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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-09-01
FL0TSAM AND JETSAM.
le gives himself no further trou-
BY s. D.

he gives himself no further trou-
BILE.
The shipping master has his
runners. They are clever, long
headed fellows who know by heart
the laws relating to kidnapping
and forcible detention. Visiting
the sailors boarding houses, the
runner notifies the proprletors that
he wants the men that have been
promised him, and the boarding
masters pick out the men who
have promised to sail with the
ship After the money for their
real and mythical debts has been
collected, these men with their
baggage are marched to the ship
ping master. But when the latter
has counted noses he finds, per
haps, that he is short two or three
men. Then comes another search
around the boarding houses; but
the men are either waiting for
their ships or else they are flush,
and in neither case are they avail
able.
There is no anxiety, however.
in the mind of the boarding house
master, the shipping master or the
captain. The ship will sail full
handed everyone knows that.
Late in the afternoon runner
saunters out to public square or
to the saloons, where he notes
those who are likely to be of ser
vice to him. Seeing a husky fell
low, whose appearance shows that
he is fond OF drink, and whose
clothes show he is out of work,
the runner enters into converse
ton with him and invites him to
"have something" Mr.. Idler ac-
cepts. The two adjourn to the
nearest barroom and have a couple
of social glasses. By degrees they
drift to the little grog shop where
the strength of the rum served, or
the potency of the drug mixed
therein, puts Mr.. 1dler into a
sound sleep. The runner halls q
friend, and together they drag the
victim to the water front and put
him aboard the ship. Thereafter
he will take his orders and do his
work like any of the other men
before the mast. That is one way
the trick is turned.
Sometimes there is in port q
sailor that has witnessed an as
sault aboard ship. He is supenaed
and the captain or the mate de-
sires to have him disappear. The
sailor has money. The boarding
master has been told by the cap
tain or the agent of the line that
the man must disappear. Do low
browed thugs tie stone to his
feet and drop him off the end of
the wharf? Not in these enlight-
ened days. From the many pretty
girls at the beck and call of tho
boarding master, the prettiest is
selected. She evinces a sudden
and violent affection for Mr.. Wit
ness. She pines when he is out
of her sight for one minute. She
fills his mind with a terrible fear
of the law, and tells him the hor-
rors of the witness stand. In .
little time he wall foreswear his
identity for her sweet sake. Then
if she can persuade him to ship
in a vessel that sails the next
morning, we'll and good; but if he
has his pockets full she may not
be able to do this. In the latter
case, the pretty girl with tho
twinkling eye develops thirst
that would shame a camel just no
turned from the desert. She
must always be drinking, and of
course Mr.. Witness must also
drink. If he runs short of money,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-09-01

