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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
From Thursdays Daily.
PEOPLES PARTY COMPRESSION
AL CONVENTION.

The congressional convention of the
I'd district was called to order about
II O'Clock this forenoon by A. M. Nor
rison, secretary of the district COM
mittee, in the absence of Chairman
Webb.
T.. L. Gilbert, of Redwood county,
was elected temporary chairman and
W. r. Hodges, of Brown county, tenn
porary secretary of the committee.
On motion the chair appointed
committee on credentials consisting
of W G Bailey of Blue Earth; e. j.
Meilick, of Jackson; L @ Long, of
Mobiles: A Bingham, of Lincoln and
John Cutting, of Brown.
The committee on resolutions con-
sisted of Senator Mott, of Lincoln; A
d Stewart, of Redwood; d P Lester,
Lac Qui Parle; w A Brown, Pipestone
and w o Lester, of Rock.
On permanent organizations: A M
Morrison, Blue Earth; E Hayden,
Lac qui Parle and Geo Mennie, of Lin
coin.
The convention then adjourned un-
til II o'clock to give the committee
on credentials chance to make re-
port.
A few minutes after eleven the con-
vention was called to order and the
committee on credentials made their
report as follows,
Redwood-A. d. Stewart, T. L.
Gilbert. JAS. LOngbOttOm, j. B. John
son, Henry Charter.
Jackson-H. X. Rue, G. M. Gage,
Meilick, Nathan Frost.
johnson, L. M. Smith, w. G. Benbow,
August Quade, Ole Amundson.
Nicollet-B. A. Briggs, G. Arndt,
Theo. Ostrom.
Martini. G. Pratt, M. Wolford, B.
II. Wetzel, r. j. Chamberlain, VIM.
Cook.
Lac qui Parle-E. Hordale, J.J Daily
M Larson, L p Lester.
NULL dy w III. kOCOUU: Il y lOhCl
CT Norwood, Jas Low Jr., J e John
son, T Corner, G Ronald.
Pipestone-D Whigan, A d Ferris,
A e Rydel, w HtTibitts, w III Bux-
ton, G Smith.
Yellow Medicine-O G Wilson G G
Olson. V M Sandbourne, S Lindsay,
Jas Schrollier, ] Mooney, Willis
Fairbanks.
Lyon-W S Moses, S L Wait, Thos
Hayes, J B Johnson, e Peterson.
Blue Earth-A M Morrison, Thos
Strong, A III Mattson, L Cook, w G
DAILY, e Maxwell, L S Foster.
K Knutson, VIM Webb.
Lincoln-J A Bigham, q Mennle,
Fred Meinzer, Orran Mott, VIM Par
rott, John Johnson.
Rock-K X Stein, John sB Croft,
K Helling, S Anderson, Fred Van
DuZee.
Nobles-W Lester, J B Green, B
f Young, L G Long, Fl Maxwell.
Brown-Herbert Hillesheim, Ern-
est Rolloff, A Auren, w r Hodges,
Sam Betting John Cutting, @ Halver'
son.
Watonwan-Pete Torkelson, @ Leas
Wenerd Hoclied. John Erickson, Gee
M Johnson.
1t was moved and adopted that the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
PERSONAL.

Miss Cora Haynes, principal of
Pleasant Grove school, will spend the
next year in study at Oberlin, Ohio.
She will attend the National conven-
tion of the Y. P. S. G. e. in New
York City, July 18th, and returning
will larry at OberIin for a year of more
congenial occupation than training
the youthful mind and keeping the
youthful person in proper school
order.
John K. McBroom, who has been
teaching at Winnebago City during
the winter, arrived in the city Satur-
day and will spend a portion of his
vacation here.
Prof. Bechdolt and family will not
remove to Grand Forks until Septem.
ber
E. A. Palmer, of Grand Forks, n
D., is visiting his brothers, Geo. M
and John Palmer.
r. G. B]ume, of Good Thunder, J
H. Dobie, of Mapleton, NJ A. Tolan
of Wells, were at the Clifton, to-day
G. III. Austin and wife left for BOS
ton this afternoon over the North
western road They will be gone
about five weeks, and while alb
sent Mr.. Austin will purchase theil
fall stock of boots and shoes for thei
wholesale establishment.
Rev. f. M. Rule, John Ray, w. r
Geddes, Geo. Ellis and w. B. Tore,
returned last evening from the con
vention much pleased with thu
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
EXcurSi0n Rates

