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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
One of Vests Best.

Senator COckrell is a native of Mis-
souri, and now resides in the town and
county where he was born. His col
league, Senator Vest, is native of
Kentucky, and the successor Of Vest,
Governor Stone, is also a native of the
Blue Grass State. Senator Blackburn,
after he became acquainted with Vest
and heard the story of how he came to
leave Kentucky, which, by the way,
was because of some little disagree
ment with persons of that state, re-
vised and remodeled the story and told
it with great interest. 1t was such a
good story that Vest would tell it when
the right sort of a company was as
senDIed. and those who had heard it
once before would ask for it again and
again. 1t was a long yarn and Vest
would begin by giving his version-the
true version, as he said-of why he left
Kentucky for Missouri. Then he would
say: '"This is the way Joe Blackburn
tells the story. OF course no one be-
lieves it, but it shows what an artist
Blackburn is when it comes to work
ing up story" Then would follow a
long, circumstantial account of Vests
movements, all thrilling and interest
ingly amusing, and no one enjoyed the
laugh any better than Vest himself.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
Fattening Cattle For Market.

The Iowa station has recently re-
ported experiments made in cO-Opera-
ton with large cattle feeder on large
lots eleven lots of twenty animals
each) of fair quality three-year-old
western cattle. in which 90 cents per
bushel was realized for the corn con-
sumed in case of the lot with which
this was the sole food used, and "all
the lots paid much higher prices for
corn than could have been received for
the same at any of the markets dur
ing the feeding period" The expert
Uonts as whole show very striking
II the high value of corn and its by
products, gluten meal and feed, for
fattening cattle for the market. The
average net profit per steer from nine
tyfour days feeding was on corn alone
$14.49; corn and grass. $14.9I: corn
and dried blood $15.36; corn and glu-
ten feed, SLIGO, and corn and gluten
meal, $11.99. 1t would appear that
with corn at from so to GO cents per
bushel and fat steers bringing from
81 to S7.G5 per hundredweight there
is no more profitable use to be made
Of corn tEan to convert it into beef.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26

One of the southern experiment sta
tons has made trials with tomatoes
grown on plants that were started in
hotbed or greenhouse and transplanted
compared with those grown on plants
started directly from seed in the field.
The latter came out ahead in earliness.
hope my friends will not be misled
into the belief that such is the rule.
Much of the outcome of course de-
Ponds on the management of the plants
started under glass. For my part can
not get ripe tomatoes in July or even
in August unless l start plants of ear
ly varieties along in February, trans
plant them once or twice and give them
plenty of room to make them grow
stout and stocky, so that they can be
transplanted without checking growth.
But if you start the seedlings in hotbed
or cold frame in April and make them
spindling by inordinate crowding and
then set them out in May or early June,
with little root and tall, limp stalks
where it will take them several weeks
to recover from the shock and begin
hrnH-th anew the DlantS grown from
co 80 81. III >l!rI s.Jun'i III May might
give ripe tomatoes in advance of the
others. If we grow the Earliana and
probably Notes Earliest and Maules
Early and other first early. sorts that
make comparatively little vine OF foil
age. we should bear, in mind that they
need very fertile soil and: more nitrog-
enous food than the later sorts, which
are apt to run largely to vine anyway.
Don't be afraid to use plenty Of good
old manure in the soil where you plant
Earliana and others of that class. 1t is
the only way to get foliage enough to
make large, smooth FRUIT. Greiner
(Ohio) in Farm and Fireside.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
Peas For a Selling Crop.

For the extreme southern limit on
which field peas are grown it is be-
lieved that seed grown near by seems
best North of that belt northern or
Canadian seed seems best. For the first
early spring sowing the pea should be
put in as soon as the ground is fit to
work and has been put in good shape
for seeding, weather conditions permit
ting We have had heavy freezing and
snow after the peas were up, entirely
covering the plant, without serious in
jury. Drilling the seed, rather than
broadcasting or narrowing into the soil,
secures better covering and more uni
form stand. Use an ordinary grain
drill set for sowing oats; use only every
other hoe, or, if the ground be very
rich, every third hoe and using six
pecks of seed. Six pecks per acre of
oats of stiff strawed variety may be
drilled in seven to ten days later than
the peas, SO that both crops will reach
the milky stage together, says an Ohio
Farmer correspondent.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
One Thing and Another.

