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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
Lima Being.


The western star has just risen from
above the horizon. Of all the beauties
l have ever seen she is, in face, form.
hair and complexion, the most beautiful.
I thought she was Mrs. Milford, Com
modore Vanderbilt's granddaughter,
when / was struck by her wondrous
beauty at dance given by Nine. Georges
Cookery. ! have since met her at the
Elysee, and on last Wednesday night ut
the ministry of public instruction, where
O gentleman who furnishes "high life
table talk to boulevard print assured
me she was "la belle Americana from
New York, Mistress Milford" The
American girl, or young married woman,
seems thoroughly to know what she is
about, and her presence of mind never
deserts her. The beauty of the season
has nothing of this in her, and / under
stood why, when last night, at the grand
Menier ball, 1 heard her announced as
"Madame Gautherot." "She is not,
then, from the states Mt all, 1 reflected,
"but from Lima. Her husband is not
Mr.. Milford, and she has not dollar OF
Commodore Vanderbilt ut her bankers. u
Those diamonds were bought with the
produce of sugar cane and coffee planta-
lions. She was brought up in sub-tropic-
al ease and istlessness, and among
half breeds who have no notions about
women's rights, higher planes of thought
and characterization. Her husband is
a rich importer of colonial goods at
Nantes, and happy to see her enjoy her.
self in her own way" ......
Nine. Gautherot may be 80 much az
"a. Her head is classical, and she wears
her naturally wavy hair in Greeial
bandeaux. II her nose were an atom
shorter, one might admire it more; ant
still cannot say it is too long to be on
of proportion with the other features
At first sight one is literally stunned b,
her beauty, which her dress sets off. Ii
shape and color the ensemble and tn,
details are perfect. Nine. Gautherot il
q statue of Canova transmitted into fesl
and blood and bone and muscle, dresses
by Felix, and coi6e by his assistan
Emile. All her contours are harmonious
But she has yet to make the acquaintanc
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
Summer Food for stock.

Beyond a doubt green grass is the
best general food for stock during the
season that it can be eaten when it
grows. No stock-raiser or dairyman,
however, should rely entirely ON his pas
lures for supplying food for his animals
from April to November. If he does he
will not realize from them all the profit
it is possible to obtain. The soil is
sometimes too wet and at other times too
dry to afford large quantity or n good
quality of grass. But cattle relish
change of food, even when the feed of
pastures is at its best. Horses, cows
and sheep will eat few pounds of old
hay each day, even when the grass in
the pastures is sup their eyes" All
dairymen, especially those who are en-
gagged in butter-making, find it is to
their advantage to give COWS ration of
dry corn meal, bran, or shorts during
the entire time they are kept in pasture.
They find that it increases the flow of
milk, and keeps up the condition of the
COWS. The increase in the amount of
the butter made more than compensates
for the outlay for dry food. Grass is the
cheapest as well as the best food to rely
on in fattening cattle, but they will gain
much faster if they are allowed some
grain during the time they are feeding
on grass. They will also be in better
condition to gain when they are taken
up for the purpose of stall-feeding. The
change from green grass to hay and grain
is too violent for the good of the animals.
They should become accustomed to eat
ing and digesting dry food during the
summer. The time is past when good
farmers endeavor to see on now small an
amount of food they can keep their ami
mails. They now devise means to en-
courage them to eat all the food they
will. The greater the variety the more
food will stock consume.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
nFTfEAIM TIL
\ A Ro,nan,s 1 ...s.,,h.

hSCSSBus
by LOUISE tHkSDIRR MorLToN.
Why should ] stake my happy youth,
My days Of spring,
Upon mans untested truth,
And proffered ring7
You praise me for my golden hair,
My eyes Of blue,
But change o'ertakes the fairest fair,
Then what Of you?
When all your praise has suffered wrong
And am old,
Will love that did 10 youth belong
My age enfold?
Since You but prize my smiling eyes
And blushing cheek
Then breathe no more your tender signs;
The things you seek
Are hut the shadow Of shade,
VIII vanish fast
Mirage, Of mists Of morning made,
They cannot last.
It's he who seeks woman's soul
Who wins her heart;
One reaches not Loves final goal
With shallow art. "
.. -Independeat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
Fertilizers for Corn.

