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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-05

We note that some of the
county papers make mention
of the fact that the next sum-
mer's institute will be held in
Missouri Valley. We suppose
that they refer to the teachers
institute and have asked County
Superintendent Brainard about
it. He informs us that he has
not as yet decided where it will
be held and at what date.
There is no doubt that Mis-
souri, Valley would be a good
place to hold the institute as
they have very good facilities
and can take care of a large
number. Observer.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-05
ONE
MINUTE

One Minute Cough Cure gives relief IN
one minute. because II kills the microbe
which tickles the mucous membrane, caus-
Ing the cough, and at the same time clears
the phlegm. draws out the inflammation
and heals and soothes the affected parts.
One Minute Cough Cure strengthens the
lungs. wards off pneumonia and is harm
less and never failing cure in all curable
cases Of Coughs, Colds and Group.
Our little girl was unconscious from straneulation
during sudden and terrible attack Of Group quickly
secured bottle Of Ono Minute Cough Cure and gave
her three doses half an hour apart. The Group was
mastered and our little darling speedily recovered.
cannot praise Ono Minute Cough Cure too much for
what II has done in our famiy-A. L. Spafford Post
master. Chester, Mich.
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-05

of the county, to urge the adj
vantages of the drainage sys-
tenn to the board and the advis-
ibility of it's construction.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-05
POTTAWATTAbllE COUNTY
WILL Do THEIR PART.
Will Construct Drainage bitches
This Ccunty's bitches now De-
pend on Action Of County
BOard.

County Surveyor Cook, of
Pottawattamie County, yester-
day filed a report with the
Auditor of that county recon-
mending the construction of
the proposed drainage bitches
in that county, the same to
unite with the Harrison county
bitches. His report follows, as
published in today's Nonpareil:
County Surveyor B. E. Cook,
the commissioner appointed by
the board of supervisors to in
vestigate the construction of a
drainage ditch in Rockford,
Crescent and Garner townships
as combinations of the proposed
Harrison county bitches, filed
his report with the county aud
itor yesterday. In the report
Mr.. Cook recommends that
three bitches, a plat of which
he furnished with his report,
be constructed. A notice to the
land owners whose property
abuts the bed of the proposed
bitches, and to whom the cost
of construction will be taxed, is
being prepared, and the matter
will be taken up for action at
the next meeting of the board
of supervisors, February l6.
The two bitches which have
been proposed will be a continu-
alton of similar drainage
bitches, the plans for which
were perfected in Harrison
county. The work in that
county has been at a standstill,
however, until the outlet to the
Missouri river through Potta-
wattamie county could be ar
ranged. At a meeting of the
board of supervisors last year a
petition signed by 100 inter
ested property owners was filed
with the board, asking that the
feasibility of the bitches be in
vestigated. The commissioner
whose report was filed yester-
day was appointed to make an
expert investigation and report
upon the location, cost and eff
feet of such a ditch.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-05

G. c. Williams, who has been
seriously ill for several days, is
again able to be out.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-05
to afford an outlet to the Mis-
HARRISON COUNTY PLANS.

