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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
bargains for Country Cousins

Ionce bought coat upon which I dis
covered the letters "P. NJ" and when 1
buy ready made clothing scrutinize it to
learn whether it is labeled in the same
manner. will explain: 1t is the custom
in some stores after taking stock to set
aside certain goods which have passed the
season of their fashion, or which would
not command ready sale, and marking
them 'sP. NJ" to give the clerks a pre-
MUM or per cent. for selling them. OF
course, it is to the interest of the clerk to
work off this stock, but not on customers.
Strangers get the "P. Ms" During the
time when there is rush in the store, or
at such o time as fair week, when the
country cousin is hunting for bargains,
the clerks bring the e, N. goods to the
front. Most people in the city keep pace
with the prevailing fashions and are not
easily deceived. Then the P. M. stock re-
naming unsold after time is sent to the
country, where style does not prevail.-T.
d. Hardy In Globe Democrat.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
Harbor Thieves and Their "Fences."

Z
The truth about all this harbor piracy
is that it could not exist even with no pre-
yentive harbor police were it not for the
opportunity of profit through the junk
men and other knaves of far more preten-
tious character. There are scores of pala-
tial mansions in New York and Brooklyn
built on the profits of this thievery. The
police know these men; know they are
fences for harbor thieves; and the name,
address, full description, and record of
every man in the remotest degree con-
nected with the robbery or disposal OF
pirated goods are in their possession But
they can do nothing without evidence, and
the s'fencesn and junkmen snap their
fingers and laugh in their very faces.
These more vicious scoundrels have it all
their own way. Most of them are licensed.
The thief must sell to them at their terms,
and is really in their power, for threat
or hint of disclosure to the harbor police
will always close bargain agreeably. 1t
can never be proved that the goods were
improperly purchased, for the canny buyer
will solemnly secure an advance oath that
they were honestly got, and this is often
reduced to writing. Nor can proof against
the thief himself often be he'd. Cotton,
sugar, coffee, oil, haWsers, anchors, and q
hundred other things OF value are any
body's goods when out OF the original and
in unbranded or unmarked packages.
s.Fence," thief, harbor police, and judge
all know with absolute certainty that
these are thieves and these are stolen
goods, but without proof the thieves can
only be Warned and the booty confiscated.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
What browns Good Swimmers.

I would not be at all astonished il
numerous cases of drowning, in which
the victim is good swimmer, were due
to rush of blood to the brain, producing
insensibility. The common explanation
is that the strong swimmer who is seen to
sink suddenly, was taken with cramp.
But from my experience I am led to think
that it is not cramp, but a sort Of
apoplexy that strikes men in such cases
and renders them completely helpless. If
it was merely cramp of q leg or arm
do not believe that strong men would sink
suddenly and almost without struggle
as we see that they do in so many cases.
Every one who reads the papers will re-
call numerous instances at the sea shore
and at every bathing resort where these
mysterious drownings take place. never
knew any one to try to account for them
except by the cramp theory. The medical
men ought to study the matter and see if
there is not some ground for the belief
that apoplexy, produced by pressure of
blood on the brain, is not more likely to
be the cause Of death in the water than
drowning in consequence Of cramp.-
Rochester Post-Express.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
A LAUGHING WORLD.
DIFFERENT WAYS THE NATIONS
HAVE OF SHOWING VISIBILITY.

