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brethren
 edge" the increase disease" the waxing old of the.earth by the frequency or in climatic conditions and areas, and all such mani are but few of the many special features whch clearly indicate that surely and swiftly nearing the end the period of probation.
 Another thing which particularly impresses this fact the candid observer is the frequency and enor- at present time. Trusted officials in every land proving too weak to resist temptation; rob- hour; murders and suicides and all manner of evil deeds everywhere to win little more c1 1ninaI or his punishment ITnmistakab;y we have reached the Hast day, in which the Savior tells us the earth shall be filled with violence
 That the present with Spain is the beginning of the great general war which nations and to just preceding the second coming of probably will be made between the United and her present foe and there may be delusve period quiet and inaction for a time all over the world the spirit which has found an opportunity to assert its existence for perhaps brief space will be exercised It will stronger and stronger matter how carefully it may be concealed; work and ferment like yeast and break out and there slight pretexts until at last, in the Savior nation shall rise against nation and kingdom
 But there are prophecies yet to be fulfilled this side the close of the period of probation such the closing words Of the message Revelation xviii If. and of the powers of earth Revelation xiii Ills chapters 16 and +, and until these completed the end shall not come Of this assured
 The parliament of religions, the evangelical alli- ance and the peace and arbitration societies talk oI peSSeuIeSS oI peace ana most but the countries in which all these takers live spend ing millions for new implements of war; for ammunition and torpedo boats and men-of-war and mines and forts and all manner of offensive and de- fensive materials. And inventions things call culated to wound and kill more swiftly and the weapons which were satisfactory in the past continually being brought to the notice of the diff ferent governments and being experimented and adopted by their departments
 We are told in Holy Writ that the signs to be given us when the Judgment day ap- preaching would be that the nations were angry The nations Of earth present warlike attitude day which is without parallel in history, and in their marshal1ng together of armies and navies we unmistakable sign that the judgment is at hand Of surety the world is preparing the great
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ment of the United States Congress made an annual appropriation of ESQ., 900 for secret service, and this custom has prevailed unto the present. This Is payable by direction of the Presi- dent and Secretary of State, and no voucher is necessary.
 During the rebellion the secret serv- ice branch of the Government was very active. General Butler o44ce paid $50 for a hand organ and monkey. It was used by an officer Who disguised as a beggar, was enabled to pass the enemy's lines.
 The Confederate Government had an army of secret agents at Washington, and the Federal Government was daily betrayed by these agents.
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CONDITION OF THE. NICARAGUA CANAL

Haupt has returned to attend to pri- vate affairs. and the duties of the com mission have now devolved upon Ad- miral Walker principally. These are not a few, and the admiral has been very busy in the offices of the commis- sion at the United States army build ing, New York.
 With the question before the coun- try the advisability of having a canal becomes more and more apparent. The necessary delay of sending a battle ship around the Horn could have been avoided and the east and west coasts of the United States could have been in much quicker communication with each other. At present the new appro- priation appears sufficient to carry on the work to completion. The reports will come in each month until the work
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DIScnssod 6u.

