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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31
THE GENERAL BUSINESS OUT
LOOK.

The statement of the business out
look which is furnished to the Pioneer
Press by Henry Clews is clear sum-
mary of the conditions which make it
manifest that the business of the
country has already passed the Slough
of Despond at the bottom of the hill
and is now on solid rising ground.
Wall street touches every business in
terest in the country and feels the
Quickened pulse of general and
wholesale business revival as surely as
it feels its languid courses in times OF
depression. The symptoms of gen
eral restoration of normal conditions
of business activity, which Mr.. Clews
notes in Wall street, apply equally to
the country at large. Equally with
Wall street it feels the relief
from the universal obstruction re-
sulting from the end of the
tariff suspense. Now that the
conditions on which business can
be resumed on any scale are restored
there is on every hand disposition to
resume trade and industrial operations
on something approaching normal
scale. Stocks of merchandise of all
kinds ara greatly depleted. Prices
are unprecedently low. Credits are
in a sound condition. There is plenty
of money eagerly seeking investment
at low rates of interest in safe enter
prises. There is nothing to seriously
disturb that confidence in the future
which is the essential condition of a
general disposition to invest idle
capital in industry and trade except
the threats of the free traders, the
free silver men and the cheap money
agitatorS to renew their war on theiin-
dustries of the country and the condi-
tions of stable currency. Mr.. Clews
does not notice these causes of ap-
prehensiOn because in the atmosphere
of Wall street he does not hear the
voices Of the silver baron, the POpu-
list, and the labor leaders crying in
the land. Those who do hear these
people threatening to smash to smith
Greens all the capital there is in the
country are very much afraid that
those who have money to invest in
business operations will take alarm
and lock it up until they see how the
elections 60 this fall. Otherwise there
is nothing to retard complete restor-
alton of confidence and of the business
and industrial activity which will re-
suit from it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

The Republicans of the sixth con-
gressional district have gone in to win
this year, and yesterday nominated G.
A. Towne, of Duluth, for congress.
MIR. Towne is an able young man and
will stand by the industries of the
northwest, and not misrepresent them
and approve of legislation against
their interests as has the present rep
resentative of that district. Mr..
Towne ought to receive the vote of
every workingman in that district, for
in him they will find their true rep
resentative. The Republicans are
putting forth some good congressional
timber this year, and the election of a
solid Republican congressional dele
cation will be credit to the state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

The GAINESVILLE Argus comes into the
market controversy now with claim
that looks good deal like big bluff.
1t says:
"Of course it is to the interest of
the city papers to spread abroad the
idea that MankatO markets are Just
what they should be and in doing so
these papers only pursue course con-
sistent with their surroundings. But
neither this nor the conclusions
reached change facts which are stub
born things. If we may judge of the
words and repeated talk of farmers all
through Blue Earth county the papers
are away off. The GAINESVILLE market
still continues to draw Immensely
from that section of the country,
farmers coming from near and far.
Especially do they find the market
for pork superior. Facts tell the story
that the Mankato papers will be un-
der the necessity of revising their fig
ures in order to establish their cor
rectneSS."
All we want is the cold facts, Bro.
Henry, but we do want them and
want the farmers to know them. To
this end, we will compare the market
quotations on farm produce in Mon.
days Argus and Mondays FREE
PRESS to show the relative merit of
the GAINESVILLE and Mankato markets:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31
THE DAIRY SIRE==HIS rIERITS.

