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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-06-27
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-06-27
Notice % Trespassers.

A Ii persons are hereby warned not
~ TO trespass upon my lands in Lewis
and Robinson districts, either by hunt
ing, fishing, nutting, or in any other
way. All yiolators of this notice will
have the penalties of the law enforced
against them. G. SEHON.
& sept. 2s-iw
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-06-27

ing the Webster county Court
house, with all its records and con-
tents, and the Echo printing
Office, were totally destroyed by
fire, and it was only the brave
work of the citizens that saved 9th
er buildings. Incendiarism was
undoubtedly the origin of the fire.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-06-27

The Chicago Convention nomina-
ted Benz. F. Harrison, of Indiana,
for President, and Levi P. Morton,
of New York, for Vice President.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
Field for Literary BEGINNERS.


"What field is there in literary work
has some ability and yet has no knowledge
of how to begin?'' was asked of Richard
Watson Glider, editor of The Century.
''The only way for beginner to do is
to begin. To become professional writer
practice is necessary"
~ want to know what field there is to-
day for magazine writing"
"For people without literary reputa-
tions?''
eyes, people who want to make repu-
tatiOn-who want to rise in the profess
sion; it is fast becoming a profession in it.
self.''
swell, the most constant demand is for
fiction. A beginner always has the oppor-
tunity for practice in the field of short
stories, and out of this he can graduate
into serial writer, a novelist, publishing
either in the magazines or in book form,
or both. In this way the writer of stories
has an advantage over the dramatic
writer, in that he can las Mr.. Brander
Matthews says make his brief essays and
try them on the editors and on the public,
whereas in the dramatic art in this country
he does not get the chance that he does
abroad, where they take one act plays
from beginners. That is one reason why
there are so many good writer's of fiction
coming up all over the country and why
there are so few dramatists, because the
former have chance to practice-to try
their experiments upon the pubic-and
the latter have small chance"
"Has not that been the case with almost
all of our fiction writer's Of the present
generation; they began with short stories
and then blossomed out as the rose?'
''That has been the rule. Some Of them
have never got fairly beyond the short
story stage, but If they write good short
fame. New York Mail and Express
Interview.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
The Poor Boy at Harvard.

Far different are the circumstances
under which the poverty stricken fresh
man with an allowance of $500 enters
upon his academic career. He 'roons"
in College house-a tumble down, uncom-
Portable barracks across the street from
the yard. His apartment is unheated
and i'll furnished. The atmosphere,
though cold, is one Of hard study. The
young men in whose company he is
thrown have come to the university, like
himself, to work. They are not frivolous.
They have no money to frivol upon.
Many Of them-being driven by necessity
to take a serious view Of existence-seek
consolation in religion. In this subject
may as well remark parenthetically-
Mr.. Gorgius Midas, Jr., and his friends
exhibit little or no interest. It is in Col
lege house that the headquarters of the
Evangelical persuasion at Harvard are in
yariably round.
Once identified with this laborious ele-
ment the youth becomes known con-
temptuously as "dig" and a ''grind"-in
other words, person whose excessive in
dustry renders him socially ineligible. He
"feeds'-no other word will justly express
it-at Memorial hall, with 600 others, at
$3.50 per week. At such a price-sup-
posed to be net cost, with no rent to pay
the food, supplied thus by wholesale, ought
to be of superlative quality. AS matter
of fact, it is wretched. So-half starved
and quite frozen-he goes through four
dreary years of scholastic training, at the
end of which he receives degree of A. B.,
after delivering, in shabby coat, before
large and cultivated audience an grafton
upon the advantages of a Liberal Educa-
ton" He would have less to say did he
know of what small value college di-
ploma really is to the young man who has
to struggle for his bread and butter in an
unsympathetic world.-Boston Cor. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
Partisan Dudes in Doubt.

Partisan dandies are greatly exercised
in their minds just now as to what style
of stick they ought to adopt during the
season. They are tired Of the gold
knobbed canes, the crutch canes and the
canes with ducks beaks, which were once
the rage. An energetic inventor has there
fore started thick stick which almost
aspires to the dignity and dimensions of
a cudgel, and the pomme, or pommel, of
which is tho claw of q crayfsh. The
article is already in the hands Of many of
the gandens, and promises to be fashion
able success. While the members of
metropolitan 'tmasherdomn are thus busy
about the "nice conduct" of crayfsh
cane their female counterparts are puzzled
as to the style of walking which they
shall adopt for the season. As furs are
worn at this period of the year the car
riage prescribed is that of short steps
with the "waggle' of the little bird
known as the bergeronnette, or water
wagtail. This 'swaggle'' should, of
course, be as graceful as possible, the
undulating sweep of the hips being well
accentuated. The Parisienne looks, as a
rule, adorable in furs, but she is some
times tempted to put in too much "wag-
gle." The best dancing masters and pro-
fessors of calisthenics in converts, board
ing schools, 1yceums for sweet girl gradu-
ates and similar establishments, are, there
fore, engaged at the present moment in
instructing their pupils in what may be
called the art of ''waggling. Paris Cor.
London Telegraph. ~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
To Prevent Railroad Collisions.

