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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Being a Good Fellow.

There is a whole lot of truth in the
following from The Toledo Bee:
ANY sensible young man ought to know
that he can't be up late nights abusing
his stomach and be in full possession OF
his faculties for business the next day.
And he ought to know, also that man
must be clear headed and in full posses
sion of his faculties to hold his own in
the keen competition of life. Your
good fellow is popular for the time be-
inc, but when his money is gone and he
has lost his job and is on his uppers
the good fellow" business doesn't get
him anything. Its poor fellow then
Another good man gone wrong, and 1.-THE
boys" are ready to hail another good
fellow who has the price.
We don't mean by this to say that
''the boys" are mercenary. They don't
altogether pass up good fellow when
he goes broke, but it isn't the
same. They say he hit up the booze too
hard and couldn't stand the pace. They
feel sorry for him, but he is out of it.
His good fellowship doesn't excuse him
even in the eyes of his friends for hay
inc thrown away his opportunity.
The young man who gets the sleep
his system needs, is temperate In MS
habits. lives within his means and shows
up for work in the morning with clear
eve and an active brain-that's the man
business men are looking for. They
want employees whom they can trust.
Having worked hard and laid by COM
petence they want to throw some OF the
burdens off, and they won't throw them
off on the employe VINO is too much OF
good fellow"
Cut it out, boys. There's nothing in
it. There's a whole lot of nonsense IN
that eoood fellow" business. You can't
fool the public very long by living be-
yond your means and keeping up APP
pearances. There must be showdown
some time or other, and that means a
loss of self-respect and many bitter eX-
periences. All men will think more OF
YOU if you hold yourself IN and don't
try to live wine existence on a beer n
come. Many bright and promising
business man has failed because he tried
TO travel in too swift class. Where
as had he lived within his means ne
might have become highly successful
merchant.
The world doesn't give up it's treas
ures easily 1t isn't in the cards for all
of us to be millionaires, and mighty
few of the good fellows" get into that
class. It's better to earn your way first
and go hunting for good times when you
have reached the point where you can
spare both the time and money. Then,
possibly you'll have more sense and have
a different notion about what good
time is.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Driver and the Chure h.

After tour of the country lecturing
here and there, DIR. John Merritte Driver,
returns to within the vicinity of Chicago,
where he resumes. his preaching. At
Lake Delavan Sunday Dr. Driver deliver
ed one of his characteristic sermons. 1t
was Driverian to the limit, the clear
quill blown in the bottle. The former
Mankato pastor declared that the. min
lister of today is one hundred years be-
hind the times, back number, drene
in the affairs of the world. Nor did the
church escape the flashing. In his own
fervid eloquence DIR. Driver said:
"My criticism of the church is it does
not realize that this is the day of it's SUI
preme urgency and opportunity. What
great problems are waiting its solution
problems the church alone can settle. The
reformers and lawmakers cannot settle
the temperance question. The labor
unions and employers associations can
not settle the labor question. The w.
G. I. U. and rescue homes cannot settle
the social evil question. The church alone
can settle every question that vexes and
imperils society and government.
"And what is the church doing in this
hour of ominous portent? In the midst
of wholesale liquor and gambling, anar-
ehies, strikes and lockouts and incendiary
speech and publication and assaults upon
character and virtuous innocence and
lawdefying organizations and combina-
tions and crazed and demonish lynchers
and lynchings and unparalleled material
ism and Sabbath desecration and ribald
challenges to the church to justify itself
or else go out of business the church con-
tinues to thresh over the old straw, the
preachers drone over the old sermons,
yellow as saffron with age, and the theos
logians do battle royal with medieval
ghosts and imaginary perils.
so for one sermon new, up-to-date,
down to-date, full of red corpucles, prac-
teal, applicable, biblical and graphing
seriously and heroically, without a single
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

