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The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
SANTA CLAUS is EVERY WHERE.

Is there a Santa Claus? This is an
inquiry of The Duluth Herald. In an
swer to its own query The Herald
goes on to say of course there Is and
recites the story of how the great edi-
tor Charles A. Dana replied to little
girl who made the same query of him
years ago. In answer Mr.. Dana said :
Eyes, there is Santa Claus. He
exists as certainly as love. generosity
and devotion exist. and you know
that they abound and give your life
it's highest beauty and joy
"Not believe in Santa Claus?'.' You
might as we'll not believe in fairies
You might get your papa to hire men
to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus
but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down, what would that
provef Nobody ever saw Santa Claus,
but that is no sign there is no Santa
Claus. The most real things in the
world are those that neither children
nor men can see. Did you ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course
Rot But that is no proof that they are
not there Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the wonders there are
unseeable in the world.
"You may tear apart the baby 8
rattle and see what makes the noise
inside, but there is a veil covering the
unseen world which not the strongest
man. nor ,even the united strength or
all the strongest men that ever lived
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain snd..view tine picture the
spuernal beauty and agony beyond.
1t is all real? All, in all this world
there is nothing else real and abiding.
"No Santa Claus Thank God, he
lives and he lives forever. A thous-
and years from now; nay, ten times
ten thousand years from now. he will
continue to make glad the hearts of
children.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Rev. Walter E. Bentley, rector of
the Church of the Holy SepuIchre of
New York city, was formerly an actor.
He is strong in the belief that the
theatre is proper adjunct of the
chu. h and can when put to proper
use create an influence for good. So
strong is his faith in the moral tone
that can be created by the theatre, he
has fitted up the basement Of his
church building for theatrical repre-
sentations. Plays of strictly moral
character will be produced, one Every
man," being already in course of pre-
paration. DIR. Rainsford, rector of st.
Georges church. endorses the theatre
idea as a promoter for good.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

ing received word of the death of her
grandmother, Mrs. E. E. Simons, who
passed away at Hutchinson last Satur
day at the good old age of eighty four
years. The deceased has visite1 at
the home of her granddaughter at this
place on several occasions and will be
pleasantly remembered by number
of our readers. -Mapleton Enterprise.
90
Investigations indicate that the
practical gas system, which will
probably be installed here the coming
year, is much cheaper than any of
the present plans of lighting. A good
sized store room can be lighted with
this process for $24.6 per year with
electricity it would cost $1O1. 80 to
light the same room, with kerosene,
$3s. SO, and with ascetylene gas 500. 70.
One of the benefits of the gas system
is that lights can be had at any time,
day or night, and it can also be used
for cooking. At Madelia similar
plant is in working order. It is owned
by the village and lights are furnished
at cost. The plant costs So, 775 and
not one o. the sixty people who are
using the light are dissatisfied. Ma
pleton Enterprise.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
WANTED, MEN WHO Do THINGS

''It will be bad thing for the ma.
tion if ever we grow to acquire the
belief that we are to have two camps,
in one the men who mean well bat
do not do things, in the other the men
who do things but do not mean
we'll.
This was one of the striking sem
tences uttered by President Roosevelt
at the celebration of Justice Harlan s
quarter century on the supreme bench
Like all his utterances this one
strikes deep. The president touches
upon point that has received the
consideration of public men and the
press for these many years, but he
puts it before the people in different
language. He desires 1t TO be under
stood that politics must not be frown-
ed upon by the cultured classes and by
those who could, it they would use
their influence in it's behalf, lift
politics out of the disrepute into
which it has fallen. 1t is the duty,
in the opinion of the president, of
the best citizens to become active in
politics, to array themselves on the
side of good government, and in order
to bring about it's consummation they
must do their duty courageously. The
president .admires the men who do
things. He is not an admirer of the
weak and insipid man who breaches
good government in the seclusion of a
society's four walls, and who fails to
act openly for those principles when
ever the opportunity presents itself.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
WINE ROOM AFFAIR
A City Employe Is Robbed BY
a Woman.
The Mayors Order to Keep Females
Out of These Places Seems to
Be Unenforced.

