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with the grizzlies and rattlesnakesr' said
Cissy, panting1y. go and leave me alone.
Do you hear?'' She stamped her little foot
Are you listening! Cor
Mr.. Windiprook promptly retreated
through the door and down the steps into
the garden. At which the stranger in the
veranda reluctantly tore himself away from
the landscape and slowly entered the par
ior through the open French window. Here
however, he became equally absorbed and
distracted in the condition of his beard
charefully stroking his shaven cheek and
pulling his 'goatee.''
After a parse he turned to the angry
CisSy. standing by the piano, radiant with
glowing cheeks and flashing eyes, and said
good as he sent. 1t kinder settles a man
10 near the frozen truth about himself
sometimes, and you've helped old ShadbelIy
considerably on the way toward salvation.
put ne was right about one thing, Miss
tiki The house is in the hands of the
law. m representing it deputy sheriff
fne3ne you might remember me-Jake Poole
when your father was addressing the last
citizens meeting, sittin' next to him on the
piatform-I' m in possession. 1t isn't Job
m hankerin' much arter: I'd a lief rather
aean+s moss ,f tnieves or track down road
agents than this kind o fancy. underhanG
WORK; 50 you'll excuse me, miss if l amt
got the STYLE He paused rubbed his chin
thousntfuily. and then said slowly and
win great elaboration. "Ef there's any
little thing here. miss-any keepsakes or
such triheS ez you keer for in partickler
things you wouldn't like strangers to have
you just make a little pile of them and
crop en- down somewhere outside the back
door There amt no inventory taken nor
sealfn' up of anythfn' done just yet, though
nave to see there amt anything disturbed
But 1 l-2lkllate to walk out on that yeranda
Tor spell and look at the landscape" He
paused gain and said with sigh of salts
| faction, It's mighty pooty view out thar
II just takes me every time"
As he turned and walked out through the
French window Cissy did not for a moment
comprehend him: then, strangely enough
his act of rude courtesy for the first time
awakened her to the full sense of the sit
uat1on. This house-her fathers house
was no longer hers. II her father should
never return she wanted nothing from it
nothing. She gripped her beating heart
with the little hand she had clenched so
Valiantly moment ago. Suddenly her
hand dropped; some one had glided noise
lessly into the back room, a figure in a
blue blouSe-a Chinaman, their house serv-
ant, All Fe. He cast a furtive glance at the
stranger on the veranda and then beckoned
to her stealthily. She came toward him
Wonderingiy, when he suddenly whipped a
note from his sleeve and with a dexterous
movement slipped it into her fingers. She
tore 1t open. A single glance showed her a
small key inclosed in line of her fathers
handwriting. Drawing quickly into the cor
ner she read follows: IF this reaches
you in time, take from the second drawer
of my desk envelope marked Private
contracts and give it to the bearer" There
was neither signature address.
Putting her finger to her lip, she cast a
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dolement, but was little taken aback as
the young girl entered with pale face,
stralgntened brows and eyes that shone
with audaciouS rebellion. However, it was
too late to change his attitude. "Ah, my
young friend,'' he said little awkwardly,
we must not give way to our emotions,
out try to recognize in our trials the bene-
hts OF a great lesson. But" he added, hur-
rledly, seeing her stand stin silent but
erect before him, II see that you do.' He
paused, couShed slightly, cast a glance 1t
the veranda-Where CiSSy now for the first
time observed a man standing in an OBJ
Nlousiy assumed attitude of negligent alb
straction-moved toward the back room,
and In lower voice said: "A word with
you in private"
Without replying, Cissy followed him.
n said Mr.. Windibrook with sickIy
smile, you are questioned regarding your
fathers affairs, you may remember his pc
culiar and utterly unsolicited gift of a GER
tam sum toward a new organic which
alluded today. You can say that he always
expressed great liberality toward the
church, and it was no surprise to YOU"
C1ssy only stared at him with dangerous
eyes
Mrs. Windibrook," continued the rever-
END gentleman, in his highest, heartiest
voice, albeit a little hurried, wished me
TO say to you that until you heard from
your friends-she wanted you to come and
stay with her. Do CONC! Do!'
Cissy:, with her =hri gi1t eyes fixed upon
her visitor, said: 81 shall stay here
but, said Mr. Windibrook, impatiently
you cannot. That man you see on the
veranda is the sheriff S, officer. The house
and all that it contains are in the hands
of the law "a
Cissy's face whitened, in proportion as
her eyes grew darker, but she said, soutly:
i shall stay here till my pepper tells me to
60" IL
Till your pepper, tells you to go?" re-
peated Mr.. Windibrook, harshly dropping
his heartiness and his handkerchief in a
burst of unguarded temper. Your papa
Is a thief escaping from justice, you foolish
giri-a dfsgraced felon, who dare not show
his face again in Canada City-and you are
iucky-yes, lucky, n1iss-if you do not share
his disgraceH'
And you're wicked, wicked liar!' said
Cissy, clenching her little fists at her side
and edging toward him with a sidelong
freckled cheek close to his with an ef-
frontery so like her absconding father that
he recoiled before it. And a mean, dou-
bie-faced hypocrite, too! Didn't you al
ways praise him? Didn't you cali him
Napoleon and a-Moses? Didn't YOU saw
he was the making of Canada City? Didn't
you get MIN to raise your salary-and start
a subscription for your new house? Oh
you-you-stinking beast!"
Here the stranger on the veranda still
gazing abstractedly at the Landscape gave
low and apparently unconscious murmur
as If epraptured with tine view. Mr.. Wind
lbrook, recalled to an attempt at dignity
took up his hat and handkerchief. when
you have remembered yourself and your
position, Miss Trixit,"- he said, loftily. 1.-THE
ofer have made you"
i despise It! I'd sooner stay in the woods
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few minutes she was back again. She
had exchanged her smart rose-sprigged
chintz for pathetic little blue check frock
of her school days: the fateful hat had
given way to brown straw fiat" bent
like frame around her charming face An
the girlishness-ard, indeed. a certain hon
est boyishness of her nature-seemed to
have come out in her glowing, freckled
creek. brilliant, audacious eyes. and .he
quick stride which brought her to All Fe's
side.
Now, let's CO. she said. "out The back
way and down the side streers." She paus-
at the contemplative figure of the sherlfr's
deputy on the veranda, and then passed out
OF the house forever
(To be continued next week.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS,

