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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-17
CHINEsE wARsH1P LAI YUAN.

odds the most Important man Of every
neighborhood. # he were private, he
drew only 2 cents q day pay, but the
government furnished him with his
house, and the house had q garden, the
tillage Of which would furnish plenty
Of food In those days the soldier was
practically . policeman, and he was
numerous enough il every province to
put down all traces Of insurrection.
When war with an outside power
the French came, in 1883, all this was
changed. No longer could the soldier
! live in a house and till garden fur
nished By the government, no longer
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-17


Totals 2,456 os2,se5
The average imports Of raw sugar
during each of these eight years was
2,456, 900. 900 pounds, the total for the
eight years being almost 30, 900, O00,-
900 pounds.
An analysis Of the foregoing figures
will show that out of the annual aver
age of imports Of less than 2, 500, 600, 600
pounds Of raw sugar there were 1, $780,
900, 900 pounds imported between 80 and
99.degrees test, leaving only 1876, 000,-
900 pounds imported between the range
Of rs and 80 degrees test. In other
words, during the whole Of this period
Of eight years there was at least 70 per
cent of high grade sugar imported into
the United States, while Oily 80 per
cent was low grade, or 1.-THE poor mans
sugar.
Mr.. Havemeyer further states that
1.-The cost of manufacture generally is
expended on the poor mans sugar. If
this be the case then ''the cost Of man
ufacture generally is confined to one
third Of the total output Of the refner-
les and the other two-thirds can practi-
caily be refined free Of cost. If this be
the case also, why does not Mr.: Have
meyer sell the higher grades of sugar at
lower cost-lower even than the price
Of "the poor mans sugar. upon which
1.-THE cost Of manufacture generally is
expended?''
Since the operation of the Mckinley
tariff the cheaper price Of the high grade
sugar, such as granulated, has resulted
in its much greater consumption, with
consequent lessening Of the demand for
the low grade yellow sugars con which
the greatest amount of capital and labor
is employed in it's manufacture and the
cost of manufacture generally is ex-
pended.'' Therefore it is quite fair to
assume that more than 70 per cent Of
the sugar refined now consists Of high
grade sugar, and that less than 80 per
cent is ''the poor man. sugar, = the cost
of manufacture, therefore, having been
decreased proportionately. <
If Mr.. Havemeyer were really as So
icitous for the welfare Of the poor
man. as he would fain have had the
senate Investigating committee believe,
he would at once cancel the secret con-
tract that now exists between himself
and the wholesale grocers Of the coun-
try. whereby special percentages and
rates Of discount are allowed them in
return for their support and patronage.
q system that has the practical effect
| Of creating q trust among the grocery
trade and Of preventing competition in
| the price Of sugars retailed to the poor
man. = 81 s. $50 &.
children Cry fnr
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-17
The American Economist has been to

The American Economist has been to
the trouble of compiling statistics to
show what were the aggregate imports
of raw sugar, according to each and ev-
cry grade by which the duty estimated
under the tariff act of 1883 was COL
lectable 1t compiled these imports for
the whole period under which that
tariff was in operation, beginning with
the year ending June 80, 1884, and
closing with the year ending June 80,
1891, and gives the aggregate imports
for the eight years and the average i'm
ports for each year, according to each
degree, as follows:
IMPORTS OF RAW SUGAR FOR EIGHT YEARS
ENDING JUNE 80, 1SS4-9l.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

led down to it, and along this they went, each
secretly wishing that the way was longer.
The Pacific was as calm as MILL pond, and
the smoke from the south-bound Los An
geles steamer, few miles off shore, stream
ed out to the north like an inky banner.
The crimson and amethyst of the clouds
glowed in the western waters till they ap-
peared to be on fire.
The young people sat down on the rustic
seat, each uttering EXPLANATIONS of delight at
the prospect, but each feeling that outside the
limits of that little circular structure the
world had but little to interest them
So far Ralph had succeeded in guarding his
secret, or at least so he imagined, and there
was that in Dora's manner that led him to
believe that if he had been less guarded and
had revealed himself that the discovery would
not have g wen offence.
He believed that she, unconsciously had
made the opportunity which he had been
wanting, and he bravely resolved to avail him
self of it.
They were seated facing each other, and he
rose to go to her side, when the crack of
rifle came up from the valley, and at the same
instant Ralph reeled and fell with his face on
her feet, and the blood flowing from red
scar on his right temple stained her white
dress.
/To he Confiu7lpd
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
CHAPTER VII.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
mot now, wait !"

