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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
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Mixed Farmtn.

The following from the Little Rock
Rural has q wide application Those
who practice variety in their farming
operations realize that such IS the
most profitable method: 1--WE are
nearing the point in the older portions
OF the state, when change OF farming
methods may be regarded as an obso-
lutte necessity. What we need is q
diversity OF crops, more corn, oats,
wheat, rye and grass and less cotton,
and more cattle, sheep, hogs and farm
animals and better farming tools. It
has been said, and that truly, thatno
community that depends mainly up
on a single product OF the soil is per-
fectly safe from disaster, it's prospect
ty can not be continuous unless BY q
miracle Conditions will inevitably
arise, sooner or later, unfavorable to
it's existence, and those who depend
upon it are left IN time of need, with
out resources. History has shown
this to be true OF the potato in Ire
land, the grape in portions of France,
cotton and tobacco in the south, and
wheat in Kansas Each failure as it
occurred taught the lesson of diversi-
fed industries, in tie cultivation of
the soil, by which the people largely
profted. What is true Of other coun-
tries, it is fair to presume is equally
applicable to Arkansas and the entire
south.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
Sweet Corn.


Waldo f. Brown, in the Ind. Farmer,
remarks: ';If the farmer has rich
land, or plenty of manure, I doubt if
any other late crop can &c made so
valuable as sweet corn. Planted as
late as the 4th OF July, it, with me,
has never failed to reach the roasting
ear stage some weeks before frost, and
is then in it's prime for feeding to either
hogs or cattle. It will bear much
closer planting than field corn, has
more foliage, and majority of the
stocks will set two ears, and many Of
them mature two, and there is no
waste about it, but it is eaten-blade,
stock. husk, ear and all. It is OF
especial value to dairymen, and it
comes at a season when pastures, if
not short-as they are likely to he at
that season OF the year-are at least
less nutritious than earlier in tire
season. 1t is also excellent for giving
the hogs q start, and is an easy
transition from pasture to dry corn.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25

listed twice, but was rejected on account
OF his youth. Before attaining his major
ity he came to Milwaukee, entering law
: office there, and on becoming twenty -one
was admitted to the bar He then remov-
ed to Watertown, Wis, practicing law
there until 1867, when he removed to Al
bert Lea. His legal ability ranks among
the highest OF the state. He has served
!; five terms as county attorney Of Freedom
county, and is now president of the state
bar associa ton. A man of unquestioned
ability and integrity Mr. Lovely is consid-
cred one OF the ablest men in the state,
mot only as an attorney but rs a citizen.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01

boy employed about the place, noluIng
the bride. The door was slammed, and
that was the last | saw of Wilkes Booth.
l had recognized him when he first met
me in the p~assagc-way, for | knew him
well. Two other men in hot pursuit ran
over me where | lay, and ! did not get
up. so badly was | stunned and scared,
until the police came and took me away.
When Booth ran by the governor he
dashed his hand on the box, thinking it
vas open. He evidently meant to turn
out the gas. but rs | had closed it he did
not have time to open it, and went on
without effecting anything in that way.
Booth had evidently drawn Spangler,
who was a weak fellow, into his plot,
and his position ut the governor was a
~preconcerted arrangement.
''Well, l was finally taken before
Mayor Wallack and about twenty other
gentlemen and released after being
closely questioned. They examined me-,
and found that my clothing had been
cut clear to the skin, but | was unhurt,
except u small wound in my neck,
from which the blood trick...d down and
made it appear ut first that | was cut in
the abdomen. | stood trembling like
an aspen leaf while they Were removing
my clothing. and fully expected to be
told that / was cut i'm two"
MIR. Hugh COyle, the present manager
of the company, was commanding u
drum corps on the Maryland shore, and
saw the flying assassin, but did not
know who he was. Mr.. Coyle has just
joined the company from New York,
and met Mr.. Withers for the first time
in many years that night. The meeting
was a pleasant one, and the two vete-
rams spent several hours in r%ecoumting
"reminiscences connected with the ~assassi-
nation, and former associations.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
A Useful Dog.

