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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Grasses and Forage Crops.

Nearly all over the western states
there seems to be a general interest in
the question Of land improvement by
clovering and getting much Of tho land
into meadows and pastures. It is a
shame that some systematic attention
has not been given to our grasses, for
herein must lie the salvation Of large
portion of the western part of Kansas
and Nebraska. There are varieties OF
grass said to do we'll in droughty re-
gions, and little experimentation along
this line would seem sensible. Then the
care of meadows and pastures should be
encouraged. Most of the dairying and
feeding sections in the west are not too
heavily stocked, so that in any ordinary
season the heritage is not only plentiful,
but it has chance to produce seed for
its perpetuation, which cannot have but
a marked effect for good on the pastur-
age. Many pastures are grazed in rota-
ton, and the effects of such system
cannot be too highly estimated, as it al
lows the more tender and often most
nutritious plants time to reouperate.
This plan might be more generally
adopted all over the country to advan-
tage.
Where the pasturage becomes scanty
through unavoidable causes it is {; good
plan to close the fields against stock for
time, to allow the grasses and forage
plants to seed. By adopting such a
method it is astonishing the good results
that would follow in a short time
should the weather be favorable.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Reinstated In the Army and Pro-
NOTED to a Captaincy.
VICTORY FOR THE MAN OF DESTINY

Fires His First Gun at the Siege of Toulon.
Energies From Obscurity and His Ex-
traordinary Character Revealed - The
Reign of Terror In France.
Copyright, 1895, by John Clark Ridpath.]
VII.-JACOBIN AND CAPTAIN OF ART1L-
LERY.
Bonaparte was cashiered; but his case
was not hopeless. He was able to leave
Corsica with such record as gave him
a fighting chance for recovery. Through
out his life fighting chance was all
that he demanded. BY is misconduct
as an officer he had brought the disaster
on himself He had overstaid his leave
Of absence. He had refused to return
when summoned to his command. His
disobedience was rank.
Busy among the Jacobins of the Cor
sican towns, Napoleon had needed not
the repeated order to return to Valence.
Getting himself chosen, first major, and
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
FRAUDS EXPOSED.
Como of the Tricks Of So Called Mind
Readers Solved by DIR. Hyslop.

Como of the Tricks Of So Called Mind
Readers Solved by DIR. Hyslop.
DR.. Hyslop of Columbia college, says
a writer in the Boston Herald, has help
ed to bring down several SO called mind
readers who have visited New York.
The Taylors, man and woman who
gave exhibitions in New York two
years ago and convinced nearly every
one who saw them Of the genuineness OF
their manifestations, gave private Sc
ance for the benefit Of this Columbia
professor and some Of his sclent1ho|
friends. They found hidden objects,
they picked out cards that had been Sc
lected from pack and then shuff1ed in
again, and all the other familiar tricks,
with more than common success, one OF
them staying in the room and being in
the secret, and the other coming in aft
or all was ready and supposedly read
ing the partners mind.
All went we'll until DR.. Hyslop and
confederate took the Taylors aback by
announcing that they could do the same
things. They had found that the words
used by one Of the mind readers IN
calling the other into the room were
what gave the desired information. 1t
was discovered that by skillful arrange
ment of not more than six words sur
prising amount Of information could be
conveyed This is the first time the fact
that the Taylors were not genuine mind
readers has been made public.
Another "mind reader" exposed by
Dr. Hyslop and coinvestigators was
Guibal, who gave exhibitions in New
York recently and astonished hundreds
of persons, most Of whom suppose to
this day that his tricks were bona fide
psychic phenomena Guibal's assistant
was a woman called Greville, who sat
on the stage, and who, so far as could
DO seen for long time, gave him abso-
lutely no sign of what was in her mind.
Guibal apparently read that mind as If
it were an open book. The whole thing
was found to b. trick, and the expla-
nation is now in the archives Of the So
ciety for Psychical Research. 1t is be-
lieved that Guibal and Greville were
the same persons whose performances
had amazed London not long before.
The woman breathed very heavily, and
the code Of signals lay in the manner OF
her breathing, messages being conveyed
by long and short breaths, something
like the dots and dashes i'll the Morse
telegraph code.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
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BY Arranging For Irrigation at q Critical
Stage In the Crops Growth.

