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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Hcw WATCHES ARE MADE

In SOLID GOLD WATCH, aside from
the necessary thickness for engraving and
polishing, large proportion Of metal il
needed only to stiffen and hold the engrav-
cd portions in place, and supply strength.
The surplus gold is actually needless. In
James Boss Patent Gold Watch Cdses this
WASTE is saved, and soLIpIrY and
STRENGTH increased by a simple process
at One-half the cost. A plate of SOLID
GOLD is soldered on each side of plate
Of hard nickel composition metal, and the
three are then passed between polished
steel rollers. From this the cases, backs
centers, bezels, ETC., are cut and shaped by
dies and formers. The gold Is thick
cough to admit of all kinds of chasing,
engraving and engine turning. These
cases have been worn perfectly smooth by
use without removing the gold. This Is
the only case made under this process. Each
case Is accompanied NTH ,ulid guarantee
signed by the manufacturers ,ca,ranting Il to
xsar 20 years. 10000 of these Oases
now carried in the United States and
Canada. Largest and Oldest Factory.
Established 1854. Ask your Jewelsr,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
PROBATE NOTICE.

CT sTE OF MlNNESoTA-CoUNTy or Blue
- ENRrn-ss. In Probate Court. Special
Term.
In t.lr matter of the estate Of John comstock
Onralding and filing the petition Of John
Fisher, administrator with thu VIII annexed
of i i'm CpWStOck, deceased setting 'oi.s ihC
amount - personal estate that has come in
60 hi- hauis. and inC disposition thereof; tn"
amount nf debts outstanding against said de-
ceased, aud description Of all the rcal cstlte
or which said deceased died seized or In which
hp was interested, and the condition ANA VAL
ne az the respective portions thereof. and
praying that license be 10 hlta grnnted TO seii
all ~ said real estate described In said p.t'
ton. And IL appearing. 10y said petition,tnat
there IL not sufficient personal estate IN the
hands uf said administrator To pay said debts,
and that il T. necessary in order Ia pay the
same, 10 sell all Of said real estate;
IL Is therefore ordered, that nll persons IN
tcrested in the said estate, appear beinre tue
Judge ~ this court. on the Sist day OF March.
A ID. 1854, at 10 o'clock A. VI. at the Probate
Office In the city OF Maukato In said county,
then and there t. show cause, II amy there
b., WHY license should not be granted tn said
JOAN FISHER. administrators, with the VIII an
ucN,d, tn sell said real estate according 10
the prayer at said petition.
And Il Is further ordered. that a copy OF this
order shall bc published for four successive
weeks prior to said day Of hearing, the last
az which publications shall Toe Mt least four
teen days before said day NJ hearing, IN the
Maukaio FREE Pass weekly newspaper
printed aud published nj Mankato In said
county, and personally served on all persons
Interested I'm said estate, residing III sni,i
county. AT lcas, fourteen days before saiu
day III hearing, and upon all other persons
Interested, according 10 law:
by the Couri, a. w. MEAD.
judge OF Probate oi Bluo Earth County .slinn,
httrrnry for said Administrators.
A N, rS,l. silva
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Mr.. Greeley s Paper.

Passing down Newspaper Row in New
York city. one morning. the late Horace
Greeley met one of his readers. who
very eXcitediy exclaimed. MIR. Greeley.
after the article you published this morn
ing. | intend TO stop your papcr!' 20.
no." said Mr.. Greeley. don't do that"'
''fcs, my mind is made no: shall stop
the paper" Late in the afternoon the
two met again. when Mr.. Greeley re-
marked. MIR. Thompson. am very
glad You did not carry out your threat
this morning." what do You maan?n
"Why. YOU said you We're going to stop
my paper" "And so did: | went TO
the office and had it stopped" you
are surely mistaken. have just come
from there and the press was raining
and business was booming" Sir" said
Thompson, very pompouslv. al mean
intended To stop my subscription to your
paper" 20, thunder calculated
Greeley; IL thought YOU were going TO
stop the running of the paper and knock
me out of Il living, Ny friend, let me
tell YOU something; one man ia just a
drop of water in the ocean. You didn't
set the machinery Of this world in mo-
ton, and YOU cant stop it and when
you are underneath the ground things
upon the ground will wag on Just tho
same rs ever"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
The Longest BRIDGE in the World.