Mr.. J. w. Sanborn, of New Hamp-
shire college farm, reports few
series of cooperative experiments with
corn made last season under his
direction, whose results in the main
confirm those by Prof. Atwater, and so
widely noticed the previous year, to the
effect that nitrogen is of less account
than either phosphoric acid or potash,
in manure for corn, and can be profitably
used in much smaller proportions, as
compared with the natural requirements
of the crop. Using nitrogen manure
containing Ga, 4S, 80, and Is pounds of
nitrogen per acre, with unvarying
quantities of phosphoric acid or potash,
on different plots, as large, or larger
crops were secured, and, of course, since
nitrogen is the most costly ingredient of
commercial fertilizers, much the larger
profits with the smallest proportion of
nitrogen. Good results were realized
only with complete manure, containing
the three ingredients, the entire omis.
sion of any one of these generally causing
a great diminution of yield. This was
as much the case with potash, that is so
often neglected in commercial fertilizers
or in chemical manuring, rs with any
other ingredient. The records of these
experiments teach the important lesson
in regard to the field trial with fertilizers,
namely, the necessity of duplicating the
unmanured plots; in one OF this series one
of the unmanured plots yielded thirty-two
bushels, and the other only thirteen
bushels of corn to the acre.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
Shreyvd American Mothers.

From the New 1Ork Times.
American mothers have acquired no
little reputation abroad for skill and
energy in connubial management ON be-
half of their daughters. They are not
generally, we imagine, more inclined to
management Of this sort than mothers of
other nationalities: but some of them
display so remarkable talent for set
Ting their girls advantageously, that
they have made name for their entire
tribe. A Paris newspaper gives recent
instance of the great success of an Amer
lean mamma Of the peculiar order. Her
older daughter had sailed from New York
with some friends for tour of Europe,
and, after doing the continent, returned
to the French capital for several months
of rest and pleasuring. Attractive and
clever, she had many suitors, some more,
some less desirable. She could not
marry them all, 80 she adroitly reduced
the number to two-the best of the lot,
of course. Then she wrote the fact to
her mamma, adding that they were both
so handsome, agreeable, we'll connected,
and rich, that she could not decide be-
tween them, and closed with the ques-
ton, "What shall l do ?" Ten days
later she received q cablegram from
mamma, ~ sail tomorrow. Hold both
till come" The next transatlantique
steamer carried Mrs. with her
younger daughter, turned eighteen and
Just out of school. On arrival she i'm
mediately took the helm of affairs, and
steered so deity through the dangerous
waters, that in few weeks she had
reached port with all the colors flying.
To drop metaphor, she attended the we'd
ding of her two daughters at the Ameri-
can chapel the same morning. After
due examination she had decided that
neither of the nice fellows should go out
of the family.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
IN THE rwILIGHr.
Al we grow old, our yesterdays
Seem very dim and distant;
We Rrope, az those In darkened Ways,
Through ali that ta exieteuf:

Al we grow old, our yesterdays
Seem very dim and distant;
We Rrope, az those IN darkened wnys,
Through all that n existent:
Yet far-of days shine bright and clear
With suns that long hsve faded,
And fnces dead seem strangely near
To those that life has shaded.
Az we grow old our tears arc few
For friends most lately taken, ....
But fail-as falls the summer dew
From roses lightly shaken
When some chance word or Idle strain,
The chords Of memory sweeping,
Unlock the nood-gates OF our pain
For those who taught Us weeping.
Al we grow old our smiles are rare
To those who greet US daily,
Or, II some living faces wear
The looks that bssmcd % gaily
From eyes long closed-and we should smile
In answer 10 the wooing,
IT'S but the past that shines tho while
Our power 10 smile renewing.
An we grow old our dreams at night
Arc never Of the morrow; 49,.
They come with vanished pleasure bright,
Or dark with o3den sorrow;
And when we wake the names We say
Are not Of any mortals,
But Of those In some long dcad day
Passed through iife's sunsets portals.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
Value Of Whey.

