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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-07-15
JoTTINGs FROM JUDSoN.

John E. Williams and R. M. Jones
were among those that went to Man
kato Monday.
William S. Lewis last week bought a
horse of William w. Evans for $f35
Isaac Wilmington of st. Paul and Ed
N. Jones of Minneapolis were the guests
Of the latter's cousin one day last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rogers, E. N. Jones
and William Owens attended the Sunday
school convention held at Horeb church
last Sunday.
II. j. Roberts of Mankato was up on
one of his farms last Monday.
Dickey and Gladys Jones of Minneap-
oils came up last week and are guests
of E. N. Jones and family.
Picking berries seems to be all the 60
these days. Parties from Lake Crystal
and vicinity are seen driving towards
the Minnesota river, where berries are
found in great quantities.
John w. James has had his house re-
shingled. Will James did the work.
E. N. Jones & Co. are building a fine
residence on the farm of William S.
Roberts. When completed it will be one
of the finest dwelling houses in the
town.
Fred Milsow has had his fighting cock
trained almost to perfection and is ready
to accept challenge from any breeder
in the state. Mr.. Milsow has a fine
flock of chickens, several of which are
thorOuuhbreds
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writer, an orator or business manager,
his reward will far exceed that of the
man whose feats of daring appeal only
to the lower elements of human nature.
At any stage of his progress on the road
to success the returns for his efforts are
larger than those of the athletic perform
er at a corresponding period. The col
lege man who registered the complaint
made no comparisons save in the matter
of compensation, and no others are made
here. He is in error in assuming, as
many others have done, that the people
in general are willing to pay more for
entertainment than for instruction, more
for amusement than for education.
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DOINGS AT KERNS AND HEBRON.

Haying is now the order of the day,
but the weather of late has not been
favorable for the work.
George johnson and L. B. Steele have
about ESQ rods of their main ditch dug
and will commence to put in their spur
bitches. The main ditch is working fine.
L. Burrill took two loads of hay to
town last Monday with two teams alone.
Schuyler Hodson, son of James Hod-
son, started for Ulen Wednesday to
work for his brother in law, Watson
Durham.
Presiding Elder Clare held a quarterly
meeting at Hebron church Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. johnson and Mr.
and Mrs. William A. Santo of Kerns at
tended divine services at Hebron last
Sunday.
Miss Bessie Thornton of Benson,
daughter of Capt NJ. T. Thornton, who is
an old comrade of THodson, visited with
Mr.. Hodson's family several days last
week.
Misses Alice and Ella Hodson contem-
plate starting for st. Louis next Mon
day, and will go by way of Chicago and
visit friends there. Rev. Allen will also
start off that day for Ontario to join his
wife on her visit at her old home. He
will be gone five weeks.
L. II. johnson is expected to have the
new steel bridge shipped to Judson al
most any day to begin its erection, as
it must be in by Sept. l.
Mrs. Wesley, has about recovered from
her recent illness.
C. R. Weller and family of Nicollet
spent Sunday in Hebron with j. A. It'd
lands family.
Alice Hodson spent several days in
Mankato with friends.
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1rfsS,rinne Is ON a Riot

Crime is on riot. There is an cpl
demic of lawbreaking Of one kind and
another. Murders, thieving, robbing,
hold-ups, and crimes without number,
with no limit to the variety, are COM
mitted daily. Crime appears to be on
the increase, notwithstanding courts, jur-
les, jails and prisons. Where lies the
cause? Are we too mild in the pun
ishment of the criminals? Many people
will answer yes, and lose no time in doing
so. It does seem that laws are not in
forced as strictly as they shold be, and
prison cells have lost their terror for
evildoers. With a great many persons
term served in a penitentiary is re-
garded more in the light of vacation,
a rest from worldly cares; and the simple
deprivation of few months from con-
tact with the people of the outer world
does not have the effect of reforming the
majority of those who have caused the
laws infraction. And it is rather an
easy matter nowadays to secure pardons
and pardons from prisons. State pardon
boards are looked upon as easy prey
by criminals and the sympathetic acts
of friends go long ways toward pro-
curing the freedom of convicts whose
proper abiding place for life should be
the bastile. There is too much sickly
sentimentality displayed toward crimi-
mails. From the very moment crime
is committed, the friends of the perpetra-
tor get busy in his behalf. Their first
mission is to try to work up public
sentiment in his favor. Next we find
them seeking to have the defendant
tried on lesser degree of crime than
that which he committed. If found
guilty move is made to have the
lightest sentence imposed. Hardly
is the culprit behind the bars when
his friends begin to work upon the SYM
pathies of the board of pardons, and this
body is too often moved to grant con-
cessions to prisoners who are not de-
serving of clemency Right here it might
be said that the pardon board is not,
in many cases, carrying out the intent
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Plant of Collegebred Young Man

