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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23
NOT A CANDIDATE.
Gen. Washburn Takes the Wind Out
of a Boom that was Growing
Popular.
saturdays Minneapolis Tribune.l


reporter called upon Gen. WASH
burn yesterday at his Office for, the pur-
pose of learning his views as to the
"boom" started in his favor for the Chi
cago nomination by the Mankato FREE
PRESS. Being seated, the reporter
opened the ball by saying:
General, have you ANYTHING to say
through the Tribune in relation to being
a candidate for nomination before the
approaching Chicago convention?"
''Yes, / have this to say: I have not
been, am not now, and shall not be
candidate for any nomination before
the Chicago convention or any other
position in the gift of the people. In
the first place, the Republican candidate
on the presidential ticket should not, in
my judgment, be chosen from Minneso-
ia. The gentleman called upon to take
the laboring oar in the coming contest
should unite in his single personality all
the elements of strength possible. He
should be man of recognized ability,
sterling character, unassailable integrity,
and above all should have national
reputation. Secondly, he should be
resident of one of the moro centrally
located and older states, with strong
personal following, and special elements
of strength among the people who know
him best. Minnesota is in no sense
doubtful state. Her electoral vote will
be cast for Allison, Sherman or Gresham,
or Harrison, or Foraker, or Hawley, or
Depew, as readily and as certainly as it
would be for the most favored son of the
state-whoever he might be. Hence
the Republican party could gain no pos
sible advantage by nominating a Mime
sofa man, and therefore the Chicago
convention should not be subjected to
unnecessary complications by multi
plication of candidates. My only inter-
est in the coming campaign may be
up in two words-Republican
success. After four years of Democratic
maladministration it seems to me that
no sacrifice can be too great to secure a
return to power of the party of progress
and true reform. In arriving at this
'consummation devoutiy to be Wished
the personal aspirations of no man
should have any weight-victory at the
polls in November should be the first
thing sought after.
"Will you please say to my friends
throughout the state that their kind ex-
pressions of confidence in and esteem
for me personally have been very graft
fying. l had given but little thought to
the matter until within day or two,
when it has been made apparent that
the subject was attracting the serious at
tention OF a large number of people.
AS it seemed to be received in earnest
by many, it has suggested itself to me
that should make this statement"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

REPORTS from abroad show that old
Europe herself got n good sample of the
same blizzard that caused such conster-
nation in New York last week. After
they get out of the snow drifts the for
eigners may go to investigating the sub
ject, and not make such a mistake as a
Paris paper recently did in speaking of a
"disease called the blizzard" which was
raging in Dakota.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23
Electric BitterS.

This remedy is becoming so we'll
known and 80 popular as to need no
special mention. All who have
used Electric Bitters sing the same song
of praise. purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all that
is claimed, Electric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will
remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Reuhm and
other affections caused by impure blood.
will drive Malaria from the system
and prevent as well as cure all Malarial
fevers.-For cure of Headache, Constip-
alton and Indigestion try Electric Bit
ters-Entire satisfaction guaranteed, OF
money refunded.-Price so cts. and 81 .OO
per bottle at J. X. Jones' Drug Store.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

The horrible accident on the Atlantic
& Gulf railroad, near Savannah, in which
nineteen people were killed, was caused
by the old story of a worn out trestle,
weakened by washout. 1t is a great
wonder considering the poor equipment
of Southern railroads that more catas-
trophies of this nature do not occur.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

RED WING Republican: The Albert
Lea Standard SAYS it is probable Free
born county could not be sold today for
its mortgages and debts. The Faribault
Democrat has said the same thing of our
neighboring county, Rice. If the pur-
chaser of either county had to take the
slandering paper and editor in his bar
gain, he might be excused for refusing
to pay half the value of the rest.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23
THE New York San thought it,

THE New York Sun thought twas
soaring someone when it asserted that if
Mr.. Blaine was not the Republican can
didate. his friends would say who the
nominee should be. II was well an
swered by the Lstef Ocean, which says
the bulk of ting Republican party are
the friends qfrMr. Blaine. There is no
reason why they should not have their
say as TO who shall be the nominee"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

THE Santa Fe strike is ended as quietly
as it was commenced. 1t is doubtful if
anybody ever will know why that strike
was inaugurated. The men gave no rea-
son, and have gone back to their places
apparently without any concession from
the road. Perhaps the excuse that they
were "tired" is the best.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

II Gen. w. ID. Washburn would con-
sent to become a candidate for mavol of
Minneapolis, instead of president of the
United States. the Republicans would
stand some show of carrying the city
Minneapolis Star.
Didn't Cleveland get his boom from
serving as mayor
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

They are going to start II new Demo-
cratic daily at Chicago, to be called the
Globe. The people of that city want the
earth about as bad as any we know of.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

