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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-12-10
AcRlCULTURAL INTERESTS.
They Demand the Liberal EncOu
agement OF the Government.

T1ey demand the Liberal Enc0uFs
agcment OF the Government.
The agricultural interest of the country de-
mands just recognition and liberal encourage
ment. 1t sustains with certainty and unfail-
ing strength our nations prosperity by the
products of its steady toll, and bears its full
share of the burden of taxation without
complaint.
Our agriculturists have but slight represen-
tation IN the councils of the nation, and are
generally content with the humber duties Of
citizenship and willing to trust to the bounty
OF nature for reward for their labor.
But the magnitude and value Of this interest
is appreciated when the statement is made
that OF our total annual exports more than
three-fourths are the products of agriculture
ana OF our total population nearly One-half
are exclusively engaged in that occupation.
The department of agriculture was created
for the purpose of acquiring and ditrusing
speet!ng the subjects it has in charge
and Is doing in the cause Of
intelligent and aggressive farming
by the collection Of statistics, by testing the
value and usefulness OF new seeds and plants
and distributing such as are found desirable
among agricultursts. This and other powers
and duties with which this department is in
vested are of the utmost Importance, aud If
wisely exercised must be of great benefit to
the country. The aim of our benef1cent gov
eminent is the improvement OF the people Of
every station, and the amelioratiOn of their
condition. Surely our agricuturists should
not be neglected. The instrumentaiity estab-
lished in aid of tho farmers of the land should
not only be we'll equipped for the accomplish
nents OF its purpose, but those for whose
benefit it has been adopted should be encour-
aged to avail themselves fully of it's advan-
tageS.
PROTECTING OUR STOCK.
The prohibition of the importation into
several countries Of certain OF our animals
and their products based upon the suspicion
that health is endangered in their use and
consumption. suggests the Importance of
such precautions for the protection OF our
stock OF all kinds against disease as will dis
arm suspicion of danger and cause the re-
1noval of such an injurious prohibition. If
the laws now In operation are insufficient to
accomplish this protection, l recommend
their amendment to meet the necessities of
the situation, and commend to the consider
alton Of congress the suggestions contained in
the report of the commissioner of agriculture,
calculated to increase the value and efficiency
Of this department.
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recommend that tho salaries Of tho civil
service commissioners be increased to q sum
more nearly commensurate to their important
duties.
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A special to the GLOBE from st. Thomas
says great excitement prevails there because
of an injunction served at the instance of
three persons to stop an election held for the
purpose Of incorporating the town.
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MINNESOTA L NORTHWESTERN R. R. CO.
THE WATERLOO ROUTE"

Daily except Sunday. EXC. Saturday. TE8a
Monday.
NorE-This 10 the only line running the elegant
Pullman Buffet sleeping cars between st. Pail
and Chicago
u-For tickets, sleeping car recommendation
rates. time tables and full information. apply to
ST. PAUI@John L. Whelsn, city ticket agent
1874 East Third street: Brown Knebel ticket
agents, Union depot.
MlNNEAPoLIs-W.H n. Gowsnlock. No. 10 Nioollee
block
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Supreme Court.
DECISIONS RENDERED.
edwin Gribble resDondent va The pio

