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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-24
THE NEW YEAR,

Ger the mountains wild comes little child.
And all the untrodden ways
Are blooming bright, meath his steps Of light
And the valleys ring with his praise;
And the morning glints on his brow, and tints
His checks with It's rosy rays.
His bright eyes beam and his tresses glesm-
Shot with the sunshne's darts
That mark his way through the gates Ut day
AS the dying year departs.
And the vacant throne Is now his own,
And his kingdom is human hearts.
The songs he sings and the joys he brings
Are wonderful, sweet and rare;
And the future CLOVIS like fragrant rose
Meath the wand that he waves in air.
And with kisses sweet and with smiles We
greet
The beautiful, glad New Year.
And cover the head Of the Ola Year dead,
With cold. cold shroud Of snow
Life Is sweet, but time Is feet
And the years must come and 20:
The beautiful years, with their smiles and
The years that We all love So
Kisses and tears for its joys and its cares
The year whose steps have passed
Into silence sweet where no fall of feet
Is heard in tho Dim and Vast
To the O:d-his due; but we love the New
The sweetest rose is the last!
IF. L. Stanton, In Ladies' Home Journal
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GENERAL GlEANlNGS.

THERE were one hundred and fifty.
seven women patients undergoing
treatment at the Kelley institute in
Dwight, ILL.,, the other week. At the
present increase of the number OF
many women as men.
SAYS a recent African traveller:
Nature has already proclaimed in
words whose letters are formed by
white mems graves that no drunkard
and no moderate tippler shall prolong
his days in tropical Africa"
THERE are hundreds of instances in
which people have found drunkard's
doom by tasting alcohol in their food
after they had reformed. The taste
for intoxicants turks in some persons
system as fierce fire. to be let loose
with an uncomfortable fury by even
the smell of liquor.
''ONE thing that might be done in
Europe in view of the short rye cror
there is to make it all into bread in.
| stead of whisky. But it will not be
done. Many people will starve in Rus
STA and elsewhere that distillers may
be enabled to continue their work. -
The Voice.
SOME whisky recently seized in g
kitchen barrcom in Boston, when
some of it was rubbed as liniment on
one of the feet of a patrol-wagon horse,
burned off the hair, near the hoof.
Some more of the same stock of whis-
ky was accidentally spilled on the
desk in the police station, aud it ate
off the varnish.
OUT of seventy thousand British
troops in India eighteen thousand are
teetotalers. Sir Frederick Roberts him
self says: For every five hundred tee
totalers enrolled the strength of the
British army is practically increased
by another battalion" The author
tiles in India make an annual grant OF
eight thousand rupees for temperance
work, and give the use of a room in
every corps for meetings, as we'll as al.
lowing refreshment bars to be opened,
the profits of which go to temperance
work, so that the men are encouraged
in every way to remain true to their
pledge
THE connection between strong
drink and poverty may be seen IN a re-
cent statement as to the condition of
the people of Ireland. Saloons are far
the most numerous in the poverty
stricken sections of that unhappy coun-
try. During the past year the amount
of liquor consumed has fearfully in
creased, the figures being nearly a
half million gallons of spirits more
than last year Is there any hope of
Ireland, or indeed of any other coun.
try, where the people are degraded by
the love of strong drink and are corse-
quently always contending with want
and poverty?
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The Habit OF DrinkinR.

An essential to the success of coun-
try boy in a great city is to let drink
ing alone and absolutely. He does not
need the stimulus, and the habit CT
drinking is responsible for most of the
personal and business failures in both
country and town. 1t is a bad sign
when young mans breath smells of
alcohol. Confidence in him is impaired,
and oftentimes more among those who
drink themselves than among those
who abstain. The drinkers know
| what it means. They know by expert
ence that the first effect of alcohol is
to weaken the Judgment They know
that when the habit of drinking is once
formed 1t usually becomes more and
more fixed and demands greater and
greater quantities of the stimulant, so
that habitual drinkers are never in
their real sober senses. You never can
tell when it is safe to trust them.
Drinking by young man, too, sug-
gests the possibility of dangerous com
partnership. of which employers are al
ways fearful - Standard
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THE OLD AND THE NEW YEARS.

