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WORTHINGTON ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED BYBRY FRIDAY.
THOS. DOVBRY, PUBLISHES.
Colonel Georgia looks mighty fun
ny perched away up in the front seat
on the water wagon.
It is the proposal of marriage a
bacheior doesn't get during leap year
that should set him thinking.
Duck hunting seems to be the only
thing Mr. JBrjan can advocate with
out widening the breach in his'own
party.
Caleb PoweJs, doubtless, suspects
he has managed to get into the lane
that has no turning, notwithstanding
the proverb.
For Tafi and the Roosevelt Poli
cies
The fixing of date and place and
the basis of representation for the
next Republican national convention
will be the signal for intensified effort
and more systematic organization in
behalf of various candidacies. With
the day of fate only five months off^
and forty-five states to be canvassed,
the promoters of booms must be act
ive if they would make the desired
impression on sixteen millions of
voters and wiu in the choice of dele
gates to Chicago.
Left to themselves, there is little
doubt as to what course the people
would take in selecting the nominee.
The Republican party is heart and
soul a Roossveltian party. Not only
this, but such has been the breaking
down of party lines in the general ad
herence to the policies and programs
of Theodore Roosevelt that thousands
of men once aligned with the Democ
racy are this year, so far as those poli
cies and programs are concerned. Re
publicans. The call of the nation,
barring a few thousands of malcon
tents, is for the nomination of the
man who, of all others, will satisfy the
present occupant of the White House
as most certain to carry on the work
of reformation and reconstruction
which he has begun.
All other candidacies are therefore
of necessity regarded as inimical to
the popular desire as factional, and
as intended to serve personal and
narrow interests. People may, with
more or less reservations, admit the
honesty and ability and past services
of each of the men put forward to
contest the nomination with the man
of Roosevelt's choice. But the mere
fact that they are willing to be used
in an effort to deprive the president
of a reasonable hope that hie plans
will be carried forward by his suc
cessor makes their candidacies repel
lant to most of the men who would,
if they could, vote for Roosevelt him
self again.
The fight, then, of the next five
months is to be one of personal am
bitions and of unpopular interests
against the popular desire. It is the
field against Taft as the representa
tive of Roosevelt. All these am
bitions, all these interests, will
apply themselves to weaning the peo
ple from their present inclination.
They may claim to be friendly to
Roosevelt, but the salient part of the
situation is that their success means
a Roosevelt defeat. Unhorse his
champion in the person of Taft, and
his cause is lost. And it must be
borne in mind that his cause, his poli
cies, are what his enemies hate. Sep
arate his personality from these and
they could endure him very well.
Do the American people desire that
the administration of Theodore Roose
velt shall suffer defeat and condem
nation at its close? Such a desire
would be implied by the nomination
of any man not the president's choice.
"The mercenaries" have reason to
fear Taft even more than they fear
Roosevelt. Where Roosevelt has cut
the way and erected temporary brest
works of political and economic re
form, Taft will follow with permanent
and enduring structures. For con
structive work in the interest of the
millions, and of the purest republican
deals, he has an unmatched endow
ment. Let the builder succeed the
fighter.—Pioneer Press
A Hollow Victory
The "County Chairman" made the
following observations in last Sun
day's St. Paul Dispatch regarding
two prominent Worthington people:
"A conspicuous and active figure
at the meeting of the State Agricul
tural society held in St. Paul the early
part of the week was former Senator
Dan Shell, of the Fifteenth, district.
Dan left town in, a happy frame of
mind, not so much, it is said, because
of the gathering, but because of a few
scalps he took.' One of these was the
official head of G. W. PattersoD, of
Worthington, who was succeeded on
the board, of managers by Atkinson,
of Mankaio. According to the story
told, Patterson's connection with the
board was originally credited to the
activity of Dan, and the severance of
of the same was due to similar activi
ty on the part of the big fellow from
the Fifteenth. Patterson, if they tell
it straight, had senatorial ambitions
during the last state campaign, and
failing, gave his support to S. B. Bed
ford, Dan's opponent at the primaries.
Dan lost out, but he did not sit down
and cry about it. He just waited and
planned, and that is why they say he
went home happy."
