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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-08-14
CARDINAL NEWMAN DEAD.

The Noted English Prslate Stricken Down
by Pneumonia.
LONDON, Aug. 12.-Cardinal Newman
Is dead. He was in the goth year of his
age and was created cardinal in 1879.
He was born Feb. II, 1901, and gradu-
ated at Oxford in 1920. He was for sew
eral years identified with the Church of
England, but in 1916 left it and joined
the Roman Catholic church.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-08-14
A BLOW AT THE INTERSTATE LAW


A Circuit Court Decision Which Practi-
cally Makes Its Provisions Inopera-
tive.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 13.-The de-
cision of Judges Jackson and Sage, of
the United States court, throwing the
interstate commerce commission out of
court on their suit against the Baltimore
and Ohio is complete Knockout for
the commission. 1t is held that party
or theatrical rates are just and proper,
ana subject alone to the provions that
rates must be Just and reasonable,
and that no unjust discrimination be
made against persons or traffic similarly
circumstance. The interstate COM
merce act leaves common carriers Just
where they were under the common
carrier law, the judges say, free to make
such contracts as are for their interests,
and to classify and scale their charges
rs to them seems best,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-10
An Autograph That Lasted.

On the farm of William Wilkinson at
Shelton, N. Y, stood beech tree that
was curiously marked. Years ago when
the tree was young, John Leland, sailor,
cut the initials of his name on the bark
of the tree, and beneath the letters
carved handsome sailors anchor. Not
long ago the beech tree was cut down,
it being about fifty years old, and when
the woodsman split open the trunk he
was startled at seeing in the hard, white
wood, near the core of the tree, the big
letters 81. L." on denscly black back
ground. They were just as big and
clearly cut as they were nearly forty
years ago when John Leland did the act
with his sailors knife. Between the
letters on the bark of the tree were just
thirty seven rings, and as tree grows IN
girth just one ring year, it was easy for
the woodchopper to tell exactly the year
and almost the month in which ~. L."
had been carved in the beech. 1t is
curious feature that the letters have
stamped themselves all the way from the
heart of the tree to the bark. Though
they have been overgrown by thirty
seven rings of wood fibre, it is easy to
read ~. L." on the outer bark. Another
curious thing is that along the crossbar
of the anchor the wood is cracked
at right angles with the natural grain OF
the trcc.--NeU York Sun.
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WHO WILL THANK YOU?

There is one thing which is worth remem-
bering, and that is, no one will thank you
for killing yourself. You may work your
self to death and when you have done 1t
people may call you a fool for your palms,
What you are is of more Importance than
what you do. A strong, vigorous, cour.:
ageous man or woman Is esteemed and
valued, but one who is helpless, feeble, fret
full and discouraged, gets little comfort or
consideration, even if it be admitted that the
fcebeness and helplessness is the result of
useful work, and work done on behalf of
others. Bad men are ungratefu, good men
are forgetful.
The Providence of God makes persons re-
sponsib!e for the careful preservation and
the proper use Of their powers. They have
no right to needleSsy throw away the
energy which God has granted them. They
have no right to expect others to take care
of them. while they neglect to take care Of
themselves. 1t Is their right, their duty to
guard themselves against excess, to avoid
danger, to abstain from everything which
can injure or destroy them, and to maintain
themselves in vigor and strength for pur-
poses of usefulness and bltssing to those
around us.
Take care Of yourself. No one else can
care for you. You must see to it that you
have food, and raiment, and rest, and sleep.
and protection, so that you will be fitted for
the best and most lasting service, for the
glory'of God and the good of mankind
[The Common People.
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WAITING FOR THE GOSPEL.

