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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
VelVets.

TUTTLE'S stove and hardware trade
is booming. He has big stock and is
bound to sell. lows
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
A Varied Performances,

Many wonder how Parker's Ginger Tonic
can perform such varied cures, thinking 1t
essence of ginger, when in fact ii is made
from many valuable medicines which act
beneficially on every diseased organ.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

Libby's Patent Protection Congress,
also his French Calf Opera Boots can be
had of AUSTIN & SON. All custom
goods are fully warranted. Sign of the
Mammoth Boot. l2w6
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Feed for Sale.

1 shall hereafter keep in stock full
supply of feed, and will fill all orders
free to any part of the city.
II. ID. JONES. Star Grocery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Ladies' Attention 7

My stock of Millinery Goods is fresh
from the East, and contains some of the
most.elegant designs in hats, feathers
and plumes ever introduced into this
market. MRS. DITTMAN.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Glassware.

Queensware, Lamps, &C., in large
quantities just received, and will be sold
at unusually low prices for cash.
JONES, at Star Grocery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Don't Fail to See
Ohio, Concord

the large and elegant display of Plushes
and Velvets at Brett's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

Black Velvet at s.. 35 and 81. so, sold
elsewhere at $l.75 and 81. Found only
at GEO. f. BRETT'S.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
To Printers.

I have for sale at u bargain two founts OF
script. and about four founts of job type, all
in good condition. For particulars. Address
l.. L. Hunt,
Free Press,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

The Brightest Intellect Suffer Most.
Young men who have lead a life of excess
and dissipation, reform! Give tone to the
stomach, regulate the liver and bowels,
strengthen the urinary organs, relieve those
dull pains In the limbs. rid yourself of that
feeling Of nausea, biliousness, languor and
nervous debility; give tone and strength to
each organic function, by using Browns
Iron Bitters; then will you experience a
genial warmth and awakening life in place
of that dead feeling of decay; and dyspepsia,
milky urine. etc., no longer undermine your
constipation. Delay Is dangerous.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
C.. Fl Ausfin ~ Som

nave filed their store full of Boots and Shoes,
Gloves and Mittens for Fall and Winter trade.
A big trade il expected. Good crops. plenty
of goods, low prices, and fair dealing will
bring II.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

If you want stove, call on FUTILE
at once. Do not wait until cold day,
for we cannot accommodate everybody
the same day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

Why suffer with cough for days and
weeks, when small bottle of Durkees Bal
sam will cure 1t. A word to the wise Ia sufii-
cient. For sale by all druggists I'm Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants,
bcd-bugs. skunks, chipmunks, gOphers. 15c.
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N A II r. lie ID.
The Brightest Intellect Suffer Most.

KUFUS-TRIMBLE-In Princeton, Ills, Oct.
Sna. 1852, Me- M., n; a. knISs, OF p Mankato,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

Gents fine Shoes can be had only of AUSTIN
& SON. They also keep good assortment
of Rochester, Utica and Philadelphia fine
Shoes. 1--we
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Rurf and Mears

"Wells' Health Remover" restores health and
vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence. Sexual
Debility. 81
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" BUCHUPA

Loss of hair and grayness, which often mar
the prettiest face. are prevented by Parker's
Hair Balsam.
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41S Acres.

Those Feathers and Plumes, on sale
at MRS. DITTMAN'S.
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THE MARKETS.

Quick, complete cure. all annoying Kidney
Bladder and Urinary Diseases. 81. Druggists.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
A Few More Churns
Go and See Them J..

at the Star Grocery will be sold at cost
Call early.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Right to the Point.

Stock farm for sale cheap and on easy
terms. Inquire of HALL & COFFIN,
5mts3 MankatO.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Ounces
Cow Lost.

by the peck or bushel at c. r. PresIey's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
Royal Arch."
Beautiful. Beautiful!

