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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
News IN Brief,

There were 400 homes erected in
Minneapolis during 1897, at an average
cost of $1,000.
Joseph Krinzer, sentenced to prison,
while on his way to the depot in Min
neapolis, attempted suicide by throw
ing himself in front of street car He
was rescued.
James Ferguson, Hennepin county
prisoner serving reformatory SEN
tence, died at the prison of consump-
ton.
80 Funds are being raised for monu-
ment to the late Rev. C. C. Salter at
Duluth.
Joseph Koenig, of Mankato, COM
mitted suicide by taking strychnine.
Judge Lochran has granted an order
restraining the sheriff of St. Louis
county from interfering in the trans
fer of the Duluth water works to the
city.
Nora E. Wooley has been commits
stoned postmaster at Champlin.
M. Graham's department store at
East Grand Forks was destroyed by
fire.
George NJ. Gilmore, one of the old.
est residents of Faribault, was found
dead in bed, having been suffocated by
coal gas escaping from the furnace.
Harry Allen, living near Cokato, cell
ebrated Christmas by pounding his
wife, and was fined $25 or 80 days in
Jail.
Henry Derks, indicted for assault up.
on a 10-year-old girl, was found guilty
at Marshall of attempted assault and
sentenced to term of 10 months.
President Mckinley has pardoned
Junot D. Buxton, of Minneapolis, a
former banker, who was sentenced to
Saltwater in September, 1896, for three
and one-half years for en- bezzling gov
eminent money while acting as cashier
of the postofice.
A contract for 800 feet of the new
dam in the Mississippi below the pres
ent Pillsbury dam at Minneapolis has
been let. There will be 1880 feet of
the dam when completed and it is ex-
pected to develop 5000 or 1900 horse
power.
The University of Minnesota has
been left out of the intercollegiate
base ball league.
Peter Mertz, known: as ':Itasca Pete, y
was discovered on pile of burning
wood by the stove in his. house at Park
Rapids by near neighbors. The door
was locked into. It was found that
Mertz shot himself in the. abdomen
with an old army musket, which made
a CHASTITY wound. <: .,--
A. new depot has just been built at
Russell BY the Great Northern, cost
ing about $1,000. A school house has
also just been built in that town at a
cost of 1000. = g. t. y y .-.za ,s~% i,
A man named Thomas. 7e years old,
committed suicide at Owatonna by
shooting himself.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Grimness and HumOr.

The supposition that humor has an
exceptional utility for men of sensi-
tive and intellectual cast is supported
by fact. It has been noted that the feel
ing is a common endowment of the re-
Elective, brooding mind, and that it fire.
quently appears as a relieving feature
in somber temperament. 1t is notice.
able, too, that humor often appears as
reaction from narrow and oppressive
religious creed. Puritan humor, of
which Mr.. Sturgeon was an excellent
example, seems to me to illustrate this,
breath-taking or back-straightening
function under an oppressive load. A
good deal of American humor is the
lineal descendant of this Puritan vari-
EDUCATIONAL Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Comparative Success in Life.

"Ever hear of John Billingsboy?
Great student at college. Worked hard.
Graduated at the head of his class.
Finest Latin scholar the institution
ever turned out. Well, he's professor
in the college, now, and getting along
splendidly. Has a salary of $1,000 a
year."
"Ncver heard of him before. What of
him?"
Nothing, only he's brother of that
famous little horse jockey, Billingsboy,
who weighs only SO pounds and makes
a hundred dollars day." - Chicago
Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
NJ NNNF.S0TA STATE NEWS
A Good Showing.