The following "a n list of advertised letters re-
naming in the Washington ID. c. post office Sat
urday, December 80. 1899
10 obtain any OF these letters the applicant
should call for Advertised letters
III not called for within two 90 weeks they will
be sent to the dead letter office.
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Col. Corkright-"Did that nigguh die "a
natural death. majuh?'
Major Gore-"Yes, sub: he was Iynched
Tor voting the republican ucket"-Life.
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pines. and gradually diverted her hostess
conversation into gossip of the town. If it
was somewhat lugubrious and hesitating
ii was, however, a relief to CiSSy, and bear
ing chiefly upon the vicissitudes of others,
gave the young girl the comforting glow of
comparison.
Touching the complexion of the Scamp
girls. Mrs. WindibrOok attributed 1t to their
great privations in the alkali desert. zone
day" continued Mrs. Windibrook, when
their father was i'll with fever and ague
they drove the cattle twenty miles to water
through that dreadful poisonous dust and
when they got there their lips were cracked
and bleeding and their eyelids like burning
knives. and Mamie Secamp's hair, which
used to be a beautiful brown like your own
my dear. was blaached into q rusty yell
don't suit Them said Cissy impatientIy,
Never mind, dear" said Mrs. Windibrook
ambiguously. u suppose they will have
their reward Nor was the young en-
gineer discussed in a lighter vein. TT
pains me dreadfully to see that young man
working with the common laborers and
giving himself no rest just because he saws
is DONE and why the old works failed, :
she remarked sadly. When Mr. Windi-
brook knew he was the son of Judge Mas
terton and had rich relations, he wished.
OF course to be civil, but somehow Young
Masterton and he didn't hit on Indeed
MI Windibrook was told that he had de,
clared that the prosperity of Canada civ
was only mushroom growth and i
seems Too shocking to repeat, dear but
they say he said that the new chIIrcb-onr
church-was simply using the almighty as
a big blum to the other towns. OF conrsa
MT Windfbrook couldn't see him after that
"hy' ne even said your father ought 10
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
English Penny Novels.

