davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
FEATHERED DRUNKARDS.
Shocking Depravity on the Part of Birds
Witnessed by Andrew Lang.

Shocking Depravity on the Part of Birds
Witnessed by Andrew Lang.
A queer story is told by Mr.. Andrew
Lang. The incident came under his own
notice and occurred under the bridge
over the Lochy, below the Ben Nevis
Long John distillery. From this tale it
is obvious that animals are only sober
from lack of wit to obtain alcohol:
"That establishment disgorges into a
burn quantity of refuse, no doubt al
coholic When we crossed the bridge in
the morning to fish, the ducks from the
farm opposite were behaving in drunk
en- and disorderly manner-fying, beat
ing the water, diving, spluttering and
greedily devouring the stuff from the
distillery. Their antics were funny, but
vulgar. By o'clock we found the
ducks sleeping off the effects of their
debauch. We awakened them, and they
all staggered eagerly to bucket of wa
ter, from which they quenched the tor
ments of thirst. A small sea bird behav-
ed in still more deplorable way. He
slowly drifted down the Lochy from the
fatal Intoxicating burn, nor could peb-
bles judiciously thrown at him induce
him to take the wing. He tried to dive,
making efforts comic and unsuccessful.
After drifting through the bridge | re-
greet to say that he returned to the burn
and 'took a cup of kindness yet" get
ting all the more intoxicated and drift
ing back in yet more deplorable condi-
ton. What lesson, we said, is this to
mankind, who, after all, need not speak
of their boasted reasonableness! The
wild and tame things of stream and
ocean are as unwise as we.'
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
The City's Share Voted.

Aid. Zimmerman. for the commit
Gae on fOOGwayS along the Minnesota
river bridge, made a report of the pro-
ceedingS of the recent joint meeting.
He said that the county board had
literally voted $500 toward defraying
the cost.
Aid. Peterson thought that the city
should donate $500, and that the
walks should be substantially con-
structed. A practical bridge builder
should prepare the plans, or the
bridge may be weakened.
Engineer Haynes said that the cost
of the walks would be 81 200 to ST., 900,
according to the style adopted. He
had prepared plan which had been
approved by bridge builders. He
would have bids on this and also
have bidders submit plans with prices
on them. He suggested that the city
agree to pay half the remaining cost
beyond the $500 appropriated by the
county.
Aid. Bradley objected to wooden
ratings. Aid. Peterson said that
such ratings would be whitfield up.
Engineer Haynes said that his
plans call for gas pipe ratings. He
said that he had received during the
afternoon a telegram from Mr.. Jones,
who built the bridge, suggesting that
it would be advantageous to the city
to advertise for bids.
Aid. Bradley wanted the ownership
of the bridge cleared up, as neither
the city, county or Belgrade admitted
any ownership or liability for repairs.
Mr.. Hodapp, of the Belgrade town
board, said that there had developed
no opposition to the proposition to
vote $500 at the special election next
Wednesday, and that there was every
probability that the proposition
would carry.
Adolph Rockey was given rebate
of 81 on his $40 water rent, having
closed his barber shop in block four
teen.
Aid. Peterson offered a resolution
appropriating $500 toward the cost of
building two foot ways along the Min
nesota river bridge, in case the city
enters into a contract for the i'm
provement. 1t was unanimously
adopted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
The Stamp Did Not Work.

A Belgian physician who stands very
high professionally at home and is gen.
tleman Of education, culture and refine
ment recently visited friends in this city.
He had occasion to write letter to an
Evanston professor and was told that if
he would aux an immediate delivery
stamp to the letter it would be rushed
through to It's destination without delay.
After dav spent in sightseeing about
the city with his Chicago friends the Bel
gian reached home, went to his room and
immediatel. came down stairs again in
considerable perturbation.
''Seep' he cried, hol ling out the stamp
cd letter, which had lain on a table in his
room all day. sit hal not gone yet Tie
stamp haf not work. Nobody hat called
for it all The day through"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
A LONG INSIDE PASSAGE.
Navigating the Ocean Among Thousands
| of Islands.