The mayors order in regard to
women frequenting the wine rooms in
the rear of certain saloons does not
seem to have borne good fruit. Either
his order is not being carried out by
the police, or the latter are not keep
ing close tab on the wine rooms.
Saturday evening Michael Miller, who
is an employe OF the city, and whose
speciality is laying stone crosswalks,
complained to the police that he had
just been robbed of s5 by a woman in
the wine room of certain North
Front street saloon. He said that the
woman had reached her hand into his
pocket, taken his pocketbook, and
when she returned it there was So less
in it than when she took it. He said
that he could identify the woman
An officer accompanied Miller and
an effort was made to get back his
money.
The woman whom he pointed out to
the officer denied that she was the
guilty party or that she had been in
the wine room. Miller had to be content
with the loss Of his money.
While no sympathy will be wasted
on man who is robbed while in the
company OF such women as frequent
wine rooms, the incident goes to show
that the mayors order to clear wine
rooms of all females has not been car
ried out. The chief of police, in a
recent interview with The Free Press,
said that all he could say in regard to
the enforcement of the saloon laws
was "Watch the saloons and see the
results " The result in this case was
hardly of the kind meant by the
chief; at least, as the public under
stood it.
Mayor Petersen undoubtedly has
presumed that his order about the
wine rooms was being enforced.
What action he will take under the
circumstances as revealed by Saturday
evenings affair remains to be seen.
Something is likely to "drop'' at
next springs municipal election if
the present state of affairs is main
tanned. The mayors wine room order
can and should be enforced, even if
1t costs one or two saloon keepers
their licenses, andsthe respectable peo-
pie of Mani to are going to see that il
is enforced after next April. if it is
not before.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
THAT sso.eoo,ooo DEAL.

Much comment has been made over
the report that syndicate in New
York had arranged to loan 500. 600. 600
in case of frightened money market.
The New York Post explains the
situation in the following
Yesterday afternoons announce
ment that the banks of this city were
holding themselves lin readiness to
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

The Minnesota Lake Tribune and
The Albert Lea Standard presented
their readers with very creditable
Christmas numbers this week. Both
publications are excellent advertise
ments for the towns in which they
were issued.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Engineers and firemen on the chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road
were given a Christmas present in
the shape of a ten per cent increase in
wages About 4, 700 men are affected
and in round numbers the amount to
be distributed annually is $500, 900.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
OLD BOARD is DONE.

The county board approved the
bond of the county officers Friday
afternoon. allowed number of bills,
and granted auctioneer's licenses to
q. ". Chamberlain and NJ. J. Barney.
There was no other business before
he board, and it adjourned sine die
The new hoard meets week after next
to organize aud transact business
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
PICKED FROM COUNTY PRESS.

Mrs. Anna Hogan of Mapleton re-
ceived the sad news of the death of
her husband j. L. Hogan which
occurred at Seattle last Friday.
The Mapleton Enterprise reports
that County Attorney Wilson was in
that town Tuesday endeavoring to
adjust suit in which Fred Roe is the
defendant. 1t seems that number
of hogs belonging to Roe tresspassed
upon the premises of Mr.. L. Chestnut
and they were taken up by the pound
master. While in the possession of the
poundmaster the animals were re-
leased by parties unknown to that
official, but Mr.. Roe has been charged
with the offense. The case was to
have been tried Wednesday, but was
adjourned because of the stormy
weather.
On Monday last, Mrs. II. G. Hotal-
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. the
widow of General Fremont, died Sun
day morning at Los Angeles at the ad-
vanced age of seventy mine years.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Christmas was not without it's
tragedies -and dreadful enactments
they were. In three instances hus-
bands shot their wivse.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
WHIsPERINGs- -MURMuRINGs


We are forced to hide our bushes
when we read in The Fairmont Senti-
mel that st. Paul ia trying to pull
Minnesora's leg. -Mankato Free Press
Wait till the bill for the Mankato
normal school appropriation comes up
in the legislature and The Free Press
will so far forget its modesty as to
grab Mime. by both her limbs.
-Fairmont Sentinel.
On, frankie. how can you talk that
way.
Coal at $1s per ton. Who pockets
the advance chargesS
***
John ]. Ryder of st. Paul shouts a
warning that corruption may be
stalking abroad in the next legisla-
ture. This leads The Minneapolis
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Again Editor Nef accuses The Free
Press of garbling his editorials. Not
guilty, colonel.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02
farmers INSTITUTES.

