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Price Four Cents.

'coons all like trout. Besides, they die from
 some unknown disease for which there is not
 any known cure. He says he has lost fl om
 ten to twelve pounds in day just about the
 time they were ready to send away. Fifty to
 a hundred would die in single day, and at
 one time the young ones would die off by the thousand. But the greatest trouble of all
 was from theft by men, for no matter how much care he had taken to raise them, they seem to be regarded as public property. He had arranged many traps, one of which, while he was setting it, went of before he was ready (so report says), throwing him into the pond and otherwise injuring arranged that they would noti- fy the watchman, and another arrangement that would fire off spring gun. Besides, he had a large and powerful bulldog, also an- other smaller one both of which were so dangerous that they had to be chained before with their master. Yet, notwithstanding all this, many of the trout would get stolen, for during the spring months trout weighing 8 little over pound has about the same mar ket value as gold dollar, and is in about as good demand. MT. Robinson told me when he wished to send them away he packed them in boxes of various weights, from ten to sixty pounds, and had his regular custom CTS in New York, who took all he could fur nish, and would take 8 great many more ifs he could get them, and the demand was greater each year. He is constantly adding to his farm" by digging away more of the bog, and soon will have many acres of grouIrE devoted to this business
 Of course we had long talk on old times, for we were school boys together, and well do remember putting an egg in his coat pocket and accomplice smashing the same, when I was out of harms way, and about dozen boys in the school got All I,,k kl,n never was caught.
 The dreadful snowstorm caught me here and nearly whole day did I work with farmers digging snow out Of the highway, but it was sport, and a good many sleigh rides did I afterwards get, notwithstanding he cold. It is many years since there has been much snow, and the railroads >have IS yet been able to clear only 8 portion of he track. Certainly we are having regular told- -fashioned' winter. M. c. s.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-04
pIothershipton,s Prophecy,

Every now and then, for these 400 years and more, some one has brought to light the prophecy and memory of Mother Shipton. AS event follows event in mechanical prog ress, her doggerel verses fall in so pat that they must needs be quoted. One of the pre- dictions thereof-'Fire and water shall won ders do, ,'--has come to pass time and again, and the latest fulfllment is in the Keeley mo- tor. This Mother Shipton was one that would have taken high rank as medium in
 our day; in hers, the fifteenth century, she
 was said to have been forgotten, like the wizard Merlin, of the phantasm of Apollo or
 some aerial demon under that guise, and
 beautiful orphan Yorkshire girl named Agatha. She had the weird, lonely girlhood
 that the child of shame is apt to have, avoid
 ed or persecuted by those who should have
 been her mates she was christened Ursula
 by the abbot of Beverly, and grew up so ec- centric and unnaturally shrewd that by and
 by this tradition, in those superstitious days, grew about her birth. She prophe- sled as she grew older, and even ''per- sons of quality consulted her. She told the great Woolsey that he should never come to
 York, and, indeed, when within eight miles of it, he was arrested by Northum berland at King Henry's order, and brought to Leicester, where he died. Also she is said to have fore told the great fire of London, the execution of Charles A and many notable events besides of the Reformation and the reigns of Eliza beth and James. At the age of 73 she fore- told her death, and at the hour predicted she died. Her name is popular tradition in Yorkshire even to-day, and the tradition is founded in part upon fact. Her famous prophecy was said to have been published ill her lifetime, and again 200 years ago; it was certainly published forty years ago, for 1t is in book of that time, where it was said to be copied from an older book. Though most of the items are vague enough, some show marked coincidence with remarkable events, such as the invention of steam, railway loco motives and tunnels, the telegraph; ironclads and the admission of Jews into Parliament Gin 1S5S). Without further preface, these ara the eIepent limos
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

