counsel, because in pracr
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

In this day, when onehears so much
talk about e careers fer women, it
may he mentioned that the mode of
life lately practiced by a Dublin Young
woman is likely to furnish a valuable
hint for others. She has devoted con-
siderable time during her later years
othe study of law, and especially
that governing breach of promise, and
has reduced The practical application of
the same to such a science that she
has been enabled to get eases against
several men simultaneously and run
them all at once. In her last case the
uususceptible jury awarded her only
$50, but on her cross-examination in
that cas- she confessed to having just
sued another gentleman, whom she ''re
ally loved" in spite of his seventy win
tiers, and from whom she had obtained
$500 damages, In a third case sha is
believed to have beeu more successful
still, having induced the defendant to
compromise it by a payment of $1,000.
This enterprise of hers, however, if too
freely initiated, may end by defeating
its own intention, for in an English
court, the other DAY, the judge remark
ed that the circumstances under which
some suits were brought strongly favor
ed the abolition of actions for breach
of promise.
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tice it had proven to her a disastrous
failure. No doubt she and her young
husband a year before thought that the
future woald take care of itself when
once the nustial knot was tied, but
they were woefully mistaken, just as
many others have been befo re them.
There are a few simple, practical and
memorable facts in life that cannot be
ignored even by romantic young people
who are eager to marry. One Of these
is that 1t requires bread and butter in
order to live, Another sthat bread ana
butter doesn't come to you off its own
accord even after you have entered
upon that strange, mysterious, delight
full estate known rs matrimony. IL the
young husband hasn't any money or
business or friends who will help him,
he will as certainly come to want and
distress as he lives. And the tremen-
dous fact that he is a married man win
not help him a particle. On the con
trary, it will prove a great hindrance.
Young people will scarcely believe
it, hut 1t is true nevertheless, that the
world will continue to revolve after
they are married very much as it did
before. The same wants are to be sup
piled, the same pangs of hunger are
felt, the landlords will still require
Lard money for the rent, and the bakers
and butchers will hold out their hands
for the pay before delivering the bread
and meats. So if it is possible for our
young readers to realize these unpoetic-
al and ugly facts, they may be able to
go further and realize how unwise it
would be to marry without having a
reasonable certainty of the means Of
living. Nothing is more true than
that when want comes in at the door
love flies out at the window. Nothing
destroys romance, poetry, love, and all
the beauty and glory of living 81 loon
as an empty larder. The best advice
that can be given young people is that
they ba guided by their parents or wise
and experienced friends in 50 import
ant a matter as entering upon marriage.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

