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The age-herald., 1901-05-26
What Ma Did mt Forget.

.pa" --rrr---I
 "Yes."
 '"That Mrs. FlIplcy was here today, and guess what she said about you.'
 "Oh, can't" the old gentleman replied, beginning to get interested. "What was it?'
 "She told me she thought you were such q handsome-looking man, and held your ago woiI."
 ''she did, eh:" he replied, pushing out his chest and pretending that 1t didn't make any particular difference to him what she had said.
 "But," the sweet child continued, "ma told her she ought to see you in the morning before you put iA yoHr false teeth and got the side hair siinked up oveE your bald spot.-Chicago Record. Herald.
The age-herald., 1901-05-26
PARIS HINTS ON CL0AKS AND GOWNS.

front of the skirt. The short fitted jacket is trimmed with the same rows of stitching, and has rows of tiny gilt buttons. white silk blouse with lace tie Is worn with this costume. The same model Is very satisfac- torily made up In brilliantine or taffeta silk, and with the stitching in white. A blue brilllantine with white or black taffeta gown made exactly on these lines Is exceed ingly smart.
The age-herald., 1901-05-26
AN UP-TO-DATE BISHOP.

A A.ethodist critic, wishing to pu,,, his bishop ''in hole,' or, as pr; William Ever, ett would say, 'fo deposit him in cavity,
 asked in open meeting whether or not the bishop came to the conference in Pullmanj car. ''Yes," the bishop cheerfully replied ; do you know any easier wayT-Bostoi Christian Register. -J
The age-herald., 1901-05-26

used with all sorts of materials and tn9 color does not make any marked differences Blue with the black and white Is enecuNef hut red so extremely popular Tor the n.y. nient is no less so, and gray and tan are in fbe best contrast. A charming frock "nien I saw had just an edge of white, strapped with black showing at the foot. The poleto jacket is finished in front with straps ol b;ao, velvet. and there are straps of the velvet attaching It to the belt, while below the iscSet is seen a white silk blouse. long fitted waistcoat of redsand white oroF cada is fastened with small gilt buttonsS while a long white silk tie helps to tone down the rather vivid coloring, Clotn' siik or yelling can be used for this style Of gownA or any one of the fashionable coiers wile make up well with the black and white triin- ming Dinner gowns are now made rather moie' simply than was the fashion durihe tne winter. The waists are cut hlgnef Ill 'he; 1 neck and almost always have sleeves, eiNo" length or in a short puff. These are the gowns intended to wear at the informal uin- ners. not for formal entertainments ol dances. where a regular low neck gown ID tDe correct style. charming gown "n'.n noticed Is made of silk and net, anu ID trimmed with long lines of lace apphq"e' 1ho noints of the silk slip short olstahee ho1ow the waist, where there is yoKe o. iet or embroidery. The waist IS or 'ueAeu Yat with noiuts of the silk and lace appiluue and embro,dery of jet over the shoulders and on the front of the waist. .,,,
 In an embroidered crepe de chine silh govn which I have seen, the skirt IS qui'e plain over the hips, and. with tne iuiness at the back. gathered into as httie spa.e possible, but tue beauty of the skirl is .ne wide band of embroidery which covers 'A. skirt more than half way. An oou anu rather trying fashion Is the hign-cue io" neck waist, with sleeves falling ou Iron' 'ns shoulders. Embroidery to match the sAi' is seen on the lower part Of the wais' ,l. any the rufnes on the elbow sleeves. Ih'' model can be utilized for both iace ahu en' broldered muslin robe gowns
 silx gowns are always most useful and at tractive for summer wear, and IL seems U he rather A fad of the moment to have then made m quite simply. gray taffeta gowl Is chartningly dainty with gathered nouhce headed with band of lace insertion and wals trimmed with a band of the insertion o either side of the chiffon front and anothe band finishes the sleeve above the chino undersleeve.
 Quite the smartest gowns of the year ar those of combined taffeta silk and cloth an the model in Figure illustrates most pei fectiy the details of these fascinating gowns The skirt, with full founce of the silk an the oyerskIrt cut in points and trimmin cut with effect of the taffeta, is of most bf coming shape. The short jacket Is trimmo to match the ski't, and has reyers and coll' of white silk embroidered with narrow silvc braid. This style of gown Is made in blae or any color, but the silk should be Of Ill same color as the cloth or of white, neye in u contrasting color.
The age-herald., 1901-05-26
THE BEAUTY BOOK.

