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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-03-25
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury

that Contain Mercury
:aas mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on pre-
scr ptions from reputable physicians. az
the damage they will do is ten fold to
che good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
.factured by +. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
o.: contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces OF thesystem.
. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. It is taken in.
ternally and made in Toledo, OHIO, by
IF. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-03-25

Peter Newman was fined $40 and
costs-total $14-by Justice Sheldon
Saturday afternoon, for assaulring
John Carlson the evening before, in
Bahr's saloon. Carlson is a wood
chopper, a stranger in the city. In
the course of a tour around the
saloons, he fell in with crowd of
toughs in Bahr's saloon, with the
usual result. Hewas knocked down,
pounded and kicked in the face, and
exhibited a badly disfgured coun-
tenance next morning. Newman
was the principal offender. He has
been mixed in rows of this kind be-
fore, and the county attorney rec
commended a fine of $25. The pris-
oner made promises to reform, and
the justice made the fine low.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-03-25
Gilbert.

March 22.-Samue! Tough has been
quite sick the past week but is now con-
vaescent.
Thos. Tuttle made a trip to Pillager
Monday ard returned Saturday.
Our mail carrier was somewhat dis
appointed Saturday as he started out
with Sled and found no snow. He will
surely know better next time.
4 young man OF this place who. has
been in the woods the past winter had
the misfortune to faint while at {, gath
ering some short time ago. The poor
fell,w must have been frightened to see
so many strange proceedings after an
abs nee OF tohr months
A few young men spent Sunday visit
IN b. ana F. Johnson.
Bought beans instead Of salt. This
happened to /. Gilbert farmer lately, and
the lnistake was not discovered unit, he
reached home.
Ole Hawkinson has been sick tbe past
few days
Frank Tuttle is building AN addition
to his house.
Elmer Swanson left Monday for Min
ne.polis where h. will make his future
home.
Hine McN"aiy Is E,;i-ti,iy his SIMMER
wood these nice days.
II. P. Cook was at Long l. ,k,. Satnr-
day visiting i.iS son esev.
Vim Tlt,It ws'ut,o i;.;;iir.r,i Thurs
day Oh business,
August johnson GROVE to town today.
Farmers get your se4ier, ready.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
Costly Playing Cards.

A pack of cards was recently sold at
a London stationer's for 5000 1t was
one of the handsomest Italian copper
plate card games called "tarocchi di
Montegna, made during the fifteenth
century. Another pack of cards recently
sold at Paris for almost $400 Each OF
the cards in this pack is master work
of the engraver's art, and all the fig
ures in the game were historical por-
traits. The queen of hearts, for instance
represented Queen Anne of England,
the king of hearts being her husband.
Prince George of Denmark. The queen
Of diamonds was Queen Anne Sophia OF
Denmark, the queen of clubs the then
rrown princess of Prussia, the wife Of
Frederick William l, and the queen of
spades Princess Anna of Russia, later
on the czarina The jacks in this deck
of cards represent the most prominent
diplomats of Europe at the same time
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill a bottle or common glass with urine
and let it stand twenty four hours sed-
iment or settling indicates an unhealthy
condition of the kidneys. When urine
stains linen it is evidence OF kidney troub-
le Too frequent desire to urinate or pain
in the back, is also convincing proof that
tee kidneys and bladder ore out of order
WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfls
every wish in relieving pain in the back,
kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of
the urinary passages. 1t corrects inabil-
ity to hold urine and scalding pain in
passing it, or bad effects following use
of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes
that unpleasant necessity of being COM
PEELED to get up many times during the
night to urinate. The mild and the eX-
traordinaro effect of Swamp-Root is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing
cases. If you need medicine you should
have the best. Sold by druggists, price
fifty cents and one dollar. You may
have a sample bottle and pamphlet both
sent free by mail. Mention this paper
and send your address to DIR. Killmer &
Co., Bingham, N. Y. The proprietors
of this paper guarantee the genuiness OF
4his offer.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
INDIA RUBBER,
Tests by Which the Quality of the kIa
terial May Be Established.

