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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-04

town so poorly prepared to contend
with fire. Prevention should he So
cured in every possible way.
Prairie fires, with u severe gale, like
that Of Tuesday night are very alarm.
ing. At Indian Lake, on Tuesday .ev-
ening, 4 fire, started by unknown per-
SONS, started in a straw stack OH the
ElIingson farm, which spread directly
to Mr.. Woodruff's place, consuming
a house, barn, trees, and other proper
ty. The fire extended towards Round
Lake station, consuming the buildings
and other property on the estate of B.
B. Kinney, deceased. Stacks belonging
to Nr. Langseth and Mr.. Grundstein
were also burned, The people in the
vicinity Of Round Lake were fighting
against the progress of the flames all
through the night. by hard, heroic
work much property was saved, which
without it would have been destroyed.
On complaint of James Crandall Mr..
William Mclean was arraigned before
Justice Of the Peace Bear for setting
fire to grass and leaves on his own lot,
but which. spreading out on breezy
day. created so ne alarm. Mr.. Mclean
plead guilty md was fined five dollars
and costs. or course, Mr.. Mclean had
no intent to harm his own property or
that of his neiohbOra. Int 0nlv IN oct
clear Of rubbish. and the prosecution
was intended as AL assertion of the law
and IN effective notice that it is intend
ed that setting fire to grass will not be
allowed. There have been several vio-
lations Ut this law. but the abundant
warning Civ. il the cxl4mities OF tho
past few days, will put complete stop
to SUCH periluus iudls:rstions.
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SEED POTATOES AND GRAIN.
Forty-seven varieties seeds potatoes.
Extra early. medium and late, so BUSH
els New Black Barley, also 4anshury
Barley and Japanese buckwheat, apple
trees, evergreens, aud small fruits.
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-04

!: 1t was just an ordinary scrap of
Wrapping paper, but 10 saved her life.
sumption, told by physicians.shat she
was incursble and gould live. only u
short time; she weighed less than sew
enty pounds. On . piece Of wrapping
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send stamp to w, H, Cole. Druggist.
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The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
THE SOUTH'S DEMOCRACY.
Harrison's Insulting scheme for Debauch
ing Public Opinion.

Harrison's Insulting Scheme for Debauch-
ing Public Opinion.
The Presidents anxious desire is, it
appears, to build up white Repub-
lican party in the South. lie under
stands that any party depending al
most exclusively on the negroes for
support can never succeed in that Sec
tion. In this conclusion he is UNI
doubtedly right About three-tifths Of
the Southern people are white, and
the white man at the North who be-
lieves a large white majority on the
other side Of mason and Dixon's
line" can be permanently subjected to
a negro minority is hopeless idiot.
But Mr.. Harrison is not we'll in
formed if he supposes that the Demo
cratic majority in the Southern States
may be broken up by the dispensation
of patronage. That method was as
slduously tried throughout the adj
ministratiOns Of Grant, Hayes and
Garfield and Arthur. There are sordid
wretches, no doubt, in Southern as
we'll as Northern communities, who
will sell their opinions for a mess of
pottage or petty Office, but the sale
can not be concealed, and the merce-
naries take no following with them.
The truth is that while the division
of parties at the North is now almost
wholly on the ia If line, the Republican
ism of the South represents spoliation
by protection and negro domination.
1t is impossible that either of these
can command extended support among
the intelligent and self-respecting
farmers of the great Southern agri-
cultu, al States, just as it is impossible
that shrewd Northern farmers can APP
prove tariff system that substantially
doubles the price of every manufact-
urcd article they consume.
The Presidents scheme for debauch-
ing public opinion at the South with
paltry official bribes is an insult to the
intelligence of the people. When he
has something better than tariff
rapacity, monopolistic greed and
programme he may be able to win re-
cruits. Until then he can not reason
ably expect that the success achieved
last year by stupendous corruption
will be repeated. The great Demo-
cratic State of New York will not
again be sold to the tariffites by a
handful of base hirelings in two of the
counties nearest to its commercial
center. Globe.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05

