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Little Falls weekly transcript., 1897-05-07

Fergus Falls Journal: The Modern
Woodman of the Sixth and Seventh
Congressional districts, are planning
q big excursion and picnic at Detroit
lake, in July and John Egland of this
city has been appointed chairman OF
the committee of arrangements. 1t
( is going to be q "whale.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1897-05-07

The Tileston -four mill at ST..
Cloud claims last months work
broke the record for any April since
the mill was built.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1897-05-07

lighted by large stained H:ass window on
q broad, generous platform, an effect Is OBJ
tained that Is hard to match. The rest of
the finish Is in cypress or pine, and the
whole is q unity any one might be glad to
call "home, sweet home" May there be
thousands such is my best wish, and may
there be thousands Of people to enjoy them.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1897-05-07
RooMY COLONIAL MANSION.

Handsome end Convenient Residence For
Family Of Means.
CCopyright. 1867. by George Palliser, 81 Park
place, Now York.
"There's divinity that shapes our ends,
rough how them how wo will, In often
exempliflod in the planning and arrange
mont of new homo, and TINT there ara
those who reap and SOW not as well AZ
those who SOW that others may roap Is like.
The herald., 1897-09-05

the Nineteenth Century" will in all
probability be the last Of the series. Be-
sides giving an account of the immedi-
ate history OF Spain during the past 100
hundred years, the book will contain
separate chapters on Cuba and the
Spanish colonies in South America.
In Prof. knights "reminiscences Of
Tennyson there are the following good
yarns of the acquaintance the Scotch
had with the poet laureate. Tennyson
was stopping at an inn in the Island OF
Skye. The landlord was asked, did he
know who had been staying in his house?
1t was the poet Tennyson. He replied:
"Lor'-to think O. that! and, sure, I
thoucht he was shentleman." At Stirl-
ing some one asked the landlord Of the
house where the poet was stopping:
do you ken who you had wi you
t'other night?"
"Naa; but he was a pleasant shentls-
man."
1T was Tennyson, the poet"
"An' wha' may he be?"
"Oh, he is writer O. verses, sich as "
see + the papers"
moo. to think O. that! jeest pooblic
writer, and gied him ma best bedroom!"
But the charms of Mrs. Tennyson, her
gracious manner did not pass un-
noticed, for that landlord said: oh, she
was an angel"
The herald., 1897-09-05

begin conversation I would make that
third of the lesson, practicing also
outside IL possible. AS soon as had
words enough to make any sort Of q
commencement 7 would take the daily
paper in that language in place where
there was one, one like the Mexican FL
nancier, If possible, and read, hit or miss,
from that, referring to the translation
only when puzzled. I believe the Mex
ican Trader now takes the place of the
Financier, and is the best thing there is
from which to learn Spanish. But you
will learn rapidly from paper without
any translation If you will only read.
read read and guess at it, jump at the
meaning any way you can and go ahead.
Go ahead and keep on going ahead.
whether you understand it or not. That
is the way foreigners learn to read Eng
lish, nine times out Of ten.
am aware that these ideas will ap-
pear quite horrible to many professor.
But I appeal to results. We see for
eigners learn English all the time In de-
fiance of the college methods. How
many college boys do we see learn
French, German or Spanish in defiance
of the foreigners method? I have seen
many besides myself who have tried the
two ways and do not hesitate to be so
radical as to say that l would exactly
reverse the old college method, leaving
accuracy to take care of itself-excepti in
pronunciation-and using the gram
mar and dictionary only to solve such
difficulties as time had shown a little
too deep to be unraveled by the sense.
I am satisfied that in this way I could
at the age of So learn to read, write ana
speak a new language in half the time
1t ever took me before.
T, s. VAN DYKE.
The herald., 1897-09-05
The Literature of Power

