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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

1t was thought that II the coy clea-
lures could be gotten inside the cours-
ing, they could be driven into pens at
the other end without trouble. An eff
fort was made to drive them into the
track, but they proved obdurate as
ever, and only few could be handled
in that way. The way finally adopted
as most successful was to set little
covered pitfall, with a tip-up top, on
the outer edge of the track fence. The
rabbits have habit of running along
fence, and it was found that they
made a sort of path along both sides of
the course. In this the tip-tops were
set. A hare steps on the lid OF the trap,
and down he goes. He finds he can
get out all right on the inside of the
fence. and SO out he climbs. When a
number are found in the enclosure
they are driven into pens at the end of
the track. BY using trail of corn
and other food the capture is expedited.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
THE BEAUTY OF THE MATRON.
At What Age Does Woman Reach Her
Full SpIendor.

The notion still held by certain
shallow women that maturity is ugli-
ness is one of the most incomprehensi-
bic pieces of nonsense of the time.
Here is fair muddler in one of our
contemporaries plimenting Nine.
Albani on having overcome her matron-
illness and on the renewed girlishness
Of her appearance. From this should
Judge that women who live on public
exhibition fear nothing so much as de-
velopment. If they can only stay all
their lives in a lisping and glutinous
sweetness and not grow, they are salts
fed. To get on in appearance. or in
character, or in strength is a calamity.
In this extraordinary view of things a
green coddling is better than ripe
pippin. Women who exhibit them
selves have only one standard of merit
and that is youth. Poor creatures.
they do not know that the pretty girl
ought to become the handsome woman,
and never reaches her full splendor
until she is matron. They cannot
comprehend the fact that fixed beauty
has no existence except in death, and
even then only when the embalmer has
put in his work. The law of beauty in
life is the law of development and at
tainment, and the beauty of matron
and the beauty of miss differ from
each other as one star differs from an
other in glory-and, curiously enough,
the older the star the more beautiful it
becomes.
Women who think of nothing but
how they shall stay young, are women
of characterless minds. All things con-
sidered, the greatest woman is she who
can grow old gloriously, and defy time
with something better than enamel.
But your woman who is professionally
on exhibition has got to bring to the
market what the public most desires.
And it is patent fact that the
mob would rather look at the pastry.
ness of youth than at the perfection OF
personality. 1t is this popular instinct
that makes exhibiting women starye
themselves, enamel themselves. prison
themselves, restrict their functions,
suppress their minds, and cruelty their
bodies.-N. Y. TRUTH.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
Why He Didn't Stay Out West.

A young man who went West, "
filed with enthusiasm and desire to
grow up with the country" surprised
his friends by returning home after an
absence of several weeks. He said
that while he was out land hunting in
what he thought was the garden spot
of America he came across boarded
up claim shanty. On the boards nailed
across the door he found this inscrip.
ton. Fore miles from a maybe Six
teen miles from postotis. Twenty
five miles from a raleroad. A hundred
and atey from timber. Two hundred
and fifty feet from water. There's no
place like home. We've gone East to
spend the winter with my wife's folks"
N. I. Ledqer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
Where Every Woman Smokes.

Everybody smokes in Japan. The
pipes hold little wad of fine-cut tobac-
co as big as a pea. 1t is fired, and the
smoker takes one long Whit. blowing
the smoke in a cloud from his mouth
and nose. The ladies have pipes with
longer stems than the men, and if one
of them wishes to show gentleman a
special mark of favor she lights her
pipe, takes half Whit hands it to him
and lets him finish out the whiff.-
August0 (Ga,) Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
Lemon Soap and. Orange Backing

Lemons are used for soap in many
countries where they grow. When, fol-
instance. the men and women of the
West Indies want to wash their hands
they squeeze the juice of a lemon over
them and rub them briskly in water
until they are clean. There is an acid
in the lemon similar to that used in
soap. And in countries where oranges
grow in great plenty country gentle
tlemen use the cheapest kind for black
ing their boots. The orange is cut in
two and the juicy side of one half is
rubbed on the SCOT of an iron pot and
then on the boot. Then the boot is
rubbed with soft brush and a bright
polish at once appears. = Popular
Science.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

In Victoria, B. c., no mason or stone.
cutter will work on building where
Chinese help is employed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

A new crematory is to be built in
Paris which will do its work in less
than an hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

Nobody wants an ocean bed Or the
rheum. rlstOn Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28


