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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
A Remarkable Career,
New York Letter in the Hartford Times

New York Letter in the Hartford Times.
Gotham has always been a wonder
full place for. ups and downs, but
doubt if it has produced anything
more remarkable In this way than is
seen in the career Of ED" Stokes, or
as an increasing number of people
now call him, Mr.. Stokes. His cleo
tion recently as president Of the Unit
ed Lines Telegraph company marks an
advance in q few years that may well
excite surprise Previous to the Jim
Fisk episode the public in general
knew nothing about Mr.. Stokes. What
it learned then was that he belonged
to a.respectable family but had been
rather wild. Fisk crossedhi path for
a woman, bounded him a good deal,
and, it is said, also threatened his
life. Then came the II. shooting
In the Grand Central hotel followed
by Stokes long Imprisonment in the
Toombs and the still longer one at
Sing Sing. That was supposed to be
the end of him Certainly NO. one I'M
agined that ED" Stokes would ever
be a man Of note in the community,
with SO very dark a cloud hanging
over. him. He served his term at Sing
Sing and soon after his release he went
to California. s*Hsae & $40 n ,s.l&a ID I.
Very little was heard of him ion
some time. Only his personal friends
knew how. he was employed there.
No one had any thoughtathat, having
been down SO low, he would ever rise
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
Great Defeats,

In the German fficialreport, 1866,
we find that 1000 men fought in
the battle of Koniggratz, and it is stat
ed that the outposts ofthe two armies
faced each other within distance OF
four and q half miles without either
army suspecting the near and concen-
trated presence OF the other Clerv
has an excellent chapter on this head,
though one would prefer different d.
vision and definition Of these duties.
Macdonald On the Katabach, trusting
to reports that Butcher was in retreat
and taking no precautions to verify
them with his cavalry, Was SURPRISED
on the march, and his defeat became
such a rout that he had to beg the
emperor to come in person to restore
matters. In 1870 McMahon's right
flank, was left unscreened. The result
was, that, although he had two divi-
sions OF cavalry in the reserve, his
Fifth corps was surprised and routed
at Beaumont. In tactics the same
rule holds good, for cat Waterloo Ma
poleon neglected to reconnoiter to-
ward Wavre, and became aware too
late of the advance of the Prussians."
The necessity of constant touch is ex-
emplifed by the fact that, after the
battle of Austerlitz, Murat's cavalry
mistook the line oferetreat Of the al
lied army, and so the whole French
army pursued on the wrong road. To
obtain the touch of the enemy and
keep it is all important in enabling re-
connoiters to find out much about
him. This is best done by small
bodies, having great mobility,
under sharp officers or non commits
stoned officers. Won Schmidt says:
'"The more the enemy sees himselfsur-
rounded by points and patrols only
which avoid him, but constantly re.
turn again, and not by tangible bod
les, the more certainly will every at
tempt he may make to break through
be frustrated, ~ and the less will he be
able to avoid perpetual observation
and obtain any information for him
self" Touching the distance in front
of en- army that the screen should
maintain and the extent of front to be
covered, Clery gives some useful exam
/ ples:t In the advance of the First
and Second German armies from the
Saar to the Moselle, in 1870, the cav
airy OF the Second army during the
first days march was pushed forward
to points varying from fifteen to tWen-
ty miles in advance Of the general
front. Ten regiments We're employed,
and they reconnoitered along a line
extending from Pont- ansey on the
right to PfalzbV1g on the left, about
sixty miles. This gave one regiment
to about every SIX miles Of front to be
accommodated. Army and Navy
Quarterly. s13s sa''l'@' $* -.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
OLE = YEAR "A 4 !: &C.

