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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
NO GROG IN OUR NAVY.

Nevertheless Uncle Sans Seamen Are q
Match For Amy Nation.
The practice of serving out ration
of grog daily to United States man-of-
wars men was discontinued many years
ago. 1t was found to be bad scheme
While most of the men were able to use
the rum in moderation, it was found
that there We're many of the bluejackets
in whom the service of ration of liquor
only served to stimulate an appetite
for more, and who, after iinbibing the
ships grog, would shit the beach, en-
lark upon sizeable sprees and get into
scrapes both ashore and aboard ship
when they returned to duty more or
less shaky. When these facts We're sat-
isfactorily proved, the serving out of
grog to United States man of-war' s men
was discontinued. Sailors in all Of the
others OF the world s great navies still
receive their daily grog.
The fact probably does not prove any
thing, but the writer, who has seen
man-Cf-War' S men Of all nations on tu-
multuous shore liberty in quite few
pSIUS Vi buo WORTH, HIS yGO W $50 q
French, Italian or Spanish bluejacket
thrash British man of-war's man in a
fair stand up fight, such as heavy
weather men of the navy are bound to
mix up in when engaged in hitting the
beach. The reason why the fact prob
ably proves nothing is that the Ameri-
can man war man, who gets no grog
at all aboard his fighting packet, also
Invariably contrives to chew up his
Latin antagonist in a naval uniform.
The only thing that the average old
time American bluejacket likes better
in port on the China station, say, than
a fight with French, Italian or Span
ish man of wars man, Ia a fight with
three or four Of 'em put together. The
Latin sailors may scratch him up BIZ
with their finger nails-their methods
of fighting may be judged from this fact
but when the cops, otherwise the
gendarmes appear Oil the scene-to get
mauled around a heap themselves in
matiy cases. they generally have few
laid out south European deep water men
to sort out Of the dust. Exchange.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
Wooden Clogs In Japan.

'tThe Little japanese at Home" is
the title of an article by Miss Ida Tigner
Hodnett in ST. Nicholas. Miss Hodnett
says:
Tabi (tah-bee), socks of blds or white
cotton cloth, are worn on the little feet.
They are made like mittens, with a
place for the great toe separate from
the others, SO as to allow the strap
which fastens on the clogs to pass be-
tween. The clogs are made of wood and
have two little wooden pegs under the
soles, nigh or low, according to the
taste Of the wearer, but in either case
capable Of making great clatter on
wood, stone or pebbles. Fortunately it
is not the custom to wear any footgear
besides the socks in the house. The sim
gle strap divides into two parts, which
pass Oh each side of the foot and fasten
to the clog. These straps, or thongs, on
little girls clogs are sometimes gayly
colored With but one fastening, it is
an easy matter to take off the clogs
when entering house and leave them
on the veranda, and the custom is GER
tainly conducive to tidiness. 1t is a
necessary custom, for the clogs would be
ruinous to the fine soft mats covering
the floor.
Complexion is another important and
interesting point to the japanese girl as
well as to her American and European
sister
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
NE AN JIM.

Where me an Jim played marbles-Jim Clarke
his name IN full
There's. still village only there, an passjn
days are dull.
But them old times the locust shades re'ched
clean acrost the street,
The white blooms hangin over us-seen nothin
since SO sweet
An Jim could, remember well, plump out the
middle man
AS easys some wild cowboy now with his
good rifle can.
An seems hear, my go this time as plain
as then it rung
When me an Jim played marbles an Jim an
me wus young.
The boys, guess, have wandered off, an may
be some are dead.
The locust trees have rotted down where once
their shadders spread.
The oidlike Villagers no doubt, are seen no
more where they
Sot on the fence an watched the game that
they when young would play.
But Still l yearn to wunder back, an under
that old sky
Look my last look on boyhood's scenes when
shall come to die
An rest forever nigh where trees their loyin
shadders flung
Where me an Jim played marbles when Jim
an me wus young.
Will T. Hale in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
WANT TO SEE OUR WOOL
Min nesota Growers Urged to Send Sam
pies to Omaha at Once.

