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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11
NIaenificence of Lowther Castle.

Lowther castle, near Penrith, is one
Of the most imposing mansions in the
north. It's great terrace is nearly a mile
in length and is carried along the brink
of steep cliff, which overlooks part
of the park, with forest trees Of i'm
mense growth and we'll replenisheG
with deer. The park of the emperor
of China, at Gehol, is called "the para
disc of $1,000 trees. " Lord Mccartney,
ambassador to China, in one of his let
ters says: "We wandered i'll it for sew
eral hours, and yet were never weary
Of wandering, for certainly so rich, SO
varied, so beautiful, so sublime pros
pect our eyes had never beheld. " And
thus concludes his description Of the
wonderful garden: eff any place can be
said in any respect to have similar fea-
lures to the western park Of Van Shoe
Yeen, it is at Lowther. London
News
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11
First insertiou ut. 4-1S.

ORDER III EAAN Ne ACCOUNTS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA County of Blue
Earth-SS.-In Probate Uurt, Special Term
September 2Sth, 1895
In the matter of the .Srate of John Beck
man, deceased.
On reading and filing tn 4tition OF Charles
Swanson, administrator u he estate of John
Beckman, deceased, rel s~ruting, among other
things, that he has flu administered said es-
| tate, and praying that lie and place be fixed
for examining aud allowin the final account of
his administration, and the assignment of
the residue OF said estate to the parties en-
titled thereto by law.
1t is ordered that said account be exam ned
and petition heard by this court, on Tuesday,
| the 29th day of October, A. D., 1895, at 10
o'clock m, at the Probate Office in the CITY of
Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, that notice thereof
be given to all persons Interested by publishing
this order once in each week, for three success
sive weeks prior to said day of hearing in the
Mankato Free Press, weekly newspaper
printed and published at the city of Mankato in
said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato, the 2Sth day
of September, A. D., 1895.
By the Court:
| Seal of Probate Court G. w. MEAD.
Judge of Probate.
THos HUGHES,
| Attorney for Administered or,
MankatO MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11
THE ELDERS PRAYER.
1t Was Out of the Regular Order, bu
Proved Eficacious.

Proved Eficacious.
resist the temptation to tell story on
a brother minister:
cit was Presiding Elder Still of the
Methodist church The good old man
is dead now, and it can't do any harm
to tell this story of him.
"The early travelling of the elder in
Kansas was not easy. He had mule
was not always obedient One day tho
elder and his mule encountered swol-
len stream. Along the edge of the
stream the elder and his mule strayed
in hope of finding a safe crossing.
Finally the elder found a tree that over
hung the stream, and from which he
believed he could swing to the other
side But the mule couldn't swing.
He could swim, however, which the
elder couldn't.
'All the extra clothing and the Bible
were made into bundle and tied on
the mules back and the animal led to
the water. He swan safely across and
began eating grass on the other side.
1.-THE elder looked at the swinging
limb, and dropping to his knees, prayed
fervently that he might make no mis-
take in getting across. Then he swung
out and landed safely.
He knelt and thanked the Lord.
"But there was a new obstacle. The
mule was having good time in the
grass and refused to be caught again.
Several we'll directed efforts flew wide
of the mark, and the good elder was in
desperation He must keep his appoint
ment and he couldn't walk it. There
was but one thing for the elder to do,
and the elder did it. Down in the
damp grass lie dropped Oh his knees
and prayed the Lord to help him catcL
the mule
"Tbis is the only instance | ever
heard Of in which a man called on the
Lord TO help him catch "a mule, and to
his dying day the elder tirmly believed
the Lord did it, though it took them
both some time. "-Topeka Journal
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11
Is 1T WORTH THE WHILE.

The last "trip of Lieut.. Peary in
search of the north pole was practical
ly total failure. He did not enlarge
any upon the scientific and geograph-
ical knowledge which he obtained
upon his first trip and says his expert
ences there have been sufficient to
satisfy him. But it is not likely that
his narrow escape from death will
have any effect in lettering others
from making the venture, as hope
springs eternal in the heart of every
man that he can make success where
Others have failed, no matter what
the obstacles are which cross the path.
Much scientific and geographical
knowledge has come from these expe-
ditiOns in the past, but it is extreme
ly doubtful whether the knowledge
which will be obtained in the future
will he worth the danger incurred.
In commenting upon the matter the
st. Louis Globe Democrat well says:
"There is nothing to be said, of
course, in disparagement of that spir-
it of inquiry and venturesomeness to
which the world is indebted for a
large part of of its geographical and
scientific knowledge. Many signal
and useful discoveries have been
made by Jealous explorers of the I'M
known, tenacious SearcherS after the
apparently impossible; and it will not
do to question the soundnesS of all
enterprises of this kind in an indis-
criminate way. The particular work
Cftrying to reach the North Pole,
however, has been in progress so long
and has yielded so little that it may
properly be characterized as species
of folly, Notwithstanding the fine ex-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11
Temperance Mansion.

