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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18
FAMINE IN CUBA NEXT
WHICH WILL BE FOLLOWED, 1T Is
SAID, BY A DREADFUL EPIDEMIC.

The Island Being Observation-Disclosures
Planter Says-Sugar Planters Ruined.
No Life Safe.
Knowing that your great journal al
ways welcomes reliable news from Cuba,
! herewith copy an extract from letter
I have just received from a friend in
Havana which depicts the situation
there without particle Of exaggeration.
have been a planter in Cuba for
many years, and therefore know the
country. Cuba imports most of its food.
It's sugar crop is exchanged for it.
IF Cuba fails to export sugar this
coming year, there is going to be ter
rible famine in that island, followed by
some dreadful epidemic. as is usual in
such cases.
In six months from now you will be
sending subscriptions of food to Havana.
E. M. MORA.
Extract From Letter From Havana.l
The state of affairs in this country
has become worse since my last letter.
The newspapers are prevented by
threats from publishing any news ex-
cept false news. That it is false is proved
by the statements of travellers coming
back from the interior towns. letters
from country merchants and remarks
dropped by. officers of the army coming
back from the seat of war.
All the bridges ON the Tunas de Zaza
railroad have been destroyed with dyna-
mite by the (insurgent) leader Roloff.
The work of construction on the
Puerto Principe railroad, announced
with such flourish Of trumpets in the
spring, has been stopped by the rebels.
The other public works projected
have remained on paper for absolute
lack of funds.
The troops in the interior part of the
island are suffering unheard of hard
ships. They are famished, clotheless,
shoeless and without medical attend
ance. The very officers confess the total
Generalization of the army and pro-
nounce the difficulties insurmountable.
The departments of Santiago, Puerto
Principe, Santa Clara and Matanzas-
that is to say, nearly all the lsland-are
being devastated. Everywhere small
parties of rebels patrol the country with
perfect IMMUNITY, robbing and firing
property.
In this port of Havana there is stock
Of sugar of 100000 tons without buy
ers. The sugar estates have no money to
pay to their workingmen, who are driv
en- by starvation to join the rebel bands.
No life is safe in the country.
The icy Indifference in the cities is
equaled only by the desolation spread
ing in the rest of the island.
The only money in circulation is the
$4,000 monthly pay of the army, of
which some is RENTED to officers fam
lilies in Spain.
If the war should terminate suddenly,
the whole country would be brought to
terrible state of paralysis, the effects
Of which would be appalling.
The sugar planters are ruined com
pletely. They, at least thus far, had
constituted an element of production.
The picture that Cuba presents today
is very gloomy, and the future is very,
very dark. New York World.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18
A FAIR DIVIDEND.
More Than Expected Realized From
the Stegner Stock.

w. w. P. Mcconnell, assignee of W.
G. Stegner, is paying the first and
final dividend to the creditors, and it
amounts to thirty and one-half per
cent. The total Indebtedness amount
ed to 81, 924.14, and the total amount
to be paid out is S5S655. When the
receipts are all in, the court will be
asked to make an order discharging
the assignee. Thomas Hughes is at
torney for the assignee.
The dividend is larger than many
predicted that it would be, and shows
good business management On the
part of the assignee.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18
Horses, Etc., For Sale.

On Saturday next, October 10Th, at
800 O'Clock p. M, we will sell at pub.
lie auction at the street car barn, all
our horses, harness, tools, etc. Terms
cash or bankable notes.
MANKATO STREET RAILWAY Co.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18
1t May Come Over Here.

A garter show that has been we'll pa
ronized in Paris is to be transported to
London.
The herald., 1895-07-14

light when the ostrich pen was reached.
Both Of she big birds lay asleep upon the
eround, with heads outstrstched. One
awoke ana Cane forward with his mino-
Ing step, for all the world like dude. to
inquire what Was the matter. And q
funny object he was, with his vapid face
tho early dawn.
The eagles and other big birds were
still asleep. but restless, as daylight ap-
pronohed. They were huddlsd tOgeth or
upon the branches Of the dead tree that
serves as Yoost locking anything but
the noble bird that story depicts them.
Now and then one Of the big Birds would
stretch wing or shake his feathers q it,
tie, and then poke. hts head under his
wing again for another nap.
During visits to the Zoo nearly every.
one has heard the sea lions barking. 1t 10
a way they havs. They will wake up,
They are terrible scolds. II WAS there.
fore surprise to find one sleeping peace.
fully as O baby with its hsad piilowed
upon one Of the rocks that are placed
around the shelf above the water n thsi
tank. He was watched for few mo.
ments, and then Hostetter clappsd his
hands together. The creature awoke With
a start, and quick as fash plunged into
the water and began to gracefully circle
around the pool.
BY this time il was getting late, the
representatives Of thousand forms Of
animal life awaking to another day. and
the ENQUIRER man was hungry and
wanted his breakfast, So he hastened
away we'll satisfied with his first night in
the Zoo.
The herald., 1895-07-14
WHAT LINCOLN
THOUGHT OF DOUGLAS, AS TOLD
BY CAPTAIN SANDERS