Minnesota Growers Urged to Send Sam.
pies to Omaha at Once.
Owing to the lateness of the season
for shearing, all the necessary samples
of wool have not been obtained in Min
nesota for the Omaha exhibit. The
exposition managers have granted an
extension Of time to June 10. 1t is de-
sired that every wool grower who
raises good healthy sheep, showing an
uninterrupted growth of wool of any
kind or grade, send 100 pounds or more,
or even a few feeces will do, and it is
greatly desired that each exhibitor
should have photograph taken of his
flock. 1t should be sent so as to arrive
there by June 5, when Professor Shaw
of the state university experiment sta
ton and w. j. Burnett, manager of
the Northwestern Hide and Fur COM
pany, will go 10 Omaha to put the ex-
hibit in place.
The Minnesota safe commission,
being greatly crowded with work, de-
sires that all samples be sent to the
Northwestern Hide and Fur company,
Minneapolis. The state commission
guarantees the return of all wool or
will pay the highest market price for it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
The Latter Day Jerusalem.

When I landed at Yafa, first began
to open my eyes in regard to the Holy
Land This is seaport town, and it is
dirty and filthy and is overrun with
beggars who have their init out on
every corner. In the middle of winter,
when light snow was falling, the
Arabs, wearing cheap cotton clothing,
would stand around and shiver. Every
body shivered for that matter, for I new
err saw = stove or fireplace in the town.
Excuse me from going to Jerusalem
again for pleasure. ! was disguised
with the place ON account of its filthy
streets and foul, noisome odors. - Story
of Returned Traveller. =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
The Cost of War.

The result Of the Crimean war gave
to the British nation not one single foot
of foreign soil nor any pecuniary COM
pensation whatsoever. The only benefit
derived from the war, which lasted two
years, was to keep Russia out of Con-
stantinople and give the English a way
to India and the east that was undis-
puted For this end the British lost 3d., :
744 men killed in action or died from
wounds, cholera or other diseases. The
loss to the French allies in the same
campaign has been estimated at 63, 500
and the Russians as high as 900. 600.
The war also cost the British $2O5, 2O5, :
600. War is a costly as well as dam
gerous business. It is the court of last
resort with nations nowadays as it was
the first in ancient times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
sb.,araw vii, Re Co,onel.

ST. PAUL, May So.-J. G. Shandrew,
formerly co.onel OF the Third M.nne-
sofa national guards will be colonel of
the Fifteenth Minnesota volunteers,
supposing there is a Fifteenth. That
is the only definite statement Governor
Clough will make about the appoint.
ments under the second call.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
thirteenth M.naesota's Sick List.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.-Lieutenant
G. L. Stone, Company A, of the Min
nesota regiment, has been removed to
the French hospital. He is suffering
from the disorder of ear known as
Otitis media, which is not uncommonly
experienced after sudden descent from
very high to low altitude. Much anx.
iety is felt at the hospital for Private
John G. Johnson, also of the
Minnesota regiments. He has been i'll
with pneumonia since May 81. An
other very sick man is M. E. Hampling
of the Thirteenth Minnesota. The
Thirteenth now has ii men on the sick
list
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
SHEATHING A SHIP.
Composition Metal Now Largely Used.
Work Quickly and Handsomely Done.


Work Quickly and Handsomely Done.
Yachts built of wood are sheathed
with copper, and SO are many tugboats
Merchant ships are sometimes sheathed
with copper, but nowadays the material
most commonly used is a composition
metal which in appearance resembles
brass. It does not wear SO long as cop
per, but it costs less. The composition
metal comes in sheets about feet by l
foot inches. They-are fastened on the
ship with nails Of the same material.
Sometimes the sheathing is nailed di-
rectly on to the hull of the ship Some
times it is nailed over another sheathing
of felt, which helps to preserve the
calking in the seams.
When the ship has been placed in a
drydock or raised out of water on q
floating dock, the old metal is stripped
off, and if she is to have felt sheath
ing the bottom of the ship is first paint
ed with coat of pitch, and the sheets
of felt are laid upon that, and then the
sheets of metal are nailed on over them.
The work is done very rapidly and at
the same time with great nicely. Every
nail head is sunk SO that it is flush
with the plate. If the hand were passed
over the sheathing anywhere, it would
be found smooth. If the nail heads were
permitted to project they would of
course interfere with the speed of the
vessel.
Seventy five men can sheathe an 800
ton ship in two days The cost of
sheathing such a ship with composition
metal over felt, including material
dock charges, labor and everything,
would be about 81, 900, or little less,
and such a sheathing would last about
two long voyages New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
Have your Envelopes Printed.

