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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24
improvements in Flying Machines.

Inventors are plenty who can make ma.
chine that will rise and float in air, but the
one improvement which none has succeeded
in making is an apparatus that will guide the
machine through the many treacherous cur
rents of air. In this respect humanity is
fortunate in having Hostetter's Stomach
Btters, which acts as a safe guide by cur.
ing treacherous stomach, liver and blood
diseases, giving good appetite, strong con-
stitution and nerves like steel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

PooRs Mrrnal of Railroads for 1898
shows the .acrease in railroad mileage
in tt United States for 1897 to have
been 2C94. making the total miles in
operation 1874 Cos.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

HoN. CHARLES DENLY, former United
States minister to China. who has just
returned to this country, has the al
most unprecedented record of having
served continuously for lS years as a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24
Personal AND POLITICAL.

W. d. Bynum, chairman of the ma
tional democratic party, has re-
signed.
F. w. Lincoln, who served seven
terms as mayor of Boston, died at his
home in Dorchester, Mass, aged SO
years.
Connecticut republicans in conven-
ton in New Haven nominated George
F. Lounsbury, of South Norwalk, for
governor.
Congressional nominations: Wiscon-
sin, First district, Clinton Babbitt
(dem.); Fifth, c. E. Armin (dem.).
Iowa, Fifth district, L. j. Rowell (dem.)
Ohio, Seventh district, ]. L. thinner
man (dem.).
Nevada republicans in session in
Reno nominated William Mcmillan for
governor.
Henry r. Wolcott, of Denver, was
nominated for governor by the Colo
RADIO republicans at their convention
in Denver.
In the Second Wisconsin district
James L. Jones was nominated for con-
gress by the democrats on the one hun
dred and fortieth ballot.
Gen. George w. Smith, ex-treasurer
of Illinois and a civil war veteran, died
In Chicago, aged 61 years.
Brig. Gen. Jospeh T. Haskell died
suddenly at his home in Columbus, o.,
aged 60 years. He commanded the
Seventeenth infantry at the battle of
El Caney, Cuba, and was twice
wounded.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of the
late Jefferson Davis, died at Narragan,
sett Pier. r. l., of malarial gastritis
aged IS years.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler was unanimous
ly renominated for congress in th,
Eighth congressional district of Ala
bama.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

d S e a s e.,
m a n y of
them with
T h e u m a
tism. Such
a suf er
was Adam
Vangun dy,
who now re-
8 d e s a t
Bluffs, Ill.,,
where he
has been
Justice of
the peace
and was the
first presi-
dent of the
board of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

The unveiling of the Fred Douglass
monument took place at Rochester, N. Y.
The Sons of Veterans in national en-
Frank L. Shepard, of Chicago, com
mander in chief.
The National Athletic club of San
Francisco offers a purse Of $4,000 for
a 20-round contest between Corbett
and Mccoy.
The bank of d. f. Parsons at Burr
Oak Mich, closed it's doors. with lia-
bilites of over 100000.
Henry Lester, proprietor of a cot
tage at Virginia Beach, Va, and T. S.
L. Dixon, of Chicago, and Arthur Nc
Laughlin, of Newark, N. j., were
drowned while bathing.
The fifteenth annual exposition in
st, Louis began and will continue un-
til the end of October.
The eighteenth annual convention
of the Negro Baptist churches of
America began in Kansas City, Mo.
Senator James II. Kyle, of South Da-
kota, was stricken with paralysis Mt
the Forest City house in Cleveland. o.
arthur loHHuH, IL Ilne NH kN. -
blacksmith, murdered his wife and
killed himself. Jealousy was the cause
lis announced that Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, has declined TO accept
the post of ambassador to Great Britain
just vacated by Col. Hay.
The bank at Jasper, Ala, closed its
doors with liabilities of $4,000.
George F. Cheney, well-known bank
er at Crete, Neb., walked into the ele-
vator shaft at hotel in Omaha and was
killed by the fall.
The business portion of White House,
o., was destroyed by fire.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

Some people wear such good clothes all the
time that they can't have a good time
Atchison Globe
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

The expense of repairing tire punctures
should be added to our income tacks.-L. A.
w. Bulletin
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

Lots of men don't know enough to stop
boring when they strike oil.-Chicago Daily
News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

Author-What excuse have you for abus-
ing my book?
Critic-I read it.-Up to Date.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24
Halls Cntnrrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

Shall we call the "stoop" of the scorchel
front stoop or back stoop?-L. A. w.
Bulletin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24
she Wanted Healthy Ham.

