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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14
State News.

j.. Greene, editor of tina LIE Sueur
Sentinel, was elected Ma yor Of his
city at the recent muncir al election.
DR.. d. f. Powell. "Wh tie Beaver"
of Lanesboro, has been appointed to
take the census of the Winnebago
Indians of Wisconsin p.nd Nebraska.
Winona is to have a sugar refinery,
and active preparations are going on
for the early erection Of the necessary
buildings.
T. L. Vought, for several years past
the proprietor Of the Flanders House
at Madelia. has vacated that hotel
and engaged in farming.
The State Treasury contained on
the LIST inst, the handsome sum of
1919, 579.u.
The Southern Minnesota Railroad
was expected to be opened early this
week to Flandreau. Another snow
storm occurred along the western line
the last of the week.
A serious accident occurred on the
Sioux City road on Wednesday of last
week, near Bingham Lake, Cotton
wood county, by which one man was
killed and another seriously injured.
A night working party were shovel.
ing in a snow cut and the engine
whistle was not heard, consequently
the above mentioned result. The
Coroner's jury brought in a verdict
alleging carelessness on the part Of
the road master or the company in
not having signals to notify the work
men Of the approaching engine.
The court house at Preston came
near being destroyed by fire the other
night, but a timely discovery saved
the building. The fire was started
by the stump of lighted cigar. care
lessly thrown into lot of combustible
rubbish.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
city will henceforth be the largest
depot and distributing point for farm
machinery. with one exception, in
the world.
DIR. Wedge of Albert Lea, received
$50 from the government the other
day in payment of horse which he
lost in the service nearly twenty
years ago.
An accident occurred on the st. p,
NJ. & NJ. r. R.. near Rothsay, the
first station above Barnesvile, on
Thursday morning last. A north
bound passenger train ran into the
rear of delayed freight train,
wrecking the caboose completely,
and somewhat injuring the passenger
engine. The caboose took fire and
a young man named Lischtz burned
to death. Several other men we're
injured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

THE remains of the late Senator
Carpenter reached Milwaukee on Sat.
urday and were received by delega-
ton Of citizens. Senator Conkling of
the Congressional delegation deliver
ing over to the saddened people all
that was left of the great statesman
and their late honored and
trusted friend. The body lay
in state during Saturday night
and hardly half hour elapsed
but twas viewed by mourning friends.
On Sunday a throng of military and
citizens from different parts of the
country gathered TO escort the re-
mains to Forest Home cemetery, and
as the plaintive words of the rector,
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes. dust
to DUST" were spoken the vast gath.
ering sadly realized that underneath
that sod rested the body of a great
man and one with whose memory
came up thoughts truly saddening and
rendered the scene one of extreme
grief and pain.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

EDITORS FREE PRESS: At a regular
meeting Of Pleasant Mound Grange,
held April 9th, 1881, the following reso
luton was presented and unanimously
adopted:
Resotoed, That the thanks of this
Grange are due to our supreme court
for their manly refusal to sit as court
to decide what shall be the constitution,
or TO lend their aid towards carrying out
the dishonest scheme concocted by the
late Legislature in reference to the old
Minnesota State railroad bonds.
Resotced, That the secretary be IN
structed to send copy Of the above
resolution TO the county papers for pub
LEGATION. Mrs. NJ. T. McKIBBEN,
Secretary.
Willow CREKK, April II, 1881.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14
The Moral and Social Science Law.

