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STOCK VALUES LOWER.
BEAR ELEMENT AGGRESSIVE.
STEEL STOCKS ATTACKED BONDS AND
MONEY.
MONEY.
STOCKS.

Closing prices yesterday of the principal
tive securities and net changes from Saturdays
prices were:
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SALES At THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

lopen High Low. Fin. Bid. Ask sold.
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GOVERNMENT ECEIPTS-Customs receipts
reported from Washington, $561.074; internal reve
receipts S1496, $50; miscellaneous receipts, s0
53s Total receipts for the day, s232S AS expendl
lures $2,244 900. Receipts for month to date, S.,
$50 S6; expenditures, So, O00 of expendi-
lures SLOT 1874 Receipts for the fiscal year to date.
$52 352; expenditures, 1853 SS249S; excess of re-
ceipts $685. 236 S4 Receipts OF National bank notes
for redemption $425,739
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE SALES.
STOCKS.
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BOSTON STOCKS.

FURNISHED by R. L Day & Co.. No Broad-stl
Saturday To-day Saturday .'ro-tia,
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PHILADELPHIA STOCKS.

unlisted. tsmall lots.
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THE FEDERAL TREASURY.

Washington. June 4--The condition OF the Treas
ury divisions OF issue and redemption at the be-
ginning of business to-day follows:
RESERVE FUND
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And interest. Tex dividend. REX coupon
BANK STOCKS.
reported by Clinton Gilbert. No. waII-st)
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Reported by De Haven & Toy

As CO Of Am %. 75la
Ind p ny CO IS. 1005s
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Newark Pass Is. 1iT&
Psanls's Trac 4s. l0SL
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FERRY COMPANIES.

increase. decrease.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
Birth Place of the American Flag.

In the rush of progress that has mar
ked the waning years of the century,
the American people have been, to
large degree, unmindful of the
ravages that time is working on the
few historic relics that remain to tell
OF the founders and early patriots of
our republic. The most CONSPICUOUS
building that is being threatened with
demolition was the birthplace of the
American flag, 339 Arch street, Phila-
delphia.
This humble edifce is no longer in
danger of passing into oblivion, but is
now assured of being perpetuated as
the shrine of Americanism. 1t is to be
preserved as a federal possession, and
with independence, Carpenters and
Fanuil halls, will remain as a tribute
Of the patriots of today of those of the
revolution, and as an object lesson to
the generations to follow. That the
purchase of the birthplace of Old
Glory and the erection of a suitable
national memorial to Betsy Ross might
be effected in manner to rebound to
the lasting glory of the people as
whole, the American Flag House and
Betsy Ross Memorial association was
founded. 1t was incorporated under
the laws of the state of Pennsylvania,
Dec. 10, $685.
This association, through the issu-
ance Of membership certificates at the
uniform price of 10 cents, invites the
cooperation of the people of the en-
tire country in the contamination of
its objects. The result of the first year
work shows that fund of $13, 231
was secured toward the fullfllment of
these objects, demonstrates the wis
dom of the association in adopting a
plan that makes possible popular parti-
cipation. The possibility of arrogating
the glory of saving the cold Flag
House to few men by means of large
individual contributions has been OBJ
waited. The pennies of the people are
doing the work of saving to this nation
this sacred home where the American
flag had it's birth. John Quincy
Adams, in Frank Leslie's Pop
ular Monthly for July.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03

our southern states or northern Mexico.
This is proved by the fossil vegetation
found among the trees like those grow
ing now in Japan and Australia.
Great mastadons once travelled over
Siberia and Alaska.
The people of the arctic basin num-
Der 20, 900, belonging to the Turanian
race to which the Firms, Tartars.
Turks, Huns, Manchurians and Japs
belong. Away from the coast are the
Esk1mos, who number 40, OOO some of
whom are found as highup as lati-
tude rs and 70, and are not related to
the other arctic peoples Some day
when In the course of the procession of
the equinoxes the arctic ice cap slip
down and the climate there again be-
comes semitropical and attractive, the
whole region will be again populous and
productive. Mr.. Van Wagenen thinks
men are preparing gradually for the com
merclal invasionof the subarctic regions
already somewhat known, they being
resourceful in mines, forests, fisheries,
turs and even agriculture, as in Alaska.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03

