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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-05-08
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the Greatest Reformer. The ceiling
and sides, except over the windows,
are onpected in the corners with
a slant, at the bottom of which is a
rich decoration, giving the effect of
being embellished with wide
moulding. In the Sunday School
room designs of roses adorn the
ceiling. The frescoing Of the sides
is of a buff color with appropriate
colored designs. The ceilings are of
a light color with BLUSH tint in
the dome.
The entire decoration is work
of art and represents rare artistic
ideas in the designer and decorator,
G. t. Patterson of Rochester,
Mimi. The entire building is
carpeted and carpets furnished by
our home merchant, A. T. Latta.
The carpet is of a pretty pattern
and excellent quality, above. the
ordinary placed in churches. The
heating plant was put in by Wild
man and Son. The building is we'll
furnished with electric lights and
placed where they will give a beauti
full effect.
The excavating was commenced
in July, 1902.
The basement is built with
cobble stone and finished with brick.
VIM. Guyse, contractor. The con-
tract price was $4,000. Levi G.
Cuisine, of Rochester was the con-
tractor of erection at $3.50. Con-
tract price of heat $1,000. Price Of
lot $1,000. When completed it will
be a $780, church. This handsome
and complete house of worship
would be credit to any city. The
citizens of Worthington and county
can point to it with much pride.
It represents the enterprise and
wealth, as we'll the deep religious
sentiment that abounds in this place
and vicinity.
Rev. Hambly is in receipt for
church altar use, of finely bound
hymnbook from an old friend, H. c.
Jennings of st. Paul, and a hand
some finely bound Bible from another
old friend, Henry Eliza J. Love-
Spring Valley, MINI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-05-08

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each other by partition doors that
extend across one side of the main
auditorium and are lifted into the
ceiling Ivy mechanical apparatus.
The two galleries are connected in
the middle Of the building by an
ordinary door, making it in reality g
continuous 5 gallery around three
sides of the building. The choir
loft is a recess in the main room at
the right Of the rostrum, with a
fine railing separating it from tho
other part of the room. The build
ing has available seating capacity
Of about fourteen hundred people
and that to 4 casual observer seems
more like two thousand than the
actual number as the estimating OF.
audiences is one of the most deceiv--
ing things. 1t is like judging the
distance of H. ountains. The build
ing was crowded to it's fullest capa-
city Sunday evening and many un7
able to gain admission. There is
only one main entrance. located in
the corner of the building and APP
preached from the north east corner
OF eleventh street an fourth avenue.
This is a beautiful solid cement APP
proa-h to this entrance. The end of
the long circular steps having grace
fully curved line ends of solid
cement. This cement work attracts
attention and admiration of every
person that passes bv. 1t was
designed and constructed by our
poular townsman aud contractor in
cement work, E. w. Cutler. The
solid cement window and door stills
are also of of his handiwork. There
is 4th avenue side entrance leading
to the basement rooms also one on
the opposite side, of the church
leading to the pastors study and
choir loft. The first floor rooms can
he entered from the 4th ave. en-
trance, also the galleries. There is a;
commodious library room oil the
Sunday School room. On the 4th
ave. side of the building and above
the primary and library rooms are
two fine class rooms. On the
opposite side and about the center
Of the church is the pastors study
with a door opening to the rostrum.
Above this room is commodious
room called the Epworth League
room which they will furnish. This
has large double doors opening to
and above the Sunday School room.
In the main room and Immediately
in front Of the vestibule entrance
is spacious lobby heated and
mirrored, and in which people can
dispossess themselves of outer ap-
parel, warm and pass into the audi
forum which can be entered
through two doors. In the south
east corner of the basement Is the
public reading room which after
the furniture, etc. is in. will acc m
modate thirty people: adjoining this
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-05-08