QEAHTN An health, khens book fo Hvoa a
 
  
  or onLy
 R. E PsERcE Buffalo, ~
The age-herald., 1901-05-26

~ , ] H Tip to
 Rridegrooms
 -@s@@~-. ! !, A young clerk in a downtown office ex.' poets to be married next week, and never , before hashe been arrayed In such gorgeous ( splendor. He has heretofore been regarded as a youth who would rather save his money for rainy day than put 1t on his back while the sun shines, and his remarkable conduct on the eve of his wedding has aroused all sorts of speculation. A new suit of clothes every day, and especially to business, has caused much comment. "Why don't you wait until after you age married before you air your trousseau?" asked one of his fellow clerks. You'll be AA.Ll l. 4I,a comes of. Then, when you go away on your wedding trip, and the bride is all decked out in her new frills, she'll be downright ashamed of you. What dye mean, any howf'
 The prospective Benedict glanced furtive- ly about, like the villain In the play 'Sh-h-hi" he whispered. 'It's a secret but I'll let you in on 1t. It's little scheme of our own--I mean the girls and mine. We've been talking 1t all over. We've read all about how brides and grooms are always spotted on trains and in hotels and every where they go, so we want to get the new. ness of our clothes worn on before we start. That's the reason I'm wearing mine around the office.
 "But I'm afraid she has fallen down on the arrangement. You see, when a girl gets a whole lot of new pretty things made, she hates like sin to wear lem around and get Fem mussed up. She wears her travelling dress around the house though, and that's getting to look as though 1t wasn't very new.i Oh, we're foxy, we are, if we never have been married before"
 And he smiled broad smile as he noticed that his spring trousers were getting baggy at the knees.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

Admiral Schley will be tried by a
court made up of his bitterest enemies,
but the American people have already
read the evidence and accord him the
honor so justly his due. The admin
istration' s effort to humiliate the hero
of Santiago forms one of the most dis
graceful chapters in American history.
-Fairmont Sentinel.
There has been no evidence advanced
as yet to show that the gentlemen who
comprise the court of inquiry are
among Schley's bitterest enemies. If
they are the rear admiral does not
seem to be aware of it, for they were
all on his list furnished the navy de-
partment as men who would be &C
ceptable to him. There has been far
too much jumping at conclusions in
the matter, and too much disposition
on the part of some photographers to
make Schley martyr or coward, as
their feelings may run Seer etary
Long did most wise thing when he
forbid members of the navy talking to
the public about the affair, and it
would be most commendable thing
if the public would suspend further
Judgment until after the court of in
quiry does its work.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

The census department has issued a
bulletin showing the percentage of
native and foreign born population in
Minnesota, and also the classification
of sex and color. This shows that the
state has GA, 722 males who are native
born and col, 354 females 2S7. 1853 for
eign born males and 217, 800 females.
There are 1886 male Indians and 6. 719
females. Of the negro race there are
in Minnesota, 1850 males and 2, 1873
females.
The male element predominant es in
the state, the percentage being $50.
The percentage of native born persons
is II.
In Minnesota the foreign born ele-
ment in 1890 constituted something
more than one-fourth of the total pop
ulation of the state, or $3.50 per cent,
while now it is only 1914 1t should be
borne in mind that at the present CEN
sus Indians and other persons on the
Indian reservation are included in the
statement of population, which was
not the case, however, at the preceding
census.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
NEW MOSQUITO BANISHER.
Castor Bean Plants, Said 10 be ObnOx-
iOus to Them and Drive The m Away.