Edwin Gribble, respondent, vs.. The Pioneer
Press Company, appellant.
Syllabus The word ''shyster'' in its proper
definition may appropriately have reference
to the professional character and standing of
q lawyer. Hence, In an action for libellinR
one as respects his character as q lawyer by
the use of the word "shyster," an issue made
as to whether plainttg is 4 lawyer or not is
material.
In an action for publishing a libel upon
q plaintiff evidence of other publications by
defendant containing substantially the same
imputation ar that sued upon, whether made
before or after the latter, or even after suit
brought upon it, may be admitted In evidence
for the purpose Of proving actual malice in
the publication prosecuted for and thereby
aggravating the damages recoverable there
for. Order deny ing q new trial is affirmed.
BERRY, J.
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have practical ideas on the subject Of their
treatment. In Nay OF tho present year, .
small portion of the
CHIRICAHUA APACHES
In the White mountain reservation In Arizons
left the reservation and committed . number
OF murders and depradations upon settlers in
that netghborhood. Though prompt and en-.
ergetio action was taken by the military tho
renegades eluded capture and escaped into
Mexico. The formation of the country
through which these Indians passed, through
acquaintance with the same, the speed Of
their escape and the manner in which they
scattered and concealed themselves among
RACES, put our soldiers at q great disad-
vantage In their efforts to capture
them. though the expectation is
still entertained that they will be
ultimately taken and punished for their
crimes.
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IN these transactions are also charged against
the government. Thus the rights and freedom
OF our citizens are outraged and public ex-
penditure increased, for the purpose Of fur
ntshtng public officials pretexts for increas-
ing the measure OF their compensation.
think marshals and district attorneys should
be paid salaries, adjusted by q rule which
will make them commensurate with the serv-
ices fairly rendered. In connection with this
subject desire to suggest the advisability If it
be found not obnoxious to the constitutional
objection Of investigation, that United States
commissioners be given power to try and de-
termine certain violations of law within the
grade OF misdemeanors. Such trials might be
cused. The multiplication Of small and
TECHNICAL OFFENsEs,
especially under tho provisions of our in
ternal revenue laws, render some change in
our present system very desirable in the in
forests of humanity as well as economy The
district courts are now crowded with petty
prosecutions involving punishment. in case
OF conviction. of only slight dne, while the
parties accused are harrassed by an enforced
attendance upon courts held hundreds of
miles from their homes. If poor and friend
n Jail during mo oossd perSaps thaa
elapse before session of the court
Is held, and are finally brought to trial sur
rounded by strangers and with but little OPP
portunity for defense. In the meantime fire.
Quently the marshal has charged against the
government his fees for an arrest, the trans
portaton of the accused and the expense of
the same, and for summoning witnesses be-
fore commissioner, grand jury and a
court The witnesses have to be paid from
the public funds large fees and travelling ex-
penses. and the commissioner and district at
torney have also made their charges against
the government. This abuse in the admins
tration of our criminal law should be re-
moved. and if the plan above suggested is not
practicable, some other should be devised
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tFTickets, sleeping car RECOMMENDATION aud
all information can be- secured At
No. IL Ntcollet House Block Mnneapolis.
w. b. WHEELER, Ticket AsenA
II. L. MARTIN. Agent. Minneapolis Depot
No. 159 East Third street, opposite Merchants
Hotel. st. Paul.
CHAS. b. PETSCH, City Ticket Aeent
BROWN KNEBEI. Agents, St. Paul Union
Depot.
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Dining Cars. the finest in the world, and luxuF.
ious smoking-Room sleepers on all fast trains to
ChlcaR0. Dining Cars and SMOKING. Room Sleep
ers on Kansas City Fast Express
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Des Aoines Fast Express.
Fast Atlantic Express. -.
sioux C..S'xF. 4 Pipest'ne
Shakopee & Merriam in.
Omaha & Kansas City.
Green Bay & Wisconsin Ex
Shakopee l. Merriam in.
Lake Superior Express.
saltwater aud River Falls
River Falls l. Ellsworth. .
Fast Chicago Express. 80.
st. Paul l. Pierre Express
Lake CRYSTAL and Elmoro
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A 2:25 p m A $40 pm
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B 7:1o p NIB 7:1s pm
B SOS NH 7:@ pm

ept Sunday. @ Monday OF.
urday.
ween St. Paul and Mime.
, leave both cities hourlys
{ Line time tables,
City Ticket Agent,
Brown 4 Knebel. Ticket
b. Chandler, City Ticket
ouse. A. B. Chamberlain.
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l.f.ot,on. and believe. II We may trust