Mr.. George Meade. of Kingston, Mass,
is the owner of II remarkably fine shep-
herd dog. Prince, as he is called, seems
really gifted with the power of compre-
hending- human speech, and his exploits
are noted with much interest by all who
know him. When asked how he is he
extends his paw. and then salutes the
inquirer by kissing him and laying his
head on his shoulder in Il caressing
manner. He seems to take special
pride in a leather collar, which he does
not always wear. but which is some
times hung on a nail in the fire place.
When asked where his collar is he
marches to the nail on which it is hung
and carries ii to some person, extending
his neck 10 have it put on. A short
time since his mistress while i'm an up
per room of the house expressed Il wish
for II button-fastener which was down
stairs. Prince Immediately started in
search of it. and returned with it with
out delay. He watches zealously for the
butchers cart. and taking his own pri-
vate basket from its nail he walks out to
| the road To ask for bones, which are
usually forthcoming. Among his other
accomplishments is that of waltZing,
when he makes himself into Il circle by
taking the end of his tail in his mouth;
but he has carried this sport To such
excess that he has badly worn this hair
from the end of his otherwise fine caudal
appcndage. He has numerous other
tricks which make him the wonder OF
the neighborhOod.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
Holding the Breath.

Deep breathing and holding the
breath is an item of importance. Per-
sons of weak vitality find an uninter-
rupted succession of deep and rapid res
pirations so distressing that they are
discouraged from ~persevering in the ex-
erciSe. Let such persons take into the
lungs as much air as they can at n
breath, and hold it as long as they can.
They will find a great sense of relief in
the whole abdominal region. Practice
will increase the ability to hold the
breath and the capacity of the lungs.
After a tine the art may be learned of
packing the lungs. This is done by
taking and holding the long breath and
then forcing more air down the traehea
by swallows of air. The operation may
be described by that of a fish's mouth in
water. To those who have never learn
ed it it will be surprising to what an ex-
tent the lungs may be packed. Caution
at first is needful, but later practice will
warrant large Use of the treatment.
The whole thoracic and abdominal cav
tiles will receive immediate benefit, and
continuance, with temperance in eating,
and good air and right exercise will
bring welcome improvement.-Heral
of Health.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01

worse, her much disliked cousin was
forever intimating that there was a GER
tain easy way.-the saying of a single
word,-tO cancel her indebtedness. The
useless dress,-a lifcless elephant on her
hands,-was forever reminding her of
her folly, and she was ut times so bur-
dened with care and anxiety owe the
matter as TO be almost untitled for her
work. She said she sang .'GlOry Hal
lelujah" with q will, and fairly began
to enjoy life when she joyously filed
away the precious receipt which set her
free from her hated thraldOm.
.'Mary Martins experience was equally
unhappy. Her mother failed to receive
expected remittances; unexpected debts
of her fathers had TO be met; m after
another the younger children We're
alarmingly i'll; the ~storekeeper was more
persistently clamorous for the payment
of the bill for the Grape dress, and for
nearly two years poor Mary suffered tor
lures of mOrtification,--not the least of
which was, that after trying in vain for
any other way Of escape, she felt obliged
TO tell Mr.. Mason, before they were mar
ried, who, i'm his Kindness. insisted on
paying it for her.
II do not know what penalty the
other girls may have suffered. except
that soon after commencement Clara
Norris's family moved away, and years
afterward it was said that the bill had
never been settled.
You will say that these girls were
foolish So they were. But would not
judicious school regulations upon the
subject, thOughtfulness upon the part of
some of the influential girls of the class,
or indeed a true sense in one and all, of
what was really becoming and appro-
pirate for school girls, have entirely pre-
vented such fO~Olishness? But | must
away. and leave you to settle the ques-
ton for yourselves. Aaf Uiederseheu,'
and the bright presence vanished.
None of our class ever bore a burden
of care and anxiety because of her grad
uating dress. Snowy lawn and delicate
ribbons were voted a great success, and
Miss Mortimer was declared a public
benefactor. For II few days before
Commencement she seemed wonderfully
bright; "A month later our graduating
dresses figured for the second time, at
her wedding, and the mystery was ex-
planned. The young English artist, to
whom she had for years been faithful,
had become famous. had succeeded to a
distant title and great estate, and re-
turning. ut once easily won the consent.
so long withheld, of the aristocratic Mr..
Mortimer.
We rejoiced over our dear teachers
happiness, and told Sir Richard. Merton
that we owed him a debt of gratitude
that he had not come for her any sooner.
At the thought of the long years of wait
ing, a shadow of pain fitted over his
face, but the sunshine of the glad reality
quickly dispellcd it. We were delighted
with him, doubly so when he invited us
all to Merton Hall, an invitation which
/, for one, am bound to accept some of
these days.-Caroline s. Morgan. ia
Journal of Education.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
Novel

