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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
Aid of Machinery TO Labor,

Labor is a natural burden upon hui
mainly; yet it is the key which unlOcks
the StOrchouse of wealth, convenience,
and luxury. BY the use of invented and
applied machinery muscular work is
greatly relieved, and results cheaply
and extensively obtained. In all this,
however. intelligent skill is not sup
planted; but rather there is n wider
field created for the same, and more and
more does il come into demand rs the
facilities for production multiply. Man,
of course, may exist rs our fOrefathers
did, living in arude and limited way on
the necessaries of life, and even these
secured only ut the expense of Oppres-
sive toll; but as improvements are
made, and varied and enlarged benefits
flow therefrOm, he rises in the scale of
being, and the sphere of life is extended.
The easy supply of want in any di-
rection only begets efforts in others;
and as matters thus progress, instead of
the demand for useful industry being
diminished, there is more and more in
ducement to labOrcrs to employ them
selves with the exercise of every faculty.
1t is mistaken view, therefore, to
imagine that there is the least tendency
i'm the Use of machinery to supersede the
necessity of wOrkmen, and take from
them all opportunity to labor. Their
skillful hands, discerning eyes, and in
tclligent brains are surely destined to
find an ever widening field. OF course,
the worker must not remain stationary,
content to live and die an antiguated
fossil, while all the world about him is
changing and progressing. What he
once did painfully and slowly with the
hands alone he must now more abund-
antly accomplish through the agency of
labor-saving devices and tools. Society
has need of more production, and will
only be satisfied with even more and
more. With its prosperity and progress
the labOrer shares, and to-day he has
more of the comforts and luXuries of
life than were enjoyed by kings hun
dred years ago. The prejudice against
improvement, and the jealousy against
capital and associations in their efforts
to manage and direct production into
more efficient and beneficial channels
should disappear. AS changes occur,
old ruts should be promptly abandoned,
BY adapting himself To circumstances
that are thrust upon him, there is not
a man who cannot succeed and find
a market for his labors far beyond his
ability TO supply. - Dubuque Trade
Journal
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
-"Mauericks.U

All range cattle are branded with the
private mark of the owner. This is
chiefly done while they are calves, the
ownership of the young animal being
determined by the brand given its
mother. In Texas it was once a legiti..
mate and universal practice to capture
any animal unmarked and affix your
own brand to it, no matter to whose
herd it really belonged SO long as it was
one year old and unbranded. During
the year just following the breakup Of
the war, branding Mavericks" as
these young unmarked animals were
termed, was the most profitable bust
ness a cattle man could follow. Their
attention was chiefly directed to females,
which were found in great abundance
ranging from one to five years old. The
queer title then bestowed upon these
unbranded animals still clings to them.
1t is derived from an old Frenchman
named Mauvric, who began stock rails
ing in that section with very few head
of cattle, and in remarkably short
space of time had secured an enormous
ly large herd. twas finally discovered
that he actually branded fifty head for
each COW he owned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
Industry,s Reward.

The four Green boys, of Atlanta, Ca,
started few years ago selling newspa-
pers. They made 10 cents apiece the
first morning they went to work, and for
two winters thereafter they went, half
clad. through the snow and sleet in the
freezing dawn on their morning rounds
From the very first they saved certain
percentage of their earnings, which they
invested in Atlanta real estate. The
oldest of them is now eighteen years of
age and the youngest twelve. They
have supported an invalid father and
now have property worth considerably
over So, 900, houses from which the rent
is $50 month, and 5000 stock in q
building and loan association. They
have educated. themselves meanwhile,
remaining from school this year in order
to work the harder and build ahome for
their parents.
II is claimed that as the range Of
high land in Southern South Carolina
and Northern Georgia is particularly
conducive to the health Of children with
an hereditary faint or disposition to
consumption, that locality possesses in
estimable advantage a. q school santa
rum.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
damned Goods,

