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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
The City of tie Futures.

If the predictions Of scientists are to-
be believed this world may be differ
eRt looking place rom the present for
those who live quarter of century
hence. The: houses; stsres, factories
indeed, buildings uf. al sorts-will be
warned and lighted by electricity, the
FAC ket and din of heavy: eartaae Will be-
banished from our city streets, as
everything wial be conveyed on practi-
;cally silent tran.wayS. There will be
smooth pave1aents, korseless carriages,
with pneumatic tires no trolley poles,
no horses and 1855 wireS With heat and
ilg.aa supplied as W alter. is nosv fur
anissed, there will be no ciating in Of
COAL or carting out uf ashes, Trans
mitted power will he The magician, to
work this grand transformation Gas
may be used for cooking, if electricity
is not, and, with. no smoks;v ner dust
from coal or ashas and no grinding up
of pavements from whesls aud horses
feet, the city viii be as. clean, as. the
country, and, ms bead sof cloud laden
atmosphere, the airiwill.be wholesome
and refreshing as that which, sweeps
over the untenanted hills. Thisssau.lds
visionary, but ths beginning Of sAaeh
conditions has been made, and it jk said
that even in ten years much of ti,is may
be accomplished. New Ys95 f4sdger.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
Jena'S Celebration.

The. University of Jena this year cele-
hrates its three hundred and fiftieth an
niversary. 1t was founded in 1547 by
Prince Johann friedrich, who, having
lost his own University Of Wittenberg,
together with his personals liberty, at
the battle of Muhlberg. took the first
steps toward the foundation of Jena.
its first professor was, Melanchthon, Lu-
theirs friend, but he resigned tAe same
year in;consequence of religious dissen-
sions. The first score of students came
from Wittenberg, and their Numbers
grew so fast that their manifestations
of JOY when. few years afserward,
their prince was liberated were enough
to precipitate a first class town and
gown riot. AS a consequence the towns
folk refused to harbor the students any
longer, and it took the intercession of
the prince to appease them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
DIDN'T KNOW STRATToN:
But After the millionaire Had \ICIea8ffied
RtmseTF He Got His Car.

But After the millionaire Had IcIeatffied
RsmsefF He Got His Car.
Probably no town Of it's size Esas as
| many very rich melf as Colorado Springs.
'"They have millioraires to burn, I" ysaid
gentleman vino recently visited there.
Colorado Springs is the home of w.
S. Stratton, the manAwbo few yeaxs
| ago was at work with\a jackplane, earn,
ing scanty living, but who is now the
possessor Of anywhere haom $50, 900, 900
to $40, 600, 000," said my,sriend. "Strat-
ton does not have the appearance of a
man borne down with waighty pocket
book. Much of the time .ite goes about
in clothes tramp might object to.
When he had, in a couple of years,
cleaned up the paltry sumtof Sc, 900, :
000-or 100000 a yea--himself
and family thought they would like a
vacation. They concluded tzo make a
trip to California.
/ 1.-The next day Stratton wenr to Gen
yer on business. His banker had notified
him that he had made mistake of
$3.50, 600 in his bank account He had
that much more in the bank than he
Thought he had. Upon investigations he
discovered that he had sent the, bank d.
check for that amount, just taken from
the sale of his mine, which he had not
noted. That matter cleared up, Mr.
Stratton thought he would see about
getting tickets for the California tHip,
AS usual, he had on a rather shabby;
suit
Have you got bargain in tickets
to California; asked Stratton.
THE clerk looked him over carefully
and concluded that hobo had dropped
in to get out of the sun.
g Not today. We may have one to-.
morrow
: "'Well, you sell tickets to California,
don't your
Certainly, but we have no job lot
on hand at present.
How much is ticket to San Fran
cisco?'
1.-THE clerk told him.
Iet me see. / shall have to take
along several people-servants, you
know. Guess you had better give me
nine tickets.
Vhl1O GIO ClClh w dS StdIluS
Stratton was struck with new idea.
/" By the way, how much will spe-
cial Car cost? L like to 60 as comfortably
as possible when l travel. Yes, guess
I'm have special Car. How much will
it cost?' 49,
; "The man told him.. It was large
sum.
That's all right. Look here I'm
Aolng 10 stay a l..olllh Or Sax = eeks ana
I guess I'll sleep in the special How
much more will that cost?' He was
told All right. I'll take that Car for
six weeks Got blank checks'
''The clerk gave him one. It was
filled out and handed to the clerk, who
said:
I know all about Mr.. Stratton, but
I don't know that you are Mr.. Stratton.
cat that moment Banker Moffett
passed by. Stratton called out, Come
in here, Moffett. He came in. Am I
Stratton?' you are L thought so, but
this clerk had his doubts. Thank you.
Chicago Times Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
A Humorous Tramp. q

