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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
South Oak ota Sheep Growers.

ABERDEEN, s. D., April 3O.-The
programme for the sixth annual meet.
ing of the South Dakota Sheep Breed.
ers' and Wool Growers association, to
be held at Redfield, June 16, II and
10, was prepared here by Secretary
Bushnell and Hon. M. F. Greeley,
chairman of the executive committee.
A suggestion made by President Shep-
ard, and which has cheerfully been
adopted, is to hold in conjunction with
the meeting "buck exchange" where
members and others can bring their old
breeding stock and exchange it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
REBELS SLAUGHTERED.

Five Hundred Leonists Killed by the
Government Troops.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 3d.
The government here is celebrating a
great victory over the insurgents.
Having captured Lapaz, Pueblo Luevo,
Pital, Momotombo and Canas from the
rebels, the government now controls
the eastern part of the Leon railroad.
Three officials and some men were
killed on the government side and 20
officers and 500 men among the rebels
were slaughtered.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
DYNAMITE FOR WEYLER.
Somebody Touched Off Lot in the
Spaniard's Palace.

HAVANA, April 80. An explosion,
believed to be due to dynamite or some
other high explosive, occurred in the
palace Of the governor general at 11:3O
a. m. The defamation was sharp and
the building was soon partly filed
with dust, while the noise of breaking
glass and falling plaster could be heard
on all sides. Part Of the roof of the
palace fell in, the walls were torn,
great stones fell and printer belong.
ing to the captain generals Office was
wounded. The greatest excitement
prevails here as result of the explo.
sion, which, naturally, is attributed to
the insurgents or their friends.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
.'Reading,"

said Lord Bacon, ''maketh full man."
That is, a man of knowledge. Knowl-
edge is power Do you want to be
powerful? Text. books in school furnish
knowledge, but they can give only the
the teacher Tor by reading)' in the way
of illustration. To get this additional,
Information one must read many spe-
ciaI books. which are not to be found
outside of big libraries. Each month
the Burlington Route issues q printed
sheet containing articles of thirty to
forty lines, co npact, reliable and in
teresting, on geographical, scientific
and historical subjects. II you send
your name to W. j.. G., Kenyon, G.
ofthese sheets will be sent to you every
mouth during 1896.
N. B.-The Burlington Route 1sthe
best line from st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis TO Chicago or st. Louis
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Clergymen Arc Meeting.

HURON, s. D., April O.-Prominent
Episcopal clergymen are here from
various parts of the state in consulta-
ton with Rt. Rev. w. H. Hare, bishop
Of the diocese, relative to church work
and church needs in this part of the
state. Work at Indian agencies will
be especially considered, the clergymen
from different agencies being present.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Six Sentenced to Death.

Fort SMITH, Ark, April S0.-Lucky
Davis, Louis Davis, Rufus Buck,
Mamoi July, Sam Sampson and Ed
Wilkes, alias Davis, were sentenced in
the federal court to be hanged on
Wednesday, July 1, for crimes against
women, committed in the Indian Ter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Teller Refuses to Be Bound.

DENVER, April 30.-The Republican
publishes the statement that friends of
Senator Teller have his assurance that
he is willing to lead the Republican
delegation at st. Louis, although he
refuses the right to be bound by the
action of the convention if against
silver
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Gamblers Packing Up.

SUPERIOR, Wis, April Y0.-Gamblers
are packing up their apparatus prepara-
tory to leaving town. The mayors
order that gambling houses should be
closed and kept closed during his adj
ministration seems to have been &C.
cepted as final
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Ohio Murderer Executed.

COLUMBUS, April William Paul
was executed at the Ohio penitentiary
at 1910 a. m. His neck was broken
and life was pronounced extinct in just
liz minutes. Paul shot and killed his
father=in.iaw in Brown county, near
Ripley, July B, 1894.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Bookmaker Touched for &c, 600.

LEXINGTON. April 30.-Tom Mead,
the we'll known bookmaker of Cincin.
natl, was touched for $1,000 in the
grand stand before the second race.
The police think they know the thief
and expect to capture him.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30
Preparing to Entertain rravelers.

