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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
A Sea of BOraX.

Some five or six years ago young
man was traversing the mountains, canons
and valleys of Esmeralda county, Ne
vadn, prospecting for goldand silver. As
he looked down on the valley of Teeps
marsh he saw vast bed of white sand or
something like it, and was tempted to
descend and examine it. He found the
place to be the bed of dry lagoon, five
miles in length, and was about half as
wide; and what he had taken for sand
proved to be soft clay-ike deposit, in
which he sank ankle deep as he cautious
" walked over it. Filling his pockets
with the curious stuff, he mounted his
horse again, and rode to his home in Co
lumbus. There an assayer pronounced
the contents of his pockets the finest
samples of crude borax he had ever seen.
The astonished prospectOr-one of the
large family of Smiths-lost no time in
making formal claim to this find; and
that obtained, he and his brother went
to work with tanks, boilers, crystalizers
and all necessary appliances, and are at
the present writing the masters of an
immense establishment, driving a very
profitable trade, one likely to be as per-
manent as possible, since the deposit of
borax in Teel's marsh reproduces itself
every two or three years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
An Outside Nhitewash.


If people knew how easily whitewash
is made, and how valuable it is when
properly applied. II not only prevents
the decay OF wood, but it is greatly con-
ducive to the healthfulness of buildings,
whether of wood or stone. Out-build-
ings and fences, when notpainted, should
be supplied once or twice year with
good coat of whitewash, which should be
prepared in the following way:
Take a clean, water-tight barrel, or
other suitable cask, and put into it an
other half-bushel of lime. Stake it by
pouring water over it boiling hot, and in
sufficient quantity to cover it five inches
deep, and stir it briskly till thoroughly
slaked. When the shaking has been
thoroughly effected, dissolve it in water
and add two pounds of sulpliate of zinc
and of common salt; these will cause the
wash to harden and prevent its cracking,
which gives an unseemly appearance to
the work. If desirable, beautiful
cream color may be given to the above
wash by adding three pounds of yellow
ochre; or a good pearl-of-lead color by
the addition of lamp, vine or ivy-black.
For fawn color, add four pounds of um-
Der, either Turkish or American-the lat
ter is the cheaper-one pound of Indian
red, one pound of common hmpblack.
For common stone color, add four pounds
of raw lumber and two pounds of lamp
black.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
ANOTHER SEAT TO BE SEIZED.
The senate Committee ON Elections
Decides 10 Report In Favor Of I'm.
seating senator Kellogg, Of LOuisf.
ana...A Dramatic Scenes

ana.-.A Dramatic Scene.
A Washington dispatch says: The
scene in the senate committee on privi-
leges and elections Tuesday morning,
Just before the final vote was taken in
the Kcllogg-Spofford case, is described
by an eyewitness to have heen intensely
dramatic. The Democratic senators had
not said a word in defense of the great
outrage they were about to perpetrate,
and no report had even been prepared.
Ben Hill was clamoring for vote on two
propositions,-frst, that Kellogg be not
entitled to his seat; second, that Spofford
be declared entitled to seat. At this
juncture Senator Hoar, of Massachu-
sets, sprang to his feat, andfor the next
half-hour told the majority of the COM
mittee what he thought of their course.
He informed them that they were about
to commit O great crime, and that it
was meet for the party which had,
nineteen years ago, fired upon the flag Of
the Union and had tried to destroy this
government. He delicately reminded
them that out of the six members of the
majority, three were ex-rebels and two
were rebel sympathizers, and intimated
that perhaps their conduct was not 20
very remarkable. Mr.. Hoar next alluded
to the Maine affair, and affirmed that the
party which attemptedto steal a state was
not inconsistent in endeavoring to steal o
seat in the senate. Mr.. Hoar's agrees
took the majority completely by sur
prise. No one responded. The vote
was taken, and the resolution to unseat
Kellogg and to seat Spofford WAS passed
by the following vote:
Yeas-Saulsbury, Hill, Herman, Bailey, Pryor
and Vance.
Nays-Hoar and Cameron. Gen. Logan was
absent.
Another dispatch says: Although this
action was expected it WAS supposed that
Kellogg would not be disturbed until
after the election, because the action is
so unfairly partisan that its discussion in
the senate will have an important effect
in the next campaign.
1t is known, however, several Of the
leading Democratic senators hfye ex-
pressed themselves openly as opposed to
the reopening of the case of Mr.. KEEL
logg-some on the score of expediency,
and some on the ground that the case was
res adjudicata, and that there was no
power to reopen it. 1t is quite proba-
BILE that if the report Of the committees
action is pressed upon, it will fail to re-
ceive the vote of the majority of the
senate. The report in this case will give
the Republicans just the opportunity for
which they have been praying, to stir up
anew all the war rules, and make material
for the next presidential campaign. They
ought to be very grateful to the COM
mittee ON privileges and elections.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Effect Of the Democratic Attempt to
Steal Maine.

