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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26

Universal history of the great indus.
tries: First monopoly; then competition;
then more competition and ruinous cut.
ting Of rates; then consolidation and
putting up rates and keeping them up.
The Standard Oil trust, the Whisky
trust, the Sugar trust and few others
have reached the stage of consolidation.
The others are following rapidly in their
track. It is this course of events which
has led the Nationalist party to conclude
that all the great Industries should be
under public control for the general
good. The tendency in Europe is mark
edly in the same direction.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26

President Eugene Debs says that We
shall have civil war in this country it
regular army troops go to stopping strik-
ers in their work of destroying other peo-
pies property and committing violence
on unoffending persons. Mr.. Eugene
Debs is mistaken: We have civil war
already and have had it continuously
for several years past. But it was not
the soldiers of the regular army who
started it or who keep it up.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26

OF interest to this country CONNER
cially is news received by the bureau of
American republics to the effect that .
railroad has been completed in therepub-
lie Of Colombia which will connect the
port Of Cartagena, on the Caribbean sea-.
with Calamar, an inland town on the
Nagdalena river. A fertile country is
thus opened up to the commerce Of the
nations. .....
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26
undaunted By Defeet.

While female suffrage has carried the
day in New Zealand, it has experienced
defeat in South Australia, where the
adult suffrage bill, which embodied the
principle, was rejected in the popular
house on the third reading, but only BY
. narrow majority. The friends Of the
cause, however, are not at all discour-
aged and will return to the battle with
undauntedA spirits till victory crowne
their observation-disclosures LsttsI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26
City Government In Germany.

City Government In Germany.
II American municipal governments
were only half as carefully and efficient
~ administered as those Of Germany, we
in our free country could achieve splen-
did results. In The Century DR.. Albert
Shaw writes , paper on municipal con-
troll in German cities which ought to
bring lesson to American mayors and
councilmen. l.. 49,. ..4%Ss
Doubtless some have wondered how it
was that cholera got no foothold in Ger
many after the summer Of 1892. though
it has appeared on the borders each
year. The reason is to be found wholly
in improved sanitation. particularly as
to the water, supply. It was the pol
luted water of the Elbe drunk by sailors
and people along the river front at Ham
burg that spread the epidemic in 1892.
The largest and most complete filtration
plant in the world is now in operation in
Hamburg. It was not yet completed in
1902, or the cholera would not have ragged
so. A year ago it was opened. ~''.
The water of the Elbe when first let
into the fltering basins was found to
contain millions of cholera germs to the
cubic inch. The water came out of the
splendid fltering machinery as pure as
if lit had been brought from high AL
pine sources" Beyond doubt the fl
tered water prevented the return of chol-
era in 1898. Germs Of typhoid fever,
consumption and deadly epidemic dis
eases of various kinds are found in the
unfltered water supply of nearly all large
cities. When the world is civilized, the
water supply of every city will be filtered
as that of Hamburg is now, so that the
poorest tenement house lodger shall
drink no other. -.
.Berlin's streets are not only swept, but
scrubbed, under a system that costs less
than half a million year. The sewerage
system of that great city is famous. Sew
age is pumped from the main drains ont
into the country upon city farms, Of
which there are at present more than 30
square miles. Before the city bought
these tracts of land they were poor, sandy,
proftless areas. Now they are fine fruit
and vegetable gardens that will even
tually be a source Of great municipa!
profit.
Two-thirds of the German cities own
and operate their. gasworks with advan-
tage to both the municipality and the
people.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26

Fortunate it was that the beautiful
White City at Chicago is so we'll repre-
sented by photographs. They are strewn
like leaves all over the world. Nothing
but pure devilishness could prompt any
creature to set fire to the buildings that
remained to show the glory of the worlds
greatest exposition. There was nothing
to gain by setting them on fire, nothing
for anybody. It could not be revenge
that led to the wanton outrage, for there
was nothing to be revenged. If the in
cendiary had been q lunatic, it might
account for the fire, but that is not
likely.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26
MINT MARKS.