TnIRTY-FouR Michigan counties voted
in favor of prohibition Saturday. Sur
rounded as she is by so much water the
"dry" victory hasn't any terrors Tor the
Wnlverines
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

THE State Agricultural Society has
fixed The date tor the next fair, Septem-
Der 10 Ia Is inclusive.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

saved is not to be saved at all. Oh, my
brother, after having come so near to the
door of mercy, if you turn back, you will
never come at all. After you have heard of
the goodness of God, il you turn away and
die, it will not be because you did not have
good offer.
Gods spirit will not always strive
With hardened, self destroying man;
Ye who persist his love to grieve
May never hear his voice again.
May God Almighty this hour move upon
your soul and bring you back from the husks
OF the wilderness to the Fathers house, and
set you at the banquet, and 'put a ring ON
your hand.n
Sf'IEN - ~ IITI-iJ
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n. :. WUUU, Reporter.
G. w MEAD, Adjutant.

a w. 4. 4. L.. Parlors. W. &. T.. L. every
"a Tuesday Of each month at 3 p NJ Band
of Hope every Sunday N s p. m. Reading
Room open every evening until 10 o'clock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

No. Escape Smallpox with q Pest
House in broadway?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

RArrlSE CHURCH.-Rev. ". w. Whitney
~ Pastor. services every Sabbath at
1881 a IN. ana $3.50 y. IN. Young people :
Meeting ~ 200 y. m. sabbath school at 1890
N Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
Al 1880 y. m Covenant meeting on Thursday
evening before the first Sabbath in each
month.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

JOHNS tEfiSCOPALl CHURCH.
> Cor Warner aud Broad SITS Services
every sunday al iO:2O a. N. aud $50 M.
EVcning Prayer every Friday at $50 L. NJ.
Rev. 4. &. Hudson, Rector.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

OUR SAVIoR'S EVANGELICAL LUTH-
~ ERAN CHURCH, corner Pleasant and
Carroll str. Morning services begin at 10 80:
evening services at 1880. Sunday school meets
At y. IN. REV. A. q. II. OvvERN, Pastor.
NNELSH CALVANISTIC METHODIST
w church. Located ON State 81. Services
very SUNDAY 10 "a. IN, .. p m., p. IN A cord
iai invitation extended Ia all.
REV. J. &. JONES, Pastor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11

whereabouts. He had been gone so long
that he had lost all interest in the people
who used to know him, and when in the
summer a cousin of his wife had died.
leaving her tiny farm in another part
of the State, he had gone there, and in
the busy haying, harvesting and prepara-
tion for winter, had little time to think
of neighbors- less had he dreamed
that Jane lived behind the hill on the
other side of the woods.
So that boy was Joe's boy! His
name9 Joe, too, and she had never
thought whether he had name,-and
those mittens were Joe's socks2
No wonder poor Miss Jane was be-
wildered. But truth is stranger than
any fiction. Miss Jane still lives in the
tiny cottage under the hill. Dolly, too,
is as comfortable as ever in her warm,
cosey shed. THAT boy" don't know
where he lives. His father thinks he
lives at home, but he always has two
meals day at Aunt James, and when it
is cold or stormy or Aunt Jane doesn't
feel just right, he stays all night and
perhaps. all the week.
Aunt Jane says it always does her good
to hear that Hol.o!"-Youth's CON-
Danion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
Fable OF the Mauchurian Mirror.

The King of Manchuria had magic
looking glass, whereon whose looked
saw, not his own image, but that of the
King himself. A certain courtier who
had longenjoyed the Kings favor and
was thereby enriched beyond any other
subject of the realm, said to the King:
"Give me, pray, thy wonderful mir
TOR, so that when absent out OF thine
august presence I may yet do homage be-
fore thy visible shadow, prostrating my
self night and morning in the glory of
thy benign countenance, as which moth
ing has so divine splendor, oh MONDAY
Sun of the Universe!"
Pleased with the speech, the King
commanded that the mirror be con-
veyed to the courtier's pala"e; but after,
having gone thither without apprisal, he
found it in an apartment where was
naught but idle lumber. And the mir
ror was dimmed with dust and overlaced
with cobwebs. This so angered him that
he listed it hard, shattering the glass,
and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the
more by this mischance, he commanded
that the ungrateful courtier be thrown
into prison and on the morrow beheaded,
and that the glass be repaired and taken
back to his own palace; and this was
done. But when the King looked again
on the mirror he saw not his image as
before, but only the figure of crowned
ass-as the artifcers and all who had
looked upon it had before discerned but
feared to report. Taught wisdom and
charity, the King restored his courtier to
liberty, had the mirror set into the back
of the throne, and reigned many years
with justice and humility; and one day
when he fell asleep in death while on the
throne, the whole court saw in the mir
ror the luminous figure of an angel,
which remains to this day.-Detroit Fh'ee
Press.
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Expensive Sugared YiOIets.

