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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
BY the Card.

An afflicted paterfamilias writes to the
Boston Transcript: I never knew what
living "by the card" meant. I know
how. A parent of numerous family of
young folks may indeed know to his cost
in these ornate times. The "ornament
of life nowadays costs more than bread
and butter. Something too much OF
this. We got over Christmas and
New Years all right. The last card
was received and sent just about
time to buy the materials for valentines.
This ragged like fever in the house for
four constant weeks. Every sunny room
was occupied with Cupid's characters
q drying.
"Pa!' and she screamed scream
that went through my ears like dart;
"don't sit on that chair; don't you see a
heart in red and yellow, not yet dryp'
We got over the valentines, and have
plenty of them left in the market for next
years uses. Now begins the Easter.
My girls tell me it is going to be some
thug this year in the way Of eggs, cards,
paste-board make-ups, of all sorts, more
than common. Those sent are being
forced forward in most eggstraordinary
manner. Not an egg in shell for my
breakfast this morning. They had all
been drained for Easter. After Easter,
what? May day cards? Forgive me
for limiting at it. Some one will take it
mp. And then Fourth of Julyl SO runs
the year, and we live by the card.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19

Late in the afternoon, when the room had grown
Too hat and trt rome with its faring light
And mole Of voices, ! tile OFT a1one
Into the darkness Of the n INNER night
Down the long garden walk slowly went.
A little wind wa stirring In the trees;
on y Jaw the whit ut Of Ii. flowers,
And W. sorry thIt the eai her hours
On thnt fair evening had been 30 ir-s.ent;
Because, said, am c intent With there
Dear friends Of mine, who onl, spe-k to me
With their delicious fragrance, and who tell
To iDe their gracious wtlcvme silently,
The le.yes that uch my hand with dew are wet;
find the tail white ifIies love well;
hnger ss lass the mignonotte;
And what surprise could swcetcr be than this
To find Q late rose waiting with kis!
Atlanta
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
About Wheat Drills.
TW. +. B.. In Practical Farmer

i've Es Dsp IA EteCaSoi
L. X. Ranney of Summit County, O.,
in private letter asks me several letters
about wheat drills, requesting that they
be answered through the Farmer. 1
cannot answer his question as to which is
the best drill. as have not had an OPP
portunity of comparing the different
drills in the market. As to whether l
have succeeded best with drilled or
broadcast sowing in wheat" answer
decidedly in favor of drilling. The adj
vantages of drilling are, first, a saving Of
seed. When wheat is sown broadcast
and covered with the harrow, some of
the seed is covered 30 deeply as not to
grow at all, and some left so near the
surface as to perish for lack of moisture,
and 1 have no doubt that three pecks of
seed drilled will give as good stand as
one bushel broadcast. Another advan-
tage is that the wheat is sown Mt a uni
form depth and evenly distributed;
and still another, and probably the great
est benefit of all, is that the drill leaves
ridge of earth between the rows of
wheat which in freezing and thawing
crumbles down and protects its roots.
In buying drill you are getting an i'm
plement that will last many years, and
you want oil the improvements. After
one years experience with drill with
fertilizer attachment, I would not take
one as gift and agree to use il
five years without this attach.
ment. Every farmer knows how
important it is to have wheat get good
start in the fall, so that it may be well
rooted for winter, and a little fine manure
sown with the wheat gives it just this
start. I used wheat drill with this at.
tachment iu the fall of 1877, and where
I sowed five bushels to the acre of O
homemade fertilizer made from night
soil, hen manure, leaf mould and plaster,
and which did not cost twenty-five cents
bushel, I had eight bushels more
wheat to the acre than where nothing
was applied. A neighbor of mine largely
increased his crop by drilling in few
bushels of ashes. With this kind Of
drill we are able to try experiments with
chemical and commercial manures, and
apply them where they will at once be
available to the young plant, as we can
not do 80 well by broadcast sowing. Be
fore getting drill, test it thoroughly t.
see that 1t sows regularly, not only
wheat, but beans, corn, broom-corn, etc.
for good force-feed drill should SOW al
of these, and you may want to drill il
any or all of these at some future time
Look out also for durability, ease O.
changing feed, and all the points which
go to make desirable machine. Whel
you have bought drill, take good care
Of it, never leaving it out at night, ant
it will last long time, and soon pay fol
itself.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
THE MARKETS.
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN Il Co., Commissio
Merchants. Milwaukee and Chicago.
New Work..

