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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-04-14

Sunday -Easter-was perfect day
Farm lands can be had of Chas. A
Morse On very favorable terms.
The latest novelties in all over
laces and chiffons at Mel Blied's.
Gov. Clough has issued procla-
nation fixing April % as Arbor day.
The Moline Despatch says that Miss
Pratt has a bca fll soprano vote
pure and easy.
The Davenport Leader says that
Miss Pratt's whistling is as free and
joyous as lark.
Don't fail to hear Bertha Maude
Pratt the popular whistler and soprano
at the Grand Opera House April Goth.
Eugene Irish has rented the house
formerly occupied by Orville Austin
and family and will occupy it next
week,
Helmer Hilsdale is making notable
improvements to his pretty home. He
has built wide porch along the front
and is putting in bay window on the
south
For overworked men, delicate
women, sickly children. Rocky Noun
tain Teais the greatest blessing known.
Keeps the whole family well-if taken
this month.
One member of the railroad party OF
which conductor Smith and Scott were
party, was killed by the discharge {
gun, on the trail His name was
Muffin Of Sleepy Eye.
'sYour wife is a jewell Keep her
ssbrigh. and shining. Now's the time
''springtime. Giveher Rocky Noun
tain Tea; makes the whole family we'll.
Woman's best friend.
j. E. WEIGH was the victim of q
sneak thief, on Monday evening
Twenty-four bushels of cleaned seed
wheat in sacks, was stolen from his
barn. just west of the city, This pet
ty thieying is getting too common, and
the guilty ones will suffer for it yet. ).
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-04-14
SCHOOL NOTES.

Editor-in-chief. JESSIE JAMES
Assistant Editor ;. EDNA CARPENTER
The Spring term opened with almost
a full attendance.
The Friday closing last term, Win
throp Benner and Frank Simonton
gave instructions and interesting talks
upon glass and iron. Afterward Harriet
Wheeler greatly entertained the High
School by two recitations.
One of the Fifth grade pupils was
given the word ''wedge" to use in a
sentence and said, 1.-THE duck has
wedged feet"
Jennie Duncan has left school.
The Fourth grade is making a collec-
ton of cabinet woods and would it be
pleased if some one would present
them with a wood-box.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
mornings of this week, Mr.. Stanton
gave very entertaining and exercising
talks about the st. Cloud Reformatory
which he visited during the vacation.
The certificates have come. b. q, u;
A member eff the Planes Geometry
Class must have been busy during. the
vacation, coiningth word, ''pedagon''
seemingly in preferences of. 'pemtagon. !"
The Third grade is making study
of birds and have a large collection
of birds nests.
MIR. Stanton has received cotton
seed, which he distributed among the
lower grades for their window garden.
Mrs. Eddy and little daughter visit
ed the Third grade, the first of the
week.
A member of the Chemistry Class
has found new race, ga human per-
son."
The last Wednesday afternoon of the
winter term the electrical machine was
taken to the Second and Third grades.
Later in the day the pupils were asked
to write a description of what they saw
and felt. Two of the papers from each
grade are printed below.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-04-14

Many have pronounced Miss Pratt's
whistling superior to Alice Shaw.
Lamps! lamps! lamps! at D. Cleye-
and & Co.'S.
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ton at both ends, both at the brain end and at the filaments that enlace the stomach.
 Now" continued the doctor, prob ably you know somebody who turns sick on riding backwards in a raidroad ear.''
 q am he," said I, "and have also stood on the ocean pier at Long Branch and had to sternly swallow my feel ings, because, motionless though stood, the steamer moored alongside rolled with the swell"
 Exactly" rallied the doctor, dip- ping his handkerchief in a bit of cigar ashes and polishing his spectacles. "Seasickness may be caused either by unaccustomed motion or by the mere sight of it, or, of course, by both. You may be affected through one or all of four different ways; through the brain by way of the spinal cord, through the brain by way of the pneumogastric nerve, through the spinal cord direct to the stomach controlling abdominal muscles, and, lastly, through the stom- ach by the pneumogastric to the brain and back again. In each case the trouble is due to unusual movements of the organ and to the consequent congestion of blood in it's local capil- laries, as the small blood vessels are known.