D. G. Croly, who accurately predicted the last panic months before it came, announces that there will be financial panic before the year is out. It would not be surprising if his prophecy should come to pass, for ''the pace" is pretty fast.
 They may not need more law in San Fran cisco, but it is evident that better enforce ment of what they have is needed. Twenty seven murders have been committed in that city during the last fifteen months, and not one of the murderers has been punished by law. Only one has been hanged, and he was . Chinaman, who tied the moose for himself in his cell.
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Sournal alo Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, D. zoo State Street, Courier Buflaing.
 JOHN B. cARRINaToN. ,wARD T. HARRINGTON. JOHN B. HARRINGTON, yR.
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fortune. The pipes were like those con- monly used in the country, and on each was given complete pictorial history of the pc- tato beetle. A potato leaf was represented with the eggs the larvae or grubs in two or three stages of growth, the chrysalis and the perfect insect. The representations were ac- corate and the pipes were popular, so that the German peasants became thoroughly in- structed in the personal appearance and bi- ography of the noxious insect, and prepared to kill him on sight.
 General Garfield is having great deal of trouble with office seekers, as all men who have offices to give do. He says concerning their attacks upon him: ''It may appear very foolish to be greatly annoyed by what seem to be little things, or by the dogged pertinacity of those one terms small people, but it cannot be helped sometimes. Some of my recent experiences in this regard remind me of the story of the iohneumon and the crocodile on the bank of the Nile. The keen, cunning, cruel creature called the ichneumon watches until it sees the crocc- dile fast asleep with its mouth open it then rushes quickly down his throat, and with sharp teeth and claws lays hold of the very vitals of the great crocodile, which, with all his strength, is powerless to loosen the hold of his relentless little tormentor. He rolls and writhes in his strong agony and despera- tion, and at last dies. Imagine a crocodile with hundred or thousand ichneumons down his throat and you will have picture of the torture that may be inflicted upon a sensitive, sympathetic nature by the horde of ofice-seekers which attack new Presi- dent or any other man who has patronage to bestow at the incoming of new administra- tion. A President labors under disadvan- tage that the crocodile does not, added Gen eral Garfield. 1.-The ichneumons that assail ! him do not wait until he is asleep, nor do | they hunt singly-they come at all times and | seasons and in squads or regiments at a I
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Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents fill the world with woes Around the world thoughts shall Ky In the twinkling of an eye. Water shall yet more wonders do Now strange, but yet they shall be true; The world upside down shall be And gold be found at the root of tree; Through hills man shall ride And horse nor ass be at his side Under the water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk; In the air shall men be seen In white, in black, in green; = Iron in the water shall float AS easy as 8 wooden boat Gold shall be found and shown In land that's hot now known; Fire and waters shall wonders do; England shall at last admit Jew; The world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred eighty-one.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-04

The expected criticism of sEndymionr by Lord Houghton has appeared in the Fort 'atgdtly ReUieao, and Mir. Jennings the London correspondent ofthe New York World, tele- graphs that Lord Houghton condemns Lord Beaconsfield for invariably making the repre- sentatives of literature in his novels ridiculous and offensive. His caricature of Thackeray, in particular, Lord Houghton pronounce as at once false and feeble" Contrary to public expectation, the criticism is decidedly kindly in tone, and there is no approach to person. alities of any kind. The newest point which Lord Houghton makes is that the character of Baron Sergius, generally supposed to have been drawn from Baron Brunnow, is DOT trait of a real person, of whom Lord Hough- ton discreetly speaks as mysterious Ger man gentleman who years ago lived in Buck ingham Palace and had private interviews whenever he desired with the highest per sonages of the realm" This-.mysteriousG Ger man gentleman, says Mir. Jennings, was Baron Stockmar, the guide, philosopher and friend of Prince Albert, and the intermediary between the royal household in England and the Queens most trusted counsellor, the late King Leopold I. of Belgium.
 A man only needs to take advantage of his opportunities in order to make his fortune This truth has been strikingly illustrated by a German who saw his opportunity in the potato bug. When that pest began to ap- pear in Germany the authorities thought it necessary to make the farmers and 1aborers familiar with the appearance of the invader, so that they might miss no opportunity of stepping on him or otherwise putting him out of the way of mischief. A prize was offered for the best means of intro ducing the unwelcome visitor to the notice of the farming population. Some ingenious person, redecting that every Ger man peasant smokes. and that the pipe is susceptible of decoration, proposed to adorn the pipes sold in the rural districts with rep resentations of the beetle in various stages of its growth. He got the prize, and, what was better, the pipes sold so well that he made
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
COrn-Crib Architecture.

