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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01

AT last all was ready, tie fuse lighted
Bowling turned out the gas and crept
through the window.
He was gonel
Out from behind the boxes burst the
frightened boy. who had completely lost
his wits. He bent over Middleton and
with his weak arms strove to lift him. His
first thought was to drag Middleton from
the building. AS well try to move the
vault yonder
Then through the moonlight across the
square, gasping, sobbing, stumbling. fled
the boy. Through the open door, into his
sisters room, upon her bed he flung him
self. 'Bess Bessp he shrieked in agony.
Two minutes later, barefooted, her long
hair streaming over her shoulders, she
knelt beside the man she loved. She thrust
her girlish arms beneath Middleton and
lifted him to her breast as a mother gathers
her child.
"The bell, 'Bub,' the belll' she STAN
mered
Cub" caught the rope, and out upon
the soft midsummer night rang the awful
clamor. The bell fairly shrieked it's fright
full tidings-" Murderl murderp' leaped
from it's iron throat.
And when the half dressed miners came
hurrying from their homes with terror
stricken faces they saw strange sight
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
Time and Money,

The native was at the tick,
dow of a railroad down SOU
the smart clerk was champi
bit inside because the native
exasperatingly deliberate.
''How far is it to Wahc
drawled.
'Forty-eight miles," snapI
clerk.
"What's the price of a tickle
Zone fifty"
The native began to go thro
pocketbook slowly.
Come, come, hurry up, +"
the clerk: times money
road"
SIS it," drawled the native,
down the price very carefully
Eyes, it is"
WELL" he said, hauling q
ticket, "if it doesn't make any
money than it does time I
some of you is goin to git a
for counterfeitin one of these
and he moved away, dragg|
heels on the floor at every ste|
trOit Free Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01

STANCHING THE BLOOD ON HIS HEAD.
Their master lay before his office door on
the ground, Bess Clayton was stanching
the blood on his head, while small snub
nosed and freckled boy was crying hyster-
ically beside her.
A few words told the story. You lifted
Mr. Middleton" cried one man.
YES" whimpered "Bub," "she did
dunno how she did it, but she did"
"But the fuse" cried another. For
Gods sake, somebody cut the fusei''
Bess lifted her haggard face. "Oh, cut
it," she said simply, before | brought
him out"
Tom Middleton did not die. A splendid
constitution, unimpaired by excuses,
brought him through dangerous illness.
He came back to the office two months
later, pale, hollow eyed and thin. His
people f1ocked about him, and many were
the blessings showered upon him both by
rough miners and weeping women.
After Middleton had told the crowd that
the long delayed Fourth of July celebra-
ton should occur the next evening, and
the happy throng had dispersed, he turned
toward Bess Clayton, who stood at her
post smiling, but with tears in her eyes.
"Come here, Bessie" he said gently.
holding out his thin hand He had never
called her Bessie before. She went slowly
He drew her to him. and putting both
arms about her said:
my brave little girl"
She trembled and blushed.
my darlingp he said passionately.
ono No CHI criaH OF axUav from
him, ''you must not speak like that
must not hear you"
YES you must" he retorted, with his
old fire, 81 love you'll think have loved
you long time Bess-you must be my
wife"
But Miss Vancouver" said the girl
gently.
Miss Vancouver made great mistake
when she accepted me-" said Middleton
gravely. ''She has realized her mistake.
Oh, Bess, my darling, thank God, there is
nothing between us and happiness"
A few moments later he raised her
blushing face from his shoulder and said,
'sNow, dearest, when shall we be married? ?"
81 think, Tom," she said demurely, that
I should like to be married next Fourth OF
July"
''Why not this Fourth" he urged.
"This Fourth is past" she answered.
But it's substitute is at hand he cried.
"Bess, you must marry me now cannot
wait year."
And so it came to pass even as he had
spoken, and the miners and their families
had an unexpected feature in their cele-
bration, for they were all invited up to
the big house to drink the health of their
master and his bride.
EDITH SESSIONS UPPER.
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aged America It is to the small boy the
Christmas of the summer season, and at
che booming of the earliest gun he jumps
out of bed with the same alacrlty that the
house dog displays while flying into the
cellar to be out of the danger that he fan
cies is about to consume him ike the thirst
that follows feast of Goldfish balls.
The noise of this day is grand epic of
melody. and it is a music that strikes a
responsive chord in the soul of every true
American and makes him feel proud and
happy from his boot heels to his straw hat.
It is a melody that sets the American
spirit dancing, and is sufficiently subtle
in its wild bowling gladness to make a
stuffed eagle scream for joy. and to cause
q crop of ripping ringlets to suddenly
spring into blossom on the cranial apex of
the bald eagle.
Ever dear to the smallboy who lives in Toledo,
Ever dear to the smalboy who lives in Po-
dunk,
Is the clappetty bang of the Union torpedo,
And the odorous scent of the slow burning
punk.
The small boy has been making ready
for the occasion with the same anxiety and
care that country manifests in preparing
for war with foreign power. He has
been dreaming of it fondly since that aus
picious season of the year when the blood
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BLOW.
not tolerate it. | shall do what | think
best for the comfort and happiness of my
people, Their lives are hard enough, God
knows
"Oh, as you like" said Violet, struggling
her shoulders, "only don't fancy that
shall ever take any interest in your absurd
Quixotism," and trailing her laces after
her she swept into the house
For the next two days an atmosphere of
expectancy hung over and around the
Spitfire mines. The women gossiped from
their DOORS the miners collected in groups
after hours and discussed the treat in
store, while the children shrieked and ran
hither and yon in very wantonness OF
ecstasy. When big boxes were unloaded
and stored away in the rear of Middleton's
Office. and it was whispered that those
boxes contained firecrackers, pinwheels.
torpedoes and Roman candles, it was with
difficulty that the small boy kept from
bursting with joy. Middleton caused the
news to be circulated that on the morning
of the Fourth all the children were to pre-
sent themselves at his Office, each to re-
ceive his or her share of the spoils
Probably no one was more electrified by
this statement than "Bub' Clayton. One
of the most lovable boys in the world, he
yet was the embodiment of mischief. The
deviltry he could not concoct was poor in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
Versatile Polly.

