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/ THE LONG AGO. Some Reflections on the First Settlement at Jamestown. THE NATION GROWS. The Greatest Imposition and the Lessons It Will Teach and the Lessons It should Have Taught Instead. Dm* People Should lie Taught The Arts o f Peace and Not of War. Three hundred years a^o, says the American Farmer, counting from the 13th of this month of May, several boatloads of Englishmen rowed up the James river, landed at a spot some thirty miles above the present city of Norfolk,'Va., and established what proved to be a permanent colony. That was the beginning of the United States. While men had previously visited parts of the coast and tarried awhile, but until the little party stopped at Jamestown was there a settlement that abided. The outlook was dreary and the hardships great for many years after the landing. King Powhatan, with his warlike Indians, controlled all that section of the country, and resented the intrusion of the Pale Faces. Wars and massacres were numerous. The little colony was often on the brink of starvation, and would surely have been exterminated but for the occasional arrival of recruits from Europe. Hunger forced them to utilize as food certain plants and fruits which they found growing wild, but with whose properties thev were hithortn nnai'imnintrwl Tlimr learned from the Indians that a tuber which produced a purple flower after running its roots in the ground, was of an edible nature, and though a rather poor and scrawny affair, was betted than nothing to allay the pangs of hunger. They dug it up, planted it in their gardens and in time greatly improved its quality. This was the first cultivation of the potato in North America. Another important discovery was made destined to exercise a potential influence in the agricultural world and contribute enormously to the wealth of nations. An aromatic shrub, growing wild in the savannahs and swamps aronnd the Chickahominy, was plucked by the Indians, dried in the sun and used to make smoke in pipes. The settlers observing this, gathered, replanted and cultivated what in time became the celebrated tobacco of commerce. Thus it will be seen that Americar agriculture had its beginning here an infant industry, indeed, but orn which in course of years was to re suit in something to amaze the civil ized world. Four years after th( first arrivals stepped ashore a ship load of cattle was sent over fron England, and this was the germ oi live srock industry of the Unitec States. They were not the fine cat tie we see now, only the commoi scrub cattle of Europe, which wer< the best the world then afforded but poor and scrawny as they wer< they proved a blessing to the infan settlement on the James. By degree; the Indians were conquered or beat en back, and the colonists were abb to snread out their farms as fai back as the falls of the great river but fully a century elapsed befor< white men were able to cross the A1 leghanies and find lodgment 01 streams that flowed to the west Much history has been enacted sine* the fateful arrival of the three boat loads of men. Revolutions, wars rebellions, the making and overthrov of governments, in fact the mos marvelous achievements of the hu man race occurred between the da tes of May 18, 1(507, and May 13 1907, when this number of the Amer ican Farmer* goes out to tell abou it. Three centuries is not a lonj time in the life of a world, merely i span when measured with eternity but no similar space of time has beei fraught with events of such impor tance to the human race. And now a great exposition is ii progress to emphasize and celebrat what has occurred during this mem orable interval. One would thinl that it would be devoted to showini what had been done for the educa tion and uplifting of man, what fo his comfort and happiness, what ad vance had been made in the arts o peace, and especially the growth an development ot agriculture. Un th contrary, we learn that the "entic ing splendors of war" have bee placed to the fore, magnified beyon all measure. The original appropr ation of $200,000 for the whole shoi has been almost equaled by the oui lay upon the military part of the e? position alone. Even the memoric of the civil war, something better t be forgotten, are to be freshene by a spectacle of one of its mos tragical battles simply to attract an and amuse a crowd of careless spec tators. Guns and gunboats are gi\ en a primacy as the exponents i these three hundred years. Whs would the founders of the Republi say to this amazing program? D we not know well, have we not thei solemn word, that it is treason to a for which they labored and to whic they aspired? It was precisely t help the world away from these banc / THIEF YIELDS Surrenders His Loot to Girl on Promise of Liberty. | A Miss Mlslo Holmes, of Brooklyn, Kinds a KohlxT Looting Her Home And Stops llim. Miss Elsie Holmes, a pretty young woman, who lives with her father, F. M. Holmes, at 675 Decatur street, ! Brooklyn, told an interesting story j of how she came upon a burglar in her room and agreed not to give an alarm after the thief had surrendered her dead mother's ring. Strange to relate, the heroine neither fainted nor screamed when she came across the burglar. Miss Holmes is a brunette and is twenty years old. The burglar got into the house while she was doing some shopping. This is her story: "I went into the house on my return from shopping. Father had gone to his oflice and I was alone. I went up stairs to my room to remove my ........... .....1 1 ? 