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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FlFTy-FlRsT CONGRESS.

MONDAY, Dec. 29.-The credentials
of the new Senators from Idaho were
presented to the Senate and the nom
nation Of Henry B. Brown, of Michi-
gan, to be Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, was con-
frmed. The elections bill was dis
cussed. A bill was introduced for the
construction of railroad in Alaska.
The House was not in session. "
TUESDAY, Dec. 30. I'm the Senate
the time was occupied in discussing the
elections bill. In the House the journal
of the last days session was read and
approved and then an ad journment was
taken until January2.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 81. A resolution
was adopted in the Senate direct
ing the superintendent of the CEN
sus to report at the earliest possible
moment the population of the United
States according to the census of 1890
by Congressional districts and counties.
The elections bill was further consid-
cred. Adjourned to the I'd. The House
was not in session. -
FRIDAY, Jan. An the Senate. no
business was transacted, and an adj
journment was taken to the 5th. In
the House bills were introduced to re-
duce by one-half the charge of registra-
ton of domestic mail matter, and direct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to
print fractional currency of the United
States to the amount of $50, ZOO, OOo Ad-
iOurned to the 5th.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

A RECENT fad is to have your portrait
cut in an onyx cameo. The work is
very slow, difficult and laborious, but
the image when done is permanent and
will last for centuries.
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Unions also. Denmark's possession.
Iceland, is also prolific of Temperance
effort, its Good Templar Grand Lodga
having been instituted in its Parliament
House. Bulletin.
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IT must be painful to . girl, especially
when she means to say Yes" to hear .
suffering mar propose.-Somervillo Jour
mi.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
SURPRISING THE EVIL.

The Good Accomplished by Legal Re-
striction in Norway.
Mr.. Joseph Mains reports that Nor
way, once flooded with spirits, has, by
restrictive legislation and total absti-
nent efforts during long series of
years, reduced their consumption, per
head, of intoxicants by more than one
half, and thereby effected vast reduc-
ton in intemperance and crime, etc.
Sweden, too, cursed about half a centu-
ry ago with 10000 domestic stills, sup
pressed household distillation, and gave
such local option to town and county
municipalities as enabled the Gothen-
burgh town council to take over the
drink shops, suppress one-half of
them, enact Sunday closing and early
weekday closing-7 or8 p. M, accord
ing to season-and to carry on the trade
through a ''Bolag," which has to- apply
all surplus profits for the common
benefit, as for education, etc. In
Christiania, as in other parts, the
municipality prohibit the sale of
spirits, save to hotel guests, on Satur-
day, at 2 p. M, till Monday, at a. M.
and are now being moved to similarly
limit the sale of beer and wine. In
Denmark, they have, until the last
dozen years, almost allowed free trade
in spirits; this resulting in an enormous
consumption and corresponding evils.
which they have of late sought to check
by enacting that the drink sale must
cease at midnight, that no females
should be employed as barmaids, and
that publicans must furnish carriages
to convey intoxicated customers home
or to the police station. Each of these
Scandinavian countries has long had
total abstinence leagues, and has at
least an aggregate Of $4,000 Good
lemp!ars in 1000 branches besides
"Bla Bandet' blue Ribbon) Societies,
md. latterly, Women's Temperance
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
TIPS FOR TEETOTALERS,

