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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-17
"A. .Grindelanl attended = mpetinr

-A.UflnOelanu attended 4 meeting
of the Board OF Directors of the Nor
"egian Lutheran College at Grand
Forks last week. Arrangements
were made to open the school by
january next. Rev H. Roaluvam
has been selected as principal. An
elegant school building costing
$4,000 is nearly completed.
II. j. Bennewitz can sell you a
single buggy harness for $500 and
upward, and Il heavy team harness
Tor So. 90 and upward, so you need
not send to Chicago. He can sell
YOU at Chicago prices. Gail on him
and convince yourself that he keeps
full and complete stock of every
thing in the shape OF harnesses and
horse furnishing goods.
- The register poll list for the
special city election TO be held Oct.
9th has been made out and posted.
The judges will meet at the city re-
cor'ler's office Sept 29th for the pnr-
pose OF making corrections in the
list. All lega! voters whose names
do not appear on the list should no.
tify the judges that their names may
be entered at that time.
English SPAWN Liniment removes
all hard soft or ca|!ouse, limrs
and blemishes from horses. Blood.
SPAWN, cnrbs, splints, sweeney, ring
bone, STILES, sprnins, and swollen
throats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by
use of one bottle. Warranted tho
most wonderful blennish cure eyer
known. Sold by T. +. Whitney.
druggist, Warren, Mimi.
"A special election will be held in
tlc city OF Warren, Oct. 9th, Tor the
purpose Of voting bonds for the ercc-
tion OF a CRY Hall ANA for railroad
purposes. The election for that pnr-
pose called some time agn was not
held because the necessary blanks
for holding the same under. the Aus
tralian system coulI not be OBJ
tainetl.
= Mrs. Margaret 'fripp, mother Of
Fred J. and VIM. y. Tripp, died on
Thursday morning last week at the
Edwardth's Hotel. The old lady has
been in delicate health for some time,
and has been cared for at hotel since
last Christmas. She was II years
old. During her life as long as she
was able she was a regularat.e d mt
ut church anil q devout christian.
Her funeral occurred on Friday after
noon.
= Mr.. and Mrs John e.. Ostrom
invited Il large number OF their trends
to IL harvest home festival at their
country home on Sunday afternoon
last. 1t is needless to say that all
were most royalty entertained by the
genial host and hostess. The tables
fairly groaned under their heavy
weights. Mr.. Ostrom's east farm is
one OF the best improved farms in the
vicinity. Last year he built big
barn, costing over two thousand
dollars, and we doubt ii there is q
better one in the county.
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IIgiaboI!.

Sept. II, 1891.
EDITOR SHEAR: Tlc golden wheat
is nearly all in stack, ali:i all agree
that this crop is thc biggest that we
have had up to this time in this neck
O the woods. There has been great
scarcity OF lnborcrs this i;,!l, and
many have brcli Obliged to let their
wheat remain standing in the shock.
Yet there are many WHO have gone
from here to Warren and Argyle TO
work, prefering to help the bi.: fnrm-
ers rather than the poor new settlers
this way.
A violent thnnlcr storm passed
over this part of the country yrstcr.-
day morning. Lightning struck
Ole .. Lies new barn, which was
burned to the ground and also so
tons oi hay
Since the last change OF time on
Che mail ronte between Argyle and
ilumbolt, The SiEEAF comes to us
severa! days later than usual, which
we regret. On he political arena
every thing is quiet for al are busy
with something else.
HUpDy- HTDnx,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-17