Inasmuch as Mr. Patterson decided
as long ago as last September to re
tire from the board, for personal rea
sons,
and further that his election was
brought about almost entirely with
out local influence, it is very evident
that the ex-seiiator*s machination* in
the case proved a minus quantity and
that his alleged victory last week is a
very hollow affair. It takes a small
victory to gratify a broken warrior in
his dotage.
Farmers' Institute Notes
A sessioM of the Minnesota Farmers'
Institute has been promised for Wor
thington on Tuesday and Wednes
day, Feb. 4th and 5th.
The Farmers' Institute is the trav
eling school of agriculture for the
farmers of Minnesota. The Institutes
have been operation for twenty
years, and the work is well known
over the entire state. The instruct
ors who are employed ^re practical
farmers who have made a success of
their special lines of farming, and
who have the ability to go on the
platform and tell other farmers how
they have gone about their work.
They are all men who have learned
their work tbru their own experience
and observation, and our farmers
should not miss hearing them and
getting from them all the information
they an.
Farmers' Institute Annual No. 20
will be distributed at the meeting
here. This is a new book that has
just been published, containing over
300 pages of the best farm reading,
and there should be a copy of it in
every farm home in the state. It nan
only be obtained by attending the
Institute session.
There will be two sessions of the
Institute,—one at 10 a. m. and the
other at 1:30 p. m. The meetings
are always etaited sharp on time,
whether there be ®nly one man in
the hall or two hundred. Those who
come late are sure to miss something
good. Be on time for both sessions,
stay till the close, and then say if it
has not been worth a whole lot more
trouble than it has taken to attend, j.
It is not intended that these meet
ings shall be for the benefit of the
men only. The women and young
people will always be interested in
what is being done. They are often
the ones who are more apt to take
hold of the improved methods that
are advocated, and so lead the way
for the men of the family.
For the benefit of those who find
it impossible to get up in the
meeting and ask questions, a box is
always placed on the platform into
which slips of paper can be dropped
concerning matters that of interest.
This question box is opened during
the afternoon session, and lhe ans
wers that are made to the questions
are very often a most interesting part
of the session.
There will be no regular program,
only such topics as are of interest to
our locality will be discussed, and
will be taken up at such times during
the meetings as are most convenient.
Be on hand from beginning to end so
that nothing will be missed. Bring
your note book.
State Treasurer C. E. Dinehart in
an address to the implement dealers'
convention, advocated a national law
securing the deposits of banks. He
spoke in the following manner as re
ported by the St. Paul Dispatch:
The central bank savored too much
of centralization and would put the
money of this country in hands of
a few manipulators, he said. The
asset currency plan would be all right
for national banks, but would not
protect the state banks in country
towns. He believed government
guarantee of deposits in banks the
most practicable plan proposed. This
provides for a Binking fund created by
a tax on national bankB which would
provide a guarantee. The states could
do the same for the state commercial
banks and the people could thus feel
certain that their money in the banks
would be safe. Thus panics and de
moralization of the country's finance^
would be averted. 1
UNO! By*
Copyright: 1907: by Byron "William®.
Youth and Old Age.
Graybeard is walking with. Youth today,
Down through the glen where the cattla
run.
iouth is enthused for the years to come,
Graybeard is conning the cycles done.
Boyhood is wishing for man's estate,
Age and the wisdom of Graybeard'*
ken—
Graybeard is yearning for youth gone by,
Innocent heart and the pulse of ten!
Graybeard is lagging behind a bit,
Stopping to worship a tree he knew
Back in the hours ot the care-free lad,
Back in the days of the barefoot crew.
Boyhood is tugging with fervent haste:
"Hurry now, grandpa, and let us go!"
Here is a path he has not explored,
Down by the bridge where the riffles
flow.
Onward the rush of the boyish clan
Halting, the thump of the cane of
Age
Thus is the Volume of Life made up,
Chapter on chapter and page on page.
This is the tale of Life's magic span,
This is the record of human flight
Hope with the sunrise, trailed low at
dusk
Life in the Morning and Death at
Night!
Graybeard and Youth! Down the hill
they plod,
Youth forging on with an eager cry
Gran'daddy feeble and pulling back,
Seeking his breath and a chance to sigh.
Sunrise for one and the Night for him
Born of the years that have flown
away—
Youth and the shroud! Lay the fragrant
bloom
Here on the grave of Old Age today!
Slivers of Thought.
