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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Mr.. McCleary's Defeat

Radical standpatism has been given
an awful Jolt in the second congress
sional district The defeat of Mr.. Nc
Cleary ought to be a warning to the
republican members of the national con-
gress- that the tariff schedules need an
overhauling to meet changed conditions.
If they fail to take heed more of our
republican legislators will meet the po-
litical fate that has overtaken MIR. Nc
Cleary. The people will not tolerate
delay.
As Mr. McCleary was regarded as the
king pin of standpatters it was deemed
advisable by the people of the second
district to retire him from the nations
legislative halls in the pursuit of pri-
vate life His defeat is not surprise
to The Free Press. All along this
paper has felt that he would be given
his 'twenty three"
For months-several years it might
be said-The Free Press has repeatedly
stated that if the republican congress
men failed to give the people relief
from the excessive tariff burdens, demo
Gratis would be chosen to revise the
schedules which bear the name of Ding
ley.
Mr.. McCleary is the author of his
own defeat. He would not heed
the advice of his friends who could see
the signs of the times and read with a
clear vision the handwriting on the wall
which predicted his end in the arena
of congressional activities. He persisted
in Haunting before his constituents the
red flag of standpatism and they voted
to replace him with democrat who
has promised to meet their wishes.
Mr.. McCleary's campaign methods
need not be discussed further than to
say that they We're obnoxious to the
better feelings of those people who be-
lieve in clean politics and abhor those
things which are resorted to by the
ward worker.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
GOES TO THE WALL
Big Grain Company in the Hands
of a Trustee.


Minneapolis, Nov. THE first meet
ing of creditors of the Spencer Grain
company was held in the office of Ref
cree in Bankruptcy Merriman this morn
ing.
Claims. were put in, principally by
Minneapolis people, aggregating $74,
463.74
Z The heaviest claim is that of the
Security bank on notes for $34,055.64.
The Cargill Elevator company of this
city puts in claim for merchandise of
$I5,343.33.
An involuntary petition in. bank
ruptcy was filed in the United States
district court here against this COM
pany Aug. % last. Charles r. Fowler
was appointed trustee.
This was one of the Oldest and best
known grain firms in the city, and its
failure caused considerable comment
among grain men.
At the recent investigation of the
special federal grand jury regarding re-
bates, former employees of this company
We're put under special fire, and it was
intimated that the failure of this com
pany led to the investigation by the
government officials which resulted in
calling the special jury
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Mystic Letters in Lawsuit.

A recent special dispatch from Balti-
more contained the following:
ga problem which came up for solution
in the circuit court at Towson to-day
where Miss Susan B. Wheeler is trying
to establish a claim to $4,000 because
Edward B. Waltz failed to fulfill an
alleged promise of marriage, was the
meaning of the mystical letters, &C.. Y
S X which appeared several times in
letters from Waltz, which were in evi.
dence.
Osborne I. Yellott, cousel for Waltz
asked Miss Wheeler to explain the
meaning of the letters. She refused
The court asked her, too. Again she re-
fused. 1T is secret among young
girls coyly replied Miss Wheeler. q
will not tell YOU
Judge Hoshall of the orphans court
says C. Y. s. X simply means consider
yourself KISSED but as the Judge was
not witness the court had no opportu.
nifty of getting his expert testimony on
the question, so it is without inform
alton, official or otherwise.
"Waltz is about 20 years old. Both
he and Miss Wheeler lives in the neigh
borhood of Arlington avenue. She saws
she was wooed and that there was a
promise of marriage in October, 1905
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Dogs of COnstantinOple,

The dogs are a great feature of Con-
stantinople, and, indeed, of all Turkish
towns. They lie about in amiable heaps
in the sunshine, and are most consider
ately treated by the Turks, though oc-
casionally they suffer at the hands of
Greeks or Armenians. One constantly
sees slumbering group, over which the
passersby carefully step, monopolizing
the very center of a busy, crowded
street. Each road has its own pack,
which protests Vehemently against any
foreign trespasser.
Yet dog may pass where he pleases,
says writer in Blackwood's Magazine,
by making, in the Turkish phrase,
''tesslim" is, resignation" In a
street not his own he is obliged every
few yards to lie on his back and wave
his paws propitiatingly, while an in
hospitable chorus banks around him.
The progress is slow and undignifed,
but in the end sure.
Some of the dogs are handsome, and
nearly all have most courtly manners,
but the great majority are either Grip
pied by carriages or mango stricken.
When puppies appear upon the scene
the nearest Turk provides a basket and
milk, and sees generally to their welfare,
and woe betide the foreigner who tries
to kill a hound.
Once l was passing down a street at
dusk, but stopped to make the acquaint-
ance of puppy like ball of worsted.
1 had established a very satisfactory
basis for future friendship and was 60
ing on my way when 1 heard the rattle
of wheels and yelping. Going back, l
found the poor little beast had been
run over and had two legs broken. AS
a big Turkish porter was passing l
offered him franc to put the puppy
out of it's pain, work 1 did not relish.
He was ready to take it roughly from
my hands, but not to kill it. "That's
different" he said; "to take life is
wicked"
There are many repellant sights in
Constantinople, and it is hard to con-
ceive picture which more realistically
represents a scene from the Inferno
than an ordinary business transaction
that occurs nightly. Dogs are the
scavengers of Constantinople, and every
night the refuse of hotels and houses
is thrown out into the street.
A class of man exists which lives by
rag picking and diligently investigates
the contents of these heaps, while the
dogs snarl and bay around him saw
agely, resenting his intrusion into their
perquisites.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Congratulations, Governor.