As the listener stepped into his favor
ite confectioner's-a place where he
enjoys some acquaintance, and where a
certain degree of impertinent inquisitive.
ness might consequently be pardoned
him-he noticed in the showcase box
containing few curious looking objects,
the like of which he did not remember
to have seen before.
"What are those, please3" he asked.
"Those," said the confectioner, ''are
sugared violets."
'tSugared fddlesticks"
"No; sugared violets."
"Dear me! Can afford to buy few
of them"
"Possibly. They are imported from
England, and we sell them for 81 a
pound"
"Is that all2 Well, you may send me
up half a ton, please; and be sure and
have the men on the wagon take along
baskets to deliver them in"
The listener was inclined to treat that
matter as little joke on the part of the
confectioner, but he found that the
surared violcts were o reality and the
price actual. Upon closer inspection
one could see the violets nestled in its
coating of sugar. Dainty food for an
exquisite generation! Boston Tran
ScriDt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11

I do not need to explain. They had
reached that confidential state when.
after months of anxiety and doubts and
fears as to whether she loved him or not,
having found out that she was only too
willing. he felt like backing out.
"Well, you see am poor, dearest"
"Idon't care. It does not cost much
to keep wife,"
''No, I suppose not"
"Not when one loves, George"
''No, Isuppose not" :.
"Ah, you think l am extravgant.
am not. ISIS all we'll when pa pays, you
know. That's all right. But if were
your wife"
"Dearest."
eyes. 1 can be so economical. 1t
doesn't really cost any more to keep two
than one."
"Yes, suppose so; yes. But it de-
pends upon which one"
,'Oh, I can keep house"
"Yes, lest, but can IT.
81 can cook"
"My love- I would not wish you to do
any hard work. I would not wish you
to soil your dainty hands. Don't you
think, dear, we might live at the restau-
rant until-until-"
Until wheni"
"Untll braced myself to eat what
you cooked" -.
Even that did not help him. She said:
Gall right" and laughed, and the we'd
ding goes.-Sm Francisco Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
A japanese Eel Dinner.

We celebrated q recent anniversary
day by an eel dinner at famous eel
house, writes a correspondent of the
GloEe- Democrat, from Toxic, Japan.
While we were taking off our shoes at
the doorway we could look through a
latticed partition into the kitchen and
see the cook, with murderous looking
knife in hard, making choice of his
living victims that were looping them
selves into bow knots in tanks of fresh
water. If one wishes he is always privi-
legged to select his own eels from the
tanks at eel houses, although the first
one that could be caught ought certainly
to answer quite as well.
When we reached the larger upper
room square silk customs in lieu of chairs
were ranged around three sides of the
room. The fourth side was left open
for the passing of the pretty mattresses
to and fro and as stage for the per-
formances of the two doll-like gei-shas,
who sat demurely in an outer room
awaiting our arrival.
The feast began with soup or stew
of eels, the bottom of the bowl being
filled with a delicate white curd and
the flavor of the dish being as mild and
evasive as faxseed tea. Broiled eels,
skewered out fatty like a section of
founder and laid on top of steaming
rice, next tempted us, and inspired by
fierce appetites We did skilful and heroic
work with the chop sticks. The plain,
broiled bits are called white eels. After
them came black eels, or eels dipped in
soy before and during the broiling.
They acquire rich, brown tint and q
most piquant flavor by this treatment,
and the soy, or bean, with which the
Japanese always improve their fish and
birds, might be used in the same way in
other countries. japanese soy is the
foundation of Worcestershire sauce and
is much better before it is charged with
all the spices and cayenne that convert
it into the English condiment. One.
lette, lily bulbs, bamboo sprouts and
dishes of mysterious composition passed
in review before us, but all the appetites
had been broken on the dishes of white
eels and black eels, and we toyed with
the later courses. simply taking chop
stick practice with the shreds and Jumps
of which they were composed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
Great Feats $ of, Memory.

