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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

The FeAcock ON q Ia1ny DRY.
The peacock, glittering with jewel.
like eyes, has voice by no means suit
ed to it's beauty. Its cry is harsh and
disagreeable. When the rain falls, it
sits on some high perch uttering its
doleful sounds, with its beautiful tail
feathers drawn into the smallest posi-
BILE space. Like vain creature as it
is, it never spreads it's fan unless the
sun shines.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
An En@ayinE Young Person

Father-So Filmy Luhring is engaged
TO young Rattles? Let me see; wasn't
she engaged to somebody else little
while ago?
Daughter - Somebody else, father!
Why, In our set no engagement is con-
sidered complete without her.-Brook-
lvn Life
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
About Nothing.

Mamma-What in the world are you
two quarreling about?
Little Dick-Nothing.
Nothing. eh?"
"Yes'm. Dot left her box Of candy
here, an when she came back there
was nothing in it."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

The ducks and geese have found
their way to Ashley once more.
The fish are running up stream
rather prematurely. bat don't Sc In
to bite, although it has baen stated b"
parties that they do. 7 think it must
hav;, b,ax>l last year Peggy
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

Poverty Itself No Disgrace.
"At the same time, you do not con-
tend that poverty is a disgrace"
"Well, no; not unless it drinks and
borrews money" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
scrubbing the Landscape.

Huhbub-How bright and clean ev-
erything looks out here.
Subbub-Yes; we had a couple of de-
tectives securing the country last week.
Philadelphia Record.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
He Would Not.

"Would you die for meT' she asked
sentimentally.
"Eow. look herew he returned, in his
matter Of fact way. Are we supposed
to be planning a cheap novel or a we'd
dingw
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
nepels Clam the Victory.

Willemstad, Curacao, March 49,
The Venezuelan -avolutionists claim
to have completely defeated the gov.
eminent forces in the battle which
took place recently near Coro, Ven.
eZueia. ...
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

,'t,ur ,ivl % IN Saturday.
" &c" IS, 1898. Mary Eli, beth. be-
loved ~any ~ ~ and Mrs. William
N>haun'. age months 81 'la' $.
fine funeral d. held at 10 O'Clock
f rim ;'r LadyI'f Our Angels church,
and the remains We're laid in the
Catholic Cemetery just east OF the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

Len Hendry IL running the freight
On the branch, between Melrose and
Cass Lake.
w. . P Hilsdalc is fixing up his
basement into q first class sales room,
and it will be a. large one-4Oxl20
feet. He will pus in a steel ceiling,
decorate the walls, and furnish it
with abundant light. To that end he
is considering the matter of putting
in an electric plant for 200 incanaes-
cent lamps, that he may have light
at all times of the day and night.
For some time there has been a
determined fight on the par of Asa
Fisher, one of the heavy creditors OF
N. P. Clarke of St. Cloud, against
allowing Clarke to be discharged by
the court as a bankrupt. Fisher has
commended that Clarke was holding
back some OF his property. The con
test has been waged for over year
and Clarke has been unable to get
bis discharge. An agreement has
been reached and N. Fl. Chase, At
torney for Fisher, has filled stipu q
tion Withdrawing all objection
Journal Press.
Rev. e. M. Atwood. pastor OF the
Little Falls baptist church will,
assist District Missionary l. r..
Steinhoff in evangelistic meetings al
next week in tee Baptist chapel.
H. is d man Of remarkable power
whom God is greatly using. MIR.
Steinhoff will preach in the chap
on Sunday morning aud even'n .
April 5. Topic on Sunday morn :
a. 1890: Unconscious Beauty; s. IL
day evening at 1886: Bala'":Hs.
Everyone is cordially invited IT, AL
these meetings, especially all praying
people.
House For Sale.
A pleasant residence for sale.
grounds $50 feet square. The hOu:
contains tea good sized rooms anu
TWO attic rooms. Hardwood floors
and in good repairs throughout. A
never failing we'll and good els tern
in kitchen. Screens for every door
and window, outside windows also.
Two screened porches and "a summer
kitchen. A barn with buggy SIZED
accommodation for three horses and
several COWS. Property will be solo
at bargain. Address H-City.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

ne nv Or the SHARK furnishes the
BEST watchmaker's oil. In each shark
Ii found about half q pint.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
Rurai Mail Route S.

