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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
MUssoLINI HARD WALKER
New Italian Premier Has Great Ca
nanitA Enr 1 ahnr L. lie Said


pacity For Labor, 1t Is Said
Rome, november 2S.-[ Correspon-
dence of The Associated Pressl-
Benito Mussolini, the man who at
thirty eight years of age has be-
come virtually the legal dictator OF
Italy, has a great capacity for work.
Since he assumed charge of the
MINISTRIES of Foreign Affairs and
the Interior, MuSsolini has averaged
over eighteen hours of hard work
every day. At his desk promptly al
the stroke of eight, he is still busy
at midnight attending to the bust
ne SIS of the two most ,mportant MINI
istres in his government.
During the eighteen months in
which he was engaged in the or
ganization of the Fascismo move.
ment eliminating in the peaceful
his followers into Rome October
31st, Mussolini worked an average
of twelve hours every day, including
Sundays.
Mussolini eats little and drinks
less. He sleeps about FIVE or six
hours out of the twenty four. His
beverage is d light Italian wine with
about fifty percent of water added.
His favorite recreations are fenc-
ing and walking, and he is said to
be a chess player of no mean ability.
Italy's man of the hour was an
enthusiastic advocate of his coun-
try's entrance into the world war on
the side of the Allies. He served
as. corporal until wounded so Sc.
verely that he had to be sent to the
rear as unfit for further active duty.
1t is said that his body bears the
scars of one hundred and twenty
pounds, caused by shell splinters
and shrapnel.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
FALL SOWN WHEAT
ACRESON INCREASE
Story Is Told By Minnesota
Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service.
PAUL H. KICK

Minnesota Cooperative Reporting
Service Old Capitol, st. Paul, Mimi,
December 21.-The fall shown acre
age of winter wheat for 1922 in Min
Iasota is estimated at $4,000 acres,
or an increase of six per Cent over
the revised December 1921 acreage,
while the acreage Of rye is 1862
OG0 a decrease Of eight per cent
from the revised acreage of 1921, &C
cording to the federal statistician
for the Minnesota Cooperative Crop
Reporting service.
! The report says the increase in
winter wheat is due to the fear of
rust damage to spring wheat, and
il many counties small areas have
been seeded as an experiment, to try
out its adantability to. local condi-
tons. The condition Of winter
wheat as of December Is placed at
81 per cent of normal. The crop
las a fairly good root growth, but
tne top growth, in some sections, is
father small.
The acreage of rye which is seed
been reduced on account of dry con-
ditions in the fall during seeding
time. A considerable portion of the
rye was seeded late so that the
srowth has not been satisfactory
though benefited by fall rains and
mild weather. The condition Decem-
Der 1 is SO per cent Of normal COM
pared to 95 per cent December l,
1921.
The wages of farm labor show a
slight decrease this year compared
to last, as follows:
Average rate per month when hir-
ed by year, including board, 1922
$35; in 1921, $37. Average wage
per day, harvest work with board,
for 1922, 1884; for 1921 So. Average
wage per day with board, other than
harvest work, in 1922, $3.50; in
1921 $500.
The average number of cords Of
wood cut per farm is estimated at
about twelve, while the average
number burned on farm is estimated
at around 10 cords. The average
value at farm per cord is estimated
at $3.50 this year compared to $3.50
per cord the previous year.
The crop reporting board of the
division OF crop estimates places the
total area seeded to winter wheat
this fall at 46,059, 900 acres cempar-
ed to the revised 1921 acreage of
1851, 900. The condition of the crop
on December / is estimated to be
79.5 per cent of normal.
The total area seeded to fall rye
in 1922 is placed at 5,50S,0O0 acres
compared to the revised 1921 acre
age of $4,000 acres. The condition
December /, 1922 is estimated at
84.3 per cent of normal.
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apolis. The pallbearers were rela
ttyes OF the deceased.
Claus Herbert of Bingham Lake
was a week end visitor at the Au-
gust Wistrom home while here took
in the play entitled "The Dust of the
Earth.
ClarencerJohnson leaves the latter
part Of the week for Aurora, MINI.
to be a guest Of relatives for several
weeks.
o. P. Buell. was a business caller
at LeSueur Center last Thursday.
: The following program will be pre-
scented in the assembly room Friday
afternoon at 2.S0. to which the public
is invited:
Song, high school pupils. .-
Christmas customs In many lands,
fourteen girls.
Recitation, Making Christmas Pre-
sents, Ella Warrant.
Recitation, Results of Christmas
Shopping, Melvin Hoiberg.
Two Act Comedy, Christmas at
Fnnegans' Flat.
Christmas Tree and distribution of
presents.
Song, high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. Wilcox were
callers in the Twin cities last Thurs
day and Friday.
Leonard Grant, who has been Wis
iting relatives here for several days,
left Monday for Terry, Mont, to
make Is future home. ....
Wallace Grant of Pennington visit
ed his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard Grant last Sunday.
The girls and Bays basket ball
teams will journey to LeSueur this
evening to play their first district
game of the season.
Mrs. Paul Zimmerman was a Man
katO caller last Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Benson and Mrs. Willard
Grant entertained the Ladies' Aid
society of the Swedish Lutheran
church last Friday afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
SANTA CLAUS NOT MYTH
In Alaska Uncle Sans Men Deliver
Their Mall With Renders
IAsSOciated Press DI&patCn:l
IT, n nnnon3 hnys