BY Arranging For Irrigation at Critical
Stage In the Crops Growth.
Some Of the experiment stations are
giving considerable attention to studies
regarding the amounts of water required
by different crops for perfect develop.
ment, as well as the best time and
methods of applying it, 1t would be
well to consider also the economy of wa.
ter storage and irrigation on a small
scale, as suggested by The Experiment
Station Record. The Record very truly
says:
A deficiency of rainfall during COM
paratively short period at critical stage
of the growth of a crop--as, for instance,
at the time of formation of seed-may
result in serious reduction in yield and
quality of crop or in total failure.
The most reliable safeguard against
such result is irrigation in some form.
There is reason to believe that the sys-
TENS Of irrigation now SO extensively
and successfully practiced in the arid
and semiarid regions may be employed
in modified form and on smaller scale
with marked advantage on at least the
more valuable farm lands Of the humid
regions Of the United States.
In such regions there is usually little
trouble in securing all the water needed
for purposes of irrigation. By impound.
ing the small streams and utilizing the
springs which occur on almost every
farm sufficient water might be stored at
small expense to carry the crops safely
over the one or two dry spells" which
are likely to occur during the growing
season. The construction Of extensive
reservoirs andpcanals of course could not
wisely be undertaken, but on great
many farms the Typographical conditions
are such that the small streams might
be collected in reservoirs from which the
wator might be distributed by means of
open bitches over large area Of the
farm, or portion Of the flow Of larger
streams might be diverted and distrib-
uted by the same means in time Of need.
In fact, this kind of irrigation, especial
ly in meadows, is already practiced to
limited extent in the eastern United
States
Such a system intelligently practiced
would very largely eliminate the ele-
ment Of chance in farming operations
and reduce the culture of the soil more
nearly to a science. Besides affording
greater security, it would permit of in
tensive cultivation and the widest d.
versifcation of crops. The latter is a
matter of highest Importance in those
regions which are at present confined to
the production of one or two staple
crops, such as cotton, corn or wheat.
Under this one crop system failure of
the crop is much more serious matter
than under system in which variety
Of crops is grown.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Seed Domination.

It has been ascertained by an extend
ed series Of experiments that rye and
winter wheat will terminate in soil the
temperature Of which is as low as 81
degrees Barley, oats, fax, clover and
peas will sprout at 50 degrees. The tur-
nip is az cold blooded as the rye and
winter wheat, but the carrot needs SO
degrees and the bean 40 degrees before
they will make the initial effort to send
the life shoot in search of air and light.
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~ Papers Best
4 4 Flower Seed
4 3 For Is Cts!

t1on as yet IN this country, puI IL mas
been in use in Europe for some years.
Surely it would be worth giving 1t a
trial at some Of the experiment sta
tiors. This is another substance pre-
pared from coal tar. American Garden
ing gives, as formula for making this
new insecticide, flour ounces of lysol
to 42O ounces of water.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Tho Brightest Light.

The great searchlight made by the
General Electric company, and which
was exhibited at Chicago, afterward at
the Winter exposition, San Francisco,
has found a final home and resting place
Ut Mount Lowe, California It is esti-
mated the rays Of this wonderful light
can be seen at a distance Of 200 miles
when the air is clear.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Tho Weight Of Hay.

Compact timothy hay requires about
500 cubic feet to weigh a ton (considera-
bly, more, perhaps 700, as it is brought
from the 6eld), but the quantity will
vary with the pressure caused by the
hei ght Of the NOW and with the age Of
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12
Send us names and p. o. ad- n010NV
dress Of II farmers and we kvVy.I.Y
will sond you free every two OVOO ]
weeks our Grocery Price ----,
List; and II you return THIS EOEI
AID, We will also send you nFE
D Catalog Of Harness and

the grass when cut, ripe ana sT1u grass
yielding less under pressure and requir-
ing more in bulk to weigh ton. Stiff
coarse hay will be found to weigh less
than fine and flexible hay, which will
pack solid. The quantity we have stated
is fair average for we'll settled hay,
says Country Gentleman.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12

