The Worthington advance. [volume], February 15, 1907, Image 2

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ATTORNEYS.
J. A. TOWN
J. ?ONB8
Office over
Citizens National Bank
J. A. TOWN
ATTORNEYS
AT LAW
tflTORTHINGTON MINNESOTA
W, WILSON,
Attorney at Law.
Office over Bank of Worthington.
PHYSICIANS.
Dr.HENRYWIEDOW
Physician and Surgeon,
Office and Kesidence two doors West
of Postoffice.
Botli Pones Hi7.
Glasses Carefully Fitted.
DENTISTS.
J)R. L.
R. GHOLZ, O. S.
Dentist.
HP Office next to Globe Printing
Office.
VETERINARIAN.
£)B. J.
N. GOULU.
Veterinary Surgeon.
Office at Western House.
CARRIE M. KINLEY,
Graduate Nurse.
Residence at Frank Glasgow.
37.
A. J. OLUND
AUCTIONEER
Sales cried and satisfaction guaranteed.
S. KINDL1JN1), Clerk
Pkone, line 2, 2L BIGELOW TWP.
•LIVES MADISON
General Dealers in
LIVE STOCK
Thoroughbred Breeding Stock
See Before yoa Boy or Sell
Worthington. Minn
PCTTIT'S
for your
Bacon, Lard and
Sausages
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. WE MAKE
A SPECIALTY OF THESE
TRY US!
SUmMllSHMISltlSM
Hubbard & Palmer
Elevator Co.
Dealers in
Grain and Coal
J. C. Ager, Mgr.
PHONE *332,
Worthington, Minnesota
Expert Piano I uning.
.Regulating and Voicing.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED,
-Drop Me a Postal and Will Call
L. A. Gregory,
wrray1
ADRIAN,
MINN
I.W.
harper
KENTUCKY
WHISKEY
for Gentlemen
who cherish
Quality.
Sold by Ivan Ericksen, Worthington
Ya
^ILLA
WORTH A DOLLAR
A DROP
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS
riaclnp the
Patron (just finding standing rcom
Mi an overloaded street car)—I think
thia company should be stopped from
overloading its cars this way. Coo*
factor—Please, sir, the company don't
overload them. It's the people gettia'
•n after the car 1* full.
WORTHINGTON ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED BTBRY FRIDAY.
THOS. DOVERY, PUBLISHER.
It is the duty of every farmer to
attend the institute to be held here
March 1st and 2nd.
Swettenham has resigned, but it
will take more than an earthquuake
to shake Piatt and Depew from their
perch.
The new Commercial Club is ani­
mated with the right spirit and if
it does not wake up old Worthington
its case is hopeless.
Mr. Bryan is engaged to deliver
86 lecture at fROO per. Mr. Bryan
may not need and outside help in
his campaign fund next year.
The Globe blames the Sunday
finance committee for makking a
pauper of it. After the Globe's pit
tiful appeal for alms what could the
committee do?
Regardless of the petty flings of
his opponents Senator Bedford goes
right on sawing wood, and has al­
ready demonstrated that he is the
right man for the place.
Senator Bedford has introduced
a bill to abolish the tipping evil.
The Senator will make life long
friends of all who travel if he
secures the passage of measure.
The Commercial Club should do
its utmost to make the coming shop­
men's picnic so successful that the
railroad boys will chose Worthing­
ton as the permanent location of
their annual outing.
Senator Bedford has introduced a
bill requiring railroad companies to
fence their right of way with woven
wire fencing, where the balance of
the adjoining farm is so fenced.
It makes no onange regarding
other line fences.
The Ellsworth News has been
hinting that one of the publishers
of this county is a fugitive from
justice that he beat an Iowa
sheriff in afoot race to the Philip­
pines. Come, Bro. Loverin, in
fairness to the innocent ones name
the guilty party.
The Fulda Free Press has has been
sold to J. A. Maxwell, the publisher
of the Republican, who will consol­
idate the two papers. Fulda is able
to support one good paper, and Mr.
Maxwell has both the ability and
inclination to give them the goods.
The Globe expresses disappoint­
ment because its hot air on the
county printing matter is disregard­
ed by the county press. Inasmuch
as the Globe has presented nothing
but a distorted jumble of facts,
chap fabrications and hot air there
is nothing worth while to con­
trovert.