Tie following is a summary IT the
business on >ht' several Rural Mail
routes tor the m nth Of March:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02

Sin has mary tssls, But q lie 10 tie
hxa1fs 0ESt ~ Ekta aIf-HtinSk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-02
Born,

NOBLE-ln this city at the home Of
his grandfather, Silas Noble, on
Wednesday, March rs, 1903, to MIR.
ana Mrs. David Noble, u son.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

came opposite the wharf. Here dey am! and as they rounded the point above the town Oar dey go.''
 They passed the center of the town running nose and nose-apparently not an inch of difference between them. It seemed a race between living things life itself being the stake.
 Possibly it required ten minutes to pass the town, and during that time not a sound came from the crowds on shore not a word from the boats, not a whistle sounded-it was as if two sIen- der steeds, with ears laid back, eyes bulging and nostrils extended. were stralning every nerve, under lash and spur' to reach the goal first or die in the attempt.
 It was spectacle never to be effaced from the memory of the individual who witnessed it-a glorious but terrible sight.
 The crowds at Boonville remained on the banks until the steamers could be alstlnguished only by their red-hot chimneys in passing the opening be- tween the island just above Arrow Rock, and the main shore, twelve miles away. The boats reached Glasgow early the next day, as they had passed Boonville, running nose and nose and although much money had been wagered on the result, none was lost, for the race was declared tie.
 The strain on the boats was too great, and it was only a year or two after when both of them were sent to the boneyard.-St. Louis Gobe-Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
A SAD. SAD TALE.

Please don't laugh at this true story. It is an exceedingly serious matter. and then, too, the poor little woman had been so very particular to impress on the "greenhorn" girls mind that if she paid strict attention to what she was told and followed instructions to the letter, everything would be all right. That was the saddest part of it all.
 If she had merely told the girl to make pudding for dinner and had let it go at that but, you see, she had guests and was afraid there might be some mistake about it, so she went to the kitchen herself and laid out all the ingredients for the pudding, telling Bridget just how to mix them. and warning her impressively against doing 1t any other way.
 Now, you may think some kind of a Joke IS coming out of all this prepara- ton, but tell you there is nothing of the kind, The girl made the pudding precisely as she was told, and the guests liked it-yes, and not only ate plenteously of it, but even spoke Of its exzcellence, for they were all intimate friends of the hostess and knew she had 9 greenhorn cook.
 Then the little woman rang the bug ger and brought Bridget from the kitch- en in order that she might encourage her by complimenting her in the pres- ence of the guests. Bridget" said she, everybody says your pudding is great success. Tho fc al ot,S t,,. complimentary remarks.
 Thank ye, mum! Thank ye, naurn!'' said the girl, jerking curtsy to one after another.
 You see" continued the mistress, bent on driving the lesson home, ''when you do just as you are told, everything comes out all right .'Yes'm," Bridget acquiesced. "Well, now" said the mistress think ing to reward the good and faithful servant still further, you may take the remainder of the pudding out and eat it."
 "Not on yer life!" Bridget asserted herself. None O that pudd'n' fer mel"
 Why not? Don't you like this lSind?" |
 "No, mum, don't. Yours may like rotten things, but I don't"
 'Why, Bridget, what do you mean ?,
 T mean them two eggs ye gave me to put in this pudd'n' was both as rot ten as the divvle."
 Didn't tell you 1t was no joke? I could prove it. too, by the mistress and her guests if dared tell you who they are.-Willis Brooks in the Brooklyn Eagle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

New books announced by Doubleday, Page & Company are story for boys by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1.-TWO Little Savages;;" a novel of life in a Michigan lumber town, ''The Whip Hand," by Samuel Merwin; ''The Mark" a story of Hindu magic, by Aquila Kepmster; "Petronilla Heroben." by Miss Una L. Silberrad; the memoirs of Madame Vii gee Lebrun, French artist; an atlas of the moon, by Professor Pickering. La ter. publications will be: "How to Make a Flower Garden,'' Stories of Inventors" by Russell Doubleday; "The Moth Book" by Dr. W. J. Holland; a new edition of H. D. Lloyd's Newest England;'' American Masters of Sculp- ture," by Charles H. Caffin, and "The Tempest" which is the second volume in Professor Mark H. Liddell's impor- tant "Elizabethan" edition of Shakes peare.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