New Work.
New YORK, March 1880 p. M.-Flour-
A shade stronger; moderate export and home
trade demand; receipts 1857 barrels; round
hoop Ohio at S5.25GDG.OO; choice do at S6.10@
7.50; supcrfine western ut S4.S0@5.3 80; common
10 good extra do at S5.4065.65; choice do at
S5.7Od5.S0; choice white wheat do at $3.50
$50. Wheat-Spring quiet and firm winter =
@ll9c better; quiet; sales $4,000 bus No;
white seller April S1.4515; 5000 bus do seller
May at s1.4219; $4,000 bus No. red seller
April at Sl.isI9a1.49; $4,000 bus seller May
at S1.45@1.46. Com-ll4a1gc better; quiet;
mixed western spot at 59@61c; do future at
53I3@5Sc. Oats-About steady: western at ~
G05Uc. Bcef-Dull; new plain mess at s1U.5O
G0ll.OO;new extra do at sll.uO@12.0O. Pork
Steady; old mess at S11.62l9. LRrd-Firm;
steam rendered at S7.G5. Bultcr-Firm: fair
inquiry; Ohio at 15@2sc. Cheese-Firm at II
l4I!c tor poor to choice. Whisky-Nominal;
western at S1.10. Sugar-very strong; fair do
mand. NIolasses-Fair request and prices steady.
Petroleum-Dul and weak. Rice-Fim and
fairly active. Coffee - Steady and quiet.
Freights-Firm. Spirits of TurPentine Strong
at J0@5lc. Resin-Quiet at SI.4501.5 21S.
Tallow-Dull ut TIC for western. Eggs
Weak at 1l@13114c for good to choice.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19

quent upon copious ruins after o season
Of severe freezing followed by melting
SHOWS, may cause the tissues near the
ground to become 81 enlarged as to rup-
ture the inelastic bark. Varieties seem
to vary in capacity for absorbing water
through the bark at the earth's surface.
For instance, the Warfeld, notorious for
bursting, will retain moist, and even
wet, bark for three or four inches above
the ground, apparently by capillary at
traction, during dry, sunny day, when
the bark of a Duchess at this point will
be perfectly dry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19

TIE New Orleans papers consider
Bennett, of the Worcesters, "the great
est catcher Of the age"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19


A note ON this subject, from the pen of
an experienced Dutch agrlculturist, APP
pears in the columns of Biederman's
LentatJtatt. In northern Germany it is
generally arranged that cows shall caive
between November and February, under
the impression that the largest yield of
milk is thus obtained; in Holland, on
the other hand, March and April are con-
sidered the most favorable months. In
order to arrive at some definite conclu-
sions rs to the respective merits OF the
systems, the author kept careful record
of the milk obtained from hundred and
forty-two COWS about the same age and
condition of nourishment. One day
in each week he had the milk of each
COW weighed separately, and calculated
the weekly yield on that basis. Until
the beginning of March the cows were
kept in their sheds, and thence, to the
beginning of November, were driven out
to pasture. The results obtained show
clearly that after the month of February
constant decrease in the yield of milk
and in the duration of lactation occurred
in direct proportion to the lateness of the
date when the cows calved. The quality
of the milk vas also inferior in the later
calving animals.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19

An orange cut open at Bridgeport con-
tanned another about the size Of Q walnut,
but perfect in shape.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19

The baroness Hirsch gave Adelina
Patti the other night 1900 francs
5000 for singing one song Of her
soiyee.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
The Hessian FLY.

