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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
Rain Not Needed.

A heavy shower fell late yesterday
afternoon, and was followed by others
during the night, so that the ground was
soaked this morning, and harvest opera
tions were out of the question. The rain
coming at this time, and accompanied
by so moist an atmosphere, is very I'M
fortunate, but the bad effects will be
largely overcome if good weather fol-
lows.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
new FLOUR MILL.
ketnschmidt Bros. Thinking Of Start.
ing q Forty. Barrel One.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Kleinschmidt Brothers have the wall
of their new factory up about one story.
They are seriously contemplating put
ting in forty barrel flour mill, to oc-
cupy part of the building. The location
is favorable, being OH North Fourth
street, close to the Omaha railway track.
The firm is enterprising, and whatever it
goes into it will push to success.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
New House Completed.

From Saturdays Daily.
Mrs. Robert Hynson of Spring Island
has completed a residence in North
Mankato and will move into it in few
days. She is at present living in w. S.
Albrandt's house. This will be occupied
the middle of August by Carl Conklin
and family of Garden City.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
Marshal Van SAINTS Aides in Parade.

Grand Marshal S. r. Van SAINT has
named as his chief aid for the Grand
Army parade Fred B. Wood, adjutant
general of the state of Minnesota. His
staff will be officers of the national
guard-they all have uniforms-to the
number of forty, all mounted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
Views at the Library

The library board has purchased some
microscopes and a collection of Japan.
csc views. A glass and several views
will be issued on card the same as a
book. They are excellent pictures and
instructive as well as entertaining.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
THE Warehouses OF ToWNsHEND, ENGLISH BEAUTY

to
bargain by matrimonial
and estates placed the keeping his wife She
Of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
He Advises the Campaign COM
mittee Anent Its Policy.
POINTERS FOR THE TEXT BOOK.
Many Republicans In the West Who
Viii Not Put Up a Dollar for
the Public alton.

According to well founded reports,
Representative James A. Tawney of the
first Minnesota district and vice chair
man of the republican national congress
sional committee, is and will be from
now OH progressive" republican and
opposed to the policy of standpattism.
Four years ago Mr.. Tawney declared
for tariff revision, but, while he has been
unable to bring about anything on that
line in congress, it is well known that
his views OH the tariff question are en-
tirely different from those of Payne,
Dalzell and Grosvenor, the leading re-
publicans of the ways and means com
mittee, with whom Mr. Tawney served
for many years.
All three of the above named gentle
men went to Speaker Cannon, last No.
vember, and protested against the APP
pointment of Tawney as chairman of the
committee OH appropriations.
They charged that Tawney was an
"insurgent," and also that he was not
in line with the 'standpatters. Speak
er Cannon is a pretty good standpatter
himself, but not of the hidebound sort.
At the recent conference at Oyster
Bay, when campaign plans were discuss
ed between the president, Speaker Can
non and Chairman Sherman, of the con-
gressional committee, Mr.. Tawney, it is
said, was not invited to be present.
But the committee, nevertheless, has
heard from him recently, and it may be
asserted, on the best of authority, that
Mr.. Tawney sounded warning to the
campaign managers and admOnished
them not to make the ''standpat" posi-
ton on the tariff feature, or even
half feature, in the campaign text
book.
There are a great many republicans in
the west who will not pay even dol
lar for republican devoted to argu-
ments for the everlasting perpetuity of
the Dingley schedules.
John j. Boobar, who has been appoint
ed by the republican state central com
mittee of Minnesota to have charge of
the speakers bureau in the present
campaign, is in Washington arranging
dates for several noted orators.
He will see Secretary Taft as soon as
he returns from his present trip, and be-
fore the secretary leaves to speak in
Maine. If Congressman Littlefield wins
out in his contest for congress, as now
seems probable, he will probably take
the stump for the national republican
congressional committee and speak in
Minnesota. Speaker Cannon has prom
ised to make two speeches in Minnesota
during October.
Other men of national character with
whom Mr.. Boobar is negotiating are Sec
rotary of Agriculture James Wilson
Senator Beverage of Indiana, Congress.
man Lands of the same state, Re presen-
tative Samuel Mccall of Massachusetts
Senator Dolliver and possibly Secretary
of the Navy Bonaparte.
When asked for an opinion concerning
the resignation of James Martin as post.
master at ST. Cloud, Mr.. Boobar said
Il think it means that Jim will be a
candidate for congress two years from
now. He has had an eye on the national
capital for some time"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10
Big Attendance at Chautauqua.

The chautauqua at Worthington is be-
ing well patronized. On the opening day
the attendance was more than three
thousand
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-10

Francis succeeds Beamy So at the court Austria
Roumania
athlete college
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Origin of White Skins.

