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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-09-27
Weak Digestion.

Indigestion and Dyspepsia have wrecked
many lives. People who are weak and
miserable should know that health would
return if the digestion were made normal.
This is just the condition Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters brings about. 1t cures
constipation, biiiousness. nervous
ness, liver and kidney troubles, and
produces sound sleep 1t will also prevent
Malaris, Fever and Ague
II has mn A0sfeffes''s
Equal Biffer:s.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-09-27

Mrs. 81. B. Wollam has gone to
Glenwood and Elbow Lake to spend a
month.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-09-27

Mrs. Frank Piper of Minneapolis is
visiting her brother, Geo. E. Brett,
and family.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25
Fool or Knave:

III am not in error" Miss Daisy
PeaOhblow said earnestly, compressiug
hsr lips in an ominous manner at each
pause, "if am, not wandering by the
wsyside mentally, you stated mo.
men. ego that Reginald sapley was a
bright fellow
"Well-er-er-I think I did make
some such good natured remark" ad-
mitted Eyrta Hapgood. "Why, isn't
he bright fellow2'
"Well," said Miss Daisy, "he is
either fool or knsve, and T. m quite
sure he isn't g knave."
"Then he must be q fool. There's
only the fool left. Aren't you rather
severe, Daisy, dear?"
Judge for yourself. He was here
all Christmas eve, you know?'
eyes. He remained until IL O'Clock.
1 believe you said
That's true-four long and weary
hours until midnight, and, as you can
see, l have this bit Of mistletoe hang
from the chandelier in the middle of
the room"
"Of course. Well?'
swell, it was here last night, and
during the long and weary hours I
naturally happened to drift under it a
few times, and he"
"Tried to Kiss you, did he? Ha,
hal"
'Tried to kiss me!' cried the in
dignant Daisy. "What, that bright
fellow try 20 kiss me2 Listen! Every
single time I happened under the
chandelier he jumped up and down,
waved his arms in the air like q crazy
man and shrieked: 'Look out, NTH
DaithyI Look. outl You're right
thquare under the mithletoe. NTH
Dsithy!' Bright fellow7 Fool
-f-o.o-lT-New York World.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25

- In Greece, in the third century
B. O., the wearing Of silk was forbidden
to women, the husbands Of those who
violated the law being heavily fined,
on tho theory that husband ought
50 be able to control his wife's taste
for finery.
Diptheria germs survive at lsass
fifteen years. This has been proved
by two cases Of diptheria il. sA::!a..-sss:. children
who could have contracted che disease
in no way except through playing with
toys that had been stored fifteen years
in an old trunk.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25

- The Boston Journal has discover
ed and printed the names aud resi-
dences Of S18 couples in New Eng
land who have been married fifty or
more years.
Consulting Physician-"Do you
think the patient can stand On opera
tion?" Family Dootor-"Can he
stand it2 Why, my dear sir, che man
is millionaire
A man may be willing to admit
that his wife knows more than he does,
but just the same he objects to her
running his business.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25

The kidneys ache when they are
over-worked and the trouble gets seri-
GUS unless promptly removed. Prick
~ Ash Bitters is reliable kidney
tonic and bowel regulator. Evans
Pharmacy. ~
Girls wouldn't mind go much IL
the only thing chat got ohapped was
their faces. 81
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25
Boy and the Presiding Elder.