The Free Press congratulates Cover
nor John A. Johnson on his splendid
victory. This paper wanted Mr.. Cole
elected governor, but the people willed
otherwise. We bow humbly to the de-
cision of big majority and extend our
best wishes to Governor Johnson, thank
full that a man of his clean and upright
character and ability is to be at the
helm of the ship of state for the next
two years.
Governor Johnson is reelected by a
majority of which he has just reason
to feel proud, and two years hence he
will be heard from in the national cOun-
ellis of his party and he should be con-
sidered by his party as the logical can
didate for the vice presidential nomina-
TONS
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Work for the FireSide.

One of the popular ''fireside" indus
are trying to revive is weaving, and a
pretty occupation for winter evenings in
the country is the weaving of portieres
The darkest bands should be at the bot
tom, and the colors should become light
er toward the top Handy table looms
may be bought for the small sum of $l2
and women will find it easy to use up
their scraps of silks and other material
in making rugs and portieres that will
be quite artistic when finished, especial
ly now when they are so fashionable.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Suffrage for Women Vetoed.

The committee on municipal elections
of the charter convention at Chicago
voted against equal suffrage, and the
women of Chicago will have to make
up their minds not to vote very soon.
Charles Rosenthaal the chairman of the
committee, said that he thought that
giving the ballot to women would make
them lose ''the finer qualities that men
wish SO much to preserve" No doubt
the ladies would be better pleased if it
would be also decided that it is detri-
mental to their "fnery qualities" to re-
quire women to pay their taxes every
year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
THIRTY YEARS OLD
Anniversary Celebration Of Gustavus
Adoiphus College.

St. Peter, Nov 7.-Gustavus Adolf
plus college was celebrating a double
anniversary yesterday. This is the ami
versary of the fall of the hero after
whom the college is named.
In observing the anniversary the fac
ulty and students also celebrated an
other, that of the opening of their
school just thirty years ago. On Oct.
81, 1876, exercises of dedication were
held in the old main building, the first
structure to be erected on College hill,
and actual class work was begun a day
later.
Yesterday group of twelve buildings
looked down upon st. Peter, the schools
attendance is many times greater, and
it has grown into the largest institu-
ton of its kind maintained by the
Swedish Lutheran conference of Mime
sofa.
Yesterday morning simple ceremonies
were held in the auditorium. DR.. T..
Norelius, who founded the school and
who is now the president of the Au-
gustana synod, gave a reminiscent adj
dress and Rev. Peter Peterson of ST..
Paul also spoke.
A pretty incident of the anniversary
was the number contributed by Nine.
Anna Hellstrom, the famous prima don
ma of the Swedish royal opera, who is
to give a concert in st. Peter this even
ing
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
DANGER IN DELAY.
Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous for
MankatO People to Neglect.

Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous for
Mankato People to Neglect.
The great danger of kidney troubles
lis that they get a firm hold before the
sufferer recognizes them. Health is grad
ually undermined, Backache, headache,
nervousness, lameness, soreness, lumbago,
urinary troubles, dropsy, diabetes and
Bright's disease follow in merciless sue
cession. Don't neglect your kidneys. Cure
the kidneys with the certain and safe
remedy, Doans Kidney Pills, which has
cured people right here in Mankato.
Joseph Kircher, yard foreman for the
Lambert Lumber Co., living at 32S Bel
grade Avenue, Mankato, Mimi, says:
Il used Doan's Kidney Pills for sore
and lame back which l sometimes called
lumbago / do not know what caused
the trouble, but l know that Doan's
Kidney Pills relieved me after [ had
tried many other remedies without any
effect A friend advised me to use Doan's
Kidney Pills, saying they had cured him
of a similar ailment. / sent to j. c.
Thro's drug store for them and they
cured me thoroughly. The pains have
Eever returned and it gives me pleasure
to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name, Doans. and take
no other
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
THE OLD TORCHLIGHT PARADE.


