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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
WHEN THE HORSE WON'T PULL
mon In Summer az in
Winter.

Winter is the time when most CON-
monty one driver helps out another.
when the going is bad with heavy
snow, but such help may also be ex-
tended in summer occasionally, when
the going is all right, and team has
been exhausted by the heat. This was
such a case, but it had complications
Here was a small double truck with
a load that weighed perhaps a ton,
scarcely more than that, and pair
of horses not the best pair in town.
but team that could easily haul the
load; but now here was this team
halted. while ahead a driver was turn
ing the horses of his truck back to
the truck that was halted, to give that
season
What was the matter? Why couldn't
that team with comparatively light
load on get away with it without help?
The explanation was simple.
One of the horses in the stalled
team has mind of his own You
couldn't call him balky horse. nor
Is u6 uOTSS Iudl lies OOWu Ou CAO
job, and yet there comes times when
he won't pull, and when you can't
make him. as on a day and in place
like this On hot hard day when he
gets hot and sweaty and tired he may
make up his mind to stop for time
and then he does stop and you can't
start him. He wants a rest and
he insists on taking it, but when he
has rested that way for 10 or Is min
utes he'll put his neck into the collar
again and go on.
He had stopped like this and the
place where he had now stopped was
a little up grade, but this time he
didn't stop as long as usual for this
is a tolerable busy locality and pretty
soon the traffic policeman got the out
fit moving He Communicated pass
ing truck and got the -truckman to
give the stalled truck line, and when
the line had been made fast and the
towing truck started up both horses
of the stalled team started pulling too.
Its hot day." said the traffic po-
liceman, but it's not heavy load.
They'll take it along all right when you
get 'em up on the level"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Lightning Rod Investigation.


There has always been more or less
controversy as to the efficiency of the
lightning rod, but this matter is likely
to be settled at no distant time be-
yond all question of doubt. The au-
thorities of the University of Illinois
have undertaken to do this and have
been at work on the problem for some
time Last summer some valuable
experiments were conducted but the
results were not entirely satisfactory
for the lack of suitable apparatus.
During the coming summer the work
will be continued on very elaborate
basis. The use of an open field has
been secured for the entire season
and the investigation will be contin.
ued during the entire season in which
thunder storms may be reasonably
expected. In this field twelve 40-foot
poles have been erected. Six of
these are equipped with devices for
registering the effect of lightning
strokes at or near the poles. There
is a series of spark gaps with Undue
ton, resistance and capacity figures,
so that the lightning may jump across
the gaps or pass aro"nd through
shunt circuits Any action due to
lightning will be recorded on NOV
ing strip of paper driven by clock.
work so that the exact time of the
electrical discharge can be told from
the record Three of the poles have
hean eu,ripDed with SharD needle
points and three with brass balls.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Rudeness Properly Rebuked.

A young man sitting in subway cal
In New York, with legs crossed and
one foot, showing highly polished
shoe and silk sock, extended so far
into the aisle as to make it almost i'm.
possible for people to pass without
coming in contact with the obtruding
member. was brought to a sense of
his disregard for others by three young
women who sat opposite. One said:
Il wonder If he is showing his foot or
his shoe?" The second said loud
enough to be heard above the car clat-
ter and to the amusement of others:
81 think he wants to show his clock
ed socks-watch it." NO." said the
third, he's only showing his bad
manners" The foot came down and
was lost in the crowd which got off
at the next station.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Expert Testimony.

There was not much to be gained
from the witness il the box, who
seemed to have wonderful faculty
for holding his tongue. but the lawyer
tried once more.
You say your boat picked up the
accused at nine o'clock or there
abouts" he said ut has been stat
ed that he jumped overheard nearly
an hour before that time Tell me.
Captain Sampson, how he appeared to
you when you picked him up. If you
had been required to g IN opinion
of him then, what would you have
said?''
Well. I'll tell We honest" caid the
captain. when he had disposed of
portentious yawn 81 sh'd We said he
was one o. the wettest men, if NOT
the wettest man. that ever eee,"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Aroused the SIeepers.

