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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-10-26
To California Without Change

The Northwestern Line has in
augurated through tourist car service
to California; these cars leave Mime
apolis and St. Paul every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, and are
modern, wide vestibuled cars. For
information as to rates, train service,
etc., write to T. w. Teasdale, G. P. A.,
st. Paul.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-10-26
Plans to Get Rich

are often frustrated by sudden break
down, due to dyspepsia or constipa-
tion. Brace up and take DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. They take out the
materials which are clOgging your
energies, and give you new start.
Cure headache and dizziness too. At
Fieskf s. McNeice's drug store; 25c,
guaranteed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-10-26
Hooks Generous Offer.

Theodore Hook replied to some one
who asked him to contribute to a So
ciety fir the conversion of the heath
en-: Il have no money, but bring along
your heather and I'll convert him.
The Sunday Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-10-26
Beodar Lived Hioh.

Just ten years ago there died in
Auxerre a beggar in whose cellar
were 400 bottles of wine of rare and
costly vintage, more than century
old, while a single trunk revealed
coins and securities amounting to
100000 francs.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14

What to buy for Christmas is a
question easily answered if you
will call at New York Store. They
have everything in the beautiful
and useful, for grandpa and grand
ma, down to the baby. What bet
ter for wife or daughter than a
warm Fur Collar and Muf? What
better present than a nice silk or
worsted Mutfier? Have put in a
fine line of Ladies' Gift Handker-
chiefs in cambria, linen and silk,
Gents Ties and Scarfs &C? When
it comes to Candy and Nuts we just
have them by the ton. Will sell by
the ID. if wanted in small lots. Do
not lay in your stock till you have
seer Il stock. We buy only the
freshest and the best and u prlc-
es are the lowest.
New YORK STORE.
Do not forget your Overcoat and
Suit for Christmas. Buy same at
J. Schmierer & Sons.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14

Robert Reich spent Sunday in
Parkston.
Philip Engel made a business
trip to Parkston Tuesday,
Call up Phone No. IS for best
meat and groceries.
Theo. Landmann of Parkston
was in town Tuesday.
Fancy Vests, Muf1ers, Neckties,
Handkerchiefs, at j. Schmierer &
Sons.
Miss Louise Brosz of Parkston
visited friends here several days
the past week.
Sen. J. H. Stephens Of Spring
field was calling on Scotland friends
while in town between trains Sat
urday.
Make it a habit trading at j.
Schmierer & Sons store as you
will always have the courteous
treatment of their statesmen.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14

Mrs. Minnie Becker returned
from Canova Wednesday where
she had been visiting for three
weeks.
IF you need a pair ofsboes
get Drew=SeIby Go. Shoes
at F. Beeker's.
Miss Barr has been on the sick
list this week, and Miss Inga
Grundland has had charge Of her
department in the school.
Mrs. j. NJ. Dain went to Spring
field Saturday to visit her children
and get acquainted with a new lit
tie grandson, returning Tuesday.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14
Card Of Thanks.

I wish to express to the old
neighbors and friends of Scotland
my sincere thanks and apprecia-
ton for the assistance rendered in
the burial of my mother.
DAVID SowL.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14
cAS F TIA.
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bough
signature os NXANzzm

The Scotland independent tele-
phone company is putting up a
rural line extending about six miles
west of town. The poles are all
set and the wire is now being
stretched. Some branch lines will
also be constructed which will be
attached to fence posts.
Look at J.. Schmierer & Sons
show windows. They always have
the best of goods to show the pub
lie.
No one has been heard to kick
on the weather for several days.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14

Miss Elsie Bardwell, who accom.
panied her sister, Mrs. Jos. Becker,
on her return from Chicago, ex-
poets to remain until after the hol-
idays when she will return to Chi
cago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27

