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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
News In Brief.

An intoxicated man was arrested In
Minneapolis saloon who had $3.50,
all in $50 gold pieces, in his pocket.
The fourth-class postoffice at Steph-
ems will be raised to the third class,
commencing Oct. II. The postmaster's
salary will be $1,000 per year.
The executive committee Of the
Minnesota State Bankers Association
will meet in St. Paul some time dur
ing the state fair.
Chester R. Smith, St. Paul, is to be
the manager of the evening program
at the fair. Everybody in st. Paul
knows that this means success. Mr..
Smith has been q leader in all of St,
Pauls great festive occasions, and ia
quite at home managing and planning
brilliant spectacles like the evening
entertainments at the fair.
An opium joint at Duluth was
raided by the police and the alleged
proprietor, Alex Kennedy, and two in
mates, all colored, were arrested.
A laborer named Larry Kustlewski
was instantly killed by the caving in
of a sewer in which he was at work
in the western part of Winona.
A Norwegian hospital for St. Paul
il projected under the auspices of the
Norwegian Lutheran Seminary at
Hamline. Committees have been or
gAnizcd to ascertain if q sufficient sum
can be subscribed to erect q good.
large hospital in St. Paul.
The remains of Knute Knutson, q
man about 60 years Of age, were
found in q field near the Berlin post
office. .,. !, >:+s-
The steamer Eclipse, one of the best
raft boats on the upper Mississippi,
has sunk at q point some distance
down the river from Winona. 1t broke
from its mornings during storm and
floated upon some rocks. It now lays
in about four feet of water. Work OF
raising it has already been com
menced. .sr szs>> III '~~'' :~=.'-~-,.'. .---
Fire destroyed the general store,
building and contents belonging to s
N. Thompson, of Grey Eagle. It waa
insured for $1,000. The postofie wa
in the building. y E*s sv i
State Auditor Dunn has withdrawn
the states one-third Of the wolf boun.
ty, being S. for males and SIS for fe.
males. He says there are people in
the state who operate wolf farms on
account of the bonus and find it q
paying industry. z,5. .s. ,@.t.
The girl inmates Of the state train,
ing school are camping at Point Al
Sable. A girl named Annie Mooney
was drowned. lit. 5s5s:
While making leap down the steer
banks of the paddock TO escape from
dogs at .Minnehaha Park. an antelope
broke one of its forelegs. The lint
has been set and bound in splints. The
animal may not recover.
William Schaal, farmer living .,
Warwick, near Minneapolis, started 4
drive to the South Sc. Paul stocl
yards with = load of hogs Monday
Near Midway the team ran into livl
electric wire and both horses were IN
stantly killed.
Willie Gustafson, aged Il, VI,
drowned while bathing Is Ely Lake
His parents reside at Ely. S.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
A Duel with Raxors.

Donald Gray and Marcus Hutchin-
son, colored, armed with razors,
fought q bloody duel at St. Paul, and
the former may die from his injuries.
The men began quarreling over q
girl, and before any one was aware,
they were slashing each other fright
fully. The men fought until Gray
fell exhausted from the loss of blood.
He was taken to the hospital, while
Hutchinson was locked up. Gray il
horribly lacerated and cut about the
face and body, and it is believed that
he cannot live.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
Not Too Won Done

The foolish win never take simple rene.
dies Chicago Democrat, 7s77*s..s577Yg.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
Fine Appearance.

The fair grounds present an I'M
usually fine appearance this year. The
rains of July and August came at the
time when the grass is usually just
beginning to dry up in this vicinity,
and they have been so numerous and
frequent that the fair grounds look
like . part of the city park system.
The trees, too, are in fine foliage, and
have added another years growth
since they were examined by the pub
lie last. Secretary Randall has seen
to it that the walks and drives have
been kept in good order. ..'.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
MINNESO VA NEWS.
WluLose Their Votes

