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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
HOME HAPPENINGS

a son was born, Sept. 16, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Williams.
If you are not using our washed nut
coal for your cook stove, you are not
using the. best. Try it. Lee & Cling
cry 20. 17-2t
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Win Pesheck September IA.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Orrin Lloyd died last week THURSDAY.
A daughter arrived last Friday to
brighten the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Cleveland
Service in st. Johns church, Ash
ley, will be held next Sunday after
noon at O'Clock.
The Brooten Implement Company
OF Brooten has Incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000.
The family of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Matheis was increased, last Friday.
by the arrival of daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Fl. Doolittle are
rejoicing in the arrival of a son in
their-home on Saturday, Sept. 16.
Rev. A. w. Ross of Minneapolis will
preach in the Congregational Church
next Sunday morning and evening.
St. Cloud Business College now open
Shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping,
banking. Address Louis Fl. Vath. If
Parties having palms and ferns.
who are willing to lend them to the
committee for decorating during Fed
Grafton week, are requested to notify
Mrs. Billed.
The Rebeccas celebrate their ami
versary at their hall FRIDAY evening
OF this week. An appropriate pro-
gram will be given and refreshments
VIII be served.
The steel bridge between Clear
water and Wright counties, which
has been erected at the Joint expense
of the two counties, is completed and
ready for travel.
1t was at the hour of midnight and
the clock struck twelve, and behold,
all candy people eating Kratchwil's
chocolates bought at McCracken &
Burgess and L. S. Bishop Co.
j. w. Ward thrashed his winter
wheat at Ward Springs Saturday and
the result was so favorable that he is
putting in double the acreage this
year. He has few bushels of abso-
lutely pure seed to sell.
There was heavy rain storm Sun
day evening and a number of people
who had spent the day at Birch Lake
received thorough drenching while
on their homeward way. A little hail
and high wind accompanied the
doWnpour but no damage was done.
The Davidson Theatre of ST. Cloud
| is being remodeled and redecorated
and the many friends of Col. E. T.
Davidson, the genial and popular pro-
prietor, have arranged testimonial
benefit for him for Friday evening.
Sept. %. The indications are for a
packed house.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
Fielding and His Publisher.

In the HUH collection of autograph
letters being prepared for sale by auc-
ton in the middle of the month is
the original agreement between Field
ing and Andrew Miller for the publ
cation of TON Jones'" It bears date
March 25. 1749. and in consideration
Of payment of the sum of G600 alb
solutely makes over the copyright to
the publisher
The work is described as "a certain
book printed in six volumes, known
and called by the name and title of
the History of Tom Jones-a Found.
ling written by me. the said Henry
Fielding" An autograph receipt for
the money shows that it was paid on
June II. 174S.. nine months before
legal transfer was made The novel
lists need of cash is indicated in a
letter bearing his picturesque but II.
legible signature. dated July 9, 1898
Westminster Gazette
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
THEY'RE THANKFUL
State Fair Management sppreCi-
ates the Way the News
papers Helped

At recent meeting the managers
of the Minnesota State Fair passed
the following resolutions:
Whereas, the Minnesota State Fair
has never before been given such en-
thusiastic support by the newspapers
of the state and their able and gem
erous cooperation has greatly helped
to overcome the disastrous results
wrought by the weather and has ma
terially assisted the managers in their
efforts to give the best possible fair
and exposition.
Therefore, it is hereby voted that
the managers of this society extend
to each of the newspapers of the state
vote of appreciation and thanks for
their loyal assistance.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
Last Big Range Horse Sales OF
Season

At Miles City, Montana, October 9,
10, II and u, and two days sale on
the 80 and 81. We will sell at this
first sale $500 horses, consisting of
1000 head of good. big broke stuff
big draft bred yearlings and two-year-
olds. mares with colts, dry mares and
geldings and 500 big draft-bred Tn
branded Colts. For the last sale We
will have 1000 horses, consisting of
all classes. If YOU want horses come
to these sales.
For further particulars write or
wire,
A. b. CLARKE HORSE SALES COMPANY
l7-4t Miles City, Montana.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
Would Bring Nickelodeon to School.