Corn is now worth too much to be
stored in u fencc-corner or in II pen
built of rails laid upon the ground.
The poorest apology for Il building ON
most farms is the corn-crib, though
it is designed to hold the crop that
requires half the labor expended on
the farm to produce. 1t is often
built of old fence-rails. with no cover
ing but straw or coarse hay. There
is no way of protecting the contents
against rats, mice. and other yer.
min. The floor often inclines from
both sides toward the centre. SC that
rain is held to injure the corn above
it. Nothing connected with farm
architecture demands more attention
than the corn.crib. Farmers who
have had considerable experience in
storing corn could benefit Other
farmers by giving the dimensions OF
cribs that are most economical Il
build, and which will answer all thu
purposes for which they are do
signed. The loss of corn from bein,
stored in badly-constructed cribs il
annually very large. In some cases
il becomes wet, in others it heat
and molds. and in still others it il
devoured by vermin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
Winter Pasture for sheen.

The value of a good winter pasture
can scarcely he estimated too highly
by the llock-naster. The idea that a
distaste for the ordinary winter food
il created, finds no warrant in the
experience of those who have intelli
gently tested the policy. In those
sections adapted to the growth of
blue grass. little effort is required, as
this will afford as good winter pas
turlgc as needed. Where this cannot
he grown, on in such Instances Us it
is not available by easOn of remote
ness from shelter and feeding grounds.
Il good substitute is to he had by early
Sown rye, from which vastly more
grazing may he had than those who
have not tried il wOuld believe. Even
if sown upon fields required for some
other crop the succeeding year, the
rye can he plowed under during early
spring. with Il benefit to the land that
will fully repay the cost of seed.
The advantages of winter pasture
are found not st much in the actual
nutrimrnt derived. as in the whole
solne effects upon the animal system
insured 10y mingling the green and
dry food. Constipation. and the
slus9isluness consequent therefrOm,
may i,e avoided 10y Il short run upon
such days as the weather will permit.
The time should he so regulated as
not to interfere with the regular feed
III. hours. This fact. and the further
one that the weather is not likely to
favor it, Indicate the early afternoon
as the most favorable for the hours
run which will ordinarily be found
euii tent.
Itlicr consideration which should
10 overlooked, is the fact that the
else which is essential To whole
g thrift is secured while the few
ui;.:S of grass are being snatclied from
the frozen ground. -Notionat Lice
Stock JoarHni.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
Chinese.

We think the Chinese dress queer;
the Chinese think ours the same. Each
nation makes its own style the stand
ard OF comparison. An E%nglishman
travelling through China was often
amused by hearing the free criticisms of
the people on his clothing and appear
ance. On his arrival at an inn Il crowd
would gather, and he would hear such
remarks as these:
"What a curious looking fellow! He
has no cue, and doesn't shave his
head"
"And look at his tight clothes! They
are not elegant"
Just so; and look ut his hat, what
q queer thing! What ugly eyes he has!
His boots, however, are excellent; do
you U think SOP"
~. yes, indeed; and l nm told they
wear out. and water can't get
through Them"
If the o%ver-curious people were driven
out OF the travellers room, they would
collect around the window. Those in
front would make pcep-holes in the
papor-there are no glass windows
with their fingers, and gaze for hours
Mt the "barbarian." Free criticism
would be offered as to his barbarOus
method of eating with a pronged fork.
thereby endangering his eyes and
mouth, and at the odd mixture of cold
drinks and hot food. And that he
should have two or three kinds of veg
etables on his plate at once. But the
strangest thing of all, the one they
could not comprehend, was that he
should have left his home to wander
about their country Youths COM
DQniOn.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09

