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The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
THEY COINED WORDS.
A Young Lady's Interesting Dream Of In
yention and Wealth.

A Young Lady's Interesting Dream of In
vention and Wealth.
'Good morning" she said. "You
look quite griggish. F"
"Griggisba' he interrogated. "What
kind of 81 leek is that? Lis it's it
anything alarming?"
"Oh, no, silly! Don't you know what
griggish means? manufactured it ages
ago out of grig. grasshopper-some-
thing blithe and sprightly, you know.
That reminds me, had the most inter-
esting dream the other night. | dreamed
we kept a word store.
"a word store?"
"Yes, we coined words and sold
them to the inventors of foods and of
typewriters, and'-
How were they sold, by the yard or
by the dozen?' he interrupted.
Neither way. We sold each word ac-
cording to the amount of brains expend-
ed in inventing is, except the words
pertaining to bicycles came high,
because they were so fashionable. Oh,
it was quite large store, all divided
up into departments. There was the
bicycle department, the cigar depart
ment, the electrical department., the
patent medicine department-in fact,
all lines were represented in which in
ventions might be made needing names.
You see, we sold name for so much,
and then if the invention proved sue
cessful we shared in the profits.
"Well," said the man, 81 hope you
showed more taste in the matter than
the person who invented such words as
'cupograph, 'mimeograph, 'comptome-
ter and 'operaphone'-they give one
literary indigestion.
"Oh, yes," she replied, "our coinage
was of much higher order. Of course
we had words ending in graph and
phone and cycle. but they were exceed
ingly cheap, and inventors were rather
ashamed to be seen buying them. Words
like 'pegamoid' came high. wish I
could remember all the lovely names
we coined" she went OH. "The only
one can think of is 'hamwich, a sub
stitute for ham sandwich. Don't you
think that's choice? l dreamed that we
sold it to a restaurant man and he made
a mint of money out of it. "--Chicago
Tribune
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BAILEY TO GO BACK.

Illinois HonOrs South Dakota's Requisi-
tion For an Alleged Embezzler.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Aug. 11.-Gov-
tion of the governor of South Dakota
for the return of Henry E. Bailey,
wanted in Pennington county, S. D.,
charged with embezzlement as assignee
of the funds of Rabbid Valley Horse
Ranch company The money of the
company, amounting to $4,000, was
deposited in the banking house Of
Bailey & Company. By order Of court
it was all paid out ON debts except a
certain sum which remained when the
bank failed in 1898. Bailey is now car
rying on an insurance business in
Chicago.
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STRUCK ON THE ROCKS
Steamer Mexico of the Alaska
Fleet Goes to the Bottom
Of the Pacific.
Passengers and Crew Take to
the Small Boats and Are
Landed Safely.
Left Seattle July 27 With Sew
eral Hundred Gold Hun
terS on Board.

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 1.-THE
steamer Topeka, which arrived here
during the evening, reports that the
steamer Mexico on Aug. 5, while going
into Dixon Entrance from Sitka during
a heavy fog, struck West DEVILS rock.
After two hours the steamer sank in
500 feet of water, stern first. The cap
tain exhibited great GOODNESS and with
the officers did everything possible.
The passengers and crew were saved
with their baggage in small boats. The
ship is a total loss.
The Mexico left Seattle on July 81 for
Dyea with 263 passengers bound for the
Klondike gold fields. She was on her
return trip when the accident Oc-
Cured.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
WARFARE OF CLASSES.
Modern Football Mere Play to Yale's OLD
Freshman-SophOmore Struggle.

Modern Football Mere Play to Yale's Old
neutrality-suspicious. Struggle.
The organization and development of
intercollegiate athletics now absorb
much Of the energy that used to be
given to the furious internecine warfare
of classes. From time immemorial there
were mighty games of football on the
New Haven green, in which whole
classes engaged. The freshmen posted
their formal challenge Oh the bulletin
of lyceum, and the supercilious accept
ance of the sophomores named the day
for the struggle. "Come," cried the
class of 80,
And like sacrifices in their trim
To the fire eyed maid of smoky war,
All hot and bleeding will we offer you.
And the Tyrt8us of '58 cheered his
mates with the noble lines:
Let them come on, the baseborn crewl
Each soil stained churl-alack!
What gain they but splitter skull,
A sod for their base back!
On the bloody day appointed both
sides massed in heavy column with Ma
poleonic tactcis, while the New Haven
fathers surrounded the field. When the
round leather ball was kicked, 200 men
clashed together in frantic, showing,
dusty, roaring chaos, the one side striv-
ing to kick the ball to the Chapel street
fence, the other to force it to the steps
of the statehouse. Swift runners hung
upon the outskirts to seize the ball
chance directed to their feet, and hurry
it amid full gazing applause to the goal.
But it was in the middle press where
deeds were uncrowned, where shirts be-
came streamers and rib squeezed rib
until they cracked, that the heroes of
war and the college bully were to be
found. From this Titanic struggle the
degenerates of today have evolved the
emasculated game which they call foot
ball, wretched sort of parlor pastime!
Judge Henry E. Rowland in Scrib-
ppr,S
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LOSS OF THE FRITZ.