June 18th and 18th agents of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
will sell excursion tickets to Old
Point Comfort, Va, and return, on
account of the meeting of the Travel
ers' Protective Association, at the
lowest f1rst-class fare for the round
trip. For tickets and information
apply to agents G. & N. w. R'y Co.
43t17d3tW.
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Chicago d Northwestern.
WIyONA & ST. PETER

WIEoNA & ST. PETER.
Going East Depart Arrive
CHICAGO Night Exp. 1870 am. 500 am.
New Ulm & LaCrosse Pas 1920 am. 11:00a. m
Lacrosse, Milwaukee d
Chicago Day Express 1850 pm. APO Pm.
Going West
WATERFOWL, Aberdeen,
Redwood Falls, Tracy
Huron &. Pierre Day
Passenger ] O5 am. 1875 am
Tracy Accommodation S45 am. $50 am
aedwood Falls, Tracy &
Huron Express 1920 pm. $3.50 pm.
La Crosse and New Ulyn
Day Passenger $40 pm. 1910 ?. m.
sDaily, except Monday.
Sleeper, Mankato to Chicago.
tSleeper Chicago to Mankato.
AL other trains daily, except Sunday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
Minneapolis & st. Louis Railway.
CANNON VALLEY,

CANNON Valley
Depart Arrive
enc. 90 & "a Waterv.lle and
Faribaulu Accommod. 700 am. 6:45 pm.
enc. 21 q %, st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Redwirg Pas
PIN. 0.<A P.AA
sDaiiy, except Sunday.
No. % connects at Waterville with through
trains for DesMoines; also with free chair car to
connects with through trains having through
sleepers for Chicago, st. Louis and Kansas City
Information regarding rates, routes, ETC., cheer
fully furnished upon application to
r. F. POWERS, Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
STAGI
Between Mankato, st. Clair and Minnesota Lake

Leave Mankato daily at 700 a. m.
Arrive at st. Clair daily at 1O:45 a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 600 a. m. Monday.
Arrive at st. Clair at 2:15 p. m.
Leave St. Clair daily at 2:45 p. m.
Arrive at Mankato daily at 6:1 p. m.
Leave st. Clair Tuesday at HOO a. m.
Arrive at Minnesota Lake at 7:15 p m
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
Special Rates to Helena, Montana.

For the meeting of the Supreme
Lodge of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen, to be held at Helena,
Mont; commencing June 18th, 1892,
the Omaha R'y will sell ticket to Hell
ena and return at one lowest first
class fare for the round trip. Tick
cts will be sold June 7th to 18th in
elusive, with final limit of thirty days
rom date of sale. 54t2d1w
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.

Arrivel Depart
PASSENGER $40 am. Passenger t6:4O pm
No. 90 Mixed7:OO pm Accommod. 7:30 am
No. 25....... 1876 p. M. No. 26..... l2:2o pm
Daily, except Sunday.
Making direct connections to all points east
and sOuth
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10

For special rates to Old Point
Comfort, Va, account Annual Meet
ing Travellers Protective Association,
INQUIRE at Omaha R'y depot. Tickets
sold June 18th and 18th.
54t2d1w ALLAN BURDICK, Agt.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10

GOING WEST. Departs
No. Kansas City & Omaha Ex.....11:1O pm
No. Kansas City, and Sioux City
AAPress... h.H'
No. ST. p, Mimi. d Mankato ar S;45 pm.
No. Ii Eimore Accommodation lao am.
No. II " 4" 2:25 pm.
GOING EAST.
No. Kanses City d Omaha Express 400 am
No. 4 st. Paul. Minneapolis and Chi
cago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1927 pm.
No 6 St p Minnean & Mankato 705 am.
No ! 6 ElYnCre Acnonmodatfon l1:05 am.
NolS 1910 pm.
Nos. 1, 2, 8 and daily.
: Nos. 3, 6, 16, II & Is daily exc. Sunday.
40. 15 daily except Monday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-10
THE RAILROADS.

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis s Omaha
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
The United States Official
Investigation of Baking Powders,

Made under authority of Congress by the Chemical Division of the
Dept of Agriculture Washington D. recently completed
Shows the Royal Baking Powder
to be cream of tartar baking pow
der of the highest quality, superior
to all others in strength, leaven=
ing power, and general usefulness.
The Royal Baking Powder thus distinguished highest
expert official authority the leading Baking Powder of the world
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
A Mexican Popularity.

