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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29
COULD NOT AGREE.

Republican Senators Consider the Porto
Rican Measure without Result.
WASHINGTON, March 28.-The Repub-
lican members of the senate spent two
and half hours in caucus in an effort
to reach an agreement upon the Porto
Rican legislation now pending in the
senate. The caucus was apparently,
however, without material result, the
only accomplishment being decision
to proceed with the general bill as it
now stands without separating the tariff
feature and to discharge the harmony
committee from further services.
During the sitting there were 90 or
more speeches made. All Of them were
Of more amiable tone than the
speeches in the caucus fortnight ago.
But while good feeling was generally
manifested and all senators who spoke
expressed themselves as DESTROYS of
reaching an amicable understanding
there was but little or no disposition to
yield point which would produce that
result. Indeed the free traders on the
one hand and the tariff men on the
other were quite as obdurate as they had
been at the previous caucus.
Hope for Opposition Aid.
There number of senators who will
oppose the bill even with the amend
ment recommended. They are, it is
understood, Senators Davis, Beveridge,
Hoar, Wellington, Mason, Simon, Proc
tor and Nelson. 1t is also said that
Senators Kyle, who heretofore has acted
with the Republicans, and McCumber
IN. d. will not vote for the house bill
unamended, but it is believed they will
vote for the amended proposition.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29
IN THE TRANSVAAL.

Dispatch From Kimberley Says British
Have Crossed the Boundary Line.
LONDON, March PA dispatch to
The Daily Telegraph from Kimberley,
dated Sunday, March 25, says:
prisoners brought in here report that
force of British cavalry has entered
the Transvaal and penetrated to point
10 miles north of Christiana. The Brit
ish forces at Fourteen Streams are be-
ing strengthened. A movement north
ward is expected soon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29
ADVANCE of twenty Per Cent.

PHILADELPHIA, March 27.-In accord
ance with their notice posted shortly
after Jan. /, 1900, promising an advance
to their employees to take effect April l,
the Berwynd- White Coal Mining COM
pany has notified all its miners of a
general average advance Of 20 per cent.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29
Reoccupied by Beers.

BARLEY WEST, Saturday, March
a. -Griquatown was reoccupied Thurs
day by 400 Beers. A column left Kim
berley yesterday Thursday to drive
them out. 1t is reported that all the
loyalists there, including the women,
have been imprisoned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29
,Joubert Again at Pretoria,

PRETORIA, Friday, March %, via
Lourenzo Marques, March 26.-General
Joubert has returned from Kreonstadt.
He is full Of hope and may return to
Natal shortly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29
Hope for Opposition Aid.
Boers Reoccupy Papkuel..

BARELY WEST, March 28.-A COM
mando of 400 Beers has reoccupied Pap
kuel, forcing the rebels in the Herbert
district to rejoin the federal flag. Elk
tensive looting is reported in that direc-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
Origin of the Negro Race.

In an article on the origin Of the
negro race in The North American Re
view Sir Henry NJ. Stanley held that
the cradle of this race. as of so many
others. was in Asia, whence the negroes
migrated to Africa. in which continent
they were barred from intercourse with
the rest of the world by the severe and
exclusive Egyptians and by the geo.
graphical barrier of the Sahara and the
Mediterranean on the north and the At
lantic and Indian oceans on the west and
east. Sir Henry endeavored to show the
effects on the Africans of the more than
1000 years of inbreeding which resulted
from this isolation of the race. The
writer said:
There is no need to seek for traces Of
a submerged continent to locate the home
of the first woolly haired negro or the
clay colored bushman and darker pygmy.
Asia is of sufficient amplitude, provided
we allow time enough and take into con-
sideration its varieties of climate, for the
strange divergences in the human races
to have taken place within it. The con-
tinent that exhibits the almond eyed Mon
golian, the blue eyed Circassian, the deep
black Gondas and Bahillas, the dark
Paharias. the dwarfish Aeta. the hook
nosed Jew and the short nosed Tartar
could surely, in the very earliest ages
of man. have produced such contrasts as
the woolly haired negro and the silken
haired Aryan. But in all my travels l
have seen nothing more wonderful than
this-that. in whatever disguise / have
found man, something in him seems to
justify the belief that we are all the
children of one Father"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
Why Hair Does Not Curl.

