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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-21
UCrION SALES THIN DAN.

l,zs- az all satssor Rsa, 'Eststs s,afs sune1
|r.Iesn, Jdnu1ry ,i,.d last Of J,sRs tie tnsssfaS
sth med, t year hccs 10 be paid tv tee purchaser
o. GU sa, es made bstipssn tbs lst Of Jelly and td6
Of the ysoi the taSeS hdos 20 os pa. og ts asssx
h iii tbe re III estate agents In Richuond, and ~
ni,est to Riet mond andvicinitNl
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-21
M. q. neLsNE'S yERMiFTGE.

AWE GENUINE DR.. {. MCLANE'S
CELEBRATED
AMERICAN WORM SPECIFIC,
OR
VERMIfUGE
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-21

The Senate Committee on Public lnstitu,
tions yesterday reported Mr.. Atkinson's Dill
to amend and reenact section " oil chapter
2O8 Of the Code In relation TO convict LABOR.
The bill provides that II shall pe hwlul Iog
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-21

There were no judges elected yesterday.
The House agreed to a resolution from the
Senate. and the joint order was postponed
till to-day, when il Is hoped that the job will
be nearly, il not quite, completed. The
change from nominating speeches and roll.
calls TO something like legislative work was
very acceptable to all. 1t enabled members
to have many Of their bills advanced, and
turned them ont Of the close and hot halls
into the fresh air about two hours earlier
than usual. Below are noticed some items
OF special interest, while the more legisla-
tive work Is left in the regular report:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
Great Scott !!

The following is specimen of news
paper writing in Arizona: And now the
railroad comes along like giant ana
conda, embracing the continent in its
coil, and its ponderous machinery
breathes the vitality of civilization in so.
norous respirations, breaking the silence
of the desert and awakening the reveI-
berations of the mountains for the fir
tine since the planet commenced its Iev-
olut;ons in the universe. The name o.
tie builder of the Chinese wall is lost il
the Asian mystery. Eleven acres of
solid masonry has not served to preserve
the name of the builder of the Pyramids
of Ghizah. They were of no benefit to
the human race. But tho names of the
builders of roads are remarkable. The
Monaghan shepard will show you the
road which Ghenghis Kahn made
through the Nankon pass. The Swiss
peasant will show you the road traversed
by Hannibal across the Alps; and the
veriest yokel in England, Watching his
kline Craze over Salisbury plain, from
the ruins of Stouehengo, will answer
the height of Old Sarum? Caesar. This
typical New Zealander, in crossing this
continent by the Southern Pacific rail-
road thousand years hence to visit the
rains of London, will stop at the Casa
Crande, and ask descendant of the
Pima Indians, who built the citadel of
that name, and the gentle savage will re-
ply, in the soft dialect Of his tribe, Pr
mac'n II don't know, but ask him who
built the Southern Railroad. and the
child of centuries will answer, Croker.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
Unfortunate Pilgrims.

A romantic story comes from Paris,
which recalls for the NeW York IEOrid
the legend of the mother of Thomas A.
Beckett finding her way from Palestine
to England by the help of one word of
English-the name of her lover
colbert"
Among the passengers who arrived at
the Orleans terminus few days back
was q gray bearded man of about fifty,
in Oriental garb, with eyes wide open
but void of expression, the unfortunate
stranger being blind from cataract. He
was led by the hand by little girl of
ten, of interesting appearance, also in
Eastern dress. The child guided her
father outside the station and then, adj
dressing bystander, said, "Hospital !!
hospital !" This was evidently the only
word in French they knew. A railway
servant assisted them into cab and
ordered the driver to take them to the
Hotel Dier, but there they could not be
received, as the affection from which
the man was suffering was not one of
those treated there, and besides he had
not the required order for admission.
The cabman then took them to the
police-station in the Rue de rArsenal,
where the police, moved ut their distress,
gave them food and allowed them to rest
ON the couches. The Inspector on duty
questioned them, but the only reply he
could obtain was the words, Mahmoud,
leila, Jerusalem, hospital" Later the
Commissary tried the old man in Span
ish. The latter understood him and
then related the circumstances that had
brought them to Paris. His name was
MahmouJ, and that of his daughter
leila. He was small shopkeeper Mt
Jerusalem, and while travelling in the
desert had contracted blindness from
which he could obtain no relief in his
own country. He then resolved to
come to Paris to obtain treatment, and
leave bis business to his wife and young
or children he started with his daugh-
ter, carrying with them some carpets
and perfumery to sell on the way. They
sailed from Jaffa in trading ship and
landed mt Bordeaux after n long and
fatiguing voyage. Finally they had
reached Paris with just a sum of six
francs, remaining. The commmissary
of police obtained their adm ssion to the
Rothchiid hospital, whcJ Mahmoud
and leila will be kept VIE the opera
ton for cataract is being performed OH
the man.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
A Woman and q Wild Cat.

