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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-05-03

/ remember, in my youth, when I be-
came fond of books and Of study, used
to look upon balls, games and prize
matches is foolish and senseless things,
fit only for silly people who could not APP
preciate the delights of literature. When
] became older saw the folly of this no.
ton, and entered into the common games
and amusements of life like other people.
For the customs, games and amusements
of people are the outcome of long years
OF experience, the means whereby people
come to relax themselves, and to throw
off the cares of business. Nay, more;
they are the means of forming acquaint-
ances, of learning the habits, character
and thoughts Of each other, and of becom-
ing skilled in social ways, in the power of
amusing and entertaining others.
Besides, any man that has an eye to see
and an ear to hear can read whole
volume in some fete champetre or in some
open air match of two contending parties.
1t is here that character is exhibited, that
wit, humor and raillery are apt to find
free play; that DISCUSSES are thrown off,
and people show themselves as they are;
and it is here that q thousand things
worth knowing may be learned when one
has the art to learn them. A man who
can enjoy the literature of a people should
be broad enough to enjoy their amuse.
ments, for without this breadth of char.
acter he win never be able to produce
anything that the people viii enjoy
SaVAee voVs0Ah 49, ----..
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"A ASTHMA
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Popular Ampseni1nfS and Games,

1t costs the United States $4,000, 900 q
year to carry on the war Of 1919 even at
this late date
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1888.
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SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.-Dul,
heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal
passages, discharges falling from the head
and acrid. at others, thick, tenacious. mucous.
purulent,, bloody and putrid; the eyes are
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Hawking and Spittins.o
Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

ELI ROBBINS, Runyd,, P. O.. Columbia Co.,
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| cured a bottle for her, and soon saw that it
helped her; a third bottle effected perma-
| nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty
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"Untold Agony from Ca:arrh.,,


Prof. W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist
of Ithaca, N. Y, writes: Some ten years age
I suffered untold agony from chronic nas,
catarrh. My family physician gave me up AZ
incurable, and said l must die. My case was
such a bad one, that every day, towards sun
set, my voice would become SO hoarse could
barely speak above whisper. In the informing
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Catarrh Remedy, in three months was well
man, and the cure has been permanent"
"Constantly Hawking and Spitting.'
THoMA ON. RUSHING Esa, ssos r pine s Street.
from catarrh for three years. At times could
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and splitting, and for the last eight months
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thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
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Hrazil's Diamond Mines.

A gentleman who returned from the
diamond districts of Brazil recently says
that the stories of exhaustion of these
once profitable mines are pure fabrica-
tions, designed to influence the market.
He declares that he could buy 81, 600, 900
worth of uncut stones in Rio Janeir6 to-
morsow-if he had a million dollars
New York Mail and Express.
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS.

Postage free to all subscribers in tile United States,
Ca.lada or Mexico
, 1888-12-06

He is wholly unlike what you supposed
him 10 be as--well say as q chubby, good
natured cherub is unlike Mourzouk. He
impresses one with being 40 different. He
knows all that il going on in the Office.
and could have heard, il be wished, your
conversation when you were cut of. You
feel that you have been imposed upon, and
Mr.. Norman evidently feels so, too, for he
tries TO make IL up to you. He takes yop
all over the place, endeavors to make yqM
He takes You to the operating room and
explains matters. In q word he has not
10 per cent Of tho truculence with which
yon credited him, and you can go home
feeling the poetic justice of things which
makes the case OF the telephone mystery as
cheerful as its periphery IL covered in the
spume and pudder of anger and all un-
charitableness.
, 1888-12-06
she united her bonnet string, "who is it

