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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
a Pleoy for Our Young ro,,ss.

For a few years past our agricultural
newspapers have discussed to the full
est extent the reasons why our BOYS
should stick to the farm" The arg1-
ments are not Objectionable, but the
prevailing .dea that has grown out of
these articles has a tendency to force
rnral people to be rural citizens always.
There is no more occasion that a far
lner's son shall be a farmer than there
is that a doctors son shall be n doctor,
or a lawyers son q lawyer. 1t is one Of
the mostimportant items in the founda-
ton of a child's life work that it's par
ents early ascertain to what labor or
profession it is naturally inclined.
With many children no taste for special
work is developed until near manhood:
and nothing could be more beneficial
in helping them to decide the great
question than a college education. Bnt
you say: II want Henry to have the old
farm, and Mary must settle near us to
cheer u wintry years"
Yes; This would be a fond mothers
ideal, yet it has enough selfshness in it
often to wreck a cllild's highest success
and happiness. Give them the college
education-both boys and girls-and
let them feel that not even q parents
love will cheat themof their birthright.
just as many boys perhaps. will return
to the farm as would stay there under
the strict command: "Stick to the
farm" Then they would be happier
for having decided their avocation for
themselves. A college education is
worth just as much to rural youths as
to city tops and bellies. Farmers daugh-
tiers might easily hold tho highest rank
in intelligence and refinement if only the
custom of college lore FOR rusties were
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

We only met at rehearsal q week ago
n made it up. The fact is, 1 had
quarreled with her because she
answered q most important letter
that
Don't say any more, my boy" said
the Bishop, sadly; ''go to Lady Far
clfuls. There has been IA mistake
somewhere. I'm glad it is all right.
Goodnight; Julian; and then be
kissed his son and went into the study.
That's all 1 know about it, and I must
say that certain journals have cruelty
distorted the true facts of the case.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
prevalent. Debate the question

more prevalent. Debate the question
by the winter fire, and see if some Of
fering from vine, tree or field cannot be
exchanged for sources of fruitful knowl-
edge for those who are now the light of
home, who are bearing the buds of
springtime which, under favoring cir
cumstances, will mature beautious flow
ers, and rich, rare fruit. You can be-
stow no worthier gift upon their queen
ly womanhood and noble manhood than
a good education-one which will fit
them for life's greatest JOY and useful
ness.--A Lady i'll Rural New Yorker.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
For the Cook.

CARROT PM.-They taste very much
like squash. Scrape, slice, boil tsnder,
and run through a seive or colander.
Take one tablespoonful of carrot, one
egg, and one cup of milk to each pie,
and sugar, salt and spicas - taste.
Don't omit,a pinch of salt to each pie.
To nE-CooK LIvER.-We have fire.
quently cooked liver left from a meal.
and the following is one way 1 fix it for
supper. Chop it fine. salt, and pepper
it to suit the taste, and sprinkle some
curry powder over it; put it in a sauce
pan With all the gravy; if not moist
enough add hot water. Toast some
bread, wet it, and put the hash on top.
Serve hot.
To PREPARE SpINAcH.-Strip the
leaves from the stem, wash them thor
oughly, and boil twenty minutes in wat
er to which salt has been added. Drain
through a colander. Mix together a
tablespoonful of floor, a half cup or a
cup Of SOU cream, and a little black
pepper. Put the spinach back into the
pot, stir the gravy into it thoroughly,
and serve The spinach in the bowl
may be covered with fried eggs.
WHIPPED PogAToEs.--Peel thin, cut
in halves or quarters, lay in cold water
n hour or two; put over the fire in
boiling water. salt and cook until ten
der. Drain off all the water strew salt
on the potatoes and set them in the
uncovered pot at the back of the range
to dry. Turn out into q hot bowl and
whip until light and mealy. Beat in
them a tablespoonful of warm butter,
and for every dozen large potatoes near
~ a cup of hot ilnot boiled) milk, and
salt to taste. %Theproduct should be as
smooth as cream, but thicker. Heap
in a deep dish.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