Of all the animals connected with
the dairy herd there is none more i'm
pOrtant than the sire. While his
form has been discussed by many his
qualifications for SO important a posi-
tion have not been spoken of, or even
referred to, leaving the reader in OBJ
Scurity SO far as the usefulness of the
animal is concerned to produce dairy
stock of great butter properties. We
regard form of great Importance so
far as the sale of the animal is con-
cerned, but that should be regarded
as only secondary by the individual
who selects a sire to stand at the
head of his herd.
He may be broad between the eyes,
bright, intelligent looking, with
medium sized neck and head, broad
and straight on the back, with con-
veX spine, fiat and obliQue ribs, broad
across the loin, deep in the flank,
small tail, heavily pushed low down,
may have a pedigree of unusual length
and yet be rejected in the show ring
for the lack of requisite qualifications
as dairy sire.
There are two classes now used for
dairy purposes, the worthless and the
worthy. The former has nothing to re-
commend except best pedigree and
form, while the latter has pedigree
and merits, which give him high posi-
tion in his rank as a dairy animal.
TO select dairy sire worthy of
a place at the head of the herd he
should have long milk veins running
well forward past the center OF his
barrel even in size and well developed.
His escutcheOn should extend well up
broad on the thighs with quirls a
a reasonable distance apart and we'll
down toward the gambrel joints.
His butter veins of good length
even in size, not pointed or large in
the middle, his form should approach
towards the feminine. Sire OF this
class will impart to his get his milk
and butter propensities and therefore
is worthy to stand at the head of the
herd where so many worthless
animals are allowed the position. We
often find some article published in
relation to the dairy bull or sire re-
ferring to the ancestry and perhaps
his form and pedigree but not a SEN
tence in regard to his merits as
dairy animal. The milk veins OF the
sire are not often referred to by
many writer's. This point Of excellence
has been greatly overlooked by our
best writer's and institute workers.
His merits should first be consulted,
then his form, if profitable herd is
desired. The form should not precede
the merits of the animal
Great mistakes are made in judging
dairy stock where form and pedigree
are regarded as the prime factor re-
quired. The form of the animal and
that alone.is not evidence of milk and
herd qualities.
Pedigree adds to value, but should
not be regarded as butter producing
arinel.
There is only a small percentage
of sires now in use that are worthy
the place they occupy. If the breed
ing of heifer calves is desired select a
sire that approaches the feminine
form, one that possesses great merits,
one that will impart to it's get the re-
quisite qualification to build up val
liable dairy herd.
w. L. WILSON.
Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31
CLEVELAND'S ,DlLErIMA.

1t would seem that with his past eX-
perience, Mr.. Cleveland would forego
the pleasure he seems to get in writ
ing letters upon the tariff. Each
time he writes one he simply makes
a bad matter worse. His letter to Mr..
Wilson placed him ina most uncOm-
Portable position, when congress
finally reached it's decision and pre-
sented him the bill he had so severely
condemned. His letter to Mr.. Catch
ings does not at all improve the posi-
tion in which his first letter placed
him. 1t is full of contradictions. In
one place he says the bill does not
embody democratic ideas of the
tariff REFORM" and then says that
rather than separate himself from his
party he will not veto the bill, but let
it become a law without his sigma
ture. Further on he expresses him
self as proud of his party because of
it's conservatively sturdy and persis-
tent in the enforcement of it's princi-
pies" But it seems that his pride
did not rise to that point where he
could endorse it's work, and he had not
courage enough to pronounce against
it. Condemning the work of his party,
he then in round about way gives it
as his opinion that the bill is a pretty
good one, and will do very well for a
start. He says that what he once
branded as party pertidy and party
dishonor' will 'lighten many tariff
burden" and will serve as "barrier
against the return of mad protection"
And so he goes on contradicting him
self to the end. If he had been ignOr-
ant of what his party in congress had
been doing there might be some pos
Sible excuse for the show of indigna-
tion which he makes. But he knew
what wasgOing On all the time. Plenty
Of testimony has been produced by
senators to show that he approved of.
the revision of the tariff bill. With
this knowledge before the public, Mr..
Cleveland does not occupy very en-
viOuS position, nor has he increased
the reputation which his mugwump
friends have always claimed for him
in the realms of craftsmanship. In
fact, in the matter of laundering he
seems to be excelled only by his party.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

Having had the largest trade this
season since we located at MankatO,
we did not carry over any goods to
speak of. This puts us in position
to buy a tremendous large line of new
fresh goods at much LOWER PRICES
than we ever owned them before. 1t
will please us to show you through our
line, and we can assure you we will
convince you of these facts. THE
MODEL CLOTHING AND SHOE HOUSE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31
NOTICE..