Each hair is provided with a gland and
a muscle. The size Of the gland varies
considerably in different individuals and
from any observations appears larger and
better developed in the negro race.
Straight hair is always circular in sec
ton and is usually thicker than curly
hair, which is ribbonlike and fine, the
finest human hair being met with in the
Bush and Andaman races. These facts
have a most important bearing on the
subject. In order that the muscle may
act as an erector of the hair it Is nscea-
sary that the hair must be sufficiently
strong to resist the tendency to bend. IL
the hair Is so weak as to bend before the
action of the muscle, the leveriike tend
ency is nulli6ed.
When the hair Is fine and ribbonlike.
the action Of the muscle bends 1t into q
curve, and this is the reason why the hair
assumes a cuPiy form
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
He Sent His Eye.

A certain railroad issued an order re-
quiring all its section foremen to report
to an oculist on a certain day and have
their eyes examined. One afternoon. aft
er those present had undergone the ex-
animation and the eye doctor was about
to close up for the evening, a messenger
boy rushed in with small package neat
ly tied up in tissue paper and which
proved to be glass eye. The following,
and evidently hurriedly scrubbed. note
was attached:
"Oye inspector: Dear Sur-The day
befoor yesterday, at nune, got word to
cume down and have me Use looked into
fur culur blindness as ye call it. I had
As ties and 10 rales to put down beyont
the sand cut, an as jerry Sullivan an
Dominick Cody hav' bin indishposhed
since the wake that was holded over the
ded corpus of Danny doherty, me hands
wor tue short to spare me. Twas lucky
that the rite oye that wus first in me he'd
were nocked out wild q pix, an me glass
eye, that Is a purfect fgger Nv the oye
that was not put out, Is STINT to you for
denomination. l cud spare the glass oye
better than the oye in me he'd, an II she
is cutler blind I'll git me one what amt.
Yours thruly, Mike Donohue."-Ksnsas
City Star
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
oUARLES HELPED HIM.
But He Had TO Pay For His Fish On
That Occasion.

But He Had TO Pay For His Fish On
That Occasion.
When Senator Quarles Of Wisconsin
was a student at Racine college, he had
for classmate q young man who was
more attentive to piscatorial pursuits
than he was to his studies. Consequently
he relied upon Quarles to coach him at
Rotations. One of the requirements
was an original essay from each member
of Quarles' class once q fortnight. The
piscatorial chum had drawn on Quaries
for papers till Quarles thought 1t time to
call halt, and one day he refused. His
chum had a big fishing expedition and
pleaded earnestly for one more essay.
'What do / get" asked Quarles.
"Half the fish," was the reply.
"All right" said Quarles, I'll help 700
out once more"
On the afternoon for essays the usher.
man student took his place, and when he
was called he stood and read in the most
solemn manner "LochiePs Warning"
His voice never changed from start 70
finish. Lochiel and the wizard were one
and the same to the reader. The class
suppressed its laughter, seeing that the
professor never changed q muscle. After
the reading the professor asked:
"Mr. A., do you wish the class to I'M
derstand that you offer this as originate"
Certainly, sir. Entirely So" was thu
reply.
There is a striking similarity between
your paper and the poem of Campbell on
the same subject. Have you ever read
Campbell"
(which CampbellT" IL
Thomas Campbell, the poet" '
''No, SIR"
eff you will come to my room after tho
class is dismissed, will show you the
poem"
you had better show It to Joe
Quarles," said Mr.. A., who realized BY
this time that be had been victimized.
and, turning to Quarles, he said: IL
you get any fish today. you pay for EN-
Understand '-Chicago Tribune.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
BROKEN BRIC.A-BRACS.

