The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-07-17


The future of the automobile is de-
scribed by The Portland Oregonian: CAT
ter all the effort and money that have
been and are being expended upon auto
mobile construction and all the necks
that have been and will yet be broken
in automobile races, the machine that
will abide with us and in time supplant
the vehicle drawn by horses is one that
will average ten or twelve miles an
hour on fairly good roads, and which can
be kept in service without expenditures
for repairs that will greatly exceed the
feeding and care of pair of good, reli-
able horses and the ordinary repairs
which wagon or carriage requires. The
prejudice against automobiles that is felt
by nearly everybody who is not able to
own one will disappear before the ad-
vent of the machine which is built for
use instead of speed alone"
Arbitration is the thing. The Phila-
delphia Ledger says a recent report OF
the British labor department shows that
the settlement of labor controversies by
arbitration is growing in favor in the
United Kingdom. During last year 45l,-
600 disputes respecting wages were set
tied by Cancellation boards and 10000
by the parties themselves. Wage earners
received much less than in 1901, but tax
ing the period of ten years, from 1893
1902, the whole of the time the statis-
tics have been collected, there was
sob4 i,or about
Per head per week.
Out in Butte members of the Elks
lodge are very much wrought up over the
organization by the colored men of the
city of a society which calls itself the B.
P. O. E. Recently the men of color gave
a dance and the program was made up
after the style of one used at dance
given few weeks previous by the Elks.
The black men are wearing buttons with
Elks head predominating feature.
Whom are we going to believe when
the scientists fall out? asks the Troy
Times. 'W'ho is going to decide when
scientists disagree? here we find one
group of investigators, moved by re-
cent discoveries, such as the remarkable
of the substance known as ra-
dunn, figuring out that the earth and all
that is in it must resolve themselves into
their original elements or confusion of
element and that we shall have chaos
come again. Another group of scientists
declares that this is utter nonsense and
those who entertain such theories are
dreamers. So it goes. Every discovery
is met by scientific doubt as well as
scientific belief and the unlearned is to
be forgiven for not knowing where he is
at But he can probably rest his soul
in the calm confidence that the old world
will 90 on for some time to come at
least much as if there were no scientists
and no new and startling theories"
One of the mysteries of the season is
mentioned by The Boston Herald: mo
one has ever clearly explained why, at
this season of the year, a girl whose |
skin would be hopelessly ruined were
she to roll up her sleeves and put her
hands into dishpan half full of water
for few minutes, can play golf or
tennis, barearmed, all day long, or go in
to the water bathing morning, noon and
night, and be proud of the color she ac-
1uires in so doing. Why is it, girls?
Don't all shout the answer at once