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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
THE MOTHERS OF ROME.
Women Who Did Not Know tho Taste o
Strong Drink.

Women Who Did Not Know the Taste of
Strong Drink.
The ancient Romans, in some re.
spects, were in advance of the present
age in their practical physiological
knowledge. This was especially the
case in the habits of the women. They
seemed to be fully aware of the fact
that a hardy race must be born of
healthful mothers, and consequently
any usage or practice likely to. affect
injuriously the health of women, was
viewed by the state with suspicion.
The muscles were systematically edu-
Gated. Frequent bathing was required
by law. Large lighthouses were es-
tablished, which were places of COM
mon resort.
For several centuries of the best ages
of Rome, it was criminal offense for
Roman mother to drink Intoxicating
liquors At the time of our Saviour on
earth, and for long period after, it
was considered infamous for Roman
woman to taste wine.
The consequence of this physical
training and abstinence from all intox.
icating liquor was, that the Romans
were noted for their strength and en-.
durance. News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

may become disease IN . certain class
Of cases, but dipsomania, he says, Is al..
ways the result of . continuous habit
Of vicions indulgence in drink, and for
Opportunities special asylums should be
provided, in which due medical care
and treatment should be furnished, inn
prisonment in them being compulsory,
as in the cases of lunatics from other
diseases.
The suggestion is interesting. 1t pro-
poses q scheme of reformation that, en-
acted into law and duly executed,
would practically amount to a social
revolution. For it not only provides
for the seizure and incarceration of
.sots found in low dives" but for the
rigid inspection of the tipping done in
more respectable and in splendid sa-
looms and for the restraint of hilarity
in rich drunkards' households and the
freer convivialities of club cafes, by
forbidding connivance and imposing an
obligation of complaint. So interest
ing is the scheme, to be sure, that were
it not for one obvious fact some
millions of men throughout the coun-
try would cry out hoarsely against it
and shake their trembling fists in its
face. The scheme is preposterously
impracticable.
= Half of the multitude of men who
frequent barrooms are dipsomaniacs.
Among them are lawyers, politicians,
bankers, merchants, and all sorts of
men in every condition of life. Few of
them make shameful spectacles of
themselves. For years they may con-
tinue to indulge their unnatural appe-
tite for wines and liquors, in saloons,
clubs and at home, without other result
than q slow, inevitable atrophy of
health and of character. If the law
were to declare these men to be crimi-
nalsit is appalling to think of the 'conse-
quences-happy families robbed of their
fathers. professions of their leading
lights (might not the bench itself yield
here and there culprit?), a blight on
all the feasting, while the wits that
were wont to set the tables in roar
swarmed into our asylums, and coming
grimly to their meals gazed dull-eyed
in savage silence upon bottles of soft
cider and sarsaparilla.
! The drunkard may be voluntary
lunatic," and doubtless is, but his luna
cy is mild indeed compared with that
which would be responsible for the
drastic treatment of him after the man
ner proposed by DIR. Hartt.-Philadel.
phia Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
TRULY PATHETIC.
A Mother Falnts ON the Train Claspin
Her Baby's Corpse.

A Mother Falnts on tho Train Clasping
Her Baby's Corpse.
A very sad incident. occurred on the
Milwaukee train which arrived in St.
Paul the other morning from Chicago.
Among the passengers was Mrs. Helen
Hope, the l9-year-old wife of a Mime
apolis mill employe, who had with her
an infant in arms During the entire
trip the baby was sick and the young
mother cared for it with the utmost
tenderness, hut just before the train
reached st. Paul it was noticed that
both mother and child had become
strangely silent For some time it was
supposed that they were sleeping but
finally it was discovered that the
mother had tainted and that the. little
one which she clasped in her arms
was dead. The unhappy mother was
revived and given in charge of her hus-
band who had come to St. Paul to meet
her.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
Intemperanco In Russia.

