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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-14
A TRAPDOOR.

partition and swing back out of the
way when not in use. These come
up against the battcns Of the door
when it is raised AID are hooked firm
1y to it. There is no danger of falling
into this trap.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-14

g. view TO pre-
venting any such
occurrences. As
indicated III the
cut, B is a plank
door, a a are
pieces Of plank
hfnrc6 fn tho
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-14
A Safe TrapIoor.

Trapdoors in barns and elsewhere
have not infrequently been the source
Of serious accidents. An Ohio Farmer
correspondent has designed door with
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-12-10
The Man From the Grocery Side
Has Good Word for All

In the grocery department are showing something
new-a complete liue of the Rochester brilliant ware
1t does tarnish rust is much more durable than
silver and looks we'll Oar holiday suggestion is that
you present yourself, well your friends with
sensible, servceabe gift; tea set tray, cake basket or
baker, in fact have everything from mush boiler
to a napkin ring, cheap goods in all lines abound Buy
something known to be lasting-Rochester brilliant
ware. We have the exclusive sale of this ware.
In decora ted china have of the preest pat
in cake and berry SETS pieces in set prices from
81 90 to 49, gold trimmed center floral sprays of hand
painted buds and blossoms, useful presents. In this
line also have cups and saucers shaving mugs choc
oate sets, table SETS If you could them you would
agree better selection could not have been made
Just four patterns in left in andpainted frosted
and colored glass; very nice for Christmas presents
Silverware, Rogers 100 pvt knives and forks 81 IS
So per set tablespoons, 81 to s3 teaspoons 6O cents
to 81 so.
Space will permit to describe every article we
have that makes pretty, as we'll as useful gilt TOR
Xmas these standard and good sellers the year
round and articles that will be appreciated such as the
1900 washing machine, labor saving device or COM
pete set of dishes; have them in several patterns
pink, green, purple and purple and green.
We have not forgotten the children. Our assortment
of Xmas candies, and fruits is complete and they
already know where they get the most for their money
Will have special sales in this line during the holidays
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-12-10

The most amusing of the toys is "The performing sea
lion" real, moving, living, breathing thing.
The trained ostrich, drawing cart, with a darky
driver, runs walks and the driver viii ps
The battleshp in action the automobile with rubber
tires goes like the wind Guns that shoot and guns
that pop and ships and games all kinds of nice things.
Linen books tool chests and banks soldiers outfits and
the like Children early and stay till you have
seen everything.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-12-10

store his distributing station for all
the toys, games and dolls for this 10
.ality, so. children you must come
and see what grand array Of nice
things he has left for you, for we
can't begin to describe them.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-12-10
NECKTIES
SUSPENDERS

Men overstocked with suspenders till they
have pair for each pair of trousers Those "Presdent
Suspenders" put up but pair in box the best
suspenders made, silk and cotton web, Csc; all silk
web only ST IS, being put up in beautifully deco
rated box makes them a very desirable present.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
TWO-FOOT DRAGON-FLY.
The Longest Insect known Is One
That Is IL Native of
DOrneo,

Which is the largest insect is not an
easy matter to decide, as the question OF
shape has to be taken into account. saws
Nature.
The longest known insect is undoubt-
eddy the stick insect of Borneo. Speci-
mems 13 inches in length have been can
tured. 1t is an interesting example OF
mimetic coloring, resembling in a re-
mariable ann a piece Of Trough stick,
On the Dough Of a tree it is extremely
difficult. to distinguish between the in
sect and the bark.
Borneo is also the home of one of the
largest specimens of dragon-fy. A speci-
men of the sub family Aeschna meas
ures six inches and a half from wing to
wing, and is endowed with a correspond
ingly strong body.
Another giant insect is the Hercules
beetle, found in the West Indies, which
rivals a sparrow in size, and might turn
the scale against one in weight.
Some tropical butterflies measure from
10 TO - inches across their wings, as
does the great owl moth Of Brazil.
The largest insect of antiquity was a
species Of d~ragon-fy, which measured
more than two feet across the expanded
wings. 1t fiourished during the carbon
ferrous period.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
wtxdom of the Sparrow.

