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The Washington times., 1929-04-15

CN EVENTH The active influences Of
- medicine science, chemistry
- the dome the duties and offices of clergymen,
lawyers professional and those aspiring to eminent offices
with the But it be rather unsatisfactory for all
Of these excepting medicine and science chemistry and exoa
exploration may brought It's
close today
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in their for both position and pleasures not
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could achieve emnence Arctic explorers and leaders Of
scientific expeditions.
birthday horoscope to stabilize your bu
this coming year Let your motto be- attend
affairs and stick it. You connection and suffer
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observing the laws of good and wasting
your with peasuevng associates greatly
your condition 1t good year for marriage domestic
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Notable Nativies Charlie Chaplin comedian; Sir Hans Soane
naturalist whose collection formed the nucleus Of British
Museum. *e* ~
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The Washington times., 1929-04-15
What Is Your Lucky Hour?
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BY THE YELLED PRIESTESS

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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Pray With Child Is
Advice to Mothers

OF course the real way is not
to teach children to pray at all,
but, whether privately or in the
family group, to pray with them.
Here Is a mother who still is try
ing to get an adolescent boy to bow
at her knee each evening and say
his prayers. She suspects that
something is the matter. She can
see that his dutiful desire to please
her is under increasing. strain.
Strangely enough, il !. never has
occurred to her, that both physi.
cally and mentally her method is
wrong and that, If she wants her
boy to pray, from the beginning she
should have been on her knees be-
side him praying with, him.
She should see also that very
soon she must take her hands off
that intimate matter altogether
and let him pray as he will, trust
ing not so much to anything she
has told him as to the fact that
he knows by observation the value
of prayer to persons whom he him
self has loved and admired.
Religion is something that only
secondarily can be taught. 1t must
primarily.be absorbed, and then the
teaching can persuasively set forth
the meaning of the life that the
child finds himself both observing
and catching in the hyme.-Harry
Emerson in the World Work.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Vegetable and Animal
Life in Death Valley

! Death valley, in California, long
reputed to be one of the most life
less areas on the face of the earth,
lis not so barren as pOularly be-
.lieved. A group of scientists re-
Gently returned from having made
the first comprehensive survey of
1.-THE plant and animal life inhabit-
ing the floor of Death valley. And
their report upsets much tradition
long firmly rooted in the public
mind. p s~sj -.@
s: A summary of Death valleys
plant and animal resources now
scientifically and officially recorded
includes 135 different species of
plants, trees and shrubs; 124 diff
ferent k.nds of birds, II rep
tiles, l fish, 235 varieties of insects,
and numerous mammals.
The sole representative of the
fish. group recorded upon the floor
of North Americas greatest sub
sea level depression is a small min
now scientifically designated as
CyprindOn Macularius. This crea-
ture inhabits the salt marshes and
salt water springs of Death valley.
The mammals represented range in
size from the biGhorn sheep (Ovis
Nelsoni), which come down upon
the floor of the valley from their
natural habitat in the neighboring
.Pa1lamint and Funeral mountains;
on down to coyotes, rabbits, mOles,
mice and Shrews.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Stern Colonial Laws
Barred All "Frippery"

j! Many laws that seem queer to
lus now were passed in Colonial
times, among them the following,
issued by the general court of Mas
|sachusetts in 1889:
Whereas, there is much COM
plant of the excessive wearing OF
lace and other superffuities tending
Ito little use or benefit, but to the
punishment of pride and the ex-
Ihausting Of mems estates, and also
IOfs evil examples to- Others; .c'tis
therefore ordered by the court, and
Idecreed, that henceforth no, per-
JsOn whatsoever shall presume to
buy; or sell within this jurisdiction
!any manner of lace to be worn or
used within our limits And that
mo tailor, or any other person what
lsoever, shall hereafter set any lace
iOr points upon any garment, either
linen, wooden, or any other wearing
Clothes whatsoever, and that no
lperson hereafter shall be employed
In making any manner of lace, but
such as shall and will transport the
same out Of this jurisdiction, who
In such case shall have the liberty
to buy the same.
sand that hereafter no garment
shall be made with short sleeves,
whereby the nakednes Of their
arms may be discover ID in the
wearing thereof, and such as al
ready have garments made with
short sleeves shall not, hereafter,
wear the same, unless they cover
the arms to the wrist with linen or
otherwise. And that hereafter no
person shall make any garment for
women with sleeves more than half
an ell wide in5Sthe widest place
thereof, and so proportionable for
larger or smaller persons. kan
Sas City Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Varying Ideas as to
"Better Halves :" Value