Navigating the Ocean Among Thousands
of Islands.
Whatever may be said-and much can
be-of the beauties of the Alaskan coast,
it is not inviting to the seafaring man,
and especially the master who is taking
ship by the inside route from Puget
sound to Sitka or Juneau for the first
time, feat, so it is claimed, impossi-
BILE OF accomplishment by a continuous
voyage save through the assistance of a
good pilot This passageyay-for
by the mainland coasts of British Co.
lumbia and Alaska and chain of is
lands ranging in length from to $50
miles-is from 100 yards to several
miles in width. The channels proper
are of unusual depth. In places from
800 to 400 fathoms Of water are fire.
quently found. From the smooth, CLASSY
surface lodges and reefs, assassins of
the sea, Turk, ready to send some ship,
humanity laden, to the bottom. In these
waters the lead is supnlanted by whistle
echoes from the land this being the
only method during fog by which the
captain or pilot guides his vessel along
a safe way.
Old sea captains say there is no wa
ter course in the world where in unfa-
vorable weather such skill is required
as to guide ship via the channels on
voyage from the sound and return, the
round trip to Sitka being more than
half the distance of the voyage across
the Atlantic The Pacific Coast Steam
ship company's vessels running to Alas
ka are always manned with two pilots
each in the winter and spring and are
never without one pilot. With at least
two of this company's vessels now run
ming to Alaska the captains themselves
served an apprenticeship of many years
at plotting.
The outside passage, the one by the
open ocean, is seldom used, on account
of the unfavorable winds which prevail
for distance of over so miles out to
sea, rendering vessels progress much
slower, to say nothing of the danger of
ships being caught in gale and driven
ashore. With the danger from wreck
almost eliminated by the employment
of professional pilots, the inside passage
is rendered a most delightful voyage, as
it abounds in beautiful scenery and is
free from winds Seattle Post Intelli-
gencer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
THE NORTH CENTRAL'S FRAN.
CHISE EXTENDED TO nAY 2.
The New Telephone Exchange Must
Be in Operation Then or it forfeits
$Ioo-The Council appropriates $500
For the FOOtways = Plumbers
License Fees nade $40 a Year
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany's improvements.

Vice President Andrews presided
over the regular meeting of the city
council Saturday night, and all of the
aldermen answered to their names at
roll call.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.,
through Foreman p. Mention, pre-
sented a communication that the
company is rebuilding it's lines from
Main street to it's office, and will aban-
don the line of poles now on Front
street from Main to Plum, and from
Plum to Fourth streets, and desiring
permission to move the poles in
front Of the cOmpany's office to the
opposite side of Front street, and per-
mission to place guy pole on the
west side of Main street twenty feet
east of Front, and to replace six poles
now standing on Front street from
Main to Hickory with new poles. The
poles are to be painted in the spring.
The matter was referred to the street
committee with power to act.
A liquor license was ordered grant
ed to G. III. Hoerr upon payment of
81, 1000. The bond, with John j. Mil
Ter and Geo. Wiedeman as sureties,
was approved. A license was also
granted to Otto Mann, and his bond,
with w. q. Hoerr and Clement
Schroeder as sureties, Was approved.
The license committee had reported
favorably upon the applications.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
SCALPED BY INDIANS.
It Happened Thirty Years Ago, and the
Man Still Lives

