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want buy watch l will SELL" Halter
Native Country" and Automatic of
Nausea Marina (remedy for sea sick
ness).
The Chinese, of course, also make sad
hash of our tongue. Witness this re a
laundry at Shanghai, with reference
to notify you for the employed in the
various laundries in Shanghai. But
any washermen is quite inability of dis
advantage to washing any public, and
though the high price ruling now for
rent charcoal, coal, soap, rice, &c, it
is never counterfeit. The committee
of the Laundries Guild are now to
notify the general public, which must
will be increase. If any gentleman or
lady will unbelief, upward a few lines
will can see the daily news is writ
ten quitely distinctly, and obliged many
thanks The Chinese have a horrid
habit of getting rid of every girl born
after the first, and thus was necess-
itated warning over pool at Foo
chow: Girls may not be drowned
here!" One Wong Foo advertises over
his workshop: always has any France
Pastry, Dinner, Lunch, Supper. All
kinds of Foreigners Cakes for Sale y
Another: "All sorts of goods, many
merchandise in steamer, not seldom
anywhere and safe A pathetically
brief inscription adjacent reads: "Ah
Chan-upstairs The fondness for
effiorescent signboards is shown in
THE house of increasing profit" 1.-THE
hall of brilliant light Celestial ad-
vantage" Great felicity Hill Of
Great Peace. London Standard
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the northern part of the State, and the
finder was SO overcome with admira-
ton of the plant growing so strongly
on the burning sand of the river bar
in midsummer that with much labor he
gathered all the seed he could find and
brought it to the city for distribution
among those who had long waited for
such a salamander of a forage plant.
Probably the plant had struck it's long
roots down through the sand into the
moisture of the river bed and obtained
a reputation for drouth resistance
which it did not deserve. 1t required
much time for some of those who re-
ceived the precious seeds to discover
what bad weed they had secured.
The white melilot has some reputa-
ton as forage plant for bees, and
upon this ground whatever claim it can
substantiate to usefulness must rest.
In wheat fields and alfalfa fields, evil
IDENTIFY, all the melilots must be de-
nounced and ways to arrest their pro-
gress are of direct practical import
anco
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FRANKLIN AS PEACEMAKER.
The Philosopher Ahead of His Time
in His Adherence Of War.

The August paper in Paul L. Ford's
MANY Sided Franklin series treats of
the philosopher LAS Jack of All
Trades In this connection he shows
him to have been ahead of his age in
his adherence of war and eagerness
to mitigate it's miseries. No one would
have been better pleased than he ty
the Cars proposal of disarmament.
He argued in favor of the abolition Of
privateering, claiming that "the prac-
tice of robbing merchants on the high
seas was "a remnant of ancient
piracy" In 1888, in the framing of
the treaty of peace with Great britain
he advocated that the misery of war
should be henceforth limited to the
actual belligerents, and proposed to ac-
complish this result by an article to the
following effect:
'Jf war should hereafter arise be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States, which God forbid, the mer-
chants of either country then residing
in the other shall be allowed to re-
main nine months to collect t,leir debts
and settle their affairs, and may de-
part freely, carrying off all their effects
without molestation or hindrance. And
all fishermen, all cultivatOrs Of the
earth and all artisans or manutact-
uerers unarmed, and inhabtinS unfor-
titled towns, villages or places, who
labor for the common Subsistence and
benefit of mankind, and peaceably fol-
low their respective employmeEts, shall
be allowed to continue the same, and
shall not be molested by the armed
force of the enemy in whose power by
the events of the war they may hap
pen to fall; but, if any thing IS neces"
sary to be taken from them, for the use
of such armed force, the same shall be
paid for at a reasonable price. And
all merchants or traders with their
unarmed vessels, employed in COM
merce exchanging the products of diff
ferent places, and thereby rendering
the necessarieS, convenienceS and COM
forts of human life more easy to obtain
and more general shall be allowed to
pass freely, unmolested. And neither
of the powers, parties to this treaty,
shall grant or issue any commission to
any private armed vessel, empowering
them to take or destroy SUCH trading
ships, or interrupt such commerce.
! The proposition ran so far in advance
of public opinion that the British en-
voys refused even to consider it; but
later it was made part of the treaty
the American commissioners negotiated
with Prussia, and in that form received
better appreciation in Great Britain. a
leading review asserting that it was
1.-The best lesson of humanity which a
philosophical King Frederick I'D, act
ing in concert with philosophical pa
triot (FranklinD, could possibly give to
the Princes and statesmen of the
earth In yet another way Franklin
was far in advance of his own times,
for in maintaining that "All wars are
follies, very expensive, and very ms
! chievous ones, he asked: When will
mankind be convinced of this, and
agree to settle their differences by ar
bitration?"
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houses may be startled by peals OF
thunder. but owing to the great spread
of tin roofing and fair ground connec-
lions. there is very little danger. In
the country, if buildings are adequately
protected, and the momentum of the
flash provided for. the occupants may
feel secure. A good conductor we'll
grounded is necessary in all isolated
and exposed buildings. Barns, espe-
cially when lined with green crops,
should Nave good lightning conductors
The question is often asked, DO trees
protect?" The answer is that the de-
gree of protection will vary with the
character of the tree and its distance
from a watercourse. An oak is more
liable to lightning stroke than beach.
The character of the wood, the area
of LEAKAGE, the extent and depth OF
root, will determine the liability to
stroke. Another question which is often
asked is whether there is danger aboard
a large steamship during a thunder
storm. On the contrary, there are few
safer places Sufficient metal with
proper superficial area is interposed in
the path of the lightning, and it's cleo
trical energy converted into harmless
heat and rapidly dissipated. Accidents
occur chiefly because the victims ig-
norantly place themselves in the line
of greatest strain, and thus form part
of the path of discharge. For this rea-
son. it is not wise to stand under trees,
near flag poles, or masts, in doorways,
on porches, close to fireplaces, or near
barns. Those who are not exposed in
any of these ways may feel reasonably
safe. 1t should be remembered, in the
event of accident, that lightning does
not always kill. 1t more often results
in suspended animation than in So
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The Letters Of Children.

