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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
CAME HERE ON TINE
BROTHER BROOME PREDICTED
THIS HEAVY SNOW STORM.
During the Month of September He
Prophesied That There, Would Be
Something Doing Along About This
Time in November; Trains Were
Held Up and Electric Cars Moved
With Considerable Difficulty.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The fact should not be over
looked that Brother Broome dur
ing the month of September pre-
dicted through the columns of
The Free Press that this section
would experience one of the heavi-
est snowstorms of the season on
Nov. 10 and Is. As weather
prognosticator, Brother Broome is
winner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
Will Serve Dinner to Soldiers.

The w. r. C. will serve a rally
dinner to all residents and visiting
soldier boys; also Relief corp ladies,
at the post hall Wednesday, at one
o'clock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

Fred w. Johnson of New Ulm, broth
er of the late Governor johnson, was
in Mankato today.
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Gaynor Admirel CT Roosevelt.

One or two things drawn from per-
sonal knowledge may enlighten some OF
the democrats as to the attitude OF
mind of New York's next mayor. 1t
was not long ago that Judge Gaynor
expressed the heartiest approval OF the
strenuous methods of Theodore Roose-
Welt. 1t would be in bad taste even
to suggest that the judge saw in MIR.
Roosevelt's methods of procedure
means of gaining strength for another,
not Roosevelt nor yet republican.
There has been no hesitancy on the
part of the mayor elect of New York
in letting it be known that lie was
one of the first to attack the rebating
system employed by the railroads. The
Judge is willing also that the country
should know that Colonel Roosevelt
once upon a time consulted him upon
railroad rate legislation, and by in
ference to allow it to be understood
that the president profited by what
he learned.
Thinks Relating Still Exists.
Those who are close 10 Judge Gaynor
say he is firmly convinced that the leg
islation thus far passed by Congress to
put an end to the Relating evil has
been of little avail, except to send the
practice to cover, where it is being car
ried on, so he thinks, with the old
time activity.
Practically everything that Judge
Gaynor says upon national subjects is
based upon foundations that the coun-
try had supposed were laid by Mr..
Taft's predecessor in office. Whether
or not the mayor-elect has presidential
ambitions it is certain that his ex
pressed views would lead one so TO
believe.
There have been rumors that William
j. Bryan was responsible for checking
a movement intended to put Judge
Gaynor on the presidential ticket with
him last year. There were reasons adj
vanced for Mr.. Bryan's interference
which were not given great publicity,
and there is no reason for giving them
publicity now. for, as most people re-
gard the matter, they were unworthy,
and it seems probable that the story
that Mr.. Bryan advanced them is not
entirely true, if true at all.
Chance of Nomination Remote.
1t is remote possibility at best
that the democracy will turn to Judge
Gaynor of New York as its candidate,
but in a present dearth of material
he is giving the party leaders some
thing to talk about.
President Taft is not worrying in the
least, so those officially close to him
say, because of, the cocksureneness of
the democrats that they are going to
carry the next two elections
The president is apparently perfectly
satisfied with the results of his western
trip and with the outlook for the flu
ture. He knows his own program arN
Just what efforts he intends to put
forth to give it effect. He is seeming
ly as sure today that his policies and
his acts will win approval as he was
on the day when he pledged himself
to the cause of progression.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-24
AYHAWKER J0TS

