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further efforts at cooperation should
| be made.
THE trick of the state auditor to
refuse to pass our warrants is simply
an attempt to drive us into quo war
ranto proceedings. Thus they hope to
bring into the controversy the uni
versity.
"Too cowardly to attack that body
it seeks by indirection to force US to
fight their battle.
ITO this for one will not accede.
1.-The claim that the state auditor is
not subject to a writ of mandamus, in
case where he refuses to pay money
Justly due to a claimant under our
board, is too absurd to be recognized.
1t has been done and can be done
again if necessary.
II am informed by Mr. Olsen this
morning that the Duluth vouchers for
building, and over which the board of
control had nothing TO do, were in the
interests of the workmen on the build
ing laid by him before the board of
control, with the request that the pre-
sent controversy be waived so that
these men could be paid, and that Mr..
Leavitt refused to give them any
consideration unless the vouchers were
placed in his hands, unhampeerd by
conditions.
mo matter who may be injured
that board must rule or ruin.
ut is claimed that the resident
directors fear they will lose a salary of
$500.
Il doubt if that matter ever for a
moment disturbed the mind of any of
these high-minded gentlemen who
have honorably performed their duties
under the law. If that item be in
dispute there is an easy way of adjust
ing it, and that is by reference to
the attorney general. But the board
of control does not care much for light
of that character. 1t knows enough.
In the meantime the normal schools
will open as usual
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Auction.

The undersigned will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, all his
livery stock on Friday, Sept. 6, at 10
O'Clock a. M, at his barn near the
Milwaukee depot, in Mankato, the fol-
lowing stock
Thirteen head of horses, some good
work horses and drivers; one B
light hack, Tom Connolly make, in
good order: one 3-seated top wagon ;
one 2-seated top wagon; one seated
canopy top surrey, rubber tires; three
2-seated carriages; twelve one-seated
buggies, four have rubber tires and
some are as good as new three lumber
wagons, one has 4-inch tires; one bob
sleigh ;one 3-seated sleigh zone 2-seated
sleigh: five 1-seated cutters; one hack
harness, brass trimmed; six sets
double buggy harness; two sets work
harness; seven single harness; one
large picnic box, with top; two heat
ing stoves; one set blacksmith tools !;
fur robes lap robes blankets fly nets !;
whip; etc.
Terms of sale, All sums under $40,
cash oversize, onessyear s.time will be
given ats per cent.interest ..onsssSgood,
bankable paper. $3.50
J.sH. .MICHELS, Prop s %
III. G. Davis, .1Auctioneer.
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middle of August and found vegetation
on every farm burned up. The corn
that looked so promising in the early
summer was cut for fodder, and that
is all that saved the stock. There were
no railroads, and it was impossible to
get anything in the way of vegetable,
fruit or cereals. Cornmeal cost 81. % a
bushel when brought in from Glasgow
or Hannibal. We lived on bacon, corn
bread, coffee and molasses purchased
at those places. Farmers moved their
stock over to the Charlton river, which
ran until late in the fall. The stock
too far back in the country to reach
the river persisted. There was nothing
to be done on the farm, and people
just sat around and looked at the sky.
some of the emigrants who had taken
up large tracts of land abandoned it
and returned east, under the impress
sion that a drouth was a regular thing
in Missouri.
"At last winter set in, and it was
hoped early snow falls would furnish
water, and one right good storm came
up. But the snow was dry and it blew
away with the dust, without even
dampening the earth.
THE dust on the pixies was fright
full on a windy day. You could hardly
see vehicle just ahead of you. The
old Glasgow stage coach would roll in
to Callao with everything about it
passengers, driver, horses. harness and
all-nearly as white as snow. Some
times travellers throats would become
so badly choked that they couldn't talk
until they took a drink of water. 1
guess in those days most OF us ate our
allotted peck O. dirt or more.
THE spring of 1866 was seasonable
and crops sprang from the ground
with renewed vigor. can keenly re-
member our first meal with home
grown vegetables on the table, and
I've never tasted anything since that
was quite so good
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LAKE CRYSTAL.

