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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
He sat up in bed and REPEATED his calls
unavailingly.
He slipped out upon the floor and
staggered to the others side.

he sat up In bed and REPEATED his calls
unavailingly.
He slipped out upon the floor and
staggered to the others side.
The candles were wasting slowly
! through another night. The men had en-
changed places. Seymour sat wan and
| thoughtful in the arm chair; Janeway
lay stretched upon the bed. His face was
white and clammy moisture lay on his
brow. He breathed family and seemed
not to suffer much. When the night had
mostly worn away his eyes Enclosed and
looking up he recognized the other.
why are you here" he whispered. "Go
at once!"
Seymour hesitated
II will wait until you are better. II
you will tell me what to do"
go, go" The husky voice was one of
entreaty. "GO back to her; she must not
grove a day"
"But-"
$50 quickly There is something she
should know. She must not know you
saw me here; give your solemn promise
not to tell her that"
"Whys"
"YOur promise"
IF yOu wish 1t, yes"
when you and 1 met last, back in
America, five long years ago. was poor,
very poor, just struggling with the world,
you remember. After that-after you
and she" he gasped and breathed hard
Tor some moments, then began again.
AFTER you and she went away there was
some money left me. My will was made
long since. Half Is for her-for Amy; half
for you when you have married her
again, for suppose she is your wife"
Seymour had started up
mo, mol not that! Leave her what you
will, but don't-don't-I wronged you.
God knows you ought to curse me- You
you are not dying"
"Hush!" Janeway moved feebly "Only
CO. bear no malice If she be happy"
His voice failed for time. When It
came again he whispered that priest be
brought or sister.
Seymour looked about him in dazed
way. He strove to collect his thoughts.
He trenbled and gazed fearfully up at the
wall and ceiling as if they might fall
upon him.
He crept dizzily down the silent street
where day must break ere long AS yet
the sky was blue with the night I'M
pierced by any star. The air was thick
He crept along the narrow street as
rapidly rs possible. What little strength
he had was miraculous. At moments he
wondered if this was not dream.
He must find aid or return alone.
thin and greenish gray pierced the
eastern sky. When this had widened to
golden stream, rose tinged, he had
sought and found a meek faced sister.
They returned as quickly as his weak
ness would permit.
The room was still; the mornings earli-
est rose light trembled on the wall The
lifted curtain fiuttered in the window
frame.
Janeway was breathing family, his eyes
Enclosed and his gaze slowly sought the
countenance of the nun. His pinched
feature softened, a child's smile came
upon his lips. He lifted his head, as il
yearning toward some unseen face
"Amyp he cried, and fell back on the
pillow.
The rose light still tremb led on the
wall; the curtain fiuttered softly.
"In pace" said the nun, crossing herself
and kneeling
And Seymour, turning, staggered from
the room. Lily Curry in New York Mer-
curry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
MARIAR.

On fence by my dwelling a little tom cat
Sang Maria, Marian, Mariar,''
And said to him, Thomas H. why do you that
Singing 'Riar, Marian, Mariary
Is 1t just feline nature, Thomasy'' cried,
''Or are you all hungry and vacant insidef"
With switch of his body, the Thomas replied,
Marian, Marian, Marian
He howled and he whined in a desoate way,
''Mariar, Marian, Mariar,"
And all he appeared to be able to say
Was "Riar, Mariar Marian
He howled and he walled this singular cry,
With q sob i'm his throat and tear i'm his eye,
And started to see If a bootjack was nigh
Marian, Marian, Marian"
And that was the last time the Thomas cat cried
Marian, Marian, Mariar,''
For he dropped from the fence to the ground
where he died,
Singing ''Riar, Marian, Mariar;"
picked up a bootjack of seven pounds weight,
aimed at his head and threw very straight,
And all that he said though its strange to relate
Was "Riar, Mariar Marian"
st. Louis Whip.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
A CHALLENGE.