It's all right to put off till tomorrow
the meanness you would do today,
thinks the Salina Journal
1t is the belief of the Sedgwick Pan
tagraph that boy hates to wash his
neck about as bad as girl hates to
wash dishes.
In an extremely generous mood the
Mankato Advance states that the peo-
ME of Pari are welcome to its share
of dog meat, both the light and the
dark.
pertinent observation from the
Marquette Tribune: "As the world goes
now, a thing of beauty is a JOY only
for a season.
1t will be well for Kansans to remem-
Der not to spit on the sidewalks OF
Smith Center if any of them ever have
occasion to visit that town. They are
arresting- people there who do so,
Don't spend too much time waiting
for the car to come by" advises the
Pratt Union you have better chance
To get aboard if you run down the road
ahead of the crowd and meet the
wagon"
Checkers are on the move az King
man, remarks the Hutchinson News.
There is every reason to beneVe tnat
Billy Morgan's paper is speaking wen
within the truth in. this instance If the
game is being played at all by hlngman
people. %
Don't be a sage or philosopher
for the reason that while you are tell
ing the other fellow how it is and your
own time lost in philosophizing, the
lungers and plungers VIII nave
scraped up all of the coin. No ph1los-
opher ever made any money, not even
Newton DiOgeneS didn't even nave a
house and lot, but lived in tub ana
the bows used to throw stones at the
tub after the old man went to bed
Atchison Champion
Typographical errors are one OF the
chief banes of a newspaper mans ex-
istence In the rush of newspaper
making proofs are read hurrledly,
or sometimes not at all, and occasion
aIly the result in the printed product
is astonishing For instance, the story
is told of an editor who recently wrote
a puff for the belle of the ball,
saying: "Her dainty feet were in
cased in shoes that might have been
dering compositor made it read: H er
dirty feet were incased in shoes that
might have been taken for ferry
boats "-Hoisington Dispatch.
Kighty-six counties lin Kansas the
past year grew smaller acreage OF
wheat than formerly and grew an in
creased corn acreage. This means the
keeping of more hogs, cattle and
horses on the farms of those coun-
ties. 1t marks the beginning of the
era of livestock farming. This marks
the beginning of better farming and
a larger production per acre. The
more stock kept and the more feed
grown the less fertility sold from the
soil. The more live stock the more
manure returned to the fields. Our
farms can keep more live stock. grow
more grain on account of increased
production per acre and the soil will
be kept in condition for crop growing
and be worth more money per acre
| Kansas Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-24
GERMANS FIGHTING WHITE
SLAVERY

The seventh national congress for
combating the white slave traffic. which
has just been held at Leipzig, Germany.
has taken a radical step in the direction
of reform In Germany. 1t seems, con-
ditions favorable to the detestable traf-
fic flourish in conjunction with the the
alter. To the most effective method of
obtaining prompt abolition of these con-
ditions the congress resorted by adopt
ing an address to the imperial chancel-
lor setting forth the facts and implor-
ing his cooperation
The chancellor is invoked to request
the federated governments, in conjunc-
ton with the reichstag. to introduce an
imperial theater law. The address
speaks plainly of the difficult social
position and terrible moral dangers of
a large number of women connected
with the stage" It recommends the
enactment of a law fixing a minimum
wage, ordering fair arrangement as
to paying for costumes. and Furnishing
severely directors who encourage care
less ways among the women they en-
ploy.-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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QUAKER MEDITATTONs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record

LFron the Philadelphia Record.1
It's when another fellow does you
up that you are apt to feel undone
IF the secret of success is really hard
work it isn't much of a secret.
The world wouldn't be so full of
kickers if We all had wooden legs.
Many a man will let his good inten-
tons get rusty rather than his cork
screw.
Women are always drawer than men
marriage.
Some fellows never treat until they
have doDed it out that they'll get two
in return.
The man who promises his wife he
will never marry again may, after all,
be merely a coward.
The man who would rather be right
than be president is never quite so
modest as to aspire to the vice presi-
dency.
When I hear a man boasting about
his honesty" says the Manayunk Phil
osopher, 81 always keep both hands in
my pockets"
1t was at a fashionable musicale.
What kind of music do you prefer.
Mr.. Cynicus?' asked the hostess. '.Oh.
the simple kind replied Cynicus: the
kind that's so simple no one ever thinks
of playing it,
See here, you swindleri" exclaimed
the suburban property owner, when
you sold me this house you said that
in three months I wouldn't part with
it for $4,000 well. you haven't. have
your! demanded the real estate man.
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FROH OTHER PENS
KINGs AND PRESS AGENTS,