CTS. The responsibility is not pleasant one, but the President will not hesitate to exercise it. He will beyond a doubt reorganize the com. mission finding new head for 1t, reducing the number of commission CTS, and putting new life in the or ganization.
 The commission as a whole is inert. It is not a body that will accomplish anything speedily, and President Roosevelt is very much in earnest in relation to the canal. He proposes to see the canal well started before he goes out of office. His energy Is to be put behind it, and he knows he must reorganize first of all the canal commission. He will not hesi- tate to do it. Commissioners Harrod and Burr are. it is said, to be dropped while Admiral Walker, William Barclay Parsons, Mr. Grunsky and General Davis may be retained. One vacancy exists in the commission. Admiral Walker would not be retain ed if Senator Allison did not stand behind him, and William Barclay Par sons will have to agree to give more of his time to the canal work. Gen. eral Davis is m hot water as an ad- ministrator, but still he may be re- toined. MT. Gruns1y is a hydraulic expert.
 But the details are merely guess work. The commission is to be re- organized-that much is settled, and the President will not hesitate to do 1t. Some man who is stronger and bigger than any member of the com- mission as it stands today will be brought in to become the head of the working force, and he will be expected to push the canal to comple- tion. He and Chief Engineer Wallace will be held responsible for the exc oution of the great task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
HUMAN HEARTS
Sent to Mexican Girl by Men Who
 Had Been tilted.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Sonora Inez Mendosa Aguillo, Span ish-American beauty of Chihuahua, the daughter of the wealthiest coffee planter in Mexico. and heiress in her own right to estate of more than $70000O0, has been banished from her home and inn mured in a convent, almost prisoner, because her heartlessnes and fckleness have cost the lives of four men,
 Not only have four men killed them selves for her sake but each of the four, by a strange compact with close personal friends, arranged that after death his heart should be removed from his body and sent to the Sonora Inez Mendosa Aguillo as roken.
 The Sonora Inez gleefully accepted the hearts of the lovers who had died be- cause of the hopelessness of their pas sion. She kept the hearts, each fin jar of alcohol, in a little shrine she had built in the corner of her boudoir. Ordinarily the jars containing the four hearts were hidden behind what appeared to be triple glass mirror, but on touching a spring the three silver-framed mirrors swung back and disclosed a recess in which rested the four jars, each contain ing mans heart
 Before this little shrine the Sonora Inez always kept burning, day and night, four small wax candles.
 Her father, of course, knew nothing of 1t. but one day the Sonora Inez fell i'll of a fever. She was i'll for many weeks,
 ..1 1f was during this time that her father, who spent the most of his time in his daugh- ter's boudoir in order that he might be near her. discovered the four hearts al- most by accident.
 The discovery shocked the Senor Men dosa Aguillo beyond measure. By threats and persuasion he learned, grad ually. the whole story from Inez's maid how Inez had fiirted desperately with each of the four young men in turn, how she encouraged each of them to declare their passion. how she led each of them to believe she would elope with them to the priest, and when each in turn in despair at her ficlxleness had declared his purpose to end his misery by ending his life Inez had with sneering laughter urged each to commit suicide and send his heart to her as token that he had kept his word.
 The Senor Mendosa Agullo was stricken with horro. He was ever stern parent, lenient to his daughter, but just.
 When the Sonora lnez recovered and was again her own self her father taxed her with her heartlessness and she con fessed it all.
 The Senor Mendosa y Aguillo consulted first with the priest and later with the bishop. They all agreed that the Sonora Inez must be punished and punished se- vereiy. As her four admirers had com mitted suicide Inez could not be charged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
Liberal Givers.

Birmingham is noted for it's number of benevolent men and men who give great deal of their money to good causes, and I always know of from twenty to thirty who can be depended on every time" said a man who is always con- nected with the subscription lists in Bir- mingham," but there is one man in par ticuar who is certain to give, literally and freely
 His name is on every list for a worthy cause in Birmingham no matter what it is, and he always seems to be perfectly willing to do what he can towards help ing good cause.
 q have been connected more or less with raising many contributions in Bir- mingham and l have never yet known this man to fail me when l asked him for anything.
 q don't mean by what l say that he Is by any means the only man that is so liberal, but he has made an impression on me and I have probably watched him more closely Some men devote all their charity money to one cause, and give in larger amounts. They are equally as gen erous, but l have not come in contact with their charity as much as l have the bounty of the man I refer to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
New Orleans Racing.

