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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Redwood Falls, Mum, Sept. g.
Grading On the Gulf & Manitoba rail-
road in the Beaver creek valley, be-
tween this place and Beaver Falls, is be-
Ing pushed as rapidly as teams can be
secured to do the work, and since the
first part OF last week Contractor King
has succeeded in grading about a mile
of the line, nearly all of which requires a
vast am cunt of work on account of the
hiei.grade necessary to- ascend the bill
Of about three miles in length. The COM
pany expects to have q big portion of
the grading between here aud the Mil
Wankee road graded before the winter
opens up. and Contractor King viii
have 8 steam grader here in : few weeks
TO as1ist il that work.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

The last congress enacted a law
providing that pensioners who have
deserted their wives he obliged to
pay them one-half OF their pensions.
More than. 900 of this class. OF
claims have already been filed with
the pet sion bureau, and in most
cases have been favorably acted
upon.
Peter Lauerman is selling one OF
the most ingenious articles ever in
vented. It is known as the Johnston
patent crank wrench, and can be
used as q crooked wrench, a short
4H inch wrench, a long 10 inch
wrench, a table wise, a screw driver,
a brace and bit, a drill, q maker OF
gimlets, rivets and staples from wire
nails, mower section grinder, a
buttress for trimming hoofs, 9 saw
handle, q Ale handle, q grindstone
crank. 9 slack wire tightener, 2 holder
OF round head bolts, and for other
purposes. Mr.. Lauel man also sells
an improved buggy jack. The arti-
clss may be seen at Elleubecker 4
Goulef' store, whore Mr.. Iauermrlan1
|hss - snoe. y n
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Viktor Bros. are receiving stocks Of
fall and winter clothing and shoes and
will supply t!'e'r increasing trade with
best goods in the market.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Or. Gibson, +1;;eutist, painless system Of
teeth extracting, from one to thirty
teeth i'll threst minutes. Office in Close
hlOck 81
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

The new barometer has arrived at
the city hall, and now Coleman keeps
one eye On the Say and the other on
the instrument. >.>-.. ..~...
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Mems aud bows suits, sweaters, un-
derwear, pants overalls, shirts, all new
goods, lowest prices, at Viktor Bros.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Mrs. julius Abrahamson died at
St. Gabriel's hospital Wednesday
morning OF cancer after long ill.,
ness, aged 80 years. She leaves
usband, well known Pine Tree
Co. employe, and several little chill
dren. The funeral was held from
the residence Wednesday afternoon,
and the interment took placein Oak
land.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Bring in your best vegetables fol
the street fair. Large cash prizes.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

A. l.. Ritter, late OF Staples, has
decided to locate at Spokane, Wash.
John and Werner Gorst and C. P.
AiDsworth have left the West for Daw-
son City, ~ :.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

Mrs. LOUIS Norgaard and children
have gone to Albert Lea to visit relatives
and friends
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08

The second day OF the Street Fair
will be Royalton day and the third
Pierz day.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-09-08
The Weeks Transfers.
ITO sept. 81

Nels l. Anderson and wife toCP
Pfremer, lot 2, nh lot 3, lot II.
blk 10. 1st add to Motley.......... 400
Lombard Liquidation Co. to II
Seal, nh neA lot and s 8 %.
tt2, 32..".......................... $50
} l. Lombard to Jos Fl Seal, Is
acres OF nwH neH 25, t 42, r32 60
} II Seal to R b Musser, nH neA lot
ana 25, t AZ, r 32.. I
Lombard Co to Il P Bell, sH seH
nwA 81. t Al, r 31........::.,,. ......... 59.37
Frank Hageman ct al toH P Bell,
nwA 4. t A.. r3l.............:..........415. 81 63
E M Parker ct al to F A. Bowers
sex swA 26. nH neA swA p,
%, ol.................-.......... .... $50
John GwOstz to John H Wagner,
lot 6, blk IL, Berg;s add ........... IS
" PETERSON to- VIM PedIey, eA
sex sex neA 13. 40, 32......... 1900
Kate Gross to Paulina O4srrich,
sex 5, t 80, r. 80 ................... -
N NJ Williams and wife to Gretchen
p Lafarge, lot II and eH lot l2,
FarK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
Tontine Savings Ass0 of Mmn 10
W Foster, lands in 1882. ....... 24OO
The second day OF the Street Fair
will be Royalton day and the third,
Pierz day.
Mrs. LOUIS Norgaard and children
have gone to Albert Lea to visit relatives
and friends
Mems aud bows suits, sweaters, un-
derwear, pants overalls, shirts, all new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

