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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
TRAGEDIES ON TOMBSTONES.

English Churchyards and Their Deeply
Craven Accusations of Murder.
In the churcbyards Of Britain several
tombstones exist with the accusations
Of murder deeply engraved upon them.
A stone over the grave of three children
in Warrington (Durham) churchyard
bears the following inscription:
Sleeping we were slain.
And here we sleep till we must rise again.
In Sandridge churchyard, Surrey, on
the tombstone Of o custom house officer
smugglers is the following:
Thou shalt do no murder, nor shalt thou steal
Are the commands Jehovah did reveal.
But thou, o wretch, without fear or dread
Of thy tremendous Maker, shot me dead.
On stone in Cadoxton churchyard,
Glamorganshire, is inscribed the most
fearful accusation of murder to be found
on any tomb in Great Britain:
''To RECORD MURDER.
'This stone was erected over the body
of Margaret Williams, aged S6, living
in service in this parish, who was found
dead with marks Of violence upon her
in ditch on marsh below this ch--rch-
yard on tho morning of Sunday, the
14th July, 1929.
Although the savage murderer es-
capped for a season the detection Of man,
yet God hath set his mark upon him
either for time or eternity, and the
cry of blood will assuredly pursue him
to certain and terrible but righteous
Judgment.
A tombstone stood in Dulverton
churchyard few years ago on which
was inscribed:
Poisoned by the doctor, neglected by the nurse,
The brother robbed the widow. which made
the matter worse.
An accusation Of murder appears on
the tomb of Edwin, the Irish comedian,
who was buried i'll st. Werburgh's
churchyard, Dublin, and also on tonbs
to be found in Acton churchyard, Glou-
cestershire; Hoo, near Rochester; Little
Stukeley, and Mytton, near Clitheroe,
Lancashire. Tit-Bits
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.
Getting the Obeiisk Aboard Ship q Pretty
Piece OF Engineering.

Getting the Obelisk Aboard Ship Pretty
Piece OF Engineering.
Zone Of the pleasantost recollections
I have to look back on, said Adam
johnson, sis the fact that was one of
the party that helped to run up the
American colors over Clcopatra's needle
when it was being taken down to be
carried to New York. Our vessel was
out in the Mediterranean with q rowing
commission, and we were at Alexandria
1t the time the obelisk was being NOV
I'd. The big stone had been presented by
the Egyptian government to this coun-
try, but the people were wild about hav-
ing it moved. We had to place guard
around the men who were working on
the shaft, and even then there was al
most riot
''But that was one Of the prettiest
pieces of engineering work / have ever
seen. The engineers who were moving
our shaft had couple Of big wooden
cases built that fitted around the needle
like tho pieces of wood around the lead
in pencil There were a couple Of pro-
jectiles on each side Of the castings just
on the center Of gravity in the shaft,
like the trunnions on cannon. Under
these they put lifting jacks and just
picked that immense stone off its
pedestal, swung it around horizontal
and then lowered it as gently as could
be on long sliding way, with cannon
balls under it for rollers. They had a
hOlo IN, %l,o CIR Of he
steamship and slid it into the hull
through that and replaced the sheathing
outside
"Under the shaft in the inside Of the
pedestal there were lot Of bronze toads
and ornaments and the Lord knows what
not that the Masons claimed were placed
there by some of their progenitors cons
ago. don't know anything about that,
though, and you can leave it or take it,
as you choose.
1.-THE British were not half SO slick
with the obelisk they carried over to
England. They cased it up in big
sheet iron arrangement like boiler, riy-
eted it in and fioated the whole thing
off through a trench dug in the sand
down to the water. Then they rugged
jury sails on it and towed it over to
England, but they lost three or four
men off it before they got it in port and
had all sorts of time generally.
"a couple of years afterward I saw
the British obelisk set up on the east
bank of the Thames, and when came
home the first thing ! went to see was
ours in Central park. Washington
Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
Another Mammoth statue.

