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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10
HOPE FOR NEW ENGLAND.
Her Cotton Industry Is Not Injured
by Southern COmpe tition-Spin-
dies of the World.

There has been much talk of recen,
years of the growing manufacture OF
the cotton in the south. and it has even
been intimated that the increase in the
number of spindles in the south was a
menace to the industry in the north.
Undoubtedly there was apprehension
In Fall River or whereabouts six or
eight years ago, and some capitalists
felt the cotton manufacturing prop
erty in New England was doomed.
Such, however, was the fear of the
tirnid and easily scared. The cotton in
dustry in New England is likely to keep
on growing and to remain prosperous
so long as the world demands such a
tremendous quantity of cotton cloth.
Manchester. and the people of England
will feel the pinch of southern compe-
tition long before Fall River and Prov.
idence. But unquestionably the south
is to be congratulated on the brave
start that has been made in what is in
that section new industry. There are
100,CCo,000 spindles in the world. OF
. these 17,570,0 900 are in the United States
and 100000 are in the southern states.
So we see that while in the country 17h
per cent. of the cotton cloth of the
world is woven, that in the southern
states 20 per cent. of this is made. This
is more than beginning. 1t is brave
achievement. But it is silly and timid
to have fears for New England. New
England is thousands of miles nearer
the cotton fields than old England, and
old England last year made As per cent.
of the cotton cloth of the world, and in
continental Europe 81 1-3 per cent. was
made. Those are the fields upon which
the southern industry will encroach, il
it must encroach on any. But it is like
ly that the increased consumption OF
cotton cloth will always keep up with
the increase in the number of spindles.
There is no fear in the world--that il,
no reasonable fear-that New England
will not be able to look after HERSELF
John Gilmer Speed, in Ainslee's.
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PlNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Ehe--"I'm one of her oldest 2.iends.
He --"Ycu look like it," = Yonkers
Statesman.
do you keep forks here?" "Hay
bicycle or dinner?" inquired the up-to.
date hardware man.-Cycling Gazette
Askit-"Old Skinnem really lost all
| his money, didn't hep" Tellum-"Yes;
his bankruptcy was failure. '-Balti-
more American.
'She is certainly rising in the social
SCALE" ''Yes?" ''Oh, yes, indeed! She
is snubbed by better class of peoo ole
each succeeding year."-Dctroit Jour.
nal.
His State of MindI"Your bookke sp-
er is subject to fits of i'll humor, isn't
hep mo; but he has widely isola- ed
attacks of Chicago Rec
ord.
Mother-"What are you doing with
papa's hair restorer, Ethel?" willie
and l are going to make your moth
eaten muff as good as new."-Golden
Days.
Wiggins-"Whose umbrella is this?
1t looks like one i lost" Higgins-sI
don't see how it can, for scraped the
handle and altered it generally
State journal.
Harold" said the dear girl, Jam
the only girl?" Harold groaned invol-
unfairly. Am the only girl you ever
told she was the only girl you ever told
she was the only girl you ever loved p
indianapolis Press.
Il understand" said the neighbor
"that your husband is dramatic crit
ic.' NO. replied the little woman,
bitterly; ''he is even worse than that.
He is household critic" = Chicago
Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

The public schools of a certain New Eng.
land city have recently taken to an exact.
ing form of art. The pupils are placed be-
fore model and told to sketch as they see.
One day little girl was seated on chair on
the platform, and her classmates were given
the usual order. The results varied. Some
of the drawings looked like human being
in state of repose, Others like wooden dolls.
But one little girl had drawn the chair and
tiny figure standing in front of it.
MARY" said the discouraged teacher,
didn't l say: Draw Amelia as you saw
herg"
"Yes'm."
well, is she standing in front of tn
chair"
Nom. She's sitting in it."
."Then why didn't you draw her stting!"
Tears came into the child's eyes. She was
misunderstood
But hadn't got to it," she said. 81 was
just going to bend her down when you rama
the bell."-Youth's Companion.
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This led to an Investigation. and Il