From Every Other Saturday,
Last year, under the chestnut trees,
Under the chestnuts white. ST .f3I. ~
Two Of us walked, two OF us talked
Would ~ were 40 to-nig q " q
Two were the voices, tremu lous, sweet:
5 Two we're the heads bent low; II IS Sss
Two were the hands, together claspefly
One white rs the fower-snow, ss n.
One year! Bntia year, when ali Is told, .5334
Twelve months and q dayl No more: is5
Yet my footsteps flag, and my youth seems
And my scared life feels fourscore. Il i
Two were the hearts that together beat.
Two were the hearts, yet one; 4
Two were the figures that, interlaced. IN
strolled, meath those trees, in the sun.
Those trees, those lsai-laden, bloom-strew:.
ing trees, f,Esr EsI A 4
That glorious sun OF June!
Now they strike the golden chords Of my
SOUL + $szj ..=s,, 3a$f d 3. # .
y, Sound sweet on it loves own tune. u
III. leaves, We fall, and grow green again,
Nor mourn for the spring time fed: :
All, trees, We bloom in another June, y ar4s
But the life OF my lie is dead! =
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
+ AGeorgia Samson.

Perhaps the strongest man in the
State is Mr.. Beussee, the blacksmith
at Mr., z. E. Birchmore's shop, Max
eys. He is about six feet ten inches
high, stands erect, and his muscles
prominent. He stands and with one
hand raises q hundred and twenty
pound anvil out straight for aminute,
and takes q large cart wheel in one
hand by one spoke and holds it out
horizontally at arms length. On
hearing Of his wonderful 1nuscu-
lar power we went over to- Wit
ness some Of this modern Samson s
strength, and when we asked him
about iit-ssY les, = says he, II think
am rs strong as any man in this conn-f
try. I cantake' this anvil and throw
lit from here TO that wagon { a distance
sof fifty yards use the hammer with
my right hand hut believe. I am
stronger in my left. Here, feel Of this
arm and the muscles; measure tiff YOU
want to- When I used to shoe horses
g never encountered one that
could mt manage could hold them
even il theS were wild Il have, never
found imam that was as stout in the
arms a. q an. exilgt ION Echo. Sss
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
Y. fond look She almost feIt that III III

u fond look? She almost feIt tina & III
time she would learn TO hate him. III
True enough punctual .to the mo-
ment William waited III the porch
with the broughma an; a moment later
and q, Woman's trunk was placed on
tho top, slender, g,iirrlish figure wear.
inc ~ small crimson hat with white
feather, and tight -fit ting crimson man
tie bord ered with fur, stepped in, the
door was. shut, and as if diyining his
masters wishes, the old manservant
drove the carriage swiftly, toward the
lodge gate. 81. !. .s.ts II 81
iss IN. Az s.5s8. n =.
What the rich man did with his
inner lie from that time, none knew.
Outwardly it was clear for all to see,
model OF austereness, rectitude and
rigid adherence to duty. Mr.. Harden
made no affection of piety, Of CONVEX
sion, as the phrase goes. He did not
take to reading his Bible, or excess
sive church-ggoing. The exactions of
conscience and custom in this lat
ter respect had ever been fulfilled by
him. "S't.':& Il E"..%s -.
But in his lonely, rennorse.stricken
WldowhoOd he took to good company.
Alike in look, dress and manner, he
affected the air Of a gentleman. AS If
to challenge the world, moreover to
say 8 syllable against his character,
he generally had to reside with him
some needy clergyman, or young man
preparing for Holy Orders, with whom
he took his meals and spent his eve
nings: over chess and backgammon.
He gave clerical dinner too,
delighting to assemble round his lux
urious board all the clergy of the
neighborhood, we'll pleased also, in
turn, to accept invitations to their
houses and be initiated into what is
called good society generally. The
world OF course welcomed the
millionaire into their ranks. He
might have married half = dozen
times, to his social and moral
advancement, had he pleased. From
the first, however, it was evident to
all that, whatever John Harden might
do for the Church and society, he
would never marry again. Clerical la
dies might get money out of him. No
woman would ever persuade him to
purchase a wedding-ring. These dis
fractions relieved the tendium OF soil
tude, and if he did not look cheerful,
at least he invariably wore an express
ion OF satisfaction. He might we'll
look satisfied! He was satisfying HIM
self, in other words, as he thought,
balancing his moral affairs, and put
ting himself on the right side OF the
banking book.
Norswas the widower forsaken in
moments of sickness or when 'infirnli-
ties overlook him. The devotxd An
| ma, whose heart had once turned Who'll
ly against him, whose feminine in
stlncts had revolted againsts the
sights put upon her mistress, now
testified even affectionate solicitude
for the changed repentant man. And
if there was one person in the world
to whom he ever opened his lips on the
subject OF the past, it was to his wife's
faithful servant and only friend
Temple Bar.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
Effects of Heat.

