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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
TRIBUTE TO PAPR TRUST.

"Every trust and every protected in
terest in the country seems to levy
tribute on the newspaper business,
which enjoys no tariff protection from
the government and is prevented from
forming trusts and combinations by the
conditions under which it is carried on,
says The Minneapolis Tribune.
''The printing industry of the coun-
try consumes every years about 9Oo,-
600 tons of paper. Since last March
the trust has increased the price of
this substantially ten million dollars,
and announces another increase of nine
million dollars for next year. This
adds nearly so per cent to the former
cost of white paper, which is the chief
raw material in the manufacture OF
newspapers.
Investigation by the American News
paper Publishers association proved
that the paper makers made large
profits at the old price of forty dollars
a ton or less. The accounts of the pa
per makers, as far as investigation has
disclosed them, show no increase in
cost of production that approaches this
percentage. Wages have not been
raised much and the increased cost of
pulp is insignificant in comparison
with that of output.
Investigation proves that artificial
scarcity has been created by limiting
production and by exporting paper far
below the American rate in order to
prepare the newspaper interests for this
increase. The increased profit will 60
to pay dividends on watered securities
that could not be earned in legiti-
mate competitive business. ......
'''The sprint paper trust is able to
take the newspapers and magazines Of
the country by the throat and go
through their pockets for nearly thirty
million dollars in two years because
the United States government protects
them with a duty on pulp and print
paper and because the courts have been
powerless so far to break up their
combination in restraint of trade.
"That is why newspaper readers are
going to pay more money for the
privilege"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
ONE OF THE GREAT STATES.

Zone of the greatest states in the
Union-with the best farm lands, with
exceptional rural opportunities, with
magnificent cities and near markets
that's my opinion of Minnesota" said
c. w. Cass of Manchester, Eng, who
was recently in st. Paul. 'Why
Americans should move to Canada
when Minnesota presents so many OPP
portunities mystifes me. I should ask
for no more attractive home city than
this, nor could L wish better trib
utary country in which to do bust
ness. Minnesota, it seems to me, will
one day be quite the richest state
in the entire Union 1t has all the
factors of permanent and substantial
wealth and prosperity"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
WANT SIXFEET OF WATER
SLOGAN OF THE CLUBS ATTHE
ST. PAUL MEETING.
Deep Waterway Between Saint City
and St. Louis to Be One Aim of
the Federation.

st. Paul, Dee. l4.-"Six feet of
water from st. Paul to st. Louis"
will be the slogan of $50 commercial
clubs, industrial bureaus, merchants
leagues and boards of trade of Mime
sofa, which will send delegates to a
convention on Jan. l6 in st. Paul
at which these organizations will fed
crate for an active campaign for the
promotion of Northwestern interests.
and river improvement. 1t has become
so obvious that nothing but concerted
action can bring about the impera-
tive needed deepening of the upper
river, that the new Minnesota fedora
ton proposes to actively take up the
campaign, working with other impor-
tant Mississippi valley interests.
The new federation, which will en-
brace all the commercial organizations
of Minnesota, will stand emphatically
for six feet of water at the average
low level, a depth which is considered
sufficient to float barges and the
steam craft that will enter the trans
portation field once permanent deep
channel is assured 1t will also urge
the immediate undertaking of the
work at an average expenditure of not
less than $2,000,OO0 a year until it is
completed, and such attention to other
channel and maintenance work as will
best encourage the immediate develop
ment of an important north and south
traffic such as existed in the early
days of st. Paul, when the city de-
pended principally on the river as its
avenue of traffic with other sections of
the country.
The northwest is vitality interested
in the deeper channel project because
of the recognized possibility of divert
ing its enormous grain movement to
the river, once the latter is made a
commercially successful factor in
freight traffic, at an important saving
in freights, as compared with the pres
ent transportation charges on grain
for export. Traffic experts believe
grain can be carried to tidewater on
the river for 71a cents, as compared
with the present all rail export rate
from st. Paul to the Atlantic seaboard
of 27Ks cents, a saving of 20 cents.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
DISMISSED The ACTION
CASE OF LAWRENCE QUINN is
THROWN OUT.
Plaintiff in Suit of FyeaI VS.. FyeaI,
Is Given an Order for Juds-
ment for Divorce.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The taking of evidence in the appli-
cation of j. j. Mcclure, trustee in
bankruptcy of the Lake Crystal Mill
ing company, was begun yesterday,
but was not completed, and it was
continued until Jan. at 8 a. m.
The court overruled demurrer in
terposed by those of the stockholders
who do not want an assessment levied,
on the ground that the court had no
jurisdiction.
The appeal from the justice court
in the case of the state of Mime
sofa VS.. Lawrence Quinn, an Amboy
resident who was charged by Ransom
X. Marsh with threatening to make
an assault, was tried before Judge
GRAY this forenoon. A number of
Amboy residents were present and tes-
titled the proceeding being in reality
a retrial of the case. The court this
afternoon dismissed the action and
discharged the defendant.
In the case of Lucy Fyeal vs.. Al
bert Fyeal, the court filed an order
granting Judgment for the plaintiff,
granting her divorce and alimony
of $3.50 and costs, and granting her
the custody of the children. The ac-
ton was brought on the ground of
cruel and inhuman treatment, and it
was contested by the defendant.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
OLD MAPLETON NOTES.