. ~ Ia AIO0O x0008 VOtOOs &@S5=1lEs
There are. many voters scattered
over the state, particularly in the cen
tral and northern part, who are DO.
moaning their fate because they can.
not assist in shaping the politics Oh
their individual districts.
They have fled claims on govern.
ment lands, many Of them curing the
past year, and are consequently
obliged to acknowledge their claims al
their residences, which deprives them
Of voting at the election next month.
The United States land offices at st,
Cloud. Marshall and Crookston have
recorded big increases in the numbe1
Of homesteads fled upon this year;
and at the rate government land ID
being taken up there will be little left
in . short time. . + >------ ~
There is no loss without some small
gain, however, and the homesteadera
realizc that their claims are increas.
ing in value according to the rapid
rate in which the north is being
opened up. Business is pushing to-
ward the northern boundary of the
state at q rate highly gratifying to
those who have claims.
Grades Established.
The Minnesota State Board Of Grain
and Warehouse Commissioners met
and agreed upon basis. Of grades fol
this year: The rules ut year were
mainly 1,Anavued h,ti Su6 ohorro.
were made. Last u WAS VA allowed
to mix with the MI one hard
wheat from the Red iSer Valley Eve
per cent of red winter wheat. This
resulted in loading>the He'd River Val.
ley wheat and virtually depressing its
price. This has been changed this
year by adopting the rule that any ad'
mixture of other wheat will cause il
to grade as mixed winter wheat.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28
THE ENGLISH SPARROW.

Two trees on a lot at the corner of Ce-
dar and Sixth streets seem to be head
quarters for a colony of English sparrows
for that neighborhood, and passersby
note the incessant chattering INDUCED in
morning and evening by the little pests.
1t is not the chatter of these birds-they
can't sing-that causes complaint but
with the regular increase in numbers
they take possession of every sheltered
spot under the caves and cornices of build
ings, and make nuisances of themselves
in many ways The question of exter-
minating them has passed beyond dis
cussion to action in several of the East
ern states. Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Illinois pay a bounty for their scalps,
Pennsylvania having already spent
near.y 100000 for that purpose in the last
two years. Illinois pays a bounty of 2
cents. One Chicago man this year has
killed over 10000, for which he received
the regular bounty.
The Practical Farmer, of Philadelphia,
not long ago asked it's readers: Should
the English sparrow be destroyed?" ALI
the replies except one declare that they
should be exterminated or destroyed, as
far as may be possible, and the favorable
one charges them with fouling and spoil
ing hay in the barn and driving away
the song birds. The charges of eating
small grain and the food put out for
the chickens, their failure to catch in
sects and their driving away or eating the
egg; of the native insect eating birds, as
song sparrows bluebirds, swallows, mar
tins, robins, bobo,inks and others, are
alluded to by nearly all, as also their
filthy habits around buildings. The
methods of destroying them advised are
batting and shooting in Inc fall, feeding
with poisoned grain In winter, catching
in traps. also best done in winter, and
destroying all nests and eggs during
spring and summer. To succeed in this
It will require concerted action on the
part of all the states, and the cordial and
ready hep of the citizens of citles, towns
and country.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28
NM. D00leY ON Fame
By F P DunnE coD,rsht 1900 By Roeer Howard Russell.

