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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

the land OF sobriety she is gone ire.
deemably. There seems no rescue for
her. Ali her grace is gone. All that
was once beauty has turned to hideoua
of9ensiveness. All that was gentle and
kind is rudely vicious. brazenly cruel.
Now and then . policeman picks one up
late at night in some out-of-the-way
place and brings her to the armory:
She is unloaded with the roughness
male prisoners know, tempered trife
simply because she is less likely to es-
cape. She is never still, as some men
are when in their cups. but seems to
feel her degradation so fully that 81
lence will drive her to thinking about
it till insanity shall ensue. She talks
constantly, employing language she
never knew before, however low she
sank. She seems to repel the faintest
prompting of decent, womanly behavior
and to crush with all the vileness she
has heard in years each instructive
prompting TO be true. Herald
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
WEST AND SOuTA.

coz the LIST Thomas c. Jones was in.
augurated Governor of, Alabama to sue
coed Thomas Seay.
In Alabama 5000 Of the 5000 coal
miners struck. =.
On the streets of Findlay, o., fifty
dogs were found dead, all of them h av-
ing met their fate from eating poisoned
bologna sausage.
HE thermometer ranged from 6 to "A
degrees below zero in Minnesota on the
I'd and heavy snow-storm prevailed. --
FOUR men were shot. deaa while re-
sisting arrest at Oak Ridge, La.
FLAMES swept away the business part
OF Collinwood, suburb of Cleveland, O..
The Manitoba quarantine against
American hogs has been raised.
The doors of the Bank of Commerce
at West Superior, Wis. were closed
The assets were given at S64O, OO3 and
the liabilities $780, 900.
The Office of the Allerton Packing
Company at the Stock Yards in Chicago
was entered by two men who com PEELED
Cashier osier to deliver to them pack
age containing 1920 and then made
their escape. 8 | H. @
AT San Francisco Mrs. Elizabeth Hol.
lenbeck gave $3.50, 900 to found home
for INDECENT women and homeless chill.
dren in that city. -
WILLIAM C. BRADFORD, of Seymour
Ina. aged 80 years, one-armed veteran
soldier who was partially demented. Get
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

a minneapolis Clerk Gets Away with .
Snug Sum In = Glover Manner.
Leo Heilpern is in tho City Of Mexico
and the books of tho Columbia Mill
Company at Minneapolis fail to balance
by $4,000. Heilpern was the book
keeper of the Columbia, and when he
disappeared it was charged that he was
a Russian spy sent to Minneapolis to
watch PresideEC Frank Grygla of the
National Polish Alliance. All this
pretty roman is now blown away. and
it appears that Heilpern is nothing more
nor less than very shrewd and cum
ming embezzler who in the course Of q
few months has made away with sum
Ut money approximating very closely to
So
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
ChriAflQn Drinkers.

A missionary in India writes as rol'
lows concerning the effect upon their
work of drinking by English and Amer
leans. who are all counted as Christians
by the natives. Frequently converts,
who did not dare touch liquor while be-
longing to their own caste, on becom-
ing Christians feel free to indulge in
the habit. They say: English Chris,
tians drink, Christians smoke, why
should not we?' and the missionaries;
mouths are closed. The effect Oh
liquor upon these people. and the in
creasing amount used by them, is some
thing fearful. Besides the drinking,
there are several substances smoked BY
the natives which are as pernicious and
far more rapid in results than alcohol
les A strong plea comes to us for one
of our best women to go to India and re.
main several years to train workers
''Send good woman who will devote
all her time and energies to this worh
for few years. There are many here
who could help, but they can not lead
Mrs. Leavitt makes a plea in the same
line. Her plan is to nave the womeD
come here to be trained in our train.
ing-scnool that is to be- Union Signal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
COLONIAL PUNlSHMENTS.