book and a long bamboo pencil at one
 end of which is fine pointed brush for
 writing; then think of some tiny ehil-
 dren-a half dozen probably-the boys
 heads shaved, except for a circular
 bunch of hair exactly at the crown, the girls with long tassels if straight black
 hair hanging in front of each ear, all dressed in little flowing garments with
 sleeves like the wings of birds-these
 children sitting behind other little ta-
 bles. their brushes in hand, and writing,
 from the teachers dictation, strange | shaped characters on coarse copy-books imagine this, and you have an ancient
 Japanese school in session, both teacher and pupils sitting upon the floor. They never went beyond reading and counting upon the soro-ban (abacus.) Things have cranged now. The old has utterly passed away. A most eff cient educational system, western in
 theory and practice, is now in full ope-
 ration throughout Japan. Commodious common school houses and imposing
 college and university buildings are dotted all over the country. A thor oughly graded system operates from the primary school to the imperial uni- versity, which ranks with the highest American institutions. The official or
 government schools are worked out to
 cover the whole field of education, ex-
 cept the religious feature, and this they
 are endeavoring to supply by an eclec- I tic system of morality, both Orient and Occidental.
 Besides the regular course, which ex-
 ends from the common school through | the .high common school, the middle ischool, the high school, to the uniyer- | sity there are government technical schools for every branch of trade and | the professions -comercial, army, navy, Iagriculture, textile, mechanics, law, medicine, normal, languages, etc. Harper's Weekly
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

The November Smart Set is full of smart things and of things that are better than merely smart. The leading novelette,, ''The Corner in Coffee" is supplied by Cyrus Townsend Brady and proves to be departure from his
 accustomed paths, being a study of so- cial and business life in New York city, the business predominating. Julian Hawthorne asks, "Can Ladies Smoke Tobacco?" and after much humorous persiflage decides that it is highly i'm probable that American ladies as a class will ever seriously take up snlok- ing, but if they do it's their own affair "Bigamy, which is bad form in New England, in Constantinople is badge of virtue, and the husband who is scan dalized at the spectacle of his wife smoking a cigar at public concert in Cambridge Mass, minds it no more than a bottle of smelling salts if he happen to have been born and married in Budapest" There are good short
 stories by Elizabeth Duer, Janet Laing. Gardner c. Teall, Charles Bel mont Davis and others, and the usual agreeable miscellany of verse and hu- nor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
EDUCATION IN JAPAN.
A System Western in Theory is in F
 ODeration.

A System Western in Theory is in Full
 Operation. ,..,
 If you can imagine long room in a long, house with matched roof, dark plastered walls, broad doorways closed with papercovered lattice frames which slide in grooves, bare floors covered with perfect fitting straw mats, some tiny tables one by two feet in size and eight inches high-if, you can imagine this, then you can conceive of an an- cient school room in Japan.
 Again, if you can imagine patriar- chal old gentleman, with sparse beard, "a head half bald, small twig of hair turned back on the top of his head, then seated on a. little cushion behind one of the tiny tables on which is a flat stone inkstand, 8 manuscript school
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

Doubleday, Page and Company con- tribute to the list a story of the pine land of Michigan, the Whip Hand, by Samuel Merwin, and Professor Picker ing's volume on the Moon. This latter work has been delayed nearly year on account of important new discoveries by the author, which made necessary a encouragement of material. Nearly one hundred illustrations from photo graphs are included. The price of the r-,I,1poo ic tpy1 dollars
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

Joseph Letter, the famous wheat speculator, who helped the late Frank Norris upon some technical matters in his novel, "The Pit" has now promised
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

to act as stage manager for the pro- duction of the dramatized version of the story. Special efforts will be made to have the panic realistically depicted.
 4 limitless edition, in seven volumes, of the complete works of Frank Norris. has just been published by Doubleday, Page and Company. The edition is re- stricted to one hundred and fifty sets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

Thomas Dixon's "The Leopard's s Spots' seems to hold all its popularity and has now considerably overrun two hundred thousand.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

Mast, cartoonist. Afr. Mast, shortly be- fore his death. invited Mir. Albert Blge low Paine to look over his old scrap books and memoranda containing tne materials out of which he had built ms great cartoons. He then told MT. Paine that he intended to make the latter his literary executor. Mir. Paine assented and the present memoirs show an ann ple fulfilment of his office. They will be presented in six or eight parts, the first dealing with Nast's early career.
 The Burr Mcintosh Monthly" in its October number, continues to give ad- mirable reproductions of the really re- markable photographs turned out py the Mcintosh studio. These have as the subjects the men and women of the day. and scenes and incidents Of cur rent interest. Lord and Lady Shaftes- bury form an attractive group so do Mrs. James Brown Potter ana water Mempes. at the formers summer place on the Thames. The snapshot or Lou Dillon making her record race in 2:U5, on September P, is historical docu- ment. The editorial department IS bright and amusing.
 There are three or four authors Wno have a faculty of interesting every class of readers. Among these IS MT. H. G. Wells, whose ''War of the Worlds" proved one of the most popu- lar tales ever printed in magazine. The November Cosmopolitan contains the first instalment of MT. Wells new scientific romance, "The Food of the Gods" fascinating in plot, holding the interest of the reader by it's thrilling situations, yet having throughout a phllosophic vein characteristic of all the authors work. The story is mar velous, yet plausible, intensely interest ing, yet instructive.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

