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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
A YOUNG GIRLS FORTUNE.
AN INTERESTING SKETCH.

Nothing appeals so strongly to a mothers
affection as her daughter Just budding. into
womanhood; Following is an INSTANCE e:a "G Our
been terribly afflicted with nervousness, and
had lost the entire use Of her right arm. , she
was in such condition that we had to keep
her from school and abandon her music les ss,;
are positive but for an invaluable remedy
she would have had that terrible dffi1ct1on;
We had employed ply sicians. but she received
no benefit from them. The first OF last August
she weighed but IS pounds, and although she
has taken only three bottles OF Nervlne she
now weighs 106 pounds; her nervousness ana
symptoms of STYLUS dance are entirely gone,
she attends school regularly, and studies Win
use Of her arm her appetite is splendid, ana nd
no money could procure for our daughter the
health Dr. Miles Nervine has brought her
When my brother recommended the rem,
edy had no faith in patent medicines, ana
would not listen to him, but as last resort Is n
he sent us a bottle, we began giving II TO
Blanche, and the effect was almost lmme4l-
ate."-Mrs. r. r. Bullock. Brighton, n. Y;
Dr. Miles Restorative Nerv1ne IS SOLO by an
druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent
direct BY the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart
Ind, on receipt OF price. g per bottle. SIX K
bottles for S.. express prepaid. 1t Is positively
gree from opiates or dangerous drugs
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
Insult to Injury.

1t is a favorite plea Of the leader OF
the court house gang that one rea-
son for the increase Of the county
debt is that farmers did not pay
their taxes in 1898. The fact is the
expenses were greater in 1898 than
ever before. and ifeverybt'dy had paid
his taxes for that year the income
would have been several thousand
dollars short of the expenses. The
actual facts are that the total valu-
alton of the county for taxes that
year was about $4,000, 600 ana a D.
mill tax for county revenue (which
is the highest allowed by law
would raise only $4,000. Yet the
revenue expenses for 1888 were over
$4,000. The pleasant feature we
wished to refer to was the complaint
of the court house fellows that the
farmers don't pay their taxes. The
only use they can see in property
owners is to pay county taxes, and
it is u mean trick not to come up
promptly with every penny. How
ON earth will the gang get along
without the fat salaries from the
county offices, and they will not be
paid unless the property owners pay
their taxes. Really it isn't fair to
hang hack and keep the $4,000
beauties from getting your money.
Then If NO money comes in how can
the gang buy the jurors and wit
nesses' orders at from II to Is per
cent discount?
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
THIEVES CAUGHT.
They Take a Robe From -
b. Stuart's Barn and
Are Captured.

Deputy Sheriff George Tanner amer
went to Motley Tuesday night ana
returned today with two men men
named French and McKrennei who
were arrested ON the charge OF steal
ing a robe from F. B. Stuart's livery
barn on Tuesday morning. These
men put their horses in Mr.. Stuart's
barn on Monday night and lett
about 2 O'Clock the next morning,
taking with them Il robe. The con-
stable at Motley was notified TO
arrest then which he did. The robe
was found in their possession.
They claim to be en-route to Park
Rapids ON a hunting trip. Books
were found in their possession show
ing that they had taken orders for
clothing and nursery stock. ~,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
Political Notes.

