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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
PRESERVING FENCE-POsTs.

An English farmer writes: After all
that has been advanced in favor of other
compounds, il is very doubtful for ordi-
nary country work whether there is any
thing handler, cheaper, or more effective
and other wood il is desired to protect
from the effects of the weather. Much,
however. will depend on the way this is
used. To cover moist wood with this
substance, whether it proceeds from the
natural moisture or atmospheric damp
ness, is very bad policy. To insure any
thing like success in the matter of dura-
bility the wood to be operated upon
must be as dry as possible. This, of
course, is equally true of paint, but it is
of tar that we are now speaking. When
the woodwork to be coated is as dry as
can be, and the tar applied hot, there
need be little fear that il will fail in its
purpose. The chief difficulty lies in the
matter of posts at the surface of the soil.
Many plans have been tried to overcome
the decay which almost invariably sets
in here first. Even here tar is valuable;
but, according to experiments which
have been made to test the best method
VI applying it'H aPPears thai Tue liosC
satisfactory results have been obtained
when the wood is charred. As to the
way in which this charring should be
effected, there seems to be scope for in
genuity. One gentleman has tried the
plan OF first covering the extremities of
the posts, which are set in the soil, and
then burning the tar of again. This, it
is alleged, makes surface which will
resist decay. If this is so, the operation
is simple and is worth trying. The char
ring should be carried to some distance
above the ground level. and after the
fence is erected the whole of il above
ground can be coated TO make the APP
pearance uniform. The plan of first
heating the ends of the posts and then
dipping them in boiling tar is said to
answer we'll
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

other special advantage of the screw is
that the shoe. already tapped, may be
put on i'm anticipation of frosty weather
and slippery roads, corks being put into
the holes, and the shoes are worn until
the necessity of roughing arises. This
is often too sudden to enable the horse
owner to get the work done in conve-
nient time, to say nothing of the diff
Guilty of travelling the horse to the forge
in frosty weather. The common plan
requires the shoes to be taken off and
put OH again after each sharpening,
and when there is no depth of frozen
snow this has to be repeated every few
days. Nothing is more destructive to
the foot of the horse than frequent re-
mOval of the shoes. ShOeing is neces-
sary evil, which is increased by the
smith, who insists on pairing, rasping,
and trimming the foot to please the eye.
He takes away more horn than nature
produces before the operation of shoeing
is repeated. Thus the foot is weakened.
and the sensitive parts within are de-
prived of the protection nature places
there for that purpose. Many good,
firm, sound foot. with strong resisting
horn, has, under the manipulatiOns Of
the shoeing-smith, become weak, shelly,
and diseased.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
The Hero Of the Hour.

Yesterday afternoon Chinese tough,
who was evidently spelling for fight,
tackled white man who was engaged
in saving wood i'm front of the st. Louis
hotel. The Chinaman began to abuse
the woodsawyer for cncroaching ON
what had been considered the inalien.
able rights of the Chinese, but the man
went on with his work. merely telling
the Chinaman in rather forcible Ian.
guage to attend To his own business.
"YOu. heep smaht. Maybe you like
fight" exclaimed the Chinaman. whose
warm southern blood was now aroused
and, throwing off his blouse. he began
an attack by Kicking at the woodsawyer.
This was the end of offensive warfare
on his side. The sawyer dropped his
saw and went for the heather i'm q
style that even Dempsey would have adj
mred. He caught the Chinaman on
the eye with singing right-handel
which sent him full length into poo
of mud and completely closed the optic
The sawyer scorned 10 take advantage
of his foe, but allowed him TO rise and
then whipped him until his own mother
wouldn't know him. As might be cX
pected. the little episode attracted &
large crowd and the sawyer was the
hero of the hour. --P0fidad OrcgoRidn
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

