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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
NEW SUPERINTENDENT CHOSEN.

The Presbyterian Sunday school held
its election of officers Thursday eve
ming W. D. Willard having served as
superintendent for six years past, was
not a candidate for reelection. The
following officers were chosen:
Superintendent-H. A. Patterson.
First assistant-Mrs. J. H James.
Second assistant-E. G. Willard
The following officers of the primary
department were chosen
Superintendent Mrs. W. M. Taylor.
Secretary and treasurer-Geo. Rod
man..
Assistant-Will Funk.
Librarian-Chas. K. Willard.
Organist-Mi Edith Bowen.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
TO ENFORCE A CONTRACT.

Papers were served Thursday in an
action brought by Frank ]. Finnegan
against Frederick Hike, who has a
farm near Good Thunder. The suit is
brought to enforce the performance of
an alleged contract, whereby Hike
was to trade his 15S acre farm for 800
acres in Chippewa county. Judge
Buck. of this city, and Mr.. Cahaley,
of Minneapolis, are attorneys for the
plaintiff. The action involves pro-
perty worth several thousand dollars
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
A HEALTHFUL DECEMBER.

A leading physician stated today
that he had never known December
with as little sickness as the present
one. The weather has been favorable
for contracting colds, but the people
keep well in spite of it. The under
takers are also remarking on the lack
of business. Two class of people have
at last bee n found that prosperity has
not struck.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
EXPENDITURES REDUCED.
Waterworks Pay Roll Cut Down Thirty.
four Per Cent in Two Years.

The waterworks pay roll for 1900
has been 81, 101, compared with 81, 221
in 1899, and 81, 66S an 1898. During
the past year 1892 was expended for
material in the waterworks depart
ment, 1856 in 1899, and $651 in 1898.
This is a total saving in this one de-
partment of $726 the past year as
compared with the last year of the last
administration. The saving in the pay
roll is thirty-four per cent, which is
highly creditable to the Currier adj
ministration.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Warranty deeds fled:
Benedict Truwe to Frank W. White,
FIVE acres in nwA, nw4, sec. %,
Shelby, for 500.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
WILL INCORPORATE.

A. j. Busch & Co., the wholesale
grocers, have decided to incorporate
and have sent the articles of incorpora-
ton to be filed with the secretary of
state. The company will retain it's
present name and its capital stock
will be placed at 500, 600, mostly paid
up
Thos. ]. Connell, clerk of the Metro
pole. Fargo, N. D., arrived in the city
today to remain over Sunday. He was
formerly clerk at The Saulpaugh.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
DIVORCE CASE TRIAL.
Lewis Williams Denies that He Was
Naughty to His Wife.

The divorce suit of Mary Williams
VS.. Lewis Williams is on trial before
Judge Cray Friday. The PARTIES reside
in Judson, and cruel and inhuman
treatment is alleged by the plaintiff
and denied by the defendant. Thos.
Hughes is attorney for the plaintiff
and VIM. F. Hughes represents the de-
PENDANT. The witnesses for the plain
tiff, besides herself, were Mrs. Mar
garet Jones, Leonard Burk, Margaret
Daikens and Chas. johnson The de-
PENDANTS witnesses up to 8 p. m. were
Lewis Williams, Geo. Owen and VIM.
James.
The suit of John Magley VS.. Elias
Cook and many others was tried yes
terday, Thos. Hughes appearing for
the plaintiff and W. R Geddes for
Josie E. Sutherland. The action is
brought for the purpose ofsecuring the
patition of fifty three acret of land.
1t has been found necessary to make
new citations in most of the forty one
personal property tax casei.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-12-28
WANTS A LOCATION.

The Modern Woodmen of America
camp has selected Frank Skouse, Al
bert Simple and T. j. Jones and two
others to be named later a building
committee. The camp proposes to
erect a building of its own sometime
in the future. The committee will
endeavor to obtain a suitable location,
to be reported to the camp, and is now
looking around.
The United States senate has con-
firmed the appointment of J. D. Price
as postmaster at Lake Crystal.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
SHYING HORSES.
From "Our Animal Friends"