Valentine Kasparek. the Republi-
can candidate for county auditor,
was a caller Monday. Wallis putting
up a fine race and it is our predic-
ton that he will win by several laps.
There is one thing about Valentine
that is much in his favor and it is
that where he is best known the
people are most enthusiastic for him.
Hi will carry the Democratic town
of Two Rivers, IL feat Republican.
has never done before.-RoyaltOn
Banner.
The sheet across the street is rum
ming a puzzle column now in whiclh
it tries to roast what it calls Demo-
cratic boilers. Who has a better
right, it bolted the ticket in '92 when
it knitted F. W. Lyon in the back.
Auditor Ellenbecker and Treasurer
Meyer are hust!ing these days in
a frantic endeavor to give the
tax payers of Morrison county two
years more of the $4,000 beauty"
show, while S. 2. Brick attends to
both offices.
5. NJ. Owen, the POpulist nominee
for governor, will speak in this city
on Oct. 10Th.
Don't miss hearing Chas. A.
Towne, OF Duluth, at the opera house
on Wednesday evening, Oct. II.
This is the man whom his opponent
Baldwin, dare not meet in discus
sion OF political issues.
Werner Hemstead, H. &. Stivers,
and Chas. johnson, of Brainerd, and
A. l.. Cole, OF Motley, are in the city
to attend the Demo-Pop meeting
and finish the work of fixing up IT,
natius Donnelly's ticket.
M. NJ. Williams, G. A. Lindbergl, j.
Fl. Rhodes and 1. Il. Staples adj
dressed the voters OF Green Prairie,
Tuesday evening. There was Il
good attendance. and some Demo-
era ts, at the start, but after hearing
the plain facts stated regarding mat
tiers political each one present signi
fed his intention Of voting the Re-
publican ticket from top to bottom
this fall The meeting was rouscr
and made lots OF Republican voters
Meetings will be held at thef0llow-
ing towns on the dates given below:
Oct. 22-Rich Prairie, Hon. &. +.
Buchanan, NJ. NJ. Williams, G. a.
Lindbergh, $. A. Siverts.
Oct. 23-Rail Prairie, j. II. Rhodes,
Hon. Jonathan Simmons, l.. Gaudet.
Oct. 24-Randall, A. =. Blanchard.
E. p. Adams, D. ID. Odds.
Oct. 25-Parker Town, S. A. 81
verts, r. S. Clark, f. p. Adams.
Oct. 26-SwanvilIe, c. A. Lind
bergh, II. S Clark.
Oct 27-Elm Dale. j. II. Rhodes,
NJ. NJ. Williams, f. A. Lindbergh.
All the candidates have filed their
certificates Of nomination with The
county auditor except NJ. Garfield
and George Gerritz who are out Of
the race.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19

The county of Morrison it seems
must bear all the burdens in order to
make the officers of the county as
easy as possible. The register Of
deeds is paid for recording instru-
ments left at his office to be. recorded,
but, nevertheless, he makes the
county buy all imaginable books
with printed forms at big expense to
the county in order to save him the
work for which he is paid. The
county should not be required to
pay for printed books and the regis
ter OF deeds be paid for work that he
never does. II he wants to buy
printed books he should pay for
them himself All these items OF ac-
commodation for the county officers
comes out of the taxpayers pocket.
1t is time that our officials do some
thing for the county and not let the
county do all for them. A prudent
man when his expenses exceed his i'll
come makes q change in affairs, and
Il county with people interested in
it's welfare should do likewise. A
change in county affairs in Morrison
county will certainly resu]t.~tO the
interest of the county.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19

The reelection OF the present
county officers would be an endorse
ment Of their extravaganza eXpendi-
lures and they would at once con-
clude that the people endorse not
only the present heavy debt OF the
county, but the continuation OF in
creasing it, and the expenses would
be piled up without limit under such
an Endorsement. On the other hand
the election OF new officers will be an
admonition to the new officials that
will compel them to inaugurate at
once an economical administration
of county affairs, otherwise they
could not expect to succeed second
time. In view of the present bank
rupt condition of the county, coupled
with the fact that the candidates for
the offices on the Republican ticket
are all men of the highest qualities.
who can concientiously refuse to
yut" for the change so :n;!"'! needed
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
Not u W ord.

The court house gang will never
say a word about the county debts,
unless nailed by some sta tement in
the Transcript. They have been
forced to admit it is $23 ,393. "a, which
they do in the CROOKED statement"
published a few week1ago. That is
the highest the Transcript had ever
put it, 80 they were willing to let it
stand at that. We were waiting to
see if they cared to tell the whole
truth, but not ii whimper have they
made since the falsehoOd and decep-
ton OF their ''crooked statement"
was SO completely exposed. The
amount $23,393.G4 is obtained by
adding the outstanding orders.
$1S.S86.5l to thecounty revenue tower.
draft" OF $4,5O7.13. Now what are
you going to. do with the court house
fund "overdraft" Of $1,O94, and the
interest ON court house bonds "Over-
drawn" $6S.S5? You add that all
together and you get IL "floating'
debt of $24,556.49. That court house
fund overdraft is good thing, too.
First the county commissioners issu-
ed $4,000 in bonds to build court
house, then they issued $l5 900 to help
out, and even then they had to leave
an "overdraft" of over $1,000. Now
we have Il floating debt OF nearly
$4,000, and the gang that
has made it insist that
their record deserves endorsement
this year. II The people of Morrison
county really want any more such
government all they have got to do
is to elect the Democratic county
ticket.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
A Pair Of Scraps.

