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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-21
macher at Avon.

macher at Avon.
Rev. j. A. Stein and family OF
Sank Centre spent Sunday afternoon
at the Opitz home.
Fred Moehring shipped a car load
of cattle for the Farmers Equity to
the South st. Paul markets last
week Tuesday.
Frank Deters and family Of Metre
Grove spent Sunday here with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs! John Kramer, Jr.
A large crowd turned out Satur-
day evening for the school meeting
for Dihtrict No. a. Fred Hoehring
was reelected Chairman.
The Ladies Aid of the Lutheran
church will serve ice cream and cake
at the hall Saturday evening, July %.
Everybody welcome ADV
Nina We're came home Saturday
from Sank Centre for a few days
visit with her mother, Mrs. We're.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Sauer, daugh-
ter Theresa of Sank Centre and lily.
sauer of Wibeaux, Mont, were visit
ors here Monday at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Sauer and family.
Mrs. H. J. Wagner and daugh-
ter Charlotte of Sank Centre, Mr..
and Mrs. Owen Wagner of Melrose
accompanied by Mrs. Owen Wagon
er's two sisters of Hastings, took in
the Chatauqua here Thursday after
noon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-21
HON. HAROLD KNUTSON (MINN)
. Member of Committee on Pensions

family through dire poverty. He re-
calls the picture of his mother on the
farm raising a large family of chill
dren and sees her sitting at night by
an old oil lamp patching the overalls
of the boys, he says until there was
not much left but patches" Those
were hard times for the little family,
when money was scarce and every
body in the family had to work hard
as long as they were at it, and they
were at it pretty nearly as long as
the light of day prevailed.
It was at the age of ID that the
"great idea" came to him Of being q
Congressman, a resolve which he
worked at until he succeeded. At that
time the boys daily life consisted of
getting up in time to milk eight cows,
eat breakfast and walk two miles
over the frozen and snow-covered
roads against the time school took
in" He was studious lad and got
all there was to be obtained from the
educational system in operation in
his vicinity. He trudged back at
night to his eight cows and then he
stocked up, the wood boxes with fuel
for the long night and the next day.
There was not much playtime in his
life, for when school was in vacation
he was working in the fields to the
utmost Of his strength.
He Had "a Big Idea"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-21

him, urging with all the earnestness
of a nature passionately intent upor
progress brought him to realization
that h4re was case of merit. He
questioned him at length, heard the
story of his life, and finally told him
to hurry to his train and go home
with the promise that he would hear
something later.
The notification of appointment as
page came along, and with borrowed
money the lad started back to st.
Paul. His own representative loaned
him some money to equip himself
with suitable clothing, and the boy
appeared in the capitol wearing a
stiff collar and a white shirt for the
first time in his life.
In the Newspaper Business
His next essay was to get into the
railroad business and rise to a posi-
ton like James J. Hill, whose story
had fired his imagination. He was Is
years of age at this time and he had
a fortune in his wallet of the amount
of $3.50, made by labor in the harvest
fields. He allowed he would go to
st. Paul and study telegraphy as an
opening wedge into railroad career.
When he got to the station with his
scanty clothing in a rusty bag which
his parents had brought from the old
country, he bumped into the editor 81
the local newspaper, who was scout
ing news items. He induced him by
a glowing account of the career of a
newspaper man to come to work fol-
him in the office of his weekly news
paper
He began as a boy of all chores
which included milking the Cow, tax
ing care of the horse, chopping wood,
and helping the editor in the local
telephone exchange ION the SIDE" He
bent himself to the job of studying
the details of a newspaper and job
print office in all their ramifcations.
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There will be a military funeral
conducted by the Oscar Jacobson Lee
gion Post, of Little Sank, Sunday,
July "a, at 2:30 p. m. at the Swedish
Lutheran church of Little Sank, for
the deceased Oscar Jacobson, whose
body has been returned from France
where he was killed in action.
