The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-02-22
MoEkEXise NTH NATURE.

Results'Afe TIIable to BE Disastrous, AL
:. ti,osgIs s6nssfmes 1t Pays.
e An agent from the city was fryipg.to
sell the grosSs a new self winding clock.
Fhere vas .smalLstorsge Battery CON
: hectedwith It, and itgassint tended that
the battery SHOULD be-kept in operation
by means of g sn1al !. Yi9dnpal = PLACED
On the Roof Of the house. The agent had
about persuaded the grocer, TOT buy,
when the..Bsn with be ginger beard,
WHO hadshees watching the transaction
With fhs. dcep interest that eomes SO
natural to q. mattwits plenty of spare
time on his Ian g. Gbispsd'in!st
"SonetiRssi It bays ta.monkes with
nature and let heT, have the job of duin
all. your work while you .air loaIn
around the counfy.courtfouse 10 miles
away, and sometimes it don t, II he.
Il, knowed Teller out In Kansas at
hadons OF them windmill contributions
that was tile ruin OF him. - -
There never was eee, of these clocks
ssold in KsAsas at ALL. >, said the agent,
with some-Wrath. ........
~ This-here wasn't Clock said the
man with theginger beard. ':;and i defy
/, any man in thsser6wd to prove said
3aythiBg about clocks 1 jist said a
Windmill contraptiop. .Fhisnere was a
pfmp:: You see, this herefellow was a
sort Of m arket gardener and as it il dry
. in Kansas, as fur as the weather is CON
:cerned, he lowed, to rig UP a pump ar
rangement that Would water his garden.
, So he fixed up a wind pump, but. that
WASH t enough. He next went to work
and makes. kind of swivel arrange
Sheht that would, keep the hose movin
back and forth and up and around till
the whole Patch was spKinkled. Did
all the work itself, You see. :. Tbat'Ieft
him free to go-doIsfh to the grocery. and
talk all he zSsntsH tor all he. dast to
at beast. Well, he goes away one morn
sin happy as clam and comes BACK at
pightto find bis garden all ruin. Now,
what d'you suppose had did it?''
Hogs got in?.' Yentured. the clock
agent. =
"Hawgs? You make me sicks Hangs
nothinl One of. them. playful. biteeaes
.tAat: Kansas sometimes gitsI up had
cShe along and>had worked. that there
windmill .Egtnp. so derh fast that the
water was made bilin hot by the fric-
ton, and his whole patch of truck had
been scalded to death. .A.t
THAT was pretty tough, said the
agent. 90 1888
a9h, don't know answered the
''man:with thesgittger- beard. "As soon
:as begot broke he went into politics, and
now he is ;gett:n a good liTifin at the ex-
pense of the state..' IF it4faidn't "a been
for that accident he might be Still hav-
in to work for ivin.,,'-Ind1anapolis
Journal. go
Plaster Casts. -:
Myadyice to those who contemplate
having "a pldster. cast taken of their
heads and faces is don't. Two friends
of. mine: .Ghateur sculptors, persuaded
me to let. tf1enl.take' aac Cast of nv face,
SO as to reproduce sid' iinimiortaIize,m my
featuress II had no ftlea what the proc
ess was*a4 u: though l obttied to it on
general gFeands did, not .irhaginte' that
any. toralre:was CONNECTED whit: .,
- Judge Of py'h6rror, tAenywhen f
found that my rsostrilS> had to bgstuESR
with cotton wool and that ? TASTY. sticky
substance was r1esscir ti:Bt1f all over
my face SO as to secure. an IMPRESSION
Of MY features. Nothing soutteritt IN
comfort Ole cohld be imagined. .and the
desire TO scratch speitjens.ofs tt,s face
specially irritating was. aIpsst irresists
ible. But the greatest agQny,was. to
come. The young men had forgotten
in. their hurry. some precautions which
it Is usual to take ip order to make it
easy to break the cast in the center and
take it off IN two pieces. -
Hence it failed to respond 10 ,thefr
efforts TO make~it split, and. I.hads to
wait until they could break lit off in
sections, The heat in the interval vas
oppressive in thsrextreme;, and as they
pulled off large pieces of hesh. and
enough hair to make small, Wig my
sufferings1 can easily be imagined. If
I even obtain fame WHICH, do not an
'qcipate, my teatdres viii .hases,to he
ihlrlortalized in some way, o. her than
by n ans Of bust. st. Louis Globe
Democrat. .