Would Bring Nickelodecn to School.
IF we put moving picture shows
into the schools, the truant would be a
rare thing said Mary Boyle O'Reilly,
addressing the Boston Submasters'
club at the Hotel Vendome the other
evening. Eighty per cent. of truant
children have been found to go to
cheap theaters from four to fourteen
times week. know the economy az
ministraticn will stand by and roar at
the mere suggestion" she continued,
"but why not bring the moving pic.
ture show into the schools and use it
to teach the young? They will learn
more with their eyes in ten minutes
than they would in a week with their
ears. Boston Transcript.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
LIVE STOCK
Notice To The Public

The HeraId's forms close at noon
every Thursday. Hence no adver-
Using copy can be accepted later
than I p. m. Wednesday of the cur
rent week, nor news items later
than 9 a. m. Thursday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
Poultry Wanted

] am buying poultry and will take
them for cash any time. Bring then
to me and get the highest narkef
price. City Meat Market.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
for Liquor Licenses

STATE o. 'FSEToTA GQau.E OF learns
Gits gf ~a1k Centre
Notice he. eby given thar applications have
beeu made ~ wriitu+ 10 the oul1Da council
OF tie Cray u sad. Centre anG Tiled !. my Of
ice DraNi.s. foI License g seH iuteNicating
fai6o fol rhs tcrn 4i one yecr c"nmence
ffta al tns opaa3tr ri oseiuess j. On the
ars astof ta aa& ing at
the close of business hours on the Both. day of
September 1912 by the following named per-
sons and at the following stated places as
stated in said applications, tO-Wlt;
NJ F. BOUTELL.
At and in the Southwest room on the first or
ground floor of the three story Brick building.
known as the Palmer House, situate on the
East Fifty feet of Lots No. 1-2 and in Block
II in the Original Townsite of Sank Centre,
Mimi.
HENRY ROSE
4 and in the front room on the ground floor
of that certain two story Brick Building own
ed by JAG Kewell and situate on the West %
it, of the East 116 feet of Lot No. in Block
No. IL in the Original Townsite of Sank Cen
tire. Mimi.
Said applications will be heard ana determin-
ed by said Common Council of the city of Sank
Centre. at the office of the City Clerk in said
CITY on Friday. the 10Th day of September,
A. d. 1911 at O'Clock A. NJ.
Given under my hand and the seal of the
City of Sank Centre, this 18th day of Septem-
Der. A. ID. 1911.
SEAL j. h. COOPER.
16-2t City Clerk
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
THE MARKETS
GRAIN

Quotations furnished every Thurs
day morning by the Erwin Elevator
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21
New Kimonas

New Silk Long Kimonas in a pretty
range Of new Styles. New Crepe Long
kimonas in big assortment of Styles,
prettily trimmed long Kimonas made
of Aeeced materials in handsome de-
sign and varied assortment. Good line
of new dressing sacques now on dis
play. New Bath Robes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21

New Autumn Dress Goods
Pretty bright plaids in a splendid range
of new combinations for children's
wear. French and Storm serges in all
the new and Staple shades for school
wear. Extensive line new novelties
and mixtures in wide range of new
goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

