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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
Costume, of Grief.

Imperial serge remains the first choice
among fabrics for dresses to be worn in
the deepest mourning. The material is
mixed silk and wool, and has the dag
onal cord-like twills of serge instead of
the short, irregular twills known us CASH
mere twills. For spring dresses, where
light weight vet full black is required,
an effort will be made to revive French
bombazine. This goods is now made in
the purest black-English black, the
merchants say-and the present fancy to
lustrous goods will, it is thought, make
it popular. Tamise cloth is probably the
most popular of all mourning goods
for spring and autumn wear; indeed,
many ladies find it sufficiently heavy to
wear all the year. 1t is also worn both
as the deepest and the ightest mourn
ing. A border of fur is not liked for
mourning cloaks, as used in that way the
fur is only a snowy trimming, and not
for comfort, and detracts from the
severely simple look given by the deep
collar and cuffs. Sealskin cloaks are now
worn i'll the deepest mourning, and fur
riers select those of the darkest hue for
this purpose. The lingerie now most
worn in mourning is collar of white
orgnndy, with deep orgaudy cuffs worn
outside of the tight sleeves. The turned
over Byron collar is worn if becoming,
but if not, the high standing collar is
used, with turned-oyer points in front.
The cuffs have hem over an inch wide
ut top and bottom, with plain space of
the single organdy about the same width
between these hens. White crepe isse
pleatings are worn with more dressy tot
let's, and sometimes black isse pleatings
are placed outside of the white ones.
For light mourning linen collars with
hem-stiched edges and corners, or else
with band of black on the edge, are
worn.
English Grape doubled over silk is
used for deep mourning bonnets in VIM
ter and summer alike.-Harper's Bazar.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
a REQUIEM IN THE NORTH.
By BAlARp TAYLOR.

Speed swfter, Night wild NOrtlern Night
Whose fest the Arctic Islands know,
When siiffening hNakrrs, ship and Whit,
Osird the complaining shcrNs u snow
Send ali thy winds O. SWEEP the wuld
And howl IN mountain passes FAR:
And hang thy eannors, nd and cold.
Against tbe shield 81 oSery star,
for What hAVe 10 DO With morn,
or summers glury in the yalss:-
Win the bhthe ring u fur~ Thorn,
VT heckoning gicam q snowy sails
AT taou not gone, IN wh0so clue eI"
The nectins summeg dawned for meG-
tone, like the echo u a Sigh
Beside tho loud TcSOuntnng scag
Oh. bricf that tiuic II song AMI n0~vr-
Which hlsst, through thee, the Northern land
Jsne amid its leafess bowers
Aud GA the heak and lonely strand,
The forest w-l.s the starry b'cOm
Which yet shall pave It's shadJsy dcOr:
But down my spirits aislcs Of gluom
Thy love shall blossom neyerinorei
And neVrr Inorr shall hattl,d zines
Their soleuIn triumph sound for me-
Nor morning friuer the mountain hnos
Nor sunsSt fGsh the hoary sea;
but NIGHT and Winter az the sky
And loNd with fret the shi,rrfny air,
M every blast that huiries by,
Sainles wilder with my own despair.
The leaden twilight cp,d aud long,
Il slowly settling DER the waVv,
No wandering blast awakrs a sung
In n4kcd b Ughs above thy grave.
The trOsen air Is st,ll and darn;
The numb earth hes in ICY nst:
And ~ Is dead. save this one SPARK
~ burning grief within my hrcast.
LIES dIrkened orb shall wheel no more
To Loves NJ Cicing Summer back.
Ny slirit walk 4 Wiutry siu:e,
With not one STR ~ HIGHT u, track.
SIeed sNliter, Night thy gloom and fr,,,t
Are free 90 sad and raNase here
This last Wild requiem for the lOst
pour ~ thine unh. cdinc rar,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20

diamonds; her corsage was caught to-
gether with a star, sun, solar system
almost, in the way Of cluster brooch of
large diamonds, from which hung O
purely white, pearl-shaped pearl an inch
long; her bracelets were bands of dia-
nionds, and the gold sticks of her fam
were set with more gems. Beyond these
riches the climax Of the costume was in
bunch Of charms pinned at the left side
of the waist, where a button-hole bouquet
sheds it's sweet oders in palmer toilets.
From diamond initial M hung four odd
and irregularly shaped pearls, the
counterparts and approaches TO which
can only be found in Sir Beresford
Hopes collection in the South Kensing-
ton Museum. Each pearl was an inch
and more in length, and, by the happy
conceit OF some jeweler, they have been
set or hung from chains in the way their
shape has suggested. A ruby-tipped
handle set to one made il gro
tesque little mace of royalty; another
twisted like comic mask, had ruby eyes
set In it, and the others were equally in.
gepious.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
Extirpa,iue the wild Carrot.

