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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13

The county board is in session this
afternoon, and will continue SO for
several days.
j. G. Roller will sell binding
Irvine as low as the Saltwater Irvine,
and guarantee it to be much better.
Something new in infants soft
sole shoes. Just arrived. G. III.
AUSTIN & Son.
The suit of T. E. Cahill VS.. /.
Longini was tried before Judge Shiss-
Ter Saturday and he has the case I'M
der adviSement.
Christine Meihofer swore out a
warrant Saturday for the arrest of
Martin Meihofer, on the charge of
emitting to support his wife and child
since June 10th.
w. w. P. Mcconnell organized a
Sunday school at the White school
house, near Eagle Lake, yesterday.
1t will be known as the White School
House Union Sunday school, and
Horace Cummins is superintendent.
Revival services still continue
with unabating interest at the Chris
tian church, and will continue all this
week. The subject for tonight will
be: "Emptied of Sin get on the Road
to He'll" Come and bring your friends
with you and help in the great and
good work of rescuing the perishing.
The preliminary examination of
Edward Burdick, charged with grand
larceny in the second degree, was be-
gun Friday before Judge Shissler. B.
d. Smith appeared for the complain
ing witness, G. III. Saulpaugh, and G.
O. Daley for the defendant. When
the state rested this afternoon, Mr..
Daley moved that the case be dis
missed, on the ground that the court
has no jurisdiction in the case, that
it does not appear from the evidence
that any offense has been committed,
and that if the evidence tends to
show the commission of any offense it
is the crime of petit larceny, and this
court has jurisdiction to try and de-
termine the matter, and the defend
ant has expressly waived his right to
trial by jury. This motion was argued,
and the court took until tomorrow
morning to decide it,.
The trial of John w. Sorenson on
the charge of assault in the third de-
gree, preferred by Theresa Holtz, took
place Friday. County Attorney
Benedict appeared for the state, and
G. O. Daley for the defendant. The
complaining witness admitted that
she attempted to lock Sorenson's
family in his house, and that the
alleged assault consisted in his using
no more than reasonable means to Sc.
cure admission to the house, forcing
her hand from the key and causing
her to stand aside. When the state
rested, Mr.. Daley moved that the
case be dismissed, on the ground that
no offense had been proved, and that
Sorenson had a perfect right in sell
protection to do what it was claimed
he did. The court took this view Of
the case, sustained the motion anC
discharged the defendant.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13
The Human Electrical Forces F.!
How They Control the Organs
of the Body.

The electrical force of the human body, as
the nerve fluid may be termed, is an espe-
cially attractive department of science, as it
exerts so marked an influence on the health
produced by the brain and conveyed by
means of the nerves to the various organs of
the body TINS sunnlYing the latter with the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13

WITH possible Indictment for con-
spiracy staring him in his face, Dictat-
or Debs begins to whine that he is not
responsible for the strike, and lays it
on to the shoulders of other men.
That is the usual style of men of his
caliber.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13

vitality necessary to in
sure their health. The
pneumOgastric nerve, as
shown here, may be said
to be the most important
of the entire nerve SyS-
tenn, as it supplies the
heart, lungs, stomach,
bowels, ETC., with the
nerve force necessary to
keep them active and
healthy. AS will be seen
by the cut the long nerve
descending from t b e
base of the brain and
terminating in the bow
els is the trio,
while the numerous lit
tie branches supply the
heart, lungs and stom-
ach with necessary vi
tality. When the brain
becomes in any way dis
ordered by irritability
or exhaustion, the nerve
force which it supplies
is lessened, and the Or
gans receiving the di-
minished supply are con-
Sequently weakened.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13

