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The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
SCHULZ WOULD INCREASE SALARY
Not That of His Own, But Assistants;
Improve Department.

From Tuesdays Da,>
State Superintendent of Public In
str,lction G. g. Schulz has asked the
appropriations committees of the house
and senate for an additional fund
for his department of $500. He asks
for All increase in the salary of the first
assistant of 5000 year and asks for
u salary of S2,i0O year for II new
assistant to be installed. The rest OF
the fund is to be distributed along the
lines of what Mr.. Schulz fegards as
improvements to the department.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12

FOR SALE-A desirable residence known
as the lIodapp residence, on North
Fourth street in Mankato, good loca-
ton, within one block of street rail
way; also valuable farm known as
the Hodapp farm for the last fifty
four years, within two miles of Main
street. This farm comprises l70 acres,
40 under cultivation, 60 in pasture
and timber Terms of sale reasonable.
Apply to Philip Hodapp, No. lGOl
North Fourth street, MaDkato, MINI.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
PARENTS WHO HAD BEEN
Deceived BY the CHILDREN


+ Minneapolis, March 9.-Let- !
+ tiers from the parents who were I
!. notified that their SONS and I
+ daughters had been forced to I
+ leave the II" for poor work
+ in their studies have begun to I
+ reach the university registrar. I
+ The letters, according to +. b. I
+ Pierce, are of two kinds, pathet- 1
i ic or sarcastic.
/. Tears blur some of the let. 4
4 ters. 1
+ The most touching letter |
+ have ever received is from
+ widowed mother" said Mr.. !
+ Pierce. "Her son had deceived .
+ her. Instead of attending to !
+ his studies it seems lie joined !
f. society and lived high. I
i 1--WE also get letters, vindic- .
+ tive in tone, blaming us for not :
+ looking after students who are .
+ ncglecting their studies.' :
+
+ 4. i. = + j + q 4. !. + 4. 4. j.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
NELSON SAYS FAIR MUST
SPEND MONEY TO MAKE IT


+ Minneapolis, March 9.-"Min-
+ ncsota does not spend too much
+ money advertising its state fair
Z said b. +. Nelson, president of
Z the fair board. cOntradicting the
+ statements made by the in
+ vcstigating committee of the
+ state Legislature.
+ "Wc do spend great deal of
I money investigating attractions.
+ We spend much more than our
I neighbor state, Wisconsin, but we
+ feel that we are justified in so
+ doing.
+ Last year our profits were
I. more than $4,000, while Wis
!. consin had loss of nearly $l6.-
+ 900. We have to spend money
I. in order to make it, Mime
+ sofa has one of the best state
+ fairs in the country and it is
+ money getter for the state.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
NOMINATIONS TO THE SENATE
President Taft Sends the List of Cabi-
net Officers for Confirmation.
TSpeciaI 10 The free Press.

Especial 70 The Free pTG6s'T
Washington, March 5.-Tlc mamma
tion of Philander c. Knox as secretary
of state and other members of Presi-
dent Taft's cabinet as previously an
nounced, were sent to the senate. The
names of Hungington Wilson, to be as
sistant secretary of state, and Beck
man Winthrop, assistant secretary OF
the navy, were also sent to the SEN
ate by President Taft.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
Caught Between Cars.

Morristowli, March lO.-Artlur Her
slley, foreman of the Big Diamond Mill
company here, while at work in the
yards yesterday, was caught between
two cars and instantly killed,
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
Setting an Example.

{ Chicago Tribune: Now that u WON.
an is acting as governor of Oregon
with such conspicuous success there is
no telling where this sort OF thing will
stops
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12

Itch cured III thirty minutes by
Wdollord's Sanitary Lotion. Never
fails Sold by Laack Drug company,
druggists.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
Ownership of Those Policies.