On Jan. l, 1898, the two years will
have expired which constituted the
term of the agreement made by F. Il.
Peavey with the newsboys OF Mime
apolis. It will be remembered that
Mr.. Peavey offered to duplicate the
savings of seventy-five newsboys to the
extent of $14severy three months for
one year, and to guarantee interest On
the deposits for two years, the sums
deposited not to be drawn out in that
time. The plan proved very popular.
The seventy-five newsboys started in
briskly and were further stimulated
by an offer of the Minneapolis Journal
to add to Mr.. Peavey's gift by an adj
ditional dollar. Mr.. Peavey's desire to
encourage in the boys habit of saw
ing has borne good fruit. Of the sew
enty-five boys who accepted his offer
two years ago, sixty-eight are still
fulfilling the conditions of the agree
ment. Under the agreement the seven
boys who dropped out forfeited the
sums advanced by Mr.. Peavey. but
they were at liberty to take their own
rn0nou
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
MANUFACTURES OF SOAP.
The Processes Employed IN Great
Modern Establishments.
Gauls and Teatons the FIRST 70 Use
~ saPonaceon.. subst ances --5isnt 4,
: .. Now America .Prdtiuces
-" the Finest soaps. i.
Especial Boston letter.

Especial Boston Letter.l
Soap and civilization, the celebrated
Dr.. Justuc= Won Liebig once remarked,
go hand in hand; quantity of soap
consumed by a people being directly
proportional to their intellectual and
moral advancement.
This is not complimentary to the an
cient civilizations Of Rome and Greece,
nor to the classic period of good Queen
Bess in England In fact, it is not ,un-
til the time Of DR.. Liebig, at the begin
ming of the nineteenth century, that
the manufacture of soap became great
industry.
The Greeks washed themselves in
running water, and if the dirt was very
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
A sign OF POWER,
The Gavcl In the Hand of the NINE
teenth Century Woman.

teenth Century Woman.
1t was a gavel. 1t was very natural
that it should have been gavel. At
one time it would have been thought
that a sword or plowshare would have
been as appropriate a possession for
Il woman as a .gavel. But the times
have changed. The generation to come
may look back upon the present gen.
eration-the women of this generation
and picture them standing in char
acteristic attitudes, each with gavel
in her hand. The woman with the
gavel may form the. theme of song and
story as the housewife with the dis
taft and the mother with her foot on
the cradle have in the generations
which have quite gone.
So when there is woman whom
some one delights to honor gavel
is given her. 1t is not a new idea. It
was in use in the reign of magnificence
and King Ahasuerus. The king gave
the Insignia Of power to the man whom
he delighted to honor. The gavel is
one of the insignia of power. Every
member of a Observation-Disclosures
ed woman's club knows how her feel
ings have responded with delight, an
noyance or interest to the tap of the
expressive little instrument in the hand
of her superior officer. a gentle-toned
g;tvel has caused the awakening of
feelings as fierce as those which ragged
in the bosoms of the sires of the coun-
try and animated the souls of revolu-
tiorary danes in the country's fighting
days. But that is subject aside.
This is a long story of the gavel-
general and the gave[particular has
nothing to do with it, though it adorns
the tale, if it does not point a moral.
1t illustrates it also, for the gavel-in-
particular figured at a meeting last
week Of that body Of the gentiest wom-
en-, the Women's Christian Temperance
union. 1t was at a meeting of the
"Cn;on on the Hill'' in Brooklyn, and
Miss L. w. Greenwood, president of
the union, an officer of the Worlds and
National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union, was to be honored. The
meeting in general had nothing to do
with this, though it was an important
one. The gavel was an individual gift
from Miss Isabel Shirley, one of the
stanchest members of the white rib
bon army and mistress of parlia-
mentary law. Miss Shirley is an init
mate friend of the family of the late
Gen. Neal Dow and her summers are
spent in the Pine Tree state. So it
was from there that the gavel came,
from Bethel, Me-, and it's peculiar as
ISOLATION was with Lucy Larcom.
1t was made from a silver birch tree
cut for the purpose from the hillside
where the gentlest and sweetest of
poets and women, in many summers
spent in Bethel. dreamed and rested,
and wrote of soft breezes and noun
tains and rivers. Then. to make the
association complete, the gavel was
turned at the chair factory of the
town.
So, redo'cnt with country breezes,
poetry and rural life-the softer side
1T came to be dispenser of law in
big city. That is a gavel. 1t is new
weapon in the hands of woman; it
makes a good text for a sermon, for
vt embodies all the contradictory ele-
nents of the life of women of the pres
ent day.-N. Y. Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Reading Character.