ID. NJ, writing from GAINESVILLE, \.
Y, to the Country Gentleman, gives
his experience with wild carrots as fol-
lows: Thistles, quack or couch grass
and daisies are not to be compared to it
when once it gets possession of the
ground. 1t kills out all grass, and the
seeds are so light that they are waited by
the wind in every direction. About
eight years ago few plants made their
appearance in front of my premises, and
soon some appeared III adjoining fields.
They spread SO rapidly that / made up
my mind to commence war upon them
Immediately. After heavy rain pull
ed them mp by the roots. In two or
three. weeks 1 had new crop to pull,
but as fast as any blossomed / pulled
them. The second year they appeared
about as thick as the first, but now, after
six or eight years labor, cen pull all
ON my farm In one hour. But the ques-
ton may he asked why have not extir-
pated them? 1t is because my neigh
bors allow some plants to ripen on adj
joining land, and the wind brings the
seed upon mine. 1t is very annoying
for any one who has taken pains to rid
his premises of weeds to find foul seeds
or thistles, carrots and daisies brought
upon his premises by winds. l wish
that the same law that compels farmers
to take care of unruly animals could be
enforced in regard TO foul weeds. Large
fields and fewer cross-fences viii save
good many hours labor in cutting bush.
es and weeds. 1 think the time is CON-
ing in our eastern states when the arabic
land viii be in one field and the pasture
land III another"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.



Young Cupid went storniing 10 Vulcan one day,
And besouglt him TO look at hfB arrow.
" 'Tis useless, !" be cried lyon must mend It, say
'Tis not al 10 let hy at sparrow.
There's something that's wrong, In the shaft or the
dart,
For It cutters quite false 10 my atm;
IT'S agc since II fairly went home 10 the heart
And t1e world really jcsts at my name.
"IhaSe Strengthened, I've bent, I've tried all, de-
clare;
I've perfnmed Il with sweetest OF sghs:
It's feathered with nnglcts my mother might wear,
And the barb glvans with light from young eyes;
BIT it falls without touching, III break a, l vow,
For there's Hyinen beginning b pSnt;
He's complaining his torch burns dun and low
rhat zephyr might pun it right cat"
Young Cupid went ON with his Edtifui tale,
Till Vulcan the weapon restored:
/" There take 1t. young sir; try II now-if Il fail
I VII. lsk neither fee nor reward"
The urchin shut out, aud rare havoc he made,
The wounded and dead were untold;
But no wonder the rogue made sub slanghtering
trade, W
Fer thu arrow was laden with gold.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20

set ont for home, and when the Official
bulletin was published in the MoniteW
the name of Colonel Pitois, commanding
the brigade, was published among the
list of the disabled.
A few months later Madeleine Tremo-
mile, who had heard regularly from Ange
Pitois, and who wis wondering that she
had not received any letter from him for
several months, was told that an officer
of the army was below who wished to see
her, as he had a message for her from a
friend. She descended to the drawing
room, and there found an officer, who
sat in dark corner of the room. As he
rose to receive her she noticed he had
but one arm, but it was too dark for her
to distinguish his features.
"You have amessage for me from Col
onel Pitois, believe" she said.
From General Pitois, Mademoiselle,"
said the officer. "He was fortunate
enough TO render such great services at
Jena that the emperor thought 1t worth
his while to make him a general. am
sorry TO say, however," he continued,
TINT the general was terribly wounded
in the battle, and isnow so much disfgur-
VI tihut yOu WOutl SSurCcly huOW Iiiu.
He has commissioned me to say to you
that he has become badly manned that
he can not expect to hold you to your
promise to him. He authorizes me to say
to you that you are free from all ties
that have bound you to him.
"Does General Pitois wish to be free
from them himself?" asked Madeleine,
slowly.
son the contrary" replied the officer,
she is overwhelmed with despair and
grief at the idea of losing YOU"
"Then say to him." said Madeleine,
proudly, "that never loved him SO well
as l do now, and that 1 will not accept
his generous offer"
In an instant she was clasped TO the
officers breast with his remaining arm,
and his kisses fell upon her lips, and
Madeleine knew that the stranger was no
other than Ange Pitois.
There was q merry wedding u week
later, when the gallant General Pitois
led to the altar the fairest woman in the
south Of France. 1t was noticed by
those present at the ceremony that the
bride wore a soldiers ornament. IT was
the cross for which she had given her
heart. Her husband did not miss it, for
on his breast glittered the grand cross of
the Legion of Honor, which the emperor
had sent him as wedding gift.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
Fat or Thin.


