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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
REAL YOUTH.

III. 1AS!S S.A
Medical Discovery puts into a mans
veins. 1t gives him digestive power; it
turns his food into good nourishing
blood; it enables the liver to keep that
blood pure and free from bilious poisons.
It fills him with muscular strength and
vitality. 1t makes him in the truest
sense young again, and keeps him so.
~, am pretty we'll now, for a man Of sixty
three years" says MT. John Larson Of Ashby,
led for many years, with dyspepsia, also nasal
catarrh, and got SO bad and weak that could
not work. 80 '.''S.' g.; - .Ha1's Q
II could hardly eat anything without vosnit-
ing; had pain in the stomach and burning
sensation coming into the throat. II took Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medal Discovery and Pleasant
Pellets and can truly say these medicines have
helped me wonderfully ! commenced taking
them in the fall aud used them all winter. I
took fifteen bottles of the Discovery and six
must say that both are good honest medicines:
II improved right along from the very begin
ming, I Just stopped taking medicine in the
latter part of May and then felt as well as ever
in my life. can eat all kinds OF food and it
dosen't cause me any pain in my stomach now
icines can cheerful1y say to the public that
they need not hesitate in taking DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery for dyspepsia; 1t
will eradicate and cure the disease II anything
wll."' =.
IF You are in poor health write to Dr.:
r. V.'Pierce, Of Buffalo, y. y. 1t Will
cost you nothing whatever for his advice
although he is at the very head OF his
profession in the treatment OF obstinate
chronic diseases.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
THE CROW WING DRIVE.
It IS Expected TO Reach the
4 Mississippi the Latter Part
TAESOfgNext Month q lxv,

The Pine Tree Lumber company,,s
Edrive ON the; Crow Wing river ii
| progressing nicelys$h1f nothing un-
expected happens it will reach here
the latterSpartE ofsnext month. L. CT
The stage OF water on the Crow
Wing and its branches was never
better, Vi !TheSj loss3 Of the dam; at,
Menagha is proving a benefit, for the
water is so high now that without.
the dam 1T, is flowing >jover the
meadows along its banks in many
places. Logs have foated out, and
over the land where ever it is low,
but to no where near the extent they
would have had the dam been in to
back up the water. There will be
considerable pike-poles work and
sacking to be done to get the logs
back into the main channel of the
river. Water in some places on the
low lands is six and eight feet Deep.
The drive is on three tributaries Of
the Crow Wing-Shell, Fishhook and
Straight. The rear on Straight
river is at Third lake and on Fish
hook it is at Twin lakes, while the
drive on Shell river is very near the
mouth of that branch and will be in
the main channel in a few days.
Steve McNeill, who has charge of
the drive, expects to have all OF the
logs in the Crow Wing, on their way
to the Mississippi by July 4, or q
little later. ..,. VI II 7, ). !. Fl. 49, : !
He recently laid off number Of
men, for with the present amount of
water fewer men can handle, the
logs. The hardest part OF the work
was getting the logs down to where
the channel, was wide enough to &C.
comm odate them. At present, all.
told, there are about, 5175 men at
work bringing down the drive which
iB about 80, O0O, 900 feet. = ~ = ~,
Mr.. McNein has hopes OF reaching
this city sometime before the latter
part of next month. He may even
succeed in driving them this far by
July Is. 80. ...., go, :; ii r:,,;
IA company capitalized at $780,
600 900 has been organized to control
all the water power interests at the
500. - 80 '''';: - = w
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
HAD A, SCHEME.
And It Might wnrk AZ 1t Only Got =

