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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-14
Andrew Olson, from A. Z. johnson

Andrew Olson. from A. E. johnson
& Co. sland office in Chicago. arrived
Thursday evening with Conrad
Faure and Conrad Schaub, from
Bureau county, ILL.,, to show them
some Morrison county real estate.
The visitors bought 12O acres OF
timber land in Parker town, and will
soon remove to this county. 1t is
probable that a number OF their
neighbors will follow them here.
There are many well-to-do people in
Bureau county who desire to obtain
farms of their own. and the cheap
prices at which fine farming land can
be bought here is as good an oppor-
tunity as they can find anywhere.
Mr.. Landau. who sold the land to
Faure and Schanb, Is certain that
Others will now come from the same
neighborhOOd and buy.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-14

A score of the leading silver
mine owners of the w est are worth
over 500,000,000, and many Of
them, are leading politicians in
the movement to bring about free
coinage of silver at Is to l.: The
Populists have joined these disin.
trested patriots in contest
against plutocrats who work for
days wages, and don't want to be
paid in a deprecated dollar.
[ The workingman who votes to
receive his pay in cheaper money
is making a greater mistake than
he did when he voted tor free
trade. His interests are the great
est in keeping the dollar the best,
as we'll as getting as many as pos
sible for his work. Democratic
free trade is bad enough, but Pop.
ocratic free silver and free trade
4 together will strike the laboring.
X man hardest of all.
The St. Cloud Times figures out
that Towne will have 5000 ma.
jority in the district. Towne
claimed he was sure Of $4,000 a
short time ago. If7,o0O have got
away so soon, the rest will easily
disappear with few more weeks
of TONNES, defensive campaign.
Those 40.year cycle and 15-min-
,ltes. before.2 stories don't con.
vince the people that standard of
values should be cut in two.
new DIRECTORY indi-
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only place man has to go when he mas
finished work. said ]. j. Pringle. son OF
the Consul to Guatemala from
this country, sis to a saloon, and there ne
has nothing to do for recreation put
drink. The door to the best society
is shut in the face of Emerl-
cans-'gringoes,' as they are called by
the naughty dons - no matter what
their standing. OF course, when one
has official dignity he is invited to the
Presidents ball and other official func-
tons, and has entree into society. out
there is no such thing as social intercourse
IN Its American sense. Nobody is allowed
to see young lady unless it is in the
presence of her entire family or under the
watchful eye of her duenna. and there
isn't much pleasure in this kind of a visit
to most young men of America. Guate-
mala City has population of $4,000, but
has no theaters. There was an opera
company OF fair character there two years
ago, but there have been no attractions
at sll of this kind during the past season.
Living is very high in Guatemala City,
and salaries are by no means correspond
iagly high. / would not advise any young
man to go there with the idea of making
his fortune. There has been too much
immigration to the country as it is."-
New Orleans Times Democrat.
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OUR LIGHTHOUSE SYSTEM.

We Are the Only Nation Which At
tempts to Be Thorough.
The United States is the only nation
which makes an attempt to line its entire
shores with lighthouses or signals, the idea
being here to place those sufficiently close
together to permit of coastwise navigation
in any weather. The system is not vet
quite complete, but it is exceedingly well
advanced.
During clear weather the lights of the
houses are effective, being as a rule hidden
only by the curvature of the earth, but
since fogs can hide even the sun from us.
there are times when the lights cannot be
seen, and for such occasions the light
houses are provided with some kind of
noise making apparatus, the care and con-
ditto of which is quite as important as
th at of the light itself Horns, bells and
sirens are used at these stations as the
common devices, and these are sapple-
mented by floating bells and whistfing
buoys, the former of which give warning
on close approach, while the latter are
some OF them almost as powerful in their
tones as the shore signals
Recent experiments by Major w. r.
Livermore have had in view the testing of
the efficiency of the different kinds of
warning signals, and how they are effected
by different conditions of the air. Major
Livermore has been able to predict the
nature of the disturbance which certain
direction of wind will have upon the sig
nails, and has explained the reason for the
so-called silent areas. within which no
sound can be heard from the signals, al
though they may be easily audible at
greater distances from the lighthouse
Happy Thought.
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HIS LAST TRICK.
How an American Prestidigitator Salts
fed Curious Englishman.

