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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The N. P. crop report, issued Mon
day, reports fair potato crop expected
at Lincoln, but only half crop wheat
on account of chinch bugs. Twelve
bushels of wheat per acre expected
near Little Falls. Weather has been
too cold for corn.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Rev. G. F. Edwards returned to StsS
Paul Monday. He had been assisting
Rev. F. E. Edwards of the Swedish
NJ. E. church in special services last
week. The services were continued
by the pastor until Thursday this
week
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21
Packaces Tor Fruit.

The question Ct fruit packages ~
oc:e that ha. received a great dea4 Of
attention FROM exr fruit rMsers. 1t
IL a VERY !:spc":~at one, Is il its
solution lies l.s-1e part of the qaes-
ton Of profit and less4 A package for
fruit must be a. sksap q poasihla AZ
1t 1s to be given away with the fru1e-
On the other hand, It must not b 30
cheap that It viii permit the contents
to be injured il transit or In suose-
quent handbag. Professor Waugh
says that the ct resk>ee 10 peculiar
to the American trode, By which w
may inter that II ethsr countries the
fruit is changed into the pao1aGo
brought by tAe pasehssee Of the fruit
or that the paeul6aser 0 the fruit
purchases the padAase IA addition to
his fruit and At q regular figure. It
is certainly desirable to have uniform
packages and ooes that shall not b
under suspicion Of the purchaser. Re-
Gently tho bushel box for apples has
come into quite wide use. These
boxes are very serviceable in certain
kinds Of trade. Where the grocer can
buy them in large quantities and have
them delivered to his customers BY
his own wagon, they are great help
to the trade, as the consumers can
purchase the apples in bushel lots
But where q purchaser in the city
wants to buy apples from producer
at a distance, the bushel box is hardly
as good as the barrel, for the reason
that the cost Of handling the one
smaller package is as great as that
for handling the larger package. Thus
| it costs rs cents to haul box from
| the railroad station to A residence,
and it would cost no more for a bar
! rel. On the other hand, the box should
| cost less than the barrel, as it can
be made out of almost any kind OF
wood, while barrel slaves and hoops
| have to be made out of certain mate
| rials.-Farmers' Review.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The Swedish Lutheran congregation
on the West side will have first floor
celebration next Sunday afternoon at
the new church building. A program
will be given and ice cream and cake
served.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Harting & Son are pu ting in a new
platform south Of their furniture
store.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

FOR RENT-Four nice rooms for
rent upstairs. Last house on Second
street.
I, Cohen
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Loucks the photographer, has gone
to the Bemidji region, and may open
q gallery somewhere up north.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

A party of little friends were enter
tanned by Irene Monahan, aged SIX
years, on her birthday, Tuesday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Have 1870 acres OF good land, car
place you on for So per acre.
Stephen Vasaly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Joe McNally, for some time EN-.
ployed as flour packer at the Mime.
sofa mill. left Sunday for Buffalo,
NJ v
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The new FIRE bell for the fir
house on Seventh street northeast ha
arrived.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

F. W. Mattock, the energetic owner
of the Pillsbury wooden mill, was IN
the city Monday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The twe1ve-year old daughter of r.
Hamm of Swan River is ill with
typhoid fever.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Peter Lafond is said to be ill with
typhoid fever at his home at Malta.
Mont.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Two horse gasoline engine for sale'
h orizontal, Davis. Inquire at this
Office.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21
Jules Verne Seventy-four

Jules Verne is now seventyfour
years old. He wrote his first book.
Five Weeks in a Balloon" at. the
age of thirty-four.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Al. Num- of Princeton, well known
here, has returned from trip to Ger
MANY.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

For Sale-ou siness property on First
avenue Sc, paying ten per cent.
Stephen Vassly
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The c>e.a:.c :,s5..utcy writer gtves
Ieath a new sting iCI the prominent
citizen.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

;. The rear of the big Mississippi drive
is at Royalton.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

N. L. Summer6eld closed his
store, and shipped his goods to q
North Dakota town.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Mrs. Addie Dumont and sisters,
Misses Clarice and Lena Duclos, have
gone to California for an extended
stay.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Nelson doesn't use any cheap stuff il
finishing his photographs.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Two more children of F. F. Basrien
are down with eca~letlua.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The Cans chorus will meet again
Sept. 7th.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21
Just an hp5ettzeF.

