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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-29
Condemns Linen Handkerchief.

Prof. Calmette, of the Pasteur In
stitute in Paris, is making war on
linen handkerchiefs, which he con-
siders a great source Of infection.
He suggests the use of specially con-
structed wallets for Japanese paper
handkerchiefs, with separate divisions
for the new and used ones. The lat
ter are to be burned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-29
[ abor Saved by Electricity.

The twenty-two-ton bell at the Sacre
Occur church in Paris is tolled by
electricity. A single choir-boy can
!us do the work which formerly took
@ men.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-29
The Stomach is the Man.

ne StOmdCn Is the MAN.
A weak stomach weakens the man,
because it cannot transform the food
he eats into nourishment. Health
and strength cannot be restored to any
sick man or weak woman without first
restoring health and strength to the
stomach. A weak stomach cannot
digest enough food to feed the tissues
and revive the tired and run down
limbs and organs Of the body. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat,
eleanses and strengthens the glands
and membranes of the stomach, and
cures indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach troubles. Sold by Hanson &
Emerson.
Loss Of British Seamen.
OF 10000 British seamen, sixty-six
are lost at sea every year.
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night. A crowd of gentlemen was
pressing around the singer, when the
president came forward and said:
"I've just heard a real Arizona story,
and I'm going to tell it to you ALL"
and he bega nto talk about Daddy and
Mark and the boys, and the tombstone,
just as the stone cutter had told him
Of them when he passed the marble
yard that afternoon, for it was he that
had run across Mark out on the Alkali
plain that day.
The singer listened with wide open
eyes. He tapped the ground restlessly
with one foot. Then, when the story
vas finished, he snatched up his hat,
and ran out of the clubhouse. The
club men followed him. bewildered.
The singer stationed himself on the
street corner and began to sing. Not
any "high-fiown thing" as Mark said
afterward, but something that took
you fright straight up" And as the
crowd gathered and the singer went
on singing 'The Land of the Leal,"
there was such stiffness in the street
you might a-heard a pin drop" said
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U. S. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Recommends Pe-ru-na
For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble.
Catarrh Of the Stomach is Generally
Called Dyspepsia Something
to Produce Artificial Diges-
ton is Generally Taken.
Hence, Pepsin, P%ancreatin and a Host
of Other Digestive Remedies
Has Been Invented,
These Remedies Do Not Reach the
Seat of the Difficulty, Which
is Really Catarrh.