Plant Of Collegebred Young Man.
a young nan who says he is college
Rn61sc, presumably of the year 1904,
Nk he does not say SO, writes to
Hr Portland Oregonian to complain of
she, v~bSic taste as he has observed it.
He kns spent eight years in study since
- lrR klse common schools, and feels his
A1sanents ought to fit him to supply
ssme public need He finds no one seek
Ae ksr services. however. except at or
Enmy Esbor or clerking in store, and
fsr sch service very small compensa-
6a - sGered At the same time he sees
sssahr young man, with perhaps less
Nkns n common school education, read
II zzrning $40 day or more by div
~ sxice daily from the top of sixty
fsse Rstier into tank containing four
x.ea q water. The complaint the COT
1E graduate makes is that the pub
IL willingly provides the compensation
- 80 dlfciy uue HdS hoIhiiio w ohCA
=. lar Che intellectual service he is
Y1<zsd 10 render.
ne OregoniaD is free to admit that
ahssc Is something radically wrong with
n PsbEc taste that encourages a man to
lsk has life in performing useless feats
e srxkfess daring such as those describ-
a. yet there is no justification for the
ss.ezzsions our college-bred friend seems
10 ACxw from the facts he recites. Much
sel2er would it be for the youth of the
Rmk M men and women would cease to
ssr Tie approval of their attention to
anEuxevils whose necks are worth no
zsss than the value they themselves
Azse srt- Boys may be expected to as
se % similar accomplishments so long
N sasr people of responsibility con-
Enzr @ make heroes of men who dive
xn@ ladders or fly through space on
EryxzB The readiness of a portion of
Ne ppopre to patronize show that has
- sEzer attraction than monstrosity
n zzso dcmoralizing to the young and
Exzs them poor conceptions of what
rsusaEsutes desirable entertainment, But
Ele existence of such exhibitions and
Ae apparently liberal patronage they re-
s.;ssr xscs not prove that the general
AE places upon them a greater value
Ia. upon the higher things of life.
Tke uusId is full of opportunities for
1Le esEIege-bred men, though few will
N ssze 30 step directly from the thresh-
81 sf alma mater into positions of hon
q M1ncnce and large pecuniary recon-
pesze- The world is looking for men who
can nsg only do things, but dc them bet
am Han any one else. That is why the
pnsuzznces of the high diver and the
s1SiE Aieycie rider command good COM
ysks1n- When the college man has
lsssa his superiority as a teacher,
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Farm For Sale.