plants flung heavy odors on the air, and
the little tables were loaded with books
ahd work. mute evidence of feminine
presence. while by the farthest window
sat Il beautiful woman, dressed i'm white
cashmere with her hair coiled simply al
the back of her neck, and fastened by
Il pearl comb-Blancae Silingsby once,
now the wife of Col. Eustace Arden.
For our Blanche had drawn Il prize in
the lottery of life, and had married the
richest man in the rich city of C.
Two beautiful little boys were playing
ut her side with small dog. who rolled
and parked in IN ecstacy of canine en-
joyment over the carpet, and altogether
it was rs beautiful n picture of domes.
tic enjoyment rs one could wish TO see.
AS Mrs. Arden bent over to watch the
gambols Of her lovely children, SER
want came into the room.
"A young person is downstairs,
ma am, who has heard that Col. Arden
wanted u nursery gOverness for his little
sons, and would like to apply for the
situation said Hartley, who, having
lived with the Ardens for twenty years,
justly esteemed himself rs zone of the
family"
ASK her TO come at once" said Mrs.
Arden. Don't 90, Mary dear" to her
step-daughter. ii shall want your
judgment rs well us my own"
And while she was yet speaking the
applicant for the position was shown in
IA pale woman i'm black
She paused suddenly us her eyes fell
on Mrs. Arden's full blossomed beauty.
Can it be possible?' she faltered.
blanche Silingsby."
And i'm the same instant the recogni-
ton became mutual"
''Georgina Pelham
Miss Pelham blushcd vivid scarlet
Mrs. Arden half smiled and bit her lips
for both remembered in the one sec
ond how they had parted.
But Mrs. Arden was far too generous
To remind her old associate of what she
evidently remembered but too well.
Il shall be delighted TO have you rs a
goyerness to my boys she said, cor
daily, after few questions had been
asked and answered. 1T will seem
like old times. Georgina, to have you
with me once again"
Georgina burst into tears.
Il don't deserve that you should be
SO generous. Blanche" she said, latter
the naughty insolence showed YOU"
Let the past he forgotten" said Mrs.
Arden, gently.
And that was the last allusiOn that
was ever made to the day when they
parted on Broadway ten years ago.
The crucibles of affliction which had
taught Georgina Pelham the folly of
her own false views had purified her
nature also, and Blanche Arden was
aypn Up1
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
Active, Pushing and Reliable.

J. r. Jones can always be relied upon
to carry in stock the purest and best
goods, and sustain the reputation of be-
ing active, pushing and reliable, by rec
ommending articles with well established
merit and such as are popular. Having
the agency for the celebrated DIR. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, colds
and coughs, will sell it on positive
guarantee. 1t will surely cure any and
every affection of throat, lungs, or
chest, and in order to prove our claim,
We ask you to call and get Trial Bottle
Free.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
CONCERNING SHOES FOR HORSES.

DIR. r. Cartlelge. of the Royal Veteri-
nary college. England. writes to the
Standard, of London: Will you kindly
allow me space at this season to call at
tention to what in London is called
roughing, and we call sharpening, the
shoes of horses, to enable them to travel
i'm frosty weather? The ordinary meth
cd of sharpening consists in thinning
the heels of the shoes and turning this
portion downwards. SO as 10 form
claw, which pcnctrates the ice or snow.
The question is often put, Is this the
best plan? An experience of some years
has taught me that the screw is the most
convenient, the safest, and in the end
the least costly. and can only wonder
that where the method is known it has
not been more generally adopted. The
method simply consists in tapping the
heels of the shoes before they are put on,
and inserting steel screw, with q
wedge projecting about half an inch.
The screws can be renewed by a groom
as often as is necessary. withOut-as
has to be done by the ordinary rough
ing-the removal of the shoe. Once In.
the screw-heel shoe viii see the animal
through a somewhat lengthy frosa An
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

A Red Canon, Cal. prospector gather
ed rabbit meat enough during storm
to do him till June. He cut down LOT
of trees, painted the ends black, and the
rabbits butted their brains ont trying to
jump into what they took for holes. lie
got l40 the first night.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

Sanitation is needed in Japan. Ac-
cording to the transactions of its Society
of Medical Science, one of its cities
containing population of l.25O, 600
reports death rate of Sc per 1000. -
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

ITO my boys. Jesse and Charlie, y
wrote james A. Beall. the New York
cotton broker who killed himself ut AL
bany, Ga, the other day. 81 say, emu
late my virtues, which are few, ana
shun my vices, which are many"
The bandmaster of the United States
flagship Lancaster died of yellow-fever
recently at Rio de Janeiro. When the
Lancaster was ordered to South America
he tried to get his discharge, saying that
it had been revealed to him that If he
went there he would die of yellow-fever.
Failing to get his discharge he made NIL
preparations for death. The Lancaster
had been in the harbor of Rio only a
short time when he was taken sick, and
being sent to hospital on shore died
there. So far rs was known there was
no yellow fever i'm Rio at the time and
the only other case on the Lancaster was
that of one of the members OF the band
who kissed the bandmaster as he was
being taken ashore. He, too, died from
the disease.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

Colorado has sixty-seven dividend
paying mining companies.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
WHEN HARMFUL.

Newspaper influence is limited. The
daily is read on the wing. Only bril-
liant sentences, startling facts in some
new field, Or routine matters OF business
value, are read by busy men, The
reading of the newspaper Is one OF the
arts of the day. A man rarely reads a
word he does not care for. and never
misses word he wants. The man Of
affairs runs his eye over an article on
the schools, but never reads it unless it
makes definite specification OF virtues
or vices. A vague criticism. surly snarl,
glittering generalities are not read; but,
when the daily presents a "bill OF par
ticulars" arraigning the schools, the
programme of study, the methods OF
discipline or instruction. 1t will DC ex-
tensively and thoughtfully read. The
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
EDUCATIONAL.
Some Pertinent Hints ON school Manage
ment-Newspaper Criticisms and
their Influence.
A Little Fable OH Fault Finding and It's
ApplicatiOn-Current Public
Opinion.