Ex-senator Lot NJ. Morrill,, chairman
of the Republican state committee, gives
a glowing account of the future pros
poets of the Republican party in Maine,
and believes that the state will be carried
by q rousing majority next November
for tn. presidential ticket. A great many
Democrats were thoroughly Disguised
with the course pursued by their leaders
in their recent attempt to steal
the state government, and they
evinced their dissatisfaction by vot-
ing against their party at the late local
elections. Mr.. Morrill, believes that @
large number of Democrats will further
emphasize their dissatisfaction ct the
course of their leaders by voting with
the Republicans at the approaching
election. Conservative Democrats were
thoroughly alarmed at the revolutionary
course pursued, and they are determined
to put seal Of condemnation upon these
acts which viii be remembered by the
Democratic leaders for great many
years to come.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
The New Kind of Cruel.

An old sexton of Gloucester was once
summoned to lay out the body of an old
man with whom he was well acquainted,
when, on entering the room where lay
the supposed corpse, he was dumb-found-
ed ON seeing the supposed dead man rise
up in bed and in hollow tone of voice
articulate: {" Halloa, John, how are
you? Shake hands," The sexton was
almost frozen with horror, but in mo-
ment recovered himself, and shaking
hands said: 81 came up, Sam, to see if
you didn't want me to make new kind
of Cruel" The sick man assented, the
Cruel was made and carried up, and the
affair passed of. Sam lived until the
next day, and when the sexton was again
summoned he performed the work of his
profession uninterrupted
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Amazing DelnsiOn.
lFrCm the Philadelphia Times

A healthy boy with a sound pair of
lungs recently saw stirring address be-
ginning: "Have you pain under your
left shoulder" The boy had not had
any such pain. He read further and
found that pain Of this description in
dicated consumption. He stood before
the looking-glass and found hectic
flush on his cheek. That settled the
business for him. Immediately hebegan
to put all his savings into quack medi-
cines. Before long these things and the
notions he imbibed with them made him
sick. Anxious relations wondered what
allied him. The regular physician was
bewildered. At last discovery was made
of a couple OF dozen empty bottles stow
cd away in drawers and corners. The
boy was saved by total abstinence from
the compounds he had been trying to
cure himself with.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

