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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
French Sailors Tell
Story of "Dop IsIand'''

An isle of Dogs" on! the west
OF Madagascar Is a discovery made
by French sailing boat and re-
ported by the Frankfurter Zeitdrlss !.
The captain of this boat put
ashore on the small island. of Juan
de Neve In the belief that he had
caught sight of a wreck close by.
But the island was uninhabited
save for large white dog resem-
bling a terrier, which was shortly
Joined on the beach by four more
of the kind. After having sur
veyed the newcomers inquiriagly,
the dogs set up q l0ng-drawn
howl, which appeared to be. a Sig
nal for 20 more to Join them.
Their appearance not proving very
friendly. apart from. the ;, weird
ness of the many canine races that
appeared to have been crossed, the
sailormen put Off again. noting
that the first white terrier, which
appeared to be the leader Of the
pack, watched them out to sea
long after. the others had disap-
peared again among the under
growth. The island resOunded
with bowls, not banks. Though
the skeptical may be inclined to
relegate the tale to the fairy
realms that seamon love, one re-
members the strange attack by
Thames swans mentioned In
"Three Men in a Boat" There Is
evidence for Its authenticity
Pierre Van Paassen, in. the Allan
ia Constitution. ,-,-rs.. ID
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Robert Lansing, Secretary
Of State to Wilson, Dies


Washington, Oct. 31-The last
of three figures that bulked large
in the enunciation of American
foreign policy during the critical
days of the world war and the per.
iod that Immediately preceded the
great conflict, has gone.
Having claimed Woodrow Viii
son and William Jennings Bryan.
death late yesterday overlook
Bryan's successor as secretary OF
state, Robert Lansing, who held
the portfolio during the entire
time that America was one of the
belligerent nations and = resigned
upon receiving a rebuke from
President Wilson. >...--,. -
For several years, Mr.. Lansing
had suffered from a heart ailment
described by his physicians as my
ocarditis. Four weeks ago he re-
turned to Washington from his
summer home at Henderson Har-
Dor, New York, and a short while
later, his illness became acute. For
the last three days he was semi
conscious The former cabinet of
ficer had so withdrawn from public
affairs that only few knew of his
critical condition and word of his
death came as a surprise and a
shock to official Washington gen.
orally.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Slang Big Factor in
Grolvfh of LANGUAGE

American slang, rather than be.
ing maligned and despised, should
be depended on to assist in vital.
fzing and enriching the language.
says DR.. Frederic Z. Blanchard,
professor of English at the Uni.
versity of California. at Los An
geles. Little of the slang of yes
terday ever remains, but that mini
mum that does not drop away is a
definite: and constant factor In
the growth of Language ITO adapt
itself to the changing conditions Of
changing world, he adds. ,,.t f.,
''Much of the exuberance of
slang is simply the indication of
health, animal spirits, vitality.
adaptation to new conditions of
thought and action" said Doctor
Blanchard. Ben JonsOn, the pur-
list, quarreled with the slang en-
plOyed by Shakespeare, but much
of ii has been adopted in our
speech, as have some of the quaint
but unOrthOdOx expressions of Kip
ling.
"The multiplicity of new activity
which our modern life enjoys re-
Quires its special language, and we
have the slang of aviation, sport.
and even science. the best of which
finds its way ultimately into the
dictionary" -. g..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
French Records Might
"Sho,u Up" Old Houses

French, notaries public preserve
their records with attentive care.
They file and stack away the no.
tarial acts which they draw up, just
as their predecessors have filed
and stacked for centuries. There
are offices. which have been pre-
serving this old paper for several
hundred years: ...
This is natura enough, as the pa
per tells the story of French fam
lilies. But all this makes weight,
collects dust, fills space. A new law,
therefore, authorizes, notaries to
send to the official French archives
all documents more than 125
years I'D. But the Interested fam
lilies have a right to insist that the
documents remain secret. What a
catastrophe, indeed, If it should be
learned through an official paper,
that tt ancestor Of this or that
i great family, pretending to be de-
scended from the Crusaders, vas in
the Eighteenth century merely q
lackey who succeeded in making
money! -.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Bird Dogs Delicacy
of Scent Remarkable

