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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-03-12
Improvement

in my condition, my appetite began to
return and with it came the ability to
digest all the food taken, my strength
improved each day, and after few
months of faithful attention to your
directions, 1 found myself well
woman, able to attend to all household
duties. The medicine has given me
new lease of life, and ! cannot thank
you too much"
1--WE, the undersigned, citizens of
Brockway Centre, Mich, hereby certify
that the above statement, made by
Mrs. Lake, is true in every particular
and entitled to full credence."-O. p.
Chamberlain, G.. w. Waring, G. A.
Wells, Druggist.
"My brother, in England, was, for a
long time, unable to attend to his occu-
patton, by reason of sores on his foot.
I sent him Ayers Almanac and the tes-
timonials it contained induced him to
try Ayers Sarsaparilla. After using it
q little while, he was cured, and is now
q we'll man, working in a sugar mill
at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
A tfawell SharhOt Lake Ontario.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-03-12
LATEST RETURNS,
As Estimated. Show. Conservatives G.
III Seats, Liberals IS. ...

As Estimated. Show Conservatives Get
LII Seats, Liberals 95.
TORONTO, March THE following
summary of the result of the elections,
as compiled from returns up to o'clock
p. m. The total number of seats 215, in
three of which Algoma, Ont, Hunting
don Que, and Caribee, B. c., elections
were not held. Ontario. 80 seats, Con-
servatives 46, Liberals 46; Quebec, Is
seats, Conservatives %, Liberals 26,
Nova Scotia, 81 seats, Conservatives II,
Liberals 4; New Brunswick, 16 seats,
Conservatives II, Liberals 5; Prince
Edward Island, 6 seats, Conservatives 2,
Liberals A; Manitoba, seats, Conserva-
tives A, Liberals l; British Columbia,
seats, Conservatives 5, Liberals O.;
Northwest Territory, seats, Conserva-
tives 4, Liberals O.; total Conservatives,
III; Liberals, 95, Conservative major
ity of %. In the three constituencies
yet to elect the Conservatives will prob
ably carry two and the Liberals one. In
the above summary two Independents
in Quebec are classed with the Conser-
vatives and one Nationalist with the
Liberals. ..-..-.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-03-12

Contests for seats held by Democrats
in the house were made by eighteen
Republicans. The elections committee
decided seventeen of these-eleven IN
favor Of Republicans and six in favor 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-03-12

A Remarkable Number of Important
Measures Become Laws-The Total APP
propriations Made Foot Up Nearly
Billion of Dollars.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-03-12

Sweet Grass Hills, Milk and .,-r,
Sun River Valleys, Montana SHEEP
reached only by the Great North nnoo
ern Railway Line. The Stock HUUS,
Raisers' paradise.
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gone, eaten up, drunk up, nobody really has anything. You'll be as rich as the Vanderbilts or Astors tomorrow or the day after, for there's nothing for any of you. All bubbles, bubbles"
 The English language appears to be making its way. In a publication of the State department devoted to the collation. of facts regarding immigration into the United States, significant suggestion is brought out in regard to the importance of immigration on the unifying of Ian guage,-and it's unifcation by the growth and spread of English. Says the report:- Since the opening of the present century English has advanced from 21 ,000, 900 to 125, ,OOO, 900 speakers-that is, from B to 31 per cent.-largely through emigration to the United States. English is now spoken by nearly twice as many people as any of the other tongues of Europe and it's relative growth shows no signs of diminution. English has pre-empted the North American continent, where there are to-day twice as many speakers of Eng fish as there are of French in Europe. The English language also occupies Aus tralia, Great Britain and Ireland, while in South Africa and India it menaces all other tongues. In fact, English is now the speech of the world of travel and of fra5a
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
Food Wasted in Hotels.