The land of Ceiestials still boasts of
tho most wonderful bridge in the world,
and this. according to travellers, is the
bridge of Le-ang. over an arm OF the
sea in China. IL is bu,t IN II similar
way as the bridges Of Babylon, but en-
tireIy of stone.
Its length is said to be- 10000 Paris
feet, ana comprises 5000 arches, or
rather openings Of pillars. These are
not Overspread with arches, but there
are placed above them large slabs of
stone. which form the roadway, seventy
feet broad.
The distance of the pillars is nearly
TAI feet. the latter being 10 feet high
and Is feet broad. and strengthened
with stone facings of the form of iri-
angular priSms, which extend over the
whole height of the pillars up to the
transvcrSed slabs. The latter (of course
more than 40 feet l"ng) extend in
breadth to fifteen feet, and have nine
feet in thickness. The parapnt Is Il bal
ustrade. aud every pillar supports Il
pedestal on which lion, imcniy-one
feet long, and made Of one bioch Of mar
Die, ia placed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
The Turk and the Torpedo.

Sultan Abdul Hamid. with the
shrewdness characteristics Of the Turk.
perceives that in the torpedo lies the
power to defend Constantinoplc from
naval attack, and with an energy which
might we'll be cmulatcd in the same
cause by the United States. he is en-
deavoring to ascertain what is the best
torpedo system, in order that he may
adopt it. With Gen. Lew Wallace as
his adviser. he is examining the torpe-
dos produced by Gen. Berdan, Col. Lay
and Ericsson. If he can place in his
harbor boats capable of sending out
torpedos ut n speed of forty miles an
hour, certain to hit the object Mt which
they are aimed. and powerful enough
to blow up the heaviest ironclad. he
need have little fear that Constantinoplc
will suffer the fate of Alcxandria. II is
believed by experts that England
mighty naval tleeS would be unable to
enter harbor which is well equipped
with the best torpedocs Gen. Wright.
Chief of Engin GERS at Washington,
thinks so. and hence his earnest enfrcaty
that one torpedo system he adopted. in
all the harbOrs of the United States. rs
again and again urged by this Journal.
--NeW York Express.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Salvini's 0thello.
BY HENRY JAMES, JH

1t is Il sort Of compendium of his
accomplishments he puts everything
into 1t, and the part, AZ he plays il,
has SO full Il volume that it, may al
most he said that it embraces I'LL the
others There are touches in S,lvim s
Macbeth. touches in his Lear, very
naturally, that are absent from his
picture of the overweight Moor ;
but il carries him to his maximum,
and what he puts into it above all is
an ineXhaustible energy. There are
twenty things to be said about it, and
half u dozen criticisms which it is
impossible that we spectators of Eng.
lish speech should not make. But the
depth, the nobleness. the consistency,
the passion, the visible, audible beau.
ty of 1t, are beyond praise. Nature
has done great things for the actor ;
with the aid of little red paint, the
perfect Othel.O is there. But as
sumo too much in talking Off-hand
about the "perfect Othello." who is
after ~! very complex being. In
spite OF his simplic'ty.--.N",rh H.
idnfic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Corn VS.. Oats for Horses.

Tho comparative value of corn and
oats as food for horses may be briefly
stated IL follows: Corn is deficient in
many OF the elements of nutrition so
necessary for rec,iperating the constant
wear and tear which necessarily takes
place in the body of living animal.
On this account. horses which are ey-
cusively fed OH corn and hay do not re.
ceive that kind of nourishment which
appears necessary for the duo support
and maintenance of the animal fabric:
hence. we must not be surprised that
corn-fed horses show evidence of being
languid, by sweating profuselv while
being worked, lack " vitality, etc.
Oats. on the contrary, contain more of
the essential elements of nutrition than
any other article of food which can be
fed with iTpunitv to horses, but are de-
cidedly the most nutritious. They are
the cheapest. because there is less risk
in feeding them, and experience has
proved that horses properly fed on oats
and timothy hay, with regular exercise,
good grooming, and proper sanitary
regulations, can be- brought to the high
est state of physical culture, and can
perform more work with less evidence
of fatigue than when fed on any other
article of food. National Lice Stock
Journal
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Mrs. ,Johnson'a Poliov.