1t is certain death to a man to have
his temperature rise about q dozen de-
grees above the normal standard. Yet
one who has endured aclimate twenty
or more degrees below zero, can equal
~ endure one over hundred degrees
above. Indeed, some men work in an
artificial heat one hundred and fifty
degrees above, and some enter, from
time to time, drying oven more than
twice as hot.
It is only when the air is dry that
such a heat can be borne. A much
lower moist heat would be speedily "a
tai. What keeps the temperature of the
body down in air that so heats every
thing else is the evaporation which is
constantly going on from the surface
and the lungs. Evaporation is acool-
ing process. This matter of evapora-
ton Providence has SO nicely adjust
ed that the temperature of the body
III health remains nearly the same
whatever the outward temperature.
But should evaporation be checked
when the outward temperature is high,
dangerous results would follow. Among
these results are heat, apopiexy, or
sunstroke' IL Is greatly checked when
the atmosphere IS SO charged with
moisture that 1T can take up little
moisture from the body This is the
atmosphere condition known as
"muggy," when the most. .copious per
splratlon seems to have little orno
power to cool. So, too, there is dan
ger, Il the power TO persp.re y lost, OF
greatly lessened: Any feverlsh con-
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16

street men became firm and they or
the other hand gradually recogniiz-
ed inihim an unco only able basi.,
ness man. He went int Wall street ses1
himself and made some pretty good
turns. And now he comes to the front
as president Of q teles rapll organiza
ton that promises to, give to the over
grown Western Union company q hard.
push. Some Of the strongest finan-3
cial men III New y ork are at his back
and evidently have confid ence in him..
Therise Of Ed Stokes since his dreary
days ct Sing Sing is very remarkable
indeed. . z.} IL. Z. SIS .5.5 i
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16

one ofus two to grow old and wrinkled?
II our marriage was not blessed with
children, the misfortune was mine as
well as yours. These things rest with
the Almighty" ~. "%H7@ @'a ss4*.
For moment, moment only. her
voice swayed to real feeling as she con.
tinued: " ~ 5':' 8 vs. 80 E.''i r.. 2
''There was a time, when life was q
hard struggle to us, and you behaved
kindly to me, / would have laid down
my life to make you happy. And
was ever q true wife to you, J ohm, you
cannot deny that. Do you remember
when we Kept our little shop, how
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

eclipsed must have rushed across his scared
senses in that brief moment. What recol-
lections OF happy home, of fond wife
and loving children, of an old father and
salnted mother. OH my masters, tits very
sad this thing of the strong man in tears
And this man has been learned
and blessed, but the dragon of
rink curled it's Shiny folds round
round about him until it's embrace was so
firm that all the gates of peace and good
ness seemed shut against him. He was
committed for thirty days.
How base is the crime of ingratitude!
Charles Turner is veteran practitioner at
the bar of Bacchus, as his dissipated mug
and blear eyes too plainly indicate. Pat
rick Moran is poor old cripple with
kind heart and peg-leg. He met Turner
Friday night and the latter asked him for
place to sleep. Moran let. him share his
bed with him, and during the night he is
supposed to have stolen the old mans
money, 1928, from under his pillow. The
hearing was continued until tomorrow.
y Burton Morgan, a colored coachman with
the attire and manners of dude, was
charged with assaultlng w. P. Shepard, his
employer. He was fined $50 or sixty days.
John Anderson, my 10, John, had been
on a bender, and when arraigned, ne said
that he had taken an overdose of morphine.
He got five days. No.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

