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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-28

Treasurer's Assistants and Ticket
Sellers.
tickets and assist at the state fair
next week: ThOs. H. Smullen, LIE
Sueur; VIM. G. Snow, LIE Sueur; John
P. Hoyt, LIE Sueur; Chas. Griebel,
Mankato; Fred W. Force, Mankato;
Geo. D. Montgomery, Hamline; E. E.
Buck, Minneapolis; AL Bobleter, St.
Paul: E. Fl. Goodrich, ST. Paul; Waters
Wells, Herman; II. L. Stillwell,
StewartvilIe; S. J. Feeney, Rochester
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Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 29
Mr.. Bangerter was declared the
nominee.
III. L. Schmitt presented the name
of Judge Geo. w. Mead for renomi-
nation for judge of probate, and on
his motion the nomination was made
by reclamation.
w. A. Funk offered the name of
Thos, Hughes for county attorney.
Bruce Hanna presented the name of
@. L. Benedict for denomination.
A formal ballot resulted:
hughes. .......................... ~
Total .l26
Mr.. Hughes was declared the
nominee.
On motion of DR.. Andrews, Stephen
Thorne was unanimously renominated
for clerk of the district court.
On motion of Gilbert Gutterson, the
same action was taken on Geo. W.
Scherer for county superintendent.
E. I. P. Staede named A. NJ.
Haynes for county surveyor, and G..
G.. Spaulding named Walter Brooks.
A formal'ballot was taken, result
ing as follows:
Brooks. ......................W
On motion of DR.. Andrews, W. w.
Paddock was unanimously nominated
for coroner.
On motion of W. A. Funk, the
chairman was authorized to appoint a
new county committee at his leisure.
The delegates from the first, third
and fifth commissioner districts eau
cused for candidates for county COM
missioner, and reported the following
names:
First district, Chas. Graf, Mankato.
Third district, Robert S. Huhges,
Lake Crystal,
Fifth district, VIM. Borchard,
Danville.
The nominations were endorsed,
and the convention adjourned, with
the best of feeling prevailing.
In the third district Mr.. Hughes
received q votes to 5 for Thomas Ev-
ans, Of Butternut Valley.
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A second ballot resulted as follows:


=. G. Spauldlng moved that another
ballot be taken. A. L. Cummins
moved to amend, that Mr.. Nyquist be
declared the nominee, having re-
ceived the most votes. Ed. Bradley
supported the amendment, on the
ground of the precedent already es-
tablished.
The amendment carried by large
majority, and Mr.. Nyquist was de-
clared the nominee.
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An informal ballot resulted:


G. G. Spaulding moved that Mr..
Ewing's nomination be made by &C
clamation, but the vote was so nearly
even that motion by DR.. Andrews
to proceed to formal ballot was
carried. It resulted:
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County Offices.

DR.. Andrews presented the name of
Z. a. Gunders to succeed himself as
auditor, and on his motion, Mr.. Gund-
ers was nominated by reclamation and
unanimously, with applause.
Gilbert Gutterson named for treas
urer David S. Evans, of Mankato.
Ed. Bradley presented the name of
d. L. Clements, of Mankato.
M. B. VanKIrk placed the name of
J. A. Ewing, of Eagle Lake, before
the convention.
H. III. Edwards named Robt. Fl.
Owen, of Judson.
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Chicago & Northwestern,

EAST BOUND. Depart ARRIVE
+Chicago Mail and Passenger 6:25 am ZOO am
t*Chicago express 4:05 pm l:35 pm
tTracy 81 Waseca Accom'dn 3:15 pm 1855 pm
WEST BOUND.
2*Dakota PASSENGER 1925 pm 40 pm
fMinn Mail and Passenger 6:35 pm ITO pm
tWaseca s. Tracy Accom'dn 500 am 9:35 am
tDaily except Sunday. *Daily.
tSleepers Mankato TO Chicago.
sSleepers Chicago to Mankato.
c. E. JOHNSON, Agt
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STAGE SCHEDULE.