 Max O'Rell in the North American Review. ]
 The thing which, perhaps, strikes me most disagreeably in the American hotel dining room is the sight of the tremen- dous waste of food that goes on at every meal. No European, I suppose, can fail to be struck with this; but to a French man it would naturally be most remarka- ble. In France, where, venture to say, people live as well as anywhere else, if not better, there is perfect horror of any thing like waste of good food. It is to me, therefore, a repulsive thing to see the wanton manner in which some Americans will waste at one meal enough to feed sev- eral hungry fellow-creatures. In the large hotels, conducted on the American plan, there are rarely fewer than fifty diff ferent dishes on the menu at dinner-time. Every day and at every meal you may see people order three or four times as much of this food as they could under any cir cumstances eat, and, picking at and spoil ing one dish after another, send the bulk away uneated. I am bound to say that this practice is not only observed in hotels where the charge is so much day, but in those conducted on the European plan that IS to say, where you pay for every thing you order. There I notice that peo- pie proceed in much the same wasteful fashion. It is evidently not a desire to have more than is paid for, but simply 6 bad and ugly habit. I hold that about five hundred hungry people could be fed out of the waste that is going on at such large hotels as the Palmer House and the Grand Pacific Hotel of Chic.go-and have no doubt such five hundred hungry people could easily be found in Chicago every day.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
Bears.

A bear is an extremely awkward and ungainly looking creature, but when it starts after any one it wishes to catch it displays a quickness of motion which those who have been hunted by it declare to be amazing. And when it wants to get beetle grubs out of the ground, ants out of their homes, honey out of bee tree, fruit from a slender bough or birds eggs out of nest it shows itself to be as smart and skillful as any other animal that has to live by its wits. To get, for instance, at the beetle grub it scratches off the up per earth and sucks them up out of the ground. When it wishes to empty an ant hive it knocks the top of with its paws, applies it's mouth to the central gallery of the nest, draws in its breath forcibly, thereby setting up such a current of air that all the unfortunate ants and their eggs come whirling up into its mouth like packets through pneumatic tube. When robbing bees it does not get stung. and when after wild fruit or acorns it balances itself as cleverly on the branches of the trees as rope walker balances himself on a rope. Nor does it ever try to conceal what it is about On the contrary, when sucking at an ant hill or grub hole it makes such noise that on still evening it can be heard quarter of mile off, and when up a tree it goes smashing among the boughs as though it thought bears owned all the trees in the world.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
The Story eff A Great Poem.

[Dr. Talmage in the Ladies' Home Journall
 Most people need to publish one book in order to find what an expensive and unsat- isfactory business it is in most cases I had friend who had given birth to a re igious poem. He thought it would rival Paradise Lost" and shake the nations He kept the secret under lock and key for long while, showing it only to a few special friends, and that under promise of secrecy. He grew thin in calculating at what time the world could best endure the exhilaration of its publication. At last the manuscript was in type and the proof was read, and the book was put upon the market. He banqueted his friends on publication day in anticipation of g large fortune. He fgured up how many would be sold. First he calculated on disposing of twenty thousand; but as he reviewed the importance of the work and the fasci- nation of the style he put the figures to fifty thousand. Afterward, bethinkinp himself of the fact that it is impossible to keep rare thing on this side of the At lantic, and the certainty of its worldwide distribution, he concluded it reasonable to expect the circulation of one hundred thousand.
 The fact was that of the first edition of five hundred copies one hundred and fifty were sold and the rest were given away Its rivalry did not hurt John Milton's rep utation bit.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
The CostIIest St. Bernard.