This led to an investigation, and II
was found that the soil contained
more nitrogen than it did before grow
ing the clover. AS clover contains a
large amount of nitrogen, it could be
only accounted for by assuming that
the clover obtained its nitrogen in
some way from the air. AT first it was
thought that the clover obtained its
nitrogen from the air by means of its
leaves, but if this was the case, why
not ether plants obtain nitrogen in
the same way. Further investigation
showed that the clover got its supply
of nitrogen from the air by means of
microscopic organism which attach
themselves 10 the roots of clover and
certain other plants which constitute
what is known as the leguminous FAM
lily of plants, the mCst important of
which are the clovers, beans, peas, soy
beans, yetches and few others. These
plants will flourish on soil very poor
in nitrogen, provided it is rich in
phosphoric acid and potash.
The farmer may supply his soil
beautifully with this most costly ele-
nent of fertility by simply growing
any of the leguminous plants. He need
not turn the crop under in order to OBJ
tain this fertilizer, but may harvest
the crop and feed it to stock, and re-
turn the manure to the land, and thus
get the benefit of both its food and
it's fertilizer value. There is a vast
quantity of phosphoric acid and potash
in the subsoil which it too deep to be
reached by the roots of ordinary crops.
1t may he brought up and deposited
near the surface where it be reached
by ordinary crops by growing such
of the leguminous plants as send their
roots deep down into this subsoil. By
such means the former may greatly
improve his soil by purchasing only
enough commercial fertilizer to give
his crop of nitrogen gatherers a start.
The average farmer does not seem
to appreciate the value of the legumin-
GUS plants, and not until the value of
these plants are more generally
known and appreciated will our farms
improve materially in fertility. / have
often been asked whether q crop of
oats or of buclwheat turned under
would net answer the same purpose as
a crop of clover or cow peas.
1t will not be because these are nj
trogen consumers instead Of nitrogen
gatherers, and the soil will be little
if any improved by their use besides
the farmer runs great risk of souring
the land by turning under green crops
end thus seriously injuring instead of
improving his SOFIA. j. Legg, in Tri.
State Farmer and Gardener.
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ingredients in the corn meal, and even
looked at the Worcestershire sauce and

uSIculeuiS III the coIu meal, anu ever
looked at the Worcestershire sauce and
the cayenne pepper. He managed to
get the pan into the oven after 80 min
utes of exhausting labor, by which time
he was sight, as, in fact, was the whole
/ kitchen. Then Mr.. Jobson carefully
sharpened the bread knife and hunted
up the bacon. He cut off three half
inch-thick slices of the bacon with the
bread knife, incidentally gashing his
left forefnger pretty badly. After 60
ing upstairs and binding up his slith-
cred finger. he doggedly returned to
the job of getting his dinner.
"Might as well learn now as any
other time," he growled to himself. II
can see how things are going in this
camp, and the sooner 1 learn how to
hustle for myself, why"
Then Mr.. Jobson searched around for
ten minutes for the eggs before he con-
cluded to look for them in the ice box.
(He hadn't put any eggs in the corn
bread). Then he got the hugest pan
he could lay his hands to, put it on the
range, dropped about quarter of
pound of butter in it, threw the three
half-inch-thick slices of bacon into the
pan, and looked somewhat treasured
when he heard the sizzling and saw the
smoke. He cracked three eggs, break
ing them all in the operation, and
dumped them into the pan beside the
bacon. Then he went upstairs to get
another bandage for his cut finger.
When he returned to the kitchen the
coffee had boiled all over the range and
floor, the kitchen was full of smoke,
and the bacon and eggs were burned to
cinder. Mr.. Jobson set his jaw down
hard. He cut three more slices of
bacon and broke three more eggs, and
this time he watched the mess vigil
lantly. Then he set place for HIM
self at the dining-room table, and, in
just one hour and forty minutes after
he had started to get dinner for himself,
he sat down in state, with his sleeves
still rolled up to his elbows, and corn
meal paste all over his face, although
he didn't know this. When Mr.. job
son suddenly recollected the corn bread
in the oven, by the way, and got it out,
it was no more like corn bread than
plantains are like onions. 1t was of
about the same consistency as basalt.
Mr.. Jobson, however, set the pan be-
side him on the table, chopped into it
with great exertion, and partook of it
anyhow.
SIN no gutter" said he to himself,
doggedly, as he filed his teeth on the
weird corn bread.
Mr.. Jobson was wsding into his but
ter-cooked bacon and eggs, his alleged
corn bread, and his turbid coffee, when
he heard the click of the latch key in
the basement door. Mrs. Jobson had
seen the light in the basement, and
wondered greatly thereat.
When she stood in the frame of the
door and saw Mr.. Jobson,
corn meal paste from his chin to his
hair, solemnly partaking of his per-
meal and when
Mr.. Jobson saluted her in sepulchral |
tone with naughty good evening,
Jobson reeled toward |
the dining-room couch and rolled on
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10
Florida. West Indies and central Amer,c.

