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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21

WANTED-Young man who has had
some experience in retail store bus
mess, we'll recommended Inquire at
St. Paul store, Little Falls, MINI. 1889
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21

CITATION FOR HEAE!Nc ON PET1-
TON FOR DETEEINATION OF
DESCENT OF LAND.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21

FOR SALE-Two good full blood Dur.
oc Jersey boars from April. Pedi-
grees furnished. Henry w. Jansen,
route 7. box 5. CITY. 1913
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21

FOR SALE CHEAP-Two pure bred
registered Hereford bull calves. Will
sell cheap if taken soon. Mrs. Rose
Kerkhoff. Pierz, route 2. 1888
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21

MONEY TO LOAN on city property
and farms. Stephen G. Vasaly, Vas
ally building. Ia
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21

FOR RENT-E7ouse and small barn on
Joe Mrozik place, just southwest #
city limits. $500
The Press., 1919-04-24
CLAIM BLOOD OF ROMANS
Supposed to Be Descended From Once World Rulers.

The original gas-masked people of the world are the Tuaregs of the Sa- hara desert-a strange race, supposed to be descended from the Roman col onists of North Africa and the Arabs who carried the standard of Moham- med into the wilderness 1,2OO years ago. An immense and almost unknown country is held by the Tuaregs, a fierce fighting people, who range on swift camels from Algeria to Timbuc- too. Tales are told of white-walled man theaters, circuses and baths still standing as the Romans left them, and now the haunt of the Tuareg tribes men.
 The mystery that surrounds the Tuaregs is doubled by their custom of always going masked. A mask of white or black cloth covers the mouth and nostrils, and, so the Tuaregs say, protects them from the dust and windblown sand Of the desert, from the poisonous vapors of the Niger val leys, and, no doubt, from the disease germs. which float so freely in the filthy towns of Africa. Certain it Is that infectious diseases ravage other North African people, while the Tua- regs maintain magnificent health from year to year. Few travellers have ever seen the Tuaregs unmasked. Those who have declare that they are as white as any Europeans, and decidedly handsome. their pale skins doubtless being largely due to the mask which keeps off the burning sun.
The Press., 1919-04-24
ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO.
Secret of Sir Walter Scott's Marvellous Literary Achievements Told in
 Few Words.

Never to be doing nothing" was the simple but effective rule that enabled Sir Walter Scott to get done the enOr- nous amount of work for which he Is noted. A passage in Lockhart's life of the poet and novelist reads:
 '"Those who observed him the most constantly were never able to under stand how he contrived to keep him. Self so thoroughly up with the stream of contemporary literature of almost all sorts, French and German, as well as English. That rapid glance might tell him more than another man could gather by weeks boring may easily be guessed; but the grand secret was his perpetual practice of his own grand maxim. never to be doing nothing. He had no 'unconsidered trifles' of time. Every moment was turned to account 1; and thus he had leisure for everything except, indeed, the newspapers, which consume so many precious hours nowadays with most men, and of which. during the period of my ac- quainta1fce with him, he certainly read less than any other man I ever knew that had any habit of reading at all I should also except, speaking general ly, the reviews and magazines of the time. Of these he saw few, and of the few he read little."
The Press., 1919-04-24
TELEPHONE YEARS AGO.
April 26, 1888.
Items of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty-one years ago.

The Beckwith Card Co. have com pleted their removal to their new quarters on School street.
 The Methodist ladies are hard at work upon the May dinner and supper to be given at the church vestry next Tuesday.
 Harmony Temple of Honor elected the following officers last evening for the ensuing six months: w. c. T., A. E. Converse; w. V. T., F. J. Ohl; w. R., F. w. Howard; w. A. R., Charles Comins; w. F. R., R. s. McNeil; w. T., F. N. Crane; w. U., J. w. Mel bourne; w. D. U., A. Adams; w. G., A. Gilman; w. S., E. A., Cleaveland; ; P. w. c. T., A. J. Tilden.
 The "Pansy Club" of young ladies, which organized last week, will hold it's second meeting at the house of Mrs. M. A. Smith next Saturday at D. m. The club has Miss Annie M Crane for secretary, Miss Mary F. Lathrop treasurer, and is under the advisory directions of Mrs. Annie c. Butterfield, Miss Edith Baker and Miss Mary I. Newton.
 Born-Stafford 1st, daughter to Ar thur Schofield.
 WilIington, 9th, son to John Mahan
 Stafford Springs, 7th, daughter to Alex Domini; 17th, son to Emel Wuth
The Press., 1919-04-24
THE ARMADILLO AS A DIGGER
In a Tug-of-War With a Boy the Anti maj Won Out in Quite
 Easy Manner.