Chicago Tribune: Mr.. Bryan should
hasten to inform President Taft as to
the real ownership of those policies.
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
Church Services Tonight,

AT the Trinity Norwegian Lutheran
church tonight services will be held at
1880 and will be both in English and
Norwegian,
The Mankato free press., 1909-03-12
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IF YOU NRE n KIT IE OENoI n
About tho size of your shoes, it's some
satisfaction to know that many people
can wear shoes size smaller 10y
sprnlling Aliens Foot Ease into them.
Just the thing for dancing parties. pat
cnt leather shoes. and for breaking in
new shoes. When rubhcrS or overShocS
become necessary and your shoes pinch,
Alcn'S Foot Ease gives instant relief.
Sold everywhere, 25c. Sample FREE.
Address Allen S. OlmStCd lie Roy, n.
Y. Don't sccept any substitute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01

Copyright. 1909. by Frank q. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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illinois. Wisconsin and Minnesota put
together. This enormous territory ia :
rivers running north and south II la :
a stream as big as the Mississinpf. ana.
on the whole. il is fairly we'll wa,ered
PROF.. Parker tells me that the grain
area Is probably as large as Iowa, Min
nesota and the two Dakotas. and that
crops viii grow much farther north
mere lnan in the United States Wheat
sown In April natures six weeks sooner
than that sown in the like ATTITUDES a 1
home. II Is the same with Indian corn
which is ripe by the first of September.
or about two weeks earlier than in the
United States.
The soy bean does not grow at lis
best IN our country above the cotton
Deli. Here in Manchuria it thrives ia
such ATTITUDES as st. Paul and Winnipeg.
ana u is raised IN great quantities.
They are producing tobacco here a.
Tar north as Canada, and the EXPERTS OF
the American Tobacco Company saw tina
II 1t were properly grown the tobacco
would be as good as that of Virginia
II IS believed that the southern part o.
Manchuria will produce cotton. SO that
altogether this is potentially one of the
richest lands upon earth. That it is not
so today is largely due to bad govern
ment. bad transportation and ignorant
farming, all OF which evils will prob
ably be remedied in the not distant IN
ture. FRANK q p5.NTE,p
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American Educators to FIJI the Bread Basket of Asia

and. since then have been travelling over
Manchuria on horseback and in carts,
studying the country and its agricultural
possibilities. They have covered large
part OF southern Manchuria and have
gone through some of the Sparsely set
tied northern portions. which they tell
me promise to become one of the great
bread-baskets of Asia and possibly its
meat-basket as we'll.
Indeed, this new agricultural movement
is one of the most encouraging evidences
of the awakening of Asia, and that it
should be so far advanced in Manchura.
beyond the frontier of China. is remark
able. 1t is also to be noted that the move
ment has its origin in America. and that
it is being backed with the American
education of Chinese brains. His excel
lency Tang Shao vi. who is the prime
mover and head. is graduate of Yale
University. and M. T. LANG, who is the
chief counselor of the viceroy, and also
Tang Shao Yi's assistant, was educated
at the same school. The new agricultural
academy has as its director Mr.. G. 8.
Chan, young Chinese graduate of the
University of California. who speaks Eng
lish as Well as any reader of this news
paper. and the text books he uses are
based upon the work of our Agricultural
Department in Washington.
1t was through the kindness of NJ. T.
LANG, whom l had previously met at the
viceroys yamen. that Director Chan call
ed upon me at my inn and arranged for
ME to visit the farm and school MesSrS.
Parker and Tomhave went with us. and
it was in two old Russian droschkies
which were stranded here by the war
that We galloped through the wide streets
of Mukden and out into the country. On
our way we passed much farm produce
coming into the city. There We're grea.
loads of sorghum seed hauled in Chinese
carts by rough Manchurian ponies and
carts piled high with bags of SOY beans.
Now and then we passed grain shop
where millet and sorghum seed were set
out for sale in round basket bins the size
of a hosshead, and again went by men
aud animals bringing bean stalks and sor-
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MILITARY PRISONERS.
How They Are Guarded at Garrisons.
The Bull Ring.