At the semi annual meeting Of
the directors of the Little Sank State
Bank, of Little Sank, held Monday
evening, July Is, C.. j. Johnson was
elected president to succeed Herman
Nelson, who died in Minneapolis on
Tuesday, July IL. The remaining
officers will be the same and the
management will be unchanged.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-21

For the first six months he received
bed and board only. and for the next
months so cents a week. The next
year he was paid $1.5O weekly, and
his keep" This was pretty slow so
in the second year he rented an acre
of ground and Made $3.50 raising po-
tatoes.
After finishing his apprenticeship
with the newspaper he felt the need
of education and went to the school
of Agriculture at the University Of
Minnesota, where he MIXED cows to
help meet his expenses. The he
bought paper of his own ION credit"
making a distinct ego" of it, turning
it into the most influential newspaper
in central Minnesota and giving him.
self a boost in politics
When he found the time had ar
rived to fulfill his dream of going to
Congress he still had to fight his way.
He was vigorously opposed for the
nomination by an old timer, and he
found it necessary to canvass the dis
trict house to house almost. He won
his nomination handsomely, despite
all opposition and successfully count
cred trick to defeat him in the elec-
ton.
He lays his success in life to these
things: Concentration, 40 per cent;
sticking at it, IS per cent; ability
Is per cent. That's where his mod
isty sticks out again. He has ability,
for otherwise he could not have risen
so consistently and so Educational
Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-21

The "big idea" came to him one
day when attending a political meet
ing in the great campaign of Bryan
and Mckinley, in 1896. The orator
OF the occasion was Charles A. Towne
the silver-tongued, almost as eloquent
as the renowned Bryan himself. The
boy listened with the greatest atten-
ton, and when the speech was over
gravely announced that he had made
up his mind to be Congressman
when he grew up and represent that
very district.
He went home and told his mother
OF his resolve, and with a mothers
pride and confidence in her boy, she
encouraged him to keep it in mind
until he succeeded. In this connec-
ton Congressman Knutson often de-
clares that the greatest satisfaction
he gets out Of his present position is
that he can have his aged mother in
Washington with him during the ses-
sions of Congress and minister to her
in gratitude for her labors and self
denial in behalf of him and his
brothers.
The first start had to be made, and
it was suggested to him by his hear
ing that page boys were employed
in the legislature and paid the prince
ly wage of $3.50 a day. He had read
of page boys who had become United
States Senators and members of the
Legislature. If others could raise
from page to statesman he could. So
he prepared to go to the State cap
ital and make his effort in person,
for he had no political backing or in
fuence. He was "shy'' clothes and
money for the trip, but his resolution
was unbreakable and his mother was
with him.
His mother shortened the legs and
otherwise altered the Sunday suit of
an older brother until it fitted him.
He and his brother cut wood and haul
ed it to town until they had amassed
enough for the railroad fare to St.
Paul. So picture the young adven-
turer, meagerly equipped with mater
ial resources, but rich in determina-
ton, setting out on his great adven-
ture.
Convincing the Bossi'
Arriving in st. Paul, he found that
the Representative in the legislature
from his district had promised a
pageship to another boy. Nothing
daunted, he importuned every other
member, but met only with refusals,
Then he drew on his stock of re-
sourcefulness, which has stood him
so we'll in hand through all the sue
cessive stages of his rise to fame and
comfortable circumstances.
The "boss" in the legislature at
that time was J. F. Jacobson, and the
lad resolved to make one final appeal
and to him. 1t was the last throw OF
the dice with fortune, and the win
ming one. He reused the Hon. J. F,
Jacobson out of bed at 7 O'Clock in TIL
morning to present his plea. He hae
to do it because his money had rur
out and the train for home left al
$3.50. The "boss" at first thought his
situation humorous as he sat up il
bid and heard the appeal. But thai
serious-faced boy standing before
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Barney Ritter and family OF VII
lard were Sunday visitors at the =.
Ritter home.
Rev. Alexius of Collegeville as
sisted Rev. David at the services
here Sunday. 800 !.