One day was standing on mound when an armadillo bofted from his earth and running to the very spot where was standing began vigorously digging to escape by burying himself in the soil.
 Neither men nor dogs had seen him, and I at once determined to capture 1t would prove very easy task.
 Accordingly laid hold of his black bone-cased tail with both hands and began tugging to get him off the ground. but couldn't move him. He went on digging furiously. getting deeper and deeper into the earth. and soon found that instead of me pull ing him out he was pulling me in af- ter him.
 It hurt my small boy pride to think that an animal no bigger than a cat was going to beat me in trial of strength, and this made me hold on more tenaciously than ever and tug and strain more violently, until not to lose him had to go flat on the ground. But 1t was all for nothing. First my hands, then my aching arms were carried down into the earth, and I was forced to release my hold and get up to rid myself of the mound he had been throwing up into my face and all over my head, neck and shoul- ders.-From Far Away and Long Ago" by w. H. Hodson.
The Press., 1919-04-24
DO YOU THINK IN PICTURES?
According to Men Who Have Studied the Subject, Most of Us Uncon.
 sciousIy Have That Habit.

A writer says: IA good many men and larger number of women and children think in pictures without tree, an oak or an elm, or pine-dO you see a composite tree of your owu design, or a particular tree you knew. perhaps, in childhood? Do you see it bare or in full leaf? If you are one of those who think in pictures, you will find that you always see the same picture for the same words" Prof. Francis Galton, F. R. S., is the expounder of this belief, and after all, is 1t not merely a return to the very origin of our written lan- guage, the hieroglyphs of Egypt? In that primitive time it is possible that word brought so clearly to mind mental vision of an object or an action that 1t could easily be summarized into an ideagraph. In our more complex life we have, of course, lost sight ot the facts and no longer realize that the word "tree' means to us well-de-
 fined object probably fixed in the brain by one of the minute lesions-or It's cicatrix-which science tells us are the sources of memory.
 We unconsciously assemble these va rious memories and unconsciously form of them pictures which, if we are sud- denly brought to ourselves, we mighs still retain on the minds retina for time, just as we retain dream images yiviIiy on suddenly awakening.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Observation of Plants.

There cannot be complete enjoy ment from growing towering plants unless the gardener Is sufficiently in- terested to watch them closely. ob- serving daily changes, trying different experiments and carefully studying the results It Is In this way we learn what certain plants like best-light or heavy soil, full exposure or partial shade, abundant moisture or moderately dry soil, what fertilizers produce the best results, and so on.
 When a lot of cuttings are made and placed In the sun, the base of the cuttings one after another turning black and the cuttings "damping" off, without the gardener trying the pan of cuttings in shaded place. the case seems hopeless. A gardener of this kind had better confine his efforts to few sturdy geraniums or other equally TO- bust, full-grown plants.
The Press., 1919-04-24
OF MAsAl WOMEN
Telegraph Wire Considered Choice Per- sonaI Adornment by Females of
 British East African Tribe.

Of all Africa's many tribes, none is more distinctive than the Nasal, that warlike race of British East Africa, whose women are regarded as the best looking of all negroes. They are slen- der, we'll formed, and lack the abnor- nal hips so characteristic of many oth- CT natives. Pride in personal adorn- ment is shown by ornaments of a re- markable nature, telegraph wire being spiral fashion.
 So awkward Is this remarkable jew elry that the wearer cannot walk prop erly, nor can she sit down nor rise like other human beings. Round her arms she has wire coiled both above and be- low her elbows, while still more wire is coiled round her neck horizontally, till the head seems to sit on an inverted iron salver. Put on at an early age, these ornaments must remain unless they are sawed off. As result of this compression the limbs remain like mere stilts, the wire frequently be- coming embedded into the flesh. Be- sides this iron wire, often weighing 30 pounds or more, great quantities of beads and iron chains are hung in va rious ways round the neck.
 During the period of engagement the girl wears round her head band cov- cred with cowries from which hang a number of strings forming bridal veil For the first time she dons real clothes, consisting of an apron in front, sus- pended from the shoulders behind. The hairs of the eyebrow are pulled out to further enhance her beauty.
The Press., 1919-04-24
TREE PUZZLE TO FORESTERS
Peculiar Formation Of Spruce Has Caused Speculation Among Men
 Learned in That Lore.