They Represent tho Plsce Of Coinage OF
tho Die-Maker's Nsme.
Tho "mint marks on our silver coin
age are so well known that almost any
school child can tell you where piece
was coined. The ''s'' means that It ID
from the San Francisco mint; "cc''
that It was made 1T Carson City, and
10" that it was the work of the New
Orleans money-makers.
Besides the above you will find some
very small letters occasionally, espe-
cially on the standard dollar, tho Co.
lumbar coins, and the 1898 design in
the quarters and half-dollar pieces. On
the standard dollar the letter is .
microscopic I'm" on the left loop of the
ribbon which binds the wreath sur
rounding the eagle. Another I'm" Of
larger dimensions may also be found
on the same coin at the lower edge Of
the hair. These miniature letters are
private marks Of Mason, the man who
made the dies.
On the Columbian coin we find .
elear-cut 3D." the initial Of Barber, tho
die-sinker. .zcs..sr-' . 81. =. $50. ~. '
Reference on tho subject informs US
that it was formerly q capital ohense
for . European die-sinker to mark his
coins, but from the enormous size Of
the initials now used by most trades
men of that craft across the water We
should judge that the law was obso-
Elete. ,.f o.. .-,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26
EXTRAORDINARY VITALITY.
The Longevity Of TdAds and Frogs Said t.
X BE Surprisin4. -

x0O 1OR&0v1Cy OK AOBOo 00O GEOXD S0AO u
= Be Surprising. So =,
The persistence Of life in frogs is
very long. Spallanzani preserved
some frogs in q mass Of snow for two
years. They became dry, stiff and
almost friable, but gradual heat
brought them back to life. Vulpian
observed return of life in frogs and
'salamanders that had been poisoned
with surate and nicotine. In both
cases the animals Ia question had been
Tor several days In the condition OF
cadavers. loads have been shut up in
blocks Of plaster, and then, having
been deprived Of all air except what
may penetrate through the material,
and Of all sources Of food, resuscitated
several years ,afterward. The question
presents one Of the most curious prob
lems that biological science has been
called on to explain. The longevity
and vital resistance of toads are sur
,prisinR. Besides the experiments we
have cited, nature sometimes presents
some already made, and vastly more
astonishing. Toads are said to have
been found IN rocks. Such cases are
rare, but it would be as unreasonable
to doubt them as to believe in some OF
the miraculous explanations that have
been made of the matter. The phe-
nomenon IL marvellous, it is true, but
It 10 supported by evidence that we are
not able to contest; and skepticism,
which 10 incompatible with science,
will have to disappear if rigorous oh,
Iseryation shall confirm it.
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Ray Hu111iStOI1.
North and South.

- North ana south.
At meeting Of northern and south
ern business men in New York, Secreta
~ Hoke Smith told the company that
the south had $50, 900, 900 acres of land.
most Of which was tillable, and only
one-fifth of which was under cultiva-
ton. That fifth supplies the Union with
its cotton and nearly all the sugar grown
in this country, not to speak of oranges,
melons and other fruit. Hoke Smith de-
clared that one-third of the agricultural
yield Of the entire country came from
the one-ffth of the south that is under
cultivation. Land can be bought at
from IS to $40 an acre, good land. The
yield per acre is twice as large in the
south as in the north, he said. As to
the mineral resources of the south, they
had not yet been SO much as touched,
and they were unexcelled anywhere.
The secretary declared in the most SOL
emn manner that northern mems inter-
ests would be. protected if they went
south to build homes. Southern people
would guarantee it.
At the same meeting plan and scope
committee was appointed to devise ways
and means to bring northern capital and
immigration to the agriculture and mines
of the south. Some of the best known,
r,oet so1;d mon IF both aectiona are serv.
ing on the committee. uas.s r 4Eas.-..5s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26

The New York Sun says that the
stages Of a labor organization on the
Debs plan are the following: II. Treas
ury is full. &. Strike. 8. Treasury emp
t.. 4. Collapse Of strike. s.. Collapse OF
the organisation. 9. Disappearance OF
the leader" How does the Last stage i'm
press Mr.. Debs?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26
A Bread Reform.