White shavings sprinkled over with
gold are still to be seen in fireless CRATES,
though floral arrangements. screens,
and other devices are more general.
The shavings are not. however, as of
yore, confined to the fireplace itself, but
are spread lightly out to the confines of
the low fender. and fresh ferns, sprays
of ivy, or Virginia creeper are laid over
them, or a veil of gold tissue net is
thrown over the whole. Instead of the
fender, a box hidden by dropping ferns
and filled with pot plants OIL cut flowers
takes its place and remains there during
the summer months. An Indian shawl
draped gracefully over gold-colored
satin sheeting a be displayed to good
advantage on the back of a small piano
The satin sheeting is put on rather full
and edged with a strip of deep green OIL
green velvet, according to the dominant
shade of the shawl. about u quarter of a
yard in depth. This is put on to a..draw.
string, fixed nj each side of the piano,
and as high as required. Then take the
shawl, droop it deeply in the centre.
catch it up high with velvet bows, and
allow the ends to fall as low as possible
down the sides. Being of wide width,
a small quantity only of sheeting is re-
quired.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
What Causes the Desire for Stimu.
lauta?

immortality creates a wild passion for
stimulants of all kinds and stealthily
undermines the human structure. The
secret lives of many lost drunkards, if
known, would prove this statement.
There are no effects without aus
There are reasons for a wild, ungOvern-
able desire for stimulants. What are
these reasonsp One surely is that the
effect of drinking is to create a desire
for more drink. The worse the whisky
the greater the desire will be. But many
other causes exist which l will not UNI
dertake to enumerate, but which will
present themselves to one who under
stands the state of society all about us,
in large cities especially. / have arriv-
ed at this conclusion on one point, how
ever, that overwork produces q desire
for stimulants, and II people would only
keep in mind natures provisions to re-
store the waste Of the body and resort to
them, all would be well. But they 60
for whisky, when a fresh egg, a cup Of
beef tea. u glass of water, milk, coffee or
tea is the thing they need, or a bath, or
GOOD sleep.-BaYtot0 a. Ulrieh.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
One of the Pack.

I see how IL is: I'm one of the pack
A paltry p'aying-card; nothing more,
u shuttle and deal, then take me hack,
Or toss me to lie where | was before.
There are royal heads ut your mimic court,
hut they fare no better: they're In the same
fix;
For you vary the usual order Of sport,
You take what you please while you play
your tricks.
No doubt IL serves well us II source of fun
To match your lovers, this one against that
Though perhaps, when the evenings amuse
ment il done
And the pack nut aside, we seem rather fiat.
But suppose that by chance in the dead of the
night,
when You dream with disdain of our being
We should break your r"pose. rising up in our
might,
And declare to your face that our feelings
are hurty
For whatever you fancy. we each have n soul,
And the rules that apply here are oddly so
planned
That while we seem ben, To your fingers con-
troll,
And are played with, yet we too are taking a
hand.
Don't You see that Il sequence of hearts you
may break
while attempting one mean little trump-spot
Ia save,
Or succumh la an equally luckless mistake
And let Il king go for the sake of Il knave?
Does Toms diamond take You, or is it my
heart?
The deuce, after all. will perhaps end the
race:
Then, again, you may yield to young Algernon
Smart,
Or the one. eyed old bankers cyclopean ace.
The games To he I.ottery-so you said
Or Matrimonyy No: both, | declare.
Why, the next thing ! know you'll take to Old
Maid.
And leave me To Sorrow and Solitaire.
Cross purposes still! This never will do.
You've begun Ningt-et-un; I'm ut Thirty
one
Just ten years apart. All. l wish I knew
Some smoother way Ia make matters run!
You change the game like Il puntomine:
AM now it's Enchre, ! really believe,
For you're trying to cheat me half of the time
With II little jokcr"-a laugh In your sleeve.
Let MS end this nonsense. What do you sayp
Leave me ont and go on with the rest,
Or throw the whole heap of cards away,
And stake your all on u man as the best.
You can't manage love according To Hoylc,
And our effort 10 do So you surely would
rue.
BESIDES. what's the use of such intricate toil?-
You shall win all the games IL ] only win
you!
George Parsons Lathrop, in Harpcr's Maga-
zine.
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to establish n home for fisher boys n