or expensive and troublesome modes of
feeding. Plenty Of good corn and oats,
with good, clean hay, and ration of
roots once day in winter, II possible
in fact Just what other cattle need to
make them profitable-is all that short
horns require. Feed what they will eat
up clean; do not cloy; give plenty of ex-
ercise, and dry, sheltered sleeping quar-
tiers. A specific ration cannot be estab-
lished, the characteristics of different in
dividuals vary 30 much. When the
calves are born, the dams being all right,
let them run with the cow day or two.
Then place them in small yard, with n
comfortable, dry shed attached, and until
the COW ceases her worry, let her suckle
them three times per day; after she be-
comes cOntented, twice n day will do.
They will soon begin to nibble and feed.
If not in the grass season, give them fine,
clean hay. If in the grass season, cut
timothy and clover, about half cure 1t in
the sun, and feed in O convenient rack
under shelter. As soon as they will take
any, feed them oats and shelled corn
two-thirds oats, one-third corn, by meas
ure. They can be accustomed to this
little earlier by feeding little at first
from the hand. Now carefully watch
their appetites, and give them all the
oats ana corn they will eat quickly with
out cloying, and keep constantly before
them the half-cured grass. Feed their
grain rations when they have been long
est away from the COW. Do not leave
the cows with them at night. Do not
feed ground feed-it will scour them.
The whole grain will not scour them, and
it very seldom passes the calf whole Do
not pasture. After potatoes are grown,
if you have no mangles, feed them a
daily ration OF sliced potatoes. / save
my small potatoes for this purpose, and
suppose they pay me better than the
large ones.
II calf takes the scours, give it at
once one-haf to one teaspoonful of
laudanum in half-pint of strong coffee.
Gauge the laudanum according to the
age of the calf. If the first dose is not
successful, repeat in twelve hours. Keep
the shed and yard clean, and shed well
bedded, and plenty of pure water. In
addition to the above feed, small daily
ration of oilmeal is profitable, but not
indispensable. When the calves are
about six months old accustom them at
first to sucking only once day, and then
take the COW away, and if you have sue
cessfully followed the above directions
the calf will never know the difference.
As measure of my success I will say
that four of my last spring bull calves
were sold for 1886, and I have one on
hand, not for sale, for which ! refused
500 in September last. This calf took
first prize in his class at our county fair
last fall.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

The sentence which two out Of thirty
contestants failed to write correctly last
night ct a spelling match was this, as
originally written: A student, porting
over his studies as the rain poured down,
formed this sentence: 81 once, sitting
on kiln, saw knight-errant, himself
an arrant knave, throw q throwe at o
foe, which, striking him, produced o
throe of anguish and poignant pain like
that of the stab of poniard, which was
healed only by the juice Of the thyme
P0ducka Net0s.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Elihu Vedder. the Painter,

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Traveller, speaking of artists ut
the national capital, says: But the great
idealist of the age goes to Boston next
week, 80 / can scarcely tell you how good
he is, as you already know it. His studio
is tie favored haunt of the reflective and
tho poetical since he las been here. He
paints ideas. His Spring Oh the Sea-
shore" is the best rendering of an all de-
vastating passion, of a greedy relentless,
pitiless fate, that have ever seen. His
aspiring on the DESERT" or rather per-
haps the statue of Mcmnon, with the
Arab listening ut the ips-oh! what a
picture it is! His Cumean sibyl, his
mouse dying of indigestible literature,
all, all are great. They are like Haw-
thorne, immeasureably poetic, ideal, and
sad. II is strange to see the tall, light
haired, jolly, unaffected viking who has
painted them all. He looks like man
of glorious talent, but not like the sad
idealist. Strength, vigor, hope, reality,
are written oil over him. Where in his
cunning right hand does he keep this
muscle which interprets ones dreams?
He has weird picture on Aldrich's two
spirits
"I do not know
only died last night"
That symbolic utterance, that sug-
gestion that death is but new birth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Hungarian Grass.

a correspondent OF the country Con
Hcman says:
| know of no crop that answers so well
instead Of summer fallow as Hungarian
grass. 1t shades the ground so the
weeds can do nothing, and pulverizes it
nicely. 1t grows well on inverted sod,
provided the sod be rich rich and thor
oughly pulverized, at least two or three
weeks before the sowing, and is fine and
moist at time of sowing. have had the
best success with fall plowed turf, and
i'll that case the turf rots enough for
wheat. Yes, it is difficult crop to cure.
When heavy il requires one turning and
two days good sunshine. If turned near
night the green surface is not much in
jured by dew, and it is ready to cock by
the next night, and may be drawn (for
cows without opening the cocks, if the
weather has been clear and hot. For
horses, the cock should be opened, to
insure tine hay against mustiness. Yes,
it "ripens" after wheat harvest if sown
June /, but should never be permitted
to ripcn for hay, but should be cut as
soon as fairly headed. In favorable
season, it is fit to cut GO days after SOW
ing. Mine last year was sown June 4,
and was ready to cut August 4. From
three to four pecks of seed are required.
" Is it safe to feed as you would clover or
timothy?" Yes for COWS, and not for
horses-i. e., as rule. If properly
cured, and raked by hand rake, 1 do not
think it will hurt horses. But it is SO
liable to be either musty or dusty, that l
am free to confess that have not fed it
to horses more than two out of ten years.
All things considered, l think timothy is
wisely chosen as the hay for horses,
though clover and Hungarian are both
good, if properly cured:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Raising Early Chickens.