Mr.. Major, the famous cement man, of New
YORK. explalnS some very interesting facts
about Majors Cement.
The uuItitudes who use mis- standard article
than other cements for which similar claims
are made, but great many do not know why.
The simple reason is that Mr.. Major uses the
best materials ever discovered and other manu-
facJurcrs do not use them. because they are
TOO expensive and do not allow large profits.
MIR. Major tells us that one of the elements of
his cement COSTS 1878 a pound, and another
costs $3.50 u gallon, while large share of the
so-called cements and liquid glue upon the
market are nothing more than siXteen-ccnt
glue, dissolved in water or citrc acid, and in
some cases. altered slightly i'll color and udor
by The addition of cheap and useless materials.
Major cement retails at fifteen cents and
twenty-five cents a bottle, and when dealer
tries to sell Il substitute you can depend upon
1t that his only object is to make larger prutit.
The profit on Majors cement is rs much as
any dealer ought to make on any cement. And
this IL doubly true in view of the fact that en- Oh
dealer gets his share of the benefit of MIR.
Majors advertising. which amounts to
over So goo month, throughout the country.
Establisht in 1875.
Insist on having Majors. Don't accept any
offhand advice from druggist.
If you are at all handy land you will be likes
ly to find that you are good deal more so than
you imaginel you can repair yonr rubber boots
and family shoes, and any other rubber ard
leather articles, with Majors Rubber Cement
and Majors Leather Cement.
And You will be surprised at how many dol
lars years you will thus save.
Ii your druggist can't supply you, IL will be
forwarded by mail either kind. Free of post
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
LINcoLN's ATTACK OF SMALLPOX.
1t Was a Well Defined Case, Though
Not Very Severe.

1t Was q Well Deflned Case, Though
Not Very Severe.
'"Though the official records of the Dis
trict do not substantiate it, it is a matter
of fact and in the memory Of the older
physicians of the city" remarked a well
known physician to Star reporter, that
President Lincoln suffered from an at
tack of smallpox while he was president.
He was confined to his room for several
weeks. though except for three or four
days, while the disease was at its height,
he signed all official papers that required
his personal signature.
Though the authorized publication
was made at the time that the attack
was q mild case of varioloid, it was a
well defined case of smallpox, though not
very severe. The health board of the
city was not as particular about reQuir-
ing smallpox signs to be hung out then
as during later years, but the yellow
flag was placed ON the White House door.
The president was attended by IN
army surgeon. 1t was understood that he
contracted the disease from a visit of an
Illinois officer who was patient at Kalo-
rama hospital, where there were many
hundreds of patients from smallpox dur
ing the winter Of 1864. Indeed small
pox was epidemic that winter, and many
soldiers, as well as civilians, died from it.
President Lincoln was the only one in the
White House who suffered from 1t.
During his recovery he wrote a letter
to a personal friend which found its
way into the newspapers and which has
been referred to in many of the lives of
Lincoln which have been published, in
which he said: For the first time I have
plenty to divide up and can, think, fully
satisfy all who come, for / am told l
have smallpox enough to accommodate
all seekers. / am glad to add that il
everything turns out as the doctors in
form me shall be in better shape to
receive my friends in about one week.
Under the circumstances, so as to Gre
ate as little alarm as possible, the cause
of President Lincoln's illness was kept
from the public for nearly two weeks,
but afterward no secret Of it was made.
1t was amusing to read the publications
which were made at the time in regard
to the presidents illness. Several Of the
New York papers persistently denied all
the way through that he was sick at all.
while in several southern papers that
came through the lines the statement
was made that not only was the presi-
dent sick, but that he had smallpox of
the most virulent type and that his death
from the same was regarded as certain.
For a week or so. while the president
was at the worst. his family, as a matter
Of precaution, were guests Of friend at
n country residence near Silver Springs,
Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
Might Change His Mind.


