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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-08-26
INCREASE FOR THE YEAR.

Nearly . Million Pensioners Now on the
Rolls Of tho Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-The annual
report of Commissioner of Pensions
Evans will show that at the close Of
the fiscal year 1895 there were 99S, ia
pensioners on the rolls of the bureau.
This was a net increase Of 1913 over
the previous year: There were dropped
from the rolls during the year on
account. Of deaths 81, 89l, and for re.
marriage and other causes IL, $50 PEN
sions were discon tinued. s
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-08-26
THE NAVAL PROGRAMME.
Board VIII Recomm the Constr uction
of Fifteen New Ships.

Board VIII Recommend the Constr uction
of Fifteen New Ships.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-A special t.
The Tribune from Washington says:
A naval programme for presentation
to congress, involving the immediate
construction of Is warships, has been
adopted by the naval board Of experts
to whom the subject has been referred
by Secretary Long. 1t provides for
three seagoing barbette turret battle.
ships OF $4,000 tons displacement and a
minimum of 1917 knots speed when the
vessels are loaded to their deepest
draught, or an average speed above 10
knots under ordinary cruising condi-
tons. Three first class armored cruisers
OF $4,000 tons and ~ knots speed; three
second class protected and armored
cruisers of 5000 tons displacement and
20 knots speed, similar to the Maine
tpye. but highly improved, and for six
protected cruisers of 1850 tons and l6
knots speed.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-08-26
SCOFlELD CHOSEN,
Wise oasin Republicans Rem ominate Their
Present Chief Executive.

Wise oasin Republicans Renominate Their
Present Chief Executive.
: MILWAUKEE, Aug. u.s. - Governor
Scofeld was renominated by the Re.
publican state convention in this city
during the day. 1t required but one
ballot to settle one of the hottest polit.
ical fights ever waged in this state.
Governor Scofeld received 62OH votes,
against 1867 tor his opponent, Robert
M. Lafollette, with 533 votes necessary
to choice. The platform endorses the
course of the national administration
and rea&rms the St. Louis declaration
OF principles. No mention is made Of
the apnexation question. Two reports
were presented by the resolutions COM
m1ttee. The minority report by the
Lafollette supporters failed of adop-
ton on the first ballot. This test
showed the voting power of the Sco-
field delegates and they Immediately
forced the nominations for governor,
after adopting the majority report OF
the resolutions committee.
following is the full ticket:
Governor-Edward Scofeld, Oconto.
Lieutenant Governor-Jesse Stone, Wa
tertown.
Secretary of State-W. Fl. Froelich,
Jackson.
Treasurer-J. o. Davidson, Soldiers
Grove.
Attorney General-E. B. Hicks, Osh.
kosh.
Superintendent Public Instruction-L.
ID. Harvey Milwaukee,
Railroad Commissioner - Graham L.
Rice, Superior.
Insurance Commissioner - Emil Gil.
johan, Milwaukee.
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ct. Paul Union Stock Yards.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug. e.
HOGsMarket strong and active.
Range of prices, s. 8J@3.90.
CATTLE Steady and active.
Sales ranged at g. 85@4.3 30 for stockers;
S3.35@3.7O for cows; $500 for hsifers:
g. 1O@4.35 for steers.
SHEEP steady, active.
Muttons, IS. 9O@4.45; lambs $500
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-08-26
CONFINED STATE ISSUES

Wisconsin Democrats Agree a Plan
for the Fall Campaign.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. pa meeting OF
the Jefferson club, a Democratic organ
ization, was held for the purpose Of dis.
cussing questions pertaining to the fall
campaign. The trend Of opinion was
to the effect that the Chicago platform
should be Endorsed at the conven ton,
which will be held next week, but that
the campaign be confined to state is
SnoS
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-08-26
MORALES is DEAD.

