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Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16
POLITICAL QUIPS.

From the deposed officeholder's stand
point, public Office means public thrust.
Berlin (Md) Herald.
Missing word contest-McKinley and
- will be the next Republican ticket.
Supply the missing word.-Nirr"a ;,>,::;>
Journal.
Barker and Donnelly are not in the
trust. They are introducing 1000 model
more than q year ahead Of t::ic.-.St.
Louis Globe Democrat
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16

The discussions az to the demo-
ocratic nominee for congress in this
district are valueless so long as
Mr.. Towne's wishes in the mat tier
are unknown. 1t is sure that if MIR.
Towne wants the nomination
again he can have it, and Morrison
county will give him "a bigger ma.
ority than ever. =
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16

If our friends who enthuse over
the rire in wages-which is good
will kindly tell us whether the
per cent OF increase of wage bears
any reasonable proportion to the
increase in price OF the articles the
wage carriers make-particularly IN
tariff protected industries-we shall
be obliged.
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16
HALF WAY CREEK

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Rychner spent Sun
day at Mr.. Nelson's.
Mrs. +. Anderson, of st Anthony, is
visiting Mr.. and. Mrs. Englund this
week.
Mrs, c. 4. Glanquist is getting ready
to move to town this week where her
husband is employed in the saw mill.
Fred Ward was blowing for H. Scott
this week.
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16

Oh, yes THERE'S "plenty of money"
No need OF more and especially no
need OF free coin. And yet the Nc
Kinley-Hanna plan is to authorize
the national banks to issue 10 per
cent more-the full value of their
bonds held for circulatiou.-G. S. G.
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16

:: The Transcript says c. D. :Boom's
letter to the journal exposed the en-
tire gold standard outfit. Oh no,
he didn't. The Philadelphia Press,
a republican paper edited, by Nc
Kinley's postmaster general, is the
culprit. -.
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16
1.-The Man with the Noe.''


Bowed BY the weight. of centuries he
) leans = =.
Upon his hoe and gazes on the
!: ground, . :.
The emptiness OF ages in his face,
And on bis back the burden OF the
world.
Who made him dead to rapture and
despair,
A thing that grieves not and that
never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, brother to the
Who loosened and let down his bru-
tal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted
back THE brow?
Whose breath blew out the light
within this brain?
Is this the thing the Lord God
made and gave
To have dominion over sea and
land;
10 trace the stars and search the
heavens for power;
To feel the passion of ETERNITY?
ls this the dream He dreamed who
shaped the suDs
And pillared the blue armament
with light?
Down all the stretch of He'll to it's
last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than
this
More tongued with censure of the
worlds blind greed
More filed with signs and portents
' for the soul
More fraught with menace to the
universe.
What gulfs between him and the
seiaphim!
Slave OF the wheel OF labor, what to
Are Plato and the swing OF Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks
of song,
The rift OF dawn, the reddenine of the
Through this dread shape the
suffering ages look;
Times tragedy is in that aching stoop
Through this, dread humanity be-
trayed,
Plundered, profaned and disin-
herited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the
world,
A protest that is also a prophecy
o masters, lords and rulers in all
lands.
1s this the handiwork you give to
God,
This monstrous thing distorted and
soul. .quenched?
How will you ever straighten up
this shape;
Give back tn, upward looking and
the light;
Rebuild in it the music aud tho
dream; ..
Touch it again with Immortality;
Make right the immem orial infamies
Perhdlous wrongs, immedicab
woes3
y masters, lords and rulers in all
lands,
How will the future reckon with
this man?
How answer his brute question in
that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake
the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and
with kings
With those who shaped him to the
thing he is
When this dumb terror shall apply
tu God,
After the silence of the centuries?
Oakland, Cal,
From San Francisco Examiner of Ian
uary IS, 1899.
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16
AGENTS W anted

The oldest and largest nursery in the
West. Everything for the orchard and
grove. Three plans al work and the year
round. Pay weekly Write Tor terms.
THE JEWELI sNua8EaYC Co,
Little Falls herald., 1899-06-16
FRIDAY, JUNE 16.

The Hon. Mr.. Jeffries quickly SET
tied the problem of whether Fitz
should have Jim. or Jim should have
FitZ.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
LAIE ER.

