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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Look Toward the Light.

In a sickroOm there was a little rose.
bush in pot in the window. There
was only one rose on the bush, and its
face was turned full toward the light
This fact was noticed and spoken of.
when one said that the rose would look
no other way save toward the light.
Experiments had been made with it; il
had been turned away from the window,
its face toward the gloom of the interior,
but in little time it would resume its
old position. With wonderful persist
ence it refused to keep its face toward
the darkness and insisted on ever look.
ing toward the light. The rose has its
lesson for us.
We should never allow ourselves to
face toward life's gloom. We should
never sit down in the shadows of any
sorrow and let the night darken over us
into the gloom of despair. We should
turn onr faces away toward the light
and quicken every energy for drawer
duty and truer, holier service. Grief
should always make us better and give
us new skill and power; it should make
our hearts softer, our spirits kindlier,
our touch more gentle; it should teach
us its holy lessons, and we should learn
them, and then go on with sorrows sa-
cred ordination upon us to new love and
better service.-Selected.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
The TornailO's Twist.

The tornado and the cause of its for
nation seem to be less perfectly under
stood than even the ever mysterious cleo
tricity. That tornado has violent
spiral motion and distinct ascending
movement is well established. The rapid
rotary motion tends to form vacuum
in the center of the funnel shaped vol
ume, and this sucking force brings about
devastation. When a tornado surrounds
a house, the air inside of it forces the
walls asunder instantly.
But the inception of tornado and the
causes which lead up to it have not yet
been discovered. The scientist tells us
that the air of valleys becomes heated
and rises, cold ar rushes in to take its
place, the wind hits against a hill, is
changed in its course and goes cavorting
down the valley, and that makes q tor
nado. Bnt what gives it the twist? And
there are no mountains in the Missis-
sippi valley, but cyclones form there.
Weather bureaus, with all their costly,
delicate instruments, have never yet
satisfactorily explained what gives the
tornado it's twist. The world is looking
for man who can discover the tornado
in its native lair and definitely define.
distinguish and describe it. All this is
for the benefit of our neighbors of the
east, for the tornado never visits Cali
fornia.-San Jose Mercury,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
....AnUnbrclla.

''ShOw me an umbrella" says manu-
facturer. ''that has holes worn in the silk
about the ring at the top, while the body
of the material is still intact throughout,
and will show you the owner of an UNI
brella who doesn't deserve to own one,
if it is good one. And show me an UNI
brella that has holes in along the ribs be-
fore natural use of it should make them
come there, and l will show you an OWN
er who carries his umbrella more for the
sake of appearance than for utility"
A wet umbrella placed handle down
drips the moisture from it at the edges
of the frame, and the material with which
it is covered dries evenly and leaves no
spot still soaked with water. If the
handle is upward, the water runs down
to one spot at the top, where the strong
cloth lining about the ring holds a good
deal of it and in comparatively short
time rots the material, and it breaks
easily.
The man who carries his umbrella
swathed in its case when it is not called
into use by rain will soon find it wearing
out from top to bottom.
This is because of constant friction be-
tween the case and the silk, and no mat
ter of how good quality it may be the
holes will appear in it long before they
should, and the provider of the umbrella
will of course be blamed for selling in
ferior or damaged goods. There are
many people SO ignorant of the proper
treatment of an umbrella that they will
actually roll it up when wet and leave
it to rot and mold until the next time
they want it fer use.-New Y ork World.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
To Care For Flowers.

To keep flowers looking well the wa.
ter should be changed daily and old
blossoms thrown away. Then the groups
should be carefully adjusted with rela-
ton to, each other so no two tall speci-
mems should appear together. A little
sunlight may do no harm, but cut flow
ers exposed to the full rays of power.
full sun wilt at once, and a pretty or.
rangement is soon spoiled. EARLY morn
ing is the proper time to pick flowers.
They should be Immediately sprayed
with a rubber sprinkler, which, by the
way, is invaluable to one who is gather
ing fresh blossoms. We are apt to treat
flowers carelessly-a handful of them
picked in the heat of the day without a
good sprinkling is soon in the same con-
dition as fish out of water.-New York
Advertiser.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
WEAKNESS Or HUMAN NATURE.