Captain A. D. Sanders of Spring Geld,
Ill.,, visited Echo mountain recently in
company with his daug hterin-law, Mrs.
W. A. Sanders of Los Angeles. The cap
tain is past grand master OF the order of
Odd Fellows in Illinois, and though he
has been here but a few weeks. is SO
char med with our climate that he will
probably locate here permanently.
Captain Sanders saw both Lincoln and
Douglas after their nomination for the
presidency. He heard the former make a
Characteristic speech which greatly i'm
pressed him. Then he went over to Lin
coins headquarters and looked through
the door which stood aiar. Lincoln no.
ticed the shy 15-year-old boy and bid him
come ID. AS Sanders approached the tall,
gaunt form. sitting cross-legged in the
Office chair, Lincoln drew the boy to his
side, and, placing his arm around him in
a friendly manner, remarked: II see by
the badge on your lapel that you are a
Douglas boy we'll. he is fine man and
a very GOOD man." and then released his
hold. Captain Sanders says that the great,
strong-featrred statesman won his heart
from that moment. He saw Mr. Lincoln
again about a month after the election,
The herald., 1895-07-14

Every creature under the roof was howl
ing, snorting and snarling. The leopards
jun ped about, growing and roaring;
Brutus sprang against the bars. of his
cage and the keepers iron bar had no
terrors for him. Big and little cats howled
little elephants frightened trumpeting
could be heard. The Enquirer man
wanted to get out. What if one OF these
lnfuriated beasts should break out and
make mince meat of their tormentor? 1t
was suggested to Hostetter that. perhaps.
it would be best to move on. He grinned
a sardonic grin and said that he couldn' t
think of going before he had quieted the
creatures. And it took half an hour of
bullying and coaxing and entreaty to
make the beasts stop their racket and stop
pacipg their cages. But no more pictures
were secured at that time.
Later, with paper and pencil alone. q
picture Of Ben. the puma, asleep upon the
Shelf in his cage. was obtained. This
time Tommy was much disturbed, and.
had be been a big fellow, like his murder
ous relative, Chief, whose articulated
skeleton and stuffed skin occupy glass
case near at hand. he would probably
have broken away from his fastenings
and made things decidedly lively. Just
then it was cause for rseIfcongratulation
that Tommy was Tommy and not big
Chief. That brute died the death Of a
rogue elephant. He had a record OF five
men killed with his murderuus trunk.
But he is peaceful enough now.
Leaving the carnivora, the pear pit was
sought. People do not know enough
about bears. They are amusing and in
structive creatures, these first cousins to
the pig. They know more than good
many men. Did you ever notice how
bears sleep? They sleep much of the
time. in daylight as well as night. so that
they are readily observed. Almost always
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gentleman have travelled in spots where
the wild animals of earth roam, and have
written more or less truthful, but alawys
exciting accounts of their experiences; /;
but it is safe to venture that not Du
Chaillu, nor Hum boldt,A nor a Stanley
ever made it his business to prowl about
at midnight in quest OF sleeping carni-
vora.
1t would not be a healthy diversion spy
ing upon sleeping lions or tigers in an
Indian glade, and the naturalist who
attempts it had best arrange for a postum
nous publication of his notes and data.
Books on natural history are detective in
this matter. tor while they tell us all
about the waking habits of the beast,
they are silent, for the most part, about
his manner OF slumbe
The Enquirer s artist therefore felt very
much like an explorer when he made a
midnight excursion to the Geological gar
den. and prepared TO steal upon the ami
mails while they slept in their dens and
cages. A very different place is the Zoo
bv daylight, and the Zoo at midnight. The
great throngs who had roamed about the
beautiful park had departed long ago, and
all was hushed and still, save when the
coyotes occasionally uttered their yelps.
or a sea lion sounded his barking roar.
The turnstiles were deserted, and shadows
only occupied the graveled walk up the
hill.
Its sort o lonesome here at night
remarked Keeper Brolschmi DIT, who had
volunteered to take the Enquirer man in
tow, and pilot him about the place.
1.-The animals never break out and roam
about the grounds at night?' was asked
by way of an answer.
''Not very often" was the hardly as
suring and somewhat malicious answer
for the old keeper IS something of wag.
and not aycrse to chasing cold shivers up
The herald., 1895-07-14

