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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-03-16
WAS SHE INSANE?

A divorce case of unusual interest
was tried before Judge Severance to-
day. 1t is an action for divorce and
alimOny brought by Louisa Moses
against Thomas Moses, wealthy and
intelligent farmer living in LIE Sueur
county, three miles from KasOta. They
were married at Cleveland, LIE Suem
county, Dec. 18th, 1868, the plaintiff
being seventeen and the defendant
thirty years of age. They have ten
living children, ranging in age from
five to twenty-five years. The COM
plant alleges cruel and inhuman
treatment, penuriOuSnesS, and refusal
to furnish money for personal needs,
and frequent wrongful, unjust and
jealous charges of intimacy with other
men, and threats to do bodily harm,
and objections to her going from home,
even to attend church or visit neigh
bors. All this the defendant denies,
and the plaintiff did not attempt to
prove it in the trial.
The two points upon which evidence
was introduced, and upon which the
case depends, are whether Mrs. Moses
was insane about year ago, and
whether Mr.. Moses believed her to be
insane. Both of these propositions
the defense sought to prove by numer-
Gus witnesses, and the plaintiff sought
to disprove. The plaintiff states in
her complaint that on Eeb'y 1St, 1893,
her husband circulated rumOrS that
she was imbecile and insane, and that
on Feb'y 10, 1893, he wrOngfully pro-
cured her commitment to the St.Pete1
asylum, where she remained for six
weeks, until discharged. The defense
alleges that her actions became
strange and wild, and attracted atten-
tiOn until reports got abroad that she
was insane, and her children were
afraid to stay with her. Mr.. Moses
then, upon the advice of her physician
and friends, purchased house at
Kasota and placed her therein, osten,
Sibly to secure better educational ia
cilities for the children, but really to
to give his wife change. She was
afterwards examined according tC
law, as to her sanity, and committed
to the asylum.
The plaintiff alleges that the de,
PENDANT has over 500 acres of land in
LIE Sueur county, worth $4,000; town
lots and buildings in Kasota worth
$4,000; stock worth $1,000; and secure
ties worth $4,000: all of which she
helped him to accumulate by hel
labor, as they started in poor. He de-
MES these values, and claims that his
land is only worth $11 900, his Kasota
property 81, 800, his stock 81, 1000, ano
his securities $500.
Hughes Bros. appeared for Mrs
Moses, and Hon. G. S. Ives, of st
Peter. for the defendant. The case
was tried before Judge Severance IL
open court, and a large number O.
witnesses and friends from KaSotf
and vicinity, including many ladies
! were present.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-03-16

Gus Coy has been notified of an
increase of pension from So to SIT per
Gus is deserving of it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-03-16
Honey to Lend.

Money to loan on farm lands, at the
Mankato Savings bank.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-03-16

On motion board adjourned tt
May LIST. 1894.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
Making Billiard Cushions.

The making of billiard cushions is al
important industry, but is carried Oh
by two or three firms alone, and while
the story of the difficulty which has
been overcome in preventing the ball
from sinking into the rubber and thus
destroying the angle desired to be taken
is an interesting one it has been told
before and will not be repeated now.
In the early days Of the industry the
manufacturer employed valve rubber
and obtained much better price for 1t
when it was worked up into the cush-
ion.
Then the cushion maker set his wits
to work to get the valve rubber cheap
ly. but in those days it was strongly
held, and none was allowed to pass tC
that industry unless it paid the en-
hanced royalty. Finally the combina-
tion was broken by firm in Pittsburg
ordering the valve rubber ostensibly fOr
ordinary use, but shipping it back to
New York for the intended purpose.
So skillfully and patiently was this
done that great quantity was accumu-
lated, and the valve rubber man threw
up the sponge. Now billiard cushions
are made of nodded rubber, an evolu-
ton which came along later.-Hard-
ware
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
La FOntaine's Opinion of Himself.

