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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-09-28
Spontaneous Combustion.


A writer in American Notes and
Queries, who discusses the nonprob-
ability of spontaneous combustion to
rum soaked people, has the follow
ing to say in regard to the matter:
There is one trivial obstacle in
the way of explaining certain cases
of spontaneous human combustion
that is not usually taken into con
sideration by those who favor such
theory. A human body weighing
$50 pounds contains about ITO pounds
of water. Moreover, it requires about
four pounds Of alcohol to evaporate
one pound Of water. Hence tomere-
ly desiccatea human body, something
like $50 pounds, or not far from a.
gallons, of alcohol would be re.
quired, while to incinerate the nv ~
three or four times that alnoi;nt
would be necessary, or say a volume
several times as great as the entire
volume of the average sized body"
This communication is signed
''Trois Etoiles. wonder if ''Trois'
ever stopped to consider the fact
that all the water Of the body must
be replaced by alcohol before spon-
taneous combustion can be possible
st. Louis Republic.
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Then tried writing with my own
hand. Lucy persuaded me she could
read it.. She used to sit by me and
keep the lines straight, or tell me she
did so. Ihave got nearly half VOL
uine that ! wrote in this way-of
course quite undecipherable now.
But it brought on the crisis. Try to
write with your eyes shut for a min.
ute or two, and you will see what a
strain it is upon the nerves. Mine
gave way, as you know. We had
worked six hours like this one day,
poor Lucy in agonies and imploring
me to stop, yet afraid to thwart me.
That night could not sleep, and to.
ward morning delirium set in. The
doctors tell me there is no such thing
as brain fever, but it is a good de-
scriptive term for the illness that fol-
lowed
AS / understand from what Lucy
tells me, when the fever first left me
was sane enough, but my memory
was gone, ! could see perfectly.
Then as memory began to return
there came a struggle with the old
delusion, and a relapse followed.
Last" as Tennyson says, II woke
sane, but well nigh close to death, {"
and by fortunate inspiration they
had kept me in the dark. Else, l
think, the shock of returning con-
seriousness would have frightened
away my fluttering life. It was Lucy
who explained it all to me in the
silent watches of the night, little by
little, as I could bear it. Poor Lucy!
I found her first gray hair as she
bent over me a day or two afterward.
But l pulled it out. and now it is the
only memento of my blindness.
The doctors call it hysteria, which
they say can simulate anything, and
in such cases Of simulated blindness
it is often almost impossible to dis
tinguish the false from the true, the
eye acting under tests almost as it
would if really incapable of sight.
Hysteria is an ugly, womanish word.
For my own part, would as soon
say insanity. And l am sure any
jury would give Lucy license to get
rid of me. But she does not want it.
IS. L. Gwynn in Black and White.
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Plenty to See.

Here is an episcopal story. Bishop
Williams of Connecticut is the hero
and Scotland the place of action.
It seems that over in Scotland the
rector of a parish is called the lin
cumbent" and his curate the ''locum
tenens
One day Bishop Williams was
dropped from the stagecoach in a
little Gaelic town in which the only
respectable looking house was the
parsonage. The bishop felt that he
could not enter the wretched, dlngy
one story inn, and he determined to
beg, from the rector a nights lodg-
ing, on the score of his Episcopal dig
nifty. So he marched boldly up to
the door Of the parsonage and
knocked. His knock was answered
by wrinkled old Scotchwoman,
who looked for all the world like
Meg Merrilles, with an added score
of years on her head. She glanced
cannily and suspiciously at the bish-
op, holding the door half way open.
lis the rector in, my good wom-
ana" asked the bishop
mo, SUIT" came the answer in
the inimitable Scotch brogue. EN-
sorry to see that the incoombrance
is cot, but if We like We can see the
local demon. Boston Budget.
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! THE MARlooLp.

