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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06
CHAs. F. HENDRIX, ProD'r
Subscription, $i.5o a Year.


PURSUANT to prearranged program
Mayor w. d. Townsend was inn
peached by the city council on Mon
day evening, and removed from office
for performing his duty fearlessly and
conscentiously. 1t is not necessary to
rehearse the story-every reader of the
HERALRD knows it. Tine City Council
has gone on record in a way of which
they will, in the future, be anything but
pleased to recall to mind. Admitting
that they believed the purchase of the
brewery PROPERTY was for the best inte-
rests OF the city, the method resOrted
to is indefensible from any stand
point. Mr.. Townsend has given the
city an excellent administration. and
If he was in error in this matter
which is far from being conceded =
there was another and better way of
correcting that error. The courts were
open to compel him to do what was
lawfully demanded of him. The i'm
parchment ard removal proves moth
ing, satisfies the doubts of no one.
If the case ever gets to the courts
and the HERALD has no knowledge as
to whether it ever will, it is quite pr, =
bable the great mass OF fair minde
people will be led to see the matter in
another light.
The city by Attorney Barto. and the
Mayor by D. T. Calhoun, were ably
represented at the trial on Monday
evening.
But no amount of testimony or arg
ument would have any weight. 1t was
a prejudged case from the first.
The Council has called a sp a.
election for February 8th.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

Children's felt lined shoes
At the Boston Shoe House.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

The High School annual ball, given
on New Years Eve at the City Opera
House was the most brilliant social
event of the season. The hall, was
filed to it's utmost capacity for dane
ing, and with the best of music, and
that inspiration which youth and
beauty always lends to a festal occas-
ion, it was an event long to be re-
membered. The dance continued till
$3.50 A. M. Supper was served at
midnight at the Auditorium.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

Come to my place in West Union,
on Friday. December 17th., 1897, a
yellow setter dog. Owner please call,
pay charges and take him away.
J. C. PERKINS,
West Union.
Or at the academy, Sank Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

The progressive ladies of West6eld, Ind,
issued a '.Wonlan's Edition. o(the Westfeld
News, bearing date of April3, 1896. The
paper is filled with matter of interest to
women, and we notice the following from a
correspondent, which the editors printed,
realizing that it treats upon matter of vital
Importance to their sex: "The best remedy
for Group, colds and bronchitis that have
been able to find is Ohamberain's Coughs
Remedy. For family use i,has no equal, l
glrdcy recommended It," IS and 5ocent bottles
for sale by Hanson and Emerson.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

Stop dragging yourself with quack
nostrums or 'cures." Get aWell-known
pharmaceutical remedy thatwill do the
work. Catarrh or Cold in the head will
not cause suffering ifEly IS Cream Balm
is used. Dru ygist will supply 1Oc. trial
size or SOC. full size. We mail it.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren ST., N. Y.
City.
lev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls,
Mont, recommended Ely's Cream Balm
to HE. ca emphasize his statement
1T is a positive cure for catarrh if
used as erected. Rev. Francis W.
Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church,
Helena, Mont.
The annual meeting of the board of
county commissioners convened at the
court house on Tuesday afternoon.
Edward Miller of this city was re-elec-
ted chairman of the board, and a num-
Der of school petitions were accepted.
This is the session of the board at
which the salary of the county attor-
ney, superintendent of schools, janitor
OF the court house and other salaried
officers are fixed in the absence of stat
utory provision. The contract for
printing is also awarded at this sess-
ion.-Journal Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06
Estray.S

Sank Centre, Mimi.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

Mrs. McMasterS was somewhat
startled upon responding to ring of
the bell on Monday to find the dray
man at the door with the Doctors
t ark, which had arrived by express
from Harrisburg, Penn. The mystery
WAS cleared by a telegram announcing
that the trunk had been expressed to
Atlanta, Ca, whittier the Doctor and
his daughter was going from Harris
burg by circuitous route. To save
the annoyance of his baggage he sent
it on by express and the company
followed the markings rather than the
order. 1t was forwarded to him at
once
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-01-06