To describe this building SO that
any one can immagine it's beauty
and comfortablenees is not within
the power Of man. It is the finest
building Of the kind in this part of
the state. There may be more ex-
pensive in their general outlay but
none more complete in their ap-
continents. This church has
distinguishing feature that it alone
possesses among the Methodist
churches of this state, that If the
Institutional.
The. size of the building, is seventy
three feet by eighty seven. making
a large ground floor measurement,
this when it is considered that there
is a basement and galleries, makes
it commodious edifce. -.
The auditorium is very spacious
one, with a pew seating capacity
of two hundred and seventy five
and a. semi-circle gallery with
opera chair seating capacity of one
hundred and fifty. BY using chairs
two hundred more people could be
accommodated. Adjoining this room
is the Sunday school room with a
chair seating capacity of two hun
dred and a semi-circle gallery with
one hundred and twenty opera
chairs. More co uld be accommodated
if necessary in the portions. Open
ing from the Sunday school room
without doors is a large infant class
room that will seat at least fly.
These rooms and galleries are all so
arranged that the speaker occupying
the rostrum, which is built in a
semi-circle shape at the intersection
of the two rooms, can be seen from
any part of the rooms or galleries.
The rooms can be separated from
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-05-08

the searches ring;
May ''Holy Holy Holy''echo round
Till every stone shall vibrate to
the sound;
Flood every heart that meets Thee
at Thy shrine
With that rich peace that is go
wholly Thine, !
And let us feel Thy stainless feet
have trOd
Through all these aisles and
made them pure O God
Edith Palmer Putnam.
Rushmore, MINI.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-08
Three Ways os Dressing Hair.

Some of the New Hehrides people
do their hair up in a bunch on the
topsof the head and stain it yellow,
while the inhabitants OF Ombai island
pass it all through a tube so as to
make kind of plume. The Marquesas
chiefs favorite method is to shave all
the head except two patches. one over
each temple where he cultiyates two
horns of hair No doubt this is to
render him more a thing of terror to
his enemies than of admiration to his
friends. His reason for shaving the
rest Of the head is to allow more space
for tattooing, as if all the available
skin of the body were not enough.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-08
Science VS.. Disease.

Five. deadly diseases Nave been
shorn OF their worst terrors by the
method Of treatment introduced by
Pasteur. In hydrophobia. which pre-
viously had been uniformly fatal, the
mortality under antitoXin treatment is
one in five hundred In diphtheria
the number Of deaths have been re-
duced from one in two to one in
eight In lockiaw the serum will pre-
vent the disease If used soon after the
wound is inflicted, and 1t has recently
cured two cases in which it was in
jected into the brain and spine, and
the deaths from hubonie plague are
reduced from 63 to Is per cent.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-08
Symbolism in EGGS.

Among the curiosities recently ac-
quired by the department Of Egyp-
tan and Assyrian antiquities in the
British Museum is an ostrich egg
pierced for suspension and covered
with traces of painted design, prob
ably of a predynastic period. Accord
ing to the experts of the department,
this egg is certainly nearly six thou
sand years old, as the design was
made not later than B. G. 1000. The
egg of the ostrich is said to have pos
sessed some religious significance
even in the predynastic period.-L Lon
don Globe.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-08
From an Ohio Minister.

Rey. G. w. Hagants, of Clyde Ohio
says: Il have used DIR. Warmers
White Wine of Tar Syrup for sore
throat, weak lungs, cough, cold, and
any diseases of the kind it surpasses
all other remedies. Many thanks to
the doctor for his valuable remedy"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-08
Editor of Big Fork Compass
Visits in Bemidji for First
Time in Year.
WILL REMAIN In BEMlDJl uN-
TIL LATTER PART OF WEEK
Got Package of Laundry This
Morning That He Left in City
Almost a Year Ago.