Mr.. Lloyd of Truman visited at
Sam Chambers the first of the week
Mr.. and Mrs. Judd Cornell called at
Mr.. McCollum's Sunday.
Cleo, Lorna, Vivian and Guy Tay-
lor visited with their aunt, Mrs.
B. F. Taylor, Sunday.
A few from the neighborhood at
tended the box social in Sterling last
Saturday evening.
J. f. Heickert visited at Pennington
and st. Paul the latter part of last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs J. Stevens and family
spent Sunday at the home of Charles
Stevens.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
WILL Be FINE INSIDE
New Home of National Citizens
Bank to Be Handsome.
Big Batch of Contracts Award
ed BY the Committee.
From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily.
The building committee of the Ma
tional Citizens bank today awarded
the contract for the interior work to
the new building to be occupied by
the bank to the Northwestern Mantel
company of Minneapolis, for about
$4,000. The other competing bidders
were A. HI. Andrews & Co. of Chicago,
the Wooleger Manufacturing Co. of
Milwaukee; the Fischer-Stevens Co.,
of Charles City, Iowa; A. Norman &
Co., of st. Paul; and the Art Metal
Construction Co., of jamestown, n. Y.
The job is to be one of the finest
west of Chicago, for the building COM
mittee has given much time, thought
and energy to the specifications and
it is admitted by all the representa-
tives of the bidders that the new
banking offices will be one of the hand
soonest in the country.
The floor lobby is to be composed of
three-fourths inch ceramic tiles in fig
ures, and the fixture will have a ten
inch Verde antiqne mable base, with
5paneiing of impaired italian Pavanazzo
marble, four feet, four inches high,
with solid bronze grill and cornice
and solid bronze pilasters at the wick
cts and the corners. The cornice is
to be eight inches high, and the fixture
seven feet, two inches high.
The three columns in the lobby will
be of Scagiola marble, eighteen in
ches in diameter. The woodwork in
the lobby, the presidents office, the
ladies' reception room, the gentlemen's
reception room and the cashiers room
is to be of imported Circassian wal
nut. The wainscotting and paneling
will have the broad effect, with full,
wide panels, showing the grain and
nothing of the wood.
The tops of the counters in the
cages and the posts in connection with
the safety deposit department will be
of black walnut. The directors room
will be finished in mission oak, and
the ladies' rest room in white enamel.
The lockers and toilets will be of
birch with walnut finish, and the floors
will be of tile.
Elegance and durability will charac-
terize the entire building.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
500 REWARD, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all it's stages, and that is
CGtarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity Catarrh being a constitution
al disease, requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally. acting directly upon the blood
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease. and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have so much faith in it's
curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that IL fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO..! Toledo.
Ohio.
Sold by all druggists. 75c.
!. Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
BRAIN THROsS FROM KANSAS

Those husbands and wives who get
along do it without trying.
The good die young. 1t is those who
live to be old and wicked who inn
prove the world.
We sometimes tell Others by our ac-
tions the very things we do not wish
them to know.
A man never discovers what a re-
markable memory he has until he Is
trying his hardest to forget.
When a woman has homely figure
the other women do this much: They
admit it is natural.
Every one in your family is well,
and you know when you go to bed
at night it is to sleep without distur-
bance till morning, you have so much
to be thankful for that you shouldn't
stop to dust the floor before kneeling.
1t is a question which is the worse
fate: To be a man and be shot up
by the woman who loves him, or to a
woman and have to wear false curls
and corset q to- win the admiration
of the man she loyes.-Achison Globe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
Oh, Colonel, You Naughty Man.