Some few years ago Lieutenant Via
dimiroff of the Russian navy made a So.
ries of experiments to establish the test.
ing of rubber goods ON sound and rat.
isfactory basis, the following being the
main conclusions at which he arrived.
1t will be seen that the tests advocated
are physical ones, as he came to the con-
clusion that chemical testing gave nc
reliable results
First.-India rubber should not give
the slightest sign of superficial cracks
ON being bent to an angle of $50 de-
grees after five hours exposure in a
closed air bath to temperature of 1875
degrees G. The test pieces should be
about 6 centimeters thick.
Second. Rubber containing not more
than 80 per cent by weight of metallic
oxides should stretch to five times its
length without breaking.
Third. caoutchouc free from
all foreign matter, except the sulphur
necessary for its vulcanization, should
stretch seven times its length without
breaking.
Fourth. - The extension measured
Immediately after rupture should not
exceed 10 per cent of the original length
of the test piece. The test pieces should
be from to ID millimeters wide, and
not more than millimeters thick and
centimeters long.
Fifth.-The percentage of ash gives
certain indication of the degree of
softness, and may form basis for the
choice between different qualities fo1
certain purposes.
ANY excuses of sulphur over that re-
quired for vulcaLization should be re-
moved at the works, and should not ap-
pear on the surface Of any object.
Now, these tests on the whole seem
very well calculated to give useful indi.
cation to engineers as to the quality Of
the goods they are buying, only we
would interpolate here the remark that
unless a good price is paid for the rub
Der it is 10 use submitting it to such
physical tests as these India rubber
substitutes made from oil and ''recover
ed rubbers that is, old rubber worked
up again with oil-have nothing like the
elasticity appertaining to new, sound
rubber, and they are quite incapable o1
standing the elongation or heat tests
mentioned. ed.-Engineering
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Two Ladies' Discover How They Had
Made Themselves Disa greeab1e,

Two Ladies' Discover How They Had
Made Themselves Disagreeable.
Two ladies We're standing on the
doorstep of house In Georgetown,
where but a moment before they had
rung the bell and were waiting to be
admitted, says the Washington Star.
One was talking along very intently,
when the taller woman interrupted
her.
BE careful" she said, somebody
may hear you"
'1m very particular" responded the
other. 81 looked all around before /
said anything and there was nobody in
sight"
That's what I thought once, too,
Ind l made serious mistake. / was
Ealing once, just as we are now, and
was with woman who could and did
ny the meanest things about people /
ever heard. I'm not given 10 that kind
# thing usually, but do love bit Of
gossip, and sometimes 1 am led into
saying things shouldn't. On this &C.
.asion the lady we were to call on was
1ot a favorite of mine, and when the
,ther woman said something sarcastic
chimed right in and said / thought
she was the silliest and most eXtrava-
CANT, homeliest and dowdiest and stu
oidest woman of my entire acquaint-
lnce, and that 1 only called from a
sense of duty anyhow. And a few
,ther things like that said.
"Well we were let in after a long
wait and the reception we got was the
.hilliest I ever met with. I conldn't
understand it, for we were really on
| very good terms, as those things go,
md we got out as soon as we could.
That night l told my husband about 1t
when he came home, and he wondered
at it. too. Next evening he came in
smiling, and told me that the next time
had anything to say about my neigh
bors on their own doorsteps l had bet
ter first see if there were any speaking
tubes to tell on me. That explained it
all in second. A doctor used to live
In that same house and he had speak
Ing tube at the door, as physicians do.
The lady we were calling on had never
changed it, and as 1 found out after
ward, the mean thing, she used to sit
| close to the other end of that tube and
listen to what people might be saying
1t the door.
'She didn't make much by listening
70 me, and she didn't dare to tell me
that she knew what 1 thought Of her,
and l didn't care If she did know, only
since that time 1 have been more care
full. There's tube up there, see?" and
the tall lady pointed to an Innocent
looking mouthpiece pouting out Of the
door frame. However, there was no
response to their ring, and as they met
the lady coming in just as they started
away they felt perfectly safe and had
| 4 nice call.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
Met the Wrong Man.

