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The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
WANTS HEAVY DAMAGES.
Eouse.rap Savsde Seeks $7,050
From Joseph Beshara.
From Tuesoay's Daily.

RON tuesdays Dally.
Sheriff Williams today served papers
upon Joseph Beshara in damage suit
brought against him by Mousetrap
Savede, another Syrian. Savede alleges
that he was arrested and bound over to
the grand jury last spring on the false
charge of removing and concealing mort
gagged property for the. purpose of de-
frauding Beshara, the latter being the
moving spirit in the prosecution. The
grand jury found no indictment and
Savede was discharged. He claims
that the prosecution was started for
false and malicious purposes, and that in
order to secure bond he was obliged to
remain in Blue Earth county and there
fore lost some land that he had home
steaded upon.
Savede asks for $1,000 damages for
the alleged malicious prosecution, and
for $4,000 damages for the loss of his
homestead rights, and other relief, the to-
tai amounting to $7,o5o. w. L.>Com-
stock is his attorney.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
TAX LEVY REDUCED.
County Board Cuts Off $4,000 From
Last Year.

From tuesdays daily.
The county board which convened yes
terday afternoon, will not complete its
work today. Yesterday afternoon a
petition was received from L. w. Wen
ner and others asking for county ditch
in Mankato township, and the hearing
was set for Saturday, August goth, at
2 p. m.
An application was received from the
supervisors of Danville township for the
appropriation of $3.50 to aid in building
"a bridge over the Cobb river, between
sections 81 and %. 1t was placed on
file.
The board made the following estimate
of the expenses for next year: Dis
trict court, $4,000; Jail, $4,000; bank
books and stationery, $500; salaries,
$4,000; poor farm, $4,000; justice court,
So, 900; interest on court house bonds,
So, 800.
Ire following tax levy was made: For
county purposes, $34,50O; support of
poor and poor farm, $4,000; interest on
court house bonds, $500; total, $45,-
600. This is $1,000 less than last year.
A one mill road and bridge tax was also
levied.
The committee to inquire into the con-
dition of the Cobb river bridge, known
as the Atcherson bridge, reported that
it would be inexpedient to change the
same so as to make it of the legal
width of the roadway, and recommended
that it be replaced with a common steel
stringer structure.
The committee to inquire into the
condition of the Hincke bridge in Maple
ton township reported that it found the
bridge in fair condition, excepting some
of the piling, and that repairs ought to
be made by the township.
This forenoon the Rapidan and De-
coria Telephone company proposed to
furnish phone at the poor farm at Sl
month for tree years: and this was
accepted.
lie jury lists were drawn, for the 20
gember term of court.
This afternoon a variety of small
matters was considered @
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
GUILTY OF FORGERY.
Serious Charge Preferred Against
Ella Fowler, 0Watonna Girl.

4
Ella Fowler, aged fifteen years, at
tempted to run away, from home in
this city last Saturday evening, but was
frustrated and brought back to Ovation
ma Saturday evening.
The girl lived with her. mother and
two sisters in the eastern part of the
city near the fair grounds. They came
to Owatonna from Medford asfew years
ago and for time the girls assisted in
supporting themselves. The mother is
a hard working woman and has been
too lenient with her daughters who are
not looked upon as model young wom
en-. Fst 4a,
Last Saturday afternoon the young
est girls, Ella, aged fifteen and "Babe, .
aged thirteen, planned to leave their
home. They forged their mothers name
to an order and received $6.75 on it.
With part of this the eldest girl pur-
chased ticket to Mankato and boarded
the afternoon train. The plan was that
she should meet the youngest sister in
that city that evening and have arrange
ments made for their stay there. Then
then would go to Winnebago City to see
a friend and later to Minneapolis where
they planned to remain permanently.
The departure of the girls was discover
ed late in the afternoon, however, and
Sheriff Misgen telegraphed to Mankato
where an officer arrested Miss Ella as
she stepped off the train.
1t is probable that both girls will be
sent to the state training school for
they refuse to obey their mother. They
have been in the habit of staying out
late at night, sometimes until three or
four o'clock in the morning and their
conduct has been of a questionable
character. When the girl was brought
back from Mankato Sunday night she
and her younger sister used abusive Ian
guage toward their mother whom they
called all the profane and vile names
they knew and they seem to have vo-
cabularies similar to that of sailors
parrot.
Further developments will be had in
the case later in the week. Owatonna
Chronicle.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
EXAMINE EYES AND EARS.
Measures to Save Pupils From ca<ssl:
Deafness and Poor Sigh,
E>r,v, T,,aodo uyo noiJu fte