A clergyman in an Irving Park
church seemed to bring his sermon to
somewhat of an abrupt and illogical
stop. Then he said: ''The congrega.
ton will rise and sing the third and
fourth stanzas of the - Psalm "
The general deduction was that the
minister realized the irksomeness of
the heat and was cutting the service
short. Everybody looked for the
bepediction at the conclusion of the
singing, but when it was ended he
said:
The congregation will be seated.
When was expatiating upon my text
/ noticed that ten or fifteen persons
were asleep and l thought 1t best to
arouse them"
Then he resumed his sermon-Chi-
cago Evening Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
The unweIeome Pollock.

Never in the history of man have
pollock been so plenty along the
Maine coast as they are this summer.
Pollock fishing is furnishing good
sport for scores of fishermen about
the mouth of the Kennebec river, and
even the oldest inhabitant does not re-
member when they were to be found
in such quantities. How to get rid
of the pollock is becoming a serious
question, for they are devouring the
little herring like hungry wolves.
Then they bother the Goldfish, a
slower-acting fish than the pollock,
and force them off to the eastward.
Again, the pollock attracts the dog
hsh, and the latter wages war upon the
cod and other fish.-Kennebec Jour
nal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
POST WITH A HISTORY
MONUMENT TO STUDENTS VAIN
EFFORTS TO GET EDUCATION.
Husslan's Heroic Attempts to Work
His Way Through Cornell Univer.
slty Told by Former Ambassa-
dor Andrew p. White.

Andrew D. White, former ambassa.
dor to Russia and Germany, points out
stone post on the university campus
az monument to student who tried
10 work his way through the university
soon after Ezra Cornell sent out a call
Tor students in all parts of the world
who We're willing to work to obtain
useful knowledge.
II shall always think of that stone
post before Sage college as Pelechin's
monument" said Mr. White to a pro-
lessor recently. "Pelechin had come
all the way from Kev, Russia, in re-
spouse to the call to a university
where poor men could work their way.
1t was Mr.. Cornell's idea that all the
students should be at least partly self
supporting.
The Russian had little money left
on his arrival and came to me to ap-
ply for work. | reported the matter
to Mr.. Cornell, and when few days
later Mr.. Cornell bought this post
from the stone cutters and had 1t un-
loaded before the south building. Pc
lechin got the task of putting 1t in
position. The poor fellow was unac-
quainted with the use of tools and was
very awkward 1t was several weeks
before he got hole dug which would
accommodate the post in it's proper
position. His strange methods of
work attracted the attention of many
OF his fellow students, and they
named it Pelechin's monument, a
name by which it was known for many
years afterward
1T soon turned out that a monu-
ment was needed Pelechin soon be-
came not only deficient in funds, but
deficient in scholarship. He made he
rolc struggles to master his studies
without avail, and | finally succeeded
in persuading him that the best thing
he could do was to return to his home
in Russia
Imagine my surprise when he
turned up few years later. He came
to my office and told me he had saved
$500 and proposed to complete his
course. l congratulated him on his
thrift and his determination to sue
Cc0u, Uul VIII m0uCdl RESERVATIONS.
In few days he came to my Office
again. He told me he had invested
large part of his capital. asked
him what investment he had made.
and he told me he had purchased
horse and carriage. l was astonished,
and asked why he thought horse and
carriage would be a good investment.
"Pelechin told me that there was a
constant demand on the part of con-
siderable number of the students for
horse and carriage, and he expected
to make great deal of money by
hiring them out. Poor Pelechin! He
turned up again in few days crest
fallen. He had sad story to tell He
had rented the horse and carriage to
party of students, and the animal
had run away, badly injuring itself
and wrecking the carriage. Soon aft
erward he left Cornell for good His
address in the 1908 Ten-Year Book
of the university was still Kiev. Rus
sia."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
N0vEllSTS ALL WRONG
PEOPLE DO NOT PROPOSE AT ALL
IN ACTUAL LIFE.
30 Asserts Man Who Has Made q
Careful Investigation Of What
He Calls the Love-Makinq
Came