you, individually. can control you.
appetite, and that you wish the lib
erty of indulging in, an occasional
glass. The apostle Paul reminds us
of our duty to our fellow-man when he
says:
"But take heed lest by any means this lib
erty Of yours become u stumbling. block TO them
that are weak"
1t is a fact which is too often for
gotten that tho vast mass Of our people
do not yet realize the fearful nature of
the alcoholic poison that is the active
principle in all varieties Of liquor.
They condemn drunkenness, which is
simply the result of the excessive use
OF rum, but are blind TO the fact that
the moderate use leads up to tho ex-
cess, and that there is absolutely no
way to prevent that excess save by
stopping the sale and the use. even in
the most moderate quantities. There
are few people who can use rum in
mod Grafton for any length OF time
without drifting by inscnsible degrees
into its immoderate use. Those who
are in positions in which their ex-
ample may act injuriously upon others
owe it as a duty TO their fellowmen
not to touch nor taste the internal
poison. The blood of the lost may
otherwise be required at their hands
in the great day of reckoning.
The pulpit is often derelict in its
duty towards the people, in that it
does not bring this matter more fre-
quentiy and more powerfully before
them. There are thousands of pro-
Tossing Christians who think it no
harm to indulge in an occasional
glass; there are denominations which
do not require total abstinence as a
condition of membership. There
needs to be a waking up all along tho
line. Religion must be arrayed in
solid phalanx against rum. The evils
of the traffic must be impressed upon
the popular mind. The thing to do
is to dgitate. Agitate the evil effects
that flow from the continuance of the
traffic, rather than any specific means
for its extinction; that will come later
on, when the majority of public SEN
timent has been crystallized against
the giant curse. Toledo Blade.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05

party's candidate in the next Presi-
Dental contest 1t Is natural that he
should have ambition, and IL he is am
bilious there is no reason why he
should not obtain for himself what he
can so readily obtain for others. He
is in supreme control OF the machine,
and 1t is just as easy to grind out a
domination for himself as it is to grind
out one for Harrison, for Blaine or
for any other ambitious party leader.
His candidacy is ridiculed because he
possesses none of the elements of
craftsmanship, but Is only known to
the country as the organizer of the
greatest Doodle campaign even known
in the history OF fthe country. 1t should
be remembered however, that these ap-
parent elements of weakness are in
reality elements OF strength in a man
who aspires to leadership in his
party. craftsmanship cuts very
sorry figure in these degenerate times.
Capacity to raise and handle Doodle is
regarded as the most superb accom-
plishment in modern American poll
tics; in fact. it is essentially the fine
art OF politics, and in this respect tn e
charge of amateurishness can not be
laid at Mr.. Quay's door.
Senator Quay can get the nomina-
ton If he wants it. His friends are
not modest in their assertion that he
does covet it. So that, unless Mr.
Quay dies or loses his ambition within
the next three years, the Republican
nomination for 1892 is practically set
tied. 1t is not matter of surprise.
therefore, that the Harrison Admins
tration is jogging along in such a
listless sort of II way. To man of in
tense piety and deep moral convic-
tions like General Harrison it must be
a rasping reflection that the best re-
suits OF his Administration will be to
leave his party at the absolute mercy
of the boss boodler of American poll
tics. Still, Quay's elevation to the
Presidency would be the logical re
suit of the Harrison campaign.-St
Paul Globe.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
NEVADA'S CONDITION.
A State That Has Been Child of Sin
from the Beginning.