81 don't believe in bcin' afraid Of
your temper" said Mrs. johnson cncr-
getically. II say fight it ont and con-
quer it. If the Old Harry comes into
my family want to meet him right of.
The other night my boy came home
ugly rs sin. He was all tired out, some
body had been sassy tn him and he had
been nursing the devil all day long, pre-
parin' an overpowerin' reply. | went
up TO his room. NOw's he's never cross
to me, but that night he growlcd ont:
Mother, / wish YOU would 90 down
stairs and mind your business l sat
down and took hold of his hands. and
then | boxed his ears little. wanted
him to realize my presence before ! be-
gan wasting my breath. Then scolded
him. scOlded tor M hour and half.
and when got through could wind
him around my little finger. Mother
he said. Il suppose | am sort of hot
headed 'Hot-headed,' saws l. you're
just like busted pepper Folks ask me
why don't ret mad. | Tell 'cm | amt
rich enough. Its as disablin' as q fit of
sickness. When | keep my own car
riage I'm going to stir mp just as many
rows as my neighbors: bnt rs long as l
keep boarders for a livin' hain't no
time for temper or tears. "-Springfeld
RepUbttcaR.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
he Was Not Afraid of a Rat.

Rats will fight desperately when
death is the only alternative, and he is
wise man who keeps out Of reach of
their teeth. The following anecdote
shows how man of nerve" ought to
act when the enemy is at very close
range. A printer happened in at n no
tel in Sacramento the other dry Just in
time to join group of men who were
waiting to see terrier kill Il rat. The
cage was opened, and the rat most I'M
expectedly ran up the printers leg in
side his trousers. He did not scream or
clutch, but clenched his hands. stood
erect. and coolly told those present to
be quiet. Now he is going up my
knee; now he is on my thigh; now he
has passed to the small of my back;
now he rests. Don't strike; don't seize
him. Here, take small stick, tap
gently. That's it; drive him down easily
don't provoke him. Now he moves,
now he turns-press gently; now he de-
sends; there he goes around my hip;
now he turns DOWN. ard; here he comes
by my knee-there, he's out" And so
he was, and the terrier forthwith mo-
nopolized him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Family Discipline Among the Monkeys.

From the moment that IL young
monkey Ia Weaned he has to steal,
for Dir. Brehm's observation applies
strictly and literally to every species
OF quadrumana; the mother monkey
robs her own child, AMI forces it too
eat its food by stealth. The prOpri.
etor Of the geological Coffee Gar
dem in Savannah, Georgia, has been
very successful in rearing young
monkeys. and the visitors Of his hap.
py.lamily department can witness
the same scene thrice day--a mum.
her Of lialr.grOwn capuchin babies
fleeing from the wrath of their own
Parents. AS soon us the dinner buck.
TT is brought in, the youngsters hide
in II corner, and watch their Opportu-
nifty, for while the seniors are feed.
ing there is no hope for crnmb or u
drop of milk; but sooner or later the
old ones are sure to fall out, and
during "a general scrimmage for It'd.
bit the children sometimes get n
chance at the bucket, and take care
To make the best Of 1t. But woe to
them il their progenitors catch them
In tlagranti! Sires, mothers and
aunts combine to avenge the sacri-
ledge, and the noise OF the punish.
ment often sets the menagerie agog.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
A Fond Husbands First REQUEST,

One by one by guests paid their
respects and departed. last among
them being Beryl McMurtry and Aris-
tides Mulcahey, the bridesmaid and
best man. At length the bride and
groom were left alone, and when he
had encircled her waist with his arm,
he paused, and asked. in tones choked
with emotion:
Would you do anything / should
ask Of you, love"
She did not answer ut first, but sud-
denly nestled herself against his great
manly breast, and murlnured, softly:
why. darling, you know l would!
What is it!
After moment of agonized hesita-
ton. he leaned over her, his face be-
traying his firm resolve and his lips
almost touching her beautiful hair, as
he Kissed into her car the baleful words:
promise me to write no more
poetryr'
Without raising her head, the beauti-
full girl slipped limp and senseless from
his arms and fell on the floor with q
dull, sickening thud.
81 have knocked her out in less than
four rounds" he said. and began rolling
a cigarette. Chicago Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
On the Subject Of Matrimony.

Translated from the Omnibus: Ser
vant--..My Lord. if it pleases you to al
low. then might already very humbly
for my disharge ask"
Ny Lord-'.How? Whate He will
out Of my service? What is to him then
there again in the head got9'
Servant-"But see it, your Grace.
there is the Mariandel, that would will
ingly mo have"
My Lord -'.Nonsense! Mariandel!
marry! Stupid is lie; stupid is he form
erly been. but now is he completely to
the ASST
Servant-"Hold on, your Grace; but
here might | already very humbly re-
mark, that my Lord has already the
third wife, and is my Lord remained,
therefore may already perhaps not
exactly with the first time an ass be-
come. "-LouiSviIie Courier-Joaruai,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Oscar Wilds's Mother on Manners and
Conversation.


