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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-04-08
Home Seekers Excursions.

The Northwestern line will sell
home-seekers tickets March 18th,
April 9Th and 10th to points pest and
south at one fare for round trip with
49, 90 added. Tickets good 81 days.
For rates and territory covered call at
union depot.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-04-08

On motion, board adjourned sine die.
CHAS. GRAF,
Chairman Board of County Commits
sioners of Blue Earth County, MINI.
Attest:
P. A. GUNDERS, County Auditor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-04-08
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
VITAL WEAKNESS

and Prostration from Over
work or other, causes.
Humphreys Homeopathic Specific
No. %, in use over 40 years, the only
successful remedy.
ST. per vial or walls and large vial powder for SIS
Sold by Druggists postpaid receipt of price
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-04-08

The Democratic county convention
will be held Thursday, June 9th, for
the election of twenty. nine delegates
to the Democratic state convention.
By the wording of the call, gold Demo
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-04-08
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

Continued from second page.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

killed during the season of their South
ern flight, beginning in August or Sep
TENDER These are usually packed just
as killed, with their feathers on, and
when turned out of the boxes, they are
welded together as solidly as a mass
of bricks, and they are just as hard.
The game laws of Minnesota do not
admit of the shipment of native game
of certain kinds within certain periods
from the state, but there is a great
deal consumed within the state. In
fact there are importations in consio-
cradle bulk, and there are thousands
of quail in the warehouses, brought in
from Kansas, Oklahoma and other
points whence trans-Shipments are not
illegal. Besides, some of the commits
sion men of st. Paul With extended
business are in the habit of buying
quail at other points and storing them,
in Chicago for instance, whence they
are forwarded on receipt of orders. The
popularity Of this dainty bird causes
him to be always in demand, but the
law is so strict that dealers who would
not violate it can only accommodate
their customers by supplying orders in
the manner indicated. A batch of Okla
homa quail was shown the reporter
yesterday which had been received last
November, and although this dealer
may receive orders from points East,
say Cleveland or Buffalo or Boston or
Philadelphia. he cannot legally use
these Oklahoma quail with which to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

The sprinkling of the asphalt paved
street for the present year will. accord
ing to the board of public works, be
much better attended to than last year.
The specifications under which bids
are now being advertised for provide
that all asphalt paved streets shall be
sprinkled seven times each day except
Sundays. The first sprinkling is to be
completed by $3.50 a. m. Between 10
o'clock a. m. and 8 o'clock p. m. the
streets are to be sprinl1led at regular
intervals of one hour. and the last
sprinkling is to be completed by $50
p. m.
The sprinklers on each cart are to be
SO constructed as to throw a vertical
stream uniformly distributed and so
arranged that the quantity and width
of the stream can be regulated by the
driver. Only a slight spray will be
used and all flooding of the streets so
that water will stand in the cutters
and low places is forbidden. Con-
tractors offending in this particular
are liable to fine not to exceed S. for
each offense.
Last year the asphalt paved streets
were sprinkled or rather the contract
called for their being sprlnkled ten
times daily. This. however, applied only
to streets in the business district, the
asphalt paved streets on the hill. in
Guiding Oakland avenue, not being
sprinkled at all. The same plan will be
followed this year, except that the
board has decided that seven times is
enough to sprinkle the asphalt streets
daily.
The asphalt streets to be sprinkled in
the business district include nearly six
miles of pavement.
Attention will be paid this year, the
board declares, to the rights and COM
forts of pedestrians and bicyclists. On
each side of all intersecting streets in
the business district a space from two
to three feet wide Is to be left dry for
the convenience of pedestrians.
For the accommodation of cyclists a
space of from three to five feet is to
be left unsprinkled along the center Of
such streets as may be directed by the
engineer of the board.
The board has decided that the plan
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