The late Sir Frank Lockwood was de-
tending man accused of swindling and
in an eloquent peroration talked of his
much injured client as an angel Of light.
When Sir Frank had finished his
speech, his client whispered that he
wanted to shake hands with him. when
first my solicitor told me what he was
paying you," said the client, II grumbled.
but since I have been listening to you
have come to the conviction that the
money was well spent. and apologize.
That half hour talk of yours about me
has done me good. 1t is many years since
have experienced the luxury Of self
respect, and it is worth the money"
"Oh, that's all right" said Sir Frank
Genially, but you take my advice and go
out Of court. Sir Edward Clarke. the
lawyer ON the other side. is just going to
speak"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
Moral BookIxeepinR.

The Chinese are perhaps the most prac-
teal people on earth. A curious system
Of moral bookkeeping adopted by many
shows this feature of the national char
acter in a very curious light There are
books intoxicating the price of VIRTUE"
and in these q regular debtor and creditor
account is opened. in which an individual
charges himself with all his bad acts and
credits himself with all his good ones.
and the balance between the two exhibits
his moral position at any given time.
At one place in China where there was
no inn l slept in a room with q coffin
which had been unburied for FIVE years
because the geomancers had not decided
on lucky site or date for the interment,
and for the whole time incense had been
burned before it morning and evening"
From Mrs. ]. f. Bishops "The Tangtzs
VallavD
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

II see you are building a new house,
Mr.. Bung."
eyes. you are right"
made the money out Of whisky, sup
pose?"
No"
'Why. you are a distiller, are you not 2"
"Oh. yes. But the money I'm putting
into this house was made out of the wa
ter put into the whisky. Every farth-
ing was made out of the water, SIR"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
TILL DEATH w PART
"Nll death u part"
90 apeaka the hart.

''T1ll death u part" r.
Do speaks the heart,
Whsn each to each repeats the wsrds 81 aee0j
Through blessing and through suSss,
For better and for worse,
We will be one till that dread hour shah come.
Life with Its myriad grasp
Our yearning soul shall clasp,
Aye. ceaseless love and still sxpeotsut wonder,
In bonds that shall endure.
Indissolubly sure,
TIL God in death shall part our paths asundsR.
4...-.
It'll death Us join,"
Oh, voice yet more divinei
That to the broken heart breathes hope sublime
Through lonely hours
And shattered powers
We still are one despite Of change and time.
Death, with his healing hand,
Shall once more knit the band.
Which needs but that one link which none may
sever,
Till, through the Only Good,
Heard, felt and understood,
Our life in God shall make US one forever.
Dean Stanley in London Spectator.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

The translating of the English spirit
ual songs into the foreign languages often
causes ludicrous readings which are quite
equal to any of the slangy irreverence of
the impudent young American.
A certain missionary relates that he
got an Indian scholar to assist him in
:ranslating into the Indian vernacular
.he hymn
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.
Imagine his surprise and chagrin to
,ead the following loose lines:
Very old stone, split for my benefit.
Let me get under one Of YOUR fragments
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
ToUSE'S FIRE COMPANY.
Little Opportunity to Fight Flames,
hint Uaeful I'm Other WAYS