these are not stronger and more expensive
than under reservoir or low pressure sys-
TEN then there is the paradise OF the
plumber.
ECONOMY DISCUSSED.
In the matter of ECONOMY in machinery,
in first cost, both Chicago and Minneapolis
have heavy amount invested in reserve
machinery in case of accident, more especi
ally the former. Then, in the matter of
cost for running high pressure machinery,
none of the other cities are so favOrably
situated as Minneapolis. Not only has it
an ineXhOstible supply of water, but this
very water furnishes motive power for its
pumps, while Chicago and other cities have
to pay for coal for this purpose. There is
not a city water system without reservoir
but can tell of great calamity from fire for
this lack, and there is not city with a
reservoir system but cannot point
out where such has proved its sal
walton from calamitOuS cOn1agration. The
city of Cleveland is abandoning the direct
high-preSSure syrtem for the reservoir, to
be supplied with pumps from Lake Erie,
and such are the difficulties encountered
from uneven pressure in the mains at fires
in Chicago that reservoirs are being placed
upon the fire towers to equalize the same as
far as possible. Several times the ice has
so accumulated in the feed pipes of the
pumps in Lake Michigan that they have
been stopped, and the reservoir holding
four days supply has saved Milwaukee
from fire and from water famine. This
reservoir water service is also found to be
more economical than the old plan of pump
ing direct into the mains. In fact, New
York. Boston, st. Louis and all the leading
cities advocate the reservoir system to the
exclusion of any other. 99..etsf
HIGH PRESSURE ADVOCATES.
The class of manufacturers who advocate
the direct high pressure system, (the Holly
system for instance) are those who depend
for their bread and butter upon the sale of
their pumps, and it is possible that Engin-
eer Waters, the inventor and patentee of
the Jumbo pump, may unintentionally. of
course, have fallen intOsame channel Of rea-
soning in his paper on Pumping Machin-
cry and Reservoirs"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
PLANS FOR THE POORHOUsE.
The County Board Examines Those
Submit tied by re hitectS.

The County BOard Examines Those
Submitted by Architects.
A special meeting of the county commits
missioners was held yesterday afternoon to
consider the plans for the proposed aims
house. Five architects laid their plans be-
fore the board, including Walter Ife, A. M.
Radcliffe, George Laurent, +. P. BassfOrd
and George Worth. Those of the latter
most nearly filled the requirements, but the
board finally concluded to take definite ac-
ton in the matter at special meeting to
be held next week. The estimateSz ranged
from SIG, 300 to $25, 900, according 9fthe
general size and height of the building. G9d
The bond of j. j. Jervais, the recently
abstract clerk, was submitted to the board
for approval and was the occasion of con-
siderable informal discussion.
Commissioner KOnantZ claimed that Mr..
Passevant was entitled to longer notice than
he was receiving in order that he could put
his office in order.
Commissioner Bell moved that the bond
be approved.
Commissioner Hazard offered an amend
ment that the matter be laid over until the
next meeting of the board. gloy
The amendment was lost, the board 9di-
viding as follows: Yeas, Commissioners
Hazard, Schneider and KOnantz; nays,
Bell, Kerwin and the chairman.
When the original motion was put, Com
missioners Hazard, Schneider and Konantz
declined to vote. 1t was thus carried by a
vote. the chairman, Mayor O'Brien, saying
he would accordingly sign the bond. If
the matter was illegal they could have it
refuted.
A motion to adjourn was negatived and
the question of selecting an architect recon-
sidered. On motion it was resolved to
select George Wirth as architect providing
satisfactory terms with him can be agreed
upon. The board then adjourned to meet
on Wednesday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

further it would be necessary to have suit
able notice of contest. He presumed that
none of the members of the council wanted
to do anything improper. He closed by
making a motion that when the council adj
journs it adjourn till Thursday evening
next, and that i'll the meantime the cOrpor-
alton attorney look up the rules that should
govern the proceeding, which was carried.
MORE NOTICE OF CONTEST.
William Erdman sent in petition to the
effect that he was candidate for school
Inspector in the Third precinct of the First
aldermanic district of the Sixth ward, and
being defeated by the wrongful counting of
the votes asked for recount.
M. S. Gray asked for a recount for sim
liar reason of the vote for alderman in the
First, Second and Third precinct of the
First aldermanic district of the Sixth ward.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An ordinance was adopted changing the
name of Yale street to Holly avenue. The
city engineer is to report a profile for the
establishment of grade line ON Margaret
street from Earl street to the city limits.
The committee On gas and water was in
structed to have conference with the board
of water commissioners in regard to a re-
ductiOn of water rates. The request of
George Benz and John Haggenmiller to
erect one-story wood or brick building
40X60 feet on the north side of Third street
at the corner of Wacouta street was re-
ferred to the committee on fire department.
The returns of the votes taken at the last
election were read and the candidates hav-
ing majority of the votes were declared
elected. Tho result was not materially diff
ferent from that published in the GLOBE
the day after the election. The official
table is given in another column.
The votes for aldermen and school in
spectors were not changed but in few fig
ures from those previously given in the
GLOBE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
Grand Gift Distribution, Christmas, 1885