from the Country Gcnticman.l
There are two broods of the Hessian
fly in each year. The times vary some
what with latitude and other controlling
circumstances, but at Greencastle, In
diana, the perfect insect, small, nearly
black fly, (smaller than mosquito will
lay its eggs in the wheat early i'll May,
or possibly little sooner. The egg is
deposited on the upper side of the leaf
near the stalk, and gradually slides down
after Matching to the bottom of the
sheath of the leaf, into the pocket form
ed by the sheath and stalk. Here it re.
mains several weeks, fe2ding on the
juices and destroying the stalk. II
changes to the pupa state and comes out
in the second brood tow ards the end OF
August and in September, and lays its
eggs in the young wheat plant near the
roots, and remains slightly beneath the
surface till the following spring, when il
comes out and lays eggs as already
described. The injury to the young
plants in autumn and winter is per-
ceived by the yellow color of shoot
from the roots, and the following sum
mer by the bent stalk and shrunker
head.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO. March $500 p. M.-Whcat-
Strong ard higher at S1.23l4 for cash; S1.2214
bid for seller April S1.221s lid for seller May.
Corn-Firmer at 3s@38114c for cash; 363sc for
seller April; 4OIac bid for seller May. Oats
Firmcr at 3119c for cash; 351Sc FOR seller May.
Si.OG; 1,5O0 bbls for export at 1.31 here. Pork
Steady at S1l.471I Tor cash; S11.6715 for
seller May. Lard-Firm at S7.12119 for cash;
s7.15 for seller April; S7.25 for seller May.
Hogs-Receipts 10000 head; quiet and steady,
with fair demand; light at S4.35G4.55; packing
ut $i.30@4.5O; shipping at S4.550D4.s0. Cattle
Receipts 1900 head; slow and weak; shipping
at S3.70CD4.90; 15C020c lower than Thursday;
butchers at S2.0O@4.0O; stockers and feeders
Mt 81. 8OG729O
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, March $500 r. M.-Flour-
Held firmly; standard extras ut $5.2U@5.30;
common extras ut $5.00@5.10; choice at $3.50
@6.OO. Wheat-Tame, but firm; No. 2 at
$l.19IG; No. 5 at S1.0816; No. at s1.O3;
rejected at CSC; No. 2 seller April at S1.19A
@1.2O; seller May at St.22ssD1.2s3s. Corn
Firm at376c. Oats-Quiet ut SIC. Barley
Strong at SOC for cash. Rye-Dull at TIC.
Iork-Quiet but steady at sl1.4719 cash. Lard
IL paSh
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
Foreign.

LONDON, March 13-12:30 p. M.-IIiveroool
wheat market opens firm. California CLUB at
lis 4d@12s; average California at lis 2d6p11s
I'd; spring at 9s 7d@lls Id; floating cargoes
strong. On passage strong. Number of
cargoes on sale off coas, corn, nothing
OF coast at SIS Cd. GOOD cargoes No. 2
spring wheat off coast, 53s Cd. Fair aver
age California wheat just shipped ut 5ls; nearly
dino M 59S
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
n. II. Railroad Matters.