At meeting of the temperance
society of st. Petersburg one of
the speakers called attention to the
fact that vainglory or braggadocio
is often the cause of drunkenness.
He had often seen women drinking
brandy from flask just to show that
they could swallow as much of the stuff
as any man. Foolish parents give
liquors to their children to show their
friends how brave their little ones can
drink. In villages and small towns the
good standing and hospitality. of the
common people is estimated by the
amount of spirits they order for we'd
dings and sociable gatherings. At such
parties it is customary to give the guest
strong liquor, betweentforty five and tifty
grades first and make the stuff weaker
in measure rs the company gets in
toxicated and cannot distinguish the
merits Of the drink. IN. Y. Sun.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
HUMANITY IN WAR.
The Humane and Generous Acts Of Noble
Warriors.

The Humane and Generous Acts Of Noble
Warriors.
1t is related of Henry w., the first
French king of the house of Bourbon,
that while besieging Paris, at that time
held against him by the Catholic league,
he was urgently advised to Ia Ike the city
by assault before troops daily expected
from the king of Spain could arrive to
succor the leaguers. He knew that by
a determined assault he could carry the
works before him, but he protested
against it on the principle of humanity.
d Il will not" said he, EXPOSE the
capital of my country to the miseries
and horrors which must follow such an
event. Twill show to my people that 1
am their father; and I will follow the
example of the true mother who pre-
sented herself before Solomon. l will
not gain the prize through the slaugh-
ter of innocent persons"
7 In time, Henry reduced the city with
the loss of but few lives. In subse-
quent conversation upon the subject of
the number slain, he exclaimed:
If it were in my power would give
anything but my kingly honor to re-
deem. those citizens, and to have the
satisfaction of informing posterity that
had subducd Paris without spilling q
drop of blood"
In the war of 1896 between France
and Austria, the ArchduAe Charles,
when Fastening from Bohemia to take
command of the Austrian army, met,
near the scene of a late action, a large
number of wounded soldiers, both
French and Austrians, who in the haste
OF retreat and pursuit, had been
abandoned where they had fallen. The
only horses at hand which could posi-
bly, be used in removing these helpless
sufferers were attached to the artillery.
"Let the cannon be left behind said
the humane prince, "and let these poor
fellows be saved" And when one of
his generals demonstrated, he added:
s.No, no; let it be as have ordered.
The life of one brave man is better
worth preserving than fifty pieces Of
ordnance -s& 49,
When the French General Morcau,
into whose hands the cannon thus
abandoncd had fallen, learned the mo-
tive which had prompted the archduke
to make the sacrifice, he ordered the
whole to be restored, observing that he
should be unworthy of being the oppo-
nent,oi his imperial highness II he took
advantage of 80 noble an act Of hu-
1nanity.--N. \. Ledger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
LATER
Trouble In tho Coke Rector,


ScoTrDALE, Pa, May 4.-The coke
region to-day was shaken from center
to circumference bp just such another
scene as has been feared for. weeks
since the dreaded Norwood killing.
At Leisenrlng No. 5 last night man
named Mahan was shot dead and anoth-
er seriously injured.
Two Hungarians who had left the
works, delayed their visit and Supt.
Gray became suspicious. He, in com.
pany with his assistants and four depu.
ty sheriffs, visited House No. II, where
their workmen were enjoying them.
selves immensely. Their entrance
caused a stampede among the strikers,
and two of them rushed out.
Mr.. Gray and the deputies were fol-
lowed to the hill by the angry crowd,
who came SO close they were compelled
to back down with rifles presented.
They STAYED off the mob as long as pos.
sible, but Mahan rushed up to one OF
the deputies, selling his rife and crap.
pied with him. This deputy fired and
the balance followed suit. In the fusil.
ade the man fell dead, while another
was injured. There are grave appre.
tensions of further trouble at Lessen.
ring, and the force of deputies is large.
~ increased.
THE novel "A Shred of Lace" which
has just been placed in the market by
Franklyn w. Lee, the eminent young
author, is creating considerable com.
ment, and indications point to a large
sale. Mr.. Lee is deserving of the high.
est praise for his meritorious work.
ITALY has decided not to make an
appearance at the World's Fair In Chi.
Icago. This decision is made in the in.
terest Of economy. The recent troubles
have no bearing in the case. ~. e.
A PARTY of ten persons returning
from q dance near Chester, O., on the
9th, tried to cross q mill dam in a boat
The boat sank and five were drowned
and five were saved. :,
The committee appointed by the Min.
nesota legislature to investigate the
Operations of the elevators at Duluth,
met in st. Paul on the 5th, and reor.
lganized by @electing Senator Geissel
chairman. A long wrangle occurred
upon the question of hiring w. w.
Erwin as the attorney for the commit,
tee. It was finally decided that Attor.
ney General Clapp should act in the
legal capacity.
On the night Of the 9Th, the house Of
James Cole, near Upper Marlboro, Nd.
was burned and his five children per
ished in the flames.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
FRESH FACTS AND NOTES.

