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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
WILL VISIT CUBA.

Alger and Congressional Committees t.
Go After Congress Adjourns.
CHICAGO, Feb. IA special to Tha
Tribune IRON " &slington says: Secgs
rar- AIgeg and the g1aE.ccss or GHo cen
ate and house military committees ana
their wives will go on tour through
the West Indies. They will sail from
New York on March 6, which is imme
diately after the adjournment of con
gress, on the steamship Berlin, and vii.
be gone until April 1. The party will
live on the steamer during the entire
trip and make short trips into the int
rior of the islands of Cuba and Porte
Rico. They go to study the military
requirements Of the islands.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Removed by Governor Lind.

ST. PAUL, Feb. 1.-Governor Limo
has removed ]. S. O'Brien as president
of the state board of prison managers
and sent to the senate the name OF
David Bronson of Saltwater as his sue
cessor. Mr.. O'Brien contends that the
governor has no right to remove him.
and appeals for a hearing before an
impartial body. What the senate will
see fit to do remains for the next chap
ter. The governor claims O'Brien is, by
his own showing, not fit man for the
hlace,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
is A RECORD BREAKER.
Snow Storm Continues Over a Greater
Part of Colorado.

DENVER, Feb. 1.-THE snow storm
has continued all day over the greater
part of Colorado and it is said by old
settlers to be a ecord-breaker. Nearly
all the mountain railroads are block
AIDED and in most cases the companies
have given up the hope of operating
them until after the storm subsidies. At
Como, in the South Park, it has been
showing continuously for five days and
IS inches have fallen in the last "a
hours. A rotary pillow with three en-.
gines left here during the afternoon
with gang of carpenters to remove a
snowsllde and repair a bridge neal
Mount Princeton and thus release a
freight train which has been imprisoned
since Friday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Determined Teller,s Vote.

WASHINGTON. Feb. LIN the senate
debate Mr.. Bacon (Dem. Ga announced
that he would not vote for the ratiica
ton of the treaty unless some declara
tory resolution against permanent occu
patton of the Philippines was adopted
by the senate and house and signed by
the president. Mr.. Teller said: ''That
reply will determine my vote, and in
dictated he would vote for ratification.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Ingenious.

''My wife is the most ingenious wom-
an who ever lived" said Ripper.
81 believe you. " returned Nipper po-
itely.
"But you don't know why you be-
ieve me, intimated Ripper.
'.To tell the truth, I DON'T" replied
Nipper. looking bored
"Well, I'll tell you. We've been
married 10 years and lived in the same
house all the time, and this morning
she found new place in which to hide
my slippers. London Standard
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Explains the Proclamation.

PARIS, Feb. 1.-The Filipino junta
here has received a cable message from
Hong Kong explaining the second proc
lalnation of the Philippine republic.
The message says: "The first procla-
nation, in August, was the work OF
Aguinaldo and the generals. The sec.
ond is the unanimous work of the Fill
Pine assembly,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
No wonder Russia Is Ignorant.

Russia, with her population Of 1884,
600, 600, has only TAB newspapers, but
little more than half the number pub
lished in the state of Pennsylvania,
which is /, 430. Of the TAB there are
$50 printed in Russian, SO in Polish.
Al in German, 9 in French, in Ar
menian and in Hebrew No English
newspaper appears in the list.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Rates in BAD Shape.

CHICAGO, Feb. Another emergency
has arisen in connection with the con
duct of passenger business between Chi
cage and st. Paul. An urgent call was
sent out for a meeting of executive of
fcers to consider and prevent, if pos
sible, any further decentralization in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Extra Paw For Naval volunteers.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA bill was
passed at the opening of the senate ses.
sion granting extra pay to the officers
and men of the temporary force of the
months extra pay to those
who served beyond the limits of the
United States, and one months pay tc
those who served within the United
Ctatoc
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Next season. OUTPUT ALREADY Sold.

CLEVELAND, Feb. Lit has been as.
certained that already more than halt
of next seasons output of the Lake SUI
perior iron mines has been contracted
for. 1t is not at all improbable that all
of it will be disposed Of before the end
of the week. This is condition of af-
fairs entirely unprecedented.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Kearsayge Tries FropeiIors.