thought of the salary, gallery or newspa-
per press, with the great, vital, urgent
questions of the present day and of the
present hour.
''What wonder the churches are wan
ing in every way-attendance, mem
bership, power and influenced! Even
the most virile churches are barely hold
ing their own. Sterility seems to be
settling upon the whole church. Let us
heroically face the facts and religiously
seek to set ourselves right. We have lost
our clew We are not onto our job, our
mission, our opportunity, our awful re-
sponsibility. We have lost our spirit
nal nerve and verve and swing of con-
quest. Self-seeking and materialism have
robbed us of spiritual vision and, most
of all, the preachers themselves. We
have lost out gift of interpreting the
scriptures to the needs of the present
day. The seer is no longer heard in our
pulpits. We no longer possess the genius
for applying the word of God to the new
and ever-varying conditions of men.
The hero who dare to thunder in the pull
pit and thunder and thunder and dares
the public and the press and me high and
mighty to do their worst is extinct.
eve preachers are like doctors 100
wears behind the times. There are no new
medicines. but there are new comblna-
tions and methods of treatment. 80
there is no new theology, but there
should be new and progressive, but up
to-date methods and appliances. We
preachers have not kept up with the doe
tors. The doctors are incessantly expert
menting, searching out, spying into, selz-
inc upon. utilizing and applying wisdom
from every quarter, compromising new
remedies out 81 world-old herbs and
minerals and immolating themselves up
on the affairs of science, literally dying
to save humanity from deadly and ago
nizing diseases. But we preachers, we
soul-doctors. are reading ESSAYS in the
pulpit. recrooning ancient platitudes, re-
vamping Plato and Emerson and quoting
poetry! If the doctors were as unprac-
teal and unprogressive and mskillful
and undevoted and unconcerned as we
preachers seem to be humanity wouldsbe
doomed in three generations. Let US
thank God for the doctors and pray Tor
the preachers. The times demand an
other Wesley"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
WILL BE INVESTIGATED.
Good Thunder Stirred Up Over the
Shooting of a Horse.
From Thursdays Daily.


The horse that was shot at Good Thun-
der Monday, short account of which
was publiched by The Free Press yes
terday was the property of Miss Valrah
Wood of st. Paul. 1t was ladies' driv-
ing horse, and Miss Wood had left it at
the home of her mother at Good Thun-
der, as she has a position in St. Paul.
The horse had been tied out on the
lawn to feed on the grass, but the rope
slipped from the head stall and it wan
dered about, possibly going upon neigh
boris lawn. A neighboring woman was
seen to drive it away with broom, and
a few moments afterwards it ran down
street, and people who saw it noticed
that it had been shot with rifle bullet
in it's right side. 1t was placed in the
pasture of the village blacksmith, where
it died the next day. DIR. R. M. Dodds
was summoned yesterday to hold post
bullet through the bowels, several of
which were perforated.
The killing of the horse is to be in
vestigated, and the guilty party will
be punished if it can be proved who did
the cruel and unwarranted act. The
villagers are said to be considerably
worked up over the matter, and the coun-
ty attorney will doubtless be asked to
take hand in the matter. 1t is said
that it is pretty well understood in the
village who did the shooting.
Miss Wood, it will be remembered, was
one of the heirs of her grandfather, who
died several years ago leaving much prop
erty in this city and near Good Thunder
She became involved in some litigation
over the matter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Real Railroad Issue.

The Minneapolis Tribune expresses the
opinion that railroads always will be
more or less of an issue in the politics
of northwestern states; but we do not
consider that this merger question pre-
sents the issue in its real and permanent
form. The suits of the last year or two
have diverted public attention to tenn
porary and superficial question, which
concerns the form more than the reality
of railroad consolidation The air will
be cleared by decision of those suits,
one way or another, and we shall get
back to the permanent question of regu-
lating the management of railroads.
however owned, in the interest of the
whole public, stockholders as we'll as
shippers and travellers 1t matters little
whether the merger is sustained or dis
solved. In one case we shall have COM
mon ownership of parallel lines by cor
poration; in the other case by individ-
uals. In either case, the old force of
competition will have disappeared, and
a new force must be sought in its place.
This elimination of competition has
been going on all over the country, as it
went on all over Great Britain fifty years
ago. Competition was abolished there
and parliamentary control took its place.
1t is going to disappear here, and some
form of public regulation must take its
place. The real railroad question will
concern itself with discovery of an eff
fective form of regulation, just alike to
the public and to the owners of railroads.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