Pearson's Magazine announces an important set of papers called Tom
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24

MT. Frederic Courtland Penfield, years ago city editor of the Hartford Courant, has revised and enlarged his excellent book on "Present-Day Egypt" in new volume, finely illustrated from photo-
 graphs, which the Century Company
 publish. The additional pages relate
 chiefly to the new Assouan Dam. This is one of the most readable and instruc- tive books of travel that we know of.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-11-12

Il BEGIN TO FEEL THE FALbING DEW"
at her across the table. "In the first
place, l have never been done for as
you call it. In the second, the Persian
had nothing for sale. As I told you, he
simply made a suggestion"
did he suggest sandpaper to scratch
the roots into lifeT' asked Mrs. Bowser.
You either drop that sarcastic tone
or we don't talk any more. BY thunder,
but 1t seems to me that you grow mean
err as you grow older. If you had some
husbands to deal with you'd find out
what was what pretty quick. What in
blazes is that blamed old cat looking at
me In that way for? If 1 had a crow
bar Td''-
The cat uttered a new and disap-
peared, and Mrs. Bowser begged par
don and expressed her sorrow. Five
minutes later Mr.. Bowser had choked
back his emotions and was saying:
Its no crime to be baldheaded. but
If l can grow new hair l ought to do it.
This Persian remedy is a very simple
thing. In Persia a baldheaded mar sits
out at night and lets the dew fall on his
bald pate 1t acts as a fertilizer. and
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-11-12

after a few lights the hair begins to
grow"
"Are you sure he wasn't jokingT
asked Mrs. Bowser.
How joking? What was there to
joke aboutf I'd like to see a stranger
and a Persian at that. joke about my
bald head. There WAS no joking about
II. He simply noticed my bald head
and suggested a hair restorative"
And you propose TO sit out in the
back yard tonight and let the dew fall
upon your hcadT"
Yes, | thought I'd try 1t. don't
see any harm in trying 1t. Do your
Not a bit. except that you'll blame
me and talk about a divorce. as you
always do"
What viii there be to blame you
about?' asked Mr.. Bowser as he felt
that he had got over the worst of II.
"You have nothing to do with the dews
Of hea ven or my badness. It's nom
sense to talk that way. There II be
nothing TO blame anybody about. If |
have talked about a divorce now and
then it has all been in fun. When you
get ready to go to bed I'll slip ont for
an hour or two to give the restorative
q chance to get In Its work"
An hour later he took a seat in the
back yard with his back to the fence.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-11-12
IrF.

| kissed her last night es I hurried away
A pleasant windup TOR an evening. | say.
If / had missed her,
] should have kissed her
Elderly sister
! kissed her last night az I hurried away.
New YORK Times.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-11-12
The Cfubmon's
Good Imagination

ST saw a remarkable instance OF the
influence of mind and Imagination over
the senses a few evenings ago. said
a clubman the other night. "A bowl
Ing match was In progress, and the
team on whose alleys the game was
being rolled, as the hosts of the occa-
sion, had provided some extra good
cigars for the visiting team-half a
dollar apiece. One of the fellows took
q cigar, looked at the band on 1t and
then, realizing what a delicious smoke
he had In store, began 10 indulge In
the delights of anticipation. He put
the cigar In his mouth. but did not
light 1t at once. Presently his turn
came to bowl. He took the cigar from
his mouth and placed it OIL the window
ledge.
"While he was occupied with his
bowling one of the boys replaced his
cigar by a five center taking off the
band from the good cigar and putting
1t on the cheap one. Meanwhile the
bowler, ha wing finished his trials, turn
ed with great gusto to light his cigar.
The first few pufrs brought forth sew
eral 'Ahsr of delight.
"'Fine smoke, boys. deliciousF he ex-
claimed. I tell you, | haven't had as
good a smoke for | don't know how
long. All! | wish | could afford to
smoke cigars like this all the time. |
certainly ear tell the difference be-
tween a poor. cheap cigar and a good
me. I'd rather smoke a Porto Riean
cigar than the five cent domestic ones.
In fact. | can't stand 'em-make me
sick. you know, in no time at all. But
a cigar like this-well. say!
"When he had smoked 1t down till
1t burned his lips the boys told him the
facts of the case
az guess the cigars are on me- he
remarked sadly. but not fifty rent ones.
You've taught me a good lesson. Les
strike a happy medium and say two
for a quarter. They're good enough for
anybody.'"-New York Times.