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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-11
CONVICTED OF BooTLEGGING.

On Thursday afternoon of last
week on complaint of the city mar
shall d. M. Mcintyre was arraigned
before Judge Diehl charged with fur
nishing liquor to a posted man. The
accused finally plead guilty but not
before he had stood on his dignity
and declared that he was a temper
ance man, but when confronted with
absolute evidence he wilted, and was
fined $25 and costs or sentenced to
80 days in the county Jail. He asked
for stay Of few days to raise the
amount of his fine. Failing to pro-
duce he was taken to st. Cloud for his
visit with the sheriff Wednesday.
The offense was peculariarly disrep-
utable for the reason that Mcintyre
has always posed as an ardent church
man and a champion Of morality. He
resided in rooms over McCracken &
Burgess grocery store, keeping bach
elofs quarters. On Investigation his
apartments were found to be in an ex-
|ceedingly filthy condition, so much Sc
that Health Officer Dr.. Lamb issued 9
written order for tho police to burn
all the contents save and except
books and papers. Dr.. Lamb inaists
that strenuous measures were ,neces-
sary for the protection Of the public
health.
Il The real facts are that Mcintyre i
an irresponsible and is not . proper
Espbject for Jail or any penal instita-
ton, hut should have been sent TO an
institution for the irresponsible 3
long time ago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-11
A BUM SHOW.

The entertainment given at the
Grand Opera House Tuesday evening
under the auspices Of the local Camp
Of the Modern Woodmen, attracted a
fair-aized audience. That portion CT
the program in which Deputy Reilly
gave an illustrated lecture on the M.
w. A. sanitarium for consumptives at
Colorado Springs was interesting and
demonstrated the fact that the M.
w. A., care for their unfortunate
members as few organizations do. A
fellow by the name of Powers was
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-11

IN SILVEKWARE:
Knives and Foeks
Spoons
Berry Spoon
Cold Meat Fork
Salad Spoon
Sugar longs
Bread Tray =
Butter Spreads
Creamer and Sugar
Napkin Holdera,,
Salt and Peppers
Sugar Shell ~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-11

Interesting News Items Taken From
Herald Of 1858. Edited by r.. H..
Simonton. SIN a Resident of
Sank Centre
HERALD OF MAY ,2as 1853.
Wheat Declines.

There was a marked decline in
wheat last week. On Saturday the
10Th, the Milwaukee quotations were
$2.13 a $2.14, and the New York
$3.50 q $3.50, yesterday wheat was
quoted in Milwaukee at $500, ard IN
New York 4s 7 aG$2.2QJ
Wanted, q Meat Market.
To ButcheEa-We want q meat
market in SaGk Centre and must have
one. Cannot we induce some good
man to set himself up in that branch
Of business. There are certainly
enough Inhabitants here to support a
meat market.
Better Buildings.
We are glad to observe indications
that the daYss Of wooden structures
in the business part of town are pass
ing away. Nearly every one thinking
Of building has his mind ] fixed on
brick OF concrete and tin roofing,
which IS as it should be, for insurance
is already hard to be obtained 4 in
these localities, and rates are ex-
tremely high-so high that few are
willing to pay them-and whoever
puts his money into wooden build
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billed as the worlds greatet mono
logue artist and singer. The writer in
his day has seen hum actors put over
some pretty punk stuff. IL there lis
any one in the bunch having anything
on this fellow Powers our memory
fails to recall him, and we have a
pretty fair memory as memories 60.
Powers is apparently of the opinion
that he can hand out anything in the
country and get away with it. The
local WOodmen are not to be CRITICS.
ed as they booked the attraction in
good faith.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-11