Penny NOVELTIES differ from one an
other in externals rather than in in
ternals. The get upof the better sort is
neat and attractive. The type is clear
and the covers might even be called
artistic in the catholic sense of the
term The inferior kinds are indiffer-
emily printed ION gray paper with blunt
type, and there are many degrees of
excellence between the two extremes
All except one have illustrations rang
ing from the rudest of woodcuts to the
smudgiest of process plates. OF
course the artist selects the most sensa-
tional incidents for his pencil to adorn.
The stabbing of the heroine's father by
the villain disguised as the hero, the
kidnapping of the heroine by Black
Tom and his gang Of gypsies at the in
stigation of her jealous rival, the horse
whipping Of the villain by the hero in
"faultless'' evening dress these and
their like naturally present themselves
as thoroughly suitable and congenial
subjects. -Blackwood' Magazine.
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We Send it Free.
WEAK men
Young and Old
Rejoice With us.
in the Discovery

When man has suffered for years with a
weakness that blights his life and robs him
of all that really makes life worth living.
If he can avail himself of complete cure,
why not possess the mortal courage to stop
his downward eource.
We will send you by mail, Absolutely
Free, in PLAIN package. The All Powerful DR.,
Hofman's Vital Restorative Tablets, 18th
legal guarantee to permanently cure
Manhood, Self-Abuse, Ssxtual Weakness
Varicocele, Stops forever Night Emissions
and all unnatural drains. Returns to for
mer appearances emasitated organs
No G o pfraud nor recipe deception. ]
wecould not cnre we would NJ send
medicine Pres to try, and pay con sa
fed. Wrase to-day, as this may .ot
again
y estorh Medicin : 20
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FIRST TO GROW ORANGES.
Jesuits introduced Them Into the
Pelican State

Jesuits Introduced Them Into the
Pelican State
The orange of Louisiana, is an excep-
tienally fine variety of that fruit, and
commands good price in the market.
The orange was first introduced into
colonial Louisiana by the Jesuits, hav-
ing been first grown by the members of
the society on their grounds, which
formerly comprised that part of the city
of New Orleans which constitutes the
lower part of the first district, down to
Common street.
While st. Bernard and Plaquemines
parishes are the chief centers of the
orange culture of Louisiana, the fruit
also grows well in the parishes of Or
leans, Jefferson, st. James, St. john
Baptist, ST. Charles, Assumption, ST..
Mary, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Vermilr
ion, Cameron, iberia and Sabine. The
orange tree begins to bear at about the
seventh year, although it is not recs-
oned to have reached its full growth
until it's twelfth or fifteenth year.
The orange culture. in Louisiana Is
probably the most profitable industry Of
the state under favorable conditions, a
full grown tree producing from $1,000
to 5000 oranges, the fruit on the tree
generally selling for SO a thousand,
snd as some of the largest orchards in
the. state yield as many as 5000, 00O
oranges their market value gives a
princely income to the owners of the
trees. Comparatively very small acre.
age Of the state isdevoted to the growth
of oranges possibly not more than
1000 acres.
The sweetness, delicacy and iuiciness
of the Louisiana orange, the best OF
which are regarded in the markets out
side of Louisiana as superior to even the
oranges of Cuba, to which island the
fruit is indigenous, render the Louisi
ana oranges highly priced in the north
and west of the United States, SO much
SO that the supply is not by any means
equal to the demand. New Orleans
Picayune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
JUST A. CURTAIN FIRE.
1t Was In q Girls BOARDING school
and Did Complicated Damage.