EX. U. S. Senator NJ. c. Butler from
Il South Carolina was Senator from that
State for two terms. In a recent letter to
The Peruna Medicine Co., from Washing
ton, d. c., says:
~ can 4ecOntme end PeTltnG tor dyS-
pepsfd aud stomach trouble. 1 haze
been using your medicine for a short
period and IIeet UeryBlucA relieved.
1t Is indeed q CoIIderfuL medicine
besides a good tonic. IN. G. Butter.
The only rational way to cure dyspepsia
is to remove the catsrrh. Peruna cures
catarrh. Peruna does not produce artE
fetal digestion. 1t cures catarrh and
leaves the stomach to perform digestion
in a natural way. This is vastly better
and safer than resorting to artificial meth
DDS or narcotics.
Peruna has cured more cases of dyspep-
STA than all other remedies combined,
simply because it cures eatarrh wherever
located. If catarrh is located in the head,
Peruna cures it. If catarrh Has fastened it.
self in the throat or bronchial tubes,
Peruna cures it. When catarrh becomes
settled in the stomach, Peruna cures it,
as well in this location as in any other.
Peruna is not simply a remedy for
dyspepsia. Perunia is a catarrh remedy.
Peruna cures dyspepsia because it Is gen.
orally dependent upon catarrh.
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that" pointing contemptuously to the
iron gate, ito mark the spot"
There was dead silence for a mo-
ment; then Mark said, "Come along,
all of you, and let's go see old Daddy"
The boys strolled along till they
came to a small cabin; then went in
upon the old man, with Jack, the mag
pie, sitting on his wrist.
"Howdy, boys?" said Daddy. "Come
In. Jack an mes been havin' a talk"
The boys sat down, Mark on the half
barrel chair old Daddy had made a
long time ago, and Roland and Tim
on a wooden bench.
"Tve been out to the graveyard to
water that little plant 1 sent back to
the old place fur to set out on Billy's
grave. 1 must get him a stun for it,
l must" almost shouted the old man.
ITO think of my dyin' and leavin'
no stun over his grave, as good a boy
as ever lived, and died for his coun-
try!' fftktf
The old mans voice trembled. he
struggled to get up on his feet. Mark
made a spring and reached him, help
ing him up carefully, and going with
him to the open door, for Daddy's
breath was coming short, and he
wanted air.
There, now, you feel better, don't
you, Daddy?" Mark said, leading the
old la back to the chair. "Come see
the horned toads the bows have
caught"
C%unningly drawing the old mans
attention to the toads, Mark restored
him to something like quiet, and then.
leaving the magpie sitting on Daddy's
hand, he left him quite happy, for
Daddy loved Jack and said the bird
"'peared most like folks" to him.
"Great Scott! But we must Get that
tombstone for Daddy somehow" said
Mark, as the boys walked homeward.
His heart III be just broken if he
can't have it. Say, let's just stop at
the marble yard an see what we can
do"
The boys turned into the yard, and,
picking their way among the marble
crosses, lambs and angels. they found
the boss stone cutter standing before
a granite shaft with a polished slab.
The stone cutter looked up and said:
poor old Dady Western! He's been
here again to look at stones for Billy's
grave. This is the one he wants.
He's only got six dollars toward it,"
And how much is it Worth?"
"a hundred dollars, but l haven't
told daddy So"
"Oh, my" exclaimed Mark, quickly.
He scanned his chums' faces. "Boys.
do you think-dare we do it? Do you
think we could raise all that money?
We won't let Daddy know how much
we pay for it; let him think it's worth
ten dollars, and we pay the rest. We
must raise the money for the stone
and let Daddy see it set up over his
boys grave before he diesr"
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Right royalty did the boys go to
work. The horned toads fairly dread
ed to see any of the trio come near
them. The trains were full of toads
and wild flowers every time they went
out from the town. for the boys
hawked them about the station at all
spare hours.
The tombstone fund grew, but it still
lacked a big slice to be complete. and
Decoration Day was but two days off.
Daddy had beentold by the stone cutter
that he could have the stone for ten
dollars. He was straining every nerve
to earn it. His old face grew thinner
and thinner.
Mark was, half crazy about him, and
still the fund lacked thirty-five dollars
of the one hundred.
Its no use, no user!' cried Mark at
last, Oh the afternoon the day before
Memorial Day. 1--WE can't make up
that one hundred dollars! oh Daddy.
Daddy, what shall l do for him? 1t
will kill him sure to be disappointed
this timer And Mark struck off
across the dusty plain and ran till,
out of breath, he dropped to the
ground. ooh, if | were only a man.!
Maybe they'd trust me then at the
marble yard. But I'm nothing but a
boy. Oh! Great Scotr' and Mark
choked and cried, and stopped crying.
and then went at it again harder than
