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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-09-15

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Linemen are at work wiring a.. XII
Halls block. - .i n. VI v @s 5s3 ss y
Bank statements have been order
ed for Sept. Z. >.g,5 ss..... ...>t ,.@ Z.
That Buffalo Bill show was about
up to the limit. esa 3t5Ss5sss ss@sss-. -,
Miss Mamie Stewart is clerkiug at
Folso1m's music store $50
Born. Monday, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Issac Gottstein, g. daughter. - -. T.
DThe Congregational parsonage is.
undergoing extensive repairs.
The Andrews Opera company has
gone into bankruptcy at Mankato.
Mrs. Hiscock, OF Randall, IL in the
city to call on her husband, who is
flat the hospital.
Gluek's minneapolis team will play
the local base ball nine on the Little
Falls grounds Saturday afternoon.
Assistant Superintendent NJ. M.
Fowler, OF st. Paul is in the city
looking over the progress made in
the railroad work here.
Mrs. G. H. Monk, of Two Rivers,
who has been ill at the hospital for
some time, has recovered sufficiently
to leave that institution.
"They are simply perfect writes
DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
and all liver ailments, Never grippe.
Il. y. Brown.
An ambulance for the quarter
master at Camp Bacon, near Walker,
passed through the city this morn
ing enroute to that place.
Fred Hoffman went to Brainerd
this noon. He is taking a week
off and will spend the time visiting
his parents at that place.
j. A. R. Larson, of Alexandria, who
has been in the city with a view OF
purchasing or starting a confection-
cry store, has returned home. IL
S.. J. Bratager. of st. Paul, assist
ant engineer of the Northern Pacific,
was in the city looking over the,
railroad improv ements Tuesday ~$
Mrs. E. E. Barnum, of Park Rap
ids, who has been visiting with
Mrs. w. L. Farnum, went to Minne-
apolis on the afternoon passenger.
An extra shed is being built onzthe
market place to accommodate the
great number of team which will be
in the city during the latter part OF
the week. ".
BEST on the market for coughs
and colds and all bronchial troubles {;
for croupfitf has no equal" writes
Henry Z. WhitfOrd, South Cannon,
Conn, of One Minute Cough Cure
l.. D: Brown.
The state board of equalization
has decide that horses are worth
more than they were last year, and
has made a material increase in their
!, assessment.
Miss May Plante has accepted q
position as clerk in the department.
store OF I. Herbst, of Fargo. Miss
Plante left Wednesday for her
new location. +
The Crow Wing county grand jury
has indicted Mike Kobe for assault,
the offense charged being that OF as
sault with q dangerous weapon up
on Joseph Bissiar.
Most of those who took in the
Wild West show at st. Cloud Mon
day returned on the midnight train.
The times., 1899-09-19
The Dreyfus Pardon.

Today it is understood that Dreyfus is to
be released and free to leave the country of
his persecution. AS far as the official record
is concerned he viii walk out of prison a
disgraced officer and guilty man. But the
whole world knows him to be innocent Of
treason and His honor stainless.
Even that, we are sure, will not satisfy
him. He will never rest until he has been
exoDerated and rehabilitated. President
Loubet may think that a pardon will
satisfy justice and allay the resentment
of all civilized peoples against France. If
so, be is sadly mistaken While the proofs
of Dreyfus' innocence and the guilt of his
traitorous accusers are known to be in the
War Office at Berlin, and at the command of
the French Government, a cowardly par
don" will placate nobody.
The times., 1899-09-19
ADMIRAL scHLEY's STATION.
A Protest Filed Against His Recent
Assignment.