II Was In q Girls BOARDING school
and Did Complicated Damage.
A fire in a skyscraper may be thrill
ing, but for dramatic episodes and I'M
expected complications fire: in girls
boarding school surpasses it. The board
ing school fire is usually what is known
among insurance men as curtain fire,
but a curtain fire in girls school is
more exciting and causes more casual
ties than an ordinary blaze anywhere
else.
One evening last week two girls, who
occupy a microscopic hall bedroom in a
swell up town school, tack the globes
off the gas, fxtures for hair curling pur-
poses and left them off, because il was
easier to do that than to sdt them on
again. Then the girls raised the window
! trife in order to cool the room and
dutifully sat down to write home let
tiers. The inevitable happened. and
when girl number one poised her pen
in the air and glanced around the room
in search of inspiration she saw the
curtains in blaze. She screamed. Girl
number two looked around and echoed
the scream. Then, with promptitude
and discretion, both girls tainted. The
screams had attracted the attention of
the other girls, who rushed to the scene
and then did various and sundry stunts
according to their several dispositions
One tainted, several wept, few ran
out of the house, and the rest shouted
ff,1,t "a ono oy,f "a
When he arrived, things looked rather
hopeless. Curtains and woodwork were
blazing finely The floor was Uttered
with PROSTATE forms, and when three
girls have tainted on the floor of a hall
bedroom there isn't much space in the
room for promenading. The man picked
his way across the PROSTATE forms and
ordered all the girls who were not in a
dead faint to leave the room, but they
didn't go until he lost his temper and
spoke with a force which isn't common
in boarding school circles Then they
fed; but, unluckily, there was an enc
my in the rear. A vigorous and practi-
cal woman from Texas had been inspir-
ed to go after some water. Returning
in mad haste with large pitcherful
of water borne triumphantly aloft, she
collided with the retreating forces at
the door. The pitcher struck the leader
of the retreat squarely in the face and
knocked out two of her front teeth
whereupon the injured girl made the
fainting trio quartet and the water
carrier dropped her pitcher and went
into violent Mysteries.
Hysteria as boarding school teachers
know to their sorrow, is contagious
and The one case touched off the crowd.
By the time teachers arrived upon the
scene the fire was out but the survivors
were in bad way. 1t was necessary to
put nine tenths of the school to bed and
order wholesale doses of bromide. Even
now the girls insist that they haven
recovered from the shock sufficiently 30
do hard studying, and the victims Of
the water pitcher are both under the
care of trained nurses AS for the man,
he gave up his place the next day and
confded to the cook that he was going
to look for a job in a lunatic asylum,
where his boarding school experience
would be of value to him. New York
Sun.
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Malicious interference.

s'I'll get even with that printer, =
said the editor of the Plunkville Bugle,
'sif it takes me the rest of my life. :"
What printer - asked his friend
''That tramp took on while my wife
was visiting her mother. I got $40
write up out of old Hiker, who is lay
ing his pipes for the senatorship, and
said that some day his little son would
make as big a mark as his father, and
that villain fixed it that the young 'un
would be- as big mark. etc. In
dianapolis Journal
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Smoke One with Me.

ssDo you smoker" asked the middle
aged man. "You DIDN'T two month:
ago. You oughtn't to smoke, my boy
you're too young and not strong look
ing. : Then the elderly adviser started
to light cigar. Have a cigar p, he
said absentmindedly, as he scratched a
match The young man took the cigar
and bit off the end.
These are very mild, ended the
speaker, presumably for the benefit Of
his conscience very mild, and won t
hurt you any. New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
The Tuna.

My introduction to this prince Of the
Pacific was on this wise: My brothe.
and were trolling for yellowtail off the
island of Santa Catalina. Suddenly out
of the summer sea a flying fsh-the
humming bird Of flashed
athwart our bows and then, not dozen
yards distant, the waters parted and a
huge tuna, in its resplendent livery OF
blue and silver, swooped with indescrib
able strength and rapidity upon its
quarry. catching it, mirabile dictu, in
midair. In fraction of second tn.
deed was done. The ocean, recording
the splash of the leviathan, rippled ap-
plause. and our questions battered like
hail upon the somewhat hard under.
standing Of our boatman, son Of Al
SAGE.
Eyes, = he said, his white teeth in
curious contrast to lean, bronzed face
yes, messieurs, that is tuna, zoe
FOUNDER, at least Pail Mall Gazette.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
TAYLOURS AND SMITHS.
They Were the Commonest Trades
In the Thirteenth Century.