The torchlight rides on its raids no more,
the banners are furled for aye;
The old transparencies fade from sight
and the speakers no longer cry
Till the welkin rings and the eagle
screams and the shades of the
fathers draw
Round the old platform where the fair
flag flew, a symbol of life and
law;
The torchlight glories, the old parades,
the heart of the golden dream
When the drums went by with their
rat-ta-ti and the flies with their
strident scream;
The times have changed and the Gus
toms, too, and sadly I see it fade
Away, away, in the distance gray-the
old torchlight parade.
Who cared what party, in those old
times, when the heart of youth
WAS llUc
With the ring and swing and the ting
a-ling of the spirits ruddy wine!
The torches came and the torches went
and the drumbeat stirred the
brain,
And we followed the old parades
around to the Tilt of the flies re-
frain;
We yelled and crowded with the fullest
zeal and thought it was mighty
To follow the lights through the chilly
nights to the swing of the coun-
try band;
To the jolly tunes and the patriotic
runes and the flame of the futter-
ing wick,
With a wooden gun and a sword, for
sooth, carved out of hickory
stick.
The torchlight rides on its raids no more
they campaign different now;
No orator stands in the open air with
the cold wind sweeping His brow;
No patriots come at the party call to
follow in capes arrayed,
The long, unending, glittering line of
the old torchlight parade;
And the boys are gone with their wild
ing fun, and the bands that used
to play
cred, White and Blue" are a vision,
too, in the land of the far away;
The champing steeds with tassels red
and knights with spears at rest
Have gone as goeth merry laugh, as
fadeth a merry jest.
But wasn't it fun while it lasted, lads!
All, wasn't it fine to see 81
The bands GO by and the patriots bold
march on with an air of glee!
The legends done in letters of light on
banners that beamed in air
Oh, they are dust in the garrett now and
the torches are hanging there;
The guns, the drums and the soldier
caps, the flags of the party strife,
Their shadows drift through the dream
ing dust of that half forgotten
life;
But far away and soft and low comes
an echo now and then
Of the drums that beat and the flies
that screeched and the tramp of
the marching men!.
Baltimore Sun.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Plum Pie.

This fruit must be cooked before it is
put into the pie. Take about two cup
fuls of plums and sweeten with one
heaping cupful of sugar; pour on just
enough water to cover them, simmer on
the fire until tender. Line the plate
with crust, and put in the fruit with
little of the juice. Sift -four over the
top and on the edges of the paste, which
should have been wet with little wat
er, and put on the upper crust, pinching
together the edges; bake in quick oven
about twenty minutes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
mTHE WORD


Oh! word is a gem, or stone, or q
song,
Or flame, or a two-edged sword;
Or a rose in bloom, or a sweet perfume,
Or a drop of gall, is word.
You may choose your words like con-
noisseur,
And polish it up with art,
But the word that sways, and stirs, and
stays,
Is the word that comes from the
heart.
You may work on your word thou
sand weeks,
But it will not glow like one
That, all unsought, leaps forth white
hot,
When the fountains of feeling run.
You may hammer away on the anvil of
thought,
And fashion your word with care,
But unless you are stirred to the depths,
that word
Shall die on the empty air.
For the word that comes from the brain
alone,
Alone to the brain will speed;
DID
broader goal,
And that is word that men heed
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
BUILDING IN CAMBRIA
There Is Much Doing in the Con-
struction Line

Building seems to be somewhat in
demand this year in Cambria. Messrs.
Evans and Davies are much occupied
this season. In addition to other jobs
tkey have already built new house
for Mr. Thomas c.. Jones which is al
ready occupied. A new house is in con
truction-almost complication the
new pastor of the Calvanistic Metho-
dists, who is expected shortly.
The same builders are about to start
a new house for William M. Lewis
Notwithstanding to the contrary. Com
ING events cast their shadows before
them" in this case. Up to the present
Mr. Lewis is bachelor.
Mrs. James Thomas and Mrs. David
Thomas (widow) both are improving
from their late accidents.
Mrs. Enoch Roberts and the new vot-
er and Mrs. Morris c.. Jones and their
little beauty are all doing well.
This year is year of jubilee in Cam
bria, it being the semi-centennial of
the local branch of the Bible society
Preparations are being made for a cele-
bration of the event; the committee
is to meet at Mr.. John f. Lloyd's on
Friday night next to discuss the pro-
ceedings.
The pastor of Salem church and a
number of delegates are expected in the
conference of Congregational churches
at Belgrade Wednesday and Thursday
of this week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Believes in Simplicity.

