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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23

80 Ey5.sl SIROBlkA EEAPOSED.
Take, for instance, the trick t'Stro-
Fblka," played by Hermann a few years
ago The audience is shown a small plat
form about four by six feet. This is
suspended several feet from the floor.
The audience can see all about it. A
committee is sent up from the audience,
which, by the way, is a genuine COM
mittee, without any knowledge Of the
trick. A man, picked from the audience,
is stretched out on the platform, hand-
cuffed, a steel band isssplaced about his
neck and locked. and his feet are placed
in locks and locked, all by the committee.
The committee retains the keys. Cur
tains are drawn for an instant. They
are opened and the man is gone. In his
place lies Nine Hermann, or whoever
the assistant may be, as securely locked
as was the man. The committee has to
use it's keyes to release her. The COM
mitteemen, during the time the cur
tains are closed, are able to see entirely
around the platform, above, below and
on all sides. The committee lis really as
much puzzled as the audience
That's easy chuckled Everett last
night. 1.-THE man who does the act is
paid in advance. He is laid out on the
platform and shackled by the committee
Before the trick is set Nine. Hermann
takes her place on the platform. There
( pOSLs EACH WHICH
curtains are strung. When the trick IS
to be played Nine. Hermann steps into
a stirrup on the left hand post. The
curtains when Qpened. fold around her
and hide her. The minute the curtains
are drawn she hops down and releases
the man with q key which opens the
locks at once. The man takes her place
and she lies down and drops the locks
over her arms and neck. The curtains
are opened and hide the man.
CLEVER sI.EIGHT OF HAND.
The best trick Nine Hermann does
Is the billiard hail trick, and that's pure
sleight of hand The trick, as the au-
dience sees it, consists of producing FIVE
billiard balls at different times from
the air, and holding them between the
fingers of one hand. It's q hard trick
for a woman, because her fingers are
smaller than a mans.
Three Of the balls are genuine solid
balls. Besides that she has half shell,
which. from the audience, looks Ike a
genuine ball She holds the shell be-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23
The lsoluti0n Of Bread.

Trct Times.
the colonies by breaking it with a hand
pestle In a mortar. The white man I'M
proved upon the Indian method by rig
gin ,s,, up an apparatus like winam j,
was then introduced, and finally the grist
mill run by water power, and the grind
stone superseded the laborous pestle and
yeast, baking powders and light breaG,s
as cooks 2 s--- -rr,,'c--fand it ROW.
Hats I'm .4.e 1,Ouse OF Commons. z
Speaker Denison. If he saw member
wear any unwonted headgear other than
the regulation tall hat, would send for
him ard point out the irregularity. In
these days billy-cock hat has frequently
been seen in one particular quarter of the
house, and the innova ton is tolerated
What Speaker Denison would have said
or thought if he had seen a few straw
hats in the extremely hot weather of last
session the writer canEot venture even
to conjecture. A referen e to hats re-
calls the curious custom which prevails
that when member wishes 20 interpcse
with point of o-Ger after the question
has been put from the chair he must
speak covered On one occasion Mr.
Gladstone wished to s..eak in this way.
and, as he never brought hat into the
house, he was obliged hastily to borrow a
hat. It happened that the hat which he
borrowed be onged to his then .olicsto.
general. Sir F. Herschell fafter ward the
lord chanceHor), and It proved to be far
too small for Mr.. GiaGs.ene.s head. Fe.5
was Una Die fcr some time 10 address the.
house owing to- tic slerts of laugh err
which his q peatanee called fast Good
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23
The Easy state

Old Acquaintance-Why, hello, Jimmy! Been
good many years since saw you last. /
nope YOUR getting on well in your business?
Jimmy Cracksman-Oueo' sight.
Old Acquaintance Splendid You don't
know how much good 1t does me to hear tina,
Let's gee, what is your business?
Jimmy Cracksman-Robbin banks n oa.o.-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23
Senatorial Snun

That senatorial customs rarely change is
shown by the presence Of two old-fashioned
snuff boxes in the senate chamber at wash
they were in the days when it was the fashion
to take snuff. Few of the present members
use the boxes. though occasionally one of the
older southern members will go up take q
pinch. = and calmly await the sneeze Sana.
to $ Bate of Tennessee and Pettus of Alabama
the oldest men in the senate, sometimes visit
the smut boxes. The boxeH are of lacquered
redwood, and are fastened to the wan On eaeb
side Of the presiding officers chair.-New Or.
leans Times Democrat
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23

