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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
My dear friends:

My dear friends:
Whoever you are, l know one
thing about yOu-You count your
children the dearest things you
have.
have children myself and I
know how hard it is to decide just
what is best for each child.
OF course, we must give the chill
dren some choice of their own, but
it is our business TO train them and
inform and instruct them, so that
they will choose right.
Going away from home TO a good
school, even for a single term, makes
a great difference with boy or girl.
or course, they learn a great deal,
but that is not the whole of il. II
starts them to thinking. IL wakes
them up to meet the best young
people from other districts and
other states.
You must have seen some OF your
neighbors' sons and daughters who
have been to Berea a little while
and come back differeEt-they are
more competent, more capable, bet
ter in every way.
And this best kind of education
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
A LETTER TO YOUNG MEN

young man, what does he amount
to? Shall I lend him money, can I
trust him with my business, would
| want him TO marry my daughter"
Now it is for you, my son, this
winter TO prepare some good
answers to those questions.
| know you just naturally shrink
bit from starting out TO go TO
school in a new place. But, in Be-
rea, you will find people you know
already, and everybody is friend
ly.
Whatever your plan is, the first
step is to train your mind and find
out how TO learn. Just look at the
Six Doors in the next column Of
this paper, and plan to make start
just before the beginning Of the new
year.
Cordially. your friend,
w. G. Frost.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
A LETTER TO YOUNG WOMEN

ferent places. And you will have
friends in distant places, acquain-
tances you made in your happy
school days.
Home is the best place in the
world, but we appreciate our homes
better if we have been away. And
we are able to make our homes
more comfortable and pleasant be-
cause of the things we learn at u
good school.
Remember nobody gets to school
without making great efforts. And
there will be difficulties and Objec-
tions and hindrances. But a brave
and resolute girl will find a way.
Come one term and you will never
regret it.
Your cordial friend,
w. G. Frost.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18

must guide MS actions according to
the loudness or softness Of the music.
II 10 astonishing what different tasks
are accomplished after q little prac-
tice, and the children's cries of let
me 70 out next" prove their enjoy
ment of Magic Music"
Guessing Holly Berries.
For this game the child must put
on his thinking cap" Hold a large
spray OF holly in your hand and al
low the children to look at II for q
few minutes. Then tell them to write
their estimate of the number OF
holly berries on the branch. You
might take a chrysanthemum also
and ask them to guess how many
petals in the flower. Great interest IL
shown when the petals are counted.
A Christmas Doll.
The idea OF this game is to see who
can make the prettiest doll out OF a
long smooth potato. two pieces of
pretty colored tissue paper. some
small sticks for legs and arms. and
some pins. Or II you would rather
pass clothes pins and let the children
fashion dolls out of them. that will
also answer the purpose.
Place all the dolls In a row when
completed, and have the children vote
for their favorite one. You viii be
surprised to see what ingenious re-
suits the clever little fingers produce.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
Ny dear John or Henry, or Dick:

Ny dear John or Henry, or Dick:
When did you find out that you
we're nearly grown up?
When does a boy become man,
anyway?
Well. he begins to become man
when he begins to think about plans
and aims in life.
Have you begun to have an aim
in view? Then you are getting be.
yond the boy stage.
Why don't you go TO school this
winter9 You can't earn very much
around home. You will be counting
up the things you know a few years
from now, and wonder why you
didn't learn TO figure, and to write
good letters, and to make money in
the new fashioned way out OF the
farm or in the shop.
Somebody will say, There is that
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
Ny dear Miss Jennie, or Susan or
Kate:

My dear Miss Jennie, or Susan or
Kate:
I am trying to write to the girl
who is just about grown up, and has
only begun TO think about going
away TO school.
You are going TO decide in the
next week or two just how much
OF a woman you will be. Even one
term away from home at good
school makes a great difference.
You learn a great deal, but that
isn't the whole of il. You train
your mind so that you can be a
wiser person all your life. You
get acquainted with the best young
people from other districts and from
other states. IL stirs your mind to
compare things as they are in diff
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
CHRISTMAS GAMES
FOR THE CHILDREN
Santa claus Relns.