one he had put on the brokers wire. He stood by the window until assured the message had been sent. Next he hand ed the most remarkable telegram to that operator he had ever received. It was partly in cipher and partly taken from printed book. There were 500 words in 1t. He gave directions that the message should be repeated back, so as to make it absolutely sure no er- TOT had occurred. Then he promised the operator that if nothing was per- mitted to go ahead of this message he would be glad to show his appreciation with handsome gratuity. This mes- sage would keep the wire busy more than half an hour. The operator had just started on this telegram when Mir. Laflin came bustling up with a mes sage he wished to have sent with all haste. A little later MT. Terrell had Scoons with several to speed over the wire. Then followed Miltenhaus, Scam- per and korn. The lawyers, too. had occasion to telegraph. Some of them telegraphed, some telephoned. Tho long distance wires were in as urgent demand as the telegraph wires
 After sending his message and seein 2 Mir. Lafin, MT. Terrell and Mir. Scoons try to send theirs, Dayton took a walk. For man of such sedentary inclina- tions the week past he seemed quite vigorous He went out to the bungalow land around the Daniel Boone log cab in. The mile and half out and mile and half back put a little color in his cheeks and a little spring in his gait That evening he ate a very re- spectable dinner for an ailing person. Before dining he had gone in and taken look at the quotations-the closing prices for shares.
 Next day he played golf, wandered around the country, visited the broker s office, went down to the private cars to bid goodby to Seoons, Lafln, Terrell and the others, and, that finished, he too, de- parted that night for home. He had noth- ing to complain of about his railroad trip this time, for he slept like a gentleman with an easy conscience and good Gi- gestion.
 It was little after noon on the fol-
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he smoked whenever he felt like it, and that was most of the time.
 At the Springs, after he had secured comfortable quarters, he sent for doc tor, as directed by the New York physi- clan. This doctor, after an examination confirmed the diagnosis of the eminent New Yorker, only more so. He prescribed for MT. Dayton the particular waters, and the quantity he should take, and he laid out the daily schedule of life, as life was to be at Hot Springs for Mir. Montie Dayton.
 It was real exciting for a gentleman from Wall street to follow a time-clocl< schedule during his waking hours 300 miles from Broadway. But Montie was game. For four days he took his various baths at exactly the minute the doctor specified. He drank from the magnesia spring, the very hot and the pretty hot, and from various other springs without being more than three minutes before or behind time. He walked just the distance the doctor suggested, ate exactly the food the doctor thought would be beneficial to him, went to bed at the time he was told-and still he was not happy. He tried to make himself realize that he was at the Hot Springs up in the mountains of Virginia, but every moment in the day his mind was in Wall street This was dreadful in view of the order that he should forget business and devote his entire time to the pleasures of the golf ball, the rocking chair, the baths and tho waters.
 Montie was feeling particularly unhappy on the fifth morning, owing to a wakeful night. He had left his breakfast prac- ticaly untouched and was walking on the porch of the Homestead when he was gladdened at the sight of few familiar faces There was old man Scoons, presi- dent of the D. P. & X-as fine an old pirate as ever came out of the west to teach lot of new tricks to Wall street. Right before him was Laflin, chief booster and chief looter of the L., E. & M, and close by was Terrell. head center of the B., Y. & P. When these three gentlemen got together honest men generally put padlocks on their pockets.
 Montie, lonesome as a lost Indian, stepped forward and shook hands warm ly with each and every one of them. He would have shaken paws just then with a yellow dog, if the dog had come from Wall street. Being a well bred man and not wishing to disturb Messrs. Scoons, Lafiin and Terrell in discussion of their crimes, he then passed on.
 According to schedule MT. Dayton should take a drink from the warm sulphur spring five minutes later. But he did not. He learned that whole flock of private cars had f1oated into Hot Springs that night, and that in the wake of Scoons,
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Monkey Curiosity
3 Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 An Austrian civil egineer, travelling in Ceylon, was strolling about the botanical gardens of Pasadena, examining the queer tropical plants. He at length became very tired, and the day being warm, even for Ceylon, he lay down and was soon fast asleep. What happened is best told in his own words:
 ''I must have slept an hour" he said, "when suddenly I was awakened by queer uncanny feeling, and opened my eyes.
 Judge of my surprise when I saw perched upon my feet body, and even upon my shoulders lot of little monkeys while all about me, and beaming down upon me from the trees. we're monkeys of all sizes and ages. It seemed to me, there were myriads of them. was frightened, for I knew these monkeys were wild, and, in their wild state, did not know what so many of them might do.
 q gave one leg a twitch. and then the other. and bounded to my feet, throwing off all that were gamboling over and about me. In second the monkeys van- ished, and only peering from the toos of the tall bamboo and rubber trees could see any of them at all.
 T was much alarmed. for the appear ance of so many of them was entirely un- expected. It was a week before I got over my fright.
 "It appears, however. that the monkeys had meant no harm to me. The congress- had been called. and their examination or me as lay upon the ground was merely out of curlosty to divine what. kind or an object was. Nevertheless l vowed never to go to sleep again in wild. tropical forest, even if 1t were called a botanical garden"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
UNCLE SAM, ROAD BUILDER-By Fra1k C. Carpenter