The sanitary board of Vienna (Aus
tria) has declared against the establish
ment of asylums for inebriates, and in
favor of all drunkards being, as public
dangers, sentenced to periods of hard
! labor.
The employer who discriminates
! against employees who drink is benefit
ing himself, benefting his men and
| benefiting the world, for he is aiding in
the growth of a public opinion which will
! eventually solve one-half the rum prob
lem.-Toledo Blade.
Ir is estimated that a saloon-keeper
can live and even get rich if he has
twenty regular customers" Of course
the list has to be recruited often, as
when the old customer gets to be bum
his patronage is no longer profitable. 1t
is then that the boys of the family are
gathered in.-Inter Ocean.
The Order of Rechabites, a large
Temperance society in England, rejoices
in the returns given at its late annual
conference, showing an increase of TO-
610 members during the year 1890. This
is all the more encouraging, as it is
benefit club as well as total abstinence
society.
WE figure that if all the dollars spent
for liquor in this country during the
last thirty years were piled on top of
each other there would be solid silver
wall one mile high and over one mile
long or enough to pave a standard
gauge single track railroad from Chi
cago to st. Paul, four hundred and ten
miles.-The Lever
PUBLIC discussion recently took
place at Lewiston, Me-, between a
Methodist minister and liquor dealer
on the Temperance question resulting,
OF course, in the discontinue of the lat
ter. Such a discussion is hardly fair,
as there really is but one side to the
question; but if any body really thinks
that side is the liquor side, by all means
give him ample chance in public dis
cussion to vindicate his views, for even
If he himself can not be convinced,
there are likely to be others who may
be brought to better views.
81 HAVE carefully watched the effect
OF drink upon the wage-earning por-
ton of our fellow-citizens, and l un-
hesitatingly say that alcohol is too
strong for Christianity. Until we can
get the drink out of the way, our eff
forts to Christianize and uplift the mass
of the people will be in great measure
abortive. 1t is strong statement to
make, but years of Temperance work
has convinced me that, in England, at
least, Christianity goes down before al
cohol. Beer and spirits are too strong
for the Bible" This statement from
one of England's prominent Band of
Hope and Sunday-school workers-Mr.
Samuel Watson-is a strong one. and
worthy of earnest consideration
Union Signal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
Hoods
Sarsap ariIIa
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold BY 81, drusGists. 81; six for g. Prepared b
G. HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
DOu't Fear Now.

Ky. y, bnfea' Manesa' Ilas seXn: I9ssD
ulstor. / hardly know how vo eould set
along without them. Chills and fever havo
Lost their dread: Our people take one ertwo
doses Of the Pills, and follow it with Afeosn
grains ofquinine, divided In three dosos a11.
ing the day. The ohbu 10vo4 I0turnA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
. FLAMES at Milton, Del, nearly de.
stroyed the business portion OF the

StrOyed the business pOrlO0 OF tne
town.
The Mormons ara carrying on On cx.
tensive system Of education. They
have ninety-six teachers with 6,092
! pupils in Utah, Idaho and Arizona.
Utah alone has 1883 Mormon pupils.
THE combination Of eighteen harycst-
ing machinery manufactures into ono
monopoly known as tho American Har-
vester Company throws 10000 men out
Of employment.
AT the power-house of the Louisi-
ana Electric Light and Power Com.
pany at New Orleans an explosion
wrecked the building and killed ten
employees. 8, !
COLORADO mines d ring 1890 produced
500, S61 1884, divided as follows: Silver,
$50, 259, 9o6; gold, s4,51e,1so; lead, s..
749,s52; copper, $3.50, 44o.
GENERAL FRANCIS e. SPINNER died at
his home in Florida of cancer on the
S1st ult. at ike age of 50 years. Gen.
eral Spinner was member of Congress
from 1855 to 1861, and was Treasurer OF
the United States from 1861 to 1875.
when he resigned and retired to private
life. r
AT Keachi, La, cyclone destroyed
the Masonic hall, the post-ofice and
several stores. ~
NEAR Bayboro, N. c., the house Of
Scott Thompson (colored) was burned
during the absence of himself and wife,
and their five children and two grand.
children persisted in the flames.
On the LIST Edwin r. Winans VIZ.
sworn in as Governor of Michigan.
On R. NJ. Patrick's farm near Ma
rengo, ILL.,, barn was burned, and
ninety-nine head of cows persisted in
the flames.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell
occurred on the 31st ult. near Month
cello, Wis, at the age of 1O2 years.
DURING 1890 there were 2,219, 312 cat
tie and 5,733,0S3 hogs slaughtered in
Chicago, against, respectively, 1,783, $40
and 4.211, 777 in the previous year.
AT Lima, O., John Clark became in
sane and wounded his wife with an axe
and cut his throat. Both would die.
FIRE destroyed the manufacturing
esta blshment of the Ohio Buggy Com
pany at Columbus, o. Loss, $175,O
A. NUMBER of houses were unroofed
and others were blown off their founda-
tions at Abilene, Kan, during a wind.
storm.
In San Francisco two earthquake
shocks were experienced on the I'd, and
tall buildings rocked and books were
thrown from shelves. The shock was
general all over the State.
AT Chiffon, Tex. Charles Beale, q
negro, was lynched for numbering a
woman, and a negro and a white man
were lynched in Neshoba County, Miss,
for robbery.
BY the bursting of a cylinder head on
the towboat Annie Roberts at Ports
mouth, o., five men were killed.
A WOMAN, boy and two men were
burned to death by fire in the Avenue
Hotel at COrSicana, Tex.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
A Minneapolis Tleater Burned.
The News Briefly ChrOnIcIoj,