Work on the Pen dOreille Division
of the Northern Pacific Railroad is
quietly but rapidly progressing. From
the town of AinswOrth, at the mouth
of Snake river, nearly 30 miles of track
is laid eastward; the road-bed is COM
pleted for distance of nearly go miles
from that point, and the graders are
fastening forward number of miles
further. A contract is about to be let
for grading 16 miles of road from Spo-
kan Falls westward toward Ainsworth.
On this IS miles of the line there will
be some very heavy rock work. There
are no tunnels necessary on any por-
ton of the line between the Columbia
river and Lake Pen dOreille, but a
few deep hillside cuts will be required.
Last week 125 fiat and % box ears,
which were built at the company's $
shops during the five months last past,
We're shipped via kalama and the Co.
lumbia river, for use on the Pen
complete in all the parts of their wood
work; but they are not to be put to-
gether until received at Ainsworth.
Two heavy locomotives also have been
shipped for use east of AinswOrth,
each of 30 tons weight, and six Others
are on the way from New York via
Cape Horn. These locomotives were
built mt the Baldwin Works in Phila-
delphia. These works are among the
largest factories of all kinds in the
United States. They are now turning
out one complete locomotive every j
hours, and employ over 1000 mechan-
les and laborers. They now have or
ders for two years ahead, and this, at
their present rate of working, means
about 600 locomotives, which at, say
! $1,000 each, would give them a gross
income of S6,0O0,000, or S3,OOO,OO0 per
year.
LAND SALES.
There is increasing activity in this
| business. The total number of acres
sold along the Pen d'Oreille Division
up to the end of March were 1896,
| valued at S69,359 These sales were all
made since the opening of the branch
railroad Office at ColfaX, about the
middle of last November. These loca-
tons are scattered over about 30town-
ships, tributary to the line of the road
some of them as far east as the -Four
Lakes country, near Spokan Falls. In
| March last Northern Pacific bonds to
the amount of $4,000 were taken in
payment for lands in that district.
Sales for April to the 25th, amounted
to 4,5S2 acres, on which the cash pay
ments were S9,454. Farmers seeking
locations are going in large numbers
Into the Palouse country, and much
interest has been awakened respecting
the less known, but not less fertile
region of Crabb Creek, to the west and
north. h.-TucOma Ledger, Nay l.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
Sugar supply.


The newly discovered process of max
ing sugar from sorghum and Indian
corn cane, differs largely from the
mode of crystalizing the juice of the
Louisiana ribbon cane. The percent
age of sucrose Tor true cane sugar oh
tanned from experiments at the United
States agricultural department, from
the last named choicest variety of
sugar cane was l6l per cent; from the
early amber sorghum the percentage
obtained was Il per cent. This shows
conclusively that under the new pro-
cess our productive sugar lands are en-
larged from the narrow and malarious
belt in Louisiana to embrace the entire
valley of the Mississippi. Not sor-
ghum only but Indian corn cane is to
be pressed into the service of this new
and profitable business. After harvest
ing the great corn crop of the country,
the rejected cornstalks, by actual eN-
pertinent, are estimated rs sugar pro-
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

The Californian for May is magnificent
number. Sand" by +. W. Gally, is in
creasing in interest as the story progresses.
c. 7. Hopkins contributes valuable paper
on ''The Crisis in San Francisco" "A Day
at the Old Mission" by May II. Field. will
well repay perusal, as will also "Almost a
Novel, by Philip Shirley. "Reminiscences
Of Col. +. d. Baker" by Edward b. jerome,
and "The First Legislature on this Cont
ncnt." by W. W. Crane, are first-class pro-
ductions. The Californian is also replete
with pocsy, science, industry aud the arts,
and 10 well worth place in every house.
hold. The enterprising publishing house Of
A. Roman 4 Co. deserve the patronage of
the entire Pacific Coast in their laudable
cndeavor to furnish tirst-class periodical.
Subscription price, S.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
NUMBER 38.