product, thus providing him with a
constant market. Though fresh poultry
is continually being received by COM
mission men, the statement Is made
that the broilers of last springs crop.
which were killed in July and August
and retained even to this date in cold
storage, are really superior to the
fowls of the some crop coming forward
at this season of the year freshly killed.
The stock now on hand will be grad
ually reduced until about June l. when
the crop of 1898 will begin to accumu-
late, starting with young chickens
squads and the like, and passing on to
the ducks, turkeys, quail and other
game of the summer and autumn
months. Some of the larger commits
sion houses buy the poultry alive and
themselves kill and dress it for storage
Great care is exercised in the treat
ment Of the stock. One commission
man remarked yesterday that the poul-
try trade was a growing industry in
Minnesota, and one which in time
is destined to attain to large propor-
lions. Much, doubtless, depends upon
the care practiced by farmers in the
Improvement of their breeds and their
methods Of handling the stock. That
progress has been marked is demon
strated by the fact that the standard
has been so materially raised within
the past few years as to carry the
product from almost entire rejection to
hrst rank In the Eastern markets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

of flushing the asphalt paved streets in
the business district with water from
IRE hydrants will be tried once a week
the nuShing to be done every SATURDAY.
night by the street and sewer force.
The members of the board are in
cilned to the opinion that the more
nushing Of the streets done the better,
but the expense of the work will pre-
vent this plan being followed to any
great extent this year
Inc question Of the necessity Of
Sprlnkllng the streets in the business
district seven times a day or at all
Tor that matter. is regarded different
~ by different people. Some think that
with the streets flushed or washed two
or three times a week and swept daily
that there is no necessity for sprink-
ing them any more than there is for
sprinklinS the asphalt streets in the
resident districts. The city engineers
department, however, looks at it differ
emily
There are several reasons" said AS
slstant City Engineer Fuller, yesterday
afternoon, why 1t is considered neces-
sary to do this sprinkling.
In the first place the sprnkling on
asphalt streets dry up much more
quickly than it does on other streets.
paved or unpaved. The water soaks
into the other pavements and keeps the
streets damp for longer time. But
on the asphalt streets the moisture
remains on the surface and quickly
dries up. 1t is necessary therefore to
sprinkle them more frequently to get
the same effect
Then the dust on the asphalt streets
Is different from that on other streets.
II is finer. and no matter how we'll the
streets are swept there is always some
dust left which Is blown around by the
lightest breeze. No machine has yet
been invented that will pick up all of
this dust. If person went over the
streets with an ordinary brush and
dust pan he could not take up all of
this fine dust. This is so fine that it
gets into the stores along the business
streets, and to prevent this as much as
possible, we are, in the interest of the
business men, compelled to sprinkle
more frequently than would otherwise
be necessary.
Another reason for sprinkling down
town streets and not sprinkling resident
streets, is the fact that while the resi-
dences axe usually some distance back
from the streets or avenues, and these
in addition are broad and open, the
stores in the business district are close
up to the streets and the streets are
narrow. In the case of the former it
takes quite heavy wind to blow the
dust into the houses, being some dis
lance away, while down town a light
breeze carries the dust into the stores.
These are the main reasons why the
sprinkling Of the business streets is
considered necessary"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

Bridgeport. Conn, Special to New York World.
The spirit of the Salvation Army has
come over Col William'fH. Stevenson,
and he has joined 70 the. organization.
signalling the factoon Sunday night
by presenting it with a check for So, 900.
In the state of Connecticut no one is
better known than Col Stevenson, and
the Salvation Army members are cele-
brating as they have never before cele-
brated the advent ofBa recruit.
Col Stevenson was superintendent Of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad in the early eighties. From 1887
until 1892 he was vice president and
general manager of the Housatonic sys-
tenn of railways.
For three years he was on the staff
of Gov. Thomas NJ Waller. Twice he
was a candidate for governor before
the convention. He is a member of the
Old Guard, of New York. He created
the Stevenson Military brass band. He
is a composer of music himself. He has
large railroad interests in Ohio and
gold mines on the Pacific slope. He is
known from Maine to California.
A few years ago he attracted atten-
ton in New York by taking the part of
a newsboy against Gerry agent and
was arrested. Col Stevenson was fined
$50, and he declared that it was cheap.
He has always been a good man and
charitable But no one was prepared
for the sensation of Sunday night. The
Salvation Army meeting was well ad-
vanced in the barracks in Broad street
when Col. Stevenson came In unnoticed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

