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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
Minneapolis s. ST. Louis Railway.

Depart Arrive
No. II and 70 Waterv1lle
and Faribault Accommo. 6:25 m $40 m
No. 81 and 80, ST. Paul,
Minneapolis and Red Wing
Passenger 2:2npm 100 m
No. BIZ leaves st. Pau 9 Is, MINNEAPOLIS
$3.50, a. m. No 3 arrives Mime polls 500 D.
m. st lau' 80. p. m. No. II IN axes close
connection at Watervile for points south on
the maiu Inc.
!, Information regarding rates, routes, etc.
cheertully furnished upon application to
W. III. BARR, Agent
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
Chicago & Northwestern.
In effect May 30, 1897, subject to change
demo rturo Nf Trains

departure OF Trains.
GOING EAST
Passenger No. lex. sunday for
Winona, Lacrosse, Madison, Mil
waukee and Chicago. ........... 7:15,a. m.
Passenger No 2 Daily for Vino
ma, Lacrosse, Madison, Milwaukee
and Chicago. ................ ... BAT p. m.
FreiIt t No. IA (Ex, Sunday carry
Passengers to Waseca. ......2:55 D. m.
GOING WEST.
Pas enger No. 3 DAILY for Tracy,
Marshall, Watertown, Huron,
ere Aberdeen: etc. IL :25 p, m
Passenger No, 7 (Ex. Sunday for
New Uln and Tracy ............... q AS d. m.
Freight No. Is (Ex Sunday carry
passengers to Tracy. 8:50a. m
Arrival of Trains
FROM EAST.
Passenger No. 8 DAILY from Chi
caeo and Milwaukee. ............... loo p.,m
Passenger No. 7 lex. Sunday from
Chicago and Milwaukee. ............ 7:2O o, m.
Freight Nc. Is Eek. Sunday from
WaSeca.... 1856 a, m.
FROM WEST.
Passenger No. DAILY from Pierre
and Aberdeen. :;..:;..... rs p. m
Pssseng. No. lex. Sunday from
Tracy: 80. :.................... 7:5O a. m.
Freight No. IA (Ex. Sunday from
Tracy ....................... 3:8Op. m
Through sleeping cars on trains and be-
tween Mankato and Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
$1,000 REWARD.

The board of education of school
district No. 80, town of Belgrade, will
give $40 as a reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of any person found guilty OF break
ing windows or otherwise injuring the
school building.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
The Railroads.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul.

Trains arriving. Departing
No. 1U1-l2:3O p. m. No. 1872 $50 a. M
No. 119- 4:0Op. m. No. 1O4-2:3O D. m
No. 123- TOO p. m. No. 16S-6:5O p. m.
Nos. 122 and 1O4 connect at Wells for points
east and west.
No. ia makes connections at Austin with
Sleepers for Chicago, Milwaukee and all points
east.
No. 122 connects at Austin with through
trains to Kansas City, Omaha, st. Louis and
Peoria. J. G, MOORE Agent
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
Chicago, st. Paul, MINI. & Omaha Ry

ARRIVE EAST BOUND. DEPART
4:10 m No kansas City Mail d Elk 4 rs a m
$3.50 p m No 4tSt Paul&Sioux City Elk 8 AZ o m
6 80 m No 6 Mnpls & Elmore Pass 100 a m
6:45 p m No 10 *Elmore& Mankato Pass
ARRIVE. WEST BOUND. DEPART.
II 20 p m No 1 kansas City Mail & Elk II :23 D m
IL :43 p m No3 tSt Paul Sioux City Elk / :O8 m
1851 m No *Mnpls & Elmore Pass 800 o m
No7*M ankato& Elmore Pass 7:55 m
*Daily except Sunday.
tDaily with Elegant Day Coaches, Parlor
Cars and Through Sleepers,
Trains No. and 10 Connect at Elmore with
Trains on G. & N. w. to and from Points IN
Iowa.
G. e. JOHNSON,
Ticket Agent
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17

Martin & Hoerr have some genuine
bargains in solid gold rings. $3.50
rings for CSC, sl.25 rings for 4sc, 75c
baby rings for 25c.
$3.50 month clocks or $500 in
black and colors at Martin & Hoerr's
opposite Saulpaugh.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
ROYAL ARCANUM OFFICERS.

