The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-12-04
New York City Must Have Large
Amount of the Money.
CAUSE OF RECENT BOND ISSUE
Henry w Savsse's The Devip Has
Gone Hence, the Me ntai Heal
Ing, Metropolis News.
IsY GLENN GUERNSEY.l

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government of big town like New
York. This statement will be vouched
for by Comptroller Metz, upon whose
shoulders rests the formidable burden
of providing for the financial sol
vency of the city. just now the
treasury isn't overlooking with coin
and in order to "raise the wind'' and
keep the receipts within hailiEg dis
lance of the expenditures, the comp
troller has had to arrange another
bond issue.
The new issue will be of the tidy
sum of $l2,5OO,OOO and will be sold
Monday. Twelve millions will run
for fifty years, while the small bal
ance will be redeemable in a decade.
The bonds will bear four per cent in
terest. The last two public sales of
city bonds have been at four and one
half per cent, but the comptroller be-
ieves that the election of a new
Theadore of the United States, in the
person of William H. Taft, has re-
stored coninedce to such an extent
that the new issue of tours will be
greedily licked up by investors.
For the convenience of out of town
capitalists desiring to invest in these
bonds, the writer will gladly act as
broker for a reasonable commission.
Cash must accompany the communi-
cation and no attention will be paid
to letters containing less than a mil
lion dollars.
Ta-ta, MI. Devil.
Mr.. Henry w. Savage's Devil"
Henry f. Dixey, has gone hence
from the Garden Theatre, and the re-
manning disciples of Mephistopheles
are playing to audience that daily
shrink in number. 1t is evident that
the vogue of His Satanic Travesty is
thing of the past and even the
genious of Mr.. Arliss, head Devil" to
Balasco, cannot long keep the Hun
garian comedy before tn American
public Old Nick had a huge vogue
while he lasted, but it was evident
from the first that he was too subtle
for Americans.
A drama which bears the title of
s.Mary James Pa" will succeed "The
Devil" at the Garden Theatre, and
will have it's first metropolitan per-
Torrance on Monday night. Another
new dramatic offering for Monday
night is John Valentines comedy,
"The Stronger Sex," which will fol-
low "Paid in FulP' at Weber's. Miss
Annie Russell will head the cast. The
comedy had a run of sover two hun
dred nights in London.
That Mental Healing.
The "crude nfaterialism" which
characterizes modern medical and
surgical practices, will no longer be
opposed only by Christian Scientists
and other unorthodox persons. The
Bowery already has its Episcopal
mental healer" and the same de-
nomination this week launched a
movement which is designed to con-
vert the wealthy and well-to-do. The
Boston ministers who inaugurated
what they call the Emmanuel Move
ment" have commenced series of
lectures under the patronage of st.
Georges church, which has a con-
gregation composed of j. Pierpont
Morgan and nearly 5000 other per-
sons.
The "Emmanuelists" claim to be
able to cure only nervous troubles and
minor mental distempers, and the
person with stomach-ache, broken
leg or an uprising of the molars must
"crude materialism" of the EN- dees
and the dee dee esses.
Oh, Those Kids!
Next Thursday, according to the
most reliable. reports from Washing
ton, will be Thanksgiving Day. Also,
in New York, it will mark the Upris-
ing of the Kids A hundred thousand
more or less, of smuttyfa boys
and girls, apparently unprovided with
parents, will smear their frontispieces
with lampblack and other decorative
matrials and swarm out on the streets
to play the part of public beggers.
Wearing the most outlandish costumes
available, the kids will gather about
every adult passerby and beg clamor-
ously for aims. The pedestrian who
has disposed of all his available pen
MES, nickels and dimes will be hooted
and insulted by the little cherubs.
As an education in politeness and
self respect, Thanksgiving Day in the
metropolis is bowling success.
Just why parents possessed of any
remaining remnants of proper pride
should allow their young hopefuls to
participate in such debasing revels
and public exhibitions of the spirit of
street-corner beggary is secret
which l am unable to explain. Ger
tainly, such general and widespread
exhibition of juvenile cupidity would
be possible in no other city than