Lady Wilde. who is not merely re-
nowned rs the mother Of Oscar, but
who. thirty years ago, WAS. rs "Speran-
a." tho poetess of Young Ireland COM
municatcs TO London weekly her
views on Manners and Conversation"
"PeOple are growing weary she tells
us, "of the nippant grotesquc. and are
haunted by desire for some noblcr
communion of souls.
Women live so apart from practical
life that their opinion on grave, deep
subjects is worth nothing. The quail
ties are rare and beautiful that can
make woman not only n divine guide
to n human heart. but also splendid
power in social life" This viii scarce
~ no disputed. but will. We fear. in
some carping minds, DO held TO SAVIOR Of
p'a:itudo. Then we learn that "a queen
Of intellect must DO able TO fash lightly
over every subject and illuminate them
all. She must take run through tho
sciences, have stud
led the art treasures OF many capitals.
and number among her friends the lead
ing intellects of the age" But even
with nil this she must beware of talking
too much. for ..bcyond tho grace Of
speech there is the grace of listening
and the tact of silence, even of entire
self-effacement." Poor Lady Byron
then comes in for terrific rap for hay
ing lacked this. ".Am in your way,
Byron" she asked one day, entering
the poets study. while he was ut i'm
mortal work. There is not, we be-
lieve, the slightest evidence as to the
nature of his work at the time. Damn
ably was the emphatic answer of her
poet Lord" "And she deserved it,"
savagely comments Lady Wilde. "She
had no fine instincts. She ought to
have known intuitively that she was in
the way" So that. according to
"Speranza," n husband is justified in
brutal rudeness toward wife because
nature happens not to have endowed
her with ..fine instincts" In proof of
the position that ..good women who
give up society and devote themselves
exclusively to home duties grow old so
sOon," Lady Wilde quotes Lord Lyt-
tons assertion that. Nothing ages like
domestic happiness" 1t must be con-
coded that from this point of view tho
late Lady Lytton ought almost to have
enjoyed perennial youth. AS hostess
Lady Wilde's ideal woman ''allows no
freezing ice to form and obstruct the
full free soil of thought" but she must
"beware of originality" which has a
coalition against it. "What is called
chat debases every subject" "Wo-
men of tact can color the common
place with little emotional intensity.
and then society says they still are very
nice and they even become exceeding.
iv popular" We have surely said
enough to show what an Invaluable
textbook Oscars mamma has furnished
to the would-be social star.-Nc,O York
Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
PR0UATF NOTICE.

S,TATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
= Earth. in Probate Court Special Term.
IN The matter # the estate of Fredrick
Simpson, Deceased.
On rgIdln. and ,iing the petition nf Thomas
\. SLcrk. administrator uf said C>tnt" setting
forth the amount q personal csiat" that has
come - El- h0ilis, und IN diSp. 1-itiOu there
81: the au:Dunt ut debts outstanding against
sa. frcoa~,',!. g:ii HdcsrriptiHE 81 All IN" rrul
v-;Iip q ,y.i"h said deceased did seized, ami
IA ,HniiIlpn ard vain" If the respective
pIrl .tn- thereof: AMI praying that license h,'
10 E.a granted e. =, a IHr east hall Of lrt two
o. block ..gTt'0r Ia. Van Brunt- addition
L. NdnAatr. ana u appearing. To- said petit
ton, that thor" J. !.ut sufficient personal
r>tdi., .u tho Esni- Of said administrator u
paw sail debts HrI thit IL i necessary IN or
der pJ! Tho same. 90 sell MI ~ s'd real
estate
Il q ,hpr.nr, ur!a.rI, that IiipnrsnHs inter-
C-t"a 10 -lif estate, appear before tue Judge
OF .uI- .Iurt pn Thursday. the Path day Il
March 4. =. i~~i, ~ 10 o'clock 4. " AT the
Probate Dijic" ~ Innhatn IA -nih county.
then and tl.Hsr . -lIoI' cause "a. amy there Sri
wh, llaou>" should not loo granted IL san
ndlulHI~tr.tpr To soil -..!t reel estate Gccprl-
Ing D. in- prayer ~ -ail p tiliuI'.
Aud u i further vrI"rOi, thar y copy q! this
ur7irr -h@!! so published fur frUT successive
weeks PRIOR - said day ul hearing, the last
-! b.ch publications tall 10, ~ least tour
teen days r-turr SAD .Ir az hearing III Thu
Ntuka', FR.T PRTSS, a w""Sly newspaper,
printed ln'i published az MIukatn III said
CBu..ty. stHi p-I"'piIIi!r -o~v'i ou all persons
Interested II sad estate. residing IN said
county. at least fourteen days hCioro said
day II hearing. ani upon all other persons
''''' y. the Couri. q W. MEAD.
jude "a; Probate, -! iIiur Earth County. Minn.
Dated NJ MRnkato, the 18th day OF February,
! ID. !Ns:j.
THOMAS \ WASHBCR.. Iwi
Attorneys for Administrator
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
Inst insertion fepruarya, 1855; last insertion
March 9Srd.
MORTGAGE FOiTGLOSuRE SALE.

