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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09


Aud ever widening, slowly silence ALL
The little rift within the lovers lutte,
Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit,
That rottng inward, slowly molders all.
Alfred TennysOn.
To change and be better are two Diff
ferent things.
PROUD hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren.
REASON and virtue alone can bestow
MISUNDERSTANDING.
SEARCH othersfor their virtues and thy
self for thy vices.-Futter.
INDUSTRY need not wish, and he who
lives upon hope will die fasting.
OSE cannot always be hero, but one
may always be man.-Goethe.
No denunciation is 30 eloquent as the
final influence of good example.
An ounce of conviction is worth
pound of cOncern.-J. A. Gordon.
I'VE seen your stormy and stormy women.
And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
BASE natures joy to see sorrows come
to those they deem happy.-Sfr Philip
Sidney.
IMMopEsr words admit of no defense.
For want Of decency is want Of sense.
FIND earth where grows no weed, and
YOU may find a heart where no error
grows.
The greatest man living may stand in
need Of the meanest as much as the
meanest does of hint Fuller.
AFFLIcTIoNs are the medicine of the
mind. If they are not toothsome, let 1t
suffice they are wholesome.
LET him who regrets the loss of time
make proper use of that which Ii to come
in the future.
He is not only idle who does nothing,
but he is idle who might be better en-
ployed.
THAT was good prayer Of the old dea-
con: Lord make us willing to run
on little errands for thee"
The youth who thinks the world his
oyster, and opens it forthwith, finds no
pearls therein.-GeO. Macdonald.
INNOCENT is q flower which withers
when touched, but blooms not again
when watered with tears.-HOOper.
HE that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend,
Eternity mourns that. IT'S an Ill cure
For hfes first Ills to have no time TO feel them.
HOME is any place where love abides,
where those live who are help, COM
fort and joy to each other.-Gotden
Rule.
Coon deeds in this world done,
Are paid beyond the sun,
Az water on the root
IL seen above In fruit.
HAPPINESS is like sunbeam, which
the least shadow intercepts, while ad-
versity is often as the rain of spring
Chinese PrOUerb.
MoDEsTY is the appendage of sobriety,
and is to chastity to temperance, and to
humility, as the fringes are to garment.
-Jerenty Taylor.
FASHION is gentility running away
from vulgarity, and afraid of being over
taken by it. 1t is q sign that the two
things are not far asunder.-HaztiH.
WE must give according to our means
and according to our OUTLAWS upon our
selves. A 25-cent donation by the side
of S25 shawl would present painful
contrast. Mary Lyon.
STORIES first heard ut mothers knee
are never wholly forgotten little
spring that never quite dries up on our
journey through scorching years.
Ruskin.
LIFE has such hard conditions that
every dear and precious gift, every rare
virtue, every pleasant faculty, every
genial endowment, love, hope, joy, wit,
sprightliness, benevolence, must some
times be put into the crucible to dis
til the one elixir-patience.- r. D.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
FARM. GARDEN AND HOME.
I'm a Hayfieids


Before the mowers sweeping Rcythe
The dcwy Grasses bend and fall;
A group Of children, guy and blithe,
Amid the hay keep carnival;
While rising high in azure sky,
The morning sun shines lovingly.
Thy Aswcrs and grasses slowly fade,
And or tl'~iy wresths tho children sigh;
maiden sces IN eserv blade
Emblems Of hope but Dotr " He;
Yet In the sky, still rising high,
The golden sun shines lovingly.
The mower S6tfs wifi bssssrd eyes,
For bitter grief is IN HE breYsti
A lark flies up with startled crieE-
The scythe has swept away her nest;
Yet, risen high In deep blue sky.
Th- sHn still shines ON lovingly.
From ivicd chuf.h ths mournsrs go
(The sun is sinking Ia tfi> wsst);
The mower Death has laid one low,
With fading flowers TO be at rest;
Yet In the sky, mid smile and sigh,
Tho sun shines ever lovingly.
-CassetPs Magazine.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
COLD AND QUIET,

