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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-21
A smallpox Epidemic.

BRID9EPoRr. Conn. June l4.-An cpl
demic of the smallpox has broken out
among the residents of the town Of Kent.
Twelve cases of the disease are reported.
Health officials have guaranteed the
toWn
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-21
West Brookfeld.

Carl Wakefield and Newman Smead are
visiting in Vergennes.
Smith Blanchard caught a half. pound
trout the other day.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-21
Notice

The highway tax assessed on the grand
list OF 1894 is in my hands for collection
and will remain for ninety days from June
LIST. All persons paying their taxes with
In said ninety days will receive discount
OF per cent.
WIN. J. TREvILLIAN, Collector.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-21
. GIVE THE BABY


THE ONLY
Perfect Substitute for Mothers Mir
SEND fog our book :" The Care and Feeding
DoLlBER-ooopALE Co., Boston. MASS.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES.

Each of the schools made good con-
tribution to the fire sufferers.
The enrolment in the High school
is 1885, The faculty is composed of O..
NJ. Searls, Principal, E. III. Dutton,
Ida M. Crawford, Florence Soule and
Miss Chapman, each graduate of
some of the best colleges. The Super
intendent gives large part of each
forenoon to the High school. His Of
flee hours are from to a. M, and he
can be found in his recitation room
until II a. m.
The scienceclassesi in physiology and
physics are doing much experiment
work
Several delegations of children have
been moved from one building to
another so as not to overcrowd any
grades.
Mr.. Farmer and Miss Patterson are
now at their work.
Principal Searles has rented house
on Record street which he will occupy.
The boys will devote some time to
ball and the girls to the gymnasium
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
COUNTY FAIR ANNOUNCEMENTS
GARDEN CITY, Sept. 10th, 1894.

GARDEN CITY, Sept. 10th, 1894.
EDITOR FREE PRESS: will send
you few items concerning the county
fair. The executive board met at
Garden City Sa turday to complete ar
arrangements for the fair. The Off
GERS present were:
President, W. w. MOBILES, Lake
Crystal.
Vice President, W. P. John, Lake
Crystal.
1st Vice Pres. P. E. Latin, Amboy.
End Vice Pres, Jno. Diamond, Man
katO.
3rd Vice Pres. w. G. DAILY, Maple
ton.
Treasurer, j. R. Thompson, Garden
City.
Secretary, f. B. Nickerson, Garden
City.
Marshal, P. J. Putrah, Garden City.
Supt. Floral Hall, L. A. Dudley,
Garden City.
The vice presidents from the differ
ent commissioners districts brought
in very encouraging reports.
Vice President Daily, of Mapleton,
says that Mapleton is going TO turn
out en- masse and help to make this
the best fair ever held in the county.
People are already sending in articles
for entry.
Agent Reid, of Garden City. has
made arrangements with the Omaha
road to give excursion rates from all
points between Garden City and Ell
more, Window and LeSueur.
Prof. Matter, of Mankato was at
the meeting and informed the COM
mittee that number of bicycle
riders were coming from Mankato to
take part in the races.
1t was voted to allow no gambling
devices allowed on the grounds.
The license for stand privileges was
fixed at S., which admits two persons
to the grounds.
The ladies of the Christian church
will furnish dinner upon the grounds,
which insures visitors first class
dinner for only 25 cents.
1t was voted to give $40 in cash for
medals for the bicycle races.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
The Wisconsin Central Line

Runs two fast trains daily between St.
Paul, Minneapolis, and Chicago, Mil
waukee, and all points in Wisconsin
making connections in Chicago with
all lines running east and south.
Tickets sold and baggage checked
through to all points in the United
States and Canadian provinces. For
full information regarding routes,
rates, maps, folders, ETC., address your
nearest ticket agent or Jas. G. Pond,
gen. pass. agent, Milwaukee. Wis.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14

On account of the fair at Winnie
bago City the Omaha Ry. will sell eX-
curSion tickets from Mankato to that
point on Sept. 10Th to 2lst inclusive,
at rate of S1.50 for the round trip.
Tickets will be good to return not
ater than Sept. %, 1894.
The new tariff bill has gone into
effect at the Model Clothing and Shoe
House and cannot help but please both
Republicans and Democrats. ALI the
big boys and smaller ones should call
and see what we have done to our
prices. They are astonishingly LOao.
The Model Clothing and Shoe House.
The st. Peter base ball club will
play two games of ball, one on Satur-
day and one on Sunday, Sept. 18th
10th next with a Minneapolis team of
ex-professional ball players, and two
very fine games are expected. The
members of the Minneapolis team are
as follows: Elmer Foster, Joe Visner,
Clarence Corbett, "Banty'' Mccarthy
Mike Lynch, Eddie Martin, Jack
Bennett, Lyons Hill and "Kid" Flee
than. Joe Visnerd has played all this
season with the Minneapolis league
team.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
Or. Prices Cream Baking PoN.des
Most Perfect Made.