Dribbler-In my opinion, man who
writes an illegible hand does it because
he thinks people are willing to puzzle
over it. In other words he is chunk of
conceit.
Scribbler-Not always. Sometimes
man writes illegibly, not because he is
conceited, but because he is modest.
Modest! What about?''
about his spelling."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Was Determined to Die.

New York, Jan. 3.-Mrs. Julia Lewis
committed suicide at her home in Green
Point, l.. l., Saturday. First she stabbed
herself in the breast with penknife,
then cut her throat with razor and
ended by jumping from a thirdstory
window. She had been mentally un-
balanced for some time. She was 80
years old and had three children.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Just Like Bachelor.

sob, Clarence exclaimed Mrs. Nc
Bride as her brother entered the house,
"baby's cut tooth!" szss
':Why -do you let her play with
knives?'' asked the bachelor brot her.
Boston Traveller. s.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Proof of Intellectual

els she an intellectual girl?" said
Spokes to his friend Whitfet, who had
been raving about his fancee.
''Intellectual?" replied Whiffet. II
should say she was. She pronounces
ceramics as though the word were
spelled with a k'."'-Louisville Courier
Journal. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Classified.

"The man who doesn't get vexed at a
bad dinner is no man at all"
''Of course not; he is an angel."-
cago Record. 9g...-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Progress of French Expedition.

Paris, Jan. IA dispatch from
Cairo announces that French eXpedi-
ton has occupied Fashoda, on the Nile.
The report among the natives to the ef-
feet that the French are descending
the Nile explains the expectation pre-
,yailing in military circles and the re-
sumption of British operations toward
Omdurman. 5.>..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06

Had INC Dead "0Od On Them.
There was none who could plan them a
scaffold they knew
But the man they were going to "string,"
For he was competent carpenter who
Could properly fashion the thing
And so in the midst of their troublesome
task
They asked him to pilot them through it.
But he just shook his head and he winked
as he said:
ooh, no, I'll be hanged if I'll do it,"
Il. A. w. Bulletin.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
EiXhf Drowned.

London, Jan. 3.-The Norwegian bark
Undine, Capt. Hansen. from Tyne for
Table bay, was abandoned at sea. Part
of the crew have arrived at Nazareth,
Portugal. Eight were drowned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Similar But Different.

Clare-There is something poetical
about all marriages. z
@Tom-What is it?
Clare-The license. Chicago News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06

Called to the Iowa Cnfversfty.
Richmond, Ind, Jan.~l.-Prof. W. p.
Reeves, Of this, city, has accepted call
to the chair of English at the Iowa state
university. He Will enter upon his
duties at the opening of the next term.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Whose Fault9

Still, he's generous to a fault"
Pleads the kind, indulgent tone.
Comes the grudging answer: Eyes,
II the fault = his own &;
/. Judge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Poultry Exhibition.

In the rooms of the st. Paul Com
merci al club, members of the State
Poultry association and other interest
ed persons met and completed ar
engagements for the annual show of the
association, which will be held in St.
Paul Feb. Z to II inclusive.
Five silver cups, valued at $50, will
be competed for, and in addition to
this. cash prizes aggregating over 81, 900
will be given. To assure the payment
of the prizes, the Commercial club,
chamber of commerce, and the job
bers' union will jointly subscribe 5000
as a guarantee fund. Special prizes
will also be donated by business men
of the city.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06

Good Deeds.
AS result of the generosity of L..
Elsinger & Company, of the Golden
Rule Department store, over $50 pres
ents were distributed to friendless
little children, the inmates of several
orphans homes in st. Paul. A large
tally-ho with Seibert's band and gen.
uine Santa Claus, and loaded down
with presents, made the rounds of the
charitable institutions, and gladdened
the hearts of many of the little souls
who otherwise would probably have
spent an uneventful Christmas.
Three Tons of Twine Daily.
The state prison binder Irvine fac
tory is now turning out 5000 pounds of
Irvine per day. On a ten-hour run the
factory has a capacity of 5000 pounds
of pure MANILA and $4,000 pounds of
sisal. A great deal of raw material
has been purchased and the factory
will remain in steady operation. Many
orders for Irvine for next seasons de-
livery have already been booked.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06
Ripe Old Age.