The delicacy of a dogs nose
his ability to sift and define scents
Of infinite kinds-tO locate birds
for the gunner. or follow faint
trails of game, is one of natures
most amazing miracles.
High up in the list of delicate
dog noses are those possessed by
the bird dogs"-the setter and
pointer. +. "> 49, -
A pointer, from one Whit Of the
trail of a quail, can tell many
things about that particular bird,
no matter how many chickens,
ducks and geese have crossed his
path. 49,.
He knows, for instance, whether
it is alone or there are other quail
with it. There. isHgood evidence
that he notes difference between
the bOdy-scent and the fOOt-scent
of the bird, because with only a
breath of breeze In his favor, he
can locate in the brush, many PAGES
from him, an unseen quail that has
walked or flown into cover to wind
ward of him. Moreover, If he strikes
the trail of walking bird, he
knows which way tits moving and
never makes the mistake of taking
its back track. s,lzx < 49,
> His nose tells. himnat distance,
whether his MASTER has merely
wounded or killed tlus birdeoutright.
If the latter, he. goes: forward with
out hesitation and retrieyes the
quail. If wounded, he continues to
point rigid'y or advances at; com
mand until the bird again goes up
If it can. ST.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Loue Was Blind

Apparently they were very much
in love and the passengers on q
Prytania car smiled as they noted
the girls hand held close in that
of the youngster Of eighteen. She
handed him a bit. of silk hand
kerchief to hold while she pow
dered her nose, and he stuffed it in
to his breast pocket, close to his
heart. There | remained as the
car neared Canal street and one
passenger who boarded the same
car they did reported that the
youth dug into his pocket for trans
fers and. his eyes on the girl,
handed the conductor the crumpled
up square of silk. The conductor
/ smiled. The youth smiled. The
girl smiled and the passengers
smiled.-New Orleans Times Plea.
yune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Egg-Eating: Snakes

South African egg-eating snakes
have a very acute sense of smell,
and will Immediately reject an egg
that is not quite fresh. At the Lon
don zoo they have been observed
, to eat some of the eggs offered
them, and to reject others, which
on breaking open, were invariably
found be added. The eggs reach
the snakes gullet unbroken, but
there they come into contact with
large Handicapped projections OF
the. vertebrate, the object of which
is to crush the shells, which are
elected after a short interval in
the form of pellets. The expand
ing ability of the creatures, jaws
is even more amazing than in the
case of other snakes, as speci-
men with a head no longer than a
mans little finger is capable OF
swallowing bantam's egg:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Europe's Art Objects
Really Second Rate?

The treasury. Of Europe, that vast
litter of the work of their grand
fathers, which, the posters preach,
Is as miscellaneous and unequal
as a jackdaw's swag in the hollow
tree, and no one knows the good
from the bad, declares William Boil
tho in Vanity Fair. ~, ~:
"All artistic criticism" declares
this icOn0clast, .'is as dead in Europe
as was scientific in. the Middle
ages. The same Frenclman who
insists that, You do the dusty jour
ney to windsweDf Versailles TO wor-
ship the inOnstrOns palace. where
even the iinpenetrable sOlidity Of
an architect. who could make over
three hundred yards of bays in ex-
act repetition cannot disguise the
ill-judged nie$alomania Of the mon
arch who insisted that his fathers
hunting box should be built into
the center of the largest palace In
the world, will rush you with a
sickly smile past the magnificent
and serene Eiffel tower
'"The grand staircase Of the
Chateau of BlOis is stuck on and
superfluOus; the greatest German
cathedral, Cologne, is markedly. APP
pallingly out of scale, too short for
its height, and instead OF that lovely
Gothic sensation of soaring to the
heavens, gives the spectator a dull
pain between the eyes; detailed
mention of all instances that clutter
my memory would not exhaust the
case" Whether good or bad. he
concludes, anything built before
1910 IS reverenced as being ar.
$istic. H., ,- -. .E.t&@
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Fewer Wizards Than
Witches in Legends

