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The Mankato free press., 1923-10-12
Alden School Contract

Rochester, October 9.-The firm
of Heffron & Fitzgerald, local con-
tractors, were the successful bid
ders for building the new high
school and gymnasium at Alden,
MINI. The job is estimated at $50 :
600 and the gymnasium will be built
on the rear of the main building,
which will be of brick and tile. The
structure will be fireproof and
modelled along the best lines laid
down for large schools. The archi
tects who designed the building are
'Gaarder & Gaarder of Albert Lea.
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Called To Rochester Church

Farlbault, October 6.-ReV. DR.. G.
P. Sheridan, pastor of the Congre-
sational church of this city has re-
ceived an unsought and unanimous
call from the Congregational church
of Rochester, Mimi. He has not yet
indicated what his disposition of the
call will be, but expects to arrive
at decision and make announce
ments to his congregation Sunday
morning. * -.
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POULTRY INVESTIGATION

During the past few months the
United States department of agri-
culture has received many requests
from all parts of the country for in,
formation concerning two so-called
new "breeds" of poultry, the
"Turken" and the "Kiwi." The de-
partment has been aware of adyer-
tisements concerning these new and
novel breeds for which some
rather remarkable claims have been
made. The advertisements and
literature describing the origin and
Qualities of these breeds" seem to
have aroused much interest on the
part of the public, since the depart
ment has recently received several
urgent requests for an explanation
regarding the reliability of the
claims made. The statements in the
and literature claim
that the 'HTurken" was originally
produced by crossingg a male tur-
key with female chicken, and that
the "Kiwi" was produced by cross
ing male ostrich with female
chicken.
Successful crosses have been
made between the pheasant and the
chicken, and in practically every
case the progeny has been OF the
male sex and sterile. Also, success
full crosses have been made between
the guinea and the chicken and here
again the sex OF the progeny has al
most invariably been male and the
The Mankato free press., 1923-10-12
WIDE USE OF RADIO

The speed with which farmers
nave taken up radio Tor practica.
ana social purposes is shown in a re-
cent survey maze by the United
states department OF agriculture.
County agricultural agents estimate
tnat lnere are approximately 40,UUU
radio sets on 1arms in $50 counties.
Ihls Is an average or fifty one sets
per county. applying the average to
&,SoU agricultural counties total OF
more than $4,000 sets on farms
throughout the country is estimated.
Inc county agents estimates cover
every state. In New York it is esti-
mated tnat IN thirty seven argricuI-
tural counties there are 5,502 sets on
.larms. The county agent for Sara
toga County, New YORK, reported 2.-
510 sets in the country. In fifty one
counties in Texas there are 3,OS5
sets. Forty three counties in Illinois
show 2.S14 sets; 20 counties in Mis-
souri,, 1851 sets; iorty-two counties
in OHIO, 2,620 sets; forty counties in
Iowa, 2,463 sets, and twenty six
counties in Kansas, 2,054 sets. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
and Minnesota have between 1000
and 1000 sets each. Federal weather
forecasts, crop reports, and marke.
quotations are now broadcast from
$50 radio stations throughout the
country. Special agricultural news in
the, form OF So called "Agriograms"
and talks on various phases of work
of the Department of Agriculture is
also sent out regularly from 250
broadcasting stations.
GENERAL AGRICULTURE SHOWS
Continued improvement in agricul-
tpre outside the wheat belt is re-
corded by the United States depart
ment of agriculture in its monthly
agricultural review issued today. A
significant development is the
strengthened demand for cotton and
pork, the review says. Consumption
OF cotton in American mills and ex-
port movement have both increased,
although the south has had to scale
down its expectations ON the size of
the new crop. The domestic and ex-
port demand for pork has absorbed
a record run of hogs at better prices
than were prophesied by the most
optimistic earlier in the season. In
the wheat belt, the situation is diff
ferent, the department says. More
Jnan a nunUreu MONIES III the WHedI
country are in distress. Debts which
have been accommodating for five
years are now coming due and farm
ers are. unable to meet their. obliga-
tions. This has. been one of the main
factors that have brought to head
the acute situation in the farming,
banking and business community. A
serious phase of the situation is. that
export of wheat have fallen off &c.
100000 bushels during the first eight
months OF 1923 as comDared with the
same period in 1922. the review
points out. Exports during the 1923
period were 1O5.664000 bushels as
compared with 141 $3.50. 900 bushels in
1922. The general index of purchas,
ing power of farm products in terms
of other commodities advanced one
roint during the month to seventy<
three. The index Of farm prices was
unchanged while the index of in
dustrial prices dropped slightly. The
agricultural index. now, seventy
three, is at the highest point, it has
been since June 1922.
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Fresh Topics That Attract
Attention Of the Farmers