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

more into dot phonograph. She vhas
wonderful machine. l like to speak to
her dot | have a son Shake,"
Eyes, fadher'
"'Und dot son Shake he likes to play
some tricks on his ladder
cit vhas all some SMOKES, ladder
&" Yes, know. / speak to dot ma
chine und say it vhas all some SMOKES.
You vhas SMOKER und dot machine
yhas a SMOKER. 1t vhas ha! ha, hat
How you mean, fadder?'
'Shust like dis, my son." und lick
dot boy till somebody rings der bell for
fire, und den | throw dot machine out
in der alley und go COP stairs und say
to Mrs Dunder:
"Vhell, when | vhas dead one tousand
years you don't hear my voice und feel
tickled Dot machine vhas a liar,
Shake vhas' a rascal und if somebody
comes around here nit a fire-escape or
a burglar alarm / Will kill him so
queek dot he don't speak two wOrds,"
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Literary and News Service.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
HOW IT CAME OUT.

cts all right to talk, and to say you
would do this or that said the man
who had been telling cowboy stories,
but did you ever look into the muzzle
of a revolver"
Il have, sir" replied the fruit tree
agent.
Was it pointed at your head?"
at was"
"And good man behind ito"
at was a man who had cut eleven
notches in the butt of that pistol to tai
ly up his dead"
and how did you feel?"
CAS- cool as at this moment"
''But was he in anger, and did he
mean to shoot?"
Il had called him liar, sir, and he
meant to blow my brains OUT
well, how did it come out?"
"Why, sir, just as his finger was
pressing the trigger l told him that
much preferred TO be killed with a
knife. When he got his knife out
changed to a club, and from a club to
a stone in a stocking and | finally got
him all mixed up and bought his whole
outfit for eight dollars and sent him aft
to get DRINK There is really no need
of beingl killed If you keep your wits
about you."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
HE PLACED HIM.

I was talking with the Sheriff Of
Albemarle county when man came up
and shook hands with him and asked
after his health. and he was moving on
when the official said:
Say. your face is familiar. but your
name has slipped my mind"
"Truef0ot, sir-Lyman Truefoot,"
replied the stranger.
"Truefoot? You-you live around
here?'
About fourteen miles away"
and where have | net your"
why. can't you place me-" asked
the man with d laugh.
II somehow can't know your face,
and the name Is also familiar, but
can't get You down fine
We'll, | spent TWO months in your
jail and Just got out last week. stole
a hog. l was in cell No T. Don't you
place me now? ?"
"Oh, OF course-of course" laughed
the sheriff. "Yes. place you now, and
how do you do, Mr. TruefOct- how do
you do? Really, but I'm ashamed OF
myself for being so absent-minded!"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
A WESTERN CAMPAIGN.

When Colonel Banister left Chicago
for the mountains for the benefit Of his
lungs he had a dim idea that he would
settle down somewhere and put IN
term in the State Legislature. He
reached Pine Top City To find the eli-
mate all he hoped for, and after few
days he preached the subject OF office
getting to the landlord OF the hotel.
I'm a new man here" was the re-
ply. but | know Teller who can tell
you all about it, and III send him in"
The "feller" proved to be an eX-mem-
Der OF the Legislature. and when the
subject was stated. he replied:
Yes, | can tell you just how to work
it, and II you want me TO I'll run your
campaign and agree to land you in the
Senate"
The Colonel expressed desire for
an outline of how the campaign was 20
be run, and the Eek had gun on the
table before him and said:
Il don't reckon you brought one with
you, but that's n good one, and ! can
get along without il for a week or So
The first thing You want to do is TO so
out and pick a fuss and shoot your
man"
Pick a fuss about what?' querled
the Colonel.
Don't maze any difference. Jest go
out on the street and cuss the town, fhe
climate or the peop,a Get up a row
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
CARL DUNDER.
lie Relates His Experience With
a PhonoQraah.