Bazille Suprenet, aged 100 years,
died at st. Gabriel's convent, in Little
Falls. He was Canadian Frenchman
and was born near Montreal IN March,
178s. He was hale and hearty until
three days before his death, and often
expressed the belief that he would live
20 years longer. He said that his father
lived to be 90 years of age and his
mother 81. He had no relatives living
that he knew anything about. His
only son was carpenter and went to
New York in 1s41, and he has not
heard from him since.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-06

Midnight Scare
The steel tower and tank of the
Marshall water works collapsed one
night and the entire structure, 10 feet
b ign, fell in one heap. The collapse
was due. no doubt, to the formation of
ice from water trickling through a
hole caused by the tank being pierced
by rifle ball. Three people. sleeping
close by. narrowly escaped, the head
of one being bruised by falling ice.
The crash was attended by consider
able noise, and many people awoke,
thinking an explosion had occurred.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05
Hoar on Expansion.

One of the most calm and sensible
of republican conservative utterances
on the doctrine of expansion is that
of Senator HOar in a speech at Wor-
cester, Mass. Said he: 1T is said
that Porto Rico is already ours. 1t
may be that Porto Rico is to become
ours. But there is no authority I'M
der the constitution of the United
States to acquire any foreign territory
save by treaty approved by 4 two
thirds vote, or by an act of legisla-
ton, in which the president, the
house of representatives and the SEN
ate must unite. 1t is said the Phil
ippine islands are already ours by
right of conquest. For one L deny
this alleged right of conquest. HUI
man beings-men, women and chill
dren, peoples-are not to be won as
spoils of war or prizes in battle. 1t
may be that such doctrine finds a
place in the ancient and barbarous
laws of war. but it has no place in
the code of morals of the people of the
United States. l have stated else
where the conditions which, in my
judgment, warranted the acquisition
of Hawaii. Hawaii came to us with
the consent of the crown government,
the only government capable of main
tanning itself there for any considera-
able length of time. In the case of the
Philippines, we are asked to subject
a nation and hold it in subsection.
We get them by conquest and hold
them by force. In the case of the
Hawaiian islands we get them by
compact made with their lawful gov
eminent. Some of our good friends
have said thoughtlessly in their zeal
that where the American flag goes it
must stay. But surely they cannot
wish to commit the country, to that
doctrine. We planted it on the City
of Mexico. But no man demanded
that it should stay there. If the war
goes on we shall plant it on the coast
of Spain, but we have no desire to
hold permanent dominion there.
If the Philippine islands become
ours, then under the late decision of
the supreme court every child there
after born in them becomes an Ameri-
can citizen. free to come, free to 90
Are YOU going to hold them as sub
jects? Are you going to have a
trained and governing class? Are
YOU gong 10 nave the naIlonal tax
gatherer the most frequent and
the best known visitant to every
American house? Are you going to
increase many fold YOUR national
debt?
These things are involved in this
wild and imprisoned cry for empire.
For myself l disbelieve and hate
the notion that the American people
are to submit to such transforma-
ton"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05
irving to Tunco UncIe Sam.

The latest from the inner chamber
of the Temple of Mammon and Gam
MON, the New York World says, is
that
l. We are to keep SPain's Philip
pine gold brick.
?. We are to pay Spain 100000
900 indemnity for the destruction OF
her fleet at Manila by Rear Admiral
George Dewey.
Destiny then, is a "hifalutin'
name for bunco.
Not one cent of indemnity to Spain,
Mr.. Mckinley!
Not one cent of the peoples tax
money must be paid over to Spanish
bondholders, do YOU hear?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05