A State That Has Been Child of Sin
from the Beginning.
While four new States, and possibly
five. are preparing to enter the Union,
and showing every qualification for
that condition. the moribund State OF
Nevada seems to be on the point of re-
lapsing into a Territory again. Her
population numbers scarcely $4,000
souls, and the resources OF the whole
State scarcely suffice to support them
The revenue to maintain the Govern
ment is derived chiefly from the bo-
nanZa mines, and their exhaustion is
solely question of time. Long be-
fore that happens, however, the poPu-
lation will have dwindled to the
dwellers in the mining towns, who
certainly will not long be able to
maintain the expense of a State gov
ernment.
What will be done then? The prob
it arises, in conformity with the gen
eral good sense that characterizes
American craftsmanship, but theoret-
ically it presents some difficulties. If
a State can not dissolve its connection
with the Union, can it in any way
change its condition of Statehood?
Can it go back to infancy and ask to
be supported at the expense of its sis
ter States? There is no provision in
the Federal constitution that contem-
plates any such condition of affairs,
and whatever decision will be made
must be extra-cOnstitutiOnaL Several
times in our history resort has been
made to some such course, as in re-
construction and the Electoral Com
mission.
Nevada has been child Of sin from
the beginning. 1t is mere appanage
of the San Francisco mjllionaires, and
gives two additional seats in the Sem
ate to California. 1t probably never
had population enough to entitle it to
Statehood, but it was juggled into the
Union at a time when the supremacy
of the Republican party was consid
cred more important than either right
or justice. There is not creditable
line in its whole political history. Its
Legislature has always been notori-
ously venal, and it disposos of the Sem
atorships as the Pr4torian Guard dis
posed of the imperial throne. Some
way should be devised to reduce it to
the condition of a Terrific y again. 1t
is an outrage upon all the States that
such rotten borough should have an
equal representation with each of them
in the Senate of the United States. -
Chicago Herald,
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
LITTLE NAMES PRAYER.

TThe incident on which this poem is based was
IN ae,sa, occurrence.l
"Tell me a story dear papa" little pratuer
said.
IL want so much TO hear Just one before go to
bed.
And mamma'd like to hear one, too-she'd
listen with del ght-
For that would keep you home. She cries
when you 20 out at night"
But he kissed the little prattlcr, and pre-
tended not to hear,
And then he kissed his sad young wife, who
sat in silence near,
And then he took his hat 10 go from babe and
loving spouse,
As was his won't n ght after night TO jsin In
wild carouse.
Once in the street he hurried on. OF nothing
taking note,
Till he remembered, suddenly, that he had
changed his coat
Leaving his pocket-b book behind. This will
not do" Quoth he,
"No man who is without a cent can well keep
upa spree"
So he turned upon his heel ct once, and home.
ward hastened he.
Arriving there he turned the latch, and en-
tered silently.
Then like thief he stole upstairs, his wallet
to regain,
When suddenly he met q sight which fred
heart and brain.
There in the irelighrs soft glow he saw his
Mamie sweet
Kneeling with dimpled hands upraised, at
her sad mothers feet
And he heard her angel voice lisp forth the
simple evening prayer
That he had uttered when child beside his
mothers chair:
snow lay me down TO sleep,
pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep;
II should die before l wake,
Ipray Thee Lord, my soul to take!'
"Now say: God bless papa Mamie" the sad
faced mother said.
"God bless papar the child replied, as dropped
her sunny head;
And send him sober home, ," the mother whis-
pered IN her ear,
Though this remark the eager rlistening father
did not hear
But Mamie heard it plainly, so raising her
fair head,
"And send him sober home dear Lord" she
in a loud voice said.
The listener could bear no more. He gave
sudden start
Aud rushing in he caught the little angel 10
his heart.
"Why, here is papa now, mamma she cried
with childish glee.
~ really believe he has come back to stay
with yop and me-"
And then she added archly, In a startled un-
dertone:
Il blieve God answers just as quick as any
telephone"
Francis S. Smith, in N. Y. Weekly.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
Alcohol, Muscle and Brain.

We put drop of alcohol into a
mans eye. 1t poisons it. We try it
upon the lining of living stomach.
Again it poisons it We study after
death the stomachs of drinking men,
and find that alcohol produces in reg
ular stages, redness, intense conges-
tion, morbid secretions, deeper hurt,
destruction of parts, utter ruin. We
study its influence upon the health
and strength of sailors and soldiers.
and find it helps to freeze them in the
Arctic regions and exhaust them in
the tropics. We watch two regi-
nents on long march in India, one
with and the other without grog, and
are driven to the conclusion that even
moderate quantities of alcohol weaken
the muscles and break the endurance.
We visit the training-grounds o. oars
men. pedestrians and prize fighters,
and learn everywhere the same lesson
alcohol is a poison to muscle and
brain. -Dio Lewis.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
WHAT A FOOL HE WAS.