Somewhat Political. and Yet Done Up In
81 ! Prosy Form.
As priest benignant / at the altar
stands with girdled robeEand marks the
novice pass, the Old Year smiling
spreads his kindly hands to bless the
New Year, and let's fall his glass. Thus
do the children of immortal time, like
waves of ocean surging 'gainst the
shore, come and recede, while sounds
the mystic chime of hours melodious
forever more. Let not the heart be.
moan its seeming loss; the years we
leave are but the gold we've gained;
the bark that wears the sightrcaressing
moss enfolds the oak that centuries
have stained. Right we'll it is the New
Year have its cheer, for it is still
Hopes herald, and the soul takes cour-
age from it and bids disappear the
doubts and fears that hide the wished
for goal
No necromancy works q subtler
spell, no promise of the sky gives
sweeter bliss, than infant lips that,
cooling, strive to tell that birth to man
is Heavens forgiving kiss. When
famed the star in Bethlehem of old
the sad world saw a surety of peace;
and when from tomb its stone the
angels rolled the ancient creeds in
new faith found surcease. But as the
things that men have lived and
thought still mingle with the things
they think and Go, the precious Jewels
that the old year brought the heart
must hold as sacred as the new. The
roses plucked when summers breezes
played have persisted, but have left
their fragrance sweet to soothe the
weary who have sinful strayed and
bear the dust of sorrow on their feet.
flushed are some lips that when the
spring was young were swift with
kindness and with whispered jest;
dumb are some voices that the birds
outsung, and feet that never tired with
running rest
The New Year comes triumphant in
its pride, and rings defiance to the
world Of care; but let bold youth not
wholly Set aside the gray beard friend
who served us passing fair. Though
lightly still we speed the parting friend
with heartier will to greet the coming
guest, we sometimes learn before the
evenings end they quit us earliest who
loved us best. So, drink the glass of
gladness in its round with dear remem-
brance of the joys that were; and let
our laughter take melodious sound
from sweet regrets that memory may
STIR
The Old Year dies not, but within the
halls where fancy holds her fetes finds
constant place, and sits with kindred,
where the sunlight falls to clothe with
beauty his slow aging face. There
when we will we may its kindly smile
invoke to light the gloom OF some lone
hour, and at his knees in revery be-
guile our souls from grim despair's
despotic power. Nay, bard who sang
so sweetiy of his death, the Old Year
dies not, nor can ever die; and though
we breathe, with JOY the New Years
breath, full oft we'll seek the Old Year
with sigh; full oft we'll seek the Old
Year with sigh.-Inter Ocean.
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RETROSPECT,ON,