JS
The bitches in Harrison
county will cost in the neigh
borhood of $5O,OO0. The Allen
creek ditch, which will follow
almost parallel with the Mis-
souri, river, will be about four
teen and one-half miles long,
while the Willow creek ditch,
which follows the general direc-
tion of the Willow creek bed,
will be eight miles long. They
will be about eighteen feet
wide at the bottom of the ex-
cavation and from eight to nine
feet deep.
County Surveyor Cook in his
report recommends the extern
sion Of these drainage bitches
through Rockford township.
The Allen creek ditch will cross
the county line about three
miles east of the Missouri river
and will flow in a south and
easterly direction. The Willow
creek ditch will enter Potta-
wattamle county a short dis
tance west of the Illinois Cent
raj railroad and will follow a
general south and westerly di-
rection.
DITCHEs TO UNITE.
1t is proposed in the report
to have the two drainage
bitches merge on the farm of
". M. Cl.ispin in Rockford
township, Were they will form
a single ditch which is called
the Boyer Cutoff ditch. The
Boyer Cutoff ditch will be con-
structed toward the southwest,
and an outlet to the Missouri
river will be found near the
Crescent township line on the
farm of Pat G. Gilmore.
The land through which
these bitches traverse is low
and full of swales and swamps.
To protect the bitches from fill
ing up the report which Com
missioner Cook has placed on
file suggests construction with
wooden culverts running into
the bitches from the neighbor-
ing ground and the protection
of the sides by wooden piling.
The bitches which Commits
sioner Cook has recommended
will be sixty feet in width and
will have a fall of one and one
half to two and one-half feet in
a mile. They will comprise a
total length of nearly eight
miles in PottaWattamie county.
COST OF CONSTRUCTION.
The estimates of expense
which he has made for the con-
struction of the system of
drainage is as follows:
Excavation Boyer Cutoff
ditch, SO, l47 cubic yards; Will
low creek ditch, 112,215s cubic
yards; Allen creek ditch, 32,218
cubic yards. Total cost of ex-
cavation at IL cents a yard,
S28, ,5O9.6O.
Cost of acreage of right-of-
way Boyer cutoff, $3.50 an
acre; Willow creek, $54.79; Al
len creek, S28.57. Total cost
of 1906 acres at $50, 81, 1850.
Expenses connected with con-
struction, appraisers, material,
etc, 50, 100.
Total cost of drainage system
in Pottawattamie county, $780,
952.2O.
LAND TO BE DRAINED.
The report on the construc-
A r.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
How to Warm Gold Plates.

Various departments of household
hints" have unaccountably neglected to
tell how solid gold plates may be
warmed for the meat courses at din
ner.
This may be done in the right or
the wrong way. The right way is ex-
emplified at Castle Kilkenny. This Is
one of the oldest inhabited dwellings
in the world, some of the rooms being
800 years old. Among its ancient treas
ures is a service. of gold plate.
Besides the ordinary plate service.
Castle Kilkenny has the whole series
of gold cups used at coronation ban
quets down to the time Of George w.
The gold of the service plates is almost
without alloy, consequently very soft
and easily married. Hence the plates
are warmed and presumably also
washed after use by being dipped into
hot water held by pair of tongs
whose tips have been mufled in cham
OILS leather.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Anthony.

THAI terrible poison, antimony, known
most Familiarity In the compound called
tartar emetic, has very interesting
history. 1t was introduced into medi-
cine some centuries ago by PARCEL
sus. Its name signifies that it is
against monks" as soa3e on whom it
was tried displayed the row familiar
symptoms. Its use in modern medicine
has been reduced to the vanishing point
with other depressing measures, such.
as bleeding. In the table which ar
ranges the clements liz series. and
shows their connectioRs+-sso that ali are
probably lnodificat tons ofsone universal
sUbstance--there is a sequence nitro
gen, phosphorus, arsenic antimCny. bis
muth. Sir Lauder Erunlon has shown
that these possess many common prop
critics in their action upon wan and
that these properties vary i'll relation
to the place CT each in the scale. In
the days before chlOrsform anthony
and tobacco were used to produce the
partial Inconsistencies which attends
their action.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
H0u YeSAt Work..

The growth Of the yeast plant il so
rapid that its Individual cells can be
seen under the microscope to aDnng up
as buds upon the parent cell and to
grow to full siza These presently give
off, buds Themselves that expand" in
like manner. In the case of the yeast
plant the cells remain attached to each
other and thus form branches Of elon-
gated cells fixed end to end. In other
cases the buds drop off, so that the
plant never takes any definite shape,
but remains as a mass of free cells.
If a new cell be formed every minute
by each of the cells present you may
calculate the number that will be pro-
duced in an hour. Thus at the end of
the first minute there will be two, in
two minutes four, in three minutes
eight, and so on. In five minutes there
will be thirty-two, in ten minutes the
number will have increased to 1,024,
and in fifteen minutes there win be
32,76S cells.-Hospital. ';re~.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
ynnauschek Got Even.