According to an exchange, there are
now over eighty new beet sugar facto-
ries under process Of building.
The best time to poison pocket go
piers is in the fall or the spring, when
they are most active.
The four varieties of sugar beets that
produced the heaviest crops in 1902 in
Canada, averaging the results obtained
on all the experimental farms, were
Royal Giant, Danish Improved, Danish
Red Top and Red Sugar Top.
Michigan stockmen who have used
sugar beet pulp are Of the opinion that
it saves about one-third of the coarse
fodder. ....a f..
From June Is to Feb. 1 the celery
growers of Kalamazoo, Mich, shipped
away about $50, 600 dozen punches each
month, says an exchange, .t"
The Colorado apple product Of 1902
IL reported as g1satsr fhani that Of 1901
~ 26hooo boxes: 4stsrs,3s ];
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26

ago and which was dissolved because
no agreement could be reached. He
was also the agent for China during
the settlement of the war indemnity
Of China to Japan and, it is said, made
fee of 100000 out of it.
Mr.. Foster was a close friend of Ii
Hung Chang. The compensation for
the attorneys or other agents of the
Alaskan boundary commission is to be
arranged by congress. The preliminary
meeting of the commission will be held
at London. In the meanwhile Mr.. Eos
ter will go to work making out the case
for the United States in quarters at the
state department.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26

competent to manage the house with
out the supervision of this cold blooded
woman who had usurped her mother S
place.
Her jealousy had found refection>in
her stepmother's resentment Of, all
questioning of authority. - And :; now
she was speeding away to the city. In
the shabby purse clasped tightly in
her hot fingers were $50 Of the money
she had so carefully saved and Staun,
toms card, which bore. the penciled line
per address care Of Clipper, a.! i
He would help her, she knew, for
had he=not told her that she4was des-
who had gone away; to the city the
year before, but who of late had writ
ten at longer and longer intervals; No;
she would not tell Joe until firmly es-
tablished in her new work. - =: .,.e
A sudden tug at her dress awakened
golden haired child. A thrill of pity
swept over her, for the little girl was a
cripple. ~: "..
- Please" she.asked plaintively, may
L come, and talk to you and show you
my doll? Mamma has been asleep for
ever so long, and am dreadfully lone
some" .~... ;.
Alice made room for her with a
smile of welcome. "Of course you
may" she, declared heartily. "And
where is this wonderful doll of
yeurs?" ......, ~-.::.,.--.s. -.
; The child held up a: rag doll much
the worse for wear, dressed in faded
green silk. +. ....-... -
Alice paled. She had once had del
like that. Her mother had made it.
Would the second Mrs. Armstrong
make dolls for 'Edith?, Her voice 'trem
3b4ed ais she asked gently, aWhe made
tt for OVERWHELMINGLY And she
glanced at thefsweeping woman ~ (
The child caught her glance and an,
sWered quickly, That's not; my nam 9,
ma only Mamma, my nurse. Ny nam.
ma is a pretty lady, Her hair is All
goIdy tbeeautffuller than mine and fes
cheeks IRE ahrt 2 pink--so pink Only she
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
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! SELECTiNGSEFD CORNs
How to Examine Kerns1iis '1 and nj Deter" 50
mine Chemical Contents.

How to Examine X erneis and Deter.
mine Chemical Contents.
The method of making'a ehenticalrsea
lection of ears Of seed corn by =a~ ssffnffpfe
mechanical examination of the kernels
Is based upon the fact that the kernel
of corn is not homogeneous in structtfre,
but consists of several distinct ana
readily observable parts. of markedly
different chemical composition. Aside
from the hull which surrounds the ker-
mel, there are three principal parts in a
grain Of corn: -
First The darker colered and rather
hard and horny layer lying next to the
hull, principally in the edges and to-
ward the tip end of the kernel, where
it is about three millimeters, or one
eighth of an inch, in thickness.
Second.-The white, starchy appear
ing part occupying the crown end Of
the kernel aud usually also Immediate
~ surrounding the germ.
Third.-The germ itself, which Occu-
pies the central part of the kernel to-
ward the tip end.
These different parts of the corn ker-
mel can be readily recognized by merely
dissecting a single kernel with pocket
knife.
The horny layer, which usually con-
stitutes about SO per cent of the corn
kernel, contains large proportion Of
the total protein in the kernel.
The white, starchy part constitutes
about 20 per cent of the whole kernel
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
Why Carlyle Was Not q Bore.