We notice, with more or less of pro-
fessional admiration for the successful
advertiser, the amount of publicity
which certain ladies of the stage are
deriving from the European tour of
young King Manuel of Portugal Hard
ly day passes but the cable informs
US that this or that young woman, now
exiled on the other side of the Atlantic,
but hopeful of a return to Broadway,
has captivated the impressionable oc
cupant of the Braganza throne. Of
course, the lady always "spurns," or at
the very least "scorns," the attentions
of the royal youth, because that is the
correct thing for any innocent young
female to do, particularly if she hap
pens to have been born under the flag
of this republic.
Press agents are the creation of TWEEN
tieth century civilization. Kings are
the survivals of an archaic system and
are merely adapted to the convenience
of nations not temperamentally dis
posed to get rid of them just yet. But
while kings do survive some method
should be found to protect them against
the undue use Of their names in ex-
plotting stage beauty. The only policy
we can suggest in this respect is a real
ization by royalty of the value of the
press agent and the conversion of him
to serve it's wn purposes of self-de-
Tense king with press agent who
knows his business ought to be at least
a match for any actress.-Brooklyu
Eagle.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES


This is the season of the year when
another brand of fools skate On thin
ice.
X x X
One of the satisfying things incl
dent to life is that dreams DO not
come true. most of them are such
horrible affairs.
Among the unusual men OIL these
days are the automobile owners VINO
do not run their machines at terrific
rates of speed.
y X X
Music may have charms to soothe
the savage breast, but that surely is not
true of the stuff that is passed out for
music.
X X X
A woman is always we'll pleased
with her hat if it is an expensive one
regardless of the fact that she might
have secured a much prettier one Tor
considerably less money.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

We often say: 'They can't fool me-"
But they often do"
Remember that the get-rich-quick
cheme helps only the man who sells.
A lucky man is one who can have
his rascality overlooked as a mistake
You can occasionally beat Kansas
law, but you can't beat the laws OF
Nature.
Il don't really enjoy the Christmas
Davis.
The man who always thinks he is
always all right is nearly always all
wrong.
There is always something to gossip
about, even if you have to go as far
back as Henry VIII.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who said the north end of
a south wind is always cold?"
81 was very ambitious when young:
but all I try to do now is to get
through the day. "-Parson Irvine.
There is a type of man who always
wants to leach living; he waits I'M
til another man fills up on blood, and
then sucks it.
Another great trouble IS, so many
people are liable to catch the wild,
unreasoning mob spirit, and hang an
innocent man.
ST sometimes think it would be less
work to do the things I neglect than
to worry about them the way I do
Drake Watson.
With the young and the shiftless,
the hollowdays do not end until jan
uary 2, but there is no excuse for any,
one else prolonging them after Christ
mas night.
thine flies so fast here lately that
when 1 go to bed at night sometimes
think I might as well remain there
until I die of old age: it won't be
long s--ParSap Irvine
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cant ul,de,.d now. why I didn't
come to xs.zrjefore. While was away
IN the NJ SOME wicked people told
your mo.fr thiv .. that we're not true.
and she Was 50 unhappy she took you
ssend sgscznt away. I received no letters.
!. p9t Thought it was on account of my
ufaying to go from place to place to
fght, and that the letters didn't fol-
low me. When came home they told
me stories, too. but looked every
where for you all these long four years.
And have found you for my Christ
mas present. We will 60 and see
mother, now
Bert's mother came to the door
when they rang. She turned very pale
when she saw her little daughters
new friend.
I1ubert!" she said family.
They went into the little sitting
room and he explained to her more
Iuily than he had done to his child.
ana When everything was talked over,
he called Roberta in.
Your mother and you are going
nome with me tonight" he said, land
the next day after Christmas we are
all going away on the cars together"-
(Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-24
THE AMERICAN DISEASE

Henry Van Dyke. writing on 1.-The
Spirit of America in the January
American Magazine, states that owing
to the strain at which Americans live,
nervous exhaustion is common. and
neurasthenia is coming to be known
as 1.-THE American disease He con-
tinues:
Cautiously enough. it was in France
that the best treatment of this disease
developed, and one of the famous
practitioners. DR. Charcot. died. if
mistake not, of the complaint to the
cure of which he had given his life
In spite of the fact that nervous dis
orders are common among Americans,
they do not seem to lead to an I'M
usual number of cases of mental
wreck. 1 have been looking into the
statistics of insanity. Fhe latest trust
worthy figures that could find are as
follows: In 1900, the United States
had 1O6, 500 insane persons in a popu-
lation of &c millions. In 1896 Great
Britain and Ireland had 12S.S0O in a
population of 81 millions. In 1884
France had $4,000 in a population of
40 millions. That would make about
32S insane persons in 100000 for
Great Britain. 235 in every 100000 for
France. 143 in every 100000 for
America.
"Nor does the wear and tear of
American life. great as it may be.
seem to kill people with extraordinary
rapidity. In 1900 the annual death
rate per 1000 in Austria was rs, in
Italy %, in Germany %, in France 21,
in Belgium 10, in Great Britain Is and
in the United States II. In America
the average age at death in 1890 was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-24
Snake Knew His Business.