Champ de Mars will behold the splendid
facade of the Palace of Electricity. This
structure has frontage of 80 feet and
extends back nearly quarter of a mile.
As shown in the picture. the upper part Of
the building is an elaborate composition of
stained-glass windows, deep bays and
numerous turrets, suggestive of lacework
or a gigantic piece of embroidery. The
sculpture which crowns the facade repre-
sents the genius of electricity. After dark
this will form the centerpiece of some
grandly striking Examinations. presenting
some marvellous multi-colored effects
Moreover. the entire upper facade of the,
palace Will be studded with electric globes
OF various shapes and coIors, so that the
evening visitors. with the decorated cata-
ract IN TIE foreground, crowned with this
sclntlllat1ng spectacle as "a background.
VIII nave little cause to miss the electric
fountains of decade ago.
The interior of the Palace of Electricity
ilhe o!nnla Gallia of our Latin days will
De divided INTO three parts-a grand central
court and TWO Guadrilatera spaces in the
wings In the basement viii be installed
the several plants for the development of
electrical energy-the boilers, engines and
generators, which, by system of invisible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
PALACE OF EDUCATION.

wires will supply not only the floor above
but all the other buildings and the grounds
with light and power
On the great ground floor and SUSPENDED
from the ceiling will be shown the myriad
devices by which the strange intangible
mud is turned TO practical account-mo-
t3 l OF every KIND, from the mammoth ma
chlneS which operate mills and street rail-
ways down to the little device that drives
d sewing machine or rotates a desk fan;
AShuhS apparatus from the fO.0pO-candle-
power battery. which sends a dazzling flash
forty miles out to sea from a lighthouse
tower. down to the tiny bulb that rests in
the chal1ce of a lily or scntillates from,
the white eXpanSe of an actors sbfrt front.
electric heaters for buildings, rooms, cars
pancake grlddles, sad-irons and curling
tonSs; electrical signs, electrical TOYS cleo.
tro-pIating plants, ocean cables, switch
boards and everything pertaining to The
telephone or telegraphy.
Significant Contract CIause.
The chief exhibits of apparatus for tho
development of electricity will be made nv
the French. English, German and Aneri-
can firms Other countries are not progress
slVe in this direction. The Paris exposition
managers have agreed to paw the foreign
companies fixed amount for the instaIla
tlon OF plants to supply electrical energy
10 the grounds and buildings. and a sip
nllcant fact is disclosed by the contracts
an THESE cover a period Of 205 days-from
" ~ -NoHSHipeT -, lED, with clause
permitting the exposition to prolong the
contract at discretion for period of thirty
Gays more. So it appears there is a Dossi-
ollIty OF the exposition remaining open
until the end of November term of seven
and a half consecutive months which
would become new record of duration for
an international fair
The foreign companies alreSdy have the
work well advanced, and by compact, to
which all subscribe, it is provided that a
continual supply of electricity shall be fur
nlshed without requiring any employe to
De on duty more than seven hours per day
Americans Will not be especially pleased
or proud of the display made in the United
states section Of the electrical palace This
collection will be mainly interesting from
a historical or documentary point of view.
The foremost American inventions of re-
cent years Will be found distributed through
the displays of several European nations
ana especially among the German, French
and English exhibits. This is due to the
TACT that several prominent European
houses are of American origin and are
practically branch establishments of the
Srea OAmerican concerns. In accordance
with the classification adopted all these
show their products in the sections assign
ed to the countries in which the European
houses are located.
Sidewalk on Wheels.
One of the novelties of the exposition,
and at the same time one of the utilities.
will be travelling platform, or rather a
pair of platforms moving at different
speeds, covering a course of two miles in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