The facilities of the Louisville l. Nash.
vile Railroad for handling tourists and
Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, or for
Nassau, are unsurpassed. Double daily
lines Of sleeping cars are run from Cincin-
natl, Louisville, Chicago and st. Louis
through Jacksonville to interior Florida
points, and to Miami, Tampa and New
Orleans, the ports of embarkation for the
countries mentioned. For folders, etc., write
Geo. B. Homer d. p. A., st. Louis, Mo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10
LEGUMINoUs PLANTS.
The Real VALVE of Leguminous
Plants ~ Soil Enricher Grad
ually Becoming known.

1t Is only in recent years that the
value of seguminous plants as soil
enrichener became known. 1t had
keen noticed that land on which clover
bad grown the year before would pro-
d,ice better crop than it would be-
fcrc It ha5 been sown to clover.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

1t most men were as apt at starting bank
accounts as they are at starting arguments
the world would be full Of capitaIists.-Chi-
cago Dispatch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

New .Wife-"T wish to get some butter
please" Dealer-"Roll butter, ma'am? f
New Wife-"No! We wish to eat it on bis
cuits."-N. o. Times Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

Dropsy treated free by DIR. H. H. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists In the world Read their adver
tisemant In another column of this paper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

A bachelor says that widows weep not be-
cause of the loss of husband, but because OF
the lack of one.-Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
as Cough medicine.-F. M. Abbott, 38a
Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y, May 8, 1894.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

Satisfactory Definition Preferred cred.
itors are those that don't call too often.-
Kansas City Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

Explosions of Coughing are stopped By
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pikes's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

To Curs Cold IN One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money II 1t fails to cure. go,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

It isn't 50 easy to collect as to recolleci
what men owe you.-Chicago Dispatch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10
Alcoholic or Not.

Customer-My room is full of rats, and
mo or strychnine ?-Philadelphia Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

The Best Prescription for ChiIIs
and Fever is bottle OF GRovE's TAsrELEss
CHILL Tonic. tits simply iron and quininein
Gtasteless form. 10 cure mo nav PRICE sn~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-10

Venezuelan National Games.
The great national games Of vcue-
xpela are chess and checkers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26
TREASURER.

Lewis Davis, who has been deputy
county treasurer for six or seven years.
is the Republican candidate for treas
urer. In view of his sterling charac-
ter and his long experience in the
office the party feels that it has named
a man who will be endorsed at the
polls by rousing majority. Mr.
Davis is peculiarly fitted for the Office.
He is neat penman, a rapid account
ant, and understands the workings of
the Office like book.
Mr.. Davis was born in Wales, but
came to America with his parents
when one year old, and has resided in
Blue Earth county since he was five
years old. His father, who died four
years ago, settled in Judson, and the
young man lived there until he came
to Mankato to work in the treasurer s
office in 1891, when Peter LLOYD was
treasurer. He has remained in the
Office with Treasurer Ewing. MIR.
Davis has had to make his own way in
the world. He is young man of ex-
emplary habits and is thoroughly
trustworthy and competent to fill the
Office.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26