7 The violet sweet dearly love, AK AZ ~
The pink, tho pansy bold, .a "..s~
The blush rose, but all flowers above n
IN i love the Marigold. .as s.&%
Fair dover, that in : time Of old #..
~ Didst give thy heart away ~ ~ ~
Y 10 him who from his sphere Of gold & y
Does give to mortals day! M
Alasl for love he gave thee not,
Full vainly thou didst sue
Unhappy shall name thy lot.
Or Gull thy love too truep
The god who changed thee to flower
Hath left thy heart the same;
Still dost thou show his beauty's power
In hue Of orange flame.
Still dost thou lift thy dropping head
= To catch his eyes bright ray,
And when his light no moro IL shed
I. Thy beauty fades away.
Poor Marigoldl l love tho we'll.
IN; And most because, like me,
Thou hast q woeful tale to tell
OF grief and constancy.
/ The violet sweet l dearly love,
Tho pink, the pansy bold,
The BLUSH rose. but all flowers above
< Ilove tho Marigold. s s@
Fl -Gentleman's Masazins
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HIS MOUTH WATERED.
Brown Bread Plays an Unwon ed Ro


Brown Bread Plays an Unwon ed Roll
In Portraiturs.
There is an artist in New York who
has won for herself an enviable repu-
tation as portrait painter. At one
of the recent exhibitions she had the
picture of beautiful dog whose por-
trait was gained in she following way:
The dog is very fond Of brown
bread. His mistress put on an apron,
in the pocket of which was a generous
supply of the coveted dainty The
dog was made to sit in chair and
wait expectantly for the bread. Mean
while his mistress sketched rapidly
When he became sleepy or uneasy she
would allow him to get down and eat
a piece of bread. Then she would say,
DO you want some more?" Go back
to your chair then" So they proceeded
till the sketch was done. She said the
saliva flowed SO freely from the dogs
mouth, as he thought of the brown
bread, that she had to spread papers
under him.
She also says that it was difficult to
get a lively portrait of an animal
After they have passed the uneasy
stage, and find they must keep quiet,
they settle down stup:dly to GO to
sleep, the horse, whose head she
painted, would assume lively express
sion when some one whispered to him.
Horses nearly always like to be whis-
paral tn
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Public interest in the Quarantine
bill has been transferred to the House
sire3 the Senate passed the bill
without a division, but not without
IN earnest effort to pile up amend
ments on the bill. This bill is in
some respects one of the most re-
markable that was ever passed by the
e. S. Senate, although it does not, as
some have supposed, actually
establish a system of National
quarantine; but it gives the President
more authority than was ever exer-
,ised by a President. He may, if the
bill becomes a law whenever in his
discretion it is necessary to keep out
contagious or infectious diseases, not
only suspend immigration for any
period not to exceed one year, but he
can also suspend the importation of
merchandise from infected countries.
The authority to take possession of
State property when it becomes
necessary to use the same for
quarantine purposes, without the con-
sent of the State authorities, gives the
National government all the power
it could exercise under a National
quarantine law.
Notwithstanding the clause in the
Quarantine bill giving the President
authority to suspend immigration for
any part of the year, whenever he
deems it advisable, Senator Chandler
says he intends to push his bill,
providing for suspension of
European immigration for one year,
through the Senate; but it is believed
that this is merely bluff on the part
of the Senator to make the steamship
lobby keep it's hands off the
Quarantine bill, which the House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
committee is now working to get be-
fore the House, through a special
order from the. committee on Rules.
The Representatives of the steamship
companies intimate that they will
endeavor to kill the bill in the House,
in some manner not named, but there
are reasons for the belief that they
also are making a bluff, to prevent
action on the bill for one years
suspension OF immigration, and that
they are willing to accept the bill as
it passed the Senate.
The Indians that enlisted in the
army are dissatisfied with the life Of
a soldier, or at least Is Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians who are
members Of Troop L. 5. U. S. Cavalry
are. They have united in letter to
Indian Commissioner Morgan
asking him to use his influence to get
them discharged from the army.
They gave as a reason their being tired
Of army life and wishing to work their
farms. The letter has been referred
to the Secretary of War, who has it
under consideration.
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HATS IN MENT,
rhe Etiquette of Head Covering in the
House of ComSionS.

