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ENTEKED As SKCoSD Class MATTER JUNE 18Th 1908
AT THE Posr oFFICE At DECoRAS. Iowa, UNDER Thk
ACT OF CONGRESS OF MIRCR 80 1873.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

cago, in London or any other large
city, but be it said to the credit of
these hotels, they are no higher priced
during the exposition than they were
before it. The masses of the people
are looking, however, for something
less expensive, and 1t is easily found
The people of st. Louis are playing the
part of host in a way that will make
friends of the visitors to the fair.
Thousands of homes have been opened
for the accommodation of guests. and
the prices charged for the accommoda-
lions provided are most moderate. In
fact, to judge from what one must pay
for board and room, one would scarce
ly imagine that the greatest exposition
the world has ever known is in prog
ress in the city. Boarding house prices
compare favorably with those of other
cities. and 81 per day will secure a
comfortable room and breakfast in
hundreds of these hospitable homes.
No one needs deprive himself of the
great education that awaits him at
st. Louis for fear of exorbitant prices,
for they are not to be found.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
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THE SHADE.


Under oaks and poplars and elms
because the shadow thereof Is GOOD
Hosea Alb aiA-. 10y
This tree, which stands with arms out.
spread.
With leaves like fingers tremulous
To seize all GOODNESS overhead
And softly watt it down to us.
This tree--it means hundred years
OF rain and SUM- OF drought and dew,
Before this shade which rests and cheers
Into to-day's perfection grew.
Some kindly one-forgotten now
May thoughtfully have placed the seed,
Foreseeing that each reaching bough
Would satisfy a worn ones need.
Whoe'er he was. that unknown one
Who set the seed, or sproutlet slim.
He knew not that he had begun
What stands a monument to him.
The trees-the kindly trees-that blaze
With spring's green flame or autumn
blush.
The sentry fires that line the ways
Into the woodlands peaceful hush
Through all the years they slowly grow
Until they shield the lowered SOD;
The trees-the kindly trees-they show
The patient thoroughness of God.
This tree. which stands with arms out
4, spread,
Seems to pronounce while standing thus.
A blessing, and to gently shed
A benediction over u.s.
The sunlight shuttles through the leaves
With threads of gold that flash and play,
Across the warp of shade it weaves
The mingled fabric of the day:
w. d. N. in Chicago Daily Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

Five feet apart C-ch way is a good
distance to set currant bushes.
On many soils both fruits and vege-
tables are benefited by an application of
wood ashes.
One of the commonest mistakes of
the fruit grower is to neglect to cult
vate his orchard.
For almost any kind of small fruit
the land should be deeply plowed, thir-
oughly cultivated and we'll fortified.
1t is cheaper to grow good shade trees
from seed in a nursery, under the prop
er conditions, than to hunt and pull them
in the woods.
The root systems of forest seedlings
grow long and spreading, so it is al
most impossible to pull them without
injuring the roots Very badly.
The United States is now spending
about 100000 annually in the inves-
tigation of forests, and in carrying out
various schemes for forest preserva-
ton.
Why should we expect the orchard
to continue to bear crops year after
year without being fed and cultivated
We do not expect it of other farm
crops.
Seedlings grown in the shady and
sheltered woods have their organs for
Transportation, assimilation, ETC., de-
veloped for that c.rdition, and when
brought out to lisAt, exposed place,
ire unable to cope nth the new con-
ditions and die.-Farmers' Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18


He seemed oblivious to his surround
ings, and his CLASSY eyes and livid pain
drawn features told Enthusiastically of the
near approach Of death.
Around him were the dead and the dy-
ing. Groans and curses and prayers
mingled with the roar Of the battle, and
his feeble cries for water were drowned
in the fearful din. The noontide sun
beat down numerically on his bare
head. "Oh, for some kind shelter, and
for one drop of water!" He dipped a
finger in the pool of blood at his side and
pressed it to his lips. Heaven for just
one drop of water!" he groaned.
Suddenly some one raised his head and
pressed canteen to his parched lips.
The mist of death that was gathering
in his eyes, for a moment cleared away.
He looked up in the face of this good
Samaritan and smiled. Then look Of
recognition flashed into his eyes.
Arnold" he whispered. 1--we failed
to do my duty as citizen, but not as a
soldier. For the sake of the flag under
which we are both fighting, will you
can you forgive.
Hepaused as strength failed him. The
beseeching gaze he rivited on Capt.
Vests face melted the heart Of the be-
reaved lover, and swept away the Bit
terness of years. He grasped the hand
of the dying soldier and bending down
over him with all the tenderness of a
woman, he said in broken voice:
eyes, Will, l forgive-for Nell's sweet
sake, and for the sake of the fiag!" SEA
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
The St. Louis Worlds
Fair as q Great, Educator
Is More Valuable Than Months Of Study Trip Around
theWord. Accommodations Moderate and Ample