W 1HHtOTSWKH
GRAND FORKS, N. D., April 3O-The
annual convention of the Northwestern
United Commercial Travellers will be
held here May % and %. Elaborate
arrangements are being made for the
entertainment of the thousand travel
ers who are expected to attend.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-30

A high liver with torpid liver will
not he long liver. Correct the liver
with De Wits Little Farley Risers, lit
tie pills that will cure dyspepsia and
constipation. Hanson & Emerson.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

saw him post a letter directed to par
ties suspected of being inimical TO the
Russian government. The agent re-
ported to the chancellor of the Russian
embassy, and within half an hour
Agapius Honcharenko was a close
prisoner on board the man-of-war
Strelok, sailing for COnstantinople. His
friends in Athens communicated with
a revolutionary section in Stamboul,
and when the man-of-war arrived the
English embassy demanded his re-
lease. which, after some demur, was
granted. After a short hiding in the
Frank quarter of Co%nstantinople Hon
charenko made his way to London,
where for a time he was a collabora-
teur of Herzen on Kolokol, and be-
came an advocate of the liberation of
the serfs. The Russian government
set a price upon his head, and his
brother was banished to Siberia.
After taking an active part in the
Greek revolution he came to the United
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

looking man, and the visorless cap of
arctic fox skin which he wore height
sned the picturesque effect of his long,
iron-gray beard, his broad, high fore
head, furrowed with wrinkles, and
the twinkling, restless black eyes. If
ever a Cossack stood ready to defy the
power of the Muscovite throne, n of
the tribe certainly smiled a welcome
there in the heart of the Alamada
hills.
Closer acquaintance more fully re-
vealed his traits of character-nervous
enthusiasm, a keen sense of humor, a
persistent purpose with some lack of
system, although he was constantly
urging that he should be interviewed
in a strictly systematic manner.
He extended the inequalities of his
home with rare good grace. A center
table, three or four chairs and a book
case made up the furniture of the
room. On the wall hung two pictures
and only two-that might indicate
the life purpose of the exile. One was
q portrait of Herzen, the editor of
Kolokol 1. e.. the Bel), the famous
| journal once published in London in
| the interests of Russian liberty. The
other picture was a framed print de
picting the execution of the conSpira.
tors concerned in the assassination OF
Alexander IL. When he observed me
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
FINANCE AND FINESSE
Shrcvd scheme by which the
Learned Member Was Worked,

shrrvvd sche"e nv which the
Learned Member Was Worked,
Here is n story about a member Of
parliament well known for his knowI-
edge about all questions of finance.
This wise statesman was approached
by n reputab le-looking man. who said,
with a defcrcntial but not servile.
maDuer "EXcuse me. sir, are you not
Mr.. Blank"
Il am" said the NJ. T., with affable
dignity.
Il believe q are well informed up
Oh all financial OuestiOnS?'
''Ny friends and the press are kind
enough to say so.
"You have given much attention to
the subject. | think"
More thar to anything else
"And no doubt you could give a sat
iSfactory answer to almost any ques-
ton | might ask
The mpml or saw that he was being
"intpryipwed." aud wished 10 say
something that would look well in
print.
well, ] have a question in finance
that ! should be greatly pleased if you
would answer to my satisfaction
every good. What is it,
"Will YOU lend me il sovereign for a
day or two?'
''rhe NJ. p. produced the sovereign.
"By GEORGE he said. afterward.
"bc could have caught me for five Just
as we'll if he had only known it,
Amusing Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

Persons struck by lightning have
had small holes drilled in the skull,
but otherwise they were not marked.
Victims have been horribly burned
and even dismembered. A stroke of
lightning has cut off a mans ear, or
shaved his hair and beard clean, and
not hurt him in any other way. The
markings are often curious. Blue is
the common color, but they have been
red, green and black, and occasionally
the whole body turns black. Negroes
who have been struck by lightning
have had their skins bleached in spots
to absolute wilderness. One negro
struck by lightning found, after he
had recovered consciousness, that he
had one completely white arm, and
the rest of his body being as black as
usual. Blindness, deafness, and either
total or partial paralysis are frequent
consequences of lightning strokes.
Sometimes the lightning selects a sin
gle object on a mans person and as
sails that without apparently ouch
ING the man himself. Coins have been
melted until they stuck together in a
mans pocket, while he suffered nc ill
consequences. Keys. watches and
watch chains, metal cartridges and
cveglass frames have been more or
less damaged, while the persons wear
ing them were almost u%ninjured,
Clothing. too has been almost demol
ished without injury to it's wearer.
Iron tacks have been pulled out OF
shoes and rubber boots destroyed fire.
u~uently. The brass eyelets were once
torn ont of a mans shoes, but he
hardly felt the shOck.-Public Opinion
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