The assignment Of Rear Admiral Schley
to the South Atlantic station has met with
the disapproval OF his friends in all parts
was made TO the President yesterday By a
delegation composed of Senator Yelling
ton, Governor Lowndes, Mayor Malster.
and Gen. Felix Agnus. all OF Maryland
They made no secret of the fact that the
people Of Maryland are disappointed AM
disgusted at the treatment accorded Schiey
by the Administration Each member OF
the delegation said that the visit was
made without the knowledge Of Rear Ad-
miral Schley. 1t is generally thought that
he is disappointed at the assignment given
him. He is regarded, however, as too
obedient a sailor TO express his desire in
the matter and has not made any protest
10 the Navy Department. The Maryland
delegation said that the people OF Mary
land desire 10 see Schley honored in keep
ing with his distinguished services.
The conference CT the delegation was a
lengthy one. and at its conclusion the
friends of the rear admiral expressed their
satisfaction at the result. The President,
they said, expressed the highest apprecia-
ton for Sehley, and does not intend that
he shall be Disseminated against It is
said that the strongest argument brought
to bear on President Mckinley was the
effect the treatment Of Schley is having on
Maryland politics. Senator Wellington de-
clared some time ago that Maryland would
be lost to the Republican party if Schley
were not treated better by the Admins
tration.
Since the assignment Of Schley to the
South Atlantic station il is said that the
impression that he is being prosecuted has
grown and threatens TO cost the Repub-
lican party many votes at the coming cleo
tion. It is believed by many that the Ad-
ministration desires to get Schiey out Of
the country while Congress is in session
The South Atlantic station is regarded in
naval circles as the most undesirable as
signment in the service 1t was never
commanded by a flag officer before Admiral
Howiscn was assigned TO IL The fleet
only consists of two cruisers and one gun
boat and has heretofore been commanded
by captain or other line officer. The
friends OF Rear Admiral Sehley have con-
trasted his treatment with that CT Samp-
son.
Admiral Schley returned to Washington
yesterday from a visit TO his sons in Con-
nscticut Sore of ais friends who saw
him last light say that he viii not enter
a personal protest against being ordered
to the South Atlantic station. and that if
the order is not revoked he viii hoist his
flag early in October. in accordance wiz
the orders of the Navy Department
The times., 1899-09-19
BaIzac fn America.

In connection with new edition OF Bal
Eac's novels. a little pamphlet on THE
Moral Influence OF Balzacv has appeared.
II Is a reprint Of an article by Methodist
clergyman. and this in itself is rather i'm
pressive TO the mind OF the middIe-aged
reader. There was time. not so very long
ago, when the Methodist Church in Ameri-
ca would have expelled eommunicant, 10
say nothing OF a minister who ventured
to read one OF Balzac's novels: and here
Is doctor OF divinity writing a paper for
the Methodist Review on the moral in
duence OF that great novelist. Verify,
there is progress in the world.
Il must be confessed, however, that there
was reason. at one time, for not offering
French novels. even those of Balzac, to the
average American citizen. French civ
iiization is entirely different from our own,
and fifty years ago we had not taken on
the tolerance which can enjoy and admire
a social system which IL does not assimi-
late. While our own social standards were
in the making We could not have intro
duced the French element with any profit
whatever. And IL must be admitted that
books have bad a great deal to do with the
formation Of social. ethical. and political
standards in this country, especially in the
North and West. Where there is seat
tered population. drawn together only by
the common interests OF church and
schOoi. books must have greater interest
than in a thicfiy settled community in
which social life is easily had.
But the time has come for translations of
BaIzac and other French writer's TO be read
aud appreciated in this country. The aver
age American citizen is more cosmopolitan
than the average man in any other country
Here and there. in every part OF the land
IN almost every class OF society. viii b5
found men and women who will delight in
these marvellous creations OF strong and
subtle fancy They viii comprehend, lit
tle by little, the mysticism of Seraphit4
ard Louis Lambert. and study with IN
creasing appreciation and pleasure the
The times., 1899-09-19

We rather thought that South Atlantic
assignment affront to Rear Admiral Schley
would wake up the Maryland Republicans.
A committee of their leaders labored with
the President yesterday and it is thought.
convinced him that the easiest way he
could take to make the State overwhelm-
ingly Democratic would be to stand in with
Long and the Navy ring conspiracy for
SIMPSONS benefit. In spite of the strong
desire the Administration has to keep the
victor of Santiago out of the way while
Congress is in session, it is not now likely
that the scheme to hitch him to the South
Pole viii be carried out at present. This
teaches US that the immineney of national
elections often exerts a deterrent effect
upon intended outrages.
The times., 1899-09-19
Grand-VaudeviIIe.