AS has been intimated Mrs Morton was an
inval-a. In one wing Of the building she had
her own apartments. Here her meals were
served, and except on rare occasions. she
never saw her husband or his guests.
Those who knew Mrs. Morton, limited that
she was "a woman with great grief" but
what that grief was, no one knew definitely
Some limited. and these were women, that it
was disappointment in love that still troubled
her, and others whispered that it was due to
the fact that Colonel Norton like many other
men OF great wealth, was not as faithful to
the sweet pale-faced little woman as he should
have been.
Colonel Morton had had his lunch and was
about to enter his Office with Almedo. who
had requested a private talk when a lady-like
woman appeared, and said in a frightened
whisper, she was Mrs. Morton's companion
and had been Dora French teacher.
''Ze Madame, sare, she will spek wiz you."
M Tile Bertrand bowed and withdrew, and
the colonel said
You must excuse me for few minutes
captain; L presume whatever you have to say
will keep" and without waiting for Almedo
to make response, he strobe away. evidently
in no good humor.
He found Mrs. Morton in bright little room
opening into the conservatory. Without look
ing up from the heap of dainty sewing in her
lap, she snid the instant he stood before her:
mr.. Morton what is your purpose with
this young MANI
young man; what young MANI" he de-
manded.
Mr.. Holmes, if you must have the name,
to understand"
sob, MI. Holmesl What of him?"
81 asked what your purpose is with him?"
ST have none"
''Then why is he here?"
''He came with letter from Judge David
son, and L received him as would any one
else who came under the same circumstan-
ces," replied the colonel
''But is it right; is it fair?" she asked, her
eyes still on the sewing.
Fright? Fair? don't understand you"
he said, angrily.
s'Iou mean, you choose not to understand
me. | know why the young man has come
to the coast; so does Elerton, so do you
"Pray, madame, how did you learn all
this?"
sit matters not, know it. So far, you
have ventured and won. The time has come
when, if you are ever to do just act, you
must give a thought to Others"
''To you, for instance?" he sneered.
''No not to me; the only justice you can
do me now is to continue leaving me to N.Y.
self. But there is Dora.''
Mrs. Morton interlocked her thin white
fingers, and looked quickly up
'Well, what of Dora?" he demanded
'For her sake, this young man should
leave at once''
'But is not Dora worthy of him or of any
man that breathes?'
'True, but for that you deserve no credit"
she said, with more spirit; then after q
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

After leaving Dora his lordship Lit his
briar-wood pipe and walked slowly down to
the hamlet at the mouth of the Aqua Fria.
He had the tact to make friends, and he had
evidently been down here before, for at sight
of him, the brown and half-naked children OF
the fishermen swarmed about him, shouting
and showing their cleaning white teeth, and
holding out their griry palms.
He scattered among them lot of small
coins, and laughing at sight of their scramb-
ling, he jumped the stream at the head of the
bay, and had not gone five PAGES into the
jungle of cactus and dwarf palms, when Inez,
the insane woman rose up before him.
''You here yet?' was her demand, in
Spanish.
In the same language his lordship re-
Piled
''Yes, Inez am still here"
'And why do you stay?" she asked
''To help you, if you will let me-
81 can help myself; wait"
''But vengeance will come sooner with
help?"
'Aye, so it will" She tossed back her
hair, and after looking at him for fully
minute, with something like intelligence in
uoi Wy Dldch eyes, SIG dSkeu. w Hat would
you have me do?"
''Tell me the truth"
'Do you mean that 1 ever lie?" she asked,
fiercely.
NO faith, and therein you differ from
most of your Sex" laughed Pelham; ''but
what want you to tell me is which of these
men it is who has blasted your life?''
''They both have, they are one" she
Missed
well they look like twins, but they are
very different men. They did not know each
other when you met the first Which was it,"
Lord Pelham knocked the ashes from his
pipe, and blew through the stem, but did not
look at her.
She stroked her forehead in a dazed way.
cycling him the while as if debating with her
self whether to trust him. She evidently
decided in the negative, for she waved her
gaunt arms, and cried out, as she dashed
away:
'Not now, waltz"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
RELIGION IN SAN ANGELA.
A Short Lived Revival in a Tough
Town in Texas.
A NAN WHO WANTED TO BUY A MAP,
And a Gambler Who Was Determined
That Order Should be Preserved and
the ParsOn Should Have square
Deal-Related by Alex sweet.