BY JEAN ISGELow.
Gold. my dear--eold and quiet,
In their cui,s IN sUnder lea,
Cowslips fold the brown bees diet,
40 the moss enfoldeth thee.
Plant me, plant me, . love, lily flower
Plant at M head, pray you, green tree;
And when our children Sleep" she sighed, Eat the
dusk hour,
And when the lIy blossoms, o come out TO metz
lost, my dear? Lost nay, deepest
love II that which loseth least;
Through the night time while thou sleepest
still watch The shrouded east.
Near thee, near thcc. M, wife that aye liyetRI
Lost j. no word for such love Ms uii!s:
Love from her past a. me present giyeth,
Aud love itself doth comfort, making pain divine,
Rot my dear, rest. Fair showeth
That which wac, and not in vain
sacred have kept, God knoweth,
Loves last words atween us twain
Hold by our past my only love, my lover;
ian not hut rise, love, 10y loss of me:
bouGhs from our garden, white with bloom hang
over,
Love, now the children slumber, I come out 10
thee"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09

The defects of the American girl may
be done away with by giving less
prominence to the purely intellectual or
purely practical side of her education.
For while one class of men is striving to
solve the problems of life by educating
women intellectually, there is another
class which is shouting for education in
domestic matters. While the professors
at Harvard are rejoicing over some girl
who can take in their PHILOSOPHERS or
their mathematics, the newspaper editor
sings the praises of her who can roast a
turkey, bake bread or make her own
dresses. Neither gives the poor girl any
chance to exist, but only to work, with
band or brain. eNo one says to her:
"You are not only yourself, but possibly
the future mother of other beings. Do
not, therefore allow yourself to he driven
by either school of apostles beyond what
you may do easily, comfortably, or plea
surably. The healthy balance of your
nervous system is far more important to
you and your future family relations
than all the mathematics or dressmaking,
or even roasting of turkeys. Occupy
yourself steadfastly, but without strain,
without hurry, and without emulation.
As the apostle said land it must have
been meant expressly for Americans),
avoid emulation Find out first what
you can do best, and even if it does not
come up to somebody else's standard,
learn to content yourself with that
1Hantic MOnthiy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
Women Lawyers in 1860 and 1850.


Not every lady and gentleman who has
this season applauded Miss Terry's Por-
tia is aware that, about the date when
the Merchant of Venice" may be sup
posed to have exhibited his gaberdine ON
the Rialto, have actually existed great
female lawyers in the neighboring city
of Bologna. Prof. Calderial, who held
the chair of jurisprudence in that uni
versity in 1860, and Prof. Novella, who
occupied it in 1866, were not only cele-
brated for their legal lore and skill, but,
if we may trust their portraits, exceed
ingly beautiful women, with noble Greek
profiles, dressed in style which Miss
Terry might have copied without disad-
vantage. Ii women hereafter should
again obtain entrance into the legal pro-
fession, it is not ut all improbable that
we may see something more of the keen
ness of feminine wit engaged in olsen
tagling the knots of the law. Two ladies
in Ireland, according to the Times Dub
lin correspondent, have just been con-
Quoting their own most intricate case Ill
manner which excited the surprise of
the master of the rolls, who even OBJ
served that he was "astonished that the
ladies had been able to put their case on
paper so intelligently and clearly with
out legal advice" II other ladies should
follow the example of the Misses Fogar-
ty, what q falling off must ensue III the
solicitors bills They lost their case, it
is true, but seemingly could not have
won it under any guidance, and ut all
events they have escaped that great ag-
grayation of the misery of defeat in q
court of law-the lawyers costs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09


A leader of fashion having appeared
on the race-course at Longchamps with
bundle of radishes in her bonnet, the
matter has, of course, caused consider
able agitation in fair circles, and there is
much discussion as to whether vegetable
trimmings are to become the mode.
Now, as we have already seen birds
nests and birds, fruit and flowers of all
sorts, grasses, oats, beetles and butter
flies in our ladies' hats and bonnets, we
really see no reason why vegetables
should not have their turn. A fair ones
bonnet may then be trimmed at an I'M
usually cheap rate, and the radishes,
watercress, asparagus, or what not, used
for the mornings trimming may become
part of the eveningmeal. What pretty
effect, too, might be produced by actual
ly having n bonnet with mustard and
cress growing luxuriantly all over it, Oh
the same principle as it sprouts on the
iiannel-covered bottle! A pretty trim
ming, too, might be made OF green pea.
pods gracefully hanging around, while
the peculiarly feathery appearance of
grass and fennel when run to seed will
surely recommend themselves to the
milliner. In short, we think pater-
familias may await with composure, if,
indeed, not delight, the probable intro
duction of vegetable trimmings. There
is one thing against them though, and
that is they are so suggestive of a leg of
mutton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
Fashions Latest Freaks.

