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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17

Underwear, choice line at about half usual
prices. Entire stock mems furnishing goods
at tremendous sacrifice to close at once. We
are turning the stock into cash.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17

TO Tie Thousands Of Patrons:
Who visited store and unable to make their
purchases account of the enormous crowd we wish
to say that will duplicate every bargain offered on
the first day of sale and to this will thou
sands of extra special bargains each and every
day until the entire stock is closed out.
COME AGAIN! we have 200 salespeople to look
after your wants, and will personally that each
customer receives the attention to which they are
entitled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
BOUND FOR CUBA.
Large FilibuStering Expedition Slips
Away Under Cover of Darkness.

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. ga large Cuban
expedition under the command of Colonel
Mendez got away tonight, taking a special
train in the suburbs under cover of dark
ness. The train was rushed over the Plant
system to Cleveland, on the Peace river
near Punta Gorda, where the tug Fearless
commanded by Captain Merwin, is supposed
To have been ready between 10 and II
o'clock to take the men and their equip
ments out to sea to meet a larger boat on
which the trip is to be completed This
party has been here for nearly two months
Within the past few days a number of Chill
can officers have joined them During the
stay of the men here knapsacks have been
made for them by prominent ship chand-
Ter house and the regulation brown duck
uniforms have also been supplied.
The Cubans managed to get out of the
city this afternoon without attracting at
tention, some of their number being left
behind to make themselves conspicuous
about the streets as blind, and the spe-
cial train also left the railroad yard early
in the evening, without being noticed by the
Spanish detectives. The Cubans say that
their expedition is the best equipped with
men and munitions of any that they have
succeeded in sending away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
The Genuine Man.
Woodrow Wilson. in September Atlantic.

w OOQTOW WllSOH, III september AIldnLlC
No man Is genuine who is forever trying
to pattern his life after the lives of other
people-unless, indeed, he be a genuine dot.
But individuality is by no means the same
as genuneness for individuality may be
associated with the most extreme and even
ridiculous eccentricity. while genuineness
we conceive to be always wholesome, bal
anced and touched with dignity. 1t is a
quality that goes with good sense and self
respect 1t is a sort of robust moral sanity,
mixed of elements both moral and intel
lectual. 1t is found in natures too strong
to be mere trimmerS and confOrmers, too
we'll poised and thoughtful to fling off into
Incorporate protest and revolt Laughter
is genuine which has in it neither the shrill,
historical note of mere excitement nor the
hard metallic twang OF the cynic's sheer
which rings in the honest voice of gracious
good numor, which is innocent and unsatir-
ical Speech is genuine which is without
Stiffness, affectation or pretense. That
character is genuine which SENS built by
nature rather than by convention, which is
stuff Of independence and of good courage
Nothing spurious bastard begotten out of
true wedlock of the mind nothing adulter-
ated and seeming to be what it is not;
nothing unreal can ever get place among
the nobility of things genuine, natural of
pure stock and unmstakabe lineage. 1t is
a prerOgatiVe of every truly human being
to come out from the low estate of those
who are merely gregarious and of the herd
and show his innate powers cultivated and
vet unspoiled-Sound. unmixed, free from
imitation: showing that NATURALIZATION
without extravaganza, which is genuine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