Va P1SSn0Ao OCIuB Ou
tap, Hon. John Dougherty, Of Mis-
souri,, contributed the following:
In one Of the counties composing
the Third congressional district Of
Missouri there lives good Christian
lady, .devout and constant member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. Some days before the date Of
quarterly conference held there
some years ago our good lady friend re.
ceived word that the presiding elder
would be her guest for o few days
during the meeting, In order to con-
vince the elder that she had been and
was doing her Christian duty in the
matter of training her only child, q
boy, about four years old, TO walk in
"the straight and narrow path" she
thought it not amiss to give some
special instructions before :hc minis
ter arrived. So taking the little fell
low upon her lap one day she told him
that the presiding elder, big and a
great man, would visit them soon and
chat he would "be very sure to ask
some questions about your Sunday
school, how you like your teacher,
etc. But probably the first question
he asks will be: "What is your name? {?
How old are you? Do you know where
bad boys go when they die? Now,
when he asks YOUR name, tell him
Johnnie Jones. When he asks how
old you are, tell him four years
old, and when he asks IL you
know where bad boys go when they
die, tell him, using the Scriptual
word, that bad boys, when they die,
go to hell" John was drilled On
these questionssdaily until the minis
ter came. In the meantime he knew
by rote that his name was Johnnie
Jones, that he was four years old and
that when bad boys die they 20 to
hell.
The minister was portly gentle
man Of friendly manner and pleasant
countenance. After receiving cor
dial welcome, he was seated in the sit
ting room, and the proud parent ex-
cused herself and sought Johnnie,
the pride and expectancy of her life,
to introduce him to the minister.
After Johns face was washed his hair
combed and he was otherwise made
presentable his mother led him in
to meet the peacher. AS the urchin
entered the sitting room he observed
through the open door neighbor
playmate sitting on the fence whist
ling for him and calling him to come
out quick. Johnnie at once grew i'm
patient to go out and wished the
ceremony Of meeting the preacher and
answering his questions TO be done
with as asquiokly as possible. The dot
ing mother introduced him as the
youngest and her only child, the baby
Of the family. The good minister
called the boy to him and taking his
little chubby hand in his own remark
ed: "What very handsome lad? How
like his mother?" His next question
was exactly as had been anticipated.
"Well, my little man. what is your
name?" The boy glanced frst up to
the minister, then at his waiting play
mate, and intending to expedite mat
ters as much as possible by answering
the three expected questions at once,
replied, "Johnnie Jones, four years
old, go to hell, and-in the confusion
that followed skipped to meet his
friena.-Chanep Garke's C1oab Room
Stories.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25
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D0azbS@S q Mot hers
Joys aD@ Halves Megs
S0g.SaOWwSs

It does this by prenatal pre-
paration in which the mother finds
herself growing stronger instead of
weaker with each month. Instead
OF nausea and nervousness, there are
healthy appetite, quiet nerves, and
refreshing sleep. The minds con-
tent keeps pace with the body's
comfort. There is no anxiety. no
dread Of the approaching time of
travail. When the birth .lour
comes it is practically painless, the
recovery is rapid, and the mother
finds herself abundantly able to
nurse her child.
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Sick women are invited to con-
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MIRA Annie Bincker, GAG chherine Street.
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oS S my fnends and they have been benefited by
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dizziness and sick headache,
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
The Earthquake.

To the average resident Of the tenn
perate zones an earthquake is a rare
and terrible event creating more con-
stcrnation than any other visitation of
pature In the tropics, however, par
ticularly in Central America, it is won
de.ful how easily the residents be-
come accustomed to these shocks,
which do not come, however, wholly
without warning.
You are sitting on a piazza on a hot
afternoon chatting with your friends
when suddenly the sky seems to grow
hazy and the crows stop cawing. There
is general rush, and, though you may
not know what is the matter, you can
not help feeling uneasy.
The old natives say. "We're going to
have n little shake" and then the
house begins TO rock, the tumblers fall
off the table, you feel deathly sick at
the stomach, and the thing is all over.
The sky clears, the crows begin their
noisy screams, and things are soon put
right again
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
The Chnnccr In Policy.

The retired poke" shopkeeper was
explaining to his interested hearers
some Of the mysteries OF his former
business.
"The chances Of winning at the pol
Icy game" he said, ARE about like this:
You take a bushel basket and fill 1t
with small white beans Then you
put one small black bean into the bas-
ket and shake the lot up. After that
go to some skyscraper' building, say
one about 20 stories high, and place a
penny on the sidewalk in front Of it.
This done, shoulder your bushel of
beans and take the elevator TO the roof
Of the building. Then lean over the
edge of the roof and, aiming at the
cent on the sidewalk below. dump out
the beans in the basket all together.
Then hurry down on the elevator and
rush out TO the sidewalk. If you find
that the black bean has fallen upon the
penny, you win."-New York Times.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
MODERN SURGICAL OPERATION;
A WILMINGTON DOCTORS SKILL