Mrs Murry-Give me tin cints wort av
ham.
Grocer-Sugar.cured madam?
"No! 1 want some thot has niver bin de-
sazed. Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24

The man who wants the earth probably
never stopped to think what the taxes would
| be-Puck
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-24
, Cure a Cold In ono pnx

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
German Education.

The Germans are the most thoroughly
educated people in the world. What
they know they know we'll.
A fellow traveller had taken his de-
gree of B. A. in the University of Penn
sylvania and gone to that of Berlin,
where he spent three years. Suisse
quently travelling in Switzerland, he
met young German whose range and
accuracy of knowledge weee simply be-
yond that of any man of the same age
he had ever met. In many walks and
talks the German had absolutely pumped
the American dry, while his own store
of knowledge had only been touched.
"Ach,' said the German student one
day, Il shall never get my degree, it is
SO difficult, it is so much, SO hard, so
long! I must have patience. I used te
see you at the University of Berlin.
and, forgive me the question, how dit'
you get into the university"
"Why, 1 was admitted on my B. A.
from the University Of Pennsylvania, ="
replied the American.
"Mein Gott!" gasped the German
scholar. II knew it must be some way
like that
No better comment on the relative
standards of knowledge and the thor.
oughness of the method by which it is
pursued coul7 be asked. Philadelphia
Times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
Daudet md Animals.

Daudet had a lurking kindness for
sinners. He pitied them, for he could
not see how in the long run they could
succeed in anything. But the self right
eous were more offensive to him. /
think he was right in saying that men
and women who pass for having never
sinned are unpleasant companions, and,
from the day Of judgment standard,
perhaps the worst sinners of all. The
sensibility shown in "Jack" and other
works did not extend to animals Dau-
Diet, though cigalier, was deaf to the
chirp of grasshspper and cricket. Birds
have no place I'm his rural sketches. He
could not understand the touching
beauty of the -Alast friend" at the poor
mans funeral Animals were simply
brutes to Daudet. At best they were
warnings to. human beings not to live
merely to eat, sleep and leave posterity
behind them They sometimes were
vices incarnate. Such We're the fox, the
serpent, the scorpion. What q selfish,
heartless thing the ant vast It had a
head if you will, but it was the sort Of
head that organizes labor in sooty fac
tory towns The dog was the beastliest
beast of any. Daudet fed from every
drawing room where he saw lapdog.
Paris Letter in London Truth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
EARLY ARITHMETICS.
Struggles of the Pilgrim Children With
One of the "R's."


One of the "R's."
Next to penmanship the colonial
school and schoolmaster took firm stand
on "ciphering." 1.-THE Bible and fig
gers is what want my boys to know"
said the old farmer. I have examined
with care Wingate's Arithmetic which
was used for over century in the Wins
low family in Massachusetts,. The first
edition was printed in 1890. It is GER
tainly bewildering to modern reader.
"Pythagoras-His Table, is, of course,
our multiplication table. Then comes
1.-THE Rule of Three" "The Double
Golden Rule, "The Rule of Fellow
Ship" 1.-The Rule of False" etc., end
ing with "a collection of pleasant and
polite questions to exercise all the parts
of vulgar arithmetick. -
Wingate's Arithmetic and Holders
Arithmetic were succeeded by Pixies
Arithmetic This had 1853 rules to
explanation was given of one Of them.
It is the most barren schoolbook I
have ever read. These printed arith-
metics were not i'm common use. Near
~ all teachers had manuscript "sum
books" from which the scholars copied
page after page of "sums" too often
without any explanation of the process,
though there were also many and long
rules, which helped the penmanship if
they did not the mathematics. -Chau-
tauQuan.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD.
How o Bilious Man Gave Up His Two Cups
Of Breakfast Coffee.