''Tis gr-reatrayciption they do be Civ
in Bryan down in New York state" said
Mr.. Hennessy
"A fine rayciption fr a dimmycrat in
New York state" said Mr.. Doo!ey, lis
that he's not dangerously wounded
Anything short iv death is regarded IS
frindly an interested rayciption, an a
mild kind iV death, like suffyca ton be
chloroform, wud be considered a ray
Spictful hearin'. All ye can say about
W1llum Jennings Bryan's rayciption is
that he got by Wall sthreet without bein'
stoned to death with nuggets firm tn
good reSarVe. -Annyhow, what ar-rc We
Ghraggtn' polfytics into this peaceful
abode FIR, Hinnissy? Isn't it bad enough
f'r ME to have to stand here all day- long
listenin' to strangers rayjoocin' tn
consdtootynal questions now before th'
people to personal insult without hayin'
me frinds maxim me nights miserable
with chatther about tn feetIn' problems
iy tn hour? TIL votes is as good as cast
an counted. Ayether tn counthry is
rooned or its rooned An it amt, amy
how. Ayether we ar-re delivered over
hand an foot to tn widdies an orphans
that've had thrust stocks sawed off on
thin be tn executors, or tn Cover mint
abandons policy iv brutal, crool, muir
dhrous CONQUEST iV tn cowrdly assass.ns
iv iii land iv etarnaf sunshine an
shadow. Two weeks fr m today we'll be
ayethef neglectin' to pay our debs in tn
standard money iv tn nations iv th'
earth. or in a debased an wretched
cieFage that no wan has iver get enough
iv. An what tn divvle diff renee does it
make, me boy? Th' mornin' afther iifc-
ton, tis Hinnissy to tn Stag pile an
Dooley to tn beer pump an Jawn D.
Rockefellar to tn lie can, an tn OF flag
f7naf ff1af o,II
an tn man in charge has got up in time
to hist it.
Foolish man. tn fun'rals don't stop
FIR ilictions. or TIL christenin's or tn
weddin's. Be. hiyins, 1 think tn likes iy
ye imagines this country is something
besides a hunk " land occupied be hu-
man beins. Ye think it sort iy an
autymobiIl that'll run down onIess We
charge it with ye'er partic'Iar kind iv
gas Don't ye expict, Hinnissy, that
amy throop iv angels will dhrop firm
hiven to chop yeer wood on th' morn
in iv the siventh iV Novimber if Bryan
Is ilicted, an don't ye lave JaWnny Nc
Kenna think that If Mack gifts in he'll
have to put a sthrip iv oil cloth on th'
dure sill to keep pluthycrats firm shov-
in threasury notes undher tn dure.
No. sir; used to think that was So
wanst, in tn days whin I pathronized a
lothry Now 1 know diff'rent
''Where'll they be a hundred years
firm now! Mckinley an Bryan, Debs
an Mark Hanna an Web Davis an
Croker an Bill Lorimer-where they
be? was r-readin' tn other day about
vote cast be a lot iv distinguished
gazabs through tn country FIR tn oc-
cypants iv a hall iv fame. A Hall iy
flames tn place where tn names iy th'
most famous men is painted, like tn
side iv BARN where little boy writes
tn name iv tn little girl he loves In a
week or two he goes back an rubs it
out But in this n1atther twas detar-
mined to lave out tn question to a lot
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28
TRANsFoRMING THE HUN.

The close of the anthracite coal strike
brings into view With some prominence
the Slav miner of Pennsylvania. The
younger generation knows but - little
about the Slav Or about the history of
his appearance i'll Pennsylvania It is
something like twenty years ago since
he made his appearance there brought
to the United States under contract .
take the place of the Irish, the Welsh or
the German miner, who was in a con-
stant chronic state of disagreement with
his employers.
The Slav in Pennsylvania is generally
spoken Of as the Hun. AS a matter of
fact he is either Pole, Hungarian, a
Lithuanian or an Austrian Czech. The
representatives of these several races did
not understand each others language,
and were much further divided in sympa-
thy and national ideals than those of the
several races whom they supplanted.
They came, ignorant, impoverished, with
nothing but their strong, coarse bodies
to recommend them to those who We're
responsible for their transportation TO
America. They bore the imprint OH
their faces and in their low mental and
even moral development of the Strong
governmental systems under which they
had lived. 1t was an inheritance with
them to respect and fear every expression
of public authority. They were born
slaves mostly, and the smallness of the
social and intellectual horizon which had
been theirs left them utterly untitled to
appreciate the conditions of life with
which they made acquaintance when
they reached the pit side. For years
they lived lives little more exalted than
that OF the beasts which worked with
them in the mines. Their employers did
not conceive themselves as having any
moral duty with reference to them. The
pictures that have been drawn of the
social conditions attending their existence.
have been revolving in the extreme; and.
making allowance for the natural antipa-
thy with which they We're regarded by
those whs did not understand them. and
who saw them saving much of the earn
! irgs which their predecessors had regard
| ed as utterly inadequate to maintain a
| decent human existence, those pictures
were not far wrong. They were worked
| for all they were worth. They accepted
| the terms and conditions offered to them
and those conditions made but little mora
account of them than of the animals who
We're depended on for hard physical toll
| These men and their offspring have de-
| veloped into something different from
and something more than what they were
when they first made their appearance
| In time many of them brought their
! women here, and their offspring have
grown up, native Americans mostly
They have been beset on every eide !}y
| hostile influence. The statutes OF Penn
| syIvania bear testimony to the p1osecul
/ ton which was aimed at them, bu,
| which failed in its main purposes
has not availed, for instance, to drive
the Slav out that the law declared thas
| 70 Elan who did not understand the Eng
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28