And It Might wnrk N 1t Only Got :
~ beg your pacton, sir, = said the man
up to tho man at the desk, but you are
the president Of life insurance company,
are you not9" W. VIII t&#.ii In,
ftT am. Is there anything I can do for
lhsIty you can give me about two minutes
Of your time \%$#s ..a
. rs it any hard luck 'storys Because, if
1T is'''--hA. III tI EN{ss @5
ss"No, sir nothingof the kind. i have
simply a practical business suggestion to
man of business, will see the worth of at
bslieve, join in maintaining what is called
"a fire insurance patrol. 1t is tho duty of
that patrol to try to save property when a
fire breaks out. Very good. My sugges-
ton is that life insurance companies or
eanize d similar institution 1t should be
the duty Of the life Insurance patrol 10
assist in nursing and taking care of all
siok or injured persons whose lives are in
sured. Think how many hundreds Of lives
are annually sacrificed by careless nursin g
that might be saved by concerted action
on the part off,
s 45.. ''Was that all you wished to see me
about?' 7
! Eyes, sir. merely wish to add that
have had a practical medical experience of
many years and understand hospital prac-
tice sufficiently to be able to take entire
charge of such . department. as I have
suggested
""Good morning, sir"
''Isn't the idea worth at least q dollar,
anyhow, or enough to get my laundry out
of the''--
- Thomas, show this man OUT"
mo, Thomas" said the caller. II can
find my way out alone, Thomas. Twill
only ask you, Thomas, to accept this trifle
as slight token Of, regard and sympathy
tsympathy, Thomas. don't suppose you
get many of them-in this philanthropist' 8
employ. Good morning, Thomas"
He handed Thomas cent piece, much
worn, pushed his hat a little farther back
on his head ard stalked out, full Of digni-
~ to the last.-Chioago Tribune. 80
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20

The Gun club held it's first shoot
Friday AFTERNOON. The grounds
have been fixed up and traps re-
paired SO that everything'is again in
good order. For some. unknown
reason few members of the: club at
tended. Good showings were made
by those present. -: '~..
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
ssgsACotcherTtiygS Shot,

''a' "a otcfeTtly Sn0t.''TF77F g3fifa
George Lafond received OF tele-
graph Saturday the news OF the
death Of a nephew at Sank Centre.
The deceased name was Kenneth
Apfeldt, aged ~ years. a son of Mrs.
Fl. Baldwin, a sister OF Mrs. Geo. La
fond. Death was caused by the
bursting of a. gun which the boy
was firing Off and was instantan-
eous. = T. '.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
The Other BOY Was.

The Other Boy Was.
"You have been In another fight,
Tommy" said q west side mother to her
7-year-o boy.
"Nome, l wuzn't, either" was the
dogged reply.
'"Why, Tommy, can tell by, your ap-
pearance that you have been fighting.
Your face is all scratched up. You muslin t
story about it,"
II amt tel!in no story. said wuzn t
In it, an wuzn't. ''-Ohio State journal.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20

Labor strikes of most serious
character are on in several European
countries, among them Denmark -,
France and Great Britain. 49,, -.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
Barred.

lit was good oppo1 tunity," said tho
actor, but I had to give it up"
"What kind OF character was itp"
"Villain.''
"Wasn't the salary enough"
Every liberal and the manager gen.
tleman, but when was boy promised
my mother that would never smoke Il
cigarette. Washington Star.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
Sncaetv Sniritualfsrn

ri Society Spiritualisrs.
'"Aren't your Psychical Research club
meetings very dull, Miss Priscilla?"
=. "No. You see, we always wind up with
4 pillow. case masquerade and dance. -
Detroit Free Press
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
Hc Was Waiting

! Father-Have you decided what to do
litter you graduate?
! Son-No, father. No one has applied
Tor the honor of engaging my Services
New York journal.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
Child Comment.

Teacher-And then Alexander sat down
and wept because there were no more
worlds for him to conquer.
. Jimmy-It's a good ting fer Inn he
didn' t run up ag'in Dewey Indianapolis
Journal,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20

At the meeting Of the Odd Fellows
of the state in Minneapolis Wednes-
day and Thursday Grand Sire
Pinkerton, OF Boston. was present
and .deliverde an address,: He is a
very forceable speaker and one well
worth the opportunity of hearing
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
Merely invoking Aid.

j! A modern novel has the following pas.
ages: "With one hand he held the beauti-
full golden head above the chilling wave
Ind with the other called loudly for assist
iAnce. '-Tit- Bits.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
B|!lR7|'AlllD|jFIl:'zil|!,El||!:'z,D|!t'S
~ ~, !, !
';;REQUz ATOR't:

~ gives nature the mild assistance
q needed for the regulation OF the
Imenses. tits OF wonderful aid to 4
the girl Just entering vomanhood, Il
to the wife, and to, the woman ap-'
} preaching or going through the turn 4
D Of life. Women who suffer from
D any unnatural DRAIN, any bearing
! down pains in the, lower abdomen, /;
falling, or displacement OF the
womb, can quickly cure their troub-. =
les at home, completely away from.
the eyes Of a, physician. A few
, doses taken each. month will regu. II
late the menses perfectly. :. ;,
D = Large bottles sold by druggists for 81. +,
2 The Brad6eld Regulator Company. Atlanta. Ga. 8,
SAAAAAMAA
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
y His A1a,n,n ~ Dar1inr.

/ d "Wheen your father comes home; I shall
tell him what you have done, Tommy, :"
tSaid Tommy's mother. =
/ "Tattle tale!' retorted Tommy, with in.
finite scorn.-Chicago Record
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20

IA company capitalized at 800.
600 900 has been organized to contro
all the water power interests at the
Soo /; - w.. . ~ 49, ~
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01

Some of our foremost educators are in favor of saving time by shortening the spelling of certain words. The idea is not new, and many newspapers have long been accustomed to shorten such words as programme" into program" and prologue" Into "prolog." Recent ly Superintendent Andrews has recom- mended to teachers in the public schools of Chicago the following list of words for amended spelling: Program (programme), tho (though), thoro (thor- ough), thorofare (thoroughfare), thru (thrOugh), turnout (throughouO, cata- log (catalogue), prolog (prOlogue), deca- log (decalogue), demagog (demagogue), pedagog (pedagogue). Of course this list is simply starter in the pathway of reform. Just where the matter will end it Is difficult to say. John Billings was a pioneer in this line of endeayor. and his "fonetic" spelling, which used to cause great amusement, and which was the foundation of his fame as a humorist, may become the scientific method of the future. Billings tried to prove that he could be funny without ''fonetics," and wrote lot of humor- ous paragraphs for the old Scribner's Magazine, entitled Uncle Eseck's Wis dome" but they failed to make a hit, and Billings experiment was a failure. No doubt the present spelling of many words is cumbersome, but reformers will find their task little short of the impossible.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01
"Bounty Coats"

WashingtOn'S army was nicknamed by the British ''The HOmespuns." It was a sneering but truthful name. for the American soldiers were clothed in garments woven and made by patriotic women.
 The supplies for the Continental army were in the summer of 1775 so scanty that the Provincial Congress made a demand on the people of New England for thirteen thousand warm coats, to be ready for the soldiers by cold weather. The daughters, wives and mothers throughout the country at once started up wool wheels and hand looms. Having woven the cloth, they made up the garments and sewed on the inside of each coat the name of the maker and of the town in which she lived.
 Every soldier" writes Alice NJ. Earle in her Home Life in Colonial Days" volunteering for eight months service was given one of these hOmespun. homemade, all-woOl coats as a bounty. The list of names of soldiers who then enlisted is known to this day as the Coat Roll and the names of the wom- en who made the coats might form an other roll of honor"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01