We have often heard Of snakes eat
ing eggs-hen eggs-but never knew
until Saturday. when we learned the Sc
cret from an eyewitness. It was in
Rowan county, where a biacksnake
swallowed four hen eggs. He found
the nest under an apple tree, and, al
though the eggs were larger around
than the snakes head, his neck or
even his body ne had no trouble in
getting them pushed down the narrow
passage You could see them go with
out any trouble, and when the four
eggs were in the snake you could see
the four knots on the snake.
But how did he digest them? Well.
that was an easy question for Mr..
Rlacksnake He crawled UP the body
of the apple tree wrapped himself
around it and frightened himself until
pop, pop. pop, pop-and all the eggs
we're misunderstanding On. Co Mas
cot
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News,

IFron the Chicago News.1
One-legged men are not necessarily
good stump speakers.
Don't be SO strait-laced that Won can.t
unbend occasionally.
Some doctors live we'll at the axnsr,so
of those who are i'll 80
And mary a bright-eyed person. looks
on the dark side of things.
more men would swear off if their
wives didn't want them to.
-, "a man doesn't necessarily break his
WORD "nen he stretches the truth.
Pride doesn't go before destruction
LUZ 'ne purpose OF softening the bumps.
II you can't get a reputation anv OH
er way, you might employ a press apent
knowing widow says that q biat,
grade complication is always worth h IN, II.
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Bank Acts as Pawnshop

That a large banking firm in the
financial district makes a practice of
lending money on jewels was discov
cred yesterday through a writ of re-
plevin for $4,000 worth of diamonds
in favor of the T. Kirkpatrick Com
loaned $500 on the precious stones
to John B. Lyman, an art dealer. at
Forty-fifth street and Fifth avenue,
who left the city several days ago.
The name of the bank on which
the writ of replevin was served was
withheld by the sheriff's office and
by the jewelry company.
Art objects, including oil paintings
and marble statues. to the value of
$15,055, were replevined from Ly-
mans store, where they had been
placed ION sale" by Edmund F. Bon
adventure. One small statuette was
valued at s2,200.-New York Ameri-
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STICK TO THE FARM.

Stick to the farm says the President
To the wide-eyed farmer boy,
Then he HES him back to his White House
home,
With its air of rustic joy.
Stick to the farm says the railroad
king
To the lad who looks afar,
Then hikes him back on the double quick
To his rustic private car.
Stick to the farm says the clergyman
10 the youth on the worm-fence perch.
Then lays his ear to the ground to hear
A call to a city church
Stick to the farm" says the doctor wise
To those who would break the rut,
Then HES him where the appendix grows
In bountiful crops to cut.
-McLandburgh Wilson in the New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-24
HU1NOR OF THE DAY

