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The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-17
The End.
THOUGHT 1T WAS PIGS.
Young Girls Apt Description Of Cham
pion Snorer's Efforts.


pion snorers Efforts.
Mr.. J. has great and growing rep
utation for snoring-his intimate
friends say he is in class all by him
self and cannot be matched.
A few summers ago, while ]. and
his wife were on a driving trip, they
stopped overnight at hotel in Sulli-
van county, says the New York Trib-
une. The hotel was a frame building,
the bedrooms were divided by thin
board partitions, and the acoustic
properties were so good that any
sound much louder than whisper in
one room could be distinctly heard in
the room adjoining.
Shortly after J. and his wife were
shown to their room another party,
consisting of mother and two young
daughters, arrived and were put in the
room adjoining that of the is.
That night. j.. being very tired,
slept soundly and-his wife says
nobly sustained his reputation as i
sound producer.
The next morning, while they were
seated at breakfast, the new arrivals
OIL the night before were ushered into
the dining room and were given seats
at the same table, opposite J. and his
wife.
The younger daughter was of a very
tulkative disposition. and after giving
her views on things in general sud-
denly broke out with:
"Oh mamma! this place is just like
the real country-every time I woke
up last night | could hear the pigs"
J. and his wife resumed their driv-
ing trip Immediately after breakfast.
In His Fathers Place.
Benham-I believe our boy is going
to be the fool of the family.
Mrs. Benham-lt's quite probable; !;
| it's very likely that he will outIive
you.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-17

The tactful man is success with
women because when he sees one il Il
cotton shirt waist he makes her e.
lieve no ether woman could do 1t With
out appearing commonplacc.-Nsv
York Press.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-17

Little Tommy when told he was
growing too fast. said:
Yes, think they water me too
much. Why. have to take q cath
every morning."
The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-17
The k|0ndyke Gold Mystery.
By JOHN z. MUSlck.

ADthos 'ea "Mystsrssss Mr.. nswsrd.' "fhs
Dark StSaagcr." "ChariAs AllsDdaIs'S
DssbIs." Etc.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
what nuad,i.u.Atmea to Do.

The Greeks were capable of much
poetical pessimism. They saw the van
ity of things as plainly as Gotama did.
but they also saw the pleasure of pro-
claiming this vanity in sonorous hex.
ameters or musical elegiacs. To give
everything up because you cannot en-
joy everytl ing forever would not have
entered into their very sound brains
and healthy nervous systems. Buddha
knew this, knew that mankind was
light minded. a child pursuing bird.
But in the slack and demOraliZing eli
mate of India he found countless dis
ciples. Most Of them perhaps cling to
the Brahamic survivals in Buddhism.
the gods. the fairy tales, more closely
than to the doctrine of remuneration.
1t is a hospitable religion and has
many mansions. But it did aim at do
ing away with the sacredness of caste
at proving all men to be equally hui
man, equally capable, as far as social
distinctions go, Of moral excellence. In
this view, where Buddhism most d.
rectly reacts against Brahminism. it
has not been a success. The caste sys-
tenn in all its Indian minuteness has
survived the Buddhist doctrine. Bud
dha for the soul and the gods for the
world" an old. Cingalese saying. still
exists in that popular superstition. Hu.
man nature cannot be boxed up in a
system.-Iondon News. ,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
THE OMNIBUS.

It Was Introduced by Blaisc r'~secl.
the Noted Mathenatician
No less parsonage than the famous
mathematician, Blaise Pascal, is sd
to have introduced the vehicle which
we call the omnibus" Unlik:' NOS
other men Of learning, Pascal WIS nioGt
or less interested in the affairs of prlc-
teal life. He was the inventor of the
pushcart that now perambulateS oUr
streets. says the Scientific American.
In 1861 he had large wagons built
for regular traffic in the heart OF Iaris.
He allied himself in this undert;i..:. ::ls
with several influential friends. among
whom was the Duke of RoanneS.
In 1862 Louis NV. granted letters
patent to Pascal, in which it was ST.
that these carriages were intended fo'
the comfort of poor people who had to
60 to courts of justice or who were
sick and so poor that they could not af,
ford to pay the two pistoes exacted by
the chairmen and the drivers OF
coaches.
At first the use of the vehicle was
not generally permitted. A royal &c
cree forbade its use by soldiers. PAGES
lackeys and other liveried servants. us
well as artisans and pOrters.
Pascal, in spite of the fact that he
only lived to be thirty-nine, is said to
have made no ineonsiderable suII out
of his invention.
After the vehicle had been in u"e
some sixteen years it was abandoned
for various reasons. 1t was not unti
1912 that it was again introduced. TIL;
time in Bordeaux, which city was fol
lowed in 1921 by Nantes and in 1921
by Paris. The vehicle was improved
and rapidly became popular. New II
has been almost displaced by the tram
way.
In modern times the vehicle w-?s
called an omnibus simply for the r";,
son that it was intended for the cnr
rage of all, without any restrietio;!s rs
to lackeys, pages or footmen.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
SAYINGS OF THE WISE.
1T she never loved again.

