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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
LEARN HOW TO KEEP WELL

DIR. j. N. Mccormack will deliver a
lecture at the Presbyterian church this
evening that merits a large audience.
DIR. Mccormack is an accepted author
ity in his profession, and comes to
Mankato under the auspices of the
greatest professional organization in
the world.
His address will not be technical,
but eminently practical. 1t will more
largely concern hygiene than medicine,
and will give those simple rules of
health which, if observed, will keep
you well, rather than to prescribe
cures for present temporary diseases.
He will treat largely of such matters
as pure air and plenty of it, cleanliness
in and around dwellings and cities, of
ventilation and of those every day
matters which enter into the lives of
everyone. 1t will, therefore, be Of
value to all, and is a part of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
FLAT JEWELLERS ORGANIZE.
Chicago Tenants to Enforce Law En-
acted For Them.

Chicago, Nov. S.-A day of reckoning
is at hand for Chicago landlords, who
have exacted tribute these many years
from meek and submissive Chicago
fiat jewellers. No longer is the naughty
real estate agent to put the ban, un-
questioned, on dogs, cats and babies
Even the janitor is to be boarded in
his basement den and requested polite
ly, but firmly to turn on the heat
before the calendar gives notice that
fall is half over.
A little band of devoted tenants met
yesterday in the offices of Attorney
R. r. Longnecker and launched Of
fcially the Tenants Protective League
of Chicago, designed, in the words of
its founders, ''to promote the mutual
interest of tenants of dwelling houses
and apartment buildings in the city of
Chicago
A formal application for a charter
was drawn up and it will be forwarded
to Springfield today. One of the prin-
cipal objects of the league is to en-
force the recently enacted law forbid
ding landlords to refuse to rent to
families with children.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
SHAKE SHACKLES OF TRUSTS

The Redwing Republican would have
the state shake off the shackles of the
trusts. Wherever the people of any
state have resolutely taken action in
their own behalf they have accom-
plished wonders. The south shames
us. Texas has almost emancipated
herself from trust control, Missouri
has obtained relief. No trust can do
business within a state contrary to that
states laws. In Minnesota we have
state officials whose duties are largely
perfunctory. We spend legislative ses-
sions framing impossibly severe and I'M
just legislation against railroads, and
let the other monopolies go free. 1t
is time for Minnesota to come to the
aid of her citizens. Let this be the
issue of new campaign and a new
dispensation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
MANKATO FREE PRESS

Lord Byron" One of these converse
tions is to this effect:
'Who can but regret" said Byron,
"that he has been born 200 or 300
years too soon. Here is a letter from
a savant of Bologna who claims to
have discovered the secret of guiding
balloons by means of rudder, and
who assures me that he is ready to
disclose this secret to the government
imagine that we are soon to make
journeys through the air instead Of
sea voyages, at least to find way to
go to the moon despite the lack of
atmosphere that Fountanelle has dis
covered there. There is not as much
madness in this idea as one may sup
pose. The sciences are now in their
infancy"
Medwin left Pisa in March, 1922.
1t was near the close of that year
that Byron published the latter parts
OF his "Don JUAN" in which the poet
shows that he had been inspired by
the discovery of the Bologna savant
See the second stanza of the tenth
canto:
Man fell with apples, and with ap-
Piles rose.
If this be true; for we must deem
the mode
In which Sir Isaac Newton could dis
close
Through the then unpaved stars the
turnpike road,
A thing to counterbalance human
woes;
For ever since immortal man hath
g1ow'd
With all kinds of mechanics and full
Steam engines will conduct him to
the moon"
Byron's "Don Juan" was translated
into French by Amedee Pichot in 1925,
but daring as was that Translator he
did not venture to put don Juan"
into rhyme, and today the foregoing
stanza, done in French prose, is sup
posed to be a prediction of aviation
by motor, though Byron's suggestion
goes no further than steam.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
1896, which is still discussed as high
water mark in the conventions of fruit
growers and dealers.
COURSE IN BUSINESS LAW.
DR.. ]. S.. Young Former Mankatonian
Is to Have Change of the Work.