I offer for sale my farm in Decoria
Township, Blue Earth County, described
as follows: The swA, of sec. 81, the e1s
of seH of sec. % and the nwA of nwH
of sec. 20, consisting of 260 acres prairie
and 20 acres timber; $50 acres are in
crop the balance meadow and pasture.
This farm is 21s miles from the Beau
ford creamery, l1s miles from the Ger
man Lutheran church and q miles from
the school house Except the timber lot),
has fine buildings and no waste land.
Will sell all or part of it on easy
terms. Call upon me or write me at once
as I wish to sell the growing crop also.
F. M. Currier, Mankato, MINI.
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and purpose of the law which caused
its appointment. Too frequently the
board resolves itself into a court and the
case that was once tried before Judge
and jury, is given rehearsing, the evil
dence is rehashed, and the plea of the
defendants attorney is delivered with
the same fervor and in the same art
full manner that it was when presented
to jury made up of twelve men of
average intelligence, who after having
weighed the evidence for and against
the accused, decided that he must be
guilty, and their verdict was so re-
corded. There have been instances when
the board of pardons has set aside vir-
diets and committed sentences that were
founded squTely upon the law and the
facts. In the light of such actions, is
it any wonder that people have come to
regard the law as mere nothing, and
courts and juries as much less? All
these things have strong tendency to
create in the minds of those who have
no respect for the law, strong con-
tempt for the courts. Laws are vio-
lated with impunity, and crimes are COM
Enittei unhesitatingly, the evil-doers
always willing to take their chances
with the board of pardons: not io,iht;a2
ior moment that their application for
parole or pardcr WI! IS granted III due
course of time. providing they have acted
sensibly and obeyed the prison rules and
regulations. In some cases TIE pardon
board has acted with a degree of dis
elimination that should BE commended
hut too cften nave the prison doors been
opened to desperadoes who were thrown
out upon society only to set bad ex-
ample to the rising generation. For
instance, the parole and pardon of the
Younger brothers from the state prison
was a grievous mistake. Cole Younger
was made a hero of in the eyes of
many boy who will consider it proud
ambition to emulate his life.
If we are to put stop to crime, we
must punish criminals. Make crime un-
popular. Make criminals unpopular.
Do not feed them upon public sympathy
nor permit them to circulate freely when
they should be behind iron bars. Make
imprisonment singing disgrace, not a
badge of honor. Many an honest, toiling
workingman does not receive the same
kindly consideration from the world, nor
does he wear as fine clothes, eat as sub
stantial food, nor have as good a bed
to sleep in as the crime stained popu-
lation that inhabits the penitentiary at
Saltwater. This is an incentive to crime,
especially on the approach of long, cold
winter 1t is then that some men with
out mears. and no show of securing en-
ployment will commit depredations so
that they can be safely slowed away
from the northwest's chilly blasts. The
luxury of a prison or Jail cell is prefer
able to a six months siege of bed in
cold and cheerless shanty and meals
that are few and far between.
1t is not our purpose to advocate
the harsh and brutal treatment of pris-
oners, but we, along with many others,
do maintain that men incarcerated for
crime should be made to feel that the
violation of law is a serious matter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-07-15
DOMINION EXHIBITION.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Has the Attraction
of the Year.


Hon. Clifford Sifton, minister of the
interior, Ottawa, Canada, will open the
dominion exhibition at Winnipeg, Mani
toba, on Tuesday, July 26th. The ex-
hibition will close on August 9th. If all
of the anticipations of the management
are realized this will be one of the
greatest and most successful exhibitions
ever held in Canada. Having the en-
dorsement of the Dominion government,
which has handsomely supplemented the
support given it by other sources, there
will be brought together from all parts
of Canada, an exhibition of the manu-
features of the great factories of eastern
Canada, which has never before been at
tempted.
In this display there will be brought
to notice the fact that the manufactures
of Canada are keenly alive to the grow
ing interests of the west and are able to
satisfactorily compete with the world
There will be splendid exhibition of the
agricultural industries of Canada, es-
pecially of western Canada, noted for its
No. / hard wheat, it's oats, barley and
its free homesteads. The exhibition of
horses and cattle will show that Canada
still maintains her supremacy; some of
the best will be there to compete for the
handsome premiums offered.
The display of the grains and grasses
of western Canada, viii give the OPP
portunity to see what can be produced
on it's fertile plains. In addition to this
there will be list of attractions that
will please and interest
To Americans this exhibition will be
one grand object lesson; it will also
give them the opportunity to meet their
friends and relatives who have moved
to Canada. Low rates on all lines of
railway will be in effect and the local
committee give the assurance that hotel
accommodation will be quite ample.
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THEIR CAREERS IN BRIEF.
Theodore Roosevelt.