Obituary
Died, in Worthington, Nobles
Couny, Minnesota, Feb. 4th, 1907,
of LaGrippe, Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Smith, widow of the late C. H.
Smith. She was born in Mont­
gomery, New York, Sept. 29th,
1836 and was the daughter of Mor­
ris and Mary (Snell) Freeman. On
the 8th of March 1857, she was
married to Mr. U. H. Smith of Rich­
land Center, Wis. One daughter
was" born to them, Grace E. They
also adopted two children, Lillie
J., now Mi's. J. H. 'Kennedy of Los
Angels, California, and Bessie B.,
now Mrs. Fried of New York City,
Mr. and Mrs. Smith came to Worth­
ington June 1st, 1881, where they
made their home until 1891, when
they removed to St. Paul, Mr.
Smith having Leen assigned a posi­
tion as State Insurance Commis­
sioner, which office he retained un­
til his death.
Mrs. Smith with her daughter
then removed to Richland Center,
Wis., that she might be near her
l$indred. In 1898 they returned to
Worthington, and have since re­
sided here. Mrs. Smith was a per­
son of good Cristian character, won
friends, sympathetic and affection­
ate by nature and an earnest worker
in the church and society of which
she was a member. In later years,
however, she was restricted by
feeble health, from participating in
many of the enjoyments of Christian
life. While we deeply mourn her
loss, can we not feel that she will
receive in that Heavenly home, the
crown *of rightenous, which the
Lord bestows upon those who have
his approval. The funeral was
held at the family residence Feb­
ruary 7th. Interment in Worthing­
ton.
THE DETECTIVE STORY
Origin and Growth of the Clever
Amateur Sleuth.
VOLTAIRE WAS HIS CREATOR.
The Great French Writer Introduced
Him to tho World of Fiction—The
Qeniue of Poo and Gaboriau and
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Most persons who read detective
stories, anil most literary critics, too,
believe that this very popular form of
fiction was invented by Edgar Allan
Poe. They point to his story of "The
Purloined Letter" as being the first of
Its kind—the iirst in which is intro­
duced the man of keen ftiind, of close
reasoning and of constructive imagi­
nation, who is able to piece together
certain facts that are known and then
by brilliant deduction to pass from
them to other facts which are not
known, but the truth of which he Is
able to establish beyond a doubt.
Poe himself had a mind precisely of
this character—the mind of a mathe­
matician, subtle, logical and capable
of searching analysis. He once gave a
remarkable illustration of what he
could do as an Investigator of myste­
rious crime. A young shopgirl named
Mary Rogers was found murdered
under circumstances which excited
great public interest in New York.
The police were completely baffled,
though they advanced a theory which
was plausible in part. Poe, taking the
facts that were admitted, wove them
into a story, the scene of which he laid
in Paris and which he called "The
Mystery of Marie Roget." Then from
what was known he passed by deduc­
tive reasoning to what was quite un­
known and worked out a solution to
the puzzle which no professional de­
tective had been able to explain.
Years afterward the confession of a
dying man afforded proof that Poe
was right and that he had reconstruct­
ed accurately the whole series of
events which led to the death of Mary
Rogers.
This remarkable achievement fixed In
the public mind the notion that this use
of logic blended with imagination was
original with Poe. As a matter of fact,
it is almost certain that Poe, who was
deeply versed in French literature, got
the suggestion of the method from
reading certain passages in the ori­
ental tale called "Zadig," by Voltaire.
In this book a young man is questioned
as to whether he had seen a stray dog
and horse that might have passed him
on his journey. In reply he describes
very accurately the peculiarities of
both, though he had not seen them.
He had deduced his knowledge from
observing certain indications along
the way—the nature of the footprints
and many other signs which the ordi­
nary person would either not have no­
ticed or would have been top dull to
understand. Here Is really the germ
of the conception which Poe so bril­
liantly elaborated in the story of "The
Purloined Letter," where we find ex­
hibited the striking contrast between
the working of a usual mind and the
achievements of a mind of exceptional
power and training.