Capitalists find in the west an excel
lent field in which to invest their money,
and electric railroads covering the farm
ing communities furnish good returns.
1t is now proposed to build an electric
railway from Chicago with a terminus
at Madison. Fond du Lac will be its
destination in the north. That portion
of the road from Chicago to GAINESVILLE
has already been constructed, with only
one intervening break in Illinois, between
Elgin and Belvidere, and work is now
being done upon this portion of the route.
Between Elgin and Chicago the line has
been in operation for some time. Be-
tween GAINESVILLE and Madison the fran
chises and right of way have already
been secured, and this is also true of
nearly all of that portion of the route
between Madison and Fond du Lac.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
MANkATo FREE PRESS.

their time and energies to forcing legis-
latures to act. 1t is cruel to allow
children of tender years to go out to
work, depriving them of the education
which they are so justly entitled to,
stunning their growth and narrowing
their minds.
There is rich field in which men like
John Temple Graves, Senator Tillman
and their ilk could labor to the end that
ignorant parents be made to recognize
that their children are entitled to more
kindly and sympathetic consideration.
And not only are the children wearing
their young lives away in southern fac
tories, but mothers with babies at their
breasts are toiling daily in an effort to
earn mere pittance, maybe to support
some vagabond of husband, who is
too lazy to work. Missionaries in Africa
could find plenty to do in a number of
the southern states. The south should
be awakened to the wrong that is being
perpetrated.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Sparks Sees Things.

Students of history will be pleased to
learn, after years of research, the real
cause for the civil war. Slavery was
not the cause of the great conflict. Nei-
Their was the desire of the north to abol-
ish slavery the cause. No more was John
Browns raid or the insistance of the
south on the states rights theory. A
sheet of ice was the cause of the civil
war; This sheet of ice is known to scien-
lists as the s'ice cap" The laity think of
it as a glacier. This sheet of ice, form
ed at the North Pole 6,766,776 years ago,
slowly but surely moving. southwark,
locking in its cold, unyielding letters the
entire northern half of North America
as far south as what has since come to
be known as Mason and Dixon's. line.
The reason for the advancement of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

In Madelia the newspapers have merg-
ed their interests, but it is not expected
that Governor Van SAINT will take action
in the premises. On September LIST The
Times and Messenger will combine as
the Times Messenger. The proprietors
of the papers, Messrs. Sanborn and Rig
giles will each retain their interests, and
run the papers on a partnership basis.
Perry Bester, of Iowa, a brother law
of Mr.. Riggles, will also associate him.
self with the paper, taking up the out
side work, and Mr.. Riggles will have
charge of the editorial end. 1t is the
present plan of Will Sanborn to lease
his interest and take vacation for a
few months before taking up his duties
as mechanical superintendent of the firm.
He will probably spend the winter with
friends on the western coast. Success to
this merger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Commission Decides to Have Traverse
De Sioux Treaty in C0Iors.
Finest Painter to Be Obtained Will Be
Engaged for Work.
Mankato and Kasota Stone to Have
Place in Building
Will Require $250,O0O to Completely
Decorate Interior of Structure.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Auditor Weaver states that the state
capitol commission yesterday authorized
Architect Gilbert to engage the best man
that he could get to prepare painting of
the making of the treaty of Traverse des
Sioux in 1851, to be placed in the new
capitol, a suitable place to be reserved
for it, This was Gen. J. H. Bakers sug-
gestion.
One week from next Monday the con-
tractors will begin to set the Mankato
and Kasota stone that will make up the
Innings of the corridor of the new capitol
Samples of this stone have been set up,
and are pronounced by experts to be as
choice in that position as Sienna marble.
The stone will form the base upon which
the decorations will be made.
E. E. Garnsey of New York, the most
celebrated decorator in this country.
and one of the most celebrated in the
world, was before the commission yester-
day, and gave it as his opinion that it
will cost $250,000 to properly decorate
the interior of the building. He said that
if decorated as he suggested, the capitol
would be in the first class of buildings in
this country and one of the finest in the
world.
1t is thought there is no question but
that the building will be entirely COM
pleted in time for the meeting of the
next legislature.
Bids were opened yesterday for the
steel cases, etc, but were laid over until
the September meeting. 1t was ascertain
ed that the cost of these will be $780,
600 less than had been figured on. Bids
for the wood furniture, carpets, draper
les, ETC., will be opened at the October
meeting, and it is expected that the fig
ure will run between $l25, 900 and $780,
| 600. The elevator contract will be let
late in October, and that will wind up the
big contracts.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
LABOR DAY PARADE.
Arrangements for This Feature of
the Day Completed.
From, Th1,rcdou,c noi1