A man from Pike Creek reports
that a row occurred out that way
Friday night in which a man struck
another with an axe. He made for
him the second time, but was pre-
vented from doing any further in
jury by another man who was pres
ent. The names of the parties could
not he learned.
Another row is reported from,
Buchanan A man named Olson. Il
new settler, was attacked by two
women and a man and pretty badly
used up. Olson was cut on the head
Will, u knife
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
Vreed Discharged

Verne Vreed, the man who was
arrested at Aitkin on the charge OF
stealing a gun from W. A. Kinney
had his trial Monday before Justice
Shaw and was discharged 1t Ap-
peared from the evidence that Vreed
only borrowed the gun.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
A Change of 0 wnership.

On Tuesday Thomas Bailey sold
out his livery interests to Hon. Z. B.
Buck man who will conduct the bus
mess at the Old stand on the corner
of Second street and FIRST avenue
n ortheast. Ed Hattcn, who has
been in the employ of MIR. Buchanan
for the past eighG years, will nave
charge Of the barn.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-19
MHCCHBEES ENTERTAIN
n Large audience to Hear
Hon. D. F.. Markey and
20" Misc Bina M. West,

Several days ago the Macabces OF
this city issued invitations for re-
ception and entertainment to be
given at the city hall on Monday
evening. Afterward they secured
the court house hall, and it was well
they did 50, for it was crOwed to
overlooking and many were obliged
to remain standing and some who
could not secure seats went away.
1. Greengard, commander Of the
Little Falls tent, was master of Ger
emOnies.
The first number ON the program
was music by the Harmonic band,
which was followed by an invOca-
ton by Rev. Geo. r. Geer, of the NJ.
E. church.
Ira l.. Warren then delivered an
address OF welcome.
Miss Bina NJ. West, of Port Huron,
Mich, supreme record keeper OF the
Ladies' of the Maccabees, was intro
duced, and delivered d speech of con-
siderable length upon the origin,
work, and objects of the order. Miss
West is pleasant looking lady, an
eloquent speaker, and at times
brought down the house with her
bright jokes and humorous stories,
all used, however. in illustrating
some point of the lecture. We have
not the space to give her remarks in
full but for those who wish to know
something about the order we give
the following: 1t was organized in
Michigan eight years ago and has a
membership of about 10000; any
lady bet ween the age OF 16 and IS,
who can pass a satisfactory medical
examination, can become a member.
1t is not necessary for them to be
relatives of knights of the Macca-
bees. Connected with it is an insur-
ance of $500, 81 900 and $4,000 and at
very low rate.
Following her remarks, Meyers
Bros. and Laird rendered selection
also responded to all encore.
Hon. D. p. Markey, supreme COM
mander of the Knights OF the Macca-
bees, then addressed the audience.
Besides being honored with the
higest Office in the order, Mr..
Markey has been highly honored in
past by the people Of Michigan, and
is an ex-speaker of the house of rep
resentatives. He is brilliant ora
tor, and the subject upon which he
spoke, ''Knights OF the Maccabees, is
one in which he takes great deal Of
interest. The work and object Of
the order were explained at consid-
cradle length, and it is safe to say
that in the near future the local tent
will have boom. There is an in
surance connected with the order,
and members receive a certain sum
in case Of sickness. The order now
numbers about 166, 1000 and in Michi-
gan, alone, where the order origin
ated there is $4,000 members, Dur
ing the past 10 months the order has
increased $1,000.
F.. w. Stevens, the supreme senti-
mel for Minnesota, was presented.
These officers are making a tour
through Minnesota and will speak in
all the principal cities in the inter-
ests of the order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13

into the bargain. to be in the thick
Of the turmoil don't care rap
where, London holds no talisman for
me any more than any other big CEN
ter-where men TEEN and life lives.
for it seems even better to live in pain
than to doze in apathy All. if only
my brutal health would have stood it,
Poor John how the old sore will
break outr' she said tenderly. with a
short, dry little sob. land 1 too. I
would give it all, and my eyes to boot.
if I had just one little child.-and
Mrs. Waring, up there in her fine
house, would give it all if she could
only grasp her lost motherhood. Two
old sores aud a new!
''After ALL" she added, when ais
said and done, we are no worse off
than our neighbors. None of us. it
seems to me, get any more than the
rags and fragments of their hearts
desires. and yet we all manage to
make life jolly on them We do. john"
she said, with a gay little laugh.-It
was wonderful how she managed it
with her heart quivering.-"Look in
my face and say we do!''
He lokoed in her face, and he kissed
her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13
CHAPTER XIV.