Gov. JOHN RILEY TANNERS fine
hand is seen by democrats in an art
full scheme that has been extensively
employed by state Office holders to
win votes for Tanners candidate for
treasurer, Whittemore. The plan is
chiefly valuable and effective because
it IS simple. 1t consists of heads of
state institutions writing letters to
democrats in distant counties re-
uuesting them to hold them in
readiness to accept an appointment
on the staff of the particular institu-
ton from which the missive is writ
ten. The democrat who receives II is
urged not to disclose even to his clos
est friend the good fortune that has
befallen them, because, II he did so,
the effect would be to cause flood OF
applications TO pour in upon the
writer of the letter. a democratic
leader from down the state came into
possession of one of the several thous-
and communications of this character,
which had been sent out of the Hi
nois state reformatOry at Pontiac by
General Superintendent George Tor
renee, and Yesterday took II to state
headquarters in Chicago. Secretary
Bentley quickly recognized its politi-
cal import and made inquiries which
convinced him that similar ones have
been written by Terrence and other
Tanner employees to many thousands
OF democratic voters. 1t shows how
desperate has become the state ma
chine. which. having despaired of
controlling the republican vote in the
state. is now turning its attention TO
sharp practices on the democratic
voters. But it won't WORK.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the city clerks office, Rock Island,
H.. until Monday, Nov. :, 1898, at j
o'clock p. m, for furnishing one
thousand Il, O0O) feet of standard hose
for the fire department of said city.
Payment to be made July l. 1899.
Bidders are required to furnish sam
pies of the hose they propose to fur
nish.
Rock Island, Ill, Oct. %, 1898.
A. ID. HUESING, CITY Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05

The old conservative Springfield
(Mass.) Republican rises to demand
the income tax if our millionaires are
going to turn this into a military gov
ernment Certainly the producing
classes are sorely oppressed now, with
out being loaded down with imperial
ism. The Republican says: IF the
Hannas and Elkinses and other syn
dictate promoters want to bring mill
tarism into the United States they
should at least be compelled to meet
the financial cost and, what is more,
we believe they will be so compelled.
Unless every spark of the spirit OF
liberty and justice has been snuffed
out of the masses of the people the
present system of indirect taxation
will be made to give way, as in Eng
land, partially at least, to income and
other direct federal taxes, to the end
that the wealth and influence which
is prompting this revolutionary de
parture shall-be made to pay for it, y
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05
SISTER PAYNE.

Now list We, gentle reader,
Whilst I q tale relate
Regarding things that much concern
A servant OF the state
It's of the politicians ways
That nowadays obtain
Then list ye 10 the brief remarks
Concerning Sister Payne
It's honors senatorial
This haplesS genius seeks:
say this that ye all may know
Whereof the story speaks
BY Zuma's frugal husDandmen
The virgin soil who till
This relic OF old Roman days
Is simply known as Bill
Now mark ye well, this citizen
OF bad cigar renOwn.
Is guileless in the country.
But he's foxy when in town
So when he hits the pavementS here,
And shakes his rubber boots.
He shakes the farmers interests. too,
And passes out cheroOts-
It. then he loves the fac tory hands,
He acts at their beheSt.
OF course he loves the farmer. too.
But he loves the Jownsman pest
Hes dead in love with every one,
II = business SO TO be-
He even loves the business man
And the lovely garnishee-
With 4 way that's quite convincing
He has kept the votes in line.
And with water on both shoulders
He has got there every time.
OF his rustic hypnotism
He has often laughed with glee,
But at last the pubiic's onto him.
as you viii shortly see.
He still insists his record
In the lower house was clean,
But that Sisters getting dizzy.
Is most plainly TO be seen.
Though stout of heart. and battling on.
His finish now he sees.
While his whiSkers gently rustic
In the chill November breeze.
His bad breaks down at Springfield
VIII be told on Us no more.
His NOISY jokes and poor cigars,
VIII be gone fOrevermore.
And on Tuesday Just at midnight.
In the pale moons cheerleSS glow.
They will find him sweetly sleeping.
Meath a mOnStrOuS drift of snow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-05

The democrats of the SD district
have given the people the good for
tune of the assurance of a capable
and creditable representative in the
lower house in the person of Hon. L.
w Hurst. Give him a cowOrker in
the senate who will likewise amount
to something Cast your vote for
Hon j. H. Mulligan, who has also
been tried in the halls of legislation
in Illinois, and has never been found
wanting.