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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
SOME SCHOOL SPECIALS.

A registration of 579.854 pupils in the
public schools of New York is record
achievement in that line. It is not sur
passed or equaled in any city in the
world.
Thieving has become so prevalent in
Stanford university that President Jor-
dan has issued an appeal to the whole
student body to assist him in running
down the criminals.
Under q new rule, women inspectors
visit the public schools of London and in
spect the pupils. Those that are not
clean are sent home. But already it has
been found that some OF the children
smear themselves with mud before en-
tering school, in hope that an inspector
will pay visit.
Frederick Dougles Morrison, of Balti-
more, recognized as one of the ablest
educators of the blind in the world, died
recently from the effects of on operation
for appendicitis. His great-grandtather.
Israel Morris. was executor to William
Penn, Jr. Prof. Morrison at one time
was a member Of the faculty Of Girard
college.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
FIXING HIGH NOON At SEA
Wireless Telegraphy Expected Soon to
Overcome Difficulty Of Many
Years. Standing.

The n: ost momentous improvement In
navigation since the invention Of the
chronometer, more than 140 years ago.
has just been foreshadowed in modest
paragraph in the report Of the chief OF
the bureau of equipment of the United
States navy. 1T is believed" says Chief
Manney, that the development of wire
less telegraphy will enable (time) sig.
mails to be distributed over water as well
as over laed, and that before long every
ship at sea, in addition to every land
station, will receive daily noon signals
from the standard observatory clock"
What does that mean? Nothing less
than the elimination Of the last element
of uncertainty from the problem of find.
ing the position of ship at sea. Hith.
erto the one weak point in navigation
has been the difficulty of carrying stand.
ard time onA voyage. Observations foi
local time as well as for latitude have
been exact, but the comparison of local
standard time for obtaining the longi.
tude has involved certain amount Of
guesswork. The best chronometer is
not quite infallible, and some allowance.
which may not be precisely right, has al.
ways to be made for errors. But with
time signals from national observa-
tory every day at noon the mariner will
know his way over any part OF the wide
ocean as accurately as IL he were thread
ing buoyed channel. The chronometer
will join the cross-staff and the astro-
labe on the junk heap Of discarded make.
shifts. And Of course ship that can
communicate with the shore for one
| purpose is equally in touch with the
world for any other communication II
| needs to make.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
HANDY HOG ScALDER.
Vat Containing Two Compartments
Will Prove the Most Con-
venient,

Those who follow the old-fashioned
practice of Strengthening hogs will find
scalding tank on the following plan
very convenient, says B. F. Sutherland,
in Orange Judd Farmer. If a vat ia
used. make it large enough SO that it
may be divided into two compart-
ments. Near the bottom of the parti-
ton wall bore a two-inch auger hole,
1T 1t with a plug slotted at the end to
admit Of the Ringing of a wooden bar
to 1t by means OF pin or bolt. The
wooden bar should be long enough to
reach from the bottom of the vat a
few inches above the top of the tank.
Hinge the bar to the floor of the vat,
pin it into the slotted plug. and open
or close the vent by simply working
the lever. Two barrels may be con.
nected by short pipe and operated in
the same way. Then. If there is no
water heater, the rocks or old iron
sometimes used may all be placed in
one compartment, and the hot water
drawn of in the desired quantity. II
saves removing the irons from the
scalding compartment and cooling the
water unnecessarily. Keep the heat.
ing compartment full and draw of wa
ter as needed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01