length and connecting the three most i'm
purtant sections of the grounds-the Champ
de Mars the Invalides and the Quai d'Or-
say, on which is the street of foreign ma
tional buildings The idea is not a new
one. but this will be its first application on
an ambitious scale. For fifteen years en-
gineers have been studying the possibilities
of transporting a vast number of people
rapidly and safely by the platform system.
NJ. Blot presented the scheme to the COM
misSioners of the Paris exposition in 1889,
but it was rejected as too bold innova-
ton, and the coveted franchise was award
ed to a narrow-gauge railway. At Chicago
a firm improved on NJ Blot's plan, and con-
structed movable sidewalk on the lake
pier, which enabled those who found it to
ENJOY Lake Michigan's cool breezes on hot
summer nights But as this apparatus was
built as a unit any scrt of breakdown
brought the whole system to a standstill
until repairs We're made. The project which
has finally met the acceptance of the Paris
exposition management consists of a single
track elevated railway and a double ele-
waited sliding platform, both mounted on
structure of iron, twenty-five feet above
the ground. with ten stations, reached
either by steps or auxiliary sliding inclined
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
ARCTIC AMERICA EXHIBIT.

great educational Institutions and who wish
to avail themselves of the splendid opportu-
mites offered for research. make more pro-
tracted visits come to London for a
number of months to study in this greatest
school of the globe
The method Of obtaining the use of the
books in the collection is very simple. Per-
haps you wish to consult some work of
some American, no matter of what age or
era of American literature. You must first
go to the office Of the secretary of the
principal libraries. Here you register your
name and London address in full. This is
for means of identification. You are then
given printed slip, which bears your
Eame, the number of your ticket the date
of issuance, and the formal permit to use
the reading room for the day. If you wish
to use it longer you may, a request,
from any one in authority at your embassy.
secure a permit for month. or six weeks
or as long as you desire.
In the Great Reading Room.
With your ticket you go to the reading
room. 1t is a vast circular apartment,
which must be at least three hundred feet
in diameter. Its walls are lined with book
cases reaching up to the point where the
great dome springs into its mighty arch.
In the center are circular desks, occupying
ali the main central part of the floor, and
outside of this, in larger circles. are desks
or tables fitted up with all convenfences FOR
writing and with ample room for many VOL
note its number and letter on the printed
slip by which you make application for the
volume You wish to consult and look up
the catalogue for the number of the volume.
The press mark, the name of the author
OF other heading of the work wanted, the
place where the volume was printed. the
date of the printing, the size of the volume.
the date of the application, your own name,
and the number of the seat you have Sc
lected, must be written on the application.
The catalogues form a small library them
selves. They are large volumes alphabet
catly arranged in the cases below the appli-
cation desks.
You will find only quill pens at the writ
ing desks. When you have handed in your
application you go to your seat and wait
for the volumes. 1t will not be long be-
fore whatever you have ordered be 1t in
almost any tongue under the sun, will be
brought to your desk and you are at lib
crty to read and make notes as long as
you will.
There are large rooms opening off from
the central reading room in which are
stored vast numbers of books of priceless
value, which you may consult, either in
the main room or by students permit in
the special rooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