Racing in New Orleans this year has drawn larger crowds than ever before = said man who keeps up with what is going on at the various tracks. T see by the papers that about 10000 people attend ed the two tracks in one day. ans that was not Sunday.
 The occasion also pointed to the rel atiye strength of the old and the new racing associations which are now bat ting, as did the old and new basebFN leagues several years ago.
 The old track he'd about 5000 people and part of these were drawn by an exhi- bition by the Boer War company which was in New Orleans at the time.
 The new track had something like TOGO people, one of the largest crowds that ever packed a grand staad and hung on the rails at a track in the southwest
 Another indication of the strength Of the new track is the fact that the number of books doing business increased from sixteen on Wednesday to twenty-one on Thursday. The strength of the new track has caused much talk in sporting circles throughout the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
pR. osLER's JOKE ON MATURITY.

From the New York World.
 Prof. William Osler's elation over his call from Johns Hopkins University to a chair at Oxford is readily comprehended. Not everybody understands so easily the professors parting joke with his old as- sociates at Baltimore. Some people have taken seriously his solemn protestation that at forty a man is comparatively useless while at sixty he should be un- obtrusively chloroformed.
 Dr. Osler himself is ffty-six. This is part of the joke Nobody knows better than he at the man who can sleep well, digest we'll take his daily exercise and enjoy life is m no immediate peril of an age limit to such usefulness as he may possess by dint of natural gift or cultivation The jest grows as we re- fleet that the country never had Pres ident under forty, the gentleman who is to be inaugurated on the. coming 4th of March, at forty-six, being the young est on the long list.
 Grant was unknown and discouraged at forty, hero and a President at forty-seven. Lincoln went into the NnlLe House nlly-lWOf 1dyiol bc6ah to be a strenuous President at sixty-five, Washington fathered his country while in the forties and ffties and became Chief Magistrate at fifty-seven. Benja- min Franklin did his best public service after he was seventy. So examples could be multiplied indefinitely. In the United States Senate today, out of the ninety members more than score will reach seventy years in age before 1907.
 Of a truth the worlds lasting accom- plishments are those, as a rule. of ma- turity and of age. The exceptions lie chiefly in literature although the annals of war show such names of early cele- brlty as those of Napoleon, AlexanG CT and Charles XII. And even in letters, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, producing his first novel when past fifty, is one of many ex- emplars of ripened talent. George Eliot wrote "Romoa' at fortyfour. Swift was fifty-nine when "Gulliver's Travels testified to his lively imagination and wit. Hugo at sixty wrote Les Miser- ables" and Robinson Crusoe'' was Defoe's work at ifty-eight. Moreover, who speaks to chloroform William Dean Howells at sixty-eight?
 Go to, Dr. Oser Feel your elation as you will at your call across seas, but get new joke for your farewell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
FABLE OF THE HEN.
From the Boston Post

From the Boston POSt.
 Once upon a t.me Wery recently a hen went upon a strike and refused to lay. Other hens followed her example, and the scarcity of hen fruit which resulted caused eggs to retail for something like 90 cents per dozen In otler words strict ly fresh eggs laid by scab hens were worth about cents each in the shell. Even cold storage eggs. which were deadly explosive and had to be handled with care brought 30 cents.
 The people got together and remon- strated with the hens but it cid no good. Finally an arbitration committee waited on the hens Ind tried to persuade them to go back to work. The arbitration committee pointed out that only the rich could afford to eat eggs, but the hens re- fused to return to work. The arbitration committee then told the nens that if they persisted in the strike they wou-l bring race suicide on themselves.
 Then wise old hen arose and spoke as follows:
 Tn the spring when us hens wish to sit the people give us porcelain door knobs to sit on, If porcelain door-knobs are as good IS eggs to sit on, they ought to be as good to eat as eggs. Tell the people to eat porcelain door knobs"
 1Ae arbitration committee could not answer this argument, and departed in tears.
 Moral-Deceit will come home to roost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27