"There is one peculiarity about the
Mexicans in their social and family re-
lations which l doubt to exist among
any other people on the globe" said
P. L. He'll, of Chihuahua, Mexico, at
the Lindell. "While it is true that a
majority of those occupying the high
est social and political positions in the
country are descendants of the proud
old aristocratic Spaniards, yet it is
equally true that great many others
of wealth and acknowledged leadership
have come up from the lower ranks by
some sudden turn of the wheel of for
tune or eruption of revolution. Unlike
the American, the Mexican who &C
quires fame and fortune never forgets
or neglects his poor kin. And, unlike
the American again, he treats his
more impecunious relatives in a queer
way. He takes them into his house
hold as servants, giving to them the
most menial service, but never deny
inc the relationship or attempting to
conceal it. I IkEow of many instances
where a rich Mexican's mother is his
cook, his sister his house girl, and
his father or brother his butter. The
American would either disown them
altogether or put them on an equal
footing with himself. In this regard,
YOU must admit, the democracy OF
Mexico is purer than that so loudly
boasted of in this country. "-iS. Lout!
Globe Democrat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
cuRIoslTlEs AMONG PLANTS.
One Equatic Growth Seizes and Devours
Fishes-An EphemeraI Siberian.

The self-moving watercress, growing
on the banks of the Yare, in Suffolk,
England, changes its place and ad-
bounds. From its summit descend
happen to be at one extremity of the
plant are of sufficient length to reach
the bottom of the water they take root.
Drawn away by the action of the
plant, which settles upon its new foot,
the claws on the contrary side lose
their hold, and the tuft of crosses.
turning on it's pivot, removes the
whole length of its bed. The aquatic
pQaching plant-the bladder-wort-
has along its branchlets number of
small green vesicles or bladders, which,
being furnished with minute jaws,
seize upon tiny fish which are assimi-
lated into its substance. There are
land plants also which in a similar
way trap insects, both being of the
carnivorous order of plant life.
The snowfower, found in Siberia,
springs up from seed to the height of
three feet in three days. 1t possesses
only three snow leaves, according to
Spare Moments, and buds, blooms and
fades in twenty-four hours. Ii touched
with the warm hand the whole plant
instantly melts into a kind of snow.
This exquisite plant has all the appear
. ance of being composed of ice and
snow and grows abundantly in the
SHOWS of Siberia; the "Devil Snare" of
Nicaragua, vine whose suckers lit
orally drain the blood of any living
thing which comes within it's death
dealing touch, is worthy of mention
here, as also is the "Aweto" or cater
pillar plant-lately brought to light in
New Zealand. 1t has been found diff
ticult to decide whether it should be
classed as an animal or plant. In
its early stages it is simply perfect
caterpillar; when it reaches its full
growth, about 1-2 inches in length, it
1ndergoes a wonderful change. By
some singular but regular process
common to this insect a spore of a
vegetable fungus, the Sphaeri Rob
ertsii, fixes itself directly on its neck,
takes root and grows, like a diminut-
i've bullrush, from 6 to 10 inches high,
without leaves and with dark brown
! haad
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
Irish Stories.

An Irish peasant brought litter of
kittens to Protestant vicar In GER
tain town in County Wicklow. request
ing him to purchase them. The vicar
declined. "Your reverence, they are
good Protestant Kittens" urged Pad
dy, but his reverence remained OBJ
durate, A few days after the Roman
Catholic priest (who had in the mean
time been informed of the offer to his
brother clergyman was approached,
and on his refusing to make pur-
chase the would-be seller urged sale.
"Sure, father dear, they are good
Catholic kittens"
"But how is this, my man?" replied
the priest. "You said a day OF two
ago they were good Protestant kit
tens"
"And so they were," said the peas
ant, "but their eyes weren't opened.
Here is another I heard in Ireland
recently: A quarrel had taken place
at fair and culprit was being sem
fenced for manslaughter. The doctor,
that the victims skull was abnormal
ly thin. The prisoner on being asked
if he had anything to say for himself,
replied: mo, yer Honor; but would
ask was that skull for man to go to
fair wid?"
As instances of pure humor these,
however, do not surpass the story of
the Scotch boatman, who, while cross
ing loch, was asked if he would
take some water with his whisky, and
replied: "Na, there was horse
drooned at the head O. the loch two
years ago." The head of the loch was
tweuty four miles distant.-London
Spectator.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17

