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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
PUZZLE FOR THE PUBLIC.

Recently farmer living near
Round Lake, not far distant from
Worthington, wrote to Senators Mel.
son and Clapp and Congressman
Hammond requesting some informa-
ton about the parcels post and what
their attitude toward such legisla-
ton would be. The following are
the replies received. as published in
The Worthington Globe:
Your communication of recent
matter since last August, and will
date. relative TO parcels post, is at
hand. / am glad TO hear from you
on this subject, and in reply desire
TO say that ] favor a reasonable and
proper parcels post, and it is likely
that law to establish such a sys-
tenn will be passed in the near fu-
ture. Knute Nelson"
Yours of the 18th inst is at hand.
The senate committee on postoffices
and postroads have been holding
hearings on the parcels post soon
bring in bill and | think il will
be a good one. | cannot see how
anyone, except the express compa-
MES can object to Il bill which re-
duces the cost of transportation and
facilitates the use of the mails, pro-
yided the cost is placed at a point
where those who get the benefit pay
for it without imposing tax on the
public. Moses Z. Clapp.'
1T looks as though the house
would pass parcels post legislation
at this session of congress. First, to
establish rural parcels post, eleven
pound package limit, 5 cents for first
pound, cents for each additional
pound. Second, to appoint a com
mission to investigate the parcels
post systems of European countries
and estimate and report the proba-
BILE cost of establishing and operat-
ing a general parcels post in the
United States. Third, to reduce the
present domestic rate for the car
riage of parcels to equaliZe the rate
established by the International Post.
al union, so tina at citizen of this
country may send a parcel TO an
other citizen of the country as
cheaply as lie may send it to a
person living in a foreign country.
I think this legislation will pass the
house, although many will vote for
the passage of no parcels post leg
islation unless it be established a
general parcels post. and others will
oppose such legislation in any form.
If the measures have outlined
above are defeated it will be by the
united opposition OF these two
forces. 1t is thought that the com
mittee having parcels post legisla-
ton in hand will not report a gen
eral parcels post bill TO the house at
this session, in which case members
of the house will have no opportu-
nifty to vote either for or against
such legislation. w. S. Hammond"
Puzzle Find out where Represent-
ative Hammond stands on the par
cells post.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

The growth of beet sugar industry
may be shown strikingly by going
back a few years. to 1892. when
six factories utilizing beets from
1856 acres produced 5.35S tons OF
sugar as against the production for
1911 of 506.S25 tons turned out in
sixty four factories from beets grown
ON 429,014 acres. in sixteen states,
representing territory bounded by
Il line drawn from the Straits OF
Mackinaw through Minneapolis and
Billings, Mont. to the Pacific. The
eastern border of Michigan and cen
trail Ohio form the eastern boundry,
and to the south the Ohio river,
Kansas, Arizona and Southern Cal,
ifornia. This is merely the territory
in. which the sugar beet industry
is already established. Experiment.
al work indicates that some of the
most advantageous territory Is to be
found in the Shenandoah valley OF
Virginia and i'll New England, though
ii has not yet been tried out. The
capital investment has grown from
few hundred thousand dollars in
1891 to over hundred million at
present aud the scientists of the
department OF. Agriculture express
the opinion that the development OF
the industry is scarcely more than
begun.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
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LIVE THE SIMPLE LIFE.

The fellow who has gone the
pace that kills. and has become pre-
maturely, old. may cry in vain for
the return of his old-time yigor and
the days of his youth, says The
saltwater Gazette, True this is of
those who have grown old IN years.
The latter has lived his life and in
most instances has only the regret
that he cannot live the years over
again; but the man who has gone
the pace with the idea that he can
come back, is the one that has moth
ing but sorrow staring him in the
face. He has gone the limit of hui
man endurance and Is old when he
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
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RULES FOR SAVING.