current number of the Worlds Work
that we'll illustrates the educational
point make. This is it:
Watch a party of visitors from a
Mississippi valley state, people who
have never seen the sea, as they wan
der through the passages of the battle
ship model or squint along a rapid-fire
gun on deck, across an imaginary
ocean. The shine in their eyes betrays
a mixture of excited interest and pa
triotic pride. Far though the coast
may be from their homes, it is yet
their coast that such battleships guard,
and the battleships are theirs. And
it is a semi-proprietary satisfaction
that affords a good part of the pleas
ure that any American evinces in gaZ-
ing at the processes or results of the
many government activities he sees ex-
plotted here. A visitor will observe a
hundred interesting novelties; he will
leave the building-only to go back
later for another look-round-eyed
with amazement at the many things
the government does for the people;
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
REMEDIES FOR CUT WORMS
To Trap These Destructive Garden and
Orchard Pests Requires Work
and Strategy.

Cutworms are the larvae of moths
belonging to the family noctuidae.
These moths are night flyers; their
eyes shine in the lamp light and hence
they are sometimes called "owlet
moths" The eggs are laid by the fe-
male moth for the most part on leaves
or the soft parts of plants. Land re-
Gently in sod is likely to be infested,
and the crop following sod is pretty
sure to suffer if attractive to these
pests. Some cutworms climb fruit
trees and eat the buds.
Late fall blowing by turning up the
pupae of cutworms, where a varying
temperature has chance to work on
them, so that crows. blackbirds and
other birds have an opportunity to eat
them, Is an excellent thing.
Many growers of melons, suuashes
and cucumbers protect their young
plants by cylinders of tin (tomato cans
with ends melted out are good1 or
cardboard or even brown paper, cylin-
der surrounding each plant and planted
few inches 1.-TWO or three) in the SOIL
Poisoning bundles of clover with a
solution of Paris green and strewing
the same amongst the plants to be
protected is one rood method. Both
Of these the entomologist has tried
with some success. Paris green, it
must be remembered, is a slow acting
poison comparatively, and one must
not expect worms which have eaten it
70 die at once. Planting an excessive
number of seed or Plants is sometimes
resorted to. The writer has found the
guilty worm frequently concealed an
inch or two in the soil in the morning,
not far from the plant injured during
the night. He has also trapped them
successfully by placing cabbage leaves,
or any large leaf or board, among
plants needing protection, finding the
worms under there in the morning.
Minnesota Experiment Station.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
ANOTHER USE FOR RADIUM
IF Adoption in Ocean Telegraphy
Proves Practical, Price Will
Surely Advance.

"a new use has been found for radi-
um," said Robert F. Amend, the repre-
sentative of chemical supply house.
"If 1t proves practical it probably will
go even higher than it now is. If radi-
UNI be placed near the receiving end Of
an ocean cable the message will be re-
ceived much more clearly and distinctly
than without it. This would be great
advantage in ocean telegraphy. but just
in what way this influence is supposed
to be manifested I>dc not know. The
price of radium has gone up 40 per cent.
In the last two or three months on ac-
count Of the large demand and the COM
paratively scarce supply. Our house
represents the Curies of Paris, the origi-
nal discoveries of the new metal, and
their product is by far the best manu-
featured. They have made little of late,
however. Considerable radium of a
cheaper grade is being made in Ger
many. For medicinal purposes no proof
has yet been giyen that it has practical
value. Much is being bought, however.
as curiosity"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

example, Japan. We are interested in
the progress of the island empire, we
wonder at her greatness, we read vol
ume after volume to learn of her
progress. Here it is all spread out be-
fore our eyes. We see the same japan
Commodore Perry saw when he broke
the bars of darkness that shut the en-
pire from the world, and we see beside
it the Japan that is to-day waging war
with one of the greatest nations of the
world, the same Japan that is an i'm
portant element in the worlds COM
merce. It is an education in the prog
ress of Japan that no books can pos
sibly give us.
And so it goes through all the great
exposition palaces, through the foreign
government buildings, through the
state buildings, and down the Pike.
Everywhere is new and valuable les
son easily learned and never forgotten,
for we learn it by seeing"
To refer again to the United States
government building and its exhibits
as an educational feature, want to
quote part of paragraph from the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
JUST ONE DAY
Free from the Slugger Brought Out
a Fact.