What can we do in forming a conception
of the conditions and wants, the fears and
hopes, the sorrows and agOnes. the sins and
ruin, the dangers and possibilities. of multi
piled millions grooming and Travelling in
pain" who never heard of the Saviour Of
men? Each individual a human being-a
ant of God-needing the Saviour and wait
full Of them! We refuse to look steadily at
this dark and sorrowful procession going its
way to eternity. We cannot while we neg
lect them.
If there were only one man in the world
who had never heard Of Jesus, it would be
worthy the combined efforts Of heaven and
earth to carry him the "glad tidings."
What eXertions have we witnessed to find
Sir John Frankiin-only lost in the Arctic
seas! And yet there are hundreds Of mil
lions drifting into unknown darkness. Say
ing nothing Of Pagans in Christian lands,
there are, Of MOhammedanS, 10000, 600;
of Asiatic Buddhists, of one sort and an
other, idoaters all, 600, 100000; of miscella-
neous beathen in Africa and the Islands OF
the sea-, 10000, 900 more.
If the church looked steadily at such facts;
if she read in the light Of the Bible and with
full faith in God their meaning-so porten-
tious for both worlds-she could never rest
till she had "preached the Gospel to every
creature" DR.. Olin has said, as rightly as
clouuently: did the church really believe
the Gospel to be rs necessary to the heathen
as it is to US, there would he at once and for
ever IN end of her guilty repose. or
Send; A Plea for Missions.
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A Brazilian Delicacy.

s'Tslking of ccntipedes," said q New
Yorker in the Tribune, "rcminds me of
q dish I ate once in Brazil. went away
up the Amazon one winter among the
wretched Indians there, buying up raw
rubber. Several of US left the boat one
day and made our way into the dense
forest 10 see if we could shoot any
toucans. We got lost in short order,
and wandered about for day and a
night before we found the little creek in
which our boat lay, and we were only
brought back then by some Indians
whom we met carrying rubber to the
river to sell. We met them just as they
were about to camp for the night, and
as they promised to show us the way
out of the forcst,wc camped with them.
"We had some timed beef left and
some whisky, but as I had lived on
timed beef and fresh fish for some time
and was nightly tired of them both, I
was looking about for change of diet
and was glad to see that the Indians had
some native food with them. This con-
sisted of some sort of grayish-white
paste, that looked like mixture of suet
and 'grits' I asked them what it was,
but 1 could not understand what they
said and our interpreter had gone off for
water. 1t did not taste at all bad, and
the flavor was unlike anything I had
ever eaten, so l had swallowed a bit of
it about as big as your fist before the in
tcrpreter returned and told me that the
dish was made of some sort of dried
root, pulverized and mixed with the
crushed bodies of white ants.
81 did not cat any more"
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The Sultan's Housekeeping.

1t is estimated that over six thousand
persons are fed daily at his Dolma
Bagtche palace when the Sultan is there.
One who is we'll informed gives graphic
picture of the Sultan's housekeeping.
He admits that it is clear that there is a
good executive ability about the manage
mcnt of this enormous household, for
there is scarcely ever jar or a hitch,
even under the impulse of the most un-
timely demands. Every different de-
partment is under the control of a person
who is directly responsible for that, and
he has a corps of servants and slaves
under his orders who obey him only, and
he is subject to the treasurer of the house
hold.
Women have no voice whatever in the
management of anything in any depart
ment. Their sole occupation is to wait
uron their respective mistresses, or to
serve the Sultan in some specified cap
acity; and the labor about the palace is
so sub-divided that no one works very
hard except the Lord High Chamberlain
and the treasurer of the household. The
chamberlain is mostly occupied in ad-
ministering to the wants and csprices of
the Sultan, and is in almost constant at
tendance upon him; so the treasurer of
the household has the burden of the
housekeeping on his sturdy shoulders.
He has an organized force of buyers, who
are each charged with the purchase of
certain supplies for their individual de-
partments, each having his helpers, serv-
ants and slaves.
One man is charged with the duty of
supplying all the fish, and as to furnish
fish for at least 5000 persons is no light
undertaking in place where there are
no great markets such as there are in
all other large cities, he has to have
about twenty men to scour the various
small markets and buy of the fishermen,
and each of these men has two Others to
carry the fish they buy. About ten tons
of fish week are required. There are
nearly $4,000 pounds of bread eaten
daily, for the Turks are large bread
eaters, and this is all baked in the enor-
nous ovens situated at some distance
from the palace.
The food for the Sultan is cooked by
one man and his aids, and no Others
touch it. 1t is cooked in silver vessels,
and when done each kettle is sealed by
slip of paper and stamp, and this is
broken in the presence of the Sultan by
the High Chamberlain, who takes one
spoonful of each separate kettle before
the Sultan tastes it. This is to guard
against poison. The food is almost
always served up to the Sultan in
the same vessels in which it was cooked,
and these are often of gold, but when of
baser metal the kettle is set into q rich
golden bell-shape'l holder, the handle of
which is held bya slave while the Sui
tan eats. Each kettle represents
course, and is served with bread and
kind of pancake, which is held on a
golden tray by another slave. The Sui
tan never uses plate. He takes all his
food direct from the little kettles, and
never uses table and rarely knife or
fork-a spoon, his bread, a pancake or
fingers are found far handler. 1t re-
quires just twice as many slaves as there
are courses to serve dinner to him.
Chicago Neus.
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RELIGIOUS READING,
THE HSCMMER LAND"

