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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph BOurassa Wednesday,: night.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

The best way to cure disease is to
drive it from the system bypurifving
the blood with Hoods Sarsaparilla
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01
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On receipt OF ten cents, cash or
stamps, a generous sample will he
mailed of the most popular Catarrh
and Hay Fever Cure (Ely's Cream
Balm) sufficient to demons trate its
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ELY BROTH Frs,
Sc Warren ST.. New York City.
My son was afflicted with catarrh
! induced him to try Ely's Cream
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ArcOla, III.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

Barney Burton went to MelrOse on
business Monday. He will stay
at MelrOse for several days and will
make visit to Northern Michigan
before returning home. He expects
to be awaV about two weeks.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

A special term Of tn" district court
for Morrison county will be held
commencing Jan. ~. All those who
have not secured their second papers
can be provided with them bycalling
at the clerk s office during the special
session.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

John s. johnson, the fast skater
and bicyclist, of Minneapolis. has
been matched to skate u two
mile race with Dave Morrison, who
skated 1T Little Falls on Christmas
Day. The race will take place at
West Superior. The Morrisons are
negotia ting to have JOhnS. Johnson
skate at their rink in this city in the
near future.
Randolph Gillette. who was en-
ploved as sawyer in the Pine Tree
mills last season, arrived in the city
Tuesday evening from Elk River, to
which place he removed with his
family after the mill shut down in
the fall. He was on his way to the
logging camps on Crow Wing river.
where he will be employed as scalcr
this winter.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

TO CURE A GOLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo.Quinine Tablets. All drug
gists refund the money If it fails to cure. 25c.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

A large attendance was present
at the mems meeting held in the
city hall Sunday afternoon under
the auspices OF the Y. NJ. c. A. Mr..
Petran was the principal speaker
and gave a very interesting talk.
Mr.. Parker led the song service
There was also service in the even
ing which was largely attended
q general invitation being extended
Tie room in the city hall ia now sc
arranged. as to seat over 800 people
Meetings will be held in the after
noon at $3.50 and in the evening al
s O'Clock every day this week.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

Very interesting services ut the
CITY hall held every afternoon at 3
O'Clock and 1870. All are invited.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

Mrs. Chase. aged SO years. died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Fred Hovey. on the West side, Sun
day, from apoplexy. The funeral
was held from the residence ut 2
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

Last week, it will be remembered,
the local authorities arrested three
men on the order of the deputy
sheriff OF Perham. The men were
ordered released the next morning
by the same authority. In comment
ing on the claim that tn: arrest was
a piece of spite work, the Perham
Bulletin says:
There was no spite work ut all.
The facts are tho men had 'squatted
on state land, and were slashing the
timber right and left and selling it.
When the state cruiser arrived in
Perham, these men heard OF it and
skipped out. Warrants were issued
for their arrest, but their carcasses
were not considered worth what the
expenses would have been in return
ing them to Pcrham and prosecuting
them. The country is well rid o.
them-and there are Others
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

Miss Edith Davidson. Of Duluth
and Miss Myrtle KIRBY, Of Detroit,
Mich, are visiting with MIR. and Mrs.
A. r. Davidson, Of this city. Miss
Kirby is a sister Of Stephen Kirby,
employed in the First National Bank,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

j y. L,s~cll, tine printer,' has
!cft he city.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-01

A. G. Lawrence, of Motley. arrived
in the city Wednesday night, and
had on exhibition Il patented, auto
matte railroad switch. BY u system
of levers. blocks and rods it is pos
sible for the engineer to throw a
switch to either track, while his
train is approaching at speed. Mr.:
La wrence has been working on the
invention for many years, and has
recently perfected it
The Christmas tree exercises at the
various churches We're largely at
sended by the children and their
friends. The programs were much
enjoyed by all, and the gifts Of Santa
Claus delighted the hearts OF the
children. The church services yes
terday were we'll attended, and the
special music prepared for the occa-
sion added much to the impressive
ness of the day.
The times., 1897-12-26
"Ihe Cid Campeador." !"

