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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
Senator Davis is Much BETTER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Senator Davis
Is great deal better; almost we'll; in fact
but for the exceedingly bad weather, his
physician would have permitted him to
60 to the capitol Tuesday as he anted
tn
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Four Men Killed by q Gas Explosion.

WILKEsBARRE, Penn, Feb. GA ter
rife explosion of mine gas occurred at
slope No. 1 at Nanticoke. Four men
were fatally burned.
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TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
Wreck of the British Ship Abercorn With
.'.--- Ali ON Board Save Two.

.'.--~ Ali on Board Save Two.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.-Advices were
received here Monday to the effect that a
vessel, supposed to be the British bark
Abercorn, bound from Maryport, Eng
land, to Portland, Or, was wrecked on
the Washington territory coast on
the night of Feb. 1. The sea was 80
high that the officers and crew could not
leave the vessel. They tried to do so, but
failed, and all persisted except two sea.
men and an apprentice. 1t was thought
that twenty lives were lost.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
M;nne.ota sher,f,. IN ses.ion,

ST. PAUL, Feb. 3.-The Sheriffs' asso-
citation, of Minnesota, met at Sheriff
Richter's office in the county building
Thursday afternoon. A lot of miscel-
laneous business was transacted and off,
GERS elected. A social session Of the as
ISOLATION was held in the evening after
the ice palace storming.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09

ST. PAUL, Feb. THE Montana Gen.
trail company is authorized to construct
the following lines of railroad in Montana
territory: Great Falls to Helena, y8
miles; Helena to Butte, 70 miles; Helena
TO Rimini, is miles; Marysville Junction
to Marysville, Z miles; Great Falls to
Sand Coulee, Is miles; total, 212 miles.
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09

Hanlan talks of settling in Australia.
Work on the Spalding house and Hotel
st. Louis, at Duluth, has been recon-.
menced.
During 1887 there was not single fore
closure Of a mortgage within the limits
of st. Louis county, MINI.
Herman F. Harmon, an uncle of Mrs.
Cleveland, her mothers brother, died
Friday in Charlestown, Mass.
The Blakey saw mill, near Seattle,
Washington territory, was totally des-
troyed by fire Friday. The lumber adj
Joining was still burning Saturday.
The gymnasium of Racine college, nea
Racine Junction, Wis, was destroyed by
fire Saturday night. Loss, $1,000. None
of the main buildings were touched.
Sir John Macdonald says the fisheries
commission has considered number Of
questions, and all except two or three
are disposed of, but declines to indicate
what the questions were.
The department of state at Washing
ton having received the twelfth install
ment Of Mexican indemnity, announces
that it is now prepared to distribute the
same among the parties interested.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
How sunnowers Absorb Malaria.

A recent observer of sunflowers attri.
butes their anti-malarial action to their
absorption of water from the soil, as well
Is to their accredited properties of absorb.
Ing malarial germs, and emitting much
oxygen. During June, 1886, quarter
Of an acre of sunfowers exhaled in the
form Of vapor an average Of sixty-fiva
gallons OF water daily.--Arkansaw Trst.
Olar. -
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NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Interesting Items Briefly Chronicled for
Our Readers.
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Inc coinage at Gne minus during jan
parry was Sc, O9S, 240, of which 50, 700, QUO
were standard dollars.
The Anglican synod of Nova Scotia
elected the Rev. Dr. Courtney, of st.
Paul's church, Boston, as bishop of Nova
Scotia.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to
resume work at the Reading collieries
at Mt. Carmel, Penn, but few hands
responded.
The president has approved the act
authorizing the construction of a rail-
road, wagon and foot passenger bridge
across the river at Burlington, Iowa.
The county commissioners of High
more, Oak, have sworn out warrant
for ex-Treasurer James on charge of
embezzling $1l, 900 of the county funds.
st. Paul Typographical union gave its
fourth annual ball at Market hall We'd
nesday evening.
The 500 has transferred over 200 cars
-four to the Canadian Pacific at the Sault
during the week.
The Duluth is hauling as many freight
cars to freight train now as is custom
airy to take in the summer.
A pair of twins born in Somersetshire,
England, recently, were named "Ju'
and" Billy" IN honor Of the queens jubi-
lee.
The Burlington & Northern's eastern
connections on the new low tariff are
the Great Eastern, National Dispatch
and Ontario Dispatch.
John O'Connor, acting for H. P.
Christy, of Detroit, Mich, has just sold
$12O, 600 worth of pine land to Borworth
& Riley at Chippewa Falls.
The Duluth, South Shore 6 Atlantic
are placing contracts for forty new loco
motives, thirty new passenger coaches,
800 ore cars and number of baggage,
express and mail cars.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
MINNESOTA RAILWAYS.