cover the river" the Summer land' lies,
Fadeless its blossoms. unclouded its skies,
Towers simmer not in the sun-ray's light,
Stars neve" glow-for there falleth no night,
Der it Gods glory transcendently flows,
Bathing 1t ever in holy repose.
All! We get CLEANS of that glorious land,
When by the rivers bank trembling we
stand.
Watching the waves that increasingly flow
Over the crossing where loved ones must so,
They see the beams of heavenly light
Gliding its glittering columns of white.
They hear the songs, and the rustic of
wings,
We-but the echo their ecstacy brings
Why do we scrrow when happy they lie
Ready for angels to bear them on high!
Such treasures we need their sunlight tc
throw
Over our pathway while waiting below.
Are there no flowers in the bright Summer
Land?
Aye, tenderly kept by our Fathers hand, -.
Borne in His love from the chill light OF
TranspIanted; they bloom in heavenly
cline,
May we be welcomed at last to the band
Who, "sinless" are roaming the blest Sum-
mer Land.
-[Bell Clinton.
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How Indians Stand Hot Weather.

It is as much part of the Indians
creed to become Injured to the heat as to
the cold. 1t is not an infrequent spec
tacle to see infants in heavy blanket
shirts weighted with elk teeth tied into
beaded frames or cradles and left stand
ing against the heated frame wall It the
ration house, while their mothers gossip
hours away within. We have seen, after
the issue of beef upon the hoof, half
dozen squaws drag the steer that fell to
their allotment into the open prairie, and,
under scorching sun, clean, quarter and
divide it when perhaps few mesquite
trees not far distant or on overturned
wagon would have furnished partial
protection from the intense glare and
heat.
A young Pueblo girls toilet for hot
summer evening is the same that she
would make in December. Her limbs
from the knee to the ankle are wound
with not less than ten thickncsses Of
deer skin. The costly black native
blanket is carefully adjusted with a
brilliant woven girdlc at the waist. A
scarlet kerchief hangs backward from
the shoulders and over all is the shawl
drapcd from the head. Fill jar with
water that gushes from rocka full
mile from her adobe home, place it upon
her head, start her off under q fervid sun
and contrivc to meet her at the other
end of the line, and you will find her as
placid and undsturbed as the limpid
water within the jar upon her head
Wtshinqton Star.
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A Precious anu InterestSn. Metal.

Tin, which every one knows, but
which few, except men of science and
mctallurgists, arc acquainted with, is one
Of the most precious and most interesting
metals. After gold and silver, it is in
trinsically the most precious of those in
use. 1t is nearly of the same color and
almost as bright rs silver, but has less
resistance and is less valuable. When
warmed by friction, it has pronounced
oior auJ tasic. When it is bent, the
Jcrangcmcnt of the crystals of which its
mass is formed causes it, without any
fracture taking place, to emit peculiar
sound which metallurgists call its cry,
and by means of which an expert can
nearly determine its degree of putty.
The places where tin is produced are few,
scattered sparscly over the surface OF the
globe; and it disguises itself under the
form of a blackish mineral which, to the
profane eye, gives no sign of the treasure
that is within it, One of the richest, as
well as the most ancient Trimming dis
tricts is in the Malay Peninsula, the Col
den Chersonesus of the ancients. The
name of the province, Pcrak, signifies
silver; but it is peculiarly the province
Of tin Washington Star.
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Three Kinds of Teeth.