Leader Of the Guatemalan Rebellion Ex-
piros on. His Way to Prison.
WASHINGTON, Aug. ". United
States Minister Hunter Of Guatemala,
scabled the state department that Gen.
ssral Morales lead e Of the revolution,
was. captursd1 s. 4 cave On Wednesday,,
and died 81 hi ay tos prison az San
ssebasti Iod
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SHEEP-Market steady, active.
Muttons, $3.90@4.45; lambs $500
Chicago Union Stock Yards.
ID ! CHICAGO, Aug. a.
HOGS-Market slow; light hogs a
shade higher and others 5@l0c lower.
Sales ranged at s.. 6O@40O for light;
$3.6O@4.0O for mixed; $3.55@4.00 for
heavy; 81 55@}.7O for rough ~ -, Z
Market generally 100 lower.
Sales ran 1ed at $4.2O95. IS for beeves;
n. OO@4.75 Tor COWS and hsifers; $3.50
40 for 4 .x.s steers; s.. 4094 10, for
stockers and feeders; 63.7O@4.65 for West.
ern rangers. s#.## 81. @s5s-*
SHEEP Mar Ike, weak at yesterdays
deeline. #
Sales ranged at So. 50@ L65 for natives;
S3.70n4.5O for westerns; 3.7o@6.50 for
lambs.
Receipts: Hogs, s., 1000: cattle, q, 900;
sheep, 900. q.
Chicago Gram and Provisions.
CHICAGO, Aug. q. q
CLOSING PRICES
WHEAT August Go; 6eptembsE;
$50; December, 81 55tto; May, Z, 53<<c. IS
CORN g. September;
4 o9<c ~ ember, 20k 02o11 saac.s
1D.f6 sptembs.
CO.
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LATEST MARkEg REPORT:
~ ~Aa-.ss0sea9eHfHS b :
Duluth Grain,

saaassse- DULUTH, Aug. %.
WHEAT-C Cash No. hard, 6536c; No.
Northern, 649<o: No. Northern, 6Os<c:
To Arrive - No. hard, CSC; No. l
Northern, 641c; September, $3.50; De-
cember, 6O%c; October, 6196c.
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iHS.fA~Ak~~pe-H = AEEsk5
Shot at the Battle of CoamO.

SPARTA, Wis, Aug. PA letter re-
celyed from Porto Rico reports the
death e Private Verght. Verght was
A>membe Of the Third Wisconsin vol.
untesfs aud was shot in the stomach in
the battle near Coamo. .4~
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Poultry, Butter and EGGS.

Poultry, Butter and Eggs.
CHICAGO, Aug. %.
POULTRY-Market for live, slow.
Spring chickens, 10@10]<c; hens 7@71c;
turkeys 6@6c; ducks, 6@7c
BUTTER-Firm. Creameriea 800
16c; diaries, 1s@l7c.
EGGS-Firm; fresh, 12o.
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Sioux City Live Stock.

Sioux City Live Stock.
Sioux CITY, Ia, Aug 90
HOGS-Markst 1oc lower: Range
of prices, 10000 Is.
CATTLE-Market fairly active, steady
to 10c higher.
Sales ranged at $425@5.15 for beeves;
81 65@4.4O for cows and heifers; $500
$50 for stockers and feeders; $5.76@5.50
for yearlings and calves
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the means to enforce it. Thus, any MEM
Der or the village who is persistently de-
nnquent in paying his taxes or in doing his
part In the common work. or is an unde-
slrable citizen generally, is expelled from
the villaga and sent to Siberia. Ard, as
oners sent to Siberia are sent by the VIII
lagos.
1t is hard to ina CINE a community hay-
ing more complete control over its own af
fairs than is possessed by the Russian vii
lage.
failed so completely in Russia. No political
agitators have ever been successful in get
ting the peasants to turn against the gov
eminent that does so much for them. And
today it would be hard to find a more loyal
PEOPLE than the Russian. Aside from this
the peasants themselves are so lazy, so I'M
ambitious in every way, so Indifferent to
everything except the material comfort
which they can easily provide fer them
selves, and so thoroughly contented. that
it would be practically impossible 10 get
them ever even to desire a revolution
The truth is that the Russian govern
ment lets it's people do for themselves
everything they are competent TO 40, ana
does for them everything they cannot 90.
The villages have had some control OF their
affairs for centuries, and are thus able ell
fectively 10 maintain this form OF sell
government. But other forms OF sel1-SoH-
eminent the peasants are row utterly un-
fit for: and no parent who allows his child
to do anything it pleases. regardless OF It's
welfare, is any more foolish or sinful than
would be the Russian government 10 allow
its people to do anything they please. In
short what Russia needs today Is not
revolution but evolution" and the gov
errment that can and will best promote
the progress of this evolution Is the gov
eminent now existing.
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the explosives used in these three caseS-the
only ones TO be cited from modern warfare
are thoroughly understood. Instituting
II parallel between the effects produced by
the explosives We know to have been used
against those ships and the facts that have
so far come TO hand regarding the Maine.
We may reach one or two interesting con-
illusions that do not seem to me likely to be
upset by the report of the board of inquiry
now sitting.
The Lutfd;elit vas sunk by Russian
torpedo. the Aquidaban and Blanco Enca-
lada by automobile torpedoes comparing in
efficiency with the best which could have
been used against the Maine. Only small
fractions of the structures of the Aquida
ban and Blanco Encalada were destroyed
they sank slowly. their decks in place, their
stacks intact. The Maine went down with
in three minutes. The photographs. as well
as the descriptions by her officers. show her
to have been converted almost instan-
taneOusly into a mass of ruins forward
What would have been the effect on the
Maine of the discharge under her port side
forward of the most powerful automobile
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or dirigible torpedo we know anything
about?
Power of q TGrDe6O,