A farmers institute will be held at
Amboy Friday, Jan. 90. Also one at
GAINESVILLE, Waseca county, Jan. %.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02


marks that 'if Governor Van SAINT
wants to be vice president we have no
objestions, and come to think of 1t,
it wouldn't make much difference if
we had.
Newspapers throughout the state
are tackling football with such a
vigor that the game is liable to be
placed in the. same category with
prizefghting.
Frank Day thinks the Republican
papers act real mean because they
continue to publish the majorities
received by their candidates.
Laura Biggar has been acquitted.
She can now resume her career upon
the stage with the hope that her press
agent will use the material at hand
for advertising to the best advantage.
The clerks in the various stores are
gald that Santa's one night stand has
been played.
You have several days yet to frame
up your New Year resolutions. After
resolving be sure to make good.
If Bob Dunn doesn't want to be
governor why deos he get so ALFRED
mad when good friend says he will
be candidate in 1904. Eden Valley
Journal.
1t was grand stand play, my boy.
During the past few days no one
hankered to be the mailman.
Chicago doctors we're about to per-
form an amputation on a mans leg,
but they discovered that it was an
artificial member and required the
services of a carpenter more than it
did those of the surgical profession.
In Kansas woman was Tilted by q
man because she was candidate for
Office against him and won. Duluth
Herald.
He's a chump. He should have
married her and then made her sup.
port him during her ce-holding
period.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat de.
clares that inasmuch as the Isthmiar
canal commissions are paid 81, 900 9
month each they should be compelled
to do fair share of the digging.
Ohage and his baths occupy much
of the spare time of st. Paul people.
The st. Paul Globe says the Demo.
cratic party has been cast adrift with.
out anchor or compass We had beer
laboring under lurking suspicion
that the party had gone up in 9
balloon minus parachute attach.
ment.
RELOCATING the Venezuelan difficulty
over to the Hague tribunal will not
force President Roosevelt to take uI
the white mans burden.
The vast array of prizefghters in
this country are evidently on the
ragged edge" They are talking back
at each other quite vigorously.
Now if Princess Louise Of Saxony
will only refrain from taking to the
stage the rest might be forgiven.
The disappointed...lover armed with
a shotgun furnished an awful tragedy
in Crookston. The disappointed lover
should be caught and corralled before
he can work off his wrath.
Christmas scored a big success ev-
erywhere.
olivia complains of a beer famine.
The coal famine causes us sleepless
nights.
1t is said that the Lord loves a
cheerful giver. Some people are cheer
full when they give very little.
The. Midway News predicts that
if the Monroe doctrine goes fine line
of crowns will dumped upon the junk
heap.
Officer Frank Bienap1 of Mankato
slipped on an icy sidewalk the other
day and snapped the two super6uous
letters off his name. Ralph Wheelock
in The Minneapolis Tribune.
Should Mr.. Wheelock ever drop into
Mankato Officer BienapH will see to 1t
that he is given about thirty days on
bread and water
PIcKEn FROM c0IINTY pREcS
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Four per cent paid on mos. dpositS by
tlte Minnesota Title Insurance 50 rust Co.,
Mion. Capital, k25O.0CO.
aiso good mortgages for sale. Wite them.
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

On Monday last, Mrs. h. G. Hotal-
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

Coal at $12 per ton. Who pockets
the advance charges9
The Mankato free press., 1903-01-02

The Fairmont Sentinel sagely re-
marks that ''if Governor Van SAINT
wants to be vice president we have no
objeStions, and come to think of 1t,
it wouldn' t make much difference if
we had. :"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-12-24