It must be that we are fast ap-.
preaching the greatest developments
in the subject of education. 1t may
be that the happy era is about to dawn
which has for so long been the theme
Of Utopian dreamers. The long
promised time is about to come when
fair science will unfold her wings,
ignorance and darkness will be van.
ished, and all rejoice in the universal
diffusion Of knowledge.
The last legislature, with that pro-
found wisdom which characterized
all that it did, and said, passed an act
styled, lin somewhat of high.sound-
ing terms), an act to introduce moral
and social science into the public
schools of this State. The origin of
the act, like the discovery of the
compass, is surrounded by
obscurity, and may remain forever
unknown. But no matter for that,
the act itself will stand forth the
wonder of the coming ages.
BY the beneficient provisions of this
act, from and after the LIST day Of
July, 1881. it is actually made lawful
for teachers and all others having
charge of schools to enter on the new
race opened before them, and try
their hands on philanthropy, hope,
peace, patriotism, self.respect, cour-
age, conscience, pity. reflection. emu
lation, purity, noble traits, cleanli.
ness, justice, economy, will, and the
like. This appalling list is by no means
intended to be exhaustive, and the
act gives them only as sample of
the full dose. In the mythology of
the ancients three graces were sup.
posed to be sufficient for the delight
full task assigned them, and in the
theology of the Chris tian church
there are only seven cardinal virtues.
but here, in noble array, stand thirty
one themes-almost rs many as there
are States in the Union-ell waiting
to be admitted to place in the liter
allure of the common schools.
And then by the terms Of this law
the teacher is to be permitted to
choose from among these profound
subjects and give oral lessons to the
pupils thereon, and that the good
effects of the lesson may not be lost,
on the very next morning the teacher
is to require that the pupil shall fur.
nish some illustration of the bene-
fetal effects of the lecture of the pre-
ceding day. Thus we shall have in
troduced the well known commercial
principle of "small profits and quick
returns"
But there is still another peculiar
ity about this law and it is here where.
in it's chief wisdom lies, and that is,
it is no law at all, for it is of the SUBJ
stance of every law that it shall be
rule of action, whereas this one is
only advisory. Nobody is compelled
to obey it. or pay the least attention
to it whatever, unless he chooses Of
his own free choice to do so.
All in all this law, for its wisdom,
profundity and far-reaching effects,
will cast cloud over all the re-
nowned law makers of antiquity, and
will stand as a proud memorial of
the greatness of Minnesota Legisla-
tors
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

THE Riley-Page case at Austin
came to an end Saturday, by the jury
bringing in verdict of mot guilty."
Judge Dickinson's charge to the jury
is spoken of as fair and impartial
and characterized by his good judg-
ment and ability. Thus ends another
chapter in the Page book of tragedies.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

A YEAR or so ago, J. b. Power, of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, was
regarded one of the most efficient and
active railroad commissioners in the
State. Recently he resigned that
very desirable post. and now comes
that powerful corporation with suit
demanding $50, 900 damages for dis.
crepancies in accounts while serving
in the capacity mentioned. 1t is
claimed that he sold large tracts of
land belonging to the company and
then purchased preferred stock at
fraction of par value and turned the
same in at par in payment for those
tracts and retained the difference
between the cost of the stock and the
purchases made in money. His chief
clerk, c. F Kindred, of Brainerd,
and others are implicated, and the
fact that the two gentlemen named
suddenly became quite wealthy goes
to show that there may have been
misrepresentation OF funds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

THE President and Secretary of
the Interior have decided to run the
young territory of Dakota awhile
longer and propose to squelch the cry
Of carpet-bag officials by appointing
residents or non-residents to office as
they may deem best. There has no
doubt large army of ambitious
politicians sought those green and
inviting political pastures and it is
a back-set to their hopes to greet sur
veyor generals and land officers fresh
from the Ohio political mandatory.
A Mr.. Letcher, a member of the Ohio
legislature, is to be register in the
Mitchell land Office and Gen.
Fessenden. of Michigan, is to
be surveyor general of the Territory
Politicians, if your eyes are set to.
wards the billiards and floods and
grasshoppers of Dakota, our advice 10
you, is, to go by way of Ohio.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

c. c. GooDNow, Receiver at the
Tracy land office, is notified that he
must go. John Lind is the man who
is reported by the papers to succeed
him; but who is Lind, anyway!
Charley has made an efficient officer
and his friends hardly understand
why he should be "civil serviced
out after a four-years' term.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

The New York Legislature has now
before that body a very sensible bill,
looking to the preservation Of game,
one section of which, (the bounty in.
centive). will 60 farther and achieve
more than all the penalties on their
statute books, towards preserving their
game, as follows: Thirty dollars for
killing a grown wolf, 915 for volt
cub, $50 for a panther, 81 for fox, 81
for any hawk, except night hawk, or
any owl, except a screech owl, within
the boundaries of the State. The county
treasurer is to pay the bounty on Ger.
tiicate of the supervisor of the town In
which the animal was killed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

