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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Returns from twenty eight counties
in Minnesota, comprising one-half of
the total vote of the state, show that
the gross earnings tax is more than
6 600 votes behind the requisite num-
Der to pass. The total vote In these
counties is 1876. 64S. The treasure re-
ceiYed SO, 1913 votes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14
Babcock 8 ST

DR.. L. W. Babcock's speakership
boom is assuming large proportions
and it is predicted by his host of
friends that he will have substantial
backing for the position when the time
to vote arrives. The ,ctor is a capa-
BILE gentleman and would make very
creditable presiding officer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

John Lind discontinued his libel suit
against The Minneapolis Times. after
a jury had disagreed. People in Min
neapolis and throughout the state for
that matter never looked upon the
case with great deal of seriousness.
This closes another incident of the
late campaign.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

In Kansas the people elected gov
ernor with the understanding that he
provide himself with a wife. A
SO. 900 executive mansion is awaiting
fair mistress. As the governor is
allowed to seek his bride in any state
the young ladies of Minnesota should
get busy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14
A BAKERS DOZEN.
Bennett Williams Gains One Vote on
Official Canvass.

The canvassing board has thus far
found but two changes in the election
returns different from the public re-
turns made by the judges. In Lyra,
Bennett Williams gains one vote. hav-
ing received nineteen there. This
brings his majority up to- thirteen.
Van SAINT loses two votes in one of the
townships. The board expects to COM
plete its work tomorrow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Don't get too gay when the football
teams are practicing. A Minnesota
youth was spying on the. Wisconsin
eleven and he received a ducking in
the lake at Madison for his pains.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Fl. V. Jones, editor of The CONNER
cial West. has purchased The Mime.
apolis Times, and will conduct it
along independent lines as it has been
in the past.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Frank Hamilton. the Minneapolis
newspaper man, who was convicted of
the murder of Leonard Day, is denied
a pardon. He was sentenced to state 8
prison for seven years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

That astute politician "Ike' Steph-
enson. whose habitat is Wisconsin, is
in danger of losing the sight of one
eye. He will, however, be able to
keep the other eye on the political
situation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Archbishop Ireland. who addressed
the Minnesota Society of New York
on Monday night gave expression to
the following sentiment, which will
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Maude Lillian Berri. the operatic
singer, went to sleep and swallowed
her watch. Time went out of sight.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Grace-Better doctor your health
before applying identifying remedies.
Rid yourself of constipation, indiges-
ton, with Rocky Mountain Tea and
You II have beautiful face.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Senator Nelson is among the number
who will tour Oklahoma, New Mexico
and Arizona to investigate these ter
ritories' claims to statehood.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

The political gymnastics performed
by The Chokio Review during the last
campaign were truly wonderful 1t
is believed that at some time or other
it supported every candidate in the
field, regardless of party or lack Of
party. Morris Sun.
That editor wanted to be a good fel.
low with everybody.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

When congress gets together at it's
next session Cannon is liable to con-
front it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14
ARE YOU INTERESTED.

All the real estate belonging to the
estate of Geo. 81. Marsh. except his resi-
dence, is offered for sale in lots to suit
purchasers. This property will be sold
without delay and without reserve.
Inquire of F. W. Marsh or r. W.
Pierce at the late residence of Mr..
Marsh
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

An English paper has heaped insult
upon j. P. Morgan by referring to
him as a mere millionaire.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

The normal team worked in the rain
last night-there' something in the
air.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14
Observation-Disclosures

President Roosevelt is going to hunt
bear. He made one "baer" hunt his
hole short time since.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Perry Wysong finished the brick
work on the mill Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Wysong is one of hest brick
masons in the west as old as he is.
From tue first the building grew.
and never stopped until completed.
1t is fine structure; credit to the
town and the man who built it. =
Lake Crystal Union.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Down in Marion county, Indiana,
the Hon. "Lew" Shank, candidate for
recorder, dealt out cards which read
as follows: Wanted-Ten thousand
girls to kiss their sweethearts and ask
them to vote for Lew Shank for re-
corder.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Splendid chance just nov for men t. lam
barber trade. Growing demand for schoOl
gradus ties Steady practice q Allied teachers,
tic. Board provided tools presented, wri,e ts1,
day. Catalogue and comb ee Moler Barber
College, MInneap lis, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14
NEFFS WEEKLY BUDGET.