the total heating surface $3.50 square
feet.
The boiler, dome, cylinders, steam
chests and cylinder saddles are Jagged
with asbestos, in order to reduce radi-
alton and densation to a minimum, as
these engines are especially built to be
operated in the high altitude and low
temperature of Montana
The wheel base is as follows: Rigid
and driving, Is feet 10 inches; total,
engine, 26 feet 8 inches; total, engine
and tender, "a feet 3A inches.
The height of the stack from top of
rail is IS feet inches. The height Of
the center Of boiler from top of rail is
9 feet 5 inches, and height of the top
of the boiler shell from top of rail, IA
feet inches. The length over all is
81 feet ~ inches.
The big boiler gets its heating power
frcm fireboX 225 square feet, with
tubes that measure in area 3,045 square
feet, and a CRATE area Of "a square feet
The enormous wheels are fitted with
eight drivers SO inches in diameter with
centers of cast steel. The diameter
of truck wheels is 80 feet, the centers
being cast steel spoke
The driving axle of the journal meas
ureS ski inches, and of the truck 515x
u inches.
The size of main rod bearing is SEX
of2 lnches; coupling rod bearing, 7$sX
inches; wheel fit, rs diameter 49,
is cylinder.
The diameter of the cylinders is q
inches. The piston stroke is "a inches.
diameter of piston rod, Az inches. The
main rods length from center to CEN
| ter is feet 10 inches. Length of steam
rorts is IS inches, and width, ~ inches.
The exhaust ports are so inches in
length and inches in width. The
bridge is 6A inches in width.
The outside lap of the valve is ia
inches clearance.
The powerful boiler has a steam
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20
From the New York Sun.


Vassars Associate Alumnae held it's
annual reunion and luncheon at the
Hotel Savoy. The following officers
were elected for the coming year:
President, Mrs. f. S. Atwater; vice
presidents, Rachel Jacobs, Frances G.
Markham; secretary, Ada Thurston;
assistant secretary, Cora Start; treas
urer, Marion S. Blake; member of ex-
ecutive committee, Clara L. Bostwick;
member of polling committee, Eliza
beth Raeburn Hoy.
The endowment committee reported
the completion of the fund of $50, coo to
endow chair of astronomy, and the
polling committee announced the cleo
tiCn of Mrs. H. K. Armstrong. IT, as
an alumnae trustee. AS soon as the
business meeting was adjourned the
alumnae gathered in the reception
rooms.
Miss Hersey introduced Prof. Steph-
ems, saying that his subject would be
'Rudyard Kipling." He said: Be
fore coming to my subject l want to
say serious word about the Vassar
girls with whom I've come in contact.
We get a few of them at Cornell, and
they are the very best type Of woman
student that comes to us. They have
proved to me what 1 have always be-
lieved that woman students, trained
in the same way as men, can do just
as good work.
'Kipling is a man with mission;
teacher, a preacher, a poeti The diff
ference between him and an artistic
poet, for example Tennyson, is i'm
mense We have plenty of those post
artists masters of words and masters
of manners, but after all the few great
poets of humanity do not trouble
themselves to polish much. They are
preachers.
I'D like to bring before you the gos-
pei of Kipling, for I know that this
gospel is strengthening the arms and
will of many a soldier in India. OF
course, there are many KiplingS.
There is the early, the middle, and the
later Kipling, but we shall keep to the
Kipling that is Kipling the preacher
[ don't propose to worry about the
Kipling of India or Greater England
[ am going to talk about his matter,
not his manner.
81 first rejoiced in him as a man who
made known the work being done in
India. He had developed into the
laureate of Greater England by the
grace of God not like one Austin, by
the grace of Salisbury. Kipling is the
bard of Greater England, and out of
his different stages has come Kipling
the preacher. He sees poetry in the
everyday things around him. Do you
remember McAndrew's hymn where
he found poetry in the dirty stoker
working ON an ocean liner? Kipling
breaches a gospel to the modern world.
He understands the rush and hurry,
the tendency to skepticism, socialism,
and so on. His is the gospel of work
which is not unnecessary in this time.
when men are working themselves TO
death in order to amass enough so
that they'll never have to worl. any
more. How many of you have read
his longest love story, The Light That
Failedg Don't you remember how
Dick Heldon tells Maysie that good
work cannot be done for money,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