Under he rheadIns TheFres Prsss pleased
desire
their agricultural" livestock, etc.
Make communications short Authors
sign their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS necessarily
publication but 0 guaranty Of good faith. =
The Mankato free press., 1923-10-12
Parking space Scarce

Milwaukee man has driven one
car 255,000 miles. Parking space
must be- scarce there.
The Mankato free press., 1923-10-12
BUILDING PERMITS
GROWING RAPIDLY
Shows More Than Six
Hundred Thousand
CITY WATER IS FINE
Council Decides To Go Ahead
With Structure; House
..-..- Machinery

. City Engineer Phil Com
stock stated to the city coun-
Gil at last nights meeting that
a recent test had been made Of
Mankato city water and it was
found pure and fit for human
consumption. The city water 10
good. w. ,-.
The building permits issued
by the city engineers depart
rlent thus far this year amount
to $618,563. - ~
The Washington times., 1923-04-08

very brief, although I have per-
sonally witnessed this phenomena
when it has endured for as long
ay fifteen or twenty minutes.
The texture is always chang
ing. first strong and clear, then
dim and foggy, and always rest
less, fluttering, changing in
strength, area, and shape,
have no explanation for the
meaning Of the spirit light sign.
have many, many times at
tempted to formalize this mani
festation and to convert the sign
into O coherent, Ineligible COM
munication, but have never sue
ceeded.
Certainly it is an authentic, sub
stantial proof of spiritual pres
ence and influence.
And certainly it is a common
manifestation, for all psychical
authorities speak of it, and many
especially those in England,
where psychical research is &C
corded a great deal more respect
than in the United States-these
manifestations have been made
much more vital and important,
as witness the reports made by
DIR. Doyle.
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have given up the possibility Of
a brilliant one.
When a girl has. In the par
lance of the day, been a flop
in her hometown society, she
has still a good matrimonial
chance in Washington, If she
comes here with the necessary
bankroll. The way to social sue
cess isn't hard II the material
means are there. Col. Eric Fow-
Ter, now on a mission to Chile,
used to say: "AH you have to
do to get into society in Wash
ington is. to feed EN- and feed
'em and feed EN-"
There are young men here
preparing for diplomatic and con-
sular careers-eminently respect
able jobs, with some social
position attached-and they need
financing over the rough spots,
because there isn't much money
either in diplomacy or in acting
as a consul. The young man
wants money; the girl, who may
be past thirty, wants some sort of
satisfactory marriage, for even in
these days OF acknowledgment
the woman who fails to marry
still is considered, and still con-
siders herself, something Of a
failure. So the match is made,
and may heaven have mercy on
their souls!
WASHINGTON A "VAMP."
There is a fascination about
Washington life. Men and women
come here from all parts of the
country, attracted as moths are
by a candle. Some one has said
that Washington is like a beau
uful woman; it vamps you. and
you don't want to go away"
Middle-aged women come here,
seeking matrimony or social posi-
ton; they live in the finest hotels,
but they eat in Childs', and they
resort to all sorts of economies to
keep up the pace.
Naturally, with all sorts Of
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
By EVA FAY