Il see you are building "a new house,
Mr.. Bung -
Ives, you are right. y
Made the money out of whisky,
suppose?'
"No"
why, you are a liquor dealer, are
you not?''
"Oh, yes! But the money I'm putting
into this house was made out of the wa
ter put into the whisky. Every farthing
was made out of the water, sir. LON
con Tit-Bits
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11
FRIDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1895.
THE TENANT FARMER.

The calamity howlers and agltators
generally have a great deal TO say
about the increase in the number OF
tenant farmers and have predicted
that because of this increase the
country is going to the dogs. But IL
would be strange indeed with the
great increase in our population if the
number of tenant farmers did not in
crease also, and in some localities
very rapidly, but as to whether 1t
means anything detrimental to the
prosperity of the country depends
somewhat upon the causes which nave
led to the growth thereof.
They are very few men who would
rent farm if they could own one OF
their own. When government lana
was plenty it was easy for man VINO
wanted farm to get one, and he ala
not need much capital aside from his
team to set himself up in business.
But the day is past when Uncle Sam
can give us all farm and the young
man starting out in life finds it much
easier to gain the object OF his ambl-
ton by renting one.
OF course as the country grows old
<er it will naturally show an increase
in the number of tenants, because
many owners of farms have reached
that point in life where they feel like
shifting the burdens of life to young
er shoulders while they go to the vii
lage or neighboring city to spend their
declining years. The fact that they
have reached a point in life where
they can live comfortably and make
room for some one else to earn good
living for himself, ought to be mat
ter for congratulation.
If the tenant farmer could not get
a farm to work, he would be obliged
to move to town and add to the num-
Der of wage-earners and take his
chances on getting something to do,
and not live as comfortable life as
he would on rented farm. During
the past two or three years there is no
question but that the tenant farmers
as class have lived more cOmforta-
BILE life than have large portion of
the wage-earners in the cities. They
have at no time been troubled with
the fear that they would not have
enough to eat and they have not lost
sleep by worrying as to where the next
DAYS work would come from to give
their little ones that with which TO
sustain life.
OF course all tenant farmers do not
become owners Of farms but their
chances to obtain few acres Of their
own is far better than that of their
brother labOrer iu the great city in
getting an interest in business for
himself, so that on the whole they
have a better outlook in life, though
it may be far from the ideal life we
might wish. But things in this life
are not as we could wish, so that we
have to make the best Of things as
we find them and do what we can to
improve conditions.
In every neighborhood, if one would
stop and reflect, he could recall many
who now own good farms and are in
fair circumstances, who started as
tenant farmers. The spectre is not
as bad on the whole as the POpulist
and free trade agitator would have the
world believe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11

By the news which comes from all
portions of the world Of the finding
and mining of gold, it would look as
though that gold cube of "Coin's"
would have to be greatly enlarged
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11

Lions, tigers and other rapacious ami
mails resort to the nests Of the pelican
10 drink water, which they do without
any attempt to injure the little fledge-
,irns Cincinnati Tribune.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11

LIZ all this talk of ''jingoism" that
the administration is said to be think
ing of indulging in should prove true,
what tremendous mess of crow the
cuckoo organs will have to swallow.
But the St. Paul Globe says it is not
true, and possibly the Globe has been
given private tip so that it knows.
1t is doubtless true that the reports
which are being sent out of Washing
ton as to the position the administra-
tion will assume toward England in
the Venezuela difficulty may be taken
with some allowance. While the
state department may be doing all it
can to settle the trouble, it is hardly
probable that it would assume posi-
tion which might possibly lead to
serious trouble until England had alb
solutely refused to arbitrate matters.
Such vigorous foreign policy would
be somewhat of a sudden turn for
the administration to take.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-11

