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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
Domestic Recipes.

BOSTON CoCoANUT PIE: Take one
cocoanut, and CRATE; add the milk and
two eggs, till the mixture is as thick as
custard pie. One nut makes two pies.
WAFFLEs.-One quart of milk, three
eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
one tablespoonful each of butter and
sugar, and -four enough to make stiff
batter. Bake in waffle irons.
Pop Corn BALLs.-These are easily
made. To one gallon of pop corn take
half pint of molasses or sugar; put
into skillet and let it boil up once, and
then pour it over the corn; grease your
hands with sweet butter, and make the
whole into balls Of such size as you
please.
TOWELS WITH CoLoRED BoRpRRs. To
set the colors, let the towels soak in a
pailful of cold water containing one table
spoonful of sugar of lead; let them re-
main ten minutes before washing. To
make the colors look clear and bright,
use pulverized borax in the washwater,
very little soap, and no soda.
EXTRA FINE GINGER CAKE: To one
quart molasses New Orleans) take half
pound good butter, with one pint butter
milk, one and a half tablespoonfuls of
soda or salaratus; stir the butter to a
cream; add in the molasses, then the
buttermilk; stir -four enough to roll it
out soft as can be handled; then put on
pans and bake in quick oven.
HOP YEAsT.-An excellent and quick
method of making hop yeast: Pare and
CRATE SIX or seven good-sized potatoes.
Stir q heaping tablespoonful of -four
with the grated potato; have ready O
couple of quarts of boiling hop water
(prepared by taking a handful of hops
and pouring water upon them and boil
ing about three minutes); turn the hop
water upon the potato and stir as for
making starch, then boil the whole mass
about ten minutes, add good handful of
salt and one of sugar, and let it stand
until cool enough 80 that it will not
scald, and then add large coffeecupful
of good yeast, and set where it viii keep
quite warm till it is very light, then set
it in a cool place until it has stood about
twenty -four hours, when it is ready for
your yeast Jug, which should be set in q
cool, dry place. The yeast prepared in
this way will keep longer and make nicer
bread than any method ever tried, and
it does not take more than twenty min
utes to prepare it ready for fermenta-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
Tomatoes.
from the Buffalo Courier,(


/ have known an earlier and better
crop of tomatoes obtained from seed
sown in the open ground than from plants
raised in hot bed, but if the plants are
properly managed there is much to be
gained by sowing the seed in hot bed
in March, or in box in the window of
the kitchen. As soon as the plants are
two inches high transplant and give
them more room. This is very impor-
tant. You want strong, hardy, stock
plants. During warm days, for week
or more before the plants are set out in
the open ground, the sash may be taken
off the hot bed so as to harden the plants.
The best crop of tomatoes 1 ever raised
was treated in the following manner:
Seed down in hot bed in March, in rows
three inches apart, and four or five seeds
to the inch. When two inches high the
plants were removed to another hot bed
and set out in rows five inches apart, and
the plants three inches apart in the rows.
As soon Us the plants began to crowd
each other they were transplanted into
pots and placed in the hot bed, the pots
being plunged into the soil level with the
surface. This point should not be over.
looked. 1t gives the roots of the plants
the needed "bottom heat" and the heat
is much more uniform than if the pots
are simply placed on the top of the soil
in the hot bed. The plants were allowed
plenty of mir and soon were hardened off.
The last week in May, the plants we set
in the open ground, in rows three and II
half feet apart each way. The land was
mellow and moderately rich. We made
good sized holes with spade where the
plants were to be set out, and then with
rake or hoe filed these holes with fine,
warm surface soil and put a tablespoon
full of superpnospnate in each hole, and
worked it thoroughly into the soil with
hoe.
Give the plants thorough watering
before removing them from the pots.
Set the plants deep, or say till the first
leaves are on level with the surface.
Press the loose, mellow soil firmly
around the ball of earth and roots. Keep
the ground very loose and mellow on the
surface,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
An Actors Mother.
rErona Tinslev,s Ma0axine