A most wonderful invention is reported
from Vienna. An Austrian engineer has,
it is said, designed truck to run before
every railway train, being maintained al
ways at a fixed (but adjustable) distance
in front by the force of an electric current
transmitted along the metals from dy
namo on the engine. The current is con-
Quoted through mercury contained in
glass tubes on the pilot truck. If, there
fore, the truck comes into collision the
tubes are broken and the contact conse-
quently destroyed. The interruption of
the current instantly and automatically
applies the breaks on the following train.
1t is claimed by the inventor that two ex-
presses, fitted with this system, might
with impunity be set to run full tilt at
each other. The collision of their pilot
trucks would arrest the progress of both
trains before they could meet. The ele-
ment of human fallibility is accordingly
entirely eliminated, and drivers may dash
through whole series of danger signals
without risk, being automatically arrest
ed the moment they reach the spot that is
really dangerous.-St. James Gazette.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
The Other Side of the Gold.

I, for one, have always innocently sup
posed that gold table utensils were what
they pretended to be, all gold; but lately
an expert and dealer in old silver has
informed me to the contrary. Even Vic
toria's royal gold plate is no better than
it should be. For such a thing as stsolid
gold" is totally unknown. I must say
this knowledge is a vast relief to me.
Burglars may labor under a like delusion,
and fancy any piece Of gold plate is better
worth burgling than the best silverware
in the market. But we have all made q
mistake. The finest gold service in ex-
istence Is but silver, washed with that
precious metal. 1t seems no less person
than Mr.. James Keene, when he returned
from England with the famous Ascot cup,
won by his horse Foxhall, also believed In
the solid business, for the trophy was
valued at 5000 by the custom house off,
Gals. Mr.. Keene paid the duties on those
figures and his cup was deposited in q
place Of safety. Shortly after came the
financial crash in Mr.. Keene's fortunes,
and he found it necessary to raise money
on the Ascot cup. The first jeweler and
expert in New York was dispatched to the
bank to examine, or rather to assay, its
intrinsic value. He found, to his own en-
tire satisfaction, that the /, 900 guinea cup
was worth precisely 5000, including
metals and the price of artistic workman
shipi Whether the United States GUS
toms ever reimbursed Mr.. Keene my In
fogmaut did not know. Boston Herald,
- "a
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09

three sisters and come down here to I've. y
These queer people, said j. G. Greene,
who was with them, and who was wrecked
of Behring's straits, Siberia, in 1881, ''do
not hold the ties of marriage very sacred.
Another thing, they no not punish for
murder. Murder, however, is rare. There
are probably 10000 or $4,000 Esquimaux
within radius of 5000 miles of where I
was wrecked and where Dom and Tommy
are from, and these speak twenty-five or
thirty different dialects. You may be able
to understand one dialect and be COM
pletely knocked out by another. The peo-
pie live in ice houses, 800 or 400 in q vii
lage, back little way from the water.
They are very superstitious people, too.
When the w. F. Marsh went to pieces
and we were cast away, we fell in with
the simple Esquimaux and got couple
to guide us to distant st. Michael's. 1t
was the latter part Of August, and we
were beset with such fearful storms that
we could make very little progress. Our
guides thought an evil spirit was among
US, and went to work to get rid of it. One
of them lay down on his right side, while
the other fastened rawhide string round
his neck, with stick attached to it so it
could be twisted tight. Pulling at this
he would raise and lower his head, while
both howled out their weird chants to the
gods. After awhile they changed off, and
the Esquimau who had been down, arose
and became chief bowler. He prayed to
the gods for less wind, and the two then
INDUCED in the most hair raising groans
and chattering and grinding of teeth.
Finally one Of them piled big stone on
his shoulder. and whirling with it, uttered
the most doleful sounds. Then the other
Indian was thrust up there, the whirling
and moaning and hallooing going on as
before. How either the stone or the Indi-
an staid there don't know, for neither
was held, but just seemed to lay there. 1t
was some sort Of legerdemain. At length,
completely worn out and exhausted, they
quit, and the wind going down about that
time, they thought they had made a good
job Of it, and we thanked them and moved
on. San Francisco Examiner.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
EATERS OF WHALE BLUBBER.
Two Queer Little Men-Quaint Marriage
and Religious Customs.