lS5S-Born Oct. q, in New York city.
l8S0-Graduated at Harvard univer-
sity.
3-4-Served in New York legisla-
ture.
1884 Chairman New York delegation
to Republican national convention.
l8S6-Defeated as Republican candi-
date for mayor OF New York.
l88995-United States civil service
commissioner.
1S95-7-President of board of police
commissioners of New York.
1897 7S-Assistant secretary of navy. /.
lS98-Lieutenant colonel and colonel of
the First volunteer cavalry Trough Rid
ers) regiment in war with Spain.
lS99-Elected governor of New York.
l9O0-Elected vice president of the
United States.
1901, Sept. l4-Succeeded to the presi-
dency on death of William Mckinley.
l904-Nominate for president by Re-
publican national convention.
Charles w. Fairbanks.
l852-Born May ii near Unionville
Center, Ohio. 49,
1872 Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan
university, Delaware, Ohio.
1873-Reporter for Associated Press
l874-Admitted to the Ohio state bar
and married Miss Cordella Cole
lS75-Began practice of the law in
Indianapolis.
l8SS-Directed the candidacy of Wal
ter @. Gresham for the Republican nomi-
nation for president; actively engaged in
the support of Benjamin Harrison, the
party's nominee.
l893-Was Republican caucus nominee
for United States senator, but was de-
feated for election by David Turpie
Democrat.
lS96-Worked to commit the Republic
can party in Indiana to the gold stand
ard; headed his state delegation to the
St. Louis convention and was temporary
chairman of that body.
lS97-Was elected to the United States
senate.
lS9s-Member of the joint high British
American commission.
1908 Reelected to the United States
senate.
Nominated for vice president OF
the United States by the Republican
party.
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SAVED FROM TERRIBLE DEATH.

The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of
Bargerton, Tenn, saw her dying and
were powerless to save her. The most
skillful physicians and every remedy
used failed, while consumption was
slowly but surely taking her life. In
this terrible hour DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for consumption turned despair
into joy. The first bottle brought i'm
mediate relief and its continued use
completely cured her. It's the most GER
tain cure in the world for all throat
and lung troubles. Guaranteed Bottles
SOC and $100 Trial bottles free at
John c. Thro's drug store.
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go, Should Be Advertised.

lxAe Esfwing Republican comments at
s-e ksgth on the immigration conven-
sssn muu-rsly held in st. Paul, saying
~ n represented an interest and
So % activity all too uncommon In
lGz.nnnsn This state, with its i'm
z.nsr sxpanse of land not yet under
suaEzzsioa, with all its opportunities for
ux.ikag wealth from the soil, with Its
nss~Hd climate and all that makes for
Asvvx homes and prosperity, has been
.iarArzcked while the immigration trains
- Ar- This we all know to be true.
Tke xxz3road companies, especially the
su..z arunk lines which are stretched
.oz>.s He country from the twin cities
- Ars Pacific coast, are interested IN
aH4s Up the unoccupied lands lying
resr NE western shore. The reason for
IA ~ spparent. By thickly populat-
- Ass vast territory more business
~ spsrue to these transportation lines.
TA..r people must be supplied with
za1xaB Of food and clothing, not to men
siss Nc tons of machinery and imple-
nr~as which must be used in tilling the
81 ssf harvesting the crops; and all
Ais &eistt carrying adds to the income
Il 1kr rsifroad companies. Of the thou
.aas WHO have gone to the west, but
-vmsfTvefy few have strayed back to
nikue sAeir homes in the states lying in
he mississippi valley. The railroad
-es1EFEzases do not encourage their re-
tza This is evidenced by the increas-
e SsrSgtt charges for an eastern haul.
H Nh cost a person more to ship goods
x.su western point than it does to
scxz ucm from the interior to the Pa
cir sssrst. This is a rank discrimina-
-. but it has been the policy of the
Yrzn.sds to make this. difference in
szznE And there's a reason. 4
Ks.mesota must keep everlastingly at
Ne work of advertising her varied re-
ssUk Her people must not overlook
~ opportunity to induce those who are
lsjkisg FOE homes to settle here. This
l. syand state-there is none better in
N Ne galaxy of states. " 1t must be
too, that this common
xeaNA is yet in its infancy as compared
Win her sisters to the east. Her de-
ssasmeHt has been marvellous, and with
M aAst has been done there is more to
Se accomplished. There is yet the vir-
sia ssa chat can, when cultivated prop
rx1y. szise crops of untold quantity.
NH Gincral land is not all developed,
sza ahe bowels of the earth must be
naAe % yield up riches for those who
kasr sae energy to perform the labor.
Nf3 ssarate is unsurpassed, and the wat
sr, NsxS spouts from below the surface
Il NE sward is the purest beverage that
Gsa 'szzde for man. Minnesota has all
Il Ne essentials that go to make up a
fna class spot for the. people to live
n
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Eradicate the Earth's Scum.

