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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20
IWire Stretched

Pass the wire through so as to pull or
push, as desired. Make loop on end
of wire and put pin through use
a 6-penny spike. You can stretch al
most any wire with this stretcher. |
have other useful devices I will send
for publication hereafter.-Philip Fike
in Ohio Farmer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20
AS to batting and Cooking.

A man never fully realizes the joys
of home until he sits at his own Ia
BILE and criticises his wife's cooking.
The greatest offense you can give the
really hospitable woman is to fail to
eat heartily of the food set before you.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20
THE FOURTH DAY.
Baptists Pushing Their Business
Along Rapidly.
They Decide to Make Their Summer
Assembly at Lake Minnetonka
Permanent Affair.

From Saturdays Daily.
This has been the fourth day of the
Minnesota Baptist state convention,
and,the business of the convention was
wound up today, although program
will be car led out tomorrow. The
delegates are leginni ig to leave, In
many will remain over Sunday. The
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20
Chicago Great Western Increase.

The earnings of the Chicago Great
Western Ry Maple Leaf Route" for
the first week in October, 1899, show
an increase of 1922, 36O73. Total in
crease since beginning of fiscal year
July 1st) to date, 1921, 456 10
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20
Be True.

Nephew (sentimentally)-f a man
loves a certain woman
Uncle (sententiously) There is no
certain woman; all women are uncer-
:.-.n!-Puck.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20
Roo Great a Strain.

"Kirby has quit living in board
ing house and gone to hotel"
"Why"
"He says he has nervous prostration
from sympathizing with his landlady
three times a day.-Chicago Record.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-10-20

The Inter Oceans Tele-
graphic Service is Ex-
clusi
umn is Bright, Clean,
and Packed with News.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

Yonder,Y aifds love and laugh, and mourn and
weep?
What shall they know CT me- or l. alas!
OF them? Little. At times, as if from sleep,
We wake to this yearning passionate mood,
And trerlb.e at our spiritual solitude.
Nay, never once to feel we are alone,
While the great human heart around us
lies;
To make the smile on other lips our own,
To live upon the light in others eyes;
To breathe Without a doubt tne limDid air
OF that most perfect love that knows no pain
To say, love you, only, and not care
Whether the love come back to us again.
Divinest self-forgetfulness. at first
task. and then tonic then need
To greet with open hands the best and worst,
And only fo- another's wound to bleed:
This is to see the beauty that God meant,
Wrapped round with life, ineffably content.
Their IS beauty at the goal of life.
beauty growing since the world began,
Through every age and race, through lapse
and strife
Till the great human soul complete her span
Beneath the waves OF storm that lash and
burn.
The currents Of bind passion that appalI,
To listen ard keen watch till we discern
The tide of sovereign truth that guides 1t
all:
So to add eas cur spirits to the height.
And so c..une them TO the valiant whole,
That the great light be clearer for our light
And the great soul the stronger for our
To have done this is to have lived. though
Remember us with no familiar name
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

From Current Literature.
1t appears that at an elementary eXamna-
ton in English, lately held in school near
the city. two sentences were given out to
be corrected By the younger scholars The
first sentence vas to be corrected as to it's
subject matter; the second as to its syntax.
These were the sentences:
The hen has three legs.
Who done It?
When the papers were handed in 1t was
found that one of the examines had regard
ed the sentences as subtly connected in
thought. for his answer was as follows:
The hen didn't done it; God done it.
In kindergarten for Russian children in
Cincinnati recently. the teacher asked s.
year-o,d to step up front and sing several
verses of a familiar school melody At the
end of the first verse the teacher noticed
that the child had a bad cold said: LEO.
you may take your seat, you are a little
hoarse" Immediately come the response
from the youngster: "No, ma am, Use not a
little horse, Use little boy
A little girl told her mamma the story Of
Adam and Eve. "Dod He made Adam, and
He put him i'm big garden, an Adam he
was so, so lonesome; n then He putted him
to sleep, He die; m then He took out his
brains ard made a woman Of the brains,
n then Adam he wasn't lonesome no more -
The name of Mot.sr Gooses husband was
Isaac Goose, and her rhymes we first print
ed by her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet, print
er, in Boston.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
STATUES OF WOMEN.
Feminine Vanity and Feminine Phil