From "Our Animal Friends"
Horses often have what is called
the vice Of shying-that is, OF
starting suddenly at the rustic OF
a leaf or piece of paper or at the
approach of any object to which
they are not accustomed. Clearly,
this is an instinct inherited from
their wild progenitors in the
steppes or prairies, where the sud.
den rustling of leaf might indi.
cate the presence of wolf,and
where everything that wasstrange
was therefore suspicious.
1t ia idle as well as cruel to beat
a horse for shying. That only in.
creases his alarm and may easily
reduce him to that state Of terror
in which he loses his head entire.
ly. Horses in that state seem to
lose not only their heads but their
perceptive senses, and a horse in
that condition may dash headlong
against a wall. The habit of shy.
ing when once formed is difficult
TO cure, but it may almost always
be prevented by such consistent
kindness of treatment as to over
power the inherited instinct of
instant flight from possible dan.
ger in which the habit originates.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
GAVE AWAY HIS BIRTHDAY.

Here IS q charming tale told Of
the late Robert Louis Stevenson
in q recent number of Golfers
Weekly. He was visiting a friend
in California and speedily became
q great cOn6dante Of his hosts
little daughter. One day the sub.
ject Of birthdays was being dis.
cussed and then the young lady
bewailed her hard fate. She had
been born on the twenty.ninth day
Of February and therefore had en-.
joyed only two birthdays in all
her eleven years. The knd.heart.
cd writer sympathized with her.
He medltated o few minutes, then
went to the writing desk and drew
up the following document:
"I, Robert Louis Stevenson, In
q sound state OF mind and body,
having arrived at an age when !
no longer have any use for birth
days, do give and beqneath my
birthday, on the 18th of Novem.
Der, 10 Miss, Adelaide lde, to be
hers from this year as long as she
wishes II.
Robert Louis Stevenson"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
HOGS IN SMALL LOTS.

It is neither profitable nor al.
ways entirely safe to keep great
numbers of hogs together, says
the American Cultivator. Beside
the liability of disease getting
among them, there Is always q
certainty that the stronger will
crowd the weaker away from their
feeding places, 40 that the Unequal.
ity in size will increase rather
than decrease. In every litter
there are one or two weaklings
that were born runts and unless
they are given a better chance
than the others they will always
remain runts. The best way to
manage this is, when the pigs are
seven or eight weeks old, to take
out the stronger ones and wean
them, giving them plenty of the
best food that can be gotten to
make growth. Then the runts
left to suckle the SOW alone will
in two or three weeks more take
u start that may make them rs
good rs the others, so that in later
life all can be fed together. No
other feed without the s0w's milk
will do this, though such other
feed should be given and the pigs
be encouraged to eat all they can.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
The Paramount Issue.

President Mckinley wants the United
States to keep on fighting the Filiplnos
for the sake OF the brown man, IL Is
our holy duty toward those misguided
people, he thinks, 10 kill them OIL until
those who are left agree to accept civilix'
alton and happiness.
MIR. Bryan, on Me other hand, pre-.
sera TO regard the welfare Of the Ameri-
can people rather than that Of the
Filipinos. "You tell me. he SAYS,
that u man who lifts his voice against
the doctrine OF Imperialism IL pleading
the cause Of the Filipino. tell You he
IL pleading the cause Of 10, 900 900 OF
American citizens, Aye, he IL champions
Ing the rights Of tho struggling masses
Of the world, who lcoa TO America for
example,
In theory, perhaps, the Mckinley idea
may be the more lofty, II we could be.
lieve In Its sincerity but Mr.. Bryan \
idea Ia surely the more patriotic as we'll
AZ the more practicable.
IN every Filipino, says Mr.. Bryan,
''were 10 die the world would 20 on
but II this nation, the greatest Republic
OF the world history puts ont its light,
II this republic turns its back 10 the
doctrines which we loved u century and
u quarter ago, then to what nation of
the world can the people look for hope
and inspiration'
The paramount issue IN this campaign
Ia the preservation OF our own republic
which II worth more than all Asia 10
the cause Of mankind,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
How L0ngi

