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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-28

and four days, as large families can
not all come at one time.
W. w. Phalen said that in bust
ness way the fair was complete sue
cess. He favored another fair, and
would start early.
f. M. Currier said that in past years
an effort had been made to get the
county fair to Mankato. The street
fair gives the city all the benefit and
is better than to try to get the county
fair moved to Mankato.
G. E. Musser said that if the amount
expended for entertainments were to
be given in premiums more farmers
would come. He favored large pre-
MUM list.
DR.. Curryer said that Faribault has
had three fairs and this year tried
Mr.. Musser's idea and fell down. Red
Wing had lots of entertainment and
| had a wonderfully successful fair.
The farmers boys do not come to see
the pumpkins and onions. If far
is held next year we must organize
early, and should begin at once. If
we have permanent organization, we
can get half of the state approprla-
tion of 1926 that now goes to the
county fair. He favored giving a pre-
MUM to the township having the big
gest exhibit. He would collect the
exhibits in one place, rather than
scatter them, as was done this year.
J. B. Meagher said that he had been
told OF farmer from central Illinois
who went 10 the Winona street fair.
he saw Mankato street fair badges
worn by number Of travelling men
and enquired concerning Mankato and
! was given such favorable reports that
he came to this city ..on the first day
of the fair and saw the exhibits un-
loaded from the farmers wagons. He
said that he had had no idea that
such things could be raised in Mime
sofa. He said that he would go home
auu sell MS farm at SIO0 an acre and
come to Mankato and get farm and
send his children to school in the city.
E. l. P. Staede said that all through
the fair was grand success He did
not favor Mr.. Musser's idea. II the
parades and amusements had been
taken from the fair it would have
been a fat failure. He had seen st.
Paul man who took in the Winona
fair two days and who was in Man.
kato Saturday afternoon. He said
that Mankato had three times the
crowd that Winona had and that the
pleasures were way ahead. Much
credit was due the officers OF the fair
association and to the sporting COM
mittee.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-28
WANT ANOTHER.
Everybody Is Enthusiastic Over
Street Fairs.
Steps Taken at Meeting Thursday to
Have a Permanent Fair Ass0-
citation.

The meeting of business men held
Thursday at the city hall for the pur.
pose of considering the matter Of
holding another street fair next
year was comparatively well attend
ed. and all present were of one mind
in regard to having fair next year.
Vice President Brett presided.
Secretary ]. G. Curryer presented a
report of the number of entries in
each class, the total being over 1,50O.
He wound up by saying that If an
other street fair is held the work Of
preparation should begin long time
before, in which case the cost would
not be over half what it was this
year. When everything had to be
done in such a hurry the expense ran
up. All of the work bad been done in
three weeks. The report was &C.
cepted.
Treasurer Jno. B. Meagher pre-
sented a detailed report, showing
every item of expense. The follow
ing is the summary:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-28
LITERARY NOTES.

The October number of the Cen.
fury opens with paper ON Edouard
Detaille, "Painter Uf Soldiers" writ
ten by Armand DayOt aud illustrated
by number of hitherto unpublished
sketches by Detaille. Prof. William
M. Sloane gives Personal and COL
lected Impressions of Bismarck
Prof. Sloane saw more or less of Bis
marck while student of history with
Bancroft, when the latter was United
States Minister at Berlin.
For the story of the siege of Santi-
ago de Cuba. as it affected the people
directly involved, on either side, in
their personal safety and comfort and
their daily lives, there Is no docu-
ment yet published equal to the
October number of McClure's maya
zine. Mr.. Stephen Bonsal, in an arti-
Gle entitled "The Fight for Santi-
ago." describes the campaign as it
affected the American soldier, writ
ing from his observations and expert
ence; while for the experiences OF the
panic-stricken and half-starving peo-
Pile shut up in the city of Santiago we
have very remarkable diary kept by
the British Consul at Santiago, who
was all the time in the closest rela-
tions with the Spanish authorities.
and was expending-as it later proved
his very life in relieving the general
suffering. Mr.. Bonsal's article is very
fully partly from photo
graphs taken in the field by himself,
and partly from drawings by w. J.
Glackens, the special artist for Nc
Ulure's with the army Of invasion.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-28
Uneucumbered Land Wanted.