Of acres. There Mr.. Rogers has blaoded
cattle and game preserves and he carries
which have been introduced into the
farming of wealthy, men. Very fine sbut-
Ter Is produced at this farm Now, us
ually when rich men make butter to sc 1
tney sell 1T under some romantic dairy
name name. Mr.. Rogers has never done that.
FOR years the only butter the best liyars
Of o. = Jefferson thought Of allowing on their
tiI3I was the Rogers butter. And tdc
To Jacob s. Rogers. Dr..
Six lbs butter at 40 cents 20 40
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23


tween the thumb and first finger OF the.
left hand. Every time she waves her
left hand round and produces another
ball she is getting the next one out OF
a pocket at her side with her other hand.
Then she apparently makes a pass at her
left hand with the right. while in reality
she conceals another genuine ball in the
half shell. Then when she waves her
left hand around again she drops the
ball out of the shell between her other
myers and shows an extra ball.
The trick in which she produces a
cup of boiling coffee and cup Of boil.
ing milk from box Of paper is dead
easy. She has four cups instead of two
She dips the empty cups into the boxes
Of peer and pours out the cut paper.
showing the empty cups to the audience.
The third time she dips each cup in She
changes It for the cup of coffee Or milk.
which has been prepared in advance. Ii
has a paper top glued on to hold the hot
coffee In. When she raises it and shows
It to the audience It looks as if 1t was
iull OF paper. Then she passes her
handkerchief over. it and takes the ma
per lid off. The steam comes up from
the hot coffee and The audience goes
'nutty' IS - q -, :,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23
A GENUINE TESTIMONIAL.
sTROBIKA EXPOSED.

solved by Herr1nann's assistant! How
near to detection are the magicians all
tht, t{yr,a1 49, * 49, e4l-s1' u
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-23
GROWING FLOWERS.

q ~ - -tsazs
q. That little trick where she produces a
pusnel or two of paper flowers from a
pain sheet Of paper is done in this way:
she carries bag of flowers in, the bosom
of her gown. When she is waving The
: sheet OF paper around she slips her
thumb into loop in the bag, and draws
1t out. Then she rolls UP the sheet into
a cornucopia, breaks the bag and the
flowers roll out. That trick IS done by
nearly all cf the sleight-o' hand perform
ers. e#5 $3.50 E& -tshsE - 40 -
Her duck trick is done with a trick
table. She pulls a lot of paper ribbons
out OF a paper hoop and throws them on
the table. Then she pulls the .fiumidid-
dles' and grabs up the paper ribbons She
jerks out live duck and runs down to
the footlights for applause The duck is
previously put into a cloth bag. with a
stick run through some rings at the TOP
closing the bag, and the duck and bag
are hidden in the top Of the table and
when she picks up the paper she pulls
the stick and the bag opens and let's the
duck out. - :. -, :
" One Of the prettiest tricks that the
ola man (Hudson used the term loving
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
Havana Free From Yellow Fever.

Havana Free From Yellow Fever,
Major w. G. Gorgas, chief Sanitary
officer of Havana, in a report to the
War Department, on the sanitary con-
dition of the city, says that June COM
menced, probably for the first time,
with the city free from yellow fever.
In regard to the reason for the alb.
sence of yellow fever, he says:
[ cannot but hope that this excep.
tionally good condition, is in great
part due to the large amount of labor
and money we are expanding in the
destruction to mosquitoes and the cir
cumstances point in the. same direc-
tion. Formerly we paid no particular
attention to the mosquito, merely dis
injecting for yellow fever, as we do for
other Infectious diseases.
Major Gorgas reports that l, 400 gal
Ions of coal oil were used in May on
pools of standing water to kill the
mosquitoes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
Silver Wedding.

