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cent survey places the area at 1000
acres. The top soil of the island,
composed of sandy loan, resting on
bed of clay the latter lower than the
level of the water-has, foot by foot,
been washed away, until even of its
most. historic portion only part re-
mains. At the time of the arrival OF
the settlers, May 13, 1907, it lay in
the land of the Pasheheah Indians,
one of the tribes that acknowledged
thu supremacy of the celebrated Pow
hatan.
1t was then and for many years af-
ter connected with the main shore by
q neck of land about thirty feet wide ;
but more than 100years ago the cease
less beating of the tide wore away
this passage, as it has destroyed others
that have been .artifically constructed
since.
A long sweep of open river for seven
miles above the eplace gives full play to
the wind, and the constant impact OF
the waves has eaten into the unpro.
tected shore until the obliteration of
the entire island is threatened and on
the most exposed part of the shore
stand the only remaining residences
of the once hourishing city of james
town.
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BENTON. LOUISIANA Thu RSDAY. JUNE 1S. 1896.

the walls that surround the little in
closure in the rear of the tower were
made out of its molder1ng walls in
1907 by John Amber and William
Lee, then the owners of the land, to
protect such of the ancient tomb
stones that remained. The area thus
guarded was not more than one third
that of the original church yard. The
place is now grown up in trees, and
their roots entwine the walls and
cover the graves of the former set
tiers.
1t is said that the church was first
On old sail hung to the great trees
which then densely covered the
ground. The pulpit was bar Of
wood nailed to couple of neighbor
ing trees, and the audience sat upon
unhewn logs during service.
\ log church was erected later, and
Sir Thomas Dale is credited with
''repairlng the falling church in
May, 1911. The first brick church
was built in 1888. In q description
OF the town IN 1876 we are told that it
contained. besides brick church.
twelve brick dwellings and a number
OF frame houses.
The brick of which the jamestown
church of 1888 was constructed was
undoubtedly home manufacture taken
from the clay of James Island. where
Alexander Stomar, brlckmaker, pat
ented an acre of land near the brick
kiln there mentioned.
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seen, tbs smooth black stones glisten-
ing in the sunlight at low tide.
The James Island plantation, for
centuries famous for its fertility, was
utterly neglected and growing up to
weeds when about two years ago Mr..
&. E. Barney, of Canton, Ohio, bought
the entire place and beautifully i'm
proved it. But the Association for
the Preservation Of Virginia Anti
qujties, of which Mrs. Joseph Bryan
is President, looked with re.
gretful eye upon the passing away of
this celebrated cradle of American his
tory, and opened negotiations with
the owner for such control as would
preserve whatever was left of the an
clent settlement. Mrs. Barney, q lady
CT rare refinement, who fully appre.
clated the historic value of the spot,
made gift to the association OF
twenty-five acres containing the tower
and tine foundations OF the old brick
church behind it. Subsequently
through the efforts of Mrs. Curry, the
wife OF the Hon. J. i. II. Curry, ex.
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Let us have your subscription now,
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is one of the main items of expense,
and he reasons that much of it will be
out of sight and evidence, and he Is
strongly tempted to put the money on
aesthetic adornment, rather than on
matter of pure utility. But if this
reasoning prevails, the builder will
never cease to reproach himself. 1t
is to be taken for granted that no one
would so lower the plumbing esti-
mates as to provide menace to
health. But if lightweight and cheap
materials are used troubles are never
ending-cheap closets, hoppers and
faucets are constant abominatlon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-18

The stone powder house built by
Captain John Smith for the protection
OF the colony S store OF ammunition
succumbed several years ago; its foun-
dations were completely sapped. and
it tumbled into the waters OF the
river. The strength of the walls is
evidenced, however, by the blocks Of
stone lying under the water still bound
togethes by the original cement; for
the remains OF the pile may yet be
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-18

tractive spot for tourists. This tower,
which is undoubtedly the Oldest relic
in America OF the early English settle
nents, is about thirty feet high and
beautifully draped with Virginia
creeper. In front of it stands the old
dirt fort, with its green mounds slowly
losing shape under the wear of time
and the gradual washing Of the rains.
jamestown Church had fallen into
ruins even before the Revolution, and
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times from sewer gas, and to prevent
any subsequent annoyances, have the
system of fixtures, traps supply and
waste pipes we'll planned and ar
ranged in accordance with the best
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-18
SANITARY PLUMBING.
An important Feature of All Well
Built Residences.

