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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04

had not seen before, when Icame to
the front OF mighty pretty cottage,
with a trim garden and grass lawn in
front; and stood admiring it a bit, as
have a fashion Of stopping to enjoy
the sight OF nice place, when hand
was laid on my shoulder real hearty,
and q CHEEKY voice cried out:
Constable John Frick! give me
your hand!"
sH you'll believe me it was that
identical loafer, Carl Sevholm!,
But not the FIRST bit of a loafer now.
Not much. You wouldn't meet a
smarter looking mannor more respect
able gentleman in a long days march.
It was solid pleasure to look at him
and re member what a. GOd-fOrsaken
scamp he had been not three years
ago.
"Come right in and see Mrs. Sew
holm!" he said, pulling me up to the
side of the porch all covered with pref
ty vines. "She'll be mighty glad to
see you"
Pleased? You'd better believe. it..
Pleased wasn't half name for 1T.
The light OF newborn happiness and
thankful gratitude was just dancing in
her bright eyes.
All, wasn't she a PICTURE! Health
and rosy gladness OF heart had all
come back to her. Soul-numbing
trouble had all gone. She was just as
sweet and nice looking lady as ev-
er set eyes on, and the baby, asplump
and fresh as a spring robin, astod-
ding around like house a-fire.
House WAS furnished handsome, l
can tell you. Everything in top ap-
ple-pie order. 1t was easy to see that
the old miserable saloon tippllng was
played out for good.
When / stood up to leave after en-
ioying a realpleasant chat, and prom
Using to call again, Sevholm clasped
my hand as he said:
''Constable John Frick, that was an
awful thrashing you gave me: Ny
bones ached for a month. But it did
me more good than anything I ever
had. And l thank you for it to-day.
It made a man Ofme. God bless you!'
w. Whitworth i'll Cleveland Leader.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
OUR NATIONAL DEBT.
The Debts of Other Nations Per Capita
Indebtedness.

The Debts of Other Nations Per Capita
Indebtedness.
Cor Cincinnati Times.Star.
The decrease of the public debt in the
fiscal year will be over $50, 100000.
This is not SO great as in former years,
but it is faster than we generally sup
pose Five million ofdollars a month
is $l66, 900 a day, or 500 81 minute.
That is pretty rapid rate atwhich to
be extinguishing the public debt, in
spite Of the people who are crying all
the time that our debt is growing less
in an imperceptible way.
People who are in thehabit ofgroan-
ing about our debt being too
great to bear will do well to inquire
about the debts of other nations. Take
Italy, for instance. Her debt is over
$4,000, 100000, or about three times
as much per head as our own. Russia,
who is apparently eager for war, has
debt of So, 500, 100000.
Great Britain, whose population is
but 81, 100000 against our 56,OOO,-
900, has adebt Of about four times as
much per head as we have, and yeti
Great Britain is supposed to be excep
tionally we'll off. France, brilliant and
elastic France, whose recovery from a
terrible war a few years ago has been
the wonder of the world, is carrying a
debt of 81, 100000, 900, or five times
as much per head as our country is
carrying, Our debt is about $25 per
head all round, that OF Russia almost
$40 per head, that ofItaly nearly S75
per head, that OF Great Britain 800
apiece and that OF France about$13O
per citizen. The interest charged on g.
debt OF this sort is something enor-
nous, more than thepeople can stand
under for any great length OF time.
OF our debt only a little over bill
ion bears interest, or to be exact ST.,
1916 i 50, $50. OF this only as much
as $780, 100000 bears as much as
4 per cent. interest. 1t is interest
ing to see how much money remains in
the treasury unclaimed, after the in
terest has ceased to accrue. On some
of this the interest ceased O. half a.
| century ago, while on large sums in
terest has accumulated for twenty
years, and yet the principal has never
been asked for.
What do you suppose is the expla-
nation of the delay in presenting these
due so long?" your correspondent
asked of an official, running over the
curious list, which, by the way, foots
up several millions OF dollars.
@That's q mystery" he answered,
with a smile. II suppose some Of it
has been lost or stolen, some oft burn
ed up, some of it stuck away in for
gotten places, perhaps some held by
people who do not know that interest
has ceased on it, or who do not know
that they have the bonds at all. There
sometimes come to us some Of these
that have come to the light by some
curious turn in the wheel of fortune.
OF course, a very considerable portion
of them will never turn up or be pre-
sented for payment.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
THE NCAS OF OLD.
People Who Were an sOneida Communi-
ty on q Large Scale.