On Tuesday last MIR. and Mrs. Con-
rad Botz, who live south of the city, eel
ebrated the twenty-ffth anniversary
of their marriage. At 8 O'Clock in the
morning appropriate religious SER
vices were held in ST. Paul's church,
which were largely attended, FIR. Artz
officiating. Immediately thereafter a
large company of friends and neigh
bors accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. Botz
to their home and the festivities COM
menced. A fine dinner was served to
a hundred and fifty guests. The after
noon was given up to social intercourse
and sports, and in the early evening a
supper as inviting as the dinner had
been was enjoyed heartily by a like
number. In the evening the younger
people assembled and the evening and
far into the night was devoted to dane
ing. In all fully $50 people were pres
sent, and the occasion was thoroughly
enjoyable. Everybody had a good
time, the host and hostess proving
themselves royal entertainers. ALI
their children were present, only one
of the dozen being married, the Oldest
daughter, Mrs. Frank Swartzbaue~,
who had her three children with her.
There were a large number of appro-
pirate presents contributed by the
guests. The Catholic Order of Forest
ers presented silver tea set, which is
very beautiful. The formal presenta-
tion was made by Frank E. Minnette.
Friends were present from New
Munich, Grove Lake, Meier Grove,
West Union, Raymond, Getty, and
fully fifty from this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Botz are among our
oldest and most respected residents.
and were married in this city twenty
five years ago. The entire community
join in cordial congratulations, and
the earnest hope that they may be
spared in health and prosperity to
celebrate the golden event, twenty five
years hence.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11

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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
REMOVAL.

P. LAMB has removed his office to the rear
rooms in the second story of the Post-Oaice
Building, entrance first door to the right at the
head OF the stairs. Where he may be found at
all times prepared to issue Policies Of Insurance
in Reliable Companies, at reasonable rates.
To negotiate Farm Leans, on the most reason
able terms, at the lowest rate of interest, and
without delay. All Principal and Interest c.
Loans made by him are payable at his office.
No gold clause and partial payments allowed if
desired. He also keeps ON hand for sale
full line of Booths Legal Blanks, and is pre-
pared to draw papers OF all kinds.
He respectfully solicits share of your pat
ronage. p LAMB.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
Odds and Ends.

A store in New York which makes a
speciality Of fancy articles foE woman's
wear recently displayed in a window
two chains Of coral beads. One was of
round, smsothly polished beads and
bore the legend, limitation coral, 65
cents" The other, of ragged, uncut
coral, was marked. Real coral, %
cents"
There is nothing odd or peculiar
about the sleep Of the lions and tigers.
In captivity they show the same indif-
ference to danger that they manifest in
the jungle and by day or night will
slumber through an unusual tumult,
unmindful Or unconscious of the noise.
Their sleep is commonly heavy and
peaceful
The title of defender Of The faith" is
still so much priced that the British
form of 1S49 had to be recoined be-
cause the letters F. D. were omitted
from the legends. Paul III in bis bull
of accommodation eanceled3Henry
Wits title of defender Of the faith. =
which, however. was confirmed to the
king by an act Of parliament.
Sailors in the American navy are bet.
ter fed than, those Of any of the navies
Of the world. The pay is small. but
they are better treated in every respect
than are other mariners who sail the
seas over. This may be one of the rea-
sons that account for 80 large q per-
centage Of Europeans in the service OF
the American national marine.
Among the first persons to1introduce
manufactured fertilizer in this country
was the late William Treg5. the son OF
a Quaker farmer of HartfosN county,
Md Mr.. Trego first ,ma4ufacfured fer
tilizer about 1880 from bone In very
crude way. This fertilizer was shipped
to his father. who used 1t oh his farm.
In the early stages of this Industry
manufactured fertilizer was regarded
with more or less suspHcien. by the
farmer.
The city Of Zurich must be the very
paradise Of clubs. In proportion to
the number Of IT'S Inhabitants it DOS
sesses more clubs than any other city
in the world. = At the end Of 1893 II
already had 534 clubs, but in 1901 they
had increased to I'll, Nearly every
one Of them holds itsty yearly, quarterly,
monthly or weekly "vereinsfest," SO
that If a citizen could only get him.
self elected member Of each Of them
he might keep two festivals every day
Of theayear.
Five thousand copies Of the present
constitution Of Missouri were printed
in 1891 in compliance with thesurgent
demand at that time of the farmers
unions of the state. The Missouri con.
stitutisn, adopted in 1876. has remain.
ed unchanged since except BY minor
amendments adopted In 1884 and 1850
One. of its PROVISIONS Is the following.
All elections shall be free and open. Nc
power, civil or military, shall at any
time interfereAo prevent the free exer.
ciseo the right Of suffrage
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
FACTS IN FEW LINES