!, The postoffice department at Wash
layton has sent out the following notice:
DON'T!
Don't mail your letter or valuable
packa &c without having your name
and full address, either written Or
printed, upon the upper left-hand COR
ner of the envelope or wrapper. This
will insure its return dire-t to you
from the postoffice address, if not de-
livered, thus preventing it's being sent
to and opened to the dead letter office
at Washington.
We can print and sell you envelopes
in quantities from 100 up, almost as
cheap as you can buy them at the stores
in small quantities. The recommend
alton of the Postmaster General if
complied with may save you an endless
amount of worry some time.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
"a Truthful Statement.

An excellenta and invaluable remedy,
for the cure of cough, cold and hoassS-
ness, is DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
Mr.. Jas. Hadfeld, $50 West ST., New
York City, verifes this statement.
He writes: "Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
is most excellent remedy for cough.
cold and hoarseness, and take great
pleasure = recommending it to III.
who requir6 such ! valuable household
medicine. . Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
!, sold everywhere for Is cents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
Healthy Cheerfulness.

Do not allow a melancholy person to
enter the siclroom. There is nothing SO
absolutely necessary to an invalid as
cheerful companions. A nervous woman:
may be thrown into relapse by well
meaning but mischief making friend.
relating to her how q mutual friend.
suffered with similar disease.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
Her Face ON the Plates.

A new industry, first put forward un-
der the patronage Of Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, has blossomed forth. This rich
young woman, one Of the most promi-
nent and beautiful Of New York's fash
ionable matrons, has had her own face
painted with most exquisite art on six
very choice Sevres plates that are only
used for her smallest and most select
luncheon parties The plates show Mrs
Astor in evening dress, tailor dress, re-
ception gown, skating furs, in delicate
summer muslin and in her bridal gown.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
give the Children a Drink

called Grain-O. It is delicious, appetizing,
nourishing tooddrink to take the pla ofcof
fee. .Soldby all grocers and liked by II who
all its injurious properties. Gram 9 aids
digest ion and strengthens the nerves. 1t is
not stimulant but health builder, and
children, as well as adults, can drink it with
great benefit. Costs stout as much
coffee. Is and 25c.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09

The fatigue felt after exertion is now
usually attributed to the presence in
the muscles and blood of the chemical
products that result from action. y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09

The war department. has called for
$50 more men for the first three Min
nesota regiments 80
Twin City land agents report an al
most unprecedented movement of set
tiers into Minnesota.
The Goth annual state conference of
the Seventh Day Adventists is in ses.
sion at Merriam Park.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
Try ALIENS Foot-Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. AT
this season your feet feel swollen, nervous
and hot, and get tired easily. If you have
smarting feet or tight shoes, try Aliens
Foot-Ease. Itccols the feet and makes walk
ing easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet,
blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns
and bunions of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all drug
gists and scoe stores for 25c. Trial package
FREE. Address. Aliens. Olmsted, LIE Roy,
NJ "
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09

In France moro than = third Of the
population Ga 76 per cent) Live in citie&
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09

Loren Fletcher has been renominated
for congressman by reclamation by the
Fifth Minnesota district.
Catholic Foresters Of Minnesota rec
ommend an auxiliary organization OF
women to the national body.
An English syndicate is planning to
buy 80 sash. door and blind factories in
the Twin Cities and elsewhere.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
1, R,VtRRWQ..
STOCKTON, N. Y, June 80, 1894.