Between Mankato ST. Clair and Minnesota
Lake
Leave Mankato daily at To- a m.
Arrive at st. Clair daily at ln:45 a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 500 d. M. Monday
Arrive at st. Clair at 81 5 p. m.
Leave st. Clair daily at 2:45 p. m.
Leave Mankato daily at 6:15 p. m.
Arrive ST. Clair Tuesday at Loo q. m.
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On motion of III. HI. Edwards, the
nomination of Mr.. Ewing was made
unanimous, amid cheers.
Chairman Cray, in the general eX-
element of the moment, said:
Gentlemen of the jury. you will now
proceed to nominate candidate for
sheriff. which caused much amuse-
ment.
G. G.. Spaulding named Daniel
Bowen for sheriff.
S. w. Burgess presented the name
of Fred j. Grout, of Mankato.
A formal ballot was taken, and re-
suited as follows:
Bowen 1O2
TROUT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ................ ~
On motion of Mr.. Grout, Mr.
Bowen's nomination was made
unanimous.
H. L. Schmitt named BENZ. Bangor
ter Jr, of Mankato, for register of
deeds.
w. E. Young named J. A. Howison,
of Sterling.
w. A. Funk presented the name of
j. G.. Fowler.
c. G.. Spaulding offered the name of
Walter McBroom, of Mankato.
Jonathan Pressnall presented the
name of Frank Beardsley, of Madison
Lake.
An informal ballot resulted as fol-
lows:
Bangerter ...................., 40
Howieson ........................... %
Fowler. ................ Observation-Disclosures. AZ
McOfOOm IL
BeardSIey
A formal ballot resulted:
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On motion of Dr. Andrews Mr.. Nc
Lean was nominated by reclamation.
Edgar Dilley having been taken
sick and obliged to leave, the conven-
tion voted to allow the Garden City
delegation to cast the vote of the
delegation.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-13

saw with great surprise that they moved
from place to place by six extremely
thin mebranes, which they used as
wings. Their colors we're varied and
beautiful, but principally azure and
rose color.
II say numerous convolutions OF
tubes more analogous to the trunk of an
elephant than to anything else can
imagine, occupying what supposed to
be the upper parts OF the body, and my
feeling of establishment almost became
one Of disgust from the peculiar char
acter of the organs of these singular be-
ings, and 1t was with a species of ter
ror that l saw one of them mounting
upward, apparently flying towards
those Opaque clouds which l have be-
fore mentioned. L know what your feel
ings are said the Genius. You want
analogies and all the elements OF knowl-
edge TO comprehend the scene before
you. But those beings who
appear to you almost as imperfect in
their functions as the zoophytes of the
polar sea have a sphere Of sensibility
and intellectual enjoyment far superior
to that Of the inhabitants of your earth
Each OF those tubes which appear like
the trunk of an elephant is an organ Of
peculiar motion or sensation. They
have many modes of perception of
which you are wholly ignorant and at
the same time their sphere of vision is
| infinitely more extended than yours
and their organs of touch far more per-
feet and exquisite. Their
sources of pleasure are Of the highest
intellectual nature. AS can
not describe to you the organs of these
wonderful beings, so neither can show
you their modes of life. But as their
highest pleasures depend upon intel
lectual pursuits, so you may conclude
that these modes of life bear the strict
est analogy to that which on the earth
you would call exalted virtue.
If were to show you the different parts
of the surface of this planet you would
see marvellous results of the powers
possessed by those highly intellectual
beings and of the wonderful manner in
which they have applied and modified
matter"
Inspired by the enthusiasm OF Sir
Humphrey may We not imagine that
the inhabitants Of Jupiter might sur
pass even those of Saturn on their in
tellectual side, shedd4... spiritual IL
Elimination among their aerial man
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wANpERINGS IN JAVA.
Climbing the Mountains to Get View
of "A Crater.