IL Happened Thirty Years Ago, and the
Man Still Lives.
John Ellis, farmer living in Lower
Mount Nethel township, in Northampton
county, has the distinction of being the
only man in Pennsylvania, so far as is
known, who has been scalped by the Indi-
ans and lives to tell about it. Mr. Ellis
narrow escape from a horrible death oc-
CURED nearly 80 years ago, when, as a
boy, he was driver in a government train
moving from North Platte, Neb., to Fort
Laramie Wy.
The train had small escort of United
States cavalry, but was not prepared for
an attack by the Indians. One August
day, however, band of 500 hostile red
skins appeared in the neighborhood of the
train and began active operations. The
men belonging to the train and the SOL
diers, IA in all, formed kind of fort with
the aid of wagons and made the best fight
they could, but all but four were killed.
Ellis and three companions determined to
mount their horses as a last chance and
try to escape. The attempt was made, but
Ellis was thrown, and the last thing he
remembers was being surrounded by doz-
ems of hideously painted and bowling saw
ages.
When he became conscious again, he
found himself lying in a dry ravine with
two bullets in his body and wide strip of
flesh removed from the forehead and crown
of his head. He was five miles from the
scene of the fight. Evidently the Indians,
thinking he was still alive, had carried
him on one of their ponies for a consider
able distance with a view to keeping him
as a prisoner. No doubt they afterward
reached the conclusion that he was dead,
and, scalping him, threw him in the ra-
vine. They probably shot the two bullets
into his body to make death certain.
Ellis was able to crawl back to the trail
and in course of time was picked up by a
train, his wounds dressed and his life
saved. He soon after returned east and has
since been engaged successfully in farming
in Pennsylvania. His SCARED head gives
him peculiar appearance, but he suffers
in no other way from his remarkable ex
perience. p Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
A FIVE STORY HANDICAP.
The Predicament of a Man Who Saw
Thief With His Bicycle.

The Predicament of a Man Who Saw a
Thief With His Bicycle.
One day last week a young man went to
q dentists Office in Kansas City to have a
bridge, with some teeth hanging to it, at
tached to his upper jaw. He rode to the
building on his bicycle, which he left in
the hall, and assembled to the fifth floor on
the elevator.
The dentists chair faced window
which looked out upon Grand avenue. The
dentist had filled his mouth with cement
and was pressing it up into the gum with
his finger The victim was gazing out up
on the street with martyrs expression
ON his face.
Suddenly the victim struggled to get
his head away from the grasp of the den
tist
''Ugh, ug-glug, glug-ug-lug-mug gugp'
he shouted in muffled voice.
The dentist thought the man in the
chair was having fit, and, fearing that
he might swallow the cement to say moth
ing of several porcelain teeth backed with
gold and several hours hard labor, he kept
his finger in the victim s mouth, and ST.
lent struggle took place. The man in the
chair tried to rise. The dentist, who is
something of an athlete, struggled to keep
him down. This sort of thing went on for
several minutes, until the dentist could
feel that the cement had hardened. Then
he took his finger out of his victim S
mouth and let him up.
dad blame your shouted the angry
victim. "What in Sam Hill did you hold
me down that way for? Didn't I tell you
wanted to get up?'
81 thoughU you were having fit," an
swered the dentist alphabetically.
''Fit nothing" said the victim. II saw
thief going up the street with my bicy-
cle 1 knew it by the color and the way
the toolbag hung behind and the ribbons
on the handle bar. Being up five stories is
handicap enough without having brigand
like you holding me down with his fist in
my throat. kansas City Star.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
Improved Financial Condition.

The city recorder was authorized to
pay note for $500 at bank. 1t
was not necessary to borrow any
money at present, as there is $4,000
in the treasury and $1,000 coming in
from liquor licenses.
Aid. Bradley said that there is
much complaint of lack of fire in
the city hall furnace. According to
reports there is hardly any heat in the
offices until 1000 a. m. The alder
man understood that the janitor was
working for other parties, and if SO
it ought to be looked to. He moved
that the matter be referred to the
city propertycommittee, and this car.
ried.
The council adjourned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25

will make a money deposit with the
city as a guaranty of good faith.
The amendment was referred to the
ordinance committee. The commit
tee was given time to examine the
amendment, and brought in favor
able report, after amending it so that
800 shall be deposited by Jan. I'd with
the city as guarantee of good faith,
to be forfeited if the plant is not in
operation by May I'd.
The rules were suspended and the
amendment was passed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
The council adjourned.

CT was troubled with my stomach
so that l could not eat anything with
out distress and concluded to give
Hoods Sarsaparilla a trial. After
taking three bottles was we'll"
Mrs. M. NJ. Robinson, River Point,
Mimi. Hoods Pills cuIe all liver ills.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
$500, 900, 900, 900 Descendants.