Corresponding with her secretly
Monstrousl Thrust be stopped at once.
His fingers played with the envelope as
he held it up between him and the fire.
No, no, cantdo thst wouldn't be hon
est" said the Bishop sternly and having
comforted himself with the reflection he
locked up the letter in his drawer, and
then the dressing-bell rang.
Julian was very pleasant and bright
thet day at dinner. He told his father
old Oxford stories. insisting on pledging
him in the old AZ, and when he a of
to read Che never went to the theater
now, h%edropped into the drawing-room
and ran his fingers lightly over the keys
OF the Erard, The Bishop heard the
music rs he sat, brooding and melan-
choly and remorseful, in the room be-
low; for all that he hardened his heart
like PEharaohs and would notlet the let,
ter go, because sit was for the bestn-a
bit Of Jesnitical casriistry that he never
theless derived but small comfort from.
IT required much more Pharaoh
like hintness to endure
Julian's first anxious, and
then disappointed, face when the early
post noxt morning, and several success
sive posts for the next two days, failed
to bring him something he actually
looked for. The inquiry: Anything
for me father?" Nothing, Julian,
became a little tragedy, in which tile
bishop felt he was east for first muir
derer.a and was by no means easy in
the part.
The piano was opened now, and
Julian stuck to his work quietly and
plnckily. At last he was duly called
and won the g100 prize given by his
Inn for an essay upon probate and
Divorce as Practiced by the EARLY Aryan
Races He never slackened work for
q moment, but went to court every day,
and still preserved the same quiet man
ner that SO baffied and worried the bish-
op. His fun seemed to have all evapor-
ated, and in its place he had i purpose.
His father had q bad time of it--passed
sleepless nights, and oven went SO far as
to read the essay on Probate and Di-
vorce.n Once he suggested in playful
fashion to Julian that "noy that he was
on the high road to the Woolsack, it was
time for him tolook about and Settle"
but he only elicited q rather solemn
Don't let's talk OF that subject, father
and felt snabbed.
$500 H1EH
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
A Warning.

1nsatiate Europe! are not women fair
Who chance within thy borders TO be bornf
Are all the daughters thou dost nurture
there
Dcformed. fl-favored, angular. and spare,
Pale, featureless, unlovely, and forlornr
Are all thy beauties dead in ages past
Traditions If the buried Long-ago?
Have they left no successors? Were they
cast
In molds too beautiful and bright to last2
Methinks hear thino echoes answer, mol
Europe has still her beauties as of old!
They TEEN from zone TO zone, from coast
to coast.
Read but the tales by modern Ministries told;
They sing one song in accents manifold.
That song, the charms their country-wo-
mon boast"
How then. thou greedy monster. dost thou
dare
To lure our loved ones from tho lonely westf
Treasures our poverty SO i'll can spGrel
Our joys-our only joys-'mid toll and cnre!
Coiumbia's darllngs; brightest, sweetest,
best.
What time young Rome upon her ncigbbors
wrought
The troacherous deed that stole their wives
The injured sabines flew to arms and fought
Till both the tribes with carnage were dis
BE warned in timcI We. too. can smite and
slayl
BE warned! Take pity on our hapless stated
Restore to us our only share of heaven!
without them, we are lost-disconsolate-
Abandoned, hopeless, reckless of our fate.
Let them return, aud all shall be forgiven!
Joseph Kirkland, in The Manhattan for
August.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
"Fell Through q Trap"

Judge William Carter, of Sheboygan,
and Judge Caswell Marks. OF Selma,
were both natives of Lexington, KY.
In boyhood they had damned the
same cats head into the same milk
pitcher, stolen peaches from the same
tree, got trounced by tho same farm
ers, were otherwise obviously intimate
friends, afterwards chums at college
and then errand boys in the same Office.
Later in life they parted and rose to
sublime honors in their separate places.
Last January they met for the first
time since their parting, in Lexington,
and brewed q convivial bowl in honor
of the event. About midnight, full of
affection and enthusiasm, they retired
IN the same bed. 1t was huge afflir,
standing in the middle of the room and
capable of being drawn up by ropes to
the ceiling while the room was being
cleaned. 1t was a very cold night,
and they placed their clothing upon
the foot of the bed. just after they
fell asleep. four friends entered softly,
drew the bed by the ropes nearly to
the ceiling, and left them thus sus-
pended about ten feet from the floor.
They then locked the door outside and
retired.
At 8 a. IN. Judge Carter woke with
that species of thirst which usually
comes after Kentucky punch and
technically known as shot copper"
Lcaping lightly out of bed to get the
ice pitcher, he went whirling down ten
feet, alighting with a soul-stirring
thump on all tours.
There was long and painful pause.
Then he peered upward through the
darkness and called:
''Caswell!"
No reply.]
"Oh, Caswellr'
Feeble cries
'.CaZr'
Northumberland" The Judge
was awakening.
1--WE fallen through trap" yelled
the now affrightod Judge, "get up
and light candle"
..Where are you." queried Judge
Carter, sleepily, framing his opinion
that his honorable brother was drunk.
Down here. Fell through trap.
Don't get out on my side of the bed"
.All right" And Judge Marks.
springing out on his own side, turned
three somersaults and landed on the
small of his back. Both were now con-
WINGED that they had fallen into den
of thieves, and were possibly to be
murdered. The jokers had closed the
heavy wooden shutters, SO no light
could enter, and removed all the furni-
ture. The judges CROPPED around on
hands and knees, nearly frozen to
death, and only at daylight discovered
the bed, climbed into it, and got
warm enough to talk the thing over.
There were recently two temperance
societies started under glorious. auspic-
es. The headquarters of one Is at
Selma, and the other at Sheboygan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
The Boy and the Bee.