A cross section of great old spruce tree from Alaska tells the story of tree which executed spin, like bal let dancer. This cross section shows a most peculiar spiral structure, which has caused great deal of speculation among the various foresters through out the country and very interesting explanation is advanced in American Forestry.
 It is known that tree growing at slant forms on the lower side of the trunk a dense reddish wood known as "rotholz." This spiral in this case is of such sort, and as it is continuous formation, winding from the center to within half an inch from the circum- ference, it is surmised that it was growing in an inclined position on the edge of glacier, where by some shifting 1t was caused to rotate, so that all sides of the tree were success sively on the downward side. Thus, as the tree grew, and its rotation con- tinued slowly, the "rotholz" developed into spiral.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Varyinu Movements of Leaves.

Different species of trees move their leaves very differently, so that one may sometimes tell by the mo- tiOn of shadows on the ground, if he be too indolent to look up, under what kind of tree he is sitting. On the tulip-tree (which has tlie finest name that ever tree had, making the very prOnOuncing of it's name almost like the utterance of a strain of music Liridodendron tulipfera), on the tulip tree, the aspen, and on all native pop lars, the leaves have an intense indi- vidualism. Each one moves to suit itself. Under the same wind one is trilling up and down, another is whirl- ing, another slowly vibrating right and left, and others still, quieting themselves to sleep, as mother gently pats her slumbering child; and each one intent upon motion of it's own. Sometimes other trees have single frisky leaves, but usually the oaks, ma ples, beeches, have community of mo- tion. They are all acting together, or are all alike still.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The Press., 1919-04-24
The Bishop of Verdun.

St. Vanne, or Vitonius died Novem- Der 9, 1925. A celebrated cOngrega- tion of reformed Benedictines in LOT raine, formed in the abbey of St. Vanne in Verdun, in 1904, took him for patron. and from the famous abbey and that of Moyen-Moustier, dedicated in honor of St. Hydulphus, bears the name of St. Vanne and St. Hydulphus. Many in France desired to accede to the reform, but on account of the wars then existing, union was thought too difficult. A reform under the same plan was set on foot in France, under the name of the Congregation of St. Maur, and began in the abbey of St. Austin in Limoges in 1913, and con- tirmed by Gregory XIV, in 1927, which now comprises 1855 abbeys and pri- OrieS.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Early Protest Against Tipping.

The word tip, Is said to be derived from the initial letters of the pssrdsc "To Insure Promptness," but as tips" usually follow, inst~6d of preceding, service, they insure nothing, and as consequence anti.tipping crusades are constantly being threatened. But pro- tests against tipping are ty no means of modern growth. George l. com plained about it when he first came to the throne-and England. "This is a strange country" he declared. "The first morning after my arrival at St. James, I looked out of the window and saw a park with walks and a canal, which I was told were mine. The next day Lord Chetwynd. the ranger of my park, sent me a fine brace of carp out of my canal, and I was told I must give 5 guineas to Lord Chetwynd's servant for bringing me my own carp out of my own canal in my own park"
The Press., 1919-04-24
"cepatomteaoataturina."