Welsh people in Lake Crystal are
rendering reception today to Rev. d.
Edwards and wife who recently re-
turned from England
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

According to the colonel Alexander
G. Graft fooled the boys in Lake
Crystal by coming to Mankato and
getting married. But the boys will
lay for Alex on his return home. The
colonel suspects another wedding, this
time Lake Crystalite is to capture
one of the fair daughters of ST. James.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Some young men cherish that mis-
taken idea of fun which finds express
sion in an attempt to exhaust the
visible whisky supply in Zone night
out. :" The stuff will keep. Duluth
News Tribune.
And it grows better with age.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Rev. Thomas B. Roberts of Fayette-
willie, n. Y, says he kissed Kittie
upon her urgent invitation. He
probably will not do it again. as it
caused talk and thrashing. -Duluth
Herald.
Other men have carassed the
Hkittie' and their finish was very
bad.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Mankato has bowling alley where
ladies frequent to take hand in the
game. No drinks are sold in the
alley, but gentlemen come. This is
the twentieth century. What would
our pious people have said thirty-fve
years ago if such place of amuse-
ment had been provided with the
view of entertaining the women folks2
1t is fact that the people have come
to think differently from what our
fore-mothers did forty years or 50 ago.
Te can't say as there is anything
wrong about the ladies taking hand
in sports of this kind. but really ii
looks odd to those who have been lead
to believe otherwise to such people
anything so masculine was considered
out of good taste. However, Mankato
is changing, she has variety hall,
and number of other places, where
the young gather to enjoy the evening
that she did not have years ago. All
towns, to amount to anything must be
up TO the times. and Mankato has her
head up and coming. Lake Crystal
Union
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14

Well, your Uncle Van wouldn't turn
up his nose at vice presidential nom
ination.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-14
JURY is PROBING
Looking Into the Death of Hahn
at Rochester.
Several of the Attendants Tell Their
Stories of What Occurred In
Patients Room.

Inquiry into the manner of the
death of George Hahn, the st. Paul
man who died at the Rochester insane
hospital was continued throughout
yesterday and it was thought that the
coroner's jury would not conclude its
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

SELF and many of the great writer's early
struggles are wildly portrayed in the
course of the tale. The various emotions
experienced by the youthful hero are
merely artistic replicas of the sentiments
which agitated the soul of the author dur
ing a certain portion of his career-senti-
ments faithfully reproduced and carefully
analysed.
Lord Lytton described his own character
and several of his adventures in the pages
of his novel, Pelham" So generally was
this fact known to his friends that many
of them were in the habit of addressing
his as Dear Pei when writing TO the dis
tinguished author, and although Bulwer
never openly admitted that he was the
prototype of the said character, he, on the
other hand, never denied the soft impeach-
ment.
Charles Reade confessed without reserve
that the character of Mr.. Rolfe, the liter
airy realist who appears in the novel en-
titled "A Terrible Temptation" was an
exact duplicate, physically, morally and
mentally, of himself. Every eccentricity,
listed in Charles Reade will be found truth
Rolfe"-even the furniture of his study
being practically an inventory OF the fur
niture appertaining to the author himself.
M. Emile lola, the famous French realist,
has described himself and his early strug.
giles towards success In the pages of one or
his widely-read novels; whilst the late
Alphonse Daudet, his talented contempt
rary, did likewise in the course of ro-
nance called "L1mmortel.'' a book devoted
to the vagaries of intellectual society in
France.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
Books Which Have Been Lost.

William g. Walsh, in the Era.
The world, We have been assured time
and again, knows nothing of it's greatest
men. Perhaps it is equally ignorant about
it's greatest books. Are we quite sure that
the idols in our literary pantheon are ar
raysd in their due order of precedence?
The rules of precedence change, and who
shall assert that those prevalent at any
given time are the final ones? But above
all. are we quite certain that there may
not be a notable work of genius lying I'M
noticed and unknown amid the wrecks of
the river of time-waiting only for some
lucky accident that shall reveal it in all
It's beauty TO an astonished world?
Such accidents with such results have
been frequent in the history of the past
Indeed, such accidents have preserved or
have revealed to the world no insignificant
proportion of its now acknowledged mas
terpieces
The books of the Bible themselves have
experienced the naProwest escapes from
what might have resulted in their total loss
The most notable example is that of Deu-
teronomy, which disappeared from the Jew
ish world for over a century. The story
of its rsdiscovery by the high priest Heze-
kiah during the reign of good King Josiah
is set forth in the Old Testament.
Shakespeare was practically forgotten ir
the days when Addison wrote hts Account
of the Greatest English Poets,' with never
a mention of the name of the very great.
est. Yet it was very shortly afterward that
Shakespeare was resuScitated
Fitzgeralds Omar Khayyam" and
Blackmore's Lorna Doone" dropped still
born from the press and later won sud
den popularity by accident.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
A Joke on the Author.