Here follows the story from the San
ford ella. journal, the truth Of which
that paper swears to: About two weeks
since Adm Powers wife, while sitting on
the verandah at their house, mile or
two east Of Fort Reed, engaged in sew
ing, was suddenly horrified to observe a
.arge wild cat slowly stealing along
through the groves and bushes on one
side OF the yard toward her brothers
John FOSTER child, a toddling infant,
that was playing in the yard. Its inten-
ton was evidently to attack the child,
and there being no men folks ut hand,
Mrs. Powers proved equal to the emer-
gency. Siezing a stout piece of board
she advanced upon the cat and began q
vigorous assault. For some time the
cat would either dodge the blows or
sieze the board in its mouth, but finally
it made break and ran up tree close
at hand. Mrs. Powers then took the
child in the house and sent the little girl
to neighbours for u gun, but by the
time it came the cat had come down and
disappeared in the scrub"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
More Happiness Than Sorrow.

Much as we might oil enjoy world
free from all forms of sorrow, yet, III
the absence of such a delightful land.
scape, we might make the immense
preponderance of happiness in our earth,
although it seems sprinkled with tears.
The poets tell us that life is mingled
cloud and sun, that night covers the land.
scape half the time, that some days must
be dark and dreary; some call our whole
world vale of tears; and the poets MI
speak truly, but when We come to weigh
and measure the whole life of man, as
that great stream rolls down from the
past, we find that almost the whole
river runs between howery banks anG
under food of sunlight. II you are
fifty years old, it is probable that al
your deeply sad and unhappy hours would
not, all told, made up ono year in the
whole fifty. There are exceptional
case1, indeed, put in those thirty-three
years that make up the average of hu.
man life, there would not be found pain
enough to fill up the cup of one year.
And gather together those who are reach
ing the extreme border of the human
career-seventy-five years-and they will
tell you, with rare exceptions, that life
has been precious beyond all words. A
French statesman learned few years
ago that an old great aunt was passing
her extreme age in poverty somewhere
out of Paris, at a house of charity for
the old and poor. He determined to
find her. And when he was pointed to
her, Us she sat in an armchair out in the
sunny door-yard, he found that, then in
her ninetieth year, she was as happy as
he himself was, in all his noontide Of life
and honors. Her mind was clear, and
was drawing happiness from two direct.
ions, from the memory of girlhood and
womanhood, far back, and from the hope
of future not far in advance. In hei
ninetieth year her happiness was still
blooming. It was not the same JOY
youth had brought her, but there II
was, the footprint Of a benevolent God the
beautiful drapery of paradise lost and
rOun1
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
Household Recipes.