boxes should be arranged so az to be
movable, and now, have torn down
the last of the fixed rows and have
movable boxes for all laying and
Matching purposes.
I do not use incubators, and when
hen becomes broody and I wish to
set her, place the eggs under her, and
that evening move her, box and all,
to the brooder house, where three set
ting hens are given the use of one CON-
partment. They are then no trouble
to look after. There are no interlopers
to lay by thsn and break the eggs.
They can ge' of whenever they feel
like it for food and drink. which are
kept in all the apartments.
All nests ought to be taken out at
least twice a year and given an over
hauling. They should be sprayed in-
side and out with some disinfecting
and lice-killing liquid and receive new
nesting material. Boxes where hens
lay and hatch and which are not moved
for long time. sometimes become in
tested with species of small louise
different from both the mites that are
found under the roosting poles and the
common poultry lice, writes G. Davis,
in Ohio Farmer. When this happens
the best use that can be made Of them
is to build bonfire. These little pests
are exceedingly hard to exterminate
unless the boxes can be placed where
they can be fumigated with sulphur.
The occasional moving and spraying of
the nest receptacle referred to above
Is done as preventive measure. so
that one will not be troubled with this
kind of lice, the presence of which in
a henhouse is evidence of gross care
lessness On the part of the poultryman.
Any kind Of boxes are used that are
of suitable size. They can be obtained
at any store for FIVE cents apiece, or
perhaps for nothing. Two cleats are
nailed to the back of the box and a
hole bored in each cleat, by means of
which the box is hung on two stout
nails driven in the side of the building,
1t is we'll to have these nails all the
same distance apart so that boxes are
interchangeable and can be placed any
where. The nails should be ten penny
and driven with the heads projecting
one and half inches and sloping
upward. so as to hold the boxes
firmly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
GENERAL GLEANINGS.

r. A. Elit, Of Vishiha, CAL, harvested
ITO tons Of grapes from ten acres of
vines lately, thus breaking the Califor-
mia record.
Lady Marjorie Bruce, in the face of
protests in England, maintains that
Americans are the most courteous men
in the world.
John and Maurice Reid, brothers,
work farm together near Waterbury,
Conn, but have not spoken to each
other in ten years.
Congress recently awarded the sur
viving heirs of the Six Nations ST.
100000, and Former President Andrew
John is in Washington to see that no
half-breeds get any of it.
Joseph Hayden, of Uniontown, Pa,
voted for President Roosevelt. He is
90 years OF age. and he and his father
voted for every chief executive the
United States has had.
After walking from Terre Haute,
Ind, to Knoxville, Tenn, and despair
ing of success, T. e. Leroy, a tramp,
was offered and accepted $164,000 for a
one-fourth interest in a patent to tie
the ends of steel rails together The
New York Central railroad is the pur-
chaser.
DR.. George F. Reinhardt, professor
of hygiene at the University of Califor-
mia, is making vigorous fight as to the
Indifference of American men and
women as to the health of the men and
women they marry. From such unions,
he says, result unhappiness and Off
springs with shapeless bodies and dim
ly-lighted brains.
A crowd of fashionable folk gathered
in the Orange club Of Orange, N. j.,
election night and received the returns
over a special wire. Thomas A. Edison
sat at the key and received returns,
writing them out in his copperpIate
hand. He took the returns long time
before relinquishing his place to the
regular operator, and seemed not to
have lost his old skill with the key.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
BAD TRICK IN COLTS.
The Habit of Straddling the Halter
Strap and How It May Be
Overcome.

1t is very annoying to find q colt
or horse with one of his forefest over
the rope or halter strap when he goes
to the manger to eat his food. Yet
he must have a good long strap allow
ance made or he cannot lie down with
out danger of choking or hanging him
self. OF course one must know just
what condition the horses are in be-
fore leaving them for the night-give
them comfortable beds and good
feed at night II the animal shows q
tendency to throw foot over the
hitching strap. procure block Of
wood-oak or something substantial.
enough to be heavy. Make 1t about
one foot long by six or seven inches
square. Bore hole thr ough one end
and put the halter strap through an
auger hole in the manger. securing 1t
to the block. after passing It through
the hole at the end of the block. Then
when the colt raises his foot he will
strike it against the block and will
eventually learn not to raise his feet
Observation-Disclosures Epitomist
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
WOLVES HELD At BAY
A GREEDY PACK OF ILLS SURROUND
A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE.
Through the Arrival Of Timely Aid shs
Escapes from the Terrors of q
Prolonged Siege.