"There she goes" he murmured to
himself, as the diaphanous folds of
black and gold disappeared under the
decorated archway, "and there be-
meath her feet crash to ruins the air
castles that my silly brain has been
building for the last three months" +"
So he went on his way, determined
to see or hear no more of pretty Kate
Carleton, the yellow-haired girl who
had somehow contrived to cast q
glamour about his heart and brain de-
cidedly prejudicial to the influence of
Miss Henrietta Lacy.
But a mans resolves are made neither
of gutta percha nor adamant, and he
could not help pausing instinctively in
front of the house in which Miss Garlic
ton lived, and as he paused he saw,
through the big, brightly lighted win.
dow of the grocery below, the slender
figure of Katie herself, in gray dress,
like little nun, buying the hum BILE
loaf of bread and tenpenny worth of
tea which were to serve for her NOR
row mornings breakfast.
"It can't be possible!" said Evan Mer-
ris t. himself mo, it can't!"
But just at that moment Kate turned
and he saw her whole face; little sad,
perhaps, but quietly self-contained and
sweet. Involuntarily he walked in
and held out his hand to her.
Katie dropped the loaf of bread in
her embarrassment.
"Mr. MerrisT"
"Miss Carleton!"
"How came you here?"
81 might with better reason ask how
came you here? For I was certain fif-
teen minutes ago." he added, seeing
her surprised and bewildered face,
chat | saw you cross the pavement
| opposite Hebe hall, in a black lace
dress covered with gilt stars, and enter
the ballroom door"
"Oh, no." cried Katie. II had
long ago given up all idea of going,
and Henrietta Lacy asked me for the
loan of my dress, as she hadn't time to
| make up one for herself, it was Hen
rietta you saw, not |. :"
Henrietta, eh?" repeated Evan Mer-
ris slowly, as a certain light broke in
upon his brain. Henrietta Lacy Ex-
actly! see it all now. / always sus-
pected that girl was not quite straight-
| forward in her dealings, and I'm sure
of it now, Miss Carleton"
/ Then after pause he asked:
"Are you disengaged this EVENING""
"Quite."
"May come up and sit with you?'
81 shall be delighted" answered sim.
pie Katie, flushing all over"
The next day Henrietta Lacy came
around to Katie's room with the blacl
lace dress folded up in a fiat paper
parcel,
"rm so much obliged to you dear, "
said she. Il had such charming
evening"
$50 did l." said Katie, who longec
for some congenial ear into which t.
pour the story of her happiness. "Mr
Merris spent the evening here"
'Mr. Merris!"
"Yes; and oh, Hetta, only think! Ht
| has asked me to be his wife and WI
are to be married in February, and
don't know how it ever chanced tina
SO much happiness should be in store
for me-"
Henrietta Lacy bit savagely at he
nails as she listened. So all that plot
ting and planning had been in vail
after all. And the magnet, love, haC
attracted Evan Merris to the right AM
true after all.-EGchapge.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
NIAGARA NOT YET UTILIZED.
The Hope of Half Century Still Unreal.
lied by Scientists.

The twentieth century is about to
dawn on the world and still Niagara
Falls have not been utilized" This
is one of the disappointments of
science. The hope was born about
fifty years ago that the Niagara water
power could be made useful to the
whole Yankee nation. When it be-
came known that electricity could be
made means for the transmission of
mechanical power, and when it was
we'll established that mechanical power
was easily transmissable into electric
ity the conclusion was hastily jumped
at that a great center like Niagara was
also to become the center of industrial
power. That great mistake has been
made is proved by the fact that Mag
ara and other great waterfalls still con-
tinue in a state of nature, unused by
the cunning of man. There is much
talk even in this year of 1892 to the
same effect, and the newspapers are
telling the wonderful things that Mag
ara Falls are going to do. The Detroit
Nea0s thinks it is safe to say that Mag
ara and all other greater water powers
of the world will continue to waste
their strength as they have done in
the past. The hope of wide diffu--
sion of mechanical power by means of
electricity lies in fundamental mis-
conception of the laws of electricity.
The common idea is that electricity's
first law is that of running, as water
runs down hill. On the contrary cleo
tricity is as sluggish as water and has
to be forced from one place to another.
The common idea is that if you place
electricity on a copper wire it will at
once start off and never stop until it is
intercepted by some uncongenial ele-
ments. The majority of people think
that if the falls of Niagara would only
convert their power into electricity
that electrical energy could be tapped
from Maine to- Texas, as If it were a
reservoir in the clouds. Not so. Elec-
tricity has to be pumped from one
place to another by the expenditure of
power,
The difficulty of getting electricity
from Niagara to New York city is the
same as getting water from Cairo to
the heart of the Sahara. Theoretically
both are possible; practically the ma
chinery does not exist to perform the
work. An electrical dynamo is a
pump. 1t performs only the work
that it has the strength to perform. If
overstrained it breaks, bursts or burns
out. Let us hear no more of the qtfli-
cation of Niagara Falls for the dfffu-
sion of mechanical energy. The thing
is impracticable. 1t takes power to
transmit power. When the gun is in
vented that can withstand the strain
of shooting a bullet around the world
the time will have come to hope for a
dynamo that will shoot electricity
from Niagara Falls to San Francisco.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
Genesis of the Horseshoe.