Esgerness Of People to Take Undue Ad-
vantage Of , Practical scheme.
''Do you remembe me" inquired the
man as he quietly slipped up to the city
editors desk.
81 can't say I'd t I do" replied the city
editor, looking him over carefully.
"You remember / was in here some
time ago giving policies of insurance on
punches of keysf
"Oh, yes, I remember now. I took
one"
.sOf course. All wise men do. At the
same time, if yen recall it, I told you ]
had a great schem me for insuring umbrel-
las on the same plan?'
81 believe do recall it. How did it
come outY'
The man threw up his hands hope
lessly.
"Well," he sd i'd, "before that week
was out / had my umbrella insurance
company at work, with agents all over
town. The SUCCESS was immediate and
phenomenal. Everybody wanted to in
sure his umbrella. The premium'was so
cents year. The amount to be paid to
persons returning lost umbrellas was 10
about the average price of an umbrella
q man doesn't like to lose. you know.
Agents turned iI policies by the pocket
fuls the first week. I hadn't any idea
there were as many half dollars in circu-
lation as received at my Office. Second
week they kept coming, and / began to
think of plans for a great building on
Woodward avenue for the accommoda-
ton of the business, to be known as tn.
Umbrella Insurance building. Third
week it was still going. Fourth week it
rained. Fifth week umbrellas began
coming in. / didn't know there were SO
manysumbrellas in the world.
sixth week it was worse, and be-
gan to investigate. Watched the people
who brought th lem in and got the 50.
Mostly people above suspicion--to look
1T. Discovered they had been selling
them; alsFasS dKes eslt oLe11t5 our
Tag on i. DldI't know there were SO
many people who thought it no sin TO
steal an umbrella; never thought of that
when I got up the company; wasn't an
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Antiquity of the Alphabet,

According to Philippe Berger's book
entitled "Histoire de rEcritus dams Pan
tiquite," the alphabet was invented about
1900 B. c., that invented by the Pho-
nicians being without doubt the oldest
of all the forms of expressing thought
or sounds by character. Originally it
and all other alphabets were simply a
series of hieroglyphics or picture char
acters, the idea of an elephant or an OK
being expressed by rude sketches of
such animals, authorizations being in the
form of pair of tusks, horns, etc. Pro-
fessor Auer (see Vienna edition of his
''Sprachalle," 1S49) says that, taking
both the ancient and modern alphabets
into account, as many as 400 different
sets of characters, hieroglyphics and let
tiers may be enumerated, that these
are all outgrowths of the Ph9nician
mode of mutely expressing thought or
sound, and that if we should set aside
slight variations of form the grand to-
tai of 400 alphabets would dwindle inn
mediately to less than 90. Z
The best oriental scholars have given
it as their opinion that the original PhH-
nician alphabet was composed Of but IS
characters, yet it is known that it con-
tanned at least 81 and probably % at the
time when it was adopted by the Greeks.
Why or by whom these extra characters
were invented, or why such an addition
was necessary, has never been explained.
st. Louis Republic,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
rA1roo rae WEDDING RING.
A British Social Reformer Suggests Brand
,r. 10Th I3ridc and Groom.