= Nels &. Hustled, who farms the
Mentzer place, walked nonchalentlv
into the SuEAr office the other dav
at the some time displaying a bic
roll OF bills wheat money which
nc held IN his hand. With an air of
independence he asked US how much
he owed rs on the SiiEAF, and when
we trcmblingly grabbe, for our sub
scripton book to ascertain how
much that was, which by the way
was but.;l small amount, he thrust y
ten dojl;li. bill into our hand with
the remark, There, take out OF that
What l owe UP 70 date and Il year in
advance Uf course, we had to
comply. This is the first subsciip-
ton paid US from this years crop,
and we hope that all subscribers who
are III arrears will follow in the foot
steps of MIR. Hustled.
BAchlen's s A1wicn Suzue.
The best SaIve in tie world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
kheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, ,liiiblains, Corns, aud all
Skin Ernptions, and positivel cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
tlon, or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by Z. +.
WmNTEY.
Guaranteed cure.
We authorize our advertised
druggists TO sell D.. Kings New
Discovery f,r Constinptloa.
Coughs and Gods, upon tI,is con-
ditson. II yea are ;.t,Iic;e,l witt, q
Cough, Cold or any l.un@, Throat
or Chest trouble, and Will use this
remedy as directed giving it fair
trial, and experience 10 beneti:,
you may return the bottle and
nave your money refunded. We
could not make this offer did we
not know that Dr.. Kings New
Discovery coald be relied on. 1t
never 'Iisappoip's. Trial bottles
tree 1T +. I. Nhitney's Drug
Store. large size soc. aud $l.O0.
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Whitney's News.
VOL. L.
Warren, Minn., September 18th, 1891.

Our clothing rooms thci, d20fZIy u01h on
are nearly ready for prices ant oJuf7cs
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

bred for sale like animals, and when the
supply proved inadequate they were
hunted like wild beasts. The Able
Rcynol, as long ago as 1777, computed
that 10000 slaves had Neen taken
from Africa, SO per cent. Of whom had
died from the suferingS endured during
their transportation to other countries
Sir John Hawkins, in 1862, began the
business for the English, and in two
centuries the slaN trade, as managed in
British ships, reached enormous proper
tionS. In 1885 the English had 100 ships
engaged in the traffic, and annually
transported to their colonies in America
and elsewhere from $4,000 to GO,O0O
slaves Bad as was this exhibit, that
OF the Spanish nation in it's rela
ton to the slave trade was even worse.
The hOrrid hutcheries practiced by the
conQucrors Of Mexico, Peru, and the
West Indies practically depopuated
those quarters of the world, aud, to fill
the places of the hapless Indians, the
Spaniards were forced to have recourse
TO African slaves. Thus the Spanish
COlonsts early@began the importation Of
slaves from Africa and were the last to
relinquish the profits arising from the
hOrrid traffic. AS late as 1860, 40, 900
slaves were landed in Cuba, most of
whom had been ruthlessly taken from
their homes by the Arab traders, who
annually desOlated large tracts of coun-
try in the interior of Africa. The hor
rors of the middle Passage" have often
been told, but not so we'll does the world
know of the deeds perpetratcd in the
Dark Continent in order to furnish vic
Tins for the traffic.
The slave traders and dealers of Central
Africa are mostly Arabs. They are men
of wealth, and in preparing for slave
raid usually employ q considerable num-
Der Of professional soldiers, who are
either Arabs like themselves or natives
trained to the use Of arms. With their
hired murderers they proceed to the
interior, and after locating village
they deemed it desirable to attack, by
a forced march they arrive in It's vicini-
ty usually little before day break With
the first ray of dawn the light cane ana
straw huts are set on fire, and the af-
7riGhteu n"oates rush forth only to fall
before the deadly aim OF vic .asrab sharp
shooters, safely located in the Surround
ing jungle, Grown men and alb bodied
women who make resistance are ruth
lesSly murdered. The old and the very
young are left to die of starvation, and
only the strong Of both sexes are car
ricd off in the train of the slave dealer,
As human life is cheap, little regard is felt
or shown for the helpless captives.
Sometimes the marches across the des-
ert are long, and many fall by the way.
a slave too weak to carry his chains is
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The Slave Trade.


