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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Feed Grinding.

Feed Grinding.
Am now prepared to grind feed
and shell corn at all times at the
same place and price as last winter.
21-3. OLE SWANSON.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19

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buying of anyone else, as I can sell
you a.
Better Piano for the
MoneyseSs%se
han anyone else in the state 7:.nos
on sale and can be examined al
Schwartz Shoe Store, Opposite
Court House.
S. M.CHENEY.
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Warmer west portion to-
night and north portion
Friday.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27

press Dowager. That attack was ordered
and made with the avowed purpose of
butchering our Minister and all persons
under his protection. Mr.. Mckinley, fully
advised of this, is willing to make peace
with the perpetrators of the outrage, and,
as parting shot at his allies in the cause
Of civilization and humanity, uses his in
fluence, and what of American prestige
survives his past record, to force them into
also ignoring the crimes of the she dew.
TIE Hsi, and recognizing her as the iegiI-
mate ruler of the Empire.
As he has withdrawn from the game. ano
demolished the honor and dignity OF HIS
country in so doing, President Mckinley Is
distinctly not in the running any more,
and will not be considered in the future.
The civilized powers of Europe will attend
to the subsequent proceedings without ref
erence to him, and will settle the Chinese
question in their own time and way. His,
friend. the Dowager Empress, in all prob,
ability, viii fare about as her royal sister
the cannibal did. Mr. Mckinley will have
all the greater leisure to devote to the
scheme to keep Hanna, his OWE Empress
Dowager. on the throne of the United
States, and to see that the hund / wives
of the Sultan of Sulu are paid their PEN
sions from the imperial Treasury at WASH
ington with regularity and without deduc-
fions
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
o:overpor Goeber. murderer.

The actual murderer of the late Gov
ernor Goebel. of Kentucky, mountain
bandit named James Howard, was yester-
day convicted at Frankfort. the jury fix
irs death as the penalty for the crime
Thus another of the misereants who plor-
ted one of the foulest political assassina-
items of the country has been brought to
justice
It is worthy IF note that Howard. the
man who fred the fatal shot, although
richly deserving to die for his crime, is, in
fact, no more guilty than the chiefs OF
the conspiracy who hired him to commit
il One of them. it is charged, promised
TO pardon him for. it Immediately the re
-i-ovaI' of Governor Goebel had been ac-
complished. and also to pardon him for the
previous murder of a man named Baker. in
Clay County. in the course OF a local feud
of long standing
The probability that Howard, IL he would,
could tasten their guilt upon the men who
instigated the crime and paid for it, raises
tho question whether his would not be a
case in which executive clemsncy might
well be used. in the event of the appre-
hension, conviction and execution of his
employers. One OF them has gone to the
penitentiary for life Others, alleged to
be equally guilty, are either yet to be
tried. or arc fugitiyes from justice. ur-
der protection Of Republican Governor
who openly violates and defies the Con-
stitution of the United States In refusing
to deliver them to the State whose laws
they are charged with breaking
II is possible that the trial of Youtsey.
which IS about to begin at Georgetown.
may show that the Commonwealth has suf-
icfent evidence to convict the remaining
assassination conspirators. without refer
ence to any additional light that the con-
demned murderer Howard could throw on
the affair II so. all friends of good gov
eminent and American civilization will be
glad. always remembering that Howard
was but the ignorant tool Of Intelligent
and leading politicians. 1t would be better
TO commute his sentence. if that were
necessary. in order to land his equally
bloodstained co-eonspirators on the scat
fold.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
Circulation Statement.
Our DipIonnacy.

