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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
TURNING OVER 4 new LEAF,
He Made Good Resolution But Il Didn't
Last Verp Long.

He Made Good Resolution But II Didn't
Last Veru Long.
One year ago, according to the Youths
Companion, Mr.. Billings settled himself
comfortably in his favorite chair beside the
stove in the grocery store, and returned the
neighborly greetings of the other regular
attendants.
"Yes," he said, meditatively, this is the
last night of the old year. Somethin' kind
O solemn bout it, too, when ye stop to
think of it. A year past an gone, an a new
one-mebbe the last some of us'n ever see
just beginnin'. It makes man feel Sc
rious. People laugh bout New Years reso-
lutions, but l maintain it's a good thing
for a man to pull up now an then an start
fresh; an the first of the year seems the
most natural an ittin' time to do it,
MAXIM any resolutions yourself, 'Lisha?"
asked Nathan Hobbs, good-naturedly.
eyes, sir, am" replied Elisha, defiant
ly. I'm maxim one, anyway, an I don't
care who knows it. I'm resolvin' to keep a
better hold on my temper this year. He
that ruleth his spirit is better than he that
taketh city, the Book says. I've had my
failin's that way, as some of We know; but
now we're beginnin' a new year an a new
century, too, I'm goin' to turn over a new
leaf"
"What was that you said bout a new
century," asked old Eben Cook, from his
seat in the corner.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
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II said now that we was beginnin' a new

II said now that we was beginnin' new
century was goin'-"
''What you talkin' about, ''Lisha? The
twentieth century begun a year ago. To-
morrow'll be nineteen hundred an one,
won't it,"
Course twill; but amt 'one' the first
number there is? An don't that make to-
morrow the first day of the new century?'
"Not by long shot, less I've forgotten
how to count. 1t don't take hundred an
one years to make century, does it?''
"No, but it takes more'n ninety-nine.
S'pose I was to begin with one, an count"
''Hold on minute" interposed Judson,
the storekeeper. Lets say that Bill, here,
owed me a hundred dollars an started to
pay me in dollar bills, calm out 'one, two,
three"
"Well, s'pose he did,"
"No, JUDI suggested Seth Gibson.
Here's the way heard that teller up to the
academy put it: How old is man on his
one-hundredth birthday?"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
Don't Buy Bargain Presents.

Speaking of Christmas reminds me chat
it is not always safe to buy bargain presents
for your friends who live in the same town
with you. It's all right to do it if you are
sending-the gifts outside the city's shopping
limits, but when you undertake to present
your immediate friends with the cuttings of
the marked down" sales of holiday week
you run big risk. For instance, one of the
big dry goods shops made a special feature
of liberty silk ruches, cutting the price ex-
actly in half. They really were tremen-
dous bargain. Any woman who was not
blind could see that with one eye shut and
it was no wonder that they sold like hot
cakes. A liberty silk ruche that looks like
a 81 one and costs just 81 cents is not to be
despised. Pretty nearly every woman who
went into that store looking for Christmas
presents bought one and I happen to know
of four women who bought three apiece and
sent them to the other three. And as con-
sequence to-day those four women are the
possessors of liberty silk ruches that are
as alike as two peas in a pod and each one
of them cherishes a secret opinion OF the
other Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
christmas, 19o1.
THE NIGHT FORE CHRISTMAS.
Bu JOE LINCOLN.