in 1862 He farmed for five years in
Medo and for ten years in Nicollet,
and has resided the balance of the
time in Mankato. He was one of the
genuine fighters of the civil war-one
of those who helped conquer the
south. He enlisted in the Thirty
Third Massachusetts, in April, 1862,
and served until the close of the war.
He participated in the campaign in
Virginia from soon after the seven
days fight under Mcclellan until
the battle at Gettysburg. Then he
joined Grant at Bridgeport, Alabama,
and was in his command at the battles
of Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge. He was in the expedition that
went to the relief of Burnside at
Knoxville, Tenn, and marched with
Sherman to the sea. At Resaca, Ga.
where his regiment lost one-fourth of
it's men in bitter fight, he was
wounded in the scalp.
Mr.. Kennedy is a genial, whole
souled man, popular with all who
know him, and --will no doubt be re-
elected by a goodly majority
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26

The election is now lees than two
weeks off, and the campaign will soon
draw to a close. Both parties are
putting forth earnest efforts for sue
cess, and it will be up to the people to
decide who shall fill the various
Offices The sober Judgment OF the
people is to be trusted, and therein
rests the safety of our form of govern
ment.
Both the Republican and Democrat
ic- county conventions placed excellent
tickets in nomination. The Free
Press would not disparage any one on
the Democratic ticket, and in what it
has to say in this article it does not
intend any of the remarks made in
reference to Republican candidates to
be taken as a comparison with or a
reflection upon the Democratic can
didates for the same offices. 1t does
feel, however, that the ticket which
the Republican county convention
named is exceptionally strong and in
every way worthy of the support of
the party and that the officials who
were re-nominated have the advantage
over others in that they are thoroughly
familiar with the workings of their
several offices and have passed the test
Of actual trial
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26
LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES.

Care in the selection of members of
the legislature should be exercised by
the votes of Blue Earth county, so as to
get its share of good things and have
a voice in the framing of general
legislation commensurate with it's size
and Importance. The legislature will
undoubtedly be Republican, .. and it
stands to reason. that. Republican mem
bers will be able to do more for their
constituents than members who belong
to a minority party, and who simply
sit in their chairs and vote "No"
on the measures proposed by the ma
jority. So Blue Earth county will
fare better if represented by Republi-
cans than it would if represented by
Democrats.
The Republican nominees for repre-
sentatives are honest, capable men,
who think and act for themselves, and
who have succeeded in life through
industry and prudence. The same
ability which they have turned to ac-
count in their personal enterpr ises
will be'given-. for the..beneft of the peo-
pie of Blue Earth county and the state
at large, if elected. Nels Nyquist
already possesses an acquaintance
with the present members of the legis-
lature which will stand the county in
good stead Acquaintance is great
advantage when member desires to
accomplish anything. Mr.. Nyquist
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

For county superintendent, we take
pleasure in presenting the name of W.
E. Freeman, a self-made young man
who grew up on the farm. taught
eleven terms in our common schools,
graduated from the normal and was re-
tanned for two years as a member of
the faculty, then he resigned and &C
cepted the principalship of the Gale
donia high school, was superintendent
of the Bellingham graded. schools. and
also principal of the Mankato Com
mercial college.
In single year Mr.. Freeman has
reached every school of the county.
School rooms are beautiful y decorated
and well kept, teachers are paid a
much higher salary, leng tn of school
terms have increased over two weeks
on the average, twenty-three new Ii
braries have been added, apparatus
has been purchased in surprising guam
titles and the teachers have. made great
advances fully in keeping with the
higher salary which they receive. This
year opens with twenty-five normal
graduates teaching county schools,
more than any other county in the
! state.
In the administration of his Office,
Mr.. Freeman has been fair and i'm
partial. In view of the fact that he
taught his first two terms in his home
district, that he was retained as a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26