mission school for girls, has been Sc
cured to act as dean of the womens
department. For six and a half weeks
the teachers will be the guests of Har-
ward university, which will furnish
not only instruction, but board and
lodging the expense of which has
been assumed by the university, rely
ing on the hospitality and generosity
of the people of New England to make
good the expense incurred, which it
is estimated will be $40, 00O System
attic instruction in English, physical
geography, history american and
Spanish American), botany, and kim
dergarten methods will be given,
chiefly in Spanish, by the regular
teaching staff of Harvard supplement-
ed by thirty or forty extra teachers
who use Spanish freely. Excursions to
points of historic interest and to man
ufacturing establishments will contri-
butte to the enlightenment of the visi-
tors. After the teachers leave Cam
bridge, they are to visit Niagara Falls,
Chicago Washington, and New York,
from which city they will sail home
on the government transports. Moth
ing that Harvard has done in her long
career has been more creditable to her
than the work she plans to do this
summer for the men and women on
whom the future of Cuba so much de-
pendS
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
"THR WOUNDED BIRD FLUTTERS"

Garden City, MINI. July 81, 1900.
Editor Free Press You kindly
afforded me the opportunity of trying
to set right the false impression that
had gone out from this place in regard
to our anti-convention squabble and
the attack upon the postmaster and
others.
I purposely refrained from any per-
sonal attack on any person and have
always thought it bad manners or taste
to make a personal attack in public
or private. Further, I have for many
years believed it to be the best way in
every case, as the immortal (?) Cleve-
land said, to tell the truth.
The so-called editor of the Progress
~ here in this weeks issue takes oc-
casion to charge my representations
as false, etc. thus publishing Sec
ond personal attack on me. Now
while know that he can only iniure
himself and his vile, lying sheet in
the estimation of the good people of
Garden City, who have patronized me
for twenty years or more and can graf
ify none but the lawless element who
feast on the vulgar, obscure vomitings
from his dyspeptic stomach and while
I have no hope of reforming or i'm
proving this high priest of Beelzebub
with whom his lying is chronic,
moral disease, I cannot in this one in
stance allow his mouthings to pass I'M
noticed.
He says he 'expects to go to hell
and sis willing to retract'' etc. which
only shows the manner of man he is.
He boasts he never had any education
of any account, ''only went to the
common school two weeks which
shows what a charlatan has come
among us. No wonder his typos get
the bounce and when he tries to issue
the paper it is infinitely worse in all
respects so there cannot be hope of any
improvement. He should openly pro-
fess his affiliation with the Bryan
Towne-Lind Democracy who sail under
the pirate flag and count it legiti-
mate to lie for partisan advantage.
reassert ALL wrote in the article pub
lished by you, because it is true, and
ask the honest candid Judgment of all
good citizens in the premises for the
same reasons. 1 shall not hereafter
notice anything eminating from this
contemplate cur as his paper shall not
pass my threshold. He shall, as far as
I am concerned, fire his weakly
mud can unnoticed hereafter.
l am as ever respectfully,
DIR. GARRETT MURPHY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
How the Farmer Gets Even.

Corning, Iowa, Gazette Democrats
are trying to make the farmers dis
contented because they are paying a
little more money this year for their
wire nails and wire for fencing. Of
course they never point out to the far
mer that his extra profit this year on
two bushels of corn will pay for any
increase in the price of keg of nails
and that his profits on all of his farm
products in this year alone will pay for
many times the cost of this barbed
wire, besides leaving him handsome
surplus to put in the bank or pay off
his mortgage The Gazette always
likes to prove it's statements A neigh
Dor in Carl township called at this
office last week and stated that it
would be necessary to repair division
fence that both were interested in.
To do so this paper was called upon to
purchase spool of barbed wire The
merchant asked just double what was
paid under the free trade policy of
Cleveland But let the reader glance a
moment at the difference in the con-
dition of then and now.
When the Cleveland policy prevailed
there was sold out of the pasture
where the wire was used, good COWS at
$40 per head. Today such stock COM
mands 500 per head Late one fall, in
the Cleveland reign, the very thriftiest
of high grade spring calves were taken
out of the pasture indicated, and
luckily found purchaser who con-
sented to take the bunch at 81 per
head Last fall buyers were anxious to
give $50 for calves that were dropped
in May and June that ran in the same
pasture.
The neighbor that came for the wire
in the course of his conversation, said
that last year he had disposed of four
calves raised on separator milk at
$40 per head He thought that he had
done well, and he had.
Now, where does all this kick come
in about the price of wire? The men
that mine the iron, the men that
transport it, the men who take the ore
and make it into wire, and those who
barb it, as well as the merchant who
sells, thanks to the tariff, are all busy.
Being busy, they have enormous ap-
petites, which they are satisfying in
part by paying the Adams county far
mer $50 for his COW, $40 for his calf
and $5 per hundred for his live hog.
A little more tariff on the Gazette
plate please. Never mind if wire has
doubled in price.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
The North Polar Region,

