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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-09-27

Out through the gates of Ispahan
One morning rode studious man.
"Ah, whittier bound?" a traveller cried,
Who rested by a fountain side.
~ 20 to seek" replied the sage.
"Tle greatest wonder Of the age"
Teen from your saddle nowdcscend
And call your journey at an end,
For here within this sack hold
The greatest wonder bought or sold"
And STOPPING down. the speaker drew
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-09-27

THE CHARLES A. Y0Gsr. CO.,
BALTIMORE. MD
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-09-27

A cake Of IVORY Soar in view.
mo alkali this soap contains.
1t leaves the lace and takes the staias;
1t comes from oils, sweet as the rose
That in the palace garden grows; -.
1t floats like cork upon the wave;
With this we may both wash and shave"
" Enough, enough!" the student cried;
you've saved me from a longer ride
And turning round his wisdom showed,
For back to Ispahan nc rode.
)F WARNING.
represented to be "just as good as Inc
rrunFarfnife lob ilo ro,,I;,. - ,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-09-27

| SEAL
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
How to Choose a Husband.

Don't be afraid to marry poor man; but
be sure that he has something besides pow
erty to commend him. Be sure that he
has two strong hands, not only skillful,
but ready for hard work. Be sure that he
has an occupation or u position, which may
reasonably be depended upon to yield
good, comfortable living. Be sure that he
is Industrious, and not self-indulgent; be
sure that he is steady, working six days in
the week and about fifty-two weeks in the
year A good. true, faithful young wom-
an ought to have no "Yes" for answer to
proposal of marriage from lazy man or
man who has no fixed occupation, or a
man who has lived half his life off the
hard earnings of his mother or sister,
going about the streets meanwhile with
his cane and his cigarette and his fine
clothes, playing the splendid gentleman.
The girl who will marry such creature
is one of the silliest beings on the earth.
He will never be any comfort TO her. He
will only drag her down into wretched
poverty. and into helpless, hopeless de-
pendence, in which she can no longer care
for herself. Let no self-respecting young
woman ever put her head into such IA
halter as that for the sake of having hus.
band. If she does, the time will come when
she will wish she had no husband.-J. Il.
Miller, ID. ID.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
PUBLIC OPINION.
II Does Not Pay TO Regard It with Too
much yenerntion,

A proper regard for the opinion OF
the world is great safeguard. A
woman should strive to appear so well
as to be blameless. But in minor
things, in which no question of princi-
pie is involved, it is possible to ask
one's self too often: "What will people
say?"
TO place an exaggerated value on
the remarks of strangers is very in-
discreet thing. We should have inde-
pendence enough to do what is right
and best for ourselves without asking
our neighbor's advice. We should re-
member that our own ideas may be
quite as good as those of others, and
that we know our own needs and the
depth of our own purses better than
other people can.
There are hundreds of women now
wearing hard, stiff collars about their
necks, hard bones and steels about
their waists. heavy bustles that hurt
the spine, tight gloves and high heels,
simply in Difference to what they sup
pose "the people will say" In fact,
this form of compliance with the die
tates of other people is universal. You
and / say: ''How foolish! How mon
strous! How injuriousr' But we wear
the things all the same!
Mrs. b. has u pretty costume left
from last winter, but "what would peo-
pie say" to see her in church in the
same things9 So she gets new attire
on credit, employs dressmaker whom
she does not pay, is tortured by duns,
overwhelmed with modification, and
much more unhappy than if she had
heard people say: why, there is Mrs.
b. in last years suit and the same bon
nett"
Arabella goes to ball. Every one
in these days. Arabella knows that
that means cold in her case; but
"what would people say" il she wore
sleevese People say very little when
she lies Mt the point of death with
pneumonia. In fact. many of her
friends have to be told afterwards how
i'll she has been. They did not know,
or care. what her fate might have been.
Matilda Bunce is happy and comfort
able, and can provide herself with what
she needs in this world. But people
will say in year or two that she is
getting to be an old maid; so she mar
ries the first man who offers, gets bad
husband, and soon envies all independ-
ent spinsters who do not care what peo-
pie say about their state of single
blessedness.
In all such matters you should not
care for what people will say. BE
sure you're right and then go ahead"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
SERvlCEA3LE FENCES.
Some Things Learned by - Farmer o
Thirty Years Experience.