The following incident, which &C
Cured in Washington some years ago.
illustrates Nine. Janauselssk's deses-
mination of character and minute sense
of Justice.
she was staying at a hotel whose
management was noted for Its small
ness. She CHANGED to break a wash
bowl and when her 4ill came found
that she was charged with an entire
toilet set. .>.,%'
= II only broke a wasGbowi," she said
to the manager. T.. -"
I But it was a portion Of the set" was
the answer.
She made no further protest. Pres
emily the occupants of rooms looking
on an inner court were startled BY a
crash. 1t was followed by another.
The manager rushed to Janansch.k' s
room, fron whose windows chinay-are
was being thrown.
"What's all thisY' he asked.
at is my toilet set" she answered as
she poised the last piece on the win
dow sill. Il purchased it, and l am
disposng of it according to my own
ideas"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Quaker ParG'xSErruseaS

"A book on Nantucket contains "some
stories that are we'll known to lovers
OF the good Old town. but may not have
been widely repeated. OTe Of Them
hangs on the Quaker custom of IL UNI
,serlng the months and the days of ahe
-TseE instead Of usiIg the profai@
~ tnoiogicaI names
a Quaker schoo!nlasscrf set this'copy
on the blackboard for his'writinS class;
Beauty fadeth'scon.
Like a rose in sixth month.
It was probably the same man VINO
rood to his scholars about Robinson
Crusoe and his good man Sixth Day..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
An UnavaiIing Rain Penance.

No country subject to drought is
without it's own peculiar method Of
supplicating for rain. That in Kumaon,
northern India, is not the least curious
Of them.
In a country where the population
is almost entirely dependent upon grain
as a means of subsistence drought
means famine and starvation. During
a drought in Kumaon Hindoo fakir
imposed a penance on himself and was
suspended by his feet from wooden
beam. In this position he was swung
back and forth for a considerable time
by means of a rope attached to his
body and pulled by a fellow fakir.
Both men were besprinkled with ashes
and mud and were minus all clothing
except for a small cloth around the
waist,
1t is to be regretted that such pious
zeal should have gone without the ex-
pected reward, for the chronicler sadly
related that no rain fell until weeks
after.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Value of the KangaroUs Tail.

So important is the kangaroo's tail in
his rapid progress that experienced
hunters with guns are accustomed to
fire at the point where this appendage
joins the body, when, the tail being dis
abled for it's office of balancing, the
animal is as effectually stopped as if
hamstrung Hit elsewhere, except with
a rifle bullet or at point blank range,
the kangaroo is pretty likely to get off.
One popularity of the kangaroo is
that. after being started up, he very
rarely swerves from his course, through
which peculiarly he is easily "potted'
by hunters. who conceal themselves
while man on horseback drives the
herd toward them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Tickling the Debtors.

John Barrett was only twenty-seven
years old when President Cleveland
appointed him minister to Siam. The
first important task which confronted
the youthful envoy was to press a
claim against the Siamese government
for $1,OOO,OOO. Experienced ambassa-
doris warned him against using threats
in obtaining the money. "Be cunning;
avoid arrogance" they said.
''That is" responded Mr.. Barrett,
''you favor tickling with a straw to
pricking with a bayonet."
The statesmen nodded assent.
When the young minister had finally
succeeded in collecting the claim the
ambassadors asked in establishment,
"How did you accomplish it?'
"By tickling" explained Barrett. II
had to tickle them almost to death,
though, before they agreed to pay it."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
NEVER NET DEFEAT.
Military Leaders Who Were Always
Successful In Battle.

Successful In Battle.
The Duke Of Alva, one of the most
eminent soldiers of the sixteenth CEN
AIRY, never throughout his long and
sventful career lost a battle. The
archbishop OF Cologne was struck by
his effort to avoid a conflict, having on
enc occasion urged him to engage the
Witch. .@
The object Of a general replied
Ava. lis not to fight, but to conquer.
Ie fights enough who obtains the vic
tory"
Oliver Cromwell throughout his mill
tlry career never lost battle. though
he nearly sustained Il reverse at Dun
lar.
The Duke of Marlborough fought
several battles against the most eX-
Ierencs1 generals in Europe and was
never once defeated.
The famous Russian general Suva-
pof was another commander destined
never to suffer defeat. He gained sew
sral victories against the Turks and
against the Poles, ana in Italy he was
opposed by Moreau, and, being COM
1etely outnumbered, he effected
brilliant retreat over the mountains of
switzerland, through Germany, into
Russia.
The Duke Of Wellington throughout
his brilliant campaigns, both in India
and in the peninsula, preserved to him
self a remarkable record of uninter-
rupted successes from the first battle
in which he was vested with supreme
command throughout the peninsular
war, in which he defeated the ablest
Of Napoleon's marshals, until the
eventful day at Waterloo.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
A Host of Re1t6rfers..