It IS estimated that the men Of Great
Britain spend f25O,OoO a year on silk
hats.
Algeria has four zones in which Pc
troIeum occurs. One of them is 125
miles long.
A manuscript Bible of about the year
141O was sold in London at auction for
LOO guineas.
According to insurance statistics. tee
totalers may expect II years more life
than drinkers.
The 81 beet sugar, factories In this
country now yield more than a third Of
our domestic sugar product
Western Australians public school in
struction is secular and has for it's
5 textbooks the Irish national series.
New Zealand has so. many rapid
streams and rivers that their water
might be easily utilized to supply mo-
tive power for machinery.
New South Wales paid f743,OOO in 15
years for the destruction Of over d.
100000 noxious acknowledgements,
wallabies, dingoes and others.
Atmospheric sharps say that even at
the equator the average temperature
Of the sea at the depth Of q mile Is but
degrees above freezing point.
Victoria holds the nugget record,
with the Welcome Stranger, found In
1860, 100 pounds, and the Welcomel
found In 1858, 14S pounds ounces.
The cities Of Dublin, Belfast, Cork
and Limerick, with total population
about equal to that Of Glasgow, con-
tain less than q sixth Of the population
Of Ireland
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11

Immediately following the ceremony
which occurred at 10 a. M, the wedding
party and number of pers onal friends
of the two families were rendered a
reception at the home of the brides
parents. A breakfast was served, and
a right down pleasant social time was
had.
Both the young people are we'll
known and highly regarded by all.
The bride is young lady of sterling
character, and Mr.. Jenc one of the
vigorous, industrious young farmers,
whose integrity is beyond reproaeh.
He has fine farm of 240 acres near
the brides parental home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
Real Estate Transfers.
Reported by J. M. Emme1, Register of Deeds
StearnS county.

Reported by J. M. Emmel, Register of Deeds
Stearns county.
Geo. M. Kolb to Stephen Schwartz WI
of lot blk 16 Melrose, S170O.
Theo. Hoescnen to Herman Schooner
part lot blk 6 Freeport, $1,000.
M. A. Woodbury. to Sarah B. Wood
bury nw1 sec 126 IS, $4,000.
Jos. Stadtherr to Wenzlaus Stadtherr
lot block Belgrade, $3.50.
B. Borgerding to John Berlinger set
nw4 and others, sec 4 LIB 80,
$1,000.
McGregor Bros. not only keep first
class livery stable, but their prices are
right. ...
The strong demand for range horses
has spread even to Arizona. An
English syndicate, we are informed,
had agents in that territory buying
up lot of horses and hitherto it's pur-
chases have equaled 500 a week with
the prospects OF the same continuing
as long as the available supply holds
out. It seems that this purchasing is
apart entirely from the British Gov
ern1nent's efforts to obtain cow-ponies
and other animals suitable for the use
of mounted infantry operating in
South Africa, but it is probable that
on close investigation there will be
visible an intimate connection between
the two buying enterprises.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11
MARRIED..

JENC- WEHREHAHN-Att the German
Lutheran church, Rev. Koring of
Long Prairie officiating, Joseph Jenc
and Miss Annie, second daughter of
August Wehrehahn, all of Ashley.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11

Big lots of shoes will be closed GU
at big bargains at The Big Boston.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-11

McGregor Bros. not only keep first
class livery stable, but their prices are
right. -..a ..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-24
Suicide Rooms

In one of the local asylums for the
insane there are certain apartments
known as ''suicide-rooms." These are
set aside as harbors of refuge for
those patients who manifest a strong
desire to end their lives. Everything
in these rooms is round. There are
no knobs or posts to the beds, for
the maniac would tie sheet around
any such projection and hang him
self. For the same reason there are
no gas fixtures and no inside shutters.
There are not even door knobs, while
the doors themselves are made to open
outward. When the men undress their
clothes are carefully removed from
the room, so that they may not be
used for strangling their owners. All
the edges of bureaus, the backs of
chairs, ETC., are carefully rounded, so
that there may be no points upon
which the inmates might beat their
heads. No canes or sticks are al
lowed in the rooms. The doors are
left open at night, and keeper pa
rades necessarily up and down be-
fore them.-Philadelph Record.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-24
The Pioneers.

