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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS
OVER STOCKED.
During the month of January, 1881, we
shall offer at cost Or less than cost,

Mems Eng. CIR. Walkingfast Waterproof Balls.
for.
Mems Eng. CIR Congress ..................... 3.75
Double Sole Calf Congress. ............. 200
Extra-fine Calf Button Boots. ..,....... 400
Newark Hand sewed French Calf Button 500
Wescott Calf Cloth top Congress Boots. 3.75
81 Small lot of Newark Congress (narrow). 3 90
Ladies American Button Boots ........... 200
French Goat, very Stylish. ...,.......-. 3.25
PeDDle Goa Button. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ZOO
Extra quality Newport Ties and Button
Shoes. .............- .................... 1.25
Serge Boots to wear under Rubbers. /. so
{" Fancy Slippers from 81 % to $3.50.
Misses School Button Boots ............. -. LIS
.' Am Kid Button Boots....,. ......... 1.50
Is French Kid Button Dancing .......... $50
Children's Button and Lace Boots. ........ 80
Grain Boots School. ............... LOO
Large lot Ladies' warm Slippers 75 cts. to 150
Mems Best quality Buckle Arctics .......... 1.5O
Wool Lined Alaska. ........... LOO
Heavy Rubber Boots. .................. 2 so
I" Pure Gums NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 800
Ladies' Int Sandal Rubbers best quality. 40
Ladies' and Gents Canadian Oyershoes. $50
and many other Goods in proportion.
Those who are acquainted with my stock will APP
preciate the prices named above
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
Clerical OratOry.
August Atlantic.

August Atlantic.
Why do not our preachers study
OratOry? AS preachers, not as pastors,
their business is to work a certain
effect, and all helps to its produc.
ton it should be part Of their
education to learn. l presume
shall not be misunderstood to mean
the effect of displaying self, and
winning admiration for personal
gifts. What the true preacher seeks
to do is to inform the intellect with
Christian truth; to stir the heart, and
thereby influence the will of his
hearers. Half the sermons annually
preached are. so far as human insight
goes, waste Of labor and breath.
Two things partly account for this
one is that majority of the men sent
to preach are out of their real vOca-
tiOn,-gOOd pastors they may be, but
fit preachers they are not another is
that those with more aptitude for
preaching do not yet understand the
means to be employed to attain their
object.
Sometimes the preacher has some
conception Of the needs of human
nature, and knows that the truest
truths fail to move when put before
men in dull, dry way; perhaps he
does his best to acquire a good style,
and succeeds in making an ably.writ-
ten discourse. But when he comes
into his pulpit to give it to his people,
where Is the impression it should
produce What becomes of his choice
words, his considered sentences ?
There they lie upon the page he
holds: he proceeds to read them.
Why do they fail of any result 1t is
for want of delivery, of the oratorical
art Of making mere words "tell."
His faithful effort goes for little he
seems 10 his hearers to be reading
something to them, as he is not to
be speaking to them from the heart.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
The Celestial Greeting.

Whence CONTEST thou to this land
OF beauty? for l perceive that thy
feet are not hurt by the roughness Of
the way. nor are thy garments worn
like those of the pilgrims from earth
who have jOurneyed long to reach the
Celestial City. Thou cOmeth, bring.
ing with thee the freshness of the
morning dew, and with face as in
nOcent and fair as of one who had
never looked upon evil. The imprint
of loves kisses have not faded from
thy cheek. We would know who
thou art, gentle one, for thou seemest
more like some spirit from the skies
that had wandered for a brief moment
from the bowers Of paradise, and had
now returned to its native state? :"
81 come, indeed" replied the
stranger, " from far.off land, but a
land where the sunshine of Heaven
falls. where ministering angels from
these blessed abOdes are ever seen,
and where the Lord of Heaven him.
self once dwelt. During my brief
stay in that strange land l was happy,
for loving hands built for me a home
amid flowers of rarest beauty, where
the birds built their nests and filled
the groves with their songs of love.
When l told the loving ones who
attended me that l came to them but
rs transient visitant, they wept and
pressed me to remain. And while
yet fingered in DOUBT, bright spirit
gently placed me on its airy wing and
translated me to these seats of beauty.
But they saw whittier l had come,
and even now l can see the faces of
those dear ones striving to win me
back to their pleasant home"
HencefOrth." replied the minis.
tering spirit, this will be thy home
And erelOng the guardian angels who
watch over the dear ones thou hast
left behind will conduct thee to these
celestial abodes to dwell forever in
this land of unb0unded beauty"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
MANKATO
State Normal School,