The business man who wishes to spend
an hour in watching vaudeville perform
anee this week may arrange for a visit
to the Grand without taking the trouble
to select any particular time for his call
The bill provided yesterday by Burke and
Chase was enjoyable all throIgh-o -easicn
ally more enjoyable than usual, but ways
worth applauding Now and again TIER
were bits-as there always aIe-thst might
be removed without loss to audiences, but
10 act was wholly bad, and many were ex-
celient.
This rule held from the very first. Gall
iando, a Iaodeler in clay, was the afors-
equal of Bicknell who was seen here las
year, his work was deft in preparation,
ard characteristic in result Barring a
Shakespeare that resembied Buffa'0 Bill
oddly, his personal products were quite
en- par with those that were only typi-
cal. Edith Craske proved to be merely a
new form of the old lightning transfo.-
nation artist" The lightning struck
more rapidly than of yore, but there wa5
no other difference. Miss Craske's efforts
were more remarkable than entertaining
Charles King, whose tenor is sweet and
robust appeared before drop showing
Dr. EOuSutOn LtJllS tlG
Corner" and sang, besides THE Palms,
two new ballads, the first of which was
actually written in good English. Boiled
down. the Duffy, Sawtelle, and Duffy tril
amounts to Master Duffy. but the child
is an all-star triumvirate in himself. an
the turn pleased last nights gatherin 3
immensely. This comment may be mad :
truthfulIy, too, of Anna Berger, whose
cornet solos are a deal out of the ordi
nary; La Dazie. toe dancer, VITO las ben
seen here before; Anna Whitney, Eono
logist. of the BERTHE Fowler order, and
McPhee and Hill, horizontal bar experts
The one alteration that should be made
in the programme is this; The Hawthorn,
Sisters. who are strangers in Washington,
ought to be featured above Patrice who
should be, but isn't. The xvi low Pat
tern Plate" song of the Hawthornes' is a
most charming little affair, well set and
costumed. "A New Years Dream which
Fatrice has played for the past year, is
a delightful sketch, deliberately murdere
by an inferior leading man and a star
whose forte is evidently acrobatic SOU
brette work The turn" was not really
poor, but it approached that standard more
nearly than did anything else on yester-
days bill at the Grand.
The times., 1899-09-19
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1s. 1929,
AntI-Expansion RepubIicnnism.

One Ct the best evidences that the az
complished fact OF American expansion is
not and cannot be a party issue. is that a
minority OF both the great national ro.it.-
cal organizations want to make Il ons; ex-
actly as the same elements might desire
TO return Texas TO Mexico, or Florida TO
Spain, il they could rot find any ether
convenient method OF cbstructing the pro-
gress or attempting to check the pros
perity and destiny OF the country.
Hoar, the chief apostle OF the Aguinaldo
cult in America. is certainly Republican
Reed. the brains" OF the movement, as
Godkin describes him. enjoys the same
questionable distinction. schurz, the Hes
sian member OF the junta, has frequently
belonged 10 that party; while Atkinson
and nearly al Of the remaining dozen Dc
mestic Filipinos, are either Republicans
or were Cleveland and Palmer Buckner
assistant Republicans in 1886. We Will no,
be dishonest enough to deny that two o.
three alleged political descendants OF
Thomas jefferson are identified with tn 2
movement The names OF Altgsld AID Her
Most naturally occur TO Us, ard there
may be Few Others who. later. viii fhank
Us for forgetting them in the connection.
Because expansion is an eternaily &C
compiished fact. We take only mill inter
est il the efforts OF aay party or influence
10 Geiude the masses into the idea that 1t
Is not Hence the reported Kentucky
scheme to promote Republican national
contraction movement. directed PRINCIPAL
ly against Mr. Mckinley. is not calculate
to excite US violently. Perhaps this is
partly due TO the nature OF the ticket
which, we are tod, its sponsors propose TO
present. That ticket appears in our press
dispatches as Reed and Bradley most
excellent one for the purposes OF our ar
gument. The first name is supposed to be
that OF . person formerly from Maine, but
now lost in the crowd which is gathering
ID New York for the Dewey reception. The
second-but We shall have TO ask, cour-
teously. who the gentleman may be? To
the best OF our knowledge. information,
and belief, he is as impersonal as our other
anti-expansion friends, John Doe aad Ri-h-
ard Roe.
And so We risk the opinion that an '-anti-
imperialist" ticket with head that every
body knows got out Of politics to escape
defeat al the hands Of expansionists, and
a tail that nobody ever heard OF before, is
the most logical thing that Hoar, Atkinson
George Fred Williams, Reed. Schurz Ell
lot Norton. and the late Grover Clevelan1
could possibly perpetrate. II suits Us
down 10 the ground.
The times., 1899-09-19

sumo that those who do this are plunder-
ers. for they give the country, in various
ways, more than they ever take out of
it. 1t is simply a question which social
and political system shall preyail-that of
the bigoted, narrow minded, unp!ogres-
sive. enslaving, and tyrannical Boer, or
that of the enterprising, order-loying,
broad-minded Englishman. In one case,
American as well as English trade will
be shut out, stagnation will continue in
the Transvaal, and there is more than a
possibility that the natives tormented by
continual injustice and oppression, will
rise in desperation and attempt to wipe
out the Boer.
The times., 1899-09-19
perIIs of Foreign Marriage.