ever, for he was "only a boy" as he
had said. He had worked SO heroical-
ly it was bitter, bitter, beaten at last!
There was a man coming up behind
Mark, and Il good sort of one, too. He
knew Mark by sight, and when he saw
him huddled up on the ground and
got a short answer to his kind ques-
ton. whats up?' he wisely let Mark
alone. When the man went back to
town he passed the stone cutter at
work in his yard, and. having noticed
Mark hanging around there lately,
he said to the cutter. "That boy I've
seen here in the yard so much is in
some sort of a fix, isn't he? He's out
on the plain raising high jinks."
"Well, he's so disappointed about
lHdI SlOIe, L eApeCt, Sdlu tue StOue
cutter. apologeticaly, and thereupon
told the mar how Mark was trying to
raise money to buy a monument for
Billy.
Night came and the big town Wac
full of light, and everything was gay
and bright. so it seemed to poor Mark,
as he went forlornly through the
street. Oh! if he could only ever at
this late hour raise the money for
Daddy's tombstone. Hank! what was
that? He was passing a new club
house, and some one was singing in
there. Oh! What a beautiful voice.
Mark listened till the last, rich note
died away. .Jimminyi' he said. Il
guess up there" and he looked up to
the stars in the Arizona sky. they
don't have any better voice than that
He didn't know that one of the most
famous singers in lie world was being
entertained up in The clubhouse that
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Mark again. Then the men began to
rub their coat sleeves across their Eyes,
and still the singer went on singing,
and this time it was a grand old
church hymn that almost every one
had heard before, and as the rich,
full voice rolled it out the crowd could
hardly keep still, and then the singer
dropped into the "Star-Spangled Ban
ner" for a Decoration Eve song. The
people began to cheer and the song
went ringing far and wide.
Then the singer took off his hat and
went among the crowd, laughing and
holding out his polished beaver"
The president of the club did the same,
and there on the street corner he told
the story of Daddy, while the nickels,
dimes and quarters poured into the
hat.
"And Daddy shall see the tombstone
over his boys grave tomorrow" said
the singer, "and I'll be there to see it
ALL"
Early next morning there was a glad
procession, which went I'D to Daddy's
cabin. The singer, the club president,
Mark, Roland and Tim.
"Come out, Daddy" cried Mark.
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till I'm sick of the whole business.
Why couldn't l have had a common
name, like Thomas or John or Paul,
I should like to know?
An old man just then went across
Marks line of vision, stopping over
badly and walking very feebly. He
had something in his hand and Mark,
looking closely at him, said, ''There
he goes, with his old tomato can full
Of water, to the graveyard to water
that scrubby 'leetle plant he set out
on his sons grave, thinkin' twill
bloom out MORTAL Day. Well. 'twont.
l car tell him that much and it just
makes me wild, thinkin' l can't get
that tombstun fur his son he's been
hopin' to get fur so many years." and
Mark threw his hands downward with
a wild swing.
Hello, Mark" and first one, and
then another and still another boy
rounded up from the thicket of bristIy
cactus.
Say, we've caught some beauties
for the school teacher to sent East;
horns as big as a bulls; just see here"
Boy number n carefully lifted the
cover of a basket the tintiest crack
and Mark, looking in, saw three
horned tOads huddled together.
big as a bulls HORNS" cried Mark,
contemptuously, "all in a horn, l guess.
Why, if you're goin' to give those
toads to Miss Brown to send to Massa-
chusetts as specimens of what Arizona
can do in the way of raisin' critters.
why, you'd better fly de coop. They'll
just laugh at us out here"
Boy number two, this was Marshall
Turpin, nodded his head in token that
he agreed with Mark.
Besides, if you'd so tt work and
ketch some of these fellers and try
to sell 'em to train folks when the
east bound comes in, stead O. scoopin'
EN- in fur schoolmarms, an the like,
'twold be time better spent"
The boys looked at Mark in aston
ishment, for he was generally the
schoolmarm's devoted slave, and as for
making money, as the boys around
town generally did. selling punches
of wild flowers to tourists, who passed
through the town or engaging in any
other such little scheme for becoming
~millionaires, Mark was simply ,ot in
it."
"Wha do you want us to do with
the money, eh, Mark? Ping-pong set,
broncho, canoe? Out with it! What
game are you up to-"
Well" began Mark, rather reluc-
family, and casting a side glance at his
chums. ITS just that 1 want to get
a tombstone"
"A what?" shouted the boys. "Feel
bad, do you, Mark? Feel likes if YOU
was goin' to die! Has Kittie gone
back on you again this week?"
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The Curious Chinaman.