La Fontaine, said one of the most
brilliant critics and wits of the famous
fable writer's time, lis such fool that
he does not know he has more genius
than Esop or Ph9drus.
In truth, he was a severe critic of his
own work. He attended the first presen-
tation of his ''Astree, and sat near
some ladies who did not know him. AT
some of the important passages he ex-
claimed: "That is wretched! That is
absurd!"
When they protested that it was
good, and that it was by the great La
Fontaine, he rejoined:
That makes no difference. The
piece is bad. | know tnat La Fontaine
you are speaking of. He's stupid fell
low. He's myself"
Then he went out, entered cafe and
went to sleep in a corner. Some of his
friends found him there and inquired
why he wasn't listening to 'Astree."
'Oh," said the author, rousing him.
self and sitting yawn, II just came
away. The first part displeased me
greatly. No one agreed with what said
about it. but didn care to hear more.
I admire the patience of the Parisians. "
Youths Companion.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
Gambling.

A considerable proportion bf failure
in business and 80 per cent of the de-
falcations and theft and ruin of youth
among people who are employed in
places of trust are due directly to gam
bling. | have seen in my vast employ
ment so much misery from the head Of
the family negIecting its support, and
squandering his earnings in the lottery
or the policy shop. and promising young
men led astray in small way, and final
ly becoming fugitives OF landing in
the criminal dock, that have come to
believe that the community which IL
renses and tolerates public. gambling
cannot have prosperity in basiness, re-
ligion in Its churches or morality among
its people. Depew.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
POINTERS ON THE GRIP.
A Description of the Disease by One Who
Has Suffered.

Ever had the grip? l will give you
few pointers. You will imagine you
have a bad cold, and you can wear it
out, but you need not try it. The grip
has fastened his fangs onto you and will
not let go. You have got to give up, go
home and go to bed. In short time
you will realize Beecher's S dream of hell
You will think your head has been re-
moved and an old beehive with the
empty comb left in its place. Your
mouth will taste like pail of sauer-
kraut. You have the grip.
The doctor comes, looks you over,
puts his thermometer in your mouth.
finds Your temperature 104 degrees in
the shade, your pulse going at the rate
Of two miles and three laps to the sec
ond. He orders you 10 stay in bed and
gives you medicine that is so strong and
sour that simply setting the bottle on
the clock shelf stopped the clock. He
will tell your wife that she may give
you warm drinks and try to get You
to sweat and take his leave. Now, all
wives are family doctors by right of
their position in the house, and as you
have gone to sleep, deliriOus and ex-
hausted, she begins her treatment by
putting belladonna plaster across your
lungs, a fiaxseed poultice on one side
and mustard poultice on the other,
a hot hatiron and jug of hot water to
your feet, and sack of boiled corn in
the ear, piping hot, to your back. You
sleep and dream Of being away to the
far north in search of the north pole or
out in the center of some beautiful
sheet of water, like Lake Superior or
the lawn tennis skating rink, helpless
and alone, with the ice breaking all
around you and you slowly sinking.
You finally awake, burned, blistered and
baked. The doctor calls. finds your
temperature about so degrees at the
north side of the house and your pulse
normal, not needing a pacemaker. He
pronounces you better, convalescing;
orders beef tea, chicken soup, Cruel
and toast as diet. You take the big
rocking chair exhausted, tired, dis
couraged and ugly; you feel like lick
ing your wife, kicking the dog and
breaking up the furniture, but you
won't do anything but sit there dey
after day weak, helpless and tired
Winona (Minn.) Herald.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
Marriage Proposal Reform,

A suggestion is made for legal re-
form which. while retaining breach of
promise actions, would deprive them of
all their ornamental trimmings in the
shape of love letters and the other usual
incidents of courtship. 1t is proposed
that no promise of marriage should be
held valid unless it is made in writing
upon properly stamped paper. Young
ladies might affix sixlenny stamp to
the letter in which the swain declares
his affections and ask him to be so good
as to cancel it'with his autograph.
London Tit Bits.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
CnySte and Eagle.

". G. Plummer of Prineville once
witnessed an exciting fight between an
eagle and a coyote. The eagle had
caught a rabbit. and the coyote under
took to take it away from him. The
eagle defended his prey manfully for
some time, but the coyote was too much
for him and finally got away with the
rabbit, but not until after the eagle had
cIawed several bandfuls OF hair out OF
his back and left him somewhat disfig-
ured.-Portland Oregonian.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
Ancient Preservation of the Dead.