SAAA0 S4S AOvSAASIS WOl .
getting this proposal thing right" said
the man with the meerschaum pipe.
using his thumb for a bookmark.
They ought to give US this love-mak.
Ing game the way it's carried out in
real life.
They get it all wrong in novels.
claim that people don't propose at all!
There's none of that heart-palpitating
business outside of the Bob Chambers
and other brands of fiction. I'm not
married myself. but got interested in
the proposal thing some time ago and
| made some investigations.
First of all l spoke to my old
friend, Phil Harper. Pills been mar
ried for only about two years and a
half-not so long that he wouldn't re-
member the full particulars.
PHIL says l, tell me now-and
this is no kid, UNDERSTANDABLE me
what you said when you proposed to
your wife. Where were you and how
DID you get around to the subject, and
were you scared, and what did your
Wlfe-or, rather, your girl-say to you
and all that?'
Phil looked at me and gave laugh
Sorry L can't accommodate you,' he
says, but to tell you the truth,
never made proposal. Oh, no, don't
get the idea that my wife proposed.
did Whatever proposing was done, if
you call it proposal. After I'd been
calling on Maize two Or three times a
week and twice on Sundays for a cou-
pie of years | found that the Maize
habit had as much of hold on me as
any drug habit could have, and 1 didn't
know OF any quiet little sanitarium
where l could be cured of the habit.
One evening couple of girl
friends OF Maizie's strolled by the front
porch and began to guy us. One of
them said that she'd be willing to bet
we were engaged even at that mo-
ment.
Why, of course we are" l says,
acting on impulse. Aren't we,
Maizie?"
Maize gurgled little yes"
That's the way proposed
Then" went on the man with the
meerschaum pipe, II asked George
Crothers about his courtship and pro-
posal
Why George told me, it was a
queer thing about our engagement. It
just sort of got to be understood be-
tween us that we would be married
sooner or later. One day we were
taking walk and 1 stopped to look at
new apartment house that was being
built
Are we going to live in fiat or
in a house?' l asked suddenly, and
Carrie-she's my wife now-said she
thought We could save money by living
in fiat, at least at first No, there
were no Pushes of confusion or long
drawn signs or clenches such as you
read about in novels 1t was pretty
commonplace
"Oh, must have asked a dozen
friends how they proposed, and didn't
get a single case with any more
Hearts and Flowers music to it than
these ! have cited to you.
Still, don't suppose there's any
use getting excited over the situation.
1t won't Go any good Thee novel
lists will go on dreaming their wild,
moving picture dreams. And a lot of
'em call themselves realists!'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
New Bed Needed.

During the days of the gold fever
In California" said an old sea CAP
tain, "our ship was so crowded that
you could hardly get place to sleep.
Captain said man when we were
three days out. 1 have just got to
have some place to Sleep
Where have you been sleeping?' I
asked.
"1 have been sleeping on a sick
man. the passenger said, but he's
getting better now Success.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Rank in Kentucky.

Eyes, sir" the Kentuckian said, aa
they sat by the stove, you can tell
a mans rank in this state thusly: II
you see man with his feet on top of
the stove he's gineral; If his feet Ia
on that rail half way up he's colonel.
and if he keeps them on the floor he's
a major"
"Ah, yes" his companion said:
that's good as far as it goes; but
how are you going to distinguish a
captain or lieutenant?"
Stranger. we don't go no lower
than. major in Kentucky "-Lippfn,
colts.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
HE BOUGHT CHICKENS
CITY MAN ON RANCH WAS SENT
FOR KIND THAT LAYS.
Took Back Ten Handsome Plymouth
Rocks, Only to Find Out That
They Were All Roost-