San Angela, a town in Southwestern Texas,
is now quiet, orderly place, with churches,
school house, and all the requirements OF
modern civilization. For some years after the
war it was very different in many respects. 1t
was then a mere settlement that lowered
under the protection of Fort Concho. At the
Sort. as the military post was called, were
stationed several companies of United States
infantry. At the town of San Angela, there
was mixed population, male and female as
wild, barbaric and dissolute as the most
sanguinary desperate might desire. There
was the surviving hero of many fatal brawl,
the man whose ten fingers hardly suficed to
count the victims of his ''ready reference"
revolver. The hunted, battered and beaten
wreck of womanhood was there with the fierce
baleful light of a lost soul flashing from her
eyes. They were hard lot, those early set
tiers of San Angela, the wash and driftwood
of the advancing wave of civilization.
1t occurred to the superintendent of the
government works at Fort Concho that a
series of religious meetings at San Angela
might possibly temper the winds of wrath to
the shorn lambs of iniquity, and, accordingly
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

SCI want you to understand" said Bob en-
phatically ''that the Parson is drinking at
my expense, and he will drink whatever he
- pleases, from cod liver oil to goats milk
It's none of your - business what he
drinks, and I've a - good notion to make
you take lemonade yourself. Now you beg
the Parsons pardon, or I'll shoot you so full
of holes that your hide won't hold shucks''
The guilty party made an humble apology
and thus averted tragedy. This episode
closed the religious exercises at San Angela.
The Parson could not be induced to return,
and the religious excitement after that
waned to melancholy degree, notwithstand-
ing the almost superhuman efforts of Bob
to keep it up to concert pitch.
ALEX. SWEET.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
tCHAPTER VIII.
-&As IT AN ACCIDENT?

From the Palace Hotel there came in answer
to Ralph's inquiry: ''No such person as Albert
Howard stopping here. Should he register,
will notify you at once"
t.You can see," said Colonel Morton, after
Ralph had read the telegram, ''that you might
as we'll be here as in San Francisco, unless,
indeed you find Buena Vista too dull, in which
event, we shall part from you with regret OF
course, you ride on horseback Let me say
the stable is full Of horses, some splendid
saddle animals. Two of them are Dora's and
as she knows the country for miles about, she
would be pleased to show it to you. Then if
you care for sailing, there is yacht down in
the bay. 1 have not been aboard of her for
months, but Pedro is a good captain and the
others at the village are good Sailors need
not remind you that We have billiards.. and if
you like target shooting there is range
under the hill; Lord Pelham who's wonder
full shot, he has the English sporting blood in
his veins, is down there with AImedo. By
the way, Mr.. Holiness what do you think of
the captain?"
81 have not seen enough of him to form
an opinion" replied Ralph.
Hes little off here, like most of the
Spanish Americans said the colonel, laugh
= ing and tapping his forehead ssHis ancestors
once owned all the country round about here,
and the fellow still believes he has lien on
it. But, if you keep your eye On him, and
agree that California was never so happy as
it was before the Americans came here and
seized on the land, you will get along all right.
Ii there is anything you want and don't see,
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pause. Suppose Commodore West and Mr..
Holmes learn the truth, and fear that is in
evitable, do you think they will forget the
father in admiration of the daughter?"
With an oath and half step nearer, the
colonel bent down, and hissed:
81 have won, in spite of you and the world,
and shall continue to do so. won you, to
show 1 could win rather than because loved
you"
'Does the thief win because his crime goes
undetected?" she interrupted. s'If you think
SO, keep on"
She rose, the sewing falling unheeded out
of her lap, and stood defiantly before him.
81 read you,' he said, with a hooking
laugh. 81 know that tomorrow you would
blast me, but for one thing, and that is Dora
No blow can fall on me, without hurting her;
and so, madame, I can depend upon you as
an ally, though an unwilling one. As to the
young man, leave him to me-" He turned to
the door, and added over his shoulder:
''When next time you send for me, have at
least a plausible reason for it. Good after.
noon"
He strobe out, closing the door behind him
with bang, and as if she had been waiting
for this as a signal, Mile Bertrand entered
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
we say out here, just ask for it and it will