from"
How do know" said the husband,
friends"
"You oughtn't talk that way to me,
Charles" said the wife, just ready TO
whimper. You know never flirted in
my life. What did the man sayp'
"Oh, he said nothing, he just left the
note for you. It's there on the bureau"
"Charlie--boo hoo--I d-didn't think
you d think that w-way of me---boo hoo.
I'll 20 home to-pight. Where's the babyp
where's. my babyr and I'll leave you 70
your unjust suspicions."
why don't You read the note2"
~ don't want TO see it."
You had better read IL. IL won't help
things not 10 read it, i .."0"-
"Why"--drying her eyes--'it's from
Aunt Margaret, and stamped and post
marked, too, as though IL came by mail,
thought you said q man left 1t for me-"
80 did, my dear--the postman.''
WAGES PAID DoMEsTrcs.
Joseph Howard, Jr., writes to America
regarding salaries paid to domestics In
New York. Here are Mr.. Howard's
statements: III do not believe Mr.. Wander.
bilt pays BIC. 900 q year TO his head cook.
l should think less OF him than do II
such were the fact, hut that cooks-chefs,
as they are called--are paid as high as
$4,000 in several private families il mat
Ter of fact. That buffers and crack coach
men, and particularly winsome footmen,
get high pay, aud chat favorite lady's
maids and useful personal attendants
make much more money than their less
favored sisters, Ia undeniable. Wages,
however they may differ in individual in
stances, average 825 q month for man
waiter, the rest Of the servants being
women; 500 for the cook, 817 or 81S for q
laundress. ZIG for q chambermaid. sup
pose In o family where two servants are
employed a cook receives on the average
SIG month, and the chambermaid $l3,
and in homes where general house girl
month. These prices are much higher
than they were twenty years ago, when
moderately placed families paid "a q month
for q cook and e6 for chanbermsid."
THE LATEST FEMININE DOG CRAZE.
Although the fashionable wsrld adopts
from time TO time many novel and curious
tic animal, rarely meets with formidable
rival. In ell his breeds, from the tiny toy
terrier TO the huge mastif, he reigns
supreme in town and country. IL is there
fore matter Of Importance that new
dog 10 about to appear in our midst
There was great demand for fresh
canine; the rotund English pug has
been veted sleepy and stupid; the
great settlers somewhat too exuber.
ant in their spirit for everyday compan-
ionship, 90 it 10 expected and hoped that
the stranger will strike the happy medium
line. He is little and furry and black,
and unlike q small spitz, and he halls from
the low countries. He has all the requi.
site good qualities. being afiectionats and
vivacious, added towhich he is an expert
rat-catcher. His dogship win find his
debut into our drawinR.rooms considerable
of an elevation, for his life hitherto has
been passed in the gloomy recesses of
narrow nal-boats.-Table Talk.
, 1888-12-06
OUGHT WOMEN TO PROPOSE.
II Getting Married IL Serious, Proposing
II 6olemnity Itself


II solemnity Itself
This question 10 now agitating the pub
lie mind, and. In view. Of the serious letters
AMI questions received by the Tribune, it
10 thought best to open our columns to the
discussion of the question. This marriage
problem 10 the most serious of all questions
relating to human happiness, and the
confederation of the best methods of ap-
prosch should not be done in the spirit Of
levity. II getting married is serious, pro-
posing is solemnity itself. 1t is q question
that every woman has ,speculated on and
every man has lost sleep over.
1t is a universal question, because there
10 Q universal demand for 1t. The sub
ject 10 serious enough to call out opinions
from people like Kate Field, Dion Bouci-
cault, Lawrence Barrett, Bill Nve. Belva
Lockwood, Jennie June and Mr.. Thomas,
president of the Sorosis. Kate Field says
she is a social mugwump, and thinks peo-
pie should do as they please as long as it
Injuries no one. Boucicault is for feminine
proposals, as the present system ''degrades
women by making her social hypocrite.
H s'tsi 1T lnd s7 Of 4Pa Bin 'is; Nss is
delighted at the prospect Of shifting the
responsibility of the failures to womeu's
shoulders. He processes to know several
marriages of this kind that have turned
ont well; and where deserving but penui-
less young men have beef thus wooed into
affiuent circumstances. In charming
afterthought, q naive p. s. to his letter,
he advertises his friend. James Whit ,omb
Riley, the sweet singer from Indiana, az
most estimabIe gentleman and single.
Belva Ann Loct wood takes up the ques-
derous and awful solemnity. OF course she
favors IL and manauea In work in aeveral
, 1888-12-06