How an American Prestidigitator Salts
fed n Curious Englishman.
A well-known American prestidigitator
was passenger recently On one of the big
Atlantic liners, homeward bound from
England. He is good-natured conjurer,
and many times in the smoking-room he
exhibited his skill in performing tricks for
the amusement OF the other passengers.
One of the frequenters of the smoking
room was an Englishman, who seemed to
be unable to get enough of the conjurer' s
tricks. Almost every time the American
entered the room the Englishman de-
manded something more, and usually the
American complied.
The conjurer took part in the ships con-
cert and did q lot of surprising things with
cards. The English man was in 8 front
seat and followed the performance with
absorbed interest. But the next morning
when the American walked into the smok-
ing-room after breakfast the Englishman
repeated his old demands. The con iurer
picked up from one of the little tables a
pack of cards, which had been used in the
whist game of the evening before. He
handed it TO the Englishman and said:
PICK out card"
The EnElishman ran over the pack and
made mental note of his selection.
prestidigitator.
The Englishman shuffied the cards Sc
verely. cut and shuffled again. Then the
conjurer shuffled them. After that he
laid them out, one by one, in severa! little
piles. The Englishman watched him with
rapt attention. The conjurer gathered up
the little piles and gave the pack to the
Englishman again.
shuttle them again." he said.
The Englishman did it, and then the
conjurer picked up the pack and said:
Now, do you remember what card ii
was you selected?'
'Oh. yes" answered the Englishman.
"1 remember it,
Sure you haven't forgotten3"
"Of course not"
"Yon can name the card"
certainly"
'WelI, then, there's no use of my telling
you what it is"
And the conjurer threw down the cards.
and went out followed by roars of laugh
ter from those who had seen the trick
New York SUM-
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hers from London. Now the people have

hers from London Now the people have
issued pronunciamento which cannot be
misunderstood.
OF Mr.. Bryan, the Democratic Standard
bearer, the poet commented: Il at first
thought his (Rryan's) brains might be too
10 UGH In his chin, and while am satisfied
that such is not the case, even if it were
tne venerable Maine statesman would be
a balance for the wheel It'll true Bryan
is young, but he is better known than Lin
coin was when first nominated. And,
with Pitt, would say that Youth is not
crime, and in this man who comes
speaking for the plain people of the land
we may ind liberator as big, as broad, as
great as Lincoln.
Ihe United States should do as France
ooes-compel the sale of bonds to her own
SUBJECTS. We should quit sending in erest
10 EUROPE, whose money-lenders demand
tnat they have pound of flesh back with
every dollar we borrow from them.
no don't KNOW" concluded the author OF
songs OF the Soul" ''now that I've done
writing poetry, but that I'll take hand
In this campaign"
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ooNsTANTINE's NEW ROME.
He Built Theaters, Churches, Baths,
Forums and Palaces at a Stroke.

He Built Theaters, Churches. Baths.
Forums and Palaces at Stroke.
Constantine created his New Rome in
$50 as never ruler before or since created a
city, says the Fortnightly Review. 1t was
made mighty and Respondent capital
within single decade. Italy, Greece.
Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Mauritania
were despoiied of their treasures to adorn
the new metropolis. Constantine built
churches, theaters. forums. baths, porti-
cos, palaces, monuments and aQueducts.
He built, adorned and peopled great
capital all at stroke, and made it, after
Rome and Athens, the most splendid city
of the ancient world.
Two centuries later Justinian became
the second founder of the city And from
Constantine down to the capture by the
crusaders, for nearly nine centuries. q
succession OF emperors continued to raise
great sacred and lay buildings. OF the
city before Constantine little remains
above the ground except some sculptures
in the museum and foundations OF some
walls which Dr. Paspates believes ne can
trace. Of Constantine and his immediate
successors there remain parts of the hin
poorome, OF walls, aqueducts, cisterns and
forums, some columns and monuments.
VI the emperors from Theodosius to the
Crusades. we still have, little injured, the
grand Cnurcn OF Sophia, some twenty
churches much altered and mostly late in
date, the foundations of palaces. and one
still standing in ruins. and lastly the
twelve miles of walls with their gates and
towers. The museums contain sarcophaei,
statues, inscriptions of the Roman age.
But We can hardly doubt that an immense
body OF Byzantine relics and buildings still
lie buried some ten or twenty feet below
the ground wherein stand to-day the Sc
rails, khans, mosques and houses OF SIAM
boul, soil which the Ottoman is loath to
disturb. When the day comes that such
scientific excavations are possible as nave
been made in the Forum and the Palatine
at Rome we may yet look to unveil many
monuments of rare historical interest and
it might be, a few of high artistic value.
AS yet the cuttings for the railway have
given almost the only opportunity that
antiquarians have had of investigating
below the surface of the actual city, which
stands upon deep stratum of debris.
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KNOWLEDGE IS NOT WISDOM
Men of Great Learning Sometimes Lose
Sight OF the Fact.