1t yhas my son Shake who comes by
me one day und says:
''Fadder, when you vhas dead we
shall grief for you und be awful sor-
Iy."
Well, dot vhas all right, und she
brings tears to my eyes. Shake yhas
. good boy, and If he likes to go by a
horse-race / don't says nottings. By
und by he says:
when you hat been, dead one tous-
and years we like to hear your voice
again. You don't come back to us
voice it makes US feel tickled."
How vhas dot?" l says
sit vhas dot photograph" says
Shake. Don't you know fadder, dot
If you talk or sing into dot photograph
she keeps your voice one tousand
years? 1t vhas wonderful"
] don't belief her, of course, but l
go down town NIT Shake und he shows
me all about it. 1t vhas a big sur
prise on me. / speak in dot phono-
graph, und by und by he speaks back
to me. 1t seems to me like some
ghosts, und i vhas afraid of her. but
Shake laughs und jumps around ind
says she vhas all O. K, und SO l tells
dot man to send a machine oop to my
house. He vhas glad to do SO, und he
Gays if don't hat more fun dan NIT
seven goats he don't charge cent.
Shake knows how to work dot phono-
graph, und when we get her home | sit
down for two hours und sing und
talk. dot yhas all laid oop, und [
vbas Glad NV frendt Hans Schmidt
he comes in und talks, too, und der
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

und call him thief, und it winds me
oop by saying dot Sing Sing vhas my
home. l vhas so mad like to go oafer
und kick dot machine all to pieces. but
my friend Hans Schmidt he stops me
und says:
You Will sit down some more. IT
you vhas some Williams in disguise der
pooblic like to know about her"
Und den Shake puts in und says dot
he hears me speak poem into dot ma
chine at twelve o'clock at night, und he
Will now bring him out to eaferybody.
1t vhas true dot l speak poem lie
yhas called "Birgen On Der Rhine,
und it vhas my favorite. | hat tears IN
my Eyes ash l speak him. 1t yhas all
right to hat him come out like talk,
but he don't do it. 1t vhas like some
drunken mans standing on der corner
und yelling und swearing und mixing
things all cop. Dot machine speaks
sooch awful language dot eaferybody
turns pale, und when | calls to Shake to
stop her my friend Hands Schmidt
wafes his hand to me und says:
Carl Dunder you keep quiet! l yhas
your frendt for fourteen years, und IT
vhas wonder you don't cut my throat
for two shillings! Keep it oop, Shake."
Und Shake vhas so tickled he can't
stand still Dot photograph makes
fun of my old womans, und Of Hans
Schmidt und Peter Klienfeldt-und all
my friends 1t sings Yankee Doodle"
for dot Sweet By ind By" und it
makes me swear und blow around und
be bad man. by und by he says:
Hello, you Dutch buffers, how you
vhas. Maybe you shall go home before
I kick you out!'
Eaferybody goes right AWAY, und
my old woman falls downs ind wants
to die. Shake he like to go AWAY, too,
but | catch him by der neck und say:
my son, l Will now speak some
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

They sent a Teller named Jenkins to
tell me TO take a walk or look out fur
trouble, and of course l didn't go. l
jest walked around as usual, and next
day at noon the fuss begun. 1t seemed
like everybody in town was shootin' at
me, and l made fur the railroad depot.
1t was in the papers that l stood EN-
off fur four hours. Then l got bullet
in the hip and they had me out"
But you must have hurt some Of
them in return?"
Yes, of course. They said l killed
three and wounded four or five I allus
thought it was a poor record, though.
When they got me out the idea was TO
hang me. 1t was wonderful how many
ropes were brought out. and how many
men knowed all about maxim a hang
mans knot. The crowd carried me
down 10 q tree by the creek and it
wasn't a mint before I was up on
barl and the moose was over my neck.
Some of EN- was fur givin' me time to
git my breath but that man Jinkins
kicked the bar'l away and left me
hangin' in the air"
And what were your sensations?"
was asked.
4 had so many that they was all
mixed up replied the old man.
about all I remember was tryin' to
touch the airth with my toes, an feelin'
a good deal Of goneness in my lungs.
Can't s-y thar was any great pain
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

talk OF d man gittin' a tall into 4
thorn bush but 1t couldn't hold q cam
die! Even their hair had bin clawed
out, and fur every ciaw-mark thar
was bite to match. Fur about an
hour 1t 'peared as If the TO- men would
die, and Tom and me worked over EN-
a good three hours befo' they could
talk straight. They had to go some
whars, and Though they was spies and
arter my still, l took EN- into my own
cabin. No doctor was to be had around
yere. They swelled all up with the
pizen of the cats and one day jest sot
out and walked down to Bristol and
told the story to the Judge. He sent
I'D man to nurse 'em, together with
a doctor, but it was TO weeks befo'
they could be moved home. One of the
head revenoo fellers come up with
wagons. and arter he had loaded EN-
I'D he hands me $50 in cash and snuffs
his nose and says:
"'Zeb White, did my men ever come
to this yere Goblin befo' they had the
row with the cats?
Reckon so, says II
"'And did they 'peae to smell any
thing?'"
"'Cant say as they did"
"Didnt pear to smell that still O
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