The rules of saving by which .
teamster in Chicago accumulated
nearly $4,000 have proved too exac
ting TO cause much emulation. The
ways of George. Johnston were the
ways of the miser. though he was as
industrious as he wa frugal. But:
He never married.
He had no desire for amusement
and spent no money for Injuries
He was always on the job.
The secret of his accumulation lay
i'm interest, he reinvested what he
had saved and piled interest on cap
ital. Other city transfers have the
record of making $4,000 to $4,000
and one man saved $4,000 in eleven
years.
An employer said he never heard
of anyone that cqualed Johnston
figure-or even half of it-but that
undoubtedly he made some wise IN
yestments. when ii comes to III
vesting il is The shrewd man
that wins he said and that Is
where. III the long run, 1t all de
ponds on tho teamster how big his
fortune grows.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
ANNUAL CONFERENCE BOOKED
Meeting Of Evangelical Association
Ministers in Minneapolis.

Meeting Of Evangelical Association
Ministers in Minneapolis.
Ministers of the Evangelical as
sociation OF Minnesota will meet IN
annual conference in Minneapolis
May ., 3. and s. All sessions
will he held in the First Evanseii-
cal church. 1929 Emerson Avenue
North. Rev 4. Geyman is pastor.
There are about 200 congregations
in the state. Seyeniy-tiye pastors
are expected Ut tho conference. Rlsl-
op William Horn of Cleveland Wit
preside, aud the three presiding cid
ers of tho church III Minnesota VIII
lie present They are Rev. Ii. Pan
kitow OF ST. paul district. Rev. \.
II. utzinger of the Minneapolis dis
triet and Rev. w. Schoenlcber OF
Mankato district.
The business OF the conference
will include announcement of as
sgnments Of pastors 10 Their
charges, and The ordination oil
number of candidates.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
FAKE UNDER
new GUIsE,; A LETTER
Not the Darling Daughter Stuff
Handed Out This Time.

Appealing TO the recipient TO aid
him with Il short sum" in order to
raise the seizure of his valuable
baggage, one of the gang of Spanish
swindlers has communication TO a
wellknown Mankato man. This
time the fake scheme is greatly
revised in order to make the game
more productive.
The letter is postmarked Madrid,
Spain 1t purports TO come from a
bankrupt Spanish banker, whose
baggage was seized upon arrest. III
a yalise included in the baggage was
S1S0,000 in two checks Only Il
short sum is required, says the
letter, to get the baggage out OF
bondage and thus he will be able
to retain large amount of his rich
assets from his creditors. There
is no darling daughter" III the
latest letter to be received here.
Heretofore the Spanish letters asked
that aid be extended II jailed lner.
chant who had hidden his wealth
in order that his daughter might
share of his remaining possessions.
The letter reads:
Letter From Madrid.
Dear Sir: You will be surprised
reading the present letter because
by prudence / can't give you all
the notices required for placing yoi
in a position of knowing your full
particulars about my matter.
II you are disposed to aid INC
keeping the more strict silence in
order 10 carry out the business
will communicate with YOU fully.
Il am banker that by misfortune
was obliged to present bankruptcy
and today | am IN the Jail of this
town. When my arrestation took
place my baggages were seized be.
tween which | had a valise in a
secret of which ] placed the two
checks of 10000 pounds and 10000
pounds respectively ($1S0,0o0 about,
both payable to the bearer in a
Bank al London.
Must Pay Tribunal.
'As for raising the seizure it is
necessary to pay the tribunal short
sum, If you are interested | beg you
to come to Spain taking into con.
sideration that | will reward you
with the third part Of the total
amount.
Il cannot receive your reply at
prison, so it must be sent to my
old servant by cablegram to this
address:
Fernando Montaner San Benito
s regundo, Valladolid (Spain).
Being not sure you may receive
this letter, | await your reply TO
sign full name, and for giving you
full particulars about the matter.
Up. S. Please reply by cable, not
by letter and by caution signed with
this name Marcario"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

I
should be still young and vigorous
We see these cases every day, and
probably there will never come a
time when they are not in our
minds. The indiscretion OF youth is
a disease that no physician is able
to heal. The only safeguard is to
live a life of common sense and de
cency. lit is not difficult task, but
there are many who commence after
it Is too late. A man cannot abuse
his system, live the life of dis.
solute and pass down the shady life
With feeling that he has done the
best possible under the circum-
stances. He Is brought home to a
full and complete realization of his
fate after it is too late.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
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PLAIN TALK ON HEAL Til.