ooSA 10 the COuuCTy. Is SOO0
war cry and motto, and countless
voices have joined in shouting it. It
Is nevertheless true that a real city
man is likely to underrate the difficult
ties OF wrestling living from the
soil. He fails from ignorance as often
as the countryman who moves to the
city. Ernest F. Harte describes his
life with another city friend on a
South Dakota claim. The chicken cpl
sode is memorable.
K1bbey concluded that we needed
some chickens about this time, our
garden having grown beyond the stage
when chickens disarrange such things.
1t being my turn to make the usual
comm1ssary purchases, I took the
mules and set off over the execrable
roads to town. bore commission to
buy chickens with a portion of our
diminishing capital.
plymouth rocks?" / asked, after
Amy breed, just so they are ply
mouth rocks. Eggs are what we want
eggs. They're the chickens that lay
the eggs. I'll have the henhouse built
by the time you get back Don't pay
over 40 cents apiece for EN-" was his
parting injunction. And get a dozen
or so to start on"
The storekeeper l did my trading
with was a taciturn old fellow whose
conversation was limited to monosyl-
Liable answers to direct questions only.
When l inquired if he had any chick
ems for sale, he pointed to coop.
plymouth rocks?" advised Kibbey.
looking them over. He grunted an
affirmative.
How much?"
Ten cents"
| made lightning calculation. Ten
cents, instead of 40; four dozen in
stead of one dozen. 1t was a bargain,
indeed.
III take 49," l said.
The third assistant, boy with a
stone-bruised foot, caught the chick
ems, tied their legs and weighed them.
Sixteen dollars and 10 cents" an
nounced the storekeeper.
Guess again." I said, shrewdly.
Forty times 10 is 81, according to the
Arabic system of notation"
Ten cents pound" said the store
keeper, briefly. -Four pounds apiece.
Sixteen dollars and 10 cents"
told the boy to put 80 back in the
coop after l had selected 10 of the
prettiest ones.
Kibbey had the chicken barracks
completed when l hove in sight of the
homestead. 1t was a sod house of
smaller dimensions than the manor it.
self, but the architectural scheme was
the same. l waved a trio of chickens
as l came near. Kibbey shouted and
tossed his chapeau
When he made an inspection at
close range. however, l caught the
psychological waves of something
amiss even before he spoke | thought
his voice sounded choked with emo
ton.
Did the man say these were lay
ers?" he asked.
He didn't say" l returned. Il didn't
ask him. l picked these chickens my
self"
Kihbey turned black in the face.
Every last one of them is a roos-
teri" he yelled, when he had partly
recovered.-Outing Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Airship's Predecessor.

Stephenson broke another record
today His Rocket made fight of
FIVE miles. carrying four passengers.
and left the rails only twice
Every remarkable achievement,
very-but you can't tell me that the
steam engine will ever be of any real
practical value"-The Taller.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
ALL OVER IN A WEEK
WILLIAMS STAY IN BOARDING.
HOUSE SHORT AND SWEET.
Gave Every Evidence Of Being En-.
perienced Boarder and His Smart
Sayings and MannerismS Were
Talk of House.

When young Mr.. Williams came to
our boarding house it was plain to
every one that this was not his first
experience at boarding.
In fact, his actions seemed to indt-
cate that he was old and experienced
In the life of boarding, and that he
had come to US from some other
boarding house, or possibly from q
succession of them.
1t was shown in the aplomb with
which he assured Mrs. Hicks that he
invariably paid his board on pay day,
and that his pay day came on Satur-
day, ignoring her somewhat distorted
statement that she insisted on pay in
advance in every case
1t was further shown in the way
he skilfully tipped the covering of
the bed in his hall bedroom and ap-
praised the condition of the sheets
with judicial eye, his opinion, good
or bad, being represented by a nom
commital grunt.
He was normal young man, was
Mr.. Williams. He had just the nor
NAL amount of baggage. His face was
so nearly normal that people he knew
would forget to speak to him. He
was of medium height and weight,
and so far as we could see had but
one suit of clothes, and that an ordi-
nary dusty, brownish gray
His appetite, too, proved normal.
He had typical boarding house appe-
tite that pushed aside those things it
did not want and insisted on double
supply of those it did 1t was a dis
eliminating appetite that refused to
accept things the nature of which did
not appear on the surface
Immediately after supper Mr. VII
liams sat on the front steps and re-
garded fellow boarders with specula.
tive eye. Being normal boarder, with
what might be called an abnormal
nerve, he easily decided that Miss
Amy Crothsweight, who was a stenog.
rapher in the roller mills office, was
the only one of us worthy of his at.
tention. And In fifteen minutes he
and Miss Amy went for walk, head
ing, OF course, toward the drug store
soda fountain. Miss Amy, too. prided
herself upon her dignity.
When they came back Mr.. Williams
had some chewing gum. which he
passed about.
Next day he was wearing a tie we
recognized as belonging to Mr.. VIII.
loughby. Mr. Willoughby, when
pressed, admitted that he and Mr..
Williams had become somewhat chum.
my.
Toward the end of the week Mrs.
Hicks was taking an unusual interest
in Mr.. Williams. She quoted him to
the girls, and would tell the boys how
smart he was.
He was the most ingratiating per.
son, was young Mr. Williams, and, as
everybody got to liking him, his say.
ings and mannerisms were the talk
of the house.
On Saturday he did not appear at
the table. Mrs. Hicks said he was
called out of town. He didn't come
back either
His trunk was hauled by Jim, the
porter, to the junk room, and we did
the best we could to forget him. We
have often wondered if he went
abroad, or was killed by a motor.
cycle, but have never learned.
It's always that way. for people
come and go like guests at our board.
ing house.-Dallas News
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Not Serious.