A. NJ Greeley, Of Ripple,
newspaper man, poet and pio-
.Fneer. is down from the Big Fork
county fo2 visit With friends
Iand will remain until ME latter
i part of the present week. Mr.
tC;reeley was for some time one
OF the publishers ct the Pioneer
land has hosts 1T friends IN this
.icity, Who will be pleased to see
him.
For some time past he has
been publishing the Big Fork
1 Compass 1T Ripple postotfice
near the falls q the Big Fork
river, one of the most picturesque
spots IN all northern Minnesota.
tfaheI,aprr-crrrics on an average
of three pages Of legal i'll each
Tissue and is q money making
4 proposition that would tempt
fany newspaper man to pioneer 1t
for a mum ber Of years at least.
Tho paper is also widely read and
i has a reputation throughout the
state that MIR. Greeley is himself
unable to realize. His exchange
list numbers but one daily news
paper the Duluth News Tribune,
vet his original column Slight
Variations OF the Needle is one
of the most widely copied midi
yidual efforts OF any newspaper
man in the state. 1t is written
lin a quaint, yet pleasing and eff
4 fcctiye style and handles fact and
4 incident in an original manner
that is highly entertaining.
Mr.. Greeley is a born pioneer.
He enjoys living at Ripple and
| publishing his paper, fact that
is attested by the circumstance
that some Of his best work has
been done in this environment.
| He has a we'll equipped printing
|otfice and when business at the
4 office is dull there is no one to
| tell the editor that he can't GO
out hunting or fishing at his own
| free will or do anything else he
| wishes to- Mr.. Greeley has not
1 been in Bemidjl for Il year until
this morning. He did not realize
| the fact that he had been so LONG
| in the woods he says until he
| went down to the laundry Office
! this morning and got a package
Of laundry that he had left there
when he was in Bemidji last
| December Up to date there are
no steam laundrics at Ripple and
| the ladies Of that vicinity have
4 -nnt-acq,uired the art of .aeln g g Ii r.
billed shirts so Mr.. Greeley has
this necessary little function
| performed in Bemidji.
Speaking Of the north country
| he said that it is the hope OF
4 everyone in that vicinity that the
railroad will build north next
sum ner IS it will mean much to
| the country. There is every as |
| surancc that it will be extended
from Northone in the spring.
! Many settlers are coming in at
present and both Ripple and
koochiching are towns with a
future. The latter has one of
the most magnificent water pow
ers in the world when it can fin
ally be developed. An obstacle
! to this at present is the ques
tons regarding rights and own
erships growing out of the fact
| that it is an international water
way and the Canadian and Amer
lean capitalists, who are interest
ed in its development cannot
agree upon terms.
From an Ohio Minister.
ReY. G. w. Hagants, of CLYDE Ohio
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17
A new REFORM MOVEMENT.

George Fred Williams of Mass achu-
sets, who took such prominent part
in the two Bryan campaigns, has
started new reform movement. A
league will be formed embracing men,
bers OF all political parties, each mem.
Der to work inside his own party for
the furtherance of certain ideas. The
platform is in line with the principal
planks of the peoples party, embrace
ing the following articles of faith:
First, direct legislation, or the
right of the people at the polls to vote
laws or veto legislation.
"Second, the ownership by the peo-
pie of all public utilities.
'Third, a restriction upon the power
of judges in equity to take the liberty
of the citizen without trial by jury"
AS far as it goes that platform is
certainly as populistic as the Omaha
platform itseh. The last plank is of
course part of the Chicago platform
OF the democratic party, but the popu-
lists believe in that as: thoroughly as
Ia the other planks. Williams claims
that prominent members of both the
old parties have endorsed the plat
form. The leayen of populism is ex-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17

erting its influence, even if the party
is disorganized. It is very doubtful
if the new league will be able to influ-
ence either of the old parties to take
up the reforms suggested, but it can
not fail to spread those ideas and pre-
pare the ground for party that will
gather all the reformers in an organi-
cation that will finally be victorious.
The majority of the American voters
today believe in the three p'anks given
above, but they lack an organization
to make their wishes effective.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17