We take this opportunity to change
a notice which appeared in last Satur-
days issue. The basket social spoken
of was for the benefit of the Spring
Island Sunday school organ fund.
1t has been decided later To have the
picnic on Sept. Sth instead of the 9th,
and to meet at the Spring Island
school house instead of Albert j.
Dornburg's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

WORKINGMEN and farmers should
remember that with the exception of
Mr.. PETER, the Populist senators vot-
ed for the sugar trust tariff bill, the
child of Democracy, which assaults
American industries to the disadvan-
tage of the masses.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31
Notice.

In conformity with an order of the
Board of Health, passed at meeting
held Aug. 81, 1894, all persons attend
ing school in the city of Mankato,
Mimi, must present a certificate OF
vaccination from physician before
being permitted to enter or attend
school. w. JACoBY,
Health Officer.
Mankato, Mimi, Aug. %, 1894.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

SOUTH DAKOTA has 1851, 3S1 acres of
it's arid lands under cultivation by
means of irrigation. The original
cost of this system was 100000, 900, and
the estimated value 1914 Alp, 900, the in
creased value of the area irrigated be-
ing Appropriated at from ST., 900, 900
to 1896, $4,000. This would indicate
that irrigation was a great success.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

In his testimony before the strike
commission, Mr.. Pullman said that his
company was forced to reduce the
wages of it's employees as it was losing
money on it's contracts, and then he
testified to the effect that it declared
dividend of per cent on it's capital.
Mr.. Pullman will have hard work in
explaining the justice of such course,
to the satisfaction of the general
nublic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

FROM 20 to 40 per cent reduction in
wages, as a result of the so-called
tariff reform, while the same pretend
ed reform puts millions into the
pockets of the trusts, will not strike
the workingmen as being exactly in
their interests.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

Hon. VIM. LAWRENCE, president of
the Ohio Wool Growers Association,
estimates that the wool growers of
Ohio have lost S6,00O,0OO by the plac-
ing of wool on the free list, in the
value of flocks alone, and that their
loss on this years wool clip will reach
about S3,O00,000. And in return the
people have not been benefited one
cent. This is case where so-called
tariff reform is simply tariff robbery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

Real merit is the characteristic OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and it is mani
tested every day in the remarkable
cures this medicine accompllsheS
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the KIND.
Try it.
Hoods Pills are the best family
cathartic and liver medicine. Harm
less. reliable, sure.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

In view OF this comparison we do
not see why GAINESVILLE can draw much
trade from Blue Earth county, except
possibly on the extreme eastern edge,
where the farmers may consider it
too far to come to Mankato. The
only items that GAINESVILLE quotations
are higher on are eggs and pork. Our
buyers yesterday paid $50 for pork,
or 10 cents above the market quota
tions. 1t is very often the case that
the prices paid exceed the published
quotations, as we are very careful to
secure conservative figures. We will
leave it to the farmers to judge of the
Mankato markets as compared with
other places, from the series of COM
parsons which we have been publish
ing, taking the various local papers as
authority
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-31

just call and see whether or not
we are in it in goods and prices this
fall. THE MODEL CLOTHING AND
SHOE HOUSE.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

PROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUC-
i TION.-OFFICE Chief Quarter
master Department of Texas, San An
tonic, Texas, MAY 9, 1894. Sealed
proposals, in triplicate, will be received
here until u o'clock noon, MAY %,
1894, for the construction at Fort Ring
gold, Texas, of Frame Cavalry Stable
and Corral, according to plans and spec
iffcations to bese at this Office and at
the Office of the Post Quaftermaster at
Fort Ringgold. Blank proposals aud
administrations can be had on appllca-
ton. The U. S.reserves the right to re-
ject any or all proposals. Envelopes
containing proposals should be mark
ed Proposals for construction at Fort
Ringgold, Texae,' and addressed to G.
c. SMITH, Quartermaster, U. S. A.,
Chief QHarte master.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

