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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-08
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily
Young men and boys who are
staying in Mankato, either students
or those who are employed here,
whose homes are not in this city,
were not overlooked on Thanksgiv-
ing. The Y. M. C. A. took care of
day and evening they were enter
tanned as only the interested work
ers of the Y. NJ. G.. A. can entertain,
and from the pleasing appearances
of the faces of these young men,
one would think that they were en-
joying vacation at home and act
ually sitting at the fireside, or at a
table from which arose the steam Of
a huge turkey.
Morning Road Race.
In the morning, road race was
INDUCED in by the members of the
gymnasium club The race extend
ed from the Y. M. c. A. to Sibley
park and return. w. A. Sanborn
was the first to cross the line, max
ing the distance in twenty-five min
utes; George Pass, Jr., second; A.
C.. Turner, third; Ray Semple,
fourth; Eugene Overhaul, fifth; and
Davis, sixth. Sanborn is gaining
local fame as a long
distance runner. This is the Sec
ond race he has won, getting the
victory of the first one in the
country road race last summer
In the evening bounteous tur-
key supper was served by the la
dies auxiliary of the Y. Nj. C.. A.
boys and young men en-.
joyed all the comforts of a home
dinner, with those foods that so
thoroughly and pleasantly satisfy the
appetite. During the course of the
meal, Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilson
Dodge treated the young men 70 a
few excellent musical numbers. Mr.
Dodge rendered the vocal part,
while Mrs. Dodge presided at the
piano.
Songs BY Lester Davies.
Immediately after the meal, Les.
-er Davies sang a few vocal selec.
lions, accompanied on the piano by
Mrs. H. A. Patterson. He also was
several times. At the close
Of the music, Mrs. Patterson was
given three rousing cheers by the
men present, and she in turn, re-
,ponded with three cheers for the
M. c. A. and the young men
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-08
From Saturdays Daily.

With a view to making the highway
that stretches it's way between Good
Thunder and Mankato a state road,
an enthusiastic meeting of business
men of Good Thunder and the farm
ers along the road, was held at the
Eberhart school house, three and
half miles this side of Good Thunder,
last night. Upward of seventy-five
men were present, and the good roads
spirit was made manifest in the
hearty response that was forth COM
ing to the calls for cash subscriptions
and donations OF gravel and the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-08

Thirteen acres of slough, two and
a half miles northeast of Eagle
Lake, were on fire between the
hours of $50 and nine o'clock Sun
day forenoon and the reflection of
the blaze on the sky caused many
people in this city to believe that
the village was being destroyed The
slough borders on the lake and some
wag started the story that Eagle
Lake was burning up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
THE AMERICAN HABIT.

The vote selling industry at Dan
vile and in Adams county, Ohio, APP
pears to have branches in New Jer-
sey and other states, according to re-
cent dispatches, and the matter is
attracting national attention. Most
Of the newspapers in the country
have sprung a few jokes on the sub
ject, and this fact leads rather pom
derous exchange to print a long and
dignified editorial rebuking this un-
seemly levity.
The ponderous exchange points
out that the vote selling fad is a
menace to our institutions and bull
warks, and we should quit fooling
and view with alarm.
The editor who writes that way
must be a recent importation from
Great Britain. Anybody who has lived
in this country any length of time
knows that Americans would joke If
hostile fleets were dropping shells into
their cities. 1t is one Of the happiest
of our national characteristics that we
see the humorous side of everything
that comes along. This does not mean
that we, the people, are frivolous or
foolish; it rather means that we are
wise as serpents, born optimists.
Vote selling is an abominable crime,
and the people realize that it is fraught
with peri1s, but nothing good will be
accomplished by wringing of hands
and crashing Of teeth The grand
jurieS are looking into the business,
and the industry will be discouraged,
and the people smile serenely and go
about their work.
The newspaper jokes on the subject
do more good than labored editorials
They serve to keep the abuse in the
public mind, and the majority of the
jokes are tinged with sarcasm which
brings the vote sellers into the light
as contemplate citizens.
The man who objects to the news
paper jest on any subject is out of
his place in an editorial chair. He
should be dealing in embalming fluid.
-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
NYHAWKER JOTS