and hy wagon freight can be hauled almost anywhere or the continent for from one-half to ore-third its cost in the United States"
 A Saving of Millions
 "Can you give me some idea of the saving that good rcaos would bring?'
 Not accurately" replied MT. Page, "But I can shcw you some figures which will convince you that 1t will Itun into the hundreds of millions of dollars. According to the report of the interstate commerce commission in 1906, our railroads handled more than So0,- 100000 tons of freight which origin ated on their respective lines. All this had to be taken to and from the cars X great deal of it was made up of products of the farm and the forests, and 1t is estimated that at least 20o,- OOO,OOO tons of it had a haul of nine miles at cost ol 23 cents ton That bill alone would represent more than S432,000y00 Grd other freights and hauling would run the sum to $50O,- 00O ,000 or over. Now suppose we cut the wagon freight bill Tn half, or to .111a cents ton which is still far above the cost of hauling in Europe and the saving would be $250,OO0,00O a year."
 | Indeed, it is impossible to overestimate our loss by bad roads," continued MT
 
 of Oregon lost in year by damaged fruit from the Willamette valley owing to bad roads, $200.OO0. The cost to the fruit crop is enormous and it Is so With every crop of the farmer. Take the wear and tear on the horses. We have more than 25,0o0O00 draft animals. which are worth more than S2,0OOgO0,Voo Better the roads and the work could be done with half the number, making a saving of $1 ,000. o00000 in capital. We have 50o,COO farm wagons manufactured each year. The wear and tear upon them runs high into the millions.
 Quick Transit and High Prices And then look at the money which the farmer makes by getting his crops to the market on time. Wheat and cotton have rapid changes of prices. In 1907 the range of wheat at Minneapolis was rom | 76 cents to $1.19 per bushel, and there was difference in the selling prices of corn at Chicago of 24 cents per bushel. 1T | the man got his grain to the market while l the prices were high he did well, but Ii | the bad roads kept him back he had to | take a low figure. l This loss from bad roads prevails all | oyer the country, but especially in the | south. I have just returned from long | trip through that region. and have made | a study of some of the conditions. Let me show you what good roads would do for corn and cotton, which, together with The southern roads are worse than those
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lowing day when he entered his office. His partners greeted him joyously. So did the employees, for they all liked Mon- tie. He took one look at the quotation board and smiled. He could hear the block distant. The street was in a tur- moil. A big bull movement was under way. The advance was being led by L. B. & M. D., P. 6 x. and B, Y. & P. Off, cial confirmation had come of vague ru- mors that had circulated the previous afternoon of a plan for the consolidation of the three great systems. Everybody was predicting par for L.. B. & M. A few days before a lot of them, taking gossip for gospel, had been predicting bankruptcy D., P. & x. was up points. B., Y. & F.. was up S1a. A hundred thousand shares of these three proper ties had been traded in within two hours of the opening.
 MT. Montgomery Dayton plunged at once into business, taking up his old work just as if he never had laid 1t down. There was plenty to do, for his firm had been a heavy buyer the day before. Early in the afternoon when the market was at it's strongest, Montie ap- peared on the exchange. Quietly at first and then rapidly he began to realize. Be- fore the board closed he had cleaned up. Late in the afternoon he and his partners figured what it mean in dollars and cents. The profit was in excess of s4OO GOO That evening on his way up town he called to see the specialist. The physi- elan was much gratifed to note his pa- tient's improvement. The broker declar- ed he never felt better In his life and that when he did begin to improve the change had been marvellous. The good doctor warned him against overworIl, overeating, worrying and 95 or 100 other attendants to business. MT. E. E. Mont gomery Dayton promised to follow each and all these warnings with rigid care Then he thanked the specialist and de- parted.
 It was probably week later that MT. Lemuel Scoons made a social call on Mr. Dayton. After the usual circumlocution MT. Scoons got down to business He