Climbing the Mountains to Get View
of Crater.
Long before sunrise we were in our
cart. drawn by three ponies, and bowl
ing along in the cool night air under
bright moon and cloudless sky, says the
Westminster Review. The early start
was necessary in order that we might
make the ascent and reach the crater
before the great heat of the day. AS
we drove along we passed crowds OF
natives. toiling along under their heavy
loads or resting under the old covered
in bridges, by which we crossed
streams. All along the valley our
driver cracked his whip and made MS
little ponies fly along between the
shady palms lining the way side, so
that we arrived at small bungalow
situated at the foot of the mountain,
inst when the first silver streaks OF
dawn crept into the eastern sky. Here
we were to take our breakfast OF CHEESE
sandwiches and cold tea before COM
mencing the ascent of the volcano. we
got of at 6:15, accompanied by TWO
coolies, who acted as guides and car
ried our provisions and my camera.
For the first two hours we followed
n beautiful path which, at the COM
mencement, led us through avenues Oh
banana trees and tall scarlet crotons,
then diyerging round shoulder OF the
mountain. we entered a wide, tangled
Jungle, where the feathery fronds OF me
tree ferns and the delicate green leaves
of the plantain formed lovely con
trast IN the dark vistas OF the forest
Here orchids nestle in the thick, messy
underprowth and oleanders shed their
delicate blossoms on q carpet OF tiny
ferns. The last half-hour was SUN
climbing very trying to the eyes on ac-
count of the sun striking on the WHITE
volcanic soil, and terribly hot. as the
sun was already high in the heavens.
The crater consisted Of an arena OF
voIlow sulphurous lava, while huge
blowhole occupied the center, emittins
clouds of steam and causing the whole
sumnit TO culver. The surface Oh TINS
lava mound was honeycombed with
small steam holes and dangerous-look-
ing hollows. which suggested prudence
in its exploration. Indeed; the eartn'
literally trembling beneath ones ieet'
gavo little confidence of security from
tbe risk of suddenly breaking through
the thin crust that lay between the soies
of ones feet and the Internal regions
Higher mountains and peaks sur
rounded the crater, which gave one the
idea that the mountain must itself have
once possessed a peak, which has oeen
blown off, probably in some great erup-
ton.
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river, and a canal is under contract.
which, when completed, will give the
colonists a waterway TO the Atlantic.
On October IA human habitation was
begun in Fitzgerald. To-day the city
presents a vastly different appearance.
II is laid out in excellent style, and has
four business streets, that contain q
great variety of shops, which are fur
nishing the colonists with all necessary
supplies. The residence portion shows
many well-built structures, and hun
dreds OF humble homes will sooner or
later be replaced by more comfortable
dwellings. There are saw mills, brick
yards, four churches, town hall, four
blacksmith shops, public school and
Masonic lodge.
Main street is the principal busi-
ness thoroughfare OF Fitzgerald. The
streets TO the west of Main are called
after Confederate generals-Lee, jack
son, Longstreet, Gordon, Bragg and
Hill; those one the west side after
federal ommanders-Grant, Sherman.
Sheridan, Thomas and Logan-which
certainly goes to prove that the colon
lists are not cherishing sectional ami
mosities. Another interesting fact Is
that the colony lands include the his
toric spot upon which Jefferson Davis
was captured by Wilson's cavalry, in
1865.
The old veterans are we'll pleased with
the prospects before them, and their
rank and file has been increased by the
coming of many who are not Grand
Army of the Republic men, but, who,
like themselves, are seeking a comfort
able home. These persons are, for the
most part, hale and hearty farmers.
used to earnest work against far moro
difficult conditions than will confront
them in Georgia. They belong to the
sensible, industrious class that has
made the west the prosperous, power
full country it is to-day. and are but
little accustomed to failure.
Such are the facts of the Fitzgerald
colony as 1t stands to-day. There
seems to be no reason why the enter
prise should not succeed.
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HINTS FOR WOMEN.