CHENILLE ribbon, fringed with loops
of UNFINISHED chenille, is one of the in
ventions for trimming Tuscan bonnets.
THE colored jet trimmings are 80 ex-
pensive that though everybody admires
them, few ladies purchase them for sum-
mer wear. They are better suited to
heavier dresses.
Gowns which open at the seams to
disclose the underskirt, and have vests of
q contrasting color, are called caraface,
from fancied resemblance to the shells
of some insects.
BELTS for the front of basques are SO
broad that when they are meant to be
smooth and straight, they are stiffened
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
More seasSrta i,ie Suggestions.

The old custom of beginning haying
the first Monday after Independence
Day is becoming obsolete among all good
farmers. Hay is too valuablea crop now
to be left to waste in the fields for want
of cutting ut the proper time. Farmers
are learning, too, to SOW the early and
late varieties by themselves, SO that
each can be cut when IN the very best
condition. Orchard grass, June grass
and red clover will all require cutting
this season before the middle of the
month in southern Esw England, and
little later further north.
Orchard and June grass may be cured
as fast az possible, but clover is better
made partly in the cock, when the wealth
er will permit of leaving it out for few
days. Our own practice is to dry it Us
fast as possible for the first few houis
after cutting it, with the dew of, and
then to put it into small cocks, which
are to be made larger every day by
pitching two into one, taking up single
forlful at time. This lets the warm
air into every portion, and hastens cur.
ing without making the hay brittle.
The heaps are placed on a new spot each
day, which prevents killing the new crop,
which should be starting up quite freely
during the first week after moving. Hay
caps are great help in curing clover hay
as well as other kinds, in catching"
weather, and with present prices for cot
ton sheeting, they are quite inexpensive
compared to their worth. Once using
will sometimes more than pay their
whole cost.
A succession of crops must not be for
gotten in our anxiety to kill weeds and
secure the early hay. A planting of
sweet corn for the table and fodder corn
for the cattle should go in every week or
ten days, from the time the ground is i'll
condition till the 10th of July. There
is little danger of growing too much of
either. If the weather should be dry in
August, so rs to cut short the cattle fe I'd,
there will be great demand for any kind
of green forage for the cattle, and there
is nothing we can grow in New England
that will stand drought better than
corn.
Millet is another hot weather plant
that is well worthy of more general Gull
tivation, especially ON light, sandy soils,
that are not specially adapted to grass.
1t may be sOwn any time this month or
till the middle of the next, and be out Of
the way before frosts in the fall. Millet
will do well on sod land that is run out,
provided it is well ploughed, thoroughly
pulverized and literally MANFRED, either
with stable manure or fertilizers. About
one bushel of seed should be sown to the
acre. In northern New England this
crop seems to be but poorly appreciated,
partly because the soil is, much of it,
well adapted to ordinary grasses, and
party because of the shorter season of
growth; yet, where it has been tried I'M
der favorable conditions, it has proved
highly satisfactory. Still, it is better
adapted to a more southern climate and
lighter soil than is found in the best
sections of Vermont, Maine or New
HAMPSHIRE. -Ne,y En0Land Farmer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

IT Is the little rift within the lutte,
That by -and-by- will make the music mute,
And ever widening, slowly silence all.
The little rift within the lovers lutte,
Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit,
That rotting inward, slowly molders all.
Jfrs1
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
Honesty In Politics.

4 year or two ago there was man by
the name of Herman, who, with another
equally as bad, it is presumed, published
Il paper at OkolOma, Miss.-the OkOlona
States. II was a violent secession, un-
reconstructed sheet, and Northern jour
mails of very partisan and sectional char
acter affected to treat it as Il representa-
tive journal of the South. Southern
people denied that it uttered their senti-
ments, and charged that it was published
in the interest of the Republican party.
This party certainly made good use Of its
foolish and incorporate language. The
people of Okolona went so far as TO hold
I'M Indignation meeting and adopt rcsOlu-
tiOns expressing their condemnation of
the States. The man Herman is now en-
plOycd Oh the Chicago Tribune, strong
Republican paper. His mask is now
thrown off, and, as we undcrStands he
does not deny that he was lHayinG the
fraud when he was running the States.
He goes so far as to say thabthe people
at heart were with him at OkOona and
did not take any part in the indig-
nation meeting, which he says was really
a sham anyhow. He is Il beautiful speci-'
men of an honest man, the poblest work
of a political party. ~
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
Tissue Ballots.