I remember q whimsical incident oc-
curing in theatre where the leading
member Of the company was celebrated
for his magnificent physique. One
night he was acting Virginius, and his
mother, who had never been in theatre
in all her life, happened ON the occasion
to be in one of the boxes. Fresh from
her native Yorkshire village, it viii be
readily imagined that she was somewhat
bewildered with the novelty Of the scene.
When her son appeared, she was amazed
at the grandeur Of his presence in flesh
ings, sandals and toga. His appearance
caused great deal If enthusiastic APP
plause. When it had subsidized, the
proud mother, unable 10 restrain herself,
said: "I'm so glad you like him. He's
my son." Whereupon the mother 1m-
mediately became the center Of attraction,
and one admirer exclaimed: sWell,
madame, you may well be proud ct you.
son, for he locks godike as a Roman.
"Ah," sighed the poor lady in reply, VI
didn't want him to be Roman. He
would have looked splendid as . pol'ce'
man." 2l'3 = 1925
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too great for her, and she has the look
of q maniac already"
The doctor held n letter. An idea
came to him. The letter had just arrived
by the post, and could not concern the
recent bereavement. He entered the
chamber Of death, approached May, and
presented the letter, saying in natural
tones: "This letter has just come. You
will be kind enough to open it."
Surprised, he raised her head, received
and mechanically tore open the envelope.
An Easter card was disclosed. An up
rooted plant dropped ON stone parapet,
with rays Of sunshine slanting down in
golden tide, and in these rays the words
were traced,
am the Resurrection,
And the Life.
May rend the card and turned II over
IN her hand. The doctor paused behind
her; the landlady stood in the doorway.
Then a sound became audible in the
room, tumultuous sobbing, and the
widow fell on her knees, clasping one of
the dead hands, and covering it with
tears and kisses.
81 am the resurrection and the life;"
she repeated, tremulously, "Oh, be-
loved, / shall find you againl
The Easter card had fallen on the
floor. The doctor raised it, and placed
it on the foot of the bed.
When the winter of another year
brought its SHOWS and clear star-lit
nights, Agnes Clement still wrought in
her studio, the glass-covered piazza.
The place was changed. Flowers now
bloomed everywhere, with the difference
between the piazza and the conservatory
that the artist had painted them. Roses
swayed lightly on their stalks in the
sketches on the wall; violets and daisies
were scattered in profusion over boxes
and fans; fairies peeped from blossoms
on ornamental cards; portrait heads
smiled from the center Of dishes garland
ed in ivy and ferns. A glance into the
domain of sister Anne would also have
revealed little additional luxuries and
comforts unattainable with the modest
salary of Humphrey. Agnes had learn
ed to love her task, and dealt tenderly
with the flowers; hence her success.
Occasionally her attention strayed to
distant corner consecrated to Beatrice in
Paradise and Ophelia, and ut such mo-
y
ments she sighed.
Opposite, the superb conservatory still
bloomed in the sunshine, and here ap-
peared occasionally pale young lady in
deep mourning, whose grave face seemed
to have forgotten how to smile. The
artist recognized her as the girl in the
pink dress and jewels, and associated her
garb with the absence of the brilliant
young man. That was oil. Between
them was a gulf, and thought did not
span it. Had Agnes penetrated the spa
cious mansion of her neighbor, she
would have seen in Mays chamber,
placed where her eyes beheld it rs the
first object in awakening, an eastern
card, framed in ebony, and yelled with
Grape. Sir Arthur Helps has written:
eve are all so intertwined that the
same wave beats on every shore"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
A MilliOnaire's Story.

Millionaire Borland landed in this
country from ireland when a boy, and
worked on a farm up the Hudson for SO
a month. In 1852 he went to San Fran
cisco, and soon afterwards began work
in mines for "a day. Since that time
he has made and lost fortunes. He is
represented by The Daily Mining Ne,Us
rs saying: In 1872 l bought 500 shares
of Central for less than $1,000. This
mine was soon afterwards cut up and
put into California; and the redistribu-
ton gave me 1850 shares. never paid
an assessment ON it, for none was called
for, and in no time the stock went up to
S740 share, when I sold. That paid
pretty well. Let me see; paid IS 900.
and sold for 1926, 900. That left me a
profit of $920,000. That was one of my
best speculations, but not quite as good
as another one that was in almost at
the same time. bought 500 shares of
Consolidated Virginia for $50 share,
and paid two assessments on it, which
brought up the price to $50 a share.
This mine was also cut up" Just about
this time, and my 500 shares spread out
into 1850 shares. held this stock for
two years, when it went up like flash.
I sold out in 1874 for $3.50 share. 1t
cost me $2S, 900 for my stock, and sold
it for s., 062. 500. That was pretty good
interest on the money. One Saturday
the stock was selling for $3.50 share,
but l held on. The following Monday
it was $500 share. I tell you it took a
pretty strong head to stand that. l was
getting rich, not ut the rate of a million
minute, as they say, but 800, 900 day
or so; but that was fast enough. Nobody
ever knew any thing about this till it
was all over. never told my wife and
family any of my business affairs, and
never kept any books. The only book
that kept was little pass-book that 1
carried in my inside coat-pocket, with n
record of all that bought and sold, and
the price. I never let anyone see this,
and never brought it out except some
times on Sunday afternoon, or when l
was alone. My heavy losses in 1873
were ON Sierra Nevada and Union.
lost 81 400, 600 then inside of ten days
shrunk that much in depreciation of
stock. The veins were not 30 wide rs
was expected"
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salt the Garden.