Physicians generally fail to recognize
organ itselfinstead of the cause of the trouble
The noted specialist. Franklin Miles, NJ. D..
LII. B., has given the greater part of his life
discoveries concerning it are due to his efforts
Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine, the unri-
vailed brain and nerve food, sprepared on the
difficulties originate from disorders of the
nerve centers. Its wonderful success in curing
these disorders is testified to by thousands in
every part of the land.
Restorative Nervine cures sleeplessness,
nervous prostration, dizziness, hysteria, sex
uai debility, st. Vitus dance epilepsy. etc. 1t
is sold on positive guarantee by all drug
gists, or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical
Co, Elkhart, Ind, on receipt Of price, 81 per
pottle, six bottles for Is, express prepaid.
Sold ty all druggists.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13

"A. M. Rutan now has on hand
some money he can place on good first
mortgage farm land security.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13
Wool! Wool /!

Highest market prices paid for good,
clean wool by Mankato Knitting
Mills.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13
WANTED.

Two copies of the WEEKLY FREE
PRESS dated April q and Febru-
airy 16, 1894, at this Office.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
AN ACCOMPLISHED BIRD.
How Parrot and Its Owner Swindled al
Old Lady.

81 saw a good, motheriy Old lady
shamefully swindled in New Orleans
one day." said traveller to st. Lonis
Globe-Democrat man. "a vessel had
Just come in from South America and
brought with it a very large and hand
some parrot. 1t was the property of an
italian sailor. He ca ashore with
Polly perched on his shoulder and was
soon stopped by the old lady in ques-
ton, who inquired If he would sell the
bird That was his business ashore,
but he did not consider it necessary to
advertise that fact in black-faced type.
After telling the necessary amount of
trading lies he offered to part with
Polly for fifty dollars. The old lady
looked disappointed and turned away.
As she did so the bird began to sing
Nearer, Ny God, to Thee. She turned
and came back. The parrot began to
chatter to her: Mica womanl Mica
ladyl Me lika MICA lady! Polly kiss
MICA ladyr That settled it. She paid
the fifty dollars and took the cage. AS
she started off the bird screamed out:
Where in hella you maka to witha de
Poll!' 1t ripped, swore and black
guarded her shamefully. She dropped
the cage aghast, and the bird screeched:
You breaka my damn necza, huh?'
Then followed several forcible but in
elegant expressions about old women
in general and that unfortunate speci-
men in particular. She went back to
the Sailor and said, very meekly: My
good man, | guess ! won't take the
bird after ALL oh, you no taxa de
bird, huh? | give you fifteen dollars
fora de Bird said the sailor. Well,
there was no help for it. She couldn't
take the blasphemous feathered biped
home, SO she took her fifteen dollars
and her departure, while tears of morti-
fcation streamed down her withered
cheeks, CHANGED out in the residence
part of the city that afternoon and saw
the sailor negotiating with new cns-
toner. Polly was at her old tricks and
insisted on kissing the MICA lady,"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30

was climbing, and when l reached the
nest found one egg in it. After had
loosened the kite and let it drop 3
placed the crows egg in my mouth and
kept it there until had backed down
the tree, and then ] ran TO the barn
and put the egg under a hen that had
been sitting day or so. The old hen
offered no objections, and several days
before she came off with her chickens
she Matched out the liveliest little crow
| ever saw. We began TO raise the baby
crow in the house; when he was big
enough to run around on the floor |
named him Kite. lie learned to say a
good many words by the time he was u
year old, and one morning that sum
mer heard him yelling down the un
used chimney at a lot of swallows that
were nesting in It. The swallows were
making great racket. and Kite was
singing out; 'Hold your tonguer as loud
as he could yell.
kite could tell the time of dey by the
clock, and when the weather was cloudy
used to send him to the house from
the field to see what time it was. In
stead of asking my wife the crow would
look at the clock without saying word
to her and then sail back to the lot and
sing it out to me. When the sky was
clear | could tell by the sun within ten
minutes what time it was, and the crow
got SO that he could guess almost as
close as | could. One sunshiny after
noon told Kite to fly to the house and
bring me the time. The crow cooked
his head to one side, glanced up at the
sun, and said: It's five minutes to two
Johnr told him it was later than that
and he flew to the house and back anC
said: Its two minutes to twol" and he
was right.
"The crow got feeble the winter after
he was five years old. He eouldn't
stand the cold, and kept him in boz
half full of shavings behind the stove
He lost his appetite soon after New
Years, and one night when | had got
ready to go to bed he called me to hin
and said: John, Kite'll be dead il
the morning | fused over him an(
told him he was good for another year
but couldn't make him believe it. Ny
bed was near the stove, and in thC
night he erawled out of his box ant
asked me to take him in bed with me
Kites almost gonel' he whispered, ant
when awoke he lay dead on my
breast"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30