A fne-looking man with gray beard
and wearing large Quaker hat walk
ed serenely down Broadway recently,
and when near the Astor House he was
accosted by a dapper fellow, clad in
loud-striped trousers.
''Why, how do you do, Uncle Josh
Simpson,
The Quaker beamed placidly upon
the man who knew him so well, but
whose indurated countenance he had
never seen before. The confidence
man, for such he was, was shaking the
hand of the Quaker effusiyely when
the latter, with a queer twinkle in his
eyes, replied:
''Oh, do not have so many, but they
are harder"
The swindler, nothing daunted, con-
tinued:
Let me see; met you somewhere,
Uncle Josh, but 1 cannot recall the
place."
81 remember seeing you before" the
Quaker said.
'Yes, yes; but where was it?"
With that same merry look from his
| eyes, the old man said
81 visited Blackwell's Island some
months ago to investigate some case l
had and saw you there in a convict's
garb. If not, l am sure l will soon see
you there"
You are not an easy mark, old fel-
| low" remarked the would-be swindler
as he walked away. The Quaker was
Thomas Lawrence, a lawyer and q
member Of the Society Of Friends, who
resides up the Hudson. He is also a
writer and is the author of a story en-
Mountain" His humor and originality
are known in New York and Virginia
| where he once lived
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
How It's Done.

If you want to know how to get your
wife to mend your clothes, find the
secret in the following domestic Incl
dent:
Its strange l can't get my wife to
mend my Clothes" remarked Mr..
Bride, in a tone of disgust. 81 asked
her to sew q button on this vest this
morning, and she hasn't touched it."
"You asked her." said Mr.. Norris,
with a slight shrug of his shoulders.
Eyes; what else should 1 do?"
"You haven't been married very long,
and perhaps you'll take pointer from
me-" answered Mr.. Norris, with a faith.
erly air. "Never ask a woman to mend
anything. That's fatal"
why, what do you mean?"
do as / do. When l want a shirt
mended, for instance, 1 take 1t in my
hand and hunt up my wife. Where's
that rag-bag, Mrs. Norris?' l demand
in q stern voice.
"'What do you want the rag bag
for? she says, suspiciously.
81 want to throw this shirt away
it's all worn out 1 reply.
"Let me see,' she demands.
"But 1 put the garment behind my
back.
"'No, my dear answer; there's nc
use of your attempting to do anything
with it. 1t needs
"Let me see it. she reiterates.
"'But it's all worn out, tell you
"'Now, John, you give me that shirt!
she says, in her most peremptory tone
Il hand her the shirt.
"'Why, John Norrisp she cries, will
a womanly triumph, this is a perfectly
good shirt. All it needs is AnC
! then she mends it."-Ram's Horn.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
A Bee Was Kept.

A girl from town is staying with
some country cousins who live at a
farm. On the night Of her arrival she
finds, to her modification, that she is
ignorant of all sorts of things connected
with farm life which to her country
cousins are matters of everyday knowl-
edge. She fancies they seem amused at
her ignorance
At breakfast the following morning
she sees on the table dish of fine hon
ey, whereupon she thinks she has found
an opportunity of retrieving her humil-
iating experience of the night before
and of showing her country cousins that
she knows something Of country life
after all So, looking at the dish of
honey, she says carelessly:
"Ah, l see you keep bee. Pear
sons Weekly
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
FREE TO OUR READERS.

Our readers will be pleased to learn that
the great discovery, DR.. Killmer's swamp
Root. has been so universally successful In
ouickly curing all forms of kidney and blad-
der troubles. that those who wish to Prove
for themselves its wonderful merit may
have sample bottle and a book book Of, Of valu, a
able information both sent absolutely free
hv mail. Nothing could be fairer or more
generous than this liberal offer, and we adj
Wise our readers to write mentioning this
paper and send their address to DR.. killme1
4 Co. Binghamtnn, n. Y. DR.. Killmer's
Swamp-R Root is the discovery of great
physician, and as such is not recommended
for everything, but will be found just what
is needed in cases of kidney and bladder
disorders-or troubles arising from weak
kidneys, such as gravel, rheumatism, pain
or dull ache in the back, too frequent desire
to pass water, scanty supply, smarting or
burning in passing it. Swamp-Root stands
the highest for its wonderful cures. The
regular sizes are sold by druggists, price
fifty cents and one dollar.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22