DY every one this message of is interpreted
 in different and purely personal way There
 N is among band of people who look upon it all calm-eyed and seriously expectant To them
 it is merely the fulfilling of the prophetic terances of Joel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Daniel, Habakkuk James, John and others whose portentous words have been preserved to in the old new testaments.
 These people are known Second Adventists, as they believe in the literal personal second coming of Christ portion of them have differentiated be- themselves and the of the Christian world by observing Saturday instead of Sunday as the Sab bath of the Lord, claiming that God set apart this day for his special service, while alone de- cded upon Sunday for the purpose and these call themselves Seventh Day Adventists.
 Both branches of this church. however put im- plcit faith in the Bible, and find reasons for everything that has happened, and clear and plicit exposition of all that is to come.
 is their beief-justifed by past and pres events-that now living in the last days of this earth that the end of the world know it is close at hand, and that many of ourselves in the body the hour when the Lord appear in the clouds of heaven surrounded by his angels and carry his elect away with him to the heavenly sons prepared for them; whence they come 1000 years after to dwell forever in this earth which has meanwhile been perfectly purified by fire
 Feeling assured of this the members of this church stand firm and constant, for it foreold that a universal shall precede the first judgment day. and the present with the possibilities involved, but confirms them in their belief in the of the glorious time come, when, great battle of the last day being ended, the Lord shall in his power to reward them for their steadfastness in faith
 Three prominent In this church. their views this subject follows:
 That the glorious yet awful ELDER MILTON C. WILCOX Last Day" is close at hand edio, Sio,a o4 ina Time. be doubted by who l is conyersant with the divine plan forth in the Bible and who has eyes to and to hear and mind to understand the which taking place in the world around
 No less than thirteen different lines of Bible prophe cies either fulfilled being fulfilled, and the careless and indifferent but and be impressed with this fact if he will but aside from his usual avocations long enough to give serious attention certain circumst can be readily and quickly pointed out to him by any of
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DR. GEORGE L. FITCH.

coming of Christ the Messiah and because such time O trouble the world now, believe the engaged in will involve nearly if not quite all the nations of the earth before it ceases.
 Listen: Then said he unto them Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom And great earthquakes shall be in divers places and fam pestences; and fearful sights and signs shall there from heaven" And there shall be signs and in the moon, and in the stars upon earth distress of nations with perplexity the and the waves roaring; mems hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which coming the earh for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they the Son of man coming n cloud with power and great glory
 There has been a t.-e before when all Flu rope and Asia and Africa and both Americas and Oceanica were stirred up all at they now And good causes there for this state of mans doings aoEe. to say nothing of restrial condtio-s.
 The rich men have accumulated so much wealth that they couldn't get satisfactory rate of interest on their money the succeeded in making world wide corner money and result their greed the debt class of nation earth every poor man planet suffering to-day from the action of these relentless, cruel money lords
 The first nine of the fifth chapter of the book the Bible tells what the fate of these money lords will be.
 Next terrestrial conditions: And great earth quakes shall be in divers places and and pes tences." Surely reader of daily papers will question the enormous number of earthquakes which happening all the world at present as they have been for the last ten years. But 1t is tho
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battle or Armageddon but the angels of God hold ing the winds of this universal until the work of the Lord the earth is finished. That is surely near at hand, nearer perhaps than of realize. Tor with Him all things possible, and if 1t be His will event will follow event with a incon- ceivable.
 That we living in the last days of this earth, as 1t now is be gainsayed The word of God is true from the least to the greatest and the words of His inspired prophets lights feet.
 Looked at in the al-iluminating light of prophecy a grander and overlapping time was viewed by mortal We rapidly nearing the dawning of that eternal day whose shall know setting. We almost at the gateway, the portals of which shall swing open at the coming of the King of Kings
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Or. Seorye /. E1cA.