Goodnight" he said, and he held hel
hand
In hesitating way,
And hoped that her eyes would under.
stand
What his tongue refused to say.
He held her hand, and he murmured low;
"Pm sorry to 60 like this.
1t seems so frigidly cool, you know,
This Mister of ours, and MISS
II thought-perchance"-and he paused
to note
If she seemed inclined to frown,
But the light in her eyes his heartstrings
smote,
AS she blushingly looked down.
She spoke no word, but she picked q
speck
OF dust from his coat lapel;
So small, such wee, little, tiny fieck,
Twas a wonder she saw so well;
But it brought her face so very near,
In tnat dim, uncertain light,
That the thought, unspoken, was made
quite clear,
And I know twas sweet Good
night"
james Clarence Harvey
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
THE UMPIRE OF THE NINE.

An umpire of the league mines,
Lay dying at the plate,
And the CORY rocks about him
Told the story of his fate.
He had made a rank decision,
And the crowd, In frenzy deep,
Had shuflled off his mortal coil
BY rocking him to sleep.
The catcher stood beside him
As his life blood ebbed away,
And swung his bat with vigor
To keep the crowd at bay.
The dying umpire beckoned,
And the captain of the nine
Bent over him in sorrow,
For he feared another fine.
But the umpire's words came feebly
AS the crisis was at hand,
His dimmed eyes were soon to open
In a brighter, fairer land.
Then he whispered, low and sadly,
Call the game, it's getting dark;
Let it end on even innings,
So the last run do not mark.
II have finished watching bases;
/ am numbered with the slain,
And the cry of rats will never
Echo in my ears again.
'Place my hand upon the home plate;
Let me have my little mask;
Frame Il set of resolution:
This is all have to ask
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
Cranks I'm the PostaI Service.

The postal service produces not peculiar
terms, but peculiar men, correctly de-
nominated cranks. These are men who
have for years held positions that occu
pied almost their entire time so that they
rarely think of anything except the post
Office or postal service. remember one
railway postal clerk named Poole who
never hearl a name but he would imme-
diately try and locate postoffice Of the
same name. He was walking on
the street in Oshkosh with q
friend named Watkins when they met a
Mr.. Jessop whom Watkins knew Wat
kins introduced his Jessop to Poole, and
the latter, taking Jessop's hand, looked
thoughtful for moment and then muir
INJURED, "JessOp, JessOp. Obi yes, Jessop,
Buchanan county, Iowa. am glad to
meet you, Mr.. Jessop." We have any
number of such men to deal with, and II
sometimes requires good deal of tact to
get along with them. On postal subjects
they are all right but on all others they
are cranks.-Mat Harlow In Globe Demo
GRAFT
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
WORK OF THE PARODiSTs.
pat Bolivar" u Lineal Descendant OF
XaunU Inehfnvar

pat Bolivar" Lineal Descendant Of
Young IOchinvar.
Now Pat Bolivar's beat his way from the west,
OF all the rie-stralcrs his schemes were the best
To blk" a free passage-for cash he had none
On the lightning expresses or freight trains slow
run;
Most grmy he'd board and hang ON to each car,
y there ne'cr was tramp like Pat Bolivar!
He cared not for brakemen and lodged all their
stones,
As he crouched upon trucks which shook up his
bones;
But when he alighted at York City's gate,
His garments were tattered and cndered his pate;
Fer Il vag., betwiXt whales can't kim fran afar,
An LUX clane rs jude" quOth Pat Bolivar.
Sometimes laid out straight on the top Of coach,
lift av tin moes' in the night he would poach;
And again underneath the headlight in front
OF engine hed sit, till the cowcatcherd hunt
A bull Off the track with terrible jar
Yet still to the loco. stuck Pat Boli-vari
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
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, 1886-10-22
Art in Chicago.

Two gaudily attired ladies were observed
recently inspecting the colossal statue of
Schiller, of which Chicago is pardonably
proud.
"What n remarkably large man he must
have been," said one, craning her neck and
gazing up at the flowing locks and prominent
nose of the figure.
EYES," replied tho other, with the conde-
scending air Of one imparting knowledge,
THE Scotch are always large men-"-DetrOit
Free Press
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
Her Crown of Glory.

