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The Green Forest tribune., 1894-01-11
COLLECTORS NOTICE.

] will meet the tax payers of Carroll county,
Ark. at the following times and places for the
purpose of collecting the per capati tax and tax
on real and personal property of said county
for the year 1893. viz
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07
FIGURED DOWN FINE.

The problem of caring for the poor
in the large cities through the long
winter before us has led to a great
many experiments as to how the
greatest amount of good can be &C
complished with the least amount of
money, and it would seem by the fol-
lowing which we clip from the Min
neapolis Times that the problem of
subsistence had been gotten down to
as fine a point so far as cost is con-
cerned as is possible to get it,
Some time ago the "Boston Com
monWealth" undertook to answer the
question how cheap and nutritious
food supply can be made available to
meet the unusual wants of the unem-
ployed this winter; and the answer
was a demonstration of the way in
which 1000 persons could be well fed
at cost of 800 per day. 1t is three
meals for ten cents
This demonstration was not theor-
etical, but practical; nor was it based
upon food supply of the cheap and
unappetizing order which so often
figures in such calculations. The bill
OF fare provided is, for breakfast, hot
soup, eight ounces of bread: for lunch
con, eight ounces of bread, an ounce
OF butterine, small cup of coffee
with an ounce of milk in it and an
ounce of apple sauce; for supper, meat
and potato hash, hot soup, eight
ounces. of bread. All this for ten
cents for the three meals: with prac-
tical variations, including baked
beans, spaghetti, stew, etc.
1t should be said that in this calcu-
lation the articles used are of the best
quality, and that the cost includes.
fuel, labor, service and everything ex-
cept rent.
This makes it possible to reach a
large class in our great cities, who are
laboring under temporary embarrass-
ment. They are not paupers nor
tramps, and they scOrn to be treated
by charity as such through free soup
houses and such means, and as the
Times remarks they will go to the
verge Of starvation before they will
humilate themselves in such a way.
The scheme detailed above offers a
way out, for the cost is so small the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

DONNELLY has resigned the preSi-
dency of the State Alliance, and de-
clares his intention to retire perman-
emily from politics. He assumes the
role of an injured patriot, and says
that he is denied all chance to carry
out any of his ideas for the benefit of
the people, and that even seat in the
legislature is denied him, and he is
eager to retire from the semi-public
position he has occupied and wrap
himself up in the gloom of his disap-
pointments. The trouble is, the peO-
pie are on to his vagaries and fanciful
dreams, and have no desire to place
him where he can in any way infiict
them upon the public other than
through his newspaper. So long as
they fall in harmless way, the public
has no objection, but when it comes to
Incorporating them into matters of
legislation it is another question.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

SOME of the powers of Europe are
getting a little nervous over Japan's
intentions, or rather to know what
they are. Russia, for instance, would
like to have an Intervention on the
part of the powers for the purpose of
finding out. But just at present
Japan is not at all disposed to reveal
to a curious world what her inten-
tions are and seems inclined to carry
out her own ideas regarding settle
ment with China. Whatever the re-
suit may be, one thing is very certain,
and that is that Japan will have to be
recognized as leading power by the
nations of the world, for that position
has been we'll earned by the forceful
manner in which she has prosecuted
the war, which is now approaching
successful termination for the Japs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07
SHOULD BE CAREFULLY CON-
SiDEREO.

In, our issue of Wednesday evening
we published communication from
Hon. Geo. II. Fletcher, of Minneapolis.
on the city charter question, which
will occupy more or less of the atten-
tion of the legislature the coming seS-
sion. There can be no denying the
fact that as Mr.. Fletcher says, if the
smaller cities of the state, like Man
kato. do not take concerted action to
look out for their own interests, they
will 90 by default, for the larger cities
will certainly pay no attention to
them.
In this connection we will say that
City Attorney Young has taken the
right course in his attempt to secure
united action on the part OF the
smaller cities in this matter and there
ought to be hearty response, for it is
matter of vital Importance to them
all. But even with united action it
is doubtful is general charter can be
framed which will not work more or
less injustice to many or all of the
cities it affects.
1t seems to the FREE PRESS that the
plan suggested by Mr. Fletcher is by
far the best one which has been made
yet. A carefully drawn law outlining
the plan on which charter should be
made would secure far better results
and greater satisfaction than gen
eral charter which could not possibly
cover the many phases of municipal
needs in the different portions of the
state.
Each city knows its own peculiar
needs far better than other portions
of the state. 1t is the Sheerest folly
to assert that residents of Mankato
are familiar with the charter require
ments of Minneapolis or st. Paul. as
concerns the details, or that residents
of that city could draw one which
would meet the full requirements of
Mankato. If city is not able to
frame it's own charter after the gen
eral outlines have been made, then
popular government, so far as cities
are concerned, must be conceded a
failure, and that is point no one is
yet ready to cOncede.
1t ought not to be hard matter to
get such a law as Mr. Fletcher Sug-
gests, properly framed with such safe
guards as are needed in order to pre-
vent certain abuses to grow up, and in
fact it seems to be about the only way
in which the question can be met to
the satisfaction Of the many varied in
terests which are to be cared for, and
Mr. Fletcher's letter is one which
should be given careful consideration.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07
DANIEL SHELL FOR SPEAKER.