From the Youths Companion
The hardest duty that a soldier is ever
called upon to perform in times of pea q
and the duty which he breads the most
Is the guarding OF military prisoners.
These are divided into two classes:
First.-Garrison prisoners. who haye re
ceived light sentences for minor breaches
OF discipline and will be returned TO duty
lii short time.
Second.-Military conyicts. who for at
tempted desertion or other serious mill
tary crimes have been dishonorabIy dis
charged by order of court-martial and
nave received sentences varying from a
few months to several years confinement
az hard labor. according to the gravity
of the offense. Into their ranks the
vicious element, or those who hold their
oatA or enlistment too lightly, eyentu-
ally find their way.
Every morning at fatigue call the pris-
oners are drawn up in q long line in
front OF the guardhouse and surrounded
by chain of sentries. The somber prison
sarb of the 'generals''-military convicts
We're formerly known as general prison
ers'--is marked with gigantic capital
s which render them conspicuous and
therefore make escape more difficult
Some are evil-looking fellows with long
and unsavory records. Doubtless many
have done time more than once In civil
prisons before evading the watchfulness
of the recruiting officer and finding their
way into the army. Others are rosy
checked lads who in all proba biIity have
Yet Ia see their twenty-first birthday and
in nine cases out of ten the charge
against them is desertion. Homesickness
and discipline has led them into the
rash act, The heavy penalties of which
they may not have fully realized.
In groups of twos and threes and guard
nd t.4r twins In1 rid
men perform most Of the disagreeab BILE
work and mental labor about the army
post. which is highly varied in character
and may consist of anything from sprink-
ling the flower beds on the officers lawns
10 digging bitches for monster sewer
pipes. Although they generally perform
their enforced tasks cheerfully, occa-
sionally particularly disagreeable piece
of work causes miniature strike and a
dozen men may "buck''-that is, refuse
to work
1t is then that the historic "bull ring
is resorted 10. a huge circle is marked
out Oh the ground and the Indicators
are required to walk around its circumfer-
ence in Indian file for eight hours day,
preserving absolute silence. A ten-minute
respite is allowed at noon for a bread and
water lunch. \ day or two of this treat
ment usually suffices to break the most
stubborn viii. If not there still remains
solitary confinement on the bread and
water diet, and a last resort the dun
geOn.
The prison duty is by al, odds the grim
NEST phase Of the soldiers life. He may
find himself standing guard over his best
friend. with orders TO shoot 10 kill should
his man attempt to escape.
I.awyer-Did you take tie prisoner
apart
Witness-Ycs. sir.
I-awyer-What happened then?
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are seldom fed. and they root about
through the mud and filth, eating all sorts
of vile stuff AS result, they are black
bristIed, big-stomached, small-hammed.
hungry-looking animals. They are much
like our razor-backs. but their flesh is
by no means good. They are very
prolific, having from twelve to fourteen
pigs at a litter: and by cross breeding
might be turned into excellent stock
As the result of long conversations with
Messrs. Parker and Tcmhavei and from
my own travels over Manchura, / am
forced to the conclusion that one of the
greatest and most valuable sections of
undevelaped farm lands of the world lies
right here. The whole of Manchuria has
d climate ana soil fitted for good cult
walton. and it will raise inconceivable
supplies OF wheat. corn and all sorts OF