No Wonder That He Had No Money and
Wore Poor Clothes-A Transformation.
The following incident occurred at
Bridgewater. n. Y. A young man was
asked to attend Temperance meeting
on a Sabbath evening, and his reply
was:
my clothes are not good enough to
attend church. My wages have been
small this year, and | must have them
raised another year. or | shan't work
for my present employer.
How much are you receiving this
year? You are working on II farm?'
"Yes; and | get two hundred dollars
for nine months, and my board.
"When is your time out?"
at will be out in two weeks"
"How much money will you have
coming to you then?"
Not any thing. l have drawn
more than my pay now"
"HOw much of the two hundred dol
lars have you spent for clothing"
Not quite forty dollars.
"liave you any beside yourself to
support or care for?'
No, sir; | am for myself.
"What has become of tho one hum
drcd and sixty dollars?"
"W-e-l-l-Tve spent it.
"Oh, you have. Did you put it out
at interest? You don't seem to have
any great desire to tell whore it did
go, do you? Well, let me tell you. In
June you drew twenty dollars and
went up to Utica to a circus. You got
drunk, and bet on a thrce-card monte.
lost all you had, got into fight, got
whipped, put into the lookup (the
man who gets whipped is always the
one who gets locked up) and in the
morning the recorder fined you ten
dollars. Is this true?"
"Yes, sir; but how did you find it
out?"
That don't matter. 1t seems they
did not leave you any thing. When
the races were at Utica you drew
twenty dollars moe, and went there.
You drank freely; you were just full
enough to bet on the slow horse, and
lost all you had. You had another
fight, and, as usual, was taken before
the recorder, and for second offense
paid twenty-five dollars fine. You did
not even profit from this transaction.
You went to a hop dance; whisky was
plenty, and you partook freely. You
imagined some one insulted you, and
the result was a general row. This
cost you twenty-five dollars more, be-
sides the cost of court and the paying
of your lawyer. l should think you
would want your wages raised" "
Il can see it all. What a fool l am.
Why, l have worked five years for
my present employer and have not
laid up cent. | have worn poor
clothes; have found fault because my
pay was small. If it had not been for
drink, | should now have five hundred
dollars at interest, should be we'll
dressed. and respected by honest peo-
pie. will be at the meeting just as
am, and sign the pledge for life"
He kept his word. He took his
pledge that night. He has been true
to it, and is now one of the leading
men of Oneida County.
Young man, can you see yourself in
this picturer If you can, heed the
truth, and be made better by correct
ing your mistaken way of living
The Rechabite.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
1hE ALBANIA MIDDLE.
An Embryo Riot for which the Eepub-
lIcan PartH IL RespOnNible.