Is to Have Change of the Work.
Sundays issue of The st. Paul Pho
neer Press has this to say of a former
member of the MankatO normal facul-
ty:
Professor j. S. Young, Phi. d., of the
University of Minnesota, will outline
the features of course in business
law that is to be given by him, under
the auspices of the Institute of Arts
and Sciences, at a meeting Thursday
evening in room 224 Endicott arcade.
Mr.. Young, who has the cooperation
of the Business league and the inter-
ests it represents, plans to give the
business men of st. Paul, especially
the younger ones, and the clerks under
their supervision, knowledge of such
legal principles as will be of practical
assistance to them. All the business
law subjects required for the examina-
ton for certified public accountants
will also be considered.
The class is to continue eighteen
weeks during the winter The object
of Thursday nights meeting is to as
certain just how many people are in
terested in the formation of the class,
and if a sufficient number are secured
| Thursday night the work will proceed
at once.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
MAKES A FRANK CONFESSION

Captain William Mitchell Lewis of
Racine is a candidate for governor of
Wisconsin. He is seeking the republi-
can nomination. The captain has made
public his desire and asks the people
to assist him in reaching the goal of
his ambition. The captain is to be
admired for his frankness. He does
not beat about the bush, but gets to
the brass tacks Immediately. He de-
clares that no one has urged him to
become a candidate for the position,
and adds that he is in the field purely
of his own volition. mo delegations
of admiring friends have called upon
me and urgently solicited me to permit
my name to 60 before the people, nor
have l been picked out nor chosen
upon or even subjected by any person,
or combination of persons, who care
more for their interests than they do
for the state. My candidacy is in no
sense case of the office seeking the
man, but the deliberate seeking of the
office by the man." The captain evil
IDENTIFY believes that a flank confession
is good for the soul. He certainly is
honest and above board. He no doubt
would make the state of Wisconsin a
most creditable and capable governor.
Our hat is off to the doughty cap
tain who is not Gin the hands of his
friends"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
DEFENDING THE REPORTER

In the Century Magazine, which, I'M
der its guidance, has profited by in
creasing study and use of the methods
of journalism, Richard Watson Glider
has written or approved some harsh
words about reporters.
seven in decent society one who de-
clines to yield to their demands is put
upon the defensive" runs the article
"The arts of this modern inquisition''
are said to range 'from deception down
to blackmail.' A League for the Sup
preston of Abuses of the Press" is
called for 1t is said that the reporter
is driven to invent where he cannot
quote.
The New York World takes up the
cudgels in behalf of the reporter.
A conspicuous witness for the de-
Tense can be cited in Gross Admiral
turning from the Hudson Fulton cele-
bration he has just confessed in Ber-
lin that he felt shy about New York
reporters at first, but
mot one got me wrong, not once
was l misrepresented. Often 1 men,
toned things in confidence, and in no
instance was that confidence betrayed.
The reporters whom L met in the
United States treated me with delicacy
and afforded me feeling or sense OF
fair play, which 1 admire and appre-
ciate."
Presidents of the United States, cab
met officers, senator's, representatives,
governors and financiers habitually
talk confdentially to reporters upon
the gravest matters of state and bust
ness, without risk of betrayal. Eu-
ropean statesmen, on the contrary, as
De Blowitz testifes in his memoirs
have freely resorted to the diplomatic
denial' of their own indiscreet words
published in cases where an American
correspondent would have guarded
them.
The more strange, then, that it is
the American editor who thinks the
sins of reporters are growing worse, y
and the German admiral who testifes
to American reporters fairness, deli
cacy and reliability. 2
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
REQUEST OLD AGE PENSIONS.
Bill in Behalf of Federal Employees to
Be Drafted

Toronto, Nov S-A draft of bill
providing for old age pensions in the
federal service was submitted by Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers to the American
Federation of Labor, which convened
in twenty ninth international session
here today. The bill was written by
Congressman William B. Wilson, of
Pennsylvania, democrat, at the re-
quest of the executive committee of
the federation, and will be introduced
by him when congress meets next
month.
For the first time minister was
seated as fraternal delegate to the
federation convention. He is the Rev.
Charles Stelzle, and represents an or
ganization of thirty-three Protestant
denominations.
1t is expected that the present con-
vention will organize a railroad de-
partment, which will embrace the
switchmen, conductors and other rail-
road employees, numbering more than
100000 employees not now affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor.
The old age pension bill is attract
ing much attention among the dele
gates today. The author of the meas
ure, Congressman Wilson, is native of
Scotland, who came to America in
1870, and in the spring of the follow
ing year began working in the coal
mines. Two years later he became a
half member of the Mine Workers
Union, and from early manhood he has
taken an active part in trades union
affairs From 1900 until 1907, when
he entered congress, he was the secre-
tary treasurer of the United Mine
Workers of America. Congressman Will
son is the father of ten children.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
BOOKS RECOMMENDED As
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR BOYS