Two Queer Little Men-0uaint Marriage
and Religious Customs.
81 have one wife, my brother has two
and my father has FOUR" said quaint
looking little nan with almond eyes and
an X in India ink on each cheek to re-
porter. The speaker was Dom Koch, and
with him was Tommy or Naghsook, both
Esquimaux, who arrived here on the
whaler Reindeer. Their home is among
the Siberian steppes, within the Arctic
circle in GO 10 dogs. north latitude and
10 degs. west longitude. Here, born and
bred in a snow house, in land where the
sun never sets in summer, they had re-
manned, as had their ancestors for thou
sands of years, and never dreamed OF
another country until, when their little
skin boat was blown far out to sea, they
were taken aboard the Reindeer.
II expect my wife will be gone when I
get back" said the funny little man who
first spoke, and who talked English re-
markably well. "Some other man will
probably have her, but then I'll get me
another one. Up there if mans goes fish
ing, come back and find wifes gone, he
don't worry. He goes and gets some
more.n
Tommy listened to this speech rather
demursly. Tommy is homesick," said
Dom Koch. eHe wants to get back again.
He has two pretty wives and three ugly
ones. / like California very well. It's
nice and warm down here, and when ! go
back next yea. rm going to bring my
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09

Two very little girls were one afternoon
entertaining themselves and their elders
ut an afternoon party. One of them had
recently learned to spell "cat," and she
was standing up before the company try
ing, through much tribulation of timidity
and forgetfulness, to display her accom-
plishment.
The other little dot became aggrieved;
nobody was taking any notice OF her;
everybody was listening to Louise.
In she pushed before the star of the oc-
casion, and ratified of Indignantly:
1.-TWO years old las Tuesday-born Fall
nouf-I1 arnstable county>name Alma
Misser Cleveland p'esident-Adam frs
man!'
She had succeeded; every one in the
room roared, and the general attention
was fixed upon her little vain self
Youths Companion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
Peculiaritiea of Lichens.

The lichen is remarkable for the great
age to which it lives; there is good ground
for believing that they endure as long as
100 years. An authority states that some
plants have been found by actual observa-
ton to endure As years. Their growth is
exceedingly slow, indicating that only a
little nourishment serves to keep them
alive. In dry time they have power of
suspending growth altogether, renewing
it again at the fall of rain. In time of
rain they change their color, becoming
greener. Another interesting fact about
lichens is that they grow only where the
air is free from smoke or dust. They are
never found growing in the neighborhood
of towns, where the atmosphere is i'm
pregnated with SCOT and smoke. Thus
these plants afford an indication of the
purity of the air.-Forest and Stream.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
JACK AND /.
Twas 30 tired Of Jack, poor boy,

Twas 30 tired Of Jack, poor boy, ~
And Jack was tired Of me; i
Most longed for sweets will soonest cloy:
Fate had been kind, and we,
Two foolish spendthrift hearts, made waste
OF LIES best gifts with eager haste.
Oil tired we were. Time seems SO long
When everything goes well!
The walls Of home rose grim and strong;
Like prisoners in a cell
We clanked our marriage chain, and pined
For freedom we had left behind.
Tired, tired Of love and peace were we,
OF every days calm blissl
We had no goal to win, since he
Was mine, and was his;
And so we sighed in mute despair, -
And wished each other anywhere. - -
But sorrow came one dsy-the pain ~.
OF Deaths dark, awful fear; =
Oh, then our hearts beat warm again;
Then each to each wan dear:
It seemed that life could nothing lack,
While Jack had me, and I had Jack!
Madeline s. Bridges in Frank Leslie's.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
WHY YOUR HEAD ACHES.