Female of the "flapper" type
are not in favor among the tribes
men in some parts of Africa. The
latest girl is considered the great
est beauty and in order to attain
this condition of pulchritude the
girls gorge themselves with milk
and dispense with physical eXer-
ton. Many of them undergo this
treatment while preparing them
selves for matrimOny, and the more
rolls of fat they can put on the
better they like it. In some other
parts of the Dark continent there
are different ideas prevalent and
the value of woman is gagged by
the amount Of work she is capable
of doing, and the character of the
labor she is called upon to per-
form is not conducive to the fat
accumulation. The acquisition Of
wives by purchase is quite general
throughout the country, and the
medium of exchange is cows, one
wife being worth eight or ten
COWS, according to her capacity for
work. AS a rule the women do
everything except the actual hunt
ing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Peace on Earth Belief
of an Old French Race

The Basques of the Pyranees Sec
ton Of France are on old race
which has outlived the Roman en-
pire, the Dark ages, feudalism and
monarchy. They are thrifty, hard
working farmers and fishermen
with simple system of very local
democratic self-government. They
are strong, simple, warm-hearted,
physically sound and comely, and
above all life-loving. While other
races and social organizations
around them have risen and fallen,
they have never had a king, ATTY
rant, an aristocracy or a revolu-
ton. They seem to be very re-
ligious, and although they are hot
blooded and impulsive, they have
never taken a single aggressive
step against a neighbor In war
fare.-Ray f. Hendrix.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Narrowing Gulf

The gulf of California, the mar
row arm Of the sea just south of
our southwestern border, seems to
be gradually disappearing from the
map. Recent surveys show that the
peninsula Of Lower California is
widening and that the gulf is grow
ing more shallow each year.
The phenomenon was first noted
more than 200 years ago by the
Jesuit priests who were the earli-
est colonizers of the peninsula.
About thirty years ago a scientific
ally inclined inhabitant planted a
number of palm trees about ten
feet from the shore of the sea. His
trees are now more than one hun
dred yards inland. Twenty years
ago there was considerable cross
ing the gulf, but now navigation
with large boats is somewhat dan
gerous.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Disuse of Mentality
Would Mean Idiocy

1t Is funny place, this world OF
capitalism, with its astonishing
spread Of ignorance and helpless
ness, boasting all the, time OF Its
spread Of education and enlighten-
meEt- There stands the thousands
Of property owners and millions OF
wage workers, none OF them able
to make anything, none of them
knowing what to do until some
body tells them, none Of them hav-
ing the least notion Of how It Is
that they find people paying them
money, and things in the shops to
buy withsit. And when they trav-
el they are surprised to find that
savagest9 and Eskimos and vii
layers who havessto make every
thing for themselves are more In
telligent and resourceful. The won
der would be If they were anything
else. We should die of idiocy
through disuse Of our mental facul-
ties If we did not fill our heads
with romantic nonsense out OF IL
Illustrated newspapers and novels
and plays and films. Such stun
keeps us alive; but it falsifies
everything for us so absurdly that
it leaves us more or less dangerous
lunatics in the real world.-George
Bernard Shaw.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Federal Constitution

The states in existence at the
time of the drafting of the Consti-
tuition Of the United States had
constitutions of their own and 1t
was upon these that the federal
one was patterned. The states de-
veloped their documents from CO.
lonial charters, which in turn were
modelled upon the charters Of mer-
camille companies Of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth centuries. Massachu-
sets Is the only state which retains
the constitution framed at that pc
riod, but it has been revised and
amended. All the states, however,
in their modern constitutions retain
many of the principles and much
of the framework of the older docu-
mentS.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Abyssinian Jews Only
Jewish Mountaineers

