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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
A DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA

AS this is written-Tuesday
morning-the democrats, in ma
tional convention assembled in
Baltimore, face serious dilem-
ma. T h forty-second ballot
has been taken and no one nomin-
ated for the presidency. The
democrats are divided along the
same lines as were the republi-
cans at Chicago, namely, stand.
patters and progressives. The
standpat element started out to
bury William Jennings Bryan,
the "champeen" of the people.
They are having hard time do
ing it, with great grief for the
mourners and the pail bearers.
Bryan has attacked Morgan,
Murphy and their confreres from
the floor, following it up with
the threat that he would not sup.
port Champ Clark if the New
York delegation supported him,
This made Clark mad and he
hurried to Baltimore from Wash
ington to look after his fences
The convention is holding night
sessions, nearly half of the dele
gates are broke" and want to
go home, and still tire conven-
ton drags it's slow length along.
1t looks as though possibly Bry-
an is so playing his cards as to
make it possible for him to join
hands with Roosevelt in h e
third party movement. Wilson,
who started second in the race.
now leads Clark by a few votes.
Predicting the outcome is haz-
ardous business.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
Brief Wills.

Probably the briefest document ever
probated as will was signed anc
dated memorandum, Everything is
LOUIS" written by decedent in rail
way train record book kept by him;
his widows name being Lula. The
instrument was held to be sufficien.
as a Photographic will, however, II
Smith v. Smith, 70 Southeastern Re
Porter, 491, by the Virginia supreme
court of appeals. A note reading:
Dear Old Nance: I wish to give you
my watch, two shawls, and also S., 900.
Your old friend, E. A. Gordon"-was
sustained as a will in Clark v. Ran
som, so California, sos; and dated
and signed memorandum, "Mrs. Sophie
Loeper is my heiress," was upheld In
Succession of Shrenberg, 81 Louis
lana Annual, 2S0.-The Docket.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
LOSING a King.

One Of our naval officers tells Of a
incident that occurred when an Amer
can war vessel was lying at ancho
in European port, on which occ,
sion it was visited by monarch an
his suite.
One Of the members of this suit.
respondent in gold lace and decor;
tons. with big sword at his side ar
sporting huge mustache, was explcs
ing the ship, and, being ignorant
things nautical, had leaned against u
main-hatch windsail, mistaking 1t for
mast. OF what ensued the officer
the deck was informed by the bo
SWANS mate, who had seen the cat;
trophe and who broke the news of
thus:
"You will excuse me, sir, but l thu
one Of them kings has fell down t.
main hatch, sir."-Harper's IaYaziI
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

L he average country news
paper publisher knows a whole
lot of things about the people in
his own town that he does not
print, and some of which, if he
did print, would cause a riot.
And yet in every town there are
some people who never say a
kind word to or about the edi-
tor, don't take the paper, never
advertise, send out of town to
get their printing done and then
howl because the editor doesn't
print more stuff.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
MEDICAL VALUE OF SPICES
They Arouse the Appetite and Pro
mote the Secretion Of the Gas
trio Juice.

The spices are a very interesting
group of substances; they are the
foundation OF a considera industry,
they have their medical uses and final
ly are Of special importance in dietet-
les.
Their vaiue resides in their richness
In aromatic substances and essential
oils; strictly speaking, they are not
foods. but often enough they are e.
sential elements in the diet. Spices
have been the subject of classic re-
search. as, for example, in the clover
and important investigation which
Pawlow undertook as to the psychic
influences Of food and as to the value
Of zest in nutrition.
Spices were shown to arouse appe-
tite and to promote the secretion Of
the gastric juice, and the role they
play therefore in dieteties is a very
important one. The medicinal action
of some of them is further of, value.
Allspice, for example, is used as an
aromatic and has been successfully ad-
ministered for f1atulency or for over
coming gripping due to purgatives, and
occasionally it is reported that the oil
gives relief in rheumatism and neural
Gia.
The medical uses of cinnamon are
well known. Cardamoms are used in
the form of tincture as aromatic and
stomachic and they are also employed
as favoring agent in curry powder,
cakes and liqueurs. The applications
Of capsicum and the peppers general
ly are we'll known. Gloves are arc
matte, carminative and stimulant and
have been used in dyspepsia, gastric
irritation and in cases of vomiting in
pregnancy.
Oil of cloves is also popular rem
edy for toothache 1t has also its uses
In microscopy as a preservative and
for clearing sections The uses of
nutmeg are wide, vanilla has an enor.
nous application as a favoring pat.
ronage on account of its bright yellow
color and pleasant musky favor
Lancet.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
Alvah Eastman has had some