Every known plant is occasionally in
habited by les own peculiar aphis, or
plant louise. These curious insects breed
with wonderful rapidity, French nat
uralist proving that pair of them will
within six weeks produce five genera
tions, or grand total of 1904, 900.
000,0 descendants. st. Louis Repub-
lie.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
IIUT POI 70 u V1ToOT o.
HARPER'S WEEKLY

For one year. "a 90
Postage Free to all subscribers IN the
Unsted States, Caaadn and Meric0.
Address HARPER s. BROS
P.O. Box SO, n. Y. City.
Harper's Weekly and WEEKLY FREE
hEoo Or ~
Harper's Weekly and DAILY FREE
PRESS Sc. 10
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
Harper's Weekly
in 1897

With the end of 1896 Harpers
Weekly will have lived forty years.
In that time it has participated with
all the zeal and power at it's command
in the great political events of the
most interesting and important
period in the history of the country,
and it has spread before it's readers
the accomplishments of science, arts,
and letters for the instruction of the
human mind and the amelioration of
human conditions and of manners.
That the WEEKLY has been in it's
spirit and purpose, as these have been
manifested principally in its editorial
pages, it will continue to be.
Ii is impossible to announce with
precision all that the WEEKLY will
contain during the year 1897. 1t were
as easy to announce what is about to
happen in the world, what triumphs
for good government are to be won,
what advances of the people are to be
made, what is to be the outcome of
the continuous struggle between the
spirits of war and peace, what is to
happen in the far East, what is to be
the state of Europe twelve months
hence, what new marvels of science
al w UO ICNOdlCu, VI WudU die w US
the achievements of arts and letters,
for the WEEKLY is to be pictorial
record of all this.
Cartoons will continue to be a
feature.
Serial Stories. A New England
story by Miss MARY E'WILKINs, will
begin in January. A tale of Greek
uprising against the Turks, by Mr.. E.
f BENSON, the author of "DOdO, twill
follow. A sequel to THE House-Boat
on the StyX, by Mr.. JOHN KENDRICK
BANGS, illustrated by Mr.. PETER
NEWELL.
More Short Stories will appear in
the WEEKLY than it has been pos
sible to publish during 1896.
Departments: Mr.. w. d. HOwELL'S
"Life and Letters" have been among
the most charming features of period
ical literature; Mr.. e. S. MARTIN, and
others will contribute observations on
what is going on in 'This Busy
World" Amateur Sport" Will remain
the most impor ant department of its
kind in the country.
The WEEKLY will continue to
present it's readers the worlds news
most interesting to Americans, to
make important advances in both the
literary and artistic features, and to
refrain for itself the leading place in
the illustrated journalism of the world.
Newspapers are not to copy this Advertise
ment aoithOm the cypress order of
Harper de- Brothers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
Two Lists of Presidents.

There they are-about half and half
1t is worthy of note that the two term
umn. Those in the left hand column
were college graduates; those in the
other column were not. = Western
Teacher.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30
successful.

Rev. G. W. h. Smith is holding very
successful revival service at Danville.
The services have been in progress for
ten days and there have been thirty &C.
cessions, and the meeting is now taking
on even greater proportions. This
church will number two eundred mem.
bers before the meeting closes. Rev.
Smith took the church last Novem Der,
one year, with seventy members. 1t is
wonderful how he gets help from his
people. Elder Lewis Pence is a most
able chorister and knows how and when
to sing the right selection. Cyrus Shafer
his able organist, with his gentle touch,
brings the music to the front. The
meeting will continue this week. Come
over. Mud will not stop it.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

Roy CLARK, of Dayton, who has been
in the Cuban army, arrived here on foot
Monday evening. He and some $50
others went to Cuba. He says his way
was paid from Cincinnati. Most of the
others of his party came from Texas.
The Texan army he says have plenty to
eat, but little to wear. Most of them
were bare footed when he left. He was
discharged on account of sickness and
made his way to Florida. From there
he had money enough to bring him to
Portsmouth, whence he walked to this
place. Here he was provided with pas.
sage to Blanchester, whence he expected
to walk to Lebanon, from whose Normal
School he graduated. From there he
apprehsnded no trouble in reaching bis
home in Dayton. He says the Cubans
will succeed They all love Gomez, who
10 one of the kindest men in the world.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