DR.. M. M. FENNER, Fredonia, N. Y.
Deay .Siy:-About years ago be-
came bilious, sallow, dyspeptic and my
system was generally run down. Lost
appetite and flesh. Could not eat or
sleep well, and had palpitation of the
heart-in fact was so wretched and un-
nerved that on several occasions my
friends thought I would not live till
morning,
Two bottles of your Blood and Liver
Remedy and Nerve Tonic produced .
complete cure"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09
DIR. Fenner's Blood and Liver Rem
edy and Nerve Tonic

A famous remedy by famous
physician guaranteed to cure liver
complaints and nervousness. People
run down by sickness and overw worked
should try it. If something else has
failed you that is no argument against
this great medicine. Stop to reflect!
This preparation is the prescription of
one of Americas most eminent physi-
clans and the first bottle is guaran-
teed by Scheldrup & Fiesler, to give
satisfaction or money refunded.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-09

The Minnesota Odd Fellows home
fund has reached $25, 900. -
The Minnesota exhibits at the Omaha
exposition are ready to be put in place.
The interstate commerce commits
sioners are again investigating Twin
CITY flour rates.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
You still are Young. and Der nv IA

You still are young, and DER my face,
Howe'er its features may be shaded,
Can throw the sunshine of your grace,
And keep tn immortal part unfaded.
Expression is the faces soul,
ne head and hearts joint emanatiou;
Indifferent to times control
Free from the body's domination.
Ii you're still twenty, I'm no more;
Counting by years how folks have
Numbered!
Voltaire was young at eighty-four,
And FOntenelle at near hundred.
old Song.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
THE WISE REPRESENTATIVE.

We took an we sent him ter Congress
Ter keep this here country in check,
An we reads The Congressional Record,
An we know that our members on
deck;
Fer all up AN down in its pages
That's printed in Washington town,
He's hollerin' out: Mister Speaker
An the speaker-he hollers: ''Set
down.
Now, some folks that's sent by the peo-
pie,
Way up ter the national hall.
jest sets thar frum mornin' till evenin'
An never says nuthm' at ALL
But our man is up ter his business
re don't make no speeches profoun':
jest jumps up an yels: Mister Speak
er!"
Till the speaker-he hollers: "sct
down.
That's better, | take it, than talkin'
The time an his senses away;
Than maxim the galleries listen
Ter folks that have nuthin' ter say.
That's better than bills, an amendments
Than rearn' an pitchin' around;
He jest calls the name o the speaker
len takes his advice an'-sets down!
If 'twarn't fer the fact that we sent
him
Because it's a good place ter stay,
An told him ter say we air Twin,
In silence he'd pocket his pay,
His business is Jest ter remind 'em
We live in a widc-awalle town;
He knows when ter yell: "Mr. Speaker"
An Jest when it's time ter set down!
r H. STANTON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
From the indianapolis Journal0

QFrom the Indianapolis Journal.)
| came to Terre Haute to have a chat
with Il man who saw Thomas jefferson
who was handled on the knees of James
Madison, whose boyiSh head was pattctl
by Monroe, who saw John Quincy Ad-
ans when he was in the White House
and was serving with him in Congress
when he dropped dead in the Hall OF
Representatives, the Hon. Richard ".
Thompson of Indiana.
Il see that you use tobacco, Mr..
Thompson" said l pointing to the
cigar he was smoking
Il think man would be great deal
better off without it." replied Col
Thompson. Il have used it, but | have
strong constitution, and my temperance
in other Things has enabled me to with
stand its bad effects. Once | chewed to-
bacco to excess. but | have not used
it in that way for 30 years"
How did you come to stop chewing,
ColonelW
"There is quite a story in that" was
the reply. You see, almost all young
men chewed tobacco 80 years ago. |
had quid in my mouth almost all the
time. / was particular as to what
brand >of tobacco used. and when a
friend OF mime from Virginia presented
me with lot of very fine plug tobacco
| took 1T with me to the House OF Rep
Tesentatiyes and laid it away in my
desk. was, you know, then a mem
Der of Congress. There were a lot Of
other tobacco chewers sitting near me.
Tom Marshall of Kentucky was on one
side, Garrett Davis was on the other,
and there were good fellows all around
me. So passed my titbit around. There
was good lot of tobacco, and | supplied
the party. j noted, however, that the
plugs seemed to be going faster than
Was right, and it bothered me. For
a short time ! suspected the page boys,
and accused them of stealing my tobac-
co. They denied it.
At last one morning a page came to
me and said: Mr.. Thompson, | can
tell you who is stealing your tobacco.
1t is Senator Mamgum of North Caro-
lima ] at Cnce went to the Senate and
found Henry Clay and AIangum sitting
together, both chewing busily. ! charged
Mangum with the theft. He owned up
to it, and told me that he did il for my
good. Thereupon Henry Clay broke n,
and tffa two gave me lecture on InS
evil effects of tobacco-chewing. They told
me that | was chewing too much, AND
that / would certainly ruin my nervous
system if | did not stop.
SIN short, they made such an inn
preston upon me that after pr that
night i did not take my 1Is Tw. My
wife noticed the OMISSION d moth
ing. Thought the matter over after
went to bed that night and decided to
stop | gave away what tobacco | had
left. and | have not chewed from that
day to this"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
the annual wheat crop.

