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of Americca, as with one voice, make
this answer to President Roosevelt's
attack upon us his only possible reply
will be a retraction and opology?"
Mrs. Musgrove ought to know that
most of the foreigners take pretty good
care of their children, and do not depend
upon the club women to bring them up
in the way they should 60. And there
are public schools in this country where
the children of foreigners are given an
education and fitted to take up the du-
ties of citizenship. Let the club women
look to the welfare of those youths and
misses who belong to their circle, and
those parents who come from abroad
will attend carefully to their own flock.
Mrs. Musgrove is mistaken in her meas
ure of the situation.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Protect Your Horses,

This is a pointer to police officials as
well as those who are in the habit of
leaving their horses stand for hours in
the street unsheltered:
Any sheriff, constable, village marshal
or police officer may remove, shelter
and care for any horse or other animal
found exposed to the weather and not
properly blanketed, or remaining two
successive hours without attention in
cold or inclement weather, and when
necessary may deliver such animal to
another person to be so sheltered and
cared for; but in all cases the owner, if
known, shall be Immediately notified.
and such officer, or the person having
possession of the animal shall have a
lien thereon for its care and keeping
and the expense of the notes. If the
owner or custodian be unknown, and can
not with reasonable effort be ascertained
or shall not, within five days after no
tice, redeem such animal by paying the
expenses incurred as aforesaid, it NAV
be treated as an estray, and dealt with
as such.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
The Situation in Chicago.

Unions i'm front of them; unions be-
hind them; unions to the right of them
and unions to the left of them. That
appears to be the situation in which
Chicago residents find themselves. To
make more complicated the state of af
fairs, the firemen have organized; so
have the school teachers, and the police
men, not to be outdone by other muni-
cipal employees, have formed union.
Chicagoans are not little alarmed at
the new order of things. The newspapers
are adorning their pages with cartoons
suggesting terrible possibilities in cases
of big fires and strikes where there is
any feeling between non union and m-
ion iremen and policemen, and especially
should labor riots occur.
Chicago aldermen look upon the new
move as the ground work for demand
for higher wages, and they are in a
state bordering on nervous prostration
for fear they will be placed in position
where they will have to either grant OF
reject the demand for an increase The
preachers of Chicago, most of them at
least, have denounced the fremen's and
policemen's unions. Chicago is casting
about for some plan that will rid the
city of ,nionism
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
The Attack Of Storer.

1t was supposed tnat with Mr.. Stor-
er's dismissal from the diplomatic SER
vice and the subsequent investigation
the incident closed, but Storer has
broken out in a new spot.N
Mr.. Storer was removed because of his
wife's interferepe in affairs of the Ro-
man Catholic church and her alleged
misuse of letters from the president. 1t
was also charged that Mrs. Storer had
meddled with French politics by taking
part in an anti-repuDlican intrigu e to
promote the marriage of Victor Bona
parte with member of the Orleanist
family.
President Roosevelt replies to Storer's
late attack and gives publicity to the
correspondence which passed between .ne
two relative to Archbishop Ireland. The
president is out with fat denial of
the accusation that he authorized Mr.
Storer to ask the pope to make the
bisnop a cardinal.
Furthermore Mr.. Roosevelt states
that he could not with propriety make
such request.
President Roosevelt would have exhib-
tied the part of wisdom had he refrained
from entering into a controversy of this
character. The majority of people, after
reading Mr.. Storer's attack, would have
reached the conclusion that the presi-
dent was the unfortunate victim of a
woman who was ambitious to push her
husband to the fore, and that she over
stepped the limit. In her anguish of
mind she persuaded her husband to as
sail the president, and the latter has
made mistake by Identifying the at
tack with a reply.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Puzzled Over Smoot.

Senator SmoOt's case is puzzle for
the wise lawmakers of the upper house.
There is a division of opinion among
them as to whether the man from Utah
can be mseated. According to a Wash
ington dispatch, the whole question re-
solves itself around his taking of what
Is termed the endowment OATH" which
is declared to be an oath incompatible
with the oath of senator to support
and defend the constitution and laws of
the United States. Some of the members
appear to be disposed to vote to expel
SmOOt
Then comes the question as to the
grounds upon which he is to be expelled.
He is senator To expe him would re-
uuire a twothirds vote OF the senate. If
he was not entitled to seat in the SEN
ate because he could not properly quail
IT, to hold the office, it would seem that
flee vacant, or that Smoot was not,
from the day he entered the body, en-
titled to hold a seat therein.
To declare that he is ineligible would
require only majority vote of the
senate. If he was entitled to the seat
when he entered the chamber, it is a
question whether he has done anything
since he was sworn in as a senator to
forfeit his right to his seat. 1t is upon
such forfeiting of right to seat that
expulsion would be the course to be
pursued. In the division of opinion as
to the course to be adopted rests the
probability that no action will be taken
at all.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Proper Revision of Tariff.