The wind goes by with q moan tonight:
Like platnttve, long cry,
1t sounds. as I sit by the warm freight.
While the hours go hurrying by.
weep and watch near a dying bed
Where . friend lies CHASTITY white.
Relentless time the decree has said
And the old year dies tonight.
sit and think o: the golden hours
That have passed me unimproved
OF wasted gifts and neglected powers,
And my heart is deeply moved
Another year IS beyond recall,
To the past its records gone
With all my sins, whether great or small
1nensceably stamped thereon.
Had the power to reclaim those DAYS.
Gould live them DER again.
I'd force my feet into better ways,
And my life to nobier strain. ,
My hands should toll to alleviate
The distress Of human kind,
The worth Of friends I'd appreciate,
To their faults I'd e'er DO blind.
The cause Of truth would justify,
1would quell disputes and strife.
IN word and deed I'd exemplify
My Redeemer's holy life.
I'm grteved, old year, that We part 30 soon.
That your span of life is spent,
The days you gave were = precious boon
That too quickly came and went.
Your reign though short, WAS kindly one
And you gave me much Of bliss;
Forgive, old year. what I've left undone,
And the work I've done amisa
-Lsurs c. Gibbons, In Housekeeping.
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The Enkagsnsnt Not Connietlng.
Client Tin haste)-Mr slyck, can
ind You in your Office early this after
noon3 Business Of tho utmost impor.
tancel
Lawyer-Yes, sir, If you are on hand
1T two o'clock. have an-an-a pro-
fessional engagement at two thirty.
$50 have I. Mr.. Slycl< I'm going ia
tho races this afternoon"
(Relieved) -''Then there's no need
for you to hurry. Mr.. Verplanck. We
can talk business over between the
races."-Chicago Tribune.
BREAD Is the staff of life, and pie IL the
stumbling block-Yonkers Statesman.
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going by. They have halted and are
pointing at the house. See! They arc
turning III at the lane. oh, mother!''
"Never mind, dear. They want to
inquire, perhaps
But while she was speaking the In
| dams had wheeled into the gateway
and swept up with headlong pace to
the very door.
They swung themselves from their
! saddles, tethere1 their ponies to the
hitching rails and came quickly up on
the porch.
Mrs Wyman had thrown of her
momentary fears. She stepped to the
! door and opened it. Lillian trembled
| in every muscle.
The leader ct the party was huge
fellow. much taller than his followers
He was more fantastic in his dress.
too, and had streaks of paint on his
cheeks. The rest had turkey feathers
| stuck into the bands of their SLOUGH
hats, and all had blankets over their
| shoulders.
The chief uttered surly "Howw
and made motion of his hand to his
mouth that he would like something
| to eat
Mrs. Wyman smiled cordially and
| said: Come i'm
| He obeyed directly, the rest stalking
after him in perfect silence. They
went at once through the sitting room
to the kitchen stove and held out their
hands to warm.
This done, they squatted on. the
floor with variOuS low OF, ttural sounda
to each other, as if exchanging views.
They apparently approved of the COM
fort, for stolid silence ensued
| Lillian was absolutely spellbound
with terror and could not move. Mrs
Wyman went to the pantry to prepare
them food
The chief was restless He kept his
| eyes rowing over everything. Finally
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across the snow-bright prairie.
'Not unless you make it. SO" respond
ed her mother, cheerily.
Make it SO" rejoined Lillian. "How
can l make it anything else? It is al
ways Lonesome here, and to-day will be
the worst of all. Only think of the fun
the girls will be having in dear old
Deerfield, while I am off out here in
this
She stopped short, fearing she might
say too much. What she had been
about to say was: '"This horrid, DESC
late Kansas ranch
! "Perhaps the boys can take you for
drive, dear; and you know we're in
vited to Uncle Abner's for the even
ing'
"A drive" replied Lillian, scornfully.
II hate driving, all alone along these
endless roads. Nothing but snow,
snow, until am nearly blind
"You have your books, Lillian; and
your father likes perfect lessons
Eyes, l can have books any day. But
think of the girls at home-what they
are having. They are getting their
tables ready this very minute. They
will darken the parlors and have gas
light, and pretty dresses and lots of
callers"
Here Lillian broke down and sobbed
Her mother came to her side and
stroked her hair.
BE brave, daughter she whis-
pered. Il know it is great change
But I have often told you we must
bear in mind why we left the east, and
why we are here. Father would not
have been alive but for this change of
climate and open-air life. You know
he is getting we'll. and is so happy in
that. We ought not to mind anything
II he can be we'll again.
Lillian felt ashamed, and tried to dry
her tears. Yet she was unwilling to
quite give up her discomfort
III only something would happen"
she said. Then, desperately: Il wish
there would be a cyclone or blizzard,
or prairie fire! l wish the Indians
would make a raid!'
''We don't have cyclones and prairie
fires in winter" her mother said,
calmly.
Just then Lillian heard great
stamping Of feet and gay voices outside
the kitchen threshold.
Her four brothers were coming in
from doing their morning chores. As
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Full Of trouble;