if women we're accustomed 10 proposins,
the "Qlanlor of indefniteness" that
hedges q proposal would be wiped
away In the cool consideration OF mutual
contrast U, Belva, how can youP
Why, this woman would strip the feathers
from Cupid's wings 10 stuff sofa pillow,
and use his arrow to wound midnight
cats. Jennie June very wisely says there
Is no necessity for women's proposing:
She regards every bright girl as a sort OF
ways and means committee to select, re.
iect, and make her combinations without
exposing herself to humiliation,
Jennie June Ia very clever. She writes
sensibly. The most delightful part Of
wooing--and we must call 1t q sentimental
business until the belvas put it on more
practical basis--is the inde6niteness, un-
certainty. and the general hasiness OF the
entire process. The reason woman does
not proposeis not because she is slave to
men. or hasn't q ballot, or because social
customs forbid. It IL just because she ia
woman. and the homage Of men and
their wooing is the most delightful thing
on earth. The queenship which permits a
woman-to escape the humiliation OF re-
lection, the grace which enables her to en-
courage without speech, are the dearest
prerogatives OF womanhood. 1t is dull
WOmHu CuuL OOto uOb huoW Whch uibu 40
In love, stupid one that can not tell him
In q thousand ways without speech that mis-
love is welcome.
Women OF the Belva Lockwood stamp
would suppose twist even the chivalry IT
man to woman, to suit the exigencies OF
the ballot box. But as we are not yet
evoluted up to the point when men do not
shrink from hurting woman's sensitive
pride, how would chivalric gentlemen
meet this new departurep Fancy a great
souled tender hearted man sending from
his home or Office (for IL women 90 wooing
they must follow their prey) beautiful
maiden, crushed under his rejection. He
could not. He would not. He would ac-
cept TO save her feelings, and then--a
failure.
Iwould tell the girls TO beware. II
sounds like facinatinQ scheme, but re-
mem Der the law Of compensation. Don't
hastily give up all the dear delightful
privileges Of making q man miserable for
days and weeks. of giving him q glance
that brings heaven TO the pavement, or q
frown that fills the air with birthstone and
shakes the earth under his feet. Reserve
for yourself and hold intact the privilege
Of worrying the man you love as long as
you like, of graciously Diminishing the ene
you do not leve without humiliating him,
and finally telling man without speech,
but by the hundred triaing arts OF woman
that he may propose and-run the risk
Florence Huntley in Minneapolis Tribune.
, 1888-12-06
A REQUEST.
One little kiss Ia all I ask,

One little kiss IL all ask,
To save q precious soul;
To thee tits but a simple task,
To me salvaLion's goal.
All would dare such prayer reject,
With cold aud scornful eye,
Aud Ia their naughty pride expect
Forgiveness from ON high.
Beware beware! the scriptures say,
In words most plain aud true.
That you must do from day to day
As you'd have others do TO you.
Spokane, Dec. /. J. 8. j. II.
, 1888-12-06
Election Returns From Israel.

Mamma, know where God is," said q
thoughtful little miss last evening.
everywhere"
mo He amt either. He's in Israel;
General AlRer said So"
"What do you mean, child?" and the
mother showed some acerbity as she made
the inquiry.
We'll, General Alger said that an sure
as Gods in Israel General Harrison will
be elected; and General Harrison was
elected, wasn't hep Papa said be was.
anyhow, that night he came home and
acted so funny, and You cried. Detroit
, 1888-12-06
After a scaIp.

- ,Visitor-"My dear countess, see that
all your female servants have red hair"
Countsss--"Yes. had great deal of
trouble finding them" q ~
But what 70 your object IN having 90.
many red-headed servant girlspv ~
You know that Nine. Blank 10 making
Yes, / know" ''7''' - s
well, am after her scalp. I want 10
bring her blonde hair into disrepute. To-
morrow will have two more servant rirls
with red hair. "--Texas SiftinRs.
, 1888-12-06

The interest Mas semsw Abstsd.
1t 10 nearly time for the eleventh United
states census. and yet the twenty -sscoud
and last volume OF the tenth census. taken
~ 1880, has just been issued. Ststjstics
OK the last year Of the Hayes adminfskrs-
tior have musty flavor about them new.