The origin of colored skin, or
white either, is still unknown. II
the sun is really an active agent in
it's evolution, the power of the sun
light must have been curtailed when
people took to wearing clothes.
The slightest protection, as seen
in the use of ladies' wells, keeps the
white skin pure. Therefore, if there
is any protection afforded by natural
dark skin, an equivalent is obtained
for white people by the use Of
clothes. Until white people begin to
discard clothing in the tropics their
skin will remain white.
Sunburn must not be confounded
with pigmentation of the skin. Sun
burn is merely a tanning of the cpl
dermal cells on the surface of the
skin, whereas pigmentation is caused
by a deposit of dark matter within
the deeper layers of the true skin.
Summing the whole evidence up,
from history, anthropology, ethnol-
ogy and general evolution, it seems
considering all arguments derived
TO me tnat tne cOlOfed SKIN IS an III
termediary stage OF development be-
tween our primate ancestors and the
pure white or Caucasian skin My
general contention Is that white
skinned peoples come from the oldest
stocks of humanity, and that in the
process of evolution they became
white by the use of othes.-From
an Address by DR.. T. f. Macdonald,
of Geraldton, Queensland.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Bullet Struck Watch Charm.

A watch charm of the Masonic
variety, dented with a bullet, now
hangs in window in the Kimball
House block, where it is under the
observation of all passersby who care
to see it. That piece of gold upon
which is carved the figures emble-
matte of the secret order saved the
life of w. r. Nash, a well known
Georgian, a week or ten days ago
at Woodberry.
Descriptive stories of the duel at
that place, in which James Clark
used his pistol promiscuously, have
been printed. In the gathering when
lead was flying thickest and fastest
was W. r. Nash. A bullet from
Clark's pistol struck a watch charm
swinging in front of Nash's vest.
The charm gave the leaden pellet
n detection, and instead of penetrat-
mig the body the bullet glanced to
the left and, clipping the flesh on
that side, went on its course until it
found its way into a telegraph pole,
from which it was subsequently dug.
The charm was badly battered
and yesterday Mr.. Nash, its owner,
brought it with him TO Atlanta to
have it replaced In its setting, from
which 1t had been knocked by the
bullet. He carried 1t to a Kimball
House block jeweller, from whom he
purchased 1t originally and by whom
1t was placed on exhibition,
Constitution.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Changed the Telephone Number.

General Embler, treasurer of the
telephone company in New Haven,
said he should not change the num-
Der of his phone for the sake of get
ting rid of the slang that was hurled
at him, but he has changed his mind.
His phone number has been twen-
ty-three, and people developed the
habit Of calling him up and telling
him to skiddoo. He is an advocate
OF forgetting slang and objects to ex-
pletiyes of worse origin as well, but
he stood the talk until somebody late
at night called by telephone and
asked IL Mr.. Skiddoo was in. The
answer was that Mrs. Embler was
talking and the voice said. ooh, Mrs.
Skiddoo, well, how is Mr.. Skiddoo
and the little Skiddoos?" Then the
phone number was changed.-Wor-
cester Telegram.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
The Moro.

The Moro is brave to fearlessness,
a born pirate, and essentially first
class fighting man. He is never
happy unless on marauding eX-
petition and stealing from his neigh
bors, friends and foes alike. The
chief who is the most successful
thief is the most respected and the
most powerful among chiefs.
The Moro trades with his neigh
bors on market-days in the various
coins of the realm and foreign mon
eys. At other times he is a free
ocean-royer, extending his trading
voyages as far north as the islands
of Negros and Panay, south to the
Celebes and BoPneo, and westerly TO
the Palawan. He is the most sue
cessful OF smugglers, and little act
of piracy when chance Offers goes
without mention. The Moro is the
most perfect of aquatic beings, the
most skilful small-boat sailor or
large "prau" navigator extant. He
can no more drown than can fish.
There is no record of a drowned
Moro. He can dive to the bottom of
the sea at depths of from twenty
five to one hundred feet for the val
liable mother-of-pearl shell, and his
life is largely lived at sea from in
fancy. Along the coast many of the
Moro villages are built over the
water.-Colonel Owen ]. Sweet, U.
S. A., in Harper's Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Furs of the Middle West.

Despite the general opinion that
most of the wild animals that in
habited the Middle West a century
ago have become extinct as a result
of the march of civilization, the con-
trary is true and thousands of musk
Pats, skunks, raccoons, opossums,
foxes and civet cats, with occasional
minks and weasels are killed and
their pelts sold for Sums that in the
aggregate would be a great surprise
to the public not in touch with the
trapping trade. Not in years have
the Central Illinois trappers been so
active as this year.
One firm in Muscatine pays $4,000
each week for hides. There are many
firms scattered over Illinois which
do an equally large business, and it
is probably safe to say that during
the present season trappers will be
paid in Illinois alone the sum of $780,
0O0 while Iowa, Indiana and perhaps
several other States of the Middle
West all expend equally large sums
in this direction
The majority of the animals trap
ped in the Middle West are the musk
rats, which have been the least at
traction for the trapper, as the pelts
bring only 12 to is cents, while
sllunks range from so cents to $3.50,
according to size and condition; rae
coon from so to s1.75, opossum from
25 to rs cents, red foxes from 81 to
$5. Civet cats bring only 20 cents
Chicago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Jananese shon Sims.