Alvah Eastman has had some
rough shedding in his trip to-
ward Washington, but present
indications are that from now on
the going will be better. Alvah's
all right and when he takes his
seat in the national House OF
Representatives the sixth dis.
trict will have a congressman
that will reflect credit on him
self and his constituents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Politics is like an automobile
The machine is run by gas, Rock
efeller is the oil, money is the
clutch, graft is the axle, Ryan
is the grease, Morgan is the
chauffeur, Bryan is the running
gear, Roosevelt is the horn, La
Toilette is the tire, Wilson is the
crank, Taft is the exhaust pipe,
Tillman is the nut and the
public is the shock absorber
And what is LOrimer? LOrime1
is the stink. Elk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

The Duluth News Tribune did
some mighty interesting contor-
ton stunts in trying to get onto
the Roosevelt band-wagon, and
it should be far more entertain
ing now to watch it trying to
backsomersault onto the Taft
steam-roller, says the Mesaba
Ore.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

The esteemed St. Cloud Times
doesn't quite know which it dis
likes the more, Teddy Roosevelt
or Jim Bennett. T. he Times
turns dou ble-jointed back hand
spring, with a..few fits thrown in,
whenever the name of either is
mentioned in it's presence.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

If a dictagraph was in touch
with the White House last week,
it is probable that the story it
would tell would be punctuated
with cuss words and other lam
guage not found in the bible.
LIE Sueur News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Wasn't it really quite unkind
for the weather man to set up a
counter attraction to Bryan's
wind storm at Baltimore by let
ting loose one at Regina? Looks
like an infringement of the copy
right of the Nebraskan.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Jim Tawney says Taft was
fairly nominated" Yes, an d
Jim, repudiated and cast out by
his home people, sat on the re-
publican national committee as
proxy for a Connecticut man
and helped push the fair" deal
through. It is to laugh.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

If some Office holders had a
greater respect for the people
and a less consuming desire to
butt in and hog everything for
themselves, they would stand a
better chance at the polls when
election time comes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

The steam roller went over
the systems of Teddy and Willie.
Bet it didn't come through with
out a few dents in it's own sys-
tenn.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

The republicans at Chicago
had the high gear on; the demo
Gratis at Baltimore exceeded the
speed limit.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Bryan didn't waste any time
kicking Champ Clark's d g
around; he went right after the
old man himself.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

One Paul F. Dehnel, an al
legged newspaper man of Worth
ington, is in the field for con
gresham at-large. Paul won't
get very far.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Some people are wondering if
a steam roller can be used as an
adjunct to direct primary.
How very foolish to waste good
gray matter over question like
that.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Now that the country has been
saved at Chicago and Baltimore,
it's about time for aspirants for
local offices to get busy and try
to save Stearns county some
more
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

When one cOnSid erS the
amount Of hot air emitted by
democratic spell binders at Bal
timore, he doesn't wonder the
temperature was high all over
the country last week.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

The Baltimore steam roller
didn't amuse William Jennings
Bryan half as much as the Chi.
cago affair did. 1t all depends
on the viewpoint.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Wonder if the ears of Ryan,
Morgan ct al burned when Bryan
called them by name at Balti.
more and asked that their min.
ions be elected bodily from the
convention.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

And yet national nominating
conventions are supposed to be
deliberative bodies.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Morgan, Murphy ct al re-
ceived a lot of free advertising
(such as it isl at the hands of
Bryan at Baltimore. If they
lived in Minnesota the corrupt
practices act might compel them
to pay for it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Abuse, rail at and ridicule
Theodore Roosevelt and William
Jennings Bryan as you will, it
cannot be denied that they have
courage of their convictions.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Do you suppose William How
ard Taft has any idea of the real
feeling toward him among the
"plain people?"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

There's always something to
be thankful for; the corrupt
practices act eliminates the cam
paign cigar.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

It's distinctly amusing to watch
the antics Of the office seeker
and the Office holder these days,
as he straddles around trying to
decide on which side of the fence
to alight.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Burying Roosevelt and Bryan
isn't such a easy job as some
people thought it was going to
no
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
Mans Weakness.

The weakness of man is a lesson
which we learn only to forget; and
the instability of human affairs is a
. fact too familiar to remain impressive.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
A Guiding Llaht.

Reputation is in itself only farth-
ing candle, Of wavering and uncertain
fame. easily blown out; but It is the
light by which the world looks for
and finds merit-Lowell.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

A public official never makes
a mistake by being courteous
and obliging. The converse of
this proposition is also true.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Party Solidarity is likely to
receive a solar plexus blow be-
fore the troubles ended.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
Only Maxine Il Worse.