Mayor Rose of Milwaukee has start
ed movement to purchase $1,000 tons
of British anthracite coal, which will
be sold to the people of that city at
actual cost. Prominent citizens of the
city have signed an indemnity bond,
on which the banks will advance the
necessary money. A committee of
'citizens has been selected to have
charge of the distribution. Some OF
the coal dealers tried to get on that
committee, but Mayor Rose prevented
them, feeling that they would hinder
the work instead of aiding it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17
A WORD TO OUR FRIENDS

We ask our friends throughout the
state to say kind word for the TRi8-
UNE. Ask your friends to send in trial
for publication. The reform movement
in Minnesota is going to live. There
is no doubt about that. We must have
a medium for the exchange Of ideas.
and one that will advocate the princi-
pies Of the peoples party. Push the
circulation Of the TRIBUNE. As you
love truth and justice. you will do what
you can to dispel ignorance. There is
no greater foe Of political reform than
ignorance. Do not delay.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17
THE PEOPLES LAND.
OUR CHILDREN'S HOMES TAKEN BY
FRAUD AND PERJURY.

The Paid Attorneys of the Plumber
ers Laugh In Our Faces and Tell Us
We Can Do Nothing-It Is Time to
Stir Up Congress-.
Every labor organizat ton in the Unit
ed States, every commercial and manu-
facturers' association every patriotic
citizen who wishes to save the peoples
heritage in the public lands from
spoliation, every friend of the national
irrigation movement who wants to pre-
vent the public lands from being stolen
by spectators and land grabbers be-
fore they can be reclaimed for actual
settlers, should write at once, without
a days delay, to their senators and rep
resentatives in congress, urging the re-
peal in this session Of congress of the
desert land law and the Communication
clause of the homestead act.
The public domain will soon be gone
unless the stupendous frauds Of the
land grabbers and spectators who are
stealing it are stopped and stopped
without delay.
We talk of retaining the public
lands for settlers, and the people of the
United States are complacently con-
graduating themselves OH the inaugu-
ration Of great national policy which
will create millions of happy American
homes on the arid public lands through
the building of great irrigation works
for their reclamation by the national
government.
Have we bitten into a Dead sea ap-
pie?
Will it all end in nothing?
Will the people sit idly and supinely
by and watch their hopes and expecta-
tons of the great national benefits
which would result from creating op-
portunities for millions of our people to
get homes on the public lands vanish
like mirage as we approach it, while
the public lands upon which those
hopes are based are stolen from under
their very eyes by fraud and perjury
under the Ubiquitous desert land law
and communication clause of the home
stead act and the timber and stone act ?
President Roosevelt has recommend
ed to congress in his annual message
that the desert land act, the commuta-
ton clause of the homestead act and
the timber and stone act be Immediate
~ repealed.
Will congress do it?
1t is very doubtful, unless a wave Of
public indignation sweeps over the
country and finds voice i'm the press and
becomes so strong that it will rouse
eastern members of congress from their
apathy and Indifference to this great
subject.
A few days ago a we'll known land
attorney in Washington ridiculed the
idea that there was any possibility Of
getting any bill for the repeal of these
dangerous laws through the commit
tee on public lands of the house Of
representatives.
Was he right?
Events will determine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17