Howard Twiss attempted on the
30th ult. to make balloon ascension
and parachute jump at Chelsea park.
suburban resort near Kansas City.
He ascended about 500 feet when the
failed to work and young Twiss, the
balloon and parachute tumbled to the
earth. Luckily the aeronaut fell into
the branches of big tree, through
which he tumbled to the ground. Doc
tors say he will live.
After co years the Thomas Paine
monument in New Rochelle, Y. V,
was finished on the 30th ult. by the
crowning of the shaft, which was
erected in 1899, with colossal bust
of the free thinker. About 300 adj
mirers of the writings of Paine par
ticipated in the exercises.
A soldiers monument erected by
the Grand Army, with the assistance
of the Women's Relief Corps and the
town, was dedicated at Ashland, n.
IT,, on the 3Oth ult. with appropriate
| ceremonies.
The Dutch steamer Prinz Maurice,
from Amsterdam for Paramaribo,
Venezuelan ports and the West Indies,
was totally wrecked on the 30th ult.
at Cumana, city of Venezuela, on the
Gulf of Cardaco. All on board were
saved.
Commissioner Peck has announced
that American exhibitors at the Paris
exhibition of 1900 will have to pay a
charge of not more than 40 cents a
square foot for the construction of
permanent floors and temporary
walls.
Director Merriam has decided to
hold examinations in various parts
of the country, including the princi-
pal western cities, in order to obtain
ii clerical force necessary to carry on
the work of the census bureau.
William Hughart, for many years
president of the Grand Rapids & In
diana Railroad Co., died at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on the 30th ult., aged
IA years.
Robertson, Lindsay e Co.'s depart
ment store. at st. Thomas, Ont, was
burned on the 30th ult. Loss $110,-
900; insurance $S5,000
The postoffice department has issued
instructions directing that hereafter
newspapers shall be treated ms letters
in making up the mail for Porto Rico
Another big order has been placed
by the Egyptian state railway for two
more consignments of steel freight
cars with the Pressed Steel Co., OF
Pittsburg. It calls for 200 more cars
of the same pattern ordered some
! time ago and which are now ON their
way to the land of the Nile.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

The insurgents made daring attack
upon San Fernando, but were repulsed
by the Americans and driven to the
mountains.
China was putting her troops on n
war footing, owing to the arrival of six
Italian warships in San Nun harbor.
Admiral Dewey telegraphs the navy
department that he will stop at various
places on his way to the United States,
and will reach New York about Octc-
Der /.
Benjamin Harrison, eN-president of
the United States, arrived in Paris and
was received by President Loubet.
The Spanish newspapers in Manila
publish a report that Aguinaldo is dead.
The cause c. his death, the pa ers say,
is not exactly known, but they declare
that he either committed suicide or was
assassinated. Gen. Otis says that the
campaign against the Filipinos will be
prosecuted by the Americans with the
utmost aggressiveness during the rainy
season.
The French government announces
officially that former Capt. Dreyfus,
now a prisoner, will be retired by a
court-martial.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
SPANISH STATESMAN DEAD
Great sorrow Expressed mt the De-
mise of Senior Don Emilio
Castelar,.

Madrid, May 26.-Senor Don Emilio
CASTELAR,, the distinguished republican
orator and statesman, who had been
suffering from an attack of pulmonary
catarrh contracted last winter, is dead,
Senior CASTELAR, passed away at Muir
cia, capital of the ancient kingdom and
modern province of that name. The i'm.
mediate cause of death was albumin,
uria. The news of his demise caused
profound emotion throughout Spain.
The queen regent and the members oi
the cabinet Immediately telegraphed
condolences to the family The body
will be embalmed, brought here, and
placed in chapelle ardente, and the
chamber of deputies will give the de.
ceased a public funeral.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Bermudez Reina, former minis
ter of war and military governor of
Madrid, is dead.
The war department has turned over
to Gen. Shafter the complete direction
of all military affairs in Alaska.
The Presbyterian general assembly
in session in Minneapolis decided to
hold the meeting next year in st. Louis.
The Great Central railroad of Eng
land has placed an order for 90 locomo-
tives with the Baldwin works of Phila-
delphia.
Blind" Boone, once famous as a
pianist, is living at Columbia, Mo. He
is credited with possessing fortune of
$3O0,OOO.
Capt. James Slower, who was pilot of
the Monitor during her fight with the
Merrimac in Hampton Roads, died at
Easton, Md.
Helen Gould's income is the largest of
any unmarried woman in the country.
She does not spend much on herself.
On churches and charities she spends
100000 year.
William F. Hackney, architect to the
Kansas City (Mo.) board of education
and one of the city's foremost men of
his profession, committed suicide be-
cause he was in debt.
An expedition under Prof. A. G. Ma
thorst which is to search along the
northeast coast of Greenland for Prof.
Andree, the missing aeronaut, sailed
from Helsingborg, Sweden.
The promoters of the movement to
erect in San Francisco a 100000 noun
ment to commemorate the deeds of the
American navy, especially the victory
of Admiral Dewey, have set to work
with a will.
Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, has decided
to try the conditional pardon plan on
the better grade of prisoners in the
state penitentiary. The conditions are
that the person released shall not drink,
gamble or loaf.
A pension of $27 n month has been
granted Lula B. Randall, the 16-year-
old daughter of Frank B. Randall, chief
engineer of Dewey's dispatch boat Nc
CsIlloch, who died from sunstroke the
day after the battle of Manila bay.
A party of scientist of the depart
ment of agriculture, Washington, COM
prising DIR. C. Hart Merriam, biologist,
and Messrs, Fisher and Stocks, assist
ants, to be joined later by Chief Botan-
list Coville, left for Alaska for an investi-
CATION of its agricultural resources.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Squire Burt died at his home near
Owenton, Ky., aged 1O3 years. He
fought in the war of 1912, the Mexican
and the civil war.
Rev. Z. L. Eaton declined the prohibi-
ton nomination for governor of Iowa
and NJ. w. Atwood, of Estherville, was
chosen.
Mrs. Lucinda Pratt, 1O3 years old,
died at the home of her daughter in
Chicago.
Harrison Reed, governor of Florida
from 1865 to 1872, died in Jacksonville,
aged Sc years.
AT a conference in St. Louis of mem
bers of the democratic national COM
mittee plans of work for next year
were discussed, but no action was
taken regarding platform.
Brig. Gen. George w. West, civil war
veteran, died at his home in Athol,
Mass, aged 67 years.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, poet, preach
er, lecturer and champion of the OPP
pressed of all nations, celebrated her
eightieth birthday at her home in Bos-
ton.
Col. David French Boyd, president of
the Louisiana state university, died in
Baton Rouge, aged "a years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

