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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16
For Constable,

The undersigned hereby announces
himself as candidate fo- constable
at the coming city election.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16

Mrs. Jas. B. Armstrong and Mrs.
VIM. 7. reid, Of Red Lake Falls, are
guests OF their brother, 81. W. Ven
ners.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16
For Alderman. End Ward,

The undersi gned will be a candi
date for alderman from the 2nd ward
at the election March Goth.
&C, LANE.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16
The world known W. L. Douglas
mems fne shoes at Viktor Bros.

Julian Richard has closed his shoe
repair shop and is now employed By
ViktOr Bros.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16

Geo. Lafond SAYS if the mayor will
let him alone, he'll let the mayor
alone. Precisely. That's the point.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16

James Mcintyre, the well-known,
lumberman, returned from the Swan
River camps Wednesday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16

Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. GEO,
Schroeder, Sunday. March 11th a
son.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16

Archi1. Heron is i'll.
Sheriff Rider was quite ill for sever
al days.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-16
For Hosiery

Your hosiery needs can be
supplied at low price; here
and the goods will give satis-
faction. We don't handle
trash in order to quote a low
price. Every pair of hosiery
that goes out of our store
must be reliable in quality,
fast color and correctly sized.
You will find here the genu-
inc s'Blaek Cat Hosiery"
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4 VIE NOTE.

We read that Linn Skinner, who for
merly lived in Southington in this
State, has been guilty of falling asleep
while doing sentry duty in the Philip
pines and that he is going to be shot
on Christmas morning for his neglect
of duty. His father, who is II years
old, has gone to washington to ask
President Mckinley to spare his boys
life.
OF course discipline must be main
tanned, and a man who falls asleep on
sentry duty instead of protecting his
comrades may really be responsible for
loss of life. But many will hope that
the President will be able to see his
way to saving Skinner from the dread
full fate that is hanging over him. If
not, the shooting will be CHASTITY and
inappropriate Christmas work.
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THE BLANKET INDIAN BOY.
1t Is Difficult Work to Wean Him From
His Savagery.

| Lit Is DlIllcult WOlh W WSdi iihii a Aoiii
His Savagery.
| When boy babe makes his appear
ance among the Blanket Indians there
is much rejoicing, for will he not grow
I'D to be a warrior? If twins are born
and one of them be a girl she is speed
| lily killed, for two give birth to twins Is
| a terrible thing in the eyes OF savages.
| When the boy papoose opens his keen
black eyes he gees his doting parents
| looking appreciatngly at him. He
sticks his chubby red fist in his mouth,
just as a white baby would. and re-
CARDS his mother, who, with her coarse
black hair uncombed and falling down
over her eyes and almost hiding her
| face, takes him in her arms and then
deposits him in the bright warm
blanket on her back. He probably con-
sders his father handsomer than his
mother, for the fathers long black hair
has been nicely combed, creased and
wrapped in strips of otter hide or
beaver skin, or some bright bits of
cloth he has picked up around the
stores at the agency. His little eyes
rest wonderingy upon the skins on the
dirty tepee floor. and glow with adj
miration as he catches glimpse of the
bright fires outside, around which
many blanketed, moccasined squaws
are pounding corn in wooden mortars,
preparatory to cooking bread.
No sooner has his father seen him
than he PUSHES pell-mell from the tepee
TO find his boy a name. The first OBJ
ject that strikes him favorably sug-
sests a name for his son and heir. He
may spy a lone wolf at a distance,
thereupon he runs back and christens
the little one Lone Wolf. (This is prob
ably how the noted kiowa Indian
chief, now residing on the Comanche
reservation, received his name.) If
nothing he sees suggests a name, the
father rushes back and looks intently
at his papoose again. Why? To see
If his nose is not crooked, for then he
will be called Crooked Nose. Or, per
haps his ears flop his name win then
be Flop-Eared. He may have weak
eyes; he may be christened Evil Eye,
Not only personal characteristics, but
may suggest a name.
One little Indian boy was born at some
distance from home, and his father
called him Born q long Ways from
home" Another was born while on a
visit to Texas, SO ne was christened
''ln-the-White-man's -oountry" The first
name given, however, is not always
permanent The boy may lose leg,
and his name be changed to zone Leg"
or be may grow into a brave who
- Ill
forth call him Stumbling Bear" Some
Of these names are very peculiar. but
all Indian names are significant and
suggestive. There is not one without
a meaning. Indians nave no searnames
The little papoose Is not bathed. and
early becomes acquainted with dirt |
When he can walk and frolic, he runs
races with his fathers ugly Mexican |
dogs, playing football with his brothers |
and lords it over his sisters, who are
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GENERAL ARMSTRONG.