 "In the case of seasickness caused merely by the sight of motion, the brain is the part first affected; motion and the sense of motion are the same thing there; and the blood, gathering to repair the waste, swells the vessels so that they press upon the roots of the nerves in the brain, irritating par ticularly the pneumogastric, and through that convulsing the stomach and other abdominal organs
 I thought I would show my clever ness, so 1 said:
 "Then that explains the nausea that often attends us in a great emotional crisis ?''
 Exactly" said the doctor. and was content to let him proceed.
 "In the case of sickness produced by actual moving of the brain, both the spinal cord and pneumogastric are in- volved; the spinal cord first and most severely, since it is itself continua- tion of the brain matter, and really senses any motion there. Through this Irritation of the cords nerve branches, the abdominal muscles which attach themselves On and near the stomach are made to contract, much in the same way as one may make . pug dog move his hind leg by scratching a certain spot on his back. Thus the stomach itself is irritated, the officious double ended pneumogastric thinks here is trouble and-you are sea-
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FIX CONNECTS BRANDED.
Past Records Serve to Keep Re- leased Criminals Always Under
 Suspicion.

'FThe warden of one of the largest penitentiaries in the United States told me not long ago that he was absolutely certain that quite c number of con viets in his keeping were innocent men," said MT. T. $. Rollins, of St. Louis, to a Post reporter.
 "He said that majority of the men whom he believed to be serving sem tence unjustly were what is known as second-term men, that is, men who have before been convicted of felonies. If they have been twice previously sen fenced and are arraigned before the courts, conviction is almost certain. The warden's theory, and it is very reasonable, is that when a crime is dore, sheriffs and detectives imme- diately begin the work of locating the criminal, and if there happens to be in ehe neighborhood of where the offense is committed an ex-conyict they are always sure to put the blame on him.
 "Circumstantial evidence is worked up, and often it is manufactured out right, against the unfortunate who is stillon the blacklist because of his past record. People are prone to think that man who has committed one viola tion of the law is very apt to perpe- trate second, and so, although the man may be absolutely guiltless, he is arrested and enough evidence adduced to cause a jury to bring in a verdict of guilty. In this way, my friend the warden declares, hundreds of inno- cent men are made to suffer merely because of their past records. Wash 1 inoton Post
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CALIEORNIA FTG SYRUP CO.
"Land of the sky.''

Tn Western North Carolina, between the Blue Ridge on the east and the Alleghanies on the west, in the beautiful valley of the French Broad, two thousand feet above the SC, lies Asheville, beautiful, picturesque and world famed as one of the most pleasant re sorts in America. It Is land of bright skies and incomparable climate, whose praises have been bee sung by poets, and whose beauties of nished subject and inspiration for the paint er,s brush. This IS truly the Land of the Sky" and there Is, perhaps, no more beauti- ful region on the continent to attract pleas ure tourists or health seekers Convenient schedules and very low rates to Asheville via Southern Railway.
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of brick with handsome cornerstones and carved doorways.
 Beyond this is the village of Aco- tink, where there is very old mill.
 Not far from the village stands Woodlawn mansion, an imposing structure, now falling into decay. This great house was designed by Washing ton for the home of his favorite nephew, Lawrence Lewis. when he married pretty Nellie Curtis" Mrs. Washington's granddaughter
 Near Noodlawn a road leads off to the right. In the days before the rey- olution this was the way to the Fair fax house, BelYoir.
 Belvoir was destroyed by fire in the last century while the family was ab- sent in England. The sight is still marked hy heaps of bricks, over which the Virginia creeper grows. Here, too, still stand some hardy trees of the Fairfax orchard; fig trees, too, there are that survive in the open near the ruins, but as the frosts kill the tender shoots each winter they make little progress and are, in their neglected condition, rather bushes than trees.
