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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
IN A. BLAZE OF GLORY.

General Debate ON the Ports Rican Tariff
Bill Closes. - :
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-The general
debate on the Porto Rico tariff bill
closed in blaze Of glory. The galleries
were banked to the doors and every seat
on the floor was occupied when the rival
champions Of the respective sides, Mr.,
Dolliver Of Iowa and Mr.. Bailey OF
Texas, made their arguments. Each
spoke for an hour and half. The
speech Of Mr.. Bailey, devoted a. Il was
almost to the legal phases Of the con.
troversy, while it was profound and
impressive, did not cause the unbounded
emotion which swept the galleries and
floors when Mr.. Deliver was speaking.
The Iowan was at his best and his wit,
eloquence and sarcasm drew salvos Of
applause from his Republican associ.
.ates. Before those closing speeches
were made Mr.. Cannon of Illinois spoke
in support of the bill and Messrs. Car
mack Dem.), Peyton Dem., Ala.),
Keberg Dem., Tex.), Pearee and De
Almond Dem., No. in opposition.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
\Blew . Brewery v :. safe.

PAwrucKEr, r. L., March Bur
glars entered the Office Of the Hand
Brewing company during the night and
blew open the safe with dynamite. It
is said between 5000 and $4,000 is
missing. ,yr t1.... ..:sA~-,'s ->J..s d '+.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
Governor Leaves for the scene.

Governor Leaves for the scene.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, March T.
Chief Mine Inspector, J. w. Paul, Gov
ernor Atkinson and his. private secre-
tary, Colonel Boggs, and others have
left here for the scene Of the disaster to
make an investigation. "
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
APARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
md Office ut ST. Cloud. Mimi, February

Land office at st. CJOuH, MINI, February
i, 1900.
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support OF
his claim and that said proof will be made
Fails, MINI. on March "a 1900 Wis Moritz
Guntier H No. 1906 for the NJ ofswN
and M of sen section "a, township DO,
Tango ~. -
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: - - ,&S
Peter Certz. John PaveIue, Oscar Gun,
1her, J. N. Rauch, all of Pierz. Mimi. &5
NJ. D. TAYLOR, III
Register. 4,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
.eATAcRE AL. sToRMBERo,

Railway Lines to the North and West VIII
I'd Si2@ % Ea + Now BE Repaired. }5$4
/, LONDON. March 1.-THE war Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts: :,s , =. ~. :s ,,'; s 4.
Osfontein, March 6.-Cenera1 Gata-
orc occupied Stormbe yesterday. The
lines 81 railway north and west will
now be repaired General Clements is
At Jouberts sSidinX station, beyond
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
Mr.. BRYAN In i, miss,ssippi.

JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 2s.-Hon. W. J,
Bryan spoke to an audience Of 1900
people in representatives hall during tho
afternoon, dividing his time equally be-
tween free silver, trusts and imperial
ism INSTRUMENTATION II Of tn. latter wa
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
Judge Died From, Exeitement.

CLARION, Pa, Feb. 2s.-Fire de,
sroyed the business section Of Clarion
and resulted in the death of ex-Judge
W. w. Barr, who dropped dead from
excitement. Fourteen business houses
were destroyed. The loss will amount
to Sl50,000. Judge Barr was in his law
Office trying to save valuable papers.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
Guaranty Loan Building Sold.

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. s8.-The famous
Guaranty Loan building, which. hal
been the subject Of 20 much itiQation.
was SOLD at auction Tuesday, the sale
marking the beginning Of the end Of the
protracted legal fight over its posses
sion. The price paid was $547, 5l5.05.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09

!. The prediction is made in
Washington that the: Hay
Pauncefote treaty will be de.
feated in the senate.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
Lanrtry's Husband Very Ill.