Carlyle took a friend, a much youn-
ger man, out walking with him and in
his usual way INDUCED in monologue
in which, nevertheless, his companion
was much interested. Once or twice,
however, the friend yentured to put in
a word or two Of objection in regard
to something said by Carlyle. This an
noyed Carlyle intensely, and when they
reached home he turned upon his COM
panion and addressed to him the fol-
lowing warning: Young man, I'd have
We to know that we've the capacity for
being the greatest bore in Europe"
The poor man had hardly spoken a doz-
en- words; but, since these had been
critical. they had made him seem to
Carlyle potential bore Of colossal pro-
portions. 's"@ "
Many men in this way get unjustly
called boreS. They venture to doubt
some statement made in conversation
and are at once branded with the most
terrifying of names. These unfortu-
nate persons are in truth not bOres at
all, but merely the innocent detectors
of the latent capacity of boring in 9th
ers. Carlyle showed by his speech what
was indeed the fact, that he, not his
friend; possessed the potentiality of
boring. 1T is true that: his great i'm
agination generally saved. him. but he
often went, ;perilously. near the line
Had he not been the man Of genius he
was he would assuredly have been the
greatest bore in Europe. Spec
tator. 800 '.>' -. ''I::.' = !:'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
When His Salary Would Decrease

Marshall j. Wilder the quaint and
popular entertainer, is one of the high
est salaried humorists on the stage.
He receives, it is said, $500 week for
his efforts. When a mans earning
ability reaches this amount, it is con-
ceded that he has not attained his linn
it, but is capable of earning more.
'Mr. Wilder" said an interviewer
one night after the humorist had left
the stage, Il presume that with a lit
tie effort you could double the salary
which you now receive"
NO." said Mr.. Wilder good natured-
ly; more effort would mean improve
ment, and in the same proportion that
I approach to a college professor
learning, diction and delivery, in that
ratio will my salary dwindle to that
received by my friend, the professor y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
FOR DRAWING LOGS IN WOODS.

took a small, round birch of the size
wanted, heated it hot in fire and bent
it in the shape needed to put over the
middle bunk and the two ends down
through the runner, then wedged them
solid, but so there would be plenty Of
play. The nose of the runners must be
made so they will not catch on every
rock or stump. This can be done by
putting the forward bunk at the very
end of the runner. The chain is put on
the log with a half hitch and drawn
through a hole through both hunks.
Birch is the best wood, as it wears the
smoOthest on frozen ground.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
The Bees In Early Spring.

In looking over colonies early in the
spring choose a warm, sunshiny day,
and be careful not to chill the brood by
long exposure. If you open a hive,
know just what you want, and do il
expeditiously, and close up the hive
again. If you have the bees packed in
chaff, do not be in q hurry to remove
the packing, as the bees spread the
brood and arrange matters for the tenn
perature the packing gives, and should
you remove the packing too early some
brood may be chilled and the colony
cannot make Roadway as rapidly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
won't let me kiss her for fear of hurt