The county board adjourned this
afternoon. Nothing very important
was done today.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
Or. Prices Cream, Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.

In Tuesdays Democratic county
convention not a single voice was
raised to deny that Henry Robel was
promised the nomination for sheriff
four years ago. Yet those promises
were broken without any conjunction
of conscience.
While in Chicago, Mr.. Charles L.
Kahler, prominent shoe merchant
of Des Moines, Iowa, had quite Sc
rious time of it. He took such Sc
we're cold that he could hardly talk or
navigate, but the prompt use of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured
him of this cold so quick that others
at the hotel who had had colds fol-
lowed his example and half dozen
persons ordered it from the nearest
drug store. They were profuse in
their thanks to Mr.. Kahler for telling
them how to cure a bad cold SO
quickly. For sale by H. l. Parry,
Druggist.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award

"A. M. Bailey, a well known citi-
zen of Eugene, Oregon, says his wife
has for years been troubled with
chronic diarrhea and used many rem
edies with little relief until she tried
Chamberlains Collie, Cholera and
Diarrh9a Remedy, which has cured
her sound and we'll. Give it trial
and you will be surprised at the
prompt relief it affords. 25 and 80
cent bottles for sale by III. |. Parry,
Druggist.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14

Now we are ready for you, come
one and all we will save you money
and please you. The Model Clothing
and Shoe House.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
They Promise rlOre Like 1t.
Heron Lake News:

Heron Lake NeWs
Every paper brings reports of reduc-
tions in wages in some factory, made
necessary in order to meet the prices
of goods that are imported under the
new tariff law. And Cleveland and
congress promise still further DEMENT'S
to American labOrerS.
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14

John G. Mauger, editor of the Sun
beam, Seligman, Mo-, who named
Grover Cleveland for the presidency
in Nov, 1882, while he was mayor of
Buffalo, n. Y, is enthusiastic in his
praise of Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera
and DiarrhGa Remedy. He says: 81
have used it for the past five years
and consider it the best preparation
of the kind in the market. 1t is as
staple as sugar and coffee in this sec
tiOn. 1t is an article of merit and
should be used in every household.
For sale by H. l. Parry, Druggist
The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
TO LOCATE IN rlANKATO.

DR.. G. S. Talbert, of Minneapolis,
took out a five years lease on suit
of rooms over the Model Clothing
store this morning, and will open
therein dental parlors within the
next ten days. He has rented the
residence of Mr. Henry Robel, corner
Main and Fourth streets, and will
bring his family here soon. The doc
tor says he comes to Mankato to make
his home, and he will be an acquisi-
ti0n to our professional circle who will
receive warm welcome.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
STRANGE DISCOVERY IN AFRICA
Balzac's Dressing Gown ia the j3artirobe
of the kim Of Dril.A1,,s.,.

Balzac's Dressing Gown ia The t:ardrobe
of the King Of Daho,ncY.
Unlool1ed-for things have been found
in unlikely places, says the Illustrated
London News. but there los rro'5a bly,
been no discovery more lc-l4ra-oble
than that of Balzac's dressing gown in
the possession of the king OF Dahon ey
Monarchs are rarely literary, and his
dusky majesty, one would think, WI as
the very last of them to have set much
value upon the personal relic of nov
elist, however distinguished. Never
theless, the French found it in the
royal apartment at Abomey. There
were some ingenious theories founded
upon this circumstance. One Of the
amazons, it was thought, might have
been novel reader, and had sent to
Paris to secure the interesting memen-
to, and, on the affair coming to the
knowledge of her sovereign, had
hastened to say she had purchased it
for his own shoulders. For, indeed, he
always wore it upon state occasions. 1t
was not a dressing gown, such as
literary persons in this country arc
wont to wear (of second-class flannel
worn at the edges, but OF purple vel
vet embroidered with gold. rs mat
ter of fact, it had been given to Dal2ac
by some of his admirers and after his
death had bee bought by a dealer in
curiosities, who had placed it, with
other snowy articles, on the West
African market. It is sad TO think how
plain tale will put down that is,
destroy the materials of q fine TO-
nance.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
AN ENGLISH MAKE SIORY~
Inc weird Tale Of ia Terrible Dragon o.

