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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

THE MAYOR surprised the city bv dis
placing Albert Warren from the posi-
of street commissioner. The CITY never
had his equal. His successor, Ransom
Buck. is good man, but inexperienced.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

Or. ROGER S. TRACK, register of re
cords in the health department. of New
York city. has compiled the present pop
ulation of tile TERRITORY to be embraced
with Greater New York" His esti-
mated total is 3.195,65S. of which
1,916,695 are within the present con-
fines of New York city.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

Sidney ]. Hnntley is making mighty
good paper of the Melrose Beacon. He
is competent and enterprisina, and he 10
giving Melrose its moneys worth several
times over.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

BUT you may be sure c. A. Towne
wouldn't let a bicycle down him twice
running Commonwealth.
The reference is to an article printed
elsewhere in this paper. For bicycle
read "16 to L." and trim the narrative
to fit, and the allegorical pertinence OF
the story becomes apparent.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

The old Board OF Trade should be re-
organized. There are questions of gen.
eral and special Importance constantly
presenting themselves which can only
be met and handled by an association
of business men. fit serves no better
purpose it will keep the city in TOUGH
with the world at large.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

F.P. Hecklin. who made good night
in the free-for-all for sheriff two years
ago, says he has met great many peo-
ple in the country who have the idea
that ne has left the county. Mr.. Heck
lin saws this is not the case by any means
and that he has no intention OF remov-
ine from Stearns county, but will stay
here and will be a candidate for the
office of sheriff again this fall. Hecklin
saws he is going in to win. By the way,
there promises this tall to be the usual
number of candidates for this ott1ce.
Sheriff McKelvy will be an active candl-
date for reelection, Frank Benolkin OF
Freeport, will be in the field, then there
is Hecklin and T. ]. Murphy OF Sank
Centre, will probably be candidate,
before the Democratic convention at ali
events.--Journal-Pse ss.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

William E. Lee Of Todd county, has a
great many friends in this bailiwick, and
his candidacy is looked upon with favor
here.-Osakis Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

w. C.. Warren & Co. have the inside
on mackintoshes and umbrellas this
spring. Nine mackintoshes was the re-
suit of last Saturday sales. They have
the line and are selling at prices below
all competition. Double texture, double
cane. fashionable cut, macintosh for
So. S5. is one of their bargains. its the
same garment as others are making a
howl on it $3.50.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

The firm of Messrs Madsen & Bjone
has been dissolved, Mr.. Bjone retiring.
and Mr.. Madsen continuing the BUSH
ness at the old place. Mr.. Bjone has
been in business for four years in this
citv, and during that time has made
hosts OF friends who will regret to know
Of his abandoning business. He has no
definite plans tor the future.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-04-16

THE court says that Anoka shall have
the fourth insane asylum-and the court
is right. There never should have been
any question about it.
The herald., 1896-10-18

Inns. Mrs. Collins secured a divorce from
her husband and married twice after
ward. She died in 1894.
Mr. Collins is still living, and is a
wealthy importer. After the divorce
proceedings he married RoselbaBeecher,
singer at the Casino. The latter has
been studying in Paris for the operate
stage for some years and will shortly
make her debut. Miss Collins grand
mother, Mrs. Clark, after the death of
her husband, married Robert j. Niven,
who was an uncle of Mr. Depews first
wife. who was Miss Hegeman.
When it is remembered that old Com
modore Vanderbilt married twice, his
second wife being Miss Crawford, a
seventeen-year-o Alabama girl. it
would seem that Miss Collins would be
accumtomed by heredity to multiple
city of marriages. Summed up, her great
grandfather was married twice, her
grandmother twice, her mother three
times and her father twice.
Miss Collins fortune Of 900 Is the
accumulated outgrowth of the fortunes
left to her grandmother and mother by
Commodore Vanderbilt. Mr.. Depew has
been the young lady's guardian since
the death of her mother and manages
her fortune.
Mr.. Depew has one son, Chauncey M,
Jr., but better known as Buster Depew.
He is eighteen years old and a student
at Yale college. Mr.. Depew is worth
s., 900, 900, and is credited with receiving
yearly salary of 100000 from the Van
derbilt roads.
DAVID FERGUSON.
The herald., 1896-10-18
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BY DAVID STARR JORDAN