Men of Great Learning Sometimes Lose
Sight OF the Fact.
In the recent memoirs of Dean auckland
an amusing picture is given of the antip-
athy felt fifty years ago by the old classical
scholars at Oxford to the new scientific
learning, says the Youths Companion.
They described it as smisohievous and abb
surd.'' When Buekland once went to
Rome for long vacation one of the elder
dons is said to have exclaimed:
''Well, auckland has gone to Italy
Thank heaven, we shall hear no more of
his silly geology"
Learned men do not always appreciate
the achievements of their fellows. 1t is
said that friend brought Millions para
disc Lost" to great Scotch mathema-
tician, who marked when he had finished
it:
''It's vera pretty; but mon, what does
it proven"
An American, who stated recently in
London club that he was going to Enfield
in search of the grave of Charles Lamb,
was astonished to hear him contemptuous-
ly described by an English statesman as
"a Eighty writer of silly papers, in which
there was no mention of political questions
of his day.
Paganini, while in England was men
toned by great jurist in letter as "a
poor fiddler who had driven the town mad
with his squeaks and scrapes," and he, no
doubt, would have described his critic as
soulless and deaf to the highest expression
of emotion.
An anecdote is told of Henry Clay in the
zenith of his popularity and fame. Meet
ing an old schoolmate at a reception he
expressed regret that another. friend,
mutual acquaintance, whose career prom
lsed to be brilliant, had given up his life to
the raising of pigs and making fortune.
The friend presently met the gentleman
referred to, who exclaimed, with shake
of the head:
Poor Henry ClayI He might have
made a good stock-grower and be COM
Portable planter now if be had not wasted
his time in politics"
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Brutal Punishment Said to Have
Been Melted for Trivial
OffenSeS.
MRS. MITcHELL's ACCUSATIONS,
Charges of Encouragement Seemingly
Borne Out by a Partial
Investigation.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, July 13.-The in
vestigatlon into the conduct of the Whit
tier Reform School, begun by order of
Governor Budd, at the request of Mrs.
John w. Mitchell, one OF the trustees, is
not completed. So far only the girls
school has been looked into. and the
prevalence of o most brutal form or fog
ging has been disclosed.
1t is alleged that at one time last sum-
mer one of the attaches re-
moved the clothing of 17-year-old girl
and beat her with an overshoe because of
some trivial offense. The usual method
of hogging is to make the girls strip, and
then with a leather cat" such as was
formerly used in the navy. from ten to
fifty lashes are given on the bare flesh.
The thongs are dipped in water to make
them sting more.
The charges against the management
include waste of money in permitting
the superintendent to purchase large
amounts of supplies and clothing in the
open market. Enough has been shown,
it is declared, to indicate the need of q
change in the administration of the school.
The board of trustees of the Whittier
Reform School did not meet to-day, as
had been expected. Copies of the testi-
mony in the recent charges were delivered
to each member. Just who viii pass on
the charges cannot be stated. Mrs.
Mitchell believes it will be Governor
Budd, while others say the board will vote
on the matter. The board viii not meet
until Professor Reyes, the new member,
returns from the north.
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SWAPPING WITH THE GEAR.
Philadelphia Boys Scheme That
Panied Out in Great Shape.

