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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31
DOING MUCH DAMAGE.
Insurgents Under Maoso Displaying
Great Activity.

1nsurgonts Under Maoe0 Displaying
Great Activity.
HAVANA, Jan. 28.-Communication
with. Pinar del Rio is still very much
interrupted, but reports received by
courier show that the insurgents there
under Antonio Maceo are displaying
great activity and are doing much dam
age. 1t is admitted that some 1000
residents Of Pinar del Rio province have
joined the forces of the insurgents.
Maceo and his men are now in the
extreme western portion of Pinar del
Rio The volunteer troops ct Paso
Real and Guanes report that large
numbers of insurgents have been pass
ing those points in the direction Of
the city of Pinar del Rio and that they
have formed a junction with Maceo,
whose following was about 1000.
Those who are fleeing before the adj
vance of the insurgents can go no fur
ther west on land, and at Arroyos de
Mantua they have boarded the pilot
boats Guanora, Lincei, Nueva Holanda
and Khivas for refuge.
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How to Make Lobster Outlets.

Open carefully one three pound boil
ed lobster. With a silver knife cut it
into small pieces. Measure; you should
have pint. Put half pint Of milk
over the fire. Rub together table,
spoonful Of butter and Of flour; stir
into the boiled milk; stir and cook un-
til smooth. Take from the fire, add the
yolks Of two eggs, return and cook until
smooth and thiok-about a minute.
Now again take from the fire, add the
lobster, "a teaspoonful of salt, dash of red
pepper, a grating Of nutmeg, a teaspoon
full Of onion juice, tablespoonful Of
parsley. Mix carefully; turn ont to cool.
When perfectly cold, form into outlet
shaped croquettes, dip in egg, then in
bread crumbs and fry in smoking bot fat.
Serve plain or with cream sauce.
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OLIVER IL. P. BELMONT.
modore Oliver Hazard Perry. who at the
age of ~ whipped an entire British
squadron of six ships Oh Lake Erie in
1918 and sent his famous message, 1--WE
have met the enemy and they are ours, "
to General William Henry Harrison.
Oliver Belmont as boy adopted the sea
as profession and with commendable
desire to become hero like his illus
trious ancestor was educated at the An
napolis Naval academy and served long
enough to learn that he would probably
be old and gray before he rose to the
command of a ship.
Resigning from the navy, Belmont
married Miss Susan Whiting, who later
divorced him, and devoted himself to
travel. His father left him fortune,
and his wealth has made it possible for
him to visit about every part of the
habitable globe. Ho has also devoted
himself to the acquisition Of a great rae
ing stud and possesses one of the finest
stables of carriage horses in the world.
He owns palatial mansion called Bel
court at Newport and entertains there
in princely style. His grand bachelor
ball at Belcourt last summer was one OF
the social sensations of the season.
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Powers Said to Be Preparing
For a Partition of the Sui
tan's Domain.
Russia Gets Armenia, France
Takes Palestine and Eng
land Egypt.
Cars Army and Navy Being
Concentrated For Action
in the Spring.

