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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
DEATH OF JOHN WAIT.
One of Todd County'S Best
Citizens SeccumbS to
the Inevitable.

The HERALD briefly announced the
death of John Wait last week. For
the following additional particulars it
is indebted to the Todd County
Argus:
John Wait is dead. These were the
startling words that were passed
around the village this morning. The
news came as a greater surprise since
it was not generally known that he
was sick. He started for Duluth on
Monday afternoon to be absent sever; !
days, but at Wadena did not feel we'll
and returned home on Tuesday n" n.
He ut once took to his bed and y, o-r-
day it was known that there was very
little hope that he would survive.
Mr.. Wait came to this county just
after the close Of the civil war and has
been resident of this county ever
since. He took homestead near Old
Hartford bridge where John DebOlt
now resides and lived there till coming
to Long Prairie in 1870 In 1871 he
was married to Miss Emily Chandler,
who survives him. He became men,
Der of the firm of Chandler, Fisher &
Wait which firm did prosperous
business for many years. After the
firm acquired the mill property west
Of the village he moved to the mill,
where the family has since resided.
He was man of superior force and
intelligence and bore his full share in
the development Of the county. In
1876 and IT he operated steamboat
on the Long Prairie river carrying
produce to Motley.
Mr.. Wat wat, born in Ontario,
Canada, and was in his 62nd year.
He crossed the border line into United
States when but boy. On August
n, 1862 he enlisted in Co. D., of the
9Th Minnesota and served till his dis
charge Aug. 10, 1865. At the time
was with Gen. Sbley in his campaign
against the Sioux after the great mas
sacre of 1868
He represented this county in the
legislature in 1876 and served six
years as Register of Deeds of this
county. He was a genial companion
and wills widely known and many will
be panied at the vs. of his untimely
death. He was 81 years Of age, but
was as full of life and yigor AS many
men ten years his junior. He was the
father of nine children, six of whom
survive him. They are Florence
Waterbury of Brooklyn. New York,
Mrs. Edwin Boyd of Browerville,
Carl, Roscoe, Paul and Nellie. Me-
vim, the eldest son, died number OF
years ago, aud two died in infancy.
Mrs. Wait is Frustrated with grief at
her sudden bereavement and the family
have the sympathy of the entire COM
munity in their great loss.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
CLOSE OBSERVERS.

Savages Note Things to Which Civil.
lized Eyes Are Blind.
Savages are supposed to have keener
senses, especially keener sense Of
sight, than civilized races. The author
of Idle Days In Patagonia" does not
accept this theory. lie believes that
savages have no keener senses, but
that they pay closer attention to what
comes within the range of their percep-
ton. AS an instance of quick response
to an impression he tells the following
story:
On March IL, 1861, a company of
hunters were camping. beside grove
of willows in Patagonia. About
o'clock that evening, while they were
seated round the fire roasting their o.
trich meat, Sosa suddenly sprang to his
feet and held his open hand high above
his head for some moments.
There Is not q breath Of wind blow
ing" he exclaimed, yet the leaves of
the trees are trembling. What can this
portend"
uS OLAcIc otdISu Ut tAC uSCos oot
could see no motion, and they began to
laugh at him. Presently he sat down
again. remarking that the trembling
had ceased, but during the rest Of the
evening he was very much disturbed in
his mind. He remarked repeatedly that
such thing had never happened in his
experience before. for, he said, he could
feel breath of wind before the leaves
felt it, and there had been no wind. He
feared that it was a warning of some
disaster about to overtake their party.
The disaster was not for them. On
that evening occurred the earthquake
which destroyed the distant city Of
Mendoza and crushed 1900 people to
death beneath the ruins. That the sub
terranean wave extended east to the
Plata and southwark into Patagonia
was afterward known, for in the cities
of Rosario and Buenos Ayres clocks
stopped, and a slight shock was also
experienced in the Carmen on the Rio
Negro
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
THE SCOLD'S Birdie.
Brutal Punishment to Which Women
Were Once Subjected.