New York Evening Post.
The question. not without it's mysteries,
what books boys like and why they like
them is again discussed. Some have pre-
tended to observe a change in boys tastes
in fiction No SO, says Mr.. Max PembertOn,
who has himself written books for boys and
edited a boys paper: Il can say with no
hesitation at all that boys tastes now are
what they were twenty of thirty years ago.
Your boy he told an interviewer. will not
have anything new-fangled or idiOtc He
has only one word of criticism for that-rot.
The same DULLES, the same flags, the same
islands, the same maniness, the same cour-
age that his father loved, he loves. He
likes a Jules Verne book, but the old pup
cts must be there. For style he cares moth
ing; he reads Stevenson for the story. He
must have incident, eXctement-a hero.
Perhaps he is just a grade above Jack
Harkaway,' but | hazard the opinion doubt
ingly. The main thing is that he loves an
and a coward, and compels the author to
point some sort of a moral.
Some light is thrown on the question by
the testimony of librarians. They report
boysh appetites well marked, but unac-
EQUITABLE Some people wonder at the por-
tentons length of some series of boys
books. Castlemon and H. Alger, jr., for
example, have their Franks and Georges do
this, that and the other and make a book
out of each thing done, country visited, eX-
plot performed, or moral pointed. But
a devouring flame. No series can be too
long for them. They like much reading
laid up for many years, and stand before
their rows upon rows of CastlemonS and
Algers. calling upon their souls to eat,
drink and be merry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Southern Illinois farmers are reported to
be refusing good prices for their big crops
of apples.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio. has telegraphed
Sedalia Sept. To-
At many points in Kansas farmers are
reported unable to ship wheat owing to
the scarcity OF cars.
The American Association of Travelling
Passenger Agents will meet IN Nashville,
Tenn, Oct. u and IL.
A child found a dynamite bomb with the
fuse partly burned at the home of expo
liceman Neville at Duquoin, Ill.
Harry Fletcher, a merchant of Seaton-
Vile, and grandson, Henry Fletcher, were
killed at a railway crossing near Princeton
Ill.
At a sale of Poland China hogs in SPRING
field, ILL.,, hog named "Klever's Model'
sold for s., 100. This is the largest price ever
paid for hog.
The execution of Benjamin L. Hill. who
killed his wife in Oakland Cal. set for
to-day, was postponed by an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court.
The two hundred members of the Sigma
Chi fraternity which has been in session at
Nashville several days, visited the TenneS-
see centennial exposition yesterday.
Sigmund Morris, who Is wanted in Brook
lyn n. Y, for having violated the postal
laws in connection with an alleged direc-
tory swindle, is under arrest in San Fran
cisco.
The Foresters' supreme convention in ses-
sion at Denver has selected Detroit as the
next meeting place for 1899. The ritual
committee reported favorably on the new
ritual and il was adopted.
Arthur Storey, who, with his wife, was
shot at Chicago Friday night by Henry G.
Bunker, a barber, who had boarded with
them for a number OF years, and who was
jealous of Mrs. Storey, died yesterday Mrs.
Storey is I'm a precarious condition,
Thomas Huzzey, the aged citizen of Mont
gomery. Ala, who was arrested In New
York last week in a dazed condition with
$50 600 in money and securities in his pock-
ct. died to-day al the home of his neph-
ew in Brooklyn He was more than eighty
years old.
DR.. John r. Cabell, a prominent citizen
of Danville. Va, was killed Thursday night
at his country home, near there, by Edward
Hankins. his tenant. Cabeil had refused to
rent Hankins the farm for another year
and Hankins had refused to move away,
from which arose the dispute that resulted
in the killing.
Emma Davis the English girl who has
been kept in the family of Edward Stubs,
near Madeira, Cal. for about four years
and whose treatment by the Stubs fam
lily has caused the British consul in San
Francisco To interfere himself in her case,
has been discovered in a vineyard east of
Fresno, where she had been placed by Mrs
Stubs as a domestic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

escort and looked critically at the monu-
ment. The grand breezes that swept across
the broad river tossed the artistic curling
hair of the pretty woman. She was disap-
pointed.
Yet Grants tomb, on the brow of the
great palisade, rears skyward like an in
spiration. On one side the barrack-like
panorama of Harlem, a vast WEAKNESS of
immense yellowfronted lighthouses, with
sheer white back walls, wherefrom flies the
drying linen of tremendous thousands OF
housewives; on the other the Hudson
churned by the white, mastless, hotel-like
steamers of 1897 Between these bound
aries is reared the tribute of art to patriot
ism, a poem in stone, and the pretty
woman was disappointed. No doubt the
pretty woman wanted to see an Eiffel
tower or a Chicago sky scraper flying
great banners
Look. Charles she cried, her face
beaDang with interest.
She made a sweet picture in her pink
shirt waist, straw hat, linen skirts and
natty green boots as she turned her back
on the beautiful tomb and looked admir-
ingly on the horseless cab that came bowl
ing along Riverside drive.
1t was not an unreasoning impulse that
caused the observer to return beside the
sarcophagus of the sleeping hero to see If
the walls bore placards mo smoking
here and the customary notice from the
Board of Health concerning expectoration,
but, thank heaven. none were to be seen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
THE SECOND READING.
The Art of Literature Is What Makes
the Idea Impressive.