Schoolmasters have often serious problems to solve. The following note, containing only one word. was recent ly handed to a Thanet pedagogue:
 "Cepatomtegoataturi
 The missive was rendered by one of the boys on behalf of neighbours child.
 The schoolmaster was nOnplussed for the moment. But he had received too many weirdly worded notes in his time to allow this one to baffie him. Albeit 1t was not till the work of the school was over and much tobacco had been consumed that the word at last yielded its mystery:
 Kept at home to go a-taturing."- London Chronicle.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Ever "Catch q Tartar7S

Catching a Tartar" does not refer to the Tartars around Russia, or rath- CT 1t does not mean that a Tartar Is so very hard to catch. The expression originated century ago, when the Russians and Tartars were having little war. A Russian soldier called to his captain that he had caught a Tartar. Bring him along," replied the captain. The soldier called back: "Yes. but he won't let me-" It came out that the Tartar had caught the Russian soldier. and so to this day when a man tries to catch some body else and himself gets caught he is said to have "caught a Tartar"
The Press., 1919-04-24
Samoan Politeness Costly.

Conceptions of politeness run many freakish gamuts but in the opinion of Lieut.. Com. Stanley M. Mathes, visit or in Honolulu, the palm goes to the Samoans. When a man rendered his Samoan servant pack of cigarettes from which to extract a smoke, Com mander Mathes grinned broadly. "You can't do that with all Samoans," said he. '"Their conception of the proper thing to do Is to take not one cigarette, but to take i've" Frequently when Samoan chiefs visit the naval officers at Pago Pago they demonstrate how polite they can be. For instance, when a box of cigars is placed on a table, the guest takes as many as he can get into one handful. When he is about to depart he goes to the box and takes another handful, token of politeness. And be it said for the Samoan that when a visitor enters a Samoan home said visitor Is expected to be lavish in helping himself.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Puttino it Plainly.

Among the many good stories con- tained in the private papers of Ad- miral Sir William Hotham, is one about Gen. O'Hara, who, as governor of Gibraltar, discovered that an off, cer who had lately joined had come on parade with an umbrella.
 The wind that day was easterly, and the general perhaps was unduly affected by this circumstance, but in very unmeasured terms he ordered the delinquent to throw away the offend ing implement; and after adding other comments, concluded thus: And pray, sir, in future understand that you are not to appear upon this parade with an umbrella-no, not if it is raining bikes with the sharp points down. wards "-London Tit-Bits.
The Press., 1919-04-24
ThouQhtS In Music.

A girl, artistic to her very finger tips, had been learning to play the piano. for six years, and had come to hate music. She was a victim of the prevalent mechanical mode of teaching. On being questioned, she admitted that there was one thing that interested her-a tune written by herself. 'I loved to do 1t, and I can sing it." Here she had used her own initiative, and the exercise of it had made her happy. Teachers will find that all children are interested in thinking music, and that the interest grows where otherwise it Is apt to flag" The value of folksongs is di- lated on, and the author has found that boys like the Wagner motives, some of which are as simple as folk songs.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Story of Horror.

Doubt was expressed in print re- gently that many of the present gen. eration had read "Frankenstein." Ger tainly the knowledge of that book Is not too general to forbid a narration of the circumstances under which it was written. Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley was the wife of the poet. In her seventeenth year she eloped with Shelley to the continent, and he mar ried her after his first wife, Harriet, committed suicide. Byron and Shell ley and Mary, in the summer of 1916. were living near the Lake of Geneva. Being bored during a rainy week, they whiled away the dull hours by reading German ghost stories, and finally agreed to write limitations of them. Byron wrote the "Vampire" and Mary wrote 'Frankenstein." It is the story of a man of that name who, after many horrible experiments, created a mon- ster eight. feet high, who thereafter haunted him, murdered his friend and and strangled his bride. Frankenstein pursued his monster to the arctic re- gions. There he died of cold and re- morse. The monster thereupon van. ishedi
The Press., 1919-04-24
Mystic Shrine

The Ancient and Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was found- ed 1,4OO years ago at Mecca, Arabia. The modern order is of comparatively recent origin. It was founded at New York in 1871 by William J. Florence, the actor. It contains legend as to Arabic origin and on its altars rest copies of the Bible and the Koran. The Mystic Shriners are an entirely sepa- rate organization from the Masonic or der. However, one of the provisions of membership is that the applicant must be either Scottish Rite Mason, that is to say, Mason of the thirty second degree, or a member of the or der of Knights Templar.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Legend of the Garnet.
InaIienabIe Feminine Rioht.