How . Bilious Man Gave Up His Two Cups
OF Breakfast Coffee.
An east end man was advised some
time ago not to drink coffee. His doctor
told him it helped to make his liver tor
pid and his liver was doing it's best to
render life miserable for himself and all
the rest of the family.
But, no, he couldn't give up his two
cups at breakfast time. He couldn t
make the sacrifice. Nothing could take
the place of the delicious Java and
Mocha mixed that he had learned to
love.
One day his wife suggested in mild
way that he might be just as we'll sat
isied with one of the brands Of imita-
ton coffee. He almost frothed at the
mouth.
"That Internal stuff" he cried.
"Not much. The very first Rulp would
settle me. I'd like to see anybody try to
fool me with a counterfeit of that sort. "
. He didn't notice that his wife quietly
smiled. But, strange to say, from that
time on he grew better. His bilious
tendency was greatly lessened. He felt
like new man.
One day he met the doctor.
"Hello, doc!" he cried. "I'm getting
better in spite of you"
"Given up coffee, have your" queried
the smiling doctor.
"Given up coffee? Not much. Coffee's
all right"
A few weeks later he met the man
hom whom he orders his groceries.
"Hellor' quoth the grocer. How
well you are looking"
EYES," said the convalescent, "I'm
feeling great deal better.'
"By the way" said the grocer, "you
seem to like that substitute I've been
sending you"
"What substitute?''
"Why, that substitute for coffee.
And he named one of the numerous i'm
itatio1s of the fragrant berry.
"Never had cup of it in the house, I"
said the bilious man emphatically.
"That's funny" said the grocer. 81
haven't sold your folks a pound of gen
uine coffee in the last three months -
The bilious man didn't say anything
further, but his thoughts were busy.
The next morning he looked at his cup
a little suspiciously, but he drank it
without tremor. Perhaps he fancied
he detected the difference; perhaps not.
Anyway, his wife still fondly imagines
he doesn't know of the deception
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
An Arbitrary Fec.

VICTOR Smith tells this story in the
New York Press: my father was an
old time lawyer. He tried little case
for his bootmaker and entered on the
books q charge of $40, the price Of a new
pair Of boots. When the latter was de-
livered. the accompanying bill was $50.
A man Of any other profession would
have taken ofense at the apparent effort
to ..do" him, but the lawyer smilingly
raised his fee to $40, and MI. Smart
Aleck Bootmaker had to pay. That was
an arbitrary fee. Doctors sometimes en-
JOY the privileges OF 1t. !"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17

One Free Bird That Attracts Attention
Among Hundreds of Captives.
In big bird store where there are
hundreds of birds of many kinds inces-
sanity squawking, chirping and singing
there is one that is free-a tiny tit
mouse. The window is full of cages
containing birds of various sorts, and
one side of the store is lined with bird
cages stacked up high all along. But
there is none that attracts SO much at
tention as the little titmouse fitting
about the store at will. At night it
perches on gas fixture in the window,
and to that it comes back from its vari-
GUS excursions by day.
Customers that come in to buy birds
and birdcages and bird seed and one
thing and another never fail to notice
the titmouse. They may not notice an
other bird there individually, but their
attention is sure to be attracted by this
one as it darts about, free among SO
many captives, and they are likely to
smile at it, they are SO pleased with it.
And sometimes children, looking in at
the windows of the bird store, come in
to tell the clerk that one of the birds
has got loose.
When it has nothing else to do, the
titmouse sits on it's gas pipe perch and
perks its head this way and that and
looks about. Sometimes it whets it's
beak on the gas pipe. Every now and
then it dashes off somewhere. If it
wants drink, it perches on the rim of
goldfish globe-for home aquariums
and stock for them are sold here as we'll
as birds-no doubt to the great surprise
Of the goldfishes and certainly to that
of the human beholders, who wonder
that it doesn't fall in, it has to bend
over so far to reach the water. But it
gets it, and when it has taken it's fill it
flashes back to it's perch on the pipe in
the window.
The titmouse catches spiders and 9th
er insects, and it feeds in the larger
cages when it will. It goes in and out
of them between the bars with perfect
ease. 1t is a very little bird, even with
it's plumage in it's natural form. With
it's feathers pressed against its sides it
can get through very narrow space
between the bars Of a parrots cage, for
example-with ease. There are in the
window a number of parrots cages in a
row. The titmouse almost flies through
these cages, stopping in each perhaps to
eaSof the parrots food, but they never
modest it. Parrots that would bite at
the finger of man who should put his
hand near enough to the outside of their
cage stand back in fright or sheer
amazement when the little titmouse
dashes in and perches on their feed cup.
New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
HE LOVED THE SEA.
fennyson Used to Study 1t From TIN
Downs of the Isle Of Wight.