'
The tramp i'll real life beref4 pf aEhe
picturesque atmosphere with wliesssa Is
COMIC papers surround Kim, isa by no
means hideous creaturs,, butga' sub
urban resident claims to have, disdoy cred
one with vein of humor which would
bring joy to the heart of the &c mic par
agrapl1er "The fellow stopped at my
residence !" remarked the suban banite,
"and asked. for something to ea. Ny
wife CHANGED to be in the kitchen, and
she told him he could have some diunerr
If he would first saw some wood. Thise
the tramp agreed to do and required
with the SEW to- the wood shed. After
half AN hour had elapsed and the liabo
hassh not come to claim his reward nv
wits: Determined to investigate. Going
to tbs shed, She saw THAT both tramp and
saw had disappeared, while the wood.
pile Vas undisturbed- 4 piece of dirty
paper pinned ia the door caught her at
tentioA, and afser considerable difficulty"
she deciphered the message, which read
as follows: Juss tell them that you saw
me, but you did. not see me saw'"-
Philadelphia Record.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
Better Than photography.

The old man had given his son very
tair education and had taken him into
his shep. The young fellow was over
nice about great many things, but the
father made no comment. One day an
order came in from customer.
II wish to goodness" exclaimed the
son, THAT Gibson would learn to spellp'
whats the matter with it?' in
quired the father cheerfully.
"Why, he spells coffee with 'k.'"
'.No, does hea I never noticed it,
''Of course you never did" said the
son pettishly. "You never notice any
thing like that"
Perhaps not, my son, - replied the
old man gently, ''but there is one thing
I do notice. which You will learn by and
by, and that is that Gibson pays cash. !"
London Tit-Bits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15

Iglared. and the desert spread before
! him, and the dust arose in yellow puffs.
Then came two native soldiers riding
On weary horses, and they cried out at
sight of the footman. And when they
iismounted to seize him the knife
flashed, and one soldier lay silent at his
:eet, and the other fed across the gleam-
ing desert, and the knife was red.
There were clouds and confused
sceneA and out from them all the man
with the red knife pressed on, in his
eyes stlrnge light, a CLEAN, half ter
ror, half desperation, the look of
haunted man, whose fate impels him
forward. Then another city, city of
whitewashed walls and many huts and
few palaces and stretches of the sea and
the masts of ships.
The swish of waves, and the roaring
Of the wind, and the rattle of cordage,
and in the midst of the ship the brown
faced man calmly Indifferent to the
tempest.
More clouds and long blanks of cha
otto nothingness. My eyes find them
selves gazing at the wall of my room,
and presently it opens and through it
steps the man who crouched by the city
gates Step by step he comes to my bed
side, and his eye glistens and his knife
is red, and my eye never leaves his.
Then he pauses and bends low with
his arms outstretched.
"Sahib, he murmurs, and his voice
is singularly low and gentle, II am
here. f"
1.-THE diamondp' I hoarsely murmur.
He removes his turban and slowly
unwinds it's many folds. AS he does so
the room seems filled with the rustic of
garments. and a strange, sweet perfume
comes to me. There are whispers, too,
and sound like stif1ed sob.
Slowly the stranger unfolds his tur-
ban, and suddenly out of it leaps
great white pebble. He lifts it before
me betwixt his lean brown thumb and
forefnger, and know that in his other
hand he holds the red knife.
''The diamond of the nizam, sahib,"
he murmurs.
AS he speaks sudden ray of sun
light falls upon the white pebble and
mighty glory seems to fill the room.
My eyelids drop before that glare. I
see the brown face of the Indian bend
lower I see his fingers clutcbing at his
knife. The room grows dark and yet
darker. seem to be slipping away,
slipping away.
"John!''
Is that my name? Is somebody call
ing me-? What is this that holds my
hand and draws me back? No, no; let
me 60
"Johnv'
Surely somebody is calling me.
I open my eyes slowly, SO slowly.
Across the level of my bed see the face
of George leaning forward, his features
in the shadow, his eyes cleaning with
frightened anxiety, in his hand tiny
medicine glass that catches a dazzling
ray of sunlight. Somebody else is there,
somebody who holds my hand tightly,
somebody who calls again:
John, dear!"
raise my eyes little higher. An
other face is bending over me, white,
tear stained face.
"John''
1t is Mary.
And SO came back.-W. r. Rose in
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
THE FOLDING BED.
1t Is Still an Object of Suspicion to Many
Hotel Visitors.