Brutal Punishment to Which Women
Were Once Subjected.
The Drank, or scold : bride, or gos-
sips bride, was neither more nor less
than a muzzle. 1t was in general use
in Great Britain from the sixteenth to
the eighteenth century, and in Scot
land as we'll women were muzzled for
certain OffenSes, some at least Of them
more imaginary than real. The inStru-
ment of torture, even a dogs leather
muzzle, is uncomfortable; how much
more the scold's muzzle? 1t consisted,
according to high authority, Mr.. w.
levitt of a kind of crown or frame
work of iron, which was locked upon
the head, and it was armed in front
with a gag, q plate or a sharp cutting
knife or point, which was placed in the
poor woman's mouth so as to prevent
her moving her tongue, or it was so
placed that if she did move it or at
tempt to speak it was cut in a most
frightful manner. With this cage up
on her head and with the gag firmly
pressed and locked against her tongue
the miserable creature, whose sole Of
Tending perhaps was. that she raised
her voice in defense of her social rights
against a brutal and besotted husband
or had spoken honest truth of some
one high in Office in her town, was pa
raded through the streets, led by
chain by the hand of bellman, the
beadle or the constable or chained to
the pillory, the whipping post or mar
ket cross. to be subjected to every con-
ceivable insult and degradation, with
out even the power left her of asking
for mercy or of promising amendment
for the future, and when the punish
ment was over she was turned out
from the town hall or the place where
the brutal punishment had been in
fiicted. MANNED, disfigured, bleeding,
faint and degraded, to be the subject
of comment and jeering among her
neighbors and to be reviled by her per-
secutors.-Fireside Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
THE AVERAGE BRAIN.
"E'sG 1T Weighs and the Number Of
Cells 1t Contains.

"f"N II weighs and the Number OF
Cells 1t Contains.
Whether It be the brain cell Of a
glowWorm or one trembling with the
harmonies of Tristan und Isolde'' the
stuff it is made of is much the same.
1t is difference of structure apparent
~ rather than of material. And the
chemical difference between a brain or
nerve cell and that of the muscles or
ehe skin seems reducible mainly to a
difference in the proportion of two sub
stances-water and phosphorus. Lean
beef. for example, is from 20 to so per
cent water; the brain is from 80 to 95
per cent water. And q brain or nerve
cell may contain from five to ten times
as much phosphorus as. let us say, the
cells of the liver or the heart The ac-
tual quantity Is of course extremely
small-by weight but fraction of
per cent.
About three pounds avoirdupois of
this very complex phosphorized stuff
make up an average human brain.
There is a lot more of it distributed
down ones spinal column, and little
plexuses all over the body wherever a
group of muscles are to be moved, and
others still, the sensory or feeling
nerves, which are everywhere 1t is
hard to find a cubical half inch outside
the bones where they are not.
All told. the nervous substance. which
for the sake of making its functions
clear l have called the matter which
thinks, forms not inconsiderable por-
skeleton. 1t is made up Of distinct and
separated units, for the most part ex-
tremely minute, though some attain a
length of two or three feet. These
units, for lack Of more misleading
name, are called cells. The 'cells"
which run from the small of your back
down into your legs and wiggle the
same or inform you when a member Of
the family is stubbed, are the longest
Those of the brain are mostly SO small
as to tax the powers of the microscope.
Their average length would be meas
ured in thousandths of an inch. There
have been many attempts to get at
their actual number 1t is certainly
large. Computations for the brain
alone range from soc, 100000 upward.
One, due, think, to Waldeyer sets the
total number of brain cells (average)
at 100000, 100000. This would mean
brain population exceeding the known
population of the earth.-Carl Snyder
in Earper's Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
FACTS ABOUT FOLKS.

Boys grow more regularly than girls.
The memory which acts quickest acts
best.
Urban life decreases stature from five
years of age on.
Firstborn children exceed later born
in stature and weight.
Children born in summer are taller
than those born in winter.
Red and yellow are visible at greater
distances than green and blue.
Truant boys are inferior in weight
height and chest girth to boys in gen
eral.
Dull children are lighter and preco.
cious children heavier than the average
child.
Great men, though, often absentmind.
ed, have strong memories on the lines
OF their interests.
Healthy men ought to weigh an add.
tionRl five pounds for every inch in
height beyond sixty-one inches, al
which height they ought to weigh 12o
pounds.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
CHres For Insomnia.