Since the date upon which the FREE
PRESS brought to public notice the
name of Hon. Daniel Shell, of Worth
ington, as speaker of the Minnesota
house of representatives it has been
received with most cordial response
by large number of papers from
every quarter of the state and by rep
reSentatives-elect everywhere. Mr..
Shell is a magnetic man, thoroughly
honest, just and wholly impartial gen.
tleman, and as presiding officer
would lend dignity to the position and
bring to it degree of fairness to
every section that would admit of
only the strongest expressions of COM
mendation for equal justice to all and
partiality to none.
Wednesday evenings Minneapolis
Journal contained a reference to Mr..
Shell quite out of place in that usu-
ally fair and impartial dispenser of
public news. 1t assumes that he and
Capt. Van SAINT have Joined forces
against Hon. Jno. l.. Gibbs, and that
if the Captain develops more strength
than he in the caucus he will throw
his strength for the Winona man and
receive as reward the craftsmanship
of an important committee. A more
unjust accusation could hardly be
conceived. Mr. Shell is in the race to
win if he can, failing in which he
would be the last man on earth to try
to deliver his friends to any one. In
such an emergency they will go just
where they may please on the speak
ership question and Mr. Shell will be
entirely pleased. If there is any trad
ing or selling out on this matter we
have full authority for saying that it
will not be done by Mr. Shell or the
friends authorized to speak for him.
and those who know the Worthington
man know this to be a fact without
our saying so.
Mr.. Shell is loyal citizen and one
who holds honor far above pelf If he
cannot get the speakers chair with
out resorting to questionable methods
it is perfectly fair to say for him at
this time that the position will go to
some one else. That the second dis
trict is richly entitled to this dis
tinction there can be no question in
the mind of any representative who
believes in the fair geographical dis
tribution of political favors. Above
and beyond this fact is the further
claim that the Second district presents
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07
CAN WE SOLVE 1T ALONE.

tits now thirty-four years since that
far-seeing statesman, William III. Sew
ard, standing on the bank of the Mis-
sissippi river, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean. predicted that it's valley was
soon to be the real seat Of empire in
the United States. He undoubtedly
| recognized in his own defeat by Mr..
Lincoln a short time before a land
mark in that inevitable drift of power.
Events have abundantly justified that
forecast. The gathering at st. Louis
this week known as the Trans Mis-
siSsippi Congress furnished a good OPP
portunity to impress upon the country
the fact that west of the Mississippi
is cluster of states exceeding in mum
Der, population, wealth, and area the
original thirteen states, not counting
the four territories bound to be adj
mitted to the Union at an early day,
or Alaska and Indian Territory.
Neither political party can afford to
ignore the interests of those states.
All of them, with three exceptions.
are naturally Republican, but they are
keenly alive to their material inter-
ests and waking up to the fact that
they are very largely dependent upon
congressional action for prosperity.
The Inter Ocean then proceeds
to define the position of Demo
crazy toward those states,
and says that it declares for
free raw material, which in the sense
it is used, are the chief productions of
this vast region. 1t also refers to the
gold monOmetalliSm of President
Cleveland and declares it is what keeps
alive the opposite extreme of silver
recommendation. 1t then refers to the
position of the Republican party as
being most favorable to the interests
of the west, and to the declaration of
it's last national convention to secure
an international agreement on the
silver question, and adds:
That was all very well in 1892, but
III Is CNluCuU UlldU III SJlCu dSlCCIl1tilU
is likely to be made, and unless some
radical change comes over the foreign
monetary situation it will be idle to
look abroad for help. America is SO
rich in both gold and silver that it can
afford to solve it's own bimetallic
problem.
Undoubtedly to certain degree of
this country can solve it alone, by
taking as much silver as it can safely
handle. Further than that it would
be folly to go. If the Inter Ocean
means that by solving the problem
alone this country should enter upon
the sea Of free coinage, it is certainly
treading upon dangerous ground. 1t
may be able to take care of much
more, but to open the minis to the I'M
limited and free coinage of our silver
product would be fraught with
danger.
The position which the Republican
party has taken and today advocates,
is the use Of silver to as great an eX-
tent as safety to our financial system
will allow, further than this the party
cannot afford to go, even if it does not
satisfy the silver states of the west.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