kfF91n tDe hOeheStfr IOsI-Exf}reSs.)
II is the spirit constituting the difference be-
tween American and European institutions that
lies in wait to wreck foreign marriage. Amer
lean girls expect TO have the same freedom and
attention in the Old World that they .njoy in
the New. They fancy that their rule there viii
be as undisputed as il is at home. But there is
bitter disappointment in store for them. The
despotism that weighs so heavily upon men in
Germany, for example, bears still more cruelty
upon women. If the rights of men are abridged,
the rights OF women are abridged still more. If
little consideration IS shown for the feelings Of
one, the stories of severity in the German army
Indicate still less is shown for those Of the other
The change from the joyous freedom Of an Ameri-
can home to the restrictions OF German one is
as sitting 10 a proud, independent American girl
as the change from the light and air OF her ma
tive fields to the gloom and mold OF an old
cloister
The times., 1899-09-19
THE CASE OF THE TARTAR.
False Reports Concerning the Trans
port Corrected by Major Long


port Corrected by Major Long
The Quartermaster's Department claims
that many false reports have been cireulat-
ed regarding the equipment of the trans
port Tartar. which was recently detained
at Hongkong by the British authorities
1t was claimed that the vessel was over
loaded and she was held under the British
Shipping act A despatch was yesterday
received at the War Department from
ouartermaster Long. at San Francisco.
which gives an account Of the equipment
of the Tartar. He says:
''The British chartered transport Tartar
sailed from here July "a Medical and other
transport officers. after a careful inspection.
fixed her maximum carrying capacity at
I07 officers and ,232 men. However. she
sailed with forty-flve officers and .161 en-
listed men, and fifty civilians, a total OF
I,221, being us less than full capacity.
Each person carried, including the crew,
was provided with a life preServer. Be
sides there were many extra on board
The United States maritime regulations re-
quire a yearly inspection Of all vessels By
local inspectors. The Treasury Depart
ment's inspectors were requested by me TO
inspect our transports net yearly. but every
time they arrived in port. This is the Gus
tom here, and the local inspectors OF the
Treasury Department make careful inspec-
tfon Of hulis and boilers Of each owned and
chartered transport, and check equipment.
and see that they are provided with all
necessary appliances. as required by and
equipped fully to meet Federal regulations
This includes life preserveFs. boats. and
RATS in sufficient number and capacity IN
der the law TO guarantee safety. Such was
the case with the Tartar. Such is the case
with every transport y transport would
not be allowed b. the Treasury Department
officials to sail from here unless the law
was strictly complied with. The route for
the return trip from Manila here is indi-
Gated by the chief quartermaster at Ma
Mia"
The times., 1899-09-19
Away From the Scene.
From the Philadelphia Reoord.)

Revolutionary movements in Venezuela are usu-
ally mere factonal fights between the ''ins and
"outs,'' and the insurrection headed by Cipriano
Castro against President Andrade is no exception
to the rule. Our sole interest in the matter is
to protect the few resident Americans from yio-
lence and their property from piilage. Unfor-
tunately the Detroit, which has been sent to
guard these interests, can get no nearer the
scene of action than the Dutch island of Curacao,
of the eynezuelan coast, for neither La Guayra,
which is the port OF Caracas, nor Puerto Cabello,
which has been taken by the reyoutionists, af-
ford save harborage TO ships in stormy weather,
both being merely open roadsteads. The Detroit
win have TO lie at Curacao to await emergencies.
The times., 1899-09-19

Taliaferro is clever in the role of Esther,
and Madame Cottrelly's Mrs. Beicov.tch is
iaimitable. The remainder of the organ
Lestina, Claude Brooke,
Gus Frankel. Emil Hoeh. Frank Cornell.
Fred Lotto, Charles Stanley. Louise Mul-
dener, Laura Almosnino Rosabei Morrison,
Ada Curry. Sadie Stringham, aad the less
important folk-deserve more praise than
there is space to give them
Unlimited commentator should also be
voted to James A. Hsraa. who staged the
offering; to Gates & Moraase. who paint
ed scenery for IL, and to William Furst,
who wrote the incidental music
The times., 1899-09-19
King of the Opium,
RirE.u