The sculptor Nikolaus Geiger is put
ting the last touches to his statue Of
Barbarossa, which is to symbolic the
ancient kingdom in the Kyffhauser
monument, to be unveiled in 1896 The
Barbarossa appears at the end of yes-
tibule in the style of an ancient castle,
on the steps Of the throne upon which
he is sitting like tho sleeping figures of
the courtiers. with fabulous animals Of
the old mythio world. Barbarossa is rep
resented at the moment Of waking from
his long sleep. In his right hand is his
sword; his left hand strokes his long
waving beard Contrary to all other
figures Of the old hero, he is here repre-
sel1ted as an actual emperor, with the
features Of noble man. The whole
monument, hewed from the rock, will be
about so feet high. The figure Of the
seated monarch is about 80 feet high
London Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
1fs,;xSss
Try His Best, He Never Succeeds In Getting
Back All His Bottles.
WOES OF THE MlLKMAN.

Try His Best, He Never Succeeds In Getting
Back All His Bottles.
1.-THE greatest trial Of my life, says o
milkman, sis bottles. Yes. sir, bottles.
If it WASH It for bottles, I'd want nothing
better. Other people never think Of bot
ties. actually dream of bottles. It's
bottles, bottles, bottles-who's got the
bottles with me all the timel
''The most perfect system of book
keeping ever invented will not account
for bottles. When send out 100 bot
ties of milk in the morning, I'm dead
certain to lose track of Lalf dozen. /
never look upon them bottles all again.
Never again, sir! The milks are cents
and the bottles are cen,ss But the peo-
pei who would scorn to steal milk will
keep the hotties They think bottles
don't cost nothing, or they don't think
nothing at all.
'Somo timo ago lady was behind
about seven bottles and hadn't returned
any for {. week. I know some people
get two or three days behind with their
cmpties, but I couldn't account for all
of these. While Twas thinking about it
and look over across toward her fiat
saw her maid chuck an empty out of
the kitchen winder into the lot. And,
don't You know, went over there and
found whole pile of broken bottles
and two or three whole ones. They
didn't know any better. Now, there
was lady in the other day, and I says.
'Ma'am, says I, I've got you charged
with five bottles here.
What's that?' says she. I haven't
got any Of your old bottles. You don't
suppose I'd steal milk bottles, do youi
When get to stealing, I'll take some
thing better'n old castoff milk bottles.
don't like your milk anyhow. It's
more'n half water, and I'm going to
change
"And she did change, and I lost =
good customer by the mere mention G.
bottles. Some people keep their tea and
things in the bottles. You can't go and
search for them. You must take their
word for it@that they amt got none.
They arc supposed to return their
emptics the next day, and they'll keep
them for week. I'd have to have a
carload of extra bottles to suit them.
Some of them just slap on their empties
when the dumbwaiter comes their way,
and some other milkman goes off with
them. They don't care. And then,
when you call up for their empties,
they get mad as hops and swear they
sent them down-which perhaps they
did, but not to as.
''And there's the servants that break
bottles and swear they returned them q
week ago, and their nistresses belle :"
them. It's enough to drive man to
drink p'-New York Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
SENATOR VANCE MET THE ISSUE.
Gut tho Reporter Failed to Get q Zig
SCOOP All the Same.

Gut tho Reporter Failed to Get q Zig
scoop All the Same.
81 once had an experience" said an
old newspaper man at the Press club to
q reporter, with the late Senator
Vance W hich shall never forget. TWAS
during Crisp's first contest for the speak
ership, and, as you all probably remem-
Der, every newspaper man i'll town was
hustling for inside news. The sources
of this, as usual in such cases, were very
few, and Senator Vance, who was act
ing in the capacity Of an advisor to the
nominating caucus, had to spend most
of his time lodging journalists.
$50 wary did he become that he dis
continued taking his lunch in tho senate
restaurant and had it served in a COM
mittee room. One day. however, l
caught q glimpse of him passing through
one of the lower corridors on the house
side Determined not to let him escape
me, at once fastened forward, and in
the most innoceEJ manner possible be-
gan asking him about his health, which
was rather bad at the time. He answer
ed all my questions in the kindest
manner possible and was about to leave
when l said:
" 'Oh, by the way, senator, who do
you think will get the nomination.
+" I don't know exactly, he replied,
but they will have to fight if they want
TO win.
Certain now Of my information, !
began to see the letter was going to re-
ceive from tine home Office, after they
had published my big scoop, telling me
in the most fattering terms that the
paper had decided to raise my salary on
account of my good work.
Which side, senator?' l asked, al
most in whisper for fear some one
would be lurking in the dark recesses
and hear the reply which was to make
me the most noted hustler for news in
the ranks Of journalism.
Both Sides, he replied as he disap-
peared III the door of q committeo room.
"And tho letter that looked for
never came Washington Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
NEW CURE FOR plPHTHERIA.
European Hospitals Practicing Method Of
Blood Inoculation.