 1t was thought that when MT. J. K. Elm met gave MT. Sidney Smith, of Leeds, England, the sum of five thousand dollars for the St. Bernard Plinlimmon that a rec ord had been made for anything outside of coursing greyhound that would stand for many years. Hardly had Plinlimmon left for America, however, ere a new star appeared in Sir Bedivere, also a St. Der nard. who has since carried all before him in the way of prizes. Offers were at once made his owner. MT. T. H. Green, but not even blank check to fill up to suit him self would tempt him. Mir. Henry Halsey, who made the bid, subsequently, offered seventy-fve hundred dollars, but still no transfer was made.
 Now, however, Mir Green has agreed to sell Sir Bedivere, and to MT. E. B. Sears, of Bostsn, for the sum of sixty-fve hun dred dollars. The reduced price is accept ed for the reason that MT. Halsey. who of fered the seventy-fi five hundred dollars, has left England for an African trip, and MT. Greens brother, who has always had charge of the dog, also going abroad, leaves white elephant on the hands of the Wallasey druggist. Mir. Sears, getting an inkling of this, made an offer of .si thousand dollars for Sir Bedivere, which brought about the following laconic cable gram: "Six thousand five hundred buys the dog" 'Done, my man starts to-mor- row."
 As for the latter dispatch, Mir. Sears representative is already half way across the Atlantic, and is expected to be back on January 9. Sir Bediyere will be the great attraction at the New York dog show of February 24th to the S7th.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
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A BAD PRACTICE UPHELD.

Massachusetts has very elaborate and effective ballot reform law, but the Supreme court of that State has just made a decision which is decidedly against reform in voting. This decision is to the effect that the payment of the poll tax as preliminary to the right to vote in that State may be made for citi- zens by political committee without violation of law. The law requires that each voter shall pay his own poll tax before he can be registered, but the deci- sion of the court is that if another pays it for him as gratuity and he accepts it, this in effect makes the other his agent and the payment payment by himself. This makes lawful the practice which has long been followed in Massachusetts by candidates for office and party committees of getting the names of poor citizens upon the registry lists by paying their poll taxes for them. Of course, it is generally done with the understand ing that the citizens so favored will vote for the candidate or for the party that has paid his poll tax, and thus it may become an indirect form of bribery.
 This decision will please those who have profited by the practice it upholds. But of course this practice has encouraged dis honesty and bad politics.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
TESTS.

If you want to find out how many peo- pie on the street have nothing to do get up dog fght.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Passenger-Which of the fool questions you hear every day tires you the most! Conductor-That one.-Indianapolis Jour nal
 'How was it that the judge granted your divorce before even reading your petition" ssHe was my wife's first husband. "-Cour Tier des Etats-Unis.
 "Was Red Cloud that Indians real nameF' 'I suppose so. Why do you askF" 'T thought it might be a Siouxdonym. "- Pittsburg Chronicle.
 Purser-You are too late for stateroom; the last is gone. Frightened tourist Stateroom! Who wants staterooma Give me a reserved seat in a hfeboat.-Harper's Bazar.
 "Why did you give up calling on Miss Ansoniaa'
 "No man can make love successfully to woman who persists in keeping cuckoo clock. Pluck.
 Customer-Sixty-fv dollars? That's an awful price for plain business suit for man that pays cash on delivery. Tailor Cash on delivery? You misunderstood me, sir. I said $34.75.-Chicago Tribune.
 Young Husband-WelI, my dear, did you succeed in finding a stove to suit you! Young Wife-Indeed, did. Such good luck! I got stove that will never cost us a cent for coal The dealer said it was self-feeder-New York Weekly.
 At an academy in Maine, recently, boy wal reciting his virgil lesson, in which oc- CUTS the sentence "Faclhs descensus Averri," etc. His translation was as fol B. tn frn but the hell of it is to get back. Lowell Courier.
 A Moral rtainty.-Caraway Five years from now you won't find any liars at all among the Indians. Hooks-What makes you think sos Caraway-Why, by that time the government won't allow what is left of them to retain even men tai reservation.-Life.
 The Eternal Fitness.-A man in Oswego died of pneumonia which came from sit ting in his wet clothes after falling into the lake. And, curiously enough, he was the agent of a clothes wringer, and had 12S of them in the room where he sat drip ping wet.-Detroit Free Press.
 A gentleman was looking at suite of rooms in an apartment house he found them satisfactory, and said to the janitor, "Tn take them" "Have you any child ren, Sira" "Yes, two" "Then l cannot let you the rooms" "Why, my children are both married and live in Iowa" 7" ''That makes no difference. My orders are not to take in any tenant who has children "-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
 A New Hampshire judge tells the fol lowing of the late General Gilman Marston, who practiced long and successfully at the Rockingham county bar: The General was arguing case and made rather an outrageous statement. "I knew that it was not law" said the judge, "and rather thought the general did; still I put the question to him: Do you think that is law, generalP to which he audaciously re- sponded, with a quizzical look, No, I do not, judge; but I thought you might. '"- Boston Bulletin.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
Jewels Found in America.
From the Chicago Tribune.l