Il cant imagine anything more I'D
satisfactory than a meal at our board
ing house," said the chronic grumb-
Ter.
MOP" replied the impressionsble
young man. Evidently you never got
kiss from your best girl over the
telephone"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

John Mcdonald has gone to North
Dakota, to work on a farm.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

The Gold Dusts defeated the paper
mill team Sunday afternoon, to 8.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Electric street lights have been
placed on Seventh street from Third
to Fifth avenue south.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Miss Gertrude Kay will teach at
Freedmen, commencing Sept. 1st.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Archie Niles is running q threshing
engine for his father near Sank Cen
ira
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

T. J. Hyson is i'll with rheumatism
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

. Several rooms for rent over the
Diamond Sign Jewelry store.
Stephen Vassly-
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21

Little Della Br lex is visiting rela-
tives at St. Cloud.
Jos. Wiener and Lizzie Bruggraff
of North Prairie. have been granted
license to marry,
Mr.. Sarah Slough, who has been
visiting in Upsala, has gone to Ashley
to visit her mother, Mrs. John Sulli.
van.
Miss hopkins has returned to Hop
kius.
Mrs. VIM. Reid of West Superior
is visiting here.
Mrs. Adeiine Cnounard is reported
recovering from her iIluess.
S. c. Drake and c. G.. Chubb
capitalists of Algona, a., were il
the city Monday.
Mrs Gertrude Stoll and Miss Addie
Stoll have returned from Stearns
county.
Mrs. Young returned to Aiikjr
after visit with the family Of Rev
NJ. O. Stockland,
Aug. Danielson has gone to B!anch.
arc, n. D.
Mrs. Deeotel and son Charles re-
turned to Berlio, W is., Tuesday.
NJ Thori. of Omeyer & Thori, the
architects Of the Lincoln school, was
in the city Tuesday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-10

and into the bodies of each other.
However, the inevitable came, the
capital was removed, Jamestown
slowly fell into innocuous desuetude,
and Williamsburg fourished. We
have seen just such rivalries and bat
ties between rival towns, far in the
interior of the new world, within our
own generation.
The brick church, of which only the
tower is left, was built in 1888, when
the colony was only 80 years old.
Previously the people had worshiped
in a large wigwam made of logs. The
new brick church was Sc feet long
and % feet wide, furnished lavishly
with dona from England; every
thing in it being as rich and regal
as the trappings and vestments of
the best churches in the old coun-
try. Gov. Dale wrote: "There is
some comfort in religion now" as
though his religion had been no COM
fort to him in the commodious log
wigwam.
But for the removal of the capital
to Williamsburg there might have
been a great educational institution
at jamestown, because Parson Blair,
the Scotchman from the University
of Edinburgh who founded William
and Mary college, was assigned to
the parish at jamestown in the new
brick church, just before the trans
fer of the capital. He had for
short time been pastor of the parish
OF Varina, where Pocahontas was
one of his parishioners. She was the
wife of John Rolfe, an extensive To.
bacco planter, and was known as Re-
becca Rolfe; quite English, you know.
as compared with her aboriginal
name when she hurried into history
by her rush to the rescue of Can't.
John Smith. Parson Blair often said
that If he had remained at James.
town he would have founded the col.
lege there-an institution which has
endured until this day, and will ever
endure.
The celebrated educational institu-
ton was originally built of bricks
made on jamestown island. They
were made in the style of the inn
ported bricks. but were not import-
ed; neither were those which were
used in the church at Jamestown.
Parts of the ancient structure remain
in good state of preservation, and the
old church at Jamestown, would still
remain intact, if civilization had not
ueserteo II SMITH D. FRy ;
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Of Prussia's 83,151, 0S3 acres of land
% per cent. are occupied by trees.
There are no less than five differ
ent bays, each called the Bay of Is
lands. The best known one is in New
Zealand
Plans are being made for utilizing
the boys in Kings county, Ireland,
for peat fuel and moss disable as
stable litter, which will compete with
Germany.
Some fishermen have recovered
from the sea, near Salona in the prov
ince of Phthiotis and Phocis, large
statue of man in a fair state of
preservation.
The Musee Carnayalet in Paris has
been enriched with death mask of
Due de Reichstadt. Rostand's "Aig-
lon," the gift of Chevalier Ernest de
Rosenberg.
plan is being discussed in Vienna
for establishing an Austro-Chinese
bank in Tientsin, with capital of
25,O00,00o crowns to begin with. A
young Austrian, who has lived some
years in China, has been sent to
Ilentsln to sound Austrian mer-
chants there on the part they would
take In such an enterprise.
The German governments final re-
port upon the German ,harvests for
last year shows 9,494, $50 tons of rye,
an increase of 1881, 400 tons; 4,3s3,-
ST tons of wheat, gain of 1,452, 476
tons; 3,100,227 tens of barley, drop
of 221,S75 tons; 7,467,25O tons of oats,
an increase of 417,097 tons; 43,462, 1893
tons of potatoes, a decline of 1924,
S6S tons.
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and over the graves of the Cemetery for

