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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-03-11

hand bravely up to the officer in wait
ing at the place agreed upon.
On given signal the detectives
hurriedly closed in. The counterfeit
er did not readily submit and the Off
GERS soon found they had tackled a
rough customer For some minutes
the scuffiing and twisting was furious
and he was not fairly subdued until
pair Of glistening handouts was
slipped upon his wrists. The cold
steel took the fight out of him and he
was at once escorted to the Bingham
house.
It was one of the kind of conspir-
acies that are a direct fraud upon the
government. and l was very anxious
to reach its source, which particularly
meant the engraver of the plates from
which the stamps were printed. l was
not little surprised when / learned
that the wholesale dealer we had
caught was John Hartz. This was the
first time l had met him. He had for
several years maintained a reputation
among the detectives as a person who
could not under any circumstances be
Lnauo 10 BQuSdi. i COulQ well auOrO
to turn him loose II he would furnish
the Information leading to the cap
turing of the important men behind
him.
The squealer in cases of this kind
is usually the most powerful adjunct
to the detective art. While these Off
GERS have little respect for him they
afe delighted to avail themselves Of
his services. l was well acquainted
with the most prominent feature in
the prisoners past career. He laid
claim to the possession Of principle
to which he had steadfastly adhered.
He had been arrested several times
for passing counterfeit money and had
on all occasions persistently refused
to squeal on his confederates. He
preferred rather to sacrifice himself
than to assist the government in any
manner. l had up to that time never
met a man under like circumstances
that could not by some means be in.
duced to sQueal. but pounded John
Harts up one side and down the other
until broad daylight without elicitins
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John. He now became dazed with
fear and excitement He left the home
of his boyhood on foot and made mis-
way to Philadelphia. where he chanced
to meet his step-father who was
member of a gang OF counterfeiters.
John was easily persuaded and he suf-
fered himself to be led along step by
step until he was deep in the mire.
Our Civil war had brought a great
change in the finances Of the country.
Wild cat banks had gone out Of ex-
istence and a new kind of money was
In use. There was a great deal OF
counterfeiting going on and John
Hartz was one Of the number engaged
In 1t. Like the most OF the men OF
his stamp he was unsuccessful In ac-
cumulating wealth.
A counterfeit beer stamp made
It's appearance in Philadelphia and I
found 1t necessary to visit that city
The night was dark and stormy and
1t was about the portentous hour OF
100 a. M, when ghosts are said to
stalk abroad In ghastly white array.
that four detectives left their comfort
able quarters in the hotel with the ex-
pectation of making an important
arrest. The man they sought was in
visible during the day time and DIFF
ficult man to encounter at night. He
had frequently been heard of but had
seldom been seen by the government
detectives. When the officers reached
the appointed place they scattered
and took up their positions where they
would attract as little attention as
possible. Their mysterious mission
had been fully explained; deal was
expected to be pulled of. One of the
detectives was rotund of person. He
had, through one Of the counterfeiting
gang, been introduced as a beer deal
er who said he was willing to take his
chances with bogus stamps. and he
had bargained with one OF the coun-
terfeiters for Ave thousand counter
felt lager beer stamps, and was to
receive them at a certain hour at q
designated place.
When the man put In an appear
ance to make the delivery he was to
be arrested. This individual, owing to
the darkness Of the night, was unable
to see the detectives stationed about.
and he walked with his carpet bag in
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| ne Repentance
TRUE STORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE III
By COL. H. c. WHITLEY '"'ss Soc: s::s. s:s s.ss