There is not the slightest doubt that
the enlightened public sentiment of the
whole country, so far as it has been
awakened and has found expression in
the press and through labor organiza-
lions and associations of business men,
demands the repeal Of these loose joint
ed and evil laws and demands that the
public lands shall be reserved for those
who will go upon them and build homes
and in good faith live upon them.
There is no doubt that the people of
the country are with the president in
his recommendation that these laws
shall be repealed.
But the interests which are profting
and have for years been proiting by
the fraud and perjury through which
the people of this country are being
robbed Of their birthright in the public
lands are politically strong in the west,
especially in the grazing states, where
millions upon millions Of acres of the
richest land the sun ever shone upon,
lacking only irrigation to TEEN with
fertility, are passing into the hands of
great grazing "outfts" when they
should be preserved for the men of this
generation and those to come after us
who will want them for homes
These frauds have been enormously
stimulated by the passage of the ma
tional irrigation act I'D. by the hope in
the minds of the spA H}ators who are
stealing the lands III they will be
made more valuable by government ex-
penditures under this act
The raids upon the public lands have
become an appalling epidemic of fraud
and perjury.
They threaten to destroy the POSSIBLE
ity of achieving the benefcent objects
of the national irrigation act.
The frauds by which these evils are
being accomplished are so monstrous,
the perjury that accompanies the fraud
is so barefaced, the facts are so no.
torious the results are so disastrous to
the whole people of the country, that it
is almost beyond human belief that
congress should not put stop to it in
this present session.
And yet it is not only proba BILE, it is
almost certain that congress will ig-
more the recommendations of the presi-
dent and that nothing will be done in
this session to stop the spoliation Of
the public domain unless some way
can be found to impress upon the
minds of members of congress and i'm
press it on them so positively and forci-
bly, as to completely overcome the cum
ming schemes of delay which will be
concocted by the spectators that the
people of the country demand action
and prompt action and action in this
session of congress and that they will
brook no delay.-A1axwell Talisman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17

Are you reading Hinrichsen's twelve
chapters on practical politics? A thor.
ough knowledge of how campaigns are
conducted will harm no good citizen
Guerilla warfare may be the only
course open to reformers at times, but
before a sweeping and potent victory
for public rights as against the en-
croachments of special privileges car
be won there must come organization
and discipline.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-17
A CHANGE OF PUBLIC Sentiment.

The radicalism of yesterday IS the
conservatism of today. The majority
of mankind is always ready to oppose
any new idea aud to persecute or ridi-
cule it's advocates. But truth is might
Ter than prejudice, and if the idea is
true it will finally be recognized. We
have a strong illustration of this at
present. When thepeoples party some
ten years ago promulgated it's idea of
government owership of railroads,
how the conservatives of that day did
heap ridicule, sarcasm, scorn and vi
tuperation over those ''fanatics'' who
dared propose anything so revolution
airy. From the brainiest advocates of
private monopoly down to the most
brainless crossroad politician denun-
Citations of the most virulent kind were
hurled at the ''wild-eyed, long-haired,
SOLDERING populsts,'' as Senator
Knute Nelson so beautifully expressed
it. Lunacy and populism were synon-
ymous terms with most people. In
fact, up in Otter Tail county one Of the
more radical populist editors was
really sent to the insane asylum,
though they failed to keep him there.
Who would have thought that ten
years after that time prominent repub-
licans and democrats, men who had
been as active in denouncipg us as
any, would be calmly talking of not
only government ownership of rail-
roads but of public utilities in gener-
al? Yet such is the fact today. The
dangers we foretold have confronted
the entire people quicker than most OF
us anticipated. Suffering and depri-
walton are great stimulators OF
thought. When the coal combine
brought the whole nation face to face
with the awful power for evil possessed
by private monopoly, then there was a
loud call for something more effective
than what either of the old parties had
to offer. Then the people of every
walk of life remembered the teachings
of the despised populists; they began
to think seriously of them and soou
recognized the fact that in that direc.
ton lay safety for the people. So
overwhelming is this demand becom-
ing that even in congress some of the
leaders are cody proposing to investi.
gate whether the situation demands
that the nation shall seize all the coal
mines and lines of transportation. II
is no longer an insane idea to be com.
batted in every way; it is only ques-
ton whether the stu alton is as vet bad
enough to demand such action. This
is an open acknowledgement that when
the necessity is recognized the remedy
shall be applied.
''The darkest hour is just before the
dawn" In the present darkness we
can now begin to perceive the glimmer.
ings Of the dawn of better day for
humanity.