from 1ueSuayb b Dauy.
Eyes and ears of all school -SfiN1S
must be examined. So the state Ssana &E
health has decided, and a aesaauE
drawn up and passed accordingly. 1as-
ord cards and sheets will be aeviss& -
be used by the teachers in aaaAsls ~
turns to the state board of aeaixA
Preliminary to this work, aSzz
.ments have been made to give a&aAzw-
tions to teachers in the summer sAnstE
throughout the state in the nannm az
making such examinations.
1t has been repeatedly dencss1Ezssd
that some of the poor work done ayR~-
pills in school was entirely due - d.
fects of sight or hearing, of whzA aE2-
er the parent nor the child we've Aasns-
ant. - ~,
1t is the object of the state bezz& -
discover these defects early insdhsde lA
before they became chronic ana azssmse-
diable, that the pupil may be .assisfsa ~
become as perfect a citizen as psaEi
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
Fine Crop of Strawberries.
From TUESDAYS Daily.

F. Zehn of Tivoli came to The Free
Press office yesterday with two boxes
of Brandywine strawberries, raised up
on the two acres of which his straw
berry patch consists. He has already
picked from these two acres 900 cases of
berries and is only half through with
garnering his crop. His berries, being
of the Brandywine variety, are so sweet
that there is no need of adding sugar
in preparing them for tnes table.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
Telephone Girls Outing
From Tuesdays Daily.

Fr0m IueSuays Dduy.
Phillips & Stevens yesterday and to-
day treated the girls of the Northwest
ern Telephone office to a delightful ride
in carry out to G. I. Johnson's
dairy farm. Half of the young ladies
were taken yesterday afternoon and the
rest this afternoon. The guests were
treated to delicious raspberry lunch at
the farm.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
Injured His Hand.
From Wednesday's Daily.

Wenzel Bienapf, son of Officer Frank
Bienapf, met with painful accident
Saturday. He is employed at the Man
kato Manufacturing company's plant and
was engaged in drilling apiece of iron
when the drill slipped and cut out a
piece of the palm of the left hand. Mr..
Bienapf will be laid up couple of
weeks.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
Received a Scalp Wound.

Ora Swan, an employe of the Mankato
Gas & Electric Light company, was
standing on box in the basement of
the Blissenbach building yesterday after
noon, running gas pipe, when the box
tipped and he fell, striking his head
against the stone wall. He was knock
ed senseless and was picked up by a
fellow worker He had received Sc
we're scalp wound.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
Buys a Residence.

Mrs. A. A. Brooks has purchased
from Henry R. Kurth lot sixteen, North
Row, Van Brunt's addition, and Mrs.
Brooks and family will occupy it Aug
ust lst as their residence. 1t is a de-
sirable place. The sale was made by
Christensen & Schwigherd.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15

Some work has been done on the Pohl
road by Mankato township, but it is
not acceptable to County Surveyor
Brooks, and until it is made so the coun-
ty will not put gravel upon it. No
doubt the work will be done over again.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15
Probate Items.
From TUESDAYS Daily.

EIUUI L U6SUHV D IIdDVs
Elizabeth Schaub was today appointed
administrative of the estate of her late
husband, Lambert Schaub.
The hearing on the objections of an
administrator in the Ward estate, which
was set for today, was continued until
next Tuesday.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15

James Hughes, who is well known in
the county as agent for the Singer Sew
ing machine, and residing in Mankato,
has suffered quite serious stroke of
paralysis. His brother-in-law, Postmas-
ter Price, went to see him Tuesday,
Lake CRYSTAL Union.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15

Is it not amusing to hear the econom-
ical girl talk about gettinge ahead ?
Most of us would be tickled to death if
we could just catch up.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15