The eyes of other people are the eyes
that ruin us.-Franklin.
If you would know and not be
known. live in city.-COlton.
The way Of the world is to make
laws, but follow tGigne.
We carry happiness into our condi-
ton. but cannot hope to find it there
Holmes.
Prosperity is no just scale. Adver-
sity is the only balance to weigh
friends.-Plutarch.
Children are unconscious philOSO-
piers. They refuse to pull to pieces
their enjoyments to see what they are
made of.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Energy will do anything that can be
done in this world, and no talents. no
circumstances. no opportunities. will
make a two legged animal man with
out it.--Goethe.
Great. ever fruitful. profitable for re-
proof, for encouragement. for building
up in manful purposes and works, are
the words of those that in their day
were men.-Carlyle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
Pedigrecs of Arabian Horses.

The Arabs have no written pedi-
grees. 1t is all an affair of memory
and of notoriety in the tribe. Certain
alleged pedlgrees of Arabian horses,
couched in romantic language and rep
resented as carried in a small bag and
hung by a cord around the animals
neck, have been published, but these
are forgeries got up probably by horse
dealers. Egyptian, Syrian or Persian.
The breeding of every. horse is a mat
ter of common knowledge. and it
would be impossible for his owner to
fabricate pedigree so as to deceive the
natives, even if he were so inclined.
The Bedouins, it seems necessary to
admit, are in general great liars. and
they will lie Ito strangely about the
age, the qualities or the ownership of
a horse, but they will not lie about his
pedigree, even when they can do so
with IMMUNITY. To be truthful on this
subject is almost a matter of religion.
certainly point of honor in the des-
ert-Atlantic. p, a..... ~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09

do nawthin' Of the kindl It's all yer
aunt's fault that them trees is there,
am there they kin stay fer me-"
Preoccupfed himself, Jonas never de-
tected the purpose throbbing in Her
bert's whole being poreeven observed
the guilty glance that his nephew stole
at him when the boy asked with as
sumed calm if he might go fishing in
stead of accompanying Jonas to mill.
"Jest as We like" said his uncle.
somewhat surprised. "Ain't no good
fishin' round here, but s'pose throw.
I'm the line in the water'H satisfy ye."
Herbert waited until his uncle had
been gone a full half hour; then he
flew round to the wood pile and seized
the AK, his heart throbbing to suffoca-
ton. He hurried back to the front
yard, glancing right and left. There
was no one in sight. He looked at
Miranda Sour, the representative of
1.-THE ungodly." Yes, it was no fancy.
Her leaves rustled an insolent chal-
lenge. He sprans to her side and sunk
his axsdeeply in her new smooth bark.
After that the blows fell fast and
furiously In less than fifteen min
utes she lay quivering and signing at
the feet of Miranda Sweet.
With desperate strength he dragged
the fallen one round to the back yard,
sometimes in cold terror over his deed,
sometimes with the same exultation
that Achilles felt in driving round the
walls of Troy. The funeral pyre Of
Miranda Sour was no easy work, for
the day was hot and the limbs full of
sap. but at last nothing was left OF
her save few blackened pieces not to
be distinguished MS parts Of an apple
tree. Then a tired but determiEeu
boy put old Dobbin in the ancient b':g
gy and drove UP the road at rate tat
threatened an immediate smashup.
1t was 6 o'clock when Jonas re-
turned He was dusty, tired anG I'm,
CRY. Then as he opened the gate he
rubbed his eyes.-it could only be
vision.
But certainly the vision had warm
arms. They clasped him round til.
neck. and face still good to look or
was upturned to his own. and the old
beloved voice cried out:
kiss me. Jonas-right here. right
nowv'
"Miranda"' be gasped. and Their
brokenly. Thank God. oh. thank
God"
Eyes. thank him." faltered Miranda
tears falling now. "And his instru
ment was that blessed boy! Oh. Jonas
he told me how you missed me an
how you kept that beautiful apple
tree in front the door to remember me
by"
Hot shame and fear flooded Jonas
He glanced at the house and felt like
rubbing his eyes again, for of Miranda
Sour not even a stump was lett while
III sweet and placid humility. comfort
ed with many apples and tremulous
with hints Of years of happiness Mi
randa Sweet shaded the doorway low
tngIy
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
WHEN STARCH WAS NEW.
It Used to Be Made In Colors So 40 fs
Tint the Fabric.