''You must take exercise" said the
physician, land. by all means, worry
less. Play golf" Doctor" replied
the patient, "yol mean well, but a
man who plays my kind OF golf
{ game can't help worrying"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

Events at Chicago and Balti-
more would seem to indicate that
neither of the two great parties
has monopoly on trouble.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
Ube Churches.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Glass Meeting $3.50 a. m.
Morning Service l0:3O a. m.
Sunday School Zoo m.
Junior League 3:3O p. m.
Epworth League 6:3O p. m.
Evening Service $50 p. M.
Bible study, Wed. Eve. 1880 p. m.
r. w. Duel, Pastor.
ST. PAUL CHURCH
Services every Sunday at 8 O'Clock
low mass, 10 O'Clock high mass.
Afternoon service at 3 O'Clock p. m.
Every day mass at 8 O'Clock a. m.
REV. A. ARTz Pastor.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Services, Morning, 1880.
Sunday School, II M.
Evening Service 1870
Prayer Meeting Wednesday. Eve 7:3O
Bible Study, Friday evening 1870
Everybody Welcome.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Morning Service 1870
Bible School 11:45
Y. p. S. G. E. at $50 p. m.
Evening Services 7:3O
Prayer and Teachers Meeting
Wednesday 1870 p. m.
A cordial invitation to all
Rev. w. J. Brown, Pastor
OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS CHURCH
Sunday Services
Low Mass s a. m.
High Mass 1870 a. m.
Lenten Services
Sunday evening 1870 Sermon
Wednesday evening 1870 Stations
Rev. F. Hinnenkamp, Pastor.
THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
(EPIsCOPAL)
Third Sunday after Trinity
Evening Service at 1870
Strangers cordially welcome.
REV. S. i. MITCHELL, Rector.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
the HERALD'S TICKET

For President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
For Congressman, Sixth District
ALVAH EASTMAN
For Governor
WILLIAM E.. LEE
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

10th and St. Peter Street, ST. Pau Mimi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-16
1Aus VERSUS SCHOOLS.

recent issu of Public Health, the
bulletin of the Michigan state depart
,ne,.t of health, contains a striking ex-
annie of the ridiculous limitations
often placed on public health work.
The board recently condemned the
Ingham county jail because some Of
the cells were below the ground-level
and were not in sanitary condition.
The county was compelled to build a
new iail that was sanitary. In district
6. Lansing township, 1ngham county,
there is a school house which has a
basement room lighted and ventilated
Nv five small windows. In this room
were crowded fifty-five small children.
The conditions as to light and ventila-
ton were as bad in the school room
as in the Jail cell. Yet the state board
has no power to order the school
board to provide sanitary school
rooms, nor, apparently, has any other
body. These facts are shown on the
front page of the bulletin in an i'm
pressive cartoon bearing the sugges-
tive question, IF the state can protect
criminals, why can't it protect school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-16
County Commissioners Dig Up
Bad Contracting Deal.
John Townsend, Painter, Over
charged for Work, IT'S Said.
HIRED men At Low WAGE
Then Asked County for Full
Union Prices, Is Claim.
Decorating and Painting Resi-
dence Section of Jail.

Graft in connection with the over
hauling of the residence section of the
county Jail building was unearthed at
a meeting of the county commissioners
today and John Townsend, the painter
and decorator in charge will be called
before the board today to explain his
actions. The amount involved is not
large but the airing of the affair is
expected to show a plan whereby the
county was to be charged nearly $50
too much each week by the contrac-
tor.
According to- stories told members of
the board today Townsend told paint
ers and paper hangers whom he hired
that the work at the Jail was a con-
tract job. He said there was moth
ing in it but days wages for him on
account of having taken it at a low
bid The season being dull two union
painters went to work for him at con-
siderable below the regular scale.
Townsend, it is alleged, hired one
man for 80 cents an hour. Another
agreed to work for 25 cents an hour,
understanding, of course, that the job
was a poor contract, and doing the
work at low price to help the con-
tractor in return for being given the
places. When Townsend put in his
O1l To INC COUNTY ne Charged 40 Genus
an hour for both men. In this way
his plan was to collect $3.50 per day
for wages for the men working under
him, which went into his own pocket,
it is said.
The painters learned that the job
was not a contract affair but piece
work and complained to the commits
sioners. The commissioners did not
express themselves as to any probable
a OfiOn AGAINST TnVUnSnnd oil oh
they declared the padding of the ac-
counts constituted theft. They will
decide what action to take after hear
ing Townsend. -..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-16
says UNCLE CAV