The Entrance Examination for Fall Term
will be held August 18th and 18th, 1881.
Recitations commence August ~.
This institution enters upon its fourteenth
year with largely increased facilities for thor
ough academic and professional training.
Prof. jas. T. McClcary, Of Wisconsin, a gen.
tlcman Of fine abilities and varied expert
ence as teacher, superintendent and institute
worker, has been added to the faculty.
Two new teachers for the Model School have
been secured from the celebrated State Nor
NAL and Training School ut OswegO, New
York.
unused, have been fitted up to accommodate
the expected increase In attendance.
In the department of Natural Science
numerous costly improvements have been
made. besides Il large addition to the stock OF
apparatus.
The addition of about four hundred new and
carefully selected volumes renders the library
Of the school equal IL not superior to that OF
any other similar institution in the State.
The recently established Reading Room is
Il is believed, In the amount and character Of
its regular literary supplies and various neal
appointments, unequaled In any other Norma
School In the Northwest.
The spacious, convenient and thoroughly
equipped building will be In perfect order BY
the opening of the coming term, and in con
dition to accommodate four hundred students
Expenses Of students less than ever before
Tert books to be hereafter furnished by the School
Boarding Clubs to be organized. For particular
respecting these and other matters, sent
postal card to the undersigned for the new
catalogue and circular, mailed free to any
address. EDWARD Soaring,
Principal.
MANKATo, MIMI, July 10, 1881.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES JAMES Is
after the Canadian authorities with
sharp sticks. 1t probably is pretty
well known that mutual arrange.
ment has existed between the two
governments by which the United
States mail pouches containing mail
matter for Canada entered that coun-
try freely, and the Canadian mail
matter intended for the United States
came to- us reciprocally, it being dis
tinctly provided that all surplus accu-
mutations of mail-bags, locks and keys
should he promptly returned to the
respective countries. The large out
lays required for bags, pouches and
keys annually, aroused the suspicious
of the keen POstmaster-General, and
he dispatched agents to Canada to see
if everything was square. 1t was
found that to a large extent United
States pouches, mail-bags, locks and
KEYS were in use in various offices,
almost to the exclusion of their own,
James says large sum will
be saved annually to us by a prompt
of this abuse. Gen. James
appears to be the right man in the
right place
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS.
Good Thunder.

We have been trying in vain for the
past week to ascertain who was the
hero Of the skirmishing party that
went out to wake up the newly mar
ried couple at Mr.. PetrOsky's one
night last week.
Our enterprising saloon.keeper, Mr..
Nathan, returned from MankatO last
Saturday with his bride, formerly
Miss Ida Kappernick of this place.
The young couple very quietly and
sensibly went To housekeeping.
Mr.. w. M. billiard, a brother to
Mrs. Barnard, and Mrs. Salnsby, a
daughter of Mrs. b., arrived here
from GOderich, Ont, last Monday.
Mr.. billiard will return after short
visit, but Mrs. Samsby will probably
remain during the summer.
A little son of Mr.. l.. Halves met
with an accident last week. The in
Jury, a wrenched ankle, did not al
first excite alarm, but violent intlam
nation followed which resulted in hi.
death last Wednesday afternoon.
We are panied to learn that tn.
family of Mr.. VIM. Graft are danger
ously sick with typhoid fever. Two
daughters, one son and q farm hanl
are suffering from that malady. DR.
Trenkel, of Mankato, is attending
them, and upon his last visit inform
me that he cOnsiderd his patients OF
the mend. We sincerely hope thei
recovery will be speedy and sure.
Only 1929 in the shade! How
that for August weather!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