or dirigible torpedo we know anything
about?
Power of Torpedo.
Is there a Whitehead. a Sims Edison, a
Patrick or a Schwarzkopf torpedo capable
of instartaneously converting a battle ship
into a crater of flaming ruin.-unless one
of her magazines be at the same moment
exploded?
The bursting charge of these torpedoes
is not more than 10 pounds of guncotton.
Although Whitehead torpedoes are now to
be made eighteen feet long. 1 do not think
there are any in use beyond The standard
size of eleven feeL nine inches long and
eighteen inches thick. Fired from a tor
pedO tube. at a steel shin lying within the
effective range of loo Yards the White
head torpedo released from all control from
ard com ection with shore. Garting through
the water at an initial velocity of thirty
two knots an hour. propelled by it's own
machinery. driven by self-contaned COM
pressed air engine Of forty or fifty horse
power is a magnificent war machine.
But not only do the details of the de-
structior of the Aquidaban and Blanco En-
caiada absolutely negative the suggestion
II a even this powerful torpedo could have
wrought such havoc on the Maine-unless
her main magazine forward had been eX-
plCded by the torpedo, but observations in
other directions on the force and effect of
high explosives discharged under water
alike forbid the torpedo theory.
What inference do the facts warrant in
regard to a magazine explosion? Whether
as the result of torpedo exploded from
without. any other conceivable cause
within the ship?
The Mine Theory.
Describing the torpedo on the magazine
hypothesis. there is nothing left but a
mine. A study of the Aquidaban and
Bldnco Encalada explosions confirms indie
pendent observations of my own; the facts
than a mine theory. They unanimously
tend to support that theory Nor is It
necessary to suppose that the Maine was
anchored over old mine. a new mine
for that special purpose. could have been
put down in an hours time before the
Maine was assigned to her station. The
mine could have been taken out in boat
on any dark night and dropped overheard
at VIII. its own weight holding it in posi-
ton. One ordinary ground mine containing
800 pounds of high explosive is perfectly
competent to do all the damag e that was
inflicted on the Maine.
We may suppose a ground mine with its
contact-maker and shore connections to be
arranged something like what is shown in
the plan sketched to accompany this article
The officer commanding the cuntact-maker
Is in battery on shore, from which an
electric wire runs. A-B to the contact
maker d, floating, caps down, and harm
less
How to Do 1t.
BY pressing button he releases the con-
tact-maker from its anchor, C, and permits
1t to float out, caps up, over the mine +.
ard assumes the position F. ready for ac-
ton In the contact-maker we will assume
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piece-for / couldn't tell which one of them
L might get a chance at, some day.
Ire young men who want to go on the
stage nowadays-do they fancy such a
prospect: How many weeks are they will
ing to work at nothing a week-with no
part? How many years are they willing to
Study on sn all salary, with only expec-
tations?
my company objected to understanding
three or four parts. 1 reasoned with him.
and at last 1 got mad. and l said to him:
My young friend, the last week I was
with the Hooley Comedy Company played
nine parts in four nights" That settled it,
When l made up my mind to give up
comic opera and to devote my life to
comedy, L realized that 1 was giving up
a good deal of cash in hand for the sake
OF possible recompense. l was looking
ahead to prospect of excellence and de-
llberately throwing over an offer to have
my name printed in big letters as first
parts that would divide honors fairly with
her. What is more, 1 was giving up $125 a
week for salary of just $50 per week, but
little more than half as much.
But Ambition and Work.
A good many young men would take that
extra $50 and immediate popular favor.
But think it paid me not to do it. 1 was
ambitious, and l am more ambitious now.
today than 1 was then. And after 1 was
married, my wife was more ambitious for
me than l was for myself.
Ambition? 1 should say so. 1 fear de-
terioration in my own work, in my COM
pany, in my productions, as much now as
ever in my life. Why? Because 1 am
proud of what 1 have achieved by work,
sheer honest work. work that has never
Tagged and that will not as long as l am
acting. am determined people shan't say
got ii by luck 1t was work-and am
bition. Cranes luck" said Joe Jefferson
not long ago when somebody spoke of me
in that connection, Cranes luck! None
sense; it's Cranes work. And that's lust
the reason why L am not ashamed to speak
OF 1t. have never to my knowledge said
Il can play that part just as well as So
ard So But l have always played every
part just as well, just hard, as / posi-
bly, could and let the result take care of it,
self: And what's more, 1 am just as afraid
of failure today as 1 ever was in my life
Just as eager to guard against it.
That's all, my young friends. Once
started on the stage, don't sacrifice a pos
sible future for present cash. Don't try to
star Just because you have made a hit
Don't think about 1.-The glamor of the
stage Don't expect anybody to make
the opportunity Of your life'' ready to
your hand. Study, study, study and wait
your chance.
Whether you should start or not depends
largely on how anxious you are to work,
don't you think so?
WILLIAM H. CRANE.
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a PATHETIC STORY.
Recalling the History of the Fnnou.
House of Sir Walter Scott.