One kind-hearted m who lives
e a schoolhouse in this city and has
been in the habit of feeding birds says
that the sparrows have learned some
thing since the sparrow law went into
effect. She says that it is impossible
TO get a sparrow to come down from the
tops of the trees until after school takes
up. She has tried sprinkling crumbs
on the ground for the sparrows, but
they will not come down until after the
schoolbell rings. Then they come quite
freely. This story bears out the theory
of an enterprising boy who thought to
get a lot of sparrows. He fed them
literally for several days, and got them
in the habit of coming quite often and
in numbers to his back yard. Then he
soaked broken grain in arsenic and put
it with the food. The sparrows came
in a great crowd. One sparrow took
one mouthful of the feed, gave a cry,
and all flew away, including the n
that gave the alarm. After that he
could get no more of them to come
down TO the yard.-Decatur (Ill.) Re-
view.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

makes liberal provision for the support
of the victims.
Though it is not generally known,
| leprosy exists in many parts Of the
| United States, Louisiana, Florida, Cali
fornia and Minnesota being the chief
centers. Leprosy has been known in
Louisiana since 1855, and has increased
there of late years, becoming epidemic
about 1866. A report sent to the senate
commission Of medical officers Of the
marine hospital service, shows that lep-
rosv is distributed in the United States as
follows: Alabama, one case; California,
"a: Florida, "a; Georgia, /; Illinois, S;
Iowa, 1; Louisiana, 1856; Maryland, 1;
Massachusetts, 2; Minnesota, 20; Mis-
sissippi, 5; Missouri, 5; Montana, 1; Ne
yada, 1; New York, Z; North Dakota,
16; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, /; South
Dakota, /; Texas, 8; Wisconsin, 3; max
| ing a total of 27S cases.
The disease Is now generally regarded
as both contagious ana infectious and
! scientists urge strict segregation. Inter
national conferences on the subject are
held from time to time, and the reports
Given at these meetings show that as yet
no progress has been made in the cure of
the disease. The bacillus of leprosy was
discovered in 1873 by DR.. Hansen, of Nor
way. but scientists confess themselves
ignorant of the conditions under which
the bacillus grows and develops, as we'll
as the way of its invasion ito the human
system.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

Fate, Tex, Sept. 2l.-Texas has seldom,
if ever, had such a profound sensation as
that caused by the introduction recently OF
a new remedy for kidney diseases. This
remedy has already been tried in thousands
of cases, and in almost every case the results
have been wonderful.
Henry Vaughan, of Rural Route No. 8
Fate, says of it:
81 suffered with Kidney Trouble for ovel
Is months. | was very bad and could gel
remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills. | began t.
use these pills, and very soon found mysel
improving. | kept on and now can say | an
absolutely cured and free from any symptom
of my old trouble.
81 am very glad | heard of this wonderful
remedy and | would strongly advise any
one suffering with Kidney trouble to try it
for | know it will cure"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

the world on the part of the Jesuits,
and there are within it to-day several
notable buildings erected by the
monks. Of its church buildings the
most notable is that of Santa Ana, the
rallying point for the revolutionists of
the past. Much of the original city
was destroyed by the buccaneer Nor
gan on February "a, 1871, when, after
three weeks of rapine and murder, he
burned the warehouses and many q
the public buildings, and with IT'S
mules laden with spoils and 600 pris-
oners he recrossed the isthmus to the
Caribbean. Two years later the Span
ish Villacorta began rebuilding the
city, and though it has suffered from
revolutions, earthquakes and other
frightful affairs, there is much left to-
day that reminds one of the old Span
ish reign.
To run a canal through this narrow
neck of land from Colon to lanama
has been the dream of mankind since
1927, when H. de la Serna explored a
route. There are to-day nearly a dozen
routes surveyed across the isthmus,
but only on the one undertaken by De
Lesseps has there been any noticeable
amount of work done.
The entire state consists practically
of a barren range Of low mountains,
and would be of small interest to the
world in general were it not for the
proposition to connect the two oceans
through it, and also for the existence
of the Panama railroad which has
been in operation since 1855, and was
the first railroad which connected the
two oceans. This railway is to-day,
short though it is, II of the impor-
tant lines of transportation of the
world, and pays to it's stockholders
probably larger dividends than any
other similar enterprise. 1t has made
both Panama and Colon ports of no
small importance, and on 1t and the
canal hinge the value Of the state.
II the revolution occurs, and the
state is. successful in it's fight for indie
pendence, it will hold within it's bor-
ders practically every practical route,
with the exception of the one through
Nicaragua, for an interoceanic canal.
MAX OWEN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
THE WORLDS LEPERS'
Dread Disease has Invaded Practi-
cally Every Country and Race.
Strict Regulations Against 1t Are
Having "A Good Effect in L~Oosening
Its Grasp-Rages Through
out the Orient.