THE Scandinavian editors of our
own State of Minnesota and of coter-
minOus States have been visiting
points of the greatest interest in de-
veloping the remarkable productive.
ness of Minnesota and Dakota, under
the hospitality of our generous rail
roads. Their visit at q time when
our harvest of the smaller cereals was
fairly under way will 60 very far
towards convincing them Of the
almost inexhaustible richness of our
great belt and of its remarkable
adaptation to profitable agricultural
an dairying pursuits. Their mission
is to post their readers faithfully in all
these things and to show their readers
in fatherland that ours is land flow
ing with milk and honey, inviting
them to come and embrace and help
to develOpe its Astounding riches and
cause our vast unOccupied prairies
to blossom like the rose.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

MR.. RICHARD SMITH, editor of the
Cincinnati Gazette, in Il recent address
before the Northern Indiana Editor.
al Association on "The Press" among
other equally good things, said:
1.-The best way to occupy II field and hold II
Is, To make the paper 50 good us to be oXpen-
sive, IN order that people may not start new
Ones
That is exactly the aim of the FREE
PRESS to-day. That it is expensive to
its proprietOrs, we have experiment.
al knowledge, and that it is a good
paper is attested by it's steadily in
creasiEg list of subscribers, and the
rumpus which its patrons make when.
ever IL package is lost in transit OF
takes trip around RobinhOod's barn
through the carelessness of postmast.
ers. How successful we shall be in
keeping new adventures out of the
held, time alone can tell.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

SITTING BULL and his tribe of In.
dams have been transported to Fort
Yates, where there are already con-
gregated 1000 Indians in charge OF
seven companies of U. S. soldiers.
On his way by steamer. a stop was
made at Bismarck, where Sitting Bull
was duly lionized by the whites, and
where the chief disposed of quantity
Of pipes, autographs and photographs
at enormous prices as mementos. His
wives were along with him and most
of his family. all Of them with won
derful names, such as "The.war.is.
over" "Crow.Foot," The Child
who. Brings. Observation-Disclosures"
" She-Who- Chances at-You-as-She-
Walks" and the like. Sitting Bull is
forty-seven years old. The next thing
in order is to feed all these Indians
and guard them against further harm
to white folks.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
person who would establish, with
proof, that fact.

person who would establish, with
proof, that fact.
What has become OF those whom
the Reeiew calls its friends in the
country! No doubt he chegishes the
thought that people are simple enough
to believe that - Mapleton y and
Sterling were bona .fic corrcsp0n-
dents. and that the country people
are just stopping over with sympathy
for him. TOO thin for Il blind man
TO see. He wrote them I'LL himself.
And then, what u Moses he has been
to the grangers! What could they
ever have done without him! Yet
] am not aware that the grange owes
| him Il cent neither do | believe he
eyer sympathized with the grange
movement farther than the dollars
and cents he SAW in it. But do DO.
levc that ho was and now is their
bitter enemy. and has opposed every
movement made in their interest.
Not long since he published in great
glee that the Attorney General had
decided that it was the dutq of the
assessor to take the crop statement.
which was no new information tn
anybody, as it was generally supposed
not II blockhead in the State but
knew it. Yet the same enterprising(9
individual failed to state that there Is
no law to compel grange" To give
the statement to the assessor.
We have, us stated above, paid oul
bills, and, Oh several occasions, made
honest efforts to fill his hungry NAV
with substantial food. and in return
for such kindly acts have received
: worse treatment than we would have
'' 4 right to expect from Il dog. us II,
] mean the dog would wag his (th'
dogs tail in silent recognition of til,
= one who gave the coveted crust. N,
doubt he has IN everlasting claim OF
- the grangers. and they cherish hin
> for it.
AT the proper time, Pleasant Noun,
- Grange will apply for II lock of hi
} hair and his front teeth rs keepsake
II in memory of the beautiful form 0
~ our benefactOr.
v T.. ID. CORNISH.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