In Japan the majority of SHOPS deal.
ing in goods from other lands dis.
play signs in some foreign language,
and many Of these are very curious
productions The great idea is to have
foreign characters, their correctness
or intelligibility being a secondary
consideration. The following are
specimens of these remarkable no.
tices-"The All Countries Boot and
Shoe. Small or Fine Wares" "Old
Curious" Horseshoe maker instruct
by French horse leech;" Cut Hair
Shop" IF you want sell watch | will
buy; IL you want buy watch, / will
sell. Yes, sir, we will. all will. Come
at my shop. Matchmaker" Halter
temper the light a trlhe. The all
Native Country. Antematic of Ma
sea-" "The House Build for the man
ufacture of all and best kinds OF Hats
and Caps" In some cases the signs
are entirely devoid of meaning.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Great Wealth.

It is generally believed that Pro
fessor Summers prophecy has al
ready been fulfilled, for John ID
Rockefeller is credited with having .
billion. In this connection II is In
teresting to note, also, that while 10
the early part of the last century
there were only a few men OF great
wealth. today the mllti-millionhres
scattered throughout the country are
to be counted in the thousands IN
other words. the proportion Fof very
wealthy men and women to those OF
moderate means is as much larger
as is the amount OF money that Is re-
ouired to make great fortune. A
man with merely million today cuts
much Tess figure than did the man
with one hundred thousand doilara
half century ago He Is fairly well
to do, but Is in no position TO cope
with the kings OF high finance. On tho
whole, the term great wealth. h
very indefinite. What would be con-
sidered such by some would be REL
garded as abject poverty by othsrr.'
Perhaps the time win como when alt'
thrifty Americans viii be millionaIre&
and only those with billion or iva
Will be classed among thoae Of xrS1
~eaith. - Hartford Telegram. 4
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
FRANCE HARNESSES
WATER POWERS.
Energy Supplied by Rivers Converted
Into Electrical Force.

Energy Supplied by Rivers Converted
into Electrical Force.
In reports just made to the State
Department by Consul General Mason
of Paris and Consul General Skinner
OF Marseilles, special attention Is
called to the movemnt In France TO
harness her water powers, which Is
being wonderfully accomplished. AL
ready electric power is being brought
over 100 miles to operate trolley lines
and factories.
Greater industrial efficiency is be.
ing sought in all directions, but par.
ticularly by the distribution Of ener.
gy supplied by rivers and streams.
This is being especially felt in the
region extending from the Mediter-
ranean to the Alps. The degree to
which this energy may be multiplied
is indefinite, but with present knowl.
edge It is assumed that 100000
horse power may be economically o5.
tanned, of which perhaps the fifth has
been secured or is in process Of being
secured.
The hydraulic forces OF the world
a year ago stood, expressed in horse
power, as follows: United States,
527,5O0; Canada. 22S,5O0; Italy 210..
000 France, 161 900; Switzerland
$4,000; Germany, $1,000; Sweden,
71,OOO; other countries $4,000. Total,
1,4S1,00O.
This amount Of power is approxi-
mately equal in potential energy to
2 per cent. of the worlds coal pro.
duction. The greatest completed
French works are to be found in the
Alps, where sparse population. mar
rowness of range of raw materials,
and remoteness from large markets
deter large industrial operations. A.
present work is in progress on eight
different plants, which will revolu-
tionize manufacturing conditions in
the whole Mediterranean region. and
in Durance Valley, where general con.
ditions are favorable to manufacture
ing enterprise.
The Vesubic plant, now in opera.
tion. supplies Grasse with power at
the rate Of five cents per horse power
hour. The Brillane and Saulce plants
will soon be in operation, and will
supply power to the Marseilles tram
lines and other companies. These
plants are sixty-fve and 102 miles
from Marseilles, the Saulce being
the farther. The Brillane plant deals
with a sluggish, muddy stream-the
Durance-and requires settling basins
at intervals. The power will be trans.
mitted under tension of forty-hvs
thousand to fifty thousand volts.
which will be reduced near Marseilles
to thirty-flve hundred and five thous-
and volts. In the country overhead
wires will be strung on iron poles
supporting an inverted porcupine
platform under the crosstrees, to pre-
vent unauthorized persons from
reaching the wires. Underground
transmission is regarded as ultimately
necessary
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Old Book, just Come to Light,
Tells Stirring Stories of Old Days
When Women Pirates Were Abroad