Evelyn johnson visited few days
last week with her uncle, John RAIDER
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in the Metropolitan Opera House. No
vember %. 1908. His engagement
was for fifty performances at $1,000
night.
mo need for me to speak of the
period that followed. 1t was sue
cession of triumphs for my dear En-
sico, of which all the world knows.
, Before he came to New York 1 had
been something of what you call a
matinee Idol myself in a smallish.
baritone way
Mr.. Scotti said this with one of the
chuckles which now and then. at some
humorous recollection. broke. like sun
shine after cloud. through the mar
rator's more somber mien. o.,
But I knew well how it would be.
Caruso became the idol of the music
loving world. as l knew he would. No
longer was there any pedestal for my
self, but none ever rejofced more sim
cerely in his successes than l. Indeed.
shall always love to recall that often
the public kindly coupled my name
Caruso and Scotti.'
But his New York debut reminds
me of humorous episode that illus
trates the impulsive side of Enrico's
character. In all the years I knew
him he was temperate in his indul.
gence in wine. But he often laughed
with me over his own story of what
believe was the only time that Enrico
Caruso ever was hissed from an oper-
attic stage. AS Enrico himself told it.
during his youthful singing period.
when he was touring small towns in
Sicily for $40 a performance. the
heady wine Of Sicily, with which he had
not yet become familiar, disturbed his
after-dinner poise SO erratically that
when he essayed to sing to his proxin-
cial audience, and fuddled the job, he
was greeted with shouts which were the
Sicilian equivalent of Rotten. rotten!
Get the hooki'
"Well, they booed him off the stage.
The country manager the next night
had substituted a new tenorS but
when the latter had begun to caro-
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THE INTRUDER
By Pierre Valdagne

| smile framed itself on her lips. She
gave him a caressing glance.
Georges bent down. He kissed his
wife's white hand. She said:
Sit here beside me. You're not
going to run away, too, are you?"
But Pelletier became grave.
Yes! Yes! You know that Mile.
Margrave. doesn't want me to stay
too long"
she wearies me-Mlle. Margrave
does"
But it must be as she says, my
dear. She demands quiet and isola-
tion. We have to obey her. She
I takes very good care of you. l. would
| stay here with you-but it is forbid
den. And then / would feel strange
in the company of all these bottles.
| After while. my dear. l shall be
next door in my workroom. I'll come
again in an hour
Georges Pelletier went away. Isa-
belle seized Alice's hand and said.
| this time imperiously:
She looked SO vexed that Nine.
Soccard tried to calm her.
against Georges that he obeys the
nurse. He adores you. You have
the best husband in the world"
Isabelle didn't answer at once. She
settled herself in the narrow bed.
one DuTlou HeT pretty nedQ III neT
pillow. For an instant she closed
her eyes. Finally she said:
"All this irritates me. Everything
! here irritates me. 1 know that
Georges loves me. I know that
love Georges G. Thirteen aIt aany,a, years of
derstanding! But the life We are
leading now will end by destroying
all this happiness. See If it doesn't"
what life?" asked Alice. What
have you to complain Of? You are
rich. you have everything you could
"Yesa Have I? It's alr this money
which I don't like. It's this sudden
excessive fortune which is upsetting
my life."
"You find the war bride too beau
tiful?"
"Yes. Georges has made too much
money. and made 1t too quickly. At
first I was delighted. I was wrong.
I didn't know"
She began again:
Listen to me. The second year OF
my marriage I was taken ill. That
time 1t was serious-much more seri-
Gus than it is now, 1 assure you.
They thought l was going to die. We
weren't rich then. We lived in a lit
tie apartment and I had only one
servant. I was treated by q very
young doctor. a friend of Georges.
When the fever was at its height he
came to see me three times q day.
His practice gave him the leisure to
do SO. But what devotion! As for
Georges. he never left me. It was
necessary for some one to be with
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of proffering somewhat discreetIy
censored version of the episode. But
Enrico. seemingly sensing that / was
not doing my theme full justice, in
terpo1ated in Italian. Tell them all
of it. Toto. Tell them they hissed me
off because / was drunk"
u managed to dodge the issue.
praying that my hearers knowledge
of the Italian language might be
slender. But Caruso took me to task
privatelyslater. He wanted to know
why I1dfd not enthuse over the idea
of telling these New York critics the
Sicilian incident in all it's full dra-
matfc values.