One day q drover came along the
pike with \ long string Of oxen and
stopped at the Black Bear Inn. and
engaged a pasture for his cattle over
night. The drover was new in that
part of the country. and for safety he
handed his pocket book. containing
several hundred dollars, to John Hartz
for safe keeping. in the presence Of
Weisgarber. Shortly afterwards when
the drover was out attending to his
cattle, Weisgarber suggested the idea
to John Of changing the good money
In the pocket book for an equal
amount of counterfeit that he had on
hand. John was easily persuaded. He
thought his step-father knew best In
the morning the drover received his
pocket book and proceeded to count
Its contents. He at once saw that
the bills were Of a different kind than
those he had been carrying. He
pulled a counterfeit detector from his
pocket and examined them. Having
satisfied himself that they were bad.
he charged John with having substi-
tuted them. The accused mans face
turned red and he began to stammer,
but his step-father who was standing
BY. came at once to the front and COM
menced to talk In German to John.
Turning to the drover he protested In
badly broken English that the young
man was honest and hadn't even
opened the pocket book. Between the
two the drover got a tongue lashing
for his accusation that SO completely
upset him that he was none too sure
that he ever had any money. He was
now in a bad nx: a long ways from
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home with pocket book full of coun-
terfeit money as his only wherewith
to pay his expenses.
After everything had cooled down,
Mr. Weisgarber, in burst Of gener-
osity, was good enough to loan the
drover one or two hundred dollars to
pay his way until he could reach
Strasburgh, a little town at the foot
of the Three Brother mountains. The
drover was silenced but not altogether
convinced His money was all right
the day before, but he wasn't quite
sure it was Of the right stamp when
he handed 1t over to the young man
for safe keeping. Here was an exem-
plification Of the little difference be-
tween the truth and a lie well stuck
to. Time rolled on and John Hartz'
career in crime became more and
more firmly fixed.
One day the sheriff came with q
warrant for the Flying Dutchman."
which meant Herman Weisgarber.
"Gott en- Himmell! vot ish dish?"
he exclaimed.
long explanation ensued and the
sheriff was greatly puzzled regarding
his duty. He was convinced that
the accused man was innocent. and
he thought it might be safe thing to
leave him at his home and go back to
the county seat and report before ma
king the arrest. When he reached
there he was told to return at once
and bring his man. When he got back
to the Black Bear Inn Mr.. Weisgarber
was out. He had saddled up and
rode away and might not return for
several days. perhaps never. But the
good-natured sheriff didn't see 1t that
way. He would come back again. or
he might present himself voluntarily
at the sherifrs office.
The mother had now experienced
enough to satisfy her that she had
made a great mistake and that she
was tied to . bad man. Her life be-
came q burden to her. One day she
suddenly disappeared. After q long
search she was found dead with a
rope tightly drawn about her neck
hanging to . stout hook In the smoke
house. The scene was too much for
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FRENCH BEAN COFFEE,
! CENT A POUND

It will grow in your own garden.
Ripening here in Wisconsin in 90
days. Splendid health coffee and cost
ing to grow about one cent pound.
A great rarity; healthful drink.
Send us today Is cents in stamps
and we will mail you package above
coffee seed with full directions and
our mammoth seed and plant cata-
log free. Or send us 81 cents and we
add 10 packages elegant flower and
unsurpassable vegetable seeds, suffi-
cient to grow bushels OF vegetables
and flowers. Or make your remittance
40 cents and we add to all of above 10
packages OF wonderful farm seed spe-
cialties and novelties. John A. Salzer
Seed Co., 1872 s. sth St. La Crosse. Wis.
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Reason Enough.

A negro near Xenia. O.. had been
arrested for chicken stealing. He had
stolen so many that his crime had be-
come grand larceny.
He was tried and convicted, and
brought in for sentence.
Have you any reason to offer why
the judgment of the court should not
be passed upon you?" he was asked.
We'll, jedge," he replied, Il CANT
go to jail now, nohow. I'm buildin' a
shack out yonder. an jus CANT go
till l git it done. You-all kin sholy see
dat. t."-Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
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I0odS
SarsapariIla

Will purify your blood, clear
your complexion, restore your
appetite, relieve your tired feel
ing, build you up. Be sure to
take it this spring.
Get It in usual liquid form or chocolAts4
tablets called SarsatAbs. 100 Doses 81
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The entire object of true education
is to make people not merely do the
right thing, but enjoy the right thing.
-RuSkin.
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1t is more disgraceful to distrust
than to be deceived.-Rochefouc
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Garfield Tea has brought good health to
thousands! Unequaled for constipation.
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mind content both crown and
kingdom is.-Robert Greene.
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PILES CURED IN TO IL DAYS
Your druggist viii refund money II PAZO ONT.
MENT fails TO any of Itching, Blind
Bleeding or Protrudin1 Piles in 8 W - days. &c.
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r was sometime in tho
fall Of 1859 that a strang-
er came trudging along
the turnpike. He was
short and fat. His round
red face was covered with
a stubby growth of blonde
whiskers. He wore Q
broad fiat blue cloth cap
and a long brown linen
duster q little out Of sea-
son. A bundle tightly roll.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
BETTER DRAIN THAN BUY
MORE LAND.
Desire to Acquire Additions! Acres Is
False Idea.