Poultry raisers are generally DESTROYS
of obtaining all the eggs they can during
the early part of the season. Ii hens
show disposition to sit after they have
laid their first lot of eggs, as those over
a year old generally do, they retot to all
sorts of means to prevent them. They
want eggs during the spring to eat and
sell. After the weather becomes warm
eggs are in less demand, and the keepers
Of hens are then DESTROYS that they shall
take to their nests for the purpose Of
raising chickens. There are many rea-
sons, however, why hens, old hens es-
pecially, should be allowedto sit as early
in the spring as they manifest DISPOSE
ton to. Ordinarily about three weeks
time will elapse between the period of
laying two lots of eggs, and this time can
be employed to better advantage in
Matching chickens than in scratching up
seeds in the garden.
Hens that raise brood of chickens in
the spring will generally lay large
number of eggs in the latter part of the
summer or during the early part of au-
tumn. In the spring hens are well feath-
cred, and are accordingly in the best con-
dition to set on eggs. Later i'll the sea
son they lose most of the feathers ON the
lower portion of their bodies and gene
rally become poor and restless. In this
condition they will not SIT patiently ON
the nest. When off the nest they are
extremely quarrelsome. When they re.
turn to it they are likely to break the
eggs in the nest and to show fight when
any one approaches them. The temper
ature of spring is more favorable to
matching eggs than that of the latter por-
ton of summer. The atmosphere is
somewhat moist, and fair degree OF
moisture is essential to Matching eggs.
! Setting hens will leave their nests for
shorter periods during the spring than
during the hot weather in summer.
Chickens Matched in April make better
and more useful birds than those Matched
in July or August. They will be large
enough to broil in midsummer, ut which
time they will command the highest
prices. Chickens Matched in early spring
will sell for more when three or fouI
months old than late chickens will after
they have been fed a year. The earlier
chickens are Matched the sooner they
will be ready for the market, and the
sooner they are in the market the more
money they will bring. Chickens hatch
ed in April will be more hardy thar
those that leave the nest late in summer
They will learn to take care of them
selves long before the approach of cold
weather, and will often commence to lay
by Christmas. The first eggs laid by
fowls in the spring are almost Away
fertile and generally produce very vigor
GUS birds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
How 20 Feed Calves.

An Iowa correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: I will describe briefly
my system of reasing short-horn calves,
which seems to be reasonably successful.
Good short-horn cattle, kept for breed
ing purposes, do not require pampering,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

"WHES win the angels call me?" sang
the leading soprano. Captain Grote,
who sat in back seat, suggested that it
depended good deal on what kind of O
hand Mr., Angel held,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
HELEN's CUP.
NJ LOUISE cHAspLER MouLTos.

Then Helen, daughter OF zeus, turned 10 new
thoughts. Presently she cast Q drug into The wine
whereof they drsnk-s drug TO u Ill pain and anger,
and bring forgetfulness Of every sorrow.-Buchsr
and Lan0's Homer.
Give me the potent draught that Helen poured
To lull Tclemachusl Make me forget
All present peril, and old sins, and let
Me look toward peace. Long threat'ning Fates
sharp sword
Before my eyes has hung-about me reared
The battles clamor. Sorc am beset;
New fears and ancient pains together met
Assail me, who for peace have long implored.
Give me, at last 10 drink, and let them dee,
The bafiied ghosts that watch me sullenIy,
To those waste fields that walking shadows keep;
And down some wsyeless tide, in quiet deep,
Az set Of day upon quiet sea,
oh, let me drift, and dream and fall on sleep.
-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

LORD DuFTERN spends an hour every
day studying Russian.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
SONGS TUNEIESs.