As His Greatest Pupil Remembers
Him.
nave spoken of the impression that
was made upon me by the buildings
and general appearance of the Hamp-
ton Institute, but I have not spoken of
that which made the greatest and most
lasting impression upon me, and that
was great mantle noblest. rarest
human being that it has ever been my
privilege to meet. / refer to the late
General Samuel G. Armstrong
1t has been my fortune to meet per-
sonally many of what are called great
characters, both in Europe and Ameri-
ca, but / do not hesitate to say that
never met any man who, in my estlma-
ton, was the equal of General Arm
strong. Fresh from the degrading in
fuences of the slave plantation and the
coal mines, it was a rare privilege for
me to be permitted to come into direct
contact within such character as Gen
eral Armstrong. I shhall always re-
member that the first time l went into
his presence he made the impression
upon me of being perfect man; | was
made to feel thaht there was some
thing about him that was superhuman.
1t was my privilege to know the gene
Hampton till he died, and the more 1
saw of him the greater he grew in my
estimation. One might have removed
from Hampton all the buildings, class
rooms, teachers and industries. and
given the men and women there the OPP
portunity of coming into daily contact
with General Armstrong, and that
alone would have been a liberal educa-
ton. The older I grow the more | am
convinced that there is no education
which one can get from books and
costly apparatus that is equal to that
which can be gotten from contact with
great men and women. Instead of
studying books so constantly, how I
wish that our schools and colleges
might learn to study men and things!
General Armstrong spent two of the
last six months of his life in my home
at Tusgee. At that time he was par
alyzed to the extent that he had lost
control Of his body and voice In a very
large degree Notwithstanding his af
fiction he worked almost constantly
night and day for the cause for which
he had given his life | never saw a
man who so completely lost sight of
himself. I do not believe he ever had a
selfish thought. He was just as happy
in trying to assist some other institu-
ton in the south as he was when work.
ing for Hampton. Although he fought
the southern white man in the civil
war, l never heard him utter bitter
word against him afterward. On the
other hand, he was constantly seeking
to find ways by which he could be of
service to the southern whites.
1t would be difficult to describe the
hold that he had upon the students at
Hampton, or the faith they had in him.
In fact, he was worshiped by his stu
dents. 1t never occurred to me that
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General Armstrong could fail in any
thing that he undertook. There Is al
most no request that he could have
made that would not have been COM
piled with. When he was a guest at
my home in Alabama, and was so bad
ly paralyzed that he had to be wheeled
about in an invalid's chair, I recall that
one of the generals former students
had occasion to push his chair up
long, steep hill that taxed his strength
to the utmost. When the top Of the
hill was reached, the former pupil, with
a glow of happiness on his face, eX-
claimed: Il am so glad that | have
been permitted to do something that
was real hard for the general before he
dies!" While / was a student at
Hampton. the dormitories became so
crowded that it was impossible to find
room for all who wanted to be admit
ted. In order to help remedy the diff
Guilty, the general conceived the plan OF
putting up tents to be used as rooms.
AS soon as it became known that Cen
eral Armstrong would be pleased II
some of the older students would live in
the tents during the winter, nearly ev-
cry student in school volunteered to go.
was one of the volunteers. The
winter that we spent in those tents was
an intensely cold one, and we suffered
severely-how much l am sure General
Armstrong never 'knew, because we
made no complaints. 1t was enough
for lls to know that we were pleasing
General Armstrong, and that we were
making 1t possible for an additional
number of students to secure an edl-
cation More than once, during cold
night, when a stiff gale would be blow
ing, our tent was lifted bodily and we
would find ourselves in the open air.
The general would usually pay a visit
to the tents early in the morning, and
his earnest, cheerful, encouraging voice
would dispel any feeling of desponden-
cy.
/ have spoken of my adn1iration for
General Armstrong, and yet he was but
type of that Christlke body Of men
and women who went into the negro
schools at the close of the war by hum
dreds to assist in lifting UP my race.
The history of the world falls to snow
a higher purer and more unseifish
class of men and women than those
who found their way into those negro
Washington in the
Outlook
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MERELY.