Won MOLTKE is teetotaller, even to
beer, and many Germans wonder how
he ever reached his present great age
without it.
The delirium and stupor from exces-
sive use of spirits should be called
poisoning, rather than intoxication. 1t
is literally this, and no other term is
more exact--Journal of Inebriety.
Mrs. HELEN NJ. COUGAR has been
keeping careful account of the mum.
Der of wives murdered by drunken
husbands since January 1, 1889, and
finds that 1904 women have, during
that time, met death at the hands of
husbands who were Infatuated by
Intoxicating liquors.
LADY MACDoNALD, wife of the
premier of Canada, is an old abstainer.
Another lady of high position met her
at dinner one day and vas surprised to
see that she took no wine, and at
length asked: ibid you not set out
wine when you entertained the marquis
of Lorne?' ''Never!' was the prompt
reply. 'But did you not feel that you
must apologize?' "Certainly not; wine
is not a natural beverage, and SO
should rather come in than go out with
apology"
NEVER was the liquor trade more in.
tolerant of opposition or more ag-
gressive and destructive than to-day
1t is true now, as it was when the New
York Tribune uttered these words "a
few years ago: This traffic lies at the
center of all political and social mis-
chief, it paralyzes energies in every d.
rection, it neutralizes educational agen-
cies, it silences the voice of religion, it
battles penal reform, it obstructs polit-
ical reform. "-Christian at Work.
EDWARD w. Box, the young editor
in-chief of the Ladies' Home Journal,
of Philadelphia, is firm believer in
the temperance cause, and the women
associated with it. Mr.. Box has just
celebrated his twenty-seventh birthday.
and has never tasted liquor or beer.
He believes that difficult brain work
can only be accomplished by a strictly
careful life, and a strong hatred for &C.
cursed drink. The young editor was
warm admirer of Mrs. Rutherford g.
Hayes, and regarded her the noblest of
American women on account of her
bold advocacy of temperance.-Unio
Signal.
Two OF the ordinary American bev-
erages, whisky and malt liquors, are
almost entirely unknown to our italian
immigrants when they arrive here,
They may know the acid taste of cheap
italian wines, but few of them are ia
miliar with the bitterness of beer or
the pungency and Intoxicating proper
ties of whisky. They often express
surprise that Americans can. like such
disagreeable potations. 1t is doubtless
true that some of them change their,
notions on the subject before or after
they have lived a year in this country:
yet it is fact that the great majority
of the Italian denizens of New York
are poor customers at the whisky and
beer saloons, and the police reports
show that the proportion of them ar.
rested for drunkenness is small.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

In court at Wheeling, w. Va, Judge
Jackson met with Il peculiar case of
dense ignorance. James Penning-
ton pleaded guilty OF selling liquor
without license and declared that he
did not know he required license.
Did you ever hear of the United
States?" asked the court. eyes, but
only in an indirect way" the prisoner
replied. II live in Brayton county, and
did not think the United States had
any control over it's affairs. The county
court makes the laws there" The Judge
fined him 500 with ten months in Jail,
and told the clerk to furnish him with
COPY Of the constitution to study.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