The war In the Philippines has been
going on now for just one year and n
half, For eighteen weary months the
best blood Of the United States has been
drained into repulsive and apparently
bottomless swamp Of guerilla fighting
that leads to nothing, and we have spent
on the wretched job more money than
the Democratic party under Jefferson
and Monroe needed to triple the area of
the republic.
When we began war with Spain, a
nation Of eighteen million people, with
a considerable navy an army that could
call upon million trained men, u
treasury and q completely organized
government, we fought her to a stand.
still In three months and half, and we
never put more than 30, 900 men In our
fighting line, TO suppress 1000, 900
un0rganized Tagals, In what we have
never recognized as n war, we are using
90, 900 men, and after eighteen months
Of fighting we do not seem much nearer
success than we were In the beginning.
Does not this imply atrocious mis-
management somewhereY And how long
is It to he kept upY Are the American
people prepared to resign themselves to
q permanent state of war In the Philip.
pines, with great part of their resources
In men and money annually devoured to
no purposeY
Our army Of occupation In the islands
Ia equal to the entire force that a state
like New Jersey he expected to raise to
resist invasion, Practically, therefore,
we have subtracted u state like New
Jersey from the defensive resources Of
the nation. This il what has been ac'
complished by Imperialism, masquerad.
ing IN the robes Of expansion.
II we had given the Filipinos voice
In the management Of their own country
there would have been no war II we
would condescend to negotiate with
them the war could be stopped even
now.
In dealing with the savage Moros OF
the Sulu Islands, with their polygamy,
slavery and monarchy, we were willing
to recognize the local authorities and
customs, and by doing 80 we obtained
the allegiance Of these ferocious bandits
without blow. Why should we refuse
TO do as much for the civilized and
Christian inhabitapts Of Luzonf
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
Gettlng in Line.

Many n prominent gold Democrat
continue TO return TO the ranks Of the
old party The latest TO come back IL
Stote senator A. l.. McDermott, Of New
Jersey, who Ia possibly the most In.
nuential Democrat In the state. Mr..
McDernott was n delegate to the
Chicago convention In 1895 and walked
ont with the boilers when the free silver
plank was adopted, and soon afterward
refused q nomination for congress be.
cause he would not stand on the national
platform of tho party, Senator Me-
Dermott recognizes imperialism as the
paramount issue Of this campaign and
accordingly has announced his intention
TO support Bryan and Stevenson to the
limit Of his influence.
1T IL folly, declares McDermott,
Ito talk about the intention OF our gov.
eminent TO subdue the refractory FIJI
pinos, establish stable government for
them, and leave them TO manage their
own affairs. X we do not intend that
those islands shall for MI time he ruled
by tina United States, as India IL ruled
nv England, then the administration o!
President Mckinley " chargeable with
u murder for every life that has paid
tribute to n bullet there since the treaty
with Spain Mr.. McDermo,t Is es'
pecially strong among the large element
Of Germans IN his part of the state, and
II II believed he will bring hundreds OF
them over to Bryan,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
Worse Than Waste.

With vast areas of land in the west
that by the expenditure of few million
dollars for irrigation would sustain
millions of white men in comfort and
happiness; ,,.,
With the slums of our cities crowded
with men and women and children who
clamor for the education that will hit
them for citizenship in the republic;
With public improvements. roads,
bridges, etc. imperatively needed even
in the oldest and most thickly settled
parts of the country;
With taxes pressing heavily upon
those least able to bear;
With opportunities for the expenditure
of every dollar of surplus money in ad /.
vancing the enlightenment, the comfort
and the civilization of the masses OF the
people who live in these forty-five
states
We are spending s7l3, 900 day, ac'
cording to official figures, upon war.
Is this good senseY Is this patriot
isn't Is this glory2 Is this dutyf Is
this destiny York World.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
England Dictates American Policy,