A boy about 10 years old, says the
Detroit Free Press, who was slouching
around the Bates street end of the
Central Market suddenly gave yell.
clasped both hands on his stomach
and began war dance that soon drew
crowd.
II 'spected as muchr' shouted a
woman as she waved her hand towards
the boy. Them ere boys eat any
thing, from green melon down to
peach stones. Serves him just rightm
II thought he looked kind O. colicky
around the mouth afore he tackled
them spiced gooseberries, added a
man who had come in with q load OF
potatoes.
II don't see how they keep him from
dying, really DON'T" put in woman
with cucumber in each hand. IF
there was any way-any lawful way
to open that boy and look into his
stomach. you would find three or four
old bananas, a piece Of watermelon, six
or eight green apples. four or five to-
matoes, at least two cucumbers, and q
lot of sour berries"
Say" yelled tho boy rs he capered
around. Somebody git the perleece
or somebody
''Oh, it's all very nice to want the
police and the doctors and the medical
college ambulance" sneered fat man
who had some tomatoes in a basket,
''but why didn't you think of these
things beforep"
''And with the cholera raging in
France and likely to come over here
any dayw added a peak-faced woman
who had been buying fish.
The boy laid down and rolled over
and sat up.
"Well. 1 don't want to be on the
coroner's jury" said a man whose hair
and whiskers had just been dyed in a
barber shop near by.
land wouldn't see him die for a
SO BILL" added young man with eye
glasses on.
Just then a policeman pushed his
way into the crowd and asked the
trouble, and some one replied that the
boy had been seized with the bilious
collie.
Seized mo right here!" whined the
lad as he stood up and clasped his
stomach.
lie had on a shirt torn down the
front and held by single pin, and his
pants were held up by strap. The
officer opened his shirt. and humble
bee, looking as large as walnut. crept
out and was brushed to the ground.
Just below the boys chest was a red
swelling larger than his fist and still
growing.
mo collie about that" observed the
officer, as he crushed the suffering
bee. Only ono person in tho crowd
had Il remark to make, as the boy lop-
ed of. That was the woman with the
cucumbers. She sort O. shook them
after the retreating figure, and called
out:
''This ortcr be great moral lesson
to that boy, but doubt it-can't help
but doubt it. If we had any right-any
legal right-to open him tomorrow
and look into his stomach, we'd won
der why that bumble-bce fooled his
time away instead of tackling grind
stone"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
"The AIcaldc."