LEMON JELLY.-One paper of gela.
tine; lot it stand one hour in warm water;
then add one quart of boiling water, the
half of sugar.
Cocoa PUDDING. pint of bread
crumbs, one cup desiccated cocoa, mix
and pour over it one and one-half pints
of milk, heated just to boiling point; add
two spoons sugar and nutmeg to flavor,
and bake.
EGds PoAcIIED.-Set a stew-pan on
top of the stove, pour in pint or two of
boiling water, add two tablespoonfuls
salt, drop eggs carefully in; when whites
are firm draw off voter, dip up, put
little butter on each egg, and if desired
sprinkle with pepper.
To USE STALE BREAD.-Soak the
bread in hot water until soft; when cold
add two eggs, half cup of sweet cream,
one tcaspoOnful of soda, little salt and
flower to make stiff batter like fritters.
Fry in hot lard or boil in water. TO be
eaten with syrup or whatever liked.
To PRESERVE MEAT.-Powdered char
coal will keep meat over which it is
u,
flesh. A piece of charcoal boiled in the
water with meat or fowl, will render them
nice and sweet. Hams, after being
smoked, can be kept any length of time
by packing in powdered charcoal.
RAISED MILTON MUFFINs.-O quart
of milk little salt, two teaspoonfuls of
yeast, two eggs, piece of butter size of
an egg, melted in milk, which must be
warmed; make in the morning and raise
until night, or rice rcrS0; eggs to be put
in Just before cooking; flour, bake in
rings, in u spider over slow fire; split
and butter before sending to table.
YEAST FROM GRAPE LEAVES. Grape
leaves make yeast in some respects
superior to hops, M the bread rises
sooner, and has not the peculiar taste
which many object to in that made from
hops. Use eight or ten leaves for n
quart of yeast, boil them for about ten
minutes, and then pour the hot liquor
on the flour, the quantity of the latter
being determined by whether the yeast
is wanted thick or thin. Use hop yeast
to raise it to begin with, and after that
made of grape leaves. Dried leaves will
be rs good rs fresh. If dark film APP
pears on the surface when rising, a little
stirring will obviate it.
To STEW ToMAToEs.-Wash half q
peck of tomatoes, put them in sauce
pan with n half-pint of boiling water;
cover closely and put on the stove to boil;
rs soon rs the water boils, set the sauce
pan back to simmer for half an hour;
then, with the potato masher. pass the
tomatoes through the colander, leaving
the skins and any unripe, lumpy parts.
Season with dessertspoonful of salt, a
tablespoonful of white pepper, rs much
cayenne as you can take on the end of II
pen-knife, finely-chopped onion, and a
tablespoonful of beef drippings; let them
stew for two hours. Ten or fifteen MIN
utes before serving add tablespoonful
of tinely-chopped parsley and table
spoonful of butter. Ii necessary they
| can be thicksned~ with rolled soda
| cracker
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
The Termites.
from Good Words.l


In the hotter parts of the world, the
Woodworking insects are more than
mere annoyances in houses, the most
dreaded of them all being the termites
or white ants. They will devour every
piece of woodwork in the house. They
find their way into beams, and eat the
whole of the wood, with the exception of
O shell scarcely thicker than the paper
on which this narrative In printed.
They will attack o table, eating their
way through the floor into the legs, and
following it so that on leaning upon the
table, apparently sound as tits, it breaks
down and cr,lmbles into heap Of dusty
fragments. Theyhave even been known
~ get into garden and hollow out the
pea-sticks, 80 that the first wind blew
them down, together with their burden.
II they find their way into boxes IN
which papers are kept, they will devour
almost the whole of every bundle, leav.
ing nothing but the uppermost sheet and
the edges Of the others. So in the dwell
lings OF civilized man they are an I'M
mitigated pest. But it must be remem-
bered that the house-beams, furniture,
and documents are not the normal food
of the termities, which existed for ages
before man built houses, made furniture,
or penned Documents.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
Setting MILK for butter.

Do not in butter making set your milk
in IN atmosphere of too high or too low
temperature. If too high, it will sOilr
too quick and before all the cream is
risen. If too low, You will injure the
quality of the cream and its product
You all know, or ut least all housekeep-
e. know, that ii meat is put on ice or in
q refrigerator and reduced to low tenn
perature it will soon faint when exposed
t. the atmosphere of higher Temporal
IRE. It il so with oil animal products,
and with butter and cheese, which are
animal products. Let everything be
done as nearly as possible ut a temper
AZURE ranging between 55' AND GO Fab
renheit.
1here is no better temperature than
CO. for setting milk. Prof. Kedzie, Of
The Michigan Agricultural college had
Demonstrated by repeated experiments
that more cream can be got from the
milk ut temperature ranging from
50' to CO. than any other. If it goes
below 50' the yield diminishes until 320
or freezing point, il reached Mt which
point the least cream is obtained. So
if it goes above 60 there is q loss of
cream. say this notwithstanding all
the fine-spun theories and numerous
inventions for raising cream rapidly by
chilling the milk. There is difference
between cream raised in IN honest way
and the froth raised under forced and
unnatural circumstances.
Half the butter in the cOuntry-and /
do not know but larger proportions
spoiled by letting the milk stand too
long before Swimming, and the product
is still further injured by letting the
cream stand still longer before churning.
Milk should be SKINNED, when set in u
room kept ut temperature of 60 de-
grees, as 1t begins to get fairly sour, or
Just as it begins to thicken on the bottom
of the pan. II it stands longer there is
loss of quality without any compensat-
ing gain in quantity. The cream should
be churned at once. The longer it
stands the greater will be the loss of
aroma from decomposition and evapora.
ton of the volatile flavoring oils. Only
the slightest acidity, if any, should be
permitted in the cream before it is
churned. Yet it is common thing for
people to let the milk Topper before it il
SKINNED, and to allow the cream to
stand until quite sour before churning.
Nothing but bad-havored and rapidly
decaying butter can be made Of such
cream. Yet, have seen cream standing
with mold on it and serum filing the
cracks Of the creamery. Is it any Won
der that there is so much poor butter in
the market?
The milk must he set in clean at
mosphere for butter, or worked in a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The EissperOr's Ring.