Hcc.bura towns.
In the old English chop" boo, and
folklore stories the Yorkshire dragon
is always referred to as the hampton
Worm" the word worm meaning
snake OF dragon: Lanpt N bcin,: the
name OF the man who finally succeeded
in Staying the hideous creature. An
other old-timc English myth. scarcely
less popular than that OF G1e hampton
worm, is that of the Dragon OF Sock
burn Downs" The name OF tac man
who slew the Soclzburn nightmare is
still preserved, and is that OF one of
the best known North Country farni-
lies. His tomb is still to be seen j., tho
ruins Of the church AT Sockburn, where
also he lay in effigy with q rude sculp-
ture OF the dragon at his feet. When
the Old Church had cru,nblcd to an un-
recognizable mass OF stone and mortar.
the efiigies of the hero and the worm
were removed to Socllburn hall.
Among the other relics preserved at
TINS hall may be seen the identical
1alchlon or sword with which the mon
ster was slain. Near by, almost in
SIGHT OF this miniature museum OF rel
les. IS a gigantic bowlder, living in the
midst Of Worm Field" Here. the
legend says, the creature attempted to
HIDE itself Oh the day when it was Dur
sued and vanquisled by the hero of
SOc!1burn Downs.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
A NEW PAIR OF EARS.
remarkable Feat in Surgery Performe
by o French Physician


by a French Physician.
At the Bicetre hospital in Paris. saws
the London Daily News, the we'll
known surgeon, M. Landry, lately per-
formed curious operation on :. work
man OF Belgium nationality. The
Belgian, it appears, got drunk a short
time ago and was taken to the police
station at GENTLY when in state of
utter helplessness. While he was in
the cells another drunkard,' a 'mechan-
ical engineer named Machant, was
brought in in state bordering on
delirium tremens. Machant was in a
terribly excited state and he attacked
his fellow prisoner with extraordinary
ferocity, striking him, and, horrible to
relase, biting off both his ears.
When he came to himself Machant
became very penitent and asked to be
taken to the bedside of his victim, who
was now in the Bicetre hospital, in
order to ask his forgiveness. DR..
Landry, who was there, said: Should
you like to give him back his ears?''
Certainly" said the man. Then -
said the doctor, s'let me cut a couple of
small slips of flesh from your arm and
it can be DONE" The man consented
and the doctor did as he had suggested.
The pieces of flesh he shaped as well
as he could to the likeness of pair of
ears and joined them to the wounded
places. According to the latest &C.
counts the operation has been a COM
plete success.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
Artificial Petroleum.

One of the latest chemical discoveries
is method for the artificial produc-
ton of petroleum. The process IS Sim
pie and effective. 1t is the distillation
of animal fats and oils at a tempera-
tire of three hundred TO four hundred
degrees centigrade at a pressure of
twenty-five atmospheres in strong
iron vessel. About seventy per cent.
Of the fatty matter is transformed into
petroleum, this being ninety per cent.
of the theoretical yield. The discov-
cry is not of any commercial inn
portance up to date as the arti-
fetal product costs great deal
more than the natural product of
the rock. But for aught anyone is
justified in saying to the contrary all
this may be changed within the next
few years by the use of cheaper basic
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
SLIM SALARIES.
The Kind of Pay Upon Which Some Meth
Odist Preachers Must Live.