nave JUST Iodu b SO-c6ll0Q TACT
about radium that won't go down
very easily. It is that the newly
discovered mineral will give out
heat forever without loss of power.
How in the name of common
sense can anybody tell what a
given piece of radium will be do
ing ten years hence?
Nearly every newspaper contains
some story of suicide or Of MUIR
der and suicide by means of poi
son. When every Tom, Dick or
Harry can without let or him
drance obtain supply of poison
sufficient to annihilate regiment
OF soldiers, the laws regulating
the sale of poisons are at fault.
In these days everything is re-
duced to science. Even the
business of forcing men to under
go involuntary servltude on ship
board,-a trick known to Jack as
shanghaiing- continually going on
both in British and American
ports, is fine art. San Francisco
and New York are notorious for
this business. No risks are taken.
No witnesses who could swear to
the fact are to be found. No tell
tale tracks are left. Everything is
done in silence and with dispatch,
with the advice of counsel and
with up-to-date twentieth century
cuteness. The rude knock-down
process of kidnapping seamen went
out of practice with the old wood
en- frigates. Nowadays a man is
sitting in public park, or stand
ing outside of saloon; stranger
approaches him; they walk away;
the man disappears. That is ALL
The man who has vanished may
later be heard from in Calcutta,
Melbourne or Capetown, or he
may not. So the crimper or the
shipping masters runner who
shanghaies man is as safe in his
crime as is the fnancier who wa
tiers the stock of corporation and
sandbags the public.
Within the past four or FIVE
years not single member of the
many gangs of grafters, shang-
haiers, crimpers and kldnappers
that infest New York and Liver
pool has been arrested for stealing
a man; yet scarcely day passes
that some poor unfortunate, friend
less and alone, is not put aboard
ship and seut to the Antipodes.
AS rule shanghaiing is done
for deep sea vessels. Such boat
may need a crew of twenty men.
The last thing the captain wants
to do is to ship the crew, for their
pay starts the moment they sign
articles and 60 on shipboard, and
he must also pay bonus upon
their delivery. The average A. B.
gets $25 month, and with a crew
of twenty men four or five days.
pay is quite an item. Perhaps
the captain is awaiting orders, or
tide, or wind; or he may have or
ders not to sail until certain day;
perhaps the proper time for him
to sail is Sunday, when the GUS
tomhouse is closed, and his con-
sui is out of the city. Whatever
the cause of his delay, let us say
that he takes out his clearance
papers day or two before he
sails. His friend the shipping
master goes out and gathers
bunch of loafers and marches them
up to the consul's Office where, to
earn q little honest drink money,
they sign the ships, articles.
Then the captain wends his way
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-09-01

IT TRANSPORTS that when Sheriff Kendrick, of
Statesboro, Ga, begged the mob to let the law deal
with the two negroes, Cato and Reed he was merely
four-fushing. It the hoary trick of playing
both ends against the middle. A court Of inquiry
has been appointed by Governor Terrell to investl-
gate the conduct of the militia officers that dis
graceful day, and almost the first evidence intro
duced before it incriminates the sheriff, who, it is
alleged, pointed out the victims to the mob Ac-
cordng to the testimony of two sergeants, Kendrck
after posing heroicaly before the ynchers, asserted
that in delivering to them his prisoners he act
ing upon instructions. Could there be more finn
sy excuse? If these accusations are proven to be
true the sheriff is more despicabe character than
any member Of the mob. That he will be punished
other than by loss of Office is too much to expect;
but if he is permitted to continue in Office, it will be
further proof that in the South law is only joke
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-09-01

MUCH attention has been attracted by the Boer
exhibit in which General Cronje is the leading fig
ure at the worlds fair. The exhibit is not only a
success but an interesting precedent It is possible
that at the next international exposition there will
be realistic reproduction of the fall of Port Arthur,
perhaps mimic naval battle representing the
sinking of the Russian fleet. All of which will be
very entertaining and instructive.
As for General Cronje who has been lionized by
the American press and people, it may be that the
old warrior deserves his honors hut one cannot help
feeling that he is making himself little ridiculous,
and that by staying at home and working with his
fellow commanders to repair the damage wrought by
the war he might employ his time more proftably.
One can hardly imagine Sheridan or Gordon ex-
hlbiting himself at fair, matter in what financial
stresses he might be. This breach of decorum on
the part of General Cronje will in the opinion Of
many persons corroborate General De Vets state
ment that Cronje is not and never hero. His
command, according to De Wet, was needlessly sac
fced by his obstinate refusal to attempt to cut his
way through the British lines at time when such
attempt would probably have been successful.
His surrender disheartened the Beers and when they
heard of it thousands of them laid down their
Paardesburg was Cronje's Waterloo. But altho he
was exled to ST. Helena he is not another Napoleon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-09-01

The arrival of the heir to the Russian throne
proves how much good an autocratic ruler can &C
complish if he chooses The decree that in the fu-
ture peasants shall not be logged with the knout nor
soldiers beaten with whips was issued very easily.
The car had no one but himself to consult In the
same decree it was ordained that hereafter widows
and orphans of soldiers will not be permitted by the
government to starve. That is almost human. It is
said that the wished to 1naugurae these reforms
long ago, but that he was baked by his ministers;
nevertheless, it is undisputed fact that when he
really wanted to exercise little more humanity in
the government of his people, he had not much op-
position He has plenty of work yet to do We are
told that it is not the things have done, but the
things we have left undone, that will count against
us on the final day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
CONTROLS THE ANIMAL.