He Was Sure to Post n Letter.
examining the grewsome picture the
old man sighed md muttered: Poor
girl" That was all. He referred to
Sophia Perovskaja, the young woman
VINO persisted on that Scaffold with
her unborn babe.
At my request Father Honcharenko
told the story of his checkered career;
briefly az to the thrilling facts. mod
estly as to the results accomplished,
but with great verbosity of DISGUISE
ton on liberty and the rights of hui
mainly in the abstract.
He is a Kievsky Cossack, and came
of a powerful and wealthy family. He
was born in Southern Russia, Aug. 10.
1889. AT an early age he attracted
the attention of the governor of the
province, who supervised his educa-
ton with a view to placing him in the
diplomatic service. Later he was con,
secrated a priest. He was at length
assigned to the Russian legation al
Athens, and while there became iutftr-
ested In Herzen's Kolokol. During
TINS period he wrote a series of arti,
cles which appeared in Kolokol, de,
scrlbing the abuses practiced by the
Greek clergy, a task for which he was
well fitted, being one of the order
These articles attracted wide atten
ton and every effort was made by the
Russian government to discover the
author. Finally an accident betrayed
him. An agent of & London bookseller
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

States. and for four months subsisted
on 25 cents a day, earned with a pick
ak and shovel in the streets of New
York. Subsequently he entered into Il
contract with the American Bible Soci-
ETY. to translate the Bible into Slayoni-
In. At this time he had an advertise
ment in the papers calling for pupils in
Greek, Arabic, Romaic, Bulgar, Slavo-
MAN, Russian and Turkish. And yet
this versatile scholar was compelled to
work on the streets for a miserable pit
lance. One of his pupils was Eugene
to Russia. Under H~oncharenko's tutel-
age Schuyler translated Tourgeneff' $
Schuyler, afterward American minister
Fathers and Sons" and the patriot
proudly showed me a volume of the
story with the minister's autograph
and greeting on the fy-leaf.
In 1867 he went to San Francisco and
established the first press for printing
in the Russian language in this our
try. When the negotiations between
the United States and Russia for the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
GROW RICH, EVERY FARuyn,

The editor thinks it to be the wish CT
everybody to grow rich, not for the sake
of the money, but for the good that can
be done with the money. Now, there
are three new cereals recently created
that will make money for the farmer.
One is Silver King Barley, the most
wonderful creation of the age, yieldina
so, 100 to 116 bu. per acre in 1895, and
there are thousands of farmers VINO be-
lieve they can grow $50 blu. per acre
therefrom in 1896.
Then there is Silver Mine O9ts, yield
ing in 1895 200 blu. per acre. Every
farmer who tested it, believes $50 Blu.
possible.
Then there is Golden Triumph Corn,
which produced over 200 bu. per acre,
and $50 -bll. is surely possible.
And potatoes, there is Salzer's Ear
Hest, which was fit for table in % days
in 1895, yielding tremendously. while
the Champion of the World, tested In a
thousand different places in 1895, yield.
ed from s to 1000 bu. per acre.
Now, in Salzer's new catalogue there
is a wonderful errayal Of new varieties
of wheat, oats, barley, rye, potatoes,
grasses, clovers and forage plants, and
the editor believes that it would pay
every farmer a ~thousand-fold to get this
catalogue before buying seeds.
If You will cut this out and send 4.
with 10 cents postage to the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, YOU
will receive, free, 10 grain and grass
! samples, including above and their
mammoth catalogue. Catalogue alone,
5 cents postage. WIN.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

PAPER riANO CASES.
Also Instrument Cases Made of Ivory
and Silver.