Little Opportunity to Fight Flames,
but Useful In other Ways.
A stranger went into the engine house
in Lasalle street and asked questions.
After he was enlightened he said to his
informant:
There have been some changes in the
business since l was in it. | reckon you
never heard of the Touse volunteers"
The informant never had.
.'Touse is the name of the town. It's
spelled Taos. 1t was a lively place i'll
its day, down in the lower end of Buch-
nnan county, Mo.-county that st. Joes
in. 1t was a volunteer outfit. the COM
pany was. We had hand engine, and
our uniform was red shirts. blue nankeen
hreeches, red top boots and oilcloth caps.
You never see any caps like them now"
Have many runs"
Not to fires. There wasn't but one
fire in the town in two years, and that
was a haystack.'
You hadn't much to do, theh?'
Didn't wei We YVES in demand all
the time. Touse was great place in its
day for runaway couples to get married,
and. as the captain of the volunteers was
the justice of the peace, he always called
out the company to be present at the
connubialities. as he called them, and
there was no marriage until we got there.
Sometimes there was q dance after the
wedding in the public square, and the
bride had to allemande left and sashay
with every member of the volunteers be-
fore she did with her husband.
"Then we used to have foot races on
the Fourth of July, and whenever there
was n comfy fair we wore the ones alto
gether lovely. In the winter time. when
the circuit rider came to town and got
up a revival, we always turned out, and
if the sinners didn't come to taw as lively
as they should we would pull straws to
see who would go up as mourners. and in
that way the revival would be prolonged.
1t was always understood that the one
that pulled the short straw had the priv
ilege of backsliding after the season was
over.
'There were no secret orders in Touse
at that time, so when prominent citi-
zen kicked the bucket. as we said of
man when he died. the Touse volunteers
turned out and planted him with Masonic
or ODD Fellow honors. according to the
wishes of his friends. There was no
hearse in the town, so we put the de-
ceased on the engine. If his friends want
ed Masonic honors over his grave, our
cuptain would toot the trumpet: il it was
Odd Fellow honors that was demanded,
we rung the bell. and 10 that way stran-
gers in Touse always knowed which way
the deceased had affiliated, so to speak.
in his life. There wasn't much in Touse
that the volunteers didn't take a hand
"-Chia9Go TgihRnR-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

An investigator of matters geological
said: Il saw stated in a natural history
volume that il worm should be divided
the anterior part would grow tail and
the posterior part would grow n head.
l took L. worms and divided them, plac-
ing the divided parts of each worm in a
separate glass. In less than a month I
had 20 worms, losing only two tail parts.
The head parts had grown tails. and the
tail parts had grown heads. Then 1 d.
vided two worms into halves and put
the four parts into q glass, into which
placed earth, but no food, and the head
parts ate the tail parts"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

We call It ice cream To the English
It is known as cream ice. Just when or
where it was invented is the question
many people have tried to solve. In the
beginning Of the century it was almost
unknown in England. though well known
in Naples and Sicily, where the cream
was artfully made into copies Of peaches,
apples. apricots and such dainties. much
as we have them today made In molds.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
Clumsy Fellow.

"Some people," said the timid man.
"are criminally reckless. Now, think,
the man who jumps on a moving train
10 fool"
"Well, II he isn't one." replied the
other, "he feels lie a fool when the wo-
man to whom it belongs looks at him an
IL she'd like to chew him up."-ExchangA
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
Baugh's Potato Fertilizer Will GrOw
OATS Too,

Mr.. John W. Walker of PlensantvilIe, grew
this wear on his home farm. lil bushels OF oa e
machine mensurfment) on u lite more THAI
two acres of ground, wILh 3I5 bushels seed
sown. Mr.. Walker has been using successful
~ for several years Baugh's High Grade Fer
tillzegs made from animal bone base.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

"It Is true." affirmed Uncle Allen
Sparks, that it is never too late to
mend. but it Is sometimes too late to do
a good job."-Chicago Tribune.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

Labor is noble, but of two ancestors
people generally brag more Of the one
who enjoyed life on money he did not
have TO earn.-Indiannpolis Journal.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

The life Of man consists not In seeing
visions and in dreaming dreams, but in
active charity and willing service
Longfellow.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

# man was generous uncle to his
sisters children befors he married. she
always looks upon his children a. iuteY
lopsrs.-Atchison Globe.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21
substitution Books ODened,

At a meeting of the Directors of the Bel Air
aud Havre dc Grace Electric Railway and
Power Company, held ut Hsvre de Grace, May
%, 1900, it was resolved that Books for Sub
scription to the Capital Stock of said company
be opened to the public at the Office of Noble
i. Mitchell. In Bel Air, and at the First National
Bank Of Havre de Grace. on June Is, 1900, at
10 A. NJ. The par value of the stock will be
twenty five dollars, (S25) per share.
By order of the Board,
w. BEATTY HARLAN.
Secretary.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-21

A husband waiting for his wife at .
bargain sale is about the cheapest thing
in slSht.-Chicago News.