In the short space of three years and
half the Mckinley Administration has
made American diplomacy supremacy ri
diculous throughout the world Spain,
England, Turkey, Russia, and Germany
have each been allowed to expose the
bumptious ignorance of our State Depart
ment, and now it is China's turn.
1t was said of the ponderous Cleveland
that he was his own Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr. Mckinley is his own Secre-
tary of State Acting in that capacity he has
made use, of various underlings ranging
from John Sherman to Mr.. Alva Aber-
crombie Adee. but the great directing brain
has never been concealed. 1t was Mr.. Nc
Kinley himself who sent Judge Day TO ask
Senior DuDuy de LONE if he really and
trilY meant what he had written about
him. 1t ~;=7 Nr Mckinley who tore the
hands of the reluctant Woodford from the
handle bar of a Brooklyn perambulator
and expressed him to Madrid on the eve
Of war, to have it out with Sagasta 1t
was Mr.. Mckinley who summoned the au-
thor of Little Breechas" to draw up the
-Pauncefote Treaty, and it was dis
tinctly the President in person who first
threatened and then compounded with the
Sultan. and made England a free gift
OF a portion of Alaska. The recent negotia-
tons with ChiHa and the European powers
on her account are all his own. From the
moment of the entree of the allies into
Pekin until the despatch of his answer to
the German note he has directed the diplo-
matte conversation and led the applause.
The common law of England and Ameri-
ca Mr.. Mckinley is known to have studied
in early youth. knowledge of the inter
national law which governs the relations of
nations and regulates their diplomatic in
tercourse came to him unsought. but ii was
not permitted II get away. Il is much to be
doubted if there is a statesman in Europe
or in Samoa who has the same grasp upon
this ahstruse subject as the Hon William
Mckinley. tweniy-fourth President of the
United States.
But this erudition comes high for Ameri-
ca. Just now we are the laughing stock
OF three continents. and the spirits of the
dead sit in the clouds and mock US.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
The sitnatinn-

Reports from the Middle West are of
the most encouraging nature to the sup
porters of Bryan and Stevenson. Mr.
Hanna is forced to admit that Indiana is
very doubtful" So is Illinois. Michi-
gan is by no means as safe as could be
wished by Nj. McKiniey's political mana
gers. and even Wisconsin is demanding
attention"
In New York the Democracy is more
thoroughly united than it has been for a
dozen years, if We are to accept the state
ments of representative leaders there
Richard Croker pledges a hundred thou
sand majority fer the ticket in Greater
New York, and if he is able with the aid
of Tammany to make good this pledge
there is no reason why the thirty-six cleo
torai votes of the Empire State should
not be given to Bryan The circumstance
that four years ago Mckinley carried New
York by a plurality Of two hundred and
sixty-eigbt thousand is not an insuperable
barrier TO Democratic success there this
year. The voters of that State are more
chsngeable than the voters of any other
part of the country. and it is quite as
probable that big majority can be re-
yersed as that small one may be.
1t is fact OF vast significance that
Democratic voters gave Mr.. Mckinley his
enormous majority in 1896. and Democrats
can take away as well as give.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
- HsI and LiIIuok.,ianl.

In doing what he can to secure the
Empress Dowager TIE Hsi upon the
throne Of China, Mr.. Mckinley is merely
repeating the attempt of Grover Cleve-
land in 1898, to restore the savage Kanaka
Liliuokalani to power in the Hawaiian ISL
ands, after she had been deposed by her
civilized subjects.
Mr.. Cleveland found that his course
was arousing sentiment in the country,
that might force his impeachment. and
he desisted. Hawaii was allowed the gov
ernment its people had won. and remained
an Independent Republic until it became
part OF the United States. The first ef-
fort of any American President to vio-
lentiy replace discarded Queen on her
former throne ended in ridicule and dis
grace for its author We do not see any
reason fer thinking that Mr.. McKinley's
good Offices in behalf OF TIE Hsi will be
any more successful.
The President sent troops into China,
not only to rescue our legation people.
but, as he frankly announced, to assist in
the restoration Of order and to safeguard
American interests, and the lives and
property Of American citizens. Our sol
diers under chafee have done well and
have contributed in preliminary way TO
the common objects of the allied inya-
sion. But, before anything definite has
been accomplished; before China has Of
fered the slightest guarantee of respect
for our treaty rights. or of protection to
our citizens. Mr.. Mckinley makes the only
use OF the oIren door he is ever likely to,
aud scuttles out of China.
Not content with doing that, and there
by embarrassing the powers at Pelin. he
signalizes his fight by proposing to ne
getiate for pssce with the very persons
who VIGOROUSLY are responsible for the
horrible torture and massacre of the
American men, women, and children at
Paoting-fu and shsn-si and for the crime
against international law. and the deadly
affront 10 the United States, involved in
the attaek upon the American Legation by
the Chinese army under Prince Tuan. and
General Yung Lu, by order OF the En-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
Home Industries for Women.