Desire to Acquire Additional Acres Is
False Idea
1t is not an uncommon thing for a
landowner to fight a drainage assess
nent. on land which has a market
value of from $40 to $50 an acre, and
at almost the same time buy another
tract of similar land, at the market
price. His desire is to acquire more
acres, under the false idea that his
prosperity will be denoted by the
amount of land in his possessio4 He
does not realize that one acre of thor.
oughly drained land may bring him a
greater income, with half the labor
and expense of cultivation, than two
acres of the undrained land; or that
it could be acquired at One-third to
one-half the cost of the newly-bought
acre. This extra land is purchased
with the idea that land values will
rise. AS the real value of the land is
regulated by it's improvements and
productiveness, the landowner whose
only object is to acquire more acres,
rather than to improve the land al
ready in his possession, is an "unde.
sirable citizen;" for he expects to be
the gamer through his neighbor's< i'm
provements only.-Minnesota Exten
sion Bulletin No Is
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
Modern Hospital Needs,

What are these needs OF modern
hospitals which necessitate so much
more space than was ever thought Of
in the days of the primitive barrack
type of wards. some of them erected
even within the past decade, and how
have such needs arisen? Briefly, they
may be said to include all that is done
for the patient apart from the giving
Of food and medicines. and they have
arisen from the extraordinary prog
ress of medical science, particularly
in the fields of bacteriology, serum
therapy and pathology, and in the
adaptation for medical use of the re-
cent discoveries in the electrical and
mechanical sciences Moreover. the
hospital has become a center for in
vestigation, research and education to
an extent never imagined before-The
Century,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16

That was rare compliment
paid to Representative j. r..
Keefe of Redwood county when
the House of Representatives
passed without a dissenting vote,
his bill providing for the Oregon
plan of nominating United States
senators. Mr.. Keefe is serving
his first term as a democrat from
an overwhelmingly republic a n
county and someof the republican
senators are opposed to letting
his bill get through the senate
because they're afraid the demo
Gratis will get some credit for it.
Out upon such methods; the
measure is a good one and any
man who will oppose it, no mat
ter what it's origin, is not fit to
sit in legislative halls. Mr..
Keefe's not only a hustler but al
arriver."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16

The health officer and sanitary
Inspector of Minneapolis are
starting out on a crusade against
the eating houses of that city.
They propose to enforce to the
letter a new ordinance compel
ling proprietors of hotels, res
taUrants, cafes and boarding
houses to run their places in a
sanitary manner. If legislation
could be enacted that would APP
ply to similar institutions all
over the state, it would cOntri-
butte nightly to the health and
comfort of the travelling public
and thousands Of others who
contribute largely to their sup
port.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
A Maine Huntress.

Mrs. Walter Judkins of Portland lie
woman to whom the lure of the
Maine woods is strong. She has just
returned from her twenty-third sea.
son in the autumn forest with rec
ord Of Is deer to her credit. Mrs judi
kins shot her frs; deer when a girl of
IL while in the woods in search of
partridge in her home town of Gilead
Mrs. Judkins curing her % years
CT bunting experience has tried many
varieties OF hunting costumes and has
finally set ed upon what she deems
the most practical She wears in the
woods a stout gray sweater a pair of
very full Boomers. the stout hunts
mans stockings and shoe similar
in shape to a moccasin and water
proof with top of skin and vamp and
soles of heavy rubber
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16

1act that the best route was not Sc
lected, and that the ditch was too
large or too small, and consequently
does not perform the work satisfactor-
lily. A ditch, being improperly located,
either does not drain all the land it
should or it is expensive to construct
and maintain. One that is too large
will not clean itself properly; while
one that is too small will not carry
the required volume of water.
Maps and Surveys.
The basis for every correctly
planned drainage improvement is an
accurate map of the area to be
drained. Such map, known as
Topographic map" will show all the
local improvements, the boundaries of
the lands to be benefited by the drain
age project, and the boundary of the
watershed. 1t should also show the
elevation, above fixed point, of all
sloughs, lowlands, and the tops of
ridges through = may be necessary to
construct the outlet channel. On this
ilC~p CitS pCoI iOSdti0n LII lHO plO-
posed drains can be laid'out, and their
grade, size and approximate cost de-
termined: after which the ditch may
be staked out on the ground; making
such minor changes as are found nee
essary by a closer study of the route.
Perpetuating the Survey.
Where detailed survey has been
made, and the notes plated, it is well
to establish few. permanent marks,
from which the survey may be con-
tinued, or which may enable another
engineer, at some future time, to take
up the work without having to dupli-
cate that which has already been done.
Landowners should select points for
these marks where there is little dan
ger of their being molested, and then
see to it that they are preserved. Farm
ers, as rule, do not realize the i'm
portance of preserving survey monu-
ments. This has been the cause of a
waste, of much money in the dupli
cation of Work,-Minnesota Extension
Bulletin No. IS.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
The Story of q Cabinet.