| 1t is pointed out by the Howard Cour-
ant that while "lots Of folk are sure
| they are right, they fail to go ahead
"Quite frequently says Verd Napier,
"the girl who sweeps down the aisle
at the wedding will shy at a broom
later on
Colonel Bill Sapp's paper, the Galena
Times. says: Ar ugh man has an adj
vantage over an ugly woman: he uoesn
| attract as much attention.
Because Kansas has averaged only
one murder day for a week or two,
to ask whittier we are drifting.
Noting that a girl pastor of Maine
church who is soon to be wed says she
will continue to preach even after
marriag the Hill City Revielle says:
This is not unique; most OF them do
The Atchison Globe suggests that the
Lancaster Literary society debate this
question: IF black is becoming for a
woman, is she entitled to wear it when
she has lost her husband by divorce?'
They're telling an awful story about
a Neodesha business firm, according to
the Cherryvale Journal: This is it,:
81 thought surely you'd sell that lot
it highly enough" II praised it too
heard me and wagged it's tall.
AS the Leavenworth Times put it:
Since the Santa Fe dined the Kansas
editors at Topeka, the papers have
railway system. The Kansas editors
were not bribed. The menu simply gave
them strength to write the splendid
tributes that had been in their minds.
Those who are worrying over coal
and gas bills should take cheer" says
the Lawrence World, Gin the fact that
in co days more the baseball season will
open.' And the money that is now go
ing for coal and gas bills can be paid
out for admissions to the ball park. But
maybe the Lawrence World wasn't
figuring it out that way.
My friend. I notice you are doing a
whole lot of talking about what man
ought to do because he is a church
member, writes Deacon Walker in his
Osborne Farmer. You are finding all
sorts of things the matter with him.
Likely some of your remarks are in or
der but you evidently fail to recall an
old adage that runs to the effect that
people in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones. Just because a church mem
Der strays from the straight and mar
row path does not give you license
TO be crooked. If a church member
cheats his neighbor and tanks up on
red liquor, that is no excuse for your
doing the same thing. If church
member happens to stick his fingers
into a buzz saw you would be chump
to do the same thing 1t is just as es-
sential that, you who are out Of the
fold, follow the straight and narrow
path, as it is for the most violent
church member in town. Whether
YOU are a church member or not isn't
going to cut much figure with old ST.
Peter when he comes to balancing
your ledgers and issuing your passport
through the pearly gates. Being a
church member won't put any credits
on a mans accounts unless he has the
right kind of one. If you are banking
on riding into heaven on the sins of
your neighbor it is time for you to
change cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
RATuROAD LEGISLATION

One of the favorite retortS to pro-
tests that have been made in Kansas
and other states in this section of the
country to legislation of the purely
anti-railroad type has been in words
to this effect: We'll, they do this and
more to the railroads in Texas and they
get away with it, That is true. The
many and varied railroad laws of Tex
as do more than provide for a reason
able public regulation of railroads.
They seek to direct the actual opera
ton of the railroads, and in so many
particulars. that the railroads are ha-
raised in the conduct of their business
to such an extent that they have no
time or means to use in the necessary
development of their propertieR and
the corresponding development of
the state.
This fact was given voice to the 9TH
er day by no less a parsonage t~an
Governor Colquitt of Texas. And he
ought to know whereof he speaks.
Before being elevated to the COVER
norship of that great state. he served
for many years on its railroad COM
mission. In that capacity he was a
stick1er for the enforcement of the
laws against the railroads as they had
been written. And because of this
very fact, additional strength is given
to his recent assertion that Texas
needs no more anti-railroad 1egisla-
ton. Indeed, Governor Colquitt, goes
so far as to insist that much of the
legislation of his sort which is al
ready on the statute books of Texas
might well be repealed. He has dis
covered that laws which hamper the
operation of railroads work untold in
jury to Texas in that they make the
railroads hesitate about developing
their properties. This, in turn, works
against the development and progress
of the commonwealth. For it's an in
disputable fact that the prosperity
and development of railroads is link
ed in the same chain with the pros
perity and development of the terri
tory in which the roads are operated.
There cannot we'll be one these days
without the other
Nor is the situation in Texas different
in any material respects from what it
is in other states in the western and
southwestern sections of the nation.
including Kansas. In all of them
there are many laws affecting rail-
roads, not of the reasonably regula-
tory sort, but of the kind which inter-
fere with the actual operation and
management of the roads, along the
lines that the experience of many
years has taught the railroad operators
to be best. And disturbing factor
is to be found in the fact that one
state demands that the large railroad
systems, which traverse many states,
do the same things in way that is
opposite to the requirements in an
other state that is just as likely as
not to be contiguous. Few people
there are who will honestly say that
this is proper treatment for the rail-
roads. and it is to the credit of the
good sense of the people generally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the Chicago News.