3 The University of California IA ons of
the pleasantest colleges In the vorld IN
account OF its location in Z lovely fruit
and flower grove. Its hsys. fseiiiSs tSis
fully, have given for cheer the iolliest
sounds in the language:
"Ha. ha. ma! California; u. O. Bufk.
lee Zippi Boom! Ahl
Buchtef college has the honor of owninp
the hardest cheer in the world to mem
orise. 1t Is:
rye, hool Ye. hel Ye-hssal His, Wow.
wowi Buchtsl!
Tfy to learn the Buchtel cheer II YOU
The shortest college yell In the United
States is said to belong. to Hanover. 1t
Is simply: "Hnn Han! Han-o-veri
And the longest is that OF the Universi-
ty Of illinois, which takes long time to
deliver.
"Rah, hoo, rah! zipp. boom, an
baiooi Ip-sidi-iki! y. OF 1. Chaupaign |!
The length Of a college yell is strictly
regulated,by college precedence, some be-
ing short and others slow. That of
Princeton 10 always delivered in thirty
seconds:
"Hoorayl Hoorayl Hoorayl Tiger-sis-
hoom-ah Princeton
So. that at the last annual banquet
when thesvenerable DR.. MoCosh was pre-
enl there were ten minutes mployed In
sheerins after the DOCTOR had risen to
speak, each one OF the twenty classes over
whom he had presided insisting upon
getting in its yell.
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and down the back sof the uninitiated.
For twenty lone years Brulschmidt has
been an employee Of the Zoo company.
being a contemporary of the white polar
bears, and some of the painted cockatoos
"a regular old-timer, who melows his
English with marked toreigh accent.
and wears grizzled gray whiskers. His
special charges are the monkeys and be
knows more about monkeys than Oar.
win, or even Professor Garner.
The moon shone brightly, casting black
shadows under the trees and shrubbery,
which nodded in the midnight breeze,
and threw fanciful designs upon the
ground. The shapes assumed by some of
these shadows we're nerve-shaking, and il
required considerable resolution to keep
from conjuring up wild beasts escaped
from their cages and croucinhg under
the bushes for the express purpose of
making meal off of such tender NOR
sci as newspaper man.
There are the llamas down in the hol-
low" remarked my guide. "Thev sleep
outside these hot nights. There are but
two, and one always seems to keep watch
while the other sleeps. Maybe that white
fellow with his head up is asleep. His
eyes look closed. But / think ne is play
ing possum while the drab one sleeps"
The gentle creatures presented pretty
picture, resting Just without the shadow
yond the fence line. Beyond them, in
the next Enclosure. lay the herd of deer,
tnat the Zoo employees persist in calling
elk. The two big horned bucks, prevented
by their heavy, branching head orna-
ments from resting as easily as the does,
lay with their heads upon the ground i'll
a manner to give them the most comfort.
A pretty little fawn lay in the foreground.
Very different creatures these from their
wilu kindred, who fly into the depths Of
the forest at the slightest sound. These
creatures sleep outside in the air, winter
and summer. Next the door of the mon.
key house was reached. Here the simian
prisoners pass their lives in jail for the
barharous amusement and instruction o1
their advanced brethren.
"Monkeys are funny creatures, saic
Brolschmidt. "They are timld and wake
full at night. and maybe they will not &C
to sleep after we have disturbed them.
will go in first. and you slip in after me. '
The monkey house was dimly Lighted
by gas, for the creatures are afraid Of the
dark. The keeper tiptoed into the hous'
and uttered an admonishing ''lie down. :
J Some of the creaturs peered between the
The herald., 1895-07-14