NEWPORT News, Va, Feb. /. The
big battleship Kearsarge has been given
its first trial in the James river for the
purpose Of testing its propellors. The
result was in every way satisfactory.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
british Steamer Ashore.

KEY WEST, Feb. Ia British steam
ship, whose name has not yet been
learned went ashore at o'clock a. m,
near Sand Key lighthouse. Her cargo
is cotton and slaves from Galveston.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
GRAY Explained His Attitude

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-When the sen
ate went into executive session Senator
Gray took the floor. He advocated rat
ifcation Of the peace treaty and eN
planned at some length his attitude il
in the Paris conference.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Jewish women to Be Represented.

CHICAGO, JAM 80. The Council o.
Jewish Women has about completed
arrangements for a representation at the
triennial meeting Of the council OF
women of the United States, in Wash
ington, Feb. 1918.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Buhonic Plague at PORT Louis.

PoRT LOUIS, Island of Mauritius, Jan.
3O.-Several cases Of the bubonic plague
have been discovered here.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
Prolong Mixed Tribunals.

CAIRO, Feb. 1.-All the powers have
agreed to prolongation Of the mixed
tribunals for year.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02

About 1000 tons of iron and brass
wire are yearly manufactured in Brit
ain into pins.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02

William A. Clark, who received 81 OF
the SO votes cast. Twelve of the six
teen Republicans voted for Clark.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
"SrocKToN, N. Y, June aS, 1894
NJ NJ Er~,Npp EraID,;a NJ "

we want to tell you of the fine laun-
dry work we are doing, and give
everyone that appreciates a beautiful
color. and fine, medium finish on their
linen the benefit of our experience and
expert workmanship.
BEN SCHOENHOFF,
eauk Centre, Mimi.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02

"
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
AS AN EMcYcLoPEDla.

It is the PRACTICALLY USEFUL well
LATEST and MOST SCHOLARLY It contains oyer 5000 E3eySo
whole human knowledge condensed for INSTANT
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
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MAPS and charts NEARLY 300 Of
them dlineang portion of the known world These
-OLUTELY INDISPENSABLE understanding OF
recent changes in geographical knowledge.
AS A DICTIONARY.
1t is the ripest nguists of modern times is an
ana
English
both England America alone comprises nearly 5000 closely
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AS GAZETTEER.
1t ebodes the statistics for THE ENTIRE WORID ana
hundreds INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL
TOPICS, elected by the investigators of the o. s.
CENSUS BUREAU.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09
ANOTHER NEW YEAR.
Age ReckOned by Inward Signs-OId
Only ms Our Growth in Manly and
WOmanly Virtue Would show.