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-The Daily News
prints dispatch from Vienna which
asserts that news has been received
there from Constantinople and Sebasto-
pol which agree that Russia has fleet
lying at Sebastopol and at Odessa, and
that the Caucasian armies of Russia
are being concentrated upon the Ar
menian frontiers in readiness to move
next spring to realize the plans Of Peter
the Great for the partition of Turkey
between the powers, Russia taking Ar
menia and Constantinople, France TAX
ing Syria and Palestine, and England
taking Egypt and the eastern shores Of
the Persian gulf, the remainder of the
Turkish empire to be divided among
the other powers.
The Daily News also has a dispatch
from Sebastopol which records that
secret preparations are going forward
there of shipping ornaments for VOL
unteer fleet. 1t is the general belief
there, this dispatch affirms, that these
preparations foreshadow some action in
the spring.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Jan. 28.-There is
q rumor here that Russia is arranging
with the sultan for the occupation of
Armenia, but it is not confirmed by any
discoverable signs and is discredited in
diplomatic circles.
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How to Make Batter For Fruit Frittcrs.
One cupful flour, half cupful milk,
2 eggs, a. teaspoonful sugar, table,
spoonful melted butter. half a teaspoon
full salt and the yellow rind Of one
fourth Of lemon, grated. Mix the dry
ingredients together. Beat the eggs
light and add the milk to them. Pour
this on the dry mixture, beat we'll and
add the melted butter. Salad oil may
be substituted for the butter and is bet
ter than the latter, as it mingles more
perfectly with the mixture This batter
is very good with only one egg, and
cold water may be substituted for the
milk,
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How to Scallop Mscaroni and Oysters.
Drain rs oysters. Have ready cooked
4 ounces Of macaroni. Simply break it
into pieces; boil in large kettle Of
rapidly boiling water for 20 minutes :;
then drain. If you have time, it is bet
ter to throw this into cold water and al
low it to blanch for 20 minutes. Put a
layer of this in the bottom Of a baking
dish; then 5 or oysters, sprinkled with
salt and pepper; then another layer of
lnacaroni, oysters, and so continue un-
til all the materials are used, having
the last layer macaroni. Put over the
top about one tablespoonful of butter
cut into bits. Boil the oyster liquor,
skim it, and strain through fine sieve.
Pour it over the macaroni. Dust the top
with stale bread crumbs and bake in a
moderate oven about 80 minutes.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31
How to Sugar Popcorn.

Pop the corn and take out all the
hard, unpopped kernels. Put in a sauce
pan over the fire one pound Of granulat-
ed sugar, with one-half cup Of water,
and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
When the liquid begins to boil, add the
popcorn gradually until all has been
added that the liquid will cover. Then
stir gently from the bottom until the
sugar grains, forming on the corn, turn
out and cool. Or, the popcorn can be
put in bowl, and as soon as the sugar
begins to grain pour over and stir until
the corn is covered.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31

Cleveland Moffett tells it for fact
in McClure's Magazine that on Eugene
Fields wedding day the bride, guests
and all were ready and waiting at the
church, but the groom did not come.
Some friends went in search Of him and
found him down upon his knees in the
mud listening to the story of some street
urchins who had quarreled over game
of marbles
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one is allowed to engineer tug on San
Francisco's bay, but she is competent to
pass the statutory examination and in
tends soon doing so. Then she will be
the titular captain Of the Ethel and
Marion, as she is now really captain in
fact.
The engineer is still with her when
she grasps the wheel and the tug goes
putting about among the ships, but Mrs.
Thorrold does not need his services in
the least. With brisk business air she
rings the bell. Her soft, white hands
clutch the wheel firmly; her bright eyes
watch the course ahead with unremit-
ting vigilance. The screw begins to turn
and the tug is off on a mission that
means bread for family Of six. Mrs.
Thorrold is not particularly anxious to
vote, but she is proud Of the fact that
she is the only woman skipper Of tug
boat in the United States.
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can Honorable Kind Of ThieVery.o

