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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

not in the least afraid of you and your
camera-and you know that they are
gulls.
But among all the many you will not
see one that cannot fly, and by that you
may know that they are all a long way
from their real homes, where they lay
their eggs and hatch their young
Some time in the early summer, for most
sea irds nest later than the land birds,
they will take wing and sail away to
their island homes, not to return until
they can bring with them family of
young birds. Some of the birds will be
left behind; they are the young ones of
last year, not yet old enough to make
homes of their own. For this reason
they are always few birds around the
piers of every beach town during the
summer months. They gather up the
scraps and refuse at time when all the
rest of the scavengers are gone, and so
perform as real service as If they re-
manned on the mainland shore for that
very reason.
Since they can neither fly nor walk
with any degree of comfort, the auks
and penguins must have their nests
near to the waters edge. For the
most part they nest in holes in the
shelving shores of the islands, or in
natural caves among the rocks just
above high-water mark. From these
nests they can slip, if danger comes,
into the friendly ocean without any
trouble, though for the most part they
are quite willing to stay and face what
ever turns up.
Year after year they nest in these
same localities, and the young birds
grow up to find nesting places as
Hear the parent birds as possible, SO
that the result is that there are thou
sands of birds breeding on one small
corner Of an island where, in other parts,
there is room for twice as many, yet
they will not forsake the old places un-
til overcrowding actually compels them
to. In their nests they lay, usually, one
egg, though often two or more females
quarrel over the same nest hole, and
then there is as likely to be three or
four eggs as one in the nest. Some
times, when quarreling, two birds will
get their beaks interlocked and both
will fall into the sea, there to drown,
unable to free themselves, each from
the weight of the other.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
SOME QUEER FRIENDSHIPS.
California Gives Instances Where
Deer and Dogs Have Played
and Run Together.

In the town of Oroville, Cal.-now a
notable gold-dredging center-where l
live, very recently saw a fawn, still
in it's spots, unconcernedly rambling
about the main street; dogs that were
in nowise accustomed to it went up,
smelled it, as is their canine custom,
and passed on. The fawn was perfectly
unconcerned.
Two years ago there was another deer,
over half grown, in the same town.
which had as it's companion ana safe
guard large Newfoundland dog. These
animals were often seen playing to-
gether, and went downtown together at
their own desire. On these trips the
Newfoundland seemed, by instinct, to
know that the deer was at the mercy
of other dogs, and saw to it that no
dog molested the deer. The family
owning these two attractive animals
has moved from Oroville, taking its in
teresting friends.
Another nearly grown doe saw last
year (adjoining the same town. stand
ing in little creek with some cattle.
was told that it came and went to
pasturage and to milking (of course the
deer was not milked), daily with the
cows. In 1897 I was at Eden Valley
ranch for month. A wild, rough coun-
try in Mendocino county, CAL, environs
this gem. Big and small game is abund-
ant there. The wild cattle in the
"roughs" are the most interesting fea-
lures there.
The cattle dogs, wild dogs, bear dogs
and deer dogs are taught to attack and
pursue tirelessly. The most exciting
chase and fight ever witnessed was be-
tween these dogs and great wild bear
that succeeded in ripping two of the six
of the largest and best-trained dogs.
The bear was finally secured alive and
dragged into the corral at the tail of a
RATA snubbed to the horn of the saddle
of the chief vaquero.
For a month saw male and female
fawn move with perfect unconcern
among these dogs, and all lap milk from
the same trough (the fawn does not lap
but drinks like pig, and drinks much
like starved pig). 1t is laughable to
see them pushing each other while gulp-
ing milk. These dogs that ran off the
mother doe were first to discover her
young, but did not seize them, as they
would have done the doe. When strange
dogs passing this ranch house on the
road espied the fawns in the orchard or
meadow they naturally went for" the
fawns. expressed apprehension, but
I was told by the wife of the proprietor
that the home dogs kept sharp outlook
for strange dogs, and always protected
the fawns. I saw evidences there of
this
know gentleman in Virginia whose
shepherd dog chased a tame deer all
about the grounds at top speed, to the in
finite delight of both animals.
After the race deer and dog would
come up to their master.-Hartford
Times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
THE BIBLE WAS MUCH USED
There Was No Baby Chair in the
House and It Served q
Good Purpose. ri.

A minister of one of the leading congre-
cations of this city was recently making a
call on one of the prominent members Of
his flock and was greeted at the door by the
tiveyear-old daughter of the house, who was
doing the honors as hostess in the absence
of her mother, relates the Philadelphia
Press. Spying well-worn family Bible near
at hand, the minister commented on the
fact that there must be good father in the
house, which contained proof of having used
the Bible to so great an extent.
oh, yes" said the child, papa has US on
the Bible three times day
flying And, pray, what times does your
good father call upon this grand volumne"
Always at meal times" answered the
radiant daughter. You know, We never
had baby chair in the house, SO pa just sits
the Bible on a dining-room chair and that
makes it just high enough for us children
My baby brother Jim sat on it this morning.
We all had our turn at it,"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
SOME FACTS ABOUT BIRDS
Auks and Penguins Cannot Fly, So
They Live on the Coast and
Build Nests in Caves.