II SCOT is dropped on a carpet throw
down an equal quantity of salt and
sweep off all together.
Fruit stains can be eradicated by
oxalic acid, and should be seen to at
once while the stain is fresh.
Always put the sugar used in a tart
in the center of the fruit, not on the
top; 1t makes the crust sodden.
Frying pans should always be secured
with salt directly after they have been
used, and wiped clean with cloth.
Pastry is lighter II mixed with knife
instead OF the hand, and rolled with
glass bottle instead of rolling pin.
When an iron bedstead creaks with
each movement of the sleeper take out
the laths and wrap the end OF each in
a newspaper.
To prevent lamp chimneys from
cracking put them into kettle OF boil
ing water gradually heat 1t till 1t boils.
and then let 1t as gradually cool.
1t is not generally known that rats
cannot resist sunfower seeds. A trap
baited with these seeds Is the most
efficacious method of catching rats.
Milk will take out ink stains from
boards, cotton and other fabrics II USED
before dried in. Soak In a little milk
and then wash in the ordinary way.
To remove scorch caused by an over
heated iron, soak the article at once In
cold water for half an hour, then rub
gently between the hands and rinse In
clean water.
Paint stains on clothing are difficult
to remove when once they have dried
in but with persistent use OF benzine
and spirits of turpentlne obstinate
stains are removed.
Stoves and ranges should be kept free
from SCOT in all compartments. A
dirty, clogged hot air passage will pre-
vent any oven from baking well or the
water from heating.
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lives. He is the man who announced
to the world in 1892 that he had discov-
cred the fountain of perpetual youth.
Harris was born in England in 1924,
and passed his youth in and about
Utica, n. Y. He was Spiritualist, and
during the "Fifties" reported to his peo-
pie that he had had a message from the
Lord to go elsewhere and organize a
community. Since then he has been
travelling about, doing what he could
in establishing new and peculiar relig-
ions. 1t was while at his home at
Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, Cal, that
he had not only gotten asceticism, but
had, for himself, overcome the univer.
sal racial tendency to physical deterior-
alton and disease" In other words he
had discovered the fountain OF perpet-
ual youth for which Ponce de Leon
sought in Florida, believing that land
to be one of the Bahamas, but found
only his death wound; which Paracelus
said he had found, and died at As, and
from which Graham drew his elixir 100
years ago to die a beggar at 81. Har-
ris' way Of putting II was that he had
passed through December and emerged
in May, and he explained it as "the con-
version of fieshy molecules into psychic
animates." Harris, IL is said, Is pos
sessed of hypnotic power. He also has
two voices, one the distant echo OF the
other. The nigh voice is rapid and
vivacious; the off one solemn and OPP
pressive. His hair was thick, and once
black, was streaked with gray and hung
over his ears to his shoulders. His
eyebrows were beetling and bushy; his
eyes were revolving lights in dark cav
ems, and like his voice had self-ad-
justing focus. His cast Of countenance
was semitic. He wore a heavy NOUS
tache and a long gray beard. Some
times he looked to be only 25 years old.
At other times one would take him to
he 90
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clear spaces glimpses are obtained of
other cloudlands deep beneath, filled
with other strange hurrying shapes ,>all
whirling madly on as IL racing f3 a
goal. Whatever else may or may not
be said of Jupiter. at any rate. 1t Is pre-
eminently the world of clouds aud
winds and tempests.
Can we. then, imagine inhabitants in
such world of turmoil and unrest as
Jupiter is? 1t depends entirely upon
what we mean by inhabitants. 1t is
evident that such beings as We are could
not live there, unless 1t is true that
deep beneath Jupiter's world OF clouds
and cyclones is hidden another globe
resembling the earth. On such globe,
so placed, inhabitants more or less like
those of this earth could live.
The great many-storied dome Of
clouds above them would. perhaps, be
just what they needed in order to OBJ
tain a comfortable degree of heat In
their far-away planet. For we must
remember that Jupiter is about five
times as far from the sun as the earth
is, and that, consequently, the sunlight
and the sunheat on Jupiter are twenty
five times less effective than on the
earth.
This is because the intensities OF
light and heat vary inversely as the
square of the distance.
With a comparatively open and
cloudless atmosphere like ours the heat
from the sun would quickly be lost by
being radiated away into space, and the
inhabitants of Jupiter would shiver and
freeze in a worse than Arctic climate
But with such an atmosphere as they
have surrounding them 1t is not i'm
probable that the effect of the greater
distance of the sun may be compen-
stated by the capacity of the atmosphere
itself to retain and, so to speak, entraI
the heat for the benefit of the inhaDi'