In the Conservative Review Wash
| ingtOn) there is an interesting paper
| by Theo. F. Van Wagenen on Com
mercial Possibilities of theNorth Polar
Region. - The author refers to the
rather general belief of the public that
polar research is not yielding very
practical results, and he contends that
that SHADE from the valuable scientific
results of polar investigation, no por-
| tion of the unoccupied earth will pay
better in dollars and cents for explor-
alton than the region about the north
pole. A knowledge of its geography is
important. The ice attains a thick
ness of seven feet during one winter
and then only where its growth is not
interfered with by tides and currents.
In some places the ice pack never
opens, but is broken continually along
the edges and is 100 feet and more
thick. Explorers have travelled in
Greenland to point 373 miles from
the pole. The arctic archipelago &C.
cupies large area and the total land
and water area within the arctic cir
Gle is about 5000, 900 square miles, of
which the totally unexplored REGION
occupies 3, 600, 600 square miles There
are regions of mildness in Barents sea
and the middle of open water above
Boring strait. At Lady Franklin bay
the summer mean temperature is 80
degrees above zero, and at Verkoy-
anish, Siberia, it is 30 plus.
Mr.. Van Wagenen describes the to-
biography Of the arctic sea so far as is
known, showing that there is grad
ual amelioration of climatic rigor A
warm current (surface) wide and shall
low passes between Scotland and Ice
land, toward the Norwegian coast,
and, hugging the later, enters Barents
sea, branch shooting off northward
along Spitzbergen. On the opposite
side, a warm surface current proceeds
from the Pacific through Boring strait
and tempers the climate and pushes
back the ice pack for several hundred
miles A great inflow comes from the
twelve large rivers flowing northward
from the continental lands around the
pole. These throw a large volume of
warm water into the polar basn.i 1t is
shown that unbroken land connection
exists from the most northern extrem-
ity of Greenland, so far reached as the
| New Siberian islands.
The Greenland ice cap is steadily
diminishing in thickness and receding
along the western shore. The land
about the polar basin is slowly emerg-
ing. At former period the climate
of Greenland was as mild as that of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
Difficulties to be Faced in China.

Guy Morrison Walker in Leslie's
Weekly: The summers in north China
are dry and hot, and the stenches that
arise from that plain about Peking
are something indescribable. Then
comes short period of torential rains,
and then a long dry fall and winter.
Frost will come about the middle of
October, and the last of November
the river will freeze up, to stay closed
until the middle of February, often
till the month later. There is almost
no snow during the entire winter
two or three little furries, but never
enough to cover the ground. The cold
is comparatively steady, without the
incessant freeze and thaw that we
have in this country. The greatest
hardship for the men, however, will
be in the terrific storms which sweep
over the country during the fall and
winter, and in the utter lack of water.
These sand storms are very severe, and
often whole trains of pack mules are
driven to stampede by the rain of
gravel and stones.
The success of the present dynasty
| was largely due to battle fought dur
| ing one of these sand storms, to which
the Manchus were accustomed, while
the Chinese opposing them were ut
terly demoralized by the singing sand
in their faces. The water, however,
is our most dangerous foe, and 10 will
| die from it's poison for every one in
iured in fighting. The country in full
of wells, but as there is no drainage
stand longside the wells and the whole
| sc,o n,t +1,ax
is full of the germ of typhus, typhoid
and dysentery. The thing which save
the Chinese is that they only drink it
boiling hot, and, unpalatable as it
may taste after being boiled, it can
not be used any other way. Even
with, the best of care, many foreign
ers in China have become infected
with the dreaded Oriental dysentery,
which emaciates them until they be-
come living skeletons, and so fastens it.
self on their vitals that it often takes
years to remove it.
| Great care, too, must be exercised in
the eating of native grown uncooked
vegetables, for the fields are fertilized
with human excrement, and the
products often are tainted with the
most deadly germs. Good camps will
be hard to find unless the troops are
finally taken to the foot hills, about IL
or 10 miles west and north of Picking,
where they can be quartered in the old
temples and find good water and ample
fuel. 1t will be particularly difficult
to handle the non combatant natives
without arousing their prejudices and
offending their superstitions especi-
ally must their graves and shrines be
respected The natives will be willing
enough to furnish all necessary means
of transportation, but for their own
protection they must be impressed, SC
that others will not accuse them of
volunteering aid to the enemy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
Cuban Teachers in the United States,