The present crusade against the slav e
trade will probably prove the death blow
to this nefarious institution. Less than
one hundred years ago slavery was
recognized and legalized in every coun-
try on the globe, with perhaps one ex-
ception, but such has been the growth
of an enlightened public opinion on this
subject that now no civilized nation tol-
crates it, and all are engaged either d-
rectly or indirectly in efforts for the
suppression Of the traffic in human
beings.
The African slave trade, the curse of
modern times, was begun by Portugal in
1881, continued by Spain, and, with
scarcely an exception, every maritime
nation of Europe at one time or another
found profit in the purchase and sale Of
the unfortunate creatures torn by vio-
lence from their homes and destined to
a fate sometimes worse than death The
Save trade has, in Africa, brutalized a
tract of country extending fifteen do
grees on each side Of the equator
by forty degrees in width from east
to west, q terri ory Of over 1900. 900
square miles. The inhabitants of this
vast eXten6 of country, a district about
equaling in size the whole of North
America, arc in constant war, the strong
cndeavOring to subdue and make cap
tiveS of the weak. For two and half
centuries men and women have been
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

Thus in an extent of territory much
larger than the United States slavery
still fourishes and all the slaves that
can be furnished are eagerly bought.
The demand has kept up the traffic
across the Red Sea, and unless more
stringent measures are taken and a
practical blockade e established for dis
lance 2, 100 miles along the African
coast the business Of dealing in human
flesh and blood may continue for many
years
The capture and detention of Afri-
cars is not, however, the only slavery
that exists in the three countries named.
The institution of the harem is known
in all three. and the harem is but legal
ized slavery in its most Objectionable
form. The supply of women and girls
for the harems of the East is kept up
by the most detestable means. The
field for the kidnaper was formerly
Georgia and CiTcassia, the two mount
ain countries lying between the Black
Sea and the Caspian. The women of
these countr es have always been famous
for their beauty, and before the Rus
SLAMS overran that region the haremS of
Constantinople were supplied from the
mountains of the Caucasus.
Other states have no right to interfere
in the domestic affairs of these Oriental
despotisms, and so cannot suppress
slavery within their limits The most
that can be done by any civilized power
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Alden, Massowah or Suakim for coal; then
the slaves are hurried aboard, and be-
fore the gunboat can return the slave
dhow has reached the other side, landed
her cargo and is waiting as patiently
there as on the African coast. The gun
boat reappears, but beyond a shifting of
place there is nothing more suspicious
to be observed on the second visit than
on the first; and thus, in spite Of the
most earnest efforts on the part of the
naval rorees, the infamous business is
Coptinned,
It HAY seem strange that, in the
present day, a market can be found for
human beings, but there are still three
con siderable countries the people of
which buy all the slaves they can get
The first is Arabia With regard to the
extent of this peninsula Americans are
often greatly mistaken, the mistake
commonly arising from the small scale
on which the outlines of Asia and coun-
tries outside of the United States are
generally represented. Arabia in its
greatest length from north to south, ex-
tends about 1, 500 miles, and from east to
west about 500: thus, allowing for the
Irregularities of tho coast, it has about
100000 square miles of area. The
United States, excluding Alaska, has an
area of about 5000, 600 square miles, so
that the peninsula of Arabia is really
about one-half the size of the United
States, in extent being about as long,
from north to south, as the distance
from St Paul to New Orleans, and about
as wide as from ST Louis to New York.
The number Of people in Arabia is I'M
certain, the lowest estimate be-
about 100000, and the high
est exceeding 100000. Very lit.
tie is known OF the interior, it being
inhabited by tribes of fanatical Moham-
medans, who never have permitted the
passage of foreigners through their
country. But one thing we do know,
that there is lively demand for slaves,
and ready sale for them at any and
every part of this immense extent of
country. Thousands of the Africans an
nually transported from their native
country to Asia are sold in the markets
of Muscat, Jeddah, Mecca. and Medina,
but not a few of the best pass on through
Arabia to Turkey
The Turkish Empire, of which Arabia
is supposed to form part, forms by far
the best foreign market for African
slaves. Nominaliy the Sultan's domin-
ions comprise about 100000 square
miles and $4,000, 900 population, but
leaving off Egypt, Tunis, and the indie
pendent states of the Balkans about
100000 square miles of territory and
about 31.000,0o0 of people are governed
from the Sublime Porte. the territory
being about half as large as the United
States. and with also about half the
population. In all this country slavery
is still practiced; millions of saves are
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ritory which furnishes an outlet to the
slaves of Central Africa Formerly,
during the rule of the Sultan over
Egypt, the slaves were brought down
the Nile to some convenient point and
thence shipped across the Red Sea or by
the Isthmus to Arabia, Palestine and
Turkey. Since the English occupation
of Egypt, however, this is no longer
permitted. AS long ago Gs 1870, Sir
Samuel Baker made an expedition up
the Me for the purpose of dis
covering the extent of the slave
trade in the Soudan, and disc osed the
the fact that at least $4,000 slaves year
were taken from that country into
Arabia and Turkey by way of the Nile
and the Red Sea. The English occupa-
ton of Egypt put a stop to traffic in hui
man beings on the Nile, and from that
time on the slave caravans | assed over
land by routes unknown to Europeans.
These routes are still followed, and in
some way large caravans of slaves an
nually reach the shores of the Gulf and the
Red Sea at points whence their shipment
is comparatively safe Those waters arc
diligently patrolcd by men of-war and
gunboats of England, France and Italy,
but the utmost diligence has not been
sufficient to stop the traffic.
The Red Sea is about l, 500 miles long,
and from twenty, in its narrowest part,
to $50 wide. The Gulf of Alden presents
600 miles more Of coast line, and to pre-
vent communication between two shores
so extensive is practi ally impoS-
sible. i he slave caravans are halted
short distance in the country, a large
boat is prepared and kept near the
shore. The approach of foreign man
ofwar creates no uneasiness, for unless
slaves are actually on board nothing can
be done. A gunboat, its officers sure that
slaves are about to be embarked, may
wait in the vicinity for month Or six
weeks, but not the slightest misdemeanor
will be observable. The patience of the
East is proverbial. Sooner or later the
gunboat must run up to Suez or down to
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She Is a Nrilleress.