From the Country Gentleman.l
Gardens should be sailed very liberal
ly, for by SO doing you will have no
wOrm-eaten radishes, maggoty onions,
club.footed cabbages, or any other vege-
table grown in it injured by worms,
grubs, or any vermin that infest the soil.
Every one that raises asparagus knows
the necessity of using salt abundantly.
One can scarcely use too much. Many
who grow cabbages know its value when
applied to the roots or growing head;
but every one does not know that grow
ing onions may be buried under salt,
leaving only the tops out, and that the
onion will grow thrifty, while all mag
gots or worms will die or disappear-yet
such is the fact. Salt mixed with wood
ashes in the proportion of one of salt to
four of wood ashes, applied at the rate of
a handful to the center of each hill Of
corn Immediately after planting, will SUI
persede the use of scarecrows and coal
tar, as no worm or crow will touch it, be-
sides giving the fertiling properties of
the compound. A friend residing in Ed
mestown, Otsego county, who had bro
ken up four acres of sward, upon which
to plant corn, found it to be 80 very
wormy that he dared not plant it, until I
gave him the above receipt, which he
used after planting. In the fall he told
me that, although his lot had woods up
on three sides of it, he did not lose sim
gle hill by worm or crow. The fact is
worth remembering.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02

"THE UNSEEN NOTWITHSTANDING
gent with his hair on end, and the tas-
sells of the cords of his dressing gown
humping behind him as he descends the
stairs): every strnngel-following me
down stairs" bolts into his bedroom,
locks the door, and writes to the Atjte-
nsuna the next day.-Punch.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
Ar EAsrER.
III oaYHsus @. kerr,

In Lents last twilight iuIled 10 deep
By soft cathedral bells, tf4t4 q
while yet upon the April air
The solemn organ ewells,
Her thoughts go out IN vestal dreams
To greet tho Eater day,
Al buoyant AZ the birtss Of dswn.
And innocent 10 they.
The cadence Of the hymn 10 lost ssaA
In prima dounas till,
That ningles with the merry note
OF polka and quadriIle; .ss4
And whore but now The priest and choir ]
Intoned the doom Of Wrong,
The strains Of Offenbach inspire eT =,
The fantasies Of Song.
No longer drapedin mournful serge
For mans fepentant gutles,
The Altar Of the tjrtghtcning Church -
Entwined with hlieS smiles;
While through the sacred portal throngs
bridal train, more fair
Than ever saw with waking eyes,
The gir!ish dreamer there.
Than DER the broadening summer land
OF forest, field and stream;
The Lovers-WaIk, the Archery.
The dancing sail aglesm;
Her maiden fancy wings Its way
Sweets slipping rs 1t gees,
Herself Springs swectctt violet,
And summers fairest rose.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02

IF Mary Bahewell was proud Of any
thing, that thing was her cooking, es-
peciaily her cake. Therefore You can in
a moment fancy her feelings when Mrs.
Homespun, who had been helped to a
slice OF Mrs. BIS richest loaf cake, re-
marked, "There, that's just the kind o.
cake that suits me. I've told Mrs. Talk
well time and time again that them that
wants rich cake can have it for all ONE.
Just give me q piece Of common, cheap
stuff; it's good enough for anybody, I
sayr'-B Boston Transcripts.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02

Golden Gate, has just lost the third
child. Many other cases are reported
where families have lost from one to five
children from the disease.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
LORD BEAoossp1nnp had an ancestor

who possessed inventive talent. A jew
ish gentleman has discovered the follow
ing in the calendar Of the British home
Office papers, under date of May 26,
1767: I" Invention-Petition of Benjamin
DIsraeli, for patent in England, ETC.,
for his invention OF the art of making
women's chip hats and bonnets, and the
materials called plat or plating. Re
ferred to the attorney or solicitor general,
May 49,"
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MEN who drink usually suck seed
cardomon seed.
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The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-28
Children's PlaYfhings.

