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The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-12-16
LORRAINE.

"Are You ready for your steeple chase, Lof'
raine, Lorraine, LorreeP
Barun, Barum. Barum. Barum Barum, Bar
um, Baree!
You're booked 10 ride your capping race today
at Ooulterlee, IS
You're booked to ride Vindictive, for all the
To keep him straight and keep him first and
win the run for me-
She clasped her newborn baby, poor Lorraine,
Lorraine, Lorree.
Il cannot ride Vindictive, as any man might
And will not ride vindictive with this baby
on my knee.
He's killed boy, he's killed a man, and why
must he kill me?"
unless you ride Vindictive, Lorraine, Lor-
raine, Lorree,
Unless you ride Vindictive today at Coulterlee
And land him safe across the brook and win
the blank for me
It's you may keep your baby, Tor you IL get no
keep from me-"
"That husbands could be cruel" said Lorraine,
Lorraine, Lorree
''That husbands could be cruel have known
for seasons three.
But, oh, to ride Vindictive while baby cries
for me
And be killed across fence at last, for all the
world to see!''
She mastered young Vindictive-oh, the gal
liant lass was She
And kept him straight and won the race as
near as near could be,
But he killed her at the brook against pol
lard willow tree
Oh, he killed her at the brook, the brute, for
all the world to see,
And no one but the baby cried for poor Lor-
raine, Lorree
Charles Kingsley.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-12-16
The Reward of Providence.

''Heaven helps those who help them.
selves. The American people helped
themselves last November, when they
voted for protection to American indus
tries and by SO doing voted to keep
American gold at home and to keep the
home market for American products.
Now heaven is doing its part It has
bestowed upon us the Alaskan gold
fields to provide more American gold to
be kept at home; it has added to the
Increased demand for American prod
uets in the home market a greatly in
creased demand in foreign markets for
American wheat and corn. Plainly
Providence is rewarding the American
people FOR their return to the ways OF
good sense and Of sound economics
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-12-16
Total trade
United King

One has only to observe that Belgian exter
nal trade Is 31a times larger than that Of
America to see that it is no test at all of the
productive ability Of the two nations. Ac-
cording to this exploded theory of exports
measuring nations Industrial wealth. Aus
tralasla Is twice as progressive as Germany
and five times as much so as Spain and Italy
while Belgium Is three times progressive as
America The thing is a manifest absurdity.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1897-01-01
Gerd1

go, Der Serr SOpulinefi bat Geine
brittle Che mieber permittelt. gSie
biit Ou benin ;ufrieben?~-rSdIedt
tos If ober aud uteine leste Srait,
Die i6 bon INN be3iebe-
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1897-01-01
nh,lrd1trs Arnnrt.n.re.

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rneeufte III benz Reftsanwalt Wtiber?-
-2neiter 9auner: -Wftt Dem
Is niI6t-ber bat mid idon mol 81
bret Sabrsa 5patbons eertheioistl-
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1897-01-01

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ltser abenb cine G~inloounS ;i Berg
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dnoeren 8%erndnoten.-
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r6dtte i'd bieie 0erbdltnifie oorber
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
Miscellaneous.

Greece has a population of 9, 1877, 2Os.
Pneumatic tube mail service will soon
be tried in Boston.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at Rome, Italy, to assassinate King
Humbert by an iron worker, who was
out of work.
The Southern Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions have closed their fis-
cal wear free of debt, and with more
than $500 in the treasury. A good
showing.
Ex-President Cleveland delivered an
address before the Reform Club in New
York Saturday on present Problems.
He defined the cause that lead to the
depression around us as the false teach
ings of agitators and demagogues, and
says Democratic conscience cannot be
forced to follow false lights. :
The trial of the only remaining issue
in the Fair will case has begun at San
Francisco. Instead Of contest for the
whole estates, and struggle over $780,
900, 600, it is fight for $1,000, 600 the
case udNiuS udIIOWeu uOWH W lcSul
battle over two pieces of real estate
which Miss Nellie Craven says Senator
Fair conveyed to her by pencil deed
few davs prior to his death.
One hundred women of the Warren
Avenue Congregational Church, of
Chicago, have just earned 81 each for
the church. At meeting the other
evening each one told what she did.
One shaved her husband; another got
five cents whenever she got up before
her husband; another offered to wash
for her son, and got 81 for letting the
shirts alone; another assessed her hus-
band 81 for a shine. Still another got
the money by not singing song. One
woman starved her husband till he paid
up.
Several thousand razor-back hogs i'm
ported into Iowa from Texas during
the past year have died from kidney
worm.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
THE TALENTS MUST GAIN UsURY.