Lake Crystal Union: It is suspected
that there are a whole lot of damsels
in Mankato who rather enjoy the fun
of being held up. Nine out of ten
girls do not object to being squeezed
once in while. We will have to visit
our old stamping grounds once more
and take hand in the fun.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

Mrs. A.. III. Sheldon, wife and daugh-
ter left last night for Yoakum, Texas,
to- spend the,i winter.nieo snoi3.sios
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

Strong feeling is raging in German
and Austrian trade circles against
cooperative shops, which are practi-
cally running the internal trade Of
these countries. '.@"hA
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

Senator Knute Nelson has presented
an amendment to the bankrupt law
which provides that there shall be no
voluntary bankruptcy where the
amount is under $500. This, says
the Saltwater Gazette, is done to
protect creditors from men who take
advantage of the law by contracting
bills with merchants to the amount
of 5000 or $500 and then 90 into
bankruptcy. 1t is said that these
complaints have been very general
at large railroad centers, where it
appears employees have taken advan
tage of the credit they were able
to obtain, and they found it cheaper
to employ attorneysAto secure their
discharge in bankruptcy after making
voluntary application than to pay these
bills. |
Nahum j. Bachelor, master of the
National Grange writes: The Ma
tional Grange, with nearly one million
members, representing the agricultural
interests of the nations has undertaken
to secure recognititn off the urgent
necessity for broad comprehensive
policy of public road improvement. 1t
believes that the time has arrived
when the problem of the deplorable
condition of our roads in general
must be seriously considered by the
various township, county and state
authorities, and prompt action taken
to remedy existing conditions, that the
national government should lend its
assistance to a movement having for
its objective point the establishment
of a complete system of properly con-
structed highways.
The Preston Republican says: One
hour day withdrawn from frivolous
pursuits and profitable employed would
enable any man of ordinary capacity
to master a complete science. One
hour day would make an ignorant
man well informed man in ten years.
One hour day would earn enough to
pay daily for two daily and two
weekly papers. two leading magazines
and dozen good books. In an hour
a day a boy or girl could read twenty
pages thoughtfully-over seven thou
sand pages or eighteen large volumes
in year. An hour day will make
the difference between bare existence
and useful and happy living. An hour
day might make nay, has made an
unknown man famous one, useless
one benefactor to his race. Consider
then, the mighty possibilities of two,
four, yes, six hours day that are, on
the average thrown away by some of
our young men and women in their de-
sire for fun and diversion.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

When woman has homely figure
the other women do this much: They
admit it is natural
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

A man never discovers what a re-
markable memory he has until he is
trying his hardest to forget.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
ANCESTRAL MEMORY.
Il Theory to Epplajn Some Freaks
of the Mind.

There are few people who have not at times
been startled by some vivid reminiscenCe which
has suddenly illumined their minds when visit
ing some entirely new locality while view
ing some scene which they know they have
never seen before. a key has been, somehow.
turned; bolt shot back somewhere within the
inner temple of their consciousness; a secret
flashed in upon them, thrill of insight has pos
sessed them, and they feel for the moment
new light has broken over them. Words Of
amazed recognition rush to their lips, as a full
current Of new thought is switched on-and they
feel they want to say so much all at once that
the effort generally ends In their saying little
that is coherent. For an all too brief space.
the recollection is there-a concept in the minds
eye. clear and strong then it fades away, while
they desperately hang to the skirts Of the
vision. When it is entirely gone they struggle
to recall it as one would recast dream. No
use-it is gone; and the more serious ones
realize that there thoughts without words,
as well as songs without words; slumbering
ideas; dormant pictures genius held in bondage.
which require but the magic word to call them
into active operation.
At other times the vision fingers sufficiently
to enable us to get hold of something fairly
definite; we are on firm enough ground to say,
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
. MECHANIC-PRTEST
Cure MendS Motor Cars When Not
Engaged an HOLY Offices.