OF all the odd birds that you see
when you spend month in the mid
die of the summer at the sea shore,
not one is so peculiar as those that
live on the islands far out at sea.
At the shore you will see birds tina;
can dive and swim like fishes, but can
not walk on land, though the fly very
well through the air-these are divers,
looms and grebes, says the Los Angeles
Times. You will see birds that run we'll
on land, fly through the air easily, but
cannot swim-they are the shore birds,
curlew, snipe and plover; you will see
birds that can do all these things but
prefer to remain out on the outlet water
just beyond the surf, all day-these are
the ducks and strange sea ducks called
"mergansers;; and around the wharves
you will see dignified birds that do all
of these things with ease and that are
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
MUSICIANS, ACTORS, WRITERS.

Kubelik, Bohemian violinist, is said
to have made over $500. 900 in the last
three years.
Sarasate is 60 years old now, and has
played on the same violin since he was
IL years of age.
Nine. Rostand, wife Of the famous
French author and playwright, is about
to issue a volume of her own poems.
Mile. Marthe Dupny, whose remark
able volume Of sonnets has won the
Sully Prudhomme prize, lives in an
attic.
Joseph Jefferson says he was Kissed
off the stage once. He was four years
old, and tried to sing THE Star
Spangled Banner"
trina was stolen some time ago in the
Roman Lateran. 1t is valued at SIS, 900.
and is believed to be in Germany.
Actors belonging to the Court theater,
Vienna. are not allowed to perform for
charitable purposes except in payment of
Q certain fixed fee, which is handed over
to the pension fund Of their theater
F. Hopkinson Smith recently re-
marked: IF can tell the whole story
of my novel in i've minutes at q dinner
table and secure the undivided atten-
ton Of my listeners, I know that it is
good. If fail to do this, my work will
be in vain"
Lieut.. W. E. Stafford, recently Of the
navy, but now Of the department Of
agriculture, has about 200 books from
the library of the late Robert Louis
Stevenson. Among them is the Bible
which belonged to Stevenson's father.
He bought the books in Samoa.
Few Americans can boast of so long
and distinguished an ancestry as Mrs.
H. A. Mitchell Keays, author of HE
That Eateth Bread with Me-" She re-
Gently received letter from a distant
relative interested in genealogy which
contained Mrs. Keays' family tree writ
ten out, showing its roots reaching back
to Henry III. of England.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
WHAT THE SPEAKER SAID.
Illustrative Instance Of the Ever.
Ready Wit Of the Late
"Czarv Reed.

Thomas B. Reeds wit and wisdom would
fill large volume, and larger volume could
be made of things he did not say, but which
have been credited to him. In one volume
or the other, says Youths Companion, be-
longs a story which comes from California,
and which has probably not been printed
before
When Mr. Reed was in California he visited
the Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton.
1t was wonderful November day, full Of
gold and the bloom of flowers. Mr.. Reed
looked down at the gorgeous landscape 1000
feet below, and turned to one of his hosts,
he said:
Colonel, this looks too much like a spe-
cial display got up in honor of the occa-
sion: Tell me what typical winter day in
California is really like
The Californian thought at once of day
in February, so warm that after a morning
bath he had lain in a hammock outdoors.
smelled the roses on the trellis, and listened
to the. trill of the meadow-lark among the
almond blooms
He began to describe it eloquently: ''Thir.
teen years ago, or February %, took .
bath"
He paused to arrange his account of the
roses and the meadow-lark. Mr.. Reed broke
the nause.
''Well colonel" he said. in admiral ion,
you do know something about cleanliness
out here. do.tt you?"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
MAKING TRIcOLORED STAR.
A Pastime for Boys and Girls Which
Is Entertaining as Well as
Instructive.

