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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30
Before and After.

This is a year before marriage.
He is making her a call. He has
been thinking all day of her. These
are his boots newly BACKED, his col.
lar spotless, and his form ditto out.
side, his gloves. drawn on for the
first time, his hair newly parted and
oiled, his face newly shaven, his
heart palpitates for her, his nerves
are nervous for her, he fears she
may be ont or that her parents may
object, or, worse than that, some
other fellow may be there with her.
The door opens. She is there and
alone. He Is happy.
This is year after marriage. He
is ringing at the door. His face is
unshaven, his collar much worn, his
boots unblacked, his hair unbrushed.
He rings again in exactly ten seconds
He gives the bell strong, petulant
pull. He Is thinking of her. He is
grumbling that she doesn't answer 1t
sooner. He has not all day been
thinking of her. He has gone farther
maybe, and Jared worse. Now she
opens it. He pushes past her and re-
marks, "Takes you forever to answer
that bell" His unbrushed boots
sound sullenly as he ascends the
stairs. She follows meekly after,
He thrashes into the room and around
the stove and sings out, "Isn't dinner
ready yet ?" She bids him be patient
but moment. But he won't. Be
cause dinner isn't ready within one
minute after he gets home. Becaus,
this Is the one year after marriage
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30
A Pioneer Michigan Editor.

The pioneer editors of Michigan
were a frank and truthful lot of men,
as can be proven by an incident call.
ed to mind the other day in cOnnec.
ton with the name of Mark Williams,
who gave up his life for better one
not long ago. Mark had paper in
Clinton county. 1t was a wee little
sheet with q hundred subscribers,
printed the handiest way, and the
office was so poorly supplied that
several different fonts of type had to
be used to set up the reading matter.
One day the paper came out with a
fierce attack on State officer at Ian
sing. He was called a robber, liar,
thief and various other epithets, and
no pains were spared to skin him
and hang his hide on the fence.
About week from that date Mark
sat smoking beech leaves and tobacco
mixed in equal parts, when stranger
entered. He was big, broad-shoul.
dered man, with awful fists and a
wicked eye, and he got down to bust
ness by asking:-"Are you Mark
Williamss" "Wcll, yes, l suppose
So" was the hesitating reply. "And
you run this paperl" swell, kinder
run it, I suppose" "Very we'll, am
Mr.. =, of Lansing, the man whom
you abused so savagely in your col.
umns last week." "Noi" "Yes am
and I propose to give you the worst
mauling a western slanderer ever has
received" "Say, are you really Mr..
-" asked Mark. ~ am, of course
l am, and while I am taking off my
coat, you may give your reasons for
publishing that slanderous article"
81 had two reasons, SIR" "What
are theyl" "Well, in the first place,
I thought you were little runt of a
man, about four feet high and about
dead with the asthma, and In the next
place thought the roads were so in.
| fernal bad that you could never get
over here" The straight forward
confession should have saved Mark,
but it didn't. The visitor made a
dive for him, took out a handful of
hair, and when the editor jumped
through the only window In the ONCE
he was followed and chased into an
old slashing. where he had to remain
hidden until midnight. That accident
planned his future policy, rs he one
day explained:-"The editorial pen
| Is an ALFRED big lever. but I have
made 1t a rule for the last thirty
years never to abuse man unless ]
think can lick him In rough and
tumble fight around the editorial
ROOM"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30
A DiscOnsolate Chinaman.
From the Carson Appeal

A few days ago Chinaman was
released from the state prison after
serving a sentence for three years for
an assault to kill. He was given 1925
and new suit Of cloths and directed
to shift for himself. Day before
yesterday the same man knocked at
the gate, and when it was opened he
thrust $3.50 into the keepers hand
for safe keeping. 1t was almost
dark and he begged to be allowed to
sleep in his old quarters over night.
He was allowed to toxic up his abode
in a woodshed, and the next morn.
ing, when the roll was called his
number, 80, was skipped for obvious
reasons.
When 40 was called man sprang
into the line dressed in prison garb
and called out, "You no catchee
thirty.nine!" 1t was the discharged
Chinaman. He had found his old
striped clothes at the wash.house
and put them on. His civilian suit
he had hidden away. He was told
that he would have to go, but he
begged to be kept, urging that his
conduct had been so good that he
ought not to be turned away. His
logic was pretty strong. "YOu send
me out, kille somebody and come
back. You sabe. Me stay no kille,
no steale, no chut'um Ratchet"
General Batterman is in a quandary
what to do, for he really believes If
the man is turned away he will com.
nit some crime to get back.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30
Funnygrans.