Recently, Hon. George Ainsley, del
egate in congress from Idaho, delivered
II speech In the house Of representa-
tives, on the bill to provide for de-
ficiency in appropriation for mails on
eason ss rp to " ths @c foowing WE aGof true oS
picture of the political condition of the
territories and the treatment which
the people inhabiting the territories
receive at the hands of congress and
the general governments:
In its course toward the territories,
congress has but aped the policy pur-
sued by Great Britain in the govern
ment of her colonies. Acting on the
assumption that it possesses absolute
and unlimited powers under section 5,
article 1, of the constitution, which
provides that "the congress shall have
power to dispose of and make all need
full rules and regulations respecting
the territory or other property belong
| ing to the United States," the people
resident in the territories have been
treated as property and not as citizens
of the United States, possessing rights
which even congress is rightfully
bound to respect. We are regarded as
aliens, trespassers on the public do
main, living, as it We're, on govern
ment reservations, not treated as well
even as the Indian wards of the nation,
for the latter are not taxed, and are fed
and clothed at the government eX-
pense.
Congress has utterly ignored the free
system of local self-govcrnment in the
territories, and has established over
us an arbitrary, despotic and absolute
| l., I'm tn lon n nH
foreign to the spirit of the American
institutions We are denied any voice
or vote in the government in which
we live; bearing all the sponsibilities
and burdens of citizenship, but denied
the privileges and immunities of such.
We are regarded rs incapable of self
government; political lazzaroni warts
on the body-politic, who, by imml-
grating from cur old homes, in cross
ing state lines into the territory of the
United States, left our brains and in
telligencc behind Us, and forfeited all
our rights and privileges as American
citizens. Swarms of fcarpet-baggers se-
lectcd from the grand army of broken
down old political hacks ana pro-
fessional Office seeking bummers, alien
to the country and people 10y instinct
as well rs by nature, are foisted upon
us as officers, such as governors, judges,
marshals, etc; and they come among
us TO harass our people and eat out
their substance Taxes are imposed
on us without our consent. The right
is claimed, and sometimes exercised
by congress, of annulling at pleasure
laws enacted by our territorial legisla-
lures. The number of members of our
local legislatures is reduced by rider
on an appropriation bill, and fuii power
is claimed in this body to legislate for
us i'm all cases whatsoever. Yet We
are expected to endure in uncomplain-
ING silence allthe wrongs and indigni-
ties heaped upon us. We must con-
tribute of our hard-earncd wages to
the national Golfers without receiving
ANYTHING in return. We are compelled
to pay tribute, but have no voice in
the levy.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
Newspaper Decisions.

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name or anothcr's, or whether he has SUB
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2. If a person orders his paper discon.hueu,
he must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, ana
then collect the whole amount, whether the
paper Is taken from the office or not.
5. The courts have decided that refusing to
AXE newspapers and periodicals from the post;
Office, or removing and leaving them uncaileG
for is prima racia evidence of Intentional
fraud
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

A silk factory is at present In sue
cessful operation mt South San Fran
cisco, employing few men and over
"a hundred women and girls.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

INDIAN FESTIVITIES Tho Indians
on the Umatilla Reservation had a
good time last week-the OCCASION be-
ing the division of the property belong
ing to the late celebrated chief, How
lish Wampo. \ delegation of Chiefs
from all different tribes We're present,
including chiefs from the Nez Perees
Palouses, Priests rapids, ColumbiaS,
Hakimas, Warm Springs and Others.
Moses was invited, and was probably
present. The festivities began on
Wednesday, the 2lst inst, and the
howlings over old Howlish's benefac-
tions lasted some days. 1t is the great
est council of the tribes that has taken
place for some years.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

\ correspondent ofthe Mountaineer,
writing from Hood river, says: "The
fruit crop with the exception OF peaches
give promise of being very good. There
will be no peaches, the cold weather
in December last seems to have killed
the fruit. The weather is pleasant and
thecrops never looked better. tmmi-
grants, mostly Germans, are coming
in and rapidly taking up lands and
building for themselves permanent
homes. There are two good schools,
both in operation. Mr.. and Mrs. Coon,
lately from East Portland, are the
teachers, who have the reputation OF
being very competent
In one week, recently, in London
alone, l2,5oo,0oO pounds of canned
meats were sold, worth upwards of
Sl,0U,0M. About two-ftths of the
cheese consumed i'm Great Britain il
foreign, the larger portion being
American, and costing about S50,oo,-
600 annually rwo-thirds of the but
ter consumed by our cousins is foreign,
and they spend every year about Sl2,-
50O,oO0 in imported eggs h lefty
French. About the same amount Is
spent in potatoes, and S2,WoooO in
onions.