A year or two ago the New York Times
propOumded the pleasant conundrum:
"Are not American women losing their
thinness?" And now the same journal
whispers the horrible inquiry: "Are
not American women getting fat?"
Formerly n stout woman might be con-
sidered foreigner; now stout native
women are too common to be agreeable;
and round, plump women are conspicu.
ously plenty. At the last charity ball in
New York which, like most entertain
ments for the benefit of the poor, was a
very swell affair, it was plain, as the
Times modestly puts it, that leanness has
ceased to be trait of our women. as
many of the fairguests "were physically
affiuent beyond the need of becoming
ness" The conclusion is irresistible
that tendency to corpulency has set in
which, if not checked, will make Amari-
can women undistinguishable from the
ordinary female foreigner. "We hope"
signs the alarmed Times, "that they
will stop short of European redundance
ANY degree of thinnessi is preferable to
obesity, but whether they do or not, the
meagreness of the daughters of the re-
public is rmquestionably thing of the
past" Well, some men are pretty hard
to satisfy. When the girls were thin
there was a continual howl mt them about
their narrow chests and angular forms.
The deep-bosomed maidens of the old
world were held up as examples of all
that was desirable in the way of feminine
grace and loneliness. Now that the girls
are waxing fat and jolly, the critics sigh
for the slenderness of by-gone days.
Why can't people take the goods the
gods provide them? What is the use of
quarreling with plump girl because
she is not delicate, or with delicate girl
because she is not plump? DO we sneer
at rosebud because it is not lily, or
at violet because il is not marigold?
If we were an American girl we should
remain as lean as q sunbeam or as fat rs
a cherry, just ms suited our constitution.
We should take to diet of lard and raw
meat, or tea leaves and slate pencils to
conform to no critics within.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
Sweet Consciousness OF Duty Per-
formed.
IFrou the San Francisco Post

lfroin the ban Francisco Post.I
The other day, over the Almeda baths,
Il timid and retiring looking man waited
until the superintendent was disengaged
and then said to him:
81 do hate to give any one trouble,
but have you long stick or pole of
any kind that You could lend me-"
"No, sir; told you 30 ten minutes
ago., snapped the oyerdriven official.
$50 You did," replied the man; "but
j thought I'd just ask once more. /
guess now I've done my duty in the mat
ter. Don't You think SOP"
"What matter? What on earth are
you talking about? ?" -
Why, you see, my mother-iu-law
Owed off down there at the deep end
about half an hour ago, and MS she hasn't
someupyetandI Thought I'd like to tell my
wife that / had sorter jabbed around on
the bottom for her awhile anyway; but if
1 can't, why, l suppose i can't, that's
ALL" And pensively writing her address
on a tag, to be tied to the old lady when
she came up, the conscientious man
walked thoughtfully away.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
Worse than Death.

They tell this good story about Gen.
Joe Hawley going TO the war in 1861.
He was then nm editor on the Hartford
Press, since consolidated with the
COUran. When the news came of the
firing on Sumter and the call for 70, 900
men, Hawley having tried several times
to write on the subject, laid down his
pen with, "Boys, I'm going to do the
fighting for this office; you must run the
paper" and went out and enlisted. He
was the first volunteer from the
state Of Connecticut. The Press fur
nished from its employees large
number of volunteers first and
last. 1t is related that on one occa-
sion, after the Press had been unusually
patriotic in its appeals, one Of the COM
positors announced that he had enlisted.
One Of the editors congratulated him,
and remarked that perhaps the recent
editorials had been pretty effective.
"Lord, mol" ssid the compositor: sit
isn't the patriotism; but / enlisted be-
cause I'd rather run the risk Of being
shot than trying TO set any more of your
internal handwritingw
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
UnticrdraininR.
fR a A. LILA nnnald