A modern author suggests that if all
record and measurement of time by
hours and days and years could be
abandoned, we should gradually adopt
newer and truer standard, and count
our age by inward rather than out
ward signs.
If, by transformation of mental habit
this retrospective reckoning could sud
denly be brought to bear, in what new
aspect should we see ourselves and
our friends. How old would many
seem who are yet in the vigor of youth,
and how youthful many whose brows
are wrinkled and crowned with silver
hair. We might not wholly separate
time and growth. but we should meas
ure time for mortals as we do for trees.
by the indications of growth.
Who does not know the difference
who looks back and sees how the life
less years of his past lie half forgotten
while the life of the vital years has pow
er still to set every pulse athrob? These
years count, the others are ciphers. We
are as old as their grand vitality
inwrought into experience and ripened
into character has made us. We are
as old as our thoughts are high and
deep; as old as our love is wide and
warm; as old, and only as old, no mat
ter how many our years, as our growth
in manly and womanly virtue would
show. The brain may have absorbed
facts and theories and PHILOSOPHERS
about goodness and the real self be
learning the alphabet of Gods lesson
of obedience and trust.
These being the natural food of the
soul, it's real growth depends on the
souls power of assimilating what has
been prepared by Divine hand for
its nurture. Yet on no amount OF
thought about obedience, or love, or
goodness will the hungering human
nature thrive. Nc careful analysis of
foods will build up the wasting tissues
or give new strength to the growing
body, only that which enters into the
life becomes part of fiber, and blood,
and bone.--Washington Home Maya
zine.
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over the snow. Eleven-quarter past
-half-past-how close they werei al
most touching hands!
little voice reused Abel Tappan by
and by-Becky 's-but he had never
heard Becky's voice from such ads
lance before. He seized the lamReeSsd
hurried upstairs, where he and his e
beloved, motherless Becky and d
Nance lived. Il
The child was tossing on her bed, ret
ting plaintively. Her little face, iItthe
lamps feeble glimmer, looked unduly
flushed and thin.
"My back aches SOL" she whimpered.
Becky's back ached so! Becky's lit
tie straight-no, o! Lord have mercy,
it was crooked! 1t bowed out pitfully
against the little white sheets. Becky's
face was sharp with pain.
Abel Tappan shuddered from head to
foot. The lamp shook in his hand un-
safely Through the blur on his glahes
the little tossing head on the pillow
seemed strangely far away from hi m
Was it his little, plump. rollicl1ing. dan
cling Becky-his straight Becky he had
been so proud of always?
I'm so thirsty in my throat"
moaned the little crooked Becky on the
bed.
He bent down unsteadily and kissed
her. His heart broke in the kiss. a ~
'Daddy'll fetch you drink right'5T, y
he faltered.
But she thrust away the glass he
brought her.
ut don't taste good-take it away
daddy. I'm so thirsty in my throat"
Eyes, yes; daddy'll go get some nice
fresh water, right out of the well. You
wait, Becky"
Becky lifted up her small, tangly
head and gazed up at him reproach,
fully.
Take it away, daddy" she cried
Put lemon init don't taste good.
want a squeeze O. lemon in, an sugar
I'm so thirsty"
Abel Tappan's grizzled head bowed it
self beside the child's.
yes, yes; daddy1l fetch a lemon
right away and make it taste good,
he mumbled in an agony of grief
against her cheek. ''Daddy'll see to it
all nice"
Back in the store again, he could
find no lemons. though he searched and
researched with logged insistence
Where could they be? There had been
plenty of them, over there on the sec
ond, right-hand shell. in a row.
! He moved boxes and cans, he cleared
Becky's little wall sounded on, unceas.
J ing, in his ears. lie must find them He
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

McKie, but his wife amt. She's a real
devoted woman, and works dreadful
hard. Maybe she don't know how to
make the money spend as wells she
might, but that amt shiftleSsness. And
| never saw tenderer hearted mother
than she is to that little sick girl ot
hers. l guess she humors her to pieces.
Poor little thing"
Abel Tappan stirred uneasily. A rev
of golden lemons on the shelf looked at
him with silent reproach. The water
don't taste good" a boys eager voice
said in his ear.
''She looks like your little grand
daughter too" Mrs, Wyncoop went on
driving the shawlpin home with In.
trepid m-''every body noticed it, Be
fore she fell downstairs and crooked
her back the teacher-she boarded with
me then-said you could hardly tell
those two children apart when they
were together. She used to get EN- all
mixed up at school. Same colored hair,
with the same kinks in it. and their eyes
just alike, and even their little dimp'es
matching! The little McKie girl was
fat and well then, like your Becky"
The lemons blinked their yellow eyes
reproachfully. Mr., Tappan strobe be
hind the counter and swept them, with
succession of clatters. into the money
drawer, out of sight He was mentally
reviewing the items of Page 46. He
knew them by heart, How many, many
of them were little unpretending lux
uries that a little, peevish. sick child
might crave! How few of them-her-
rings now and then. and salt Goldfish
or oatmeal--were necessaries! 1t had
nettled him over and over again to
think of it, but now somehow, It
touched him against his will.
Yes, o, yes. he knew they used to say
the little McKie girl-Love, Dove, what
was her name?-looked like Becky
His Becky! His little round, roly poly,
happy Becky!
After Mrs. Wyncoop's departure Aba'
Tappan took the big brown ledger back
to the corner desk still open. Doggedly
he turned the pages and went to work.
With quick steps the little New Year
was hurrying to meet the Old Year,
His light footsteps made no creaking
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