Gray and red are the cOarsest hair, black
less coarse than these, brown finer, and
flaxen finest. In Spain auburn hair, and
even red, is looked upon as great
beauty; so it has usually been in cOun
tries where dark compilations predomin-
ate. Witness the blue eyes and golden
tresses of the classical poets of antiquity,
and the yellow periwiGs which the Roman
ladies of the imperial times used to i'm
port from the banks of the Rhone and the
Danube
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22

All! many kick from the conductors he got;
And also big scaldings through hot water shot
From steamcocks, by flremen-when caught al
his tricks;
But, nevertheless, like thousand of bricks,'
Undaunted he journeyed from wild Omahar
Clear east as a deadhead, sly Pat Bolivar.
You bet he's arrived Oh, the autumn campaign
Will find him a-begging through Jersey again;
And while he's meand'ring around on ''Shanks
Mare"
He often will chuckle DER paying no fare
On that trip when he proved himself as the star
OF all railroad sneakers flip Pat Bolivar!
JEFF Joslyn" In Texas Siftings
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
Some Pretty Hard Pills

He went home a few nights ago and not
feeling well took what he supposed to be four
pills, and then slept the sleep of the just
When his wife awoke i'm the morning she
began search for four shoe buttons which
she intended to sew on baby's shoes before
the little one awokc. She could not find
them, and the husband joined in the search.
Finally he remembered where he had found
the pills and said:
"Good heavens! l swallowed them but
TONS "--Dctroit Advertiser
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
Descendants of Miles standish.

It may not be generally known that a
son of Capt. Miles Standish in course of
time married u daughter of Priscilla
Alden, from whom are said to be de-
scended many prominent men, including
two presidents OF the United States. -
Portland me. Transcript.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
AnnslnN the Rally.

A carpet trade PAPER tells story of per-
spring salesman who seemed to be unable to
suit lady after unroling miles of his stock.
When the lady remarked to her companion,
"Bal,y likes to see him roll them out, and its
not time To take the train yet" he gave it up.
Boston Transcript.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
A Bad Habit.

The habit of abbreviating everything one
writes is a bad one The Woburn Advertiser
tells of seeing a communication which spoke
of a lady appearing at the theatre in eve cos
tume-Lynn Item
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
The Other Fellow.

"The born poet" truly remarks Miss
Cleveland, "has no agony in his song" In
deed. no. 1t is the poor wretcn who lis
tens 70 his song who lies awake and means
Tor the chlorofOrm -Burdette.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
First Glass Wood Engravers.

CIrbJ SIaSB NOOu EnRrdver8s
OF tho fifteen Ut twenty nrst class wood
engravers in this country it may be said
that they have as much to do as they can
do, and are paid for it as much as ever.
Two hundred dollars for engraving full
page picture in one of the leading maya
zines is not an uncommon price, and some
engravers will do the work in fortnight,
and often in less time. Perhaps fifteen
engravers are now earning steadily 5000
apiece year, and thus are better of
financially than hundreds of American
painters. But scores of good engravers
who do not belong to the first rank have
been driven to the wall, the work that
they once did being done by process men
at lower rates. Some of them are earning
modest living in the service of the pro-
cess men; many of them are perplexed in
spirit. Much of the process work is very
beautiful, especially reproductions of
paintings from copper and gelatine plates,
and there never was time when the
painter in oils or water colors saw his
best efforts multiplied so faithfully and SO
extensively. w. Sheldon in New
York Star.
ColOrado's Peculiar Winds.
"Well no." said the Coloradan, 1--WE don't
it blows a few minutes there now and then.
The winds are peculiar, too; never saw any
thing like them anywhere else. They are
what you might call discriminating breezes
I've seen man go along the street, and it
would he blowing hurricane on one side Of
him; and on the other side it would be a dead
calm. I've seen a mule stand braced against
the wind blowing behind her, with her tail
blown right up straight, and one ear put
| away ahead of her nose, while the ear on the
other side would be In a natural, calm posi-
! ton, and that side of the beast would he
| sweating! 1t will take the skin off one side of
your face and not touch the other. l saw a
| man with whiskers get one side of his face
| shaved by wind like that, as clean as any
barber could do it. A small boy and a dog
| were walking up the street with him at the
time, and they each lost one ear. I've seen a
man lose one leg of his pants and coat tail,
and get his hat knocked all over on one side.
They don't do any particular damage, those
winds, but they are as peculiar as can be"'-
Descendant of s. w. in Salt Lake Tribune.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
The Wolf and the Peasant-A Fable.