can Honorable Kind of ThieVery.'
Rev. William Bayard Hale quotes in
The Forum this Shakespearean senti-
ment from tie attractively printed ad-
vertisement IF church fair. Then he
proceeds to give the church entertain
ment system such a scathing as it prob
ably never got before. He doubts that
the church at Ephesus or Philippi ever
gave a clambake or a strawberry fes-
tival. And further he says: "We have
no information that St. Paul was accus-
toned to give stereopticon lectures,
Barnabas operating the lantern. Our
Lord knew, conceive, what the nine
teenth century would need at the hands
of his church, but he left it no direction,
explicit or implicit, to open eating
houses or theaters. He seems to have
been entirely ignorant Of any time to
come when it would be best for his
blood bought church to transform itself
into system of concert halls, kitchens
and entertainment bureaus.
One church gives negro minstrel
show to raise funds, another has cake
walk, while still a third has a skirt
dance and variety songs. Mr.. Hale
quotes from local report the following,
1.-THE Church Of the Epiphany, as the
producer of light operatio diversion, has
crowned itself with glory" In his mind
the church of Christ has travelled very
far indeed away from the days when re-
ligion was solemn and sacred expert
ence, holy, lofty living and a perpetual
striving for the life Of the spirit.
The modern commercialization of re-
ligion is attributed by Mr.. Hale mainly
to the splitting up Of the original Chris
tian church into many sects and the un-
holy rivalry and strife of these sects
each to gain the upper hand. he says:
charge, then, that, besides it's hundred 9th
er sins, the division Of the church-most alb
surd and inexcusable Of economic errors-has
desecrated holy places and holy days. has as
saulted all reverence, has given thousands
who might have been won to the higher life
an utterly ignoble conception Of religion, has
reduced Christian congregations to the level
of fakirs and poor actors. has turned clergy in
to scrambling mountebanks and has dishonor-
ed Christian woman hood.
Tho world does A5t need the church as 3
purveyor Of vaudeville: the church does not
deserve perpetuation even for the glory with
which it may crown itself as the producer Of
light operatic diversion. The world does need
and is piteously crying out for the church to
do that for -divided-it is hopelessly
Inefficient Let the vision Of the church uni
versal take possession of the souls of men, and
in place Of the pauperized sects which, rival
ing each other in vulgarity, contend for the
see an institution consecrated again to the serv-
ice Of humanity, to the proclamation Of the
gospel, to the spreading Of the story Of the
tragedy and sacrifice Of Calvary, generously
maintained by charity eager to witness to
the constraining power Of the love Of cur Saw
Jour.
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TWO SUFFERING ARMENlANS

Escape to This Country Only to BE
Threatsnsd With Deportation.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-Detained on
on Ellis Island are two Armenians who,
under the immigration laws, will have
to be deported unless they can secure
the necessary bonds which will entitle
them to land. They say that deporta-
ton will simply mean starvation and
death. They arrived at this port on
the Servia on Jan. 20, and they came
from Harpoot Both men tell tales of
horrible cruelties which they have been
subjected to at the hands of the Turks,
and give details of the wholesale MUIR
ders of Armenians.
These are the charges expected to be
brought against the officers OF the ord
nance department Of the navy at Wash
ington-that they have sold to foreign
governments most valuable secrets in
connection with the preparation OF
American armor plate an ordnance,
and that some Of them have become rich
by holding part ownership in patents
bought and used by the government.
The American people demand that the
charges shall be probed to the bottom.
Senator Chandler has their full approval
in pressing his resolution for a through
and through investigation. If there are
officers in the honorable United States
navy who have done what is charged
against them, let them be drummed out
and punished besides. If there is none,
then the investigation will only make
them shine more brightly. Let there be
Light, and let there be no WITHDRAWING
Of the glass through which it shines.
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OLIVER BELMONT's SECOND BRIDE.

She VIII BE Alva Vanderbilt, Who Not Long
Ago Divorced william k. Vanderbilt.
New York society was not at all sur
prised when it was recently announced
that Mrs. Alva S. Vanderbilt would soon
wed Oliver Fl. p. Belmont. He was one
of the guests on the Vanderbilt yacht
Valiant in 1898 when Mr.. and Mrs.
Vanderbilt disagreed for some reason
and the cruise around the world was
abandoned. Mrs. Vanderbilt and her
daughter, Consuelo, went to England,
Mr.. Vanderbilt went to Paris and Mr..
Belmont returned to his home in New
York. Then followed Mr.. Vanderbilt's
escapades in Paris and Mrs. Wander
bits suit for divorce in New York. At
the time of the divorce it was rumored
that Mrs. Vanderbilt would marry Mr..
Belmont.
Oliver H. P. Belmont is one Of for
tunes favorites. He is son Of August
Belmont, the world famous banker, who
died few years ago, and direct de.
scendant on his mothers side of Com
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31

An old British map recently brought
to light shows that originally England
claimed far less territory on the Vene-
zuelan border than she does now. Her
old boundary line as seen on the map in
question fell far short of that fixed by
the Schomburgk survey.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31

Dion, France, has poplar tree with
a record that can be traced to 722 A. D.
It is 1923 feet high and Is feet in cir
conference at tho base.
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Ii Hung Changs Cousin Dead.
DEADwooD. S. D., JAN .2o.-Li Howe,
a cousin Of Ii Hung Chang, the Chi
nese chancellor, died here and was
buried in barbaric pomp and splendor.
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Below tho o5o. 600. 600 Mark.