1t was discovered few years ago that
the entire contents of series OF regular
readers, such as used to supply all the
reading matter given to boy during
his eight years in the primary and gram
mar schools, could be read through In
one week by diligent boy of average in
telligence. Realizing the small amount
of material supplied by the readers,
teachers are row using large amount
of supplementary matter in all grades
of school work. So great is the supply OK
such material that it becomes important
for the teacher to make careful choice
cf what he ewill use. Literature of power,
as it is sometimes called, has very prop
erly received the preference. Such lit
erature may be defined to be that which
has the power to stir the human soul.
to arouse men to action, to give them q
love for country, for home, for church,
for honest labor, etc. 1t Is not hard to
find plenty Of illustrations of literature
of this sort. 1t is known that during our
civil war the patriotic writings Of Long
fellow. Whittier and Emerson, recited
as they were in school and at home, sent
many thousands of men to the front.
These writer's were the best recruiting
officers our country had. To illustrate the
many-sid dedness of great poet and the
amount Of good that may be derived from
studying him, reference may be made
to a little book published few years
ago as No. ~ Of the Riverside Literature
series, entitled Studies in Longfellow,"
by w. C. Gannett. This book is now be-
ing revised to date and published by
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. In it will be
found lists of poems relating to the Uni
versal Church, to Brotherhood, to the
Immortal Life, to Heroes and Saints,
to Character, to the Presence of God
in Nature, to History, the Home, etc.
Doubtless similar lists could be made,
though not so FULL perhaps. Of the writ
ings OF other American authors.
A new book just published by the
Robert Clarke company of Cincinnati.
on the place of the Covenanters in the
early history Of our country, will be well
coined by all who have studied the work
of the Cavalier and the Puritan. 1t is by
Judge Temple Of Tennessee. To those
who have read the exhaustive works Of
Duncan Campbell and DR.. Eggleston on
this general theme, this volume will have
a peculiar interest.
The herald., 1897-09-05
! THE LEARNING Of LANGUAGES
(Written for The Herald.)
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(Written for The Herald)
He give him a mortal wound with
deadly weapon.
He gave him deadly wound with a
mortal weapon.
Which of these two sentences contains
the greater error? Is using the present
tense-give-for the past-gave-in the
first sentence as bad as the misuse of
the-words in the second sentence in
which the grammar is right?
A man may have design without be-
ing designer. and he may be a de-
signer and also have design without
being designing. We do not speak of
the attributes of sugar, the qualities of
the Deity or the properties of man; while
a physician who should advertise him
self as ''the notorious DR.. So and So,"
instead of the noted" would be laughed
at more than if every clause of his ad-
vertisement were ungrammatical.
There is then something in language
at least as important as grammar and
often far more so. There is no one study
so universally attempted by all those
who seek some education above the
three RS as some foreign language. And
none represents SO much utterly wasted
time, such miserable smattering such
disappointment and even disgust, with
SO little learning or discipline of the
mind that is of any value And in nine
cases out of ten this loss is in direct
proportion to the attention that has been
concentrated upon grammatical ac-
curacy. If there is something even more
important and far more difficult to mas
ter than the grammar, why is so much
care enforced by teachers upon the most
disagreeable part of the study? Why
bother us with rules as dry as chips, tina t
make even the adult mad and are quite
certain to puzzle the young? If we cam
not use the language properly until we
know the proper meaning of the words,
and cannot get that from grammars.
dictionaries, thesaurus, or a book of
synonyms, but must wait for time and
practice to get them, why not let the
thousand niceties of grammar come in
the same way, if they are necessary,
and in the meantime learn in the short
est and most pleasant way what the
strings of sentences mean?
Up go hands and eyes of the ''profes-
sor" in holy horror at the idea. do not
mean to assert that the professor of to-
day Is the professor of thirty years ago
but it is not many years since he was
firm in the belief as the old-time teach
er that it is monstrous to Think of TAX
ing one forward step until the last one
ts thoroughly anchored on a solid rock
of grammatical formula
All this is very we'll for one who loves
that kind of drudgery or is willing to &c
makes good scholars, if they keep at il
makes good scholars, if they KEEP at ii
long enough, and can keep awake in the
meantime when looking at the grammar
But where one reaches the goal in this
way, nearly ninety mine fall by the way
side, weary, sick and disgusted, and nc
one can blame them. Nothing is more
ridiculous to ore who has been through
the college mill and has learned lam
guages practically afterward than the
alleged reading" or learning of lau-
guages in college. One might as well
call one miller after being kicked
through Touring mill and getting some
The herald., 1897-09-05
Notes