Children seldom show much individu-
atty in their letters. Occasionally
bit of originality crops out, and one
sees peeping through the formal dress
the quaint sweet face of a little lad
or lass, and hears the music of the
childish speech through the carefully
chosen words. But because we grown
people insist that written words shall
not be spoken words, and force upon
small scribblers a vocabulary not their
own, their letters are apt to be stilted,
and to be very like the letters of every
body else. Thus in the schoolroom the
whole class will submit on composition
day letters which vary little from be-
ginning to end. The fact is that the
little writer's have been given a copy
to follow, and have followed it slavish-
ly, and far too often the teacher marks
them not in the order of merit, for
spontaneity, or for cleverness or
sprightliness, or keen powers of OBJ
servation and nicely in reporting things
seen, but rather for the neatneSS OF
the general screed-for the absence Of
blots, the correct spelling, and the
proper use of names and appropriate
placing of the date. The outside ap-
pearance of any letter is very import
ant, and children must be taught the
etiquette of correspondence, and not
allowed to fall in careless habits as to
the spacing, folding and addressing of
the same. One of the hall marks of
gentle breeding is found here. and the
polite person, as distinguished from the
awkward and unframed one, may be
known by the letter he or she writes.
Regarded as passport to social sue
cess, an adjunct to business, an assist
ant in every department, the ability to
write a graceful, direct and ineligible
letter is of great value, and parents
owe it to their children to give them
thorough training in this particular
branch of Observation-Disclosures Bazaar.
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will prove more Objectionable than
those they to-day criticise.
So, after all, are not the habits OF
others who are older than we excellent
object lessons to us who are daily grow
ing older? They may teach us to
avoid the small lapses from good breed
ing, the little needless tricks in which
We are sometimes tempted to indulge.
One woman on the shady side of Do
has q. way of shaking her foot always
during a church service. Through
hymns, prayers and sermon her shape
ly foot beats light tap, tap, tap on the
floor of her pew-a seemingly harmless
habit, but one that threatens to drive
to nervous despair those whose seats
are near hers.
AS one advances in years it is only
too easy to acquire nervous tricks,
which, after while, become almost
incurable habits When one is no
longer young she is too old to be
schooled, and young people should be
too respectful to attempt it.-Harper's
Bazaar
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CAUSE AND CURE.
Rheumatism and Strawberries and
Cherries.