to establish n home for fisher boys at
Yarmouth.
The Princess Mettcrnich is one of the
best shots with a gun i'm Europe.
The car of Russia has sent Minnie
Hauk the cross of the Russian order of
st. Anne.
The duchess of Edinburgh is fond of
hop-picking. and often goes out with
her children in the fields.
The fund of the countess of Dufferin
for the education of women i'm India is
being largely increased.
Mrs. W. W. Aston has Il portrait of the
queen Of Italy and several other SOU
venirs from the most august lady.
King Oscar of Sweden has. presented
Mime. Christine Nilsson with some beau
tiful diamonds.
AT the series of lat homes" lately
given by Lady Bray Brooke r~ecitations
by specially invited guests have been a
feature.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01

The most famous artist in Belgium,
who is without hands, paints with
his feet. He possesses great power and
nicely of touch with his toes.
One of the most clever instances of
disreputableness on record has been
recently developed at South Boston.
A man built two houses side by side,
one for himself and one to sell. In
the house sold he had placed u furnace
against the pariy-waIl Of tho cellar.
and from its hot-air chamber he had
constructed faes TO heat his W domi-
cile. The owner of the other house
found 1t very hard 10 keep his own
house warm. and was astoundcd at the
amount of coal il took TO render his
family comfortable, while the dishonest
builder kept himself warm at his
neighbours expense nearly a whole
winter before the trick Was discov-
] ered.-B0ston Courier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01

A Erenchman arrived in New York n
short time ago to study a new system of
education for the blind, and in one of
the blind schools saw a number of young
people of both sexes occupied in learn
ing to distinguish rapidly by the touch
coins of all Kinds under the direction of
a professor, who taught them to dis
eliminate between the good and the
bad. The curious investigator asked
for an explanation, and was informed
that this class was for the instruction
Of those who intended to adopt the pro-
tession 0f street beggars. !,
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Nntable Women.

A New York letter in the Hartford
Times says: ''Mme. Demorest would be
a marked figure in any company, from
the elegance and dignity of her personal
appearance. She is apparently As years
Of age, tall, with dark eyes and hair.
streaked with a few silver threads and
combed smoothly back from her face,
She wore a black silk dress, with front
of open embroidery lined with white
satin. Her dolman was of black bro
cade plush and her bonnet and hel
gloves of silver drab. With a strong
alert face, she is essentially womanl!y
and a~ffectionate in her bearing, and
touched my card-case caressingly as SHE
talked"
Miss Field, a daughter OF Cyrus W
Field, Is writing a story.
; The Baroness Burdett-C onfts Is about
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
Mr.. LoriIIard's New Park.