Frank A. Gotch: The fellow VINO
grunts and puffs climbing to the
third floor needs something besides
bank account.
If you want to be physically III
don't mistake your stomach for 2
garbage can.
All the present strong men were
once helpless babies. IL they had
learned battenberg work instead OF
physical force they wouldn't have
their names on the posters TO-DAY.
Some men fight shy of the bath
as though they had hydrophobia,
and then wonder why they don't
feel well.
There's many s.souse" cumming
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

LIFEBoATS WERE FEW.

That all its passengers would have
had chance OF safety had there
been lifeboats and RATS enough on
the Titanic, is the general belief of
navigators. But the liner, newest
and greatest of transatlantic ships,
carried only twenty large. modern
the gunwales with women and chill
dren. who, in accordance with the
unwritten law of the sea. had been
put over the side first. The lack oil
lifeboats and other life-saying para
phernalia shows that someone is
guilty of criminal negligence.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
KEEP OUT THE eEGGARs.

The Fond dm Lac, Wis, council
has passed an ordinance putting a
ban on certain street musicians, III
Guiding organ grinders, ACCORDION
players, fiddlers and deformed beg
gars, also on all movable signs,
none of which is to be permitted on
the main business street in the flu
ture. Mankato might we'll follow
the example, as in most cases the
visiting performers although appar.
emily deserving of pity, are unworthy
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
HEALTH LEAGUE AT ST. CLOUD

st. Cloud has n Public Health and
Hygiene league, and from all re-
ports ii is live organization. The
league has at present two very def
mite purposes in view and proposes
to spend any money which it may
obtain toward the ends aimed at.
These are the establishing of a
county sanitarium for tubercular pa
tients, and to make the position of
visiting nurse permanent one.
The league was started by a few
patriotic and energetic women of 81,
Cloud and they soon enlisted their
sisters into the work. SO that within
the few months of its existence, the
league has grown rapidly and is of
continuously gaining strength.
Every movement that makes for
health improvement will receive the
support of the league and the fur
nishing of the organization is being
pushed Systematically. For instance,
it includes all public bodies in mem
bership and every fraternal order
has been invited TO elect three dele
gates to the league, who will have
voice in its operation.
The two objects OF the league as
stated. are simply a beginning. There
are other things in view, but the
members feel that the matters now
considered should be completed first
before anything else should be taken
up.
Some of the objects in view for
further accomplishment are medical
inspection of the schools, meat and
milk inspection and the procuring
of better supply of water for the
general public. The health authori-
ties of the city and county will re
Iceive the heartiest cooperation from
the league.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
WAS uNNEcEssARY KILLING.

\ dispatch from Omaha says that
charges of manslaughter We're filed
against Chief OF Police John Briggs
of South Omaha, Sheriff Gus Flyers
of Lancaster and John Trouton, de
putty state fire warden. by County
Attorney w. \. Gamieson OF Sarpy
county, at Papillion yesterday after
noon. The charges arise out of the
killing of Roy Blunt, the farmer who
was forced by three escaped con
Aicts from the penitentiary at Lin
coin TO aid them i'll their attempted
fetaway. From all accounts the kill.
ing of Blune was unnecessary and
was a laundering piece Of business
on the part of the officers who were
trying to effect the capture OF the
escaping convicts.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

1t having been claimed that New
ington Gilbert, who died in st. Paul
Wednesday, was the sole surviving
delegate of the constitutional con,
vention, The st. Cloud Times says:
Hon. II. c. Waite of this city was
a member of the constitutional con
vention, one of tile eight delegates
from the Fourth district. which com
prised the counties of Benton, Cass,
Todd, Stearns and Wright. Mr.. Waite,
We are pleased 10 state. still lives,
aud is probably the last survivor
He is in the hospital here, but. de-
spite his more than eighty years,
still retains his mental powers"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
MAKING OF SOCIALISTS.