ment or hysteria, will minimize
the chances of success. This is
SO in all experiments in auto
spiritism.
The presence of one or two
skeptics at such a seance will
effect no harm.
The spirit light will appear near
one of those in the seance and it
may assume form or shape,
somewhat like a thin misty efful-
gence, or it may be very much
more definite and appear as an
actual ray or "gleam."
The substance is fragile and Is
observed by contrast against ma
ural sunlight more quickly than
In any other way. There Is no
possibility of Imagination taking
a part in this manifestation De-
cause all persons in the seance
invariably detect this presence at
the same moment, and they usual
ly agree that it assumes certain
definite shape.
Spirit light is blush in tint ana
while it Is definitely a light 1t IS
softened, shadowy, and appears TO
flutter about a certain area rather
than remain fixed upon one spot.
The manifestation is usually
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SPIRIT LIGHT VISITATION

communication is not one to par
ticularly satisfy the psychic inves-
tigator because the signs are not
messages-only proof of a Pres
ence-and the Presence Is appar-
emily unable or unwilling to
make clear his or her identity.
But as an experiment to cement
conviction of the actuality of the
nearness of a spirited Presence,
the spirit light cannot be success
fully disputed nor its genuineness
and authenticity controverted.
Remember-thise experiment may
be performed anywhere. Any
number Of persons may be pres
emit. There is no need to darken
the room. Indeed, 1 have some
times personally witnessed the
manifestation of spirit light in the
open-out of doors.
Here is the manner of expert
menting:
The person or persons who are
inviting the sign of Presence by
spirit light must refrain from con-
versation. The pass words"
should be audibly repeated and the
mind permitted to relax. High
nerve tension, any form Of excite
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undertaken with a fair degree Of
success either in a group seance
or by an individual experimenter.
Spirit lights have been known
to offer actual messages, but this
Is unusual, and so far as / per-
sonally know, this has occurred
only after long cultivation by
genuine medium-one who has de-
Veloped a high static contact with
one particular individual who has
entered the white shadowland.
LIGHT VISITATION.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sue
cess is probably well known to
my readers.
Mr.. Doyle, it must be remem-
bered, has enjoyed the benefit of
a broad medical training and it is
altogether unlikely that she would
be deceived by any manifestation
which had a purely physical orr
gin. His demonstrations of spirit
photography, for example, are all
accomplished by the medium of
spirit light, and while 1 have not
personal experience with spirit
light photography nor with the
manifestations Of "ectoplasm." I
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have had many demonstrations Of
the authenticity Of spirit light,
and after many years Of these ex-
periences, / submit to my readers
a plan by which visitation Of
spirit light may be invited.
But don't expect coherent mes.
sages.
Only in the rarest cases have I
known Of messages being made
clear. In fact. In only one case
have personally been satisfied
that the dead have communicated
a message to the living by means
Of spirit light, and this was one
which concerned a woman whose
husband had been a profound stu
dent Of all psychic ideas and
theories.
The widow Of this gentleman
was known to have received mes
sages in the Morse code just as
such messages are transmitted by
alternating lights over the Atlantic
cable.
NO NEED FOR DARK.
There can be no fraud, no self
deception about the manifestation
OF spirit light, but this means Of
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CTRs. MILES PoINDEXTER.

people shuffled into the hopper
of Washington life, good many
marriages turn out n1isfits.
During the war, for example,
number of girls of refinement and
position married men, lured by
their uniforms, only to find later
that though their husbands had
been able somehow to get COM
missions and were officers, the
commissions couldn't make them
gentlemen.
And then, too, there are all
sorts Of strange contretemps in
Washington society. For instance,
they tell the story of a girl who
attended some social function
where she met a rather hand
some and distinguished looking
young man whose appearance was
familiar. Before the affair was
over she recalled where she had
seen him. He had been a groom
for one of her neighbors! Yet
he circulated at face valu in
Washington society.
DANCE WITH CHAUFFEUR.
Not only that, but there are
stories afloat about two young
matrons of high position in So
ciety who on one occasion, at
least, spent the greater part of
the night dancing with their
chauffeurs in a garage!
There are, Of course, many
heiresses Of immense wealth in
Washington society. Most Of
them are insistently besieged by
fortune hunters-plausible, we'll
dressed, well-educated young men
of irreproachabIe manners. Miss
Mellon, daughter of the Secretary
of the Treasury, has been spared
most Of that by reason Of her p0-
sition as hostess for her father
she meets for the most part
older people, and Is SO much tied
down by social duties that she
has really little time to enjoy her
self as young people like to.
Miss Littauer, whose matrimonial
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n the last installment of this
series OF articles gave proof
- of the success of the triangle
visitation experiment and I men,
toned that the manifestation
which was most often enceun-
tered was the appearance Of a
blush light, which, contrary to
many other manifestations of
psychical phenomena, did not
seek a dark place in which to
make itself felt, but seemed to
choose the most brightly lighted
corner of a room.
The spirit light phenomenon Is
one of the commonest encoun-
tered by the sincere and intelli-
gent investigator of psychic mani
festation.
Spirit light development may be
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
TOmcat Falls
Into Wine Cask
And Gets Drunk
AYAArnnA -