The consumption of all kinds Of can
ned goods has Increased rapidly of late
years both at home and abroad, though
our expectations are restricted by an APP
parently unfounded prejudice in Europe
against the American article. Canned
salmon and oysters are our principal
expectations in this line. Acomparative-
ly small amount of corn is exported,
though some goes to London and to
Germany. The home consumption of
canned corn, however, is very large,
and it is thought that canned goods
generally, corn included. will ultimate
iy be among the most important of our
expectations. One of the largest dealers
in New York estimates the total annual
production Of canned corn in the United
States mt 100000 eases of two dozen
cans each, or in all 19,2OO,0OO cans of
corn. Each can contains one and one
half pounds of corn. Yet larger
quantity of tomatoes is consumed. An
other dealer says that about one-half
of the canned corn is packed in Maine
from Maine cOrn.-NeaO York World
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
A Wonderful Horse.

Bill Cassell, of Metamora, ILL.,, has a
horse named Paddy, 10 years of age,
which can take the cake in the way of
being drawer of water" The horse
has for the past twelve years worn out
on an average one pump-handle yearly
by Selling it in his teeth and moving it
downward, then elevating it with his
upper lip until enough water is pumped,
then helping himself. And not only
did he do this regularly but during the
very dry season of two years ago he
would wait for COW, which was in the
same lotwith him, to come to the trough,
when he would then go to work and
pump for her too. Such q horse is
worth having. Some of your readers
may question the truth of the above, but
we have eye-witnesses who can substan-
tiate these statements in every particu-
lar. The horse is still hale and hearty,
and is in use every day in the year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
The Wrong Cicero.

1
When the present State military Lew
was bill before the Legislature Il Rep
resentative one day took John Harmon
the lobbyist aside and offered him 81 tC
write him 81 laundering good speech
i'm opposition to the bill. John hadn't
time, and the Scion took i'm each one 81
the reporters with an offer of 50 sc
without finding u taker. In despair he
then returned to Harmon and said:
''See here. John. I've got to make q
speech opposing that bill. My conslit-
uents are down on it, and if don't OPP
pose it I'll get in Il box. What shall !
do? Can't you give me some pOints?"
Eyes, think SO. You might start
in at Cicero. He was opposed to all
military force, and insisted that ed
ucation should rule"
That's the cake. Spell his name
with q big G, suppose. I'll send to
Detroit for his life. What next?"
swell, Shakespeare welded a pen
while others welded a sword, and while
hundreds of great generals have been
'0tsfSis atas h sotE %a sS 0qh at VIII. pc
an old seeker to throw at 'em. I'll
send for Mr.. ShaEspeare's book and
get him down fine. What else?''
''Lemme see,' unused John, as he
opened his tobabco-box. "YOu don't
want to leave Cato out"
what was hep"
''SOrt of an orator and philosopher
He was down on everything military
and was the hero of the people"
"C-a-t-O-w-fve got him down and
will look him up. / guess I've got
enough for the present. but if I want
other points I'll depend on YOU
For two weeks the man labOred al
most day and night on his great speech.
and was then excused for week to 90
home and hunt up other pointers. On
the morning Of his return he met Har-
mon in front of the State House and
called out:
''John, I've got 'em-got 'em spiked
down and bolted through and keyed up
till they can't squeal! I'm all ready to
60 for 'em this afternoon!'
'Yes, but the bill passed yesterday"
was the dry rejoinder of the lobbyist.
1t was Il sad blow to the orator, and
he never got quite over it. The report
ers put him up to use most of the speech
in his argument in favor of more
stringent haw for the protection of game
but after he had finished his effort and
was cooling of in the hall he replied to
questioner:
"Yes, l have just made u speech for
ty minutes long, but what in Halifax
old Cicero had to TO with ducks and
deer in Michigan is not quite as clear
To my mind rs | wish it was. Maybe l
got the wrong Cicero. How many
were therc?' -DetrOH Free Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
The Girls.