as we say out here, Just ask for it and it will
be yours ~
Ralph thanked the colonel although a little
blunt in his manners, he was model host in
his thoughtfulness, for he let his guests do as
they pleased, leaving his splendid establish
ment at their disposal.
After the colonel and Doctor EIlerton had
ridden away, Ralph looked about the gallery
and as Dora was not in sight, he went down
the hill from which came the cracking of
rifles, like desutory skirmish firing.
Under the hill, and away from all danger.
he found Lord Pelham and Captain Almedo
firing at target with Colt revovers.
Like most men brought up in cities, Ralph
knew but little about fire arms, not enough
even to understand what constituted skill in
the use Of eitheririfie OF pistol
Like all Spanish-Americans, Amedo was an
inveterate gambler, and was ready to bet on
anything depending on skill or chance, and
that means everything that human being
can do.
AS an Englshman, Pelham was quite as
willing to bet as the other They we're
shooting at suspended silver dollars at a dis
lance of twenty PAGES, fire being kept up and
the man shooting to have all he knocked
down in succession, the other replacing
them.
In response to Ralph's question: Pelham,
who did not seem to be doing his best, for he
fired without taking careful aim, and scarcely
looking along his pistol, said
''We are about equal The captain is
the best pistol that have met here. But
find heis not up in fancy shooting
ssWhat is fancy ShOOtiDp2 Ok PoJn
''With the captains consent will give you
one illustration said Pelham.
Captain Almedo nodded in surly way.
and then Lord Pelham suspended five silver
dollars in five wire loops and stepped back.
81 will stand with my back to the target"
he explained, as he took position twenty
five PAGES away with his loaded revolver in
his hand. ''Now, Mr. Holmes, you count up
to fifteen, and every time you reach three or
a multiple of it, will wheel and fire. Do
you understands
Eyes
swell, go on, about as fast as a clock
ticks
Ralph complied. At three, six, nine, and
on to the end, Pelham turned and fired He
seemed to be wheeling like dancing der
wish, but each three seconds shot rang out
and dollar fell.
Ralph applauded. He would have been
more enthusiastic had he understood the
skill required to perform the feat, which the
other did with so much ease
1t was late in the afternoon of the day fol-
lowing this, and Dora, who had been for
horseback ride with Almedo in the morning
came to where Ralph was trying to sketch,
while thinking of her, and said
''The west is full of broken Clouds Mr..
Holmes, and there is the promise of another
glorious sunset. What do you say to watch
ing it from the lookout?"
What could she have proposed that prom
ised her sole presence to which he would
not have eagerly consented?"
The lookout was circular, rustic struc-
ture, on the point of a hill that shot out in
the direction Of the shore. A shaded walk
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He. however, consented to take glass of
lemonade.
When the minister was asked to nominate
his poison and chose lemonade, somebody in
the outskirts of the crowd brawled out:
'Not by a. sight. If he drinks with
this crowd he'll drink wkiskey."
Instantly there was a connection in front
of the bar, and Bob Augustine found the
owner of the voice and held phAl pistol
under the gentleman's nose.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

the room, and with her bright, expressive
face full of pity, stood before her mistress.
''M'lle, kindly tell Dora want to see her
at once" said Mrs. Morton, who was still
standing.
''Here, madame?"
"No, shall be in the conservatory"
The French woman inclined her head and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