Adams, "Harper's Electricity Book
for Boys"
Adams, "Harper's Outdoor Book for
Boys"
Hall, "Boy Craftsman"
Clemens, "Tom Sawyer"
Dana, "Two Years Before the Mast
Dickens, David Copperfeld.'
Franklin, Autobiography"
Hale, "Man Without a Country"
Moffatt, Careers of Danger and
Daring"
Riis, Making of An American"
Roosevelt, Ranch Life"
Scott, "Ivanhoe."
Smith, Romance of an Old Fash
toned Gentleman"
Stevenson, Kidnapped"
Stevenson, Treasure Island"
Washington, "Up From Slavery"
Dodge, CLANS Brinker"
Lang, "True Story Book"
Bunyan, "Pilgrim's Progress" by
Rhead.
Anderson, Fairy Tales"
Arabian Knights Entertainments; ed
by Andrew Lang.
Brooks, "Story of the HAD"
Brooks, "Story of the Odyssey"
Harris, ''Uncle Remus Stories"
Hawthorne, "Tanglewood Tales"
Mallory, Boys King Arthur" ed. by
Lang.
Ball, "Starland"
Seton, Olives of the Hunted"
Seton, 'Wild Animals 1 Have
Burt, Poems Every Child Should
Know"
Brooks, Century Book of the Amer
lean Revolution"
Brooks, Century Book of the Amer
lean Colonies"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
THE FOOTBALL MURDER CROP

The Redwing Republican has broken
the bounds and gives expression to a
sharp criticism of the rough and tum-
BILE game, football: ''The seasons
football fatalities promise to be unus-
ually numerous. Last Saturdays games
produced four immediate deaths, with
as many more injuries from which
death is expected to result in the more
important games. From the minor
games all over the country there will
result more than double the number
of deaths, but these will not get be-
yond the local press. Before the foot
ball season is over the fatal accidents
will be numbered by scores.
''The word accident is used only in
the sense that nobody knows in adj
vance which player is to be killed.
In every other sense, all these deaths
are cases of homicide 1t is impos-
sible to play the game of football UNI
der the present rules without many
injuries at every game, or without a
certain number of injuries during the
season that will produce death. Wher-
ever the game as at present played is
authorized or permitted, those who
sanction it are accessories before the
fact to open murder. That is the
truth about it.
ut makes man sick to hear college
authorities and others mouth about
this game teaching boys to be "man-
ly." Among manly qualities, one of
the first is to tell the truth; and the
people who say this thing and telling
a falsehood and they know it. They
are refusing to distinguish between
manliness and brutality. The smuggling,
crushing, murderous game known as
football is the former. 1t has no de-
cent relation to any open, honorable
manly sport in which young men
match skill against skill; instead of
brute force against brute force, worse
than the worst days of the prize ring.
''The truth about football as now
played is very simple. 1t is money
making proposition; that is, the brutal
feature of it is. The athletics of the
universities have become enormously
expensive. To support them, money
must be made. The public will go in
great numbers to games where brutal
ity is feature and life is endangered.
That is true all the world over. HUI
man nature is a little more refined
specifically, but at bottom it is the
same as in the gladatorial days of
Rome. The brutality is retained to
draw the public, and the public pays
the money to keep things going. How
long will decent public sentiment per-
nit these murders under the title of
sport" to continue?"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
WILL DO SOME MAT WORK.
Frank Gotch to Meet Italian Champ
in Chicago Tomorrow.