Take a sheet of cardboard-a calen-
dar, for instance-and bend it in the
median line. In one of the wings thus
obtained cut four pointed star in
which two points are vertical and two
horizontal. Now bend back this wing
upon the other and take tracing of it
with pencil. Strike the center of the
star by the intersection of the diagonals.
This will be the center of a new star
of the same size, but whose diagonal
makes an angle of As degrees with the
first one. Having traced this new star,
cut it out carefully and place your
cardboard, as the illustration directs,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

weight from the ground, the pain was
so severe. This was my condition when
1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
They quickly relieved me and now am
never troubled as I was. My back is
strong and I can walk or ride long
distance and feel just as strong as did
twenty-five years ago. / think SO much
of Doan:s Kidney Pills that / have
given a supply of the remedy to some
of my neighbors and they have also
found good results. 1t you can silt
anything from this rambling note that
will be of any service to you, or to
anyone suffering from kidney trouble,
you are at liberty to do So"
A TRIAL FREE Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price, 80 cents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
HOW TO MAKE THE STAR

on table bearing couple of lighted
candles of the same height, opposite
screen of white paper affixed to the
wall. Regulate the angle formed by
the two wings in such way that the
luminous images which the stars cast
may fall on the center of the screen
directly one over the other. You will
now have a bright star of eight cor
ners. Now, if you cover one of the
two apertures with a bit of colored
glass-say green-you will have tri-
colored star whose rays or points are
alternately red and green, while a
white octagonal star will appear in the
center.
The colored glass may be replaced,
as in the illustration, by drinking
glass containing any colored liquid
Indianapolis Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
"LITTLE SUNSHINE"

We call her Little Sunshine,
Though Martha Is her name;
She's such a happy, sunny tot,
And every day the same.
She wakens in the morning
So joyous and so bright.
She sings and laughs and prattles
From morning until night.
She cooks and sweeps and washes
Though only three years old.
Her dollies are her treasures,
Her cares cannot be told.
She makes the dull days brighter
Than any ever were.
She seems to love just every one,
And everyone loves her.
III. w. A, in Union Signal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
The World q School.

The wide universe is school, the pass
Ing throng of humanity the pupils. ex-
perience the teacher. In this school
there are many classes. and from one to
another graduates continually. pass.
Man learns his lesson but slowly. He
has struggled long to understand his
material environment; and at last be-
hind the physicalhe discerned the spirit
ual, beyond the substance saw the
shadow, became conscious of the alb
stract motive that forever hides behind
the concrete action.-William D. Little.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
SHORT AND SENSIBLE.

A song in the heart is worth two in
the choir.
Hurry & Worry are always trying to
borrow from Slow & Steady.
The true soldier Is always ready to
help put a stop to the fighting.
- You'll never run up the hill of
progress by running down your
neighbors.
Men who are willing to let you in
on the ground floor usually have trap
door ready to let you into the base
ment.
Think once before you act. twice
before you speak, and spend the day
in thought before you commit it to
paper.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
~.r DIDN'T KNOW"

It's such O simple thing to say;
Explains SO much without delay;
We really in no other way
.H. Could ever show
Why we should do so much that's wrong
don't see how we'd get along
Without the weighty, cogent, strong
II didn't know
The plumbers that we all commit
Need never bother us a bit
Or make US own up that our wit
Is thick or slow;
For things are bound to go amiss,
And ignorance is more than bliss
That gives us an excuse like this
81 didn't know"
So many things we can't foresee,
At least that is the case with me,
And you will probably agree
That 1t Is so.
But never worry-what's the use?
When we are able to produce
The everlasting old excuse,
''I didn't know
Chicago Daily News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
The Useful ChiQaman.

See what the Chinaman has done
for the countries which he has been
allowed to enter. comments the Straits
Echo. 1t was the cheap labor of the
Chinaman which made the construc-
ton of railways from the Atlantic to
the Pacific possible, and it is the cheap
labor, enterprise, intelligence and
thrift of the Chinese that has made
the Straits settlements and Federated
Malay states the richest portion of tho
British empire.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Going East This Summer

Get the vacation habit. Drop your work
and take trip to some of the Famous East
ern Summer Resorts so easily and quickly
reached by the Nickel Plate Road. Stop
overs allowed at Niagara Falls and Lake
Chautauqua on all tickets. Three, elegant
ly equipped trains made up of modern Day
Coaches, Dining and Sleeping Cars, running
thru from Chicago to Fl. Wayne, Cleveland,
Erie, Buffalo, New York, Boston and in
termediate points. The Dining Car serv-
ice of the Nickel Plate Road is up-to-date,
inexpensive and as good as the best. lndl-
vidual Club Meals are served at prices rang
ing from 35 cents to $lOO. Meals are also
served "a la carte" Passengers using the
Day Coaches of the Nickel Plate Road, re-
gardless of the class of ticket held, may be
assured of the most courteous treatment by
our Colored Porters in Uniform, who are
instructed to give every attention to the
welfare of our patrons. Tickets via the
Nickel Plate Road are from so cents to
$500 lower than tickets of the same class
between the same points via other lines
All trains arrive at and depart from the
New La Sale Street Station, Chicago. Fol
full information regarding tickets, rates
routes. sleeping car reservations, etc, call
on or address j. Y. Callahan, General Agent
No. Ill Adams St., Chicago, Ill.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Five-Minute Peanut Candy.