Chicago, Aug 12.-Mosquitos are to
be banished from the Chicago parks If
a recommendation recently made to
the commissioners by Prof. Frederick
Starr of the University of Chicago is
carried out. All that is necessary to
drive the pests, away, says the profess
sor, are castor bean plants. This dis
eovery was made by Prof Starr while
he was travelling in tropical countries.
He was supposed to be studying an
thropology during these travels, but
the exigencies of the situation force d
him for a time to study the best
method of driving off the clouds of
mosquitoes which made life burden.
Said the professor
Zone night l was annoyed more
than usual. Thousands of the little in
sects buzzed about me. Finally, in des-
peration, I tore some branches from a
plant with which to brush them away.
| soon found that I did not have to
brush. The mosquitoes had disap-
peared, and did not come back that
night. The plant from which l had
torn the branches was that of the cas-
tor bean. The next evening l again
tried it with the same success
''Prof. @. NJ Childs of the depart
ment of entomology of the university
of Chicago confirms the statements of
Prof. Starr. He says there is some
thing in the castor bean plant which
is antipathetic to the mosquito, but
that he does not know what 1T is.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
BIG BEET CROP.

Minneapolis Journal:
The sugar beet industry has proved
a success in Minnesota. According TO
an estimate, over 30, 600 tons of beets
will be harvested before Sept. 16. In
other years the crop has averaged only
90, 900 tons. In speaking of the indus
try, Gustav Theden, president of the
Minneapolis Sugar Beet company,
says:
''We have gotten beyond the expert
mental stage of the industry and far
mers all over the state would do well
to raise sugar beets, especially in the
southern portion. The factory VIII pc
gin operations Sept. 16 and run steadily
night and day for five months. The
principal obstacle we have to contend
with is that the farmers are not edu-
Gated as to the raising of the sugar
beet. The ground should be plowed
twice in the fall narrowed, and, in
the spring, rolled to keep the moisture
close to the surface. %
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
WHERE CLOSE ATTENTION
NEEDED.

Cuba bought 81, 337. TAI worth of cot
ton goods--of the United States in 1899,
and only 1920, 600 in 1900. This fall
ing off it is said was not due to an alb
sence in demand for such goods, but to
a transfer from our market to that of
England, Germany and France, which
largely supplied that island with its
cotton manufactures previous to the
Spanish war. 1t appears that the fail
ure of the American manufacturers to
hold their trade there was due to their
neglect to conform to the desires and
tastes of the consumers there. In fact
this seems to be the great weakness
which accounts for much of the fail
ure of Americans to build up an ex-
tensive commerce with the countries
south of us. The British manufacturer
cOnsults their tastes, customs, etc,
and acts accordingly. He arranges the
product which he sends there to suit
their ideas, instead of attempting to
force upon them his ideas of what they
ought to have. This is phase of our
foreign trade that our manufacturers
do not seem to have accommodated
themselves to yet. They have been so
busy in the past supplying the de-
mands of the home market that they
have paid no attention to the wants of
people of other countries where they
might work up considerable trade.
They have simply taken the surplus
which their factories would produce
and endeavored to work it off on out
siders on the same basis they do at
home. 1t is safe to say that so long as
this style of business is continued our
foreign trade in many lines of manu-
features, and especially in cottons and
like goods, will not increase very fast.
Just now great possibilities in trade
are opening in the orient There is a
great field there, if it is properly
treated and cultivated but if little
attention is paid to the real desires as
we'll as the habits of the people there,
other nations which aim to strictly
conform to the habits and peculiar no.
tions Of these people, are apt to
walk off with the lions share of it. 1t
is a field that should be closely
studied.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
SETTLEMENT REACHED.