When Strange set out on his honey
moon, it was with a distinct project
simmering in his brain. He meditated
a good three months loiter through
the by-ways of the Tyrol, on into
Switzerland and then home through
the towns of the Netherlands, and all
by routes best known to himself
1t becomes, however, moral impos-
sibility for a man to loiter with any
comfort by the side Of a new-made
wife, into whose very bones and mar
row the spirit of unrest has crept, and
So by intangible gradations the loiter
has developed into a tumultuous forg-
ing on
Gwen seemed possessed by a very
dignified and quite calm seeming devil;
ne was q gentlemanly creature and
made no untoward fuss Or excitement,
but movement he must have, he dared
not rest.
In spite of herself, Gwen found
growing in her from the very day of
her marriage, a craving, full Of sub
dued fierceness, to be in the very mid
die of the hurly-burly, no matter
whether it ragged in Fashionable hotel,
or in the market-place of a country
town. She had, besides, other uncom-
Portable ways. In alleys, where the
sun shone and the wind rested, and
where ordinary mortals We're bathed
in soft enhancement of delight she
ooopa1 to yoco ho1f how l;fo
On the contrary, she lived, her voice
regained it's timbre, her eyes shone,
her mouth laughed, her very hair
sparkled with vitality, as soon as she
got high on a mountain-the bleaker
and harsher the better.
One day they had climbed to the
top of the D'Auburg, a dour-looking
mountain in the Tyrol generally avoid
ed of tourists, but for some reason
Gwen took it into her head to ascend
it.
She now sat glowing and tingling
with radiant health, leaning up
against a rock that sheltered her from
the blast that was screeching across
the ledge Of the mountain. She looked
as cool, and as beautiful and unruf
fed, as if she had just dropped from
the clouds, instead OF climbing up to
them by a most villainous path. There
was always sort Of exotic splendor.
about her, and yet she never seemed
out of place.
To Be Continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13

Now she simply trusted to her good
luck to get a satisfactory interview,
and, stepping up to the desk. she said
as sweetly as possible "Good morn
ing
Good morning, young lady. What
do you want?" he said. gruff1y.
only TO speak to you a moment
if you are not too busy" she answer
ed with some trepidation, for he seem
ed very tough customer to begin on.
She had been told before going that
nc one else had ever been able to get
anything from him. so it was a mat
ter Of pride with her to succeed.
my time is worth S. a minute" he
said very decidedly. as if that settled
the question. land I cannot afford to
waste it. Good morning"
She felt that it was now or never
She had just received her weeks sal
airy and had it in her pocket.
Every well, SIR" she answered
promptly, ST will take three minutes
If you please"
Taking out her pocketbook, and
watch, she put three S. bills on the
desk and her watch open on top. and
sitting down on a chair beside him
she began to talk.
She says he looked up in astonisll-
ment, with smile on his face, and
when the three minutes were up by
the watch she had obtained an order
for several weeks and made friend
Of him, which stood her in good stead
many time. OF course he did not
take the money, and she knew he
would not, but she caught him by her
promptness and did a good stroke of
business.
She said, though, that she would
have paid the money like a man if
he had taken it, and considered the
order she secured cheap at that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13
Grover-"How goes the battle?"


Wounded and weary Wilson, from
the interior of many bandages about
his head-"We have lost everything,
your highness, except the income tax"
Grover-"Where is Gorman?"
Weary Wilson-"On top"
Grover-"How about the party?"
Weary Wilson-"Senator Harris says
it is further in Hades than a pigeon
can fly in six weeks
Grover-"Put none but free coal
men on guard tonight, and in the
morning I will send orders what to
put through the house. Tell Crisp to
come down tonight, and bring a jug
of Georgia whiskey-and, hold on, see
that Mills comes, and order two jugs"
Weary Wilson departs.
Grover (solus)-"History must be
made, and German and the other
other traitors crushed, cen though the
the Dominion Coal company go into
the hands Of a receiver and sugar
drops to O."-Phfladelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13
To Be Continued.
WOMAN AID. SOLICITOR.
Story of One Who Was Willing to
Pay for Time Taken.