odist Preachers Must Live.
Methodist preachers are proverbially
an i'll paid lot, and they always feel
that the phrase las poor as church
mouse" applies with peculiar fitness to
them. 1t is one of the denomination S
frequent assertions, however, that its
WORK is largely among the poor people,
who cannot afford to give their pas
tors large salaries. In the old days
when living was cheap the salaries
were really not so small in proportion
to the living expenses as they are
now. Then Methodist parson witha
salary of four hundred dollars could. if
he had country passionate, live COM
fortably, keep a horse, send his nine or
ten children to school and manage to
lay by penny for rainy day. There
are plenty of the ''old stagers'' left
among the Methodist preachers who
went through those times, and who
are now living frugally on the amount
which they laid by. Salaries among
the Methodists have advanced some
what, but they are still extremely low.
The country parsons look upon their
city brethren as rolling in wealth and
luxury, vet not a single Methodist pas
tor even in New York city receives as
high salary as five thousand dollars
year. This seems incredible, but. &C
cording to the New York Tribune, it is
a fact, though it must be remembered
that a parsonage is almost always pro-
vided and is furnished in some way or
other, comfortable or uncomfortable.
1t is not until one comes to the cOun-
try districts that the really meager sal
aries are found. The case of the
preacher who applied for full connec-
ton with the recent conference at
Brooklyn is still fresh. Somebody got
up and said that the applicant owed
money, and SO ought not to be allowed
to come in. Then committee found
out that the man had only three hun
dred dollars year salary; that out of
this sum he had to support himself and
keep horse, and on Sundays had to
ride thirty or forty miles to preach.
They decided to let him in. 1t is some
times the case that the country preach
er's salary is eked out by do
nation" from his kind-hearted parish
toner's. They flock to the parsonage in
body some night, bring enough sand
wiches and cakes and pies and cider to
enjoy themselves thoroughly, turn the
house upside down, leave few clothes,
provisions and. perhaps, little money,
and then go home with the impression
that they, have provided a winters
supply of food for the dominie's fam
lily, and have done altogether the neat
thing
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29

The following is clipped by London
Truth from Croal,e James ''Curiosities
OF Law aud Lawyers IF a man
were to give to another an ORANGE he
would merely say: L give You this
orange but when the transaction is
Entrusted to the hands of lawyer to
put it in writing, he adopts this form:
l hereby give, grant and convey to
you all and singular my estate and
interest. right, title, claim and adj
vantage of and in the said orange. to-
gether with all its rind, skin, Juice,
pulp and pips, and all right and i'd
vantage therein, with full power to
bite, cut, Suck and otherwise eat the
same, or give the sane away, as fully
anc effectually as I. the said A. B., am
now entitled to bite, cut, suck or
otherwise eat the sama orange, or give
the same away, with or without it's
rlnd, skin, juice, pulp and pips, any
thing hereinbefore or hereinafter, or
in any other deed or deeds, instrument
or instruments, of what nature or kind
soever to the contrary in anywise not
withstanding."'
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
ONE or lls-E'U e. T.sCttiES.

ONE or Lli-E'v it. GniES.
Why Some People Pass EnlpSy Car Seats
and G. wa Those Partially Occupied.
There is one thing that has always
been more or less Of q mystery to me-"
said Il Traveller to a writer for the Kew
York Sun. and that is tie motive that
prompts sorrc passengers in a car in
which there are entirely vacant seats
to take seat with somebody. In some
cases the reason for this is simple
enough: it may be that the person
takes the first seat he comes to and is
satisfied; it may be that the vacant
entire seats are at the other end OF the
car and not seen at a casual glance:
sometimes peraon unaccustoled to
travel rather tiinidly takes the first
seat at hand: but the person that I
have in mind is the one Who either de-
Hberately, or with what one might call
deliberate thouGhtlessness. takes a
seat with somebody when there are
vacant entire seats in plain sight. |
have seen, for instance, Il man sitting
by Il window, alone in a seat. in a car
in which there was plenty Of room.
reading. Knowing that there was
plenty of room he had perhaps sort of
preempted that seat, and was making
himself comfortable in it, and was
thinking Of nothing but his reading.
Along comes q rather stout lady. who.
though there is more room elsewhere.
for some to me utterly Incompetent
sible reason. decides that she wants
to sit in that particular seat She
moves silently. She halt5 in the aisle
at the end of the seat. and slowly
moves in so that she can sit down.
She says nothing to the man. She
does not even look at him: she has rot
looked at him since the mornert that
she decided 70 take that seat. a.. he i,
as yet unc2acciOus of her Presence
Looking straight ahead with Grcat
caimness, she sits down deliberately.
Then the man looks around with a
panied sort OF look. He moves closer
to the window and goes en- reading.
but he won't regain his inward com
posture for an hour Now why the
lady should have taken that particular
seat is one of the things that l don't
understand"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
INCREASE IN TENANT FARMING.
Figures Which Show the Growing Power
of the Mississippi valley.