European Hospitals Prncticing n Method Of
Blood incubation.
So many thousands of children are
annually carried off by diphtheria, the
sufferiugs caused by tho disease are so
agonizing and the remedies hitherto at
the disposal of the medical profession so
inadequate that tho news Of the intro
duction into the Berlin and London hos
pitfalls of new and efficacious cure for
this fell malady cannot be regarded
otherwise than as matter of public in
terest.
Very little has been heard about this
remedy, owing to the fact that the dis
tinguished psychologists engaged in
its discovery have been unwilling to
subject themselves to the same disad-
vantage as DR.. Koch, whose cure for
consumption has been unjustly pro-
claimed failure merely because it
was published to the world prematurely
and before it was ready for medical ap-
plication. The new cure, briefly speak
ing, is one of incubation, with this
difference-that, instead of injecting
tho poison into the system of the pa
tient, one injects the blood of an ami
NAL which has been inoculated with a
weak culture of the diphtheria bacte-
ria, the virus of the latter being, how
ever, of so weak a character that it does
not affect the animal with the malady,
but merely renders it immune thereto.
Repeated experiments made of late
have shown that few drops of blood
from horse or any other animal thus
rendered immune injected into hu-
man being suffering from diphtheria
are sufficient to arrest and cure the dis
ease. Of course it is too soon as yet to
quote the statistics of the few hundreds
of cures which have been effected in
Berlin and London by this treatment,
which is to be fully discussed in all its
complicated scientific aspects at the
forthcoming international congress of
hygiene in September at Budapest. But
whatever the ultimate result of its ap-
plication, it has at least one advantage
over all other forms of incubation hith-
erto Overwhelmingly, that the matter
injected into the system of the patient
Is free from poison ard consequently
harmless. Now York Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
canse,l bv the tariff BIN.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The antici-
pated enactment of our new tariff law
has affected the wool market in Eng
land, according to report to the state
department from United States Consul
Meeker, at Bradford. 1t has caused
quicker sales than ever before, buyers
being eager to anticipate brisk de-
mand from the United States, and farm
ers are anxious to turn their fesces into
ready money because of the depression.
The prices showed an average advance
of from u to cent q pound over last
year, also caused by the tasif bill
changes, rs the consumption of the
bone trade did not warrant tho advance.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
HARDENED BY CUSTOM.

Tho Divorced Woman Did Not Feel Com
Portable About Her Children.
Tho conversation took place at ia
bic in Chicago restaurant within ear
shot Of half dozen persons, so it is to
be presumed that it is not to be consid-
cred particularly sacred. The woman
in the brown dress had evidently Just
come in from Denver The one in black
had met her at the depot. There was an
snimated description of the details Of
the journey; what time she started, how
tired she got, what terrible draft there
was and SO forth, interspersed with ex-
CARNATIONS Of sympathy from her hear
er. Then she leaned forward and asked
with more than ordinary interest:
Have you seen George since?''
Her companions face took on an ex-
preston that seemed to betokcn resigna-
I ton to all the evils the human race is
destined to come in contact with.
eyes, twice, she answered.
''And the children?''
"No, haven't seen them"
''Nor his wife?''
'No, but they say she is quite pretty
and sensible too"
Tho woman in brown sighed.
II never heard word of it until
about week ago. You can't imagine
what shock it gave me- He was mar
ried in December, wasn't he?''
Yes, just month after you were"
She sighed again.
''I'd like to see the children, but I'm
afraid couldn't bear it. It makes no
difference how good Georges new wife
is, she won't be like an own mother to
the poor little things It's against all
reason, you know that. !"
The woman in black admitted that
the argument was indisputable.
"And I'd never feel right again, /" the
speaker continued, apparently giving
her conscience few affectionate little
pats and lulling it to rest. when ]
left George, / tried to get the children
for myself; but, you see, had no idea
what ! should do. knew it would be
out Of tho question for me to try to
struggle along with all three of them.
/ had faith enough in him to believe
that he would do the right thing by
them, even though my own life with
him had been perpetual martyrdcm.
# had only known that should mar
ry again 80 soon and SO well, nothing
OH earth could ever have compelled me
to give them up. But, You see, didn't
know. So, oil things considered, Iguess
I'd better go right on east. AS said,
it would be terrible trial to see them
Sssacr tho cha e u somebody else and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
Courtsilip In Burma.

