Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-08

you can't keep warm. BY way VI
Illustration will say that l found my
heavy flannels and wooden suit and
Irish frieze OvercOat insufficient and
had to go and buy a chamOis under
vest, yet have often worn same
clothing (minus the chamois) at
home when it was 200 below zero
and been very comfortable, strang-
est part of all is that you do not feel
the cold about your face; have not
felt need of turning up my coat COL
lar vet. viii say / am roOming
with Il Canadian doctor from Winni-
peg and he feels the cold same as l
do. Very many persons die daily
from direct or indirect effects OF the
cold this day week five bus drivers
were taken off their seats stone dead
frozen. Yet will say that from my
observation those who freeze are
mostly poor people, bus drivers and
the like who not only have not SUI
ficient clothing. but shocking to say,
have not sufficient food to keep up
vitality, hence they take to drink to
keep warm, which we all know is a
long since exploded fallacy. The
poor drivers only get about five dol
lars week and are ON the buses
from u. m. till midnight. have
talked with many Of them as l rode
and they all say they would actually
uther be dead, a truly pitiful thing
in this great land, yet organized
charity is here carried on in grand
er scale than perhaps anywhere ON
earth. Free soup houses. where
they not only "eat" them but cloth
and lodge them besides. and Tree
hospitals for the sick many of which
| know of as am ut daily attendance
on them. Hospitals, some of which
annually give relief to 200, 900 to 300 900
each; free medicine and the free ser
vice of the best medical men in Lon
don. It's sight to go into the
waiting rooms of the larger ones
and see the hundreds waiting relief;
every conceivable disease. and for the
honor and credit of the medical pro-
fessiOn will say never have l seen
grea ter kindness extended than here.
In our caricatares Of the English
people, we are accustomed to see
them drawn as crusty, overbearing,
brutal and hard-hearted. 1t is not
so. Never was l more impressed
with the untruth OF anything as l
now am from practical demOnstra-
ton. Most of the hospitals and
asylums are under royal pc tronage
and annually receive large sums
from royalty us well as efficient aid
in many other ways, and right here
let me say that while nOminally
England is u monarchy, yet practi-
cally she is fully as free as America,
indeed in some ways freer. Yet the
people are devotedly attached, (and
well they may he for probably bet
ter woman never ived,) to their
queen. Yet as coming events oft
cast their shadows before, 1 am
quite free to say that it will not be
many years before this country will
cease to be a monarchy and will fol-
low in the footsteps of other repub-
lies, yet it will not be in the old
Queens day, possibly not in Albert's
time. But come it will. Most likely
it will resolve into a confederation
of the now existing colonies with
the mother county, each automatic
yet bound together for mutual pro-
lection and it is my honest con-
victiOn that on the solidarity
of the British colonies the
peace of the whole world largely de-
ponds and our own prosperity not q
little, for / find every where the
greatest kindness to and interest
taken in Americans. 1t is incon-
ceivable to those of US who were
brought up to the tune OF Bunker
Hip memories to believe this, yet
every day it is impressed upon me as
fact and may we'll say here that
those who knew me best know that
l am no Anglo-maniac and right
glad will be the day the old stars
and stripes again cover me, yet 1
believe Installing what believe to be
the truth, whether itagrees with pre-
conceived ideas or not. The great
common people are with us, and
even if the queen or parliament were
disposed to make war with us they
would rue the day. for the people
would rise up as in the days OF
Cromwell and protest. That sug-
gests liberty again, for since l have
been here the monument to Charles
was publicly decorated by the
Jacobites and yet hangs with
wreaths with cards attached in
scribed "To Our Martyr, etc. To
illustrate will say that Charles I Ia
about as odoroue in the nose OF Roy