planes. Two hundred motors, each working
inc ependanty, will keep the platforms in
motion. The first platform, which moves
alongside the station, has speed of only
TWO ana one-half miles per hour. The sec
ond PLATFORM which IS alongside and NOV
ing in the same direction as the first has a
speed of five miles per hour, and is pro-
Nl1eG with seats and an outer guard-rail
IL IS just as easy to step from the slower
Platform to the faster as it is to pass from
the station to the first. Passengers will
cover the entire course in about twenty-five
minutes, and 1t has been computed that
1000 persons can pass given point in an
hour. To build and operate this Transport
latfon system. including the sum paid for
slie &C. concession Will cest the company over
81 100000. The fare is ten cents and the
platforms will run fourteen hours each day
To make any money, the average daily re-
ceipts must exceed S7.000-an average of
900 passengers per hour.
The financial outcome and the attitude of
the visitors will be watched with great IN
teIeSt. Should 1t prove an unuualified sl,c-
cess 1t does not take the gift of prophecy to
toreteI the installation of similar platforms
opposite the second-story windows on many
busy retail streets in large cities with all
the changes in store methods which this
would bring about.
Educational Displays.
Precisely on the same spot where stood
the Palace of Liberal Arts at the Paris ex-
position of 1883 will stand the Palace of
r1uucdlloE IN l!D- Inc building, which will
cost $4,000, will stand close by the Einei
tower and in size and general features Will
be the counterpart of the Palace of Mines
ana Metallursy, its next neighbor A very
original cupola surmouhts the porch in
| winch the student of architecture will de
| tect strange commingiing of the renais-
| sance, Louis XIV, Byzantine and the nine
| teenth century styles. Like all the other
| buildings the color is white The first feat
| IRE inside the doorway is three large groups
| OF sculpture. These personify Science Let
| ters and Art. On this floor a large concert
| NAH Will be provided, where performances
| on the various instruments shown in the
| building will be given both during the dav
! and i'll the evening
The educational exhibits will be divided
| INTO three classes; the first relating to lib
/ eral arts of the past, and forming retro
| spectiVe section of the highest interest: the
| second, pertaining TO the present state of
| art and science. while the third will give
| intellectual workers splendid glimpse of
! the futurity Of civilization. Here will b..
| SHOWN all that pertains to the organization
and equipment of schools and colleges and
| npfarles, the apparatus of telegraphy and
| photography and the Instruments of pre-
| clslon There will likewise be a lot of mod
| ern surgical instruments and apparatus by
| means OF which the doctors of today look
! into and explore the hidden cavities of the
| human frame to determine diseased condi-
lions and remove abnormal growths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

1or me accommodation of it's work valued
a. SSo-;"o VI TINS $So0,O00 is about equally
uivlueo between the south, the west and
CITY missions while 1922 900 is held nv loca1
boards for deaconess homes bosnitaIs 80
training schools an"
Nearly POO deaconesses are ene.ge5 in
the work, and 147 missionaries find fields in
the south among colored people and nooun-
tain whites in the west amona r. M M.
mons Indians. New Mexlcans and Alas
sans, ana IN city missions, orphanages. i'm
migrant homes and needy communities in
different parts of the land
The Womaus Home Missionarxy cooia+,,
mas at this time under its care eighteen in
uustrlal SCHOOLS in the SOUTH twenty-three
missions and schools in the west three or
manages and over twenty deaconess homes
pesiues city missions and immigrant homes
while the demand for hospitals is rap;dIy
increasing. p"-'
The work of the society is administered
WIN great economy, the work of admins
.raioh peing for the most part the offer
inSs OF love from women of the church.
Money given to carry on and extend the
work o or T. the society is judiciously used.
in one of the homes, and in the courss nf
lew years prepare her to go out as a
missionary 70 her own people There are
now over 10000 who have been trained in
me- MONIES pines and are doing grand work for
1t is understood that Rev. DR.. Theron n
nf t IIormeriy OF Alexandria, Va. and now
washington, will Sunday next receive .
can TO the pastorate of the Franklin Street
Presbyterian Church of Baltimore WbiIe
a. a. pastor In Alexandria in 1893 DR.. Rice was
invited to become the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, which had
been left vacant couple of months hefnra
py s, the resignation of Rev: DR.. James T.
because Of falling health. Later Dr pio,
accepted a call to Atlanta. Ga.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
This Country is Well Represented in
the British Museum.
INDIAN And ARCTIC TREASURES
Thousands of American Books in
the Great Library.
IN TIL E READING ROOM