Chicago, Nov. S.-Frank Gotch, cham
pion catch-as- catch can wrestler, is
signed to meet Giovanni Raisevich, the
Italian champion, at the Chicago Col
iseum tomorrow night. Gotch is re-
ported to be in first class condition,
and is confident of an easy victory.
He is reported in a dispatch from Chi
cago as saying. 4t
81 pitched hay all summer, and work
ed in the fields along with my hired
men. You know, I have 1900 acres
of good farming land out near Hum
boldt, and it takes work.
81 wasn't questioning my physical
condition any either Don't think that.
could see where a lot of these for
eigners were coming over anxious to
get on match with me. The best of
them are here. I'll take on Raicevich
and trim him. and then I'll send Bbyc-
zko back with the losing end, so that
Italy and Poland will have two near
champions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
CREDIT TO THE DOCTORS

The work of the organized physicians
OF the country, as expressed by DIR.
Mccormack in his lecture here Wednes
day evening, is one which shows a
noble unselfishness that does high
credit to the medical profession, says
The Chillicothe Constitution.
The conscientious doctor in this dav
and age of the world takes upon him
self not only the business of healing
the sick, but the higher duty of pre-
serving public health and, so far as
possible, eliminating that very agency
that makes his profession prosperous.
The business of the physician has
reached a higher level than that of
merely doctoring symptoms, alternating
pain, either dragging the sick back
from the gates of death or making his
journey thereto as pleasant as possible,
in the knowledge that if the patient
RECEIVERS he will probably make the
same mistake and have the same dis
ease, or that if he does not recover
others will follow in mis- footsteps be-
cause of the same violation of the laws
of health.
The studious, honest physician has
progressed beyond this stage. He is
not only a healer, but an educator.
He looks over and beyond the dollar
and exercises the part of humani-
tartan and takes to himself tine burden
of being to certain extent his broth
er's keeper.
1t is much better that disease should
be prevented than that it should be
cured. 1t is much more beneficial
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
JOB ONLY HALF FINISHED
Tale of Lady Who Was to Have Her
Face Beautifed.

New York, Nov. 6.-Like the hero
inc in last years novel who found her.
self only half rejuvenated when her
beauty doctor suddenly died, Mrs.
Ella Houghton, wealthy widow liv-
ing at the Hotel Ansonia, appeared in
the West side court before Magistrate
Krotel as complainant today against
her face beautifer who refused to fin
ish the job.
Mrs. Houghton was two aced-on
one side was, the pink of youth on
a plump, rosy cheek; on the other
side the sallowness of forty on flesh
less, loose skin. Mrs. Houghton want
ed both cheeks evened up.
Mrs. Ella Harris of California, where
Wizard Burbank performs wonders, eff
fected the astonishing change in Mrs
Houghton's physognomy. She baked
in the, middle because her Subject
refused to exhibit herself to the neigh
bors and society friends in the hotel
as a living demonstration" of the
success of her art in banishing crows
feet and obstrusive wrinkles. She want
ed Mrs. Houghton to live up to her
agreement and make customers for her
by making a living exhibition of her.
self
I 81 agreed to make an exhibition of
myself for her sake when the job was
Finished explained Mrs. Houghton in
dignantly. ''Tnat was more than a
woman of my standing could afford to
do, but felt 1 ought to be grateful
when the job was finished"
The border line of improvement ran
straight down the middle of Mrs.
HOughton's forehead, dividing the nose,
mouth and chin in two. The contrast
was startling Mrs. Harris declared
that Mrs. Houghton contracted to ex-
hibit herself when the face was half
done, SO that her friends could see the
difference.
"What a sight I will be for the
horse show next week if Mrs. Harris
isn't compelled to finish the other half
of my face,'' exclaimed Mrs. Hough-
ton tonight as she hid her face in her
hands in horror.
Mrs. Harris said that Mrs. Hough-
ton was particularly concerned about
her face at this time because of her
matrimonial prospects. She intimated
that the widow was being sought after
by millionaire. Mrs. Houghton dep
recated such talk.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
BYRON PREDICTED THE AIRSHIP

Those who have read the fiction of
Edgar Allan Poe, says the Indiana
polls News, will recall his wonderful
story of the balloon with a propelling
rudder, which, crossing the Atlantic
from Europe in three days, landed on
the coast of South Carolina. This story
was published in 1898, preceding the
flight of Bleriot from Calais to Dover
more than seventy years. And now
it is remarked that as early as 1922,
sixteen years before Poe, Byron fore
told the motor.
1t was in 1922 that Byron lived at
Pisa, Italy, where he had rented for
year the Lanfranchie palace, and it
was there that he entertained Capt.
Medwin, who, on his return to Lon
don, published his Conversations with
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
WILL NOT JOIN WITH G. O. P.
Prohibitionists Say That County OPP
ton Will Not Tempt Them.