The territorial pioneers of Mime
sofa must have been strong souled,
cheerful, lusty men and women if the
humor and good cheer which 500 of the
members of the association showed at
the Log Cabin at the state fair grounds
can be taken as measure Of their
spirit. The weather was quite against
them, but the meeting has never been
SO large and the day has never passed
off with SO much satisfaction to every
one concerned as did the annual meet
ing of 1901.
The afternoon was given over to
jollity and merry-making. Dancing
was feature of the afternoon, not by
the young people assembled. but by
the real pioneers.
The officers elected for the coming
year are: President, John S. Pillsbury,
Minneapolis: first vice president, E. W..
Durant, Saltwater; second vice presi-
dent, William Pitt Murray, ST. Paul;
secretary, M. G. O'Connor, st. Paul.
An old-fashioned stage coach took a
party of the members early in the day
to the grounds, and piled to and from
the Log Cabin during the day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-24
HONORED IN CANADA.
Lord Strathcona Who Was Made a
Baron by Victoria.
Considered by Many the Most Distin.
guished Citizen of British Amer
ics-His UnexceIled Record
as d philanthrOpist.

One of the distinguished visitors
who will be in attendance at the
great Y. NJ. c. A. jubilee in Boston
in June, and who will give one of the
addresses, is Lord Strathcona, high
commissioner for Canada, and one of
the most eminent men in that coun-
try. A man of large wealth and gen
erous heart, his benefactions have
been so many and they have given
evidence of such broadness of spirit
that he has been ikened to the
American George Peabody. Lord
Strathcona was born in Scotland in
the year 1920, and before he became
Lord Strathcona he was plain Don
aid Smith. He went to Canada when
he was mere boy, and he was IS
when he became junior clerk in the
Office of the Hudson Bay company.
To the active outdoor life and the
honest toll that were his daily por-
ton during many years of his service
in the Hudson Bay company he at
tributes the physical vigor and men
tai alertness that are his at the age
of 81. Step by step he rose in the
service and in the esteem of the great
Hudson Bay company until he became
one of its most important factors.
He has been member of the
house of commons, and he did not re-
tire from political life until his
seventy-fifth year, when he was APP
pointed high commissioner for Can
ada. His services to his native and
to his adopted country had been SO
valuable that in 1886 the queen con-
ferred upon Donald Smith the order
of knighthood, and in the next year
he was still further honored by her
majesty, who made him Baron Strath-
coma and Mount Rayol, of Glencoe in
Argyll, and of Montreal in Canada.
Of Lord Strathcona's philanthropy
it may be said that on one occasion
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-24


of the queens jubilee in 1887 he, with
Lord Mount Stephen, gave million
dollars for the building and endow-
ment of the Royal Victoria hospital,
and second large sum was given for
its maintenance. To McGIll universe
ty, a Canadian institution of which
Lord Strat hcona is chancellor, he has
given many thousands of dollars, and
he has given further proof of his in
terest in higher education by erect
ing and endowing the Royal Victoria
college for women. He has been a
most generous patron of art and he
has endowed a Canadian scholarship
in the Royal college of music in Lon
don. His heart and his purse have
ever been open to the poor, and his
private benefactions have been many
and unstinted. But the act of splen-
did munifcence that has given him
an enduring place in tie hearts of
his countrymen was that patriotic
deed by which he again testified his
loyalty to his queen and her empire.
This act was the raising of the regi-
ment of the Strathcona horse and
sending to the support of the queen
mothers arms in South Africa COM
pany which he saw was needed to
meet the Beers on their own ground.
When the Strathcona horse visited
England on their return from the war
the snowy-haired old man was the
hero of the day.
He is known as Canada's "Grand
Old Man." and as such he will be
given a royal welcome when he faces
the mighty audience that will be
sure to meet him in Boston on the
occasion of his address at the Y. NJ.
C. A. jubilee meeting in June.