There is an impression very preva-
lent in the minds of many persons" ex-
planned prominent fruit dealer to
Star reporter, that there is rheu-
matism in strawberries. 1t may be
only imagination, and due to the sea-
son, but there is no doubt that persons
who are subject to rheumatic attacks
suffer from them very frequently dur
ing what is known as the strawberry
season. whether they eat strawberries
or not. l am satisfied in my own case
that the acids in strawberries work up
a nice attack of rheumatism for me
every year, but I cannot resist them,
and do not know as 1 want to. But
there is one satisfaction, and that is
that, while strawberries may have
something to do with rheumatism,
cherries, which follow them are an
absolute cure for rheumatism. I have
never known person to suffer from
rheumatism who ate freely of cherries.
and know of hundreds who have been
relieved of attacks by eating them. 1
have often had cherries ordered two
and three months before the season for
them opened hereabouts, and to sup
ply the orders have had to send to
CuDd anu TO Cdl1IOFnld LOT tIleIu HC
ordinary cherry contains an acid which
relieves, if it does not effectually cure,
OF course, it may all be in the season.
and that rheumatism would disappear
anyhow, but it is safe to say that there
is no rheumatism during the cherry
season. l don't know Of anything
healthier, though even the best tast-
ing, thoroughly ripe and perfect cher
ries start up very fine cases of collie
and cholera morbus, which are very an
noying. The colored people of the
South think, and it may be that the
same belief exists elsewhere and among
others as we'll, that all the cramp or
collie is taken out of the cherry by eat
ing it, swallowing stone and all. That
unquestionably was the practice once,
but in recent years fears of appended
tbs may have changed it somewhat,
though, for the life of me, l cannot
understand why it is SO dangerous now
to swallow apple seed, grape seed or
cherry stones, when in fashioned
times it was the rule to do so rather
than the exception. Washington Star.
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A Song Of the Nebraska Cattle.
Country.

We ride out into the morning wind.
We go along swinging and singing:
Saddles are strong and cinches tight,
And hoofs on the prairie ringing.
They say that the sheen of the grass is
That the soul is crop of the prairie
mold
That the law is stronger than love-and
cold
Who, then, is the God of God?
We will worship the God of their legal
God
OF the meadow-lark wheeling and reel
ing,
OF the wanton wind and the maynard
And the lawless wolf a-stealing.
We're the lawless sons of the Lord of
law,
We quit the, trail and cross the draw:
And we'll build town where the sun
goes down
We will build a town on a table-land,
With .windmills whrling and swirling
of sleep,
And breeze-swept grass a-purlng.
Well build us a town where the sods are
A-shingled with mud and sapling stuff;
And establish Court and Cathedral
there
To the God of the Open Air.
The cities of fate are hid behind
In the dust of the golden plain;
We leave the lands of the harnessed
hands,
And the dismal lands of rain.
We're a-westering out to world of news,
Blithe mutineers that pick and choose:
We mock at the mills and the pressed
brick kilns-
And the gods of Things as they Are.
We mount with the sun in the sprnging
light,
We ride along swinging and singing;
Saddles are strong and cinches tight.
And the prairie-hens a-winging.
We fling In the teeth of the wind a within
And shout to the bullying horizon-rim,
The song of the .mirac1e-God of might
The God that Does as He Likes.
Charles Ferguson, in the Critic.
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An Undertaker's "Side Line -

1.-The incest part Of my business" a
Manayunk undertaken said the other
day, lis the writing of poems for my
patrons--dirges, don't you know, la
menting the death of the departed.
Maybe you have seen some of my stuff
in the obituary columns. l charge 81
per stanza of four lines if the first and
third and the second and fourth lines
all rhyme; 30 cents "a stanZa If only
the latter ones rhyme. Besides APP
pearing in the papers, my works are
printed, usually on sheets of paper
about the size of concert programs,
with broad mourning lines inclosing
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ROYAL s fs*Sts
- ADSolUTEN pURE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYALS opoxcee

the print. and copies are sent to all the
friends of the family The recipients,
if they are truly appreciative people,
frame the poems and hang them IN
their parlors 1t is strange how prac-
tice makes perfect. Before I went into
this undertaking business l thought 1t
was very difficult to write poetry. Now
I can write an eight-stanza poem or
the dollar grade in two hours. First
get my rhymes-grieve, dove, bereave.
love-something like that, you know,
and then all I have to do is to fill in.
If business ever gets slack I'll take to
writing poetry for the magazines, but I
guess they don't pay as much as I'm
accustomed to getting. "-Philadelphia
Record
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The Love Birds.