If we only could see our duty as
other see it, what a nice world this
would be for our friends!
I'll bet a cookie the man never lived
who cared for a furnace and had dys
pepsia at the same time.
Great men don't seem to have a
habit of running in families. That's
why we are usually disappointed in
the sons of the great.
Well, have you made up your mind
how many of your New Year's resolu
tions you will keep and how many you
will make just to have the fun of
breaking them?
Some of the meanest men on earth
can lie down with their conscience and
sleep like a babe until the breakfast
bell rings.
An overdrawn argument usually cov
ers a nigger in the woodpile.
It Is all right to be proud of your
manufacture but this habit of putting
the name of the maker on the tomb'
stone always did look to me like
stretching a point.
The majority of jokes reached that
age too many years ago.
A man is safer in a French duel
than he is doing the chamber-maid's
work for a mule.
In the north of Sicily snow is'Sold
for a cent a pound. When a man is
shoveling pounds and pounds of it off
his walk in the early morning, the
thought of this makes him mad.
There is a lot .of money spent for
handbills that just as well could be
saved by telling the news across the
back fence.
Some people are so methodical they
take half the excitement out of life.
The janitor bows very politely these
days, the elevator maii is as courteous
as a southern darkey at his best, the
newsboy puts your paper right where
you want it, the barber salaams low
and your wife never fails to give you
an extra kiss as you leave for town
in the morning. Christmas is near!
One of the first things to learn about
setting a hen is to get the hen.
Rag Time.
Public Printer Stillings pays a man
$1,200 a year to keep Uncle Sam's
printery free of cockroaches. I won
der if any of the typographical ar
tists have shown him where the type
lice are?
A Nashville woman wants to be the
town dog catcher at nothing per
month. She must be looking for ex
perience in the catch line.
Pessimists who contend that the
newspaper has no influence these
days should know the case of an Ohio
man whose whole life was influenced
thereby. He was walking along the
track when a bundle of papers,
thrown from the train, hit him and
broke his back.
Someone wants to know why it isn't
called "feetball"? That's because one
leg of every player is in a sling most
of the time.
I know what the other place is go
ing to be like, all right. I am running
a new hot-water furnace, now.
A Georgia man killed four rattle
snakes with an empty jug. It was
easy enough to kill them with an
empty jug, but how in the dickens did
he see 'em?
When' the girl you have been court
ing so long says she is going to be an
old mikid and stay at home with
mother, it is a sure sign that she is
willing to'listen to reason at last.
The Smithville (Tex.) Times flays:
"They laugh who win and they win
who laugh. Be jolly." In other words,
the world swaps sunshine for sun
shine if you want sunshine, let your
own sun shine.
Curing Mark.
Mark Furry of the Alden Times is at
Battle Creek," Michigan, being rubbed
down by a second day advent with a hot
towel up and'down the spine, Interspersed
with* every alternate rub being given with
a cake of ice. We don't know what ails
Mark but if this don't stiffen his back
bone we don't know what would The
!theory is that the hot water draws) the
pain out, and the. ice freezes It before it
can get back.—Britt (la.) Tribun*.
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DEFECTIVE PAGE
Thursday, Jan. 16.
House Bill to codify penal laws
again under consideration. Attempts
to amend certain sections of the
measure failed after a prolonged con
test. Little progress was made.
Senate—Calendar cleared of nearly
every bill upon it and the bill to re
vise the criminal laws of the United
States was taken up and discussed.
Friday, Jan. 17.
House—Entire session devoted to
consideration of private pension bills.
Monday, Jan. 20.
Senate—Over two hours devoted to
consideration of the bill revising the
criminal laws of the United States.
Senator Tillman criticised Secretary
Cortelyou in caustic language for his
apparent disobedience" to a senat0
resolution.
House—Entire session devoted to
consideration of a bill appropriating
$250,000 for an immigration station at
Philadelphia. The measure was
passed.
Tuesday, Jan. 21.
House—Proceedings enlivened by a
political speech in which Champ Clark
predicted, amid thunderous Demo
cratic applause, the nomination of
Bryan by the Democratic convention
at Denver. Penal code bill under con
sideration all day.
Senate—Resolution to investigate
the circumstances connected with the
issuance of an injunction in the case
of the Hitchman Coal and Coke com
pany vs. John Mitchell by Judge Al
ston G. Dayton of the United States
circuit court of the Northern district
of West Virginia discussed, but no ac
tion taken.