THE town of K;owa, Kan, has lady
mayor. Mrs. DR.. Paxton, who has
closed and double-locked the gambling
houses and saloons, and is deaf to all
appeals to moderate the rigor of her
programme OF reform. Thirsty citizens
have endeavorcd in vain to induce her
to show little leniency. Dcspairing
of shaking her resolutions, a delegation
called on her husband the other day and
begged him to use his influence with
the city's fair chief magistrate The hus
bands reply was that his wife was run
ming the city as we'll as her household
and that he was powerless. The mayor
ess evidently means business.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

PAY-CARs are familiar sights on
American railways, but this country
has not yet employed the locomotive in
banking operations. One of the New
Zealand banks has a special car which
visits the rural districts, cashes checks
and receives deposits. The experiment
is said to be profitable, and it is great
convenience to settlers who would 9th.
erwise be compelled to leave their farms
and visit town ON numerous occasions.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

THE census Office has issued state
1nent of the acreage and yield of tobac.
co for the year 1889, showing an in.
crease over the last census of So, 22s
acres and 1868, 40 pounds The
amount produced in Kentucky has in.
creased over 100000 pounds, and
there has also been substantial in.
crease in North Carolina, Tennessee,
Ohio, New York and Wisconsin. On
the other hand, there has been a more
or less serious falling off in Virginia.
Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts
Pennsylvania and Missouri. The fig
ures are liable to slight modification in
the final revision, vet to be made.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

THIS is great nation. While states.
men and newspapers the world over
are wondering whether there will be
war the president is off on IL pleasure
jaunt of nine thousand miles, and the
secretary of state upon an ocean voya
and the great offices are left in charge
of janitors and private secretaries with
out fear of danger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

The statistics show that fewer ltal-
ians bring their wives and families with
them to the United States than any
other class Of immigrants AS rule
they do not come to stay and are neither
profitable to the people of the United
States while they do remain or their
families of the wanderers in their alb
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

A RECEPTION was given by the medi-
cal profession of London to Dr.: Will
liam Salmon, of Glamorganshire, who is
probably the oldest living member of
the medical profession in England, if
not in the world. He was born in Suf-
folk 101 years ago last Monday, and the
fact is corroborated by the appear
ance of his name upon the list of
members of the Royal College of Sur
geons of England in 1909, when he was
but nineteen years old. Notwithstand-
ing his advanced age he is in the
full possession of all his faculties and
attends to his practice with more regu.
larity than many younger men.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
MINNESOTA STOCk..
A Department Bulletin Says Horses and
Cattle Arc in Good Condition.. a .

Department Bulletin. Says Horses and
Cattle Arc in Good Condition.. ~ .
A bulletin issued by the agricultural
department has the following relative
to the condition of stock in Minnesota:
Never, in the histor of the state, have horses
wintered better: Fo,>d has been plenty, and
since there has been general tendency to take
better care Of them, the loss from disease is
much reduced. No epidemic has appeared dur
ing the past year. Cattle are in excellent
condition They have been free from all dis
ease, and there has been no loss from exposure.
Sheep have wintered excellently well. No dis
eases have prevailed. The ravages Of dogs
and wolves appear to be the only source Of loss
TO the flocks. Hogs are in fair condition. The
high price OF grain has lessened the average
weight, perhaps, as much more corn would have
been fed to them had it been cheaper
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

Miss MAGGIE ScHUTT, of Derry, Pa,
died recently. She was IS years of age,
and since her fathers death, twenty
years ago, had been living ont as maid
of all work. Investigation of an old
canvas hustle belonging to Miss Schutt
disclosed fortune of Sc, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

CAPT. w. II. p NAMES, of the steam
ship Etruria, has completed his five
hundred and first voyage across the At
lantic. He first went to sea as an ap-
prentice in 1898, and got his first COM
mand of Cunard steamship in 1864.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

MRS. CATHERINE SHARP, of Phila-
delphia, now in her 1l4th year, attrib.
utcs her great longevity to the fact
that she has made it the rule of her life
to preserve a tranquil mind and never
to become agitated. III
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

IT is reported that the Panama canal
can bc completed for GOO. OOO, 900 francs.
This frank statement will not be par
ticularly reiished by the Parisians who
have already put SO many millions into
the ENTERPRISE.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
THE CRIME OF DRUNKENNESS,