1 J i- - wiapo, tuin, ti^ i y^moceu in ine mirror, ! saw the reflection of a man's face. I was very much frightened, but I did not faint or scream. "1 looked around for the man, and as 1 did so he ran over and caught me by the throat and forced me into a chair. " 'Keep (piiet,' he said, 'and I won't hurt you. I want to explain my presence here. My wife and children are starving, and I have been forced to steal to provide them with food. But if you do not alarm the police 1 will give you back everything 1 have taken and will go away.' "I told him that if he would do this 1 would let him go away without warning the police. Then he began to take from his pockets a lot of jewelry he hhd taken from a drawer in my dresser. "One of the things he took from his clothes was my dead mother's ring, I begged him not to take that, even if he took everything else, as it was my mother's ring; that she had been dead eight years and that it i would break my father's heart if he 1 lost it." " 'Miss,' he said, 'I will not take the ring or anything else. I was a gentleman once, and my mother loved me. She does not dream that I have come to this. But, as you value this ring, so do I my liberty, and I want you to swear to me that you will not try to have me arrested." "I thought of his wife and children and of his promise, and I assured him i that I would not put the police on i his track. "I walked down stairs and opened 1 the front door for him. As he went i down the steps he lifted his hat to me and walked rapidly away. I felt i very sorry for him. He was a young , man." J After the polite burglar had left, - Miss Holmes telephoned her father. - Mr. Holmes did not take so charitai ble a view of the matter as had his - daughter, and he notified the Brooki lyn police. They are looking for the ? burglar. _ FOHTFLLS 10 AIMHQ lT A K K 1 2 American in Mexico Was Warned by ^ Parrots Screaming. i- It has been advised that the Mets eorological bureau of Mexico ought ~ to supply Its stations with parrots, ~ since the recent earthquake shocks. Ij. C. Crutclier, an American conduct? 5 or on the Mexican Central railroad, - says he was warned an hour in adi vance that there would be an earth quake by the srceaming of parrots, Mr. Crutcher arose when he heard the parrotts in the house giving forth ' their yells of distress, and, dressing, v went out on the street. When the t tueinors came the parrotts yelled - louder than ever and never ceased - until the last quake was over. lie , said he never knew parrots to fail . to give warning of an approaching ^ earthquake. ? BOAT CAPSIZMI). a ^ Two Young Ladies Were Drowned ami Men Saved Themselves. q A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C., e says a boat on the Catawba river _ capsized Thursday and Misses Fulbright and Coble were drowned. Another lady was rescued and two men ? of the party saved themselves. h ... ful old vanities and wrongs that they ^ founded the American Union. Washington's words concerning war, c "with all its enticing splendors," were: "My first wish is to see this n plague to mankind banished from the (j earth." There is no criticism upon j. a proper display of military and na^ val ships as an incident of the exposition l?nt to nrrancro it nvufneoltr ^ v? V'? V?V? VV MA A 1 U V./V J/l t-OO 1 J (_ as a festival of war instead of a cei>s ebration of peace is a woeful ana0 chronism. It is especially abhorrent (j and out of place at the very time .t The Hague tribunal for the settle^ ment of all international disputes by arbitration is in session, and when the World's Peace Society is meeting n and debating means to stamp out forever that curse of all curses to c the human race, that crime against 0 civilization involved in the wholesale r murder of the people of one nation II by those of another in order to gratis ify the barbarous taste for blood n and the ambitious desire for what is called "military glory." . \ TERRIBLE PICTURE Drawn of the Conditions of the Upper Congo lly a Preacher Who Had Just Returned from That Tiihappy oiul Much Abused Country. The Rev. Charles Pad field, of the Congo Balolo Mission, who has Just ( returned rrom the upper Congo, lias