Believed Eleven Persons Perished in the
Explosion Near Cairo.
CAIRO, Ills, Aug. 11.-Late particu-
lars of the accident to the tow boat
Fritz are at hand At the time of the
explosion quite number of lumber
handlers were on board and II Of them
are missing and are supposed to have
been scalded or drowned, the theory
being that they jumped overheard to
avoid scalding or were scalded and
sought the river in their frenzy caused
by pain
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Cannot Accept DR.. Cooks Offer,

LONDON, Aug. II. "A special from
Brussels says Lieutenant Gerlach, leader
of the Belgian antarctic expedition
which is to sail for southern waters on
the steamer Belgica, is much disap-
pointed on account of room on board the
ship. and he has been obliged to decline
the valuable offer of DIR. Robert Cook,
Lieutenant Peary's companion, to join
in the Belgian expedition.
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British After a Hawaiian Cable.

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 11.-H. M. S.
Algeria. one of the survey ships Of her
majesty's navy, will soon arrive here to
take part in the cable survey. Advices
from Honolulu are to the effect that III.
M. S. Penguin has completed survey
for the cable from Australia to Homo
lulu, and the Algeria will make the sur
gey from here to Honolulu.
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Kaiser Horors Russians.

LONDON, Aug. 11.-A dispatch to The
Times from Berlin says that Emperor
William has appointed Grand Duke
Cyril, son of Grand Duke Vladimir of
Russia, member of his naval suite,
and Grand Duke Constantine Constano-
witch to be colonel-in-chief of the Guards
of the Grenadier Regiment.
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Rnssian rown Destroxed.

BERLIN, Aug. 11.-A special dispatch
has been received here which says that
q great fire has destroyed the greater
part or the Russian town Of Matislavi
ON the river Sozh. Two hundred houses
have been burned.
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Accident suspends Nayigation.

Fort DALHoUsIE, Ont, Aug. IL
The steamer Britannia. bound up, ran
into Lock Of the Welland canal and
carried away foar gates. Navigation is
stopped and it is impossible to say ut
nuesent when it can be continued.
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ON THE DIAMOND.
Western League.


At Columbus, g.; Milwaukee, 5.
At Detroit, O.; ST. Paul, 3.
At indianapolis, II; Minneapolis, 1.
At Grand Rapids, @; Kansas City, z.
Second Game, Grand Rapids, 10; Kansas
City, IL.
Position of Clubs-Indianapolis 703,
Columbus $685. ST. Paul .612, Milwaukee
sos, Detroit .49O, Grand Rapids .319, Min
neapolis .316, Kansas City .3O9.
National League.
At Cincinnati, s; ST. Louis, g.
At Cleveland, 9; Pittsburg, 5.
At Washington, z; Philadelphia, 6.
At Louisville 6; Chicago, 16.
At Brooklyn, 3; Baltimore, 9, Second
game, Brooklyn, g.; Baltimore, SCALED
on account of darkness.
At Boston, l.; New York, 0.
Position of Clubs-Boston ,6S5, Cincin-
natl $685. Baltimore .647, New York .612,
Cleveland .517, Chicago .4S4, Philadelphia
1862, Pittsburg 1856, Brooklyn .437,
Louisville .436, Washington 1916, ST. Louis
26f
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Minneapolis Grain.

MINNEAPOLIS, Ang. 10.
WHEAT-August closed at $500;
September, 771sc; December 767sc. On
Track-No. hard, S77sc; No. 1 Northern,
S67sc; No 2 Northern, S1H d84Ac.
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Duluth Grain.

DULUTH, Aug. 10.
WHEAT-Cash, No. hard, S5c; No.
1 Northern, $3.50; No. 2 Northern, SO1zc;
No. 3 spring, 74c; rejected, 60A@
6sAc; to arrive, No. hard S51ac; No.
/ Northern, S511c; September Mol North
ern, SOC; December. 1870.
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LATE MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee Grain.