When Nelson signaled from HE flagship
to every person in his fleet England ex-
poets every man to do his duty" it did not
mean the same to all. 70, the captains it
meant that they should do their best as COM
manders; to the marines that they should
do their best at the guns; to the sailors that
they should do their best in sailing the
ships; to the cabin boys that they should do
their best as messengers. Every one sue
ceeded who did the best he could. Success
is not question of talents. but Of doubling
them. 1t is not question of present posi-
tion at all. but Of making the most OF ones
self. Over both departments of your BUST
ness, the earthly andthe heavenly, in each
Of which you are called upon 10 glorify God
and do-good to men. write high above the
entrance door this significant motto: God
expects every man to do his best.-Rev. g.
y. Z. Hallock.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29

Science often works along some very
minute lines, and when laid down
their utility may at first be matters
of great doubt, but eventually most
OF them develop into affairs of the
greatest Importance. One of these
apparently useless discoveries has just
been announced. 1t is the result of
the patient Investigations of a profess
sor at. Harvard who declares that his
researches with the aid of newly de-
yised machine enable him, to fix the
force expended in the production of
an X-ray photograph at 1000. 900
horsepower exerted during the ten
millionth part Of second. This &C.
counts. he says, for the ability of this
mysterious element to penetrate solid
substances. The figures have a theo-
retical appearance that would tend to
cast doubt upon their serious accuracy,
but the high character Of the investi-
gator and the sofemnity with which
the declaration is made by him and
received by the scientific world are
sufficient to convince the lay mind
that something truly great has been
discovered.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
All About the North.

The lockout against the steam-fitters
in New York has been called of.
The New York Legislature has
finished its session and adjourned.
President Spalding, of the Chicago
Globe Savings Bank, has been sent to
Jail, the Judge being dissatisfied with
the bond given by him.
Saturday gold bullion to the amount
of S977, 900 was drawn from the New
York sub-treasury for export, the first
since last July.
The Connecticut Senate has passed
. bill prohibiting free lunches In
saloons.
A curfew ordinance requiring chill
dren to be indoors by 8 o'clock is In
effect at Springfield, Ohio.
The 'sking of negro minstrels," Billy
Birch, died in New York at the age Of
65 years of paralysis of the brain and
chronic Bright's disease.
R. C. Bundy (colored), of Cincinnati,
o., has been appointed cadet at the
Naval Academy by Representative Shat
tue.
Joseph E. Kelly has confessed to the
murder of Cashier Stickney, Somers-
worth, N. H., admitting that he COM
mitted both the murder and the rob-
berry.
The business portion of the town of
Boca, O., has been burned. The total
loss will reach $50, The cause OF
the fire was attributed to tramps.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29

q The Argentine Republic will here
after be very unhealthy place Of re-
sidence for persons who do not be-
lieve in marriage. There is new law
in that country which contains these
provisions: '.Every male resident be-
tween the ages of 20 and 80 shall pay
q tax till he marries, and shall pay it
every month. Young celibates of
either sex who shall, without legiti-
mate motive, reject the addresses Of
him or her who may aspire to his or
her hand and who continue unmar-
ried shall pay the sum of 500 piasters
for the benefit of the young person,
man or woman, who has been so re-
fused"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
PRAYER FOB WISDOM THROUGH SORROW.

We beseech thee, Almighty God healer
and comforter Of mans sorrows, that not
only those things which we have suffered In
the body and the outward losses and pains
OF life may bless US but also may the evil
that we have done become to US the solemn
gate through which, in penitence and sor-
row having gone forth, In joy and rejoicing
we may return. We beseech thee to make
us wise that no dead past may have power
to detain US long give US not saekcloth and
ashes but help Us to gain light from which
we never should have fallen and in newness
of heart and freshness OF courage to do the
things that We have hitherto left undone.
Hear US of thy mercy. Make thy face clear
to US. Lead us in patience. correction and
loving kindness through life and death into
eternal peace, through Jesus Christ, our
Lord. Amen
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
THE LITTLE THINGS COUNT.

Oftentimes tie little things you do don't
seem Of much account. But they are. One
spring morning little boy planted single
seed in bank Of earth.I 1t grew, budded
and blossomed into sweet blue violets un-
seen by the child planter. 1t also seeded,
and the seed fell out upon the bank OF earth,
and the next spring more violets grew, and
so for years, increasing every season. The
boy, grown man in o foreign land, desired
to visit his childhood's home. When he saw
the bank of violets he remembered how,
years before. he had planted there single
seed. "Can it be-" he said, that all these
have sprung from the single seed planted?
will never waste single seed. English
Exchange.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29

There isn't hair on President Nc
Kinley's face, and, according to the
New York Press, he is in the style.
he carries MS back to the anti-bellum
fashion of the White House. With
the exception of Martin Van Buren,
there was never q president before
Lincoln who wore beard. Van Bu-
rem had small patches of hair on his
cheeks General Taylor's hair de-
scended low before his ears, but could
not be called o beard. Lincoln was
the first president to wear a beard,
and Grant the first to wear a mustache.
All the presidents since Johnson have
had boards or mustaches, or both.
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison
were bearded like the pard. Arthur
bad fine set of side whiskers. Cleve-
land wears a heavy mustache.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
NEWS ITE MS.
Southern Pencil Pointers.