Digging bitches and laying tile is now
in order, and probably win be all winter.
as the ground has been well relieved of
its water by the fall drouth. Next to the
barn itself, understanding is the most
important thing in agriculture. This,
where il is needed, as with US, and
wherever clay prevails. An excess OF
water in the soil sours 1t and reduces its
temperature, which is hurtful TO oil crops
grown ON the farm, particularly trees
and shrubs and the deep-rooting grains
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
FARM AND PRESIDE.


Asters.
nv ELAINE GooDALE.
Walled In with fire on either hand
walk the lonely wood-ro-d through;
Tho mal,las name above my head,
And spaees whsnce the wind has shed
About my feet the living red,
Arc filed With broken blue.
Sand crowding close along the way
The purple rsters blossom froe;
In full pr fusion, far and wide,
They MI the path on every side
In loose confusion multiplied
To endless harmony.
"The autumn wood the aster KNOW
The empty nest, the wind that gricSes.
The sunlight breaking through the shade,
The squirrel chnttetng overhead,
The tinid rnbbit's lighter tread
Among the rustling leaves.
"And STIR beside the shadowy glen
She holds the color Of the Ekics;
Along the pufpling wayside steep
She hangs her fffnges l'assing deep,
And meadows drowned IN happy sleep
Are lit by starry eycs!"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
wheat and Oas..

A number of agricultural journals have
advocated sowing oats and wheat to-
gether. The leaves Of the oats are sup
posed to keep the snow from blowing
away, to prevent the sun from thaving
the frozen ground and TO make a good
top-dressing for the growing wheat in
the spring. But it seems plain that if
wheat makes fair growth in the fall its
own leaves will arrest the snow as well
as oat leaves, while thew would serve Just
as well to arrest the action of the sun
upon the frozen ground. AS q stop
dressing" we do not believe the wheat
crop would be apprsciably benefited.
Not until the leaves were plowed under
and rotted in the ground could any bene-
fit be derived from them as q manure.
So far as we can see, therefore, the oats,
instead of benefiting the wheat, would
simply exhaust the soil of nutriment and
moisture.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
A Courageous Act.
~ I...l1 ,


One of the most valorous acts which
has been brought to light in this vicinity
for long time occurred at the Nettie
Morgan mine, ON Monday night about ii
O'Clock. A miper by the nome ~ u. 1.
Powers Observation-Disclosures whim when nie
brake refrseEtp co.: =. ha,esas faD of
ore had Just heep brought to the surface.
but rtpainad .agndihg over the Shaft for
4 sec.nil.. whnn. It. bakah to rapidly de:
scend. The shaft is 260 feet deep and
the bucket had gone some GO feet down
before Powers could jump ON the wind
lass and stop it going to the bottom. As
he reached for the windlass, the latter
was revolving so rapidly that it broke his
arm. This did not prevent his holding
the bucket in position, however, and at
he same time calling for assistance.
After some little delay the latter arrived,
and when asked how he came to hold on
10 the windlass after his arm was broken,
he coolly replied: 81 did not think OF
my arm, il WINS only of the two men ut
the bottom of the shaft" 1t appears
there were two men ut work when the
accident occurred, and by Powers gener-
GUS self-sacrifce their lives were spared.
!.
AN interesting feature in the metal
trade is the fact that the shipments OF
lead from Great Britain to the east have
fallen off about 10, 900 tons in the last
two wears, the total for 1879 amounting
to only 7,543. The loss has been in
shipments to China and Japan, which
markets have been entered by American
lead shipped from San francisco. Az
we will probably require in 1880 all the
lead we produce, we are not likely 10 in.
terfere with those markets this year; but
our production win eventually be &C
large that we may re-enter them at
later date.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20

A PrTTsBURa minister has very stub
born little 5-year old boy. The boys
mother determined to conquer him, and,
having administered severe chastise.
mont, she said: evil you mind me
now, Johnny ?" With sobs and cries he
replied: Yes, mamma, I will, but I
hate to awfully,"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
How Washington Died.