fennyson Used to Study It From the
Downs of the Isle of Wight.
Tennyson said, Somehow water iS
the element love best of all four, " but
in the recent memoir he is also credited
with saying that he "never cared great
ly for the sea on the south coast. 1t Isl
not grand sea, only an angry, curt
Probably that was a view expressed
before he became familiar with the To-
cality, for though the Atlantic does not
plunge against the isle Of Wight as
against Cornwall and the west Of Ire
land he himself has proved how much
power and enchantment the sea reveals
from the downs. Let the weather be-
fair or foul, nature is never dull from
the vantage ground of those convexlt1es
which seem like the rind Of the earth
and give an illusion of yastness and
openness beyond their actual area. Mem
striding ON ridges and etched against
the sky indeed seem "as trees walking"
The wind rustling in the ear, the sheep
bleating, the sea churning among the
powders, the occasional believing of a
steamer for pilot, the swallows crying
LII OAC1l ~" l1S 011k ClIO uAAo GIL OoIIA0T
ing give the only sounds. When the
mist closes over the scene, a strange
sense of being disembodied possesses us,
we are lost in the impenetrable vapoF,
and the gulls pass over our heads, Wis
ible but for an instant as they float from
obscurity into obscurity. In times Of
storm one seems to be at the seat of the
elements and a witness to all their
processes The clouds roll and break
against the cliffs like another sea. and
sunbursts flashing from them leave a
silver swath over the vexed and SON.
Der pillows. On sultry days a water
spout, whirling like dervish, is no I'M
common sight, and he who makes the
downs his observatory becomes wise IN
all the phenomena of sea and air. Climb
ing them at night gives one the feeling
Of scaling the walls Of heaven itself
They slope like the sides of pyramid,
and the apex Of the pyramid impales
the stars. On sunny days the sea below
is purple, and every shade Of blue and
green that can be thought of, even Ito
use one of Tennyson' 8 own descriptionsl
"like peacock's neck"
Rarely was there a visitor at Earring
ford that he was hot brought up to tha
beacon and shown all these wonders and
beauties. Except in his closing years
the poet was found upon them in all
weathers and at all seasons, and from
them and the surrounding scenery ba
drew many of the landscapes of his
poems.-North American Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
DOG OPENED FATHER'SEYE
Experience of a Man Who Had Several
Growing Girls.

Experience of a Man Who Had Several
Growing Girls.
ut is quite interesting to be the ia
Their of several growing girls said one
of group of family men in the smoker
of suburban Car.
eyes," answered another one, with q
shrug Of his shoulders, especially when
they all want new gowns at the same
time"
II wasn't thinking of that, " said the
first speaker, "but Of way they have
of taking the wind out of your own
sails It never occurred to me until the
other morning that it was not to see mo
that young fellows kept dropping in to
play cards and make themselves agree
able. I tumbled at last, but it was my
hunting dog Jack that opened my eyes. ;,
"Your hunting dogf'' echoed the
crowd.
"Yes. I had heard Of nearly every
kind of plan for the communicates
of lovers except q dog. In this case
Jack became Cupid's messenger. Those
boys borrowed the dog ostensibly to 20
hunting, but have learned since that
they didn't know gun from hoe ham
die. They tied Jack up overnight, and
as soon as he got out in the morning he
made bee line for home. II I hadn't
seen the corner Of paper sticking fron
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
BARRIOS ASSASSINATED.