Kansas City Journal.
Every lover of literature has his favorites
to which he turns time and again not as a.
student seeking new truth or new
beauty, But simply to get another view OF
old but very dear to them The aged par
ent whose only book is the Bible reads
ever and ever the same. old chapters of the
gospel, caring not for the history of Moses
or the philosophy of PAUL. He knows the
substance of these same old chapters and
needs not to turn to them again to find out
what they say but to note the form of
what is said. Not long since we'll
known jurist remarked that he was read
ing SCOTS novels again in his old age. and
that it the art that made him do it,
He was great enough to recognize the
lever of the gospel would be shocked were
he told that il was the form of what Christ
said rather than the substance of it, that
was making him read the same chapters
over and over. The student of Shelley de-
votes many hours Of his life to tracing out
the way of that poets soaring, and every
those sensuous Lines to Indian Air.
and is soothed and charmed by the melody
II arise from dreams of thee"
There Is only one thought in this serenade
and that is easily comprehended at the first
reading but the form of that thought
draws one to it time and again and makes
The simplest sermons that are being reg
ularly published during these. days are
about them which. without being insulting.
makes very clear the thoughts of the
preacher, but who is content with a single
reading? We read them again tc be
charmed again, and then we go back over
them to discover the method of his art.
Finally they are carefully slowed away
for such art is too great to be lost. Prob
ably Lyman Abbot is not preaching more
gospel than a myriad of others throughout
the world but the form of his gospel
preaching has made him great. Year by
year the churches demand more educated
ministry not that better or a different
gospel may be preached to them, but that
the old may be given to them in such form
that they will feel the need of coming to
receive it in that way and be led thereby.
Outside the realm of didactics 1t is safe
to conclude that very little of the worlds
literature has been read a second time but
for the form of ii, and our experience with
newspapers verifies it. Day by day we read
of events that are stranger than fiction but
they pass in and out of our minds, and
that is all. The novelist takes some less
strange event, real or imaginary-a tale OF
love or an epoch of history-and so clothes
it that the substance never leaves us and
we go back to it for the FORM Herein lies
the strength of style-a thing too delicate
for analysis but possessing the power to
shape mems lives for good or evil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Whole Spool of Red Tape.

Kansas City Journal.
United States District Attorney John r
Walker has new awning for his office
window in the federal building 1t was put
up yesterday. II is rather late TO be having
new awnings hung to keep out the sum
mer sun, but in justice to Mr.. Walker ii
must be stated he asked for the awning
last May. He kept asking Now he is
glad he didn't despair
When the first warm days began Mr.
Walker discovered that there was a great
rent in his awning that let all of the after
noon sun in on his desk He formally
asked that the great United States furnish
a new one. Custodian Welsh of the federal
building. sent forward request for author
ity TO buy it, After the request had been
duly considered at the department, per-
mission was given to make the purchase
Then bids were asked for from the awning
manufacturers of the city and, after due
notice, were received. They were solemnly
and carefully inspected, and the sage opin-
ion of Mr.. Welsh was that a certain bid
was the best. Accordingly, his recon-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Cable Notes.