Dreamland is located in the lottery
office. -FlOrida Times I;Bi0n
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

Don Quixotc, when he set out on his ex-
pedtion and forgot money and "a change of
linen, was not in state OF wilder exulta-
tion than Catholic Europe at the sailing OF
the armada. Every noble family in spain
had sent one or other of its sons to fight
for Christ and Our Lady.
For three years the stream OF prayer had
been ascending from church, cathedral or
oratory The king had emptied his treas
ury. The hidalgo and the tradesman had
offered their contributions. The crusade
against the crescent itself had not kindled
a more intense or more sacred enthusiasm.
All pains were taken to make the expedi-
tion spiritually worthy of its purpose. No
impure thing, especially no impure wom-
an, was TO approach the yards or ships.
Swearing quarreling, gambling, Were pro-
hibited under terrible penalties.
The galleons were named after the apos
ties and saints, To whose charge they were
committed, and every seaman and soldier
confessed and communicated on going on
boasd The ship boys at sunrise were To
sing their "Bucnos Dias" at the foot OF
the mainmast and their ave Maria" as
the sun sank into the ocean. On the i'm
perial banner were embroidered the figures
of Christ and his mother, and as motto
the naughty PLUS Ultra" of Charles V
was replaced with the more pious aspira-
tion, "Exsurge, Deus ct vindica causam
tuam. "-Froude in Longnan's Magazine.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
The ERyntian Lentil.

1t is In Egypt that the lentil crop is OF
the most value, for in the land Of the
pharaohs the lentil forms one-sixth OF the
food of the people, besides being extensive
ly exported 60 other countries Ii Is well
suited TO the soil and climate, as 1t re
quires little irrigation save what the Nile
provides. The Egyptian lentils are reputeG
the best and most nutritious in the world.
From Cairo to Assouan tho farmers o!
the Nile valley regularly rotate the crop
with wheat or maize, gathering 1t In
about the end Of April. Every peasant
grows enough for his own consumption,
making II into porridge, which he fines
both wholesome and sustaining ard the
cheapest food he can obtain. II Cairo,
Alexandria, Ismailia, Sdez, Port Said and
the other towns the consumption in soup
Is very large. Most of the export goes to
London, there to be converted into invalid
or patent" food undct some fanciful
name - fanciful price. chambers Jour
nal
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
BROWN UNIVERSITY.

The new magazine board held a meet
ing yesterday and the following officers
we're elected FOR pe1t wear. q Dewitt
DO riing. 'DS, sditor-in-chisi. Fvereit
Colby 81. business msnsger
The freshmen pisesd the second gSne
on their "trip Win "a, Vermont Acroemy
and won by 4 score OF Ii 40 8. Mains snd
Greene were the battery for the Fresh
men. Mains proved puzzle for the
Academy boys. The feature OF the gamo
was Gsmmon's batting and fielding.
Brown has 20 men at the training table,
training for the Worcester meet, and
after the good result OF the field
day last Wednesday il is 10 be ex-
pected that Brown will put in
a strong bid for first place. IL 100 stu
dents at the college will pledge TO accom-
pany the team TO Worcester a holiday
will probably be given at Brown.
Yesterday efternoon az y. M. both the
freshmen and sophomore military com
panies were reviewed by Colonel Alonzo
Williams. The drill was well executed
and the Brown Battalion will probably
do themselves Justice on May II, when
they parade with the First Light In
fantry.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