Feminine Vanity and Feminine Phil
anthrOpy Keep Them Scarce.
Sarah Beaumont Kennedy, Of Memphis,
Tenn. assigns two reasons for the universal
dearth of women's statues. The first she
believes to be feminine vanity, the second
she curiousy enough declares to be feminine
philanthropy.
Statues not very fattering, she thinks.
and women naturally protest against a blair
ing delineation of their features. That women
are so philanthropic that they prefer to have
the money turned into charitable or educa-
tional institutions is open to question.
The writer mentions the women who have
been honored by statues. To her list, how
ever. should be added the name of Frances
Willard, whose image is soon to have place
in Statuary hal.
In Europe busts of regning queens and
women of royal birth are not rare, says Mrs.
Kennedy. but few women have been thus hon
ored because of public appreciation for some
deed performed or sacrifice made
In America the number is limited to two.
In New Orleans there stands a statue raised
by a grateful people to the memory of the
transformations Irishwoman known to the
world as Margaret" She it was who gave
the children made orphans by the fever an
asylum, and daily in the dark days of the
peSLllenc6 drove ner DreaQ cart through the
streets, giving its contents free of charge to
her starving townsfolk To the eyes of the
hungry crowd she was an angel of deliver
ance. Little did she dream when doing what
she conceived to be a simple duty that her
homey figure would one day be copied by
the sculptor and become the cynosure of
passing generations. The other statue of a
woman is at Concord, N. H., and is colos-
sal figure of the pioneer heroine Hannah
Dustan, who, with the Spartan courage Of
colonial days, slew her savage captors with
her own hand rather than submit to the
cruelties of an Indian bondage. The toma-
hawk in her hand tells an eloquent story of
the perils of those trying times. 1t is not
everybody who. like Margaret" of New Or
leans, can have two memorals-the orphan
asylum she herself founded and the statue
dedicated to her by citys gratitude.
Three we'll known women who passed away
last year to have monuments of this
benefceEt nature; the alumnae of Vassar col
lege to fill an alcove with works of art
as model study for pupils in memory of
Reubena Walworth who lost her life as nurse
during the late war; the Daughters of the
Confederacy will add wing to the Georgia
Industrial college, at Milledgeville, in loving
tribute to Winnie Davis. and the friends of
Nine. Romero. the American wife of the
Mexican minister and one of the most be-
loved women of Washington, will furnish
and endow in her honor a room In the Gar
field Memorial Hospital. Here are three mon
uments that must commend themselves to all
people.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

out Of the Baltic sea recently. there wera
distinctly visible in its interior a small SOUR
rel-fur, teeth and claws intact
Ministers Of Melbourne advertise in the
papers against each other for the patrona ge
OF engaged couples. One minister offers to
combine to3ather loving couples for los Cd. an
other for Is Cd, and so on down to Is Cd IN
some cases wedding breakfasts and rings are
supplied
The Chinese matchmaker or "go-between"
is very important factor in domestic life,
tie Keeps watchful eye that he may find
suitable husbands for the daughters of his
"'quaihealces' ana then approaches the
parents with due circumspection as well as
good deal of tact and diplomacy. To the
FAMILY OF the young man he narrates the good
quantities.. beauty and amiabity of certain
young girl; then he makes a visit tn the
lalhef ana dwelis upon the riches learning
ana wisdom Of a youth he knows. IF he
hnds both sides willing to consider the ouas-
ZION he plies back and forth between tben,
WIN all the eagerness Of man anxious to
drive good bargain.
He knows that If he succeeds he will oet
d NICE little fee from each family. and so he
pants the many charms of the young connie
in glowing terms. He is not ALWAYS run
1ui, and ofttimes the bridegroom. who IL nor
allowed to see his future wife before tho
ceremony, finds that after the red cloth .n5
ven are removed he is married to an upIv
woman These instances of bad faith on
the part OF the 'go-between" are fortunately
rare. and usually he exhibits much discretion
IN ms matings. A frequent sight to be met
with IN the narrow little Chinese streets ia
PRIDE in her sedan chair of crimson and
soio' hung with garands of flowers, bein.
borne to the home of the husband she has
never seen. The attendants beat loudly upon
III ulils ana ton-tom1 and fire off innumerable
crackers but even that din does NOT drew
the shriii waiting of the unhappy bride
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
CATCHING THE COBRA.
HOW Music Is Employed to Attract
and Quiet the ReDtiIe