Most centrally at eight o'clock go up
stairs to bed,
An jes' undress an say my prayers an
cover up my head,
An shut my eyes up good'n tight an go to
sleep, an then
First thing know it's mornin', an time to
git up again.
Some nights, er course, don't seem so Short
like fore the Fourth, yer know.
Or fore a feller's birthday, or the night
jes' fore yer go
To visit gran'pa-oh, my, yes! they're
kinder long, but, gee!
The night that comes fore Chris mus-ls a
million years to me.
Seems's if December, anyway, s the long
est month they is;
The months that's in the summer, why,
they go so fast they whiz,
But old December craWls along, so kinder
slow and late
That Chris mus keeps so far away seems
s if you couldn't wait
An when yer've marked off all the days
but one, an that's most through
An yer've hanged up yer stock1n right
'longside the chimney flue,
An said "Good night" an gone upstairs,
my, don't the minutes creep!
Cause when he'll knows it's Christmas eve
no boy can go to sleep.
hear the wind, so low
An kinder soft an lonesome like, jes' s
If twas goin' to snow:
An then yer wonder if it will, SOS yer can
slide next day,
An then yer think bout Sanity an his REIN
deer an his sleigh.
Yer wonder what he'll bring yer, an yer
wonder how he guessed
Yer wanted skates las Christmas an
bowgun an the rest;
An then yer try to git to sleep, an then,
er course, yer don't,
An then yer say: "Well you jes will,
an then. er course, yer won't.
s'pose it must be right, but, oh! some
times it does seem wrong
That that one night boys wants so short
should be so extra long; l.
I've tried to think out why it is, but all
the 'scuse I've found
Is that it's long so Sanity he'll have time
to git around.
But I know this, I'm mighty glad amt
Eskymow
An has to live way, way up north 'mong
all the ice an snow,
l really don't see what they do, the boys,
I mean-oh, dear!
Jes' think of waitin' through night that
lasts a half year.
Peoples Home Journal.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13

It is not always the biggest stocking that
contains the costliest present.
When girl is caught under the mistletoe
she always pretends that she had forgotten
it was there.
A woman always likes man better if the
gloves he sends her are about two sizes too
small.
A woman declares she is delighted with
her presents, but she never fails to look at
the price marks on them.
If the stone is small and cheap it is per-
haps just as we'll to put girls engagement
ring in her stocking. w..
1t always makes woman sad if her hus-
band hasn't bought something for her that
she is afraid they really oughtn't to afford.
Chicago Times Herald.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
SOME UNBIASED OPINIONS.

Many person has got. kicked for looking
gift horse in the mouth.
The average Christmas slipper is about
the worst thing that a man can put his
foot into.
Doing business without advertising is
about the same as for a pretty girl TO hang
up her mistletoe and then neglect to stand
under:it. 81: ~..-
While it is always commendable to make
useful presents, don't give man bottle
of whisky just because it is well known
that he uses it. &c.,
When you are careful not to let your little
boy have anything noisy for Christmas there
is sure to be some kind friend who will give
him drum and whistle.-Judge.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13

Good land and seas'' shouted Mr.. Bill
lings, as he rose excitedly to his feet. IF
he didn't know any more'n this election
of hand-picked lunkheads he wouldn't pass
for more'n six or seven, at most. It's
waste O breath talkin' to We. My Of sorrel
mares got more sense than the whole passel
of ye!" and he started for the'door.
"What was it 'Lisha was sayin' bout
New Years res'lutions?" Mcpherson asked
the storekeeper, as the door shut with a
bang. But Judson was too intent on his
argument with Gibson to reply.
Struck bu the Resemblance.
Little Rodney manipulating his Christ
mas toy)-Hoo-ee, pa!
Mr.. Scrappington-Well, what is it, my
son?
Little Rodney-Why, pa, my jumpin'
jack cuts up just like you do whenever ma
asks you for money!-Smart Set.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
LISTEN! JOHNNY MUST BE PEEPlNG.
WHERE IS HE ?

He did not mean to speak, but the surprise
OF seeing Santa with his prying eyes
Caused little Johnny to exc1ai11,: "Oh, hoI"
Just old Santa was about to 90.
He was well hidden, az he meant to be,
And where he thought old Santa couldn't see.
Loo1 sharp and ~we11-he's but a little man
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
Deu gear, 1902
THE CHILD'S FESTIVAL.
There Is Special Significance in Christ
mas for the Little Ones.