Mankato council No. 1920, Royal
Arcanum, initiated two new mem.
bers last night, and elected the fol.
lowing officers:
Regent-E F. Soaring.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17

Fine upholstered furniture, nice
and substantial Christmas presents,
at John Klein & Co.'s.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17

STAGE SCHEDULE.
Between Mankato, st Clair and Minnesota
LAKE.
Leave Mankato daily at z: 100 q. m.
rive at St. Clair daily at 10 as a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 500 q. M Monday
Arrive at St. Clair at 2:l5 o. m.
Leave st. Clair daily at 2:45 p. m.
Leave Mankato daily al 6:15 p. m.
Eve st. Clair Tuesday at IL 200 m
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
Mankato Markets.

Grain and stock markets corrected daily.
o. her markets corrected ON date of weekly Issue.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

struggle is really one of most fearful
contemplation, with every indication
that the poor man will not be able TO
realize his last faint hope.
1t is possible at his time to see
prophecies in some OF the assertions
he has made in other years. He wrote
in the midst of his prosperity that
" the law recognizes no mortgage on a
mans brains. Honor is harder
master than law. 1t cannot conf
promise for less than 100 cents on u
dollar, and it's debts never outlaw"
He once said that he learned this
philosophy when he was living out in
Florida, little town in Missouri.
The home in which he was born was a
two-room log cabin" altoge ther too
mean a house for so great man to
be born in" rs his mother remarked
during her last illness. His father
stuck hard fast to honor. He paid
his debts at their face value.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16
LOOKING FORWARD.

The Philadelphia Press foreshadows
tl.e coming OF the millennium as fol-
| lows
Flying is solved. The principle is
known. A mechanical expedient is all
that is now needed to make it success
ful. Practical flight is to-day not
more than five or ten years off.
"a glow worm makes light with
about one three.hundredth part of the
force used in ordinary artificial light.
When men know how to make light as
cheap, streets and homes will be as
light az day for mere fraction of
what light now costs. This is near.
Vacuum illumination without incan-
descence is already in full operation,
and in year or two should cut down
the price of light to q sixth of its cur
rent cost, and in five or ten years
light may be, like water, turned on in
every house at will.
Compressed air has long been
known to be the best way, theoretical
ly, to store force for use in transporta-
tion. There is no waste and no deter
ioration. The need is a cheap and
efficient motor to apply compressed
air to city transportation. If this can
be done, first the trolley poles and
wires will come down, next the horse.
less, compressed air motor carriage
will do all the work Of city delivery.
"When these come the only use for
gas will be for cooking-if this is not
done by electricity. Factories, also,
before many years, will be run by
transmitted electric power. This has
begun to he done and in five or ten
years will be completed, and the fac
tory fire and boiler will be thing of
the past.
"The city of the future, and no very
distant future, will have no trolley
poles or wires and no horses. All
movements will be OH rail, by silent
air motors or by horseless carriages
equally as silent. All pavements will
be asphalt. Unlimited light will be as
cheap as unlimited water is to-day.
No coal will be delivered at private
houses and no ashes taken from them.
With no horses, no coal and no ashes,
street dust and dirt will be reduced to
Il minimum. With no factory fires
and no kitchen or furnace fires, the
air will be rs pure in the city as in the
country. Trees will have chance;
houses be warmed and lighted as easily
and as cheaply as they are now sup
piled with water.
"A city will be pretty nice place
to live in when the first twenty years
of the twentieth century are passed."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16
T Ell z
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16
A RIDE ON AN AVALANCHE.
Exciting and Fatal Experience of
Monte Cristo Miners.