The best 5 cent cigar in the city at
JONES' Star Grocery
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13

If you want good stove cheap go to
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
PetticOat Lane.

A Londoner bought in Petticoat Lane,
which is famous for its tags, rags, and
bob-tails on sale, a coat in exchange for
his own, paying in addition several shil-
hngs for the bargain. The coat not suit
ing him, he carried it back and ex-
changed it on payment of additional
shllllngs for an apparently smoother and
nicer one which fitted him exactly. On
getting home and putting his hand in
the pocket, he drew out pawnbroker's
ticket. 1t was his own, held against his
watch. The nice new coat was the old
one which he wore there the first time,
and which had been cleaned, pressed,
and sold to him again for about twice
what it was worth.
Another of these tricks-which every
one except those on whom they are
played enjoys so much-was recently
played on German inn-keeper by
peddler who sold him an almanac, and
then, on his wife's coming in and her
husbands going out, sold her another
copy. When the husband discovered it
he sent the porter to the railroad station
to tell the peddler he wanted to see him
on business.
"Oh, yes, said the peddler, "I know.
he wants one of my almanacs, but 1
can't miss my train for that. You can
give me quarter and take the almanac
to him." The porter paid the money
and carried third almanac to the inn
keeper.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26

A GENTLEMAN contributes to Nature
the following account of his experience
in India bearing upon the question
whether ants produce sounds or not:
Whilstlying awake early onesmorniug
before the servants were stirring. when
camped in the Deccan, at the present
small station of Chota or Chick -Soogo r,
on the G. I. P Railway, during the win
ter 1S68-69, heard a sound repeated at
intervals OF about second. 1t sounded
as though the wall of the tent was being
struck by light fringe along one SIDE;
but noticing that the ain was perfectly
still, listened for some minutes wonder
ing what it was and trying to fix the 10
cal;ty. I got out Of bed cautiously and
looked out; the whole of one side of the
tent, for height of two feet, was covered
with white ants so thickly, that at the first
glance thought the wall was covered
with gray-reddish mud to this height.
The noise ceased suddenly as soon as tie
ants seemed to become aware of tbs
writer's presence, and in few minutes
they had all disappeared. The impress
sion produced was that they had all beer
striking the tent wall at the same time
with their heads.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
Useless Expenditure.

While every girl and woman should
justly take q pride in her own adorn-
ment and that Of the home, she should
use her own judgment and not buy just
because thing is cheap. Get what you
need, and before buying think whether
you really need the article. 1t is prob
ably pretty trife in dress, in furniture /;
but what solid benefit will it be to You
Or it In some luxury for the table, that
you can as well do without. Think,
therefore, before you spend your money.
Or you need o new carpet, new sofa, new
chairs, new bedstead, or new dress you
are tempted to buy something a little
handsomer than you had intended, and
while you hesitate the dealer says to
you, "Its only a trife more, and see
how far prettier it is" But before you
purchase, stop to think. Will you be
the better year hence, much less in old
age, for having squandered your money I?
Is 1t not wiser 10 clay by something for
q rainy day? ALI these luxuries crafty
you only for the moment you soon tire
Of them, and their only permanent effect
Is to consume your means.
It is by such little extravagances, not
much separately, but ruinous in the ag-
gregats, that the great majority Of
families are kept comparatively poor.
The hrst lesson TO learn is to deny your
self ussless expenses and the FIRST step
toward learning this lesson il to think
before Jon spsnd.-Christian at Work.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
Carlyle a Mathematician.