IMP" Il can't live on her income, much
less support her. "-Epoch.
Temperance Lecturer-When YOU see
an Old hat or coat stuffed in II broken
window it means whisky. 1t means
gin!-Qnterruption from the audence)
Or sham pane.-N Y. Tribune.
De Kique (whose opinion isn't worth
much anyhow says that one of the few
things that make it desirable to be a
woman is her acknowledged right to
take a mean AUTOMATICALLY Washington
Post
Near-Sighted Policeman gazing
from afar at two clothing dunn mies)-
..Well, those fellows do have a soft
thing of it. Nothin' to do but to
stand there all day and sleep."-N. T.
Herald.
Pa, what does the word iracund
mean?" We'll, my boy, when YOU
don't behave yourself and you see me
going for you with a stick, you may
make up your mind that l am iracund
See?" The boy saw; he had been there.
Landlady (to actor)-''And you are
going to leave me?" Yes, / only
meant to stay until l perfected myself
in the part [ am going to play this
evening" ''What part is that, pray?"
''The lean and hungry Cassius. ~
Life.
Il have observed, remarked mean
old bachelor, trying to be funny, that
when one has fortune and adds Miss to
it he has misfortune thereafter" Then
you ought to marry a widow" re-
sponded a lady in black and the funny
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28


white as Stacked line, yet he still re-
tains buoyant flow of animal spirits,
and his handwriting is anything but
shaky. He still affects receptions with
a vengeance and personally conducts a
yoluminous correspondence. He is
justly proud of his thirteen "children, "
who range in years from to 45, He
is himself So.
Alphonse Daudet, whom Henry James
and other critics consider the greatest
living author. is still young man. He
has not yet reached his 5Oth year. He
went to Paris in 1857 without money or
friends. His success is of his own
making. Personally he is delightful
man, genial onversationalist, and an
entertaining host. His family consists
of a clever wife, two sons, and a daugh-
ter. His eldest son is 81 years of age.
Daudet dedicated his ''Sappho' to his
two sons, to be read when they reached
their majority.
| Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is a
/ nervous, eXcitable man, with hands
which are long and lank and brown.
as is the ribbed sea land These he is
always nervous1y washing with invisi-
BILE soap. He is most lavish enter
tainer, if not exactly model host, and
he has spent not small but large
| fortune in dinners and other enter
tainments since he went to Sophia He
is profuse with his gifts to all III or
about the court, and many an embar-
raised officer has been relieved of bur-
uensome debts by the kind arted
| Prince.
President Henry Rice of the United
Hebrew Charities of New York an
nounces that Baron Hirschs great gift
TO the Hebrews in this country is COM
ing at the rate of SIC, 900 month, and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Commissioner Mason Submits the Annual
Report u. Il IS Bureau.

Commis sioner Mason submits the Annual
Report Of His Bureau.
WASHINGTON. Nov. G.-Commissioner
John w. Mason Of the internal revenue
bureau in his report of the operations of
his office for the past year, says that the
receipts for internal revenue amounted
to $l42, 594 ,6S6. He estimates the re-
ceipts for the current fiscal year at
$145, 100000. In this estimate reduc-
ton of 81, 900, 900 in tobacco receipts and
$S1, 000, 900 in special tax receipts is al
lowed. The principal sources of receipts
on account of internal revenue are:
Spirits, $16,S70, 900, which was an in
crease of 81, 900, 900; tobacco, $33, 600, 900,
an increase of $2,000,000; fermented
liquors, $26,000,000, an increase of
81, $500 The tax on oleomargarine
manufactures decreased 100000. The
total increase from internal revenue
over the fiscal year lS89-90 was 81, 7OO,-
600; SO far during the current fiscal
year the receipts from all sources show
an increase in internal revenue over the
first three months of last year of So, 000,-
600. The cost of the internal revenue
service is stated at $4,095, 900, or 2.2S
per cent of the amount collected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
ELET US HAVE THE FIGURES.

Now that the matter of revision of the
the city charter is up for consideration,
and special committees from the Council
and Board of Trade have been selected
to perform the revision, it would be IN
teresting to the public to be shown
wherein the Board of Public Works say
ed the city, on street work alone, five or
six thousand dollars last year. This
statement is made by Mr.. s. F, Barney,
who is usually guarded against giving
out figures that cannot be verified. If
it be fact that this large sum of money
was saved upon street work alone, or
upon any or all public improvements
last year, it ID only due the Board that
such fact be made public and the par
ticulars produced wherein the saving
was made. The large majority of the
taxpayers of the city have somehow
got it into their minds that the Board of
Public Works is sort of Ornamental
annex to the mayor to be used for poll
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
LIST pub. Nov. % '9O-last pub. Jan. 2, 81.
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