Through the Arrival of Timely Aid shs
Escapes from the Terrors of o
Prolonged Siege.
The Rev. W. A. Denton, of Girard.
Crawford county, Kansas, tells the fol-
lowing story Of a narrowing experience
of one of the members Of his family:
"My wife," he says, "was assailed for
fifteen years by combination Of all
ments following the birth of our first
child. The food she ate fermented in
her stomach, she had frequent dizzy
spells, her limbs We're swollen and pain
full, her nerves were quite shattered, she
was unable to sleep and she was many
times on the verge of heart failure.
physicians gave her only temporary
relief. Finally the favorable reports Of
some relatives and neighbors led her
to make trial Of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. She expert
rienced improvement almost at once.
They relieved her sleeplessness, the
smothering sensations have disappeared
and have not annoyed her for years.
They freed her from stomach trouble
and the dropsical tendency was miti-
gated. The progress of the rheuma-
tism, which had begun to make her
fingers crooked, was stayed and the pain
was banished. In every respect they
gave her more help than any other rem
edy she had ever used, and she is today
in better health than for many years.
CDR. Williams Pink Pills are our sta
pie household remedy, and am in the
habit of recommending them to all who
suffer from troubles like those which at.
f1icted my WIFE"
All the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood and repair
shattered nerves are contained, in con-
densed form, in DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. They are also specific
for troubles peculiar to females, such as
suppression, Irregularities and all forms
of weakness. In men they effect rad
ical cure in all cases arising from men.
tai strain, overwork or excuses of what
ever nature. DR.. Williams Pink Pills
are sold in boxes at fifty cents box
or six boxes for two dollars and fifty
cents, and may be had of all druggists.
or direct by mail from DR.. Williams Med
icine Company, Schenectady, NY. Be-
sure you get the genuine: substitutes
never cured anybody.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
FRESH Feminine FlNERY.
Variety Of Fanciful Trifies That Enter
Into the Makeup of Season.
able Costumes.

Calfskin collars and revers are used
on some Of the velvet coats.
A child's Dutch bonnet of blue velvet
has green silk apples for trimming.
Dainty little girdles are made of the
pompadour ribbon shirred back and
front
Chiffon panne is now to be had in
checks and it is promised for almost gen.
sral wear.
A great many plum-colored tailor
gowns are to be worn with mauve and
violet hats.
A lovely bag for the brown suit is one
Of all-brown beads and mounting of dull
bronze
Wide plaid ribbon hat, bows for chill
dren often show a narrow velvet rib
bon laid along the center.
1t is rumored that big opera hats and
decollete gowns will go to the opera to-
gether this winter.
One OF the new brilliant light browns
has been christened shoe color, it being
a corn color tan"
Cuff ruffies are of two sorts. OF lace
they fall over the hand, of taffeta they
edge the top of the cuff and stand up.
Shades of green. more or less delicate.
are the chosen colors for trimming Co.'S
tunes Of the soft brown shades.
Chiffons-that means all the filmy fab
rics-are first choice for evening dress
es and even the debutante may rejoice
in spangles.
A beautiful hair ornament consists Of
fine white feathers. curving plume, slen-
der threads of gold among them here
and there, supporting tiny diamond
sparks.
Plated skirts continue la mode,
though there so are many variations that
the original kilt might well fail at times
to recognize members of its ever-in-
creasing family.
Bodices are much like those of the
Louis XIV. regime, being high at the
breast line and going from thence in q
straight line to deep point. They are
evidently busked.
Taffeta, only a much improved vari-
ETY., will be fashionable for smart occa-
sions this season. Mousseline taffeta,
as 1t is called, is very soft and is either
f1ecked with chameleon hues or elss
planned In the tiniest possible checks.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
HOW TO RUN THE FURNACE
BY Observing These Instructions II
May Be Made Very
Tractable,