1t is said that d reporter whoe had
been assigned to talk with an >Anferi-
can millionaire on an important cues
ton was repeatedly refused ,admlttance
TO his house. Then he sought out a
senator who was a PERSONAL friend Of
the. millionaire and petitoned for his
aid. Armed with the senator's card,
he returned to the millionaires Mouse
and sent in his talisnran. This,time he
was admitted
Young man." said the millionaire,
do you know that sixteen reporters
have called upon xme today about this
very question and thatI have refused
10 see them all?"' IL
Il ought to know it, sirH'1 responded
the visitor, for T am the %whole six
Renn'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Coffee For the Inebriate.

kiotraveler has made the observation
that coffee drinking people are very
seldom given to drunkenness. In Bra
I'll. for instance, where coffee is grown
extensively and all the inhabitants
drink it many times a day, intoxication
is rarely seen. The effect is not only
noticeable among the natives. but the
foreigner who settles there, though
possessed of ever such a passion for
strong drink. gradually loses his liking
for alcof oil us he acquires the coffee
drinking habit of the Brazilian.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22

An English country vicar discovered
not long ago that one Of his male
servants was in the habit OF stealing
his potatoes. He mentioned the fact
to lis curate and asked advice.
well" replied the curate. "of course
YOU must remember what the Bible
says, If ary man take away thy coat
let him have thy cloak Also"
81 see" unused the vicar. "WeIl, in
this case as the man takes my pota-
toes I'R better give, him the sack!''
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Superstitious Hungarian Peasants

Superstitious Hungarian Peasants.
A queer case Of superstition which
resulted in the loss of two lives is re-
ported from Hungary. A peasant liv-
ing in Nosztany died Of heart disease
while attending market in Kurd. His
relatives started to take the body home,
but were forcibly prevented from car
rying the body through the village of
Iharos, whose inhabitants believed that
the passage of a strange corpse through
their town would bring endless misfor-;
tune to it. The procession returned to
Kurd, and the next day it set out again,
this time with an escort of gendarmes.
When it reached Iharos it was met by
the whole population of the village,
armed with scythes, pitchforks, axes
and anything that could be used as
weapon. The gendarmes were forced
to fire three volleys before they could
get through the place. Two of the viii
layers we're killed and many wounded.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22

When Sir Stafford Northcote, after
ward the Earl of Iddesleigh,, was an
officer in yeomanry regiment in Dew
onshire one of the men who was lead
ing a small force across the country
was taking rather circuitous instead
of straight course.
"Why don't you keep your eye Old q
given point?" asked his officer:
81 do, sir"
"Well, what pointT
"That old cow, sir" replied the man.
The earl was often known to use this
anecdote when political leaders did not
20 straight.-Lllustrated Bits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22

Law Case

The daily papers not long ago
reported a trial case where a man
sued a medicine concern which had
offered a hundred dollars for a
case their remedy could not cure.
It seems that the man had not
been cured, though he had taken
the remedy. The defence was
that he had not taken the medicine
long enough. He did not get his
hundred dollars.
We aIIude to this because Vinol
does not give a slippery guarantee.
We sell it on its merits and
leave it to the user. If the user
comes back with his empty bottle
and says: Ct took that bottle of
Vinol, and can't see that it did
me any good" we don't argue
the matter. We say, or our clerk
says, "Sorry that you happen to
be among the few-here's your
dollar!"
The few! They are very few
less than one out of a hundred.
according to the experience.
Vinol is a scientific non-secret
compound of cod liver oil (greates'
medicinal food known), organic
iron (iron that can be taken up into
the blood and used), and a milo
table wine. 1t is pleasant to take
Our Vinlax, for constipation, /:
Vinol's companion remedy, sold OF
the same guarantee. ..z-yy~>
For sale byHanson & Emerson
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Gold Him His own hook.