The only Jewish mountaineers
in the world are said to live in
Abyssinia. These tribesmen, Fala-
shas as they call themselves, in
habit the highlands of what was
once part of the ancient kingdom
of Shah, the north of the Negus
country. .nt
The Falashas have a typical
Jewish appearance, but lack most
of the conventional habits and at
tributes of that race. Neither they
nor their ancestors have ever en-
gagged in trade. They are trappers
and rarely mingle with the Abys-
sinians in the towns and villages
Of the lowland.
They adhere to the Biblical tradi-
lions of their ancestors, practice the
usual rites and perform a rude imi-
tation of the passover ceremonies.
They have neither temples nor
rabbis. .-. .i.-
In the Businesses of their noun
tains they preserve in a quaint
mahogany casket a venerable
parchment copy Of the pentateuch,
which their chiefs allege came
down to them direct from King
Solomon through the queen of
Sheba.
During the coronation of Ras
Taffari as emperor of Abyssinia,
representatives of the Falasha
tribes presented to the new mon
arch copy of the manuscripts
which King Solomon sent the queen
of Sheba before they were mar
ried. These are said to contain
the earliest known love letters
from a monarch to his royal con-
sort.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04

baking is very good and of much
better quality than last year. All
other entries in this division are
excellent.
Louis A. Kunkel, proprietor of
Kunkeps Apiary, Melrose, has an
exhibit of bees near the Agricul-
ture building. He gives a, demon
stration on how to handle bees,
and their operations, from an open
hive. Mr.. Kunkel operates 100
colonies of bees and has the pure
bred Italian variety. II ~
lsSsThe Land O'Lakes booth i'm the
agricultural building, put up by
NJ. P. Mortensen, representative
Ifeldman of Dist. No. 6 is a mas
/ terpiece. It is a demonstration in
the way of cooling cream in min
iature. A wind mill pumps the
water through the milk house, cool
ling the cream and later into the
tank furnishing the water to make
the cow dance and be contented.
In this building is also located
the exhibit of butter of the Stearns
County and Dist. No. buttermak-
ers.
The other agriculture exhibits
consisting of grains, legumes,
seeds, garden sass, corn, etc., is on
/ a par with former years. Although
not large display it is neverthe-
less interesting.
| The Progressive Boys and Girls
Club has a splendid booth in the
Agricultural building, displaying
their prowess in the art of baking
sewing, canning, gardening and
! farming.
The Melrose and New Munich
Club also has a splendid booth at
the fair, as has the Progressive
Farmers Club. Both of the latter
show much work and thought and
are a credit to the clubs. Howeve,
the boys and girls have nothing tc
fear from their elders for their
booth is just as good if not better
The exhibits of the Public Schoo
are all well arranged and present
an array of wonderful work by
the pupils. This department is one
of the most interesting at the fair
and merits visit from every one
M. c. Loesch, of Pearl Lake
near Kimball, was invited to AGAR
put a tobacco display in the Ag
riculture building. To say the least
it is one of the most interesting ex
hibits on the grounds. 1t is com
plete from the seed to the cured
tobacco. All necessary implements
for this work being made in minia
ture.
Mr.. Loesch said that last wears
tobacco in this community, OWNS
to wind and hail, was sold as stem
ming tobacco, and hence did no,
bring as good price as it would
have were the leaves not broken
This tobacco is made into fine GU
smoking tobacco and used as file,
in cigarettes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Easily Remembered

Undoubtedly, the big woman with
the rather fierce expression who
was waiting outside the stage man.
ayers private Office was in a very
bad temper. IL
"Please, sir" began the boy who
had taken her message into the
manager, 'Mrs. Tempestly has
called and wants to know why you
haven't written to her since the
addition she had"
"Tell her." interrupted the busy
manager, shat she simply didn't
come up to scratch"
A few minutes later the boy re-
turned to the Office once again.
"She says she has now!" was his
message. - Pittsburgh Sun-Tele-
graph.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Thursday, July 4, 1929