The tendency of young teachers is to
give almost entire attention to those
children who are naturally bright and
attentive, passing over those who seem
dreamy or uninteresting, hoping that
they will come around all right in the
course of time. Such hope is vain.
Unless efforts are made to cultivate
habits of attention in all from the first,
the teacher finds, at the end of month
or two, perhaps one-half her school far
in advance of the others What shall
she dop She cannot begin over again,
on account of the bright ones; she can
not 60 on allowing the others to fall still
further behind Thus the inexperienced
teacher finds herself in deep water and
altogether discouraged.
The old maxim, Haste makes waste, "
is eminently true in low-grade work.
| BY teaching slowly do not mean that
a teacher is to weary her pupils day
after day with the same old lesson until
every child knows it. That would be
worse than useless. An ingenious
teacher is constantly inventing new
methods for presenting old subjects.
After the traditional ''cat OH Il mat" has
done service, Danish him. There are
numerous pictures of eats with balls,
cats and rats, cats with milk, etc, TO
interest children and hold their attcn-
ton until the form of the word is firmly
fixed in their minds.
A mistake frequently is in dwelling
too long at time upon subject when
it might better be given in several
shorter lessons. Little folks fresh from
the nursery are not used TO keeping at
one thing very long. They soon tire if
compelled to sit in one position any
length of time. The natural activity of
childhood should be kept in mind. and
simple gymnastic exercises frequently
given during lessons. Five minutes of
rapid, energetic work is worth more to a
child than whole day spent in a lazy.
bungling, half-attentive manner. In
schools where long lessons are given,
even though well planned. il is impos-
sible to hold the attention of the class.
Children will get restless and out of
order, and the teacher is likely to be-
come worried and impatient, making
everything dismal failure.
Sacchini says, obstruction will al
ways be best when il is pleasant"
THAT which enters into willing ears,
the mind, as il were, runs TO welcome,
seizes with avidity, carefully slows
away, and faithfully preserves. Little
folks are quick to appreciate teacher
who has the faculty of making things
run smoothly. There is a pleasure in
being held to work gently but firmly.
The children like to feel. when school
is over, that they deserve their play;
they hasten home with light hearts, and
with great respect for themselves. the
school, and its teacher.-E. M. Pitts,
Washington Cd. CO. Normal School
| WHEN HARMFUL.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
FINDING FAULT.

The queries often arise. Why some
people find so many things in theil
neighbOrs TO find fault over? Why the
schoolmaster should shoot arrows ut his
brother? Why the educational editor
finds lots of fun in side-thrusis ut his
brother of the scissors or the quill, and
when once at it, how profitable it seems
to continue the noble and elevatine
sport? The Adcance has little fable
with big moral, which we commend
to thistle cultivators:
Reminds lie o. my Uncle Rodack, says
he. After he give up preIchin' n went tel
farmin', he carried Ills theological idees
right inter his business. They was a little
patch o. Canady thiSties in one corner of
his farm, N Uncle ROdark he hated them
thistles awful, cause they reminded him q
the clss, yer see. lie hated IN so bad thai
he moved 'em down, arter they'd gone Ia
seed, an then he TOXIN kicked 'em all
over his farm, till they was jest knocked
inter stringS'n flinders. The next year they
want square yard o. that farm that hadn't
thiStles onto II. Uncle ROdack said he
never had no idee what an awful thing the
cuss was. That was twenty-three yeer ago
II he's ben fghtin' them ar thiStles ever
sense. n he ha'I't got quarter on 'em out
yit He don't kick 'cm no more, though.
'Lezer,' says he ter me, never kick thistles
round. 1t don't pay says he. Kicks il
jest what this.les thrivts on. The longer
We kick 'em the more ther is of 'em,' says
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

only reply of any value is an equally
clear statement of facts. which, without
sophistical arrangement or strained in
depreciation, disprove the criticism. If,
on examination of the facts, there is
reasonable ground upon which to found
the criticism, it should be cordially adj
mitted and the wrong righted. The
teacher has too much at stake to appear
sensitive to any censure, however keen,
if, by accepting the implied advice, inn
prOvement would follow. No one has
so great interest as the teacher in seeing
and remedying defects in school man
agement. --.IONrRai Of Education.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26

- sunday services in Congregational church
Rev. III. \. Bushnell, pastor, lOi3 O'Clock a.
NJ. and ~ 4. NJ. sunday school ut IL O'clock.
weekly prayer meeting on Thursday evening
Al "a o'clock. Allarc invited To attend.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
MANKATo FREE Press.