Playthings that children make for them
selves are a great deal better than those
which are bought for them. They employ
them much longer time, they exercise their
ingenuity, and they really please them more
A little girl likes better to fashion her dolls
cups and saucers of acorns, than to have a
set of earthen ones supplied. A boy takes
ten times rlore pleasure in a little wooden
cart he has pegged together, than he would
in painted and gilded carriage bought at
the toy shop. There is peculiar satisfaction
in inventing things for ones SELF No matter
though the construction be clumsy and awk-
ward it employs time (which is great OBJ
ject in childhood), and the pleasure the in
vention gives is the first impulse to ingenuity
and skill. For this reason the making of
little boats and mechanical toys should not
be discouraged; and when any difficulty &C.
ours above the powers of child assistance
should be cheerfully given. If the parents
are able to explain the principles on which
machines are constructed, the advantage
will be tenfold.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-28

was spent in anything useful-that was the
hour at the piano. Now, your mother was
up at half past fve and went to bed, from
her sheer inability to sit at her work any
longer, at half past nine. Sixteen hours for
her also. How much reading did you do in
| that timer"
And Mr. Thornton looked at his wife
( Don't talk to me of readingl I've no
time to read" Mrs. Thorton answered, lit
! tie impatiently. The contrast of her daugh-
ters idle hours with her own life of exhaust
ing toll did not affect her mind very
pleasantly.
"And yet" said Mr.. Thornton, "you were
! always fond of reading, and can remember
when no day went by without an hour or
two passed with your books. Did you lie
down after dinner?"
''Of course not"
"And didn't you take a pleasant walk
down Broadway? Nor sit at the parlor
window with Effie. How about that?''
There was no reply.
"NOw, the case is a very plain one, con-
tinued Mr. Thornton. I'm fact, nothing
could be palmer. You spend from IA to 16
hours in hard work, while Fife, taking yes
terday as a sample spends about the same
time in what is little better than idleness.
Suppose new adjustment were to take place,
and Fife were to be usefully employed help
ing You eight hours of each day, she would
still have eight hours left for self.improve-
ment and recreation; and you, relieved from
your present overtasked condition, might get
back portion of your health and spirits, of
which these too heavy household duties have
robbed you.'
"Father," said Effie, speaking through her
tears that were falling over her face, IL never
saw things in this light Why haven't you
talked to me before? I've often felt as if I'd
like to help her, she says that you can't do
it; I'd rather do it myself Indeed it isn't
all my fault"
at may not have been in the past, Effie,"
replied Mr.. Thornton, "but it certainly will
be in the future, unless there is new ar
of things. 1t is false social
sentiment that lets daughters become idlers,
while mothers, fathers, and sons take up the |
daily burden of work. and bear it through |
all the business hours
Mrs. Thornton did not come gracefully |
into the new order of things proposed by her !
husband and accepted by Efiie False pride |
in her daughter, that future lady ideal, and |
an inclination to do herself, rather |
than to take the trouble to teach |
another, were all so many impediments. |
But Effie and her father we're both earnest, |
and it was not long before the overtasked |
mothers weary face began to lose its look |
Of WEAKNESS, and her languid frame to come |
up to an erect bearing. She could find time !
for the old pleasure in books, now and then |
for a healthy walk in the streets, and call
On some valued friend.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-28
CHURCH DIRECTORY.