hardy grains. The soil of the greater
part OF the province is just like the
praires Of the Mississippi valley. Much
OF il compares we'll with the best parts
of Tho wheat belt Of Canada. and not a
little in its fertility will surpass that of
the Red River valley. The country has
some mountainous regions; but there are
wide valleys and rolling plains. so rich
that they need To be only tickled with
the plow to laugh with the harve.t.
:: =
The southern half OF Manchur.a is now
fairly well settled. Above Mukden the
farms are widely scattered and there are
huge areas Of government land which the
authorities are thinking Of throwing open
10 immigrants. The two American agri-
cultural experts tell me that they have
travelled for days over land as rich as
that OF any part Of America which is
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year In the spring the grain Is sown
with the hand in the old burrows of the
year preceding. and the plow is then
run along the sides TO cover it. 1t is
trainped down by the feet OF the farm
ers. and is plowed again and again
the grain has to start from hard ground.
which its roots cannot easily penetrate.
Nevertheless, the crops are good. In
most places the grain is kept Weedcd.
and in not few wheat and millet are
hoed as we hoe cotton.
a curious feature of the farm
ing is that the rows are never plowed
straight. They wind their way over the
fields with all the regularity of the I'M
dulatiGnS Of 4 marcel wave. They are
perfectly parallel and beautifully wind
ing. but never straight Upon my ask
ing a Tarar farmer why this was he
replied that one could get more grain
from IL field of crooked rows than from
one of straight ones.
:: x
Few people have any idea of the eX-
tent OF these rich lands Of Manchuria.
not one-tifth o. it is under cultivation,
and that fifth is not half farmed. Man
churia, all told. covers more area than
ten states the size Of Indiana. 1t has
more ground than Germany and France,
and Won could put the United Kingdom
OF Great Britain and Ireland into one
half Of it, and there would be lots of
room around the edges. 1t is bigger
than all New England, Delaware. Vir-
GINA. Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
South Carolina combined 1t is more
than twice as big as Japan, and bigger
than the states of Ohio. Indiana. Iowa,
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These young men are now on the
around. They arrived some months ago.
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now practically waste. They say the
farming methods are so crude that if EN-
ployed in the United States they would
produce practically nothing. Nevertheless,
the Manchurian land yields from thirty 10
fifty bushels of sorghum seed per acre,
and twenty bushels of wheat. 1t produces
about fifty bushels Of corn. and with inn
proved seed and cultivation similar TO
ours it would probably yield as much
maize on the average as the corn belt OF
the United States.
All crops here are planted in rows.
just as we plant corn or potatoes. The
rows are about eighteen inches apart and
the land is thrown up in burrows each
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at all like the corn-fed bullocks OF Iowa.
The best markets today are those Of Rus
sian Siberia. Vladivostock takes consid-
cradle meat. and there is packing plant
there with ammonia-coolers and concrete
floors. About five thousand cattle are
consumed month at Hardin, and droyes
are sent overland to Blagovestchensk on
the Amoor. and also to other Russian
stations with large military forces.
x *
AS to the pork Of Manchuria. no for
eigner eats that if ne can possibly help
it. The hogs are the scavengers. They
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Of the Agricultural College at Mukden.