Annual Report of the Commissi0ners.--
Increase in Mileage
ST. PAUL, Feb. 4.-The annual report
of the state railroad and warehouse
commission to the governor for the
year ending Nov. 80, 1887, was
made public Friday. It shows that SOB
miles of new road were built in the state
during 1887, and that A, 81 miles of road
are now in operation. Freight earnings
increased nearly 81 900, 900, while passen-
ger earnings decreased 5000
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09

Albany, N. Y, has twelve cases of
smallpox.
There is now no difficulty from snow on
any OF the main lines of the Northwest
ern roads.
The pope's jubilee presents are valued
at $50, 000, 900, more than half of which
is in ready money.
There will be a partial eclipse of the
sun next month, and any one can see it
by going to South America.
Bad management and too many office
seekers has caused an almost total col
lapse of the Knights of Labor organiza-
ton in New Hampshire.
The Minnesota supreme court has de-
cided that the high license law is consti-
tutional, but that wholesale dealers are
not liable to the 81, 900 license.
j. K. Sidle's will was read in Mime
apolis. 1t leaves the entire income of
property to his wife. At her death it is
to be divided among his children.
wilkins, the man who married and
lived with five different women at the
same time in st. Paul was arrested at
Pelican Rapids and taken to the scene Of
his exploits Monday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
title Falls & Dakota.
Minnesota & Northwestern R'y.

This train runs Mondays. Wednesdays and
fridays. This train runs tuesdays, Ihurs-
do vs and SATURDAYS,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
Fire at st. Anne


Kankakee county, ILL.,, destroyed dozen
business buildings.
The exports, exclusive Of specie, at the
port of New York, for the week ending
Feb. 8. amounted to 80, 0S6, sos.
A contract has been made by Chip
pewa Falls logger to put in zoe, 0O0, 600
feet of lumber for Laird & Norton, Of
@Winona.
The Burlington is Offering rates of one
fare and one-third for the round trip
from all points on its line in Minnesota
for persons desirious of attending the
encampment in Minneapolis, Feb. %
and "a.
The announcement of the sale of Libby
prison to Chicago capitalists, while it Gre
ates considerable surprise, causes no I'M
favorable comment in Richmond. Evil
IDENTIFY the citizens of that Southern city
are not particularly anxious to keep such
reminder of the war.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09

iooIo Arrive
." ponI STATIONS. st. Paul.
fs.I0 :, MISt- Louis Kas City Expit 1850 M
9.aS :, $3.50 A M
Chicago, Waterloo & Du-
7:O5 M bulue express. o:3O M
Randolph, NOrth1eld Far
4:3O p M iuault & Waterville acc. fll:ZO AN
Dodge Centre. Rochester,
4.3OP N Austin and Lyle acc. lfllIO AM
Daily ex. Sunday, ex. Saturday. Exc
Sonday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
Sullivan has SO far made $25, 900 on his
tour to Great Britain,

Sullivan has SO far made $25, 900 on his
tour to Great Britain.
The Montgomery & Florida narrow
gauge road has been put in the hands Of
q receiver.
Parson Davies will take speciality
company on the road, including Evan
Lewis and Muldoon, the wrestlers.
The Sporting Life says: vogel, the
new amateur pitcher signed by st. Paul,
win, it is believed, make his mark next
season.
The Methodist church of Fremont.
Ohio, Of which ex-President Hayes is q
member, burned Monday. Loss, $23,.
600; insurance, $4,000.
The treaty between Italy and Germany
stipulates that il France attacks either
country the other shall send an army Of
SOO, OOO men to the French frontier.
The rumor that Mr.. Stickney, of tho
Chicago, st. Paul q Kansas City road
has purchased q controlling interest i'm
the Winona & Southwestern is generally,
credited.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
TO LIVE, TO LOVE, TO DIE.