EDITORIAL junketings are quite
frequent nowadays. The New York
Press Association, numbering 100
gentlemen and ladies, representatives
of newspapers and publications in all
parts of that State, recently made a
trip to the famous Thousand Islands
of the river st. Lawrence, where
they made their first landing at the
dock of the Thousand Island Park
Association at Alexandria Bay, COW
ering 1000 acres. interspersed with
neat cottages, where steamers were
in waiting to convey them around the
foliage-clad islands, through the
South Channel and Fiddler's Elbow,
to Westminster Park and other places
of interest. Their description of the
trip and it's enjoyments is simply huge,
immense, elephantine. This summer
resort has been inaugurated at great
expense and is fairly justifying the
anticlpations Of its projectors.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

A TELEGRAPnIC dispatch, dated
Portland. Oregon, Aug. l, says, that
Rev. +. o. Haven, bishop of the NJ.
E. church, is lying dangerously ill in
that city and is not expected to re-
cover.
Since the above was in type, a dis
patch dated Salem, August 3. says:
Bishop o. E. Haven died yesterday evening.
The immediate cause was ur,rmia. Aged
sixty years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth, ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate Of Sarah Hunt, do.
ceased.
On reading and filing tho petition Of L. O,
Hunt, of Lake Crystal, Blue Earth county,
representing among other things that Sarah
Hunt. late OF Blue Earth county, on the 9TH
day Of June, A. ID. 1881, ut Lake Crystal, died
ntcstate, and being resident of this county
at the time Of her death, leaving goods, chat
tells and estate within this county, and that
the said petitioner is the husband of said de-
ceased, and praying that administration OF
snid estate be to him, said petitioner, granted,
II is ordered that said petition be heard before
the Judge of this Court, on Monday, the 10th
day Of August, A. d. 1881, at 2 O'Clock p. MI.
ut the Probate Office in said county.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given
to the hcirs Of said deceased and to all persons
interested, by publishing copy Of this order
for three successive weeks prior to said day
of hearing In THE. MANKATO FREE PRESS, 4
weekly newspaper printed and published at
MunkatO In said county.
Dated at MankatO, tho End day Of August,
A. ID. 1881.
By tho Court, G. w. MEAD,
6w4 Judge Of Probate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

TO CONNECT the Atlantic and the
Pacific Oceans at the lsthmus OF
Duien. Il work of magnificent pro
portions and susceptible of untold all
Yantages to commerce ana civiliza-
ton. is the accomplishment which
DcLesscps and many other big heads
are now bending their energies. The
French Academy Of Sciences pub
fishes the engineers preliminary ill.,
yestigations into the geological struc.
,ure o. the Isthmus ut the point
designed to be traversed by the
canal, and the result is so satisfac
tory that DeLessepS thinks the work
will be accomplished much below the
original estimates. How very i'm.
pcrfectly most people forecast the un.
told advantages of this work, who
have never made the long and danger
Gus six months voyage around Cape
HON or through the ragged Straits
Of Magellan, rs contrasted with a
short and sheltered transit OF the
Isthmus. We hope to live to see
these two great highways of com.
merce united, although we should
expect no great bonanza to result to
us. We only wish TO be a spectator
that, and nothing more.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05

IT is now asserted that President
Garfield will in few days, with
continued improvement, be in con
ditiOn to attend to light executive
business, such as signing papers, &c.
His physicians will guard him very
carefully against over -exertion; now
that he is improving SO satisfactorily.
The President is very anxious to get
at Government work, which he fears
will suffer in his department from
his prOtracted illness.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
PROBATE NOTICE.