a British Social Reformer Suggests Brand
ing Both Bride and Groom.
DEAR SRI wish in all earnestness to
make known a suggestion that would
save many broken heart among the
sensitive and many breach of promise
case among the mercantile, and would
considerably tighten the labors of the
police courts and law courts. My sug-
gestion is that every married man and
every married woman should have cir
Gle tattooed around the third finger Of
the left hand in place of or as well as
the wedding ring. This would be q sign
that could never be taken of or effaced
and would therefore leave lesser mar
gin for the treacheries and tricks OF biga-
mists and other great and small offenses
against law, society and individuals
To make this proposition practical and
distinctive, of course certain rules would
have to be made. For instance, any I'M
married man or woman tattooing their
third finger to be heavily fined. Every
widow and widower to add distin-
gushing mark to their ring. Every
married man or woman disunlted by
law to have a bar of erasure across their
wedding ring, and those who marry two
or three times to add the extra circles
accordingly.
The operation Of tattooing could with
all reverence be performed by an ez-
pert in, the vestry after the church serv-
ice, or at the registrars Office for those
who only go through the civil ceremony.
This tattooing may seem q return to
barbarisln, but our much Wanted civ
ilization has introduced such numerous
aids to deceit that a safeguard and a
warning. such as q tattooed wedding
ring. would become "a practical prevent
i've of much sham, folly and wrong.
Only thosswh6 have sympathy for I'M
lawful liberty will deniur, against the
idea being realized. I shall be pleased
to hear from, all who approve of my
scheme and>arewilling to assist in form
ing society to Influence others in bring
ing about ecustom that would help to
insure peace respect and happiness to
many homes. and hearts. Yours faith
fully, M B. I. KNoILYs.
Letter to Pail Mall Gazette.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Whistling Jack.

Jack Mccarthy is Familiarity known
wherever he goes as "Whistlihg Jack. -
The prefix to Jack is tackled on him 10
minutes after he lands at any city, and he
has been in every town of over IL, 900 in
habitants in the United States. Jack can
hardly be called a boy now. He is 90 or
"A years old. He made his first appear-
ance in Pittsburg about 10 years ago. a
thin, nervous little chap, who suffered
SO distressingly that the charitably in
clined willingly gave him the price of a
paper rather than hear his pitiful at
tempts to cry his wares. Somebody
told him one day that if he would whis-
tie when he came to word that he found
unpronounceable he would soon cure
himself of his painful stutter. Jack tried
1t, and in less than six months the whis-
tie was as fixed a habit as the stutter-
ing. AT the end of year he could no
more speak dozen words without II
whistles than he could fly, and this was
the way he got the sohriquet of ..Whis-
Ting Jack. New York Mail and Elk.
press,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
SILVER AND GOLD.

a Farewell, my little sweetheart
81 ~ Nov. fare YOU well and frees
claim from you no promise,
You claim no vows from mo.
The reason whys--the reason
Right well we can uphold
~ have too much of silver
And you've too much ~ gold.
A puzzle this, to worldlings,
Whose love 10 lucre flies.
Who think that gold to silver
Should count as mutual prizei
ev sBut t'ni'not avaricious,
And you're not sordid souled;
have too much of silver,
And you've too much of gold.
Upon our heads the reason
Too plainly can be seen:
= anu the winters bond slave,
You are the summers queen.
~s Too few the years you number,
Too many have told;
Ihave too much of silver,
And you've too much of gold.
You have the rose for token,
have dry leaf and rime;
j have the sobbing yesper,
~ You, morning bells at chime.
would that l were younger
yet you grew never ODD
Would had less of silver,
But YOU no less of gold.
T 4 @ Edith NJ. Thomas
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
The Linen Buster.

SIT is long time," said travelling
man, ''since have seen linen buster Of
the old fashioned kind, which wrinkled
and creased whenever you sat down in
1t, especially if the weather was little
damp, and which looked after you had
been 100 miles or SO in it as though you
had worn it around the world II times,
all the way by rail, and had sat up in It
all the time, but alpaca busters are still
worn. New York Sun,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
A Mistaken Idea.

She was reading over the column of
marriage notices.
J, lit can't be true.n she said, shat mar
rage is lottery"
@."And why notp" asked the young man
with her.
Because there is law against adver-
Using lotteries, and look at this" she re-
piled. handing the. paper to him.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
One ON Joe Bailey.