and over the graves of the cemetery for
many, many years.
The ladies employ custodian. but
he was not on duty when the narrator
| called He is said to reside in a little
shanty there which is surrounded by
heavy earthworks thrown up 40 odd
years ago by confederate soldiers. By
his absence he lost one fee of ten cents.
which he is allowed to charge as part
of his compensa zion for living there in
the midst of squalor, dirt, malaria and
musty "reminiscences.
On reaching the north end of this
historic island, work done and being
done by the federal government was
discovered. 1t seems that the island
has been crumbling SO rapidly of late
years that the Virginia senators have
secured appropriations for the pur-
pose of preventing the entire destruc-
ton of the island by the swift cur
rent which sweeps unobstructed for
eight miles. and iercely carries away
tons of clay and sand. Ripraps and
jetties along shore may divert the
channel a little, but if the island is
to be fully protected it will prove to
be very costly proposition. The
northern portion of the ruins of the
town are said to be under water, and
the covered foundations of former
habitations can be seen from the side
of rowboats. Alongside the north
east of the island there are big blocks
of stone just beneath the surface of
the water. They are held together
by cement, and evidently formed the
foundation Of some big official build
ing.
The biggest ships of the olden time
used to come up the James and an
Choir at the wharves of Jamestown,
but they could not do so now. In.
deed, when the capital was moved to
Williamsburg in 1923 the channel was
becoming visibly more shallow. Thus
was business affected in the begin
ming of the decline of Jamestown.
There were big financial and politi-
cal battles in those days, preceding
the removal of the capital; and ira
dition hath it that several hot-blood-
ed Virginians emptied their guns at
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-10
JAMESTOWN ISLAND

adversary, tens of thousands of Virgin
ans will visit Jamestown, but the prin-
.ipal celebration this year will be in
Richmond.
In order to describe this ancient To-
.-ality the writer went to Jamestown
sland, the trip occupying only two
days. 1t is situated 30 miles above Nor
folk and Newport News, on the James
river, and is about 70 miles below Rich
mond. Old inha bitants say that it has
Shrunken within generation, but that
at has now an area of LOO acres. 1t is
two and half miles long, and only lit
tie more than half mile in width.
From the main shore it is separated by
a narrow stream and some marshy low
land, over which there is low wooden
bridge. The whole place looks "old-
-timey."
The island is as barren of civilization
as Palmyra of the desert, and the only
evidences of its former teeming habi-
tation are the walls of the Amber
mansion-house, and the pitiful piece of
tower of the first Protestant church
built of brick in the new world. These
objects of interest were pointed out by
a young. colored woman from the
mainland, who also directed the trav-
eler to the screened little acreage sur
rounding the relics of the church and
the long neglected cemetery. There
are no pictures of these interesting OBJ
jects, but the tower is like any ordi-
nary old tower, and the mansion
remains are composed of the small
bricks imported in those early days;
about half of the size of modern bricks.
The mansion is said to have been built
with bricks which were formerly used
in official and ancient structures. Ira
<lition has it that in this old mansion
there resided a woman who declined
the honor of marriage with George
Washington.
If this be true she must have almost
hated herself afterwards when George
became "first in war, first in peace and
first In the hearts of his countrvmen. /"
There is an association of ladies
known as an association ''For the Pre-
servation of Virginia Antiquities. -
and it is this association which has sur-
rounded these sole relics with wire
fences and thick wire screens. These
ladies took this step only six wears
ago; rather late in the day for the pre-
servation of these antiquities, for hoes
wild and tame, and other cattle have
br2wsed about the tower and the walls
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-10
SELL WIVES AND CHILDREN.
A Practice That Ia Common in China
in Times of Famine-COnditiOns
OF Slave Trade.