Among Carlyle's Edinburgh connec-
hons in those Kirkcaldy days, one
comes to us in book form. It was in
1917 that Professor Leslie, not yet Sir
John Leslie, brought out the third edi-
ton of his elements of Geometry and
Plane Trigonometry," being an improve
ment and enlargement of the two pre-
vious editions of 1909 and 1911. The
geometrical portion Of the volume con-
sists of six books, intended to supersede
the traditional first six books of Euclid,
and containing many propositions not to
be found there. The seventeenth prop
osition of the sixth book is the problem:
"To divide a straight line, whether
internally or externally, SO that the
rectangle under its segments shall be
equivalent to a given rectangle." The
solution, with diagrams, occupies a
page, and there is an additional page of
"scholium," pointing out in what cir
cumstances the problem is impossible,
and calling attention to the value of the
proposition in the construction of
quadratic equations. So much for the
text of the proposition at pages 176-177,
but when we turn to the "Notes and
Illustrations appended to the volume
we find at page $40 this note by Leslie:
"The solution of this important problem
now inserted in the text was suggested
to me by Thomas Carlyle, an ingenious
young mathematician, formerly my
pupil. But here subjoin likewise the
original construction given of Pappus,
which, though rather more complex,
has yet some peculiar advantages. F."
Leslie then proceed to give the solution
of Pappus in about two pages, and to add
about three pages of further remarks on
the application of the problem to the
construction of quadratics. The mention
of Carlyle by Leslie in this volume of
1917 is, believe, the first mention OF
Carlyle by name in print, and it was no
small compliment to prefer for text pur-
poses young Carlyle's solution of an i'm
portant problem to the old one that had
come down from the famous Greek
geometrician. Evidently Carlyle'smathe-
matical reputation was still kept up
about the Edinburgh University, and
| Leslie was anxious to do his favorite
pupil good turn.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
Too Much Competition.

A delegation Of Israelitish merchants
called ON Nose Schaumburg, who keeps
store on Austin avenue, and requested
him as an Israelite and friend Of hu-
manity, TO contribute something hand
some TO fund they were raising to help
to bring over to Texas some of the perse-
cuted Jews in Russia. Nose listened at
tentively, and then said, that nothing
pleased him 80 much as to relieve dis
tressed Israelite, but that charity began
ut home, and he was in favor of the COM
mittee helping out an Austin Israelite
who was q very worthy men, but in
Strengthened circumstances, before doing
anything for the relief Of Jews in Russia.
"Who is that Austin Jew who is suffer-
ing SO muchp asked the chairman of
the delegation.
Nose patted himself on the breast, and
said he was the suffering Israelite.
why, Nose, what are you suffering
from ?'
"Too many jews" replied Nose,
"Dere wash too much competition in
pishness. Schentlemens, if you get up
some scheme to remove apout half Of
the Jews to Russia, 80 dere wash not SO
much competitions in drade, will come
down handsome NIT five dollars, SO help
me schimminy gracious"
The committee filed solelmnly out into
the street, and Nose will not be again
requested to help bring over any more
Israelites from Russia.-Teras SJtings.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
The Development Of Taste.

In the natural growth of the world,
taste has been rapidly developed, and
the people of all nations are now produc-
ing each its own peculiar and wonderful
treasures. Who can remember or de-
scribe them? Who can tell the extent
of the riches or the beauty of the golden,
jeweled ornaments now admired and
worn by a thousand million people
What pen can describe all that is seen
in cultivated gardens and parks adorned
with trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers
Where can we learn, in books or else
where, the names of all that is beautiful
that blossoms from the whole earth all
that is beautiful that the brush produces
on canvas; all that the weaver's shuttle
and loom produce; all that the skilled
hands of the carver ON wood, stone, and
marble produce all that the combined
colors Of the rainbow have produced, as
shown in fabrics, of silk and satin, and
cotton and wool all that is beautiful in
architecture, and in the adornments of
the worlds most renowned cathedrals.
and beautiful in all its famous kingly
palaces? But life is too short to search
out and see all that is beautiful. We
can only get a glimpse, now and then,
at some OF the worlds greatest treasures.
The most favored season for such sight
seeing Is Christmas.-Ihe Independent
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Why Some Farmers Do Not Succeed.
They are not active and Industrious.
They are slothful in everything.
Tbou do not koor, ~, With D,,,royo