A friend of mine in this eli
years ago owned a versatile
that contributed much to her
hold delights and her friends
tainment.
1t was the custom of the
when her friends had parta
the other good things of that
home to introduce Polly to ed
son present, and the gravity
ly's demeanor with that d
"How do you do2" was an
After having gone the round
returned to the first person I'd
she had been introduced AMI
some novel remark, and SO II
in succession, saying somet1
each one of the entire conn
the order in which the intro|
was given. New York RecoI
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01

ThE ONLY CREATURES WHO FEEL RELIEVED
WHEN THE FOURTH Is OVER.
illuminate the ebon vault of night. It
makes the boy sad to feel that the Fourth
is slipping away from him Even if there
is to be a Baseball match in the afternoon,
at which he may discharge firecrackers, he
doesn't want the time of the game to ar
rive too soon. But when the game is over
the small boy feels that he still has the
fireworks to live for. And he is on the
scePe before the twilight has faded, sadly
faded, like twenty-five cent sky blue
bathing suit
and he smiles a sweet smile full of sunshine,
From the pinwheel to see the stars fly,
And he signs as the big Roman candle
4 Pops purple ball into the sky
He's as glad when the kissing skyrocket
Goes a-scooting aloft Ger the land,
As he Is when he enters the circus
At the very first toot of the band.
There is one individual whom the small
boy cannot understand, and that indi-
vidual is the man whose chief desire is to
get OIL into some remote, quiet, sleepy
place upon that festive day upon which
the song of the firecracker is heard in the
land. Such man will always remain an
unsolved enigma to the small boy, who
VIII also continue to regard him as some
thing supernatural; as flying from the
glorious Fourth strikes his youthful fancy
Is being only worthy of an Englishman.
As a rule the Irishman is very fond of the
Fourth Of July, as it gives him an ample
opportunity to express his sentiments rela-
tive to everything English, from loud
checked clothing to mutton pies. The
only creatures who experience feelings of
relief when the Fourth is over are the in
surance man. the house dog, and the cat.
1t is difficult to say which is the most wor-
>rled OF these on the Fourth--the insur-
snce man in the bosom of his family, the
9og In the bosom of the cellar, or the cat in
the bosom of the garnet.
r. K. MUNKITTRIcK.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01