How Drunkards Were Trexted in the
Early Days Ut New England.
DR.. Hammond gives couple of in
stances OF colonial punishment Of
Here are others. 1888,
Massachusetts,: Robert Coles fined e10
for 'abusing himself shamefully with
drink" and enjoined to stand with "A
Drunkard" in great letters on white
sheet on his back, ''soe longe as the
Court thinks meete." The penalties
for repetition next year-disfranchlse-
ments, etc.-referred to by Dr. Ham
mond, were RENTED, May, 1884,
on submission and testimony of good
behavior. r. Hawkins and John
Vauhan fined 2Os for similar offense
and selling 'strong water. contrary to
an order of Court" In 1913 and 1850
the colony made the harboring of drunk
ards penal But there is not the slight
est evidence that the proceedings in
these cases were for sumptuary reasons.
1649: William c. was fined 40s. for
''misdemeanor in drinking, and corporal
punishment RENTED upon his promise
to avoid such occasions" The same
year, in New Haven, John Jenner, ''ac-
cused Of being drunk, was acquitted. 1t
appearing to he of infirmity, and oc-
casioned by the extremity of the
cold" mr. Molenour, accused, but
rot Clearly proved, was respited."
1t could hardly have been the
object in these cases to prevent the
expenditure for the liquor, or to dictate
what the DersOns concerned should OF
should not drink! Nor when Thomas
FARMLAND was punished 'for drinking
strong liquors to excess and entertain
ing disorderly persons into his cellar
to drinking meetings" - George F.
Magoun, D. D., in Popular Science
M0nth1v
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

The Boston journal says there are
causes which 60 far to explain the non.
entertaining character OF the average
young man to the average young per-
son of the opposite sex. One is that he
IS too much engrossed in himself and
the things which interest him. The
young man who goes into the society of
cultivated young women and has moth
ing better to offer than baseball talk
or "reminiscences Of college scrapes
will make himself entertaining, if at
oil, only by making himself ridiculous.
The average young man is in danger Of
being left behind, intellectually, by the
average young woman.
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in Greece.

The British Medical Journal sounds
note of alarm at the threatened destruc.
ton of the Greek Nation by alcohol
that arch enemy of all mankind. The
history of the attempt of the Hellenic
people to stay the ravages of strong
drink is an extremely interesting an6
pathetic one. The Athenian law
giver, Draco, sentenced drunkards to
death. Pittacus ordained that drunk.
enness should entail double crime
Locrian sustained the same legislation.
making an exception for those who had
the authority of a physicians orescrip
ton. Dr. Joannes Phustanos is advo.
eating the formation OF Temperance
moderate drinking) societies on this
classic ground. This is one step, but .
very short one, towards the goal-total
abstinence.
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The Duty on Drink in Frahce.

The French people have now deposited
in the savings banks two milliards and
eight hundred millions of francs. Te
help to an understanding of this sum
not millard of minutes have elapsed
since the Christian era and that tive
milliards would reconstruct the Fife,
tower of silver and leave two stages te
be added. According to NJ. de Foville.
the highest statistical authority in
France, war to tho knife ia wageo
in every French town and village be-
tween the savings banks and the cabare,
or public house. In certain communes
of Brittany the establishment of branch
savings banks has been temporarily
abandoned, so determined is the hostil
ity or the other side. The annual duty
on spirits, liquors, absinthe. ETC..
amounts to half nilliard of francs
and that on tobacco to nearly as large
sum. ''Pauperism," says Nj. de Foville,
''for which so many seek Usopian rem
edies. will never disappear. rest assured
of it, till driven out Of the world by
thrift.'-LOndon Daily News,
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A Travelling Evil.

A gentleman writing to the InteI
Ocean makes the same charge agains,
the Pullman car saloon the w. c. T.
y. has SO often made: Among the
many annoyances of travelling in Pull
man car none is worse to bear than the
saloon Last year took trip to Cal
ifornia and back by way of Tacoma and
St. Paul. The through trains carry
liquor and it is sold and drank t.
intoxication, and what with the
noise, profanity and gaming, ]
determined never to spend any more
money to secure a sleeping berth
when the porter is unable to 81:
cure quiet 1t was my misfortune tc
be located near to the 'state-room
which was occupied by quarterte Of
drinking and card -playing, swearing fel.
lows lone an editor of a Minneapolis
daily, and twice did call for the por
ter asking him to stop their noisy,
boisterous conduct, but he said he could
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
DRINKING WOMEN.
Terrible Effects OF the Habit Upon Their
Lives.