The Astral Camera club of Alcalde
was organized in November, 1895, for
purposes OF scientific research through
the medium of photography. The func-
ton of the club was the cooperative
study of mans latent psychical powers,
that these might be made nelpful In
the conduct of life. No powers granted
to man should be neglected or allowed
to waste in idleness. just as the great
physical force of electricity remained
for centuries hidden, and known only
by casual and unimportant Manifesto
tions, so the great odic forces within
man are still scantily revealed. The
method of the club in Alcalde was to be
that of the most rigid scientific re-
search. 1t was to take up, one after an
other, the discoveries of our eager CEN
tury as they were made known to the
world through the medium of the daily
newspaper To these were to be added
those suggestions which alert intuition
and psychic practicability would nat
urally suggest. No hypothesis in sci
ence was to be rejected beforehand, an
no prejudice was to stand in the way of
the reception of any new theory that
might contain living truth
AS soon as the news of the marvellous
experiments of Prof Roentgen had
reached Alcalde, the Camera club be-
gan work on the X rays, and on the
larger problem of the significance Of
photography without visible light.
They had no difficulty in repeating the
usual experiments. They got an out
line of the skeleton of a canary, the
shadow of an empty pocketbook. the
bones of finger surrounded by gold
ring, and the location of an imbedded
shot. Thus those strange rays of light,
or odic force. invisible to our eyes, be-
cause none of our ancestors ever had
chance to gaze upon them. disclosed the
presence of objects which had else lain
forever in darkness. In addition to this
the green light of the vacuum tubes pro-
The herald., 1896-10-18

count, even aside from the fact that she
seems destined to bel Mrs. Chauncey M.
Depew. In the first place she is Miss
Edith Collins, 25 years old, and with a
fortune in her own right of 1000, 600.
Youth and vast riches are gigantically
strong combination, but these are not
the sum total of the attractions of the
lady She is uncommonly handsoue. is
tremendously ambitious and has intel
ligence of high order.
Youth, beauty, riches, intelligence,
and ambition. Is it thing to wonder t
that even the great Depew should seek
to worship at a Shrine holding all these
treasures? If he expected more, it is
doubtful If he could find it in some Uto-
pia of feminine loveliness.
Mr.. Depew is 81 years old. His head is
bald and his famous side whiskers are
white, but his face has the ruddy glow
of youth, his blue eyes have the sparkle
of undiminished activity he is all ener-
gy, vitality and health. Life to him has
as much interest as it had thirty years
ago. He can work sixteen hours day,
six days in the week, and is as happy
under the strain as schoolboy in vaca-
tiOn time.
TOO OLD? NOT MUCH.
Some croakers might say that he is
too old and that she is too young. but
these are old-fashioned folk A few de-
cades back man of sixty was regarded
as old, but times are changing. Now a
man of three score is veritable youth;
almost a boy Just look al the achieve
ments of the real old people of the world
and quit wondering about the insult
ableness of marriage of man of 81
and girl of %.
There is Gladstone, 81 years old, thun-
dering his denunciation of the Unspeak-
able Turk and exciting the sluggish
people of England to a sense of their re-
oponsibility. There is Bismarck, 81 years
old. still a potent factor in the game Of
European politics, and taking a ten-mile
ride every morning to keep down his
weight. Look at General John M Palm
er, 79 years old. stumping the country
in his presidential campaign, or at his
side partner. General Simon b. Buckner,
73 years old. and with all the endurance
and dagh of a young war horse: or at
that third Kentuckian. General Cassius
n. Clay, who laughs at his eighty one
years and mas Jumped into the boiling
caldron OF Dlue Grass politics and is
making speeches at ali the Four Corners
around Lexington. Kr> There IS Cold
win Smith, who at " expects TO bring
about the annexation Ds canada 10 nc
United Etates and 1--we eSspg enough to
zee . new era 0f prosperity dawning
upon the GomjpioD. What about Ii
Hung Chang, who at u makes tour Of
the world, asking ten nnal9aDn questions
1etlng. smoking, lapghiat and stghtsee-
The herald., 1896-10-18

ing. to say nothing of scheming with all
the brilliant intellects OF the earth?
Take a glance at Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton, whose 81 years are mere bagatelle,
not bunting her enthusiasm for the ad-
vancement of womankind bit. There's
Rosa Bonheur. painting away for dear
life at "a. and Mrs Henry Ward Beecher.
who at "a thinks nothing of writing a
1000 word newspaper story in day. Call
to mind Prince Hohenlohe, the German
chancellor. who at rs is guiding the ship
of state quietly and gently, although
hampered by an eccentric young cap
tain, whose idiosyncracieS would turn
any ones hair white. Then there is
Crispi, the ex-prime minister of Italy,
who at II is working with all his might
and main to reach the top of Italian pol
itics again.
Ye croakers who think a man of 62 Is
too old to marry. just look at this list
and think it over. Why, man of 62 in
the company of these people would keep
his mouth shut. He would be too young
to talk.
MISS COLLINS IN EUROPE.
Unfortunately Miss Collins is in Eu
rope studying art, otherwise it might be
possible to obtain a definite statement
regarding the rumored engagement. Miss
Collins has spent much of her life abroad
but she is well known in the exclusive
social circle here. She visited New York
last winter and again in the summer,
and the attention paid to her by Mr..
Depew revived the rumors of the en-
gagement.
Miss Collins is typical American girl.
While she has vast riches. she has fitted
herelf to be self supporting should any
calamity assail her fortune. She is an
artist of considerable talent and has
studied with the assiduity of poor girl.
For a time she was student at the
Art Students league in this city. and
then she went to Paris to complete her
work.
A MULTIPLICITY OF MARRIAGES.
In way she is already related to Mr..
Depew. and she is also kinswoman of
the Vanderbilts. She is a great grand
daughter of the old commodore, Cornell
ius Vanderbilt. Her grandmother was
Commodore Vanderbilt's daughter. She
married Horace F. Clark, and the daugh-
ter of this couple married Clarence Ly-
man Collins, father of Miss Edith Col
The herald., 1896-10-18