rhe Etiquette of Head Covering in the
House of Comstons.
Nowhere is the unvVritten law of
fashion in regard to head-covering
more strict than at Westminster The
chimney-pot is de riguer. A man may
give his fancy considerable play in the
matter of clothes, bat the great hat
ordinance must be observed The only
concession made is in the case of the
messengers of the opposition whips,
who wear the plebcian billycocIz. But
this Is not because the mc1 themselves
prefer the more humble headgear.
They are compelled to wear it presum-
ably as o b dye of the fallen condition
of their employers, and when the gov
ernment changes hands the messengers
of the two parties will, metaphorically
speaking, change hats.
70 the hater of the tall hat the
worst OF this is that he may not even
enjoy the luxury of going about with.
out hat. Parliamentary custom has
ordained that the whips of the respsc-
tive parties shall be the only people,
save the uniformed servants of the
house, who shall appear in the lobby
or anywhere within the precincts of
the house witSout u hat. Should you
chance to offend against this rule you
are soon made aware of your delin-
quency by the frowns of the great
ones in authority, who Insist on the
covered head with as much emphasis
as the custodian of the Mohammedan
mosque insists on the removal of the
shoes.
The hat therefore, plays a great
part in parliamentary life. and on that
account the headgear of the new mem
bers is very critically inspected by
their brother Legislators who have had
previous experience in parliamentary
life. On the whole the baddiug tates-
man seems to have pretty accurate
notion of what the necessities of the
situation demand, AMI the hats are
en- regle. Even MIR. Dababhar Maori
oil, the Parsee member for Finsbury
wore the orthodox t'stove- pipe"
though in doing 50 be broke one of
the most stringent sumptuary rites of
his race, and placed himself IN danger
of accommodation. There were
however. some notable exceptions to
the general rule Mr. Burns, for ex-
ample figured in the democratic billy
cock, a9d Mr.. Davitt in tourists hat
of soft felt, while Mr.. Keir Hardie
sported a marvellous arrangement in
the shape of tiny tweed cap, such as
railway travellers affect
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Mort gage Foreclosure Sale.

Default having been made in the pay
ment of Twenty-six Dollars and Forty
Cents, (26 .40) which is due at this date
upon a Mortgage, executed and delivered
by Lizzie F. Williams and Albert Il. Viii
liams her husband, to A. F. Kelley, bear
ing date the sixth day Of December, 1887,
and duly recorded in the Office OF the Reg
lister of Deeds in and for the county Of
Stevens and state Of Minnesota, on the 18th
day Of December, 1887, at 2 O'Clock, D. H.,
in Book II, of Mortgages, on page az.
And whereas on the date hereof the said
Mortgage paid the sum OF ~. IL taxes on the
land covered by said Mortgage, he nov here
claims and includes the same and interest
from date, as part Of the Mortgage debt
in addition to the amount herein first
mentioned, as authorized III and by the
terms of said Mortgage, and no action or
proceeding having been Instituted, Ut law
or otherwise, to recover the debt secured
by said Mortgage, or any p2rt thereof:
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given
that by virtue of the power Of sale cen
tanned in said Mortgage, and pursuant to
statute the said Mortgage will be fOrecloSed
by sale of the premises described iii and
conveyed by said Mortgage, viz:
The northwest quarter (nw4} Of the
southeast quarter (seh( and lots numbered
eighteen, 49, in township number Que
hundred and twenty-six, u26) north, Of
range forty-one, az containing 10000
acres, in Stevens county aud state of Min
nesota, with the Embellishments and appur-
tenances; which sale viii be made by the
Sheriff of said Stevens co lntv. at the front
door of the Court House, in the Village Of
Morris in said county an etat3 on the 10th
day of January 1893, at 10 O'Clock, a. m,
"a, pun.ic vendue, to tue highest bidder for
cash, 10 Pcs sa de 1t, taxes, interest and
Twenty-Five DuAats Attorneys fees, as
stipulated in and by said Mortgage in case
of foreclosure, ana the disbursements al
lowed by law; subject to redemption at
any time within one year from the day of
sale.
Dated De-. 7, A. D. 1892
4. F. KELLEY,
S. A. FLAHERTY, Mortgagee
Attorney for Mortgage.
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a Race of N7arIike Dwarfs.

The inhabitants of the Andaman
Is ands arc the smallest IA g of
known human beings: that is. taken
as an average. The heightof full
grown Andanandi seldom ex eed az
feet and few weigh over IS pounds.
They arc said to be matvelonsly swift
on foot, as vel as being possessed
with extraordinary powers of en-
durance. The few travellers who
Occasionally visit the islands avoid
contact with the dwarfs as far as
possible, partially on account of their
extreme filthiness, but principally on
account of their warlike dispositions
and their hardness with poisoned
a1at.s.rs
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LITERARY NOTE.