yours in the kitchen.
''NO, sab.
"'Then the whole crowd of 'em must
/ lev plugs driy up their noses, and l
shan't hev no further use fur them! [
could take in the smell from the
roadi' -
Then he shifts some mo- looks all
around, and drops his voice a leetle to
say:
Mebbe, however, I'm mistook in
that smell, bein' as | amt used to this
mountain air. Mebbe you are bilin'
maple sap? Yes, come to smell it agin
it is maple sap, and if | had time Id
like to eat some new sugar with you
en- a clean chip. 1t amt agin the law
to make sugar, Mr.. White, but you'd
better go out O. moonshine.'
But he knew" l said as the old
man chuckled over the remembrance.
'Of co'se, l hadn't maple tree on
the place, and nobody makes sugar in
August He was giyin' me a pinter
sab, and a shown of his decency at
the same time, and them wild cats
didn't turn out such bad speculation
arter all"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
POSTUM I ALKS.
zeb Relates a Tale Of a Hollow
Tree.

"A year ago. said the old 'Possum
Hunter to me one evening when ask
ed him for story, Il could have pint
ed out curiosity over to'rrds Bakers
Cove. 1t was the biggest chestnut tree
that ever growed in Tennessee, and
reckon it was over hundred years old.
There was hole in it big 'nuff to hold
FIVE men, and durin' the wah family
of three lived in that holler fur seven
months AFTER the wah, and when We
begun to make moonshine whisky
around here, it was used for store
house, and the reyenoo fellers never did
git onto the secret. Sunthin' else hap
pened, though, and that's what I'm go
I'M to tell you about"
"You see," continued the old man, as
he filled pipe for each of us, 1--WE had
three stills on this, side of the noun
ting, and the revenoo folks was work
in all sorts O. tricks to find us out
They found two of. the stills, and, that
left 'em all loose to hunt fur mine.
They was huntin' the woods in every
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

world l am going from St Louis to
Chicago. l have paid for this whole
section, and shall occupy both seats
during the entire trip. | am no rail-
road hog but | want what | pay for.
Orders taken in ST. Louis in the last
week aggregate $4,000 and it was
bad week at that.
When this placard had been put up
the man marched stitiy down the aisle
in search of the smoking car, and he
had been gone about ten minutes, and
the train was under way, when a sec
ond natty-lCoking man appeared. He
had only one grip, but his self-import
ance was not TO be disputed. His seat
was for upper No. 10, but ne stopped at
No. and read the placard. When he
had finished it a smile of joy came to
his face. He removed the grip, hat and
overcoate to No. 10, and then wrote as
follows and pinned the missiye in place
of the other:
Il represent Fish & Hook, of Boston,
who do moderate but safe business.
| am also going from st. Louis to Chi
cago, but | have paid for only one seat.
Orders taken in st. Louis in the last
week aggregate only $4,000, but The
buyers are good for all they owe. For
further particulars see telegram just
received and annexed to this"
Below the card was a telegram read
ing:
Blank & Co, New York. failed to-
day. Liabilities almost a million dol
lars"
The newcomer had just got comfort
ably seated when the other returned.
He was astonished to find his two seats
occupied, and he had just opened his
mouth to make indignant protest, when
the Boston man pointed to the placard
and the telegram and quietly said:
Sorry for you, old chap, but every
business has its reverses. 1t was al
right this morning when you engaged
this section. but this evening you be-
long on a back seat
The other re-read the missives,
seemed perfectly satisfied that the tele-
gram was straight, and without a word
turned and sat down in No 10. He had
come down from whole section TO an
upper berth, but he was a philosopher
as well as drummer and there was
no kicking about 1t.
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Literary and News Service)
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
sles I'll take one along :