~ ON n Large scale.
Lima Letter to Chicago Inter Ocean.
No man can see Peru without won
dering at the grandeur, the industry,
and the intelligence OF the Inca En-
pire. They had arts which the world
has forgotten; knowledge which the
world never knew; thrift which their
conquerors could never initiate, and
wealth which made them the prey of
every adventurer of the Sixteenth
Century. Their temples and palaces
were built ofhewn stone from quarries
that the Spaniards have not been able
to discover, an0 the means by which
they lifted blocks OF granite weighing
hundreds of tons is a problem no
antiquarian has been able to solve.
They knew how to harden cop per
until it had all edge as keen and en-
during as the finish OF modern steel;
they made ornaments OF gold and sill
yer and cut jewels as skillfully as the
!apidaries of to-day, and their fabrics
Of wooden and cotton are spun and
woven as smoothly as modern looms
IAN make. They surpassed modern
civilization in many things and had a
system OF government under which
millions of people lived and labored as
single family, with everything in
common, knowing all arts but those
of war, worshiping a deity whose at
tributes were almost parallel to Chose
Of the Christ ain God.
Hemmed in on one side by the i'm
passable SHOWS of the Andes, and on
the other by desert, lifted abovet the
rest of world unknown to them, in
spirit as we'll as fact, as peaceful and
calm as the Andean stars, they es-
tablished q system of civilization in
which for the first time since creation,
the equal rights OF every human being
were recognized and observed The
great sea beating necessarily against
their desolate coast was recognized by
them as symbol Of the infinite, the
omnipotence whose force and majesty
their simple logic could not compre-
bend; while the sun, whose heat and
light made existence possible, was
recognized as the source of all good.
Hence these two elenent is, the sun and
the ocean, were perso omitted and were
the objects Of the Inca 8 worship. 81
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/ Rather Lose Life Than Limb.
From the Boston Herald.


From the Boston Herald. z I. /:
Miss Lena Solyel is a Swede, %
years Of age, employed as a domestic
in the family Of Mr.. Adams, 223 West
Newton street. About $50 O'Clock
last evening, while returning from Rox-
bury on the East Boston horse car,
she alighted at the corner of fremont
and West Newton streets, when "a
Brooklyn car going the opposite di-
rection ran over her left knee and
thigh. She was taken to the City Hos
pital, where it was decided that she
could not live unless the injured limb
was amputated. She positively refus-
ed to have it taken off, arguing that
she was poor and friendless, and had
rather die at once than. be q cripple
for life. She was perfectly cool and
collected, and, although suffering Sc
we're pain, seemed as calm and reason
ed as philosophically about the remov-
al of her injured member as if it was
one of the most trivial matters posi-
BILE. AS the physicians have no au-
thority to force her decision, she will
probably die, in case she does not
change her mind.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
Mary HOWitt's Father and Moth

When my father was employed as
surveyor in 1906 on the Talbot es-
tate, at Margam, he attended the First
day meeting Of Friends at Meath and
met, at the hospitable table of Evan
Rees, Ann Wood, a convinced Friend ,on
avisit to Evans wife Elizabeth. They
saw each other frequently and became
well acquainted. On one occasion at
dinner she suddenly learned his re-
gard for her by the peculiar manner
in which he asked: "Wilt thou take
some nuts, Ann Wood?" She took
them, saying: II am fond of nuts"
''That is extraordinary" he replied,
''for so am t. There was in those
parts an aged ministering Friend Of SO
sanity a character as to be regarded
in the light of a prophet. One First
day morning after they had both been
present at meeting, this minister drew
her aside and said, "IfSamuel Botham
make thee an offer Of marriage thou
must by no means refuse him" Ac-
cordingly he was before long her ac-
cepted sutton. In the year 1896, on
the sixth day of the twelfths month,
they took each other for man and
wife after the prescribed simple form,
Sin the fear of God and in the presence
OF that assembly They were mar
ried in the Friends meeting house at
Swansea, where the brides mother
then resided. Il, the marriage certih-
cate my father is stated to be an from
master of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
II ,,,re4 fl,nynfr,Yc |, y,o noy,c16a Jsad fhn
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
One of the <tNOb1e Six Hundred"
From the CHICAGO Times.