ASSOCIATED Press DISpa tcn.
Washington, D. c., December Il.
old Saint Nick, with his packed
sled and harnessed reindeer, pranc-
ing over the country with jingling
bells, and digging his way through
piled snow drifts, is not so mythical
after all-for he really does appear
to many people just that way. -
1t is in Alaska, where Uncle Sans
mails are delivered in winter by
fur clad carriers riding in reindeer
drawn sledS to the tune of merry
chimes Far away places in Alaska
get few deliveries of mail, but the
schedule is nearly always arranged
so that each pioneer camp in out Of
the way places where the deep
snow prevents much intercourse
with the outer world gets its Christ
mas mail near the holidays. =
The post office department sends
out $4,000 first assistants, to old
Santa Claus, and although they
don't wear-his livery of red and fur
and natty black boots, their gray
uniforms are just as welcome along
toward the last days of-December.
Every day is Christmas for the pos
tai workers the month before De-
cember Is. 1t is hectic season
with them to get the untold quaint
les of mail to those to whom they
are intended.
But they do their work with a
will and smile, say Department Of
ficials, who ask your help in their
work by making it easy for them to
deliver all the gifts by Christmas
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was to weld more securely the bond
or friendship that existed In schools
In visits. in travels, in business,
church and community life; when
"goodbys" were spoken amid scenes
Of hallowed memories and revered
associations when parting was
such sweet SORROW" The autograph
albums Of days agone fairly teemed
with heartfelt expressions, of sim
cere friendship that were no doubt
engendered by close affiliation. It
is not difficult to understand the
regard which prompted the inscrip-
ton of the following gems on treas
ured pages:
Our friendship has budded on d,
earth; may 1t blossom in
In the golden chain of friend
ship, regard me as a link.
Friendship is a golden knot,
tied by an angels hand.
Drop one pearl in memory's
casket for your friend, Mary
When you are sitting all
alone, rejecting on the past;
remember that you have a.
friend that will forever last.
The older the ruin the green
81 tu0 uOSS, LHo OlQST the
friendship, the keenef the loss. p
Not like the rose may our.
friendship wither; but like the
evergreen, live forever.
True friends are like dia-
monds, precious and rare; false
, ones like autumn leaves-found -
everywhere.
Remember well and bear in
mind that good true friend is
hard to find; and when you find
one, Just and true, change not
the old one for the new.
Friends are around us though
no words be spoken.
When rocks and hills divide
us, and you no more l see; Just
take your pen and paper; and
write line to me.
Lucky is the man or woman to-
day whose heart is not withered
and who, among the treasured keep
sakes of the golden days of youth
has an old autograph album ,scrawl
full of limptng rhymes of puppy
love, Of lines of merry jest; of earn
est expressions of solicitude, and
ed full Of limping rhymes of puppy
friendship "just to remember by"
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HAS AMUSEMENT PLAN
Massachusetts, Man Would Show eetn
, Movies and Plays In Theatres
Northo rnnton Mass December 2l.

, Movies and Plays In theatres =
Northampton, Mass, December Il.
Something in the nature of a1gen-
tlemen's agreement between motion
picture exhibitors and those inter.
ested in the spoken drama is sug-
gested as solution of the com
munity theatre problem by Samuel
A. Eliot, Jr., assistant professor OF
English at Smith College. Mr.. Eliot
is the author of several one act
plays and active in the community
theatre venture of the Northampton
Players, which attracted wide at
tention a few years ago
Expressing in a recent letter TO
the Daily Hampshire Gazette a nope
for a revival of a community re-
pertory company in Northampton,
MIR. Eliot advanced the idea that in
a city of this size-Northampton has
a population of 22,000-the amuse-
ment time of the municipal audi
forum might profitably be divided
equally between the play. and the
movies.
at seems certain" he said, that
the Academy of Music is too large
or Northampton too small to sdp-
port more than one play out OF ten
through as many repetitions as rhe
Northampton Players used to give.
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Three or four performances are
enough. l think, be given full half
of the time.
"The movies are highly profitable
and, if the latter half Of each week
were regularly devoted to them,
they ought to bring in enough mony
to Offset possible losses on plays
acted by a permanent company in
the first half Of >each week. This
company would thus have the equiv
alent of ten days, not six, in which
to prepare each new production--no
small advantage to their art"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
FARMERS POOLED WOOL
Raisers of Sheep In Several States
Formed Selling Combination

. ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l
Chicago, Ill. December 21.--Farm
ers, pooling. their wool this year
are receiving from five to SIX cents
more per pound than the local mar
kets offered, according to the re.
ports on the various pools presented
to the \ Wool Committee of the
American Farm Bureau. There re-
ports included pools in New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois
Michigan, Iowa, Montana and Wyo-
ming.
at is now proposed" says Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Headquarters, ito
work out a uniform system OF &C
counting and grading pooled woods
and to provide a uniform producers
contract 1t also is proposed by the
committee to further the campaign
for the advancement of Truth
in Fabric legislation"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
WILL STAY IN CANADA
lroquois Indians Have Decided Not
To Move Out Of Dominion 4

To Move Out Of Dominion
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1
Toronto, December 21.-The Iro-
quois Indians have made peace with
the Dominion government. Threats
of migration to the reservations of
the nation in the United States, be-
cause the Dominion would not re-
cognize the red men as an inde-
pendent nation, have been forgotten.
The Ratchet was buried and the
peace pipe was smoked at Chsweken
early in December.
| Chief Deskaheh, leader of the fac
ton fighting for independence, car
ried the issue to the council house
of the nation, but accepted defeat
stoically when the other chiefs at
the pow-wow outvoted him. He and
his followers had maintained that
their grievances were probably mat
tiers for an international court OF
law, their independence having been
recognized by a British sovereign.
Leaders of the Loyalists, the win
ming faction at Ohsweken, were
chiefly from the Christian tribes of
the Mohawks. and DelaWares. They
were well satisfied with the outcome
at the pow WOW, but now propose to
go even further. Their tribes have
virtually no representation on the
hereditary council, members of which
are elected for life by the women of
the tribes. The Loyalists, it is an
nounced, will work for an elective
council, "'to conform with the dem
ocratic trend of the times and to
do away with a remnant of feud-
alism."
"THE LORD WILL PROVIDE"
Gins to feel like Christmas in the
air,
Happy faces beam mos every
where,
Pickaninnies talk bout Sanity Claus
Tell me fix dat chim'ley, fob be-
cause
He drap right down dere, vas he
does, >-.-
To tote 'em presents, in the night,
Lawsy, ah shuh hopes deys right.
Same1 bankers fob gun
Alex, wants~a cab to run
Eliza Jane, des Graves doll
Some red kid slippers, an a pink
The twins, they lax mos anything
From Billy Goat, to aDteething
: ring.
Ma wife odne tole me, Cali on
da Lord
Dom visit too long, He mought git
bored"
So ah kneeled ma SET down, be-
side ma bed
An bowed ma worried old kinky
head,
"oh' Lord, ali axes you hep dis
niggah -,
SEN Samel a gun, new min any
triggah
Glib Alex cab, dom fogit Liza's
doll
Dem red kid slippers, an the Pink
par'sol
Dom boder you haid bout me or
ma wife
'Jes glib dose chil'uns da' time OBJ
ders life,
Dat'll be all, JUS now Oh Lord,
All do hopes you amt been perna-
ciously bored.
Christmas moh'nin, Child'uns all
asleep, =
All smokes to da' doah, to take a
liz peep,
Dere sot a basket, right squah on
fioah
Jes' loaded wifi chicken, an pres
ents galoah -
Wake up, everybody. Halleluia, all
cried,
All jes' knew that he'd heah me-
The Lord VIII Provide,
Not one thin was missing Not nuf-
fin at all,
Eben' dat'ere triggah-an' da pink
par'sol. -.
Eileen Leo, taken from the Dec
ember Echoes" Good Counsel AGA
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
When Mother shons

We learn only by experience, so
/ let my daughter do some of the
actual selecting when we go to mar
ket together. When she makes a
wise choice, / give praise. Instead
of feeling, like most children, that
she is dragged along" to the sore,
She has a share in the marketing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22
GIFT TO KING ALBERT
Gold Mounted Harness Has Been
Presented To Emperor

Brussels, November 22.-[Corres-
pondence of The Associated Press]
"A number of costly gifts, includ-
ing a set of harness mounted in gold
and enriched with precious stones
have been presented to King Albert
by Ras Taffari regent OF "A, Aoyssinla
Shields and sabres, one of the
shields formerly belonging to EN-
peror Menelik and used by him al
the battle of Adowa.
Similar gifts were sent from Ao-
yssinia to the late Emperor Nicho-
las. of Russia when he recognized
Abyssinian independence.
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PRINCE AS COWBOY
Danish Mobility Working lneoqnito
On Large Western Ranch In U. s.

