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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
CRITICISE AMERICAN GIRL.
Young Englishmen Reply to the
Charge of Selfshness Made BY
Mrs. Alec Tweedie,

Mrs. Alec Tweedie wrote an article
for the Daily Mail about week ago
on the selfishness of modern Eng
lishmen, quoting an American girl
as saying that English bachelors
never returned women's hospitality
and were otherwise remiss.
By indorsing and emphasizing this
view Mrs. .Tweedie started stream
of correspondence and elected sever
al amusing replies from English
young men. These retort that no
English girl would ever expect men
to take her to tea, the theater,. for a
drive in the park, or to give her
candy or flowers, and that the
American girl, by her willingness to
accept such attentions, comes in for
considerable criticism.
Mrs. Tweedie also represented the
American girl as saying she would
not waste hospitality over those who
would not return it. This CONNER
cialism has been greeted with jeers
from various club men who have
taken up the cudgel for their sex.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
MAIL IN A WHEELBARROW.
Queer Conveyance That IL Used By
an Old Woman Carrier
i'm Iowa.

Four times daily for 21 years, sum-
mer and winter, in fair weather and
foul, Lucinda Annie Robertson has
trundled wheelbarrow bearing the
United States mail form the post Of
flee at Pleasantville, Ia, to the rail-
road, mile away. She took the job
when her husband, who had the con-
tract to carry the mail, fell i'll and
because she couldn't carry the load
she introduced the wheelbarrow, says
the New York Sun.
When her husband became a con-
firmed invalid she kept the contract
for him and nursed him, too, and at
his death the government wouldn't
take the job ay%from her. 1t is
worth just $500 a year and it is al
most all her living.
She is now II, but she vows she'll
carry the mail till she dies. = Il"
"But some. days." she says, lit
seems as though i could never drag
myself and that old barrow another
STEP" ''' =! -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
Japs Can, Teach u.

In the manner Of repairs those won
derful followers of principle and truth
in art, the. Japanese, have lesson to
teach us, says the sConnoisseur. When
a japanese connoisseur breaks some
precious piece of pottery or porcelain,
he does not throw it away with dis
dain; neither does he try to deceive the
casual observer into the belief that it
is unbroken. Instead, he has it joined
together, generally with gold lacquer,
in such q fashion that the fracture is
boldly shown and commented on, as it
were, by the frank exposition of the
method by which it is made good.
Curiously enough, q distinctly new and
charmingly decorative effect is in most
cases added by these irregular gold
lines, while the sense of era nship
is tickled by the marvellous skill exhib-
tied by the repairer in thus welding to-
gether the two dissimilar materials.
Truth is preserved at no loss Of ar
tistic beauty; indeed, once more it is
made clear that the two may always
walk hand in hand.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
TEETH IN WARFARE.
England's Experience in South Africa
Shows Need of Dem
tistry.

After 81 months fighting four dental
surgeons have been sent to South At
RIGA to attend to the teeth of the army.
Thus does the war office put forth
stupendous efforts to atone for past
inaptitude, says the London Pail Mall
Gazette.
. In an army of quarter of mill
lion men these four surgeons should
be kept tolerably busy. No soldier who
has campaigned six months in Africa
will, if he be wise, neglect a chance
of having his teeth examined. Each
surgeon, therefore, will have clientele
of $4,000 officers and men. Assuming
that on every day of the week, includ-
ing Sunday, 30 men are treated by
each dentist, the teeth of the army
will have been overhauled and the
work of filing, ting and filling
completed in something over 60
months. It should console man on
active service suffering to-day from
toothache in a precious molar, which
he can i'll afford to lose, to know that
he will not be troubled with the
agonizing pain later than April, 1907.
In the unequal struggle between trek
OK and biscuit on the one hand and
mere human teeth on the other, not
five per cent. Of the men of my COM
pany came through scatheless. In
many cases the damage was slight; in
others, where the teeth were natural
~ weak and brittle, the mischief done
was irreparable. Even with an aver
age set, straining on an average bis
cult, you never felt quite certain which
would be the first to go-your teeth
or vour biscuit.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
CANAL BOATS FOR MANILA.
Barges Shipped from the Erie Canal
to BE Used ON the Pasig
Ill. 4s -.-HE River. Ets. ~.ltI