England Dictates American Policy.
WASHINGTON. Aug. THE present
foreign policy of this Government as
viewed at Democratic congressional
headquarters is that it is largely dictated
by Great Britain. 1t is apparent to the
student of public affairs that America Is
catcaw for England. In statement
issued today the committee says:
1--WE are spending blood and treasure
to preserve English prestige in the
Orient, with nothing to gain for our
selves.
1.-THE Oriental policy of this ad.
ministration is based upon the assumpt-
ion that the open door must be main
tanned at whatever cost and at all
hazards and that the partition OF China
must be delayed as long as possible.
For years the imperative necessity
for preserving the open door in China
has been argued with considerable force,
until the public has come to have an al
most oppressive sense of the high signi-
fiance OF this policy-whatever 1t may
mean Now that the veil of diplomatic
and political mystery has been suddenly
rent asunder and American blood has
been poured out on the SOL OF emma u. we
are suddenly awakened 10 tue iact ,nat
the open door In which we nave n s!.,
to believed as u sort OF nasiohai Ie.lcn,
really swings inward anu tne hinses
work but one way,
The open door is only q ea saa NOUS
manner OF expressing iorcioie iree 'ra9e
with nations too week 10 oppose u.s. IN
u way, this sort OF Poiicy mas oeen
profitable 10 England; pun now auouI
the United Statesi England 3D. aiIer
all the only great civilized rower wnlch
holds the door open 20 an go com ni,;,iei
The other national doors IN tne cl''iine a
world are closed TO our mercnants, -. ana m {.
yet despite these CLOSED uoors' A.ierloan
exporters sent ABROAD ana s s0du o lSs' year
goods 10 the Vsiue OF S'oo ;oov Va,
our own door iscioseu WIN an W au,o.
matic' nigh tarlI at'aci.ne l ~, ~ '. ,,s
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
Ouakers for Bryan.

Six thousand Quakers, of Ohio, at
their yearly conference, last week ;.
adopted u minute to the purport that all
Friends should vote against the Republic
can party because it has put or its ticket
IMAM of blood like Roosevelt, and
because President Mckinley is waging
needless war for the benefit Of trade on
the helpless people in the Philippines.
The Quakers, Amish Brethren, Ger
man Baptists, and Complexities of the
West have been frightened out of the
Republican party by Roosevelt g bloody
bride speeches.
Rev. Job Ingram, Of Kingfsher Ok. I,
has written letter to Rev. j d. B0tkin
of Winfield, Kan. announcing his con-
version to Democracy. Imperialism,
the Puerto Rico tariff and the admins.
trations sympathy with Great Britain
he assigns as the causes of his changed
views.
Oliver Rice, a member of the Smith
county (Kansas) Republican committee
has resigned and declared for Bryan.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
1@od1.S ouabM
Wages and Imperialism.
ZIl4z2NlES(I3ll1H

Capital invariably finds its own level
like water.
Imperialism will add eight to ten
million laborers to competition in our
domestic market.
These eight to ten million are men
whose descent, habits, climate and needs
are satisfied with the minimum of food
clothing and shelter indispensable for
existence.
Protected Republican trusts will put
these millions into competition with our
domestic labor promptly if Mr. Mckinley
receives commission of four years
more of Imperialism.
The people of the Philippines are So
Der, Industrious and now eager to earn
at least pittance day from their new
and promising American masters.
A large line of American goods can
be manufactured with Philippine labor.
When this labor shall come into com.
petition In the American market Ameri.
can workingmen will wish they had
never heard of imperialism.
They have it in their power to protect
themselves and their families by voting
against imperialism.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01

A NUMBER of New York Irishmen, who
were formerly Republicans-notably
Patrick Egan, once minister to Chilli
Patrick Fork. of the Irish World, and
Dennis A. Spellissy, lawyer, have
formed in the interest of Mr.. Bryan.
They seek to make converts to his cause
among men of their descent. Their
statement Of principles is declaration
that the policy of Mckinley In the
Philippines Is an attack on human liberty
in every country in the world and an
indirect menace to the hopes of every
loyal Irishman.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
To the State Constitution.

NOTICE IL hereby given that the following
Az Joint resolution, proposing mn amendment
to the state Constitution, wnA pnsacd by the
General Assembly NJ It's regular session OF 1917,
and that tho same VIII b. submitted 10 Mo
electors Of the state NJ ME next general election
10 be hold September ., 1900, FOR adoption or re'
lection, viz
PROPOSED AMENDMENT,
'"fhe suteties upon the 0Iheial bonds Of all
state officers shall he residents Of, and have
sufficient property Within the state, not exempt
from sale under execution, attachment or other
process OF any court TO make good their bonds
and the sureties upon the official bonds OF oil
county officers shall reside within the counties
where such officers reside, and shall have
sufficient property therein not exempt from such
sale, ~ make good their b0Uds Provided, how
ever, that any surety, bonding or guaranty
company, orginisod for the purpose OF doing y
surety OF bonding business, aud authorized 10
do business IN this State, may become surety on
the bonds OF all state, county, and municipal
officers undor such regulations M may, DO pre-.
scribed By law, Approved May H. 1870,
Each clcctor may vote for or against above
Witness lny onlclal signature and seal OF onlce,
this i2th dry OF February, lnol
ALEx q, null,
IsrAin secretary OF state,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE AT DAnpASrLLt, ANA