In man there are three kinds of teeth:
the incisors, the CANNES and the molars.
The incisors, eight in number, are
placed in front of the jaw and are kept
to sharp edge by the abrasion of the
upper and lower sets. They are gnaw-
ing teeth, and in rodents, such as rats
and mice, arc subject to severe wear, and
are consequently continually growing
from the base. In man, however, hav-
ing once attained their full size, their
growth ceases.
The rodentia, or gnawing animals, are
characterized by the presence of greatly
enlarged and modified incisors. These
are tubular and have persistent pulp,
and the material of which they are made
is so arranged that the hardest portion is
the front surface, and the softest the
back. Thus chisel-like tool is formed,
and kept constantly sharpened by the
end of the opposing tooth in the other
Jaw. When one of these incisors, by any
chance, fails to meet its fellow, it con-
tinues growing, and forms long tusk,
which sometimes curves around until it
pierces the skull.
The CANNES, or dog teeth, are charac-
teristic of carnivorous mammals. They
are formed by nature to seize and tear
prey, and are lacking in rodents and
most grass-eating animals. In apes they
are very prominent, those of the gorilla
nearly equaling the lions in size. They
are never more than four in number.
The molars have rough and tlattened
surfaces, and are used for crushing and
grinding. In man they exceed in num-
Der both the incisors and CANNES, but in
certain fishes they are exceedingly num-
erous. Thus, in the l3oroids, or as they
are commonly called, the ''clam crush
crs," we find all the upper and lower
jaws paved, from front to back, from
one side to the other, with hemisphcrical
grinders, which exhibit the greatest
economy of material in the construction
of a surface capable Of resisting pressure;
and immense pressure is brought to bea:
upon these teeth, for the fishes that own
them take hard-shell, saltwater clam,
or even a small oyster, and, closing their
powerful jaws, crack the shell to frag-
ments, swallow the clam and spit Out the
shell. The grinding and crushing action
to which these teeth ere subjected re-
suits in their wearing away, and ultimate
destruction, neccssita,ing a succession OF
teeth; so that we see here ore Of the
most primitive cases of true mola:s hav-
, ing regular succcssols.--ThcL Lclycr.
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Tho Value Of Pepper.

The value of pepper in cooking seems
to have been known long ago. Its use
os n medicine was common in the days of
Hippocratc,, who applied it, moistened
with alcohol, to the skin of his patients,
Just as sugar and tea have been in past
times so dear as only to be within the
reach of the wealthy, so pepper was in
the Middle Ages very costly condiment.
So much was it valued that small packet
was at that time deemed suitable present
TO offer a great person. Common OIL
black pepper is now grown in many
tropical countries. 1t is climbing plant
some twelve feet high, bearing fruit OF 9
bright red color the sizo of pea, which,
when dried, turns black.-7fmss Demo
crGt. -
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The Myriad Ways Of Eating.

Did YOU ever watch the myriad ways
of cating' There is the aggressive eater,
who bites his bread as though be owed
it Il grudge, and drinks his coffee with
eyes that fairly glare over the brim Of his
cup with unappeasable wrath. Tie timid
cater, who nips his fool apologetically;
the prcoccupicd eater, who doesn't seem
to know salt from sugar; the hungry
cater, who cats rs men have championed
4 lost cause. I never watch company
of eaters but I feel that the line of de-
markation between the human family and
the brute creation grows very faint and
dim as it approaches this common centre.
I have often wondered if the race, as it
advances, will not one day escape the
bondage of the appetite. Relief can
only come through methods of simpliti-
cation. When science shall condense a
whole beef into a lozengc and the nutri-
ment OF Il weeks baking into a pastil,
we shall lose much of our present kin
ship with the brutcs that perish.-Chi-
cago Herald.
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Catching and Curing Cod in California.