Senator Perry j. Lewis tells story ON
Congressman Joe Bailey, for which, how
ever, he quotes Senator A. NJ. Carter Of
Fort Worth as authority. =.
Zone day" said Lewis, Garter and
Joe Bailey were standing on the stree
when they saw approaching them 4.
darby mounted on frisky and spirited
horse, whose fine appearance caught the
fancy of Carter, who is a lover Of fine
horsefesh. Carter hailed the darby and
remarked:
That's u pretty spirited animal you
are riding, old man. Is he good rum
ner.''
"'Well, no, sab, he isn't much Of a
runnin boss, replied the rider. b
"'Oh, then he is good trotter, sup
pose, remarked Carter.
"'No, sab. he amt no trotter neither, ,
said Scipio Africanus.S
"'Oh. 1 see, CALCULATED Carter; .heis q
No. PAGER
"'No. sab, dis boss amt no trotter,
nor he amt no PAGER needer.'
"'Well, what is he fit for anyhow
asked Carter.
inst ter prance arOun an look fine,
boss replied the darby, IAN OATS why /
has outen a accomplishment named him arter
Marse Joe Bailey dar.'" Galveston
News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
No Ofense.

A boy was once brought before '.Old
Steady Baker, the mayor of Folkestone,
for stealing gooseberries. Baker turned
over Burns Justice" but not being able
to find the article he wanted in the book,
which is alphabetically arranged. he lift
ed up his spectacles and addressed the
culprit thus: "My lad, it's very lucky for
you that, instead Of stealing gooseber-
ries, you were not brought here for steal
ing goose. There Is statute against
stealing geese, but can't find anything
about gooseberries in all Barn, SO let the
prisoner be discharged, for I suppose it is
no ofense. San Francisco Argonaut. :
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05

umbrella in the lot worth e8i didn't
know so many people wore cheap um-
brellas; something rotten in Denmark.
just come up here from my ONCE; Str1ng
of people therereaching half way around
the block waiting to get in. There isn't
money enough left in the fund to buy .
ferry ticket with. I've come here to see
if You won't lend me that amount. I'm
not going back. but notice in the
paper that Mr.. Dingbat. the well
known president of the Umbrella Insur-
ance company, having been suddenly
called to CHINA, left this morning by
way of Windsor and Quebec. Do ! get
the price of ferry ticket? Thanks"
And he went out, leaving the city editor
in condition of partial paralysis DE.
troit Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Another Use For Paper.

Among the latest things made out Of
paper are artificial straws for slipping
cobblers and various iced drinks. Every.
body knows that real straws are apt to
be defective, but the limitations never
fail to draw. After they are rolled they
are treated with parafin to render them
water tight and nonabsorbent. The same
patent covers mouthpieces for cigarettes,
which are manufactured in a similar
ashion.-Philadelphia Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
The Man, the Goat and the Banana.


A big gray goat walked the other day
down Whitehall street. When he came
near to vendors cart which stood, piled
with bananas, by the curb on the east
side Of the street, he paused and survey
ed the fruit with fixed and expression
less woodenness of countenance. A man
who came along as the goat stood there
stopped and bought banana. He strip
ped the banana and handed the peel to
the goat. Then the man and the goat
both stood there and ate-the goat with
undertaking gravity, the man with ris-
ing smile. When they had finished, the
man went on his way, the smile still
playing on his features. The goat passed
on with countenance of unbroken
wOodenness.-New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
The scenery Shifted.

The members of q theatrical com,
pany, travelling through Lake George on
their way to Canada, were commenting
upon the grandeur Of the scenery when
the train came to a standstill. One Of
the men, becoming impatient, ventured
out, and upon his return was asked the
cause of the delay. well, "he replied,
"a piece Of the scenery has fallen across
the track. Life.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
what He Meant.

Adolphus I'm afraid I hit hin,
deucedly hard. i just looked at him, you
know, in a significant way and said,
'"The fools aren't all dead yet.
Arthur-And what did he say?
Adolpuhs-He said: mo, but you
aren't looking well, Dolly. You'd better
take care of yourself" Wonder what in
time he was driving at?-Boston Tran
script N
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
coURTING BY WIRE.
The Man Gushed Over the Ticker, but Wa
Disseminated ON Sight.