From Leslie's Weekly.
 Through the charity of the millionaire street railway magnate, F. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia is soon to have home for crippled children which will not only give to these unfortunates hospital treat ment, but also will equip them with a business and industrial education to en- able them to support themselves. Chil- dren of both sexes between the ages of six and ten years will be admitted, and just as soon as they have learned trades of any sort, even to the culture of flow CTS. wages will be paid and certain amount deducted for board, thus incul- eating a spirit of independence and self reliance cir earnings at the home will exceed their expenses, providing them with capital to start business in modest way after leaving.
 The construction work of the magnifi- cent building which is located at Ogontz, suburb of Philadelphia, is practically cOmplete
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
Poll Tax and VOtinu.

New York proposes to make the poll tax an inducement to voting instead of a nindrance to it. A prominent politician in that state has developed this plan:
 There shall be placed upon the polling list by certain officers, to be specified in the act. the names in each election dis trict of all those entitled to vote. Each qualified voter shall then be burdened say, 80, or any other larger or smaller sum- according to locality, as the wisdom of the legislature shall determine, this tax, however, to be dIe and payable af- ter the election. and then only by those who, without valid excuse, shall have failed to enter the polling booth on elec- tion day. Once In the polling booth, the citizen may deposit in the ballot box If so inclined, a blan6 ballot which when counted, will register his disapproval of all the candidates or the policies which they represent The exclusive penalty for a failure to pay this fine shall be dis franchsement for longer or shorter time as the legislature may determine.
 This is the reverse of Alabama's policy, and the time is fast coming when the Alabama policy will be modified. The cumulative feature of the Alabama plan must be removed unless the State is willing to be gov erned by a small and by no means select electorate, and is willing to have a large body of whites who can not vote and who are therefore indif- ferent to all public duties.
 Unless the constitution of 1901 be speedily amended one-half of the men between the ages of 21 and 45 will speedily be disfranchised. Nearly that proportion are disfranchised to- day, and tho cumulative feature of the constitution keeps them hopelessly in that condition. The constitution makers of 1901 went one step too far when they made the poll tax lapses cumulative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
KILLING A cHEETAH.

From the Chicago News.
 Ceylon planters while hunting elk with hounds had an adventure which one of them relates as follows in d Colombo newspaper: We found the hounds bay ing round a big tree, but nothing appar- entity to bay at Macdonald said, It must be a cat got into the root of the tree.' Just then his dog boy, "Cooney' point ed up into the tree and said 'peely' (cheetah or leopard). Sure enough, there in the fork of the tree was large leopard Macdonald said. Call the dogs off; we have no gun, and he will be down directly We managed to get the hounds short distance away, when the cheetah came down with a bound and was off into the jungle and all the pack after him. IL was no use trying to stop them He first went up the jungle short dis tanee, then turned down the stream. Just at this time Bethune and Liddell had come up and joined us, and the former had q pig spear. He got 1t caught in the Jungle. and, as he was just in front of me, could not get by him for a minute.
 
 Macdonald with the cheetah in it's last dying struggle at his feet. He had stuck it with his knife.
 He said, am proud of my dogs; they have done it all He had three Scotch deerhounds. which he had had sent out from home by his brother. They were the last of breed. When he came up he said These three dogs had the cheetah fast by the throat Two of them were badly torn-Banshee and Pusthu. oscar was badly scratched But, as the chetah lay dying. he ran in again and caught him by the throat, and the dying cheetah gave him what seemed only a pat on the head, but 1t knocked him senseless for moment into the stream. He was able to walk home, but went off his head that night and died a day or two afterward at Dunbar.
 Though the others recovered tempor- arily, they were always breaking out in big sores, and both died a month or two afterward The cheetah was a big fellow and when skinned we. could see it's powerful muscles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
VIII Near Greater Prosperity.