Copenhagen, December 1.-[Cor-
respondence OF The Associated
ss]-Prince Eric, whose father
and brothers were stripped of their
money through the collapse of the
Landsmansbank, has decided to sell
his magnificent Jutland estate at
Kokkedal.
Under an assumed name the
Prince has lived and worked as a
cowboy on big western ranch in
the United States for the last
eighteen months. He wrote to a
friend here not long ago saying he
was quite happy in his work, and
that life in the open was the only
one worth living.
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COURT TERM POSTPONED
Special Action In District Tribunal
AAId lIntil DacAmhAr 27 =

Held Until December 27.
The special term of Blue Earth
district court has been postponed
until December 81 1t is expected
that the term will be completed in
one day, as Judge w. L. Comstock is
to go to Sts James on the following
day, when the postponed term of
court there will be continued. The
arguments of attorneys of the City
of Mankato and the Chicago, st.
Paul and Milwaukee railroad are
scheduled to be- heard in district
court here on Saturday, December %,
regarding the litigation over the
building of a grade crossing on
Front street by the railroad COM
pany. ~
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22

"A two dollar bill Is. otter unlucky
because You haven't got one.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-22

Many former bartenders are hop
ing they are future bartenders.
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What! write in your album, for
critics to spy.
For the learned to laugh at?-No.
not Il
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blue; sugar is sweet, and so are
you.
No other maid I do adore;
now tell me what can say
more. -
AS sure as the grass grows
round the stump, you are my
darling lump.
To be by you is quite a treat;
you look so nice and talk SO
sweet.
You are the very boy for me;
so gallant, gay, and free.
No other place wish to be,
than In your sweet society.
Between your love, and joy,
and sleep, indeed l find no time
to weep. ~ -
I'll prove as constant as the
dove, If you will prove the same,
my love.
Doubt thou the stars are FIRE;
doubt that the sun doth move;
doubt truth to be Q liar; but
never doubt my love.
Why wilt thou thus my hopes
destroy; ! cannot bear rivals
FENDER memories round thee
Irvine, like the ivy green round
the pine.
Cupid shot his darts at me,
/ once defied his power;
But now he's chained my
heart to thee; .. -.
I'll own II from this hour.
There are tears for the many,
and pleasures for the few; but
let the world pass on, dear;
: there's love for me and YOU
What the deuce can be the.
matter, for in my heart there's
such clatter?
! love thee, Anna, but thy
mind
Is more to dress than love in
clined.
; But, after all, the old autograp
albums real mission undoubtedl
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-12
WIRELESS REPORTS.

Str Polonla DAM. Danzig for New York.
Is expected TO arrive Thursday and dock at
pier ). Bush Docks. Brooklyn.
Str Majestic ORD, Southampton for New
York, is expected to dock at pier so, North
River, about 3 60 PM Tuesday.
Str st Paul. Hamburg for New York. Ia
expected 10 dock at pier 81. North River
about 10 AM Tuesday.
Str Bayern ('er). Hamburg for New York,
is expected to dock ut pier SO, North River
about 10 AM Thursday.
Str President Monroe. London for New
York, is expected to arrive at Quarantine
about . PM Tuesday and dock late that
afternoon at pier 3, Hoboken.
Str Rousslllon CFrI, Havre for New York.
IL expected to arrive Wednesday and dock at
pier ~, North River.
Str George Washington. Bremen for New
York. was $40 miles L Of Ambrose light
ship at noon nth.
str Reeolute, Hamburg for New York, Is
expected to dock at pier SO. North River.
Friday forenoon.
Str President Roosevelt. New York for
Bremen, was In lat 40 35. Ion 90 ~ at noon
nth.
str President Arthur. New York for
Bremen. was In lat 40 20. lon 80 30 Mt noon
1fth
str Munamar. Nuevitns for New York. =,
expected TO dock at pier 0, East River. about
- AN Tuesday.
Str Orizaba. Havana for New York. Is ex-
pected to dock at pier Il. East River. about
0 AN Tuesday.
str Susquehanna, New York for Bremen.
was In lat 30 70, Ion 10 "a at noon 9th.
Str Rubens tBr), from Hull. expects 10
reach Boston noon Tuesday.
Str Chickahominy fBr). from Liverpool
was 900 miles r Of Boston at PM Satur-
day. Due at Boston Wednesday.
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TRANSPACIFIC MAILS.