lish tongue. or did not understand the
meaning of gases or currents. could work
In the mines. He remained, just the
same, and all the requirements designed
to drive him out merely operated to edu-
cate him. He learned to do the things
he was told had to be done if he were
to be allowed to stay-and ne stayed. Tne
labor union chased him without avail He
kept on his stolid way, living his rough,
uncouth life, unclean and apparently in
capable of transformation; but he be
came in time none the less surely trans
formed. The deep underlying stratum
self; and the labor union, instead oe
chasing him from his new home decided
upon assimilating him. He has been
assimiliated. And it is one of the mar
vels of the power of adaptation which
American influence exercises that the de-
spised Hun is accepted today in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania as on a social
and intellectual level with those around
him Of other nationalities. He stood
with the union miners in the recent
strike, and made common cause with
those whom he was Brought to supplant
and who for an entire generation had
not a word to say of him that did not ex-
+, press Ioathing.
Here is wonderful lesson to every
student of American social and political
institutions. just as, the Irish and the
German and the swede had been pushed
and hustled in his time, so were these
people sought to be driven into the
ground. But the. grand spirit of social
and political freedom which underlies
American society has touched even the
so-called degraded Hun; and he stands
out today clear and well defined. as in
the process of time, a worthy a type as
any Of the American citizen
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28
aSUNDAY. Get. 28. 1900.
an UNDERLYING. CAUSE.

I For a long time to come China will
continue to represent the one subject
of prime world interest. 1t is only since
the taking of Pezin that anything like
a general knowledge has come to prevail
OF the tremendous Importance of the
part which China is to play in the
worlds affairs during the century just
about to dawn
The Anglo-American alliance just en-
tered into regarding China has created
much discussion as to its ultimate aim.
The English authorities have taken pains
TO expressly disavow any purpose an
fagonistic to any nation whatever in
China. The language of the agreement
as published admits of no other CON
struction than that such a purpose was
IN the minds of those who negotiated
the agreement. With such disavowal
as has been made it is not wholly unrea-
sonable to believe that such q concIu-
sion is unwarranted. In any event the
public journals of France and Russia.
alike do not hesitate to avow the con-
viction that the agreement is aimed di-
rectiy at Russian influence in China. and
especially in Manchuria
There is a disposition prevailing gen.
orally to believe that the purposes Of
Germany in China are belligerent. The
Language and attitude of the emperor
have given cGuntenance to such belief.
The same feeling is not so prevalent
concerning British purposes in the Ori-
ent; although the most recent utter
ances of the British Secretary for the
colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain, and of the
emperor of Germany, both go to sustain
the view that aggression is designed as
the ultimate policy of both nations in
dealing with the territorial rights of
China
Whether we accept this view or not
it is easy to understand that more
short-sighted policy could not prevail.
The entire history Of China since the
advent of Marco Polo in the Orient, 500
years ago, and more especially since Eu-
ropean diplomacy has been dealing with
the Oriental problem, say from 1910.
Thus far but one body of men has
shown anything like true understand
ing of the Chinese character, or has
been able TO win the Chinese mind to an
acceptance of Western standards of
thought or conduct. That body is the
Jesuits. Their policy in dealing with
Chinese officials and the Chinese people
alike has been grounded on the first re-
quirement of an understanding of the
native tongue Having familfarized
themselves with the language having
adopted the native style of costume, and
having studied deeply native history and
character, the Jesuit missionaries have
thought themselves qualified in some
measure to deal with. the Chinese with
some reasonable hope of fnflueAeing their
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28
SUNDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