Mrs. Spurseon is editing the life of her
husband. Mr.. Spurgeon left a mass of
papers relating to his career and work.
Ouida is still hard at work. We have
had THE Masserenes." Now comes LIE
Selve," and in short time Ouidas cal
TRUST" will appear.
Mr.. Zangwills "Dreamers of the Ghet-
to" will be ready next month. To study
the realistic side of his subject Mr.. Zang-
will has been in Jerusalem.
The International Magazine presents
new feature. 1t reports the names of
prominent New Workers who have sailed
for Europe during the month preceding
the publication.
Professor Aliens life of Phillips Brooks
will be published by E. P. Dutton & Co.
in the fall. 1t will be in two volumes,
will be illustrated and will contain con-
siderable correspondence.
Edward Bellamy's new book, Equal
ity," which is having so large sale in
this country will be published in Ger
many by the Deutsche Verlags -Anstalt,
who are having the book translated and
will issue as soon as possible.
Among the new publica tions to be is-
sueGs by Messrs. E. p. Dutton & Co. for
the coming fall season will be books by
John Strange Winter, Beatrice Harra-
den, Mrs. Molesworth, George Manville
Fem, L. 4. Meade, David Ker and Col
II. r. Gordon.
When Mr.. William Waldorf Astor
wants his home written up he gets a
marquis to do it-not only marquis. but
the husband of a royal princess-for in
the Angus, Pail Mall Magazine there is
an article upon Cliveden, by the Marquis
of Lorne, X. T., M. P.
Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. have in course
Of preparation for the ensuing holiday
season a revised and enlarged edition of
their scholarly variorum edition of THE
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." editedby
Nathan Haskell Dole. The edition will
contain Danish and Italian translations
of the famous poem, in addition to the
English, German and French variants.
In September Messrs. G. p. Putnams
Sons will publish John Marmaduke, a
Romance of the English Invasion of Ire
land in 1649" The author is Samuel
Harden Church, and the work will be
finely illustrated. Mr.. Church's Life
of Cromwell was a distinguished sue
cess.
Arthur Hassall's Hand Book of Eu-
ropean History" to- be published by the
Macmillan company, will be the most
useful of books. Parallel columns show
what were the events of Importance in
different countries at or about the same
time. The advantages of having work
of reference of this character are evil
dent.
The herald., 1897-09-05

the aim Of the author to seek out these
descendants, and to gather many mar
ratives which have not been incorporated
in any history, and which would other
wise be lost (Price $1.5O.)
4 4 +
HIS MAJESTY'S GREATEST SUB
JECT. BY S. S. Thorburn, author of
"Asiatic Neighbors," etc. d. Apple
ton & Co.
This is No. 223 OF the ever welcome
Town and Country Library series, and
is a most engrossing story, indeed, one
Of the most audacious incursions into fic-
tion land that the whole year has wit
messed. The author is understood to be
thoroughly versed in the ways of both
the military and civil service in India,
and has used this knowledge with rare
skill and effect. 1t is story told in ex-
cellent literary form, and is full of life
and movement.
The herald., 1897-09-05

AS the gates are mine to close.
And set my house in order,
Said the Lady of the Shows.
Neither with laughter nor weeping.
Fear or the childs amaze,
Soberly under the white mans law
My white men go their ways.
Not for the Gentiles clamor.
Insult or threat of blows,
Bow we the knee to Baal,
Said our Lady of the Shows.
called my chiefs to council.
In the din of troubled year.
For the sake of sign We would not see,
And a word We would not hear.
This is our message and answer.
This is the path we chose;
For we be also people.
Said our Lady of the Shows.
Carry the word to my sisters,
To the Quens of the East and South.
1 have proved faith in the heritage
BY more than word of mouth.
They that are wise may follow,
Ere the worlds war trumpet blows,
But l. 1 am first in the battle,
Said our Lady of the Shows.
A nation spoke to nation.
A Queen sent word to a throne,
Daughter am in my mothers house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open
AS the gates are mine TO close,
And I bide in my mothers house,
Said the Lady of the Shows.
Now, this is not only good poetry, but
it would seem to be a kindly expression
But the Canadians would have none of
it, and many sharp notes of resentment
were heard. Several parodies have ap-
peared in the Canadian prints, the most
spirited one being a poem from which
we take the following lines:
A poet sung of a nation
In words that were kindly meant,
And his song on ETHEREAL pulses
Throughout the empire went.
1t breathed the imperial spirit
At which the bosom glows
But he slurred the land that he fain had
praised
AS "Our Lady of the Shows"
Now, Mr.. Kipling spent his early life
in India and may be prejudiced judge
of Canadian weather. AT any rate he
does not propose to change his verse nor
his name for the queens American do
a request from Lord Aberdeens little
daughter for some verses for her juve-
nile magazine, the poet evolved the fol-
lowing:
There was once small boy Of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to the neck.
When asked, Are you friz?'
He replied, "Yes, l is,
But we don't call this cold in Quebec"
None Of us will be inclined to call this
skit poetry, but it is bright enough in
view of the Lady Of the Shows con-
troversy to be worth recording.
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CALIFORNIA ACAD-
ENVY OF SCIENCE BULLETIN
No. 3.
We have received the latest publica-
tion of this society upon the subject of
milk, and have read it with much inter-
est. 1t is great pity that our people
do not interest themselves more gener-
The herald., 1897-09-05
edited by Enoch Knight.)