1t Is Still an Object of Suspicion to Many
Hotel Visitors.
"I'm sorry, SIR" said the polite
young up town hotel clerk to the grum
looking guest, "but I haven't another
room in the house tonight. If you could
use this till morning, I'll fix you up
right for tomorrow. But the induce
ment persuasively delivered failed to
work and the grum looking man went
away.
When he had got over the threshold,
smile and said: "You can't do anything
with these fellows. 1t beats the world
how man will let his prejudices drive
him out into the night to seek inferior
accommodations. And yet this man
looked like he knew better too
"What was it dissatisfied him?"
"Nothing in the world except that in
the only room he'd have there was
folding bed. You see we are crowded
now and there are but few vacant apart
ments. He is a crank on the subject of
folding beds because in modern times
two or three human beings have been
caught in them when they folded up
inopportunely and had their lives crush
ed out. I pleaded with him that no
such disaster could happen here. for
nowadays folding beds are made with
patent catches that absolutely prevent
them from manslaughter. No matter
how sorely a bed such as we have
should yearn to close up on it's slumber-
ing victim those catches, forbid. told
him all this. but it had no effect. I"
care most people imbued with this
prejudice"
"Yes. think majority of the trav
cling public has that feeling, and do
not believe the time will ever come
when the folding bed will gain the full
confidence, much less the affection, of
the American people. washington
Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
The Kaiser's Story.

The emperor's "ieblingsblume" has
become the national flower of Germany
and the symbol of patriotism, but it
will never be forgotten why he loved
it, and the beautiful and touching story
possesses ever new interest when told
in his own words. Finding how many
incorrect versions were spread about to
account for his fondness for the simple
field flower, the aged kaiser related the
following pathetic incident:
GAS my mother fed with myself and
my deceased brother from Memel to
Konigsberg during the troublous times
at the beginning of our century, the
misfortune happened to us that one of
the wheels of our coach broke in the
midst of the plain. No village was
within reach, and we seated ourselves
on the edge Of the ditch while the dam
age was being repaired as we'll as Cir
cumstances would permit. My brother
and were rendered both tired and hum
cry by this delay, and particularly ],
being weak and delicate little fellow,
gave my dear mother much trouble
with my complaints. In order to dis
tract our thoughts, my mother stood up,
pointed out the many beautiful blue
flowers in the fields and requested us
to gather them and bring them to her.
Then she made wreaths of them, and
with joy we watched her skillful hands.
Thereby the sad state of the country,
her own trials and the anxiety concern
ing her sons future may we'll have once
more pressed heavily on my mothers
heart, for slowly tear after tear welled
from her beautiful eyes and fell on the
wreath of cornfowers. This emotion of
my devoted mother went deeply to my
heart, and, forgetting my own childish
sorrow, I attempted to console her with
caresses, during which she placed the
blue wreath, glittering with tears, on
my head. I was then 10 years old, but
this touching scene has never faded from
my memory, and if now, in my old age,
I behold the sweet blue flower, imag-
inc see the tears of the most devoted
of mothers shining upon it and there
fore love it above all others. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
A Day with Verdi.

On Verdi's recent birthGay-his
eighty third-the veteran composer was
seen at O'Clock in the morning at the
weekly market at Placenzba with sew
eral sheep which he had brought to SELL
He also wished to buy a COW and soma
vegetables, and SO spent the entire day
surrounded by farmers and tradesmen
At o'clock in the evening he invited
the whole assemblage into the inn and
gave them fine supper.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
ON AN ACTRESS.