Poe's central figure, the amateur de­
tective, was afterward caught up aud
elaborated with great effect by several
French writers, of whom the chief was
Emile Gaboriau. Gaboriau gave the
world the character of M. Lecoq in the
remarkable novel of that name. Lecoq
is a professional detective, but ap­
pears in that book as a novice, inexpe­
rienced, but full of intelligence and en­
thusiasm and obliged to work out his
clews against the secret opposition of
his official chief, Gevrot, who is jeal­
ous of the young detective. In the
background is the interesting figure
of the real amateur detective, old Fa­
ther Tire-au-Clair ("Bring-to-light"), a
retired tradesman who studies crime
from sheer love of the intellectual puz­
zle which it affords him and which he
solves by purely scientific deduction.
Sir Conan Doyle in creating Sherlock
Holmes openly acknowledged his great
indebtedness to Poe. Like Poe's hero,
Holmes works apart from the official
police and is consulted by them when
they are wholly at a loss. Many of
the incidents in the Holmes cycle of
stories were suggested by the inven­
tions of Poe. Yet it 1s only fair to say
that Doyle has gone one step further
than his master. Poe's characters are
abstractions. They are like chessmen
on the board and excite Interest only
because of the complexity of the prob­
lem which they are made to solve.
Doyle's characters, on the other hand,
are drawn with sympathy and a
phrewd insight into human nature.
They entertain us by their whims and
individual traits no less than by the
adventures through which they pass.
Thus Holmes' addiction to the cocaine
habit, his trick of smoking great quan­
tities of shag tobacco when thinking
out a problem, his dislike of wonion,
his skill as a boxer—In fact, a score of
traits all give him Individuality nnd
make us think of him as a fascinating
character quite apart from his powers
as a deductive reasoner. And it is so
with the minor personages as well—
Watson, the somewhat obtuse chron­
icler of the adventures Lestrade nnd
Gregson of the official police and
Moriarty, the arch criminal.
But, however brilliant Poe may have
been, or however ingeniously Gaboriau
may have spun tangled plots, or how­
ever ably Conan Doyle may have Riven
life and reality to the central figure of
his stories, they all derive their in­
spiration, whether consciously or not,
from the clever tale told by the fa­
mous Frenchman before Pee saw the
light.—Scrap Book.
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OP A WEEK THROUGH­
OUT THE STATE.
Edward Yanlsh will, it is said, be
appointed postmaster at St. Paul to
succeed the late General M. D. Flower.
Frank P. Nantz of Minneapolis has
been appointed collector of revenue of
Porto Rioo, with headquarters at San
Juan.
Thomas Lowry, the Minneapolis
traction magnate, has donated $10,00?
to the Lombard Universalist college at
Galesburg, 111.
An epidemic of grip prevails at
Mankato. Court officials are on the
sick list and the regular term has
been postponed for two weeks.
Ira H. Shattuck, for sixteen years
associated with the late Colonel Wood
and A. E. Zonne as part owner in the
Nicollet hotel of Minneapolis, is dead.
Mrs. John Barnard of Blue Earth is
dead, aged eighty years. Her hus­
band was an Itinerant Methodist
preacher in Minnesota in pioneer
days.
Dr. Louis Dwight Shipman of Min­
neapolis, a specialist on diseases of
the throat, is dead of malignant diph­
theria, which he had contracted from
one of his patients.
Mrs. Harry Footner of Mankato
was badly burned while shaking down
the ashes in a coal stove. The coffee
pot on the stove was overturned, the
hot contents running over her head
and shoulders.
A Syrian peddler of unknown name
was burned to death in the village jail
at McKinley, where he was confined
for disorderly conduct. Only the
man's headless and charred trunk
was found in the ruins.
While repairing the track of the
Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad in
Fritsche's ravine, two miles north of
New Ulm, Charles Brandt, the sec­
tion foreman, met his death by being
struck by a southbound freight train.
C. R. Lord of Wells has the cham­
pion cow of that locality. He kept a
record of her achievements the past
year and finds that she gave 9,280
pounds of milk, with a fat test of 4.20
per cent. The milk was sold and
brought $230.
Because the concerns engaged In
granite polishing at St. Cloud cannot
profitably quarry and polish the stone
a movement is on foot to organize a
company with a capital of $200,000
which will take entire charge of the
quarrying of the stone.
Rex Clay, a brakeman on the Chi­
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road,
was awarded $35,000 damages by a
jury at Austin for personal injuries.