In Il beautiful land, by Al heaven-it sea,
Lo! these were the gifts of God to men,
Three wonderful giits-ay. more than three
To live, to love, to die--aud then?
To live to feel the mighty thrill
Of vital force through nerve and vein:
To think, to know, to move, to will.
And rule world from a human brain.
To love with a JOY as keen as pain,
With a power that holds cen death at bay,
With love that brings to life again
Dead hopes that have slept for many II day.
There is something sweet in cen the hour
That hangs the blackest before the day;
For we look beyond the glooms that lower
And hail the dawn zone away.
And them" Appeareth not what then shall be
Our sight is too short we cannot sean
The far horizon, where the boundless sea
Rolls lreighted with countless gifts for man.
What "then" it will be to simply live
Is more than human heart can know,
When deathless forces we shall receive,
And immortal powers through us shall flow.
What then shall be to us to live,
With perfect love that shall make in one
The parted spirits that meet above,
And blend like miSts that seek the sun.
All, We have not learned, and shall not know
Till we master the lesson God giveth here.
To live, to love, TO die below
Then rise to the things that shall appear.
The Marble Cross.
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hitzenhe
Big Cut in Prices at

Mrs. Litzenberg's.
Not old stock; my holiday
trade was SO good. Many
staple goods were closed out.
filled every available space
this week with new goods.
Wraps, Coats and Furs for
Ladies and Children below
cost.
All Millinery Goods at or
below cost.
Fine Felt Hats, new shapes,
soc.
French Wings and Birds
for less than cost of importa-
ton.
Great reduction in all Dress
Fabrics.
Astrichan, Plush and Cloth
down IN price.
Real Seal Coat Fastenings
25c per pair.
Black hair Fur Trimming,
z inches wide, 25c.
Four-button, stitched-back
Perfect Kid Gloves, imported,
75c per pair this month only.
Special sale of Handker-
chiefs this month.
Merino-wear for Ladies and
Children. The lowest prices
ever offered.
Beautiful Ruchings.
Braid Decorations.
Silk Lace.
Flouncing.
Edglng.
Nets.
A novelty in the way of a
Bargain Table. Prices no
object. Goods to be sold.
Butterick' S Patterns.
Mrs. l.. H. LITzENBERG,
Elkton, Maryland.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

Church was over, and, as usual, a
company of women we're standing
about the doorway talking and laugh
ing, probably not concerning the
sermon. Soon a young man ac-
quainted with the group approached,
saying: "Aren't you ever going
home? You are blocking up the way
like Baalam's ass" "You are wrong
there, replied young lady with a
toss Of the head. 1T was the an
gels who blocked the way and the
ass made a fuss about it.
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Scarlet Fever

Having appeared in our village
Darby's ProphYlactic Fluid was used
for disinfecting the College buildings.
The disease never went beyond a
single case, either in the College or
elsewhere, where the Fluid was used.
Rev. Pres. G.. F. Price, Auburn,
Alabama.
Darby's Fluid dispels all forms of
epedemic diseases by destroying the
SPORES or germ poison that cause
contagion.
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Stom ach.

"Ayer's Pills have benefited Iwon-
derfully. For months l suffer from
Indigestion and Headache, wasstless
at night, and had bad tasta my
mouth every morning. Aftenking
one box of Ayers Pills, aIthese
troubles disappeared, my food tested
well, and my sleep was refresig =
Henry c. Hemmenway, RockpoLIass.
Having long suffered from oss of
Appetite and General Debility. COM
nenced taking
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Immediate Relief.

They effect a permanent cure, if taken
according to directions.
"For a number of years my health
was almost destroyed by Biliousness.
This ailment commenced in Costiveness.
Indigestion, Headache, and Dizziness
soon followed. 1 became weak, enact
ated, and totally untitled for work of
any kind | tried various remedies,
but nothing afforded me any relief until
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
No Base Imitator.