Colonel John T. West and his daugh-
tiers will soon start from Minneapolis
on trip around the globe.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the Secretary of State by the St.
Paul Stove Works Company, of St.
Paul, with capital stock of $20O,00
Peter L. Michaels, of Minneapolis, of
the firm of Newstrom & Michaels,
dropped dead from heart disease at his
place of business.
A New York man named August
Schlegle who was taking in the sights
at st. Paul lost a $4,000 diamond ring.
John Newman, of Meeker County,
committed suicide by hanging.
At Minneapolis Van Heest defeated
Hogan in twenty-five rounds, fighting
twenty rounds with broken arm. In
subsequent fight johnson vanquished
Griffin in ten rounds.
A letter was received from the Minis
ter of Public Instruction of New South
Wales by Superintendent Kiehle, of St.
Paul, asking for plans and photographs
OF school buildings in the State of Min
nesota.
The bridge across the Mississippi
river at Winona, which will be the CON
Meeting link between the Green Bay,
Winona & St. Paul and Winona &
Southwestern railroads, will be COM
pleted and dedicated about March /.
A banquet was given at the Hotel
Metropolitan in St. Paul by the North
ern Pacific Express Company to it's en-
ployes. =
Officials, clerks and employees at tie
capitol made q handsome presentation
to Gov. Merriam as a token of their
esteem.
A railway paper at st. Paul announces
that there is no doubt that it is the in.
tention Of the Great Northern road ia
push its line to the Pacific slope.
! w. o. Tillotson, retail dry-goods mer-
chant, assigned at Duluth to r. H. Har-
ris. The liabilities were said to be
about $43, 900 and assets 500, 1000.
George II. Nutting, St. Paul con.
fectioner, made an assignment. The
liabilities were $1,000, assets $4,000.
Fire destroyed the residence of Orville
Davis in st. Paul, with its contents, the
loss being $4,000, with $4,000 insurance
The Northern Pacific station at Baum:
Lake was burned, causing loss Of s2,-
ooQ. The freight and express were
saved. .s.
Capt Mcdowell, manager of the Du-
lnth Steel Barge Company, has gone to
the Pacific coast to establish q shin.
yard on Puget Sound for the building 81
stpsi whale hack vessels for the Pacific
coast trade, 81 S.
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Arrest Of q Noted Safe-Cracker.


Edward Campbell, one of the most
notorious safe-crackers of the North
west, was arrested at Duluth in a lodg-
ing-house by Detective Hayden. He
was thought to be the robber of the
Adams Express Company's safe at
Abercrombie, n. D. He acknowledged
being wanted in North Dakota for safe
cracking.
A Minneapolis Tleater Burned.
Fire broke out in the Bijou Theater
in Minneapolis, owned by Jacob Lift,
and completely Quilted the handsome
building. A family living in the
third story were almost suffocated
before help came. The loss was $40, 900,
fully covered by insurance. Lift would
take immediate steps to rebuild the the
ater.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