Once more I quote from the inspired writer And three uncean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and of the mouth of the and of the mouth of the false prophet. For they the spirits of devils, working miracles, which forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world gather them the battle of the great day of God Almighty. Behold, a thief Revelation xvii 1915.
 That this present is the beginning of the end, which will be universal destruction Jeremiah xxv 30 33), believe fully. But that there will be brief period of peace following this struggle cannot say. The angels of God commissioned hold the winds of until the servants of God scaled Revelation vii, 1-3.
 This work is not yet fully accomplished, believe.
 But the lion hath roared who will fear? The Lord God hath spoken who but prophesy."- Amos, 3-8.
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an any kinder velvet ye wanter sport fer a spiel an per cent. Seer?
 'The SteeplechaSer' is we'll known to the hobo fraternity, and in quiet. in offensive way to the police. Vagrancy Is the charge usually booked against him, and then only when he is unable to successfully shift for himself among the philanthropic people who can be blarneyed into keeping his kind. "The steeplechaser'' used ito work" the East, but for the last two years he has elect ed California to be his home and Cali fornians to be his benefactors, because the Eastern climate was developing h1S "rheumatiz or something.
 De Spiders directory-book's lead pipe cinch for any hobo wid gilt front fer fine work an feelin'. he con- tinued Gimme de Spiders tip an femme know de kinder gent I'm spielin' de affectin to an I'll give bonds ter rake down de rhino to keep me heart beatin' When de swallers homeWard fly all tru de clammiest Klondike win ter as ever was.
 "What's a quarter or a half take off on what yer get for the Spider when he turns over his book an truns ye de handle phiZ an heart talk of de philan- thropc gent what'n jess han yer so many plunks down on de nall TOT Jess callin' on him, eh?
 Its jess like telephonin' yer banker. Now, ain't it, say? When I was chewin' frozen hamboneS an shaktn meselt wedder I'd be a corpse or an engel de next minute four blizzardy winters ago in Kansas City you bet I'd soaked me scrapin's fer steen sweet summers fer two fingers of de Spiders tips.
 What's de good of city directories and directories what ain't city directo- ries to hobos an such like? Dey don't tell ye what de blokies Il give up an what kind of a con talk fetches 'em. Oats what we want to make Twin an dat's what Spider Kelly's givin' us.
 He's all right, he is. Lettem alone. His directory ain't hurtin' any body but de hobo who don't know how ter use it. See?'
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the city but has cases presented to him of needy people, well known to him, and deserving, who cannot be assisted because there are no funds available, or whom he assists from an already overtaxed salary, while people of his own congregation are contributing to the support of this worthless parasite who is preying upon society in a more cowardly manner than ever the much despised Fagin preyed upon London through his corps of juvenile pickpock- cts. There is not suit of clothes given to these juvenile beggars and by them sold to the dealers in second hand clothes but could be placed on the back of some boy who really needs it and perhaps suffers for the want of it, by any one of half a dozen we'll conducted charities of this city, and the pity of it is that these boy tramps who receive the gifts are rendered more diff f1cult of reformation by the well-in- tentioned but badly directed kindness of these people who have not time nor patience to investigate cases presented to them for relief. yet insist upon dis pensing their own charity.
 I have heard this directory described by too many boys who have seen it to doubt 1t for moment, and I have seen it's reputed possessor, too, we'll dressed, dissipated looking man, appar ently about 34 or 35, and known to the hobo fraternity as Spider Kelley"
 How long the directory will remain as valuable as it seems to be now, I cannot say, but I wish that I might go over the book and tell each of those spoken of in it's pages of real cases of boys who could be helped to become manly and useful by little of the as sistance now given to juvenile tramps.
 A. H. HUTCHINSON.
 YEP" said Larry Roman, the V steeplechaser," T know about dis
 directory biz, I do, from de As to
 \ de Ks, an it's all right. See? It's
 Spider Kelly's straight tip on de blokieS to strike for A handOut de rhinO
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be at work instead of begging.
 Tell him you have been trying
 to get work, but can't because
 you are new to the city ana can
 give no references. Tell him
 you will be glad to work if he
 will send y6u to some place
 where you can obtain work. He
 will probably give you a couple
 of meal tickets and two-b bits to
 get a lodging and tell you to
 come to his office in the morn
 ing, giving you a card to send
 in to him. Go in the morning,
 and he will think you mean
 business. Won't try to get you
 a place, but will give you one or
 two dollars to keep you going
 till you can find work. Prides
 himself on always Investigating
 cases applying to him. Has been
 known to give as high as s.
 So MT. Green has been supplied with a continuous stream of deserving boys, all looking for work, all genuine cases and all carefully investigated-by MT. Greens method-and all relieved to the extent of the loose change in MT. Greens pocket when the y makes his second appearance. Sometimes he boy to come and see him again next week if he fails to find work. This the boy doeS-invariably.
 Other entries are concerning people who give clothing, but never money and people who can always be depend ed upon for meal tickets or an order for bed. The meal tickets are bought up by the directory man at lf-price and sold at a slight advance. The clothes, if used by the boys. are ap- praised by the directory man and a percentage paid him out of the boy S next cash gift, so that pretty nearly everything is fish that comes to his net.
 All this would be merely funny, and we could laugh over how these people are being gulled were it not for the fact that direct injury is being per petrated upon those who can least af- ford it. Not a pastor of a church in
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A Directory Is Kept. in Which Ar the Names Of the (haritdbIy Inclined Are |ndexed, and Information Is Furnished BeggdrS for a Per- CentdQe Of the (hdrity Bestowed