Putnam IS II eroesof { he Nation Series la s
received an addition to IT,; long list, i'll tic
recent publication Of II. Butler Clarke s
life of The Cid Campead dor Spain has
not before been represented in this, and
it is fitting that it should first be repre-
sented by its typical hero Although the
Cid was a person In fact, his chara cter
was fictitious anG posthumous accretion.
In propria persona he wasa da ring warrior:
but his arms We're not always strong for
justice. As Mr.. Clarke points out: He
was unfit tc be the hero of a great ation
but his compatriots soon forgot his cruelty,
his selfish an bition, and his lack of pa
triotism. and, remembering only his heroic
yalor, and his efforts in great ca use, .hey,
by the mouth Of the minstrels, endowed him
with all the vil tues and graees.'' The Cid
is merely name around which the Span
iards have grouped the qualities they most
admire, rather than an actual person who
possessed these qualities.
He floufiSliad al a critical epoch in Srain's
history and his life with All the side lights
is IaTge', the chronicle of the important
events OF the latter half of the eleventh
century in the peninsular nation. 1t was
the period oi the beginning of the end Of
the saracen supremacy in the West air.
Clarke has grouped these bearings into sn
harmonious narrative, told with much
spirit and grace, colorful as the story of
Spain oonld rot help being, and accurate
as such 9 careful scholar as this writer's
reputation assures IL must be.
The illustrations in the book are more
valuable than beautiful, distinctive
The times., 1897-12-26
Trayels In Sicily.

1t was Goethe VITO said, Italy without
Sicily leaves no image on the soul-Sicily
is thekeyto ali, . ana William Agnew Patton,
in the preface to his beautiful new volume,
Picturesque Sicily" points out that of
American book S OH Sicily there are none,
and OF English books there is a plentiful
lack, which, at first thought seems alb
surd, but upon consideration argues it
self into fact As an entity in The general
sum acknowledged stands fora picturesque
island which rises out of the Mediterranean;
as a foundation for Aetna and a play
ground for hrigands it looms indistinct
in mist of mystery, but there is an at
mosphere of romance and a suggestion OF
high color.
Mr.. Paton's account of Journey through
the island is one of the most delightful
books OF travel which has been published
in some time. lie travelled not alone with
his Eyes and notebook, but with an alert
imagination and the appreciation of q
scholarly antiquarian, before whom there
were always two SicilyS one of today. the
other Of remote yesterday. With these
Adorable qualit ications he couples a style
of easy flow and "A mark ed talent for ut
tractive descriptions. His pictures are very
vivid, because without tedium he works into
The times., 1897-12-26
A New Bird Book.

p. NJ. Silloway.s .Sketches OF Some Com
mon Birds Is another OF those books which
cali the eunnindfMurhant TO the remembrance
that nature has glories of Gods making
which all the aftifidalitics of art cannot
duplicate. The friendship with natu'e
is almost universal, but 1t coos if we remove
ourselves from her and her creatures.
Books which. recai!to our minds the glOrieE
of the country arc welcome visitors, es-
peciany when they are the legates OF the
birds, natures Voice. The present volume
is made up Of something more than sketches
in spite OF the title, for the author gives
us insight into the life and histories OF the
birds we see and hear.
With an interest which begets charm
ing intimacy, we follow the author into
the meadows, and there he points out tn
us the horned lark floating cloud ward.
singing 0nd soaring; there we learn 10 kni'w
more OF the piping meadow lark, and the
voluble boboiinE, aid become familiar with
the voices and movements OF other meade W
musicians. We visit the orchard, and there
watch the pretty ways Of the doubling
bluebird, Eear the rcveilles OF the ~ /
headed woodpeckers, and observe interesting
incidents in the lives OF other orchard
residents. i long tile hedgorows We
ram,le, there studying the homes and
habits OF the many tenants of the common
Usage hedges. Among the birds of the
bushes we find many old friends seemingly
in new attire, for the writer is keen oh
server and calls attention to facts usually
unnoticed by the casual stroller. His
The times., 1897-12-26
"IIisInric Neyy York;