What a very curious person the Chi,
ama seems to us!
When he meets a friend he shakes his
W hand, not his friends.
He keeps out of step when walking
with any one.
He puts his hat on, instead Of taking
it off, when he wants to be polite.
He whitens his boots instead of
blackening them.
He rides with his heels instead of his
toes in the s%tirrups.
His compass points south.
Often he throws away the fruit of
the melon and eats the seed.-London
News.
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WINTER WHEAT DAMAGE.
Dun's Review Says the Crop Has Suf-
ferad Severe Injury.

New York City.-Dun's Review says
Of winter wheat damage:
Dispatches from branch offices of
r. G. Dun & Co. in the winter wheat
belt agree that the crop has suffered
serious injury. and it is now practi-
cally certain that the yield will fall
short of the quantity expected earlier
in the season and be materially small
er than the average for recent pre-
ceding years. Weather conditions
have been particularly disappointing
in the Northern States, Ohio and Indi-
ana. dispatches promising only half a
crop. In sections where the wheat
loss is heaviest there should be har.
vested a much larger crop of other
cereals, for the abandoned wheat area
has been plowed up and planted with
corn and oats. On the other hand,
there are some favorable returns
from other sections, notably Kansas,
which is the leading winter wheat
State, needed moisture falling in abun-
dance. In Missouri reports indicate a
generally satisfactory condition.
From Texas some encouraging reports
are also issued, although the reports
from the Southwest are much mixed
and it is difficult to arrive at any def
mite idea of the total yield in that
section. In Central Illinois conditions
are satisfactory. and while the acre
age is smaller than for several years
abundant rains have helped the crop.
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Look here. There goes Billy's tomb
stone in that wagon.
The old man tottered tc the door
and looked bewilderingIy around him
He saw the stone in the wagon.
BILLY got a stone at last, did We
say? 1t can't be true. l couldn't
raise but 81 for it. and the price was to
be So" Daddy's eyes searched
Marks. Then reading the glad news
in them. he went down on his knees
in a heap and prayed.
How the flag fiuttered over that new
tombstone yer Billy's grave that
morning, and how beautiful and green
was the laurel wreath Mark had laid
reverently on it! And how grandly,
when the veterans came to strew
flowers on the low mound, did the sin
ger stand up beside the fine, new tomb
stone and sing "The Star-SpangledI
Banner till the men cheered and
saluted and waved their caps and old
Daddy, raising his happy face to
heavens, said: "Now l can die happy.
for Billy IS got his tombstone at LAST,
Helen Chase, in Detroit Free Press.
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lace, Of Is Capitol street. Concord, N.
H.. says: 81 was in the early
stages Of Bright's Disease, and
were it not for Doan's Kidney
Pills ! would not be living to-day.
Pain in the back was so intense that at
night l had to get out of bed until the
paroxysm of pain passed away. l
was languid AMI tired and hadn't the
strength to lift a kettle of water. /
could not work, but a few doses OF
Doan's Kidney Pills relieved me. and
two boxes absolutely cured me-"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mrs. Wal
lace will be mailed to any part of the
United States. Address Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all
dealers; price so cents per box.
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Where Cars Are Buried,

1t is not generally known that the
remains of all the czars of Russia since
Peter the Great lie in a memorial
chapel built on one of the islands of the
Neva. All the cenotaphs are exactly
alike, each being a block of white mar.
bic, without any decoration whatever.
The only distinction by which each Is
marked is the name Of the deceased
emperor.
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Deafness Cannot Be Cnred

by localapplications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion ofthe ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti-
tutionalr remedies. Deafness is caused by an
iniamed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in
famed you have a rumbling sound or imper
feet hearing, n when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the infam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten
a<e caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces,
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness Caused by catarrh)that can.
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. FL. CHENEY Co.. Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation.
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Farmers Form am Exchange.

Over 300 farmers of Somerset AMI
Worcester counties, Maryland, met at
Snow Hill, Md, and organized a Pen
Produce Exchange. A charter
was granted by the Maryland LeGis-
lature for this purpose. Farmers OF
the three lower eastern shore coun
ties of Maryland snd the tidewateI
counties of Virginia are interested in
the movement.
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Patent medicines are V sold in
the apothecary shops of Sweden. The
Government limits the number O.!
these shops, and there are only $50 in
the whole country, Stockholm, with
a population of 100000. having only
twenty-five.
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Number of Visible Stars.