Recent investigations in Norway show
that leprosy in that country is loosening
its grasp, and that the government has
been justified in enforcing its strict iso-
lation regulations.
Though dark races have been more
subject to the scourge of leprosy than the
white, in every country and race there
have been many victims of the dread
disease.
Leprosy has existed since the records
of history, and perhaps in prehistoric
days it worked its ravages in both Asia
and Africa. Until the Crusades, it was
practically unknown in Europe, but be-
ginning with that period it spread at a
dangerous rate. During the Middle Ages.
almost every village in Great Britain and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
The Time to Pick Fruit.

There is an opinion held by many
growers that apples keep better if they
are picked before they are ripe, ard as
a result the fruit is often picked and
packed before it is fully grown. Tests
in cold storage show that fruit that has
not been allowed to become fully grown
on the trees is usually damaged to a con-
siderable extent by scald, and that il
also shrivels somewhat. For the best
results the fruit should be ripe, but not
what is termed dead ripe" If overripe
it does not keep well in cold storage,
and should not be used for exhibition
purposes.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

On Oct. Doth the Kansas City Southern
Ry. port Arthur Route will run a cheap
excursion from Kansas City and all stations
in Missouri and Kansas to Lake Charles,
Shreveport, Beaumont and Port Arthur.
The rate for the round trip will be SIS,
limited to q days from date of sale, good
to stop over on going, trip at all points en-
route, provided final destination is reached
inside of Is days from date of sale. This
exceptionally low rate, together with lib
eral stopover privileges allowed, should in
sure a great crowd, especially in view of the
fact that this is the most delightful season of
the year to visit the Southland. Similar low
rates will probably be placed in effect from
points north and east Of Kansas City: Ask
your ticket agent.
Every effort will be made by the Company
to secure the safety and comfort of its pa.
irons. All inquiries relative to desirable
locations to visit or other information viii be
cheerfully furnished. Address either S. G
& I. A. or j. H. Morris, T. P. A, Kansas
| City, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

France had its leper hospital. Men pres
emily demanded to be segregated from
the lepers, and by the sixteenth century
the disease had begun to disappear from
Europe, save in Portugal, Greece, Nor
way and Sweden, in which countries, as
a writer tells us, at has mysteriously
survived from the Middle Ages" To-day
the fearful disease occurs epidemically
in northern and eastern Africa, Egypt,
Arabia, Persia, China, Japan and India;
Russia, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Greece,
France and Spain, and the islands of the
Pacific and Indian oceans; it is prevalent
in Central and South American, Mexico.
the West Indies, Australia, the Hawaiian
islands, and New Zealand, and is found
in New Brunswick and other parts OF
Canada.
India, which country contains over
100, 900 lepers, is n of the principal
| places where leprosy exists. No province
IN India is free from it. Segregation is
not at all strict; the man who brings
you bread may be a leper, or the woman
that passes you freely in the street may
be afflicted.
1t is estimated that there are 10000
lepers in the Philippines. Leprosy was
introduced into the Philippines in 1888.
when the emperor of Japan sent to these
| islands a ship with $50 lepers on board
the exiles to be consigned to the care oil
the Catholic priests. The govern
ment is now engaged in searching
for the present day lepers and
providing for their isolation. In
the Hawaiian islands strict segrega.
ton has been the rule for many years
though a considerable number of lepers
are aided by their friends in eluding the
vigilance of the officers and the exile tc
the leper colony on Molokai. The lepel
settlement on Molokai is shut in by
mountain and sea, and escape from it il
almost impossible. Catholic sisters are
the nurses there, the immediate care.
takers and the territorial government
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