There is a new industry in Maine, and
it bids fair TO be profitable 1t is the
drawn rug business. Most people who
have been in the remote regions of New
England and the Middle States are ia
miliar with the drawn rug. As generally
evolved from the uncultred brain of the
housewife, IL is a thing OF horro- Com
posed of rags cut into bits and wovt to-
gether- in some mysterious fashion, IL re-
produces. after fashion, the flowers of
the garden and the vegetables of the farm.
The colors are blended in way which
suggests delirium tremens. and the whole
rug fights with everything else in the
room. Nevertheless. that rug is durable
That is one of its vicious qualities.
1t occurred to a visitor in the rural
regions of New England to see what could
be done with this industry. He was an
artist. and he thought IT possible TO divert
into truly artistic channels the untutored
zeal OF the farm wife. So he made some
suggestions about colors and patterns. and
found. to his delight, that the Yankee
housewives fnt ers. once started f.. the
right direction, could produce a rug which
was a thing of beauty and jos for
ever. and which, when exhibited before
the Society of American Artists in New
York. gained enthusiastic praise. The rug
Industry is now definitely established in
that town.
1t is recognized fact that the average
woman likes fancy work. She is fond of
busying her fingers about something. it
does not so much matter what The touch
of bright silks and woods is Joy TO her,
and 1t has been cause OF sad reflection to
the thoughtful onlooker that woman can
take silks and worsteds and canvas. beau
tiful in themselves. and produce srch hor-
rible combinations of them. There are
some women who viii take a piece of
satin, exquisite in color, and perfectly
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
OVERTHROW BY CASTRO.
Ex-President Andrade, of Venezuela.
in New York City.

NEW YORK, Sept 26.-Gen. Ignacio
Andrade. who was deposed from The Presf-
dency of Venezuela a little more than
year ago by the revolution of Gen. Cipri-
ano Castro, arrived here last Wednesday
incognito on a tramp vessel from San
Juan. Porto Rico. He was seen in Central
Park on Sunday. His presence here ami
that Of Gen. Nicolas Roiando, one Of his
trusted supporters, have given rise to the
report that there is a conspiracy On foot
TO start revolution against President
Castro.
When Castro overthrow Andrade after
an exciting revolution, the latter left
Caracas for San Juan. threatening to re-
gain the Presidency. He is reputed to be
worth S2.0G0.000, and could stand the cost
of revolution. General Rolan6o ccine
here three weeks ago from Trinidad, we'll
known as a hotbed of Venezuelan reyolu-
tion. General Rolando served under
Audrade as Governor Of the State CT
Guyana He resigned when General
Castro came into power. $3.50
At the Hotel america today General
Rolando admitted that he is not 2 frien1
OF President Castro. He denied. however.
that he is here to organize a revolution.
General Rolando also said that he vas
not aware of the presence hare Of Gsrsral
Andrade.
Il shall stay here three months" said
General Roiando, ''and then go to Italy.
I am making arrangements to 30 into
business in Venezuela. For the present
am out of politics."
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
The Right to Use Highways.

