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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
AMERICAN WINS GREAT CON-
CESSION
Benjamin Dare to Handle South
American River Route,

American capital is turning its attention
to the extraordinary richness of Brazilian
territory, and Benjamin A. Dare, of New
York, who has just returned from Paris,
has signed contract with the State of
Bahia for the equipment and operation
of line of transportation on the Pardo
and Jequitinhonha rivers. These two
rivers empty into the sea at two points
but a few miles distant from each other,
and it is Mr.. Dare's intention to operate
line of steamers from the headwaters
OF one down to the coast, along the coast
and up the other river.
According to reports from Paris, where
the contract was signed between Mr.. Dare
and DIR. Vieira Souto, the Director of the
Brazilian Mission in Paris, this is but the
first of series of contracts the Brazilian
Government is about to enter into with
American capital for the development of
railway and river transport systems. The
opportunities in this direction are said to
be exceedingly great, and the Government
is preparing to offer extraordinary induce
ments to companies entering the field
Benjamin Dare, as part of his contract,
has been granted a release of all taxes for
period of ten years According to James
b. Granger, an American engineer, who
has just returned from Brazil, important
transportation by water problems are in
course of solution, and some immense
railroad projects are in process of develop
ment, particularly the Madeira Mamore
Railroad, which is to open up the vast
river territory in southwest Brazil, and
which will increase trade by some mil
lions year.
There is also in progress the extension
OF the Brazilian Central R. R. from RIO
de Janeiro to the great Araguaya River,
and this will open up an enormous in
terror in three states by way of the river
and rail, making transportation possible
from the mouth of the !. Amazon down
through the heart of the country by wa
ter, and then across to Rio, journey of
three thousand miles. In order to attract
American capital, it was made known in
Wall Street a day or two ago, that Brazil
had arranged to guarantee dividend OF
twelve per cent. upon all capital invested
in iron industries in that country, and
was also about to pass bill that would
wholly remove the export duties on iron
and manganese.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
WANT TO REBUILD CAPITOL
Story That Accounts for Mysterious
Opposition to Council of Fine
Arts Plan.

Mysterious underground opposition to
the Council of Fine Arts legislation now
before Congress has developed. This is all
the stranger because openly the idea has
the support of practically everyone from
the President down. The influential
American Institute of Architects is COM
mitted to it's support and one of its most
ardent advocates is Senator Root. The
legislation would bring all the architec-
tural work of the government under one
head, effecting thereby a considerable
saving, and would give the nation an
advisory council of celebrated architects
and artists. 1t is considered a wholly
public-spirited measure. There is story
in circulation in Washington that the op-
position comes from one or more infu-
entail architects who hope to develop a
sentiment in favor of rebuilding the
Capitol and then secure the commission.
"A Fine Arts bill would, of course, block
any. such scheme. The story has created
considerable stir.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Rhodesian Pigmies.

Of the pigmies Of northwestern Rho
desia a modern traveller writes: "The
Batwa stand about four feet high and
are long armed, short legged and
ugly, being usually prognathous. The
legs are disproportionately short, the
feet large and the body is covered
with a sort of down. Both sexes affect
a state of comparative nudity. They
have their own tongue. but usually
know a little of the language OF their
big neighbors. No attempt is made to
till the open forest glades; they de-
pend for food on game and what they
steal from the fields and plantations
of the surrounding tribes. -s<.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
A SUBSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL
FROM BRAZIL.
American Consul Reports That Mate
Wipes Out Alcohol.