treatment without some show of re-
sistance as it is improbable to sup
pose they understand the benefits of
the shoe in preventing rapid wearing
away of the hoof. Once in awhile the
blacksmith in his labors comes in con-
tact with a horse which refuses to
yield to his command, showing a null
ish disposition and occasioning no
small amount of trouble. Then the
sheer uses ingenuity, persuasion and
finally strength to accomplish his pur-
pose. 1t is an animal of this kind
which the artist has drawn in the IL
lustration, and the horse seems to be
at slight disadvantage; in fact, to
have met his Waterloo-that's where
the inventor lives, by the way. Here
after when a steed shows contrariness
the blacksmith will simply put his feet
in the stocks. How will he get them
there? Well, possibly by the same re-
cipe as the circus man trains his tiger.
The first rule runs something like
this: First catch your tiger" So,
you first catch leg, possibly with a
rope moose, and, after making it fast,
proceed in the same manner with the
other leg. Then hoist the tackle until
a large portion of the weight is re-
moved from the hind legs and the ami
NAL is ready to be shod.-Louisville
Courier journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

Buffalo, N. Y, Feb. l5-Physicians
have accepted Dodd's Kidney Pills as the
standard remedy for diseases of the Kid
neys and kindred complaints. r. H. Dun
away, NJ. d. of Benton, ILL.,, says:
"Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of Dia-
betes after everything else had failed and
was given up to die. l have since pre-
scribed them in my regular practice for
every form of Kidney Trouble and have
never as yet known them to fail"
Jesse L. Lines, NJ. D., St. John, Kan
sas, says:-
Il prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills for
the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Bride of this place who suffered from
Epileptic fits following Scarletina; results
were miraculous; Ishave never seen any
Leland Williamson, NJ. D., Yorktown,
Ark, says
"Dodd:s Kidney Pills are the best medi-
cine l know of for all forms of Kidney
Disease. l believe in using the remedy
that relieves and cures my patients,
whether ethical or not, and always pre-,
scribe Dodds Kidney Pills and can testify
that they invariably accomplish perma
nent and perfect cure of ali Kidney Com
plants"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
RECEIVE GOOD PAY.
Cattle Buyers for the Big Packing
Houses May Well BE Termed
Kings of the Stock Yards.

Some of the cattle buyers OF the big
slaughter houses receive as salaries
from $4,000 to $4,000 per year, and
ONE, it is said, as high as $25 900 per
ear. The cattle buyer cannot hope to
command such a salary at one jump, re-
marks our sprigntly little contempo-
rary, the Arizona Cattleman. He must
advance gradually and demonstrate tina,
he is earning his money each day. A
daily account and record like pit with him.
He buys a bunch of steers, they are
slaughtered, and he is furnished each
day with a report showing just what
they cost his company net. If he pays
too much, they are Gear, and he must
explain the why's and wherefores. Many
mistakes and bad judgment are rot
necessary before he is advised that his
services are dispensed with. He must
be able to judge the amount on the hoof,
know what it will kill out, and that he
made the purchase at the lowest price
and with good profit to the company
He cannot equal up, his purchases for
day make bargain On one bunch and
pay too much for the other. The system
is complete and eXacting; each purchase
must speak for itself-each tub must
stand on it's own botton.-Mi0land
Farmer
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