A man has no remedy for his hair
falling off. Awoman can always use
hair.pins, and keep on as much hair
as she likes. .,. .a.
Female economy-buying half
dollar straw hat, then putting eleven
and a half dollars worth of trimmings
on 1t.
A German lately married says:
I'D vas yoost so easy rs needle
Good walk oud nit u camels eye as to
get der behindt word nit a vomans.'
Those who have tried it confess
that a large, healthy mustard plaster
worn on the back contains more heat
than a heavy overcoat.
A travelling printer, who for want
of employment at his trade went to
work on farm, came in one day to
ask his employer If ii hen should be
set solid.
A jolly.looking German was quietly
walking down Third avenue. looking
up occasionally at an elevated rail-
way locomotive, and perhaps wishing
that he could smoke as much us 1T
could, when he was Familiarity APP
preached by a man who said, "Hello,
Joe! What are you doing here 7"
The old man looked and said, "But |
am not here at ALL" "Not here 2"
said the man. "What do you mean
by that ?" "Vell now you see my
name is not Joe, and so how could |
be here? You must mean some
other man. ''-NeW York Herald.
The family were telling riddles one
evening, and the five-year-old told
this:
Four little hopper.toads sat on a
a tree,
Two hoped off and then there
were three.
Nobody could guess it. well
she explained zone of them hoped
right back again" Who told you
that riddle ?" asked mamma. "NO-
body" replied the little one. Il
thunk it up myself"
The butterfly never goes back on
its grub.
"YOu don't seem to have made
much money by bringing your hogs
down here was remarked to IA farm
Ell who had driven his hogs seven
miles to town and then sold them for
precisely what was offered him before
he left home. "Wcll, no." said the
agriculturist pensively, Il havn't
made much money, but then, bright
ming, "you know had the company
Of the hogs on the way down."
Why is the map of Turkey, in Eu-
rope, like frying-pan Because it
has Greece ut the bottom.
What Is that which Adam never
saw, never possessed. yet left two to
each of his children Parents.
"Shon," said a Dutchman, "you
may say vat you please 'pout pad
hat had the worst neigh.
Dor as never vas. Mine hens und
mine pigs come home nit der ears
split, und the odder day two of them
come home missin'."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30

It Is estimated that sixty thousand
Americans visited Europe during the
past season. and that they spent 49,.
900 apiece, in all $50, 000, 900. This
Is an enormous sum total, and yet we
cannot say that the money was lost.
All who can afford 1t should see the
Old World. The w World sur
passes it in natura. beauties. We
have a greater variety of soil and
climate, but the historic associations
of the Old World are the heritage OF
the whole race. William H. Wander.
bilt alone spent what many Americans
consider quite fortune. He gave
$40, 900 for one Meissonier. Ameri.
can artists have suffered by the edu-
cation of our rich, who find so much
better and cheaper pictures abroad
that they learn to patronizs the for.
eign artist to the detriment OF their
American rivals.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30
THE LONG DREAM.

The summer will como with fresh perfume
Where all tho brown leaves are lying,
And the windy air with blush and bloom,
Like shuttle blown through q silken loom
In tho delicate foliage plying.
The morning will gather its oolors anow,
As sweet ~ q girlish promise,
OF green and golden and rose and blue,
To weave fresh voilets out OF the dew
As bright ~ the ones stolen from us.
AZ lie at case In my last rcpose,
All tho beauty about me woven,
Like the cunning OF sense that inward flows,
I shall feel In the blush that dyes the rose
And the germ whom It's husk Is cioven.
And the rootlets ind their way underground
Through the tolls Of tho seasons malice,
Till know how tho coil Of sense Is wound
To the far OF stars I'm tho depths profound.
Where Harth seems golden palace.
But you will not know Of the watch keep
Where the fiow Of the senses all pass,
Like dreamer, who hears the stir and creep
or the wind, while gently lie asleep
Under the broad.leafed catalpas.
Atlantic Monthly for January.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30

Because the bloom is off the rye, the
down rubbed from the peach, and
various other considerations. Be-
cause it's the way Of the world, Of
man. of matrimony. o Tempora! o
Mores O Matrimony!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-30
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
GrmS--$l.5O per Annum in Advance.
ADVERTISING RATES /:

Local NOTICES will bo inserted at the fol-
owing ratcS-Five lines or less, 10 cents; 10
cents for each additional line.
Jon PRINTING, both Plain and Ornamental,
executed with ncatncSs and promptness, and
al prices that will compare fav0rably with
any other job Printing House in the country.
Il NIGHTS OF HONOR, No sOS3.
IN The above Lodge will meet the first and
third saturday evenings OF each month, ut
the Odd Fell rvs Hall.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12
Ancient Customs About the Beard.