Eugene Seeger, U. S. Consul General, at
Rio de Janeiro, has reported to the State
Department that during his recent Jour-
ney through the State of Paranha, in
Brazil, he found the chief liquid consumed
by the BraZilians to be a species of tea,
and that this was used to the exclusion
of liquors and wines in most of the dis
tricts
"The use of this tea," says Mr. Seeger,
has undoubtedly solved for Brazil the
alcohol question for all time, for not
only is liquor practically unknown in
much of the interior, but it's limited con-
sumption is growing less each year.
Should the temperance societies in the
United States succeed in introducing this
mate as it is called, into our country,
am convinced the cause for which so
many are laboring would be set forward
nightly" Mr.. Seeger goes on to say that
the tea has been analysed by eminent
French authorities on medical and scien-
tifc subjects, and that they have agreed
that it contained many highly nutritive
qualities such as would make it of high
food value.
The Department of Agriculture is about
to inaugurate an attempt to grow mate
from seedlings sent up from Brazil, with
the idea of fostering it's culture in the
southern states, where the liquor problem
is being fought more bitterly than any
where else at this time.
A prominent member of national tenn
perance organization in Washington, has
secured copy of Mr.. Seeger's report and
will endeavor to induce Congress to pass
an appropriation for the extension of the
Agricultural experiments in Louisiana. 1t
has long been recognized fact that al
cohof is consumed by an increasing num-
Der of persons because of its food value.
and according to scientific authority it is
believed that if pleasant drink of equal
nutrition could be obtained, the traffic in
and use of alcoholic beverages would fall
off rapidly. According to the reports OF
Consul Geeger, the Brazilian mate has
all the qualities necessary to make it OF
just these requirements and should the
experiments prove successful, king alcohol
may be dealt mighty blow.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Electric Furnaces Popular.

An article in lie Genie Civil states
that IS electric furnaces now exist in
the steel works of the world, of which
IS are on the induction and 43 on the
arc principle. Fourteen are Kjellin
furnaces, IL Stassano. ten Rochling
Rodenhauser, three Elecktrometall So
ciety tSweden) and one each Colby
Hiorth, Keller, Schneider and Wallin
There is steady and marked ten
dency to increase the capacity OF
these furnaces, some of those already
constructed holding as much as eight
to ten tons. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Gold Medals for Patriotism,

Thomas Brennan Post, Leavenworth,
Kan, aided by the officials of the Ma
tional Military home, has decided to
again offer gold medals for patriotic
recitations on American subjects by
the pupils of the district schools
These medals will be given by town
ships to the scholar making the best
recitation, and then there will be 8
county contest among the winners,
with fine silk flag to be given to the
scholar who makes the best effort
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
AMERICAN HOTEL AT RIO
Brazilian Capital to Have Last Word
in Modern Caravansary.

An American Syndicate has just com.
pleted negotiations for the purchase of the
famous old Convent of Ajuda in Rio de
Janeiro for a price in excess of half a
million dollars. The lands and building,
situated on the Central Avenue but a
few steps from the Bay and the Monroe
Palace, will be turned over to the pur.
chasers this week, and construction will
begin at once.
It il understood that the hotel syndi.
cate is composed of capitalists already
interested in hotels in New York, Lon.
don, Paris, Berlin and other European
centres, and that this is the first step
toward the invasion of the South Amer
lean field, where the cosmopolitan type
Of hotel has been rarity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
HANSON &
EMERSON
The Corner Drug Store
Remarkable Surgical Operation.

A remarkable surgical operation has
been performed by DR.. Morrison, at
Queens hospital, Birmingham, upon a
man named Charles Endall, who had
been suffering from a structure of the
gullet caused by having taken sui.
phuric acid in mistake for whisky.
The mans throat having been closed,
new permanent mouth was opened
in his side, through which he was fed
by means of tube. He gained weight.
and was able to leave the institution.
but gave way to drink, and died from
exhaustion through structure. FASTENED
by bronchitis.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Telephone in Speeding Auto.

During one of the automobile endur.
ance tests between San Antonio and
Dallas. Tex. one of the entrants, who
is president of telephone company,
carried telephone apparatus with him,
and by using long fishing pole could
tap the telephones along the route
without leaving his car. By this
means he was able to keep in touch
with points in advance of the run and
arrange for relief in case of accident
or for hotel accommodations
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Hydraulic MINING IN AIa.ka.