There Is Special Significance In Christ
mas for the Little Ones.
The true Children's day is Christmas. The
Lord of the feast was a child in Bethlehem,
and He still loves little children as He did
when, in the strength of His manhood, He
took them in His arms and blessed them. (
If there were no children in our world to
receive and enjoy, the advent time would
lose much of its beauty and delight. The
child's imagination, which transforms COM
monplace things, the child's receptivity,
which does not stop to question, but en- joys
these reflect themselves upon our minds
and bring us for the moment into the child
like mood of happiness Nor is the child's
thought of happiness simply one of getting.
Neither the gift nor the surprise of the
gift, dear as these are to the child's heart,
brings as much pleasure as the planning and
the giving. The best of Christmas is enjoyed
before ever Christmas comes. We older ones
need to be reminded every year that love is
more than elaboration at the Christmas
time, and that the value of the gift is meas
ured by the affection of the giver; but un-
spoiled children know it and act upon it,
as if there could be no doubt of it at all, and
we would all be happier at Christmas if we
were to learn of them Then would the
NuIlsIAIdS OuIueu, O1 WHICH SO many are
complaining, turn to pure delight.-Congre-
gationalist.
An Important Day.
Nowhere is New Years day more fes-
lively observed than in the east, and es-
pecially in Mohammedan lands. In Persia
the No ROOF, las the new year is called)
is by far the most important holiday OBJ
served by the subjects of the shah. On
New Years eve the fun begins with the
kindling of huge bonfres, and among the
more active it is considered the correct
thing to leap over or through the flames.
The Persian is careful to perform his fire
dance in old garments, for on New Years
by the strictest custom to appear in new
: clothes.-N. Y. Sun.
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Willie's Useful Present.
Hired Man-So Sandy Claus he's brung
ye nice sled, has he?
"Yep, an left six cords of firewood for
paw bout two miles down the pike SOS I
could haul it home. "-Brooklyn Life.
"A Very Important Gift
Mamma said a Brooklyn girl, what
to give Abert?"
Glow long has he been coming to see
your" asked mamma.
"About four years"
"Then / think you had better give him
the sack. Weekly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-13
Willie's Useful Present.

Hired Man-So Sandy Claus he's brung
ye nice sled, has he?
"Yep. an left six cords of firewood for
paw bout two miles down the pike SOS I
could haul it home" -Brooklyn Life.
The Washington times., 1901-11-13

the fact that they were not properly
distributed. That is to say. they are
not where they are most needed. This
gentleman stated that il was partly ow-
ing to the efforts of the division super
intendents to make records for econ5-
my. They send ears loaded to certain
points. and having no back freights
allow them to lie there in waiting
rather than send engines to oring them
back empty This. it would SEEM
might account for temporary scarcity,
but ii is a difficulty that could soon b.
remedied.
And still we are confronted by the
main question why the trouble is so
general at this particular time. Proba-
bly, the explanation is TO be found IN a
variey Of causes rather than in any one
alone. The car equipment may have
been allowed to drop behind the re
qUirements, the efforts at economy re-
ferred to may have contributed. and at
the same time there may be at some
of the great industrial centres unusual
" large offerings of freight for haulage.
Whatever the cause or causes, the con
dition is somewhat remarkable one,
and may be taken to indicate that the
country is doing very fair volume Of
business at the present time, the dis
tributing trade being especially large.
While the total of the country's busi-
ness may not Be any greater than it was
a year ago, there may be more goods
to be moved at this particular juncture.
a delay in moving them causes a glut
and increases the difficulty.
The Washington times., 1901-11-13
GENERAL MERRIAM TO RETIRE.
Much 1ate~est in the appointment OF
Els Successor

Brig. Gen Henry c. Merriam win
be placed upon the retired list of the
army today, on account of having reachs"
the age limit The vacancies occasioned
hy his immediate rstiremout and that OF
Brig. Gen. Robert H Hail, on the
18th instant. are likely TO he subjects of
considerable interest to army officers IN
general. as the action of President Roose-
Welt in these cases win determine his at
titude regarding retirements and promo
tions in general
1t is wei understood that the views OF
the President are not favora ble to the pro-
motion to the higher grades Of officers
who have but u short time to serve prior
to their own re-ircment. Such practice
has held good in the past in numerous in
stances, but there is some doubt now as
to whether the established precedent Will
be followed No one will be surprised If
the President. in his usual aggressive
fashion. should cut the GordiIn knot. and
appoint to the vacancies officers who have
several years ut least to serve.
General Merriam has had long and
distinguished military career. Next to
General Wade, he is the ranking briga-
dier general in the army. He served
throughout the war OF the rebellion in
the volunteers. He entered the service
IS captain of the Twentieth Maine In
fantry in August 1862 and was honora-
bly, mustered out in October 1865, as lieu
tenant colonel Of the Seventy-third Uni
ted states ColOrsd Infantry. He was bre-
vetted three times, the last as colonel.
once for gallant and meritorious services
IN the Battle of Antietam: again for con-
splcuouS gallantry in the capture of Fort
BlakelY, Ala, and the third time for
faithful and meritorious services during
the campaign against the city of Mobile.
lie received medal of honor for his ser.
vices at Fort Blakely
Appointed to the Regular Army as first
Lieutenant, Sixth Cavalry, from Ohio, in
May, 1851, he rose through the various
grades to be colonel of the Fifth Cavalry
IN April, 1871, and to be a brigadier gem
eral in May, 1897. During the Spanish
war he rendered faithful service as a
major general of volunteers. He was in
command Of the Department of Colorado
curing the labor troubles In the Coeur
d Aienc district in Idaho in 1899. which
was subsequently made the subject of a
Congressional investigation.
The Washington times., 1901-11-13