Tramp, tramp, tramp, the tramps are
tramping, and if stringent measures are
not resorted to these warts on the body
politio will continue to tramp, eking out
an unenviable existence, committing
crimes innumerable, defying the officers
of the law, and laughing at the philan-
thropists and soft hearted persons who
are engaged in a sorry attempt at their
reform. These tramp pests are men
ace to society, and it is certainly about
time that legislatures, especially those
of the western states, were passing laws
that will eradicate the evil. It may be
that sentimental sympathy for the
vagabonds has prevented lawmakers
from taking up this important matter.
But it should require no great amount of
argument to impress upon legislators
that the people are entitled to measure
of protection from the tramp element.
Stringent laws strictly enforced will
soon drive the "Weary Willies" from the
state.
During every summer season hun
dreds of tramps flock into Mankato. Al
most every night the police search the
railway yards and various hooks and
corners for tramps. Usually bunch of
them is gathered up, and brought to the
police station where they are placed un-
der lock and key until morning. Then
they are released and allowed to scatter
about town, going from house to house
seeking what they can devour. If they
are not given what they ask for they
become insolent, frightening housewives
and children. These tramps are not
entitled to word of sympathy, but on
the>contrary they should be given dose
of the lash on their bare backs.
The entire exit and posse" of these
idle "roadsters" should be made to go to
work. There is in this and every other
state in the northwest highway after
highway that is in need of repair. These
tramps should be made to perform the
labor. This kind of medicine would soon
rid this and other communities of an
undesirable class of people. No IMAM
by PANTY" sentiment should be allowed
to stand in the way of the legislature en-
acting laws that will fit the case.
Honest, hardworking men out of en-
ployment, caused by circumstances over
which they could have had no control,
will always be given assistance if they
can produce the proper credentials. 1t
would be folly to class all men who are
unemployed with the genus tramp, but
the majority of the fellows who roam
about the country are idlers who would
not work if the opportunity were to be
presented them. These are the pestifer-
GUS individuals that are entitled to no
consideration
Several years ago signboards were
placed on the outskirts of Mankato no.
tifying tramps that the authorities had
established >rockpile, and all tramps
warned to stay without the gates of
the city; otherwise they would be put
to work. The word work strikes ter
ror to the heart of the average tramp,
and he fees from it as quickly as an
anarchist does from shower bath. If
the authorities were to again plant these
signboards they might have the effect of
keeping ..he earth's scum from floating
citywards. ~
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TIE Russian Cossasks.

The Russian Cossack is a child of the
Steppes descendent of the savage
tribes, who inhabited the wild regions
of Russia west OF the Urel mountains.
Injured of hardship and to munger, ne
can subsist upon the scantiest fare, in
which respect he differs frcn: The high
ly civilized man, who, once he tastes
Pillsbury's vitos, the pure wheat break
fast food, cannot get along without it.
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HEALTH
is the
Most Important

In buying food-products, several things
are to be thought Of i. e., Economy,
Results, Easy Handling, Reliability, but
the most important is Health.
Health means everything. In buying
clothes, shoes, hats, furniture, etc., if the
buyer is deceived and gets an imitation
the only harm is loss Of money. In buy
ing food-products, if limitations are sup
piled, there is not only loss Of money,
but perhaps an injury to health which
is beyond price.