q month old ea.iiy bring $50 apiece and
when half grown slO0.
JOHN HAYNES, who was killed by the
trolley in Philadelphia few days ago,
was 12-year-old grandson of Chang
Booller), one OF the famous Siamese
twins.
A KANSAS farmer whorhad had much
trouble in shipping eggs at last sue
ceeded in getting consignment delivr
cred in good order by marking the box
dynamite"
A VERY pretty girl named Annie Nc.
Tegue, eyed nineteen, of Wannamasa,
n. j., was fondling pet horse, when
the animal suddenly snapped at the
girls face and bit her nose, almost tear.
ing it Off. She viii be dishgured for
life.
THE frizzled glass threads from which
cloth is woven are said to sufpass in
fneness not only the finest cotton but
even the thread of the silk worms CO.
coon, their softness and elasticity being
even greater than that of manufactured
silk ''lint."
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
A DEMAND FOR DUMMY CARS
Risks to Which the Clerks In the Railway
Postal Service Are Subjected

Risks 10 Which the Clerks In the Railway
Postal Service Are Subjected.
The demand of the postal clerks that
their mail ears be placed in a safer part
OF tho train than next to the locomotive
is very reasonable. l always get on q
car near the center of train, and al
though have been in several accidents
have never been scratched. The m
fortunate mail clerk, however, has not
this opportunity of protecting himself,
and, as the result, every time there is n
head-end collision, or a locomotive
jumps the track. the list of killed and
injured is always headed by one or more
mail clerks, if the train carried mail at
all. 1t is, perhaps, impossible to make
up trains invariably with baggage or
express cars next the locomotive, and
even il it were that would be only trans
ferring grievance from one class of
employees TO another, but, says the St.
Louis Globe-D Democrat, it would save
/ companies money in the long run If
I they would run light but strong dummy
cars next the engine, and let them bear
the brunt OF the shock when two trains
try to occupy the same space at the
same moment. The patent offices of
this and other countries are full of
models of rubber-protected and other
ears designed for this purpose, and, al
though most of these are too compli-
Gated, costly and cumbrous to be used
generally, some of them would answer
the purpose well and not put the com
panies to unreasonable expense. Pub
lie opinion may one day become strong
enough to compel their adoption for
the purpose of saving life.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
COURT DAIES.

Be it enac'e ed by the legislative
assembly of the territory of New
Mexico:
Sec. I. The terms of the district
court hereafter to be held III the coun-
ties of Santa Fe San Juan. Rio Ar
riba and raos, shall be held IN satI
counties Leginning at Tie times here
nafter fixed and continuing until ad-
journed by the order of the court, to-
Wit:
In the county of San Juan, on the
Sd Mondays in April and October.
In the county of Rio Arriba, on thu
first MONDAYS in May aud November.
In the county of raos, on the third
Mondays in May and November.
lu the county Of Santa Fe, on the
second Mondays in June ana Decenl-
Der.
Sec. 2. The spring 1898 term in the
county Of Lincoln shall Oe held begin
ming on the second Monday in Aprli in
stead OF the second Monday IN March,
as now fixed.
In the county Of Chavez, beginning
on the fourth Monday in March Instead
OF the tmld Monday iu February.
In the county OF Eddy, beginning Oh
the second Monday III March instead OF
the first Monday IN February.
In the county of Dona Ana, begin
ming on the first Monday in March III
stead Of the first Monday in February.
In the county of Sierra, beginning ON
the fourth Monday OF March instead
of the third Monday IN March.
In The county of Grant, beginning on
the third Monday in April Instead ol
the second Monday in April.
See. 8. After the spring 1899 term,
all terms of court for the counties oi
Lincoln, Chavez Eddy, Dona and
Grant. shall remain as fixed by the law
of 1891
In the county Of Colfax, on tile 4th
Monday in March and the I'd Monday
III October
In The ca nty Of San NJ guel, on the
second Monday in April and NoVem.
Der.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
AN ANCIENT AMERICAN TOWN
Some of the Queer Features of Laguna.
New Mexico.