In exchange for trotting stallion,
eight years old, sired by Patronage,
sire Of Alix 2:O39 (World's record) etc.
Dam, full sister 10 he grand dam of
Alix. STANDARD and registered Also
black Norman stallion. recorded, six
years old, very fine black.
Address E. e. GUTHRIE.
Norwalk,
Iowa,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-28
POINTS POLITICAL.
Ex-senator Ingalls, Will Remained Over
Until Saturday.

Ex-senator Johu J. Ingalls,. of Kan
sas, whose arrival in the city we re-
ferred to decided to remain
over until Saturday, .as he had
considerable correspondence to attend
to, and he found the hotel facilities of
Mankato very good. When called up
on by Free Press reporter Friday
afternoon and again Saturday, Mr.. In
gals was busily engaged in his room
at The Saulplugh writing, but had a
cordial welcome to extend to the
scribe. Mr.. ingalls, lis an ideal con-
versationalist, and understands how
to make it pleasant for his callers in
greater degree than most men in
public or private life. He talked
freely of political matters, but re-
quested that he be not quoted. He is
on lecturing trip in Southern Min
nesota and has appeared at Luverne,
Pipestone, Worthington and st.
James, and had date at Blue Earth
City Saturday night.
Mr.. ingalls, was. called upon by Gen.
Baker and several others He
was we'll acquainted with Gen. Baker
at Washington and recognized him at
once.
Congressman McCleary came in on
Fridays train from Tracy, where
he spoke Thursday, and left at ten
O'Clock for Slayton, where he spoke
that night. He had a very good
meeting at Tracy.
w. A. Funk returned Friday
from campaign "trip. He addressed
a good meeting at Stewart Wednes-
day night, and spoke inCambrla Thurs
day. He also spoke in the Mankato
town hall Friday night.
With such weather and roads as we
have had this week, it is not an easy
matter to get out crowd in the coun-
try districts. A man must have
good deal of party enthusiasm to brave
the elements,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12
EfF ;i mini
FRAME AND STRINGS. FIRST COURSE.

FRAME y STRINGS. FIRST COURsE. .s,
fourths the length of tho mat to be
made. Draw these strings taut around
the nails at the top, but do not wind or
tie them. Now take a long wisp of
straw, divide it into halves, place heads
together and butts out, reaching across
the frame and touching the guideboards.
Begin at one of the outside strings,
draw it up tightly around its nail and
over the wisp, which you pinch hard
and fiat while making two half bitches
around the tight string with the free
end b.. Take the other outside string
next and repeat the process till all five
strings are fastened, holding the first
course firmly. In each case, with the
first course or wisp, make a double
half hitch to keep the taut string from
slipping. One-half hitch for the other
COURSES is all that is necessary (see cut
p. To finish the mat, loosen the strings
at the bottom and tie several tight fiat
knots.
The experience gained in making one
mat will suggest many minor things
that might be confusing if brought into
these directions. A little practice will
enable one TO turn off two or three mats
an hour. The frame on which the mats
are made may be fastened fiat On a barn
door, or, better, firmly on saw horses,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12

NAT COMPLETE. HowfNG Hal HITCH.
as this arrangement lessons the number
Of motions. and Is not so hard on the
weaver's back. Some sort of rack or
frame should be added to hold the loose
straw, of which two bundles are re-
quired for q mat, and these should be
within easy reaching distance. These
mats can be used for a variety Of pur-
poses where some reliable protection
from the cold is needed, and if we'll
made and properly cared for will last
several seasons. Their durability de-
ponds chiefly on the quality of the
string and straw used in their construc-
ton. Select u hard, tough quality of
string and the very best straight,
bright rye straw.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12
REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION

The following are the members OF the
several County Central Committees So
far as reported to the Secretary of tn.
State Central Committee:
Storey county-A b Stoddard, Chair
man } M Gearhart, Secretary; q u
Ziegler, Dave Hunter, William Greet
wood, Virginia CITY T p Williams and
Len Litcllenberger, Gold Hill.
Humboldt county-Thomas Nelson,
Chairman, Stone Hense; i J Button,
Secretary, q N Shallenberger. Golconda
B 7 Evans, Willow Point; W S Bonni-
field, W~inuemucca.
Washoe connty-G f Turretip, Chair
man; L J Cohn, Secretary S Su,nrner-
field, A g Fletcher, S A Hanllin, W u
Phillips, H J Thyes, Reno; Z A jack
man, Thomas Fitzgerald, Wadsworth;
q W Robinson, Glendale; James Burke,
Browns; X J M Coats. Verdi.
Lyon county-C w Patterson, Chair
man, J w Hanna, Secretary, Yeringtor
I G Iittell, Dayton; l. II Ames,
Smiths.
Ormsby %county--S l. Lee, Chairman
q ID Oliver, Secretary; A Coin, + A
Doyle, Hume Yerington, Carson FC
Diarmid, + Dablrymple, Empire.
Douglas coupyTsH Springmeyer,
Chairman, Gardnerville; R Cook, Sec
rotary, Sheridan; J w Haines. VIM
Selby, Genoa; L S Ezell, Fred Behrman,
Gardnerville: n II johnson, Sheridan
CT Bliss, Glenbrook q N Folsom, Ho-
bart; w II James, Jacks Valley, J
Campbell, Walker River.
Lander connty-R L Norton, Chair
man; CIV McHardy, Secretary ; L Stei-
ner, Simon Bray ,tAustin.
Churchill county, W Ferguson,
Chairman. Fslloh; VIM Murphy, Secre-
tary, saltwater; JP Schneider, 6 Car
miencke, w Lee, st. Clair.
Elko connty-C II Sproule, Chairman;
H J Jones, Secretary; J III Taber,
Treasurer, Elko.
Eureka county, L Smith, Chairman
" oL"Hns' 'o"'o'"'s > "o""
Del Bondio, Eureka.
Nye county-A b Millett, Chairman,
junction.
White Pine county-M ] Davis, Chair
msn A ID Campton, Secretary } Nc
Ormie, Ely; S A ID Glasscock, Osceola
d X Collins, Cherry Creek.
State Republican Leagne-O ii Grey,
President; + ID VaHderlieth, Secretary,
Carson.
The following constitute the Repub-
lican County Central Commute of Lin
coin county:
DIR. Henry Hagar, Chairman, A. Han
son, Secretary, Ralph Nichols, n Bush,
A. Hudgens, DeLamar; j. c. Campbell.
NJ. d.. Grail Newall, Phoebe; Richar,
Rich, Canaca.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12
STU y MAT MAKING.
For the Isotection of Dotbeds and G
Frames,

80" A'tFctton OF l1OCDe0B and
Frames.
a very servicealle and efficient nn,
Tor the protection of hotbeds and olll
frames MAY be woven easily from rye
straw by a method illustrated and de-
scrlbed IN American Gardening.
First make a frame of boards the
length and width of the mat required,
as at q in the first cut Place the side
boards upright for guides i'll keeping the
edges of the mat straight in weaving.
Drive five strong nails in the bottom
crosspiece and five in the top at ppor-
toned distances from the sides and one
another. To each Of the nails at the
bottom tie IA strong, hard string, the size
OF sheep Irvine and two and three
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12

The Reading tPa.) Herald makes a
terrible indirect confession. 1t objects
to the reading of newspapers in schools
Oh the ground that they are unreliable
and teach the young idea too many
things it has to unlearn. This is simply
awful. We do not believe The Herald
itself would be willing to admit iC was
that kind Of "a paper.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12
NOTICE..

