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The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHAuFFEuRs.

Chauffeurs should not drive behind
or near fast moving street cars, advises
The Chicago Tribune. That is the sug-
gestion for automobilists which comes
from the room of coroner's Jury. The
members had been investigating the
death of twelve year old girl who was
struck by a swiftly flying machine. They
should be added the lengthening list of
unavoidable accidents" But the rec
omendation mentioned was made in
connection with the exoneration of the
driver of the car and his companions.
The hint is one which few chau-
ffeurs will take, unfortunately. But
it is timely and sensible one. A
large number of fatalities result under
the exact conditions described. People
who leave the street cars are put in
danger from the automobiles that rush
past as the car stops at corner. The
long car is an obstruction to the WIS.,
ion, and time and time agian, with.
out warning of the approaching ma
chine, the passenger steps from the
platform into the path of peril or pos
sible DEATH
In crossing a street the pedestrian
must take his chances, vehicles of
many kinds having the right of way
except in the downtown section, where
the whistle of the policeman regulates
the movement of the throng. But under
the conditions described above the
burden ought to be put upon the
chauffeurs, and the unavoidable acci-
dent" verdict should be impossible as
a way of escaping the just penalty
for recknessness or carelessness rightly
to be counted criminal At best, the
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
MAN OF INDIGESTION.

Here is the way The Chicago Post
sizes up Minnesota's democratic gov
ernor: Governor John A. johnson
showed in the convention campaign
last fall certain qualities of indecision
and narrow vision that made many
democrats who might have supported
him fight rather shy of him. Now,
however, he appears to know what he
wants and to be going after it. His
eampaigners descended upon Chicago a
few days ago and yesterday it was
announced that he would accept the
Minnesota senatorship as stepping
stone to the White House. We are
glad to see these plans so frankly
made. For what We want from Mr..
johnson, more than anything else, is
something by whicn we can measure
up his ability. The public is not sure
of him. We do not know him as we
should know our presidential candi-
dates before we nominate them. If he
gets into the senate we may at last
be able to size him up and see
whether he is of United State or
merely Minnesota calibre.'
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
JOKE Is ON the FARMERS

Minnesota farmers who were so en-
thusiastic for the bill placing a tonnage
tax on iron ore are now protesting
over the law passed by the recent leg
islature placing tax on grain in ele-
vators, says The ST. Paul Dispatch. The
new measure provides for a tax of
ne-fourth of mill on wheat or fax
and one-eighth of mill on other
grains that are held or handled by
elevators and warehouses in the state
The farmers realize that the tax
comes from them and object to it on
the ground that it means double and
excessive taxation. Owing to the meth
DDS of handling wheat and other grains,
much of it passes through from one
to a half dozen elevators before it
is finally marketed for export or
ground into -four.
Opponents of the measure insist that
this means double taxation as, under
the law, each individual or concern
operating an elevator or warehouse is
required to pay taxes on every pound
OF grain handled during the year. The
farmers insist that they can think
OF no good reason why Governor John
son should approve the law taxing
grain and veto the one taxing iron ore.
If there's a joker in the law it ap-
pears to be on the farmers.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
GOOD ROADS OUT OF BAD ONES
That's What MI. Williams Machine
Will Do; Demonstration.

Mr.. Williams of Welcome has had
a road drag on exhibition near w. r.
Hammett's office for some days past,
waiting for the weather to become
favorable enough to show the city Of
ficials how it works. This afternoon
the conditions were propitious, and, ac-
companied by President Day of the
board of public works and President
John Nyquist of the Commercial club,
he hitched two teams to it and drove
to one of the back streets, near the
city limits, and gave the machine Il
test.
Mr.. Williams machine works like a
road drag, and levels the rough places
off and makes good road out of a
bad one. 1t is large enough to give the
road Il good deal of smoothing on one
trip, and will doubtless appeal to those
who are interested in road work.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