Clay's back was broken and he has
lain helpless since the accident, which
occurred at Lyle, this state, in Decern*
ber, 1905.
As a result of the determined move­
ment towards securing cheaper Btreet
car fares the Minneapolis city council
has passed an ordinance requiring the
street railway company to sell six
tickets for 25 cents, each of which is
to be good for one ride. This applies
only to those lines within the Minne­
apolis city limits.
Frank P. Noyes, thirty-six years old,
a switchman in the employ of the
Northern Pacific road, was killed at
Duluth last week. He threw a switch
for a train and, stepping backward,
got in the way of another train and
wast run down. Both legs and one
arm were severed and he died without
recovering consciousness.
Touston Heggerson, twenty-two
years old, is dead at Red Wing after
an illness of several months. Nine
years ago he was accidentally shot by
the discharge of a revolver held by a
companion. The bullet lodged near
the heart and was never extracted.
His heart had troubled him ever since
and death was due to that cause.
Progress on the preliminary work
of the Minneapolis, Rochester and Du­
luth Traction company's route is so
rapid that early operation of the elec­
tric line from Minneapolis to Dubuque
is a strong probability. It is reported
at the head offices in Minneapolis that
190 miles of right of way have been
secured, leaving only fifty-six to be
obtained. Twenty-six men are now at
work on the remainder of the line.
Ray W. Jones, former lieutenant
governor of Minnesota, will leave Min­
neapolis soon to go to the Pacific
coast with the intention of making
his home there permanently. Mr.
Jones has lived In Minneapolis for
thirty years and for a greater part of
that time has taken an active Interest
in the politics of the state. He will
engage in business in the Canadian
Northwest, with headquarters at Van­
couver.
Mayor Ward of Fairmont, backed
by the city council, is getting after the
bucketshops at that place. The coun­
cil has passed a resolution directing
the city attorney to draw up an or­
dinance imposing a license fee of $100
a month upon every bucketshop that
does business in Fairmont. A reso­
lution was also passed calling upon
Senator Hinton and Representative
Schrooten to do all they can to secure
the passage by the legislature of a
law prohibiting bucketshops in Minne­
sota.
The Minnesota Tax league was for­
mally launched at St. Paul last week
as an organization devoted to the
study of problems in taxation as well
as to aid in legislation making for the
best results to both the state and the
taxpayer. The first formal action of
the league was to direct the executive
committee to communicate with the
members of the legislature with a
view to passing a bill providing a
direct tax on mortgages and also to
urge the passage of an act providing
for the creation of a permanent tax
commission.
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It your baby thin, weak, fretful
Make him a Scott* Emulsion"
baby.
Scoffs Emulsion it Cod Liver Oil
and Hypophosphitet prepared to that it it
easily digested by little folks.
Consequently the baby that it fed en
Scoff*f Emulsion is a sturdy, rosy*
cheeked little fellow full of health and vigor.
ALL DRUQOISTSl BOo, AND #I.OO.
The Philosopher of Folly.
Men wbuldn't go to sleep in church,
either, if they had to hold up their
heads in order to keep their hats oo
straight.—Cleveland Leader.
To
Albinson-Boberg Lumber Company
a
BUILDING MATERIAL
AND FUEL
A Good Assortment of Pine Coast Lumber and
Oak always on hand
'Phone Orders Given Prompt Attention
Bath Room
Pta:ne 3o5 L7
Remove Objects From Eye.
When anything gets into the eye it
Is a good plan to dip a clean feather
in sweet almond oil, raise the lid, and
brush the feather across the eye sur­
face toward the nose.
Every member of the family
enjoys die comfort and conven­
ience a modern bath room
provides. "StCMdavd!' plumbing fixtures make
your bath room modern, comfortable and
sanitary.
When yon remodel or build, let
estimate on your plumbing contract High
grade fixtures and our first class
work assure you satisfaction and future saving.
Our service is prompt our prices reasonable.
Worthington Plumbing Co.
FARM LOANS
Befote you make your Loans you will
do well to consult me. I can loan you
money on easy terms and at a low rate
of interest.
THOROUGHBRED ST0CH
Breeder of the following
Percheron Horses
O. I.
Shropshire Sheep
Breeding animals for sale at all times. 50 fine
O. I. C. boars ready|for shipment
G. W. PATTERSON
Albertus' Clothing Store
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