Some of the Queer Features of Laguna.
New Mexico.
Laguna is built upon rounded eleva
ton of rock. Its appearance is exactly
that of Syrian village, the same clus-
ter of little, square, hat-roofed houses
in terraces, the same brown color, and
under the same pale blue sky. And the
resemblance was completed by the fig
ures of the women on the roofs; or NOV
ing down the slope, erect and supple,
carrying on the head water-iar, and
holding together by one hand the man
tie worn like Spanish rebozo. The
village is irregularly built, without
much regard to streets or alleys, and it
has no special side of entrance or ap-
proach. Every side presents a blank
wall of adobe, and the entrance seems
quite by chance. Yet the way we went
over the smooth slope was worn here
and there in channels three or four
inches deep, as if by the passing feet of
many generations. The only semblance
of architectural regularity is in the
plaza, not perfectly square, upon which
some of the houses look, and where the
annual dances take place. The houses
have the effect of being built in ter
races rising one above the other,
but it is hard to say exactly what a
house is-whether it is any thing more
than one room. You can reach some of
the houses only by the aid of ladder
You enter others from the street. If
you will go further, you must climb a
ladder, which brings you to the roof,
that is used as the sitting-roorn or door
yard of the next room. From this
room you may still ascend to others, or
you may pass through low and small
doorways to other apartments. 1t is
all hap-hazard, but exceedingly pictur-
esque. You may find some of the fam
lily in every room, or they may be gath.
cred, women and babies, on a roof
which is protected by parapet. At
'Nn timo of our visit the men were all
away at work in their fields. Notwith-
standing the houses are only sun-dried
bricks, and the village is without water
or street commissioners, | was struck
by the universal cleanliness. There
was no refuse in the corners or alleys
no odors, and many of the rooms were
patterns of neatness. To be sure, an
old woman here and there kept her
hens in an adjoining apartment above
her own, and there was the litter of
children and of rather careless house
keeping But, taken altogether, the
town is an example for some more civ
ilized, whose inhabitants wash oftener
and dress better than these Indians
Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's
Magazine.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
ENTERTAINING TRIPLES.

A MAN in Missouri sues for divorce
from his wife because she would not go
anywhere with him. but insisted on his
remaining at home to take care of
things.
A DEFENDANT in a New York court
confessed that he was the ''most motor
ious liar in the world. l can't help it.
would rather tell lie than not"
AN Atchison woman recently fell in
love with and married a widower, for
no other reason, she says, than that he
took such good care of his first wife's
grave.
Mrs. j. A. MCDONALD, of Traverse
City, Mich, made her husband a Christ
mas present little too realistic to al
low of his ever forgetting it. She pre-
sented him with triplets, two girls and
one boy, each a screaming success.
ONE day in October, just when New
Jersey fisherman had broken his last
hook, a school of fish passed along
which he estimated to be twenty miles
long and two broad, and packed so
closely that they crowded each other
out of water.
A PIG belonging to Dick Walker. of
JesLp, Ga, had the misfortune to meet
with an accident which caused the loss
of "a leg. The humane and ingenious
Dick constructed a cork leg for the
missing member, and the pig limps con-
tentedly around on it.
JOHN MARKS, an operative in New
ark foundry, was caught on a shaft
and whirled around it 3,247 times be-
fore any one saw him and had the en-
gine stopped. John did the counting
himself and says it's right, though he
was somewhat ratified by the speed.
SOMETHING happened at Belle Plains,
Kan, the other day which never oc-
CURED before and never will again. a
woman in that town gave tramp an
old vest, and in short time he re-
turned and handed her ten-dollar bill
which he found in one of the pockets.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