from tne 6'n1c1gp l1l1es' =
John Reynolds, now of Buffalo,
was one of the, "Noble Six Hundred"
that rode into the VALLEY OF Death
at the battle OF Balaklava. He was
born in the County Of Longford, Ire
land, and entered the army in 1851.
When asked how many came out Of
Ehe charge alive, Mr.. Reynolds said it
was hard to say, SO many who We're
wounded recovered afterward. Prob
ably there were l5O on horseback who
returned to the English lines. The
men did not drop faster than IN a
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04

Winfield Scott Chaplin, recently
elected professor Of civil engineering
at Harvard, graduated second in the
West Point class OF 1870, and has
been professor in the Maine State col.
5lege, il the university Of Toxic, Japan
and st Cornell university.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04


rent of cursing vituperation.
Then I grabbed him andyanked him
backwards with q pretty rough jerk,
but before I could secure him he gave
me O. clip under the ear that knocked
me over a stool, and made another
savage lunge at the defenseless woman,
as she strove to get out of his way.
The blood of Constable John Prick
was now up to fever heat. Generally
he is a nlild-tempered man, with a
constitutional tendency to peace. He
never could stand quiet and see a
woman or child abused though, and
he tackled that madened brute with as
little conjunction as he would have
trampled the life out OF a snake Or rat.
l. knocked him down, kicked him a
time or two in the ribs, and mopped
up the floor with him in way that
sobered him so he fairly roared for
mercy. Never gave man such an un-
merciful thrashing in my life before.
And all this time his wife, her face as
white as death and holding out her
arms imploring, begged for mercy on
his cowardly hide. s>2
That was wOmanlike too.
"Now you get a. team and move this
stuff ikely!" l said, as let him crawl
up off the floor. 4..- .s..c. .s.-.:~ =.
Turning to his wife, as she stood all
in tremble, I assured her he had new
er had anything do him,as much good
as that beating would do.
And was right, as l am able to
show. 4@
did not see or hear anything OF
them, except once, about three months
after, when Sevholln called at the Office
and redeemed the chain, till as much
as two years had gone by. ! CHANGED
to be walking one evening on 9 street
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19
THE SENATORSHIP.

The protracted Senatorial contest in this
State ends to-day. 1t has been conducted on
the whole, with less acrimOny than usuai I;
although with the single exception OF he
anomalous struggle in 1881 it has aroused
wider interest and greater excitement than any
similar election since MIR. Evarts was a candl-
date against Horace Greeley, nearly quarter
of century ago. :,
The end is already apparent. 1t Is result
which, as readers of THE TRIBUNE must Know
Is peculiarly grateful to us and is, we De-
leve, in accord with the obvious wishes or
majority of the Republican voters IN the otaVe
1t is also result that will be received with un-
usual qualification by Republicans at the Gap
ital and throughout the country.
1t is q result, tOO that leaves few wounds
From the beginning The TRIBUNE has earnest
ly desired to reach this end in this way ;-that
the wishes of the people should be fairly heard
and respected that no candidate should nave
reason to complain Of unfair treatment at our
hands; and that, when the choice came, 1t should
be recognized, not as Blaine triumph or an
anti Blaine triumph, Stalwart or Half-Breed
triumph. a Conkling, q Cornell or an Arthur
TRIUMPH but simply as deliberate choice OF
conspicuous, able and trusted Republl"an, by
majority of Republicans of all wings and
shades. in the best interests OF the whole Re-
publican party.
With this election, attained in this way,
we may fairly hope for wiping out OF
old factional divisions, a balancing and
closing of old scores and rear
raugement of the dominant political forces
in New-York on new lines. We may hope, IN
fact. for the return of the Republican party to
its old estate, as a compact aggressive, conh-
dent party of principle, disciplined hy defeat,
purged of faction, recalled to the spirit and
purpose of its better days, and set in order for
its next great struggle, the recovery OF the
State of New-York, by the election of a Repnb-
hcan Governor in 1885.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19
ENGLAND AND THE CANAL.