Hear the laughter Of the girls
49,, Pretty girls:
"hat iiind al mcrrimcnt each ruby lip un
turs.
How they chatter chatter. chatter,
liz the hany mir at night
while III" stars that cyer-spatlcr
All The heavens hear their clattcr
In Il >oit AMI mild delight,
hccping time. time. Time,
. IN "a sprtcr-kiltlcr rhyme,
nurls
From The girls, girls girls, girls,
=, Girls, girls, girls
From the wild. caprcious. saucy, iaunty girls.
See the flirting of the girls
. Radiant girls:
HOW the SCREENED brain of lover wildly whirls
Through the mazcs of the ball,
Y ana down the stately hail.
How he skippcth Ia and fro,
And pcrspircS.
would that we could tell the idiot all we know
OF the fires
Into which the false one hurls
Each new Nictim-scc the iiamc--how il swirls,
How IL curlS.
How ID curlS:
lictter far that they were churls
~i-. lhan fall victim To the girls;
To the prittlc and the rattle
or the girls. girls girls
or the girls, girls. girls, girls,
Girls, girls, girls
To the sacking and heart rickiny of the girls.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
NUMBER 43.
Wise Sayings.


The tongue is the worst part of bad
servant.
Worth begets in base minds envy; in
great souls emulation. Fielding.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam
Milton.
As every thread of gold is valuable,
so is every minute Of time.-Rev. John
Mason.
Girls we love for what they are; young
men for what they promise to be-
Goethe.
Zeal without humility is like q ship
without rudder, liable TO be stranded
at any mOment.-Fcltham
Talking and eloquence are not the
same; to speak, and to speak well, are
two things. Johnson.
In character, in manners, in style, in
neutrality-suspicious..
Mere scnsibility is not true taste, but
sensibility to real excellence is.-Haz-
lit
What fate imposes men must neeas ap,uv.
All the good maxims which are in the
world. fail when applied to ones self
Pascal.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed
money. only show the poverty Of the
borrOwer.-Lady Blessington.
Obstinacy and heat in argument are
the surest proofs of folly.-Montaigue.
1t is foolish to strive with what we
cannot avoid; we are born subjects, and
to obey God is perfect liberty; he that
does this shall be free, safe and quiet;
all his actions shall succeed to his
wisbes.-Seneca.
The lamp of genius, though by nature lit,
lf not protected, pruned and fed with care.
Soon dies or runs to waste with fitful glare.
wilcox.
Man is, beyond dispute, the most ex-
cellent of creature beings, and the vilest
animal is dog; but the sages agree
that grateful dog is better than an un-
grateful man.-Saadie.
The more we have To read, the more
we have learned, the more we have me-
ditated the better conditioned we are to
affirm that we know nothing.
God planted fear in the soul as truly
IS he planted hope or courage. Fear is
a kind of bell or gong which rings the
mind into quick life and avoidance upon
the approach of danger. 1t is the souls
signal for rallying. -Beecher.
Adversely, sage, useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best:
1t Is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below.
-Somerville.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20

What difference there is in the ways
of q mans and q wOman's falling on the
ice. A man will 60 sprawling all over
the sidewalk, and after kicking about
like crab with the shaking palsy for
two or three minutes, will finally get up
with thoroughly demoralized air, his
raiment covered with dirty snow and his
mind full of maledictions; but woman,
bless her! When she falls she sinks
down with courtesy into neat and
compact bundle, and before you know
it is on her feet again, sailing swiftly
away, with seraphic smile on her face,
sunshine in her heart, and not 80 much
as suggestion of her downfall on her
clothing. Boston Transcript.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
MATRIMONIAL ITEM.