=
ing in this part of town, viii be very
likely at no distant time 70 see his
property transformed into ashes and
smoke. Let Us have no more wooden
structures along. Main or Third street,
within the business limits.
A New Foot Bridge.
The residents on the north side of
the river have dubbed together and
Constructed a pasable foot bridge
across the river on the dam, which
win prove b great convenience to Pc
destrians on both sides OF the river
having occasion to cross.
Government Train.
A train of Uncle Sans teams. con-
sisting Of AZ wagons and 252 mules,
(six mules to each wagonl and %
men have been camped by the lake
near town during the last few days.
! !. ney sfe loaded with grain for the
forts above here, q part Of which will
be left here for the present, and lum-
Der taken on instead.
New Paper.
Frank Mead, who has been publish
ing the Shakopee Spectator up to a
recent date, which paper died nat.
ural death = fey weeks ago for want
ISpppork Is. now in Pennington max
ing arrangements to start paper
there 10 BE called the Pennington
FTelegraph, the first number of which
will iappesr in a few days. We wish
you success, Frank, and long life to
the Telegraph.
New Settlers.
George Crow, w. 81. Barkly and J
lCaeper Of ST.. Charles, Winona coun-
| ty, Mimi, passed through town last
tweek, each having a breaking team
on their way to Westport Lake, where
they have secured land and will i'm
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-11
~ ~ Is ~
A Merry Christmas
To All

anda Xmashat with
sold from fails satisfaction will
mosreiab emanufat urersA
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order to absorb or force into subserviency
the old-established banks In the great pro-
vincial cities. BY themselves investing a
relatively small capital, they have gained
control of banks with more than 81 Co.,
100000 capital. Whenever provincial
bank needs to increase its capital. one
Of the Big d. banks. itself controlling
the private investor takes up all the new
shares, and buys up old shares, until it
gets control of about a third of the total
share capital. This is enough to give
the German investor takes no interest in
a bank as long as dividends remain high
For every million dollars invested the
big d. gets control Of three millions OF
capital.
Sometimes the monopoly is spread with
even less capital Thus by lately in
vesting $1SMO,0fO in a group of pro-
vincial banks the Deutsche Bank got
control Of institutions capitalized at $685.
100000. When needed. however. the
big d" banks can lay hands on enough
capital to buy up important banks whole
sale. The Dsconto Bank lately bought
up altogether tho Hamburg North Ger
man Bank. and similarly the Daerm-
important Discount Bank Of Breslau.
While the Big Ds'' thus absorb the
great provincial banks. the enslaved pro-
vincial banks In turn eat up the smaller
provincial banks. Until lately German
local finance was transacted by hundreds
Of small. very solid and old-established
private banks, whose chiefs acted as adj
visers and investors for the same fami-
lies for generations.
Some time ago the order went forth
from the Berlin financial cars that these
private banks should be forced into the
combine or extinguished. This order was
carried out. The big Ds' adopted the
Rockefellerian method Of cutting prices
They began doing investment work for
their clients without charging commits
sion. The small banks. as they had
themselves to pay brokers on the stock
exchange, could not fight this and large
numbers of them tamely entered the yoke
Of the great provincial banks. At the
same time, by accepting deposits OF az
little as S25 and paying good interest on
them. the monopolist banks dealt q blow
Mt the state and municipal banks.
This movement Of concentration goes
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on rapidly. When one bank in a large
town surrenders to the combine, the COM
peting local banks usually also have to
surrender. The bank which first gives
way Is allowed a certain amount of indie
pendence, and with all the capital and
prestige of the big d" bank behind it
II can crush competition. AS rule. the
two or three slave banks. each keeping its
Old name. continue to exist and the Big
D. bank which really owns them allots
to each a sphere of work, and sternly
forbids wasteful competition. Sometimes
the local bank is SO hopelessly beaten
that 1t has to give up business and accept
in payment shares in the big D. bank.
!, x
favorite method of the monopolist
bank is to open daughter companies"
The daughter companies are entirely in
dependent in law of the mother bank
but the mother bank holds all the shares
If things go well the big bank profits, if
they go ill. it cannot lose more than the
value of the shares at the price of issue
With it's foreknowledge Of what is going
to happen the big D. bank can sell the
shares in time; and cut their loss.
AS result of these methods there are
practically no big banks in Germany
which are not directly or indirectly under
big Ds." though independent in or
ganization. realize that their interests are
one. In all great affairs they come to
agreements not to injure one another. A
legal fusion is presented by the fact that
the big Ds' and the five other banks
under the thumb of a handful of profess
sional financiers. who take enormous sums
annually in the shape of fees and bonuses
and 1t is against the interests of these
bank directors to reduce their members
by matchmaking. The solidarity of the
big Ds' Is shown in other ways. Nota-
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Thought Them Alive.