The grumbling which Mr.. Wilson
is doing in connection with his defeat
and the general result throughout the
country, by stating that it was a kick
of the heel on the part of the people,
and had very little brains in it, will
not raise him in the estimation of the
public generally, and is quite in con-
trast with the quiet. gentlemanly
way in which Gov. Mckinley took his
defeat four years ago. Defeat is as tell
ing upon a mans character as success,
and in many instances shows up his
sterling qualities, or lack of them, to
greater extent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

IT is truly amusing and at times
quite ludicrous to note with what
avidity some of the metropolitan re-
porters Jump at prominent name
from the country and Immediately
proclaim that the gentleman is can
didate for United States senator. At
some time or another within the past
three weeks almost every prominent
man in the state has been trotted out.
To be sure large number of those
who have been paraded through pub
lie print as being aspirants have re-
pudiated the soft impeachment, yet
the festive reporter tireth not but
persists in his efforts to create inter
est by daily unearthing new "hosses"
so to speak. The latest name to be
added to the roll of distinguished
citizens who are dying or who are sup
posed to be willing to yield up their
all for senatorial hOnOrS is Judge
Severance of Mankato. The Mime
apolis Penny Press says that she is
boldly proclaimed as candidate with
his consent" The young man on the
repOrtorial staff of the Penny Press
should be called in, for by publishing
such statements he makes the paper
on which he dishes up ''news" of this
kind very ridiculous. Every man in
Minnesota who knows Judge Sever
ance knows that his name has not
been mentioned in this connection
with his consent, or with his knowl-
edge. The Judge has no aspirations
in the direction named, and being
Democrat he would stand no show
with the coming legislature even if
he had the ''bee buZzing''-which he
has not. Would it not be we'll for the
management of some of these city
papers to gently hint to their political
reporters to first post themselves on
the political sentiments of the gentle
men they want to bring out as sena-
tors before making them bona fide
candidates? 1t would certainly look
better on paper in this year of grace
to Eight onto" Republicans if for no
other reason than for appearance sake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

the name of a man who possesses the
attributes which should be embodied
in an official of this character second
to no man in the state, and whose
reputation for impartial consideration
and unbiased Judgment stands out
clear and well defined.
Let the Second district representa-
tiveS combine as a unit upon Mr..
Shell and he will be elected with
hands down. This, we believe, they
will do.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

EDWARD ATKINSON is said to favor
the repeal Of the tax on state bank
notes. This hardly accords with the
general good sense Mr.. Atkinson has
displayed on most economic matters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

the means for it can in many cases be
more easily provided than could other
means of charity, for their relief and
if it is made to work successfully, will
to great degree solve the problem of
howto take care of the deserving poor
of the great cities.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

The Mortified NeaUs thinks that
while Cleveland may no longer be
loved for the enemies he has made,
that he is probably loved by the capt.
talists for the bonds he has issued.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-07

No MATTER how much the Demo
cratic party in congress may disagree,
there is no question but that Democ-
racy as at present represented in the
Michigan legislature will be a unit on
all questions. 1t will have to be, I'M
less it is case where a man disagrees
with himself.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
Facts Worth Knowing.

In all diseases of the nasal mucous
membrane the remedy used must be
non-ilrtating. Nothing satisfactory can
be accomplished with douches, snuffs,
powders or astringents, because they
are irritating, do not thoror Aly reach
the affected surfaces and 9uld be
abandoned as worse than ia..ures. A
multitude of persons who had for years
horne all the worry and pain that cat
arrh can inhict testify to radical and
permanent cures wrought by Elys
Cream Balm. Your druggists has it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
Li2pincott's Magazine
For June, 1894.