MILWAUKEE, Aug 10.
WHEAT-No. Northern, S6@S61Sc;
No spring, SIC; December, 1870.
CORN-No. 3, 25c.
OATS-No. 2 white, 21@211ac.
BARLEY-No. 2, 37@3Sc.
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No Inventor.

''They do say that every American is
born inventor" said the patriotic
gentleman.
My husband, said the fat lady, lis
an exception. He uses the same old ex-
cuses for being out late that ! used to
hear my father use. Indianapolis
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
Ornament Wins Another Derby.

DETROIT, Aug 1l.-Ornament won
the International derby, distance,
mile and half. Meadowthorpe was
second and Moncreith third
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12

We are always bored by those whom
- bore. LA Rochefoucauld.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12

Sir James Grant predicts that the
gold output of Canada, especially Of
British Columbia, will astonish the
world at no distant date.
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St. Paul Union Stock Yards.


SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug. 10. +.
HOGS-Market steady and SC higher.
Quality fair to good. Range of prices,
S3.S5@3.70.
CATTLE Market strong on good cat
tie, others steady
Sales ranged at $3 55@3.s5 for stookers;
S2.7O@4.OO for heifers; $3.50 for cows;
"a. .OO@4.5O for calves.
SHEEP Market strong and active for
good, others steady. N
Muttons, 50. .25@s.35; lambs, $A8o@4.40.
Chicago Grain and PrOvisions.
CLOSING PRICES.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.
WHEAT-August, r7714c; September,
76M@77c; December, 1870; old. 771sc;.
May, size.
CORN - August 261sc; September,
26Ic; December. 27zSc, May, S0sSc.
! OATS - August, 100; September.
16sSc; October. I7c; December, 1890;
May, 19x@SOc
PORK August sz7o; September.
$7.7O; December, s7.S2
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-02-20
Shee., in the Orchard.

| have five acres that are partially COW
cred with apple trees, some of which
are quite old. For several years 10
crops have been raised on the land.
For a few weeks in the year it is used
for pasturing cows, and during por-
ton of the summer and fall sheep are
given the run of the field. They lie
under the shade of the trees a greater
part of the day, where a good share Of
their droppings is left, which seem to he
a great benefit to the trees, and all
wormy and defective apples are quickly
eaten as soon as they fall. now raise
more and much better fruit, and believe
it will pay any farmer who has an apple
orchard to keep sheep.-John Jackson,
in Michigan Fruit rover.
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design shown herewith. An opening
is cut in one side at the bottom so that
Il hand lamp can be set in This open
ing should have hinged door. Above
the lamp is stretched piece of sheet
iron, while some distance above this
iron rods run from side TO side across
the box, for the support of smaller boxes
OF earth in which seeds are sown. A
tight wooden cover can be made to
shut down over the whole, to be opened
each morning. A small opening is made
in the top of the lamp chamber and an
other in the bottom, to admit air and let
out any gas frcm the lamp. The sheet
iron should fiji so closely that fumes
from the lamp may not get up to the
plant boxes. a very small fame will
keep everything very warm at night.
Set the box before the sunniest kitchen
window.-0range Judd Farmer.
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Germinating Nuts In Spring.

The success of terminating nuts in
the spring depends upon the condition
of ripeness and the method of keeping
them during the winter. Nuts should
not allowed TO become too dry before
burying in sand. When gathered too
early the kernels shrivel up and have
but little terminating power, hence
they should not be gathered until the
kernel is full and plump. II there is
any danger of mice getting into the
boxes where they are buried during the
winter, wire netting should be nailed
over them-Wsetern Plowman.
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GOOD BUTTER SALT.
Dairymen Should Exercise Great Care in
Its Selection.

Dairymen Should Exercise Great Care in
Its Selection.
Hunter Nicholson says in the Jersey
Bulletin that there is almost as much
difference in the quality of salt as in
the quality of butter. Good butter salt
is lnegrained, bright-colored, clean,
pure and free of foreign odors. IL
must be fine-grained in order to mix
readily and dissolve regularly and
quickly through the butter; bright
colored, showing that it is well crystal
lized; clean, that is, free from foreign
substances; and free from bad smells,
which salt is very ready to absorb. Salt,
like everything else sold, is likely to
be adulterated. Baryta is most COM
Inonly used. A simple and trustworthy
test of salt may be made by dissolvng
small quantity in clear, hot water.
This will bring out any bad flavor and
disclose the presence of any foreign
substance. Pure salt will make clear
brine and deposit no sediment. IL
the brine smells, is cloudy or colored,
or leaves a sediment, do not use tho
salt forsbutter. There are number of
excellent brands of salt, prepared Ak
pressly for the dairy. If you can find
out where they are sold, get a lot; be
careful, however, not to keep it near
any ill-odored substance, as it absorbs
odors very readily, and, once absorbed,
the salt is ruined beyond remedy. Be-
sides the American salts, there are one
or more foreign brands of excellent rep
utntion
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THE FARMING WORLD.
GRATING WILD FRUITS.
a Fine Field for the Exercise of Hortleul
turn Skill.