An Englishman, Mr.. Herbert William
Hart, says the world is languishing and
dying for a universal bread reform. II
it was reform that would put bread
into the hundred thousand hungry mouths
in the country today, it would be to some
purpose. But that is not what Mr.. Hart
means. He says that improper diet-in
brief, white bread, 1.-The sophisticated
and adulterated white. spongy starch, &C
called bread, of the present generatiou"-
il the cause Of all evil. :'. =. ID. w.
IF we want sin and sickness alike te
disappear, we must 20 back to the whole
wheat bread which the apostles ate and
which enabled them to do their work.
The Romans and the beautiful Greeks
used whole wheat bread and no other.
So did Shakespeare, Mr.. Hart says.
Likewise so did the poets, philosophers.
sages and heroes of all time. How Mr..
Hart knows that this was so perhaps it
would be impolite to inquire.
Hart declares that the present hard
times in America are due to eating white
bread. Brains and bodies insuficiently
nourished are incapable of thinking or
working properly. Therefore we could
not stand up and stave off the hard
times. The children are becoming pinch
ed, skinny and weak Of mind and body,
and an inferior type is rapidly being pro-
duced. Grown people are becoming
skinny, weak, homely and pinched look
ing too. As an illustration Hart men
tons the bad little legs Of Boston, New
York and Philadelphia people.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26

Those of our readers whose income 10
1900 year or over may prepare to
hand out 3 per cent Of It - income tai
q soon % the new national law tales
G&ect. s9&
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-26
THE
SUPERIOR Medicine.

ing, and life enjoyable. 1t searches
out all impurities in the system and
expels them harmlessly by the natu-
raj channels. AYERS Sarsaparilla
gives elasticity to the step, and i'm
parts to the aged and infrm, re-
newed health, strength, and vitality.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

FEssENER. the inventor OF tho stool pro-
cess which bears his name. has malO slO,-
OO0, 900 out of the invention.
GovERNoR ALrGELD. oi Illinois, Il said to
be afflicted with disease ~ tho spine, AMI
1t is not expected that no will live his term
out.
Mrs. AGSEs IRwIS is to become tho dean
OF RadcltfT College. as the Harvard annex IA
now called. Mrs. Irwin Is about sixty years
OLD.
ONLY thrrc OF tho Uaitcd states senators
ara OF foreign birth. Walsh was born in
ireland Pas,o in In gland and Mcmillan in
Canada.
LoRn RosEBERY's dairy farm in Duckinc-
hamshire England. comprises 400 acres, on
which he keeps 100 dairy cows, 500 cattlo
and 1909 sheep.
AT the royal Wedding in CoburC, Queen
Victoria spoke nothing but German, no mat
ter what tho nationality OF tho person sho
WAS talking TO was.
SENATOR JONES OF Arka sns, ia tho night
inglle OF Congress. Hr - a mnmhcr OF u
church choir and his ba>a solos are tho feat
urs OF the services.
KINd HuNRERr OF Italy, will soon under
so an operation for cancer ot the throat. IL
Is said that his ease IL similar TO that OF III"
lat" Emperor Frederick, Of Germany.
b. I. HUrCHINsoN, "Oid HUTCH who IA
of Trade. lost - 90, 900 In spcculattonS dur
inc the past five years His son is million
airs banker.
EMPERoR WILLIAM is honorary co'ou"l-tn-
chief Of twrnty-SoyHu regiments belonging
to various countries Of Europe lIn has 10
have a complete and distinct uniform Quilt
for every regiment.
WHEN Governor Noltheu, OF Georgia, rN-
tires from the cNccutivo chair he will hnromo
Chancellor OF tho University ot Georgia. H."
Is by profession teacher. and j. recognized
~ an educator OF marked AGILITY.
FREDERICK MACMoSNIEs, tho designer OF
the famous four tam At tho Worlds Fair, has
taken contract for 500 900 TO cary" two
groups for tho soldiers monument at IN
dianapous. He has four years 10 finish them.
SIR PArRICK SULLIVAN, Of Shehoyrau.
Mich, who was kught"i hy TIA" kn, ui
sweden for writing book OH "Iurnip' us
4 Universal Article 90 nlot,' has Just taken
out patent tor bicycle mndo from cora
Eusk pulp.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
One of Herrmann's Great Tricks.