1t is significant that though witch
and wizard are equally common In
legend and history, the generic
name for the thing Is witchcraft;
there is not quite the same feeling
to the word wiZardry. ,-.s@-
Probably the records will show
more witches than wizards. Wom-
en- are additionally, actually, way
ward, hysterical, battling and nn--
manageable. For ages the thought
! Of the world was dominated by
men, good and true thought and
devilish cruel delusion and super
stitious thought. What more nat
ural than that man should fmpute
evil powers to the creature who
t-mpts and tOrments him and
should make her suffer from his
revengeful sadism? Incubus and
succuba exist together in legend.
but .succuba is more terrifying and
fascinating to the male imagina-
ton, it Is the male Imagination
which gave form to myths and Leg
ends and controlled all old laws
and religiOns.-The BOokman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Joseph Benz Passed Away
About Noon, Sat. Oct. Il
CONTINUED From Page one)

the union. One passed away in
infancy and a daughter, Della died
II years ago. There is one son,
John, living at Faribault.
Shortly following their mar
riage Mr. and Mrs. Benz moved
to Sank Centre in 1895. Eight
years ago on Feb. 27, Mrs. Benz
passed away, leaving the husband
and one son.
For the past 33 years Mr..
Benz has been a laboring man of
Sank Centre having been in the
employ of various business estab-
lishments, and, of the city.
Besides the one son surviving the
deceased there are five brothers
in-law and; two sisters-in-law, two
of whom live in Williston, N. D.,
and one lin Powers, Mont, and
Charles and John Hummer, of
near Sank Centre. -. = -
funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon, Oct. goth, at 200
o'clock from the Sank Centre fun
eral chapel. Rev. T. B. Shorts, past
or of the Methodist church, offic-
lated. IntermenJ. was made in
Greenwood cemetery beside the re.
mains of his wife and daughter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Announce Best Flour
!, II for MAKING PrefzeLs

Pennsylvania was the first home
of the pretzel In America. That
state to this day leads the Union in
the production of this species OF
fruit" These, says the Pathfinder
Magazine, were some Of the incl
dentals picked up by the Depart
ment of Agriculture when 1t made
a search for facts which would de-
termine. the flour most suitable for
pretzel making.
It was also learned that there
are two distinct types Of pretzeis-
the familiar hard pretzel and the
soft pretzei, which is intended for
consumption the day it Is baked.
Some of the hard pretZels are ma
chine stamped and others are made
by hand.
But the machines are used only
in the manufacture Of the smaller
sizes. The characteristic twisted
pretzei is twisted by hand even
though the dough is rolled by a
machine. No machine has been
perfected which will give the par
ticular twist desired. An expert
enced and skillful operator can
twist about twenty-five or thirty
pretzels a minute. -.,,ss..t'-
The government experts learned
that a satisfactory pretzel -four
can be made by blending hard
wheat f1ours of high and low pro-
tein content. or by using patent
or straight" -four with a small
percentage of a "clear" -four. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Too Hard for Hin,

Aprol os of the old lady's opin-
ion that IT isn't more civil engi-
neers the. country needs so much
as less sassy brakeman. Mrs.
Blank was moving from southern
Kansas to Topeka and carrying as
many small things on the train
with her as she could. IN making
the transfer at Ottawa she stopped
suddenly at the steps of the on
going train and demanded of the
tired-faced brakeman in q worried
voice: ... a....s. .
"Do you know what did with
that parlnr lamp"
.No, madam" he answered with
some acidity, II do not. I'm not
the seventh son of seventh son."
kansas City Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
The Worlds Water

The amount Of water ON the
earth is so large that the human
mind can scarcely grasp its signifi-
canoe. According to scientific au-
thorities, it is 327.O00,OO0 cubic
miles. Rivers and lakes in all
countries only total a mere million
cubic miles, the remaining &c.,
100000 miles being taken UP by the
five great Oceans-Atlantic, Pacific,
Indian, Antarctic and Arctic. Sci
.entists tell us that 81 the earth were
not composed of huge mountain
ranges-which project above the
surface :. of the oceans, and thus
form the countries in which we
iiye-eur globe would be covered
with water to dn1th of nearly two
miles.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01