the annual wheat crop.
In the North and West this is becom-
ing great industry. Almost every town
has its poultry house where tons uPon
tons of poultry are bought, dressed and
shipped every winter, thus putting thou
sands of dollars into the pockets of the
thrifty farmers.
Poultry can tie just as easily and just
as profitably raised in the South as in
the North BroilerS for the early spring
and summer markets can he raised to
even better advantage. In the more
rigorous climate of the North much more
trouble and expense are necessary to
raise chickens during the winter and
spring months than would he necessary
here. No expensive chicken houses, with
artificial heating arrangements, are
needed. 1t never gets too cold for the
little chicks to do well with ordinary
protection. The prices, especially for
cit6icc carly broiers, are very Satisfac-
tory, not infrcquently being - cents
and more a pound. n good incubator or
two, run steadily from now on for sew
erll months would be more profitable
investment than Il cotton farm. But
in this case, as well as in all others,
whatever is worth doing is worth doing
well, and good poultry which brings gilt
edge prices cannot he raised from the
degenerate stock which inhabits the
average barn-yard. Get good stock to
start with. The best all-round chicken.
perhaps, is the Plymouth Rock, or the
Wyandottc. If cotton does not pay
and it does not-why not try chickens?
II
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
MONEY IN CHICKEN

TRUCKERS and Planters Joufnalo
There is no money in cotton. That
seems to he the universal verdict. Or
perhaps it would bc more nearly correct
to say. there is too much money in cot
t0n-more than the growers get ont of it.
He is. therefore. necessarily, n loser.
At the recent convention of cotton grow
ers it was recommended that less of it
he grown, and that tire planter turn his
attention to other productions. But
what shall they be? Why not chickens
There is money in chickens, and money
is what the farmer wants
The market for poultry products is
almost unlimited, and the cash vaIpn
of the products of the poultry yards of
the nation is greater than the value of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
Dad removed for 5000.

road removed for 5000
Brollaw had offered Mr. Crawford
$1,000 for his place Since the road has
been built Mr.. Crawford has refused So
800. an increase in valuation of Is per
cent.
A letter from the engineer Of roads in
MeckhnHlrg county to Prof. Bandy
shows that road improvement in the
county has increased the valuation OF
land % per cent and 80 per cent.
Union. New Jersey, in 1889, issued
$500, 600 worth of bonds at per cent.
One improved road ran within one mile
of a farmof twenty acres on which was
farmhouse.
Before the road was built this farm
sold for $4,000. Within one year after
Improvement the owner refused $4,000
See Bulletin No. i, page 40, Geologi-
cal SHrvey.l
We. are therefore forced to the concu-
sion that it pays to build good roads.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
SHOULD BE BANNED. DISOWN
ED AND DRIVEN OUT"
E- CITY Economist.l

IT. is q horrible condition for civil
lied people. and yet some Republicans
Ito their sbamel are trying TO coax the
members of the foul and wicked com
bination to stand firm and not brea K
ranks They ought to be secuted by
cyery decent North Carolinian, who loves
his home. They have SO greatly dishCn-
orod the good name and Obstructcd the
nroenaritv Of tho State, that they should
be banned. disowned and driven out from
decent association
You can't whine away an evil. Stllfen
vour backbone and vote it away.