Two Monte Cristo miners had a
frightful experience on the Sd inst. on
an avalanche in the Caascade noun.
tains, one of them, Edward Graham,
of Colo, being smothered to death un-
der the snow. His companion, Dan
Sherfey, made heroic effort to rescue
him by digging away the show with
his hands. When he uncovered Gra-
ham the latter was past resuscitation.
The men started from the Pride of
the Mountain mine for Glacier Basin,
and were crossing the side of the
mountain above a canyon 500 feet deep
when the snow began to move under
them. Sherfey, having had more ex-
perience than Graham with ava
lanches, knew that they were in dan
ger of being killed, but his companion
was unconscious of their pcrilous con-
dition. The men tried to escape from
the descending mass, but were caught
by tumbling rocks and ice and borne
at n terrific rate down the mountain.
Over boulders and down through
gorges the avalanche made its resist
less way, breaking and bearing away
trees in its path, and clearing wide
course to the canyon below. Sherfey
struggled bravely and managed to keep
himself on the surface of the snow.
Graham was not SO fortunate. While
clambering to place of safety he was
borne down by n mass of snow where
the avalanche had divided and in an
instant was lost from view. Sherfey
tried in vain to rescue his companion,
and several times narrowly escaped be-
ing lost in the crevasse into which
Graham had fallen.
Sherfey rode the avalanche until it
stopped at the foot of the mountain.
There the snow masses broke and
spread over wide area. Sherfey at
once began a search for Graham, and,
after much digging, discovered the
body of his comrade. In one of the
dead mans pockets was found a letter
containing money which Graham had
intended to mail to his family in Dem
yer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16
THIS is NOT HUMOR.
MARK TWAIN IN GREAT POVERTY
IN LONDON.
Bowed with Disa He IL
Juggling, Possibly In Vain, to
Pay Debts-EIis Trip around the
World a Failure-A Pitiiul Story

Struggling, Possibly In Vain, TO
Pay Debts-His Trip around the
World a Failure-A PitiiuI Story
Of n Life's Labor Lost.
London Cor. Chicago Times Herald.
Mark Twain, the prince and diner
at the tables of kings, is now i'm
poverished and a slave to a debt. He
is in poor health, confined to a modest
lodging and burdened with age and
the woes Of broken heart. His de-
termination is heroic; but in accord
ance with that fine irony of the hui
man race, the men and women who
were anxious to boost him when he
was at the top and he did not need
them are missing, now that he has lost
and is at the bottom.
1t is probable tnat the end has
come. There is but a single hope for
this man, who for 20 years has shared
the field of American letters--as the
Europeans estimate American letters
with Bret Harte. He is home from
a trip around the world. 1t began n
Vancouver and ended in London-a
failure from the start. He has been
working for weeks on the manuscript
of the story, but the few who have
hunted him in the modest room fear
that the inspiration has gone. He is
working under forced conditions, and
the prediction is that the tale of the
tour will be like a plant forced to
blossom in unnatural conditions.
1t is very evident that the man is
worse thon penniless. All his fortune
went down with the publishing house
which used his name and spent his
money and prospects in air castles and
folly. He would not stand the charge
of dishonesty. Sacrificing his last
dollar, he is toiling night and day to
meet the debts yet unpaid to pay for
the lodgings which are more meager
and less comfortable than the home
he had when he was writing odes to
the editor of weekly newspaper in
Missouri.
Mark Twain is 62 years old and
handicapped by the fact that his best
efforts have not been his latest. There
has been steady decline in his
humor since it became a treadmill
grind. The sooner the end comes the
fewer will be the excuses when the
record of his reputation shall be writ
ten as matter of literary history. He
seems to realize this. He has refused
to see the few who have hunted him
up, and it is one of the pathetic in
cidents in this city full of pathos that
the great circle of intimates which
went to the very edge of the throne
has dwindled to two or three faithful
souls.
There is no question as to the posi-
ton he used to hold in the English
and continental estimate. No one
has ever divided his standing as the
American humorist. "The Innocents
Abroad" was translated into the
tongues of the leading nations. and
since 1869 all the facts concerning his
life have been eagerly read. 1t was
In looking for these facts and search.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16
WHOLE NUMBER 1885.
In August the Royalists met dis

