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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
KING GEORGE TALKS.

He Lays the Blame for the War At the
Door Of tho Powers.
PARIS, April 22.-The correspondent
of La Journal ut Athens had an inter-
view with King George of Greece at
the palace. His majesty is quoted as
saying that he believed to the last
moment that peace would be main
tanned and did his. utmost to bring
about pacific solution of the matters
in dispute.
The king denied that Greece COM
menced hostilities against Turkey and
argued that Turkey was not compelled
to go to war because of the incursion
OF a few insurgents whom nobody
could have restrained.
Continuing, King George said: 1.-The
truth is, we were attacked because
Turkey was ordered to attack us.
There never would have been war but
for certain intrigues which will appear
later. All the powers are more or less
against us. If they wanted war they
got it. Such is the result of the
European concert. Europe must un.
derstand that after forcing us to war
there can be no question of limiting it.
Our fleet is destined to take an impor.
tant part as will soon be learned.
Greece understands that she must
either be victorious or disappear. The
war may be prolonged and bloody but
it is now too late to stop. A great
crime has been committed against
right and humanity in the Cretan
question and the chastisement has now
commenced"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
Four Hundred Volunteers From {
Many Italian Volunteers.

ROME, April 22.-Riccotti Garibaldi,
son of the famous General Garibaldi,
accompanied by Garibaldian veteran,
Colonel Gattarno, has sailed for Greece
where he will take part in the war
against the Turks Several steamers
at various places along the italian
coasts are embarking men who have
volunteered their services to Greece for
the war.
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FIGHTING At DAMASl.

Cannonading Removed BY . Creek Bfl
gsde-Turks BuPA Strsvins.
. ATHENS, April 22.-Fighting has been
renewed at Damssi, which is being
cannonaded by a Greek brigade ad.
vancing from Boughazi. The Turks
have occupied the posts Of Ligaria and
Karatzo, which are strategically unim-
portant, while the Greeks have ad.
vanced and occupied Slati hill.
A dispatch from Arta says the Turks
have abandoned Strevina, after burn
ing it. .'..'..+.
The bombardment of Prevesa contin.
ues with increasing damage to tho
forts. -o
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The Growth of the GerGhan Navy.
From the Fortni2htly Review.


The growth of the German navy since
1872 has been extraordinary. According to
figures quoted in the reichstag. the In
crease in naval expenditure since that date
has been 527 per cent. The outlay of the
North German confederation in 1870 was
only FL POI 600; in 1885 that Of the German
empire stood at e, 119.OOO. while at the
date of the Emperor William lis Access
sion 1t was e. 100000, which by last year
had risen to f4,315,O0O. The proposals of
the German admiralty for the present year
iITolved an expenditure of e. $4,000, Of
which more than f6,OO0.O00 has been voted
by the refchstag. During the present reign
lin period. that Is to say. of nine years
no less than eighty-six new units have
been added to the feet. But yet neither
Kaiser Wilhelm nor Admiral Holman is
satisfied. Like Oliver Twist, they are
asking for more, and are making 1t very
obvious that they intend to get more. Cap
tain Mahan's Influence Of Sea Power on
History has evidently instructed others
besides ourselves.
The program of ships to be commenced
deed, particularly large one. 1t in
volved the construction of four battle
ships. six large cruisers six smaller cruisers
and thirty-six torpedo craft. What prob
ably alarmed the releasing was the hint
that war was coming at no very distant
date. and the scarcely yelled pretension
to dispute with England the command Of
the sea. The demands. too, were sud-
denly put forward. and public opinion had
not been fully prepared for them. The
consequence was that the public and the
reichstag were bewildered, and refusd to
be rushed into great outlay for an OBJ
scure end.
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UP TOWARD THE POLE
A Summer Hotel That Lies Within the Arc
tic Circle.
Five Hundred Miles North of Hammer.
fest-COmfortable, II Not Preten-
tfOus-UniQue of It's Kind.