ny ROSE HARTwIcK THORPE.
Tho spring with buds and blossoms
Had rounded out complete,
And oil the land was rosy
Beneath her dainty feet,
While pearly dew-drops glistened
On every bush and tree,
And flashed their sparkling jewels
All over Germany.
The Emperor Joseph wandered
One morning down the street;
His heart beat kind and tender,
For spring was young and sweet;
While bright-winged songsters warblcd
Their joyous notes Of glec,
And heaven seemed showering blessings
Throughout all Germany.
lie met little maiden
With tear-drops In her eye,
And to his kindly questions
She sobbed out low replies:
any father died In battle,
Kind sir" she Raid, "and we,
His dear ones, now are starving
In his loved Germany.
"The Emperor In mighty
Upon the German throne;
What cares ne for our sorrOws?
o sir, could he but own
heart as warm and tender
AZ thine, we soon would rec
A prayer OF thanks ascending
All over Germany"
"Ah, child!" he said, show harshiy
You Judge your absent king;
Perchance his heart il tender;
Here, take this little ring,
A passport TO the monarch
Who fills the Geman throne,
For he who loves his people
VIII make their wrongs his own"
within the royal palace,
With frightened, downcast eyes,
She stood before the monarch
In terror and surprise,
"Fear not, o little maiden,"
He said; emo more for theo
Shall come despair or hunger
In dear old Germany"
Youths CODipan ion
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
Water Lilies In q Hogshead.

We have half hogshead in our yard
which is sunk even with the ground. In
the bottom is some of the soil taken from
the little lake where the water lilies
grow. We put in several roots of the
lily, filed the barrel with water, and
then AWAITED results. The next July we
noticed several small buds on thesurface
Of the water; by the LIST of August the
surface of the tub was q mass of beauty,
the large, white lilies being an attrac-
ton for the passers-by that could not
be resisted. This was three years ago;
each year there has been more flowers
than in the preceding summer, In the
fall we throw little manure into the
tank, place some boards over the top,
and with this little bit Of trouble increase
the beauty Of this experiment, which has
been q success.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
FLO0D-TaDE.
ny sUsAN COOLIDGE.

All night the thirsty beach has listening lain,
With patience dumb,
Counting the slow, sad moments Of her pain;
Now morn has come,
And with the morn the punctual tide again.
I hear the white battalions down the bay
Charge with n choer:
The SUMS gold lances prick them ON their way
They plunge, they rear
foam-llumcd and snowy -pennoncd they are herr
The roused shore, her bright hair backward blown.
Stands nn the verge
And waves a smiling welcome, bcchoning on
The aging surge,
While round her feet, like doves, the pillows crowd
aud urge.
Her glad lips quAff the salt familiar wine;
Her spent urns nil;
All hungering creatures know the sound-thc sigh
CULVER and thrill,
With glad eIpcctance crowd and banquet ut their
will.
/, too the rart coatenhncnt JOIN aud sharc:
My tide Il fun;
Their" is new happiness in earth, in air:
Al beautiful
And frrsh the world but now 70 bare and duh.
Hut while We raise the cup of bliss ~ high.
Thus sGtirfiCd
Another shore beneath a rad far sky
waitcth her tide,
And thirts With sad ocanllainings rti!l denied.
On carth's rrmotcst bound she sits and waits
In doubt and pain,
Our joy IL signal for her Fad estate:
Lake dun refrain
MaTring our song her sighingH rise in vain.
To each his turn the cbl-tdc aud the no,d
The less, the more
G"d metes his portions justly out know;
But sun before
My mind forever floats that pale and %ricNng shore
Il LTgAftdu I'uiou-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
MANAGEMENT Of Grass Lands.