he kissed me! All, now, ut last,
he says goodnight as IL should be,
HIS great warm eyes bent yearningiy
Above my face-his arms locked fast
About me, and mine own eyes dim
With happy tears for love IL him.
lie kisses me last night, beneath
A swarm Of starr: he said stood
His one fair-form Of wumanhood,
And springing, shut me IN the sheath
az n caress that almost hid
Me from the good his kisses did.
He kisses me! He kisses me!
This IL the sweetest song know,
And 10 sing IL very low
And faint, and oh, 80 tenderiy
That, though You listen, none hut ne
May hear 1t a. he kisses me.
How can ! make you love me morc!"
A thJusand times she asks me this,
Her lips uplifted with the kiss
That have tasted DER and DER.
Till now drain il with no Sense
Other than utter Incidence.
How can I make You love me more?"
A thousand times her questioning face
Has nes.ied In Its resting place
lnhilkNereo, uii, tnoutn auon
This thing OF being loved, doubt
Not could not get along without.
How can she make me love her more?"
An. little woman. II, indeed,
might be frank as is the need
or frankness. would fall before
Your very feet, and there confess
Ny love were more IL yours were less.
Since l am old | have no carr
To babble silly tails Of when
loved, and he'd, as other men
Have done, who b, aRted here and there.
They would have died for the fair thing
They after murd. rcd. marrying.
Sine am old reason thus
Nothing SURVIVES, Of all the past.
Bet iu,t rcgut enough Ia at
IL Ill the clods have sIGothCrea It's
Then. with oar dead Loves, side 10y side
We may, perhaps. b. satisfied.
Since am old and strive "a blow
Alive the embcgs Of my youth
And ca.ly loves. find, in sooth.
An old mans heart may burn 81 low,
lis better Just a. calmly sit
And rake the ashes over II.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
CO. do not know

! only died last night"
That symbolic utterance, that sug-
Qestion TINT death is but q new birth,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-11
CENSUS

Dismissing the accommodating COM
plants relative to the returns of the
Census Enumerators, says the Econo-
mist, and accepting the results of their
labors so far as tabulated as approx
mately correct, we are at length enabled
to see to what extent the long term of
Industrial depression, extending from
1873 to 1879. has influenced the move
ments of population and the choice of
occupations. We note, in the first place,
that the large cities, as a rule, have been
compelled to part with the plethora Of
numbers from which they were suffering
after their greedy drain Of the country,
and that they will almost uniformly show
a loss of population to the country on
which they had made such large reprisals.
The restocking of the country with per-
sons who had thus gained a valuable,
though a bitter, experience cannot fail to
be to its great ultimate advantage. The
alienation of a term Of adversely with
one of prosperity will undoubtedly prove
in the end to have been a sort of school
ing OF large numbers Of people by taking
them out of their old associations and
putting them into others where they
would be sure to enlarge their horizon
while deepening their experience. The
country has come to the city and learned
many valuable lessons.
1t is one of the healthiest symptoms
that the population is taking to the
country and its simpler and less exciting
occupations again. The shard times
seemed to be needed to bring about a
condition of sanity on this subject. This
is Enthusiastically an agricultural ma
tion. and is likely long to remain SO.
There will always be enough to employ
their labor in the branches of mechan-
ism and manufacture. 1t is Of prime i'm
portance that the population be properly
distributed on the farms that stretch
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. So
long as, with our wonderful variety of
climate and soil, we can produce food
enough for our rapidly-increasing popula-
ton and have a large surplus for exporta-
tion, we are sure of a solid and enduring
prosperity which lies beyond the reach
OF disputes over systems of protection
and schemes for raising revenue. We
are not for moment to lose sight of the
great fact that we are an agricultural ma.
ton before everything else; that on the
annual productions of the soil rest our
vast system of internal trade and our
foreign commerce.. The world has never
before witnessed a spectacle similar to
that which the United States to-day o
numerous, self.sustaining, self-protecting
people, free from all foreign alliances,
unrcstrained in development, a miracle
of Unborn energy, an example Of peace
fitness, and more and more the hope and
stay of the human race.