A peasant who was on watch while his
flock of goats were feeding discovered wolf
providing about and fired upon him. The
wolf, who narrowly escaped being hit, adj
vanced in great Indignation and demanded:
"By what right do you fire upon me with
out having seen me commit some overt act 2"
any dear sir" replied the peasant as he
proceeded to reload his gun, "the best time to
fire at wolf is before he has killed your
goats"
MORAL.
Arrest your burglar before he burgles.-
Detroit Free Press
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22

A Terrible Warning.
It has been predicted that tight lacing will
In time produce q red nose.-Town Topics
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
A TWILIGHT Fantasy.

A woman stood at a garden gate
(Sing hey for the distant spreading sailD
Sing hey for the dog that hurried by
With kettle tied to his tail
Snug faced lad looked over the fence
(Sing hey where the birdlings sing and chirpD
"Why laughest, good mothers" Il laugh" said
she,
ITO see yon ecru purp."
smile then smiled the Snug .faced lad.
(Sing lack aday for the sunset redD
''Then laugh no more, good gossip, because
The kettle is your'n," he said.
CThe poetry after Browning; the man after the
dog; the woman after the boy.)-Chcago Ram
bier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
He Was From MINNEAPOLIS

''Have you heard of that interesting case
down east of a woman who was cured of
paralysis by the miraculous power of a relic
of ST. Paul!'
eyes, have; but I'm from Minneapolis,
and wouldn't touch relic of st. Paul with
q ten foot pole. Chicago Rambler
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22

rible than at first supposed Different parties
have commenced to write poetry about it
Oil City Blizzard.
Since the quakes there are some persons
who don't want the earth SO much as they
did Boston Transcript.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
Examples of Tenderness

Fogg-I really beg a thousand pardons I
fear l stepped on your dog Little Miss
Marigold-Oh, it doesn't matteri the dog
isn't mine; he belongs to the other little girl.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22

Opening of tho Bowling Season
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22

Estelle-And are you going to leave me 80
soon, Augustus! Augustus-My love,
would willingly give ten years of my life II
could stay longer. But If don't go shall
be fined for being late at a card party.-Chi-
cago Rambler
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22

"ELSH CALNANlSTIC METHODIST
church. Located un State 81 Services
every SUNDAY 1" Il. IN, :. .. M, y. IN \ cord
lal invitation extended Ia all.
REV. J. q. JONES, Pastor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25

Judge John w. Emerson, of Iront0n, was
in the city Monday on legal business. The
Judge is growing slightly gray, but seems
as vigorous as twenty years ago, when he oc-
cupied the circuit bench of district extend
ing from "St. Louis to Memphis" as was
popularity stated. In those days Judge En-
erson had to travel to all the southern cOun-
ties on horse back, task which was the
greatest of tasks, and the strain of which
finally broke down his health, and he was
compelled to resign, to the universal regret
of the people of his circuit. We have no
interest in the circuit in which Ironton Is
included, more than wishes for its progress,
but we feel constrained to suggest to the
people of that circuit that as Judge Elmer
son is getting old they can do no better than
to elect him as their next Judge. As a law
yer there are none to excel him in this Sec
ton. As jurist he ranks with the highest,
and as a gentleman he is agreeable to all i'm
such degree as to win the love of every man
with whom he comes in contact. He Is firm
in his convictions, knows the law well and
would make one of the best Circuit Judges
in the State. As an outsider we suggest his
name to our adjoining Judicial Circuit
Poplar Bluff Enquirer.
Thank you, Brother, for a well mer-
tied compliment to an honored citizen
of Iron county. The same suggestion
mas been made by hundreds of citizens
of this circuit, and is good one.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25
Fish! Fish!