Built Residences.
In the "Modern Houses" no feature
receives more attention from archi-
tects and house builders than the sani.
tary arrangement. So now, among
the many practical and utilitarian de-
tails of interior construction tending
to increase the comfort and convenient
arrangement of houses none occupies
q more important position than those
relating to the fixtures, traps and
pipes which introduce and distributes
into our buildings a supply of pure
water for household use, and after
wards remove from them the semi
fluid foul wastes, designated sewage.
When a man makes up his mind to
build, almost his first temptation to
cheaper his estimates comes when he
gives out his plumbing contracts. It
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ately by two-inch iron pipe extending
up above roof. All lead wster-service
pipes are "A lead pipe.
The above mentioned plumbing will
cost about $3.50, and could be
chearened about $50 by omitting the
nickel plating of pipes in bathroom.
Copyright 1896
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-18

A homicide occurs every two hours
In Italy This was one of the many
startling statements made by Baron
GarofalO, a distinguished Italian GRIM
inolOgist. in a lecture delivered on
"Criminality in Relation to the Educa-
ton Of the People in the Roman Col
lege. His audience included Queen
Margherita.
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HISTORIC SITE.
REMAINS OF AMERICANS DIN
EST SETTLEMENT IN PERIL.
Jamestown Island Rapidly Wash!n.
Away - Tower of the Ancient
Church Still Standing-lIistory
of the Historic Spot.

u NE Of the oldest and most in
ter=stlnG relics of the SETTLE
ment of North America, SAYS
the Globe Democrat, is
Threatened with utter destruction by
the action Of wind and tide.
jamestown Island, than which no
place on the continent is more full Of
historical associations, lies in The
James River, aoont seventy lies be-
low Richmond, and thirty 2 u a. New
port News. 1t is two and nalf miles
long and half mile in width. A re-
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The cycler who tumbles from his
wheel realizes that he has the world
against him.-Philadslphia Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-13

That meeting of earnest men on
the 22nd of January, 1895, marked
an epoch that will live in history.
The convention which grew out of it,
to be held in st. Louis on the 22nd
of July, will undoubtedly be one of
the most important conventions and
notable gatherings ever assembled in
this country. Upon the wisdom of
its acts and that of the Peoples party
convention, to be held at the same
place and time, depends the vital
question as to whether we can have
a just settlement of this moneys issue
in u generation. If that issue
can be clearly presented to the voters
of the United States, stripped of all
minor political questions, and under
a standard and leadership which will
command the coidence of the people,
it will win by an overwhelming
majority.
Our friends are urged to push the
work of organization with all possible
vigor, giving no heed to those who
advise waiting the action of the old
parties, that contain enemies as we'll
as friends of the cause. The power
of our organization to defeat the
ambition of Janus-faced politicians is
being recognized by all parties;
hence clean-cut declarations for or
against silver are the rule in local
conventions of all parties this year.
Our purpose is to unite for action all
believers, in the restoration of free
silver and prosperity. This cannot
be accomplished by inaction or delay
on the part of our friends.
The Republican party is commit
ed to the gold standard through the
platforms of 80 per CEN of the State
conventions, and any straddle that
may be made in its National platform
will deceive no one.
The Democratic party must not
expect the country TO accept any
candidate it may name acquisced in
by the gold wing of that party.
The question Of vital Importance is
for silver men to name a candidate
for President whose nomination will
be readily acquiesced in by all the
believers in monetary reform.
Friends of silver, look to your
interests and organize now while the
fruit is ripe for plucking. We do
not wait on the problematical action
OF any party.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-13
DO YOU EVER READ?
How to Keep Posted upon the Great
During the Crmpaign of 1895.

Everywhere there is demand for news.
The public is continually crying for in
formation, and the only question is:
'Where can we get the best at the lo :
est cost?" THE HERALD is now pre-
pairing to increase its news service in n
very material way, and hopes soon to
give its readers a much better paper they
have been receiving.
In order however that the public may be
benefited, that each subscriber may re-
ceive more reading matter, especially rel
alive to the doines of the outside world,
we have arranged with various publishers
10 give our readers a metropolitan daily
or weekly, of their own choosing, togeth-
er with the NEIHART HERALD, at little
more than the cost of one paper. The
rates published below are per annum, in
all cases including our paper with
the one indicated. To new or old
subscribers the same rates will hold, but
in every case, cash must accompany the
order. 1t will he observed that all these
papers advocate the Free coinage of
silver. Also that each political party is
represented by one or more publications,
and that the list is filled with the best
metropolitan papers. representative of
the western idea.
Old or new subscribers to the Mel
HART HEARALD many receive either of
the following publications in addition
thereto by paying for both papers at the
following prices:
Dailies.
Denver News with HERALD - 90
San Fr'CiscO Chronicle " y IN
annapolis Penny Press " 4 "a
Wesklie,.
y. Paul Dispatch with HERALD J rs
Denver News z n,
San Fr'ciscO Chronicle " 20
Semt-W eeklies.
-, Louis Republic with HERALD u
Omaha World-Herald . 81
until Jan. /, 1897 , II
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-13
Silver Party Address.