The connecting mails close at the General
Post Office and City Hall Post Office, New
York. at G PM, as follows:
Hawaii ~, Samoan Islands, Australia ana
specially addressed mail for New Zealand
via San Francisco: also parcel post mails
for Samoan Islands and Australia, str VEN
Hawaii 10. via San Francisco. str MAUI.
Japan. Corea and Netherlands East Indies
Especially addressed only via San Fran
cisco; also parcel post mails for Neither
lands East Indies. str ARAKAN. Sept 16.
respondence for Japan. Corea and China via
San Francisco. str sHINYo MARU. Sept 49,
japan. Corca and Siberia Via Seattle. str
MANILA MARU. Sept II.
Hawal "a. FIJI Islands. New Zealand
and Australia via Vancouver and Victoria
BE. str NIAGARA. Sept IS.
Hawaii 81. Japan. Corea. China. Siberia,
French Indo-China. Nethcrla nds East indies
tcxcent sunatra) and Philippine Islands "a
Via San Francisco; also parcel post mails
Tor Japan. Corea. China. Siam, French Tndo-
Ch,na ami Straits Settlements. str PRESI-
DENT LINCOLN. Sept 49,
.ordirary tunresistered) letters mailed up
TO = PM the next day viii, provided there II
no delay IN the overland transit, reach Seat
tie IN time for connection with the steamer
mentioned.
Supplementary mails accepted on pier.
tan classes Of mall. inclsdins domestic
parcel post.
Malls OF the following dates Moukden Aug
10. Kobe 2cd and Yokohama 23d. which ar
rived per str Toyooka Maru. were dispatched
East from Seattle on Sept 3. and mails
dated Shanghai Aug =. Kobe gath and
Yokohama o5tn. which arrived per str Ma
Mia Maru. were dispatched East from Sc
attic on Sept 3. The nails from str ToyooS;.
Maru are due In New York on the morning
o. Tuesday. Sept IL. and those from str
Manila Maru on the morning OF Wednesday.
Sept Is.
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BY the Radio Corporation of
America.

Acropolos 4ai Z Ambrose l. 10th.
Afoundria I95 w Bishon Rock 10Th.
Argon So ENE Diamond Shoal 18th.
Eannock 2.430 Il Cape Henry 10Th.
Caracas 2il San Juan 10Th.
Chappaqua 1915 Il Cape Henry 10th.
Clontarf 26J Il Ambrose l. v llth
Ccrson 400 Ambrose l. nth.
ID G. Scofield l75 S Ambrose l. v 18th.
Delco l66 Ambrose l. llth.
Edw l. Doheny 253 NNE Jupiter 10th.
Eocene and barge IS off Rockland llth.
Federal passed st Maria l. 10Th.
Franklin X Lane % + Jupiter 10th.
Garfield A. S Castle Island 10Th.
II VI Flagler 200 f Ambrose l. 18th.
Independence Hall LII + Ambrose 10Th.
liver Heath 1856 + Ambrose l. llth.
japan Arrow 80 r Sand Key 10th.
Java Arrow .404 Z Ambrose l. V 10th.
Lake Hactor 70 Ambrose l. 18th.
Livingston Roe 934 w Bishop Rock 10TH
NJ + Elliott lat ~ is. Ion o6 is 10th.
McKecsport 1.134 Z Ambrose l. 10th.
Montrolite 81 " Jupiter 10th.
Mount Clay 304 w Bishop Rock 10th.
Perseo 10 r Ambrose l. 18th.
President Pierce 40 Scotland PM
10TH
Porto Rico arrived Mayaguez AM 18th.
Reliance 2.012 f Ambrose L 10th.
Resolute .646 Il Ambrose l. V 10th.
Robin Goodfellow 225 Ambrose l. v 18th.
Santa Luisa 9s7 S Ambrose l. 10th.
San Mateo 20 n Waiting Island 10th.
Seaconnet IL Sc Block Island 18th.
Sugarseco 90 SW Diamond Shoal 18th.
Swiftscout 203 S Ambrose l. v 18th.
Valemore 40 from Cape May 10th.
W C Teagle ~ SW Sand Key 10th.
w NJ Burton SO Diamond Shoal 18th.
West Gotomska / 900 f Boston 10th.
Wildwood 1914 ESE Point Judith 18th.
Youngstown 1876 f Sandy Hook 10th.