The London press is mindful of the futile op-
position offered BY English capitalists, mer-
chants and engineers to the Suez Canal. 1t Is
not disposed to lay much stress upon the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty and readily comedies that
the diplomatic difficulties could easily be OBJ
waited by negotiation, il the United States Gov
ernment should decide to construct an inter-
oceanic canal. The argument used by The
Daily Telegraph is that in view of the import-
ance of bringing Australia within less than
thirty days of England, any special privileges
acquired under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
ought to be waived. The assertion is made that
the Foreign Office woala not be supported by
E. slish opinion in plar'ng diplomatic obstacles
in the way of The United States and preventing
the completion of a work that wonld be OF un-
told advantage to mankind. 1t can hardly DO
SLord Granville's DESIRE" continncsthi iniinen-
tial journal, ito quarrel with the United States
q soyer long forgotten treaty to which few Eng
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19

ulshmen attach very great Importance. Eng
land has no interest in opposing oy io'co "
canal through the Isthmus of Panama py "h'''
q soever Nation It may be constructed"
Tho moderation with which the Nicaragua
Canal enternrise has been discussed in England
indicates clearly that negotiations for the moa'-
fication or even the abrogation OF tle ","S'o"
Bulwer treaty can be successfully conducteu'
England has so much to gain commercially W
tbe cutting of the isthmus that IL VIII hot Ian"
per either French investors OF the ohi'eu
States Government, but will recognize the Iac'
that ifs own interests will be promoted by the
spcress of this great enterprise. Diplomatic
opestions arising from the Clayton Buiwer
tre.tv need not preclude the final ratification OF
tbe Nicaragua treaty. These difficulties can be
eventually adjusted by negotiations petweeh
the two Governments; and II the American
case be presented with firmness and techhica'
skill, England will perceive that the Nicaragua
treaty does not violate the letter OF the earlier
treaty, except in a single clause favorlng Ameri'
can ships. The main questions which the SEN
ate will have to decide are whether puDhc
nolicy reouires and justfies the construction OF
the canal and whether the country is prepared
to assume the Responsibilities "hich oo Eio"' "-
undertaking will entail.
The English press regards the Nicaragua
treaty "a on extremely bad bargain for the
q ausually shrewd Yankees" since they admit
their co-partner on terms which no other nation
in the world would think of offering under the
circumstances The Senate ought to examine
critically the sections securing to Nicaragua
after the repayment of the preliminary ioan' q
share of the revenue from canal tolls that may
be out of proportion to the value "f the tern.
torial cessions. The freedom and neutrality OF
the canal and the responsibility imposed by "a
nrotectorate over weak Central American
State are phases of the question which require
painstaking study and deliberate action The
London journal whose utterances we have been
quoting frankly confesses that England would
unouestionably be prepared to fight were free
access to the Nicaragua canal denied to hor
sbips after the highway to Australia had once
been opened. The Nicaragua scheme ought
not to be undertaken unless the right or the
United States to control the channel and TO
fortify the mouths is distinctly asserted. Yet
if il be asserted navy must be built to en-
force il.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19

$3 81 to ~ 80 on fancy glassware This win
prove helpful to the manufacturers. and evcn
at $23 per ton for $500 miles .he roads win
be doing better than those which are taking
freight from Chicago to New-York, 900
miles. for So per ton. But the Pacific roads havs
peculiar expenses and no enormous traffic like ,aas
OF the Eastern trunk lines to support them.
NATURAL GAs--The price at Pittsbure for do.
mestic purposes has been reduced to 1919 cents per
1000 cubic feet. and a company announces that.
after careful tests, it finds the gas at that rate
cheaper fuel than coal. A strong company, said to
be supported by Eastern capitalists. Is organizing
TO transport the natural gas to Eastern cities by
pipe line. and it has secured vast Of gas-pro
ducing territory within few days.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19
RFAPING As THEY HAVE SOWN