exercise. The only exercise no gets IL In,
his cell, walking typ and down, yet no one
could possibly be healthier than he Is. So
far Us L know, no has never known sick
day, and he has been prisoner In abso-
lutely solitary confinement for IL years.
He Is n great reader and student. lie
speaks three languages. He does not want
to work. but prefers his boQkssV - -.
"Does he seem to have any curiosity
about the outside worldy i asked.
Yes presume SO, although he never
asks. Ho does not ask privileges. No
doubt he realizes 1t would be- In vain. The
only favor he has asked of General Bridges
since he has becn warden was permission
To keep the box his holiday things came in.
This favor had been granted him once be-
fore, and he used the cover to hide hole
he had dug In the wall.
"If no gets penknife or spoon, the
probabilities arc he will begin TO dig. The
walls are so thick IL Is impossible for him
TO escape, and no doubt he docs IL To make
the prison officials uneasy more than any
thing else. lie is a remarkably good look
ing man, a fine looking man, in fact. III
you should pass his cell, ignorant OF his
name, you would comment upon his ap-
pearancc and select him Us "a man much
above the ordinary"
1t is said that either his hearing Is super
naturally acute or else he Is possessed OF
some strange sixth sense, enabling him to
know things that have transpired before
the guards themselves
One instance of this Is related A couple
of years ago the prisoners were all assem-
bled in the chapel waiting the annual an
nouncement of the governors pardons.
Before the convicts' cheers which greeted
the lucky ones had died out Prison Physi-
clan Mclaughlin had occasion 10 attend
prisoner located in the same tier as Pom
eroy. AS the doctor passed Jesse's cell he
called To the doctor, saying, so tho gov
ernor has pardoned two men," and giving
their names. The doctor has never been
able To understand how Pomeroy knew Of
these names.
Not half a dozen people have seen him
since he was q boy, and he has seen no
woman's face but his mothers since his
incarceration. on.--Boston Post
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
A PRETTY HARBlNGER.

Who said that the present spring was
backwardY Mr.. w. WhippIe Brown oi
IL Planet street, would like To
meet and refute him. That he can
do il was evidenced yesterday afternoon,
when Mr.. Brown, VINO is worth'iy en-
titled to the sppellation "octogeparian,'
acted the part oil GOOD
neigh ber and presented to THE NEWS
cluster OF scherry tree blossoms.
and, beside encouraging the optimis-
tic belief that God has not
entirely overlooked these Providence
Plantations, bear promise OF unusual
fructility. Mr.. Brow used TO own a
large orchard, including 81 cherry
trees. Now he has fewer trees, but they
are the pride of Providence. They are the
black Tartarisn, as large and
luscious as any grown anywhere,
Committee OF Arrangements-Osws
Klndt, Axel Oden, Ellis Nilsson, Fred
Floor Director-OswaldK Klindt.
Assistant Floor Director-Gideon Carls-
from.
Members of "Nerdandi."
First Tenor-Charles Osterlund, Axel
Oden, William Hillberg, Fredrik Hillberg,
John Anderson.
Second tenor - Gideon Carlstrom,
Charles Johnson, Ludwig Peterson,
Gust Norrlander, Axei Hallberg,
First bass Charles Anderson, Nils l..
Molin, f. Leon, N. l.. Holmes, Charles
Bostrom.
Second Bass-Elis Nilsson, Oswald
Klindt, Oscar Andeen, William Sund berg
Victor Gustsfson, Alfred Hallberg, Lud-
Wig LundiD.
Leader-Oscar Ekeberg.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
HOW SHE SAVED HER FATHER.
A Dramatic Episode During the Reign of
Terror.

On the authority of Mile de Lescure, who
heard It from the heroincs own lips a
writer in The Guardian tolls the true story
of Mile. de SuNbrcuil's saving her fathers
lie tr0m ihu Yrifoiuc NJ de som
hrruii opd h., dsu aht-r wrre 'nudemncd
'r dgf'u 30 Ihe ,ine of tur Sept rmh'r mas.
sacres "ud W.rt wsIruk ia ,ha ,sr,, ,ur
rounded by Jhe mob, for their turn TO
mount the scatfold.
Mile dc Sombreuil turned TO the crowd
and asked what harm weak old man like
her father could do to the nation. Some
OF the mon answered that If sho would
drink glass of blood Ia the nation they
would let him % aud passed up glass
She drank N down Immediately The
crowd took her and her father from the
cart; they escaped and madc their way to
England She thought at the time she
drank blood, bat al,crwnrd she concluded
that II was rod vino, for she saw no one
stop TO OIL the glass. To her death she
was never able. however to see red wine
i'm "A glass without shuddcr
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
JESSE POMeROY.
How tao Murderer Spends His Time In
Close Confinement.

have been within ten feet Of jesse
Pomcroy.
I'~muird deep in the vast gray walls OF
Chnrlrstown pcnitcntiary, The strange
warped human being who once bore that
name Is hidden away from the sight OF
man forever i'm living death unknown
by the coming generation and forgotten by
the passing one
lie has double cell. much larger than
the ordinary cell, into which the sunlight
streams. His room IL neat, and he him
self is the very personiiication of neatncss
Upon this he pridcs himself lie wears n
beard. which j. kept neatly trimmed. He
changes the style of IL occasionally 20 suit
himself and displays as much taste and T.
n well aware Of what is becoming as the
most exquisite man Of fashion.
"But Is he wcllg" asked Of tho ono who
gave me this Information, and one who
knows.
"As we'll as vou arc, " was the reply
"and he looks well.
"Pcopia say mau cannot live without
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
MOTION.
The Visible Manifestation and the InvisI-
BILE ntermolecular Vibration.