What Family Doctor Writes for Fam
lily Magazine-What to Avoid.
Probably one of the most common head.
aches, If not the most common, is that
called nervous. The class of people who
are most subject to it are certainly not
your outdoor workers. II ever my old
friend the gardener had had headache,
1t would not have been one of this descrip-
ton. Nor does Darby, the plowman, nor
Jarvey, the bus man, nor Greatfoot, the
gauger, suffer from nervous headache,
nor any one else who leads an outdoor
life, or who takes plenty of exercise in the
open air. But poor Matte, who slaves
away her days in stuffy Diapers shop,
and JEANNE in her lonesome attic, bend
ing over her white seam-stitch, stitch,
stitch-tiu far into the night, and thou
sands of others Of the indoor working
class are martyrs to this form Of head
ache. Are they alone in their misery?
No; for my Lady Bonhomme, who comes
to have her ball dress fitted on, has often
a fellow feeling with JEANNE and Matte.
She, however, we cannot afford to pity
quite SO much, because she has the power
to change her modus yiyendi whenever
she chooses.
What are the symptoms Of this COM
pidluU Sudt AlthCS you1 uCttu dSu0 SOs w
will almost know it is coming from q
dull, perhaps sleepy, feeling. You have
no heart and little hope, and you are rest
less at night. Still more restless, though,
when it comes on in full force, and then
for nights, perhaps, however much you
may wish to, You can scarcely sleep at all.
Chow my poor head does acher' This
you will say often enough; sadly to your
self, and hopelessly to those near you,
from whom you expect no sympathy and
get none. And yet the pain is bad to
bear, although it is generally confined to
only one part of the head.
The worst OF this form of headache lies
in the fact that it is periodic. Well, as it
arises from unnatural habits Of life or Pc
culiarities of constitution, this periodicity
is no more than we might expect.
If just note down some of the most
ordinary causes of nervous headache, peo-
pie who suffer therefrom will know what
to do and what to avoid. I will then
speak of the treatment.
Overwork indoors.
Overstudy.
Work or study indoors, carried on in an
unnatural or cramped position of body.
Literary men and women ought to do most
of their work at q standing desk, lying
down now and then on sofa to ease brain
and heart and permit ideas to flow. They
should wcrk out of doors in fine weather
with their feet resting on board, not
on the earth-and under canvas in wet
weather. 1t is surprising the good this
simple advice, if followed, can effect.
Neglect of the ordinary rules that con-
duce to health.
Want of fresh air in bedrooms.
Want of abundant skin exciting exer-
else.
Neglect of the bath.
Oyer indulgence in food, especially of
stimulating character.
Weakness or debility of body, however
produced. This can only be remedied by
proper nutriment.
Nervousness, however induced.
The excitement inseparable from q
fashionable life.
Exciting passion, anger and jealousy in
particular.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
A House of Wire.

A house of wire lathing is one of the
curiosities of the Manchester exhibition.
The architect is Mr.. G.. F. Armitage and
the wire lathing is stated to resist fire.
This wire lathing can be applied to or
binary wooden beams, and it can be used
for the partitions by itself, while wire
cloths of various kinds form part of the
same invention. It will be seen that the
cottage is neat in appearance, and, if fire.
proof, it has at least one substantial prop
erty to recommend it.-Cassell's.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-09
NATIONS AS TAKERS.
LEADING CONVERSATIONAL CHARAc-
TERlSTICS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

The English Peasants Gift for Empty
Meditation - Irish and Scotch - The
Chattering Nations Of Europe-Biling-
ual Races-The Jew-Teutonic Peoples.
The Scot, even if he will not converse,
will usually argue, and the Londoner will
tell anecdotes; but the English peasant is,
as rule, person with gift for empty
meditation. The Irish peasant, on the
other hand, talks readily and pleasantly,
in short sentences usually full of express
sion; so does the Italian, who knows less
than the Englishman; and so does the
Bengalee, who knows hardly more than
the animals around him. The latter, in
deed, talks frequently and with anima-
ton, though almost always on a single
subject-money. 1t has been said by one
who wrote after years Of observation,
that if two Bengalees talk for five minutes
the word paisa pence) will always be
heard; but talk they do, with remark,
answer, rejoinder and repartee. What is
the cause of that difference?
Professor Mahaffy suggests an answer
which seems to us to SAVIOR Of artificial
profundity, and therefore to be very I'M
like Professor Mahaffy, who usually says
his true thought, even if it is little out
of place: ~ fancy the causes of these So
cial differences are rather recent than
prirneval; they do not depend directly
upon climate or atmosphere, and if may
quote the opinion of a wise friend on this
large question, should say that one chief
cause of the talking or social ability of
some peasantries over others, is the fact
that their proximate ancestors were q
bilingual people. Thus the great major
ity of west Irish and north Scotch peas
ants are descended from grandfathers
whose talk oscillated between Celtic and
English, and who were, therefore, con-
stantly educated in intelligence by the
problem Of translating ideas from one
language into another, not to mention the
distinct inheritance of the special ideas
peculiar to each and every language.
This is an education in expression, in
thinking, and therefore in conversation,
wholly foreign to the English midland
boor, who has never heard more than 200
or 300 words of a very rude provincial
dialect of English, and therefore COM
mands neither the words nor the ideas Of
the outlying provinces"
A theory of that kind should explain the
facts, and this does not explain them. If
it were true, the women would be as ST.
lent as the men, having even less of Gull
ture, but they are not. On the contrary,
the wives Of those silent rural folk can
often chat agreeably, and give and take in
conversation. They do not only narrate;
they discuss and are capable even Of
rough badinage. which helps the argument