"His;oric New York is not a unified anil
consecutive history OF our largest city.
1t is rather a symposium. The volume
I! is mad. ur of disconnected monographs
! on historic localities on Mania ttan Island.
| and thelI only common point is raphy
| and excellence. They have the probable
| advantage over I, single history of equal
| length in that fourteen men and women
| have diligently devoted themselves to an
| undertaking which otherwise would rep
| resent the effort of only one.
There is in New York city an organi2a-
| ton known as the City History Club, 1e
| markable in the fact that within the first
! year of its existence il has increased to
| the number of forty classes. To meet the
needs OF this rapidly growing body Of
| students, the editors of tue Half Noon
Papers undertook to superintend the pub
| 1ication of series Of monographs 3nnu-
ally, which should be easily accessible for
| those WHO might not find it convenient
to consult the voluminous record and docu-
! ments contained in the Libraries. Their
historic and literary worth recommend
them, however, to an audience larger than
the one for which they We're designed.
The twelve papers are Fort Amsterd am
in the Days OF the Dutch" by Maud
Wilder Goodwin; THE Stat Huys Of New
Amsterdam by Alice Morse Earle; The
Early History of Wall Street. by os.
wald Garrison Willard; Annette JAMS
Farm, - by Ruth Putnam; THE City Chest
of New Amsterdam" by Edward Dana
DuraEd; 'oiG Wells and Water Courses
of the Island Of Manhattan" II aud III,
by George Everett Hill and George E.
Warine, jr.; "Oli Greenwich" by Elisa
beth Bisland; "The Fourteen Miles Round"
by Alfred Bishop Mason and Mary MurGock
Mason: Kings College" by John p. Pine;
The Bowery,' by Edward Kingwood
Hewitt and Mary Ashley Hewitt, and
Governors Island,'' by Blanche Wilder
Bellamy. The pictures and maps add
greatly TO the beauty of the volume and
to the facility of the readers understand
ing.
New York of today is more or less
familiar to all intelligent readers, and it
is pleasant to revert with these interesting
writer's to the early history of the great
city. from the time that the Dutch estab
lished Fort Amsterdam and Annette Jams
and her husband took possession Of their
farm, which is now the most thickly set
tied portion Of the city, until Wall street
became an incipient power In finance, fore.
The times., 1897-12-26

y
friends of the highwai and dooryard prove
to be ours as wei, und his sketches of the
robin, Baltimore nriule. rose-breasted cr,s-
beak, and other dG9ryard visitors viii
surely fan into ent llusissIn any la tent friend
ship for tine birds IL the mind OF the reader
Woodlands, river bank, ana swamplake,
and the regal birds Of beak and talon
furnish subjects of interesting and de.
iigbtful sketches, which viii lead the reader
into habits nf closer observation and more
intimate friendship for na ure.
The authors happy faculty Of presenting
his subject eficrtainingiy viii convert the
study OF "rnithoiogY into a recreation.
for 1T gives inspiration as well as in
formation. The volume is illustrated with
half-tones rom photographs made, with
lew exceptions, bV DR.. Z. W. Shufelit. IF
the Smit bsonian Institution, from living
birds and nests in stu. Cincinnati: Tn.
Editor Publishing Company. Washington
Bretano. SI.5G.l
The times., 1897-12-26
story in a stirring way The massacre Of
i L. .l.i.l a i,nI.