Big hydraulic operations in the lower
grade placer districts of Alaska are multi
plying rapidly. The latest is on Cache
Creek, in the Yentnia district north of
here, region hardly heard of in the out
side world Five hydraulic giants wit be
at work this summer The property is
known to have a large deposit of pay
gravel Almost every established camp in
the interior will have one or more new
enterprises of the sort this summer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
OcuIist to Treat Don.

A bulldog belonging to Mr.. H. T.
Creighton of New York is to be taken
to Paris to undergo an operation by
an eminent oculist. Mr.. Creighton
and his wife will travel with the dog,
and elaborate precautions will be
taken for it's comfort during the voy-
age.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
The Worst ThinQ.

A writer asks: Can you imagine
anything worse than the life of a
book reviewer" We sure can. There
is. for instance, the life of the man
who writes the book and finds it
whacked fore and aft by the first
mentioned person.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Damage Done by Smoke.

In an address before the American
Civic association. Herbert NJ. Wilson,
chief engineer in the United States
geological survey, places the annual
damage and waste by smoke in the
United States at s5OO,00O,O00 in the
large cities alone. or about Sc to each
man, woman and child of the popula-
ton.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14

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and have it in colors and grades
for all purposes.
China Lac
The varnish stain of Quality.
Useful for refinishing your
floors as well as your furniture
and woodwork.
Wall Paper
All grades and beautiful up to
date designs and colorings. In
our cheapest grades you get
papers that will hang without
tearing. All papers trimmed
ready for hanging free of charge
Room MouIdinss
To match all papers carried in
stock.
Window Shades
In oil and water colors. All
widths. We trim your shades
to fit your windows without
extra charge.
We hope to be favored with
your call before you buy, know
ing that we can serve you to
your entire satisfaction.
We adhere strongly to our
policy in dealing in RELIABLE
GOODS ONLY.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Britain to improve Road.

Britain to Improve Roads.
The British government has decided
to open roads department, which
will administer fund on projected
highway improvements of about So
100000 during the first year of its
existence.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14


the ensuing year was effected by the
reelection of DR.. E. J. Lewis as
president and Geo. G. Ingram as
secretary. Bills were passed and
| other routine business transacted.
The largest oranges for the money
ever sold in Sank Centre at WILL
SONS, rs, 80 and 35ets. a dozen.
The county commissioners met at
ST. Cloud this week. Only routine
business was transacted.
Why pay &c package for your seeds
when you can get L. L. Mays flower
or vegetable seeds 2 packages for 5 C
at The Golden Rule Store.
Don't think that piles can't be cur
ed. Thousands of obstinate cases
have beeu curep by Doan's Ointment.
so cents at any drug store.
Coarse, heavy yarns are not used
to give Armor Plate hosiery it's great
wearing qualities. The secret is in
the dyeing process, which does not
iujure the yarns.
Ifyou are looking for oranges to
make marmaiade, you have to use
oranges that are juicy. Those puppy
ones are N. c. See WILSON.
School was suspended in the high
school department Friday GU account
of the meeting of the Northern Mime
sofa Teachers Association. in St.
Cloud. Supt. VIM. Angus and a
number of the teachers attended the
convention. 80
A move is on foot to organize a
base ball team in Sank Centre COM
posed entirely of local players. To
this end a meeting will he held on
the school grounds this Thursday
evening, on the school grounds, Ali
interested are requested to be present.
J. w. Ward has taken section of
the Ward Springs road to keep up
while he is resting. 1t extends from
the foot of the first Chris Lewis hill
to the foot of the one beyond. He
has begun work on it and has made
quite a showing.
Last Sunday fire in the timber at
Birch Lake threatened the cottage at
Ward Springs and but for the strenu-
Gus work of F. S. Parker and some
others it would probably have destroyed
some of the summer residences there,
Mr.. Parker got help from the station
and for some time the punch of men
put up fight that finally
subdued the flames 1t was a close
call.
The senior class of the Sank Centre
High school will give their annual
class play at the Opera House or
Saturday evening April 16. Two plays
will be presented namely "The
Lieutanet's Escape and "The
Flopement of Ellen" Elaborate
| preparations have been made for the
| event and the public is assured q
good entertainment. Seats on sale at
/ Fiesler.
4 The fourth annual live stock show
of the Northwestern Live Stock
Association wilfbe held in ST. Pau
at the Union Stock Yards, Nov Is
Is, inclusive. Cattle, sheep and swine
are arranged under two classes, pure
bred, and grades and cross breeds
The premium list contains liberia
cash prizes from the Association anC
some attractive trophy cups anG
special prizes from others. A specla
prize is offered this year for amateur
exhibitors who have never been ir
a show with their live stock. Those
interested can obtain the premium
list and any other information desired
by addressing the Northwestern Live
| Stock Association, ST. Paul, Mimi
Il Now is good time to begin to ge
ready to exhibit stock at this big
show. Farmers will find it to thei
advantage to investigate.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-14
Hanson& Emerson
The Corner Drug Store