ana quiet the Reptile
The cobra is passionately fond of music
and is no mean critic thereof. AS ruIe u
only hears the bagppe, but If there be anv
instrument which 1t loves more than another
IL is the violin. 1t is this amiable weakness
that sometimes renders it positive danger
to the musical householder in India =
By reciprocity of causation this love of NIL
SIC IN the cobra works for its own destruc
tion. For, If cobra takes up its abode in
the nelghborhood OF dwelling ho1ae. it Is
customary to send for couple of professional
snake charmers. One Of them strikes IN q
tune near the place where the cobra Is sun
posed to be. No matter what the creatur q
may be doing at the time-even ir il ba out
visiting, SO to speak, at some neighboring
house-it is soon attracted by the music. II
energies slowly from it's hiding place and
strikes up an attitude in front of the plaver
There it is kept engaged with the music
till the other man gradually creeps behind
with handful of fine dust At convenient
moment, when the cobra is standing motion
less, this man suddenly throws the dust over
the head and eyes of the snake. ImmediateIv
he cobra falls it's full length upon the ground
for one brief second. But that second is
enough. Like lightning fiash-nay. with
one and the same motion with which he cast
the dust-he seizes 1.-THE PROSTATE cobra nv
the neck just below the head. In fierce anger
the snake winds and winds it's body round
the arm of its captor but to no purpose It
cannot turn it's head to bite
III 1t be desirable to extract the fangs at
once, the captor presses his thumb on the
throat of the cobra, and thus compes it to
open its mouth; then the fangs are drawn
with pair Of pincers If, however, the op-
orator desires to keep the snake intact for
the present, the late musician offers his aid
and, forcibly unwinding the coils, places the
body of the cobra in a basket, all but the
head (Which is still held by the other mani.
and presses down the lid to prevent the cobra
from wriggling out. Then suddenly the cap
tor thrusts the head in and bangs down the
lid.-Wide World Magazine,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
LITERARY GOSSIP.

1.-THE Stone Creek Wreck: Modern
Will-o'- the-Wisp," by w. F. Combs. we'll
known railway official will prove interesting
to all persons in the railway service. Start
ling in fact, exciting in detail-it presents to
the reader a pen picture of one Of the deep
crimes of modern times and reveals a plot
for the destruction of life and property, as
we'll. In the story is contained a description
Of the desolate scene where the wreckers per-
formed their hellish deeds, with Illustrations
showing the result of their work; their cap
ture, trial, conviction and sentence to life
imprisonment, and an appendix. The book
also contains synopsis of the evidence on
the trials of the accused, and speeches Of
counsel-the latter alone worth the price of
the book. 1t is fully illustrated F. Tenny-
son Nicely, publisher, New York and London.
A book about Rudyard Kipling just at this
time will be q novelty. Will NJ. Clemens has
written, under the title "a Ken Of Kipling."
volume containing the story Of Kipling 9
career, an appreciation Of his work. ac-
count Of forgotten interview with Mark
Twain and choice collection of Kipling anec-
dotes. "A Ken Of Kip4ing" Is announced for
immediate publication by the New Arnster-
dam Book company:
The mark Twain Story Book soon to
be issued by F. Tennyson Nicely, will tell thu
story Of Marks life in Vienna during the
past three years. The book will contain a
verbatim copy of Twain's famous speech in
German, delivered before the Vienna Press
club, and which convulsed the whole OF
Europe with laughter r.
A popular history of Germany. from Its
discovery by the Romans to the present day,
will soon be issued by Lothrop Publishing
company. Germany Her People and Their
Story" is, the title 1t is in every sense Il
popular story. The author is Augusta Hale
Clifford, wife of Hon. George Clifford United
States consul at Basic, and sister to Senator
Eugene Hale of Maine
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