LFrom the Chicago News
An epicure is a professor of gas
tronomy.
Lots of women seem to think it's up
to them to worry.
A mans idea of a smart man is one
who never gets caught.
Young man, don't marry a grass
widow and hope to live in clover.
Not all monumental prevaricators
do business in the marble yards.
Experience is said to be the best
teacher-yet Solomon had 700 wives.
Money keeps lot of people out of
mischief by keeping them busy earn
ing.
Many good opportunities grow
where you wouldn't think of looking
for them.
You can't fool ali of the people all
the time, because they are as wise as
you are.
In the game of life ii isn't so much
the cards you hold as the. way you
play them that counts
A man seldom tells another how
much money he makes He either
raises or lowers the actual figures.
Occasionally a man who marries in
haste spends his leisure in cultivating
the ACQUAINTANCE of a divorce lawyer.
It used to be said that the only good
Indians were dead ones. The same
might be said of husbands and other
excellent people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchfson Globe.1 :
A little man fails under the test OF
responsibility.
Some persons talk about taking a
bath as If it were an went.
When a man tries to drown his trou-
bles in a goblet he only irrigates them,
Physicians nearly always act surpris-
ed when they find their patients i'm
proved.
Some OF the varieties of people IT
takes to make the world hardly seem
to do their share.
Father rarely has time for fads, be-
ing so busy paying for those his chill
dren cultivate.
she looks like the last run of shad."
we heard a girl remark the other day
about another girl.
Occasionally one meets a man SO con-
siderate he blames his bIunders on Fate
instead of his friends.
While enthusiasm is contagious to a
degree, don't waste all yours trying
to inoculate the whole town.
An old-fashioned Industrious woman's
idea OF shiftlessness is to do the wash
ing on any day but Monday.
An Atchison man, who owed for
hat three months, says it never felt
comfortable until after he had paid for
it. f'-N
Count MCGOWAN bought seats to the
theater this morning. 1--WE got two in,
the dressing circle" he told a friend.
From scraps of conversation, we gath
er that are would lag more than
1t does if everyone had perfect health.
A good many men could boast of
having governess in the family if
they were more willing to admit they
are henpecked.
Although there are numerous mys-
terious disappearance in this wide
world. no community ever seems able
to lose it's bores.
This is about the time of the year
when the old fellows get together and
begin arguing as to which one saw the
first bluebird.
An Atcfiison woman says most men,
who have been married twice, treat
their second wives heap better than
they did their first ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
1t is better to be bare-faced than
two-faced.
A girl never screams until after the
kissing is all over.
Lend and the world laughs with you,
borrow and you borrow a loan.
Many a mans virtues wouldn't be
suspected if he didn't tell us about
them.
Most men would like to be rich
enough to feel that they coul afford to
marry for love.
ANY suburbanite will tell you that
it is almost as hard to keep a cook as
it is to keep a wife.
Nell-Don't you think Miss Antique
keeps her age remarkably well? Belle
Sure. She never gives it away
The society girl realizes that there
isn't a great deal of difference between
a chaperon and campaign manager.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-
mark that a woman isn't always as
true as the stories you hear about her.
Mrs. Muggins-She's an awful gos-
sip. She tells everything she hears.
Mrs. Buggins-Oh, she tells lots more
than that.
Blobbs-When a girl refuses a fell
low and he threatens to blow out his
brains. what does she think? Slobbs-
suppose she thinks he hasn't any.
Are You superstitious asked the
bachelor. NV ell,'' replied the father of
a large family, YEARLY, II certainly
think it's unlucky to have 3 children"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

IIEE.

