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The age-herald., 1900-05-13
South African Movements.

Lord Roberts army is approaching Kroonstad and a relief force is nearing
 MafelSing. General Butler has awakened
 from torpor acquired at the lords of the
 Tugela, and altogether affairs are looking
 blue from a Boer viewpoint The Boers
 do not seem to be strong enough to offer determined resistance to the advance northward of Lord Roberts heavy forces.
 In the Ladybrand district there .s, how ever a force of Boers who may yet cut the long line of communication that the British are compelled to depend upon. The Boer force back of Thaba N'Chu is thought to consist of several thousand men. These men would not be withheld from the defence of Pretorie if important work had not been assigned them. They arc confronted by at least an equally strong British force but the Boers, mount ed fully acclimated horses are much more mobile than the British. The situa- tion in the Ladybrand district deserves at tention on the part of all who are watch ing the contest, which is in many respects a remarkable one.
 The probability of a heavy pitched battle grows less and less each day as the war is prolonged. The Boers are not nlimeri- caly strong enough to desire such con- test, and the British are so strong that they prefer turning operations to assaults. The Boers thus forced back without inflictng or incurring heavy losses. Thus far they have saved supply trains and guns, and they are still in a condition that renders stubborn opposition possible in the difficult country near the Vaal river. The
 si.ytahce from Ixoonstad to the river that separates the two republics is not great and the scene of war will doubtless soon be shifted to the lords of that stream In low water periods it is fordable at many places. Its present condition is not &C., known. but it is known that much rain is falling in the early winter weather.
 During the week just ended Lord Sails bury, speaking before the Primrose League, of which he is the grand master, stated that Lord Roberts is engaged 'in to obedience to the queen those territories which ought never to have been released. and to restoring in South Africa the only chance it has of peace develop ment and tranquility This means that the two republics are to be wiped off the map if Lord Roberts should be successful in his present capAaign. The government on other terms can come only as a result of military success. on the part of the Boers
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
BRYAN IN THE SILVER STATES

Wash. Cor of the Chicago Tribune.
 There is no change to speak of in the silver sentiment in the silver producing states" said ex-Senator Dubois today and Bryan will carry them by substantially the same majorities as in 1896. The chances for republican success in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana are less than they are in Ar kansas The contest will be a bitter one in Oregon. California Washington and Wyo- ming, and the result will be doubtful. No one is considered as possible nominee Tor the presidency in the states west of the Missouri river excepting Mckinley by the republicans and Bryan by the reform parties."
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
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is a God There was no call to deal with such question. Browning gave no answer, save only a glance from his luminous eyes, to the young knowall who passed judgment upon Shakespeare The philoropher had nothing to ask of Alexander except that he screen not the sunshine. Godlessness callowness and vanity may go their ways The world will bask in the light of its own happiness. The frowning and the ill-nat- ured may be left to pursue their particu- lar roads to the devil. Rational men and women will be glad of heart, laughter-lov- ing, hopeful, helpful, joyous There is no time for snarlng, snapping, sneering, or whining. There is enough laughter for the joyous, enough to challenge the smile Of heaven and shame all the frowns that dis disfgure the faces of the self-righteous.
 There was never yet virtue that did not give forth gladness and beget gladness. It is the eternal law of compensation. It is measure for measure. It is grace for grace, love for love, the gift of God. A man may be rude, uncfvil' dis courteous, grossly lacking in tact, and ex- cuse is sought for him in the plea that it is his way" Confound his '"way' when 1t so transcends his right! It may be his way to violate every law of the decalogue and every rule of decency and good fellowship. but God and man have forbidden him, and he shall not so transgress and then hide himself behind his way" To the prison with him, to the hangman, to the devil! Of all the abominable persons that affiict the earth the most abominable Is he who d. ways "says what he thinks as he would expless himself. Put no trust in such q man He will steal from. you, slanler you, or make you unhappy. He is much the sort Of man who prays in public and pliers in privacy; who robs laborers, and op- presses the widow and the orphan who pays a weeks wage for months toll. He is one of the workers of iniquity who are hurrying to that hellfre prepared for the devil and his angels.
 It Is well that we consider these truths concerning unhappy men and women They constitute the shadow against which virtue shines resplendent. By humility, gentle ness, truth and love shall one find joy in this world and peace in the eternal after while. The chubby little hand of a baby cooing upon its mothers breast baffies all hate and rebukes all sin The prattle of a little child is humanitys precious prayer to the Master; it's laughter is chorus to the songs of angels; it's trust is the fullfilment of the blessedest promise, the answer to the souls supplication to the Infinite. It's touch upon the strings of life makes melody of immea sureable sweetness, drowning with divine tenderness every artieulate cry of wickedness that ever arose to defy truth. viee, affrighted and ashamed, falls back from the wondrous burst of childhood's happy laughter. and the world takes heart of that blessed grace! Joy bells ring when children sing.
 Ah, beloved, thou art blessed if a little child shall lead you.
 THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
,Hs ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Rnnks of Twenty Years.