by the producing corporation The
railway may not have an interest "in
a legal sense" in that commodity, and
yet it has absolute control over it.
The Chicago Tribune is of the opinion
that the court has taken disappoint
ingly narrow view of the case. 1t has
construed out of the clause most of its
immediate value. But by sustaining
the constitutionality of the clause as
it interprets it, it apparently has left
the door open for further legislation
by congress to dissolve entirely the il
legitimate relations existing between
many roads and the coal mining bust
ness. The decision is unwelcome, be-
cause it makes the clause operative
only as to few of the many roads
congress intended to reach. Seemingly
it does not say tnat congress has not
the power to forbid to a railroad en-
gagged in interstate commerce the own
ershipN of the stock of coal company
whose product it transports.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
NEW IDEAS IN THE KITCHEN.

Goodbye to the dinner that ''mother
used to cook" is the sad refrain of
The Winona Independent. There is cause
for the old-fashioned folk to ''view
with alarm" the progress of the mod
ern idea, for it threatens now to in
wade the kitchen and even to put the
"cook stove" into the discard.
"Styles keep changing the
styles in the Kitchen" says a news
item introducing the prepared food
shops. "The good old Family dinner
is to give place to the "ready made"
meal. The kitchen is not only to
be robbed of its place in the home
life, but of all the sentiment and
memories that have given in the
proverbial bright spot" in the rec
objections that make the past so
replete with interest.
The old time Thanksgiving dinner
that you recall now with the activi-
ties in the kitchen where "all hands"
were drafted into the service of pre-
pairing the meal is to be furnished
hSiSoltci ny tHc SioSSi. Sloic JuSt
around the corner. The modern idea
has decreed that the time spent in the
kitchen was wasted.
When company comes hereafter
mother and "the girls" will need to
be concerned only in preparing the
place cards" and arranging the tables
for bridge" and ''five hundred" The
grocery boy" will bring the dinner
i'll basket.
The new style will "save time," it
is said. But you had as well make
up your mind now that the dinners
that mother" used to cook in the
old fashioned kitchen will never be
delivered at the door ''ready made"
That part of the offering made by
the modern idea is both a delusion
and snare.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
MACE AN OLD AGE PENSI0NER.

The oldage pension scheme in Eng
land is bringing out some forgotten
characters, once rich and famous, but
now glad of a little help from the
public treasury One of these is Jem
Mace, once worth $35O,OO0, who won
$4,000 in one fight in America, who
now, at the age of seventy eight asks
for aid. The London Chronicle says:
Unto the Goswell road postoffice yes
terday walked a stalwart, broad should
cred old man, with white hair and
moustache. He came to sign an APP
plication form for an old age pension,
and gave his name as Jem Mace, born
at Beeston, Norwich, April s, 1881 The
old man with the well-brushed silk hat
was indeed none other than the famous
old pugilist, and former undefeated
champion of the world, who now, with
in few weeks of his seventy eighth
birthday finds himself on hard times.
Despite his advanced years. Mace is
as hard as nails, and as jolly as q
sand boy, and he was delighted to
chat with a Daily Chronicle represen-
tative who sought him out in his ISL
ington haunts. He was at his prime
in the sixties, and boasts 500 fights
with only two defeats. Careful liv-
ing and keeping off the drink is the
secret he said. in the old days men
trained harder and went through or
deals that would kill present day box.
ers. There's all the difference in the
world between the old fights with bare
knuckles and glove contests today,
which are mere pleasure outings Mace
is still active and keen. Within the
last fortnight he has been giving ex-
hibitions of boxing at Hull and Coven-
try, and he hopes to have the gloves
OH with pupils and Others many times
more" If Mace had followed the ad-
vice he so freely gives, it would not
be necessary for him to accept of
charity now.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
FOUNDER OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY.