= I8hBtfyS b uSbA0d very III.
CHICAGO, March 7.-Captain Hugo
De Battle, husband Of Mrs. Langtry, is
lying dangerously i'll in the British mil
itary hospital at Cape Town. A cable
gram to this effect has been received by
Mrs. Langtry. Captain De: Battle, who
is member Of Colonel Krechmer's
staff, was stricken with fever shortly
after the relieving force entered Kim
berlev.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09
Believed That at Least Forty
five :Unfortunates Are
..,>- sl..L .%aEfs { .5$l f
Still Entombed. tSs
WORK Of RESCUE DIFFICULT
Explosion Was a Terrific Cine
and the Passages Are
" Badly Blocked. y,
verysAssistance Possible Rem
III dered by the Adjoining
I3.,4s Mining Towns. is#

FIRE CREEK, w. Va, March THE
explosion in the Red Ash mine proves
to have been the most disastrous ever
known in the New River district. Al
though the, rescuing party has been
working heroically all day it is still i'm.
possible 70 estimate the full extent Of
the" loss ct life and property More
than 80 dead bodies have already been
taken out and the number of the dead
may reach rs or more. It is thought
that at lecst As men are yet entombed
in the wrecked mine.
The Red Ash mine is a large drift and
= the explosion. occurred near the en-
! trance, which was thus closed by the
falling slate, entombing large number
Of miners. -
The scene Of the disaster is. between
[ this place and Thurmond, on the south
branch Of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way, and every assistance possible was
rendered by the railway company and
by the adjoining mining towns.
The first successful strike Of the res
cuers was about 10 a. NJ, when 10
bodies were recovered. 1t was found
that seven Of them were already dead
and the other three were dying. AS the
miners were, located at different places
in the drift and the explosion caused
the falling slate to blockade the rooms
in different parts Of the mine, the work
Of rescuing the men met with one great
obstruction after another. The men
rescued about 10 q. M. were not far
from the entrance while others were at
much greater distances within the drift.
The exciting scenes around the en-
trance to the mine where all these men
were working extended throughout tho
entire region and the miners of other
Y camps came ID with tllseir families and
with greatly exaggerated reports con-
corning the calamity. At the mouth of
the mine the scene was beyond descrip-
lion as the wives and children and the
neighbors Of those who were known to
be entombed were there in full force
and their anxiety and distress were
most intense.
Nearly One Hundred Victims.
The most reliable estimate now OBJ
tainable puts the number of the victims
at Is. The capacity Of the mine is 100,
but there have been only 1870 on the
payroll SO far this month and it is stated
that nearly all of these were in the
mine at the time Of the explosion. The
officials are busy with the force Of res
cuers and are very reticent as to the ex-
tent Of the casualties and any other in
formation regarding the disaster. The
bodies recovered as rule are so man.
gled as to be beyond recognition.
The general belief is that the explo.
sion occurred by contact with dust
when the miners entered with their
lights and that it was not due to fire.
damp as has been currently reported all
day. Nearly all the men employed in
the mine were white, only about one
fifth being colored, and most of the men
were married and had families in the
little cottages near the tipple of the
great mine.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-09

Nessrs Adams and Lindbergh have no
interest In above property.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12

being president of the United States al!
his life and also governor of New York,
for he will be king of Prussia, the larg-
est Of the state Of Germany, as we'll as
emperor Of the whole empire. He will
rule twenty-six federal states, each
with it's king or duke, grand duke ar
prince, three free cities and the prov
ince Of Alsace-LOrraine whose govern
or he appoints; German east and Ger
man west Africa and various colonies,
making altogether nearly as many peO-
pie as there are in the United States,
He will have 20 appoint and consult his
cabinet ministersMnd pass on laws
(Which he cannot veto, by the way,
though he can refuse to sign.) He can
declare war only with the consent of
the reichstag and bundesrath which
are the same as our house of represen-
tatives and senate. He must receive
foreign diplomats and Populations Of
citizens, answer important mail, keep
informed on all matters of public inter-
est, command the army, pay and re-
ceive official visits, hold state and
court receptions and live all the time &
public life, every act watched, not only
by 100000 Germans but by the
world.
Altogether, he cannot be too much Of
a man for all his duties. If he fills
them we'll he will deserve all the honor
he gets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12