Professor William P. Trent, of the uni- verslty of the South. at sewanee, Tennes- see. discusses in the Dial the books Of twenty years He finds none that promise to outlive the productions of Lowell, or Hawthorne or Poe, or Longfellow, written in the previous twenty or thirty years. He might have added Bryant or Whittier to his list of dead and gone giants, whose works live after them.
 Professor Trent reaches his conclusion by making a list of 150 living American au- thors and he found no work from their pen that promises to outlive, or even to live side by side with "The Scarlet Letter. or "rhe Bigelow Papers," or the poems of Poe or Longfellow. His list of 15o included the names of twenty-seven poets twenty seven critics, sixty-seven noyefsts, nine teen historians, and ten miscellaneous writers. One-fifth of the list consisted of women. Two-thirds of the number live in the north and east and one-third In the south and east. The list has been de- stroyed, and Professor Trent declines to print it; but it is fair to presume that 1t contained every name that has any chance for future fame of even fifty years.
 The age is very productive of books, and their even excellence is promising, but among them no towering height appears. Mark Twain will be read many years after he has been gathered to his fathers-with apologies to the late campaign-and "The Rise of Silas Lapham'' will not be soon con signed to undisturbed shelves; but no one is inclined to place them among the immor tals There is a leveling-up in literature, and the plane is now so elevated that writer must be an epoch-maker; a genius, indeed, who rises securely above it. Lit erary honors are nowadays well distrib
 uted. No section, no country, monopolizes them, and no literary lion walks the earth in indisputable strength and acceptance. This is the case in England as well in this country. The leveling-up spirit of the age has been felt in literature, in other words, and the days of the giants may be numbered. At any rate a giant hereafter must be a giant indeed.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
REFLECrIONs OF A BACHELoR

From the New York Press. C,
 Even a woman who won't lie about her age will lie about her hair curling natur- ally.
 If the hero in play married the girl for her money and the william was really in love with her, the women would all say it wasn't true to life.
 No woman is really truthful You never saw a woman who wouldn't lie if she thought the truth would hurt mans feel ings that she liked.
 Most women would rather have their hus- bands fix the fiower-beds than hire some body to do it, because they know man all ways digs better when he's mad.
 The women claim to be able to tell right away whether a neighborhood- is healthy. The way they do 1t is to see whether the doctors house has got lace curtains or not.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
HYDROPHOBIA
Prominent Young Man of Centreville
 Suffers Terrible Death
fernal liar