SrATE OF MINNESOTA, County Of Blue
~ Earth--ss.--ln Probate Court.
In tho matter Of the estate Of james M. Will
son, deceased.
On reading and filing tho petition Of Lydia
A. Wilson, OF MankatO, representing among
other things that James NJ. Wilson, late OF
Mankato. on the .lst day Of June. A. d. 1881,
at MankatO died intestate, and being a resi-
dent Of this county at the time OF his death,
leaving goods, chattels and estate within this
county, and that the said petitioner is the
widow of said deceased, and praying that i'd
ministration Of said estate be To her, Lydia A.
Wilson, granted, It Ii ordered that said peti.
ton be heard before the Judge Of this Court,
ON Tuesday, tho 30th day OF August, A. D.
1881, at 10 O'clock A. NJ. at the Probate Office
In said county.
Ordered, further, that notice thereof bt
given to the heirs of said deceased and to al
persons interested by publishing a copy OF
this order for three successive weeks prior u
said day OF hearing, In the MANKATO FREE
PRESS, y weekly newspaper printed and pub
lished at MankatO In said county.
Dated at MankatO, the 3rd day of August
| A. ID. 1881.
| by the Court. q. w. MEAD,
| 6W4 judge of Probate
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MlNNESOTA-County Of Blue
- Earth--ss-ln Probate Court.
In the matter of the last will and testament
OF Hugh X. Jones, deceased.
whereas, an instrument In writing purpOr-
ting TO he the last will and testament OF Hugh
=. Jones, deceased, late Of said county, has
boon delivered to this court.
II IL ordered that the proofs OF said in
strument he heard before this court ut the
Probate Office In said county, on tho 9th day
OF August, A. ID. 1881, ut O'Clock I'm the after.
noon, when all concerned may appear and
contest the probate Of said instrument.
And 1t IL further ordered, that public notice
OF the time and place Of said hearing be given
those orders for three weeks successfully pre-
viOus to said day Of hearing, In the MANKATO
FREE PRESS, a weekly newspaper printed anC
published ut MankatO In said county.
Dated August 2, 1881.
By the Court. G. w. MEAD,
OVID Judge Of Probate
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
MILLER AND LAPHAM.

The recently elected United states
Senator's from New York. Hon. War
ner Miller and Hon. Elbridge Il. Lap
ham, Lave here and there served
as targets for u few of the penny.a-
liners OF the Democratic press, who
have essayed to underrate their abili
ties and declare their unhtness to
occupy seats in SO digniiled u body as
the United States Senate. How well
they have succeeded will he better
known when we examine briefly the
;lntecedents Of these men:
HON. WARNER MILLER,
was born in OswegO county, n. Y,
August II, 1888, and was graduate
of Union College in 1860. On leaving
college he commenced teaching in the
Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, but
on the breaking out of the Rebellion
he enlisted as private in the Fifth
New York cavalry, and was suisse
quently promoted as Sergeant. Major
and Lieutenant. Taken prisoner at
the battle of Winchester, he remain.
ed in captivity till the war closed.
He then made Il trip to Europe. Re
turning, he started in the pursuit of
paper manufacturing at LyOnsdale,
Lewis county. His first appearance
in public life was in 1878, being cleo.
ted and reelected to the Assembly Us
Republican from that old and reli.
able county of Herkimer, whose con.
stituency are as safe judges of men as
can be found in the Empire State.
In 1878, he was elected to the 46tl
Congress, and in 1850 to the 47th Con
gress. He is solid. reliable, iniluen
tial man, strongly attached to agri
culture, and owns and manages Il fine
farm in Herkimer county.
HON. ELBRIDGE q. LAPHAM,
was born in Pennington, New York
Oct. Is, 1914. He was brought up OF
4 farm, attending the public school il
the winter months. For 4 while hs
attended the Canandaigua Academy
studied civil engineering, and was fol
some time employed on the line o
the Michigan Southern railroad
admitted to the bar in lS44, and ha:
since practiced law in Canandaigua
Mr.. Lapham was chosen member o
the New York Constitutional Con
vention of 1857, and in 1874 wa
chosen "a Representative in Congress
from the 9th district of that State,
position he has held cOnsecutively NJ
to the present time, always beinl
returned by large majorities.
Democrat until lS4s. he supported tn
celebrated Wilmot PrOviso, voted TO
Martin Van Buren, that year, and wa
delegate to the Buffalo Convention
whose action was u sturdy beginning
of the no less sturdy ending of SLAYER
, in these United States. Like Wal
ner Miller, Mr.. I.apham is a consist
ent, upright Republican, and may h
relied upon never to assume the air
of his distinguished predecessor
deny to the Executive of 10000. 90
) people the functions rightly pertain
ing to that high Office!