'You great big fool boy l said.
don't you know that if l had told
1t the way you wanted me to these
men would have printed it all over
the world, you would have been dis
graced among people who do not
know your true worth. and Conried.
his patrons would say, has had the
impudence to bring a drunkard to
sing leading parts in the Metropoli-
tan Opera House"
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"A H, yes" commented Mr.. scotti,
that almost boyish impulsive-
ness was just one phase of a many
sided character. His propensity for
playing jokes was another.
Perhaps because of our intimacy
l suppose, was the butt of his jests
perhaps more often than others.
:But these incidents illustrate the
lighter side of the man. wonder il
the world realizes that, quite apart
from that God-given voice and the
use he made of it. Caruso in many
other respects was extraordinary? A
poor boy, with little early opportunity
he educated himself until he had no,
only a thorough knowledge of his ma
tive tongue, but~could sing and write
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at the proper hour in the morning.
for snatching away the bed covers
permitting collapse of the bedstead.
etc.
days. was for a combined plow and
cannon. by which agriculture and war
might be agreeably intermingled.
The plow beam was of steel and
was made in the form of a small
cannon.
There are at the present time a
| number of applications for patents on
perpetual motion machines and other
patent office. 1t is up to the patent
examiners to decide whether or not
these "brainstorms" are new and
useful.
Novelty is easy to ascertain in most
Of them, but when it comes to utility,
that is a problem only for such men
Of science as Uncle Sam employs in
his big, self-sustaining patent office.
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Despite Mathematics and
Physics, New Schemes to
Get Something for Nothing
Are Submitted Continually.
Strange Waking Devices.
Novel Method OF Shaving
Patented.
BY REX COLLIER.


~ WITH the passing Of world
NJ hostilities. inventors of
wv more or less eccentric
mind are abandoning ef-
forts to help win the war with
strange explosives and remarkable
submarines. and are turning their at
tention to devising equally curious
peace-time devices, thus adding to
the tasks Of Uncle Sans already
overworked patent office.
Many and varied are the plans sub
mitted for Official scrutiny, and many
are the reflections meted out to the
sincere but unfortunate applicants
for patents.
Apparently the favorite piece de re-
sistance for inventors possessed Of
more ingenuity than knowledge Of the
laws of physics and chemistry is the
subject Of perpetual motion. Since
that day when the waters engulfed
the earth, men have been searching
fruitlessly for way to obtain some
thing from plain nothing. Education
of recent times has to q great extent
dispelled this obsession among sane
persons, but there are yet many other
be able to discover the mystic for
mula whereby one can be made to
equal two. or even three.
Some of these perspiring persons
proceed so far in attempting to de-
velop this idea and become SO en-
tangled in the maze Of machinery and
processes connected with it that they
come to believe they have solved the
unsolvable. At this point the patent
Office is sought and then trouble be-
When he applies at the patent ofiice
for protection in his discovery" he is
usually advised first Of all to secure
the services Of a competent attor-
ney. Patent attorneys, many Of them
previously examiners in the patent
ofhce. aid in diverting the overenthu-
siastic applicant away from the gov
ernment, either by refusing to assist
in applying for q patent. or by show
ing the aspirant for fame the utter
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diameter. with an axle six feet long
and eight inches thick; the frame %
oak. The wheel was divided into a
number Of compartments. each con-
tanning heavy ball. which, cotem-
porary reporters state, would roll to
the outer circumference on one side
and roll to the innnermost part of the
recess on reaching the other side.
The owner of the Castle ,Wessenstein,
near Basel. where the machine was
sealed up during its alleged period
of operation. declares that this self
turning wheel would last "as long as
the materials composing 1t lasted"
tribute the mysterious motion of the
Orphyreus wheel to a concealed mech
anism worked by an accomplice.