praise. or fame? He first teaches the
gospel of work
His next gospel is that of obedience
and discipline. He's never shown that
so plainly as in his Jungle Book in
the training of Mowgli. In these days,
when obedience is not considered a
virtue, when parents even do not
teach their children much obedience
is 1T not something for some one to
rise and show that the keynote which
binds society together is obedience
and discipline? This is not all of his
gospel. He tries to show that the duty
of man is not only to serve his country
but his keeper. He breaches that
man shall not only do his work but
hold his peace.
Another point of his gospel is cours
age. fashioned courage has ra thu
er gone out of fashion in these dayS
of rapid firing guns and improved
arms. Old hand to-hand heroism has
passed away. He shows that courage
generally is not merely an animal at
tribute, and that it is necessary for e
man to stand up to his convictions.
Il have been told that men are the
only people who care about Kipling
1 do not believe it. This is a bad re-
Election on women. He does use a
good deal of slang, mans slang. and
some people say there are no love
stories in him What more beautiful
love story is there than that of Dinah
Shadd? And when it comes to chill
dren, has any one ever shown any
more tenderness or a better under
standing of children than Rudyard
Kipling? After all, life isn't a per-
petUal love story, and it seems to me
that Kipling is all the more true to life
because he does not make all of his
stories hang on sexual sentiment, or
see poetry in a ladys eyebrows. One
of the great evils of the fiction and
poetry of the nineteenth century Is the
sexual love story. 1t is healthful that
some one sees something in work and
obedience"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

overstocked and the dealer makes his
purchases for storage. Fresh choice
chickens, turkeys and ducks are bought
in large quantities, and hurriedly pack
ed in barrels and boxes and slowed
away il the cold storage warehouses.
Here they remain solidly frozen, some
with their feathers on, others pluck
ed and all with their entrails unre-
moved, and from this source the mar
ket is supplied throughout the cold
weather period and even far into the
spring and early summer months. Here
one will find thousands of young spring
chickens, commonly called ''broilers,'
which were killed in June and July of
last year and. are daily being shipped
to distant points where they come upon
the winter market as choice products,
which, in fact, they are, and possessed
of all the sweetness and purity and
nourishing qualities and deliciousness
of flavor characteristic of the young
chicken just killed. The same is true
of turkeys and ducks. The latter are
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

supply the wants of his customers be-
yond the limits of the state. About
the only game exempt is bear, but it
is apparently not in great demand. The
carcass Of a splendid big black bear
from the north has been in private
store house since last November. He
is still wrapped in his robe of fur, and
his flesh is as hard as a slab of granite.
In the stock Of these cold storage
houses, one encounters some magniff-
cent specimens Of genuine English
pheasants imported from Liverpool.
Here, too, was discovered side Of an
American buffalo, and a couple of
quarters of elk, while near by stretch
ed an opossum, the sight of which could
not have failed to start a Negroes
mouth to watering, while there were
frogs legs enough to feed a regiment
Of French grenadiers.
But the interesting feature of this
system exists in it's value to the Min
nesota farmer in the facilities it af-
fords for the housing Of his surplus
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