Housatonio is corruption Of Wassa-
tunio, Bright Stream Flowing Through
Rocks.''
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12

Greatest bargains in Buggies and
Harness ever offered. New Haro
ness, S.47. Send Is cts. and ourUO
page Supply Catalog, containing
over lO7 Zoo cuts and prices, Will
be sent express paid. r.. NJ. Rob
erts Supply HOu9e Minneapolis.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12

Lysol, tho Now Insecticide.
Lysol has not received much atten-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12


teaux. TWAS the business Of this divi-
sion of the French national forces to
operate for the recovery Of Marseilles
and Toulon; for these cities were held
by the enemies of France. They had
fallen into the power of the English
fleets, assisted by the local loyalists.
The situation was striking. Patriotism
was aflame in both the cities; but the
representatives of the late monarchy,
protected by foreign power, were not
yet down. It was out Of Marseilles that,
in July Of the preceding year, band
Of patriots, most unique and strong, had
marched to Paris, singing on the way
and to the very porohes of the Tuileries,
that famous war-song which Claude Jo-
seph Rouget de Lisle had given to the
French nation and to all free men.
So against Marseilles and Toulon, for
wrestling them from the English and
loyalists, the forces Of General Carteaux
are, on the 9th Of October, 1898, divid-
ed and sent. Captain Bonaparte's regi-
ment, with others, is directed against
Toulon. He is given command of Sec
ton Of the artillery, and is at last in
his element. Now for the 4rst time he
is able to direct a battery against the
enemy, and to utter that tremendous
word, "Firep' Here and now the cloud
of obscurity lifts from the life Of this
extraordinary character, revealing him
to the world as one of the greatest in
the annals of mankind.
JOHN CLARK RDPATH.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-06
DURRANT WAS ABSENT.
He Did Not Attend the Lecture April
3, According to student Derr.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.-The prosecu-
ton in the Durrant case is said to have
in it's possession informal ton that will
finally shatter the last remnant of Dur
rants attempted alibi. w. r. Derr a stu
dent in the Cooper Medical College, sat
alongside OF Durrant at the lectures. When
examined with the other members of the
class Derr said he did not know whether
Durrant was present at the afternoon
lecture on April or not. Derr's father,
who is a prominent physician, informed
the police, however. that in his own home,
and TO the members Of his own family,
young Derr stated that on the afternoon
of April 3 DUrrants seat was occupied by
a student named Barry. He added that
the student who that afternoon answered
to Durrant's name occupied one of the
rear seats in the class room. The COM
munication made in his own family, was
not accompanied by any injunction of Sc
crecy. 1t was not until all the students,
including Derr. ON the witness stand had
Durrant's presence or absence that those
who had heard the story concluded to
communicate with the district attorney. 1t
is presumed that Derr. In common with
others of Durrants friends, desired as far
as possible to protect him and so avoided
answering pertinent questions by respond
ing II don't know" 1t is now considered
certain that Derr will be recalled to the
stand and required to tell the truth con-
cerning the events in the college class
room on the fatal afternoon of April 3.
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said she. "and am a professional can
sing in a chorus and I can do turn on
the trapeze. have done both. Last win
ter was with show. and when 1t went
to pieces I found myself long way from
New York with not a cent. could not
get hold OF any money. There are only q
few things a woman can do to earn a Iiv-
ing, and / could not do any of them.
cannot sew. I cannot cook I cannot or,
rather, won't do housework. So didn't Z
know what to do. Well, have been for
years as much at home in mems clothes
as in women's. In fact. am more used to
tights than I am to skirts.
"A man can always get more than a
woman. decided TO work as a man.
But how did you happen to become a
lineman?" asked the matron.
why, they used electric lights in the
circus and saw them fixing them, and so
/ got to know good deal about It. Then
my training in the <rapeze had given me
the ability to climb about SO. you see. Ii
was quite natural. / got Job up at Hart
ford to learn the business. and it was not
long before / got to be as good as any of
them."
After two hours Charles Morgan was
fully recovered except burned hand. So
she said goodbye to the matron and the
nurses and doctors who crowded about her.
What are you going to do?' asked DIR.
Brennan.
''Qb, I've got to leave town. she said.
Laughing and Struggling her shoulders. 'T
am caught and they know me- so / will