For genuine, unaduIterated cussedness,
you can't beat tine persons who is always
q smile than a rattlesnake does into
bite and when he says my dear to his
wife she feels like an ordinary woman
would who had gotten beating. He ao-
heres rigidly to the forms of courtesy,
but never by any slip falls into the spirit
of it He's a constant source of irritation
to normal folk, and his mission is to put
flies into the ointment of life. He is
usually described as nasty and that
tirely bad if he'd warm up occasionally,
explode and get his vicious humor out OF
his system. but he never does. He Is the
more intolerable because he holds his
temper He never commits an overt act;
but takes his meanness out in a snippIsh
coldness that makes everybody else rot
think of your pet aversion, whether he
be a waiter, hotel clerk, ticket seller,
cotillion leader or man about town.
The man you hate worst is likely to be
a polite clam, whatever his station in life.
Most of US have warmer blood than eelS
and there is something peculiarly revolt
ing to common folk about these cold stoI-
age amenities. We feel that the shell OF
courtesy is a whited Sepulchre full of
dead emotions and we don't care to see
their resting places profaned. We Gis-
like smiles without that do not bespeak
smiles within We hate above all things
the hate that is too cold to. glare up. And
most of us are at times inspired with a
desire to throw the propTieties to the
winds and invite the malignant clam out
side to get what's coming to him.
If you have spleen in your system that
must make itself felt, vent 1t in manly
way and take the consequences. Be iii
tempered If you must, sptteful If you
can't help it, belIigerent, If there is no
better way, but don't take 1t out in being
coldly polite to everyone with whom you
mock courtesy, a curse has more virtue
thar supercilious word. Politeness that
doesn't spring from kindness is poison
Copyright. 1912, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-16
JAYHAWKER JOTS

There are a: lot of things a man
! doesn't learn in this life, remarks
Keith Clevenger. That's why there is
another.
The man who doesn't advertise may
know his own businesS-but nobody
else will
If there is anything more tiresome,
| observes Mack Gretchen, than the
man who knows nothing, it's the
man who knows it all.
Attention is called by the Smith
County Pioneer to the fact that soon
the days will begin to lengthen and
winter begin to strengthen
Good advice, from the Norton Coun-
ty News: 1t is usually well to be on
the lookout for a man who is CON
stantly telling you to be on the look
out for others.
This weather, says the Smith Coun-
ty Journal, constitutes a fine excuse
for the professional loafers to hang
around the friendly fires of the bust
ness men of the town.
Pip Daniels of the Howard Courant
makes this suggestions: While you are
looking for the biggest liar, don't fail
to consider the gink who said the cas-
lest way to go to sleep was to count
imaginary sheep as they jumped
through a hole in the fence.
Related by Editor Kelley of the To-
ronto Republican: Friend of mine
told me of an old friend of his who
was talking of moving to town from
the farm. "When's he comm ?''
asked. My friend said: Not till he
en- buy a $4,000 place for $500"
1t is told by the Emporia Gazette
that an Emporia girl complained the
other day of the way her steady was
treating her. Why don't you give
1T isn't a mitten he needs was the
answer; it's a pair of socks. He's got
cold feet
Editor Baxter of the Kanopolis
Journal, has the courage of his con-
viction, as the following paragraph
from his pen shows: The writer was
severely taken to task a few days ago
for saying that Socialism is the gos-
pei of the unfit After thinking it over
a few days and failing to see where
anybody ever got anywhere with it,
We desire to repeat.
A Renaissance by Editor Honey of
the Mankato Western Advocate: One
of the editors at an editorial aSso-
citation in Topeka last week told about
being employed on country news
paper away back in 1898 and 1894.
Goodness, gracious, Agnes! Away
back in 1881" Why, the boss of this
old country weekly was employed on
Kansas country newspaper away
back in 1875 and he owned a coun-
try newspaper in Kansas away back
in 1880, before his town had a rail-
road or electric lights, or telephones
or telegraph or a typewriter-but we
did have a saloon or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

An understudy always imagtnes the
star is Jealous of her.
No poor man is as much concerned
about attaining fame as money.
Sometimes a woman goes after di-
vorce as if revenge were really what she
wanted.
Occasionally a farm hand turns crimf-
nal, but most of the excuses for wicked
ness are weak.
One doesn't go to an ice cream social
for the ice cream, and the heathens
should be more appreciative-
girl isn't really beautiful unless she
can wear the homeliest hat in the mil
linery market with good grace.
Nothing truer was ever said than that
a new broom sweeps clean: nine out OF
ten new ministers appear to catch on IN
stantly.
In this prosperous period, if the children
don't ask s. Claus for everything, it's pc
cause they couldn't think OF it.
Men think they are pretty smart, but a
lot of them have to get married to learn
that millinery costs more than haberdash-
cry.
1t is possible to do a lot of hard work
without getting callouses on your hands,
although a farmer boy may doubt it; we
used to.
Hearing an Englishman speak this well
known language has suggested that the
empire should do something to improve
its school system.