In some of the inventions on which
patents are sought the same prin-
ciple of overbalancing a wheel is
worked out by utilizing water in
stead of weights. and by pumping the
water back to the height from which
it had fallen.
Some Of the contrivances at first
appear to be SO feasible that even
the expert examiner would be "taken
in were it not for his knowledge
Of the law that work in equals
work out" The safest rebuttal for
genuine faith in their invention is
to demand a working model. Per-
haps when a working model Of a per-
petual motion machine is produced
the government will see fit to patent
it. Mathematicians declare that day
will never come.
not confined to the field Of perpetual
motion, It is disclosed. One inventor
applied for a patent on a machine
for breaking cakes. foods and other
materials" and he furnished the
patent. office with a sample of his
fclapper, with detachable steel head,
or "breaker," and a steel handle, Ap-
parently the handle was made re-
movable in order that particles Of
broken cakes, foods and other ma
favor with bridegrooms about to
tackle their wives first biscuits.
A patent was granted in 1909 for
a novel shaving apparatus. consist
ing of an emery-covered disk re-
volved by hand labor, and which, 1t
remove the beard without the aid Of
soaps and lather. He did not state
II other parts Of the physiognomy
were immune to the removing process.
The desire Of some inventors to
meet the demand for machine
work has led to a number of pecu-
liar Innovations. One of the earliest
patents. designed to appeal to the
housewife. was on a washing ma
chine operated by the motion Of a
pected to turn blue Monday into
holiday from kitchen drudgery.
"A rocking chair which should find
favor in these hot days and which re-
ceived a patent some years ago was
equipped with leaf fan, auttomat-
ically set into motion when the oc-
cupant of the chair nonchalantly
rocked away.
There has been much activity among
Inventors catering to the market for
sleep interrupters, and patents have
been taken out on devices for throw
ing the sleeper bodily from his bed
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ME constantly. The poor fellow. He
was sublime Every minute there was
sc mething to do. He gave me water.
he prepared my milk. my cold appli-
to bed. He walked a thousand times
from my bed to our little kitchen. He
locked after all my wants. And TO
see the anxiety in his face when he
read the thermometer!
X
s. A ND do you think he didn't talk
to me? Do you suppose that
Georges ever thought then of Mile
ton? He talked with me all the
time. He encouraged me- He told
me that 1 was getting better. even
when it wasn't true. He made mag
nificent plans for a trip to the coun-
try when 1 should be able to get up.
Il recovered my health, little by lit
tie. under his eyes. under the inspira-
ton Of his words. because 1 felt his
presence there. because he hung over
me. because it was. his hands that
touched me, not the hands of a nurse
conversations. He even said, Sick
people quickly lose heart; il is neces-
sary to divert them"
To-day 1 am delivered over to sci
ence, pure. dry and cold. i am taken
care of as a very rich woman by peo-
pie who are paid to do it-scrupu-
lously, conscientiopsly, but without
tenderness. If Mile. Margrace re-
turned at this moment
Mile. Margrave did return at that
moment. all white in her nurses dress
and apron. She saw the two women
talking together and a look of dis
approval came into her face. She said
to Nine. Soccard, in q voice full OF re-
proach:
Madame. Madame. Our patient is
talking much to much. We shall
give her a fever tonight"
At the same instant Georges Pelle-
tier arrived, as he had promised. He
had hardly put his head through the
door when the nurse rushed toward
him and said peremptorily:
"Oh, M. Pelletier; no! You mustn't
come in. We can't have SO much dis
turbance about sick persons bed.
It Is time to give her her last treat
ment before she goes to sleep. You
must leave us. I am here. The pa
tient belongs to me. I'll be with her
all night. I'll report to you tomor-
row morning-about IL o'clock"
Pelletier timidly withdrew. Isabelle
glared savagely at the nurse. She was
totally unable to understand why her
husband had not been allowed to kiss
her or why such extraordinary rea-
sons should be given for chasing him
ont OF the room.
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