D. Rem Budd when under the influence Of
hashish.
Besides this weird story the book contains
five others. r. r. Fenno & Co., New York;
St. Paul Book and Stationery company.
Alfred Smythe strikes the key note Of his
novel. entitled Ivan Hoff. or the New Faust. I"
in his predatory declaration that nothing is
impossible" 1t Is sort of warning to his
readers that he is not to be handicapped by
realities. and the warning Is timely, for the
author does not handle possibilities with
gloves. Lowell. Coryell Co., New York.
st. Paul Book and Stationery company
Cloth; price. 81; paper. 50 cents.
Musings of Morn" by Junus L. Hemp
stead, is little volume Of wholesome verse;
whose tone is elevating and often spirited.
The book is bound in cloth and published by
F. Tennyson Nicely. New York; st. Paul
Book and Statinoery.
Anthony ]. Drexel Biddle reads the public
healthful sermon In his Flowers Of Life"
From plant life he infers the aim of the hui
man being to be the development of the good
that is absorbed into the fruit of noble deeds.
And there is much good to be gathered"
he adds, that If all men reproduced but a
$1,000 -
world would then become the Towering gar
den Of paradise" Drexel Biddle. Philadel-
phia; st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany.
"Ezekiel's Sin" is Cornish romance by j.
H. Pearce, author of "Eli's Daughter and
"Inconsequent Lives 1t Is a. cloth-bound
volume of 297 pages. and is published by
George H. Richmond & Son, New York. st.
Paul Book and Stationery company
The story of Evangelina Cisneros is familiar
to us all, but, Notwithstanding the fact that
the has dissipated the Cuban halo, this
book containing the story Of Evangelina as
told by herself. has subtle attraction.
1t is handsomely bound and superbly IL
Illustrated, and can be had for $1.00 from the
Continental Publishing company. New York.
or from the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
An entertaining story, with bearings in the
South before the Civil war, is that entitled
ION the Winning Side" by Jeanette H.
Walworth, author of "Uncle Scipio," Dead
Mems Shoes and Bar Sinister"
1t Is a cloth bound volume Of PSI pages
published by R. F. Fenno & Co., New York;
St. Paul Book and Stationery company.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
The Indians of Ecuador.

The most of the Indian Of Ecuador are
semi civiiized. We have, it is estimated,
about 100000 Indians in the United States
Ecuador has $4,000 Indians in total popu-
lation Of 1250,oO0, the remainder of the in
habitants being made UP of COO whites
and about 600 people of mixed races or
crosses of the whites and negroes with the
Indians. Tho whites the ruling class
They are the government, the wealth. the
brains, the Ecuador that we know in bus.-
ing population. They are thriftless and seem
to have little spirit or ambition Their high
est idea of Pleasure is plenty of liquor, and
the Ecuadorian smile" is as common as
the drink of Ame-ica.--Globe Year Book ard
Almanac
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

The sudden and untimely death of the Can
adam poet. Archibald Lampman, gives the
following poem from his pen the tone of a
conscious farewell. The lines appear in the
March Atlantic Monthly under the title 1.-The
Largest Life
l lie upon my bed and hear and sec
The moon is rising through the eIistenine
trees
And momently great and sombre breeze.
With a vast voice returning fitfuiy,
Comes like deep-toned grief, ard stirs in
me,
Somehow, by some inexplicable art,
sense of my souls strangeness. and ITS
part
In the dark march of human destiny
What am l. then, and what are they that
pass :
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
New Publications.

Short Rations," by Williston Fish. SIPS
Harper & Bros. New York city st. paul
Book & Stationery company. St Paul
Ragged Lady" by w. ID. Howells S175
Harper & Bros. New York city st. Paul
Book and Stationery company st. Paul
Phillip" biographical edition of Thackeray.
$i.fa Harper & Bros, New York city
81. Pau. Book and Stationery company
st. Paul.
Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth
barrett" vols. S. Harper & Bros.
New York city. st. Paul Book and Sta
tionery company. st. Paul.
'Ricroft of Withens." by Halliwell Sutclife
D. Appleton G. Co.. New York city. St.
Paul Book and Stationery company. St.
Paul
1.-THE Scapegoat" by Hall Game s1.50. D.
Appleton & Co.. New York city. st. Paul
Book and Stationery company. St Paul.
MEN and Women by Robert Browning. so
o cents. Tho Macmillan company New
York city. st. Paul Book and Stationery
company St Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

never was a time when her services were
more of safeguard and necessity than
now, when we have not only our native
crooks to deal with, but those of all nations
Then the standard of living has risen, and
the rage for lavish appointment seems to act
a stimulant to make normally honest peo-
pie lose their heads. We could no more do
without a detective in this store than we
could do without a model to show our
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
Harshness Va. brains

When it comes to be realized by. the great
majority of lEhe universe that severity and
harshness are usually the result of poverty
of intellect that fails to comprehend human
nature, and that charity. sympathy, gentle
ness and good feeling are the sure fruits, not
only of ktadly heart. but of an educated
brain, long step will haye been taken to-
wards the increase of human welfare and
happiness-Self-Cult
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
MARCH MAGAZINES.
THE CORNHILL.