"How much is the watermelon, MT. BrownY' asked ragged little miss of four years.
 "Oh, go long with you," replied the grocer. "Your mamma hasn't given you any money to spend on watermel- Ons"
 "Well," rejoined the child, haven't I got as good right to go shoppin' as the other ladiesT
The Press., 1919-04-24
GAVE LIFE FOR HER PEOPLE
Pretty Legend Concerning Maiden Worthy to Be Known as Indian
 Joan of Arc.

In the great northwestern country, between the mighty Rockies and the beautiful Cascades, are the mountains called the Huckleberry range. They spread their arms comfortably about the many small mining towns of Wash ington. A soldierly array of pines and tamaracks keep watch over all the inhabitants of Huckleberry range-the rough farmers, rugged miners and the few native redskins still left.
 A large tribe of Indians once lived in these mountains, from the heights of which one can look far over the blue haze of Idaho, view the gleaming wide ribbon of the Columbia river, or behold the white tips of the Canadian Rockies.
 A tale is stold by the folk of Huckle- maid of this ancient Indian tribe. Dur ing one of the many forest fires of the region. when the entire range seemed threatened with destruction, this Indian Joan of Arc gathered in her arms some little pink and white flowers and disappeared down the winding trail.
 She went to the very edge of the fire. where the dried grasses hissed and siZzled with the flames and the blazing pines stretched out scorching fingers toward her and the dainty peace offering. Then-the legend says the Great Spirit was appeased and sheets of rain hid the brave Indian maid from the view of her people.
 Never more was Camas seen by her tribe, but every spring since then the strange little pink and white flowers have covered the wide mountains of Huckleberry range. In honor of the Indian girl the blossom is called the Camas flower.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Frost Forests.

One beautiful use his window had, one glorious use, one entertainment. In the depth of winter sometimes of mornings when he got out of bed and went to open the shutter, on the windowpanes would be forest of gilt tering trees. The first time he beheld such forest, he stood before 1t spell bound; wondering whether there were silvery birds singing far off amid the silvery boughs, and what wild crea- lures crouched in the tall, stiff frost grass. From the ice-forests on the windowpanes his thoughts always re- turned to the green summer forest on the distant horizon.-James Lane AL len. in "The Kentucky Warbler"
 Legend of the Garnet.
 The Indians who live in Arizona have a great deal of sentiment about the garnet mines, 1t is said, and there are numerous legends concerning 1t, one of which is that centuries ago on a cold winter night the little daughter of great Indian chief died, and as she passed away Indians standing out side the place where she lay noticed an immense multitude of sparks that flew up from the chiefs chimney and settled upon the mountain side, where they shOne as brightly as stars, never growing cold and dead.
 Later they sank into the earth and formed the garnets that gem the entire mountain.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Simple Iastea.

q suppose you will use a few fig ures of speech"
 "No," replied Senator Sorghum "the people haven't much liking for rhetor- ical figures. What they want now is plain arithmetic"
The Press., 1919-04-24
Handicap Can Be Overcome.

Misery besets the man who has chosen his work unwisely. He Is un- happy for the reason that he knows his blundering choice of a vocation is keeping him from making the most of his talents for his own good and so- ciety's.
 Even so, If he will but cultivate a keener sense of the social value of whatever work he Is trying to do, he may gain therefrom a stimulus en- abling him to surprising extent to overcome his vocational handicap, and at the same time giving him the peace of mind he has hitherto lacked.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Early Prohibition in England.

Prohibition under stress of necessity does not first make its appearance in America. England before now has submitted to It. In the years of mur- rain and famine during the reign of Edward III, when the poor stole ''fatte dogges to eat" when "theeves that were in prison did pluck in pieces those that were newly brought amongst them, and greedlly devoured them halfe alive" then we had prohibition. The king forbade all malting of corn for ale making, and so, we are told greatly relieved the national distress. London Chronicle.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-03

through the Rue des ResesvolsA
y!liiae lostiy % thsy ls!ssl ~
Hotel dee Reservolrs. The dele.
cation, however. had the appear.
ance of seeking 10 make 1 pro.
Clemenceau. rather than an nnti-
German demonstration.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-03

The iIset disturbance Of the or
derly sottins around German
hesdquarters occurred this after
noon when \ procession Of Youths
cheering for Premier Clemenceau
and carrying plaesrds reading:
viva 10 France 7" mached