tants.
But all this argument proceeds upon
the assumption that such inhabitants
must be framed of just such materials
possessing just such density as compost
our bodies. Manifestly that assump
ton is purely gratuitous. AS we have
already seen, the average density O.
things in Jupiter is much less than up
on the earth, and we are not certain
that it's constituent materials may no
be as widely variant in nature from
those of our planet.
We have perfect justification, then
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for assuming, IL We choose, that the In
habitants of Jupiter are shaped from
substances very different from, and
much more ETHEREAL than, those
that compose our bodies. That argu-
ment would not in any manner
affect the spiritual or intellectual side
of their nature. There is no demon
strable reason why an intelligent being
might not be made out of something else
than the water and carbon and other
elements comprised In the human
frame.
II we accept the view that the spirit
of man, which is the real essence OF his
being. is Of a nature and composition so
fine as to transcend all the coarser laws
that govern the visible world, then
Is there any reason why upon planet
like Jupiter such a spirit may not be en-
closed in a body as tenuous as vapor
even, or as light as cork?
Grant that, and 1t is easy to see that,
no matter how much greater the force
of gravity may be upon Jupiter than
upon the earth, mortal beings could be
formed. even out of the range OF nat
ural elements known to us, who might
be suitably proportioned to gravitation,
even though they should attain COM
parative stature as gigantic In relation
TO ours as the stature of Jupiter HIM
self is when placed side by side with
the little earth.
Not only is there something far
more satisfactory to the imagination In
conceiving OF gigantic inhabitants
dwelling upon so stupendous a world
rather than in thinking of them as mere
pigmies, but in thus considering them
as giants amid gigantic surroundings
we do less violence to the general order
of nature.
Let me. as a kind of apology for thus
venturing into the fields of Imagination
that lie glittering just beyond the farth-
est outposts of science, quote what one
of the founders of modern science mas
said about the possible inhabitants OIL
another great world, only less In size
than Jupiter, and which now also
adorns our evening skies, saturn
These are the words of Sir HUMPHREY
Davy. in the chapter called The Wis
ion" in his beautiful Consolation II
Travel. or the Last Days of a Phiioso
pher." Conducted by a guiding Genius
he IA lowering above the planet Saturn
81 saw moving on the surface below
me immense masses. the forms OF wnici
I find 1t impossible to describe. Inc!
had systems for locomotion similar u
those OF the morse or sea-horse, but
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ers of varying density, which may be
separated by comparatively clear
spaces. Appearances have been noticed
ON Jupiter such as would be produced
by the shadows of great clouds, as
broad as some of our continents, railing
upon other clouds floating hundreds OF
miles beneath them.
II these appearances are not decep-
tive Jupiter's clouds evidently hoat at,
proportionally, far greater elevation
than those of the earth. The highest
of our clouds are, perhaps, ten miles
above the earth; the loftiest clouds on
Jupiter may be a thousand miles hign'
And these tremendous clouds are
swept along by belts Of wind that are
no less wonderful. Jupiter turns very
fast on its axis, Notwithstanding It's
enormous size. It takes less than ten
hours to make complete rotation,
while the little earth requires twenty
four hours. On the equator OF Jupiter
everything is flying around at the rate
NJ AGO miles in a minute! The resulting
centrifugal strain is so great that the
equatorial parts of the vast planet
hnloe and swell out thousands OF miles.
Jupiter Is more than 5000 miles
broader through its equator than
through its poles!
All things must there experience
nowerful and resistless tendency urg-
ing them toward the equator. II the
nlanet turned about three times faster
than It does, objects would weigh noth-
ing at all along the equator.
The effect of this fearful velocity OF
rotation is shown by the streaks ana
lines of clouds that the telescope re-
veals surrounding Jupiter. Al one
Mace in the southern hemisphere there
IL an immense, mysterious, fiery-look-
ing mass. as large in extent as the
whole surface of the earth, which our
ing the past eighteen years has been
thrust I'D among the rushing and tum'
Hing clouds in one of the great trade
wind belts of Jupiter. BY actual Cd
servation the clouds are hurled agains
the western end Of that mysterious Cd
e,ac,e until they pile up there In vas'
glowing masses, and are swept past i
in gyrating currents and eddies hmm
,teIy wilder and grander than the leap
ing waters In the Niagara whirlpool
gorge.
sw,fter and swifter fly the streamini
clouds as the equator Of the planet II
approached. Great globe-snape'
masses. cleaning in the sunlight roi
and pitch in the mighty onward cur
rents. Through the comparative