Now that House Cleaning Sea-
son is here we wish ito call your
attention to our very complete
stocks in everything necessary
to beautify your home both in
side and out. In
Paints
We carry the old reliabl e
(l}
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-27

WHERE NATIVES EAT CLAY.

IN the Carolinas and Eastern Ten
nessee there arc beds of pure white
clay' as white as flour and IL is this
sort of clay that is utilized for chew
ing The clay is in small deposits
throughout all South Carolina, but
only the deposits in the neighborhood
OF Aiken and Langley are sufficient
IN extent. depth and quality to be
commercially valuable. These beds
lie anywhere from 10 to 80 feet under
The surface and are worked bv side
cuts.
The earth is first removed from
above over as large a surface as Is
desired. and then the wall of clay Is
attacked from the side, an entrance
having been cut from some adjacent
valley, so that the mining is really
done in an open cut. Mines that have
been worked for years are finally
nothing but huge white holes or ex-
cavations. The clay is cut out bv
men with picks, and as the pieces fail
other men with knives trim them off
cutting out the iron stain.
they are then loaded on cars and
hauled to drying shed. Natives
oiten eat the clay, sometimes chew
ing up a piece larger than a black
walnut. Physicians claim the clay is
very unhealthful, but the clayeaters
retuse to give up their tidbits.
Inc clay is quite soft in texture and
without grit. When it is dried out
and powdered it looks very much like
tooth powder. The beds are located
by means of boring with a giant aug
er. Some of the clay is used, mixed
with other material. in the making
OF melting pots by makers of high
tempered steel implements, but the
oulk of 1t goes into the manufacture
of paper.
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-27
,RFL1ce e5a6H2RT4
HN02ZHI. IN G1Rf25e
&AeeAo5R 5RcLo3
4tkAeASW Wkzc

the smallest bits of rock In this
garden has been chosen for its spe-
cific use.
The floating Islands are known as
The Masters Isle" and The Guest s
isle and the Isle of the inland sea Is
nan ed The Wiudswept Isle" and by
some curious mechanical contriyance
vcritable hurricane of wind seems
% sweep over the diminutive but per-
ect islands. he iittle semi-circular
bridges. the arbors of cherry bios
SONS. the sacred shrines are placed
IN miniature lilltcUs Then there are
the torii' and The Nara lanterns, and
1ch creation las It's symbolic mean
ing. and the whole gives an indie
scribable sensstion of the oriental
and the deer-lying soul of ancient
Japan.
This garden of old Japan is set
within 1 o@-s'zed 'al'c having an
Irregular coastline and small pine
clad isleis rtc scattered here and
here after the famous scenery of the
country of the Matsushima. On the
right-hsnd side of the lake there is
faithful reproduction of the far
famed Miyajima, one of the jeweled
spots Of the wonderful inland sea of
Japan. n sea some 900 miles in
length and from 10 to so miles in
width, which all who have seen pro-
claim the most beautiful spot in the
world. There is also an exact repro
duction Of the sacred temple of Kin
hakuii (kyoto), which few foreign
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-27