A marriage license was granted today
to Herman L. Ziegler and Minnie j. Mar
BILE, both of Decoria.
The Mankato free press., 1904-07-15

Judge Hughes today made tie 6nas as<
cree in the Alfred Taylor estate, 4
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

smile. AS the senior of Bill and the
originator of this dress-reform move
ment, all 1 lacked was tin can like
Happy Hooligan's to put me in right.
The large, warm, old ladies who taught
the classes looked at us and wept. They
said it was a crime to send field Of
selling platers away from the post to
such start. However. these remarks
never touched me and Bill. for our
souls were serene in cold storage. On
the way back me and Bill made another
lightning change at the woodpile. and
took chances with the gang on the
home stretch of one short block.
1t is the dearest wish of my life that
parents who haberdash male offspring
contrary to the boyish idea of the eter-
nal fitness of things and clothes will
read this wall and take a much-needed
tumble. Don't tog your son like
freak, which freak, to his mind. is the
girl If you cannot dress Harold as he
sees other boys dressed let him wear
an Apache G string and be happy
while he may. The Lord never in
tended him for parental torture. He
will get what's coming to him. all in
good time, and plenty of it.
Another pale, studious lad in that
town wore a plaid shawl skewered be-
meath his chin with an iron bolt which
had a large moss agate knob at the
. end. Also he wore a pair of high-heeled.
thin Morocco shoes, supposed to be his
mothers, laced all the way to the top.
That boy has since won International
renown as skirt dancer, and is now
sedate man of family and a creator of
millinery at my old home. Yet the
plaudits of the ten, twenty and thirty
brought him no lasting joy; for the
great white light of fame still beats
upon the name of Sis He never will
be able to smother it. Loie Fuller. the
boss serpentinist of all ages. likewise
came from Mudville. ILL.,. and vet do
not recall Loie as maiden tripping
blithely to school in overa1ls and one
suspender. which attire her smolder-
ing genius should have demanded.
Sis Was the Centerpiece.
But short time ago 1 visited Mud
vile and noted among other improve
ments the rehabilitation of a late har-
ness shop. The end had been blasted
out to make room for an entire plate
glass front inscribed Nin tall letters of
gold: "Dunkerr, Partisan Importa-
tions." Though that magic name rated
one more '.r'' than he could afford
when a boy / felt in my bones it was
Sis, who had reached that pinnacle of
earthly greatness which permits a man
to monkey with the spelling of his
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

&c observe any. The tribe to which I
belonged was migrating out of season
in other words, moving from the farm
where 1 occurred to a little mud
streaked village in Western Illinois. AS
for the town, it was there on the map.
and it submits that fact as an excuse
for being there still. There is no ac-
counting for the tact of some towns
What landscape, if any, invited in
spection along that frozen twelve-mile
route is lost to me forever. Family
complications bungled the trip, in my
case, at least. Exclusive of parents,
there were eight little sunbeams-six
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
X Il DAMS DEBT II Il


The conductor made grab at his col
lar, but the drummer interfered.
Don't get gay with the kid" he
said. You know very well you are
not telling the truth when you say that
you know where his ticket is for
The conductor sized up the travelling
man and became diplomatic. Il can't
let him ride he declared apologeti-
cally. He's got to have a ticket or
he can't stay on the train"
1.-TWO to Pittsburg," said the drum
mer. producing his mileage book.
The conductor punched two slips and
passed on. If a. passenger wanted to
be taken in it was none of his business,
especially when the passenger was al
most six feet.
The drummer turned to Dan. your
fare is paid" he said. "On the level,
where was your ticket for?"
Newark" admitted Danny, but dat
big stiff didn't know"
Jack Somers laughed lightly.
Going to sit uD all night ?" asked
Somers, as he saw the Pullman con-
ductor at the other end of the car.
Nav" said Dan, contemptuOusly.
We'll" the other returned, Il guess
/ can get place in the sleeper, but
I'll come and take you in the diner
when it's time" and with that he fol-
lowed the conductor down the aisle
and on to the car where a berth had
been found after the reservations had
been checked up.
He was as good as his word about
the dinner. The idea Of a whole dollar
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
II Il REWARDED y Il