Pr0nlDltlOnlStS Say That County Up
ton Will Not Tempt Them.
st. Paul, Nov. S.-W. G. Calderwood
state secretary of the prohibition party,
denies the report that the prohibition
lists will join with the republicans if
they insert county option plank in
their platform.
"When any party carries a plank in
its platform demanding state or ma
tional prohibition of the manufacture
and sale of liquor, then the prohibition
party will endorse its platform and
candidate, but not until then. AS to
the idea of our party fusing with the
republicans on the county option issue
think l know the party sentiment
well enough to say that it is impos-
sible. We would not indorse any
party until it stood for state prohibit
ton"
Regarding the reported ill-feeling be-
tween the prohibitionists and the anti
saloon league he said: "There is no
fight for our aims are exactly the
same"
A prominent worker with the state
anti saloon league had stated that if
the republican party would put a
plank in it's platform favoring county
option the prohibitionists would en-
dorse the party.
A convention of about 1000 delegates
favoring county option will be called
in the Twin City in February Delega-
tions will be sent from all parts of the
state, and those interested are making
a special effort to secure the presence
of delegates to the republican conven-
ton. They aim to secure a majority
for county option and should this plan
fall through they promise to bolt the
convention.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
URGE CHURCH UNITY
BISHOP S. D. EDSALL is INTER
ESTED IN THE MOVEMENT.
Believes That There Should Be More
Harmonious Relationship Between
the Denominations; What He Pro-
poses in Order That the Work for
Christianity Can Be Carried On in
Spirit of Brotherly Love.

Bishop S. d. Edsall' of the Episcopal
church for the diocese of Minnesota
welcomes warmly the suggestion made
before the New England missionary
conference in Hartford, Conn.,, by Bish-
OPP Hall of Vermont, in which call
was made for a union of the Episcopal
and the Congregational churches in
America to preserve what religion still
exists and to restore the wavering
faith of church goers in the United
neapolis Tribune Bishop Edsall said:
Interested in Church Unity.
81 am very deeply interested in the
cause of church unity and am anxious
to do everything in my power to fur
Their the unity of orthodox churches as
a necessary means to influence, in prop
or measure, the life of our country. In
my opinion this unity will have to be
reached gradually and after brotherly
conference and an endeavor to under
stand each others position.
''The path of unity should be along
lines of comprehension rather than com
promise. Some years ago the Episcopal
churches declared their readiness to con-
fer on the matter with all Christian
bodies that accept the holy scriptures
as the ultimate doctrine; that would
accept the Apostles creed as the bap-
tismal symboy and the Nicene creed
as sufficient statement of Christian
doctrine; that would administer the
true sacraments of baptism and the
Lords supper with the unfailing use
of Christ's words of institution; that
would accept the historic episcopate.
Position of Orthodox Churches.
"All of the orthodox churches are
practically agreed on the first three of
these points. The only barrier has been
the last. The Anglican communion, in
common with other branches of the
church, believes in a ministry of three
orders, of which the highest order, the
bishops or apostles, has had the sole
power of ordination. The Presbyterians
and several other churches have their
succession in the ministry derived
through the second order of the minis
try. This is the main point of differ
ence between the Episcopals and those
not Episcopal in their polity.
eff those orthodox churches which
do not believe bishops to be necessary
would consent to accept Episcopal or
dnation from us for the sake of unity,
and this without any admission on
their part that bishops were necessary,
| think we on our part should be will
ling to extend Episcopal ordination to
all churches which would accept it.
This would not mean their absorption
into the Episcopal church but they
could 60 on and do their own work in
their own way. Practically from that
time on, however, the question of Or
ders of the ministry would cease to be
a bone of contention between them
and u.s."