Gabe Snodgrass applied to the county
clerk for marriage license. The clerk,
being in good humor, and DESTROYS of
having a little fun, said very seriously:
81 suppose you know, Gabe, that the
Legislature now in session has passed a
law making it felony for a colOred
man to marry unless the fair bride can
show n cash balance or real estate to
the value of three dollars. Are you
marrying for money!"
''Jess go ahead wild de papers. boss"
whispered .Gabe; ''dars mysterious ru-
mOrs in de neighborhood bout her
habin' four dollars and a quarter"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20

A party of st. Louis men who founG
business uncOmmonly dull one day last
week amused themselves by conducting
a telephone conversation with a newly
arrived freshman. The man was told
that the instrument communicated with
Ireland and when he howled questions
into it about''Uncle Jerry" and Toby
and the ''rint of the land, he was over.
joyed to hear voice which he 'recOg.
nized" as that of katy, his darlint
daughter" When he went off to get
the ..ould woman" to come and hear
from home with her own ears, the funny
St. Louis men laughed till the tears
came.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
AUSTIN 0It LINUS.
DESIGNATING MONDAY.

"NOw. SAM" said an Austin million
aire. and prominent church member,
to his cOlOred porter, 'this getting
drunk on Sunday must cease. Why is
it that you desecrate Sunday, cOntinu-
ally, by becoming intoxicated?'
''Bekase, boss, whisky costs so much,
l hasn't got any money left ober to ge.
drunk wild on Monday. Eff l had dc
money would desecrate Monday, too. ="
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20

The Providence Journal has discOv-
cred phenOmenOn-a young man. a
favorile in society, who dares to say
that he "cannot afford it'-that he
would be pleased to dance the german
every night in the week, if opportunity
were given him, but that if costly bou-
quets are a necessity, he must forego
the pleasure, for his salary is not sufii-
GENTLY large for him to be able to pay
for them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20

Never was such rush made for any
Drug Store as is now at John A. Sam
born for Trial Bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery of Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. All persons affected with
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Severe
Coughs, or any affection Of the Throat
and Lungs, can get Trial Bottle OF
this great remedy free, by calling at
above Drug 6toFe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
A RELIGIOUS DIsCIJssION

''Does yer know de difference bet
ween your sarmint las Sunday, and my
big Shanghai rooster" asked Rev.
WhangdoOdle Baxter of Rev. Aminidab
BledsOe, who is his rival.
Between my sarnint and your big
roOster?" queried the dazed ecc1esiastic.
"Perzactly."
II GIBBS it up"
ode rooster makes de folks open dar
eyes when dey am sleep, and your sar-
mint makes 'em shut dar eyes and go
to sleep when dey am awake"
AS it was impossible to unclinch their
hands from each others wool, they were
put in cart and driven to the lookup
still holding on to each other like q
couple of exasperated red ants.-Isxas
Sittings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
HARD TIMES.

$50 you has triplets ut your housep"
said Rev. WhangdOodle Baxter to Sleepy
Pete, member of his congregation.
Eyes, Parson, dars free OBJ 'em at
home, two boys and GAL"
when is yer gwinter hab 'em bap-
tized?"
Cant tell yer, Parson. Use gwinter
find out which preacher in Austin will
baptize EN- for de least money, an de
lowest bidder am gwinter get de job. If
de lowest bid am too high, den Use
gwinter pick out de gal an hab her
baptized, an let de two boys worry
along widOut any baptism, until do
times has quit bein' SO panicky."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20

The number of spindles running in
Georgia Is $4,000. against 20Q.97l h
166l
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
The Decay Of Passion and Thought in Our
Own Times.

MIR. SnOdgrass is always getting him.
self into trOuble.-ChicagO World.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-04-13
AN AND DFMOCRAT BIOOMSBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY PA
Some Young Men.