story in a stirring way. The massacre OF
Madrid is thus described:
Men and women were walking abroadand
all danger seemed at an end when Murat
commenced massacre. Spaniards VINO
had had nothing to do with the rot
we're seized because they happened To re
In the town. They We're dragged before
French military commission ana SEN
fenced al once to be shot. News or these
executions spread like wildfire through
the city. Every family, all OF whose mule
members were not under It's Iool, SUI Ie. eu ,l
aSonies of apprehension. BY distant s9uhis nt,s
OF firing all knew that tue work Cf deatn
was going on. TWO by two the ylct1iI;s
were marched out and massac cred by re-
peated voleys Of musketry. All were
denied in their la st moments tue consGla-
tiUns of religion. The work next morning
recommended, andnearly hundred Vlctlrs
had perished before Murat, at the eariese
intercession Of the Spanish MINISTERS, pue
stop To the carnage. WItiIlh d
week after the tidings OF the untoNard
massacre reached bayunne, the Emperor
Napoleon was engaged in the most IleIce,
cruel ard determined war INTO winch
he had ever led or dispatched Els leElohs
war to the death with an undiscipiined anu
high-spIrited people; where 9hen ,i,ert inhs his
battalions had fought regular troops, anu
these they had always conquered; tn9y
were wholly unprepaEed Tor tue SueIrii,ih ~,
warfare they We're now To lace among tue
mountains and TaVines OF the BASQUE
Country, or Catalonia.
There is a pretty and pathetic Chapter
called 10 the Throne from the Nursery,
on the accession of the young Queen lsa-
bella in the early torties, when Washing
ton irving was United States ambassador To
Madrid: and extracts from Mr.. Irving pr
vateIet;ersa are given, which afford climpses
of the cthirteer-year-cId maiden Ia the midst
of moi or less turbulent scenas, striving to
bear herself with the dignity becoming il
Queen And there is another chapter III
another girl queen. Mercedes, the childish
sweetheart of Alfonso XII, who died, after
five months of married happiness, In 1879
The present KING Alfonso XIII, born May
II, 1856 IL the son OF the second marfiag"
of Alfonso All, marriage made purely
for state reasons. The very last cha pter ~
the book deals with topic Of viral interest
to this cAuntrv, Spain's treatment OF Cuba
and the action Uf CaHovas. The 1It':a-
spea lts deeidndly Va gainstthe plan Of 1nneIa-
ton, ;;ut is otherwise non-cOminittal.
Theportrlits. which are scattered through
the BOOK. more than twenty in number, will
add much to its interest, being finely eu-
griived ard full of expression. Altogether
this m ld ext vGium.is one which students II
contemporary history will be glad to own
ChicacE. A. q. McClurg * Co, Washing
ton BIentano. S2.5o.)
The times., 1897-12-26
"JOnuUIa DayS"

One of The charming qualities Of that
protean genius, F. Hopkinson Smith. is
that he always Seems to be in love with
his subject HIS latest book -Gontloli.
Days, shows this in a marked degree. II
is fun of Tn" dreamy, delicious fascination
Of the Mermaid City, Of love for her eli
mate, Ter colorings, her treasures of the
past, and her people, especially the goH-
dolierS To read this book Is ike travel
ing FeretiaB waterways, without the pos
siole disccmtorts of the experience. One
Of the characteristic bits of description is
that Of the Fishermen's Quarter, with its
sagginG lines ana semi decayed timbers
Inns Is what The artist architect-author
saws Of it:
The little devils of rot and decay, deep
Gown In the water, are at the bottom of ali
thiS settling and topping OF ianb and Intel
Ihey are really the guardians OF the pic
turcSque.
Search any facade in Venice, from flow
line TO cOrnice, ana you cannot find two
lines plumb or parallel. This is because
lhese lmps OF destruction have helped the
teredO to MUNICH and gnaw and bore un-
derniniDg foundation pile, gTillage and
bed stone. II you listen some day over the
side of your gondola You Will hear one of
and settles, and then up comes bubble a.
If all the fiends below had broken into a
laugh at their triumph
mis- change gees on everywhere. No
sooner does any inha bitant of the earth
build a monstrosity of right-angIed trian-
gles than the little imps set to work.
They know that Mot her Nature detests
straight line. and so they summon all the
fairy forces OF sun. wind and frost to break
and bend and twist, while they scuttle
and bore and dig, until some fine morning
after a siege Of many years, you stumble
upon their victim. The doge who built
it would shake his head in despair, but you
forgive the tireless little devils-they have
made it so delightfully."- picturesque.
There are more than 200 pa ges Of
luminous, fanciful, damtiiy worded de-
scrptions OF Venice and her ways, and
some of them are much finer than the
specimen quoted above. The bool, is IL
lustrated by the author, and artistically
clad in red. There is but one flaw in the
whole production, and that might be lie.
fended on the ground of informality. Mr.
Smith insists Oh Using the second personal
pronouI, to an extent hitherto unprece-
dentcd in literature He goes on with
page after pa ge Of placid statements that
'you'' do this, or go there. or are treated
thus and SO, until IL is rather maddening
to reflect that the person addressed may
never do these delightful things. Besides
it is not very good rhetoric. New York
and Boston: Houghton. Miffiin s Co. Wash
ington: All Booksellers. ST 500
The times., 1897-12-26