ADM. DEWEY will pass under the
largest triumphal arch of any hero in
the worlds history when he comes to
New York. The plan to make of the
Brooklyn bridge an arch and to deco
rate the structure in an elaborate man
ner in Dewey's honor has received the
Endorsement of Commissioner of
Bridges Shea and Chief Engineer Mar
tin. Bridge Commissioner Shea pro-
poses that Adm. Dewey bring his flag
ship Olympia up the East river under
the bridge to an anchorage to be Sc
lected by himself.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
FOREIGN.

Gems. Macarthur and Funston dis
persed 500 insurgent Filipinos who were
intrenched on the railroad beyond San
Fernando, near Santa Arita. The in
surgent loss was large, many prisoners
were captured and it is reported that
90 Americans were wounded. Gen.
Lawton, with most of his troops, ar
rived at Malolos. His expedition
marched 100 miles in 20 days, had %
fights, captured eight towns and only
lost six men killed and 81 wounded.
Gen. Lawton estimates that his troops
killed 400 insurgents and wounded
double that number.
Fire destroyed rs houses and stores
in st. John, n. b., the loss being $780,
600.
Emilio CASTELAR,, leader of the repub-
lican party in Spain, and president in
1873, died in Barcelona.
Rosa Bonheur, the famous woman
painter of animals, died in Fountain
bleau, France, aged II years.
Aguinaldo's peace commissioners left
Manila for the insurgent lines, they
having made no pledges of surrender.
Members of the American commission
express the opinion that the Filipino
ENJOYS will soon return, ready to prom
ise the surrender of the insurgent
army.
Meetings of the disarmament confer
ence at The Hague indicate a unani-
nous acceptance of the principle of in
ternational arbitration and mediation.
Queen Victoria's eightieth birthday
was celebrated throughout Europe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
rs Family Pills are the best.


A clever young physician here, who, like
so many of his brethren everywhere, has
had weary time trying to build up prac.
tice, nevertheless meets his hard fortune
with smiling gayety. Like Warren Hast
ings, his motto is "Nitor in Adversitum"
In company with friend, he had occs-
MIA bank, where, owing to the throng of
customers, he could not get his business
transacted at once. After considerable de-
lay, his companion, nervous little man,
complained irritably of the inconvenience
to which they were subjected.
Doesn't this put you out of patience,
Doc?" he asked
MY dear sir" returned the medico gay.
", 'to be out of patients is my chronic con-
dition. l haven't had one for week. -
San Eranciscn News Latter
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

THE largest flower in the world is
the Raffiesia Arnold, of Sumatra. Its
size is fully three feet in diameter
about the size of carriage wheel.
The five petals of this immense flower
are oval and creamy white, growing
round a center filed with countless
long, violet-hued stamens. The flower
weighs about 10 pounds, and is capable
of containing nearly two gallons of
water. The buds are like gigantic
brown cabbage heads.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

SWELL circles in New York are much
exercised over the fact that Hetty
Green, probably the richest woman in
America, has taken cottage at New
port for the season-a most unheard-of
thing for Hetty to do. Some persons
account for the extraordinary circum-
stance by saying she has determined to
give her daughter chance to pick a
husband. Miss Green is cookbook
ing girl, possessed of charming dis
Dosition
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
Opinions of a Pessimist.