The statement Of n. l.. Dukes, writ
ten in his W defense shortly before
his death, is now made public. Itdoes
not place his conduct in q more favor
able light; nor is there anything in it
tn change the verdict of public senti-
ment, as contradistinguished from the
Neldict of his jury.
1t is chiefly remarkable, however, for
the deep chagrin, modification and self
contempt that permeats it, on account
of the ''~assinine'' stupidity that induced
him to open up the correspondence
with Captain Mutt. lie fairly writhes
IN an ~agoDy-not of remorse, but of
reimbursement at the contemplation of
his, colossal folly in commencing the
fatal business Of letter-writing.
when l wrote that first letter to
Captain Mutt | committed a most ap-
palling biunder. it was the personif-
cation (Y1 of stupidity, and the remorse
of a lifetime VIII be inadequate expi-
alton for the error" says lie. And
further on he, no doubt with all SINGER
ity, declares that he would gladly lay
down his life if it would remedy the
mischief of that first letter.
Dukes was one of the many who com
nit themselves to letter-writing. If he
had not written that first letter he
might have been living to-day and Cap
tain Mutt would not have been slaugh-
tered. But he was a fool-given to
writing letters, as is many another fool
and the result was two murders and
the wreck and ~desolation of a happy
home. Dukes met a merited doom,
but the lesson to be learned from even
such a wretch is a valuable one. Young
men and women especially need il. Be
careful of your epistolary correspond
enee. Don't put your pen upon paper
except when necessary and never when
there is a possibility that you may be
compromised by it. Time and time
again have letters been brought up in
court, like ghosts, to strike terror to
the soul of the WI ter. Over and over
ugain have character, reputation, hon
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Our old folks tell us that in days Of
yore they all took provisions and were
welcomed to those having tents; they
ate, drank and were merry, then would
have more than twelve baskets left,
after feeding the multitude. Money
making was not in the calculation then
and these tidal waves, starting from
the troubled waters, rolled ON through
the year. Then you must add to this
they had supurb woods and the shade
was really a luxury. Near Swedcs-
boro, Samuel Black owned a woods
called Grand Spruce. 1t took its name
from the forest of Spruce Fines. A per
petual stream of water ran through it
that is thought to have medicinal quail
tiles, and l have heard of sick people
sending several miles for its waters.
We like camp meeting, and the Meth
odist ought to have bought it,, The
meeting of old friends; the shade; the
beautiful new hymns; the good singers;
the genial christians; the extra preach
ers with extra efforts, and in fact, all
the make up of a Woods Meeting,
meets our hearty occurrence. There
are pleasing recollections of camp life
never to he forgotten. Occasions that
loom up in memory to cheer. The
names of old friends come up with the
mention Of camp. Very few go away
from camp worse than they came.
There is many a sentence that never
escapes memory, but cliDgs to the ach-
ing heart till repent, nee follows, then
the conversions, though they be few,
a%bundantly pay for the outlay Of tima
and ex-rtiop.
And now our medern camp meetings
with their home comforts, often COM
bining seaside resorts are really minia-
ture ~paradises where righteousness
and right triumph and run and riot
are not known. OF course in our tenn
porary s%ojourn in these beautiful wood
ed cities, there are many things to re-
mind us we are in a world Of sin, but
they are shorn of many abobinations
that face you at every step al the
watering places. The diversity of
views is not so great us in former years
ON This subject. There are those who
will criticise and look for the evil that
cling to the good. Some people are
like flies, they pass Owe the sound and
light on the rotten ard widowed. They
are short sighted and cannot see the
good that grows out of camp. Cast
your head on the waters, it may be
seen and gathered" was the command.
The good SEED sown there may germi.
nate in after years. Besides these
meetings reach IA class that could not
be got at in any other way. Camp
meetings are great auxiliaries to the
church and have helped swell the nigh
ty army of , ,7o00, 900 that are now n
rolled on the list of Methodism in the
United States. IL it had been published
that Pennsgrove was to have a camp
like we had for three years, how many
would have said amen.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18
THE FOLLOWING LETTERS TELL
THEIR OWN STORY.

Valdosta, Georgia, July 90, 1882.
l sold one of your Patent Dust Proof
Cases about ten months ago and the 9th
er day it came bsck to HE with the re
quest TO make it wind easier On exami
nation | found that the stem vas rusty,
and | inquired into the cause of it The
gentleman stated to me that he was start
ing some saw logs that h~adlodged in the
bend ofthe river, when his chain caught
in a bush and threw his watch into about
twelve feet of water and he was about
tive hours finding it. When he found it
it was running and be thought it all
right In about three .menths he found
that the stem was hard TO turn and sent
II to me:
| can say that the watch rs all that the
company claims for it and recommend it
to all railroad and mill men.
B. W BENTLY.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18
or, fame, wealth and all that is worth
possessing been swept away by the fool
ishDess of letter-writing.