People have repeatedly asked me
which of my tricks have pleased me
the most and which [ take most delight
in performing. Naturally the effort that
brings the greatest success is regarded
by man his best.
I consider the trick of restoring the
shattered mirror as my most famous
one. This had the honor of perform
ing before the Czar of Russia upon an
invitation to give an exhibition at his
court.
It was done unexpectedly to the spec
tators, aud was not down on the regu-
lar bill. While playing billiards with
the attaches of the court after the
performance, the Czar being pres
ent in the saloon, I shot a ball
with all my strength against plate
glass mirror extending from floor to
ceiling.
It was shivered into fifty pieces.
CONSERVATION was depicted on every
countenance; and none more plainly
than my own.
While the Czar courteous1y waived
my apology, considering the destruc-
ton of the mirror as trifiing, and order
cu Iue SduAe ~ ploCSSIa, L Cculu odoAly
see that my awkwardne5s made dis
agreeable impression.
With the Cars permission I exam
ined the mirror to estimate the damage
done and the possibility of repairing it.
While so engaged one Of the suite
playfully challenged me to exercise my
art and make the mirror whole again,
never dreaming that his challenge was
the very cue I wanted, and not con-
sidering the acceptance of it as pos
sible. [ hesitated al instant and then
ordered the mirror to be covered with
a cloth, entirely concealing it from
view.
On the removal of the Goth, after
ten minutes, the mirror was found with
out flaw, and as perfect as before the
damage! Twill leave it to my readers
imagination to decide how this trick
1onn
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
Rabb: Foot PhiloSOphy,

Some men are balloonists by pro-
fession; others by imitation.
Debt is the devil, and independence
is paradise.
would rather one woman trusted
me than that I should gain many
friends.
Life is O chance in the lottery of
death; your chance is sure, but whether
it is blank or not depends largely on
yourself.
When the snow fell he wished to
NOW my lawn; when the sunlight
made my grass grow, he was a snow
shoveler by profession; by genius, he
was a t. amp.
The first blue-bird is the one we
notice most.
The dandelions are the spun gold OF
spring time.
A hundred petty virtues are not
worth one genuine heart-touch.
Open defeat is better than under
handed victory TraUeler.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

RUSSIA has $50 paupers.
CHOLERA is -aglc in Russian PoianI
THE Guion Line has gone out OF business.
YALE won at the Intercollegiate athletic
games.
WAKEFIELD, Muss, celebrated its 25oth
birthday.
ENGLAND will act as mediator between
Brazil and Portugal.
MORE than 900, ,0)) bales of cotton have
already been marketed.
THE steerage rate from New York to Liv-
erpool has been reduced to Sl2 so.
ELEcrRocUrIaN is being agitatoi in Ponn-
sylvania as a substitute for hanging,
THERE are 1O7. .273 widows in Massachusetts
and about 1922 900 unmarried women.
THE manufactured pro luct Of Great Britain
amounts to about 54,100, 900 year.
SCARCITY Of silver coin AMI limited bank
discounts are causing distress IN Peru.
AMERICAN locomotives have been adopted
as the standard for japanese railroads..
MERCURY will be tho evening star during
June and Venus will be the morning star
The German Banking Association has de-
clared in favor OF the single gold standard.
CANADA is growing now because Aneri-
cans catch whales AMI porpois2s in Hu ison's
Bay.
ENGLAND has been askeC to agr9e to con-
ference with Germany over samoa, and will
probably accept
THE new Chicago museum i9 to be called
the Field-Coiumbian, 20 honor Marshall
Field, who gave it $l,OO),0o0.
THE Bank OF England mas begun to invest
its surplus cash AMI - expected TO throw
about $15, 900, 900 on the MARKET.
THERE are acc0rtinS to the latest regis
tration, 4,895,112 voters in En3lnnt and
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
KILLED THEIR CHILDREN,
Then Carl Seeger and His Wife Took
Their Own Lives.


Their Own Lives.
Carl Seeger, his wife and their four chill
dren were all found dead in their home at
Berlin. Germany.
Seeger was master painter, and at one
time was well-to-dO, but has been unable to
collect money due him for work and became
despondent. Mrs. Seeger was greatly cast
down by her husbands financial emDarrass
ment, and judging from the evidence in the
hands Of the police. the couple determined 10
kill their four children, nineteen, thirteen,
ten and seven years old, and then commit
suicide.
Procuring some cyanide of potassium the
parents placed the poison in the food of the
two older children. from the effects of which
they died in a short time, though the eldest
son apparently made a desperate struggle
before death relieved him Ofhis agony. The
other two children, one girl, were, for
some unexplained reason, hanged by their
parents.
After killing the children it is supposed
that Seeger gave some of the poison to his
wife, and Immediately after she swallowed
it placed rope about her neck and stranglei
her.
Then Seeger made preparations for killing
himself. Taking the rope with which he
had strangled his wife, he placed the end
with the moose around his neck, fastened tha
other end to door-knob, and, with the aid
of a chair, passed the middle Of the rope
over the top of the door. When he had
done this he kicked the chair from under
him and strangled.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
FIVE WATTS POISONED.
THEY ATE STAG ROOT AND
DIED IN GREAT AGONY.
Near Tarrytown, n. v, Struggled
for Possession of the Deadly
Growth - Ten of Them Survive
After Violent Commissions.