They were first used in 1870 in Florida
by the Republicans, as was proved before
Congressional committee and not de-
MED by the Republicans at that time.
The Southern carpet-baggerS were in
gcniOus fellows in this kind of political
fraud, and the tissue ballot was by no
means the only sample of their genius.
In Mobile they established regular
school Of repeaters, where gangs of men
trained for weeks before election in vO-
ting, returning to the room, exchanging
hats and coats with others and going out
to vote again, and it was shown before a
Congressional committee that these train
ed repeaters voted as many as twenty
five times in a day. 1t is amusing to
hear Republican Senators boldly and
grayely accusing the Democrats Of cleo
ton fraud when they know there is no
kind of election fraud and violence which
was not systematically practiced by their
own party for years, not in one Southern
State, but in almost all Of them.-N. Y.
Herald.
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
Fanny Fern On Health.

Fanny Fern thinks it ought to be con-
sidered disgrace to be sick, adding: 81
am fifty-five, and feel half the time as
if | was just made. To be sure was born
in Maine, where the timber and the hui
man race last; but don't eat pastry, nor
candy, nOric cream. | own stout boots,
have a waterproof cloak, but no diamonds.
| 90 to bed at 10 O'Clock and get up at G.
I dash out in the rain because it feels
good on my face. l don't care for my
clothes, but | will have air; and after |
am buried, warn you, don't let any fresh
air or sunlight on my coffin, if you don't
want me to get up"
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
COUNTY DIRECTORY.

Circuit COurt-IIon. s. A. Rodgers,
Judge; w. G. Chumlea, Clerk. Court
meets the fourth Monday In January,
May and September.
Chancery COurt-lIOn. w. B. Staley,
Chancellor; E. Goddard, G. & NJ
Court meets second Mondays in june
and December.
County Court-S.C. Hinton, Chairman
Quarterly terms first Mondays in Janui-
ry, April, July and October. Quorum
session first Mondays In each months
j. A. Greer, Clerk; John G.. NJ. Boyle,
Deputy Clerk.
A. Nj. Rule, High Sheriff.
Deputy Shcritls-II. NJ. EdmOndsOn,
John Armstrong, A. Gamble.
Trustee-Jamcs A. Goddard,
Register. n. Badgctt.
CorOner--II. o. Wilson.
Surveyor. G. NJ. Boyle.
Superintcndcntof of Public Instruction
j. V. Grinltts. Office i'm the Mary
vile Normal and Preparatory School, in
West Maryville.
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
A Good Speech.

AyQung Mr.. Cox is running for
Congress in an Independent way in
theifourhh district of Georgia. At a
recent Gathering of yoemen he de-
clared his intentions in the following
outburst; "If you see fit to send me
I'd Congress will go to the best of my
ability. (Cheers.) l bclieveI would
like to 90. (Renewed eheers.) In
fact l know l want to go. cloud
chcers.) / have heard that the salary
is ample, and, as / have a small fami-
ly, won'tinsist on its increase. (Cheers)
As | am fond of vindication | want to
vindicate myself. 1t has been hurled
at me like thunderbolt that am too
young. In answer to this / say, first,
| can't help it and it is not my fault.
Second, l am trying TO grow older
every day, Third, | am succeeding,
Fourth, am afraid l will be much
oldqr than | am before | go to Con-
gfeDs," prolonged applausc.)
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
LEARN EVERY DAY.

Little rills make little streamlets,
Streamlets swell the rivers flow;
Rivers Join the mountain billOws,
Onward, onward, rs they 20.
Life is made of smallest fragments,
Shade and sunshine, work and play;
SOhay we, with greatest profit,
Learn little every day.
q
Tiny seeds make bOmdlcss hafvests,
Drops Of rain compose the showers;
Seconds make the flying minutes,
And the minutes make the hours.
Let us hasten, then, and catch them
AS they pass us on the way;
And with honest, true endeaYOr,
Learn little every day. W
Let us read some striking passage,
Gull verse from every page;
Here line, and there a sentence,
'Gainst the lonely time of age,
At our work, or by the wayside,
While the sunshine'S Smakipg hay;
Thus we may, by helpbf study,
Learn little every day.
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