Arrangements for the parade on labor
day are about complete. The parade
will start at ten O'Clock, and the music
will be furnished by the Concordia band
and the Second regiment band of New
Ulm
August Marschner will be marshal of
the day, and he will be assisted by A.
Burmeister, who will have charge of the
floats, and by M. Fallensetin, Geo.
Schrieber and G. E. Morrison.
Geo. U. Meyer of Minneapolis has been
selected as the principal speaker of the
day, and the other speakers will be local
men. The speaking will take place at
Sibley park, and Alderman j. >B. Coy
will be master of ceremonies.
Games of all kinds have been arranged
for, and the day will be one that will be
enjoyed by all.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Child Labor Laws.

Minnesota. has every reason to con-
graduate itself because of the laws en-
acted respecting child labor. 1t is a
fact that Minnesota has the best laws in
this regard of any of the states in the
union. Even the old empire state, New
York, is behind the times, but Illinois
is keeping more to the front in this mat
ter. The conditions in the southern
states are deplorable, and the evil there
should be remedied. Those men of the
southland who desire to do something for
down trodden humanity, should devote
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
SHOW HAS REORGANIZED.
From Thursdays Daily.

Two survivors from Luella Forepaugh-
Fish financial wreck were in the city.
They were in the uniform of the United
States soldier, being in reality members
of the Fifteenth United States cavalry
at home on furlough. Frank Strauser
and James Calf, the names of the young
men, were in the city July 3 when the
Cossacks made things interesting for the
Forepaugh-F show management. They
enjoyed life in Rochester in that strenu-
GUS time and decided to revisit the place
enroute from GAINESVILLE, Wis, to their
homes in Minneapolis. Mr.. Strauser says
that the trouble with the circus was not
wholly of financial nature but was due
also to internal discussions among the
managers The circus has re-organized
under a new management and will con-
tinue touring the country, having con-
tracts to exhibit as far west as Califor-
nia-Rochester Bulletin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

tence, providing some tricky lawyer does
not succeed in clearing the brute on
some technical point that has not of
course manifested itself as yet. 1t is
not Scott's fault that Miss Olson is
alive. He did intend to kill her. His
original intention was to subject her to
worse fate, but luckily this she escap-
ed Now to have this piece of human
flesh escape more severe punishment
than penitentiary sentence is simply
travesty upon justice. 1t is just such
cases as this one that promote lynchings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE.

Miss Nellie Cleveland and Mr.. Emil
Kiesling were married at Jackson. They
will make their home at Madelia.
Work on the new reservoir at Pipe
stone is commenced.
HI. E. Laney stole pair of shoes at
Pipestone, was arrested, and upon in
vestigation it was found that the fellow
was wanted at Window for theft.
An increase of salary is the incentive
which will cause Mr.. SAINT to remain at
Wells as the assistant principal of the
school.
The Snyder estate has at last been
amicably settled. Mrs. Snyder was not
satisfied with the amount allowed her
by the probate court, and took an appeal.
The lawyers, G. S. Ives and Harry Ben
son, for Mrs. Snyder, and Lawyer Pau
of Mankato for Dr. Snyder, settled the
matter this week, giving to Mrs. Snyder
about $500 more than the probate judge
has given her in probation of the will
st. Peter Tribune.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
ENJOYING THE TRIP.
From Thursdays Daily.