Governor Woodrow Wilson is abso,
lutely right when he says that brok.
Ell promises make socialists. When
political party makes the most
solemn promise that certain evils
shall be remedied and then not only
deliberately breaks that promise but
boasts of it, it is no wonder that
the people lose faith i'll political
parties but stray after false gods, is
the comment of The Rochester Post
and Record. Unless socialism is to
become stronger politicians must
learn that promises must be made
good. 1t is this that has made the
split in the republican party, and
may be the cause of its defeat. AS
the democratic party is as bad many
join the socialists.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
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THE FIRE WASTE.

| The fire waste of the country is
excessive, and is sapping its pros
perity. Reduction of the fire waste
is an important part of the cam
paign for the conservation of the
national resources.
Fire losses in the United States
and Canada in 1911 were $234,3337,-
$50, most of them due to careless
ness.
Fire losses Ia January and Feb
ruary of .19l2 were s6i,255,1oo, 70
per cent more than for the same
month last year.
Fire losses and the cost of fire
prevention in the United States
amount annually to $450,0o0.000, or
more than the total American pro-
duction OF gold. silver, copper and
petroleum in /, year.
The cost of fires each. year is one
half the cost OF all the new build
ings erected i'll a year.
The annual per capita fire waste
in the United States is Se.51, in
Europe 33 cents. Cause: The lat
ter has better construction, less
carelessness, increased responsible
/ ity.
If buildings i'll the United States
were as fire. proof as i'll Europe, the
annual cost of fire losses and pro-
lection would be only $90,000,O00.
New York city spends $4,000
900 year for fire extinguishment
and $4,000 a year for fire proven
tion
or 4,234 known causes of fire in
Chicago last year, 1,121 were due
TO the careless use of matches.
Nearly ten thousand matches are
scratched every second of the day
in this country. every one possible
fire.
over five thousand are killed and
$4,000 are injured annually as a re-
suit of fire.
The proportion of insurance capi-
tai to insurance liabilities is very
much on the decrease. In the past
forty years the liabilities have al
most doubled, while only $5,000000
more capital was invested in the
business in 1911 than in 1879.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
FIGURES THAT ARE INSPIRING.

The recent wholesale importations
of potatoes into New York from the
old world ought 10 cause some rather
deep and quiet rejecting on our
part. That in q country as wide and
big as the United States it IS neces
sary to bring potatoes just plain
common potatoesfroin clear across
the ocean, is. strange indeed. And
this too in the face of facts like
the following:
Henry Schroeder, near Dilworth,
Clay county, Minnesota in the spring
of 1911, bought 40 acres OF land
paying SIS an acre for it. lie plant
ed it all TO potatoes and in the fall
the potato harvest brought him in
$12O an acre or in other words, paid
for the farm and left him SIS an
acre clear money besides.
L. ID. Grant, the secretary OF the
Clay county, Minnesota Potato Grow
ers' association, in 1911, planted
eighty acres to potatoes in the same
locality and the crop sold for $S.sIe
or SIP an acre. Why not go back
to the soil and raise potatoes. Dc
not these figures furnish you with
the inspiration?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

What will be the size OF the
beers, the quality of the cigars and
the price of the drinks if the voters
decide at the forthcoming election
in Redwing that saloon licences
shall be 1000? The saloonkeepers
threaten to reduce the size OF the
beers and hand ont cheaper cigar
if the high license should carry.
Think of the impending disaster.
All Redwing shakes with fear and
trembling.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
TENNIS CLUB ELECT OFFICERS
Professor Gilbert Trafton Is Made
President of Organization.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Election Of officers WIS held al
the meeting of the local tennis
club last night which was held in
the offices OF Attorney Charles Il.
Phillips, secretary and treasurer.
Professor Gilbert Trafton was elect
ed president, jay Wysong vice presi-
dent, aud Silas Juliar secretary and
treasurer. The club now has a mem-
bership of about twenty and the
meeting held last night was very
enthusiastic one. 1t was decided to
make several noted improvements to
their courts, which will include the
repairing OF the fence and grounds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