FROM IL ndon Paper
Inc recent marriage of Miss Mary JOS
ephlne MaNweil-Scott in England recalls IN
| a writer in the Sketch the story of thu
mouse OF Sir Walter Scott, which is one of
the most pathetic in the whole range OF
family building. Miss Maxwell-Scott is a
Observation-Disclosures of Sir Walter.
anu her alhance to Mr.. Alexander Dali
gleish is the first that the great-great-
srahdchiidren of the poet have made. The
writer referred to SAYS:
1t was Scotts dearest wish to found ,
house which should carry on the traditions
OF his great ancestors, VINO were cadets Of
the SCOTS of Harden. now represented by
Baron Polwarth. Scott reared Abbo;sford
at enormous cost, but here his work began
and ended. His eldest son, who succeeded
TO the baronetcy, survived him only fifteen
years, aad died in 1917, unmarried, at the
cape. And SO the baronetcy became ex-
.lhet. HIS second son died at far-off Te-
hefan, also unmarried.
SO the name of Scott was left to his
daughter Charlotte, who married Lockhart
the biographer of Sir Walter Her SON
Walter Scott Lockhart, adopted the name
OF Scott, but, with all the extraordinary
1atailty that had overcome his uncles he
too, died unmarried at the age of twenty-
SIX, and so the estate passed to his sister
Charlotte, who married j. X, Hope O. c.
a memt Ter of the Hopetoun family and he
OF course, adopted the name of Scott. They
had three children, but their only son died
in childhood, and once again woman
came to rule. This was Mary Monica.
In 1874 she married the Hon. Joseph Con-
stable-Maxwell third son of Lord Herries)
VINO, as matter of course, adopted the
name of Scott. They have had six chill
dren, the eldest of whom, Walter Joseph
MaXwell-Scott born in 1873, is in the army
He has two brothers and two sisters living
Mary Josephine, who was married recently
was born in 1S16. Thus 1t will be seen that
the present generation of SCOTS have been
in turn Lockharts, Hopes and Maxwells.
These are all excellent names, with honor
able histories behind them, and yet in
strict genealogical sequence, the present
generation, to wnich the bride of today be-
longs, is very far removed from the author
of '.waverly."
By curious coincidence, SCOTS biog-
rapher is recalled al this moment, for John
Gibson Lockhart's nephew has become
commander-in-chef of the forces in India
This is Sir William Stephen Alexander
Lockhart, *. c. b.. X. c. S. L., who sue
ceeded Sir George White the other day. Sir
Williams father the Rev. Lawrence Lock-
hart, was the half-brother of John Gibson
Lockbart The general, who was born in
1871, began his military career with the
9TH Fusiliers in Dude. He has served in
ten campaigns in India, most notably the
Black Mountain expedition and the Afghan
campaign of 1S19-S0, when he was present
given a brigade in the Burmese war of
1SS6-S7, and has since been engaged in sew
eral frontier wars just as his ancestors
probably used TO figure in the raids which
characterized the Scottish border in days
of old.
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EXPLANATORY SKETCH DAWN 81 F7K F0lLAND-