DOBERT HENRI, the Well known art
~ list of New York. was laughing about
an art hoax that had been practiced In
Paris on an American millionaire.
''Millionaires of that type are SO easily
hoaxed,' he said. They are SO ignorant
of art.
Il heard recently of an elderly million
aire who was taking his beautiful young
wife abroad to have her portrait painted.
But why don't you try home talent.
some one asked him.
''Oh. he answered. we've tried home
talent in vain. Now we're going over to see
what the genuine old masters can do.
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of rival steel corporations. The steel
works compete against each other and
cut prices until they are selling at a loss.
BY this the banks behind them are
threatened with loss of the interest on
their capital. They therefore come to an
agreement behind the backs of the steel
corporations and force these to restore
the old high prices. In this way the
big D. banks are the controlling fac
tor In the matter of prices.
At present the Big Ds'' have come
thoroughly to understand the profit which
they may reap out of industrial trusts,
and they are Systematically organizing
combines. The Deutsche Bank first form
ed trust combination of Siemens and
Halscke with the Schuckert electrical
works, and next compelled this combine
to make an anti-competition agreement
with the General Electricity Company
and with several smaller corporations.
The great Bergman Electricity Company
alone stood out. The DeutSche Bank re-
fused 1t money unless it entered the COM
bine, and thus finally forced it to come
in. Bitter complaints are made about
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and to keep more ready money in hand
for emergencies A sensation was caused
by this attack on German credit and DIR.
Delbrueck, minister OF the interior. was
Obliged TO make a reassuring statement
to the reichstag.
GermanyS government more or less
considers itself responsible for the big
banks, and processes to take a rosy view
Nevertheless. DIR kuehn, imperial Sec
rotary of the treasury. and DR. LentZe,
Prussian finance minister, are known to
be frightened at the monopolist plans of
the banks. and at the dangerous hiding
away of public money in risky undertake
ings The government VIII sooner or later
intervene. One plan is To compel the
banks to invest a much larger part OF
their funds in state papers. This Incl
dentally would have the advantage of
sending up German and Prussian rentes
Another suggestion is that "A law should
be passed preventing banks engineering
industrial combines or otherwise acting in
restraint of trade.
Copyright. 1913, 10y Curtis Brown
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the rigorous way in which the big Ds'
act AS a result of one combine and
consequent curtailment of output whole
factory quarter of Frankfurt Main
was laid waste.
The banks are further attacked on the
score of unsafe management. 1t is alleged
that the councils of supervision have
degenerated into family affairs, and that
directors eat up large share of the
profits In 1910 the Dresdener Bank paid
Sl,OOO,OO0 to directors and members of
the supervision council.
Many members of the councils do moth
ing but collect fees. A further accusa-
ton is that the bid Ds invest money
so readily in unrealizable securities that
they must fail in time of crisis. The
president of the Imperial Bank. Privy
Councillor Havenstein. holds this alarm
list view, and last spring he issued a
warning to the big Ds'' and to their
allies, advising them to give. less credit.
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cheney of the men has come from such
treatment.
The Americans are introducing our
farm machinery. They have American
wagons and carts and also American
plows and other farm tools. As to the
native methods, everything is rude. l
see the farmers still using the one
handled pillow of the Scripture. shod with
strip of pointed iron about big as
your hand. This turns the soil both WAYS
and only scratches the surface. The most
common cart here has wooden wheels
with holes in the center for the aNles.
and il is drawn by oxen Yoked by their
horns The loads are pulled by the head
instead of the shoulders and necks. and
the treat OF the animals seems cruel
to an extreme.
American axes are gradually coming into
USE but the most OF the cutting OF the
lighter sort is done with the machcte.
much like "A corncutter Every native
Central American carries machete 1t
is good weapon of defense against man
or beast. and il enables him 10 make his
way through the jungle. II cuts his
grass for hay and the green corn for his
cattle After the cattle are dead the
machete chops them up to make beef and
is also employed i'm hog killing. 1t serves
to cut out the weeds from the corn patcn
and with IL the native punches holes ia
the ground where he drops the grains OF
corn at planting time. Tie then covers
the corn with his heel and sitting down,
lets nature do the rest.
The Americans here are teaching III.
natives something Of stock farming, an 1
the day may come when meat from Gem
trail America will reduce our big butcher
bills In Costa Rica there large
ranches belonging to the banana plant
ers where working cattle for the planta-
tions are reared. The United Fruit Com
pany has some dairy cows and its men
tell me that the grass there makes ex-
cellent beef. Indeed, there is money To
be made in raising stock. all the way
from Panama to Mexico. These highlands
have fine pastures and the stock brings
good prices. In upper Panama they are
now raising beef for Colon and Panama
City, and the future meat supply of the
canal may come from there.
Costa Rica has live stock numbering
more than half a million. besides mules,
sheep and goats. and Honduras has AL
most a half million head of cattle alone.
and a large number of mules, pigs and
sheep. 1t has 10000 acres devoted to
pasture
Here i'm Guatemala the cattle are fewer
but the grazing grounds on the high
plateaus are Of great extent. and well
fitted for sheep. cattle and hogs. Mica
raeua has more than a million of cattle
and Salvador i'm proportion to its size has
more live stock than any other Central
American republic.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Workers..