Herodotus gives good description of
the manner in which the early Ethiopi-
ans preserved their dead. Having thor
oughly dried the corpse, they plastered
it over with paste made of gypsum and
then painted the face and exposed parts
SO as TO make them look as natural as
possible. Dead bodies served in this
manner remained intact for hundreds of
years.-St. Louis Republic.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
She Waa Tnxitad

Did any one say anything to me?"
asked Mamie as she saw the family at
luncheon.
mo, my child. but will You have
some salad?"
II don't know" replied the child.
Mamma said | must not eat less
was 'vited. Newport Daily News.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
All They Have to Do.

When Miss Limberjaw returned from
Washington, she remarked to her friend,
Miss Chatterbox, ''Only think of it, Mat
tie, the men in congress are paid liberal
salaries, and all they have to do is to
talk
Miss Chatterbox-How ridiculous!-
Exchange.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
ABOUT
PRESCRIPTIONS.

The best medicines are none too
good for sick folns. It's bad enough
to be sick without running chances
with second grade drugs. That's the
reason we buy only the very best
quality of everything. LIS great
satisfaction TO us TO know that every
prescription We send out is just as
good as good drugs will make it.
No matter what you paid for it you
couldn't get il any better.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-09
Women as Conductors.

Mr.. Harry Furniss, in The st. James
budget, comes out as an advocate Of
feminine bus conductors. He asks, "Is
it not time the rude male conductor was
| abolished and girls employed instead?'
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16
A Worthy Gift.

General Isaac F. Wistar, grandnephew
Of Professor Caspar Wistar, has present.
ed to the University Of Pennsylvania q
building and its contents, to be known
as the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and
Biology. General Wistar is not down
ON the list of famous millionaires Of the
Union, but he has perhaps here done
his country as much service as any IA
nous millionaire now living ever did.
1t has heretofore been necessary for our
gifted young men and women scientific
students to go to Europe for the best In
struotion in the special branches In
which the Wistar institute offers facin-
ty for learning Now they can study
at home and add laurels to our incip-
lent American scholarship. Biology Ia
the branch in which stupendous prob
lens Of science are to be solved, prob
lens involving the origin, we'll being
and destiny of man, The Wistar insti-
tute has anatomical and other collec-
tions of rare value to aid the student
In art and high scholarship Ameri-
cans are lacking. There was 30 much
purely material work to do in the be-
ginning that there was no time for
anything else. Now as people we are
rich. We have 1000 millionaires.
many Of them multimillionaires. The
duty of the hour before them is to give
Of their wealth for the splendid endow-
ment and equipment of institutions Of
art, music, science, economics and sani-
tation. They must not pause till every
thing in the world Of education can be
acquired in the United States even bet-
ter than in Europe.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16
The Mosquito Coast.

The international complications at
Bluefields make of especial interest Just
now paper by DR. R. N. Keely in The
Popular Science Month";. Dr. Keely in
the beginning says it is quite possible
that on little reflection we may con-
clude the fussy little republic of Nicara-
qua is as essentially an integral part of
the United States as if it lay between
Chicago and Denver. The proposition
will be startling to some minds until it
Is remembered that through Nicaragua
the new American ship canal is to pass
which gives us waterway to the Pa
ciflc. Nicaragua is in a continual fer
ment. The Mosquito coast along her
borders has long been watched with
covetous eye by the English. Once let
the English take possession of the Mos
quito coast, the next step will be the abb
sorption of the Nicaragua and interoce-
anic ship canal also. That is the posi-
bility to which DR.. Keely points. A
protectorate of the United States for
Nicaragua has already been suggested.
The Mosquito coast, or Indian reserva-
tion, is strip Of land 200 miles long, 40
miles wide, running along the coast Of
the Caribbean sea in the southeast por-
tion Of Nicaragua If you draw line
from Indianapolis due south, it will
touch the western boundary of the Mos
quito Indian reservation. The capital Of
the Mosquito country is the town of
Bluefields, formerly written Blewfelds.
1t is the only seaport the reservation
has, little wooden village. It would
not have been even that if American
money and enterprise had not built it up
1t is incidental to the growth Of the
great banana industry, at which some
Of our fellow citizens are doing well,
bless theml The other industry of Mos.
quitoland is the cutting and shipping
Of mahogany timber, Of which vast
quantities are found.
The natives are Indians Of various
tribes. Those in the interior are of
comparatively pure blood. Those along
the coast are a mixture of Indian and
negro, with dash Of white contributed
by traders and the jolly old pirates Of
the Spanish main
1t rains nine months in the year in
Mosquitoland. Still white people who
are there do well financially. The soil
is Of extraordinary fertility, which Is
one reason why the Mosquitoes are no
further advanc cd in civilization. Life
is too easy. Nicaragua exercises pro-
tectorate over the Mosquitoes and would
like to exercise something more.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16