There is a floor walker in one of the
large dry goods stores in the city whose
great toes point toward each other in
the most friendly manner.
"What will you have, madam" SAID
he to an Irish woman who was looking
helplessly around.
"Calico."
"Walk this way"
"Walk that way is 1t Sure L d have
ye to know sur, that my legs is moi
built like that, and | couldn't walk that
way if you d give me the whole sture." "
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
CORD WOOD WANTED,

TNHE MCCULLOUGH IRON COMPANY win
buy I.COO CORDS ti OAK A ID CHEST
NUT WOOD. to be delivered between July LIST
and December 1st. 1855. shore of North East
River or at their Carbon Works near North Eas,,
Maryland. For specifications and particulars
apply mt once. either personally or by letter, to
county. Md. or to the Gttce of Mccullough Iron
Company at North East F1it3
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

Asking a neighbor why mutua
friend had not financially prospered, he
replied, "Charley knows the worth Of
one hundred dollars, but not of one
dollar?' That told the story. And it
tells the story of the fruitlessness OF
many in higher fields than that of secu-
lar business. They know the worth of
the great opportunities, but not of the
smaller, everyday opportunities and so
lose all.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

Little Ned, having recently moved
into the neighborhood, strayed away
from home so far he was unable to find
his way back. When his absence be-
came known it created panic in the
household, and every member started
out to hunt for the little runaway.
After searching for an hour, or two he
was found by an older brother, who
said to him Ned, Neddie, you have
made great rumpus." At bedtime he
commenced his little prayer:
Now lay me down to sleep,
pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If | should die before 1 wake
(and after hesitating moment con-
tinued)-
What a "wumpus" that would
make.
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Easily Solved,

Some Of the problems OF life may be
easily answered, if we can content our
selves with practical solution. Facts
may be less satisfactory on the surface,
than spread-eagle oratorY. but they will
sometimes persist in thrusting them
selves forward.
"Wny haven't a six-hundred-ac
farm as well as that man riding by in
his carriage?" yelled a red-nosed
Anarchist orator, as he glared at the
crowd.
"Because he saved six hundred dol.
lars, and bought his farm when it cost
him one dollar an acre, and you poured
your six hundred dollars down your
throat" responded man on the back
seat, and the orator asked no more
conundrums.-ChicagO Tribune.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
Rem edieS,

L am convinced that Ayers Pts give
the most satisfactory results. I.ly ex-
clusively on these Pills for the.ure of
liver and stomach complaints , John
b. Bell, Sr., Abilene, Texas
=" For three years / was aff1ictt with
Liver Complaint. 1 tried the be- ply
sicians in the country, but witllut re-
lief, and was advised to use
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Good Health

I attribute entirely to Ayers Pills. -
Thomas Mccartney, Pittsburgh, Pa.
C. ID. Moore, a well known merchant
of Elgin, ILL.,, writes as follows In
digestion, Headache, and Loss of Appe-
tite had so weakened my system that L
was compelled to give up work. After
being under the doctors care for two
weeks, and receiving no benefit, l began
the use of Ayers
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
AYERS PILLS

With the use of half box of thmedi.
cine, my appetite and streng were
restored. &C. o. Clark, DanburConn
"Ayer's Pills cured me of Liv Com
plant, two years ago, since lich
have been in first rate health. 1T. w
Cluck, Jefferson, Tenn.
was greatly troubled with .-spep
sia for four years /; part of the me Sc
badly l could retain little or food
on my stomach. 1 made use oAyer's
Pills, dieting myself at the san time
and effected a perfect cure. Mhealtl
is now excellent. Thos. o. ,ukius
Provincetown, Mass.
"After varied experience wit many
so-called cathartic
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

Papa tc Johnnie, four years old
Won't you have another piece Of
duck, Johnnie?
Johnnie-Yeth, thir, l believe
will. Duck'th my tavorite chicken
'cept turkey.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
AYERS PILLS.