Mr.. Mortimer Menpes, in travelling
IN the east in search Of subjects, came
upon q curious form of courtship.
6ketching one day in Burma, he no.
ticed man little distance Of glarina
fiercely straight ahead Of him at some
object he could not see from his posi-
ton. The man sat with the same fixed
glare the whole Of the afternoon and
Was at It again the next morning. Mr..
Nenpes had the curiosity to ask an
English visitor what it meant. The re-
ply was, "Oh, he is in love" And ii
was explained that this was their meth
Cd Of courtship. The object of the man 4
attentive glare was a girl in a neighbor-
ing bazaar. When a man falls in love,
he has to seat himself at certain dis
tance from his adored one and waits for
her to do tho rest. If she looks in his
direction once OF twice ON the first or
second day. he is wildly encouraged,
and If ON t:ie third day she mods at him
and smiles il is timo to go to the parents
with reference to the marriage settle
ments.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
TO BE A BRAKEMAN.
! want to be q brakeman,
DOsxronAl

Iwant to be brakeman,
DOggonel
Legs hanCin over the edge Of nat car.
Trnin goin bout twenty-five mile'n hour,
Lickin the deg fennel long the track
That's what brakeman does.
Iwant to be o brakeman,
ljingl
Maxim the boys git Off the platform,
Crssin tho drayman Il tho skils Is lost,
Hollcrs, "Back or o leNgth," and the on
gineer has to-
That's brakeman for ye!
Eoconductor for mo, just a brakeman,
by hcnl
Can mako cor2lin on dead run.
Has spring bottom pants N braid on his
clothes,
Carries lantern at night N cap over his
That's brakeman, I'll tell vel
Iwant to DO brakeman,
Geeminentlyl
Stand in with tho agents and OPERATORS,
Gifts to Porn every night N secs tho show,
Knows the number Of the trains, ohaws ter
hacker
Hos regular one. you bet!
nj want to be head brakeman,
Gol-lec!
Twistin Ter hard, smoke rolling round ye,
Country people stoppin work to look,
Girls wavln at ye all the way to Peru.
I'll DO one, too, some day.
Chicago Record.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
THE DRUMMER WlLTED.
A 81 ,O0O Ante In q Senatorial Game Was
Too Rich For His Blood.

A 81, OoO Ante In n Senatorial Game Was
Too Rich For His Blood.
A group Of millionaires were playing
poker ever played in the United States.
1t was at Chamberlin's, in Washing
ton, in the winter of 1889 and 1890.
The exact list Of the players will never
be known, but Senator Wolcott of Col
orado and Ex-Governor Hauscr of Mon
tana were i'' it, and Senator FarweL Of
Chicago was in tho room.
About Midnight swell drummer for
Chicago dry goods firm sent up his card
to Senator Farweil. The senator went
down to see him and brought him up to
the room where the game was going on.
He introduced him to the other players.
Have you any objection to my play
iEg?' asked the drummer.
"Well," said Senator Wolcott, 81
have no objection, but-er-well, you
see, tho game is pretty steep"
'Ha, ha'' laughed the drummer
'That is the kind of game I like
Ex-Governor Hauser remarked that
if he could stand it the rest of the
crowd had 10 objection. With wink
ut Senator Farwell, the drummer sat
down, pulled out "wad," peeled off
81, GOO bill and said to Governor Hau-
ser, who was dealing:
"Give me some chipsp'
Then no looked around the table, as
much as to say:
''No flies on me, eh?''
"Give the gentleman one white
chip" said Senator Wolcott. Govern
or Hauser passed over the chip without
smile and remarked:
"Jack pot for 5000. Put up your
money"
The drummer sat aghast for IN in.
slant; then he picked up his money and
said:
''Too rich for my blood!"
1t is currently reported that one man
won over S10o, GOO that night. Chicago
Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
THE STUDY OF LlcHENs.
A Delighsful Branch Of Science With Which
To Become Acquainted.