Terrible Effects Of the Habit Upon Their
Lives.
OF all the blistering sights on earth,
the worst is a drunken woman. Now
and then you can see one in certain
part of the town, but these ere cursed
with depravity that shows even
palmer than does their lnebriety. The
fatal thing about an intoxicated woman
is that whenever you see one you re-
member her. 1t is sight that does
not readily fade from the mind. !. is
so out Of all lines of propriety, III de-
cency, of humanity that it ap,Ills with
its very outrageousness. No matter
what man may claim are his views on
the subject of woman he always proves
his faith in her superior truth and
purity by standing aghast at the sight
of her maudlin condition. 1t proves
how high is his ideal when he can look
at this state in a woman with feelings
no more akin to those in the case of a
man than atheism is like religion. 1t
is because he holds her higher respects
her more, gives her instinctively full
measure of honor, that he feels shocked
and outraged when she sinks so far as
to pollute that purity.
Every now and then a sensational
writer stirs ripple of attention BY
telling Of the alarming prevalence of
the drinking habit among women. As
matter OF fact, it is a custom that
mover should, by the widest stretch of
malice, be called prevalent When a
woman does become intoxicated it seems
that all the world knows it. So rare
and surprising thing is bruited abroad
like the fall of a priest or the
misssep of clergyman. In our
very surprise and attention to
it we confess that it is unusual and I'M
expected. Men in society may be drunk
IS lords once a month, and all their
friends may know of it; yet nothing is
said of it which can or does harm them
In the delicate esteem Of the world.
But just one lapse of this sort on the
part of . woman is remem bered against
her forever; and men who hear her
spoken of associate this record against
her the very first thing that enters
their mind. She Is blasted for all time,
and can no more wipe out the stain
than could Lady Macbeth erase the
proof Of her terrible crime.
But women do drink, It seems to be
the last stage in long, downward
course. 1nebriety unhidden is her very
last step. There is no resting beyond
that Once over the line that bounds
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
THE EAST.

EDWARD HOLLAND, under life sem
tence in Sing Sing IN. W prison for
murder in 1875 was liberated on par
don from Governor Hill
On the I'd the New Hampshire Legis-
lature met in extra session at Concord.
GEo1HiE HERBERT, Frank l. Greene,
Mr. Ca Sc and Mrs. e. e. Turner, resi-
dents of New Haven, Conn.,, who were
prospecting in Florida, were drowned
in Lake Tohopekaliga by the capsizing
Of boat.
IKE Court of Appeals at Albany. N.
Y, in the case of Miss Campbell against
Arbuckle ("Baby Buntlng'), for breach
OF promise, affirmed tho Judgment of
The lower court for So, 900 damages.
BY the explosion of a saw-mill boiler
near Espytown, Pa, four men were
killed.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, tenement house
was burned and Mr.. aud Mrs. Irvine
persisted in The flames.
On the Hudson river navigation came
to an end on the Sd.
THE failure was announced of the
Rittenhouse Manufacturing Company
of Passaic, N. j., with $500, 900 debts
and $50, 900 assets.
AT Albany, n. Y, Joseph B. Abbott,
cashier for the Henry W. Sage Lumb Der
Com pany, who was discovered to be a
defaulter to the extent of 800, 900 sh OF
himself dead. =.
In Boston Jacob Schaefer beat the
worlds record at balk-line billiards In
five innings he made total of 400.
The banking firm OF Delamater &
Co., at Meadville, Pa, failed for $780,
600.
In Pittsburgh. Pa, fire which broke
out in Maginn's cracker factory de-
stroyed four large business blocks, caus-
ing loss of $3.50, oOo.
A FIRE in tho, retail dry-goods store
OF Sheppard & Co. at Providence, r. l.,
caused damage to the extent of $780,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

QUEEN V1croEA's family now num-
bers no less than fifty living descend
ants including sons and daughters,
grandsons and granddaughters, great
grandsons and great-granddaughte rs.
She has also four sons-in-law, four
daugh ters-in-law, five grandsons-in-law
and one granddaughter-in-law. If all
the descendants wore living the immo.
diate family would number seventy
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