Centreville, May 12.-(Special.)-F. S. Gardner a prominent young man of this place, died here today of hydrophobia. A dog bit him about five weeks ago, but little attention was paid to 1t at the time. On Monday of this week the young man showed symptoms of hydrophobia, and from that time he grew worse until death re- lfeved him of his sufferings Everything possible was done for him, but without avail He~leaves wife and young child His terrible death has cast a gloom over the entire community.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Iolal ....s. .............2i6
 In order to have two-thirds of the con- vention he needs 611 and he already has nearly half of that number. The demo- cratic national committee recently estl- mated Mr. Bryans vote at 800 out of the 935 votes that will make up the convention at Kansas City: but as no delegate has been selected who will vote against Mir Bryan, there is no reason to believe any will be. Some delegations will not, how ever, be instructed. The big New York delegation may not be instructed, but its members and all other uninstrueted dele gates will be found at Kansas City in the Bryan army Never has the free choice of a great party been so clear and unmis- takeable Never in the history of the coun- try has a man without power of office or money won so many devoted followers as Mr. Bryan has done. He will enter upon presidential campaign this year with the popular heart and the democratic party be- hind him, and victory in November must follow if the people of America are still free and sovereign.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
THE MURMUR
 OF THE WORLD

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to tn observer, doth thy history Fully unfold:-Thyself, and thy belongings, Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as with torches
 do,
 Not light them for themselves for if our
 virtues
 Did not go forth of us 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
 WhoSoeVer keepeth not blosSoming in the soul the white flower of gentle court esy shall tread in loneliness the way of bitterness and vain longing. Whosoever fails to nurture the spirit of human kind ness and human love shall be denied all the sweeter notes of human happiness, and shall walk in weariness and without con- fadeship the shadowy path of sorrow lead ing to the potters' field of the unregretted. The mournfuest figure in the worlds mul- titude is that man or that woman who wears the black badge of hate, envy, cov- etousness. uncharitableness, and who joins a sheer to smileless resentment against the light of life that radiates from love and laughter They are lepers who charge their thoughts with i'll. their hearts with malice, their tongues with bitterness, their hands with wrongful deeds. They poison at noontime and befoul in the darkness, and they leave their damned trail, like a serpent's winding mark, in garden that God has blessed. In them childhood's hap py voice breeds vicious dreams, and loves old sweet song pestilential passion
 PitiabIe beyond all measure of pity is the man and woman grown old before their time in loveless selhshness, saying bitter speeches that sting, believing wrong fulness that hurts, doing deeds that wound They are a perversion of truth, q deformity of nature, repugnant figures in a world-picture of virtue. They are sister and brother to the furies and nanservant and handmaid to the hopeless. They are the living denfa1s of beauty and the slan- derers of the righteous They arc shadows on the cradle, pals upon the altar; and where the orange blossoms blow they would entwine weeds that are, noisome They would drive the flush from the maid ems cheek and upon the white throat of love make the mark of the dagger They would stifle the exultant shout of youth, and see joy die in its birth would deny the bliss of the bride and the unsearchable glory of the mother, and toothless and furious they would wind their gaunt arms about the radiant forms of human happi- ness and see the IoveIight die in the gloom of their own imaginations.
 
 This beautiful fife is too brief, its flying moments too sweet and precious to waste upon mortals given over to bitterness and hardness of heart, joyless laushterless smileless men and women who greet not your gentle hail with kind good morrow Life is too short!" said the priest to the wise fool who demanded proof that there
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
Smallpox at Athens

Athens, May 12-(Special)-The first case of smallpox that has been in Athens in ten years was discovered last night by, the county health officer, who was sent for to visit negro woman who was i'll in a cabin on the lot of William Hughes, railroad man, in this place. As soon as he made an examination of the sick woman he pro- nounced it genuine case of smallpox and hung out the yellow flag.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
The walking delegate is king of St. Louis
HOW CRIPPLE CREEK GOT ITS NAME

From Scribner's for May.
 It was the cattle men who gave 1t the name which now figures in the stock quo- tatfons. There are dozen traditions, but the best authenticated Is the story or d cowboy whise bronco baked at the Jump ing of a rivulet; baked and stumbled ana fell breaking a leg for itself and one for it's rider. There was no surgeon nearer than Colorado Springs and the rough anatomical carpentry of his mates made cripple for life of the unlucky range rider. Wherefore he named the rivulet Cripple creek and the rivulet has named the re- gion
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