Written for The Evening Star.
The most northern hotel in the world and
probably the coolest resort to be found
anywhere during the summer months, is
situated on the inhospitable and ice-bound
shore Of Advent bay. where 1t washes the
west coast Of Spitzbergen. 1t is an odd
looking northwestern edifice, called in the
vernacular, ''Turist Hythen'-that is Tour
list HoteL 1t has been opened for its first
season this year, a season necessarily
short in the arctic regions, extending from
July 10 to August IS. Its accommodat tons
include thirty beds, and it is now announc-
ed that the great increase of tourist travel
to the gate of the arctic regions has made
the establishment Of post Office in the
hotel a necessary feature. The hotel is
situated in an approximate latitude of IS
degrees fifteen minutes N
Persons who have made the cruise of the
Norwegian waters for the purpose of de-
lighting in the mysteries of the midnight
sun, and who have fondly imagined that in
the town of Hammerfest, situated some
what south of the list parallel of north
latitude they met with the last stage of
civilization, as far as civilization is repre-
sented by hotel life, will now find that
they were not quite SO far out of the world
as they thought they We're. This little
hotel is 800 miles farther north than Ham
merfest. Some idea of its extreme north
ern situation can be gained when it is
stated that even the quarters of the pres
ent Jackson Harmsworth expedition in
Franz-Josephiand are hardly 100 miles
nearer to the pole. Compared with other
high northern points which have in one
way or another become prominent, the
ores which most forcibly suggest them
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having been disturbed. 1 can illustrate all
three points. Many years ago. in 1872. I
was hunting elephants in company with
an experienced Hottentot hunter in the for
est country to the north of Matabeleland.
One day we were ascending Il small iso-
hated hill in order to get view over the
surrounding country. when my companion
espied a herd of elephants and at once d.
rected my attention TO them. They were
advancing rapidly through the forest In
d long, struggling line. and were heading
IN direction that would take them across
the liLe of march by which we had come
10 the hill. AS soon the old hunter at
my side realized this fact. which he did
at glance, he said to me, eve must de-
scend the hill at once, and cut off the ele-
plants before they read our spoor, or they
will assuredly scent 1t and take ALARM"
We therefore, scrambled down the hill
and ran back through the open forest as
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Masarwa bushman. The former Wero 0Afar
belle and Mashunas. and very much lilca
ary other ordinary specipsens of their rocA.
but the latter was one Of the most saga
cious hunters have ever met even among
men of his own wild race and ALTHOUGH
considerably past the prime Of life he was
simply indispensable as a tracker and
runner. 1t was. should say. about $50
Am when old Marman, the bushman, took
up the spoor and we stuck to 1t at q very
fast walk till about Pm. only twice TAX
ing the saddles of the horses for a few
minutes at a time to ease their backs and
allow them to stale.
/ BY this time all the Kaflrs were very
much tagged, as the heat of the sun had
been intense fer the last five hours. and
third time and old Marman announced his
intention of running on the spoor, we told
them to take rest and follow quietly on
the tracks OF our horses Old Marman now
commenced to run, and in all my life !
have never seen a more marvellous feat of
endurance. He would run q mile at a good
sharp trot. then walk very fast for q quar-
ter or half a mile, then run again, and so
after hour. At length the burning sun sank
from view, but still the elephants were far
ahead of us, and still old Marman trotted
doggedly on their tracks
Soon after this time we came to where
the elephants had rested during the fiercest
heat of the day, possibly from till 4. and
as on again moving they had scattered and
commenced to feed in real earnest, break
ing down trees and digging up roots in all
directions, we might yet have come up with
them had we been In part of the world
where the twilight Is long drawn out. But
within the tropics some 20 degrees south
of the equator, once the sun has set, night
comes on apace.
Ran Twenty Miles.
During the thirteen hours we had been on
the elephants tracks, think we could not
have covered less than fifty miles, as old
Marman must have run nearly If not quite
twenty after o'clock, and allowing ever
an hour for the time lost while the horses
were offsaddled, we had then already done
about eight hours very fast walking since
first taking up the spoor in the early morn
ing The elephants had had twenty-four
hours in which to accomplish this distance,
but as they apparently had no particular
cause for so long journey, and were more
over accompanied by a very young calf, IT
would appear as if this were only their nor
nal rate of travel during the twenty-four
hours.
When ii became so dark that we could
no longer follow their tracks We decided
to pass the night at the nearest stream,
and then take I'D the spoor again In the
morning AS or horses had had no food
at all during the day, We hobb!ed them
and TUNED them loose, having first col
lected a large quantity Of dry wood and
kindled two large fires. one on each side
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THE ONLY WHITE BUFFALO.
una Chased by Indians md
hunters, but Never Caught,