It Used to Be Made In Colors So 40 fs
Tint the Fabric.
"a package of starch2'' asked the In.
telligent ard learned grocer, and as he
wrapped tie package up he talked.
Starch originated he said, 'in
Flanders. K wrs introduced into Eng
land, with the big ruff. in tine time OF
Queen Elizabeth. 1t was like our starch
of today, except that it was made in
coiors-red yellow, green, blue. The
effect Of this was to tint delicately the
white linen to which the starch might
be applied.
Before Queen Elizabeths time ruff
fles and rutfs were made of fine hot-
land, which required no stiffening-
Then the ruffs of cambria came, and
these must of necessity be starched."
The grocer, consulting his 1emoran-
DUN book, resumed:
1T is recorded that when the queen
had rufus made of lawn and cambria
for her own princely wearing there was
none il England could tell how to
starch them; but the queen made spe-
NtS'i hiN'tAA'' hoi oothS " OLiSIi Iidt SNrA42
starch, and Mrs. Gullham, wife of the
royal coacEman, was the first starch
err
I'm 1864 a Flanders woman. Frau
Var der Plasse, came to London and
established there school for the
teaching of starching. The school sue
cecdcG. The Flanders frau got rich
She charged Is lesson i:ld an extra
20 shillings for a recipe for tie making
Of starch out of wheat -four, bran ana
roots.
yellow was the most fashionable
color in starch among the nobility. The
Puritans used blue starch, though at
first they had been against the stuff al
together, clubbing it "A certaine kinde os
liquide matter which they call starch,
wherein the devil hath willed them to
wash and dive their ruffes, which.
when they be dry, will then stand stiffe
and infieXible about their necks'
Starch is made from wheat, corn
and potatoes, and starving men have
often subsisted on it. finding it nour-
ishing, though not tasty."-London
Graphic.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
CHARLOTTE e.usHMAN.
Hitter Ending CT the ono, Love Afni
OF the Famous Actress.

hitter Ending OF the; Oncs Love Affair
of the Famous Actress.
Charlotte Cushlnan, the actress, was
In love but once in her life. She met In
Cincinnati, where she was playing, ali
actor named Clark, with whom she fell
In love. Through her efforts Clark was
advanced to leading man in the COM
pany, and the course of true love ran
smoothly. D.
One night the actress met a strange
woman behind the scenes between the
Lcts. M
The woman came up to her and ad-
dressed her thus: - n
you are Charlotte Cushman, the
great actress. Haven't you got enough
men to admire you without coming be-
tween man and wife and robbing me
of my husband?"
"Your husbandv' cried Miss Cush-
man, getting excited. 4.
"Yes, and you have taken or you are
trying to take him from me-" contin-
ued the ragged woman, looking Miss
Cushman full in the face.
"Who is your husbandw
Conrad Clark" replied the woman
1.-THE father of this child" pointing to
half starved, thin little child in her
arms.
Miss Cushman started as if she had
been shot.
She went through her part that night
as usual-acted it splendidly-brough
down the house; then, after the per-
Torrance, she sent for Clark to come to
her dressing room. Clark Knocked and
then opened the door. She brought for
ward to him his wife and baby, who
had been waiting in the dressing. room
to receive him.
Sucha reception. Charlotte Cushman
never looked or acted so grandly on the
stage in all her life as she did that
night in her dressing room. She waved
Clark away with a greater majesty
than ever as Queen Catherine she
waved away Cardinal WOlsey, and then
going to her hotel probably she had a
good crying spell.
But she never loved again.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
Old Maids and Climate.