AS the time approaches Tor starting
cheese factories, the disposition of whey
will soon receive attention. Farmers
who take milk to a cooperative factory
are very particular about getting the
entire amount of whey that belongs to
them. They often insist on getting
more than their proper share. If they
take eight cans Of milk to the factory
they insist on filling them all with whey
to take back to their farms for the
purpose of feeding it to the pigs and
calves. The managers of the cheese
factories, "to keep peace in the family I"
of patrons, often add water to the whey,
so that every one may fill oil his cans.
Without doubt the value of whey is over
estimated. Some years ago Mr.. L H.
Wanzer, at Elgin, declared, at meeting
of the Northwestern Dairymen's associa-
ton, that it did not pay patrons to haul
whey from factory to their farms.
Various and continued experiments had
convinced him that 1t was nearly value
less for feeding to stock. Nowthat both
butter and cheese are made from
the same batch of milk, it is evil
dent that but little of value remains
when these are removed. There is much
of the sugar originally contained in the
milk, and a minute quantity of fat and
casein. If the whey is fed before the
milk-sugar is converted into acetic acid,
it will be of some benefit to stock,
and that is about all that can be said of
its value. When whey is fed alone to
calves and pigs it is often positive in
jury to them. 1t contains scarcely any
thing from which muscle and bone can
be formed. 1t may be employed to some
advantage as drink for hogs that have
the run of clover pasture, and have
little dry food as corn, bran and meal.
If fed to calves and young pigs, corn
meal, bran, shorts, ground oats, or oil
cake should be mixed with it. The
quantity of the meal and other dry sub
stances should be small ut first and
gradually increased rs the pigs increase
in size.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
Returning Fashions.
CE,n,,, roo.all,a Nfa,o.;,a1


CHANGING at the fashion books Of fifty
and even seventy years ago, it is curious
to note how in many points we are re-
turning to the modes then in vogue.
Nothing but short dresses were to be
seen half century ago; the skirts were
Just long enough to show the shoes and
boots, were trimmed with satin rouleaux
and bias folds. The fashionable colors
were Christmas holly green, scarlet,
pink, clarence blue, giraffe yellow, pom
ceau, camel's hair brown, Indian red,
comelopard yellow, mocassa brown, apr
cot, olive, peau de serpent, burrage blue,
Egyptian and Indian red and violet shot
with bottle green-for shot silks were
coming in then, as they are with usnow.
The January of 1928 was particularly
damp and cold, and silk and satin pelisses
were the rage, but like short princess
dresses, reaching to the hem, with lace
cape over the shoulders. These pelisses
were also worn in the evening, cut low in
the neck, and showed robings of white
satin in front. Shawls and scarf
shawls were coming in also,
and feather trimmings found special
favor. The hats worn were large, and
dress hats were adopted with full even
ing dress, made of satin and gauze, with
blonde lappets and plumes of ostrich or
marabout feathers, or floral wreaths,
birds of paradise being arranged inside
and out. They were placed far back on
the head. 1t is to be hoped that we
shall not readopt anything so startling as
hat of paradise yellow, lined with
crimson velvet, trimmed with white puff
ings and yellow ribbon, brocaded black,
as worn by belle of that day. There is
much to learn III avoiding past follies.
Our dresses have of late chung close to
the figure, but have never, rs yet, at
tanned the quaintness of those times.
The skirts were always scanty, as well MS
short, and trimmed often with one or
two gathered flounces, scalloped ut the
edge. surmomted by one or two rows of
straight satin rouleaux; the bodices full
and banded, and sleeves large and puff
ed. Such bodices and puffed sleeves are
coming in again, as well as short dresses
for evening, which may, and very likely
will, resolve themselves. into short
princesses, not unlike pelisses. 81
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
MANKATo, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINI, MAY

of the Graces tss7f obtain possession Of
the girdle. There Is sameness In her
beauty which, the Hrst impression it
causes one, places her at disadvantage
beside plain women, with expressive
eyes and clever mouths. / have seen
her thrice in rapid succession. I know
that she is the loveliest creature / ever
beheld coming out of the hands of a
Paris dress-maker. But, / feel, never
theless, that ! have sufficiently Toasted
my eyes upon her. Nine. Gautherot
was dressed last night in yellow silk
dress, part of which was covered with
network of yellow beads and small white
bugles. She also wore q necklace of
diamonds set in the classical style, a
brooch. bracelets, and Greek bendalettes
In her hdir, sparkling with brilliants.
A small Diana crescent was attached to
the foremost bandalette. A murmur of
admiration greeted her wherever she
went. The crowd opened, as if awe
struck with her beauty, to let her pass.
She was not apparently elated or excited
by the spontaneous homage paid her. A
waxen image could not have been more
unmoved. The sentiment of coquetry
was revealed in the large, limpId, and
completely expressionless eyes. NJ. Pa
rent, the architect, called her "Pauline
Bonaparte resuscitated." "But observe
her ears" said an artist of the Charirari.
Pauline's were the despair of Canova;
they were monstrously ugly. Nine.
Gautherot's are simply perfect" And
SO they were. The "texture" of the
neck and shoulders was thing to throw
painters into raptures. 1t was without
nsorJidcsea, but smooth rs rose petal.
A delicate pink shade came through the
transparent white skin.-LOndOn Truth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07