her bill tonight, you see if she amt,
Becky says set down here by the
fire, do-and here you are! Well, all
is, wish there were more like you in
the world! Those shiftless McKies,
nOw-that little scamp of a Jot's been
in trying to get trusted again, but I've
struck. guess it's about time, too"
He got down his big book from the
high corner desk and spread it open on
the counter, turning the pages labori-
ously. Abel Tappan was his own book
keeper and had his own peculiar fash
ion of keeping" the great, leather
covered book-a fashion that would
have first puzzled, then tloored the dap
Per, precise graduate of a commercial
college. But it sufficed for Abel Tap
pan very well.
"Forty-two, forty-three, forty-four,
forty-five - Wyncoop; that's your
page" he said And l declare if Page
46 amt the McKie page, right across
from yours. I'd forgot that. Twenty
INTERCHANGEABLE dollars and eighty
three cents. There you are, Mis- Wynn
coop! You better reckon it up yourself
and make sure it's all right. We're all
as liable to mistakes as the sparks that
fly upward"
He tilted up and down on his toes,
mildly intredulous of any possible err
ror in his reckoning, while Drusilla
Wyncoop went over the columns from
the top downward. Her lips chippered
audibly over the task.
Eyes; that's just right. Abel, and I'm
only thankful it isn't any more. Lord
of liberty. who'd believe nutmegs an
pepper N salt would cost most $30!"
Her eyes rested on Page 46, still lying
open on the counter. Her own page, OPP
posite, looked almost empty in COMPARE
son.
From top to bottom and from side to
side, Page 46 was full of minute, I'M
steady words, traced with cramped
painstaking and flanked by a relentless
column of figures.
What a pageful" she exclaimed
you don't say the McKies owe the
whole of that? Land of liberty! don t
see how they get wink of sleep. and
New Year right on the verge, too! |
couldn't"
81 guess it don't keep them awake
any. Shiftless folks can sleep with their
heads under water"
Mr.. Tappan's voice loud with scorn,
echoed back from the high rafters.
Mrs. Wyncoop shook her head re-
monstratingly. The words issued a lit
lie twisted out of shape by the fat
shawl pin between her lips:
80. no. no. Abel; you shan't call them
shiftless. | don't know about jerome
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

Then he had been asleep. He had had
a terrible dream. Thank God, he was
awake now! He carried Becky back
upstairs, feeling every step as he went,
with slow care. Then he tucked her
into bed among blankets and quilts, and
kissed her.
His lamp was Pickering out, and he
got another and carried it down stairs.
The big book on the high corner desk
lay open at page 40
What!
Abel Tappan could hardly believe his
eyes. He took eff his glasses and
rubbed them on the lining of his coat.
But when he put them on again, he
could still see two wavy, criss-cross
lines meandering from corner to corner
of page 46.
Mrs. Wyncoop's page, opposite, was
clean and uncrossed.
well, now, who'd We believed it!'
he lau.y hed, in loud delight. His heart
3elt light and glad. 81 did it myself
instead O crossing out Mis- Wyncoop's!
And it can stay, too It'll remind me
that l amt going to press that poor
Mckie woman mite-not mite-not
| if she can't ever pay up. She's got a
poor little spindling, crooked backed
| girl, and the Lord knows that's enough
affection. That's more'n I could stand
Il With careful painstaking, he retraced
the slanting lines, his pen splutteriEg
| tiny flecks of ink upon his intent face
''There!" he breathed softly, 81 guess
they're black enough to remind me if ]
amt stone blind! Now I'll turn over a
new leaf"
At the top of the clean, new page he
wrote, in his small, unsteady letters
the word Lemons"
"I'll send Becky over with 'em first
thing in the morning-if can find 'em,
he added, laughing again. Then he
slapped his thigh in a sudden spasm OF
recollection.
why, bless your heart! they're il
| the money drawer this minute, holding
| their sides, like as not. l ralled 'em al
in to get 'em out o my sight"
A sleigh load of belated jewellers was
crunching past. Their gay voices rang
out, and their laughs chimed in pleas
antly with his.
He hurried to the door, unlocked il
and shouted after them at the top OF
| his voice, little BecRy's 'Wisher Happy
New Year!"-Anrie Hamilton Donnell
in Country Gentleman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