They are not active and Industrious.
They are slothful in everything.
They do not keep up with improve
nents.
They are welded to old methods.
They give no attention to details.
They think small things not important.
They take no pleasure in their work.
They regard labor as misfortune.
They weigh and measure stingily.
They are wasteful and improvident.
They are fretful and impatient.
They ruin stock by low fencing.
They let their gates sag and fall down.
They will not make compost.
They let their fowls roost in the trees.
They have no shelter for stock.
They do not curry their horses.
They leave their plows in the field.
They hang their harness in the dust.
They put off greasing the wagon.
They starve the calf and milk the COW.
They go to town without business.
They are penny wise and pound foolish.
They don't know the best is the
cheapest.
They have no method or system.
They go out too often to "see q man, +"
They see no good in new thing.
They never use paint on the farm.
They plant very late in the spring.
They stack fodder in the field.
They prop the barn door with rail.
They let the clothes dry on the fence.
They let the hoops fall from the tub.
They neglect to trim up the trees.
They have no shelter for wood.
They milk the COWS late in the day.
They have no time to do things we'll.
They have no garden in the fall.
They see no use in variety.
They see no difference in seeds
Southern Farmers Monthly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
The Law Of Lost Property.

What ought the finder of lost article
to do? Most people will give ready
answer. He should do his best to dis
cover the owner and restore the lost
property to him. But this standard of
moral duty being imperfectly recognized
by the law, it will be interesting to
review the decisions on this subject.
1. The finder need not take charge of
the lost property. There is no legal
duty on him to do it but If he does
take it into his possession, he then be-
comes depository, and is bound to keep
it for the owner and restore it to him
when known. How long he must keep
it, or what efforts he should make to find
the owner, have not been laid down.
2. If the finder does not restore the
property upon discovering the owner,
does he commit theft? This depends on
whether he knew, or had reasonable
means of knowing, who the owner was
at the time of finding. 1t has been held
that the finder of pocketbook, having
the owners name legibly written or it,
is a thief if he conceals and appropriates
the money; but if there is nothing to
indicate the owner, he does not become
o thief in law by so doing.
3. The owner may at any time reclaim
his property, and if the finder refuses to
give it up, can recover it or the value of
it from him. But as against any one but
the owner the finders title is good.
l. When is a thing to be considered
as lost? 1t has been said in several cases
that money or other property laid down
and forgotten is not lost in the legal sense
of the word. The proprietor of the shop,
or bank, or place where it is left is the
proper person to take charge of it, and
those who pick up the property have no
right to keep it. On the other hand, it
has been held that where a conductor
found money in a railway car, whose
owner could not be ascertained, he had
good title TO the money.
5. Is the finder entitled to be paid for
his trouble and expense? He need moi
take charge of it, and it seems that if he
does so he must look only to the graf
itude and good feeling of the owner fol
| reward.
6. What if reward be offered? There
is no doubt that any one who, seeing the
offer, sets to work to find the property
will, if he succeed, be entitled to thu
reward, and may even retain the prop
erty till it be paid. But if he already
has the missing article in his. possession
when the reward is offered, or has with
held the property in the expectation
that a reward would be offered, the rul
is the opposite.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
True Loves Sore Trials.