This is the fifth year since we inaugurated our
plan of distributing number of elegant and
costly prizes on Christmas day among our custom
ers. This year we offer gifts more beautiful than
ever before, the whole aggregating over $l,5O0 IN
value.
Each purchaser to an amount no matter how
small receives q numbered ticket representing q
chance in the grand drawing.
The principal gift will be magnificent French
bird clock wonderful piece of mechanism, a
perfectly correct time-keeeper, and the most
beautiful drawing room decoration possible.
Value, $500
Splendid diamond stud the stone being pure
white and brilliant, and finely set. Value $780,
mammoth music box of exquisite workman
ship performing the choicest melodies, having a
handsome supporting table; value, $780,
dozen each of sterling silver knives, forks
tablespoons and teaspoons of chaste design;
value $3.50.
set of the most elaborate silverware truly
elegant in design and finish; value $780,
very elegant pair of genuine Lemaire opera
glasses, in pearl and gold; value $40.
For the little maidens we have procured very
beautiful French doll, the Queen of the Fairies:v
she is three feet tall has sweet face and is
dressed in the height of Partisan fashion, with
silks, satins and laces, and wearing an elaborate
bonnet: in her tiny are pair of genuine dia-
mond ear-drops. the whole being worth more than
$l25. Any little girl under IL years of age can
procure ticket for this beauty by applying to u.s.
whether they make a purchase or not.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
The City Schools.

Superintendent Wright presided at the
general meeting of the teachers of the public
schools of the city at Assembly hall in the
high school building yesterday morning, it
being the last gathering OF the same the
present school year. After an interesting
lecture on Brain Fire by Dr.. Riggs, which
he illustrated with colored plates of that
organ, Superintendent Wright announced
the subjects and dates of forthcoming eX-
aminatiOnS for admission to the high school
and promotion in the graded schools, as
follows:
June 49,, morning, German, afternoon,
drawing; June %, examination in all grades
of language; June %, all grades of arith-
metic; June "a, history and geography
25, spelling; June 26, the pupils in the
graded schools will receive their promotion
cards; June 81, promotion cards will be
given out to high school scholars. The eX-
animation of applicants for positions as
teachers will be held June 81. The exam
nation of teachers desiring to be promoted
to be principals will be held on the same
day, and will embrace the following sub
jects: Natural philosophy, algebra, general
history, American literature and school
management. The superintendent of the
various departments will hereafter be at
Superintendent Wright's Office fran $3.50 to
4:30 p. m. on the following days: Music,
Monday; penmanship, Tuesday; drawing,
Wednesday, and German, Thursday. This
is to accommodate persons desiring any in
formation regarding methods OF instruction.
No pupils are to be transferred from the
district they now attend school in on ac-
count of change of residence, except upon
their parents special request. There are
about 125 pupils to be examined for admis-
sion to the high school. The roll of honor
will be made public June 26.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
VICTIMS TO VICE.
The Sad story Of a Man Once Re.
spected-.The Buns.

The Sad story OF Man Once Re.
spected--The Buns.
Look at this picture, young man, and
then Assoc your passion for fast company
and drink. There is something terribly pa
thetic in a ruined character and wrecked
manhood of human interest
which exceeds all the imposing vine-clad
castles and venerable towers in Christen-
dom. The tourist on the great highway of
life needs no guide-boOk to point out the
human landmarks that have split on the
rocky beach of vice and intemperance. Ev-
cry pathway of life is strewn with hideous
monstrositieS of humanity.
''You are charged" said the court yes
terday, with the larceny of a parasol."
The prisoner, tall man with iron-gray
hair and intelligent but horribly dissipated
features, stood up in the bull pen and put
in feeble disclaimer,
II took some quinine, your honor" he
said, land it made my head so dizzy that
didn't know what was doing" He then
buried his hand in his face and wept 1t
is hard thing. gentle reader, to see a
strong man stricken with grief and remorse
What visions of bright manhood forever