WHEREAS, default has been made in the
w conditions of certain mortgage executed
an delivered by August Wojahn and Ernestina
WOJahn his wife, mOrtgagOrS, to the American
investment Company, mortgage, dated the 31st
day of August, A. ID. 1887, and recorded in the
office OF the Register of Deeds of the county of
BlueEarth in the State of Minnesota, on the
31st day OF August, A. d. 1887 at lis O'Clock
p. m. in book % of Mortgages, on page 1O7, on
which there is claimed to be due, and is due at
the date of this notice, the amount of thirty-six
and $1,000 (S36.5O) dollars, and no action or
proceeding has been instituted at law or in equi-
ty to recover the debt secured by said mortgage
or or any part thereof
Now, Therefore, Notice is hereby given, that
by virtue of a power of sale contained in said
mortgage, aud of the statute in such case made
and provided, said mortgage will be foreclosed
by sale OF the mortgaged premises therein de-
scribed, at public auction for cash, by the Sher-
iH OF said county, at the front door of the Court
House, in the City of Mankato in the county OF
Blue Earth and State of Minnesota, on Mon
day, the 18th day OF January, A. d. 1891, at
10 O'Clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the
amount which shall then be due on said mort
gage, with interest thereon and costs and ex-
penseS of sale, and twenty five dollars attor-
ney's fees, stipulated in said mortgage in case
of foreclosure
The premises described in said mortgage and
so to be sold, the lot, piece parcel of land
situated in the county of Blue Earth and State
of Minnesota, and known and described as fol-
lows, to wit The west half " of the north
east quarter, III OF section No. twenty-five,
[25l in township No. one hundred and five,
l1O5l of range No. twenty-nine, 1921
THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY,
Mortgage.
GEO. W. WILSON,
Attorney of Mortgage
Dated, November oath, 1890
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28

1t is claimed that Gen. Baker was beaten for
congress by the use of a fraudulent Democratic
ticket, upon which there was no candidate for
congress. In one precinct of Blue Earth county,
Pleasant Mound, thirty of these fraudulent
tickets were voted.
The above from the Faribault Democrat.
is sample of the rot that is going the
rounds of Democratic papers in this
State. For the information of those who
are not posted, the FREE PRESS will state
that the Democrats of the Second dis
trict had no candidate for congress. At
ter Ar Wilhf--~~-- was for-~a off the
ticket through one of the most unholy
combines ever known in Minnesota pol
itics, the Democratic Congressional
Committee refused to fill the vacancy
simply permitted members of that par
ty to fill in whatever name that pleased
them best or vote 1T blank. A good
many Democrats showed their contempt
for the meddlesome interference of of
fice-brokers and Doodle dispensers In
nullifying the action of the Democratic
Congressional Convention by declining
TO vote on the name of any congresslon-
al candidate. Gen. Baker was no more
a candidate of the Democratic party
than was John Lind, and all this talk
about fraudulent Democratic tickets"
is slush of the sloppiest kind.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
TIE -tFE-SAviNG SERVICE.


General Superintendent kimballs An
nuaI Report Submitted to the Secretary
CT the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-General Su-
perintendent Kimball of the life-saving
service has submitted his annual report
to the secretary of the treasury. The
establishment embraced at the close of
the last fiscal year 2;f:3 stations, l76
being on the Atlantic, 46 on the lakes,
10 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of
the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. Tho number
of disasters to documental vessels with
Z in the field of station operation during
the year was 1884. There were on board
these vessels 3, 1877 persons, of whom SO
were lost. The number of shiDwrecked
persons who received succor at the sta
lions were 1888. The total value Oh prop
erty imperilled was $500, 981; Of lis
amount So Ash .S43 was saved. The num-
Der of vessels totally lost was rs. In adj
dition to those named there were during
the year 145 causualties to smaller craft
on which there were 299 persons, of
whom 70 were lost. In addition
to persons saved from vessels
ther were ~ others rescued. The
crews saved without outside assistance
1877 vessels valued, with their cargoes,
at 1865, 020. and assisted other efforts in
saving 80 vessels, valued, with their car
goes at 81, 500, 210, making the aggre-
gate number of vessels which they saved
and assisted to save during the year, 251,
involving $2,167 1856 of property. AS
sistance of minor importance. was rem
dered to many Uthsr veeeels. The cost
or maintenance of the service during the
year was 1913. 1856.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
WORK FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

