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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
Ceremonies Will Be Held at SibIey
Park on May 30th.
The Address Will Be Delivered BY
Attorney W. A. Funk.
Living Flag to Be a Feature u
the Big Parade.
Sermon on Sunday Preceding BY Rev
(. [. Heermance.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Committeeman of Wilkin Post, G. A.
R., to whom was assigned the duty of
planning for the fit observance OF Me-
mortal Day have about completed their
work. The Memorial sermon of the Sab
bath evening preceding May 80, the day
of decoration, will be delivered by Rev.
E. L. Heermance from his pulpit in
the Congregational church on South
Second street. The post and the Wom-
ems Relief corps are expected to attend
in a body.
The following bodies will take part in
the parade on the afternoon of Decora-
ton Day: The fire department; the
mayor, aldermen and other city officers
w. A. Funk, speaker of the day, the well
known Masonic quartette and Howard
Hengstler of the high school, who will
deliver Lincoln's Address at Gettys-
burg;" the Concordia band; Company II;
260 children of the Normal, Franklin
Union, Pleasant Grove, West Mankatc
and North Mankato public schools, tc
make up the living flag, feature that
has never appeared in Mankato before;
Wilkin post; the Woman's Relief corps
the Ladies of the G. A. R.; and the citi
zens in carriages.
The above may not be the exact order
in which the different bodies will appear
in the parade. The exact details as tt
the time and place of assembling, the
order of the bodies, and other similar
matters, will be annonced later by the
| marshal, Colonel johnson.
The parade will move from the fire
station down Second street to Rock tt
| Front and down Front to Liberty. Here
part of the parade, probably the band
Company H. and the fire department
will withdraw from the parade. The
remainder will move down to the park.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
Ames and His "Pull."

While the prosecuting attorney OF
Hennepin county shows a disposition to
send DR.. Ames to states prison, the
people of Minneapolis do not exhibit
any great desire to have the ex-mayor
punished. A great many of the citizens
Of the flour city" believe Ames to be
guilty of the crime charged against
him, but their sympathy for the "old
man" outweighs all wish that he be
sent 1over the road of the rough" Ames
certainly has pull among his towns
people that is remarkable for its
strength. Should Ames be acquitted at
his next trial, the announcement of his
candidacy for mayor or some other
highly important office, would not be
surprising, nor would it astonish
the people of the northwest if he
should be given strong support by GER
tain elements in his home city for the
position he might seek. His election
would. of course, be among the i'm
probabilities, but this would not deter
. large number of those who have been
his followers in years gone by from
climbing aboard his ''bandwagon." There
is no gainsaying the fact that Ames has
= faculty of bringing to his aid many
men who do not pattern after his man.
ner of living, nor do they have anything
IN common with the vicious class of
people who, it is claimed, aided in max
ing Minneapolis a by-word throughout
the country. There are many eminently
respectable men in Minneapolis who do
not hesitate to say that the prosecution
of Ames should cease. They are of the
opinion that the state will never be able
to secure jury that will convict him,
and they believe, too, that he has al
ready been sufficiently punished.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
Judge L. w. Collins.

Editor Miller in The Luverne Herald
pays Judge Collins high compliment,
and The Free Press can subscribe hearth
ly to every word that is said in the fol-
lowing:
at would be glorious thing for Min
nesota to have such a man as Judge
Collins in the office of governor. We
should then have a chief executive of
whom the state might be proud with
good reason-a man of learning, expert
ence, dignity and high character, and,
withal, man of iron will who has
the courage under all circumstances to
do his full duty. Aside from his great
ability as lawyer Judge Collins has ex-
ecutive ability of the highest order With
these qualifications and his thorough ac-
quaintance with the affairs of the state
and the duties of his office he would in
deed be an ideal governor. There is no
faint or hint of sham in Judge Collins.
He never bubbles and does nothing by
indirection. He is always frank, direct,
incisive and Straight from the shoulder
in all his discourse, and never fails to
say plainly and bluntly just what he
means in way that admits of no mis-
construction and leaves no doubt of his
sincerity. He meets all men on CON-
mon level, and the poorest lumber jack
would receive from him the straight
forward courtesy and even handed JUS
as the man of wealth and official emf
nence. Judge Collins is no respecter of
persons. He knows no distinction be-
tween the rights of the weak and the
rights of the strong He is every inch a
man, and commands, as he well deserves,
the highest respect, the fullest confidence
and the sincerest admiration of all who
know him.
"Let us have for governor a man we
can all be proud ola man whose char
acter and attachments will be to the
youth of the state an incentive to high
er endeavor. We can have such man
if we nominate Judge Collins
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
Judges Are Not Mixing.