The complete novel in the June
number of LIppINcoT1's is The
Wonder Witch, by M. G. McClelland,
1t is a charming romance of Virginia,
beginning in war times, and happily
concluded long afterwards. The title
refers to ring, which had strange
story of its own, and the supposed
power of keeping its wearer constant
to its giver.
Gilbert Parker's serial, The Tres.
passer," reaches its close after carrying
the hero through queer adventures
and dire social and moral dangers.
The Rumpety Case" by Anna
Fuller, the well-known author of &C. A
Literary Courtship,' tells how justice
was done upon domestic tyrant by
the joint action of Providence and an
honest farmer, after the forms of law
had failed to reach the case.
Two in the Other Half" by F.
Ogden Hays, is powerful and pathe
tic sketch of the lowest life in New
York.
Under the heading Sea Island
Cotton Respun,' Dora +. w. Spratt
tells how those islands, with their SIM
pie population, passed under northern
care in war times.
In 1.-The New Northwest Passage
to the Orient" J. Macdonald Oxley
writes of the Canadian Pacific Railway
and its line of steamers to Japan.
In Hot Work on the pampas," d"
Morgan S. Edmunds describes the sup
preston of brigandage in the Argentine
Republic in 1873.
The venerable poet and essayist, r.
H. Stoddard, supplies in "Mv First
Literary Acquaintances,' one Of those
pleasant semi-autobiographical sketch
es with which our readers are familiar.
Agnes Repplier discourses, in her
own brilliant vein, OF "The Passing of
the Essay" 1t is safe to predict that
the essay will not pass away while
Miss Repplier wields the pen.
"Dusk in the Desert" by NJ. S.
Paden, is remarkable poem, full Of
strength, originality, and beauty. The
other verse Of the number is by Ella
Gilbert Ives, Sarah Matthews Handy,
Ulysses Francis Duff, and Charles G..
d. Roberts.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure Deaf
ness, and that is b. constitutional rem
edies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tnbe. When this
tube gets inhamed you have rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t is entirely closed Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken OFT and this tube restor.
ed to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever nine cases ou,
of ten are caused by catarrh which is
nothing but an inhamed condition Of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of Deafness Caused by
catarrn) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c. I'm.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

The Southern idea of pie is ex-
tremely crude when applied to that
Succulent Northern dish, and subtly
refined when directed to the political
variety, says the Washington Post.
The farthest development in the pie
line that the native Southerner has
attained is to a manufacture of sweet
potato, which is State prison coun-
terfeit and forgery of the New Eng
land pumpkin pie, and even that base
imitation has obtained foothold no
farther south than South Carolina.
Congressman Crane, of Texas. says
that the people of Texas regard the
pie family as Caesar regarded Gaul-
divided into three kinds. "the kivered,
the unliivered and the cross-barred." )"
Il overheard" said he, 'some years
ago q great debate between n North
ern printer and Southern compos-
itor on the subject of the late war.
The Southerner was hot. impetuous
and sentimental. The Northern cham
pion calm, cool and even phlegmatic.
why, didn't we lick you out of
your boots at Manassas
Granted said the Northern type
sticker.
Didn't we smash you at Cold Har-
Dor, and wipe the ground up with you
in the WildnernessT
Granted said the other.
"'Didn't we tie you all up in knots
and make rags of you all through the
Peninsula campaign?
Granted said the Northerner,
but how was it at Appomattoxy
Yes, how was it at Appomattox? 2
shouted the Southron, growing senti-
mental as the mingled beers and whis-
kies they We're consuming rose to his
head. we had thirteen thousand
poor ragged, footsore, tired, starved.
veterans. without a single round of
ammunition, while you had three hun
dred thousand fat, sassy soldiers, pro-
vided with every luxury, and ev-every
mothers s-son of 'em,' he sob
bed, plumb full of piev"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Then came the cry, Command him
70 make a speech" to Grant, who
arose slowly, took his cigar from his
able brevity which was the soul OF
his wit:
II never commanded a man to do
that which | cannot do myself"
A pathetic story. recently published
relates to the last brief journey he
ever took from the cottage on Mt.
MacGregor. The general had n favoritc
walking-stick without which he never
went abroad. even on his drives, and
his walking-stick had its own place
in the corner of his room; no hand but
his own ever put 1t there or took II
thence. Day after day the journey
from his chair to that corner before
he set forth, from the corner to his
chair after his return, and the re
placement of the stick In Its own
place, grew more difficult to the gen
erals nerveless and weary feet And
there came that day, at last, when on
coming in, he glanced towards the cor
ner, stood for Il moment silently,
waveringly, little quiver on the
brave and stcadfast lips, and then
with a gesture which was wordless
rcnunciation of life and all dear asso-
Citations, he opened his tremulous
hand and let the old stick drop from
II to the floor at his feet 1t was but
a few days later that he entered, with
a soldiers courage. that shadowy val
ley Of the Journey through which
David said: "1'hy rod, Thy staff,
they comfort me-"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
The Grant Monument

Grant. lie looked around and nodded
his head. Then he told me to put the
basket over by the counter When |
was going home with my father
told him that Mr.. Grant must be a
lazy man. The one impression | re-
ceiyed was that he must be a poor
business man, so indolent and indif-
ferent did he seem as he sat tipped
back there smoking his cigar"
The modesty of the great soldier
was always as great as his apparent
Indifference to the smaller concerns
Of life.
When Gen Grant and Gen. Sher.
man were given big reception In
Chicago at the close of the war. this
characteristic story was related of the
hero: He sat with Sherman In the
gallery of the sanitary fair building
on Dearborn Square, where the recep
tion was held, and there were loud
cries for q speech from Gen. Sher-
man. Speech speech rang out in
trumpet tones from the mass, but
herman would not respond.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
! Can Procure You Money

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