According to the provisions of the
international Copyright Law, which
went into effect July l, 1891, any
country may, by complying with
certain easy conditions, receive the
benefits of the law. The German
Empire has just become one of the
group Of nations enjoying the inter
national copyright system, the other
ones being the United States, Great
Britain, France, Belgium and Switzer-
land. Tho first copyright in this
country of a German work has just
been BIT lined by Robert Bonner's
Sons. The work is noVal entitled
"Miss Mischief" is by the most
popular German novelist Of the day,
Heimburg, and will run serially in
fhe New York Ledger.
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LAW FOR PROTECTION,

A community that depends on law
for protection should insist on hav-
ing the kind Of law that will protect;
therefore we demand prohibition of
the liquor traffic as the most imper-
alive need of society. Political action
to secure the prohibition of this
monster curse is inevitable; as we now
have liberty to make law, we must
secure prohibition through law, and
this can only be done through the
united action of the people crystallized
into a political party.-From "a
Monster of Vice and Misery" in
Demorest's Family Magazine for
February.
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BRIGHT FEATHERS



Make Guinea Hen Fall In Love with q
Peacock.
A strange attachment of guinea
hen for a peacock at Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco, has been frequently
noticed by park visitors.
Several months ago few guinea
hens were placed in the peacock in
closure to lend variety to the scene,
and quiet little guinea hen has fallen
in love with the stately manners of
one of the brilliant plumaged birds.
Equally as strange to relate, the pea
cock possesses as deep an affection
for the neutrality-suspicious. guinea hen.
The story of the wooing of the
strangely assorted fowl is not
known, but it is certain that one
day the hen deserted the others
of her kind and ever after was
close associate of the pea
cock, accompanying him wherever he
went, always by his side, whether he
was strutting over the lawn or admir-
ing himself in the looking glass pro-
vided for those vain birds. Both or
cupy the same roost and are insepara-
BILE companions,
Frequently the peahens become so
jealous of the smaller fowl that they
chase her about the inelosure AMI are
seemingly anxious to peck her to
death, and it is likely they would do
so, being so much larger in size, but
always at such times the male pea
fowl goes to the defense of his especial
admirer and drives her assailants
away. AS far as the other guinea fowls
are concerned, they pretend not to no.
tice that one of their number has de-
serted them. 49,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-01-19

An exchange gives the following
advice: "Patronize home merchants.
IL you want to raise money for any
public affair, who subscribe5 the mon
ey? Do the peddlers and itinerant
statesmen who are here for few days
and away, taking the money that
ought topay bills at our home stores?
We think not. The man who patron
ICES the business men of his own
town is the one who is building up
his own place. Think of these things
when tempted to purchase Of travelling
sa!esmen or send away from home
for your things
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TOWN CLERKS.
Address.
Hancock.
CHrRCH DIRECTORY.

CATu0IdC:-Rey. George Gaskell, Pas
Tor. Mass every Sunday at spy a !5d
1850, O'Clock, a. m. sunday School at z:SO
p. m. Vesper at 800 p, N;
ArFTHODIST:-ReY. c. \. CreSsy Pas
for services every Sunday at 1890 a; IN.
and 7:S0 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursdays
at 1880 p. m.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. H.. N;
Herrick Pastor. Services every sunday at
1880 a. m. and $50 p. m. Prayer meeting
Thursdays at $50 p. M
NORWEGIAz< EFANGELISTIC LU-
TfIERAN:-Rey. P Win II 10 d IaSSGF'
- m andat times designated by Pastor.
Residence: Block 3 Morris, Addition.
GERMAN METHODIST:-Rez, VIM;
c. Achterkirch Pastor Services the ot f t5e
Episcopal church at 1870 a. n.
CONFERENCE.-THE. 0. DAZZLE, Pas
tor. Services every Wednesday at 1880
o'clock. p. N.
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Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes,
10Th, President of the U. S., died at
his home in Fremont, o., at IL
O'Clock on Tuesday p. M, January II,
1898. He took sick on Saturday
while leaving Cleveland for his home
He died from a paralyzed heart, in the
list year Of his life.
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G. K. Davis was elected to cucceed
himself in the United States Senate
yesterday, with not one vote to spare
although the republicans had twenty
four majority on joint bollot. This
is disgraceful to republican legis-
lation for he was the personality that
made republican legislation possible.
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Order for hearing Proof of VIII.