KNOX, saw Nuritch looking at one OF
your paintings the other day. D'Auber-
All! I'm afraid of that He minated TIC
tn me e tnat ne no might have something for me
at 1t he told me he had intended to let
you pant his back fence. but he didn't
and Times.
1T. aDid you take your shoes to that place
waltz" Yes. They repaired six while
I waited and told me to call in three
80 Minerva had Just sprang from the brow
3 Cove. Jove; always had good head for
cassie outlines approvingly.-New York
a minister, having walked through a
village churchyard and observed the in
ddlserimnate praises bestowed upon the
living lie.'-Tit-Bits ' '''N "e- : 'A'
A school teacher in one of the lower
grades once asked her room What is
wind?' After a thoughtful pause a small
your answer? whyeer R Wina 4 w yhs Is
when VIII It gets in a hurry answered Rob-
Mr.. Tucker (having served the others)-
WE, wen. Tommy. what part of the chicken
know always take the back when there's
company.-Chicago Tribune.
Joakley-You'r re right; most people WORRY
over what they haven't got, but I know
certain people who worry because of what
they? Joakley-Nothing.~ stand
ard and Times.
Mrs. youngwife-rd like hat for my
madam? Mrs. Y-Dear me, rye forgot
ten ba the size but i he wears Is collar
Boston Transcript.
Il thought, said the inspector. you re-
| ported that this building was provided
with fire escape?" TT is There's a
room on the nineteenth floor that is used
as a Chicago Record-Heraid.
Alice in Wonderland boosted she could
| fast. six. cooks answered your advertise
ment for help" we remarked. Herewith
her eredulity plainly weakened.-New
.. .Yon insist on laughing at my new has.as
swered her husband II can't get away
from the idea De that f is Joke, "a JOKE?
the jokes on you and when pay for it
it's on me. "-Washington Star.
rumored that hat. you intend to retire from
politics.. Well. well" replied the Sem
| aIOr, ITS queer now rumOrS start.
| suppose this grew out of the fact that
! attended church with my wife last Sun
day."-Catholic Standard.
| Chapleigh-Surgery is making wonderful
strides. Miss Cutting. Why, 1t has act
| ually enabled men to live without their
normal quantity of bwain. doncher know.
| Miss Cutting-Indeed Are you speaking
from personal experience Mr.. Chapleigh?
Chicago News
I'VE have the greatest mine in the
I'VE want you interested in it and would
| like to have you down on our property
| and show you" go no further" said
| the listener. "I am already down on your
property and you needn't try to show me.
Good day."-St. Louis Star.
Mrs Hayseed indignantly)-Here's an
wife costs five dollars. Mr.. Hayseed-
latter some thought)-Wa-al, I reckon a
good wife's with it.'-Judge.
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81 years; in 1900 it had risen to IS
years. Other things, such as climate
sanitation, hygiene. must be taken into
account in reading these figures. But
after making all allowance for these
things. the example of America does
not indicate that an active, busy,
quick-moving life is necessarily short
one. On the contrary, hard work
seems to be wholesome and energy
favors longevity"
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Here's an especially pertinent para
graph from the Boston Globe: Strange
as it may SEEM democratic progress
has been much greater in Europe than
in America during the last twenty
years. Economic principles of govern
ment seem to he unknown to our pub
lie men. Every one who does not
agree with every one else is supposed
to be a crank.
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Still Waiting.

millionaire famous for his love
of horses and also for the very low
prices he paid for them, saw very
good looking hack in a Quaker's sta
BILE. AS usual he bid low figure
for the animal. which. to his surprise.
the Quaker accepted.
His suspicious aroused, the rich man
inquired if there was anything the
matter with the horse.
Have no fear" said the Quaker.
ST can assure you that you will be
pleased when you see him co.
The horse, when home. turned out
an inveterate jibber; nothing could in
duce him when in harness to move a
yard.
The angry millionaire interviewed
the Quaker and exclaimed:
You assured me when I bought
the horse that I should be pleased
when I saw him co.
$50 did, my friend" was the reply.
land you will be pleased when you
see him go.''-Tit-Bits
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hundreds, were picked up and prompt
ly sent to Argentine's penal colony in
Patagonia, where they are to be given
a chance to live according to their
own peculiar ideas of what q gov
eminent should be. There is no doubt
but it will turn out to be a govern
ment of continual riot and bloodshed.
Anarchists have quite as much trouble
living in peace with each other as they
do with any other class of people.
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Promoters OF the aviation contests
to be held at Los Angeles during the
month of January are getting lots of
notoriety for their show because they
have hung up $4,000 in prizes. If
only a few of them have equally i'm
possible conditions surrounding their
winning like the $4,000 prize which
is offered for a continuous balloon
flight from Los Angeles to the Atlantic
coast, it is easy to figure out that
actual amount of prize money dis
tributed Will not be great.
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Another corset has saved woman's
life by DETECTING the course of a bull
let fired at her. But this doesn't even
I'D the score for the corset by any
means. The women who have been
fastened to their deaths by tight lac
inc are legion