An interesting scheme Tor the Restraint
" OF Moderate Drinkers.
The right of man to drink one glass
of whisky is not to he disputed; the
right OF man to drink a dozen glasses
of whisky may be questioned seriously.
This right, indeed, is the subject of q
rather ridiculous controversy waged in
the Arena, in which DR.. Henry A.
HART combats the theory that drunken-
ness Il uniformly an inherited disease
and holds It to be q voluntary lunacy. -
ue does not, OF course, deny that it
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

THE finding of fifty human skeletons
near Corpus Crispi, Tex, is accounted
for by William Payne, manager of the
Farmers Alliance at Whitewright, Tex.
He says eighty of his comrades de-
serted in body from the rebel SER
vice and started for Mexico, not one of
Them having been heard of since, and
that they were captured and executed
to a man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

THERE are 14,O56, $50 horses in the
United States, 1906, 543 mules, 16,O19,-
sol mich COWS, 36,S75,G4s oxen and
other cattle, 43, 49,, 1856 sheep, and So
625, LOG hogs-and all these animals are
on the farms of the country, not count
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

ROBERT HARRISON, of Birmingham,
Conn.,. who had been asleep for three
days and nights, awoke feeling none
the worse for it. He says that he
dreamed that he was in another world,
and was positive it was much better
than this one. He had prolonged
Sleep once before
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07
THE EFFECTS OF BRANDY,

Drinking Various Alcoholic Compounds In
tho Interest of Science.
Mr.. Samuel. from the English Gus
toms department., recently gave evil
dence of an important character, show
ing the results of experiments he had
made in the admixture of fusel oil with
brandy. In October last he added five
per cent. of fusel oil to brandy, which,
he said, was a large percentage. The
effect of this mixture was that in a
short time the brandy lost its charac-
teristics as such. Later he tried one
per cent, which produced similar ef-
feet. Speaking of experiments upon
himself the witness stated that the eff
feet of brandy to which five per cent of
fusel oil had been added, taken to the
extent of three fluid ounces day for
nineteen consecutive days, with the ex-
ception OF Sundays, was very similar to
that of ordinary spirit drinking. Ex-
periments made upon his assistant with
pure alcohol were attended with re-
markable results. He was compelled
to give up the experiments in two or
three days in consequence of the ILL
ness which supervened.
The chairman asked if the witness
was aware that ether drinking largely
prevailed in Ireland. The witness re.
Piled that he knew of the fact through
the newspapers, and had read an arti-
Gle on the subject in monthly maya
zine recently. He had made repeated
attempts to drink ether in its ordinary
state, but had failed, owing to the diff
ficulty in swallowing it. The efforts to
swallow it caused his eyes to stream
with water and his mouth to close-in-
deed, nature appeared to repel the at
tempt. The only way in which he sue
ceeded in swallowing ether was in cap
sules, and the effect was an icy sensa-
ton in the stomach, followed by q
slight stimulation. He had obtained
samples from Ireland of the ether
drank there, and found them to consist
of mixtures of ether and alcohol, the
latter, he believed, produced from
methylated alcohol. The experiments
with ether were negative rather than
positive. He had experimental with
pure spirit and water, with the result
that he suffered from headache and in
digestion, while with fusel oil added
the same result did not follow. Mr..
Allen, public analyst of Sheffield, said
he found that there was very little diff
ference between the quantity of fusel
oil in new and old whiskies.-St.
James Gazette. . ~..s... 49,:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

A NEW mineral has been discovered,
to which the name sanguinite has been
given. It is bronze-red in color by re-
fiected light, and upon analysis is found
to contain silver, arsenic and sulphur.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-07

In the United States district court at
Boston the other day, Gen. B. F.
Butler, who appeared for Mrs. John
son, defendant in q prosecution for
pension forgery, was ordered from the
room by Judge Carpenter, who had the
marshal and an assistant enforce his
decree. Gen. Butler, with tears in Ills
eyes, said that he yielded to force; and
when he returned to the court after the
judge had left the. BENCH. remarked
that the room smelled a little better.