Printers Ink: The reason why Sc
many women fail as advertising So
licitors and agents is because they
have no conception of the meaning of
the word time as applied to bust
ness people.
There is lots Of money in it, more
than in almost any line of work con-
nected with publishing, and a woman
starting out to make a living for her,
self in this line Of work must come
down to business principles at once
and forget that she was ever entitled
to more courtesy than is shown from
man ito man.
A business mans time is counted by
the minutes. each one of which is
worth so much money to him. When
a woman, no matter how attractive,
makes her way into his private Office
and takes up so much of his valuable
time that he is either compelled to
give her what she wants Or treat her
with rudeness he is not accustomed
long run. A small order given under
these circumstances, closes the door
forever after against her.
But, on the other hand, if she asks
and is granted an interview, a few
we'll chosen, terse sentences, stating
her errand, will, if it does not get the
order at once, make a good impression,
and, in all probability, the second visit
will do much more. | do not mean
that one visit is to suffice for all
time, but by liberal use of tact, and
a constant remembrance that a bust
ness mans time is worth so much to
him, much may be gained; at all
events what one cannot accomplish
that way it is almost impossible to
get any other way.
To show exactly my idea, I will re-
late an incident, which was told to
me. of a busy woman who earned a
very fair income by getting advertise
qnents for one of New York's dailies.
She had been working at it for near
ly six months, when she was told one
tlay to go and see a prominent linen
dealer of Twenty-third street and try
If she could get an order from him.
L.
bantankerous individual and extreme
w hard to approach, and she knew
If she stated her errdnd she would
tot be able to see him at all
So. assuming confidence she did
hot feel. she went boldly up to the
store one morning and seeing a floor
walker stepped up to him and said,
in an "acquaintance-of-lon standing"
sort of voice: HAS Mr.. c. come
down yet? I have looked all over the
store and cannot find him.
"Oh, yes, miss the man answered.
thinking she was an old friend: che
was in his private office, over there.
a few moments ago.
Thanks. very much" she answered.
81 will go over and see him a min
ute then" and she walked deliberate
ly over and into the office where. he
was sitting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13
CHAPTER XIV.

The day after the wedding Dacre
decided to depart in rather indecent
haste. The situation was too much for
him.
All the morning he had been re-
ceiving succession Of small shocks,
but some time after lunch he expert
enced an awful one. He caught his
mothers eyes fixed on him with such
a dumb yearning as would have upset
a rhinocerous, not to say Dacre, and
he could have sworn to two tears that
gathered in them and were as sudden
ly dried up. He blushed furiously and
fed, in a terrible access of shyness,
to the rectory where he astoniShed
Mrs Fellowes by the heat of his
countenance and his greedy consump-
ton of tea.
"Good graciousr' she thought, sis he
in love-Dacre?"
She took up her cup, and gulping
down her tea in rather an hysterical
way. she watched him over the edge
of it.
1.-THE color, and the stutter. and that
awful thirst, they are all deadly symp-
toms. On the contrary, theAamount of
cake he swallows goes against it.
| What can it be anyway? Mercy!
Can't he hurry? / feel worn out be-
tween them ALL"
| Presently Dacre recovered little
and began to talk in a desultory way,
saying a vast number of things he
didn't want to say, but on the whole
lucidly enough. Mrs. Fellowes pricked
up her ears and grew keen all over.
she got for her pains little informa-
ton but, with previous experience
of the family, enough to go on.
''Worse than levers!'' she thought
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13
POPULAR BY SONGS
MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE
WON FAME BY SINGING FA-
VORITE MELODIES.
HOW GENERAL BOULANGER BE
CAME KNOWN.

Harrigan, Seaman, Annie Pixley, Tony
Pastor and Others Made Famous
by TuneS-Riches That Have Fallen
to the Lot Of Others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13

'Now. as Shakespeare says. began
the congressman from the sixteenth
district of Pennsylvania
'Shakespeare?" interrupted men,
Der from Missouri. "What district
does Shakespeare represent Pitts
burg Chronicle.