HE HAS BEEN DISCLOSING OF CLARET BOTTLES.
root trembles by the wayside and the cir
Gus poster and the gold lettered legend
setting forth the manifold virtues of the
blood purifier divide the honors on the
coalyard fence. He has been saving his
pennies as religiously as has the school
teacher who would go to Europe during the
halcyon days of vacation, that he may
properly celebrate the anniversary of the
biggest and reddest red letter day in the
history of his country He has been dis
posing of claret bottles and old iron to the
itinerant peddler. He would have been
perfectly willing, through the spirit of his
enthusiastic patriotism, to have sold the
chandeliers and andirons to the same stroll
ing dealers.
A statement of the condition of his little
savings bank before the Fourth of July in
vestments are made would show it to be in
a very sound, prosperous condition. But
on the fifth day of the month it is as empty
as the monologue of book agent or the
smiling welcome of a summer hotel keeper
Tho small boy is not always aware of the
fact that the nrecracker with which he
celebrates the Fourth of July is a Chinese
institution.
The man who was once Il boy himself,
and still has the feelings of boy and re-
members all the pleasant sensations of the
Fourth of July of his boyhood, can gener
ally make fair approximation to the
pecuniary standing of the youthful cele
brant.
If he fires off a firecracker every three or
four minutes it means that he possesses
not more than three packages. The boy
who sets off package at time under a
barrel generally has SO many packages
that he couldn't set them off one frecracker
at time inside of two weeks. This boy is
the envy of all the other boys who are not
so fortunate as he, especially if, besides his
numerous punches of firecrackers, he has
an assortment of fireworks with which to
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
PATRIOTIC AND PERTINENT.

That this nation, under Cod shall have
new birth of freedom, and that govern
ment of the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish from the earth
Abraham Lincoln.
hearts,
Or thine, "Marseillaiser' to Frances fiery
blood:
fhe good thy anthemed harmony imparts.
God Save the Queenl' to England's field
and flood,
home born blessing, Natures boon, not Arts.
The same heart cheering, spirit warming
good,
TO us and ours, where'er we war or WOO,
Thy words and music, Yankee Doodle" do
-Fitz- Greene Halleck.
Liberty and union, now and forever. one
and inseparable. Daniel Webster.
Love of country is one of the loftiest
virtues which the Almighty has planted
in the human heart.-Emery A. Storrs
Ali when the wanderer, lonely, friendless,
In foreign harbors shall behold
That flag unrolled:
Twill be as friendly hand,
Stretched out from his native land,
Filling his heart with memories sweet aid
endlessl
Henry w. Longfellow.
Where American liberty raised its first
voice, and where it's youth was nurtured
and sustained, there it still lives, in the
strength of it's manhood and full of It's
original spirit.-Daniel Webster.
A weapon that comes down as still
AS snowhakes fall upon the sod,
But executes freeman's will
AS lightning does the will of God,
And from its force nor doors nor locks
Can shield you-'tis the ballot box.
John Pierpont
No craven hearted man was ever fit 10
be citizen. Courage is the source of
patriotism. Henry Ward Beecher
A star for every state and a state fDr
every star.-Robert G. Winthrop.
Oh, beautiful and grand,
My own, my native land,
OF thee boast
Great empire of the west,
The dearest and the best,
Made up of all the rest,
love the most.
Abraham Coles
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Blocking an Artistic rriumnb.