LAREDO may be able to hold her
own, but the building of railroad
from San Antonio to Brownsville,
and thence to the City of Mexico,
is not going to assist her very ma
ter;al,y to do it.-Laredo News.
Laredo, with her ten thous nd
Inhabitants, her irrigated gardens,
farms and vineyards, should be
able 10 hold her own pretty well,
even though Brownsville should
divede her Mexican trade with her.
The two towns are too far separst-
ed 10 ever be rivals or interfere
with; each others trade to any
extent.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16
The New York papers publish

The New York papers publish
dispatch from Eldorado, Arkan
sas, telling that negro who was
supposed to have smallpox WAS
barrieaded in small hut which
was then set on FIRE and burned to
the ground, with The poor negro in
it. This awful tragedy is said to
have occurred st Miles Switch,
ouschita county. That it may
aa7e happened is, of course, posi-
DE, bat it is strange no news of it
reasiied the southern press: 1t Is
mere than probable that the story
;sa 5sse lie manufactured TO tickle
Sic palate ofthe northern Cockerills
sisc ~iii roll such a story OF soath
e-t s.::sssss ande. their tongues, az
ss.aes nssssl-
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

The HOUSTON HERALD SAY
Reagan is populist who is trying
to make the people believe he
wears democratic clothes. His
election to the office of governor,
or the election of any other man
who ontertains his political views,
would bring about a permanen
"spIit" in the democratic party in
Texas, and all know what that
would mean.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

The opponents of the income
sax aver that the major part
of The s6O,oOO,0OO will come
from the north. That is a
little hard on the north, but as
nearly all of the $3.50, 100000 OF
pension money paid out yearly by
the government goes to the north,
IT will only even up things little.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16
A NORTH CAROLINA exchange

A NORTH CAROLINA exchange
says when a timid young tar-heel
wishes to express himself to his girl
he takes piece of fat pine, trims it
in the shape of a capital I, and then
passes it to his girl. That means
Al pine for thee" If she rejects
Him, she strikes match and eets
the splinter on fire. This means 81
make light of your pining." If she
likes him, she hands him light
wood knot, which means, Spine
not" When the boy goes to leave
I've gently puts his arm around the
girl, kisses her, and puts some pitch
on her nose, which means, "ts(D
ta(r), till we meet sgain."
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16
gAvsNas OF AN Actor.
A Phondsrapa That Preserves elre
MsHaac Laughter of J of1a
Mccullough.
New York Wofla

I was walking aicug Market
street the other morning, reselling
as usual in the aowers that line the
curbstones Of that thoroughfsre,
says San Francisco correspondent.
of the Chicago Herald, when my 81
enticn was attracted by placard
swinging from the entrance to q
photograph establishment.
"CrRe in it read, "and hear the
rawlings Of 5ohn Mccullough in his
cell at Bioemingdslei''
I had known the great actor in
his lifetime, and many night had
sat enthrslled by the magic of his
genius. So it was with well-de
fined thrilled of nervous horror that
Ientered the establishment, inserted
the two Iabber tubes of The instiu
ment within my ears aud caught
the familiar tones Of that deep
voice, pushed for long years in
death. Any one who had ever
heard the great tragedian's render
ing Of "Vrginius" conld net fail
to recognize the masters voice in
this photographic rendition. Bat
woven through if; Ike stain OF in
efaceable blood in a rich fabric,
runs the awful impress OF madnesr::
1t lends to the lines an awtulness
impossible to describe. And when
the imprisoned utterances hre~k
off in a wild peal Of laughter tn t
seems so real that the listener il
voluntarily drops his hold and
chances over his shoulder to ser
what hooking ferd is at bis elbow,
the effect becomes indescribable in
it's intensity. l hope it may never
chance to any one who reads these
lines to hear a madman'S laugh, but
should su n an experience be theirs
they will have some idea of the im
preston made by the phonograph
instrument that caught the echoes
of poor McCullough's maniac mirtb
and perpetuated it forever upon ite
delicate plates IF magnet;zed steel.
The sharp catches for breath, the
rafting in the throat, the wild
shouts and nasal spasms, all We're
there until, half faint with horror, |
dropped the tubes and staggered
from the place.
Not for unconnted Kingdoms
would l ALLOW you to listen to that
thing" said l to the Y. P. who
suggested that she follow in my
footsteps. "Come, lei US look up
something cheerful"
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