The strike still drags its weary
length along, to the disgust of the peo-
pie and the hindrance of the legitimate
business of the country. Those who
have to use the telegraph see the utter
nonsense of the assertion of the COM
2any that everything is being handled
as we'll as usual, and that it has all the
men it needs while on the other hand
the companies are doing 50 well that it
is evident the strikers are not, as they
hoped to be, full masters Of the situa-
ton Both sides have, however, taught
the other a lesson. The companies
have learned that they are, in a great
measure, dependent upon the strikers
for a rapid and satisfactory manage
ment of their business, while the oper-
ators have been taught that the COM
pany can subsist and maybe pay divi-
dends without them. it would be the
part & wisdom for both sides 70 effect
a compfo.aise, each yielding a little in
their demands, and thus a common
ground between them be reached, upon
which both can stand and work. The
movement to involve the railroad tele-
graphers in the strike is a hazardous
one to be undertaken. Thousands of
lives are intrusted every day to railroad
companies, ard the movement OF trains
all over the country are directed by
telegraph. Suppose the telegraphers
who run these trains are ordered out
and they obeyY An accident is inyi-
ted in which scores of lives may be lost,
and the odium would fall upon those
who made such an order. The strikers
cannot afford to take such a risk and
hazard public opinion. 1t is better for
both sides to compromise ard come to
an understanding regarding the points
in controversy.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

When the youthful composers, Gil
bert and Sullivan, launched Pinafore
out upon the uncertain sea of public
favor they had but little idea of the
revolution they would create in tie
line of comic opera. Thus it was with
Dr.. Swayne when he introduced his
ointment for skin diseases. Its appear
ance has been characterized by the eur
t~ailaSut of expense and the total ami
hilaGion of scores of worthless no itrums
tsTruth is mighty and Will prevail"
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

A man will rant around as if mad if
his better-half asks him TO get up at 5
m. on a cold day and build the fire;
but he will suffer like a martyr with
itching piles and spend sn extra dollar
beer to drown the paid instead of
investing a small amount in Swayne's
Ointment for removing the itching and
soreness. Verify the poet has well said
sswhat fools these mortals be-"
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Walking on the water is a novelty in
these degenerate days, but a man nam
cd Fort managed to accomplish the
feat August 8. He, however did not
depend on faith, but on a pair of small
RATS, styled water-walking shoes by
their Inventor, a San Frame o genins
Fort VAS an hour and a quarter in
making his way across the Delaware
from Ridgway Pier to Ridgway Park,
SO the San Francisco invention is no
Improvement in point of speed on the
t~ime-lionored canal boat.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

1t is said that Il drowning mar will
catch at a straw but if your system
is all out of order and you feel like GO
ing drown to the river to drown yourself
for H,aven'ssake don't do it, but procur
a box of Swayne, spills, take them accer-
ding 20 directions and they will soon
make a new man of you aud you will
want to live to runs hotel after every
body else is dead. Price 70 cts. 4boxes
for 81 90
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18
WALTHAM, MASS

This case is formed in one solid piece
without joint or scam, opening in front
only, thus avoiding the usual Cap, and
securing greater strength and durability
These Watches are all open face. The
bezel, into which an extra strong crystal
is fitted withan especially prepared water
proof cement, is attaeLt d to the case by
screwing it thereon, and thus forms an
air tight junction with the body of the
ease, which is proof against dust and
moisture.
To railroad men, travellers, miners,
mmbermen and others who are almost
constantly exposed and who have to
make frequent reference to the watch,
these qualities are of the utmost impor
tance.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Plans are being prepared at the
Treasury Department for silver vaults
TO accommodate the excessive accumu-
lation CT silver dollars. Instead of 60
ing to the expense of building new
vaults money could be saved by ex-
changing the standard CONS already on
hand for trade dollars.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Not a particle of calomel or airy 9th
er d~eleterious substance enters into the
composition of Ayers Cathartic Pills.
On the C ntrary, they prove of special
service to those who have used calemel
and other mineral poisous as medicines
and feel their injurious effects. LII
such cases Ayers Pills are Invaluable.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re-
newer never fails in restoring gray hair
to it's youthful color, lustre, AMI vital.
ity. DIR. A. Hayes, State Assayer of
Massachusetts, endorses it. and all who
give it o fair trial unite in grateful tes-
timony 20 its many virtues.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Hotel cholera is very fashionable just
now in American cities, twenty-seveu
cases being reported from one Chicago
hotel alone. 1t is produced by an inor-
diuate desire to get ones moneys
worth at the dinner table in warm
weather.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18
A PsRFEoT REMEDY In 20 DISEASES.