The seed is first sprouted in an
old sock and after that is put in
sprinkling can and sewed in
frames, which are called thevs seed
bed. If the plants do not make
satisfactory growth they may be
hurried along by the use of nitrate
Of soda. From the seed bed the
plants are transplanted to the
field. In this stage they are called
the Seeding plant. This work is
done mostly by hand in this COM
munity although there are ma
chimes on sths market for that pur-
pose. E5sG
At the time Of the forming of
seed buds the grower must top
the plants. which is done !. by
breaking the seeds from the plants.
Three weeks later the plant is
ripe and ready to cut. Then the
suckers, small leaves growing from
the stem, must be pinched off. AZ
ter the tobacco has been suckered
it is left in the field to wilt and
then piled up. 1t is then put on
spear horse and run onto a lath
from where it is put onto a tobac-
CO rack and hauled to the shed.
The shed must be well ventilated
for curing. If the weather is IA
vorable the tobacco is ready for
bailing and market within six
weeks after it has been put in the
shed.
Owing to the fact that tobacco in
this community was wind switched
and hailed it was necessary to mar
ket it at $3.50 per acre. Good to-
i. bacco last year brought as high as
$500 per acre.
Mr.. Loesch had four acres of
tobacco five years ago which
brought him $1155. This was an
excellent crop. The best year he
had was when he made $1492 from
five acres and in the poorest year
when it was necessary to replant
he received $130 an acre. Mr..
Loesch has raised tobacco for the
past 16 years and is thoroughly
familiar with the work. He has
complete exhibit up to the cigars
manufactured from Stearns Coun-
ty tobacco. His talks are inter-
esting and instructive and those in
| tending to raise the smokeweed
! should see Mr.. Loesch before en-
J tering the game. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
All Club Projects
Show Result of Work
CONTINUED From Page One)

stock barns was turned over to
Leader Minette and DR.. F. G. Van
desteeg, leader Of the Gopher Prai-
RE Club. It was filled completely
with stock and poultry. The breeds
exhibited in the dairy. class. were
divided as follows 4 Holsteins, ~;
Brown Swiss z; Guernseys z. II
In the Baby Beef section there
were eight Short Horns and three
Angus calves. ~ ais& t5tFEz y =
There were seven, fat lambs, pure
bred pigs (gilts) 3, pure bred bar
rows. 4. s.r~-4o. ~.. +.,s9
In the poultry department there
were six pens of chickens and six
of ducks and geese. -. .3i i
The young people are in charge
of their own projects. They are a
wholesome, intelligent lot and
would be a distinct credit to any
community. @.
The All Club parade in front of
the grand stand Wednesday after
noon was credit to the boys and
girls. The float of the Raymond
Ashley club, drawn by team of
horses, showed the most original
ity, and was awarded first prize.
The Belgrade float won second
place; Gopher Prairie Club, Sank
Centre, third and Eden Valley
fourth.
The judges were: Carl Henne-
man, st. Cloud Times; Richard
Strobel, St. Cloud Journal-Press;
Asa M. Wallace, Sank Centre Her
aid, and Miss Lois Brown, Veter-
ans Hospital, st. Cloud.
Rev. Adolph Dingman, Cold
Spring, delivered an interesting
talk in front of the grand stand.
He explained what the All clubs
were accomplishing, and urged the
citizens of old Stearns to support
the Fair Association and the Club
movement.
The Junior orchestra of Rev.
Dingman's church, furnished a fine
musical program. The organiza-
ton comprises 20 boys and girls.
They are a distinct credit to Rev.
Dingman and Cold Spring.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Meaning of Fortnight"

"Fortnight" is a contraction of
fourteen nights" The latter
phrase has been used in England
in the sense of a period of two
weeks at least since the year 1000
A. D. 1t was used in that year in a
translation of the laws of Inc, who
was king Of the West Saxons in the
Seventh century. "FOrtnight' is
probably a survival of the old Teu-
tonic method of reckoning time by
nights instead Of by days. In 90
A. D. Cornelius Tacitus wrote as
follows of the ancient Germans:
"Their account of time differs
from that of the Romans. Instead
of days, they reckon the number of
nights. Their public ordinances are
so dated; and their proclamations
run in the same style. The night,
according to them, leads the day."
Pathfinder Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Centility Left OF

Mrs. Goldman had recently en-
gagged a new maid. She was
thoroughly good girl, truthful, hon
est, Tery willing and obliging, but
she lacked tact.
One evening, when her mistress
was going out to dinner and the
theater afterwards, the maid no
ticed that rope of pearls was
missing.
sob, madam" she cried, "where
are your lovely pearls tonight?"
''I'm not wearing them, Winnie"
replied Mrs. Goldman. II don't
fancy them tonight"
"Oh, what pity, ma'amw ex-
claimed the new maid .wistfully.
San they make you look like real
lady!a
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Serfdom in History