LIFE.
We plough the field. we plant the seet
We labor many a day
10 cultivate the growing crop
And, keeps the weeds away.
We toll through summers sultry heat,
With WEAKNESS and pain,
And then some trickstef comes along
And gathers in the grain.
We save our dollars. one by one,
With old New England thrift: .
We gather up a hoard at last
(The process isn't swift
And then we take it to the place
Where brokers put and call
And so we lose It all.
1t makes no odds how hard we try,
Or work with hands and wit.
There's always someone standing by
To grab the benefit.
And labor like a man,
Still, it's your part to do your best
But watch the shysters might close
And beat them if you can,
-Somerviile Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
XMAS COMNENT
WHOSE MONEY!

NJ. P. Gould, a formerly-of-Kansas
boy, who came back here from New
york, and made a most excellent
speech at The Kansas Day club BAN
quet, the best of the evening from a
non-pohtical standpoint. gave a lot of
figures about money.
New Workers." said Mr.. Gould,
eat money and sleep money and talk
money!
Then he gave these comparisons:
In a recent message of greetings
Whlch this club sent to our society in
New York, the following expression
was used: Kansas, in the year 1910,
sold $500 1000 worth of animals, and
mas $91. 100000 upon deposit in her
sUO state banks. Then speaking Of
money since your secretary has let
down the bars. let me say that there
Is one emigrant bank in New York
City which has $1O6,0o0,000 deposits.
There is another workingman's-s saw
ings bank in New York which has
$105, 600 deposits. There is still
another bank for savings in New York
City which has $101, 100000 deposits.
These are very interesting compar-
isons. But whose money is it that
New York has on deposit in such
fabulous sums?
Why, gentle and submissive reader.
a big slice of it is Kansas money.
Some belongs to Nebraska, and some
more to Oklahoma, and some more to
MlnneSota-ln TACT, nearly ali OF the
western states have a piece of money
lying there in New York.
Whenever bankers out here get a
little more money on hand than they
need, they ship it back to New York,
where they can always loar it for g.
small rate. which Is better than no
rate at ALL
Ever read the financial columns of
the papers, and see how the New
York banks fuss and fret when the
time comes to move the crops" in the
west? That fuss and fret simply means
that New York is about to be called
upon to hand back a lot CT the money
which it has borrowed from the Kan
sas banks, and the other western
banks.
But that's all right. We are willing
to let New York play with our money.
But it must have good security-bet-
ter than clearing house certificates
with which it once tried to pay de-
posits.-Salina Journal.
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Xxx : IS.
These words, quoted above, are a
part of the answer OF Sophar, the
Naamathite, to Job, during their
spirited colloquy. They present great
truth, just as Sophar says, las old as
the hills" 1t is almost automatic, a
self-evident truth that scarcely needs
to be demonstrated OF dilate upon.
The experiences of every day, as they
are narrated in the newspapers and as
they develop in all of the activities OF
life, substantiate 1t. And for this rea
son, becauss it is SO patent to every
one that wickedness cannot succeed in
cloalxing itself for any considerable
length of time, it is a trifie strange thot
through thoughtlessness, through dis
satisfaction with their lot in life, and
for variety Of other reasons, so many
people will indulge in it.
without doubt. some wickedness is
perpetrated in the world, some hypoc-
risy is practiced, which is not discov-
cred and laid bare before the public
eye. But the amount Of 1t is in
finitesimal with that which is sooner
or later, generally sooner, held up to
the light of day with all of its distress
ing consequences. In the newspapers
of every day are numerous items tell
ing of men and women who have been
false to their trusts, false to their
friends and acquaintances and false
to themselves. Many of these fallen
leaves had hithertofore been held
in the highest of regards by their in
Inmates and the public. They allowed
their greed for gain or power, their
lusts of the flesh, their desire to get
ahead in the world by hook or crook,
to dictate their methods of life. The
disastrous results which overlook them
were inevitable. Some of them sue
ceeded for a longer or shorter time in
concealing their wrong-doing. Some Of
them had reached points where they
were looked upon as having achieved
most material succes ses in life. But
usually in the very hour of their sup
posed greatest triumphs, they took a
step too far in the wron" direction
they had been following from the be-
ginning, and then came the crash.
They were overwhelmed. Their portion
for the future was nothing but dis
grace. dishonor and disaster.
Surely are the triumphs of wickedness
of short duration. Their utter futility,
as is evidenced on every hand, should
be en- adequate warning to all that
they should not be sought. In this con-
nsction it is well to remember the
words of Christ as narrated by st.
Matthew: For what is a man profit
ed. if h, shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
FROM O7EER PENS
TRUSTS HERE AND ABROAD.