- We said in a former advertisement =" To a person of some
means, land is cheaper to-day, and in the long run, in Blue Earth
county It $50 per acre than at so or Sd per acre one hundred miles
from timber. by the time the settler on these vast prairics has
made his roads and bridges, got churches and schools and bought
hrewood and timber until he can grow his own, his land will cost
INN more than $50 per acre" We repeat it again emphasized by
the results OF the October blizzard on the stormrswept prairies living
for hundred OF miles to the wcst-grcat losses of stock are reported
lost largely because there is no timber with which to utilize the
hay and straw for shelter.
We have a large amount of farming lands for sale in Blue
Earth and adjoining counties and can suit a customer either with i'm
proved Or unlmproved. Lands have been rising some since harvest
ana Will likely keep going up. At present prices they will pay bet
q a an investment than money at interest. Parties who are
thinking OF buying will get better bargains now than along towards
spring.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
The Fashionable Fan.

Fan deviltry is the fashionable folly
of the moment ut this resort of wealth
and affectation. Perhaps in some vari-
ETY. show you may have seen the use
made by a seri-comic singer. If SO,
you remember how she opens it with Il
studiedly graceful flourish; how she
poses with it spread behind her head
or her waist; how she a it Seduct.
lively over her bosom; how she taps her
shoulder and arms with it closed. and
how she in other artful ways makes it
Q valuable means of coquetry. Well,
the Saratoga belle does all those tricks
and many others. She shades her face
when the light is bright with 4 fan of
exactly the color to improve her COM
plexion. She plays mild DO peep with
her fiirts from behind her fan. She
strikes feathery blows at the horrid
men. She uses it rs q weapon of con
quest in more ways than could be des-
cribed in a column. The fans in use
are varied and beautiful. One of the
of net and wire and renovated every
time it is used. A border of mountain
fern is placed around the edge, and in
the center is set a bouquet of real flow
erscorresponding with the fiorid gar
niture of the costume. Such fans are
for full dress occasions. Another elab-
crate fan is an applique work in silk
upon o satin OIL Grape background.
either black or white. Elegant fans
are made of white Or tinted ostrich
feathers, powdered with gold and
mounted with pearl, amber, tortoise
she'll or gold. saw a fan of that sort
which cost, with diamond settings, over
$1,000. Very large fans are covered
with peacock feathers, are circular in
shape, and the handles are often rich
in ornamentatiOn. Lace fans arc no
longer mounted on silk or satin back
grounds, but on white China Grape,
showing off to better advantage tho
delicate tracery of the patterns. SUI
perb hand-painted fans continually
grow more beautiful and artistic
Saratoga Letter to Cincinnati En-
Quiaer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
Attempt to Bunko General Grant.