Mr.. ALEXANDER L. HOLLY, an emf
nent engineer of New York, has caused
a piece of iron of great antiquity, found
beneath the Egyptian obelisk which is
to come to New York, to be analysed.
It turns ont to have been made by what
is known as the Catalan process. This
subjects pulverized iron ore and charcoal
to high heal, producing a pasty mass OF
substantially pure iron, which is further
freed from dirt and impurities by re-
peated heatings and hammerings, pro.
ducing costly but excellent article.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
BLURBlRD,s GREErINC.
ny GEORGE PARSONS LArHRop,


BY GEORGE Parsons LArHRop,
Over the NOISY walls.
Above the Numbering fields
where Yet the ground no frujtape Yields
SaNe as the windy sunlight falls
nhd nos IN q dream Of haryest-yeilow,
what Voice reuRmbc-ed calls
80 buDhinc fresh, 80 soft and mellow:
IL Ia the blusbird. whose faint carol shields
Inc prophecy We dare not else repeat.
Daring unconstitutional arrow
FROM some 1.-THE sapiing's bow-curve, fleet
He i1ses, strong and light and narrow,
And sings IN Night, with gurglings sweet:
Out Of the south / wing
Blown on the breath 81 spring;
The little falter1ng song
That in my beak bring
Solne maiden may catch and sing.
Filling II with the longing
And the blithc unfettercd thronging
of her spirits blossoming.
Mareling along
IN the sunny weather.
Heat my notes,
Thru the sunny notes
Falling light as a feather!
Fit, fit, DER the fertile land
Mid lowering insects huns:
Fall into the sewers hand,
And when his harvest comes
The SID and the song shall have lowered together
" From the Cocsa aud Altameha
With thought Of the dim blue gulf:
Prom the Roanoke aud Kanawha;
PROM the musical southern rivers,
yer the land where the gray war wolf
Lies slain and buried in foMers;
1 come 10 your chill, sad hour,
And tho woods where the sunlight shiNcrs
! come like an echo: Awake
answer the sky and the lake
And the clear. cool color that quiVers
Ia all your azure rills
] come Ia your wan, bleak hills
For greeting that rises dCarCr
10 homclH hearts draws me nearer
That the warmth Of the ricr-a.,is ar wealth of the
ranches.
50 viii charm away yoGr sorruw.
For sing Of the devy IN 'rrnw:
Ny melody SWAPS Ike the branches
Ny light fUst 81 as;ir:
bring 10 the Cd n hoUr,
The days md the Toys that Wcrr,
And hope to thu waiting lover.
Then. take my note and slng,
Filling II with the IonGing
And the h'ithU. Uut tered thrunglng
az Your sllrts h,Oss1miug
Not long that music lnger.:
Like thu breath Of forgotten SINGERS
II E.y-,-lr Ike the Marcl-cl0u Is shad,rw
IhIi sNee. with IT. wing the faded meadow
No !ong nutloaG! But thy lc,t ting
And tender. nUte-toncd greeting,
bGgh'rl, wakes an answer that remains
Tue pGr'Si chord IN al the year, refraius
-lrdntc.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07