The proverbial william, whether intro
duced to the public in the pages of the
society novel, or, with halting and uncer-
tain strides, challenging attention before
the footlights of the stage, only attains
the zenith of infamy when the brutal
betrayal of trusting heart is fastened
upon him. In the catalogue of his
crimes there may have been written
arson, burglary and murder, but these
offenses are dwarfed in the more absorb
ing infamy involved in the betrayal of
the trusting heart that was lured by the
subtle influences of fair speech or the
attractive exterior of rich and costly
habit. The female counterpart of the
william is pronounced whimsical, tickle
and underserving, but the poor man
whose heart palpitates in unison with
her queer humors is regarded as dolt
for his devotion.
A story comes from Altoona which
will serve good purpose if it directs
attention to the palpable partiality of
this public sentiment. A young man
resident of that mountain city has been
in the habit of testifying his devotion to
the idol of his heart by conducting her
regularly to the door of the church she
patronized and then waiting the con-
clusion of the exercises to escort her
back to her home. These attentions
seemed satisfactory to the lady. But in
the spirit of reform the City Council
enacted an ordinance making standing
at the church door a misdemeanor char
acterized as "loafng," and instructed
the officers of the law to arrest and COM
NIT any offender against the statute. On
the succeeding Sunday night the young
man in question took his accustomed
station. The minion of municipal
authority warned him away, but, with
an earnestness worthy better girl, he
refused to desert his post. For this he
was arrested, committed and compelled
to spend the night in the calaboose.
Upon his release he hastened to the
side of the charmer for whose sake he
suffered the indignity, but she vowed
the disgrace of his incarceration had
wiped out the love his constancy ought
to have magnifed. Then his aunt, from
whom he expected rich inheritance
took similar view of the affair, and an
nounced her determination to cut him
out of her affections and her will. Thus
the young man has been completely
crushed by the whimsical maiden upoI
whom his affections centered, unless the
suit against the city-whjch he threatens
to institute-should reach favorabl,
issue.-Phitadetphia Times.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-26
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

ASPIRING beggary is wretchedness it
self.
vENERArE an honest obliquity of un-
derstanding.
The beggar is the only free manlin
the universe
D1spRoPoRT1oNED friendships ever ter
inmate in disgust.
LET us draw upon content for the de-
fciencies of fortune.
GooD counsel rejected returns to en-
rich the giver's bosom.
MARRIAGE, is by its best title, a monop
oily, and of the most invidious sort.
RICHES in general are in every coun-
! try another name for freedom.
That virtue which requires to be ever
| guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.
CHEERFULNEss was never yet pro-
duced by effort which is itself painful.
EPIsTQtARY matter usually compriseth
three topics: News, sentiment and puns.
THE first fault is the child of simplic-
ity, but every other the offspring OF it.
MAN little knows what calamities are
beyond his patience to bear till he tries
them.
MAN is not a creation of pure reason,
he must have his senses delightfully."- ap-
pealed to.
In THIS life, it appears that we cannot
be entirely blest, but yet we may be
completely miserable.
The human species is composed Of
two distinct races, the men who borrow
and the men who lend.
No MAN is so fond of liberty himself as
not to be desirous of subjecting the will
of some individuals in society to his
own.
That single effort by which we stop
short in the down hill path to perdition
is itself a greater exertion of virtue than
a hundred acts of justice.
The honest man, who marries and
brings up a large family, does more
service than he who continues single
and only talks of population.
AFTER men have travelled through 6
few stages in vice, shame forsakes them
and returns back to wait upon the few
virtues they have still remaining.
NOTHING is more distasteful than thai
!, entire complacency and satisfaction
:, which beam in the countenance of +,
,, newly married couple-in that of thu
lady particularly.
WHAT woman should demand of
man in courtship, or after it, is first
respect for her, as she is a woman; ant
. next to that-to be respected by hin
| above all other women.
The possessor of accumulated wealth
when furnished with the necessaries AM
pleasures of life, has no other method t
employ the superfuity of his fortune
but in purchasing power.
. CEREMONY is an invention to take O.
the uneasy feeling which we derive fror
knowing ourselves to be less the objee
of love and esteem with fellow creatur
than some other person is.
A cHILD's nature is too serious thin
to admit of its being regarded as mer
l. appendage to another being, and to b
hated or loved accordingly; they stan
y with me upon their own stock as men {
women do.
The consultations of philosophy al
very amusing, but often fallacious.
70 tells us that life is filled with comfor
if we will but enjoy them; and on I'll
. other hand, that though we unavoidabl
, have miseries here, life is short and the
"a will soon be over.