To an overworked little woman who
suffers from insomnia an old doctor
delivered himself as follows:
"Shun all the devices one hears 50
much about, such as counting up to
5000. They are maddening. Never
take night baths If their action is too
stimulating. Go in for few physicaf
exercises, including deep breathing.
After the exercises walk backward on
tptoe round the soom until forty or
fifty steps have been taken. When in
bed, relax the body completely. Take
long, slow, deep breaths, and II you
must think of something imagine your
self surrounded and supported by a
soft, strong, gray cloud which is bear
ing you off to Sunderland. Drinking
a glass of warm milk just before retir-
ing sometimes hastens the trip."-New
York Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
CurinS O Snake Rite.

This. is how the Indians of Central
America cure a snake bite: They pin
the unlucky patient to the ground and
wind strong creepers above and below
the bite until they cut into the flesh.
Then they apply a live coal to the
wound to cauterize it and follow that
up by rubbing in mixture Of chewed
tobacco and crushed garlic. BY this
time the victim is nearly mad with
pain and ready to kill everybody in
sight, especially when he finds, as he
often does, that the snake was not
venomous. il
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21

Mr.. Klonne is an enterprising young
business man OF this city who has
gained the respect of this community
in which he has lived for years. Up
right in all his dealing and ever court.
eous, he has hosts of friends. The
bride is Dung lady well-knowr and
universally esteemed by a large circle
of friends and acouaintances. Con.
gratulations are extended. Mr.. Klon.
ne purchased the Alex Benson house,
some time since, and it has been re.
fitted and furnished for their imnedi.
ate occupancy.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
Badness Caused By Fear.

Several carefully observed cases of
falling hair from emotion have been
recorded, but the following is probably
one or the most curious: A normally
healthy farmer, thirty eight years of
age, saw his child thrown out of a cart
and trampled upon by a mule. He sup
posed it killed and experienced in his
fright and tension a sensation Of chill
mess and tension in the head and
face. The child escaped with a few
bruises, but the fathers hair, beard
and eyebrows commenced to drop out
the next day, and by the end of the
week he was entirely bald. A new
growth of hair appeared in time, but
much finer.-London Answers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21

At the meeting Of the board held in
St. Cloud on the day previous the fol-
lowing business was transacted:
Acting under authority of law en-
acted by the last legislature, the coun-
ty commissioners of Stearns county
have elected a vice-chairman of the
board. J. D. Kowalkowski, commits
sioner from the city district, has been
honored by his fellow commissioners
with the office. The vice-chairman
will act in the absence of Chairman
II. F. Meyer of Albany.
The commissioners decided to in
crease the amount OF wolf bOunties
in addition to the state bounty. The
state pays 81 bounty for cubs and
81 for full-grown wolves slain. The
county increased the cub bounty
to S. per head by adding 81 and
the 81 bounty for full-grown wolves
by adding $3.50 to this sum. 1t
is figured that the additional boun-
ty will result in men hunting out the
cubs auu DISCRIMINATING them before
they shall have reached their growth.
Owing to the lack Of state apprO-
priation for some months past wolves
have greatly increased in numbers
throughout the county and are a great
menace to sheep, The board ad-
journed just before noon allowing a
large number of bills.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
Queer Looking Worms.

New Zealand, Australia, the Samoan
and the Solomon islands as well as
portions of the Hawaiian group are
the homes of various species of worms
with thick, heavy bodies and with q
well defined neck connecting the body
with head that is startling remind
er of that Of the monkey. In the Sand
witch Islands they are called meta
lu-ki," which means "creeper with a
child's head" An old New Zealand
legend says that at one time they were
Of immense proportions and threatened
islands.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
ROUND ABOUT
Items of Interest Cribbed from
Our Exchanges, with and
Without Credit.