THE season of catching cold is upon
! us. The cough and the sneeze and
nasal twang are TO be heard on
every hand. The origin of chronic
catarrh, the most common and dreadful
of diseases, is q cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh
generally begins. A person catches cold y,
which hangs on longer than usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat. Thenfollows sensitivenes SIS of the
air passages which incline one to catch
cold very easily. At last the person has
d cold all the while seemingly, more or
less discharge from the nose: hawking,
splitting, frequent clearing of the throat,
nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the
head and sore, inflamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at
the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna
properly used never fails to cure com
mon cold, thus preventing chronic
catarrh.
While many people have been cured
of chrouic catarrh by single bottle of
Peruna, yet, as rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed, more than
one bottle is necess airy to complete a
cure. Peruna has cured eases innnmer-
able of catarrh of twenty years;stand-
ing. 1t is the best. if not the only
internal remedy for chronic catarrh in
existence.
Butprevention is far better than cure
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the
slightest symptom of cold or sore
throat at this season of the year and
thus prevent what is almost certain to
end in chronic catarrh.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
A Condiment for Swine.

Theodore Louis, of Wisconsin, recon-
mends the following for swine confined
and heavily fed: Take six bushels OF
corn-cob charcoal, or three Bushels of
common charcoal, eight pounds of salt,
two quarts of air-slaked lime, one bushel
of wood ashes; break the charcoal well
down with shovel or other implement,
and thoroughly mix. Then take one
and a quarter pounds of copperas and
dissolve in hot water, and with an or
binary, watering pot sprinkle over the
whole mass, and then again mix thor
oughly. Put this mixture into the self
feeding boxes, and place where hogs OF
all ages can eat of their contents at
pleasure"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
ANIMALS NEED SALT.
Farm Stock, Which Is Herbivofous,
Should Be Sailed Regularly to
Insure Good Health.

Prof. Shepperd, of North Dakota,
has been collecting data concerning the
much discussed question of whether
salt is essential to the health of farm
animals. The following are some of
the facts he has obtained:
Carniverous animals do not use salt,
the reason being that they eat the
blood with the food and the blood con-
tains the amount of salt necessary for
the system.
The Esquimaux of Greenland do not
use salt because they live mostly on
seals and carefully plug up the wound
when seal is killed so as to prevent
the loss Of blood. The blood contains
more salt than any other part Of the
body
Among the North American Indians
the hunting and fishing tribes did not
use salt, and for the same reason,
while the Indians practicing agricul-
ture along the Mississippi and in Mex
leo were salt consumers and fought
for the possession of the salt springs
Herbivorous animals universally re-
quire salt and will travel long dis
tances for it. The reason, according
to Prof. Shepperd, is that the cereals
and legumes upon which these animals
live contain very little salt, but a large
proportion of potash. Potash, or more
properly speaking, the salts or COM
binations of potash, drive out the
sodium chloride, or common salt.
through the kidneys, and hence an ad-
dltion of common salt must be given
to supply the lack of it in the food
Blood, flesh and milk contain but lit
tie of these potash salts, hence the
small need of salt when animals sub
sist on either of the above.
Men and animals living largely on
rice as a substitute for potatoes use
comparatively little salt. the reason
being that rice contains but little of
the salts of potash, and, therefore,
there is not a demand among rice eat
ers for common salt. Potatoes are
very rich in potash, and hence potato
eaters always want common salt, the
potash having a tendency to drive
the small amount of common salt in
potatoes out of the system, and hence
a surplus must be given. This is an
important suggestion to our readers
who have kidney trouble and who
would likely be relieved considerably
if they were to abandon the use of
potatoes and substitute rice.
The conclusion Drawn is that all
animals that live on grains and
grasses should be regularly sailed
Salt given in excess acts as a sort of
poison, creating violent purging, but
given in small quantities is helpful to
all men who do not live on a flesh
diet and to all herbivorous animals
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
Money In Horse Breeding.