The New York Journal of Commerce is
one of the most conservative newspapers
in the country and its views on public
questions always have had great weight.
The Journal of Commerce is an advocate
of tariff revision, and in discussion
of the subject says there is no occas-
sion in revising the tariff to take it all
to pieces and put it together again, or
TO adjust every detail to every other.
What is needed is to remove the super
fuous and obstructive and reduce the
excessive rates.
1t is not true, an expert declares, that
no schedule can be touched without shak-
ing the whole fabric, or that it is abso-
lutely impossible" to accomplish any
thing with respect to trusts without de-
stroying the whole protective system.
He cites the iron and steel interests.
They get the cheapest ore; they have
the means of manufacture and trans
portation that enable them to produce
iron and steel and everything made from
them at less cost tha many other coun-
try.
If all the duties were swept away he
says the mines, the steamboats, and rail
roads, the furnaces and founderies, the
steel mills and machine shops would
all remain, and the industries would
stand firm and defy the competition of
Europe. Prices would be somewhat low
er, to the benefit of thousand other
industries. 'Tbe tariff either be touch
ed with the hand of reform or run the
risk of being smitten with the hammer
of destruction, The Journal of Com
merce declares.
Standpatters would have the people
believe that the task of revising the tar
iff is one surrounded with difficulties.
whereas the difficulties they constantly
talk about are mere trihes and would
soon be swept aside were the wise heads
in congress to get down to the labor of
revision.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Money for a Good Cause,

Educational men of the state are in
terested in the college of education for
the training of school superintendent
principals and high school teachers which
was established at the university during
the past year. The college has enrolled
many students who are preparing to
teach.
However, the university is so cramped
in its existing buildings that no adequate
quarters can be assigned to the new col
lege and SO limited in it's resources that
no funds could be allotted to the addi-
tional work. Taking these facts into
consideration, the teachers of Minnesota
have united in a petition to the coming
legislature for a building and an annual
appropriation for the college of educa-
tion. This petition is signed by practi-
cally all of the city superintendents of
schools, the principals of the high and
graded schools and the county superin-
tendents of schools.
1t is set forth that the normal schools
OF. Minnesota have long performed with
conspicuous success their duty of train
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
An lrate Woman.

There is a matron in Chicago who is
just aching to get her long fingers into
the hair of President Roosevelt Her
name is Mrs. A. J. Musgrove, club
woman of some prominence, who took
| the time to read the presidents message
and finds one paragraph which she claims
is an insult to womanhood This irate
club woman insists that the president
chides the American woman for not
having a larger family" "This is an
audacious attack upon that sacred in
stitution, the American home," exclaim-
ed Mrs. Musgrove to newspaper re-
porter.
'And here" she opened the constitu-
tion at The first amendment, sit is pro-
vided that every citizen of this country,
whether man or woman, who has been
wronged shall have redress Am [ not
right?
Therefore, / propose that the club
women of America rise in their might
and demand that the president make
retraction and opology.
hiS 10 HOb CIc UISG tlint UlldU Ufle
president has attacked u.s." Mrs. Mus
grove continued. 'We made big mis-
take last time. Our answer to the presi-
dents charge of childless home was the
wrong answer When he asked How
about the childless homer we should
have asked: How about the homeless
child?'
'Does the president not know that
l,OOO,0OO foreigners are coming to this
country every year? Does he not know
that these foreigners have large families
of children, crude material which must
be prepared for citizenship?
Where, then, shall the club women of
America find time to bear and rear chill
dren when their days are given up to
preparing the children of foreign parent
age for the ballot box by means of lee
, lures and stereopticon views?
Il feel sure that when the club women
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
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Birds With Colored Heads.

Many birds frequenting flowers fOl
honey or insects are thus liable to get
their heads covered with pollen, says the
London Globe. And since the pollen of
different flowers varies in color bird
may become yellow headed, red headed
blue headed, etc. This led to a curious
mistake i'll the case of Il New Zealand
bird. This bird was a hOneysucker and
Il haunter of flowers. Now, i'm the earlv
summer it visited most frequently the
flowers of the native flax, and later in
the year fed chiefly on the furchsia The
pollen of the former is red, and of the
latter blue. Hence in the early summer
the bird appeared with "a red head, and
was named the red headed honey seeker
But when later in the year it went to
the fuchsia its head was stained blue
and it was called the blue headed honey
seeker. Thus, for long time this bird
was thought to be two distinct species,
and only recently was it found that the
red headed and blue headed were one
and the same, and that the real color of
the head was blackish brown
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Keep Up the Agitation.