santa CIauo Veins.
This game Ia very exciting. Three
pieces OF white tape. each about an
inch wide, and the length Of the room,
are held at one end by three children.
Three others are given pairs Of sells
sors and at q signal the players cut
the tape In half lengthwise. The one
who first reaches the opposite end OF
the tape Is the winner OF that heat.
The different winners contest until
the champion Is declared. Boys and
girls, you know. love racing compeu-
lions Of all kinds and this race is one
that probably they never played be-
fore.
Magic Music.
Although this 10 a game that per
haps the mothers and fathers played
when they went to kindergarten. II
still causes much laughter and 10 al
ways successful.
One child leaves the room and the
others decide upon something for him
TO do on his return. The musician
regulates his playing, and the child
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18

their given word. The child must
guess the proverb.
Santa Claus Grab Bag.
On the invitation state that each
child is to bring something to the
party that he or she no longer cares
for. This article is to be In neatly
wrapped and tied parcel. 30 as to hide
its identity. II is placed In Q large
bag. on the child's arrival. Each child
then draws a present from the bag.
Uproars OF laughter follow the open
ing OF the packages. which probably
will consist OF peculiar articles OF ell
sizes and descriptions.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
a Noisy Game.

Yes. II is noisy. but the children
have an idea that "the more noise.
the more fun" and what mother cares
II "the roof comes down" at q Christ
mas partyf
After a child leaves the room. q
proverb IL chosen. One word OF II
Is given to each child. II there are
more children than words contained
In the proverb. then two OF more chill
dren are given the same word. When
the child outside the room returns. a
leader counts "One. two. three" Al
the Three" all the children shout
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
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rhis II the Stocking long and nns
That the little girl hung At the END
Of the line
There BY the Hearth. where. all In .
row.
rhe stockings hung waiting for
K, lanta. you know:
- hung by the Chimney big and
wide
That Santa Claus climbed down In
side
At the House where the Reindeer
stopped
That drew the Sleigh
That carried the Pack
That Santa Claus brought at Christ
mas.-From st. Nicholas.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18
Questions Answered

BEREA FRIEND OF WORKING STUDENTS. Berea College with
its affiliated schools institution requires certain
fees but expends thousands dollars each the benefit
Of its Students giving highest advantages lowest and arranging
far possible for students
SCHOOL FAMILY. regulations pro-
the the people students
who may College provides without
charge
All except those with parents in Bea live College buildings end
assist work Of boarding hail. farm and Shops receiving valuable
training getting according the value of their labor Except
Winer It expected that all u haze chance Of thsS
Write the Secretary before employment
PERSONAL EXPENSES clothing laundry books
with different people Berea plain clothing climate
regardless the
and underng umbrellas and overshoes THE
COOPERATIVE STORE books articles, unoms
umbrellas and other necessary articles at cost
LIVING EXPENSES really below The College asks
for the fine buildings which students live charging only enough
for cleaning REPAIRS fuel lights and washing of bedding and
towels For table board without $85
81 so furnished with washing
ding, 40 60 each person.
SCHOOL DEPOSIT" guarantee
for of library books This paid
returned when the student
Second INCIDENTAL help expenses
of all instruction free gft) The Incidental Fee
for most students $500 term Academy and Normal $500 and
$500 in Collegiate
PAYMENT MUST BE IN ADVANCE
the term board by the half term nsalments follows:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-17
Lone Prairie Falls Before Locals;
Score, II to ;
WAS one SIDfD AFFAIR
Vincent in Great Form and Sends
Thirteen Over the Strike Out
Route
BIZ N. QUAD