LAND OFFICE AT DAnD ANELLt, ANA /
July ~, 1000 T
named settler has filed notice Of his intention 10
make tnal proof IN support Of her claim, and
that said proof will be nado before the County
Clerk OF Crawford County, at Van Bufoo, ARK,
SEPTEMBER 8, 1900
via, Jesse q, Campbell Of Locke, Arkansas,
Homestead entry No. 2Ab62, for the East half
Of the Southeast quarter and South half OF the
Northeast quarter Section y. Township u,
North, Range ~, West.
liz names the following witnesses 10 prove her
continuous residence upon and cultivation OF
said land, via.
WIlbor Richardson, william Parker, and l. G.,
Hadd0x, OF Locke, Crawford county, Arkansas,
and John II. Mitchell, OF IIolth, Madison county
Arkansas
JosErn II. BArTgsriELD, Register
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01

SUNDAYS Washington D. c., POST
(Rep. J has this to say, in Its leading
editorial, of William Jennings Bryan,
the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency: 1.-THE blazing light of publicity
has poured upon him for four years
without revealing a flaw In his personal
character. His home life may we'll be
accepted as an example. His mind Is
as clear as a child 8, and his protested
christianity is consistent with his daily
life. -
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01

WHEN Harmon l.. Remmel ran for
governor against Dan W. Jones he WAS
beaten IN Crawford county by nearly
400 majority, The Republican cry now
ia, that the Commissioners OF Election
are planning TO "count them out y
by the sufferenee OF some OF tho I'M
stable Democrats In the county, for two
or three ysars past the Republicans have
been permitted 10 elect portion Of the
county ticket. Such Democrats, seeing
ths folly Of throwing away their votes
on Republicans, are now ready to fall
Into line and cast the full Democratic
vots for every candidate OF their party
BrHnson. Cain, Peters and all the others,
sss ths hand writing. and know they
hsva got 10 go--thus the great cry OF
,rAud eontsm plated Go they will, ~
shis IL 10 be . clear cut Democratic
Victory, from Bryan for President dowr
y ths lowsst on the county ticket.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01

SoME Of the Mckinley dailies which
have been declaiming nbout populists
might tell us something of that fusion
IN North Caroliua, IN which the Re-
publicans take three electors and give
the Popnlists eight, Apparently n
Popuist IL NIL right when he afiiliates
with u Republican and altogether Oft
color when he iiits along witt, Demo.
crat. 70 put II another way When a
Democrat fuses with n populist he IL
seeking to overthrow society, but when
u Republican does the same thing he II
arriving 10 save the government, Bah !
at such Repu blican hypocrisy,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01

KEEP In mind Democrats Of Crawford
this Is to 10 u Democratic year, 1901 will
see the inauguration Of William j Bryan
N President, Adlai Stevenson as Vice
President, and JEFF Davis ~ governor
OF Arkansas. To make the victory COM
plets, we must have q full victory In
Crawford with not \ Democratic candi'
date defeated Let unity and activity
be the word from now to the day Of
election.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
AT the congressional central col

AT the congressional central com
mittse meeting held at Searcy Saturday,
nine out Of the twelve counties In the
district were represented, either In
person or by proxy, In the counties
that held primaries Mr.. Brundidge
received i9.7i7 votes; South, 800.
Baxter county was not reported to the
committee, and Cleburne held con.
vention, " course Nj. Brundidge was
decided the nominee In very few
minutes.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-09-01
1t is CUP To" Jim BransOn and JnO
Roberts.

To break the force Of j. A. Floyd re
fusing TO again support Sheriff Branson
for reelection, John Roberts, Branson s
henchman, Is charging that Floyd had
been bought by money consideration, to
do 80. Mr.. Floyd makes answer In the
two affidavits following which are right
up to Jim and john;
State Of Arkansas,
County of Crawford.
j. A. Floyd being by me duly sworn
on oath states that he has never received
one dollar, or any sum, from any candi-
date on either side In this campaign, or
any other, in this county or State, or
any other, j. A. FLOYD.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this August ~, 1900.
4. ID. CocHRANE, Clerk.
BY BEN DEcHERD, d. Q.