The Redwing Republican is fearful
that something is wrong with America,
and insists that public sentiment has
run away with good judgment, and
America seems to have lost her head
The Republican says that constant
agitation by some of the great newspa-
pers and magazines and their muckraker
writer's and officials in high positions has
distributed the public mind to such an
extent that many people actually fear
for the future of the great republic and
have lost faith in the government
This is indeed a severe arraignment of
those in authority who have brought to
brook the grafters, the trust magnates
who have violated the laws of the land,
the corporation heads who have been
buying up legislatures and corrupting
mems souls and their honesty with gold.
Is it not time that the public mind
should be disturbed? Is it not time
that the public be awakened to the ini-
quities which have been creeping into
the body polite for years?
Yet The Republican claims that "all
this vicious agitation is harmful. The
country has gone daft on searching for
criminals. In the most prosperous per-
iod of our history we have become the
most bitter and destructive For two
years past the country has been treated
to sensational exposures of corruption
and graft until the public naturally be-
lieve everything has gone. to the bad
This is not true. Let us draw long
breath, stop talking graft and 60 on with
our daily pursuits
1t is well the country has gone daft
searching for criminals. 1t is well for
the future good of this republic that the
public conscience has become exercised
over the crimes that have been commit
ted by those who were chosen to fill
positions of trust. Now that the shak-
ing up-the rattling of the dry bones
is well under way, shall the people drop
back into their former state of lethargy
and allow the grafters to renew their
despicable work of plunder? The peo-
pie must keep a watchful eye OH pub
lie affairs. They cannot allow themsel-
YES to go to sleep in the security that
they will not be robbed right and left.
They have in the past slept too soundly,
and the lawbreakers were wide awake
and doing their worst.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Area of the United States.

The United States geological survey
has just issued a bulletin by Henry Gam
nett, which represents the result of con-
ferences and cooperation of the land
office, census bureau, and geological sur
vey in an effort to agree on what consti-
tutes ''the area of the United States
The absence of standard of measure
ment for determining the area led to
a discrepancy between the tables of the
census bureau made in 1887 and those of
the general land office prepared in 1899
The result of the cooperation is that the
area of the United States proper, which
is given as 3,027,7S9 square miles, has
been increased over the census figures
by l,lSS square miles. The bulletin
gives the area of Alaska as 50O,SS4; the
Philippines, ll5,026 Hawaii, 6,449
Porto Rico, 3,425; Guam, 2l0; Samoa,
II, and the Panama Canal strip, 474
square miles. All of the detached terri
tory is subject to change as the limits
become more correctly defined.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
For Fine Starching.

The best kind of starch to use for
stiffening laces, handkerchiefs, washing
silks or any other thin fabric is made
with gum arabic, says the Pictorial Re-
view. To make it, put an ounce of gum
arabic into bottle and pour over it
cup of cold water. Stand the bottle in a
saucepan of cold water and place it over
the fire until the gum is dissolved
Then strain it through fine sieve or a
piece of cheesecloth into another bottle.
When it is thoroughly cold add to it a
gill of alcohol and it will be ready for
use when needed. For dainty laces, half
teaspoonful of the starch mixed with
a small cupful of cold water will give
ample stiffness. Larger amounts should
be added, according to the nature OF
the different fabrics.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Keep Up the Good Work.

Good roads agitation continues, and
it grows healthier under the constant
care of those who have the question of
improved highways at heart 1t is MOTTO
able that those who should advocate
better roadways are taking hold of the
matter with more and more enthus-
iasm. Certainly there is no class that
will be benefited to the extent the farm
ers will when the roads become thing
of beauty and a joy forever. The farm
ers are beginning to realize this.
The State Good Roads association has
just concluded it's annual meeting in st.
Paul. Among other propositions sub
mitted to this gathering We're the fol-
lowing:
First. A proposition TO abolish the
office of county surveyor and provide
for the appointment by the county
boards OF a commissioner of highways
under salary to be fixed by the board.
His duties shall be TO provide plans and
specifications for, and superintend the
expenditure of, all county roads and
bridge funds.
Second. TO abolish the office of road
overseer, of which there are 1888 in the
state, and provide for the appointment
by the town board of one town commits
sioner of highways in each town under a
salary to be fixed by the board
Third. To abolish the statute labor
tax and pay all road taxes in cash.
Other questions which were discussed
were: "Shall the county control all
roads in its territory, or shall there be a
division between county and town roads
as at PRESENT." while another question
submitted was: ''Shall the state juris-
diction extend to the maintenance of
such roads, or only to the expenditure
of state funds in construction, and Shall
the state require that counties provide
for continual maintenance of state
roads?"
The question of how. should the COM
pensation of town and county deputy
highway commissioners be. regulated, was
submitted to committee, as was all the
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Publication of Milk.