Cousin JESSIE" while a smile lighted
up her careworn face.
Then she passed the paper to Edith,
murmuring: "All winter long in the
dear old house."
Papa has concluded to let you stay
in the house until spring, as he can
not find a tenant before that time. He
will stop OF his way to Fulton's in the
morning and talk with you about the
matter" was what Edith read. Then
she laid the slip of paper on her
brothers palm, wondering if by that
time anything would happen that they
would not have to go at all.
Ned tossed the note into the ma
ternal lap contemptuously and his sum
ny face darkened. "Who cares for his
charity extension, I'd like to know"
he exclaimed. "It's only because he
can't do otherwise and make it pay"
His lip curled disdainfully and quiv-
cred into silence. He did "care," after
all, poor little brother. And Edith's
flushed cheek in sisterly sympathy.
After all, he had been Drawer than she.
tits a veritable toboggan," ex-
claimed Hermon Cameron's wife as
the fine team cantered up the treach-
erous Slide" REALLY 1 am afraid of
an accident"
Fudge, Mrs. Faintheart; what can
happen?" laughed her husband, gayly,
as he cracked his whip owe the sleek
bays.
Truly, it did not seem possible for
anything to happen out of harmony
with the lovely holiday. Nevertheless,
a few minutes later the serenity OF
the day was all broken up for the
Camerons. Frightened at something
by the roadside, the horses became
unmanageable and, in a twinkling, be-
coming detached from the sleigh, ran
wildly around the upper turning
throwing MI. Cameron heavily to the
ground.
The impetus of the accident sent the
vehicle spinning, down the CLASSY in.
cline, its occupants perfectly helpless
to stay their mad fight.
The Fultons, startled to see a run.
away team dash into their grounds
ran out to recognize 1t as that Of theil
friend, Cameron, and in a short time
they were bending solicitously ovel
the unlucky man who, prone on the
Christmas snow, was moaning uncon.
sciously.
1--WE will take him up to the wild.
ow's," said Mr.. Fulton, glancing in the
direction of the friendly gables, while
you 30 for the DOCTOR" addressing b.
SOY land then we will look ror the
rest of them"
Prudence Cameron prepared a couch
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A CHRISTMAS
TOBOGGAN
By MANDA L. CROKER

HMN a sheltered cleft on the noun
NR tain side where the scraggy pines
~ made polite obeisance to their
~bare-headed neighbors, the Halfway
house had stood, a harbinger of COM
fort, for a score of years.
And now, though the old stage lay
rotting in the valley and the traveller
Numbered along by rail beneath its
very foundations, the friendly gables
seemed reckoning to imaginary guests.
Tonight, too, the pine branches
cracked merrily on the wide hearth,
as If the snubs Of a progressive pub
lie were not worth minding, lighting
up the long, low room in the cleaning
of the Christmas Eve.
Two women conversed in tender
monotone in the CHEEKY illumination,
and the elder was saying: THE paper
cannot be found and, of course, the
property goes to your Uncle Hermon."
The other rose YEARLY from her
place before the fire and stood lean
ing her head against the black old
fashioned mantel.
Then uncle really intends taking
our home away from us?" she said, in
terrogatively, looking down into the
patient mother face.
Certainly, my daughter" came the
reply in cheerful resignation, "and he
expects to take possession soon, too.
But your father always made much
of the Christmas time and, for his
sake, we will keep the day gladly, you
know"
eyes, l know" and the girl turned
away toward the next room, tucking
up her sleeves with little gingerly
thrusts as she went.
The brace of cartridges Brother Ned
had shared the day before made a
pretty picture as they waited, plump
and round, for the last turn of the
skewer. After they were ready for
the morrow's roasting the tall, queenly
girl went over to the open doorway a
moment to contemplate the pictur-
esque landscape she had loved all her
life.
Even the scrubby oaks are restful
up here" she unused, "and I don't see
how I am to bring myself to be turned
out like-a beggar!"
Making a sudden dash at her eyes
with her handkerchief, she resumed:
"Of course, If mother is bent on hay
ing a sunny Christmas in the face of
1t all, why, I won't be shadowy."
Hearing a CHEEKY whistle outside she
continued: Ned doesn't care about it
boys don't. o yes" correcting the
uncharitable thought), che does care
but not as I do"
The mother rocked to and fro be-
fore the fragrant blaze. humming an
old refrain. The dusk gathered
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for her unfortunate brother-in-law,
with a queer sensation Juggling at her
heartstrings. He had meant to stop,
but not in this manner. Surely there
was a Providence in it.
Here are some papers we picked
up" said Mr.. Fulton, laying a roll in
the widows hand. "They must belong
to him. Examine them and see. I
haven't my glasses with me-"
In her own room Mrs. Cameron
looked the papers over. "Of course
they're his" she unused, unrolling the
grimy outer wrapper. Unfolding the
inside paper she read: II hereby give
and bequeath the Halfway house to
my sister-in-law, Prudence Cameron,
and"
She read no further. Down at the
bottom of the instrument was the pc
culiar chirography of her injured broth
er-in-law.
'It was never lost!!" she exclaimed;
should see this"
Putting the precious document away
carefully, she went downstairs with a
queer little smile triumphant on her
patient face.
The physician and Hermon's family
had arrived and the wife was saying:
eve went right on tobogganing down
to the uneven road at the lower turn
ing. Then the cutter went to pieces
against a tree and We were upset, but
not hurt"
She ended with a hysterical laugh,
as she looked toward the white-faced
husband.
Stunned a considerable, bruised a
bit, but fairly ready for his Christmas
dinner" said the doctor as he took
his leave.
In the kitchen Edith surveyed the
brace of cartridges and wondered if
there was enough to go round" But
while she cogitated the Fultons came
in with a bountiful dinner.
1--WE planned for company" laughed
jolly Mrs. Fulton, land we're bound to
have it, even if we meet them half
way" And soon the Christmas cheer
filled the lonely old rooms.
In the midst Of the merry Christmas
dinner Prudence Cameron looked
across the table at her brother-in-law
who, pillowed up in an armchair, was
munching a Drowned bird, and said,
playfully: christmas gift, Brother
Hermon."
II meant to have brought some
thing" he stammered, in confusion.
"but-'
THANK you, I know you did," inter-
rupted Prudence, her face glowing
with victory, "and it is all right. Mr..
Fulton gave it to me-the will, I mean
and I thank you again."
Had the house tumbled down the
mountain side Hermon Cameron could
not have been more surprised. He
sank back among the pillows with a
suppressed groan. "My hearth" he
said, family. "My heart!"
"You are hurt more seriously than
we thought fort" cried the Fultons, in
alarm.
ooh, no." murmured Hermon. 81
am just a little overcome"
And so it proved. But, although
he revived and chatted with his friend,
Fulton, over the toothsome plum pud-
ding, he did not look Prudence Cam
eron's way again that day.
And that night Ned sat before the
cracking fire on the broad hearth,
while the dancing light touched his
ruddy face and glinted up along the
smoky ~rafters, and whispered between
his palms: Dear Lord, we are so
thankful for the blessed Christmas
tide; but just now we are thankfuller
for the upset of Uncle Hermon!"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-12-24