The Chinese litter, the Germans are De-
liberate, the French Spasmodic-Wash-
ington's Laugh-The Bible and Poets
Use of the Word.
OF the worlds population those who do
not laugh are, it is safe to assume, in the
minority. Laughter is language known
to all races in all lands. From the reT
sounding ''haw haw" Of the male New
Highlander to the high strung cachinna-
ton of the South Sea islander, there may
be as wide q range of information and eX-
ton; but as rule laughter means but
one thing-the tickling of the fancy of the
person who laughs. Six years ago Beecher
asked from a lecture platform in New
York if any of his hearers had ever heard
Chinese laugh, the question being
worded in way intended to imply
negative answer. That the Celestial can
and does give vent to his mirthfnl feel
ings after the manner Of other mortals
can readily be attested by any one who
has long resided in San Francisco. To be
sure, the Chinese laugh is rarely as hearty
or expressive as the American or
European. II Is oftener litter than a
genuine outburst OF merriment. There
is little character or force in it, As for
the Arabian laugh, we hear little Of its
hilarious ring through the ages of mIrth
in the Old World. The Arab is generally
looked upon as stold fellow-a man
likely to persist In refusing to give one the
benefit of mirthful appreciation of g
joke, even if he saw the point. Travellers
say, however, that he does laugh on occa-
sion, but that he must either see good rea-
son for it beforehand or be surprised into
it. In Persia man who laughs is con-
sidered effeminate, but free license Is said
to be given to female merriment. Fred
Burnaby has written of his experiences
among the laughing beauties of certain
district in the northern part OF that country,
He says that under cover of the good nature
implied by their pretended jolGty, they
make bold to dlch everything g traveller
may have in his possession. One reads of
the s;gravs Turk" and the sober Egyp--
tian, but II is not recorded that they never
have moments of mirth-When the fez
hobs or the veil shakes under pressure Of
some particularly s'good thing.p In Ma
homet himself Christian writers have
noted cordiality and jocoseness, and they
say there was good ringing laugh in the
prophet with all his seriousness.
An American traveller In Europe re-
marks the italian laugh as languid but
musical, the German as deliberate, the
French as spasmodic and uncertain, the
upper class English as well guarded and
not always genuine, the lower class Eng
Iisb - sxplosiya. the Scotch pf al classes
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
AoOtherRai|Wayinthe Northwest

has in SO short period gained the
reputation and popularity enjoyed by
the WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINE.
| From comparatively unknown fac
! tor in the commercial world, it has
been transformed to an independent,
influential, grand Through Route,
with magnificent depots, superb
equipment and unsurpassed terminal
facilities. Through careful catering
to details, it has won for itself a
reputation for solidity, safety, con.
venience and attention to its patrons,
second to no railroad in the country.
Pullman sleepers. models of palatial
comfort, dining cars in which the
cuisine and general appointments
are up to the highest standard, and
coaches especially built for this route
are among the chief elements which
have contributed towards catering
successfully to discriminating pub
lie. Located directly on its line, be-
tween Minneapolis and St. Paul, and
Milwaukee and Chicago, and Duluth
and Milwaukee and Chicago, are the
following thriving cities of Wiscon.
sin and Michigan: New Richmond,
Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire. Ashland,
Hurley, Wis.,, IrOnwood, Mich, Bes-
semer, Mich, Stevens Point, Neenall,
Menasha, Oshkosh, Fon du Lac, Wau-
kesha, and Burlington, Wis.
For detailed information, lowest
current rates, bsrths, etc., via this
route, to any point in the South or
East, apply to the nearest ticket
agent or address
VIM. s. MELLEN, JAMES BARKER,
General Manager. Genl Pass T'k'tAgt.,
MILWAUKEE.
f. III. ANSON, Northwestern Passenger
Agent, No. 10 Nicollett House Block, Mime
apolis, MINI.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
HOW Beecher Prepared His sermons