sioner-Viggo Jrstesen, Demo-
crat.
Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court-tlifford l.. Hilton, with
out Party Designation.
Associate justice of the Supreme
Court-Edward J. Lee, With
out Party Designation.
The blue ballot contains the
names of the congressional candi-
iates for. this district, the four
1aandidates. for judge OF the Dis
I F'ict Court, two of whom are to
4 p elected, candidates Cor Judge of
4 rebate AMI two candidates for
Gh2 legislature from this district.
The pink ballot contains the
two proposed amendments to the
constitution of the St ate of Min
I nesota. :...:. 49,. -:
IN a little box at the right hand
side of the ballots is an Indicator
watcher the voter shall vote for
one or more candidates. In the
group On Presidential electors vote
&c: one group, only. If more than
S~SaP. - fotcu IOP IL VIII he
impossible for the judges of cleo
ton to determine the voters inten-
ton and that portion of the hal
lot will be thrown out. -
The polls. open at 6 100 a. M. and
close at 900 p. m. The voter is
urged to cast his ballot the
earliest possible time as the vote
this year is bound to be decidedly
the heaviest ever polled.
The voter in the city, of Sank
Centre votes Ssat the following.
places: First Ward-All that Dor.
ton of the city lying on north
side of Third street. Residents of
the FIRST Ward will vote on the first
f1o% of the Armory,. corner.sgosof
Third and Elm street. f. 81 -, 3
Second Ward-AH that portion
of the city lying on the south. side
of Third street, voting place first
floor City Hall, corner Third and
Pine Street. ~. -:
SaukZ Centre township-sSecond
floor, Sank GENRE City Hall.
corner Third and Pine street. =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
No Explanation OF
Telepathy in Jungle

"Telepathy as practiced in West
Africa attains reaches of sheer
marvel that defy explaining. The
most straightforward and common
telepathy in the jungles has been
witnessed by nearly every white
traveller who has gone among the
hidden towns where Africa's iden-
tity still survives: namely, the un-
canny prewarning of a visitors ap-
proach relayed invisibly from one
witch doctor to another"
This is the story brought back
from the Dark continent by John
w. VandercOOk, writer and ex-
plorer, who has made careful
study of negro life in Africa, Haiti
and South America. +
sometimes code drum beats
convey news" he points out in
Harper's. "On rare occasions, spe-
cial messengers. IncOntestably,
however, many natives can DELHI
erately convey by mental prOjec-
ton the most elaborate and NIL
mute details of an event of impOr-
lance or of a person for whose ar
rival preparations are to be made.
A witch doctor sends and another
witch man five or thirty or a hun
dred miles away receives perhaps
to send farther on. Explorers,
and especially leaders of punitive
expeditions have had innumerable
proofs of this power. An African
village is rarely surprised. The
magicians admit the gift, see moth
ing extraordinary in 1t and, what
Is most intriguing, say It can be
taught to any intelligent pupil
but never, Of course, to .
white man." ..: :.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Record Meteorite

g Nothing like Meteor crater has
been discovered anywhere else on
the face of the earth. Until recent
ly no meteorite has been known to
penetrate more than IL feet into the
surface of the earth. On the morn
ing of July 80, 1908, natives of north
central Siberia saw fiery body
shooting across the sky and heard,
a short time later, laundering
defamation. A Russian scientist
succeeded only last year in locat-
ing, In the Yeniseisk district, a
place where the forest has been
blown down over an area of 30
miles In diameter. At the center of
devastation were many pits indicat-
ing the tombs of number of me-
teorites, but no holes comparable
to Meteor crater
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
/. Bad Luck for Thief

q Most thieves hesitate to rob a
church.. Some of them have real
religious scruples concerning
churches; others let them severe
-ly alone. not through any senti-
ment, but for the reason that they
fear such thefts will bring them
bad luck thet rest of their lives.
A thief confideds to detective that
he had nothing but trouble since
he had stolen a prayer book from
a pew. He had desired it only as
souvenir, he said, and after the
theft his conscience pricked him
so badly that he had seriously
thought Of returning 1t. While he
was celebrating what he should
do the prayer book Y mysteriously
disappeared.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
) Shape of Shells

"Modern long-range shells are CT
gar-shaped. They taper both at the
front and at the rear. This taper
ing of thu rear end is called boat
falling You have noticed that
racing automobiles have torpedo
shaped sterns. A square-tailed
shell or automobile is actually held
back at high speeds because of the
vacuum created behind it, by the
velocity of it's movement. Taper
ing the tail leads the air oently and
easily into the hole that the shell
or the racing car bOres in the at
mosphere and thus lessons vacu-
um's impending grip on the. flying
object."-Everybody's Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Original "BedIas7i"