A farmer who has had trouble with
jumping fences" as he terms it, says
he stopped it by mailing horseshoe on
each front foot of the cow or steer.
But he should have been more explicit.
Jumping fences are great nuisance
on farm, and it seems to Inc that a
well-set post and rail fence won't jump
very high. When the earthquake hap
pened about two years ago all of my
fences running east and west jumped
so as to throw the corners all awry
and leave most of the top rails on the
tops of the stakes, and many were
thrown off. But this was not an ordi-
nary kind of jumping fence. Those
who are troubled with the common
kind might try the horseshoe plan.
What is the best fencep have long
sought TO find this out and have tried
the old-fashioned worm fence, staked
or double-staked and ridered: the post
and-board fence and the post-and-rail
fence, with morticed posts and rails
flattened and pointed at the end. I
have some miles of fence on my farm
and have constant trouble with the
fences, all but about half a mile Of
solid post-and-rail fence made of chest
nut posts and five rails to each panel
The rails are ten feet long, This fence
stands firmly; the heaviest winds do
not move it, no cattle or horses try to
jump it, it being five feet high; and
from former experience, dating back
thirty years, know such Il fence will
last as long as this, il properly made.
1t is cheap. The posts are split sap
lings about ten years old and eight
inches on the split face. The holes are
bored with a boring machine and two
inch auger, two holes being made five
inches apart from outer edges and the
wood between them is cut out with Il
post axe having n blade two inches
wide. Two men will hole one hundred
posts day and will set up the one
hundred panels of fence in three days,
costing thus seven cents n panel for
setting the fence. And when it is set,
it is set for years without need for re-
pair or almost daily watching and put
Ting up rs with the common rail fence.
The best thing to do with jumping
and breachy animals is to have good
fences, so that when they are young
.he animals will not learn to jump or
throw down the fences. Bad fences
make breachy and unruly stock.-N
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

am / wild me arrums full to ovcrflowin'
wild illigant prisnts bought at Moneymore
this blissed moEn-and it's tin to wan IL ye
have aiven a thought TO give to me-fegs
but I'm left, the day!'
"Oh. Archie, did dream it'''
"'Drame itf says she! But, there,
cushla, AK me an aisy wan!"
"Why, Archie, l mean all that about
Shane Magroo-and the soldiers! Where
were you, sir, all that time' Your wife
you - you -"
"Was spindin' me last ha'penny on me
ongrateful little wifel There, there, Mary
mine, don't ye be maxim such awful eyes
ut me! Why, sure, nothing could harm ye,
We beautiful wanl Wan sight av that
shwate, pitiful face would melt the heart
of a statue o. stone intoirelyW
II 10 no use. l can never be angry long
at Archie. The rich, tender mellow tones
of his voice when he speaks TO me are like
some ravishing melody tnat soothes while
II charms. And with this Irish voice he
tells me where he has been, and OF the
news that has come to him, that none OF his
kinsfolk are at Bann Castle, but are
wiptering in DubAn. So we need not con-
tinue upon our fruitless journey, but
hurry across Lough Neagh and catch the
Belfast steamer bound for Liverpool ON the
following Wednesday.
say goodbye TO Moreen Meginnis re-
luctantly, after having, with his consent,
shared with her the most Of Archie's
Christmas presents; spring into close
carriage aad am driven rapidly back over
the rough road leading TO Moneymore.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
increase of Noxious Insects.

Noxious insects are more numerous
and destructive now than they were
fifty years ago. Where nature has "a
chance to work out her laws, all ami
mails. from the highest to the lowest,
do not increase beyond proper limits.
Even man himself is no exception to
this great law; but let break occur in
this great natural chain, and ii is felt
all along the line. Some species will
increase enormously, while others al
most entirely disappear. Now as in
sects are far more numerous than all
the higher animals, it follows that il
SC ne unforeseen event takes place that
favors great increase OF some noXious
species. man is sure TO be great suf-
ferer. And this state of things is
exactly what is taking place to-day.
The reader will naturally inquire why
the beneficial ones do not increase AS
fast rs the destructive ones. The an
swer is, the food plant OF the latter has
increased enormously, and all the sur
roundin gs have favored its rapid i'm
crease, while the other, living upon
animal Qmago) food, is entirely out
stripped by the vegetable eating
species. - Htc6's Maga&iae.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
Corralling Trade.