ana Chased by Indians md
hunters, but Never Caught.
From tho Forest and Stream.
Dur1ng the summer of 1875 hands NJ T,
olans returning from a hunt far ont in the
plains brought In stories Of having seen
at inherent times and in different places
anu always In the center of large herd
white buffalo. They had used their best
nurses IN the effort to overtake 1t. to no
purpose. never being able to get anywhere
near the animal. At first we did not nav
Hucn attention to these stories, but still IT
kept cropping up from different camns
ana at last, in the fall of 1875 I myself
mao chance to verify the truth Of the
along the Red Deer river, and was CANNED
near large band Of Blackfeet, who were
hunting south Of that river. The buffalo
haa moved north In vast numbers, and the
prairie was black with them.
had gone out one morning with a partv
OF Blackfeet to see one Of their hunts. and
also to try and kill 1t for myself Nv horse
was good one. and much faster than any
belonging to the Indian hunters I had got
detached from the party, becoming tired
or the slaughter. and must have been at
least twenty miles from camp, when I
made for small clump Of timber not far
Oh, intending to roast a portion of some
buffalo meat had on the saddle with me.
AS approached the wood band of about
100 animals burst out from the brush and
made on to the south, and yet, most GER
tainly, in the middle Of them was a white
buffalo. Although they. were a quarter Of
mile away, there could be no mistake
about it; he was there as large as life, and
quite white, and running like deer. There
was no time to do much more than take
in the scene. but I gathered up the reins
and was after him, determined to bag that
buffalo or kill my horse.
Oh what a race it was, mile after mile;
and although all the band. with the excep-
ton of about a dozen. had split Off and
gone in different directions, the white ami
NAL. with his body-guard Of about dozen,
kept at about the same distance ahead.
could catch a glimpse Of him now and
then. and there was no doubt he was snow
white. Get within shot could not, for
many miles. At last they began to tire
and. although my horse tired also. I had
good hopes of coming up and getting q
shot. Alas! for such chance. OF q sud
den my horse lurched forward on his nose
sending me over his head onto the prairie
and turning a somersauf himself. miss
ing me only few feet. He had put his
foot into badger hole and brought hopes
Of q white robe to a sudden end.
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selves are those which have been ASSOC
ciated with the various arctic expeditions.
Its Latftudtnal POsitton