In August the Royalists met dis
astrous defeat at Bayamo.
In September there were some un-
important skirmishes. The Spanish
soldiers were in bad health and 10000
of them were in the hospitals.
In the month of October Weyler
made an elaborate plan to capture
Maceo in the province of Pinar del
Rio, but miserably failed. The Span
lsh commander now determined to
take the field in person against Maceo.
The province of Havana was now al
most entirely surrounded by the rebels
and attacks on outposts were frequent
In the first encounter between Weyler
and Maceo the former was severely de-
feated.
This brings the history down to q
time when the events are closer and
fresh in the memory of those most in
terested in Cuban affairs. 1t portrays
the struggle of people not numer-
ously strong, but strong in their love
OF freedom-a love so strong that it
can have but one solution.
Freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeaths from bleeding sire to son,
Though battled oft is always won,
And the Cubans' battle is already won
because the people are determined; +;
because the spirit of the cause and
their love of freedom have given them
that strength which the lack of arms
and the munitions of war has denied
them
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

stand before you straight and tall
As mortals were before the fall;
No hooked nose nor massive jaw,
But q creature perfect without flaw.
The GOOD Book" calls me Mother Eve.
And says caused You all to gricve;
But contend il is not true
Iwont bear all the blame; would you?
The apples did look awful nice,
And all but one were without price:
OF course, that was the best there were
Or 30 the serpent told me, sir.
And then had q generous heart.
20 to my husband gave part,
And he did eat and grew 50 wise,
So like the Father in the skies,
That God came down to fix things right,
And found us in an awful plight.
No dainty ribbons tied my hair,
My hands. aud-yes, my feet were bare.
I'm modest. SO I'll not relate
The horrors of my awful state.
My husband, he was quite as bad,
But he WAS all the one had,
And I'd no chance to get another,
For You See he hadn't any mother!
We hid ourselves behind Il tree,
Hoping there God could lot see,
But he raised his voice and called aloud.
We kept quite STILL for we were proud.
Again he called out: Where art thou?"
We thrust our heads from out the bough.
And told him we were afraid,
For our garments had been mislad:
Rut xra fnupI hat (,,1 hotu u..'t do
And that 'twOuld be no use to run:
So l told him what the serpent said,
And heaped the blame all on his head.
The serpent he'd been strutting around,
But God then felled him to the ground,
And straighiway drove us from the place
He sent US forth in deep disgrace.
'Tis said for man pardon came;
But we have suffered just the same.
And ever since that time, you see,
The blame has rested on us three;
But have had the most to bear.
More great deal than is my share.
How did know? How could guess
That men would make cider press,
And use the ?uice of that fine fruit.
The3r share in crime TO contribute,
Then trace the whole thing back to ME.
Because got fruit of the tree!
This simple tale, for centuries told,
think a lesson may unfold:
We are controlled by Natures laws,
And that without a saving clause:
And il a law by Nature made
Is ever by us disobeyed.
We have to suffer to atone
We pay the debt and we alone.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16
AN ASTONISHED INDIAN.
Signals by the Heli0stat Fairly
OvcrW helmed Geronimo.