The easy-going native bargemen Of
Manila bay will experience something
like surprise when few months hence
they see towed into their harbor 10
Erie canal boats, sent by the Philip
pine Transportation company, reports
the New York Tribune. For several
years these barges have been in use
on the Erie canal. Now they have
been lowed over to the Morgan iron
works at Ninth street and the East
river, where they are being carefully
pulled apart preparatory to shipping
them to the orient Piece by piece the
decks are being pulled up on the pier
ready to be slowed away into the holds
OF huge steamers, there to remain un-
til once more put together in Hong
Kong: From there they will be towed
across the China~sa; down the Luzon
coast and into Manila harbor. 49,.
Large steamers cannot approach
within two miles of the shore in Manila
bay. For this reason it has always
been necessary to send out cascos, or
lighters, in which the cargoes are
transported up the Pasig river to the
city. These ca scoes are small and
clumsy, and are owned by individual
natives, who will not work until their
supply of cash runs short. The iron
canal boats are capable Of holding five
or six times more cargo than any cas-
co, and the 10 together could put all
the cascos of Manila harbor int to their
holds
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
It's Progress In the Nineteenth Gem
fury Has Been Truly Mar
sFt. velOus. a.-ef.

Mr.. Charles Hawksley in his presiden-
tial address to the British Institute of
Civil Engineers reviewed the progress
of civil engineering in the nineteenth
century, reports London paper. In
1911 mail coaches took Al hours for the
journey from London to Holyhead.
Even in 1887 the journey took ~ hours.
The first railway for passengers came
into service in 1925. During the CEN
tury about $4,000, 0o0, 900 was invested
in building railways. In 1910 the total
number of lighthouses in the British
isles was 1859; in 1900 the number was
100. The early lighthouses were
lighted by oil lamps. The oil lamps Of
to-day have a power of 1900 candles
and the electric arc gives the light OF
millions.
In 1919 the Savannah, propelled part
~ by steam, partly by sail, traversed
the Atlantic in 26 days. In 1888 the
voyage was made under steam alone
and required II days. The voyage to-
day is accomplished in six days or less.
The largest ships formerly displaced
less than $500 tons and now displace
$4,000 tons or more. The Oceanic's ton
mage is 1924, the Celtic's is 10000. Coal
gas was first used for lighting houses
in 1897. The first telegraph line dates
from 1888; the first submarine cable
(Dover-Calais) from 1851. Electricity
was first generated by steam engines
in 1881.
= Such are a few of the statistics of
engineering progress during the GEN.
fury. They show a progress toward
comfort; and happiness is, more or less,
a by-product of comfort, so that we
have good reason to rejoice over these
statistics, bold as they may seem.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
Vnripa Oocoanuts.

Before the shell Of the coooanut be-
comes thick and hard and while the
meat is soft and about the consistency
of clabber many of the nuts are gath
cred and sold upon the street corners
Of South American cities and in the
shops. The nuts are cut open with q
machete. The milk proves most re-
freshing drink, while the meat is eaten
with spoon or, more often, with a
silver cut from the shell. -, T., s-.=
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
"A WHITE AUSTRALIA.
Plan Adopted in Greenland for the
q :szt. Deportation of Polyne-
IS sin n -

The movement to make q sswhite''
Australia is not receiving such gen
eral approval as; the Chinese exclu-
sion has in this country, but it is
none the less certain that yellow and
brown labor must 60 from England's
colony. The bill now being discussed
in the commonwealth parliament
permits the introduction into Queens
land (the state most affected BY the
measure, for it is there that sugar is
grown) during 1902 of IS per cent! Of
the number of islanders (Polyne-
sians) who return to their homes
during the present year. In 1903
only so per cent. may return, and by
1906 there will be none in the col
ony,, for, by that year all will have
been sent back to their island homes,
whether or not they hold property
or can pass the education test, says
the"4New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. "''-- + -"
The chief opponents of the meas
ure are the sugar planters and man
ufactnrers, who say the white labor
in the cane fields is much more ex-
pensive and much less effective, and
they promise the extinction of a
growing industry on which great
sums of money have already been
spent if it becomes necessary to rely
solely on expensive and incompetent
labor. Premier Barton's idea, how
ever, is that by system of import
duties and bounties the sugar indus
try may be so protected that the loss
of cheap and efficient labor will not
harm it. -,'
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
Dined Under the Sea.