Clara--What is your idea in being en-
gagged to a man old enough to be your
father?
Maud didn't know but I would
marry him.-De.roit Free Press.
A Customer lin the complete" de-
partment store)-I notice so many cou-
pies taking the elevator for the thir-
teenth floor. Why are?
The ribbon clerk-They are taking ad-
vantage of the special offer in the mat
rimonial department The Rev. Mr..
Splicer is performing ceremonies to-day
at half price.-Brooklyn Life.
Here and There.--Mr Boerum--I GER
tainly do make myself at home. Per-
haps / stay too long.
Miss Pepprey-No. You couldn't to
suit me.
Miss Boerum (eagerly)-Do you really
mean l couldn't stay too long here?
Miss Pepprey-Oh, no! l mean there
where you say you make yourself
Philadelphia Press.
Proved Their Wisdom.--Sunday
school teacher-Where did the three
wise men come from?
Phil Adelphy (whose family had only
recently moved to Chicago)-They came
from the east.
Sunday school teacher-And why were
they called wise men?'
Phil Adelphy-Because, ma am, they
went back home again.-Philadelph
Press.
did you trump my ace, dear?" asked
Mr. Meekton, who was his Wife's part
ner at whist
II did," she rejoned sternly. what
of ito"
II merely inquired to relieve my
mind" he answered with gentle smile.
TT is a great comfort to know you
trumped it. If any one else had trump
ed it, you know we would have lost the
trick washington Star
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tire work for the city are most crafty
ing, it being remembered that the
marking has been on the most difficult
part Of the spelling contained in the Sc
lection, An examination Of a consider
able part Of the papers seems to indi-
cate that had all of the words been
considered in marking the papers the
average result for the city would prob
ably have been between 90 and 100 per
cent. But, taken as it is, and being a
measure of the pupils ability to spell
in practical work words that are diff
cult in FORM the result seems most
gratifying"
ST. Louis pride is justified. Children
who can spell are worth blowing
about,
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"TOMMY" AND THE COLONIALS.
"The cabman and conductor would
be kind to you, but they would not be
respectful" quotes Mr.. Howells in his
recent "reminiscences of James Russell
Lowell, in mentioning the little ways
in which Mr.. Lowell on his return from
the comfortably padded environment"
Of London, found America less COM
Portable than the country he had left.
No doubt, kindness in deed is more
than respectfulness in word. Neverthe-
less, Mr.. Lowell was not the only
American who, returning from Eng
land, has missed the smoothness, ease
and pleasantness in the conduct of the
small affairs of life with which English
respectfulness has much to do. At
its best, it is the good manners of the
uneducated; at it's worst, 1t degener-
ates into serviity.
One of the many unexpected discus
sions arising from the South African
war touches this matter in its military
aspect The ready Difference of the UNI
educated English private toward his Of
ficers has induced in some of the Of
ficers an attitude of kindly, but AFRO
CANT, personal superiority. But the
colonial soldiers, although they fully ac-
cept their officers right to command
them, regard the right as professional
only They do not consider that it i'm
plies a superior manhod.
They will not endure bullying or
staggering or slanging, and they re-
sent superciliousness. They are, in
short, like our American soldiers, re-
spectful and self-respectful and the re-
luctant authorities have found that.
instead of greater independence i'm
pairing their usefulness. their greater
initiative has made them more yalua
BILE than the machine-like home
trained Tommy Atkinses.
AS result, there is a growing
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JUSJIE'I-ABIE PRIDE