John James Audubon was born near
New Orleans, La, on May 4, l77O.
His father, who had been a French ad-
miral, emigrated to Louisiana about
the middle of the eighteenth century,
bought plantation and married a lady
of Spanish descent The boy showed
peculiar interest in the birds on his
fathers estate, and made large col
lection of living birds. He was en-
couraged in art by his parents from
the time he was able to talk, and
showed so much talent that at four
teen years of age his father took him
to Paris and placed him in famous
studio. He drew and painted birds
most of the time.
At seventeen years of age he re-
turned to Louisiana, and his father,
who had intended that his son should
go i'll the navy, recognized his tai
ents and presented him farm OIL
the banks of the Schuylkill, in Penn
sylvania. He fell in love with and
wished to marry Lucy Bakewell, the
daughter of an Englishman who own
ed the adjacent property. The mar
riage was against the advice of Mr..
Bakewell, who thought MIN not practi-
cal enough. Audubon removed to New
York City and worked in business
house, but he soon demonstrated his
unfitness for commercial work and
gave it up.
He formed partnership with Ferdi-
nand Roster, in 1908, and sold his
farm, buying stock of goods with
the proceeds, married Lucy Bakewell
and started for louisville. The trip
down the Ohio river on a fatboat
was their wedding journey. But Audu-
bon could not conine himself to the
routine of business, which he left to
his partner while he spent his time
roaming in the woods, collecting birds
and making drawings of them. The
partnership was soon broken and he
moved to Henderson, on the banks of
the Ohio.
From this place for fifteen years
the American woodsman," as he liked
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
GIVES BUT LITTLE RELIEF.

While the supreme court of the
United States has sustained the general
principle that the duties of carrier and
producer or shipper should not be
united, at the same time the highest
tribunal in the land has not furnished
that relief which the independent coal
companies most desired. The object of
congress was to compel the railroads
of the country to part with all in
terest, direct or indirect. in anthracite
or bituminous coal mines except so far
as they used the product for their own
transportation purposes. Evidence gath
cred by the interstate commerce COM
mission had proved that such legisla.
tion was necessary. There had been
gross discrimination against independ
ent mine operators. A railroad al
ways had cars to carry it's own coal
or the product of mines in which it's
officers were interested. Frequently it
was impossible for the independent op-
orators to supply their customers, for
they could not get cars.
Some roads own coal mines outright
Two of the anthracite roads do. Others
own the entire capital stock of coal
mining corporations. That is the case
with the Reading. Other roads hold
controlling or minority interests in
such corporations. 1t was the inten
tion of congress to reach them all.
The supreme court rules that the own
ership of stock in coal mining com
pany by a railway does not cause it,
as the owner of the stock, "to have
legal interest in the commodity affected
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

ORDER TO EXAMINATION ACCOUNT.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.ss. In Probate Court:
In the Matter of the estate, of
K. M. PEEK, Deceased.
On Reading and Filing the Petition of
Mary l.. Phalin executrix of the estate
of r. NJ Peek deceased, representing.
among other things that she has fully
administered said estate. and praying
that time and place be fixed for ex-
amning and allowing the final account
of her administration. and for the assign
ment of the residue of said estate to
the parties entitled thereto by law:
1t is Ordered That said account be
examined, and petition heard by this
Court, on Saturday the 22nd day of
May A. D., 1909. at ten o'clock A. M.
at the Probate Office, in the City of
Mankato, in said County.
And 1t Is Further Ordered That notice
thereof be given to all persons interested
by publishing copy of this order
once in each week. for three successive
week prior to said day of hearing i'm
the Mankato Free Press a weekly news
paper printed and published at Mankato
in said County.
Dated at the City of Mankato the
22nd day of April. A. D.. 1909
By the Court
(Seal) VIM. F. HUGHES
w. R. & C. D. Geddes,
Attorneys.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
FRANK A. DAYS SCHEME.