bear tries to get his feet against some
thing when he sleeps. The sketch that
was secured Of the brown-bear does not
carry out this idea. 1t is fact however,
that bear tries usually to get his broad.
flat feet against something when he wants
to sleep. He likes to rest them against a
fiat stone. Any position suits bear. He
is not particular. HI appears to have no
bones. If he can't find a stone or wall,
or anything else to put his feet against.
he will double up and put the bottoms of
his front and hind feet together. Then
he thinks that he is all right. Then he
is safe.
The polar bears were asleep, one on his
back, with his feet in the air, so that a
comfortable stream of water trickled upon
his belly. The other was aslepeS with
his body in the huge stone basin OF water
in theapit. The black bear was awake and
prowling about.
The figures of birds aud bison and
many of the animals. while asleep, are
familiar. But it is doubtful if the reader
ever saw an ostrich asleep. 1t was getting
The herald., 1895-07-14

mullet and many forms found generally
in southern waters on the Atlantic; while
with them are the lovers of colder
waters. In fact, the above named islands
are peolog ical stations of the greatest
interest and it is to be hoped in the near
future an aquarium can be established
here in connection with which school
of biology where the wonderful panorama
OF marine life that is ever passing can
be studied.
Owing to the vast numbers of minute
animals found off our shores the Santa
Catalina channel is famous for its whales.
and the steamers rarely go over to the
island without sighting one. Recently
large wnale swan along within rifle shot
OF Seal rock, and as it leaped out of the
water il resem bled a mass of rock. Look
ing down into the water where the whale
was feeding it was seen to be filled with
ehostly shapes. Some appeared to be
mimic balloons; others were meteors
with huge tails OF crystal. In some places
the waters were so full of jelly fishes that
thew seemed to form solid mass, and
everywhere handful of them could be
These little creatures when lifted out
uppear to be in chains. Some are three
or four inches long; others fuot, some
many feet. and when closely examined
yeritabfe crystal carveo beautifully by
nature. The little animal, an eighth of
an inch in length. is known as the
qualpa and ranks very high in the scale
Of life. being placed at the foot of the
great back -boned family. There are sew
eral kinds and the one go common at
Catalina is the chain qualpa, SO called
from its habit of joining forces in chains.
The little qalpaa are common near the
surface, and among them are numerous
Jelly fishes Of all colors-biue. yellow and
pink tints-fashing in the light and in
such numbers that some idea of the
amount of whale food floating about is
obtained.
It is a singular fact that the largest ami
NAL. the whale, that attains length of
over 100 feet, has throat so small that
in many species only the smallest ami
mails can be swallowed and in the Green
land whale, one of the largest, the throat
is but an inch and half in width.
: The whales common near our southern
shores are three whalebone varieties. They
have no teeth. but falling in rows flom
the upper jaws is the wnalebone, i'll lay
ers like the stats of Venetian blind.
These are frlnged at their edges and at
the bottom portion the whale simply
opens its enosmous mouth and swims
The herald., 1895-07-14

wonderful light. Many do not shine
unless disturbed, and when a,whsle moves
through the ocean at night 1t presents 4
marvellous spectacle. Even. the flying
fish around Avalon make glare of light
when moving and when the whale
moves it converts the water Into flame
and seems to be devouring masses of
burning fluid and columns, globes and
other forms heated to q white heat; SIM
ply the phos spherescent animals being
stirred up and broken.
In gazing down into the waters Of
Southern California at night nearly all
the animals we have denominated as
whale food are seen to be luminous, and
some of the larger jellies often present a
magnificent appearance. One, the
Cyanea, observed on the Atlantic, was
six feet across aud stout enough to have
stopped a boat: and must have weighed
ton. as its mass of tentacles, cleaning
and blazing like the tail of comet,
reached away for $50 feet.
The toothed whales. of which the
sperm whale is type. have larger
throats, and prey mainly upon the big
squios that are found in the deep sea.
There are many theories to explain how
so huge an animal Us the whale, can CAP
ture the most agile Of animals the squid.
Old whalers state that the whale simply
lies still with its mouth wide open. and
the squids, attracted by the big teeth.
enter it and are snapped up; but the most
plausible theory is that the whales catch
them in the open ocean. The squids OF
the Pacific are often fifty feet in length,
and with their powerful suckers undoubt-
edly make q fight before being devoured.
Once such contest was observed where
a whale had seized giant squia and the
latter had wound its tentacles about it,
and the two were rolling over and over
in sea of foam.
The minute animals that whales live on
are not always seen as We drift along
with the glass. but it is estimated that
there are sixteen tons OF the calcareous
shells OF minute animals in the.uppei most
100 fathoms of every square mile of the
ocean. So we may well believe that the
latter is so filled with animal life that
every cubic inch is inhabited.
The herald., 1895-07-14