Charles Emery, of New Market, has
been adjudged insane, and committed
to the Athens Asylum. His malady is
in mild form, and his friends hope for
speedy cure. This young man be-
lieved everybody but himself had the
faculty of knowing what everybody else
was doing. He said his father had
taught this to his brothers, but not to
him. He brooded over this paternal in.
justice until he concluded the father de.
served chastisement. When they all re.
turned from church, Sunday night, they
had hardly gotten into the house when
he turned upon his father and knocked
him down. The father was knocked
down several times. as fast as he tried
to rise. Help, soon arrived, however,
and active hostilities ceased. As soon
as possible, the Sheriff was summoned,
and the young man was taken into Gus,
tody. Outside OF this one fancy, young
Emery seems peafectly sane, and in con.
Quoting his own defense, in the Probate
Court, showed remarkable brilliancy.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

H. D. Waddell arrived yesterday from
Columbus, where he and Mrs Waddell
will take up their abode. Harry is now
special agent for this State, for the
Equitable Life Insurance Co., of New
York. This is the largest life insurance
organization in the world. 1t has $780,.
100000 insurance in force. Its assets
are 5000, 100000, and it's net surplus $4O,.
100000. What astonishing figures His
headquarters are in the Wyandotte
Building. He will appoint an agent for
the Equitable, while here.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30
c., H. & W.

There was meeting Friday, of the
workers on the G., H. & W., at the
Kramer House. Reports were turned
in from all along the line, showing en-.
thusiastic interest in the enterprise.
Fully S5 per cent. Of the rights Of way
have been secured. 1t was decided to
open stock books with view to raising
ten per cent. Of the desired stock, pre-.
paratory to effecting an organization and
pushing the work of construction. Mr..
Wells had previously been appointed a
committee to arrange for plan Of en-.
trance to the city of Cincinnati. AL.
though not at the meeting Friday, he
will be here this week some time, and
will probably have something interest.
ing to report.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30
The Sardinia Normal
A Green Goods Man,

In writing "a Green Goods Man" the
author did not attempt to write play
that would be accepted among the clas-
sizes or one that would place his name|
on the roll of honor in the dramatists1
club of America, but he held in view the
main object of all successes, to write fod
the amusement of the masses and I'd
please the public, and thus to achieve. d
financial success. That he has succeed
ed has been attested by the big busines}
done by this attraction everywhere, and
the screams and shouts of laughte}
which roll through an audience at it
ludicrous scenes and amusing dialogue
The plot, what there is of it, deals of tn
adventures of the Yankee farmer, il
search of wealth by the quick if dishonea
methods of buying counterfeit money
or green goods, as it is called, from whic
the comedy derives its title. A willin
tool, the sharpers fleece him not only
the much heralded green goods gam
but also relieve him of his surplus cas-
by other forms of swindling such as
card monte, theshell game, short chang
etc. The bucolic visitor will find mud
to instruct him in the devious ways
the under world, in the expose of hq
these things are done, as seen in I'd
play, and should prove an object less
to him in finance as we'll as to afford h
an evenings amusement At Bel
Opera House, Saturday, February LIST
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

Professor Shannon and Marion Camp
bell, of Sardinia, we're in town Monday
for few hours. The Professor was here
looking after the interests of his coming
Normal at Sardinia, now entering upon
its third year. The success heretofore
attending this school has been both
astonishing and marvellous and this
year, we are informed. it will not only
be up to but greatly ahead of the high
est standard of other years. - George.
toa0h Neus-Democrat
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

The Kathleen Mavourneen Co. will
hold the boards at Greenfield on the 4th
of February, and at New Vienna, on the
5th. We commend these young people
to our neighbors. They give splendid
performance. Our people without an
exception, speak in the highest terms
of the entertainment given by them
here. They are decidedly superior to
the average performers Everyone who
hears them will be glad he went. They
should have crowded houses, and we
doubt not will be so greeted. They de.
serve it,