The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-11-10
A REALLY BIG SHOVEL.
DOWN GOES THE POUND.
LADIES, SQUAWS, FIGHTS.
NO MORE REVIVAL

Machinery that makes manual labor less and less
necessary is our big problem now. 1t is also the
hope of the real civilization, which will come even
tualy.
Machinery will be problem for little WHILE
then great blessing and meanwhile you admire the
mechanical marves that will some day set men free
from physical slavery.
The wall Street Journal describes a new shovel
built by the Marion (Ohio) Steam shovel Company
How many thousands of men working painful
ly with pick and shovel will this giant shovel re-
place? Operated by electricity, it lifts up ffty-four
thousand pounds Of earth at every bite and the OPP
orator. with his shovel at the end of long arm can
drop the earth two hundred feet from the shovel and
on top of seven-story building if desired.
This giant shovel will be used to strip the eearth
laying the COAL which will also be scooped up
steam shoves doing away with painful mining under
ground.
Britain discovers that there is danger in allowing
the pound sterling to go where it WILL It fell off
four and half cents the other day. dropping to $685.
The British stand it well. Can you imagine how we
should feel if dollar were worth only 70 cents?
However, there are things just as bad. Our dol
lar is worth a great deal than 70 cents, and a
great deal more than 100 cents. In consequence he
who produces wheat, cotton beef COAL or daily
labor, can't get much money for it.
charming young lady, name omitted, says that
she is "prize-fght fan" because she enjoys it.
A number of other women say they go to prize
fights because they like to men fighting each 9TH
er And this seemed to them satisfactory explana-
ton of the presence of women at prize fights.
If those ladies could have gone to an Indian bat
tlefeld after the Apaches had finished a fight with
some other tribe of Indians they would have seen
Apache squaws bending low, each holding in her
hand an ugly little weapon with which she smashed
in the skulls of any fallen enemy that seemed not
If you had asked those squaws why they did this,
they would have said, 1--WE are fans, we enjoy II"
but that would not have made their occupation any
more pleasant.
The Methodist Episcopal church, of New York,
decides that "the old-fashioned camp meeting has
ended its usefulness" It will its camp meeting
grounds at Ossning formerly Sing Sing, for an or
phan asylum home for the aged.
This means that religious enthusiasm, at least
in its physical aspect is waning. It was a cheer
full sight in days gone by to see earnest Christians
jumping up and down at revival meetings CONFESS
ing their sins, processing their faith and ENJOYING
themselves. Jazz and speakeasies are poor substi-
tutes.
ers announces the discovery that different germs act
differently in an electromagnetic field
Putting germs between the positive and mega
tive poles of a magnet makes it possible to distin-
gush one from another of the various streptococci
looking much alike that are found in cases OF colds
sore throat influenza and nfantile paralysis. Eec-
trio tests show which germ is which and should help
to prevent epidemics.
Mr. Medalie United States attorney, says New
York city's prison Welfare island possesses IAN
organized system for the distribution of narcotics"
Some of the prisoners prodtably engaged in the
selling of drugs to other criminals whether en-
ployees of the prison drug dealers Mr. Medalie
does not yet know.
A prisoner is paid 81 for a deck OF heroin or
cocaine If he is paid in goods taken from the prison
workshop he is paid $780,
A deck" is cigarette paper with few grains
of the drug wrapped in it. Heroin is the favorite
When prisoners can buy drugs in their jail you
don't wonder that the ordinary individual can buy
whisky at large under prohibition.
Suicides more numerous in the United States
now they have been continue their strange
course.
Of two men that killed themselves in New York
both had jobs, both were past fifty One killed MINI
self to Join wife. He found life not worth while
without her, and wrote poem saying she had gone
to prepare place for him.
Such a good example to other husbands should
have lived One girl, twenty, found dead, had not
penny left. Another, sixteen would not say why
she took poison. But you can guess. 1t is usuaiiy
the same old story at sixteen. OF these four-and
there are many others in the days news-two IN
hailed gas two drank poison. The young girl may