exposition, but the vast city of Lon
don is to be seen spread out in a
great birds eye view. The sensation
of being tossed skyward in the clutch
es of these two gigantic steel arms is
one that will shake the calm of the
most phlegmatic individual.
Then there are small modern Jan
-anese gardens where geisha girls.
with tiny feet and the famed beauty
of these Japenese women. serve tea
and eatables and even strange jan
anese cordials. Weird and fascinating
oriental dances are given at night
and under the lights of thousands of
japanese lanterns and real Japenese
trees and flowers brought all the way
from Nippon. the sights are exactly
the same as have fascinated those
fortunate individuals who have been
granted a sojourn in the realms of the
Mikado
In the pleasure section there are
dozens of novelties to furnish sensa-
tions for the fun-seekine public while
the court of honor is quite as large
as that at st. Louis and Chicago. OF
course there is a stadium and a la
goon. and a great arena for auto
mobile racing. In fact. to sum up the
latest big exposition. ii can be said
that il has profited in many features
by past experiences in other lands
and places
But the great charm of the place
lies beyond question in its glimpses Of
old Japan-a place and race never to
be renewed under the fast spread of
modern civilization throughout the
Mikade's realm.
The British exhibits are of course
good, and vast sums have been spent
on them. But the world. ever in
search of the new, ever craving the
novelties of life. has already set its
seal of approval on the purely Jap
anese sections of the great show. And
it is only fair to the British gov
ernment represented by II. r. H.
Prince Arthur of Connaught and the
Duke of Norfolk, premier duke of
Great Britain. to state that every op-
portunity has been given the Japanese
government to set before the West
ern world the wonderful mysteries
of the soul of Japan, both ancient
and modern.
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-27
FOOT SOCIETY
ORGANIZED BY WOMEE

Berlin. Aug. 27.-To have large.
healthy, beautiful feet is the ideal
aimed at by section of Munish so
ciety women, headed by Baroness
Mohn. The baroness has founded the
Crosse Fuesse" CBig FooD society,
which is the result of her own re-
Elections on what she saw during a
tour In the Bavarian highlands. There
women from Berlin attempted to en-
JOY mountaineering wearing small
French shoes with high heels-the
limit in unsuitability, discomfort
and absurdity.
The society has several hundred
members. who pledge themselves to
appear everywhere, evne at dances
and court functions. in shoes of the
largest possible size, with sensible"
heels; and they further undertake to
educate their children in the same
principles.
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-27

Few. II any, of the many thousands
of Americans visiting London this
year will fail to take in the huge
worlds fair opened the last of May
under the combined control of the
Japanese and British imperial auth
critics. None of the previous grea-
expositions have surpassed this, the
latest one. in the amount of territory
covered nor in the unusualness of the
sights prepared for the international
public.
Yet it is net as worlds fair in
the usual acceptance of that term
that the latest exposition is most re-
markable. Its chief charm and great
est novelty consists in the fact that
for the first time the Occident has
the chance to see the true inwardness
OF the strange and poetical semi
civilization of native Japan.
Japanese Ovcrshadow British.
While held in London under the
special care of the royal family and
the favor of the British Empire. the
exposition is admittedly mostly Jap
anese, both as to the number, the
size and the interest of the exhibits
hhiSo' II 10 certain ludl uOuDle the
space and five times the money has
been given by the Japs towards Great
ing for the Western World an oppor-
tunity to study the customs. the ma
tives. the religions and the industries
of the empire of the Mikado in a way
never before possible, except to the
comparative few who could make the
far journey TO the wonderful island
empire that lies just off the coast of
Asia.
Thus this exposition is the first
genuine exhibit of the Orient. that
magic land whore things to the West
ern mind are almost always turned
upside down. or with the rear views In
the foreground. In extent and costli-
ness the exposition. which. despite
its name of Japanese British. has al
ready been called by the visiting pub
lie simply the Japanese exposition,
may claim to rival any of its predeces-
sors.
The space covered exceeds that of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition at
Chicago in the early "nineties" and
almost equals that of the largest of