"The King of the Opium Ring" which
was seen last night at the Academy. is,
from an artistic point of view, simply
unique in its badness 1t is melodrama Of
the most stilted and sensational descrip
tion-a melodrama during the action of
which such sentiments are put into the
mouths of Chinese highbinders. San Fran
cisco hoodlums, drunken sailors, and Ia
dies OF doubtful reputation, as would do
credit to the old-time Pizarro or Meta
mora. But the audience understood and
that is the main point.
The house was crowded and each time
the curtain went down there was a thun-
der OF applause. This appreciatiye state
of feeling was due to the fact that there
The times., 1899-09-19
An Ante-Election Commandment.


It is always pleasant to be able to say
good word for an Administration which
We have occasionally felt compelled to crit
icise; but sometimes we get chance.
Just now We discern one in the evident
intention Of President Mckinley TO reform
and purify his postal service.
We viii give him credit for having es-
sayed this ever since he has been in office.
Postage stamp peculation has been often
detected and vigorously punished, and the
| crimes of touching the mails or tapping
the lampposts have been followed so closely
by the inspectors of the department that
few guilty men have escaped, while those
who have are people with strong political
influence, which always operates to reduce
penal offence from the grade of a felony
to that of hysterical indiseretion.
But Mr. Mckinley is too great and wise
ruler, in these days of scientific crimi-
nology, 10 depend entirely upon the terrors
OF the law. He understands the tempta-
ticns which surround the humble party
/ heeier who feeling that he has done a
1 hundred thousand dollars worth of work
for the cause of Republican control, receives
By way of reward only an opportunity tc
pack loads of letters to and fro between his
more fortunate faliow-citizens, at re-
muneration which is barely bread. and in
cludes little of the necessary beer.
Seeing this, the genial and kind-loving
statesman from the mandarinate of Canton
has mercifully resorted. not to terrifying
threats of condign punishment for evil
doars, but to miider measures of admonition
and hypnotic suggestion. At The instance, ii
is said, of that pure and disinterested
watch-clock philanthrcpist Brother Abner
he has caused a gentle warning to all en-
pioyes Of the Postofice Department to bs
placed on the front truck of each mail
ssrvice gathering and distributing vehicle
It reads. in large letters Of gold, "Pintsch
Light"
Now, we wish TO observe that there are
good politics" and sound business
methods in that commandment, which all
/ OF 'tour best business interests" viii regard
with feelings of JOY and giadness. It is
only TO be regretted that it was not in
spired and delivered long ago, so that it
might have been emblazoned in the offices
of the Commissary, of the transportation
agency, and of the middleman in the yacht
purchases during the Spanish war. Even
now. it is not too late to utilize its noble
message by cable to Otis and DENLY at
Manilal At time when the Administra-
ton is very much under criticism, it could
not pass a safer or more valuable watch
word along the line than that of pinch
light"
The times., 1899-09-19

The full text of the Transvaal reply 10
England does not vary materially from the
summary published yesterday morning. 1t
merely makes clearer the Boer determine
tion not to concede the British demands,
even in principle. The report that the
Beers are shipping quantities of forage to
the Natal boundary and that they already
have force of artillery near Majuba Hill
is regarded as ominous of sudden coup de
force which may be heard from at any mo-
ment
The times., 1899-09-19
APencefuI situntion.
From the Philadelphia Ledger }


Our consulate in London is very busy with
invoices more numerous and valuable than they
have been for some time. Our Embassy in Lon
don, on the contrary, is very dull. Ambassador
Ghoate is visiting in Scotland, all the members
Of his staff except those whose presence is made
necessary by routine work are away, and the only
visitor OF importance for a week has been Senator
Jones, although the city is full OF Americans
This is as ii should be. A busy consulate de
notes commercial prosperity, while a dormant
Embassy means profound peace. 1t is situation
that should continue
The times., 1899-09-19

The Ionesomeness which we always ex-
perience when Griggs is away will be re-
lieved this morning. He viii be back
again with us, continually pumping out
justice in that palace of the same which.
according to the legend over its door, is
Dedicated TO Arti" If it were not, the
Carter case, which MacVeagh will bring
to a brilliant close with learned brief
today or tomorrow, would have been settled
and forgotten ages ago.