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Montie Dayton--he was such a nice young man, and his case was so baf- fling.
 It is a queer thing about men, or at least some of them, that the more ef- fort is made to drive them away from business, the more desire they have for business The brokerage office in the Homestead was the only point of att traction for the Wall street man. Mon tie was gratified to see the dullness in the street had been broken. There was bit of activity in stocks. Railroads and industrials alike were being traded in in fair volume. It was apparent that what MT. Scoons had said about L.. B. & M. was correct. Not only it's shares, common and preferred, were weak and lower in price, but the bonds were declining. The gossip that came over the wire was to the effect that the forthcoming annual statement would show a very wretched state of affairs. D., B. & K, too, was on the down grade and D., Y. & P. was slump ing.
 Altogether, there was good reason for the railroad president, the railroad purse bearers and the railroad legal guilds assembled at the Virginia Hot Springs to feel sad.
 MT. Dayton did what most ailing men do-he wrote a great deal to his friends. Some of the letters he wrote to his partners In New York were very long. He telegraphed two or three times day, too, and soon was on terms of easy intimacy with not only the brokers telegraph operator, but the commercial operator as well. The op- orators sympatbized with him just as all the others did
 It was on the fifth day after the ar rival of Scoons that MT Dayton showed his first decided sign of improvement.
 He seemed more wide awake and more alert. His arm chair was near the tel egraph inclosure. Suddenly he started up, drew paper from his pocket, went into the brokers office and handed a message to the operator with a request that he send 1t at once. The operator did so. Then Montie went back to the Western Union booth and filed mes- sage there. It was duplicate of the
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have available for road expenses about $40, ,000,0 000. which is just double the amount devoted to such purposes in 1904. Indeed, the south has become highly interested in improving its roads,"
 Working the Convicts
 T understand that many Of the south- ern states are working their roads with convict labor?'
 ''Yes, and I think with great profit. In Virginia the state convicts are employed in road building, and the supervising en- gineers say that the convict labor is even more effective than paid labor. Georgia has nearly 5000 prisoners at work on it's reads Louisiana will use it's state con- victs in the same way, and part of the Alabama appropriation for the roads comes from the convict labor fund. I see no reason why convicts should not be worked on the roads. In such cases they do not compete with free labor as in the prison factories, and the open air work should be healthy"
 What Good Roads Cost
 What does a. good road cost?' I asked
 That depends much on the location and the materials at hand. It is cheaper to build good roads in the south than in the north, for the southern wages are lower and the working period is longer throughout the year. The most of the southern soil is good for the purpose. There is plenty of gravel and sand clay. and we can make macadam roads there cheaper than in the north In Louisiana a macadam road can be made for s1SO0 a mile and the average cost in 9 different states of the south is less than $4000 per mile. In Butler county, Ohio. where they are now making bituminous maca- dam roads, the cost is $7000 a mile, while in Massachusetts the average macadam costs sS000 per mile. The average cost of making state roads in New York is mora than 5000, and Ohio, which has made many brick roads has recently let out a contract for the construction of five miles of such road near Ravenna, which will cost altogether more than $70,000 or over $14,OOO per mile. Good roads cost all the way from afew hundred to ten 15 etao' way from few hundred to $100O0 or $1o, 900 per mie according to their charac- ter and the materials of which they are constructed
 Roads of Oil and Cement Before leaving the office of public roads I took a walk with MT. Page through his laboratories. The bureau has large | force of chemists, engineers and other | scientists, who are planning out and test i ing materials for the roads of the coun- 1 try. They are always experimenting as 1 to new roads, and among many other | things have made valuable discoveries as | to the use of oil and cement on the roads. The ideal road of the future will