The three hundred baseball bugs
that gathered at the fair grounds
Sunday to see Long Prairie clash with
the locals were disappointed to say in
the least in the showing made by the
former club which went down to the
defeat of II counts to 3. Wobblyitis
seized them from the very outset;
At the end of the second inning it
was a safe bet that their goose was
thoroughly basted and during the re-
naming frames, artistically cooked.
The lone three circuits of the
strangers came in the fifth. While
Vincent was demonstrating to the
audience that he could nick q batter
on any part Of his anatomy he SO de-
sired, two Of them got free fare to
the first station. Theigs and Grower
surprised themselves by connecting
with safeties and blooie, three had re-
gistered before the hook could grab
the third out However. this one in
ming was all the fun Long Prairie
had.
Our athletes scored twice to COM
mence with and duplicated the scoring
act in every inning except the fifth
and seventh. Shoemaker was deter
mined to cast the pellet just where
it could be most easily 1attened and
he was not disappointed; twelve hits
were the result of his efforts and the
stations were kept cramped for room.
Vincent served up nice breakers
and thirteen Long Prairieites punch
ed the ozone thrice in vain effort to
locate the whereabouts of the ball.
Three were lucky and were given Gre
dit for hits.
Lineup and score:
LONG PRAIRIE SAUK CENTRE
H. Theigs SIS Jacobson 20
Bleise 30 Arnestad CT
Maynard % Wills 30
Shoemaker p Schwartz G
ShaotS IF Po11ofouil1o &C
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-17
GETTING IN LINE
Farmers Shipping Association
Preparing To Do Business
A MEETING is HELD
Frank PeSCheCk Is Elected Vice Pres.
ident and Fred lathrOp Is
Chosen Manager

At social meeting of the directors
of the Farmers Shipping Association,
held at the town hall in the town.
ship of Sank Centre on Saturday, July
II, Frank Pescheck was chosen as
vice president of the organization and
Fred Lathrop manager for the present.
A motion was carried by a unani-
nous vote that the association use
The Sank Centre Herald as an adver-
Using medium through which to
place before the farmers the benefits
of the organization. The directors
give notice that all who wish to ship
stock should give their orders to the
Board of Directors, consisting of the
following named gentleman: T. j.
Flahaven, r. Gamradt, Albert Moli-
tor, Bert Bonner, Frank Pescheck
and Fred Lathrop. All animals de-
livered to the association are fully in
sured against loss.
1t was voted to handle coal in car
load lots, for all farmers belonging to
the association. The payment of s1.O0
in membership fees will entitle each
member to the benefits of the associa-
ton for one year from July II, 1913.
Henry BotZ and T j. Flahaven
were appointed a committee on coal.
After some informal discussion the
directors adjourned.
The Herald is requested to announce,
for the directors, that all who intend
to purchase their coal through the
association should place their orders
at their earliest convenience.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-17
ANOTHER VICTORY OLD MISSISSIPPI
Story Of a Trip on the Great
father of Waters
DOWN TO DAVENPORT
Delightful Outing on River Steamer.
Magnificent Scenery and Anus
ing ''NewIy Webs"
Editorial Cores pondence)