Elliott Flower, in October Lippincott's
Magazine.
An author-for obvious reasons he would
not care to have his name used-recently
had a call from a friend who was about to
start on a journey.
'T wish had something good to read on
the train, - remarked the friend.
"Have you read my last book?" asked the
author.
NO." answered the friend. What is it
romance or humor?"
81 supposed it to be humor," laughed the
author, land / don't mind giving you a
copy on an advertising basis
Whats thar" asked the friend.
why, all you've got to do is to laugh
and chuckle while your reading it and hold
it so that the other people on the car can
see what the book is that you find so di-
verting That's the best kind of advertis-
ing book can have
"I'll try it," said the friend, and he took
the book
OF course, this was all said in fun. and ii
was so understood, but as the friend rolled
along in the parlor car it occurred to him
that the humorous possibilities of the sit
uation were not entirely exhausted. So ii
happened that the author received the fol-
lowing telegram, sent from a way station:
Don't want book on terms quoted"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

covered that competition with the news
papers in the matter of illustrated articles
of general character is out of the ques-
ton. News, semi-news features will be
dropped entirely. and illustrations will al
most totally disappear. This may seem
like bold prediction, but already the re-
action against pictures has set in. Of
course, L refer only to periodicals devoted
to general literature. The Smart Set
came out three or four years ago without
a picture, and was success from the
start. Ainslie's, which previous to this
month has sold for 10 cents copy, and
was very much like the other 10-cent mag
azines, has now appeared minus illustra-
tons, on the strength of which it raises its
price to 15 cents Lippincotts Magazine
doesn't use illustrations, and steadily in
creases in popularity. A new weekly
called the Brandur Magazine, with a bar
rel of money behind it, has just appeared
with neither a picture an advertise
ment, although / dare say the latter will
come when a legitimate circulation war
rants move in that direction. Take my
word for it-and 1 am forced to watch the
Held closely-the public is tired of illus
trated magazines. 1t wants something di-
verting to read. 1t gets all the pictures it
wants In the daily and Sunday newspa-
perS."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
Time and the Book.

Arthur McIlroy, in October National.
Slowly but surely the shadows of oblivion
creep up to obscure the works of even our
greatest men. The very pressure of new
talents. Interpreting a new era, and de-
handing recognition, crowds old talents,
interpreting other eras. into the darkness
at the neither marge of time. Little by lit
tie the works of the great dead become OBJ
solete and are forgotten The anthology
contains the names and surviving poetic
fragments of hundreds of singers who
have filled impressive volumes in their
own days. Only the curious and indus
trious scholar, compiling long lists of dead
volumes and obscure dates, finally recalls
to an Indifferent world the prodgies per-
formed by his hero of yesterday The
average reader wants only the best of
any man or group of mon. Even Shak-
speare and the Bible have fallen into this
category; we have shrewd critics naming in
a list of the worlds best writings, not the
Bible as a whole but the Book Of Isaiah,
mon, or the Psalms of David The shrewd
publisher recognizing this drift of the
t1me-thlS natural result of the multiplied
ton OF duties and pleasures that beset us
resorts 10 complications of 1.-The best" of
this author and of the other, not merely in
Producing US, but giving us in brief COM
pass the loftiest thought, the purest style
OF the writer in question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