The Swedish consul at Marseillea
has received modest but interesting
mementO in the form of cabinet for
papers for transmission to King Gus.
tav V. .he history of the cabinet is
interesting. 1. is made of juniper
wood, and the tree was supposed to be
a thousand years old when it was
felled. 1t had grow on an estate near
Marseilles which had belonged to the
< iary family. One the daughters
married Bernadotte, the founder OF
the royal hot OF eden Bonaparte
it is said. used 10 e 'oy sitting under
this tree. Some time before the death
Ct Oscar H. the present king visited
the home OF his ancestress and ex.
PRESSED desire to possess some SOU
venir of the place, and the cabinet is
the outcome of that wish.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
Novels Of Today and the Past.

The longest novels of today are pig.
mics compared with those published
in the seventeenth century. Mile. de
Scudery's lie Grapde Cyrus" ran into
ten volumes. it's publication being
spread over five years. And when it
was translated. or. to quote the title
page, "Englished by Person of Hon
or" it appeared in five folio volumes.
of some 500 pages apiece. Another
novelist of the same period, La Cal.
prenede. was even more diffuse. che
of his works. Cleopatra" extending
over % volumes These novels found
plenty of readers. despite their enor-
nous length. The Paris publisher of
lie Grand Cyrus" made 100000
crowns by. the first edition alone.
Nearly all the works of Scudery and
Calprenede were translated into Eng
lish as soon as they appeared. and
many of them into German as well.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
Penny Post Increased Malls.

The mails from England to the
United States are heavier by 80 per
cent since the postage was reduced
to cents, says the British postmas-
ter generals annual report, which has
Just appeared. Among the mass Of
facts and figures given by the report
another notable feature is that Lon
doners are now writing fewer letters
and are using the telephone more.
For the first time decrease Is noted
in the number of letters passing
through the metropolitan post Offices.
The report gives a striking instance
of British observation-disclosures, the mild
temporary insanity which makes peo-
pie drop unaddressed letters in mail
boxes or send half wrapped up par.
cells that shed their contents in the
mails. These stray letters contained
in all $75,635 in cash and bank notes
and $3,163.525 in checks, drafts and
stamps.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
ALFALFA.
BY A. D. Wilson, Extension Di-
vision, Minnesota Univer-
sity Farm.

+ !. !. i. !. !. + !. !. !. !. + !. !. !. !. +
The shortage of the hay crop in
1910, due to the excessive drought, and
the general failure of timothy and clo-
yer, seeded last spring, to make a
catch, have caused many people to
take an interest in alfalfa-growing in
Minnesota. That alfalfa can be grown
here is amply illustrated by the results
obtained by farmers in Carver county,
who were fortunate enough, years ago,
to get stand of alfalfa hardy enough
to withstand our ordinarily severe
winters. These farmers have grown
this variety of alfalfa successfully for
many years; and this year, when the
shortage of hay was felt so keenly
throughout this section of the country,
they were harvesting rather satisfac-
tory crops of alfalfa.
While alfalfa is not well adapted to
the average Minnesota farm, owing to
the fact that it does not work into a
rotation satisfactorily, there is. how.
ever, a place for small plot on any
farm; and, on farms attempting to
carry a maximum amount of live stock,
there is room for this crop to take up
a goodly proportion of the land de-
voted to hay.
The variety of alfalfa known as
Grimm alfalfa has demonstrated it's
hardness in many a severe test; and
if one can get seed of this variety, and
will put it on good soil, he is reason
ably sure of success. If Grimm seed
riety for Minnesota is the seed known
as Montana seed. 1t is not quite as
easy to get stand of alfalfa as to get
stand of clover; but, once the stand
is secured, it is practically permanent.
The soil should be put in the very
best possible condition for the seed !;
that is, it should be rich-made so by
the application of liberal amount of
manure, thoroughly pulverized, and
warmed up by successive civilizations
may be sown with a nurse-crop, by
sowing about half the usual amount
of grain as nurse-crop; but better
results are usually obtained by cult
waiting the fields every week or so up
to about July l.; thus killing the sew
eral crops of weeds and getting the
seed-bed in fine condition. The soil
is then warm. clean and usually moist.
so the alfalfa starts quickly and gets
ahead of the weeds. which are its
natural enemy during the first year of
its growth. No crop will he secured
the first year; but after that from two
to three crops will be secured an
.naAny
The Minnesota Experiment Station
is planning to publish. soon, pamphlet
giving information regarding the
growing of alfalfa.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-03-16
Other ToIstoys.

William Penn labored in much the
same direction as Tolstoy. His per-
sonality was less striking. his intel
iectual gifts less powerful, but he had
a more practical mind; he founded his
society and he made a mark on the
world which is still visible With a
doctrinal message infinitely less at.
tractive, but a still greater capacity
for organization and missionary
work, General Booth has Influenced
his contemporaries more effectively
than either of them, and in some form
Or other his work may possibly last
for some generations.