Freedman's Town, a suburb of
Houston. Texas, boasts of female
:miller, who has repeatedly proved
herself match for any three meE
that have pitted their united strength
against hers, and who successfully
routed Officer John Baxter and three
of his assistants, all men Of fine
physique.
The woman is a negress as black as
night, and of a stature slightly above
the average, but magnificently built
and extraordinarily active. Her grip
is such that she can easily stop any
piece of machinery in the mill. Re-
Gently she broke drive chain and
thus saved the life of an old farmer
whose long coat tails had become en-
tangled in the gears. She works in
all parts of the mill, and when firing
she frequently breaks coal with her
fist. if the hammer is not near. Ele-
vators are of no use in that MILL for
she carries grain to the top of the
mill faster than any machine that
has been made. She can carry four
| two-bushel sacks filed with wheat to
the top of the mill and be down stairs
again before most millers could walk
to the top of the mill. She just takes
a sack under each arm and one in
each hand and up she runs, seemingly
without effort.
When the police attempted to ar
rest her, she not only was able to
prevent them from putting the hand
cuffs on her, but taking the officer
and his posse, one by one, flung them
out of the house and closed and locked
the door.
Baxter, in particular, is accounted
man Of unusual strength, and is of
large build; but he says his muscles
were as a child's when compared with
those Of the cOlored woman. The
woman, whose name is Caroline Jenk-
ms, is about 30 years old, and is the
mother of seven children.
! She has been seen to pick up bar
rel of flour and carry it distance
without appearing to overeXert her.
self, and when tested was found to be
| able to break with ease a new grass
rope an inch in diameter.
When she runs out of coal she should
| utilize her great strength to operate
the mill. american Miller.
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shot, or if too far gone to be worth a
charge of powder is left to be devoured
by the hyenaS. If so per cent. of the
slaves reach a market, the dealer will
still realize largely on his Investment; so
he has no incentive to spare life or show
mercy.
Formerly prevailing on both the east
and west coasts of the Dark Continent,
the slave trade is now confined to a COM
paratively limited area, At the begin
ming of this century the slaves for the
Americas came from the west coast but
long since that traffic was cut off.
After the west coast was c,osed, the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

Spanish Americans procured their sup
ply from the east coast, but this, too,
ceased to be slave market after
urgent representations had been made
to the Sultan of Zanzibar. The
regions bordering on the Red Sea and
the Gulf of Alden are now the only ter
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17
An Aerial Top.