Also l"nsfruDnent Cases Made of Ivory
and Silver.
"All II of articles in place of
wood have been used in the manufact-
ure of pianos" says n of the great
est English piano makers. perhaps
the most successful of all these is
paper. of which many pianos of eX-
quisite tone and appearance have been
made. The duke of Devonshire has
one of the finest specimens of paper
piano, this being of French make, and
decorated most ornately with pictures
by French artists. The duke gave
500 guineas for this. mainly. nc doubt,
on account of the ornamentation. l
suppose you know that pianos for very
hot and very cold c~limates-all instru-
ments for export. in fact-have to be
specially made, and in this direction
all manner of experiments have been
tried. Among others, a sort of cellu-
lose. one factor in which is actually
common molasses, from which sugar
is made. is employed, and a compost
ton made from the chemical treat
ment of gutta percha and leather pulp
has been tried. Ivory pianos are by
no means uncommon, and the dowager
countess of Dudley has IA magnificent
carved specimen. Pianos of ivory are,
l might say, made every year in num-
bers. but chiefly for Indian princes
and rich Spanish-Americans. Many
pianos of solid silver have been made;
indeed, II was only recently COM
pleted by a London firm for the Nizam
of Hyderabad, and piano cases have
at various times been made of bronze,
a species of aluminium, glass, porce-
lain, and, in combination, mother-of-
pearl.'-London Answers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
''Trilby'' Wakes up John Bull.

Our English cousins did not take
very strongly to "Trilhy' when that
novel was first put upon the market.
The English critics. who are a very
clever and high-salaried lot of gentle
men. instantly announced with a SUD
dennesS of perception and immoDlllty
of conviction peculiar to the British
isle. that there was really nothing in
the book, and the British public,
which had been waiting with strained
ear TO catch the manifesto OF the crit
les. at once came to the same conclu-
sion. shortly afterward the work be-
came extremely popular in America.
and when they heard this the British
critics and the British public threw
their bats up in the air and exclaimed
aloud in Il frenzy of joy and self-con-
graduation:
Did not we say long ago that there
was nothing in .Trilby?' And is it not
now proved that we were right? The
great American public has approved
of 'Trilby.' The great American pub
lie never approves of anything that is
worthy of approval; therefore, oh. 1t Is
so plain, 'Trilby' is trashy
Puf now two years have passed ,and
the ftt News IL uiSiith WV ~ N'
tIat the discerning British public ant
critics have succumbed. They now
actrovledgc "Trilby" as their queen
Tlay nave the ''Trilby' craze. They
wcar Trilby shoes. They give Trilb9
teas. The women buy Trilby carriers
The concert halls are all giving Trilb!
hurlesoues. In fact, the Trilby infec
lion $50 reads the cable Dispatch "hat
worked in The slower English blood
fever no less violent than that +
which America recovered months ago
The craze has invaded everything ant
become almost insufferable to tn
Americans in London. More than 100
600 copies of the book have now bee
published here, and the demand is III
satisfied" 49,.
If the British public keep up TN
mustling there is every possibility tina
they will adopt the sleeping car
tiEa-New York Recorder.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
Nenr-SjphteI Astronomer.

Schiapnrelli, the astronomer who
first discovered the so-called
of Mars. did so with a much smaller
telescope than those in use in many
other ~observatories at that time. And
vet he is a very near-sighted a Gar
rett p. Serviss of Brooklyn. in speak
ing of his first interview with the emil
nent Italian. said a few days g that
Schiaparelli would hold a visitors card
within five or six inches of his eyes il
order to decipher it. The singular part
of this story is not that a man with
such an infirmity should be able to
| Guido other astronomers, for keenness
of vision depends rather upon the
retina than the c~onveXity of the lenses
of the eye, and the eye-piece of a tel
escope can be focused so as to suit the
latter. But it does seem a little odd
that the gifted scientist in question
should habitually refrain from wear
ing eyeglasses. Possibly he has n the
ory as to the effect of their use upon
his visual powers.-NeY York Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
A PRICE UPON HIS HEAD
L Russian Exile's Retreat i'm the
Nsnuntains of California.