Shell the peanuts and chop them fine.
Measure them in cup, and take the
same quantity Of granulated sugar as
you have peanuts. Put in pan on the
fire and shake until the sugar is dis
solved, then put in the peanuts and
pour into buttered tins. You will find
that this is delicious candy and is so
easily made.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
How a waterspout Travels.

A waterspout is constantly spinning.
The moment it seases it collapses. At
the distnce of about quarter of a
mile above the sea level its spinning
speed has been estimated ct six miles
Q minute.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
he Had Been There.

"You must visit our new country club"
said the su5urbanite. THE grounds are
beautiful; the golf links superb. You won't
find such scenery elsewhere. On entering
the grounds the first thing that strikes your
eye"
81 know" interrupted the city man; q
golf ball!"-Philadelph Press. ....
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
SOMEONE'S SAYINGS.

Flattery is a sort Of bad money, to
which vanity gives currency"
THE usual fortune of complaint is to
excite contempt more than pity"
THE moment a man is satisfied with
himself everybody else is dissatisfied
with him"
Our deepest sorrows affect the tenn
per less hurtfully than do our minor
disappointments."
When you fret and fume at the petty
ills Of life, remember that the wheels
which go round without creaking last
the longest"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Hiehest Known Monument.

The Washington monumentin Wash
ington, d. c., is the highest in the
world. 1t towers 555 feet in the air.
and is composed of $4,000 blocks of
marble, each two feet thick.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS.
Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and
Health to the Sufferer, Making Him
Feel Twenty-Five Years Younger.
J.B. Corton, farmer and lumberman,

OF Deppes N.
c., says; II
su fl ere Il for
years with my
back. 1t was
SO bad that ]
could not walk
any dist ia n &c
nor even ride
in easy buggy.
/ do not believe
l cou Id have
rails e d t e n
y, N n q Of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

The millionaire may smoke only dollar
cigars himself, but he has to smell the five
cent cigars that other men are smoking
Somerville journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 50 trial bottle &
treatise. DR.. Kline, 93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Right Up-to-Date.

BEG pardon, sir" said the peddler
of supplies, ''but have you got type
writer?"
''Yes," replied the merchant.
May ask what style?"
'Oh, out of sight! A regular peach!
Come in and I'll introduce you to hers
-Philadelphia Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Worrying the Landlord.

Clarinda-You can't keep dog in your
new fat?
Florinda-No. We had to give Fido away,
but Frederick had his dear little bark put
in our Photographic Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as cough cure.-J: W, OBrien, 1922 Third
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
The Fame of Nimrod.

Nimrod told how he made his reputation.
81 was the first man who thought of not
shooting guide for deer" he explained
N. Y. Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Harmful Habit.

Crossing the knees is said to be com.
mon cause of sciatica.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
Too Much Sense,

An old colored man, watching the mon
drop this corallary to the Darwinian theory:
Dem children got too much sense to come
outer dat cage. White folks cut der tails
off and set 'em to workin' and votn' and fol-
lowing considerations" -Cincinnati Trib-
ups.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

A matrimonial refusal is the original
antitrust Acknowledgement Nilsson
rian.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

1t is said that the Turks were the
first to bury their dead in cemeteries
adorned with ornamental headstones.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-12-30

Republicans are still discussing the
presidential appointment of post
master of Baltimore, or, more proper
ly speaking, the disappointment. II
there is party henchman or worker
in the city who indorses the cause Of
Senator McComas be is in hiding or
does not care to declare his sentiments
Every member of the organization,
state and city, from the leaders down,
is sore clean through, because the best
office in the gift of the administl alton
has gone outside party lines, says the
baltimore Herald" A dispatch from
Washington announces that Senator
McComas intends to Fl ht the organi-
cation and, if possible, to regain state
control This declaration does not
surprise the organization people, who
have long ago been aware Of the Sen
ator's intentions. They say they will
welcome such a fight, because it will
enable them to demonstrate how un-
popular the senator really is. They
say he has been endeavoring for months
to build up a machine of his own in
this city, but has failed, and that he
is now relying upon the counties to
to give him lift.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-12-30
Reports received at the Weatl

Reports received at the Weather
Bureau show that Missouri, Iowa and
Illinois are in the throes of a blizzard
The temperatures are falling fast, and
have passed below the zero point in
Eastern Nebraska. Illinois and Iowa
are expected to experience zero wealth
er by this morning, and in Minnesota
it will be even colder. The Mississip.
pi Valley storm of rain, snow and
sleet has advanced northward to Lake
Michigan, and has increased greatly
in energy. At 8 o'clock Monday
night OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gale
was blowing at Chicago, while the
barometer at Milwaukee reached $3.50
inches, and upprecedently low read
ING,