Senior Bonfadini has been appointed gov
ernor of Erythrea. the Italian colony on the
east coast of Africa.
The Manchester Guardian publishes the
formal announcement that a transfer is
imminent of the control of British pro-
tectorate from the Foreign Office to the
Colonial Office.
The London Chronicle says it thinks the
delay in the appointment of a commission
for the settlement of the Venezuelan ques-
ton is due to the difficulty experienced in
finding a suitable umpire.
There was parade of the Berlin garri-
son on the Tempelhof field yesterday be-
fore Emperor William. There was a host
of notabilities present among them being
General Nelson A. Miles, United States
army.
The Greek government has renlied to the
request of the powers for d statement of
the revenue it will be able 10 assign as a
guarantee for an indemnity lOan that since
the amount of the indemnity has not been
fixed it is unable to give an answer.
Mrs Ogden Goelet has received messages
from Queen Victoria, the Prince and Frin-
cess of Wales and many other persons in
Great Britain. The Mayhower, ON hoard of
which Mr. Goeet died will sail from COwCs
for New York about the middle OF this week
with the body of the deceased.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

CINCINNATI, Aug. 2S.-Henry Nc
Daniels's four-year -old gelding Simple Jack
will never face the starters flag again.
Simple Jack won what is known as the
'Sculiy purse" at Newport to-day, and UNI
der the conditions of the race he is to be
branded and never to race again. BY this
plan the jockey club becomes owner of the
horse, and at the same time 1t will rid the
turf OF many no-account selling platerS.
There Were ten starters in the Scully purse,
and Simple Jack only beat Galley West
nose for the first money. After the race
wreath, and the band played Goodbye,
My Honey, am Gone" amid loud cheer
ing from the crowd in the grand stand.
The worlds record for tllree-fourths of
a mile was made at Oakley July 49, 1895,
by O'Connell, 122 pounds up Time, 1:12A.
Box to-day with sixteen pounds less, al
Newport, a faster track than Oakley, by
one second to the mile, came within half
second of the worlds record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
"XNorked" the Conductor.
Wa shington Post.


She was old and gaunt and TALL and black
as first mourning. She carried a basket
and she boarded Connecticut-avenue car
one evening of the week. The conductor
was busy collecting fares, and she had rid
den several blocks before he reached her.
Fare" he said.
The old woman playfully slapped at his
outstretched hand
Honey" she said, Il amt got no mon
ey"
The conductor turned purple, but not one
of the things he said or the threats he
made seemed to disturb the old woman in
the slightest degree.
Deed" she said, II tried and tried to
get some money but l couldn't. Use too
tired to walk, honey, an | amt got no
money"
The conductor went forward again leav-
ing a trail of vaguely terrible threats be-
hind him. A blonde young man, who sat
near the old negress, leaned over and gave
her dime.
There's something for YOU he said
The woman smilingly accepted the mon
ey popped it into her mouth.
Il amt going to give him any money"
she said noddng TO the conductor. AN /
amt going 10 git off this car.
And regularly at every corner she reit-
Grated her remark to the conductor:
Honey, l amt got no money"
She was still riding when we transferred
at Ninth street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Profitable Newspapers.
New York Evening Post


Recent transactions in journalistic prop
erty in England show that enterprise in
newspapers when in competent hands
leads to wealth on a large scale. A pro-
vincal newspaper, the Manchester Courier
with it's satellite the Manchester Evening
News, has just been successfully launched
as a Limited Liability Company, at a valu-
alton of $500 200. Sir George Newnes is con-
verting the hitherto profitable journalistic
and publishing company of George NewneS
limited, into a yet bigger concern, with a
capital of 81 900, 600. The enterprise was
started with Tit-Bits in 1881 by the then
Mr.. Newnes. BY degrees the Strand Maya
zine, Womans Life the Hub and other
publications were added to the business.
The concern turned into the existing
company in 1891. The profits amounted in
1890 to G57 GOO, in 1896 to 100000 in 1897 to
GGe0 600. The one-pound shares. issued at
premium of shillings, are now worth So
1876 each. The Strand Magazine, a six
penny sells to the number of 10000
month. and VIGOROUSLY has a very large
circulation on this side of the water Sir
George Newnes is a remarkable instance of
mans attaining to rank and fortune by
self help. Not so many years ago he kept
a small shop in a back street in Manches-
ter. To-day though only in middle life he
is baronet of the United Kingdom, and
man of vast wealth. He was a member of
the House of Commons, but was defeated
at the last general election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
SMELLS BEING TATTooED.
New Fad of Young BIOOds with Plenty
of Money.
New York Press.