voked that uncanny feeling which al
ways precedes and presages great dis
covery in occult science. From this
feeling the club was safe in predicting
that far greater discoveries were to fol-
low, and that the x rays would not end
in mere repetitions of Roentgen'S tri-
umphs in "skiography."
In this they were not disappointed.
Prof. 1nglis Rogers of London found
that not only could pictures be produced
in darkness by means of invisible force,
but that the invisible waves sent out
through the ether by the mind could
also effect a sensitive plate. Just as one
sensitive mind at distance receives an
image sent out from the psychic retina
of another, SO could the same image be
concentrated and fixed upon a photo
graphic plate. Prof. Rogers, in a matter
of fact way, looked for few minutes
at postage stamp, then retired to Il
dark room, and gazed through the lens
of camera at the sensitive plate. The
figure of the postage stamp was on his
mind, and from his mind it passed out
through the sensitive ether to the plate
made ready to receive it. The result
was photograph of the stamp-small IL
and little blurred, but showing the un-
doubted features of the gracious queen
and the words lone penny" Thus was
the bridge between psychic power and
Photographic sensitiveness made once
for all. This connection established,
there is naturally no limit to the app!i-
cation of the principle.
1t thus becomes plain that the in
visible rays of Roentgen are not light in
the common sense, but akin rather to
the brain emanations, or odic forces,
which pass from mind to mind without
the intervention of forms of gross mat
ter as medium. and to which gross
matter in all its forms is subject.
Nor is this principle new in the philos-
ophy of man. The wise of all ages have
held that mind is sovereign over matter.
Besides this general law it has been
known to our fathers that in the eve
of the dying man is impressed the last
scene on which he looked in life. With
instruments of precision we may ex-
anime that scene. and by skillful pho
Biography we should be able to secure
and fix it for all time. Whittier fore
shadows the broad law on which this
rests when he asks:
Do pictures of all ages live f
On natures infinite negative,
Whence half in sport, in malice half
She throws at times, with shudder or laugh,
Phantom and shadow in photograph?
1t may be that by means of such neg
atives history is able to repeat herself.
1t is not unlikely that among the latent
powers which are conferred upon man
by the possession of the astral body,
are those which will enable him to read
the pictures on the infinite negatives Of
The herald., 1896-10-18
QUEEN OF THE NURSERY
Augusta Victoria Did Not Approve Of Her
Sons Canoeing

An amusing little story is told in a con-
temporary which shows that the German
emperor is not all powerful in his own
house. However autocratic he may be in
dealing with the German army OF. the
German parliament he is compelled to bend
before the will Of his wife in domestic tic mat, a.
story. it seems presented to him short
time ago a little canoe Of American build;
made Mr.. .Bige:ow. sail it up and down
in front Of the palace gardens at Pots
dam. 'All my boys" said he. ."shall be
canoeists," remark which greatly pleased
Mr G3igelow who Is canoeing snthuSast Sat
to be learned. She spoke to Mr.. Bigelow
the delights Of shooting down. swift
stream between threatening rocks and
failed to- appreciate the. delights. "oh:
no. she said. "that is. too dangerous. !
shall never allow my children in a canoe"
But, said Mr. Mr.; Big;elow. 1.-The. emgsror rs
may be-" replied the empress sending n
smile. in her husbands direction. He
may be the emperor of Grman, but ! am
the empress of the nursery"
The herald., 1896-10-18