There is story afoat that Frank
Day will be candidate for state SEN
ator in the Martin county district next
year.
There is method in Franks mad
ness. He has an idea that he can
be elected to the senate, and that
would be one more vote for Johnson
who is candidate for United States
senator.
Frank Day has his plans all laid
to capture the next legislature? Will
he succeed?
While the scheme is Days it is
one that receives the backing of demo
Gratis. Therefore, the republicans must
be on their guard.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
DEATH OF MISS MINNIE SCHMIDT.
Well-Known Lady in Lime Town Pass
ed Away Last Night

Miss Mime Schmidt died at about
seven o'clock last evening at the home
Of her mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Schmidt
i'll Lime township, of consumption. Her
age was fortysix years, and she was
born and raised III Lime township. She
was highly respected and her DEATH
causes much regret.
Funeral services will be held at one
o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the
house, and the interment will be made
at Glenwood cemetery.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
EFFORTS OF ONE WHO is BLIND
L. E. Foster Does Not Wish to Be Re-
garded as An Object of Charity.

L. E. Foster, the blind man, is max
ing an heroic effort to earn an honest
living. With that end in view he has
established himself in business at the
corner of Front and Hickory streets,
where he is disposing of novelties in
the shape of pencils, shoestrings, etc
He does not handle shoddy goods, and
is selling his articles at reasonable
prices. Mr.. Foster does not wish to
be looked upon as an object of char
ity. He is trying hard to make his
way in the world, despite his aflliction
Those who patronize him can rest as
sured of his deep appreciation.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
JACOB RllS, the MAN.

Jacob August Riis whose, exception
al career as reformer has been phe-
nomenally successful, was born seventy
years ago today in Ribe, Denmark. His
father was school teacher The boy
went to school in his native village,
and then went to Copenhagen and
learned carpentering. In 1870 he emf
grated to America "with pair of
strong hands and stubborness for two,
as he says in his autobiography. He
did not find work for long time and
suffered great hardships, being sever
al times without food. He worked at
anything that offered, at different
times in coal mines, for while in a
brickyard and at all kinds OF small
odd jobs.
He determined to become a journal
ist, and became representative of a
news agency. He became editor of
The South Brooklyn News. The paper
had hard struggle for existence and
his opportunity came soon after, when
the paper was sold. He bougth the
paper for $3.50, giving $75 cash and
notes for the balance For time he
was the whole staff, editor, reporter,
proofreader, advertising solicitor and
general manager. He thought for a
while of leaving the struggle to become
a minister, but was assured that there
was more need for consecrated edi-
tors. He kept on and made the paper
pay. In 1875 he visited Denmark, and
in his return began great fight on
the slums and all they stood for
As reporter on The New York Tri-
bune at police headquarters he sent
in the plain unembelished facts, writ
ten in such heartfelt and grasping
manner that they were widely read
Single handed he fought the politi-
clans and landlords and the fight at
the start was hopelessly desperate,
his opponents being backed by all the
powers of graft and selfshness. His
"How the Other Half Lives" published
in 1890 was stirring revelation of
the fact that poverty and crime were
lnseparable fro metnement house dis
tricts, and for a long time went beg
ging publisher. Theodore Roosevelt
called on him and left note saying:
81 have read your book and come to
help" They subsequently became warm
friends. Ris became well known and
began delivering lectures, interesting
church people, and made known the
fact that the people were better than
the houses they lived in.
His agitation started a wave of
reform movement that accomplished a
great deal. Among his other books
are: "Chrilden of the Poor" sNib-
sy's Christmas" "Out of Mulberry
Street." "The Making of An Ameri-
CAM" 'The Battle With The Slum,'
and Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen
He has also written many magazine
articles In 1876 he married Eliza
beth Nelson girl from his native
village in Denmark, and has two sons
and one daughter. He was secretary
of the New York Small Park commits
sion, and has been executive officer of
several good government clubs. Such
is the story in brief of Jacob Riis,
the man.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Railroad building in the south is in
creasing very rapidly. Since the first
of the year thirty-four railroad enter
prises have been organized or incor-
porated in the south and southwest,
ten in Texas, four in North Carolina,
four in Missouri, three in Arkansas,
three in Tennessee, two in Oklahoma,
two in Louisiana and one each in Ala
bama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
NEIGHBORS in A HUNT
Search Being Made for H. ]. Ledbeter,
Lime Town Farmer.