full, before the couch on which he lay
nursing bandaged burn on his cheek
This burn, the result of contact with
a falling brand, kept the bookkeeper
wrapped in darkness and oil-silk for
a fortnight. His right eye had been
endangered and had to be treated
carefully. Miss Marshall forfeited a
considerable amount of salary and re-
manned at Red Bank. She really was
needed after Miss Carruth. to whom
the fire soon became only an imper-
sonal occurrence which made good
material for storytelling, found a
rowboat shared with her earlier ad-
mirer rather preferable to stufy
room shared with her later suitor and
the odor of iodoform.
The injured man missed her greatly
and inquired of Miss Marshall con-
corning her. Miss Marshall, with
bravery in the feminine gender of
that which he exhibited at the fire,
replied that she supposed Miss Car
ruth much occupied with getting
furniture for her new cottage.
Her new cottage?" exclaimed Ew-
ing. Il may be interested in that my
self some day."
Miss Marshall tried to change the
subject
She's a brick!" the convalescent
went on. Pretty as a picture, too.
Don't you think she's pretty, Miss
Marshan?"
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Miss Marshall did
She concluded that Miss Carruth
was something better than pretty
when she witnessed her first meeting
with Ewing after the bandages had
been taken from his face. The brand
had penciled an indelible mark of
scared scarlet from his forehead to his
throat. Miss Carruth gave vent to an
abbreviated scream when she saw it
and then, mastering herself, grasped
the victims hand firmly. II didn't re-
alize," she said, how much you had
done for me-"
Manifestly, Miss Marshall had been
unjust in considering her a mere doll.
One evening soon after, however,
when she was sitting at her window
looking into the mist of her life, she
was given reason to resurrect her first
opinion. Ewing and Miss Carruth
were seated below and Ewing was
proposing marriage. The woman up
stairs knew that she ought not to lis
ten, but her breath was quivering in
her throat and she could not move
away to save her soul.
DON'T" Miss Carruth was urging
when her voice first became audible.
Don't, Frank. Please don'tr
But why?" he persisted. ct love
you. Until this moment I was sure
that you loved me-"
Il did" cried the girl. "Oh, 1 did,
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

ttTT was worse than crime, 1t was
a blunder." Thus a sagacious
yet kindly old gentleman was
wont to speak concerning his
own and other peoples mistakes, and
thus at times we all feel when disgust
ed and mortified because of our failure
to do the proper thing at the right mo-
ment or because of some painful error
in judgment, some unwise move, some
stupid action. The consequences of
these mistakes are likely to follow
swiftly. and usually cause US uneasy
moments. not to say sleepless nights.
Somehow we feel little different about
them than we do regarding our actual
transgressions. The latter may be
charged UP against some seductive
temptation, or we may get them for
given. But when we have done not a
bad but a foolish thing it brings a
peculiarly irritating sense of failure and
weakness, of which it is hard to rid
ourselves.
And how much we may learn from
our mistakes! There is a great deal of
good sense in the clever saying, "Ex-
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
By
Nicholas
Memo

tactical error, but not necessarily a
fatal one. Men have been known to
recover from worse blows than this, al
though not often. For the first ten
years Of Clarence's life they took turns
sitting up with him to see that he
didn't forget to breathe at the proper
intervals. He was never allowed to go
outside the house without one or the
other OF his parents acting as convoy,
and even then they insisted on pro-
tecting him from evil influences with
long blonde curls and a Lord Faunt-
leroy top hamper. A boy who would in
sist on being bad in spite of the pro-
'tection thus afforded would be start
ling proof of the existence of infant de-
pravity.
His education was applied at an in
stitution for the suppression Of natural
instincts kept by man who
would have been a missionary
If he hadn't feared that his
tender susceptibilities would be too
much shocked by the style of dress,
or undress, In vogue among savage
tribes. He was so gentle and modest
that even the mention of the naked
truth in his presence was likely to
cause moral convulsions of an alarm
ing type The second edition of the
Knowit family library was intrusted
to the fostering care of this elderly
female in disguise, who was expected
to manicure the boys intellect and
promptly suppress any symptoms of
masculinity. 1t was expected that four
or f1ve years of this sort of thing would
put the youngster in a proper frame Of
mind to enter active life without Sc
rlously deranging the court calendars
or overcrowding the county jail
How well the new system worked
may be judged from the simple state
ment that Clarence at the age of 20
was all that his name entitled him
TO be. He wore high collars and spec
tacles and white tie and never ran
for fear that he would bag his trous-
ers at the knee The only subject on
which he was ALE to converse was the
relative merits of square and round cut
coats and his staple literature was the
Hints for Girls column in the Shady
Home Journal. At last accounts he was
selling ribbons and teaching the in
fant class in Sunday school.
We have told this narrowing tale Of
domestic tragedy and misfortune as a
warning to all loving parents that the
first essential in the manufacture of
silk purses is the selection of the right
material. Having seen to that, almost
any old method will produce some kind
Of result.
Copyright, 1904. by Albert Britt.)
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