s;ons naturally appeared on the camera
before the ether waves were co-ordinat-
ed and the reflex influences came pack
from all to one, regulating ana co-or-
dinating the thought of the cat. Thus
these preliminary impressions are re-
corded as ghost pictures in various
places about the plate before the ulti-
mate composite view was achieved.
The delay in this regard has darkened
the center picture, interfering little
with it's perfection Of definition. Thls
darkening would probably appear in
other experiments on account OF tue
long exposure (sixteen minutes)
thought necessary for picture OF TINS
kind, in which odic magnetism Is maoe
to take the place of light.
On the cats cheek is curious black
spot or stigma which has not been
fully accounted for. From it's sharpness
of definition it must stand in some re-
lation to each of the seven persons
whose thoughts were centered upon it.
One suggestion was that this was the
blind spot on the retina in each OF the
sympsychographers. But the blind spot
marks the point of entrance of the nerve
which goes back to the brain. While 1t
may not have visual power, 1t is not un-
likely that it is point Of special activ-
ity in biography. This suggests that
the black stigma may be the yellow
spot, or the macula iuted, tne poiHt VI
acute vision, a region on the retiNa
where odic forces would naturally be
absent. Mr. Marvin himself inclines to
the opinion that microscopic examina-
tion of the negative will show that this
stigma has likewise the form Of a ca,
and that it will be found to be an ideo-
morphic germ or centrum where the CO.
ordinate thought of the cat has first i'm
pinged on the plate and from which tbs
image of the cat has concentrically
arisen.
Meanwhile the cat of Mr. Thompson
the janitor, who alone could answer this
question, lay in the darkness under the
warm stove and purred softly.-POpu!al
Science Monthly.
The herald., 1896-10-18
The $1,000, 900 Heiress to Whom
Rumor Has Engaged Him
"A TYPICAL AMERICAN GIRL
The Orator Has Been a Widower fol
Three Years
Achievements Of the Worlds
Real Old People.

NEW YORK. Oct. 16.-Unless the signs
Of the times are altogether wrong,
Chauncey Mitchell Depew is to follow in
the footsteps of his two friends, ex-
President Benjamin Harrison and ex-
Secretary William Collins Whitney, and
Introduce to the world a second Mrs.
Depew.
Mr.. Depew has been a widower for
more than three years and in that time
he has been engaged-by rumor-to at
least half dozen women. Each time
that his rumored engagement got into
print he was interviewed on the question
and he denied the charge in such jocular
but firm way that there was no doubt as
to his position. But in the present case
Mr.. Depew has not denied the charge.
When questioned on the delicate subject
he said: II have nothing to say about
the matter. one way or the other l am
willing to be quoted on political but noe
on matrimonial affairs
This exposition of the case. to the
minds of those who know him best, set
ties the matter. for if he were not engsE-
ed to be married it is argued that he
would certainly deny the rumor, particu-
larly as very marriageab Bile girl has
been brought into the affair.
This lady is interesting on her own ac-
The herald., 1896-10-18
LOW BORN.

I find they're taking me to task
For writing De before my name:
care you of noble line?" they ask.
No; heaven be lauGed for the same.
No patent signed by royal hand
OrI stately vellum can / show,
/ only love my native land
Oh I am low-born-very low!
No"De'' my ancestors could give
Their story In my blood trace;
Beneath a tyrant forced to live.
They curs'd the despot of their race.
But he for privilege was born.
And soon alas! he let them know.
HE was the millstone. THEY the. corn;
Oh, I am low-born-very low!
Meier did my fathers, I. can say.
Live on their peasants sweat and blood
Or seek the .trav'ler to waylay.
While toiling through the darksome wood
Not one his native village spurned,
Z Or by some wizard at a blow
Was to royal lackey turned:
oh, am low-born-very low!
-Berangee.
The herald., 1896-10-18
AN ODD AUTUMN HAT

Some of the new hats shown are anything
but pretty: they are trimmed or one should
say. overturned. with a quilting of wide
satin ribbon around the crown with great
punches of coque plumes at each side of
One of the prettiest / saw yesterday was of
black French felt: it had a quilting of soft
gray gros-gran ribbon. with narrow black
ing above it. AT the left, toward the front,
was bunch of quilts in the same gray,
while a bunch of ribbon formed a pretty
but not too large bow at the back.
The herald., 1896-10-18
Tint JOYFUL Feeling

With the exhilarating sense of renewed
liucss, which follows the use of Syrup
of Figs, is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the well informed
The herald., 1896-10-18
no cure a Cold in One nox

To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money If it
fails to cure. 25c.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-02-19
JUMPED HIS BOND.
Richardson, Charged
With Grand Larceny,
Fails to Appear
For Trial.

At the spring term OF the Jefferson
Circuit Court, Manassas Richardson,
son of Mrs. Anna Richardson, was
indicted for COW stealing. Richard
son gave bond and took change OF
venue to the Lincoln Circuit Court
at the Warner district. The ease
was called for trial at the August
term OF the Lincoln Circuit Court,
but owing to the fact that many OF
the witnesses for the defendant were
absent, the case against Richardson
was continued until the February
term. The case was called yester-
day, when Richardson failed to put
in his appearance. Judge Elliott at
once decreed his bond forfeited and
ordered a bench warrant for his ar
rest to be issued. Richardson
mother was on his bond Tor $500.
The following are a number OF
witnesses in the case who went to
Warner yesterday: Nell. Williams.
Joe Walker, Esquire Canes, John B.
Williams and Verge Murdangh.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-02-19
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