AS but few weeks remain before the
conyenlng Of the Minnesota legislature
IN biennial session, it would seem that
the newspapers of the State ought to
lay before the newly elected members
a few matters of interest to the public
that should be taken up this winter and
passed upon. The newspaper, if it be
true to itself and the sphere it is expect
ed TO fill, is the defender and promoter
of equal rights between the people on
one side and corporations on the other;
to denounce wrong; to advocate right;
to protect the weak against the strong,
and above all to treat all subjects of pub
lie concern with candor and fearless
ness. There is duty at this time that
the press of Minnesota is called upon to
perform and that duty is to urge upon
members of the legislature the impor-
lance of listening to and needing the
warning of the people against exacting
corporations who know no master and
regard no law; to whom equity is a
stranger, and service a secondary con-
sideration. Without being harsh, and
not deignlng to be personal, the FREE
PRESS will venture to call attention to
two or three matters which forcibly sug-
gest themselves at this time, and which
are of good deal of interest to the
business public.
1t is as clearly within the province of
the State legislature to regulate express
charges within the State, as it is those
of freight or passenger. But for some
unexplained reason Express companies
have escaped investigation and are al
lowed to charge exhorbitant rates with
impunity. The amount of business re-
quired to be transacted through express
transportation is simply enormous, and
is constantly on the increase. The mer-
chant, the mechanic and the farmer,
even, is at their mercy, and it is high
time that the brakes were applied and
these corporations brought under rea-
sonable subsection. The Congress of
the United States should also take the
matter in hand and pass an Interstate
express law similar to that regulating
Interstate railroad commerce. Recent
ly, rates we're advanced % per cent. on
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
WANT HUSTON AT The HELM.

Indiana Republicans Anxious to Have
Him Resume Charge of the Party in
the State.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The impress
sion prevails in Washington that United
States Treasurer Huston will resume the
Craftsmanship of the Indiana Republican
central committee within short time.
A large number of letters have been re-
ceived requesting him to take the man
agement of the party in his native state
as soon as he retires from his official po-
sition, and these have been supplemented
by appeals from Indiana Republicans
in this city, and distinguished workers
in the party from many other states. So
far Mr.. Huston, who is now at his home
in Conncrsville, has given no intimation
as to what he will do. but it is thought
he will accept if he is formally asked to
do so. Mr.. Huston was chairman of the
Indiana committee during the cam
paigns of 1886 and 1888, when the state
gave good Republican majority each
time. He has the confidence of Presi-
dent Harrison, as we'll as of the party at
large in Indiana.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28

If, as is reported, but which seems
rather improbable, President Harrison
will recommend to Congress that the
tariff law be unchanged and the Lodge
Election bill passed, he will exhibit a
degree of good, practical reasoning hard
ly expected under the stress of recent
happenings. 1t will be the worst thing
that could possibly happen the Republi-
can party at this time to stultify itself
by weakening on the tariff bill. 1t
should be allowed chance to prove it.
self. If bad or undesirable it will be
time enough to apply the remedy after
it has been so proven. Up to date, the
Mckinley bill has so many more things
in its favor than it has against 1t. that it
should be allowed little time for work.
As to the Lodge bill, there is diversity
of opinion as to its desirability among
Republicans in and out of Congress-.
The FREE PRESS wants to see the Senate
concur with the House and pass it. 1t
can harm no one, and the chances are it
will prove of benefit in securing honest
elections where such state of affairs do
not now exist
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28

CLEVELAND should put a postscript to
his political letters with "burn this"
Injunction added thereto. He recently
wrote letter to one Ace1s, of Kansas,
in which he expressed pleasure at the
retirement of Ingalls, from the senate
and Acers has caused the same to be
published. The ex-president is now
boiling over with rage that his conf
deGce should have been betrayed, and
he mentally swears that he will quit
writing letters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
WHO STARTED THE COMBINE
BUSINESS,

The ReUieW says the tendency of the
times is to great combinations, and
gives as instances the recently reported
combination of manufacturers of agricul-
tural implements and the Gould railroad
combine. The success of the Demo-
cratic combine of all the odds and ends
of creation are the discordant issues in
which the RevieD had it's hands clear up
to the shoulders to defeat the Republic
can party and put the government back
to where they left it in 1861. They set
the example and furnished the con-
spirators for these lesser combines who
are following in the footsteps of their
Democratic predecessors in the COM
bine business. Vox.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
Reciprocity Gaining strength.

OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 26.-Leading
Canadian packers have asked the
Dominion government to reduce the
duty ON salt The price of salt in Can
ada is SO cents a barrel, compared with
IS cents in the United States. The
movement iii favor OF unrestricted re-
ciprocity with the United States is gain
ing strength since the recent elections in
the United States. Canadian manufac-
turers who have hitherto supported the
national protection policy declare that
they are now sufficiently established to
compete on equal terms with American
industries, ana express themselves in
Tabor of gaining access to United States
markets.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28
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