During the recent sealing conference
the United States agreed that if Canada
and Great Britain would cease pelagic
sealing for one year, the United States
would for the same length of time stop
sealing altogether.
1t is said that following McKenna's
resignation will come that of Secretary
Sherman and Postmaster-General Gary.
The latter wishes to run for senator.
Sherman will not go out till the present
foreign difficulties are settled.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
THE CARETAKER.

Caretaker is a word adopted into modern
use and means one who takes care of,
and is generally applied to those en-
polyed to take care OF things committed
to their keeping. The way some people
have of taking care of themselves is very
suggestive of the need of caretaker. The
human body to such is a mansion filled
with precious things uncared for, where
thieves may break in and rust doth cor
rupt Pains and aches are thieves, and
the body left uncared for TO their spoli-
age will be robbed of all its comforts and
despoiled of it's peace of mind and happi-
ness. 1t is happy thought to look upon
St. Jacobs Oil as a caretaker, to employ
it as watchman against such intruders
There is hardly an ache, from toothache
to toeache, that it can't take care OF
and effect a cure, and pains the most vio-
lent are conquered by its use. Its office
as a caretaker is to. prevent the spread
of aches and pains into chronic stage.
Keep bottle of it in the handiest place
and be assured of good care and comfort
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
NO MORE THORNS.
The Perfection to Which Fruits and T4o,
ers Are DeVelouing

The Perfection to Which Fruits and Flow
ers Are Developing.
The limit of improvement is not
found in producing fruits of great size,
beauty and sweetness. There are other
desirable qualities that the horticultur
ist is anxious to obtain, and toward
this end he is devoting his energies
One of the most noticeable trends of the
science Of fruit culture is toward the
elimination of undesirable organs The
thorns of some of the citrus fruit trees
and the prickles of such small berry
bushes as the goosebeTry, blackberry
and raspberry are protuberances that
have outlived their usefulness and are
highly unpleasant. They not only pune
ture the ripening fruits, but they often
make harvesting exceedingly inconven-
lent Gardeners have long wished to
do away with these thorns and prickles,
but it is only comparatively recently
eat systematic efforts have been made
eliminate them
The thorns ere conspicuous organs of
.ur cultivated plants that have ceased
30 be of any value. for their original
purpose of protecting the plants from
animals has no force today i'll the gar
dens and fields They should have been
exterminated long ago Through the
careful selection Of plants that happen
to be thornless stocks are obtained for
a new race Of thornless plants Others
are noted for the few thorns that grow
on them. and by judicious selection of
seeds and CRAFTS from these the same
work is continued Already gardeners
have cultivated raspberry and blackber-
ry canes that are entirely thornless, and
by grating improved varieties on these
the desired end will soon be reached
The wild orange trees have many more
thorns on them than the budded stock,
and the wild Florida lemons are thickly
studded with thorns while the grated
La France have ne.-George Ethel
bert Walsh in Lippincott's
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22

The orange crop in Sonoma county
will be the largest in the history of this
branch of horticulture. Advices from
Cloverdale are that the fruit has filled
we'll and promises to be of exception
ally fine quality The large yield is
owing to the young groves that produce
their first crop this season. Many OF
the older trees will not bear heavily.
There are several causes ascribed, the
most veritable being inclement weather
during the period of pollination.-Santa
Rosa Republican.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22

The steamer Victoria, which wss out
under direction of King Oscar, to seafeh
for Prof. Andree, has returned IA
Tromsoe, Norway, with no tidinss ot
the explorer.
1t is reporte from Rome that the
powers have decided to blockade Con
stantinople if the Sultan refuses to re-
move his troops from Crete.
The government OF GuatemalaA is
taking steps for the exclusion of Chi
nese, who lately have been getting over
the frontier in large numbers.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
ANCIENT MEDICAL METHODS
The Manner of Doctors Copsu,,o.t