JOO ~ ED OF L IL II L bACE.
lst Dist.-I. l.. w. Johnson, III. G.
Tedford.
ID Dist-JOhn p. Rhea, Jno. j. Hud-
geons.
Sd Dist-A. II. Crumley, d. II. Smith.
4th Dist-S. l.. Greer, James f. Beals.
9th Dist-W. NJ. Brickeli, Jacob Pc
ters.
9th Dist-Jas. f. Scott, j. Y. Kinnick.
9TH Dist-S. G. Hinton, Sam'l Henry.
9Th Dist-S. f. Bell, Lee Carpenter.
9th Dist-Joseph Armbristcr, S. f.
Cowan, w. C. ChumIea, NJ. A. Hall.
10th Dist-Wm. ii. Anderson, e. d.
Harold.
18th Dist-A. r. McBSh, II. D. Sin
gleton.
18th Dist-Robert Porter, A. X. Kin
namon.
18th Dist-Hugh II. Gamble, d. w,
Trotter.
14th Dist-James Waters, Josias Gam.
BILE.
18th Dist--D. II. Emert, w. II. Law.
son,
18th Dist-Daniel b. Lawson, N. II
Sparks. .,
18th Dist-Wm. Harrison, Harvey S
Bright,
18th Dist-Spcncer Walker, w. w
Headrick.
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
Not Materially Changed.

Baltimore Gazette: 1t is estimated
that the South will have net gain of six
members of Congress from the new cen
sus, and the North and west net gain of
one. Omitting New York and Indiana,
which may be classed as doubtful" )" the
Republican States would show a net gain
of four and the Democratic n net gain OF
six, Thus it will be seen that practically
the relative influence of the two parties,
so far as the census is concerned, is not
materially changed.
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08

ready to take fire from the slightest
spark.
You had better not offer to assist in
making rasberry jam.
If you make a mistake your wife is
pretty apt to jam your head against
the dOor-iam.
Jam is good, but it should never be
put up in family jars.
will now jot down a few never
failing signs, the result of my own
observations.
l can warrant them, for discovered
them myself.
If you hear young lady circulating
the report that seal-skin saques arc to
be extremely questionable this year,
it is sign she hasn't got any.
If your husband comes home late
from a political meeting, falls over the
sewing machine, and gets into bed
with his hat OH, it is sign that he
will have headache the next morn
ing.
If your north ear tingles on Easter
morning, it is sign that you owe me
dollar and seventy-fve cents, and l
wish you would pay 1t.
If you see your mothcr-in-law
whispering mysteriously to your wife,
and afterwards find Yourself treated
to cold dinners and cold receptions at
home, to say nothing of dark frowns
and suspicious looks, it signifies that
there is something rotten in Den
mark.
And you had better seize the oppor-
tunity TO make speech.
| don't want to be rude to mothers
in-law but this thing is getting too
common.
Sometimes one mother-in-law in the
house will do more mischief than a
whole regiment of nice.
If you dream your red-headed uncle
goes fishing in a bottle Of whisky and
catches a Demonstration, it is a sign
that the hour has come for you to
make slight alteration in 'your
beverage.
You might give water a trial, for
instance.
If a book-agent takes up your val
liable time for two and a halfehours,
and swears that a tifty-cent book is
worth five dollars at wholesale. and
that you can'vbny it of anybody un-
der the slinbut him, and that no in
telligent person would Aesifatc to puF-
chase a copy, tits sign his time has
come. @e
And you are expected to do your
duty.
If you have no pistol TO do it with,
it is sign / will lend you one.
IF a man informs you that quail on
toast is the most desirable thing in the
world, it is pretty sure indication
that the machinery of his upper story
needs oiling.
Quail on toast is nothing compared
to an eagle on a twenty dollar gold
piece.
If you dream Of a stuffed oyster
shell performing on tight-rope, and
whistling "IIold the Fort" while a
club-footcd Indian looks on and chews
shoemakers wax, itisa sign tits going
to rain when your blonde cousin gets
married.
If your cousin is a brunette you've
got to dream something else.
If couple Of cross-eyed tom-cats
dance double-clog on your kitchen
roof at midnight and furnish their
own music, it isa sign that next Sat
urday is my birthday, and am open
for presents.
This is no joke.
Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08

DR.. Tanner lost all his teeth by fast
ing forty days. DR., Gum says the
first complaint Tanner uttered after
the termination of the fast was that
his Jaws were sore. The enormous
eating he did and the constant use of
his jaws after their long disuse, made
his gums sore. While he was fasting
the gums shrank from the teeth, and
when he began to use his Jaws the
motion lSosened the gums and at the
same time loosened his teeth.