ITO JULIA WASHEIM:-Yo are hereby no
titled that | have expended One Hundred
;$iOl dollars In labor and improvements upon
the Addie G mining claim situated in White
Horse mining district, Washoe County, Nevada.
ions of Section 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States. being the amount required to
hold the same for the year ending December 81,
1895. And if not within nirety days from service
Of this notice tor within ninety days after this
notice by publications. you fail or refuse TO con-
tribute your proportion OF such expenditure as "A
co-owner your interest in said claim will be-
CONF the property Of the subscriber, under said
Section 2334. JUAN ORTEGA.
Dated November 18th. 1897.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12

The American Association For the
Study and Cure of inebriety has held
its annual meeting at Boston and de.
parted. There seems to be considerably
more study than cure Of inebriety i'll the
work of the association as far Is it has
got.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12

Thomas Marsh, a negro of New
Brunswick, II. D., has shown ti, cf-
feet capacity TO receive the white man $
civilization. He made $40, oG0 as u ca
tere1 IN a few years aud then lost every
cent Of it i'll speculation.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12
NOTICE..

gyNO A. s. LAUDER:-You are hereby notified
/ that we have expended One Hundredaai0Ol
troy mining claim situated in Silver Hill Min
ing District, Churchill County. Nevada, In order
to hold said premises under the provisions OF
Section 2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States. being the amount required to hold the
same for the year ending December 81. 1897
And il within ninety days from service of this
notice lor within ninety days alter fhis notice
by publication you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion Of such expenditure as a CO.
owner your interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscribers under said Sec
ton 23S4. JAS. POOLE,
A. POLLOCK, SEa5
]. u. POOLE.
A. POLLOCK, Jr,
r. L. BELLAM.
Wadsworth, New, Oct. 18th, 1897.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12

Mistress-Bridget, / am tired of your
carelessness. Only look at that dust on.
the furniture. It's six weeks old at the
very least.
Bridget-Shure it's no fault av moline.
I've been here only tree weeks. Up to
Date.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-12
Quite Welcome.

Rent Collector have called to get
that bill left here IA few days ago.
Tenant trelieved)-Sure, and We can
have thot. 1t was the money l was
afraid ye did be after New York
Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

clothes and told me that he would
make bargain with me. This was
thai I should take his coat and ex.
chlnge it for that of the first midship.
Dan who came into my place. He
faid he knew he would get the best Of
the bargain.
81 was at the house one day, wait
ing to take his order, when the card
of representative of q magazine
which wished to publish an article
giving his views on some naval ques-
tion was sent up. 1 was in the room
with the Admiral when the magazine
man was admitted. He told the Adj
miral what he wanted, and asked him
when he could do it. Admiral Porter
thought for a while, and then re-
marked that he knew of someone who
was more competent to write on the
subject than himself. The questioner
was then told that if he would wait
few weeks-it was May at the time
the cadets would graduate at the Naval
Academy, and any MILDLY was more
competent to treat the subject. or so
considered himself"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

Recently compiled statistics show
that the Russian Empire possesses at
present sos factories with an an
nual production valued at 1898, 900, =
600. In these factories there are en-
ployed $40, ,044 workmen and 254, ,O3O
women and girls. The number OF
steam engines is 1O,525. The CHIEF
centers of industry are Moscow, St
Petersburg and Kieff. In the Gov
ernment of Moscow there are 2075
factories, with an annual production
valued at S1S4, 600, 900, employing
$50, 900 workmen. The Caucasans
have 1199 factories, which employ o.
900 workmen, with an annual pro-
duction valued at $23, 5000 ST.
IBERIA has G09, the Turkestan district
359 factories, with an annual produc-
tion valued at SO, 800, 900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

Kansas is great wheat State, the
leading wheat State, Notwithstanding
the prominence given California, the
Dakotas and Minnesota. Kansas led
all of the wheat growing States last
year, harvesting 51,O2G, ,604 bushels
for 1897. But the crop of the
present season will be greater by
many millions of bushels, barring
an unusual and unexpected calamity.
Indeed, the acreage is so great and
the crop 50 uniformly promising that
the chances are for the biggest wheat
yield in the history of the State, not
excepting the year 1892, when the
State measured seventy-four millions
of bushels.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

Going back some two hundred years,
says the Atlanta Constitution, we find
that in 1900 there were barely more
than 100000 people in both hemis-
pheres who spoke the English Ian
guage, whereas at the present time
there are not less than 125, 900, 600.
Other languages in 100 were much
more extensively in vogue than was the
English, but for some reason they
lacked the agencies of growth neens-
sary to extend the area of their supre-
macy and consequently the English
language soon eclipsed them. While
there are 125, 200, 900 people at the
present time who speak the English
language there are only 10000, 600
who speak the Russian, only 70, 0OO,-
900 who speak the German, only 3d.
600, 900 who speak the French, only
5000, 900 who speak the Spanish and
only 35, 000,0 900 who speak the Italian
Thus it appears that the English Ian
guage is considerably in the lead o.
its competitors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13
Mr.. Gladstonc's Estate.

