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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
the new North German Lloyd
liner, on her arrival at New York
on September 26, on her maiden
trip, made the passage from South
ampton in five dogs, twenty-five
hours and thirty-fve minutes, at
i'll average speed Of 21.39 knots,
lowering the westward Southamp'
ton record, held by the St. Paul,
by one hour, fifty-6ye minutes.
The return passage from New
York ito Plymouth was made In
five days, fifteen hours and ten
minutes. The big ships average
speed was 21.9 knots per hour, and
her biggest days run $40 knots.
By smashing the records both east.
ward and. westward, she is now
queen Of the Southampton course.
She is a massive monster, being
648 feet long, 66 feet wide, 43 feet
deep, iwlth tonnage of Il, 600.
She can carry 1870 passengers be.
sides her crew of $50. Her engines
are expected to develop $4,000
hors power, and her cost is est.
mated at about $2,000,0Oo.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15
Tho Most Costly Fruits.

Hothouse grapes are tho costliest of
fruits They IRE never less than IS
cents q pound, and when they IRE most
costly, in February and March, they
sell for 50 pound, sometimes going as
high as $40 a pound. At prices ranging
up to 81 q pound there is q ready sale
for them. At the higher prices they are
sold almost exclusively for the use Of in
valida There is sale for all that arc
produced, but the production is great,
and the vines may die from exhaustion
after single season of forcing.
The next most costly fruit is the hot.
house peach Hothouse peaches sell in
February at 81. 30 each. They are used
mainly by invalids, but such peaches
are also often sold for gifts They are
presented as flowers or as bonbons would
be. Three or four peaches are packed in
cotton and set off with q few peach
leaves in handsome box. Hothouse
peaches run down to about 60 cents each
in April and May, when we>begin to
get the first Of the peaches from the
south. New York Sun.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

Long. Prairie Leader: Mr.. and
Mrs.iJ. F. Locke leave next Monday
on a hunting and outing trip OF
three or four weeks. They are going
north of Brainerd some 20 miles, and
with them will be G. A. Merrill, gu.
perintenaent Of the state training
school at Owatowna, accompanied
by Mrs. Merrill, and C. A. Gilman,
state librarian, Of st. Paul. They
will stop at the home of w. p. Locke
nephew OF the Judge, who resides up
there, and the gentlemen expect to
putin several days Of good hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Locke will meet the
rest Of the party at Brainerd and all
go from there to the hunting
grounds by team.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The free trade papers profess s
not to see how 4 protection tariff
can raise revenue. Every Repub
lican administration of the United
States has been a protection ad.
ministration and a debt paying ad.
ministration. The proper kind of
a protection law brings revenue
enough to pay the expenses Of the
government and reduce the reve.
nue. debt. That Is what the Ding.
lev law will do.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The first number ola newweek.
" journal TO be called "Litsrature"
will b. issued the last Of this
month. 1t will be published in
England by the properitors of the
London Times and in this country
BY Harper &. Brothers. 1t will
CONSIST mostly of reviews of books,
but only books of literary value in
the judgment Of the editors will
be given space for consideration.
II. D. Trail, the we'll known
writer, will be editor.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

Congressman Morris may have
made some mistakes in apportion'
ing Offices throughout the district,
+ but whoever did succeed in salts.
flying everybody when a score Of
more were after each Office? But
Mr.. Morris has made a very good
congressman, and there is not the
slightest question in our mind
but that he will be renominated
and reelected next year. If a
congressman has got to be gagged
by the satisfaction given in par
ceiling out lot of petty offices, it
would requires an angel from
heaven to fill the bil].--Elk River
Star-Ne VS..
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15
Minneapolis Tribune:

Minneapolis Tribune: The
Tribune's dispatche from day
to day note the serious
conditions growing out of the pro
'onged drouth, especially in the
South west. In Southern Kansas,
for instance, it Is said that not
more than half an inch Of rain hrs
fallen in three mouths; the stock
ponds are dry, the pasturage is
burned up, and very little plowlng
has been done for the fall wheat
The same deplorahle condition ex.
| lists to greater or less extent in
all the states to the southwark Of
Minnesota and west of the AL.
legheny mountains, Illinois,
Indiana and Missouri are suffering
almost as much as Kansas and
Nebraska.
Fortunately, in the Southwest
they have an ample stock of corn
to make up for the lack of pastur'
age, and their wheat crop, which
was harvested in good condition,
has been sold at good prices and
has put the farmers in excellent
financial condition. If they can
only get hold of enough water to
water their stock, it may be saved
by the free feeding of corn. -
In Minnesota, Northern Iowa
and the Dakotas dry weather has
prevailed, but the drouth has been
further south. Considerable fall
blowing has peeu dens, and if the
winter sets in without the work
being completed, it may be finished
up in the spring. Even if the
drooth IS speedily broken it seems
certain that the acreage of winter
wheat will be largely reduced. 1t
behooves our Northwestern farm.
ers, therefore, to make arrange.
ments to put in as large an area Of
spring wheat for the crop Of 1898
as possible. The latest advices
from Argentina are of injury to
the growing crop from drouth.
European bins will be swept bare
by this years consumption, and if
there are no supplies to come from
Argentina next winter and spring
the sharp demand for breadstuffs
from America is likely to continue
for another year. The drouth
seems already to point to the fact
that our winter wheat acreage will
be light. It is not unlikely that
wheat in the Northwest will be
the best cash crop the farmer can
raise IN 1898, as 1t is in 1897.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