An artistic Trium ph.
The audience had cheered i
weary at the entrance of the hf
tragedian, and now. he stood in
center of the stage loaded down
chains and glaring about upo1
the assembled generals and sold
who seemed to cover before|
nerce and contemptuous glance.
A Roman consul, robed in pu]
advanced toward the mighty prI
er, who raised his manacled ham
II to break the chain over the
OF his lordly enemy.
The consul shrunk back al
the burning glance of the Id
capped hero swept over the nd
tude, and those who had conf
mock at him grew pale. The sill
was intense. The great chest he'd
All eyes were bent upon the
figure.
How many leagues am l
Thrace9" he inquired in an aut
tative tone.
Silence fell again, but only
moment.
"Seben come eleben," rang th
swering shout.
The tragedian's glare came
with a certificate showing it
absolutely genuine. There VI
litter from all over the house.
$The door of the third gallery {
ing room, where the ushers
shooting craps, had blown open
mopportune moment.-Detroit
une.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01

HE. Fourth of
July is a purely
American institu-
tion as well as a
purely American
invention, and the
annual celebration
of this holiday of
holidays is as dear
to the heart of
Young America
as it is to the heart
of old and middle
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
why NJ. Dumas Sold Out

M. Alexandra Dumas sold
lery because he was tired o.
pictures cover every wall
house. There was not a 81
where but in the kitchen, VIII
were not hung, and they wei
up in the garrett. He tho
keeping a few things, but v
if he did the others would
well. People would say that
sent to the hammer things BY
London News.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01

L is lnconceiva-
BILE to me. Do you
actually propose
to spend your life
here, among these
degraded crea-
tures?"
IL don't like to
hear you speak in
that way of my
pc lie, Violet.
They are not de
graded, but hon.
est, faithful toll
ers. | believe
them to be sin.
cerely attached to
mo nn1 have /.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
Couldn't Find Him.

Miss Palisade-You didn't see my little
brother out in the back yard as you came
in, did you, Mr. Tutter?
Tutter part of his coat tail blown off by
a firecracker)-No, Miss Palisade. Hooked
for him i'm vain
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
Seaweeds Are Useful.

Of all tribes of plants seaw|
commonly reputed to be t
useful. Yet this belief dod
great injustice. They supply
" and Indirectly, the fod
which most fishes and other|
of tho ocean depend, the
creatures feeding upon thu
themselves, to be gobbled I
quently by the larger ones
view in Washington Star.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
At Last.

Beneath our Office boy there lies
A cracker all ablaze,
And soon he'll get. to his surprise.
That long expected raise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
A WISE FATHER.

The Fourth is here at last, know.
For ere the night had fed,
outside my window came noise
That yanked me out of bed.
And then another loud report,
The windows fairly shook;
crawled back into bed again,
did not care to look.
had no curiosity,
much preferred to hide;
knew 1t was my youngest kid
Who lay for me outside.
Tom LANSING.
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The GLORIOUS FOURTH.
Copyright, Is

when the Song of the Firecracker Is
Heard in the Land.
tConvrioht 1892 ALI rights reserved.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
He Died for His Country.

PROLOGUE.
A boy stood by a rocket big,
Whence all but he had fled;
II don't know what this thing will do,
But I'll find out" he said
EPILOGUE.
This shows you where little shoe
And something of vest
Lies here In place of little Ed
They couldn't find the rest.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-01
Free Lunch

Free Lunch.
This is the day of all the days
In all the gladstone year
In which the small boy tries, alasl
A cracker and bier.
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MIDDLETON'S LUCK.
A FOURTH OF JULY STORY.

copyright, 1892. All rights reserved.l
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-19
HARVARD AND YALE.
Preparations for the Football
To-day.

