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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
THE BOSS DREW THE LINE.
Trading with II Corpse Was Not Al
lowed In His Camp.

The boss of the lumber camp reiilled
his pipe and lighted it.
Yes" said he. Il drew the line on
that.
We had a man die in camp this win,
ter. He lived just over the boundary.
Nice Teller he was, too-thrifty aud all
that. Every one liked him. Sorry to
have him 20. But after he was gone
we lid the best we knew how, Fixed
the body up and sent two OF the men
out with il.
lie had bought a new pair CT boots
at the Wougan camp two weeks before
he died. and we thought it would he
only right 10 put those boots on. So we
did. The men started away and came
back IN three days. one OF the men
was wgarn them new boots. The other
Teller gave it away Said that just he
fore they got TO the house with the de-
ceased the crittcr pulled them boots OF
the corpse aud snapped. other Teller
4 dn' like It, and said SO. But the
crit allowed that he had had some
talk with the corpse about swappin a
few days before lie died. Corpse had
allowed that the new boots hurt his
corns ana said that pair that HAD
been broken in would do better Crit
Ter said that lie couldn't bear to think
of deceased bcin buried in pair of
boots that hurt his feet. He said that
he should wake UP in the night, suttin,
ana think about the thing.
"Waal. course there was eOmcthin in
what he said, but rs there warn't no
way of gettin at the dccCaScd's side of
the matter. concluded that | wouldn't
let that trade stand. There's Il good
many things that go in this camp all
right but dickerin with dead men amt
one Of en-. draw the line right there
and draw ii sharp. | made that Teller
send them boots back. The deceased
has still got the critters old ones. The
Teller had TO go to the w0ngan and get
some new ones. And that's so much
more for the company and commits
sion for me. 'Twaru't bad all round.
When the Teller got to iawin about the
thing | told him he could still have the
comfort of KNOWN that deceased
wasn't wearin tight boots. "-Lewiston
Journal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
DEMAND FOR GOOD ROADS,
The Public No Longer Content to
Travel Through Mud

Martin Dodge, director of the office
of road inquiry, department of agrl-
culture, stated to the Industrial com
mission that road building had become
a matter of great public interest and
there was general demand for good
roads. His suggestion was that good
roads should be built and the expense
divided equally between the govern
ment, the state and the towns benefited
by such Improvement.
Mr.. Dodge gave the results of ex-
periments which were tried in Mary
land, estimating the cost of hauling
loads in short hauls by animal power
at 20 cents per ton per mile. He claim
ed that a system of good roads In the
country would do away with many of
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07

Speaking of the queer doings of alb
sentminded people, the following anec-
dote is related by the London Globe:
"A very irritable man left his house
one morning to attend a race meeting
some distance off. In order that he
might have enough money to pay his
hotel bill he tied sovereign in the
corner of his handkerchief. In the
train he drew his handkerchief from
his pocket, and noticed the knot in the
corner. Now he said to himself what
was it wished to rememberT Much
thought failed to enlighten him upon
the point, and at last, in a fit of passion
he hurled the handkerchief out of the
window. Then he remembered"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07

the inequalities under which farmers
now labor. He had learned by investi,
cation that where governments had n
large number of men to take care of,
whether convicts or standing armies,
their services had been utilized for the
construction of good roads,
lie instanced the roads of Rome,
which were built by slaves, and the
Siberian roads which had been con.
structed by Russian soldiers. Mr.
Dodge gave it as his opinion that there
ere two measures which would assist
to bring about improvements in good
roads to an extent where the public is
sufficiently benefited, the reduction of
the cost of material and the utilization
OF labor that could not be otherwise
employed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07

After Sunday school little Ned and
ms younger cousin, Horton, were per-
mitted to play in the yard on condi-
ton that they would be very good and
quiet. They had not been out long
when Neds mother heard loud
screams, Upon investigating the
cause she found her small son sitting
on his cousin, pounding him vigorously
IN spite of Horizons pitiful walls.
wen, mamma" Ned exclaimed, 81
wanted to teach him the golden rule,
ana he said he wouldn't learn it,
Detroit Free Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07

The yolk of the egg spells much
quicker than the white For this rea-
son it is important that the yolk should
be surrounded with layer of tn
white. If the egg is placed on the
side or large end the heavy yolk will
settle to the bottom and come in con
tact with the shell, which admits the
air. If it Is placed on the small end it
will always have a layer of white be-
tween it and the shell. Eggs absorb
odors easily, therefore only odorless
materials should be used when packing
them.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
Boston & Maine r D
SUMMER NI;ENNCiNtNr
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Return at 10, " H. and II sd .. a. ~
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
Untrue In Their Alignm c mt ,