Jake-"Mrs. Neverpay is out there
and wants to know If you'll trust her
for---n
Dealer-''No. Tell her we're doing
a strictly cash business, that we don't
trust anybody"
Jake -"Well, but you've always
trusted her. don't you know. She's
the one that owes that old account
that's been running so long?"
Dealer--"O, yes-I remember now.
Old Mrs. Ncverpay. Well. we'd better
trust her then, for II we didn't she'd
only go across the road and pay cash
any ."-DctrOn Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

"An' at whom wull they bo speerin' at
now, monw
"Speerin'. It's Joke, surei Divil a
wan other than the Lad o. Sperrin' Mount
ains-our young Shane Magroop
At this there was a clattering downfall
of the harness-collar, traces, straps and
reins, and a hurried and whispered confab
of the two men.
Then came Archie; and I saw suddenly
issue from an astonishingly ncar-at-hand
window bright CLEAN of light, and heard
voces-my husbands and another's-ir
merry laughter blent. The very darkness
and loneliness changed like enchantment
oil about me, and 1t was as If the whole
world had passed suddenly from state of
isolation to that of u social, hospitable and
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

| After all don't know that am so deep
| ly disappointed at not seeing Bann Castle.
Could / have had my choice, I'd have
| chosen rather the romantic episode of so
novel q character as that experienced in
| the Maginnis shanty; and the hearing,
with my own ears, the story Of the noble
| youth who befriended tho tenantry ut the
risk of his life. shall always feel q near
| ness TO Shane Magroo since have chanccd
10 be mixed up in the very search for him;
| and so muse and muse and muse.
y 81
Out at sea. Our good boat has plunged
through the waves of the North chan mel,
we have dipped down past the Isle of Man,
and Ireland is being left miles upon miles
behind us. My bridegroom's arm is about
me as we sit, sheltered from all human
observance in a curtained nook of the
wel-furnished cabin of the little channel
steamer. / use the word human advisedly
in this instance, since / am sure the angels
must be near, 80 much state of heaven Is
IL, and am content to hear the musical
Irish voice murmuriug pretty nothings
and exquisite something's into my liston-
ing ear.
"Whist, Mary, asthorei Wake up, my
darling! Is it asleep that you aren
"No, indeed. Archie; but it seems like
dream to look back over the last three
days. Ishall never forget my Christmas
in Irelandr'
"And which part OF it all seemed the
most wonderful to you, Mary, dear3'
Honestly, Archie-dont laugh-it was
I think, to see how poor old Granny Ma
ginnis sat at her post. Do you think it
chronic, Archie"
Chronic'-what might you mean by
that, Mary!"
"That box chair; does she erer leave it'll"
." She left it that night you were there,
Mary"
THAT'S just what she didn't do, Archi-
bald, dear"
"Come, now, let me explain. Can We
kapc a saycritl" 1t will have been no.
ticed that my liege lord lapses ofttimes
unconsciously into the modern Celtic.
"Cau ye kape saycrft, cushlal" he re.
peats.
"Far better than money" say I.
Every well, then. Tint was not Gran
ny Maginnis who sat in the chair the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
Opportunity and Ability.

Opportunity is as important as ability
to any mans success in life; for unless n
man has an opportunity TO show his
ability, his ability can never appear to nd
vantage. But opportunities are always
showing themselves, while men with
ability are not always ready to avail
themselves OF the opportunities that open
before them. When, therefore, YOU find
man who thinks that all he lacks OF
success is good opportnnity.to display his
ability, you find man who has let slip n
great many good opportunities and who
is likely to let another slip while he IL
complaining OF lack OF such openings 70,
good work on his parts. S. 2ymes.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
A sALLoONiST'S JUMP.
How an Acronaut Felt When He Made
His First Parachute Descension.