u CHt NISblsSIppA Nalcys
The percentage of farm-hiring fami-
lies in Iowa in 1890 was 1857. The per-
centage of hired farms in Illinois in
1880 was 31.3S; the figures for 1890 are
not yet published, but the growth of
tenancy in other states indicates that
the percentage will not be less than
40. Between 1880 and 1890 Wisconsin
gained 6,750 owning cultivators and
1877 tenant cultivators; Iowa gained
only 1881 owning cultivators and 49,
sos tenant cultivators. The percent
age of tenancy in Minnesota increased
from 9.i5 to 1925. In Nebraska the
percentage of tenancy was 1902 in 1880.
The figures for 1890 are not out, but
the area cultivated by tenants of the
state increased from 953, 1888 acres in
1854 to 1,497. 470 in 1890, and A. +. Eent-
ley's monograph on Harrison, Neb.,
taking taat as a typical western farm
community, showed that of 1875 owners
of the land in that township. fifty-one
had never been resident in the town,
and ten had lived there and moved
away; 1860 acres in that town were
cultivated by owners and $3.50 by ten
ants. Between 1880 and 1884 the num-
Der of Michigan farms cultivated by
owners diminished seventy-four and
the number of rented farms increased
1854 What do these facts indicate?
According to the New York CONNER
cial Bulletin they indicate that where
as twenty or thirty years ago the cul-
tivators Of the soil had all the prod
ucts, considerable and growing frac-
ton of the farmers of the west, as well
as OF New England, New Jersey and
the south, now, with the prices of
produce lower than they used to be,
divide the products with the owners of
the land
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
ENGLISH FRED TAPE"
How an appointment with an Nj. p. in the
House OF Commons Was Kept.

How an appointment with an NJ. P. in the
House OF Commons Was Kept.
English red tape" is a queer thing,
says writer in the New Yorl,
Herald. More than once 1 ran foul
OF it within the sacred precincts
OF the British house of commons.
once had an engagement to
meet an Irish NJ. p. there some fif-
teen minutes before the house opened.
handed my card to the blue-coated
functlonary who guarded the entrance
corridor, with the request that he hand
1t to the NJ. p. in question.
Sorry, SIR" said he, Il cawn't do il.
There hain't hany messengers ERE vet.
an my horders is not to take in hanv
cards myself
persuasion and entreaty were alike
wasted upon him. Having had pre-
vious experience of the potent influ-
ence OF shilling or two judiciously
bestowed, l attempted bribery. But
he proved to be incompatible.
The situation was embarrassing and
annoying. My engagement concerned
matter OF some Importance, to myself
at least. knew that the NJ. was
within few hundred feet of me, and
here was l, as effectually prevented
nom getting at him by barrier of
red tape" as if there stretched stone
walls and iron bars between us.
NJ last bethought me that there
was telegraph Office in the rotunda.
just a few yards away. rushed to it
anu IN hot haste indicted this message:
am here, but the blank fool OF doorkeeper
won take my card to YOU"
me clerk gravely took my message.
palo as much for its transmission as
!, II had been directed to somebody in
the most remote corner of the British
isles. A telegraph boy, being priv.
legged to pass the doorkeeper, conveyed
IL 10 the representative of a somewhat
!uroulent constituency. He responded
Immediately. and had the satisfac.
ton OF knowing that for once had
clrcumvente English s:red tape.~
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
Weddings and Funerals in China.

Strangers in China have the greatest
difficulty when meeting funeral or
wedding procession on the street to
distinguish one from the other. The
same red cloth coolies, carrying roast
ed pig and other dainties, appear in the
procession, the same smaller coolies
carrying cheap paper ornaments. and
the same noisy turnout. And all
this when some old person is being
carried to his last resting place. as
when the youngest and most beautiful
celestial maiden is being carried to
the new home prepared by her hus-
band. The crowd al funeral is as
noisy as at wedding ana the guests
eat just as much. The only difference.
indeed, between the two is that in the
center of one the bride is carried in an
lncloscd sedan chair, borne on the
shoulders of some men, and followed
py her bridesmaids. In that of the
other the coffin is carried and the
mourners follow. Indeed, an English
writer says that no event in the life of
2 Chinaman is half SO important as his
funeral =, aus
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29

i.!a .ur;al, or because of tAc increased
scarcity of petroleum, or both. The
ma tier, in any event, is one of great
scientific interest. 1t tends to show
how the natural article has been pro
duccd by the process of nature, while
it may prove to be the starting point in
an investigation that will lead up tC
other discoveries having more prac-
teal bearing.