The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-07-01
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

TOLD IN A FEW LINES.
This item is supposed to have been
written l6 years ago: "The year SeenSS
will be hard year on the figure eight;
likewise on the candidS, who will surely
have to liquids if he would officiS. But
it would be glorious year to dissips and
speculS in real estS."1Ex.
{" 'Tisn't enough to aim, we must hit,
Let's do our best.
Steady practice will help do it,
Give it test,
The days no time to loaf and sit,
Then let's get up and show our grit,
IT'S timeknough for us to quit,
When Sun takes rest.
THAT which seemed impossible year
ago is quite common today, wireless
telegraphy being among the latest mar
wells. Airships are being perfected, but
the perpetual motion man seems to be
doomed to perpetual disappointment.
Thus far, but no further, seems to be
irrevocable mandate.
If you should be as unfortunate as to
break borrowed article, insist on pay
ing for it when it is returned to its
owner. Put yourself in the other mans
place and note how you would like to
have a broken article brought home when
the borrower makes no attempt to make
amends for the breaks.
An old pasture is greatly benefited
by being narrowed with sharp toothed
harrow until the sod is torn and ragged.
When the warm rains come a pasture |
treated in this manner makes a wonder |
full showing of grass. Tearing the roots
out and loosening the soil causes new
feeder roots to form and a vigorous
growth is the result.
1t is now proposed to authorize post
masters and deputies to open letters on
which no postage stamps have been
placed to learn the name of the writer
and avoid sending it to the dead letter
office. If all who write would have their
name and address printed on their envel-
opes as the postoffice department re-
quests, no such trouble would arise.
The time has come when no highly
civilized community will tolerate mos
uuitoes. The convention of state and
provincial boards of health in Washing
ton the past week has pointed the way
in it's declaration that boards of health
everywhere should seek the means and
theauthority for treating swamp lands in
the vicinity of large towns and cities
with such substances as are now known
to be destructive to the life of the mos
quitoes of all species.
There never was time in the history
of the world when agriculture was as
popular as it is now. The possibilities of |
the industries are so many, and wise
men are beginning to see what the future |
has in store for the agriculturist. If |
you have good farm hang on to it.
If you have not, get one as soon as you
can. No one has solved the possibilities |
of an acre of good soil. Boys, stick |
to the farm, and when you are old you
will be thankful that you have done so.
A dispatch from Washington says that
the war department has announced that
in the Spaish war, on foreign soil, are
entitled to receive two months extra
pay This entities the boys of the Sixth !
Illinois who served in Porto Rico and the
Philippines to the extra compensation
that all that is necessary for a veteran
to do is to write to the Auditor of the
Treasury for the necessary blanks, fill
them out and the money will be forth
coming upon the treasurer's receipt OF
the proper papers.
In conversation with rural friend
recently he said: eff wild animal
should escape from some circus and run
1T large on the public highways, the
farmers would be apt to turn out with
guns and drive it out of the country.
If traction engine is run on public
road the engineer is compelled to stop
1T certain distance from an approach
hg team, whether there is danger or not.
he has to get out of the road and shut
IF all steam The automobile is a
ross between a ferocious beast and the
traction engine and 'auto" be governed
~ the laws which apply to both. How
,ver, the auto is not all to blame. Per-
laps the goggle-eyed specter who sits
herein may have to answer for its be-
,redations in cline somewhat warmer 6
han ours"
Hiram Hoyt, well-known engineer on