Near the northern coast Of France, on a route
much frequented by motorists lies the village of
Graincourt- Here beautiful little church IS set
nigh among the trees, with a tower reflected tran
gully in a lake that sleeps beside the road and
cemetery half buried IN verdure. Close by is the
home Of the priest. and around Il strange litter
OF bicycles. motor cycles automobiles oil cans and
tools, while the open doors OF an outbuiIdng re-
Veai on one Side a kind Of garage. the other a
repair chop. From this building. az the tourist
approaches. comes a tall figure, with the body of
an athlete and the head Of missionary with
bright eyes AID grizzIed beard kindly smile
and muscular arms barred to the elbow. Is this
the cure OF Grainoourt or is it the village me-
chanicI He Is both Times are hard, since the law
separating Church from State went into effect
ana one must live, explains the cure.
Al le Cure is no martyr, however His fafbar
vas smith, and he grew up with a passion for
tooia When TIE bicycle came in. ho became an
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
TO STIMULATE PLANTS
Electricity and AnGsthetics No5o
Used zcith Good Effect.
BY G. Clarke Nuttall.

Electricity. that great force which the latter part
of the nineteenth century harnessed 10 the OF
man, has not in its victorious career left n
touched the domain of the plants, and electro
culture, the application of the electric current
in plant growing. is fast becoming a recognized de-
veIopment in upto-date agriculture and horticult-
ure.
To Professor S. Lemstrom, of Helsingfors Uni
versity, much of knowledge in this
matter, for he has been experimenting for q
siderable number of years the effect of passing
a current of electricity through growing plants and
he has come TO the conclusion that In the large
majority of cases crops grown IN an electrified at
mosphere far above the average both in quail
ity and quantity.
During the years 19O2-'O3 he had experimental
fields In England Newcastle. in connection
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

amateur specialist. and for fifteen years he has
been Iuending punctured tires and repairing broken
pedals for his flock free OF charge. Then came
erf1I in IFS fTal ervcone The motor car won the
heart of the cure. He loves it, and thinks ne I'M
deTstanGs it. He has built a and
motor cycle for himself
And SO the fame Of the mechanical cure of
GraincOuTt has gone abroad throughout all the
country, and at last he has decided without any
scr2ple. TO make a business of what had formerly
been a pastime He believes in his simple soul
that he can he Just ne good a priest. can admin
lister The sacrlmcnts and hear confessions Just as
well, while he earns his living with his ten fingers
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
RAILROADS.
NEW JERSEY nEMTa3l

NEW JERSEY CENTRAL
lime shown below Is from I.ise--,'s "a
Sealon- station Leave West I'D ST. 10 nr;ru. ,.
P,sIl: mares. except as noted BY desisnafIs,,
PHILADELPHIA Two-HoUR TR.7v
EVERY HOUR ON THE HOfTR
S.I1dd33. $50. moo. m'S.OO. $50. saca
SLoOO: '11-OO. 1L3O. msI2.6O. y.f
mf,ss-Go. ms ZOO. $50. 300. piO.SO =. 20
BALTIMORE AND wASHINGToN-z.,.
fss oS ~ i-IoOo. f'12Oo. '2oo. ,;.4SS
LAKEWOOD AND LAKEHIFOsr-z.n.
6U.UY a. m. x1. 90 1.aO. k3 40. 500 . -
81 SUNDAYS. 200. 1000 a. m, 23O D. N. -
A15ANTIc ~ a. ,lS CITY-'Io.OO a. n. xlOo
AL LIZ RAIL R0UTE-L.ong Branch. Asour,
Par1, H, ocean 1 Grove Sundays. North Asbusy5
~ TIasa1)' a6 200 $50. ll;3O a. m, sxI21t
jI201- Sundays. except Ocean C;TSS.e ~
1880. 8. ID a m, 4.OO. $50 D. m.
SANDY HOOK ROCTE-Atlantic H!zh-
lands. Seabright. Monmouth Beach. LSsr
Branch. Asbury PARK and Ocean GroSs
Leave Pier 81. y. r. (42d ST.. e.55 a n
1ZSO. 500. 4-16- Sundays. ESQ a n
iCS9 ~ i-4S p. & m; Leave Pier 10. y. r
sundays. 1000 = N. 1.3O. $40 D. N.
Time tables giving time TO EASTOg
BETHLEHEM. ALLENTOWN, MATfcls
CHUNK. WILKESBARRE. sCRANTOY
READING. HARRISBURG. POTTSVU.LS
WILLIAMSPORT and all other points "a,
be obtained at following Offices; Liberty 81
west 2Sd St Tel 3144 Chelsea 8 Ast5,
House. PAS. 434 1900. 1884 Broadway, ia
9th Av-, 2sl 5th Av-. - Union square West
2ISS Sd Av., los West 125th ST.. 245 Coluru-
bus Av.. New York; Court St, 343 ga
Fulton St, 4TO NOstrand Av-. Brooklyn.
800 Broadway. Williamsburg New Yors
Transfer Co. calls for and checks baggzgs
70 destination
'Deily. fDaily. except Sunday. pSun-
days tParlor cars only. mDining car
except Sundays xSaturdays only. zLib-
erty st. only. tDintng car Sundays. fDla-
Ing can daily. bExcept Saturdays From
West Tweuty-third Street-e12aO p n
g43O p NJ. i11.5O 2. NJ. k3.2O p NJ
W. G. BESLER. ". c. HOPE
vice-Pres. & Gen Mgr. Gen Pass'r Azpus.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
NEW YORK'S BIG DEBT.
Ho5v 1t Gro7cs scith Nothing to
lSho19 for Much Of 1t.
BY Frederick Upham Adams.