H. j. Ledbeter, who purchased the
Pat McTighe farm in Lime town, is
reported to have disappeared today and
the neighbors are searching the coun-
tryside for him. The police late this
afternoon were notified and requested to
assist in the search. He was last seen
this morning just before he was to
do his morning chores.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Here is one from The Fairmont Sen
tainty of electing a republican to sue
ceed Governor johnson if Hon. John
Lind should happen to head the demo-
cratic ticket on state option plat
form, which it is understood it would
like to do" But to think that the
democrats would adopt a state option
platform! Wouldn't that .crimp YOU?
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
SON OF JOHN ROONEY is KILLED.
He Is Run Over BY Passenger Train
In Chicago.

Chicago, May 5.-Thomas Rooney,
seventeen years old, 1888 West Sixtieth
street, son of Policeman John Rooney,
who has attracted considerable atten-
tion as a wrestler, was run over and
killed by passenger train
yesterday morning .-~.s, .4-s
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Henry Clews, that optimistic gen.
tleman, is confident that the financial
horizon is not entirely free of uncer
tainties, but at that the country is
drawing away from the effects of the
late panic
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

The Minnesota Information Bureau
has been established at 432 Chamber
of Commerce building, Portland, Ore
The object of this bureau is to furnish
free information regarding Oregon to
Minnesotans.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Democratic senators are doing what
they can to block tariff revision legis-
lation. That in substance is the charge
made by Edward B. Clark, the Wash
ington correspondent of The Chicago
Post.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Fargo is anxious to try the commits
sion plan of city government. The
council has been petitioned to call
a special election SO that the propo-
sition can be submitted to vote of
the people
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
w w. SMITH,
Lawyer and Notary Public.
MANKATC MINNESO il
Exciting Runaway.

One of the Sanitary Dairy company's
delivery teams ran away this morn
ing when the tongue broke and some
cream was spilled out, but the horses
were cought before any more damage
was done. The driver narrowly es-
cacped being thrown against tele-
phone pole
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Chief Shippy has ordered all Chicago
saloons to lock their doors at one
O'Clock in the morning. A reform
wave has orerspread the Windy City.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

pedestrian must take his life in his
hands when crossing business street.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Minnesota as state is fifty-one
years old today.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Alderman George Pass took a trip
to Worthington yesterday.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07

Maybe this is the May thaw.
The Mankato free press., 1909-05-07
April! 80, May 7-14.


Attorney for Assignee of Mortgage.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-07-28
BUCKSPORT.
July %.

Miss Sarah Hancock, OF New York, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Collins.
Mrs. John CroweIl, of Milford, Mass, a
forme. resident, has been visiting friends
here,
Theodore Everett, wife and daughters,
of Arlington, Mass, are visiting Hon.
Parker Spofford.
DIR. A. B. Hagerthy and wife, of Ash
land, recently spent several days with his
moi her, Mrs. d. X. Hagerthy.
William Hill Gem, Of New York, ac-
companied by friend, Ernest Agretti,
has been visiting his mother, Mrs. A. H.
Gem.
Mrs. NJ. j. Kittredge has gone to
as far as Rockland by her sisters, Misses
Katharine and Alice Ball, who will visit
their brother, Daniel Ball.
The many friends Of Rev. Frederick
Kenyon brown, formerly pastor Of the
Elm street Congregational church, are
very glad TO learn OF his success at Dart
mouth college, where he has taken two
prizes in q literary competition contest,
one for the best short story and one for
the best junior essay. His health is much
improved.
Hon. Eugene Heiner, wife and daugh-
tiers, of Lincoln, Neb., spent few days
recently with George Bloigett and wife.
They have just returned from Europe,
where they visited all the principal places
OF interest. Mr.. Heiner is prominent
lawyer in the West, and has large manu-
featuring and banking interests in seve-
raj states. Mrs. Heiner vas Miss Julia
Blodgett, formerly OF Bucksport.
July u. j..