l It is somewhat surprising that in this age of improvement nobody has made an attempt to reform the American | joker-the man who does scraps for the comic weeklies and for the funny de partments of the dailies, and who, fol
 the time, is the chief exponent of the
 humor of the nation, says writer in
 the Saturday Evening Post. That this
 joker is exceedingly effective as 8 mirth-provoker one has but to watch
 the merry reader to understand: but
 after all, is there not more to joke
 than a mere laugh? Is not the effect i of joke upon the serious tendencies of the public matter for thoughtful
 consideration? Should not the joker be ] governed by a sense of moral responsi- | bility? The subjects of the American | humorist are few and are mostly kept | in stock. It is scarcely necessary to
 mention them seriatim. as they have already been mentioned a large num-
 Der of thousands of times. With the
 tramp joke one cannot quarrel serious.
 ly, although perhaps 1t is not calculated
 to discourage vagrancy or to fortify the
 general sense of financial responsibili.
 ty. The mother-in-law joke is showing
 signs of decrepitude, after vitality of fifteen or twenty years, and may be dis
 missed with the grateful reflection that it has never been worse than an exhi
 bition of execrable taste. The joke of
 the delayed lover and the toe of the
 fathers boot is no doubt useful in its
 sphere of influence, and may be per.
 mitted without cavil to delight, for generations to come, those whom it is capable of delighting. There are, how ever, at least two of the stock subjects of the American humorist which should have been confiscated long ago, name ly: liquor intoxication and the insecu- rity of the marriage tie. Few funny publications are considered complete
 which do not picture a man reeling home from the "club'' with a maudlin excuse to his waiting wife, or a welded pair commenting fiippantly upon the passing of love or the felicity and fa- cility of divorce. The youngster who is inclined to blame himself severely for his first step in dissipation turns to the humorist, and is informed that
 what he has done Is not a sin, but a joke; why should he worry over some thing about which the world is laugh ing? The young couple having their first tiffs are grievously worried until they chance upon the sarcastic philoso- phy of the funny man; then they laugh bitterly at each other, and ask why so absurd thing as love should be taken seriously. Their efforts at self-control and self-abnegation diminish; it Is use less, they conclude, for them to strug- gle to maintain an ideal relationship in society which finds opportunity for mirth in proceedings for divorce. In such subjects as these there can be no real humor, and the man who tries to joke about them is guilty of a moral lese-majeste which should not go un- punished.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01
The Peculiar Danes.

"The Danes,'' wrote Julian RalpI from Copenhagen, "are not satisfied with the alphabet. They have invented a twenty-seventh letter, which is an O with mark run through it diagonal ly from the north northwest to the south southeast, and this amazing letter comes in most of the words They are so proud of it that they paint it. all by itself, in heroic size on the front of the second stories of the tram cars I always used to think that when British or Russian or Swedish prince came here to get wife all he had to say was, Will yjou mjarry mje?'
 ''But 1 didn't know great deal of Danish then In fact. I only knew the word 'tandstikker, which means 'ran- cid match'-at least I think so after using these matches all over the world Since I have come here I've not only discovered the O with a skewer through it, but find that the language is so i'm possible that the Danes themselves have given it up. They spell Copenhagen Kjopenhaven, Kiobenhaven. .Copenhague and Coepenhabn.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01

were painted by Turner, and which fig, ure so prominently in the descriptions in the "Idyls of the King" For some years past visitors have been forbidden an audience except in very rare cases. Brentwood, as the many know, Is quite temple of art. Turner's have been crowded into the place to the overshad- owing of all other artists, even men like old Crome and William Hunt. MT. Ruskin's tiny bedroom is hung all round with specimens of the great mas ter. There are two studios at Brant- wood, and at the time of the core Spondent'S visit there stood on the easel of one of them MT. Ruskin's last study, an enlarged peacocb's feather. On being ushered into the professors s presence the visitor was received very kindly. There was an inQuiring look in the deep-set gray eyes, with their evil dences of faded fires. Warning had been given that long conversation could not be allowed, but the talk drift ed round to a subject in which MT. RuSkin had been interested nearly for ty years ago. He remembered a cer- tain picture and entrusted 1t with a modern work by the same artist. His memory had not failed him nor his crit ical acumen. The portrait is from the latest photograph, taken by MT. Me. Cfelland, discard, and has not pre- viously ben published. It was taken in MT. Ruskin's study at Brentwood, and shows him with all his recent wealth of hair and silvery beard.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01

An editorial commentator in London, in reviewing the recent Vanderbilt Fair wedding in New York, puts forth the following reflections: "The we'd ding presents are said to be worth &4O0,000, and the description of them reads, as one lady irreverently said, like chapter in Revelation, all big pearls and gold. The incident would not be worth mention but for three facts of some social importance. One is that the plutocracy in America ex- cites at least as much attention as the aristocraes in Europe; another is that plutocraey thinks it advisable to adver- tise its splendor; and the third is that the democracy, instead of envying this wealth, evidently enjoys the profusion it produces as a sort of highly colored picture that breaks the deadly monot- ony of the scene around. The wedding is a masque with a continent for spec tators."
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01
What He Opened On.