In the Court of Appeals at Albany, N.
y. in the case OF Campbell VS.. Arbuckle,
for breach Of promise, the judgment of
the lower court was affirmed, and there
fore the complainant RECEIVERS SIS. 900
damages. This case attracted wide at
tention when on trial in New York.
Miss Clara Campbell, an Ohio lady, sued
the defendant, Arbuckle, for $4,000
damages for breach of promise of mar
rage. The letters OF the defendant,
which were read in court, created great
amusement The pet name of "Baby
Bunting" which Arbuckle signed to his
tender missives, will probably cling to
him as long as he livos. : ).
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
Sold for q Milion.

The official announcement was made
of the transfer of the entire stock of the
St Louis Water-Power Company, which
owns the great water-power OF the St.
Louis river above Duluth, to q syndi-
cate composed of Duluth. Eastern and
English capitalists. The purchase price
was 81, 200, 900, and the new company
would expend another million in build
Ing dams and otherwise improving the
power so it could be utilized.
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LATER.
Holden Must Hang,

WAsnINGroN, Dec. Sin the supreme
court OF the United States to-day de-
clslon was rendered, through Justice
Harlan, affirming the judgment of the
circuit court of the United States for
the district of Minnesota in the case Of
Clifton Holden against The State of
Minnesota. Holden is convicted muir
derer, He commended that he was ille-
gally held, because the new criminal
code of Minnesota, adopted in 1889, un-
der the operations of which it was pro-
posed to execute him, was ex post facto
as applied to this case, and otherwise
in violation of the federal constitu ton.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

MARRIED women would do we'll to
paste in their scrap-books the following
statistics relative to woman's work:
In one year woman gets dinner S65
times, washes the dishes 1905 times,
gets the children ready for school twice
day for $50 days, gets the baby to
sleep 1.4G0 times and makes about 800
calls. Who says that woman has moth
Inn ts, do
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
FORESTRY FUND.

How It H . Beon Distributed and CouD.
tics Receiving Largest share.
In accordance with an act Of tho last
Legislature, appropriating SO, 900 % /
forestry fund, the State Auditor has just
lrawn warrants in favor Of tho persons
entitled to the same under the law.
The object Of the act Is to encourage the
planting Of trees in the border counties.
The law authorised $3.50 per acre, but
owing to the large number Of claims the
amount was reduced to 81. 10 per acre in
order to keep within the $4,000 limit.
About 2,70o farmers have fled claims.
The following table shows counties,
number of warrants issued and amount
to each county:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

THE probable value of all the dia-
monds In the world, according to re-
cent estimate. is about $1,000. zoo, OOO
The worlds diamond trade is carried on
by about 5000 dealers. with total
stock Of not far from $3.50, O)O, 900. The
stones are prepared for market by per-
haps $500 cutters and polishers, prin-
cipally in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

THIRTEEN years have elapsed since
tho death of Oliver P. Morton, the old
'War Governor" and Senator of Indiana.
On every anniversary his widow and
other r'emhers OF the family quietly
visit and decorate his tomb. On this
last occasion company Of twenty-three
friends assembled, aud short address
was made by Mrs. Morton's pastor, who
prefaced it with PRAYER.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

Ex-Governor LONG, of Massachusetts,
possesses the rom arkable ability of recol-
lecting what he has written without
reading it over even by himself. It is
said that during his most animated
speech he has in his minds eye vivid
impression of his manuscript, 50 that he
knows where every page ends and every
line ends, and even where there are in
torlineatiOnS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
Fato of Two Drunken Mon.

JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, Dec. 8.-Critten.
den Jasper and BENJAMIN Richardson
started home from the city Friday night
drunk. Saturday morning they were
found lying dead in narrow ravine
with their horse on top Of them. They
had driven off bridge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
Broke All Rocorda.