4 NESTENARY METHODIST CHURCH
~ Services Sunday morning 1880 evenings
AT $50, Prayer meetings AT {: $50 Thursday
evening. Glass meetings Sabbath noon and
evening and Tuesday evening, at class rooms.
seats free. Strangers cordially invited.
j. 4. OGLE, Pastor.
al5, Fourth Street South.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
nRESHyrERI,N CuURcU.

Corner Hickory and Broad streets, Rev.
Il. 4. Pollock pastor. Services Sunday MORN
ings AT 1880, evenings AT 1880. Prayer meet
ng at 5:3a Thursday evening. Seats free.
Strangers cordially invited.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
ASr. johns ,ErIsCopAL CHURCH

~ Cor Warner and Broad SITS. Services
every sunday nj la:20 \. NJ. and 30 Z NJ.
Evening Prayer every Friday al 30 =. NJ.
Rev. Il. &. Hudson, Rector.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-03-26

A striking instance of the greed of corpo-
rations is seen in the manipulation of the
bill before the Legislature in the interest of
the over-worked street car conductors and
drivers. The bill provides that twelve hours
shall constitute legal days work. The
street.car companies, seeing that popular
opinion would compel them to yield to the
just demands of their employees, took advan.
tage of the opportunity to cndeavor to extort
from the Legislature, in the guise of an
amendment to the bill, the abolition of the
tax they pay to the city for the valuable
rights-of-way granted to them. This tax is
set apart by the city to pay the interest on
the bonded debt contracted for the purchase
of Druid Hill Park, and every cent of abatc.
ment from the car companies will have to be
made up by an increased tax upon the people
of Baltimore. When the books for subscrip-
ton to the capital stock of Citizens Passen-
ger Railway Company were opened, years
ago, the stock was gobbed up by q few per-
sons before the public generally had chance
w oopoSiioS, tuC CudIIGT TC-
quired the payment of one-fifth ofthe receipts
TO the city. By subsequent legislation the
companies were relieved of large part of
this tax, which is now 8 instead of 20 per
cent. Public opinion now demands that they
shall do justice to their employees, but instead
of complying willingly, they ask for compen-
sation in the way of the abolition of the tax
which they pay for the valuable rights grant
ed to them. The position of the street car
companies is very much like that of the
burglar who robs your house and then offers
to surrender for consideration the plumber
he can no longer safely keep. Their insatia-
BILE demands should be resisted since grant
ing them would not benefit the men who toll
night and day on the cars, like galley slaves
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-03-26
Focal Attairs.

LITTLE LOCALS
1t is expected that the susquehanna and
Tidewater Canal will be re-opened for business
on the Sd of April.
MIR. s. g. Boyd, formerly OF the Maryland
Central Railroad, intends to open normal
School in York, Pa, on the 9Th ofApril.
MIR John D. Wilson, of Forest Hill, has
been appointed agent for the sale of Carib
Guano, the advertisement of which is in this
weeks AgiS.
The Champion steel mower, presented by
the Champion Machine Company to the ladies
interested in the Masonic Fair has been receiv-
ed and is now in Bel Air.
The ladies of Bethel Presbyterian Church
will hold an oyster supper in the X. of p. Hall,
Jarrettsyille, on Thursday and Friday even lngs
of this week. Proceeds to aid in furnishing the
parsonage.
Daniel McClenahan, brother of John D.
McClenahan, of Port Deposit was found dead
in his bed at the Howard House, Elkton, last
Friday morning. No inquest was held, the
authorities being satisfied that his death was
from natural causes.
1t is stated that there is scarlet fever among
the pupils of the colored public school on the
Mountain, The mothers of these children work
in the families Of the neighborhood, and conse-
quently there is a fear that the disease may
spread through the neighborhood. The school
ought to be closed.
The rowsontown Union has received infor-
nation of the sudden death of Rev. X. X. Mason,
rector of Emmanuel p. L. Church, Glencoe,
Baltimore county, which occurred in South
Carolina, on the 10Th instant. Mr.. and Mrs
Mason went South, about Christmas last, for the
benefit of Mr.. Mason's health. He was nearly
GO years of age and leaves no children. He was
much beloved by his parlshioners.
On Monday last Mr.. G. W. Maslin was ap.
pointed traffic agent aud assistant to the Recev-
ers of the Maryland Central railroad, and the
positions Of general passenger agent and gen
eral freight agent were abolished. The latter
were held by Chas. a. Roe and E. Free Bond, re-
of the company. Mr.. Masln, whose head quar-
tiers will be at Boundary avenue station, has here
tofore been private secretary to MIR. Samuel
Spencer To~Sonto'cn Union.
=----
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT. AT the annual
meeting of the Maryland Sunday School Union,
Mr.. o. g. Michael, of Aberdeen, was elected Vice
President for Hartford county. Mr.. Michael is
devored TO the Sunday School cause and his zeal,
popularity and efficiency make his selection
most suitable,