The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-10

A0ylcS COnlS OAA ouu poIu6p0 m0E-
curry; Cebu, coal, oil, gas, gold,
lead, silver and iron; Mindanas,
coal, gold, copper and platinum,
and the Sulu Archipelago procuc-
es pearls. The coal produced ON
the islands is not as good as Penn
sylvania or Welsh coal, but will,
in the opinion of Prof. Becker,
answer every purpose as fuel for
local consumption, if properly
handled.
Spanish diplomacy made an I'M
successful attempt to trick Secre-
tary Hay into committing this
government into accepting sover-
eighty over Cuba, the object being
to place Spain in q position to
hold the United States responsible
for the Spanish bonds which it is
pleased to call the "Cuban debt"
the contention of Spain being that
responsibility for the debt will
pass with the sovereignty. For the
purpose of trying to entrap Secre-
tary Hay,the Spanish Minister for
Foreign affairs addressed a COM
municatlon to the State depart
ment, the first since the depart
ure of the Spanish Minister from
Washington, and forwarded it
through the French embassy. Sec
rotary Hay is somewhat of dip
lomat himself. He answered the
communication by informing the
government of SPAN that the ans
wer to its question or request
would in due time some from the
Peace Commission, at Paris.
The medical department of the
army is making extraordinary ef-
forts to ascertain the cause of 90
much typhoid fever in the army.
Maj. Edward Q: Shakespeare.
brigade surgeon =. s: Y, Who is
considered an expert, has been or
dered to Camp Meade, where he
will continue bis investigation of
typhoid fever. It is said that he
has made some important discov-
cries concerning the causes of ty-
phoid fever, which will be valu-
able, not only to the army but to
the medical profession at large,
and which will in due time be
made pah|ie,
Do You Attend Chprcn and Sunday
SCHOOL,
The above question will be asked
every person in this County On Tues
day, Nov. 18th, For q number OF
weeks we have been publishing items
concerning the "Keligious census. v
1t ls now nearly time for this work
to be done. The district chairmen
STILL need more visitors for the sue.
cessful carrying out of the plans in.
augurated. It is hoped that every
one who can assist in this work,
either in country Or city, will cor
respond with one of the six chaiFmen
VIM. Kerr, Rushmore: Mrs. N. !.
Vail, Fulda: VIM. WiSham, Adrian
$, 3. Bedford, Rashmore: Will Love
less, Worthington.
Each visitor will he given dia-
gram Of about six or seven sections
Of a township, and a ESQ explicit in.
structiQns as to whaf to %. They
are expected to begin work on Their
territory at eight O'Clock on the da,
Of the ';;Canvass
The purpose. as before stated, Is to
extend Il cordial invitation to attend
church and Sunday school to all who
are not attending anywhere, and
further to take simple record o
each home, that will enable tn,
church of their preference to :ntelli
gently follow up the work. The
blank to be usek for gathering this
information is as follows: Name O
family, residence. nationality, Occu
patton, number In family, numbe1
church attendance, number atten6
Sunday school, church preference
member of what local church. Thes,
are not all the questions. but enough
are given to give you an idea OF wha
the nature of the work is.
1t is hoped that every home VISITED
will give the information as accurat
ely as possible. As soon as all tlI
blanks are in, they will be properly
sorted and distributed to the variou
DENOMINATIONS. both Catholic ant
Protestant Churches. The commit
tee sincerely desires that every church
will organ ize' IT'S forces for systemat
ically looking after the familie,
which express q preference for" tibet,
church. Unless this is done, in,ic., 1,
the help which this work viii bring
to each denomination will be lost
If you find that there are isolated
antilles Of your denomination, in
various parts Of the county, the com
mittee ask, II it is Impossible to visi
them, that the churches Of Their
CHOICE ct least write them q letter.
As soon after the Census" is taker
and the report can be tabuIated 7,
will appear III the various county
papers.