Written foi The Evening Star.
1t is not likely that there is any other
roof in the world covering so many pre-
cious and wonderful articles as the one
which covers the vast spaces of the British
Museum.
England has been particularly fortunate
in her consuls. her soldiers in foreign fields
and generally in her public and private cit
liens abroad, in that they have had an eye
open at all times to those things which
would go to make up the aggregate interest
of this wonderful building.
Naturally the part taken by America Is no
inconsiderabe one. In the department of
ethnoloEy there are great glass cases
whose contents illustrate many phases of
the early and later life of America. One
such case has a splendid collection of ar
tices Illustrative of the life of Arctic
America. In another part of the vast de-
partment devoted to the life and character
istics of races there is a splendid collection
of North American Indian material. It is
as though one were suddenly transported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

has begun a series of Sunday evening lee
lures upon Some Interesting Men," a Sc
quei to his successful series last winter
upon Some Interesting Women" The lee
lures will be illustrated by musical seIec-
tons from standard religious works by the
choir OF that church. The list of subjects,
Fellow, But Failure The Man Of S,,c-
cess" THE Man Who Was Temnted ;,
I pmi,, Man eth Of the Eloquent Life The
Ii1 m"lii !.lTba Pr2phef The Athletic Weak
r rIieho The Fast Young Man. The
cloudy Countenance." THE Man of the
SI,oieen Age. The Petulant Man, The
Book aii win the
The series will be Interrupted on the even
I, oa Decsmber "a by special Christmas
cember 81 by New Year vigfls.
Al; An official statement issued by the
churchman's League of the diocese 81
i Mashington. gives the following list of par
lsheS represented in the league: Anacostia
ascension, St Adams. st. Andrews. Cbrisi
1nurch' Epiphany. Georgetown, Grace
va ashlnston; Grace. Georgetown; Incarna,
B Beth s y 81 St. James, St Johns,
Ghaei and All Angels, St Margarat's 81
FauI s. st. Philips, Laurel: Rock Greek
81. stephens, Takoma, ST. Thomas, Trinity
ana Washington.
The Methodists of Washington have baer
i sheu 10 make special effort to forward
lile cause of the Woman's Home Mission
airy society In connection with the TWEEN
uelh century movement. In conversation
with STAR reporter an officer of the So
ciety said: ' 81
The aim of the society is to enlist and
organize the efforts of Christian women in
nehalI OF the needy and destitute women
s'nu chhoren OF our country. Briefly, the
society aims at the Christianization of the
homes OF our beloved land and the eonse-
iv, ri.r
ness. 80 AS"eeouS-
For nearly twenty years the soc,a,v h @
oeen In existence. moving steadily along
It's appointed lines. planting a mission here
an industrial home and school there. dea,
stantly reaching out to the regions hayond
fhe society has accumulated property
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

to some quiet nook in an Indian village
where tribal traits Were still the proper
thing. The collection of all manner of i'm
plements of warfare head dresses. gar
ments of skins beautiful specimens of the
handicraft of nimble Indian fingers, is in
tensely interesting.
chronological Collection.
The collection of the chronological gallery
extends along the entire eastern side of the
vast museum, divided into a series of bays
as they are called, and comprises about all
that is accessible concerning the races of
the earth. The term ethnology as used in
this connection the museum authorities de-
fine as the scientific study of the manners
and customs of particular peoples and of
their development from saVagery toward
civilization; and it more particularly con-
Germs itself with those races which have
no written records. The purpose of the col
lection, in the words of the museum au-
thorities. Is Ito enable us to understand by
what methods man, in his earlier efforts of
development toward civilization. supplies
the wants Of his existence, protects his life,
expresses his religious ideas, and gradually
advances toward the cultivation of the in
dustrial and ornamental arts"
The American room proper, the one which
Is so named in the museum, is quite large
ana admirably lighted. 1t contains much
pertaining to the ancient life in America.
case after case of arrow heads of different
periods, specimens of pottery of all types,
mere and there collections of stone or clay
burned images illustrating the God idea of
the savage, and very many interesting
utilitarian objects in earthenware and
stone. A curious fact is that the stone i'm
PIGMENTS and weapons very closely resem-
Bile the ones discovered in various parts of
Europe, indicating either general and
common origin, or else token of the fact
that the savage emerging from barbarism
in any land is moved by the same mental
processes.
Ancient Mexico.
In this same room are extensive illustra-
tons of the ancient life of Mexico and the
central American states. In one of the
cases are some extremely interesting and
rare idol masks, the faces of the most gro
: Tue types Very minute pieces of rare
stones of various colors are matched and