DAVENPORT, Iowa, June 11-They
call it the "Mighty Mississippi" and
it is great river, growing bigger and
mightier as it nears the gulf. But it
is mere rivulet. tiny stream COM
pared with what it was ages ago,
when the world was young, as many
miles wide and many fathoms deep it
went rushing, tearing. gauging its
way along, ploughing deep burrows in
the surface of the primitive earth,
rending rocks asunder and. sweeping
all before it, poured mighty volume
into the prehistoric sea.
Seated comfortably on the prone
made deck of a modern river. steamer.
viewing the bluffs with their SCARED
faces cleft as with mighty battle
axe, and gazing at the stream which
bears him onward, once broad enough
and deep enough to carry on it's bosom
the navies of the modern world, with
all the merchant marine thrown in,
and then have room for more: when
one tries to grasp the colossal results
of the titanic forces that operated in
those early geological cons: as he
compares the present with the past,
he is forced to cry out: ''How are the
mighty fallen"
These thoughts have been surging
through my brain the past three days,
as comfortably quartered on the fine
steamer Morning Star, 1 journeyed
on summer outing from St. Paul to
the thriving tri-city, Davenport-Rock
Island Maline. There is but one
other river trip in the country that
excels it, and that is the one up the
HUDSON from New York to A lbany,
and there be those who claim that
the upper Mississippi scenery surpass-
es that of the eastern stream. Be
that as it may, the environs of the
Father of Waters are in a class by
themselves.
All the way from St. Paul to Clint
on, Iowa, the great limestone bluffs
tower on either side of the stream,
presenting wonderful sight. They
have been rent and torn by gigantic
forces and make the spectator feel
weak and insignificant, a mere mite
in comparison.
The trip is one we'll worth taking
1t is interesting, instructive, invigor-
ating. AS the boat glides along on
the surface of the great river, con-
stantly shifting panorama greets the
eyes. And enc never tires. Seated
in comfortable chair on deck one
can gaze for hours and yet not become
sated. 1t is the same yet different,
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to combined population of some
! thing like $4,000 in the three cities.
There are other daiies in the tri-city
but The Times leads them all.
The I, S. Government arsenal oh
Roch Island Is we'll worth visiting.
Many large limestone buildings house
machinery for the manufacture of
small arms and general army equip
ment. Some experiments have been
made there with big gun manufacture
but have not yet proceeded farther.
A large wing of one building is de-
voted to a war museum. 1t contains
specimens of every small arm ever
used by the United States: also many
of those of other nations. The Philip
pine collection is especially INTEREST,"
ing. Here one sees all kinds of back
number weapons, including several
gas pipe guns. There are also small
cannon bearing fourteenth and fif-
tenth century dates. The arsenal
grounds are large, wooded, and beauti-
fully laid out, with the best kind of
walks and drives.
This letter would not be complete
without an acknowledgment of the
many courtesies received at the hands
of the officials of the Morning Star.
Captain w. A. Blair, the general man
ager of the company, has spent his
life on the river and knows every
crook, turn, bend, shallow and treach-
erous place on the upper Mississippi.
He it was who plotted the Morning
Star through the seventeen miles of
rapids just above Davenport His is
certainly master hand at the wheel.
On the return trip all boats enter q
lock two miles above Davenport and
thus get over the rapids easier.
The purser of the Morning Star,
Fred S. Ratterman, is just the man
for the place, Courteous, obligins,
smile on his face every minute, his
chief end in life seems to be to make
the passengers on the boat CO mort
able. And right well he succeeded in
this laudable endeavor. Purser Rat
terman's speciality is Newly WEEDS"
Every Benedict and his blushing
bride shonld take voyage on tho
Morning Star and be initia ted by
Ratterman.
A. NJ. w.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-17
''Working'' The Publisher

Y. Gordon former lieutenant governor of Minnesota
country publisher in the last is
sue of his paper Valley Tribune has this say
relative to advertising:
Our long experience the newspaper business has long
convinced that the public will take all the free ad
vertisins get kick for And yet you sit
down with the average modern business and put the
him business principles almost invariably he will
agree should not donate its fos
and advance enterprise that out for profit
business either private publc that expects
to gain by of newspaper space In the
past have blame for doing much
public has been encouraged in the habit
encouraging however to know that of late publishers
awakening their interests and beginning to
ask price stock in misunderstanding space
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-17