Hoax: Do you think the English
tongue will ever become a dead
language JOax: Well, jndging from
the way some people persist IN
numbering it, it ought 20 be dead
now.-Philsdell hia Record.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

MILLIONAIRE incomes are gained
by taxing the people. Why should
not the same incomes be taxed as
well! Turn abOut fair play.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16

BROWNSVILLE will be bounding
along the highway to prosperity, as
soon as work begins on that Cor
bus Christi railroad.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16
DON'T TOBACCO SPIT OR
SMOKE YOUR LIFE AWAY.

is the truthful. startling title of little
book that tells all abont MOTTO bac, the
wonderful harmless Guaranteed tobac-
co habit cure. The cost is trifiihg and
the man who wants to quit and can't
runs no physical or financial risk in
using "No-to-bac." Sold by all drugt
giSts.
Book az drug stores or by mail free.
Address The Sterling Kennedy Cos
Indiana Mineral prings.t Ind
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16
L CRY esS RgSa Asg Razb =,
Ssssa a.
Z RsssisA Exile bspis's shs aSis
4Fies Of Fho Cassas ToaHicga
Prisoners.

A Russian political prisoner In
exils in Siberia wrete TO q friend
in European Russia depicting the
miseries of his lite in "this forgot
ten aad God~forsaken Arctic den,
beyond the boundaries OF ciVilfzs-
tion.H The letter, which lie pab-
lished in the current number OF
Free Russia {Americsn edition,
took six months ia running the
gauntlet of the Cars argas-eyed
officials. 1t is dated jane, 1898,
at KoIymsk, Sibcrisn town OF
coo inhabitants, located far to the
nortlk
During the FIRST period Of my
life here writes the exile, II
thoaght it woaId he m interesting
work to seEd to my friends more
Or less detailed accounts OF the
peculiar conditions of lite into
which we, little handful OF Euro
peans have suddenly been thrown
conditions to which we are as
unfit to adapt ourselves ss little
body of civilized travellers; ship
wrecked on the coast of Greenland,
won d be 10 arrange their lives in
accordance with the hsoits aud Gil
cunstances of the native E quinn
aux. But most of my manuscripts
never reached the persons to whom
they were sent, and now even the
desire to write them is gone. Ny
own amaznment at the extraordin-
AIRY surroundings here has grown
fainter and fainter.
Life in Kolymsk sucks every
one down into itself. 1t seems to
me how like far-off dream that
in the world there are
big towns, filed with people, with
large shops, with houses OF several
stories, with psvemeuts on which
great crowds of people go to and
fro; that there are lands where the
rivers begin to flow in February
and do not freeze till November;
where. instead of snow covered
swampa, there are fields with thick,
standing corn and grass; lands
where there are woods and gardens,
with green leaves on the trees;
where the people live on bread and
varied vegetable food.
"For Us, reality consists of a per
petually frozen desert, covered with
little hillocks and overgrown with
stunted larches, which can hardly
force their roots through the eter-
nally frozen soil; cold and filthy
yurta, hardly fit to be called a hu-
man habitation, even by people ac-
customed to the poverty-stricken
cabins of the Russian peasantry;
for food, rotting ish; for clothing.
such rags as are left of our Euro
pean dress. and rough native gar
ments Of h4lf-cured skins; for the
rest, solitude, silence and lifeless-
ness. l think the ghosts that wan
1ered mournfully along the banks OF
lamenting aloud for their
lost earthly life, must have fet
what we feel, dragging ont our lives
alone on the banks of the River
Kolyma. The utter lack of all aim
Or interest, forgetfulness of the past
and Indifference tothe present, are
steadily taking hold upon US all.
"WHAT Congress Has Done" was
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1894-05-16
"WHAT Congress Has Done" Wa

W HAT Congress has DOne" WAS
the neatly printed title on The cover
of a book recently received by Sen
ator Quay. Inside was nothing
but blank pages. Such blankety-
blank sarcasm leaves congress with
out words to reply.