Evident witness Of this Is given by the care
fully prepared paragraphs OF news sum-
mary. now familiar feature of the weekly
paper largely displacing the editorial in
importance. These news summary para
graphs are extended to the occasional
monthly, while the ordinary monthly maya
zine OF miscellaneous aim surrenders an
increasing space of contemporaneous sub
jects and to the reports and comments OF
men who have seen important happenings
or who have been themselves part OF
them. Novel and highly useful as all this
material will prove to the historian OF
the future, embarrassing in its riches and
long accessible (since the periodical press,
weekly and monthly. is printed on durable
paper II yet cannot take the place OF the
daily newspaper frst-hand impressions
These have a characteristic freshness
crude but realistic, that the other must
lack. quality that counts for much in de-
termining values in picture. AS the his
torian of to-day. seeking what is vital In
the past, turns from records, documents
and state papers to gossipy letters and
diaries-even though biased and malicious
so the historian of the future might turr
from the most judicial of chronicles anC
the most painstaking Of recollections 10 the
spicy first reports as they appeared on the
yellowest page Of yellow journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
further. but at present they resign it in its

further. but at present they resign it in its
last stage to women.
The girls sit at little inclosed desks in an
almost airless room. The smallest draught
of wind must be excluded, so light is the
substance handled. AS ii is, quantities fly
about and settle in the girls hair and cloth
ing. The walls and corners glisten with it.
In front of each girl is a, fine leather
cushion and at her side are piled the molds.
She turns the leaves and with the aid of
two slender wooden tools, one pincers and
the other a kind of stiletto, lifts the SHIN
merng gold, drops it on the leather
cushion and breathes on it gently to fatten
ii. This must all be done lightly and quick
ly to avoid breaking. With two strokes of
a wooden stamp called a wagon, something
like a cooky cutter. the gold is cut into a
three and three-eighths inches square. The
trimmings are swept back into a box and
the gold is again lifted and dropped be-
tween the leaves of a tissue paper book,
where il becomes the gold leaf of COM
merce. Twenty of them sold together
in a package. The retail price is $3.50, An
expert workwoman can make from sixty to
eighty books a day. The work is delicate,
not firing, and but for the closeness of the
room would be decidedly pleasant occu-
patton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
The Passengers Aboard Ship.
Lawrence Perry. in the Worlds Work.

y
The other day a wealthy Chicagoan came
into the office of the line he patroniyed and
wished to be be booked for favorite ves-
sci 'in the suite / had last year" Unfortu-
nately that suite was taken, and Ii took
the combined efforts of clerk and agent
himself TO assure the patron that the suite
on the other board side was exactly as
good. Such diplomacy Is constantly de-
manded. On many vessels they do not have
staterooms numbered Is; passengers will
not book for a room bearing that number,
and until recently few will book on a vessel
sailing on Friday-lines leave on Friday,
though, from the English ports and many
from the German. All the great lines have
built up an enormous clientele, some pa
trehs even booking for prospective pas
the summer, particularly. moderate-sized
ocean steamships officers and passengers
are LIKE q big family, SO well have thty
become acquainted In past voyages. The
big boats, however, floating cities of people
are necessarily more conventional
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
Figure in Their Own Fiction.

The Book Lover.
1t has been observed by some student Of
literary humanity that every budding au-
thor describes himself in the person of the
hero of his first novel. This statement is
perhaps rather sweeping in its nature, but
none the less it is a well-known fact that
various celebrated writers have seen fit to
figure in their own fictions.
Probably the most notable illustration of
this remark will be found in the pages of
Charles Dickens's famous novel, David
Copperfield." The David of the story ia,
as most people are aware, the author HIM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
Good Rhymes Gone Wrong.

When the English tongue speak
Why Is break not ihymed with freak"
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew" but likewise few"
And tho maker of a verse
Cannot cap his horse with "worse?'
Beard" sounds not the same as heard"
Cord is different from word
Cow is COW, but low Is low;
Shoe Is never rhymed with foe"
Think of hose and dose and lose
And of ''goose"-and yet of choose
Think of comb and tomb and bomb
DOH and rolf and home and some
And, since pay is rhymed with say"
Why not ''peid with said, / pray?
We have ''blocd" and food" and good"
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore ''dcne." but gone" and "lone"'
Is there any reason known?
And, In short, 1t seems to me
Sound and letters disagree.
-Bangalore Magazine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
Newspapers and History.
Scribner's Magazine.

ScribnerS Magazine
Yet one cannot, from the standpoint of
future history writing, reckon the value of
the newspaper of to-day in terms of the
unwieldly bulk of its materials. And
despite garish coloring and distorted per-
spective the daily newspaper does reflect
life and make history in a sense that is true
of it alone; all the more, perhaps, for the
exaggerated emphasis it puts upon news
news and for the often absurd category
of its classification. Partly because of its
success and partly because of it's imperfec-
tons its methods have come to obsess the
periodical press to surprising extent.