New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-06

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the Keeper of the Dark
Lantern; Capacity Unlimited; Mankay-
too, Minn.,'' Commenting on the above
the Northwestern Miller editor says
''Larry Kennedy, the redoubtable Larry,
makes his headquarters at Mankaytoo,
and occasionally emerges from the woods
to say few words of encouragement to
the gallant band which fit, bled and died
under the banner of his king. Larry s
faith never falters, and he still has hopes
that the fallen glory OF the
monarchy will some day be re-
stored. At present he is stimulating
the tagging enthusiasm Of the rank and
file by writing epistles on stationery,
headed as above.' Edgar ordinarily
sells that much space to millers at very
high figure, but then, it IS rumored that
he and Kennedy occasionally lunch ste
gither.''
Most people, I suppose, will be sur
Prised to know that the late Jerry Rusk,
he whom so many were booming for
either presidential 0, presidential
honors, knew nothing of grammar and
on the whole was an exceedingly litter
ate man. And yet that is what close
acquaintance of the distinguished citizen
said of him at the Dakota House the
other evening. The gentleman Interview
ed was I. B. Jennings Of Sparta, Wis,
and he had known Mr.. Rusk for many
years. Were the latter to be called up-
on fer speech, Mr.. Jennings said, he
would make flat failure of it from his
utter lack of schooling. And were he to
write simple sentence, it would be in
a manner that would make school-boy
laugh. But for all of that Rusk was
brainy; IN fact he was a giant, mental
ly as we'll as he was physically. All
Rusk needed was a scholar to put his
thoughts into proper shape on paper.and
the whole country knows the effect
Moreover. it was his ambition to become
a member of the presidents cabinet and
that was the only appointive office he
ever accepted, notwithstanding he ,had
been rendered many.
The other morning at the Dakota
House breakfast table dropped into a
conversation with a Mr.. Porteous OF
Liverpool, England. An Englishman
by the way, providing he is bright and
intelligent, is pleasant man to talk to-
His peculiar way Of putting things, his
strange sounding dialect and his charac-
teristic ideas of American institutions
all make him a conversationallst to be
priced in this section-if for no othe,
reason, then on account of his rarity.
"What remarkable system of news
papers you have in this country" com.
mcnced our English friend, sand how
different they are from the journals OF
Europe, Why, I cannot begin to SEE
through them. I have tried, as a busy
man, to get hold of the news in one Of
your great dailies, but had to give it up
the task being altogether too much fol
an Englishman. I have had to wait till ]
reached some of the smaller western towns
before [ could dare to pick up one an6
hope to read it with satisfaction.''
From this the conversation ran into
a demand for more coffee and with il
the following O'Rellian dissertation on
American hotels: ''This coffee is the
BEST | have had since reached America
1t is like what you can get in places in
Germany and France, but we don't have
It IN Britian, neither have you in the
4 average hotels of your country. WHY.
the stuf which I have had dished up to
me as coffee in some Of the leading hotels
Of your own state is no more than di1ty
water. The art Of preparing good
coffee beverage, seems to be foreign to
our race
Mr. Porteous happens to be in the
grain and -four business in Liverpool,
| and this fact prompted me to ask him
concerning the present low prices in
/ -four and wheat. He at once attributed
| it tooverpr reduction, alleging that the
i producers purposely doubled their crops
4 IN n order TO make up for the deficiency In