ASliFtELD, MASS
lam yergng on eighty years, and
deem it myduty to suffering humanity
to say that my long life is due to BRAN
DRETH's PILLS which have ben my
sole medicine for half n century. l
know the last folty-three years of my
life is owing solely to their Use. Your
Pills saved me many times after the
best medical skill in several States had
given me mp as hopeless. | have lad
many converts to purgation with Bran
dreth's Pills, and have seen them. rer-
form almost miracles of cure. For
children, a few doses have cured mea-
sizes, scarlet fever, and whooping cough.
In all female troubles and weakness |
have never known them to,fail. In "a
dalt males | have Known them to cure
the worst Eases of dyspepsia, rheuma-
tlsm, kidney diseases, dysentery and
diarrhea; even dropsy, paralysis, and
and apoplexy have yielded TO a persist
eht course of Brandreth's pills In
fact | have found themthe trus Life
Elixir. They act as continual prevent
ives against the effects of time, disease,
and labor.
JOHN II. Mn N.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Canada has initiated Delaware, and
now has the whipping-post. 1t was
adopted as punishment for certain
crimes which have lately become Of too
frequent occurrence. The whipping
post is a relic of barbarism, but it is "a
terror to criminals all the same.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

The crematioaists of Philadelphia
have a society, but al yet have had no
opportunity of crematiug n Of the
members. Still, with the cholera it,
Egypt, yellow fever in Mexico and the
melon season in full blast in America,
they have no cause TO despair.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18
The most reliable, carefully prepared
and best purgatle' of Il e present age is
~BRANDRETH'S PILLS.

They are compounded of Roots,
Herbs and Gums of the most bellng
and beneficial kind.
AS a Family Medicine they are I'M
rivalled, curing Headache, Constipa-
ton, Liver Complaint, rheumatism,
Dyspepsia-clearing the blood of all i'm
purities-acting on the Liver, Kidneys
and other important organs, removing
the waste tissue, and adding years to
the lives of all who use them.
For fifty years they have been used
by the American public, and their eon-
stantly increasing sales show how they
are appreciated.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

4 foreign newspaper correspondent
claims that some Turkish commission
ers have discovered Noah's Ark in a
glacier on Mount Ararat. But Ameri-
ca is still ahead. Mark Twain discoy-
cred the grave of Adam several years
ago..
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Near Reading the other night a
young man shot himself because a girl
would not marry him. Gone to meet
the Philadelphia young man who shot
himself because a girl did not marry
him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

A lady writes: II have used Ayers
Sarsaparilla in my family for many
years, and could NOT keep house with
out it. For the relief of tine pains con
sequent upon female weaknesses and
irregularit, es, l consider it without an
equal.n
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18

Vim. G. Osgoodby, the wellknown safe
manufacturer of Buffalo, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Newark, and Atlanta, says:
Office of 0sgoodby's Improved Sa ,es,
10 s. Broad Street.
Atlanta, Ca, Oct. II, 1881.
DIR. Rush's Medical Association:
Dear Dcctors-The three bottles of
DIR. Rnsh's Regulator | ordered were re
ccivrd by express last week. | have
taken nearly one bottle and % u thorough
ly satisfied with the result. For over two
years ] have been tronbled with sharp
paan at my heart. Ny physician, upon
examination, pronounced it enlargement
of the harctand was unable to give me
any relief. The trouble grew worse un
til J had become convinced that | coud
not be cured. While in New York City
last week | called on one of the most
prominent physicians there who charged
me s25 for an examination and then rec
commended your Regulator. Knowing
you to be a regular Medical Association,
and not a ratelt medicine scheme, | or
dered the three bottles. | have not been
troubled since | commenced taking it
/ shall continue and take the entire
three bottles 50 as to obtain a permanent
cure. You have my very sincere tia, ks
I am gentleman, Very Respectfully,
WM. G.. OSGOuDBY,