The manner of catching and curing
Goldfish on the Pacific coast is generally
similar to that on the Atlantic side.
Large schooners of from 200 to 300'tons
are employed to bring the cod down
from Behring Sea and Alaskan waters to
the depots at Tiburon, California City
and Kershaw Island, where the fish are
cured. Formerly the salt supply was
brought from the Alcmeda "saltings,"
but to-day the principal supply is OBJ
tanned from Alviso, being transported on
clumsy looking, square-bowed sailing
crafts, of which many types may be seen
rotting in the marshes and lagoons OF
Tiburon.
The cod are caught on the banks of
Alaska and the Okhotsk Sea by men who
for the most part work solitarily in
"dorics," small boats from twelve to
fifteen feet long, with fiat bottom, sharp
Prov and square stern, specially fitted to
receive the catch, which averages 200
fish of four or five pounds daily for each
man. In other cases a larger dory IS
used, and the crew work sociably on
shares or for q fixed rate per man. The
spells of labor may average three or four
hours, when there is an interval for
meals, and at the end of the day the en-
tire crowd proceed to stake care of the
fish," One makes hasty rip vertically
and horizontally and passes the fish to
the "header," "who breaks Of the head
and removes the viscera. A third takes
out the principal bones and passes it to
the salter, by whom it is packed in brine
in the hold. Both the boning and salt
ing process are mere temporary expedi-
ents, the actual curing of the fish taking
place on arrival at San Francisco.
When a cargo of the headless and
eviscerated fish reaches one of the pack
ing stations of San Francisco Bay the
first step is to wash the cod in large tanks
with false bottoms freely communicating
with the bay. At such spots there is
sure to be a large gathering of smelts and
local predatory fish. Then the cod are
piled on trucks and run on a short limo
of rails into the interior of the factory,
where thorough sleeping in brine tanks
takes place. Next the fish are spread
out on long lines Of "hasks," or drying
frames, where in the desiccating air of
California the second process is rapidly
completed. The remaining bones are
then removed, where "boneless cod is
called for" and lastly the product is
packed ready for shipment.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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FIFTY YEARS OF EMANCIPATION.

If had to select, from the beginning of
the world down to the present time, and SO
on to its close, the fifty years in which I
would pass my active life, would choose
the half century in which have lived, be-
cause in that half century there has been
the emancipation of the slaves; there has
been the emancipation of the restrictions
upon the Catholic; there has been the eman-
cipation OF all the restrictions upon the
Corn Law; there has been the emancipation
of the voter from restrictions upon suffrage.
1t has been fifty years of emancipation, and
the only half century of which that can be
said Gladstone.
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nRooTEp AND GROUNDED

I have seen. says writer, shrubs and
trees grow out of the rocks, and overbang
fearful precipices, roaring cataracts, and
deep running waters; but they maintained
their position and threw out their foliage
and branches as much as if they had been
in the midst of dense forest. 1t was their
hold of the rock that made them secure, and
the influences of natare had sustained their
life. So believers are oftentimes exposed to
the most horrible dangers in their journey
to heaven; but so long as they are rooted
and grounded" on the Rock Of Ages, they
are perfectly secure.
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MANY parents are apt to consider
their daughters worth their weight in
gold, but Scotch gentleman estimated
his two daughters valuo at even a
higher rate than this, bequeathing to
each her weight in e1 notes. The elder
seems to have been simmer than her
sister, for she got only s51, 200, while
the younger received EST, ,3A.
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Twenty-one thousand five hundred
fdollars is the amount paid for the last re-
corded sale of scat in the New York
Stock Exchange.
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- mAlNn ,ounS rUmau VINO was
asked the place of her nativity replied
that she wasn't born anywhere in par
ticular, as she was the daughter Of q
Methodist minister. ...- !
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St. Petersburg, Russia, is the only
capital in Europe in which the population
lis steadily diminishing.
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MONEY to man is like water to 8
plant. only useful as long as it pro-
notes and facilitates growth-hke the
water in the fountain or water in the
tank, keep it flowing, and it blessesi
keep it stagnanh and itiniuras. ...--