The Duluth Herald offers this frank
comment on the letter written by Judge
Severance, in which he discussed the
makeup of the supreme bench:
"Judge Severance of Mankato, one of
the ablest district judges in the state,
has written a letter which is publish
ed in another column, urging that no
change should be made in the present
composition of the state supreme court,
pointing out the desirability of having a
stable court and of keeping that tribunal
out of politics as much as possible under
the elective system.
"At the last meeting of the State Bar
association, it was recommended that
the order of nominations by the politi-
cal conventions be changed, placing the
judicial nominations at the head of the
list. The Republican state central COM
mittee adopted this suggestion and made
the change in the call for the convention.
Of course, the convention can make
nominations in any order that it pleases.
Some of the politicians are now urging
that the convention should not follow
the suggestion of the state central COM
mittee, but it is hoped that their wishes
will not prevail. Despite all the talk
about combinations with candidates for
other places on the ticket, The Herald
is in position to state most positively
that the present judges are endeavoring
in every possible way to keep free from
the other controversies involved in the
campaign. 1t is their hope, as well as
that of the great majority of the mem
bers of the bar, that the time is APP
preaching when there will be indepen-
dent conventions and elections of all the
judges, district and supreme, and in this
way the courts will be freed altogether
from connection with politics. Placing
the judicial nominations first on the list
is step in this direction"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
WALK YOURSELF WELL.

A certain man of San Francisco, who
| was bereaved and i'll treated by fortune,
| and, moreover, had been given up by all
| the physicians to die of consumption, re-
solved that he would go out upon the
road and die by the wayside, where the
dew would fall upon him and the sun bid
him fond farewell. He sailed forth,
and finding that the blow was longer
in falling than he expected, he kept on
| and on. Instead of coming nearer to
the death he had counted upon, he found
that he was going farther away from it.
He began to get well as he tramped
eastward; and, to make a long story
short, he arrived at Philadelphia the 9TH
er day in robust state of health, hav-
ing walked all the way from ocean to
ocean.
This mans case is not singular. More
than one physician has told patient
tuberculous or nervous, 81 can cure you
if you will go barefooted;" and by this
he has not meant that there is any cura-
tive efficacy in baroness of feet. The
therapeutic effect resides in the condi-
tions of life which make bare feet in
the open air possible. For that matter,
all farmers know the efficacy that lies in
turning a hopelessly sick animal ''out to
grass" The creature, in that case, is
supposed to find, by instinct, somewhere
in the pasture or the wood, plant-no
human being knowns what it is-that
has the virtue to cure its ailment
Thrust out thus to live or die, the ami
NAL, indeed, possesses no craft to seek
out strange remedial balms, herbs and
simples. It's cure comes with the light
of the sun, with the antiseptic air, with
the helpful liberty of the long day out
of doors.
That was what cured the San Fran
cisco man and would cure many another
consumptive or other hopeless invalid if
chance were given it. The men of sci
ence are just beginning to find out that
there is distinct, specific, measur-
able prophylactic effect in the radio-ac-
tivity of sunshine. The substance which
they call radium reflects this property;
but the 'radium" that is the open sun
shine does not cost a million dollars
pound-it is, literally, as free as the
air. Our California friend did not take
scrip or purse with him on his restora-
tive journey; he was able, in this busy
land, where helping hand is always
welcome, to live on the country
1t is a good time of the year to begin
the walking cure for all sorts of bodily
ills. 1t is also good for spiritual sick
ness. If you can not walk to the Pacific
ocean, try it a part of the way-as far
as the Orange hills, for instance, or the
wilds of Tuxedo.-New York Mail
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27