Zip. up, up, she goes! 'There!
she's out of sight," An instant Of
silence. ''I'here she comes! down,
down, down; there she is across the
street." In the lively scramble a
lucky youngster grabs it, and hasten
ing to the vender, says: "Here she
s, mister" CAN right" says the
vender. II give you a penny every
time you catch the aerial top"
This is a Forty-second street scene:
''Here is your aerial top, regular
sky skinner. You can see it go out
of sight. Only ten cents" Mean
while, in the intervals of the iangle,
the vender with his bird warbler imi-
tatcd the canary, hooking bird,
various animals, and Punch and Judy.
A newcomer says: 'Id like to see it
go up" and up she goes, down she
comes and another gamin gets his
penny for securing the sky skinner,
while an occasional passer-by invests
u dime in the interesting toy
The object Of SO much interest, says
the Scientific AMERICAN was a simple
three-armed wheel punched out Of
tin, with its arms Widened at their
outer ends and all inclined in the
same direction, a little spool with
prongs at one end which enter CORE
spending holes in the central portion
of the wheel, wire supporting the
whole, and string wound around
the spool for giving the flier it's i'm
pulse. The string is quickly pulled,
and the rapid rotation of this aerial
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

held by the Turks, and people living
thousands of miles away in the heart of
Africa cut each others throats in order
that household service in Constantinople
or Damascus may be faithfully per-
formed.
TIE third great territory in which
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

uncertain, the lowest estimate being
5000, 900 and the highest 800 1000. AS
much as in Arabia and Turkey, slavery
is an institution in Persia, and thous
andS of Africans are annually trans
ported across the steppes of Arabia to
Teheran and other Persian cities, where,
in the broad light OF day, they are sold
with no more conjunction than if they
were so MANY cattle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

slavery still finds place is Persia. AS
in the case OF the others, the extent of
this country is scarcely appreciated by
Americans. The length of Persia from
east to west is about 900 miles, its
breadth from north to south is about
roo. and its area nearly $4,000 square
miles The number Of the population is
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George Washington on Slavery.

An unpublished letter of George
Washington, written to his nephew,
Robert Lewis, Aug. II, 1899, or only
four months before his death, has
Just seen the light in London. It
contains the following: cit is de-
monstratively clear, that on this
state (Mount Vernon) I have more
working negroes, by full moiety,
than can be employed to any adj
vantage in the farming system, and
| shall never turn planter thereon.
70 sell the overplus l cannot, because
| am principled against this kind Of
traffic in the human species. To
hire them out is almost as bad, be-
cause they could not be disposed Of
in families to any advantage, and to
disperse the families / have an aver
sion. What, then, is to be done?
Something must, or I shall be ruined;
for all the money Gin addition to
what l raise by crops and rents) that.
have been received for lands, sold
within the last four years, to the
amount of $50, 900, has scarcely been
able to keep me afioat. Under these
circumstances, and thorough con-
viction that half the workers | keep
on this estate would render me
greater net profit than I nou derive
from the whole, has made me resolve,
If it can be accomplished, to settle
plantations on some of my other
lands"
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DEAL IN HUMAN FLESH.
WHERE THE SLAVE TRADE
STILL EXISTS.

How the Business Is Carried On, and What
Sort of People Indulge In It-Desolation
Wrought by the Slave Hunter-Scenes
and Incidents ON Exhibition In the
Market.
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MARSHALL is a great place for donkeys
and their kindred. Besides selling 49,
600 mules every year they have raised a
mule in that county which is years old
and 90 hands high. A mule 6 feet s
inches high is such a curiosity that thew
are taking it around to all the county
fairs and exhibiting it as sort of side
show, and the gate money in single
day sometimes amounts to 500.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

IS TO endeavor to diminish the evil by
cutting off the source of supply, and so
prevent an increase In the number of
slaves This, it is fair to presume, is
being done, but the increased efficiency
of the two patrols on tie Red Sea has
had a curious and unexpected result in
Africa
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

SOUTH Boston has kindling-wood
trust. We pine knot for anything of
that sort.-Neao Orleans PicGy u7ae.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

GAY circles naturally indulge in
rounds of pleasure, Baltimore amer
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