IT is said TINT women live ON love.
Small salaried young men will be in
terested to learn that the love referred to
is for baked beans, beef soup, onions and
new spring hats. - stoe0O Record.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07

come up frequently at greater depth,
but long time will he required, and the
plants for time will be feeble. A great
er depth is admissible IN a sandy than
In heavy or clayey soil, and with dry
than In quite moist soil. A light
pressure may be made on the surface
after the seeds are planted, and heavy
one, even to the tread of foot, on q dry
soil. Peas will come up from a con
siderable depth, and will succeed better
and bear longer than when planted shall
low. If young gardeners would expert
ment at different depths with various
seeds, and with various degrees of com
preston ON the surface, they will soon
acquire more Of good practical knowledge
on the subject than by means of volumes
Of written directions; and such expert
ments are very easily made, care being
taken to keep a recordpf all the various
paintings to prevent mistakes Of memory.
It happens often that heavy soils are
kept too wet to work to advantage until
the opportunity for sowing early has
passed. Ii the ground has been previous
ly prepared, SO that it presents n clean
surface, the sowing may be made directly
on the top, without disturbing it, or
making drills, covering the seeds by sift-
ing on them dry and pulverized soil from
some dry or sheltered spot, (the operator
standing on q board, and in this case
one half the usual depth will answer, as
they will obtain supply Of moisture
freely from below, and a fine covering
need not be 80 thick as q coarse one. In
all cases pressing the surface is useful,
and renders termination more certain by
bringing the moist particles in closer
contact with the seed-provided it is not
sufficient to cause the earth TO adhere in
q mass, and become baked hard when it
dries. Careful observation and practice
will soon enable any one to know just
when the right degree of pressure is
used. Much less Is needed for early
sown seeds than for the tenderer kinds a
month or two later, when dry and warm
weather may have set in.
Mistakes are often made by supposing
seeds always grow best if the sowing is
followed by rain. On the contrary, they
more frequently succeed better if sowed
after q rain. On O soil already wet
enough, Incorporation should be perform
ed before rain, as it may be too plastic
afterwards. But when the earth inclines
to be rather dry, and crumbles into hard,
small Jumps, these prevent close contact
with the seed, and are in better cond-
ton, and crumble finer, after being
moistened and partly softened by n
shower.
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The wasp thinks it is smart to stand on
his hind leg. Cincinnati C0Danaerei0k'
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-24
SARAH BERNHARDrs wH1Ms.

When Sarah Bernhardt left the convent.
it is recorded in ''The Theaters of Paris, y
she hesitated between being nun or an
actress. When she was at last an actress,
and perhaps the most notorious in France,
she suddenly felt that she had missed her
vocation, and that she was really intended
for sculptor. She called for modelling
clay and the tools of the trade; she took a
few lessons, and at the annual art exhibit
tions since she has exhibited various pieces
of sculpture of varying merit so anna
flourish and quite as startling as one might
expect. Her latest attempt was statue
for Nj. Carriers new opera-house at Mo-
naco, which that clear sighted architect
peremptorily rejected. She passes all her
days in her studio when she is not re-
hearsing or riding rapidly on horse
back !; but already, in spite of her
success as sculptor, has she turned
her ever-restless intellect to the sister art
of painting In all this there is a certain
SAVIOR of merely meretricious sensational
ism. The very thinness of which Mile
Bernhardt complains is sometimes exagger-
ated willfully by the costume she chooses,
and gloves to full are deliberately wrinkled
along the arms to increase the attenuated
impression. In all the recklessness of char
acter, in the sudden freak for sculpture and
for painting, in the balloon trips described
by herself at length in a volume profusely
illustrated by NJ Clairin, in the hastily
dictated articles contributed to newspapers,
in the eccentric caprices which give rise to
strange tales of a skeleton in her studio,
and of a coffin in which she sleeps, in the
willingness to sacrifice to the impulse of
the moment the demands of art, which
must be steadily sought and long wooed
ere it be won-in all this there is evidence
of conscious self-advertisement, not to say
a distinct trace of charlatanry.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-24

PARTISAN JUsTIcE.-A German noble
man visited Paris, recently, on pleasure.
He was wealthy and lived freely. He be-
named Rigolette, and squandered so much
money upon her that, after short career
of pleasure, he found himself beggar and
debtor, in prison. His wife journeyed
from Germany, arrived in Paris, saw her
husband and listened to his confession
without betraying anger or reproach. She
went to tribunal, explained the case, a
trial took place, and Rigolette, accused of
immortality and swindling, was compelled
to restore the property. The German
was released from prison, and, with a
handsome residue, thanks to his wife, he
returned to his country and his sour-krout.
This is Partisan and practical justice.