turlI Skill.
Persons living in sections where wild
fruit trees and vines yet continue to
grow, undisturbed, in native vigor, can
find exercise for their horticultural
skill and love of experiment, in graft
ing these wild stocks with improved
native and foreign varieties. Several
years ago my attention was attracted
to this subject by an article which APP
peared in the report of our State Horti-
cultural society, from a correspondent
in Illinois, who said: "A farmer living
near here, having a woods pasture part
" covered with wild crab and red haw
trees, some Is or 80 years ago, grated
the crab to apple, and the red haw to
pear. He grated those limbs beyond
the reach of animals grazing in the
pasture, and now he has apples and
pears in abundance every fruit year"
During the past year the writer made
Il number of experiments in grating
the wild fruits in this locality; begun
grating the haw to tho pear during
llcdoduG bsyS III iSoi uai - anu soh
tinued after intervals till the 10th of
April. Those CRAFTS set during Febru-
AIRY did much better than those of later
dates. Scions were taken from Bartlett,
Idaho, Duchess and Kietfer trees "A
much larger per cent. of the Kictfer
gratis grew than those Of other yarie-
ties, and the growth was more vigorous.
We also set gratis of the pear into the
white thorn; but failed to get any to
live. In grating the haw. it is best
to select young, vigorous trees. and To-
cate the gratis well in the top OF the
tree, SO they will get the sunlight and
have room to develop. In the early days
of March we grated some wild plum
trees with the japanese varieties bum
dance and Burbank. The growth made
by these scions was very vigorous, and
they are now full of fruit buds.
In grating, use an abundance of
grating wax, and cover with cotton
cloth boiled in oil or wax. Aside from
the euriosities which can be produced
on lawns or in waste places, by trans
forming these wild stocks, by grating
to improved varieties, some persons may
be SO situated as to make 1t u source of
considerable profits. Il. Van Trump.
in journal of Agriculture.
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ponderous hinges and the majestic form

ponderous hinges and the majestic form
of woman filed the empty space.
Madam said |, dropping my hat,
and visibly overcome by her dignity, L
have come to claim your horses in the
name of the government
my horses? She bent upon me
eyes born to command. Sir, you cannot
have them; my crops are out and l
need the horses in the field
az am sorry said |, but such are
the orders Of my chief
"'Your chief-who is your chief q
she demanded, with restrained warmth.
"'The commander in chief of the
American army-Gen. George Wash
ington.' 1t was now my turn to be
grandiose. l squared my shoulders
while q smile of triumph softened the
sternness of her handsome face. Tell
George Washington said she, that his
mother said he could not have her
horses
"Humbled to the dust" laughed the
major, 81 turned away convinced that
had discovered the source of my
chiefs decision and self command"
"Dd you report to Washington?'
asked hero of Brandywine.
EYES," said the major.
"What did he say?"
with one of his rare smiles the Fa-
Their of His Country rcverently bowed
his ead."-Lida Rose McCabe, in Chi
caro Inter Ocean.
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PRIZE BLACK WELSH STEER.

ment was made until within a few re.
cent years. The first herd book was
published in 1874, embracing both the
so-called Castle Martin cattle of South
Wales and the Anglesea of North Wales.
The former are coarse boned, with fat
sides and deficient beef qualities, but
good mixers. The Anglesea cattle, or
"runts," as they are called, have been
so greatly improved that they are now
recognized as a distinct breed with a
separate herd book of which the first
volume was published in 1888. The inn
provement in these cattle is the result
of careful selection and breeding. to
which they have responded rapidly.
The large bone, slow growth and light
quarters have been bred out, and
fine, bloeky animal is the result, like
that shown in the illustration above,
which is lifelike reproduction of
Welsh steer that won the prize breed
cup in the Smithfield club cattle show,
London. His weight was 2,464 pounds.
Fat cows of the same breed have at
tanned weights of $500 to 2,400 pounds.
The cows are deep and long continuing
mixers, producing an average yield Of
from ~ to IA pounds daily at the flush.
The milk is fairly rich in butter fats.
With their extreme hardness, early
maturity, good beef and dairy qualities,
the North Welsh cattle are rapidly
growing in favor among British feeders
and breeders and seem worthy of atten-
ton in this country.-Farm and Home.
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a PRACTICAL STATESMAN.
George Washington as a Model Man of
Business. Order and Lawful hful, Just
Hup,aua.