R. o. Craig of GAINESVILLE was in the
city Monday for purpose of arranging
a settlement with the city in the pepd-
ing litigation. He is to pay the costs
incurred in the suits, and the council
is to lease the portion of Madison ave-
nue. occupied by his stone saw mill for
a period of ten years in case he does
not obstruc5, the avenue.
The avenue is 1870 feet wide and the
mill takes up less than half of it. M.
Craig desires to operate the mill, and
as this wiM1give employment to sew
eral people and add to the citys bust
ness interests the council has acted
wisely. The avenue is not now used
to great extent and, having acquired
unquestioned title to it, the council
can afford, to be generous.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
The MINNEAPOLIS Journal

The Minneapolis Journal says that
"Winston Churchill. the American,
will soon be millionaire as we'll as a
successful author, and the former es-
tate will proceed from the latter.
While Richard CarveT is still selling
largely, his new book, The Crisis,
has come to the front and now leads
all other new books in point of sales
Of forty book sellers in the principal
cities of the United States and Canada
making reports to the Bookman of the
relative popularity of the six leading
new books during July The Crisis
takes first place in thirty-seven and
has place in the other three. Mr..
Churchill deserves his success, but
think of the stimulus his career is to
the production of books that nobody
wants and nobody will readr
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

Alfred Henry Lewis, who has been
SO completely wrapped up in VIM. j.
BRYAN during the last five years,
that he has been unable to take proper
cognizance of what else might be 60
ing on in the world, thus attempts to
size up Mckinley:
mckinley is the middle size of
man. He is passive; he is acted upon
and does not act. He is prudent of
himself; not oversensitive. He strikes
poses and becomes picture. He shrinks
from the new. He is nothing that
has not been seen, hears nothing that
has not been heard, finds nothing that
has not been found, says nothing that
has not been said, thinks nothing that
has not been thought, knows nothing
that has not been known, does moth
ing that has not been done, and would
neither eat nor breathe were there not
precedent for each. "
1t is not to be expected that one so
wrapped up in political prejudice as
Lewis is, could even in a small way
appreciate the character of President
Mckinley. That will be something
left for his political successor a gener-
alton or two hence. But of his attempt
the Duluth News Tribune thus re-
marks "This shows that Alfred Henry
Lewis knows as much of the character
of William Mckinley as John l.. Sui
livan does of English grammar, or an
Apache Indian of the theory of al
truism. Alfred Henry's productions
represent grain of thought lost in a
bushel of words. In vocabulary he is
a Rockefeller-in sense Weary Willie.
By dispensation of providence for
which we cannot be too grateful, all
these specialists of language without
reason are enlisted in the service of
the Democratic party
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

Some of the papers which..ar OPP
posed to the paroling are afraid they
are going to gain too much notoriety.
About all the notoriety the Youngers
are now getting as result of their
parole, is through the complaints of
the papers opposing the same, which
are continually, calling public attention
to the fact that the Youngers are at
large. Those papers, and they are
probably four-fifths of all in the state,
that approved of the parole, have
long since dropped mentioning the
Youngers, and so are not aiding in
building up public notoriety for them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
ASSAULT A YOUNG LADY.
Bold Attack of HOboes at Sleepy Eye
Sunday Evening.

Sleepy Eye, Aug. 12.-At O. clock
last evening, within zone block of the
center of this city, three hoboes as
saulteG young lady and attempted to
throw her down. Her screams at
tracted attention at once and several
gentlemen ran to her assistance The
hoboes scattered in the excitement,
but ex-Chief of Police Hicks ran them
down and turned them over to Marshal
Frantz, who locked them up in the
calaboose and placed a guard around
the building to prevent their escape.
Hoboes have been menace to the
town for the past several weeks and
numerous minor crimes are laid at
their door. The men arrested do not
give any names and they will be ar
raigned before the police court in the
morning. Several people were within
call at the time of the assault, but the
darkness prevented them from seeing
just what was going on.
>. The young lady in the case is a
daughter of a respectable citizen of
this city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