THE go applicants for the 100 posi-
tions in the Interior department have
been ordered for competitive exami-
nation, and the applicants from the
Eastern States will probably be re.
quired to discriminate in describing
land between commencing at a stake
and stones" and so on, and the W y
Of the w of the NV i of the nw14
Of section so ard so.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

THE Republicans, the Greenback-
ers, the Independents and all the ele-
ments in opposition to the Democrats
in Mississippi, are inaugurating a
move to unite and give the Democrats
a grand twist at the approaching elec-
ton. This is no doubt one of those
cases where the end to be accom-.
plished juStities the means adopted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

WE are under obligations to Senator
Edgerton for neatly bound volumes
containing obituary speeches upon
the occasions of the death of Sena.
tors Morton. Chandler and Bogy, and
Representatives Leonard, Stark.
weather, Parsons, Kerr, Williams,
Schleicher and Hartridge.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, thought
he did smart thing in the Senate the
other day by in some indirect manner
Juggling in the old bond question for
the edification of our Minnesota Sena.
tors. Senator Mcmillan promptly re-
piled that the old law was passed by
Democratic administration and was
in fair way to be adjusted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14
PLANTS.

The undersigned has several choice varie-
ties OF Strawberry Plants for sale, such as the
Crescent Seeding, Captain Jack,
Great American, Cumberland
Triumph and Kerv''s late Prolific.
All OF the above plants have been thorough
ly tested I'm this climate. (42m2
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14
16O ACRES
TIMBER LAND
Farm For Sale

Three miles from MankatO, two miles from
Rapidan and Station on S. NJ. X. r., andlevel
wagon road. Three acres under pillow, tenant
on the place, balance heavy timber, and will
pay twice the price Of farm to cut and haul.
Good chance for some prairie farmers to club
together and buy wood land.
MI UST BE SOLD
Half Cash, balance one, two and three years
time, low rate Of interest. Address,
w. G.. WALL, Mankato.
eEAlso 500 Cords of Wood for sale. 42-tf
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

ALTHOUGH Congress appropriated
fifty millions for the payment of pen
sions, it is estimated that the entire
amount will be exhausted by the first
of january.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

THE Evangelists, Moody and Sanky,
have just closed a successful series of
meetings at San Francisco and are
now expected to tackle Colorado
Sinnaro
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
THURSDAY, APRIL IA, 1881.

SECRETARY WINDOWS first month
was success. He reduced the pub.
lie debt during March. $6.lQ2,SlQ
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14

George Vctter, Justice of the Peace,
Toledo, o., says: IL was troubled with
sciatica and kidney disease for years
at times had to go on crutches and suff-
cred untold agony. Prof. Guilmette's
kidney pad cured me in three weeks
Richland beacon., 1881-02-12
RAYVILLE. LOUISIANA, SATURDAY FEBRUARY l2, 1881