am in constant receipt of letters from
citizens of the adjacent counties, on the sub
ject of ish-culture, and the construction o
fish ponds, and fish to supply them, and be-
ing DESTROYS of taking as much exercise for
my health, in the open air, the coming sea-
son, as can spare from my business, and
feeling deep interest in the subject, and
knowing how numerous the places are where
beautiful ponds and little lakelets can be
made, all through the counties in the South.
east, will personally visit any locality in
Iron, Reynolds, Madison, Washington, JEFF
fersOn and st. Francois, and examine, and
advise any person as to the location and con.
structiOn of ponds, and identifying their
grounds, at such times as may he able to
get away from business. The boys are espec-
tally interested i'm this matter. And to this
end invite all who have any suitable loca-
ton, i'm the counties above named-they be-
ing most convenient to me-to write ME,
stating the section, township and range, and
l shall make my plans TO visit and examine
sometime during the season. At any rate,
it will cost parties only a card or postage
stamp. Especially, would like to interest
the boys in this pleasant work of identifying
their homes, as we'll as profitable improve
ments. j. w. EMERSON.
Ironton, Mo-, Feb. 16, 1886.
(NeighbOring papers please cOpy.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25

nine need nothing more than Com
mon School course; and that under the
immediate oversight, and at the ex-
pense of their parents and guardians,
soifhout the unnatural internedd tingof
the State. As father always felt
children; and that neither State nor
church had right TO rob me of that
prerogative.
The boys and girls of "Old Bethel"
(that was the name ofour church) went
to school during the winter and work.
ed on the farm in the cropping season.
Having Sew slaves did not exonor-
ate the White members Of the family
from labor. During all my boyhood
my clothing was homespun; and my
sisters did the weaving. "And this
reminds me-" as Lincoln used to say
when he wanted to tell timely anec-
tlote: We raised cotton tor home use in
those days, and picked the seeds out
with our fingers. Every winters night
Except Sunday my mother would por-
ton out q "task" of cotton for each
child of the family. white and black
arrange the whole around a large blaz-
ing fire in her own room, then seat rs
in half circle, each one with his por-
ton before him; and the seed had to
come out of that cotton before any of
us slept. No, not exactly SO, for the
little darkey was then as he is now,
"a sleery-headed fellow" and to keep
them awake was part of the enter
tainment of the evening. Many lock
of cotton have ] held burning under
their noses to smoke them awake, and
to sneezing. Another part of the sport
was to slip part of my unpicked task
to some one elsa's pile. And I was
mean enough flor it was right down
naeanness) some times to go before
uight to where the picked cotton was
stored away and put some of it in my
bosom. SO that when we got seated to
our tasks" I would stealthily slip
some of the seed cotton in my bosom,
and at the same time draw out what
there concealed; and so I would beat
them all in cleaning up our task. If
any boy should read this, I want him
to know it is not written for Lis ex-
ample; but to encourage him. if he has
ever done mean thing, to repent of it
as l did; and do so no more: for "fool-
ishness is bound up in the hearts of
children" -Solom"n says SO. 49,"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25

If "old Grover" is willing to keep OH
trusting Garland, SO are we. Especial
ly is this so since the New York Sun
is giving them and Lamar Hail Col
umbia. Time was when we believed
Mr.. Dana sincere, though often inor-
dinately bitter. But that haliucina-
ton passed forever with his course in
1854 when he published the Rev. Cess
pool Balls sinking, nasty, Paddy
Fordian emanations. Alldecent Amer
leans then held their noses and babe n
hurried, long farewell to Gen. Tecum-
seh's tolerated spy"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25

The grand jury for the January term
of the Cape Girardeau county circuit
court is in the main fiattering to the
officials of the county; but they state
that the school fund in the last 20 years
has lost about $4,000, and that the
back-tax books show that the taxes on
personal property has not been coll
lected as closely as might be. They
say: We find the names of several
large taxpayers reported delinquent
for taxes which, i'm our opinion, could
have been collected. It is the duty of
every citizen to pay his taxes, rich or
poor"