Last Tuesday as Mrs. 81. Ackermann
and daughter, Rose, were driving past
the old Cortner farm in Birchdale,
where Mr.. Barney was blasting
stumps, a blast went of which made
the horse tear up thing pretty oadiy'
A rig was hired and the ladies were
taken home..........Mat Brunsell, the
Sank Centre cement walk builder, &C.
companied by J. L. Dimond here ON
Monday morning from Sank Centre
on tie freight and looked the town
over as to the prospects for his busl-
ness. In the afternoon the gentlemen
went to Wadena. .........A letter from
Mrs. Lewis Sheets at San Marcos,
California, states that the season out
there has been backward as it is here.
Not long ago they had severe thun-
derstorm duringiwhich lightning struck
two telephone poles near Escondldo
The hail also destroyed their garden.
Thunder and lightning is something
very unusual ii that country and nall
is scarcely ever knOwn..........Ihe sur
yeyors seem to have encountered
great difficulties between here an
Swanville, as they haye been at work
on these twelve miles since three
weeks ago today. The last line run Is
not an air line by any means, as the
distance to Swanville is increased by
about four miles. The line runs south
east from this village to the church
east of Lake Latimer which is Il mile
and a half south of this place and then
it runs northeast to Lake Beauty
which lies on line two miles north or
Lon Prairie. From there it must
make south about four miles 10 The
curve on the Swanyille branch at the
Balm place. The engineer in charge
had orders from Chief Engineer Dari-
ing not to make a grade to exceed nj
teen feet to the mile aud this accounts
for the difficulty met in getting from
the summit of the ridge between here
and Swanville down to the valley OF
Swan river, where the junction with
the l.. f. D. is to be made. A second
crew of twelve arrived here on Tues
day and this morning went to Clotho
to begin work. Just what they are to
do was not learned, but it is said they
are to begin locating the line IRON
That point westward and as soon as
the old crew gets through with a salts
factory line to Swanville they are TO
turn about and locate to point at
Clotho where the other began.-
Argus.
Mr.. Baily OF Long Prairie. Monda ,.
finished the moving of the Lake House
hotel and sample room onto their new
locations. Mr.. Caughren was up and
inspected the work and is more than
satisfied with the job which he says
is frst-class all around. The no.
tel was almost as heavy as brick
building. The main part Is 40x4O, two
and albalf stories high, with an addi-
ton 22x4O. The frame was 2x6 and
2xs oak studding, and to move it with
out serious damage was no small
undsrtaking.-Osakis Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
HIS idea Capacity.

IT read somewhere the other day"
said Mr. Henpeck, that one Of the big
mercantile corporations pays a certain
man $1,000 for each idea he furnishes.
George. I'd like to have a chance Of
that kindr'
"Wretchw exclaimed Mrs. Henpeck.
"Do you want your innocent wife and
child to starver-Chicago Record-Her-
III
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
The Old Mans Snake Story.

"And you say the snake was fifteen
feet long"
"Well, sub, he looked dat long wen
he stretched his full length ter strike
me-"
"But-a snake never strikes unless
he's in coil"
"Marse Tom," said the old man, I'VE
better end dis conversation right whar
it is. Either I'm a nachul bon liar or
long drinkin' hez made you fust ella
authority on snakesr'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
Pleased Him.

81 think we might give Bridget a
dollar more a week." said the family
man. .a@~..
'What?" exclaimed his wife. 81 set
her to work cleaning the parlor today,
and you should see the way she left
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
A LfteralfSt.

Wealthy Citizen-But l said distinct
~ in my advertisement that I wanted
"a reliable colored coachman." and
you are red faced Irishman.
Applicant-Buts sure. sor. isn't red as
reliable color as black ?-Baltmore
American
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21

Twenty million dollars of Mime.
sofa crops were destroyed in 1902.
For reliable protection insure in the
State Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance
Co., of Waseca, MINI. Losses al
WAYS paid in full. Responsible agents
for 1903 wanted. Write today.
F. T. DAY.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
They Accept the Bridges on
the Third-St. Extension.