cOuragement. he writes 10 Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon, waiting for his answer in New
York, that they shall never enter his
house.
We will pass over the receipt Of this
letter, with its message of sorrow To
Eta, Of anger and bitter disappointment
10 Jimmie; over the brief year after the
marriage, while they live modcstly on n
few thousand dollars that Eta had in
her own bank account at the time Of the
elopement; over the awful day when.
this giving ont, letter bcgging'parion
and reconciliation is replied to with:
"DEAR SIR Your favor Of the 2s;h received.
Ny letter 20 you Of year since fully covers the
question upon which yOu touch. Please con-
sider Our intercourse eandcorrespondence closed.
"Yours truly. Henry LAHroy.'
And the storm-rack closed down over
them, driving into their very souls the
mist and cold
The little girl born few weeks before
this Is their only child. and its babyhuOd
knows only hardship: but when. at five
years old, she hegins to delight her
father with miniature Of Eta Larton
that trouble has so quieted and changed
into Eta Gordon. she has a father who
is man. instead of the selfish. lazy
parasite the forgiveness H. Mr.. Larton
woull have made him. His old friend,
Mr.. More, long before this had got him
a start in clcrkship with very small
salary; bnt meeting one day Mrs. Pc
ters, who had always been fond Of him.
she persuades Mr. Peters to secure him
apatl. l,ft 1,1- u-l,n1, H., / inn,
self: so that, SIX years after his marriage
day. he finds himself beyond the reach Of
want. although still n poor man. As
the little family sit on this evening, a
cheerful circle, though with the cloud
that recollection still casts over them, n
visitor comes. So changed is he from
the Henry Larton of old, that Eta
pa,lses before she flies to his arms.
My daughter" says this white haired
man, II am a widower again, and have
come to ask you if you will come back to
me-"
80 papa! I love you still, and pity
yOu; but l have husband and child ~
"My dear" smiling, 81 don't want to
separate you from them. Can't you bring
them with you?'
Excuse me, sir" interposes Jimmie
81 cannot be taken by my wife now:
and our struggles together have at least
Taught me that it is better to make my
own living than to live on any man s
aims"
"Mr. Gordon. I do not wish you to
come for your sake, but for mine; and if
the reports of your business capacity are
true, I think shall get the better Of any
bargain l can make with you. I have
learned. in short. that you have brains,
as well as handsome face, and am pre-
pared to be proud of my son-in-law."
Let us leave them here This, our
Jacob served his apprenticeship for only
six years, and that after he got his
Rachel; but it served him in good stead,
and like Hopeful in the story book, he
found his fortune when he had truly
earned il
Richland beacon., 1881-02-12
Sausages.

The following culinary note on saus-
ages may be of interest: 1.-The earliest
authority given in Todd's johnson for
sausage c'-Richardson does not notice
the words 'Baret's Alvearie,' 1880 A.
d., a pudding called sawsege.' Todd
also says that the contents are stuffed
into skins, and sometimes only rolled in
flour In this he is doubtless right, as
early makers Of sausages can not all
have had skins at hand to put them in.
But these savory edibles were made long
before 1880, and were called 'weasels,
whose long, thin bodies they resembled.
A recipe for making these 'weasels' is
given in the very curious Libor Cure
COcOru,1, Of about 1850 A. d., edited
for the Pathological Society by Mr.. Rich
ard Morris, in 1862: First, grind pork,
temper it with eggs and powder Of pep
per and canal; close it in capon's neck,
or pigs paunch (or gut, roast it we'll,
and then varnish it with batter of eggs
and -four, and serve in hall or else in
bower. 'Haggis' was'made in 145O, too,
as the recipe for it follows that for 'wea-
sels;' Sleeps hearts, kidney, and bowels
we'll boiled, chopped up with parsley,
hyssop, savOry, suet, pepper, and eggs
with mint. thyme, and sage also in win
ter-then boil again, and sprinkled with
Richland beacon., 1881-02-12
NUMBER I.
Youthful Criminals.

A New York Hfrald reporter visited
the Jefferson Market and Tombs prisons,
in that city, where youthful Offenders
against the law are detained. Warden
McDcrmott Informed him that their av-
eracc age is from twelve to sixteen years,
Int sometimes they are as young as
eight. One hoy of fourteen was SEN
fenced for twenty days, and his crime
WAS stealing pair OF socks. Inc
weather was bitter cold and it was clear
" evident that the child took them to
keep from perishing with the cold. Ono
If the boys. about thirteen years OF age,
said he had been arrested for stealing
zinc sign, which was insecurely fastened
at the doorway Of large building. He
admitted that he had been with several
other boys, who started away with 1t.
but on discovery had dropped it. This
boy did not run away, and was arrested.
His father went to n lawyer to secure his
-c,vice- for his defense, and was told
that for $40 he could get the boy nc
quilted. The father was very poor, bnt
in the belief that his son was innocent he
pawned u number of articles, and man.
aged to scrape together the requisite go.
which he handed to the lawyer. Tho
latter, Just before the trial. told the
father 1t would be necessary for him to
have Sl2 in order to secure the boys
acquittai and that the $50 paid was sim
ply his fee for legal services. The father
had no means Of raising the additional
$40. and the boy got thirty days in
prison while the TOOmbs lawyer got $50
Of the poor father.
One cell was occupied by mere child
of ten wears. Unlike the cells in the
Jefferson Market Prison, which are used
sor like purpose, these cells in the
Tombs are dark, dismal, and npulsive.
The corridor in the part now under
notice il narrow, low, and dingy, and the
whole aspect of the place rs repellant rs
Murderers' Bow ON the other side Of the
prison.
"what're you here for?" was asked OF
boy III cell.
Stealing
"What did You steal?'
"a pocketbook "
"HOw much money was in it?"
"Dollar and thirty cents"
Didn't you know that you would be
sent to prison if you stole it?"
"No, sir.
The boy was apparently of average in
telligence, but very pale and thin in
flesh. He both looked and spoke as if
he were in ill health, and his appearance
| did not indicate more than eight years Of
age. Close questioning developed tho
statement that he had never stolen any
thing before, and that he went to church
and attended school. And yet this mere
child was incarcerated in this gloomy
cell just as were adult murderers in the
other side of the prison.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-12
Absinthe Drinking.