quit. But there are plenty of other places
I'll just move on. / like the life and I'm
going to stick to it."
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MUST PRODUCE HIS WIFE.
Writ Served on the Son of n wealthy
Mine Owner.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-There was a writ
served on Lloyd Miffiin Scott, the SON of
wealthy mine owner Of Pennsylvania, this
afternoon. which will compel him to pro-
duce in the Supreme Court Monday, before
Judge Barrett. the woman who was once
his wife, and who, it is claimed, he alb
Quoted while she was living in Boston, last
Wednesday. 1t is claimed by the attorney
who obtained the writ that Scott, who is the
son of mine owner John c. Scott, while
travelling in Scotland, in 1892. met and mar
ried young German girl. There was oppo-
sition to the marriage by the parents of
both Scott and the yolis woman, and 1t is
said that a few months after the wedding
Scott deserted his wife, returned TO Amer
lea and secured a divorce in Deadwood.
The young woman followed her husband to
this country and through lawyer Smyth
began proceedings to have the divorce set
aside, at the same time instituting a civil
suit for 100000 against the father Of young
Scott. Oct. 2, Ii is alleged that Scott heard
that his former wife was in Boston, that
he went there and abducted the woman.
Since then she has not been seen by any
of her friends. They have become alarmed
and the writ of habeas corpus was OBJ
tanned.
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PASSED FOR A MAN.
How Plucky Minnie briggs Managed
to Earn n Living I'm Male Attire.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,. Oct. 5.-The force
of telegraph linernen was increased about
two weeks ago by young fellow named
Charles Morgan. He was of medium height.
and built slenderly but strongly. He had
dark curling hair, very handsome face
and personal habits and manners that sug-
gested better days. As far as the work was
concerned. he was the pest man on the
force. Yesterday afternoon he climbed a
pole and was sitting across the crosstrees
making repairs He forgot and touched the
trolley wire with one hand. Straightway he
dropped to the street like stone, his right
hand terribly burned. They thought he was
dead He was taken to rne Emergency
Hospital and laid upon the operating table.
DR. Brennan unfastened and threw back
the shirt He jumped back in amaxement
and stared at the fine form laid out before
him Then he looked at the face-smooth.
delicate.
.Great Scott" he said. send for one OF
the nurses: this Is a woman"
They tried several remedies without bring
ing any signs OF life. Then they stripped
and threw her iuto an ice bath. She re-
vived little while later. and In few
minutes recovered enough to realize thar
she had been fairly caught matron took
charge Of her, and. - she rested. she told
my name is Minnie Howard Brisss."
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SAVAGERY OF A MOB
NEGRO MUTILATED AND FRIGHT
FULLY TORTURED IN THE SOUTH.
His Body Then Shot Into n ShapeIess
Mass and the Remains Placed on a
Brush Heap and Incinerated.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 5.-Details
of the lynching Of Neal Smith, negro,
who was charged with criminally assault
ing Maggie Henderson, white girl, show
that the mob was unusually fiendish in its
work. Last night Smith was taken from
the stockade at Cole City, used for confin-
ing prisoners by a mob of not less than
two hundred men. The sheriff and jailer
Ed Cox, with several men were on guard,
but the mob refused to listen to reason
and threatened to tear down the stockade
and burn ii unless Smith was delivered.
Smith was then turned over to the mob.
which led him to point near where the
assault was committed. He confessed his
guilt and was then treated to torture
which is unparalleled in history. After be-
ing mutilated in fearful manner by the
father, w. M. Henderson, who subsequent-
ly cut off the negro's ears, he was seized
and held while one of the crow pounded
his fingers, joint by joint, one finger at a
time, until the hand was shapeless mass
Of bloody jelly. This was because in the
struggle to subdue Miss Henderson he had
bitten off one of her fingers. Each man in
the crowd then took turn at shooting at
him, until, when he died he must have
had four or five pounds of lead in him.
He was literally shot to pieces and the
bloody pulp which only an hour before
had been Neal Smith was thrown into a
hastily prepared pile of brush food and
burned until not a scrap of bone remained.
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Cuban Insurgents Defeated I'm What
II Called the Bloodiest Engage
ment OF the RevoIution.
MACEO's ARMY LOST HEAVILY
OVER TWO HUNDRED REBELS RE-
PORTED KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Denial Of a Rumor that Another Cruf-
ser Had Foundered on the Coast of
Cuba-Appenl to Americans.