It is known that the hoofs of horses
were protected by boots of leather at
a very early period in the worlds his
tory-at time which at least ante
dates Pliny and Aristotle, both of
whom makes mention of the fact.
These leather boots were sometimes
studded with metal nails, but more
usually worn without extra trimming,
the cheapness of that commodity max
ing it possible for the owner of the
steed to "reboot" him at any time.
Homer speaks of ""brazen footed
steeds," from which we naturally infer
that in his day horses were shod with
bronze or brass. Two reputable an
cient writers tell us that the mules of
Nero wore silver shoes. Iron shoes
were first nailed to the hoofs of war
horses in the ninth century; they were
first introduced into England by Will
liam II. about the year 1888. At the
present day the Japanese use horse
shoes made of braided straw, and sew
eral European countries use compress
ed rawhide for the same purpose.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
Queer Papers IN Asia and africa.

Some time ago the N. Y. San told OF
a curious newspaper published at the
Causeway, Salisbury. South Africa,
called the Mashonala1ld Herald and
Zanabesian Times. The paper is ths
size of a sheet of foolscap, and is not
printed. The original writing of its
contributors is reproduced by the HEX
tograph process. In noticing and COM
menting on that George Augustus Sala
says he knows of more curious specl-
men of newspaper printing that was
published in some part of the Decean,
in which excellent photographic stone
was abundant. "The Anglo-Indian
publication" he says, "was published
every morning, Autographed on a
square of white cotton stuff. After
being perused it could be utilized as a
pocket handkerchief, and in the even
inc this Journal MOWchoir was returned
to the local dhobee or washerman,
who, after it had gone through the
requisite lavatory processes, returned
it to the newspaper office to be reissued
to subscribers. Whether there was an
edition de luGe, Autographed on French
cambric with lace borders for the use
of the ladies of that cantonment an
J not aware.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
The Truth and the Woman.

When he came home that night he
was more drunk than usual. The
drudge who called herself his wife was
ironing clothes. He caught her hand
and roared out:
$50 you've lost a whole day, ehP"
She struggled to get away, but he
tightened his grip, leered at her and
said:
"You do nothing but eat, es& and
eat! When l try to correct you, you
cry, don't you?"
He pinched her ArEa .s~. she
screamed.
SCOT any money!" he bawled.
"For mercy's sake, Steve, leave me!
The little girl is sick. l was home
had time to go out and hunt up more
be at least 81"
"Send the brat out to begi"
He kicked her as she lay there on
the floor. Then he closed the door
with bang and went out in the
night.
That next afternoon the woman ap-
| peared before thascoroner to tell what
she knew of the sudden death of her
husband, Steve Durand, the result of
a fearful fall in the dark passage lead
ing to the street.
She was very pale but it was not the
pallor of suffering alone.
"All know, SIR" she said, in a low
voice, as she took the stand, "is that
he came home that night, threw his
arms around my neck and kissed me
several times. He said he was so glad
that all our hard times would soon be
over. He had secured new job and
it was to pay very well. We were SO
happy. When he left me he was going
down to the grocery store to order a
barrel of flour and bushel of pota-
toes. But, instead. he went to his
death. That's all know, sir. IN z
| Recorder.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
Counting Dust Notes in a Sunbeam.

Who would think that science could
devise an apparatus or instrument for
counting the number of dust notes
that dance in bar of sunlight. No
one would image that such an un-
heard of feat could be carried out with
any degree of accuracy, but, if we are
to believe official reports, that and
much more has recently been accom-
plished by the microscopists. At the
Ben Nevis observatory, Scotland, an
attempt has been made to determine
the relative purity of the atmosphere.
The maximum number of dust parti-
cles in a cubic centimeter of air ex-
amined with high grade micr oscope
at the Ben Nevis observatoro has been
found to be 1862, from a specimen"
examined on March 80, 1891. The
minimum is fifty-two particles to the
cubic centimeter from an examination
made on June Is, 1891. At one time
difference of some thousands of par
ticles was noted within a few hours.
Observations were taken at II m. and
again at p. m. The first showed but
26, ,785 particles, the last IL, 6S2.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-17
Our Motto is, Live and Let Live!

We will public that the end of this month
Stock will be complete Therefore, all ask you
need anything in line, save money
A dollar saved is better than dollar earned.
would like have everybody call and lot of
WORKING SHIRTS, just received, at TWENTY CENISl
They dandies.