The local Society of Fine Arts has
started its fall classes in furnace-craft.
There is popular opinion that all
that is necessary to do in the way of
running the cellars coal heater is tc
throw on the diamonds, let the fire get
well under way. shut it up, shake it
down at night and empty the ashes
Sunday morning. These are the very
crude ideas of immature thought, says
the Minneapolis Journal.
The furnace, like the locomotive,
must be petted, groomed and cared for
by a fiurnacier who makes it a labor
Of love, or he will never get out of it
the quid pro quo to which the house is
entitled. Quid pro quo is Latin for
that variety of hot heat which, like
that letter, is longed for, but some
times never comes. Heat is a funny
thing. 1t is just as well satisfied to go
up the chimney or out into the cellar
as into the drawing room or bath
room. And there is always lingering
around on the outside of a house a
climate fresh come from Nebraska or
Athabasca, or some other polar cline
that, like the last fly of autumn, is
anxious to get inside before the bell
rings. To care for this Nebraska chill
the furnace man has accommodatingly
arranged what is called a "cold air in
take" Cut it out!
1t may do for Kentucky, but it is not
the thing for Minnesota. The first
thing you want to do is to get stout
furnace surgeon and excise the cold air
intake appendix. About 100000
yards of the Arctic circle are trailing
around the house, moaning to get into
the cold air intake. Cut it out!
Let the cold air get in around the
doors and window castings. 1t will get
in, anyhow, but it is not necessary for
you to provide it rapid transit facili-
ties Cut it out!
Have a major operation performed
ON it. Leave nothing below the
diaphragm except, perhaps, the lower
limbs. After this your furnace will
make a quick recovery and you will be
surprised to see it come up in the
morning and eat out of your hand.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
TwICE-ToLD TALES.

James Jeffrey Roche was having q
chat with President Roosevelt in the
white house recently when the tele-
phone began to ring. There seemed
to be nobody at hand to answer it,
so the president performed the duty
himself. The visitor says that this
conversation took place: "Well, what
is it?' Hello, is Archie there?" mo,
he's not" Who's this I'm talking
TOT" THE president" "Well, you'll
do. Tell Archie to come over and play
ball. And the president proceeded to
execute the order Is directed
An irascible old colonel who used to
play golf at Sandwich, on the River
Stour in England, had q habit COM
mon with many, of blaming everybody
but himself for his bad strokes. Fin
ally one day, becoming badly
bunkered, he first took mighty ven
geance on the turf with his club.
Then. glazing around in expectation
OF the usual friendly comments, and
nobody saying anything, he blurted
out: How can you expect a man to
play decent golf on these cursed links
with ships passing up and down the
channel?"
Two fashionable women were re-
Gently calling on a new neighbor, and
while awaiting her appearance lit
tie girl came into the room, evidently
bent upon the rescue of a doll recent
ly abandoned there. Naturally she
was viewed with some curiosity, and
one OF the callers, secure in the child's
obviously tender age. spelled a low
voiced comment: mot very pref
t-y." To her horror, the small maiden
paused on the threshold, and, fixing a
eontemptuous eye upon the culprit,
remarked, with lofty composure:
mo, not very pretty. but rather
SMART"
Prof. Simon Newcomb tells of the
following incident which occurred dur
ing a recent visit paid by several
young western women to the Wash
ington observatory. II had done my
BEST" said the astronomer, "to answer
with credit to the government and to
myself the running fire Of questions
which my fair callers propounded I
think had named even the remotest
consultations for them, and was con-
graduating myself upon the outcome,
when one of the younger members OF
the party fnterjected: But, as it has
never been proved that the stars are
inhabited, how do the astronomers
ever find out their names?'"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
The Prevention Of Lice.

To keep chickens free from lice and
diseases. wash the roosts with coal OF.
and whitewash the house inside and
out every month. Sweep the droppings
from under the roost every morning,
and sprinkle slaked lime over the
ground. Always keep q piece OF red
cedar under the nests to keep vermin
away from setting hens. Have the
nests so you can clean them we'll
Never have straw for them, but fill
with nice. fine dry dirt and shape. 1t
like a straw nest Empty every time
a hen sets and matches. and you can
set hens all summer on these dirt
nests. I have always done this. aud
have never seen louise or had q
young or old chicken to die from that
cause.-Fanny Billingsley, in Epitom-
iSt
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
Keeping It to Ourselves.