George Washington as Model Man Of
Business, Order and Law-Tru bfui, Just,
Humane.
Washington was eminently a prac-
teal statesman. His mind was of the
solid, practical order. In the Old South
church in Boston | have seen, in his
own bold and clear handwriting, the
expense accounts which he kept in the
revolution, down to the shllings and
the pence. He was no theorist, the
author of no new idea or system in gov
ernment. He left to jefferson to
enunciate the great ideas of liberty in
the Declaration of Independence and
TO Hamilton to inaugurate our great
system of finance. But when it came
TO practical administration and execu-
tive duty he was a model Of business,
of order and law. Here his great rule
and guide was the conscientious per-
Torrance of public duty. Naturally
conservative in his ideas, the suprem-
acy and authority Of law and govern
ment were ever uppermost in his mind
and purpose. When in his second term
that whisky instruction broke out in
Pennsylvania and the misguided NAL
contents, after fair warning by his
proclamation, continued TO resist the
collection of the tax and TO resort TO
mob law and violence, be promptly
called out 5000 militia from the neigh
boring states and repaired TO the scene
of action, ready TO take command and
crush the incipient rebellion with y
strong hand. But this show of power
and purpose. with Washington behind
IT, was enough. and the lawless ele-
ments retired abashed, as they always
will, when confronted by leader who
dares to shoot and TO kill.
But Washington not only recognized
his obligation 10 the people and to the
law. but he was ever mindful Of the
still higher obligation to the principles
of justice and humanity. To be truth
ful, to be just, TO Ice humane-tbese
were the bright jewels in his crown OF
character. II is a fact most interesting
and impressive now 10 recall. after oil
our great troubles and conflict over the
slavery question, that he left his solemn
testimony against that institution in
words which ought 10 have beer needed
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'It happened this way" he began.
II was sent to Washington on forag-
ing expedition. 1t was before the battle
of Yorktown" The majors eagle eye
scanned the faces of his attentive lis
teners.
Every one Of the company had been
officers in Gen. Washington's army.
Together they had fought IN every bat
tie from Bunker Hill to the capture of
CORVALLIS at Yorktown. | can see
them now-strong of feature, brave Of
bearing, their snow-white cues falling
on velvet collars, white ruffles at their
wrists. knee breeches, leggings, and the
quaint buckle shoes of colonial times.
There was bluff old Rufus Putnam,
whose engineering skill on Dorchester
Heights enabled Washington to drive
the British from Boston; brave little
Commodore Whipple, who gave birth TO
the American navy by offering the first
defiance TO England on the sea, and
the commanding figure of Robert Oliver,
who erected the first saw and grist mill
in Ohio, together with Jonathan Devol,
one of the first ship builders in the
western country.
But how did all these famous war
riors find their way to the beautiful
Ohio valley, you may ask? Peace re-
stored, their country had no more use
for fighting soldiers. war lad robbed
them of their fortunes. But they were
undaunted. and together they boarded
the MayGower-a floating barge-and
made their way into the Ohio valley.
There they laid out farms at Beeprc.
Waterford and JAMESTOWN, the earliest
settlement in the vicinity of Marietta.
At eyentide they were wont TO float
down The calm bosom of the river, and
Mt the peril of the lurking red mans
tornahawk. moor their skiffs at my
grandfathcr's door. Once in the glow
of the pine knots heaped high on the
oEen hearth, these SCARED veterans re-
vived in story their country's struggle
for independence.
Striking, even IN this distinguished
gathering. was the major. He was 4
lneal descendant Of Gov. Bradford. Of
colonial Massachusetts. lie sto ID high
in Woshingtou's esteem. and shared the
friendship Of Lafayette. BE never failed
10 hold his audience, and he had II now.
I'VE were reconnoiteriug in West
morelaud county. Va" he continued.
IL Glanced upon fine team of horses
hitched 10 plow; they were driven by
/ buIly slave Finer animals ~ .