Capitalists, bankers, ne--paper men, doctors, lawyers-all classes of chari- table people-they are in this directory, properly classified and described. An entry reads something like this:
 GREEN. A. B.-Jolly-Presi-
 dent of bank. Large man with
 @ bald head and shaved
 face. Wears eyeglasses. Best
 time to see him about ' o'clock
 in the evening. Tell him Mrs.
 White sent you. Will be very
 short and sharp with you at
 first Will tell you you should
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ONE kind-heared learn that in San
 Francisco there the business of supplying
 ! " to for charity This what is called pbook regular directory benevolent people and all charity special pleas Under each mans follows list of their personal characterist and information benefit began in approaching them
 In by the required to of ceeds in getting The the depends whether the customer is hard
 book containing according that the beggar straight along.
 All bankers lawyers, ciety charabl carefully Spider Kelly" appended than Directory
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"HE ordering home of the United
 States .warship Newport, which
 carried the commission to Nicara-
 qua, does not bear in any way upon the question of the feasibility of the Nicaragua canal route.
 The commission consisted of Admiral Walker, Colonel Hains and Professor Haupt, and had done as much as possi- ble before the order to return reached them. They had gone over the route very thoroughly and are now only waiting for the accurate data of the parties in the field surveying the route in order to make their report.
 Colonel Hains has returned to his division of United States engineers in the southeast with his headquarters. at present, at Baltimore. Professor
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The intense war spirit that now exists among the nations of the earth is but one of the many signs that point to the near NO111incr of n1lr ord
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Because I believe the Bible is the word of God and be- cause the Bible says there will be a time of universal trouhle inst before the second
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fTdNCe, WuICH WoS NiSoiOiC OiiAS "'iSA V the sheet of paper on which the mes sage was washed with another fluid. It was customary to write with sym pathetic ink on blank paper, and Washington suggested that a com monplace letter be written, after which the message could be written in sym pathetic ink on the margins.
 In the early history of the Govern
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SECRET SERVICE IN THE ARMY.

. URING the Revolutionary War
 Washington had secret service
 agents in the British camps. 1 Lafayette furnished sympa-
 thetic ink obtained from
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ELDER MILTON C. WILCOX Editor Signe of the Times.
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. every this message of is interpreted , in different and purely personal way. There | ! is among a band of people who look upon it all calm-eyed and seriously expectant. To them
 nnera he fulf ling of nnha Lie 11t-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-25
Farmers to Keep Store.

A news item FROM Staples says:
About thirty representative farmers
of this vicinity met in the Staples
Mercantile cOmpany's store Satur-
day and organized a Farmers Sup
ply as.OciattDn. The shares were
sold at 81 each, 40 sha res being SUBJ
scribeti for ut once. Several business
men have also pledged themselves to
buy shares. The association is be-
ing formed principally to do business
ON the cash system, and do away
with issuing ''chips." Must farmers
have been compelled to accept chips
in exchange for iIrm produce, and
consequently q farmer is seldom seen
with any money. The new associa-
ton will own and operate a store of
its own. They will pay cash for all
farm produce and give a 10 per cent
discount at the end of each year on
all purchases made at the store.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-25
From the Duluth News-Tribune:
DROP PAPER MILL IDEA.
West Duluth Handicapped by
Lack of Water
Power.