A man appeared in 2 Paris bookstore
tho other day and asked for a volume
of Balzac. The clerk showed niln a
rare edition. asking 40 francs for IL.
When the customer said that was 100
much the clerk advised him to go lnto
the proprietor's Office and see II ne
cou,d get it cheaper. But the custom
ar went and offered it for % francs
and the proprietor promptly pau ~.
sum and afterward showed MS oaf
gain" to the clerk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
. The Devils Knell.

Among the famous bells Of Dews-
bury, Yorkshire. England, is one known
as "Black Tom of Scothill," which was
presented to the church in expiatien of
a murder. BLACK Tom is always rung
on Christmas eve. Its solemn tolling
as it strikes the first tap at exactly
midnight is known all over Yorkshire
as the devils knell," it being the no
ton that when Christ was bonn the
devil died.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Avertfng the Evil.

Mildred (very superstitiouss- oh.
dear, would never have accepted you,
Jack, if had remembered it WIS FRI
day evening!
Jack-There's only one way to- avert
the evil omen, darling. We must very
carefully kiss each other seven times
at least every seven minutes during
the first seventy minutes Of eur en-
gagement.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22

WOuIunt DC "a
Mrs Newell would like pouno oA
your best cheese.
Groceries, ma'am.
Mrs Newed examining it, Wny'
this cheese is full Of holes!
Groceries, ma'am; that's the way
it comes.
Mrs. Newed-Well, don't want any
of if. I'm not going to pay for pounu
of cheese that contains half pound OF
holes!
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Animals En- Alcohol.

M. Grobaut. professor Of physiology
In Paris. in describing the effect of al
eohol upon animals says that the sue
cessive stages Of intoxicatioH through
which they pass are gayety, sadness,
solemnity and supreme intsNication
which ends in.dea.th. Rabbits are very
curious when under the influence OF
Honor and drunken .kangaroa is bru-
tally aggressive.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22

There are some persons who can't
take a joke. but Fogg is not one OF
them. One of the boys, acquainted with
Fogg's frequent changes Of abode ask
ed. him which he thought was the
cheaper, to move or to pay rent.
81 can't tell you, my dear boy" re-
nlied Fogg. .T have always moved"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Jenkins Was Ignored.

William Pitts last words are said to
have been, my country, oh, how love
nv countryv' Pitts butler afterward
said that the statesmaRss dying words
were, 81 hope the country will do some
thing for Jenkins" The butler was
Jenkins, but nobody accepted his testt
mony and the country certainly did
nothing for jenkins.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Quite Deliberate.

81 am glad to say" remarked Ml.
seel,ton. "that I never spoke a Nasty
word to you" ...
"No, Leonidas," answered MS vic
rather gently; "I'm willing to give you
credit for not hurryfng about any
i$i,inp" a..E
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Too Self Possessed.

Mrs. Manykids-There is one thing
shout our girls-they are always self
possessed.
Papa Manykids (grimly)-Yes, they're
too self possessed. I wish they'd get
some one else to possess them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Economical.

Friend Ito amateur artist)-l suppose
you'll give up painting when you mar
~?
Amateur-Oh, no! It'll be so conven-
tent and economical when we have to
make wedding presents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22

Taking Away From the Subject.
When Frederick Robertson OF Bright
m, the great preacher who had written
mich about Tennyson's poems and tor
whom the poet had high regard, nrs'
called upon him, 81 felt" said Ienny.
son. "as if he had come to pluck OUT
the heart of my mystery, SO taikeo
ito him about nothing but beer"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
A just Reward.

"Too bad about DR.. Killem falling in
to the well, wasn't it?'
Serves him right. He should have
attended to the sick and left the well
alone."-Melbourne Australian.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-10-22
Her Long Dream.

Estelle-Ah! His proposal was just
like q dream!
Agnes-Well. you ought to- know,
DEAR You've been dreaming Of that
proposal for years.