could not go back to Becky without
them. The yellow labels on some of
the bottles Knocked him and led him on
to unavailing hopes. The dim lights
twinkled their eyes and jeered at him.
merry party going past outside
shouted and sang, and he shook his
tight fist toward them angrily. Where
could the lemons be? he asked himself
over and over i'll dull wonder. If he had
only remembered to look in the money
I'LL!
I'll go down to the Forks-they II
have 'em at Denby's," he muttered.
It's good mile, but l don't care if i S
50! | don't care if have to wake up the
seven sleepers, neither
But how long it took to find his great
coat and get into it! He tried to hurry.
Heavy weights seemed to hang to his
limbs and drag them back with dla-
bolical persistence. Would his arms
ever go into the sleeves? Was it go
ing to take till crack O. doom to get
his hat on his head? Big drops of sweat
scurried down the seams of his har-
gard checks. He set his teeth dog
gedly.
If the lemons in the money drawer
had only logged against the door of
his memory
TN find one-big one-steal one
anything!" he cried aloud.
Hark! was that the little voice, muf-
fled by the folds of the thick comforter,
still calling to him? Was it growing
clearer, nearer?
"Wisher Happy New Year, daddy"
Why, it was Becky said it herself,
standing in the murky doorway ?
/ Becky. Her voice shrilled out to him,
triumphant and sweet.
Abel sprang forward in sudden hor-
ror and caught her in his arms. Her
little nightgown fell away from her
bare toes, and he felt the chill of them
against his wrists.
Happy New Year" he repeated, me-
chemically, after her. He was hugging
the little cold feet fiercely to his breast
and burying his face in the tousled hair
1t was Becky - Becky - and her
cheeks, against his, felt round ard
warm. And she sat on his arm az
straight and strong as little ramrod
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09
Ought 10 Be Satisfied.

We'll, you ought 10 be satisfied, any-
way" said the party manager to the
defeated candidate
Satisfied" exclaimed the defeated
one. How do you make that out ?"
"Why, when you asked me to run
you impressed it upon us that the office
was nothing to you, but that you we're
willing to sacrifice yourself for the ben
eft of your party"
what of ito"
"Well, your defeat merely clinched
the sacrifice you were willing to make"
Chicago Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09
Chance to Get Even.

"a Kentucky man recently married
the granddaughter of a woman who
once refused him."
Gracious; what vengeance he will
tc able to wreak."
81 don't see where the vengeance is to
come in
why, he will be able to address the
woman who had once refused him
as grandmother "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

Brother Staybolt," said the amiable
Mr.. Gratebar, (which should you say
was the greatest incentive to effort. the
fear of punishment or the hope Of re-
ward ,"
"WeH, I should say" said the some
what acid Mr.. Staybolt, that necessity
was a greater incentive than either
n Y, Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

"What is professional, pop?"
"A professional, my son, is one who
INDUCES in sport where money fig
ures."
''Whan you go fishing and buy your
fish, that doesn't make you a probes
sional, does it?''-Yonkers Statesman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09
Recognized by n Description.

Mrs. Barginby was regaling Mr.. Il
with few selections from the aGver-
Using columns.
"Now, here's something" she ex-
claimed, that I'd like to have in tables!
just see here, John. Polished white
top and carved legs"
At that instant little Madge entered.
whats that?" said she. 'Wno's
been writin' in the paper bout gram
pa?"-N. Y. Truth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09
A Noble Young Man.

81 trust, sir, that you have not been
indiscreet enough to speak to my
daughter about marriage" said the
stern parent to the youth who had
just asked for his daughters hand
81 have not, SIR" replied the youth;
"but I was strongly tempted to do so
last evening when she kissed me good
night on the steps. Daily
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

Mother-No, Tommy, you mustn't
have any more turkey. I'm afraid it
might make you sick.
Tommy-Wel. if folks didn't get sick
the doctors couldn't have any Thanks
giving.-Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

She was a maiden fair, and he ID.
An ordinary count.
He didn't have a bloomin' cent,
But shea large amount.
They married-all our maidens long
To wear a royal yoke
Now maiden hasn't got cent
And count" Is also broke"
Denver Times