Writers on homiletics advise young
preachers to spend but little time in gen.
eral study, and much in special prepare
ton of sermons. Mr.. Beecher reversed
this rule. Most of his time was spent in
general study; his Sunday morning SER
mon was prepared on Sunday morning,
and his Sunday evening sermon in the
afternoon.
One Sunday evening he preached ser
mon on text from the eighth chapter of
Romans. The congregation was electri-
fed and Mr.. Halliday, the preachers as
sistant, not knowing whether he was in
the body or out of it, sought Professor
Stowe, who was standing in his brother
in-law's pew.
1.-The first half of that Sermon" said
the professor, stis the most wonderful
thing / ever listened to; but the thing
that is the most wonderful to me is how
he prepared it, After dinner this noon I
was walking in the library, and when he
came up I said: Henry, would like to
have you preach from those words some
time to which he Immediately answered:
Il May as well preach from them tonight
as any time' He went to his afternoon
sleep, came down toward 6 o'clock, took a
cup of tea, went into his study, and made
the preparation from which he preached
this sermon"
Mr.. Beecher undoubtedly possessed a
remarkable readiness in preparing for the
pulpit or the platform, but he was also an
adept in accommodating material, of which
he could avail himself at q moments
notice.
In answering question put to him by
the present writer as to his method Of pre-
pairing for the pulpit, he said:
''I read q book for information and IN
spiration. II, while reading, a thought
comes to me which is worth expanding,
write down the title Of the book, the
passage which suggested the thought, the
hour of the day or the night, the local
surroundings, il fact, everything which
will enable me to reproduce my exact
mood.
''Then write until I have nothing
more to say on that topic. fold my
manuscript, write the name of the topic
on its back, and lay it away.
Con Sunday morning I begin my
sermon. know what my congregation
is thinking about, and my subject is
generally in the line of their thought. 1t
flashes into my mind that have written
on that topic. I hunt among my manu-
scripts, find the one want, and have a
sermon at my hand which, with little
alteration and addition, serves my pur-
pose.
81 try, by reading and re-reading the
title of the book, the quoted passage, and
tho narrative of the surrounding circum-
stances, to get back into the mood in which
was when wrote the manuscript Then
1 go into the pulpit and let my mind
swing. Life of Beecher.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
NEW INDUSTRY FOR WOMEN.
Sending Daintily Served Meals to Fami
lies Who Do Light Housekeeping.

Sending Daintily Served Meals to Famf.
lies Who Do Light Housekeeping.
A ncw industry for women is beginning
TO evolve itself in New York, which may
yet do much toward solving the vexed
servant girl question. Some three months
ago q woman of good old New York
family. educated and capable, left widow
without money and having served no APP
premiership to any Of the industries by
which women earn bread and butter, be-
gan to think of putting her pride in her
pocket and turning her notable housekeep-
ing talents to account by looking fof SER
vice in family ~ cook.
Considering the matter further, 1t Oc-
cnrr.,d TO her that she could do no better.
Securing with some little effort, the pro-
ject being a novel one, q clientage OF halt
a dozen families in her immediate neigh
bdrhood that were grooming under dys-
pepsia, induced by slight housekeeping, +"
She began to send out, three times day,
dclicately cooked and daintiy served
meals. Her venture was 80 Immediately
successful that she looked up New Eng
land housekeeper and couple OF stout
armed Swedish girls to help her, and her
business sprang, almost In single night,
70 the utmost dimensions that she could
handle. Families that had tried the friE-
zled steaks broiled by the green girl, fam
flies that were starving on meals elabora-
ted over tho Pickering gas jet, families
nat had eaten table beard" IN the base
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
Dry and Wet Timber.

4 discussion is going the rounds Of the
press a. to the relative strength Of wet or
dry tir1iber. We do not believe there is
much to lie made out of the discussion.
Some kinds OF timber are stronger when
dry, while other kinds are stronger when
wet or green. But most hard woods when
vet will possess more tensile strength
than when dry. Timber thoroughly sea-
soncd IS more brittle than when green,
and with the necessary force will break
square off, while the same timber green
will stand about the same pressure by
bending more or less without breaking.
Take hickory sapling that is almost i'm
possible to break in its green state, al
1heus, it may bend double, and thor
oug!,ly dry it, and you may easily break
it almost square off," as the boys say.
So with almost any kind of timber. Dry
ing makes it sitter, more unyielding, but
in very few instances stronger. Scientific
Press. :
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01