VIE 6venin come sunthin' funny
happened The men began to wandel
of down to the wharf. and when they
met each other they made all sorts Of
excuses and told all kinds OF lies. Over
forty of EN- got into their boats and
went driftin. down the bay, and pres
emily over forty mouth-organs were
maxim music.
Look ahere," yelled Abijah SMALL
man at Enos Fairweather, but what
are you ont here tootin' on mouth
organ for?'
"Driftin' around to find clam-bed.
and what are you here for"
I've got to see TO my lobster-pots.
Mighty funny how al you fellers have
gone into the tootin' business all of a
sudden,s
Everybody jawed everybody else and
everybody blew a different tune on his
mouth-organ. Some w@s BLOWN for
clans and oysters-some for fish
others for crabs and Holsters. That
stranger had got in his work on about
every man in town. After an hour had
gone by and nuthin' had climbed
aboard, most of the men quit and went
home, but Abijah Smallman was one OF
the half-dozen who stuck it out till
midnight. by which time they had
drifted clear across the bay. They
played everything they could think OF,
from Old Zip Coon to the Sweet Bye
andBye, and they played as loud as
they could and. as soft as they could.
The only thing that rose TO the surface
was a shark, and he wanted meat in
stead of music. AT last Abilah rose up
and begun to cuss, ard the other fol-
lowed suit Then it come out that the
stranger had put up job, and they hur-
ried home to mob him. They reached
the hotel to find him gone, and after
lookin' at them for awhile the landlord
said:
TT strikes me that you had better get
home and keep powerful quiet. That
stranger, who was no liar and wanted
to take lessons, has lied the boots right
off the whole crowd. and passed off a
counterfeit five-dollar bill on me into
the bargain"
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Literary and News Service.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

heard a curious thing about them in
seeks. met a lobster man few days
ago who told me that
Here the stranger seemed to remen-
Der something and checked himself and
Abijah had to coax him for a quarter
of an hour before he exclaimed:
well, you were the first man In
Squau Creek to speak a kind word TO
me, and l want to prove that I'm
grateful. Did you ever hear that lob
sters dotted on music?"
No. / never did"
81 thought not 1t was discovered by
accident, but it's solemn fact. They
are Jest rampageous after music. The
man who told me of it is catching FIVE
hundred Holsters a night"
You don't sayi" gasped Abijah
What sort O. music is it that Holsters
are crazy after?"
Anything that's musie-a mouth
organ, fiddle or jewsharp. DO you
play on anything"
Il can play Old Dan Tucker on q
mouth-organ."
That will do splendidly. Just get
into your boat and drift down the bay
and play as you drift. The Holsters
will come climbing into your boat. As
| said you spoke kindly to me. and you
are also goin' to give me lessons III "
in at half price. If can help you TO
a boat-load OF Holsters l shall be glad
to do it."
Abiiah sandman had set lobster
pots for twenty-five years, and he had
handled Holsters by the thousand, but
it had never occurred 10 him that a
lobster had q soul. The news sur
prised him, and yet be was inclined 10
believe it. He had heard that music
soothed the savage wolf, and there was
no good reason. why ii shouldn't soothe
the savage lobster. lie said he would
try the experiment that very night,
and IL ii was success he'd spend half
his days for the next six weeks learn
in that stranger how to become a
champion liar That afternoon there
was great run on mouth-organs in
Sqlran Greek. The two stores which
kept 'em sold about fifty. and every
purchaser was fisherman. VINO looked
as innocent as mud as he eare.essly
said:
I've been prcmisin my boy to get
him snoush-organ, and bsin' as I'm In
here. and bein' - you've got some II
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
HUNG BY TIE NECK.

Some one in the smoking car recog-
nized in the Old gray-haired man pull
ing away at a pipe former city mar
shat Of a frontier town in Dakota, and
we at once crowded in on him and
asked him to tell the story Of his be-
ing lynched by mob.
Thar wasn't nothinf much to it," he
replied with a smile. The boys
thought l was too fresh as city marshal
and so they rushed me"
But We want the particulars" was
insisted. What happened before they
hung you?"
wall, several things happened AS
city marshal | had crowd Of about
two hundred blacklegs to keep in order.
They didn't keer fur the law but was
afraid of my guns. We had had half
a dozen skirmishes when the crowd got
together and decided that I must go.