HAVANA, Oct. 5.-The most bloody bat
tie Of the present war was fought recent
ly in the country between Soa Arriba and
San Fernando, in the Holguin district of
Santiago De Cuba. The insurgents were
commanded by General Antonio Maceo,
while the Spanish troops were commanded
by General Exchague. The insurgents
numbering 1900 infantry and 500 cavalry
laid in wait for General Exchague, who
put in an appearance at the head Of 1870
infantry and 800 cavalry. The Spanish
troops also possessed one field cannon.
General Exchagua distributed his men in
admirable fashion and arranged to fall at
insurgents The revolutionists. aware of
General Exchague's movements. arranged
for a strong outpost to check the impetu-
osity of the Spanish troops. The regular
Spanish forces paid very little attention
to the small body of men stationed at the
outposts and rushed to the main force
wherever and whenever the insurgents could
be found The insurgents made a desper-
ate resistance, which lasted seven hours
The charges of the insurgent cavalry on the
Spanish squares were not as effective as
in other smaller conflicts previously re-
poft fttu Inc Spanish caVdlTy neiu tneSe at
tacking parties at bay and it seemed as
though the Spanish artillery was more dead
ly to the insurgents than formerly. Finally,
General Antonio Maceo. seeing his men in
a critical situation, rushed to the front
with his staff. He had scarcely taken
position in front of the line when he fell
seriously wounded. His followers at once
placed him on stretchers and succeeded i'm
carrying him off the field. AS soon as it
was known that he was wounded all was
confusion in the ranks of the insurgents
who, according to official advices received
here, were put to flight, leaving upon the
field twenty killed men and several wound
ed. Spanish officials estimate that before
Maceo fell seriously injured, fully 1sO dead
and wounded insurgents were carried from
the field. These officials also assert that
many of the insurgents surrendered, dis
couraged by the defeat and the wounding
of Maceo, and they expect that others will
also give themselves up.
Col, Dogango also fought the band of
Berlnudez near Santa Clara. Three of the
insurgents and four of the troops are re-
ported to have been killed. Col. Tovar
was wounded. He also fired on the insur-
gents at Bayanseza and Mendieta. Lieut..
Zaugien Vaudel was wounded.
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ROANOKE. Va, Oct 5.-The liberty bell
reached this city at $40 this afternoon and
was greeted with salute of twenty-one
guns fired by the Roanoke Artillery. The
escort of the bell was met in Lynchburg
by the Mayor and City Council Of Roanoke
who accompanied them back to this city. A
platform of fiat cars had been constructed,
decorated with bunting. and Mayor Jones
delivered an address OF welcome, which was
responded TO by Mayor Warwick. of Phila-
delphia Prior to the arrival OF the bell
nearly every secret organization in the city.
the different fire companies, the artillery
company. the two military companies and
the JEFF Davis Rifles, OK salem, the 1000 en-
schools and all the Catholic organizations,
nearly 1.o00 strong. participated in a grand
parade. Business was suspended
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TO WE'D A LORD.
Tacoma Girl 20 Marry the Son of the
Earl of Tankerville.

TACOMA, Wash. Oct. 5.-The engage
ment is announced of Lord Bennett, of
the English peerage. son of the Earl of
Tankerville. and Miss Leonora Van Marter.
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Van Marter of
this city. Lord Rennet arrived Monday and
Is quartered at the Union Club. The we'd
ding will be quiet and will probably take
place in the latter part of October His
lordship is thirty-three years old and has
become prominent through his active inter
est in the sllm work of London.
Junior. She was born and educated i'm
Europe. For the past seven months she
has been residing with her parents and
sister here and for over a year or so
previous to that lived in New York.