Let us suppose stretched cord or wire
fixed at both ends, and let a sharp blow be
given it. The hand or other instrument
which impaired the blow was set in mo-
tion i'm order 90 do So and its motion was
one of translation, but the cord which had
received the blow and TO which some of
the motion has consequently been trans
ferred cannot change its place, for IL is fix
ed. We know well enough what Will hap
pen. Ii will commence vibrating, more or
less strongly and rapidly, according To the
strength of the blow 1t hrs received d-We
have, therefore, here seen motion of trans
lation changed into motion of vibration,
but "A similar and quite IA familiar trans
formation takes place which is invisible.
Let us take "a coin or any small piece OF
metal and rub il well with a cloth or hand
kercbief. In short time IL will become
warm, and IL the friction be still contin-
ued, even unplcasantly hot The visible
motion of the hand has been transformed
into the invisible intermolecrlar vibration
which we call heat. That 'heat is form
of motion" has now become scientific
truism, but il was not SO at the commence
ment OF the present century, when 1t was
still supposed by many 10 be some intangi-
bic kind of substance named "caloric, "
proofs 10 the contrary being almost stimuli
taneously given by Davy and Rumford mt
the end of the last century, that of the
former consisting in melting two pieces of
ice, carefully insulated from external heat
by rubbing them together; that of the lat
ter in causing water to boil by the sole
means of keeping il In continual motion.
1T is hardly necessary TO add, says
Rumford, THAT anything which any insu-
lated body or system of bodies can contin-
ne to furnish without limitation cannot
possibly be material substance, and it APP
pears 10 me exceedingly difficult, II not
quite impossible 20 form anv distinct idea
~ anvthiug capable ~ being excited and
communicated 10 the manner heat WAS cK-
cited and Communicated in these expert
ments, except 10 be 100, iun. food Words.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
DEATH OF EDWARD W. HOPPiN.
Unexpected Termination of Brief
sickness.

Unexpected Termination of a Brief
Sickness.
Edward Wheaton Hoppin died at 10
less than one weeks duration. Death
was due TO heart failure superinduced by
rheumatic feaver.
Mr.. Hoppin was one OF the best and most
favorably known young men in Provi-
dence.
His father is William A. Hoppin, treas
urer of the Providence Institution for
Savings; Richard ). Rowland is an uncle
and Mrs. Robert l. Gammell an aunt.
Deceased was born in Providence about
26 years ago. His school days were passed
at the Mowry x Gon school in this city
and the st. Paul School, Concord, n. IL.
Soon after graduating he entered the en-
ploy OF Hazard q Chaplin, the Market
square cotton brokers, where he
remained three years or more
The Rhode Island Hospital Trust
Company next engaged his services, and
after a few months Mr.. Hoppin was
made treasurer of the Metallic Setting
Company, which position he
resigned a short time ago TO enter the
employ of the Providence Journal Com
pany as auditor. lie was at his post until
last Saturday night.
Mr.. Hoppin was until recently on the
governing board of the Providence Ath-
letic Association and was an honored
member OF the Board OF Trade, Provi-
Mutual Benefit Association.
About four years ago Mr.. Hopkins
welded Miss Kate Lee Anthony Heiser. a
society belle. No children blessed the
union.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
They Didn't Go Hack.

Mr. Gcorgc Grossmith relates that ono
night In his early days when performing
with his father, instead Of commencing tn,
performance at o'clock, they did not ar
rive i'm the town until 90 minutes past
that hour 1--WE dressed in the cab, re-
marked the genial actor and entertainer
(which flew along like n fire engine. sud
denly we espicd building lighted mp ant
q large crowd coming out. Go back G.,
back shouted my father to the crowd, A.
he pushed his head out OF the cab. &c
back It's oil right, GroS.mlth H. fcr
We have arrived Go baekr j'nior
natcly 10 w..s not our audience, but "a co.
gregation leaving Methodist chapel after
seryioA"-Loudan Tit JutA