His First Parachute Descension.
81 have made" said Prof Z. ID. Hogan,
'I63 ascensions and three jumps. One
jump, made out in Jackson, is the biggest
on records, 800 feet. Ishot down 400 feet
before my parachute opened. The popular
impression IS that the parachute opens
with a snap, but this is not so. First ono
section opens, then another, and so on by
easy degrees, and as I've watched it open.
ing when it was just above me and was
thousands of feet up in the air, it remind
ed me of a rose opening in the morning.
SLOW did 1 feel when i made my first
jumpl Oh, well, rather afraid. looked
down and saw the hills and fields away
below me, and the people looked barely
foot high, and the buildings looked like
toy houses. l looked down and shivered
when / saw the space between me and tho
earth, and then looked at the barometer
and found the distance to be almost ono
and half miles; but all the same i
jumped. / leaped into space, hanging to
the parachute, and down / went like shot
for two hundred feet The parachute then
began to open, gradually lessening my
velocity. heard the pc ople's applause
very family. 1t rose up to me like the
merest suspicion of sound. l afterward
learned they clapped and cheered for all
they were worth. The parachute was
oscillating somewhat, and l came near
being banged against several chimney
tops. The buildings are our greatest ter
ror. Many an aoronaut has been dashed
against building and kilied-more, in
fact, than being dragged over rugged
ground. / met with one accident. See
here" pointing to big bulb on his right
ankle. ~ got that in Nebraska in August
of 1888 by being dragged over heap of
rocks. l never could bend that ankle
since-can't even stand on that foot alone.
O"You see great panorama from bal
loon in mid air" continued the professor,
"but, of course, the landscape is all in
miniature and through slight haze,'-
Chicago Journal
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

spendor usual to such waning lines of an
impoverished gentry. l had begged
Archie to take me to his uncle's old coun-
try place, and he, after much iusistance
on my part, gave half-reluctant consent
Some day Archie would be Sir Archibald
Vallancy. since he and his uncle were the
only male representatives of the Vallancy
line, and i should then be Lady Mary
how my American heart swelled at the
thought, and how wise and generous n
chatelaine Imeant to make OF myself
Meanwhile Archie my stalwart hand.
Asome bonny bridegroom was au unro-
llaantic commercial traveller in the employ
of the thriving firm Of Cutt & Slash, of
New York, and at present on so small n
salary that we had proed and conned for
five mortal days over the expediency of
his taking me, his bride, along with him
on this trip, or waiting until summer. He
was due in Belfast in December, he had
told me, and i, being the more charmed
with and dependent upon his loving care
OF me that j was so alone in the world,
cried to go with him, and hung upon his
neck, refusing to hear an argument that
pointed towards the feasibility of his leav-
ing me in America alone.
So the PRONG and conning-for all, it
seemed the sensible thing to do-made me
waver not one whit in my grim determine.
tion to accompany my beloved husband to
Ireland; and here we were on Christmas
Eve, in the thick of Londonderry mist
and drizzle. with the harness broken and
Bann Castle vet many miles away.
MARY, Mary. is 1t true that you are not
wishing yourself back in the snug home
in New York, with tho bright crate fire,
the rose-shaded lamp and the canary IN its
golden cage singing in the make-belleve
III, eli 10 h.
one Of my gloved hands under his arm and
went marching off with me somewhere
down the wet, uncertain road.
'It is as true-as true as that love you,
Archie" answered. giving his arm a lit
tie squeeze, and forgetting the darkness
the damp discomfort and the irate driver
left behind us. "But whittier goest thou,
gentle sfri" asked, peering forward into
tho intense gloom.
ITO little cottage know of, my Mary,
just beyond this bend in-'sh Listen,
dear-what is it!'
'Wheels,n vouchsafed ].
Don't be afraid, Mary, II go ON ahead.
Stand fast here, girl-rll not leave you
long Alone" and he was gone.
stood beside tho big bowlder in the
darkness and listened intently to the sound
OF approaching wheels. A twinkle of light
from wagons lantern sent, at last, "a lit.
tie yellow CLEAN along the rocky roadway.
and saw that tho approaching cart had
stopped close beside our belated vehicle.
''Arrah be aisy, an is II yerself thin, Mr..
O'Flahertyl AM is IL an axceedint that
ye've had the nightW
'Faix, an 1t is that same-bad 'cess till
itr'
'sMignt ye be dhrivin' quality folks, Mr.
O'Flaherty"
'.Oi might--an' thin, again, I moight not.
Oi praysoom they be quahty folks, beloikc;
the commonality praifair shank's mare,
Oim thinkin'p'
'It's dale av mother wit yen be
wastln' on the loikes o. me, Mr.. O'Flaher-
>ty but II ye've seen Phelim o'Flinn, o.
Kiirea, yoll know that the polls arc up In
xrrums along av the warnin' they've re-
sawed from CarrickferGGs he day."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

night the police visited the cabin. Tht
ould woman slept the night at neighbours
the Widow Muldoon's."
"Archie O'Neill, who was it, then?"
"Who!' says you. Why, the very man
the police were after, to be sure!'
"What-Shane Magroo! Impossible!
How do you known
Because" says the laughing voice
close in my ear, because, me jewel, ma
beautiful pearl, am Shane Magroom
EVA BEST.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