If you will coax a sufficient number
of INDEPENDENTLY swallows or pur-
pie martins-to neighbor with you,
and coax the boys to let the birds
alone, you need not be troubled with
mosquitoes. At least that is the testi-
mony of some residents of Long Island
whose homes are near places where
mosquitoes breed by millions, but who,
having made friends with the birds
and provided abundant house-room for
them, now say that the song and
thrust of the insect pest are with
them unknown. The Ebites" which
most of us get, these August days. are
past years of insane warfare upon the
birds. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
This would doubtless be the most
sensible way of meeting the disagree
ablesness of the mosquito pest, and
doubtless conform more nearly to the
forms of nature 1t is said that all
things created have their place in ma
ture and their part to perform. Just
what that part so far as the mosquito
is concerned, further than making life
miserable for tired humanity when de-
string to seek little recreation as the
early shades of the evening approach,
is hard to cay. But there has been
some speculation on the part of some,
as to what new ill or pest will befall
humanity if the scientists should sue
coed in discriminating the mosquito by
means of the use of crude petroleum.
However, putting the question of mos
quito extinction aside, the suggestion
of the Pioneer Press as to coaxing
birds to neighbor in your neighbor-
hood is a good one-one that ought to
be carried out in all communities. We
would escape many ills we now are
heir 70, if this criminal slaughter of
our feathered songsters were stopped.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
The political writer on the Mime

The political writer on the Mime
apolis Tribune says that "the only
thing approaching certainty in connec-
ton with the appointment of public
examiner, which is not due for six
months, but may be made at any time,
is that the place will be given to Hen
nepin county" The aforesaid writer
must be an accomplished mind reader,
or has the governor taken him into his
confdencef By the way how long has
Minneapolis held mortgage on the
placer
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

Now we are to have a soft coal COM
bine. The success of the anthracite
combine doubtless leads to the desire
to explore larger fields. But if this
combine works the same game that is
now in process by the anthracite COM
bine, it may overreach itself. Such a
move would do more than any thing else
to push along the experiments now be-
ing made in the use of crude petroleum
for fuel, and the discovery of great
fields of the oil will lead to its extern
>sive use if the soft coal combine be-
comes to arbitrary. Three barrels of
crude oil are said to equal ton of the
best soft coal, and the cost is consider
ably less.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
A SENSIBLE COURSE.

The Houston Oil company, with a
capital of $50, 900, OOO,'' says the st.
Paul Pioneer Press, towns a million
acres of Texas lands. 1t sets fine ex-
ample to other owners of forest lands
in the contract it has made with a
lumber company, by which an enor-
nous amount of timber is to be annu-
ally manufactured into lumber, but
under conditions which will insure the
perpetuity of the forests. No tree I'M
der twelve inches in diameter is to be
cut. The smaller trees are to be left
uninjured and seedlings carefully pro-
tected, of course not only against
avoidable injury by logging opera
tions, but against fires. The provi
sions thus made, for continuous
growth, so that maturity shall be in
sured for trees now young or in middle
life, will probably leave the forest,
at the end of the twentythree years
covered by the contract, very nearly as
valuable as now. Why cannot owners
of timber lands in Minnesota take a
similar wise course of action2''
If such scheme were followed on
the remnants of Minnesota forests now
left standing, ii would be one of the
most valuable things that could hap
pen to the state. Why the great lum-
Der corporations of the north have
pursued the course they have in
Strengthening the forests instead of pre-
serving the young timber which in a
few years would be worth much more
to them, is one of the unexplainable
things. Had such course been pur-
sued, many acres of fine forests would
be standing where now nothing
but desolate choppings appear. In the
great race for wealth, it really looks
as thought the lumber baron had in
measure overreached himself, while at
the same time committing a great
wrong on society. While late in the
day, it would be most wise plan for
the lumbermen to apply it to the for
ests that yet remain standing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

When it concerns him, Mr.. Bryan is
not SO much opposed to combination
as he would have people believe. He
breaches against the principle of COM
bination as bad, but has just gone into
it on his own account by buying out
the National Waterman and merging
it with the Commoner. The Watch
man was devoted chiefly to the interest
of organized labor, and Mr.. Bryan
thinks that in this it is rival of his
paper, and so wanted it out of the field.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16

The Pioneer Press claims that John
Lind is quietly paving the way to get
back into the Republican ranks. 1t
says that recent occurrences would in
dictate such to be the case. Organism
and free coinage being dead and
Lind's we'll known antipathy to every
thing Democratic are given as the rea-
sons which lend color to the belief ex-
pressed. Now listen to Frank Day
stand up on his hind feet and roar
about the misrepresentation Of sub
sidiZed press