Ing Lu1Iu. ~'A-E--~-~- ----z~ss,-.D.-.--
perhaps you know her." eagerly.
"Her name is Clarice Morton, and she
is great actress and sings and dances
beautifully; only l can never dance
because my back is crooked, you see.
1t was all the fault of a wicked nurse.
She dropped me, and hurt my spine,
the doctors say. No; it was not Man.
ma. Mamma is ever so good and kind.
She came just after that, when had
to lie in bed for long time. She made
me the doll then. Mamma never has
time to do things for me-" with little
sigh. I'm the morning she sleeps, and
in the afternoon she goes driving, and
, lots of fine gentlemen come to see, her,
| and in the evening she is at the thea
ter. But this is made from one of her
| prettiest dresses" And she smoothed
the green silk proudly.
Alice had listened in Mortified ST.
| lence. The unconscious pathos of the
! child's story cut her to the heart. This,
| then, was the fate of the child of a
| great actress, unloved and neglected
| or left to the doubtful care of serv-
| ants. How blind she had been to tell
| herself that she was taking this step
| for Edith's sake! 1t had all been for
| self, self. This little crutch was
/ caused by the rOughness of a nurse:
| Once she had seen Mrs. Armstrong
strike Edith. Suppose she should do
| so again and the careless blow bring
| her to the pass of this poor little one!
| The thought was torture. Abruptly
she leaned over and rang the bell for
| the porter.
what is the next stop?' she asked
! breathleSSly.
/ "NeXt stop BallstOn," he said; "due
| there in ten minutes"
! "When can | get train back"
! "There's one due in half hour"
"Please come and get my things"
she said more quietly. 81 will leave
| the train there"
J Then she turned and took the little
| stranger in her arms. Il want to
| thank YOU" she whispered as she
kissed her tenderly. You have shown
me my duty"
Twenty minutes later Joe Watson
gave a whistle of surprise as he came
face to face with her on the Ballston
platform. "Well," he cried jovially,
"here l was going up to KeespOrt to
see you, and here you are part way to
| meet me-"
But questions died on his lips at
! closer view of her face. She had
drawn away from him with almost a
look of fear. Then she lifted her head
bravely and gazed straight into his
eyes. II had started to run away, but
I've changed my mind. Edith needs
me; so I'm going back to make the old
place seem like home to her."
AS Joe saw the unselfish purpose
| that shone in her eyes and tho WOMAN.
| ly sweetness Of her firm, set hips he
realized that his childhoods friend
had grown into something very fine
and precious. Deep in his heart he
registered the VOW to some day make
home for both her and Edith. And
his dream came true.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
Stopping q
Runaway
BY EPES w. SARGENT
Copyright, 1902, by the
S. S. Mcclure Company


"Alice Armstrong is running away.
Alice Armstrong is running away"
To the slender figure in rusty brown
the whir of the car wheels seemed to
repeat it increasingly, and every jar
of the Pullman trucks gave the words
cruel emphasis. Surely every one must
know her secret. She looked about her
guilty, but the car was almost empty
and the few passengers were absorbed
in themselves or asleep.
Above the back of a seat farther
up the aisle she saw the nodding head
of a sleeping woman and the restless
curls of a golden haired child.
With a start she turned to the win
dow again to hide the tears that
sprang to her eyes. Edith had hair
like that, the little fve-year-old sister
whom she was leaving perhaps for
ever. No, not forever, she corrected
herself; only till she could earn a home
for both. But another glance at those
shining curls might steal away her
courage. ResOlutely she closed her
eyes and tried to review her past and
plan for the future.
1t had all begun the year before,
when Mrs. Armstrong second had de-
cideG to take in summer boarders.
One of the earliest applicants was
a suave and oily person whose card
read "Algcrnon Staunton-Leads and
HeavieS,' and who needed no such
advertisement to proclaim him as an
actor of the cheapest sort.
But to Alice all actors were on a
plane far above the humdrum of ev-
eryday existence, When he assured
her that she was destined to become
an ornament to the dramatic profess
sion, she listened reverently. At the
end of his four weeks vacation he
had hurried off to join summer stock
company. There he RECALLED his asso-
ciates with tales of the shrewdness by
which he had "jollied" girl into Civ
ing him the position of star bOarder.
He neither knew nor cared that he
had left the girl with her head full of
dreams and her heart sore and chat
ing against existing conditions. The
old wound ON account of the hasty re-
marriage of her father so soon after
her mothers death broke out afresh
She was eighteen. Surely she was
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26

Farmers 90 not use their power as
they should in politics and legislative
movements. In nearly every state farm
ers are in the majority.
The specialist in every line will wend
his way to the st. Louis exposition. But
will the great backbone of all-the
farming communities and individuals
be on hand as they ought?
Bend all your energies to building up
and identifying your farm and home.
Seest thou the dairyman who is not
raising stock on his skimmilk? There
is more hope for the fool than for him..
Many Of our best and most successful
farmers cultivate small farms, ferti,-
lized with brains as well as stable COM
posts. vf ..r.,7I-.l1I -
The world is just beginningt ito realize
the advantages and economies OF. doing
business by mail:zze- $40 -
Agriculture Isl capturing more bright
young pen and. women than ever be-
. LQte. - s*yfS-a iElE s-ial az ,.s.-...r
: &zA z elfa} riG sss2se,sisI -''-s-A
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
Oft Quoted Phrases:

Many of our most usually quoted
phfases-4-afe from the Bible, among
them being, "No rest for the sole of the
foot" Darkness which may be felt"
Bring down my gray hairs with sor
row to the grave" THE wife of his
BOSOM" 81 am going the way of all the.
earth,' GA still, small voice" "All that.
a man hath will he give for his life,Si
'"There the wicked cease from trou-!
bling and the weary be at rest" Man.
is born to trouble as the sparks fly up,
ward" ooh, that my adversary had
written a book 'The lines are fallen
to me in pleasant Places. His enc
mics shall lick the dust" Happy isl
the man that hath his culver full
ness, Heap Goals of fire on his head,"'
"Open rebuke is better than secret
love-" 'There is no new thing under
the sun" GA living dog is better than al
dead lion," 1.-THE race is not to THE
swift nor the battle to the strong,"i
wise in his own conceit," "Grind the
faces Of the poor" weighed in the
balance and found wanting" VITO
touches pitch will be defiled," Laugh.
ing to seorn," HE that runs pay!
read" @"Do not cast pearls bef0SeI
swine" p: and a4igreat many other e$
pressions that have served the turn BE-
thousands of years and help Us to real
lie how little human nature, changes
FIN. the generations that 90 by, luce
what suited the men of so-i long ago
expresses sour minds stfilese well.
,ssssss4f..s IL III L. ssnct ..sI,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-26
4 Feature: OF IrFi GA non 'fhat: rIs :::kt's
49, tracting Increased ATTENTION: g.

4 Feature: Of Irfi saf ZION b: tkt,f
49, tracing Increased attention. = so
-.... The .importanee. Of artificial means
fpf~briagiaS TIE. increasing uRderf9F
pf Water i &c aurfsessto bas utilizad
b 9nVertihg sM ,graAng lSnd info
the most proddctive soil on the Amerf
eans.seentiHea4;ss heFeby--ineFeasiEas-
value i've to ten fold; subject
of. n address -bhfoiu there ont ,izrisa-
I uel congress by the editor pf-Maotferas'
Irrigation. who ! cites -oneT dr two
stahees-if support ef4'the~Nalue of indi-
.viiuaf pumping plants:
! A. N.ela eollifty (Gole) Potato daFmex
owning 100 acres, forty-two"o of which
wsefe ABOVE d1rcn aYfu were 'vufued 1T
PSI asa T,a Forspas gre tepa'T iRstaAed
"a 1855 irrfgati6g Phhf Mst.4kat and
by the aid, of this plant the net product
d tHS aersy -twet aeres =was 2ga per:
cent sEeateEthan the best crop Maised
oil that portion Under: ditch. :Nhile
the section under ditch was short of
water four to ten days at the time
most needed, the forty-tWo; acres had
water just when needed, and he now
says this land, worth but SIS last year,
could not be purchased for $3.50 per
Citing my personal experience along
this. Enc, I will say that in 1881 l sunk
a we'll sixteen miles from the foot
hills, along. which irrigation bitches
ran, conveying water from the noun,
tains. "i1his we'll was sunk eighteen
feet Deep securing water enough to
raise two feet in the well and supply
a hand force pump for irrigating one
half acre. In 1884, three years afte'
I noticed the water stood five feet de-
in the same well, and l could not To- :
it with the pump. In 1890, nine yes
after the we'll was SUM-, the V->tor
came within four feet of the cur, g,
making fourteen feet of water in the
we'll instead of two feet the first year.
This practical test and additional ex-
periments strengthened my belief that
as irrigation increases, spreading wa
ter over the surface of the land, the
undertlow would increase proportion
ately. This water would eventually
form waterways, seepage courses and
find it's way to or near the surface of
the lowlands or plains and possibly
several hundred miles distant from the
mountains. TO prove this have found
q good supply of water in wells from
ten to thirty feet by digging in the bed
or near dry waterways until gravel is
reached. Ia some cases a well from
three to five feet in diameter will give
a sufficient supply of water. ..
In other instances 1 have sunk wells
from eight to twenty feet in diameter.
This, of course, depends on conditions,
flow of water and amount desired. II
is often the case that the undertook of
these dry st"c" ms is sufficient r. ~io'A
a valuable farm supply.