The past year has been phenomenal
one for the business of the Minneapolis
saw mills. They have cut more lumber
than in any previous year. The total
lumber cut is 44,57s,S 1852 feet, l62,:l7,-
500 shingles and 80, 275, $50 lath. The
lumber cut is 6s,71S,714 feet more than
1t was last year and 6,9l1, o61 feet moro
than it was in 1883. which was the best
year for manufacturing prior to this
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

The Southern law papers tell a story
OF colored justice of the peace in Mis-
slsslppl who was very careful to enter
on his docket every item of public bust
moss that came before him. He did not
have any ordinary cases to decide last
year. and the only entry on the blank
forms sent to him to fill out was this:
"Plaintif, Bill Jones; defendant, Silvia
johnson; officer, justice OF the peace;
Judgment, married; costs paid by plain
tiff; satisfaction BY both parties"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

NATURE seems to be doing its best to
keepdown tho population of the world
by It's destrcctiveness in Oriental coun-
tr;os Some months ago the Yellow
riveE. swollen by heavy rainfall, spread
oversthe country, submerging over 5000
square miles So Ten Thousand persons
wore drowned and 5000 soon died Of
starvation. + 10 estimated that 1, 0oo,-
900 moro wiiishave to depend upon CHI r
ity until tho next wheat harvest, In
Nay,slss1. aAstorm swept over the Chi
nese sv,.. causing the loss of over thou
sand lives. Many thousands died from
thu cholera epidemic in China, Japan
Cores .nd along the Cochin China coast
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

THE Rio News says 1.-The coffee crop
of Hayd this year is unusually large
and that the generally good news from
coffee-producing countries this year
promises to cause much lower prices for
the next year or two"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

THERE are more public holidays in
Honolulu than in any other city in the
world. Among the days observed are
Queen Victoria's birthday, Coronation
day, all the French and Portuguese hol-
idays, the American Thanksgiving day
and the Chinese New Year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

IT Is said that :hore is in the Bodie
mining district OF California spring
which produces gold. The spring is not
exactly geyscr, but the water is hot,
and as it flows away and evaporates it
leaves deposit. That deposit contains
gold. Whether the water disin tegratcs
gold bearing rock far below the surface
and brings the gold to the top. or
whether there is going on in tho labor
atory OF nature chemical process which
produces gold in solution is an unsolved
Drot1om
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11
Ate . Whisky Glss, and Died.

William J. Bell, commercial traveller
for q Chicago tobacco house, while
drinking glass Of whisky in Minne-
apolis began eating the glass and had
devoured halt of it when interfered
with. He died in few minutes. Grief
and modification at hearing of his
wife's arrest in disorderly house
caused the deed. He was we'll con-
nected in Chicago and Toledo, o.
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An Aged Statesman Honored.

LoGANsPoRT, Ind, Dec. 8.-A recep-
ator Fitch at his home here Friday
night on the occasion of his SD birth
day. The affair was conducted BY
the Fitch Democratic Club. Profess
sional men and soldiers called
during the evening 10 pay their
respects to the aged statesman
and soldier. Mr.. Fitch will be remem-
bered by the older politicians of the
country as having beaten Schuyler COL
and as having challenged Stephen A.
Douglas to fight duel when they were
me N bers of the United States Senate.
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An advertisement has been running
in Bristol, Eng, paper for the last
year. Offering fifty dollars reward for
any observation-disclosures case Of child
being carried away by an eagle, no
matter in what country. No eagle ever
did it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

AMONG the many cases of saving lite
from drowning which have recently
been reported to the British Royal HUI
name Society for recognition there are
thirteen in which the ages of the heroes
ranged from eight years to sixteen.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

A SPANISH Temperance newspaper is
published at Valparaiso, Chilli Recent
numbers contain articles on "Aloohol
and Disease" and "Why Does Drink
Cause Dcath?" Record is given of the
organization of the third Spanish-speak-
ing lodge of Good Templars, formed in
that city.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-11

VERMONT is the fourteenth State to
adopt ballot reform, its Legislature,
which has just adjourned, having passed
q ballot law similar to that of Massa-
chusetts. 1t applies to all elections in
towns and cities OF more than 200 in
habitants, and provides for the custom
arysbooths and an official ballot pre-
pared by the county clerks after the
names Of the candidates have been
othcially certified by the chairman of
party conventions The existing laws
relative to election are retained. the
new law moroly providing for secret
andof6cial ballot, tho expense to be borne
by the towns where the law is opera tive.