In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, YES
terday. a number of miners who were
walking in the public highway we're halt
ed by the sheriff and posse and ordered
to their homes. Some of them, relying
upon their supposed right as American
citizens, to move peaceably from place
to place, refused to obey the order. They
were dubbed over the head with revol-
vers and three of them were handouffed
and carried to jail, charged with cen
spiracy.
To people who live in States where the
trusts have not achieved the complete
control that they have in Pennsylvania
this will appeal as a rather high handed
proceeding But it is on all fours WITH
the order issued by General Goblin. that
miners shall not hold private meetings
for any purpose. If their lodges. or
unions. or what not, have business TO
transact. it must be transacted publicly,
and pursuant to permission first had
from military headquarters.
The troops may parade the whole re-
gion. intimidating and coercing, and The
trust mining and railway superintendent
and other officials may hold their
daily secret meetings uEdisturbed. But
the strikers must stay in their cabins
and must not meet without giving the
trust an open opportunity to know what
they say or do. or propose. People still
declare and wish to think that this is
free country. AS far as the mining re-
gfons of Pennsylvania are concerned, it
is nothing Of the sort. There it is
country ruled with Pinkerton Winches-
tiers and militia bayonets and Calling
guns by the Coal Trust
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27

suited to the covering of pillow, and
paint thereon picture in oils. after which
the satin is neither beautiful nor useful.
as satin or cushion cover, or anything
else. Why should not this misdirected
energy be transferred to the manufacture
of beautiful things? True, the average
women is not an artist, but she can be
taught to do beautiful work, all the same.
ii she is given a beautiful pattern, and
materials of the proper color, she may
have no more taste than a kangaroo, but
she cannot help making an artistic thing.
If some industry or industries could be
established in America. corresponding
to the lace-making of the peasant wcmen
OF France, or the embroidery done in
European countries, 1t might do much
toward developing good taste among the
masses of the people The average Ameri-
can is not slow to assimilate new ideas
His wife and daughterare still less slow to
understand them. The spectacle of a
family but one remove from llliteracy.
capable of approaching the most exqui-
site specimens of the potter's art, the
finest paintings, the grandest music, is
not at all uncommon in this country. 1t
does not take long for the American to
become cultivated. That is due to his
general adaptability.
There are thousands of girls and wo-
men, born in country districts, who are
focking to the cities, not because they
enjoy city life, but because their homes
are dull and monotonous, and they can
not make them otherwise. If they could
in some way earn money enough to buy
books and pictures, take journeys, and
make their homes beautiful, they would
prefer country life to the close. crowded
existence of factory operative or clerk
i'll some dry goods emporium. But the
only thing they can find to do at home is
farm work, which is dull, hard, and wear
ing to nerves and muscles. One reason
WY the women of former generations
were contented on farms was that needle
work afforded them an occupation which
was interesting and profitable, and they
rad society among themselves with which
it did not interfere The wives of West
ern farmers become insane as much
through the loneliness of their lot as an5-
thing else woman can take her sewing
and go TO a neighbours with it, or any
where else out of the house; she has TO
do dairy work and cooking alone. Lone
linz. SIS is trying to the human constitution.
Some industry such as rug making. en-
broidery. lace making or knitting. if it
coGl1 be made profitable, would draw the
wsmen CT the rural districts together. and
enable item to earn small sums of money
which would supplement the farmers in
come and enable him to hire help for the
rougher farm work, which women are now
often obliged to do. 1t would be profita-
Bile both to the manufacturers and the
customers, and might easily assume the
of a national industry. In one
town in New Hampshire alone. three hun
bred rugs were made during the last two
years, and sold at good prices TO city
dwellers; and the town was very small
one at that.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
An Easy-Going Coucera.
CFrom the Boston Globc.)

NFIuIH IIIV bVsIUH bIVOVsJ
There is such thing Industrial Com
mission. though it has not been much in the
public eye" 1t held a meeting the other day
in Washington, not in Hszleton, Pa: turned
out one man as secretary and put another in his
place. and listened 10 a gentleman OF Rochester.
y. Y, who is interested in the glass industry.
One would think that a real Industrial Com
mission under Government auspices would have
been prompt to observe and note the great coal
strike now in progress in Pennsylvania as being
the most important labor issue now claiming
attention.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
Protecting n Murdcress.
lFrom the chicago chronicIe.l

(From the Chicago Chronicle)
The fact appears to be that the Administration
in Washington is bent on treating with the Chi
nese Government, the head of which, barring
shams and false pretences, VIGOROUSLY is the
Empress Dowager. 1t is bent on treating with
this woman. who according TO those who are best
informed. including Minister Congcr, is the chief
offender.
1t is interesting TO observe that the Russian
Government seems bent on the same thing Mr..
Mckinley seems to be at one with the Gar in
unfolding the Government Of Il woman whose
hands reek with American blood. He seems de.
termined 10 Join the Gar in demanding at the
hands Of this woman a re enactment Of the ghast-
" farce Of executing a lot OF helpless subordi.
nates while the great criminal goes scot free. and
calling that satisfaction.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
Republican Losses.