The fact that you can make mule work
in harness constitutes one of the chief diff
ferences between mule and a genius.
Every dog has his day. The cat is on the
night force.
The man who doesn't lift his hat when he
meets his wife probably refers to his mother
as "the old lady"
A man seldom marries his first love. When
he gets old enough to take wife she is gen.
orally busy cutting down papa's pants for
Willie.
Some men are born rich ard some are born
lucky, but they all have to lose their milk
teeth and have the measles just the same
Chicago Post
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

THE most magnificent tomb in the
world is the Tai Mahal, in Agra, Hin
dustan. 1t was erected by Shah Jehan
to the memory of his favor tc queen.
1t is octagonal in form, of pure white
marble, inlaid with jasper, cornelian,
turquoise, agate, amethysts and sap
phires. The work took $4,000 men 20
years to complete, and, though there
were free gifts and labor was free, the
cost was $40 600. 900,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

A NEW method of illumination on
the ocean consists of using hollow
cylinder of steel tubing, charged with
calcium carbide. This she'll is to be
shot from gun to distance of two
miles. When it strikes the water it
generates acetylene gas and gives 1000
candle power, which burns from the
end which floats. This light can not
be extinguished by water.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

WHILE naval officers express the
greatest affection for Adm. Dewey, it
is stated that homeward trip on
board a vessel carrying an officer OF
Dewey's rank will not be one of great
pleasure. The admiral will be given
receptions and banquets, at all OF
which the junior offic, RS will be oblig-
ed to attend. There will be inspections,
reviews and exhibition drills, conse.
quently those who return with Adm.
Dewey are not especially envied by
their brother officers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

JERRY SIMPSON, according to the Chi
cago Record, is said to have saved
enough from his congressional salary
to keep him in reasonable comfort the
rest of his life. He has good ranch
down at Medicine Lodge, which he
''took up" as government land in early
times; a bunch of 400 or 500 cattle,
and various investments that cause
him to be rated at SSO 600 by the COM
mercial agencies
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

FREDERICK w. SCHNEIDER. late of the
1st South Dakota infantry, has reached
home from the Orient, and he brings
the story that it is the practice of the
Filipinos to inoculate American prison
ers with the blood taken from lepers.
He knows of two cases and thinks il
likely that there are others. The
blood was drawn from the diseased
men, and the skin was opened in the
arms of the two soldiers and the dis.
eased blood injected into the Ameri.
cans. He also says the Filipinos re.
leased 200 lepers from lazaretto and
sent them ito Manila, hoping thus to
infect American troops.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
HnxN,a nhinR

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Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
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tic. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonial
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
proportionet

A FRENCH medical journal gives rea-
sons for believing that consumption is
of vegetable origin. 1t is said that GER
tain kinds of grass harbor parasite
that produces practically the same re-
suits as the tubercle bacillus. If this
is true it would account for the pres
ence of the disease in so many cows.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03
Wanted n Door.

Ihe sun blazing down on a race course,
Far, far east of Suez, and on a field of hot,
excited horses and men, waiting till the &c.
centricities of the starter and an even more
eccentric horse combine to get US in line.
The patience of the former is at last ex.
hausted., Bring up that horse! Come up
on that beast! You'll get into trouble over
this, l tell you," and so forth. The Aus.
tralian lightweight replies patiently: 81
can't help it, sir, This is cab horse, this
'orse is. He won't start till the door shuts
and haven't got door!"-AcademY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

The homecoming of Adm. Dewey
has caused a boom in the dry goods
trade. The demand for ordinary cloth
and prints for conversion into bunting
has nearly exhausted the supply and
1T has been found necessary to take
higher grades of materials, including
what is known as ''sixty-four square" "
In the trade it is estimated that at
least 500, 900 pieces, or $4,000 yards of
busting will be used to welcome the
hero of Manila. This extraordinary
demand, coming on rising market, it
is said, will influence prices greatly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

THE tallest man in the United States
navy has been selected to take the
part of Uncle Sam in the peace jubilee,
to be held in Washington in June.
The man who will represent this char
acter is Chief Yeoman Wills, who
stands six feet seven inches and is we'll
proportioned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-03

Az. MARCHAND, the explorer, has
received from the French academy of
moral and political sciences the Audit
fred prize of $4,000 francs 'for the
greatest act of devotion of any kind"
About the same time the French gov
ernment bestowed upon his sister,
Mile. Marchand, the right to keep a
tobacco shop in the Rue de la Tour
d,AuYerpne in Paris.