The highest of the Tennessee noun
tains is the Unaka range, and its high
est peak is Rattlesnake, the giant that
stands above the Cherokee Indian res.
ervation over 1000 feet Twenty two
peaks measure about 5000 feet. A re-
markable fact is that some of these
peaks, standing directly opposite each
other, measure exactly the same
height, while others come within few
feet of common height.-Chicago
Record
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
Cost of Roads In Europe,

In England the first cost of making
highway is estimated at $4,000 per
mile; in France it is $4,000 and in Italy
$4,000 per mile. The principal item Of
cost in England arises from the neces-
sary purchase Of property; in the noun
tain districts Of France from the ma.
ture Of the country through which the
road rms
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
Potatoes.

Potatoes as food vary in value &C.
cording to the way they are cooked.
Roasted they are in the best form for
eating. Peasants eat potatoes together
with milk and are correct in principle
as the milk furnishes the elements
lacking in the tubers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-07
A Lingering Illness.

The rodigal-Mudder, I've come to
die
The Mother-Ye have, have We? Ar
to take about 20 years to do it in, like
your father did. Not much. Ye go into
the next county to do your dyin!-Kan
sas City Independent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
INSIST UPON HAVING ROYAL.

Royal baking powder is in the stock
of probably every dealer of groceries in
the state. If not, the grocer will add
to the reputation of his store by keep
ing it.
Royal baking powder itself, and the
packages which contain it, comply
with all the food laws and every other
law of the state, and if any dealer at
tempts to hinder it's sale he does so for
the purpose of palming off upon the
customer cheap and inferior
substitute.
Consumers requiring pure and health
full baking powder, free from alum.
should call for Royal. The authorities
certify this brand of greatest value,
highest in strength, pure and whole.
some
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
A NEW FORCE.
The North MankatO School Board Makes
Clean Sweep.

The North Mankato school board
held meeting Tues ay night and took
up the election of teachers.
M A Morse, of this city. was elected
principal at salary of $50 month.
He will graduate from the normal
school this spring, and has had mum.
Der of years experience, as principal of
schools. He is highly recommended. He
received five votes to one for Miss
Conser, of Minneapolis.
Miss Ella Olmstead was elected to
the fifth and sixth grades at $40 a
month. She is graduate of the
Winona normal school and has been
teaching at Sleepy Eye for three years
She is sister to Officer VIM. J. Olmstod
She received four votes to two for
Miss Sheldon, of Fillmore county.
Miss Mary Kelly was elected to the
third and fourth grades at salary of
$40 month. She has been teaching at
Good Thunder for two or three years.
The board will hold special meet
ing May 9Th for the purpose of elect
ing a primary teacher. Aside from
the election of teachers, only routine
business was transacted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

1t requires some gall for Mankato to
have two candidates for congress, but then
it is Mankato and wants to prove it
Fairmont News.
Our good friend Everett, of the News,
is respectfully and most courteously in
formed that Mankato and Blue Earth
county will present but one name to the
convention and that will be ]. T. McCleary.
We have to acknowledge that the entrance
of a second candidate for congressional
honors gives little coloring to the charge
that there is a surplus of gall" floating
around Mankato but wait until the op-
portunity arrives and the city will prove
that the bitter, viscid fluid does not exist
in fact. 1t is a mere shadow without
substance, SO to speak.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

on the part of each congressman S
home county convention to head its
delegation to the state convention
May 10th with its own member of
congress? Certain it is that no one
man in the county is better qualified to
represent it on such delegation than the
congressman, and it would be recogni-
ton richly deserved by every one of the
seven members. And again, they would
not be in the way of any aspirants who
may seek he honor of representation on
the delegation to Philadelphia. 1t is
probable that the congressman would feel
a delicacy about the use of their names in
connection with the choice of delegates to
the Philadelphia convention. as there will
no doubt be several worthy gentlemen
among their constituents who are looking
forward to place on the delegation.
1t is possible, even probable, that none
of the congressman would care to have
their friends interest themselves in the
manner indicated. But why not
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
ROADS GIVE in.
Reduction in Grain Rates for Southern
Minnesota.