q hope the proposed consolidation of the large iron companies will become an accomplished fact said pioneer in the coal field 'rhe consolidation will be great thing for the Birmingham district
 Some of the able men now connected with the corporations to be consolidated vii be replaced in the merger organiza- ton by new r-en. Now no one wishes to see any man lose his job, buts in this case all the good men who have to look foe new field of work will find it. In other words. Il e present officials who are not provided for in the merger will organ ize companies and develop some of the undeveloped resources of the district There will be plenty of room.
 "The merger will mean millions of new capital in Birmingham greatly increased productive capacity and greatly increased railroad tonnage.
 What the big consolidated concern will do in the way of advertising Birmingham must be of far-reaching benefit. No city in the United States is more familiarly known than Birmingham, but when a s1G0. GOO company branches out here to build large plants of various sorts for the manufacture of finished products inves- tors who had never turned their eyes Birmingham m- ward, will he coming this way. All real estate values will seek higher levels and this district will have A genuine healthy boom'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
Sprinc Weather.

"The weather for the past two or three days has been almost ideal said one of the old sages yesterday. Tt re- minds me of the weather we had in 1SS7 On the 20th of February the spring commenced and we had beautiful weather for the rest of the. spring sea- son. The people were all seated on their porches as they are now in Birmingham, and it was just the same kind of weather.
 ''The following year the spring did not come until late but in 1890 we had an- other fine spring. Ever since that time the springs have been about equally divided between early and late begin nings, and this year should have an early spring.
 Ut certainly is an agreeable change after the bad weather of the past month. If there is anything that people like bet ter than any other thing 1t is to be able to sit on the front porch and prop their feet up on the banisters.
 Recalling past year l predict that We will not have any more cold or had weather this spring. Or course there will be rains but they will not be the cold kind that causes man tossuffer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
AuCacinIIs Kansas.

All Kansans believe that Kansas kin if anybody kin" and their legisla- ture has voted to put S2O0,000 and it's spare convicts into an oil refinery. Kansas fought the twine trust by building a twine mill, which has been remarkably successful. The plucky state now proposes to fight the un- scrupulous Standard Oil by building a refinery.
 The legislature has passed an anti discrimination bill, and the Standard oil must hereafter put oil up or down on level schedule in every part of the state. It cannot offer oil in one town at six cents, and in the next town at sixteen cents, and keep out of the penitentiary.
 Kansas does not expect to refine the 2o,000 barrels produced daily in the state, but she does propose to promote and nelp on the independent refineries, and in that way her strong and alert sons hope to break down within Kansas the most hoggish and offensive trust that affiicts the state. Her policy is the promotion of private competition, and all her efforts and legislation will be conducted on that line.
 Kansas ",iin if anybody kin" and she believes she is equal to the task. She has already caused the federal government to institute an inquiry into the methods of the Standard Oil, and the saintly Rockefeller may yet see all the war that he can reasonably coyet. Miss Tarbell's unmasking of his methods did not seriously dis tur5 him, but if Kansas shows him how he can be met and overcome he may begin to think that he is not so we'll fortified in this world as he thought he was. His place in the next world is not involved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-27
THE OLD MILL,

By Thomas Dun English Here from the brow of the hill I look, Through lattice of boughs and leaves, On the old gray mill with it's gambrel
 roof,
 And the moss on it's rotting caves. I hear the chatter that jars it's walls, And the rushing waters sound, And I see the black floats rise and fall As the wheel goes slowly round. l rode there often when I was young, With my grist on the horse before And talked with Nellie, the miller's girl As waited my turn at the door; And while she tossed her ringlets brown, And frted and chatted so free, The wheel might stop or the wheel might
 go
 It was all the same to me. Tis twenty years since last I stood On the spot where I stand today. And Nellie is wed, and the miller is dead And the mill and I are gray. But both, till we fall into ruin and wreck To our fortune of toll are bound; And the man goes, and the steam hows, And the wheel moves slowly round.