The unenlightened frequently make
the mistake Of thinking that lack Of op-
portunity is responsible for the exist
ence of single women, but lay most
Of it to climate The New England eli
mate is not conducive to matrimony
or even lovemaking. And even after
the crucial moment has passed and the
single woman has drifted from girl
hood to spinsterhoOd. a cold climate,
raw winds, chill rains and snow tend
to increase the loneliness Of it. There
may be old maids in the south, but
never heard of them being called by
that name. have known some single
women. schoolteachers. anywhere from
seventeen to fifty. and some of their
grown boy pupils were eternally and
perennially in love with them. A sim
gle woman who has made up her mind
not to marry has IL hard time to keep
her resolution in the south. for she is
always aSsailetl to break it. The very
climate breathes love. All, there it is!
As said. old maids are surely mat
ter of clilnate.-Harper's BaZar.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09

The animal par excellence which the
hunter. the amateur arctic traveller and
the young explorer hopes and dreams
of killing is the polar bear. The reason
for this is the magnificent trophy
which the great white skin makes.
This feeling was no less strong centu-
ries ago than it is now, for we read
that one of the early Ieelandic sea row
ers to Greenland quarreled with and
killed his bosom companion because he
had slain a large bear instead of leav-
ing that honor to his chief. With the
modern repeating rife the bear stands
no chance against the hunter, no mat
ter under what conditions they may
meet, and If he is hunted in the native
way, with the assistance Of dogs, there
is hardly mere excitement than in kill
ing musk oxen, except for the wild,
heller SHELTER dash over the ice to over
take the animal after the dogs strike
the hot scent.-Leslie's Monthly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
How Does FlttD THEIR WAY

Evidence Tint TEtey Possess Pecul-
lar Power to Guide Them.
rim the old days Of Che James rive.
canal fine seerar was taken siy bis
master OH packet boat which was sc
crowded that tie dos sgwas put n The
captains cabin t0ba outsof the way.
says the New York Midland Express
His owner reached bis destinatios.I aft.
er nightfall and had taken 50 MUGS
wire by that time that he was c..rr.eG
OH tie boat, and no one remembered
Lis setter =
Next morning the captain took t!lr
dog on deck with him. but was mae!
afraid he would jump of to the lev
path and try to return that way, a:.t, =
handsome an ANIMAL would have bee,
in dlnger of be.Rs stolen.
Carlo, however. lay perfectly Gu:"t
but with an air of listening that at.
tracted notice Toward noon he l.2ar;l
the sound Of the horn of packc; Ct y
Ing from the opposite way, and :;s a.
bo3ts passed each other lie mad" Il i'E'
ard was next heard from as l:v.n,,
Sot oti dt tt'C plttSS " lSIC li-St =
had stopped and as having gore Il;
once to the house where he was p
guest. ...s
Could human intelligence have sur
passed that?
This same dog lay on his ~; .s.""'s
grave ard refused food until Il, ii. I
from starvatio But l do not give TIT
as case in point.
A gentleman who lived: a EundrH,
miles from a city moved there wish III
his possessions, including b!ii1):
which had been raised at his f, .cT
home, where he had hitherto reS;sl Il
He was locked up in the Car with The
furniture and in the hustle of unloading
disappeared, and two days aft r.yv;;.(
he,rcachcd his former home. coming l.!
an inland route, as was known hy par
ties who recognized him, so that / " e.;
IDENTITY marked out his own patti w.
out reference to the railroad Oil Was
he had been carried away.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
ssThe .Jer1Sa.''

The most remarkable manifestation
Of the great religious movement which
swept over this country just before the
war Of 1879 was the physical and nerv-.
Gus disorder known as 1.-The jerks" The
Jerks took their name from the; fact
that the arms and legs would be thrown
about apparently by force beyond
control CO the individual. The disorder
was epideL.:c in Tennessee. A slave
owner, man of great wealth and
prominence and irreligious, called his
slaves together one Sunday morning,
when camp meeting was in progress
near by. and announced his deliberate
intention of horsewhipping any one of
their number who took the jerks. sit
is all imagination" he said, "and I'll
Whip any one of you that taxes it with
in an inch of his life" He went to
camp meeting, and while conyersing
with d friend in the outskirts of the
ground was told that one of his ne
groes had the jerks Selling his horse
whip. he fastened toward the spot and
when half way was himself seized by
the jerks. y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
How a Glass Eye Acts.