During the time I was coffee
drinker," says an Iowa woman, Il was
nervous, had spells with my heart,
smothering spells, headache, stomach
trouble, liver and kidney trouble.
did not know for years what made me
have those spells. l would frequently
sink away as though my last hour had
come.
For 81 years I suffered thus and
used bottles of medicines enough to
set up drug store-capsules and pills
and everything l heard of. Spent lots
of money but I was sick nearly all
the time. Sometimes was SO nervous
l could not hold plate in my hands;
and other times 1 thought would
surely die sitting at the table.
This went on until about two years
ago when one day 1 did not use any
coffee and noticed was not SO nerv-
GUS and told my husband about it. He
had been telling me that it might be
the coffee but said: No, have been
drinking coffee all my life and it can
not be- But after this thought
would try and do without it and drink
hot water. did this for several days
but got tired of the hot water and
went to drinking coffee and as soon
as began coffee again was nervous
again. This proved that it was the
coffee that caused my troubles.
eve had tried Postum but had no.
made it right and did not like 1t, but
now I decided to give it another trial
SO read the directions on the package
carefully and made 1t after these di-
rections and it was simply delicious.
SO we quit coffee for good and the re-
suits are wonderful. Before, I could
not sleep, but now ! go to bed and
sleep sound, am not bit nervous now
but work hard and can walk miles.
Nervous headaches are gone, my heart
does not bother me any more like 1t
did and don't have any of the smoth-
ering spells and would you believe it:
am getting fat. We drink Postum
now and nothing else, and even my
husbands headaches have disap-
peared; we both sleep sound and
healthy now and that's a blessing. "
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Look for the book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in each pkg.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

consider a trip to Europe as a great
educator, but a trip to Europe cannot
be compared to trip to this exposi-
ton. Here is shown the best of all
countries, and to see all that is shown
here is to see the best from the coun-
tries of all the world.
CAS- for our country, what could be
more instructive than the exhibits in
our government building? After seeing
it we understand far better than we
could have before both the system and
uses of government. Take the Philip
pine exhibit as another example. A
half days time spent within it's walls
is more instructive than dozen text
books. We are entirely too apt to read
and forget, but when we see We re-
member, and here we see."
Examples that would bear out the
statements of my college friend might
be enumerated almost without end, and
all would but tend to prove that the
Louisiana Purchase exposition is the
greatest educator of the age. We read
the histories of the years to learn of
tAO III PioSiCoo, buI hClO VIC w
not have to read, we see it. In the
Transportation building we see the
primitive locomotives that pulled our
first railroad trains, and standing be-
side them We see the powerful, intri-
cate machines that perform the same
service to-day. That is an education
in the progress of railroading. In the
Electrical building we find the first
primitive electrical appliances, and be-
side them the many intricate machines
that are to-day being driven by this
as yet unexplained power. That is up
to-date education in electricity. In our
school Biographies we are taught,
among other things, of the products
of the various countries. Here we see
them. The book learning we forget,
what we see we remember. Take, for
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

st. Louis.-I was standing on the
Plaza st. Louis, admiring the scene
that stretched away into the distance
before me, ending with the magnificent
spectacle of the Cascades. l needed no
company, for the great exposition all
around me was sufficient, but as stood
there an acquaintance, the president of
western college, stopped beside me.
Magnificent beyond the dream of
man." said l.
More than that" said he. do you
know" he continued, "to me the great
est thing of this truly great exposi-
ton is the educational influence it will
have upon the millions who visit it.
Here in two weeks time one can gain
more practical knowledge of the kind
that will be useful to him in the strug-
gle with the world than he can get in
two years time in any university. The
college education is entirely different
from the kind of education one gets
by seeing things, but for practical pur-
poses the seeing education is quite as
necessary as the book learning. We
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
SELECTED sINaULARITIEs.
Marion Knight, of SO

Among the trees that are most sem
sitive to the wind are the cherry, the
plum, the walnut, the black poplar,
the service-tree, the ash, and certain
varieties of pine. Other pines, espe-
cially the mountain varieties, and also
certain frs. are very resistant, to
wind
Quanah Parker, the noted Conan
che chief, announces that he is a DEM
ocrat, and will support Judge Parker
for the presidency. In an interview
Quanah said: me heap democrat. Big
judge, he my man; named for me;
he my nephew; my Indians all demo-
Gratis, all for Parker"
The general impression prevails that
rubber is a product like wheat or corn.
to be obtained from a given tree. The
idea is quite erroneous. 1t has been
estimated that 1000 different species
contain rubber, though commercial
quantities have been obtained from
only 40 or so.
There is a merchant in New York
who has made a fortune by the sale
of celery. For 20 years he has handled
nothing else. In season he buys it
in carload lots. Out of season hs
keeps large quantities frozen in ice
for which he obtains big prices. The
celery comes out as brittle as glass.
There is New York barber who
wears a No. II shoe. He was a SER
geant in the German army, noted for
his stability. He has a brother in
the old country whose foot is so big
that no ready-made shoe can be found
to fit him. When he needs new pair
Of shoes he buys a side Of leather and
sends for a shoemaker, who fashions
his footgear at home. His foot is the
largest in all Germany, about No. II
| in size.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