The first Alcalde of Nevada City was
elected by voting population of $50,
but in many camps ten or dozen men
chose this peculiar and all-powerful
officer. giving him all tho powers
granted under the Mexican and early
Spanish system. He became the Judge
of the village, the petty lord of the
tented town, and only the voice of the
people could bring his powers to an
end.
Brief though the reign of the Al
caldes was. it left n deep impress upon
society, as story will illustrate. The
writer once knew California school
teacher, a man of mighty muscles and
great energy, who had spent his boy
hood in placer mining in Siskiou. in
cattle raising on the Eastern Oregon
uplands, and in Indian fighting and
wild prospecting tours along the
frontiers of British Columbia. When
the war broke out he rode for Missouri,
crossed the lines, joined Virginia
regiment, and came back so crippled
and battered that tho old free, careless
life was impossible. Always a great
reader and close student, he turned
to the school room and won q reputa-
ton over three counties as successful
teacher. Under these circumstances
he was called to take charge of what
was, with undoubted justice, called the
worst school in Northern California.
The trustee had written to him at his
cabin, perched on pine-clad height of
the Sierra, trout streams within a
stones throw, grouse in the woods. and
deer and bear, his gun and rod, his
Marcus Aurelius" and '.Noctes AM
brosiana" on the shelf within reach.
He saddled his horse, and, rising at
daybreak, reached the village, once a
mining camp. before 9 o'clock. When
school was called to order he found
that efficient work demanded reclassi-
tication, for the previous teacher had
tried to gain cheap favor by advancing
grades and skipping the hard places,
'and had come to grief by begging a
large boy not to smoke a cigarette in
school. The playful lads ducked him
in the adjacent stream, sousing him up
and down till he escaped, waded to the
farther bank, and sought other past
ures. But the new teacher was of
sterner material.
II shall have an examination to-day
to see where you belong, and must
turn you back in your grades if you de-
serve it." he said.
A loud murmur of discomfort and
almost open rebellion followed. Moth
ing abashed, the teacher made his first
and last speech. He took from the
table book and addressed an older
pupil:
''Do you know what this isp"
''Yes, sir; the school law"
'.And it defines the grades, and you
all think you have passed the exami-
nation, and that can't 60 behind the
:aw?"
Eyes, SIR"
Every we'll! Now you are quite
mistaken. am the Alcalde of this
school, l am sheriff, and register. and
judge and jury, and absolute finality
here"
And with this revolutionary and
comprehensive statement he threw the
school law out of the window, and
proceeded, amid an awe-struck throng,
to break up and consolidate class after
class, recognizing the school on his
own INSTRUMENTATION Star.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
How to Handle O Gun.

The first thing you do when you go
out cunning with another boy is to
guard against accident. The best way
to do this is to shoot the other boy be-
fore he has time to load his gun. Then
take both guns to the nearest creek
and throw them in. Throw the pow
der and shot in after them. If you
have any matches about your clothes
throw them in also. Then start at
once and go home as fast as ever you
can. And ifyou are under Is years young,
the chances are, even with these pre-
cautions, you will get both legs and q
section of your back full of bird shot
before you reach home.
"How?"
Goodness only knows how, my son,
I don't often wondered how it did
happen, but never could ascertain. I
am not here to advance ingenious the
cries, but merely to state cold facts.
and know it to be solemn truth that
a boy with single-barreled gun twice
IS long as himself, can manage some
how to shoot himself in more places at
once than q man can do with q seven
shooter revolver. .And am I going to
buy you gum" Yes, l am; some
time in the long vacation when time
hangs heavily on my hands, and I
think l would enjoy entertaining you by
picking shot out of your leg with nut
pick.
But You will be very careful with
it?"
So is a woman very careful with an
umbrella, my son, and yet science is
unable TO account for the startling in
crease of one-eyed men every summer.
-Burdette.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
A Dumb Druggist.

A few minutes after midnight on
Sunday morning q Celestial operative
at tub and wringer called at drug
gist's store in South Boston. As he
opened the door his Monaghan face
wore an appearances of deep meditation.
which soon gave way to the placating
smile which every SON of China can
assume when occasion requires. ..Me
wantee-a-me forgottee Nance
you knowee-fifty-two." And think
ing his explanation perfectly clear and
satisfactory, his smile opened into a
broad grin.
''Flifty-twop" queried the druggists
clerk. what in the name of the big
Chinese idol is thatp" "Flifty-two!"
again, with emphasis, quoth the man
of Mongolian extraction. "Fhfty-two!
glo you'll You slee mer'
1t was no use. The clerk was knocked
out in less than the usual number of
rounds. He was speeches.. II clallr'
cried he of the indigo blue blouse and
soles of wood.
Eyes, know you CALL" said the ris-
ing pharmacist, running his bony fin
gers despairingly through his greasy
hair. Sand glo you'll" continued the
Asiatic. "Flifty-two! fiifty-two!' and
he attempted to make some cabalistic
figures on the wrapping paper.
you've got me dead!" cried the
compounder of prescriptions, dropping
into chair. II glo blind" yelled tho
Chinaman thoroughly aroused. Then
looking in the direction of the cold,
sheet-iron stove, which was taking n
vacation preparatory to service in
colder season, he rushed madly toward
it and seized poker. Fearing that
something dreadful was about to hap
pen, the drug clerk jumped to his feet,
and, with eyes starting from their
sockets, cried loudly:
"Here! Drop that poker-quickr'
"Ahr' exclaimed the Chinaman, let
ting fall from his hand the crooked
iron rod, and smiling the happiest of
smiles, ..Ah! Picker! Me forgettee
the name. Ploker-flifty-two."
''Oh, know now," said the clerk,
scowling ut himself for his dullness.
.'Why couldn't you have said playing
cards in the first placep Who's going
to know what you mean by plokcr.
and .glo you, and 'slee you, and all
that? You can't expect Americans to
understand about Chinese ga,ncs, can
yOup These are playing cards. Cards
see? C-a-r-d-s" "Clardsp" repeat
ed the Chinaman, with another broad
grin, as he paid for the package and
broke the seal. "Clards-I Clio You
fifty-.wo better"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
The Wonderful Planchette.