vious. and therefore the extent to
which banking interests may be com
bined and what special privileges they
shall enjoy are matters of supreme lih-
portancc to the country as whole. II
is quite as difficult to prevent the same
interests from securing control of many
banks as it is to prevent any industria!
trust from combining many factories.
In all Of these problems it is much
easier TO perceive the evil and the dan
ger thar ii is to prescribe a remedy. 1t
is entirely clear however, that in deal
ing with the banks we should carefully
avoid increasing their power. already
swollen to enormous p oportions.
Bankers as class are insatiate in
their demands for more and more priv
iieges under the law. They are CON
stautly pleading for relief from taxa
ton, and for the right to issUe circulat-
ing notes upon easier terms. If the
scheme of issuing bank notes upon the
security of general assets could be car
ried out, the six interests mentioned
might issue more than a billion dollars
in New York City alone. We may be
sure lUdl lDtN NOulu SSue HoLeS w lltAl-
ever they saw. or thought they saw, a
profit in doing so; and it is equally GER
tain that they would curtai the issues
whenever they deemed it necessary for
their own protection. They do all of
this now with their regular banking
credits, and with a greatly enlarged
power of issuing notes their ability to
expand and contract the currency
would be correspondingly increased.
If the banks would put out notes
when they were needed most and draw
them in when they were needed the
least. that would give us the elastic
currency of which some financiers talk
SO volubly- But the whole history of
banking shows that they act directly
the other way, expanding their credits
when things are booming, and drawing
in when stringency appears, thus inten-
styling the situation. This is not done
generally for the purpose of injuring
others, but merely through a desire to
protect themselves-a perfectly natural
instinct, hut at the same time one
which forcefully emphasizes the un-
wisdom of allowing any man or body Of
men to control the money supply of the
nation.
The Washington times., 1901-11-13
The Cnuses Of the car Enminc.

The so-cailed car famine continues.
and tlle cause of il is something OF a
mystery. The tonnage to be moved this
yeaf cannot greatly exceed that of last.
if il is any larger. In the absence of
specific data the natural conclusion
VeUld be that it is smaller, because of
the immense shortage in the corn and
other cereal crops of the West. But ad-
uniting some increase, there is no ap-
parent reason why the scarcity Of cars
should so suddenly have appeared It is
&c be supposed that the great railway
companies have some idea of the guam
tity OF freight 10 be handled and make
regular provision for it. In the Pitts
burg district the trouble is said TO date
back twenty years, the business of the
SECTION having increased much more
repidly than the car supply. But even
this would not explain a shortage so
sudden and So marked as seriously to
Inconvenience the manufacturing bust
ness Of the district.
An experienced railway man recently
stated that the trouble was not so much
in the actual insufficiency Of cars as in
The Washington times., 1901-11-13
Tn,Ior md Durhin.

We have rarely seen a more scathing
commentary upon executive infamy and
defiance of the basic law of the land
than Governor Beckham has made in
his letter to Governor Durbin of In
diana. Yet Durbin deserved it all and
more.
Let US go back for moment and con-
slider the circumstances surrounding
the murder of Governor GoebeL Tay-
lor. the fugitive from justice in Indiana,
was de facto the Governor OF Kentucky.
His tenure was doubtful. Under the
law he had reason to expect that he
would be ousted from office. What did
he do? He filed the State Capital with
desperadoes from the mountains. He
issued pardons to several of them who
We're under Indictment for murder. He
not only did that, but he issued par
dons for murders which had not yet
been committed One OF them was
afterward committed, and that was the
assassination of William GOebel
Was William S. Taylor the instigator
of that crime? We cannot say, but
everybody on the ground when the shot
country it was expected that the Re
publican organization in Kentucky
would procure the murder of Goebel.
On the night before he was shot it was
currently reported in Louisville, in Lex
ington, in Richmond, and a lot of other
Kentucky towns that he was to be shot.
Governor Goebel fell in front of the
State House at Frankfort, of which the
creature Taylor was in control. At once
the public buildings were closed, the
peace officers of the Commonwealth
were forbidden entrance, and every
thing possible was done to allow the
murderers TO escape. Was Taylor one
| of them? Was Taylor the man who in
cited the murder. and protected the
| miscreant who fired the shot that killed
his rival? That is a question which
only can be decided after Taylor has
: been tried, and it is not easy TO expect
that he viii be surrendered and tried
| while a person like Durbin sits in the
| chair of state at Indianapolis.
The Washington times., 1901-11-13
Canadian Annexation.