made the following interesting statement to a representative of Router's Agency at London. "I have been three and a half years on the Congo, mainly in what are known as the Abir and Lulango territories, which were visited two years ago by the Congo commission I of inquiry. "The Congo administration has now taken the territories of the Abir Company under direct control, and if you must know what in. a practical sense this means. I will answer that question in the language of a native chief to me; If you call a leopard something else, does he become some thing else?" "Ordinary commercial methods are unknown and the native country, or regular soldiers of the Force Publique, takes the place of the trader in more favored parts of Africa. Some of my colleagues found villages living under the shadow of the sentry rifle. Their reports were forwarded, I believe, to the foreign ofllce. Owing to various causes I have been unable to travel to any extent lately; but heavy fighting in the Upper Lopori and Upper Maaringa lias been admittedly taking place for several months past. "I do not like to think of what is going on there. Just before I left a whole crop of rumors reached Baringa. Of course, 1 am not in a position to guarantee their accuracy, but from what we have seen ourselves at Baringa before the advent of the commission, there is but too much reason to believe in their substantial I truth. Fighting and massacre, prisoners shot, misery and outrage?that is the burden of the story. A pathetic message reached me by devi WHO II <i,> o I l will cl IWUK IIIKUIIKH! llllillHl as I was preparing to leave. Why do not missionaries come up into our country to save us from being killed for rubber.? i "When sheer robbery is the basis! of everything what can the outlook be? 'Atrocities' are only one aspect of the question. The system itself is simnly dibolical, resting, as it does, upon forcible appropriation of everything. "On my return home I made a point of visiting Duala, in the German Camerons, and New Calabar, in the Niger protectorate, to see for myself how tlie administration works in those colonies, and more than ever did I realize, as I saw and noted the extraordinary and profound difference between the principles of rule in those places, that everything on the Congo is a nightmare of brutal deunAtioin onrl niMioltif " mill rtllll \'l UCIIJ' The Interview with Mr. Padfleld was submitted l?y Iteuter to a highly-placed official in Brussels, who gave the state. Oddities of the Calendar. The first and last days of the year are always the same day. October always begins on the same day of the week as January, April as July, September as December, and February, March and November on the same day. May, June and August always begin on different days from each other and from every other day in the year. ONLY REMEDY tHEUMATISM T< ___CURED. - f( c r* - 7 1 "Makes You Well All Over." 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Holler left Elloree Friday afternoon to put out nets in the pond. Young Irick and Weeks were in the boat together and Mr. I rich not lieing an experienced paddler the boat in some way sank, in ine cenire or (lie stream. Mr. Weeks jumped from the boat into the water aiul called to Irick to do likewise. Mr. Irick, not realizing the imminent danger stood up in the sinking l>oat, presumably waiting for his chance to swim to land. His head was swept under by a wave and it is thought he became strangled and lost his wits. Young Weeks went to his assistance and he was seized by the drowning man with a deathlike grip. In the struggle both came very near being drowned, Weeks doing all he could to save him. He managed to tear away from the drowning man, and being exhausted of strength and excited barely escaped. Mr. Holler was at such a distance that he could not lend assistance. As soon as the news reached Blloree a searching party was formed and the body recovered about eight o'clock and brought^ to Mr. Irlek's home. Mr. Trick was about 22 years old and was in the employ of Mr. J. M. Weeks, as salesman. He was a quiet unassuming young man and was liked by all witli whom he came in contact. Besides his father and mother and seven al sisters and one brother he leaves a young bride of two months. Sliuior KllililOl) By an Kxplosion of a Can of Dynamite by Accident. An explosion of dynamite at John Linn's sheep camp in Trapper Creek, Big Horn county, Wyoming, Thursday night, killed 700 sheep and completely destroyed camp wagons and other possessions of the camp. Tho story of the outrage was told by a herder who said that a hand of masked men raided the camp and after binding him securely, arranged for the work of destruction. A similar attack was made upon a sheep camp in the Trapper Creek section two years ago. , T-K1UURLH HCFFEKIXG. 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