OoIU" sn0 OoOsVOO'OOO ""HA'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The treasury
lost $158, 900 in gold coin and $31 900 in
bars, which leaves the re serve at the
close Of business 90. Ys4.263.
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Harrison Starts For Home.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.-Ex- President
Harrison, accompanied by his private
secretary, Mr.. Tibbets, left the city at
7:1O D. m. for his home in Indianapolis.
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him, and he cursed the ground. Lo,
the waters sunk away, and agreat
mass OF land rose; and there IL is to
this day. half earth and half sea. The
pretty cattails and tule grass came up.
and many ducks and geese appeared
and made the spot their home. Had IL
been any other spirit than Do-ka-batl,
the curse might have been laid on the
people Instead OF on the ground. But
in this case the Indians lived and pros
pered. and their descendants have al
ways had plenty OF rushes with which
to make mats. Do-ka-batl then re-
sumed his journey. and the present in
habitants of the region point to the
marks imprinted by his huge feet on
the rocks along the beach. There may
be seen two big Impressions a few
miles from the beach. close to what Is
now Hoodsport, and these the Indians
affirm were made by Do-ka-batl
The west coast Indians story of the
deluge is much like the version given
by the eastern tribes. The Indians
here. however. assembled to the tops of
the mountains in canoes. instead of
using horses. The Twana Indians did
not succeed in reaching the top of the
highest peaks, but attained the sum-
NIT of one OF the lesser mountains. The
big waters kept creeping up the slope,
and as most OF the Indians had ne
W tic lnclI tduOtcs many NtIt
swept away and carried to the mouth
of the Columbia river. There the sur
vivors waited, and when the floods re-
coded. formed another tribe. A few OF
the Indians on the mountain had long
cedar ropes. and with these tied their
canoes to the rocks before the waters
rose. Then, as the deluge increased.
the Indians paid out the rope. Do-ka-
batl evidently was guarding the Twa-
mas. for the waters were not allowed to
engulf the Indians on the lower noun
tains Instead of presenting a level
plane. the floods made an inclined sur
face. slanting from the top of the high
est mountain which was engulfed down
to the lower peaks. which were not
covered, and so the Indians taking ref
uge there were preserved. These noun
tains. according to the tradition. were
far to the east and northeast Of the
site of the Twana village, and the In
dams were forced to travel a long time
In their canoes to reach them.
w. s. Phillips.
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ton is very slow and deliberate; at
night, however, he moves with a little
more speed
While sleeping they crouch in the
FORK or tree, selecting a bough which
they can grasp with the feet. They al
ways lie upon the upper side of the
limb with their heads towards the
top of the tree, but they sometimes
rest the body on the base of the spi-
nal column, stretching out the arms at
full length and resting the chin on the
breast. In this position they will sit
for hours.
AS a rule they walk on all fours. but
they have a habit of standing erect on
their hind legs. They rarely do this.
however, without holding by their
hands to some object
In eating they always take their food
in one hand, just as a child would;
and If 1t happens to be anything that
sticks to the hand. when they have
finished they lick the hands perfectly
clean.
The specimen that I had was fond of
several kinds of fruit, but the food that
he appeared to like best was a certain
KIND OF green grasshopper very COM
mon in that part of Africa.
While he preferred this particular in
sect, there was some other kind that
he would eat when hungry, but there
touch at all To test this / strung a
variety of these insects on a fine wire.
and stretched 1t before him. He quick
ly picked off the green ones, and swal-
lowed them; then a few of the others.
which he ate with less eagerness, leav-
ing the rest undisturbed. Another food
that he was fond of was a young snail
when from one or two inches long; for
larger or smaller ones of the same kind
he did not seem to care. His teeth in
dicated that a large part of his food
consisted of insects, and ii is probable
that the long claw on his toe was de-
signed to aid in their capture.
Although he was exceedingly slow. in
most of his movements. there was one
exception. When food was offered him
he made no sign or motion whatever.
until IL came within a certain distance:
then he would thrust out his hand with
incredible speed and snatch II away
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FEATS OF DO-KA-BATL
Puget Sound Indians Tell Wonderful
Stories of the Tricks Hs Played.
BRAVES CHANGED TO BIRDS
He Was Really a 6enIficent Being.
Though One Would Never Sus-
pect IL From His Portrait-ln-
dian Legends of the ID IuRe.