Full Of trouble
the ordinary pill. Trouble when
you take it, and trouble when you've
got it down. Plenty of unpleasant
ness, but mighty little good.
With DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets,
there's no trouble. They're made
to prevent it. They're the origi-
nal little Liver Pills, tiny, sugar.
coated, anti-bilious granules, purely
vegetable, perfectly harmless, the
smallest, easiest and best to take.
They cleanse and regulate the whole
system, in a natural and easy way
mildly and gently, but thoroughly
and effectively. One little Pellet
for a laxative three for q cathar.
tic. Sick Headache, Bilious Head.
ache, Constipation, Indigestion, Bill
ious Attacks, and all arrangements
of the liver, stomach and bowels are
prevented, relieved and cured.
They're the cheapest pill you car
buy, for they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or your money is re
turned.
You pay only for the value re
ceived. Can you ask more?
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you would have known the ponies"
said jamie. s Us asz :
When they had nearly finished dinner,
Lillian said:
''1'll write it all to the DeerAeld
girls l don't believe they've had half
as jolly time as we have. Their calls
will be just the poky polite ones. But
mine are genuine wild west. Mrs.
Clara Doty Bates, in Golden Days
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%NN| o \ u, II; : :; &; e; r IT !
life burnt low,
OF days smiled, and days I wept-
If good or bad would highest mount
Wnen l made up the years account.
took ledger, fair and fine,
And now, I said. when days are glad,
Ill write with bright red ink tho line.
And write with black when they are bad,
30 that they'll stand before my sight
As clear apart as day and night
viii not heed tho changing skies,
Nor II It shine, nor ii it rain:
but II there comes some sweet surprise
OF friendship, love or honest gain,
Why, then, it shall be understood
That day Is written down as good.
And II to anyone Hove
blessing meets them on the way,
That will double pleasure prove,
So 1t shall be happy day;
And II some day I've cause to dread
Pass harmless by, Ill write it red.
When hands and brain stand labor's test,
And can do the thing would,
Those days when am at my bost,
Shall all be traced rs very good:
And in red letter. too, I'll write,
Those rare, strong hours, when right is might.
When first meet in some grand book
noble soul that touches mine;
And with his vision can look
Through some Gate Beautiful OF time,
That day such happiness will shed
That golden-lined will seem the red.
And when pure, holy thoughts have power
To touch my heart and dim my eyes,
And ], In some diviner hour,
Can hold sweet converse with the skies,
All! then my soul may safely write:
- This day hath been most good an bright"
What DO see on looking back!
red-lined book before me lies,
With here and there thread OF black
That like passing shadow flies,
A shadow, 1t must be confessed,
That often rose In my own breast
And have found tits good to note
Tho blessing that is mine each day;
For happiness is vainly sought
In some dim future fur away.
Just try my ledger for year,
Then look with grateful wonder back,
And you will fnd-there is no fear
The red days far exceed the black.
Amelia F.. Barr. in Treasure Trove
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THE SALOON IN POLITICS.

Upheld by tho Class Known rs .'Respecta-
bio CltlzenR."
We often hear remarks about the
vote of the liquor element, or the ''sa-
loon VOTE" as it is familiarly called.
In many cases it seems to be no incon-
sidera bic fraction of the entire voting
population. Of what class OF classes OF
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''oH, ENTERTAIN YOUR cALLERs!"

''oH, ENTERTAIN YOUR cALLERs!''
they entered they let in a great rush Of
cold air. Jack spied Lillian through the
half-open sitting-room door.
Hello, Lil!" he called.
She did not answer.
Iii in the dumps again?" he asked
his mother.
''She is little homesick this morn
ing"
"Why doesn't she get out as we do,
and stir mp her spirits?" said Harry.
Its nothing but moping makes her
homesick.''
This is a thousand times better
than poky old Deerheld," asserted
Ben ''There was nothing to do there
but slide down hill on q hand-sled. and
here we have the ponies and the cattle,
and ~,
But you are boy, Ben" interposed
Mrs. Wyman, land can do great
variety of things. Lillian lent strong
enough for hard riding, and, besides
che misses her tEiendA" :,
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Money talks" it is said. But
about holiday times it goes without
saying:-Yopkers Ststesmap.
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Said the year that was old:
II am cold, I am cold.
And my breath hurries fast
On the wild winter blast
OF this thankless December;
All, who will remember
AS l, shivering, 60,
The warmth and the glow
That arose like O fame
When came, when I came?
For brought in my hands,
From Utopian lands,
Golden gifts. and the schemes
That were fairer than dreams.
All, never a king
OF twelvemonth, will bring
Such splendor Of treasure
Without stint or measure,
AS brought on that day,
Triumphant and gay.
But, alas, and alas,
Who will think as I pass,
Twas once gay and bold!'
Said the year that was old.
Said the year that was young
And his light laughter rung-
Come, bid me good cheer,
For bring with me here
Such gifts as the earth
Never saw till my birth;
All the largess OF life,
Right oyally rife
With the plans and the schemes
OF the worlds highest dreams.
Then-hope's chalice filed up
TO the brim of the cup,
Let us drink to the past,
The poor pitiful past"
Sang the year that was young,
While his light laughter rung.
Nora Perry, in Youths Companion
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Many a life has been lost
because of the taste OF cod
liver oil.
If SCOTS Emulsion did
nothing more than take that
taste away, it would save the
lives of some at least of those
that put off too long the
means Of recovery.
1t does more. 1t is half
digested already. 1t slips
through the stomach as if by
stealth. 1t goes to make
strength when cod-liver oil
would be a burden.
Scorr & BowNz, Chemists, ,,s South 9Th Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of eod.l.ves
oil-all druggists everywhere do. Il.
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Syrup