An Embryo Riot for which the Eepub-
lican Party IL Re'ponsible.
Hon. John Is. Gordon, Governor OF
Georgia, is a man Of brains, and to
these brains OF his the city OF Atlanta
owes its escape from what threatened
to be as ugly riot as that which dis
graced Cincinnati several years ago.
The mob that had collected on Broad
street, Atlanta, the other night was
in state OF great excitement, but un-
der the effect of few hard and fOrci-
BILE sentences from the Governor,
speaking to them as o man in his right
mind and in full control of himself,
they Immediately returned to reason
and good citizenship.
The excitement was caused by the
crude method adopted by a number Of
people to express a very proper disap-
proval of the conduct OF Mr.. Harrison's
| postmaster. General Lewis, in putting
negro to work in the same room with
young white ladies employed as clerks
in tho Atlanta office. Mr.. Harrison
had set the example by appointing an
Indiana negro to superintend number
of young white women employed as
clerks in one of the departments at
Washington. Improper as this was,
it was still more improper to attempt
to extend the operations of this mis-
taken idea to Southern cities That
the idea is mistaken there is no room
to doubt. The negro can not be ele-
waited by Governmental action, forcing
equality or superiority with white
women. Nothing can come of such at
tempts but the highest and most dan
gerous evaporation. II Mr.. Harrison
persists in his unwise course, he will
be responsible for much wrong-doing
and bloodshed.
In the Atlanta case, the Administra-
tion policy would have fore, I'd a riot
but for the cool.ess of tho Governor.
The threat of tha negroes to retaliate
by burning in effigy Miss Lyons, the
young white lady who left the post
Office, added to the excitement caused
by the attempt to mob a policeman
who had shot negro resisting arrest.
The streets were In possession OF an
armed mob, challenging a quarrel and
ready to pursue it to extremities, when
Governor Gordon was called on by a
committee of negroes and asked to use
his authority to avert trouble.
The action of the mob in at once dis
perSinU under the (,overnOr' : orders i !
cause of congratulation, but the ac-
tiOn of the negroes in going at once to
the Governor to stand between them
and trouble invited by threats and
overt acts of members o; their own
race is even more encouraging. 1t in
dicates that the more intelligent ne
groes are beginning to realize that
they are citizens of the State in which
they reside. They have caused much
trouble for themselves and for others
by their idea that they are dependents
and wards of the Federal Government,
foreigners in the State of their resi-
dence. The Georgia negroes who ap-
pealed to Governor Gordon appealed
as citizens of Georgia, and he acted on
their appeal at once So localized
there is only local Inconvenience to
be anticipated from the residence of
different races in the same territory,
erately attempts to force trouble by
forcing a National issuc.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE deeper it goes into the
matter" says the Buffalo Commercial,
speaking of the commission investi-
eating God-help-the-Surplus Tanner,
1.-The better the people will be satis-
fed"
One of the Presidents hatterers
says he has the gift of thinking on his
feet His reasoning has led not "a few
to suppose that he did his thinking
with his feet. louisville Courier
journal.
Senator Manderson's letter, in
dignantly declining to acct pit $4,000
increased pension money, hasn't been
published yet. Perhaps it Is forth
coming and perhaps it isn't; more
likely isn't. Boston Herald.
After all the money Mr.. John
Wanamaker contributed last year to
buy votes against five per cent. gen.
eral reduction of the tariff, he has
been trying to get a reduction on an
article he himself imports. though that
article is manufactured in this coun-
try. He has been importing fancy
boxes as wicker baskets and saving
five per cent. in the operation. A
truly pious man is Mr.. Wanamaker
when he is engaged in experimenting
his Sunday school, but when it comes
to business. business is business"
with him. Rock Islander.
"A letter in the official envelope
of the United States Post-office De-
partment received at Reidsville,. IN. c.,
notifying a colored citizen OF that
place of his appointment as route
agent in the mail service had to be
forwarded to the State penitentiary
where the new appointee is serving Il
term of three years for a burglary
committed after filing his application.
If he were in for only year or so the
place might be kept open for him, but
unless an arrangement can be made
with the State to let him out, perhaps
a new appointment should be made
Chicago Herald.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
A remarkable sight was witnessed

A remarkable sight was witnessed
at the Baily depot, in Cass County, Mo-,
on a recent evening. The sun was
getting low when a train pulled in'
and the engine began to let of steam.
As soon as released the steam began
to form. and in a short time complete
rainbow could be seen few feet above
the engine aud reaching to the ground
on the other side 1t was n beautiful
sight. and remained as long as the
engineer released steam from the en-
gine.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05
The Best TestImonIal

vet published tor any blood medicine Is the
printed guarantee of the manufacturers OF
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
which warrants that wonderful medicine to
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aud Swellings, Sait-rheum, letter, Eryslp-
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The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-05

And imbibed with the water of a malarious
locality, has still a certain antidote Expert
ence sanctions confidence IN Hostetter,s
Stomach Bitters as a preventive of this
scourgc. All over this continent and in the
tropics it has proved itself a certain means
of defense, and an eradlcant of intermittent
and remittcnt fevers and other forms of
miasma born disease. Nor is it less effect
i've for kidney troubles, constipation,
rheumatism and nervousness.