for Possession of the Deadly
Growth - Ten of Them Survive
After Violent Commissions.
BY the unfortunate eating of poisonous
root. which they thought was sweet flag
root, five little bows in the Roman Catholic
Sisters House of Mercy, about a mile back
of Tarrytown, N. Y. We're killed and half a
dozen more were made critically III.
The names OF the dead are Richard
Powers and John Donnelly, twelve years
old, and James Forrestal, John Callahan and
Thomas Pasmore, ten wears old.
These boys were in Il company of fifteen
or twenty who went out for play in the
fields. While watching some laborers dig
ring trench for draining purposes, young
Donnelly saw what he supposed was some
sweet flag root and told the other boys of it.
They all began eating of it and enjoyed
their feast. A couple of hours later all the
boys VINO had eaten Of the root were taken
i'll with violent pains about the heart. This
wholesale illness greatly alarmed the Sisters
in charge. and they sent in haste to the viii
age for all the doctors they could find.
The physicians saw at once that the boys
must have swallowed some kind of poison.
and antidotes were given without DELAY
Some of the boys were affected in much
yre ar degree than the others by the poison,
and the doctors devoted their greatest ener-
yies to saving these.
The boys. according to the physicians.
could not have swallowed the poison long
before the antidOtes were administered. One
OF the physicians, after examining the matter
Vomited by the boys, said that he thought
they must have eaten a vegetable known
Stag root The doctors remained at the
Home ali night, working to save the lives OF
the boys.
The five boys fatally poisoned died within
Il short time of each other. The other boys
were soon out of danger.
One of the lads said the finding of the
root was accidental. AS soon as the finder
tasted it he shout d. Here's something
fine, boys-haS roIr"
Then they all made n rush for it, and tho
fact that there was not sufficient to go around
is the only reason why all were not killed.
Those wro died ate greedily of it.
1t was not moro than hour after the
finding of the first root when the boys who
had eaten the most of the roots became very
simple remedies they could think of to re-
ieve the boys, but soon saw that it would be
necessary to send for the physicians.
Coroner Apgar, of Peekskil. was notified of
the death of the boys, and at once impanelied
jury in order to hold an inquest. H.
directed that IN autopsy be made upon the
body of each of the boys.
The autopsy showed that they died from
paralysis of the heart Powers, DonnelIy,
and Pasmore were orphans. The fathers OF
Callahan and Forrestal live in New York.
The Mother Superior directed that the boys
be buried at the expense of the institution.
One of the doctors who examined the root
thought it was species OF ''slag" root.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
MILLIONS SWEPT AWAY.
Many Lives Lost in the Fraser River
Flood.

Four million dollars will hardly cover the
loss by the Fraser River food in British
Columbia The waters continued rising,
and as the warm weather continues melt
ing the snow in the mountains there
was no immediate prospect of re-
lief. One prominent railway official
thinks the loss OF life will reacn
10O Bridges, trestles, tunnels anf
tracking along tee Canadian Pacific have
gone From Prevelstoke to the sea, $50
liles, the railway is new a watery waste.
Tho last point above Vancouver which can
now be reached is Ruby Greek, eighty
two miles distant. Thence all IS water.
Masqui Mission. Chilliwack, Hat.
zie and Langley Prairies, and
the towns of Harrison, Centrevllle,
Langley, Chilliwack and -ission are all
unier water, and not farm building is left
standing. Fully ten thousand cattle have
perished. Telegraph and r-ilroat services
are completely demoralizei.
One raft was found with tho b. lies OF a
man and woman and three children strapped
to it, and seven bodies were found floating
singly.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
A Strange Phenomenon.

Great excitement has been createI at New
man, H., over the appearance OF smoke
issuing from the ground on Thomas Shaw's
farm, three miles west OF the city. On ap-
preaching the spot where it seems TO come
forth no smoke Is TO be seen. Several noted
scientists have visite the spot and claim the
supposed smoke to be natural gas. There
is an area of about twenty acres from which
the smoke seems to ba issuing, AMI great
numbers Of people visit the place daily ant
wonder at the scene