From the Union:
David Walters, an old soldier, had
the misfortune of losing his pocket
book, containing over $25 in money
Monday night. He was a spectator
at the merry go-round and he is of
the belief that he lost it there.
81. H. Leavitt, No. 1 route mail car
rier, informs us that on the prairie, in
places where he travels, he has seen
quite a number of old timer grass
hoppers, the regular Rocky mountain
breed, and that they are laying their
eggs by the cart loads.
Prof. 81. A. Britzius and family
are packing and intend to move to
Minneapolis, where Prof. Britzius has
been appointed teacher of physics. At
the head of our schools he has done
strong work and raised the scholarship
of the same. and he deserved the pro-
motion that has come to him.
Rev. o. Compton, who has been
serving the Baptist church in this place
for over year as its pastor, preached
his farewell sermon last Sunday and
severed his connection with that as
ISOLATION. He and his most excellent
family left this week for Lincoln,
Neb., their former home. While here
the reverend gentleman and family
have made host of friends and all
are sorry at their going.
d. E. Clay, who runs the naptha
yacht on the lake, met with quite a
severe accident last Friday evening. He
was about ready to leave the dock with
a load of passengers when one foot
caught in the fly wheel or between
the floor plank and the wheel. DR..
Williams had to take several stitches
in the wound and the tendons are
somewhat strained. The injury will
lay him up for the remainder of the
season.
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CHASING STRAWBERRIES.
From the Nile River in September to
Scotland in August.

The queerest fad of millionaire
globe trotter is that of John K. Hamp-
ton of !. Liverpool. .-aaHe..made . his mil
lions. on the corn exchange .andsl holds
thesgolden. key to- the worlds pleas
ures. - =, Yet he SPENDS MS life chasing
the.straw berry. ..Whenshe was working
night. and day. amassings gold he found
tnat a..plate. of really fresh ..strawber-
ries nd,,cream was the finest delicacy
he could have. Fortune smiled on
him in 1891, and the following year
found him so wealthy that further
work would have been madness. 1t
was early September and he went at
once to Cairo, where fresh strawber
ries can be obtained during that
month. Since that daUe he has regu
larlyas, followed the late spring, and
SO that straw berry, from Cairo to AL
giers, from Algiers up through Spain
from south to north, and likewise
through France. Then, in early May,
when. the strawberry season in that
country is finishing, he crosses to the
Channel isles and chases the smiling
fruit across to Cornwall, generally
landing in England in the middle of
June His trip finishes in Scotland at
the end OF August, when he takes a
through ticket back to Cairo, and COM
mences his tour again.
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THE AWFUL DROUTH OF 1854.
When Not Drop of Rain Fell After the
Middle of June.

WifuuiC VI JuuCs
The present devastating drouth in
Missouri, Kansas and other western
states recalls to the mind of ]. H.
Wright, president of a bank at Callao,
Mo-, drouth in 1854 to which the
present is insignificant. Mr.. Wright
says:
81 was about 10 years old. A large
party of us left Missouri for Texas in
April. On the 10Th or 18th of June,
while in camp on Red river, near Pres,
tin, a heavy rain fell, which was gen.
eral throughout the country, but ii
was the last one that year. Up to that
time the weather had been unusually
favorable, and there never had been
better prospects for crops.
'As the summer went on without
rain we began to get discouraged, and
most of us decided to return to Mis-
souri,. There were seven covered
wagons in our caravan, containing as
many families. AS we slowly drove
up through the Indian territory the
scarcity of water became a serious
problem. 1 remember one day we
travelled 40 miles with only five gal
Ions, the heat and dust were awful,
and toward the afternoon our thirst
became intolerable At nightfall, in
stead of camping we resolved to press
on to place where spring was said
to exist. Some of the teamsters were
in an ugly mood and nearly delirious.
My heart nearly failed me in thinking
what would happen should we not find
the spring, or if it should be played
out. But we reached it at 10 O'Clock
in the night, and such yell and
scramble for it you never saw. Men,
women and children fought for places,
and accidents were only averted by the
men in charge taking their stations be-
tween the crowd and the spring, and
passing the water out in moderate
quantities. They were SO thirsty they
would have killed themselves had they
been allowed unrestrained liberty at
the water.
''All along our route was the dreary
picture of the drouth fields of stubble,
leafess trees and dust white roads.
There were no birds singing in the
trees and very little sign of animal
life anywhere. There was no reliev-
ing spectacle anywhere along the
whole 700 miles of our homeward jour
ney, which showed the absence of
rainfall had been general
"We reached Missouri about the
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OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Bird COler's View as to What They
Should Be.