working pressure Of 210 pounds. The
length OF the firebox is 10 feet inches;
the width ) feet Az inches; the depth
front S6Ha inches, and back, 70 inches.
The number of tubes in the internal
arrangements of the giant is 376. Dia
meter of the smokebox Is 81 inches.
me great tank holds 4,67O gallons Of
water, and the tender can carry ten
tons Of coal The length of tender
frame over bumpers Is twenty-one feet
ten and one-half inches; length of tank
nineteen feet six inches width of tanl,
eight feet eight inches
Other special features of these gianta
are: Driving wheel centers, engine
truck wheel centers, driving boxes
driving boxes, driving box saddIe s
spring fulcrums, pistons, cylinder
heads front and back, crossheads and
guide yoke ends of cast steel. Cylinder
mead castings. smoke box front and
door, smoke stack base, dome casing
ana sand box casing of pressed steel
Piston rods of o. II. steel, hollow and
extended in front. Crank pins of O.
n steel hollow: Crosshead pins of ..
II. steer and hollow. Rockers of ham
mered iron and hollow Rods of ham
mered iron.
The valves are Of improved piston
type and absolutely balanced. The MIS-
ton rods are hollow throughout and ex-
tended at front end. The weight of
each engine in working order is 90. 750
pounds; weight of drivers. 10000
pounds; weight of truck, .4O.75O pounds.
weight of tender, loaded, $4,000 pounds
The total weight Of engine and tender
is 30S, $50
Notwithstanding the great size Of
these locomotives they are strikingly
symmetrical in design. and give the
observer a full sense of their extra
ordinary size and power. Their work
on the Great Northern railway will be
watched with much interest by rail-
road men,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20
He sat in the rear of the hall for a

He sat in the rear of the hall for
little time and then arose to his feet.
II love to hear the band of the Sal
walton Army" he said. 81 have often
opened my window to listen to its sweet
music as it passed up Broad street.
love to hear the Salvation Army voices
in singing. left my house this evening
without the slightest intention of COM
ing to this meeting. but I heard the
band. It drew me toward the army and
I came in.
1.-The Salvation Army is doing great
saying that it is doing more good in the
world and for the world than all the
churches put together.
Il am grouping in the dark myself
but L expect to find the light some day.
1 want to join the army. Will you ac-
cept me?"
There was little silence followed by
a confused murmur. There was not
person who did not know Col Ste
venson and who was not startled at
his request. Even the officers of the
army were amazed. But they recover
ed themselves quickly.
Halleluiah," they shouted God bless
your! They fired the Salvation salute, they
gave thanks and their Joy was great. A
dozen warriors and lassies gathered about
Col. Stevenson They took him by the hand
ciapped him on the shoulder.
They led him, nothing 10TH to the plat
form. They. prayed with him. They sang
their triumphant hymns. They pleaded with
all others there to emulate Col. Stevenson's
example. They must hear him speak again.
The first thing in military circles he
said. ''and 1 believe that this is an army,
is to insure your footing on a good sub
stantial basis
With that Gel. Stevenson drew a little book
from his pocket, sat down and filled out
check on the Connecticut National bank for
5000, which he presented to the captain of
the barracks.
The band struck up a song. and never
did Bridgeport hear the Salvation Army sing
with such enthusiasm and fervor. And the
colonel sang with them.
And when the meeting was over the band
and all the Salvationists must escort COL.
Stevenson to his fine residence playing with
vtgor and singing en- route, and Col. Steven
son at the head of the procession.
:, When he reached his home he invited
them all In. There were religious services
in the parlor, Col Stevenson himself leading
In prayer. Then refreshments were served
After this the band must play outside and sere-
made Col. Stevenson, which it did for an
hour.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

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