age of ten he wore the uniform of d
colonel and rode in front of a regiment
in army reviews. He had his teachers
in English and French; the language
law, literature and history of Ger
many; ancient and modern history o.
other lands; political economy; COM
MERGE and manufacture; diplomacy;
civil engineering; public, military ana
naval architecture; the history of re-
ligiOn and the beliefs Of the Lutheran
church of which he will one day be the
head; music and art. And he had to
be as strong physically as possible 10
fulfill the duties of a king, so he rode
and fenced and walked and learned to
swim and row a boat and wrestle with
his brothers, of whom he has five.
And he also had to learn courteous
manners. 1t is reported that he got
whippings from his father and rebukes
from his mother just as if he had been
an ordinary boy, and that these things
were deserved and helped to make a
man of him. And from his picture ono
would judge him to be a fine manly
young fellow of whom all the good
things said of him are probably true,
One of the good things is that his
father is his best friend and his mother
his best girl.
When he comes to be emperor Of
Germany he will have plenty of hard
work to do. 1t will be something like
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12

wise and good and popular with his
people.
Herewith is a picture Of a young
man-we would not call him man in
this country, for he is only eighteen
who was born to be king Of Prussia
and emperor of Germany. On the 9th
of May, 55,000,000 Germans were cele-
brating his coming Of age, and Berlin
was filled with people from all parts
of the empire who came to see the lad
who would some day be their ruler
The reports say that everybody went
away satisfied, for KrOn PrintZ Fried
rich Wilhelm, as they call him, is as
fine a young man as any one would
want. He is over six feet high, taller
than his father, Of a fresh blond COM
pleXion, with courteous manner and
cultivated mind, and is altogether the
sort of lad who would be thought
promising in any station in life.
From babyhood this crown prince
has been studying how to be a king.
When he called his water" in German
he had also to learn the English
father" and the French mon pere."
For a king has to receive foreign am
bassadors and rulers who might not be
able to speak German. He
had his military tutor, for Ger
many has a great army which
. must some day command At the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12

Every boy born in the United States
is a man-an old man perhaps-and
has been very good and wise and pop
ular for a long time, several million
other men, who are now boys may ask
serves the Little Chronicle, Chicago's
new Juvenile new spaper. And whether
he knows it or not, every lesson he
learns, every bit of hard work he does,
every earnest beat he gives to his lit
tie toy drum, every dollar he honestly
earns when he grows older, is prepar-
ing him to be a president, or to be a
good citizen, to help make another like
him president. That is the beauty of
our cOuntry-as we look at it-that
every boy in it has a chance for the
highest place, and such a system of
public schools and public duties as
citizens, that every boy may know how
to rule if he is called upon to do so.
In England and Germany and some
other countries the people have an
other plan which suits them better
than ours would perhaps, for it has its
basis and reasons in history just as
ours has. There, one man, belonging
to a family that has ruled sometimes
for hundreds of years, is born to be
king, and everything possible is done
for him from his birth. to make h,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
WHY WE WINK.

No satisfactory determination las
Some suppose that the descent and re-
turn Of the eyelid over the eye serves
to sweep or wash it off; others that
covering Of the eye gives it rest from
the labor Of vision, if only for an in
| appreciate instant, says Appleton's
| Popular Science Monthly. This view
| borrows some force from the fact that
| the record of wipking is considerably
used by experimental psychologists to
! help measure the fatigue which the eye
| suffers. In another line of inyestiga-
| ton Herr S. Garten has attempted to
measure the length of time occupied
by the different phases of wink. He
used specially arranged photograph
ic apparatus, and affixed a piece Of
white paper to the edge of the eyelid
for a mark. He found that the lid de-
sends quickly, and rests little at the
bottom of it's movement, after which
it rises, but more slowly than it fell.
The mean duration of the downward
movement was from rs to 81 thous-
andths of a second; the rest with the
eye shut lasted variously, the shortest
durations being Is hundredths Of sec
ond with one subject, and IL hun
dredths with another; and the third
phase Of the wink, the rising of the
lid, took II hundredths of a second
more, making the entire duration Of
the wink about 40 hundredths, or four
tenths of a second The interruption
is not long enough to interfere with
distinct vision. NJ V. Henri says, in
L'Annee Psychologique, that different
persons wink differently-some often,
others rarely; some in groups Of ten
or so at time, when they rest
while; and others regularly, once only
at a time. The movement is modified
by the degree of attentian. Periods Of
close interest, when we wink hardly
at all, may be followed by speedy
making up for lost time by rapid wink
ing when the tension is relieved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
WHAT IS SWEETNESS.