The manner of Doctors Consultations I'm
the Fourteenth Century.
Coming to Mondeville's exposition of
the method of holding discussion, we
find his description almost story of
what might take place today First. y
he says, I'VE should inquire into the
nature of the disease, examining care
fully and feeling, because the diagnosis
is made by touching with the hand and
observing with the eye. All the consult
ants engage in turn in the examination
Then, If the case demands it, they make
new examination all together, point
ing out to one another the symptoms of
disease and the special or remarkable
features either in the patient Or the dis
ease. Then one of them, the highest in
rank, says to the patient, Sir, we per-
ceive very clearly what is the matter
with you, and you ought to have full
confidence in US and be glad that there
are so many of US here and such doctors
enough for king-and to believe that
the youngest of us is competent to pre-
scribe and carry on your treatment and
bring it to good result Then he in
terrogates the patient about the circu1n-
stances Of his attack, Sir, do not be
displeased or take it i'll, but when did
your illness begin?' following this with
many other questions, the answers to
which are recorded as indications fur
nished by the patient
when all the questions called for
by the case have been asked, the con-
sultants retire to another room, where
they will be alone, for in all consulta-
tions the masters dispute with one an
other in order the better to discuss the
truth, and sometimes they come to
pass in the heat of discussion which
would cause strangers witnessing their
proceeding to suppose there were discord
and strife among them. This is some
times the case - Fourteenth Century
Doctors, by NJ E. Nicaise, in Popular
Science MONTHLY
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
Mrs. LincOln's Grave.

Near the little town of Lincoln City,
Spencer county. Ind, is the grave of
Lincoln mother, says the Boston Trav
eler The Lincolns went to Spencer
county few years before Indiana be-
came a state They had not been long
in Spencer county before Mrs Lincoln
died, leaving a husband and several
small children In 1879 Mr. Studebaker
rf South Bend Ind. caused a mon
ument to be erected over the grave OF
Mrs Lincoln On the monument is this
inscription: Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Mother of President Lincoln Died Oct
5, A D 1918.
The tract of land on which the grave
of Mrs. Lincoln is situaed has since been
purchased and the land plotted into
town lots
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22

DR.. J. D. Porter Ct Kansas City com.
mitted suicide the ether day because his
wife insisted Oh riding bicycle against
his wishes He did not consider the prac-
tice womanly and tried to keep her from
it, but she would ride in spite of him. DIR.
Porter swallowed morphine, strycbnine
and hydrate of chloral and inhaled gas.
He was an expert chemist and familiar
with all the deadly poisons, and it would
seem that such man would court death
in the quickest, most painless manner,
but instead DR.. Porter died an awful
death. His self destruction was the ap-
palling self torture of a maniac. He was
alone through it ALLIE hours or more.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
THE MONOTONE.

Harkl How the great, old ocean day and night
Breaks on you giant rock as on throne
That towers in silent night
In one long, plaintive, awful monotonei
Cnanswering ever towers the giant rock
Amid the centuries that come and go.
AS If 'twould only mock
The eternal voice that walled and walled be
low.
'Tis thus, o God. the deep sea of my soul
Breaks ever On the foot of thy great throne
Its dread but only goal
In one long, plaintive. awful monotone
Unanswered yet, but. hoping, still it calls:
Will not the throne take pity on the woef
How terrible if lis walls
Are always silent TO the wall belowi
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
Powerful Speaking.

Wendell Phillips once, when he was
interrupted by an unfriendly audience,
stopped down and began talking in g
low voice to the men at the reporters
table. Some of the auditors, becoming
curious, called, Louder, whereupon
Phillips Strengthened himself up and ex
claimed: $50 right on, gentlemen, with
your noise. Through these pencils
pointing to the reporters-'I speak to
10000 people.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-22
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infiamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube
When this tube gets infiamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed deafness is the re
suit, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflameo
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars fOl
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls CatarrI
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
+. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.