The buildings at the Tennessee Ex-
position are ready for the exhibits.
Moses n. Harshaw's nomination has
been sent to the United States Senate
as postmaster at Lenoir, n. G.
One hundred bales of tobacco, worth
81. so pound, has been shipped to New
York by Cuban tobacco growers from
Fort Meade, Fla.
Near Pikeville, Ky, while Tom Oar
ben, o logging man, was absent IN
Virginia chopping wood, his mountain
home burned and his wife and four
children were roasted alive.
Saturday at Frankfort, KY, in the
election of United States Senator, the
Democrats broke quorum, leaving the
Republican candidate, Deboe, four
votes short of election. Governor
Bradley begged to vote for Deboe.
Milton G. Cope, the defaulting ex-
president of the First National Bank OF
Paducah, Ky, has been indicted for
forgery.
Greenville, S. c., has secured the
Southern Railway terminal that has
formerly been at Central.
Damage is reported from the frost of
the Goth from Maryland, Virginia and
North Carolina.
At Norfolk, Va, plant has been es-
tablished with a capacity for five tons
of peanuts daily, for the manufacture
of peanut oil, peanut -four and stock
feed, the estimated combined yield
representing more than S400 day.
w. W. Kidd, of Marshall county,
Ala. has decamped. His shortage is
$40, 900.
VIM. J. Bryan made an address be-
fore crowd of ebout 1000 people in
the Kentucky legislature, representing
every faction in that State.
At Barboursville, W. Va, Mrs.
Amos D. Reynolds was killed by her
daughter-i law during a family row.
Her head was severed from her body
with an axe.
James J. Willis, of Florida, the dep
uty auditor of the State Department
has been removed. 1t is stated that
during the past year Mr.. Willis has
been absent from his desk 234 days
with pay.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
USES FOR cHEEsECLoTH..

The following is list of some OF the
household purposes for which cheese
cloth may be used.
For polishing windows and mirrors
For washing windows
For cleaning silver.
For cleaning brass ware.
For drying and polishing glassware
Of all kinds.
For dust.cloths.
For shining bronzes.
For stainers in cooking.
For dish.towels. For scrub-cIoths.
For bread-cloths.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29

The queerest educational contract
in the history of West Kentucky has
been closed at Lewisburg. McCraoken
County, near the Graves County line.
Citizens living in both Graves and
McCracken counties for q radius of q
mile of two have subscribed $1100
for the purpose OF building a school.
Each patron proposes to get the valu e
of his stock in tuition for his children
during the next three years. After
that time the schoolhouse will be the
personal property of Professor Rork
of Paducah, who has been engaged to
teach during the three years
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29

boy. Though she had many admirers,
she stoutly insisted that she would
never marry man who could not
shoot, ride and throw o lariat better
than she.
Dupree is a splendid horseman,
courageous and member of very
wealthy half-breed family. In addi-
tion he is well educated. Riding to-
gether one day, Myrtle and Frank
came in sight of herd of sixty or sew
enty buffalo. In spirit of bravado
Frank urge his bronco alongside huge
buffalo bull and sprang from his sad
die upon the animals back. Instantly
the herd was stampeding madly across
the prsirie, with the old bull in the
lead. Dupree's foolhardness had
placed him in an extremely dangerous
predicament.
If he jumped or fell from the buf-
falo's back he would certainly be
trampled to death by the pursuing
herd, and if he retained his seat till
the bull became tired and ugly 1t was
equally certain that the beast would
make a furious assault upon him when
he dismounted. All he could 90 was
to cling to the bulls back and await
chance to escape alive, which did not
come till he had ridden two miles in
this uncomfortable msnner.
Fortune favored him, for his novel
steed ran for some distance along q
steep, narrow washout with almost
perpendicular banks twenty feet high.
Here Dupree jumped and slid down
the bank Just in time to escape the
hoofs of the herd behind. Meantime
the girl had lassoed her companions
horse, and, hurrying after the rapidly
disappearing buffalo, reached the spot
just as Dupree had saved himself.
The episode somehow touched
tender spot in MYrtle's heart, and as
sequel the bells Of Cherry Creek Mis-.
sion Church announced the union of
this typical frontier couple. San
Francisco Examiner.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
Combat With q Tiger.