Philadelphia Boys Scheme That
Planned Out in Great Shape.
Some time ago the attention of Phila-
delphia mother was attracted to her little
boy by the fact that he lay at full length
on the library floor evidently deeply in
VOWED in the intricacies of letter writing
All inquiries as to the purport and pro-
posed destination of the laborious produc-
ton failed to elicit further remark than an
odvice to "wait awhile" At last the m Is
sive ended with scrawling superscription
and an immense sigh of relief, and it was
proudly borne to the father and mother
that they might be afforded an opportu-
nifty of expressing their entire approba-
ton which was evidently expected.
Imagine their surprise when their eyes
fell upon the following;
Dear Gar: Since the death of your father
you must have received great deal of foreign
postage stamps on letters from your friends
who were sorry for you. l am collecting post
age stamps, and if you will please send nae a
good lot OF y irs will send you some Ameri-
can ones in return.
The parents at first laughed at the idea,
but the little man. was so evidently pleased
with this idea of his young brain that
they finally determined to allow him to
mail it. never imagining that it would
really fall beneath the royal gaze.
With both the parents and the child the
thing was already fast becoming a thing of
the forgotten past, when the mail of few
mornings ago brought the young fellow a
rather bulky envelope, bearing upon it the
seal and arms of the royal house OF Rus
STA. To the little fellows delight he
found. on opening it. that it was packed
with stamps OF all nationalities.
The labored missive had evidently
reached its destination and had spelled
ont tn the heart of the child in a ~ a
excitement of his coronation ceremonies,
such a message of childish innocence as
made refusal impossible. Philadelphia
Public Ledger
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PACIFIC GROVE ASSEMBLY
DR.. KeJchner Lectures on The
Tabernacle of Israel" to
Chautauquans.
Exhibits True Reproduction of the
Sacred Structure of the
Holy Land.

PACIFIC GROVE, CAL, ] uly 13.-The
musical week of the Chautauqua Assem-
bly, closed last evening with a sacred concert
by the Oakland orchestra with A. 7. Stew
art as leader, assisted by Miss Stafford. Mr..
Lawrence, Miss Mast and others. This
week will be devoted more particularly to
was started this morning, with large
number in attendance.
The forum hour was taken up by DIR.
McClish. president of the Chautauqua, and
Mrs. Field, who lectured on Eminent
Men That We Have Met" Each described
the peculiarlties of noted men with pleas
ing clearness.
The Sunday school normal class was ad-
dressed by Rev. A. A. Graves of Ventura
on Bryant" The Round Table was led
by Mrs. NJ. H. Field.
Rev. J. w. Kelchner delivered his ceIe-
brated lecture on the Tabernacle of Israel
and the Heavenly Sanctuary" tonight.
After the expenditure of thousands of
dollars, Rev. Mr.. Keichner has occurred q
reproduction of the tabernacle and all its
furnishings On painting 12x32 feet in
size Mount Sinai stands out in bold relief
in the distance. The court inclosing the
sacred structure is skis feet, or about one
CACNcHbn tue SIZE Ok abQ6 original. he
whole structure is composed of 100 pieces
and its construction represents the fruit
offour years. labor. The entrance gate is
OF blue, purple and scarlet velvet, and
around the entire grounds are fine white
silk portieres, suspended from gold pill
lars, set in silver sockets.
Opposite the entrance Is the altar for
burnt offerings, back of that the laver, ths
original of which was made from the
melted mirrors of the women. The sides
OF the tabernacle are of FURNISHED gold,
each of which is capped with silver. In
side are eight pillars on which the veil
hangs. The furniture in the holy room
includes seven golden candlesticks, the Ia
Die of bread and the altar of incense. That
of the most holy chamber is the ark of the
testament in Furnished gold. The seat
represents the throne of God, with two
angels on guard. 1t opens. and inside are
the Laws on the Table of Stone, with set
tings of gold. The smaller vessels were
made in Arabia, and include fesh-hooks,
knives, bowls, shovels and baskets for OF
ferings.
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coming in contact with. a gasoline lamp.
The father and mother are heartbroken
over the loss of their only child.
SANTA BzRBARA'S MYSTERY.
0navaijns Efforts to Identify the Bloody
Clothing Found Near the Rich
ordson Villa.