With all the enormous advances
made in our knowledge of the con-
stitution of matter, both physically
and chemically, we are not yet able to
supply the complete answer to such a
simple question as, why is sugar
sweet? The chemistry of sugar gives
perhaps a bare hint in the way Of eX-
PLANTATION, but sweetness is undoubt-
edly a condition where constitution or
structure rather than percentage COM
position is responsible for a specific
physical property. Doubtless a differ
ence in the relative position OF atoms
determines a great difference III
physical character. In other words,
the elementary materials are the same,
but they are placed, so to speak, IN
such a way in different bodies having
the same composition as to present
manifold shapes. A given structure
for example, may contain certain
number of bricks and present an ugly
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EAgQgzE2gslE!lElZ9AEllz GIEElGlGl[GlGl(llGieleas
] Repented at Leisure. !
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BERTHA NJ. CLAY. "a
EE EElEElEElEEIElE IEElElElGEIElElIElE s

Il am learning to forget my trouble"
she said; i am beginning to live it
Down. As me, what fables poets sing,
They tell us life is all barren without
love. l do not find it so; love is a
l-rment: friendship is all joy and no
pain. While I can have that, love NAV
Hnger, love may die; I am indifferent"
She little dreamed how she was mis-
taking one for the other, nor how the
love tat she scorned and despised was
silently, surely winning her, and max
ms earth all bright for her.
Before the season was over she had
lnany eligible offers, but, to Lord St.
horman's surprise, she refused them
all.
Il believe" he said to his wife, "that
she likes Sir Oscar best of all, and that
ne is waiting to be sure before he
risks asking the question:
In this opinion Lady St. Norman
did not quite coincide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12

in prosecuting editor or publisher.
The government has to give permission
to the publisher to circulate his paper
and copy Of each issue has to be filed
with the government for inspection.
If the censor finds anything it is
deemed dislOyal, the whole edition is
cOnfiscated. The censor does not i'll
terfere with reports of court proceed
ings or with verbatim reports of parlia-
mentary debates The whole Of a
speech must be printed and extracts
are not allowed.
The newspapers are printed in 4
dozen different languages and the most
important of them is the Vienna Neue
Freie Presse, which is the richest paper
on the continent of Europe. 1t is the
exponent of German liberalism. The
editor is DR.. Bache, one of the ripest
scholars in Vienna. The dramatic and
musical reviews of the paper are
mastery. Another important liberal
paper is the Neues Wiener Tagblatt.
which is read chiefly by isans and
Viennese woman. The ILLUSTRATES
Wiener Extrablatt is the only illus
trated journal in Vienna, and a some
what important journal is the Deut-
sche Volks Zeitung, an anti-Jewish
organ.
In Hungary, where the Magyars are
born politicians, Louis Kossuth was the
first to edit daily in the Magyar
language, in 1871, and the Post Hirlap
was the only paper in Hungary from
1S41 to 1914 when he was forced by the
Austrian government to suspend pub
LEGATION. After the unsuccessful Hun
garian revolt Joseph Szenvy started
paper in Pest, but was crushed and left
the country. The paper, however, was
continued at intervals between arrests
Of its editors, Of whom Maurus JOkai
was one.
After Italy whipped Austria in 1859.
more press liberty was allowed and the
Pesti Naplo under Deak's editOrship
forced the Haspburgs TO grant con-
stitutional government to Hungary.
The Neuzet is edited by Maurus
Jokai, whose literary spirit permeants
the paper.
At Pest there is paper in German
called the Pesther Lloyd, often quotei
in the cables. edited by DR.. Max Faik.
parliamentarian, scholar, inancier aud
journalist. The Hungarian press is
almost entirely owned and controlled
by the Jews.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
NATIONAL HYMN OF THE CHINESE
To be Continued.