Aye, she played rarely, though it had been
played
hundred times, and some Of more renown
Have played it worse, but she bewitched the
town.
lowered with ethereal loneliness, she swayed
All hearts to love, while music lent soft aid.
She moved, she spoke, and, when she would,
drew down
Laughter unquenchable, the players crown,
Symbol .inat all her frolic rule obeyed.
Aye, she played rarely, but myself who knew
What grief had gripped her in its chill embrace,
Could hear dumb weeping in her words, and
through
Her every pose the anguished soul could trace
And pierce the frippery Of art unto
The pallor shining in her perfect face.
London World
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
Fully Cared For.

''Do you have mice in your house,
Parker?'' asked Wicks.
!. eyes; lots of 'em," said Parker.
"What on earth do you do for theml
I'm bothered to death by them at my
house. T"
"What do do for emf" said Parker.
"Why, do everything for 'em-pro'
vide 'em with home, plenty to eat
and SO forth. What more can they eH
2ect?"-Harper's Bazaar.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
Lucky.

sThe GOLDFISH said the professor.
"lays considerably more than 1000, 600
eggs''
cit is exceedingly lucky for the cod
fish that she doesn t have to cackle over
every egg, said the student who came
frcm the country. Pick Me Up.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
His Usene,, %yas

Shs--It's fgDay, but al the time I
have known Mr., Tigg,he maven has paid
me- az lin, emit. ss,scs
He-Tigg never pays anybody. -Res-
ton Transcript.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
The Offender.

"You ought to have been irmer in
your discipline when. the boy was little.
Spare the rod, and you spoil the child
II knew it, and if had it to do over
again I'd club his indulgent old grand
father black and blue. Chicago Trih-
une.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-15
Handel,s Memory.

Handel had one of the most phenom-
email musical memories ever known. He
knew by heart over 90 operas from be-
ginning to end.
The record-union., 1897-08-29
BREAD for the Supernatural.

We wish the Psychical Society would
one day attempt an analysis of what,
for want of a better word, we must
call the dread of the supernatural. Both
those who believe and those who dis
believe in the notion that
the veil between this world and the
other is capable of being lifted, agree
in one thing They all recognize the
fact that most people fear, or some
thing akin to fear, at what they be-
lieve to be the occurrence of super
natural phenomena. There is here,
therefore, a piece of ground which may
be explored without any begging of
the question as to whether the fear is
caused by real ghosts or by trickery,
by rats, and water-pipes, or by genu-
inc glimpses of the people of another
world. One would like to know whether
the fear felt is akin to that experienced
when a man is frightened by run
away horse, or fire, or any other i'm
mfnent risk of life, or whether it is
something different in kind. o
Speaking broadly, and without any
minute consideration of the facts one
would say that ghost-fright did differ
in kind from the fright which comes
from active danger. Most people have,
we imagine, at some time or other i'll
their lives, experienced that eerie, un-
canny, creeping feeling which is asso-
ciated with the possibility of contact
with the supernatural. Yet few would
declare that it was in any sense con-
nected with the dread of loss of life
or limb. The man or woman who wakes
up in the middle of the night and
hears strange noises-t1umps, raps,
clangs and creakings-or sees lights or
feels the touch of unseen hands, is prob
ably very frightened, but the sense of
bodily fear is not present. There is no
dread of being killed. People in the
agony of terror caused by dangerous
accidents constantly call out that they
are going to be killed, but we doubt if
that is ever the case in the fright
caused by haunted houses. Possibly
this difference may be said to be due
to the fact that the dread Of the super
natural is not nearly so acute as that
caused by the imminent risk of death.
People, it may be argued, only imagine
themselves to be frightened of ghosts.
as women pretend to be frightened Of
mice. In neither case is the fright quite
genuine. 1t is only want of self-con-
troll and could be mastered in an in
slant if the will-power We're in proper
order.
Unfortunately for those who argue
thus, there is plenty of evidence to
show that occasionally the dread of the
supernatural produces very serious re-
suits. On the whole we should say
that more people had been frightened
out of their wits by what they be-
lieved to be supernatural phenomena
than by accidents involving great risk
of life. 1t is not often that one hears
of insanity caused even by the pro-
longed agony of shipwreck. The fear
caused by what is supposed to be a
supernatural agency seems, then, to
have in it some element not found in
ordinary fear. If and when the haunt
ing phenomena cause fear they seem to
give shock of special keenness.-Lon-
don Spectator.
The record-union., 1897-08-29
,atural. But could she bear itq