pIAA1 A1dCtAOAoA CuIIcnCy VI Vuc OulCcu
States to the amount of $50, 600, 900. Ad-
journed to the 5th.
FROM WASHINGTON.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain in store on the 9Th was:
Wheat, 25,783, 997 bushels; corn, $780,
176 bushels; oats, 3,795, 567 bushels.
THERE were 1853 embellishments dur
ing the year 1890, the total amount of
money taken being $s,622, $50. Penn
sylvania leads in the greatest amount
of funds embezzled-$2,S 1926, 1877. New
York comes second with 81, 929, 270, Mis-
souri, is next with 1896, 1884. while ILL
nois ranks fourth with total of $780,
938.
The President signed the commission
of Henry 3. Brown, of Michigan, as
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
THE wool supply in the United States
was figured at 80, S19, 1872 pounds, against
9s, 1884, $50 pounds on January /, 1890.
The deaths were reported during the
year 1890 of 46 members and ex-mem-
bers of Congress, Is journalists and 90
centenarians.
In the United States the total pro-
duction of pig iron during 1890 was TO-
1891 tons. This is 1,666,937 tons
greater than in 1889, and breaks all
previous records.
The business failures in the United
States during the year 1890 numbered
10,907, against 9,ss3 in 1889. The total
liabilities were S1s9,ooo,o 900, against
S14s, 00o,0 in 1889.
THERE were 102 legal executions in
the United States during 1890, against
SO in 1889. The number of lynchings
were 1875, against 179 the previous year.
The suicides in the United States dur
ing the year 1890 numbered 2,640,
against 1924 in the year 1889. The num-
Der of murders was 1920, against 1867
during the previous year.
THE fire losses in the United States
for the year 1890 were S1Os, 412. 694
against SLAB, 9O2, $50 in 1889.
The public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed the total debt to be
s1,54l, s71, 1913: cash in the Treasury, S621,-
S6S,844 debt less cash in the Treasury,
1862, 430.541. Decrease during Deem
Der, $11,O 1893. Decrease since June
30, 1890, $50, 637, 404.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Cd numbered 34S against 1888 the
preceding week and 322 the correspond
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IMMENSE. PROFITS.
How the Salo0n-K n~De~ Bleeds His Chs
tones.

How the Saloon-K""De~ Bleeds His Gus
tones.
There is pretty lar margin of profit
to the saloon-kee per in most Of the
drinks he dispenses, particularly in the
mixed drinks and in cordials, though
even ordinary beer, wine and whisky
yield what ought to be considered a
satisfactory return upon the investment
made in them. 1t is remarkable
thing that glass of brandy and soda
rarely costs less than 25 cents, and usual
ly from 40 to so cents, though only a
thimbleful of brandy is involved, and
the remainder is seltzer, which costs at
retail cents a quart. Brandy costs
from 81 to S. a bottle at retail, but
high-priced brandy does not figure ex-
tensively behind bars. The average
retail price of the brandy used is per
haps about $3.50 bottle. 1t costs the
saloon-keeper perhaps half or three
quarters of this amount. There are
forty drinks of this brandy in a bot
tie. -Four cents, therefore, is a liberal
estimate of the cost of ''brandy,'' and
one usually gets no better quality of
liquor at so cents than at 25 cents. The
difference usually involved is in the
character and splendor of the saloon.
For whisky ''plain' from 10 cents to
25 cents is charged. For 1O-cent whisky
and vermouth one usually must paw rs
cents, though the whisky retails at 81 to
$1.50 a bottle, and vermouth retails at
80 cents. Plain vermouth is rated with
the cordials generally, and costs from
Is cents to Is a ''thim bieful" AS there
are sixty such ''drinks'' in a bottle. the
extreme limit of profit in vermouth is
S14.50 on 50-cent investment.
The cordials cost from ST. to 81. IS
for bottle containing from forty to
sixty ''drinks," which are sold generally
at 25 cents each, though in some of the
swell places IS cents is charged. The
average cocktail, sold for from Is cents
to rs cents costs from 2 to cents. The
ordinary hotel claret costs 80 cents a
gallon, or about cents for small bot
tie, for which the hotel charges YOU
from 60 cents to 81. Often the only diff
ference between the first three or four
varieties of hotel claret is in the label
and the price charged. A really good
California claret-such as is sold at most
hotels and clubs as ''St Julian" under
a beautifully gilded and beflourished
label-costs only 81 a gallon, and infe-
rior varieties can be had at so cents, 60
cents, and so cents gallon.-N. Y. Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-12