the wagon box, the latter being inli-
Gated by the dotted lines. the lower
part of the illustration shows the de-
tails of each section Of the rack. These
terial and held together where they
lap with a bolt. Figures 1 on this
section indicate where the side pieces
are to be placed in position in the
wagon, as shown, and when not in use
can be folded UP, taken from the wagon
and stored in any convenient place.
The cost of such a rack is very small
and all Of the work, with the possible
exception Of placing the bolts, can be
done on the farm.-IndianapoIis Naws.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
The Giant Aaparngus.

In the island of Teneriffe there are d
number of curious trees, the strangest
of which, perhaps, is the dragon tree.
1t is a giant asparagus, but is named
dragon because the natives say it was
once guarded by a great dragon that
was killed by a chief who watered the
tree with blood. Since that time the
tree has given forth the sap peculiarly
known as dragon blood formerly used
as a medicine, but now employed for
embalming purposes and for mixing
with paints and varnishes. The tree
grows in a singular way, the dead
branches seeming to be of use as a sup
port for the living bloom at the top.
The new roots grow up and encircle the
tree, hiding the dead branches of the
main trunk.-N. Y. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
HISTORY OF PANAMA.
Little State Which Now Threatens
to Secede from Colombia.
1t Contains the Oldest City on the
American Continents and Is Inter-
estinE in Many other Ways-A
Port of Great Importance.

Should the Colombian congress fail
to ratify the canal treaty, as now
seems probable, and this failure re-
suit in a revolution in Panama, as also
seems probable, there is likely to be
established in Central America some
new international boundary lines of
more than passing interest.
Press dispatches tell us that plans
for the revolution are going on apace,
and that seemingly nearly every resi-
dent of the state is in favor of break
ing away from the government at b.
gotta and declaring the independence
Of Panama for the purpose OF granting
a right of way for the canal to the
United States. 1t does not take much
OF a prophet to imagine the stars
stripes flying over the entire isthmus
in the lear future, and Panama be-
coming the next addition to u terri
tory in our programme OF expansion.
So far have the plans for the revolu-
ton gone, and so sure of success are
the leaders, that even the boundary
lilies W De" uGuldnuou u SOlOluDld udVO
been decided upon. They will give the
state a total length of 475 miles.
st. Augustine is the Oldest city in
the United States at the present time,
but should we get this slice of Colom-
bia that city would have to take a
back seat in favor of Panama, which is
the Oldest city founded by Europeans
in either O, the Americas. The foun-
dation of Panama was laid by Pedro
Arias Davila in 1918. There was then
but one other settlement of Europeans
on either continent, that Of Santa
Maria ell Antigua, near the Atrato,
which was afterwards abandoned, and
of which no trace now remains.
Panama has always been an impor-
tant point in the history Of Central
and South America. Through it passed
the gold and silver of Chill and Peru
on it's way to Spain; it was the center
Of religious activity for that section of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

to severe attacks of backache, always
aggravated if | sat long at a desk. 1t
struck me that if Doan's Kidney Pills
performed half what they promised
they might at least help. This induced
me to try the remedy. 1t absolutely
stopped the backachc. l have never
had a pain or twinge since"
FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Lario will
be mailed to any part of the United
States OF application. Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists, price so cents per box.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
KATHERINE POPE.
Knew Local Geography.