From thursdays Daily.
L. P. Hunt writes as follows, dating
the letter at Seattle, Aug. 9: We ar
rived here yesterday Saturday at 2 p.
M, and will leave tonight at nine O'Clock
on the City of Seattle. Party all well
and enjoying themselves. The trip on
the Northern Pacific was made without
accident, and as we sail on the best boat
company we are looking forward to a
pleasant trip. The party will go direct
to Skagway and on the return will stop
off at Shakan where a stay of three
days win be made. Expect to land in
Seattle on our return about the 2Sth and
possibly a day or two earlier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
MAY BUILD.
John and Lille freschoItz May Make
Home for S. of n.
From THURSDAYS Daily

From Thursdays Daily.
John Frescholtz and his sister, Miss
Lille Frescholtz, are contemplating put
ting up new building on the site of the
old frame building on South Front
street where their mother for so long
conducted grocery store. 1t will be
% by 100 feet, two stories high, and
will be put up for rental purposes.
The Sons of Herman are considering
the matter of taking lease of the sec
ond floor, and if they do this the build
ing will be erected. 1t would'be great
improvement to that part of the street.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
NO CHANGE.
Minneopa Barn Will Continue to Be
Used as a Feed Stable.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Ihursdays Daily.
Burgess & Lukyn, the two gentlemen
who have rented the Minneopa house
barn will use only the basement for their
high bred horses and expect to use the
first floor of the barn as feed stable
as it has been for several years. These
gentlemen will at all times have on
hand plenty of nice hay and feed for
farmers teams and expect to keep
everything in a neat, clean condition.
This is written to correct rumor that
the barn is no longer to be used as
feed stable.
Farmers and all others interested in
imported horses are cordially invited to
see the handsome stations in the
basement
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

When "Big Bill" Devery was chief of
police of New York city he made big
ger haul of "swag" than did Tammany.
That's why the tigers are ready to tear
him to pieces. Anyone who gets the
better of the Tammany crowd is entitled
to all he scooped in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

Mr.. German very deftly takes a jab
at William Jennings Bryan by remarking
that eve seem to be getting away from a
number of false ideas the party has been
chasing around after in the past few
years." There are other false ideas
still clinging to the Democratic party
and which will cause the party's defeat,
in 1904
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

Judge Hiram Knowles has given the
labor organizations of Montana a severe
blow by issuing permanent injunction
to restrain members of the unions in
Butte from interfering with the agents
OF employees of the Western Union Tele-
graph company
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

Captain R. A. Gould of the La Crosse
fire department felt madness creeping
on him. Realizing that he might do
damage to someone he requested that he
be examined as to his sanity. He was or
dered committed. Gould, while insane,
had the good sense to know that he was
not fit person to be at large.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

Juries at Jefferson City, No. are do
ing well. The nineteenth conviction in
Doodle cases has just been recorded. Mis-
souri, continues to "show" the balance of
the country how to 'do things up
brown"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14

Oh, my! The Fairmont Sentinel re-
fers to Cleveland as sold Grover" and
declares that the wizard of Buzzard's
Bay is persona non grata to opponents
of true Democracy. The Sentinel does
not like the idea of Republicans praising
Cleveland. 1t would not object were a
handful of bouquets thrown to Mr..
BRYAN.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
HAD NO LICENSE.

Geo. Macbeth, state boiler inspector,
today procured warrant for the arrest
of Albert Hilgers of Lime town on the
charge of threshing without an engineers
license. Sheriff Williams went out this
afternoon to serve it.