The Matin states that Prof. Behrino
of Marburg, well known for his expert.
ments for finding curatives and proven.
tives for diphtheria, Group and tuber-
culosis, has discovered a method of max
ing milk absolutely free from germs
without boiling it or affecting its nuri-
tive qualities in any way. According to
the Matin, the operation depends on the
bateria destroying qualities of what is
known in Germany as perhydrol, which
have already been tested in France in
the publication of municipal water sup
Plies. One gramme of perhydrol is ad-
ded to IA liter of milk-about one sixth
of an ounce to gallon-and then the
milk is heated until it becomes warm
l22 degrees Fahrenheis.
The perhydrol decomposes into water
and oxygen. The oxygen escapes, and
the milk is left diluted with an exceed
ingly small quantity of water absolutely
free from microbes. Milk treated i'm this
way, it is said, may be kept for an inde-
finite time without change. According
to the Matin, the analyst of the Purs.
sian ministry of the interior has certified
some of the milk to be purer than, milk
taken straight from the cow. Prof. Be-
hiring is also said to believe that milk
loses some of its best qualities when ex.
posed to daylight. He is said to advo.
cate green or red milk bottles ''"i
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14

ing for the elementary schools. Nc
similar provisions has been made for the
training of high school teachers ano
school principals and superintendent. A
beginning has been made in the estab
lishment of the college of education, but
a building and funds are necessary tc
the continuance of this work. 1t would
seem reasonable to expect that the com
ing legislature will make the appropria'
tion requested.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14

other questions which were submitted
for consideration by the good roads as
sociation.
The proposition to create the position
OF commissioner of highways is founded
on sound judgment, as is also that one
which proposes to abolish the office of
road overseer. One practical man with
knowledge of road construction will
be able to accomplish more of a perma
nent beneficial character on the high
ways than hundred pathmasters whose
only idea of repairing them is to rip
and tear and make them much worse
than before they We're tampered with.
That twin delusion, the payment of
all taxes in labor, ought to be given its
twenty three" along with all other
things that place obstacles in the way
OF good road making Let us mix COM
mon sense with muscle and the good
roads problem will soon be solved. As
Old as is Blue Earth county and with
Its marvellous development in most every
other direction, there are highways with
IN It's limits that are disgrace to twen-
tleth century progress. And there is
not the slightest excuse for their awful
condition. The supervisors of the towns
In which these miserable roads are per-
mtted to impede travel and cause a
Christian to lose his temper and utter
words that CRATE harshly on sensitive
ears, are guilty of gross negligence.
The Mankato free press., 1906-12-14
Grass and Grain CrOpS.

Rotation of crops Changing crops of
the same kind to different locations ev-
cry year, largely influences success. 1t is
believed by some eXperimenters that the
nutriment which all plants receive and
digest is eXuded by their roots, and that
this eXcrementitions matter units or
poisons the soil for a second crop of the
same kind until it is either consumed or
neutralized by cultivation, this very mat
ter, however, proving nutritious to other
and different kinds of plants. 1t is ur-
ged, therefore, that one crop of grain
should not be succeeded by another of
the same description-wheat after
ing from analogy, ought wheat to fol-
low oats, as they are too nearly allied
in their natures and are supposed to feed
on the same pabulum, both also cover
ing the same description of soil and
nearly the same kind of plant food. The
fibrousrooted plants always succeed
DeSJ after tnOSe JnaC are taprOOted; !;
hence arisos the Incidentally profitable
system of the turnip husbandry in Eng
land, by which the farmers are enabled
to raise crops of grain of the finest quail
ity and in almost double quantity, at
the same time carrying forward the inn
provement of the soil to an almost in
definite extent, to which might be added
the means of supporting double the num-
Der of animals of all kinds by introduc
ing the different varieties of roots,
green crops for soiling, and forming a
link in a system by which the farmer
is enabled to pay in rent, tithe and tax
es a sum which in almost every other
country would be found absolutely in.
supportable.' By changing the crops the
farmers are to a certain extent relieved
of many evils which now assail them in
the shape of blight, smut, rust, mildew,