Thelt lives in America a man with a
price Il his head-a Russian priest,
former V the cars minister to Athens,
now dwelling in exile on a mountain
top in California.
The retreat of Father Agaplus Hon.
charenko is in a secluded spot about
twenty miles from San Francisco. To
reach his home, which is near Hay
wards, in Alameda county. the trav-
eler must drive along a winding noun
tain read, around barren ridges, past
gloomy ravines, yawning far beneath
him, and over lonely fields, scarce
varied by a tree or clump of vegetaz
ton.
The risk of losing the road is I'M
comfortably great, as the track is
often indistinct and grass-grown, sell
dom fenced in anywhere. Houses are
few, and from some of these he
CHEEKY signs of human life are miss
Ing. Let the explorer think himself
lucky if he can find the way; for his
destination is hidden behind rocky
hills, away from the main road and
entered by a rugged path, which can
only be traced by those long familiar
Win the lOCdllIy.
Here l found the residence of the
man who is known and feared by the
ryrants of Russia-who is loved and
respected wherever Russian liberty is
priced; for he is 10 ordinary individ-
ual, this ex-Russian priest. embassa-
dor, statesman, propagandist and apos-
tie of liberty.
The domain of this refugee from
Russian justice consists of fifty acres
of side hill, glistening powders, pre-
| cipitous g~ulches, waving grain fields.
with a landscape thrown in that would
| delight the heart Of a BierStadt.
His house stands upon a rocky spur
Of the mountain, surrounded by an
orchard. 1t is a one-story cottage
painted white, with a kitchen annex
In the gable over the door is the WORD
"%Svoboda," which is the Russian way
of saying "Liberty." On the door jam
in pecil, written in English in a bold
| firm hand, is the sentence, Revenge
on the wolves that devour the lambs
In answer to my knock on the door
a little woman with a pleasant ano
thoughtful face, piercing black eyes
and luXuriant, raven-black hair, made
her appearance. This was Nine. Hon
charenko, the wife of the patriot. Hel
Italian descent was plainly apparent
although she was born of American
parents and reared in Philadelphia.
Presently a little old a slightly
stoop-shouldered, but vigorous and
muscular, made his appearance, bear
ing a pail Of milk. he was a singular
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
FOOLED THE CHICAGOANs.
Johnson. the Cyclist, is Also n Pref
ty Good skater.

Johnson. the Cyciist, is Also n Pref
~ Good skater
81 have just heard a new one on
Johnson. the bicyclist,' said Bob
Smith, the ticket agent at the Bucking-
ham. "In addition to breaking all the
bicycle records, he is said to be the
fastest skater in the world He has
been to Sweden and Norway. and has
fairly outskated the people who make
skates there, and there is not one of
them that can touch him with a long
pole. He went % Chicago once and
went skating on the lake. There was
an immense crowd out. 1t was before
he had begun to break bicycle records,
and not much attention was paid to
him by the hundreds of other people
who were there. On every hand the
boys and girls were doing their fancy
tricks. and, by the way. they sure
enough knew how to skate there.
Johnson skated about slowly for Il
while. just to become accustomed to
his skates. Then he joined in the
whirl. and began doing tricks that no
one of the others had yer heard of,
1t was not long before he suddenly
gave a shoot out from the rest and
went like the wind for a mile. Then
he whirled and came back like a
streak of lightning. There was to he
a race that afternoon for Il prize, and
when the people had seer Johnson
skate they induced him to enter for it.
He did so. and beat the others so bad
ly that from that time on he vas
barred from all contests of the kind.
No one in that city of skaters would
rae against him. He ave exhibit
tons afterWard, but that was his first
and last race.'-Louisville CONNER
cioI
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

Gomez, the Cuban insurgent general
who Is accomplishing such wonderful
feats in out-manenvering and out
fighting the Spanish forces, is a lit
tie old man of 60, about 8 feet 7
inches in height, and weighing not
over 40 pounds, but he is described
by an English officer serving with the
rebels as alert, cool, calculating and
intrepid. 1t is not often that a nan
of his age meets with such success in
the field.