The probability OF Republican losses in the pres
cnt campaign is evidently greatly increased by the
fact that the evils Of protection" trusts, and
impsalism are most fragrant in the States from
which the Republicans have hitherto got their
largest majorites Strikes and other manifesto
tions OF discomfort found almost exclusively in
the Republican States The evils OF the Mckinley
regime will, Of course, be mos resented in the
States where these evils most evident, which
means that the Republican losses in the Eastern
and Northern States mnst be large.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
school work at Boston.
(From the Boston Globe.l

lfFom the boston Olooe.l
Hodge podge examining methods in public
schools have come to be severely criticised
that some parents in disgust have taken their
the brain-racking ordsals found in the schools and
placed them in kindergartens or under private
tutorship. The kindergarten system is found to
work so admirably that it is being proposed to
apply the system TO older scholars. Farm schools
are also being introduced quite successfully in
various localities. and il the evils of nAladuca
tion" IRE not abated there will sooner OF later ~
an entire revision In educational Ways and means.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
MORE WORK FOR LESS MONEY.
Dady's Contract for Havana Munich
pal Work Reduced.

HAVANA, Sept. 2e.-General Wood and
Michael Dady had a conference today
regarding the latter's contract for city i'm
provements. The matter of prices was
discussed. These will be much more mod
crate than they were originally. Under
the new arrangements probably 40 per
cent more work will be done for two thirds
the original estimate.
The Marti Theatre here. large, airy
building is to be fitted up for the meeting
of the constitutional convention. Lately
the theatre has been used principally for
public dances and political meetings.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27

The Republican managers are beginning
to claim that the anthracite coal strike Ia
exerting no effect upon politics. On the
other hand. unprejudiced observers, espe-
cialIy in the West. are freely asserting
that it has furnished an object lesson of
trust oppression and bayonet rule, and is
impressing the voting masses greatly.
Within a few weeks the public may be
able to decide who is right.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27

Every Doubtfui.'-It may or it NAV
not be insignificant that Mr. Hannais
chief organ in New York published a story
yesterday. purporting to be inspired.
which quoted officials at Republican ma
tional headquarters in the metropolis as
declaring Indiana TO be very doubtful. :"
with Michigan almost in the same cate
CORY and Illinois not far behind. The
story went on to relate that careful and
expert Republican campaigners had made
reports to headquarters during the past
few days which warrant the classification
given to the three States named Always
keeping well in mind the fact that Mr.
Hanna does not permit important secrets
of his campaign to get out yet 1t seems
quite probable that the truth has been
spoken about Indiana, Michigan, and I'LL
nois. II is possible. of course, that Mr..
Hanna has spread this report abroad with
the view OF stirring the rank and file from
their apathy and also with the view of
shaking down" certain large interests
which have profited OFF of the Mckinley
administration. and which have not yet
responded in a sufficiently liberal manner
TO the financial requirements that are
pressing hard upon Mr.. McKinleys poll
teal managers. In either event, how
ever. Democrats are able to see nothing
but encouragement in the report II har-
monies so perfectly with reports on the
same subject which they have gathered
that they are inclined to credit the Re-
publican manag gers and their New York
organ with telling the truth at least once.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-27
The TariH the C,,sc.

tFrom the Peoria Herald-Transcript)
No man, Democrat or Republican. doubts that
the tariff bill is the foundation upon which all
trnsts nd combinations built. SKATER the
foundation and the whole corrupt fabric will
come down. This is the logical and only remedy
for the evil, but shis is the remedy that the
Republican party viii be induced to Try. al
though the Republican party processes deter
mination TO control the evil system.