ALAMEDA. Cal.
WINE, women and song may
w be the cause Of many per-
sons troubles and eventful
downfall, but when q tomcat
takes to liquor It is the limit.
Niger" a coal-black tomcat
and known in the neighborhood
of Eagle avenue as the feline
"sheik," was brought to police
headquarters the other night by
it's owner. ]. j. Stokes, on a
charge of drunkenness.
Asked to explain the ''sheik's''
condition, Stokes said he fell
from grace into a wine barrel In
the neighborhood Of his home
and since being rescued he had
refused to awaken.
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SAY US
Beginnings

We do get better. We do
move, however painfully
and slowly, toward the
light. We make mistakes,
we detour, we delay. But
even against heavy handi-
caps, there is gain.
X = y
The trouble with thou
sands of men and women
is not that they don't
think-but they think to
a certain point and then
stop short. And nothing
ever makes them think on
that subject again.
y X x
know q man who con-
dennis all creeds and be-
liefs, all clergymen, in one
glorious sweep. That he
himself is the narrow and
hiroted one. never occurs
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to him. We progress the instant we go far
enough back and begin with real beginnings But the
looking back into utter backness. There dark
spots in the world butand here is our hope-darkness
is not the law.
If should stand upon soap box in Madison Square
and try persuade you torture helpless babyhood to
the riches of the rich and the taxes Of the
abandon hospitals and orphanges, very life would
not be safe.
No. my one chance of holding you would be to enlist
your sympathy for the less fortunate
Doesn't that indicate a general trend toward some
pretty big things?
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Forced by Masked Mob
To Wed, Asks Decree