General Traffic Manager Clark of the
Omaha, acting as chairman for the
committee on the southwestern Mime
sofa grain rates, Tuesday submitted
the schedule agreed upon by the roads.
These are the same rates submitted to
the roads by the state railroad com.
mission, and are based on rates for
similar distance on the Great North.
ern and Northern Pacific roads in the
northern part of the state, put in eff
feet nearly two years ago as result of
the STEVENSON rate case. The new
schedule includes wheat. fax and
coarse grains.
Taking wheat on basis, there is a
cut of from half cent to cents per
bushel from existing rates. the latter
being the extreme, however. The
average reduction is about one cent.
On the Milwaukee there is no cut on
Wells, half cent at Fairmont and
cent at Fulda. On the M. & st. L.
there is cut of a cent and half at st.
James and one cent at Sherburne, and
so on
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

The Free Press is in receipt of per-
sonal latter from a warm friend in Yellow
Medicine county asking consideration. as
one of the delegates from the Second dis
trict to the Republican National conven-
ton, of Mr.. George Fitzsimmons, of Candy
We are only slightly acquainted with Mr..
Fitzsimmons, but among those who know
him best he is vouched for as being a Re-
publican of the staunchest kind, a gentle
man of splendid qualities. and genial,
companionable man. He has resided in
Candy good many years, and the best
recommend any man can have for political
preferment is the endorsement of those
who know him most intimately. Yellow
Medicine, his home county, is enthusi
astically for Mr.. Fitzsimmons, and the
loyalty of the Republicans of the county,
coupled with the modesty which has always
characterized its claims for political pref
erence, entities the candidacy of one of
its chosen citizens to no little considera-
ton at the hands of the Republicans of the
district
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

1t begins to look as though the fight on
the Grout bill, which provides that oleo-
margarine shall be sold for just what it is
will develop into sort of sectional fight,
the east against the west. The east does
not favor the bill, as is fearful that it will
cause butter to go up and keep up in price.
This fear on the part of the east is one of
the very best indications that the bill
ought to become law for it shows that
it spite of all that is said people will not
buy oleo, or at least not to so great an ex-
tent if they know what they are getting.
The south will also oppose the measure,
because if it lessons the demand for cleo,
it will cause less demand for cotton seed.
one of the ingredients used in its
manufacture.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
ORGANIZATION FORMED.
Branch of the American Federation OF
Labor Started.

About hundred people gathered at
Williams hall Monday night and listen
ed to an address by John B. Swift, of
Minneapolis, editor of 1.-THE Union" in
the interest of the American Fedora.
ton of Labor. He presented
the advantages of labor organi-
cations in general and of this
one in particular. At the conclusion
of his talk. a branch of the American
Federation of Labor was organized,
with thirty-six members. 1t was de-
cided to meet next Saturday night, and
it is expected that the membership will
increase. People in all kinds of trades
and professions are welcome to join.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

of this gift was born in the mind of Master
Archie Cadzow. of Rosemount, Mimi,
who now stands by your side. He ex-
pressed it in October. 1899, in the Journal
Junior, very interesting and popular
Saturday feature of The Minneapolis
Journal. With characteristic kindness
and energy that paper at once took up the
idea and gave it the benefit of its very
large circulation. The idea met with
immediate and generous approval and
subscriptions began to pour in. The sub
scriptions were limited to I centfrom each
person, in order that even the poorest
child might have the pleasure of partici-
pating.
This, then, is the gift of children. 1t is
the tribute of those who are looking for
ward with bright anticipations of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

The senate knocked out Mr.. Quays lit
tie game and decided that the precedent
that has been in vague rewarding the ad
mittance of appointees of governors when
legislatures fail to elect. 1t was wise de-
cision. The Free Press has never believed
ex-senator Quay to be as black as he has
been painted by his opponents, but it has
seen no reason at any time why just and
wise precedent should be overturned for
his convenience. No man who has been
as actively engaged in the political arena
as Mr.. Quay could hope to escape the
tongue of calumny, and the Pennsylvania
leader has been no exception to the rule.
1t is the penalty he has paid for his past
successes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
Common BOUND OVER.
The Preliminary Hearing Had in North
Mankato Tuesday Forenoon.