While Chicago Is taking pride in her
drainage canal and her low death-rate
ST. Louis is swelling up because her
children can spell. The work of the
st. Louis schools in spelling was tested
recently. Dictation exercises were
given, a different set of sentences in
each of the eight grades, according to
the ability of the pupils. They were
given in the ordinary manner that
these exercises are given, the teacher
first reading the selections, so that the
child might catch the thought and af-
terward reading it more slowly so that
the child might write the sentence as
it was read Immediately after this
work was finished the papers We're col
lected and the teachers were then fur
nished with a list of ten of the most
eises, which they were to mark. The
words to be marked We're unknown to
both teacher and pupil at the time of
the reading. A general average of 7G
per cent was made. at will be seem"
said Superintendent OF Instruction F
Louis Sedan, that the results from
the various half-years, and for the en-
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The heather in his folly eats anything
that's good,
He doesn't Try to choose the food that sci
ence says he should
He dies gray-haired and weary, at four
score years and ten;
And what most sorely yeXes MIN is that ne
can't eat then.
So be wise and keep from pickles, from
sauces and from spice
And keep away from cabbage, and from
beans and pease and rice.
Never eat a thing that's sweet and always
eat 1t cold,
And thus you'll save your intellect from
growing, stale and old.
Keep away from breakfast, keep away
from tea
Keep away from lunches wherever you
may be.
Never let your midday meal be either large
or SMALL
Indeed, it's wiser, very much, to never eat
The Caterer, London, Eng.
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THE 4UIOMOBILE'S RIGHTS.

The horse has had It's opportunity to
make some horse-laughs at the automo-
bile, which, in it's early days, frequent
ly had to be drawn home by the horse.
But the automobile is rapidly and stead
lily making it's way now, and it is also
getting it's rights in the streets estab-
lished. At first the disposition of the
lower courts was to award damages to
owners of horses which were frightened
by the automobiles, but the higher
courts are now reversing decisions made
in that disposition. Judge Sutherland
of Rochester, New York, in annulling
one of these verdicts said that 1.-The
horse has no paramount or exclusive
right to the road, and the mere fact
that horse takes fright at a vehicle
run by a new and improved method
does not give the injured party cause
for action Judge Sutherland added
that in order to obtain damages evil
uence tHdl lhe Stefiiii ooA i"hS was ~
aged carelessly or that road rules were
disregarded must be submitted. In the
absence of such testimony the decision
of the court below was reversed. An
other point emphasized was that ex-
haust steam could not be declared
nuisance if kept within reasonable linn
its.
It will soon be made plain that the
has as much right in the
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S,tuailons, Wants, Rents, and other smaA
adyertisene Ope Cent q Word ench III.
hert!on. Five Gents Word for full WEEK
tseyeD times. a.,
Display advertisements. per men, one ~, a.
cents; one week, $500; one month sl''; one
year. $40. *
Obituary Notices, In prose or verse. =, ~
cents per line Notices OF Births. MARI
ages. deaths. and Funerals. so cents each.
local Notices. 10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited TO thg,s
own Immediate business (all matter 70 ne
Include Wants. To Let, For Sale. etc.
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4 GILL TO REpENYANCE.