ment dining room around the corner,
families whose pocketbooks groaned at the
expense of the waiter load sent in from
hotel or restaurant, families whose heads
were business women without time for
cooking, families tired of the annoyance
Of servants in small fiat, were glad to
be supplied with honest home cooking,
varied, palatable, and at reasonable
price.
She has twenty-one families on her list
at present, / think, to whom she supplies
just that wholesome round of breakfasts,
lunches and dinners that the average
house mother would offer to husband and
little folks. Fruit in season, in the morn
ing, oatmeal or wheaton grits, fish, steak
or chops; a side dish, such as. stewed kid
neys, sausage, liver and bacon, eggs, COT
fee, tea or chocolate, bread and butter.
milk and sugar. Soup, fish, roast, three
vegetables, dessert and coffee make up the
dinner, all Of which is sent out at cost
Of 81 week to a single person, So each
for members of families, though as what
is supplied for two is sufficient for three,
the cost per household is not reckoned in
multiples Of that sum. In way the ex-
pertinent Is one Of cooperative housekeep-
ing, for, practically, the cost Of everyday
living is divided among number of fami-
lies, purchases for all being made. to-
gether, the labor for all systematized and
simplified, and the waste Of all minimized,
the result being that each family saves
nearly the full amount of its cook 3 wages,
and is freed from the tyranny Of Castle
Garden besides.
Two other women, emulous Of the first,
talk Of starting similar enterprises. The
scheme Is in its infancy, but whenever q
sufficient number of families within a "a
dius of block or two as near the great
fat houses can be interested in it, it has
promise Of an opening for an industry for
women and of relief from divers perplexi-
ties for the families they serve.-Eliza
Putnam Heaton in Brooklyn Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
To CODY Printed Matter.

Printed matter may be copied on any
paper of an absorbent nature, by dampen-
ing the surface with weak solution of
acetate of iron, and pressing in an ordinary
copying press. Old writing may also be
copied on Unsized paper, if wet with a
weak solution Of sulphate Of iron mixed
with a simple solution of sugar syrup
Boston Budget.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
Cure for Headache.

An Austrian doctor named Rabow says
that nine times out of ten headache can
be almost instantly cured by swallowing
q spoonful of salt dissolved in quantity
Of water sufficient to allow the sufferer to
swallow it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
Useful to Composers.

Useful TO Composers.
Musical composers are indebted to SCI
ence for two new instruments. The mel
ograph is designed to accurately record
the notes of any tune played upon a piano,
cni. the Elelotrope has just been devised
in France to faithfully reproduce upon
any piano the pieces automatically copied
by tie arst Observation-Disclosures TRAY
<JeF
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01

ELI ROBBINS, Rungan P; O.. Columbia Co..
I ea%SSn1er ns Sad1 WIEN
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured q bottle for her, and soon saw that it
helped her third bottle effected Perma;
sound and hearty"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
!, has revolutionized the world
Invention

II has revolutionized the world
IGVQnIlCn during the last half century.
lHiUtll!uli Not 1esst among the wonders
of inventive progress is, Q
method and sy stem of work that can be psr-
formed all over the country witho ut separat-
ing the worker from their homes. Pay lib
eral; any one can do the work; either sex.
Capital not needed; you are started free. Cut
this out and return TO us aud we will send
youfree, something oil great value aud inn
Portance TO you, that will start you In bust
right away than any thing ell sc in the world
gustas Maine,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
Care In Taking Exercise.