Brothers and sisters, began the old parson, "I shall not choose any particu- lar text this morning, but shall preach from where I open the book, and, no matter where, shall find the wrath that is to come upon the wicked, who will be cut off when they have shuff1ed off this mortal coil It is now open. and''-
 Here the parson was interrupted by a deacon who had been asleep. and hear ing the words open. cut and shuttle. for got himself and cried out. 'It's yours; what did you open onH'
 The surprise of the good man in the pulpit was great. but the deacon col lapsed when the reply came, "It is open- ed on Kings. "--Atlanta Constitution.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01
Smoking Vampires.

Henry Adams of Wichita. Kan, tells this story of the favorite amusement of Americans at the clubs in the City of Mexico:
 Frequently in the evenings the vam- pires, or blood sucking bats. fly into the open windows of the clubrooms. The Americans then close the doors and catch the bat by throwing a shawl over it. One of the men lights a cigarette, opens the bats mouth and inserts the cigarette therein. The creature is then turned loose. Its soft mouth contract ing closely, the cigarette is immediate ly seized firmly.
 Every time the bat breathes it draws in the smoke and then exhales it. Thus. flying around the room, smoking the cigarette wildly and puffing out clouds of smoke, it presents a strange appearance. The smoke generally kills the bat before the cigarette is all smoked up.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01
Could Apply the Parable.

It is not always safe to talk in para bles to the young. as the following school board story shows: A correspond ent states that one of his pupils caused him some annoyance by uncouthness of speech, dirty boots, and so on, so, says our correspondent: ''I drew a verbal portrait for the class of the man who did not shine in the world of polite so- ciety. You cannot fail to know him, said l. for he never cleans his boots nor washes before meals He speaks and drinks when his moutk is full and generally uses his knife in place of his fork.
 Gradually the lad whom this story was designed to profit showed an awak- ening interest and put out his hand to speak. In reply to my query, 'WenT T know him, said he. He's our lodgerp F"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01

sixty-nine feet the well began to flow
 and the pumps thereafter yielded their
 oleaginous treasure at the rate of 1000
 gallons a day until the old Drake well
 went dry, after giving up through its
 crude appliances 1000 barrels of oil,
 worth in the neighborhood of s bar rel Nowadays the drill seeks and finds petroleum hundreds and hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth. With his imperfect tools 1t is doubtful If Drake could have reached such depths as are now considered usual in the Pennsylvania region. He himself always clasped to his heart an abiding belief that the hand of Providence had led him to the precise spot which he selected as the one upon which to pros ecute his derided enterprise.
 Drake was a New Yorker, born in Greenville, Green County, in 1919, and he was 40 years old when as the Co., lumbus of the petroleum industry he made his great discovery. Within the forty years which have followed the trade in petroleum has attained propor- tions of which not even the sanguine fancy of this pioneer dared to dream. The fortune-a modest one-he reaped from his success was swept from him In his age by the dishonesty and rapa- city of kener-minded men, and he died, as has ben said already, a victim of i'll health and poverty. Indeed, his very name Is now almost forgotten, except in that region his sagacious mind en- riched, but none the less is 1t true that upon the foundation of his foresight and earnestness of purpose has been erected that extraordinary fortune which promises to become the wonder of our times.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-01

pains. A change Is about to come over the face of these conditions, however, by the. construction of the most novel and elaborate wheelway in this coun- try and probably the world. An elevat- ed cycle path of framework nine miles long has been designed to connect the two places. The path will be supported by two pillars of different heights, to equalize the grade, and the floor will be of boards. The width will be about ten feet, and each side will be inclosed by lattice work rising to a height of about four feet. The path will be light. ed by double row of lights, placed so high as to alternate, and half way be- tween the cities park and casino will be established by the company that has undertaken to build the structure,