Carleton college items IL North.
field News: In practice Thursday
afternoon Donovan got biffed on the
head 10 hard he didn't know where
he was at for several hours. He
wasn't able to come to meals Fri.
day. which means that he was
pretty badly hurt; hut he has got
back to a state Of less or M ore sta ble
equilibrium in time to assist In the
humiliation OF the university team
today.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The bureau Of statistics has is.
sued the tables showing the ex.
ports and imports for August the
first full. month under the new
tariff law. These figures show for
that month the largest exports of
domestic merchandise of any Au.
gust in the history of the govern
ment. The exports were $40, $780,.
.264, against $66, 6s9,9s1 for Aug.
ust, 1896. !. For the first eight
months Of the year the exports
We're $61, $4,000 in excess of the
first eight months of 1896, so that
the bureau otiicla believe that the
ex ports this year will far exceed
those of lasi year, which was its
record. breaking year in the matter
Of exports.
The value of all imports, duti.
able and free, for August, was
$50, S48, 312, of which $18,629,6
were free. These figures show a
decrease of about $40, 000, 600 below
those of 1896. The decrease was
due to a heavy reduction in the
importation of raw wool, which
decreased from 1861, 900 pounds
in August last year to 2,SN,877
pounds last August; manufactured
wool from 50, 709, 900 to $685., 900,
wood and manufactures thereof,
from $1,963,60o to 1921, 900;
manufactures of cotton, from
1858, 600 to 81, 623, 900; manufac.
lures of jute, flax, hemp, etc.,
from 1921, 900 to $999, 2s9; iron
aad steel, from 81, 767, 067 to 1887,
3A, and sugars, from $3.50, 600
to $2,956,000. 49,.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The American Missionary as.
sociat ton. Bible.House, New York
City, representing the Congre-
gational churches of the United
States. will hold in fifty.first
Anniversary in Plymouth Congre'
gational church, Minneapolis,
Mlnn., October 10 to 81. Distin-
guished speakers, male and female,
will deliver addresses.
The American Missionary as
ISOLATION does the missionary
work of the Congregational
churches for ten million of people,
white and black, IN the lowlands
and noun tains of the South, and
for the Indians of the Interior and
the West, the Chinese on the
Pacific Coast, and the Eskimo in
Alaska. Its work is that of
Christianity and education. Its
methods are those of the school
and the church, the shop and the
farm.
Its vast educational work in
cludes several great institutions in
the Southern lowlands, efficient
and prosperous mountain schools
in the mountains, Indian training
schools in the West, and more
than hundred other normal, in
dustrial, graded and primary
schools, with over four hundred
instructors and nearly thirteen
thousand students and pupils.
Its church work is missionary
service almost entirely among the
very poor. In the Indian fields it
is having wonderful growth. In
the Chinese fields nearly two
hundred pagans have como into
the Christian lite. In the Southern
mountains there is most interest.
ing movement of the people to.
wards the Congregational way.
In the Southern 'ow]ands there
are well.organized churches in
many large towns and cities, as
we'll as in the rural regions.
There are widespread church mis-
sions in the form Of evangelistic
meetings and Christian .Endeavor
services, home visitation and way.
side work. It plants and sustains
Sunday.schools with over seven.
teen thousand scholars.
For the first time in many years
the association is seriously in debt.
ALI Congregationists are special.
~ invited to the meetings in Min.
neapolis. ,:s.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

With the,help of Cuban patriots
Sonora Ciisneros has been enabled
to escape fromprison, leaving the
Spanish authorities no clue as to
her whereabouts.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

From "news" poin5 of view
the fight for mayor in Greater
New York is more important than
any ofthe state campaigns in prog
ress. The big dailies all give it
front page position and lengthy
additional comment.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