The empress Of Russia has the Eng
lish ideas about the dress of children,
and her little girls wear linen or serge
dresses all the year, with sailor collars
and black ties, the girls wearing black
stockings while the little boy wears
white socks. No jewelry except of the
simplest kind is allowed and the dress is
not more expensive than that of the
children of the most ordinary American.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
One Woman Prefers Cowboys.

A young woman, who says she is still
in her teens, writing to the postmaster
at El Paso, Tex, wishes to be intro
duced to 'well-to-do Cowboy" as she
saws the city men she has met Gin So
cety" do not suit her. She would like
her cowboy to be well stocked in this
worlds goods, and does not care for a
handsome man..
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Thanks His Friends.

Sheriff Williams desires to thank his
friends who stood by him so loyalty in
the recent campaign for what they did
He states that he has no hard feel
iDgs toward any persons, and appreci-
ates what his friends did, He has not
decided what to do when his term as
sheriff expires, but he intends to con-
tinue to live in Mankato and not re-
turn to his farm.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Given Another Chance.

Judge Cray today filled orders for IL
censes to amend the motion and reargue
and resubmit in the matter of the APP
plication of the city treasurer for judg-
ment in the Broad street paving as
sessment case, and an order to vacate
the judgment. The trial is to be had
at the next general term if the city at
torney so elect.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09

but the date for the marriage was
changed so often that she felt she was
injured $4,000 worth. Many points in
her testimony will be disputed when
Waltz takes the stand. In the mean
time the court would like to know what
C. Y. S. X means"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Lenox Potatoes.

Use small potatoes of uniform size.
Pare with care. Parboil ten minutes in
boiling sailed water; drain, put in bak-
ing pan, bake until soft, basting three
times during the cooking with melted
butter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09

If servant in Germany falls Ill her
mistress is not allowed to discharge her,
but must pay so cents a day for her
hospital expenses until she is perfectly
well.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Superlative.

False rumors are annoying, i"n
But hotel Keepers say s2 an
The most annoying roomers
Are those who will not pay.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
Oatmeal Waters.

Mix one cup of cream with one-thTd
cup of sugar, then add enough fine oat-
meal to thicken and roll thin. Cut Ill
squares and bake in a modern oven.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tab
let's. Druggists refund money if it fails
to cure. E. w. GROVES signature is
on each hox. 25c.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06

to put it in force. This has always
been a Democratic dodge.
When President Roosevelt was de-
voting his tremendous energy to the
development of the civil service re-
form, as one of the commissioners
tn law in Congress, not daring to at
tack the law itself, sought to cripple
the commission by lack of sufficient
appropriation to carry on the work.
The friends of enforcement in the
legislature, who voted for this Sturgis
leave the pay of the deputy commits
sioners to be limited by any general
appropriation, but provided in section
S of the act that three commissioners
should be entitled to per diem and
expenses upon bills to be presented to
the commission, approved by it, au-
dited and paid by the Governor and
Council out of any funds in the State
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
thereby placing at the disposal of the
Governor the entire surplus funds of
the treasury for carrying on this work,
as necessity might require. The ST.
500 appropriation in the general APP
preparation bill has nothing whatever
to do with the payment of the bills of
the deputy commissioners. Further
more it was provided that a certain
portion of fines arising from these
prosecutions should be paid into the
State treasury to go in to- swell the
genral surplus there, showing conclu
sively that it was the Well-formed in
tention of the legislature to place at
the command of the Governor suff-
cient money to carry on the work it
had imposed upon him.
These facts have already been cour-
teously presented to the Democratic
press in the interests of fair play.
Democratic editors knew the truth at
the outset but continued and are con-
tinuing their work of deceiving. voters,
endeavoring to arouse hostility to the
movement by dwelling on minor de-
tails of the methods of securing en-
forcement.
But the proposition is just as simple
as it is big
The Sturgis act, so-called. is mere
ly an endeavor to secure honest re-
suits. 1t is trying to enforce law.
ters in opposition to such effort puts
respecting men.
In the meantime why does not
some one of those eminent democratic
obstructionists suggest some way of
enforcing that law that Pencil took
the initiative in boldly and professedly
multiplying?
The Men of the Pick-axe are they.
1t is easy to tear down.
But the strength of loyal Maine is
behind the Men of the Trowel-the
Men Who Build as their strength per-
mits.