Idiots have been known whose memory
for names and words was so retentive.
that thew could repeat sermon ver-s
batim, and indicate where the preacher
blew his nose and coughed while deliy-
ering it.
is said to have known q hundred Ian
guages, declared that he never forgot q.
word he had once learned.
To friend who congratulated Ley
den on his remarkable memcsy he re-
piled that he often found it a source OF
great Inconvenience. On the friend ex-
Dressing surprise he exclaimed that hs
had often wished to recollect particu->
lar expression in something he had read,
but could not dc it until he had re-
peated the whole passage from the boz
ginning to the expression he desired -
recall. :. X
An English clergyman mentions man
who could remember the day OF tns
burial of every person who had died II
the parish during thirty-five years, and
could also repeat the name and age OF
each deceased person, and the names OF
the mourners at his funeral. But 50
weak was he Intellectually that ne could
not be trusted to feed himself
DR.. Moffat, the distinguished African
missionary, and the father.in-law of Dr..
Livingston, once preached long SER
mon to a crowd of negroes. Shortly
after he had finished he saw number OF
negroes gather about a simple minded
young savage. He went to them and
discovered that the savage was preach
ing his sermon over again. Not only
was he reproducing the precise words,
but initiating the manner and gestures
of the white preacher. Commercial I'D
nerti,er ' ... -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
Loathsome Sights In India.

The advanced school of Anglicized ma
tives is seeking to construct political
edifce of elective parliaments in India.
The leading Bombay newspaper draws
attention to two recent revolving Incl
dents as conclusively proving the I'M.
perious necessity for social reform and
enlightenment before it would be posi-
BILE to concede electoral privileges. In
the one case tenant farmer, IN the pres.
ence of the assembled villagers, amid the
singing OF songs and beating of drums,
deliberately gouged out the eyes of his
young wife, who was pinioned for the
purpose by the neighbors, because he had
been told by a demon that they would
be replaced by gold eyes. This supersti.
tion was shared by the whole village and
neighborhooi, including the police, who
alleged that the unfortunate woman had
perished by cholera. In the second
case, the scene was temple, midway be-
tween Chuddergaut and Secunderabad.
Three buffaloes were hacked and heWn
into pieces, which were strewn all over
the road, and the people in the imme-
diate vicinity of the lacerated animals
were dabbling and dancing about in their
blood, while others, holding the yet
bleeding legs and joints, were whirling
them round about their heads, and ges-
ticulating furiously. A fourth animal,
which was being cut up or wounded,
was still alive, and added his painful
bellowings to the horrible din. A little
further on some two or three men with
bodies naked and painted, held goat by
the legs, while from the still living and
quivering body they were tearing away
with their teeth mouthful by mouthful
the bleeding flesh, squirting and sprink-
ling it over the adjacent crowd. Other
goats and buffaloes were close at hand,
waiting their turn to supply the horrid
sacrifice. To complete these Baccha-
nalian rites, a crowd of women, apparr-
emily intoxicated with drugs. with hair
disheveled, wild in mien, and besmeared
in blood, performed kind of satanic
dance, accompanying each movement
with violent shrieks. The object OF all
these loathsome orgies, which were wit
messed and participated in by hundreds
of persons, was, we aie told, to appease
the Hindu goddess who holds in her
hand the scourge of smallpox.-London
Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
A Petrifled Tree.

A portion of petrified tree was dis
covered in solid sandstone rock quarry
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, the other day. The
tree is about the thickness of telegraph
pole, has well-de6ned bark and roots.
It was found while blasting, or i'm
medately after blast, fully sixty feet
below the top of the hill, and was in
solid rock. Over it is the earth forma-
tion, then species of shale, then lime
stone strata, followed by conglomera-
ton of stone, then some forty feet of
solid sandstone, near the bottom of
which is the petriGed tree.-Pittsburg
U,'spatch. .....
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
He Told the Truth.

Magistrate Ito new policeman)-"Did
you notice no suspicious characters about
the neighborhoodi"
New Policeman-"Sure, yer Honor, I
saw but one mon, an asked him wot he
was doin' there at that time O. night.
Sez he: I have no business here just
now, but expect to open jewelry store
in the vicinity later on At that I sez I:
81 wish you success, sor.'."
Magistrate (disgusted )-"Yes, and he
did open jewelry store in that vicinity
and stole seventeen watches"
New Policeman (after pause)-"Be-
CORA, yer Honor, the mon may have
been thafe, but he was no liar. ."-St.
Louis Critic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
The Doctor.

The doctor by our bed will stand,
With sober. thoughtful face,
And hold our wrist, with watch in hand
To diagnose the case.
And though he sees our tongue is brown
He gives us words of hope,
And says we must not be cast down,
The medicine cast up.
And what a paradox it is,
As everybody knows.
We're feeling good to have him come,
But better when he goes.
Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-11
Prize VerbOSity.

There were $50 competitors for the
prize offered by an English journal for
the longest twelve word telegram, and
the winner put the following, which
was accepted by the telegraph officers
for transmission for twelve cents, the
regular rate: administrator Generate
counter-revolutionary intercommunica-
tions uncircumstantiated. Quartermaster.
Generals disproportionableness charac'
teristically contra distinguished uncon.
stitutionalists' incomprehensibilities.
Detroit Free Press.