Work progresses rapidly on Mr.. Pierre
Lorillard's new park in Orange county.
New York. -Four hundred men are
working there now. and fifty teams are
employed. They are building up roads
and Strengthening up things preparatory
to erecting the clubhouse. This will be
built on the north side Of the lake, and
on a knoll twenty-five feet above the
water level. From the clubhouse there
will be a grand view. The park is a
mile and a half from Lorillard's station.
on the Erie road at which all trains will
be stopped. The Erie company is going
to build a fine new station and telegraph
office. and it is said that sixty cottages
will also be erected at the station. The
elevation of the park is Over seven hum
dred feet. The view to the north takes
in half of the beautiful Ramapo valley,
and on the south the Sterling mountain.
About eight years ago Mr.. Lorillard
stocked the lake with bass and pickerel,
and watchmen are said to have been
there since night and day. The lake is
two miles and a half long and a mile
and a quarter wide. The bass caught
in it weigh from three to six pounds.
The game on the property consists of
w~oodcOck. quail, cartridges and rabbits.
A handsome lodge is to be erected at the
entrance to the park, which will be sur
rounded by a siXteen-foOt iron fence.
The road to the park will curve SO as
to make the grade very light and will
be substantially built.-N. y. Herald. .
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
The WTIds or

The progress of civilization has sadly
reduced the Robin Hood romance of
the good old times when every wood
was a hunting-ground; but the Ruskin-
ties who go into mourning ut the CON-
pletion of every railroad might dry
their eyes in Texas. Culture. writes a
correspondent in the Southern BiUouac,
can progress under full steam for a
such Arcadias as the chapparal country
between the sources of the Colorado and
the mouth of the Rio Grande-the park
like uplands, where the children of a
million settlers would find as much play
room as a carload of kids in the blue
grass counties. Soldiers who have re-
visited the backgrounds of the wilder
ness may remember how strangely foot
trails lose themselves in the iunglelikc
pine thickets screening the road at every
turn and hiding the hunters dog from
the hunter, and in the same way the
lines of the international railroad
cross the wilderness of southern Texas.
Half a mile from the track one may find
sleepy hollows that seem never to have
been walked by the scream of the iron
horse; hill-pastures where the antelope
browses as quietly as on the highlands
of the Sierra Madre, even while the
rocks echo the thunder of a train rush
ing by on its way to the distant station.
And in the hills of the uplands there
are rocks that have never heard that
echo. Between San Basa and Fort
Davis, an area exceeding that of all
Tennessee, has never grieved the souls
of its teamsters by a railroad survey.
The northern part of this reservation
contains one of the few remaining buff
falo pastures on this side of the Rocky
mountains. A few miles northeast of
Fort Concho the old military road to
New Mexico crosses the mesquite plain,
and Transfers who travel that road in
winter time arc pretty sure to sight
buffalos. Not in herds; the bison le-
gions of the North American prairies
are vanished forever; but troops of ten
or twelve are still occasionally seen in
the upland valleys, especially after u
hard frost. In spring these survivors
of better times take refuge in the dreary
borderland on the Staked plains. where
they separate pairwise for the greater
security, and retreat further hillward ut
the least sign of danger.
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AMAZONS.

Perhaps the most interesting product
of the Balkan revolution so far, says
the Pail Mall Gazette, is the little band
of AmazOns which has its quarters at
Philippopolis. At present the new corps
has but a dozen members. The COM
mander is the dircctress of an orphan
asylum ut Philippopolis, by name Rama,
and the united ages of the waflike
twelve are said to reach the number Of
days in a year, a fact which unfortu.
nately takes some of the romance from
the novel movement. II has been said
that the weapons of the Bulgarian Anna
IONS are their age and a few cavalry
sabres. Their clothing consists of loose
hose fastened below the knee and q
short riding jacket, with a red girdle,
while a Bulgarian kalpak is worn as a
head-dress. The AmazOns carry out
their daring innovation even to stridine
their horses like dragons. The chic
of this singular band is the lady who in
| September rode rs Bulgaria with thu
| captive Gavril Pasha i'm an open wagon
through the streets of PhflippOpolis
flOurishing a naked sword above hel
head, and proclaiming the union OF
Roumelia and Bulgaria the while.
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protection against winds and storms. A
frame can be made of rails or saplings,
about which corn-stalks and straw can
be piled. A tight roof can be made of
thatch. The construction of roofs of
thatch is an art that has been sadly
neglected in this country, and it should
receive attention in all parts of the west.
Some of our foreign-born farmers prac-
ticed making roofs of thatch in their old
homes and they could be of great serv-
ice to their neighbors in teaching them
the art Chicago Times.