They Were the Commonest Trades
In the Thirteenth Century.
The manufacture of leather in ths
thirteenth century seems to have beef
important, showing that leather jerkin,
and breaches were commonly worn. We
have 10 skynners, 40 barkars, 6 sad
delers, 8 cordeweners, 1877 souters
(shoemakers) and glovers The sur
name feuster is trade name denotine
maker of pack saddles.
The commonest trades are taylour ane
smyth, since one lived in almost every
village. The taylours number 407, OF
whom 140 are called by the Latin name
of cissor. In addition to 261 smyths
several are specialized. There are two
arusmyths, three lokesmyths, three
goldsmyths, five fferours (shoeing
smiths) and six marshalls (farriers).
The wright wrought both in VOC
and metal. The number catalogued il
1856, of whom 81 are called by the Lati1
name faber French favre), one of tn.
few cases in which the Latin transla'
tion of trade name has become com
mon surname. The wryghts' trade, like
that of the smyths, was specialized.
The arkwryght made the great arks OF
chests in which the clothes or meal
were stored, and we find q plowwryght,
wheelwryght, two shippewryghts, II
caxtwryghts and two glasswryghts (gla.
ziers), who were probably concerned
with the windows of churches Glass
windows in houses were rare, as is still
the case in Sicily or Egypt.
The bakesters are few (15), suggesting
that families baked their own bread.
Thereare 26 butchers (heshewer, bochel
or carnifex), whence Labouchere, while
the surname potter shows that this
trade was in existence. The fyssher
(43), were opulent, being taxed 1S time4
as much as laborers. Notes and Que.
ries.
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Capacity of st. PauI,..

As many as $4,000 people have been
accommodated in st. Paul's cathedral,
but that has been with temporary gal
leries, ETC.. erected On festivals only
between 5000 and 1000 people find
seats. At an ordinary service about
4. 900 people will make the cathedral
look quite full
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Useless wish.

ooh, sighed the poetic lady, chad
I the wings of a birdl''
"Don'tl'' protested her husband.
ssDon' twish for the wings of bird If
you had them, some other woman
would probably be wearing them on her
hat before the season is over. Wash
ington Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
SONG.

a, what Is better than this, my DEAR.
What is better than thisf
The thought of night which has lostfts way
Between tomorrow and yesterday;
The full Of the tide and the gray of this sea.
And gull that circleth endlessfy
The breath from s.wind which bloweth well;
A sail that hasteth new ports to tell,
u aught is better than this. my dear,
Find it not here. I find it not here.
Blanche Trask in 1sThe Land of SnnshineA~
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A well known professor says that
over large area of central Russia the
magnetic needle does not point north
or south. It is in one part detected to
the west, and at another part to the
east, and at one place it points due east
and west.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Two Points Of view.

s'My children, : said the poor man
sadly, "are crying for bread. =
Which shows, replied the rich man
coldly, sshow much you have to be
thankful for. Now, mine are crying FOR
honbops Brooklyn Life.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
The Honeymoon.

An early Anglo-Saxon custom, strict
~ followed by newly married couples,
was that of drinking diluted honey for
80 days after marriage. From this GUS
tom comes the word honeymoon or hon
eymonth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Northern Pacific

Ar. 1905 a. m Going East lie. 1920 a. m
Ar. 1925 a. N Going West lie. IL o5p.m
Trains going east. connect with main line
trains at Little Falls.
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Train Time.
Great Northern.
GOING EAST.
Park Rapids Branch

Arrive at Sank Centre 1I-sop.m
Leave Sank Centre .... 100 pm
All trains run on Sunday except Nos / am
and the branch
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EMMA LEWIS, N. G,
EVA DAVIS Rec. Secy.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02

Valparaiso, Rsbekah Lodge N0.89 Meet
the Second and Fourth Fridays, in Odd
Fellows Block
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CIVIC SOCIETIES.

4 A M-sauk Centre Chapter No. 49-
Meets First and Third Fridays, at Masonic
Hall. GEO. c. INGRAHM, II. P
R. R. KELLs, Secy.
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