 w. A. Kerr, jeweler, New York, at the Palmer: I was once asked by lady if there were many precious stones found in the United States. She meant minerals She was of the same opinion of many oth- CTS in this country, that everything pre- cious in that line was found only in the old world There is, believe, little min ing here for precious gems, but it is not because we do not have them. Rock crys- tai, which admits of such high polish, and which is much used in jewelry now, is found in large quantities in North Caroli- na, Virginia, Georgia and Arkansas. There is a jet in Colorado that is equal to any I ever saw, and believe there is some in Texas In Maine there is 8 mountain called Mount Mica, out of which tourma- lines to the value of one hundred thousand dollars year are taken. Moonstone is found in Virginia, and the soil of New Mexico is enriched with sapphires, rubies and garnets. I wish I could come back to the United States one hundred years from now We think this is glorious country now. In another century the cities of this country will surpass the descriptions we have of the New Jerusalam, and millions will be as common as poor relations. You and are living too soon, believe me.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
A SOCIALISTIC FAILURE.

There are many things which the State cannot do for the people as well as private corporations can. For instance, publish ing textbooks for the public schools
 What is called the Scheol-Book board has just made it's report to the general assem- ply of the State of Ohio. The board, act ing under law passed last winter, con sists of the governor of the State, the State school commissioner, the State printer, and two private citizens, ono a professional teacher and the other busi- ness man. It has made an exhaustive e1- animation of the results arrived at by this sort of experiment in the State of Califor- mia, where the plan of publishing by the State was tried, and where it proved to be a disastrous failure, so far as the cost of books were concerned. The superintend- ent of public instruction in that State says, in reply to letter of inquiry addressed to him, ''The same number of books can be purchased in the open market at wholesale prices for less than it costs the State to manufacture them. I am therefore constrained to ad init that I would not advise any other State to enter upon the publication ot school-books." The Ohio board were not satisfied without making the examination of the whole subject and getting exact es inmates; and after giving the most care. full attention to the matter, they report to the general assembly of Ohio in the follow. ing words: "Books of better grade and quality can be furnished by private pub fishers at less cost I am free to state that this is my deliberate conclusion, and while I have, at your request, made the forego ing estimates, I wish it understood that do not recommend that the State should undertake the business of making school books, believing that it is wrong in princi pie and would prove failure in practice The idea is somewhat prevalent nova days that "the public" can proftably ge into business of various kinds. We be lieve that it will ultimately be found tha it is better to encourage private enterpris, than for the public to do all the bushes. it can find an excuse for doing.
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No. 36
A1isce11anrnus.
King of Medicines
Scrofuloits Huntor Cure
 H 4Iuost Hiy,acufousv


 "Whsn was If years of age had a severe attack f rheumatism, and after recovered had 10 go on crutches. A year later, scrofula, in the form of white swellings, appeared on various parts of my body, and for II years was an invalid. being confined 10 my bed years. In that time ten or eleven sores ap- pearod and broke, causing me great pain and suffering. I feared never should get we'll
 Early in 1886 went 10 Chicago 10 visit a sister, but was confined 10 my bed most of the time was there. In July read a book, "A Day with q Circus in which were statements of cures by Hoods Sarsaparilla. was so i'm pressed with the 1Gccess of this medicine that decided to try il. To my great qualification the sores soon decreased. and began 10 feel better and in a short time I was up and out Of doors. Iconiinued ic take Hoods Sar- sapartlla for about a year, wll-- having used six bottles, I had become so fully released from the disease that went to work for the Flint Walling Mfg. Co, and since then
 HAVE NOT LOST A SINGLE DAY
 on account of sickness. boHcTc The disease is expelled from my systcm, always feel well, am in good spirits and have good appetite. am now q years of age and can walk as well as any one, except that onc limb is little shorter than the other, owing 10 inc loss of bone, and the sores formerly on my right leg. To my friends my recovery seems almost miraculous, and I think Hoods Sarsaparilla is the king of medicines WILLIAM A. LEHR, N. Railroad St, Kendallyillc, Ind.
 Hoods Sarsaparilia Sold by all druggists sI: six for ss Prepared only bye. l. HOOD & O., APoihecHsies. Lowell. Mass.
 100 Doses One Dollar
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9r1J 9nnds.
Howe & StetSOl. MUST UNLOAD.