but his spirit will be self-gratulatory-
it is we who are doing it all"
Yet another among the thousand of
exhibits that may be classed as edu-
cational is to be found in every aisle,
in every corner of the Agricultural
building. Here spread out before you
are the products Of the earth's harvest
fields. In this one building, big enough
in itself to contain the whole of the
Pan-American exposition at Buffalo,
are the farm products Of every coun-
try. Here are sheaves of grain and
heaps of corn, made opulent with milk
and honey and butter, cotton-seed oil
and cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, ana
fruit. There are towers and pagodas
and pictures and panoramas in corn
husks, corn-cobs, corn-tassels and corn
kernels, tobacco-leaves and tobacco
grains, wheat-straw and wheat-heads
and wheat-grains; and there are fig
ures in cotton and butter and sugar
and prunes and nuts. There are dec
Orations in wavy moss and hemp, in
rice-sheaves and prairie grasses. You
know at last the wealth of each state,
for packed into each of the different
sections is an abundant sample of all
that springs from one states soil
whether it be hill-farm potatoes,
swamp rice, sea-island cotton, bottom
land corn, prairie wheat, desert dates
or irrigated alfalfa. And in the same
way you know the agricultural wealth
of each of the worlds nations, for they
are spread out before you for your in
spection.
And what does it cost to see this
wonderful exposition, what is the
price TO be paid for this liberal edu-
cation? 1t may be much or little, just
as sightseeing trip to any city may
be much or little. There are fashion
able, high-priced hotels in st. Louis,
just as there are in New York, in Chi
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE.

Milk kept in a shallow basin will re-
main sweet for a longer time than If kept
in deep jug.
If tablespoonful Of paraffin be added
to the pail of hot water usedfor washing
tiles, it will both cleanse and brighten
them.
Before weighing molasses dredge the
scale well with -four. for this will pre-
vent the treacle from sticking, and 1t
may be poured off without waste.
Alum water will restore most faded
flowers Brush the faded article thor
oughly free from dust, cover 1t with a
layer Of CASTLE soap, rinse in clear
water, then in alum water, and the color
will usually be much brighter than be-
fore.
Even when there is cream in the cof-
fee, the stain of it may be removed from
silk and other delicate fabrics by brush
ing the spots with pure glycerin. The
glycerin must then be rinsed out in luke
warm water and the spot pressed on the
wrong side with warm iron.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
ONLY A HUSBANDS JOKE.
Played 1t on His Long Suffering
Wife, and It Was
Mean One.

The convivial husband, addicted to
late hours at the club, and the patient
wife waiting at home are very familiar
subjects of everyday life. 1t is not often,
however, that the two figure so amusing
ly as was the case at certain domestic
establishment in which this incident oc-
Cured, relates London Tit-Bits.
After many disappointments the wife
had extracted particular promise from
her spouse, made with not little show
of repentant sincerity, that he would re-
turn early from supper party at the
club. She told him candidly enough that
she had not much faith in it, but sweet
woman is nothing if not forgiving, and
an agreement to overlook the past was
sealed on her lips in the usual manner
as the husband took his departure.
The wife herself went out for an hour
or so to call on her friends, and, return
ing, awaited the Homecoming of her lord
and master.
Eleven o'clock struck and he had not
yet appeared; then midnight, and the
wife was still alone. Meantime hope and
doubt rage and despair, had each in turn
been in possession of her feelings, and
finally, in food of bitter tears, she
sought the refuge of the bedroom.
There, in the darkness, a startling
sound assailed her ears. In fear and
trembling. with a shrek in readiness,
she listened again. Yes, sure enough
it was a man snoring! A flash of light
as match burst into fame, and there,
snugly asleep between the blankets, lay
the man she had been waiting for at least
q couple Of hours!
The husband, who enjoys his practical
joke, has since been retailing with great
relish how, finding that he made mis-
take in the date of the supper party, he
repaired home again before his wife's
return, and quietly stole up to bed. His
better half, curiously enough, entirely
fails to appreciate the humor of the story.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18
Phosphate of Lime for Cows.

A farmer of Georgia who is known
as a successful stock raiser has made
it a practice to feed phosphate Of lime
. his dairy cows. He begins with
the dam and before the birth Of the
"alf. He says that the frame needs
tn be built up and that the greer
grass Of the Georgia pastures does
not give enough phosphate and lime
for the work of bone-msking. This
deficiency exists only on soils that
are deficient In limo and phosphorus.
The idea is new one and as yet
most Of our scientists are not ex-
pressing their opinions on 1t. 1t may
prove to be of value and may not.
Further developments will be awaited.