Women are accused of being habita-
tions of cruelty because they wear
whole dead birds, or parts of them, on
their hats. 1t appears that there are
other things than birds that must die
for the ornamentation Of human be-
ings. and that women are not the only
habitations of cruelty. A moving APP
peal Is made by the Colorado Springs
Lodge of the Order of Elks. A good
Elk is properly adorned when he is
wearing the tooth of an elk, and the
elks have been relentlessly hunted for
their teeth. The members of the Col
o1ado Springs lodge have become so i'm
pressed by the sad facts that they have
resolved to abstain hereafter from
wearing or trafficking in the teeth of
elk, and have earnestly requested all
other lodges to take the same action.
'It is the sense of this lodge" they
say, "that loyal Elks everywhere should
and will cooperate in this movement,
so that it shall be quickly known to
those unprincip1ed and unsportsmanlike
individuals, who for paltry consider
alton and in defiance Of the law, are
fastening the destruction of this noble
species, that no further profit will inure
to them from so blameworthy a prac-
tice." They add: THE unprecedented
destruction of elk. both in and out of
season, has been caused solely by the
demand and present high price for their
teeth; and the species is in imminent
danger of determination, unless the pre-
MUM that we, as Elks, have thus blind
ly placed on their destruction be quick
~ and entirely removed by our united
and individual refusal to be partici-
pants in this crime"
The Elks will probably respond gem
erously to this appeal, for though they
may have been thoughtlessly cruel they
are, as a rule, men of good intent. Sub
stitutes for elks' teeth can easily be
made, and they needn't cost s25 a pair.
as the real teeth do.
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opinion that England's semi-paternal,
neutrality-suspicious. attitude toward her
private soldiers, which has cheerily
ticketed them the world over as "ab-
sent-minded beggars," plucky, but ir-
responsible, is neither wise nor fair.
Tony himself accepted it, but it was
not good for him; now his spirited colo
NAL cousins repudiate it entirely, and
England agrees that they are right
From The Youths Companion
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Property-owners in the Fox Lake
region of Wisconsin have united to
drive German carp out of the waters
in that vicinity, and it is intended to
seine the Niagara river for the same
purpose The carp are making havoc
among game fish.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-15

The question of the spontaneous COM
bustion of hay has recently been inves-
tigated by one of the officials of the
weather bureau, who states that fer
mentation within moist hay may raise
the temperature to 374 degrees Fahren-
will ignite The best preventive to
spontaneous combustion is a rapid and
dation and fermenting substances are
kept cooled down below the point of ig
milton.
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Fame is-fame Last Week the
Washington postoffice advertised let
ter for w. f. Villas, not knowing his
present address. Thirteen years ago
he was the postmaster general.
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Somebody with a mania for compll-
ing useless statistics has figured that
the Pyramid of Cheops could not be
built to-day for less than $4,000, O0O
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They have an income tax law in the
canton of Zurich, and it is enforced
Awhile ago a doctor sold his practice
to another for certain sum of money.
The buyer sued the doctor a few months
later for exaggarating the value of the
practice. In court the former practi-
TONER showed by ms BOOKS Lhetl lie had
had an income of $4,000 a year, which
was all he had claimed. He won the
suit and great was his happiness A
few days later he received a summons
to appear in court to answer charge
entered against him by a tax collector
for defrauding the government by Civ
ing his income as $500 when it was
lately proved to have been $4,000. He
not only was Obliged to pay larger
income tax for the future, but he also
had to pay the difference between his
stated and his real income for eight
years back as well as the fines, which
are very large in these cases, SO that
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An ill-fitting pair of shoes has caused
a singular legal action in one of the
New York courts. The plaintiff de-
.clares his discrimination to carry his
grievance to the highest courts of the
land, regardless of cost and trouble.
The defendant is q Fulton street retail
tef1oe establishment Eminent lawyers
have been engaged by both sides, and
the case will come up for a hearing in
the near future. The plaintiff bought
a pair Of shoes from the defendant
some weeks ago. The result of his pur-
chase is best told by his bill of particu-
lars which is filed with the case. 1T
sets forth: Damages for value of shoes,
$3.50; loss of several days business
while suffering with sore feet, by reason
of receiving wrong shoes, $21; four full
days time lost in curing feet, SIS; doc
tors bill, $40; total, $3.50.