The treatment of trusts is very diff
ferent in this country and over in Eu-
rope. There the trust Is allowed to
exist and pursue its purpose. except it
must not do it through coercion, force
or fraud. The limitation of product
Or the restraint of trade are not spe-
cifc objects of prohibitive legislation.
A trust is regarded much like an in
dividual, subject only to the penalties
for dishonest and injurious deeds.
In both Germany and England
combination is permitted. and what is
here regarded as a calamity is over
there esteemed as a blessing. England
is a little more liberal than Germany
is in this matter, for the latter does
supervise a combination some, but the
fact of combination itself is not dis
couraged in either country. 1t is re-
garded as a commercial necessity, and
in Germany it is said to work as a sort
Of safety valve to the industrial ire
preston.
Since the enactment of our anti
trust law we have been III much tur-
MOL in this country, but instead of
that fact being an argument against the
law, it may be strong argument for
it. This country has set its face against
the rule of wealth and Eur ope has not,
and there is the question-which is
right Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11

that they are not so willing now as
they were a few years ago to listen to
cries against the railroads. which are
made for the political capital that can
be gained from them.
Reasonable and just public regula-
ton of the railroads is needed, nor
have the railroads any objection to it.
But legislation that will result in
hampering the operation and the de-
velopment of the railroads Is unneces-
sary and uncaIIed for either in Texas
or Kansas or any other state. And 1t is
likely that large majority of the 10
odd bills affecting railroads which are
now pending In the Kansas Legislature
are in that class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Truthful answers are seldom given
to embarrassing questions.
X =
Nor is the straight and narrow path
worn smooth from an unusual amount
of traffic.
X
Some men would just as soon lose a.
$40 bill as to lay it away for rainy
day.
There's a good deal of fallacy to the
theory that if you want things well
done you must do them yourself.
y = \
It's easier for a man to borrow
money from comparative strangers
than from friends or relatives. The
latter are apt to know him too we'll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
FINDING ATLANTIS.

The lost Atlantis, that tabled islam d
over which Plato marveled and Bacon
philosophical and Donnelly romanced,
has been found, and 10! it isn't an
island at all: At least certain DR..
Frobenius tells that he has discover
ed the ruins of a wonderful city in
southern Nigeria, on the west coast
of Africa, which he confidently holds
to be part of the mythical Atlantis
The enthusiastic Frobenius describes
in a glowing way the crumbling evil
dences of civilization he unearthed-
There were wonderful pillars and re-
markable examples of carving and
granite statues and quaint pottery
overland with glass of many colors.
And, most wonderful of all, according
to the doctor, was the hollow bronze
cast of a head covered with fine tattoo
ing
But, alas the discoverer has but
little to show for all his trouble. Be-
tween unfriend1y natives and still more
unfriendly Britons. he claims he was
despoiled of his treasures with the ex-
ception of a few clay heads. And now,
Influenced, perhaps. by the unhappy
DR.. Cook precedent, the learned men
of Berlin to whom the discovery was
first revealed, have expressed no opin-
ion regarding the value of the claim =
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