1--WE tried to keep the railway car
riage to ourselves from Liverpool TO
London" writes young bride. The
steamer was so crowded we really had
not a moment to ourselves. At Busby.
think it was. the guard opened the
door, and. in spite of Fred's scowls,
lifted small girl into our apartment
making lot Of apologies about having
no place else. to put her. She was a
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KLUNE & FLOBERG,
. "a X Street.

real little tow-headed English girl
about Z, and she sat down on the edge
of the seat and stared about her. ~ a
whats the matter, Miss Victoria pa
asked Fred, who is the most good
natured man in the world.
II don't see the BIRDS said the
small girl, plaintively.
Birds? What birds?' asked Fred.
:. When l came from my other train
your guard said to my guard, Shove
her in along with the love BIRDS Where
are they? Troy Times.
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Our Tricks.

Sometimes as old age comes to peo-
pie there is a sloughing away of the
small courtesies of charms of manner.
Yet when 1 hear young people criticise
such lapses 1 wonder if they are not,
many of them, even now forming hab-
it's that age will confirm, and which
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A splendid salmon. weighing about
fifty-three pounds. was landed the other
day from the Wye. near Kerne bridge,
by one OF the fishermen employed by
Mr.. Moffatt of Goodrich Court. This
is the largest salmon which has been
taken from the Wye for very long
time.
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matte death. Therefore, in case of &C
cident, try to restore animation, keep
the body warm, and send for physi-
clan without delay.
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The fashionable ladies' corrective
tonic is .Angostura Bitters, the world
renowned tonic OF Or. j e. b. Siegers
& Sons Ask your druggist.
The record-union., 1899-07-31

An apple orchard in Glenwood. Ia.
occupies 800 acres. and contains 133,0uO
bearing trees.
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Mrs..
Dickinson

is one of the latest customers
to try that "spider leg" She
has been getting her coffee for
some time past at Curtis & Co. $
rlarket and henceforth will get
teas as well. 3O8 X street,
half a block below Weinstock,
Lubin s. Co.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02

has naturally taken this course. The
fact that the full capacity of the Japan
Mail Steamship Company's boats is
engaged as far ahead as next August,
is in itself a striking proof OF the
growing Importance OF the Oriental
trade that has its outlet at Seattle.
For these and other reasons the fast
mail to the Pacific coast, for which
the Great Northern holds the govern
ment contract, is fully as important
as that which daily rushes across the
plains and mountains to San Fran
cisco. The Great Northern has been
as much alive to the keen rivalry for
speed and honors as have the North
western, Rock Island, and Burling-
ton, and it is but fair that the achieve
ments of it's fast daily transcontinent-
al mail should be included in the new
chapter of railway advancement now
bsing written by the Western rail-
roads-Chicago Tribune, Jan. IA.
1899
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
FAST rIAII. TO CHICAGO.

The widespread public interest in
the contest for the fast mail contract
between Chicago and Omaha has
caused one to temporarily overlook
the similar achievement of the Great
Northern railway in establishing
quick mail communication from New
York, via Chicago and ST. Paul, to
Seattle, and thence to the Orient. The
fast Pacific mail service by way Of st.
Paul to the Puget Sound country is
now quite as remarkable as that via
Omaha to San Francisco On Janu-
airy the Great Northern placed in
service a fast through mail and pas
senger train from Chicago to Seattle
on which the mail pouches never once
leave the car after the transfer at St.
Paul.
From New York to Seattle the time
by this Northern route is just four
days. East of st. Paul the mails are
carried on several roads, but west ol
that city-on a run exceeding the
eastern portion by 500 miles 1.-The mai,
goes through without change across
4 five great states on the tracks of the
Great Northern. Forty-dve minutes
are consumed in transferring the
mails in Chicago and thirty minutes
i in St. Paul. After that the Northern
Oriental flyer does the rest without {
pause until the Asiatic mails go OF
lboard the steamers of the Japan Mai
Steamship Company. Both the i'm
portance OF Seattle as an Orienta
shi9 i9ping point and the speed of tn
Great Northern transcontinental mai
lservice make the achievement a note
worthy feature of American railwa,
4 progress.
The Puget sound cities have alread,
become formidable rivals OF San
francisco as regards the freight an,
! passenger traffic for Japan, China
and Asiatic ports. The steamer rout
from Seattle to the Orient seems to b
more free from storms than from Sal
Francisco, and as large proportion
of the Oriental exports are product
OF the Northwest the freight Atraffi
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
Dangers of the Grip.