4 woman totters up the frozen street.
Onco red those hvid lips now rent with sghs
That strangely haggard face has once been
fair.
or sapphire blue are still the great, sad eyes;
The CLINT of Furnished gold is in her hair.
Yet now the tagging footsteps weaker grow;
A wall goes up. 'Oh God! can this be rcstg'
The woman sinks upon the driited snow,
Her child close clasped upon her wasted
breast.
And midst the angel shapes that hover by
And, plying hear the sinners dying moan,
is there not one to whisper tenderly:
Let him who is without sin cast n -tone?"
HAROLD II. NYNNE.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

len III was 1Ounu I'M
possible to proceed
to Magherafelt on
account OF tho break
ing of an important
bit of harness, re-
grets that we had
left Moneymore that
morning began to as
sail me.
The night was clos
ing in - Christmas
Eve it was, too-and
our final destination
lay even Boy on d
NJ a g Ii eraf t, and
nearer Lough Beg,
where Archie's folks
liyel in tho dacaynd
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

Poverty is like a love aifair-a
good joke after it is over. --Merchani
Traveller.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
SHANE MAGROO.

The Story Of My Christmas Spent
in Ireland.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

Reflected by the yule logs generous glow.
A Yuc-tide festival and che its quoon--
The rustic daughter OF sturdy race,
Who owes her sway TO her enhancing mien,
And holds IT by the beauty OF her face.
And so the tide OF Joy nwakes and swolls,
In glad abandonment of eager mirth,
Till dawn bursts forth, and all the pealing bells
Salute tho day that gave the Saviour birth.
Another Christmas Eve comes stealing down
And vanishos. The night is almost spent;
y The stars blink family DER the sleeping town
In token OF the morrow's merrlment.
Yet see! Hnlf.hidden in the shadows deep,
Down by the little rustic wicket gate,
watcher stands and wnits-whiie others
sleep.
And recls not OF the cruelties OF fate.
The cottage door is softly opened. Loi
girl stenls forth upon the frozen sod,
Unmindful Of a parents bitter woe
Regardless OF tho mandate OF her God
A start OF 1oy-a burning kiss-a sigh
pang all grievous, yet supremely sweet:
One backward look thut means last good bye;
Two forms steal swiftly down the silent
street.
And Christmas Eve once moro falls on the
Garth
And brings to men their need OF Joy or pain;
Once more the quiet hamlet rings with mirth
TO greet the sacred festival again.
With drooping form and slow, uncertain tread,
AS one who goes fearsome doom to meet,
Her cheeks ns pnllid as the newly dead,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

Written for this papor.l
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
THREE CHRISTMAS SCENES.

sx8 LAUGHING maid, with
II golden waves OF hair
Cleaning like sunset
AN mid Moravian skies,
W Her broad, smooth brow
M than falrost snow
W moro fair,
INV Tho blue OF happiness
NMl in her dancing eyes
yMA Romps with her young
'M companions here to-
Ia night,
Cay youths and maids
who swiftly come
y and go
In the rude hail, that
blazes with the light
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-03-14
Notice of Forfeiture.

To j. w. LANE, and WILLIAM LANE:
fou are hereby mott fled that have expended
tne sum OF one hundred ($lO0) in labor and i'm.
proyements on the
RNING STAR
Lode Mining Claim. situated in Sawtooth mining
district. and adjoining the Emma lode claim %
the southeast, and near the Solace and Vienna
Iode cIsims, IN Aturas cOuHty. Idaho Territory,
the United States, being the amount required to
mold the same for the year ending December 81,
les.; and II within ninety 1907 days after this
ncttce by publication you fail or refuse to con.
butte your proportion Of such expenditure y
co-owner. your interest being one.thifd zach.
amounting to thirty three dollars and thirtv.thres
ana one-thfrd cents tS33.33iS) each your interest
IN said claim will become the property Of the
subscriber under said Section 1924 Revised stat
utes Of the United States
First publication March Is. 1888.
DENNIS KELLEHER.