4 Delightful Branch Of Science With Which
Co Become Acquainted.
They arc difficult branch to study,
for the descriptions are shrouded in a
mysterious language that needs ON I'M
abridged dictionary to translate 1t, and
o good microscope is necessary If one
wishes to examine their internal struc-
turo and spores. But they are a delight
full and easy branch of science to be-
tomo acquainted with by observation.
They arc to 10 found all the year
round on stones and fence rails and ON
trees They Gro easy to mount and are
so fascinatingly ugly or beautiful that
they mako an interesting collection. In
almost any wild bit Of country there
are from so to 20 kinds to be found, and
even in tho most civilized place. at ones
own hearth. there arc sure to be seven
or eight species growing OH tho sticks of
wood laid for the fire. They are so like
and yet unlike that they sharpen the
powers of comparison and observation
until one feels that tho keen bladed
knife and pocket lens, which are con-
slant companions in a liohen ramble,
are dull compared with ones own
bright mind
Lichens-and, by the way, they are
pronounced li-kers, not Etch-ens-grow
in three ways, which can be easily dis
tinguished at glance There are crus-
taceous lichens that grow close to q stone
or bark and have 10 leafy part, but are
simply few warts or dots or q stain.
There ara foliaccous hchens that lie fat.
They are green or brown or yellow
leathery plants that ere something like
leaves, and that have brown or red or
pink disks on them, and there arc fruit
cose hchens that grow upright like lit
tie shrubby bushes. with bright COL
ored knobs.
Go to any birch tree, and there will
be seen within q stained circle some Gu.
rious little black marks like elfin hero
glyphs They are the fruit spots Of o
common liohen called, very appropriate
", Graphs scripta Almost any tree
one visits will have some irregular cir
cular stains upon it, especially ii the
bark is quito smooth, and in the center
there will be some brown or black or
white specks. 1t is easy to collect such
crustaceous ichens by slicing off q thin
strip Of the bark, large enough to show
the outline of the stain, and by writing
the name of the tree from which it was
taken on the bark, but it is quite diff
ferent matter when one sits down beside
q bowlder.-New York Independent
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30

hear them call another woman moth
or. II would break my heart. -
The two women finished their lunch
and went out. The baldheaded man al
the ond Of the table dropped his fork
with q clatter.
"Well, he said emphatically, otis
my opinion that those three children
arc better of with that new mother II
she's anything short Of a amazon than
they would DO with that woman. Heaven
grant she wont be like their own
mother.
The little audience looked as though
1t agreed with him individually and
collectively. Exchange
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
How Spiders Work.

Mr.. 81. FL. Dixon has been studying
the locomotion Of insects and spiders by
means Of instantaneous photographs.
He finds that the limbs move together
in diagonals. In insects the first and
third legs on one side move with the
second OH tho other, the antenn@ NOV
ing with tho first leg on the same side.
In the case of spiders, which have eight
legs. the first and third on one side
move with the second and fourth on the
other. Nature,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
A Great Problem.

"As we were going home from flying
his kite" said Mr.. Bozzle. '"my young
son says to me, I know how to fly a
kite when there's good breeze, don't
IT, and say, Surely, but ] do not say
to him-why should / burden him with
such things now?-that anybody can fly
q kite when there's o breeze-that the
great problem Of life is to know how to
fly kite whep there isn't any breeze. =
--NeW York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
Lace and BrocaGc.

II you have any treasured short
lengths of old brocade, you may produce
them now and make the fronts of ono Of
the long Louis Seize waistcoats of them.
And if you are happy enough to possess
old lace you can make them up On jabot
10 wear with the same. It is to mount
the lace ON bands Of muslin, keeping the
folds quite soft and using as few stitches
- possible. In this way the tender sus-
capabilities Of the fabric are spared,
and when the jabot fashion is over and
done with the lace remains to be used
In some other way.-Fashion Jon-nal
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
Too Natural.

Playwright--Is her acting natural?
Manager enthusiastically -Naturall
Why. when she appeared as the dying
mother last night, an insurance agent
who has her life insured for $40, 000
and who was in the audience actually
tainted Pearson Weekly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30

The following is list Of the dates of
founding of the Oldest colleges in the
United States: Harvard, 1886; William
and Mary, 1902; Yale, 100; Princeton,
l746; University Of Pennsylvania, 1740;
Columbia, 1854; Brown university,
1894; Dartmouth, 1859; Rutgers, ITO.