John w. Gates and President Lambert have met the expectations of the country, and especially of their own stockholders, by resigning. Gates has shaken the dust should rejoice thereat.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

What is wanted now Is arnaor plate that soft-nosed shell cannot penetrate. Krupp armor is not equal to the unaccus- toned impact.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

St. Louis people are trying pedestrian ism on large scale, and the health of the town will soon rise superior to even Chicago microbes
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Tim Woodruff is awaiting the decision of the white house caucus. and he is wear ing his best weskit in honor of the occa- sion.
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Tho queens birthday occurs May 2i, and the British army may celebrate it on the north side of the Vaal river
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Uncle Sam may be waiting to accumu- late stock of soft-nosed shells before he collects that bill from the Turk
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The sultan is wasting money in repairs of his warships. They have been idle alto gether too long to be useful now against the American navy.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

PaderewslSi has decided to make another farewell tour of this country next season. He Is trying to beat the Petit record.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Young Dick Yates backbone has not yet been tested but if he becomes governor of Illinois 1t will be.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

The tired business man in St. Louis is putting a good deal of his energy now-a- days into his legs.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Illinois Tanners defeat seems to please the general public as much as Senator Morgan's success did.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Wharton Barker's long record as re- publican does not commend him to popu- lists down this way.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Philadelphia is still endeavoring to raise the balance of the money promised to MT. Mark Hanna.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

NIT. Yates, the son of his father, had @ few delegates only ill the Illinois repub-
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

The judges of the hall of fame may con elude to reserve wall space for their own illustrious selves
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nean convention. but luck was on his side when the Haneey breakup occurred. He is not forty years old.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13
KaHSas City Delegations.

All things democratic are turning towards William Jennings Bryan as the man of the
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

John ". Gates nerve failed him at the last moment.
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

The ,armor plate combine despise soft nosed she'll
The age-herald., 1900-05-13

The street fair is next in the procession of events.
 Ig. Donnelly is great in ciphers and poli- tics.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-17
YANG TsUN FALLS.

chaffes Reports the Occupation of An
other City by the Allies.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-The follow
ing dispatch has been received at the
war department from General Chaffee,
sent via Che Foo:
yang Tsun, Aug. 6.-Yang Tsun
occupied today. Casualties about go
men, Ninth United States infantry;
Fourteenth United States infantry and
Battery F, Fifth United States artil-
lery. Nearly all from Fourteenth in
fantry. Names later. Many men pros
trated heat and fatigue"
The following dispatch relating to the
fall of Yang Tsun was received by the
signal officer of the army here:
"Che Foo, Aug. 9.-Yang Tsun cap.
tured Aug. 6. Wire up. Need own
transportation. All we'll"
Yang Tsun is the town which Gen.
eral Chaffee indicated in his dispatch as
being the objective of the international
forces on their then pending movement
It is at the junction of the Pei Ho and
the railroad leading to Pekin. Its cap
ture will insure to the international
troops, it is hoped, two routes of trans
portation to Pekin. 1t is IT'S miles
from Tien Tsin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-17
TOO MUCH BOOZE.
Beer Flowed Too Freely Friday For
Some People.

A large section of the population of
Mankato and the surrounding country
cut loose Friday and filled up with
Standard Brewing Co. beer. Extra
police were on duty during the after
noon and evening, yet in was found
necessary to make only four arrests.
Officer Morrow arrested a stranger
armed with Ratchet at about ten
O'Clock that night. The fellow started
to pull the Ratchet from his belt, but
the officer got the drop on him and he
threw up his hands he gave his name
as VIM. Brown in the police court this
morning and refused to plead guilty
to disorderly conduct and was given
thirty days in Jail for drunkenness.
Two strangers who were drunk were
locked up, and it was necessary to turn
the hose on one of them to shut off the
stream of profanity that poured from
his mouth. The other was hatless and
shoeless. They were given an hour tc
leave the city next morning, on penalty
of being put to work on the stone pile.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-17
July 6-13-2O-27 Aug. 3-1O,-17
MORTGAGE EOREETOSURE SAIL

MORIGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.
Default has been made in the condition of a
certain mortgage dated March 1st, 1895, execut-
ed by William Sanger, bachelor, to Myron G.
Willard recorded in the office of the'Register of
Deeds of Blue Earth county Minnesota, on the
9th day of July, 1895, at 10 80 O'Clock a M, in
book 80 of Mortgages, on page ATT, which mort
gage was duly transferred by said Myron G..
Willard to Alice M. Dibble and C. H Dibble
by written assignment, dated July 10th, 1895,
which was recorded in said Register of Deeds
office the same day at :45 p. m. in book AZ of
Mortgages on page 1T, which mortgage was
given to secure the payment of three promissory
notes. dated March LIST, 1895, one for 500 due
November LIST, 1895 one for 500 due November
LIST, 1895; and one for $500, due March 1st, 1900,
all given for purchase money of the following
described land, with interest payable annually
at eight per cent per annnm, and there is at the
date of this notice due and claimed to be due
on said notes and mortgage the sum of five
hundred and twenty-five dollars, and there is
stipula ted in said mortgage to be paid as solic-
itor's fees in case of foreclosure the sum of
thirty dollars, and no proceeding or suit at law
has been instituted to recover said debt, and
said mortgage contains power of sale and the
undersigned attorney has been empowered to
foreclose said mortgage.
Therefore notice is hereby given that by virtue
of said power of sale and of the laws of Mime
sofa, said mortgage will be foreclosed and the
lands therein described viz: the southeast
quarter of the northwest quarter of section
thirty two, in township one hundred and seven
north of range twenty-seven west, lying and be-
ing in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, will be
sold by the sheriff of said county at public auc-
ton at the easterly front door of the Court
House in Mankato in said county. on the 18th
day of August, 1900, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, to satisfy the amount then due on said
notes and mortgage together with said solicit
or's fees and the expenses allowed by law.
ALICE M. DIBBLE,
@. II. DlBBLE,
Assignees of Mortgage.
NJ. u. WILLARD, Attorney for Assignees.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-17
Aug. 3-1C-17
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATORS

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
~ Earth, So. In Probate Court, Special
Term, July 9th 1900.
In the matter OF the estate of Henry
Mohr, deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of Gertrude
Mohr, of Mankato, Minnesota, representing
among other things that Henry Mohr, late
Of Blue Earth county, Minnesota, on the 9th day
of June A. ID. 1900, at the County of Blue
Earth, died intestate, and being an inhabitant
of this county al the time of his death, leaving
goods, chattels and estate within this county.
and that the said petitioner is the surviving
wife of said deceased, and praying that ad-
mipistration of said estate be to her said
Gertrude Mohr, granted.
1t is ordered, That said petition be heard be-
fore said court on Wednesday, the Goth day of
August, A. d. 1900 at 10 o'clock a. m, at
the probate Office in Mankato, in said county.
Ordered further. That notice thereof be given
to the heirs OF said deceased and to all persons
interested, by publishing this order once in
each week for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing, in the Mankato Free Press,
a weekly newspaper printed and published
at Mankato, in said county.
Dated at Mankato the 9th day OF July, A. D.
1900.
By the Court,
WIN. F. HUGHES,
[PRoBATE sEAL.l Judge of Probate.
Plan q Pfau Aft0rnavs for PatitiOnar
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-17
MONEY GARNlSHEED.

H. L. Schmitt has garnisheed $50
in the hands of D. G. Davies for attor-
neys fees due him from Thrams,
whose present whereabouts are un-
known Thrams arranged with his for
mer employer, A. R. Coates, to have
$3.50 that was due him paid over to
John Salfer from the insurance money
on Coates bicycle factory. Salfe1
had a claim of 500 against Thrams.
Mr.. Coates has garnisheed the money,
through w. r. Geddes. The courts
will have to decide who is entitled to
tn money.