isfaction, and believe. II We may trust
the reports, that the country's glory
can be subserved in no way SO well As
by educating the great body of illit-
crate voters. Whether or not the ap-
preparation shall be made, the teachers
will have been greatly elevated in the
public regard by the philanthropic po-
sition they have taken, and the assur-
ance they have given that they are
| striving according to their best lights
to improve the intellectual and moral
life of the Nation.
Realizing, therefore. the progress the
teachers are making in the work Of
educating the people-aprogress which
has the positive testimony of figures
the relation of the teacher to reforma-
tory measures in the prisons is a mat
ter for the curious to consider. If ed
ucation means the increase of the
citizens responsibilities, it may be per-
~tinently suggested that, with the ill.,
crease of educational opportunities.
prison discipline should grow sharper.
and punishment rather than reforma-
ton be the policy Of the prison-keep-
ers. If the percentage OF ~illiteracy,
accordingly, continues to be reduced
by the teachers, the social scientists OF
the country should not fail to give this
matter their attention.-G. c. Wa!thswS.
in the Current.
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Growth Of Mormonism.

Mormonism is adapted to the in
tcllectual capacities of the masses. the
multitude of the ignorant and poor,
the wretched, the .pariahs of society.
To these are offered just what they are
sure always to hunger for, bold as
sumption and boundless assertion, great
show of authority. these helping to
certitude in faith; salvation by forms,
by the legerdemain of rite, the hocus-
pocus of initiating and amounting; lit
eral Interpretation of the Scriptures,
and p~rofuse quotations of texts, and
specially such as are set in the poetical
and obscure dictiOn of the prophets.
The same minds delight in prodigies.
..Quod ignotum, pro mirifcO." The
more mysterious the more true. The
secrecy, too, of the endowments has a
charm. and as well the offices and titles
which each one may possess. OF such
gewgaws and tinsel this church has un-
limited store. And who is not fiattered
by the assurance that he is IF the few
wise and blessed of the raQe, that the
many outside his coterie aI(fboHh and
doomed? No doubt, also, bYsettins
the standard of moralitSSo lahentably
low, and offering salvatiohtpthe worst
on such easy terms Is external obedi-
ence and service. thousands have been
captured and held. The promise. too.
of land 10 a lure to many.-Bi6iiOthsca
S0crQ.
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How the Sultan Looks.

1.-THE day before the one appointed
for our leaving ConStantinople.' said
Senator-elect Stanford. Il was much
surprised at receiving. through 4 court
official, an invitation for the follow
ing afternoon to a private audience
with the Sultan, during which he
wished to question me concerning ma
terial developments of Turkey. There
was nothing remarkable about the room.
except. perhaps, the fart that it was
furnished in French style o was there
much of Oriental ~Splcnrlor in the dress
of the Sultan. He wore IA blue undress
uniform of European cut. the only
traces of Eastern costume being L plain
fez, and a magniiiccntly mounted scim-
etar. He appeared to be a rather slight
man, some thiriy.iive years Of age. with
an intelligent face that showed L some
what timid character, l should judge,
and a decidedly Jewish cast of fea-
tures."-Sdn Francisco Call.
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The PUBLIC
What Teachers Are Doing to Decrease Il
Percentage of Illlteracy.

What Teachers Are Doing to Decrease the
Percentage of Illiteracy.
The members of the teaching profess
sion in this country are exhibiting. at
the present time, a most commendable
zeal in all good works. A review OF
the proceedings of the district conven-
tons, county Institutes and State asso-
Citations reveals an extraordinary spirit
of progress. The columns of the edu-
cational periodicals abound in papers
which are full of interesting sugges-
tons, original ideas and theories of all
kinds. Every teacher seems to have
his or her peculiar view which, on the
proper occasion, is very courageously
advanced. Opinions, Numerically OPP
posed, constantly clash, but all are the
outcome of n unanimous desire-im-
provement. The country at large is to
be felicitated on this condition of
things.
1t occasionally surprises the tuition
and taxpayers to find how far some of
the vital questions in the administration
of the public schools are from being de-
finitely settled, but this surprise grows
out of the American disposition to re-
gard ten years a century and fifty years
an age, and to forget that we are yet,
and naturally, in the period of institu-
tional beginnings and experiments.
The public at large should not, there
fore, grow FESTIVE because the teachers
are given to debate and disagreement.
They will come to conclusions, doubt
less, in good time. Their energy and
devotion to educational interests must
be considered as devoid of the selfish
ness that characteristics place-hunting
politicians, for the reason that their
positions are usually arduous and their
financial expectations inconsiderable.
They certainly present themselves in
the attitude of soldiers enlisted on the
side of a great and worthy cause, their
LOYALTY being due to purcr and higher
motives than individual benefit.
The question of a large appropriation
by the National Government to be de-
voted to the suppression of illiteracy
has aroused them a. never before.
They now find themselves facing a
great evil with the possibility OF secur-
ing effective means for its overthrow,
and they feel something of that ardor
which our %forefathers felt when the
Stamp Tax enabled them to draw a
line, and which the old Abolitionists
experienced when the proposition to
extend slavery brought their affair to
an issue. Heretofore the teachers,
though imbued with a desire to ban
ish ignorance from the land. were con
tent to plod along in their mission, be-
lieving that the light would gradually
spread as the years wore on, yet with
the discouraging consciousness that
the lane was very long. Now, sud-
denly, an over-plus in the Treasury
suggests . plan whereby a grand adj
rance can be made. and the conse-
fquence is a general stimulation of en-
ergy and eager desire TO go forth to
conquer. Whether such an ~appropfia-
| ton by the Government is altogether
| advisable is not the question with them.
They have settled that to their own sat-
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PERSONAL AND lMPCRSONAL.