We have surplus lots of Blankets and Flannels which we will sacrifice on to close out surplus only, as the balance will be sold at market price. We offer 25 pairs, only, 11-4White Wool Blankets at $2.69 per pair; balance of lot will be marked $3.5O.
 25 pairs, only, l IA Vic tor White Wool Blankets at $3. 50 pair; balance of lot will be $4.5O.
 Lot of Scarlet All Wool Shaker Flannels at 2Oc per yard, to close out.
 5 pieces Scarlet 5 ounce Twill Flannel, Medicated dye, 37'c yd, worth soc.
 Small lot of heavy all- wool yard wide Shaker Flannels 45c yard. Our regular price is 62 1-2 cts.
 We have about 75 yards left of the Big Drive in Real Scotch Cassimeres, 56 inches wide, at $1 y'd. Assortment still good and no such value will be seen again.
 8 pieces all wool Black Surah, 38 inches wide, at soc per yard. This is the 62 1-2c quality.
 All Wool Ladies' Cloth, 50 inches wide, all desir- able colors at 39c per y'd; cannot be matched for less than soc.
 92 winter garments at prices that will surprise the closest buyers. Many of them at less than half price. You will find La dies Plush Garments, Cloth Newmarkets and Jackets, Misses and Chil- dren's Jackets and Cloaks all marked way down. We are bound to sell them before moving. Look at them.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11

came back and she looked at the man as- tonished. Then she saw the scar upon his face and the number nine in his cap.
 .'tNo, no, not yet" she said, involuntari- ly.
 The man slammed the door impstiently and the heavily laden elevator started downward. It had not reached the next floor before the steel cables parted and the whole machine crashed to the basement. Four persons were taken out of the wreck dead
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
Mcintyre,
 NaggQirG X to.
 CONTINUATION OF OUR GREAT ANNUAL SALE With Another Lot of Values Not
With Another Lot of Values Not Enumerated in the Big
 Advertisement.

Enumerated in the Big Advertisement.
 1,5oo yds Ingrain Carpeting, the same quality you buy at o5 to 75c yard, short lengths, at only 29c a yard.
 goo yds Roxbury Tapestry, retailed from zoe to $1.oo, in short lengths, at only soc yard.
 HOO yds Brussels Carpet ing, retailed everywhere at $l.1o, in short pieces, at only 59c a yard.
 2,5oo yds Pride of the Vest Bleached Cotton, the finest manufactured in Amer ica, always retailed at 12Hc, only LOG yard for this sale.
 5 pieces Striped Satine Awning Cloth, always retailed at l6c, at only 12Hc a yard.
 50 pieces IS inch Birds Eye Linen, cheap at 92c, price on- ly 6oc for 10 yards.
 100 pieces IS inch Birds Eye Linen, never retailed un- der $I.25, at only 98c a piece of ten yards.
 50 dozen pure White fine All Linen Towels, actual value 3oc, price only 25c each.
 50 pieces Checked Main socks; special price for this sale only 6Ac yard.
 25 pieces Plush Printed Draperies, always retailed at 2Sc, price 12H Hc a yard.
 eB- Return railroad fare paid to all out of town customers who buy $10 worth of goods