cannot find my way; there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere;
And there is not whisper in the air
OF any living voice but one so far
That can only hear it as a Bar
OF lost imperial music. played when fair
And angel fingers wove, and unaware.
Dead leaves to garlands where no roses are.
No. there is not glimmer, nor call,
For one that observation-disclosures when he
fears
The black and awful chaos of the night;
For through it all--above, beyond 1t all
know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light!
The herald., 1897-09-05
WORDS PoPULAR1zED BY THE

WORDS POPULARIZED BY THE
BICYCLE.-The bicycle bound to stay
is now coming words. 1t wanted a no.
menclature of its own, and is now man
ufacturing it. Wheeling is to be thanked
for making "a scorcher" (F'rench "chauf-
feur'') and an idiot mean one and the
same thing. The tire is inflated, but the
unfortunate puncture comes, and the
whee,man says: MY tire is de1ated,'
and the purst winces.
There is a verb ito flate," which is
never used, but is discovered in the die
tionary. "To fate" is derivable from the
Latin ''f1atus," and to fiate means "to
produce with flatus or with simple unin-
tonated breath" Century dictionary
II initiate" then, is at once understa and
able. why not "deflate?" The "de" is ali
approved verb prefix, meaning away,
down from, and has a separative sense.
'Defiate" is, then, a perfectly feasible
word. with countless analogies.
If you look up the opposite words to
"inflate" in Rogets Thesaurus, you will
hnd nothing as handy as 'deflate," and
so there is no reason why it should not
at once be accepted, for it fills the long
felt want.
1t Is curious to note, too, in combina-
tion with wheeling topics, how common
are the words resilient" and "resiilen-
cy," and used in their proper sense.
Formerly resilient" belonged to the
purely technical language of the lecture
room.
+ y +
KIPLINGS MISTAKE.-Mr. Kipling
has committed the fatal mistake of Of
tending his neighbor by an implied
sighting reference to his climate. All
other offenses can be forgiven and for
gotten, but this wound never heals.
The London Times has been publish
ing Kipling's new poems-the last of
which, by the way, we printed last week
-and the one under consideration was
cabled to Canada. It is given below:
A nation spoke to nation.
A Queen sent word to throne;
Daughter am in my mothers house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open
The herald., 1897-09-05
wAFFLEs FOR KLONDIKE
Two Hoboken Men Will Extend Their
Field of Business

Way up the Klondike river two enter
prising men of Hoboken intend to sell
hot waff1es this winter. j. Il. Day and =.
Egbert are the names of the two men OF
ideas and hot waff1es. They own Wa1nc
cart and have heretofore confined their
efforts to please to the prosaic streets OF
Hoboken and Jersey City. The discov-
cry of gold ip the Klondike region has
enlarged their views and likewise their
field of operation.
They write to the press that they Will
start with their waffle cart and travel
overland to San Francisco, selling thelf
wares by the way. From the City Of the
Golden Gate they will take shipping to
Alaska, and once landed will jog along
the trail, making the wilderness ring
with the inspiring cry Of "Hereyar. all
'ot," They expect to make enough along
the way to pay all expenses of the trip,
and when they get to the Klondike exs
pect to find fortune in the sale OF waf-
fles. IL they do not in the placers.-NeW
York Press.
Clara Louis Kellogg. the queen Of
American prima donnas, abdicated, SO
to speak, in the full splendor Of her
eventful professional career, apparently
without a shadow of regret. In private
life she is Mrs. Carl Strakosch, her hus-
band having been formerly as promi-
nently active an impressairo as she was
singer. Mr. and Mrs. Strakosch reside
during the greater part of the year In
their beautiful country place at New
Hartford, Conn, but invariably go to
New York for few weeks during the
opera season.
The herald., 1897-09-05
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACAD-
ENVY OF SCIENCE RITZ E,TTN