James Reddick, an irresponsible brute
in Oklahoma, whipped his little 11-year-
old stepdaughter to death. It is this kind
OF fact, coming with stunning force
against the consciousness occasionally,
that proves to us the world is not yet
civilized. Not even the savage excels In
brutality and ferocity the SO called civil
ized parent who whips helpless child
cruelty. The best. most enlightened and
refined way. of bringing up children in
this age Of the world is to spare the rod
If possible. Exactly in proportion as q
parent is wise, refined, brainy and in
telligent, exactly in that degree does
he refrain from whipping. There are
other and better ways of winning chill
dren to obedience, if only the parent will
take the trouble to find them ont. Froe-
bel, the founder of kindergartening,
would have exclaimed with horror at the
proposition to beat little child.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16


and from there he went to Fulton, Mo-,
where Westminster college is situated,
and started an extensive revival among
the populace and students. AT the close
Of 1852 he went to st. Louis and built
the Carondelet Avenue church, which
he dedicated free of debt. In 1866 he
took charge Of the Cohocksink church
in Philadelphia, added 200 members to
1t within few months and built the
handsome edifice In which the congre-
cation still worships.
After spending seven years at the Co
hocksink church DR.. Mutchmore was
transferred to the Alexander church,
where he paid large debt and made
great improvements, contributing $12,-
900 from his own pocket toward the
funds raised for the purpose. During
this pastorate DR.. Mutchmore started
the Memorial church as mission, to
redeem promise to little girl on her
deathbed who gave him her missionary
box. The mission soon outgrew the par
emit congregation, and since 1881 the
doctor has devoted himself entirely to its
service.
Dr. Mutchmore purchased The Pres
byterian in 1878 and has contributed to
Its columns ever since. He is the author
Of several books of travel and has vol
ume Of sermons now in press entitled
Spiritual Voiapul.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16
A PROMINENT PRESBYTERIAN.
Moderator Mutchmore Has Been Preaching
For Thirty-six Years.

Moderator Mutchmore Has Been Preaching
For Thirty-six Years.
Rev. DIR. Samuel A. Mutchmore, who
was elected moderator of the one hun
dred and sixth general assembly of the
Presbyterian church at Saratoga, is pas
tor of the fashionable Memorial church
of Philadelphia and one of the editors
and proprietors of The Presbyterian, the
weekly organ Of the denomination in
Pennsylvania. He has lived and worked
in Philadelphia for nearly 80 years,
serving three different churches as pas
tor, and two years ago was the moder-
ator of the synod Of Pennsylvania
DR.. Mutchmore was born in Ohio of.
Scotch-I Irish Revolutionary stock. His
father was soldier in the war of 1912,
and his mother was daughter of Colo
mel Thomas McCune, who served under
Washington. DR.. Mutchmore was stu
dent in Ohio university and studied law
for year and half at the University
of Indiana, after which he graduated at
Center college, Danville, KY, and
studied theology at the Danville semi
nary. He began his active ministerial
labors in 1858 as home missionary in
southern Kentucky.
The first settled pastorate to which
the doctor was called was at Columbia,
No. the seat Of the Missouri university,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16

Stupid young King Alexander of Ser.
via is taking the best possible way to
lose his crown If not his head. He has
evidently fallen under the influence Of
his still more stupid father, Milan, and
also taken lesson from the czar of Rus
sia, the emperor of Germany and my
lord Pooh Bah in the ''Mikado Young
man. 1t won't wear In this age Of the
world.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16

It does not matter vitality, after all,
whether other people always respect
you. But it does matter very much
whether you see mean man every
time you glance into the looking glass.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-16

The time is coming when the mar
riage of criminals and diseased persons
will be prohibited by law.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-04-14
JUDGEEF FRIFDRLL.

