The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-21

forbidden the use of It's system for trans
uniting money or mail to or from lot
terry companies, and Agent PAYNE has
been notified to this effect. 1t takes
away quite remunerative business IN
this as well as other cities, but the COM
pany is deserving of great credit for its
voluntary action. The Adams Co. has
made the same regulations. When the
American and other companies follow
suit, the lottery companies will be pref
ty we'll isolated.
-Supt. Gilbert, ofthe ST. Paul schools,
recommends that the old teachers be
pensioned. His arguments will apply
to the entire state, as we'll as to st. Paul.
He says: eve have at the present time
in the schools few, not many, teachers
who, through long and faithful service,
have become physically unfit for further
work. Their presence in the schools is
positive injury to them and an Unjust
ice to them and an injustice to the chill
dren. Yet their long years of faithful
labor for the general good certainly en-
title them to consideration. Most OF
them have been unable to accumulate
property enough to live on in their old
age. To drop them from the list of
teachers would be to reduce them to
perjury, and in some cases dependence.
To retain them is wrong to the schools.
We pension superanuated policemen.
Why not pension teachers in the same
condition ? The number would always
be small and the expense trifing. In
New York city this is done with the
best results. l suggest it for your con-
sideration."
The "Murphy" has rival. 1t
comes from Japan and the scientists
who have discovered it declare that the
potato will have to hustle for the laurels
when this 'stachys tuberifera." as they
have named it, is once fairly introduc-
ed. Some of the most progressive of
the Minnesota farmers will raise the
stachys for the market next year as an
experiment. It is said to flourish in
Minnesota soil and will become as much
of staple as the potato. Already the
stachys is popular in the restaurants of
Berlin and Paris. 1t is smaller than
the potato and is cultivated much the
same way: 1t is said that it grows very
quickly and plentifully, as many as 100
tubers being found in hill. The sta
chys is an agreeable tasting vegetable
when boiled in salt water and served
with butter and parsely sauce. Prepar-
ed like potatoes cut in small slices and
fried in butter they are claimed to be
delicious dish. The taste is at first like
that of sweet potato, but one Will soon
feel very fine piquant taste. They do
not need to be peeled, but are only
washed clean in water, which is anoth-
er blessing to the housekeeper. They
are kept in the ground as late as posi-
BILE, and preserved packed in sand in
the cellar during the winter months.
to the air they will shrink and
lose their nice, white mother-of-pearl-
ike color. The plant is winter-hardy,
and thrives in any soil. Frost does not
hurt them, and to have them always
fresh they are left in the ground and
lug as wanted. In our climate it is best
to keep them in ditch or in sand in
he cellar. The expectations of high pri-
les and large yields will induce good
many farmers to make trial with the
lew tuberiferous plant.