| them "a wealth of detail. He started from
| Palermo, the capital and ma de the re-
| spectiye objects OF his description the itl-
| portant towns, villages ana other points
| of the island. Monte CucciO. Solunto, Piaua
| Del Greci, Cef alu, Corleone, SegeSta, Ira
| PAM, Eryx, Gir1cnti Catania Acratliua
and many others. IS noted, the traveller
| Observed With a dual vision, one for
the picturesque OF today, the other for
the historical of yesterday, AMI scarceiy Y
| is there more fruitr III field for The itin-
| Grant student of the growth and nTtatio rs
! of geography,
When the Mediterranean was the only
ocean whose cNpRnse hau been explored
! by civilized peOp.e, the lands washed by
| its waves composed the whole of the
| world of antiquity. and TriDacria was the
very center of civilization. The nations
tnat have dwelt around the Medit erranean
Waged almost IuceSsant war for the pos
session of the island, and these wars We're
of paramount interest To mankind. For
more than 300 years it was the battle
field upon which men Of European blood
coEtended with men of Asiatic blood for
| the dumiEion OF the world In Sicily, no
less than in old Greece, was waged war
of civilization against hIrharisrn: of
philosophy against nyst icisu; of science
against astrolOgy, ana it is no eNaggera-
ton TO say that upon the results of the
battles fought III Sicily, or on the sea near
her coast, Uftentiines have hung the tate
and future history OF Europe. Sicily has
been the battle-ground, not only of race
against race and nation against nation,
but of creed against creed.
The volume is a hing of intrinsic beauty,
The cover is deli; ate yellow linen, almost
the liz ghtneSs Of canary; the type face
is exquisitely clear: the handsome pa per
receives il well, and the half a hundred
fullpags illustrations repeat pictorially
what the author writes so graphically.
More serious than the attractive chatti-
ness of the main portion of the book are
the three essays at the end, each an
appendix. on the Malta, Brigandagc and
the Sioilian Question. The last may be
understood in the comprehensive statement,
made often b. French. German anu Italian
writer's, that sicily is the Ireland OF
Italy (Ncw York: Harper & Pros.
Washington: Woodward & L othrop. 5 So
The times., 1897-12-26
ModernaS aSnnin.

"Spain in the Nineteenth Century is the
last of a series Of historical narratives, by
Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer The author
modestIy sar IS that she does not claim the
title OF historian, but others will be rea Iy
to yield her this name, nevertheless. As a
clear, pleasantly worded and fully detailed
account of the last hundred years in Spain
the work will certainly be useful to stu
dents. 1t is always hard get trustworthy
information about contemporary history
and this book will come AZ a delightful
relief to many people who have been trying
to learn something about the much tossed
about kingdom of Spain.
''The History of spain,'' begins the ou-
thor, ''since she sank from wealth and
greatness into second.rate, Impoverished
power, is one continued tangle OF revolu-
tions.'' This in itself makes q work like
the present greatly needed.
One OF the earlier chapters OF the hook,
pctureseueIy called The Lion in the Skin
Of ii Fox, deals with the French invasion
of Spain, under Napoleon, and tells the
The times., 1897-12-26

quality, for which they were inserted. The
age of the Cid has left scarcely monume ent.
inscription or illustrated document bearing
upon its history, SO that in order to IL
lGstrate the volume the author has used
drawings of places by his friend, Don
Santiago Arcos, with whom he visited the
most famous sites connected with the
history OF the Cid. There are in addition
many maps, as well as facsimles OF docu-
ments al q coins. New York: G. p. Put
mans Sons. Washington: Brenta no. 81 1.50l