| OH ny tnc
| Overwhelmed Geronimo.
At one interview with Geronimo,
says General Miles, tried to explain
to him the uselessness of contenting
against the white race. 1 told him
that we had the use of steam, and the
telegraph and heliostat, both superior
to any of their methods of communica-
ton. then had the hcliostat set up
and said to Geronimo:
ave can watch your movements
and send messages over the tops of
these mountains in a small part of
one day, over a distance which it
would take a man on a swift pony 20
days to travel"
He was both curious and incredulous.
"How is that?" he asked.
asked the operator to open COM
munication with the nearest station
five miles away. He turned his in
strument upon that point and flashed
a signal of attention. AS quick as
thought the sunlight was flashed back
again. Then Geronimo confessed that
he had observed these flashes on the
mountain and had believed them to
be the manifestation of spirits.
"From here to that point" said I,
:" is distance of nearly days march.
From that point we can communicate
all over this country. 1 can send
message to Fort Bowie, 65 miles away,
or to Fort Apache, nearly 800 miles
from here, and get an answer before
the sun goes down in the west"
eff you can talk with Fort Bowie" he
said at once, do this. Isent my brother
there as q guarantee of my good faith.
Now tell me if my brother is all right" I"
gave the order to the operator.
"Now," 1 said to Geronimo, "you
will have to wait, for that inquiry,
with the reply, will have to be repeated
six times"
In short time the answer came
back that Geronimo's brother was there,
was well and waiting for him to come.
This struck the savage with awe.
He said something to one of his
warriors, whereupon the latter quick
ly turned on his heel, mounted his
pony and road rapidly back in the
direction of the mountains whence
Geronimo had come. l asked the
interpreter, standing near by, what
Geronimo had said.
"He told him to so and tell Natchez,"
was the answer, "that there was a
power here that he could not under
stand. He told him to come in and
come quick"
The heliostat had performed its last
and best work. In few hours Natchez
came riding down from the mountains,
with his band of warriors and their
families, and 30 surrendered tribe
that has never been matched since the
days of Robin Hood.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

IN Massachusetts,. Yet many of its
members were respectable, we'll mean
ing men. Inexperience, conceit and
blgotry controlled them. The consid-
able disreputable element of the men,
berShip caused the scandals. After
the sessionclosed the Know Nothing
papers spoke of it in an Apologize
tome
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

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can emphasize his statement, 1T is posi-
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- Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
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nor any injurious drug. Price. so cents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

"MY child" said the old herring to
the young herring, by way of parting
advice, "the whole ocean is before
you, but don't go too near those can
ncries along the coast Of Maine unless
you want to be taken for sardine.
Chicago Tribune.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

HALLS Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re-
newer is, unquestionably, the best
preservative of the hair. 1t is also
curative Of dandruff, tetter, and all
impurities.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

No SMALL objection which young
folks had to the old-time SPRING
medicines was their nauseousness. In
in our day, the objection is removed
and Ayers Sarsaparilla, the most
powerful and popular OF blood-puritiers.
is as pleasant to the palate rs a cordial.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-16

THERE are still living in Connecti-
cut "a daughters of soldiers who
fought in the revolutionary war.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-10
THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE.
Clarksburg News.

ClarksDurg News.
Every great statesman or recognized
authority on democratic government
and the principles controlling a rule
by the people, excepting acting Judge
Mason, have never questioned that free
speech, which is to the purpose Of the
peoples freedom, synonymous with
the right to assemble, is the keynote
in the social arch.
1t was by peacefully assembling that
our forefathers hoped for the govern
ment to be modified to suit the will
Of the masses. This was the central
idea of Grecian democracy, and when
the right to assemble was denied, the
strength of Greece failed So it has
been with all governments other than
absolute monarchies. Years ago the
Great Judge said it was not we'll for
man TO be alone, but Judge Mason says
it is better for man to be alone than
to assemble with his fellowmen in a
communion of ideas. Had the Fair
mont miners threatened violence it
would have been highly proper for the
acting judge TO have enjoined violence,
but the agitatorS who spoke here eau
toned the men against rioting, drunk
enness and profanity Following Ma
sons ruling a political convention or
protracted meeting could be legally
enjoined. Whatever may be the pull"
of the operator it viii always be the
opinion of fair minded men that Ma
sons injunction was dangerous. mon
archiel and despotio The right to
peacefully assemble and petition the
government must not be abridged or
annulled. This is a right Of the miner
as we'll as the millionaire