Washington, May 31.-The Nat
ional Silver party, through its chair
man, j. J. Mott, today issued from
its headquarters in this city an ad-
dress to the friends of silver. 1t is as
follows:
Headquarters National Silver
Party.
Washington, May Both.
To the Friends of Silver:-Since
the founding of this party on January
%, 1896, the work of organization
has been steadily but quietly pursued,
an | the country has been aroused to
a pitch Of excitement unknown since
the Civil War. Silver is en- all lips
through the land. 1t is echoed and
re-echoed from the gilded mansion
to the lowly cottage.
AS each hour passes it becomes
more apparent that a political con-
fict, the like of which has never
been seen before, is just at hand.
1t must be clearly understood that
party lines cannot withstand this CON
hict. and so far as the friends of silver
are concerned they must not. The
party leader who puts in his time
mending party lines while the silver
cause suffers will be relocated to a
deserved seclusion. There is no
time for composing differences be-
tween men who do not agree on this
question. The only thing to be
considered is. how those who say
they are for free silver, and at
the same time plead for the unity OF
parties, are not the friends of silver
and the suffering people. The unity
of oldparties is the death of silver, as
everybody knows.
Those who look to coming years
for a peaceful settlement of this
matter mistake the condition Of the
time and the temper of the people.
There can be no delay. The con.
Aict will not wait. The hour has
come. The secret of success in this
conflict consists in the lining up fol
the battle. Those who compose the
line must be friend, striking the same
blows for the same object. This
breaks party lines, and party lines
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-13
Politics is in statu quo, as his legal
giblets would say.

WM. BoLE, one of the proprietors
of the esteemed Great Falls Tribune
is in the city in the interest Of that
paper. The Tribune is one of the
bright, spicy and newsy dailies of
the state, and is especially valuable
to the citizens Of Neihart as it brings
the daily telegraphs twenty-four
hours ahead of any other paper.
Every body should take the daily
Tribune. Mr.. Bole is a whole souled
companion, agreeable to meet, and
full of that peculiar energy which is
sure to win success.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-13

A letter from Smith and Gormley
of White Sulphur Springs praises
the HERALD for the side it took in
discussing the nonsense regarding
the Communication of Bill Gays sent
ence. 1t is but due that the HERALD
tenders this enterprising law firm a
word of merited praise for the mann
or in which that celebrated case was
prosecuted. What ever Of honor
thrre might have been in the Char
acter of Bill Gay, he was nothing
more MOI less than an old Black
Hills desperate. That he was a
coward is evidenced by the fact
he quailed on the scaffold and prov
ed himself a whimpering cur. Those
who signed the petition for commu-
tatlon of sentence are largely Of the
class who do not believe in capital
punishment. For these we will say
that there is much to sustain the
righteousness of such a belief. But
it is noteworthy that all those states
which once abolished this mode of
punishment were compelled again to
return to it. The abolition of capital
punishment means the institution OF
lynch law, which inter SO is no law
Capital punishment may not be good
in'theory but its practice offers the
only safeguard to life and property
known to II present civilization
We believe that Bill Gay paid the
penalty of a righteous sentence--bu'
we also believe that there are many
men alive worse than Bill Gay, and
that they all ought to be hung, as
fast as the law IAN get it's clutches
upon them.
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THE LANDLORDS APRIL FOOL JOKE