A stocky man with square shoulders
and close-clipped, sandy beard, hur.
ried out of the main entrance Of the
Fifth Avenue hotel, New York,
yesterday morning. and started along
twenty.third street toward the Gle.
waited railway station. Two bunko
men stood IN the shadow Of a cab
horse and watched the man. BunkO
man No. l jumped from behind the
hack, gaZed ut him for an instant,
and then cried as his face fairly
blazed with joy. "Mr. darlington,
of Hornellsville, how are yOu?'
With this he seized the hand of the
stocky party and wrung it as
though it was his long.lOst brothers.
The stOcky man shook him off, and
said: "G'way. g'way; l don't
know YOU"
"What, are you not Mr.. darlington,
of HOrnellsville
mo, ! amt"
"Well, this is a most astonishing
resemblance. May l ask who you
are?
eyes. you may"
"Well, who are you? :"
I'm Gen. Ulysses s. Grant"
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should killing frosts he delayed till
quite late, their hopes may he real
ized. 1t is most likely. however.
that they will lose all If they allow
the corn to stand till quite late in the
season. If the drOuth continues
much longer the grain will not I'LL out
AMI the foliage will wither. dry up.
become injured by the wind, and be
OF little value. Should Il hard frost
occur. the crop would hardly be worth
cutting up. liy cutting and putting
il in shock while the stalks are com
p%aratlvely tender and the foliage
green II large amount of very excel.
lent fodder may be obtained. The
partially-developed ears will DO of
more value to cattle than to hogs, ms
the former will eat the cObs and
husks. Ii good ears are found when
the fodder is fed out, they can he re-
served for hogs and poultry. The
fodder containing some sound corn
may be used to feed dairy cows OF
animals that are to be fattened fol
the market. by harvesting the corn
early, the ground it occupied may bt
plowed up and sOwed to grain.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The fund for Mrs. Garfield has
reached 1888 900.
New York City, in the season,
consumes l5,00O,OOO oysters per day.
In Boston they arrest men who
use prOfane language on the public
streets.
The English cOrn.fields are flooded
again. and there is no hope for the
harvest.
n baby weighing 81 pounds was
born at Washington. Its father Is
an undertaken.
The school census Just completed
shows that Milwaukee has 10000
school children.
During the month of August, the
public debt WAS decreased by the sum
of Sl4.lSl .221.
Last month was the hottest August
for ten years. and had the smallest
rainfall for the decade.
Twenty-three members of the
British House of Lords have reached
the age of f%Our-scOre years.
In the island of Barbados, land is
worth $500 per acre. 1t is chiefly
used for raising sugar-cane.
Henry Ward Beecher says that
God keeps a list of the rich men who
cheat their poor neighbors.
Ex.Gov. Furnas says he planted pear
trees in Nebraska, twenty-five years
ago, which are still doing well.
The land grant to the Northern
Pacific railroad embraces a territory
as large as the state of Illinois.
Pere Hyacinthe Father Loyson),
the French reformed priest, will visit
the United States in the spring.
Tobacco has exhausted the Vir.
ginia soil, and many farmers are
turning their attention to cotton.
Dean Stanley left $780, 900 in
worldly riches in addition 10 the
treasure he had laid up in heaven,
Eight cartridges marked "U. s."
were found in Il bale of cotton ut the
Abbey works, near Oldham. England.
a Georgia farmer mistock his rag.
| ged son for Il scarecrOw alta distance.
and playfully shot u bullet into him.
The Pope has approved a series
Of textbooks to be introduced into
the Catholic schools Of the United
States.
Augusta, Ga, has nov in operation
l75,0OO spindles in her cotton mills,
representing an investment of 49,
DOC,
Farmers i'm New York State are
digging their potatoes to save the
crop which is being ruined by the
drought.
A dispatch from DeadwOOd an
nounces the discovery, thirty miles
from that city, of a vein which runs
$50. 900 to the ton.
During the month of August, over
So. zoo, 900 worth Of foreign gold coin
has been turned into bullion at the
United States Assay Office.
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NOTICE.

cTATE OF MINNESOTA-COunty of Blue
Earth-ss-ln Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Joel Pect
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition Of Sher-
man Poet Of Blue Earth county Minnesota
representing am ing other things that Joel
Pect late of MapletOn on the nth day of April
A.. d.. 1881 ut MaplctOn died interstate and
being u resident of this county ut the time OF
his death leaving goods chattles and estate
within this county. And that said petitioner
is a son of said deceased and praying that
administration of said estate be to said pc
titiOner Sherman Poet granted, it il ordered
that said petition be heard before tho Judge
of this Court o Saturday, the nth day of
September, a. d.. 1881, ut two o'clock p. NJ, ut
the Probate office in said county.
Ordered further that notice thereof he
given to the heirs of said deceased and tO
all persons interested by publishing II copy
of this order for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing in the Mankato
FREE PnEss, a weekly newspaper printed
II published Mt MankatO, In said county.
Dated at MankatO, the 23rd day of August.
A. ID. 1881.
by the Court. q. w. MEAD,
9w4 Judge of Probate,
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When you have an mfamcd eve, a
swcilcd hand, or dccayed and aching
tooth' you do not take and fill your
stomach with drugs to cure It, but apply
a cooling lotion or somcs soothing narcot.
ic directly to the parts. So if O
have "A weak or lame back, sore kidneys.
profusc or scanty urine, or the sccrctory
system is cloggcd and inactive, you
should use Prof. GuiImettc's French
Kidney Pad, which is II directly loca-
application, which always give speedy
relief and always cures the disease. Ask
your druggist for it.