goods as fast as ordered. The fact points
to corresponding increase in the pro-
duction of various crops, should weather
conditions be favorable during the grow
ing season. .
The largest horse in the world will
be on view at the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis. He measures over eleven feet
from the tips of his hoofs to the tips of
his ears, and has not yet ceased grow
ing. During the past six months seven
and one-half inches have been added to
his height. Snyder" is the name of this
equine giant. He is from Marion county,
Ohio, and is four years old. He is
beautiful dark chestnut, perfectly pro-
portioned and with most glossy coat.
Three weeks ago he tipped the scales at
5000 pounds.
The desert land act (U. S. Comp.
laws, 1901, page 1548) authorizes the APP
preparation by any citizen over twenty
one years old of not more than one
section of GAO acres of land mot timber
nor mineral land) (which will not, with
out irrigation, produce some agricultural
crop" The fact that the land is arid
and barren is to be proved by the aft
davit of two witnesses. A declaration
describing the land and setting forth the
purpose to reclaim it by irrigation must
be filed in the Government land office,
and title is acquired by making satisfac-
tory proof within three years the land
has been reclaimed by the expenditure of
at least SO an acre in irrigating it, and
by paying ST an acre to the Government.
Farm colonies under the supervision of
the Salvation Army have been estab-
lished in South Africa, Australia and
England. In Rhodesia 5000 acres have
been turned over the army, and western
Australia has set apart 10000 acres for
its use. In this country the army has
established fran colonies in California,
! Colorado and Ohio At Fort Amity,
Colorado, the colony consists of 1000
acres and is perhaps the most successful
Illustration of the army's plan for draft
ing the surplus population of the larger
cities and enabling it to get permanent
hold upon the soil. The army starts a
family on a ten or twenty acre tract
with cottage, team, agricultural i'm
plemcnts and seeds. 1t advances all this
and some money besides. The settler
pays it all back in three or four years
out of the earnings from the soil, and in
the meantime has the benefits that come
from living in an organized community
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
n. p. Halls Political History

Among the men who are thoroughly
familiar with the real inside history
of Minnesota politics is Harlan P. Hall,
the veteran st. Paul editor, and his long
and intimate association with public
characters peculiarly fits him to give to
the public some mighty interesting read
ing in his book, "H. P. Halls Observa-
tions," which is expected to come from
the press next fall. The observations"
viii be made up of a reminiscent review
of Minnesota politics from territorial
days down to the present, and they GER
tainly will be of decidedly interesting
character, as Mr.. Hall is a versatile as
well as a pungent writer. Mr.. Hall has
given out something of the main features
of his Observations" The fight be-
tween Alexander Ramsey and DIR. Cyrus
Aldrich of Minneapolis for the senator
ship in 1862 takes the reader back to
the earliest beginnings of fractional war
fare in state politics.
Then comes the story of Joe Rolette's
defeat of st. Peters attempt to steal
st. Pauls capitol.
Observation five will deal with a
generally unknown phase of Minnesota
politics, the effect on state candidates of
the failure to impeach President Andrew
Johnson
Morton S. Wilkinson, who had been
elected to the United States senate on
the admission of the state, was a candi-
date for reelection, and made public
a letter from President Lincoln asking
his return, but strenuous fight was
put up by Governor Swift and Congress
man, afterward Senator William Win
dom, the result being the election finally
of dark horse in the person of Daniel
s. Norton. Mr. Hall includes some in
side history of this fight
An almost forgotten chapter is Mr..
Halls Observation nine dealing with the
great defalcation of the state treasurer
m 1872
Governor Horace Austin's midnight
rcto message to the legislature will be
an interesting portion of Observation TO-
With Observation eleven, Cushman K
Davis comes into prominence in the book,
that chapter dealing with his election as
governor in 1875, and the next with
the fight which he made against Senator
Alexander Ramsey, which continued for
a month and finally resulted in Ramsey's
defeat by Judge S. j. R. Mcmillan, a
FIGHT which Mr.. Hall pronounces the
most exciting ever known in the state.
Then Mr.. Hall takes up the bitter
Nelson Kindred congressional fight of
1882, and Knute Nelson's subsequent
career down to his election as governor
The McGill- Merriam fight makes the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
CHEAPER TO HAVE PAID HIM.