The word .bed1am" had its ori+
gin in the word Bethlehem. Bed
lam is the name given to the Hos
pital of st. Mary of. Bethlehem in
London, England, which was found
ed in the Fourteenth century. In
the Sixteenth century Henry VIII
turned 1t into an institution for the
insane, and it became infamous for,
the brutal ill-treatment melted out
to the inmates. 1t was indeed a,
madhouse, and the word bedlam
has since been applied to any fren-
zied assembly or mad crowd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Delayed Rising

Once upon a time a young mar
ried woman undertook to make q
batch Of bread and the dough
failed to rise. A place where she
thought hubby would not find 1t
was chosen for its grave and fiat
stone was placed thereon. One day
as hubby was .strolling along that
way he saw something that tickled
him Immensely. He went to the
house. and said to bis wife: "You
had better go out and bury your
corpse again; see it's raised"
The sun. had shone ON the stone
and the dough becoming warm
had raised.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
Lost Art

, That oral reading is rapidly be-
coming a lost art has been recog-
nized. 80. ...
Robert, age three, was sitting on
the floor reading his new story
book in a manner. entirely salts
factory to himself. His mother,
who had few minutes to spare,
said: "Bring the book to mother
and she'll read the story to you"
81 am almost through with the
story-then you can have the book
If you. want to read it. I can read
something else while you read
this" replied the child.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01

Carl Fischer, John McDermond,
Mrs. F. A. Fischer and Dorothy
visited in St. Cloud Sunday.
Miss Emma Rasmussen, of Kan
dota, was an overnight guest in
this city at the Anton Nelson home
Friday.
Born to Mrs. S. T. Edgar
Cheney. of West Union township,
a son at the city hospital Sunday
morning, Oct. %.
Miss Stella Graham, of st.
Cloud, spent Monday in Sank Cen
tire visiting with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Gilbert Graham. .
Mr.. and Mrs. John Boutell and
Mrs; Margaret Crowley spent Sun
day in Melrose as the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Quinn. ~
Miss, Doris Benson, who is
teaching at Osakis, spent the week
end in this city visiting with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Ben
son.. p. ,.... -
Mr.. and Mrs. N. E. Rassier, of
Melrose, spent Saturday evening in
this city visiting: with the, lady's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Tom
berS Sr. .- -:'' .~.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Barnett and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ogren spent
Saturday and Sunday in Red Wood
Falls, Mimi, visiting with relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Austin and
family will motor to Glencoe Sat-
urday to spend the week end with
Mr.. Austin's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. w. Austin.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Pagel and
family spent Sunday at Atwater,
Mimi, visiting with the gentle
mans brother and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Pagel.
Mrs. Ray Erickson and daughter,
left Sank Centre Tuesday for
Barnesville, where they will visit
with relatives and friends for an
indefinite time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Nicholson,
of Long Prairie, are the proud par
ents of son born Oct. "a, at the
home of the lady's parents in Ray
mond township.
Lawrence, the 8-year-oli son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Christie, Sank
Lake, had the misfortune Monday
of running a nail through his right
foot. The youngster is getting
along nicely.
Mrs. A. E. Erwin accompanied
by her daughters, Misses Annabel
and Harriet, leave Friday for their
winter home at Inglewood, Cal.
They will return to Sank Centre,
of course, in the early spring of
1929.
Mrs. Green, 80 years of age and
mother of Mrs. A.. M. Birdsell, is
confined at the City hospital as a
result of fall she took last week,
sustaining a fracture of the left
hip. She is getting along as well
as can be expected.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
DIED AT HOSPITAL

AT seven O'Clock wednesday eve
ming, Oct. 81, occurred the untime-
ly death of Mrs. Lawrence Mills,
%, of Birchdale township. For
the past few weeks she has been
confined at the City hospital fol-
lowing an operation for appended
tbs, which she submitted to on Oct.
Is. She was getting along nicely
until six days following the incis-
ion, when stomach trouble of a
peculiar nature developed and
caused her death. Mrs. Mills is
the mother of three small children.
Funeral services viii be held from
the Adventist church on Sunday at
'ternoon, Nov. A. Mrs. Mills is sur.
.viyed by the bereaved husband and
children.