II an intelligent and honest man-and there are
zucb-Uere TO be asked 10 name one city which
should not be In debt he would select New 1osK-
It one Of the Oldest cities in the country 1t IS
by far the popGlous, it contains more personal
wealth than any other cities combined. II Is eS-
tinlated that more 1hau $4,000 visitors are within
its borders each day in the year-and yet II pTl-
vate corporation or an individual had duplicated
New York's record since 1860 some creditor would
at once apply for and obtain receiver Here Is
how the largest and most wealthy city in America
has progressed backward in recent years:
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
OCEAN STEAMERS.
NnRTM GERMAN Lloyd

MURIM GERMAM Lloyd.
Fast Express Service.
PLYMOUTH-CHERB ERBOURG-BREMEN.
Kaiser. June 4. 10 ANIL VIM II July Q
X VIM. II June II, 8 AN KronprinZ. July 10
Kronprinz. Juns'1S.I0 AM Kaiser. -. July 30
Kaiser. .Jr1y 2. 10 AMlK. VIM. II. Aug.
TWin-SCrew Passenger Service.
PLYMOUTH-CHERB RBOURG-BREMES.
sMain. June q. 10 AN p. Alice June %
Bar5arossa June II. JOAN Bremen July
Kurfuerst. June ID. 10 AN [BarbaroSsa-J July II
Friedrich Juns 20. 10 AM kurfuerst. July IS
Bremen direct
Mediterranean Service
GTB'LTAR-NAPLES- AT IL AN.
x. Luise. June 15lK Luise- July p
K. Albert. June 20 X. Albert. Aug.
P. Irene. July 1872. Irene. Aug. Ia
'Omits Genoa.
From Bremen Piers. Sd & 4th SITS. Hoboken:
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD TRAVELLERS
CHECKS GOOD ALL OVER THE WORLD.
OELRICHS & co, No. 3 Broadway. y, Y
Louis II. Meyer. 1Ol6 Walnut St.. Phila-
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
CRUISES

DURING JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST,
to the Norwegian Fjords. North
Cape. Spltzbergen. Iceland and Eu-
ropean seaside resorts. Send for
programme.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
TOURIST RTREAJ-.

TOURIST BJ REAU-
r. r. Tickets. hotel accommodations and
general information about foreign travel
Travellers checks good all over the world
OFFICE. 81 BROADWAY, n. \.
Phone 1900 Rector. Piers. Hoboken-
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
EANBTPC-AWERICAN LINE

hAMbU bUE0T-ANENLLAN LINE
TWIN SCREW EXPRESS AND PASSEN-
GER SERVICE.
PlymOut1-CherbOurg hamburg
'Bluecher. June o. . PM 'Amerika--June ~
Pretoria. June s, 2 PM stP. l. June -
* serin. June 1850 AM ID tchPd. June =
Patricia June 1871 80 AM Waldersee.June y
sAmong special features Of these vessels
are: Grill Room, Gymnasium. Palm Garden,
Ritz-CarIton Restaurant Elevators. Electric
Baths. Hamburg direct. "tNcw.
Mediterranean Service.
TO -NAPLES-GENOA.
tHamburg. June II, 10 AM M;Aug- 15; sept "a
fsMoltke =. July = IL AN: Sept. ,. oct. 10
.Has GrIIl Room. IHas Gymnasium.