 Here in the springtime all the open space upon which the wood has not eneroached, is carpeted with yellow 6affodilIs, the descendants, now multi piled 10 thousands of those that once bordered the walks and drives. of Bel
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was talking about the more or less impending international yacht races with my doctor the other day, and we were recalling the last one, 10 witness which we both went down to the sea in boats-and both were seasick.
 What is seasickness, anyway" I asked.
 Merely q nervous disease" said the doctor, knocking his pipe into the hol- low skull that served him for smok- ing eset" as well as a paper weight.
 'No," said, 'on the level, just what is it?"
 Just what I told you-a nervous malady. It is another case of the in- evitable pneumogastric nerve melting the inner man to riot and revolution. That seems to be the office of this nerve. Have you ever had head in the morning? That's another spe- cialty of the pneumogastric."
 But about seasickness; what makes a man seasick-or woman ?"
 ''You know the brain rests on a water cushion ?n said tbe doctor. "fhat it is not igidly anchored like the liyer2" When I had confessed my ignorance, he continued Well, the brain is a movable organ, this renders it less liable to injury by concussion. You know, too, how very movable are the spine and spinal cord, and also that the stomach is endowed, not alone with some degree of free play, but with muscles that are partly under control of the will. You can, at times, you know, suppress prima facie evidence of seasickness. These semi voluntary muscles are controlled by the pneumo- gastric nerve; and this nerve has the peculiarity of being subject to irrita-
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do now, even in my younger days. I am naturally a robust man, but that stomach trouble, together with rheumatism, which afterward set in, were making fast inroads upon my health and l am satisfied that it would have been but short time before my comrades would have been conducting the regulation funeral ceremonies over my re- mains, had 1 not chanced to read of and taken Dr. Williams Pink Pills
 There are several others in the home who are taking these pills and are receiving great benefit RICHARD DUNN.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this lst day of Nov, 1897.
 HENRY GIBSON, Notary Public.
 Sergeant Dunn IS perfectly willing that anyone should write him in reference to his case, provided stamp Is enclosed for reply. All the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves are contained in con densed form in Dr. Williams Pink Pills. They are also g. specific for troubles peculiar to femalessi such as suppressions, irreguiari- ties and all forms of weakness. la men they cure cases arising from mental worry, over. work or excesses of whatever nature.
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broad hall that traverses the house from Lawn front" to "River front" that Jefferson drew up the first rough draft of the Declaration of Independ- ence. This document is founded large ly upon George Masou's own Nirginian bill of rights, which was written in the quiet of the library at Gunston Hall, though it was destined to create such sensation in the legislative halls of the old capital at Williamsburg.
 Washington was frequent visitor at the hail. After the revolution, whenever he was at Mount Vernon, it was understood that he should pass each alternate Sunday at Gunston, Mason being his guest at Mount Yer non on those Sundays when he did not act the part of host himself.
 Many legends and anecdotes are as- sociated with the hall and its masters, There are two haunted rooms, each . having it's blood stains and it's tradi- tions of violence. A phantom car riage Is supposed to stop before the door on one night in each year. Not all of the stories that attach to the old place tell of wars or ghostly vis- itants. \ great ball was given here which concluded the festivities at the time of the marriage of Robert E Ice. Many a beauty and revolutionary beau met their fate between the tall box hedges of the "loyers lane" that leads from the octagonal porch on the river front to the terraces overlook ing the valley.
 It is enly four miles as the crow flies from Gunston Hail to Mount Vernon The distance by road is considerably greater.
 Tn driving from one of these his toric homes to another many points or interest are passed upon inc way.
 Leaving Gunston the road runs by Springfield low, rambling bungalo- like house built by Admiral Cockburn long before She revolution. Spring field was afterwards the home of the famous Parson Weems. who wrote the first life of Washington.
 Still further, by a little deviation from the direct road. one passes Po- h;cI church. This church was built by Mason. Fairfax and Washington, and all were numbered among it's yestry- men. II was Washington's church un- sii after the revolution, when he drove to Christ church in Alexandria. Po- a. l,.,f1<
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Gunston Hall is one of the most in- teresting of all the old houses in Amer ics. It stands on high plateau or ridge, back about a mile from the Po- tomae river, which it overlooks, and from which it can be seen, it's dormer windows and broad roof and tall chim- neys rising above the box hedges and pear orchards that surround it.