| natural. But could she bear it?
The knocker fell again, louder and
| imperatively.
Oh, if she could escape; she, poor old
woman, with a girls aching hearti
Could she not run upstairs-there was
barely time-and say she was ill? Then
he would leave his card and go, and
feel that he had done duty amply TO
his old love. Was she too weak to
fly?
The door was opened, then and there
was no fleeing across the passage. He
came in and she put out her hand. She
had to do that. of course There was a
bright color in her cheek, not of hope,
but of agitation. The soft white hair
beyond looking quaint, not unbecoming.
But the Irish eyes were as dark as
ever.
Colonel Williamson held that hand
tightly in both his own. He was
changed, too. But in her eyes so little!
Gray, thin perhaps, but himself al
ways While She. Now for the bit
ter pain of obsolete recollections
"FTances!"
.'Do you know I saw some one took
10 be you when I first came homer
said the Colonel, by-and-by. But IL
was you just as I left you, half a NE
ago. and l dared not show myselr, d
broken-down old soldier. I was AFRAID.
So I said would go abroad, and TOOK
my passage somewhere. said L woulo
walk past your old home once more
Just for good-by. And then I saw YOU
Frances, you yourself, and L thought 1t
was a ghost"
"And then?'' said Frances, eagerly.
Then" said the Colonel Il thanked
God that you and I had grown QUO
together. and that I dared come 10
you
But" began Frances, with qulver
in her voice. while their hands tighten
ed on each other would you never
have come to me if you had still thought
if you had not seen me yesterday
''I should not have dared, answered
Colonel Williamson.
Then Frances stood up and looked III
the glass at the cloud white hair fram-
ing her bright face. Her eyes We're
dancing.
She smoothed it quite tenderly ana
she told it's story, clasping her old low
er's hand 1t had brought her luck
TemDle Bar
The record-union., 1897-08-29
jackknives, to make the bend again
just as the next wave comes in sight.

jackknives, to make the bend again
just as the next wave comes in sight.
Some housewifely advice in print not
long ago advocated leaving the attic
windows open to prevent musty smell.
and also the baneful moths descent.
The fact, proved by years of expert
ment in both methods is that the open
window attracts moths. A garret
which is freely aired will be found TO
harbor them to a certainty. The musty
smell is scarcely to be feared, as the
room is so hot and dry that there could
not be great danger of that particular
evil. One naturally likes air every
where in the house, but, IN the moth
time it is best to do without it in this
particular spot. True it makes the
attic unbearably hot, but one does not
use the room as an abiding place.
In the present fierce fight against the
elm tree beetle, it may be interesting TO
note the scheme of a young girl in one
of our suburban towns against their ad-
vancing hordes. She simply fastened
a row of fy-papers completely around
each of the elm-tree upon her fathers
country places lawn. In a short time
the insect, in its downward course along
the trunk, was securely imprisoned,
and the papers We're covered, only to
be replaced by fresh ones. Every
passer-by stopped to examine and ex-
claim over the ingenuity which thought
of this really simple trap. 1t is strange
that, after years of study on all hands,
so effective a destructive method should
have been left to the quick wit of a girl
In her early teens.
1t is a recommendation from a diete-
tic authority that whole-wh grains
are an excellent pick-me-up between
meals when the craving for a bit of
food is strong. The wheat kernels
should be we'll chewed, and are better,
according to the dictum quoted, than
the usual cracker taken at such times.
The record-union., 1897-08-29
Protection Against Lightning.

People living in cities are prone to
believe that the increasing number of
telephone, telegraph and trolley wires
increase the danger from electric
storms" writes Edward w. Box in
the September Ladies' Home Jour-
nal" "On the contrary, the maze of
wires is protection, and lessons the
danger, since it is shown that where
the wires attract the electricity they
hold it, and discharge it only at the
end of the wires in the central station.
The fact is that of the two hundred
lightning accidents every year only
an'average of forty occuer in the cities.
The trees in the country are a far
greater danger; they account for the
proportion of four cases in the coun-
try to one in the city,