selves are those which have been assoc
ciated with the various arctic expeditions.
Its Latftudinal Position.
Thus the hotel and post Office occupy
nearly the same latitudinal position as
| where. on the west coast OF Greenland.
Kane lost the Advance in Rensselaer, har-
Dor: or where. at Cape Sabine the wreck
Of the Greedy expedition was saved from
a fate which had already overtaken sew
eral membe-s of the party; "Redclifre,"
the winter home OF the Peary expedition Of
9l-92, was situated on approximately lati-
tude a degrees AZ minutes and Ami
versary Lodge. on Bowdoin bay. on very
nearly the same lines, and therefore some
forty miles south of the hotel and post
office of Advent bay. Spitzbergen. II is
diffcut to realize that an appointed hotel
should exist at a point the latftudinal po-
sition CT which is removed only so miles
from the farthest point reached by Nam
sen during his late remarkable arctic ven
tire. Spitzbergen, like the north OF Green
land, still remains mo Mans Land"
But 1t is expected that before long IL will
become a possession of Norway.
The hotel itself is not very pretentious
so far as looks are concerned. IL is but
one and a half stories high, and has a
dfmnutive porch at the front. 1t is built
of wood. that being the only substance
as well as the warn est to be obtained in
the arctic regions. Its timbers are heavy,
as they must indeed be to withstand the
binding storms of the winter season. In
sue, III is roomy ana generally contains
provisions enough to guard against being
showed up for a long time. The mail
which goes to and from the little post office
is conveyed by special messenger to the
northern terminus of the steamship serv-
ice, which connects with the Sofotes
Islands. The intermediate passage is not
as perilous. especially during the summer
months. as might be magined. In fact, in
that region the ice breaks and leaves the
landscape comparatively clear during July
and August, so that the effete summer
tourist may make an arctic trip with little
If any more discomfort than he would
have in going to Europe.
Provisions are brought to the hotel in
the same way, and il may, for the reason
that there is always a good supply on
hand, come to be viewed as a haven OF
safety by future arctic explorers who fail
to make connections with the pole. At
any rate it is unique of its kind and GER
tainly stands without parallel as an OBJ
jective point for tourists.
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shape and size, and between Them as they
lest Ineven1y upon one another, dark
caverns and, passageways: chambers as
large as those of Luray or Mammoth cave
Not bush, not a tree in sight. not even
the trace Of an animal to lend at least the
semblance OF life. This, in few words, is
the Black Trevetons of Australia, by all
odds the strangest, most unexplainable
mountains in the world
This wonderful pile of granite is situ-
ated twenty miles back of the coast range
OF mountains that fringes the edge Of Cape
YORK peninsula. The visitor to Cooktown
would never suspect their presence. The
mariner far out on the ocean cannot see
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Blocks Of Grants Piled Up to a
Height Off 600 Fest.
TEE BLACK fREVEfOHS OF AUSTRALIA
But One Man Has Ever Been Able
to Reach the Summit.
NATIVES sHUN THE PLACE


JUMBLED NJ A 8 8
Of granite blocks,
some Of them 50 feet
square, all Of them
carrying sharp edges
and fiat surfaces. as
though done by the
hand Of some Titan
stone worker. and
piled he1ter-skelter in
q huge heap 1900
feet high and four
miles thick at the
base. Granite blocks
Of every conceivable
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IL Ak1ID - = ~ ~ -
have saved the wild.
unprotected elephant
in southern Africa
from extinction.
These are the extra
ordinary develop
ment Of its sense of
smell, its power of
walking enormous
distances without
rest, and the vast
ent Of t h Q
country over which
4, oop fro1,al after
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Phfladelphia's Franklin st.tue
rom the phflsdelphia Racopd

From the Philadelphia Record.
On the spot where Benjamin Franklin
stood when he sent up his kite to 'wrest
the lightning frum the Skies" and where
ne later laid the corner stone of the old
University Of Pennsylvania. will be shortly
erected q handsome bronze statue of the
: philosopher. as gift to the city from Jus
tus G. Strawbridge. 1t viii stand on the
post ONCE plaza, on the spot recently va
Gated by the removal of the Lion Fig liter
Inc statue Will be In bronze of heroic pro-
poruons, representing Franklin seated on
q colonial chair. attired In the loose robe
which Is given to him In one Of his most
famous portraits. From the PEDESTAL on
which the statue will rest the latter will
portions will be about once and a half life
Size. John J. Boyle. the sculptor who has
been commissioned to do the work. Will
nave the model completed In short time
$1,000. 'A~A
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Asbestos Rope.