when he was sthe hero of a grand recep-
ton and receiving the hearty congratnla-
tions of a host of friends and admirers.
Captain Sanders was the Youngest of
five brothers in company X, One Hun
dred and Twenty-fourth regiment, Illi-
nois infantry. of which company his
brother was captain. and he afterwards
attained that rank himself He was aft
erwards the founder of both the Odd Eel
lows Herald and the Odd Fellows Re-
view. The former is published at Spring.
field and the latter at ST. Paul. During
Mr.. Sanders publication Of these journals
he travelled more than LOCO, 900 miles in
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. 1t is
said of him that he is acquainted with
more meu personally in Illinois than any
other man living.
The herald., 1895-07-14
IN THE zoo
AT MIDNIGHT
When the Birds and the
Animals Are in
RepOse
NOT AS LIVELY AS BY DAY
But the Bears, Lions, Pumas, Tigers,
Monkeys and Other Animals
Have Their Peculiar Ways
Of Sleeping
NOT AS LIVELY AS BY DAY

Cincinnati Enquirer: Young and old
OF this favored city are familiar with the
animals of the plains, the wood and the
jungle; for have they not the zoo with
them always? They have gazed at the car
nivora with awe and pictured the fsrocious
animals there as savage beasts roaming
about in thier native lairs, and perhaps
shuddered bit at the bare thought of
meeting the lion or the tiger alone and
face to face.
But how many have seen these same
animals asleep at the dead OF night?
The herald., 1895-07-14

= Mrs. Lee is a woman barber in Chicago.
She heard the other day that the council
was going to pass an ordinance prohibit
ing women from engaging in the occupa-
tion OF barbering SO when the BARRIERS
held mass meeting she presented herself
in behalf of the hundred or more women
who are to be found in local shops. She
represented that women are forging, to
the front in the business. There is a
reason for this she said "Women bar
bers do not drink nor carouse; conse-
quently their nerves are always steady
and their touch is light. They do not
chew tobacco nor smoke cigars and al
ways treat their customers with the ut.
most politeness. This plain talk created
great uproar, but Mrs. Lee smiled and
sat down, satisfied that she had shown
the meeting that women can hold their
own anywhere.
The herald., 1895-07-14
Wonders of Animal Life
in Our Waters Off
the Coast
TOOTHED WHALE EAT SQUlD
Jellyfishes Are the Lamps of the
Ocean by Night and Food for
Whales by Night
By G. r. Holder

SANTA CATALINA, July 1o.--Of the
many localities it has been the writer s
good fortune to visit. from the Gulf OF
Mexico on the Atlantic and the length
and breadth of our coast, none we're SO
prolific in animal life as the islands off
Los Angeles county-San Clemente and
Santa Catalina. They seem to be neutral
ground for northern and western speci-
mems and the breeding ground for vast
numbers of fishes ard other marine an
imsls. Here we may find the nautilus, the
fairy ship Velella and true coral, the
The herald., 1895-07-14

Quite Sensation was created by an
English actress during the late rain storm
in New YORK city. She appeared in the
shopping district around Union square
IN a waterproof cloak. Fedora hat, bloom
her legs, and tight-titting leggins below
the knee. She seemed perfecly uncon-
scious that there was anything unusual
in her attire, and WAS oblivious of the
many eyes that were cast at her. When
reminded that her costume was little
advanced, she said: II have worn this
costume for over year. | am a great
wheelwoman, and it occurred to me one
day that. with an appropriate cloak the
bloomers could be worn on rainy days.
l tried it, and found it success.''
The herald., 1895-07-14

An amusing story IS told of the meet
ing of the Epworth league at Chatta-
noosa. One Of the visiting members was
entertained by hospitable family, and
at dinner was asked t. carve the chicken.
For his own convenience he transferred
the bird from the platter tc his plate.
whereupon the young hopeful of the fam
lily, who had heard OF the Methodist fond
ness for chicken and had been anxiously
watching the proceedings. cried out to
going to take it all.'' Explanations
were made and tranquility reigned again.
The herald., 1895-07-14

Danger often comes in the night.
About a week ago Miss Daisy Green of
Albany, Ca. was stung on the lip in her
sleep by some poisonous insect. In the
morning her lipswas swollen, but she ap-
piled the usual salve and felt no appre-
henson of anything serious. The swell
ling increased, inflammation set in ana
blood poison supervened. In spite of the
best efforts OF the physician the young
lady grew rapidly worse and died III great
agony. She had just returned from col
lege at Macon, where she had taken un-
usual nonors.