IF we ask a person to estimate the
number of stars in a clear night"
says Honzeau, 1--WE shall have an exag-
gerated answer, the actual number
only being a little Over 3000."
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-27

Options on large supplies of rice
grown in the. Louisiana and Texas
rice districts have been obtained by
Japanese contractors and contracts ag-
~gregating shipments of ten carloads
a week are known to have been made,
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Puny Man.

Man is the weakest of all animals
in proportion to size, and if he had. the
comparative intelligence of an ant,
for instance, schools and teachers
would be a useless luxury.
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We Lead in Petroleum.

The Geological Survey at Washing
ton issued a report showing that the
United States now leads the world in
the production of petroleum, and the
Standard Oil Company practically
controls the entire product.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-05-27
Wheat Damaged by Rain.

There are predictions in the West
that the next crop damage reports viii
come from Kansas to the effect that
the wheat is turning yellow from ar
excess of rain.
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Poser For the Kaiser

When the Kaiser promised to in,
scribe on the flags of the German
troops in South Africa the names of
the battles they won he probably did
not know that they had ju.: won the
battle of Otjihinnamaperero
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Making Money catching Sturgeon.

The sturgeon-ishing industry has
opened in the lower Delaware, and six
boats are engaged in it. A sturgeon
of average size will bring $125, the roe
selling for ninety-ive cents a pound
and the meat for from fifteen to TWEEN
ty cents.
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do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has unequal for coughs and colds.-JoHN
F.BoYER, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
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BENEFITS of Reciprocity.

Reciprocity with Cuba increased our
exports to the island nearly twenty.
five per cent. in the first quarter of
the year.
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[ ltlCQtd
Y SOAP
Assisted by CUTlCURA
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Skin Cure, are of
Priceless Value.

For preserving, purifying, and
bcautifying the skin, for cleansing
the scalp of crusts, scales, and
dandruff, and the stopping of fall
ing hair, for softening, whitening,
and soothing red, rough, AID sore
hands, for baby rashes and cha
fings, IN the form of baths for an
noying irritAtions, alterations, and
inflammations of women, and
many sanative, antiseptic pur-
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of the toilet, bath, and nursery,
CUTICURA Soap and CUTI-
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Sold throughout the world. cutienrs SOAP. csc, oini.
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If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a
full statement Of your case, and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, D.
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FITSpsrnspe1 tty cucet. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer S2trial bottleand treatisefree
DR.. r. Ii. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch St., Pnila., Pa
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Employees in Japanese cotton fac.
tories get only eight to eighteen cents
for a days work of eleven or twelve
hours. This work, however, is much
less strenuous than in this country,
and much time is wasted in loafng,
talking. laughing and drinking tea.
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A powder. 1t rests the feet. Cures Corns,
Bunions. swollen, sore, dot, Cal lous, Aching
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens
Foot-Ease makes new o ttght shoes easy. At
all Druggists and Shoe stores, % cents. Ac-
ecpt no substitute. Sample mailed FREE,
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
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. they only hadn't
given me such a
name l could do
something in The
world" cried Mark,
savagely, as he
looked across the
alkali plain, stretch
ing away from the
outskirts of the big
Arizona town.
But it's Mark
Twain and the
Shining Mark and
Marked Copy, and
Make your Mark
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In the French and English languages
there are 1900 words of like spelling
and meaning. n. Y.-22.
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Overheard on the Pike.

Some men nave a keen sense of humor,
judging by the pointless stories they tell.
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work a burden; rest
is impossible; sleep
ftful; appetite gives
out and you are tired
all the time. Can't
be well until the
kidneys are well.
Use Doan's Kidney
Pills, which have
restored thousands
of suffering women
to health and vigor.
Mrs. William Wal
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Mr.. Easy-"Why should people visiting
The Exposition at night use more Aliens
Foot-Ease than in daytime?'
Miss Foote-"Because under the brilliant
illumination of the grounds, every foot be-
comes an acre!"
Mr.. Easy-"Fair. Only fair! Pray, con-
duct me to the nearest drug store and l
promise never to accept a substitute for
you or for Aliens Foot-Ease." = =
Foot Note-The twain will be made one
in June.