Weather Prophet Virgins sees At
TO deny the rumor that he has joined
rhe Salvation Army.
Lieutenant Governor AmeS, OF
Massachusetts, who is worth ten mill
lion dollars. wears 4 ten-cent necStis.
Napoleon. the great leader of men.
Judged them and chose them according
TO the character indicated by their
noses.
Matthew Arnold. who came to
America to win fame and farthings,
wound up by losing his daughter and
gaining a distinguished son-in-law.-
n. y. Tribune.
One OF Nellie Grants little boys is
said greatly to resemble his grand
father. General Grant, in his love for
soldiers, horses, pups and CIGARS
Harper's BdZar.
The daughter of Binns. the eN-
hangman of London. recently testified
in court that she had frequently been
frightened out Of the house by her
fathers experiments in hanging dogs
and cats.
William II. Grain, the Democratic
Congressman-elect to succeed Colonel
Thomas Ochiltrec. from he Galveston
(Tex.) District, is the first native from
Texas ever elected to Congress from the
State.-St. Louis Globe.
Joseph Richardson. of st. Paul. but
known to everybody as .'Uncle Joe."
who never wore an overcoat or a suit
of clothes worth more than twelve dol
lars, is the pessessor of six million dol
lars.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Texas County Judge recently
delivered a farewell address which ex-
cited the admiration of all his friends
until some DELICIOUS person discovered
that Washington had delivered the same
address many years ago.-N Y. Sun.
"A Pennsylvania girl had not spoken
to any one for years until her mother
died the other day. and "a supposed
to be dumb. At the death of her
mother she talked as though she had
always done so.-Philadelphid Press.
The Oldest woman in Connecticut
lives at MiddletOwn and is named
Smith. She is the mother of eleven
children, enjoys good health. never
rode on a railroad, and is one hundred
and three years of age.-Hartford
CONrant.
George Dolby, who. In the capacity
Of secretary and manager, accomps-
MED Charles Dickens during his Amer
ican-tour in 1867. says the gross re-
ceipts of his seventy-six readings in this
country were two hundred and twenty
eight thousand dollars. and that Dick
ems personal profits were ninety-five
thousand dollars.
Nicholas Van Horn. a well-to-do
farmer and widower of Habershan,
Ga, and the father of two children
over thirty years of age, was married
recently to Miss Ivy, a child of twelve.
During the ceremony the child begun
to sob, when the old man patted her
on the head in a fatherly manner, aud
wiped away her tears with his big ban
dana.-Chicago Times.
Mr.. Thomas Barbour, thread
maker at Paterson. N. D., who died
recently worth one million dollars. if
not several millions. was the son of q
threadmaker at Belfast and travelling
salesman in America. His father
wanted to thrash him. big as he was,
for setting up a thread-mill in America
against the British manufacturer.
Father" said the son, III make
more money for you than l ever did.
and make money for myself, too He
did.-N. Y. Graphic.
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A BOSS.
A Thrilling Incident in the Pineries O
Northern Michigan.