John b. Moore, Esq, of Concord,
Mass, gives his experience with grass
lands, which is very suggestive. He
does not top dress the land, but plows it
up every five or six years. The land
which he lays down to grass is generally
where he has raised crop of cabbages
or caulihowers, frequently both. He
generally plants couple of acres with
cauitiowers, and his rule is to keep
twenty-five acres i'll grass. On this, with
ten acres of swale hay, he keeps four
horses and thirty head of cattle, and he
sells annually fifty tons of hay in year.
On his farm he always has refuse from
his vegetable garden and also corn
stalks, which he feeds to the cattle. He
cuts two crops of hay III year. The
first crop he sells; the second, with his
swale hay, garden refuse and cornstalks,
he feeds to his stock. His horses he
feeds with the best hay, and never lets
his cattle feed upon his mowings. The
grass that grows after the second moving
he let's remain upon the ground. The
land which he has in grass is moist, and
he could not turn his cattle upon with
out their poaching. This he considers
one Of the reasons why he raises such
heavy crops of hay. A neighbor of his,
who always fed his cows on the after.
math, and who has equally as good land
M his, and who MANFRED as heavily,
failed to get anything like as good crops
rs Mr.. Moore did. When asked why it
VS., Mr.. Moore replied that he attiib.
rted it to the fact that he never fed his
n ~termath. Since that. his neiphbOl
ceased turning his cows upon his now
ing, and now he cuts us heavy crops OF
hay rs does Mr.. Moore.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME,
A sum lller IdyI.

A summer Idyl.
DY KATE LAWRENCE.
birds nest hid In tho clover
Daintily woven, soft and warm
The timothy grass, bending tenderly over,
Watches by turns with the little house another,
Keeping 1t safe from harm.
A home-nest under the willow
Warmed aud lighted by mother love;
Two golden heads on q downy pillow;
One father sails DER the raging billow,
One looketh down from above
God pity the little hen-sparrow
Who waiteth In vain for her mattel
Why did he not stay the pit.less arrow?
Oh! the heavens were wide and the mark narrow;
Careth God for sparrows fate?
Careth He for souls deep anguish
Though the woman's heart, like the sparrow's,
bleed?
Though the weeds Of WOO tho widow weareth,
And her babes aching bosom beareth?
Careth lie for the hearts sore need?
God careth we know that he careth
An though voice should speak from tho heaven
above:
"Though he sleep beneath the foaming biliow
Mid tangled sea-moss, on coral pillow,
lie hyeth still In my heart Of love"
-ChristidH Union
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20

A SAN Francisco manufacturer has re-
ceived from the interior of the state an
order for O pair of boots which, If the
numbers in use ran so high, would be 10
in size. They will be III inches in
length and in width. Theman who il to
wear them is small, except as to his
hands and feet.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20

clean atmosphere if for cheese. There
must be no exposure of milk, butter or
curd to n foul atmosphere.--T ID. CtT-
It's, Utica, N. y
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20

Death flung his scythe awsyl
Death flung his scythe away
And he smiled 80 grim ns said 10 him,
"What made you ding your scythe away?"
"Swath got too thin," said he;
"Swath got too thin" said he;
al have found thing that like 10 swing,
For In heaps 1t gathers them In ~ said no
"Starboard helm !" ! heard him shout;
"Hard a-portw heard him shout;
Then he twitched n bell and whistle spell
And laughed and jerked wheel about.
Dead lay around the wreck
Dead under the wrcaking deck,
And, with hooking groans, the pilots bones
They ratified shove the awful wreck.
Death flung his scythc awayi
Death dung his scythe swayi
And he said: "Who'd miss such harvest? This
Il why nung my scythe away!,
-Andre,es' Queen.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20

Ex-GovERNoR BULLOCK, of Georgia,
is now largely interested in the manu-.
facture of cotton at Atlanta. He il Wis.
iting Utica.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20

IT ia announced that Mark Twain's
latest work il not for sale. It 10 = girl
an innocent at home.