Horse breeding, when judiciously car
cried on, has always been aud is likely
to be a reasonably profitable business
for the American farmer. The great
ianger IN the business is that at the
present time, owing to the fact that
horses are scarce, the horse of no par
ticular breed or class is commanding a
fair price, and many farmers are led to
regard horse of this kind as a profita-
BILE animal to produce. Such horses
should not be bred, because, even when
the greatest care and precaution posi-
BILE are taken in breeding fer definite
types, there will always be large num-
Der of the so-called insists, which are
the first class of horses to be affected By
overproduction or any other thing that
is likely to cause a depression in the
market.-Rural World.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

had good appetite but my food did
not nourish my system. l had come
down from 40 to about IS pounds in
weight. I now feel that am we'll of
all my troubles. Mrs. A. Snedeker.
Send for free book on catarrh. entitled
Winter Catarrh," by DR.. Hartman.
" Health and Beauty" sent free to
women only.
If youdo not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
THE SCIENCE OF FEEDING.

Lirseed meal is best for milk; cotton
seed meal if you make butter.
Moldy stalks may DO for beef steers,
but they spoil the milk if fed to mich
cows.
Feed is more expensive than care, yet
you are continually giving more of it,
Add liberal allowance of intelligent
care to your general rations and note
the results.
Feed the dairy COW in proportion not
alone to her present production, but
with an eye to her actual capacity and
feel satisfied with nothing less than her
best work.-Farm and Home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
7s ebREXARR'33)
S1TOCK
HORSE-SHOEING STAND.
Oregon Inventors Device for Making
the Most Fractions Animal
Gentle as a Lamb.

So many sermons have been
preached already on the wonderful in
telligence and obedience of the horse
that there is no need of another one
in this column, but we may mention
one proof of that obedience in the at
titude the animal maintains toward
the blacksmith while the later tears
off an old shoe, trims the horny hoof,
holds a hot iron shoe against the foot
to ascertain if it's shape is correct,
and finally nails the shoe fast to the
foot with many blows of the hammer.
1t is surprising to think that so spir-
tied an animal will submit to such
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
HANDY HOG HANGER.

the pole "a feet long; let the heavier
end be eight feet long, with a stou6
iron hook on the end; the long end
is to have a rope about eight feet
long attached to the end. With this
you can pick up a hog, dip it in the
scalding tub, lay it on the scraping
platform, and lastly. hang it up for
taking out the entrails. The illustra-
ton makes it plain. ANY number Of
hogs may be hung by arranging the
hangers in circle in reach of the
lever-H. Cochran, in Ohio Farmer
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
Grain for Young Lambs.

Lambs should have grain from the
time they are ten weeks old until the
next spring, if they should grow to
their limit. This is not the usual prac-
tice among sheep breeders, ard yet
many have become convinced that this
is the correct way to manage lambs. A
lamb that does not learn to eat when il
is young will fool away great deal of
time learning after it is required that it
be making steady growth.-Micland
Farmer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
10000 Plants for ice.

This is remarkable offer the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, makes.
They will send you their big plant and
seed catalog, together with enough seed to
grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1900 delicious Carrots,
1900 blanching; nutty Celery,
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
900 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in
duce you to try their warranted seeds
for when you once. plant them you will
grow no others, and
ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them 20c in postage, they
will add to the above a package of the ia
nous Berliner Caulifower. K. L.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

IhdL L OhOuS III L
would try it and
see what it would
do for me. My
case is an old one
and | have none
Of t II e Gu t e
symptoms n o w,
because I have
had the disease
so long that l had
none of the aches
and pains, but a
general rundown
condition of the
whole body-sore
nose and throat
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

Hojack-"You don't really imagine that
Tomdik-"Well, all | know is that this is
leap year, and some girls are getting mar
red who never got married before. -
Town Topics
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

David Mekon in his through
out He began his p9i career serSn four
the Meekson Bank Napoleon Ohio He
lis party in OF
Caar with its ndious approach and tenacious his
follow
ing etter to man as
benefited
-DaVid
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
Danger I'm Over-Ripe Clover.

It has been found that clever cut
just after the blossoms are we'll devel-
oped and before the seed forms is not
dangerous. If. however, it becomes too
mature part of the blossom heads be-
come indigestible and result in infiam-
nation of the animals stomach and
frequently in death. This is q strong
reason why clover should be CUT at the
right time.-Orange Judd Farmer.