Review of Reviews: The hearty
cooperation of Secretary of War Root,
Governor General Wood, of Cuba,
President Eliot, and the authorities of
Harvard University, and the general
public promise to make the pilgrim
age to this country this summer of
1, 400 Cuban teachers, led by Mr.. E.
Frye, superintendent of education in
Cuba, marked success. The teachers
will represent urban and rural Cuba,
and be selected by Cuban school Off
Gals on the basis of merit. Five army
physicians and number of Cuban
women of distinction will accompany
the party, the latter to serve as chap
erones Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick,
head of the noted American board
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
EFFECT OF OPENING THE MILLS.

The effects of protection and how it
aids the laboring man, is most strongly
illustrated in the report of 200 manu-
featuring establishments showing their
record of men employed and wages
paid for the years from 1890 and to
and including 1899.
They showed a steady increase in the
number of hands employed in the 200
factories until the year 1898. There
was an immediate drop of 1000 men
in 1894, when they employed so, 4S3
men But in 1897 they employed 1O9, :
600; in 1898, 131, 42S men, and last
year TIA, 645 men. In short, the num-
Der of wage-earners employed by these
same factories increased from 80, 4S3
men in 1894 up to ia, 645 last year
almost doubled.
But the contrast is even more strik-
ing when applied to the amount of
wages paid, and the following table
shows the returns received from the
60
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
Wages Paid.

The amount of wages paid by these
same 200 manufacturers increased
steadily from 1890 to 1892, then there
was drop in 1898 and another drop
in 1894 During the next two years
wages picked up, but it was not until
1897 that these manufacturers were
paying out as much money in wages
as they had paid in 1892.
Between 1894 and 1899, the 200 man
ufacturers had increased their pay
rolls by upwards of $3S, 900, 900. In fact,
the amount of wages which they dis
tributed last year was almost double
what they paid out in 1894. Apply
this to the whole country the try to re-
alize what benefit Opening the
mills has been to American wage
earners and to those who feed and
clothe them
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
THE CHINESE SITUATION.

The Chinese situation is still very
mcuh mixed There is nothing def
mite as to the fate of the legations. A
Russian banker, who claims to have
left Peking about July 9th, says that
the foreigners including the legation
ers, have all been murdered. How he
escaped the same fate is not stated
On the other hand, two dispatches
have been sent out by the Chinese. to
the effect that the legations are alive
and well. 1t is also claimed by some
of the Chinese viceroys that the lega-
TONERS have been provisioned, and are
being guarded by the imperial au-
thorities But the information that
comes from purely Chinese sources,
and there is little else, is regarded
with much suspicion. 1t is felt that
the chances are that this information
of the legationers welfare is sent out
mainly to gain time for Chinese mill
tary organization.
Another report is to the effect that
the Chinese have changed their capital
from Picking west to Sinaufu, an al
most inaccessible point, and that they
have taken the ministers with them as
hostages, leaving all other foreigners
at Picking to their horrible fate
Minister WI, at Washington, thinks
that the authorities ought to accept
the word of the Chinese officials that
the legations are alive and well cared
for. But Secretary Hay thinks differ
emily. He is of the opinion that if
these dispatches are true, the Chinese
authorities should at once place the
ministers in communication with their
respective governments. The imper-
ial authorities there seem to have no
trouble in keeping in communication
with their ministers in Europe and at
Washington. If their representations
are true, they ought to be able to
as readily transmit messages from the
legations of nature that would at
once end the suspense. The fact that they
do not, or will not, looks bad and
tends to strengthen the fact that the
worst has happened.
Yet in spite of this hope is strong at
Washington that the ministers may be
alive, and during the past week that
hope has been growing somewhat in
European capitals, especially in Paris.
Minister Wu's' explanation as to why
communication is not allowed direct
with the legations is that the Chinese
are so different from the American
and the European that we cannot draw
the same differences from their con-
duct at we would from white man
similarly placed. In the mean time,
until some action can be taken by the
powers in concert, the world will ha e
to hope that Mr.. WI is correct in his
diagnosis and that the legationers may
yet be rescued, but it must be admit
ted that that hope now rests on very
slender thread