Reported That the Guatemalan Dictator
Has Been Slain.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IA special
cablegram to The Evening Post from
San Jose, Guatemala, announces the
assassination of President Barrios- 1t
was added that calm now prevails.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Senor Lajo
Arriaga, the Guatemalan minister to
the United States, received an official
cablegram from the minister OF foreign
affairs of Guatemala announcing the
assassination Of President Barrios. and
the succession to the presidency OF First
Vice President Cabrer. No details
wAatsyer were given.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
A Truthful Statement.

An excellent and invaluable remedy,
for the cure of cough, cold and hoarse-
ness, is DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
Mr.. Jas. Hadfeld, $50 West St., New
York City, verifies this statement.
He writes: "Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
is most excellent remedy for cough,
cold and hoarseness, and I take great
pleasure in recommending it to all.
who require such q valuable household
medicine. DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
= sold everywhere for 25 cents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
ALLEN TURNED DOWN.

Foreign Affairs Not Proper Crafts Upon
Appropriation Bills.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The senate
committee on foreign relations has de-
cided to make an adverse report on the
proposition advanced by Senator Allen
to amend the consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill SO as to recognize the
beligerency of the Cuban insurgents.
The action of the committee was the
result of q motion by Senator Morgan.
who said that appropriation bills were
not proper vehicles for legislation bear;
ing upon foreign questions. The vote
of the committee is unanimous.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
THE HOUSE OF WISDOM.

Ihad not thought-ah, God, had but known!-
That this sad hour should ever me befall
When thou judged the hottest of all
Should come to be the thing must disown.
Was It not true, that April morn, thy blown
Gold hair around my hair for coronal,
Or Is this truer-thou at the outer wall.
Unroyal and with unrepentant moan?
Yet prize now this wisdom have won.
Who must always remember-nay. my tear
Must close mine eyes, as thou wouldst hide thy
face
II some great meteor, kindred to the sun,
Should haunt the undying stars ten million
years
To fall some noon, dead in thy market place
Francis Sherman in Bookman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
To Discuss Interstate Organization.

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 10.-A North
western organization, to include the
Dakotas, Wisconsin, Iowa and Mime
sofa, will probably be debated at the
second annual state convention of re-
tail hardware dealers now in session.
The North Dakota dealers are particu-
larly favorable to an interstate organi-
cation. Methods of disputing trade
with mail order houses will be the chief
item of business before the convention.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
Lead aud Zinc in Oklahoma.

WICHITA. Kan, Feb. l0.-A special
to The Beacon from Newkirk, o. T..
states that lead and zinc in rich paying
quantities have been discovered in the
New Kaw reservation which joins Kay
county on the east. A Joplin pros
pector declared the find superior to
anything discovered in Missouri OK
Southeastern states.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
Not Guilty.

Mistress Of the House-My good man,
did You ever take bath?
Tramp-No, mum, l never took any
thing bigger'n . silver teapot.-.London
Tit Bits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
Kruger Ra.Eiected.

PRETORIA, Transvaal Republic, Feb.
l0.-President Kruger has been re.
elected President of the Sonth African
republic.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
WATCH THE NEXT TWO ISSUES

under his collar should never have
suspected the eagerness with which
these girls tried to head him off from
me-"
"He had letter for them?'
"No, just a note asking the privilege
Of seeing dear Miss Kate or Miss Sue in
the park for a walk and a chat. Nice
idea, employing the dog of the family
in a clandestine correspondence 1 an
swered that note myself, and the two
girls haven't spoken to me since. Jack
is tied up, and I'm watching the cat
now, for 1 have no doubt they'll find a
way to circImyent me. Chicago
Times Herald.