Forms of serfdom existed in an
cient Greece and Rome, particular
ly in the latter empire. The condi-
ton of the coloni was developed as
the result of historic necessity by
the working of economic and social
agencies in the first centuries of
the Roman empire, and was made
the subject of regular legislation in
the Fourth and Fifth centuries. In
the enactments of Justinian two
classes of coloni are distinguished,
the adscripticii, representing a
more complete state of serfdOm,
and the free coloni, with property
of their own. Serfdom became the
prevailing condition for the lower
orders during the Middle ages in
Europe.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Stearns Co. Fair
Largest in History
Continued From Page One)


Agatha May Kiffmeyer, st. Aug
usta, fourth.
Intelligence Contest
Twenty very complicated ques-
tons were prepared by County
Superintendent Boerger for this
unusual contest. An arbitrary fig
ure of 140 points was set for max
imum total.
Almost any one of the questions
would have completely fioored any
adult on the grounds. Four of the
young people each scored a total
of 118 out of a possible 140. To de-
eide the winner six informal ques-
tons were prepared. Margaret
Schoenhoff, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. B. Schoenhoff, was declared
winner by the judges. The other
winners were: Bluegna Kermis, st..
Augusta School,; second: Ageline
Philpeck, Dist. 174, Holding town,
third; Vera Bowman, Dist. 1877,
Brooten, fourth.
It will be noted that the winners
in every department-spelling, Ru-
raj and Grades, and Intelligence,
were girls. -
The Herald doffs it's hat to the
young ladies, particularly those in
the intelligence contest.
HI. b. Otte Wins in Butter Exhibit
H. B. Otte, Melrose, won first
prize, and silver cup, when the
butter exhibit of district of the
Minnesota Creamery Operators
and Managers association held its
pre-fair exhibition at Sank Centre
Thursday of last week.
| The second prize, a silver cup,
went to J. G. Niehaus, of Rich
mond, and the third, a silver cup
went to Walter Schriver, of the
Sank Lake Cooperative creamery,
Sank Centre.
! The butter shown at this exhibit
was displayed at the Stearns
county fair this week.
The butter was judged by M. M.
Gartner, of the state dairy and
food department, and Leonard
Hauske, secretary of the state as
ISOLATION.
The butter scored is listed as fol
lows:
Paul Kaplin, Long Prairie, 92R
Emil Brockoff, Browerville, 90;
Geo. Hansen, Grey Eagle 93h
Anton Baltes, Long Prairie, 931a ;
4! Arnold J. Voelk. Freeport. 921h
J. P. Hortsch, R. 2, Freeport, 921a
John Ellering, Watkins, SO; Theo.
dore Noeske, West Union, SO; J
H. Steinke, Eden Valley, SO; w
S. clemmensen, Clarissa, SO 1a; Ed
obermiller, Avon, SO; Carl Per-
son, Osakis. 93h; A. H. ODER
miller, Albany, SO ga; Charles Bob.
Zig, New Munich, 931a; John Ath
mann, Elrosa, 90; George N. Bal
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
We Can't Have Everything

A few days ago, Ruth, age four,
was having her hair. curled, as she
was preparing TO Ego visiting"
Ruth enjoys the process, but, of
course, 1t was rather monotonous
for her mother, who had to do all
the work.
Ruth, / wish your hair had
few natural curls in it." said the
mother beginning to lose patience.
..Weils mother, guess I can't
have everything" sighed Ruth,
fYou zee, I have q pretty face"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04
Beware of Toadstools

Toadstools are the same as mush-
rooms, though in popular use the.
name ''toadstool" is applied to.
those kinds that are poisonous or.
supposed to be poisonous, and the
name mushroom" to those that are
edible. There is no general rule
for distinguishing poisonous from
edible mushrooms. The best plan
is to make thorough study of the
essential characteristics of a few
of the most deadly, like the Aman-
itas, and the most common edible,
like the Agarics. Only when you
have thoroughly mastered this
should you attempt mushroom
picking.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-07-04

He-Say, aren't you the fellow
who told me the only way to learn
anything was by beginning at the
bottom?
He-Y-yes.
He-Well, I'm here to give you
sock in the eye-I've been learning
to sWim-Life.