That Leutgert business has de.
stroyed.. the sausage Industry in
Chicago, as people refuse to buy it
during the trial of the man charged
with dissolving his wife in one of
his factory watts.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The yellow fever epidemic is es
timated to have caused loss of
$25, 100000 to the business Of the
citv OF New Orleans.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

The money order business Of the
postofiice department amounted to
nearly two hundred million dollars
last year.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

Forest fires have been started in
great many places in Beltram
county in the last ten days, presum-
ably by Indians, who are anxious to
create a. liberal supply of dead and
down timber for logging.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15
An Explanatory Hint,

why" asked Pat as he came hic.
scughing into the Quippery, lis the
humble goat always held up as the sim.
lie for intoxication-for instance, full
as goat?' -
II cannot guess, answered Tim,
unless he paused meditatively
and looked at Pat as if he expected an
invitation-''u unless it is because he il
always ready to throw a horn into any.
body. "-Pittsl,urg News
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15
Candidates for governor of the
territory of Hawaii will soon be
in order.

Switzerland has just bought
$500 miles Of railroad for $780,.
100000.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

They are tough. A tramp at
st. Cloud was struck by Il freight
train Saturday, and escaped injury.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15

On Thursday $1,ooo,O00 left
London for New York, and $780,.
600 was shipped to Canada.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15
He Understood.

Said the judge, do you understand the
nature of an oath?'
And the little boy looked up in astonish
ment US he replied, "Guess you don't know
my dad or you wouldn't have asked cha
question "-BostOn Transcrint
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05
POOLING.

There is very prevalent misconcep-
 ton of the nature and extent of the pooling of railroad freight traffic which
 the interstate commerce act prohibits
 and which congress is asked to permit.
 The prevalent idea is that the entire traffic of section of the country, or even of the whole country, would be aggregated in one gigantic pool, where- as in fact nothing of the sort could be
 attempted. The pool aims to secure the maintenance of published rates at competitive points, together with an equitable division of traffic between competing roads, and effects this by putting it out of the power of any road in the pool to increase it's earnings by secret rate-cutting. The Railway and Engineering Review gives a very clear explanation of what pooling is. The earnings of all roads between the spec flied competitive points are put into one lullu anu dl6 QINlJtu dCCOEultS LO tDc percentage of traffic allotted to each road in the pooling agreement, so that if one road by cutting rates secretly gets more than its share of traffic it doe not profit by the treachery. The pool makes it to the interest of each railroad to live up to its agreement as to rates and as to the division of traffic by making it unprofitable to do other wise As respects shippers, the pool benefits them by preventing discrimina- tions. When rates are cut secretly the large shipper gets a lower rate than the small one, and the business of the latter is made unsafe. Pooling is therefore in the public interest as well as in the interest of the railroads. It is not a device to increase freight rates but to secure the faithful observance
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05
SOME PROFESSIONAL PRIDE,

The "old school'' of medicine has
 been shown how it can triumph over
 the ''new school' and it is going to do
 1t. The showing was done at the jubi-
 lee meeting of the American Medical
 association in Philadelphia. After thirteen years of ceaseless importantly
 the association raised the sum of s4OOO for the erection in Washington of a statue of Benjamin Rush, the surgeon
 general of the Revolutionary army. So Dr. A. L. Gihon, U. S. N. (retired),
 chairman of the monument committee reported. That was the bare fact of the report, but the shrewd manner in which it was presented awoke the pro- fessional pride of the physicians and accomplished more than all the pleas that had been made in years. The beg garly $4,000 contributed in thirteen years by one hundred thousand men.
 was contrasted with the $75,OOO raised in less than four years by six or seven
 thousand men for the erection in Wash ington of statue to Samuel Hahne-
 mann. A counter assertion by pr. Ephraim Cutler of New York, that no matter how costly monument the homoeopathists might erect, it would not be as good monument as the American Medical association is to-day to Dr. Rush, pleased but did not satisfy the aroused enthusiasm of the doctors,
 and it was immediately decided to ex- eel the homoeopathists by raising $100,- 0O0 The medical societies of Colorado, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Arkansas were pledged to raise s2,ooo each, and the delegates from other States all prom ised efforts to bear their proportionate share, in addition to which many indi- viduaI subscriptions of $100 each were recorded
 This is something like And the | $100, ,000 monument to Dr. Rush will be
 more impressive than a cinerary urn containing the ashes of a medical l heretic and sinner.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05