GOMES BY WAY OF PARIS
Rumos of Plot to Blow
American Warships.
Some time ago certain suspicions
indicating the existence of a plot to
destroy the whole or a portion of the
fleet, either at Rio Janeiro or in the
Straits of Magellan, were aroused here
and naturally were communicated to
Rio and Washington. A chartered
steamer was reported to have con
veyed explosives for the use of the
conspirators to Rio Janiero, arriving
there about the m'ddle of December,
and John Fedher, whose name is men
tioned in the Rio dispatches, was one
of the men whose name was revealed
here as being implicated in the con
spiracy. The alleged plot is supposed
to have some rather startling ramifi
cations, but the evidence along this
line is far from conclusive and rests
chiefly upon the statement of an indi
vidual whose record was subsequently
proved to be anything but creditable.
Consequently the whole affair is re
garded with much skepticism and in
deed the presumption has been raised
that it may have been a deliberately
concocted scare. In any event, it is
now believed here that if the plot
actually did exist the timely warning
and precautions taken have complete
ly frustrated the plans of the con
spirators at Rio Janeiro and com
pelled them to transfer their opera
tions further south, if not to abandon
them entirely. The latter hypothesis
is considered here to be the most
probable.
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.
Minneapolis, Jan. 21.—Wheat—May,
[email protected]% July, $1.10%. On track
—No. 1 hard, $1.11% @1.11% No. 1
Northern, $1.09% @1.09% No. 2
Northern. $1.07% @1.07% No. 3
Northern, $1.02%@1.04%.
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.
St. Paul, Jan. 21.—Cattle—Good to
choice steers, $5.50 @5.75 fair to good,
[email protected] good to choice cows and
heifers, [email protected] veals, [email protected].
Hogs—[email protected]%. Sheep—Wethers,
[email protected] good to choice lambs,
[email protected].
Duluth Wheat and Flax.
Duluth, Jan. 21.—Wheat—To arrive
and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.10% No.
1 Northern, $1.09% No. 2 Northern,
1.06% May, $1.10% July, $1.11%. In
store—No. 1 Northern, $1.07% No. 2
Northern, $1.05%. Flax—To arrive
and on track, $1.18% May, $1.20%
July, $1.22%.
Chicago Union Stock Yards.
Chicago, Jan. 21.—Cattle—Beeves,
[email protected] cows and heifers, $1.40@
4.60 calves, [email protected] Western cat
tle, $3.70 @4.60 stockers and feeders,
[email protected]. Hogs—Light, $4.15@
4.42% mixed, [email protected]% heavy,
[email protected]% rough, [email protected] pigs,
[email protected]. Sheep, [email protected] year
lings, [email protected] lambs, [email protected].
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago, Jan. 21.—Wheat—May,
$1.02% @1.02% July, 98%e Sept.,
95%c. Corn—May, 60%@60%c July,
59%@59%c Sept., 59%c. 'Oats
May, old, 54%c May, 52%c July, old,
47%c July, 45%c Sept., 39%c. Pork
—Jan., $12.65 Feb., $12.67% May,
$13.17%. Butter—Creameries, 21@
30c dairies, 19 27c. Eggs—20 21c.
Poultry—Turkeys and chfckens, 10c
springs, 9c.
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Paris, Jan. 21.—The reports cabled
from Rio Janeiro that the Brazilian
authorities were warned from Paris
of a possible attempt to Sp the,
American battleship fleet while in the
harbor there are true.
weak and sickly.
•M
WORTHINGTON.
A Boston schoolboy was tall,
His arms were soft and flabby.
He didn't have a strong muscle in his
entire body.
The physician who had attended
the family for thirty years prescribed
Scott*sS Emulsion.
NOW:
To feel that boy's arm you
would think he was apprenticed to a
blacksmith..
ALL DRUGGISTS 50c. AND $1.00.
WANTED Young lady to learn Read about our great piano contest
to set type, at Advance office. on another page.
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run as follows, the Pea being the smallest.
Also remember that there is a big difference in the &
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Sec. 30, Graham Lakes Township.
Schaefer Bros. & Co.
are in line for all kinds of
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At tHe Elevator
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