Absinthe drinking is said TO steadily
increase in the Republic, but much less
steadily than in Switzerland and France,
particularly in France where great efforts
are made for its abatement. 1t has
grown to an enormous evil in those coun-
tries, notably in the large cities, like
Geneva, Zurich, Berne, Marseilles,
Lyons, and Paris At the French capi-
tai the practice has augmented alarm
ingly within eight or ten years, officers
of the army, business and professional
men, and journalists and authors being
especially its victims. A French physi-
clan of cminence has recently declared
that it is ten times more perniciOus
than ordinary intemperance, and that it
very seldom happens that the habit once
fixed, can he unlooscd. The same au-
thority says the increase of insanity is
deadly fascination, the source of which
scientists have vainly tried to discover, al
though they have no difficulty in nscer-
tanning its effects. Its immediate use
speedily acts on the entire nervous sys-
tenn i'll general and the brain in particu-
lar, in which it produces actual organic
changes with accompanying derange-
ment OF the mental powers. The habit
ual drinker becomes dull, languid; is
soon completely brutalized, and then
goes raving mad He is at last wholly
or partially paralyzed. unless. as often
happens, disordered liver and stomach
bring quicker end. The liquor is dan
gerously seductive, because it seems in
the beginning to help the digestive
organs, when it really hurts them, and
very seriously. Many persons have been
induced to take absinthe for indigestion,
and have thus fallen under its baleful in
fluence. The drinker is in most cases
in seeming good health, having no
thought of his peril, until tho hour when
illness has declared itself He is apt,
indeed, TO believe that he is remarkably
well, and to consider all the stories about
absinthe mere bugaboos. Tho earliest
symptoms of ailment lead to an exami-
nation, and to the knowledge that his
entire system is deranged, usually be.
yond restoration. His first illness is spt
to he his last, and death is a welcome
relief. Absinthe has not long been
known; in fact, it was not made . GEN.
tury ago. Some ninety years since q
French refugee, DR.. Ordinaire, settled at
the small village Of COuvet. Switzerland.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-12
The Cause Of DrOughts.

The question is often asked, Why
drOughts are more common latterly than
in former years. The main reason, we
concede, however, to be, because the
forests hav" been cut down. !. The effects
of forests upon the atmosphere are two
fold. They fill the air with dampness,
and again this dampness, when it is con-
densed into clouds, is attracted by the
forests. The roots of trees run deep into
the ground and absorb the moisture that
Is contained in it a considerable depth
below the surface This moisture. much
OF it at least, is evapOrated by the leaves,
and thus the air is loaded with water.
The amount Of water that is drawn up
from the strata of the earth lower down
than the roots of ordinary cultivated
plants penetrate is enormous. This
water, if not drawn up by the roots of
trees, would gradually make its way into
creeks and rivers, and ultimately into
the ocean. Cutting down the forests
has two other effects, both of which re-
suit III decreasing the amount of rain.
Dry and parching winds are unimpeded
in their progres, and the result is that
they carry off the moisture which is in
the atmosphere. Another result is, that
small streams of water have in many in
stances been entirely annihilated, except
during the winter months. This has de-
creased the volume of water in the creeks
and rivers, and consequently decreased
the attractive force for the clouds and
the amount Of water evapOrated from the
surface of the earth in our particular
section. -CCtNqiW Standard.