On Thursday last the board of coun'
ty commissioners visited this city to
inspect the three bridges. and the
grading thus far done in the new high.
way east of the city-lhe Third-st. ex-
tension. The county assumes o-e-hal'
of the expense of the work, and the
county board must approve of and &C.
cept it. In company with the city
council and the town board they care
fully inspected the results and pro
nounced it all satisfactory. The grad
ing is not yet complete, but it is pro-
crossing as rapidly as possible.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21

The remains were taken to Winona
for burial, Mr.. Caven accompanying
them, his wife not being able to do so
on account of illness. They were met
at the train by a large number of
friends, Rev. VanHoover of the Luth-
eran church performing the ceremony.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
Dividing the. Deck.

"Now. Johnny" said the teacher,
who had been descrihang a war ship to
the class. "how is the deck dividedT
"a deck is divid d." replied the
bright boy, 'fnto spades, hearts, dia-
monds and clubs. "-Philadelphia Press.
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
For Sale,

A fine buggy, but little used. A
bargain. Enquire of Mrs. M. T. How,
Sank Centre, MINI.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
Married.

KLoNNE-KoTERBA-In this city Oh
Wednesday morning, May 20, 1903,
at the church of Our Lady of Angels,
Fr. O'Connor officiating, Oscar
Klonne and Miss Barbara Koterba.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21
DIED

CAvEN-In this city on Sunday, Nav
II, 1908, OF scarlet fever, Fred, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. D. N. Caven,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-21

Il did. That's what Influenced me.
I noticed she fixed the piano with the
keyboard close up against the WALL
Philadelphia Ledger.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-09
OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

Price movements in outside securities showed
less the same rregularfty which gov
erned the market in the carly part of the week
Transactions. however. were within narrow limits
Interest for time centred in United States
Steel 5s. which broke sharply after the initial trad
ing under heavy selling pressure. They declined
IL per cent from the highest and made a new low
record s32,. At the low price supporting orders
appeared and rally of per cent occurred. North
ern Securities displayed steadier tone advancing
than y per cent the last final on fairly
heavy purchases. Electric Vehicle shares were
weak under light offerings. the common lost 1 per
cent but recovered slightly the preferred declined
about q per cent. Standard Oil was weak bur
more active. The copper shares dull and
slightly lower. Light. Fuel and Power advanced
from 331A to 3i4 purchases by insiders. One hun
dred and fifteen United States Light and Heating
sold rs. Two hundred American De Forest
sold at S1adS3t Four hundred Kitchener Mining
sold at 5sG73a-
New-York tribune., 1903-04-09
BANKERS AND MERCHANTS.

A leading banker in close touch with the mer-
camille situation. is quoted by The Wall Street
Journal as follows:
regard the money situation distinctly i'm
nroving. | do by this that we are TO
have easy money. but that the strain is over for
the present and | believe. until the fall The
speculative liquidation which has been in pro-
sress has helped Immensely. but in addition this
Something else has been going that is also
productive of good. although clearly
on the surface. | do not think there is bank
in the city having large commercial connections
that in ITS personal communications with local
merchants and i'll its correspondence with out-of-
town bankers and merchants has not steadily
preached the necessity of conservatism. We have
told them not to expand unnecessarily and by
all means to enter into trade speculations. but
to keep their stocks down much possible,
and make ready for every emergency Of the fall
stringency. Now this is having good effect.
Merchants are everywhere, | think. taking this
advice This an element of strength in the situa-
tion. When the fall demand In the better
New-York tribune., 1903-04-09
THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS.

RAILROAD BONDS.-Market generally Arm
Total sales amounted IN par value to T.4S16oo
against 81 747oro Tuesday. The heaviest dealings
in the Atchson general As. Baltimore and
Ohio gold Is Brooklyn Union Elevated lists. Chesa-
peake and Ohio 415s. Chicago and Alton S1as, Chi
cago. Burlington and Quincy As, Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific Is, Missouri. Kansas and Texas
lst As, Northern Pacific As. Oregon Short Line As
PENNSYLVANIA convertible 3izs, St. Louis and San
Francisco refunding IS, Union Pacific convertible
As and Wabash debenture Bs. Colorado, Fuel
and Iron convertible 5s and Consolidated Tobacco
IS were also active.