~ ~ W ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Mary Read was an English girl.
When Mary was sour years old her
mother put her into boys clothes,
and, taking her up to London, Mary
and her mother fell into dire dis
tress. She was told at this crisis of
her sex. She was now thirteen and
handsome as a picture. She hired
out as a footboy to a French count
ess. But conventional life soon
wearied her and she enlisted on a
man-of-war. After spirited engage
ments she left the service and went
to Flanders.
There, as cadet, she carried
arms in a foot regiment and won
praise for bravery, her sex never
being suspected. While deserving a
commission, she could not obtain
one, as they were bought and sold,
and this feminine soldier of fortune
was penniless. Spelling for new
fields to conquer, she quit the foot
regiment and Joined a horse guard,
where her bravery and good behav-
ior won the esteem If the officers.
Her advance was assured when she
fell in love with her messmate,
handsome young fellow named
Fleming.
Sailed With Pirates.
When but few days out the ship
was captured by pirates. Being the
only English person aboard, the pi-
rates kept Mary, together with the
ships plunder. She sailed with the
pirate crew for some time, until the
Kings proclamation pardoning all
pirates who voluntarily surrendered
was taken advantage of by her cap.
tors. All went ashore and lived in
apparent content until their money
gave out. Hearing that Captain
Wood Rogers, governor of the island
of Providence, was fitting out a pri.
vateer to cruise against the Span.
iards, Mary Joined the crew.
They had not sailed far when the
crew, Mary included, turned against
the commander and took up the old
trade of pirating. Mary Read always
| declared she abhorred the life of
pirate, and only followed it under
compulsion. Men who sailed with
her, however, swore under oath at
the trial for her life, that there was
no pirate afloat more resolute in
undertaking hazardous ventures
than Mary Read. In one of the
| fiercest conflicts with q manof-war,
none kept on deck but Mary Read,
| Anne Bonny and one other.
Eloped With Pirate.
Anne Bonny's father, when she
was five years old, put her into
boys clothes, installed her in an es-
tablishment, giving out that she was
a relatives child whom he intended
to educate to be his clerk. Losing
his business and repute soon after,
the father left for new parts where,
embarking as a merchant, he ac-
cumulated money, bought a vessel
and sailed for the American coast.
/ In his North Carolina plantation
Anne, who had resumed petticoats
was much courted. She was widely
sought, and her father had great
matrimonial expectations for her,
But Anne was captured by q worth
elss spendthrift, who, when he found
her father disowned her, shipped
with her to the island of Providence
In search of work. There Anne
Bonny fell in love with the dare
devil Captain Rackam, and, discard
ing her husband, donned trousers
and eloped with the pirate Boston
! Post
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
Dear Little Soul.

There was company to dinner. and
little Edith was seated at table
in all the glory of her best dress and
pinafore.
Dinner was proceeding amIcably
enough, but there were one of two
awful pauses, and in the silent depths
OF one of these the sweet treble OF
little Edith was raised,
"Oh, mamma" she cried, what is
this?"
This" was a very obvious hair;
but mamma, although red with contu-
sion. had sufficient presence of mind
to say:
Hush. dear; you can see what -
is--it Is a crack!"
Silence for moment, AMI then:
"Oh, ! say, mamma, isn't II funny?
can move this crack about."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12
British Autopsy of an American Joke.

Out of the American packing in
dustry springs one of the popular
banterings of the Briton who cannot
see a joke. What he does not see is
really the American turn of phrase.
One of the usual anecdotes. for in
stance, turns upon the strange
phrase, "he put for the door" and
the Englishman never sees the point,
but then he does not know the
idiom. The packing Joke is this: A
Briton, admiring the enormius pro-
duction OF fruit in California val
ley, asks how so much is dispoced of.
"Well," replies the American, 1--WE
eat what we can, and we can what
we can't" The inquirer is bewil-
dered, but only because he would
have said tin" instead OF can" In
some versions he is represented as
repeating the sentence with "tin" for
can" as specimen of American
humor--London Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-12

placarded. branded. set for show,
n shrinks little from the street
Where all day long the traders
meet
And all day long the buyers go;
Where on an hour soon or late
Some restless seeker, bargain-bent,
viii touch the gray, reluctant gate
And read, "For Sale or Rent.F
rhe curve sf last years lonely nest
Waits fo- tho glad returning
win IS;
slo.eward. for port, kind wave
brings
rhe empty shell upon its breast;
But this, that harbored souls, must
bide
rhe strangers pleasure: marked "A
Home
Yea. pledged 20 fling its portals
wide
When stranger-feet shall come.