Prof. Sanford Bell, a fellow in Clark
university and until recently instruc.
tor of psychology at the North Indi.
ana Normal school, Valparaiso, Ind,
has compiled a table of the ages OF
love in lei and women. He has
reached the conclusion that neither sex
is safe from Cupid's darts after
reaching the age of three years. In
fact, from infancy to old age, no one
is ~love-proof. In Is years he has in.
vestigared 800 cases himself, and bases
his statistics on returns secured by a
syllabus circulated among 1,7O0 pu'
pills and alumni of the normal school
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"The road down to the village is as
smooth as glass;" he said, brushing
the snowflakes from his clothes on to
the bright hearth. Horses will have
to be sharp shod to make the slide to-
morrow, I know"
Handing some letters to his mother,
he began to plan for a Jolly good
time" the next day, while he sepa-
rated the sprays of the glossy ever
green.
Attracted by his festive manner, his
sister volunteered to help, and fell to
sorting the crimson clusters for deco
rating the table and frightening up
the rooms on the morrow.
"Of course he can't care much" she
whispered, rebelliously, watching the
satisfaction shining ON the boyish
face.
We'll have popcorn and chestnuts,
and Drowned birds and-everything,'
cried Ned, as his plans dubbed over.
Everything" repeated his sister,
bitterly, land then by and by have
nothing"
But Ned did not hear, for his mother
was saying: Here's a note from
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-12-24

A dispatch from Tampico, Mexico,
says that DR.. Louis Hough, a yellow
fever expert, has discovered a new
treatment for yellow fever, which he
used successfully during the recent
epidemic. The treatment is: Quiet
the nervous system of the patient with
bromides; keep the intestinal tract
clean by saline purges; change the acid
condition of the blood to alkaline by
giving bicarbonate Of soda in large
doses. According to the theory ad'
vanced, yellow fever is a toxic infec
ton of the rvo system.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-12-24

Prof. Haman, of Basel, an authori.
ty on the subject, has lately printed
a paper dealing with the geographical
distribution Of the Jews. He says the
total number Of Jews is II 5000, 900, OF
whom two-thirds are in Europe. Rus.
STA has $500, 900, Austria Hungary L.
100000. Germany $4,000, Roumania
100000 and Great Britain 200, 900 The
Emitted States has 1000. 900, Asia mas
100000. Africa 270,0V0 and Australia
1900. He says that not less than
100000 Jews embraced the Christian
religion during the nineteenth cen,
tury.