the study of law, and hen built fine
foundation in the best aw schools fol-
the active practice which he has de
veloped since opening a law Office in
Mankato some years ago.
Mr.. Wilson has been life long Re
publican, an active worker in the
party, and is deserving at its hands,
He has been honored by his fellow
citizens, regardless of party, with a
position on the board of education,
which is an indication If the standing
which he has in the community. AS
county attorney, he will be careful,
prudent, and active d the enforce
ment of the law. He vii prove an able
adviser for the board q county COM
missioners.
A great many complaints are made
to the county attorney where it would
be improbable to the county and to
the community in geneal to yield to
solicitations for warrans. The Office
has been economically conducted in
the past. although actua law breakers
have found the county b be an I'M
comfortable placeto res de. Mr.. VIII
son, we believe, will fo1ow the same
general course as his predecessors and
will be able to give a satisfactory ac-
count of his stewardship when he
comes to lay down the responsibilities
which the people are aBut to place
upon him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26
COUNTY SURVEYOR.

Walter F. Brooks has filled the office
of county surveyor so satisfactorily to
all parties that he will he reelected as
the unanimous choice of the people,
the Democrats having made no nomi-
nation for this office. He has resided
in Blue Earth county most of the
time since he was five years of age,
having first lived in Medo, then in
Mapleton, Lake Crystal and Mankato
He was educated in the public and nor
NAL schools, and afterwards, in 1885,
graduated as civil engineer from the
Polytechnic school at Worcester, Mass.
Since then he has been employed on
railroad construction work until
elected county surveyor four years ago.
Mr.. Brooks is one of the bright,
self-made young men of the county.
He has made an A No. 1 official, and
fully deserves the honor of a re-elec-
tion which the voters are about to
confer upon him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26

or expediency are coming up, and the
incumbent of the Office should not only
be familiar with the status of the
various estates but should also be well
grounded in the law.
Mr.. Hughes has practiced law for
sixteen years, the last eight years in
Mankato. and has the reputation
among the bar of the city as possess
ing an unusually acute legal mind.
The attorneys, who practice largely
in his court, are very we'll satisfied
with his fair and upright administra-
tion of the Office. 1t is the only office
that Mr.. Hughes ever held, he has had
but one term. and the voters will not
only be doing the right and proper
thing by re-electing him, but will en-
sure the continued careful administra-
ton of this important Office and the
proper and honest adjustment of the
many est ates being probated and those
that will be probated during the next
two wears.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26

trouble and much expense. The.county
has been fortunate in. having '-compe-
tent men in charge of..sthis Office, and
the-present register of-deeds is main
tanning the high state-of efficiency of
the office.
Benedict Bangerter Jr. has resided
in Blue Earth county...for thirty EIGHT
years. With hisssparents@. he came to
Mankato from Brown county, having
been driven out by the Indians in
1862. He has earned the respect of all
who know him, by reason of his worth
as a citizen and neighbor. He has
never held any other political Office,
and by the faithful and painstaking
manner in which he has performed the
duties of register he has earned the
denomination which the party has
given him. Mr.. Bangerter has wide
circle of friends and it will be the
pleasure of these as well as all who
want to see the Dr. esent excellent man
agement of the Office continued for two
years more to help re-elect him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26
CORONER.

The Republicans take pleasure in
presenting the name of E. R. Kennedy
for reelection to the Office of coroner.
He has served but one term, and this is
the only political Office that he has ever
held. The Office scarcely pays 500 a
year, yet its duty is important, requir-
ing good judgment, some nowledge
of law, and penetrating mind. A
coroner could easily run up large
amount of useless expense upon the
county, but it has not been so with
Mr.. Kennedy, who has been economi-
Cal as well as efficient.
Mr.. Kennedy was born at Milton,
VT, and moved to Blue Earth county