nErAULT having been made iu the condi-
II tipI oi a certain mortgage executed ~
sarah 4. Leeman ana William Iceman her
husband, mort gagors. u William :. shepard
mur;eagocc, dated january end. a. u. lsS2
ana rccrrird in the Uihcc oi the Register az
Deeds in and for the county Of Blue Earth IN
the state oi Minnesota, oI the i9th day ni
January 4. II. iSe2 AT II O'Clock IN the fore
noon, in Book Il NJ Mortgages, on page -.
los which mortgage there was conveyed and
granted tho following described real cstntc
situate in the county of Bin" Earth aforc-
said tn-wit: The west half OF I'll" northeast
quarter NJ section Four til. In Township one
Hundred and SiN litrl north Range twenty
cight ~ west al the flith principal meridian,
containing eighty Is acres according to
government survey e. secure the payment
ot the sum al fiN, Hundred dollars. with
interest AZ the rat" az eight per cent. per h'i-
mum payahl" annually, according I" IN" con-
diIianS If a pr0iulSsOrN coupon note bearing
same date as said mortgage, made by SAIL
sarah \. Lcemau ana William Lccnan 10
said William :. shepard, and there being dut'
ana unpaid upon said note ana mortgage NJ
the date ot this notice the sum Of Fort!
aJ-ltl dollars, ana no action or proceeding nj
law or otherwise having been instituted Ia
recover the amount al said mortgage dent or
any part thereof: Now, therefore, notice Il
hereby given that by virtue ana in pursuance
Of power of sale i'll said mnrtyage contained
and herewith recorded. and Of the statute In
such case made and provided, the above deS-
crihed promises will he sold NJ public auc'
tlnu nj the front door NJ the Office OF the
Register Of Deeds In AID FOR said county oi
Blrle Earth and az the city Of Nankato there
in, on
SATURDAY, the cath day al March,
AID. lsS5, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, &
satisfy the amount at said mortgage dch
thCn due aud unpaid together with the costs
and expenses ot such foreclosure proceeding
including twcntN-iye dollars attorneys ie.'
as STIPULATED la said mortgage; ana the sal,
mortgage will bc thereby foreclosed.
Dated February 5th l>s3. -
WILLIAM 5. SHEPARD,
MOrtgageo.
THOMAS 4 wASHBrRS,
Attorneys Tor Mortgage,
MankatO. MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
"A r M L q m p s !

We said in former advertisement -" To person of
land is cheaper to-day and in the long Blue Earth
county at 800 than So hundred miles
from timber BY the time the settler these raries has
made his roads and bridges churches and schools and bought
rewood and timber until he his his land will
him than 500 per acre. We repeat again emphasized by
the results OF the October blizzard the praes lying
for hundred of miles the losses stock reported
lost largely because there timber with which utilize the
hay and straw for shelter.
We have large amount of farming lands for sale in Blue
Earth and adjoining counties and suit either with i'm
proved unmproved Lands have been rising harvest
and will likely keep going up At present prices they will pay
ter Investment than interest. Parties who
thinking Of buying will get better bargains than along towards
spring.
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He Wanted to Sue.

Some time since an Ohio paper got
after n manufacturing concern and gave
it such showing up that the president
went to lawyer and said he desired to
begin libel suit.
''What has the paper saidP" asked the
attorney.
why, that we never paid divi-
dend"
.NWell. have you?'
mo; but it said we couldn't pay our
hands,"
''And you haven't for the past two
months. have you?'
81 can't say we have; but It said our
stock was down to IA, the concern mort
gagged, and That bad management would
soon bust u.s.
''Isn't it all so?"
"Confound it, yes! and that's what I
want to sue for!' yelled the president.