Senator McComas tells a good story
on himself. He says: "While professor
in law school in Washington | had my
class before me one night, and in the
course of my remarks had occasion to
illustrate the smallness of the world.
why gentlemen" l said. 4 can give you
no better example of the smallness of
the world than to state my own expert
ence. Now, all of you know that l
come from a little town in Maryland
where the people are given rather to
staying at home, and yet when was in
Europe not long ago 1 was in Paris,
and there l saw man from my own
town. John X; then again, when 1 was
in Venice 1 met John x; then again
in London on the Strand l ran across
him. l came home, and while visiting
at Yellowstone Park 1 met him again,
and then again."
"I say, professor broke in one of
the class with sly look in his eyes,
wouldn't it have been cheaper in the end
to pay John x and let him got"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
It is the
Surer Way

Have your cake, mullins, and tea bis
cult homemade. They will be fresher,
cleaner, more tasty and wholesome.
Royal Baking Powder helps the house
wife to produce at home, quickly and eco
nomically, fine and tasty cake, the raised
hot-biscuit, buildings, the frosted layer
cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and
mullins, with which the ready-made food
found at the bake-shop or grocery does
not compare.
Royals the greatest Of bake-day helps.
ROYAL co.. NEW YORK.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27

case of necessity, one-half of the horse
power can be obtained from the engine.
New Features introduced.
Some new features have been introduce
ed in the office for the convenience of
the employees. Two in particular are
noteworthy and praiseworthy. The first
is a cold drinking water plant, all the
water being filtered, cooled and circulat-
ed throughout the entire building to
numerous fountains placed in convenient
locations. The next, a crematory where
all refuse is burned and the heat from
the same used to furnish hot water in
all the toilet rooms. At night, when but
few persons are in the building, the sur
plus water from this source is again
used in the boilers.
The water used in the condensers is
pumped from hot well to tanks placed
in the loft of the building, and from
there used in all the toilet rooms. The
two pumps used for this purpose are of
1000 gallon capacity each per minute,
and are also connected to the fire sys-
tenn throughout the building, and are at
all times ready for instant use
There is still quite force of compos-
itors and other employees working in
the old building on H street. A separate
watch force of uniformed guards is also
maintained there. There are about eigh-
mand of A. d. Babcock, George Wheeler
and Capt. Burton. They are, however,
distinct body from the uniformed force
in the new building under Capt. Harlow
Washington Star.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
ALONG THE RURAL ROUTE.