Here is a story that comes from
Scarborough. A schoolmaster there
kept a scholar in after hours for not
knowing the route, on the map, from
England to India, and himself went out
for a walk on a moor with his. sweet
heart. After a time the boy slipped
out of the schoolhouse and also went
for a ramble on the moor. Towards
dusk he heard cries for help. and soon
came upon the schoolmaster and his
Young lady standing, two feet deep, in
marshy ground. They had quite lost
their way, and they were actually
piloted home again by the hoy who
was ignorant of geography.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
Man of Regular Habits.

SIS Col. H~ankthunder at home ?" in
uuired the caller.
"Will you please tell me whether you
have any business with him." asked
Mrs. Hankthunder.
Eyes, ma'am,' he answered. 81 ain a
reporter for the Daily Grab-Bag. 1
wish to ask him his opinion about the
present policy of the administration in
the matter of expansion"
"You should have come earlier in the
day." said Mrs. Hankthunder, firmly.
1.-THE colonel never has any opinions
after four o'clock."-Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
Big Money in Raspberries.

Experienced growers of raspberries
claim that with good varieties and care
an acre will produce as many bushels
as it will of corn and give five times
as much profit, as we'll as remain fol
several years after the plants have been
started. Occasionally estimates arc
given Of large yields and good prices
but at the present time more raspber-
ries are grown than formerly, and prices
are not so high; nevertheless a large
number of growers do not use a sufi-
CHENEY of fertilizer and could secure
larger crops by more judicious cultsve.
tion.-Midland Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
LIGHT WAGON RAC
Easily and Chcaply Made on the
Farm by Anyone at All Handy
with Tools.

The ordinary rack, such as is used
on a farm wagon, is very heavy, and
while it may be necessary to have such
weight when carting of large loads is
done, a lighter rack readily handled
by one man would be a convenience
for field loading. In the upper part of
the illustration the rack is shown IN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

tlon, Denver, COL, says:
You are at liberty to
repeat what l first stated
through our Denver pa
pers about Doan's Kidney
Pills in the summer of
1899, for / have had no
reason in the interim to
change my opinion of the
remedy. l said when first
interviewed that if | had
a friend and acquaintance
suffering from backache
or kidney trouble l would
unhesitatingly advis e
them to take Doan's Kid
ney Pills. / was subject
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

Little Mary's big sister was engaged to Mr..
Brown, who was away on an outing trip
with Mary's brother. Her father was writ.
ing to his son and prospective son-in-law and
asked the little girl if she had a message to
send to Mr.. Brown.
''What shall | say, pap:" asked she.
"Why," said the father, Il believe 1t IL
the fashion to send your love-
Some minutes later her father inquired:
"And what shall | say to brother Tom
"Well," replied the little miss. with q
sigh, "you may send my fashionable love to
Mr. Brown and my real love to Brother
Tom. "-Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

Annie had been suffering from toothache
for several days. At last she consented to GO
with her papa to the dentist, When she was
starting, her mamma said: Now. dearest, be
a brave little girl. Show f%ortitude, and
m will be proud of you
In due time Annie returned. "And did
you show f%ortitude:" mamma inquired.
Annie hesitated. at hurted awful, mamma
| guess (refectively) | showed about twenty
ude.'-Kansas City Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

Mrs. Smith suppose you have no
objection to telling me why you left
your last place?
Applicability mistress, Mrs. Brown,
wasn't truthful.
"In the habit of telling falsehoods?
Well, l cannot blame you. In what way
did she tell wrong stories?"
Somebody told her she saw Mr.
Brown kiss me in the hall, and Mrs.
Brown said she'd like to see him do it
Of course. that wasn't true, you know
-EoSton. TRANSCRIPT.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

Edith-Who were those people here
this afternoon, mamma?
Mamma-Prof. Bighead and his wife.
dear. The professor is II of the best
informed men in the city.
"How do you know he is? He never
opened his mouth nce,"-Yonkers
Statesman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

Little Mike-How d'yez pronounce
"u-n-i-q-u-e," sorr?
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." av coorse.
"Phwot does it mane?"
"Whoy, a uniquee is a basic thot has
but wan ~horn.-Judge.