Copyright 1896. by Bachelor. johnson &
Bacheller)
Seattle, Wash. March 27.-Among
the legends of the Puget Sound In
dams the story OF Do-ka-batl seems TO
be the most prominent and popular.
This Do-ka-batl was a great spirit
whose peculiar powers lay in his abili-
lily to change mortals to beasts, birds.
stone or whatever he pleased. Nat
urally, therefore. great respect was
shown to Do-ka-batl
AT any rate Do-ka-batl created a
great sensation when he appeared
among the Indians living in the region
OF the Sound. He came up out of the
sea, from the southwest, covered by a.
big cloud, which overspread the whole
sky. Ii is not reported that he came
with much noise and tumult with rat
Ting of thunder or blaze of lightning;
but like the even-tempered mighty
spirit that he was, he appeared as an
angel of peace, to teach the people good
things.
He found the ancestors of the Twana
Indians trying to catch fish with their
bare hands. He showed them how to
construct willow traps and by stretch
ing these across the river take great
quantities of fish so that the tribe lived
in ease and contentment from that
time on and had little labor. At this
period, so long ago was IL, there were
no deer running in the woods, no hum
ming birds to make music with their
whirring wings. no blue jays chatter
ing in the tree tops, and many other
pretty and useful animals were not I'm
existence, but Do-ka-batl provided all
these, though a number of wicked In
dams had to be sacrificed to bring IT
about.
This is how Do-ka-batl made the
deer: One day. during his stay among
men, the great spirit came upon a
worthless fellow, who was sharpening
the edge of his stone knife. Do-ka-batl
asked-in the Twana dialect, OF
course
What are you doing here?"
The worthless fellow replied: Moth
ing"
To this Do-ka-batl said: but / know
what you are doing; you mean to kill
me. Give me that knife"
The Indian was frightened. but sur
rendered the knife and turned to run.
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foot. The hand possesses great pre-
hensil power. but IL is not to be COM
pared with that of the foot. Ikanda.
the native name. is also applied to a
miser, and means the grasper."
The body is covered with a dense
growth OF soft hair, almost like fur.
1t is dark brown in color. but some
what lighter on the under side of the
body. The nose is quite bare and very
black.
i have never seen one of these ami
mails in the adult state, but apparently
they grow to be IA or is inches in
length. The specimen / had was only
eight or nine inches long. The body is
relatively heavy. and the limbs are
short.
The Ikanda is nocturnal in habit.
During the day he rarely stirs unless
disturbed; but the natives say that he
sleeps with his eyes open," by which
they mean to convey the idea that he is
watchful and alert. / am inclined to
doubt this, for he will not flee at the
approach of harm. If he has occasion
to move about during the day. his mo-
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like flash. In this act the movement
OF his hand was so quick that the eyes
could scarcely follow ii. end he was so
accurate in his aim that he never
missed the object.
My own specimen of the Ikanda was
an ungrateful wretch. and as treacher-
Gus as possible. i tried for months TO
tame him. He would eat from my hand
with perfect equnimity and appeared
To be as tame as a kitten. until he had
secured the last mOrsel of food held in
sight: then he would snap my finger as
quickly as he had seized the food.
several times when | gave him food
with my fingers. he took the morsel in
his mouth and at the same moment bit
my finger. They are very silent ami
mails. and during the whole time that I
had this one / never heard him utter
the slightest sound except a low. faint
squeak when angry.
As ] have already stated. the grasp
Of the Ikanda is remarkable I have
had this little beast seize my finger
and / have worked for several minutes
at time unable TO extricate it. The