From the St Louis G,ohc-pcuoerat)
Annexation is as certain ultimately Ms
nolitical cventuality can be The iHitia-
tive. however, will have to be taken by
Canada The chief benefits from anueNa-
ton would go to that country The Uni
t,d States is growing in population by
twice as large a ratio as Canada. and in
wealth by three times as high proper
fion The gap between this country and
Canada is steadily and rapidly broaden
ing. Anything which will hasten anneX4l-
'-,,,rtr,y hut the initiative must be taken
by the people on the other side OF the line.
An this is based on the assumption that
England would make no objection to p9-
iitiCaI union between Canada and this
rnuntrv. provided the Canadians declared
for IL. This assumption is pretty safe
When Canada says officially that she
wants to east her fortunes with the unl-
ted States the British Government VIII
undoubtedly give It's consent 10 the union
The Washington times., 1901-11-13
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Maria Ferguson, Of Los Angeles.
Cal. has issued the first Dawson City.
Yukon, and Alaska directory. The vol
Ume contains 800 RACES and many mining
maps.
a grandson of Daniel O'Connen has just
lost his life in South Africa. When the
Boer war began he joined the British
forces as a trooper, and his time expired
not long ago. In going home one evening
he took a short cut which nCCCssitated
the crossing of a river. The current was
too much for him md he was drowned.
1t is announced that the successor Of
Br. Harris at the University Of Maine viii
be DR.. f. w. Lewis, fellow in the de-
partment of history of tkc University
Of Pennsylvania in Is97-sS Or. Lewis is
only thirty years old. and will be one Of
the youngest university presidents in the
country.
The Red Earl is the nickname by
which Lord Spencer has long been known
in consequence Of the color Of his beard.
He is one Of the props Of the Liberal
party of England. 20 which he rendered
signal service in accepting the Lord Lieu
tenancy Of Ireland at a time of great
unrest just at.er he murder Of Lord
Fred, rick CaVondish II was not Lord
Spcncer's first tenure Of Office, however.
for he had held il from 1863 till 1874 lie
was siXty-siE on October q.
Professor Loefler the bactcriologist
who has done so much in the study Of
diphthoria, announces rather Euardedly
his probable discovery that cancer may
be alleviated If not cradicatcd by iu1cu-
latins the patient with malaria.
Six thousand dollars has been given
by Charles o. Baird, Of Philadelphia the
income Of which is TO be used toward
! founding prizes for senior class oratOry a.
Princeton.
In the matter Of giving his autograph to
unknown applicants the Rt. Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain is not very gracious Even
at time when he was by no means 50
prominently in the public eye as he is to-
day the British Colonial Secretary had
slips printed informing his correspondents
that Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain has been
obliged to make a rule not to give his
autograph On the other hand both
Lord Salisbury and Mr.. Balfour are much
more yielding, and seldom refuse a polite
request. Lord Rcsebery as often as not
sends a humorous little note advising his
correspondent to turn his or her atten-
tiOn to something more useful than auto
graph collecting.
Alexander Strausz, of Toledo. O.. is one
Of the few remaining Hungarian patriots
who found a home in this country after
the war OF the liberation in 1876 At that
time Strausz was a young gentleman of
Budapest, to whom the fiery eloquence
and the liberal doctrines of Kossuth ap-
peaied with compelling force. He was one
OF the pioneers of the liberation move
ment, serving under General Gorgey.
and surrendering with him after the un-
equal struggle at Vilagos. He came to
this country In 1852 with letters to Ed
, ward Everett. He knew Daniel Webster
intimately.