Chicago Inter Ocean:
ITO provide thorough course of
practical study and teaching that will
enable the children of the poor to &C
quire the true foundation of higher
education before they are compelled to
go to work" Such is Bird S. Coler' s
excellent definition, in Everybody s
Magazine, of the practical study of
our public schools.
Mr.. Coler holds that municipal in
comes do not at present justify at
tempting to provide free higher educa-
ton. That aspect of the question need
not now be discussed. Mr.. Coler ad-
mits the duty and necessity of laying
the foundation he describes. Having
that foundation, ''the boys and girls
forced to work at 10 may" as he well
says, .."educate themselves as they
toll.
How do our public schools here in
Chicago, for example, perform that
duty2 The verdict of business men to
whom our boys and girls go for en-
ployment is that they perform it
badly. The public schools send out an
nually hundreds of pupils who cannot
write legibly, cannot spell correctly,
and cannot perform simple arithemeti-
Cal operations accurately. Yet every
one knows that these are the funda-
mental conditions of success in educa
tion. .~.
Why do our public schools, not
only in Chicago. but in many other
cities, SO manifestly fail of their
duty2 Comptroller Coler gives an au-
swer the correctness of which may be
confirmed by a cursory examination
of our public schools and Investigation
of the fortunes of many pupils until
contact with the world has rubbed
common sense into them.
''The education of the masses, he
says, sis such a popular thing tn at
any person who proposes a plan or
suggestion is certain of hearing, and
too often of opportunity for mischief.
A wave of faddism has swept over the
country, and in many cities has al
most engulfed the common schools"
AS result of these fads, the schools
waste the strength of teachers, the
time of pupils, and the money of tax
payers upon things which are abso-
lutely useless to the boys or girls 60
ing to work at 10, and neglect the
essential things that such boys and girls
really need.
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There is more catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few year was supposed to be
nounced it local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be constitution
al disease and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by f. j. Cheney Co., Toledo, Ohio is the only
constitutional cure ON the ma rket. 1t is taken
internally from ten drops to a teaspoonful 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for circu-
lars and testimonials. Address
FL CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
~ Sold by all druggists, Toe.
Halls family Pills are the best.
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VIEWS OF BOTH SIDES.
Board of Control and Normal Board
Present Their Case.
st. Paul Dispatch

st. Paul Dispatch:
The board of control has made a
formal reply to the complaints of the
state normal board, and the latter S
objections to the interference of the
former in the financial management
of the schools.
The board of control says there is
nothing in the law which requires it
to cooperate with the normal board,
but nevertheless it had. succeeded
fairly well in doing so until it had &C.
casion to cut off the $500 per year paid
resident directors as purchasing agents.
1t fails tO. see why. the normal board
should so strenuously object to. the. saw
ing of 81. 500 per year, especially in
view of the fact that heretofore the
normal schools have made practice
of spending more than their income
and coming up regularly with def
cheney.
Notice is served that no deficiencies
in normal school finances will be al
lowed.
The normal board was unable to pay
its debts last year, and, as the ex-
penses will be larger this year than
last, another defcit.'will occur unless
expenses are trimmed
There is no appropriation for manual
training at the normal schools, and
this is given as a reason for the OBJ
lection of the board to its continu-
ance.
Beyond that, the board of control
denies that it has tried to interfere in
any manner with the courses of study
or the selection of faculties.
The following excerpts will show
the tenor of the reply:
"A majority of the normal schools
were unable to pay the debts Contract
ed last year out of the appropriations
provided and entered this j. fiscal year
with a deficit, a portion of which was
the salaries of resident directors The
proposed expenditures for the present
year will undoubtedly. exceed those of
last year unless some. action is taken
by the board to prevent it. -
Whatever disagreement there may
have been with the normal school
board or any of its members has been
brought about solely. by our attempts
to keep the expenditures of said board
and its schools within. the. meaning
and intent of the Legislature. and so
put. &. stop to deficiencies. 80 We re-
quire of all the various institutions
under our control that they shall live
within both the intention and appro-
priation of the Legislature, and while
the. normal schools are under.-.o our
charge we shall insist that they. meet
the same requirements.
While the. law. places. the financial
affairs. of :. the. normal schools -.ab-
solutely under. this board, except as to
the. number of teachers and their sal
aries, it does not require us in any
manner to cooperate with your board
in these matters. Yet we have tried
in every way to so cooperate. 30
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The vast majority of our boys must
necessarily become mechanics and
traders, and the vast majority of our
girls should be wives, mothers, and
housekeepers. Yet our school manage
ment too often is based on the notion
that all the boys will enter the profess
sions and all the girls become "ar-
lists of some kind.
AS result of this falsehood on
which their work is base, our schools,
instead of seeking the greatest good for
the greatest number, are in fact run
for the benefit of thA few at the ex-
pense of the many. -, That is why they
fail of their duty.
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President Ankney's Statement.