Writing in the London Daily Tele-
graph, the Hon. F. Lawley states
that after Sir John Gladstone's death
the involved condition of Sir Stephen
Glynne's affairs, consequent upon the
mismanagement of the Hawarden
estate by an oyer-sanguine agent, was
disclosed for the first time. With
Characteristic energy and prudence,
Mr.. Gladstone came to his brother-in-
laws rescue, and enabled him to re-
main permanently in the beautiful
Welsh home to which both were SO
passionately attached. The sum then
advanced by Mr.. Gladstone to save the
Hawarden estate amounted, it is said,
to $3.50, 900, and two of the farms be-
came Mr.. Gladstone's property. At
no time during his long residence at
Hawarden did Mr.. Gladstone's unof-
fetal income exceed $3.50 a year.
Such, however, was the thrift and sa-
gacity with which the Hawarden es-
tate was managed, that the eldest SON
of Mr.. William Henry Gladstone, born
in 1885, will, it is believed, succeed
to $50, 000-a year on attaining his ma
jority.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

Cuba is known to be by nature one
of the richest parts of the earth's
surface. Before the decline of the
sugar industry in the West Indies
many vast fortunes were extracted
from it by agricultural processes that
We're very far from being thorough.
Even in the most prosperous days of
Cuba Spanish misgovernment pre-
vented any real development of its
resources. The fortunes that were
realized were won by merely scratch
ing the surface. Every official was
n Spaniard, and no official, from the
Captain General down, had any other
object than to acquire for himself the
largest fortune in the shortest time
and to take it back with him to the
peninsula.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

Century riding is cruel recreation
as indulged in on Sundays by many
clerks, bookkeepers and others who
stand at counters or desks six days of
the week, with scarcely any outdoor
exercise. They are in no sort of con-
dition to ride one hundred miles at a
stretch, and the frequent results OF
this sort of overriding are insomnia,
staleness and general unitness for
work, physical or mental.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13

1t IS many years since a book deal
ing with economical and social ques-
tions has attracted so much attention
IN France as the volume entitled ga
Quoi Tient la Superiorite des Anglo
Saxons," by Edmond Demolins, re-
marks the New York Sun. The au-
thor, who is the editor of the review
named La Science Sociale, begins by
pointing out the worldwide expansion
of the AngloSaxon race, and then I'M
dertakes to define the causes of it's in
comparable fitness for colonization.
About the expansion there is, of
course, no doubt, even in the minds of
Frenchmen, weak as they are in geo.
graphy. In North America the French
man has been supplanted by the An
glo-Saxon, and the same thing is true
of India, of Mauritius and of Egypt.
The Anglo-Saxon now controls the
New World by means of the United
States and Canada; Africa, by means
of Egypt and the Cape Colony; Asia,
by means of India and Burmah
Oceanica, by means of Australia and
New Zealand; one may even say that
he controls Europe aud the entire
world besides, by means of his manu-
factures and his commerce.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13
No More Burnt Fingers.

Inventive genius has come to the
aid of the millions of people who have
been burning their fingers by holding
on too long to blazing matches. Upon
the market has bean placed brand of
matches with the reverse end satur-
ated for a distance of half an inch with
a chemical compound, pink in color,
and impervious to fire. When the
blaze reaches the chemically treated
wood it goes out, leaving the fingers
unscorched. A Swedish inventor is
the originator of the improvement =
Trade Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-13
Why Swimmers Drown.

The sudden drowning of a good
swimmer is not due to a cramp, as
generally supposed There is no
reason, says high medical authority,
why cramp in leg should prevent an
ordinary swimmer supporting himself
in the water by his hands or on his
back, or cause him to throw up his
hands and sink once for all like
stone. The explanation is that the
drum of the ear is perforated, and the
pressure of water causes vertigo aud
unoonsciousness,