A diving bell was. used some years
ago in the neighborhood of Naples as
dining-room. The table was hung
by cords from the roof Of the bell,
which, suspended a few feet above the
water, was submerged while the va
rious courses, Of which there were H.,
were being partaken by the half dozen
guests. The dinner, which was cooked
on board a,large barge moored near at
hand, was transferred to the novel
dining-room when the latter was
drawn above the surface during the
intervals between the courses.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
DOMESTIC TRADE
Statistics show Thet Last Year
Il Was Good One.

Domestic trade Of the United States
during the II months ending with No
vember is generally satisfactory, ac-
cording to the bureau Of statistics.
Reports of the internal trade at in-
terror centers shows that Chicago,
Minneapolis, Duluth and Minnesota
received 101 ,010,10s bushels from
spring wheat territory for the first
quarter ofsthe current crop year, be-
ing . gain of 80 per cent. over the
first quarter Of 1900. ..5ss.. 5't.
/ AT the winter wheat markets Of To-
|Vedo, Detroit, st. Louis and Kansas
City the first five months Of this crop
year, on the contrary, show q de-
crease in receipts from 46, ~. 476 bush-
els to IS, 1913, 728 bushels
Arrivals of live stock at 1--we west.
ern markets for the first IL monthss
of 1901, including only cattle, hogs and
sheep. were: Chicago, 13, 801, O67 head;
Kansas City, 6,13e.52o head; Omaha,
4,155, 433 head; st. Louis, 3,444, 762 head;
St. Joseph, 2,779,777 head, making q
total Of 3o,s2o,55s head, compared with
27,977, 165 head in the same months
of 1900. The only evidence Of decline
in the live stock movement at Chicago
appeared in the decrease in the re-
cedpts and shipments of hogs.
At Kansas City the receipts have
been larger and the shipments smaller
than for the similar period of 1900.
Local consumption at these five mar
kets has generally exceeded that Of
the preceding year, and the shipping
movement for stocking and feeding
purposes exhibits more emphatic de-
crease as the end of the calendar year
is approached.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
New Test In Hypnotism.

: Judge Davis, president of the board
Of children's guardians, has given his
consent for Mr.. Henry, of Chicago
school of hypnotism, to experiment
with the children in the home main
tanned by the board, at Terre Haute,
Ind. It is Henry's theory that he can
start train of thought in the minds
of the children for better things. Chill
dren who have been taken from vicious
parents will be experimental with.
Judge Davis says he does not believe
itcan do the children harm and possibly
will have good results. According to
Judge Davis, Henry came to him re.
Gently and explained the theory. It
was agreed that the experiments
should be made, and Mr.. Henry is to re.
turn soon. Judge Davis says he does
not know his Chicago address.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
NO 8. ROMANCE IN Il.
The Latter Came at Last, but It Did
Not Contain What He Had sci
Expected.

ut must have been quite year ago."
said the general delivery clerk. at the
post office, relates the Detroit Free
and inquired for letter in his name,
and he lookedvmuch disappointed when
/ could find mont to hand out. Since
that day, up'to. a week ago, he has been
coming tWice> q week, most always
when I was on duty, and as no letter
for him ever arrived I had consider
able curiosity regarding his case. In,
fact, built UP romance around him.
1 took it that he might have separated
from his wife in some distant town and
was hoping to hear from her and make
up the. quarrel, and I actually came to-
feel hard toward her because she re-
fused to write. It seemed to me that
the man~was failing in health as he
lost hope, and now and then I gave
him cheerful word to brace him up.
A week ago saw his name on let
ter, and next time he called passed
it out with the remark:
"'Here is your long-expected letter
at last, and I hope it contains good
news
"He stepped away from the window
to read it, and after few minutes he
came back to say:
"'I didn't get it,
"'What was it?'
why, sent to my brother-in-law
in Pittsburg almost year ago to bor-
row a dollar TO huy some porous DlaS-
tiers, and he writes me that he capt
we'll spare it, and that I'd better use
mustard instead!"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
SAMPLE OF BRITISH RED TAPE
An Order Issued by a Major General
to the Effect That There We're
No Orders.