sanatorium treatment in offsetting
this loss to some extent.
Another subject of Importance
will be that discussed at the meet
ing of the advisory council oil the
relative functions of the health
officer, the physician, and tho lay
man in the campaign against tuber-
culosis. Representative speakers III
each OF these groups will discuss the
subject.
The chairman of the clinical Sec
ton of the association is Dr. Charles
L. Minor, Asheville, n. c.. of the
pathological section. DR.. William III.
Park. of the New York city depart
ment of health; of the sociological
section, Mr.. Frederick l.. Hoffman,
Newark, n. j.; and of the advisory
council, DR.. Charles o. Probst. Co.
lumbus. Ohio.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
It's PIPE. Ell?

The Fairmont Sentinel says The
Free Press published pipe dream
about Frank Day and the democratic
nomination for governor
At that, The Sentinel deemed the
story printed in this paper of such
Importance as to repuhlish it in It's
entirety.
Not so bad for a dream, eh, Sen
tinel? Perchance it may prove not
to be a dream, after all. but real
ity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

nickels and dimes who was given a
body that possessed championship
material.
Maybe the tailor can help you
fool your friends. but he can't fool
Natureand the time to begin tot
ing right with Nature Is today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
'TWEL We MILES STATE ROADS
Eishty-Sesen Is the Number in Blue
Earth County.

Minnesota has designated more
than 1900 miles of state roads. ac-
cordng to the annual report of the
state highway commission, soon TO
be issued by George w. Cooley, the
commissions secretary and engineer.
state roads are such highways as
are approved by the commission,
which also pays one.haif the cost OF
the road up 10 the amount of the
allotment for the year III which thD
road is built. There are eleven
state roads in Blue Earth county
with a mileage OF sevenly-eigld
There is Il balance OF $4,000 in the
state road fund and available for
this county.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

tendance at the markets steadily In
creased.
Business men who had declined 10
permit the markets to influence them
We're. not only compelled to cut
prices, but many of them have since
applied for stalls in the markets
themselves. At the present time
merchants and butchers all over the
city have reduced prices TO meet
the competition of the free markets
and the old scale Of prices main
tanned before the establishment OF
those markets has disappeared
throughout the city. The reports al
lege that the business men of Mon
tevideo have been taught salutary
lesson. The market bureau has prac-
tically fixed the selling rate for
everybody, and while it has not
placed prices below a living profit,
it has cut off so much from the
rates formerly prevailing that the
proof is conclusive that before the
bureau took hold the people OF Mon
teyideo were Systematically robbed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

The ST. Cloud Times asks who is
a democrat? Our first guess would
be c. F. Macdonald, editor of the
Times, says The Saltwater Gazette.
There is no question about Mr..
Macdonald's democracy. It's all wool
and unauthorized. He is an admir-
able democrat He supports the
party without suffering.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
David Trousdale, the Wells.Fargo

David Trousdale, the Wells,Fargo
express messenger who killed the
two bandits who held up South.
ern Pacific train near Eldridge, Tex,
on March Is, and attempted TO rob
the express car, will be made super
yising messenger between here and
Houston at a salary Of $4,000 a year.
He will be presented with $1,000
in cash and $3.50 gold watch and
chain; all of which is evidence that
all corporations are not soulless.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

Clara Barton is dead, but the good
she has done will live after her.
Her monument rests upon the many
good, noble and self-sacrificing deeds
she has performed for the unfortu-
nate and the suffering. Her work is
enduring; her name Will live for
eyer
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Andrew +. Peterson to Joseph T.
Meurer, lot .. block 7, Columbus
park, Mankato, consideration 1915.
J. w. True to a. H. Schroeder, lot
o, block 3. Bronson's addition. Man
kato, consideration 81. etc.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19

Princeton university has opened
IL farm where students will be given
all opportunitys TO work their way
through that educational institution.