Those who have the heaviest bur.
dens to bear, talk least about them.
It is the younger ones-younger in
years or In experience-who think
their real load is a little heavier than
anyone's else. The real burden-car-
riers have not time or energy to waste
In talking about their burdens. Their
chief interest lies in accomplishing.
not publishing abroad their hard
ships. The very dwelling on the hard
ships or unpleasant features of ones
work increases those hardships. They
thrive under the cultivation of talk.
No ones burdens are too heavy. We
are not hidden to add our burdens to
our brothers; we are hidden to bear
his, and by so doing we shall tighten
our own.-Sunday School Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
, Romance
OF THE
Time=Iimit
Ticket
Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coy

Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coy
r HE blue-coated ticket taker walked
down the aisle of the rapidly
moving train, with the ease peculiar
to train officials. He had an exceed
ingly bored air, from the fact that al
ready seven tickets, purchased from
scalpers and exceeding the date OF ex-
piration by one day. had been ten
dered him
''Why is it." he asked, as he en-.
countered the Pullman conductor IN
the vestibule. "that people hate to
cough up the price of railroad tick
ct? I don't know of anyone who gets
money given so grudgingly as con-
ductor."
Unless it is a dentist" suggested
the Pullman conductor
The train conductor pursued his
way into the diner. From a we'll
groomed. well-garbed man, who
looked as if he might live at the ex-
pense of the government, the conduc-
tor fully expected pass. Instead, he
got one of the bogus tickets.
"You, too!' he exclaimed, grimly. :.
whats the matter?" asked the
passenger, pausing in his perusal OF
the menu card.
"You got this at a scalper's. didn't
your"
eyes; what Of it,"
"It's N. G. A time limit ticket
This is the eighth I've had offered me
already. You'll have to pay your
fare"
The passenger didn't seem to be par
ticularly disturbed by this intelli.
gence. He paid his fare and resumed
his study of the menu card with COM
pIacent interest. After a most salts
factory dinner he returned to the
coach where he had left his luggage.
intending to read. but Immediately
his attention was diverted from the
magazine to the handsome young
woman who occupied the section OPP
posite his. He had noticed her when
he boarded the train. and, after a
mental analysis, had classified her as
a girl one would like to know, but
would not dare approach.
To his surprise and distress she was
now quietly weeping. A sudden
thought came to him. He hunted up
the conductor
isn't that young woman who has
the seat opposite mine one of the I'M
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01

fortunate eight who had time-limit
tickets?" he asked.
eyes; she is" snapped the conduc-
tor viciously.
THAT is what she is crying for,
them"
''Is she crying?" asked the conduc-
tor. and Boyden thought he detected
exultance in his tone.
Eyes; it may have embarrassed her
to pay her fare"
"She hasn't paid it. She says she
hasn't got the money to pay 1T, AMI
I am going to put her off at the next
station" he declared emphatically.
What! You'd put her off-a woman
alone and unfortunate?" exclaimed
Boyden, Indignantly. "She bought her
ticket in good faith-as I did"
The conductor made no reply.
'Do you mean" persisted Boyden,
wrathfully. that you are in the habit
Of putting women off the train if they
can't pay?"
81 never put one of before. In
fact, only yesterday I lent a woman,
who had lost her purse. the money to
get home with"
"Why have you got 1t in for thi.
woman?"
Because think she could get
home, or wherever she may be going,
all right, if she wanted TO-"
"Now, see here!" argued Boydep.
"YOu know a woman like her wouldn't
be put off If she could possibly pay
Il don't know as to that. and ]
don't care. I do know that 1 am going
to obey orders"
Boyden returned to the Pullman,
The young woman was still CRYING
He took the seat beside her.
Pardon me-" he said. respec. fully
''but l think that you, like myself
nave been the unfortunate victim O,
unscrupul"us scalper."
She looked up and said, eagerly:
"Oh, did you have one of those
time. imi, ickets, TO M Gid the
con-" ctor mike you pay full fare?"
Yes. Of course. He had to do that
you know. l thought perhaps the I'm.
expected emergency might have EN-.
oararssed you financially. know
that when ladies are away from home
they are quite apt to keep their ex.
penses up to the limit of their cash OIL
hand"
She turned brown. appealing eye.
to his.
Really" she said impulsively. AM
with little historical giggle, Il hat
money enough to buy a legitimat,
ticket, and leave good little margin
Tor incidentals. but did sSe such /,
lovely bargain in lace collar!
bought it and then just had one dolla
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-01
htnk the Cracks.

Farm buildings should be given q
"going over before the cold of the
winter comes. Too many cracks in
the barn may give abundant ventila-
ton, but they give more-too many
drafts. Ventilation is health. but drafts
are the opposite. 1t does not cost
much TO stop up cracks. and il one
kind of material cannot be secured for
this work another can.