Every once in awhile something is
blurted out that tends to indicate a
few of the reasons why our soldiers
cannot travel as fast as Beers. One
of the reasons, it is suggested, is
that they are hobbled to some extent
with red tape, says the London Ex-
press. ...,
Here is a military order which has
just come to hand. It shows how at
least one officer is wasting time and
stationery:
'District orders by Maj. Gen. Boyce
Combe, C. B., commanding Rawal-
pindi district, Murree, Tuesday, Oc-
tober IS, 1901.-No district orders
were published yesterday. By order
D. G. L. Shaw, major, assistant adj
jutant general"
This particular brand of mind that
secretes performances like these can
not be expected to do much on the
field of war. Catch DeWet? The
military genius who did this couldn't
catch cold at the north POLE,
The fact that an officer quartered
in wild island does q, thing like
this does not; Of course, show that
he did not win the battle of Waterloo
or that the charge of Balaclava was
not courageous. It is symptomatic,
however. We can imagine the peo-
pie who issued this order trying to
put out fire or pursuing rebel. All
the parties interested would die of
old age before the printing presses
and the pianos that they would take
with them were packed up.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
MISTAKES ON RAILROADS.
An Old Engineer Crashed Into q Pas
senger Train Through q
Blunder.

''1t is pretty easy thing to make
a mistake in railroading," said IN old
engineer as he thought of the recent
wrecks on the Wabash and the Iron
Mountain roads in which so many
lives were lost, says the Mexican Her.
aid. "As understand it, those
wrecks were caused by defective or
ders. The train dispatcher sent out
his orders directing one train to pass
the other at a certain station. The
operator did not copy the order on
his manifold book, as he should have
done. Instead, he wrote it on slip
of paper and handed it to the engi-
neer. But in making the copy the
operator made a mistake and
changed the name of the station.
The collision was the only natural
result.
"An accident just like that hap
pened to me once when I was work.
ing in the states. 1 received orders
to pass train at the next station.
was just pulling out when I saw
the headlight, of Locomotives loom
ing up close behind me. Did jump!
guess did. The en- gines were bad
" smashed, but fortunately none Of
the passengers were badly hurt, as
I had reversed my engine before I
jumped and the other engine was
slowing down for the station when
the collision came. An examination
showed that the original order had
been for our trains to pass at the
station which I had just started to
leave"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Women Doctors Uphold Their Sex
in That Profession.
Declare a. Ridiculous Reason Given
by Northwestern University for
Proposed Abolishing of Wom-
ems Medical Department.

i, Philadelphia women physicians and
surgeons unhesitatingly ridicule the
trustees of the Northwestern univer-
sity at Evanston, ILL.,, for their recent
determination to abolish the wom-
ems medical department of that insti-
tuition, on the ground that women are
not success as doctors. One woman
doctor said:
j. 1.-THE action of the university au-
thorities in question borders on the
ludicruos. It, is mistake to say that
women cannot grasp chemical labora-
tory work or the intricacies OF surg
cry. It is true that we are still young
in the profession, but it can safely be
said that we are steadily growing and
improving.
"Some of the most difficult opera
tions performed in Philadelphia with
In the last year have been accom-
Plished by women, and if this fact
can be taken as a criterion there is
every reason to believe that they will
soon equal their brother surgeons in
Skill"
Another woman doctor spoke of the
great advance made by doctors of her
sex in the medical literary field.
I'm the ten years following $780, -
she said, "there were only 40 articles
written by the alumnae of the institu-
ton with which I am connected, while
in the same length of time 20 years
later, or following 1890, there were 1875.
10 imply that women have not kept up
with the advance pace set by their
brothers in the profession is an alb
surdity.''
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
TO BE BELLE OF PROMENADE,
Miss Alice Roosevelt to Attend Junior
Event at Yale by Special
Invitation.