We are six in fam
AFarmer at lily. We live in a
rao r.x,. place where we are
' o~ subject to violent
Says: Colds and Lung
Troubles. I have
used German Syrup for six years
successfully for Sore Throat, Cough,
Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the
Chest and Lungs, and spitting-up
of Blood. I have tried many differ
ent kinds of cough Syrups in my
time, but let me say to anyone want
ing such Northumberland Syrup
is the best. That has been my ex-
perience. If you use it once, you
will go back to it whenever you
need it. 1t gives total relief and is
quick cure. My advice to every
one suffering with Lung Troublesis
Try it. You will soon be con-
WINGED. In all the families where
your German Syrup
is used we have no John
trouble with the r-,.,~,,.
Lungs at all. 1t is oN''
the medicine for this ,.
country. 9
G. G. GREEN. Sole Man 'fr, Woodbury., N j.
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"A Sunday or two ago." said Sam,
after an interval of silence, you ex-
pressed wonder in your sketch that
rich people did not do more to help the
poor. It would have been wiser in YOU
to wonder why poor folks didn't do
more to help themselves
by abstaining from drink?"
Exactly. l know there are plenty
of cases where industrious sober men
are brought down to hard times, but
eight times out of ten drink is the
cause of it. We can't say to labor
ing man that he can't have glass of
beer when he wants it, but what does
his want of it result imp"
'Have you remedy?"
mo, there is none. Every man runs
his own affairs according to his own
ideas. If he prefers to get drunk YOU
must not NEEDLE. He knows what the
result will be; therefore, let him
alone'
"Sham! Sham!' called the father.
''What about my own case?" queried
Sam, as if suspecting that might put
the question. 1T would be laLor
thrown away to try to do anything.
The end will come in year or two
more. The city will bury them and
I'll only have myself to look after"
That's tough thing to look for
werd to-"
swell, what can you do? There is
only one end to drunkard's life. He
himself knows that"
ashanti Sham wan%,or eh;n. !,
shong!' called the mother.
"Whoozer calm Sham?" asked the
father, as he tried to get up
Sam and looked at each other, and
he held out his hand as I opened the
door: Words would have been wasted.
Queer boy, that Sam, but l think a
great deal of HMM. Quad, in n. Y.
World.
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H, w II A T a
lonesome day it
will be-" sighed
Lillian, looking
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-27
A $4,000 BLAZE
On fremont Street, Galveston Spontaneous
Combustion Does the Business. ....

Combustion Does the Business. ...
GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. GA bout
2 O'Clock this morning fire broke out
in Zohn's photograph gallery in a
frame building on fremont street, just
south and across the alley from the
fremont opera house, inflicting dam
age to the building and stocks of &C.
cupants estimated at $4,000. The
second story was occupied by Zohn's
photograph gallery, the Either club, a
dressmaking establishment and Nor
rison u Fourmy, directory publishers,
while the ground floors were
occupied by Theodore Strauss, boot
and shoe store, P. d. Tribes, gents
furnishing store, and Miss j. Neiss,
millinery store, all of whose stocks
were either ruined or badly damaged
by water, but are fully covered by in
surance. The fire originated in the
chemical room of Zohns' gallery, and
is supposed to have been caused by
spontaneous combustion. The fire,
after considerable difficulty, was
gotten under control and eXtinguish-
ed, not, however, before the upper
story Of the building was badly
wrecked.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-27

whole human race would be benefited
if means of economically producing
rain could be found.
We are on the eve of great discov-
cries that Will vastly benefit all man
kind, and governments should be on
the alert not only to aid in making
these discoveries but also IN securing
the benefits to the masses and pre-
venting corporations from turning
these discoveries into means of eXtor-
ton and oppression. AS a rule the
inventors, the men and women who
make great discoveries and the masses
do not receive their due portion of
benefits while corporations receive
more than is their due.
w. II. FOSTER.