Tattooing is Just now the chief tor!c of
conversation among the gilded youth OF
London. This form of personal decoration,
once confined 10 Maoris, sailors ami Japa-
nese rikshaw men, has become a fad In
the world S metropolis, and until lie las
been decorated with grlnnlng dragon On
his chest and a pair of seTpents n his
arms no young cluoman considers his get
I'D complete The explanation OF this re-
markable craze is the presence in London
of one of the most famous Japanese tat
tooers ever known in the history Of the
art in that country, and as Japanese tat
tooing is the only work of the kind which
has any claim to be called artistic, Hir-
oshima 10 probably the only living repre-
sentative of the old and famous school CT
Hiroshimas presence in London is the re-
suit of law recently passed in Japan for
bidding the practice OF tattooing. lie is an
old man and greatly respected in his own
country and it was at first thought that on
account of the marvellous and beautiful
work he produces the injunction would not
apply to him But his friends were sadly
mistaken. The poor old fellow was arrested
and imprisoned. On his release ne did about
the only thing possible and decided % leave
his ungrateful fatherland and try MS luck
in Europe and America.
1t did not take long for the Londoners to
find out the quality of the old tattooer's
work and soon after his arrival in the Brit
ish metropolis Hiroshima had received
enough commissions 10 last him for months.
When, some years ago, the two sons of the
Prince of Wales visited Japan Hiroshima
tattooed designs on their wrists, and this
circumstance served as an tACtllSAI ttiliO-
duction to the English arstocracy. II ia
now the thing with the gilded youth OF
the West End 10 be decorated by the old
Japanese, and, of course those members OF
the Four Hundred OF New York who visit
London hear of the new fashion and follow
the example of the Britishers.
one of the first Americans he tattooed
was Henry Havemeyer. son OF II. o. Have
meyer, the sugar king Mr.. Havemeyer
is now an enthusiast on tattooing. He
already has dragon on his left leg, from
the ankle TO above the knee. He says that
the operation is not painful the only III
effect being temporary soreness and SWELL
ing He adds that II does not impede per-
SEPARATION in the slightest Hiroshima will
probably visit New York within year
and II Is likely the young clubmen OF this
cisy will be as enthusiastic patrons of hin
art as those Of London
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mendation was forwarded to Washington,
and after due and weighty consideration
had been given the same there, he was
authorized TO make the purchase at the
figure submitted. Then the order was given.
the window was measured and the awning
was duly and properly constructed. Yes
terday morning it was delivered to the
building and duly and securely attached TO
the window casing.
While all of this red tape has been un-
wound Mr. Walker has been sitting in the
sun or at a desk over in one corner of his
office. Still, he is glad to get the protec-
ton, even though it came quite late for the
summer. Under government regulations the
evolution of an awning is something pain
fully slow and tedious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Sigma Chi Officers.
PhlIadeIDhia ReCOrd.

NASHVILLE, ~onn., Aug. 2S.-Judge John
s Aneman presided at this session of the
Sigma Chi fraternity convention this morn
ing All the committee reports were ac-
ceDted and the following officers were cleo
ted. w +. Dudley. Nashville. grand con-
sui: Charles Alling, jr.. grand tribune; ]. &.
Nate grand questor; Herbert c. Arms,
grand annotator; Newman Miller. editor in
chief of the Sigma Chi Quarterly; Frank
Crozier, grand historian. Grand prelates OF
provinces-First Thomas r. Field; second,
F. l.. Trinkle third, Louis Aireton: fourth,
J. r Voris; fifth L. T. Myers; sixth J. ID.
Bowerstock; seventh. Douglas Forsythe
eighth. George Sunsabaugh; ninth. Frank
Pierce. Grand tribunes. Herbert G.. Arms
]. c. Nate. Louis r. Myers. The conven-
ton then adjourned