a live experimental farm of three hun
dred acres connected with it.
This agricultural station was founded
by Tang Snao vi the former Governor
of Mukden. who recently went to Amer
iua To thank Tor the return of the
Boxer Indemnity. / understand that u
part OF his mission was to look up edu-
cational talent for his agricultural acad-
envy. and that he will bring dozen or
- young Americans back with him. He
has already induced two of our well
known agricultural experts to come mere.
These arc Mr.. l.. &. Parker and Mr. ".
il. Tomhave, who have both been con
nccted with the University or Mime
sofa. Both have performed good eI-
perimeutai farm work in the United
States. Pros. Parker has written several
books. aud has also done excellent wcrl:
for the government at Washington.
These young men are now on the
around. They arrived some months ago.
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MCKDEN. Manchuria. 1909.
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THIN two miles
of this city, sur
rounded by lands
as rich as the Red
River valley, amid
farming methods
as old as those of
the delta of Egypt,
"a modern agricul-
tural academy has
been started by
I Il q government
officials of this
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KTUKDEN'S New Agricul-
Nl tural College and It's
One Hundred and Fifty Tar
tar Students-A Talk With
the Chinese Director on the
Country and Its Possibilities
What Two American Agri-
cultural Experts Saw-Man-
churian Farming and How 1t
Is Done-The Vast Wheat
and Corn Lands-How the
Government Will Improve
the Stock-Live Information
About a Little Known Agri-
cultural Empire.
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shum cane into the city for fuel AS W..
did 50 Prof. Parker remarked:
That IS one of the curses OF Manciu-
rian farming. These people skin the land
Of its natural fertilizers. Every Germ
stalk, every beanvine and every weed
is saved for fuel Even the stubble OF the
sorghum is pulled up by the roots By the
poor people. who are allowed 10 so over
the fields afaer the crop is harvested.
They pull every stalk. leaving Mother
Earth naked and the land as bare as your
hand. This has been done from genera
ton Ia Seneration. and nc.withsta ntiia..
all this the soil is still rich
We drove aboE; mile from the hotel
before We reached the city wall. This is
thirty feet high. "a has great gate on
the side OF the town near which the farm
Hes. We wound our way out through
This and then Went perhaps two miles
further. passing many low tiled houses.
until We reached the mud wall which
incloSeS the suburbs. We were soon in
the country aud III the midst of such
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The Muklen authorities are attempt
ing the breeding of fine stock. They
nave several Ayrshire and Shorthorn
cows and bulls. and are crossing them
with the native cattle. They Will try 10
breed better horses. and to improve the
native hog.
Mr.. Parker tells me that tire chief cat
tie in this part of the world now come
from Mongolia. The natives use the
wild prairie sandy uplan as grazing
farther down. They breed their cattle in
central places where the bulls are kept,
and when they have a goodly flock drive
them from place to place to find pasture.
During this time their homes are round
tents OF hide which they can set up or
take down as they please. When the
cattle are ready for the market they
drive them to the Russian or Mancnurlan
cities for sale.
At the present time there is no great
demand for meat in this part of the
world. The Chinese live upon grain. vege-
tables and fish, with bit of native pork
now and then. The Buddhsts do not eat
meat at all. and the demand is con-
fined to the Mohammedan Chinese, to the
into the country. The price for six
year-old steer is only SO in gold.
The cattle are SO poorly kept that II
takes from six to eight years TO fit steer
for the market instead of three years as III
home. Mr. Parker says that he ami
mails are much like our old Texas long
horns. They have large but not heavy
frames. and on that account they would
form an ideal cattle to cross with cur
HereforCis. He SAYS their meat is eX-
ceilent resembling the compact flesh of
the arassfed cattle of Montana but not
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packWOodS OF emma. lHey nave dppro-
rliated a hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year for its support and have
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the educated MancHuS WItlsDe naI1On OF
well trained soldiers.
Director Chan tells me that the boys
are greatly interested in their work. They
enter the college for five years having
preparatory course of two years, after
which comes three-year course in the
academy proper They are not charged
for tuition or board. and the matter of
entrance is largely by the favor of the
officials. Their education is patterned
after the short-course schools of America
with the idea that the institution Will
soon be advanced to the grade of FIRST
class agricultural college. in which in
struction will be given by American pro-
feSsorS.
Leaving the school. we took stroll over
the farm. This comprises about $40 acres
OF as good soil as any in southern Ohio.
It has upon it mulberry plantations to raise
leaves for the silk worms of depart
niant to pc started next year The trees
are growing WELL and, as wild SILK IS
already produced in southern Manchuria,
Director Chan thinks that an industry
furnishing good silk may be founded. In
another part of the farm | was shown
orchards of native fruit trees, together
with several hundreds of apples. pears.
peaches and other trees from the United
States. There were wainuts from Call
forna and gTapevines from a nursery on
Long Island sound. All seemed to thrive.
The farm is experimenting on wheat,
toba eco aud cotton. as We'll as on othef
vegeta bles and grains. 1t is raising sugar
beets which are IS per cent sugar. This
is 3 or per cent more than Germany
CROP and il is thought that the Man
churian market may be eventually sup
piled by the homegrown material The
difficulty is that the people prefer cane
sugar and that nnrefned
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dinate civic activities throughout tho
country" and to solve "our fundamen.
tai political problems"
The president of the American Civic
Alliance is A. Lafayette Savay. who is
written down in Who's Who in New
York" as Count, though he denies II
stoutly, saying that the misapprehen
sion arose because some women who
wished to make social capital out Of
him introduced him thus
1t is understood that at the con-
gress, which is the first national as
sembly called by the American Civic
Alliance, Mr.. Lafayette Savay will re-
sign the presidency an take up
again his full practice of law, which
has not had all of his attention since
he began working up the Civic ALI
ance nearly year ago.