discharge our routine duties more sue
cessfully.
improvement of manners and NOR
ais, of tastes and habits may thus re-
suit from a closer scrutiny of our mis-
takes. If the spirit of ambition still
remains with us we shall refuse to be
downed by any past blunder, how
ever stupid. We shall become more
vigilant and discipline ourselves more
severely. AS we trace many of our
mistakes to want of prudence and
forethought, to carelessness and for
getfulness, to indifference to our per-
sonal appearance, to being over-busy
with comparatively trivial matters, We
shall make all the more vigorous an
onslaught upon these old besetting
foes of ours which have tripped us
into making these mistakes. So out of
them will come a purified and en-
nobled character.
After this the only other thing we
have to do with our mistakes is to
forget them. Having faced them
manfully, gotten the lesson out of
them. resolved to clean up our lives
at certain points, the mistakes of the
past should be to us as If they had
never been. They and we have parted
company forever. Why need they dog
our footsteps and depress our spirits
any longer?
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
By Epes Winthrop

Copyright. 1904. by T. C. McClure)
AMY deliberately chewed up his
ticket. When he had masticated
/ it to pulpy condition he waited
for the conductor. He was rather
sorry he was not better ac-
quainted with that officials movements,
for chewed railroad ticket is not a
tasty morsel.
AT last, after what seemed to be
hours of waiting, he caught sight of
a blue coat and brass buttons in the
far end of the car, and a moment later
he began to choke. The travelling man
across the aisle pounded him upon the
back and presently his gasps subsidized.
What's the matter?" demanded the
conductor, coming UP. whereon Dan let
out a wall that would have shamed the
whistle of the powerful engine.
Il swallowed most of me ticket" he
sobbed, AN now 1 gotter walk all the
way to Pittsburg"
Sundry bits of pasteboard on the
floor furnished corroborative evidence.
but the conductor was adamant.
The gateman told me you had a
ticket to Newark" he declared firmly.
You get off there"
He's liar." protested Dan, "and
sore you
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

After a while went in and met Sis.
He was so glad I called he told me the
story of his life while the enslaved
milliners on the giddy perches above
looked down and giggled softly. l re-
lated a few chapters myself, but didn't
alIude to the cape epoch in my career.
Somehow 1 felt 1 had lost out. As a
skirt dancer Sis starred in London,
Paris, Berlin and at the Winter Palace
at St. Petersburg. On the London cir
cult he had skirted. so to speak, as
many as four music halls in one night,
dashing about in diaphanOus silk folds
and a cab from place to place. With
the wealth thus acquired he settled
down at Mudville to a cOngenial lie OF
easy quiet and Independence
Twice per year, spring and fall, Sis
visits the wholesale millinery plants at
Chicago. on which occasion, il is said,
he wears plug hat and feather boa.
/ was too sick at heart to hang around
and see him start and besides it's
cinch / wouldn't have laughed. To a
matured vision many good things lose
their WOnted Zest.
After singing one or two more low,
sweet stanzas of my youthful yester-
days I'll pass on to the sad to-morrows
that never came Next week I'll expose
the great Mudville Cow Mystery, which
bat1ed that village more than thirty
years. Wait for it.