There is nothing surprising in the
dispatch from Hong-K.ng to the eff
feet that ia the famine district of
southwest China men are selling
their wives and children to prevent
them from starving to DEATH Their
purchasers supply them with food
and the lives of the sellers of their
own flesh and blood are also pre-
served by the money they receive,
says the New York Sun.
When Mr.. Nichols travelled through
the famine-stricken province of
Shensi he heard much of this prac-
tice. He wrote that however much
Chinese parents might love their lit
tie ones, they could be induced to
sell them when all were starving.
This practice marks the worst and
last phase of famine horrors. There
is always a market for children in
China and the demand is usually far
greater than the supply; for parents
until they have suffered long through
hunger.
We hear comparatively little OF
slavery in China. The fact is, how
ever, that it is a time-honored insti-
tuition. Houserlaids and women in
domestic service in the interior towns
usually receive no wages. Until they
are married they are the property
of their masters, who purchase them
when they are little girls.
The EXTREMIST poverty. the inabil-
ity to provide their family with food,
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is the sole cause of the selling bl
| fathers of children into bondage
| Rich families often own these girl
by the dozen and most families il
easy circumstances have at least on,
slave among their servants. TIL,
slave state is for the women ONLY
temporary, their masters bein,
obliged to provide them with a hus
band when they are of marriageabl,
age, and as married women the,
cease to be slaves.
The absolute right of the father
to sell his offspring into bondage il
fully recognized by the law, but tn,
descendants of slaves cannot alwaU
be held in bondage. Male slaves hav,
a right before their thirtieth yea,
to require their owners to find wives
for them. and as heads of families
they transmit the slave state onl,
down to the fourth generation.
In all respects, except that the,
| are in bondage, they are treated, a,
rule, like other servants, receiving
instruction in the schools, competing
at the public examinations and some
times obtaining official appointments
In this case the owner is bound t.
permit them to redeem themselve
and their families.
The Sun dispatch says that hus
bands are selling their wives as wei
as their children. 1t is permitted un
der the law for married women t.
be sold, but never as slaves. The,
are purchased only as wives by thos
who buy them.
When the famine was at its wors
in Shensi, men in carts, according t.
Mr.. Nichols, appeared in the city
Sian-fu. They were speculator
| whose business was the buying
| children in the famine market.
Starting from Siam as the head
quarters for the trade they made ex
cursions into the surrounding coun
try. They bought hundreds of chill
dren, paying ordinarily about 200
cash for little boy, while little girl
could be purchased for half tina
sum.
The trade was carried on by whole
sale and the children were scattere,
all over China to be sold to the rich
Reclus says that the price of chill
dren is usually at the rate of tw.
dollars to $3.50 for every year o
their age. ~ as
A while ago Bishop Favier publishe
a book on Peking in which he spok
of gambling as the national vice
the Chinese. He told how beggar
in rags would bet their last scra
of clothing; and how some frenzie
gamblers would stake their wive
and children at the gaming table.
He told of one young man VIII
staked his wife and lost her. TIL
woman was only 30 and the gam
bling debt involved was only $500
Bishop Favier paid the debt and re-
turned the young woman to he,
mother. A few months safterwari
she rejoiped her husband and 'til
all probability" added the bishop, ''h,
has played and lost her again"
It is extreme poverty also that il
responsible for a large proportion Oh
the infanticide that is known
to exist in China The crims
is much more common in the south
than in the north; but it exists ev
erywhere and is especially prevaleni
when the people, who in their mos,
prosperous days are drinking the
dregs of poverty, find themselves un
able to procure enough food to kees
their children from starving.
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RELICS OF VIRGINIA.
TO Be Preserved by a Society of
Patriotic Women.
Occupation of Jamestown Island
Dates Back Three Centuries
Old Church in which POca-
hOntas WOrshiDed.
Especial Washington Letter.
GcVI IRGINIANs are proud

4lX IRGINIANS are proud of
" every chapter in the history
of their state" says Senator
Daniels. There are some paragraphs
IN some of the chapters which are not
SO brilliant as others; but, on the
whole we are proud of every chapter
in our history"
The occasion calling forth the re-
mark is the fact that Virginia is grow
ing old, and has history of almost 300
years. On the 25th of May will occur
the anniversary of the landing of Capt.
John Smith and his fellow-free hooters
upon the soil of Virginia, and the be-
ginning of the permanent establish
ment of the first white colony in this
republic of ours.
On May rs, 1907, now 296 years agone,
jamestown island was occupied and
preparations begun for town building.
This was Is years before the landing
OF the Pilgrims at Plymouth, so there
can be no doubt that this was the first
permanent white settlement upon the
land which now constitutes the United
States of Anne RIGA.
There are upwards of $4,000 Virgin
ians residing in the national capital,
making their livings as federal Office
holders. That is to say, that some 5000
office-holders from Virginia support
colony of $1,000 people, all of them in
tensely loyal to their state, and proud
of their lineage. Some 20 years ago
there began an annual exodus from
Washington to Jane stown to celebrate
the anniv ersary; and there will be no
hiatus in this procedure. The pilgrim
ages wiD begin two days before the an
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-10

advance the under Gen Sherman from Chattanooga
Atlanta
battlefield Gen Johnston vigorously opposing
the advance By the middle of Sheman
conflict in
accidentally
the September