There is profit in almost everything
that receives proper attention.
Primary agricultural schools are nov
established in twelve cities in Saxony
Never whip horse when it scares al
something. Talk to it and you will
teach the dumb animal.
Potatoes were scarce article in l765
Three bushels per acre were thought tt
be very large crop and potato as
large as hens egg was quite curl
osity.
Land around the bayous of Louisiana
and Texas, which until 1895 was classed
as worthless, now yields $25,000,00(
worth of rice. About 100 Japanese ex
pert rice growers are in this region.
The amount of water given off by al
acre of grass is estimated at thirty
hogsheads a day. About 300 parts by
weight of water pass through a plant
to one part fixed and assimilated in its
tissues.
The good roads bill to be favorably re-
ported to the U. S. senate next December
makes an appropriation of $S,OO0,OOC
annually to be divided between the
states according to population, but nc
state shall have less than 100000.
Some city folks think that farmers
have snap. That's all they know about
it. A farmer has his troubles, works
hard, early and late and puts as much
brain in his work as does the average
business man. But he's more independ-
ent.
We like to see farm wagons coming
to town except when a young woman
occupies the spring seat while an older
woman sits on hay or a sack of meal
in the bottom of the wagon. Then we
get mad and wish the driver would turn
around and 60 back.
In these days of sharp business COM
petition and improved commercial meth
DDS, eggs are still sold by count and not
by weight, an unjust and unfair method
the like of which is not found in the
buying, and selling of any other COM
modify that we know of.
A certain editor complains because
in a pound of butter he discovered three
bed bugs and number of red ants, and
a few hairs. He evidently expected to
find an entire bedroom suite, including
a folding bed, good sized farm, and no
doubt, two or three switches in a single
pound.
A well known farmer says he vets his
seed corn with coal oil before planting
it and as a result, the birds and in
sects do not bother it before it comes up.
The oil does not injure the germs and
keep it from sprouting. This he has
proven by experience, as he has never
had replant.
1t is easy to make $4,000 in five
years on paper, by investing in formu-
la of preserving eggs, and giving few
weeks labor each year in gathering
storing and selling eggs. Do not be
fooled by fraudulent chemical companies
Mind what we say.
If you want to find all about farming,
ask the man who has never farmed
There has been an enormous increase
in the amount of commercial fertilizers
bought this season by farmers. Chicago
manufacturers were at one time unable
to get enough cars in which to ship
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27

metic was wrestling with subtraction
and the teacher was explaining that
things subtracted must be the same de-
nomination as the thing subtracted
from. She said you cannot take five
peaches from six apples, when up went
a hand from boy in the class, "What
is it Johnnie" said the teacher. "Please,
can't you take five quarts of milk from
six cows?" And the teacher collapsed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27

We are willing to lose our profit, to re-
duce our stock at Henry E. Hance's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27

case of necessity, one-half of the horse
power can be obtained from the engine.
New Features introduced.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-04-27
Union Meetinn-


The Union meeting of the Pickcns
Association will be held with Pickens
Baptist church, beginning Friday
night and up to and including the
fifth Sunday in May.
Friday night, n rmon by DR.. A..
j. S. Thomas.
Saturday morning, 10 o'clock, de.
votion0l exercises conducted by Rev.
B. Holder.
Organization.
Subjects for discussion.
The need of consocrated church
membership. Opened by Rev. a. j.
Manly.
Church discipline Whom and how
should it be exercised' Opened by
NJ. Hondricks.
Are the churches in any way ro.
sponsible for lawlessness and crime?
If so, to what extent, aud what is
their duty in regard thereto? Opened
by Joel H. Miller
Should any one bo considered q
consistent mem ber of the church who
does not usually attend its regular
services nor contribute Yccording to
his means to its support of the gos-
pei, generally? Opened by Rev ].
r.. Foster.
Sermon Saturday night by Rev j.
E. McManaway.
= Sunday morning, 10 o'clock, de,o
tional exercises by Dr.. A. j. S.
Thomas
10:30-An exegesis of Jude 3 verse
by Rev. j. Il. McManaway.
IL o'clock-A sermon by DR.. T..
M. Bailey.
Sunday afternoon will be devoted
to Sunday school mass meeting, and
several short addresses will be made.
Sunday night will be devoted to n
missionary mass meeting, and several
short addresses will be made on mis-.
sions, its Importance and how to do
missionary work.
A full representation Of all the
churches is requested.
The Womans Missionary Society
OF the l1ckens Baptist church desire
that every church in the Pickens AS.
sociation send at least one sister
more if they can--to meet With us
during the Union meeting. Mrs. @.
r.. Watson of Greenville, S. g., has
promised to be with us, and we have
arranged for her to address the la
dies on the subject of missions, on
Saturday afternoon at some conyen.
lent place. The ladies of the Twelve
Mile and Piedmont Associations, also
members OF the other denominations
are cordially invited to come and
hear Mrs. Watson. Time Saturday
bafternoon, May 28th.
Mrs. j.. w. Hiott, Pres
Mrs. @. %. Robinson, Sec