From tie Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Asbestos formerly in use now has q for
midabIe competitor In the blue asbestos of
South Africa The latter is less than half
as heavy, and furnishes finer and longer
ibers. which have been worked into webs
but little inferior to those made Of vege-
table fiber. are absolutely fireproof, and
resist most known chemicals, corrosive va
pors. and atmospheric influences.
A blue asbestos rope. three-fourths of
an inch in diameter. was weighted at one
end with go pounds, and exposed to a
constant fisme from q large gas Jet, 80
that a considerable portion Of its length
was surrounded by fire. 1t only broke af-
ter twenty-five hours. The asbestos rope
has only two-thirds the strength Of a new
hemp rope, but as they grow older the
proportion changes In favor of the former,
since 1t Is but little affected by the atmos-
phere. The blue asbestos fiber Is also work
ed Into mattresses for hospitals, which are
cooler In summer and warmer in winter
than those Of animal hair or vegetable
fiber. As an experiment firemen's apparel
is being manufactured from the fiber
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HUNTING ELEPHANTS
4 Sport That Involves More Work
Than Play.
SPENDING LONG DAYS ON THE TRAIL
Graphic Account of Experiences in
South Africa.
MANY NARROW ESCAPES

Copyright. 1897. by F. G. Selous.)
Written for The Evening Star.
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scape on china is a plate with a scene
in the Black Forest. Germany. in the CEN
ter, and q pleasing border of wood violets.
He has used violets to decorate several
other pieces, and paints them with fidelity
to nature, rather than in a conventional
lied manner. Roses he has also employed
in the ornamentation of some of his most
recent specimens. and a very large plate
that he is covering in this way is espe-
cially striking.
Quite jolly party of artists made a
sketching trip down the river last Saturday
in a steam launch. Making an early start.
they steamed down to point little below
Mt. Vernon, where they landed and pro-
ceeded TO paint the place. Red was the
color most In use, so say the envIous ones
who we're not there, but the artists refute
this false and malicious charge by pro-
drcing their sketches to prove that the
painting was literal not mataphorical.
Several Of the party made excellent studies
during the day. and every one enjoyed
himself thoroughly. In fact, hey were
very reluctant to leave the pleasant spot
they had hit upon. but were at length per-
suaded to do so, arriving In the city very
early-the next morning. Those who en-
jcyed the day in this wise We're Messrs.
Harold L. Macdonald. George Gibbs, Ho-
Chandlee and his brothers. George and
Horace Chandlee. through whose courtesy
the party had the use of the launch.
Carl Rakeman is now In Warrenton. Va.
spending his time in sketching in the beau
tiful country that has been made familiar
to the Washington public through the
brush Of Mr.. Richard N. Brooke.
II
Mr.. William n. Machen has been dividing
his time between the painting of land
scapcs and flowers, occasionally turning
his hand to birds. He has had good
deal of experience with the members of
the feathered tribe and can indicate with
skill the soft downy texture of a Quairs
breast, or the brilliant sheeny spots of
color on the wild duck. Among the flower
subjects that he has done recently are
peonies and lilacs, study of a large bunch
of the latter In a wicker basket being par
ticularly satisfactory. Another pleasing
roses. extremely attractive as bit of
upon the motives that he has obtained in
the vicinity of Rock Creek. and there are
several scenes In which the effect of light
is notably good. The embroidery of gold
and green in the sunlit foliage and the
wavering reflections of the trees In the
SIN water make these subjects very beau
tifu.
Rudolph Evans. the talented ycpSS
has a.sl ri
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Rudolph Evans. the talented ycpSH
sculptor, has put aside his work in the
plastic art for the summer. and is spending
his time in recreation at Front Royal Va.
What little art work he will probably do
modelling.
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Marvellous Endurance

we had ridden cut from camp accom-
panied by some half dozen Kafirs and a
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East Gloucester IL also the field that
Miss Alice E. Wi1loughby has chosen for
her summers sketching. and she will start
north in a very few days. The delightful
water colors that she made last year show
her thorough sympathy with the class of
subjects that may be found in plenty In and
about this picturesque fishing town, and
she will doubtless bring back many excel
lent sketches.
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Carl Rakeman is now In Warrenton. Va.
spending his time in sketching in the beau
tiful country that has been made familiar
to the Washington public through the
brush Of Mr.. Richard n. Brooke.