A Thrilling Incident in the Pineries OF
Northern Michigan.
For a young mar 1 have done some
pretty tough scrapping in the Rockies
and mining regions of New Mexico and
Arizona. but a few days ago l had the
worst scare of nv life in the lumber
districts of Northern NJ chigan." The
speaker was a young man of some
twenty-seven years, dressed in rough
and-ready style and wearing a frizzy
tow beard. He shifted the position of
his broad shoulders as he lounged back
in an easy chair in the Sherman House
office, pulled his cigar vigorously. and
then continued: 1T was one of those
bitter cold days we've just been having,
and l had got up 1t three o'clock to
rouse the men and get their sprinkler
Out. The air seemed full of blue steel
and cut to my marrow like a razor.
One of the tcamsterS got scared
out and played off sick. So l
had to take his place. When We
had got a good, big load 1 took the
reins and sat down on the butts of the
logs, leaving the two loggers on be-
hind. OF course about twenty feet of
the load hung off the last bob. The
road was a sheet of ice, for the sprink-
Ter ran over it every morning, and the
horses were sbarp-shOd, so we 81 d
along smoothly until We got to the
slide-a pretty steep incline ending in
a turn VIII ch was m ghty sharp for a
road sixty feet wide. As soon as we
started down my hair began to stand
on end. for tie horses gallope6 like
fury to keep ahead of the hobs which
Were Slowing all yer the road. | got SO
paralyzed and nervous that when We
approached the turn / refined in too
suddenly. l felt the front hobs jump
one way and the back hobs the other.
The hind ends of the logs whistied
through the air like willow switches.
and l heard the loggers yell: For Gods
sake. --' The next thing was
a loud snap! snap! snap!-like
three tremendous paper-crackerS-as
the big log-chains broke like so many
cotton threads. Did YOU ever Use a
switch sling? Whirl it round and
round your head, you know. till a sud
den twist sends the apple off the end
and spinning into the ar? Well. that
is the way 1 felt and that is Just
what / thought of as / was shot off in
to the air, over and over and over, till
struck in a snow drift some hundred
Or more feet from the road. When ]
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had struggled back through the snov1
found the horses trying to kick loose
from the few bits of harness that dan
gled about them, the hobs tangled
around the trunk of a small pine tree,
and the logs scattered to the four
winds One logger crawled back to
the road with a fractured leg, and the
other soon followed with q dislocated
shoulder. One had struck q tree and
the second had landed against a stump.
They afterward told me in camp that
those things were NJ at all unusual,
and, as had some pretty heavy bruises
myself, 1 concluded that l was not
made to boss a lumber camp. So l was
driven to town next day to telegraph
the management that the head team
ster was filling my place. and that l
was on my way TO Chicago; and you
bet your life 1 nm glad | did it. nyou
have never passed a winter in the Mich
igan lumber districts you don't know
what trouble is. In the first place q
man has to work from three in the
morning till eight and sometimes
eleven at night. My daily life.
while l was fool enough to stay there.
was something like this: l kept store
for twenty teamsters and bossed them
at their work. l slept and ate in the
only approximately clean place in the
whole ranch-a little box built out into
! the big room and all lined with strong
tobacco. curry-combs. socks, pins. but
| tons, buckwheat, kerosene and bad
molasses. The box had no cover. SO as
l Law on the only quilt between me and
the floor l could see the stars through
the frosty cracks in the roof. The
! onions, beans, cabbages and a small
keg OF sauerkraut were stored Just out
| side my door in the big room. which
| was heated red-hot by an immense
| open fireplace. At night tho msn
would take off their soaking-wet rub
Der boots and stand them up by the
fire.
..Those were awful old days for me.
l had almost sleepless nights, and then
had to get up before daybreak. with
the thermometer twenty or thirty de-
grees below zero. and go about my
work with a splitting headacL$, con-
tracted in the foul air in which had to
pass the night. am glad | am out OF
it. 1t is an unhealthy. dirty. danger
GUS business. and unless a man is in
with the management there is no mon
ey in il. Chicago Tribune.