him he said the next time he would propose to some one old enough to know her own mind. ."-Harlem Life.
 Speaking of Cuban uprisings and instructions" said Wallace, q shall never forget one that occurred twenty years ago." Were you present." ask ed Ferry. "Very much so, It happen ed about five minutes after I had light ed one of my fathers big black Havana cigars. Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Mrs. Greene-"Tell me, aren't there any expresses running to your town?" Mrs. Gray-"Of course there are; plen- ty of them. Why do you ask?" Mrs. Greene-"My husband has told me that he has seen your husband almost every night on his way home, and he always had more than he could carry."-Bos- ton Transcript.
 DO you have mice in your house, Parker?" asked Wicks. "Yes--lots of 'em," said Parker. What on earth do you do for them I'm bothered to death by them at my house."
 What do do for 'em?" said Parker Why, do everything for them-pro- vide 'em with home, plenty to eat, and so forth. What more can they ex- pect t?"-Harper's Bazar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05
BETTER.

Gobang-"Contentme is better than wealth, my boy" My boy-''It ought to be- It is a mighty sight harder to get. Truth.
 How did that beetle destroyer go that I sold you the other day?" Like hot cakes. The beetles won't eat any thing else,'' answered the customer Tit-Bits.
 What is experience, Uncle Tom?"
 Experience? It is what we learn from wanting everything we don't get, and getting everything we don't want" Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The professor-"As matter of fact, there are different dialects in different parts of Scotland" Friend-"Great Scott! Are there more counties to be heard from ?"-Truth.
 We hear music over at your house all the time, Jenkins" Yes; our cook has been taking lessons in physical cul- ture, and she won't wash a dish with out somebody playing on the piano. Chicago Record.
 Miss Passee-"I accepted Dick Brad ford last night" Miss Young-'Yes. expected it." Miss Passee-"Why?" Miss Young Because when I refused
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05
WEDDINGS.

June is the month of weddings. "In the spring the young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love-" and the young womans fancy seriously turns to thoughts of getting ready to be married, In June the deed is done and they live happily ever after until death or divorce do them part. There have been many weddings in this re- zion lately and many more are to come. So far there have been several pretty weddings" and as weddings are usu- ally not pretty the people hereabout are evidently making progress. Pretty weddings" are much more in accord with the fitness of things than wed- dings that are not pretty" and we hope to read about more of them, Some quiet weddings" have also been reported, Quiet weddings are an inn provement on noisy weddings, although
 there can be so many of them and they can be so quiet" that there may be a
 temptation to call for at least one noisy
 wedding. But there have not yet been
 enough "quiet weddings" around here this month to create demand for one
 noisy old rip-roaring one. There has
 been one wedding at high noon," and it is enough. These are not boom times and there is no sense in being too alti- tudinous. If people must get married
 in the middle of the day we think they
 should call the performance "a wed- ding at noon." The high noon'' frill is little too airshippy.
 But whatever we have in the way of weddings in New Haven this month we hope there will be at least one stylish wedding" It is due to the town. Let somebody be generous enough to treat
 us to "a stylish wedding" and thereby keep New Haven where she belongs in the procession. Perhaps we could have one that would be quiet" pretty and stylish too. If we only could our joy would be full.
 l
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05

of published rates, which existing law requires to be reasonable"
 To illustrate the fact that the pool does not include all traffic over wide area, but only the traffic of specified competitive points, the Review quotes the language of the old Iowa pool, which lasted longer than any other. It embraced, says the Review, all traffic (with stated eXceptions) carried to, the Mississippi river, to, through or from Omaha, Council Bluffs and Mis- that these limitations excluded from the operation of the pool by far the larger portion of the traffic carried up- on the roads parties thereto, and even did not embrace all the business of the territory directly named. A car of grain, for illustration, originating ten miles east of Council Bluffs and com ing to Chicago. would not be included, nor would any shipment originating ten miles west of the Mississippi river des- tined to or beyond Council Bluffs or Omaha be included. As further H. lustration of the utter lack of danger from the gigantic monopoly" so often referred to, it may be stated that prior to the passage of the interstate com merce law and during the time when pooling was in its highest development in the West the entire gross earnings on all pooled traffic of one of the larg- est western railroads was little less than twenty per cent. of the freight earnings of the road for the same year, and this when every pool that could be formed was in full operation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-05

An investigation conducted by the members of the North Carolina Board of Health into the water supply of the cities of the State has resulted in re- port of disquieting nature to the in habitants of many of the cities. In vestigation was made in thirteen cities. Tn five of them the water was found to be infected with intestinal bacilli, in three others the condition of the water was suspicious, to say the least, while the samples from the remaining cities were reported to be more or less good The board had not authority to compel the water companies to improve the character of the supply, but determined to examine the water, and if the com panies would not remedy the trouble, to bring the pressure of public opinion to bear by having the results of the investigation, setting forth the charac- ter of the water published in the local newspapers"