 This quaint old manor house was built by George Mason in i739 and is at least year or two older than it's neighbor, Mount Vernon. the home of Washington. The materials used in it's construction, Scotch bricks, were brought to America as ballast in the returning tobacco ships. The interior of the house is very richly finished The carvings in the drawing-room alone are said 10 have occupied a skilled carver, an English bond serv- ant, for more than two years. This drawing-room is one of the most beau- tiful rooms to be found in any house in America From it's windows can be obtained an inspiring view of the waters of the Potomac and the blue hills of the Maryland shore beyond
 Adjoining the drawing-room is the Jefferson room, named for Thomas Jefferson, who was a protege of George Mason's and frequent visitor at Gunston.
 It is supposed to have been at table placed near the center of the
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"A similar process is followed when the spinal cord itself is the first to feel the untoward motion caused by the pitchiSig and rolling of the ship.
 "When the stomach feels the motion pendently, the pneumogastric's peculiarity of acting under orders from either end of the line is observed ill all it's loveliness. You see the pneu- mogastrie is in on every deal"
 T don't suppose" 1 broke in, "that . seasiek person cares particularly which of the four ways is responsible fer his unholy condition. Of course. ; I added, hastily, under the doctors pitying eye, II don't know how it feels when mans a scientist-of course not; but" I paused. Was this a leading question ?-"Is there d cure or a remedy"
 I expected he would hedge, but he did not.
 Certainly there is, :" he returned in a barred sort of way: "chapman's ice bags"
 "What9'
 "Iee bags-little thin rubber bags filled with cracked ice-you hang lem along your spine. Chapman was an English physician who made a study of seasiekness; it was he who discoy- cred that the unpleasantness depends upon the excessive Aux of blood to the spinal nerves, either directly or other wise-as through the pneumogastric nerve. And from this fact he conelud- ed that if the blood could be driven away from these eenters, the malady could be subdued. So, away back in 1864 he wrote a book on seasickness. and devised little rubber bag 10 be worn next the spinal column, and kept
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NO WOMAN IS EXEMPT.

Regularity is matter of importance in every woman's life. Much pain is, however, endured in the belief that it is necessary and not alarming, when in truth it is all wrong and indicates derangement that may cause serious trouble.
 Excessive monthly pain itself will unsettle the nerves and make women old before their time
 The foundation of woman's health is a perfectly normal and regular per formance of natures function. The statement we print from Miss GER TRUDE SYKES, of Eldred, Pa, is echoed in every city, town and hamlet in this country. Read what she says:
 DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I feel like a' new person since following your ad- vice, and think it is my duty to let the public know the good your remedies have done me. My troubles were pain ful menstruation and leucorrh9a. was nervous and had spells of being confused. Before using your remedies l never had any faith in patent medl- cines. l now wish to say that never had anything do me so much good for painful menstruation as Lydia D. Pink hams Vegetable Compound; also would say that your Sanative Wash has cured me of leucorrhcea. I hope these few words may help suffering women"
 The present Mrs. Pinkham's experl- ence in treating female ills is unparal- leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past has had sole charge of the correspondence department or her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand allng women during single year.
 All suffering women are invited 10 write freely to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn' Mass, for advice about their health.
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filled with ice during the voyage. It may be worn with the clothing on as usual"
 Are these bags a patented thing?"