It takes day to sing the Chinese
national hymn. Sometimes people
over there say: Let's take a day off
and enjoy the hymn" But they don't
say it often. It's hard to keep up en-
thusiasm for a 12-hour stretch.
Of course they start in cheering
vociferously, and then they sort Of
weaken and grow hoarse and look at
the clocks, and 10! it's only half an
hour since the blame thing began!
And there are places further on where
they ought to just get up and yell, and
they haven't the strength to do it, and
probably they fall asleep long before
the grand patriotic climax is reached.
You can't expect to find much
Fourth O July inspiration in a people
with a ditty Of that sort. And think
of the strain on the singers and the
tomtommers, Think of putting in
dozen hours on steady run of chi
yahs-ching- a-ring-a-chi-yahs!" and no
let up for either breath or chopsticks!
And whacking tin pan all the time,
too!
Think Of going to little evening
out and having the hostess say: Miss
Pekoe of the Shanghai conswuvatwah
will now favor US with the national
hymn"
Is it any wonder the Chinese have
failed to understand the meaning OF
good government? A national hymn
Of those dimensions would be apt to
sour anybody but a deaf paralytic on
the best government that ever existed.
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12

exterior. but the same number of
structure which may present an
artistic and pleasing appearance. ely
cerine is sweet, but contains no sugar;
saCcharine is five hundred times
Sweeter than cane sugar, and is Il
definite chemical substance witnout a
probable, however, that some analogy
exists between the structure of these
bodies-that is to say, in the relative
position of the atOms-Which deter
mines the common property, though in
varying degree, of being sweet. 1t is,
at any rate, remarkable that, accord
ing to the respective formulate assigned
to these bodies by chemists, starting
with the bodies which contains the
least number of carbon atoms
namely, glycerine, which contains
three atoms-the rest of the substances
possessing sweetening power contain
exact multiples of this number. Thus
grape sugar contains 6 atoms of car
bon, cane sugar II atoms of carbon,
milk sugar also II atoms, malt sugar
Il atoms again, while that intensely
sweet substance, saccharine, contains
6 atoms of carbon in its main group.
Possibly this fact is related to the
physical characteristic of sweetness.
1t is an interesting matter-this
question of the relative positions of tie
atoms deciding physical characters;
for two different substances may coin
eide exactly in composition, one #
which is quite harmless while the
other is a powerful poison.-Londol
Lancet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
BEFORE "THE1 NEW WOMAN"
CAME.
Life Was Calmer Then, and There
Was No Mad Craze for Wealth.

Before the birth of the new woman
the country was not an intellectual
desert, as she is apt to suppose. There
were teachers of the highest grade,
and libraries, and countless circles in
our towns and villages of scholarly,
leisurely folk who loved books and
music and Nature, and lived much
apart with them. The mad craze for
money which clutches at our souls to-
day was hardly known then. The
American had time for other pursuits
then begun to cooperate-to fuse him
self into Guilds, and Unions, and
Leagues. The individual developed
slowly and fully. He followed his own
chosen path. Now, the essential duty
set before him is to keep step with
some body Of men, to be one of
majority-to sink himself in the mass.
There was space in that calm, leisureiy
life for the full growth of personality.
Hence if a girl had a call to any kind
of mental work she followed it quietly
and steadily She studied Greek or
Nature had fitted her for that especial
study, while now the brains of all girls
whose parents decide to give them
college education are packed with the
same quantities of the same know
ledge.-Ladies Home Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
NEWSPAPERS OF FRANZ JOSEF.

There is an interesting account Of
Austrian and Hungarian newspapers il
the April Bookman by Eugene Lime
dorper.
1t is noticeable that in Austria, where
editors have to mind their p's and as
so closely, the constitution guarantees
freedom of the press to the people, but
spoils the kindly declaration by adding
that such press freedom is subject TO
the imperial rules and regulations.
These latter are so thickly strewn in
the statute books that, practically, the
press is gagged. Anybody who wants
to start a political journal has to secure
the permission Of the government and
he has to show that he does not intend
to stir up sedition or corrupt public
morals. The responsible editor has to
be designated and bond has to be
filed to cover the governments expense