tfVYTOODROW WILSON naturally be-
!" lieves in a college education for
boys and girls alike" said banker at
the Princeton Club in New York.
Mr.. Wilson, lunching with me here.
once said in his quaint way that the old
idea about a college education uniting
a lad for work had quite died out.
We no longer hear he declared,
stories like that of Gobsa Code.
When GobSa Codes son Scattergood,'
he explained, desired to go to Princeton.
he said to the old man:
'Pater. is it true that boys who go
to college are unfit for work afterward? -
"'Of course 1T amt true,' snorted the
old man Indignantly. Why, I've got a
Princeton graduate runnin' my freight
elevator. two of my best coal beavers are
Harvard A. BIS. and Yale b. s. is my
star truck driver
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A Real Samaritan.

THE announcement of Miss Helen MIL
= Ter Gould's betrothal led one of the
charity workers of New York TO say:
Marriage itself will not be able to
quench Miss Gould's passion for giving.
Apropos to this passion. she once told me
story.
There was young minister, the story
ran who. being poor and having nothing
else to give used to give away his
clothes.
The young minister's district contain
ed many needy men. and he would give
them shoes and socks, shirts and coats,
gloves overcoats and trousers.
Yes, time and again he would give
away his clothes. foolishiy and recklessly,
piece by piece, until
Here the charity worker smiled.
Until" she ended, The came to him.
self"
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SAVING MAHOGANY MTo LUIBER,
A corn1ON ScEW In CENTRAL AMERICA