SANTA BARBARA. CAL, July 49,
Every effort has been made to-day to
identity the bloody shirt found yesterday
in pasture near the Richardson place,
but so far without avail. The measure
ments of the shirt and overalls correspond
exactly to those of Cyrus Barnard's gar
ments; but his step-mother insists that he
never wore any of that pattern.
The discovery of large water trough
within thirty feet of the place where these
garments were found explains the MUIR
derer's choice of retreat and hiding
place for the discarded garments. He
could easily have taken bath there and
removed every bIood-stain from his person
before seeking his home.
Mrs. Avala, who lives in Montecito, con-
tributes the tardy testimony that she rec
ognized Barnard standing in the road
above the Richardson place at 8 O'Clock on
the night Mrs. Richardson and her daugh-
ter were slain. A witness swears to have
seen him on FIgueroa street in Santa Bar
bara at $50 o'clock. He could not have
been at both these places at the hours
named and have covered the distance be.
tween by walking. Will witness come
forward and testify that he gave him a
lift" on the way?
Mr. Peterson to-day commenced tearing
down the little house in which Barnard
and his stepson dwelt, and where he met
his death. 1t is useless to preserve it, as
no one would accept it for chicken roost.
Yet it is trim little cabin, neat in appear
ance and conveniently fitted UP for q
bachelors modest dwelling.
No word has come OF the mysterious
stranger whose tracks were followed over
the Romero trail to the Santa Ynez River
on Monday morning, and then doubled up
and down the river in such an unaccount-
able WAY
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Fraser Tailey Floods.

VANCOUVER, B. c.. July 1s.-High
water is still doing serious damage in the
Fraser Valley. The tides are making
great inroads on Maria and Seabird
islands. At Nicomen Island mum Der oil
settlers have become so discouraged that
they have removed to other localities Gu
the highroads st Matsqui cattle belonging
to those who have had their low-iylnc
ranches inundated are roaming. On the
Mission-Sumas branch of the Canadian Pa.
cihc Railway the transferring of pas
sengers, baggage and express is done on
Matsqui Prairie, where for a distance OF
two miles the water is almost six inches
higher than the roadbed. The transfer is
made in boats. The water is subsidine
very SLOWLY
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DECLARES THE VOTE INVALID.
Mrs. Louise Jones Repstdiates a $40, 600
Debt to a Former SerUant.

Mrs. Louise Jones RepHdtates SO, 600
Debt to Former Sereant.
? LOS ANGELES, CAL, July bod
Mrs. Louise Jones has just learned, so she
claims, that her name is unlawfully at
tached to $l0,0 900 note in favor of Mary
Edna Osborne, her former housemaid.
Mrs. Jones has brought suit to have the
note declared void.
The case presents some very unusual
features. 1t is not claimed that the note
is forgery, but that 1t was obtained in a
fraudulent manner, Mrs. Jones cannot tell
when or how. The note reads:
September 26, l995-S1O, 900. On demand 1
promise TO pay Mary Edna Osborne or order
len thousand dollars, value received, with in
terest at D per cent
(Signed) NJ. LOUISE JONES.
The note is Endorsed by Mary Edna Os-
borne to John C. Bewley.
The defendant is a young woman OF
commonplace appearance and wears
glasses. Mrs Jones told how she en-
ployed Miss Osborne as a sort of nurse
maid and agreed to give her $50 month
as wages. She remained in the family for
several months and was very well liked
until the note materialiZed. With refer
ence to the note Mrs. Jones said she had
no recollections of ever having signed
such an instrument. There was no reason
why she should sign one. Mary Edna had
no claim on her beyond the wages that
she had earned and every month the
amount agreed upon was paid to her.
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A Maine Rat storv

Z, Tuesday afternoon, when Fred Sweet.
land came home, he found his sons wife
sitting on the doorstep mourning the loss
OF ten little chickens which she believed
70 nave oeen carried off by rat. When
her husband came home he found the
rats hole in the yard, dug into it a piece,
and then fired into it with revolver
Upon opening the hole he found he had
blown big rat to pieces He also found
several OF the chickens dead with their
heads eaten off by the rat and three of the
chickens alive. They were removed and
lively as crickets, and feeding lust as
though they had not been bereayed of
seven brothers and sisters.-Rock land
\ Maine) Star. 8s