Martin Counor was given his pre-.
liminary hearing on the charge of at
tempted rape before Justice Tidland
in North Mankato this forenoon. Con-
nor did not have an attorney.
The little girl, Martha Brainard,
identified Conner as her assailant and
told her story. Her little brother,
Louis, nine years old, testified that he
was playing with his sister when Con.
nor came along. Conner gave him ten
cents and told him to go and buy some
candy. He did not go, but staid out
side the canning factory, when Connor
dragged his little sister into the build
ing. He shouted and made racket
until Conner let the little girl 60 He
identified Conner as the man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brainard testified to the
condition of their daughter on her re-
turn home, the finger marks on her
throat, bruises and torn clothing. and
hair. filled with ashes from the boiler
room, where she had been thrown
down.
Chief Bruels testified to an admission
made by Conner yesterday afternoon
after being arrested. Connor had said
that he could not help it
that the girl followed him into the
building. Officer Daniels testified to the
circumstances of the arrest, and Chas.
Robson testified that Conner had
begged for money from him just before
cling arrested.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

future. from those whose records are yet
to be wrought out, to him whose record is
made and whose fame is secure. 1t is the
tribute of possibilities to achievement.
You may we'll regard it, sir, as matter of
special satisfaction and wholesome pride
to be known and honored by children.
Their plaudits are sincere and unselfsh,
by the children of the land is in itself the
highest evidence of honorable fame
There are few men great enough to be
named in common school history. Brief
indeed, sir, will that history of your
country be which will hereafter omit your
name,
Achievement is the child of ability and
opportunity. They who send you this
gift know the story of the May morning
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
WHY NOT /?

| The State papers have of late been dis
cussing quite freely the propriety of send
ing Senators Davis and Nelson to the Re-
publican National Convention. Without
any good reason the Porto Rican bill has
been injected into the discussion, and
while some papers contend that the Sena-
tors should be sent to the Philadelphia
convention because of their stand on this
emergency bill, others object to it on the
same ground.
The Porto Rican bill is no longer an is
sue. The congress of the United States
has settled that question for the present,
and all things considered it may be &C
cepted as the best measure that could be
evolved for the people of the island.
Some newspapers still endeayor to lead the
public to believe that terrible wrong has
been inflicted upon the people of our new
dependency, but the real facts fail to bear
out any such construction. The bill as
finally passed is practically free trade
measure The people of the island re-
ceive their bread stufs and other absolute
necessities free of duty. and the revenue
derived from the small duty that has been
applied to the sugar, coffee, rum and to-
bacco imported into this country is applied
to the relief of the Porto Ricans. Under
this law the poor people of the island are
not taxed dollar, do not pay one cent
tribute to the support of this government
and hardly one to their own, and have
been given one of the most liberal forms
of government possible to conceive. Had
an internal revenue scheme been provided
in the place of the present law it would
have been burdensome load for the peo-
pie of the island to bear and one that Gov
ernor-General Davis, who is in a position |
to know whereof he speaks, says they could
not support. The more the people look in /
to the Porto Rican situation, contemplate
the fact that the tariff measure is only a
affair, the more they realize
To- nd writ
ten against the bill is pure buncomb.
The new government that has been
provided for the island is so liberal that
the President of the United States is re-
quired to declare the tariff bill imperative
whenever the governing powers of Porto
Rico shall be able to devise ways and
means for raising sufficient revenue for
paying their own expenses. Why is not
this liberal enough, and if it is why this
continued discussion?
The Free Press would like to see Min
nesota send strong delegation to the
National convention at Philadelphia 1t
would like to see both of our able senator's
on that delegation. 1t would be equally
we'll pleased to see every member of the
House delegation SENT If the House
members do not care to go to Philadel-
phia, why would it not be graceful act
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27

two years ago. They know the story of
the night preceding it. They follow you
and your gallant companions through the
darkness and the danger. They see you
face the trowning cannon on the shore and
the Spanish armada within the bay. They
hear the sounds of conflict and join in the
shout of triumph.
And so, sir, they send you as evidence
OF their high regard for the hero of that
day this beautiful watch of fine gold, en-
amelled with the true blue of loyalty and
starred with the white Of purity. The
watch itself is suggestive of their idea that
your fame is to endure throughout all
time. The marking of the hours on the
dial is expressive of their faith that time
in its ceaseless rounds will always point
with pride to the name of George Dewey.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-27
Information from a large number of

Information from a large number of
counties in the Second district point to
little or no opposition to the nomination of
Congressman McCleary. Friends of Mr..
McCleary in "Outside counties" are con =
WINGED that Blue Earth county will stand
solidly by its present member, and it looks
now very much as though Mccleary would
be re-nominated by reclamation.