No. g.
We have received the latest publica-
tion of this society upon the subject of
milk, and have read it with much inter-
est. 1t is a great pity that our people
do not interest themselves more gener-
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-21
The Queen ls Well.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 11.-There
is no truth in the report that former
Queen Liliuokalani OF Hawaii is
critically i'll. She is in excellent
health and this evening took walk
in the vicinity of her hotel.
The rumors regarding Liliuoka-
lani had their origin in a bit of di-
plomatic evasion inspired by herself.
Some visitors whom she particu-
larly desired to avoid meeting sent
up their cards. Word was returned
that the former Queen was at the
point of death as result Of an
attack of pneumonia.
The callers, thus made victims of
the expediency, Immediately COM
municatsd the information to all
with whom they came in contact.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-21
Dole for the Coolies.

There is 70 doubt that the VERDI
age OF the Hawaiian annexation
treaty was adopted by the Dole
Government to cover trick. BY
first providing that all treaties be-
tween Hawaii and other nations
shall cease and determine, and that
there shall be substituted therefor
the treaties Of the United States
with such nations, it wiped out all
treaties made by Hawaii and put in
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-21
Protection of the Coast.

If we had the Hawaiian Islands it
would cost ten times as much to
protect them as it would San Fran
cisco. These annexations advocates
would have us believe that the isl
ands would just protect themselves
and send out ship after ship to the
rescue Of San Francisco, 5000 miles
away. OF course, it is presumed
that we would keep the harbor out
there full of ironelans, and all for
protection of San Francisco! A
ship lying out there would be worth
so much more to the defense Of San
Francisco than one in the bay at
hand This is, however, what they
would have us believe, and it is what
we must believe before wa can be an
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sun.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-21

their place all treaties made by the
United States. Had it stopped there
the evidence Of design might have
been imperfect. But Mr.. Dole felt
it necessary to do something that
could be made to seem like a de-
claration against Chinese on the ISL
ands leaving for other parts OF the
United States. To serve this pur-
pose the language used in the fifth
article was carefully planned. 1t
not only serves the purposes OF de-
ception, but it completes the scheme
begun in the third article. That, by
extending our treaty OF 1894 over
the islands, gives the Chinese now
there the same rights now enjoyed
by the Chinese of California in any
port OF the United States. 1t per-
mits them to leave Hawaii and
domieile where they please in our
territory and enjoy all the rights OF
subjects OF the most favored nations,
But it seemed necessary to pretend
that they we're not to come here,
and at the same time time pretend
that no more Chinese should come
to the islands. All this is craftily
done in Article V.
Therefore while pretending to i'm
pound the Chinese now in Hawaii,
and prevent the coming Of more,
this precious annexation treaty
actually turns loose upon the whole
United States tue $4,000 coolies now
there, and then provides for supply
ing their places under the consular
certificate plan provided in our
treaty of 1894.
When the Collector of the Port Of
San Francisco causes it to be pub
lished that he is powerless to keep
Chinese coolies out under the treaty
of 1894, fancy the Joy in Cathay
when the same treaty covers Hawaii
aud the coolies present their con-
sular certificates to Collector OF
the Port of honolulu
The danger is great. Annexation
is a wooden horse, with his ample
belly filed with $4,000 coolies. II
our industries and those who operate
them desire to be saved from this
food it is time they were instructing
our Senators and Representatives in
the premises.
Annexation OF Hawaii is not safe
on any grounds. AS national policy
it is dangerous 1t is unsupported
by morals. But, as affecting the
Pacific Coast, it is an intolerabls
policy, against which our people
should make united protest.
The treaty is palpable trick and
a plain juggle on the coolie question
and, il we can get hearing in nc
other way, committee should &C
from here to represent us before the
= Foreign Affairs Committee of tn,
Senate.-S. +. Call.