Bethesda Church, resulting in the to-
tai defeat of the gallant Confederate
cavalry leader, General Fitzhugh Lee.
He left the hospital the latter part of
July and rejoined his company at
Petersburg, Virginia, and remained
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He was badly wounded in the right
side at Dalton, Georgia, in May, 1863,
and sent to the hospital at Jefferson
vile, Indiana, to await recovery and
when he was fit for service he was
sent to Chicamauga, Tennessee, to as
sist in opening the Hard Tack line.
"Charley" was mustered out at Wash
ington, D. G. July 3lst. 1865, after
four years of active, adventurous SER
vice.
GEORGE w. LOOMER
In August 1861, George w. Loomer
responded to President Lincoln's call
for volunteers, by enlisting in Co. "F',
44th New York Volunteers for three
years or during the war.
The "Forty-fourth'' was one of the
crack New York regiments and was
originally known as the "Ellsworth
Avengers. 1t was made up of care
fully selected representatives from
each town in the state, particular at
tention being paid to their physical
condition, their intellectual qualitica-
tion and their standing in the COM
munity. The regiment was equipped
for service by a gigantic subscription
list, circulated in every township in
the state in which the subscriptions
we're limited to one dollar each, thus
making it the peoples: regiment. 1t
becomes part of General Butterfield's
brigade of the 5th Corps, and was one
of the regiments that O gallantly de-
, Tended Little Round Top against the
desperate hand to hand charges made
by the pick of the Confederate forces
to secure that coveted position.
From the time it first joined the
Army of the Potomac this regiment
was constantly at the front engaged
in active service until October 1864:
when its numbers became so reduced
that it was consolidated into four
companies and united with similar
battalions of the l4Oth and l46th New
York regiments.
During it's term of service this regi-
ment lost in the innumerable battles
and skirmishes in which it took part,
four officers and 1873 men killed and IS
officers and 459 men wounded, seven
officers in action and 80 men wounded
and captured and five officers :and II
men were taken prisoners, making a
total loss of 1872 out of regiment of
a thousand men.
Mr.. Loomer participated in the fol-
lowing general battles besides a large
number off skirmishes that are un-
named on the records.
Hanover Court House, Va, Hkilled;
y wounded; Mechanicsville, Va, June
IA, 1862; Yorktown, Va. April Goth,
1862, where the rebel railroads were
destroyed; Mills Va, June 25th, 1862;
Savage Station, June 9th, 1862;
White Oak Swamp, Va, June 10Th,
1862; Malvern Hill. Va; Bull Run
Second battle) August 3Oth, 1862; An
tietam, Sept, 18th, 1862; Fredericks-
burg, Va, December 3rd., 1862, in
which the regiment suffered very
heavy loss: Charlottesville, V a., May,
2nd., 1868; Gettysburg. July 1st., End,
and 3rd., 1868; Culpepper Conrt House,
Va, September Goth, 1868; Battle of
the Wilderness, seven days; Pc River,
May 18th, 1864; Spottsylvania Court
House. In this last battle MIR. Loom
er was struck in the foot by a fraga-
ment of shell an was left in the hos
pital for two months, his company
moving on to North Carolina where
it took part under General Sheridan
in the battles at Coal Harbor and
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long for single handed he would have
taken the horses down south and in a
months time he would have traded
the rebels out of their animals and
brought them home with him and
they would perforce have been COM
PEELED to give up the struggle for lack
of means of transportation.
"Charley" faced rebel bullets in the
following general engagements: South
Mountain: Antietam: Fredericksburg;
Charleston. Virginia: Germania Ford;
Spottsylvauia Court House, Virginia:
Charlottesville, Virginia; Gettys-
burg's three days of battle; Brandy
Ford: Winchester; Trevellivaun Sta
ton; Seven Days battle of the Wilder
ness.
He was badly wounded in the right
side at Dalton, Georgia, in May, 1868,
and sent to the hospital at Jefferson
vile, Indiana, to await recovery and
when he was fit for service he was
sent to Chicamauga, Tennessee, to as
sist in opening the Hard Tack line.
"Charley" was mustered out at Wash
ington, D. G. July 3lst. 1865, after
four years of active, adventurous SER
vice.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-10-09
Brittany's Hair Harvest.

1t is at Easter time that the curious
chair harvest of Brittany is "reaped
by the travelling merchants. who &C
from village to village buying the beau
tiful hair for which the Breton bellies
are famous. This is later destined to
be made up into transformations =
''fringes' and other mysterious ar
rangements with which ladies less
abundantly endowed by nature make
up their shortcomings in the matter OF
'woman's crowning glory" The eli
ents of the hair buyers are chiefly
country lasses in the remoter districts
who are only too pleased to sell theii
tresses in order to obtain little money
to spend at the Easter fairs. The thar.
vest" however. is said not to be sc
good as formerly. as with the spread
of education and the love of display
many girls prefer to keep their hair
Wide World Magazine.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-10-09
SAVED BY QUICK WIT.
A Reply That Won Napoleon and ue
Duke of Modena.

In the French campaign in Italy, in
which Napoleon l. first began to win
the laurels which subsequently 80
abundantly crowned his career, a
young Italian cavalry officer was tax.
en- prisoner.
Having serious doubts about his
safety, it occurred to the prisoner to
pretend he was a great parsonage. So
he promised rewards to his captors If
they would insure his good treatment
adding confidentially that he was the
Duke of Modena.
He was exceedingly well cared for.
and early next morning he was called
before Napoleon, who was somewhat
puzzled at finding two Dukes of Mo
dena among his prisoners. for the real
duke was also a prisoner. The real
duke angrily asked his counterfeit by
what authority he had assumed the
title of Duke of Modena The young
officer answered.:
Your grace, the peril of my situa-
ion yesterday wss such that had |
known more illustrious title would
not have assumed yours"
The reply so pleased both the duke
and Napoleon that he was forgiven his
deceit