They cured me speedily, and are the
best cathartic in use" &c. S. Wander
Itch, Scranton, Pa.
"I was Frustrated with a severe Bill
ious Complaint. After vainly trying a
number of remedies, | was finally in
duced to use Ayers Pills. L had
scarcely taken two boxes when COM
pletely cured, and L have had no re-
currence of the malady."- Erastus
Southworth, Bath, Me.
ayers Pills have done their work
well. l am now able to eat heartily,
my food does me good, and my skin is
as smooth as anybody's. l can do as
much work now as any other man, and
have no longer any fear of becoming
crazy Nv present
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25
OUR OVBRSHOEs.
Where the Rubber Comes From and How
1t Is Prepared.

Where the Rubber Comes From and How
1t Is Prepared.
Nearly all of the rubber used comes
from Brazil and Central America. Para
is the largest rubber export market in
the world, and Its dealers grow opulent
IN few yeaIs. The rubber trees grow
upon the banks of the sluggish Para
river, and for miles inland on both sides,
but tor lack of roads or other means of
access, it is never gathered except along
the banks. The method of obtaining it
IS very primitive. With the soft clay
which the natives scoop from the river
bank a rude cup or trough IS moulded.
This they fasten to the side of the tree
with long twigs and vines, and as the
clay hardens it adheres to the bark.
Above this cup they cut a hole into the
tree with an axe resembling a carpen-
ter's adze.
The sap or gum, which is of a gray
color and almost tasteless, oozes into the
cup, and when it is full the native dips
a quantity out with the blade of his pad
die and holds it over smoldering fire of
Brazilian nuts, which he has previously
kindled and which sends forth volumes
of smoke. This accounts for the smoky
odor emitted from all crude rubber. The
heat from the fire serves to harden the
gum, and when a sufficient quantity has
accumulated on the paddle they cut it
| off and it is thrown into baskets. These
pieces are termed ..'bottles" and "bis-
cults" When the raft is loaded it is
padded down the river to Para, where
it is weighed, boxed and shipped north.
In making shoes the rubber is taken
from the storehouse, weighed, washed
and dried, and when perfectly free from
moisture goes to the "compounding
room," where French zinc, sulphur,
whiting, litharge, bolted chalk, lamp
black, hard and soft tar and shoddy are
added 10 the pure gum, when the
''batch," as it is termed, goes to the
grinding ROOM" "Shoddy," which
enters SO largely into the compound, is
made from old rubber shoes and boots,
ground up, with all cloth and fbrous
substances carefully eliminated. The
whole, by the process OF grinding, is
worked together into large sheet and is
then taken to the calender room."
The calender machine consists of
three ponderous hollow steel rolls sup
ported by two cast-iron uprights, which
are securely bolted to the floor. These
rolls are turned by means of compli-
Gated series of underground gears
'mashing' into each other, which are
adjusted with skill and scientific nicely.
The cloth to be coated for cement gar
ments, that is to say garments whose
seams are cemented together, is fastened
to the lower roll. Hot water passes
through the two upper rolls, and be-
tween them the rubber compound is
pressed. The hot water passing through
the rolls keeps the rubber pliable, and
after the machine is started the pressure
upon the preparation by the two rolls
causes it TO spread in thin sheet, and
when it comes in contact with the cloth
coats it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

Young Mother displaying the baby)
-"Do you think he looks like his
father, Mr.. OIdboy"? Mr.. Oldboy-
"Well, ye' es. there is a family resem-
blance ; but 1t isn't striking enough to
! worry about"
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Wanamker & Brown, i,
Much in Litt" "Never Say Die"

Is the appropriate motto for.yer's
Pills, considering the great nulr and
variety of complaints for which " are
the best specifics - more especy dis
eases of the Liver and
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

The Mayors Message May we
be pardoned forrequesting the Mayor
to incorporate in his next message
the fact that many Of our most
promlnenIcitizens have been cured
of rheumatism, neuralgia and kin
dred complaints, by Salvation Oil,
and that he recommend this valuable
medicine to be kept in every family.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-25

While there S Pill in the Box. People
are brought so low with Liver and
Stomach Troubles that they become de-
spondent. This is foolish. Ayers Pills
never fail to give