The Man Gushed Over the Ticker, but Was
Disseminated on Sight.
A telegraph operator in Boston Office
once met with bitter disappointment
early in his career by falling in love with
a young woman at the other end of one
of the old Western Union wires. She
lull in the business gave her an oppor-
tunity to use the wire. The young man
worked in the Boston office and had the
reputation of being a 'fy" sender and
able to receive what he could send, an all
importan. factor in the ''sizing up" of an
operator. The woman was proud to have
him say even ''Gm" or "Ge" good morn
ing or good EVENING" to her, and the other
girls on the wire, with whom he never
condescended to exchange even these Or
binary salutations, were jealous. As time
wore on their conversations over the wire
became longer and more frequent. FL
nally an invitation to come to Boston and
visit one of the theaters was given and
accepted. The Lothario of the wire was
to wear a red, red rose in his buttonhole,
a white straw hat, with a blue band; she
was to carry a small satchel Of peculiar
shape in one hand and fluffy lace hand
kerchief in the other.
The train arrived at the eastern sta
ton OH time, and the satchel of peculiar
design was sighted. 1t was indeed pc
culiar design. 1t was an old fashioned
carpetbag of grayish green color and
considerably older than the Morse alpha
bet. The girl was a sight that would
have made Neil Burgess in the County
Fair" go and hide. She was fully 49,
years old. Long corkscrew curls of 81
past era hung down over her shoulders
like twists of molasses candy, and smile
doomed up under the caves of her sum
bonnet that would have done credit to q
assure in the side of Vesuvius. ~ =
She was extremely glad to see him,
and he, with the instinct of q true gem
tleman, tried to appear that he was just
as glad to see her. He took her carpet
bag, and they boarded car for the
house where he was staying. There
were sly nudges and covert laughs at
the tea table, all the girls and young
men thinking the young operator was
entertaining his aunt from the country.
For the evening performance at the the
alter the giddy maiden fished out an aw-
full bonnet from the depths of her car
petbag and slicked up her curls in the
most approved fashion. The bonnet was
a flower garden in itself, and the writer
has the young mans own word for it
that she and the bonnet attracted more
attention than the play. 49,
The next day he sent her home, but
ever after he was careful not to allow
himself to converse with any one on the
wire except on business. Donahoe's
Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Mia. Ru.selrs Fondnes. For Poker

am informed that one reason of the
little rift within the Perugini lutte con-
sisted in Miss Russell's prediction for
poker. This is science to which the
golden diva has devoted much study.
She likes game of poker and plays it
on the strict rules laid down by Gem
eral Schenck. Her parties for this di-.
version are usually composed of four or
five people, each of whom is million
aire But Miss Russell's income aver
ages $50, 900, and she can afford to play.
The limit is high and the betting lively.
Signor Perugini, whose salary is only
$3.50 week, could not sit down at such
game without risking his entire weeks
earnings. Consequently he was ruled
out and had to solace himself with SEN
timental arias up stairs while his wife
was winning or losing fortune down
stairs This isolation brought dis
quietude to his thoughts, and next morn
ing he was perhaps not SO cheerful a
companion as a diva would wish at the
breakfast table. New York Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
A Time Killer.

Ed-What do you do to pass away the
time? ~
Ned-Easy enough. I just give my
promissory note to some one for 30 days,
and the time passes quickly enough,
assure you.-London Culver.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Two Opinions.

!. Lord ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ev-
selyn-on this dover question, you know.
Don't you-aw-think every wife ought
to hare little money-aw?
Miss Eyelyn-Yes, indeed, my lord.
I'm right with you there. Because then,
you see, if the girl makes a bad job of
it, she will be fixed to back out.-New
York World.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
;

San Francisco is the most cosmopolitan
city in the world. The holidays of every
nation are COMMUNICATED by public pa
rades. Every civilized language may be
heard, and the ships Of every maritime
nation from the British man-of-war to
the Maltese felucca and the Chinese junk
are seen in the bay.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
0xerLonr Ago.

He (who has just proposed Don't give
me your answer now. Think it over.
Z She Calmly ~ did think it over. ]
thought it was all over when / saw you
flirting SO outrageously with the Barstow
girl.-New York Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-05
Castoria.

"Ca--cS-ia is an excellent medicine for CHI
sren. Mothers have repeatedly told me OF its
good effect upon their children"
DIR. G. C. OsGooD, :.
Lowss, Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted. hope the day IS not
far distant when mothers viii consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the various euack nostruns which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtfu
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR.. J. L. KIsCHELeE,
Conway Ark