Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31

municipal law IN charge. this city,
would certainly have pOlleu at least
1850 votes with Il large majority
Republican. Among the Important
buildings are the custom house and
pOstt,ffice "a white stone thre-stOry
building, facing the river;) the con-
tinental bank building. eleven
stories high, 0f pressed brick; and
the public library, very pretty
building Of some size, built "f Lake
Superior brown stone, it's architec-
ture Gothic. The other public and
business buildings are ordinary, up-I
on the principal streets, but very III.
ferior upon the secondary streets.
We We're much disappointed with
the residence portions. 1t IL pretty
hard here to keep q nice residence
property in any style or condition.,
ON account Of dirt, mud and coal
smoke. These together with the
contiguous grounds. perhaps with
four or five negro shanties. DO not
hit the nOrtherner's sense OF the
beautiful. One little block or square
ia the only pork. 1t IL very pretty.
One is more favorably impressed
with the city after passing through
the country between it and Cairo.
than he otherwise would have been.
The one sight we never tire Of is
the passing steamers. no two alike.
with their great wheels blowing up
the river; their enormous smoke
stacks, vomiting emmense. volumes
Of black smoke, their white ratings,
trimmings and stair cases; their
Elassed pilot house. above all. and,
on a dark night. their great head or1
search light (electric) which,. swing
ing to and fro upon Il center, gives
one the feeling Of being III the pres
ence Of some mammoth crea ture with
an awful eye. These crafts are all
sizes from the steamer 24O feet long
down to the little fellows like our.
"Petie B" and are very numerous.
Looking at the map Of the river
from Memphis to New Orleans. you
will see. that it Is u very crooked
stream, waving back and forth like
a ribbon in the breeze, as it lies upon
the wrinkled visage Of mother earth.
The stiff current cuts off from time
to time some Of these numerous
bends, or again makes another
crooked channel forming great num-
hers of wooded islands, some OF
these containing hundreds of acres
De Soto fittingly called it the Father
of waters" While looking upon it's
troubled bosom, muddy from con-
tart with it's southern banks and
from it's tributary deposits. we say,
this is not the same clear blue stream
which passes through Onr5own city
up north, It is. But how corrupted
by assOcia ti0ns. 49,. % Il
This country ia far from what it is
advertised to be. We have all seen
its splendors enhanced, in glowing
rhetoric. Our party have Been
enough to know that life here Ia not
all a dream where the fitful fever of
life may be soOthed. where the bond
age Of routine and labor may be
broken. where a refuge may he found
from weary carking care" not the
land OF milk and honey, of the mock
ing bird, whistling quail and wild
doye, where birds are ever singing
an accompaniment to mantled ma
ture, with it's continuous round OF
crops of fruits, corn, cereals. cane.
cotton and other productions, with
it's banks of flowers blooming at all
times, its sunny air containing the
nectar Of the gods. No it's all Il
myth black advertising leland
hundreds of poor Northern fellows
are finding it out dearly. Why, this
is a country of disease-smallpox,
mala rial fever, typhoid malaria, fever
and ague. scarlet fever, yellow fever
and snakes;- where death with it's
great ragged edged scythe, turks un-
der a hundred masks, forms and
shapes-in The winding streams, the
lakes and swamps-tOcutv YOU down
in your manhood and wOmanhoOd.
We see but few of our beautiful
Northern women. with their ruddy
cheeks, clear comple xions and elastic
step-but few OF our broad-shoulder-
ed manly, proportional hale men,
with their hearty laugh and frank
open countenances. Why, these men,
poor fellows. have all they can do to
grin between shakes and Il call to
some relatives funeral. Their COM
plexlon is sallow, and their whole
being showing the need of Il trip
north to exemplify that life is worth
living at all.
Every Northern paper should do
all things possible toward "heading