Order for hearing Proof Of VIII.
STATE OF MINNFSOTA-CoUN OF
STEyENs-ss. In Probate Court.
General term, June z, 1850. %
In the matter Of the estate of Erik Peder-
son Drovdall, deceased,
Whereas, an instrument in writing, pur-
porting to be the last viii and testament of
Erik Peterson DrOTdall, deceased, late of
said county, has been delivered to this
Court:
And Whereas, Randi Drovdall has fled
Herewith her petition, representing among
other things that said Erik Peterson DroV-
dali died in said county, on the Goth day of
May 1890, testate, and that said petitioner
is the sole ExecutTiX named in said last
will and testament, and praying that the
SAID instrument may be admitted to pro-
bate, and that letters teStamentary be to
her issued thereon;
1t is Ordered, That the proofs of said
instrument, and SAID petition, be heard be-
fore this Court, at the Probate Office in
said county, on the 9Th day of February, A.
ID. 1893, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when
all persons interested may appear for, or
contest the probate of said instrument;
And it is further Ordered, That notice of
to all persons interested, by publishing
this order once in each week, for three sue
cessiYe weeks prior to said day of hearing,
in The SUN, a. weekly newspaper printed
and published at Morris, in said county.
Dated at Morris, Mimi, the Sd day of
January, A. d. 1888
by the Court,
GEO. E. DARLING,
TsEAL.l at4 Judge of Probate.
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Selecting ,Eir,har.

In selecting strong timber weight
nas very little consideration Oaly a
man with experience can Gull the good
from the bad timber with almost in
fa!lible judgment, and probably with
out the ability to tell why he makes
his selection. Color has little to 10
with it weight something, timber
seE8e more.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-01-19

The democratic party can do the
country no greater service and itself
no greater act Of kindness than to
take steps which will lead to the
election Of the president by a direct
vote of the people. Added to this
also should be provision that the
tenure of office should be six wears
and that after one term man should
beineligible to the same. Tneoriginal
idea Of the electoral college was all
right, but that idea was purely an
idea and never in actual force. Its
sole mission on earth seems to have
been to thwart the Will Of the people.
This as democratic form of govern
ment shall be by the people. Under
our present system the people have
virtually no voice in the selection of
their chief magistrate and it is not in
frequently true that the minority rule
the majority. This is contrary to the
spirit of the constitution and all the
sacred principles upon which the
nation rests. Let the people say
themselves who shall serve tAem.--St.
Peter Herald.
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Mt. LEBANON R. A. CHAPTER, No:
a.. meets first and third Wednesdays of
each month. y. 7. HANSON, NJ L -
JAS. l.. PEARCE, Secretary.
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A number of persons have died re-
Gently in Paris from the severity OF
the weather.
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Morris Conclave, No. 5515, meets the last
Tuesday evening of each month, or any
other evening to amuse forlorn candidate,
in the WOrknen's hall. Visiting knights
cordially invited. j. p. GILLIsPIE, N. II.
j Z. DANtELSON, Q. D.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-01-19

Mr.. Blaine holds on to life with
wonderful tenacity.
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40. u. W. Norris Lodge, No. So, meets
each Tuesday eve hing at their hall
J. E. DANIELSON, NJ. W.
Also Select Knights meet at the same hall
first and third Fridays Of each month.
), E4IILlsPIE, COm'd.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-01-19

A.'M-G0lden Sheaf Lodge:
No. 1873, meets first and third Saturday OF
each month. WM. c. BICKNELL, W. VI.
II. WHITELEY, Secretary.
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DIVISION No. /, A. o. II. meet at Work
mans Hall, first Sunday Of every month.
S. A. FLAHERTY, Pres.
P. F. CHURCH, Sec.
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S. of V. Albert Scheffer Camp, No. SO,
meets second and fourth Thursdays OF each
month. E.P. FOWLER, Capt.
FRANK WARE, First Lieut..
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1. O. G. T. meet every Wednesday
evening at Odd Fellows hall.
E. F. HILL, c. T.
REBECA CoLYER, Sec'y.