It Is Harmless, and He Has Worked It
For Many Years.
James F. Moses has been landlord
of the good old fashioned Bucksport
tavern known as the Robinson House
for SO years. Just how far back in
history he conceived his ingenious
April fool" joke is uncertain, but a
gray haired citizen was caught by it
on April 1 for the twenty:third con.
seoutive year, according to undoubt-
ed authority. The hotel is of the
old style hospitable front, with a
piazza running the whole length,
from which open two large doors.
In winter these are protected by
portable, boxlike storm porohes
about the width of the doors and
four feet deep. The door opening
into the Office is in constant use, and
it is here that the trap for the un-
wary is set.
AS often as the LIST of April rolls
around the veteran hotel keeper has
the porch at the Office door moved
along the piazza to the left. so that
it faces the blank broadside of the
house. Projecting sufficiently to
hide the Office door from a person
approaching from up street, it makes
the delusicn more effeotual.
The a is hardly set before per-
haps up Genes one of the grocery
delivery wagons. The driver leaps
from his seat. grabs two or three
baskets and bundles, stumbles up
the steps, kicks the door open and
goes into the trap ''all over" as the
heavy weighted door slams behind
him.
Next probably comes along one of
the leisure population, who thinks to
drop in and look over the paper an
have a chat. He opens the porch
door deliberately and shuts it be-
hind him, carefully wipes his feet
and fumbles over the cold white
clapboards for the door latch, and
then remembers the old, old, but
ever new, joke.
The train is in, and along comes a
phalanx of the knights of the grip.
The leader aoutely recognizes the
| plot as one which cost him many a
cigar a year ago. and he resolves to
make a wholesale slaughter of the
rest of 1.-THE boys" There are half
a dozen or more, and by shrewd tao
tics he gets them in a group. Now,
boys" says he, let's all get in a
bunch and pile into the Office all at
once and boiler, Hello, old Jedl"
All agree to it. "Now charged"
There is a rush, and in a second
all but one are laundering in a con.
fused heap in the 4 by 8 box. while
the cause of the oommotion slips into
the best room and is we'll settled be.
fore the confused contingent gets
untangled and with battered hats
and wrath in their eyes swarm in.
And so it goes all day long. Land.
lord Moses from his chair In the
reading room chuokles and haw.
haws at the success of his little
scheme, although 1t is whispered
that he was by q very deep laid plot
inveigled into his own trap himself.
and that he had to go down cellar
and bring up something to square
mattera.-Lewintou Journal.
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blows to the minute, and Orgrin 81.
For fifteen minutes they pelted the
heads of drills, and finished amid
loud cheers from the crowd.
Next came Fred Cow and Jno
Drenville, representing the Florence.
They did some fine work. and show
ed extraordinary power in striking.
They were troubled by the drills
sticking fast, and very much hind
cred in their progress. Cow struck
SO and Drenville 81 blows on an
average per minute.
The Broadwater entered the
next team, with Frank Schmidt and
Matt Dahl as battery. Here is a
team to hold them all level. They
have the knack of placing their
blows where they may do the most
good. They were luckcy in turning
and changing drills, aud everybody
saw that they had made the best
time of all. At the finish, the shouts
of appreciation for their pretty work,
were ~deafening. Schmidt struck 50
blows the first minute 70 the second,
and finished at about 80. Dahl
started at 70, fell to y on the second
and finished at IS. Their striking
was irregular but calculating and
effective.
The fourth team also came from
the Broadwater and consisted of Pat
rick Killeen and Geo. Moore. They
worked fairly we'll together, but
were not equal to the former team
from the same mine. They accident
ally drilled into one of the other
holes and caught their steel so tight
that the rock had to be broken to ex-
%tricate it. They we're ruled out on
account of this accident. Killeen
started at Is blows per minute and
ended at 81. Moore set out at G3
ami finished at 5o.
The table of results as given to
our reporter is as follows:
TEAM. INCHES
Schmidt d Dahl, Broadwater 30 3-16
Ogrin & Swanson Gait "a 1915
Cow & Drenville Florence "a 7-l6
Schmidt and Dahl were declared
winners and paid $50. Ogrin and
Swanson received s25 as second
money.
Jack Drenville won the Is yard
foot ace and Jack Burt the sack
race. The bicycle race, and the
various jumps and other athletic
sports were not reported.
At night Crawford's hall was i'll
minated brightly and decorated fin
de steele, which means at the top of
the pot. Gay dancers gathered in
large numbers and poured out their
generous oblation to Queen Terpsic-
hore. The orchestra consisted of
three pieces in the hands Iof the
following able performers. 6. P.
Beere, violin; H. G. Munsie, piccolo;
J. A. Demorest, piano. A fine sup
per was served at the National hotel.
June II, 1896 is a day long to be
remembered.
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NEIHART
And Lodging House Now Ready 70
Occupancy.

All modern improvements. Electric
light, hot and cold water bath and wash
rooms for my patrons.
Board on the short order plan. Eat
what and when you want. A room to
yourself, the latest periodicals.
Keep up with the 10th century. Eat
when you ere hungry, drink when YOU
are dry and if you have good luck you
will live until you die. There are still
a few more rooms ~unoccupied. Secure
them now.
For terms apply to
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-13
Free Coinage is Assured
The Outlook for the White Metal Is Acknowledged to be Bright.
err Than Ever Before.

Those lows, democrats are made
OF the proper material. They break
down the idols of all that trust in
gold and build a glorious temple in
the cause of financial truth. The re-
publicans of Colorado are no less
clamorous for the humiliation of the
gold-bng hosts. For they have
turned down such able men as VOL
colt, Howbert and all who we're not
so staunch in their faith as Senator
Teller. From every hill and valley
comes the swelling chorus of those
who hoist the standard of independ.
ent bi-metallism. All the talk about
a fifty cent dollar gets the laugh
when the people learn that F. A.
Preston keeps everything in the line
of staple groceries and that he still
takes the so cent dollar at face val.
ue in exchange for anything to be
found in the market. Goods at
reasonable prices.