IF Arabian tradition amounts to any
thing Eve was over two hundred feet
tall.
ST. CHARLES, Mo-, has been under the
dominion of three aags, namely: Spain,
France and the UnitedkStates
A FIvE-cENr postagf stamp issued in
Alabama during theVconfsderacy was
sold in New York recently for $3.50.
THE Michigan lumbermen carry cedar
knots in THAR pockets as a cure and
also as preventive of rheumatism.
A RECENT experiment has proved that
carrier pigeons may be trusted to con-
vey messages from ships several hun
dred miles at sea.
OTHE silky little King Charles spaniel
is an expensive luxury. because puppies
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
An instantaneous Cure,

The vender of patent medicines is
bound to sell his wares, by fair means
or foul. A clever trick was played q
short time ago on board a steamboat.
The sea was rough. A young woman,
apparently i'll with seasickness,
groaned until a gentleman, who seemed
to be stranger, approached and asked
her if she would take lozenger.
which he had often tried on people
with marvellous results, The young
lady finally accepted the offer. The
cure was instantaneous. Hardly had
she swallowed the lozenger when she
was sitting up, all smiles and ordering
ham sandwiches and bottled ale. Some
passengers, struck with the incident,
inquired what the wonderful remedy
was, and the gentleman, who pro-
claimed himself the agent for the sale
of the lozengers, disposed of consid-
erable number of boxes at two dollars
each. What was the surprise Of the
buyers when they saw the lady and her
preserver go off arm in arm when the
boat reached it's destination The pair
had worked in concert7-Waverly Mag
azine.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
A GOOD GROW STORY.
A Pennsylvania Bird That Was Possessed
of Wonderful Intelligence.

OF Wonderful IntcIIIgence.
"When was living at the foot Of
Pinxster peak had a tame crow that
was worth considerable to me-" said a
Loyalsock man to Pittsburgh Com
mercial Gazette reporter. 1.-THE way
came to get the crow was little singu.
lar One of my boys was flying his
kite early in the summer, and when il,
had sailed high up over a piece Of woods
on my place the string broke and the
kite lodged in the top of a hemloclz
tree. The boy bawled about the loss
Of bis kite, and | had to climb the tree
and get it for him. A crow flew off her
nest near the top Of the tree while
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-03-30
Applied mathematics.

In an off-haud sketch of Prof Chrys-
tai, one of his old pupils tells how this
mathematician made his science aid
him in the management of his class,
The daring spirits-say, those who were
going into their fathers Office aud so
did not look upon Crystal as door
locked to their advancement-so sought to
bring sunshine into the room. Chrystal
soon had the blind down on that. TO
relieve the monotony, a student at the
end of bunch ten dropped marble,
which toppled slowly downward toward
the professor. At every step it took,
there was O smothered guffaw; but
Chrystal, who was working at the
board, did not turn his head. When
the marble reached the floor, he said.
stil with his back to the class: ''WiH
the student at the end of bench ten.
who dropped that marble, stand up?',
All eyes dilated. lie had counted the
falls of the marble from step to step.
Health and Exercise.
The fact that wrong is in many cases
mere ex preston Of excess in what
WAS right finds numerous illustrations
Most vices. indeed, can on this ground
claim highly respectable ancestry.
The value Of exertion, again, in is
various forms (whether associated
work or playl has douhtla@a
as It still is. diseoap--@ M
inherent risk. Thus il is th
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