For an emergency" said a Whining
ton man to the writer the either even
ing. the physicians of this city lead -
Then he continued: "A week or two
ago one OF our prominent doctors went
up into the backwoOds of Pennsylvania
for a hunting trip. ! will not pause
to relate how he bagged several wild
turkeys which farmer sold him for a
dollar apiece; my story concerns a dis
play of surgica1 skill.
"One evening when the doctor was
resting after hard days tramp, he
was called on by local saw-bones,
Who asked him to visit a case some
twelve miles distant as a consulting
physician. AS the Wilmington man
hadn't had much luck with his gun, lle
Thought he might be more successful
with his medicine case, so he sprs ng
into the blackboard, and away tTley
went He declares that the memory of
that ride brings tears to his eyes.
"A twelve-mile drive over stones and
other obstacles brought them to the
home of the patient. The local saw
bones had diagnosed the case as pneu-
monia, but the doctor said, no: it is
pleurisy. He found that a sack had
formed, and that it would be nee essary
to perform an operation to relieve the
patient So he said wen have to cut
him open, doctor"
"Saw-bones turned pale and cried:
My God You amt going to cut him
open. Yes, | am replied the doctor.
Then began a search for the surgical
instruments. Saw-bones had none, so
the premises were ransacked. They Sc
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
NEWSPAPER OPINION
A Surplus That Sticks
From The st. Louis Globe DemOcr

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
When Congress last winter knocked
Off $40. 100000 of taxes by removing a
large part OF the impOsts put on at the
beginning Of the Spanish war in 1898,
IL imagined il had abolished the Treas
Jury surplus. Congress was mistaken.
The surplus continues, and II S as
much of a menace as ever Every
month of the present fiscal year has
shown an excess of receipts over ex-
penditures. -Four months of the year
have expired, and the surplus to date
has been considerably in excess of
S27 600 ,000 The excess in the same
four months of last year was a little
short of S5OO0,OOO. though the excess
by the end OF the fiscal year ON June
80, 1901, amounted to over $77, 1000, 900.
At the present rate of surplus ac-
cumulation the excess by the time the
year ends at the close of next June
would be about S15O,0OO,O00. The ex-
penditures in the first part of the fiscal
year are relatively higher than they
are in THE remainder of the twelve
month. The surplus, when there is
any at an, lis small usually in the first
quarter or third of a year. The inn
mense surplus which is threatened in
the present fiscal year is due chiefly
to a reduction in expenditure. Though
the revenue in the four months al
ready expired of the present year is cut
about S4000,000 as compared with the
corresponding time last year, the ex-
penditures are reduced $4,000, 600. II
THE margin between income and outgJ
keeps around its present dimensions,
relatively to other years, the accumu,a-
tions in the remaining eight months
will bring the surplus by June 30 next
10 a figure anywhere between $14OO p
600 and Sl60, 100000.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
Peopling a Desert

From the New York Press
The redemption of the Desert of
Sahara has long been a pet project
of those Missionaries who are looking
for new worlds TO conquer through
glasses that do not permit them to
notice the waste places nearer at
home. One of our own Saharas, a
vast tract OF arid country,
held for many years as less
famous Bad Landsvast tract of arid
country, held for many years as less
habitable than the famous Bad Lands
of the plains, is now undergoing a re-
demption that ought to attract the at
tention of the whilOm saviors of the
African desert and possibly teach
them such valuable lessons that their
plans may come to a head and that
they may civilize a country that has
needed the attention of a fusion cam
lpaign committee for considerably
more years than has New York.
This desert redemption now going
on in the United States has taken the
form of rescuing about a million
acres of land i'm Southeastern Arizona,
Southeastern California. and Northern
! Lower California. a section of the
country best known through tales of
suffering brought from 1t by exploring
parties and naturalists. The begin
ming of the work lies in the carrying
of water to this great dry tract of sun
baked land. The progress of the irri-
eating works since June has not UnlP
brought hundreds of families to the
country, but has matured crops on
1900 acres of ground. BY January
$4,000 acres of land will be within
reach of irrigation. and within three
years this area is to be increased to
10000 acres, of which more than a
quarter has been filed on under desert
and homestead claims. The pOpula-
ton of this desert in this already
brief period has increased from five
men-according to the voting register
Ito about 1000, many of whom have
come from cities in the East.
J These figures would indicate thai
, the return to nature is not fad o.
the hour and of the well-to-dO. anC
also explains away in measure one
Of the reasons for the deserted farmi
of the Atlantic coast States and th'
l difficulties Of hiring sufficient farm
e help in the Middle West
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
oday