President A. T. ..Ankeny, of the state
norma. -.school. :. board, = today ISSUED. 8
statement giving. the. position. held by
that body as.against. the. state board Of
control. This is in reply to the Letter
addressed. to- the. norma. board o. con:
troll. = His first argument. is that. the
state board Of. control, =. so far as the
normal school board lis concerned, lis
merely an.-auditing COMMITTEE. 90 he
proceeds. -
- When Mr.. Morey-- was appointed q
member. of the. board. =. of -control. our
members. had so MUCH confidence in
both his ability and his fairness that
they--soon after adopted. a resolution
agreeing to- accept the provisions of
the new law. They knew as well then,
as they do now. that, :. as to them, the
law was void in that the title thereto
failed to express the subject. $3.50
''They believed that under a fair
Interpretation none of their powers
would be attempted to be taken away.
Then came Mr.. Morey's unfortun-
ate accident, and for nearly two
months the business was wholly in the
hands Of the other two members.
They were engaged in getting ready
for their fall work, to begin Aug. 1,
and II IL no wonder they were not able
to fully grasp the situation. The nor
NAL board could get practically moth
ing. Out of about 800, 600 for i'm
provements on the buildings at Wi
mona, Mankato, st. Cloud and Moor
head, such restrictions and delays
were imposed that not more than $5,-
600 of the sum has been expended, and
that at Moorehead.
SIT was only when the two members
sought wholly to ignore our board and
put into the places of the resident di-
rectors the presidents of the schools
that any serious. difficulty occurred.
There came to me protests from all
over the state.
p 2 81 called up Mr.. Lee by telephone
and warned him of the danger, and
that our board would never stand such
work that the presidents were our
employees and held their offices only at
the pleasure of our board; that it
would create confusion, ana, worst of
all, would degrade our board from the
position given it by law.
''He then answered, practically
agreeing with me, and said he would
confer with his associates, and thought
it would be made satisfactory. He
never asked me to call or confer fur
ther. 1 never heard word from any
member of that board thereafter. On
the contrary, the evidence came to me
from many undoubted sources that our
wishes for cooperation would not be
listened to.
SAT our board meeting a few days
after a. letter to Director Mitchell was
read and reiterated their demand.
upon such an arrogant assumption
there has never been any difference of
opinion among our members. The
only question considered was whether
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

s- CHICAGO, Aug 28.
CATTLE-Sales ranged at $5.7o@6 80
for good to prime steers, So. 70@5. 90 for
poor to medium, $2.25@4.25 for stockers
and feeders, 81 4004Sj for COWS and
heifers, 4OO@5 10 for Texas fed steers.
HOGS-Sales ranged at So SOG6.50 for
mixed and butchers So 9O@6 so for good
to choice heavy, $5.7O@5.S5 for rough
heavy, s570@625 for light 5000 g. 30
for bulk of sales
SHEEP-Sales ranged at 50. 25 400 for
sheep, 81. 5Ou5.25 for lambs
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G &c. st. P, M. & O. Time Tableg-E
In effect Sept. 30, 1900.
Trains Going West and South
sDesMoines and Sioux City Passenger No. 81
-, arrives at 10 35 a. m, Departs at 10 :35 am
rhansas City and Denver Express No. q
>, arrives at IL As p. m. departs at IL 55 o, M.
Kansas City Mail and Express, No. /, arrives
49, at IL :13 p. M, departs at II :13 D. m
ST. James Passenger No. arrives at
%Mankato and Elmore Passenger No. 9.
departs at 7 is a. n
Trains Going East and North
Twin City Limited No 2 arrives at ABA
................. departs at :43 a, m,
*St James Passenger No. s, arrives at $3.50
q. m. .................. departs at Z 10 a. m,
sTwin City Local No 6, arrives at IL 45 pm
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. departs at 05 D m
Twin City Express No. 4 arrives at 80 pm
- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. departs at $40 D. m.
gilmore and Mankato Passenger No. IL,
,.....................a arrives ct 8 40 p m
%Daily except Sunday. Daily.
CHAS. e. JOHNSON, Ticket Agent
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If You Do