duras or the Honduras Republic. Mahog-
any grows in the valleys all over that
country, and especially in the lowlands
along the northern coast of the Caribbean
sea.
1t is near this coast. running inland
fifty or more miles, that the chief banana
plantations are, and not far from the sea
in the same region are immense cocoanut
groves with tens of thousands of bearing
trees.
The most of the banana industry be-
longs to the United Fruit Company, and
that company has line of steamers
which plies regularly between Port Cor
teZ and New Orleans. calling at Port Bar
rios and Belize on the way. The ship
ments of bananas amount to 100000
punches and upward per year. which
means an aggregate of more than 300
1000 bananas per annum. The business
Is carried on about the same as it is in
Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama The
plantations have many little railroads for
carrying the fruit They are divided into
farms, and each farm is a settlement of
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it's own. The overseers are Americans,
and the labor is largely done by negroes
from Jamaica and the other islands of
the West Indies, who come there for the
purpose
The process of making the plantations
is about the same everywhere. The jun
gle has to be cut down, and this means
the telling of trees from three to ten feet
in diameter and the cutting out Of under
brush and lianaS through which 1t is i'm
possible to go without a machete or ak.
AS soon as the land has been cleared, it
is burned over and then the markers go
through and stake out the holes where
the plants are to be set. The banana
plants come from sprouts of the older
trees and they are set out about as far
apart each way as the trees of the aver
age peach orchard. They are planted
among the half-burned logs and grow
without cultivation. The only thing is to
keep down the weeds when the logs will
soon rot away. l have seen plants grow
ing among trees as big around as a flour
barrel. and in going over the plantations
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An Advertising Story.

A n advertising manager at a Sphinx
Club dinner in New York told an
advertising story.
"A man." he said. entered shop one
bitter cold day and bought wooden
mufler. When he opened the muff1er
he found inside it the photograph of a
beautiful girl. together with note say
ing:
If you are single, please write to me.
"A name and address followed, and the
man smiled. He was single. and he put
the photograph on his sitting room man
tel. There. every evening. looking up
from his book, he beheld it. 1t was very
beautiful. and in a week he had fallen
head over heels in love.
so he wrote to the girl Another week
passed. a week of anxious. nerve racking
suspense. Then the lovesick man re-
ceived this crushing letter:
'Sir-The Mary Smith to whom you
wrote was my grandmother. She died
nine years ago. aged eighty-siX Yours
truly
Our heartbroken bachelor. on looking
into this strange matter found that he
had foolishly bought the muffler from
dealer who didn't advertise
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ference Not few rise sixty feet above
the ground before the branches begin
and some are SO large that five men,.
joining hands. cannot encircle them.
There is no such thing as a mahogany
forest The trees do not grow close to-
gether, but at wide distances apart; and
the mahogany hunters climb the high
est trees of the forest and pick out the
mahoganies by their bright colOred leaves.
The leaves change from season to sea-
son and at times they are as gorgeous
as our leaves in autumn. The hunter
marks the mahogany by the color and
then leads the cutters through the jungle.
hacking a road to where the doomed tree
stands Often only two or three trees
are found on an acre, but two trees per
acre are enough to pay dividends. There
is a record of one corporation which had
a mahogany concession of about $4,000
acres. the total yield of which was only
sixty trees or less than two per square
mile / doubt if it paid.
The ordinary tree ought to be at least
a yard in diameter, and the average tree
is usually one or two hundred years old
before it is ready for lumber. The most
of the wood is cut in the rainy season,
but as the trees grow in the lowlands
the hauling con be done only in the dry
soon as the trees are felled their limbs
are cut off and the logs are then taken
to the nearest stream. They are RATED
down to the market, or they may go to
the railroad and be taken to the ports on
the cars. They are put upon shipboard
as soon as they reach port to prevent
their being attacked by the toredo and
other boring insects. The wood is SO valu-
liable that it is handled like fruit. and
close record is kept of it from the forest
to the hands of the consumer. One of
the chief markets is London. and others
are New York and New Orleans.
A great deal of our best mahogany now
comes from British Honduras. and We
get much also from the Honduras Re-
public. The British Honduras timber is
exported from Belize. which is not very
far from Port Barrios. and am told
that the wealth Of that town has largely
come from this trade. The forests are
exploited by lumbermen. who hire gangs
of natives for the season. and nave the
exporting houses to advance the provis-