The brief discussion in the House shows that
the tariff question cannot be kept out OF Con-
gress. however hard Democrats may labor to
AVOID it. Indeed, there are continual threats
of Free Traders that they mean to pass some
bill this year. and these threats, if not likely to
end in any mischievous action, nevertheless dis
turb industry and prevent the revival OF conf
dence.
1t ia about two months and half since
the elections, in which the Democratic party
was successful. Nearly tvery week Demo-
cratic Journals have informed their readers that
business was reviving; that the good tunes
which Mr.. Clevelands success was to bring
were Just at hand; and that the incalculable
blessings of "a change" were about 10 DC
realized. Everybody else has been not only
willing but particularly anxious that TINS hope
full view of things should be justified by re-
sults. Whether Republicans OF Democrats, we
all want public prosperity, and better times for
labor and for capital. But the naked fact is
that the country mas not seen so much indus
trial or commercial trouble in any previous
two and half months since Democratic re-
beilion broke out as it has seen since Mr..
Cleveland was elected. 1t is to be hoped that
this trouble may speedily end Butif the Dem
ocrats ih Congress continue to do everything
they ought not to do, and to refuse TO doevery-
thing they ought TO do, that hope is likely to be
disappointed. IL they threaten to rob every
body who has any earnings invest
ed. and to break down any industry
which Republican legislation during the
past twenty five years has built up, and refuse
TO save the National currency from destruction,
| or to avert the evils to which silver coinage ex-
poses the country, it is hardly probable that
great prosperity will come swift-winged to
bless us.
| 1t would be well if business men could TN
| derstand that the Democratic party is almost
| as impotent as it is malio GUS. 1t cannot enact
onv law to which Reyur llcan Senate will not
| assent. The election or Republican Senator
from this State, it is to be hoped. will
remove all danger of Democratic control In
that body for at least two years to come, and IL
| the people of this country, before two years
| have passed, do not conclude that they have
| had as much of Democratic rule as they want,
we shall be greatly surprised. But even 1t tho
| Democrats could get control of both branches
| of Congress, they could not agree among them
selves. The party is impotcnt because it has
neither principles nor capacity.
Nevertheless, its everlasting agitation does
harm continually. The people who are now
ont of work know what Democratic victory has
cost them. The consequences have been ssri-
GUS enough already to Justify all the earnest
warnings uttered by Republicans during the
Presidential campaign. All will sincerely hope
that the worst of them have been seen. But il
Congress does not contriye to behave more SEN
sibly in future, the prospect for business OF
industry cannot be called brilliant.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.

The imprisonment of Dir. Edmund Yates
may serve useful purpose by directing public
attention to the criminal law of libel. His
offence was the publication in a society journal
of a paragraph which had been received from
an occasional contributor, a lady of high rank.
Although no name was used, the identity of the
person TO whom the libel referred was an open
secret. There ia no reason to suppose that
either the editor or his assistants suspected the
lbellOus character of tho paragraph in ques
ton. They believed it to be true, having re-
ceived it from what they considered response
BILE source. When they ascertained that it waa
not true, they promptly corrected tho error,
The victim of tho libel has sought redress In tho
courts, and Mr.. Yates has been condemned by
New-York tribune., 1885-01-19
the Court of Appeals to serve out bis term oi
four months imprisOnmtnt.

the Court of Appeals to serve out his term Oh
four months imprisonmtnt.
The sentence will not be attended with serious
discomfort or hardship. The prisoner VIII DC
allowed to furnish several comfortable rooms
IN Holloway, to hold daily receptions, to provide
his own table and wines, and to live like re-
tired prince. Literary occupation ne Will nave
and the gossip of the town will be the solace
of his leisure hours. He will live very
comfortably in prison, suffering mainly
from want of exercise, and improving
an excellent opportunity for making Ihe
World even brighter and more interesting
than 1t usually is. Public sympathy will not Dc
withheld, since whatever may be the vices or
society journalism, in this instance the victim
suffers vicariously, having given no evidence
of personal malice of vindictiveness, and pay
ing the penalty of the indiscretiOn and care
lessness of his associates and correspondent
who was implicitly trusted.
The indignity Of the imprisonment remains
Luxurious furnishing, elegant appointments,
home comforts, and the daintiest menu will not
take away tho humiliation of durance vile.
The society journalists modification will be
intensified by the reflection that his personal
enemies have succeeded in somewhat
vindictive attempt to subject him to criminal
prosecution. The pecuniary penalties, which
the law of libel provides, would have given the
the aggrieved complainant full redress. with
these he was not satisfied. He wanted crini-
nal reprsals Criminal proceedings may be
justified by legal technicalities in this case' put
common justice condemns them. There Is, per-
haps. more malciousness in them than there
was in the original libel.