There ia little possibility that West
Duluth will make any further effort
to get the paper and pulp mill that
New England men are contemplating
locating IN this section. The mill,
" hich it ia said will include plants
worth $3'W, 900, will IN all'probability
he loca ted at Grand Rapids. Several
West Duluth people have looked the
matter up, and while they gay 1t fs
one of the best propositions that
was ever offered for this section Of
the country. it will tie impossible to
bid for it without having water
power. 1t ia Raid further that the
st. Louis water power ia 40 tied up
by the Cook syndicate that 1t would
be impossible for the West Duluth
people to offer any inducement tn
the paper mill men. 1t Is also said
that West Duluth would have as
hard a TIM. to raise the $lO. 1900 az
Grand Rapids Is having. 1t Exclaimed
that Grand Rapids has solved the
problem by issuing bonds. aud Will
land the mill in short time.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-25
ARMY BURNED OUT.
Barracks of tho SalvatiOnlSts
at Staples Destroyed
by Fire.

Staples, MIMI, March 22-rhe old
Northern hotel, a large two-st"rv
brick veneered building on Third
street. was entirely destroyed by fire
this morning.
The first floor was occupied by the
Salvation Army and the second was
rented to tenants and rOOmers.
The fire is supposed to have heen
caused by defective fl ne and had
probably been doing the destructive
work long before it was discovered.
The building was owned by Solo
man & Hirshman and was insured
for about $4,5W.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-25
The Beet Sugar Factory.

h. The Beet sugar aCtOFy.
St. Cloud journal-Pre Walter
Emerson, OF Sank Centre. was In
town last night enroute to Mime
apolis. Mr.. Emerson has resigned
his position with the Mccormick
company and has. entered the en-
ploy of Senator Keller's beet sugar
factory at st. Louis Park. He will
spend the spring months in Anoka
and Dakota counties contracting
with the farmers for the raising u
sugar beets for consumption by the
factory. The new company. which ts
one Ut the largest business cOncerns
In the northwest, has secured con-
troll OF the old Esterly harvester
works at st. Louis Park and recent
" awarded a contract to an eastern
firm for the manufacture Of the
necessary machinery to equip the
plant. The machinery costs $4o,-
0OO. Senator Keller ia bending his
greatest energies tn the successful
orga niza tion Of the company and the
building Oi the plant. .....
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-25

The Shakers of Mount Lebanon, q
community of simple, honest, God
fearing men and women. have pre-
pared the Shaker Digestive Cordial
for many years. and it is always
the same, simple, honest. curative
medicine that has helped to make
the Shakers the long-lived people
that they are. The Shakers never
have Indigestion. This is partly Ow'
ing to their simple mode Ut life. part
" to the wonderful properties o,
Shaker Digestive Cordial. 1ndfRes-
ton Is caused by the stomach glands
not supplying enough d'gestviejuice.
Shaker Digestive Cordial supplies
what's wanting. Shaker Digestive
Cordial invigorates the stomach and
all it's glands 80 that after awhile
they don't need help. As evidence
of the honesty Of Shaker Digestive
Cordial, the formula is printed on
every bottle. Sold by druggists,
price 10 cents to $l.0O per bottle.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-25
Old People,.

Old people who require medicine
to regulate the bowels and Kidneys
will find the true remedy in Electric
Bitters. This medicine does not
stimulate and contains no whiskey
nor other intOxicAnt, but acts HI Il
tonic ard Alternative. 1t acts mildly
on the stomach and bowels. adding
strength and giving tone to the or.
gans, thereby aiding nature III the
performance vi the functions. Elec-
tric Bitters Ia an excellent appetizer
and aids dixesti, IN. Old people find
1t Just exactly what they need.
Price fifty cpnta aud Sion per hottie
ut L. D. Bro WIS drug store.