Z The best you can you will have no
regrets. The 500 line offers the best
routes to the Pan-American exposition
and eastern points. Get itineraries
and full particulars from any 500 Line
agent or write w. R. Galloway, G. P.
A., Minneapolis. MINI.
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CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

...g ... CHICAGO, Aug. 20.
WHEAT-Aug 691sc, Sept. $3.50, Oct.
roc, Dec. 715sc.
CORN-Aug $500, Sept. $3.50, Oct.
545sc, Dec 565sc.
OATS-Aug. 1870, Sept. $3.50, Oct.
SIC, Dee. 3514c.
PORK-Aug. $141714, Sept. S14.l715,
Oct Sab, Jan. S15.35
tLAX-Cash Northwest $l52, No. 1
ST. Is, Sept. Sl.461!, Oct. Sl44.
FOULrRY-Dressed chickens 01OIc,
turkeys csc.
BUTTER-Creamery 14@20c, dairy ID
@l7c.
EGGS-Fresh lac
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Sioux City Live Stock.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Aug. 20.
CATTLE-Sales ranged at S325@5. 10
for beeves, S2.25@325 for COWS, bulls and
mixed, 50 5OG36O for stockers and feed.
ers, 81 75@350 for calves and yearlings.
HOGS-Sales ranged at So. $4,000.
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ST. Paul Union Stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug %.
HOGS-Sales ranged at So SO96.1Q
CATTLE-Sales ranged at $5.O0@525
for prime butcher steers, $3.S0@4, 10 for
prime butte her cows and heifers, S5.00@
$50 for choice veals, So. 10 as. 40 for choice
feeders.
SHEEP-Sales ranged at 81. 25@4 Is for
choice butcher lambs, 3d. $3.50 for fat
bprS
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DILUTE, Aug. 70
WHEAT-Cash No l hard TIC, No. l
Northern roc. NO. : Northern 6614c, o.
sprin 04 &c To Arrive-No. hard
7lAc, No. l Northern 69Ac, Sept 69Ac,
Oct. IS &c, Dec 7035c.
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Buffalo and Return.

Via. 500 line SSand the lakes. AT
small additional cost we include sleep
ing car berths on steamers, and all
meals enroute. Call on agents for fur
ther information, or write W. R. Cal
laway, g. P. A, Minneapolis, MINI. "a
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chicago, Milwaukee s St. Pau,
Trains Arriving Departing.
no. 1o1-1O:So a. M, Nc. 122-6:26 D. o.
NO. 1913 2:30 D. n. NO. 1oS-2:45 .. NJ.
no. 1873 7:45 y. n. No. I66-S:9op p. N.
No. 122 makes connections at Austin for
Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, St. Louis and
Peoria, also for points west OF Wells.
No. JOB makes connections for Chicago, NIL
Waukee and points west of Wells.
J. G.. MOORE, Agent,
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Minneapolis Wheat.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 20.
WHEAT-Cash CSC, Sept. 673sc, Dec.
CSC On Track-No. hard 70Ac, No. !
Northern 6SAc, No. , Northern 65Ac.
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National Eucsmpment q. A. R, Cleve
land, Ohio, Sept, l0-l4, 1901.

The Omaha sells round,.. trip tickets
at SIG. 80 on Sept. Z, 8, 9th, limit Sept
10th, an extension until %%Oct. s, 1901,
will be allowed