bPRiNGFIELD, Mass., Nov. l5.-Oncs
IN seventeen years Harvard has beaten
Yale In the great annual contest at
football. That single time, In 1890, IL
always known M tho "Cumnockv
year. for 1t was to CtAnuock, Harvard's
greatest player, the victory was due.
The town ia filled with the usual
thousands Of college men, graduates,
Professors, and "a great array OF pretty
women who, as u rule, take NJ deep an
interest In these games as their brothers
anu sweetheartH. Vale ut the begin
Mug OF the season had but little hope
q putting q strong eleven into the
neid .Hetielhnger, McClung; Morrison
and Barbsn OF last YEARS. great team
hai graduated and IN fact Nc Cormack,
nllss and Huxley seemed to comprise
me only good material on hand. But
lamp, Hefelfinger, Wallace, Howard,
Knapp and a tzen others as famous
nave come to the rescue aud have
uohe some remarkable coaching.
=, among the players who will face
harvard tomorrow afternoon the most
prominent are: Mccormack, Captain
hlnkey, Wallis, Winter, the two Bliss
poye, Butterworth, son Of Congres,-
man Butterwortb OF Ohio, Norton San
,mVId, Auee and Hlck0x. Captain
nofne rrniiord, OF Harvard, Is not NJ
oonnaent today az earlier in the sea.
In. me game with Cornell, in which
harvard barely won, Ia ono cause for
ne general lack Of spirits, but many OF
he weak points have been streng thened
'nu much 10 expected Of Brewer, Lake
.nl Ice, all splendid ployorS. COrbett,
S1axe, upler, Walters, Lewis, Blake,
,Solemofe, Foster ana Captain Traf-
U'u himself are probably all certain to
~ ~ the Held, Many Princeton men
ne IN town ami will watch Yale's
same with especial care, as It will
.vhwst the championship with the blue
Msnhatlan Held, New York, on
thanksgiving day.
hampton park has BEEN much i'm.
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proved since last year. Instead OF the
1870 aidit'Onal seats rnueeu on each
side, room has been made for Z 800
spucti,crs nj each END. This Is in ai.
di,ion to the regular accommodations.
The pfices VI admission tomorrow are
for the middle section on the side,
500, the sections next In Orier Sl.6j.
and the end stands 81 90. As no zen.
efnl admission tickcls are being sold
tho colleges will net sum going iuep
into the thousands. This year as Lag.
year, the sale to each individn was
limitei to 4 tickets, and Just IA Ia
the previous season the spectators
have been able TO get hold Of great
many seats aild are seliiuy them at
double prices. The iuiu team 4,
quarteteJ at the School OF Christian
Workers ON Annoy hill and the
Harvard men are Mt Mff. Gardeners
T, l,aursn', where they have been
cared for ipr yenrs past. Special trains
aru coming Into the city hourly bear.
ing Yale aud Harvard Alumni clubs
NJ various near at hand cities. The
New Haven Athletic association also
Gomez In u chartered car.
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-19

ST.. Louis, Nov. lS.--At the after.
noon session OF the knights OF Labo r
the discussion OF the question Of the
alliance OF miners and the relation OF
the order ana the Federation was re-.
newed. A proposition to compel the
members TO withdraw from the Fedora.
ton was Withdrawn for the present
and the discuss. n was contino1 10 the
miners question. The matter was
finally referred to the general oxecu-
tive board, with Instructions TO see that
the interests OF the order were consid
cred. The proposition TO compel mem.
bors OF the order who also belong to
unions In the Federation to choose he
tween the two was then taken up.
After long Discussion tho proposition
was voted down by u vote OF eighty
10 six,
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PnAcEUNILLT, Colo, Nov. ls.-Mr.
Olof Melon, night shiit hos, Of the
silver Pick mine near this city, was
killed ias. night by the premature
explosion Of g!Rni pewter, which it u
sUprosed he wM thgwiug out by the
FIRE. His body was found lying out.
side o, hls cabin, where Il had been
hurled by tho force OF the explosion,
with both hauds blown ofl aud his
face badly mut!lntci. Death must
have hren instantaneous. His body
was brought DOWN to the mills this
morning by his comrades, where II Is
being irspsred for burial. The wheto.
abouIs % uis ffiouds are unknown.
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ADLAI HONORED.
The vice.President. elect Given n Re
cepfion Mt Gnicsburg.

GALEsDuRo, H., Nov. ls.-Vice.
Presidend.olect Stevenson was given o
hearty reception here today. The town
was beautifully decorated In his honor,
Republican business men vieing with
Democrats Ia Identifying their places
Of business. A committee Of promi-
nent citizeus met Stevenson and part y
at Peoria and accompanied them here.
A large crowd from this and other
cities assembled Ut the depot and
cheered Justify ms the Vice President.
elect appeared. Hon. Newton Bateman,
John IL. Finlay, president OF Knox
College, Mayor Cooke anu other citi-
zens escorted Mr.. Stevenson 10 the
Union hotel In a big procession. At
the hotel number OF indies assisted IN
the reception, which was q brilliant
affair. Democrats from forty miles
around were present.