The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-04

and such men. they might have. seme
reason to cry ''traitor." We did not
even desert Mills. He deserted 10 last
year and this year Of his free will.
Why are We bound to stand by him.
then? Mills said 1.-THE mountain must
como to Mahomet." Well, last year
tho mountain came to Ifahemet and
this year conceded the important Offices
to tho independents. Then Mills said.
virtually. ''the mountain must follow
Mahemot around !" The mountain
then said, BE darned If I do"
The ADVANCE IN still an independent
Republican paper, ~ 1t always has
been. But ~ We said last fall during
the campaign, We are not bound to
support every man who sticks his head
up and yells. I'm an independant.
The ADVANCE Is independent enough
to support good ticket when it is reg
ularly nemipated, and also Independent
enough to bolt it when unfairly nomi-
mated or not q geod ticket.
Funny isn't it, that Minnesota should
Of apples and pears when in competi-
But she has done it. nevertheless. The
American Psmological Society, now in
session at Philadelphia, this week
awarded the Wendrn medal to the
Minnesota Horticultural Society for
ho 6xot l1cr1.,, - ess,sto
ed. This is a very large feather in
Min"esota's cap, and she feels proud
in conseqnence.-Jackson Republic.
Yes, sir. and Minnesota will become
Il No. fruit State just as sure rs it is
now a M. l wheat State. Eleven years
ago, when We rushed in here along
with hundreds OF others to make a
house on this "virgin PRAIRIE" the
question was often asked, ''can We ever
raise fruit hcre?" VIZ argued then
than it would be here just rs it was in
Michigan and Northern Illinois. The
first settlers there supposed they could
never grow apples in those "northern
regions" But Michigan became both
the great apple and peach State of the
west when it had had time to develop.
r. e. Crawford, the Washington cor
respondent Of the Chicago News, says
that President Garfield WAS An unfaith-
ful hnsband-that he always had some
women on his string. and that his re.
lations with Miss Helen Barnard, a
literary light OF the Capital, were tso
intimate to be- innocent. He says that
Mrs. Garfield knew all this, and that is
why she manifested such ''remarkable
fertituds" during the suffering and
death Of her husband. This is decid.
edly refreshing when We remember all
that was said aud written anent the
perfect purity of Garfield and the un'
measured grief of his wife. The letter
of Mr.. Crawford is creating sensa-
ton in the East, but the Iowa Index is
the 6rst paper In the New Northwest
to reproduce the revelation. Why?-
| Iowa Index.
Well, that may or may pot be true
We know it has been said of nearly
every public man we ever read of, and
there is probably some fire where there
is 80 much smoke. The Qossips woulG
have said that of Hayes but everybody
knew that Mrs. Hayes would not ALLOW
Rutherford to be naughty. She woult
have pitched th~ goody goody private
secretary and husband of her preacher
ridden majesty cut of the White Hous,
by the nape Of the neck and run th'
administration herself with her Meth
odist preacher for both temporal ant
spiritual advisor.
Garfield was a grand man in som,
respects. In others, he was, like Ba
con, one Of the greatest and meanest O.
mankind. He was an out-and out par
tisan and never had the manhood t
stand alone. Nothing is better know,
In Ohio, i" Garfeld's old home, thar
the fact that he finched when the tim
came to marry his devoted ''Crete.
The preparations were all ready fo
the marriage and the parties waiting
tut Garfield skulked and did net com
up to the scratch as he had promised
Afterwards, by coaxing and threaten
ing, he was brought to the altar ant
married the girl.