In the year 1868 u gentleman named
Kirby, who is now living in Kansas
City, invented q contrivance which he
called 'planchette. 1t was an ordin-
airy board of walnut, shaped like an
easel and supported by four small
rollers. 1t was in size about as large
as q woman's Gainsborough hat.
The planchette would be placed on q
table over sheet of Virginia white
foolscap. A man would be told to
shut both of his eyes and think of
something he held dear. His fingers
would rest on the easel and he was to
forget all about them and about it. In
Il few minutes he would he in q sort of
reverie. The thoughts in his mind
would gradually become absorbed on
one point. In another minute the
plancnette would begin to move me-
Chemically on its rollers. And then,
without any apparent volition on his
part, the pencil which was held by the
easel would slowly trace over the
foolscap the name of a sweetheart, or
the date OF some engagement or what
ever thought was uppcrmost in his
mind.
This revelation of a latent power
was thought at first to be the most
surprising. But after some 10000
planchettes had been sold for 81 3
piece it ceased to be so much of a won
der, and Mr.. Kirby retired in 1870 to
the west. At the same time the dis
cussion to which the planchette gave
rise-for craze it was-.established two
or three things. The first was that
some temperamcnts possessed the
electric force to much greater ex-
tent than others! The second was
that, as u general rule. women were
more largely endowed with it than
men. The secret of the piancnette was
that the electricity which the mind
:ouid generate could be exercised
through the hands. The secret of
Miss Hursv's "inexplicable power" is
that magnetism in Il strong, robust but
not intellectual person may adhere in
The hands themselves and thus be used
muscularly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26

In Philadelphia, according to the
Times. of that city. some ladies are
beginning TO complain of the kissing
nuisance as now practicel between
members of their sex. 1t is declared
that the practice of one woman salu-
ting another with kiss whenever sho
meets her after an absence is becoming
too common, and that the oscu!atory
welcome should be limited to ladies
who are very dear friends. and to gen.
tlemcn, when properly authorized.
Many ladies who do not like to seem
rude are compelled to kiss other ladies
OF their acquaintance when they meet
them because it seems 10 be expected,
and TO refuse to return the salutation
would he embarrassing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
These are Solid Facts.

The best blood purifier and system
regulator ever placed within the reach
of suffering humanity, truely is Electric
Bitters. Inactivity of theliver, Bilious,
ness, Jaundice, Constipation, Weak
Kidneys, or any disease of the urinary
organs, or who ever requires ON appe-
tizer, tonic or mild stimulant, viii al
ways find Electric Bitters the best and
only certain cure known. They act
surely; and quickly, every bottle guar
anteed to give entire satisfaction or
money refunded. Sold at 80 cents q
bottle by j. II. Jones.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
gentleman made his WOW into ,ho

A gentleman made his way into the
bed-chamber of one of his friends, and
found him fast asleep with pair of
spectacles upon his nose. ..Whatr'
cried he, awakening him, lido you
wear your spectacles while you sleeps
''Oh?' replied the other. II am so
near-sighted that without my glasses /
could see nothing whatever in my
dreams"
There is not waX-match factory In
the States. All those that are used are
imported from England. France. Italy.
An English company is the oldest
match fac,ory in the world. having
been started more than fifty years ago.
Now they make only ''wax ycstas, !"
and employ 240 hands Mt this alone.