Russian hunters are said to look
upon a combat single.handed with
bear as an ordinary experience. 1t is
doubtful, however. if many instances
of man attacking tiger, armed with
a sword only, can be found. Colonel
Seaton, the elephant hunter, however,
tells this story of bravery:
"One morning, Just as We were leav-
ing the parade ground, a man came
rushing up breathless. Get your guns,
men, he exclaimed; there is a tiger
in the hollow by the hut, and no one
dares go byT In all haste we got our
guns and two elephants and hurried to
the spot, where in truth terrible
scene presented itself. The tiger,
bleeding from a cut in the head, was
on the edge of the hollow, growing
fiercely, with a man mangled and ap-
parently dead lying beneath his paws.
The unfortunate man was.a fine swords
man and first-rate wrestler-one OF the
champions OF his regiment. Some
people who went to draw. water at the
we'll had disturbed the tiger, and on
his rising they fed in terror. The
brave but rash soldier, who happened
to be near at the moment, on learning
the cause of the commotion, imme-
diately advanced TO attack the tiger.
and with his sword gave him tremen-
dous cut over the head, which, how
ever, did not materially injure the
powerful brute. The dger rushed at
the man, stripped the arm down to
the elbow, and dashlng him to the
ground, held BIN beneath his paws.
When we came up We were at first at
loss how to act, for the man was as
much exposed to our fire as the tiger.
However it was not time for length
ened consideration-we fired, and a
lucky SHOT finished the animal"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
rRAYER THE BREATH OF THE SPIRIT.

Prayer is the breath of the spirit that is
in harmony with God. Learn the condi-
tions Of effectual prayer, and conform to
them. just as you obey laws of gravitation,
of electricity, Of physical life. Daily see
that the life aim is right and high that the
ruling desire Of your heart is toward truth
and love; that the Willis set with immov-
able fxedness- on righteousness that the
words and deeds Of daily life are in the di-
rection OF and in harmony with aim. desire,
and purpose, and that you trust in the God
revealed in Jesus Christ and abiding within
you. Rest in Him. Talk to Him. Wait in
silence before Him. Let your whole life Of
business, of hard labor, Of social intercourse,
OF recreation, OF intellectual, artistic. scien-
tifc, professional service be In harmony
with this doctrine Of prayer-this life Of
prayer.-Bishop Vincent.
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THE ONE THING WORTH CARING FOR.

To await the growing Of O soul is an
almost divine act of faith. How pardonable.
surely, the impatience OF deformity with
itself, Of consciously despicable character,
stanuing before Christ, wondering. yearn-
ing. hungering to be like that. Yet must
one trust the process fearlessly and without
misglving. "The Lord the Spirit" will do
his part. {. The creation OF a new heart.
the renewing OF right spirit, is an omnipo-
tent work OF God. No man, nevertheless,
who feels the worth and solemnity OF what
is at stake will be careless as to his progress.
To become like Christ is the only thing in
the world worth caring for. Those only
who make this quest the supreme desire Of
their lives can even begin to hope to reach
it.-Henry Drummond.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-29
A Thrilling Ride.

"What was the most exciting ex-
perience I ever had" repeated Clar-
ence Hight, as he jerked his chair q
little nearer the comfortable CRATE at
the Olympic Gun Club. 81 think it
occurred last summer, when was
hunting doves up in Sonoma County.
Now, shooting doves is not particular
ly exciting or nervous, but this was
one of the hottest experiences l ever
had.
az had been travelling all day with
a big bag, and was pretty we'll tired
out when l struck the county road and
started tor home. 1t was a good four
miles walk, and I was pretty we'll
pleased to see big wagon load Of hay
approaching. The rancher gave me
permission to ride, SO scrambled up
on tbs top, lay down on the sweet
new.mown hay and went swaying and
swinging down the road. I was just
DOING off when bang! went my shot
gun. / had forgotten to take the
cartridges out OF it, and something had
pressed the trigger. The horses gave
q jump and the driver rolled off into
the ditch. Then ! discovered that my
gun had set Are to the hay, and I
thought it was about time for me to
escape. The horses were tearing along
the road as hard as they could run,
but I clambered for the side OF the load
and slid for the road. The tail Of my
stout hunting coat caught on the top
of sharp standard, and there I hung
to the careening wagon that threatened
to upset and dump load of burning
hay on me at essry turn of the road.
''The FIRE WI $ackling and burning
fiercely and 4 ~ I could feel the
flames. Stiff lie horses ran and still
my coat held sls fast to that seething
mass of flames. My trousers began
getting hot and then L found my coat
was on fire. The next moment the
loose cartridges in my coat began ex-
ploding from the heat, and then I
smelled my doees broiling.
81 had just made up my mind that
all was over when the tail Of my coat
burned of, and I was thrown into q
ditch full of water beside the road. I
did not stop to' see what become OF the
hay and the horses, nor Of the rancher,
but cut straight across that field for
home. That, gentlemen, was the nost
thrilling experience of my life. San
Francisco Post.