The greatest danger from LaGrippe
is of It's resulting in pneumonia. If
reasonable care is used, however, and
Chamberlains Cough Remedy taken,
all danger will be avoided. Among
the tens of thousands who have used
this remedy for lagrippe we have yet
to learn of single case having re-
suited in pneumonia which shows con-
clusively that this remedy is a cer-
tain preventive of that dangerous dis
ease. 1t will cure la grippe in less
time than any other treatment. 1t is
pleasant and safe to take. For sale
by Hanson s. Emerson.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
A strong crusade against profanity

A strong crusade against profanity
is being conducted in Albany headed
by the Roman Catholic Bishop and
Clergy. AT pubic meeting "Mayor
VanAlstyne made a short address in
which he stated that no movement
ever started in the city of Albany had
appealed to him so much as this one,
and it gave him great pleasure and he
considered it an honor to be present
at the meeting" A movement Of that
kind in Cooperstown would not be out
of place, and might result in good
Cooperstown, n. Y. Journal.
Sauk Centre passed an ordin-
ance prescribing penalties for pro-
family in public places, and one
rarely hears an oath on our streets
nova marked Improvement in
that respect as compared with
the time before the ordinance was
passed.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
Charsberlain's Cough Remedy
Always Proves Effective.

There are no better medicines on
the market than Chamberlain We
have used the cough remedy when all
others failed. and in every instance it
proved effectual. Almost daily we
hear the virtues of Chamberlain S
remedies extolled by those who have
used them. This is not an empty puff
paid for at so much a line, but is vol
UNFAIRLY given in good faith, in the
hope that suffering humanity may try
these remedies, and like the writer be
benefited. From the Glenville w.
Va. Pathfinder. For sale by Han
son q Emerson.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
Drink Grain-O

after you have concluded that you
ought not to drink coffee. 1t is not a
medicine but doctors order it, because
it is healthful, invigorating and APP
petizing. 1t is made from pure grains
and has that rich seal brown color
and tastes like the finest grades of
coffee and costs about as much.
Children thrive upon it because it is a
genuine food drink containing nothing
but nourishment. 10 and 25c- at
CrOcers
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
A GOOD APPoINTMENr.

Gov. Lind made an admirable
appointment in the person of Dr..
j. A. Dubois of this city as mem
Der of the State Normal School
board. 1t is an honorable position
to which any man of refinement
and education might aspire, and
none other should. DR.. Dubois by
taste and training is admirably
qualified, and furthermore he has
well-defined ideas outside the
conventional and accepted which
engrafted upon the Normal sys-
TEN would be beneficial.
The supreme compliment of the
appointment lay in the fact that it
was wholly unsought and unsoli-
cited. Gov. Lind recognized in
the genial and somewhat original
doctor the man he wanted for the
place, and named him.
LATER Owing to statute
which never ought to have been
enacted, and was overlooked by
the governor, Dr.. Dubois is not
eligible for the position, and the
appointment has been withdrawn.
The law provides that no two
members of the board shall be
residents of the same county, and
Stearns is already represented on
the board by VIM. B. Mitchell,
resident directorrat St. Cloud. This
is unfortunate for the board, and
the friends of Dr.. Dubois will re-
gret that he is thus deprived OF
acting in a capacity which would
be so congenial to him. Repeal
the law and let the appointment
stand.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-02
An Honest Medicine for la Grippe

George w. Watt of South Gardin-
er. Me-, says: ''I have had the worst
congh, cold, chills and grip and have
taken lots of trash of no account but
profit to the vendor. Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy is the only thing that
has done any good whatever. I have
used one 50-cent bottle and the chills,
cold and grip have all left me. | con-
graduate the manufacturers of an
honest medicine. For sale by Han
son q Emerson.