The Queens Twin" by Miss Sarah Orne
Jewett
The Buckingham Letters" XXXVI.-XLIy.
Little Holland House."
A West-Country Wit" by Sir Robert Edg
cumbe
g. ihe Flying Squadron" by E. and H. Heron.
summer Trip to Chinese Thibet" by
~, Mrs. Archibald Little ~
.. SSn.iment and 'Feelin'.'" by M. e. Francis
ESeannn IrTTo re-, Of DANTE by Miss
at me ne, Humours OF School Inspection"
Anna ma Mark Chapters, VI-X., by
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
ODD AND INTERESTING.

The number Of two-cent stamps issued
last year by Uncle Sam was about $500, OO0,-
coo. An ordinary two-cent stamp is exact
ly one inch long, that the number of
stamps of this denomination issued in 1898,
placed end to end, would extend a distance
considerably exceeding $4,000 miles In other
words, they would make continuous strip
of stamps stretching in a belt more than
once and half around the world
In big mass of seiear amber, dredged up
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05

Western plains. and the man who carried ON /,
his watch the crest of the Hamiltons and thu
F1Ghes. one In the way they had met delth
Just as during life they had been one I'm
their Caring and their loyalty.-From '.The
Rough Riders. by Col Theodore Roosevelt.
in the March Scribner's.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
ALONG THE SHELVES.

"The Queerest Man Alive" by George H.
Epworth, was an adjustable creature, who by
an accident pulled himself out to the length of
eight feet and half, and then, by another
accident, telescoped himself into a man three
and half feet tall. 1t should be explained
that this being existed only in the mind of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
AMERICAN MONTHLY

IH1ItIOaN MUNTHLY.
The Progress of the World"
record CT Current Events"
current History in Cartoons"
President Faure." A sketch
MAJ; Gen. Elwell Stephen Otis" W. G.
Church " O'
philippine Types and characteristics y
The Native Population of the PbSinni,o., >.
Juan Caroy Mora. IN pp'neS'
Hayes Ward "i44@aih
some Young Cuban Leaders in Cuban Re-
:. construction George Reno.
An 1od american Farmers Balance Sheet for
..,, 1898, Frank II. Spearman -''
characteristics of Middle Western I.ftsra-
ture." johnson Burgham -1''o'" ~
Leading Articles of the Month.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
TO Exchange.
20 Words or Less, 2Oc

20 Words or Less, GOO
TO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of seven-room
house. and upright piano, and cooking
utensils; will put some cash in small house
and lot. K 107, Globe.
TO EXCHANGE-24 lots. Great Falls. Mont.
for stock of goods. shoes. cigars, clothing,
preferred: what have you? consideration,
$1,000 Address Room s. 351 North Franklin
TO EXCHANGE-Patent window screen of
five counties in Minnesota, exchange for
small house and lot, and will put some
cash. 10S Globe.
TO EXCHANGED acres clear. near Seat
tie to exchange for small house and lot,
or half lot. Mackay & Allen, 201 Endicott
Bldg.
WANTED-Young man to take board in ex-
change for dentistry. 376 North Franklin.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
Business Personals.
20 Words or Less, eOc.

20 Words Less, 2Oc.
VARICOCELE. SEXUAL WEAKNESS AND
all nervous and private diseases cured
Call or address Room FOG, Merrill Building
st. Paul. MINI. Cases treated by mail.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
THE INTERNATIONAI,

A1 A-f IlONAI
The Isle Of Romance-Martinioue" I.u,,o,
D. Kelsey.
The Beginnings of Photographic sciepce ..
T. w. Bankes.
ALLOWABLE" Edith Brewer.
Love" Otto RoQuette.
Captain Satan-The Adventures of cvroro
Illustrated 'O0N'iHueuJ
Eieven Months in Mexico and Central Amer
t 1 Conciuded) Illustrated. Lambert
sea ndinavian Affairs" julius Moritzep
orton's Rip Van Wrinkle" Frederick John
son Burnett 'Oin
Lftie Jerry Cochran-A Sketch of Garrison
"a Woman in Washington. . Emiiv NJ r. Ku
vert. Illustrated ~ " MI
london Letter." ]. Pope Manuel.
,,r Paris Letter." Alys ballard.
In Other Magazines" DR.. R. Warren Co
nant. e" ~"
Current Words" A T. H. Brewer.
Editorials"
Book Reviews"
international Magazine Course in French
Lesson L." Prof Max Maury.
international Magazine Course in Snan;sb
Lesson TX" Prof Luis Perez.