FORT WORTH.
A LI1EGING he had been forced
"A by masked men to wed,
young merchant filed suit in
District Court for annulment Of
his marriage to an eighteen-year-
old girl.
The petition says the mar
riage ceremony was performed
in the river bottoms and that he
was threatened with death If he
did not live with the girl.
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" becoming the great mat
w rimonial center of the
nation.
AS almost everyone knows, the
capital is one of the few cities
in the United States where wc4n-
en- outnumber men. Here they
outnumber men, believe, in the
proportion of one hundred to
eighty-seven, If my census fig
ures are correct, and that puts
young men at q premium In
Washington society.
It is true enough that the dis
proportionate figures are due to
the fact that 50 many girls are
employed in Government depart
ments. The sexes are more evenly
matched numerically in society"
But for all that, Washington Is
the city for a young man who
wants to carve out a social career.
1t offers exceptional advantages"
Ever so many young men are
here, running elevators in the
Capitol or the office buildings dur
ing the day, going to law school
in the early evening and bios
soming around in society at
night. Their elevator shifts are
remarkably short, 1t seems to
me-there seems to be new
youth on an elevator every time
/ go into either House or Senate
office building. At any rate,
they are able to get off for golf
ing engagements during the aft
ernoon or out motoring with the
seasons debutantes-in the debu.
tantes' cars.
SPEND. NIGHT DANCING.
Then they study law, or medi-
cine, or foreign trade for an hour
or so before dinner and the dance
or the theater. / have never
seen anywhere 80 many law
schools or law students as there
are in Washington. We shall
have an army of Cokes and
Blackstones II the universities
here keep on grinding out their
product.
Most of these boys come from
good families, / imagine, but they
do not have an over-surplus of
money. For the most part, they
live in fraternity houses, which
furnish them the lower rungs at
least of the social ladder.
For here they are able to profit
each from the social experience
of all; their expenses are not high;
and by policy Of mutual aid and
mutual boosting. they are able to
make fairly high. flights.
The fraternity buildings are for
the most part large and conspicu-
Gus; they are erected and fur
nished by men who have been out
of college many years and who
are loyal to their societies; and
they are the scenes of many
elaborate entertainments, at which
a good many prominent young
women are guests.
These young men are able
to cut quite swath in society
without much expenditure Of
money. How they manage to
dance all night and then do any
work the next day is a question
I will not presume to answer.
but at any rate they manage
to hold their jobs.
"FEED EN-, FEED EN-"
Yes, Washington is not only a
great matrimonial market for
young men, but likewise for
young women, and for some not
SO young.
Some Of these young men, no
doubt, are deliberate fortune
hunters. If so, they are nicely
placed. For to Washington come
the debutantes of some seasons
ago-the girls who are on the
point of being placed on the
shelf-with the idea of making
an acceptable match, after they
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to abuse the unfortunate, that In.
slant I lose all sympathy from
you.
STRUGGLING TOWARD GOOD.
Now, doesn't that indicate gen.
eral trend?
Forget for a moment that we
fail sometimes to realize the
dream, that men in power are
abusing it, and some women are
still more concerned in the tint Of
face powder than the welfare Of
the cooks baby
Grant that. But isn't the gen.
erai trend toward some pretty big
things?
Toward. for example. the good
of our neighbor?
Toward a lessening Of blindness
and squalor and pox marks and
cross-eyes and tuberculosis and
graft and greed and trusts and
solitary confinement and mendi-
cancy and unemployment?
Toward the absolute adjustment
of commercialized prostitution,
hunger, want, drunkenness, and
cruelty in any form?
And why? Why aren't we grow
ing nearer and nea ver evil? If
our God is really god Of evil
All, but he isn't and everyone
of us feels it in his heart Of
hearts.
WICKEDNESS FAILS.
Say what you will, boast your
little ignorant boasts about nepo-
tism and infidelity, yet you have
only to look about ycu to know
rather than to believe that good
is, and that the infinite Power
back of us all is God.
Wickedness fails, presently, of
it's own weight. We stop this,
form of it, and that.
Children are no longer shipped
among convicts for savage shores,
overlords no longer claim the viii
lage girls for 'bride-right," the
rack and the thumbscrews are
museum curios now, and the in
sane are no longer stoned through
our streets.
Greed exists, but we denounce it.
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He builds cities, and temples in
them, he dances, sings, letters,
paints.
And then come the great lead
ers-and the Leader Of them all.
And these tell him, still among
sacrifices and smoking incense
and all the remnants of the old
savage ceremonies, that the true
God is within, and that His only
law is love.
Slowly and painfully the man
learns to think for his woman
his child-his neighbours child.
Perhaps - perhaps. thinks his
fearful mind, love will conquer
where hate and the sword fail.
He saves the innocent girl baby
from death in the river, he cures
the broken limb, he builds a
clean, bright, airy home for the
blind and the lame.
Where are we now after-what
is it?-7, 900 years of struggling in
the dark, after 1000 years of
Christ?
DARKNESS NOT LAW.
Well. not far enough. But the
looking back is not into utter
blackness, after all.
There are dark spots in the
world, but-and here is our hope
darkness is not the law.
If 1 should stand upon a soap
box in Madison Square and try to
pursuade you to hate, to torture
helpless babyhood, to destroy
those who differ with you in re-
ligion, to increase the riches Of the
rich and the taxes of the poor, to
abandon hospitals and orphan
ages. my very life would not be
safe.
No, my own chance of holding
you would be to enlist your sympa-
thy for the less fortunate-to tell
you of moonlight schools in the
Tennessee mountains, of Christ
mas plans for the orphanage, OF
outings for crippled soldiers, Of
free reading rooms, free schools.
charity chests, educational work in
prisons. and Observation-Disclosures
ment-betterment everywhere.
The moment l get up and begin