The name of Judge L. Z. Friedell
appears at the head of our an
.u0uncement column. today. as a
candidate for reelection to the Of
.fce of County Judge of Miller coun
ty which he has held during the
past two years, with honor to him.
self and credit to the county.
Aside from the honest, intelligent
and impartial discharge of the du-
ties of his Office, Judge Friedell has
been the prime mover in the erec-
tion OF 5liller county's new court
house, an elegant and imposing
structure, which must endure, for
years, as an ornament to the coun-
ty, marking an era of unexampled
progress i'm the administration OF
county affairs. To Judge FriedelI
belongs a lions share of the credit
for this splendid structure. True a
mistake of judgment in the moneta-
ry arrangement therefor is charged
to him, but no disastrous result has
followed to confirm the charge.
Even were it true the Judge does
not claim to be infallible or more
than mortal, hence liable to err
as other men. But certain it is
that his entire course of action as
County Judge and each separate eff.
fort on his part, in behalf of county
and people, has been wholly without
reproach. He is, therefore, emit.
tied to reelection on two of the
best possible grounds; first, on ac'
count of his own merit as an able
and faithful official, and, second,
because of the established custom
of his party TO accord to each de-
serving Democratic official the en-
dorsemeut of q second term
The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-04-14
LAFAYETTE for King

Just at the hour Of going to press
we received the following Dispatch
which speaks for itself:
NEW LEwIsvILLE, Ark, Apr H.
EDITOR TEXARKANIAN.
In the township convention here
today, on the Senatorial question
Col D. L. King received 76 votes,
Maj. A. H. Sewer 10 votes and Col
W H. King / votes. This township
has nineteen votes in the County
Convention. King viii carry the
county. r. L. MONTGOMERY.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-04-14
Brlght spring DaYs.

The spring should be pre-emineut-
Ifassason of coutentment happi-
ness and hope In these bright
pIelsaut months tile country
AoaU enjoy its highest degree oG
tranquility and prosperity But
spring, Ii Is well known is often q
period Of discomfort and dis
Uurbmce in The physical sy
tenn Important organs of
tAebody become torpid OF irreguIar
in tIieir action and the fact is inc
ttaaty rejected in the mental cons
Gtion Of The individual a disor-
nered liver means djsordercd nerves
and a lull andunsteadybrliu Any
thing which will bring Che physical
system into harmony with
DuEoing Nature, coufers aa
enormous benefit upon the
latou besides the mere allaymg of
physical discomfort Hoods Sar-
aparilla does this, as thousands of
ratemland happy men AM women
can testify, and increased use of
.his standard spring medicine is of
uyre rcal practical Importance ia
romoting health and quiet in the
business world than reams of abb
,'ract theofizing.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-04-14
REV. W. A. CLARK ARRESTED.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Apr 13-A
warrant was sworn out before JUS
tice Emmich this morning against
Dr. W. A. Clark, editor of the Ark
ansas Baptist and a prominent
member of the Baptist denomina-
ton, charging him with disturbing
a religious congregation by using
language and acting in a manner
calculated to disquiet, insult
and interrupt the congrega
ton The warrant was sworn
out by Mr.. J. B. McGahan
who alleges that on the night Of the
9th inst, while J. n. Whitehead
was delivering a sermon, he was
interrupted by DR.. Clark who
made remarks calculated to iniure
his good character The warrant
was served on DR.. Clark, who was
allowed to go on his own rlcognjz-
anCe until tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock, the hour set for his trial.
Whitehead has been here several
weeks, preaching sanchfcation, and
and at Beebe Ark, claimed to e
Baptist minister. Three Mississippi
Baptist Ministers sent a letter over
their signature to the Baptist, DR.
Clark's paper, which stated that
Whitehead was not a minister in
any church and had been excluded
from the Baptist church. he
made application here to hold ser
vices in the local Baptist churches
and, being refused, Las teeu
preaching in a vacant store build
ing, where he has been assisted by
a Salvation Army woman, and it
was out of curiosity that the doc
tor attended the servics on the oc-
casion which has caused his arrest.