Sweltering Passenger ION railroad
train)--This window sticks SO / can't
get it up.
Conductor-Yes. Wood is swollen
q little by the rain. It'll be all right
In few days.-Exchange.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
And Moonshine.

"You want to marry my daughter"
asked the father.
81 do" replied the young man.
Have you anything saved up for a
rainy day."
There won't be any rainy days If
marry your daughter. 1t will be all
sunshine. "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
StrenQth.

visitor-l wonder where that horrid
door comes from. 1t can't be the
stockyards, because the wind isn't
blowing from that direction.
Native-That wouldn't make any
difference. mister; when that smell
starts on its travels there's no wind
that can stop It.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
The Chief Ohiection

"a thoughtful writer says dry Mar
TINS inspire song"
mo doubt, but what che world
needs is a stimulant without a mare
back"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-03
Economy.

First Aeronaut-When found had
won the prize simply walked on airt
Second Ditto-Gee whiz! That Wa
Q big saving of gasoline.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
Confederates in Ccngress.

Fifty years after the first guns of the
civil war sounded the congress Of the
United States is comparatively in con-
troll of the Confederates. If the battle
roll of the house and senate were called
today it would show more Confederate
veterans in each branch of congress
than survivors of the armies of the
blue.
They are veterans of many battles
and survivors of many trying situa-
lions. In the senate there are six OF
these Confederate warriors; three of
them, Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and
Senators Johnston and Bankhead, of
Alabama, were captains in the south
ern ranks: the others. Senators Martin,
of Virginia; Thornton, of Louisiana,
and Tillman, of South Carolina, fought
either as privates in the regular army
or as members of cadet corps that were
enrolled for active service.
In the house of representatives there
are eight Confederates, including Brig
adler General George w. Gordon, of
Tennessee; Major Charles M Stedman,
OF North Carolina; Captain John Lamb.
of Virginia, and William Richardson
of Alabama. The other Confederates
include Representative Talbot, of
Maryland; Rucker. of Colorado; Tay-
lor, of Alabama. and Estopinal of
Louisiana.
The only Confederate general in
Congress is Representative George
Washington Gordon, of Tennessee At
the recent Confed crate reunion at Lit
tie Rock. Ark, GEN. Gordon was a
prominent figure. His history is a
striking one. He was captured three
times, dangerously wounded once. and
Slightly wounded several times; was
in every important battle participated
in by the Tennessee troops, and was
finally taken prisoner and removed to
Fort Warren, Mass. where he was
held until three months after the war
was concluded.
Two men in the House of Represen-
tatives-Capt. John Lamb. of Virginia
and Maj Charles NJ Stedman. of
North Carolina-were with the 1900
Confederates who fought the battle of
| Bethel, the first battle of the war, and
were still fighting with tho army of
northern Virginia when Lee laid down
his arms at Appomattox April 8, 1865.
men enjoyed this distinction.
Atterson w. Rucker, row a repre-
sentative from Colorado went through
a trying prison experience as a 15-
year-old boy. He enlisted from Mis-
souri,, with the Confederate forces. He
was with Price at the battle Of Lex
ington, and figured in the long running
fight under Shelby and Narmaduke
| from the Missouri River to the south
Senator Martin, of Virginia, like
Senator Johnston, went int the army
as a boy member of military school
brigade. Senator Martin was IL years
old and a student at the Virginia Mill
tary Institute when he was enrolled
with the students of that school as q
private in the Confederate army He
served throughout the last year of the
April, 1865.-Washingto dispatch tc
the New York Herald