Corner Vermont and Columbia streets. Rev
w. c. Trevan, pastor Residence, 214 West
Vermont street Hours of service: 1890 a.
m. and 7:90 p. m. Sunday school at p. m
Allen A. NJ. f. Church,
Broadway. Rev. r. Titus. pastor. Resi-
dence, 1l3 Oak street. Hours of service:
1870 a. m. and $50 p. m. Sunday school at
school 2 p. m.
A. M. f. Zion Church.
Corner Backford and North streets. Rev.
j. Holiday, pastor. Residence Missouri
street. Hours of service, IL a. m. 8 o. m.
and 8. p. m. Sunday school at m. and
2. p. m.
Coke Chapel n. T.. Church.
Sixth street, between Mississippi and Ten
nessee. Rev. S. g. Turner, pastor. Resi-
dence, 25l West Fifth street. Hours of SER
vices, 1870 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
at 2 p. m.
Brauch NJ. r. Church,
Blackford street, between North and Michi-
gan streets. Reverend J. &. Hart, pastor
Residence Massachusetts, avenue. Hours of
service, IL a. m. and 7:3O p. m. Sunday
school at 9 a. a. m.
Second Baptist Church,
Michigan street, between Indiana avenue and
West street. Rev. Moses Broyles, pastor
Residence, $40 Blake street. Hours of SER
vice. 1890 a. m, p m. and 7:30 p. m. Sun
day-school at 9 a. m.
Olive Baptist Church,
Hosbrook street, near Grove street. Rev. A.
Summons, pastor. Residence, LOG Linden
street. Hours of service, IL a. m, D. m
and 7:30 p. m. Sunday-school at p m.
Calvary Baptist Church,
Corner Maple and Mars streets. Rev. Thos
Smith, pastor. Residence,-. Hours OF
service, IL a. m, 8 p. m. and Sp. m. Sun
day-school at 9 a. m.
New Bethel Baptist Church,
Beeler street. Rev. j. X. Raynor, pastor
Residence, 1913 West Fourth street Hours
of service. II a. M, p m. and 6 p. m. Sun.
day-school at 9 a. m.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
Corner Second street and Lafayette railroad
Rev. VIM. Singleton, pastor. Residence
Bright street. Hours of service, ii q. m.
p. m and 8 p. m. Sunday-school at a. m
Christian Church,
Corner Fifth and Illinois streets, Elder J. M
Marshall, pastor. Hours o
service, IL a. m. and p. m. Sunday-schoo
at a. m.
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Corner Rhode Island and Maxwell streets
Rev. G. e. Wilson, pastor. Residence, IL
Minerva street. Hours of service, IL a. n,
8 p. m. and D. m. Sunday-school at a. n
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-28
Waste Not. Want Not

"Hans, what kept you owad so late to-
night2" "Well, Katrina, L vas at dot tee
yayder. l met Yon Biber, und We hat some
beer nit each one anoder both togedder, unit
Yon says: Hans, l wants you to come in my
teeyayder und see Lew Raddler und dem
fellers sing fiddle song. Very well, goes
in mid him, und it don't cost me something
at all--he yoost tole dot toorkeeper 'Das all
righd.' und bass in. / vas he'd dead, like
doze noozpaper fellers." "Well, Hans, how
was you like it?" Like It'll 1t was
splendit, Katrina. Dere vas de pootiest song
you nefer heard in all my life 1t begins
down at de boddom like dis way:
You neer miss dot dill dot we'll don't got some
morein it.
It's fine sentiment in dot song, Katrina, /
got it all in my head but 1 vas so pleased
und oxcited about it I hat forgot it again
once. 1t was like dis way [sings]
Don'd you waste dot vasser
Das de moddo teach you.
Let your watchwords be dispatches
IND practice like dem preachers,
Do not let few moments
Like dot sunshine pass by,
For you never miss dot vasser
Until you got pooty dry sometimes when
dot we'll is all run oud.
Now, Katrina, don'd you like dot sendimentp
eyes, like dot sentiment and 1 like it
bedder if you don'd shtop oud till II o'clock
at nighd like dis any more, und come home
tryin' to play me off dot foolishness.'
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-28
Big Words.

Was there ever such an era for big words
as this? Petticoat went out when crinoline
walked in. Elastics have driven carriers from
sight and memory. No man rides on horse
back now; he takes equestrian exercise. We
have no city papers; they are metropolitan
journals. Metropolitan journalists write about
epistaxis they mean bleeding at the nose.
Women are no longer married; they enter
into connubial bliss by being led to the by.
meneal altar. Nobody sells tooth powder or
hair wash; it is dentifrice, sozodont and cap
Hilary decoction. Every writer in this age of
sham metaphysics uses glibly the words
phlebotomy, diagnosis, etc. These titanic
highfalutants must run their course, and then
we shall again come down to that pure we'll
of English undefled that every lover of
those sturdy little Saxon words delights to
drink FROM