A glass eye has never so free range
Of movement as the real one, and when
the owner turns his eyes strongly in
any direction the glass eye lags behind
the other. so producing squint. Then
the pupil Of the glass eyeis of course
of fixed size, while the natural pupil
dilates and contracts not only with
varying amounts of light. but with
varying emotions. Then. again the
white of the eye varies in tint greatly
from day to day, being slightly blood
shot during headaches and yellow dur
ing bilious attacks. The differences in
color between the two eyes caused by
these changes are even more easily no
ticed than. the differences in the pupils
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09

The highest part of the city of Lon
don is the middle of Pannier alley. run
ming between Newgate street and
Paternoster row. Ben Jonscn tells us
that in his day this was a stand for
tr1pe sellers and earlier still for ba kers.
The exact spot is indicated on the east
wall by stone monument consisting
of a boy sitting upon a pannier.. or
bakers basket, holding in his hand a
bunch of grapes. On the pedestal is the
following inscription: . .:. .,.. d. W
When we have sought the city round.
Yet still this is the highest ground.
Aug. q, 1885,
Were we to include Greater London
then Hampstead heath would be the
spot. for it is 424 feet above sea level,
or "a feet above the cross of st. Paul
London Standard. igs.s ,s.-.t & i :
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
A STRANGE LEGEND.
Origin Of o Curious Custom Observed
by Bulgarian Masons.

Origin Of q Curious Custom Observed
by Bulgarian Masons.
Nine master masons who were en-
gagged in building a citadel in the time
of the Voivoid Neagoe found on re-
turning to their work each morning
that the portion, of the wall which they
had completed the day before had fall
en- to pieces during the night and was
lying in a heap of ruins in the ditch.
Manol Of Curtea, the head mason, in
formed his comrades one morning that
voice from heaven had warned him
in his sleep the night before that their
labors would continue. to come to
naught unless they all swore on that
very morning to immune in the struc-
ture the first woman, be it wife. moth
er, daughter or sister, who should ar
rive with the morning meal OF one
or either of them. They all took the
oath, and the last man hal hardly been
sworn when Manofs OWE wife appear
ed, carrying her husbands breakfast.
The oath was kept, and the woman.
known in the legend as Flora of the
Fields" was murdered and her blood
and flesh Incorporated with the wall Of
masonry.
A curious practice of the Bulgarian
masons the above scene is laid in Bull
garia), which survives to this day. tes-
tifies to the vitality of the legend. To
insure the solidity of the houses they
build they measure with a reed the
shadow Of the first p> rson who passes
after the digging Of the foundation
has been completed. When the foun-
dation is commenced, this reed is buried
under the first rock, usually the corner
stone.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09
DRESDEN CHINA.
First offered For Sale Mt the Fair
of Leipsic In 1921.

First offered For Sale Mt the Fair
of Leipsic In 1921.
Dresden china began it's reign at the
fered for public sale for the first time
1t has had three periods Kings, Mar
coline and modern-and for all around
use it continues to be the most popular
ware of this day.
The factory marks traced on the bot
tom of each piece vary according to the
period-the oldest (King's) being the
monogram A. r. and the wand of Els
culapius. The familiar crossed swords,
with the dot or circle between the han
dies, were first used in 1921, and the
star took the place of the dot in the
Marcoline period. The modern mark is
the simple crossed swords, sometimes
accompanied by letters and numbers. =
Although the methods Of work are
still jealousy guarded in all factories,
the essentials are an open secret, and
the following rough outline may salts
4 fly the laZily curious: The ingredients
of porcelain are kaolin feldspar, sand
and selenite. These are ground fine and
mixed in limewater. The paste is then
nodded into forms and fired in am oven
of moderate heat. When taken out, ii
/ Is in an opaque state and is then dipped
in the glaze, which is feldspar ground
fine, with a little alkali. 1t is now sub
jected to a firing of great heat, which
results in the beautiful polished SUP
faco so 70 p,iliar tho world aver
This second firing is attended with
risk, for If the piece is allowed to re-
main beyond the exact proper moment
/ the whole melts together and is ruined
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-09

"Once at party" said a Scotch CT.
gyman, "therc was a crusty old SEQ:
seated at wrist table playing PCS
sionately, and his partner was a youae
woman, the daughter of neighbornc
laird. You are to imagine this young
woman's surprise in the heart of the
game when the old fellow threw down
his cards and bawled at her: 81
"'What kind of a game are We play
in, We darned auld' H.. ... ~
"And then, recollecting himself. he
bowed and said humbly to the aston
ished girl: *. ~.
eyer pardon's begged, madam ]
took We in the excitement for ny ain
wife," ,.--@