There are some young men in every
community whose whole lives are a
miserable reflection on the idea OF man
hood. They are all endowed with some
abilities aud in instances are more
than ordinarily intelligent, yet from tho
time the portals of Independent living
opened to them, they have chosen to
walk in sinuous and forbidden paths.
The abandonment of parental restraint,
the reading of Objectionable literature,
the companionship of older men, them.
selves hardened by excesses, and other
agencies equally bad, operated to plant
the seeds that have now developed into
the full poisonous growth, until their
sole ambition is to be considered "fast'
aud to be "fast."
THE commonest type of this class is he
who lounges in the hotel lobbies with
the air of roue. Or he stands on the
curb stones and insults decent people
with his loud talk and bad odor, or To-
Gates himself along prominent streets
and shocks modest women and girls
with his piratical glauces. He is feared
by mothers, detested by fathers, regard
ed with suspicion by his employer, if
he is so fortunate as to have one, and
robs his parents of all joy in life. He
affords but one moment of pleasure to
his friends and the general public in the
whole course of his life after coming to
manhood's estate, and that is when he
dies without having committed any seri
Gus violation of the law of the land
That there are many of these is true.
They are to be met in every walk of
life and every level OF society They
are always vulgar and repulsive. They
know nothing of the exquisite pleasure
of doing generous deed. They know
but little of the amenities of life, their
sensibilities having been petrifed at an
early stage of their career. They are
reckless, heartlees, conscienceless, and
for the sake of the boys who are rapid
ly coming on to be men, and the girls
who never know how bad man can
be, some measures should be taken
looking to their ieformation.-Patriot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-04-13

A business meeting of the Juniata
Valley Editorial Association was held
at Huntingdon last Saturday April 7th.
All of the officers of the association
and other editors from all the counties
in the valley were present. The prin-
cipal subject discussed was that of for
eign advertisements, for the considera-
ton of which the meeting was called,
The resolutions adopted declare that
the members of the association will not
accept any such advertisements requir-
ing special positions in their columns;
that they will insert them only at full
rates, and appealing to the State Edi-
torial Association to adopt similar reso-
lutions. The cooperation of all the
newspapers of the valley in carrying
out these rules is asked.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-04-13
THE NEW JAIL.

Some of our exchanges are publish.
ing an item to the effect that the Col
umbia county Jail has been abandoned
by the commissioners, and the prisoners
removed to the old jail. There is no
foundation for such a report, The new
Jail is not abandoned, and is not likely
to be. The commissioners have no
more authority to direct the sheriff to
move with his prisoners to the old build
ing than they have to direct the Judges
to hold court in the Opera House. Col
umbia county has but one Jail. When
prisoners are bound over to court, they
are to be kept in the county Jail, unless
bail is furnished. When they are SEN
fenced by the court, to undergo impris-
onment in the county Jail neither the
sheriff nor commissioners have the pow
er to lock them up somewhere else, no
matter what the expense of keeping
them may be.
AS to whether the location of the
new Jail was proper one or not, is
quite another thing. AT the time of
selecting the site the COLUMBIAN oppos-
ed it vigorously, and urged that the
site of the old jail be selected for the
new. In the issue of April goth 1877
it said: "We earnestly condemn the
abandonment of the present ground,
which is admirably adapted for prison
purposes, and it seems to us that if it
did not already belong to the county,
every effort would have been made to
secure it, In the issue of July goth
1877, after the Waller lot had been
contracted for by Messrs. Herner and
Sands, two of the commissioners, the
COLUMBIAN said: "When i, is the univer,
sally expressed desire of the people OF
the county to have the new Jail erected
on the old site, we cannot understand
the persistency with which the majority
of the commissioners cling to the idea
of putting it somewhere else" But they
did cling to it,and put the building in q
swamp. 1t is there, and the only thing
to do now, is to make the best of it
The Jail was taken off the hands of the
contractors and is the property of the
county, and if it needs repairs and
drainage, the only thing that can be
done is to spend enough money on it tc
make it suitable for the purpose fol
which it was erected. 1t would cost as
much to tut the old Jail in proper con
dition for prison, as it would require
to make the necessary improvements il
the new. If drainage cannot be made
otherwise, the services of competent
surveyor should be obtained to ascer
tain and report the best and cheapest
manner in which the premises can be
drained. 1t certainly would not be
economy to abandon property that cost
the county nearly sixty thousand dol
lars, if comparatively small sum viii
make it what it should be- The evident
desire of the commissioners to econo
mize in the cost of keeping prisoners is
coInmendable, but they have no power
to abandon the county jal, unless the
people shall so decide in the proper
manner.