Mr.. Darwin in his " Descent of Man" in
clines to the belief that the beard was
originally ornamental. Ladies like
bearded man; he was popular in prim-
tive society, could se!ect the fairest
fair; his offspring resembled him, and
so on, according to the popular state
ments of this theory of selection. If
this view be true, it must be admitted
that women soon changed their minds.
There is no wife for bearded man."
says Maori proverb. The Mortimer
who settled in Iceland were entirely of
the opposite way of thinking, and the
only reproach that his foes brought
against NAL was his lack of beard.
The Egyptians, as q rule, were clean
shaven, especially the priests. The
neighboring Lybians, on the other hand,
were bearded, and the Northern mari
time enemies of the Egyptians, prob
ably the early Greeks, wore rather thin
yellow boards. Yet out of shaven
Egypt the Israelites carried boards
which they highly respected. To cut
an ENJOYS beard was gross insult, and
he WAS obliged to tarry somewhere till
his beard was grown. Friends might
touch the beard in q reverential sort of
way, and thus Jacob took hold of that
of Amassa and ran him through the
body with his sword. The Assyrian
Kings wore enormous boards, and MANY
curled tiers, or stories, and we have an
impression that some Orientals carried
their boards in a box. DR.. Doran, in
writing on the beard, gravely maintains
that the early Greeks were shaver, and
that they called bearded alien races
barbarous," connecting the word with
barba, a beard" But Homer's Greeks,
we know, wore their boards, and the
Egyptian monuments are sometimes
bearded.-Lo1ad07a Nous,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12

MULLEN CURES CoNsUMpT1oN.-A
correspondent of the Lexington (Ky.)
Press wrote as follows about the flower
OF a wel-known plant: II have dis
covered remedy for consumption. 1t
has cured a number of cases after
they had commenced bleeding at the
lungs and the hectic flush was already
on the cheek. After trying this remedy
to my own satisfaction I have thought
that philanthropy required that
should let it be known to the world. It
is the common MULLEN stepped strongly
and sweetened with coffee sugar, and
drunk freely. Young or old plants are
good, dried in the shade and kept in
clean bags. The medicine must be
continued from three to six months,
according to the nature of the disease.
1t is very good for the hlood-vessels al
so. 1t strengthens and builds up the
system, instead of taking away the
strength it makes good blood and takes
inflammation away from the lungs. 1t
is the wish of the writer that every pe-
riodical in the United States, Canada
and Europe should publish this recipe
for the benefit of the human family.
Lay this by, and keep It in the house
ready for use.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12
An Agricultural School for Girls.

France has agricultural schools for
girls. One of the chief is near Rouen,
which is said to have been begun with
a capital of one franc by Sister of
Charity and two little discharged prison
girls,and to be now worth 100000. This
establishment has 800 girls, from 6 to
II. The farm, entirely cultivated by
them, is over 400 acres in extent.
Twenty-Five Sisters form the staff of
teachers. More than one medal Of the
French Agricultural Society has been
awarded to this establishment at Darne-
tel, and the pupils are in great demand
all over Normandy, on account of their
skill. They 60 out as stewards, garden
ers, farm managers, dairy-women, and
laundresses. Each girl has on leaving
an outfit and small sum of money,
earned in spare hours. If they want a
home they can always return to Darne-
tel, which they are taught to regard as
home.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12
THE NEW YEAR 1850.
II JENNIE JONES,

Old limo, with his busy fingers
n turning another page
In the wonderful book Of life,
That readsth from age to age.
Unwritten it, wonderful story,
Untold its mystical tale,
And before its possible reading
The marvels Of romance fail.
Lot 10 write with . higher purpose
Than any the past has known
The fair, bright page before US.
And make that purpose our own.
Lot us love with = truer love
The friends that are ours to hold,
For the dregs that pass for friendship
Let ~ give the hearts true gold.
At the wrongs that would give Us battle
Let us strike surer blow;
Let us meet the evils would slay US
With face turned full to the foe.
And though the future should fail W,
Just ~ the past has done,
The year will still be the better
For being better begun.
0ONER Wis.,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12
Lincoln's 6ettysburR Oration.

-Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth ON this continent
new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
Now We are engaged in great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation 90 conceived and 80 dedicated.
can long endure. We are met on a
great battlefield of that war. We are
met to dedicate portion of it as the
final resting-place of those who here
gave their lives that the nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this.
But in q larger sense we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we can
not hallow this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled
here consecrated it far above our power
to add or detract. The world will little
note nor long remember what we may
say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here to the IN.
finished work that they have thus far
so nobly carried on. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us-that from these
honored dead we take increased devo.
ton to the cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion-that
we here highly resolve that the dead
shall not have died in vain. that the
nation shall, under God, have Il new
birth of freedom, and that the Govern
mont of the people, by the people, and
for the people, shall not perish from
the earth"
If brevity be the soul of eloquence,
as it is of wit, then this address deserves
the very highest praise. And when We
analyze the manner and the matter, it
is indeed difficult to see how anything
substantially better could be crowded
into the same small compass Yet no
point of real Importance is left un-
touched, and the points touched are
driven home to the dullest mind in
that simple and earnest language of
which Lincoln was q perfect master
Only an orator can appreciate an ora
tor, and it is reported that Edward
Everett-who was to follow the Presi-
dent in an elaborate effort lasting over
an hour-said to him: Sir, your adj
dress will be remembered and cherished
when mine is forgotten" And so it has
turned out. Yet Everett was perhaps
the most thoroughly accomplished ora
tor America has produced, and the Get
tysburg Grafton was not unworthy of
his high renown. If less effective than
his predecessor, it was because the one
appealed to the head and the other to
the heart; and at such times and places
the feelings are of more consequence
than the intellect 81. Louis Repa4tli-
CU1l
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12
The Beat Rubber Boot.

There is nothing better for farmer or out
door man than good rubber boot and moth
ing so exasperating as bad one. Competi.
ton among manufacturers has led to such a
cheapening Of quality that until lately it was
u hard thing to find rubber boot really worth
the money asked for it. The Candee Rubber Co
of New Haven, Ct. however, has put on the
market boot designed to meet the call for a
real good, substantial article, and to denote its
freedom from adulterative mixtures it is called
tho "96 Per Cent. Sterling Boot" 1t is made
on honor, as pure as can be made, and is war,
ranted three months BY On ingenious con.
trivance space is provided at the top Of the
leg for recording the date of the sale, By
punching holes in the space provided-like a
railroad tickct-so that there may be no tro,,-
bic about the warrant; The upper and leg OF
the "95" Boots are doubled, and the soles are
one~half inch thick, of solid rubber from toe to
heel. Ordinary rubber boots are barely a
quarter inch thick in the thickcst part, and
only onc-cight at the shank. descriptive
circular can be obtained by sending postal
direct to the company; or the 95" Boots can
he found at most of the stores
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12

An old physician, retired from practice having had
placed In his hands by East india missionary the
formula OF simple vegetable remedy for the speed,
md permanent cure for Consumption. Brou tits.
also positive and radical for Nervous Debility
and all Nervous Complaints after having te ted its
wonderful curative powers 10 thousands of has
fell 1t his duty it to his su felous
Act1ateo by tha motive and desire to relieve huma
suferiu% will send free of charge to oil who desire IT,
this recipe, In German. French English, With full
directions for preparing bud using Seat by mail By
addressing 18th stamp, naming this paper. ". w.
sHEnAB. l49 Powers Block. Rochester. N. 7.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-12
HEARTSEASE.

OF all the bonny bud9 that blow,
In bright or cloudy weather,
OF all the flowers that come and 20,
The whole twelve months together
The little purple pansy brings
Thoughts OF the sweetest, saddest thin~~
I had little lover once;
She used to give me posies;
Her eyes were blue as hyacinths,
And lips q red as roses.
Everybody used to praise
Her handsome looks and winsome wave
The other boys that went to school
Would make such silly speeches,
Because took her every day
The biggest plums and peaches,
And always at the door would wait
To carry home her books and slate.
They couldn't see with pout and ding
The mighty fascination
About that little snub-nosed thing
To win such admiration
As if there weren't dozen girls
With nicer eyes and longer curls.
One thing they knew as we'll - day,
For never could see clearly
Why more than Marian or May
should be loved SO dearly.
asked her why was all of this;
She only answered with kiss.
Until leased her tell me why
wished to know the reason
When from hower-bed close by,
Where the pansies were in season,
She picked and gave = flower to me
With sweet but simple gravity.
The garden is in bloom" she said,
With lilies pale and slender,
With roses and verbenas red
And fuchsias' purple splendor;
But over and above the rest
This lite heartseass suits me best"
Am your little Heartsease, then?"
asked, with blushing pleasure.
She answered yes and yes again,
Hesrtsease and dearest treasure,
That round the world or all the sea
Hold nothing half so dear a. me.
listened with proud delight
Too rare for words to capture
Not even dreamed such sudden blight
Would come to chill my rapture;
could not {oresee the tender bloom
OF pansies round little tomb.
Life holds some stern experience
Which most of US discover,
But I've had other losses since
lost my little lover;
But the little purple pansy brings
Thoughts Of the sweetest. saddest things.