The certificate of Drs. Craig and Dick,
the physicians who attended George
Washington at the time of his death, has
Just been unearthed from Georgetown
newspaper of 1879. 1t does not appear
in any OF the biographies of Washington.
The certificate concludes thus: He
was fully impressed at the beginning of
his complaint, as well as through every
succeeding stage of it, that its conclusion
would be mortal; submitting to the se-
we're exertions made for his recovery
rather as duty than from any expecta-
tions of their efficacy. He considered
the operations of death upon his system
as coeval with the disease; and several
hours before his decease, after repeated
efforts to be understood, succeeded in
expressing desire that he might be per-
mitted to die without interruption. Dur
ing the short period of his illness he
economical bis time in the arrangement
of such few concerns as required his at
tention with the utmost serenity, and an
ticipated his approaching dissolution
with every demonstration ofthat equanim-
ity for which his whole life had been 30
uniformly and einQlllarly conspicuous.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20

A TEACHER IN the Wiliwyck school re-
Gently electrified her pupils, who We're
annoying her with questions: "Chil-
dren, am engaged Noticing the gen.
eral look of establishment, she added:
1" But not to any fool of a man" and the
excitement died away.--Ringstoa Free
man. ~ -t E-r
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-31
SALT LAKE
weekly HERALD,

The demand for a WEEKLY HERALD
has been very pressing during the past
two or three years. The aim OF
the publishers will be to furnish
paper for those people who live
of the main lines of travel and who
are not accommodated with mail ser
vice oftener than once q week; to
provide a newspaper for those who
have only one day week of leisure
to devote to the pleasant and profta-
BILE employment of reading; to supply
a suitable edition of the HERALD for
sending abroad--a paper that shall
faithfully and honestly represent this
great and growing territory, with its
many and important industries and
its thrifty, enterprising people; to
make a paper for the home circle and
family freside. one that shall contain
the news, and at the same time COM
bine the essential elements OF liter
ary, educational and industrial jour
nal. In fact, our aim will be to make
the WEEKLY HERALD welcome
visitor to the home, where it will be
found a constant fund of instruction,
entertainment and profit, to
all members OF the family
Besides the leading characteristics Of
toe Daily, the Weekly will contain
matter specially for the sgricultuFist.
the gardener, the stcck-raiser, the
mechanic, the kitchen and the house
hold generally, and an important
feature of its columns will be tbs
well-chosen, entertaining and moral
literature, also reports of the Taber-
uscle discourses. Nothing will be ad.
mitted to It's columns that has not
first been carefully prepared and re,
vised.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-31
TELEGRAPHIC
Domestic Dashes.

New York. 29.-The Union Pacif
earnings for the first twenty-six days Il
March show an increase of 1895, Geo, ih
largest gain yet shown By this road.
Lynehburg. Va, 29.-The jury IN INT
| second case of the United Ststes sgalns
tie county Judge for q violation Of the
constitution-that of Judge Grifin-tall
ing to agree, were discharged. The jary
stood eleven to one for acquittsl.
st. Paul, Mimi, 29.-The papers N
the court NATAL case of Mayor Reno
were received st headquarters here. The
sentence of dismissal is to take effect on
April 1st.
Philadelphia, 29.-Tbe board of direc-
tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad directed
the restoration of the pay of all persons
in the service of the company to the COM
pensation in force at the time of the re
Guction in June, n, to take effect from
and after April LIST next
San Antonio, 29.-The latest from the
Climate Mining Camp gives ore $40 TO
the ton and 10 per cent. gold.
Charleston, %. = Amelia Linkhsm,
who killed 8 Baltimore drummer, named
Hartman, for her seduction, and was ac-
quilted, was to-day married to Charles
Little, an officer of the customs at Sulii-
vans Island. Her child goes with tue
bridal party.
New York, 80 -Tfi6une's Washing
ton: Upon the application Of Governor
Tilden's counsel, the trial of the Tilden
income tax suit in the Supreme Court
has been postponed until November.
The World reports very little business
at the Mining Stock Exchange yesterday,
the sales amounting to only 81, $40 shares
The market was generally firm, however.
The President had reception at his
hotel to day:
Baltimore, 3O.-Colonel John R. j.
Emery, di d at Poplar Grove, Queen |
Anne's County, Md. The colonel was |
brother of Major General Emery. de
entered the regular army as second |
lieutenant, and served in the Indian war |
n Florida and also in the west.