This is prison Sunday, - when special
religious services are held in the various
penal institutions of Minnesota. and from
many of the pulpits ministers will de-
liver addresses bearing upon the sub
ject of punishment and reform.
In Protestant church memoranda to-
cay is the twentieth Sunday after Trinity
In the Catholic church it is the twenty
first day after Pentecost. The sun Is
due to rise this morning at 6:2S and set
this evening at B. The sun will be due on
the meridian today at liza a. m. Twi-
light begins today at 4:50 a. m. and ends
at 6:35 p. m. The first quarter of the
new moon begins next Wednesday. The
international Sunday school lesson to-
day is devoted to "The Prodigal Son.
Luke XIV, 11-24 The golden text is Il
will arise and go to my father" Luke
XIV, IS. The topic of the Christian En-
deavor society today is do Not Worry
Matthew vi, 25-S4 1t deals with the
question of oyer-anxiety concerning the
temporal wants of life. and warns US
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-28

iv sthrong la-ads an have thin vote on
it an on'y tn dead vans iligeabIe I
r-read tn list today, Hinnissy, an will
ye believe me or will ye not? Much as
| know / cudden't recall more thin half
IN names George Wash nton was ilict-
ed, of coorse, unanimously an without
contistin' obligation an proud he'll
be to larn lv it. Thin there was Ulyss
S. Grant an Thomas Jefferson an Rob-
ert E. Lee. [ knew all iv thin as
though we'd been raised in tn same lot
But near all tn others got by me.
wan man was famous because he
made SC cotton gin. though th' author ~
more common drinks was cut out An
ether man got by tn flag on tn ground
that he manufactured u clock A third
passed tn stand because he made a
dftchnary, which IS a book that tells ye
how nanny diff rent things tn same
Wurrud means They was potes / niver
Tread an statesmen 1 niver heerd iv, an
gin rails L niver knew fought an invin-
tors iv bluein, an discov'rers iv things
that had been discovered befure an
things that had to be undiscovered later
An tn list was as onfamilyar to me as
tn battin' ordher iv tn Worcester bail
team iv eighteen hundred an siventy-six.
'Bedad, says l. if this is fame I'll
dhraw cards mesilf. Some day whin tn
owner iv q new Hall iy Fame tells tn
janitor to climb up an whitewash over
tn names on tn wall an make out
new list, some wan may vote f'r tn
gr-reat soul that discovered how to
make both ends meet in tn yea nineteen
Eundhred.' That's a gr-reat invintion,
Hinnissy. Thank tn Lord tn Standard
lie comp'ny hasn't got patent on It,
What's fame afther ALL me la-ad?
IT'S as apt to be what somewan writes
on ye'er tombstone as anything ye did
f.,J-o
but on'y wan has much iv a hand 'Tis
not mans life in wan volume be him
silf, but his Life IN three volumes be
wan iY his frinds. An be tn way th'
jury voted fr tn dodgers in this tiniment
house of fame, nanny that cud pay
their scoor at tn desk is left on tn dure
sthep because tn hunks is filed with tn
frinds " tn managers. think I'll hire
a large buildin' f'r TIL rayjicted.
wudden't be surprised If nanny iv th'
star boardhers come out " tn other hall
iv Fame FIR tn conjanial comp'ny in
mine.
''Whin ye think iv it, whin We consfdher
now nanny men have done things or
thried to do thin FIR wan hundred years
In this country, an now whin 1t comes
to pick tn winners about half tn list
is on'y famous to tn men that voted FIR
thin, how ar-re We goin' to figure that
amy iv tn la-ads that ye're wastin'
ye'er lungs FIR will bring up Fright. A
hundred years firm now AggypaIdoo
may be as famous as Mack, an annyhow
they'll both be dead an that's tn prin-
cipal ingreejent iv fame. Go home an
think that over
Tn not goin' home" said Mr. Hennes-
sy. Tn goin' to march with tn I'm
sound Money an Sound Morals club to-
night"
Yell be famous" said Mr.. Dooley
'Ye'll be wan iv tn first they'll admit
to tn Hall iv Fame whin they open tn
dures to tn WuSruld's Famous Loony.
tics.''