YOU'RE going to start for the top of
the hilg
And blazon your name to the world;
All obstacles passed by the strength of
your will,
Your banner triumphant unfurled,
You'll fling to the breezes that flow
from the sky
An never earth tainted you say;
'ris noble and grand and delightful;
but why
But why don't you do it today?
The good that You think and the good
THAT you do
Arc millions of long miles apart;
What good to the earth, if you're good
and you're true
But never outside of your heart2
The generous deeds you intend to per
form
Are all very lovely; but say.
While your soul is so high and your
heart is so warm,
Why don't you perform them today?
Lowell o. Reese, in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21

carry a gun and pull a trigger is out
for game and the imbecile, Of course,
is in evidence Many of these never
bagged rabbit or quail save by ac-
cident. but they are expert in bringing
down human beings. IL has been sug-
gested that the sportsmen should wear
coat of mail. and he may have to
come to that yet. We read stories
every day Of how some expert with
the rifle has brought down another
hunter. mistaking him for other big
game. OF course the likeness Of a
man TO deer is so great that the
mistake is regarded as excusable.
There seems TO be a principle guiding
the huntsman who never kills any
thing but men; shoot anything that
moves. How is all OF this TO be stop
ped? II may be that a hunter will be
required to pass an examination and
take out a license before he is allowed
to start out to exterminate game. TIL
then cattle poultry, and men will not
be safe out OF doors in the cunning
season.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
WAYFARER'S NOTE BOOK
Rrldgetender BuYs mixed Shoes

Lindsay Wilson, bridgetender on
Market street bridge, recently had an
experience in buying a pair of shoes
that is worth telling.
He went to NJ. Gradys shoe store
and purchased a pair of high topped
lace shoes for which he paid $3.50 and
went home. In trying them on he
foEud one more roomy than the 9th er,
but that did not worry him any. His
wife examined the shoes and said
Lindsay" isn't one of those shoes
larger than the other"
1t might be a triile bigger" he re-
piled, as he went off to work.
While he was on the bridge yester-
day MIR. Grady appeared.
"Ain't you the man l sold a pair of
high shoes?" he asked.
Yes. and l paid you for them, too, -
was the prompt reply.
Il know, my man. that you paid
me. but won't you let me see the
Shoes"
Hero they are on my feet" said
Wilson, displaying his new purchase.
II thought that I gave you odd
numbers he replied and Mr. Wilson
had to remove the big shoe and re-
place it with the one that fit.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21

The Salvation Army has won its way
by single-hearted devotion, by unre-
served se.f-sacrifice, and by a courage
that nothing daunts Into the dark
est recesses of the city's haunts OF
misery and vice these soldiers of the
cross go fearlessly, women and men.
They do not go with denunciations
but with loving appeals. Many of them
can say, and do say: I'VE were as you
were. We have found the better way
We are here to lead you into it.
Gomez! And hundreds have followed
these apostles of a loving faith out OF
sin and wretchedness into better life
The Salvation Army soldiers have done
good work in Cleveland. They are
doing il daily and hourly. They have
well earned the good will which is now
universally given them. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
Secrets of CoTee NTnIsinr.