Embonpoint, to say nothing of obesity, is
as much of a bugaboo to some women as
gaunt figure is to others. Lillian Russell in
clines to the former, and in spite of sweaters.
Indian clubs, diet, and the like, the surplus
tissue gets the mastery. Pauline Hall, who is
also prone to much adipose muscle, maintains
her sylph-like proportions by abstaining
from all kinds of liquids at meals, and stead
lily refusing starchy food. Bicycling and
climbing produce large ankles. The exact
amount and kind of athletic exercise to in
sure symmetry is an unknown quantity in
the algebra of aesthetics. Perhaps strict ad-
herence to the Banting system of diet would
regulate the beauty lines of both fat and lean.
There is marked prediction with some
women thinkers to not only place women as
the intellectual compeer of man, but to give
her superior station; on the ground, pre-
sumably, of evolutionists' theory that "a
highly-specialized organization indicates a
higher condition of cultivation than less
specialized organization" The credence
given this extraordinary opinion cannot go
higher than that of the woman who spoke of
the Deity in the feminine gender. But, after
all, why individualize intellectually? We are
not at all concerned about the sex Of great
thought. That it is great is enough.
There is perceptibly a modicum of sensible
women who sacrifice convention in the inter-
est of common sense and courtesy towards
that sex which ever seeks to be polite to
them, that steadily refuse to wear any head
covering whatever at the theatres And why
not? now that woman is studying law at the
University of the City of New York, and may
be told, as Chief Justice Drake said to Mrs
Bardwell, the woman lawyer t'Take off your
hat, sir? Don't you know you are in the
presence Of the court?'
By the terms of the will of the late Mrs.
Mary Hemenway, of Massachusetts, the rev.
enue from the estate, which is valued at
$15O00,00O, is to be applied for fifteen years
to the fostering of educational enterprises.
such as normal schools for gymnastics, the
training of teachers, the teaching of cookery.
and so on. This phianthropic munificence of
one woman makes it interesting to speculate
on what Miss Hetty Green will do in that line.
When Hetty's tax assessor incubus passes
away she may think about building a church
with which the tax fiend has naught to do.
Many girl makes mistake in early life b,
imagining that because her overload mother
has told her she has beautiful face that her
face alone will carry all before her, and
nothing else is necessary to secure her
handsome wealthy husband and hosts of
friends; and as thirty approaches and her
palmer friends secure the prizes she be-
gins to realize that the average man chooses
the plainness and common sense which have
not been spoiled by fattery for wife. The
beauty will have admirers in plenty-hints of
all kinds, but genuine proposals she will find
few and far between.
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Women in the Rattle of life.
ITO be Contina.ed.)

have known brilliant men to be van
pushed in the battle of life, to live and die
unrecognized as the geniuses that they were,
and even to fail to keep the pot boiling, at
times, but 1 never yet knew woman who
put herself bravely to the task Of climbing
out of the slough of poverty, who did not
do it.
l often wonder why, and can see no reason,
unless indeed, special ''dear little angel
has been appointed to 'ssit up aloft" and
''look out for the life" of the woman who
takes sword in hand. But it is as certain as
that smoke floats heavenward or that the
sun rises in the east, that those of our sex
who stop crying, because some man does not
provide them with comforts and luxuries,
and resolve to do it for themselves, almost
universally succeed in doing so.
1t may be partly because woman usually
enters upon her task without making calcu-
lations, heads foriorn-hopes, which she has
no idea are forlorn, therefore with that conf
dence which leads to success.
Let her tell any sensible man what she in
tends to do, and generally he will ''smile
superior" and taking blue pencil from his
pocket, prove to her, in series of calcula-
tons which she is utterly unable to follow,
that it is impossible to carry out her PLANS.
She needs capital, she needs influence, there
is no room for her in the place she wants to
FILL etc., etc.
young man, having heard all this, would
sigh, and abandon the idea, comprehending
the value Of the information given and seeing
the folly of attempting the impossible.
If the woman is highly intellectual and
logical, she may do the same thing but the
ordinary member of our sex, not having the
slightest understanding of what has been
said to her, will cry, .'Ohl how dreadful,
isn't it a shame" and march on to the con-
quest of a little fortune.
MARY KYLE DALLAS
The average weight Of boy babies at birth
is seven pounds, and of girls six pounds and
a quarter, and it IS not little curious that
the largest parents, as rule, have the
smallest children.