cause it was the best) of his newspapers
This was LIE Vieux Cordelier, or The Old
Cordelier. 1t was in this journal that the
better qualities of the Dantonist policy
were set forth. That party in the conven-
ton now ventured to suggest and advocate
a limit to the revolutionary excuses by the
substitution of clemency for terror. 1t
was on this rock that the ship in which
Danton and Robespierre and Camille had
! thus far sailed split and went to pieces
Danton and Camille held together, but the
black gulf soon swallowed them from sight
! Robespierre first sent the Hebertists, or
the faction of the "Enraged," to the scat
fold, and was then able to turn his atten-
/ ton to the Dantonists. The latter had
dared to use the deadly word 'clemency."
AT first RObespierre contented himself
with having certain numbers of "The Old
Cordelier" burnt by decree of the conven-
ton. But in the next number the ire
pressible Camille replied with the apho-
rism, Burning is not answering" That
taunt fixed his fate.
On the 3lst of March, 1874, Danton, Ca
mile and their immediate following were
seized and thrust into prison. They were
| hailed before the revolutionary tribunal.
They demanded that their accusers be
DTOuSnL lace 10 lace. which reIUSeu. the
issue hung for two days in the balance.
But Robespierre and St. Just had decree
formulated by which it was declared that
the hearing of evidence might be dispensed
with whenever the court was satisfied!
Against this Dantou roared for a moment:
but his own vehemence and the sarcasms
of Camille were alike in vain. Glow old
are your" said the court to Camille AS it's
first question. "Thrty-three years." he
answered; ''the same age of the good
Sansculotte Jesus-an age fatal to revolu-
tionists" Not even the shadow of death
could eXtinguish the fash OF his genius.
The Dantonists were condemned to die,
and on the same day, April 5, 1894, were
hurried to the guillotine. 1t was a specta- !
Gle to earth and heaven. Camille strug-
gled and ragged with them who would put
him in the death cart. His shirt was torn /
to shreds. Then his nerves gave away, and |
he sobbed like child at the recollection /
of the beautiful wife who in a few days, l.
was to follow him TO the scaffold. His /
courage broke under the strain, and the |
good cheer of the giant who sat beside him |
could hardly revive him from the paralysis |
OF fear. In the last moment, however. he /
mounted the scaffold with some measure |
of courage. and died with defiance on his |
lips. With the fall of the bloody blade the
fashings of light in the finest brain Of tina.
audacious revolutionary democracy were
suddenly eclipsed, and Camille had gone
to join King Louis and the daughter of
Maria Theresa in the land OF shadows.
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-12
He Took Chances.

A white boy about ten years Of age
was playing with colored boy year or
go younger on Calhoun street when the
mother of the latter called from the open
door:
Reuben, what you dom cut dar?r
"Plsyin'"
"Who you playin' wid:'
'Playin' wild Albert"
SIS he Guild or whiteg'
white"
"Den you walk yousef straight in we're
in mint. How many times has got
TO tell We dat You can't pick up wild all
desc white boys dat cum along widout
dun losln' your reputashun. Skin fur
dat back yard. sah.T-Detroit Fres Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-12

token he pleaded for the rights of tho
people, and it could but be noted that the
people" as defined by the pen Of Camille,
meant sansculottes, the men of the Fau-
bourgs, as well as men Of breeches and re-
spectability.
From this time forth. as the Revolution
| increased in fury. the voice Of Camille was
constantly heard, like bugle note in bat
tie. Soon after the destruction OF the
Bastile ne began the publication of his
weekly paper called Revolutions de France.
The genius of the editor flashed like fire
through the smoke and tumult Of 1901
In NO other publication of these stormy
times may the course and tendencies Of
democratic opinion be better traced than
in The Revolutions. At this period of his
career Desmoulins, in the first flush Of
triumph and fame, did not display those
amiable and humane qualities of mind for
which ne was noted during the last two
years Of his life. He was savage, and his
fickleness was almost as conspicuous as his
genius. His changeable temper, however,
may we'll be accounted for by the wild
tides of public opinion on which he foated
like nautilus.
After the September massacre Camille
was elected to the national convention,
where he associated himself with Danton,
to whom ne remained faithful ever after
ward, and he to him. The taciturn Danton
was never satisfied with drinking from the
fountains of Candles genius and vivacity.
When the former was chosen minister Of
justice, Camille was made his secretary
general. In the convention he was always
found among the benches of the Mountain,
moving about and shooting his barbed wit
ticisms at the enemy. None more than he
desired the destruction of the monarchy.
On the question of the kings death he
voted "Oui."
He wrote History of the Brissotins,"
which was so furious in its attack on the
Gironde and so deadly in its deductions
that Robespierre was able to avail himself
of the influence of the pamphlet and the
rage of public opinion to send the Hebert-
lists first and the Girondins afterward to
the guillotine. AS for Danton and Camille,
they appear to have been astonished and
shocked at the terrible application which
the Revolution made of their own argu-
ments.
1t was late in the year 1893 that Camille
established the last and most famous (be-