Experiment has disclosed the fact
that one-fourth Of n teaspoonful Of me-
dium strength vanilla added the last
thing before serving to enough coffee
for four persons improves it 80 per
cent. The secret of perfection is to use
enough vanilla TO cover the strong cof-
fee flavor, yet not enough to be de-
tected.
A. pinch of salt in coffee has long
been my secret for n certain delicate
flavor that every one likes, but l did
not know until recently that had in
some mysterious way stumbled upon
the inodus operandi which has made
the coffee of Norway superb" In
that country the coffee is roasted fresh
every morning in a covered shovel kept
in constant motion over the fire. A bit
of salted butter added after the roast
ing process is begun gives 1t an inde-
scribable flavor as delightful as it is
subtle.
The French, too. have made their
reputation for excellent coffee by using
butter while roasting it. 4 piece of
butter the size of a walnut. with des-
sertspoonful of powdered sugar to
three pounds Of green coffee, is the
proportion used. This is said TO bring
out both flavor and aroma and, more
over, gives the slight caramel taste
which tourists remember to have en-
ioycd nowhere but in France.-What
TO Eat.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

The fruit OF the umganu tree of
South Africa yields a strong intoxi-
eating drink for the natives. Ele-
plants are fond of it, becoming quite
tipsy, staggering about, playing an
tics. screaming so as to be heard for
miles and having tremendous fights.
When in this state the natives leave
them alone.
Dobson-'Lend you $40? Why, man,
don't know you!"
BOrrOwer-"Thats the reason
asked you. No one that knows me
will lend me a cent"
Cigars are given to sailors in the
Italian navy as part Of their daily
rations. A slight portion Of wine is
also furnished at the dinner hour or
at any hour if the sailor feels little
bit weak.
What" she cried, visit the natl
torium on ladies' day We couldn't
think of permitting it, Why, we're
all in our bathing suits"
But so you are at the seashore in
the summer" he suggested.
"Oh. yes. of course, she answered,
but that's different, you know"
A company manufacturers a gas and
oil engine which is without valves,
the engine being so constructed that
the piston acts i'm this capacity. 1t
claims exceptional compactness. dura-
btlity and especially economy. On
plants above ten horse power the en-
gine is reported to consume in eight
hours fifteen gallons of crude petrO-
leum at cost of 1la cents per gallon
from which is obtained four gallons
residue. which makes a very good and
successful lubricant. which. can bC
sold for five cents a gallon; thus the
fuel account is reduced to a minimum
! "Of course. began Miss Gaussip
some of tho stories I've heard abou
her are not worthy of being believed
but
"Ahl" exclaimed Miss Pepprey
merely worthy of being repeated
, eh?"
Owing to the depredations of nativ
sportsmen. the hare bids fair to be
come extinct i'm France. The passen
, ger boats from Folkestone take owe
5 daily supplies to BoulOgne TO max
good the shortage Of native animals
n This is the first season that hare
have been imported from England.
r. Among the peasants of Turkey "a
n most all the doctoring is still done b
O women In Constantinoplc there al
Il laws against these healers but the
d flourish. nevertheless.
a London School Board has Opent
I'd the first of a series of schools for cril
D. pies. The children are taken from the
homes to school i'm an ambulance an
le sfterward taken homo by ambulanC
ne The school curriculum includes a su
is stantial midday meal
al There is one millionaire in d
as United States TO every 10000 inhat
a. tants.
Evening journal., 1901-11-21
Abstinence vs.. Temperance
mi ihe Chlcaen Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Speaking TO the Twentieth Century
club on "The Art of Happiness, Sa-
rah Grand, the English novelist,makes
this remarkable assertion: The man
who refuses to drink because he Is
afraid makes an error. There is a lot
of satisfaction in feeling that one en-
lows self-control and this seu-con-
.sciousness never comes to the total
abstainer.'
Nine. Grand's philosophy is as old
as Aristotle. who said that true virtue
is mean between extremes. The
pith of this Aristotelian utterance lies
/ in the unQuestioned fact that the
~ -ongost characters are those that
are self-controlled. leaning neither to
lausterity on the one hand nor excess
on the other
Nevertheless our modern civilization
gives the lie In practice to tho theory
that the total abstainer is as Nine
Grand says. in error. There are con
ditions familiar TO every one unde
which total abstinence may be thu
highest of virtues. The habitns
> ldrunkard has no other refuge an'
! neither in philosophy nor in moral
can his abstinence place him on
lower plane than the strongly poise
individual who does not need to alb
stain entirely.
When Nine Grand says that th
!, total abstainer misses a large shar
n OF the ordinary pleasures of life she
= herself guilty of fundamental erro
e The individual who practices tot;
= abstinence as moral safeguard hs
the approval not only Of his own col