a charge Of say. twenty pounds of high ex-
plosve. which is fired by the ships bottom
coming IN contact with the caps pointing
upward, in F. This explosion causes
Immediately the explosion of the nine +.
Now, suppoce there is a current Gas there
is in the harbor of Havana.) The contact
maker will drift away on the current to a
position G, which viii still bring it directly
beneath the hull of Il ship riding at anchor.
IL the mine were under her bow, the con-
tact-maker would now strike about amid
ships
Coal gas could not have blown up the
Maine. because there is absolute evidence
that when the magazines were closed and
locked for the nisht-about an hour and a
half before the explosion, the temperature
oil the magazine was only 50 degrees. 1t Is
not conceivable that in the interval this
temperature could have risen to a sufti-
Gent degree to explode coal gas. which
requires incandescence. Spontaneous COM
bustion in the coal bunkers is impossible
for that reason.
The Combustion Hypothesis.
Nor could the spontaneous combustion
OF oil waste cause it; for nothing like oil
waste IS ever left in a magazine. Nor
could the smokeless powder in the maya
zine have undergone chemical changes in
any such temperature as 80 degrees. Nor
could the short-circuiting of an electric
light wire have caused the explosion; for
tHe iiSHI Is duHlllte0 10 the magazines III
warship only through thick glass plates.
And all the wiring is outside the magazine
wall.
In my opinion the War-headS of the
Names torpedoes will be found intact.
They were stored aft, not near the points
of explosion, which cannot reasonably be
attributed to them. What then is left ex-
cept mine? AS for the ridiculous, I'M
just and uncharita BILE charge of lack of
discipline on board the Maine, the very
fact that when the magazine was closed for
the night its temperature was only 80 de-
grees shows that there must have been con-
slant and careful ventilation of it. In wa
tiers whose temperature is high as that
of the harbor of Havana. - degrees or SO
degrees l should say. only magnificent VEN
tilation would keep a magazine as cool
that
Line of Least Resistance.
The explosion which did the damage
must have occurred on the port side of the
ship. forward, either inside or out Its
force was exerted along the line of least
resistance, toward the starboard side
where the forward main magazine was
situated containing $1,000 pounds of brown
powder Had that magazine been exploded
it was quite capable of causing all the
ruin which we know was wrought in the
Maine and great deal more, too.
But would not the line of least resist
ance in that case have been in exactly
the opposite direction? 1t seems that this
must have been the case.
The explosion, indeed, of that magazine
would have strewed the fragments of the
ship all over the vicinity. The fragments
of the $50 shells we know it contained
would have been scattered all over Havana.
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ic abilities. they would be glad to take me
back into their service
If / erred in declining to permit this lady
70 Substitute Shakespeare for Hacon-and
egss-l hope she will at least infuse into
her culinary career the same patience. Ell
ergy, talent and tact which would have
le.u essential TO her success on the stage
she j. one Of hundreds of her sex who hon
"r me-fOr / feel il TO be an honor-by ask
irS my advice about life ON the stage
Many good cook Is spoiled to make a bad
actress, and the young men who persist
III embSrkinS on the theatrical sea after
passing by the tarnery or the ribbon coun-
ter. won't mind, am sure, If / try to point
cut TO others just where they are apt to
make ShiDwreck- Thirty-five years of hard
work in any profession ought to make a
mans experiences valuable 10 his fellows
telling some az them where they may DO
good Tie only thing j am vain of is hard
work.
The GIamor of the Stage.
Hard work." 10 ambitious ears may
sound harsh The glamor of the stage
there's no use making fun OF Ii, for 1t ex-
ists-draws toward the stage door so many
women who want to exploit their vanity,
SO many men who covet ready reputation
ard big salaries, that 1 sometimes think
there are actually more aspirants for hon.
0Fs in this profession than IN any other
especially than in those, such as law and
medicine, where the laws require thorough
ard systematic preparation.
Now, young man, or young. woman, I'm
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= - = - - -
whatever its cause
which destroyed the
Maine in the harbor
of Havana may be
compared 10 those by
which the warships
Lutfidjel:t. AQuida-
ban and Blanco En-
calada were blown
up, respectively, in
the Russo = Turkish,
the Brazilian and the
Chilean wars. The
nature and force of
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EkE L Ncl 81 IKE
that / can play the
leading lady parts in
your pieces better
than they are now
presented" n young
woman wrote me In
Chicago. a week or
two ago, Il would
not offer you my ser
vices. / am living
with q refined family
as cook, and should
you not agree with
mo as 10 my dran1at-
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biting Sarcasm.
From Puck.


Sapsmith Qndignantly)-"Grimsh CALL
ed me fool again lawst nightr'
Askins-''What did you do about it?"
Sapsmith-"Baw Jawve! I took him down.
dent you know, by awsking him why he
didn't say something original!"
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AhE H<Al y L . W.
day an empire with
dominion over one
seventh of all the
land on the globe, a
country with a popu-
lation greater than
that of any other
civilized po W er on
earth, a nation alb
sorbingly intcrestin g
and easily accessible,
and yet at the same
time a land of which
we Americans Know