Alice Roosevelt will be the belle of
the Junior promenade, at Yale on
January 21, says special to the
press from New Haven. Conn. She
has accepted an invitation to attend
as the guest of Give Du Val. Miss
Roosevelt will be chaperoned by her
mother. It is expected that her
aunt, Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles,
will also be present. While there
they will live in the New Haven
house. Miss Roosevelt will arrive on
Saturday, January 1s. will attend
the college chapel on Sunday, the
Glee club concert and the junior
german on Monday, and the junior
promenade and half dozen teas on
Tuesday. This will be the first oc.
casion that q daughter of a presi.
dent has graced the Yale junior
promenade. Give Du Val, the Yale
man whose invitation Miss Roose-
welt accepted, is a member of the
junior class and of the junior
promenade committee. His father is
secretary to Chauncey M. Depew,
and it is said that Senator Depew
will probably bring his bride here
to atte1d the junior promenade as
guest of Mr.. Du Val. Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, with her youngest
daughter, may also attend the
promenade. Mrs. Vanderbit's young
est son, Reginald, is a member of the
senior class in Yale, and the family
wish to be present at one junior
promenade before he leaves the uni.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
The Italian Court.

Like King Edward, King Victor EN-
manuel is engaged in very radical
wedding out Of the invita- ton list of his
court, and is adopting policy of ex-
clusiveness. In the days of King Hum.
bert almost anybody could secure an
invitation to court balls, especially if a
foreigner, and the guests as a general
rule numbered 5000 to 1000.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
To Tunnel the bay

San Francisco bay is to be tunnele,.
to accommod ate the traffic between or
posite sections Of the city which nos
has to go around The distance is
about five miles, and the subway vii I. ].
pass beneath an island III tlhe 10
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
worlds Religious Populations. =

- worlds Religious Populations.
At the present day, on the best au-
thorities, there are ESQ, 000, 900 Mussul-
mans in the world. The Christian pop
ulationis put at ~, 0oo, 900; but the in
crease of Islam is more rapid than that
of its sister religion. Never before has
there been such devotion to Moham-
mechanism as in India at this time un-
der British rule.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
HARDY Germans.

The German empire has 77s cen
.tenarians, France 213; England LAG.
Scotland 46. Denmark has two only
and Switzerland none at al.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
Diet OF BedOuin Arabs.

The Bed onin Arabs are small eaters.
Six or seven dates soaked in melted
butter serve a man y whole day, with 8
very SINAI Il quantity of coarse Hour OF 8,
little ball Of rice.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
ssTippins'' in Old England.

11VV0 II O1W a0@812HU'
In reference to tipping it 10
claimed that there is a certain hotel in
Manchester where the head boots pays
the managers $1,000 per annum for his
job, and that he is able to clear be-
tween $500 and S., 900 each year.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
Similar But Not the sa,,,e

S11A111S&E 00S NVV INC S10&Ss
There is a Clark Champ in Hiawatha
Kan, who must not be COMPOUNDED
with the Champ CLARK, of Missouri. On
the contrary, says the Chicago Trib-
une, he is quite the reverse. 8$
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
THE CUBAN REVENUES.
Falling on During Last Year in Re.
-: eeipts n Compared with the 3
- Year Precedinx, "

The division of insular affairs of
the war department has just made
public statement showing that thu
total customs revenues for the is
land of Cuba during the II months
ended November 80, 1901, were $14,-
1855, 900, as compared with $14,565 400
for the same period of 1900, and $13,-
37s, $50 for 1899. -.-
The duty on exports was abolished
April l, 1901. The export duties COL
lected during the first three months
Of 1901 amounted to $67,440; during
the II months ended November 30,
1900, $500, 703. The customs revenue
exclusive of export duties increased
in 1901 over the previous year by
SAG, 06O, or three per cent, and over
the second preceding year BY 1885,
54s, or II per cent.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
Z Women In japanese OMEGA.

Women In Japanese Offices.
The women of Japanare now largely
employed in telephone and post offices,
and they are said to be excellent book
keepers.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-24
A Mans Wooden Leg.

A New York court has ruled that
mans wooden leg is furniture. The:
same court would probably hold, says
the Chicago Record-Herald, that false
teeth should be listed under the head
of bric-a-brac. .S#