 No more than Bright's disease, or CT Mercator's projection, dear boy, ex- cept that the drug stores keep them. ; Suppose you can't get an ice bag" "Wen, if the attack is not very severe one, you may obtain good deal of relief by getting as near as possible to the center of the ship, ly- ing on your back and keeping your eyes closed.,
 This reused me to some degree of scorn, for had been there. "Come off, ; l said; tell me first class plan without ice bags"
 housands-millions, but they don't prevent, and seldom cure. Some of the best remedies are very simple. Eating cracked ice is, perhaps, nearer to d spinal application of it than any other remedy; ice water will do. A good precaution is to bind the abdo
 men tightly with a broad belt. If you are suffering very, very slightly, you may retain your internal equilibrium, to say nothing of whatever else may be there along with your self-respect, by eating loaf sugar with drop or two of chloroform on each piece"
 "How about that heartbreaking stage of the game, when you are con valescing and hungry as hired man, and yet when the tray is brought you can only look at it and murmur: Take it away-take it awayp Whats good, plausible dish for that?" "Gruel, containing a stiff horn of brandy or sherry will stay with you as rule. Raw oysters, rather salt and quite cold, are excellent"
 "How is it that some people are never seasiek?" The doctor laughed and said: Science can account only for those who stay ashore. The other ] lucky dogs are q puzzle. Why does one man feel like weeping at a poem, and another like sneering? We don't l know. We do know few facts on this l point, however. For example, persons with a good heart and deliberate pulse are seldom seasick; irritable, or emotional people are most liable to it's effects. 1t is known, satisfactorily. that the French and Italians are the great est sufferers from this disorder"
 What motion of the ship is most likely to bring on an attack?"
 .Ihe pitching motion--the rising and sinking of bow and stern rather than the side roll; it is more visible to the eye"
 Nevertheless, the doctor and I are going to the yacht races.
 1 FRANK c. DRAKE.
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IT IS WELL TO KNOW.
These Facts About Fruits should Be Understood by Every
 Housekecper.


 Severe acids, sweets, which frequent ly form acids in the stomach, and fried foods are certainly poison to weak stomachs, and one thing should be con- sidered, that which is unfit for weak stomach will certainly, if persisted in, ruin even the most robust. Sealloped bananas, banana ice cream and bananas cooked with rice are nutri- tious and palatable.
 While the pear does not contain sui fcient free acid to be objectionable it does contain granules of material diff cult of digestion. Cooking, both stew ing and baking, will partly soften these granules and render the fruit more ac- ceptable. The skin should always be removed. Of the dried fruits dates are most nutritious. They may be eaten raw, or the stones removed and half almonds placed in the space, soaked eter night, brought quickly to boiling point, lifted, the water reduced to a sirup and poured over. These may be used warm or cold, or they may be chopped fine and mixed with an or- ange or plain gelatin, nodded, cooled, and served with whipped cream. The space from whence the stone is taken will hold nicely quarter of an English walnut, or two peanuts, and in this way make a dainty sweet for the aft ernoon tea table. Mixed chopped nuts may also be used. Fresh dried figs carefully cooked stand high in the list of fruits which may be used as food Ladies' Home Journal.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New York has more fire engines than London and Berlin combined.
 The first nugget of California gold discovered weighed 42 pounds.
 In all countries more marriages take place in June than in any other month. More than 1,25o,0oo acres of land are devoted to the cultivation of tobacco. Bismarck gave his consent to hav- ing the town of Bismarck, N. D., named after him.
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AUTUMN WEAR.
corning the Latest in Ladies, Costumes.

Soft, clinging effects will have the preference over all stiff materials Cashmeres still have place in hand some gowns, as do the henriettas and aIbatross, as well as the fine serges. Canvas cloths are made softer and show variety of open-wrought meshes in all the new autumn tints. Poplins are still with us. and those of high silken luster are much used for very dressy wear, especially in the shades of gray and green. For dressy black. either satin, poplin or some of the fine bengaline weaves are shown in preference to the brocades and moires. Grape effects and crepons are good, and show tendency to pretty sill1en gloss. Ladies' cloth in every conceivable shade will be worn, and many black ones, made solidly or with color, are designed for calling and aft ernoon affairs.
 Braids of all sorts, in both plain and fancy weave, will be used in the great est profusion, and will be applied in all sorts of designs, as we'll as in straight np-and-down and all-around effects. Some of the dress skirts show the bot tom edge cut in vandyl1es. either bound or faced back with silk, and beneath is placed a three or four-inch ruffle that may be either plaited or gathered. This, by the way, is an easy way of lengthening a dress skirt.-August Woman's Home Companion.