As to exercise, great care in choosing
what is best is always needed. Mountain
climbing is to be avoided whenever it runs
heart beats up beyond 100 minute, or
when one cannot breathe easily and regu-
larly after ten minutes rest at the highest
point reached. In such cases, drive or
ride, Rowing and swimming come under
the same category, the latter being danger
Gus to any one whose heart is weak, caus-
ing risk Of cramp while beyond depth.
Ten minutes in the sea is enough. Tennis
is different. Although it requires agility
and considerable exertion, there are inter-
walls of rest that make it one of the safest
of games. It is only necessary to slip on
q light coat or shawl when set is finished
to avoid sudden chill. Dancing is almost
universally INDUCED in at all summer re-
sorts, and, with the present fashion of
early hours, is rarely harmful. 1t is after
it is over that trouble begins. For girls
in light dresses and men in evening clothes
to 60 out from a heated room to cool
piazza and stand or stroll in chilly breeze
is always risky, and has been the origin of
more cases Of quick consumption than
almost any other cause. Wraps should
always be put on when dance is done,
and outdoor walks avoided until dancess
are thoroughly cooled off.-American
Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
~Constantly Hawking and spi,ting.,,

THOMAS J. RUSHING, ESQ.,, 5000 Pine Street,
81. Louis. Mo-, writes: II was great sufferer
from oatarrh for three years: At times could ti
and splitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils. I
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
Remedy, and am now well man. I believe
It to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give it q
fair trial to experience astounding results and
q permanent cIlre.n
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
.Untold Agony from, Catarrh., >,

Prof. W. HAusNER, the famous mesmerist,
Of ithaca, N. Y, writes: "Some ten years ago
I suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh; My family physician gave me up as
such bad one, that every day, towards sun
set, my voice would become 60 hoarse could
barely speak above a whisper. In the morning
my coughing and clearing of my throat would
almost strangle me. By the use of DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was a well
man, and the cure has been permanent
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01

A Roman legion consisted of 5000 men,
divided in ten cohorts, and every cohort
into six centuries, with a vexilum, or
standard, guarded by ten men.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-12

The very original wedding tour of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sigourney terminated on
time. When they were married in
Buffalo, in 1882, their wedding cards
reads "AIr. and Mrs. Sigourney OF
home Thursdays in Sacramento, CAL,
beginning May 10, 1885," They az
rived promptly in Sacramento on the
date specified, after prolonged we'd
ding tour Of six years, during which
time they had explored very nearly the
whole known world at cost of some
thing like $4,000. Children were
born to them during this long period
Of absence-twin boys in st. Peters
burg, girl in China, and another boy
in Brazil. Now they are keeping open
house in California and enjoying new
sensation in not having to get up early
to catch trains and make steamship
connections over night.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-12

CAPTAIN BAssETr, the venerable door
keeper of the Senate, always goes
through ceremony at the opening of
the sessions which few visitors are
fortunate enough to see. Trinity &C
couterea he proceeds at precisely five
minutes before the hour of meeting to
the room OF the presiding officer. He
halts in the doorway with military
abruptness, makes very stiff but very
deferential bow, and says: "Sir, the
hour of the meeting of the Senate has
arrived" Then he bows again, escorts
the presiding officer into the chamber.
delivers the gavel head into his hands,
and retires to his post at the left of the
Presidents desk.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-12

JAMES TE1MBLE, a lineal descendant
of Daniel Defoe, the author of "Robin-
son Crusoe," died lately at his country
place in Cecil County, Maryland He
possessed, among other mementos of
the great traveller, two chairs used by
Daniel Defoe in his study when he was
writing the story Of "Crusoe." One Of
them he gave to the Delaware Histori-
cal Society many years ago. The other
he bsqueathed to the Pennsylvania
Historical Society. Mr.. Trimble was
born in Pennsylvania. He was lead
ing member of the Society of Friends,
a noted botanist and all astronomer,
having large private observatory and
telescopes at his country home.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-12

JOHN DUNN, the renegade Zulu
leader, has entirely renowned civiliza-
ton and has taken two or three dozen
Zulu wives. By birth he is Scotch
man. His father was trader in Natal.
John went out to South Africa when
very young, and has never returned.
He traded among the Zulus for his
father. and by and by took liking
for the people and the country and
settled permanently there. He soon
became an influential Zulu.